And whether they are called general investigatory hearings or pre-impeachment investigatory hearings, I'll leave to others.
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In September 2017, IOCCO gave way to the new Investigatory Powers Commissioner Office (IPCO), as part of the UK's new surveillance legislation the Investigatory Powers Act.
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"We are not in a position to indicate if we have or have not preliminary investigatory proceedings against an individual," said the ethics committee's investigatory chamber in a statement to Reuters.
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Lawmakers have questioned 15 witnesses brought before three investigatory panels.
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" He asked: "What is the investigatory basis for his conclusion?
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"I'm not able to reveal internal investigatory matters," Sessions said.
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Can the FEC refer those complaints to another investigatory agency?
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The process will be overseen by the investigatory powers commissioner.
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Right now I only see this as an investigatory mechanism.
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I have said that we ought to have investigatory hearings.
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A bureau that looks tenacious in its investigatory efforts of Mrs.
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"It is not an expansion of U.K. investigatory powers," McGuinness said.
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The House bill would create a third-party investigatory process instead.
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What was it like for you to make something less investigatory?
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The controversial Investigatory Powers Bill is currently being debated in parliament.
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After each murder, Hawaii had sent an investigatory team to Arizona.
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The advocacy groups focused on the power granted by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), which was replaced in 2016 by the Investigatory Powers Act in 2016, a bill that hasn't yet gone into effect.
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Many had suggested McConnell assign a special investigatory committee for that purpose.
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"The Investigatory Powers bill is in a sense for show," he said.
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A special House investigatory committee had subpoenaed Greitens to testify next Monday.
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The UK's post-Snowden Investigatory Powers Act continues to face legal challenges.
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The powers are there in Investigatory Powers Act and compel total secrecy.
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This power provides for three basic mechanisms to enforce congressional investigatory requests.
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At best, investigatory or pretext stops were supposed to be a deterrent.
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Defense lawyers try to maintain a single narrative to avoid investigatory drift.
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This was a case in its investigatory stage, not the finished product.
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Chaffetz, however, suggested to CNN that no investigatory matter has been ruled out.
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Page left the investigatory team after her 45-day detail ended in July.
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Eric Swalwell, the California Democrat on one of the House's leading investigatory panels.
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That investigatory effort is on hold while Trump's lawyers challenge the subpoena in court.
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The cat bats an investigatory paw, then claws its target and yanks it faceward.
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The latest incarnation of the Snoopers' Charter, the Investigatory Powers Act, must be changed.
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The YouTube remixer's latest musical mish-mash skewers the government's Investigatory Powers Bill — a.k.
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One of you suggested earlier the House is probably still in the investigatory business.
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The White House Counsel's office lacks firepower to defend Trump against an investigatory onslaught.
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The legislation in question, known as the Investigatory Powers Bill, became law last November.
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The latest incarnation of the snoopers' charter, the Investigatory Powers Act, must be changed.
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New UN investigatory mechanisms have been established on Iran, Syria, and Belarus among others.
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DOJ has policy to refrain from investigatory activity in 2900 day period before election.
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DOJ has policy to refrain from investigatory activity in 2628 day period before election.
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Opel officials are set to testify before an investigatory committee in Germany this week.
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Thus, it does not apply to the investigatory stage or to the pretrial process.
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You published your first investigatory article about R. Kelly in the year 2000, right?
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Besides, if anything about Rebel Rags actually merits investigatory scrutiny, it's this: Yeah, no.
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We don't yet know whether any of these investigatory trails will lead to charges.
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The public advocate should have unfettered subpoena power to bolster the office's investigatory mandate.
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But Congress also has broad investigatory authority, an implied power flowing from the Constitution itself.
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The ruling comes against the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act of 2014, or DRIPA.
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The draft bill on investigatory powers going through Parliament attempts to sort out this mess.
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In November, the UK passed a highly controversial surveillance law called the Investigatory Powers Act.
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And I will make sure to hold them accountable using the DOJ or whatever investigatory.
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During the pretrial stage, local rules place emphasis on the investigatory powers of the prosecutors.
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Earlier this week, McConnell attacked the House investigatory process, earning a Trump attaboy on Twitter.
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That does not mean that the privilege can defeat such demands at the investigatory stage.
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The Democrats are getting the balance between investigatory zeal and caution just right so far.
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Those powers will be authorised under the Investigatory Powers Bill, or IP Bill, if passed.
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"Having examined all of the relevant evidence and based on Miguel Trujillo's guilty plea before the federal court in New York, the investigatory chamber has opened formal proceedings against Mr Trujillo," the investigatory body of FIFA's ethics committee said in a statement on Wednesday.
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He very carefully says that he found no "documentary" evidence that bias produced 'specific investigatory decisions.
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"During this investigatory period, there can be no chapter activities," spokesman Jonathan Pierce tells NBC News.
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We're also not an investigatory body, and we are uncomfortable making judgments about people's private behaviors.
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The cold case is being re-examined in a two-part, four-hour CBS investigatory documentary.
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Also like Facebook, The New York Times in particular sees it as a juicy investigatory target.
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Mr. Comey stands accused of flouting the rules, breaking the chain of command, abusing investigatory powers.
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Eric Swalwell, the California Democrat who's a member of one of the House's leading investigatory panels.
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Chaffetz is head of the committee that is the House's investigatory arm into the Executive Branch.
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Chaffetz is head of a committee that is the House's investigatory arm into the Executive Branch.
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The Investigatory Powers bill has been dubbed a Snoopers' Charter by privacy and civil rights groups.
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The DOJ believes relying on them for an increasingly common investigatory need will prevent nimble investigations.
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The House majority gives Democrats subpoena and investigatory power, posing potential headaches for the White House.
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Following scrutiny by three government committees, the Investigatory Powers Bill has undergone some fairly significant changes.
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This would mean the dissolution of the current police-run investigatory unit that oversees such investigations.
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In 2016, the British Parliament passed the Investigatory Powers Act, championed by then-Home Secretary May.
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The same investigatory process has been used by Central Command recently in two highly controversial cases.
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It also sanctions bulk equipment interference — aka the mass hacking of devices — as an investigatory tool.
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Putting a member of the president's family in the investigatory hot seat is a delicate business.
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Those files were then passed to the UEFA Club Financial Control Body investigatory chamber for assessment.
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The assumption is that this is a big deal, a major step in the investigatory process.
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Those types of groups, particularly local police, have increasingly capitalized on social media as an investigatory resource.
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I have been representing people in investigatory matters for almost 30 years, and I see nothing here.
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The end result is that the NFL did attempt the investigatory moves that the Mueller report recommended.
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The House majority gives the party subpoena and investigatory power, posing potential headaches for the White House.
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Anything that might significantly shed light on the underlying allegation of FBI investigatory bias was deemed unanswerable.
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However, the Investigatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee has not established conclusive evidence in this regard.
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Which is to say some Republicans with investigatory power have at least signaled a whiff of independence.
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Again, this is a common investigatory method when the government can show probable cause to a court.
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Their evidence has been fully vetted in the investigatory process and in motion practice before the court.
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Last year the UK parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee also raised concerns about bulk hacking as an investigatory technique, recommending the provision be removed entirely from the draft Investigatory Powers bill before parliament, saying it had not seen "sufficiently compelling evidence" to justify sanctioning such an intrusive capability.
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Eric Greitens wants a judge to reverse his order to turn over documents to a House investigatory committee.
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Conversely, some criminologists argue, investigatory failure just erodes trust in institutions, further limiting cops' ability to gather information.
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A US district court has already ruled that Congress's investigatory powers trump executive privilege in cases like this.
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Neither would have prosecutorial powers, but they could have substantial investigatory resources and be able to subpoena witnesses.
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We should develop corporate policy mechanisms, legal frameworks, and investigatory practices for punishing developers that clearly facilitate abuse.
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This mini-revival shares DNA with the Spotlight-style investigatory work, but is updated for the digital era.
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But a source familiar with the FCC investigatory process said that this particular investigation could have moved quicker.
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And in 2016 the ECJ ruled against a British investigatory-powers law, forcing the government to amend it.
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Theresa May is also pivotal in legalizing mass surveillance in the UK, thanks to her Investigatory Powers Act.
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The UK controversially legislated last year to expand and extend state surveillance powers, via the Investigatory Powers Act.
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This is, in our opinion, a strong example of investigatory overreach and a clear abuse of government authority.
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"Facial reconstructions are intended to provide an investigatory lead in cases that have gone cold," Dr. Adams said.
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Almost 22012 percent of all complaints against officers were ultimately found unsubstantiated by the department's internal investigatory team.
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Almost 90 percent of all complaints against officers were ultimately found unsubstantiated by the department's internal investigatory team.
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Also included in the Investigatory Powers Act was explicit authorization for police to hack suspects' phones or computers.
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The investigatory arm in the United States for American citizens is the Justice Department, not a foreign country.
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He's ripped into congressional Democrats for subpoenaing an unredacted version of the report and its underlying investigatory materials.
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Rojas replaced Cornel Borbely, a Swiss lawyer, as the head of the investigatory arm of FIFA's ethics body.
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The investigatory zeal is different than it was for Republican Party politicians who were friendly to Roger Ailes.
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" The investigatory board, though, did conclude that no employee "engaged in misconduct or willfully ignored his or her responsibilities.
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The whole idea was to treat it as a public policy political exercise and not an investigatory judicial exercise.
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Mr Kavanaugh does not believe presidents are above the law: the article suggested temporary investigatory deferrals, not permanent immunity.
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" The investigatory board, though, did conclude that no employee "engaged in misconduct or willfully ignored his or her responsibilities.
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"Unannounced inspections are a preliminary investigatory step into suspected anti-competitive practices," said the European Commission in a statement.
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Screenshot of this reporter's browsing history, when Motherboard collected browsing data in the style of the Investigatory Powers Act.
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Whichever party controls the House sets the chamber's investigatory agenda and has subpoena power through control of various committees.
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The FEA Chair would become the new speech police chief; administering campaign law with increased enforcement and investigatory powers.
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If passed, the changes will set up a formal complaint system and give the labor department sweeping investigatory powers.
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Congress owes much of its investigatory might to a 1927 Supreme Court decision in the Teapot Dome bribery scandal.
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The goal, he said, is to apply the same thoroughness of New York Times investigatory journalism to product reviews.
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In the letter, Grundmann said that her office does not have "investigatory authority" over discrimination claims, including sexual harassment.
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"Your decision to send this letter raises serious questions about the legitimacy of your purported investigatory interests," Eggleston wrote.
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An investigatory commission that was started (and angrily disbanded) by President Trump found no evidence of widespread electoral fraud.
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The UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act allows government investigators, including social workers, to view citizen' social network profiles once.
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To prevent and detect murder we do not allow searches without probable cause or targeted [investigatory] stops without reasonable suspicion.
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As criminals continue to protect themselves with encryption and anonymization tech, cops are moving to hacking as an investigatory tool.
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"Many of the investigators and supervisors were the same in both investigations, but the investigatory tactics were not," he said.
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Witnesses describe a heavily politicized environment at the State Department, which both Yovanovitch and McKinley discussed with three investigatory committees.
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House Republicans grilled the Department of Justice official about alleged improprieties in the conduct of the special counsel's investigatory process.
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While a majority of her caucus remains opposed, Mr. Trump's moves to stonewall all investigatory efforts are adding to frustration.
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The sudden investigatory focus on Cohen and Daniels might turn out to be a legal tempest in a D-cup.
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According to that report, under the Obama administration, the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected certain investigatory actions.
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By the time the state eventually established a investigatory commission in February 2015, the nuns were already on the offensive.
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Even Durham, whose sole investigatory purpose seems to be to bolster Trump's conspiracy theories, hasn't been able to find any.
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Patrick Hope's attempt to file articles of impeachment, which would then lead to a natural investigatory process, has been stymied.
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Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in January, giving them investigatory powers including the ability to issue subpoenas.
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Once you do that, then you begin the investigatory aspect of it, and then you go through and take witness statements.
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Read more about the investigatory dream team Robert Mueller has assembled What do we already know about Facebook, Trump, and Russia?
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The author exposes the weaknesses of the investigatory organisations and shows that only a small percentage of officials are seriously sanctioned.
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But the real prize of a majority is controlling congressional committees and the investigatory and subpoena powers that go with it.
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"The NJSIAA takes this matter very seriously, and I ask that everyone respect the investigatory process related to all parties involved."
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The company argued that the drug test was not an "investigatory interview" that would trigger the worker's rights to union representation.
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Greitens declined to answer a question Thursday from The Associated Press about whether he would testify before the House investigatory committee.
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The new committee would likely also be investigatory body that could hold hearings and write reports, but not vote on legislation.
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The U.N. investigatory panel condemned the violence in a report last year that called for the economic isolation of the military.
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But as excited as House Democrats may be for their new investigatory powers, they will soon realize that there are limits.
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The House majority won in last week's midterms gives Democrats subpoena and investigatory power, posing potential headaches for the White House.
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That's because requests for encryption keys are already handled under Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
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The notice is the surest sign yet that federal authorities have wrapped major investigatory matters related to the 2016 Trump campaign.
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During the Presidency of Barack Obama, Republicans seemed generally to recognize the failure of the investigatory obsession with his Democratic predecessor.
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Conservative critics have complained that some of the agency's investigatory subpoenas are too burdensome on businesses and amount to document grabs.
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Others argue that the process of impeachment itself, by expanding congressional investigatory powers, can help produce the evidence the case requires.
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The Nursing Board told VICE that it could not comment on the investigation because per Oregon law, investigatory information is confidential.
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The State Department would not clarify on Wednesday what role Pompeo or his aides played in Giuliani's diplomatic and investigatory efforts.
