Timeline Events

Frontline Interview with Barton Gellman.

Frontline Interview with William Binney.

Glenn Greenwald speaks at the CAIR-NY Annual Banquet.

Initial two meetings between Greenwald and Poitras.

President Bush signed the National and Community Service Act of 1990, rejecting the constitutionality of provisions that allowed congressional leaders to nominate members of an executive board.

President Reagan signed the Union Station Redevelopment Act of 1981, stating the Secretary of Transportation would not be bound by a legislative veto.

President Carter signed the Coastal Zone Management Improvement Act of 1980, stating a legislative veto provision was not legally binding.

President Ford signed the Department of Defense Appropriation Act of 1976, treating a committee approval mechanism as a 'complete nullity'.

President Nixon signed the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972, ordering an agency to disregard an unconstitutional congressional approval clause.

President Johnson signed the Public Works Appropriations Act, stating he would treat its legislative veto provision as a request for information.

President Kennedy signed a bill concerning Foreign Economic Assistance Funds, issuing a statement that an unconstitutional legislative veto would be treated as a request for information.

President Grant signed a statute containing a provision he deemed an unconstitutional invasion of executive power, choosing to 'construe' it narrowly.

Publication of the New York Times article “Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia”.

Publication of the New York Times article “C.I.A. Warning on Snowden in ’09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks”.

Publication of the Guardian article “Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations”.

DOJ conducts trainings for law enforcement and other audiences on the issue of trafficking in persons, including training on juvenile victims through the Innocence Lost National Initiative.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) states its opposition to several subsections of Section 214 of a proposed bill concerning trafficking victims.

The Administration's proposal in the 2008 Budget to consolidate DOJ's grant programs.

Analysis of a bill concerning trafficking, specifically Section 214 and its subsections.

The document references the book 'Speaking Sex To Power' on pages 397-398, from which the first paragraph is quoted or paraphrased.