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Trump Investigations from Michael_Novakhov (124 sites): 1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (197 sites): Donald Trump | The Guardian: Biden’s team hopes for repeat of his 2012 performance as Trump debate nears

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The vice-presidential candidate who debated Paul Ryan helped turn the trajectory of Obama’s reelection campaign

For Democrats and supporters of former vice-president Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, the hope is that the version of Biden who faced then-congressman Paul Ryan back in 2012 shows up for the debate against Donald Trump on Tuesday in Ohio.

The Biden who showed up for the Ryan debate eight years ago helped turn around the trajectory of then-President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. Ask just about any former Obama campaign alumna or Democratic strategist and they will concede that Obama’s performance against Mitt Romney in the first debate was lacking.

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1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (197 sites): “Donald Trump” – Google News: Brazilian official who posed for photo with Trump tests positive for coronavirus, reports say – CNBC

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“Trump Investigations” – Google News: Flouting House investigations is a pattern for the Trump White House – The Dallas Morning News

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Donald Trump: Harvard Constitutional Law Professor: The Evidence Against Donald Trump Is All There

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“There is nothing left to do but collate it,” Laurence Tribe told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.

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“Russia investigations” – Google News: Western intelligence services tracked Russian spy in Catalonia – EL PAIS

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Western intelligence services tracked Russian spy in Catalonia EL PAIS

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“trumpism” – Google News: Talking to Rudy, Trumpist Hand Grenade: Impeachment Days Four and Five – CounterPunch

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RealClearInvestigations – Homepage: Justice IG Probing Ex-FBI Lawyer Over Altered File

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A former FBI lawyer is under criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document related to 2016 surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser, several people briefed on the matter told CNN.

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Unit 29155: Western intelligence services tracked Russian spy in Catalonia | In English | EL PAÍS

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General Denis Sergeev, the Russian spy who traveled to Barcelona in 2017 on the eve of the October 1 illegal referendum in Catalonia, carried out subversive operations in a dozen or so countries in Europe and Asia. Using the false name Sergey Fedotov, this agent linked to so-called “Unit 29155” was detected in the United Kingdom and Bulgaria, where Western Intelligence services have linked him with a number of assassination attempts. The Spanish High Court is currently investigating him, as EL PAÍS revealed on Thursday.

Denis Vyacheslavovich Sergeev is a veteran of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU, as it is known in Russian by its initials), Russia’s largest foreign intelligence agency. With the rank of general, the agent operated for at least a decade in different countries. At the start he did so with his true identity, and later as Sergey Fedotov. Using this name, he was detected in Bulgaria and the United Kingdom. Now, Spain’s High Court is investigating this agent – who has been classed as “dangerous” – and his alleged relationship with events in Catalonia, within the framework of Russian attempts to destabilize other countries.

Born in 1973 in Usharal, a small militarized city in what today is Kazakhstan, according to journalistic investigations, Sergeev is married and has a daughter. He served in the Siberian army until he was transferred to Moscow. There he signed up for the Elite Diplomatic Military Academy, which is known as The Conservatory, the feeding ground of the GRU. He then became a high-ranking officer, stationed in the top levels of the military intelligence services, those that operate with their normal identity but with a certain level of cover. His cover was that of manager or shareholder of at least eight Russian companies.

In 2010, he was given a new identity: Sergey Fedotov. With it, he operated in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, according to the Western intelligence services who have followed his tracks in recent years. In 2015, he was in Bulgaria when the arms dealer Emilian Gebrev was the target of two assassination attempts. In 2016, before and after the “Brexit” referendum – a vote on whether the United Kingdom should stay within the European Union – he was detected in Great Britain, according to an in-depth investigation carried out by the specialized media outlets Bellingcat, The Insider and Respekt.

A search for the fake name that he used on the Passenger Name Record (PNR) database – used by airlines to record information about all of their travelers – also revealed two trips to Barcelona. On the first, Fedotov arrived in the Catalan capital on November 5, 2016, and after staying for six days, flew back to Moscow via Zurich. The second took place nearly a year later, on September 29, 2017, just two days before the illegal referendum on October 1. On that occasion, the Russian official stayed in Spain until October 9, returning to Moscow via Geneva. There is no evidence of further visits to Spain.

