https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11263375/Armys-trans-officer-wife-INDICTED-trying-pass-medical-records-Russians.html

PUBLISHED: 11:54 EDT, 29 September 2022 | UPDATED: 13:19 EDT, 29 September 2022

Army's first trans officer and her Johns Hopkins doctor wife are indicted on SPY charges: Tried to pass medical records to Russians of senior officers at Fort Bragg - the home of Delta Force and special operations

Major Jamie Lee Henry, the Army's first trans officer, and Dr. Anna Gabrielian were indicted for trying to give secret records to the Russian government

The files included medical records of senior military officers at North Carolina's Fort Bragg and of their families

The base is home to 52,000 active duty soldiers, as well as the US Army's Delta Force and Special Operations Forces

Gabrielian was allegedly fueled by her patriotism for Russia, and told Henry not be a 'coward' when she expressed concerns about violating HIPPA

Henry allegedly tried to volunteer to fight for Russia against Ukraine, but was rejected because the doctor had not combat experience

The US Army's first trans officer and her wife, a doctor at Johns Hopkins, have been indicted for attempting to pass medical records of senior military officers and their families to the Russian government.

Major Jamie Lee Henry, 39, and Dr. Anna Gabrielian, 36, were accused of using their secret security clearance at North Carolina's Fort Bragg to steal the records from the base's hospital, the Baltimore Banner reported.

Fort Bragg is among one of the most populated military installations in the world, housing about 52,000 active duty soldiers. The base is home to the US Army's Delta Force and Special Operations Forces.

The couple, from Rockville, Maryland, had communicated and met with an undercover FBI agent who they believed was from the Russian embassy in order to deliver files that the Kremlin 'could exploit.'

According to the indictment, which was unsealed on Thursday, Gabrielian said she was motivated by her patriotism to Russia, with Henry using her clearance as a staff internist to help secure the files.

'My point of view is until the United States actually declares war against Russia, I'm able to help as much as I want,' Henry allegedly told the undercover agent when they met to set up the deal in August. 'At that point, I'll have some ethical issues I'll have to work through.'

'You'll work through those ethical issues,' Gabrielian allegedly replied, adding that Henry was a 'coward' over fears of breaking HIPPA.

According to the indictment, Gabrielian an instructor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Hopkins, told the undercover agent on August 17 that 'she was motivated by patriotism toward Russia to provide any assistance she could to Russia, even if it meant being fired or going to jail.'

Gabrielian Johns Hopkins profile shows that she speaks Russian and earned her medical degree at the University of Pittsburg School of Medicine in 2012.

She married Henry in 2015, the same year the major officially came out as transgender.

Gabrielian allegedly told the agent that Henry had not only access to medical information at the military base, but also insight on how America was training the military to provide assistance to Ukraine.

During that meeting, Henry allegedly told the agent that she had tried to enlist to fight for Russia against Ukraine.

'Henry explained to the [undercover agent that they were] committed to assisting Russia, and he had looked into volunteering to join the Russian Army after the conflict in Ukraine began, but Russia wanted people with 'combat experience,' and he did not have any,' the indictment said.

'Henry further stated: 'The way I am viewing what is going on in Ukraine now, is that the United States is using Ukrainians as a proxy for their own hatred toward Russia,'' the charging document alleged.

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By August 31, Gabrielian met a the agent in a hotel in Gaithersburg, Maryland, offering medial records of a spouse from a service member in the Office of Naval Intelligence and of a relative from an Air Force veteran.

'Gabrielian highlighted to the [undercover agent] a medical issue reflected in the records of [the military member's spouse] that Russia could exploit,' the indictment reads.

During the August 31 meeting, Henry also handed over medical information on five patients at Fort Bragg, including that of a retired Army officer, a Department of Defense employee and spouses of active and deceased veterans, according to the indictment

The couple also allegedly spoke with the agent about contingency plans for their family should the operation be exposed.

