TASK DEFINITION: Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Booz Allen Hamilton ? But once the data is downloaded  it has to be analyzed. And thatâs where  Booz  and the other contractors that surround the NSA come in.
 Booz Allen Hamilton  is one of the NSAâs most important and trusted contractors. Itâs involved in virtually every aspect of intelligence and surveillance  from advising top officials on how to integrate the 16 U.S. spy agencies to detailed analysis of signals intelligence  imagery and other critical collections technologies. I first introduced Boozâs intelligence business in a 2007 profile in Salon when President Bush appointed Michael McConnell  a Booz veteran and former NSA director  to be director of national intelligence ( he âs now back at  Booz ).
Among other secret projects   Booz  was deeply involved in âTotal Information Awareness â the controversial data-mining project run for the Bush administration by former National Security Adviser John Poindexter that was outlawed by Congress in 2003.
Another major presence at NSAâs Business Park is SAIC. Like  Booz   it stands like a private colossus across the whole intelligence industry. Of its 42 000 employees  more than 20 000 hold U.S. government security clearances  making it one of the largest private intelligence services in the world. âSAIC provides a full suite of intelligence  surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and cybersecurity solutions across a broad spectrum of national security programs â it claims on its website.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Ali Bongo ? Ali Bongo will be sworn in as Gabon's president this week  succeeding his late father  after a top court upheld his victory in hotly disputed presidential polls.
 The oil- and timber-rich West African nation's Constitutional Court confirmed Bongo won the election prompted by the death of his father Omar Bongo Ondimba  who had ruled the country for 41 years.
 Chief Justice Marie Madeleine Mborantsuo confirmed Bongo as the poll winner with 41.79 percent of the ballot.
 Interim president Rose Francine Rogombe will formally hand over power to Bongo as part of the ceremony at the presidential palace in Libreville. The organisers have also planned a military parade and fireworks display.
 But the secretary general of Ali Bongo's Gabonese Democratic Party  Faustin Boukoubi  said he had "a feeling of full satisfaction."
 "Right and the law have prevailed " he said. "All Gabonese have a president who will get down to all the problems of the Gabonese people and make Gabon into an emerging country."
 If reaction to the court's ruling passes without incident  Ali Bongo still faces a difficult start to his presidency  observers say.
 However  according to an official of Mamboundou's UPG (Union of Gabonese People) party  the country's ethnic mix will severely test Bongo's ability to win consensus.
 "No-one is prepared to negotiate with him " said the official. Bongo  who comes from a minority ethnic group "will have lined up against him the Fang  the Punu  and Nzebis. The country is going to be ungovernable."

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Matt Gaetz ? Rep. Matt Gaetz  a 35-year-old Republican freshman from Florida who recently flew on Air Force One with Trump and is friends with Roger Stone  is one of the believers.  Gaetz  has called for Mueller to be fired and said on âHannityâ on Thursday that officials might wind up in jail over what  he  saw in the memo.
HuffPost ran into  Gaetz  on Capitol Hill on Thursday evening  just a few hours after the congressman appeared on the Fox Business channel above the chyron âI JUST READ A 4-PAGE MEMO THAT THREATENS DEMOCRACY TO ITS CORE.â
âI believe that the contents of that memo need to be made available to the public immediately  and that that is a critical concern in kind of all of the Mueller  Russia  Trump discourse â  Gaetz  told HuffPost of the memo  which he said âkind of aggregatesâ intelligence data.
In the interview with HuffPost   Gaetz  ran into a common problem for Republicans who suggest the FBI was too rough on Trump but went too easy on Clinton during the 2016 campaign: the indisputable fact that the FBIâs actions then harmed Clinton. Comeyâs conduct during the Clinton investigation was even the underlying justification the Trump administration provided last spring to explain Trump firing Comey. If people in the FBI and the so-called âdeep stateâ were trying to get Clinton elected president  then frankly  they did a terrible job of it.
 Surely Gaetz  could concede the FBIâs actions ahead of the 2016 election were much more damaging to the Clinton campaign than they were to Trump? âI wouldnât agree with that characterization â  he  replied.
Under  Gaetz âs theory  the FBI was hellbent on leaking information to the press to stop Trump from being elected.  Gaetz  told HuffPost that texts between FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page showed they were âtalking about a plan to strategically leak information to embarrass Trump.â As HuffPost recently explained  a deeply flawed story by John Solomon of The Hill has left a lot of people with the inaccurate impression that the text messages show the FBI officials were leaking information to hurt Trump. Thatâs what  Gaetz  believes.
âThat was explicit in their communications to each other â  Gaetz  claimed.
Gaetz: Well  when they talked about the  um  I think it was the Wall Street Journal article  and they were talking about  oh  was it behind a paywall and did it contain the information that â HuffPost: What Wall Street Journal story was that  that was negative against Trump? Gaetz: Uh  again itâs referenced in their communications back and forth  this was I think in October. HuffPost: Mhmm. But do you know what story it was?  Gaetz : Yeah  it was all about the contents of the dossier. HuffPost: The Wall Street Journal story on the 24th was about the contents of the dossier? The dossier wasnât released until  â Gaetz : No  it might not have been the one of the 24th. It was the communication that was referenced in the Page-Strzok text messages. HuffPost: No  I know the one youâre talking about  you said the Wall Street Journal story. I just think the Wall Street Journal story that they were talking about  if you look at it in context  they were talking about a story that was actually negative about the FBI and to Hillary Clinton. It was the story about the then-deputy attorney general [Ed. note: McCabe is the FBIâs deputy director] McCabe who was basically being accused of â I think youâll probably recall this [from] the time ... Gaetz: Mhmm. HuffPost: ... was basically being accused  because his wife had received money  so that was what the story was about. Gaetz: No  yeah  but I think there was other stuff that was included within that â HuffPost: Like what? Gaetz: Well I donât have it in front of me.
 Gaetz âs theory â that the FBI provided information for an Oct. 24  2016  Wall Street Journal story on the Trump dossier â doesnât make a whole lot of sense  chiefly because no such story exists. The first story to reference the âdossierâ was published by Mother Jones on Oct. 31  2016  a full week after Strzok-Page exchanged texts about a Wall Street Journal article. The Mother Jones story only came out after Comey sent a letter about the Clinton investigation on Oct. 28 that set off a media frenzy Clinton has partially blamed for her loss.
But the secret GOP memo gave  Gaetz  a convenient pivot point: the suggestion that thereâs something  a bombshell  that  he  canât reveal publicly. And  it  totally supports the theory  he âs been pushing this whole time.
âI can say that if this memo become available to the public  many of the concerns that have been raised by members of the Judiciary Committee will be highlighted â  Gaetz  said.

SOLUTION:
Neutral