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WASHINGTON (AP) — Struggling to salvage a massive surveillance program, President Barack Obama faced congressional critics of the National Security Agency’s collection of Americans’ telephone records Thursday as snowballing concerns made new limitations on the intelligence effort appear increasingly likely. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden joined lawmakers on both sides of the issue for an Oval Of fice
meeting designed to stem the bleeding of public support and show Obama was serious about engaging. Among the participants were the NSA’s most vigorous congressional supporters — the top Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate intelligence panels — alongside its most ster n critics, including Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado. The lawmakers departed the rainy White House
grounds without speaking to reporters. But in interviews later, they said there was a consensus that the surveillance efforts are suffering from perception problems that have undercut trust among the American people. “There is openness to making changes,” said Rep. C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, top Republican on
the Senate’s intelligence panel and a strong NSA defender, said Obama and the lawmakers didn’t agree to take specific steps but brought up a number of proposals that will be fleshed out over the August congressional recess. “A lot of ideas were thrown out,” Chambliss told The Associated Press. “Nothing was concluded.” Wyden, in an interview, said he and Udall had sought to convince Obama of the urgency of address-
ing rising concer ns. He said he proposed strengthening the gover nment’s ability to get emergency authorization to collect an individual’s phone records, so that pre-emptive collection of everyone’s r ecor ds would no longer be necessary.
“I felt that the president was open to ideas — and we’re going to make sure he has some,” Wyden said after returning to Capitol Hill.
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Jill McLaughlin Photos
Above: The Chaves County 4-H and FFA Fair's Pignitary Pig Show contestants broke out the Silly String Thursday. Right: Cally Wood, 8, models an outfit as “Flower” waits during the Wool Lead Thursday. Wood took second place in her age division.
Fashion, fun close out fair day JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
Everyone was in for a bit of laughter and good times at the Pignitary Pig Show Thursday afternoon as the Chaves County 4-H and FFA Fair wound down. But if it were a contest for best behaved, the pigs would have won the prize. Luckily for the audience, all rules were broken as costumed characters and their swines entered the ring one-by-one.
Ramos arrested in kidnapping case
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“I thought it was really funny,” said Kirsten Sparkman, who said she tries to see the show every other year. Her favorite was a woman character dressed up as a male county far mer, who brought a lamb instead of a pig. “This is my first year watching the full show,” said her friend Amber Hurst. A Silly String fight broke out. But not before a matador entered with his bucking pig that had a set of
Ramos
JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER The Roswell Police Department arrested the second suspect Thursday in a kidnapping and armed robbery case that occurred on July 5. Bryan Ramos,
21, an employee of the Chaves County Detention Center, is charged with accessory to kidnapping and accessory to ar med robbery. The male victim was found walking south of Hager man. He had been severely beaten. According to the RPD, he had been left to die. The victim was transported to a local hospital and was later flown to Lubbock for further medical treatment. Sgt. Jim Preston said the victim is still being treated for internal injuries as a result of the beating. The affidavit of criminal complaint filed with Magistrate Court reported that at the time of the initial interview, the victim had two
horns attached to its back. All the while, they dodged a male fairy that attempted to leap around every so often. The pigs appeared to bury their snouts in shame. The show is judged and contestants are given prizes. Each character is allowed to answer extracredit questions and could call on the audience for help. The Big Bacon prize was awarded to “Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter,” the Lit-
tle Bacon prize was given to “Minion from ‘Despicable Me,’” the Swankiest Swine prize was handed to “T inker Bell” and “Leprechaun;” and the Biggest Ham was given to “Irish Lucky Charms.”
The Wool Lead event preceded the Pignitary Pig Show, and featured girls and a boy, ages 2 to 15. The children wore homemade garments that had to be at least 60 percent wool. They also brought lambs into the show ring.
Do you know this man?
The Roswell Police Department is seeking the assistance from the public to identify this male subject, wearing a red cap, who used a stolen credit card at the Conoco on the corner of Second and Union streets. The subject was seen in the 4-door F-150 truck with a Texas license plate. If anyone can help identify this man, you are urged to contact the RPD (575-624-6770) or Crime Stoppers (1-888-5948477).
Ohio man who kidnapped 3 women gets life in prison CLEVELAND (AP) — Standing before the man who kidnapped her and raped her for a decade, Michelle Knight described how the world had changed in the three months since they last saw each other. The captive, she said, was now free and the oppressor would be locked away forever to “die a little every day.” Ariel Castro’s fate had been deter mined long before he was sentenced Thursday to life in prison
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plus 1,000 years. But Knight’s words in a crowded courtroom put a final seal on the kidnapping case that horrified the nation and subjected three young women to years of torment in Castro’s ramshackle house. “You took 11 years of my life away and I have got it back,” Knight said. “I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just beginning.” A short time later, the 53-year-old former school bus driver apologized to his
victims briefly in a rambling, defiant statement. He repeatedly blamed his sex addiction, his former wife and others while claiming most of the sex was consensual and that the women were never tortured. “These people are trying to paint me as a monster,” he said. “I’m not a monster. I’m sick.” The sentence was a foregone conclusion after Castro pleaded guilty last week to 937 counts, including
aggravated murder, kidnapping, rape and assault. A deal struck with prosecutors spared him from a possible death sentence for beating and starving Knight until she miscarried. During her statement, Knight was just a few feet from Castro, seeing him for the first time since her rescue in May from the house that Castro turned into a prison with a makeshift alarm system and heavy wooden doors covering the windows.
“I will live on,” she said. “You will die a little every day.”
The three women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. Each had accepted a ride from Castro. They escaped May 6 when Amanda Berry, now 27, broke part of a door to Castro’s house in a tough Cleveland neighborhood and yelled for help. Castro was arrested that evening.