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By Christi Carras , Ed Stockly. All showtimes are Pacific. Christi Carras. Follow Us twitter instagram email facebook. Ed Stockly. More From the Los Angeles Times. But instead, the search giant showed an admirable amount of restraint and tact by placing a ribbon and a " Remembering September 11th " link prominently under its search box as seen to the right , with the homepage otherwise unchanged.
The events of September 11, changed the lives of so many people around the world. In the years since that day, thoughtful online efforts have provided an outlet for grief, for learning and a means for healing. Virtual spaces have helped us to remember the victims and honor the courage of those who risked their lives to save others. YouTube and Google helped The New York Times put together a video channel archiving news broadcasts and public reflections.
A New Jersey fire department built a system called " First-Responder ," at least partially on Google code and platforms, to help EMTs and emergency technicians coordinate in the face of crisis. I have to applaud Google for keeping their remembrance tactful, understated, and appropriately serious, without veering into the maudlin or morbid.
This is a story of real people, their families, and their loss. Courtesy is demanded at a time like this. He has also lobbied Congress to extend compensation for them, even when some elected leaders no longer saw a need to. I was 34 when I got hurt. I guess time has evaded me because it feels like yesterday in so many ways. Eagleson has spent years trying to get the federal government to make public what the FBI has learned about the roles top officials of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia may have played in the attacks.
Last month, the Department of Justice announced that the FBI had recently closed a portion of its investigation into the attacks and is reviewing some long-classified documents to determine if they can now be disclosed.
The remains of Eagleson's father and those of more than 1, victims of the attack in lower Manhattan have never been recovered. Just 45 days after the Sept. The act also allowed the National Security Agency to execute warrantless searches of American citizens' phone calls and emails.
Subsequent lawsuits and whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden, a former computer intelligence consultant for the National Security Agency, revealed abuses of the act, including that the Bush and Obama administrations had secretly acquired in bulk the phone data of millions of innocent U.
Lakhdar Boumediene, an Algerian-born citizen, was held for seven years and six months at Guantanamo Bay, where he said he was relentlessly interrogated and routinely tortured.
Boumediene said that he was living in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and working as an aide at a boarding school for orphans of the Balkan conflicts of the s. I had a good job," he said. Following the Sept. When a judge ordered Boumediene released in for lack of evidence, he said he was inexplicably turned over to the U.
But until now, I still didn't get anything. No compensation, no apologies. Twenty years later, I can't find the truth behind my imprisonment at Guantanamo," Boumediene said. Boumediene became the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit by detainees accusing the Bush administration of denying them the right to habeas corpus, or the ability to challenge their detentions before a natural judge, in violation of the constitution.
The U. Supreme Court in a narrow decision sided with the detainees in June Bush said he would abide by the high court's decision, but "that doesn't mean I have to agree with it.
Four months after the ruling, Boumediene was released to France when federal Judge Richard Leon, a Bush appointee, ruled the Bush administration "relied on insufficient evidence to imprison" him and others deemed "enemy combatants. Panetta was the secretary of defense when bin Laden was killed on May 2, But a decade after bin Laden's death, America remains under the constant threat of terrorist groups that have metastasized around the world, and, according to Panetta, "without a comprehensive strategy to defeat terrorism in the world.
You have an enemy. You go after that enemy. You defeat that enemy. And that's it," Panetta said. We're now focused on China and Russia. I think it is very important for those responsible for protecting our country to never just go with the times, but to always ask the question: What are the potential threats that are out there?
Tom Ridge, the former secretary of Homeland Security, said the Jan. A former Republican governor and congressman, Ridge said the attack on the Capitol by American citizens was "shameful.
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