[FOX 5 as posted in Drudge] WASHINGTON - It has been almost a year since Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered in the nation's capital. There have been no solid answers about why he was killed until now.
Rich was shot and killed last July in Northwest D.C and police have suggested the killing in the District's Bloomingdale neighborhood was a botched robbery. However, online conspiracy theories have tied the murder to Rich's work at the DNC.
Just two months shy of the one-year anniversary of Rich's death, FOX 5 has learned there is new information that could prove these theorists right.
Rod Wheeler, a private investigator hired by the Rich family, suggests there is tangible evidence on Rich's laptop that confirms he was communicating with WikiLeaks prior to his death.
Now, questions have been raised on why D.C. police, the lead agency on this murder investigation for the past ten months, have insisted this was a robbery gone bad when there appears to be no evidence to suggest that.
Wheeler, a former D.C. police homicide detective, is running a parallel investigation into Rich’s murder. He said he believes there is a cover-up and the police department has been told to back down from the investigation.
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And not in Fort Marcy Park.
They're getting better...
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There does not seem to be too much known at this point. If the grainy vids show anything, the police are not revealing it. The DNC refused to release their computers to Comey's FBI and the FBI basically said O.K. Goes to show politics may be a dangerous game in the U.S.
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The key here seems to be the approximately 90 minutes between the know exit of the City Bar and the police report of shots fired. More than enough time for the 1 mile walk from the bar to his home. During that period, it is possible a prolonged conversation with person(s) regarding the leaked emails might have taken place. Shot twice in the back suggests perhaps the answers were unsatisfactory. Crime scene forensics about the distance from the shooter to the victim would be revealing about his pace at the moment of being shot, since running and walking produce different sprawl patters as the decendent falls, as well as powder burns and GSR. Most failed robbery victims are not shot in the back, and usually there is some attempt to take valuables even after the shooting. The Clinton trackrecord for coincidental fatalities does strain credulity after a time, so suspicion about leaks that might lose her the Presidency do seem reasonable, especially with fatal outcomes, however apparently coincidental.
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Perhaps some fiendish scheme involving note taking and alleged requests for suspension of Mike Flynn investigations will overtake this unsightly revelation about the Rich murder.
[FoxNews] North Carolina's tough voter identification law was dealt what could be a fatal blow on Monday, as the Supreme Court rejected an appeal to reinstate the policy.
Advocates of the law said it was meant to preserve the integrity of elections and counter voter fraud. But critics said it unfairly singled out black voters.
The justices on Monday left in place a lower court ruling citing such alleged discrimination. That ruling struck down the law's photo ID requirement and reduction in early voting.
The decision comes just days after President Trump ordered a a review of voter fraud allegations.
In the North Carolina case, the situation was complicated when Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein tried to withdraw the appeal, which was first filed when Republican Pat McCrory was governor.
Chief Justice John Roberts said the political situation created uncertainty over who is authorized to seek review of the lower court ruling.
The dispute is similar to the court fight over Texas' voter ID law, also struck down as racially discriminatory.
Republicans in both states moved to enact new voting measures after the Supreme Court in 2013 struck down a provision of the federal Voting Rights Act that had required them to get advance approval before changing laws dealing with elections.
Voters, civil rights groups and the Obama administration quickly filed lawsuits challenging the new laws. The Trump administration already has dropped its objections to the Texas law.
Shortly before Trump took office in January, the Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reject the North Carolina appeal.
When the law passed, North Carolina Republicans said voter ID is a sound requirement to increase the integrity of elections. But the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the state provided no evidence of the kind of in-person voter fraud the ID mandate would address. The Richmond, Virginia-based court said the law was enacted with intentional bias against black voters. The law was amended in 2015 to include a method for people unable to get a photo ID to still vote.
Following the appellate ruling, the state asked the high court to allow the challenged provisions to remain in effect in November's election. The justices rejected the request by virtue of a 4-4 tie on most of the challenged provisions, with the four more conservative justices supporting the state's bid.
Roberts cautioned Monday that the rejection of the appeal is not a comment on the court's view about the substance of the law.
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I'm not a lawyer, but Glen Reynolds (who is) stated that the law seemed ok, just the appeals process was pooched up so bad that the higher court rejected it based on that.
the situation was complicated when Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein tried to withdraw the appeal, which was first filed when Republican Pat McCrory was governor.
Starting again will have to wait for Republicans in the offices of governor and attorney general. Elections matter.
