The exception that would allow evidence in the words of the rule the exclusion of which would violate the Constitutional Rights of the accused. What does that mean . The rule does not define what that means for the practitioner. But in my experience come evidence of the sort usually falls into one of several readily recognized categories. For example, evidence of previous sexual behavior that establishes bias, prejudice or motives that fabricate on the part of the alleged victim in the case. Similarly, this exception is used in military practice to admit evidence of don sturdily false allegations of prior sexual behavior by the alleged victims or sexual behavior of predisposition thats so distinctive and so similar to the sexual offense at issue that explains or provides context for the instant delegations. Interestingly, many states codify these commonly encountered circumstances in their own rules of evidence for criminal cases, but in military practice practice these are adjudicated
American warrior. In the book, he discusses a Controversial Television interview he gave when he criticized army leadership. This is one hour. Your new book, about face, it is cowritten by julie sherman, she is a woman. Why is back . Guest a lot of people over the 18 years that i have met, a lot of authors have contemplated writing it. I waited for the right one. The horrible result about that war is that it took the lives of young men and it took the lives of young women as well. Women give life. I felt that if we could discuss war, with a sensitivity of the depth and feeling of a woman, we could tell the complete story. Cspan how many times did you consider writing the book series weight . Guest probably a halfdozen times. The qualified people that came to me, i wanted to put out a message that was going to be good and clear. To put out vindictiveness and maliciousness. The need to even the score. Cspan at the end of the book, he said evening to you have the anger out of your system.
Widespread corruption threatens the president ial and the provincial elections that are set for next april. Free and Fair Elections are essential to establishing a stable government. A repeat of the widespread Election Fraud that we saw in 2009 would undermine afghans faith in their government, setting back the country. Corruption hinders afghanistans economy. The Mining Sector could tap the posits of Industrial Metals by attracting foreign investment, but that will not happen with the corruption in afghanistan. On the security front, pakistans military and Security Service continues to complicate matters by supporting the taliban. They are a double dealer. They undermine our primary objective of bringing afghanistan under the troll of a democratically elected government. Iran continues to support the taliban and using the Banking System to circumvent sanctions. Just yesterday, it was announced president karzai had agreed to a longterm friendship and cooperation pact with iran. We need
Limits for all elected officials. Termresident already has limits. Your governors, senators, mayors, city council, dog catcher, tax collector. Are you in favor of term limits, yes or no . Here are the numbers. Host you can also reach out to us by social media. Host i want to show you some of the numbers from the recently released gallup poll. They ask americans support for establishing term limits for federal lawmakers. Suppose on election day you could vote for key issues as well as candidates. Or againstote for the number of Terms Congress and senate can serve . Nationally among adults those voting for term limits are in the 75 range. Those who say they would vote against term limits, 21 . Those who had no opinion, 5 . Breaking it down among political parties, republicans, those voting for, who say they would vote for term limits, 82 of republicans questioned in this gallup poll, 82 say they would vote for term limits. 15 say they would vote against. 3 say they have no opinion. Indep
Guantanamo bay . All as part of this agreement with the taliban, they were swapped for Bowe Bergdahl who by the way, was promoted and received pay the entire time he was held captive by the taliban. So ive got ed lavandera, ive got barbara starr, theyve covered the bergdahl story extensively. Welcome back to the two of you. As we await this official statement from the army. Barbara let me just begin with you. Why dont we run through these initial charges and explain to me what this will mean for him. Well its very serious, brooke. Desertion. It doesnt really get more serious than that. But that may be a difficult charge to make. To make a charge of desertion, you have to have the evidence that the military person deliberately left his post and had no intention of returning. Intended never to come back to be potentially with enemy forces. This gets down to the essential question that we dont know the answer to did bergdahl absolutely intend to willfully desert his post . Or was this a c