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Under England's expanded Investigatory Powers Bill, law enforcement can, without a warrant, see the names of every website people have visited.
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The Investigatory Powers bill, which continues to attract controversy on account of the scope of the powers it sets out, is the government's attempt to cement an overarching operational framework for state security agency and law enforcement surveillance powers, replacing a patchwork of antiquated legislation that is currently being used to authorize intercepts and other intrusive investigatory measures.
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The complaints in this case were lodged prior to the UK legislating for a new surveillance regime, the 22018 Investigatory Powers Act, so in coming to a judgement the Chamber was considering the oversight regime at the time (and in the case of points 1 and 3 above that's the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000).
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As a result, the successful exonerations from the CRU are often based on a combination of newly uncovered investigatory and prosecutorial infractions.
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So we are still in the investigatory phase of this scandal, and what happens next depends on what the major investigations find.
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The other important difference is that the Senate is openly partisan, which is obviously not what you want in an investigatory body.
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Or the UK government's weasel-worded reworking of the legal framework for state investigatory powers in a way that implicitly undermines encryption.
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Giuliani specifically mentioned the 2016 election (including the DNC server) and Burisma as two anticorruption investigatory topics of importance for the President.
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The new laws will be modelled on the UK's Investigatory Powers Act, which gives intelligence agencies the power to de-encrypt communications.
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Separately, the UK government is facing a legal challenge to counterterrorism powers which utilize bulk collection of data as an investigatory dragnet.
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Yet the investigatory process has been widely criticized from the start, with progressives and Democrats voicing their concern over its limited scope.
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For its part, Apple wrote statements objecting to both the UK's Investigatory Powers Act and Australia's new legislation before they were passed.
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It appears that Infantino was not happy that Scala had made a complaint to the investigatory unit, implying he was possibly corrupt.
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" Despite those comments, Scott released a statement Friday saying the department is seeking an "independent, impartial investigation by a separate investigatory body.
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At the same time our police do not engage in investigatory detention of citizens based merely on allegations regarding their immigration status.
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On Tuesday, the UK is due to pass its controversial new surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act, according to the Home Office.
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However, since the new Investigatory Powers Act arguably poses an ever greater threat to civil liberties, our work is far from over.
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The investigatory team then drove the device to Bethesda, Maryland and hand-delivered it to the CPSC lab there for extensive testing.
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Between Boggs and Rakestraw there emerges a nicely calibrated tango of good intentions and hereditary distrust, a kind of Platonic, investigatory romance.
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The UK recently passed the Investigatory Powers Act, which explicitly gave law enforcement agencies authority to use malware for the first time.
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Swiss prosecutor Cornel Borbely joined the investigatory arm of the same committee in 2013, and rbecame in investigative chairman in December 2014.
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The so-called "snooper's charter," officially the Investigatory Power Act, codifies intelligence agencies' use of metadata analysis and malware to hack computers.
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Property interference is governed under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), and can include planting audio bugs in a vehicle.
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Instead, the settlement was approved by a new acting chief investigator; Quinn remained a member of the investigatory chamber until mid-2015.
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Much of the investigatory work is focused on agents that may have been added to illicit black-market cartridges containing cannabis extracts.
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While the report kicked around the Department of Justice in a state of investigatory purgatory, the partisan spin machines went to work.
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Once again, he termed that "spying," even though Mr. Wray, his own F.B.I. director, has rejected that term to describe investigatory activity.
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Weinstein's response to this paper's impressive investigatory work was to issue a statement promising to spend even more lavishly on liberal causes.
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But that role should be part of a series of investigatory and information-gathering hearings that take in a broad range of perspectives.
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Warner said Manafort would be one of several of Trump's associates the panel would interview, adding that some investigatory work had already begun.
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The third level is "advanced," and may require authorization under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, one of the UK's surveillance laws.
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Mr. Giuliani specifically mentioned the 2016 election (including the DNC server) and Burisma as two anticorruption investigatory topics of importance for the President.
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"Today, I reiterate the need for Congress to establish a Select Committee with full investigatory powers to thoroughly examine this matter," Curbelo said.
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Six are being held in investigatory detention and preliminary court hearings involving several others are due to start next week, the magazine added.
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The mag's reporter asked him every grueling, hard-hitting investigatory journalism question you've always wanted to know (including his all time favorite look!).
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The UK has also pushed to create centralized databases of web browsers' activity for law enforcement purposes, under the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act.
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The UK government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has supported the inclusion of bulk collection powers contained within the controversial Investigatory Powers bill.
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The investigatory chamber appealed against this, saying the ban was too short, while Fernando fought the ban that he said was too long.
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The core legislation for this decrypt law already exists, aka the Investigatory Powers Act — which was passed at the end of last year.
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She said such flows still continue because no regulatory or investigatory changes have had any significant effect in clamping down on the practice.
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"Over the years, New York City has really done a great job of putting serious checks and balances, serious investigatory mechanisms, in place."
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"The FBI needs to be allowed to pursue all reasonable investigatory steps from the credible allegations in front of the committee," he said.
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This comes after President Donald Trump and his supporters have pilloried House Democrats for not doing more of their investigatory work in public.
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He had lowered his sights more recently, telling associates that he hoped to claim the investigatory subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce panel.
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The Investigatory Powers Act grants intelligence agencies and local authorities the right to access the internet history of any British citizen they target.
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"The Senate is not here to do the investigatory work that the House didn't do," said Patrick Philbin, a deputy White House counsel.
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You might consider replacing Thanksgiving with "Bugsgiving," one of the alternatives proposed at the Holiday Food Science Festival, an investigatory look into eating.
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These investigatory processes could operate under international transparency measures, using mostly open-source tooling and methodology completely distinct from our intelligence community tooling.
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A cyber investigatory setup funded by private industry but run by the government would have a massive deterrent effect on cyber economic espionage.
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"That way, investigators can come to understand the victim's experience of the crime and create the potential for other investigatory leads," she said.
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The FBI has remained involved in the investigation in part because of it potentially has investigatory jurisdiction over the killings of Americans overseas.
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The solidity of the commission's methodology and investigatory processes will make it hard for Russia to dismiss this as a political attack. ADVERTISEMENT
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Tillis said Thursday that the effort "reaffirms our nation's system of check and balances" and would help ensure "investigatory independence" for special counsels.
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Even though bulk hacking powers would be cemented in law by the Investigatory Powers Bill, Privacy International still thinks it has a case.
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Prosecutors didn&apost object to the release of the documents but want to shield some information, including investigatory techniques and victim and witness identities.
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Moreover, departments in California routinely withhold all footage from the public, by categorically invoking the investigatory records exemption to the state's public records law.
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The Investigatory Powers bill gives the UK government the legal footing it needs to use whatever measures to compel companies to decrypt users' data.
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That would allow companies to get out ahead of any potential external investigation and obtain the assistance of regulators' additional investigatory powers if useful.
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At the end of 2016 parliament passed the current legislative framework for investigatory powers, cementing the intelligence agencies' old bulk processes into dedicated legislation.
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Some of these details were already teased out during a committee session on the Investigatory Powers bill in the House of Lords last summer.
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Today, the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal declared that the surveillance agency is not in violation of British law, despite a complaint by Privacy International.
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The Investigatory Powers Act on Tuesday, codifying new and existing digital surveillance capabilities, is often referred to by the derogatory nickname, the Snooper's Charter.
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On November 4, 2015, the controversial Draft Investigatory Powers Bill (aka the "Snooper's Charter") was debated in the UK Parliament for the first time.
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On the positive side, a well -conducted state investigation would serve as a check and balance on investigations conducted by Republican controlled investigatory agencies.
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She was a key sponsor of the Investigatory Powers Act that gave the UK government broad surveillance powers and access to citizens online activity.
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Cohen's testimony "opened a lot of doors for investigatory bodies," Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the House Oversight Committee, told Reuters.
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This is unusual because it is not the typical route that an attorney would use in building a case or preparing an investigatory report.
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It would have been far better for the special counsel (or Comey's own former investigatory team and congressional investigators) to have the memos confidentially.
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Since Watergate, the Justice Department has also tried to maintain a degree of separation between its investigatory powers and the White House's political interests.
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" He would not say whether or not such investigatory moves would prompt him to fire Mueller "because I don't think it's going to happen.
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Schiff has promised "more subpoenas and investigatory steps" will be announced in the days to come, the whistleblower's testimony being perhaps chief among these.
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The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), which deals with complaints about the intelligence services, backed that view, making reference to recent deadly attacks by militants.
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In each case, the reform process is expected to take years, entailing overhaul of police department policies, new training, and changes to internal investigatory practices.
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And the fact the UK recently passed expansive new surveillance legislation that cements bulk collection as a core state investigatory strategy, including hacking en masse.
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Taken as a whole, it's hard to see the Investigatory Powers Bill as anything other than a reshaping of the concept of private civil society.
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On Tuesday, the UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament published its report on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, a proposed piece of surveillance legislation.
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On Tuesday, after working with the American Civil Liberties Union, Chicago officers started using a newly simplified version of a so-called Investigatory Stop form.
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Under the proposed Investigatory Powers Bill, security and intelligence agencies could apply for bulk EI warrants, allowing them to hack a large number of devices.
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The committee's report this week on the government's draft bill on investigatory powers—termed the "Snoopers' Charter" by critics—adopted a tone of blistering disdain.
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After more than a year of legal struggle, the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal has issued a landmark ruling on the country's secret bulk collection program.
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Mehta asked Letter how the subpoena, which requested financial documents preceding Trump's time in office, could be considered a valid use of Congress's investigatory powers.
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But the thicket of other investigatory news makes it clear that if Mueller does wrap up soon, Trumpworld's legal jeopardy will remain very serious indeed.
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Eight people sit on UEFA's investigatory chamber, though only one, its chairman, the former Belgium prime minister Yves Leterme, gets to have a final say.
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The commission would inherit and expand some of the investigatory powers of the current main anti-graft agency, the party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
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"The Democrats are about to unload a relentless investigatory apparatus on this White House, the likes of which this town has never seen," he said.
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House and Senate Republicans are using their investigatory powers to wreck the reputations of anyone who asks tough questions about the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Democrats counter that the rules have been changed such that the committee already possesses the investigatory powers that authorization once conferred, making a vote unnecessary.
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At the same time, he impaneled an investigatory grand jury to dig into other complaints against Mr. Weinstein, expanding the inquiry to include financial crimes.
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To file a claim, students who may already have been traumatized by sexual assault must navigate a complicated investigatory process, often with little official support.
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It's a version of abuse of power — but distinct from the previous item because it involves using the direct investigatory powers of the federal government.
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As noted above, the UK government legislated last year to enshrine expansive and intrusive investigatory powers in a new framework, called the Investigatory Powers Act — which includes the ability to collect digital information in bulk and for spy agencies to maintain vast databases of personal information on citizens who are not (yet) suspected of any wrongdoing in order that they can sift these records when they choose.
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Yet another defeat in the courts for the UK government's use of mass surveillance as an indiscriminate and, as it frequently turns out, unlawful investigatory tool.
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As it happened, that was also the day on which his investigatory zeal seemed to flag, at least regarding the current occupant of the White House.
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At the start of this year shuanggui was replaced with an alternative investigatory process managed by a new branch of government, the National Supervision Commission (NSC).
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Conservative MP Nadine Dorries also criticized WhatsApp, though she spelled it #whatsap:Last year, the UK government passed the Investigatory Powers Bill, known as the Snoopers' Charter.
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And it's only within the past week that the committee has taken real action against Farenthold, forming an investigatory subcommittee to reexamine the charges against him.
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Novartis plans to test Surfaces' investigatory therapies as stand-alone monotherapies, as well as in combination with other drugs within its portfolios, the Swiss company said.
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The draft Investigatory Powers Bill would, among other things, force internet service providers to store the browsing histories of their customers for a full 12 months.
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"The UK does not undertake mass surveillance," she said when questioned by MPs about the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, a controversial piece of proposed surveillance legislation.
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The Office of Special Counsel does not have independent investigatory powers on whistleblower cases but can order agencies to undertake investigations and disclose details of them.
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And then, as has oft been discussed, allow the criminal investigatory agency that remains the FBI to subsume the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Mr. Hernández resisted an accord that would create a panel with the same powers, and the commission he agreed to will not have independent investigatory authority.
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In 2013, UEFA's investigatory arm, part of its Club Financial Control Body, began to question elements of accounts submitted by Man City and Paris St. Germain.
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The investigators drew up a draft of a preliminary view report, dated April 16, 2014, prepared for the investigatory arm of the Club Financial Control Body.
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Since all of Congress's actions need to be within its constitutional authority, this general constitutional limitation on Congress's investigatory powers likely extends to 6103(f) investigations.
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If it's fair for Senate Republicans to try to use their investigatory powers for clearly partisan ends, it will wind up being used someday against them.
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As shown during the Nixon administration, executive privilege is not absolute and can be overcome when there is a legitimate investigatory purpose, particularly a criminal investigation.
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FIFA said on Tuesday that it has nominated Colombian investigator Maria Claudia Rojas as the new head of the committee's investigatory chamber, which Borbely had headed.
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"Until a formal decision is taken by the adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee, Mr Chirakal is presumed innocent," the investigatory chamber said in a statement.
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Australian Attorney General George Brandis told ABC on Friday that what the government is seeking is something along the same lines as the UK's Investigatory Powers Act.
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"The investigatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has provisionally banned Mr Keramuddin Keram... from all football-related activities at both national and international level," FIFA said.
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Congressional legislative and investigatory powers Beyond the Committee's statutory right to the Trump tax information, Congress's broad oversight powers provide a clear additional basis for the requests.
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"The investigation against Mr. Al-Mohannadi concerned his failure to properly cooperate and provide truthful information to the investigatory chamber," the FIFA panel said in a statement.
