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Wednesday, November 08, 2017
Bannon: China Is 'an Enemy of Incalculable Power, Not a Strategic Partner and We Have to Understand That'
Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon joinedBreitbart News Daily SiriusXM co-hosts Alex Marlow and Raheem Kassam on Tuesday and discussed China and U.S. relations and their strategic vision at length.
Said Bannon said of a recent speech by Chinese President, Xi Jinping, “His three-and-a-half hour speech a couple weeks ago was the single most important political speech of the 21st century. I think you could actually argue that years from now people might say it started there. Because he fundamentally went through how the Chinese Confuscious mercantilist authoritative model has beaten the West.”
“It’s their world now,” he continued. “They’re a hegemonic power. It’s not that they’re rising to be a hegemonic power. It’s not that what they always wanted to be was considered a great power along with the United States and Russia. They’re saying, hey, the game’s over. And by the way there are five things the Chinese are doing right now, one is called Plan 2025, which they will dominate, they laid this pout a few years ago. They will dominate ten separate industries, including robotics, artificial intelligence, chip manufacturing, all by the year 2525 and they’re very far down the road in doing that.”
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Said Bannon said of a recent speech by Chinese President, Xi Jinping, “His three-and-a-half hour speech a couple weeks ago was the single most important political speech of the 21st century. I think you could actually argue that years from now people might say it started there. Because he fundamentally went through how the Chinese Confuscious mercantilist authoritative model has beaten the West.”
“It’s their world now,” he continued. “They’re a hegemonic power. It’s not that they’re rising to be a hegemonic power. It’s not that what they always wanted to be was considered a great power along with the United States and Russia. They’re saying, hey, the game’s over. And by the way there are five things the Chinese are doing right now, one is called Plan 2025, which they will dominate, they laid this pout a few years ago. They will dominate ten separate industries, including robotics, artificial intelligence, chip manufacturing, all by the year 2525 and they’re very far down the road in doing that.”
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Is Jack Heath Running Or His Daughter?
Integrity, this coming from the ONLY City Council Member who agreed to the $75,000.00 salary for Mayor Jake Day while the rest of the Council told Jake to go pound sand.
Boy who shot Portsmouth officer was still wearing her handcuffs when arrested, court documents say
The police officer who was shot Monday was trying to detain a 15-year-old boy who had been reported as a runaway, according to court documents.
The boy shot "Officer Baaklini" and ran, but other officers took him into custody with one of her handcuffs still on his wrist, a search warrant affidavit filed in Circuit Court says. A database of city employees lists Angelina Baaklini as an officer who's been on the force for about 15 months.
She was shot in the 2500 block of Hickory St., and responding officers saw the boy running toward the London Oaks apartment complex, the affidavit says. Officers found a gun along the path that he "admitted to taking when fleeing the scene," the document says.
"Officer Baaklini did not see a weapon at the time of his detainment," it says.
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The boy shot "Officer Baaklini" and ran, but other officers took him into custody with one of her handcuffs still on his wrist, a search warrant affidavit filed in Circuit Court says. A database of city employees lists Angelina Baaklini as an officer who's been on the force for about 15 months.
She was shot in the 2500 block of Hickory St., and responding officers saw the boy running toward the London Oaks apartment complex, the affidavit says. Officers found a gun along the path that he "admitted to taking when fleeing the scene," the document says.
"Officer Baaklini did not see a weapon at the time of his detainment," it says.
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Breaking News: The Trump administration is said to have called on Time Warner to sell assets, potentially including CNN, as a condition of its AT&T merger
| The demands set up a potential battle over the fate of the long-in-the-works deal, an attempt to create a new colossus that straddles the worlds of media and telecommunications, at a time when upstarts like Netflix are disrupting traditional players. |
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Opinion: Gun Control And The Texas Shooting
In perhaps the most chilling instance of post-shooting hysteria, an online mob viciously attacked thought and prayer.
They attacked religion. They attacked our God-given right of self defense. The machine was in full spin. The NRA was covered in blood, they said. The church’s walls and their God did not protect them, they said.
The mob’s scorched earth would accept nothing less than a complete mea culpa, on behalf of the Christian God, the Second Amendment, and supporters of both.
