... more limited requirement, mandating a court order for when the FBI wants to conduct queries on Americans to find evidence of a crime but not for when the FBI is searching the intelligence database for foreign intelligence information. Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat who said he had not yet ...
... moments, Stephanie, since summer of last year, starting with the fact that the former president himself was the person that announced that the FBI was searching his home, was searching his Mar a Lago home for these classified documents. We learned that first from the former president and all along ...
... how much the government paid to do it. Of the $36.2 million in legal costs fighting such lawsuits last year, the Justice Department accounted for $12 million, the Homeland Security Department for $6.3 million and the Pentagon for $4.8 million. The three departments accounted for more than ...
... unit and faces desertion and misbehavior charges. Bergdahl was captured and held by the Taliban and its allies for five years. Two soldiers who went searching were seriously wounded. Obama exchanged Bergdahl in 2014 for five Taliban prisoners. Because of his military involvement, both the Justice Department and Defense Department ...
... publicized ones that challenge the massive collection without warrants of telephone records by the National Security Agency. Though the details and scale are far different - searching a single phone for evidence that could send someone to jail versus gathering huge amounts of data, almost all of which will never be ...
... just weeks after the mass murders in Aurora, Colorado, the president called for -- quote -- "soul searching" about gun violence, but again stopped short of calling for new laws. Law enforcement officials in Wisconsin said the gun used in yesterday's shooting had been purchased legally. And for more on this ...
... bombing. MARGARET WARNER: Now, what about -- Justice Breyer wrote the dissent for four of the justices. MARCIA COYLE: Yes, he did. He was joined by Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan. And Justice Breyer felt that there just wasn't enough evidence here to justify strip-searching people who committed minor ...
... 9-millimeter weapon. But without Morris on the witness stand, the judge should not have allowed jurors to see his statement, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the court, invoking the constitutional provision that gives defendants the right to confront their accusers. "For Confrontation Clause purposes, it was not for the ...
... mentioned throwing a plate in the heat of an argument, or slamming a door. The case involved two Maine men who said their guilty pleas for hitting their partners should not disqualify them from gun ownership. Writing for herself and five other justices, Justice Elena Kagan said that Congress enacted ...
WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency considered abandoning its secret program to collect and store American calling records in the months before leaker Edward Snowden revealed the practice, current and former intelligence officials say, because some officials believed the costs outweighed the meager counterterrorism benefits.
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