Who paid THIS one? Stormy 2.0 is lame. Thought this troll slithered back into it's hole.

Justice Dept. Says Trump's Denial of Rape Accusation Was an Official Act

The Justice Department said Monday that President Donald Trump should not be sued personally for having denied a rape allegation because he made the statement while acting in his official capacity as president.

Lawyers for the government made the argument as they defended Attorney General William Barr’s decision to intervene in a defamation lawsuit filed in a New York court against Trump by E. Jean Carroll, a writer.

Carroll has said that Trump raped her in a department store two decades ago and then falsely denied the attack while in office, branding her a liar and harming her reputation.

But Justice Department lawyers say that even though the allegation concerns an incident that occurred decades before Trump became president, his denial was still an official act because he “addressed matters relating to his fitness for office as part of an official White House response to press inquiries.”

“Given the president’s position in our constitutional structure, his role in communicating with the public is especially significant,” the Justice Department wrote, adding, “The president’s statements fall within the scope of his employment for multiple reasons.”

On Sept. 8, the Justice Department took the highly unusual step of seeking to intervene on Trump’s behalf even though the lawsuit concerns a claim of defamation stemming from an event that allegedly occurred in the 1990s, long before Trump became president.

Using a law designed to protect federal employees from defamation suits when they perform their duties, Barr sought to transfer the lawsuit from state court to U.S. District Court in Manhattan and to substitute the federal government for Trump as the defendant.

That maneuver, if approved by a judge, would have the practical effect of dismissing Carroll’s lawsuit because government employees enjoy immunity from most defamation claims.

https://news.yahoo.com/justice-dept-says-trumps-denial-121816984.html

US marshal says they're 'getting closer' to Lester Eubanks, a killer on the run for decades

MANSFIELD, Ohio – U.S. marshals believe they are getting closer to locating convicted child killer Lester Eubanks, on the run for 47 years in the 1965 death of 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener of Mansfield, Ohio.

Brian Fitzgibbon of the U.S. Marshal Service said Monday that Eubank's story is being featured in an episode of "Death Row Fugitives" on Netflix, beginning Oct. 20.

"He's alive," said Fitzgibbons. "I feel we're getting closer."

Mary Ellen went searching for change for the laundromat on Nov. 14, 1965.

It was the last time the 14-year-old was seen alive, according to archives of the Mansfield News Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network.

Eubanks raped the girl, beat her, and shot her twice, the News Journal earlier reported.

Eubanks was convicted in May 1966 and sentenced to death. In 1972, the Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional, and his sentence was commuted to life in prison.

Eubanks could have faded from public consciousness, but he was back in the news on Dec. 7, 1973, after escaping while Christmas shopping in Columbus on an honor assignment.

Eubanks, 76, has been on the run ever since. At the time of his disappearance, authorities described him as 5-foot-11 with black hair and brown eyes, weighing approximately 175 pounds.

Fitzgibbon said the marshal service is getting a lot of tips from people filling in the holes.

Fitzgibbon said usually the marshal service asks for help from the public on a person's whereabouts but he said no tip is too small.

"There's nothing putting him in a place (location)," Fitzgibbon said. "We're looking for any information to his life on the run or the history of his life on the run," he added.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-marshal-says-theyre-getting-140533704.html

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Is this Google suit Bigger than just Google?

Does it pull in Darpa, Facebook, Twitter etc?

Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance

Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google’s ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online.

The intelligence community hoped that the nation’s leading computer scientists could take non-classified information and user data, combine it with what would become known as the internet, and begin to create for-profit, commercial enterprises to suit the needs of both the intelligence community and the public. They hoped to direct the supercomputing revolution from the start in order to make sense of what millions of human beings did inside this digital information network. That collaboration has made a comprehensive public-private mass surveillance state possible today.

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https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/