Data integrity schemes based on blockchain, Merkle hash trees, scalable provable data possession (SPDP) and dynamic provable data possession (DPDP) are good places for the industry to focus its efforts.
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But the key is microdosing still has a provable effect.
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Some will be provable and some will be impossible to corroborate.
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Trump's claims about the whistleblower's illegitimacy have no provable connection to reality.
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Donald Trump yesterday literally told three Twitter lies that were easily provable.
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"There's no provable, optimal scheme" for defending against such swarms, Griffin said.
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Now, consider: What are the provable, data-only facts of the situation?
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It happened, as surely as every other tangible, provable event in my life.
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Prosecutors commonly charge only the most immediately provable crimes in an initial complaint.
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"You want to talk provable facts?" she said to the moderator, Chuck Todd.
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Just remember: Provable facts are the best way to push back against fake news.
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He has called for the self-driving vehicle industry to develop "provable safety assurances".
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Apple has engaged in a systematic, provable effort to censor information about repair alternatives.
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The investigation, which lasted years, found "no provable criminal violations" of state law, Col.
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But beyond all that, we now have an actual, and one assumes provable, crime.
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"No one knows right now whether there is a provable case of obstruction," Bharara said.
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It is a matter of provable fact that our decision-making is not entirely rational.
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But mathematics is supposed to be universally provable, not contingent on a handful of experts.
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But perjury is a serious crime, provable only by evidence that someone intentionally lied under oath.
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Prosecutors, he wrote, should "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offence" in every case.
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There's a lot of boasting and braggadocio and very little in the way of provable facts.
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Enter Haley with her Iranian missiles of dubious provenance demonstrating no provable infringement of international law.
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There was no mob, no lynching, and indeed, no provable link to anything reported in the news.
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Both the Inspector General and Comey make out a provable case, then conclude there is no case.
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"We grew up in our family not using the l-word, but they're provable untruths," he said.
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He added it seemed Washington was "desperate" to find the provable evidence they promised regarding Russian politicians.
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This is provable insofar as the People's Liberation Front certainly exists, and Christopher Doyon is a real person.
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Mueller was clearer that he found no provable evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
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If the birthday book is entertainment, not provable fact, its form nevertheless lends it a degree of authority.
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Today's POTUS performance was breathtaking in the sheer number of provable falsehoods, intentional mischaracterizations and outright lies uttered.
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Taylor scholars have encountered many tales in which his version of the facts diverges from the provable record.
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It was provable, it was offensive, it was flagrant, and to write around it would have been silly.
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"There's still a lot of discretion left to prosecutors to determine what is readily provable," Ms. Starr said.
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For the reason that, if they were doing this, it's not only a crime, but it's something provable.
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This kind of case is difficult, but provable, with a careful and fair congressional investigation developing corroborative evidence.
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First, being called a doofus on social media, for most of us, doesn't cause us any provable financial harm.
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Its use of criminal cyber rings ensures that it benefits from no (provable) direct links to the Russian government.
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"It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense," Sessions wrote.
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Source and use analyses allow governments to use competition to make provable gains in service levels and cost performance.
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Critics of such strategies would be given the un-provable response that success just required more money and time.
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Pending Mueller's final report and despite the fondest hopes of Trump's opponents, there may be no such provable links.
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Put another way, the feds use solid, easily provable charges to put pressure on potential witnesses to turn and co-operate.
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Throughout his candidacy -- and his presidency -- he has said things that are not provable, at best, and not true, at worst.
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And, ask yourself this: Why would Wolff lie about something as easily provable as whether or not he talked to Trump?
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"If he's not guilty or it's not provable, they should get it out of the way now," Giuliani told CNN last week.
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Even when the lyrics are re-worked to celebrate the many transgressions and seemingly provable outright crimes of the Donald Trump administration.
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"Information integrity is more than the scrutiny of provable statements or the linking of some data to shared content with an "i.
