[Wash Times] Former President Obama’s Attorney General Loretta Lynch met behind closed doors with a congressional Russian election meddling probe on Friday.
Republicans were eager to question her about an infamous tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton in June 2016, a meeting which has triggered suspicions about the Obama Department of Justice’s impartiality toward Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton at the height of the election.
But Mrs. Lynch refused to discuss the meeting before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday, according to Fox News.
Mrs. Lynch has been accused of attempting to influence the FBI’s investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s private email use while secretary of state ‐ and both she and Mr. Clinton say the meeting at the Phoenix airport was a chance social encounter.
In June, during highly anticipated testimony, fired FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting caused him to hold a press conference on Mrs. Clinton’s email case.
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She's running the Clinton playbook to perfection. All you have to do to get away with crimes is stonewall, clam up and most importantly, be a Democrat.
[NEWS.SKY] A killer who was pursuing a lawsuit against Alabama's use of the lethal injection has been executed - using his final moments to tell the state "I hate you" and give them the middle finger.
As the procedure began on Thursday night, Torrey McNabb raised both of his middle fingers in a show of defiance.
The 40-year-old was among several inmates involved in an ongoing lawsuit arguing the state's use of midazolam during lethal injections is inhumane and not reliable.
He was convicted of killing Anderson Gordon, an officer with Montgomery Police, in 1997.
A witness had testified that McNabb walked up to Gordon's patrol car and shot him five times.
The officer had just arrived at the scene of a traffic accident caused by McNabb as he tried to escape from a bail bondsman.
Midazolam is administered to sedate the prisoner, before a second drug paralyses them and a final third drug stops their heart.
During an execution in December, an Alabama inmate had coughed and heaved for 13 minutes before dying.
McNabb appeared to be breathing for the first 20 minutes of the 35-minute execution.
He later moved his head, raised his arms and grimaced after two consciousness checks in which a guard pinched his arm, said his name and pulled back his eyelid.
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Bullet to the back of the head. Quick, easy and sure. Why are we still fucking with this shit in this day and age?
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Catch, Convict and Release. You commit a capital offense. The State catches you, tries you and convicts you. The state then releases you, at 10,000 feet. If you learn to fly before you hit the ground you are free to go.
[Wash Times] The company behind the anti-Trump intelligence dossier that rocked last year’s U.S. election went to federal court Friday to try and block the House Intelligence Committee from getting access to its banking records.
The firm, Fusion GPS, filed a petition in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, according to a source knowledgeable about the situation. Would I be correct in saying an examination of cell phones and laptops would be totally out of the question ?
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity with The Washington Times, said the House Intelligence Committee had subpoenaed Fusion’s banking records in an effort to determine who financed former British spy Christopher Steele’s work to write the dossier during the summer and fall of 2016.
Little information is known about the subpoena by the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian interference in last year’s U.S. presidential election.
Fusion, headed by former Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson, invoked the Fifth Amendment this week rather than testify on Capital Hill about its role in commissioning and compiling the dossier. The company has also refused to hand over certain documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee citing its First Amendment rights.
Wiki: Glenn R. Simpson is an American former journalist with The Wall Street Journal and the co-founder of the Washington-based research firm Fusion GPS.[1] He was a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.
Be sure to check out the 'current and former' staff of the IASC, particularly the bios of Messrs Waldon and Farah. What fascinating fellows. I doubt they'd want to talk about their work or personal finances either.
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According to the Congressional Research Service, pp-5-6. : Congress has three formal methods by which it can combat non-compliance with a duly issued subpoena.4 Each of these methods invokes the authority of a separate branch of government. First, the long dormant inherent contempt power permits Congress to rely on its own constitutional authority to detain and imprison a contemnor until the individual complies with congressional demands.5 Because the contemnor is generally released once the terms of the subpoena are met, inherent contempt serves the purposes of encouraging compliance with a congressional directive. Second, the criminal contempt statute6 permits Congress to certify a contempt citation to the executive branch for the criminal prosecution of the contemnor.7 Criminal contempt serves as punishment for non-compliance with a congressional subpoena, but does not necessarily encourage subsequent acquiescence. Once convicted, the contemnor is not excused from criminal liability if he later chooses to comply with the subpoena. Finally, Congress may rely on the judicial branch to enforce a congressional subpoena.8 Under this procedure, Congress may seek a civil judgment from a federal court declaring that the individual in question is legally obligated to comply with the congressional subpoena. If the court finds that the party is legally obligated to comply, continued non-compliance may result in the party being held in contempt of court. Where the target of the subpoena is an executive branch official, civil enforcement may be the only practical means by which Congress can effectively ensure compliance with its own subpoena.
I'd vote for jugging them until they get "cooperative."
[THESTAR.MY] Venezuelan state elections may be repeated in the five states won by the opposition if the governors-elect continue to refuse to be sworn in by a controversial pro-government legislative superbody, President Nicolas Maduro warned on Friday.
His warning came in a televised speech after the government on Sunday unexpectedly won 18 of 23 states in a vote which the opposition calls fraudulent.
Authorities have mandated that all elected governors participate in a ceremony before the pro-government Constituent Assembly, but the five opposition winners did not take part.
"Anyone who wants to be governor will have to recognise the Constituent National Assembly; otherwise elections will be repeated in states where the Assembly is not recognised," Maduro said at the inauguration of one of the socialist candidates in western Lara state.