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Internal NASA documents obtained by Motherboard's Jason Koebler through a 2015 FOIA request shed light on the agency's investigatory process for these reports of uncatalogued lunar material.
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If passed into law, the UK's draft Investigatory Powers Bill will force internet service providers (ISPs) to store the browsing history of all customers for 12 months.
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So what they've said to my solicitors is that they will be considering making an application under a different law called RIPA [Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act].
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Critics such as privacy and human rights groups have slammed bulk powers as disproportion and unnecessary, and counterproductive as an investigatory aid owing to their untargeted nature.
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Home Secretary Theresa May published the Investigatory Powers Bill Tuesday, saying she hoped it would get parliamentary approval and become law by the end of the year.
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It says now that the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office (IPCO) oversight body "sought immediate inspection when secret practices came to light" as a result of its litigation.
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A lot of times the true crime stories that are looking at cultural phenomenons fall into a different camp than documentaries that are almost investigatory in nature.
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"California is finally joining other states in granting access to the investigatory records on officer conduct that the public truly has a right to know," state Sen.
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The Investigatory Powers Bill is an attempt to bring together the UK's varied, and arguably muddled, surveillance powers under one legislative umbrella, and provide new powers too.
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"The report of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office into these risks concluded that they were serious and required immediate mitigation," Javid wrote in a statement to parliament.
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There could be any number of reasons for a delay in the adjudication or investigatory process and it's just hard to know without seeing all the specifics.
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He is also shameless, and has a knack for making baseless red herring claims that take up thousands of investigatory journalism hours that could be used elsewhere.
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Silkie Carlo, director at privacy group Big Brother Watch, said a clause in the UK's Investigatory Powers Act meant the government could track people's phone data secretly.
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In January, he told Business Insider by email, "Investigatory work still proceeding, nothing new to update as of yet, no decisions made yet, still looking at options."
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The justices could step in and make a broad statement about Congress' investigatory powers and his argument that he is immune from criminal proceedings while in office.
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Australia's law is based on Britain's 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, which compels British companies to hand over the keys to unscramble encrypted data to law enforcement agencies.
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Even in the mid-20th century the executive branch contained the investigatory and prosecutorial resources of the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department, and the Internal Revenue Service.
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Supporters of the law feel that the powers cemented under the draft Investigatory Powers Bill are required for the police and intelligence services to better do their job.
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The investigatory board deemed the State Department responsible for not adequately responding to security concerns, but found no evidence that Clinton was directly responsible for the inadequate response.
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The Investigatory Powers Bill has already passed through several rounds of debate in the House of Commons with its provision for so-called Internet Connection Records (ICRs) intact.
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Last November, the UK passed the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), a surveillance law that will force internet service providers to store each customer's browsing data for a year.
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A couple dozen House seats changing hands—and Democrats having new investigatory powers—is unlikely to make such people feel less safe in expressing themselves, violently or otherwise.
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If confirmed, Barr would oversee the special counsel's Russia investigation, gaining briefings on its progress and likely the ability to block some investigatory steps before they are taken.
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In its note, UEFA said the Investigatory Chamber believed there remained uncertainties regarding the refinancing of the loan and the notes to be paid back in October 2018.
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Under the proposals, the Investigatory Powers Bill would force Internet and telecommunications companies to hold records of websites visited by people in Britain over the last 12 months.
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Hamden Public Schools confirmed to the New Haven Register that a woman who worked for the school district resigned after an investigatory meeting into the incident was scheduled.
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On Thursday a half-day conference taking place in London's Kings College heard a range of views about the U.K.'s draft Investigatory Powers Bill, currently before parliament.
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However she also noted the government has rejected calls to eject bulk equipment interference warrants (aka mass hacking as a sanctioned state agencies investigatory technique) from the bill.
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Enhanced internet snooping One of the new powers the Investigatory Powers Bill seeks to bring into UK law is the retention of so-called 'internet connection records' (ICRs).
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Specifically, privacy advocates are concerned about access to Internet Connection Records, which is the new type of data that would be collected under the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill.
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What's next: The investigatory panel's leader will have the final say on the submission to a separate adjudicatory chamber, which could be filed as soon as this week.
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Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader who hopes to become speaker, insisted on Sunday that Democrats do not intend to play politics with their investigatory powers.
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Prosecutors typically use investigatory grand juries, which can issue subpoenas and which sit for weeks or months, to delve into complicated or politically sensitive cases, like police shootings.
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Tell me a little bit about--now, obviously, it's my--internists versus other kinds of doctors, I find internists are really--it's a really investigatory kind of thing.
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This allows the police to continue to believe that planned, nonviolent civil disobedience is criminal activity that justifies deployment of prolonged, highly intrusive and potentially destructive investigatory methods.
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The document also argues that the appropriate investigatory bodies, like the Justice Department, reviewed and vetted the complaints submitted against Trump by a whistleblower in the intelligence community.
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"Not only was the summons blatantly inconsistent with the cited investigatory authority … it appeared to be a distributing threat to free speech and whistleblower protections," he added. Sens.
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A month after Johnathan's death, I requested any internal investigatory reports or memos that Hawaii had completed regarding four previous incidents at CCA prisons that housed Hawaii inmates.
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The recent claim by Trump and Giuliani that the investigatory process is rigged against Trump betrays insincerity by Giuliani and an effort to gin up the base by Trump.
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In a statement Friday, the investigatory chamber said Hawit deserved a lifetime ban for allegedly violating FIFA's general rules of conduct as well as prohibitions on bribery and corruption.
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Manafort's civil lawsuit against the Justice Department and Mueller argues that Mueller's appointment was invalid and that the special counsel's office has exceeded the scope of its investigatory authority.
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"This is an enormous assertion of investigatory powers, in a highly charged political environment," said Public Knowledge's Gene Kimmelman, who served in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division under Obama.
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There also should be an independent investigatory body that reviews complaints and allegations of wrongdoing, including inmate grievances, abuse claims, denial of access to health care and inmate deaths.
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The Tennis Integrity Unit, the governing body meant to police these issues, has long been toothless and still "remains inadequately resourced and lacks adequate investigatory procedures," the report found.
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Three of them were fired following formal investigations into their behavior; Franken, whose former office does not have a reasonably functioning investigatory arm, voluntarily left following eight separate accusations.
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In fact, the FBI and Justice Department both have a longstanding policy of being "extremely reluctant to take any public investigatory steps this close to the election," Rivkin noted.
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In a judgement handed down yesterday the Investigatory Powers tribunal said both sides saw the necessity for a reference to the European Court of Justice (ECJ)'s grand chamber.
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The ethics board says this sort of crossover is "unavoidable" in a narrow field of research, and that the association doesn't disqualify Borg, or members of the investigatory board.
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The proposed Investigatory Powers Bill, or IP Bill, is designed to give UK intelligence agencies additional snooping powers so they can access communications between suspected terrorists and identify pedophiles.
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So the government have got our support for making a bill to improve [the investigatory powers framework] so we couldn't vote for it and give them a blank cheque.
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But once he becomes chair, Schiff will be one of the most important figures setting the Democratic House's investigatory agenda on Russia as well as other intelligence-related topics.
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"We have announced we plan to appeal the 8-year bans against Platini and Blatter," investigatory panel spokesman Andreas Bantel told reporters in Zurich, where FIFA has its headquarters.
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Ayers signed on with Greitens following the transfer of the list, however, meaning any investigatory interest in Ayers would likely be focused on the aftermath, or on other issues.
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The investigatory committee, which will include advisers from the security and intelligence sectors, will have access to all documents pertaining to the electoral process, including from the electoral commission.
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Legal experts have regularly said they believe that the congressional subpoenas will be upheld in court, as the Supreme Court has sided with Congress's investigatory powers in the past.
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The judgment comes when the country is just preparing for a huge overhaul in its surveillance legislation, via the Investigatory Powers Bill, which is likely to soon become law.
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"Through the Investigatory Powers Bill, the Government is committed to providing greater transparency and stronger safeguards for all of the bulk powers available to the agencies," the spokesperson added.
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But as long as investigatory bodies are proliferating, one should be mandated to do what the House and Senate intelligence committees were created, but have repeatedly failed, to do.
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While some of you might dismiss DeLonge's tweets as Mobyesque ravings that lack any basis in fact, I, the enlightened investigatory journalist, know that there's something deeper going on.
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"From an investigatory perspective, the paralysis that can be injected by the opposite party controlling Congress is so significant," said Jennings, drawing on his experience in the Bush administration.
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It criticized the investigations of this newspaper into the company, it criticized the investigatory work of my committee, and it claimed that both investigations demonstrated unfair bias against them.
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Although there is no statutorily fixed date, nor one outlined in the Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel regulations, no U.S. attorney would presume the investigatory time given Mueller.
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Ms. Chung, born in Vietnam in 1969, is an example of artist-as-researcher, one who taps into many media — painting, weaving, video, photography, writing — in her investigatory tasks.
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The Guardian raises the urgency of this choice by pointing to the UK's recently passed Investigatory Powers Bill, which gives that government significant new legal powers for aggressive data collection.
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But while DRIPA was overturned by the ruling, it was temporary legislation and had already been sunsetted in the UK — replaced by a new surveillance regime: the Investigatory Powers Act.
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The sunset clause on the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (DRIPA), existing surveillance legislation which is planned to be replaced by the draft Bill, runs out in December.
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Late Saturday, Fairfax released a statement calling for "all appropriate and impartial investigatory authorities, including the FBI, to investigate fully and thoroughly the allegations against me," according to multiple reports.
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Under California law, only final disciplinary actions by the commission are made public, not the underlying misconduct or investigatory findings of the commission, Speaks said in an email to CNN.
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While the panel of judges was skeptical of the claims brought on behalf of the president, they also raised concerns about Congress's investigatory authorities to House general counsel Douglas Letter.
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According to the final preliminary view report by the investigatory chamber of UEFA's Club Financial Control Body, Sheikh Mansour had "significant influence" over two of Man City's Abu Dhabi sponsors.
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It's an uncomfortable, irksomely breathless approach, but if nothing else, their reporting reinforces the often voiced concern that murders of prostitutes don't get the investigatory attention that other homicides do.
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Sanders claimed Tuesday that the White House personnel security office had received the information from the FBI, but that it was conducting additional investigatory work before adjudicating Porter's security clearance.
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Students and faculty and staff members can report violations like a failure to investigate claims, an unfair investigatory process, or retaliation against someone who filed a report or a complaint.
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"Today, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal decided that MI5 can secretly give informants permission to commit grave crimes in the UK, including violence," said Ilia Siatitsa, Legal Officer for Privacy International.
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Per Computer Weekly, changes made to the Investigatory Powers Act made after the ruling included expanding the minimum sentence required to qualify as a serious crime from six to 12 months.
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The original programming will be rolling out over time, covering comedy, investigatory journalism (think Serial) and talk shows – which is really Amazon applying the Netflix/Prime Originals model to audio content.
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"This is an enormous assertion of investigatory powers, in a highly charged political environment," said Public Knowledge's Gene Kimmelman, who served in the Justice Department's antitrust division during the Obama administration.
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"We recommend that the Investigatory Powers Commissioner be placed under a duty to ensure that the two distinct functions of authorisation and inspection are carried out by different Commissioners," it adds.
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Because Mueller decided to limit his testimony to his final investigatory report, he generally didn't push back when Republicans tried to muddy the waters, allowing them to do so with impunity. .
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For example, beyond the FBI's current overreach, in the United Kingdom, the draft Investigatory Powers Bill -- dubbed the "snoopers' charter" -- would allow government agencies to access users' Internet and email data.
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The new investigatory commission created by Macierewicz said in April this year that blasts most likely tore the plane into pieces killing all 96 people seconds before it hit the ground.
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"While I cannot confirm any briefings or requests made by the House Intelligence Committee, I will say that examining financial records and transactions is absolutely crucial to our investigatory effort," Rep.
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The documents have come out as a result of an ongoing legal challenge Privacy International has brought against UK intelligence agencies' use of bulk personal data collection as an investigatory power.
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Support our call for establishment of an independent investigatory commission which, under the auspices of the U.N. and within six months, will present a report to the Public Ministry of Honduras.
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" "And I think when the president — this president or any president — tries to use the Department of Justice as a kind of private investigatory body, that's not good for the country.
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Returning to the "two cities" theme, the mayor has fashioned an array of boogeymen to rail against, from "billionaire media owners" and hedge fund managers to state investigatory agencies and Gov.
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A spokesman for the investigatory chamber of the ethics committee said that it opened an investigation into Mr. Damiani last month, after learning the extent of his ties to Mr. Figueredo.
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But more importantly, there has never been an expansion of the investigatory or punitive power of the American security state which has redounded to the benefit of racial and religious minorities.
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The bureau, whose government funding is mandated under American and European Union aid programs and which has an evidence-sharing agreement with the F.B.I., has investigatory powers but cannot indict suspects.
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"It's important to keep in mind how formidable the government's range of investigatory powers is," said Andrew Crocker, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocates for digital rights.
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In addition to showing a flagrant disregard for our rights, MI5 has attempted to hide its mistakes by providing misinformation to the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, who oversees the Government's surveillance regime.
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It's important to note, though, that this investigation has been carried out completely separately from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, and did not have all the investigatory tools available to Mueller.
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Rosenstein provided critical oversight, including approving Mueller's investigatory mandate and signing off on major decisions, such as referring the investigation of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen to federal prosecutors in Manhattan.
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Internet service providers will be forced to collect ICRs on all their customers if the Investigatory Powers Bill, which is currently making its way through the House of Lords, becomes law.
