[Wash Times] One America News Network (OAN) is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in former DNC staffer Seth Rich’s murder case.
The Herring Networks, Inc. media company OAN joins a number of individuals and groups that are willing to pay for information that solves the July 10, 2016, killing of Mr. Rich. The election-season murder continues to spark conspiracy theories based on the suggestion that Mr. Rich provided DNC data to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
"One America News believes solving this case -- and bringing Rich’s murderer to justice -- is essential to exposing the truth for the American people," OAN’s Greta Wall reported Monday. "We are offering a $100,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest of a suspect in the case. If you have any information, please email us at tips@oann.com."
Others offering rewards include the Washington, D.C. Police Department ($25,000); WikiLeaks ($20,000); and Republican strategist Jack Burkman ($130,000).
[Wash Times] The Obama administration knowingly let in at least 16 admitted MS-13 gang members who arrived at the U.S. as illegal immigrant teenagers in 2014, a top senator said Wednesday, citing internal documents that showed the teens were shipped to juvenile homes throughout the country.
Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said a whistleblower turned over Customs and Border Protection documents from 2014 detailing the 16 people who were caught crossing the border.
"CBP apprehended them, knew they were MS-13 gang members, and they processed and disbursed them into our communities," Mr. Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, said. CBP surely responding to some DoJ directive or other. Could we possibly be provided copies ?
The gang members were part of the surge of UAC, or "unaccompanied alien children," as the government labels them, who overwhelmed the Obama administration in 2014, leaving Homeland Security struggling to staunch the flow from Central America.
Officials at the time said the children should be treated as refugees fleeing horrific conditions back home -- though security analysts said the children were prime recruiting territory for gangs already in the U.S.
[DailySignal] Congressional technology aides are baffled that data-theft allegations against four former House IT workers--who were banned from the congressional network--have largely been ignored, and they fear the integrity of sensitive high-level information.
Imran Awan and three relatives were colleagues until police banned them from computer networks at the House of Representatives after suspicion the brothers accessed congressional computers without permission.
Five Capitol Hill technology aides told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group that members of Congress have displayed an inexplicable and intense loyalty toward the suspects who police say victimized them. The baffled aides wonder if the suspects are blackmailing representatives based on the contents of their emails and files, to which they had full access. Would explain more than a few things.
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Somehow left out was that the Awans first began working as IT staff for this Member of Congress.
As far as 'inexplicable loyalty', it can probably be summed up with this:
[Rep. Gregory] Meeks said he isn’t convinced Alvi and Imran Awan, both of whom worked in his office at different times, are involved in the alleged procurement scam but that Alvi was dismissed because the investigation was interrupting the day-to-day functions of his office.
“As of right now, I don’t see a smoking gun,” Meeks said. “I have seen no evidence that they were doing anything that was nefarious.”
Meeks said he was hesitant to believe the accusations against Alvi, Imran Awan and the three other staffers, saying their background as Muslim Americans, some with ties to Pakistan, could make them easy targets for false charges.
“I wanted to be sure individuals are not being singled out because of their nationalities or their religion. We want to make sure everybody is entitled to due process,” Meeks said.
[Rep. Marcia]Fudge told Politico on Tuesday she would employ Imran Awan until he received “due process.”
“He needs to have a hearing. Due process is very simple. You don’t fire someone until you talk to them,” Fudge said.
[DAILYCALLER] Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... threatened the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police with "consequences" for holding equipment that she says belongs to her in order to build a criminal case against a Pak staffer suspected of massive cybersecurity breaches involving funneling sensitive congressional data offsite.
The Florida politician used her position on the committee that sets the police force’s budget to press its chief to relinquish the piece of evidence Thursday, in what could be considered using her authority to attempt to interfere with a criminal investigation.
