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Megathread: White House releases controversial memo on allegations of intelligence abuse
(AP) — The White House on Friday declassified a partisan and bitterly disputed memo on the Russia investigation, clearing the way for House Republicans to release allegations of what they say is FBI misconduct.
The move came over the fierce objections of the FBI and Justice Department, which have said the document prepared by Republicans on the House intelligence committee is inaccurate and missing critical context.
The memo alleges that the FBI abused U.S. government surveillance powers in its investigation into Russian election interference. Trump, who has called the investigation a “witch hunt,” has supported the release of the memo in the apparent hopes that it could help undermine the probe being led by special counsel Robert Mueller.
This is a megathread to discuss the authorization and impending release of the House Intelligence Committees memo authored by Rep. Nunes (R-CA).
Please note that off topic and low effort comments may be automatically removed | Title | Source |
| Releasing the Nunes memo is Trump's most unethical act since firing Comey | chicagotribune.com |
| Trump On Memo: ‘It’s Terrible,’ A ‘Disgrace What’s Happening’ | talkingpointsmemo.com |
| Read: The full text of the Nunes memo | vox.com |
| Read the Controversial Memo Just Released by Republicans | thehill.com |
| House Intelligence Committee releases Russia memo over FBI objections | nbcnews.com |
| GOP memo criticizing FBI surveillance is released | washingtonpost.com |
| Document: Nunes Memo | lawfareblog.com |
| Here's The House Intel Memo On FISA Abuse That Was Just Released | thefederalist.com |
| House Republicans just released a controversial surveillance memo. Read the full text here | cnbc.com |
| Trump authorizes release of controversial Republican memo | cnn.com |
| Nunes Memo Full Text: What's in the Republican Document and Why is it so Controversial? | newsweek.com |
| House Intel Memo on FISA | apps.npr.org |
| Everything you need to know about that GOP memo Trump just declassified | thestar.com |
| John McCain condemns attacks on FBI and DOJ: 'We are doing Putin’s job for him' | businessinsider.com |
| McCain rebukes Republicans: Memo release serves 'only Putin' | politico.com |
| Nunes Statement on Release of HPSCI Memo | intelligence.house.gov |
| Nunes 'Memo' Drama Proves It: Republicans Can't Govern, They Only Campaign | thehill.com |
| GOP Releases Disputed Memo Saying FBI Misled Judge in Trump Case | bloomberg.com |
| Memo released: Read full text of declassified doc on Russia investigation | syracuse.com |
| Nunes memo released: FBI objections lacked credibility given bureau's shady past | usatoday.com |
| The Full Text of the Nunes Memo | theatlantic.com |
| Memo released by House panel says surveillance of Trump aide was approved using info from ex-spy paid indirectly by Democrats. | wsj.com |
| Trump Declassifies Controversial GOP Memo Without Any Redactions | slate.com |
| Here Is the First Error We Found in the Nunes Memo and It Didn’t Take Us Long | motherjones.com |
| With Trump’s approval, Republicans release memo criticizing FBI surveillance | nationalpost.com |
| LIVE: Donald Trump releases controversial FBI 'bias' memo | news.sky.com |
| Trump says 'you figure that one out' when asked if Nunes memo makes him more likely to fire DOJ's Rosenstein | businessinsider.com |
| FBI Agents Association after memo release: We won't allow 'partisan politics' to distract us | thehill.com |
| Memo: Russian Overtures To Trump Aide Triggered FBI Investigation | npr.org |
| After Trump Declassifies, Nunes Memo Released | politico.com |
| Sen. John McCain On Nunes Memo Release: 'We Are Doing Putin's Job For Him' | huffingtonpost.com |
| Read: the full text of the Nunes memo | vox.com |
| U.S. FBI agents, after memo release, say will not let politics distract | uk.reuters.com |
| The Nunes Memo Doesn't Matter. Here's What Does | time.com |
| Here's the key sentence that Republicans will point to as the bombshell of the Nunes memo | businessinsider.com |
| Controversial GOP-penned memo released, Trump blasts FBI and Justice Dept. for tainting 'sacred investigative process' | nydailynews.com |
| The Nunes memo, explained with diagrams | vox.com |
| The full Nunes memo, annotated | washingtonpost.com |
| The GOP-Nunes memo has been released: Follow the latest | edition.cnn.com |
| Republicans Hyped The Nunes Memo. Then They Dumped It On The Friday Before The Super Bowl. | washingtonpost.com |
| Republicans hyped the Nunes memo. Then they dumped it on the Friday before the Super Bowl. | washingtonpost.com |
| Nunes drops his cherry-picked memo: This is it?! | washingtonpost.com |
| House Republicans Release Secret Memo Accusing Russia Investigators of Bias | nytimes.com |
| House Intel Dems: Nunes memo 'mischaracterizes, fails to provide vital context'. | thehill.com |
| Warner: Nunes Memo ‘Demonstrates An Astonishing Disregard For The Truth’ | talkingpointsmemo.com |
| Trump Wages War on FBI, Justice Department With Release of Nunes Memo | thedailybeast.com |
| Republicans Release the Nunes Memo to the Fury of Democrats | theatlantic.com |
| Why The Nunes Memo Probably Won’t Do What Trump Wants It To | fivethirtyeight.com |
| Read the Nunes Memo | nytimes.com |
| A Republican operative explains the hypocrisy of the Nunes memo | vox.com |
| The Latest: Dems say memo aims to protect Trump, smear FBI | hosted2.ap.org |
| The Twist in the Nunes Memo | theatlantic.com |
| Trump Wages War on FBI, Justice Department With Release of Nunes Memo | thedailybeast.com |
| The Nunes Memo Release Is an 'Extraordinary Event' in the History of Intelligence Oversight | time.com |
| The House Intelligence Committee Release of Representative Nunes' Memo | intelligence.house.gov |
| House intelligence memo released: 3 key takeaways | washingtonexaminer.com |
| GOP Memo Release: Dems say memo aims to protect Trump, smear FBI | wowt.com |
| Memo alleging FBI abuse released on Trump's okay - AFP.com | afp.com |
| Comey Slams ‘Dishonest and Misleading’ Nunes Memo | thedailybeast.com |
| Nunes to appear on Fox News on Friday following memo's release | thehill.com |
| GOP memo criticizing FBI surveillance is released | washingtonpost.com |
| The Official GOP Memo | docs.house.gov |
| Fired FBI Director James Comey slams secret GOP memo as ‘dishonest and misleading,’ asks: ‘That’s it?’ | washingtonpost.com |
| Comey bashes release of Nunes memo: 'That's it?' | thehill.com |
| First Take: The ‘Nunes Memo’ Is Even Weaker Than Expected | talkingpointsmemo.com |
| James Comey reacts to Nunes memo release: 'That's it?' | theweek.com |
| Does the Nunes memo actually undercut Trump’s biggest claims against the FBI? | dailydot.com |
| 'That's it?': James Comey blasts 'dishonest and misleading' Nunes memo | businessinsider.com |
| Memo: Papadopoulos info triggered FBI's Russia investigation | thehill.com |
| 6 key takeaways from the GOP memo alleging FBI bias in the Russia investigation | washingtonpost.com |
| Ex-FBI director James Comey on the Nunes memo: 'That's it?' | usatoday.com |
| James Comey on Nunes memo: "That's it?" | cnn.com |
| Comey to House committee on memo: 'That's it?' | politico.com |
| The Nunes FBI Memo, Annotated | politico.com |
| 'Bias' memo and Trump's full-throttle battle with FBI risks wrecking public faith in 2016 election | news.sky.com |
| James Comey on Nunes memo: That's it? | cnn.com |
| The Nunes memo is a dud | vox.com |
| Nunes memo release leaves FBI Director Christopher Wray no choice: He must resign | nbcnews.com |
| Hoyer calls on Ryan to remove Nunes after release of memo | thehill.com |
| Comey underwhelmed by GOP memo: ‘That’s it?’ | nypost.com |
| The Nunes Memo Proves One Thing, And It’s The Opposite Of What It Tries To Prove | motherjones.com |
| Carter Page hails 'brave and assiduous' Nunes memo as 'historic leap in the repair of America's democracy' | theweek.com |
| Sources: Devin Nunes Memo Is ‘100% Wrong’ About Andrew McCabe and Steele Dossier | thedailybeast.com |
| White House open to releasing Democratic counter-memo | thehill.com |
| A close reading of the Nunes memo shows how sketchy it is | vox.com |
| Sources: Devin Nunes Memo Is ‘100% Wrong’ About Andrew McCabe and Steele Dossier | thedailybeast.com |
| Nunes drops his cherry-picked memo: This is it?! | washingtonpost.com |
| The Trump White House’s laughable spin that the release the Nunes memo is all about ‘transparency’ | washingtonpost.com |
| The Nunes Memo Doesn’t Reveal an Abuse of Power. It Is One. | time.com |
| Jeff Sessions on Nunes memo: "No department is perfect" | axios.com |
| The Latest: AG Sessions vows to examine GOP memo's claims | abcnews.go.com |
| Nunes Memo Reactions Include John McCain Saying Release Only Helps Putin And Russia | newsweek.com |
| House Intel Memo Shows Just How Politicized The Obama Administration Had Become | thefederalist.com |
| Hoyer Joins Letter Warning President Trump Against Using the Nunes Memo to Fire Special Counsel Bob Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein | democraticwhip.gov |
| The Nunes memo is out. It’s a joke and a sham. | washingtonpost.com |
| What is Nunes' FISA memo? 6 things to know about the secret document | foxnews.com |
| Gowdy: Contents Of Nunes Memo ‘Do Not, In Any Way, Discredit’ Mueller Probe | talkingpointsmemo.com |
| 5 Things You Need To Know About The Bombshell House Intelligence Memo | dailywire.com |
| Sentence buried in GOP memo may undercut Trump efforts to discredit Russia probe | washingtonpost.com |
| The Nunes memo is out. It's a joke and a sham. | washingtonpost.com |
| After Nunes memo, Wray should resign if Trump fires Rosenstein, Mueller | thehill.com |
| Outcry over the Nunes memo is damning for Democrats and FBI | thehill.com |
| Pelosi: Nunes memo is a ’bouquet’ for Putin | thehill.com |
| House Republican Claims Nunes Memo Shows ‘Evidence Of Treason’ | talkingpointsmemo.com |
| Five Points On How The Nunes Memo Is Basically One Big Self-Own | talkingpointsmemo.com |
| Fact-checking the Nunes Memo | newsweek.com |
| The Nunes Memo: Watergate, It Ain't | rollingstone.com |
| The 3 big lies in the Nunes memo, according to Democrats | thinkprogress.org |
| Why Devin Nunes's Memo Would Never Hold Up in Court | esquire.com |
| Trump's release of Nunes memo is Nixonian – but today's GOP won't resist | theguardian.com |
| Former FBI Chief Comey Blasts Republicans Over Nunes Memo: “That’s It?” | slate.com |
| The Real Purpose Of The Nunes Memo | huffingtonpost.com |
| The Nunes Memo Means Whatever Fox News Says It Means | gq.com |
| The memo is out. Now it's time for the GOP to put up or shut up | cnbc.com |
| Fired FBI director Comey slams GOP memo: ‘That’s it?’ | apnews.com |
| The Only Thing the Nunes Memo Proves Is That It Was Massively Overhyped | vanityfair.com |
| Adam Schiff: White House will be forced to release Democrats' memo | axios.com |
| ‘That’s it?’ Comey says of GOP memo on Russia probe | pbs.org |
| Nunes memo release - live updates: Attorney General Jeff Sessions to refer Trump-Russia document to Department of Justice wtachdog | independent.co.uk |
| GOP lawmaker on memo: FBI conduct 'constitutes treason'. | thehill.com |
| What the Nunes memo actually proves (Not much) | cnn.com |
| Sentence on Papadopoulos in GOP memo may undercut efforts to discredit Russia probe | chicagotribune.com |
| The FBI knew Carter Page, the man at the center of the memo controversy, from a previous case | bostonglobe.com |
| Conservative media receives key points from Nunes memo before other news outlets | money.cnn.com |
| Read the Nunes Memo, Annotated | nytimes.com |
| Five GOPers Whose Statements About The Nunes Memo Didn’t Quite Pan Out | talkingpointsmemo.com |
| The Most Troubling Part in the Nunes Memo Really Could Matter Legally | lawandcrime.com |
| Collins: GOP memo released without bipartisanship, proper vetting | thehill.com |
| Memo reveals dossier wasn't the origin of FBI investigation | axios.com |
| The House memo doesn’t prove the Mueller probe is a fraud | nbcnews.com |
| The Nunes Memo Lands With a Dud | thedailybeast.com |
| Ex-Dem lawmaker on GOP memo release: ‘Lock every single one of these bastards up’ | thehill.com |
| GOP lawmaker on memo: FBI conduct 'constitutes treason' | thehill.com |
| The Backwards Logic of the Nunes Memo | nymag.com |
| Two conservative media outlets received Nunes memo before release | thehill.com |
