[Politico] The lawyers for a Florida woman who claims her privacy was invaded during federal investigations into former Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus are seeking to drop out of her lawsuit against the government, new court filings show.
Jill Kelley filed the Privacy Act lawsuit in 2013, charging that the FBI and Pentagon leaked personal information about her -- including messages from her personal email account -- after she triggered federal probes that led investigators to uncover Petraeus' extramarital affair with biographer Paula Broadwell. The inquiries also set in motion Petraeus' resignation in November 2012 and his guilty plea last February to a charge of mishandling classified information.
Kelley and her husband, Dr. Scott Kelley, retained a leading privacy attorney, Alan Raul of Chicago-based law firm Sidley Austin, to bring the high-profile suit against the federal government.
[Politico] A newly filed Freedom of Information Act lawsuit is demanding that the federal government fork over records from the investigations that led to former Central Intelligence Agency Director Gen. David Petraeus' guilty plea last year to a charge of mishandling classified information.
The suit, filed Friday in federal court in Washington by Daily Beast reporter Shane Harris and a pro-transparency organization, the James Madison Project, seeks information from three federal agencies -- the Justice Department, the Defense Department and the CIA.
Petraeus pleaded guilty in February 2015 to a single misdemeanor count of mishandling classified information by retaining notebooks containing highly classified information at his home without permission and sharing some of those materials with his biographer and paramour, Paula Broadwell. She was an officer in the Army reserve but was not officially authorized to receive the classified materials.
[MIRROR.CO.UK] Prisoners tried to escape from a jail by flying in a pair of bolt cutters on board a drone. Maybe they should fly a few sets into the Trump rally?
The aircraft’s remote operator unloaded the tools near the prison’s perimeter fence.
But the bizarre escape plot failed when guards alerted cops - who seized the kit before it could be hauled in by lags at HMP Featherstone , Staffs.
The drone also contained banned mobile phones and a consignment of drugs, said to include the deadly super-strength legal high Spice.
A police probe into the smuggling bid was underway last night.
A source said: “It was only by luck that a staff member saw the drone and witnessed it dump its load outside the fence.
“The theory is the operator made a mistake and the parcel should have been unloaded inside the jail.”
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[MIAMIHERALD] Months after dozens of explicit photos of her were posted online in a campaign of cyber-harassment, the 29-year-old Miami victim remains shaken. Thirty days? I guess that's more than the Finnish court gave the war criminal yesterday, but gee.
"I do not have words to describe how this has affected my life. I used to feel damaged beyond repair, and sometimes I still do, but I will overcome it," the woman said in a letter read to the court. "The paranoia, fear and constant anxiety attacks made me feel like I did not deserve to live even one day in peace." Once your pictures are on the internet, honey, they don't go away. You're still damaged beyond repair.
But Friday offered closure as her ex-boyfriend, a Miami Beach information technology consultant named Antonio Giansante, claimed the credit for spreading the "Dire Revenge porn." He agreed to spend 30 days in jail and complete five years of probation.
The deal was a significant win for crusaders against cyber stalking. The woman’s letter was read to the judge by Miami lawyer Elisa D’Amico, the co-founder of the K&L Gates Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project, which worked extensively with the victim and fights against Dire Revenge porn.
"I look at this as a great victory," said D’Amico, who was honored this year by the Florida Supreme Court for advocating for victims of Dire Revenge porn.
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Inshallah. It is not for us to question why he wanted to kill off a bunch of his worshippers.
[An Nahar] At least 19 pilgrims died, all of them Egyptian, and 22 were maimed early on Saturday when their bus overturned in western Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , authorities in both countries said.
The tourism ministry in Cairo said 19 Egyptian pilgrims and a child were killed and 15 were maimed in the accident.
"Nineteen people were killed when the bus carrying them turned over on the Hijra road" between the coastal city of Jeddah and the holy city of Medina, Saudi Red Islamic Thingyfront man Khaled Ben Messaed al-Sihli said.
"All the bus passengers have the same nationality of an Arab country except the driver who is Asian," he said.
Another 22 people were maimed including some who were badly hurt, Sihli added.
Millions of Muslims visit Saudi Arabia each year for the year-round umra minor pilgrimage and the annual hajj pilgrimage.
Jordan said on Wednesday that 14 pilgrims died and another 36 were maimed in another bus accident in southern Jordan near the Saudi border.
The country's civil protection service said the driver lost control of the vehicle which turned over 320 kilometres (about 200 miles) southeast of Amman.
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[HOLLYWOODREPORTER] Weighing free speech against privacy, a Florida jury has decided to uphold the sanctity of the latter by turning in a $115 million verdict against Gawker over its 2012 posting of a Hulk Hogan sex tape. So the guy who posted pictures of his girlfriend having sex with him got 30 days. And Gawker's out of business and its proprietor's beggared. Had he been the one who had sex with Hulk Hogan he'd be a lot better off.
Hogan brought the case three years ago after Gawker, a 13-year-old digital news site founded by Nick Denton, an entrepreneur with an allergy to celebrity privacy, published a video the wrestler claimed was secretly recorded. The sex tape was sensational, showing Hogan — whose real name is Terry Bollea — engaged in sexual intercourse with Heather Cole, the then-wife of his best friend, Tampa-area radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge (real name: Todd Alan Clem). Gawker's posting of the Hogan sex tape was accompanied by an essay from then–editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio about celebrity sex and a vivid play-by-play of the encounter between Hogan and Cole.
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[TOWNHALL] A Supreme Court judge suspended former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's nomination to a Cabinet post amid corruption investigations, a decision likely to stoke tensions in a country already rocked by dueling pro- and anti-government demonstrations.