Here’s a mascot for cliche coastal twerpism, Lauren Duca, who exemplifies the multitudes hurling bile on the foundations of the free world:
Then, as typically happens with these things, the facts started to trickle out. They could not have possibly been worse for the gun control, anti-prayer, anti-thought proponents.
Stephen Willeford was “taking a nap” in his home Sunday morning when his distraught daughter started yelling for him. Someone was shooting up the church across the street, she said.
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They attacked religion. They attacked our God-given right of self defense. The machine was in full spin. The NRA was covered in blood, they said. The church’s walls and their God did not protect them, they said.
The mob’s scorched earth would accept nothing less than a complete mea culpa, on behalf of the Christian God, the Second Amendment, and supporters of both.
Here’s a mascot for cliche coastal twerpism, Lauren Duca, who exemplifies the multitudes hurling bile on the foundations of the free world:
Then, as typically happens with these things, the facts started to trickle out. They could not have possibly been worse for the gun control, anti-prayer, anti-thought proponents.
Stephen Willeford was “taking a nap” in his home Sunday morning when his distraught daughter started yelling for him. Someone was shooting up the church across the street, she said.
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Schumer hints Dreamer amnesty will be part of year-end spending bill
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer predicted Tuesday that Dreamers will get permanent legal status in the end-of-year spending deal Congress is working on, and said President Trump will have to sign it.
“We feel very strongly that DACA must pass and must pass by Dec. 31,” Mr. Schumer told reporters at the Capitol. “We think we’re going to have a good number of our Republican colleagues join us.”
Mr. Trump’s decision in September to impose a six-month phaseout on the legally suspect Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty has dropped the difficult issue in the lap of Congress.
The president said Capitol Hill must figure out a permanent solution for the nearly 700,000 young adults protected by the DACA program, but has also said it must be coupled with stiff security provisions.
Democrats have balked at those security ideas, saying the illegal immigrant Dreamers have earned a right to citizenship. They’ve created a self-imposed end-of-year deadline for getting that done.
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“We feel very strongly that DACA must pass and must pass by Dec. 31,” Mr. Schumer told reporters at the Capitol. “We think we’re going to have a good number of our Republican colleagues join us.”
Mr. Trump’s decision in September to impose a six-month phaseout on the legally suspect Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty has dropped the difficult issue in the lap of Congress.
The president said Capitol Hill must figure out a permanent solution for the nearly 700,000 young adults protected by the DACA program, but has also said it must be coupled with stiff security provisions.
Democrats have balked at those security ideas, saying the illegal immigrant Dreamers have earned a right to citizenship. They’ve created a self-imposed end-of-year deadline for getting that done.
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Things Couldn’t Be Better
Donald Trump tells me our best days are ahead. Once his tax cut plan is passed, the future will be so bright I’ll have to wear shades.
Sometimes a single chart reveals the truth being obscured by the Deep State propaganda machine, working overtime selling their economic recovery narrative. The economy most certainly is booming for Wall Streeters and D.C. parasites sucking on the teet of Federal government largess. But for the average working deplorable, this supposed recovery has passed them by.
The cognitive dissonance is strong, as average Americans want to believe what their “leaders” are telling them to believe, but their personal financial situation contradicts the narrative. Even using the highly manipulated data peddled by the BLS, any critical thinking individual can see through the lies, misinformation and bullsh!t.
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Sometimes a single chart reveals the truth being obscured by the Deep State propaganda machine, working overtime selling their economic recovery narrative. The economy most certainly is booming for Wall Streeters and D.C. parasites sucking on the teet of Federal government largess. But for the average working deplorable, this supposed recovery has passed them by.
The cognitive dissonance is strong, as average Americans want to believe what their “leaders” are telling them to believe, but their personal financial situation contradicts the narrative. Even using the highly manipulated data peddled by the BLS, any critical thinking individual can see through the lies, misinformation and bullsh!t.
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Senate Criminal Justice Bill Would Let Inmates Dictate Prison Based On Gender Identity
A convict would be able to tell state authorities whether to send the convict to a men’s prison or a women’s prison based on the convict’s stated gender identity, according to a bill passed by the Massachusetts Senate.
The little-noticed provision is tucked away in the massive criminal justice reform bill House members are now considering.
