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Myanmar High Court to Hear Aung San Suu Kyi’s Appeal

The highest court in Myanmar has agreed to consider an appeal by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the country’s battered democracy movement, over an 18-month extension of her longstanding house arrest, her lawyer said Friday. The decision by the Supreme Court comes after a lower court’s rejection in October and coincides with [...]

CIA’s “Great Pretense” Exposed in State-Secrets Fraud Case

Former DEA agent Richard Horn, with the help of his attorney, former federal prosecutor Brian Leighton, recently brought the mighty CIA to its knees. For some 15 years, Horn waged a legal battle in federal court against a former CIA official whom Horn alleged had illegally eavesdropped on him as part of a CIA- and [...]

Government Will Pay $3 Million in Coffee Table Spying Suit

The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a bugged coffee table. Rather than comply with a court order to provide lawyers in the case with what the U.S. government says is classified information, the government [...]