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President Obama made time for a 2009 beer summit with Sgt. James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates Jr. — but not for the funeral of a slain Chicago girl who'd played with her high school band at the president's 2013 inauguration.
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** FILE ** Gary McKinnon, shown in this file photo from 2009, is charged with breaking into computers belonging to NASA, the Department of Defense and several branches of the U.S. military. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Camp Justice is the site of the U.S. war-crimes tribunal compound on U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Prosecutors are moving forward with investigations and trial preparation while waiting for the completion of case reviews ordered by President Obama in January.
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A former MS-13 gang member speaks to a George Washington University Summer Scholars criminal justice and criminology class, which is held for high school students. The former gang member said he lives day by day, looking over his shoulder, due to potential MS-13 retaliation. (John Muller/Special to The Washington Times)
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**FILE** Gun safety and basic marksmanship is taught at the National Rifle Association in Fairfax on Sept. 20, 2005. (The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo and his wife, Trinity Tomsic, seen at their home in this file photo after their dogs were killed in a raid by Prince George's County deputies last year, were told the deputies acted appropriately.
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A shortwave radio such as the one pictured above was used by Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and his wife, Gwendolyn, 71, who are accused of spying for Cuba. The Justice Department affidavit said Cuban intelligence appears to have sent the Myerses an unknown number of messages since the late 1970s, using simple number-to-letter codes.
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In this file courtroom drawing from 2009, Assistant US Attorney Gordon Michael Harvey (c) argues against the release of Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers (R seated) at a detention hearing before Judge John Facciola (L). Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, were later charged with conspiracy to hand over classified information to Cuba, serving as an illegal agent for a foreign government and wire fraud. (ILLUSTRATION BY ART LIEN/AFP/Getty Images)
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King Samir Shabazz (left) and Jerry Jackson, pictured in 2008 for the National Geographic Channel show "Inside," were accused of voter intimidation by the Justice Department. (Courtesy of National Geographic Channel)
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The African-American Civil War Memorial at Vermont Avenue and U Street Northwest marks the service of more than 200,000 black troops in the Civil War.
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This cross was erected in the Mojave Desert in 1934 as a memorial to the war dead. (Photograph courtesy of Liberty Legal Institute)
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Center Boyd Gordon was signed by the Phoenix Coyotes to a two-year contract Friday. (Peter Lockley/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Family members and friends of fallen Prince George's County police Sgt. Richard Findley place roses at the National Law Enforcement Memorial during the 17th Annual Wreath Laying Ceremony in Washington on Oct. 15, 2008. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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** FILE ** This video frame grab image provided by IntelCenter, a private terrorism analysis company, and taken from a video released on Friday Nov. 28, 2008, by the media arm of al QaEda, As-Sahab, shows Ayman al Zawahiri speaking in a video entitled "al-Azhar," or "The Lion's Den." Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader called on Americans to embrace Islam to overcome the financial meltdown, which he said was a consequence of the Sept. 11 attacks and militant strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)
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A display of flags in Shanksville, Pa., stand in memory of the 40 passengers and crew members of United Flight 93 who were killed on Sept. 11, 2001. A permanent memorial is planned by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack. (Associated Press/File)
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Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers meets with Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) in his office on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005. ( Allison Shelley / The Washington Times )
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In this photo taken July 9, 2008, U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, smiles after speaking during a dedication ceremony at the State Supreme Courthouse in Concord, N.H.
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Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins (right) and sheriff's office spokeswoman Cpl. Jennifer Bailey answer questions from the media Saturday about the bodies of a family of five discovered in a Middletown, Md., house. (Associated Press, file)
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Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (left) and Peter Sunde were found guilty in a Stockholm courtroom Friday along with two other defendants from the Internet file-sharing hub the Pirate Bay of promoting copyright infringement. They were ordered to pay $3.6 million in damages and each was sentenced to one year in prison. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reportedly has been quietly laying the groundwork for a gubernatorial campaign, but not necessarily in 2010. (Bloomberg News)Andrew Cuomo, attorney general for New York state, center, Benjamin Lawsky, assistant U.S. attorney, left, and Eric Corngold, deputy attorney general for Economic Justice, hold a news conference on Wall Street in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. Cuomo demanded that American International Group Inc.'s board stop "unwarranted and outrageous expenditures" and recover any past ones that were "unreasonable." Photographer: Jin Lee/Bloomberg News