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He believes America's method of prosecuting terrorists—gathering evidence and building a provable case—to be "a joke, and…a laughing stock".
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Leverage and incentive are most readily gained when a prosecutor can establish that a witness participated in some other readily provable crime.
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Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" why the press secretary was uttering provable falsehoods, White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway fired back.
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"Today's POTUS performance was breathtaking in the sheer number of provable falsehoods, intentional mischaracterizations and outright lies uttered," Todd wrote on Twitter.
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The substantive challenge is how to put 35 percent in avoidable current costs toward provable gains in service level and cost performance.
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Failing to abide by clear ethical rules by refusing to divest all business projects is an egregious outrage, but not provable bribery.
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So, at least in theory, any state-level prosecutor who has a provable case against the President may choose to charge it.
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" Later, on cross-examination by prosecutors, Mr. Castor said: "What I think and what is provable in a courtroom are two different things.
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What's often misunderstood about propaganda is its intent: the point isn't to misinform — it's to get people to question what's real, what's provable.
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In May, Sessions ordered prosecutors to charge defendants with the highest provable offense, a move that is likely to trigger lengthy prison sentences.
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Here's what we know for sure, the actual, provable facts: Pirro's offensive comments about Omar and, more generally, Islamic beliefs cost her advertisers.
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There's some things that are easily provable, and then there's this idea of alternative facts, which they tried to put around the inaugural.
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The toleration of lying by supporters of political leaders has been central to Trump's success in marketing provable falsehoods and an alternate reality.
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The fact that Democrats have more ground for complaint is at once provable and practicably immaterial, given how equally wronged both sides feel.
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Qatar's representative at the WTO's dispute settlement body on Wednesday said the UAE had used "provable fabrications, and rhetoric not befitting of this House".
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Each must go through a set of tests as well, he says, and results might lead to only a dozen or so provable cases.
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It said that "prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense," calling this concept "a core principle" of the Justice Department.
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" Sessions' eight-paragraph memo, dated May 10, called for prosecutors to "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" … "including mandatory minimum sentences.
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In April 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a directive to federal prosecutors urging them to pursue the most serious provable offense against suspects.
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It follows that released data will get increasingly vulnerable to re-identification—unless methods with provable privacy properties are used for the data release.
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It says that "prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense," calling this concept "a core principle" of the Justice Department.
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"It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense," Sessions wrote in a memo in May.
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"It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense," Sessions said in the directive, dated Wednesday.
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" While the new policy does instruct prosecutors to generally pursue the most serious provable charge, it does allow for exceptions based on "good judgment.
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The members of It Never Happened quickly began to compile lists of other demonstrably provable events that they nonetheless believe to have never happened.
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"The only thing we know for certain is what we don't know: who is behind the attacks provable in a court of law," he said.
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"It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense," Sessions wrote in a memo sent Thursday night.
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To begin with, Trump's antipathy to the agreement seems as much motivated by personal inclination as by a provable rationale that Iran is breaching it.
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And by injecting noise into those summaries, differential privacy creates provable guarantees of privacy and prevents scenarios where malicious parties can reverse-engineer sensitive data.
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"It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense," Mr. Sessions wrote in a memo last year.
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Experienced investigators, who knew that the issue was whether there was a provable conspiratorial agreement (not the amorphous "collusion"), concluded that the evidence fell short.
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I don't mean that Congress shouldn't move ahead with the process of impeachment governed by our Constitution, if Congress thinks the provable facts are there.
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In this way, it disproves at least the most extreme post-structuralism, since there remains a reliance on provable facts that are fairly impossible to dispute.
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Then-US Attorney General John Ashcroft had issued the famous Ashcroft Memo, which dictated that the highest provable crime should be pursued in all federal cases.
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It is a reminder that while Trump's strategy of debunking provable facts can work in a political context, it could lead him into dangerous legal territory.
