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In 2004, high-ranking staffers in the George W. Bush administration spearheaded a holistic review of the president's emergency powers. Their goal was to refresh ...

Restricting the use of U.S. passports — a reported feature of some early presidential emergency action documents — remained on the table as of 2008. Presumably, the reference to the proclamation during the administration’s review implies the existence of documents designed to implement other statutory emergency powers, which run the gamut from anodyne to alarming, nearly four years after the attacks. The records indicate that at least one presidential emergency action document pertained to the suspension of habeas corpus. Also missing from the records is any evidence that the Bush administration communicated — much less collaborated — with Congress during its review. He suggests that this “black side” would have been discussed at a higher level of classification. This strongly suggests that the early–Cold War PEADs purporting to suspend habeas corpus had survived, at least in some form, and were part of the Bush administration’s review. Previously, it was a matter of speculation as to whether any emergency action documents purported to implement this authority. The result of the administration’s post-Boumediene revision is unknown. In response to Freedom of Information Act requests, the George W. Bush Presidential Library turned over to the Brennan Center more than 500 pages generated during this review and subsequent reviews in 2006 and 2008. In 2004, high-ranking staffers in the George W. Bush administration spearheaded a holistic review of the president’s emergency powers. Although the library withheld almost all substantive information about the PEADs under review, we have been able to reconstruct the broad contours of several of them. This frighteningly expansive language was, at the time, hemmed in by Americans’ limited use of telephone calls and telegrams.

The Justice Department has released portions of a previously unseen alternative version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on ties between former ...

Just before Christmas of that year, Trump granted Manafort a full pardon on the criminal charges. As a second trial neared for Manafort in Washington on other charges brought by Mueller’s team, the longtime political consultant and lobbyist agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of justice. At a jury trial in Virginia in 2018 on charges sought by Mueller’s office, Manafort was convicted of eight felonies, including filing false tax returns and bank fraud. Manafort and Kilimnik were later involved in polling about a peace plan that “Manafort conceded constituted backdoor means for Russia to take over eastern Ukraine,” the report says. Justice Department officials withheld large swaths of the document on grounds of ongoing investigations, privacy and protecting internal deliberations. The report details contacts between Manafort, his campaign deputy and longtime business partner Rick Gates and pro-Russian business figures.

A combination of advance diplomacy, intelligence sharing and military logistics helped put Ukraine in position to win the crucial battle of Kyiv.

But it was a complicated coordination of diplomatic, military and intelligence resources that pulled together dozens of nations at what may prove to be a hinge point in modern history. Biden wooed Finnish President Sauli Niinisto. He called him in December and then in January to talk about the Russian threat, Blinken said. Early on, for example, Biden concluded that the best way to derail Putin’s hope for dividing NATO would be the accession of two strong new members, Finland and Sweden. … It was not meant to be a full-scale war but a special operation” that would topple Zelensky’s government and install a pliant, pro-Moscow regime. Through the buildup to war, Biden sometimes seemed to misspeak. Burns had secretly traveled to Kyiv in January to brief Zelensky on the Russian plan, according to two knowledgeable officials. Blinken spoke to him at the COP 21 climate summit in Glasgow in early November and provided a summary of intelligence about Russia’s plans. As a result, he said, “when the aggression actually happened, we were able to move immediately.” The Ukraine threat got red-hot in October, when the United States gathered intelligence about a renewed Russian buildup on the border, along with “some detail about what Russian plans for those forces actually were,” Blinken said. “I basically had the task of telling him that we thought it was likely that his country was going to be invaded,” Blinken recalled. The initial venue was a Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting in Liverpool, England, on Dec. 11. The Biden administration’s secret planning began in April 2021 when Russia massed about 100,000 troops on the Ukrainian border.

She first told SBC leaders in 2004 that she had been abused by a youth pastor who went on to serve in other Southern Baptist churches in multiple states. But ...

In 2019, Woodson wrote to the leaders of Germantown Baptist Church in Tennessee to see if they would revoke the ordination of the man who confessed to his congregation that he had “a sexual incident” with Woodson when she was a teenager. In 2018, Savage, who has not been charged or convicted, publicly admitted to “a sexual incident,” said he was “deeply sorry” and received a standing ovation from his congregation. Guidepost’s report revealed that a staff member working him was maintaining a secret list of accused ministers, including the minister’s name, year the accusation was reported, relevant news articles, state and denomination. Among them is Jules Woodson, whose 2018 allegation that her Southern Baptist youth pastor sexually assaulted her was viewed as one of the major points that led the denomination to confront sex abuse. Also, an independent third party could determine that someone was “credibly accused” by a “preponderance of the evidence.” “It at least begins to demonstrate a level of transparency and accountability.” As penalties including billions of dollars have been levied in the past 20 years against the Catholic Church, Hamilton said, other non-Catholic religious groups have argued that their structure and beliefs make them different when it comes to liability. The man she alleges abused her, who has not been charged or convicted, hung up the phone in response to a Washington Post request for comment. It’s the very tiniest thing of what needs to be done.” For survivors to heal, this kind of validation is an acknowledgment of the truth of the horror of what was done to us.” “It’s a reflection of how cruel it was to stonewall any kind of validation for decades. But the report published Sunday by the SBC said she was met with hostility when she suggested the idea in 2007.

A top Southern Baptist Convention committee long kept a secret list of accused ministers. On Thursday night, SBC leaders finally released the 205-page list.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee has also formed an agreement with Guidepost to maintain a hotline for survivors and others to submit allegations of abuse. That assessment will survey the issue throughout SBC churches and potentially identify cases of abuse that have not been publicly reported. This is the stuff we can take today and we’re going to take it,'" Benkert said. The list's existence was largely a secret until the release of Guidepost's report on Sunday, which revealed many shocking examples of leaders habitually blocking abuse awareness and reform. In 2007, Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee staff began logging news articles and other public reports of ministers accused of sexual misconduct. “Each entry in this list reminds us of the devastation and destruction brought about by sexual abuse," they said.

