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Dig on Madeline Albright et al | "MKA" Dinners
From: slatham@hillaryclinton.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
CC: mfisher@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2015-10-09 13:07
Subject: Fwd: Reminder – Tonight's Dinner at 7 PM
MKA dinner tonight!
Hi all - confirmed participant list below, along with the agenda you've
already seen, for dinner tonight. Her team also recirculated out
record/vision/contrast doc to all (attached). Let me know if you need
anything else.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/409
Albright hosted these "dinners" regularly. Attachment referenced above; next post.
>Attachment referenced above; next post.
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Federal judge removes Trump public lands boss for serving unlawfully
BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s leading steward of public
lands has been serving unlawfully, blocking him from continuing in the position in the latest pushback
against the administration’s practice of filling key positions without U.S. Senate approval.
U.S. Interior Department Bureau of Land Management acting director William Perry Pendley served
unlawfully for 424 days without being confirmed to the post by the Senate as required under the
Constitution, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris determined.
The ruling came after Montana’s Democratic governor in July sued to remove Pendley, saying the
former oil industry attorney was illegally overseeing an agency that manages almost a quarter-billion
acres of land, primarily in the U.S. West.
The BLM manages more than 16 million acres in Oregon and Washington.
“Today’s ruling is a win for the Constitution, the rule of law, and our public lands,” Gov. Steve Bullock
said Friday. Environmental groups and Democratic lawmakers from Western states also cheered the
judge’s move after urging for months that Pendley be removed.
The ruling will be immediately appealed, according to Interior Department spokesman Conner Swanson.
He called it “an outrageous decision that is well outside the bounds of the law,” and he said the Obama
administration had similarly filled key posts at the agency with temporary authorizations.
It was not immediately clear if the administration will try to keep Pendley atop the bureau pending the appeal.
The land bureau regulates activities ranging from mining and oil extraction to livestock grazing and recreation.
Under Trump, it has been at the forefront in the administration’s drive to loosen environmental restrictions
for oil and gas drilling and other development on public lands.
Pendley has been one of several senior officials in the Trump administration running federal agencies
and departments despite not having gone before the Senate for the confirmation hearings that are
required for top posts.
Last month, the Government Accountability Office, a bipartisan congressional watchdog, said acting Department
of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and his acting deputy, Ken Cuccinelli, were improperly serving and
ineligible to run the agency under the Vacancy Reform Act. The two have been at the forefront of administration
initiatives on immigration and law enforcement.
Trump agencies have defended the skipped deadlines for Senate hearings for administration nominees, saying
that the senior officials involved were carrying out the duties of their acting position but were not actually
filling that position, and thus did not require a hearing and votes before the Senate…
https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/state/federal-judge-removes-trump-public-lands-
boss-for-serving-unlawfully/article_531a6983-de66-5315-adac-c1fc47615103.html
'It’s got to stop': Rancher reports mutilated cow outside of Ukiah
UKIAH — Fee Stubblefield was just doing the rounds on Sept. 12, checking in on his cattle near Dixie Ranch Road outside of Ukiah, when he saw something sitting in the thicket.
He approached, peering closer as his eyes made out the dead body of a cow lying on its side in the dirt.
“At the moment, I didn’t think anything of it,” Stubblefield said. “But then when I looked closer, you know, it didn’t look right.”
The skin around the cow’s mouth was sliced away, and its tongue, glands and sex organs had been cleanly removed. A piece of the cow’s ear was cut off and placed on its neck.
“It’s a very unusual cut,” Stubblefield said. “There was no blood.”
He found no footprints or tracks as evidence of someone traveling through the area. Stubblefield first thought it might be the work of wolves, so he called authorities to get some answers.
According to Stubblefield, Oregon State Police responded to the scene Sept. 12 and confirmed it as a mutilation kill. The state trooper with knowledge of the case could not be reached for comment Friday.
“We got lucky because we found the cow within a couple days of when it had been killed, so it really yielded some good photos and hopefully some good evidence,” he said. “What’s more disturbing is now that we’ve identified this as a mutilation kill, we’ve actually discovered we had two other ones.”
Stubblefield raises cattle as part of a small ranching operation between Pendleton and Ukiah. He said these other two potential mutilations occurred within the last six months.
One was a cow of his own that was found in an “extremely remote location unconnected to this site,” while the other finding belonged to another rancher. That cow was found on Stubblefield’s property.
Neither were found as timely as the one discovered on Sept. 12, he said, but the Oregon State Police were informed of them and an investigation is underway.
The scene Stubblefield stumbled onto shares disturbing similarities with thousands of other cattle and livestock in the Western United States that have been mutilated and left with little to no evidence of a suspect or motive.
In each instance, cattle are usually found with their tongues and genitals carefully removed without signs of a struggle. In the 1970s, hundreds of these reports spurred a FBI inquiry into the phenomenon that was largely unsuccessful, which the agency chalked up to a lack of jurisdiction where the cattle were found.
In July and August of 2019, the report of five bulls mutilated on the Silvies Valley Ranch in Harney County grabbed headlines across Oregon, and another mutilation was later reported at the border of Lake and Deschutes County in September that year.
According to a report from the Capital Press, a cow was found mutilated earlier this year near Fossil in Wheeler County on July 23. The carcass was found upright with its legs tucked underneath it, and authorities located a partial boot print about 100 yards away from the scene.
“There’s a lot of concern about this, and there needs to be,” Stubblefield said.
Theories around cattle mutilations and their culprits have ranged from UFOs and aliens to government conspiracies and satanic cults, which Stubblefield isn’t subscribing to.
“I’m a believer that this is a little more practical and this is criminal behavior,” he said…
https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/it-s-got-to-stop-rancher-reports-mutilated-
cow-outside-of-ukiah/article_98e9589b-3fda-5e0b-b44f-560e0bfdc461.html
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