The Senate passed the bill in the post-midnight hours of October 27, 27-10. The provision calls for housing prisoners “in a correctional facility with inmates with the same gender identity, provided that the placement is consistent with the prisoner’s request.”
The bill also mandates that prisoners claiming a gender identity “that differs from the prisoner’s sex assigned at birth” would be allowed to determine their housing even without an official diagnosis of “gender dysphoria.”
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The little-noticed provision is tucked away in the massive criminal justice reform bill House members are now considering.
The Senate passed the bill in the post-midnight hours of October 27, 27-10. The provision calls for housing prisoners “in a correctional facility with inmates with the same gender identity, provided that the placement is consistent with the prisoner’s request.”
The bill also mandates that prisoners claiming a gender identity “that differs from the prisoner’s sex assigned at birth” would be allowed to determine their housing even without an official diagnosis of “gender dysphoria.”
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Donna Brazile Has A Theory About Who Killed Seth Rich
Former interim Democratic National Committee (DNC) head Donna Brazile worried Seth Rich was either killed for being white or by Russians.
From her book “Hacks“:
I felt some responsibility for Seth Rich’s death. I didn’t bring him into the DNC, but I helped keep him there working on voting rights. With all I knew now about the Russians’ hacking, I could not help but wonder if they had played some part in his unsolved murder. Besides that, racial tensions were high that summer and I worried that he was murdered for being white on the wrong side of town. [My friend] Elaine expressed her doubts about that, and I heard her. The FBI said that they did not see any Russian fingerprints there.
Brazile repeatedly returns to the subject of being haunted by Rich’s murder, even though other Democrats have pounced on anyone who suggested that the murder was anything other than a robbery gone wrong. The DNC data staffer was killed days before Wikileaks began publishing its emails, and his valuables were not taken.
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From her book “Hacks“:
I felt some responsibility for Seth Rich’s death. I didn’t bring him into the DNC, but I helped keep him there working on voting rights. With all I knew now about the Russians’ hacking, I could not help but wonder if they had played some part in his unsolved murder. Besides that, racial tensions were high that summer and I worried that he was murdered for being white on the wrong side of town. [My friend] Elaine expressed her doubts about that, and I heard her. The FBI said that they did not see any Russian fingerprints there.
Brazile repeatedly returns to the subject of being haunted by Rich’s murder, even though other Democrats have pounced on anyone who suggested that the murder was anything other than a robbery gone wrong. The DNC data staffer was killed days before Wikileaks began publishing its emails, and his valuables were not taken.
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Salisbury Maryland Police Department Crime Report Friday Saturday and Sunday
Theft of Vehicle
1100 Block BRYN MAWR DR
00710-M/V THEFT: AUTOS
Nov 5, 2017
around 6 AM
Breaking & Entering
300 Block MARYLAND AV
00521-BURGLARY: UNLWFLENT, RES
Nov 5, 2017
around 12 AM
Assault
500 Block VIEWFIELD DR
00450-ASSAULT: SIMPLE, NOT AGG
Nov 4, 2017
around 10 PM
Drugs
700 Block FERNDALE RD
01822-DRUG POSS: MARIJUANA
Nov 4, 2017
around 9 PM
Theft
700 Block ALABAMA AV
00690-THEFT: ALL OTHER
Nov 4, 2017
around 8 PM
Theft
2700 Block N SALISBURY BLVD
00630-THEFT: SHOPLIFTING
Nov 4, 2017
around 7 PM
Theft
600 Block UPLAND CT
00690-THEFT: ALL OTHER
Nov 4, 2017
around 5 PM
Assault
VINE ST & HASTINGS ST
00450-ASSAULT: SIMPLE, NOT AGG
Nov 4, 2017
around 5 PM
Theft
300 Block CYPRESS ST
00660-THEFT: BICYCLES
Nov 4, 2017
around 4 PM
Assault with Deadly Weapon
300 Block DELAWARE AV
