Results for “Motive Communications”

…ization, as I do, one cannot as easily dismiss the independent evidence that undermines Snowden assertion that his sole motive was blowing the whistle on illicit surveillance in the United States. For example, by the Lawfare Institute in cooperation with The Brookings Institution...

…blems when it fosters technology we haven’t yet learned how to manage wisely. Sheer scientific curiosity without profit motive contributed to the discovery of nuclear weapons and tools for engineering pandemics, so it’s not unthinkable that the old adage “Curiosity killed the cat...

…ake acts of child abuse against other girls admissible in the plaintiffs case in chief as proof of “modus operandi” or “motive” or “common scheme or plan.” See Fed. R. Evid. 415 (evidence of other acts of sexual abuse automatically admissible in a civil case); Fla. Stat. Ann. 90....

… by Glenn Greenwald, an American journalist living in Brazil who had broken the NSA story in the Guardian. What was his motive? Greenwald asked. Why did he do it? Snowden replied that he had become horrified by the NSA’s secret operations which, to him, represented a kind of dist...

…on rights as well the leading opponent of NSA spying. While this remarkable transformation may not have been his entire motive, it certainly was the result of the choice he made to go public. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020366

…tory of abuse at the hands of Ms. Maxwell in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars from British tabloids with a motive for selling papers and advertisements and without regard for truth, veracity or substantiation,’’ Menninger noted in a 2016 response filed in the case. I...

… his decision to become a whistleblower,” Assange said in an interview in 2015. If Manning’s mistreatment was Snowden’s motive, it was a sharp departure from the position that Snowden had taken in his postings on the Ars Technica site in January 2009. He complained in a post on A...

… the right decision." Another juror agreed, saying that at the trial, "she was very, very credible," because she had no motive to lie, since she was not intending to collect any money, or to benefit in any way from Tyson's conviction. Desiree Washington also pretended -- with th...

…o continue to do so in this Court. Strikingly, the Response does not explain why Jane Doe #3, with an obvious financial motive for fabrication of salacious accusations, waited almost seven years to lob a stink bomb into a proceeding in which she has no right to participate. The R...

…ry to the media. The only thing that might have been more important is that she had been untruthful about her financial motive for accusing Tyson of rape. It also turns out that Desiree was hardly the naive virgin she pretended to be. Once her name was disclosed following the tr...

…om- plicated (and sometimes conflicting) relationship between social re- sponsibility, legal responsibility, and profit motive, as they witness the company’s attempt to establish a new research facility in a blighted town as a consequence of the merger. As students consider each...

… angel. He demanded that the jurors simply apply the law to the facts and not distinguish among murders on the basis of motive. The jury understood—even if the prosecutors and Pat Buchanan did not—the differences between love and hate, between a self-willed voluntary death and a...

… Tyson’s alleged victim was caught in a series of lies that directly related to her account of the alleged rape and her motive for bringing the charge. Yet Tyson was convicted and the case against DSK was dropped. Such are the vagaries of rape prosecutions in which objective tru...

…el helps explain why we think so highly of authentic altruists, as compared to others who do good, but with an ulterior motive (consider, as an example, the mockery Sean Penn has faced for showing up at disaster sites such as Haiti and Katrina with a photographer in tow). Princi...

…compelling reason to disbelieve the testimony of a young, religious, sexually inexperienced "girl" who had no possible motive to put herself through the agony of a rape trial. But it turns out that there were very good reasons for not believing her. 240 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017327