| You’re Going to Want to Hear What Trey Gowdy Says About the Nunes Memo (BOOM) | redstate.com |
| James Comey on Nunes memo: That's it? | cnn.com |
| Wray tells FBI ‘talk is cheap’ after memo release | thehill.com |
| The Nunes memo won’t stop Robert Mueller | washingtonpost.com |
| Trump’s White House Goes Weirdly Silent On The Nunes Memo | thedailybeast.com |
| The Nunes memo fails to answer the key question it is supposed to address | businessinsider.com |
| CNN legal analyst rips Nunes memo: It's 'an embarrassment to the United States Congress' | thehill.com |
| Republicans release memo alleging FBI, DOJ improperly spied on Trump campaign aide | usatoday.com |
| Republican Rep Claims Nunes Memo Proves Treason — Plans to Urge Department of Justice to Prosecute | ijr.com |
| Shocking memo reveals how Comey disgraced an honorable FBI | foxnews.com |
| Listen: What's next after the Nunes memo? | thehill.com |
| Sen. John McCain On Nunes Memo Release: 'We Are Doing Putin's Job For Him' | yahoo.com |
| The Nunes memo reveals: Republicans buy their own conspiracy theories | theguardian.com |
| Five takeaways from the Nunes surveillance memo | thehill.com |
| 'That's it?' Nunes memo draws outrage and derision. | yahoo.com |
| Even If You Take the Nunes Memo Seriously, It Makes No Sense | politico.com |
| CNN's Wolf Blitzer grills Republican rep on Nunes memo release | thehill.com |
| Memo points to FBI’s ongoing interest in former Trump adviser Carter Page | washingtonpost.com |
| This GOP memo is nonsense | thestar.com |
| Right and Left React to the Release of Nunes Memo | nytimes.com |
| 'That's It?' James Comey Criticizes House Republicans For Nunes Memo | time.com |
| FACT CHECK: Read The GOP Memo Released By House Intelligence Committee | npr.org |
| FBI Director Wray To Employees, Amid Memo Release Furor: ‘Talk Is Cheap’ | talkingpointsmemo.com |
| Thank Progressives for the Nunes Memo | nytimes.com |
| Nunes memo accidentally confirms the legitimacy of the FBI's investigation | theintercept.com |
| Who’s who in the GOP memo and how they’re connected | washingtonpost.com |
| House intelligence chairman says has not read documents underlying memo | reuters.com |
| The Nunes Memo Undermines the Right’s Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theory | newyorker.com |
| FBI Director Christopher Wray tells agency to 'keep calm and tackle hard' during memo controversy | washingtonexaminer.com |
| The Most Important Thing About the Nunes Memo Is What Trump Does Next | vice.com |
| The GOP memo disproves one of Trump’s own conspiracy theories | qz.com |
| Devin Nunes admits he didn't view the underlying intelligence his memo was based on | businessinsider.com |
| Nunes' Russia probe memo: Here are the main takeaways | cnbc.com |
| Even If You Take the Nunes Memo Seriously, It Makes No Sense | politico.com |
| Nunes memo unveiling prompts question of what Trump will do next | us.cnn.com |
| Why the Nunes memo takes aim at a Justice Dept. official specializing in gangs and drugs | washingtonpost.com |
| Nunes opponent raises over $100k in campaign donations amid memo controversy | thehill.com |
| National Security Council official behind 5G memo leaves White House | washingtonpost.com |
| White House: Trump 'stands ready' to help Democrats release competing House Intel memo | washingtonexaminer.com |
| The Backward Logic of the Nunes Memo | nymag.com |
| The National Security Law Podcast: About that #Mehmo (Special Edition on the Nunes Memo Release) | lawfareblog.com |
| George Papadopoulos, Not Steele Dossier, Triggered Investigation Into Trump Campaign: Nunes Memo | newsweek.com |
| The Nunes Memo Misses the Point: Probable Cause | justsecurity.org |
| Nunes: I did not read material summarized in the memo | thehill.com |
| The campaign to oust Rod Rosenstein is heating up after the Nunes memo’s release | vox.com |
| Nunes Memo Drops and Flops | snopes.com |
| Nunes tells Fox News memo was released out of public obligation | foxnews.com |
| Did the Nunes memo undermine its own core argument? | cnn.com |
| Hannity summarized the Nunes memo for his 4 million viewers. Every word is a lie. | thinkprogress.org |
| Comey rebukes 'dishonest and misleading' GOP-Nunes memo | edition.cnn.com |
| Hannity summarized the Nunes memo for his 4 million viewers. Every word is a lie. | thinkprogress.org |
| There’s a Brutal New Campaign Ad Targeting Devin Nunes and His Memo | motherjones.com |
| Who Is Devin Nunes? A Look At The Man Behind The Memo | npr.org |
| For all the hype, Nunes memo delivers sad trombone for Trump | msnbc.com |
| Thoughts on the Nunes Memo: We Need to Talk About Devin | lawfareblog.com |
| Judge responds to Justice Department over Nunes memo | cnn.com |
| The real shock of the Nunes memo | cnn.com |
| Editorial: Rep. Nunes ‘memo’ just pure politics | bostonherald.com |
| Here's the Memo Alleging Surveillance Abuse by the FBI | sacbee.com |
| “Worse than a nothing burger”: The Nunes memo lands with a thud | salon.com |
| For all the hype, Nunes memo delivers sad trombone for Trump | msnbc.com |
| Rep. Paul Gosar calls for 'criminal prosecution' of former top FBI, DOJ officials after release of Nunes memo | washingtonexaminer.com |
| Bill Maher Goes Off on Nunes Memo: ‘Republicans These Days Are Treasonous Rats’ | thedailybeast.com |
| The central argument in the Nunes memo may have just been debunked | businessinsider.com |
| Washington Is Abuzz Over the Nunes Memo. His California District, Not So Much. | nytimes.com |
| Survival at All Costs. By releasing the Nunes memo, Trump betrayed the intelligence community to save his own skin. | slate.com |
| Shields and Brooks on the Nunes memo aftermath, Trump’s State of the Union bump | pbs.org |
| Nunes memo: Jeff Sessions suggests he will take allegations against FBI and Justice Department further | independent.co.uk |
[Lost in the Sauce] Dems have proof Nunes received package from Kremlin-linked source
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Foreign interference
Intelligence officials confirmed in recent days that foreign actors are actively seeking to compromise the private communications of “U.S. political campaigns, candidates and other political targets” while working to compromise the nation’s election infrastructure. Foreign entities are also aggressively spreading disinformation intended to sow voter confusion heading into the fall.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer admonished the country’s top counterintelligence official during a classified election security briefing Friday, accusing him of keeping Americans in the dark about the details of Russia’s continued interference in the 2020 campaign.
Evanina ultimately acknowledged that Russia is again trying to boost President Donald Trump’s reelection and denigrate his opponent, the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, sources who attended the briefing said. But that didn’t satisfy Democrats, who urged him to say as much publicly — and to be specific...
“What I’m concerned about is that the American people should be better informed,” Pelosi said. “Leader Schumer and I wrote to them and said, ‘tell the truth to the American people,’ and for some reason they are withholding it,” she added. “That’s what I’m concerned about.”
The conflict over intelligence stems from reports that Republicans have accepted propaganda and opposition research from pro-Russian sources… Democrats have identified Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) as the recipients of suspect intel.
Johnson, as chair of the Senate Homeland Security Cmte., has allegedly used information from at least two pro-Russia Ukrainians in his investigation into the Bidens and Burisma. The FBI warned that one of the sources, Andrii Telizhenko, “was a conduit for Russian disinformation about the Bidens.” The second source, Oleksandr Onyshchenko told The Washington Post he had shared tapes and transcripts with Johnson’s committee and Trump ally Rudy Giuliani. Onyshchenko is a former lawmaker in the now-defunct pro-Russia Party of Regions.
Nunes, Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Cmte., allegedly received information about Biden from Andrii Derkach, a Kremlin-linked Ukrainian lawmaker who has worked to foment allegations of corruption by Biden and his son Hunter. Democrats first learned that Derkach sent Nunes anti-Biden materials when they were inadvertently sent the DHL shipping receipt. Democrats reported it to the FBI on Jan. 27. Nunes declined to tell them if he got it or what he did with it.
- Derkach was schooled at a KGB academy in Moscow and is remembered for voting for a Kremlin-like set of anti-protest laws during Ukrraine’s 2014 political revolution. He told Politico two weeks ago that he sent the anti-Biden packets to then-White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and notified Johnson (R), Grassley (R), Graham (R), Peters (D), and Wyden (D) about the content of the materials. However, Graham, Grassley, Peters, and Wyden indicated they never received materials from Derkach.
- Further reading: Ukrainian Operatives Are Gearing Up Again To Take On The Bidens. They Say They Have Giuliani And Republicans On Their Side.
Meanwhile, Trump’s own campaign refused to directly answer whether they are receiving or will accept foreign assistance. Jason Miller, a senior adviser on President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, called it a “silly question.” A Biden spokesman said “absolutely not” when asked if the campaign had received any materials from foreign actors.
“Can you flatly state that the Trump campaign and the administration will not accept foreign assistance this time?” host Chris Wallace pressed Miller in an interview on“Fox News Sunday.”
“Chris, I said that’s an absolutely silly question. We’re going to go and win this election fair and square,” Miller said (video).
Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, subpoenaed the State Department demanding copies of documents that Secretary Pompeo has already provided to Senate Republicans investigating Joe Biden.
“After trying to stonewall virtually every oversight effort by the Foreign Affairs Committee in the last two years, Mr. Pompeo is more than happy to help Senate Republicans advance their conspiracy theories about the Bidens,” Engel said in a statement. “I want to see the full record of what the department has sent to the Senate and I want the American people to see it too.”
- Reminder: Sen. Wyden (D) has been requesting these documents from the State Dept. for months with no success. “To further ignore my requests is at best baseless, and at worst a partisan political act,” Sen. Wyden wrote to Pompeo last month.
An analysis by Just Security found that the State Dept. has likely broken at least two laws by providing assistance only to Republicans, meant to influence the election: It is “highly likely that one or more employees at the State Department has violated federal appropriations law barring the prohibition or prevention of a federal officer communicating with Congress.”
The president’s directive that his administration respond only to requests from Republicans is among the clearest evidence of this abuse of power. At the State Department, this policy has manifested in the agency moving mountains to cooperate with a Senate investigation aimed at damaging Trump’s political opponent while ignoring inquiries from congressional Democrats that could tarnish the president’s own political prospects.
Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Cmte. tomorrow morning. Chairman Lindsey Graham is investigating the origins of the Russia probe and the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Yates was privy to discussions about Michael Flynn and Carter Page.
Barr and Durham
Attorney General Bill Barr testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week, defending the federal response to nationwide protests and insisting that he intervened in the criminal cases of President Trump’s allies Roger J. Stone Jr. and Michael T. Flynn to uphold the rule of law, not to do Mr. Trump’s bidding.
During the hearing, Barr said he will not wait until after November’s election to release Durham’s findings, despite long-standing Justice Department policy not to announce politically sensitive new cases before an election (video). Former Pentagon Special Counsel Ryan Goodman warns that “there’s every reason to suspect Barr will soon try again to mislead” about the Russia investigation, using Durham’s report, “in an effort to skew the 2020 elections.”
