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USA: 3 terror suspects arrested for planning ‘the next 9/11’
Three people were arrested for planning to conduct a combined ISIS-inspired terror attack in various crowded New York locations, including Times Square and the city subway. The head planner of the terror attacks, a 19-year-old Canadian citizen, was in contact with an undercover FBI agent who posed as an ISIS supporter.
Oct 7, 2017, 3:00PM Avital Zippel
Times Square Photo Credit: Reuters/Channel 2 News
Three men were arrested for planning to carry out a combined ISIS-affiliated terror attack in New York City last summer, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced on Friday. One of the suspects told an undercover FBI agent he wished to “create the next 9/11.”
According to the District Attorney, multiple locations around New York City were targeted, including Times Square and the subway system as well as an array of concert venues. The suspects intended to use both explosives devices and guns and told the undercover agent: “[W]e just walk in with guns in our hands. That’s how the Paris guys did it.” US authorities described the outline as still being in a theoretical stage of planning.
One of the suspects, 19-year-old Abdulrahman el Bahnasawy, who is a Canadian citizen, reportedly bought various bomb-making materials. His contact with the undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS supporter led to their eventual capture. The suspect expressed his wish to carry out attacks similar to those that took place in Paris and Brussels and told the undercover agent that he hoped to “cause great destruction to the filthy kuffars by our hands.” The other two suspects are a 19-year-old American citizen residing in Pakistan and a 39-year-old citizen of the Philippines.
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USA: 3 terror suspects arrested for planning ‘the next 9/11’
Three people were arrested for planning to conduct a combined ISIS-inspired terror attack in various crowded New York locations, including Times Square and the city subway. The head planner of the terror attacks, a 19-year-old Canadian citizen, was in contact with an undercover FBI agent who posed as an ISIS supporter.
Oct 7, 2017, 3:00PM Avital Zippel
Times Square Photo Credit: Reuters/Channel 2 News
Three men were arrested for planning to carry out a combined ISIS-affiliated terror attack in New York City last summer, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced on Friday. One of the suspects told an undercover FBI agent he wished to “create the next 9/11.”
According to the District Attorney, multiple locations around New York City were targeted, including Times Square and the subway system as well as an array of concert venues. The suspects intended to use both explosives devices and guns and told the undercover agent: “[W]e just walk in with guns in our hands. That’s how the Paris guys did it.” US authorities described the outline as still being in a theoretical stage of planning.
One of the suspects, 19-year-old Abdulrahman el Bahnasawy, who is a Canadian citizen, reportedly bought various bomb-making materials. His contact with the undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS supporter led to their eventual capture. The suspect expressed his wish to carry out attacks similar to those that took place in Paris and Brussels and told the undercover agent that he hoped to “cause great destruction to the filthy kuffars by our hands.” The other two suspects are a 19-year-old American citizen residing in Pakistan and a 39-year-old citizen of the Philippines.
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/500th-person-shot-to-death-in-chicago-this-year/
6 dead, 29 hurt in weekend violence; city passes 500th fatal shooting
Chicago News 10/10/2017, 12:54am
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A man shot dead Friday evening was the 500th person to be killed in city gun violence since the start of the year during a weekend in which six men were killed and at least 29 other people were wounded in Chicago shootings.
The city reached 500 shooting homicides about a week later than it did last year, on Sept. 29, 2016, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times. At this point last year, there had been 511 people shot to death.
In all, the city has recorded 540 homicides since the start of this year, according to Sun-Times data.
The 18-year-old man who became the 500th person shot to death was found unresponsive by officers about 4:45 p.m. Friday in the 800 block of East 83rd Street in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago Police. He suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died.
In the weekend’s latest fatal shooting, a 34-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound about 1:15 a.m. in the Scottsdale neighborhood on the Southwest Side. He was found inside a vehicle in the 4300 block of West 79th Street with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 6:15 a.m., authorities said.
A 24-year-old man was killed less than an hour earlier in an East Chatham neighborhood attack. At 12:37 a.m., he was with several males, walking in an alley in the 8300 block of South Ingleside, when someone opened fire. The man was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
At 7:26 p.m. Sunday, a 30-year-old man was gunned down in the West Side Austin neighborhood. He was standing outside of a vehicle in the 1300 block of North Mason when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside shot him multiple times in the chest, police said. The vehicle then drove off. The man was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he died.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not released the identity of any of those fatalities, pending notifications of families.
Two other men were shot to death about 10:50 a.m. Saturday in the Pilsen neighborhood on the South Side. Alexis Salgado, 20, and a still-unidentified 18-year-old man were driving in the 1800 block of South Throop when they flashed a gun at someone standing on the street, police and the medical examiner’s office said. The person on the street pulled out their own gun and fired shots at the vehicle, striking both men. Salgado suffered a gunshot wound to his body and tried to get out of the vehicle, but collapsed; the younger man was shot in the neck, and both were pronounced dead at the scene.
The weekend’s latest shooting happened about 1:45 a.m. Monday in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the South Side. A 20-year-old man was driving north in the 3300 block of South Morgan when a black SUV pulled alongside his vehicle and someone inside fired shots, striking him in the abdomen, police said. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
At least 28 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between 4:30 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Monday. Follow city violence with the Chicago Sun-Times weekend shootings tracker.
Last weekend, five people were killed and at least 30 others were wounded in citywide shootings between Friday evening and Monday morning.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/500th-person-shot-to-death-in-chicago-this-year/
6 dead, 29 hurt in weekend violence; city passes 500th fatal shooting
Chicago News 10/10/2017, 12:54am
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A man shot dead Friday evening was the 500th person to be killed in city gun violence since the start of the year during a weekend in which six men were killed and at least 29 other people were wounded in Chicago shootings.
The city reached 500 shooting homicides about a week later than it did last year, on Sept. 29, 2016, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times. At this point last year, there had been 511 people shot to death.
In all, the city has recorded 540 homicides since the start of this year, according to Sun-Times data.
The 18-year-old man who became the 500th person shot to death was found unresponsive by officers about 4:45 p.m. Friday in the 800 block of East 83rd Street in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago Police. He suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died.
In the weekend’s latest fatal shooting, a 34-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound about 1:15 a.m. in the Scottsdale neighborhood on the Southwest Side. He was found inside a vehicle in the 4300 block of West 79th Street with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 6:15 a.m., authorities said.
A 24-year-old man was killed less than an hour earlier in an East Chatham neighborhood attack. At 12:37 a.m., he was with several males, walking in an alley in the 8300 block of South Ingleside, when someone opened fire. The man was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
At 7:26 p.m. Sunday, a 30-year-old man was gunned down in the West Side Austin neighborhood. He was standing outside of a vehicle in the 1300 block of North Mason when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside shot him multiple times in the chest, police said. The vehicle then drove off. The man was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he died.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not released the identity of any of those fatalities, pending notifications of families.
