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As the debate rages over whether the payment of $400 million to Iran was a ransom to secure the release of four Americans being held prisoner by Iranian authorities, our analysis of the behavior exhibited by President Barack Obama in explaining the payment suggests that it was almost certainly a precondition for the prisoners’ release. Read our full analysis on LawNewz.com.
When former Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina leaped in to intercept a reporter's question for Ted Cruz about his alleged marital infidelity, it marked the first instance of collective deception we have seen in this presidential campaign. We were left to conclude that the greater good in Fiorina's mind is to do whatever it takes to prevent Donald Trump from winning -- even at the expense of her own truthfulness. Read our analysis on LawNewz.com.
QVerity's Bill Stanton uses the example of the recent traffic stop of UFC champ Jon Jones to explain what not to do when you're pulled over by a police officer. Read his advice in this article on LawNewz.com.
We identified a high volume of deceptive behavior in our initial analysis of Sen. Ted Cruz's response to the National Enquirer story about claims that he had engaged in extramarital affairs with five women. We can't say how this will play out, but we can say at this point, it's not looking good for Cruz. Read our assessment on LawNewz.com.
Salah Abdeslam, the terrorist captured in Brussels just days before the horrific attacks in that city, is being interrogated by Belgian authorities pending his possible extradition to France. What approach should those authorities pursue in order to have the best chance of extracting information from Abdeslam that could prevent the loss of more lives in future attacks? Click here to read our take on LawNewz.com.
The Steven Avery murder case, presented in the hugely popular Netflix series, "Making a Murderer," has left a broad swath of the general public convinced that Avery had been wrongly convicted of the murder of Teresa Halbach, just as he had been wrongly convicted of rape two decades earlier. But our analysis of Avery's behavior in the interviews and commentary shown in the series has left us to conclude that the jury got it right this time. Read our analysis on LawNewz.com here.
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were far more civil during their March 6 debate than the Republicans had been during their raucous debate several evenings earlier, but their deception was every bit as egregious. Read our analysis on LawNewz.com here.