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What Ben Franklin Really Said
Franklin was thus complaining of the choice facing the legislature between being able to make funds available for frontier defense and maintaining its right of self-governance–and he was criticizing the governor for suggesting it should be willing to give up … Continue reading
The Prenda Saga Goes Criminal: Steele and Hansmeier Indicted On Federal Charges
Eventually Steele and Hansmeier filmed their own porn to upload to support this scheme. When courts began suspicious, the indictment alleges that Steele and Hansmeier sent underlings to lie to courts, or even lied to courts themselves, to conceal the … Continue reading
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Audit of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Management and Oversight of its Confidential Source Program
Among the Limited Use sources the DEA established were Amtrak and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees. In November 2015, the OIG completed two separate investigations into DEA’s use of two Amtrak employees and one TSA employee as sources. These investigations … Continue reading
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Trump Carrier Bailout – Economically Unsound
But in the matter of industry-specific or firm-specific tax benefits of the sort extended to Carrier in Indiana, they do not have a leg to stand on. These are straight-up corporate welfare, ethically and fiscally indistinguishable from shipping containers full … Continue reading
Donald Trump Faces Obstacles to Resuming Waterboarding
In an interview with The New York Times last Tuesday, his only comments on the issue since the election, Mr. Trump said he discussed the matter with James N. Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general who is under consideration for … Continue reading
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