Two other men were shot to death about 10:50 a.m. Saturday in the Pilsen neighborhood on the South Side. Alexis Salgado, 20, and a still-unidentified 18-year-old man were driving in the 1800 block of South Throop when they flashed a gun at someone standing on the street, police and the medical examiner’s office said. The person on the street pulled out their own gun and fired shots at the vehicle, striking both men. Salgado suffered a gunshot wound to his body and tried to get out of the vehicle, but collapsed; the younger man was shot in the neck, and both were pronounced dead at the scene.
The weekend’s latest shooting happened about 1:45 a.m. Monday in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the South Side. A 20-year-old man was driving north in the 3300 block of South Morgan when a black SUV pulled alongside his vehicle and someone inside fired shots, striking him in the abdomen, police said. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
At least 28 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between 4:30 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Monday. Follow city violence with the Chicago Sun-Times weekend shootings tracker.
Last weekend, five people were killed and at least 30 others were wounded in citywide shootings between Friday evening and Monday morning.
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Las Vegas Security Guard Shot by Vegas Killer is Not Registered as a Security Guard in the State of Nevada?
by Jim Hoft 945 Comments
It’s being reported that the security guard made famous in the Las Vegas shooter story is not even registered as a guard with the State of Nevada. Is he even a guard? Why was he there?
Every security guard in the state of Nevada has to register as an armed or unarmed guard with the state’s Private Investigator’s Licensing Board (PILB). This entity’s records are publicly searchable at: nevadapilb.glsuite.us.
There’s no Jesus Campos licensed with the PILB.
Earlier this week we found out that Campos was shot before the shooter started firing on the crowd below at the music festival in Las Vegas. Before this revelation we were told that the security guard, Jesus Campos, stopped the killer from murdering more people when he approached the killer’s room in Vegas.
Now we find out that the security guard is not even a registered security guard in Nevada!
Las Vegas Security Guard Shot by Vegas Killer is Not Registered as a Security Guard in the State of Nevada?
by Jim Hoft 945 Comments
It’s being reported that the security guard made famous in the Las Vegas shooter story is not even registered as a guard with the State of Nevada. Is he even a guard? Why was he there?
Every security guard in the state of Nevada has to register as an armed or unarmed guard with the state’s Private Investigator’s Licensing Board (PILB). This entity’s records are publicly searchable at: nevadapilb.glsuite.us.
There’s no Jesus Campos licensed with the PILB.
Earlier this week we found out that Campos was shot before the shooter started firing on the crowd below at the music festival in Las Vegas. Before this revelation we were told that the security guard, Jesus Campos, stopped the killer from murdering more people when he approached the killer’s room in Vegas.
Now we find out that the security guard is not even a registered security guard in Nevada!
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Jos Kommunisti lehti tämä julkaisee niin silloin nämä äänihyökkäykset ovat totta, yleensä kun The Guardian julkaisee Venäjää, Kiinaa , Kuubaa tai muuta kommnarivaltiota puolustelevan jutun on totuus päinvastainen.
USA:n suurlähetystön työntekijöiden ”äänihyökkäysoireet” Kuubassa saattavat olla massahysteriaa, arvelevat neurologit The Guardianille
”Nämä ihmiset on ahdettu yhteen varsin piinaavaan ympäristöön, ja juuri sellaisessa ympäristössä tällaisia häiriöitä syntyy.”
Yhdysvaltojen suurlähetystö Kuuban Havannassa viime tammikuussa. (KUVA: ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI / REUTERS)
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Julkaistu: 14.10. 12:28
YHDYSVALTOJEN ja Kuuban välejä ovat jo lähes vuoden ajan kiristäneet väitteet äänihyökkäyksistä suurlähetystön virkailijoita vastaan. Yhdysvaltojen Havannan-suurlähetystön työntekijöitä on lähetetty terveyssyistä kotiin, ja Yhdysvallat on karkottanut kaksi kuubalaista diplomaattia.
Kaikkiaan 22 yhdysvaltalaista työntekijää on kärsinyt erilaisista oireista, kuten pysyvistä kuulovaurioista, kovasta päänsärystä, keskittymisvaikeuksista, tasapaino-ongelmista, pahoinvoinnista, aivojen turvotuksesta, tiettyjen sanojen unohtelusta ja jopa lievästä aivovauriosta. Samankaltaisia ongelmia on ollut myös kahdella kanadalaisella.
Uutistoimisto AP julkaisi tällä viikolla ääninauhan, jolla kuuluu korkeaa ja kirskuvaa ääntä.
NYT THE GUARDIAN -LEHDEN haastattelemat neurologit ovat alkaneet epäillä, ettei kyse silti ole hyökkäyksistä vaan psykosomaattisista ongelmista, massahysteriasta.
”Objektiivisesta näkökulmasta katsottuna kyseessä on massahysteria pikemmin kuin mikään muu”, sanoo lehden haastattelema Mark Hallet. Hallet on Yhdysvaltojen kansallisen neurologisen instituutin osastojohtaja.
Hänen mukaansa tämänkaltaiset hermostolliset häiriöt ovat yleensä tyypillisiä pienissä ryhmissä, kuten perheissä. Psykosomaattisia ongelmia voi esiintyä myös suuremmissa ryhmissä, etenkin jos nämä työskentelevät läheisesti keskenään vihamielisessä ja stressaavassa ympäristössä. Yhdysvaltojen Kuuban-suurlähetystö on juuri tällainen ympäristö.
”Nämä ihmiset on ahdettu yhteen varsin piinaavaan ympäristöön, ja juuri sellaisessa ympäristössä tällaisia häiriöitä syntyy.”
The Guardianin haastattelema brittiläinen neuropsykiatri Alan Carsonvahvistaa Halletin analyysin.
”Jos on vahva odotus siitä, että jotain tapahtuu, se voi vääristää sen, mitä ihminen vastaanottaa. Jos tietyissä olosuhteissa tämä voi tarttua toisiin ihmisiin. Jos kokee jonkin asian vahvasti, sen tunteen voi siirtää myös toisten ihmisten mieliin”, Carson sanoo.
Mark Halletin mukaan oireista kärsiviä ei pidä syyllistää.
”On tärkeää ymmärtää, että tällaiset oireet eivät tapahdu vapaaehtoisesti. Ne eivät ole merkki persoonallisuuden heikkoudesta.”
OLETETTUJEN hyökkäysten oletetaan alkaneen marraskuussa 2016 ja jatkuneen ehkä jopa tämän vuoden elokuulle saakka. Yhdysvallat kertoi niistä ensimmäisen kerran tämän vuoden elokuussa.
