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...McGurk, who clerked on the U.S. Supreme Court before becoming heavily involved in the NSC, said he would be leading a study group called "Highest Level (and Highest Stakes) Deliberations: an Insider Look at the U.S. Supreme Court and the National Security Council in Wartime." He said he looked forward to being able to "step back" from and reflect on his governmental work, and to discuss with students and faculty the ways that the NSC and Supreme Court have changed since 9/11...
...submit a request to Swiss tax authorities to divulge within one year the names of clients suspected of stashing money in UBS to evade U.S. taxes. Account holders will be notified before their names are disclosed and will be able to appeal the decision in Switzerland's Federal Administrative Court. This approach, the Swiss government says, is in line with the existing law allowing the exchange of account information in cases of suspected criminal activity and also complies with the newly signed double-taxation treaty between the two countries, which stipulates that Switzerland will cooperate with the U.S. in investigating...
...Switzerland, news of the settlement was greeted with relief. "The out-of-court agreement avoids a prolonged legal battle that would have had an uncertain outcome, and the solution found conforms entirely with prevailing Swiss law," the Swiss Banking Association (SBA), a trade organization for Switzerland's financial institutions, said in a statement. "This is of crucial importance because international clients rely very much on the predictability and stability of the Swiss legal system." (See the top 10 scared traders...
...your credit-card information was stolen recently, there's a decent chance it fell into the hands of Albert Gonzalez. The infamous computer hacker was indicted along with two unnamed co-conspirators in a New Jersey court on Aug. 17 for the alleged theft of some 130 million card numbers. The crime is believed to be the largest retail-store theft in U.S. history. Although little is known about Gonzalez's personal life, he has a long history of hacking and has been known to operate on both sides of the law. (Read "A Brief History of Cybercrime...
...that he would launch a bid next year to ban the party. The federal government had already tried to ban the NPD in 2003, saying its far-right ideology breached Germany's constitution and strict anti-Nazi laws. But that attempt failed when judges at Germany's highest court threw out the government's case, saying some of the evidence against the NPD was inadmissible because it had been collected by informants for the German intelligence service. (Read a story on the neo-Nazis of Mongolia...