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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Hassan Rouhani's Holocaust Politics

Today: Int'l Court Affirms Taylor Sentence , The Court Case That Pivots on What 'Corrupt' Really Means , U.N. to Test Iran on Nuke Deal
Cheat Sheet: Morning

September 26, 2013
Lost in Translation

Not so fast, CNN. Iran's president did not denounce the Nazis. Michael Moynihan says a more accurate translation suggests he is just another Holocaust denier.

Guilty

An international appeals court in The Netherlands on Thursday upheld the 50-year sentence of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was convicted for aiding war crimes in Sierra Leone. The Special Court for Liberia in The Hague, backed by the United Nations, rejected Taylor's appeal that there had been mistakes in evaluating the evidence and applying the law. Taylor was found guilty last year for encouraging and supplying violent rebels in Sierra Leone, who carried out a campaign of murder, rape, sex slavery, and conscription of child soldiers. Taylor also used Sierra Leone's diamonds to fuel the civil war and enrich himself.

Tea Leaves

It sounds like just another campaign-finance case, but McCutcheon v. FEC will show whether the Supreme Court's conservatives truly honor the worldview of the Founding Fathers. By Lawrence Lessig.

Friends?

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany will meet with Iran's top diplomat Thursday to discuss a deal over the Islamic nation's nuclear program. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has made bold headlines at the U.N. General Assembly this week, suggesting that Iran was eager to strike a deal and acknowledging the Holocaust, as his hard-line predecessor notoriously failed to do. The meeting will be the first high-level talks between the U.S. and Iran in six years; the U.S. is hopeful that Rouhani will be more moderate on the nuke issue than his predecessor, but is skeptical that Iran's supreme leader will allow him to change the country's stance.

Shocker

Nothing new under the sun, right? The National Security Agency spied on Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, and other critics of the Vietnam War during the 1960s, according to classified documents revealed Wednesday. The spying program was discovered in the 1970s, when it was shut down, but its targets had never been known. The NSA also spied on journalists from The New York Times and The Washington Post, and two members of Congress. Alarmed by the intensity of antiwar dissent, President Lyndon Johnson asked U.S. intelligence agencies if the protests had been masterminded by foreign powers, and to create "watch lists" of war critics.

 


HIGH SCHOOLS
SAT Scores Fall Slightly
African-Americans make small gains.
WELL OKAY THEN
Bush Is Witness at Same-Sex Marriage
Attended a private ceremony for two friends.
'State of Jefferson'
CA Secession Movement Spreads
Second county votes to secede.
Migration
Flying Spiders Spook Texas
Webs floating through the sky.
EXPLAINS IT ALL
Melissa Joan Hart Did a Lot of Drugs
Also made out with Nick Carter one time.

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