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…episodes of his career, such as his interview with BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan in 2003. Gilligan claimed that the government had deliberately ‘sexed up’ the dossier on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in order to justify the Iraq War. A chain of events ensued, including t...

…camps where she was ravaged by malaria, fleas, hunger, and human cruelty until her high-profile rescue by the Colombian government in 2008. But Betancourt's captivity did not diminish her sensitivity to the world. Since her release, the would-be president has become a memoirist...

…s and I have continued to attempt to secure factual evidence that would demonstrate that the plea decisions made by the Government were improper or improperly influenced. 5 See, &g, Vicky Ward, The Talented Mr. Epstein, in Vanity Fair (Jan. 2005) (quoting Dershowitz as stating “...

…ge the plea deal. “I don’t think he ever told the truth,” the person said. A lawsuit Edwards filed against the federal government, claiming prosecutors violated the Victims Rights Act by not notifying Epstein’s victims of the pending plea deal, is still pending in U.S. District...

…t’s clearance for actual implementation to begin. But it didn’t. With hard-line ministers threatening to bring down the government if it did, Bibi again stalled. That was the turning point. I’d made it clear our parliamentary support would remain for as long as Bibi moved ahead w...

…e Snowden case blurs the demarcation line even further. Unlike other whistle-blowers who uncovered what they considered government malfeasance by virtue of their job, Snowden, by his own admission, took a new job in 2013 specifically to get access to the SCI files concerning NSA...

…or. The sum is “private wealth.” Consumer durables such as cars and refrigerators are excluded as impractical to price. Government wealth net of national wealth is tracked separately, and tends to show as slight or negative. Finding the Free Growth Index for Stock Markets My c...

…e turned out to be harder to fulfill than many people expected. There was, at first, a great deal of optimism; a lot of government money got spent on such efforts in the early 1960s. They basically just didn’t work. There are a lot of amusing science-fiction-ish portrayals of co...

…hat intelligence services call an “exfiltration,” I was told by a presidential national security staff adviser that the government acted to protect the intelligence sources used by the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI to track Snowden’s movements in the latter part of June in Hong Kong....

…igh Commission for Relief of *13 Bosnia & Herzegovina (SHC), a purported charity operating as an alter-ego of the Saudi government, also under the FSIA. SPA76-77, 81, 98. On December 16, 2005, the district court certified as final pursuant to Rule 54(b) its orders of January 18,...

…ent) don’t believe that al Qaeda was responsible for the Twin Tower attacks, instead affixing blame to Israel, the U.S. government or an unknown entity. This kind of dangerous misinformation carries into even the most recent current events. In the same survey, 62 percent either d...

…paid benefits), capital income (excluding capital gains), business income, capital gains, and other income--all before government taxes and transfers (see Glossary for full definition). The first reason is relatively simple: All these sources of income are less evenly distribut...

…s not directly impinge on the First Amendment because the decision not to publish is made by the media, rather than the government. Indeed, the Supreme Court has struck down a statute that precluded the media from publishing the names of alleged crime victims. I have been involv...

…by the NSA. When Morell realized how much data Snowden had taken, he was astounded. “You might have thought of all the government entities on the planet, the one least vulnerable to such grand theft would have been the NSA,” he wrote. “But it turned out that the NSA had left its...

…ng because Epstein’s crimes are the subject of widespread and exceptional media interest, and raise questions about the government's integrity, which affects public confidence; specifically, whether Mr. Epstein received 2 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029417