Practically nothing about him is known since March 2018, shortly after the poisoning on British soil of the former Russian spy and British intelligence collaborator Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. Intelligence reports believe that it was Sergeev who supervised the failed operation against Skripal. They also state that the operatives belong to a group within the GRU known as Unit 29155, which is dedicated to particularly sensitive operations abroad.

The British investigation first identified the two alleged perpetrators of the failed assassination attempt, Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin, who had also used false identities during their time in the United Kingdom. Later, a third member of the group was named: Sergeev, according to information published by Bellingcat.

According to sources close to the investigation that has been opened in Spain, this information has been included in the probe recently opened by High Court Judge Manuel García-Castellón, and which is currently under seal and whose existence was revealed by EL PAÍS on Thursday. The inquiries are being carried out by the National Police force’s General Information Office, which specializes in counter-terrorism. The investigation, which is still in its early stages, suggests that the Russian spying activities in Catalonia were not coordinated with pro-independence figures, but rather aimed to take advantage of the crisis to destabilize Spain.

Félix Arteaga, senior analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute, states that the activities of Sergeev’s group fit within “the pattern of Russian activity” within Europe. Arteaga stresses that since 2014, the different secret services from that country have widened their activities abroad. “They have moved from covert actions to get hold of information to others that are more open with the aim of displaying their capacity for influence.”

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The Psychoanalysis of Intelligence Operations And the Diagnostic Signs of Abwehr Operations – Web Review By Michael Novakhov

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“trump putin” – Google News: LTE: Trump is Putin’s ‘useful idiot’ – Opinion – Bucks County Courier Times

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Donald Trump: Ex-Reagan, Clinton Adviser: ‘Worst Day Of The Presidency So Far For Donald Trump’

mikenova12 — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 07:36:19 -0500

“The worst day,” David Gregen told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

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Donald Trump: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rips Republicans For ‘Beclowning’ Themselves Over Donald Trump

mikenova12 — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 07:35:46 -0500

The freshman Democrat also repeated her call for White House adviser Stephen Miller to resign.

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Donald Trump: Nancy Pelosi Hits Donald Trump Over Yovanovitch Attack: Knows He’s In Over His Head

mikenova12 — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 07:35:29 -0500

“I think part of it is his own insecurity as an imposter,” said the House Speaker.

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Donald Trump: Jim Carrey Slaps Roger Stone With A Cartoon Warning For The Kids

mikenova12 — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 07:34:57 -0500

“Choose Your Heroes Wisely!” the actor wrote on his depiction of Donald Trump’s longtime associate.

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What’s the Real Goal of Impeaching Donald Trump?

mikenova12 — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:11:16 -0500

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As public impeachment hearings begin in the House intelligence committee this week, what exactly are Democrats hoping to achieve? We can think of their goals in terms of the audiences they likely have in mind.

Marginal Democrats and their constituents. The biggest disaster for Democrats would be if Republicans are united on an impeachment vote, and then, after a Senate trial, Democrats end up divided. For the most part, they’ve already done what they needed to do: Polls show that impeachment is almost as popular as President Donald Trump is unpopular, and there’s been no apparent backlash against Democrats or surge in support for Trump over the impeachment drive.

Representative Will Hurd. The Texas Republican and sometime Trump opponent, who is retiring after this term, is on the intelligence committee. He opposed formalizing the impeachment inquiry, as did every other House Republican. But he’s asked serious questions in previous hearings on Trump scandals, is one of a handful of Republicans most likely to vote for impeachment and may well carry some clout with other Trump skeptics. Winning his votes, and those of similarly situated Republicans, won’t get anywhere close to what’s needed to remove Trump, but it would probably produce a Senate majority for conviction. That’s important because it would force a serious trial; it’s also likely to harm Trump in terms of public opinion more than a majority vote to acquit would.

The next tier of Republicans. Removal is only possible if the bulk of the Republican Party turns on Trump. That would have to include a lot of people — both voters and party actors — who have chosen to support Trump despite having serious reservations about him. We can’t really know how many of those exist. Although stories often circulate about members of Congress who support Trump in public but brutally criticize him off the record, it’s always hard to tell how seriously to take such things.