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"In the view of personnel security office, the FBI's July report required significant additional investigatory field work before personnel security office could begin to evaluate the information for adjudication," she said.
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An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to two sources who said several witnesses had testified before an investigatory grand jury looking into allegations of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein.
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A source familiar with the FCC investigatory process previously told Motherboard that this particular investigation could have moved quicker, and that the FCC Chairman's office, when it wants, can act faster.
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While they're in investigatory limbo, expectations have grown in Washington legal circles that Mueller will issue a report soon after the November election or even before the end of the year.
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Before dismissing the court the judge described it as an "intense" case but one with a "high level of professionalism" from the government, the public defender's office and the investigatory agencies.
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"More subpoenas and investigatory steps will occur next week, as the investigation accelerates," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) wrote on Friday in a letter that confirmed the Oct.
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Rather, it reflects that due to rapid changes in technology and the communications environment since the Investigatory Powers Act was taken through Parliament, a higher proportion of that activity would be more appropriately authorised under the bulk equipment interference regime, which includes additional controls and safeguardsEquipment interference is subject to the world-leading oversight of the investigatory powers commissioner and any bulk equipment interference warrant must be approved by an independent judicial commissioner before it can be issued.
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One of the UK parliamentary committees that is scrutinizing proposed new surveillance legislation has published its report on the draft Investigatory Powers bill — and it makes for uncomfortable reading for the government.
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After months of taking evidence from academics, activists, technologists, law enforcement and politicians, a government body tasked with assessing the draft Investigatory Powers Bill released its nearly-200 page report on Thursday.
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The Investigatory Powers bill, currently at the review stage in the House of Lords, seeks to cement bulk hacking powers at the heart of the surveillance state via an updated legal framework.
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" The Electronic Frontier Foundation has also condemned blanket spying programs using LPRs, such as in 2014, when the Los Angeles Police Department tried to argue that "All [license plate] data is investigatory.
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If all goes to plan, we should find out more about these follow-up observations as early as Monday, when researchers expect Curiosity to return the results of its new investigatory procedure.
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The UK government is continuing to try to push much criticized surveillance powers legislation through parliament, with the bill in question — the Investigatory Powers bill — getting its second reading in Parliament tomorrow.
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That said, our sources say detectives will be looking into possible surveillance footage in and around the area to see if they can spot anything ... in addition to their usual investigatory methods.
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It is a strong signal that the court is interested in ultimately taking up the case and issuing a message on Congress' investigatory power and an executive's refusal to turn over documents.
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The Investigatory Powers Act, passed last year, gives the government legal authority to compel tech companies to hand over information the government says it needs, including words contained in supposedly encrypted messages.
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Republicans and Democrats are expected to produce two separate reports detailing their investigatory conclusions, while growing animus over the House investigation has left many lawmakers openly distrustful and weary of their colleagues.
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Under the National Supervision Commission, created in 2018, sweeping investigatory powers which had previously applied only to members of the ruling Communist Party were expanded to cover broad swaths of Chinese society.
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President Trump has said repeatedly that there was "no collusion" between his campaign and Russia — suggesting that the media and investigatory interest in the topic is a pointless waste of time and distraction.
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Refreshingly, far from being polemicists, the authors are quite curious and investigatory about this pattern of human behavior, and they realize they are pushing at least some of their readers into uncomfortable territory.
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As part of that legal challenge more information emerged about the state's use of hacking as an investigatory tool — including the fact it does not require individual warrants to hack devices or services.
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The new investigatory commission, created by Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz, said on Monday that a blast most likely tore the plane into pieces, killing all 96 people seconds before it hit the ground.
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The UK's Court of Appeal said that the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) did not adequately restrict police officers access to personal information, including citizens' phone records and web browsing history.
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The UK government's controversial Investigatory Powers bill easily passed a vote in the House of Commons yesterday, with 444 votes in favor and 69 against, after securing support from the opposition Labour Party.
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According to a cabinet statement late on Monday, finance minister Sheu Yu-jer and ex-finance minister Chang Sheng-ford will be investigated by Taiwan's Control Yuan, an investigatory agency that monitors government.
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In Congress, Swalwell is probably best known for his investigatory role as a member of both the Intelligence and Judiciary committees, which have been looking into Trump's foreign relations and immigration policy, respectively.
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"The rule changes attempt to sidestep the legislative process by using a process designed for procedural rules to expand investigatory powers," the groups wrote in a Tuesday letter to House and Senate leadership.
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On the same night in Sirajganj, in northern Bangladesh, "unidentified miscreants" broke the heads off statues of goddesses from a temple, said Basudeb Sinha, the head investigatory officer at the Sirajganj police station.
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A May 2 report from a special House investigatory committee indicated that Greitens himself received the donor list and later directed aides to work off it to raise money for his gubernatorial campaign.
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Losing one chamber will introduce a high level of policy and investigatory paralysis to the Trump administration; losing both would feel like getting sucked into the tenth level of hell for the President.
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On Tuesday, an official from the National Crime Agency (NCA)—essentially the UK's version of the FBI—said that under the proposed Investigatory Powers Bill, the agency could request Apple to remove encryption.
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The UK's Investigatory Powers bill, now progressing through the parliament's upper chamber, includes limits on the use of end-to-end encryption that could be used to require a company to remove encryption.
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These warrants are also one of the most controversial elements of the draft surveillance legislation, the Investigatory Powers Bill, that the UK government is seeking to get onto the statute books this year.
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Lawyers close to the White House tell me the Trump administration is nowhere near prepared for the investigatory onslaught that awaits them, and they consider it among the greatest threats to his presidency.
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Strzok was removed from the investigatory team headed by special counsel Robert Mueller last summer after he became aware of Strzok's communications with Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer romantically involved with the agent.
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"As with all investigatory powers the conduct must be canceled, if it is no longer necessary, and proportionate so this change will not lead to conduct extending longer than necessary," the department said.
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The police department also embarked on a criminal investigation of the episode, and this week Mr. Williams's office received the investigatory documentation needed to support the charges that were filed against Officer Hickman.
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The draft Investigatory Powers Bill, which is currently being redrafted after scrutiny by several committees, would introduce a new set of regulations overseeing surveillance carried out by law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies.
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"The FBI neither confirms nor denies the existence of records which would indicate whether an individual or organization is or has ever been of investigatory interest," the response, received by Motherboard Thursday, reads.
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For months, Mr. Simpson's name has ricocheted across the halls of Congress and the airwaves of Fox News, becoming shorthand in conservative circles for purported investigatory overreach and counterconspiracies against the White House.
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Justice James Burke, the judge overseeing the investigatory grand jury, sealed the hearing in his chambers and directed both prosecutors and the defense not to speak about what was said, Mr. Brafman said.
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"I must vehemently reject your allegations of unlawful activities, either by myself or by any of the members of the UEFA CFCB, in particular of its investigatory chamber," he wrote to City officials.
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Those panels are engaged in an impeachment inquiry into Trump over his interactions with Ukraine, with Schiff noting that additional "subpoenas and investigatory steps" will continue to be made during the congressional break.
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And that is why the idea that the conversation about impeachment is simply a political persecution of a man who is technically innocent of a literal crime not only jumps the investigatory gun.
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" "As to when to move forward with impeachment hearings: If you call them investigatory hearings, if you call them impeachment hearings, either way, we're showing the American people what this President has done.
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The national Pi Beta Phi organization has placed the chapter on an "investigatory status," according to a statement from the organization that also condemned hazing, alcohol abuse and the use of illegal substances.
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Using anecdotal and statistical analyses as the backbone of its investigatory work, the Task Force highlighted 18 improvements needed in the Grammys' infrastructure to see improved representation and diversity in nominees and winners.
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"The House's impeachment inquiry will not countenance … further efforts by witnesses or the White House to delay or otherwise obstruct the committees' vital investigatory work," the three lawmakers leading the inquiry, including Rep.
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Text messages sent to her husband went undelivered and the 222-year-old woman accepted the fact that she was going to die, according to newly released investigatory documents obtained by the Associated Press.
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Meanwhile, in the U.K., the legislative push in recent years has been to expand the investigatory capabilities of domestic intelligence agencies — with counterterrorism the broad-brush justification for this push to normalize mass surveillance.
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Another parliamentary committee that has been scrutinizing UK surveillance legislation currently before parliament says changes are needed to remove concerns the Investigatory Powers Bill would afford state security agencies powers that are too broad.
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A judge ruled earlier on Wednesday that the public's interest in "maximizing the effectiveness of the investigatory powers of Congress" is more important than any damage that could result for Trump or his businesses.
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Now, however, Leshchenko's post-election acquisition of high-end housing has attracted the attention of the Anti-Corruption Agency of Ukraine, an investigatory body that was established at the urging of the United States.
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If the Investigatory Powers Bill is made into law—and after passing through the House of Commons and seeing its final debate in the Lords, it seems likely—bulk equipment interference will be legal.
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Though language artifacts in the code are the easiest investigatory tool to explain to a non-technical audience, the are neither the only nor the most telling piece of evidence used in an attribution.
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Just the other week, the UK passed the Investigatory Powers Act which give UK intelligence agencies sweeping authority to increase hacking and surveillance in what some are calling "a privacy disaster waiting to happen".
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Democrats have accused Smith of "abusing the Committee's investigatory powers to brazenly do the bidding of the Trump campaign," according to an August statement from Science Committee Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas).
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It said that following a review by the Club Financial Control Body's investigatory panel the club had made "significant fair value adjustments" to several sponsorship contracts, but did not disclose what the adjustments were.
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Ms. Sanders said Tuesday that the security office believed that the F.B.I. report in July "required significant additional investigatory fieldwork" before security officials could decide whether to recommend a security clearance for Mr. Porter.
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The investigatory panel's leader, the former prime minister of Belgium Yves Leterme, will have the final say on the submission to a separate adjudicatory chamber, which could be filed as soon as this week.
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The last main bit of the Investigatory Powers Act was that it gave a much stronger legal footing to the country's bulk powers, including some of those revealed by Edward Snowden back in 2013.
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Meanwhile Barr, who in theory has a massive and important government department to run, has been personally busy on international investigatory trips to places like Italy, running down the thinnest threads of the case.
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Now, however, Leshchenko's post-election acquisition of high-end housing has attracted the attention of the Anti-Corruption Agency of Ukraine, an investigatory body that was established at the urging of the United States.
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Both sides knew the naming of a special counsel would elevate questions about Russian meddling in the election and related matters to an entirely different level, from both a political and an investigatory standpoint.
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The announcement is unlikely to herald any bipartisan conclusion to the central questions in an investigation that for over a year has been mired in investigatory offshoots, leaks and bitter fighting between committee members.
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Lewandowski featured prominently in the investigatory report by special counsel Robert Mueller, which reveals that Trump directed Lewandowski to direct then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to publicly disparage the investigation -- though Lewandowski never did.
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The draft measure, known as the Investigatory Powers Bill, would require Internet companies to retain customers' Web activity for up to a year and compel them to help investigators access that data upon request.
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An investigatory body nominally created by the Riyadh-supported Yemeni government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, as well as a domestic Saudi mechanism — both widely viewed as intrinsically biased — have yet to show results.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - The FIFA Ethics Committee's investigatory chamber on Friday called for former Honduran soccer head Alfredo Hawit Banegas to be banned from soccer for life for allegedly taking illegal payments from sports marketing firms.
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As the UK's proposed new surveillance law looms, several evidence hearings with experts, government officials and activists have taken place in front of the Joint Select Committee that is vetting the draft Investigatory Powers Bill.
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The ethics committee said in a statement that Al-Mohannadi "did not cooperate with the investigatory chamber in the proceedings against a third party" and had infringed two articles of the FIFA code of ethics.
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And the UK passed just such a law at the end of last year — aka: the Investigatory Powers Act — which includes powers for authorities to limit or block the use of end-to-end encryption.
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The draft Investigatory Powers Bill, covering the operation of surveillance capabilities deployed by domestic security and law enforcement agencies, is currently before parliament — with the government aiming to legislate by the end of this year.
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This trend of declining cooperation could result in more OCE referrals for further review, as OCE may find it increasingly necessary for the Ethics Committee to step in with its full complement of investigatory tools.
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Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union have repeatedly criticized the 100-mile zone, saying that it subjects nearly two-thirds of the US population to Border Patrol's "so-called investigatory detention and warrantless searches."
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I know a lot of people are worried about the new Investigatory Powers Bill going through Parliament, and I understand that—but from our point of view, we're just trying to keep up with technology.
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The horror of the Iguala attacks and the disappearance of 43 students, together with the government's slow response and accusations of investigatory incompetence, sent President Enrique Peña Nieto's popularity plummeting, while staining Mexico's international image.
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Still, in Guinea, one of the candidates was used on an investigatory basis, employing a method called ring vaccination — in which an Ebola patient is identified, and all of his or her contacts are vaccinated.
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The Federal Trade Commission currently conducts much of this investigatory work, but confidence in the FTC has plummeted in recent years, in part due to a series of disappointing efforts to police large tech platforms.
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"More subpoenas and investigatory steps will occur next week, as the investigation accelerates, and we will update you as those steps become public," Mr. Schiff wrote in a letter to House colleagues on Friday evening.
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The announcement is unlikely to herald any bipartisan conclusion to the central questions in an investigation that for more than a year has been mired in investigatory offshoots, leaks and bitter fighting between committee members.
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As you surely know, the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is also before the Supreme Court, in a petition by Seila Law, a California debt resolution firm protecting a CFPB civil investigatory demand.
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She wrote that Santa Clara County had initially defended its decision not to release the mugshot under a statute meant to protect investigations, but that she had shown that a mugshot is not an investigatory document.
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In its first such case regarding Trump, a three-judge panel earlier this month affirmed the investigatory power of the US House of Representatives and upheld a subpoena for eight years of the President's financial documents.
