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Preet Bharara

Preetinder Singh "Preet" Bharara (born 1968) is an Indian American attorney and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat

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The country has been through a lot and I fear that the country is going to have to go through some more.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago

This is. This is very significant.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago

I am not one to say every time there is breaking news or a development that it is hugely significant, this is. This is very significant.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago

Viktor Bout has been international arms trafficking enemy number one for many years, arming some of the most violent conflicts around the globe, he was finally brought to justice in an American court for agreeing to provide a staggering number of military-grade weapons to an avowed terrorist organization committed to killing Americans.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago

If you take less time and make your point more crisply, that's probably better.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago

Rudy Giuliani and others in support of the President have gone on television day after day after day saying as the thrust of their argument here that the whistleblower relies on hearsay information, second hand information.

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Found on CNN 5 years ago

I don't see what the privilege is here that prevents him from providing information that is lawfully and appropriately subpoenaed by these three different committees, rudy Giuliani and others in support of the President have gone on television day after day after day saying as the thrust of their argument here that the whistleblower relies on hearsay information, second hand information.

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Found on CNN 5 years ago

The idea that it is OK, separate and apart from it being a criminal offense, that we should be telling future candidates in the run-up to an election in 2020 that if an adversary, a foreign adversary, is offering information against a political opponent, that it's okay and right and proper and American and patriotic, it seems he's saying, to take that information and that's okay -- that's an extraordinary statement and I would hope he would retract it.

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Found on CNN 5 years ago

It's the kind of thing you see in environments in which people do bad things but they don't want to be on the hook and on the record as asking someone to do a bad thing. It happens all the time.

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Found on CNN 5 years ago

He's a kind of a person who doesn't understand that rules have to operate in a particular way and regular order needs to be followed whether it is recusal or arms length distance between a United States attorney or investigator and the President of the United States.

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Found on CNN 5 years ago

This is another piece in the puzzle to someone trying to put together a picture of attempted obstruction.

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Found on CNN 6 years ago

I think if the president decided that he was going to pardon himself, I think that it is almost self-executing impeachment.

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Found on FOX News 6 years ago

I think( if) the President decided he was going to pardon himself, I think that's almost self-executing impeachment, whether or not there is a minor legal argument that some law professor somewhere in a legal journal can make that the President can pardon, that's not what the framers could have intended. That's not what the American people, I think, would be able to stand for.

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Found on CNN 6 years ago

It’s very flattering that other people have put the thought out there. I’m not putting it out there.

– Preet Bharara

Found on FOX News 6 years ago

No one knows right now whether there is a provable case of obstruction.

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Found on FOX News 7 years ago

Absolutely not. I did not and I would not leak classified information.

– Preet Bharara

Found on CNN 7 years ago

I wanted this all to come out, the embarrassing stuff exposes the Russian government's entire money laundering machine.

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Found on CNN 7 years ago

I wanted it to be on record that there was a deliberate decision to change (his) mind and fire me, particularly given what my office's jurisdiction is.

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Found on CNN 7 years ago

Part of the reason I said I was not going to resign and be fired was because I want the record to reflect for all time that there was a deliberate decision, not just a bureaucratic sweeping away of what had been there in the past, but a specific decision to change one’s mind and deliberately fire me, particularly given what my office’s jurisdiction is and where my office is situated.

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Found on FOX News 7 years ago

When people try to get as close to the line as possible without going over, some people are going to miss the mark and they are going to go over the line, just like firefighters have to go look when there is smoke, there may not be a fire, but if there is smoke you have got to look.

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Found on CNN 7 years ago

More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, Russian spies still seek to operate in our midst under the cover of secrecy.

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Found on CNN 8 years ago

To prove a violation of the federal criminal civil rights statute, prosecutors must establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a law enforcement officer willfully deprived an individual of a constitutional right, meaning that the officer acted with the deliberate and specific intent to do something the law forbids.

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Found on CNN 8 years ago

Each of these fossils represents a culturally and scientifically important artifact looted from its rightful owner.

– Preet Bharara