Many of them seek to re-classify executives' income as capital gains, which attract a lower tax rate.
Despite the president's refusal (so far) to acknowledge explicitly that he gave the order to kill Awlaki, there is no doubt, whether through a signed intelligence "finding", classified executive order, or extensive briefings about the US target list, the ultimate command responsibility was Obama's.
The behavioral data acquired from the continual tracking of digital activities are sold in the secondary data market and used in algorithms that automatically classify people (Executive Office 2016; FTC 2016a).
The report notes that the NATO coalition cited security concerns for its decision to classify the executive summary of its assessment.
There are classified official executive interpretations of Patriot Act, particularly its section 215 about business records, that Wyden and Udall say bear little resemblance to the text of the public law, because they lead to much, much broader government surveillance on American than Patriot's text authorizes on its face.
Information removal requests are broken down by either court order or classified under "executive, police, etc".
Moreover, last year the new NATO support mission said it would be classifying the executive summary of its Afghan force assessments, previously provided to the inspector general.
The executives classified this incarnation as "Major Zod", as opposed to his typical "General Zod" identifier, and explained that throughout season nine "the venomous side of Zod rises because he experiences a few key betrayals with our beloved characters".
The exemption reads, "Information which is currently and properly classified pursuant to Executive Order 12356 in the interest of the national defense or foreign policy, for example, information involving intelligence sources or methods".
They argued that the judge must make an individual determination that the public dissemination of specific information is likely to damage national security — not just that it is deemed to be classified by the executive branch — before it could be censored.
If George Bush could sign executive orders giving contractors immunity in Iraq, executive powers to classify information to Dick Cheney, and legal loopholes to side step the Geneva Convention regarding torturing prisoners, then I think it should not be a huge issue to give legal status to people who lose their land due to climate change caused by our fossil fuel use.
