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DeSantis vs. Newsom on Violent Crime
20Oct By adminNo Comments
Health

DeSantis vs. Newsom on Violent Crime

California Gov. Gavin Newsom isn’t running for president in 2024, at least not yet, but he has agreed to a televised Fox News debate next month with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. One worthy topic will be their respective economic records, but they should also spend some time on public safety.The Federal Bureau of Investigation this week released national statistics on 2022, and the headline was that violent crime fell 1.7%, dipping back to the same level as before the pandemic. But it’s a big country, and those averages don’t tell the whole story. In California violent crime is still up 13% since 2019. In Florida it’s down 31.5%. The rate of violent crime in Mr. Newsom’s state last year, 499.5 per 100,000 people, was nearly double that in Mr. DeSantis’s domain, 258.9 per 100,000.Copyright ©2...
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FBI found gold bars in Menendez’s house, money stuffed in jackets, prosecutors say
22Sep By adminNo Comments
Money

FBI found gold bars in Menendez’s house, money stuffed in jackets, prosecutors say

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and his wife, Nadine, have been indicted on charges of bribery. Federal prosecutors announced the charges Friday and said in a search of the senator’s home, they found $100,000 in gold bars and $480,000 in hidden cash.  According to the indictment, Menendez and his wife agreed to accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange to protect three New Jersey businessmen — Wael “Will” Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes — and benefit Egypt.  “Those bribes included cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value,” the document said.  The filing said Menendez used his power as a Senator to benefit Hana and the government of Egypt. Menendez provided sensitive U.S....
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Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance ‘Crown Jewel’
9Sep By adminNo Comments
Technology

Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance ‘Crown Jewel’

Senior United States intelligence officials met privately in Virginia yesterday with over a dozen civil liberties groups to field concerns about domestic surveillance operations that have drawn intense scrutiny this summer among an unlikely coalition of Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the US Congress.The closed-door session, convened at the Liberty Crossing Intelligence Campus—a sprawling complex housing the bulk of the nation’s counterterrorism infrastructure—comes amid a backdrop of political furor over past misuses of a powerful surveillance tool by, principally, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Republican lawmakers, who remain aggrieved over the FBI’s botched operation to surveil a former Trump campaign aide amid its 2016 Russia investigation, have formed an extraordi...
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Utah Man Accused of Threatening President Shot and Killed During FBI Attempt to Serve Warrant – RedState
10Aug By adminNo Comments
Politics

Utah Man Accused of Threatening President Shot and Killed During FBI Attempt to Serve Warrant – RedState

74-year-old Craig Deleeuw Robertson of Provo, Utah, was shot and killed early Wednesday morning as the FBI attempted to serve a warrant at his home. According to reports, Robertson was armed and had made multiple threats against President Joe Biden, who was traveling to the state later in the day.     The shooting happened around 6:15 am local time as agents attempted to serve search and arrest warrants at Robertson’s home. Video recorded by neighbors, and obtained by CBS News, showed the raid, during which apparent flashbangs were seen. One neighbor told CBS News they heard about six gunshots and said the man’s body was eventually brought out to the street. A criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Utah and obtained by CBS News details graphic threats gathered during a...
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FBI Tried to Prevent Former Agent From Answering House Oversight Committee Questions on Hunter Probe – RedState
19Jul By adminNo Comments
Politics

FBI Tried to Prevent Former Agent From Answering House Oversight Committee Questions on Hunter Probe – RedState

As we reported earlier, a former FBI supervisory special agent has now “confirmed key portions of the IRS whistleblowers’ testimony” during the agent’s interview with the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. 🚨BREAKING🚨 Today, our committee staff conducted a transcribed interview with a former FBI supervisory special agent assigned to the FBI’s Wilmington office and the Biden criminal investigation. The agent CONFIRMED key portions of the IRS whistleblowers’ testimony, including… — Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) July 17, 2023 According to the Committee, [B]oth Secret Service headquarters and the Biden transition team were TIPPED OFF about the planned Hunter Biden interview. In fact, on the day of the Hunter Biden interview, FEDERAL AGENTS WERE TOLD TO STAND BY AND TO NOT APPROAC...
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Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act Goes Back to Congress
18Jul By adminNo Comments
Technology

Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act Goes Back to Congress

Other lawmakers are alarmed by the FBI’s disclosure of having purchased location information derived from people’s cell phones. During a hearing in March, the FBI director, Christopher Wray, told senators that the bureau had “previously—as in the past—purchased some such information for a specific national security pilot project.”Americans have a reasonable expectation of privacy, the US Supreme Court says, when it comes to certain digital information, including that which could reveal “the whole of their physical movements.” Such data—which the court describes as “detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled”—need not be GPS-precise merely to justify a warrant. Nevertheless, the government has widely adopted the view that the Fourth Amendment does not apply when that same data is av...
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Former FBI Agent Confirms Key Portions of Whistleblower Testimony in Hunter Biden Probe – RedState
17Jul By adminNo Comments
Politics

Former FBI Agent Confirms Key Portions of Whistleblower Testimony in Hunter Biden Probe – RedState

On Monday evening the House Committee on Oversight and Government Accountability announced that “committee staff conducted a transcribed interview with a former FBI supervisory special agent assigned to the FBI’s Wilmington office and the Biden criminal investigation” earlier in the day, and that that witness had “confirmed key portions of the IRS whistleblowers’ testimony” in the matter. As seen in the transcripts of committee staff interviews with the two IRS whistleblowers, who apparently worked with the former FBI supervisory special agent who was interviewed Monday, witnesses are advised that giving false testimony to committee staff is a crime prior to the commencement of the interview. 🚨BREAKING🚨 Today, our committee staff conducted a transcribed interview with a former FBI sup...
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