Tom Cotton blasts Biden's DHS nominee, says he's 'disqualified'

'Selling Green Cards to Chinese nationals'

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Wednesday slammed former Vice President Joe Biden's Cabinet nominees, singling out Biden's nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security as "disqualified."

Earlier this week, Biden's transition team announced several appointments and nominations for key positions, including Alejandro Mayorkas to serve as the secretary of Homeland Security, Antony Blinken to be secretary of state, and former Secretary of State John Kerry to be the administration's climate czar.

Cotton blasted Mayorkas' appointment in an interview on Fox News, saying he is "disqualified" from serving because of a 2015 controversy in which Mayorkas, then serving as deputy DHS secretary, helped Democrats get visas for their favored foreign companies.

"Alejandro Mayorkas was found by Barack Obama's Inspector General to be guilty of selling Green Cards to Chinese nationals on behalf of rich, democratic donors," Cotton said in a tweet sharing video from his interview. "He is disqualified from leading the Department of Homeland Security."

Alejandro Mayorkas was found by Barack Obama’s Inspector General to be guilty of selling Green Cards to Chinese nat… https://t.co/EHX8TRm6EU

— Tom Cotton (@Tom Cotton)1606310617.0

Mayorkas, who would be the first Latino and immigrant to serve as DHS secretary, was the deputy secretary of homeland security in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2016. Prior to that, he was the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

In 2015, the DHS inspector general testified to Congress that Mayorkas intervened on three separate decisions on whether to grant visas for certain foreign investors on behalf of Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), and Anthony Rodham, Hillary Clinton's brother, respectively. The inspector general's report said Mayorkas created the appearance of "favoritism and special access," but then-DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson did not pursue disciplinary action against Mayorkas.

Cotton did not spare Biden's other appointees from criticism, saying the incoming Biden administration appears to be a "return of the Obama administration foreign policy" that "had disastrous consequences for our nation."

Biden on Tuesday dismissed such accusations, telling NBC News, "This is not a third Obama term because we face a totally different world than we faced in the Obama-Biden administration."

"President Trump has changed the landscape," he added before criticizing President Donald Trump's foreign policy. "It's become 'America First,' which meant America alone."

"We find ourselves in a position where our alliances are being frayed," he also said. "It's a totally different — that's why I found people who joined the administration and key points that represent the spectrum of the American people as well as the spectrum of the Democratic Party."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/tom-cotton-biden-dhs-nominee-disqualified

Subpoena in Georgia Election Lawsuit Seeks Video Footage From State Farm Arena

The plaintiff in an election lawsuit in Georgia on Monday served a subpoena on State Farm Arena seeking video footage filmed on the premises during and after Election Day.

The subpoena names the Atlanta Hawks, State Farm Arena, and Scott Wilkinson, the executive vice president and chief legal officer of both entities.

The subpoena seeks all recordings taken between midnight Nov. 3 and midnight Nov. 5. The request specifically calls for recordings taken in and around “Room 604,” all elevators that provide access to the floor where that room is located, and all loading docks in the arena.

The plaintiff in the lawsuit, attorney Lin Wood, sent a public Twitter message on Nov. 23 to the defendant, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, citing the subpoena.

“Would someone ask my never-to-be friend Brad Raffensperger @GaSecofState if he has seen this tape of election fraud at State Farm Arena,” Wood wrote. “Several people have seen it. Many more will see it soon. Video camera eye does not lie. How do you spell Election Fraud?”

Wood did not respond to an emailed request for more details. Raffensperger’s office did not respond to an email seeking comment.

Judge Steven Grimberg on Tuesday stayed the discovery in the case in response to a challenge to the subpoena filed by some of the defendants.

“Please note that the court has currently stayed any discovery by either party,” Wilkinson wrote in an email to The Epoch Times.

Wood’s subpoena further demands all documents related to plumbing issues on the premises during the Nov. 3-5 time frame. The request is linked to a pipe that purportedly burst in State Farm Arena on the morning of Election Day. County officials said on the night of Nov. 3 that the plumbing incident caused a two-hour delay to vote counting in a room where absentee ballots were tabulated.

A local attorney who filed a records request about the burst pipe only received a brief text message exchange about the incident describing it as “highly exaggerated … a slow leak that caused about an hour-and-a-half delay” and that “we contained it quickly—it did not spread,” according to a record the attorney, Paul Dzikowski, shared with The Epoch Times.

“As it turns out, there never was a burst pipe or water main, which some news outlets reported,” Dzikowski told The Epoch Times in an email.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/subpoena-in-georgia-election-lawsuit-seeks-video-footage-from-state-farm-arena_3591613.html?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-11-24-3

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Trump pardons former national security adviser Mike Flynn

Attorney General William Barr earlier this year asked a federal court to allow the Justice Department to drop the case

President Trump on Wednesday pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, bringing to an end a tumultuous four-year criminal case that felled the three-star general before prosecutors admitted they had wrongly pursued his case.

Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about talking with a Russian diplomat during the 2016 Trump administration transition period.