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In our experience, that is particularly true when the prosecutor is deciding not to pursue other, readily provable charges, like those that seem to exist here.
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Landlords do not see tips as provable or stable income, and a check that reads $0.00 doesn't help you compete with other applicants for an apartment.
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The most skillful practitioners of this art are able to push their preferred message or gloss on events to reporters without relying on obvious, provable lies.
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" That section now reads: "Once the decision to prosecute has been made, the attorney for the government should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offenses.
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The National Association of Assistant US Attorneys, made up of those who prosecute federal cases, supports Sessions' push to charge the most serious crime that is provable.
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The divide between provable truths and feelings is so massive that many resort to the fascist tactics of shouting, personal attacks and physical violence to halt discussions.
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" In the memo, Sessions told federal prosecutors to "pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" that by definition "carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimums.
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Commissioned by the Washington-based strategic intelligence firm Fusion GPS, the Steele dossier was never intended for public consumption—much of what it assert may not be provable.
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" As sociologist Ted Goertzel told The Verge last year, though, one goal of real conspiracy theorists is "to prove that nothing is provable, that all assertions are arbitrary.
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Given the footnote 1 flag Barr raised in his letter, we should look carefully at what Mueller's report says about what went on outside of a provable agreement.
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Activists say that Hindu women have been disproportionately targeted for abduction, forced conversions and rape because their marriages were never officially recognized and therefore not provable in court.
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Presenting one's own rational claims, based on provable truths, as well as being prepared to listen thoughtfully to those of others, is the hallmark of a liberal education.
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Crowd size, illegal voting and more By now, it's clear that rather than harming him, Trump's rejection of provable facts embraced by elites actually enhances his political brand.
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Second, through the efforts of the special counsel, we now know there is a provable criminal conspiracy of Russian individuals and entities that were involved in Russia's efforts.
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"Prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense ... those that carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimum sentences," Sessions said at the time.
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Second, he did not say in the report that President Trump did not obstruct justice, nor did he say that there was no collusion (only no provable conspiracy).
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But Congress is concerned about far more than provable criminality, and they won't be satisfied with the attorney general's four-page summary of Mueller's findings, according to Rep.
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Once the facts are known and regarded as provable by the Office of Special Counsel, more indictments will follow and prosecutions will ultimately determine guilt or innocence and punishments.
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" The memo Sessions sent in May instructed federal prosecutors to "pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" that by definition "carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimums.
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"I don't mean that Congress shouldn't move ahead with the process of impeachment governed by our Constitution, if Congress thinks the provable facts are there," he wrote in March.
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Moreover, prosecutors may have felt that they had provable crimes against Flynn or his son, Michael Flynn Jr., making the false statement charge merely a convenient charge for cooperation.
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" Sessions issued a memo in May directing federal prosecutors to "pursue the most serious, readily provable" offenses that by definition "carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimums.
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"Our sex crimes prosecutors made the determination that this was not going to be a provable case, and so the decision was made not to go forward," Vance told reporters.
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So if we have a provable, demonstrable prototype we can show that there are ways to ensure that all parties have faith in the video and how it was captured.
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And to have that counsel and staff decide, with no basis for comparison, whether what you have done is bad enough, willful enough, and provable enough, to warrant an indictment.
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"I continue to believe that obstruction of justice is the clearest, simplest and most provable high crime and misdemeanor committed by Donald J. Trump," Mr. Sherman said in a statement.
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"With the exception of hacking cases, 99% of the time victims know exactly who is responsible, and it's very provable with IP (addresses), login, and other cyber forensic information," she said.
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But what if we were to decide that how much we should care about a particular allegation has something to do with how recent, how provable and how serious it is?
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As Buzzfeed has outlined in detail, the site traffics almost exclusively in supplements with little-to-no provable health benefits that can be found elsewhere for a fraction of the price.
