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Leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spent the night holed up inside the headquarters of a steel-workers union on Saturday in a standoff with police ordered to arrest him for corruption. A judge ordered Lula to turn himself in to police on Friday afternoon to start serving a 12-year prison sentence for bribery that will likely end the political career of Brazil's first working class president and his hopes of returning to power.
The union building in an industrial suburb of Sao Paulo where Lula began his career as a labor leader was surrounded late into the night by thousands of supporters and members of his Workers Party wearing red shirts and waving red flags. The crowds dissuaded police trying to arrest him after the deadline set by the judge. The police said they would not act during the night to seize Lula as negotiations proceeded on a suitable way to end the standoff. frog-marched to the hoosegow
A source with knowledge of the talks told Reuters that negotiations between Lula and the police "continue and should reach an agreement on Saturday."
Lula was convicted of taking bribes from an engineering firm in return for help landing government contracts, including a three-floor seaside resort that he denies owning.
His legal team filed a late Friday injunction with the Supreme Court to suspend the prison order, after losing a last-minute plea to the second highest court. The lawyers argued they had not exhausted procedural appeals and painted the case as an effort to remove Lula from the presidential race he is leading.
Under Brazilian electoral law, a candidate is forbidden from running for office for eight years after being found guilty of a crime. Rare exceptions have been made in the past, and the final decision would be made by the top electoral court if and when Lula officially files to be a candidate. The Congressional Black Caucus wouldn't exist
The supporters crowding the streets by the union office cheered defiant speeches calling the case a political witch hunt.
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[Daily Caller] The Department of Justice says it will allow members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to view surveillance warrants granted against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in what the agency is calling an "extraordinary accommodation."
DOJ is allowing the access to the four warrant applications in response to demands from California Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Nunes threatened earlier this week to take legal action if the DOJ did not provide all committee members access to the four Page warrants, which were issued in 2016 and 2017 by judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court. Nunes also demanded that the FBI hand over an internal document known as an Electronic Communication (EC), which laid out the basis for the bureau’s investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government. (RELATED: House Intel Chairman Threatens Legal Action Against FBI, DOJ Over Russia Records)
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However, there are limits. With respect to Nunes’s specific demand for the electronic communication — “EC” in investigative jargon — that officially kicked off the counterintelligence “collusion” investigation, the Department of Justice and the FBI seem to have drawn the line. The demand for the document, let us recall, dates back to one of the committee’s August 2017 subpoenas. In his letter Nunes emphasized that the EC is not highly classified and that the FBI has “not been shy about leaking to the press information that the Department and the Bureau refuse to share with Congress.”
Apparently declining to produce an unredacted copy of the EC to the committee, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd engages in indirection. He beats around the bush, saying the department has sought to act in a “manner consistent with relevant legal precedents“ with respect to certain documents. “To date, that accommodation has occurred through briefings and numerous in camera reviews of classified materials,” the letter states, referring to response to the committee’s “legitimate oversight inquiries.” Now they will go one step beyond with respect to the FISA documents, but Boyd tacitly draws the line at the EC.
When a lawyer refers to “legal precedents,” he is usually talking about case law. I am quite sure that is not how Boyd is using the term. I infer that he means “past practice.”
Here, however, we are dealing with unique circumstances involving an investigation reach
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[DailyCaller] Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski reportedly told the House Intelligence Committee in his latest interview that he was done answering their "fucking questions."
Lewandowski was the final witness in the committee’s probe into Russian interference, and appeared in front of the committee for the second time last month.
During his first interview in March, Lewandowski reportedly refused to answer questions related to things that happened after he left the campaign in June of 2016. His latest appearance seemed to be more of the same, as he reportedly swore at Democrats and told them he would only answer "relevant" questions.
"I’m not answering your fucking question," he apparently shouted at one point.
Lewandowski did not deny he used rough language and blamed Democrats for using expletives first.
"I had to repeat on multiple occasions that there was no collusion, cooperation or coordination because the Democrats couldn’t understand my plain English way of speaking," Lewandowski told CNN. "The language they used in the committee was appalling. I’ve never heard such language used before."
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"I had to repeat on multiple occasions that there was no collusion, cooperation or coordination because the Democrats couldn’t understand my plain English way of speaking," Lewandowski told CNN. "The language they used in the committee was appalling. I’ve never heard such language used before."
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Think of the MLK Avenues, the NFL, Oprah, Don King, CBC, Sheriff David Clarke, Godfather's Pizza, Tuskegee Airman, Peanut butter..... that might have never been.
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Back in the day, a newspaper columnist, William Raspberry if memory serves, caught holy hell for writing (I'm paraphrasing) that while it sucked for his ancestors, without slavery he would have grown up in sh1thole Africa rather than being born in America.
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"Rumble in the Jungle." In any case, after the fight was over and the victorious Ali returned to America, he was asked by a reporter what he thought of Africa. He replied, "Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat."
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