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Beyond the Patriot Act: 9/11's effect on local courts

Sep 12, 2011

PhillyBurbs-Walter Huffman, dean emeritus and a professor at the Texas Tech University School of Law, is a retired U.S. Army major general and former judge advocate general. He explains that the Patriot Act provisions to encourage law enforcement agencies to share information resulted because, before 9/11, intelligence agencies like the CIA routinely refused to share information with law enforcement agencies like the FBI.

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Ignoring voters, lame-duck Congress charts own course

Sep 12, 2011

TriValley Central - “These are red-meat Republican issues,” said Timothy Nokken, a political science professor at Texas Tech University who studies Congress.

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Weather disasters keep costing U.S. billions this year

Sep 9, 2011

Baltimore Sun-Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, said policy is not black and white, and there has to be debate over policies to address climate change.

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Vietnamese re-education camp prisoner kept promise

Sep 9, 2011

Albany Times Union - 'Re-education camps are certainly a very sensitive issue in Vietnam, but everyone already knows that the camps existed and that people died in them,' said Stephen Maxner, director of the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University. 'That cat is out of the bag.'

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