The Capitol Police and outside agencies are pursuing Imran Awan,
...the Pakistani-American who, along with his brothers Abid and Jamal and his wife Hina Alvi, engaged in a number of lucrative and not-quite-legal activities with very questionable personages in addition to providing inferior IT tech support to a number of Democratic Congresspeople until someone noticed exactly how not-legal those activities were. Hina Alvi was recently discovered to have hied herself home to the protections of her wealthy and influential family back in the old country...
who has run technology for the Florida politician since 2005 and was banned from the House network in February on suspicion of data breaches and theft.
"My understanding is the the Capitol Police is not able to confiscate Members’ equipment when the Member is not under investigation," Wasserman Schultz said in the annual police budget hearing of the House Committee On Appropriations’ Legislative Branch Subcommittee.
"We can’t return the equipment," Police Chief Matthew R. Verderosa told the Florida Democrat.
"I think you’re violating the rules when you conduct your business that way and you should expect that there will be consequences," Wasserman Schultz said.
What is she afraid will be found?
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I think Debbie would make a wonderful cell mate for Hillary.
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If she's making threats to obstruct the investigation, she's guilty of obstruction and complicit in any crimes on it. The chief should have told her that she's not a suspect in the investigation.
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The Capitol Police don't have a significant IT forensic capability, its either the Metro DC Police of the FBI to provide that. And why would you caution a suspect about obstruction when they are a person of interest in a bigger investigation?
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) told PJM that recently appointed special counsel Robert Mueller should "recuse himself" from the Russia probe due to his personal friendship with former FBI Director James Comey.
Mueller served 12 years as FBI director under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. For two of those years, during the Bush administration, Comey was deputy attorney general.
Comey’s congressional testimony about the FBI investigation into possible collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign was reportedly postponed so he could speak with Mueller in advance. Franks called the delay "collusion."
In an exclusive interview, Franks was asked if he thinks the Russia investigation is going to hinder President Trump’s agenda.
"It will be a challenge, but here’s what I think will happen. Now, who knows what ancillary things will come from it, that’s the problem with any sort of special counsel is that they go in all different directions at once. And, of course, Mr. Mueller is a very well-known very close friend of Mr. Comey’s ‐ that alone should cause him to recuse himself," Franks, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
[Stream.org] A second person also came forward last weekend, anonymously posting on the /pol/ political channel of social media bulletin board 4chan. They said that that many in D.C. know that Rich leaked the emails, but were afraid to come forward. The anonymous person said that the DNC is terrified. In a second post, the person hints that the labor organization SEIU knows something about his death.
Amateur sleuths posting on the 4chan and Reddit found accounts that belonged to Rich. They were fairly easy to identify due to his unique personality quirks. They had names like Pandas4Progress. His posts reflected his preference for Sanders in the election. They also reveal his disappointment with the Democrats’ rigged party system.
Strangely, his posts have been edited since his accounts were discovered. His email address was removed from one post -- notably the email address identified the anonymous account as his. No word on the whereabouts of Seth Rich's cellie or laptop.
[Free Beacon] 'There are clearly rogue government officials, with high-level clearances, engaging in criminal activity involving classified information.'
The cofounder of the largest Tea Party group is trying to ratchet up pressure on the House and Senate intelligence committees to investigate illegal Trump administration leaks and the Obama administration's unmasking of U.S. officials and other citizens during the presidential campaign and transition.
Jenny Beth Martin, the cofounder of the Tea Party Patriots, sent a letter on Wednesday to the leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees pressing them to investigate the illegal release of classified information to the media and the unmasking of American citizens as part of their wide-ranging probe into alleged Russian interference and meddling in the last presidential election.
"I write as president of an organization with over 2 million, an organization that has directly felt the heavy hand of persecution by the very government we support with our taxes," she wrote in the letter. "Our concern is that your investigation's emphasis and focus on our government, again illegally interfering in the lives of law-abiding citizens, will go unaddressed with no accountability."
