>Dough
https://t.me/s/DDGeopolitics
>Thomas Crooks was incapacitated by a local cop before he was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
loose lips sink ships
anyone heard from Yearick?
think twice before sharing disinformation
https://x.com/RyanAFournier/status/1831319812317814823
This is Tim Walz’s family from Nebraska.
>Israel being falsely portrayed as white colonizers
>toxic feckless stone-cold coward
https://archive.is/WbGQn
Defense Secretary Revokes Plea Deal for Accused Sept. 11 Plotters
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III assumed direct oversight of the case and effectively put the death penalty back on the table.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Friday overruled the overseer of the war court at Guantánamo Bay and revoked a plea agreement reached earlier this week with the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two alleged accomplices.
The Pentagon announced the decision with the release of a memorandum relieving the senior official at the Defense Department responsible for military commissions of her oversight of the capital case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his alleged accomplices for the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field.
The overseer, retired Brig. Gen. Susan K. Escallier, signed a pretrial agreement on Wednesday with Mr. Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi that exchanged guilty pleas for sentences of at most life in prison. In taking away the authority, Mr. Austin assumed direct oversight of the case and canceled the agreement, effectively reinstating it as a death-penalty case. He left Ms. Escallier in the role of oversight of Guantánamo’s other cases.
Because of the stakes involved, the “responsibility for such a decision should rest with me,” Mr. Austin said in an order released Friday night by the Pentagon.
“Effective immediately, in the exercise of my authority, I hereby withdraw from the three pretrial agreements that you signed on July 31, 2024.”
>without vaccines they can't even stay in business
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13810697/Thomas-Crooks-Trump-shot-Butler-Higgins.html
Bombshell congressional report on Trump assassination attempt reveals 'who REALLY took the first shot at Thomas Crooks'
A bombshell congressional report claims would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks was incapacitated by a local cop before he was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
Two months after Crooks shot the former president's ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a preliminary report from Rep. Clay Higgins offered a differing narrative to the official one pushed by the FBI.
While it was initially claimed that Crooks was shot in the head within seconds by a Secret Service sniper, Higgins' report claimed it was actually a local SWAT operator who stopped the gunman's hail of bullets.
The congressman said the local cop's shot 'hit Crooks' rifle and fragged his face/ neck/ right shoulder area from the (gun) stock breaking up', which meant Crooks was unable to keep firing before he was killed.
It comes amid mounting scrutiny on the FBI and Secret Service's investigations into the shooting, weeks after Higgins also revealed Crooks' body was mysteriously cremated with approval from the FBI after just 10 days.
The revelations from Higgins' bombshell report were raised last night by Fox News pundit Jesse Watters, who shared his shock over the response to the assassination attempt with Missouri Senator Josh Hawley.
Watters said the FBI and Secret Service have been offering only a frustrating 'drip drip, drip' of information from their investigations, and noted that 'the real investigative work is being done by Congress.'
He drew parallels between the agencies' official narrative of the shooting - that Crooks was quickly killed by a Secret Service sniper - and Higgins' claim that a local SWAT operator actually hit the gunman first.
'I didn't know that,' Watters said, pointing to Congressional testimony from acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe that made 'no mention' of the local cop's heroics.
'He gave his agency total credit for bringing down Crooks,' he said.
Newly released images of Crooks' AR-style rifle show the stock end of the firearm with a large hole where the bullet purportedly struck near the shooter's shoulder.
According to Higgins' report, the rally could have been worse had it not been for the actions of local officers.
After Crooks fired eight bullets at the crowd, striking Trump's ear and hitting three rally attendees, one fatally, officers were scrambling to locate the source of the bullets and fire back.
Higgins said the SWAT operator - who he described as a 'total badass' in his report - fired at Crooks from the ground around 100 yards from the AGR building where he had been perched.
'When he had sighted the shooter Crooks as a mostly obscured by foliage moving target on the AGR rooftop, he immediately left his assigned post and ran towards the threat,' Higgins wrote.
The congressman noted that the officer ran into Crooks' possible line of fire and took a 'very hard shot' that struck the end of Crooks' rifle and destroyed the gun's functionality.
'This means that if his AR buffer tube was damaged, Crooks’ rifle wouldn’t fire after his 8th shot,' Higgins wrote.
Seconds later, a Secret Service sniper killed Crooks on the rooftop perch, which 'entered somewhere around the left mouth area and exited the right ear area.'
The revelations came as Higgins also staggeringly claimed that Crooks' body was cremated just 10 days after the rally shooting despite investigations still ongoing.
The Louisiana congressman, a former police captain, compiled the report from his own 'boots on the ground' trip to Butler in early August, which was submitted to a 13-member Congressional bipartisan task force investigating the shooting that he is a member of.
In the report, Higgins said that when he visited the town for his own investigation, his request to view the body 'caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact.'
Higgins says 'nobody knew' that the body had been returned to the family, including the county coroner and local enforcement. He writes that the coroner still had 'legal authority over the body' when the FBI made this decision and accuses the agency of 'obstruction'.
