This is at once a diversion from Trump's prior comments and a strategic mistake.
In her first debate with Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton came out firing on climate change, shining a spotlight on Trump's prior comments that global warming is a "hoax".
Will they stand firm, a la Apple's Tim Cook's prior comments on iMessage encryption ("If the government laid a subpoena to get iMessages, we can't provide it.
has been taken to task for prior comments that he would support a prisoner exchange deal to ensure Bergdahl's return home, only to attack the Obama deal after it was orchestrated.
That theory would explain why Ryan gave his endorsement without extracting so much as a token apology from Trump on the Muslim ban, the prior comments about violence and Duke, or any of the dozens of other outrageous things Trump has said and done in the last few months.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) questioned Sessions on a 1944 Supreme Court decision supporting the incarceration of Japanese-Americans, and Trump's prior comments on Muslims came up several times.
Based on prior comments from AT&T management, we believe AT&T is interested in investing in European wireless assets through possible partnerships and outright acquisitions.
On nearly every other issue that Mr. Schumer brought up with Mr. Hagel — his views on the militant Islamist groups Hezbollah and Hamas, his prior comments about gays, his use of the term "Jewish lobby" to refer to Israel advocacy groups — all seemed to be tamped down in the meeting.
This, you'll note, ties back into Johnson's prior comments about how much time she spends in Silicon Valley herself.
Making this point, Boiten flags prior comments made by QC David Anderson, the government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, on the older patchwork of U.K. surveillance legislation (RIPA) that the IP Act was intended to update and replace.