[RT] The mighty CIA has fallen victim to a major breach, with WikiLeaks revealing the true scope of the Agency’s ability for cyber-espionage. Its tools seem to be aimed at ordinary citizens – your phone, your car, your TV, even your fridge can become an instrument of surveillance in the hands of the CIA. How does the CIA use these tools, and why do they need them in the first place? And as WikiLeaks promises even more revelations, how is all of this going to shape the already tense relationship between new president and the intelligence community? A man who has spent over two decades in the CIA’s clandestine service – Gary Berntsen is on SophieCo.
[Free Beacon] Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) on Wednesday said government surveillance programs would not receive the necessary congressional reauthorization for them to continue at the end of the year unless officials answer questions on who in the intelligence community unmasked certain individuals. Sorry, the train left the station several hours ago.
Gowdy had asked former CIA Director John Brennan about the unmasking process during Tuesday's House Intelligence Committee hearing, Fox News reports. The unmasking process involves revealing the identities of Americans who were collected in communications with foreigners that are monitored by the United States Government.
Fox News host Bill Hemmer on Wednesday asked Gowdy about the issue.
"We're not going to reauthorize these surveillance programs if the American people are not satisfied that their security is going to be safeguarded," Gowdy told Hemmer. And you're going to stop 'Deep State' intelligence how ?
"The unmasking within the intelligence community, that is a privilege to be able to request that a U.S. person's name be unmasked and I want to know who's making the request, what is the evidentiary basis of that request," Gowdy continued.
Gowdy also said that requests made late in an official's tenure should be alarming as well.
Susan Rice has been accused of unmasking President Donald Trump's associates while she was former President Barack Obama's national security advisor.
The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community. Pulled out all the stops did they? Trump still won the election.
More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011, according to one classified internal report reviewed by Circa.
The Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct. 26 before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that set off alarm. Trump was elected less than two weeks later.
"Self-disclosed at a closed-door hearing". I wonder if they teach that tactic at Harvard Law?
The admitted violations undercut one of the primary defenses that the intelligence community and Obama officials have used in recent weeks to justify their snooping into incidental NSA intercepts about Americans.
Circa has reported that there was a three-fold increase in NSA data searches about Americans and a rise in the unmasking of U.S. person’s identities in intelligence reports after Obama loosened the privacy rules in 2011.
2011: One year before the official U.S. election season, and nearly two years before the Obama administration purportedly began nuclear-deal talks with the Iranians.
Officials like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice have argued their activities were legal under the so-called minimization rule changes Obama made, and that the intelligence agencies were strictly monitored to avoid abuses. The intelligence court and the NSA’s own internal watchdog found that not to be true.
[INVESTORS] CaliCare: Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s so-called progressive Democrats, fresh off their classy "flipping off" of Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... at their state convention, now want to flip off the entire state by imposing a reckless, economy-destroying single-payer health care system on the state's citizens. If voters don't stop this madness they'll get what they deserve.
A study by the Senate Appropriations Committee of the state legislature found that a proposed single-payer system would cost $400 billion a year -- more than twice the state's current bloated budget of $182 billion. To say that it would be the fiscal and economic ruin of California is an understatement.
As the Sacramento Bee notes, half the tab would come in the form of a new tax of about 15% on all earned income. That's in addition to the 13%-plus state income tax already levied on Californians. That would still leave as much as $100 billion in new spending that would have to be paid for somehow. No doubt, they'll go after businesses for that.
The state has already lost millions of residents and thousands of businesses because of its excessive taxation and onerous regulations. The ruinous taxation from single-payer health care would lead to a mass exodus of companies and what remains of the once-thriving middle class. Californians need to wake up to the fact that they've put the most far-left state government in American history into power, and will soon pay dearly for it.
But don't think they're sincere in wanting to provide "care" to those who need it. This is a raw political power play, and nothing else.
The bill's main author, State Sen. Ricardo Lara, is currently chairman of the State Senate Appropriations Committee. But he wants to run for the powerful State Insurance Commissioner post. Then there's Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who's eyeing the governorship, just as soon as current Gov. Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... departs next year.
What do Lara and Newsom have in common? They both want the big bucks from the politically powerful California Nurse's Association. Sure, it sounds innocent -- hey, everyone likes nurses, right? -- but the nurse's union is one of the most far-left groups in the state.
