Brennan Used FBI Agent Peter Strzok as Author For Intelligence Community Assessment and Placed Dossier Material into Obama’s Daily Briefing
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/15/investigative-report-brennan-used-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-as-author-for-intelligence-community-assessment-and-placed-dossier-material-into-obamas-daily-briefing/
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"So the media tells you about a lot of dead on the Palestinian side, then you see this, and you dont know whether to believe them"
Turkish banker gets 32 months prison in U.S. case over Iran sanctions
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge sentenced Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a Turkish banker at Turkey’s state-controlled Halkbank (HALKB.IS), to 32 months in prison on Wednesday after he was found guilty of taking part in a scheme to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions.
Atilla, a 47-year-old Turkish citizen, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan.
The case has strained diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkey, and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has condemned it as a political attack on his government.
Prosecutors had sought a sentence of about 20 years for Atilla, who worked as a deputy general manager at Halkbank.
The defendant’s lawyers had argued that federal guidelines recommended a term of just 46 to 57 months, and asked for a sentence “dramatically below” that length.
Atilla was found guilty on Jan. 3 of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions law. His conviction followed a four-week trial in which Atilla testified in his own defense.
Prosecutors have said that beginning around 2012, Atilla was involved in a scheme to help Iran spend oil and gas revenues abroad using fraudulent gold and food transactions through Halkbank, violating U.S. sanctions.
According to prosecutors, the central figure in the scheme was wealthy Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab, who pleaded guilty to fraud, conspiracy and money laundering charges, and testified for several days as the U.S. government’s star witness against Atilla.
Zarrab, who has yet to be sentenced, said on the witness stand during Atilla’s trial that he bribed Turkish officials, and that Erdogan personally signed off on parts of the scheme while serving as Turkey’s prime minister.
Erdogan has said the U.S. case was based on evidence fabricated by followers of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom he has also blamed for a failed 2016 coup attempt.
The Turkish president has repeatedly condemned Atilla’s conviction, most recently in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Tuesday.
“If Hakan Atilla is going to be declared a criminal, that would be almost equivalent to declaring the Turkish Republic a criminal,” Erdogan said.
Atilla was arrested in New York in March 2017, a year after Zarrab’s arrest in Florida.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey-zarrab/turkish-banker-gets-32-months-prison-in-u-s-case-over-iran-sanctions-idUSKCN1IH2HR
Senate panel releases details from its Trump Tower meeting probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday released hundreds of pages of transcripts and other details from its investigation of a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 with Russians who claimed to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump’s Democratic rival for the presidency.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Republican Chuck Grassley, released its interviews with Donald Trump Jr., Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, and Moscow-based developer Ike Kaveladze.
The transcripts also included interviews with Glenn Simpson, a co-founder of Fusion GPS, which researched Trump’s ties to Russia and produced a dossier denounced by the White House, and Robert Goldstone, a music publicist who said he had information about Clinton, and written responses to questions from the committee from Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who attended the meeting, and Anatoli Samochornov, her translator.
During his interview, Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, was asked about communications from Goldstone about offers of support from “important” Russians as Trump emerged as the front-runner for the Republican nomination during the primaries.
Trump said, however, that he would have taken such a message only as “general well-wishing,” not a concrete offer of help.
The committee said that Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager, declined to be interviewed but submitted material relevant to the investigation.
The interviews were conducted between July 2017 and March 2018.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/senate-panel-releases-details-from-its-trump-tower-meeting-probe-idUSKCN1IH1S9
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Anti-Trump J20 Protesters Facing 60 Years in Jail Report Financial Woes and Psychological Trauma
Jury selection began Monday for the remaining defendants arrested during the Washington, D.C., protests against President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017. A half-dozen defendants and their supporters told Newsweek that the long wait to be seen in court has become a punishment in itself, even as they stare down potential 60-year sentences.
“My life has stood still for about a year and a half,” Dylan Petrohilos, a 29-year-old graphic designer, told Newsweek. “I’ve become less productive at work, less willing to take on work in my community and just all around more anxious.”
The majority of the 217 anti-Trump protesters that were charged with crimes following the so-called J20 protests were either acquitted or had their charges dropped. But 59 still face felony charges pertaining to engaging in a riot, inciting a riot, conspiracy to riot and property damage in trials that will continue to roll out until October of 2018—nearly two years after Trump was sworn into office.
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Who Is Joshua Adam Schulte? Ex-CIA Programmer Facing Child Porn Charges Is Suspect in Vault 7 Leak
Federal investigators suspect a former CIA employer is responsible for giving top secret CIA documents to Wikileaks last year, which resulted in the agency’s biggest leak of classified information.