In his ruling late Friday, Justice Gilmar Mendes called Silva's appointment as current President Dilma Rousseff's chief of staff a clear attempt to help the once wildly popular ex-leader get around his legal woes.
Two weeks ago, Silva was brought in for questioning in a sprawling investigation into an alleged kickback scheme in the state oil company Petrobras. If he becomes a Cabinet minister, Silva can only be prosecuted with the approval of the Supreme Court and his appointment sparked an outcry from critics who said Rousseff was seeking to shield her mentor from prosecution.
"The goal of the falsity is clear: prevent the carrying out of a preventative arrest order" against Silva being considered by a lower court, Mendes wrote in his ruling.
Both Rousseff and Silva deny the accusations, and on Friday tens of thousands demonstrators rallied behind them and Brazil's center-left government. Anti-government protests last weekend brought an estimated 3 million people onto the streets in nationwide.
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h/t Gates of Vienna
..."I want to try it," CEO Andy Puzder told Business Insider of his automated restaurant plans. "We could have a restaurant that’s focused on all-natural products and is much like an Eatsa, where you order on a kiosk, you pay with a credit or debit card, your order pops up, and you never see a person." Minimum wage = 0
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...Actually, if you think about it, to the Minimum Wage Warriors this is a feature, not a bug. Because once it starts happening and happening on a large enough scale, that's when they take the next logical step to a guaranteed yearly personal income.
Paid for with your tax dollars, of course.
Mike
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The fact that it leaves us with nothing to do with our lives but argue with less deserving strangers about how to distribute what's in your 401k is to the Democrats a feature, not a bug. They don't want the poor to have a job or.make.a.living, they want them to be fucked into having to Vote Bernie.
[DailyMail] The threat of nuclear war has been brought much closer thanks to the stand-off in Ukraine warns a former Russian foreign minister.
Igor Ivanov, who served from 1998 to 2004 and now leads a government backed think-tank, said on Saturday: 'The risk of confrontation with the use of nuclear weapons in Europe is higher than in the 1980s.'
He said the East versus West altercation over the Ukraine crisis has meant the risk of nuclear warfare is growing despite countries cutting their arsenals.
Speaking at an event in Brussels with the foreign ministers of Ukraine and Poland, Mr Ivanov said: 'We have less nuclear warheads, but the risk of them being used is growing.'"
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'The risk of confrontation with the use of nuclear weapons in Europe us having to use the damned things because we've painted ourselves into a corner is higher than in the 1980s.'
FTFY.
Mike
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In Europe (or the EU) the Frenchies and the Brits have nuclear weapons. Which is most likely to use them about the time 3rd Shock Army reaches Kirchheim or Koenigswustermark?
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...Honestly, I think the French will draw down first.
Mike
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I dunno - they retain, if for no other reason than to sell them off
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Oh please! They don't even have the guts to defend their borders from a rag tag band of rapefugees.
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[DAWN] DEHRADUN: An Indian politician was locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Friday on suspicion of attacking a police horse whose injuries led to a leg amputation, with the animal becoming a tool in a fierce battle between rival parties.
Police said Ganesh Joshi, from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was remanded in jug for two weeks on charges of cruelty to the horse, which was injured during a party protest in the northern state of Uttarakhand on Monday.
A BJP party worker who was caught on camera pulling a police officer down from the animal has also been arrested.
Indian celebrities have condemned the alleged attack on the horse, called Shaktiman, which was fitted with a prosthetic leg late on Thursday after having its limb amputated due to gangrene.
"Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against Joshi on Monday night. This morning he was arrested and produced in the court," said local police inspector Sanjay Gunjyal.
"He has now been sent to 14 days of judicial custody," he added.
The Uttarakhand government, run by the rival Congress party, has spared no expense in treating the horse since the incident, with the creature becoming a cause celebre in the state.
Shaktiman has been treated to repeated visits from the state’s chief minister and an American veterinary surgeon was reportedly flown in from Bhutan to provide treatment, in what some critics see as a case of political point-scoring.
Phiroze Khambatta, a vet who was part of the team treating Shaktiman, said that horses with such injuries would normally be put down.
"Prosthetic limbs are fitted on horses weighing 200-300 kilograms, but Shaktiman weighs 400kg. We can’t predict how he will recover," Khambatta told the Times of India newspaper.
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India is not just the World's largest democracy, it's also the World's most "vigorous" one?
[DAWN] MANSEHRA: Police in Puttan area of Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... three men on Friday for allegedly killing two girls of their family in the name of ‘honour’ and secretly burying their bodies in a graveyard.
According to sources, Haji Ahmad Khan allegedly bumped off his daughter and niece in the wee hours of Friday. His nephews Sherzada and Noorur Rehman were with him.
The matter was reported to police by some local people after which the three were taken into custody.
During interrogation, they first claimed that the girls had fallen ill and died at night.
When police asked how was it possible that both the girls died together and why did they bury them secretly, Haji Ahmad changed his statement and said that gunshots had been mistakenly fired by one of his nephews which hit the two girls.
The sources said that after hearing the gunshots and noticing some suspicious activities in the house people in the neighbourhood reported the matter to police.
According to a neighbour, Haji Ahmad and his nephews suspected that one of the girls was having an affair with a man and the other of having helped her.
The SHO of Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... city cop shoppe told news hounds that on information provided by the three men police had located the graves of the two girls.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DailyMail] The threat of nuclear war has been brought much closer thanks to the stand-off in Ukraine warns a former Russian foreign minister.
[DAWN] MANSEHRA: Police in Puttan area of 
a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
