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…nkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessing and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbound exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or openi...

…otice to the 2,500 employees of the National Archives reminding them that FOIA is everyone's responsibility. Review of government and non-government reports on FOIA activity and March 12 Archivist of the United States David Ferriero joins Director Nisbet in welcoming guests to...

…Appx. 849, 2006 WL 14581 at *3 (1 1” Cir. 2006) (to establish Sims’s guilt on the sex trafficking of a minor count, the government had to show that Sims benefited financially from Owen’s sexual activity and that Sims knew that (a) force or coercion would be used to cause Owens to...

…a moderate technocrat from Anbar, galvanized Iraqi Sunnis, who rightly saw Maliki’s move as sectarian and an assault on government participation by Sunnis not under the prime minister’s thumb. Three days after the arrests, demonstrations broke out in Ramadi, Fallujah and Samarra....

strong control of the government and its high approval rating are steadily raising the chance of success. We stay overweight Japanese equities and grow wary of the short yen trade, as capital inflows and rising growth expectations (chart of right) are ultimately bullish for the c...

… knowledge of an event or topic, finding that mere “prior knowledge [of a topic] . . . cannot suffice to establish [the government’s] prior knowledge of the existence and location of the documents relating or referring to those topics.” Id. at 326. Ultimately, the court held that...

…ors, but the ignorance of the causal factors themselves, and their mutual relations. For example, not only may the U.S. government not know, say, the technical status of the Iranian nuclear program, or the actual state of readiness of Iranian forces. It may not know (or worse, ha...

…n having it unsealed. By then, it was too late to try to derail it. They allege, in a federal lawsuit filed against the government, that prosecutors deliberately kept the deal secret — in violation of federal law — to prevent them from appearing at Epstein's sentencing to possibl...

… prison sentence. Such decisions about walk-ins are not made without due consideration, often at the highest level of a government, because exfiltrating a defector can result in diplomatic ruptures and political embarrassments. Conversely, it raises espionage concerns when an ad...

…as microscopic, any risk of civilians being subjected to terror, panic and very possibly agonizing death meant that the government had to take precautions. The obvious first step would be to distribute gas masks. But in a series of meetings with Misha and Dan, I emphasized this w...

…slamist extremism and violence that -- barring a dramatic improvement in relations between the Bedouins and the central government in Cairo -- threatens Egypt and the region at large. Sinai's lawlessness recently sparked an international incident: On Aug. 18, gunmen carried out a...

…n account of Mr. Cheney’s experiences during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when he essentially commanded the government’s response from a bunker beneath the White House while Mr. Bush — who was away from Washington and hampered by communications breakdowns — played a p...

…made some significant missteps. Most important, the country was ill-prepared for plunging oil prices that have battered government revenues and growth. China has had three decades of supercharged growth and competent government policy. But in the past few years, Beijing went on...

… +44 20 7996 5515 [email protected] See Team Page for Full List of Contributors A Transforming World Markets Government This report ties into the enterprise-wide Investment Themes recently introduced in A Transforming World. In particular, the Saudi National Transform...

…ily and South China Morning Post. For 30 years, Dr. Kuhn has worked with China’s state leaders and advised the Chinese government. He spoke at the launch ceremony of President Xi Jinping’s book, The Governance of China; he provided live commentary on CNN for Xi’s policy address...