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Exhibiting an intuitive and altogether unexpected knack for investigatory work, Danny takes on the police, the various MIs (5 and 6 are mentioned) and a scary woman played by Charlotte Rampling in full ice queen mode.
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This might mean that amendments may be made to the U.K.'s Investigatory Powers Bill – also known as the Snoopers' Charter – which regulates the role of British security services and police in accessing domestic citizens' data.
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The group has been fighting the government's use of hacking as an investigatory power since 2014, filing an original complaint against state hacking with the IPT, the oversight court for UK intelligence agencies, in May 2014.
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The state of Michigan is "fundamentally accountable" for Flint's lead-contaminated water crisis because of decisions made by its environmental regulators and state-appointed emergency managers who controlled the city, an investigatory task force concluded Wednesday.
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Current finance minister Sheu Yu-jer and ex-finance minister Chang Sheng-ford will also be investigated by Taiwan's Control Yuan, an investigatory agency that monitors government, the cabinet said in a statement late on Monday.
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"People should be troubled by any attempt by members of Congress to silence or undercut basic investigatory authority by a state attorney general's office," said Cyndi Roy Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.
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And a ruling by a federal judge that Trump could not block House subpoenas seeking his financial records from Deutsche Bank and Capital One appeared to validate her strategy of using investigatory tools short of impeachment.
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Instead, the Investigatory Powers Act, which came into force in November, forced tech firms to help law enforcement agencies bypass encryption, when possible, and keep records of sites their customers visit, updating decades-old surveillance laws.
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" "When the President -- this president or any president -- tries to use the Department of Justice as kind of a private investigatory body, that's not good for the country," Clapper told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day.
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The mechanism is not only safer than shooting a drone out of the sky or chasing a drone with a net, as some have tried, but it also keeps the device intact for any investigatory needs.
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UEFA said in a statement on Tuesday that the Investigatory Chamber of the Club Financial Control Body had decided to refer AC Milan for breach of the fair play regulations, in particular the break-even requirement.
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The Investigatory Powers bill, which is in the process of being scrutinized in detail by UK MPs, does indeed include provisions for 'bulk equipment interference' — aka the power for state agencies to hack devices en masse.
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The wording of the draft Investigatory Powers bill even implies that end-to-end encryption will stand outside the law since comms providers will apparently be legally required to hand over data in a legible form.
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In theory, Trump firing Rosenstein would allow him to put in place a new deputy attorney general more amenable to Trump's position — and more likely to either curtail Mueller's investigatory powers or end the investigation altogether.
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Lewandowski also features prominently in the investigatory report by special counsel Robert Mueller, which reveals that Trump sought to curtail the Mueller investigation by directing Lewandowski to deliver a message to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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The investigatory committees released interviews with Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of State in charge of European and Eurasian Affairs, and senior Office of Management and Budget official Mark Sandy (as seen in picture below).
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As part of his inquiry, Mr. Vance's office has convened what is known as an investigatory grand jury to examine the accusations, and several witnesses have testified, according to two people with knowledge of the proceedings.
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If approved by Parliament, the Investigatory Powers Bill would let government investigators access basic Web browsing records — a list of websites, apps and messaging services someone has visited — but not the individual Web pages or messages.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA's investigatory chamber has recommended an aide to former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam be banned for life from all soccer-related activities after completing an investigation into payments made to several soccer officials.
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"A back-end judicial review process to prevent unmerited removals of special counsels not only helps to ensure their investigatory independence, but also reaffirms our nation's system of check and balances," Tillis said in a statement.
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As we demand that the Assad regime cease its crimes against its people, we have created investigatory and evidence-gathering bodies to ensure that those ordering and carrying out attacks are one day brought to justice.
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Dr. Jerry Clark -- who's heavily featured in the 4-part doc -- tells TMZ ... former prostitute Jessica Hoopsick's confession doesn't mesh with loads of evidence and investigatory work he did for years, so he doesn't believe she's credible.
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And I think that fueled the investigatory desires of journalists to try to take him down and outside groups to try to -- and people within the EPA to try to take him out for that very reason.
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Berman said the government agency "has investigatory powers that a private litigant does not to sort of pull the curtain back and get a look" at how the platform works and what options are provided to advertisers.
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It's not just TechCrunch saying it, a UK parliamentary science and technology committee has now warned the government needs to clarify the legal position around end-to-end encryption in its draft Investigatory Powers Bill (IP bill).
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And the UK already passed the Investigatory Powers Act at the end of 2016—often called the Snoopers' Charter—that attempts to set up a framework for compelling companies to give investigators access to users' encrypted communications.
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I have not dared to do so because it will show I have been to that website, which I am sure would show up somewhere on one of these investigatory powers web searches and could be dangerous.
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Representative Adam Schiff, who serves as vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, suggests that Congress would be obligated to reappoint Mueller to his investigatory role legislatively if Trump extinguishes the special counsel one way or another.
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She's everywhere at the same time, forcing herself onto the investigatory commission, sitting in on meetings with Gorbachev, raiding government archives, interviewing engineers in their hospital beds, single-handedly uncovering the secret history of the faulty reactor.
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That said, the company has "subsequently incurred expenses" related to the hacking and it expects to incur "investigatory, legal, and other expenses" associated with it in the foreseeable future, the filing points out without providing a figure.
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"If the Supreme Court ruling were to be the benchmark of what is a crime in addressing the Roma, then the investigatory bodies can enter any pub in Slovakia and lock up all the guests," he said.
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The University of New Haven, a private institution that is less than five miles from Yale, announced on Thursday that it had hired an independent investigatory firm to delve into allegations of "impropriety" involving a former employee.
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This is due to a series of evidence submissions for a proposed (and controversial) surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Bill, which would usher in new authorisations for how police can use malware or exploits to take over computers.
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The documents have been released in response to a legal challenge filed by Privacy International in June 2015 to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the court tasked with handling complaints around the use of covert techniques by public authorities.
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Airwars, a civilian casualty monitor established by journalists in 2014, is now concentrating all of its detailed investigatory work, relied upon by NGOs, peace campaigners, and the media, on "an unprecedented number" of alleged Coalition civilian casualty events.
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For other types of criminal cases, it may not make sense to provide a full defense team, but we have public defenders offices that don't have the resources to do basic investigatory work, much less mental health screening.
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The source told The Hill that the panel will prioritize Russia, authoritarianism, and "vigorous oversight" of the Trump administration, but noted that the roadmap of which investigatory actions to pursue, and in which order, is still being decided.
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We use open source monitoring software in order to respond quickly and effectively to serious and major incidents across the UK. The software is used in line with national guidance and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
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Members of the investigatory chamber of UEFA's financial control board, a group set up to analyze the accounts of clubs suspected of breaking strict cost-control regulations, met two weeks ago in Nyon, Switzerland, to finalize their conclusions.
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But in April, a report from a new investigatory body found "a preponderance of the evidence" showing Meloon, along with fellow athletes Heidi Gilbert and Kay Poe, had told the truth in their years-old accusations against Lopez.
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Should they take control of the House, Democrats will definitely try to put some quick points on the board and also immediately turn their new investigatory power on the Trump administration by scheduling committee hearings to do so.
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"Instead of focusing its efforts on Russian meddling in the presidential election, the committee is misusing its investigatory powers to punish and smear Fusion GPS for its role in examining ties between Mr. Trump and Russia," Boutrous said.
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The remarks from Clinton herself were slightly less accusatory but nonetheless made clear that she had little respect for the conclusions of the investigatory committee's Republican leaders, in front of whom she testified for 11 hours last year.
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Booker, of New Jersey, had previously demanded further probes by lawmakers into Trump's conduct and Russian interference in the 2016 election, pressing for members of Congress to receive special counsel Robert Mueller's underlying investigatory materials and public testimony.
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While common law privileges are routinely set aside in the face of a congressional investigatory or oversight demand, they have been raised in the past to allow for a pause to consider how to best answer an inquiry.
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The UK government has agreed to an independent review of so called "bulk collection" — aka mass surveillance — powers in proposed new surveillance legislation, one of the most controversial elements of the Investigatory Powers bill which is currently before parliament.
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Instead, his FBI has stonewalled and obstructed multiple investigations into the very scandals highlighted by the IG. Wray's FBI is stonewalling on Clinton email investigatory materials, Strzok-Page texts, Comey records, McCabe records, FISA court abuse records, Spygate records.
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Although Britain remained at its current rank in 40th place this year, RSF warned about insufficient protection for whistleblowers, journalists and their sources under the Investigatory Powers Act, which it called "the most extreme surveillance legislation in UK history".
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This was largely in response to the UK's recently passed mass surveillance legislation The Investigatory Powers Act, part of which compels ISPs to keep so-called internet connection records—browsing and usage data—of their customers for 12 months.
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The report comes as the country's National Crime Agency (NCA) is trying to get more intelligence from ISPs, and as the controversial Investigatory Powers Bill, which will force ISPs to store all citizens' browsing data, heads toward becoming law.
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The apex of these events was when David S. Page, a scientist who had been contracted by Exxon, published criticisms of NOAA's research methodology that culminated in an internal investigatory review, after which the agency's scientists were eventually exonerated.
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"I think if we had the three-alarm fire that would be caused by firing all three of those folks, it would be almost insurmountable not to respond appropriately with all the investigatory power that Congress has," Spaulding said.
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Meanwhile, treatment using unproven methods will continue due to the severe and life-threatening nature of this disease, which has encouraged the FDA to allow case-by-case use of methods without formal approval on compassionate and investigatory grounds.
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The debt relief firm said it was simply challenging a CFPB civil investigatory demand, so if the Supreme Court found the CFPB director to have been unconstitutionally appointed the CID would be voided and the case would be over.
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And David Anderson, in his review of the Investigatory Powers bill, which by the end of this year will for the first time put British intelligence on a unified statutory footing, offers a blueprint for what this might look like.
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The policy document, dated February 2015, also warns staff to brace for "more onerous authorisation processes (beyond our current largely internal ones), as well as enhanced external oversight" as a consequence of the government considering changes to investigatory powers law.
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The government claims a "double lock" authorization process that loops in the judiciary to signing off intercept warrants for the first time in the U.K., along with senior ministers, bolsters against the risk of the "most intrusive investigatory powers" being misused.
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The U.K. passed its Investigatory Powers Act in 2016, and earlier this year the U.S. reauthorized its foreign surveillance laws with few changes, despite efforts to close warrantless domestic spying loopholes discovered in the wake of the Edward Snowden disclosures.
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The document notes the regulations may be cited as "the Investigatory Powers (Technical Capability) Regulations 2017" — but a place for a date for when they come into force remains blank, presumably as the consultation, which runs until May 19, continues.
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The parliamentary committee scrutinizing the draft Investigatory Powers Bill said that companies like Apple and Facebook should not be required to decrypt messages sent on their services, but approved plans to record every UK citizen's browsing history for 12 months.
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Discussing GDPR enforcement generally, Buttarelli confirms he expects to see financial penalties not just investigatory outcomes before the year is out — so once DPAs have worked through the first phase of implementation (and got on top of their rising case loads).
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The two escaped potential lifetime bans demanded by the committee's investigatory arm when the panel's adjudicatory chamber found no evidence of bribery linked to a 2 million Swiss franc ($2 million) payment FIFA made to Platini in 2011, with Blatter's approval.
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The possibility of an investigatory interview with Trump has haunted the Oval Office for half a year now, as the President's then-attorneys John Dowd and Ty Cobb, and later Rudy Giuliani and others, have gone back and forth with Mueller.
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), for example, recently released a detailed report outlining law enforcement's most pressing digital investigatory needs and the actions that government, law enforcement, and the technology community can take to address those needs.
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" Complaining she lacked an independent investigatory agency, she added, "Without real substantive reforms to the current criminal justice system, we could try this case 100 times and cases just like it, and we would still end up with the same result.
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Lawmakers effectively eliminated the FTC's ability to issue regulations, restricted its investigatory powers, and depleted the agency's staff; today the FTC has a third fewer employees it had 40 years ago — while the economy has grown three times in size.
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Now it is time for Congress to do its constitutional duty and begin the impeachment investigatory process, which means every subpoena must be honored, and would be enforced by the U.S. Supreme Court, I believe, by a 22019-0 margin.
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Navigating Mizzurna's world can be a bit unwieldy; in its defense, the design isn't that far removed from a still-playable classic like Silent Hill, handling movement via clunky rotational tank controls and and encouraging an investigatory nose for exploration.
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Liberty said the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office (IPCO) had delivered a highly critical assessment of the domestic spy agency in London's High Court over storage of data it had amassed under warrants to hack computers, phones and intercept people's communications.
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"Our investigatory team is now looking to see if we can identify other similar clusters engaged in coordinated activity around the Brexit referendum that was not identified previously," Simon Milner, Facebook's policy director for Britain, wrote in a letter to Parliament.
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Mr. Trump's allies among Republican leaders of House investigatory committees have sought to undermine the jobs of not just the special counsel but also key figures in the Justice Department and the F.B.I. Such goings-on didn't happen in Watergate.
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"In the past, House committees, under their general investigatory authority, have sometimes sought information and researched charges against officers prior to the adoption of a resolution to authorize an impeachment investigation," according to an October report from the Congressional Research Service.
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Alayah told Peter that she and Victoria P. knew each other so well that they went on a trip to Las Vegas together (reddit sleuths dug through Alayah's Instagram Story highlights for photos of the trip, if you're feeling investigatory).
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At the time, Mr. Sechin was working as Mr. Putin's deputy chief of staff, and though he had no formal judicial or investigatory authority, Mr. Khodorkovsky accused him of initiating his arrest — and the campaign that followed to nationalize Yukos.
