organization:american court

Ex-NSA head suggests US also hacks [foreign] political parties
▻http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/301667-former-cia-and-nsa-head-suggests-us-also-hacks-political-parties

"A foreign intelligence service getting the internal emails of a major political party in a major foreign adversary? Game on. That’s what we do. By the way, I would not want to be in an American court of law and be forced to deny that I never did anything like that as director of the NSA,” he said.

Hayden served as the director of the NSA between 1999 and 2005, under the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies. He served as director of the CIA between 2006 and early 2009, under Bush and Obama.

Tesla’s #Elon_Musk stood as Ukraine’s ally on isolating Russia
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/business/teslas-elon-musk-stood-as-ukraines-ally-on-isolating-russia-347821.html

The U.S. Federal Claims Court on May 8 ​lifted a​ previously issued injunction that prevented United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing​, ​​from buying Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines​, according to Oleg Ostapenko, head of Russia’s space agency Roskosmos.

Despite all the talks on the sanctions against Russia, American court decided not to follow this policy direction. One of the key arguments agains sanctions refers to the potential losses which they might bring to the Western companies. However, particularly in this case, U.S. based #SpaceX could significantly benefit, but court made a different choice.

Résumons, on sanctionne la Russie, mais on lui achète tout de même des moteurs fusées parce que sinon, ça embêterait les entreprises états-uniennes.

C’est #Tesla - SpaceX qui est bien embêté qui, fervent partisan de l’Ukraine, se proposait de vendre ses propres moteurs à la place des russes…

The long arm of US law: what next for Edward Snowden? | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/02/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-us-law

The US will chase the NSA whistleblower wherever he tries to go, and if he ends up in an American court, he may not be free for decades

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... Dinah PoKempner, general counsel of Human Rights Watch, is pessimistic about Snowden’s chances in a US court. “While there is little doubt that Edward Snowden would have highly credible claims under international human rights standards for protection as a whistleblower, US law offers no protection for those who reveal to the public wrongdoing in the areas of national security or intelligence,” she said. “His rights would not be protected, and he would not be able to count on this as a defence to criminal charges.”

Mahdi Hashi : Family stunned as man stripped of his UK passport appears in New York court | Mail Online
►http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252304/Mahdi-Hashi-Family-stunned-man-stripped-UK-passport-appears-New-York-co

A British man who was controversially stripped of his citizenship this year by the Home Secretary has been captured by American secret agents and brought before a court in New York on terrorism charges.

The sudden and unexplained appearance of Londoner Mahdi Hashi in an American court five months after he went missing in Africa has prompted claims that he is the victim of international kidnap or ‘rendition’.

The former care worker, 23, lost contact with his family while staying in Somalia this year. When they began looking for him, they were told by Foreign Office officials that they could not provide assistance because the Home Secretary had issued an order depriving him of his British citizenship

Un Britannique de 23 ans d’origine somalienne disparu et privé dans la foulée de sa nationalité réapparaît 5 mois plus tard devant un tribunal à New York pour répondre d’une accusation de terrorisme.

Mais pour le Foreign Office, on ne sait pas si on va lui fournir l’assistance du gouvernement britannique, et de toutes façons il n’y a pas de raison de s’inquiéter outre mesure :

The Foreign Office said it was not possible to say whether Mr Hashi would be given assistance from the Government, but added: ‘The US system meets the international requirements on human rights obligations.’