The opposition says that by law, the oath must be taken before regional parliaments and not before the Constituent Assembly, but so far none of their candidates have undergone that process and formally assumed their roles. Venezuela's opposition leaders have said they would travel abroad to denounce what they call dirty tricks by the government and outright fraud in the minerals-rich state of Bolivar.
Maduro says the opposition cries fraud whenever it loses elections and that Venezuela's electoral system is the most secure in the world.
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And, oh boy, is Hillary jealous. Do-over on states you lost?? Boy howdy Democrat nirvana.
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'And you'll keep voting until you get it right!'
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The most secure ele tions in the world take place in Chicago. Sarcasm aside, even given the problems and inequities that the US can suffer (things such as voter ID laws where some states have closed large numbers of state offices/DMV sites that issue IDs. I have an isue with that) the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand pretty much set the gold standard for electoral stability. Add the Swiss, Sweden and a few others in there too. If your country has experienced a coup you do not qualify
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ‐ A judge on Friday tossed out a $417 million jury award to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer by using Johnson & Johnson talc-based baby powder for feminine hygiene.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson granted the company’s request for a new trial, saying there were errors and jury misconduct in the previous trial that ended with the award two months ago.
Nelson also ruled that there wasn’t convincing evidence that Johnson & Johnson acted with malice and the award for damages was excessive.
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The only cancer path I can think of is talc irritating lung tissue (as asbestos does), then metastasizing to ovaries. Talc is not a chemically reactive mineral though its small partical size could conceivably make it physically reactive, but how to transport???
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Slightly is the key word here. "Exposure to talc is unlikely to be a primary factor in most cases of ovarian cancer," writes John Whysner, MD, PhD, a researcher with the American Health Foundation in Valhalla, N.Y. He says there is not enough information to clearly say whether there is a causal relationship. Whysner reviewed over 50 papers on the subject, written over the past 30 years, for the analysis published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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A lot of gals powder their poozle. If baby powder was a cancer hazard, you would expect a *bleep*load of cases considering how prevalent exposure is.
Same sort of thing with cell phones causing brain cancer. With the number of people exposed, you'd expect an epidemic if there was anything to it.
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Always difficult to bring these cases. Courts have standards for evidence, and you must prove your case by a preponderance of the evidence. "Might be possible" doesn't cut it.
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Courts have standards for evidence, and you must prove your case by a preponderance of the evidence. "Might be possible" doesn't cut it.
Unless you're trying to overturn constitutional immigration laws, invalidate legal elections, or indict someone of supposed collusion with russkies for something or other.
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[DAWN] A ’commander’ of the Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... gang warfare allegedly involved in assassination of, among others, three foreigners in the Hub area of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... was bumped off in an ’encounter’ in Malir by Rangers in the early hours of Thursday, a spokesperson for the paramilitary force said.
Acting on information, the paramilitary force encircled the hideout in Murad Memon Goth of Malir at around 2am.
On seeing the Rangers’ personnel, the suspects resorted to firing with automatic weapons. Reinforcements were called in by the Rangers and during an intense exchange of fire, one suspect was bumped off while trying to escape in Bachal Goth near Murad Memon Goth. His two accomplices fled taking advantage of darkness, said the Rangers’ official.
The spokesperson identified the dead suspect as Ghafoor alias Chhotu, a ’commander’ of gangsters in the Malir locality.
"He was a close aide of Lyari gang leader Noor Mohammed alias Baba Ladla," said the Rangers’ spokesperson, adding that the dead suspect had established a reign of terror in the Malir area.
Baba Ladla was killed by Rangers in a ’shoot-out’ in Lyari in February. Ladla’s two close associates ‐ Sikandar alias Sikku and Mohammad Yaseen alias Mama ‐ were also killed in the encounter.
According to the Rangers, Baba Ladla was a "most wanted" suspect who had been involved in 74 terrorism incidents and other heinous crimes. Another ringleader of Lyari gang warfare was Uzair Jan Baloch, now facing trial in a military court.
"Ghafoor Chhotu was wanted in more than 20 heinous crimes," said a Rangers’ statement issued to the media.
They included murder of three foreigners, reportedly Chinese nationals, in Hub in 2006. Besides he was also involved in attacks on police and security personnel. Furthermore he had remained involved in extortion, drug trafficking, kidnapping for ransom and other such crimes.
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I miss the crossfires almost as much as the Sufa Arafat stories.
[DAWN] Mufti Abdul Qavi, who has been tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! by police on Wednesday in the model Qandeel Baloch murder case, was hospitalised on Thursday evening after a judicial magistrate remanded him in police custody for four days
Dr Rana Altaf, Director of the Pervaiz Elahi Institute of Cardiology, told journalists that the holy man was a heart patient and was currently under observation of senior doctors. He said the Mufti had undergone angioplasty some time ago.
Earlier, police produced the suspect before the court of judicial magistrate Muhammad Parvaiz Khan who granted his four-day physical remand, giving him in police custody for interrogation.
The trial court judge/judicial magistrate had issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Mr Qavi on Oct 12 after the court was informed by police that the holy man was not cooperating in investigation into the model’s murder.
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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.
[Wash Times] The company behind the anti-Trump intelligence dossier that rocked last year’s U.S. election went to federal court Friday to try and block the House Intelligence Committee from getting access to its banking records.
[DAWN] A ’commander’ of the 
