SCB's actions left the U.S. financial system vulnerable to terrorists, weapons dealers, drug kingpins and corrupt regimes, and deprived law enforcement investigators of crucial information used to track all manner of criminal activity.
A week ago, the DFS said that Standard Chartered had left the US financial system "vulnerable to terrorists, weapons dealers, drug kingpins and corrupt regimes, and deprived law enforcement investigators of crucial information used to track all manner of criminal activity".
James Comey, the Bureau's director, has said that encryption offered by companies like Apple and Google deprives law enforcement authorities of information which could be crucial to solving crimes or saving lives.
The statute either deprives law enforcement of their traditional immunity if they act in good faith in pursuing charges, or it discourages wrongful death suits in this type of situation in a totally unorthodox fashion -- or both.
Surely the time has come to apply these civilized assumptions to an overthrow of "don't ask, don't tell," a policy that shamefully deprives law-abiding men and women of protection, dignity and respect.
For all the perquisites and power afforded the president, the chief executive of the United States is essentially deprived by law and by culture of some of the very tools that other chief executives depend on to survive and to thrive.
By not reporting these crimes, businesses are depriving both law enforcement agencies and other companies of insights that could be gained from each incident.
Alas, other parts of the law deprive investors of helpful disclosures.
"South Dakota law deprives them of that right solely because they are same-sex couples".
They argue that Texas's sodomy law deprives them of the right of intimate association other Americans enjoy.