...we’re confident in this: Barr will likely distort those conclusions in a way favorable to President Trump’s political ambitions. That goal seems to have driven Barr’s public anticipation of “developments” from Durham “before the end of the summer” — that is, in time to influence the November election.
Background: Last year, Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to examine the FBI’s 2016 investigation into President Trump’s campaign.
Reports indicate that Durham’s investigative portfolio has repeatedly expanded and now also extends to leaks viewed as harmful to the start-up of the Trump administration, to the unmasking of Michael Flynn, to activities in Ukraine that almost certainly include alleged activities of Hunter Biden, and, more broadly, to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC)’s assessment that Russia affirmatively sought to help Trump win the presidency in 2016.
Further reading: Here Are the 4 Most Misleading Statements From Bill Barr’s Contentious House Testimony.
Trump’s grift
Manhattan D.A. Vance suggested in court filings that Trump is under investigation for possible bank and insurance fraud. Vance argues that his subpoena has a wide legal basis due to “public reports of possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization.”
A New York Times investigation two years ago found a trail of phony records used in what the newspaper described as clear fraud. Trump has reportedly collected phony hurricane damages. ProPublica has uncovered massive discrepancies between the figures Trump has given to lenders and the government, portraying himself as rich to the banks and poor to the government, thus defrauding either one or both.
The president released his annual financial disclosure report last week, revealing the Trump Organization made at least $446.3 million in 2019 (up more than 2 percent from $434.9 million, in 2018). The president reported assets worth at least $1.35 billion, down narrowly from 2018 and 2017. Note that the disclosure document is not vetted or audited.
- Trump takes in a nearly $78,000 pension from the Screen Actors Guild, claims to earn between $100,000 and $1 million from his book "The Art of the Deal," and continues to pull in earnings from the reality show "The Apprentice."
- In a footnote, the filings indicates that the Office of Government Ethics requested a listing denoting Rudy Giuliani's services as a lawyer for Trump during the impeachment proceedings. "Although we did not believe and do not believe that any pro bono publico counsel is reportable as a 'gift,' at the request of OGE, we note that as has been widely reported in the media, Rudy Giuliani provided such pro bono publico counsel in 2018 and 2019," the footnote reads. "In any event, Mr. Giuliani is not able to estimate the value of that pro bono publico counsel; therefore, the value is unascertainable."
According to their disclosure forms, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner earned between $36.2 and $157 million as they served in the White House last year - a minimum combined income that was at least $7 million higher than in 2018. They reported between $203.8 million and $782.8 million in assets in 2019, compared with 2018, when they reported between $181 million and $755 million.
- Kushner raked in as much as $3 million from projects benefiting from Trump administration initiatives in 2019, plus up to $1 million more in rent money from firms which later received COVID-related small business loans from the government.
A legal complaint filed Tuesday with the FEC alleges that the Trump campaign and fundraising committee violated the law by laundering nearly $170 million in campaign spending through firms headed by Trump’s former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, and other firms created by Trump campaign lawyers.
The campaign reported millions in payments--American Made and Parscale Strategy—which disbursed the funds to the campaign’s ultimate vendors. Ultimately, this hid millions in payments to companies engaged in significant work for the campaign, as well as payments to Trump family members or associates like Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle… This secrecy could also disguise other campaign finance violations, but we don’t know, because the campaign isn’t disclosing these routed payments. (CLC)
Deutsche Bank is investigating a real estate transaction involving Jared Kushner… In June 2013, Trump’s longtime personal banker banker, Rosemary Vrablic, and two of her Deutsche Bank colleagues purchased a Park Avenue apartment for about $1.5 million from a company part-owned by Kushner.
- Further reading: Vrablic played a critical role in helping Trump obtain large loans when he should not have been approved for one.
- Further reading: As Trump campaigns on law and order, his campaign rallies have racked up nearly $2 million in unpaid police bills.
Congress
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is investigating reports that the U.S. ambassador to Brazil asked for foreign assistance in the election. According to a prominent Brazilian newspaper, Ambassador to Brazil Todd Chapman pressured members of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration to lower ethanol tariffs in order to support President Donald Trump’s reelection efforts.
The House Foreign Affairs Cmte. subpoenaed four senior aides to Secretary of State Pompeo, accusing them of resisting interviews in an investigation of Trump's firing of State Dept. IG Steve Linick. "The Administration continues to cover up the real reasons for Mr. Linick’s firing by stonewalling the Committees’ investigation and refusing to engage in good faith," top Democrats said in a statement.
The House Oversight Cmte. has asked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, appointed by Trump in May, to testify on Sept. 17 on changes made to the USPS. “While these changes in a normal year would be drastic, in a presidential election year when many states are relying heavily on absentee mail-in ballots, increases in mail delivery timing would impair the ability of ballots to be received and counted in a timely manner—an unacceptable outcome for a free and fair election,” the Members wrote.
- RELATED: Trump just told us how mail delays could help him corrupt the election. Trump suggested only the votes that can be tallied on Election Day should count. But with massive mail delays, it is likely many ballots mailed on time will not arrive until after Election Day. Trump is looking to declare himself winner on Election Day, no matter how many mail ballots remain uncounted. He will say they are fraudulent. And if they tip the result against him, he will say that outcome is rigged, something he has already said publicly is inevitable.
Hidden money in relief bill: In addition to including $1.75 billion for a new FBI building in the Republican coronavirus relief bill, the White House wants $377 million to remodel the West Wing. Senate Republicans also hid $8 billion for the Pentagon in the bill, to make up for the billions Trump diverted for his border wall.
- Further reading: The Gulf Between Republicans and Democrats on Coronavirus Aid, in 9 Charts
- Further reading: The $600 unemployment bonuses did not lead to people working less, Yale study shows
Immigration
The Trump administration announced that it will continue to defy a federal court order compelling the full restoration of DACA. U.S. District Judge Paul Grimm’s order required DHS to let DACA beneficiaries renew their status for two years and to accept new applicants. However, DHS maintained that it would reject new DACA applicants and not accept DACA renewals.
Immigration Nation, the docuseries about ICE that the Trump administration threatened legal action to block, is now available on Netflix. Some of the contentious scenes include ICE officers lying to immigrants to gain access to their homes and mocking them after taking them into custody. One shows an officer illegally picking the lock to an apartment building during a raid.
The Trump administration’s choice for immigrant families in detention: Separate or stay together as a family in indefinite detention and risk contracting Covid-19. But in presenting this choice, the administration is ignoring a third option: releasing the families together, which it has the discretion to do at any time.
The Trump administration is dramatically increasing fees for dozens of immigration and work applications, including raising the cost of online naturalization applications from $640 to $1,160 and charging a $50 fee for asylum seekers.
The Supreme Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision along partisan lines, that Trump may move forward with his plans to build a border wall,” despite the fact that federal courts have ruled there's no legal authority for it. The Sierra Club argued that if the temporary stay was allowed to remain in effect during a protracted court battle it would hand the Trump administration "a complete victory despite having lost in every court."
Also:
- An undocumented immigrant who worked for President Trump’s private company — and then spoke publicly about Trump’s longtime reliance on undocumented workers — is facing deportation proceedings
- A Judge Blocked Trump's "Public Charge" Policy On Immigrants During The Pandemic
- The U.N. refugee agency is now stepping in to address a humanitarian crisis at the U.S. border, installing housing units for refugees and asylum seekers in Mexico.
There’s more...
The Census Bureau is ending all counting efforts for the 2020 census on Sept. 30, a month shorter than previously announced. With roughly 4 out of 10 households nationwide yet to be counted and already delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, the bureau now has less than two months left to try to reach people of color, immigrants, renters, rural residents, and other members of historically undercounted groups.
The Trump administration announced that it would allow the sale of advanced armed drones to other nations and bypass an international weapons export control agreement that the United States helped forge more than three decades ago.
Several Middle Eastern nations, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are eager to buy drones capable of carrying large payloads. Both those countries have waged a devastating air war in Yemen that has led to thousands of civilian deaths.
Trump is rolling back an Obama-era rule intended to combat historic racial discrimination in housing. By promising not to enforce the Fair Housing Act provision, Trump is sending a message to White people they can go ahead and do whatever they feel is necessary to keep Black people and Latinos from moving into their neighborhoods.
A small federal agency focused on preventing industrial disasters is on life support. Trump wants it gone. The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is without enough voting members, and its investigations are stuck in limbo.
The Trump administration is moving to restrict what land and water areas can be declared as “habitat” for imperiled plants and animals, furthering limiting the Endangered Species Act.
Transparent Voter Suppression by GOP
Alabama Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia - Between 2012 and 2016, Georgia purged 1.5 Million voters from the voter rolls. 735,000 were purged from 2016 to 2018, with a whole 500,000 removed in one day. A federal court found that the 83% increase (12,000 to 22,000) in provisional ballots from 2014 to 2018 was likely due to administration errors. https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/georgia-cancels-fewer-voter-registrations-after-surge-last-yeafqT1bcSzGu33UEpTMDzMVK/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/brian-kemps-win-in-georgia-tainted-by-voter-suppression-stacey-abrams/
- Despite a 6% increase in Georgia population from 2012 to 2018, county election officials closed 214 precincts across the state during that time https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/voting-precincts-closed-across-georgia-since-election-oversight-lifted/bBkHxptlim0Gp9pKu7dfrN/
- Elections director Linda Ford resigned after “a technical error” resulted in nearly 8,000 voters being transferred from “inactive” to “canceled” status six days after registration deadline https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-elections-official-resigns-over-misidentified-voters/XPpF1fvSyHJnmmD9VYQJSI/
- State settled on "Exact Match" rules dispute in 2017 and restored over 42,000 voters (64% purged were African-American) as Secretary of State promised to prevent future conflict https://lawyerscommittee.org/press-release/voting-advocates-announce-settlement-exact-match-lawsuit-georgia/
- Despite promise, "Exact Match" returned in 2018 as state purged voters for data errors like misplaced hyphens, typos, etc. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/states-push-new-voter-requirements-fueled-trump-n780611 https://thinkprogress.org/georgia-registration-lawsuit-b789d24105ed/ https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/11/17964104/georgia-voter-registration-suppression-purges-stacey-abrams-brian-kemp
- 107,000 registered voters purged in 2017 through "use it or lose it" policy after not voting for 3 years or responding to notice https://www.apmreports.org/story/2018/10/19/georgia-voter-purge
- After Kemp settled case in 2017 by removing 40-day deadline to correct "exact match" information, Georgia passed a new law reinstating a deadline. It also blocked tribal identification cards as ID when registering https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/11/17964104/georgia-voter-registration-suppression-purges-stacey-abrams-brian-kemp https://politics.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-elections-bill-passes-senate-after-debate/irbaMooFPhQPfuR1AvDTKP/
- In 2010, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Kemp’s office proceeded to question hundreds of voters and arrested a dozen activists, over a surge in minority registrations. There were no guilty verdicts. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/abrams-kemp-bring-long-running-war-over-voting-rights-to-georgia-governors-race
- In 2012, Kemp blocked registrations from and investigated minority registration groups. Two and a half years later, the investigation closed without charges. https://newrepublic.com/article/121715/georgia-secretary-state-hammers-minority-voter-registration-efforts
- In 2018, Kemp arrested Black Get-out-the-vote activists accusing them of fraud, although the cases ended without conviction https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/11/17964104/georgia-voter-registration-suppression-purges-stacey-abrams-brian-kemp https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/av4nzb/the-quitman-10-2-and-voter-suppression-in-modern-georgia-715
- In 2018, county officials block bus delivering senior citizens to vote https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/10/17/17990110/georgia-senior-citizens-bus-removal-black-voters-matter-suppression
- Ahead of 2018 election, election board seeks to close 7 of 9 polling locations because they are not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, rather than improve disabled access https://thinkprogress.org/ada-voter-suppression-cd7031080bfd/
- Federal judge blocks Georgia from rejecting absentee ballots and applications for ballots with signature problems without first giving voters notice and a chance to fix the problem. Close to 600 absentee ballots were thrown out in 2018. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5018933/10-24-18-TRO-Martin-v-Kemp.pdf https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/court-blocks-georgia-rejecting-ballots-over
- DeKalb County board claims 50 absentee applications have been received and processed, despite 4,700 applications sent with USPS scans verifying https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/state-investigating-claims-local-elections-office-lost-1-000s-of-absentee-ballot-applications/859826997
- Two days before 2018 election, Kemp accuses Democrats of attempting to hack the election but won't give evidence. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/kemp-charges-georgia-democrats-attempted-voter-hack-abrams-fires-back-n931011?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma In 2016, Kemp accused the same thing, which was debunked by the DHS Inspector General. https://www.wabe.org/federal-review-debunks-georgia-election-hack-accusation-2/
- Still without evidence of a hack by Democrats, Kemp has repeatedly published the accusation on the front of http://sos.ga.gov/ which voters use to get voting information https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/georgia-governor-candidate-brian-kemp-attempts-last-minute-banana-republic-style-voter-manipulation.html
- Voting machines reported switching votes from Democrat to Republican but NOT switching from Republican to Democrat https://www.theroot.com/black-voters-in-georgia-say-something-funny-is-going-on-1829979736
- Federal judge blocks Gwinnett County from rejecting absentee ballots solely on the basis of an omitted or incorrect birth year and certifying election before ballots were counted https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/416427-federal-judge-finds-georgia-county-violated-civil-rights-act-by-rejecting
