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Denton Record-Chronicle
NATIONAL
Friday, November 14, 2014
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BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
Trooper ambush suspect
charged with terrorism
The man accused of opening
fire on a Pennsylvania State Po-
lice barracks admitted killing a
trooper because he was dissatis-
fied with government and want-
ed to “wake people up,” accord-
ing to court documents filed
Thursday that provided the first
indication of a possible motive.
Eric Frein spoke of wanting
to start a revolution in a letter to
his parents and called the slay-
ing of Cpl. Bryon Dickson an
“assassination” in a police inter-
view after his Oct. 30 capture,
the documents said.
State police charged Frein on
Thursday with two counts ofter-
rorism. He already faced first-
degree murder and other counts
in the Sept. 12 ambush, which
killed Dickson, seriously
wounded another trooper and
sparked a 48-day manhunt in
the Pocono Mountains.
Prosecutors are seeking the
death penalty for Frein, who ap-
peared by video at a brief hear-
ing at which state police filed the
additional charges. He has not
entered a plea.
Washington
Hagel to order overhaul
of nuclear forces
Defense Secretary Chuck
Hagel has concluded that prob-
lems in the nation’s nuclear forc-
es are rooted in a lack of invest-
ment, inattention by high-level
leaders and sagging morale, and
is ordering top-to-bottom
changes, vowing to invest bil-
lions of dollars to fix the man-
agement of the world’s most
deadly weapons, two senior de-
fense oflicials told The Associat-
ed Press on Thursday.
Hagel ordered two lengthy
reviews of the nuclear force after
a series of stories by the AP re-
vealed numerous problems in
management, morale, security
and safety, leading to several fir-
ings, demotions and other disci-
plinary actions against a range
of Air Force personnel from gen-
erals to airmen.
Hagel’s moves, while not dra-
matic, are designed to get at the
core of the problem, the ofiicials
said.
Charleston, W.Va.
Former mining CEO
indicted on charges
Don Blankenship, the steely-
eyed executive once dubbed
“The Dark Lord of Coal Coun-
try,” is facing decades in federal
prison in connection with the
nation’s deadliest mine disaster
in 40 years.
A federal grand jury indicted
the former Massey Energy CEO
Thursday on numerous counts
of conspiracy, making him the
highest-ranking executive
charged in the April 2010 un-
derground explosion that killed
29 men at the Upper Big Branch
Mine in Montcoal, West Virgin-
ia.
The 43-page indictment said
Blankenship “knew that UBB
was committing hundreds of
safety-law violations every year
and that he had the ability to
prevent most of the violations
that UBB was committing. Yet
he fostered and participated in
an understanding that perpetu-
ated UBB’s practice of routine
safety violations, in order to pro-
duce more coal, avoid the costs
of following safety laws, and
make more money.”
His attorney, William W. Tay-
lor III, said in a statement that
Blankenship “is entirely innocent
of these charges. He will fight
them and he will be acquitted.”
New York
AC/DC members not in
touch with drummer
Angus Young of AC/DC says
his band mates have not been in
touch with Phil Rudd since he
was charged with threatening to
kill and possessing methamphet-
amine and marijuana last week.
Young, 59, said in an inter-
view Thursday that Rudd’s be-
havior was somewhat erratic
while recording the band’s new
album, Rock or Bust, which is
due to be released on Dec. 2.
“Well, we had a few prob-
lems. The situation he’s in —
that took everyone by surprise,”
Young said.
Rudd is expected to appear
in court in New Zealand on Nov.
27.
— The Associated Press
Landrieu scraps for support for pipeline
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., chairwoman of the Senate Energy
Committee, with committee member Sen. Joe Manchin, D
W.Va., speak to reporters about the new urgency to get con-
gressional approval for the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL
pipeline, on Wednesday at the Capitol in Washington.
Runoff threatens
La. Democrat’s
career in Congress
By David Espo
and Dina Cappiello
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - In a
blend of crude oil and raw poli-
tics, Louisiana Sen. Mary Lan-
drieu scrapped on Thursday for
converts among fellow Demo-
crats for legislation to approve
the Keystone XL Pipeline be-
fore a runoff election that
threatens to end her career in
Congress.
The White House said Presi-
dent Barack Obama took a “dim
view” of the bill but did not ex-
plictly threaten a veto. Even so,
Senate Democratic ofiicials said
the party’s leadership agreed to
give Landrieu room to try and
pass the measure only after re-
ceiving assurances that Obama
would not sign it.
The maneuvering took place
as House Republicans readied a
vote for Friday on their own
identical pipeline bill — ad-
vanced by Rep. Bill Cassidy, who
is Landrieu’s rival in the Dec. 6
runoff. Cassidy led in a first
round of voting last week, and is
favored to win the runoff, leav-
ing Landrieu in urgent need of a
way to shake up the race.
Landrieu sought to cast her-
self as an independent-minded
lawmaker as she maneuvered
for supporters for her bill in the
Senate and for votes back home.
