March, 2019

DOJ Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz confirmed at a panel discussion last week that his office is continuing to review potential surveillance abuses by the FBI, a review that began last March and that Fox News is told is nearing completion.
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Republicans, meanwhile, are increasingly looking for answers from U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber, who was appointed a year ago by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to review not only surveillance abuses by the FBI and DOJ, but also authorities' handling of the probe into the Clinton Foundation.

Time to investigate the Obama officials who concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax!

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 25, 2019

Graham was asked about the president’s recent attacks on John McCain, sparked by reports the late senator passed on the dossier to the FBI.

Graham defended McCain’s actions, per CNN, and said that McCain had actually spoken to him about it at the time:

Graham said that he “was very direct” with Trump, and if Trump believes it was the McCain people who spread this, “he’s right. There were some McCain people that took a piece of garbage and tried to go after Trump after the election.”

Graham added: “I told the President it was not John McCain. I know because John McCain showed me the dossier. And I told him the only thing I knew to do with it, it could be a bunch of garbage, it could be true, who knows? Turn it over to somebody who’s job it is to find these things out and John McCain acted appropriately.”

Graham told reporters of the dossier: “John McCain did not give it to anybody in the press, he talked to me just as soon as he got it and he turned it over to the FBI and that’s exactly what he should have done.”

Is Linda covering up for McStain?

Allegedly Made Available Over One Million Images of Child Pornography.

Ninety-five percent of respondents who said they had picked Trump in his first run for office said they would vote for him again in 2020.
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Seventy-six percent of former Clinton voters said they would "never" vote for Trump but 24 percent said they would at least consider it.

Among people who did not vote in 2016, 65 percent said they would never vote for Trump while 35 percent said they could do so.

"Dr. Ford’s sacrifice in sharing her experience, and the difficulties she subsequently endured, brought much-needed attention to the importance of supporting and believing survivors," the organization said in bestowing the award.

In his 2014 book, Our Mathematical Universe, physicist Max Tegmark boldly claims that “protons, atoms, molecules, cells and stars” are all redundant “baggage.” Only the mathematical apparatus used to describe the behavior of matter is supposedly real, not matter itself. For Tegmark, the universe is a “set of abstract entities with relations between them,” which “can be described in a baggage-independent way”—i.e., without matter. He attributes existence solely to descriptions, while incongruously denying the very thing that is described in the first place. Matter is done away with and only information itself is taken to be ultimately real.

A Neptune's moon "Triton" is an aqua moon that will be researched in near future, with new spacecraft "Trident" or maybe a cheaper spacecraft.

The Greek daily To Vima summed up what the leaders would not say openly when it wrote that “the summit sent a strong message to Ankara regarding energy security and its hostile behaviour in the eastern Mediterranean.”

We said this last week, and we were right: "In other words, Turkey is trying to aggressively interfere in Cyprus's sovereign right to drill within its zone. Turkey has been illegally occupying northern Cyprus with their military, plus, they are moving forward with changing platforms from US weapons to Russian. Pompeo is went there to send Turkey a message."

In the next two years, the Navy wants to deploy a laser aboard a guided-missile destroyer as the service learns to integrate directed energy weapon systems on warships, the Navy’s director of surface warfare said on Wednesday.

“We are going to burn the boats if you will and move forward with this technology,” Rear Adm. Ron Boxall said.

Court says ban can't be enforced against members of gun groups suing to overturn decision while case moves forward

Chomsky lays out how Trump is actually a threat to Russia, yet the interviewer later asks about the Russian internet trolls and how that overrides the fact that Trump left the INF treaty, increased military on Russia's border, and more. This interviewer is so brain-dead, it's almost impossible to watch without cringing to full capacity.

Bongino explains how there's a revised scope memo (classified) request from Mueller AND granted by Rosenstein when Mueller quickly realizes that there was no collusion, so he could spend the next 2 years trying to take down in innocent man.

Brennan is dangerous and needs to be detained.

At Apple’s “show time” services event today, it announced a new Apple Card credit card, promising to improve things about the credit card experience with simpler applications, no fees, lower interest rates, and better rewards.

The machine, nicknamed 3D Alek, is a customised multi-materials biofabrication 3D printer, which uses a specialised bio-ink... The bio-ink uses stem cells to grow human ear cartilage using the 3D-printing technology, to create a "living ear" for use in reconstructive surgery.

At approximately 6:55 a.m., agents conducting routine patrol operations encountered a group of 56 people who had recently crossed the Rio Grande River. All of the people in the group were Honduran nationals, many of whom were women and children ranging from 4 months to 16 years of age. Agents transported the group to the Eagle Pass South Station for processing.
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This group ranks among the largest that have recently crossed in Del Rio Sector. Agents have arrested several groups ranging in size from 25 to 35 people, with total sector arrests this weekend alone totaling more than 500. In February, a group of 90 including women and children, surrendered to Border Patrol agents in Quemado.

A minister who promised a woman he'd take care of her daughter began having sex with the teenager daily and later encouraged two other pastors to have sex with her as well, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Anthony Haynes could face up to life in prison if he's convicted of child sex trafficking and other charges. The two other Toledo-area pastors charged in the investigation have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.
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In addition to the charges against the men, Haynes' wife and stepdaughter are accused of abducting the girl at gunpoint in January and warning her not to testify at his trial.