- Georgia held the third-longest wait times in the US in 2016, which repeated in 2018 with a Gwinnett County precinct outside Atlanta showing 4.5-hour lines. This lag did not exist in Republican districts. https://elections.mit.edu/#state-GA https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/equipment-malfunctions-and-voting-machine-shortages-bring-long-lines-in-georgia/ https://twitter.com/_2lite/status/1059802363995807750 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/brian-kemps-win-in-georgia-tainted-by-voter-suppression-stacey-abrams/
- 127,000 votes in black neighborhoods did not have a recorded vote for lieutenant governor in 2018, also known as a “drop-off,” despite continuing voting down the ballot. This loss is inconsistent with historical and national trends, and inconsistent between in-person and absentee votes. https://www.theroot.com/exclusive-thousands-of-black-votes-in-georgia-disappea-1832472558 https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/bjgh8qu5ymagc1ekkuor.png
- Federal Judge orders Georgia to switch to paper ballots for 2020 elections. Georgia has to replace its Diebold Accuvote TSX touchscreen machines, which were banned in other states after vulnerabilities were discovered as early as 2006. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/judge-bans-insecure-touchscreen-voting-machines-from-georgia-after-2019/
Illinois Indiana Kansas Maryland Michigan Mississippi Nevada New Hampshire New York North Carolina - Appeals Court strikes down Voter ID law in 2016 for “target[ting] African Americans with almost surgical precision” and "retained only the kinds of IDs that white North Carolinians were more likely to possess” http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/nc-4th.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/29/the-smoking-gun-proving-north-carolina-republicans-tried-to-disenfranchise-black-voters/?utm_term=.c0961256a9c0
- Court strikes down Voter ID law in 2016 for creating undue burden on black and latino voters https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/court-north-carolina-voter-id-law-targeted-black-voters/
- State admitted in 2016 its reason for cut early voting was “[c]ounties with Sunday voting in 2014 were disproportionately black” and “disproportionately Democratic.” J.A. 22348-49. https://twitter.com/haroldpollack/status/1051657219899617280 http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/7-29-16%204th%20Circuit%20NAACP%20v%20NC.pdf
- In 2016, 7,000 voters removed for not showing up to hearing challenging their registration http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article112015652.html https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13511264/north-carolina-voter-purge
- In 2016, judge ruled counties must restore thousands of voters removed due to mass-mailed notices being returned as "undeliverable" https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/politics/north-carolina-naacp-voter-registration/index.html
- In 2016, suits challenged Voter ID laws and state gerrymandering. On the floor, House Rep David R. Lewis, chairman of the redistricting committee, said “I think electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats ... so I drew this map in a way to help foster what I think is better for the country.” https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/us/north-carolina-voting-rights-redistictricting-battles.html
- Supreme Court rejects district map for gerrymandering in 2017 due to racial motivation https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/22/15676250/supreme-court-racial-gerrymandering-north-carolina
- Elections committee chair files 2017 bill that makes it so that the majority party (Democrats) can NEVER control an election board during an election year. Majority party would control chair in odd years, minority (GOP) would control chair in even years https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-republicans-election-boards_us_5c070ebfe4b0a6e4ebd96ee4 https://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H1117v0.pdf
- GOP officials call election boards to keep early-voting sites open for shorter hours on weekends and in evenings. Counties that opened only one polling site during the first week of early voting had turnout decrease of 20% https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-northcarolina-insight-idUSKBN12Y0ZY
- Party Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse asks election boards to “make party line changes to early voting” to limit hours and keep polls closed on Sundays. Multiple counties vote to end Sunday voting http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article96179857.html https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article100284162.html
- GOP bill in 2018 to eliminate requirement for early voting the Saturday before election day, when 192k voted that day in 2016 (6.5% of early votes) https://www.wral.com/gop-proposal-would-drop-final-saturday-from-early-voting/17627479/
- State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement collects sworn statements that Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. and other staffers on behalf of Harris campaign paid people to collect absentee ballots in 2018, coordinated alteration of Democrat and minority absentee ballots. The Harris campaign is also under suspicion for the abnormally high absentee ballots that he won (96%) in primary https://wapo.st/2rgE7Ap?tid=ss https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/419561-woman-admits-to-picking-up-absentee-ballots-in-north-carolina https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/419693-second-woman-says-she-was-paid-to-collect-absentee-ballots-in-north https://www.apnews.com/ab20c7bd12464a4383abfdc2bd88ca92 Dowless campaign worker gives testimony at evidentiary hearing that she and others collected and opened unsealed absentee ballots they collected to fill in the Republican candidate, in addition to fabricating absentee forms, using false names as witness, and storing copies of all ballots to be sent to a Bladen County PAC https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/gop-campaign-worker-admits-to-filling-in-republican-votes-on-absentee-ballots-says-she-was-later-told-to-lie/ Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. and 7 others indicted https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/us/mccrae-dowless-indictment.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
- NC Board of Elections investigated campaign operative Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. earlier in 2010 over allegations that he paid voters to fill out ballots. No criminal charges were made, as witnesses were unwilling to testify https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/424441-man-at-center-of-nc-election-fraud-allegations-was-previously-probed-for
- Elections board ordered new election for House seat due to 2018 absentee ballot fraud https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-orders-new-u-s-house-election-after-tainted-vote-idUSKCN1QA1QG
- Democratic governor accuses GOP of blocking both 2018 investigation and interim Board of Elections after the North Carolina Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement declined to validate the election results. The investigation was forced to dissolve and the Republican chair is declining to nominate for the interim board, resulting in no investigation hearings https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/north-carolina-gop-accused-of-derailing-investigation-into-election-fraud/
- DA says over 1,000 ballots may have been destroyed in 9th district 2018 race https://www.foxnews.com/politics/over-1000-ballots-may-have-been-destroyed-in-tighty-contested-north-carolina-congressional-race
- In 2019 Federal judge shuts down GOP attempt to preserve gerrymander, where state Republicans claimed legislators and the justices are too racist to be trusted to redraw the maps in a way that wouldn’t violate the Constitution https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/north-carolina-republicans-gerrymander-anita-earls.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/north-carolina-republican-gerrymandering-plan-insanity.html
- NC judges strike down map for 'extreme partisan gerrymandering', requiring the new map be drawn in full public view at public hearings with all computer screens visible to legislatures and observers https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/09/03/north-carolina-judges-toss-maps-partisan-gerrymandering/2204294001/
- Hofeller emails released in 2019 show that Voter ID models and research discriminated based mostly on race rather than partisanship as claimed. For example, one document included a district dividing HBCU A&T State University with the city map color-coded by race and age. Emails also include Hofeller pushing Republicans to campaign protecting the use of inmates in gerrymandering, as prisons cannot vote but would inflate population. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-files-of-the-master-of-modern-republican-gerrymandering https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5d7291409cecbb00083874cf/mastew_774,c_limit/Daley--Gerrymandering02.jpg
- North Carolina Republicans recommend Art Pope, who funded REDMAP which was behind multiple court-declared gerrymandered districts, to come back as special master to "referee" the new NC map replacing the invalidated map he helped make https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6386074-LD-S-Suggested-Referees.html https://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141078608/the-multimillionaire-helping-republicans-win-n-c
North Dakota Ohio Pennsylvania Texas - Judge rules in 2017 that Texas Voter ID law discriminates https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politics/texas-voter-id-ruling/index.html
- Texas election officials confirmed that voting machines used in 30% of its counties are switching people’s votes https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1055912575093792768?s=19 https://apnews.com/a8825810d10441f2ad828e95d6851d55
- Secretary of State David Whitley apologizes for 2019 claim of 58,000 illegal votes that was shared by the AG, Governor, and President as at least 20,000 votes have already been identified as legitimate. Whitley blames it on bad wording and will still forward the names for investigation and possible prosecution, a claim which was itself denied by the AG. https://thinkprogress.org/texas-secretary-of-state-illegal-voters-david-whitley-donald-trump-d3c6d9c3b29f/ https://www.texastribune.org/2019/02/11/texas-ags-office-said-it-was-investigating-voters-citizenship-review-l/
- Judge halts effort to purge 100,000 voters in 2019, which so far only found 80 ineligible out of 100,000 accused registered voters. Even the Secretary of State David Whitley, who has since resigned, admitted to accidental additions. Gov. Greg Abbott, who pushed the voter purge before Whitley, gets to pick his replacement ahead of 2020. https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2019/ma02/federal-judge-halts-texas-voter-roll-pu/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27750601/texas-governor-greg-abbott-voter-roll-purge/
- Texas responding to signature discrepancies by throwing out mail-in ballots, rather than allowing provisional ballot verification as other state laws allow https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-signature-mismatch-absentee-ballot_n_5d4b414ae4b01e44e4749888?3cl
Virginia Wisconsin National - In the 2008 and 2012 elections, there was an anomalous vote gain relative to precinct size that increased Romney's count and McCain's when Romney quit, but did not affect Democrats or other elections https://web.archive.org/web/20130126180125/http://www.themoneyparty.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2008_2012_ElectionsResultsAnomaliesAndAnalysis_V1.51.pdf
- Supreme Court 2013 ruling freed nine states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance federal approval https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html
- In 2016, at least 868 polling places closed in southern states, increasing lines https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/4/13501120/vote-polling-places-election-2016
- In 2018 Supreme Court ruled 5-4 ok'ing an already proven gerrymandered map. Argument was that if a judge reactivates interim map without intent to gerrymander, it isn't a gerrymandered map https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/the-abbott-v-perez-case-echoes-shelby-county-v-holder-as-a-further-death-blow-for-the-voting-rights-act.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-upholds-texas-redistricting-that-a-lower-court-said-discriminated-against-black-and-hispanic-voters/2018/06/25/bd09592a-7885-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?noredirect=on
- GOP strategist Thomas Hofeller, who ghostwrote the Neuman DoJ letter to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, cited his own unpublished study showing that the question would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" and had been talking to Census Bureau since 2010. The DoJ claims Hofeller's study "played no role" but they copied from his study verbatim. https://www.npr.org/2019/05/30/728232221/gop-redistricting-strategist-played-role-in-push-for-census-citizenship-question https://www.npr.org/2019/06/15/732669380/emails-connect-census-official-with-gop-strategist-on-citizenship-question https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6077735-May-30-2019-Exhibit.html#document/p120/a504025 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6077715-May-30-2019-Letter-to-Judge-Jesse-Furman.html
- In 2019, 3 Federal judges - New York, California, and Maryland districts - find Trump's citizenship census question unlawful. They claim it violated the Administrative Procedure Act, that Wilbur Ross concealed his basis for the question, that there's no genuine need for the question, and it prevents the US gov from carrying out its mandate. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/05/700982993/trump-administrations-census-citizenship-question-plans-halted-by-third-judge Supreme Court agrees, saying the Trump explanation for it is inadequate but allowing for a citizenship question in the future. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/citizenship-question-supreme-court-2020-census-trump-today-latest-scotus-news-a8977936.html
- In 2019, Supreme Court temporarily blocks lower rulings requiring new voting maps for Ohio and Michigan, despite leaked emails in both states showing intentional gerrymandering. In Ohio the GOP consistently claimed 75% of seats despite a 51%-47% vote lead in 2012, a 58%-42% lead in 2016 and a 52%-47% lead in 2018. In Michigan the GOP consistently claimed 64% of seats despite a 46%-51% loss in 2012, a 47%-49% loss in 2014, and a 48%-47% lead in 2016. https://www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1010146 https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/2017/11/emails_documents_disclose_ohio.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/us/michigan-gerrymandering.html?module=inline
- In 2019, Supreme Court rules 5-4 that vetting gerrymandering is beyond its constitutional reach, moving districting out of federal control and overturning lower rulings in Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, and Wisconsin. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/27/fiasco-democracy-right-wing-supreme-court-gives-green-light-partisan-gerrymandering https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/27/18761166/supreme-court-gerrymandering-republicans-democracy
- In 2019, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked an election security bill to authorize hundreds of millions of dollars to update voting equipment. McConnell himself has put no bills on the floor for machine improvement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mcconnell-defends-blocking-election-security-bill-rejects-criticism-he-is-aiding-russia/2019/07/29/08dca6d4-b239-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html
- South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Kansas GOP officials seeking to cancel 2020 primaries and caucuses, skipping over challengers to Trump to require Trump as 2020 candidate https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/republicans-cancel-primaries-trump-challengers-1483126?cid=apn
- Other general reports - https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/publications/Purges_Growing_Threat_2018.pdf, https://www.usccr.gov/pubs/2018/Minority_Voting_Access_2018.pdf, https://www.wired.com/story/voter-id-law-algorithm/, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2016/11/22/gop-seats-bonus-in-congress/, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/20/this-anti-voter-fraud-program-gets-it-wrong-over-99-of-the-time-the-gop-wants-to-take-it-nationwide/?noredirect=on, http://bl.ocks.org/cingraham/7551527
"I don't want everybody to vote... As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down." -
Paul Weyrich, co-founder of Heritage Foundation and ALEC, 1980
“Look, if African Americans voted overwhelmingly Republican, they would have kept early voting right where it was,” Wrenn said. “It wasn’t about discriminating against African Americans. They just ended up in the middle of it because they vote Democrat.” -
Carter Wrenn, Republican consultant in North Carolina
“There's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea.” -
Cindy Hyde-Smith, Republican Senator of Mississippi, 2003
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Congress of Republics, a bicameral body made up of the
Council of States (With equal deputies from each republic) and the
Council of Deputies will be proportional to the populations of each state.