“My leadership didn’t give me
permission to do this. Nobody
asked me to do it,” she said in re-
marks on the Senate floor.
Adding another layer of com-
plexity, Republicans said if the
bill doesn’t become law in the
next several days, they will make
it a priority after a new Congress
convenes in January, when they
will have a majority in both
houses and increased leverage
over Obama.
‘We aren’t finished. We’ll
pass it as either part of broader
energy legislation or as an
amendment to another must-
pass bill, either in the lame duck
or in the new Congress,” de-
clared Sen. John Hoeven of
North Dakota, the leading Re-
publican sponsor of the bill in
the Senate.
The GOP-controlled House
has voted several times to ap-
prove the pipeline, which would
move oil from Canada to the
Gulf Coast of the U.S. Legisla-
tion on the issue has always fall-
en victim to gridlock in the Sen-
ate, where Majority Leader Har-
ry Reid, D-Nev., has worked to
prevent its passage.
If the political maneuvering
was thick, the issue itself was rel-
atively straightforward.
Supporters say construction
of the pipeline is critical if the
United States is to achieve ener-
gy security after decades of rely-
ing on oil imports that can fluc-
tuate unpredictably in price.
They also cite estimates that the
pipeline would create thousands
of jobs
But the project divides Dem-
ocrats, with environmentalists
in opposition while some unions
as well as energy-state and busi-
ness-minded lawmakers sup-
port it.
The Sierra Cub issued a
statement opposing the mea-
sure, as did Sen. Ed Markey, D-
Mass., who urged Obama to veto
the bill if it reaches his desk.
The administration has put
off announcing any decision
pending a Supreme Court ruling
in Nebraska on a challenge to
the law that allowed the route of
the pipeline to be set, and until
the State Department decides if
environmental concerns have
been satisfied.
Landrieu and other support-
ers of the measure appeared to
have at least 58 of the 60 votes
they would need for approval
next week. That included all 45
Republicans as well as 13 Demo-
crats, among them Delaware
Sen. Tom Carper, whose office
confirmed his support during
the day.
Other officials said Landrieu
had a commitment from one
more Democrat, whom they de-
clined to name. Sen. Tom Udall
of Colorado, who was defeated
for re-election last week, ignored
reporters seeking to ask him his
position on the measure.
Other senators who are leav-
ing the Senate at year’s end ap-
pear to offer Landrieu the most
hope in her search for 60 votes,
but Sen. Tim Johnson of South
Dakota confirmed his opposi-
tion during the day.
Drones patrol half of Mexico border
By Elliot Spagat
and Brian Skoloff
Associated Press
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - The
U.S. government now patrols
nearly half the Mexican border
by drones alone in a largely un-
heralded shift to control deso-
late stretches where there are no
agents, camera towers, ground
sensors or fences, and it plans to
expand the strategy to the Cana-
dian border.
It represents a significant de-
parture from a decades-old ap-
proach that emphasizes boots on
the ground and fences. Since
2000, the number of Border Pa-
trol agents on the 1,954-mile bor-
der more than doubled to sur-
pass 18,000 and fencing multi-
plied nine times to 700 miles.
Under the new approach,
Predator Bs sweep remote
mountains, canyons and rivers
with a high-resolution video
camera and return within three
days for another video in the
same spot, two officials with di-
rect knowledge of the effort said
on condition of anonymity be-
cause details have not been
made public.
The two videos are then over-
laid for analysts who use sophis-
ticated software to identify tiny
changes — perhaps the tracks of
a farmer or cows, perhaps those
of immigrants who entered the
country illegally or a drug-laden
Hummer, they said.
About 92 percent of drone
missions have shown no change
in terrain, but the others raised
enough questions to dispatch
agents to determine if someone
got away, sometimes by helicop-
ter because the area is so remote.
The agents look for any sign of
human activity — footprints,
broken twigs, trash.
About 4 percent of missions
have been false alarms, like
tracks of livestock or farmers,
and about 2 percent are incon-
clusive. The remaining 2 per-
cent offer evidence of illegal
crossings from Mexico, which
typically results in ground sen-
sors being planted for closer
monitoring.
The government has operat-
ed about 10,000 drone flights
under the strategy, known inter-
nally as “change detection,” since
it began in March 2013. The
flights currently cover about
900 miles, much of it in Texas,
and are expected to expand to
the Canadian border by the end
of 2015.
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highest, said R. Gil Kerlikowske,
commissioner of Customs and
Border Protection, the Border
Patrol’s parent agency, which
operates nine unmanned air-
craft across the country.
“You have finite resources,”
he said in an interview. “If you
can look at some very rugged
terrain [and] you can see there’s
not traffic, whether it’s tire tracks
or clothing being abandoned or
anything else, you want to de-
ploy your resources to where you
have a greater risk, a greater
threat.”
If the video shows the terrain
unchanged, Border Patrol Chief
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the negative” — showing there
isn’t anything illegal happening
there and therefore no need for
agents and fences.
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