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Sounds like a Trump comment.---yes, I did it, so what!
Facing Criticism Over Muslim Camps, China Says: What’s the Problem?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/world/asia/china-camps-muslims.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
Chinese officials have released social media videos, blistering editorials and attacks on researchers in a push to counter evidence of its Muslim internment drive.
Shohrat Zakir, center, the chairman of the Xinjiang government, as screens showed a film titled “Fighting Terrorism in Xinjiang” at a news conference in Beijing on Monday.Credit...Ng Han Guan/Associated Press
Dec. 9, 2019 Updated 8:16 a.m. ET
BEIJING — On Twitter and YouTube, with slick videos and strident editorials, the Chinese government has gone on the offensive to reject mounting evidence that it is detaining Muslims in droves, depicting its critics as players in a Western conspiracy.
China’s aggressive media campaign comes after exposés published by the The New York Times and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists about the government’s drive to detain a million or more members of largely Muslim minority groups in indoctrination camps. The reports, which used leaked official documents to reveal the coercive workings of the camps in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, sharpened international criticism of China’s ruling Communist Party.
The pushback from China has escalated in recent days after the United States House of Representatives last week overwhelmingly supported a bill that could impose sanctions on Chinese officials overseeing the internment drive.
Chinese officials have accused Western lawmakers, experts and news outlets of maligning the government’s policies and stirring ethnic discord in Xinjiang.
At a news conference in Beijing on Monday, Shohrat Zakir, the chairman of the Xinjiang government, dismissed the congressional bill as “crude meddling in China’s internal affairs.”
He sought to foil the criticism by saying that the facilities — which Beijing calls vocational training centers — were now holding only people who were there voluntarily. Others who were previously in the facilities had “graduated,” he said, providing no specifics and declining to say whether they had been released.
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Trump target Lisa Page sues Justice Department, FBI over 'unlawful' disclosure of texts with Peter S
Source: cnbc
Trump target Lisa Page sues Justice Department, FBI over ‘unlawful’ disclosure of texts with Peter Strzok
Published Tue, Dec 10 2019 2:57 PM EST Updated Moments Ago
Key Points
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page sued the Justice Department and the FBI over what she claims were illegal disclosures to media outlets of her text messages with an FBI agent with whom she was having an affair.
Page has been a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s barbed tweets and comments.
Trump has argued that the bias against him by the married Page and FBI Agent Peter Strzok as displayed in their text messages played a key role in the FBI’s decision to launch an investigation of members of his 2016 campaign.
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page — who has been a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s barbed tweets and comments — on Tuesday sued the Justice Department and the FBI over what she claims were illegal disclosures to media outlets of her nearly 400 text messages with an FBI agent with whom she was having an affair.
Page’s lawsuit alleging violation of the Privacy Act came a day after the Justice Department’s internal watchdog in a new report said she “did not play a role in the decision” to open a probe into the Trump’s 2016 campaign or related cases.
Page’s text messages with Strzok were released “to a group of reporters” as part of a 90-page document by the Justice Department in December 2017, notes her suit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.
The officials who authorized their release “and their allies sought to use, and ultimately did use, the messages to promote the false narrative that [Page] and others at the FBI were biased against President Trump, had conspired to undermine him, and had otherwise had engaged in allegedly criminal acts, including treason.”...........................
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This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
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Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/10/trump-target-lisa-page-sues-justice-department-fbi-over-strzok-texts.html
I do not see a link to the actual lawsuit or who is named. but it is a developing story. stay tuned.
More power to her.
https://twitter.com/NatSecLisa/status/1204482780467478528?s=20
https://twitter.com/mlswartz22/status/1204494502326607872?s=20
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GP: Lisa Page 180713
Former FBI Lawyer Lisa Page, center, walks to a House Judiciary Committee closed door meeting in the Rayburn House Office Building, on July 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson | Getty Images
Trump Hotel Holiday Party Rescheduled, 'Could Help Barr and His Guests Avoid Protests'
Source: lawandcrime.com
by Jerry Lambe | 9:22 am, December 10th, 2019
U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s holiday party in Washington, D.C., which was originally scheduled to take place Sunday has instead been rescheduled.
