TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, an entity and its sentiment towards the entity, verify if it is the correct sentiment towards the entity. Answer should be yes or no. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Dee Dee Myers is Positive . White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers  is among what  she  said are about 10 percent of the 1 044 White House staff members who have not completed the FBI clearance process that produces the first level of clearance for access to classified material.  Myers  said  she  has routine access to secret material.
Last week House Republicans raised the issue of White House officials failing to complete the clearance process.  Myers  acknowledged that  she  had not  due to the press of other business  and said that only one other senior official fit that category. That is Ricki Seidman  who has served as deputy communications director  as a counselor to the chief of staff and now as head of the scheduling operation.  She  did not return phone calls.
 Myers  said  in clarifying the numbers of those lacking clearances  that of the 125 most senior jobs at the White House  all but 15 have completed the FBI background checks and have security clearances. All National Security Council staff members fit that category   she  said.
But of the White House staff overall  which includes workers from secretaries in the social secretary's office to computer operators  a little more than 100 lack the clearances. "Most of them don't have a need to deal with secure documents "  Myers  said. But  she  could not estimate how many have access to such documents or could see them if they tried.
 Myers  said the slowness of the White House to hire its staff  the slowness of staff members to submit paperwork that launches the FBI background check and plain "procrastination" are the reasons for most of the clearance problems. "Things got off to a slow start "  she  said  but added that with congressional -- and press -- attention on the issue  the White House staff is making a strong effort to comply.
"By next week there will be almost no one left" who has not submitted paperwork to begin the process   she  said. Officials said White House lawyer William Kennedy and others repeatedly had urged non-complying officials to complete the clearance process  but the warning frequently was ignored. Lloyd Cutler  the new White House counsel  said yesterday he takes the problem seriously.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Mike Freeman is Positive . Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman  declined to confirm the grand jury  citing the secrecy of any such proceeding  but said  he  still intends to make  his  own decision on whether to charge the officer.
Justine Ruszczyk Damond  a 40-year-old life coach  was killed by Minneapolis Officer Mohamed Noor just minutes after she called police to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. Noor hasn't been charged  and  Freeman  said weeks ago that more investigating was needed in the case. He also told activists in a recorded conversation that he didn't have enough evidence and investigators "haven't done their job."
In recent years   Freeman  has said he would no longer use grand juries to decide whether officers would be charged in police shootings  saying he would make those decisions himself to provide more accountability and transparency.
Marsh Halberg  a criminal defense attorney who is not connected to this case  said it could give  Freeman  a strategic advantage by requiring witnesses to testify under oath and lock down witness testimony in advance of a possible trial. Still  Halberg said  it's unclear whether a grand jury can be used strictly for investigative purposes on the state level  and it's not something he has seen in his 40-year career.
Halberg said  Freeman  could be using the grand jury as "a tactical reason to get evidence from people who are maybe refusing to testify."
Robert Bennett  an attorney for the Damond family  said he and the family support  Freeman 's use of the grand jury and think it's the right thing to do. Bennett said it's disappointing that subpoenas were necessary to get witnesses  including police officers  to be truthful.
Noor's attorney  Thomas Plunkett  issued a statement saying  Freeman 's comments "leave me unclear as to what he is doing." He added that "it would be unethical and potentially unlawful to comment publicly on this development. Worse â any public comment would jeopardize the fairness of an important judicial function."
The grand jury process has been criticized for its secrecy and because it rarely results in charges against officers.  Freeman  broke precedent with the standard practice of using grand juries to decide charges in police shootings after the November 2015 death of Jamar Clark.  Freeman  noted at that time that grand juries had been used to consider police shootings in  his  county for more than 40 years and no officers had been indicted.

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Aleksandr Krushelnitckii is Negative . The Court of Arbitration for Sport has confirmed that it has begun proceedings against  Russian curler Aleksandr Krushelnitckii  who won a bronze medal in curling as part of the Olympic Athletes from Russia team at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics .
 Krushelnitckii  finished third in the mixed-doubles curling tournament  competing with  his  wife and teammate  Anastasia Bryzgalova.
News that  Krushelnitckii 's "A" doping control sample had failed a doping test for meldonium first came out on Sunday; his second "B" sample was opened and tested on Monday â and hours later  the CAS said that its anti-doping division was opening a case against the curler.
From the timeline provided by the IOC's press unit earlier Monday  the beginning of a formal case against  Krushelnitckii  would mean that the Doping-Free Sport Unit  the group that handles drug testing and which is part of the Global Association of International Sports Federations  had confirmed that the athlete's sample failed a re-test.
Further to a request from the International Olympic Committee (IOC)  the CAS ADD has initiated a procedure involving the athlete Aleksandr Krushelnitckii (mixed curling; OAR). No hearing date has been fixed yet and no further information will be provided at this point.

SOLUTION:
no