[CNN] Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who commanded the military response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, slams President Donald Trump's response to hurricane-ravaged.
Press Sec. Sarah Sanders twitter feed:
At @ricardorossello request, @POTUS has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico. It will go into effect immediately.
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It's a Caribbean nation. As such, sometimes it rains real hard, the winds blow and the lights blink. Severe tropical storms, that sort of thing. Anyone salt anything back for a rainy day ?
Wiki - "The Puerto Rican government-debt crisis is a financial crisis affecting the government of Puerto Rico. After decades of mismanagement, the government's outstanding debt pile exceeds $70 billion."
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The problem in PR is not the shipping, but rather the backlog of unloading the ships and delivering the supplies.
McCain has a bug in his bonnet for repealing the Jones Act. It is one of his obsessions. It is not the issue here.
I think that Honore's moment of fame and good sense has come and went. Sad.
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Same story seen in Haiti earthquake.
Can't land relief planes, no secure airports or handlers.
Can't dock many deep water ships because of port debris, few available cargo handling facilities and fewer workers.
No infrastructure to serve any of it.
Haven't heard much from the big industries like Union Carbide or the Navy. Away from city centers and tourist clusters PR is a third world country in a nice suit.
[GatewayPundit] Why is Tillerson’s State Department and Sessions’ DOJ protecting Hillary Clinton?
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Thursday that a federal judge will personally review, on camera, redacted material from Hillary Clinton’s emails during her time as Secretary of State.
Via Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced today that a federal judge will personally review, in camera, redacted material from emails discussing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of iPads and iPhones during her tenure at the State Department. Judge Kollar-Kotelly also ordered the State Department to file an affidavit addressing why it should not have to search new Clinton emails recovered. In taking these steps, the court rejected arguments by the Tillerson State Department and its lawyers at the Sessions Justice Department.
The court will review the blacked-out information so as to better ascertain whether the government misconduct exception would require the release of the full emails. Generally speaking, the government misconduct exception prevents government agencies from withholding information that would shed light on government wrongdoing under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton had this to say of having to fight Sessions’ DOJ for information on Hillary’s emails:
"Hillary Clinton knowingly used an unsecure email system and risky iPads and smartphones to conduct classified and sensitive government business. It is frankly outrageous that Secretary Tillerson and Attorney General Sessions allow their agencies to cover up for and defend Hillary Clinton’s scandalous and potentially criminal conduct."
As previously reported Sessions’ DOJ is blocking Judicial Watch from Hillary’s emails just like the previous administration did.
"The Trump State Department and the Trump Justice Department sent the same lawyers into this judge to make the same arguments that had been made for four years during the Obama years, that we’ve already searched and we are not going to search anymore," Judge Napolitano said during an appearance on FOX Business.
U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the State Department didn’t do enough to investigate areas of email between Hillary Clinton and her personal aides.
"There has been no substantial change whatsoever in the Rex Tillerson State Department or the Jeff Sessions Justice Department about Mrs. Clinton’s emails and an Obama appointee to the bench said, ’I’m not buying this argument, you’re going to look for those emails.’ This is the world turned upside down," he said.
Thank God for Judicial Watch and their relentless fight against the Deep State operatives fighting from the shadows.
[Daily Caller] A company whose president is "best friends" with Chelsea Clinton received more than $11 million in contracts over the last decade from a highly secretive Department of Defense think tank, but to date, the group lacks official federal approval to handle classified materials, according to sensitive documents TheDCNF was allowed to review.
Jacqueline Newmyer, the president of a company called the Long Term Strategy Group, has over the last 10 years received numerous Defense Department contracts from a secretive think tank called Office of Net Assessment.
The Office of Net Assessment is so sensitive, the specialized think tank is housed in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and reports directly to the secretary.
To date, the Long Term Strategy Group has received $11.2 million in contracts, according to USAspending,gov, a government database of federal contracts.
But after winning a decade of contracts from the Office of Net Assessment, the federal agency is only now in the process of granting clearance to the company. Long Term Strategy Group never operated a secure room on their premises to handle classified materials, according to the Defense Security Service, a federal agency that approves secure rooms inside private sector firms. Long Term Strategy Group operates offices in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Mass.
"The Long Term Strategy Group is currently in process for a facility clearance with the Defense Security Service," the agency informed TheDCNF in an email.
Newmyer declined to address her company’s lack of facilities to handle classified material. "With regard to your questions about the status of our facilities, those are best directed to the US government, which has authority over such matters," she wrote in an email to TheDCNF.
She also declined to say whether her company is footing the bill for the new secure facility, or if the taxpayers are footing the bill through the Office of Net Assessment.
Adam Lovinger, a whistleblower and 12-year Office of Net Assessment (ONA) veteran, has repeatedly warned ONA’s leadership they faced risks by relying on outside contractors as well as the problem of cronyism and a growing "revolving door" policy, where ONA employees would leave the defense think tank and join private contractors to do the same work.
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.
