Category: Disclosure

CNN – Trump is right about the FBI

 

Well well well now…

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editor’s note: Paul Callan is a CNN legal analyst, a former New York homicide prosecutor and current counsel at the New York law firm of Edelman & Edelman PC, focusing on wrongful conviction and civil rights cases. Follow him on Twitter @paulcallan. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.

(CNN) – The ferocity of President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on the integrity of the FBI has sent shock waves through an agency accustomed to public adulation in recent years. Sadly, much of the presidential criticism of the bureau may be entirely legitimate.

The FBI has traditionally enjoyed a highly favorable reputation among a majority of the nation’s citizens. Despite controversial programs that sometimes employed illegal forms of surveillance and enforcement methods — such as those used on black citizens lawfully protesting racial segregation, individuals in the “red scare” of the 1950s and long-haired students and others protesting the war in Vietnam during the 1960s and ’70s — this reputation endured.
And American presidents continued to steadfastly defend the bureau — that is, until now. …
While I rarely agree with much of what the President does or says regarding legal issues, this time he’s got it right. The FBI’s reputation has been severely damaged not by the President’s criticism but by a systematic failure of the bureau’s leadership.
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Passport System Collapses: Holiday Travelers Paralyzed in All U.S. Airports As Customs & Border Patrol Computers Fail

 

Seems the rats keep trying to get outta Dodge…

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We are getting reports that all international travelers in the United States are weathering horrendous lines as the computer system for passports operated by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has failed late Monday night.

On one of the busiest travel nights of the holiday season.

A video of the nightmare in Miami’s airport is being played out throughout the United States.

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‘Dead Man’s Switch?’ Mysterious Assange Tweet Sends Twitter Into a Frenzy

 

An odd, cryptic tweet by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange featuring some sort of code and a link to the video of a 2008 rap song has sent Twitter into speculation mode over its meaning.

The tweet, which remains Assange’s last entry as of 5pm GMT, includes a 60 character code composed of letters and digits, along with a link to M.I.A.’s Paper Planes, a song featuring the chorus “All I wanna do is (gunshot, gunshot, gunshot, gunshot) and (click, ka-ching) and take your money” and the lines “If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name” and “I’ve got more records than the KGB, So, uh, no funny business.”

The message has led to a flurry of speculation over what exactly Assange was trying to say. Was it an encryption key indicating that a fresh batch of WikiLeaks files was on the way? Or a code for a ‘dead man’s switch’ triggered to release its cache of ‘life insurance’ files in case the freedom of information activist was assassinated?

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Power Outage Hits New Orleans’ Armstrong International Airport

 

Another one, eh?  Power has since been restored…

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Holiday travelers at the New Orleans’ Armstrong International Airport were left in the dark during a power outage New Year’s Day.

By Paige Austin, Patch Staff |  | Updated 

NEW ORLEANS, LA — New Orleans’ Armstrong International Airport went dark News Year’s Day thanks to a power outage.

Airport spokesperson Michelle Wilcut told The New Orleans Advocate the outage affected “different sectors” of the facility before power was restored by 2 p.m. Monday.

Officials have not announced a cause for the power outage. Passengers began tweeting about the power outage shortly after noon on Monday.

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