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Jewish Politician Foiled in Canada Newsweek (11/20, Mehrara) reported that Canadian security services foiled an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Irwin Cotler, an 84-year-old Jewish former politician, human-rights advocate, and former justice minister. According to the article, Cotler was warned by the Roy
ted that lawmakers are concerned that President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has not signed the necessary agreements with the White House or Justice Department to allow the FBI to conduct background checks on his Cabinet picks, potentially bypassing a critical part of the confirmation process. According to
similar efforts would help Sharansky, who faced the more serious charge of spying for an enemy. I had been asked, along with Canadian law professor Irwin Cotler, to represent Sharanksy. The request came from his wife, who was in Israel, and his mother, who lived in Moscow. They had no money to pay for a lawye
s alleged association with the agency. But after several requests, President Carter did issue the following statement: I have inquired deeply within the State Department and within the CIA, as to whether or not Mr. Sharanksy has ever had any known relationship in a subversive way, or otherwise, with the CIA. The answe
ented him his name was Anatoly Sharansky and he was an imprisoned Soviet refusenick. His mother and wife asked me, along with my friend and colleague Irwin Cotler, now the Minister of Justice in Canada, to represent Anatoly on a pro-bono basis. We continued to be his lawyer for nearly nine years. We were not al
of the Navy. The Soviet replied, “But you’re a landlocked country and don’t need a department of the Navy.” The Czech leader replied: “Well you have a Department of Justice.” 10 Tget cite] 330 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017417 4.2.12 WC: 191694 At about the same time, another radical client fired me because he heard that I was
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