In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
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Question: Washington (CNN) The private prison industry -- one of the most controversial pieces of the US carceral state -- has essentially recovered a year after the Obama administration sent a chill down its spine. Last August, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates issued a memo calling on the Department of Justice to begin curtailing its use of private prisons -- incarceration run by for-profit companies. Stocks for one of the two major publicly traded prison companies nosedived, and with a presidential victory for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton widely expected, the Yates memo seemed to indicate the heyday for the private prison industry had passed.The Trump administration rolled back an Obama-era attempt to curtail private prisonsThe private prison industry saw stock prices soar for months after the 2016 election 
 Questions:Following years of relatively low crime rates and the more recent dip in the prison population, Sessions has pushed for a crackdown on drug and gun offenses and offered a wholesale endorsement of _'s "law-and-order" campaign. (A) Washington (B) CNN (C) US (D) Obama (E) Sally Yates (F) Department of Justice (G) Democratic (H) Hillary Clinton (I) Yates (J) Trump

Answer: (J)


Question: Washington (CNN) How rich are Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, and where did they travel? That question lingered over the pair's court hearing on Monday after both faced the first indictments from Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Because both men appeared to be globe-trotting multi-millionaires and faced charges for serious crimes related to their work abroad, the government said they should be held under house arrest. A judge agreed Monday. A new court filing Tuesday showed exactly what Manafort and Gates told banks and investigators about their net worths and travel histories over the past few years.Manafort traveled to Mexico, China and Ecuador with a phone and email account registered under a fake name this yearHe has three US passports with different numbersManafort and Rick Gates were frequent travelers to Cyprus 
 Questions:Manafort's and _' attorneys have asked the judge to release them from house arrest. (A) Washington (B) CNN (C) Paul Manafort (D) Rick Gates (E) Justice Department (F) Robert Mueller (G) Russian (H) Manafort (I) Mexico (J) China (K) Ecuador (L) US (M) Cyprus

Answer: (D)


Question: The Obama administration on Wednesday declassified opinions from a secret court that oversees government surveillance showing the National Security Agency was broadly collecting domestic Internet communications of Americans and misrepresenting the scope of that effort to the court. The three opinions include one from October 2011 by U.S. District Judge John Bates, who scolded government lawyers that the NSA had, for the third time in less than three years, belatedly acknowledged it was collecting more data than it was legally allowed to. "NSA acquires valuable information through its upstream collection, but not without substantial intrusions on Fourth Amendment protected interests," Bates wrote.Obama administration declassified secret court opinions showing broad collection of Internet dataOpinions showed that the NSA was misrepresenting its effort to the special anti-terror courtNSA surveillance programs brought to public light by Edward Snowden leaksIntelligence official says problem was technological; was not a case of "overeager" spying 
 Questions:"This is not an egregious overreaching by a greedy agency seeking to spy on _," the official added. (A) Obama (B) National Security Agency (C) Americans (D) John Bates (E) NSA (F) Fourth Amendment (G) Bates (H) Internet (I) Edward Snowden

Answer:
(C)