SBC Executive Committee releases previously secret list of convicted and credibly accused church sexual abusers ... At 8:50 p.m. on Thursday, May 26, the Southern ...

We felt it was more important to release the list and redact rather than delay and investigate.” “The recently released Guidepost report revealed a list of alleged abusers compiled by a former employee of the SBC Executive Committee. This list is being made public for the first time as an initial, but important, step toward addressing the scourge of sexual abuse and implementing reform in the convention. Entries that do not relate to sexual abuse or that resulted in an acquittal are also redacted. “We are releasing the list in the exact form that it was provided to Guidepost Solutions by an Executive Committee staff member. The list was allegedly maintained by Augie Boto, former executive vice president and general counsel to the Executive Committee, who separately has been banned from ever serving as a trustee of a nonprofit in Texas or holding any office of trust within SBC life. All this occurred while Executive Committee leadership said publicly it was not possible to maintain a database of known abusers because of the Baptist doctrine of local church autonomy.

In response to an explosive investigation, top Southern Baptists have released a previously secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated ...

The existence of the list was not widely known within the committee and its staff. He resigned May 13 as senior vice president of evangelism and leadership at the North American Mission Board, the SBC's domestic missions agency. Survivors and advocates have long called for a public database of abusers. The list also includes Baptist ministers that are not affiliated with the SBC. Among them: D. August Boto, the committee's former vice president and general counsel, and former SBC spokesman Roger Oldham kept their own private list of abusive ministers. "Each entry in this list reminds us of the devastation and destruction brought about by sexual abuse," they said.

The 205-page database was made public late Thursday. It includes more than 700 entries from cases that largely span from 2000 to 2019.

In response to an explosive investigation, top Southern Baptists released a list of hundreds of pastors and other personnel accused of sexual abuse.

The joint statement described the hotline as a “stopgap measure for survivors” until delegates can pass reforms during this year’s national meeting scheduled for June 14-15 in Anaheim. Hunt has disputed the allegation, saying in a statement that he has “never abused anybody.” The existence of the list was not widely known within the committee and its staff. Survivors and advocates have long called for a public database of abusers. The list also includes Baptist ministers that are not affiliated with the SBC. “Each entry in this list reminds us of the devastation and destruction brought about by sexual abuse,” they said.

Top Southern Baptist leaders have released a once-secret list naming hundreds of pastors and church workers who have been accused of sexual abuse.

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Four puzzle solutions reveal different ways to divine someone's hidden number with impossibly little information.

Again S is given only the sum of the two numbers, and P is given only the product. The answer is that, as we saw in rule 3 above, 35 and 37 are not on the permissible list for s for a range of 50, because they are greater than 31 (the sum of 2 and 29, the smallest prime greater than 25). So both (6, 11) and (7, 10) will have no Y in column 4. Cutting it like a deck of cards is equivalent to cycling it around some number of times, and it retains the property that it contains all possible triplets of 0s and 1s. The first column has the candidate pair of numbers, and the second column has the product p that P would have been given. There are only five numbers in the list of products that can be generated in more than one way: 12 (2 × 6, 3 × 4), 16 (2 × 8, 4 × 4), 18 (2 × 9, 3 × 6), 24 (3 × 8, 4 × 6) and 36 (4 × 9, 6 × 6). These products are shown in red. So are 23 (19 + 4 and 7 + 16), 27 (23 + 4, 19 + 8 and 11 + 16), 35 (31 + 4, 19 + 16 and 3 + 32) and 37 (29 + 8 and 5 + 32). We are only left with 17 and 29 as possible sums with just 20 products to examine manually. For instance, s could not be 9, which is a sum of 7, a prime, and 2 which is also a prime, because their product 14 can only be factored in a single way, as 2 × 7. First, by our rule 2, s cannot be 39 which is 37 + 2 (both primes). Similarly, s cannot be the next odd number 41, because that is 37 + 4 giving the product 37 × 4 =148. The only other way to factor 148 is 74 × 2, but 74 is greater than our upper limit 70, because it is twice a number that’s greater than half of 70. 1. Since P cannot deduce the two numbers, p cannot be the product of two prime numbers. Now, P has a product of 12, so he too cannot be certain if the original pair is (3, 4) or (2, 6). At this point S is sure that the pair is (3, 4) as P would have been able to tell if it was (2, 5) because it has a unique product of 10. S is given only the sum of the two numbers, and P is given only the product. 1. When S says that she cannot deduce what the numbers are, she means that the sum she has obtained can be generated in more than one way from the given range of numbers.

What are neuroscience and brain-based learning concepts, and how can we harness its power to help our leaders? Here's what you need to know.

In addition to brain-based learning concepts, there are other exciting evolutions in the world of leadership development. Make sure your training program is built from a base of brain-based learning concepts to leverage the processes that result in optimal learning. Embedding neuroscience concepts into leadership learning is like learning to swim with the current instead of against it. While classroom-style learning has a role and serves a purpose, it often stops there if leaders aren’t given the opportunity to put their skills into practice. Traditional leadership programs often bypass the crucial stage of teaching learners how to turn knowledge into application through practice. Leadership development approaches are constantly evolving —and one key emerging trend is the integration of neuroscience concepts into training programs.

The 205-page database was made public late Thursday. It includes more than 700 entries from cases that largely span from 2000 to 2019.