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According to medieval canon law, "private and shameful acts," the sorts of things a penitent whispers to his priest, lie outside the jurisdiction of public tribunals.
On March 27, 1866, U.S. President Andrew Johnson said, Thus a perfect equality of the white and colored races is attempted to be fixed by federal law in every state of the union over the vast field of State jurisdiction covered by these enumerated rights.
The NYT reports that the American negotiator Richard Holbrooke did not persuade Milosevic to allow the international war crimes tribunal to have jurisdiction in the region, and the LAT passes along the concerns of some analysts that the Serbs might take some observers hostage, thus boxing out NATO's ability to deter Milosevic via the threat of airstrikes.
Since Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr had forbidden Lewinsky to talk about him in the interview, she bashed him separately in her book, which is outside his jurisdiction.
The Armed Services committees exercise jurisdiction over the intelligence agencies within the Department of Defense (and, in the case of the Senate, over the Central Intelligence Agency).