Membership will be restricted to members of the PKI, and will feature seats designated for military personnel, high-level local officials, intellectuals and trade unionists. Candidates will be chosen and sent to the legislature by their local party apparatuses.
The legislature will be led by a single individual elected by both to direct and ensure good parliamentary decorum, the
People's Speaker of the Congresses.
Executive Branch Unlike the USSR, the PKI will be more directly intermingled into the process of determining the executive branch of the government, than the purely legislative actions of the USSR. The PKI will present to the legislature as needed a slate of candidates for Ministerial positions, to which each chamber will approve.
The Chairman of Ministers will be akin to Prime Minister in the west, and will be head-of-government.
Judicial Branch The local communist party apparatus will appoint candidates to local, socialist-oriented courts who maintain education in law and jurisprudence. A new legal framework based on the USSR will be phased in over the coming years, replacing military law.
Communist Party Role and Apparatus The PKI will meet once every three years to elect a formal Central Committee, which will in turn elect from itself a Political Bureau, Organizational Bureau, and Secretariat. The Politburo will guide and determine the goals and governance of the party in relation to government, the Orgburo will be tasked with formulating economic policies and plans, and the Secretariat will be tasked with internal party governance.
The General Secretary of the PSRI will also, in light of his importance, be granted the title of Premier, to symbolize his status as Indonesia's head-of-state.
Local Government Local branches of the PKI will be tasked with appointing members to semi-devolved
Regional Councils, which will, in turn, implement the will of the party and national government and appoint lower-level municipal and provincial officials. Each regional council will consist of individuals from the region at hand, whose leadership will be vetted by the Central Committee.
Merger of Left-Wing Parties in the PKI All other parties within Indonesia have been effectively banned for being 'counter-revolutionary'. That being stated, the PKI has, in spite of protestations from Musso and other hardliners, taken a softer approach to some of the former opposition.
The Murba Party, PNI, and PPS parties have been integrated in full into the PKI's apparatus. Its membership seen, if not as devoted communists, than as sufficiently left-leaning as to benefit the regime. The Murba Party in particular will be integrated in as near equals.
Others will serve in the rank-and-file of the government and emerging communist bureaucracy. Not necessarily given too much power (To avoid 'reactionary backsliding' and 'nationalist subversion'), but not cracked down upon as harshly as one might otherwise think.
Their leaders though, if unwilling to accept communist rule, will be expelled from the country. And those deemed 'subversives' will be monitored or exiled.
The Role of Religion The PSRI has declared itself a secular state. That being said, its leadership seems hesitant to impose atheism upon the masses. Islamist clerics and politicians will be arrested or exiled in the coming months, by orders of the government, but no closures of mosques or churches will be forced.
The PKI has made it clear that open religiosity will not be deemed 'politically acceptable' among its own membership. But a broad toleration will be put in place for 'private religion' among lower-level government officials, soldiers, and workers.
Schooling will be secular and irreligious, but will not impose an atheistic viewpoint directly. It will simply teach 'the secular, scientific, and materialistic view' of nature. Religious night schooling will be tolerated for a subset of the population, bar though it might advancement in many areas of society and the PKI.
The state will sponsor small trips to Mecca for devout believers every year, determined by lottery from a pool of applicants. Otherwise, no governmental monies will be put down to support Islam.
Internal Security Modeled after the Soviet KGB, the Directorate of State Security (
Direktorat Keamanan Negara) or DKN, will serve to protect the revolution at home and abroad. It will be further organized in coming months and will be tied intimately to the PKI apparatus.
Military Affairs The PSRI military will expanded in coming months to include more paramilitary forces, and a designated Air Defense and Coast Defense Branch. Commissars will be recruited
en masse from the PKI ranks to ensure political education and compliance among the soldiery.
Trade Unions The PKI will merge existing trade unions into itself, and form broad-based industrial and agricultural unions aligned to itself to replace them as the true representatives of the working class in Indonesia.
PSRI Leadership - General Secretary of the PKI and Premier of the PSRI: Musso
- Chairman of Ministers: D. N. Aidit
- Chairman of the Orgburo and Minister of Planning: M. H. Lukman
- People's Speaker and Minister of Agriculture: Njoto
- Minister of Finance: Sudisman
- Minister of Defense: Amir Sjarifuddin
- Minister of Internal Security: Sukarni
- Minister of Foreign Affairs: Adam Malik
- Minister of Education: Chairul Saleh
What A Day: Dial M For Murder Hornets by Sarah Lazarus & Crooked Media (05/04/20)
"I believe I am treated worse." - Donald Trump (not assassinated), about Abraham Lincoln (assassinated) A Grimm Outlook
The Trump administration privately projects that daily coronavirus deaths will nearly double over the next few weeks, even as President Trump continues to pressure states to relax their public-health restrictions. The White House said the data is just from a bunch of scientists and hasn’t been vetted by the likes of Mike “
I should have worn a mask” Pence, which it seems to think will convince you to trust that data...less?
- According to CDC modeling in a leaked internal document, U.S. coronavirus cases and deaths will rise steadily through May, with 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, and a daily death toll reaching 3,000 on June 1. That confirms what health experts have warned: The U.S. caseload hasn’t sufficiently declined, and reopening the economy now will cause a deadly infection surge. In a surreal, lie-drenched Sunday town hall at the Lincoln Memorial, Trump both casually raised the potential death toll to 100,000, up 50 percent from what he told Americans a few weeks ago, and insisted that “it’s all working out.” Based on his own administration’s new projections, even 100,000 deaths is an underestimate.
- The administration has simultaneously escalated its campaign to blame China for the president’s failings. Over the weekend, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed there’s “enormous evidence” that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab, and that experts think it was man-made. Pompeo did not share what that evidence might be, or explain how that claim squares with the intelligence community’s statement that it “concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the Covid-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified.” A new Department of Homeland Security report states that China covered up the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in an intentional plot to hoard medical supplies, which, again, isn’t reflected in any public evidence, and has no bearing on the fact that Trump praised China, ignored the pandemic risk, and lied about the virus until it was too late. What we do know is that the Trump administration sent 17.8 tons of supplies to China, weeks after the first coronavirus case was reported in the U.S.
- The Senate returned to the Capitol today, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is in a screaming rush to
provide additional relief to hurting American workers cram the courts with Trump-nominated judges. Trump has suggested he’s in no hurry to pass another round of coronavirus legislation, and now claims he won’t sign any legislation that doesn’t include a payroll tax cut.
You’ll be floored to learn that Trump continues to dodge oversight, and retaliate against officials who deliver information he doesn’t like. - The White House has blocked Dr. Anthony Fauci from testifying before a House subcommittee hearing on COVID-19 this week, saying it would be “counter-productive” for officials involved in response efforts to appear at congressional hearings. Oddly enough, Fauci is scheduled to appear before a GOP-led Senate committee next week, and the administration seems to have no problem with that at all.
- Trump has moved to replace Christi Grimm, the HHS inspector general who released a report detailing supply shortages and testing delays at hospitals, and whom Trump publicly attacked at a briefing a few weeks ago. You can tell this is all very normal and above-board because the White House waited until Friday night to announce a new nominee for her job.
The U.S. recorded its highest daily death toll just as several states began reopening on Friday, and the CDC’s new projections show that the Americans are about to be dumped right back into the same danger we faced before the lockdown. By staying home, you bought the federal government several weeks to ramp up testing, distribute PPE, and coordinate a national strategy for a safe reopening. The Trump administration wasted that time, and now hopes you’ll just get used to the appalling consequences.
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Part two of Hall of Shame’s two part episode on NBA player Ron Artest (aka Metta World Peace) is out today! In part one, they dive into the backstory—his life, his promising career, everything up until the infamous brawl, known as “The Malice at the Palace”—the biggest in sports history. In part two, they look at what came after—the rest of his career, his name change, and everything that follows.
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Under The Radar
The coronavirus pandemic has spawned a mental-health crisis that the U.S. is ill-equipped to handle. Nearly half of Americans report that the coronavirus crisis has harmed their mental health, and a federal emergency hotline for people in emotional distress saw a 1000 percent increase in texts over the same time last year. Frontline workers are at particularly high risk for anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Experts say that in the same way the U.S. took drastic steps to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, it needs to prepare for the coming mental-health crisis by providing widespread mental-health screenings, better access to therapists through telehealth, and a much more significant allocation of federal relief funds.
What Else?
Joe Biden denied Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation in a Friday appearance on Morning Joe, and called for the release of any potential records related to the claim, which he said would be housed at the National Archives.
Senate officials said today that they can’t legally release those documents.
Kim Jong-un reappeared after a mysterious three-week absence at the opening of a fertilizer plant, as one does.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced a ban on 1,500 kinds of assault weapons in the wake of the country’s deadliest mass shooting in April. An Amazon vice president has resigned over the firing of employees who protested working conditions in the company’s warehouses. Tim Bray called Amazon “chickenshit” for firing activists, which he said was “designed to create a climate of fear.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) has announced the formation of a seven-state consortium to buy PPE in states’ latest move to reinvent the federal government, because the one we have won’t do its job.
A Trump appointee to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who allegedly manipulated research that led to the weakening of the bureau’s payday lending rule, previously ran a predatory car dealership.
J. Crew has become the first national retailer to file for bankruptcy as a result of pandemic conditions, and several other major retailers are likely to do the same. Unbutton your timeless linen button-down to half-mast.
Carnival Cruise Line plans to get back to cruisin’ starting on August 1, presumably as some kind of secret MIT-funded social experiment.
The 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. Coleson Whitehead is now just the fourth novelist in history to win a second Pulitzer, and
This American Life won the first-ever “Audio Reporting” prize.