Osa uhreista on matkustanut takaisin Yhdysvaltoihin testattavaksi ja saamaan hoitoa. Minkäänlaista ääniasetta ei kuitenkaan ole löytynyt, eivätkä kaikki oireita saaneet ole kuulleet ääniä.
Yhdysvallat ei ole syyttänyt Kuuban hallintoa varsinaisista äänihyökkäyksistä. Se kuitenkin karkotti toukokuussa kaksi kuubalaisdiplomaattia Washingtonista vastalauseena sille, ettei Kuuba ole estänyt diplomaattien terveyteen kohdistuneita hyökkäyksiä
USA:n suurlähetystön työntekijöiden ”äänihyökkäysoireet” Kuubassa saattavat olla massahysteriaa, arvelevat neurologit The Guardianille
”Nämä ihmiset on ahdettu yhteen varsin piinaavaan ympäristöön, ja juuri sellaisessa ympäristössä tällaisia häiriöitä syntyy.”
Yhdysvaltojen suurlähetystö Kuuban Havannassa viime tammikuussa. (KUVA: ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI / REUTERS)
Tuomo Väliaho HS
Julkaistu: 14.10. 12:28
YHDYSVALTOJEN ja Kuuban välejä ovat jo lähes vuoden ajan kiristäneet väitteet äänihyökkäyksistä suurlähetystön virkailijoita vastaan. Yhdysvaltojen Havannan-suurlähetystön työntekijöitä on lähetetty terveyssyistä kotiin, ja Yhdysvallat on karkottanut kaksi kuubalaista diplomaattia.
Kaikkiaan 22 yhdysvaltalaista työntekijää on kärsinyt erilaisista oireista, kuten pysyvistä kuulovaurioista, kovasta päänsärystä, keskittymisvaikeuksista, tasapaino-ongelmista, pahoinvoinnista, aivojen turvotuksesta, tiettyjen sanojen unohtelusta ja jopa lievästä aivovauriosta. Samankaltaisia ongelmia on ollut myös kahdella kanadalaisella.
Uutistoimisto AP julkaisi tällä viikolla ääninauhan, jolla kuuluu korkeaa ja kirskuvaa ääntä.
NYT THE GUARDIAN -LEHDEN haastattelemat neurologit ovat alkaneet epäillä, ettei kyse silti ole hyökkäyksistä vaan psykosomaattisista ongelmista, massahysteriasta.
”Objektiivisesta näkökulmasta katsottuna kyseessä on massahysteria pikemmin kuin mikään muu”, sanoo lehden haastattelema Mark Hallet. Hallet on Yhdysvaltojen kansallisen neurologisen instituutin osastojohtaja.
Hänen mukaansa tämänkaltaiset hermostolliset häiriöt ovat yleensä tyypillisiä pienissä ryhmissä, kuten perheissä. Psykosomaattisia ongelmia voi esiintyä myös suuremmissa ryhmissä, etenkin jos nämä työskentelevät läheisesti keskenään vihamielisessä ja stressaavassa ympäristössä. Yhdysvaltojen Kuuban-suurlähetystö on juuri tällainen ympäristö.
”Nämä ihmiset on ahdettu yhteen varsin piinaavaan ympäristöön, ja juuri sellaisessa ympäristössä tällaisia häiriöitä syntyy.”
The Guardianin haastattelema brittiläinen neuropsykiatri Alan Carsonvahvistaa Halletin analyysin.
”Jos on vahva odotus siitä, että jotain tapahtuu, se voi vääristää sen, mitä ihminen vastaanottaa. Jos tietyissä olosuhteissa tämä voi tarttua toisiin ihmisiin. Jos kokee jonkin asian vahvasti, sen tunteen voi siirtää myös toisten ihmisten mieliin”, Carson sanoo.
Mark Halletin mukaan oireista kärsiviä ei pidä syyllistää.
”On tärkeää ymmärtää, että tällaiset oireet eivät tapahdu vapaaehtoisesti. Ne eivät ole merkki persoonallisuuden heikkoudesta.”
OLETETTUJEN hyökkäysten oletetaan alkaneen marraskuussa 2016 ja jatkuneen ehkä jopa tämän vuoden elokuulle saakka. Yhdysvallat kertoi niistä ensimmäisen kerran tämän vuoden elokuussa.
Osa uhreista on matkustanut takaisin Yhdysvaltoihin testattavaksi ja saamaan hoitoa. Minkäänlaista ääniasetta ei kuitenkaan ole löytynyt, eivätkä kaikki oireita saaneet ole kuulleet ääniä.
Yhdysvallat ei ole syyttänyt Kuuban hallintoa varsinaisista äänihyökkäyksistä. Se kuitenkin karkotti toukokuussa kaksi kuubalaisdiplomaattia Washingtonista vastalauseena sille, ettei Kuuba ole estänyt diplomaattien terveyteen kohdistuneita hyökkäyksiä
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U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks about the killing of police officers in Dallas, Texas, during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, U.S., July 8, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
FBI ‘Finds’ New Documents About Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting
The FBI has found 30 pages of documents related to the June 2016 airport tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, even after the bureau claimed to not have any records related to the matter.
FBI lawyers revealed the existence of the records in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group.
The FBI had informed Judicial Watch last October that the bureau did not have any records related to the June 27, 2016 meeting between Clinton and Lynch. That encounter, which occurred on the tarmac at Phoenix’s airport, was significant because it took place while the Justice Department was investigating Hillary Clinton’s potential mishandling of classified information on her private email account.
Though the FBI told Judicial Watch that it did not have records related to the meeting, the Justice Department revealed in response to a separate lawsuit filed by the watchdog that some of its officials had been in contact with FBI officials about the Clinton-Lynch encounter.
In August, the Justice Department released emails showing some of its officials exchanging emails with the FBI regarding the meeting. And in a July 1, 2016, email, Justice Department official Caroline Pokomy told colleagues that “FBI is asking for guidance” on the controversy.
After the release of those documents, the FBI acknowledged that it had possession of some records related to the meeting. The bureau’s attorneys informed Judicial Watch that, “Upon further review, we subsequently determined potentially responsive documents may exist.”
It is unclear what documents about the tarmac meeting the FBI has in its possession, but Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton calls the FBI’s new disclosure “stunning.”
“The FBI is out of control,” Fitton said in a statement.
“It is stunning that the FBI ‘found’ these Clinton-Lynch tarmac records only after we caught the agency hiding them in another lawsuit.”
“Judicial Watch will continue to press for answers about the FBI’s document games in court. In the meantime, the FBI should stop the stonewall and release these new records immediately,” he added.