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This surely could serve as an effective means to not fully telling the whole truth, while evading the provable intention of lying when under oath or when speaking with FBI agents.
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Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent out a memo to federal prosecutors asking them to "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" even against low-level drug offenders.
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It is possible, if not provable, that by showing up on the same stage repeatedly, improvising artists grow deeper and more complex, or at least remember their own standards of excellence.
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More provable was the lack of a simple security layer that asks anyone trying to reset an account's password for a piece of personal information: email address or phone number, for instance.
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On May 203th he appeared to reverse years of sensible policy that sought to reduce punishment for non-violent drug crimes by instructing prosecutors to pursue the "most serious, readily provable" offences.
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But the most important thing will be to get Mueller on record, in plain view of the American public and Congress, about the most flagrant and provable crimes committed by the President.
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The real question, then, is whether the US Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York thinks further charges on the campaign finance case are provable — and intends to pursue them.
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The metaphor of prosecuting someone in the manner of Al Capone thus means you are going after a guilty person not for their most heinous offense but for something provable in court.
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Mr. Kim, in the recent interviews, differed with Mr. de Blasio's synopsis, saying the office's conclusion was "very limited," based only on whether the provable evidence established guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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And then the White House, as they are so often forced to do, scrambled to suggest this was all part of some broader plan -- when provable facts make clear it, well, wasn't.
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"You get a complete 100-percent-provable guarantee that your system" will be collision-avoidant, said Georgina Hall, a final-year graduate student at Princeton who has collaborated with Ahmadi on the work.
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Mr. Bowman said he was shocked that the committee did not pursue the matter, given the amount of money Mr. Luczak was owed and what Mr. Bowman saw as an easily provable allegation.
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Mobileye, the Intel subsidiary that makes cameras and sensors used in autonomous-drive cars, says automakers and tech companies need measurable and provable standards to make self-driving cars as safe as possible.
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"It's been slow out of the blocks…We haven't seen any provable scale of concepts come to market yet and I think we could be a few years away from that," he opined.
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Or has he pioneered a style of leadership that is not just unmoored from provable fact but can be emulated by other politicians and has lowered the bar on truth in public life?
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"Equal justice depends on individualized justice," Mr. Holder wrote, wiping clean Mr. Ashcroft's 2003 orders to pursue "the most serious, readily provable offense in all federal prosecutions" and emphasize consistency in drug cases.
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That includes clarifying to local law enforcement that if drug cases are brought to the feds, they will "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense," as Sessions has instructed them to do.
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Willie's Remedy adds to a big market of CBD drinks, but despite their popularity, it's still not totally clear whether these products offer any scientifically-provable benefits—or do much of anything at all.
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In fact, whether the president and his cronies' actions violate each element of the bribery statute, in a way that is provable beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, is a distraction.
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However, when the new president and his press secretary both lie to the American people on their first full day, and these statements are easily provable to be false, is the honeymoon suddenly over?
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His new memo says that "prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" even when dealing with low-level drug crimes, calling this concept "a core principle" of the Justice Department.
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Mobileye's CEO has previously argued for a formal model for "provable safety assurances" that all self-driving companies could use to validate the safety of their systems and ensure their vehicles do not cause accidents.
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It's called "puffing," and that is the official term that legally protects salespeople and businesses from making boastful claims about their products and services that no one really expects to be provable by empirical facts.
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And in May, Sessions told prosecutors to "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" against criminal suspects, upending an Obama era push to phase out long prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders.
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To preserve confidentiality, the bureau's directors have determined they need to adopt a "formal privacy" approach, one that adds uncertainty to census data before it is published and achieves privacy assurances that are provable mathematically.
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These actions were in accordance with the Department of Justice policy put in place in 2017 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, advising prosecutors to charge and pursue the most serious provable offenses against defendants.
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These claims have no provable connection to reality, and in his own tweets and retweets Saturday, one of the whistleblower's lawyers, Mark Zaid, implored officials to "#protectthewhistleblower" and push back against Trump's rhetoric and tweets.
