Republican candidate for Senate Sen. David Perdue speaks during a campaign stop at Peachtree Dekalb Airport Nov. 2, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
(CN) Georgia Senator David Perdue said he did not intend “to ignite anything at all” when, as CEO and chairman of Dollar General in 2006, he approached private equity firms and spoke to them about the company.
On Thursday, Courthouse News acquired a redacted transcript of Perdue’s 2008 deposition that has sat under seal in a court in Nashville, Tennessee, an approximately 180-page document where he answered questions about his involvement in the 2007 sale of Dollar General to a private equity firm.
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The odds are stacked against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher who faces the grimmest of prospects come January 4. On that day, the unsympathetic judicial head of District Judge Vanessa Baraitser will reveal her decision on the Old Bailey proceedings that took place between September and October this year. Despite Assange’s team being able to marshal an impressive, even astonishing array of sources and witnesses demolishing the prosecution’s case for extradition to the United States, power can be blindly vengeful.
Such blindness is much in evidence in a co-authored contribution to
by Binoy Kampmark / December 30th, 2020
The odds are stacked against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher who faces the grimmest of prospects come January 4. On that day, the unsympathetic judicial head of District Judge Vanessa Baraitser will reveal her decision on the Old Bailey proceedings that took place between September and October this year. Despite Assange’s team being able to marshal an impressive, even astonishing array of sources and witnesses demolishing the prosecution’s case for extradition to the United States, power can be blindly vengeful.
Such blindness is much in evidence in a co-authored contribution to
The Daily Signal from this month. The authors are insipidly predictable: national security and technology types with comic strip names (Charles “Cully” Stimson; Klon Kitchen) and rule of law advocates who seemingly campaign against their own brief (John G. Malcolm). Having not bothered to read the evidence submitted at the extradition trial,
Assange, and the critical threat to publishing state secrets
Remember that little spying case against Julian Assange? The Department of Justice indicted him last year for publishing classified US military and State Department documents leaked in 2010 by Chelsea Manning, who was then a soldier in Iraq. While Attorney General William Barr is now on his way out the door, the charges against the WikiLeaks founder, brought under the Espionage Act, are alive and as dangerous as ever.
New leadership at the Justice Department traditionally sticks with most of the cases initiated by the prior administration, so it seems unlikely that the Biden team will abandon the Assange prosecution. Any precedent it sets, therefore, may be with us for a long time.
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L.A. Hospital Expects to Ration Care
A doctor at a public hospital in Los Angeles County said it s likely that the facility will have to begin rationing care by early January, the We re going to be New York, with bodies piling up. Wouldn t be surprised if L.A. rings in the new year as the COVID capital of the world, the physician told the newspaper. I don t know how many ways to explain to people to isolate and stay home, short of bringing a camera to the ICU and [emergency department] to show them the mess of what we re experiencing.