For six years, some members of Congress provided secret earmarks for lobbyists in exchange for campaign contributions, foreign trips and, in some cases, outright bribes.
The bankers also provided secret safe deposit boxes abroad, and arranged for currency to be shipped in safes to places like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, where large cash deposits are not recorded.
On Tuesday, during a hearing in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, prosecutors revealed that the mayor had provided secret grand jury testimony in the case, though they refused to say precisely when, or what he said.
Although all the governments concerned in Poland and elsewhere deny that they have provided secret bases for torturing, or transporting, terrorists, solid suspicions remain.The hope now is that America will open large bases of a more conventional kind, with the attendant jobs and contracts.
"So with all the other banks in Switzerland and all over the world, why didn't the amnesty get 50,000, or 100,000?" Though Mr. Shulman said that many Swiss banks no longer provided secret accounts, the disclosure program had indicated the breadth of the problem, revealing assets that American citizens had hidden in at least 140 countries.
In 1999, however, a similar petition won the release of the grand jury transcripts in the case of Alger Hiss, a high-ranking State Department official who in 1950 was convicted of perjury, arising from his denial of having provided secret State Department documents to a confessed former Communist spy, Whittaker Chambers.
Hill's many exploits are indeed amazing, but he was a reluctant narrator, and I was able to verify nearly everything he said, including his participation with the mujahedeen in Afghanistan and the hitherto unreported fact that the American military provided secret logistical support to Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956.
Valuables were sold to bribe the Nazis, and the count provided secret hiding places for resistance fighters, for people on the run from the Nazis (including Stefan Wyszynski, who became a cardinal and the Roman Catholic primate of Poland), and for escaped Allied prisoners and downed airmen.
HONOLULU (AP) — A soldier based in Hawaii pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to help the Islamic State group — admitting he provided secret military information, a drone meant to track U.S. troops and other support to undercover agents he believed were members of the terrorist organization.
