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Turkey Nabs 2 Foreigners at Istanbul Airport over Nightclub Attack
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Former CIA Director: Possible More Than One Country Behind Hacking [VIDEO]
[Daily Caller] James Woolsey, former CIA director under President Bill Clinton, believes the Russians are "probably" behind some of the hacking of Democratic Party officials, but thinks that more than one country may ultimately be involved.

Appearing on CNN’s "New Day" on Tuesday, Woolsey said, "This is not an organized operation that is hacking into a target. It’s not like taking a number at a bakery and standing in line to politely get your dozen cookies that you want to buy. It’s more like of a bunch of jackals at the carcass of an antelope."

"Is it Russian? Probably some. Is it Chinese and Iranian? Maybe. Who knows? Somebody may be getting more information about it. We may find out more from Mr. trump coming up today and we may find out more from people in the intelligence community, but it shouldn’t be portrayed as one guilty party. It’s much more complicated than that."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/04/2017 01:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It’s more like of a bunch of jackals at the carcass of an antelope."

A very interesting analogy, particularly considering the natural order of nature. I'll take 'Democratic party hacking and carrion clean up' for $500.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/04/2017 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  .. but only One Country being hacked with their own lax security? There used to be protocal for this, and still is.

Bullshit. We hack eachother all the time - but do not talk about it. Protocal.

So FU CIA
Posted by: newc || 01/04/2017 2:28 Comments || Top||

#3  I think you were hacked before obama "became" President. Barry had two pops on your radar and a radical woman and Moslem Brotherhood connects thru yen and yang in Indonesian Madrassa. And financiers all that time.

"Subversants" you called them.

How does that suit you, malingerers.
Or traitors. ?

Are you CIA?
You are failure.
Posted by: newc || 01/04/2017 2:34 Comments || Top||

#4  My guess is every country and organization with a hacker did.

I'm still on initially the disgruntled insider track. The first e-mail leaks occurred during the railroading of Sanders - right Debbie?

Just seems to be loud and often yelling of The Russians!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/04/2017 12:59 Comments || Top||

#5  They didn't lock the barn door.
All the scapegoats escaped.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/04/2017 15:09 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
ISIL attacks trigger secular reaction in Turkey
[Hurriyet Daily News] On the afternoon of Jan. 1 a group of young men and women staged a brief public demonstration in a teahouse in Okmeydani, a working-class neighborhood of Istanbul, declaring that they would struggle to keep The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s secular system alive and not let the propagandists of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) or similar jihadist organizations recruit people in their area.
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Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Istanbul attack a turning point in Turkey’s anti-ISIL fight
[Hurriyet Daily News] The first breaking point in Turkey’s policy against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was the raid on the Turkish Consulate General in Mosul, Iraq on June 11, 2014.

Up until then Ankara underestimated the ISIL threat, perhaps mixing this newly emerged (January 2013) Salafi-Jihadi group with earlier ones, including the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra. When the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government in summer 2011 decided that there was no way they could convince the Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus to come into terms with the Arab Spring-inspired rebels, it started to take a radical position to help the latter (mostly Muslim Brotherhood-based Islamist groups at the time), despite warnings from the opposition parties in Turkey about interfering in the politics of a neighboring country.

With the collapse of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt in a military coup in 2013, the Brotherhood-based spine of the Syria opposition was broken and quickly disintegrated, ultimately joining smaller but more armed and effective jihadi groups. Until the end of 2014 the jihadi groups took advantage of this situation, as well as Turkey’s lax border security policy and its training of “rebel forces” possibly infiltrated by more radical elements than Ankara realized. This all caused a huge “foreign fighters” problem.
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Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: Politix
"Parachute politics"
[No-Pasaran] Representative Maxine Waters of California has a curious explanation for why Democrats were so thoroughly humiliated in 2016
writes Benny Huang (in disbelief)
--they were just too nice. "That has been a problem in my party, that when we’re in power we’re nice," said Waters. "We bend over backwards to work with people."

Any hope that the Democrats would conduct a serious post-mortem was dispelled with these remarks. The Democrats lost this year and they’ve been losing with some degree of consistency since Barack Obama swept to power in 2008 but they’re still avoiding introspection. As usual, they’re finding ways to flatter themselves in defeat, convinced that it was their own virtue that did them in--plus Russia, racists, and fake news, of course.

...Compromise is something the modern Democrat party just does not do. They’re quite skilled at all sorts of subterfuge intended to look like compromise but the real thing eludes them. In some rare instances, when the votes simply aren’t there for their pet projects, they may be forced to give a little ground. But it wounds them deeply. They quickly turn to the judiciary or to Daddy Obama to achieve what they can’t achieve through the legislature. By hook or by crook, they get what they want.

What ails the jackass party is what I call "parachute politics," named in honor of Maxine Waters’ fellow California Democrat, Nancy Pelosi. During the 2010 Obamacare debate Pelosi displayed an arrogance that I found shocking. "We’ll go through the gate," said Pelosi at a press conference. "If the gate’s closed, we’ll go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in but we’re going to get health care reform passed for the America people."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/04/2017 16:45 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
MSNBC Tax Deadbeats In The News
Heat Street updates the hypocrites at MSNBC, who call for higher taxes on everybody but don't walk the walk themselves.
MSNBC’s hosts have a tax problem.

A Heat Street review of public records show that a total of six current, prominent MSNBC pundits have recently settled federal or state tax liens, while one still has tax problems. Moreover, at least two other hosts who recently left the network have also had massive tax liens filed against them.

MSNBC declined to comment, and none of the current or former tax debtors responded to requests for interviews sent through an MSNBC spokesperson.

The Rev. Al Sharpton -- MSNBC’s Sunday morning host -- easily comes in first place when it comes to "issues" with the taxman. He and his various entities--including several dissolved by New York for failure to pay taxes--currently owe about $1.5 million in state and federal taxes, interest and penalties, according to public records.

It’s a staggering sum, but down substantially from the $4.5 million in outstanding tax liens tallied by the New York Times two years ago. Sharpton has repeatedly said he’s worked out agreements with authorities to settle his tax debt, and a source close to him says he’s been paying it down aggressively, aware of how it may affect his legacy. The reverend has repeatedly called publicly for the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes.
The only reason he's paying this off is because it's payroll taxes, where the president of the company is generally deemed personally responsible for the tax. He's in agreement plans, which extend the statute of limitations on collections (generally ten years). I'll have to give him some credit bringing the tab down 3 mill.
Posted by: Raj || 01/04/2017 12:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'll have to give him some credit bringing the tab down 3 mill

I'll lay really good odds that none of the 'payback money' was from his own pocket, Raj.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/04/2017 16:09 Comments || Top||

#2  You think I'm taking that bet? Not gonna happen!
Posted by: Raj || 01/04/2017 17:21 Comments || Top||



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