Attorney General William Barr earlier this year asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to allow the Justice Department to drop the case. However, the matter has since been tied up in legal proceedings.

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-pardons-michael-flynn-his-former-national-security-adviser

Media Not Reporting This: Actual Votes From Dead People Holding Up Congressional Race

The revelation of mail-in ballots cast by deceased voters has appeared as an issue in the narrow race between first-term upstate Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi and rival Republican Claudia Tenney.

Tenney, who held the post before being dismissed by Brindis, was ahead by 100 votes as the two campaigns arrived before a state judge who will judge on hundreds of contentious absentee and affidavit ballots that could resolve the winner.

Madison County Attorney Tina Wayland-Smith informed that election officials there excluded absentee ballots registered by three “deceased” voters” in a filing with state Supreme Court Justice Scott Del Conte, who is supervising the count in Oswego County.

Madison is one of the eight counties included in the 22nd congressional district that runs from Binghamton in the southern tier, through Central New York, and north to the Canadian border.

Wayland-Smith refused calls for comment on the names of the dead voters, or any other information.

A top state Board of Election is calling for an audit.

“This is a known problem of voting by mail. It should be investigated,” said Doug Kellner, co-chairman of the state Board of Elections, noting that it’s a crime for someone to mail a ballot in the name of a dead person. “It is an election fraud. It’s a felony,” he said.

The law also says an absentee ballot cast by a voter who then passes away before the election isn’t tallied. The Tenney and Brindisi campaigns declined to comment.

Meanwhile, Justice DelConte on Monday reviewed absentee ballots challenged by either the Brindisi or Tenney campaign as well as other ballots that were dropped by the eight-county boards of election.

In one case, Tenney’s team tested two ballots that were dropped off by two Oneida County voters in Queens, News Channel 9 in Syracuse reported.

It appeared likely that Oneida County election officials did not follow New York election law requirements for handling disputed absentee ballots. The law states “an inspector of the opposite party shall write in ink upon the back of the ballot a memorandum of the ruling and objection.”

Brindisi’s campaign argued for six ballots to be calculated that were ruled incompetent by the Oswego County Board of Elections.

Tenney led by a hefty 27,000 margin in the machine count but Brindisi nearly obliterated the entire lead during the counting of absentee ballots.

She will be the second Republican in New York to pick up a congressional seat — along with Congresswoman-elect Nicole Malliotakis on Staten Island — if she wins.

https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1021394-media-not-reporting-this-actual-votes-from-dead-people-holding-up-congressional-race?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=07iItjJT5Giv4vUJSSISA_lAoM2XvmaWEhfs.A

Amazon Web Services outage causes issues for Roku, Adobe

Amazon’s cloud-computing service on Wednesday was hit with an outage that took down some websites and services.

A notice on Amazon Web Services’ status page said it was experiencing problems with Kinesis, its service that processes large streams of data, causing “increased error rates” for a number of websites. The outage also impacted its ability to post updates to the status page.

“We continue to work towards recovery of the issue affecting the Kinesis Data Streams API in the US-EAST-1 Region,” according to a notice, which was posted late afternoon on Wednesday. “We also continue to see an improvement in error rates for Kinesis and several affected services, but expect full recovery to still take up to a few hours.”

Among the services that reported issues as a result of the outage were Amazon’s smart security subsidiary Ring, Roku, software maker Autodesk, fintech lending company Affirm, Target’s Shipt delivery service and the subway status site operated by New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Tribune Publishing properties the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Tribune also reported errors.

Major AWS customers including Apple, Slack and Netflix didn’t appear to be experiencing any issues as a result of the outage.

This is the first major outage to interrupt many customers since 2017, when the same US-EAST-1 Region experienced issues, knocking some websites offline.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/25/amazon-web-services-outage-takes-some-services-offline.html

Seattle's mayor is set to sign a new city budget cutting the police department's funding by 18%

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan plans to sign a new city budget that includes an 18% cut to the city's police department funding, according to a statement issued by her office Tuesday.

A vote by the Seattle City Council approved the budget Monday 8-1, with Councilmember Kshama Sawant voting against. She had pushed for the full 50% cut to the police budget that protesters had demanded over the summer following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what it means

The budget comes after months of clashes between police and demonstrators that included the takeover of a precinct in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Since then, scores of officers have resigned, and the former chief of the department retired amid proposals to defund the Seattle Police Department.

"I applaud the City Council for taking a more deliberate and measured approach to the 2021 Seattle Police Department budget than occurred this summer which led to the resignation of former SPD Chief Carmen Best," Durkan said in a written statement issued by her office.

What led up to the budget cut

In June, demonstrations in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, on the east side of the city, grew to include the takeover of the East Police Precinct, creating the Capitol Hill Organized Protest Area or CHOP, which became inaccessible by vehicle, limiting emergency responses to the area.

Various incidents, including the fatal shooting of a man and a female protester being run over, took place in the area before police dispersed the occupation after several weeks.

http://www.scoopyweb.com/2020/11/seattles-mayor-is-set-to-sign-new-city.html

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Venezuelan Business Executive Charged in Connection with International Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme

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