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…of dissent. East Germany was not the only place in the Cold War era using surveillance to suppress dissent. Even in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI bugged the phones of civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr, to root out suspected su...

…d to protect Lebanon." But move forward with caution, Hodroj counseled an undercover FBI source, because someone in the United States could "go to jail for 100 years" if caught dealing with Hezbollah. In light of cases like this one, in which people overtly affiliated with Hezbo...

… abuse, or that the abuse was OK because she was paid for it — leaves out the fact that this is why we have laws in the United States to protect minor children who are groomed and sexually trafficked by adults.’ Epstein served 13 months in a Florida prison after pleading guilty...

…rity of people charged with crime were innocent? That may be true in Iran, China and Belarus, but it is not true of the United States, England, Israel and other countries with a zealous defense bar. And in order to keep it that way, everyone accused of crime, whether innocent or...

…ites on NSANet). These lower-level documents had whistle-blowing potential because they concerned NSA operations in the United States. They did not reveal, however, sources that the NSA used in intercepting the mili- tary and civilian activities of foreign adversaries. Snowden q...

…is highly unpopular in European liberal circles, he has gained a following among conserva- tives in both Europe and the United States. At a 2015 congressional subcommittee hearing in Washington, one Republican legislator after another defended the Fidesz government, often in ways...

…ecific type of proceeding sought to be closed; (vii) Comply with established public policy set forth in the Florida or United States Constitution or statutes or Florida rules or case law.... Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.420(c)(9) (codifying the holding in Barron y. Florida Freedom New...

…sa New has under way to bring poetry into the mainstream, and, especially, into English Language Arts classrooms in the United States and around the world. The initiative, Poetry in America, includes a HarvardX online course, a television series we're creating with WGBH to be pai...

…inging democracy and enlightenment to the world, was used by the Russians to subvert democracy and sow confusion in the United States. Even people paid to see the future didn’t see that one coming. “The board’s role is to help think about some of the medium- and longer-term pro...

…e just three weeks before the first civil lawsuit would be filed against Epstein. Contrary to the express agreement of United States Attorney Acosta that the federal government would not interfere in the administration of any state sentence, Mr. Sloman tried to limit gain time a...

…hy is Syria stable,” he asked, “although we have more difficult conditions? Egypt has been supported financially by the United States, while we are under embargo by most countries of the world. We have growth although we do not have many of the basic needs for the people. Despite...

…nd the media are vulnerable to intimidation or partisan capture. lliberalism seems less likely to gain traction in the United States because the courts, for example, are proudly independent, and freedom of the press is firm- ly protected by statute and constitutional jurispru- d...

…pholes legally available to any billionaire — loopholes he says Hillary Clinton failed to close during her years in the United States Senate. “Why didn’t she ever try to change those laws so I couldn’t use them?” Mr. Trump asked during a campaign rally last month. But newly obtai...

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…ere since the coup attempt. One of the lawyers, Reid Weingarten, said: "It would be unprecedented and appalling if the United States took a frail almost- octogenarian, plopped him on a plane to go back into that kind of setting with the hideous things that are being said about h...