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About USA Inc. Created and Compiled by Mary Meeker February 2011 This report looks at the federal government as if it were a business, with the goal of informing the debate about our nation’s financial situation and outlook. In it, we examine USA Inc.’s income statement and bal...

String Puller | 61 Snowden was an avid reader of Greenwald’s screeds against the government. If he were to assume the role of a modern-day Pro- metheus, delivering forbidden NSA secrets to the public, Greenwald would be a logical candidate to break the story. Snowden could safel...

…itical tradition inside French sinology. The 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and a demonstration condoned by the French government on the eve of the G-7 Versailles Summit created a lasting row with the PRC (to which arms sales to Taiwan in the early 1990s can be traced). Presiden...

…S. Dep't of Justice, supra note 145, at I-22, I-33 (describing prioritization of federal prosecutions into financial or government fraud and child exploitation). 49 See Jane Kim, Taking Rape Seriously: Rape as Slavery, 35 Harv. J.L. & Gender 263, 277-83 (2012) (criticizing inade...

…ndards of presidential campaign events. Trump, a billionaire businessman who has never held elected office or worked in government before, says he has experience dealing with foreign governments through setting up hotels, resorts, golf courses and beauty pageants in foreign count...

…cal purposes, to designate someone to grow cannabis for them or to purchase dry cannabis flower from Health Canada (the government agency charged with administering Canada’s medical cannabis regu- lations). The MMAR was successfully challenged on constitutional grounds and eventu...

…call with us. These are some of the questions he sent to me. I told Bert that as part of our agreement we (the federal government) are not going to indict Mr. Epstein, but gave him an idea of the charges that we had planned to bring as related to 18 USC 2255. With respect to que...

… the Internet The past year has seen increasing backlash and fear towards the Internet and its constituents. Calls for government-mandated regulation are coming from all sides while Silicon Valley wonders how influence campaigns have managed to sway an election. It is tempting,...

…f of Vichy—a much different status than a business looking to sober forums with the president as a way to influence the government. Indeed, the protesters who believed they were seeing the company’s relationship with Trump in political terms were actually seeing this in conventio...

…se the pressure as a maximum containment strategy to cripple the Iranian economy, increasing domestic opposition to the government, and making regime change more likely. » ... ‘forcing’ the Americans to engage in military intervention for Bolton [is] a useful pretext to bombing...

…nt information about their witnesses prior to a charge or during plea negotiations. But we firmly believe that when the Government possesses information that goes directly to a target’s factual guilt or innocence, the target should be informed about such heartland exculpatory evi...

…for the regime to curry favor with the military. The intended North Korean signal is being analyzed and debated by U.S. government officials, who hold views across the spectrum. A much simpler explanation exists. Pyongyang tested a nuclear device for the same reason it has been...

…from its covert behavior. "Little is known about [the Hezbollah military wing's] internal command hierarchy," a Western government report noted in 2012, "due to its highly secretive nature and use of sophisticated protective measures." The structure and manpower of Hezbollah's t...

…ble cause for an arrest warrant. The criminal process is still in the investigative stage, and the adverse positions of government and defendant have yet to solidify.”!” Relying on that reasoning, the Fourth Circuit refused to find that the nght to counsel had attached merely bec...

…tory. “The serial nature of defendant’s seduction of minor girls was revealed for the first time to the court upon the Government’s response to the Court’s inquiry,” Zloch wrote, explaining that the defendant’s past was evidence of predatory behavior that watranted a harsher sen...