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…it came only after significant and often rancorous internal debate.” Jeffrey Sloman, who was second-in-command to then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta when the latter was deciding whether to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein, says the office handled the case properly. Aixa Montero Holt...

…rip as secretary of defense, Robert Gates takes a moment to peer across the American horizon--and the view is dire: the U.S. is in danger of losing its supremacy on the global stage, he says. "T've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower, and one that h...

…ocrats said ina letter that they want to know more about the circumstances surrounding the deal, which was made by then-U.S. Attorney and current Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta. As Epstein’s defense attorney in that case, Dershowitz is not upset about it the deal at all. “I’m v...

…d. The Miami Herald’s reporting has also had serious political ramifications. As the Miami Herald has reported, “[t]he U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, was personally involved in the negotiations” back in and around 2008. Jd. Ex. C. Acosta subsequently became “a member...

…odating the powerful. Much of that accommodation is of Democrats. Indeed, at the time Acosta was working in Miami as a U.S. Attorney, he had alienated some Republicans by such accommodation while at the Department of Justice. Some say he was on the verge of being fired when Atto...

Carl Bialik took $100 to a currency exchange to see how many transactions he could make between different currencies before running out of money. Most exchanges require you to convert back to US dollars before going into another foreign currency, which led to significant fees wh...

…ection to the September 11, 2001 attack on the WTC: (Writes Scott) "For indeed it is certain that on various occasions U.S. agencies have intervened, letting al-Qaeda terrorists proceed with their plots. This alarming statement will be dismissed by some as "conspiracy theory.” Y...

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Sidney Hillman Foundation Names Winners of 2019 Prizes for Journalism in Service of the Common Good Reuters, NBC News and MSNBC, ProPublica Receive Honors; Adam Serwer to receive Opinion & Analysis Prize NEW YORK -— The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced Tuesday winners of the...

si he was a 23-year-old political operative. They have lunch once a week, where sometimes—as on the details of Af-Pak escalation— they cordially disagree but know the president will decide anyway. Donilon believes you have to go back to George H. W. Bush’s era to find such “alig...

our age, small-sized problems were spilling rapidly into crises of strategy. One hot battlefield instant - an explosion under an armorless truck, say - could freeze the operations of a billion-dollar division. Nearly everyone begins to ask, sometimes out loud: Why did that happen...

…l staff, People's Liberation Army, March 2015 “Various human rights organizations, think tanks, and simple NGOs of the U.S. and its allies in Europe, concealing their true goals, have established a huge network of affiliates around the world... It is they who act as the ‘fifth c...

…ks to block Iran from using barter commodities such as oil and gold to pay for imports. The Washington Post paraphrased U.S. officials as saying that, “the new policies are closer to a true trade embargo, designed to systematically attack and undercut Iran’s major financial pilla...

…on Libya meant that it was now decision time on launching a third American war in the Middle East, though no one in the U.S. government dared call it that. Muammar Qaddafi was ramping up his genocidal threats, pledging to show “no mercy” toward his own people (whom he described a...

… the United States Government might not be willing to do. Subsection (b) amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. § 2151 ef seq) to provide specific assistance for anti-trafficking investigation and prosecution units in foreign countries. This subsection could be con...