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PROBLEM: On Dec 17, 2019 Presiding Judge Rosemary M. Collyer issued an order (Misc. 19-02) finding the FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications "was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor" and that the frequency of unsupported or cont...

PROBLEM: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. § 1803). It is composed of 11 U.S. district judges publicly designated by the Chief Justice of the United States, draw...

PROBLEM: Maj. Gen. David Haight, chief of operations and plans at U.S. European Command, carried on an 11-year extramarital affair (from Feb 12, 2005) with a government contractor, at times a "swinger" lifestyle, and misused government resources —...

PROBLEM: Retired four-star Gen. David Petraeus, former commander in Iraq and Afghanistan and CIA director, gave his biographer Paula Broadwell eight binders of highly classified material from his time as top commander in Afghanistan. On Apr 23, 20...

PROBLEM: Researchers Ben Nassi, Stav Cohen and Or Yair demonstrated in "Invitation Is All You Need" that a Google Calendar invitation whose title carries a hidden prompt injection sits harmlessly until the victim asks Gemini about their schedule —...

PROBLEM: Emotet was taken down in January 2021 by Operation Ladybird — eight countries, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, seizing 700+ servers and redirecting infected machines to law-enforcement infrastructure, followed by a mass sanitization ...

PROBLEM: Two convicted officers, two very different sentences, and no single record explaining the difference. Ryan Hall pleaded guilty and received 36 years in federal prison plus a concurrent 40-year state sentence. Daniel Holtzclaw, an Oklahoma...

PROBLEM: The Hall prosecution worked because agencies combined: Homeland Security Investigations, the Carroll County State's Attorney's Special Victims Unit, and the Carroll County Sheriff's Office Crimes Against Children Unit, under the DOJ's Pro...

PROBLEM: The Ryan Hall case began in October 2024 because a family member — his daughter — reported a suspicious object in the family bathroom, and officers found a hidden camera. Bowling Green State University's NIJ-funded research notes that vic...

PROBLEM: Florida became a slave state on March 3, 1845. The 1860 Census recorded 140,424 people in Florida, 44% enslaved (about 62,000 people; fewer than 1,000 free people of color), with enslaved labor producing 85% of the state's cotton; in Leon...