'Gabrilelian suggested a cover story for their interactions, and a plan for Gabrielian and Henry's children flee the US quickly if Gabrielian and Henry were told to act in a way that could expose their communications and actions to the US government,' the indictment reads.

The pair were ultimately charged with conspiracy and wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Johns Hopkins said: 'We were shocked to learn about this news this morning and intend to fully cooperate with investigators.'

Representatives for the Army and Department of Justice did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment.

In 2015, Henry was reported to be the first known active-duty Army officer to come out as transgender.

In May of 2015, the Army granted Henry's request to officially change her name and gender, with the army using female pronouns in its filings.

It was a first for the Army, which had long maintained that being transgender or being diagnosed with gender dysphoria is incompatible with the military and grounds for dismissal.

Henry had joined ROTC at age 17, and has been treating service members as a doctor and internist for 17 years since her first rotation at Walter Reed.

The major had previously touted the Army and its leadership for accepting her identity as a transgender woman.

'My commander said, "I don't care who you love, I don't care how you identify, I want you to be healthy and I want you to be able to do your job,'" Henry told Buzzfeed.

'I was blown away … because of the stereotypes that I held, growing up in the South, growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family, that he would automatically think I was a freak, he would automatically think, "You need to be discharged just like the regs recommend.'"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11262901/M-Ms-introduces-new-spokescandy-Purple.html

M&M's unveils purple as its first new colour in more than a DECADE - and says the colour represents 'inclusivity' and 'acceptance'

M&M's has introduced a new 'quirky' character for the first time in 10 years

Purple is the new spokescandy designed to represent acceptance and inclusivity

Her arrival was announced with 'I'm Just Gonna Be Me,' a new promotional song

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11259551/Julia-Haart-calls-ex-Clinton-lawyer-Lanny-Davis-sleaze-merchant-new-defamation-suit.html

EXCLUSIVE: My Unorthodox Life star Julia Haart calls ex-Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis a 'sleaze merchant' who helped her estranged husband carry out a malicious campaign against her in new defamation lawsuit

My Unorthodox Life star Julia Haart, 51, is suing her 'billionaire' estranged husband Silvio Scaglia, 63, for defamation

In the fiery legal filing obtained by DailyMail.com, Haart claims Scaglia used a team to smear her in the tabloids, calling him 'a profligate schemer and liar'

In the defamation suit she called Bill Clinton's former attorney and Hillary champion Lanny Davis 'a reckless publicist and notorious sleaze-merchant'

Scaglia’s lawyers doubled down in response calling Haart a ‘con artist’ and her suit ‘a publicity stunt by a desperate and sad litigant’

Haart and Scaglia have been fighting over the terms of their divorce and the fate of their modeling company, Elite

Haart broke away from an 'ultra-orthodox' Jewish community in 2013 and made a popular Netflix documentary about it: My Unorthodox Life

Netflix's My Unorthodox Life star Julia Haart is suing her 'billionaire' estranged husband and Bill Clinton's former lawyer for defamation, in the latest front of the ex-couple's courtroom war.

In the fiery filing Haart claims former billionaire Silvio Scaglia used a team to smear her in the tabloids, calling him 'a profligate schemer and liar' and Lanny Davis, Bill Clinton's attorney and Hillary champion 'a reckless publicist and notorious sleaze-merchant.'

Scaglia’s lawyers hit back with an equally incendiary response, telling DailyMail.com that Haart is a ‘con artist’ and calling her suit ‘a publicity stunt by a desperate and sad litigant’.

Haart, 51, and Scaglia, 63, have been fighting over the terms of their divorce and the fate of their modeling company, Elite, in New York and Delaware courtrooms, both slinging stinging accusations of lies, deceit and financial foul play.

In a complaint filed in New York on Wednesday, Haart accused Scaglia of orchestrating a 'malicious campaign' to paint her as a 'seductress' who 'frivolously squandered [Elite's] cash and other assets behind his back'.