Joshua Adam Schulte, 30, was arrested last August, not for the leak but on child pornography charges after he was accused of taking photos of a "passed out" friend as he sexually assaulted her on his bathroom floor.
On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that officials also suspect he had provided Wikileaks with massive amounts of data in the “Vault 7 leak,” which was published by the international organization last March.
Following the biggest CIA loss of classified information on record, authorities raided Schulte’s apartment in New York. Although the feds did not bring a case against the former staffer for the leaks, they did charge him with possession of child pornography dating back to 2009.
At the time, Schulte’s lawyer argued many people could have accessed the encrypted computer server containing the explicit materials.
Authorities also found images on Schulte's phone of an unnamed woman being sexually assaulted while “passed out on the floor” of his bathroom. The photos were reportedly taken in April 2015 in Loudoun County, Virginia, and the woman was identified as a former roommate of Schulte’s.
In October, the government revealed that an investigation by local authorities in Virginia—which involved an interview with the victim in the images—led to Schulte being charged with one felony count of object sexual penetration and a misdemeanor count of unlawful creation of an image of another individual.
Although the victim was unconscious and unable to identify the perpetrator, prosecutors in Loudoun county said an analysis of Schulte’s hands confirmed he was the person committing the assault.
“The victim remembers the night in question. It was one of the few nights that she passed out and didn’t remember what occurred. She could also, apparently, identify the bathroom, which was the bathroom where she was staying as a roommate of Mr. Schulte’s,” a prosecutor said, during a hearing in January.
In September, Schulte was released from prison but detained again in December in relation to the Virginia charges. Prosecutors said that his crimes “shows that the defendant is someone who will act out on his impulses and actually engage in sexually dangerous behavior.”
According to the New York Times, Schulte’s family spent most of their savings funding his legal fees.
Schulte's lawyer did not respond to Newsweek’s request for comment.
http://www.newsweek.com/who-joshua-adam-schulte-ex-cia-programmer-facing-child-porn-charges-suspect-928257
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>Joshua Adam Schulte
On Twitter, WikiLeaks shared The Post’s story and wrote, “US gov says that it suspects a former a young New York CIA officer is WikiLeaks’ #Vault7 source–because he complained to Congress of abuse in the CIA–but have no evidence to indict. So they put him in jail on improbable child porn accusations instead.”
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Obama Foundation makes final push for support before Plan Commission meeting Thursday
They have collected thousands of digital postcards from residents expressing their excitement about placing the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park. They have hosted nine public meetings and hundreds of smaller sessions with residents and activists. They have distributed campaign-style placards and released an eight-page document outlining how they say the center would benefit the South Side.
As the Obama Foundation prepares to go before the city’s Plan Commission on Thursday morning seeking approval for its proposal to redevelop Jackson Park, its top officials have been in full campaign mode to garner public support for the $500 million project. The meeting is the first of many hurdles to be cleared before construction begins.
They are leaving nothing to chance, having watched an increasingly emboldened opposition criticize the project as being too big and for not having a signed agreement that steers benefits to area residents.
“Our vision is to give to the South Side communities, the same type of amenities that folks are enjoying in Lincoln Park, in Millennium Park,” said David Simas, the chief of the foundation who spent more than two hours last weekend knocking on doors in South Shore telling residents how they can make their voices heard.
“For me it was important to put on my old canvassing shoes, get the clipboard out and knock on doors. If people weren’t home, leave a little information,” he added. “Basic organizing, which is who we are.”
The opponents have been organizing too. On Monday, a nonprofit group called Protect Our Parks filed a lawsuit in federal court aiming to block the entire project. Jackson Park Watch is planning to ask the commission to reject parts of the proposal or delay a decision. And a group is pushing for an ordinance guaranteeing certain benefits to area residents.
Still, when leaders from the foundation go before city officials, they will tell them that they have amended their proposal based on community input and that an overwhelming number of residents and leaders support their work.
“This process we’ve been going through has really improved the product, improved our design,” said Michael Strautmanis, vice president for community engagement, at a recent public meeting at the South Shore Cultural Center.
“We are nearing the end of the beginning.”
From the moment it was proposed, officials with the Obama Foundation have said this presidential center would be unlike any other. Instead of a place that houses documents and is an attraction mainly for scholars, the former president and first lady want the center to serve as a gathering space for local, national and international leaders, officials have said.
The center is envisioned as a 19-acre campus made up of three buildings: a museum tower that will stretch up 225 feet with a 10-foot tall skylight, a forum building that contains a 300-seat auditorium and a third building that will be used as a public library branch. There will be an underground garage that can hold 440 cars, an athletic center and an outdoor plaza and winding landscape.