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October 2015

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‘Gross Negligence’ The espionage law Mrs. Clinton might have broken. By James Taranto

By on October 17th, 2015

If you’re Bernie Sanders, you’ll want to stop reading now, because you’re sick and tired of hearing about the subject of today’s column. For everyone else:

Fox News reports that the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s illicit email server “is now focused on whether there were violations of an Espionage Act subsection pertaining to ‘gross negligence’ in the safekeeping of national defense information”—this according to “an intelligence source familiar with the investigation”:

Under 18 USC 793 subsection F, the information does not have to be classified to count as a violation. The intelligence source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity citing the sensitivity of the ongoing probe, said the subsection requires the “lawful possession” of national defense information by a security clearance holder who “through gross negligence,” such as the use of an unsecure computer network, permits the material to be removed or abstracted from its proper, secure location.

Subsection F also requires the clearance holder “to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer. “A failure to do so “shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”

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Missile Defense for Korea The U.S. and its ally can deploy a new system, unless China gets a veto.

By on October 17th, 2015

North Korea could have as many as 100 nuclear bombs within five years and may already be able to mount warheads on missiles capable of reaching the United States. Those are the latest estimates of Pyongyang’s atomic capabilities, and they will be at the center of the discussion Barack Obama will have with Park Geun-hye when the South Korean President visits the White House Friday. So it’s good the two democracies can do something about it.

That’s thanks to Thaad, or Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense. This U.S.-built system’s powerful radar and sophisticated interceptors would allow U.S. and South Korean forces to intercept missiles across distances of up to 200 kilometers, compared with about 35 kilometers with the Patriot systems currently deployed around the Korean peninsula.

Deploying Thaad would integrate South Korean defenses into a regional network of U.S. and Japanese sensors, enabling more accurate detection and interception of missiles from multiple angles and at multiple points in their flight path. Trilateral cooperation might also soothe some of the enduring tensions between South Korea and Japan over the latter’s militarist past.

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The Clintons and the Emirates Secretary Clinton’s top aide was paid to negotiate a private deal.

By on October 17th, 2015

This week the Washington Post reported that Cheryl Mills, who served as Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, was simultaneously being paid by a private organization to negotiate with a foreign government. And that foreign government has been particularly generous to the Clintons.

In 2009, while Ms. Mills held the second most powerful job at State, she also represented New York University as it negotiated with officials from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The school was preparing to open a campus there funded by the Abu Dhabi government. The campus opened in 2010 and welcomed Bill Clinton as a speaker at its inaugural commencement ceremony in 2014.

According to the Post, Ms. Mills was not paid by the U.S. government during the early months of the new Obama Administration, but was instead “officially designated as a temporary expert-consultant—a status that allowed her to continue to collect outside income while serving as chief of staff.” Outside of the Clintons and their staff, who else thinks it’s a good idea for senior State Department officials to be paid by private institutions to cut side deals with Middle Eastern dictatorships—or any foreign governments?

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IMPORTANT NEWS UPDATES FROM THE INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT

By on October 17th, 2015

General security, policy
1. Iranian underground missile bases enable ‘surprise launches’; US confirms Iran tested nuclear-capable ballistic missile; Iran’s ludicrous conviction of Jason Rezaian
2. US Navy civilian engineer sentenced to 11 years for attempted espionage for Egypt
3. TX man admits to lying about ISIS terrorist allegiances
4. State Dep’t report: Radical Islamist groups are the world’s chief religious persecutors
5. Haroon Aswat, Brit who plotted to set up OR terror training camp, sentenced to 20 yrs in prison
6. Federal appeals court revives lawsuit over NYPD surveillance of Muslims
7. Iranian-Canadian imprisoned for terrorism challenges possible loss of citizenship as ‘cruel & unusual’
8. Three weeks after kidnapping in Philippines, video surfaces of Canadians being held by Abu Sayyaf, affiliated with IS

Cyber, transportation, health, energy & communication security
9. ISIL-linked hacker arrested in Malaysia on US charges of providing material support to ISIL and computer hacking related to theft & distribution of US military and federal employee personal info
10. Terror watch list program glitch blamed for flight delays at major airports
11. Man who pointed laser at Tampa Police Department helicopter sentenced to prison

Financing, money laundering, fraud, identity theft, civil litigation
12. Two Hezbollah associates charged with conspiring to launder narcotics proceeds & with int’l arms trafficking
13. US Treasury sanctions prolific Chinese synthetic drug traffickers; 151 arrested in 16 states in probe of synthetic drug rings, proceeds traced to Middle East
14. Georgia man pleads guilty to operating unlicensed money transmitting business
15. New indictment adds bank fraud & financial aid fraud charges vs 2 Orange County men charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIL

Border security, immigration & customs
16. ACLU accuses US Border Patrol of profiling and abuse
17. Ontario man who ‘got the last laugh’ and slipped past no-fly list into Turkey now back in Canadian court