Haart even claimed the Swiss businessman once threatened to 'kill [her] in a second' if she ever challenged him.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/biden-administration-scales-back-student-debt-relief-for-millions-amid-legal-concerns/ar-AA12p7EY?ocid

The Biden administration is curtailing its sweeping student debt relief program for several million Americans whose federal student loans are owned by private companies over concerns the industry would challenge it in court.

The Education Department will no longer allow borrowers with privately held federal student loans to receive loan forgiveness under the administration’s plan, according to guidance updated on the agency’s website Thursday. The administration had previously said that those debt-holders would have a path to receive the administration's relief of $10,000 or $20,000 per borrower.

Thursday's policy reversal comes as the Biden administration this week faces its first major legal challenges to the program, which Republicans have railed against as an illegal use of executive power that is too costly for taxpayers.

The federal student loans held by private entities — through a program known as the Federal Family Education Loan program — is a relatively small subset of outstanding federal student loans. It accounts for just several million of the 45 million Americans who owe federal student loans.

But the business interests that surround the program — a collection of private lenders, guaranty agencies, loan servicers and investors of the loans — make the federally guaranteed loan program an outsized legal threat to the administration.

Private lenders and other entities that participate in the federally guaranteed student loan program are widely seen, both inside and outside the administration, as presenting the greatest legal threat to the program.

Many of those companies face losses as borrowers convert their privately held federal student loans into ones that are owned directly by the Education Department — through a process known as consolidation.

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The Biden administration is curtailing its sweeping student debt relief program for several million Americans whose federal student loans are owned by private companies over concerns the industry would challenge it in court.

New graduates walk into the High Point Solutions Stadium before the start of the Rutgers University graduation ceremony.

New graduates walk into the High Point Solutions Stadium before the start of the Rutgers University graduation ceremony.

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The Education Department will no longer allow borrowers with privately held federal student loans to receive loan forgiveness under the administration’s plan, according to guidance updated on the agency’s website Thursday. The administration had previously said that those debt-holders would have a path to receive the administration's relief of $10,000 or $20,000 per borrower.

Thursday's policy reversal comes as the Biden administration this week faces its first major legal challenges to the program, which Republicans have railed against as an illegal use of executive power that is too costly for taxpayers.

The federal student loans held by private entities — through a program known as the Federal Family Education Loan program — is a relatively small subset of outstanding federal student loans. It accounts for just several million of the 45 million Americans who owe federal student loans.

But the business interests that surround the program — a collection of private lenders, guaranty agencies, loan servicers and investors of the loans — make the federally guaranteed loan program an outsized legal threat to the administration.

Private lenders and other entities that participate in the federally guaranteed student loan program are widely seen, both inside and outside the administration, as presenting the greatest legal threat to the program.

Many of those companies face losses as borrowers convert their privately held federal student loans into ones that are owned directly by the Education Department — through a process known as consolidation.

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Administration officials said when they announced the debt relief program in August that borrowers with federally guaranteed loans held by private lenders would be able to receive loan forgiveness by consolidating their debt into a new loan made directly by the Education Department.

The agency said Thursday that borrowers who already took those steps to receive loan forgiveness would still receive it. But the Education Department said that path is no longer available to borrowers after the new guidance.

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"Our goal is to provide relief to as many eligible borrowers as quickly and easily as possible, and this will allow us to achieve that goal while we continue to explore additional legally-available options to provide relief to borrowers with privately owned FFEL loans and Perkins loans, including whether FFEL borrowers could receive one-time debt relief without needing to consolidate," an Education Department spokesperson said in a statement.

The spokesperson said that the policy change would affect "only a small percentage of borrowers" but did not immediately provide any new data. The most recent federal data, as of June 30, shows there were more than 4 million federal borrowers with $108.8 billion of loans held by private lenders.

Earlier this month the Biden administration released data estimating that 42.4 million borrowers across the country would be eligible for its debt relief program. The Education Department has declined to say whether that total includes federal student loan borrowers with privately held debt.