The FBI has until Nov. 30 to hand the newly discovered documents over to Judicial Watch.
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FBI ‘Finds’ New Documents About Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting
The FBI has found 30 pages of documents related to the June 2016 airport tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, even after the bureau claimed to not have any records related to the matter.
FBI lawyers revealed the existence of the records in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group.
The FBI had informed Judicial Watch last October that the bureau did not have any records related to the June 27, 2016 meeting between Clinton and Lynch. That encounter, which occurred on the tarmac at Phoenix’s airport, was significant because it took place while the Justice Department was investigating Hillary Clinton’s potential mishandling of classified information on her private email account.
Though the FBI told Judicial Watch that it did not have records related to the meeting, the Justice Department revealed in response to a separate lawsuit filed by the watchdog that some of its officials had been in contact with FBI officials about the Clinton-Lynch encounter.
In August, the Justice Department released emails showing some of its officials exchanging emails with the FBI regarding the meeting. And in a July 1, 2016, email, Justice Department official Caroline Pokomy told colleagues that “FBI is asking for guidance” on the controversy.
After the release of those documents, the FBI acknowledged that it had possession of some records related to the meeting. The bureau’s attorneys informed Judicial Watch that, “Upon further review, we subsequently determined potentially responsive documents may exist.”
It is unclear what documents about the tarmac meeting the FBI has in its possession, but Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton calls the FBI’s new disclosure “stunning.”
“The FBI is out of control,” Fitton said in a statement.
“It is stunning that the FBI ‘found’ these Clinton-Lynch tarmac records only after we caught the agency hiding them in another lawsuit.”
“Judicial Watch will continue to press for answers about the FBI’s document games in court. In the meantime, the FBI should stop the stonewall and release these new records immediately,” he added.
The FBI has until Nov. 30 to hand the newly discovered documents over to Judicial Watch.
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ABC News Hate-Smears Sebastian Gorka, Falsely Implies Waging War on Private Citizens
by Kristinn Taylor 50 Comments
The media has their anti-Trump propaganda machine in top gear. A case in point comes from ABC News which on Saturday posted an excerpt from a speech by former Trump administration official Dr. Sebastian Gorka to the Values Voters Summit being held in Washington, D.C.
ABC led with the quote, “Former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka: “The left has no idea how much more damage we can do to them as private citizens,” making it appear that Gorka and the Trump team are waging war on private citizens–which is not what Gorka said according to the video posted below the quote.
However, knowing that most people won’t take the time to watch the video clip accompanying the quote, ABC has scored a major anti-Trump propaganda by accurately quoting Gorka but taking him out of context to put his statement in the scariest light possible. In addition to anti-Trump hysteria, ABC News provoked at least one death threat against Gorka.
The complete statement by Gorka from the video:
“The left has no idea how much more damage we can do to them as private citizens, as people unfettered by being part of the U.S. government. And as you can see from the campaigning I did for Judge Moore–and Steve (Bannon) as well–we have begun!”
The complete statement makes clear that Gorka is speaking about himself and other former Trump administration officials as private citizens now free to wage partisan ideological war on the Left without the restraints that come with being in government. But ABC willfully made it appear that Gorka was talking about going after private citizens.
It figures that the face of NBC News, Chuck Todd, the host of the network’s flagship news program Meet the Press, would bite hard on the ABC News agit-prop, saying of Gorka, “Does a person who believes in democracy and the rule of law utter this?”
The death threat to Gorka came in response to Todd, “Hopefully a private citizen will shoot Gorka in the head; and then he can see how much more damage can be done to him by private citizens.”
(UPDATE: CNN’s Chris Cuomo also took the ABC News agit-prop bait, “How does this fit in to the Judeo-Christian ethics being “back” as Trump said other day? Merry Christmas indeed”)
The comments below the ABC News tweets responding to the smear by ABC are predictable in their outrage and prompt a question of responsibility for ABC News for stirring up anti-Trump hysteria and death threats based ABC News’ false presentation of Gorka’s comment.
Other prominent people on Twitter who took ABC News’ agit-prop bait:
Never-Trumper Erick Erickson who sneered, “Sad to see this said at a Christian conference. Where is the grace? Where is the mercy? Where is the Christ?”
Never-Trumper Tom Nichols chimed in with Erickson, “Erick, are you surprised? Really? (Not trolling, asking.)”
GQ’s resident anti-Trumper Keith Olbermann, “Can we get ICE to do something useful, legal, and patriotic for once, and deport this goddamned Nazi’s fat ass out of here?”
Never-Trumper Charlie Sykes:, “Now let us pray.”
Anti-Trumper George Takei, “Well, at least the right is no longer pretending their agenda is to help Americans.”
Ben Wikler, Washington Director for MoveOn, “Helpful prism for understanding actions of Trump, Gorka, Bannon &c: For them, goal of politics is fundamentally about hurting their enemies.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter author and anti-Trumper, “If this were a scene in a movie script, the note would read ‘can we make this guy more plausible/human? Nobody would say this aloud.'”
Beau Willimon, creator of U.S. version of House of Cards, “Numerous Trump acolytes repeatedly & brazenly advocate for violence. Unfair elections aren’t enough. They want to maintain power by force.”
Also, a sample of reactions by anti-Trump private citizens provoked by ABC News.
A false report like this from ABC News helps explain why the Trump administration scores low in public opinion polls. ABC News owes Sebastian Gorka and the American people a correction and apology.
Featured image source ABC News screen capture via Twitter.
UPDATE, ABC News is pouring gas on the fire, reposting the same tweet Saturday evening provoking the same hysterical anti-Trump response as before.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...-falsely-implies-waging-war-private-citizens/
ABC News Hate-Smears Sebastian Gorka, Falsely Implies Waging War on Private Citizens
by Kristinn Taylor 50 Comments
The media has their anti-Trump propaganda machine in top gear. A case in point comes from ABC News which on Saturday posted an excerpt from a speech by former Trump administration official Dr. Sebastian Gorka to the Values Voters Summit being held in Washington, D.C.
ABC led with the quote, “Former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka: “The left has no idea how much more damage we can do to them as private citizens,” making it appear that Gorka and the Trump team are waging war on private citizens–which is not what Gorka said according to the video posted below the quote.
However, knowing that most people won’t take the time to watch the video clip accompanying the quote, ABC has scored a major anti-Trump propaganda by accurately quoting Gorka but taking him out of context to put his statement in the scariest light possible. In addition to anti-Trump hysteria, ABC News provoked at least one death threat against Gorka.