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice would not comment on when the party would take place, but confirmed to the Washington Post that Barr would still be hosting approximately 200 guests at the Trump International Hotel.
Barr had reportedly signed an agreement with the hotel over the summer that required him to provide a $10,000 deposit up front, and spend a minimum of $31,5000 in total. The full cost of the event is being funded by Barr in his personal capacity.
Why the rescheduling? An official explanation hasn’t been offered, but the Post noted that protests were successfully dodged and that this may continue to be the case:..................
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/ag-barr-reschedules-trump-international-hotel-holiday-party/
From the article--it did not seem like a lot of protestors--were planned but seems enough for barr and his quests.
Barr was to pay for it all
https://twitter.com/lawcrimenews/status/1204409434430156800?s=20
McCarthy is out here brazenly lying about what the IG report says. (It does not say the FBI "spied
He has the same memo as Trump and Barr. disgusting--but the MAGA folks will believe. yes. they will
Kevin McCarthy is out here brazenly lying about what the IG report says. (It does not say the FBI "spied on" the Trump campaign.)
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1204435295766228992?s=20
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1204434216416694277?s=20
#kevinMcCarthy is having his panties in a tight wad on msnbc. who.
Texas is at risk of a deadly measles outbreak, and yet few have been willing to cast blame on the st
No doubt about it--the antivax movement is growing! Folks are willing to put their own kids at risk and also other kids. This is dangerous!
Peter Hotez vs. Measles and the Anti-Vaccination Movement
Texas is at risk of a deadly measles outbreak, and yet few have been willing to cast blame on the state’s combative anti-vaccine movement. Enter Peter Hotez, an affable, bow-tie-wearing scientist who decided he’d had enough.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/peter-hotez-vs-measles-and-the-anti-vaccination-movement?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Texas Monthly |
Laura Beil
Peter Hotez. Photograph by Brian Goldman.
One afternoon in October 2016, Peter Hotez holed up in his office at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine, where he is the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine. Surrounded by obscure science volumes and honors bestowed by dignitaries ranging from Bill Clinton to Greg Abbott, he meticulously set about injecting himself into a battle that most scientists had been careful to avoid. Hotez had spent his career fighting deadly diseases in far-flung corners of the world, but now he began tapping out an essay called “Texas and Its Measles Epidemics” for the scientific journal PLOS Medicine. The modest title belied just how provocative the article would turn out to be.
In it, he recalled the measles outbreaks that had routinely devastated the U.S. before the introduction of a vaccine, in the sixties. The virus killed 6,000 Americans a year in the early twentieth century, and thousands more suffered permanent hearing loss and neurological damage. Globally, it killed millions. Thanks to vaccine campaigns, that number had dipped to under 100,000 by 2013. In the U.S., it was declared eliminated in 2000. Yet as Hotez considered more-recent statistics, he wondered, “Could large-scale measles outbreaks and deaths return to the US?”
He was particularly concerned about Texas. Days earlier, he had been fielding routine emails when a disturbing set of data popped up on his screen: the number of Texas children who had been granted exemptions from school vaccine laws for “reasons of conscience” had increased steadily, year by year, from around 3,000 in 2003 to just under 45,000 in 2015. Until this point, Hotez had watched the state’s anti-vaccine lobby with increasing dread but little urgency. Now a sense of alarm came over him. He was staring at a measles epidemic in the making.
Measles remains one of the most contagious viruses on earth. Studies have shown that populations that dip below 95 percent vaccine coverage become a tinderbox. Hotez noted in his essay that counties in West Texas and the Panhandle were approaching that threshold, and vaccine exemption rates in many Austin-area private schools had already exceeded 20 percent (one had even surpassed 40 percent). “I predict measles outbreaks in Texas could happen as early as the winter or spring of 2018,” he wrote. ..........................................