A Japanese aquarium has asked the public to FaceTime its very shy eels. We all like to speculate about what we would have done at pivotal moments in history, but here you are. History is happening. Will you stand idly by? Or will you answer the call, and FaceTime some eels?
Be Smarter
Murder hornets have arrived in the U.S., because we have had it too easy for too long around here. Asian giant hornets, or “murder hornets” as they are adorably known, can wipe out a honeybee hive in a matter of hours with their mandibles, and have a horrifying stinger–long enough to stab through a bee suit—and potent venom that they use to attack larger targets. In Japan, the hornets kill up to 50 people per year. Now they’re in the U.S. for the first time, and could decimate the country’s bee population if they aren’t eradicated quickly. The first sightings were in Washington state, where scientists are setting traps in a frantic hunt to eliminate them. One researcher who was stung by a murder hornet across the border in Canada described it as “like having red-hot thumbtacks being driven into my flesh,” so, you know, another compelling reason to stay inside in the event you’ve grown a bit stir crazy.
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Irish citizens have donated nearly $1.5 million in relief to Navajo and Hopi families, returning a 19th century favor, when the Choctaw Nation donated $170 to Ireland for famine relief. Kroger will begin offering free coronavirus testing to workers. Milwaukee, WI, has passed a law to mail absentee-ballot applications with prepaid postage to all 300,000 registered voters there. While Wisconsin’s Republican legislature holds up statewide mail-in voting efforts, the state’s heavily Democratic cities are leading the charge.
Independent musicians have formed the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW), to respond to the pandemic’s devastating impact on touring artists.
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What I know about US Export Controls and Hacking Tools
This post is a summary of everything I know about United States Export Controls and Hacking Tools. I wrote this a few weeks ago, before the United States Department of Commerce (US DOC) released their proposed rules to comply with the December 2013 changes to the Wassenar Arrangement on Export Controls. My goal with this post is to provide background and vocabulary to aid understanding and discussing the DOC’s proposed changes to the law.
ITAR and EAR Let's pretend you make or sell hacking tools. When I say hacking tools, I'm describing the function of the software, not its intended use. There are organizations that sell hacking tools to help others understand and better secure their networks. There are others who sell to anyone to aid other countries in their law enforcement and military tasks. The fact that software with the same function could cater to either use case is the reason these laws exist in the first place.
Which body of law might apply to you? There are two you should be aware of. The first is ITAR, which is managed by the US Department of State. This is the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. This is the body of law that applies to no-kidding weapons.
If you develop hacking tools, you may fall under ITAR if your tools are derived from something developed by or for the United States Military or Intelligence Community. If your work isn't a derivative from one of these sources, you're probably not ITAR.
The other body of law is the EAR. The EAR is the Export Administration Regulations. It's managed by the United States DOC's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). The EAR regulates "dual use" goods. These are goods that have both civilian AND military/law enforcement use cases.
Unless you work for a defense contractor or take funding from the US Department of Defense, your work will probably fall under the EAR. If you're unsure, it's possible to get a binding decision from the US government. The process to do this is a Commodity Jurisdiction Request. These are managed by the US Department of State. When you put in a CJ, the US Department of State will collaborate with the US DOC and the US Department of Homeland Security to make a decision about where your product falls. The pain in the ass of the CJ process is that you must treat your product as ITAR controlled until the decision is made. If you already have customers/users outside of the United States, this could make things awkward.
ECCNs and License Exceptions Let's say your hacking tool falls under the EAR and you want to export it. Great! Before you can export it, you need to find out which part of the EAR applies to you. The US law buckets dual-use goods into categories, identified by ECCNs. An ECCN is an Export Control Classification Number.
If a product is controlled, you can not export it unless you request permission from the United States government to do so. This permission is granted on a case-by-case basis. A lot of goods are "controlled" with very broad definitions. The United States likes tax revenue and it likes expertise within its borders. Policy has to balance controlling “dangerous” exports and hindering US businesses.
Keeping with this line of thought, the EAR has several License Exceptions. These exceptions dictate which situations allow you to export your product without asking for permission from the US government. They also spell out your responsibilities to conduct due diligence on who requests your product and whether or not you have reporting requirements.
Before you can find out if a license exception applies to you, you have to know your ECCN. This is something a lawyer can help with. To their credit, the US DOC BIS publishes a wealth of flow charts, FAQs, and other information to help as well. I found their site very helpful before I found a lawyer to advise me in this area.
https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption 5dXX2 is the ECCN the bucket where software that
uses encryption falls. Note the keyword: uses. This is almost every piece of useful software out there today. ECCN 5d992 is mass market software that uses encryption. If your product fits this definition [browsers, operating systems, secure pull my finger applications, etc.] you don't have too many worries. I don't know the specifics here as it doesn't apply to me, but know that this exists, and if you're not in the hacking biz--this is what probably applies to you.
Hacking tools are not mass market. The EAR makes an exception for goods that do Network Vulnerability and Penetration Testing. You can search the EAR for this phrase or ask your lawyer to do it for you. Either way, you're probably the 5d002 ECCN (right now, anyways... more on this later).
Open Source and Commercial Exports are Treated Differently! Once you have an ECCN, you have to determine which exceptions allow you to export it. There are a lot of contextual factors to consider. For those of us 5d002 folks (we need a club or a meetup), here's the flow chart published by the United States DOC:
https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/doc_view/328-flowchart-2 If your software is open source, you will probably export it under License Exception TSU. This is the "Technology and Software Unrestricted" controls. If the TSU exception applies to you, you do have one requirement. The law requires you to email
[email protected] and
[email protected] with the URL to your code and name of your project.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cftext/15/740.13 My understanding is that the protections of this exception do not apply to you until you carry out this step. Is the US government chasing people down who fail to do this? I don't think so. The Information Technology Controls Division of the US DOC has less than 10 people listed on their website. The United States is a big country, there are a lot of products that fall under this law. They probably have other things to do than chase people who didn't send a TSU notification.
https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption/15-policy-guidance/encryption/491-information-technology-controls-division-contacts I have open source and commercially available software. I often get people asking me why I'm such a hater because I let them have my free thing, but not the commercial one. This is why. Sadly, eyes glaze over when I try to explain this.
Registering with the US DOC Commercial penetration testing software falls under License Exception ENC. What happens if you fall under License Exception ENC? It's been awhile, but here's what I remember:
You'll need to register for an account in the US Dept of Commerce's SNAP-R system. This is the primary portal where you get to interface with this department and submit requests and things. This system wasn't too bad to work with. I hate all web portals and if I was able to navigate it without significant pain, that says a lot.
You'll need to submit a commodity classification request. This request will require you to provide technical information about your product. The questions will ask you which encryption algorithms you use and which key lengths. The US DOC is very interested in whether or not you have an open cryptographic interface (e.g., a way for the end-user to use arbitrary key lengths with your product). As a developer, I had no problems answering these questions. I prepared and submitted my answers without the help of a lawyer (although later, I had an export lawyer review them).
The US DOC has 30 days to give you an answer on your classification request. It's been awhile, but I believe you also submit a request for an Encryption Registration Number at this time too. You're not allowed to export your product until these requests are complete. Once the US DOC responds, you'll get a CCATS number and an Encryption Registration Number (ERN). I haven't had to use my ERN for anything since I've registered for it. I do make use of my CCATS number.
Complying with US Export Law (for some Security Goods) If you export a 5d002 product under License Exception ENC, you have a few things to keep in mind:
1) There are restrictions on who you can export to.
If your user is in the United States or Canada--this body of law doesn't apply to the transaction. Have a nice day. If your user is outside of the United States and Canada, you need to find out (a) which country they're from and (b) whether or not they're a government end user.
You can't export your product to end users in Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, or Sudan.
The law has a list of favorable encryption export countries. These are countries where you can export to any end user, government or civilian. The list is composed of NATO countries and close US allies.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cftext/15/part-740/appendix-SupplementNo3 Outside of the above list, you can export to non-government end users. Any government end users require a license from the United States government.
Finally, the United States publishes a Consolidated Screening List. This is a massive text file with the names and addresses of organizations you can not export to.
http://export.gov/eceg_main_023148.asp 2) You have reporting requirements.
When you export a product under License Exception ENC, you have reporting requirements. Twice a year, you must turn in a spreadsheet, via email, to the US DOC and the NSA. The law lists these two email addresses. The spreadsheet is very simple. It's the CCATS number of the product, the product's name, the organization you exported to, their physical mailing address, and a quantity. That's it.
3) You have due diligence requirements.
If you export under License Exception ENC, you're expected to control who has access to your product. You can't just put your product up on your site, allow anyone to download it, and claim ignorance. That said, someone who wants to defeat simple controls, such as IP Geolocation, will. You'll want to work with an export lawyer to determine which technical controls demonstrate that you made a good faith effort to comply with the law.
When you do export outside of the US and Canada, you have to collect the information for your reporting requirements, and make some attempt to vet it. You're also expected to look out for "red flags". Again, the specifics of vetting and red flags are not in the law. It's ambiguous. This is what allows export lawyers to put their children through college in the United States.
The Wassenaar Arrangement That was a lot of information about the export of software that uses encryption, particularly hacking tools. The story isn't over yet. In December 2013, the United States co-signed an update to the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls. This update is an agreement amongst several Western Nations to regulate the export of goods deemed cyber weapons.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2903d504-5c18-11e3-931e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3XzPrLqky http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/publications/changes-export-control-arrangement-apply-computer-exploits-and-more You'll notice that this whole discussion has centered around software that uses encryption. Some hacking tools fall under this. Others don't. Many memory corruption exploits, for example, don't use encryption--so they don't fall under the encryption regulations.
The 2013 Wasenaar Arrangement updates closes this loophole. This treaty makes an attempt to nail down a definition for exploits and software that intentionally evades detection technologies. To date, the United States has not released its guidance on how US businesses who deal in such goods are to comply with the law.
Today, The US DOC announced its proposed rules to help the US comply with the Wassenaar Arrangement treaty from 2013.
http://tinyurl.com/pej8okx http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/doc_download/1236-80-fr-28853 My reading of the proposed changes is that the US is trying to limit the export of weaponized exploits and the platforms for post-exploitation versus just limiting exploits themselves. [This is just a guess from an initial reading.]
The proposed rules define a new ECCN for Trojans (Intrusion Software) and other technologies. Items classified under these new ECCNs (e.g., 4d004) have the deny-by-default export policy as any controlled product. My reading of the proposed rules is that there are no broad License Exceptions for these new ECCNs (like License Exception ENC).
http://tinyurl.com/lnkjtff It seems each export will require a formal permission from the US DOC (in the form of a license request). The US DOC will vet these requests against the requirements of the Regional Stability (RS), Anti-terrorism (AT), and National Security (NS) controls. My understanding is that exports to some countries (e.g., UK, AUS, NZ) will have preferential treatment and the license request is mostly a formality. Other requests will be reviewed more thoroughly.
http://tinyurl.com/maxotcd From my initial reading of these proposed changes, I don’t know how this does or does not affect open source. Will the US DOC allow License Exception TSU for open source projects? These are questions I plan to ask my export lawyer when he and I sit down next.
Here are the questions the US DOC wants answers about when one submits an export application request:
http://tinyurl.com/mj3g9jm The US DOC has a list of questions they’d like public comment on. Here’s the list:
http://tinyurl.com/n6yas37 Instructions and points of contact to submit a comment are at:
http://tinyurl.com/mhgejqs Conclusion: Hire a Lawyer. I have to ask that you forgive any omissions and errors present in these comments. At the very least, if this information applies to you, you have enough export law vocabulary to start your own research and to have a better initial dialog with an attorney. I'm not a lawyer. You will want to work with a lawyer through this process. Export law is a speciality. Finding an export lawyer who understands hacking tools is hard.
"Will her Catholic faith make a difference in how Carrie Lam leads Hong Kong?" America Magazine, June 2nd 2017
source :
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/06/02/will-her-catholic-faith-make-difference-how-carrie-lam-leads-hong-kong "Will her Catholic faith make a difference in how Carrie Lam leads Hong Kong?