The neutral media. By “neutral” I mean the major networks and newspapers that generally don’t act as messengers for either party. Democrats want to keep them focused on what Trump did and why it was so inappropriate that he should be removed. Republicans don’t appear to be rebutting those claims as much as complaining about procedure and attempting to put Democrats, especially former Vice President Joe Biden, on trial. Most voters won’t tune in to the hearings, but many will absorb something from the news coverage. That includes how the media signals which stories are important — so that even if people simply change the channel, the decision by television networks to break into regular programming with live coverage sends a powerful message.

Partisan Democrats. Party loyalists don’t need to be told that Trump needs to go. But they do need talking points to repeat, and preferably ones that make sense. They’ll also want fireworks, and would likely be skeptical of a narrow impeachment focused only on Trump’s dealings with Ukraine and not on obstruction of justice, emoluments and other matters. House Democrats don’t need to convince this audience, but they do need them to be fired up for next year’s election — they’re the ones who will put in the hours in phone banks, give money and bring their friends out to vote.

If the goal for Democrats is to actually impeach and remove the president, they can focus mainly on the first four groups, which all call for the same approach: a just-the-facts focus and a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger attitude. If they think that removal is an impossible goal because Republicans will vote against it no matter what evidence emerges, and that partisan polarization is so deep it can’t be bridged, then simply firing up the most partisan Democrats would probably make sense.

So pay attention to the demeanor and style in which committee chair Adam Schiff and other Democrats conduct these hearings. You’ll learn pretty quickly whether they think there’s a real chance of removing Trump — or if they think of the process mainly as a part of the 2020 campaign.

1. Greg Koger at Mischiefs of Faction speculates about what the 2020 election will look like if Trump stays at his current level of unpopularity. Plausible! And perhaps an underrated possibility. But there’s still plenty of time for Trump to recover. Over the weekend, I saw someone assert that it was certain Trump will lose the popular vote by millions and his only hope is the Electoral College, but in fact it’s way too early to be certain of anything like that.

2. Dave Hopkins continues his must-read “this week in impeachment” feature.

3. Anna Grzymala-Busse and Pauline Jones at the Monkey Cage on democratic erosion in former Soviet bloc nations.

4. My Bloomberg Opinion colleague Noah Smith on controlling health-care costs.

5. And Margaret Sullivan has some suggestions for the media on how to cover the impeachment hearings, suggestions that I think I violated above. That said: If all the coverage this week focused on what the Democrats and Republicans on the committee are up to rather than on the story being detailed about the president, I agree that’d be a mistake.

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MintPress News: Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israeli Intel

mikenova12 — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:48:19 -0400

Since the apparent death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan prison, much has come to light about his depraved activities and methods used to sexually abuse underage girls and entrap the rich and powerful for the purposes of blackmail. Epstein’s ties to intelligence, described in-depth in a recent MintPress investigative series, have continued to receive minimal mainstream media coverage, which has essentially moved on from the Epstein scandal despite the fact that his many co-conspirators remain on the loose.

For those who have examined Epstein’s ties to intelligence, there are clear links to both U.S. intelligence and Israeli intelligence, leaving it somewhat open to debate as to which country’s intelligence apparatus was closest to Epstein and most involved in his blackmail/sex-trafficking activities. A recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has claimed that Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was an Israel intelligence operation run for the purpose of entrapping powerful individuals and politicians in the United States and abroad.

In an interview with Zev Shalev, former CBS News executive producer and award-winning investigative journalist for Narativ, the former senior executive for Israel’s Directorate of Military Intelligence, Ari Ben-Menashe, claimed not only to have met Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, back in the 1980s, but that both Epstein and Maxwell were already working with Israeli intelligence during that time period.

“They found a niche”

In an interview last week with the independent outlet Narativ, Ben-Menashe, who himself was involved in Iran-Contra arms deals, told his interviewer Zev Shalev that he had been introduced to Jeffrey Epstein by Robert Maxwell in the mid-1980s while Maxwell’s and Ben-Menashe’s involvement with Iran-Contra was ongoing. Ben-Menashe did not specify the year he met Epstein.

Ben-Menashe told Shalev that “he [Maxwell] wanted us to accept him [Epstein] as part of our group …. I’m not denying that we were at the time a group that it was Nick Davies [Foreign Editor of the Maxwell-Owned Daily Mirror], it was Maxwell, it was myself and our team from Israel, we were doing what we were doing.” Past reporting by Seymour Hersh and others revealed that Maxwell, Davies and Ben-Menashe were involved in the transfer and sale of military equipment and weapons from Israel to Iran on behalf of Israeli intelligence during this time period.

