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Justice Dept.
seeks pause on
agreement with
Baltimore police
WASHINGTON
(AP) — The Justice
Department late Monday
asked a federal judge for
more time to “review and
assess” a proposed agreement
to overhaul the Baltimore
police department, saying
it needed to determine how
it might conflict with the
crime-fighting agenda of
new Attorney General Jeff
Sessions.
The government’s request
for a 90-day continuance
came three days before a
scheduled hearing before a
federal judge, and just hours
after Sessions announced
he had ordered a sweeping
review of the Justice
Department’s interactions
with local law enforcement,
including such court-
enforceable improvement
plans with troubled police
agencies.
It provided an early
glimpse of the attorney
general’s stance on police
department oversight and
his ambivalence about
mandating widespread
change of local law
enforcement agencies.
Sessions, an Alabama
Republican who cultivated
a tough-on-crime reputation
during 20 years in the Senate,
has repeatedly expressed
concern that lengthy
investigations of a police
department can malign an
entire agency. That view
reflects a dramatic break from
an Obama administration
that saw such probes as
essential in holding local law
enforcement accountable for
unconstitutional practices.
The federal government
cited several reasons for the
requested delay, including
new Justice Department
policies that federal officials
say are aimed at reducing
crime as well as a new
memo that seeks a review of
existing or proposed consent
decrees.
News of Iraq trip
with Kushner in air
poses security risks
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Trump administration’s
failure to keep senior adviser
Jared Kushner’s trip to Iraq
secret isn’t standard practice
for top U.S. officials visiting
warzones. Such trips are
usually kept quiet, with the
cooperation of journalists,
until the officials arrive in
order to ensure maximum
security.
A senior administration
official told reporters Sunday
evening that Kushner —
President Donald Trump’s
son-in-law — was in Iraq,
even though he was still
en route. For the military
and security professionals
managing the mission, the
public disclosure of the
unannounced trip was a
security breach. Gen. Joseph
Dunford, the Joint Chiefs of
Staff chairman, also was on
board.
Although the plane
landed safely in Baghdad
on Monday, the Iraqi capital
is hardly a secure location,
having suffered countless
extremist attacks over the
years. The threat is no less
acute today as Iraq wages
a bitter battle to try to rid
the Islamic State from its
territory. For trips to the city,
the military seeks to avoid
public mention of plans
ahead of time so extremist
groups can’t plot attacks.
“It’s been longstanding
practice to strictly avoid
announcing the visits of
senior U.S. officials in
advance of their travels to
warzones,” said George
Little, a Pentagon and CIA
press secretary for Leon
Panetta, who managed both
departments under President
Barack Obama. “The main
reason is obvious. You want
to avoid giving the enemy
any information that could
help them to target these
delegations, especially in
areas where the battle lines
aren’t clear on the map.”
Knowing when and where
a senior U.S. military or
civilian official might arrive
makes attacks easier. Such
details could help groups
target the plane as it takes
off or lands, or use roadside
bombs or shoulder-launched
rockets to strike dignitaries
while they’re on the ground.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
White House officials offer change to health care bill
By ALAN FRAM
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — White
House officials made a new offer
to conservative House Republicans
late Monday on the GOP’s failed
health care bill, hoping to resuscitate
a measure that crashed spectacularly
less than two weeks ago.
Vice President Mike Pence and
two top White House officials made
the offer in a closed-door meeting
with members of the House Freedom
Caucus, according to a participant.
Opposition from the hard-line group,
which has around three dozen conser-
vative Republicans, contributed to
circumstances that forced House
Speaker Paul Ryan to withdraw the
bill from a March 24 vote that would
have produced a certain defeat.
Under the White House offer,
states would be allowed to apply
for waivers from several coverage
requirements that President Barack
Obama’s 2010 health care law
imposed on insurers.
These include an Affordable Care
Act provision prohibiting insurance
companies from declining to write
policies for people with serious
diseases. Conservatives have argued
that such requirements have the
effect of inflating insurance costs.
Freedom Caucus members said
they wanted to see the White House
offer in writing — which is expected
Tuesday — before deciding whether
to accept it.
Also at Monday’s meeting were
White House chief of staff Reince
Priebus and budget director Mick
Mulvaney. The participant spoke on
condition of anonymity to describe
the private strategy session.
Another participant — Freedom
Caucus chairman Rep. Mark
Meadows, R-N.C. — said the group
would make no decisions until it
reviews the language but called the
session a “good meeting” in a text
message.
It was unclear whether GOP
moderates would accept the proposed
changes. When Ryan, R-Wis., pulled
the legislation from the House last
month, he also faced opposition from
moderate GOP lawmakers upset that
it went too far with cuts in Medicaid
coverage for the poor and higher
premiums for many low earners and
people in their 50s and 60s.
Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-N.J.,
a leader of the moderate House
Tuesday Group, was among moderate
lawmakers who met with officials at
the White House on Monday, a GOP
aide said.
The Freedom Caucus has drawn
the most wrath from the White
House for its opposition to the bill.
Some fellow House Republicans
have also criticized members of the
conservative group, accusing them of
inflexibility that led to the downfall
of the bill to replace “Obamacare,” a
top GOP legislative priority.
Six days after the House bill
crashed, Trump tweeted that the
Freedom Caucus “will hurt the entire
Republican agenda” if they don’t
start cooperating. He added, “We
must fight them” in 2018, a reference
to their re-election campaigns.
Several caucus members, who
tend to represent safely Republican
districts, tweeted back defiantly. But
some have stressed a desire to move
the legislation along if provisions
are added that they believe would
contain insurance costs.
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