Attorney General Jeff Sessions issues directive to revitalize civil forfeiture laws

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Sessions’s directive boosts a policy which has been responsible for the seizure of over $5 billion in cash and property from people suspected of a crime, even without a criminal charge, since the program was born in 1984.

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Given all that Donald Trump promised the business world during his bombastic campaign, it's tempting to dismiss the president's first six months with a 'meh'. It would also be myopic. While protesters are worried about the future, the president has so far failed to pass his tax reforms, which business wanted. But at the same time fears that his China rhetoric, threats of trade wars and tweets about penalties for US businesses who ship jobs overseas, have not amounted to much.


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Former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper attacked Trump at a forum of the national security establishment in Aspen, Colorado.

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