FBI chief calls spy Hanssen case exceptionally grave
FBI Director Louis Freeh said the damage from agent Robert Hanssen’s espionage is exceptionally grave after he passed 6,000 pages of secret and top secret material to Soviet and Russian contacts. Hanssen, a 25 year FBI veteran, was arrested after leaving a packet of documents for Russian handlers. He faces espionage and conspiracy charges and could face the death penalty. a March 5 court date was set.
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Court to rule on deportation in immigration stalemate
The Supreme Court will hear separate cases of Kestutis Zadvydas and Kim Ho Ma, two noncitizens whom the United States seeks to deport but whose birth countries will not accept them. Advocates argue detention cannot replace deportation, while the INS maintains the need to remove them. the 1996 law and its removal period provisions fuel this dispute. Ma, a Cambodian refugee and Seattle manslaughter convict, has been held despite Cambodia lacking repatriation agreement.
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Civilians in control room distract sub crew before collision
A Navy sub crewman testified he briefly paused sonar plotting due to 16 civilians aboard during an emergency rapid ascent drill. NTSB data show the Greeneville logged a contact later identified as the Japanese Ehime Maru 71 minutes before collision, with sailors unaware of the vessel until surfacing.
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Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Edwards California
Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Edwards Air Force Base after three days of bad weather and a 3000 mile adjustment. The crew completes a 13 day mission delivering Destiny to the International Space Station. President Bush congratulates Commander Kenneth Cockrell and the crew. The shuttle will be ferried back to Florida atop a Boeing 747 in seven to 10 days.
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