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sentences that state something as happening or true
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12%
2 of 16 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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John Eisenberg, the Justice Department's National Security Division assistant attorney general, abruptly resigned on Friday, the department said.
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department → resign → Friday
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Eisenberg's departure on X, thanking him for "strengthening our nation's ability to address threats, both foreign and domestic."
Eisenberg is the second assistant attorney general this week to step down, just two days after Democrats
and won back control of the House of Representatives and Senate.
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Eisenberg → announce → Representatives
On Thursday, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division
also tendered her resignation, though she had already told the White House before the election that she intended to step down.
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she → tender → election
Eisenberg, unlike Dhillon, maintained a relatively low profile during his tenure at the National Security Division, which over the last year has lost a large number of its career staff.
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which → maintain → staff
The division was thrust into the uncomfortable role late last year of overseeing the redactions of millions of pages of investigative files related to accused sex-trafficker
, a monumental task that was mandated by Congress amid mounting pressure to publish the files.
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that → thrust → files
The assignment was later expanded to enlist help from other parts of the Justice Department, including the FBI, the Criminal Division and the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, which collectively detailed 400 attorneys to review approximately 5.2 million pages.
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which → expand → pages
The redactions have since come under withering criticism, with many of Epstein's victims complaining that their names and personal details were inadvertently publicly released.
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names → come → victims
Members of Congress also accused the Justice Department of improperly redacting information about possible unindicted co-conspirators.
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Members → accuse → conspirators
Created several years after the 9/11 terror attacks, the National Security Division is in charge of managing the Justice Department's counterterrorism and counterintelligence work, export control enforcement and reviewing foreign investments in U.S. companies.
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Division → create → companies
Many types of national security cases brought by U.S. attorney's offices around the country require consultation and sometimes approval by the National Security Division.
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types → bring → Division
Since President Trump took office in January, the National Security Division has played a role in some of the highest-profile cases, including major leak investigations that have targeted journalists such as Washington Post reporter
, whose home was raided earlier this year as part of an Espionage Act investigation into a government contractor.
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home → take → contractor
The division has also been at the heart of sweeping changes to domestic terrorism investigations initiated by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi last year.
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division → initiate → Bondi
In December, Bondi ordered law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to prioritize efforts to investigate and prosecute groups and individuals who belong to the anti-fascist antifa movement or are deemed "extremist."
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who → order → movement
Her memo broadened the scope of the kinds of crimes that might be pursued as domestic terrorism cases, such as doxxing members of law enforcement or parading with the intent to obstruct the administration of justice.
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that → broaden → justice
The National Security Division was involved this year in
before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a decades-old, secretive federal immigration court that uses classified evidence to deport suspected "alien terrorists," even if they have never been charged with a crime.
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they → involve → crime
But before the court could test the constitutional limits of the case, the target in the case — Nazira Haji Zada —
to her native Afghanistan rather than contest the government's allegations that she was an "alien terrorist."
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she → test → allegations
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