
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 file photo, Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer leaves a Zurich District Court where he faced charges of coercion and breaking Switzerland's strict bank secrecy laws, in Zurich, Switzerland. Switzerland's high court has upheld the acquittal of a former private banker who handed over confidential client information to WikiLeaks, ruling he wasn't bound by the country's strict banking secrecy laws at the time. The Federal Tribunal validated a ruling by Zurich's regional supreme court in the case of Rudolf Elmer, a former top accountant at a Cayman Islands affiliate of Swiss bank Julius Baer who was fired in 2002. (AP Photo/Keystone, Walter Bieri)
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Hegseth joins veterans, generals to mark 80th anniversary of battle of Iwo Jima
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