Judges seal evidence, protecting big pharma, while allowing prosecution

How judges added to the grim toll of opioids

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-courts-secrecy-judges/

That evidence was clearly compelling: In a 2004 ruling, Judge Stephens rejected Purdue’s motion that he dismiss the case and sided with the state’s assertion that the material could convince a jury that Purdue’s sales pitch was full of dangerous lies.

But Stephens sealed the evidence on which he relied in that ruling. And when Purdue and the state reached a settlement that year, before the case went to trial, the evidence remained hidden, out of sight to regulators, doctors and patients. Over the next few years, as OxyContin sales and opioid-related deaths climbed, more than a dozen other judges overseeing similar lawsuits against Purdue took the same tack, keeping the company’s records secret.

Wonder what payoff they took to keep evidence sealed??

Why Ash Carter, Clapper and Brennan tried to get NSA’s Mike Rogers fired

https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/why-ash-carter-clapper-brennan-tried-to-get-nsas-mike-rogers-fired-120409/

"But there were deeper reasons for the sudden, public move by the now exposed “putsch” leaders, Clapper, Carter, and CIA Director John Brennan.

First, Donald Trump had just been elected President.

Second, the NSA chief had discovered and revealed to FISA Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer overwhelming evidence of sustained, illegal use of FISA 702 authority by Brennan and Clapper to employ NSA surveillance systems to spy on Americans.

He then put an end to it.

He testified about his findings to Judge Collyer on October 26, 2016, four days after Peter Strzok and Andrew Weissmann obtained a FISA warrant on Carter Page."