secret courts

The FBI applied for a secret court warrant to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page using a dossier compiled by Steele as the core argument. That dossier contained claims that remain unverified to this day, in violation of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rules, which require all evidence to be ...

Exclusive interview with Makar Paseniuk, managing partner of ICU, for Interfax-Ukraine News Agency. Let's start with the most broadly discussed topic—a secret court ruling revealed by Al Jazeera that involved ICU in government bond purchases. Have you carefully read the document published by Al ...

... you should know,” the neighbor told him, “they came and picked up Kise and said they're taking her to an institution.” Based on an emergency petition filed by a handyman she had befriended and given her power of attorney, 85-year-old Kise Davis had been deemed incapacitated in a secret court action.

While the details of those conversations remain secret, court documents suggest they support the idea of more extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia during the election than the White House has admitted. Van der Zwaan faced up to five years in jail. He earned a light sentence based ...

While the details of those conversations remain secret, court documents suggest they support the idea of more extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia during the election than the White House has admitted. Van der Zwaan faced up to five years in jail. US intelligence agencies say ...

The 2013 act introduced a new system of secret courts in Britain but only in civil cases. The government argues that the decision by the CPS not to prosecute Allen was a civil matter since it did not relate directly to criminal proceedings. Belhaj's lawyers dispute this, insisting that it is a criminal matter since it ...

For the past few days, the nation's media and political class have been fixated on the firing of the No. 2 person in the FBI, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. McCabe became embroiled in the investigation of President Donald Trump because of his alleged approval of the use of a political dossier, written ...

The recipe consists of a secret court whose records and rulings are not available to the public. It's a court where only the government's lawyers appear; ... Secret courts are the tools of tyrants and lead to the corruption of the judicial process and the erosion of freedom. And courts that hear no challenge to the ...

She went on to say she doesn't believe for “one second” that Cohen was acting of his own accord to help protect his friend. “And now we know Donald Trump has gone to court, trying to move the whole case to federal court and then to a secret court [arbitration],” she continued. “Secret courts are for Iran, ...

In a statement issued on Wednesday, hours after HuffPost published this story, the company's head of employment law, Heidi Swartz, wrote, “Facebook does not use 'secret courts' to handle sexual harassment cases as alleged by HuffPost. That claim is false and misleading. We have never had an ...

“In our current governmental climate, where laws that run counter to the dictates of the Constitution are made in secret, passed without debate, and upheld by secret courts that operate behind closed doors, obeying one's conscience can often render you a criminal,” said constitutional attorney John W.

Opinion - A High Court hearing was this week shut off to everyone, including media - something even the judge calls 'anathema to the fundamental concepts of fairness'. no caption. Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King. Something quite strange is happening at the High Court in Wellington this week.

A closed court hearing in the High Court at Wellington is about the cancellation of a New Zealand passport. The lower level of the High Court building on Molesworth Street has been off-limits to the media and public on Wednesday and Thursday, as security officers barred the elevators and stairs.

An ex-military intelligence officer has offered to give evidence in secret court hearings about allegations of murders and collusion by the Army. Fred Holroyd's evidence includes claims of collusion in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, in which 33 died. He will also claim that Army Captain Robert ...

Teen girl accused of murdering newborn kept birth a secret, court documents say. by J. Gutierrez | K. Heck | J. Martinez. Erica Gomez was arrested and charged with capital murder in the death of her newborn baby girl, according to authorities. AA. EL PASO, Texas (CBS4) —. A teen girl accused of killing her newborn infant ...

Sometimes where you stand on an issue depends on where you sit. It's all a matter of perspective. Recently, CNN news anchor Chris Cuomo sparred on-air with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) over whether or not the FBI abused its power and deceived the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC, ...

“You keep calling it 'secret court' which is not fair to the American people.” The two spoke over each other for a large portion of the segment, addressing everything from the content of the FISA application to the process by which the GOP memo was released and focusing on whether there is political bias in ...

WASHINGTON — The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is not exactly a place where journalists or members of the public can drop in and check out the latest hot case. The super-secretive court, which sits on the third floor of the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in downtown Washington, ...

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The application by the US DOJ to spy on a former aide to President Donald Trump should be scrubbed of sensitive information on sources and methods and publicly released, said House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee Chair Michael McCaul. "I believe that the ...

After Memo, New York Times Asks Secret Court for Carter Page Warrants. The publication argues the release of a memo drafted by House Republicans that reveals the Justice Department sought and received warrants to spy on Page means records of those warrants should be disclosed. By Cogan ...

Ukraine's former President Viktor Yanukovich is estimated to have syphoned off at least $1.5bn from the country through his cronies before his removal in 2014; Al Jazeera has traced at least $160m of the suspected misappropriated assets frozen in Cyprus upon the request of the Ukrainian authorities; The ...

One of the most contentious issues surrounding the Trump dossier is the question of whether the FBI used unverified material from the dossier — a Clinton campaign opposition research product — to apply for permission to spy on Americans. Investigators from both House and Senate have long wanted to ...

A Washington DC court house building where the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court sits. (Image: file photo). The US government does not need the approval of its secret surveillance court to ask a tech company to build an encryption backdoor. The government made its remarks in July in ...

A Washington DC court house building where the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court sits. (Image: file photo). The US government does not need the approval of its secret surveillance court to ask a tech company to build an encryption backdoor. The government made its remarks in July in ...

In June 2015, Congress adopted modest reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) — the federal statute that allows the Department of Justice to obtain an ex parte order from a secret court to wiretap suspected terrorists and foreign agents, including American citizens. Recognizing the risk ...

This week in our WiCipedia roundup: IWD2018 makes a statement; Facebook's 'secret courts'; a VC accountability list; and more. Join Women in Comms for an important morning of networking and discussion at our annual WiC networking breakfast event in Denver on March 22. Let's put an end to sexual ...

ISIS children (Video screenshot)Secret court documents obtained by The Sunday Times in the UK paint an alarming picture of the susceptibility of children to radicalization and the effects on children from living in war zones. The documents concern at least 20 Muslim children – kids in the UK as well as ...

In a Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017 file photo, Arkansas Department of Correction Director Wendy Kelley, right, testifies before legislators at the state Capitol complex in Little Rock with deputy director Dale Reed at her side. The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday, March 29, 2018, that Kelley's agency ...

Two acts of Parliament assaulted freedom and broke the bonds with the mother country irreparably. The first was the Stamp Act, which was enforced by British soldiers, who used general warrants issued by a secret court in London to rummage through the personal possessions of any colonists they chose, ...

While the plan to revisit the contract was supposed to remain secret, court documents show the RCMP suspected Norman of being upset with the decision out of concern the government would cancel the project. Norman was commander of the navy at the time and, according to the documents, allegedly ...