00420-ASSAULT: KNIFE
Nov 4, 2017
around 2 PM
Assault
400 Block N SALISBURY BLVD
00450-ASSAULT: SIMPLE, NOT AGG
Nov 4, 2017
around 12 PM
Theft
1400 Block UNIVERSITY TER
00660-THEFT: BICYCLES
Nov 4, 2017
around 12 PM
Theft
700 Block S SALISBURY BLVD
00690-THEFT: ALL OTHER
Nov 4, 2017
around 11 AM
Assault
700 Block S SALISBURY BLVD
00450-ASSAULT: SIMPLE, NOT AGG
Nov 4, 2017
around 10 AM
Theft of Vehicle
600 Block N SALISBURY BLVD
00710-M/V THEFT: AUTOS
Nov 4, 2017
around 10 AM
Assault
300 Block E VINE ST
00450-ASSAULT: SIMPLE, NOT AGG
Nov 4, 2017
around 9 AM
Theft from Vehicle
100 Block W CHESTNUT ST
00650-THEFT: VEH PARTS & ACC
Nov 4, 2017
around 9 AM
Assault
200 Block E MAIN ST
00440-ASSAULT: HANDS, INJURY
Nov 4, 2017
around 9 AM
Theft
2300 Block N SALISBURY BLVD
00690-THEFT: ALL OTHER
Nov 4, 2017
around 8 AM
Theft of Vehicle
500 Block W MAIN ST
00710-M/V THEFT: AUTOS
Nov 4, 2017
around 2 AM
Theft
200 Block DELAWARE AV
00690-THEFT: ALL OTHER
Nov 4, 2017
around 2 AM
Assault
700 Block ROLAND ST
00440-ASSAULT: HANDS, INJURY
Nov 3, 2017
around 10 PM
Theft
2700 Block N SALISBURY BLVD
00630-THEFT: SHOPLIFTING
Nov 3, 2017
around 10 PM
Assault
1400 Block HIDDEN MEADOW LN
00440-ASSAULT: HANDS, INJURY
Nov 3, 2017
around 9 PM
Disorder
700 Block ROLAND ST
01010-FIGHT
Nov 3, 2017
around 9 PM
Theft
700 Block S SALISBURY BLVD
00690-THEFT: ALL OTHER
Nov 3, 2017
around 2 PM
Theft
1000 Block S SALISBURY BLVD
00630-THEFT: SHOPLIFTING
Nov 3, 2017
around 1 PM
Theft
100 Block E NORTH POINTE DR
00690-THEFT: ALL OTHER
Nov 3, 2017
around 9 AM
Breaking & Entering
600 Block DOVER ST
00512-BURGLARY: FORCENT, NONRES
Nov 3, 2017
around 7 AM
The fattest states in America revealed
The fattest states in America have been revealed for 2017 with Mississippi leading the way for the second year in a row.
WalletHub ranked the states using 19 different metrics, including three key components, obesity and overweight prevalence, health consequences, and food and fitness.
Among the highest-ranked states based on this criteria are Mississippi, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana.
The bottom five marking the the healthiest-ranked states include Colorado, Massachusetts, Utah, Hawaii and Montana.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than seven in 10 US adults 20 and older are either overweight or obese.
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WalletHub ranked the states using 19 different metrics, including three key components, obesity and overweight prevalence, health consequences, and food and fitness.
Among the highest-ranked states based on this criteria are Mississippi, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana.
The bottom five marking the the healthiest-ranked states include Colorado, Massachusetts, Utah, Hawaii and Montana.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than seven in 10 US adults 20 and older are either overweight or obese.
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Last Year's Flu Shot Protected Only 1 in 5
The reason just 20 to 30 percent of people were protected by the 2016-2017 flu shot was a mutation in the H3N2 strain of the virus, which did not show up in the mass-produced vaccine that is grown using eggs, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Flu vaccines work by delivering purified proteins from the outer layer of dead flu viruses, which primes the immune system to fight off a new invasion.
But if a virus mutates, and the vaccine doesn't change to match it, effectiveness is lost, said lead author Scott Hensley, associate professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania.
"The 2017 vaccine that people are getting now has the same H3N2 strain as the 2016 vaccine, so this could be another difficult year if this season is dominated by H3N2 viruses again."
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A year later: Liberals still haunted by Trump win
Just over a year ago, the political left in the US watched in shock as what seemed unimaginable happened - Donald Trump won the presidency. Since then, they've mourned, they've marched, and they've moved on. Sort of.