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The bill proposed that law enforcement agencies would collect data on "routine investigatory activities" — including stop data, arrest data, and so on — and submit that information to the Justice Department, which would make a determination if any agencies were racially profiling.
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You see a candidate in Hillary Clinton that completely just disregarded the law, destruction of evidence, and really just creating a situation that undermines the confidence not only in our political process and campaigns and elections, but in our highest investigatory agencies.
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Britain unveiled a Draft Investigatory Powers Bill in November which would give agencies powers such as the right to find out what websites people visited - arguing it was needed to protect the public from terrorism, serious crime and paedophiles in the digital age.
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Today the UK's Court of Appeal handed down its ruling in a long running challenge to the 2014 Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) — judging that the regime's bulk collection and retention of citizens' Internet activity and phone records was unlawful.
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The emergency legislation sunsetted at the end of 2016 but the legal fight is not just an academic footnote as DRIPA has since been replaced with another controversial UK law that's also been branded a 'Snooper's charter' (aka: The Investigatory Powers Act).
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The challenge fixed on the presence of so-called "bulk" powers in the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act (IPA): A controversial capability that allows intelligence agencies to legally collect and retain large amounts of data, instead of having to operate via targeted intercepts.
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So the really big irony of Rudd's comments is that the government has already afforded itself swingeing investigatory powers — even including the ability to require companies to decrypt data, limit the use of end-to-end encryption and backdoor services on warranted request.
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Privacy International's legal challenge was originally filed with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal oversight body in June last year — focused on "whether the acquisition, use, retention, disclosure, storage and deletion of Bulk Personal Datasets is in accordance with the law and necessary and proportionate".
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This report joins the Cairncross Review and Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee in calling for the CMA to use its investigatory capabilities and powers to examine whether actors in these markets are operating appropriately to deliver effective competition and consumer benefit.
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However, we have subsequently incurred expenses related to the Security Incident to investigate and take remedial actions to notify and protect our users, and expect to continue to incur investigatory, legal, and other expenses associated with the Security Incident in the foreseeable future.
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An independent review of the various bulk investigatory powers contained in the bill — such as the ability to hack into devices or intercept communications en masse — is also ongoing, with QC David Anderson due to report on that matter later this summer.
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In the UK a legislative framework has already been put in place which is widely interpreted as having powers to compel companies to remove encryption and/or limit the use of end-to-end encryption to secure services (aka, the Investigatory Powers Act).
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In one letter, the Home Office urged Thomas to authorize MI5's data collection for a "database project" under a 1984 telecommunications law rather than the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), which would have required more transparent processes and safeguards.
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He told the three investigatory committees that Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, told him that the president would not release military aid for Ukraine unless they opened an investigation into Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that employed Hunter Biden.
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The committee has been taking evidence from activists, academics, and tech companies around the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, a proposed piece of legislation that will force internet service providers (ISPs) to store all customers' browsing history for 12 months, among other things.
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The Investigatory Powers Bill (IP bill) has been trailed as a necessary piece of legislation to plug so-called "capability gaps" for security and law enforcement agencies, and also as an overdue update to the legal framework around the use of such powers.
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Trump spent much of the past 18 months fuming -- in private and in public -- about how long the Mueller investigation was taking, how it was a total hoax, how Mueller and his investigatory team were hopelessly biased and on and on and on.
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In the same Terry decision referenced above, the Supreme Court ruled that while probable cause was the only level of cause that could justify an arrest, this was too demanding a standard to require for what it characterized as a brief investigatory seizure.
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As an example, if the cyber investigatory team sees a billion dollar U.S. Steel formula appear suddenly in a partner of China Steel without any R&D effort from the Chinese company, this indicates that stolen information was used for China Steel's benefit.
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But now to impeachment: If conservatives are right to object to the abuse of power by F.B.I. agents, shouldn't they be far more alarmed at the abuse of investigatory and other powers for political ends by the president of the United States?
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In a statement, Kathryn Kranhold, an associate vice chancellor at U.C.L.A., said that Mr. Marino had been placed on "investigatory leave" and that school officials had "begun an internal review of Mr. Marino's actions as senior director of business and finance services."
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King said Don't Spy on Us is campaigning for a lift on this ban, and is hoping to have the Investigatory Powers Bill amended (a proposed and controversial piece of legislation that aims to bring all of the country's surveillance powers under one banner).
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Earlier this month, US Appeals Court Judge Neomi Rao, cited the 1993 Nixon case -- but almost incidentally -- as she dissented from a DC Circuit ruling that upheld the investigatory power of the US House and its subpoena for eight years of the President's financial documents.
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Former White House lawyers concurred that if Democrats install the highly experienced Nancy Pelosi as Speaker and keep Elijah Cummings and his seasoned staff in charge of oversight, they could marshal their investigatory power far more effectively than Republicans did under Obama and Clinton.
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The cache of 46 documents relate to policies, procedures and guidance in place for one aspect of UK state investigatory powers — so-called Bulk Personal Datasets (BPDs) — as well as covering Section 94 (of the Telecommunications Act 1984) directions for GCHQ, MI53 and MI6.
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The Snowden disclosures have certainly forced more public debate of state investigatory powers globally, although it is debatable how robust this debate is able to be given the ongoing obfuscation and contradiction from governments and agencies around key issues such as the legality of encryption.
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This is important because the legal framework around surveillance in the U.K. had already been superseded — with the Investigatory Powers Act, which was passed in 2016 — enshrining a number of bulk powers in law, alongside what the government bills as an adequate oversight framework.
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., declined to block a House subpoena for 8 years of Trump's financial records, ruling that the public's interest in "maximizing the effectiveness of the investigatory powers of Congress" was greater than any damage to Trump or his businesses.
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A 21-year-old Cornell University student arrested three months ago when a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her in his fraternity house bedroom has filed a civil suit against the school, claiming its internal investigatory process is both flawed and illegal, PEOPLE confirms.
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The Investigatory Powers bill—championed by former Home Secretary and current UK prime minister Theresa May and sometimes called the "Snooper's Charter"—would create an expansive new legal regime for government mass surveillance in the UK, effectively legitimizing many of the programs exposed by Snowden.
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"The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 will ensure that law enforcement and the security and intelligence agencies have the powers they need in a digital age to disrupt terrorist attacks, subject to strict safeguards and world-leading oversight," a statement from the Home Office reads.
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Photo: GettyBritish spy agencies have collected and shared huge databases of personal and social media information on millions of individuals, and effectively circumvented the investigatory body tasked with surveillance oversight, according to documents newly obtained by Privacy International, a London-based consumer advocacy group.
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A key concern of the committee at the time was that rules governing use of the datasets had not been defined in legislation (although the UK government has since passed a new investigatory powers framework that enshrines various state surveillance bulk powers in law).
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He does have one recommendation — suggesting the Investigatory Powers Commission establishes a technical advisory panel of independent academics and industry experts "to advise on the impact of changing technology, and on how MI5, MI6 and GCHQ could reduce the privacy footprint of their activities".
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The ideal investigatory body would be a bipartisan commission as the kind appointed following 911, but it is unlikely that any such commission will be appointed, despite the fact that all Americans – Democrats and Republicans alike – are affected by Russian intrusion into our elections.
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INVESTIGATORY TIPS FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES AND LAW ENFORCEMENT Until governments collectively enforce these regulatory principles, the responsibility will fall on law enforcement and bank AML units to identify suspicious transactional behavior at the points of ingress and egress between financial institutions and basic crypto exchanges.
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In Britain, a proposed Investigatory Powers bill — also known as the "snoopers' charter" — would essentially enshrine in law the bulk data collection and phone-hacking operations carried out by British secret services that were revealed by Mr. Snowden along with National Security Agency operations.
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Avenatti on Tuesday released an investigatory report that says Essential Consultants received about $2000,22017 from a company that Avenatti claims is controlled by a Russian oligarch, as well as payments from pharmaceuticals giant Novartis, telecommunications behemoth AT&T and defense contractor Korea Aerospace Industries.
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Appearing in private last month before the three investigatory committees, Volker said the White House decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine was "not significant" and that Ukrainian leaders "never communicated a belief that there was a quid pro quo" surrounding the investigations Trump sought.
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Trump during the rare solo news conference at the White House sparred with reporters over his divisive rhetoric, warned Democrats about investigatory overreach and painted the midterms, in which Democrats took control of the House but Republicans maintained their Senate majority, as a success.
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Garcia, who served as chairman of the investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee, resigned in protest after FIFA published a 42-page summary of his 430-page, three-part report that largely cleared the Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 bids of any wrongdoing.
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"The Unabomber put 'FC,' which stood for Freedom Club, on his bombs, so the investigators will be looking for any signatures that could give them some investigatory leads," said Clinton R. Van Zandt, a former profiler with the F.B.I. who worked on the case.
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On Friday, the United States International Trade Commission, an independent federal investigatory agency that reports to several cabinet departments, unanimously ruled that American manufacturers have been "materially injured by unfairly traded imports" of Chinese aluminum alloy sheets used in a range of consumer goods.
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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady in Alexandria, Virginia used a "manifestly incorrect" standard in finding that Fluor, a U.S. government contractor, had waived the attorney-client privilege by summarizing its investigatory findings in a government-mandated disclosure.
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The letter from the former employees comes as the Environmental Integrity Project unveiled an investigatory deep dive that found via the EPA's enforcement database that many states, not just California, were out of compliance with EPA regulations when it comes to wastewater discharge violations.
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The letter from the former employees comes as the Environmental Integrity Project unveiled an investigatory deep dive that found via the EPA's enforcement database that many states, not just California, were out of compliance with EPA regulations when it comes to wastewater discharge violations.
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That stonewalling -- and the choice by the legislators in the President's party to support it -- could be among the most lasting implications of this impeachment struggle, experts believe, because it sets a precedent that could allow future presidents to also reject congressional investigatory demands.
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Navy SEAL platoon members painted a dark picture of Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher, their leader who was acquitted of war crimes and had a minor charge cleared by President Trump, in leaked investigatory interview videos and text messages obtained by the New York Times.
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As WBUR reported, the court's ruling cited data from the ACLU and the Boston Police Department to reach its conclusions: We do not eliminate flight as a factor in the reasonable suspicion analysis whenever a black male is the subject of an investigatory stop.
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Washington (CNN)John Lehman, a member of the 228/211 commission, told CNN Thursday that the classified 22002 pages of a congressional investigatory report into the attacks contains evidence that as many as six Saudi officials supported al Qaeda in the run-up to the attacks.
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The crimes DeAngelo is suspected of committing span at least 21980 counties and more than a decade between the 275s and 21993s, a time when there were no cell phones and no social media and when DNA testing as an investigatory tool was in its infancy.
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History is riddled with flashpoints: The police killing of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in the 1960s; a wave of disorderly conduct arrests in the 1980s; the unconstitutional gang loitering ordinance in the 1990s; and the widespread use of investigatory "stops and frisks" in recent years.
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In November the UK High Court ruled it has no power to overturn an IPT ruling, citing a clause in UK legislation that oversees the state's use of investigatory powers (RIPA) which apparently protects IPT decisions from being subject to appeal or questioning on points of law.
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At the back end of last year it passed the Investigatory Powers Act, which threw up questions about the looming legal implications for encrypted communications in the UK — owing to a provision that states communications service providers may be required to "remove electronic protection of data".
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Returning to UK law, the (still draft) 'Investigatory Powers (Technical Capability) Regulations 23' is the legal route for placing obligations on comms service providers, under the IP Act, to maintain the necessary technical capabilities to afford government agencies the warranted access on demand that they keep demanding.
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A controversial shoring up and expansion of state surveillance powers in the U.K. has been agreed upon by both houses of parliament, clearing the way for the formality of Royal Assent and the passing of the Investigatory Powers bill into law before the end of the year.
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Mehta also denied Trump's lawyers' request to stay his order more than the 7 days both sides agreed to for an appeal, ruling the public's interest in "maximizing the effectiveness of the investigatory powers of Congress" was greater than any damage to Trump or his businesses.
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That makes compliance with mandatory censorship and data retention schemes, like the kind being proposed in the Investigatory Powers bill, technically impossible—no matter what sites the user visits, the Tor network ensures the details of that activity are completely masked to the provider by default.
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The UK government appointed independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, David Anderson, noted in his review of investigatory powers last year that "the distinction between "content data" and metadata …is rapidly fading away in modern network environment" — quoting that conclusion from a prior EU-funded Surveille Report.
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"This claim is questionable since the Independent Counsel law is designed to remove the President and his or her political motives from the criminal investigatory process," Brendan Beery, who teaches at the Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School's Tampa Bay campus, said in a statement.
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The oft-commemorated protagonists of the Watergate saga are not the Republican congressmen who broke party lines to threaten impeachment, not the three congressional investigatory committees, not the countless staffers who toiled for those committees or the FBI agents whom Nixon was so intent to stop.
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"The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court compelled compliance with sweeping investigatory requests by the state's attorney general for decades' worth of documents concerning petitioner's knowledge of, and the relationship of petitioner's products to, climate change," Exxon Mobil wrote in its September 2018 petition to the high court.
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"The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court compelled compliance with sweeping investigatory requests by the state's attorney general for decades' worth of documents concerning petitioner's knowledge of, and the relationship of petitioner's products to, climate change," Exxon Mobil wrote in its September 2018 petition to the high court.
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McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing McCabe says it's 'absolutely' time to launch impeachment inquiry into Trump MORE, former FBI special agent Peter Strzok, and Justice official Bruce Ohr took investigatory steps that were politically biased against his candidacy in 2016 (The Hill).
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During the 1950s, the good old ACLU would be in court challenging abuses of congressional investigatory power, but the current ACLU has one dominant agenda, which is to oppose Trump regardless of the means used and to raise large sums of money based on this agenda.