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Shortly after speaking about the opioid crisis in Charleston, West Virginia, Sessions sent a memorandum to federal prosecutors across the country, ordering them to "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" in all cases.
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The things that are provable about Donald Trump on a daily basis that would have resulted in Ronald Reagan's removal, or anyone else for that matter... He brings a new level of Teflon we've never seen.
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In a major reversal of an Obama administration policy, Attorney General Jeff Sessions "directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties," The Washington Post reported.
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The IG may prove to be more adept at getting to the bottom of provable wrongdoing at the FBI and DOJ than Mueller's team may be in discerning Trump's culpability in collusion or obstruction of justice.
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Even so, it's rarely 100 percent provable that Sanders said something that is both untrue and something the speaker knows is untrue—a distinction that makes many in the media careful about using the word lie.
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And while ghostwriting, whether by consultants or parents, may not be detectable or at least provable, it happens all the time and contributes to applications as bogus as the ones that came to federal prosecutors' attention.
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To bring real closure to our great national nightmare, Mr. Mueller must connect Trump directly with money laundering, racketeering, treason or some other provable high crime that even his Republican congressional enablers could no longer overlook.
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Anecdotes about how the game "felt" were discouraged in favor of data skimmed from modeling combat mechanics and number crunching; failure to back up a mechanical theory with cold, provable facts led to mockery and moderator censure.
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There can be loud partisan debate about which scandals are real and which are overblown, but asking questions, gathering information, and objecting to provable outright falsehoods are—or should be—protected rights that know no party affiliation.
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In a memo distributed to federal prosecutors nationwide Thursday, Sessions said the department default in future cases will return to a previous policy of filing the most serious charge available against a defendant under the provable facts.
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Getting around is exhausting for those without deep pocketsVIP guests of the yacht show — those with provable interest and means to buy or charter a yacht — could hitch rides around Monaco thanks to the yacht show's courtesy cars.
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But at the end of the day we operate in a courtroom of law, not the court of public opinion, and our sex crime prosecutors made a determination that this was not going to be a provable case.
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"Fundamentally, almost no one coming from the Dominican Republic to the United States is coming here because they have a provable skill that would benefit us and that would indicate their likely success in our society," he said.
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The increase came in the wake of a 2004 order by then-attorney general John Ashcroft to "pursue the most serious, readily provable offense or offenses that are supported by the facts of the case" for all federal crimes.
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A study in 2002 found that white students were more likely to be disciplined for provable, documentable offenses — smoking, vandalism, and obscene language — while black students were more likely to be disciplined for more subjective reasons, such as disrespect.
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But, he said, that would all depend on whether there is a provable case on campaign finance violations — basically, that the Daniels hush money and Cohen reimbursements were made for political purposes, and that Trump directed the hush payment.
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" In a brief one-and-a-half-page memo, Sessions outlined his new instructions for charging decisions in federal cases, saying that his new first principle is "that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense.
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As such, in the absence of a provable "corrupt intent" to obstruct justice or engage in unlawful activity, his order to initiate an investigation of the FBI and Justice Department as outlined in his tweet would be presumptively legal.
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Others questionable federal actions include reopening for profit prisons, directing prosecutors to charge all defendants with the highest provable offenses, and eliminating the investigations of police departments that repeatedly violate the civil rights of those they are sworn to protect.
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"What Mueller is doing is issuing indictments that are plain on their face, easily provable, with the intent at turning people, flipping people as cooperators," said Seth Waxman, a former federal prosecutor who's now a partner at Dickinson Wright LLP.
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For example, he cited a Sessions memo from last year that directed federal prosecutors to "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" against crime suspects — a reversal of an Obama administration initiative to ease penalties for nonviolent drug offenses.