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"Given the blizzard of filings over who is and who is not authorized to seek review in this Court under North Carolina law, it is important to recall our frequent admonition that “[t]he denial of a writ of certiorari imports no expression of opinion upon the merits of the case.”
Part of a two-page statement issued by Chief Justice Roberts. The writ of certiorari is a denial to hear a case. It will go back to Court of Appeals to further decide.
h/t Instapundit
Fox News is reporting this morning that a federal investigator who reviewed murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich’s computer after his death found evidence that he had been communicating with WikiLeaks:
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The federal investigator, who requested anonymity, said 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments between Democratic National Committee leaders, spanning from January 2015 through late May 2016, were transferred from Rich to MacFadyen before May 21.
On July 22, just 12 days after Rich was killed, WikiLeaks published internal DNC emails that appeared to show top party officials conspired to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont from becoming the party’s presidential nominee. That controversy resulted in Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigning as DNC chairperson. A number of Sanders supporters refused to back party nominee Hillary Clinton, and some subsequently formed groups to work against Clinton and the party.
[Free Beacon] Ned Price, a former Obama-administration CIA official, said on MSNBC Tuesday that the Trump administration could be a national security threat on par with the Islamic State and North Korea.
Price has previously drawn attention for a February Washington Post op-ed saying he chose to leave the CIA because of President Donald Trump. Price suggested while appearing on "Morning Joe" that the White House should be considered a threat because America's enemies could potentially take advantage of it.
MSNBC's Willie Geist asked Price about the relationship between the President and the intelligence community, especially in light of Trump's reported recent disclosure of classified information to Russian officials.
"This is not a president who has ever had a good relationship with the intelligence community, and in fact, even before he was president as the Republican nominee, he just casually dismissed the high-confidence findings of all 17 intelligence agencies that Russia meddled in the election," Price said.
Price went on to emphasize how he felt the President had misstepped in relation to the intelligence community before implying that the President might represent a national security threat.
"Last week we had this hearing of all of our national security officials on worldwide threats, and of course they covered ISIL, they covered Syria, North Korea," Price said, referring to the hearing which featured the first public inquiry on the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
"I think we have to start asking ourselves, at what point does this administration itself become a threat we have to be concerned about?" Price continued.
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Later in his CIA career, he was loaned to the National Security Council, serving as its spokesperson and as a Special Assistant to President Barack Obama.
Which likely indicates he analytic skills were no longer worth a shit in demand and he [like Marie Harf] was moved off to the pursue his real love, partisan politics. Price Wiki link
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Ned Price, a former Obama-administration CIA official
This is the guy who just resigned from the CIA very publicly on the grounds that Trump was too icky. I give him credit for acting on his convictions, but it doesn't give him much credibility.
[Free Beacon] The U.S. ambassador to Qatar, an Obama administration holdover whose family donated hundreds of thousands to the Obama campaign, signaled her distaste for working under President Donald Trump, raising questions about her commitment to the new administration.
Dana Shell Smith, the U.S. ambassador for Qatar who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, took to Twitter last week to express her frustration at Trump's administration, which has been battling negative headlines over a plethora of foreign and domestic issues.
Smith, whose Hollywood executive brother bundled at least $50,000 to $100,000 for Obama during his run for the White House, tweeted that it is "increasingly difficult to wake up overseas to news from home, knowing I will spend today explaining our democracy and institutions."
Smith's public expression of frustration with Trump is raising eyebrows both inside and outside of the administration among those who believe that Obama-era holdovers are working to undermine the current president.
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Since Qatar ranks low on the Democracy index, not far from North Korea and Iran, they don't care about your explanation of democracy. You and Obama are supporters of Al Jazeera owned by the leader of Qatar, and since you have failed to influence Qatar to move towards Democracy ... you're fired!
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How 'bout quit, move on, go find your next job.
Oh, right. Job. Sorry, didn't think that one through.
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[The Hill] Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) says President Trump’s White House must reverse the "downward spiral" it finds itself in.
"The White House has got to do something soon to bring itself under control and in order," he said Monday, according to Bloomberg. "It’s got to happen."
Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made his remarks following a Washington Post report that Trump revealed highly classified intelligence information in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador. Corker relies on the WAPO for his intelligence reporting and political insights ?
"Obviously they’re in a downward spiral right now and they’ve got to figure out a way to come to grips [with] all that’s happening," Corker said.
Current and former U.S. officials told The Post that Trump relayed information from a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The information was provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement. The partner did not give America permission to share the information with Russia.
A U.S. official with knowledge of the meeting said Trump "revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies."
