Jesse Helms, Alfonse D'Amato, Pat Moynihan and Jon Kyl -- will result in an early, critical examination of the idea.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

This article, by identifying both professional responsibility and substantive legal issues inherent in SCF, seeks to fill in the current gap and instigate a much needed critical examination among practitioners, scholars, and policymakers.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shariah's Black Box

Sir Robert insisted he would subject the application to the "most stringent and critical examination", and that the inquest would be a "full, fearless and open investigation into the circumstances of Mr Litvinenko's death".

BBC: Litvinenko inquest: Coroner examines secret files

Under cross-examination, she agreed that she had not said "a single critical thing" about Barry McCarney.

BBC: Millie Martin

So far, that re-examination has uncovered 26 cases where the technician allegedly failed to detect biological evidence critical to the cases.

CNN: More than 800 NYC rape cases reviewed for mistakes

But closer examination of the international environment also reveals that leadership vacuums are beginning to emerge on a wide range of critical issues looming on the horizon.

FORBES: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008