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Were the shootings authorised at a high level?
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It has authorised at most two manufacturing projects at its Mariel port and special economic zone, despite hundreds of applications.
There must be proper authority – any intrusion must be authorised at a sufficiently senior level and with appropriate oversight.
Payments appeared to have authorised at a "senior level" within the newspaper and journalists recognised that "this behaviour" was "illegal", said Ms Akers, who is heading investigations.
The fact that the policies revealed in this report were authorised at a high level within the US government provides no excuse whatsoever.
She said the delivery of "regular, frequent and sometimes significant sums of money" had been authorised at "a very senior level".
"Such invasive surveillance must be tightly regulated, authorised at the highest level and only used in the most serious of investigations.
In a directive to staff, she wrote: "All horse medications destined for import or export, regardless of ownership, have to be registered and authorised at the intended destination".
