Trump says the tariffs are a response to unfair Chinese trade practices, including forcing American companies to surrender their trade secrets to obtain access to the Chinese market and cyber theft of U.S. technology.
Under a law known as the Classified Information Procedures Act, or CIPA, defense lawyers are allowed to try to convince a judge that a defendant must divulge secrets to obtain a fair trial.
Moreover, central banks loathe uncertainty; the arrest of four Rio Tinto employees this year on charges of stealing state secrets (downgraded to obtaining commercial secrets) shows that China's legal system remains capricious.Eventually, the dollar's dominance will fade; but as with sterling in the last century, this will take decades.
After six months of preliminary hearings, the case against Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo moved to the trial stage Monday when they were charged under the Official Secrets Act in relation to obtaining secret state documents during their reporting.
Intelligence is not mysterious: It is secret information, which, by definition, requires secret means to obtain.
Congress then sent him to France as a secret agent to obtain financial and military assistance and to investigate the possibility of an alliance.
At first glance, the album, like the half million pages of other papers in the shed, seemed to cast light on Iraq's secret drive to obtain germ, chemical and nuclear arms and missiles.
In Britain, the law lords have just told the government that the use of secret evidence to obtain control orders on three suspected terrorists breached their human right to a fair trial.
Three days after Judge Marrero's ruling, Eric Lichtblau reported in The Times that the F.B.I. used the secret letters to obtain information not only on individuals it viewed as targets but also on people who came in contact with the targets.
Civil liberties groups say they fear that in a number of those cases, the F.B.I. may have infringed on the Constitution's protections against unreasonable searches by using the secret court to obtain wiretaps that a regular criminal court would never have authorized.