Top Education Department officials and industry groups had for weeks been negotiating a compromise deal in which the companies were compensated for their losses and avoid suing the administration over the issue. But those discussions have not yet produced a deal.

The Education Department said on its website Thursday it “is assessing whether there are alternative pathways to provide relief to borrowers with federal student loans not held by [the Education Department], including FFEL Program loans and Perkins Loans, and is discussing this with private lenders.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-can-smell-sweet-victory-and-vindication-coming-trump-leads-qanon-into-another-imaginary-win/ar-AA12paR5?ocid

The world of QAnon was headed for a future of infamous ridicule after spending weeks in Dallas, Texas waiting for John F. Kennedy Jr. to rise from the dead to join their ranks. The hope was that Donald Trump's loss and the mockery of the Dallas conspiracies would tamp down what has become a kind of cult, according to GOP officials, political analysts, former law enforcement, and even ex-Q members.

Before the 2016 election, QAnon conspiracy theories about a sex-trafficking ring in the basement of a family pizza place inspired a gunman to show up and terrorize a whole neighborhood.

Lately, that violence has been reignited, with a QAnon follower shooting and killing his wife and injuring one of their daughters. A QAnon follower showed up threatening to "kill all Democrats" at a Dairy Queen. Trump supporters are taking up the mantle of violence.

Vice News noted that Trump has been spreading a lot of QAnon memes lately on his private social media website. Last weekend's Trump rally took it further, with the former president's words coming with a score behind them like a feature film. The music was similar to the theme used in QAnon films. The audience raised their fingers into a salute.

After all of this, a QAnon influencer took to Telegram to proclaim: “He doesn't care about being accused of aligning with ‘those crazy Q people.’ In the replies, QAnon followers made it clear that they believe Trump’s actions are confirmation. “I can smell sweet victory and vindication coming."

“I hope you all are right, that something is actually going to happen,” a different Telegram user wrote. “I feel like I've been chasing a carrot for the last 2 years. Starting to feel like civil war is the only way.”

Another posted: “Waiting for ‘the question.’ How much goading will it take for [them] to ask it?”

As Vice explained, the question has become common over the past few weeks. The group desperately wants the press to ask Trump where he stands on QAnon. When he was running for reelection, he told NBC News reporter Savannah Guthrie during a town hall that he knew nothing about them but heard they were nice.

“They're certainly not as big and networked as they once were, but they are still there,” said senior research manager Jared Holt, of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. He spends his days focusing on extremism. “And a lot of them, in the absence of Q after Biden's inauguration, pivoted towards election denialism, along with the rest of the conspiratorial GOP.”

the QAnon-focused podcast Adventures in HellwQrld told Vice that it was all inevitable.

“The people who made Truth Social worked relentlessly to recruit QAnon. Once on the platform, QAnon followers were endlessly going to promote Trump and Trump was going to start reposting their praise of him, which would get the mainstream media to cover his embrace of QAnon and give him attention," said host Mike Rains. In fact, the @Q account was set up on Truth Social before Trump set up his own account.

Trump's own staff is helping promote them too. Kash Patel told a streaming conspiracy channel that the people are so brilliant he wishes they had worked for Trump.

“I talk with the president all the time and we're just blown away at the amount of acumen some of these people have," he claimed.

Mike Rothschild, author of the book The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, told Vice that Trump flocking to Q makes sense psychologically because Trump has essentially lost his power and control, while his back is against the wall.

"You turn to the people who've always been in your corner,” Rothschild said. "He doesn't want the fair weather MAGA people who are willing to walk away from him, he wants the hardcore believers and that's the Q people.”

Meanwhile, it makes the Q-crow embrace Trump even more because it confirms their long-held fantasies.