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I'm sure Trump disclosed some information that Russians found extremely useful*. As well as conveying some warnings that Russians can't ignore. And, possibly, received some useful information in exchange.
That's the nature of a dialog. That did they expect him and Lavrov to do - hurl insults at each other, the way they conduct political "arguments" in DC?
*IMO, mostly confirming Russian perception that Americans know little & understand even less about ISIS and ME in general.
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Excellent point g(r)om and we must also keep in mind that POTUS is the ultimate DECLAS authority. Alluding to intelligence derived from 'foreign partner sources' as some sort of exemption carries no water in this regard.
This WAPO conspiracy story appears to be bombshell whilst Clinton's open network 'homebrew' server containing highly classified data is no big deal.
The hypocrisy is absolutely astounding, unless you consider the leftest media and democratic sources.
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Spot on Mr. B. Trump made some off-hand remark or joke during the campaign about Russia releasing Hillary's missing emails. Some Demoncratic operative(s) saw opportunity and ran with it. The meme was thus created. No one have been able to provide names, cite any instances of collusion or the illegal exchange of information by people on the Trump team or by Trump. There is no Russia scandal. It is trial by innuendo, libel, lies, smear, and disinformation by the Donks. It is a matter of putting the big lie in the MSM echo chamber and turning the crank endlessly as did Dr. Joseph Goebbels. The left does not like Trump and they will do anything to take him down. He threatens the cozy UniParty arrangement in D.C.
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Corker relies on the WAPO for his intelligence reporting and political insights ?
Yes. And so, it seems, do a lot of other people. It is the new lead story all over the MSM with overtones of something very bad having been done but without any evidence that there were any violations of law. It just sounds bad because of the tone in which it's delivered.
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So, McMaster, who was there, publicly says "didn't happen". But we should believe unnamed "sources" by the WaPo
*snort*
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Violence, propaganda lies, election fraud, anti-free speech/anti-constititionalism and segregations via race. This is Maxism, Communism, Socialism on the move with considerable energy and financing. An all out coup attempt is ongoing, and indeed people on the left need to be sued, imprisoned. This dangerous effort against basic freedoms and liberties needs to be identified as all of the above, demonized and destroyed, ASAP.
[LATimes] Companies that do business with the city of Los Angeles would have to disclose if they also have contracts to work on President Trump’s proposed border wall under a motion unveiled Thursday.
City Councilman Gil Cedillo’s proposal would require prospective and existing contractors to state "under affidavit" whether they have any contracts for building Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Companies from around the country are bidding to build the wall, which Trump made a rallying point in his presidential campaign.
Cedillo, who opposes the wall, said at a news conference that his motion is about "transparency."
"I would hope that those who want to do business with us share our values and understand the importance of a city that is significantly immigrant, that the foundation of our economy is immigrant, that our social fabric is immigrant," Cedillo said. They just can't bring themselves to differentiate between legal and illegal immigration.
Members of the City Council, all but one of whom are registered Democrats, have taken on Trump’s policies before.
The council passed a resolution last week asking Congress to investigate whether Trump violated the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause or committed any other high crimes and misdemeanors that could lead to impeachment. The clause is designed to ensure that presidents aren’t influenced by gifts or aid from a foreign government. I wonder how many gifts Cedillo has received from the Mexican government.
The council also backed a proposal in February barring city employees from helping the federal government create a registry based on religion or spiritual faith.
Tom Holsman, chief executive of the Associated General Contractors of California, criticized the Cedillo and Lara proposals, calling them part of a "new overreaching by cities and states."
Punishing or making public companies that are working on the border wall hurts companies and their employees, Holsman said. Two companies that belong to the contractors group recently withdrew from the wall bidding process amid concerns over backlash, Holsman added.
Gary Toebben, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, said it was "inappropriate" for the city to ask companies about bids on other projects and make a "value judgment" about the qualifications of the bidder.
"This precedent could lead to an endless number of litmus-test questions based on the personal preferences of City Council members," Toebben said. "We strongly discourage the City Council from adding this precedent to the public bidding process." More at link including video of Cedillo running his mouth.
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California has been running businesses off for years.
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"One Bill Gil" Cedillo was the asshole pushing Drivers Licenses for Illegals. He's pushing unconstitutional crap ..again. Public funds can't be disbursed in a politically discriminatory fashion. Perhaps they need their funds cut
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The whole flipping' point of public bid laws is to prevent prevent politicians from putting their thumbs on the scale. The public seems to think that giving politicians the ability to influence the award of public contracts would create enormous opportunities for graft. I can't imagine why anyone would think that, but a lot of people do.