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American political media is very comfortable calling out lies like Trump's because it is a black-and-white issue that is easily provable: Trump says Obama is Muslim, Obama is not Muslim, therefore Trump is lying and this is bad.
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They argue that this is a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act, though disability rights attorneys I spoke to note that the law behind the ADA and websites is complicated, and this may not be an argument provable in court.
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I meant the evidence they put forth to say it was a Russian hack from Gusev (ph) too turns out to be very clear fabrication, in fact a very poor one and its provable through forensics that is not a valid download remotely.
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Constrained by uncooperative witnesses, the destruction of documents and the use of encrypted communications, your team was not able to establish each of the elements of the crime of conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt, so not a provable crime, in any event.
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They're suing that he says affirmatively as a statement of fact that he never met her, that he didn't rape her, and that he didn't know who she was — and the court in Zervos held that those are provable statements of fact.
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In May 2017, Sessions announced a new charging policy that required prosecutors to pursue "the most serious, readily provable offense," replacing an Obama-era policy that gave prosecutors greater discretion, and revived a civil asset forfeiture program that was largely halted during the Obama administration.
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In our half century of collective experience prosecuting and defending criminal cases, we have watched repeatedly as prosecutors charged lower-level individuals with readily provable offenses that are distinct from the core conduct and targets that are the primary focus of the prosecutor's investigation.
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By denying known and provable facts — as when Mr. Trump denies making statements he has made — or by rejecting facts that are not publicly known, as with the C.I.A.'s information on Russian hacking, Mr. Trump exercises his ever-growing power over the public sphere.
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He also recently told federal prosecutors that they "should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" against even low-level drug offenders, rescinding a guidance from the Obama era that told prosecutors to lay off charges that can trigger lengthy prison sentences.
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Bottom-Line Conclusions After the Special Counsel submitted the confidential report on March 22, I determined that it was in the public interest for the Department to announce the investigation's bottom-line conclusions—that is, the determination whether a provable crime has been committed or not.
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"Our sex crimes prosecutors made a determination that this was not going to be a provable case so the decision was made not to go forward," said Vance, after a panel on the changing role of the prosecutor at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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" Barr defended his record on Tuesday, saying, "I think when you have violent gangs in the city killing people, murder and so forth and so on, sometimes the most readily provable charge is their drug trafficking offenses rather than proving culpability of the whole gang for murder.
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I doubt the special counsel would sit on incredibly clear evidence of crimes, the kind sufficient to bring criminal charges, and not at least prepare a report to Congress on an expedited basis to seek to relieve us of an active provable international conspirator on the job.
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It's possible, for example, that one reason reporters talk about her in such laudatory terms is not due to any provable impact she's had, but rather because she was a valued source—a likely theory given how much Trump-era journalism depends on Trump's inner circle.
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The report's finding -- no provable criminal conspiracy with the Russians by anyone within the Trump campaign, no recommendation on whether to charge Trump with obstruction of justice -- remain a vigorously debated subject but don't seem to have adversely affected how people perceive Trump to be doing his job.
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" AG Sessions paves way for stricter sentencing in criminal cases In a brief one-and-a-half-page memo, Sessions outlined his new instructions for charging decisions in federal cases, saying that his new first principle is "that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense.
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Kennedy would be more reluctant than O'Connor to extend the use of race beyond provable past discrimination, was more accommodating than O'Connor to public interaction with faith-based organizations, and with O'Connor (and Justice David Souter) reconstructed, but did not overrule, the abortion right found in Roe v. Wade.
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The question I pose in both cases is whether it is a proper function of prosecutors to conduct morality tests — to give suspects an opportunity to lie or tell the truth in response to questions whose answers are already known with provable certainty by those asking the question.
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"The Department of Justice's mission is to prevent crime and maintain public safety and the longstanding practice of the Department is to fulfill that mission by charging the most serious readily provable offenses supported by the facts of the case," Justice Department spokesman Ian Prior said in a statement.