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Obama’s Palestinian Legacy in the Making By Rachel Ehrenfeld

By on October 17th, 2015

Being caught taking a leaf out of the Palestinian blood-libel against Israel, the Obama administration had to retract its statements, which in essence repeated the Palestinians’ false accusations that the wave of Palestinian violence against Israelis is Israel’s fault.
The ongoing Palestinian violence targeting Israelis and Jewish religious sites has been deceivingly coined “popular resistance.” But “in Palestinian code, popular resistance means the use of violence without using firearms,” Gen. (res). Yossi Kuperwasser said in a telephone interview earlier this week with Omri Ceren of the Israel Project. The former chief of the IDF’s Military Intelligence research division, and until recently, director general of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, explained, “throwing stones, using Molotov cocktails, and of course stabbing and riding over innocent people are the weapons used in the context of the Palestinian popular resistance.”

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PA Tries to Claim Western Wall at UNESCO By Ari Yashar

By on October 17th, 2015

Proposal, likely to pass due to Muslim majority, would have Kotel renamed Buraq Plaza and made part of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

In an attempt to gain international legitimacy for its rewriting of history, the Palestinian Authority (PA) will submit a resolution to UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) next week claiming the Kotel (Western Wall) as its own.

The proposal calls to have the Kotel in Jerusalem – which is an outer wall of the Temple Mount that is the holiest site in Judaism – recognized as part of Al-Aqsa Mosque located on the Mount, reports Yedioth Aharonoth on Friday.

The PA is not a member of the UNESCO Executive Council, and therefore the proposal will be submitted for a vote next week on its behalf by the six Arab member states of Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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A very Syrious matter By Tabitha Korol

By on October 17th, 2015

The Jewish Community Federations of North America have come together to provide humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees. The organizations, paid contractors who are identified in the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief, are too numerous to mention here, but include AIPAC, AJC, B’nai B’rith Int’l, HIAS, ORT America, and National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), who are furthering the cause of population redistribution.

Refugees, unlike migrants, are defined as those who flee their homes because of persecution. President Obama authorized the State Department to admit 85,000 refugees fleeing humanitarian crises worldwide in 2016. Just as these Islamists have invaded Europe, so our multiculturalists are funding their invasion into America, and despite Saudi Arabia’s air-conditioned tents that are erected and ready to accommodate three million for their annual pilgrimage to Medina, no “Syrians” are welcomed within the Islamic world. By definition, not only are these Syrians not refugees, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confessed that they have no screening process for “Syrian refugees.”

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California Congressmen, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-) and Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-)want feds to probe Exxon for climate change denial By Clinton Gillespie

By on October 17th, 2015

Two California Congressmen believe ExxonMobil violated the law for “failing to disclose truthful information regarding climate change” and asked Attorney General Loretta Lynch to investigate and consider legal retaliation against the company.

In a letter to the Attorney General, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles) and Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Walnut Creek) said Exxon violated numerous laws for “spreading this disinformation campaign”, including the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO, consumer protection laws, truth in advertising, public health and shareholder protection, among other laws.

RICO is the same law that was used to fine the tobacco industry for failing to let consumers know the dangers of smoking.

Lieu and DeSaulnier wrote the letter after reading a report in the Los Angeles Times that Exxon’s executives funded climate change research, starting in the 70s, only to sweep it under the rug and deliberately deny its findings.

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France’s top weatherman sparks storm over book questioning climate change By Henry Samuel, Paris

By on October 17th, 2015

Philippe Verdier, the weather chief at France’s state broadcaster France Televisions, has reportedly been sent on “forced holiday” for writing a book accusing top climatologists of “taking the world hostage.”

Every night, France’s chief weatherman has told the nation how much wind, sun or rain they can expect the following day.
Now Philippe Verdier, a household name for his nightly forecasts on France 2, has been taken off air after a more controversial announcement – criticising the world’s top climate change experts.
Mr Verdier claims in the book Climat Investigation (Climate Investigation) that leading climatologists and political leaders have “taken the world hostage” with misleading data.
In a promotional video, Mr Verdier said: “Every night I address five million French people to talk to you about the wind, the clouds and the sun. And yet there is something important, very important that I haven’t been able to tell you, because it’s neither the time nor the place to do so.”
He added: “We are hostage to a planetary scandal over climate change – a war machine whose aim is to keep us in fear.”

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Jamie Glazov Moment: A Muslim With a Cleaver — and Islam

By on October 17th, 2015

http://jamieglazov.com/2015/10/17/jamie-glazov-moment-a-muslim-with-a-cleaver-and-islam/

In this new Jamie Glazov Moment, Jamie discusses A Muslim With a Cleaver — and Islam, analyzing whether Alaa Abu Jamal really murdered Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky because of Jewish settlements.

Don’t miss this special Jamie Glazov Moment:

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