In 2014, The Atlantic Monthly fawningly described the CNA as "one of the smallest, but most powerful unions in the country." Now, thanks to that union's support of Lara, whether you like it or not, conservative, liberal or somewhere in between, you may soon be paying for socialized medicine.
As the Bee notes, with appropriate journalistic understatement, "Lara has support from the city of Los Angeles, Santa Clara and Marin counties' boards of supervisors, and Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, a candidate for state attorney general."
Lara's single-payer bill -- State Bill 562, also called "The Healthy California Act" -- has been passed out of the committee and is likely to be voted on in early June. Many political observers think the report on its cost might be the final nail in the coffin for this awful idea.
A Kaiser Family Foundation survey in 2016 found that 50% of Americans would support a single-payer health care plan, with just 43% opposing it. But when you ask them whether they would support it if taxes went up for most people, and then 63% oppose it. A similar number oppose it if it would "give government too much control over health care." And 57% would oppose it if it got rid of current health care law -- that is, ObamaCare.
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But ... but ... I thought all those illegals were a net positive to society!
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And the official estimates provided by government agencies are always low. With an influx of illegals to the new freebie, sanctuary state expect the real bill to be 600-800 billion.
As for an additional 15% on top of my already onerous state income tax, well, North Carolina is looking better all the time. But there is hope in history. Former Governor Gray Davis was recalled when it was found the state had run up a $26 billion deficit. That pales in comparison to $400 billion. When you start after people's money that way, party affiliation might not be as important as Lara thinks.
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Abu, SC is way better than NC. Every tax you can mention is lower across the border except for a slight difference in the income tax rate (but SC allows you to deduct more.) My wife and I crossed over 8 years ago and have never looked back.
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[Free Beacon] Former CIA Agent Phil Mudd said Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) "ought to have his ass kicked" while discussing Gowdy questioning former CIA Director John Brennan about collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign.
CNN's Alyson Camerota and Chris Cuomo spoke with Mudd on Wednesday morning to discuss Brennan's testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee.
CNN played a clip of Gowdy questioning Brennan over whether he had "evidence" rather than "intelligence" of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian state actors.
When Gowdy asked if there was evidence of the collusion, Brennan said, "I was aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign."
"Trey Gowdy ought to have his ass kicked," Mudd said. "He knows the difference between intelligence and evidence."
"If you are an American citizen and the National Security Agency collects intelligence that is intercepts of Russians, who report what you've said, do you think it's fair to go to court and say that is evidence that you did something wrong?" Mudd asked rhetorically. Just for the record: The term 'former Klingon Agent' is a misnomer.
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Gowdy picked his words carefully. At this point, "evidence", as in a court of law, is what he is asking for; not somewhat vague terms such as intelligence or information.
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[Wash Times] One America News Network (OAN) is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in former DNC staffer Seth Rich’s murder case.
[DAILYCALLER] Rep. 
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) told PJM that recently appointed special counsel Robert Mueller should "recuse himself" from the Russia probe due to his personal friendship with former FBI Director James Comey.
[Free Beacon] 'There are clearly rogue government officials, with high-level clearances, engaging in criminal activity involving classified information.'
[RT] The mighty CIA has fallen victim to a major breach, with WikiLeaks revealing the true scope of the Agency’s ability for cyber-espionage. Its tools seem to be aimed at ordinary citizens – your phone, your car, your TV, even your fridge can become an instrument of surveillance in the hands of the CIA. How does the CIA use these tools, and why do they need them in the first place? And as WikiLeaks promises even more revelations, how is all of this going to shape the already tense relationship between new president and the intelligence community? A man who has spent over two decades in the CIA’s clandestine service – Gary Berntsen is on SophieCo.
Jerry 
[Free Beacon] Former CIA Agent Phil Mudd said Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) "ought to have his ass kicked" while discussing Gowdy questioning former CIA Director John Brennan about collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign.
