Results for “Government Accountability Office”

…to a fair proceeding. In the case of transfers for convenience, the statutory right to confer with the attorney for the government provides the mechanism for incorporating the victim's views. As in the case of Rule 20, the Subcommittee declined to go beyond the carefully crafted...

… openness and freedom, more closely coordinating responses within institutional sectors, and also better informing both governmental and nongovernmental actors about the potentially harmful influence activities of China and other foreign actors. It was in the third category, pro...

…t intelligence. Booz Allen, like all other outside contractors, was in the business to make money. Indeed, it had found government contracts so much more profitable than its work in the private sector that it sold its private sector unit to Price Waterhouse. The profitability of...

… to the United States in 1995, and the decision to approve China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. The Chinese government endeavored to build influence with and gain access to Congress by encouraging US businesses to lobby Congress on China’s behalf and by continuing to...

…ITS SECRETS tacted the consulate of Iceland while he was in Hong Kong. “We had heard nothing from Snowden,” an Iceland government official told Vanity Fatr. Snowden also did not contact the government of Ecuador while in Hong Kong. In mid-June, while Harrison was laying down fa...

…atter what party, actually have no interest in education at all. An educated electorate makes campaigning much harder. Government use of education for repression: As long as there have been governments, there have been governments that wanted people to think that the government...

…still below its 7% share of GDP from 1948 to 2000; it accounted for 20% of the budget in 2010, compared with 41% of all government spending between 1789 and 1930. The principal challenges lie elsewhere. Since the Great Depression, USA Inc. has steadily added “business lines” and,...

…y, over 90% of routine federal indictments for terrorist attacks since 9/11 contain at least one conspiracy charge. The government's pursuit of conspiracies is by no means limited to terrorism. Conspiracy charges are the rule rather than the exception in cases brought against bus...

…has struggled to secure the freedom of movement and self-determination that so many Palestinians once expected from his government. The JMCC issued similar findings. By far the most disturbing figure in the poll is the exponential rise in support among the Palestinian public for...

…d by adversaries, such as North Korea, that still cling to nuclear weapons. JENNIFER LIND is an Associate Professor of government at Dartmouth College and the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics. KEIR A. LIEBER is an Associate Professor in the Edmund A. W...

…stors . Bond Investors + New York Rising Underfunded : ; 1975 14B! on ; ; Recession Federal City Entitlement Spending Government Note: 1) NYC government and subsidiaries had $14B debt outstanding in 1975. Adjusting for inflation, $14B of 1975 dollars would have been ~$50B in t...

I decided to argue that it was none of the government’s constitutional business to act as a board of censors—to tell its adult citizens what they could and could not watch in the privacy of a movie theater that was off limits to children and that did not advertise in a pandering...

to defend the government and to work for the government. Some of the same hard leftists who demand academic freedom for themselves and their ideological colleagues were among the leaders of those seeking to deny academic freedom to a distinguished law professor who had worked for...

…crime victims regular appellate protec- tions of their rights when three circuits had reached the opposite conclusion? GOVERNMENT'S RIGHT TO ASSERT ERROR DENIAL OF VICTIMS’ RIGHTS To further bolster protection of crime vic- tims’ rights, Congress also included an addi- tional p...

… of the United States top Congressman, and 2012 Presidential candidate, Ron Paul has long stated his belief that the US government has lied about its gold reserves held at Fort Knox. So concerned had Congressman Paul become about the US government and the Federal Reserve hiding t...