Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key positions in his Administration:

Pam Bondi, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Edward McMullen, Jr., of South Carolina, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Paolo Zampolli, of New York, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Hope Charlotte Hicksof Connecticut, to be a Member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Derek S. Lyons, of Texas, to be a Member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Amy Hanson Swonger, of North Carolina, to be a Member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Richard Grenellof California, to be a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Martin Oliner, of New York, to be a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Susan Levine, of Arizona, to be a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Tim Pataki, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution.

Stephanie Grisham, of Arizona, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences.

Jeremy Carl, of Montana, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences.

Russell Voughtof Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy.

Alexander B. Gray, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Visitors to the Coast Guard Academy.

Francis John Brooke, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

Steven W. Spandle, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Commission on Fine Arts.

Chas Fagan, of North Carolina, to be a Member of the Commission on Fine Arts.

Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., of Georgia, to be a Member of the Commission on Fine Arts.

Perry Guillot, of New York, to be a Member of the Commission on Fine Arts.

Ezra Cohenof the District of Columbia, to be a Member and Chairperson of the Public Interest Declassification Board.

Julie Strauss, of Virginia, to be a Member of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission.

Peter Lamelas, MD, of Florida, to be a Member of the Medal of Valor Review Board.

Gregory Smith, of Utah, to be the United States Commissioner of the Upper Colorado River Commission.

Buffie Anderson, of Texas, to be a Member of the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Kurt A. Kondrich, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Kristin Yodock, of California, to be a Member of the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Marcus David Bachmann, of Minnesota, to be a Member of the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Norma Thompson, of Connecticut, to be a Member of the National Museum and Library Services Board.

Jennie Stapp, of Montana, to be a Member of the National Museum and Library Services Board.

Guy Pinkman, of Nebraska, to be a Member of the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Lynn Franzoi, of California, to be a Member of the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Preston Crabill, of Michigan, to be a Member of the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Sheriff Grady Judd, of Florida, to be a Member of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Michael J. Gableman, of Wisconsin, to be a Member of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Von L. Best, of Texas, to be a Member of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Rachel Fulton Brown, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee.

Jenni Sue Jessen, of Colorado, to be a Member of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.

Kwami P. Adoboe-Herrera, of Ohio, to be a Member of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.

Katherine McGibbon, of Texas, to be a Member of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.

Ethan Baker, of Michigan, to be a Commissioner of the United States Section on the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.

Carrie Castille, of Louisiana, to be Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Juan Carlos Benítez, of Guam, to be a Member of the President’s Export Council.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-appoint-individuals-key-administration-posts-122220/

>>12136072

Summary

Although the rate of drug overdose deaths was significantly lower in 2018 than in 2017 (20.7 and 21.7 per 100,000, respectively), the rate in 2019 (21.6) was higher than the 2018 rate and similar to the 2017 rate. From 2018 through 2019, rates for males increased (from 27.9 to 29.6), while rates for females showed no significant change (13.6 in 2018 and 13.7 in 2019). From 1999 through 2019, rates increased for all groups aged 15 and over, although the patterns of increase varied by age group, with different rates of change over time. In 2019, the rate was highest for adults aged 35–44 at 40.5 per 100,000.

The rate of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (drugs such as fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and tramadol) continued to increase; however, the average rate of increase has slowed in the most recent years, from an average annual increase of 75% per year from 2013 through 2017 to 9% per year from 2017 through 2019. The rates of drug overdose deaths involving heroin, natural and semisynthetic opioids, and methadone were lower in 2019 than in 2018 (from 4.7 in 2018 to 4.4 in 2019 for heroin, from 3.8 in 2018 to 3.6 in 2019 for natural and semisynthetic opioids, and from 0.9 in 2018 to 0.8 in 2019 for methadone). In contrast, the rates of drug overdose deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants with abuse potential (drugs such as methamphetamine) were higher in 2019 than in 2018 (from 4.5 in 2018 to 4.9 in 2019 for cocaine, and from 3.9 in 2018 to 5.0 in 2019 for psychostimulants with abuse potential).

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db394.htm

>>12136173

PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDA

Memorandum on the Attorney General’s Authority to Use Classified Information in Connection with Review of Intelligence Activities

Issued on: December 22, 2020

ALL NEWS

December 18, 2020

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE

THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY

THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY

THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

AGENCY

SUBJECT: Attorney General’s Authority to Use Classified Information in Connection with Review of Intelligence Activities Relating to the 2016 Presidential Campaigns

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following:

Section 1. Authority of the Attorney General. The Attorney General is currently conducting a review of intelligence activities relating to the campaigns in the 2016 Presidential election and certain related matters. On May 13, 2019, the Attorney General directed John Durham to conduct that review, which subsequently developed into a criminal investigation. On October 19, 2020, the Attorney General appointed Mr. Durham to conduct that investigation pursuant to the powers and independence afforded by the Special Counsel regulations of the Department of Justice.

In a memorandum of May 23, 2019, I directed the heads of elements of the intelligence community, as defined in 50 U.S.C. 3003(4), and the heads of each department or agency that includes an element of the intelligence community, to assist the Attorney General in connection with that review, and authorized the Attorney General to declassify, downgrade, or direct the declassification or downgrading of information or intelligence that relates to his review. In addition, the Attorney General is authorized to use classified information as he deems necessary in connection with his review, including in a grand jury or other proceeding.

Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) The authority in this memorandum shall terminate upon the conclusion of the Special Counsel’s investigation, unless expressly extended by the President. In addition, the authority of the Attorney General under the May 23, 2019, memorandum is hereby extended to terminate only upon the conclusion of the Special Counsel’s investigation, unless expressly extended by the President.