Verna Yu June 02, 2017
Carrie Lam said she was answering God's call when she decided to run for Hong Kong's top political job as chief executive. She has also spoken of her conviction that there would a place reserved for her in heaven. Yet Ms. Lam, a Roman Catholic who will become Hong Kong’s next top political leader in less than two months, also has an earthly master—the People’s Republic of China. Ms. Lam—the city’s former number two official—
was not elected by ordinary voters. She was chosen by a 1,194-member election committee dominated by Beijing loyalists in a process dubbed
“small-circle election” that has been in place since the 1997 handover of sovereignty from Great Britain to China.
Before the vote in late March,
Beijing made clear that Ms. Lam was its preferred candidate and she won with 777 votes, beating former finance chief John Tsang, another Catholic who enjoyed public popularity but is said to have lacked the Chinese government's support. He received only 365 votes, even though he had led opinion polls carried out by three local universities since the beginning of the year right up to the election.
The following month, Ms. Lam flew to Beijing to accept her appointment by Chinese leaders. On July 1, she will start her five-year term leading Hong Kong. The territory is part of China, but under the handover agreement negotiated with Great Britain it maintains a degree of autonomy from Beijing.
The political mandate for Hong Kong's chief executive comes from China, and Ms. Lam has a record of pushing policies favored by Beijing. As a result, many fellow Christians in Hong Kong are uncertain about her willingness to uphold her faith while serving communist bosses in Beijing.
“No one can serve two masters,” said former lawmaker Andrew Cheng Kar-Foo, a pro-democracy Roman Catholic lawyer.
“If someone's mandate comes from the Chinese Communist Party, then they know their role is to serve the Communist Party.” Carrie Lam said she was answering God's call when she decided to run for Hong Kong's top political job, but she also has an earthly master—the People’s Republic of China. Ms. Lam's office declined to answer a reporter's emailed questions on issues raised in this article, explaining she did not have time.
Ms. Lam's political loyalty gained her the trust of the Chinese government, but it cost her popularity among ordinary people in Hong Kong. According to a rolling
opinion poll carried out by the University of Hong Kong, her support dropped 10 percentage points from 61.1 in the first half of 2014 to 51.1 in the same period of 2017. She had led a Beijing-backed government task force on political reform in Hong Kong in 2014.
The reform proposal, based on a ruling by China's National People's Congress Standing Committee in August 2014 but pushed by Ms. Lam, would have enabled ordinary people to elect Hong Kong’s chief executive but only from a list of candidates vetted and pre-approved by a 1,200-member nominating committee. Pro-democracy politicians and activists decried it as
“fake democracy,” and their anger triggered the 79-day "Occupy Central" protests, also known as “the Umbrella Movement.” The reform proposal was
voted down by lawmakers in 2015.
Many Christians are skeptical of Ms. Lam’s ability to defend religious freedom in Hong Kong. She is partly at fault for that skepticism.
While campaigning to become Hong Kong’s chief executive earlier this year,
Ms. Lam proposed setting up a new
“religious affairs unit” to coordinate religious policies in Hong Kong. Catholic and Protestant groups strongly objected, fearing such an oversight group could function like mainland China’s religious affairs bureau, which monitors, controls and cracks down on religious activities not sanctioned by the state.
Cardinal John Tong, the bishop of Hong Kong, wrote to Ms. Lam in March, expressing the diocese’s “resolute opposition” to the establishment of the unit. The diocese warned in a statement that mainland China “is led by an atheist and communist government” and that religious affairs units on the mainland are used to gather information on religious groups, urging Ms. Lam to abandon the idea.
A joint petition with more than 600 signatures from mostly Catholics and Protestants also asked Ms. Lam to scrap the proposal and to ensure that religious freedom in the territory would be free from government interference. She backed down in the end, but the incident left the impression that she was someone eager to push for policies that pleased Beijing even at the expense of religious freedom in Hong Kong, several Christians and scholars said.
Many Hong Kong Catholics took to social media to air their displeasure over Ms. Lam's remarks on her faith, ridiculing her claims that she has a place in heaven because she was
“persecuted for righteousness’ sake” in her previous work and urging her to demonstrate more humility.
Professor Ying Fuk Tsang, an expert on Christianity in China at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said Ms. Lam’s remarks were inappropriate attempts to use her faith for political cover. He said her endorsement of a religious affairs unit shows a lack of foresight on religious freedom issues.
Mr. Ying pointed out that since Hong Kong’s leaders, handpicked by Beijing, are not accountable to voters but to the Chinese leadership, meeting their Beijing bosses' demands are often their main priority.
“The Communist Party requires loyalty only, particularly in terms of meeting its political demands and making sure that everything works accordingly at key moments," he said.
“It is unrealistic to have any expectation [based on] Carrie Lam's religious faith.” Mr. Ying said that "if living out your religious faith involved criticism of dictatorships, defense of individual thinking and an insistence on faith and integrity, then there is bound to be conflict” between faith and the role of chief executive of Hong Kong.
Both Mr. Ying and another academic at a Catholic seminary who asked to remain anonymous pointed out that a leader’s faith is no guarantee of their good conduct in any case.
Donald Tsang, Hong Kong’s chief executive between 2005 and 2012, a devout Catholic, was sentenced earlier this year to 20 months in jail for misconduct in public office. When his cabinet was considering a broadcasting license application from a Hong Kong property developer, he had neglected to mention that the business executive was also his landlord. Rafael Hui, the city's former number two official, also a Catholic, received a sentence of seven and a half years in 2014 after being convicted of bribe-taking from a property tycoon.
Sister Beatrice Leung, a research professor at Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages in Taiwan, said while she respected Ms. Lam’s belief that she was called by God to lead Hong Kong, she has seen little evidence of that Ms. Lam's Catholicism made much difference in her previous government roles.
“We understand that the political development of Hong Kong is in the hands of Beijing. Political consideration from Beijing would be the main theme of Lam's policy,” she said.
Sister Leung said it was too early to judge if Ms. Lam will act in accordance with church teaching in her new role, but she is likely to be tested at some point. Sister Leung used the example of St. Thomas More, lord chancellor under King Henry VIII, who famously said, "I die the King's good servant, but God's first," before his execution, resisting the king’s power in defense of the church.
Ms. Lam’s experience in government will not likely prove as dramatic, but, Sister Leung said,
“Lam will be put into a position of choosing between God and Beijing.”" A Perps Confession
"This was anomalously authored, although it is line with, or part of, a larger whole that is known, and known to be violent. They are inflicting harm and hardship on other human-beings which is an understatement. Their organization also acts as a front line, or hand in society, that has at its core human-experimentation. Perhaps you saw them operating in our communities and could not identify it. If you have input, information, it would be 'gratefully' accepted, and held private; please do respond. If possible disseminate widely to "targeted individual" web sites. Also, where would futher information be found." (support@unwittingvictim)
"...I was eventually offered a place in the syndicate. The syndicate was presented to me as a kind of fraternity, a masonic-like mutual profit organization with strong police-like overtones. I was told that I was helping to build a better society. However, I have never been given any of the advancement opportunities I was promised. The "advancement system" of the syndicate is a slippery slope. They make you give up your security privileges, so eventually all of your communications are watched (which is why I composed this email offline where they cannot see me, and sent it via an internet cafe), and you have to attend meeting after meeting of mind-numbing pledges and chants.
The premise is that if you sign contracts giving up personal liberties for the group, and you are genuinely innocent, then you will be promoted. I have only been promoted once, to the rank of manager, and I don't feel as if it is a rewarding experience. Worse, you are never allowed to leave because they think you will give away secrets. Leaving is only permissible with a special contract that permits the syndicate to destroy your credibility (usually they make sure that the most attention any secrets that you reveal get is from crackpot UFO magazines, or diagnose you with schizophrenia).
There are other problems. If you have children, you have to send them to education in syndicate owned schools. If you have a wife, you have to report on her, allow her to be spied upon, and be prepared to target her if they decide to turn her into a TI (Targeted Individual). The official "compensation" policy is that you will get to keep the children if she lodges a divorce. However, you won't get to keep most of her material goods. They only want her to lose in the divorce proceedings so she gets nothing, not so the husband gets anything, so the syndicate takes it back as a tithe.
I suppose I should introduce the syndicate in a little more detail. I'm still not sure precisely what it is trying to do. To everyday citizens, it presents itself as a group trying to monitor terrorists (or any other kind of flavour-of-the-month undesirables like gays/communists/witches) and drive them out. To other people, it is a rotary club/chamber of commerce type operation. To others still, the most twisted conspiratorial minds, it is an organization that pulls the strings behind everything. To the puritan, it is a cleansing force. To the deviant, it is a gang of other deviants where everything is permissible. It is the syndicate to everyone, though. I don't know the extent of what it owns.
I do, however, know a great deal about the targeting process. When we get targets, we divide them into four categories: mercenary, practice, planning, and enemy. Mercenary targets are bought by outside parties. We advertise under a range of guises, from ads by "individuals" claiming to be able to kidnap people, to practical jokers. Some groups, like big corporations and some governments (the government of Xxxxxx pays us to keep some people busy, so do the Xxxxxxs when they have too many people protesting whaling) know fully well what sort of services we do, so we don't really hide them. We get a lot of money from them, but we can still muster up a fair bit if worse comes to worst.
I'm not sure so much about the NWO theory. Maybe the Xxxxxxx count, but you'd be surprised at how much money we can get from crime. I don't mean that we go out robbing people, but we can outsource money from biker gangs/skinheads/drug dealers pretty easily.
Our syndicate gets a lot of support from people in rough areas like Xxxxxx and Xxxx's Xxxx. Because there are areas with a lot of people in genuine need, who would leap at the thought of fighting back at the criminals, we can always find allies to pressure the criminal portions of society. Of course, they are only pressuring them into giving us money, but it is a pretty cozy arrangement.
The second type of target is the practice target. We use them to train mobs. The targets do not actually change, because we do not want TOO many people fighting back at us. But we do rotate trainees between practice targets. This stops the person seeing the same people every time there is a street show.
Then there are planning targets. These are selected by the syndicate for some reason or other but are not paid for by mercenaries. You can usually tell the difference between planning and practice targets because they send people with experience after them. They are still chosen by the same people, though. The practice ones are, of course, chosen for their timidity. I do not know how the planning ones are chosen.
Enemy targets are people that decide they have had enough and turn against us. Since they protest and try to foil our plans (which, considering that our jobs are already nervy, is a real pain in the arse), we try to really give them hell.
The best way, of course, is through the psychs. My supervisor used to say that the Soviets had it right with Sluggishly Progressing Schizophrenia. Some people up-top are proposing that we just kill them and have them declared Natural Causes or Accidental by the coroner. It is not likely to happen, though.
Anyway, I should introduce the main branches of the syndicate. Each branch recruits its own (everybody is a member of one of the branches) instead of people just joining a common pool. This keeps the work separate and stops people from finding stuff out that they should not.
My branch is the Scripting, Observation, and Execution Bureau (or "The Theatre" as it is popularly known). By execution, I mean the execution of orders, not the other kind. We do the work that the majority of people with any knowledge of gang stalking will be familiar with: pestering and scripting minor incidents. The Theatre is actually divided into two sub-branches: Scripting Orchestration Officers (or "playwrights" as they call themselves) and Field Officers (or "thespians" as we call ourselves). We have the most variety in our recruits. Popular sources are the police, the fire department, the zoo, and technicians of any kind. But we recruit from all places. Most members are neighborhood watch types (not official Neighborhood Watch, but "concerned people"). Ironically, we make sure that we do a lot of good, just to get some credibility.
Then there is the Bureau of Authority ("The Moneybags"). They don't actually control the syndicate, but they have all the right jobs and connections. So, a judge might have control over the judicial process, but he will answer to a superior in the syndicate. Psychiatrists belong here too.
The Moneybags are so-called because they raise a lot of the money. It would be suspicious if big corporations funded groups like this, but they can invest money into front-groups. And the majority of the syndicate's work is done through completely legitimate fronts. We can tap phone lines and access people's records from behind government agencies. Usually, these are the guys that go after Enemy Targets. Normally, harrassment is organized under several "action policies." If a target is not an enemy, a standard policy is enforced. Low level organizers (the aforementioned "playwrights") play around with the target for a while and rotate crews.