The complete statement by Gorka from the video:
“The left has no idea how much more damage we can do to them as private citizens, as people unfettered by being part of the U.S. government. And as you can see from the campaigning I did for Judge Moore–and Steve (Bannon) as well–we have begun!”
The complete statement makes clear that Gorka is speaking about himself and other former Trump administration officials as private citizens now free to wage partisan ideological war on the Left without the restraints that come with being in government. But ABC willfully made it appear that Gorka was talking about going after private citizens.
It figures that the face of NBC News, Chuck Todd, the host of the network’s flagship news program Meet the Press, would bite hard on the ABC News agit-prop, saying of Gorka, “Does a person who believes in democracy and the rule of law utter this?”
The death threat to Gorka came in response to Todd, “Hopefully a private citizen will shoot Gorka in the head; and then he can see how much more damage can be done to him by private citizens.”
(UPDATE: CNN’s Chris Cuomo also took the ABC News agit-prop bait, “How does this fit in to the Judeo-Christian ethics being “back” as Trump said other day? Merry Christmas indeed”)
The comments below the ABC News tweets responding to the smear by ABC are predictable in their outrage and prompt a question of responsibility for ABC News for stirring up anti-Trump hysteria and death threats based ABC News’ false presentation of Gorka’s comment.
Other prominent people on Twitter who took ABC News’ agit-prop bait:
Never-Trumper Erick Erickson who sneered, “Sad to see this said at a Christian conference. Where is the grace? Where is the mercy? Where is the Christ?”
Never-Trumper Tom Nichols chimed in with Erickson, “Erick, are you surprised? Really? (Not trolling, asking.)”
GQ’s resident anti-Trumper Keith Olbermann, “Can we get ICE to do something useful, legal, and patriotic for once, and deport this goddamned Nazi’s fat ass out of here?”
Never-Trumper Charlie Sykes:, “Now let us pray.”
Anti-Trumper George Takei, “Well, at least the right is no longer pretending their agenda is to help Americans.”
Ben Wikler, Washington Director for MoveOn, “Helpful prism for understanding actions of Trump, Gorka, Bannon &c: For them, goal of politics is fundamentally about hurting their enemies.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter author and anti-Trumper, “If this were a scene in a movie script, the note would read ‘can we make this guy more plausible/human? Nobody would say this aloud.'”
Beau Willimon, creator of U.S. version of House of Cards, “Numerous Trump acolytes repeatedly & brazenly advocate for violence. Unfair elections aren’t enough. They want to maintain power by force.”
Also, a sample of reactions by anti-Trump private citizens provoked by ABC News.
A false report like this from ABC News helps explain why the Trump administration scores low in public opinion polls. ABC News owes Sebastian Gorka and the American people a correction and apology.
Featured image source ABC News screen capture via Twitter.
UPDATE, ABC News is pouring gas on the fire, reposting the same tweet Saturday evening provoking the same hysterical anti-Trump response as before.
tulikomento
Supreme Leader
US Army suunnittleee ottavansa käyttöön vanhan loma-univormun.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your...-ausa-are-wearing-prototype-pinks-and-greens/
Tosiaan aika retrohenkinen. Mutta niin on myös tämä maavoimien juhlavormukin. Siinä on aika lailla 1800-luvun henkeä mukana.
STI_Tactical9mm
Kenraali
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15092
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/59192
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27948
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27948
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/40072
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro_Khanna
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/57620
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/57620
hmmm ... miksiköhän Sanders ei voittanut esivaaleja ...
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5723
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/42924
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/42924
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/42924
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/50969
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/59192
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27948
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27948
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/40072
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro_Khanna
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/57620
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/57620
hmmm ... miksiköhän Sanders ei voittanut esivaaleja ...
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5723
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/42924
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/42924
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/42924
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/50969
STI_Tactical9mm
Kenraali
Bill the rapist ....
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-clinton-impeached
1998
President Clinton impeached
After nearly 14 hours of debate, the House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton, the second president in American history to be impeached, vowed to finish his term.
In November 1995, Clinton began an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 21-year-old unpaid intern. Over the course of a year and a half, the president and Lewinsky had nearly a dozen sexual encounters in the White House. In April 1996, Lewinsky was transferred to the Pentagon. That summer, she first confided in Pentagon co-worker Linda Tripp about her sexual relationship with the president. In 1997, with the relationship over, Tripp began secretly to record conversations with Lewinsky, in which Lewinsky gave Tripp details about the affair.
In December, lawyers for Paula Jones, who was suing the president on sexual harassment charges, subpoenaed Lewinsky. In January 1998, allegedly under the recommendation of the president, Lewinsky filed an affidavit in which she denied ever having had a sexual relationship with him. Five days later, Tripp contacted the office of Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel, to talk about Lewinsky and the tapes she made of their conversations. Tripp, wired by FBI agents working with Starr, met with Lewinsky again, and on January 16, Lewinsky was taken by FBI agents and U.S. attorneys to a hotel room where she was questioned and offered immunity if she cooperated with the prosecution. A few days later, the story broke, and Clinton publicly denied the allegations, saying, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”
In late July, lawyers for Lewinsky and Starr worked out a full-immunity agreement covering both Lewinsky and her parents, all of whom Starr had threatened with prosecution. On August 6, Lewinsky appeared before the grand jury to begin her testimony, and on August 17 President Clinton testified. Contrary to his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual-harassment case, President Clinton acknowledged to prosecutors from the office of the independent counsel that he had had an extramarital affair with Ms. Lewinsky.
In four hours of closed-door testimony, conducted in the Map Room of the White House, Clinton spoke live via closed-circuit television to a grand jury in a nearby federal courthouse. He was the first sitting president ever to testify before a grand jury investigating his conduct. That evening, President Clinton also gave a four-minute televised address to the nation in which he admitted he had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky. In the brief speech, which was wrought with legalisms, the word “sex” was never spoken, and the word “regret” was used only in reference to his admission that he misled the public and his family.
Less than a month later, on September 9, Kenneth Starr submitted his report and 18 boxes of supporting documents to the House of Representatives. Released to the public two days later, the Starr Report outlined a case for impeaching Clinton on 11 grounds, including perjury, obstruction of justice, witness-tampering, and abuse of power, and also provided explicit details of the sexual relationship between the president and Ms. Lewinsky. On October 8, the House authorized a wide-ranging impeachment inquiry, and on December 11, the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment. On December 19, the House impeached Clinton.
On January 7, 1999, in a congressional procedure not seen since the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, the trial of President Clinton got underway in the Senate. As instructed in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution, the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (William Rehnquist at this time) was sworn in to preside, and the senators were sworn in as jurors.
