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Jeff Sessions testifies for defense in hip-hop star Pras Michel’s illegal lobbying trial
Published: Apr. 18, 2023, 6:07 p.m.
Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday took the stand as a defense witness in the illegal lobbying trial of hip-hop star Pras Michel, testifying that he could not recall meeting Michel and that the Fugees rapper’s request for a meeting did not appear improper.
Michel was charged in 2021 by federal prosecutors in Washington with participating in an illegal lobbying campaign to have a dissident Chinese businessman deported and for DOJ officials to drop an embezzlement investigation involving a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.
On Tuesday, Sessions recalled two meetings where DOJ officials discussed deporting the dissident, Guo Wengui, including one requested by a Chinese vice minister for public security, Politico reported.
But Sessions said Guo wasn’t deported when he was attorney general and he never took the meeting requested by the Chinese official.
Sessions, the longtime former U.S. Senator from Alabama, also testified that he was unaware of ever meeting Michel.
“I don’t recall ever having met him,” Sessions said, according to Politico.
Still, said Sessions, Michel’s request for a meeting did not have an air of impropriety on its face.
“I think that’s an appropriate action, although the State Department would have an important role to play in that and others, perhaps Homeland Security, since this figure was important to China,” he said.
While federal prosecutors allege Michel acted as an unregistered agent on behalf of China and a Malaysian national, the Fugees rapper claimed he was acting in a humanitarian capacity.
https://www.al.com/politics/2023/04/jeff-sessions-testifies-for-defense-in-hip-hop-star-pras-michels-illegal-lobbying-trial.html
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Got to do something about these missing chidlren grabbed by theperverts. Too many incidents–fast trial,death penalty.
9:13 AM · Oct 8, 2012
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/255294883680632833
LIVE: Total Solar Eclipse - April 20, 2023
Perth Observatory’s LIVE footage of the total solar eclipse. People in the North West Cape peninsula in Australia and parts of Southeast Asia will be treated to Baily's beads and the diamond ring during totality—so, if you are elsewhere in the world, just sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!
31,860 watching now Started streaming 2 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifILl7GeZpE
Rare solar eclipse to cross remote Australia, Indonesia
A rare solar eclipse will cross over remote parts of Australia, Indonesia and East Timor on Thursday.
The lucky few in the path of the hybrid solar eclipse will either get plunged into the darkness of a total eclipse or they’ll see a “ring of fire” as the sun peeks out from behind the moon.
The eclipse path will swoop from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, mostly over water. For those viewing the total eclipse, it will last a little over a minute.
Such celestial events happen about once every decade: The last one was in 2013 and the next one isn’t until 2031. They occur when Earth is in the “sweet spot” so the moon and the sun are almost the exact same size in the sky, said NASA solar expert Michael Kirk.
At some points, the moon is a little closer and blocks out the sun in a total eclipse. But when the moon is a little farther away, it lets some of the sun’s light peek out in an annular eclipse. …
https://apnews.com/article/hybrid-solar-eclipse-australia-indonesia-east-timor-76c01e7b0dcd3154ba1250d8f0c73b59
>>18722187 lb
>Montana tranny pol lays it on thick
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>“Blood on Your Hands!” – Trans Montana Lawmaker Throws Fit and Threatens GOP Colleagues for Wanting to Bar Sex Change Treatments for Children
This clip is a bit longer and includes [R] Majority Leader's objection/rebuttal
Montana Rep decries Anti-trans bill
April 18, 2023 3:18
https://youtu.be/1XjF_ReXEXs
Rep. Zooey Zephyr @ZoAndBehold
"If you are denying gender-affirming care and forcing a trans child to go through puberty, that is tantamount to torture, and this body should be ashamed.
If you vote yes on this bill, I hope the next time you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands."
6:20 PM · Apr 18, 2023·863.5K Views
https://twitter.com/ZoAndBehold/status/1648451338924335110
Rep. Zooey Zephyr @ZoAndBehold
In response to the MT Freedom Caucus' call for my censure, I stand by my description of the devastating consequences of banning essential medical care for trans youth.
As long as I am a member of the Montana Legislature, I will never stop fighting for trans people in our state.
5:55 PM · Apr 19, 2023·217.6K Views
https://twitter.com/ZoAndBehold/status/1648807476610101248/photo/1
MHRN @MTHumanRights
This is the Free & Fair Coalition's response to the attack on Rep. Zooey Zephyr by the "Freedom Caucus" yesterday. Click below for the full statement. We are not reposting their aggressive and misleading call for censure.
https://mhrn.org/2023/04/19/reject-censure-rep-zephyr/
6:42 PM · Apr 19, 2023·7,447 Views
https://twitter.com/MTHumanRights/status/1648819409560141825/photo/1
Ezra A. Cohen Retweeted
Elizabeth Goitein @LizaGoitein·1h
As inadequate as Section 702’s protections for Americans’ privacy are, there are gaps in FISA that are enabling the collection of Americans’ private information without any statutory authorization or judicial oversight.
Just Security @just_security·Apr 18
In Part II in our series on #FISA reform, @LizaGoitein identifies two key gaps that she argues #Congress should address urgently.
#Surveillance #intelligence
https://www.justsecurity.org/86011/the-year-of-section-702-reform-part-ii-closing-the-gaps-and-completing-the-modernization-of-fisa/
10:49 PM · Apr 19, 2023·3,836 Views
https://twitter.com/LizaGoitein/status/1648881655149473798
Katie Daviscourt @KatieDaviscourt
The Washington state legislature has officially passed the ban an semi-automatic firearms, which they are calling “assault weapons.”
