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…e common good. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 021224 Hannah Dreier of ProPublica won a Hillman Prize for reporting that showed how the government's bungled crackdown on MS-13 has torn apart the lives of Latino immigrants. The Atlantic's Adam Serwer, who has emerged as a defining voice of the Tr...

…e risk of a euro exit over the next six months has diminished after the 17 June elections, which have produced a viable government coalition. The Troika may only accept moderate adjustments to the second Greek package. Portugal is likely to receive an increased bailout package an...

…eserves brief discussion: Is it proper for the Judiciary, through the rule-making process, to command another branch of government to take certain actions? !4? The starting point for analyzing this question is the congressional command in the CVRA that the executive branch must p...

…ng SHC. (Al-Nafissa Decl. | 2, at Huffman Decl. Ex. C.) Dr. Al—Nafissa attests that SHC is “an arm of the Saudi Arabian government [and that its actions] are in keeping with the foreign and domestic governmental policies of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” (Id. § 3.) SHC was formed...

…episodes of his career, such as his interview with BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan in 2003. Gilligan claimed that the government had deliberately ‘sexed up’ the dossier on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in order to justify the Iraq War. A chain of events ensued, including t...

…camps where she was ravaged by malaria, fleas, hunger, and human cruelty until her high-profile rescue by the Colombian government in 2008. But Betancourt's captivity did not diminish her sensitivity to the world. Since her release, the would-be president has become a memoirist...

…s and I have continued to attempt to secure factual evidence that would demonstrate that the plea decisions made by the Government were improper or improperly influenced. 5 See, &g, Vicky Ward, The Talented Mr. Epstein, in Vanity Fair (Jan. 2005) (quoting Dershowitz as stating “...

…ge the plea deal. “I don’t think he ever told the truth,” the person said. A lawsuit Edwards filed against the federal government, claiming prosecutors violated the Victims Rights Act by not notifying Epstein’s victims of the pending plea deal, is still pending in U.S. District...

…e Snowden case blurs the demarcation line even further. Unlike other whistle-blowers who uncovered what they considered government malfeasance by virtue of their job, Snowden, by his own admission, took a new job in 2013 specifically to get access to the SCI files concerning NSA...

…or. The sum is “private wealth.” Consumer durables such as cars and refrigerators are excluded as impractical to price. Government wealth net of national wealth is tracked separately, and tends to show as slight or negative. Finding the Free Growth Index for Stock Markets My c...

…e turned out to be harder to fulfill than many people expected. There was, at first, a great deal of optimism; a lot of government money got spent on such efforts in the early 1960s. They basically just didn’t work. There are a lot of amusing science-fiction-ish portrayals of co...

…hat intelligence services call an “exfiltration,” I was told by a presidential national security staff adviser that the government acted to protect the intelligence sources used by the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI to track Snowden’s movements in the latter part of June in Hong Kong....

…igh Commission for Relief of *13 Bosnia & Herzegovina (SHC), a purported charity operating as an alter-ego of the Saudi government, also under the FSIA. SPA76-77, 81, 98. On December 16, 2005, the district court certified as final pursuant to Rule 54(b) its orders of January 18,...

…paid benefits), capital income (excluding capital gains), business income, capital gains, and other income--all before government taxes and transfers (see Glossary for full definition). The first reason is relatively simple: All these sources of income are less evenly distribut...

…s not directly impinge on the First Amendment because the decision not to publish is made by the media, rather than the government. Indeed, the Supreme Court has struck down a statute that precluded the media from publishing the names of alleged crime victims. I have been involv...