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The Lib Dem peer was speaking during the second reading of the Investigatory Powers bill in the U.K.'s second chamber, the House of Lords, after the draft legislation passed the House of Commons earlier this month with the help of the main opposition Labour party.
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On Monday, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court tasked with keeping tabs on the country's surveillance powers, highlighted the intense veil of secrecy that has formed around the UK's use of bulk powers, and the lack of oversight around those powers, in a written judgment.
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The hacking - or 'equipment interference' as it's called by UK intelligence - disclosures were published this month in a joint submission to the UK Parliament by the NCA, HM Revenue & Customs and the National Police Chiefs Council as part of the ongoing scrutiny of the Investigatory Powers Bill.
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These revelations come at time when the UK government is trying to pass the Investigatory Powers Bill, a piece of legislation that would force internet service providers to store browsing data for all customers, and would include information on when they use things such as WhatsApp.
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For example, he could tip off the White House to what the special counsel's office is up to, or he could block Mr. Mueller from taking significant investigatory steps, like bringing an indictment, without having to notify Congress or the public until the investigation is complete.
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"They didn't do any of the sort of bread-and-butter type investigatory steps that would flush out what potential crimes may have been committed," said Berit Berger, a former federal prosecutor who heads the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School.
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"The paper noted that during the passage of the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, which expanded hacking powers available to police and intelligence services including bulk data collection for the latter, independent terrorism legislation reviewer Lord David Anderson asserted that bulk powers are "likely to be only sparingly used.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.), the panel's ranking member, to suggest Nunes appeared to be acting more as a member of Trump's team than as the head of an independent investigatory arm of Congress.
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" In his previously released opening statement, Sondland testified that Giuliani said Trump wanted a statement from Ukraine pledging an investigation "into anti-corruption issues," and that Giuliani "specifically mentioned the 2016 election (including the DNC server) and Burisma as two anti-corruption investigatory topics of importance for the President.
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The announcement came just hours after the president held court at a rare solo news conference at the White House, where he sparred with reporters who pressed him over his divisive rhetoric, warned Democrats about investigatory overreach and painted the midterm results as a validation of his political skills.
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The challenge, by rights group Liberty, led last month to an initial finding that MI5 had systematically breached safeguards in the UK's Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) — breaches the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, euphemistically couched as "compliance risks" in a carefully worded written statement that was quietly released to parliament.
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As Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the ACLU, pointed out last year, "Government security agencies and others using data for "'risk assessment' purposes are trying to decide who should be blacklisted, scrutinized, put under privacy-invading investigatory microscopes, or otherwise limited in their freedom and opportunity.
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The release of the video again put the N.F.L. on the defensive over its handling of cases involving players accused of assault and domestic abuse, and it provided another reminder of the limits of the league's investigatory powers and its failures in policing its players' off-field conduct.
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The Investigatory Powers Act — dubbed the "Snoopers" charter by critics — was passed by parliament last year, gaining royal assent in November as the government sought to shore up capabilities contained within earlier "emergency" surveillance legislation, aka DRIPA, which contained a sunset clause, meaning those powers expired at the end of 2016.
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All that said, it's worth noting that we are at a point in history at which the president of the United States, after the release of an incredibly damning investigatory report into the conduct of his presidential campaign and administration, is tweeting about the possibility of being impeached from office.
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"Any person to whom a technical capability notice is given, or any person employed or engaged for the purposes of that person's business, is under a duty not to disclose the existence and contents of that notice to any person," a Code of Practice on the proposed investigatory power notes.
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It's also worth emphasizing that the IPT's judgement does not factor in the oversight framework set out in Investigatory Powers bill, now moving through the final stages of parliamentary scrutiny in the House of Lords — with the Home Office pushing to pass it into law before the end of this year.
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In the latest episode of a years-long legal challenge, Privacy International told the United Kingdom's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) on Tuesday that, for several years, bulk datasets containing a wealth of personal information, including social media data, have been shared with foreign governments, law enforcement agencies, and industry partners.
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If that weren't enough, he proved he still had not learned the lesson of publicly making disparaging comments about investigatory subjects when he falsely claimed that Huma Abedin sent hundreds or thousands of emails containing classified information to her estranged husband Anthony Weiner to print out for then-candidate Hillary Clinton.
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" Last November, Britain passed a new Investigatory Powers Act with "intrusive powers (that) are bound to have a detrimental impact on the legitimate activities carried out by civil society and political activists, whistle-blowers, organizers and participants of peaceful protests, and many other individuals seeking to exercise their fundamental freedoms.
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Nevertheless, the US is still doing a lot better than many other countries simply because it hasn't totally outlawed any forms of encryption yet, as is the case with Australia, China, India, and soon the UK, if the House of Lords passes the Investigatory Powers Bill (which is looking increasingly likely).
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Connor must also be applied: All claims that law enforcement officials have used excessive force -- deadly or not -- in the course of an arrest, investigatory stop, or other "seizure" of a free citizen are properly analyzed under the Fourth Amendment's "objective reasonableness" standard, rather than under a substantive due process standard.
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UEFA's investigatory arm determined that Man City had made losses of 233 million euros during the two-year period ended in May 31, 2013, when the club made adjustments the investigators required, including judging key sponsorship contracts at market values determined by the experts, according to the chief investigator's report.
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In my view, the House managers were more persuasive in arguing that, if the President is able to declare the circumstances under which he will cooperate with Congress and he can refuse unilaterally to cooperate when his conditions are not met, the House's investigatory powers would be null and void.
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But by a slim 3-to-2 majority, judges of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the body that hears complaints about Britain's intelligence services, dismissed the case on Friday, ruling the policy lawful and arguing that MI5 officers could not function without informants who could commit crimes, often while infiltrating criminal organizations.
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The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office has criticized the draft Investigatory Powers bill warning about the risks of requiring communications service providers to weaken encryption, and also asserting that no clear case has been made for why the state should require data on all its citizens to be retained for a full year.
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"Although there is information in the public domain […], and it is mentioned in the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, we would still not want to confirm or deny that forces have or have not been applying these techniques since 2010," reads an email the NPCC sent sent to all UK police forces reads.
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In the UK's case, the government passed expanded state surveillance legislation at the end of last year — aka the Investigatory Powers Act (or, to give it its colloquial name, the 'Snoopers' charter') — which includes a provision requiring that ISPs retain web activity data for all their users for a period of 12 months.
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This is something all Internet Service Providers (and, therefore, Wi-Fi hot spot operators) are obliged to do in the UK, thanks to the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, a sweeping piece of legislation that requires ISPs to keep a record of every website that a citizen visits for up to a year.
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Following the release of the letter to Congress, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy released a statement that read in part (bolding not mine): This should be a lesson to my Democrat colleagues that chasing imagined scandals and following a partisan investigatory agenda will not result in any meaningful change for the country.
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I don&apost think it would have been appropriate for there to be the revelation of investigatory information to President Trump or his personal lawyers, particularly classified information about a human intelligence source in advance of there being any decision about whether to move forward with any final conclusion by the Mueller investigation.
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USCIS sent me a disk with 561 pages of documents and a cover letter telling me most of the interesting bits were redacted, citing exemptions such as records relating to officers and government staff, investigatory material compiled for law enforcement purposes and techniques used by the government to decide an applicant's case.
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The new Investigatory Powers Commissioner will also be required to approve requests for Technical Capability Notices — which is a step up from the prior route for UK state agents to impose technical obligations on companies, via section 94 of the Telecommunications Act (which will be repealed in favor of the IP bill).
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Add to that, on ISPs specifically, an incoming UK law is set to place an obligation on Internet service providers to collect and store website access data for all customers for a full year — as part of government attempts to expand state security agency and policing powers, under the controversial Investigatory Powers bill.
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In December, Europe's top court ruled that governments in the region cannot place "general and indiscriminate" data retention requirements on communications service providers — a ruling that stemmed from a legal challenge to earlier U.K. surveillance legislation (but which also casts doubt on the legality of the U.K.'s current investigatory powers regime).
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Noting that he has "known the President a long, long time," Bossie said that he understands the political movement that elected Trump and stressed the importance of Trump picking someone who understands the House investigatory process -- of which he was a key part during Republicans' impeachment of President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.
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The series of 10 documents and letters from MI5 and the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office (IPCO), the body charged with overseeing the intelligence agencies' use of surveillance powers, show that the spy agency has failed to meet its legal duties for as long as the IPA has been law, according to Liberty.
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"But now that serious accusations have arisen about his conduct in his teenage years, I believe that these accusations deserve the best and most professional investigation possible — even if that means a brief additional delay on the ultimate vote on Judge Kavanaugh, and even if that investigatory delay imperils his confirmation," he added.
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Paris St. Germain said UEFA's investigatory chamber required the club to reduce the revenues it booked from the QTA contract to between 50 million and 60 million euros for the years ending in mid-2017 and mid-2018, which forced the club to sell players in order to comply with the rules.
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In a news release, FIFA said that "the new chairpersons of the independent Ethics Committee, María Claudia Rojas of the investigatory chamber and Vassilios Skouris of the adjudicatory chamber, have decided to publish the report," and contended that FIFA's current president, Gianni Infantino, had "on numerous occasions" called for the report's release.
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I just want to make the point, that makes it all the more important that they reveal things to these specially situated people like Devin Nunes in Congress on the investigatory committees because Congress is a co-equal branch, and we have to have some accountability even if it remains secret as to the public.
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The current legal framework for state surveillance means the UK government is essentially saying 'trust us', the applicants' lawyers argued, while letting individual intelligence agents make unscrutinized judgement calls while they operate inside the very agencies that are wielding hugely intrusive investigatory powers without robust, independent oversight to provide a meaningful check on state powers.
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UK cops have already been using EI for years under the Police Act 1997—a law that was not specifically designed for computer exploitation—as well as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), but through evidence sessions for several watchdogs tasked with scrutinising the draft Bill, we've learned more about how police hack.
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The government is aiming to have the Investigatory Powers Bill (IP Bill), currently before parliament, on the statute books before the end of the year — giving the Labour party a stronger hand to push for amendments than it might if the government was in less of a rush to drive the bill through parliament.
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"Although we are working to accommodate the requests of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in a number of oversight matters, we cannot provide the requested information pertaining to the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation consistent with longstanding principles of investigatory independence," Boyd wrote in the letter, which was first reported by the Washington Examiner.
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As soon as Mueller's investigatory work had concluded and he had sent his report to Attorney General William Barr, the network pivoted to a meta-narrative about the meta-narrative, in which the details of the report's eventual release were examined with the diligence of augurs watching flocks of wheeling birds in ancient Rome.
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Dave Aitel's proposal over at The Hill for "a cyber investigatory setup funded by private industry" to react to hacks into the American government may not be a good idea, per se, but who can afford that kind of cost-benefit analysis when we're already in the throes of de-facto high-seas Internet warfare?
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Digital rights group Privacy International has filed a judicial review in the UK High Court of an earlier decision by the oversight body of the UK's security agencies to sanction the use of so-called "thematic warrants" — aka a highly intrusive investigatory capability that can cover an entire class of unidentified persons or property.
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The New York Times recently announced its new Washington D.C. investigations team; the Washington Post is doing the same; Fusion/Gizmodo have a new investigations unit; CNN invested in investigatory work by hiring Andrew Kaczynski and the "K-File" team away from BuzzFeed; BuzzFeed then hired Vice's "FOIA terrorist" Jason Leopold and Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Cormier.
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In late 2016, a year after Timber Sycamore kicked into high gear, an ISIS force near the Syrian city of Al Bab used guided anti-tank weapons—probably mostly Russian, but possibly some American—to make mincemeat of roughly 10 tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, and an armored personnel carrier, according to open-source investigatory group Bellingcat.
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"Although this strain of Elizabethkingia is different than the one seen in the Wisconsin outbreak, our investigatory methods remain the same and we continue to work with the CDC and our local health departments to investigate this cluster of cases and develop ways to prevent additional infections," said Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health.
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Just like all good criminal defense attorneys tell their clients to say as little as possible to investigatory authorities, lest the State become aware of other possible crimes or evidence, Trump's tax team may well be advising him not to disclose his returns lest the private sector help the government find questionable aspects of the return.
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A little more detail has emerged about how a key component of the controversial UK surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act, which was passed at the end of last year, is likely to function — after a government consultation document on so-called Technical Capability Notices was published yesterday by the digital rights organization Open Rights Group.
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That said, there's some grey area here too being as the UK legislated at the back end of last year for a new investigatory powers framework that has been widely interpreted as an attack on encryption, by giving authorities the legal authority to demand the removal of electronic protection and be given data in a readable form.
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Furthermore, there are early signs that the Democratic base is energized against Trump and that the party has a real shot at retaking the House of Representatives in 2018 — something that would give the opposition investigatory power that could be used against the administration, and would likely end any hopes of major legislative achievements for Trump.
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"A lot of good questions to follow up on there," Mr. de Blasio said, suggesting as he has for weeks that an investigatory report from the State Board of Elections highly critical of his fund-raising on behalf of Democrats in the State Senate had been leaked by those close to the governor to damage him.
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The FBI, the intelligence community and the Justice Department's watchdog previously denied there is evidence that political bias influenced investigatory or management decisions as part of the department's Russia probe Meanwhile, Bruce Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr, who worked for opposition research firm Fusion GPS, may testify in closed session before GOP House investigators as early as Friday (The Hill).
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It would have been far better for this country if Congress had appointed a nonpartisan investigatory commission to uncover the whole truth, including noncriminal wrongdoing, not only on the part of the Trump campaign and administration, but also on the part of those current and former intelligence officials who willfully leaked classified and highly secret information to the media.