@GovInslee is expected to sign the legislation tomorrow.
On Hitler’s birthday.
You can’t make this up!
Good read: How the Nazi’s used gun control.https://wyoleg.gov/InterimCommittee/2019/01-201910313-04Handout.pdf
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjugated races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.”— Adolph Hitler
7:50 PM · Apr 19, 2023·3,599 Views
https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1648836473595256832
Cathy O'Brien @RealCathyOBrien
My MK Ultra mind control owner since I was 13, US Sen Byrd, had an office in the FBI building to set up National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as a catch net operation for any child who escaped human trafficking ops since mid '80's.
Its time NCMEC and FBI were defunded
ꪻꫝê ꪻꫝê @TheThe1776·9h
Every year, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) honors people who go above and beyond to help protect our nation's most valuable resource - our children, but this year they decided to honor a guy who is accused of Child Trafficking and should be locked up! He is a criminal and would be a danger to ALL children! You can’t make this 💩 up 🤡 🤬
#DemocratsAreAboveTheLaw
3:26 PM · Apr 19, 2023·21.9K Views
https://twitter.com/RealCathyOBrien/status/1648769972699648011
>our series on #FISA reform
==The Year of Section 702 Reform=
Closing the Gaps and Completing the Modernization of FISA
In a previous post, I described the political landscape for this year’s Section 702 reauthorization debate and noted the view of most observers that Section 702 is unlikely to be reauthorized this year without significant reforms. I outlined four key areas of reform and discussed the first of these: closing the backdoor search loophole. In today’s post, I discuss the second area of needed reform: closing gaps in the law that permit the collection and use of Americans’ communications and other Fourth Amendment-protected information without statutory authorization or judicial oversight.
There are two primary gaps that Congress must address. First, changes in communications technology since FISA’s 1978 enactment have dramatically altered the reach of the law. In 2008, Congress addressed one of the unintended outcomes of these changes: The government was required to obtain FISA Court orders to collect purely foreign communications, simply because they were routed through or stored in the United States. However, Congress failed to fully address the flip side of the issue: massive amounts of Americans’ communications and other sensitive information are routed and stored overseas, rendering them vulnerable to collection outside any statutory framework. To complete the modernization of FISA that began with Section 702, Congress must close this critical gap in coverage.
Second, after 9/11, the government sought to evade FISA’s substantive and procedural constraints by relying on claims of inherent executive authority. Congress responded by reaffirming that FISA was the exclusive means by which the government could conduct “electronic surveillance.” Because of the highly technical definition of that term, however, the exclusivity provision fails to reach many types of collection covered by FISA. There is ample reason for concern that the government is exploiting these gaps to collect some of the most sensitive data Americans generate without adhering to FISA’s requirements — including by purchasing it from data brokers. Congress should fill the holes in FISA’s exclusivity provision and bar the government from buying its way around FISA and other legal restrictions on governmental access to Americans’ data. …
https://www.justsecurity.org/86011/the-year-of-section-702-reform-part-ii-closing-the-gaps-and-completing-the-modernization-of-fisa/
Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee·13h
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Deputy Att’y General Lisa Monaco just repeated Att’y General Garland’s previous claim that U.S. Marshals have “full authority to arrest” people protesting at the homes of Supreme Court justices in violation of 18 USC 1507. The U.S. Marshals have been instructed otherwise.
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Three weeks after Garland told me that in early March, @KatieBrittforAL asked him about training materials given to U.S. Marshals LIMITING their authority to make such arrests under 1507. Garland said he knew nothing about them, even though they contradict what he told me.
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Those training materials falsely tell the Marshals that to make such an arrest, the protestors’ conduct must include “criminal threats and intimidation.” This is contrary to the plain text of 1507, which requires only that protesters act “with intent of influencing any judge.”
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The training materials also instruct Marshals that they should coordinate any contemplated arrest under 1507 “in advance with the appropriate U.S. Attorney’s Office,” which will effectively halt any effort to enforce this law in this context, which the law clearly covers.
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Deputy A.G. Monaco said she had not reviewed the training materials before the Marshals were given these instructions. Nor has she since asked for them to be changed or discussed them with A.G. Garland.
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Garland’s insistence (echoed today by Monaco) that Marshals have “full authority to arrest” people protesting at the homes of justices cannot be reconciled with the instructions given to Marshals, which appear deliberately designed to discourage if not preclude such arrests.
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What’s now been happening for nearly a year at the homes of Supreme Court justices is illegal. And it’s dangerous.
The Department of Justice needs to ENFORCE 1507
in these cases—not thwart enforcement!
11:33 AM · Apr 19, 2023·12K Views
https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1648711541460553730
Clarence Thomas is a good man. Watch this clip. He'd would have rather died than not go through the process of trying to become a SCOTUS Justice.
mp4
Matt Walsh LIVE at the University of Iowa
What Is a Woman?
From Hollywood & TikTok influencers to beer companies & theme parks, everyone is succumbing to the perverted whims of gender ideologues.
121,510 views Streamed live 5 hours ago 58:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm8CNwXwSqs
Reinstate Liz Harris
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https://rumble.com/v2isdou-reinstate-liz-harris.html
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