He then added that Maxwell had stated during the introduction that “your Israeli bosses have already approved” of Epstein. Shalev later noted that Maxwell “had an extensive network in Israel at the time, which included the then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, according to Ben-Menashe.”

Ben-Menashe went on to say that he had “met him [Epstein] a few times in Maxwell’s office, that was it.” He also said he was not aware of Epstein being involved in arms deals for anyone else he knew at the time, but that Maxwell wanted to involve Epstein in the arms transfer in which he, Davies and Ben-Menashe were engaged on Israel’s behalf.

Ariel Sharon (right) meets with Robert Maxwell in Jerusalem on Feb. 20, 1990. Photo | AP

However, as MintPress reported in Part IV of the investigative series “Inside the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,” Epstein was involved with several arms dealers during this period of time, some of whom were directly involved in Iran-Contra arms deals between Israel and Iran. For instance, after leaving Bear Stearns in 1981, Epstein began working in the realms of shadow finance as a self-described “financial bounty hunter,” where he would both hunt down and hide money for powerful people. One of these powerful individuals was Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi arms dealer with close ties to both Israeli and U.S. intelligence and one of the main brokers of Iran-Contra arms deals between Israel and Iran. Epstein would later forge a business relationship with a CIA front company involved in another aspect of Iran-Contra, the airline Southern Air Transport, on behalf of Leslie Wexner’s company, The Limited.

During this period, it is also known that Epstein became well acquainted with the British arms dealer Sir Douglas Leese, who collaborated with Khashoggi on at least one British-Saudi arms deal in the 1980s. Leese would later introduce Epstein to Steven Hoffenberg, calling Epstein a “genius” and describing his lack of morals during that introduction. Thus, there are indications that Epstein was involved with Middle Eastern arms deals, including some related to Iran-Contra, during this period. In addition, Epstein would later claim (and then subsequently deny) having worked for the CIA during this period.

After having been introduced to Epstein, Ben-Menashe claimed that neither he nor Davies were impressed with Epstein and considered him “not very competent.” He added that Ghislaine Maxwell had “fallen for” Epstein and that he believed that the romantic relationship between his daughter and Epstein led Robert Maxwell to work to bring the latter into the “family business” — i.e., Maxwell’s dealings with Israeli intelligence. This information is very revealing, given that the narrative, until now at least, has been that Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein did not meet and begin their relationship until after Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991, after which Ghislaine moved to New York.

Ben-Menashe says that well after the introduction, though again he does not specify what year, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein began a sexual blackmail operation with the purpose of extorting U.S. political and public figures on behalf of Israeli military intelligence. He stated:

In this case what really happened, my take on it, in the later thing, is that these guys were seen as agents. They weren’t really competent to do very much. And so they found a niche for themselves — blackmailing American and other political figures.”

He then confirmed, when prompted, that they were blackmailing Americans on behalf of Israeli intelligence.

In response to his statement, Zev Shalev replied, “But, you know, for most people it’s hard for them to think of Israel as being … blackmailing their leaders in the United States, it’s a very …” at which point, Ben-Menashe interrupted and the following exchange took place:

Ari Ben-Menashe: You’re kidding? [laughs]…. It was quite their M.O. Sleeping around is not a crime, it may be embarrassing, but it’s not a crime, but sleeping with underage girls is a crime.

Shalev: It was a crime in 2000 as well, but they let him off that…

Ben-Menashe: And that it is [why] always so he [Epstein] made sure these girls were underage.

In addition, when Shalev asked Ben-Menashe about the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Ben-Menashe stated “After a while, you know, what Mr. Epstein was doing was collecting intelligence on people in the United States. And so if you want to go to the U.S. if you’re a high-profile politician you want to know information about people.” Ben-Menashe subsequently stated that Barak was obtaining compromising information (i.e., blackmail) that Epstein had acquired on powerful people in the United States.

PROMIS, sex, and blackmail

If Robert Maxwell did recruit Epstein and bring him into the “family business” and the world of Israeli intelligence, as Ben-Menashe has claimed, it provides supporting evidence for information provided to MintPress by a former U.S. intelligence official, who chose to remain anonymous in light of the sensitivity of the claim.

