Anonymous ID: 355400 Feb. 9, 2024, 12:08 p.m. No.20385675   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5913 >>5925 >>6171 >>6286 >>6347 >>6435

Biden used private email and fake names for official business, shared White House comms with family

 

The National Archives have only turned over 60 of the 82,000 secretive and possibly illegal emails preserved in its records, which frustrated Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, who vowed to use the “power of the gavel” to obtain the records. A former FBI intelligence officer said "Not only does it violate federal records laws […] Gmail is not a secure government communications system. And especially not for White House business.”

 

As early as 2010, Joe Biden routinely used a private email account with a fake name to conduct official government business as vice president, and at times copied his sons and brother on exchanges that included some of the highest ranking officials inside the White House, according to documents released under a historic lawsuit against the National Archives.

 

The National Archives and Records Administration released this month to the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm, only about 60 emails of the 82,000 pages of emails it says it preserved from Joe Biden’s private, pseudonym email accounts from his time as vice president.

 

The records were produced pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit prompted by Just the News reporting three years ago that revealed Biden used at least three different pseudonym private email accounts when he was Barack Obama’s vice president.

 

All the emails in the initial release involved a Google email account that Joe Biden used called RobinWare456@gmail.com and were sent during the calendar year 2010, the second full year of the Obama presidency.

 

The emails that were disclosed pursuant to the FOIA lawsuit show that Biden conducted official White House business on his private, commercial email account, including receiving copies of speeches he made, drafts of speeches he was going to give and news articles he wanted to discuss with his senior staff.

 

In one such email, he transmitted an unflattering news article about his boss, Barack Obama, to then security adviser and current Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The article in Politico was titled “The ego factor: Can Barack Obama change?” and it was sent to Blinken’s official White House email account.

 

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On some occasions, Joe Biden would send information to the government emails of his White House staff from his private email account and include his sons Hunter and Beau and his brother James Biden, the newly released emails show.

 

For instance, on Oct. 19, 2010, the then-vice president sent an article from The New York Times about planned House GOP budget cuts to a half dozen of his top staff, including then-Chief of Staff Ron Klain and spokesman Jay Carney. He included both of his sons, Hunter Biden and the late Beau Biden, as well as his younger brother James. Neither his sons or his brother had any official capacity to act or advise upon those proposed budget cuts.

 

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The significant portion of the emails released in the document production were redacted by the Archives, which cited personal information and Presidential Records Act exemptions. The Archives says that it plans to keep private communications from public release, including those Joe Biden had with his son and brother.

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/biden-routinely-used-private-email-official-business-copied-family

Anonymous ID: 355400 Feb. 9, 2024, 12:09 p.m. No.20385684   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Israel keeping Hamas leaders alive is a political decision - former Mossad head

 

Yossi Cohen also expressed strong support for disengagement from Gaza, saying he was in favor of a total disengagement.

 

In an interview with KAN11 on Thursday the former head of Mossad Yossi Cohen said that whether to assassinate Hamas leadership abroad is a question of politics not a question of capability.

 

During the interview, Cohen was asked, "Why haven't they [the Hamas leadership] been eliminated?"

 

Answering, he said, "It's a political decision, every operation, according to foreign publications, of course, has three elements outside the State of Israel's control."

 

"First, the target - valent or not, and it is irrelevant if it is a physical target or another kind, second, whether the operational unit assigned to the task is capable of carrying out the mission and returning safely. Third, what will be the response?"

 

"Any discussion like this ends with a political decision only. The policy, if we want, can also change with regard to senior Hamas officials. The ability, according to foreign publications, exists."

 

Cohen has recently been slowly pulled into politics as gaps have opened on the right with Likud dropping in the polls. Although he has declined to give a definitive answer telling the interviewer when asked if he wanted to be Prime Minister, "It's interesting, it's an interesting job."

 

He expressed strong support for disengagement from Gaza, saying he was in favor of a total disengagement.

 

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-786029

Anonymous ID: 355400 Feb. 9, 2024, 12:13 p.m. No.20385706   🗄️.is 🔗kun

IDF: Hostage Yossi Sharabi was likely killed as a result of IDF strike

 

Army says captive may have been killed when forces struck another building, which caused an adjacent building in which Sharabi was held to collapse

 

The IDF has presented its investigation into the death of hostage Yossi Sharabi in the Gaza Strip to his family. According to the IDF’s probe, Sharabi was likely inadvertently killed as a result of an IDF strike.

