At six that same morning, Danielle Chiesi was roused from bed in her apartment on East Fifty-ninth Street by the knocks of four agents wearing bulletproofvests.
On his laptop computer, 27-year-old Bahjat keeps photos of when he worked with an American contractor in Baghdad, including one of him and his colleagues lined up in matching bulletproofvests.
In an anguished dissent released today, Justice Clarence Thomas chastised his fellow judges for refusing to take up a case that challenged a federal law prohibiting felons from owning bulletproofvests.
My Administration has devoted significant resources to improving officer safety, providing bulletproofvests that have saved lives, training officers to prevent and survive potentially lethal encounters, and strengthening our ability to share information.