(d) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

DONALD J. TRUMP

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-attorney-generals-authority-use-classified-information-connection-review-intelligence-activities/

>>12136189

>50 U.S.C. 3003(4)

As used in this chapter:

(1) The term “intelligence” includes foreign intelligence and counterintelligence.

(2) The term “foreign intelligence” means information relating to the capabilities, intentions, or activities of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations, or foreign persons, or international terrorist activities.

(3) The term “counterintelligence” means information gathered, and activities conducted, to protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted by or on behalf of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations, or foreign persons, or international terrorist activities.

(4) The term “intelligence community” includes the following:

(A) The Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

(B) The Central Intelligence Agency.

(C) The National Security Agency.

(D) The Defense Intelligence Agency.

(E) The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

(F) The National Reconnaissance Office.

(G) Other offices within the Department of Defense for the collection of specialized national intelligence through reconnaissance programs.

(H) The intelligence elements of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Department of Energy.

(I) The Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State.

(J) The Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of the Treasury.

(K) The Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security.

(L) Such other elements of any department or agency as may be designated by the President, or designated jointly by the Director of National Intelligence and the head of the department or agency concerned, as an element of the intelligence community.

(5) The terms “national intelligence” and “intelligence related to national security” refer to all intelligence, regardless of the source from which derived and including information gathered within or outside the United States, that—

(A) pertains, as determined consistent with any guidance issued by the President, to more than one United States Government agency; and

(B) that involves—

(i) threats to the United States, its people, property, or interests;

(ii) the development, proliferation, or use of weapons of mass destruction; or

(iii) any other matter bearing on United States national or homeland security.

(6) The term “National Intelligence Program” refers to all programs, projects, and activities of the intelligence community, as well as any other programs of the intelligence community designated jointly by the Director of National Intelligence and the head of a United States department or agency or by the President. Such term does not include programs, projects, or activities of the military departments to acquire intelligence solely for the planning and conduct of tactical military operations by United States Armed Forces.

(7) The term “congressional intelligence committees” means—

(A) the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and

(B) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.

>>12136242

>I don't get it anons, why did my last bread notables make the previous baker so angry, not like I deleted his notables or anything

Cherry picking and emphasizing notables when you can just ask why we post what we post

>>12136291

Godfather III

Be prepared for what you find.

Wym you’re right here

District of Connecticut

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Mexican National Connected to New Haven Drug Ring Sentenced to 13 Years in Federal Prison

John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LORENZO MORALES-ARAMBULA, also known as “Viejo,” 59, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill to 156 months of imprisonment for trafficking cocaine and heroin.

Pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the court proceeding occurred via videoconference.

This matter stems from a joint investigation headed by the DEA New Haven Task Force, FBI and New Haven Police Department that included the use of court-authorized wiretaps, controlled purchases of heroin and cocaine, and seizures of bulk heroin and cocaine. The investigation revealed that Duane Filyaw, Salvatore Orsini and others operated a heroin and cocaine trafficking ring in which they conspired to purchase narcotics from suppliers and then distribute the drugs to other suppliers and street-level dealers in and around New Haven.

Court-authorized wiretaps revealed that Filyaw and Orsini had established a heroin and cocaine supply connection with Morales-Arambula. In multiple intercepted calls between Filyaw and Morales-Arambula, Morales-Arambula agreed to supply Filyaw with kilogram quantities of cocaine and heroin that Morales-Arambula would receive from sources in Mexico and northern California. However, in January 2018, before the narcotics transactions with Filyaw could be completed, Morales-Arambula was detained in Michigan and charged in federal court with unlawful reentry of a removed alien.

During the investigation, law enforcement officers seized more than 500 grams of heroin, more than 300 grams of fentanyl, more than one kilogram of cocaine, three firearms, over $90,000 in cash, vehicles, jewelry and precious metals.

On April 19, 2018, a grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging Morales-Arambula, Filyaw, Orsini and 16 other individuals with narcotics trafficking offenses.

Morales-Arambula has been detained since January 14, 2018. On January 28, 2020, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and five kilograms or more of cocaine.

Morales-Arambula’s criminal history includes multiple federal convictions, including convictions for firearms, drug and immigration offenses, and for causing a riot a federal correctional facility in Texas in 2008. He has been deported to Mexico twice, and subsequently reentered the U.S. without authorization. On August 21, 2018, Morales-Arambula was sentenced in the Eastern District of Michigan to 46 months of imprisonment for unlawful reentry, and a consecutive 12 months of imprisonment for violating the conditions of his supervised release that followed a prior federal conviction.

Filyaw, of New Haven, and Orsini, of West Haven, have pleaded guilty and await sentencing.

The DEA New Haven Task Force includes participants from the U.S. Marshals Service, Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division, and the New Haven, Hamden, West Haven, North Haven, Branford, Ansonia, Meriden, Derby, Middletown, Naugatuck and Waterbury Police Departments. The Connecticut Department of Correction, Milford Police Department and East Haven Police Department have assisted the investigation.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys H. Gordon Hall and Patrick F. Caruso through the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Program. OCDETF identifies, disrupts and dismantles drug traffickers, money launderers, gangs and transnational criminal organizations through a prosecutor-led and intelligence-driven approach that leverages the strengths of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. Additional information about the OCDETF Program can be found at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/mexican-national-connected-new-haven-drug-ring-sentenced-13-years-federal-prison

>>12136692

Have you tried fingering your ass?