saco-indonesia.com, Kuasa hukum Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Palmer Situmorang, angkat bicara terkait 'nyanyian' Anas Urbaningrum yang juga mengaku diminta SBY untuk dapat mengamankan kasus bailout Bank Century.
"Siapa yang telah mengatakan itu? Tidak pernah dengar saya. Tidak ada itu," ujar Palmer, Kamis (6/2/2014) kemarin.
Palmer juga mengatakan kalimat 'mengamankan' dalam kasus bailout Century bermakna banyak. Oleh karenanya, Anas diminta untuk dapat menjelaskan makna kalimat 'mengamankan' itu.
"Mengamankan itu kan terminologinya luas," tuturnya.
Saat dikonfirmasi, apakah pihaknya juga akan melayangkan somasi kepada Anas seperti yang telah dilakukan kepada Rizal Ramli dan Fahri Hamzah, Palmer juga mengatakan akan mempelajari terlebih dahulu.
"Kita pelajari dulu lah, saya juga belum dengar itu," tutupnya.
Sebelumnya telah diberitakan, mantan Ketua Umum Partai Demokrat, Anas Urbaningrum juga mengaku pernah diminta Presiden SBY untuk dapat ‘mengamankan’ kasus bailout Bank Century.
"Iya, tentang Century benar, Ketua Fraksi Partai Demokrat (FPD), Anas Urbaningrum pada waktu itu diminta untuk dapat mengamankannya," kata pengacara Anas Urbaningrum, Carrel Ticualu.
Berdasarkan informasi, suami Atthiyah Laila itu juga pernah diminta langsung untuk dapat mencegah Panitia Khusus (Pansus) Bank Century, untuk tidak melibatkan Presiden, baik itu dari segi politik atau hukum.
Editor : Dian Sukmawati
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WASHINGTON — During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: “How close can somebody get to me before I’m justified in using deadly force?”
Dennis Tueller, the instructor in that class more than three decades ago, decided to find out. In the fall of 1982, he performed a rudimentary series of tests and concluded that an armed attacker who bolted toward an officer could clear 21 feet in the time it took most officers to draw, aim and fire their weapon.
The next spring, Mr. Tueller published his findings in SWAT magazine and transformed police training in the United States. The “21-foot rule” became dogma. It has been taught in police academies around the country, accepted by courts and cited by officers to justify countless shootings, including recent episodes involving a homeless woodcarver in Seattle and a schizophrenic woman in San Francisco.
Now, amid the largest national debate over policing since the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, a small but vocal set of law enforcement officials are calling for a rethinking of the 21-foot rule and other axioms that have emphasized how to use force, not how to avoid it. Several big-city police departments are already re-examining when officers should chase people or draw their guns and when they should back away, wait or try to defuse the situation
Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using Force