This source, who has direct knowledge of the unauthorized use of PROMIS to support covert U.S. and Israeli intelligence projects, told MintPress that “some of the proceeds from the illicit sales of PROMIS were made available to Jeffrey Epstein for use in compromising targets of political blackmail.” As was noted in a Mintpress series on the Epstein scandal, much of Epstein’s funding also came from Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner, who has documented ties to both organized crime and U.S. and Israeli intelligence.

After the PROMIS software was stolen from its rightful owner and developer, Inslaw Inc., through the collusion of both U.S. and Israeli officials, it was marketed mainly by two men: Earl Brian, a close aide to Ronald Reagan, later U.S. envoy to Iran and close friend of Israeli spymaster Rafi Eitan; and Robert Maxwell. Brian sold the bugged software through his company, Hadron Inc., while Maxwell sold it through an Israeli company he acquired called Degem. Before and following Maxwell’s acquisition of Degem, the company was a known front for Mossad operations and Mossad operatives in Latin America often posed as Degem employees.

With Maxwell — Epstein’s alleged recruiter and father of Epstein’s alleged madam — having been one of the main salespeople involved in selling PROMIS software on behalf of intelligence, he would have been in a key position to furnish Epstein’s nascent sexual blackmail operation with the proceeds from the sale of PROMIS.

This link between Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation and the PROMIS software scandal is notable given that the illicit use of PROMIS by U.S. and Israeli intelligence has been for blackmail purposes on U.S. public figures and politicians, as was described in a recent MintPress report.

Can an ex-spy be trusted?

When dealing in the world of deception and intrigue that defines intelligence operations, it is often difficult to determine whether any individual linked to an intelligence agency is telling the truth. Indeed, in the United States, there are examples of elected intelligence officials committing perjury and lying to Congress on several occasions with no consequences, and of intelligence officials feeding politically motivated and untrue information to agency assets in the media.

So, are Ari Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding Epstein and the Maxwells trustworthy? In addition to the aforementioned, corroborating information for his claims, a review of Ben-Menashe’s post-intelligence career suggests this is the case.

Ari Ben Menashe arrives at Harare International Airport, in Zimbabwe, Feb. 22, 2002. Photo | AP

Prior to his arrest in November 1989, Ben-Menashe was a high-ranking officer in a special unit of Israeli military intelligence. He would later claim that his arrest for attempting to sell American-made weapons to Iran was politically motivated, as he had threatened to expose what the U.S. government had done with the stolen PROMIS software if the U.S. did not cease providing Saddam Hussein’s Iraq with chemical weapons. Ben-Menashe was later acquitted when a U.S. court determined that his involvement in the attempted sale of military equipment to Iran was done on behalf of the Israeli state.

After his arrest, Ben-Menashe was visited in prison by Robert Parry, the former Newsweek contributor and Associated Press reporter who would later found and run Consortium News until his recent passing last year. Parry remembered that, during that interview, “Ben-Menashe offered me startling new information about the Iran-Contra scandal, which I thought that I knew quite well.”

Israel’s government immediately began to attack Ben-Menashe’s credibility following his interview with Parry, and claimed that Ben-Menashe had never worked for Israeli intelligence. When Parry soon found evidence that Ben-Menashe had indeed served in Israeli military intelligence, Israel’s government was then forced to admit that he had worked for military intelligence, but only as a “low-level translator.” Yet, the documentation Parry had uncovered described Ben-Menashe as having served in “key positions” and performed “complex and sensitive assignments.”

A year later, Ben-Menashe would be interviewed by another journalist, Seymour Hersh. It would be Ben-Menashe who first revealed to Hersh secrets about Israel’s nuclear program and the fact that British media mogul Robert Maxwell was an Israeli spy, revelations that Hersh would not only independently corroborate but include in his book The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Hersh was then sued by Robert Maxwell and the Maxwell-owned Mirror Group for libel. The case was later settled in Hersh’s favor, as the claims Hersh had made were true and not libelous. As a result, the Mirror Group paid Hersh for damages, covered his legal costs, and issued him a formal apology.

After Ben-Menashe’s interviews by Hersh and Parry, Israel’s government was apparently concerned enough about what Ben-Menashe would tell congressional investigators that it attempted to kidnap him and bring him back to Israel to face state charges, much like Israeli intelligence had done to Israel’s nuclear-weapons whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu. The plan was foiled largely thanks to Parry.