Five weeks later, on February 12, the Senate voted on whether to remove Clinton from office. The president was acquitted on both articles of impeachment. The prosecution needed a two-thirds majority to convict but failed to achieve even a bare majority. Rejecting the first charge of perjury, 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted “not guilty,” and on the charge of obstruction of justice the Senate was split 50-50. After the trial concluded, President Clinton said he was “profoundly sorry” for the burden his behavior imposed on Congress and the American people.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-clinton-impeached
1998
President Clinton impeached
After nearly 14 hours of debate, the House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton, the second president in American history to be impeached, vowed to finish his term.
In November 1995, Clinton began an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 21-year-old unpaid intern. Over the course of a year and a half, the president and Lewinsky had nearly a dozen sexual encounters in the White House. In April 1996, Lewinsky was transferred to the Pentagon. That summer, she first confided in Pentagon co-worker Linda Tripp about her sexual relationship with the president. In 1997, with the relationship over, Tripp began secretly to record conversations with Lewinsky, in which Lewinsky gave Tripp details about the affair.
In December, lawyers for Paula Jones, who was suing the president on sexual harassment charges, subpoenaed Lewinsky. In January 1998, allegedly under the recommendation of the president, Lewinsky filed an affidavit in which she denied ever having had a sexual relationship with him. Five days later, Tripp contacted the office of Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel, to talk about Lewinsky and the tapes she made of their conversations. Tripp, wired by FBI agents working with Starr, met with Lewinsky again, and on January 16, Lewinsky was taken by FBI agents and U.S. attorneys to a hotel room where she was questioned and offered immunity if she cooperated with the prosecution. A few days later, the story broke, and Clinton publicly denied the allegations, saying, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”
In late July, lawyers for Lewinsky and Starr worked out a full-immunity agreement covering both Lewinsky and her parents, all of whom Starr had threatened with prosecution. On August 6, Lewinsky appeared before the grand jury to begin her testimony, and on August 17 President Clinton testified. Contrary to his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual-harassment case, President Clinton acknowledged to prosecutors from the office of the independent counsel that he had had an extramarital affair with Ms. Lewinsky.
In four hours of closed-door testimony, conducted in the Map Room of the White House, Clinton spoke live via closed-circuit television to a grand jury in a nearby federal courthouse. He was the first sitting president ever to testify before a grand jury investigating his conduct. That evening, President Clinton also gave a four-minute televised address to the nation in which he admitted he had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky. In the brief speech, which was wrought with legalisms, the word “sex” was never spoken, and the word “regret” was used only in reference to his admission that he misled the public and his family.
Less than a month later, on September 9, Kenneth Starr submitted his report and 18 boxes of supporting documents to the House of Representatives. Released to the public two days later, the Starr Report outlined a case for impeaching Clinton on 11 grounds, including perjury, obstruction of justice, witness-tampering, and abuse of power, and also provided explicit details of the sexual relationship between the president and Ms. Lewinsky. On October 8, the House authorized a wide-ranging impeachment inquiry, and on December 11, the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment. On December 19, the House impeached Clinton.
On January 7, 1999, in a congressional procedure not seen since the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, the trial of President Clinton got underway in the Senate. As instructed in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution, the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (William Rehnquist at this time) was sworn in to preside, and the senators were sworn in as jurors.
Five weeks later, on February 12, the Senate voted on whether to remove Clinton from office. The president was acquitted on both articles of impeachment. The prosecution needed a two-thirds majority to convict but failed to achieve even a bare majority. Rejecting the first charge of perjury, 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted “not guilty,” and on the charge of obstruction of justice the Senate was split 50-50. After the trial concluded, President Clinton said he was “profoundly sorry” for the burden his behavior imposed on Congress and the American people.
Geronimo
Ylipäällikkö
Presidentti Obaman hallinnon ylistämä sankari päätyy telkien taakse.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/16/bowe-bergdahl-expected-to-plead-guilty-in-desertion-case.html
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/16/bowe-bergdahl-expected-to-plead-guilty-in-desertion-case.html
Geronimo
Ylipäällikkö
Vähän totuuden siemeniä siihen keskusteluun mitä täälläkin käydään verouudistuksesta.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/taxreform/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/taxreform/
John Hilly
Ylipäällikkö
Kenraali Mattisin radiokutsun "Chaos", tausta.
Department of Defense
Julkaistu 16.10.2017
Learn about the history behind Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ call sign. For more on the Department of Defense, visit: http://www.defense.gov Like DoD on Facebook: http://facebook.com/DeptofDefense Follow DoD on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DeptofDefense Follow DoD on Instagram: http://instagram.com/DeptofDefense
Department of Defense
Julkaistu 16.10.2017
Learn about the history behind Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ call sign. For more on the Department of Defense, visit: http://www.defense.gov Like DoD on Facebook: http://facebook.com/DeptofDefense Follow DoD on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DeptofDefense Follow DoD on Instagram: http://instagram.com/DeptofDefense
STI_Tactical9mm
Kenraali
Obummer + Klingon-clan + Rosatom + Moskva ....
http://thehill.com/policy/national-...sian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow
By John Solomon and Alison Spann - 10/17/17 06:00 AM EDT 1,060
1,723
Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews.
Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.
They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.
The racketeering scheme was conducted “with the consent of higher level officials” in Russia who “shared the proceeds” from the kickbacks, one agent declared in an affidavit years later.
Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefitting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions.
The first decision occurred in October 2010, when the State Department and government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States unanimously approved the partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, giving Moscow control of more than 20 percent of America’s uranium supply.
When this sale was used by Trump on the campaign trail last year, Hillary Clinton’s spokesman said she was not involved in the committee review and noted the State Department official who handled it said she “never intervened ... on any [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] matter.”
In 2011, the administration gave approval for Rosatom’s Tenex subsidiary to sell commercial uranium to U.S. nuclear power plants in a partnership with the United States Enrichment Corp. Before then, Tenex had been limited to selling U.S. nuclear power plants reprocessed uranium recovered from dismantled Soviet nuclear weapons under the 1990s Megatons to Megawatts peace program.
“The Russians were compromising American contractors in the nuclear industry with kickbacks and extortion threats, all of which raised legitimate national security concerns. And none of that evidence got aired before the Obama administration made those decisions,” a person who worked on the case told The Hill, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution by U.S. or Russian officials.
The Obama administration’s decision to approve Rosatom’s purchase of Uranium One has been a source of political controversy since 2015.
That’s when conservative author Peter Schweitzer and The New York Times documented how Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian speaking fees and his charitable foundation collected millions in donations from parties interested in the deal while Hillary Clinton presided on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
The Obama administration and the Clintons defended their actions at the time, insisting there was no evidence that any Russians or donors engaged in wrongdoing and there was no national security reason for any member of the committee to oppose the Uranium One deal.