There was a moment on the first full day of the Women's Convention in Detroit, Michigan, last month when the audience came alive.
Linda Sarsour, a co-chair of the event, was moderating a panel about activism in the era of Trump, and glanced down at her phone. She then announced to the cavernous conference hall that there were reports that independent counsel Robert Mueller was about to release his first indictments related to his investigation into possible ties between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government.
Thousands of women who had travelled from across the US to attend four days of seminars, speeches and sessions, stood and cheered for nearly half a minute.
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There was a moment on the first full day of the Women's Convention in Detroit, Michigan, last month when the audience came alive.
Linda Sarsour, a co-chair of the event, was moderating a panel about activism in the era of Trump, and glanced down at her phone. She then announced to the cavernous conference hall that there were reports that independent counsel Robert Mueller was about to release his first indictments related to his investigation into possible ties between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government.
Thousands of women who had travelled from across the US to attend four days of seminars, speeches and sessions, stood and cheered for nearly half a minute.
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FEMA Rethinking Ban on Disaster Aid to Church Buildings
When disaster strikes, houses of worship are often on the front lines, feeding and sheltering victims. Yet churches, synagogues and mosques are routinely denied aid by the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it comes time to repair or rebuild their damaged sanctuaries.
Pressure is mounting to change that after this year's series of devastating hurricanes damaged scores of churches in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico.
FEMA is rethinking its policies in the face of a federal lawsuit, scheduled for a hearing Tuesday, by three Texas churches hit by Hurricane Harvey. President Donald Trump has signaled his support, via Twitter, for the religious institutions.
At the same time, several members of Congress have revived legislation — first proposed after 2012's Hurricane Sandy — that would force FEMA to pay for repairs at places of worship.
The debate centers on two key questions: Does providing such aid violate the First Amendment separation of church and state? Or is it an infringement on the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion to deny churches the same aid available to numerous other nonprofit organizations, such as libraries, zoos and homeless shelters?
"It seems like the only reason churches are excluded is because they're churches, and it just seems discriminatory to me," said Bruce Frazier, pastor of Rockport First Assembly of God Church, which is part of the lawsuit.
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Pressure is mounting to change that after this year's series of devastating hurricanes damaged scores of churches in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico.
FEMA is rethinking its policies in the face of a federal lawsuit, scheduled for a hearing Tuesday, by three Texas churches hit by Hurricane Harvey. President Donald Trump has signaled his support, via Twitter, for the religious institutions.
At the same time, several members of Congress have revived legislation — first proposed after 2012's Hurricane Sandy — that would force FEMA to pay for repairs at places of worship.
The debate centers on two key questions: Does providing such aid violate the First Amendment separation of church and state? Or is it an infringement on the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion to deny churches the same aid available to numerous other nonprofit organizations, such as libraries, zoos and homeless shelters?
"It seems like the only reason churches are excluded is because they're churches, and it just seems discriminatory to me," said Bruce Frazier, pastor of Rockport First Assembly of God Church, which is part of the lawsuit.
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Breaking News: A video captured the Texas church attack. An official said it shows the gunman methodically shooting victims in the head.
| The gunman who committed the massacre in a rural Texas church fired continuously for several minutes, methodically shooting his victims – including small children – in the head, execution-style, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said on Wednesday. |
| A video camera captured the bloodbath inside the church, which left 26 people dead and 20 wounded — the worst mass shooting in Texas history — and state and federal investigators have reviewed that gruesome footage. |
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Manhattan DA to seek Weinstein indictment next week
The Manhattan district attorney will seek an indictment against Harvey Weinstein as early as next week — ignoring an NYPD plan to immediately slap the movie mogul in cuffs, sources told The Post.
Cops had been building a case against the predatory producer for allegedly raping actress Paz de la Huerta twice in 2010.
Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said last week the department is sharing information with DA Cy Vance’s office and the next step would be to obtain an arrest warrant to pick up Weinstein in Arizona, where he is in rehab.
There has been bad blood between the two law enforcement arms since each blamed the other for botching a 2015 case against Weinstein based on allegations by an Italian model — and the DA’s office was irate when police officials last week told the press that they were just waiting on Vance to come through with the warrant, a source said.