When a target is an "enemy," the policy does not immediately change, but orders filter down from high-level organizers (usually the Supreme Council) which direct 'Thespians' to provoke the target or a similar action, and Moneybags to crack down on them once they get in the way of the system. This is called Mincing, because the thespians lure the "meat" (by making it complain or fight back) into the "mincer."
The Bureau also protects members of the syndicate. Normally, in a court case/psych examination or similar situation where a syndicate member is at the mercy of a moneybag, a special order arrives from above telling the moneybag to take it easy on the guy and let him off scott free. The order is always printed in blue, on fancy cherry-blossom paper, but in a very official bordefont. "Cherrying" is the name for this secret process. The Bureau of Authority has a very organized system of lawyers, judges, medical officers, etc. Whenever you are committing a crime for the good of the syndicate, you must always report your location. Then they send Cousin Nancy (this is an affectionate term for the police in the employment of the syndicate that they send to arrest you instead of non-syndicate cops, so you can go straight through the appropriate channels without anything suspicious being seen) to tail you and "arrest" you the moment somebody calls 911.
They all follow a minimalist strategy though. For example, the mayor of Xxxxx isn't a member of the syndicate. But several of his advisors and aides are. This way we can get laws passed in a discreet manner, and if a high-profile figure is targeted, our hold on an organization does not loosen. We try to arrange elections of mayors that are not too headstrong. Though the government is mainly used as a minor nuisance, we prefer the courts for most activities.
The Bureau of Technology (Field), BoT(F) is the group in charge of the electrical equipment. They work alongside us thespians and "gaffer" the targets by giving them the usual fatigue/headaches/medical problems. They can also destroy equipment, screw up televisions, the works. I think they are particularly sadistic.
Different crews use different Techs, but they are all unpleasant. The incapacitators come in a lot of different forms. There are ones that come as a light bulb that slowly gives people eye-strain and makes them tired. You can fit some in computeTV monitors and the glare irritates people. I have heard they are even building fridge magnets with electronic devices in them. That is not the extent of the BoT(F)'s machinery. [Because people are not aware it allows those engaged in inflicting the harm to be reckless of any short, long, or lethal effects inflicted on their victims. These things touch on what is available in society, although the sophistication can not be under estimated. The sophistication, and their technologies in general, may become recognizable when it is known that it exits, and how affected their victims are. This by no means is typified by something as simple as lights, flashlight size, that change color too fast for the eyes to pick up causing intracranial pressure causing headaches, to nausea, such as LED Incapacitators. Using this type of technology oversimplifies, but demonstrates the peril that citizens at large, or anybody, is in that is not aware. Before, or when you first become aware" how out there" these technologies seem. This is why they spend so much time and energy keeping it below the awareness thresholds of those who would scrutinize their behavior and what they are engaged in, as well as society in general. This site attempts to convey how common it is, the mechanisms they have in place, as well as building an awareness foundation of the technologies. This awareness foundation can be used not only to grasp things that would have gone undetected, but as importantly enable someone to continue to build on this foundation. Including networking through those of us who are attempting to get the foundation information through the awareness barrier they have in place.]
They manufacture pills that can cause deformities in the womb, as well as miscarriage and give them to women in their food. They can fake HIV/AIDS so the test shows up positive the first time, but subsequent tests show that it was a false positive. This faux-HIV can be put in the target's food. They usually give the target a few health scares, but they do not like to physically hurt anyone. One Field Tech I knew had a penchant for giving people Syphilis. They could treat it easily enough with penicillin (and the syndicate always made sure that it would be diagnosed on time), but it showed up on the targets' permanent records for medical treatment. They also conduct extensive testing without the target's knowledge.
One TI (targeted individual) we were monitoring was found to have a malignant tumor (not our doing) [they cause many types of cancers and tumors due to how we are affected on a cellular level]. He wasn't experiencing any of the symptoms, so we gave him some through the incapacitators and had a few of his friends warn him about cancer. He had a test done, and just for fun, we had the doctor tell him how dangerous it could be and how he could die soon. We gave him a six month waiting period and told him that by then the tumor could progress so far that it could never be removed. That's a lie, of course. Our BoT(F) had it out in a jiffy by sending one of their brain surgeons to do the job, but it is the fear that counts.
The Bureau of Technology (Communications) monitors the target's phone calls, emails, and absolutely everything else. They tend to recruit from the national archives, census takers office, records office, credit card companies, medicare, insurance, etc. They are the logistics branch. As I said, most of the syndicate's work is done from within legitimate areas.
What the BoT(C) does (very often) is send a "receptionist applicant" over to a credit card company or government agency pretending she knows nothing about hacking computers or accessing records. We pull a few strings and she is in. She then steals information while nobody is looking. A few old-timers like to have 100 per cent control over the "records farm" but most prefer the minimalist approach.
This is the bureau that gives out information and orders to everybody else, and also acts as a communications post for the whole syndicate.
The Supreme Council delivers orders through them. Outside orders are also taken in through the BoT(C), which advertises as a mercenary group through certain channels.
The Bureau of Alliances, or "trading partners" handles our allies. As far as I know, the syndicate is Xxxxxxan only. The only other gang stalking group in this country is a West Xxxxxxxxan organization called the confederacy. Very often they try to move into the xxxxx xxxxx so we have to hold them back, diplomatically or otherwise. However, we have contracts with Xxxxxxan groups whereby we handle their targets when they move into Xxxxxx. The same with the Xxxxan groups and the confederacy. The other groups pay for their targets to be "handled" while they travel here. We make millions of dollars this way.
Finally, the Supreme Council controls the entire operation. I have no idea who they are, except that they have a fancy name instead of being a Bureau. They do not recruit their own men. They promote from the other departments. Most of them seem to be wealthy individuals with inheritances that manage to maintain their fortunes from investments. Not one is a CEO, Judge, or Politician. They are all just old money family types that live in the Xxxxxx Xxxxx and seem unusually lucky with their money (no doubt through insider trading).
Despite this, they have a lot of spiffy technology. They have a kind of reverse incapacitator that improves their health and increases their performance. Most of them look incredibly young for their age. We don't see them much, though. Often, an audience with one of them is a kind of reward for good service.
There are also ranks in our syndicate. The lowest members are pawns. They are not technically members, because there is no permanent service contract and they do not know they are working for us. They take orders from us but are not expected to attend meetings. We call our pawns "concerned citizens," the Authority bureau has "office boys" or "secretaries," the BoT(F) has "lab rats" (who very often are paid volunteers for experiments, or people who do not know what they are testing); the BoT(C) has "spelunkers;" the BoA has "travel agents." Unfortunately, we are not obligated to give protection to any of these people. So, we can give a vet an order to put down a dog, without telling him that it is not consented to by the owner, and he will do the job and get sued without us giving him legal protection.
A lot of our street theater is done by people that do not even know they are part of a syndicate. They think they are a grass roots movement and do not know that there are other people harassing the target.
The BoT(C) recruits people that think they are joining l33t hacker groups on the internet, or people that think that they are just following orders from the archives. The BoT(F) does 80 per cent of its research at legitimate agencies like Xxxxxx's XXXXX and its drug companies.
The task of pawns is to think that what they are doing is either normal and routine, or criminal in an individual isolated manner.
Recruits, however, are aware of a conspiracy. However, they still remain at a misinformed level. We simultaneously maintain teams of "religious" actors and "punk" actors. A person might join us thinking he is going to clean up the community. Another person might join us thinking he is going to cause trouble and anarchy. And they can go about their merry ways. We even deliver information to them in different ways. To the religious ones, it is wrapped up in prophecy and revelation. To the punks, it is given a communist candy coating. However, they are all aware that the group is large. They are also aware of a mutual benefit aspect to the operation. Only greedy un-idealistic people get beyond the recruit rank.
All the Bureaus wrap themselves up in different colors. The Moneybags pretend to be a secret club for the elite (and many of them are indeed quite powerful and wealthy, second only to the Supreme Council). The BoT(F) claims to be a "humane" research agency, or a means by which scientists can resist corporate greed, though it still attracts deviants. The BoT(C) is conspiratorially minded, and pretends to be a group searching for the 'secrets of the illuminati' or the illuminati themselves. The BoA claims to be a contract agency, traveler's club, or accounting firm.
Recruits perform tasks that they know are illegal, or immoral, but they still generally believe that they are doing it for a reason. Managers like me come above the recruits and do some actual organization, whether leading a crew to a street theater match or planning an attack. Generally, managers know everything about the syndicate except what its goal is. Most are greedy enough to accept that it is not a morally motivated group. We also engage in communication with other Bureaus to coordinate our activities.
Different terms are used for different MOs. The Theater has "Playwrights" and "Leading Roles." The moneybags have "Success Stories." The BoT(F) has "Research Directors." The BoT(C) has "Information Awareness Officers." The BoA has "Arrangers." Finally, a rare few are promoted to the Supreme Council."
GLOSSARY OF TERMS (both colloquial and official):
Contract: A TI or Target. This is the official term. Used as "Enemy Contract" or "Planning Contract." Enemy contract is often referred to as "hostile contract."
CHERRYING: Getting out of a legal tangle through the syndicate's intervention.
NIPPLE-KISSER: a 'deviant' recruit, recruited because of a desire for sadism.
HOLY POLY: a 'religious' puritan recruit.
THE EFFECT: the fact that greedy and sadistic recruits are selected for managing jobs more readily than anybody with integrity.
FBG (fertile breeding ground): a crew of nipple-kissers, based on the idea that they are a fertile breeding ground for future managers.
MINCING: Luring a target into the legal system.
DEFACING: making faces at a contract, or otherwise intimidating them.
XXXXXX XXXXX SYNDROME: having a target so socially unpredictable and badly-off that you cannot really think of many ways to make their life much worse.
RAINBOW SHOCK: the fact that you have to act nice to the rest of the public immediately after you have stopped defacing a contract.
BREAK-A-LEG JOB: a particularly hostile attack against a contract, or a plan which involves approaching the target and talking to them.
SAKURAKAI: a crew that is particularly overt in its stalking and gets caught too often. In other words, it has to be cherried all the time.
CREW: A unit of recruits and pawns under a single MO. In other words, a group of gang stalkers.
ZAPPERATING: using electronic devices to affect the health of a target. XXXXXXX XXXXX: rhyming slang for big mistake, roughly means "we should not have used this method."
UNCHAINED, UNCOVERED: authorities that are not pawns or recruits.
COVERED: A member of the public that is under the control of the syndicate (as a pawn).
PUBLIC FACE: A recruit or manager's official life outside of the syndicate.
PRIVATE LIFE: a syndicate member's activities with the syndicate.
fggnn: a device that affects the sleeping patterns/stress/fatigue/headaches of a contract.
VOODOO: the means of acting hostile to a target (pointing, staring, etc).
LOMOSEXUAL: a syndicate member with a knack for photography. ("There's a lomo in every crew!")
NYUNKIA: (Not Your Usual Nipple-Kissing Incapacitator Asshole), the "yu" is pronounced as the "oo" in 'moon.' refers to a particularly sadistic or deviant
BoT(F) member.
BONER: another word for an enemy target.
YELLOW MEAT: criminals, as opposed to "concerned citizens." refers to criminals recruited into the syndicate.
XXXXXXXX (verb): to Xxxxxx somebody is to run them over or chase them with a car.
GIGOLO-BOP: to make sexual advances to an unattractive target, term mainly used by "nipple kisser" deviants.
CANCELLING: causing a miscarriage.
CRASH TEST DUMMY: a practice target.
HANG-JOB: the experience of having a target that one has enjoyed tormenting suddenly commit suicide. Term used mainly by nipple kissers/nyunkias.
COUSIN NANCY: a police unit sent to tail a crew and arrest them before an unchained police unit can do it.
XXXXXX NECKTIE: a death threat made with no intention of it being carried out.
GENERAL LEEING: randomly chasing after a target and threatening to rape them before immediately running away.
XXXX'S LAW: a police department that is thoroughly under the syndicate's control.
THE GOOD OLD GANG AT THE OFFICE: the Syndicate.
SHALLOW THROAT: see NYUNKIA
CLITWEED: see NYUNKIA
DEJA VOOOO: doing the same skit over and over again.
I hope this glossary is of help.
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