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After Valentino, there was a string of shorts and documentaries on subjects including Jane Jacobs's battle for Greenwich Village against Robert Moses and the salacious but not entirely provable tale of Scotty Bowers, who ran a mobile bordello for closeted stars out of a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard.
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In May, Sessions told prosecutors to "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" against criminal suspects, and in October he declared in a memo that a 1964 federal civil rights law does not protect transgender workers from employment discrimination -- both times upending guidance issued under the Obama administration.
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Furthermore, it should be clear to us all at this point that Trump's public relations approach to dealing with unfavorable news is simply to rush to the nearest microphone — or log into Twitter — and say that the exact opposite is true, even when his statement is an easily provable lie.
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"You can melt the metal and take out the stones, but when you talk about collectible jewelry, you want to make sure the provenance of the piece is provable," said Muffie Potter Aston, a New York socialite and former executive vice president of marketing and advertising for Van Cleef & Arpels.
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In fact, it was just such criticism that was helping to drive a rare bipartisan movement toward criminal justice reform, which Attorney General Jeff Sessions stopped cold with his order to federal prosecutors last month to charge the "most serious, readily provable offense" in every case, regardless of the circumstances.
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Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE directed federal prosecutors last week to charge and pursue the "most serious, readily provable offense" in criminal cases.
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Last year, he issued a memorandum to all U.S. Attorneys' offices instructing them to charge people with the highest provable offense - a move that is designed to trigger mandatory minimum sentences under laws passed in the 1980s and 1990s that critics say can wrongfully criminalize drug addicts and disproportionately affect minority communities.
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If provable wrongdoings were not found, why would Herbalife agree to disgorge $200 million, enact fundamental changes to its structure, policies, and pay plan that it has used for 30 years, and agree to wear the equivalent of an electronic ankle monitor for the next seven years to ensure the changes are carried out?
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For the reason that if they were doing this, it's not only a crime, but it's something provable," Schiff continued, noting something of that nature is an issue the Russians "could hold over the head" of the President and "that might be influencing US policy in a way that is against our national interest.
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While there have been gains with North Korea that seemed impossible, even a year ago — three hostages released, the return of the remains of 55 American service members from the Korean War, a halt to missile testing, a continuing dialogue between the two sides — there has been little practical, provable progress on dismantling the North's nuclear program.
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That's a real meeting, on another provable subject... ... Cohen also now says that — he says too much — that two days before he was participating in a meeting with roughly the same group of people — but not the president, definitely not the president — in which they were talking about the strategy of the meeting with the Russians.
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And even people who are sympathetic to the reparations idea — and who acknowledge the continued imprint of slavery on society — have often argued that there is no way to distinguish descendants who have provable claims to compensation from those who do not, partly because enslaved people usually went unnamed in the United States census, which rendered them faceless in the historical record.
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While Trump set a precedent last year for granting clemency in cases of egregious sentencing, this particular case may be at odds with the aims of his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who last year reversed an Obama administration position by calling for prosecutors to "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" against low-level offenders—including those who face severe mandatory sentences.
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Operation SOS In an attempt to stem the tide of overdoses tied to illicit fentanyl, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Thursday an aggressive campaign from the Department of Justice to "prosecute every readily provable case involving the distribution of fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and other synthetic opioids, regardless of drug quantity" in the 25.9 districts with the highest overdose rates in the country.
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Attorney Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE claimed to be committed to doing this, but he has now issued a memorandum instructing federal prosecutors to "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense" for all cases, including less serious drug offenses, leaving little room for common sense discretion to do the right thing.
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So I spent the week having private arguments about whether it was really fair to ask a public servant to withdraw in a kind of tacit shame, for some greater ideological good, on the basis of a single unprovable allegation — and whether that kind of standard would inevitably lead to less-provable allegations against more probably-innocent figures down the road — and how you could expect any decent person to put themselves forward for high office in the climate such a precedent would create.
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