Friday, May 31, 2002

Daniel Pearl Video Again Available Despite threats and pressure from the FBI, Pro Hosters is continuing to provide the Daniel Pearl video as it was originally provided to the US consulate. 1:53:07 AM

Danica Martin Shows the Boys How to Play Ball Congratulations to Danica Martin, who is taking advantage of her equal opportunity to participate in the baseball team at her school. She says she doesn't even like softball. 1:49:22 AM

FBI Email Tapping Actually Hampers Terrorism Investigation The FBI's Carnivore email surveillance system actually hampered the FBI's terrorism investigation by tapping and recording much more email than it was supposed to. Though Carnivore's information is further filtered by a human technical agent and in this case no email was lost, Carnivore's lack of specificity threatens to contaminate otherwise legally-collected evidence. 1:43:28 AM

Supreme Court "Cross Burning" Case The Supreme Court agreed to take a case to decide the free-speech ramifications of Cross Burning in Virginia. 1:36:25 AM

Limits on witnesses for Lindh John Walker Lindh's lawyers are being limited by their judge from conducting face-to-face interviews with Taliban 'detainees', who are fundamental to his defense in his conspiracy trial. 1:32:24 AM

Execution for Youthful Offenders Questioned Two men who had committed murders when they were 17 have been arguing against their death sentences on the grounds that execution for youthful crimes is cruel and unusual. Christopher Simmons of Missouri was granted a stay based on a pending Supreme Court case while Napoleon Beazley of Texas was denied a stay and was executed. More information about Napoleon Beazley's court struggle is available here. 1:23:12 AM

Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech ... Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish sentiments on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of this liberty;...

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