'The problem with me not being able to examine the actual body is that I won't know 100% if the coroner's report and the autopsy report are accurate. We will actually never know,' Higgins claimed.
'Yes, we'll get the reports and pictures, but I will not ever be able to say with certainty that those reports and pictures are accurate according to my own examination of the body.
'Again, similar to releasing the crime scene and scrubbing crime scene biological evidence… this action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort.'
Higgins states that on July 23, the day that Crooks was cremated, both the Homeland Security Committee and the Oversight Committee had opened investigations into the assassination attempt, while Speaker Mike Johnson had stated he was forming a congressional investigative body.
'Why, then, by what measure, would the FBI release his body to the family for cremation? This pattern of investigative scorched earth by the FBI is quite troubling,' Higgins writes.
His 'preliminary investigate report' was submitted to Task Force Chairman Mike Kelly (R-PA) on August 12 and released to the public on Higgins' website on August 15.
On July 29, the Louisiana congressman was named as one of seven Republican members of a bipartisan group tasked with investigating the attempted assassination of Trump.
The task force consists of 13 members - seven Republicans and six Democrats. Its mission is to determine what went wrong on the day of the attempted assassination and it will make recommendations to prevent future security lapses.
The task force will issue a final report before December 13.
The officer took a 'very hard shot' that struck the end of Crooks' rifle and destroyed the gun's functionality.
This means that if his AR buffer tube was damaged, Crooks’ rifle wouldn’t fire after his 8th shot.
Seconds later, a Secret Service sniper killed Crooks on the rooftop perch, which 'entered somewhere around the left mouth area and exited the right ear area.'
>they'll be the ones having to live with all the horrible medical problems
panic = comfy
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article291905150.html
U.S. seeks to turn Kenya mission in Haiti into U.N. peacekeeping operation
More than two months after the first contingents of Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti to head a largely U.S.-funded multinational security force, the Biden administration is exploring the possibility of transitioning to a traditional United Nations peacekeeping operation. The State Department, which in the face of funding and equipment shortfalls has been mulling over the possibility of transforming the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support, has notified U.S. lawmakers of its intentions, a source familiar with the matter told the Miami Herald. An official with the White House National Security Council confirmed to McClatchy and the Herald that plans are under consideration to alter the nature of the force. The direction was also confirmed by a third source. “In coordination with partners, the United States is exploring options to bolster the Multinational Security Support mission and ensure the support that the MSS is providing Haitians is sustained long-term and ultimately paves the way to security conditions permitting free and fair elections,” the national security official said. The switch is both an acknowledgment of the administration’s struggle to attract voluntary contributions for the mission, which the administration says roughly costs $200 million every six months to operate, and of its failure to quickly restore order in Haiti despite public pronouncements that there has been progress since the Kenyans’ arrival. A traditional U.N. peacekeeping operation would end the mission’s problems with funding, because it would be paid for through member nations’ traditionally assessed contributions. It would also provide more equipment like helicopters, which the current Kenya-led mission lacks, and possibly a hospital capable of performing surgeries. Also the U.N. would be able to mobilize military forces, rather than just cops, from other nations in a way that the U.S. has been unable to do. A peacekeeping mission would need the approval of the U.N. Security Council, and there are questions about whether its members, especially China and Russia, would support it. Renata Segura, program director for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Crisis Group, said she thinks the move is a demonstration of how difficult it is to mobilize support for this kind of mission outside of the traditional U.N. channels. “The initial lack of support to the MSS from outspoken sectors of Haitian civil society certainly made many potential donors, mission leaders very reluctant to engage. But beyond that, there is a clear Haiti fatigue— with many donors wondering if this most recent experiment would solve what previous interventions couldn’t,” she said. Robert Rae, Canada’s ambassador to the U.N., who visited Haiti last week, said there needs to be a discussion about how to beef up the security mission. “The obvious answer to that is through a peacekeeping mission. But we need to understand the political challenges,” he said in an interview after his visit. “Only the Security Council can approve this peacekeeping mission. And a peacekeeping mission has to be funded, but it also has to be approved by the [Permanent 5 members] and that includes China and Russia. “The reason we have the [Kenya] mission we have is because China and Russia wouldn’t agree to anything else,” said Rae, who was recently elected president of the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council. “We need to understand that’s what needs to come together in order for it to happen.” Rae said the challenge is to make sure that both the Haiti National Police, the Kenya mission and the humanitarian and development agencies working in the troubled Caribbean country have the financial support to confront the worst humanitarian crisis since a devastating 2010 earthquake left more than 300,000 Haitians dead. “That doesn’t depend on a change of heart from Russia or China, that depends on the willingness of the rest of the world to step up and address the problems,” Rae said, referring to the ongoing struggle to raise money for the security mission and a $674 million U.N. humanitarian appeal to help the nearly 600,000 Haitians who have been forced out of their homes by armed gangs over the last three years and the more than five million currently facing hunger.
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