Parry, who broke many key stories related to the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s and beyond, was tipped off by a U.S. intelligence source about a joint U.S.-Israel plan to have Ben-Menashe first be denied entry to the United States on his planned trip to give congressional testimony. Per the plan, Ben-Menashe would be denied entry to the U.S. in Los Angeles and then be deported to Israel, where he would have stood trial for “exposing state secrets.” Parry called Ben-Menashe and convinced him to delay his flight until he secured a guarantee for safe passage from the U.S. government.

Ben-Menashe subsequently gave a sworn statement to the House Judiciary Committee that mostly focused on U.S.-Israel collusion regarding the theft and creation of a “backdoor” into the PROMIS software. Ben-M

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Michael Novakhov – SharedNewsLinks℠: FBI Selects Melvin Greer Under Special Government Employee Program — FBI

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The FBI has selected Melvin Greer, chief data scientist at Intel, to serve as fellow in residence and senior adviser for the FBI’s Information Technology Applications and Data Division (ITADD).

“Melvin is the first executive to come to the Information and Technology Branch under the Special Government Employee Program, which allows him to remain at Intel and serve his country,” noted Michael Gavin, assistant director of the ITADD. “Melvin will provide senior leadership and technical expertise in the FBI’s effort to develop its data management strategy.”

In his role with the ITADD, Greer will assist in addressing data science challenges by providing his technical expertise in hybrid cloud computing and advanced architectures and deployment models.

As chief data scientist at Intel, Greer is responsible for building Intel’s data science platform through artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive computing to accelerate transformation of data into a strategic asset for global enterprises. His systems and software engineering experience has resulted in patented inventions in cloud computing, synthetic biology, and Internet of Things (IoT) bio-sensors for edge analytics.

In addition to his work at Intel, Greer serves as a fellow at the National Cybersecurity Institute and is a professor in the data science program at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the advanced academic program at Johns Hopkins University, teaching a master’s course titled Practical Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

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mikenova12 — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 06:39:12 -0400

This week has been a whirlwind. A gust of scandal turned into a political tornado, picking up and spewing out haphazard accusations and rumors in all directions. Trump threw Pence under the bus, Rudy Giuliani appeared to live out his fantasies as a pantomime villain, and it all crescendoed with claims from former and current officials that the White House stored calls from Putin and the Saudis in a highly classified computer system just like the call with Ukraine’s president. And this is how we know the whirlwind is turning into a category 5 storm.

I was in my car during late rush hour when I learned that Trump had essentially won the election in 2016. Specifically, I heard he’d won Michigan. I can’t remember if I just thought it loudly or actually said it aloud, but my reflex was “the Russians bloody did it.” And they did. Unfortunately, my intuition was right. Whether they indeed managed to alter the vote count or simply wage an information war is irrelevant. The Russian agenda was a success.

I should say that I also predicted Trump’s win. At this point, with you might want to know what my knee-jerk reaction was to hearing about the details in the call with Ukraine and prediction for what happens next. Two things: (1) Putin told Trump to jerk the president of Ukraine around, and (2) more stuff is going to start pouring out of the sinking ship.

With regard to Putin telling Trump to mess with the president of Ukraine, it seems as though it plays perfectly into Putin’s agenda: Trump plays both sides by getting played by both sides. He does Putin’s bidding, weakens Ukraine, and Putin gets dirt off his hands if the election meddling can be outsourced. Ever wonder what happened in those highly secret talks Trump had with Putin? The ones in which no American translator was present? It’s safe to assume they weren’t talking about adoptions or cooperating in space exploration.

With regard to the latent deluge of information that I believe will come out, it all will have to do with old fashioned corruption. Money laundering, extortion, and abuses of power. Trump has always seemed to have all this going on under a very thin veil. I suspect a few notable things, however, namely that Trump has effectively turned his administration into a criminal enterprise aimed at increasing his personal wealth, and that he has more than a few times changed US domestic and foreign policy at the request of foreign powers to achieve his goal of personal enrichment. The best part? Nobody wants to be part of a sinking ship, and people will try to save themselves before they can go down with Trump.

It was only a matter of time before the stupid, corrupt, and sloppy aligned in just the right way; now it’s only a matter of time before he becomes unelectable for a second term or, yes, forced out.

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