But FBI, Energy Department and court documents reviewed by The Hill show the FBI in fact had gathered substantial evidence well before the committee’s decision that Vadim Mikerin — the main Russian overseeing Putin’s nuclear expansion inside the United States — was engaged in wrongdoing starting in 2009.
Then-Attorney General Eric Holder was among the Obama administration officials joining Hillary Clinton on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States at the time the Uranium One deal was approved. Multiple current and former government officials told The Hill they did not know whether the FBI or DOJ ever alerted committee members to the criminal activity they uncovered.
Spokesmen for Holder and Clinton did not return calls seeking comment. The Justice Department also didn’t comment.
Mikerin was a director of Rosatom’s Tenex in Moscow since the early 2000s, where he oversaw Rosatom’s nuclear collaboration with the United States under the Megatons to Megwatts program and its commercial uranium sales to other countries. In 2010, Mikerin was dispatched to the U.S. on a work visa approved by the Obama administration to open Rosatom’s new American arm called Tenam.
Between 2009 and January 2012, Mikerin “did knowingly and willfully combine, conspire confederate and agree with other persons … to obstruct, delay and affect commerce and the movement of an article and commodity (enriched uranium) in commerce by extortion,” a November 2014 indictment stated.
His illegal conduct was captured with the help of a confidential witness, an American businessman, who began making kickback payments at Mikerin’s direction and with the permission of the FBI. The first kickback payment recorded by the FBI through its informant was dated Nov. 27, 2009, the records show.
In evidentiary affidavits signed in 2014 and 2015, an Energy Department agent assigned to assist the FBI in the case testified that Mikerin supervised a “racketeering scheme” that involved extortion, bribery, money laundering and kickbacks that were both directed by and provided benefit to more senior officials back in Russia.
“As part of the scheme, Mikerin, with the consent of higher level officials at TENEX and Rosatom (both Russian state-owned entities) would offer no-bid contracts to US businesses in exchange for kickbacks in the form of money payments made to some offshore banks accounts,” Agent David Garden testified.
“Mikerin apparently then shared the proceeds with other co-conspirators associated with TENEX in Russia and elsewhere,” the agent added.
The investigation was ultimately supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, an Obama appointee who now serves as President Trump’s deputy attorney general, and then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now the deputy FBI director under Trump, Justice Department documents show.
Both men now play a key role in the current investigation into possible, but still unproven collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election. McCabe is under congressional and Justice Department inspector general investigation in connection with money his wife’s Virginia state Senate campaign accepted in 2015 from now-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe at a time when McAuliffe was reportedly under investigation by the FBI.
The connections to the current Russia case are many. The Mikerin probe began in 2009 when Robert Mueller, now the special counsel in charge of the Trump case, was still FBI director. And it ended in late 2015 under the direction of then-FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired earlier this year.
Its many twist and turns aside, the FBI nuclear industry case proved a gold mine, in part because it uncovered a new Russian money laundering apparatus that routed bribe and kickback payments through financial instruments in Cyprus, Latvia and Seychelles. A Russian financier in New Jersey was among those arrested for the money laundering, court records show.
The case also exposed a serious national security breach: Mikerin had given a contract to an American trucking firm called Transport Logistics International that held the sensitive job of transporting Russia’s uranium around the United States in return for more than $2 million in kickbacks from some of its executives, court records show.
One of Mikerin’s former employees told the FBI that Tenex officials in Russia specifically directed the scheme to “allow for padded pricing to include kickbacks,” agents testified in one court filing.
Bringing down a major Russian nuclear corruption scheme that had both compromised a sensitive uranium transportation asset inside the U.S. and facilitated international money laundering would seem a major feather in any law enforcement agency’s cap.
But the Justice Department and FBI took little credit in 2014 when Mikerin, the Russian financier and the trucking firm executives were arrested and charged.
The only public statement occurred an entire year later when the Justice Department put out a little-noticed press release in August 2015, just days before Labor Day. The release noted that the various defendants had reached plea deals.
By that time, the criminal cases against Mikerin had been narrowed to a single charge of money laundering for a scheme that officials admitted stretched from 2004 to 2014. And though agents had evidence of criminal wrongdoing they collected since at least 2009, federal prosecutors only cited in the plea agreement a handful of transactions that occurred in 2011 and 2012, well after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’s approval.
The final court case also made no mention of any connection to the influence peddling conversations the FBI undercover informant witnessed about the Russian nuclear officials trying to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons even though agents had gathered documents showing the transmission of millions of dollars from Russia’s nuclear industry to an American entity that had provided assistance to Bill Clinton’s foundation, sources confirmed to The Hill.
The lack of fanfare left many key players in Washington with no inkling that a major Russian nuclear corruption scheme with serious national security implications had been uncovered.
On Dec. 15, 2015, the Justice Department put out a release stating that Mikerin, “a former Russian official residing in Maryland was sentenced today to 48 months in prison” and ordered to forfeit more than $2.1 million.
Ronald Hosko, who served as the assistant FBI director in charge of criminal cases when the investigation was underway, told The Hill he did not recall ever being briefed about Mikerin’s case by the counterintelligence side of the bureau despite the criminal charges that were being lodged.
“I had no idea this case was being conducted,” a surprised Hosko said in an interview.
Likewise, major congressional figures were also kept in the dark.
Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who chaired the House Intelligence Committee during the time the FBI probe was being conducted, told The Hill that he had never been told anything about the Russian nuclear corruption case even though many fellow lawmakers had serious concerns about the Obama administration’s approval of the Uranium One deal.
“Not providing information on a corruption scheme before the Russian uranium deal was approved by U.S. regulators and engage appropriate congressional committees has served to undermine U.S. national security interests by the very people charged with protecting them,” he said. “The Russian efforts to manipulate our American political enterprise is breathtaking.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-...sian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow
By John Solomon and Alison Spann - 10/17/17 06:00 AM EDT 1,060
1,723
Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews.
Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.
They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.
The racketeering scheme was conducted “with the consent of higher level officials” in Russia who “shared the proceeds” from the kickbacks, one agent declared in an affidavit years later.
Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefitting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions.
The first decision occurred in October 2010, when the State Department and government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States unanimously approved the partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, giving Moscow control of more than 20 percent of America’s uranium supply.
When this sale was used by Trump on the campaign trail last year, Hillary Clinton’s spokesman said she was not involved in the committee review and noted the State Department official who handled it said she “never intervened ... on any [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] matter.”
In 2011, the administration gave approval for Rosatom’s Tenex subsidiary to sell commercial uranium to U.S. nuclear power plants in a partnership with the United States Enrichment Corp. Before then, Tenex had been limited to selling U.S. nuclear power plants reprocessed uranium recovered from dismantled Soviet nuclear weapons under the 1990s Megatons to Megawatts peace program.