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I'm fine with this - let CA continue to implode. Sorry, Frank G - get out while there's still time!
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Raj, you don't just hand a state like California to the Mexicans. Have you ever been here? It is worth fighting for. And you can bet your butt they won't stop with California. How much do you want to give them? Arizona? New Mexico? Nevada? Colorado? Texas? Where does it stop? IMHO, the way to deal with the Cedillos and the Laras of this state is for the federal government to slap them down each and every time they get out of line. If they pass unconstitutional law then get the courts to throw them out. If they break the law then lock them up. If their friends, family and business associates are here illegally then deport them. By all means, cut their funding. No more block grants. No more research grants. And, yes, I would scrutinize very closely their contacts with the Mexican government.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal includes tens of millions of dollars for the legal defense of illegal immigrants.
The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday that the budget would include a total of $33 million in state government assistance to illegal immigrants.
These funds, however, are not enough for some Democrats in the state who seek to launch new programs. Democratic legislators have proposed three separate bills that impact legal training, start a legal defense program and increase counsel for deported veterans. These proposals add up to more than $26 million.
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Abu, I support giving Cali and it's residents to Mexico for "reparations" and building a wall around the border. Let the citizens enjoy the benefits of Mexican citizenship
[LATimes] California legislators took the first step Tuesday to ban state government contracts for any company that helps build President Trump's promised wall along the Mexico border, with the author of the plan urging colleagues "to be on the right side of history."
The bill by state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) would prohibit any company from receiving a new or extended contract with the state of California if it participates in a future effort to build a new wall along the 2,000-mile international border.
"The wall is another attempt to separate and divide us," Lara said in testimony to the Senate Governmental Organization Committee. "It sends a message that we are better off in a homogenous society."
Senate Bill 30 won committee passage on a party-line vote, with Republicans expressing concern about the need for additional border security. Representatives of the construction industry also voiced opposition, arguing Lara's bill forces contractors into the middle of a divisive political fight.
"This is precedent-setting," said Todd Bloomstine, a lobbyist representing the Southern California Contractors Assn. "What next unpopular project would be [on the] blacklist?"
Lara told lawmakers he will amend the bill to exclude any work by a company -- including current bids on border wall projects -- that takes place prior to the bill's becoming law.
Trump's campaign promise of a new border wall remains in limbo in Washington, as members of Congress on both sides of the aisle voice skepticism about its funding.
Tuesday's hearing in Sacramento often veered into the appropriateness of the wall itself, with environmental groups expressing concerns about animal species that live on both sides of the border. That testimony became emotional for Juan Altamirano, an associate director of Audubon California who crossed the border with his family as a young child.
"We need more migration and not stagnation," Altamirano said.
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"Weneed more migration and not stagnation," Altamirano said.
Do it legally, then, Pendejo
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"The wall is another attempt to separate and divide us," Lara said in testimony to the Senate Governmental Organization Committee. "It sends a message that we are better off in a homogenous society."
So you're going to build a wall between California and 'bad' contractors? Between your supporters and the other half of the country?
My, aren't you virtuous! Hypocritical, but virtuous!
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Not a lawyer but somewhere in this is the idea of restraint of trade?
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We have the state of California and, in the article above, the city of Los Angeles acting independently to make it clear that taking President Trump's shekel will not be tolerated. I guess it's time to send the next generation off to Texas to establish his/her own completely independent company to do exactly the same thing with some of the excess personnel. Homo sapians: the tool-using animal that emigrates.
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#3 - Totally not legal. Public Contracting Code - State Law
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I want every single one of these "no wall" jackwagons to pay for their sedition when the next national security event takes place here that could have been prevented.
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Members of the State Proletariat of The Democrat People's Republic of Mexifornia have decreed it be written, so let it be done. I Jane a suitcase packed and expect to be transported to the Gulag at any moment for opposing Dear Leader Moonbeam, and his merry band of Marxists.
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[FOX 5 as posted in Drudge] WASHINGTON - It has been almost a year since Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered in the nation's capital. There have been no solid answers about why he was killed until now.
[FoxNews] North Carolina's tough voter identification law was dealt what could be a fatal blow on Monday, as the Supreme Court rejected an appeal to reinstate the policy. 
[Free Beacon] The U.S. ambassador to Qatar, an Obama administration holdover whose family donated hundreds of thousands to the Obama campaign, signaled her distaste for working under President Donald Trump, raising questions about her commitment to the new administration.
[The Hill] Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) says President Trump’s White House must reverse the "downward spiral" it finds itself in.
