2007 Terrorist Watch List report [GAO] News
2007 Terrorist Watch List report [GAO]

Terrorist Watch List Screening: Opportunities Exist to Enhance Management Oversight, Reduce Vulnerabilities in Agency Screening Processes, and Expand Use of the List (GAO), October 11, 2007 [finding that the watch list has helped to combat terrorism but needs to be expanded because some subjects have passed undetected through agency screening processes were not identified until after they were admitted into the United States]. Read the full text of the report [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Guiteau tried for assassinating US President Garfield

On November 14, 1881, Charles Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of US President James A. Garfield. The trial of Guiteau pointed to problems with nineteenth-century law's treatment of insanity; Guiteau's trial is also problematic in retrospect as Garfield's death was immediately attributable not to Guiteau, but to Garfield's doctors who—before sterilization was well understood—repeated probed his wound with unwashed hands while searching for an embedded bullet.