 

Sharabi is believed to have been in a building that collapsed after an adjacent building was hit by the military. The building that was struck was hit according to the IDF’s protocols, the probe finds.

 

The deaths of hostages Sharabi, 53, and Itay Svirsky, 38, were announced by officials in mid-January.

 

Still, the IDF investigation found that it cannot entirely rule out the possibility that Sharabi was murdered by his captors.

 

The probe said the IDF had intelligence information that an attack against troops was planned from the building.

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-hostage-yossi-sharabi-was-likely-killed-as-a-result-of-idf-strike/

Anonymous ID: 355400 Feb. 9, 2024, 12:17 p.m. No.20385728   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5735 >>6012

HEZBOLLAH EXPANDS ATTACKS TO ISRAELI-OCCUPIED GOLAN HEIGHTS

 

Hezbollah carried out a series of attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on February 9, targeting a military site in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights for the first time since the start of the current confrontation on the backdrop of the war in the Gaza Strip.

 

In separate statements, Hezbollah said that its fighters targeted surveillance equipment in the Doviev barracks as well as the sites of Ramta and al-Malikiyah. The group also announced that it had shelled the sites of al-Malikiyah, Zabdin and Bayad Blida. Moreover, it said that its fighters had destroyed a Merkava main battle tank at the Al-Baghdadi site.

 

Hezbollah also announced that it had fired dozens of Katyusha rockets from southern Lebanon at the Kaila barracks in the Golan Heights.

 

The attacks were carried out “to support the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance,” Hezbollah noted its statements.

 

Hebrew media said that some 30 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon at the Galilee Panhandle. Some of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense systems, while others fell in open areas. There were no reports of casualties.

 

https://southfront.press/hezbollah-expands-attacks-to-israeli-occupied-golan-heights-videos/

Anonymous ID: 355400 Feb. 9, 2024, 12:18 p.m. No.20385731   🗄️.is 🔗kun

HAMAS SAYS IT DAMAGED, DESTROYED 1,108 ISRAELI VEHICLES WITH LOCALLY-MADE AL-YASSIN RPGS

 

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, announced on February 9 that it has damaged or destroyed 1,108 vehicles of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) using locally-made Al-Yassin 105 rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip.

 

Al-Yassin 105 is basically a copy of the Soviet-made RPG-7. Al-Qassam revealed in a report on its official website that the RPG first entered service in 2018, following three years of development.

 

The RPG was developed in two versions, one identical to the PG-7VR with its tandem charge high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead -which can penetrate 600 mm of rolled homogeneous armor with reactive elements- and another comparable to the TBG-7V with its thermobaric warhead but with an initial smaller HEAT charge.

 

Al-Qassam claims that the tandem HEAT version of Al-Yassin 105 can penetrate between 600-1,000 mm of armor, which means it is more effective than the PG-7VR.

 

The range of the RPG, which was first used during the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, is thought to be around 500 meters, roughly the same as original Soviet RPG-7 rounds.

 

Al-Qassam said that the Al-Yassin 105 was especially developed to defeat the IDF’s most advanced vehicles, like the Merkava 4 main battle tank, the Namer armored personnel carrier and up-armored D9 bulldozers. While each of these vehicles cost several millions of dollars, a single Al-Yassin 105 RPG cost only $500.

 

Using Al-Yassin 105 RPGs, Palestinian fighters have damaged or destroyed 962 tanks, 55 armored personnel carriers, 74 bulldozers, three excavators and 14 high-mobility vehicles of the IDF since the start of the war in Gaza, according to al-Qassam.

 

These numbers are likely accurate. Al-Qassam has already released dozens of videos showing successful attacks with Al-Yassin 105 RPGs against IDF vehicles.

 

Hamas’ ability to develop and manufacture Al-Yassin 105 RPGs under strict Israeli siege on Gaza goes to show the high competence of its armed wing. It also highlights the difficulty of Israel’s stated goal of completely destroying the group and its allies.

 

https://southfront.press/hamas-says-it-damaged-destroyed-1108-israeli-vehicles-with-locally-made-al-yassin-rpgs/

Anonymous ID: 355400 Feb. 9, 2024, 12:19 p.m. No.20385737   🗄️.is 🔗kun

SYRIAN AIR DEFENSES SHOT DOWN TWO DRONES THAT FLEW FROM ISRAEL OVER DAMASCUS

 

Syrian air defenses shot down two drones over the western outskirts of the capital, Damascus, on February 9, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported, citing a military official.