“The Russians were compromising American contractors in the nuclear industry with kickbacks and extortion threats, all of which raised legitimate national security concerns. And none of that evidence got aired before the Obama administration made those decisions,” a person who worked on the case told The Hill, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution by U.S. or Russian officials.
The Obama administration’s decision to approve Rosatom’s purchase of Uranium One has been a source of political controversy since 2015.
That’s when conservative author Peter Schweitzer and The New York Times documented how Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian speaking fees and his charitable foundation collected millions in donations from parties interested in the deal while Hillary Clinton presided on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
The Obama administration and the Clintons defended their actions at the time, insisting there was no evidence that any Russians or donors engaged in wrongdoing and there was no national security reason for any member of the committee to oppose the Uranium One deal.
But FBI, Energy Department and court documents reviewed by The Hill show the FBI in fact had gathered substantial evidence well before the committee’s decision that Vadim Mikerin — the main Russian overseeing Putin’s nuclear expansion inside the United States — was engaged in wrongdoing starting in 2009.
Then-Attorney General Eric Holder was among the Obama administration officials joining Hillary Clinton on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States at the time the Uranium One deal was approved. Multiple current and former government officials told The Hill they did not know whether the FBI or DOJ ever alerted committee members to the criminal activity they uncovered.
Spokesmen for Holder and Clinton did not return calls seeking comment. The Justice Department also didn’t comment.
Mikerin was a director of Rosatom’s Tenex in Moscow since the early 2000s, where he oversaw Rosatom’s nuclear collaboration with the United States under the Megatons to Megwatts program and its commercial uranium sales to other countries. In 2010, Mikerin was dispatched to the U.S. on a work visa approved by the Obama administration to open Rosatom’s new American arm called Tenam.
Between 2009 and January 2012, Mikerin “did knowingly and willfully combine, conspire confederate and agree with other persons … to obstruct, delay and affect commerce and the movement of an article and commodity (enriched uranium) in commerce by extortion,” a November 2014 indictment stated.
His illegal conduct was captured with the help of a confidential witness, an American businessman, who began making kickback payments at Mikerin’s direction and with the permission of the FBI. The first kickback payment recorded by the FBI through its informant was dated Nov. 27, 2009, the records show.
In evidentiary affidavits signed in 2014 and 2015, an Energy Department agent assigned to assist the FBI in the case testified that Mikerin supervised a “racketeering scheme” that involved extortion, bribery, money laundering and kickbacks that were both directed by and provided benefit to more senior officials back in Russia.
“As part of the scheme, Mikerin, with the consent of higher level officials at TENEX and Rosatom (both Russian state-owned entities) would offer no-bid contracts to US businesses in exchange for kickbacks in the form of money payments made to some offshore banks accounts,” Agent David Garden testified.
“Mikerin apparently then shared the proceeds with other co-conspirators associated with TENEX in Russia and elsewhere,” the agent added.
The investigation was ultimately supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, an Obama appointee who now serves as President Trump’s deputy attorney general, and then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now the deputy FBI director under Trump, Justice Department documents show.
Both men now play a key role in the current investigation into possible, but still unproven collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election. McCabe is under congressional and Justice Department inspector general investigation in connection with money his wife’s Virginia state Senate campaign accepted in 2015 from now-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe at a time when McAuliffe was reportedly under investigation by the FBI.
The connections to the current Russia case are many. The Mikerin probe began in 2009 when Robert Mueller, now the special counsel in charge of the Trump case, was still FBI director. And it ended in late 2015 under the direction of then-FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired earlier this year.
Its many twist and turns aside, the FBI nuclear industry case proved a gold mine, in part because it uncovered a new Russian money laundering apparatus that routed bribe and kickback payments through financial instruments in Cyprus, Latvia and Seychelles. A Russian financier in New Jersey was among those arrested for the money laundering, court records show.
The case also exposed a serious national security breach: Mikerin had given a contract to an American trucking firm called Transport Logistics International that held the sensitive job of transporting Russia’s uranium around the United States in return for more than $2 million in kickbacks from some of its executives, court records show.
One of Mikerin’s former employees told the FBI that Tenex officials in Russia specifically directed the scheme to “allow for padded pricing to include kickbacks,” agents testified in one court filing.
Bringing down a major Russian nuclear corruption scheme that had both compromised a sensitive uranium transportation asset inside the U.S. and facilitated international money laundering would seem a major feather in any law enforcement agency’s cap.
But the Justice Department and FBI took little credit in 2014 when Mikerin, the Russian financier and the trucking firm executives were arrested and charged.
The only public statement occurred an entire year later when the Justice Department put out a little-noticed press release in August 2015, just days before Labor Day. The release noted that the various defendants had reached plea deals.
By that time, the criminal cases against Mikerin had been narrowed to a single charge of money laundering for a scheme that officials admitted stretched from 2004 to 2014. And though agents had evidence of criminal wrongdoing they collected since at least 2009, federal prosecutors only cited in the plea agreement a handful of transactions that occurred in 2011 and 2012, well after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’s approval.
The final court case also made no mention of any connection to the influence peddling conversations the FBI undercover informant witnessed about the Russian nuclear officials trying to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons even though agents had gathered documents showing the transmission of millions of dollars from Russia’s nuclear industry to an American entity that had provided assistance to Bill Clinton’s foundation, sources confirmed to The Hill.
The lack of fanfare left many key players in Washington with no inkling that a major Russian nuclear corruption scheme with serious national security implications had been uncovered.
On Dec. 15, 2015, the Justice Department put out a release stating that Mikerin, “a former Russian official residing in Maryland was sentenced today to 48 months in prison” and ordered to forfeit more than $2.1 million.
Ronald Hosko, who served as the assistant FBI director in charge of criminal cases when the investigation was underway, told The Hill he did not recall ever being briefed about Mikerin’s case by the counterintelligence side of the bureau despite the criminal charges that were being lodged.
“I had no idea this case was being conducted,” a surprised Hosko said in an interview.
Likewise, major congressional figures were also kept in the dark.
Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who chaired the House Intelligence Committee during the time the FBI probe was being conducted, told The Hill that he had never been told anything about the Russian nuclear corruption case even though many fellow lawmakers had serious concerns about the Obama administration’s approval of the Uranium One deal.
“Not providing information on a corruption scheme before the Russian uranium deal was approved by U.S. regulators and engage appropriate congressional committees has served to undermine U.S. national security interests by the very people charged with protecting them,” he said. “The Russian efforts to manipulate our American political enterprise is breathtaking.