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"I think he fits a very strong mold of someone you'd want to take the FBI job at this time in history, with a strong prosecutorial background, reputation for integrity and independence and an affinity for navigating Washington's political waters at a time when the FBI is caught in a serious investigatory but also political environment," Zarate said.
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"Based on this flagrant breach of confidentiality Domingo's counsel has withdrawn the agreement, which was expressly premised on A.G.M.A.'s promise to maintain confidentiality over the details of the investigatory report," said the email, which was signed by Leonard Egert, the union's national executive director, and Raymond Menard, its president, and sent to the union's board.
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"The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee, under its chairman Hans-Joachim Eckert, has opened formal adjudicatory proceedings against the Vice-President of the Qatar Football Association (QFA) and former General Secretary of the QFA, Saoud Al-Mohannadi, based on the final report submitted by the investigatory chamber," Zurich-based FIFA said in a statement.
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Dozens of midlevel and lower-level employees were faulted by the investigators for covering up the scheme or going along with it, but the two people whom the investigatory committee blamed most squarely were the former chairman and chief executive officer, John G. Stumpf, and the former head of the retail branch network, Carrie L. Tolstedt.
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The House, exercising its sole power of impeachment, as well as its general investigatory authority, properly issued multiple subpoenas with 71 individualized requests for records in the possession or control of the White House, the Office of the Vice President, the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of State, the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy.
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Indeed, the UK has already legislated to be able to demand decryption on request and block use of e2e encryption in the Investigatory Powers Act, which passed into UK law last year — although some elements of the legislation have yet to be implemented, owing to a separate EU legal ruling regarding "generate and indiscriminate" data retention, which the law appears to breach.
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Today the UK High Court agreed with several aspects of digital and civil rights group Liberty's crowdfunded legal challenge to a portion of the UK's 2016 Investigatory Powers Act that gives the state the power to mandate that communications companies and service providers collect and retain web activity logs, comms metadata and location information on all their users for a full 12 months.
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Ultimately we need — just as have in broadcasting — statutory regulation based on principles that we set, and an investigatory regulator that's got the power to go in and investigate, which, under this board that Facebook is going to set up, this will still largely be dependent on Facebook agreeing what data and information it shares, setting the parameters for investigations.
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Criticisms included that the U.S. equivalent body is ineffective; that such a board would merely duplicate other oversight roles — such as the bill's Investigatory Powers Commissioner and the existing role of independent reviewer of terrorism legislation; that it would be costly; and even that it would be dangerous to allow security-cleared material to be seen by an external body.
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The IP Act also expands on the investigatory capabilities enabled by DRIPA by including a provision to require ISPs to log all the websites and services that all users connect to for a full year so that the information can be provided to authorities on demand — including to a wide range of government agencies (not just to security and law enforcement agencies).
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May rejected the suggestion put to her by the committee that a sunset clause or regular review might be an appropriate way to ensure expansive investigatory powers do not shift, over time, to become disproportionate — arguing specifically that CSPs need the certainty that a non-bookended bill provides if they are to put in place infrastructure to enable the collection of ICRs.
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In fact, even if the president invoked executive privilege, I think it's an open question if it would be applicable in this case because there has to be a balance in separation of powers between the president's need to have confidential decision-making (under which firing of an executive branch officer would probably fall) and Congress's constitutional power of inquiry through investigatory bodies.
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And there have been many significant flashpoints over the years — the killing of Fred Hampton (1960s), the Metcalfe hearings (1970s), federal court findings of a pattern and practice of discriminatory hiring (1970s), Jon Burge and his midnight crew (5003s to 1990s), widespread disorderly conduct arrests (1980s), the unconstitutional gang loitering ordinance (1990s), widespread use of investigatory stops and frisks (2000s) and other points.
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May has been spearheading a drive to expand surveillance powers in the UK since long before the current Investigatory Powers bill was drafted, with her prior bill faltering when the government's former coalition partners refused to support it (dubbing that draft legislation a Snoopers' Charter — the same moniker critics like rights group Privacy International apply to her new surveillance bill).
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In the cases of Man City and Paris St. Germain, UEFA's Club Financial Control Body (CFCB), which oversees Financial Fair Play rules, accepted that the clubs could receive income from Emirati and Qatari sponsors that was far in excess of the market value estimated by independent experts hired by UEFA to assess the deals, according to investigatory reports, settlement agreements and other documents.
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Eckert's critics have noted that he had held his post as chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of the ethics committee since 2012, and that Borbely had worked in its investigatory chamber since 2013 — years before arrests that were prompted by a push from the United States Justice Department exposed the corruption that their committee, the critics argued, should have been policing all along.
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Matt GaetzMatthew (Matt) GaetzLawmakers from both sides of the aisle mourn Cummings The Hill's Morning Report - Tempers boil over at the White House Schiff says committees will eventually make impeachment inquiry transcripts public MORE (R-Fla.) tried to stir the pot early in the day, attempting to sit in on her testimony despite not being on any of the three investigatory committees.
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And yet, a spokesman for the Irish said that neither the Irish regulator nor any other had yet launched a "joint investigation" — a formal process that would involve sending officials from one regulator to help out another on site, and could enable better resourced regulators, like the Information Commissioner's Office in London, to lend legal and investigatory firepower to the Irish.
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A number of cases related to EU states' surveillance powers and citizens' privacy rights are dealt with in the opinion, including legal challenges brought by rights advocacy group Privacy International to bulk collection powers enshrined in the UK's Investigatory Powers Act; and a La Quadrature du Net (and others') challenge to a 2015 French decree related to specialized intelligence services.
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"These and other incidents concerning investigatory actions — or lack thereof — in the run up to the recent election have deeply shaken the reputation for fairness previously enjoyed by federal law enforcement and reinforce the need to appropriately handle any pending criminal investigation," they write, citing Comey's decision to publicly re-open the FBI's investigation into Clinton's email practices days before the election.
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The application has been made with UK-based non-profit GreenNet, the Chaos Computer Club from Germany, Jibonet from South Korea, US internet service provider May First, and communications provider Rise Up. In 2014, Privacy International filed a complaint over the country's bulk hacking powers with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal, a court which determines if public authorities have unlawfully used covert techniques.
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And even if Defendants could otherwise demonstrate an appropriate basis for impairing the First Amendment interests of Twitter and its users, they certainly may not do so using the particular investigatory tool employed here—which Congress authorized solely to ensure compliance with federal laws concerning imported merchandise—because it is apparent that whatever investigation Defendants are conducting here does not pertain to imported merchandise.
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With this global tide of surveillance rising, it's worth taking a closer look at what exactly is happening in the UK. Here's our overview of what the Investigatory Powers Bill entails: The UK government will keep a record of every website every citizen visits for up to a year, with this information also including the apps they use on their phone, and the metadata of their calls.
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Lord Paddick noted that the provision is not being requested by the security services, who have additional investigatory tools to obtain the data they need, so is purely a power on the police's wish-list — going on to argue that the catch-all nature of ICRs is disproportionate given the warrantless access the bill affords police to this personal data on all U.K. web users.
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Earlier today a group of MPs, academics, lawyers, digital rights campaigns and others also co-signed an open letter in the Telegraph calling on the government not to rush surveillance powers through parliament — and suggesting instead the government could split data retention powers into a separate bill to be dealt with this year, allowing "a comprehensive Investigatory Powers Act to follow next year after adequate consultation".
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Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats seek leverage for trial The Memo: Pelosi-Trump trade deal provokes debate on left MORE (D-Calif.) and the chairs of the investigatory committees announced late Monday a press conference to reveal "the next steps in the House impeachment inquiry," declining to offer any further details.
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And it points to new oversight mechanisms created by the legislation — such as a so-called "double lock" of judicial and senior ministerial sign-off for warrants needed for certain of the powers, and a new Investigatory Powers Commissioner to audit agencies' compliance — claiming they provide the checks and balances to ensure usage of the powers is properly authorized and balanced against considerations of individual privacy and civil liberty.
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It's not the first time the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ruled against the agencies it oversees — that was back in February 153, pertaining to retrospective NSA-GCHQ data-sharing — but it's handed down just a handful of counter-agency judgements over its fifteen+ years, all of them since the 215 Snowden revelations, so this is another landmark moment in the unpicking of secret government mass surveillance programs.
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A former senior chief in the U.K.'s Met Police and now a Lib Dem peer in the House of Lords has warned about major risks to the privacy of web users' personal data from a provision in the Investigatory Powers bill that would require ISPs to retain information on the websites and services accessed by their users for a full 12 months — so called Internet Connection Records (ICRs).
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Proof, if proof were needed, that democracy is a cat and mouse game of PR these days… Civil rights campaign organisation, the Open Rights Group, is running a crowdfunding campaign to try to raise £20,000 to fund a challenge to the U.K. government's own massive PR machine which is in the midst of driving the draft Investigatory Powers bill through Parliament and onto the statute books this year.
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" "I don't care what the House Democrats want to go after from here forward, if Mueller can't find it, they're not going to find it," he added Former Trump campaign adviser @MichaelRCaputo: "Say whatever you will, this is the most impressive array of investigatory talent the American government has assembled in the 85033st century and if they don't find what they were sent out there to find, it doesn't exist.
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Today on AM View:The Hill's Scott Wong explains why House Republicans are leery of taking the top job on a powerful investigatory committee during President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's rollercoaster White House tenure.
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At the same time as the legal challenges to hacking as an investigatory tool of the state, thematic warrants were included by the UK government in a new draft surveillance framework, published in 2015, as it sought to bake existing operational powers, whose existence had been revealed by documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, fully into UK law — rather than continuing to rely on authorization via a patchwork of outdated legislation.
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Similar challenges to state surveillance powers have been brought by some of these rights groups in the UK, and in 2015 the oversight court for the UK's intelligence agencies ruled that secret data-sharing between the UK's GCHQ and the NSA had breached European Human Rights law in the past; although the Investigatory Powers Tribunal also took the view that the practice, once disclosed and "signposted", then became compliant with human rights law.
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Elsewhere on the investigatory front…Special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's investigation has been going on for a year and we're still in the dark about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee (The Hill)… New inspector general report to fault FBI for delay in Clinton probe (The Associated Press).
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Last month, Yovanovitch told the three investigatory committees in private about the "dangerous precedent" set by Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiBiden: Impeachment hearings show 'Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee' Sondland brings impeachment inquiry to White House doorstep FBI sought interview with whistleblower at heart of impeachment probe MORE, corrupt Ukrainian officials and disreputable media figures to oust an ambassador they believed was standing in the way of their business and political interests.
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Youtube/ GeofeediaIn the BLM members' lawsuit, their attorney quotes the Strategic Intelligence Unit's own internal reports as evidence of the illegality and racial bias in its geofencing tactics:The SIU describes the purpose of the Report as follows:Though the use of social media monitoring platform and other Investigatory tactics, the ILLPPC [Intelligence Led Policing and Prosecution Center] is able to search, monitor and analyze real time social media content from any chosen location around the country.
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But under the chairmanship of the Republican Devin Nunes of California, the House Intelligence Committee — which has a clear constitutional authority to conduct some of the same investigatory work as Mueller — produced a report that breezily concluded that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government and that, contrary to the official consensus of the American intelligence community, the Russian government was not even seeking to help elect Trump.
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More specifically, European Court of Justice threw a direct lifeline to those opposed to the Investigatory Powers Act (the so-called "Snooper's Charter") in the UK, which authorizes state agents to hack devices and services en masse and requires ISPs to retain a year's worth of website access logs on all users; the bill was approved by both chambers in November this year, although groups opposed to it have been continuing to look for ways to challenge it.
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A chaotic scene erupted on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as dozens of House GOP members interrupted the latest deposition by the three House investigatory committees, marking the latest salvo in the bitter fight over the impeachment inquiry into President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump congratulates Washington Nationals on World Series win Trump hints that dog injured in al-Baghdadi raid will visit White House Vindman says White House lawyer moved Ukraine call to classified server: report MORE's dealings with Ukraine.
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So it remains to be seen whether Rudd's public call for encrypted data to be accessible to law enforcement agencies constitutes the beginning of a serious clampdown on end-to-end encryption in the U.K. (NB: The government has already given itself powers to limit companies' use of the tech, via last year's Investigatory Powers Act) — or merely a strategy to apply high-profile pressure to social media companies in trying to strong-arm them into doing more about removing extremist content from their public networks.
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However it is the government's intention to drive the Investigatory Powers bill through parliament and onto the statute books by the end of this year, when other data retention powers are due to be sunsetted — leaving only a very short time frame for parliamentarians to scrutinize what is a highly complex and technical piece of legislation that extends to more than 250 pages, with a substantial clutch of attendant documents — including multiple highly detailed Codes of Practice for the various powers set out in the bill.
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A range of additional specific amendments are also suggested by the committee, including a call for a shortening of the five-day-long grace period currently afforded for 'urgent' warrants to be back-checked by a judicial commissioner to just two days; a shortening of the length of time allowed for 'thematic' warrants (from six months to just one); and "a clear line of separation" between the investigatory teams who are requesting approval for a particular activity and those within the agency that approve it, to name just three of multiple additional suggested tweaks.
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Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is still turning slowly on several investigatory spits: Dr. Ronny Jackson, who withdrew as Trump's nominee to lead the VA following misconduct allegations he denied, is no longer the president's personal White House physician (The Hill).
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In a searing statement, Baltimore state's attorney Marilyn Mosby explained the decision to drop all remaining charges: After much thought and prayer, it has become clear that without being able to work with an independent investigatory agency from the very start, without having a say in the election of whether cases proceed in front of a judge or jury, without communal oversight of police in this community, without substantive reforms to the current criminal justice system, we could try this case 100 times just like it and we would still end up with the same result.
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