 

The drone came from the direction of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the unnamed official said, without providing any further details.

 

A video posted to social networks showed trails of white smoke, presumably from anti-aircraft missiles, over Damascus. Blasts were also heard near the Mezzeh Military Airport in the western outskirts of the capital, where air defense systems are known to be deployed.

 

The incident marked the first time Syria has announced the downing of Israeli aircraft since the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian Gaza Strip which led to a wave of escalation and clashes in different parts of the Middle East.

 

Israel has significantly escalated its attacks on Syria since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, targeting mainly sites and personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated forces.

 

Recent Israeli attacks on the war-torn country resulted in many casualties, including civilians. Earlier this week, seven people were killed and at least 13 others were wounded when a series of Israeli strikes hit the central governorate of Homs.

 

Despite taking losses, Syria has largely refrained from responding to Israel’s repeated attacks in an attempt to avoid a dangerous confrontation.

 

https://southfront.press/syrian-air-defenses-shot-down-two-drones-that-flew-from-israel-over-damascus/

Anonymous ID: 355400 Feb. 9, 2024, 12:22 p.m. No.20385745   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5803

Northern Command chief: 'We're preparing to expand the war & launch attack'

 

'Goal is to change the security situation in the north in a way that will allow the residents' safe return,' commander of IDF's Northern Command says.

 

"Our goal is to change the security situation in the north in a manner that will allow us to safely return the residents home to a state of security," Gordin said. "We are determined to change the security reality that is already shifting these days and continue to prepare for an expansion of the war and to go on the offensive - this is our mission."

 

"We will continue to carry out the defensive battle, to strike Hezbollah and to deny its capabilities. Our mission is to protect the residents and communities of the north. The way we operate, and intend to continue, is partnership, full partnership with you and the residents. The residents of the north are the ones who give us strength to continue - they are the tailwind that allows us to achieve the accomplishments we have reached so far in the north."

 

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/384954

Anonymous ID: 355400 Feb. 9, 2024, 12:44 p.m. No.20385864   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Ukraine uses ‘Chloropicrin’ chemical weapons targeting civilians and Russian forces

 

Plenty of documented evidences have reached this newspaper about the use of chemical weapons, including ‘Chloropicrin’ by the Ukrainian forces targeting civilians and Russian forces that leaves serious impact on the victims, which is tantamount to crime against humanity and violations of international conventions that can result in suing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, top brasses of the Ukrainian army as well as Zelensky’s neo-Nazi cohorts, including Azov Battalion.

 

According to the documents, over the past decade, the number of local conflicts and the range of weapons have significantly increased. The diversity of UAVs has become a distinctive feature of the current military conflicts. This type of warfare is most heavily used in Ukraine. The use of UAV tactics in combination with conventional arms, including prohibited, reached its peak.

 

A striking example of this war crime is the numerous reports of the use of chemical agents by the Kyiv regime from the very beginning of the conflict. Numerous evidences are documented in the material. At the same time representatives of various international organizations are so unwilling to pay attention to the issue, and trying to justify the war crimes, committed by the Ukrainian side. There is a lot evidence of chemicals weapons usage by the Ukrainian forces, and it has been documented by officials, investigative authorities, and war correspondents.

 

In May 2022, during a regular briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, announced the discovery of three UAVs equipped with containers and hardware for spraying agents in the Kherson region near Kakhovka.

 

It is may be mentioned here that the Ukrainian government sent a request to a Turkish company named ‘Baykar’, specifying the possibility of setting up special equipment for spraying chemicals. Such devices can be applied both for agricultural sector as well as for military purposes.

 

In November 2022, the media reported on the usage of chloropicrin by the Ukrainian Army. Journalists also discovered that the bodies of Ukrainian UAVs were additionally treated with potassium cyanide to cause more damage.

 

Then, in May 2023, a Telegram channel published evidence of TEREN-6 gas grenades usage, dropped from drones on Russian positions. At that time, a video published by the Ukrainian source Supernova+ was actively circulated in the media. The authors of the video shamelessly boasted of “the use of chemical weapons by the Ukrainian armed forces against the Moscow boys” in Pervomayskoye in the Donetsk region.

 

https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/02/ukraine-uses-chloropicrin-chemical-weapons-targeting-civilians-and-russian-forces/