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Cops had been building a case against the predatory producer for allegedly raping actress Paz de la Huerta twice in 2010.
Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said last week the department is sharing information with DA Cy Vance’s office and the next step would be to obtain an arrest warrant to pick up Weinstein in Arizona, where he is in rehab.
There has been bad blood between the two law enforcement arms since each blamed the other for botching a 2015 case against Weinstein based on allegations by an Italian model — and the DA’s office was irate when police officials last week told the press that they were just waiting on Vance to come through with the warrant, a source said.
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Robert Mueller’s leak problem
Another day, another potentially illegal leak from special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury investigating Russian election meddling.
NBC News reported Monday that Mueller has “gathered enough evidence” to indict former national security adviser Michael Flynn and his son.
This followed the earlier leak to CNN — 72 hours in advance — that the grand jury had voted the first indictments in the investigation, later identified as former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates.
And that raises the suspicion that the special counsel may be playing politics with his prosecutions.
True, the leaks may not necessarily have come from Mueller’s office, though the incentive for anyone else is pretty limited. (CNN identified its sources as people “briefed on the matter” and NBC as “sources familiar with the investigation.”)
Yet if the leaks did emanate from Mueller’s office or the grand jury itself, it would be a criminal violation.
And if Mueller is upset about the violations of grand jury secrecy, he hasn’t said anything about it publicly.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, says he specifically warned Mueller about “the importance of cutting out the leaks.”
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NBC News reported Monday that Mueller has “gathered enough evidence” to indict former national security adviser Michael Flynn and his son.
This followed the earlier leak to CNN — 72 hours in advance — that the grand jury had voted the first indictments in the investigation, later identified as former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates.
And that raises the suspicion that the special counsel may be playing politics with his prosecutions.
True, the leaks may not necessarily have come from Mueller’s office, though the incentive for anyone else is pretty limited. (CNN identified its sources as people “briefed on the matter” and NBC as “sources familiar with the investigation.”)
Yet if the leaks did emanate from Mueller’s office or the grand jury itself, it would be a criminal violation.
And if Mueller is upset about the violations of grand jury secrecy, he hasn’t said anything about it publicly.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, says he specifically warned Mueller about “the importance of cutting out the leaks.”
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Jesse Jackson, John Singleton accused of sexual harassment
A female writer and producer with The Root has accused the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Hollywood director John Singleton of sexual harassment.
Danielle Young wrote about the alleged encounters in an essay for The Root website, titled, “Don’t Let the Smile Fool You. I’m Cringing on the Inside.” She said she was working for an unidentified media company when she was given the opportunity to take a photo with Mr. Jackson after he gave a “riveting and inspiring speech.”
“One by one, we stepped up, shared a few words and thank-yous with Jackson, snapped photos and went back to our desks. Simple enough, right?” Ms. Young wrote. “I walked toward Jackson, smiling, and he smiled back at me. His eyes scanned my entire body. All of a sudden, I felt naked in my sweater and jeans. As I walked within arm’s reach of him, Jackson reached out a hand and grabbed my thigh, saying, ‘I like all of that right there!’ and gave my thigh a tight squeeze.”
Ms. Young said she was shocked by the civil rights activist’s audacity, but laughed it off like “most women in an uncomfortable position do.”
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Danielle Young wrote about the alleged encounters in an essay for The Root website, titled, “Don’t Let the Smile Fool You. I’m Cringing on the Inside.” She said she was working for an unidentified media company when she was given the opportunity to take a photo with Mr. Jackson after he gave a “riveting and inspiring speech.”
“One by one, we stepped up, shared a few words and thank-yous with Jackson, snapped photos and went back to our desks. Simple enough, right?” Ms. Young wrote. “I walked toward Jackson, smiling, and he smiled back at me. His eyes scanned my entire body. All of a sudden, I felt naked in my sweater and jeans. As I walked within arm’s reach of him, Jackson reached out a hand and grabbed my thigh, saying, ‘I like all of that right there!’ and gave my thigh a tight squeeze.”
Ms. Young said she was shocked by the civil rights activist’s audacity, but laughed it off like “most women in an uncomfortable position do.”
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