“There is a feeling in that community that something big is about to happen, but because it's so vague, and because it's just how this movement works, it could be anything,” Rothschild said. “I think one of the really scary things is that the people who are most prone to potentially committing a violent act on Trump's behalf are getting really excited and I don't think that's good.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-cia-wants-to-bring-back-the-woolly-mammoth/ar-AA12p9Vz?ocid

A venture capital firm funded by the CIA has officially placed its bets on bringing back extinct species like the woolly mammoth and the thylacine, according to a public portfolio released this month and spotted by The Intercept.

The company is called In-Q-Tel, and its mission (according to its website) is to invest in technologies that bolster the United States’ national security. In-Q-Tel is over 20 years old, but only now have its taxpayer dollars been directed towards the genetically-engineered resurrection of extinct animals, or de-extinction.

In-Q-Tel has now added Colossal Biosciences to its public portfolio; in other words, the CIA has thrown taxpayer dollars behind de-extinction efforts. Colossal made headlines last year when it announced its intention to bring back the woolly mammoth, the appreciably hairier cousin of the elephant, which went extinct about 4,000 years ago. The company’s stated goal is to bring a mammoth calf into the world within five years.

Colossal followed up that statement this summer, when it announced it would also try to resurrect the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, a wolf-like marsupial that was driven to extinction by overhunting in the early 20th century.

Colossal argues that “rewilding” such extinct creatures will support local economies and help reverse the effects of climate change by having a net positive effect on carbon offset.

Critics of de-extinction raise several problems: they argue that the original habitats of most extinct animals no longer exist and that funding put towards de-extinction would be better invested in protecting species that are still around. Colossal and its supporters contend that funding the genomics research behind de-extinction and funding conservation work are not mutually exclusive.

Complicating matters on a conceptual level is that whichever animals are cobbled together from the genomes of extinct species and their nearest extant cousins wouldn’t be the same animals that disappeared years ago. They’d be proxy species: animals that look and might act like the ones that are gone.

Even if de-extinction goes over flawlessly—which is to say, without harming either the animals used to produce the proxy animals or the proxy animals themselves—behavioral characteristics can’t be extrapolated from genes. In other words, the animals won’t have a pre-existing population to teach them how to act like a mammoth or a thylacine.

A thylacine in captivity in the 1930s.

On its website, Colossal also states its intention to eventually resurrect the dodo bird, a flightless bird endemic to Mauritius that was hunted to extinction in the 17th century.

In a 2019 debate on de-extinction, Colossal co-founder George Church said that bringing back the mammoth is not just a vanity project, or something cooked up for the sake of recreating a cool animal. The research involved in mammoth de-extinction could mean helping cure the herpesvirus in Asian elephants. Church said that questions of human guilt about extinction are “almost irrelevant,” and that “the question is, do these species have something to offer us?”

Since In-Q-Tel’s mission is about investing in technology that strengthens national security, you may wonder if there are hairy proboscidean or carnivorous marsupial super-soldiers on the horizon. Oh, that was just me? The reality is much simpler—though only as simple as the actual feat of de-extinction.

In a blog post published to the company’s website on September 20, two executives emphasized the importance of understanding genomics and applying new computer power to biological datasets. “Strategically, it’s less about the mammoths and more about the capability,” they wrote.

Alongside Colossal, In-Q-Tel named Chi Botanic and Living Carbon (both work on genetically engineering plants) as companies doing useful research in complex bioengineering. Colossal is the only one of the three that In-Q-Tel has in its portfolio.

CIA officers may be able to profit off the research, though. The Intercept reported that members of In-Q-Tel’s board are permitted to sit on the boards of companies in which the firm invests. In 2016, the Wall Street Journal found that half of In-Q-Tel’s board members were connected to companies the firm had invested in, raising ethics concerns.

Even if the timeline is short, de-extinction is a long way off. It depends on what you expect out of the process. Something mammoth-like or thylacine-ish could well come out of Colossal’s work, now by way of the CIA’s funding. But whether you think the final result is akin to the work of Lazarus or Frankenstein is another matter.

In-Q-Tel ?

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