Former FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Celebrates On Twitter After She's Cleared In Report
Source: huff post
12/09/2019 11:20 pm ET
“The sum total of findings ... that my personal opinions had any bearing on the course of either the Clinton or Russia investigations? Zero and Zero,” she says.
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page took a victory lap on Twitter after she was cleared of wrongdoing in the report released Monday by the Justice Department’s inspector general.
President Donald Trump has frequently attacked Page, accusing her of treason for her work with the FBI investigating Russian interference in the presidential election.
Page fired back Monday: “The sum total of findings by IG [Michael] Horowitz that my personal opinions had any bearing on the course of either the Clinton or Russia investigations? Zero and Zero.”
The president relentlessly attacked Page and her onetime romantic partner Peter Strzok, an FBI agent who has been fired, after disparaging texts they wrote to each other about Trump surfaced (the two also criticized Democrats in texts). Trump had characterized the criticism as a sign of an illegal and biased vendetta against him by an imagined “deep state” of organized government workers, including in the FBI........................................................
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lisa-page-ig-report-fbi-peter-strzok_n_5deef9c9e4b07f6835b80f68
https://twitter.com/NatSecLisa/status/1204119118519123968?s=20
The @JusticeOIG weighs in on Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
https://twitter.com/adamgoldmanNYT/status/1204110740979945478?s=20
https://twitter.com/adamgoldmanNYT/status/1204101040750178304?s=20
https://twitter.com/BreakandEnterTV/status/1204119791046406146?s=20
A free pass for Trump? GOP presses edge in key battlegrounds
Hate to think or say this but I do not have a good feeling about election 2020. Maybe I should stop reading articles like this. Yet, the last poll in WI showed Trump ahead. damn.
A free pass for Trump? GOP presses edge in key battlegrounds
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/a-free-pass-for-trump-gop-presses-edge-in-key-battlegrounds/ar-BBY0Tn0?ocid=spartandhp
By STEVE PEOPLES and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press 56 mins ago
WASHINGTON — A full year before Election Day 2020, Republicans quietly executed a “dry run” of President Donald Trump's massive reelection machine.
© Provided by Associated Press President Donald Trump gestures after speaking at a campaign rally Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
They activated tens of thousands of volunteers and tested phone bank capabilities and get-out-the-vote operations in every state in the nation. Before and after the sprawling exercise, GOP officials coordinated thousands of so-called “MAGA Meet ups” to organize and expand their network of Trump loyalists, paying close attention to battlegrounds like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
And on Tuesday, Trump himself will face thousands more cheering supporters in Pennsylvania, his fourth appearance in the swing state this year.
The nation's best known Democrats, meanwhile, are pouring most of their time and resources into the states that matter most in their primary fight: Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. Three of the four will be considered swing states next November, but they are far from the biggest electoral prizes come Election Day 2020.
Defiant Democrats insist that Trump is not getting a free pass in the nation's top general election battlegrounds. They note that the “dry run” played out on the same week that Republicans suffered embarrassing losses across several states. But others are willing to acknowledge the reality: Much of the Democratic Party's energy and star power will ignore critical swing states like Pennsylvania for much of the next six months.
“Whomever their nominee is they’re going to come out broke and have to scale nationally overnight because the DNC lacks the resources to get it done,” said Rick Gorka, a spokesman for the GOP and Trump's campaign, calling their operation in Pennsylvania the “biggest and baddest ground game in the state.”............................
FBI Director: We have 'no information' indicating Ukraine interfered in 2016 Election......msnbc
tag line.
BREAKING: FBI Dir. Chris Wray "The inspector general did not find political bias or improper motivations impacting the opening" of Russia probe, "or the decision to use certain investigative tools."
@PierreTABC: "Included FISA?"
Wray: "Including FISA." https://abcn.ws/33YwGPu
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1204163492426780672?s=20
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