Relatives-of-victims-of-drone-strikes-drop-appeal. WASHINGTON — The relatives of three United States citizens killed in American drone strikes without trial, including Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric, have decided not to appeal a federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit they filed against Obama administration officials. The lawsuit sought unspecified damages against several top national security officials for the deaths from two drone strikes in Yemen in 2011; the victims also included Samir Khan and Mr.
Awlaki’s teenage son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. In April, Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the case, deferring to the government’s national-security arguments. In a statement, Nasser al-Awlaki, the father of Mr. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights helped bring the suit, and the rights center said in a statement that “our system of checks and balances failed these families.” Government officials have said that Mr. Jurors hear of deputies' attempt to coerce FBI agent - Los Angeles Times.
Two Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department sergeants showed up at an FBI agent's home in September 2011 and told her that they were in the process of obtaining a warrant for her arrest. That evening, the agent's concerned supervisor called the sergeants, asking what the charges would be, when the warrant would be issued and whether the sheriff knew. After hanging up the phone, Sgt. Maricella Long turned to her partner and said with a chuckle: "They're scared. " "You're still rolling," Sgt. On Friday, a federal jury hearing the obstruction of justice case against Long, Craig and four others heard Long admitting in her own words that throughout that encounter with the FBI, she was lying.
She told the lies, she testified before a federal grand jury, in an attempt to find out the details of the FBI's civil rights investigation into county jails. "So this was more of an intimidation tactic? " "I wouldn't call it intimidation.… We weren't trying to scare her. Victoria.kim@latimes.com. Two pairs of Mexican wolves to be released at Apache National Fo. TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) - A pair of Mexican gray wolves will be released today and next week into the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area of Arizona. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Arizona Game and Fish Department, the pair released today consists of a male and female. Both will be paired in a pen on the Apache National forest. The wolves were held in the enclosure through the breeding season, which occurs in February and March. The second pair will be released next week into the primary recovery zone in Apache National Forest.
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