Elizabeth Warren shares in blame for suspect's alleged $500 bounty on ICE agents, Republican says

ust hours after a Massachusetts man was arrested for offering $500 bounties for killing ICE agents, a Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in the state said his Democratic opponent shared in the blame.

GOP candidate Geoff Diehl demanded Thursday that incumbent U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren “both retract and apologize” for the criticism that he said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel have taken from her and other Democrats in recent months, the Boston Herald reported.

“We now have a man putting a bounty on the heads of ICE agents,” Diehl said in a statement. “Senator Warren’s irresponsible statements are partially to blame. She has a responsibility to support our law enforcement officials. Her call to abolish ICE and painting the entire criminal justice system racists are reckless and dangerous.”

"Senator Warren … has a responsibility to support our law enforcement officials. Her call to abolish ICE and painting the entire criminal justice system racists are reckless and dangerous.”

The suspect, identified as Brandon Ziobrowski, 33, of Cambridge, Mass., was arrested Thursday in New York, charged with one count of use of interstate and foreign commerce to transmit a threat and injure another person.

MASSACHUSETTS MAN SOLICITED KILLING ICE AGENTS FOR $500, TWEETED DESIRE TO SLIT THROAT OF McCAIN, FEDS SAY

On July 2, Ziobrowski allegedly tweeted: “I am broke but will scrounge and literally give $500 to anyone who kills ICE agent. @me seriously who else can pledge get in on this lets make this work.”

Federal officials also said Ziabrowski had tweeted a desire to slit the throat of U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

“He appears to be very much against ICE and its mission. He appears to have a violent dislike for at least one Republican senator and law enforcement," U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said at a news conference announcing Ziabrowski’s arrest.

Diehl, meanwhile, suggested that Warren, too, seemed opposed to ICE and its mission.

“We need a Senator who will support our police and not throw (ICE) under the bus to score political points,” Diehl’s statement continued. “Warren should be putting public safety first. Instead she is prioritizing her White House political ambitions to the detriment of law enforcement.”

Geoff Diehl

@DiehlForSenate

“We now have a man putting a bounty on the heads of ICE agents. @SenWarren’s irresponsible statements are partially to blame. She has a responsibility to support our law enforcement officials.”

https:// www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/10/elizabeth-warren-shares-in-blame-for-suspects-alleged-500-bounty-on-ice-agents-republican-says.html

Broadcom co-founder arrested in Las Vegas on drug trafficking charges

Tech billionaire and Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III was arrested this week in a Las Vegas hotel room on suspicion of drug trafficking, jail records show.

Authorities responded to a call from the Encore hotel Tuesday night regarding contraband in one of its rooms, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported

Police arrested Nicholas, 59, and a woman identified as Ashley Fargo, 37, on suspicion of trafficking cocaine, ecstasy, heroin and methamphetamine.

Both have since been released from custody, a police spokesman said.

Nicholas’ attorney, famed for representing the likes of Paris Hilton, Bruno Mars, and Motley Crue singer Vince Neil, said his client was released on his own recognizance.

Nicholas has had previous run-ins with the law.

According a 2008 indictment cited by the Los Angeles Times, Nicholas was accused of distributing and using drugs on a private flight between Orange County, Calif., and Las Vegas.

Those charges were dropped in 2010.

Nicholas co-founded Broadcom in 1991 with Henry Samueli. He stepped down as chief executive in 2003, the Times reported.

The California-based maker of semiconductors was acquired by Avago Technologies in 2015 for $37 billion.

Nicholas has reportedly used his wealth to back initiatives to bolster victim’s rights laws such as California’s three-strikes felony law and Marsy’s Law, named after his sister who was killed by an ex-boyfriend more than 30 years ago. The latter will appear on Nevada's midterm ballot in November

A Billionaire trafficking cocaine ??? WHY

https:// www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/10/broadcom-co-founder-arrested-in-las-vegas-on-drug-trafficking-charges.html

Obama Ignores Genocide In South Africa

Fri, 08/10/2018 - 02:00

Authored by Ilana Mercer via Unz.com,

Once upon a time there were two politicians.

One had the power to give media and political elites goosebumps. Still does.

The other causes the same dogs to raise their hackles.

The first is Barack Hussein Obama; the second Vladimir Putin.

The same gilded elites who choose our villains and victims for us have decided that the Russian is the worst person in the world. BHO, the media consider one of the greatest men in the world.

Obama leveled Libya and lynched its leader. Our overlords were unconcerned. They knew with certainty that Obama was destroying lives irreparably out of the goodness of his heart.

Same thing when Obama became the uncrowned king of the killer drone, murdering Pakistani, Afghani, Libyan and Yemeni civilians in their thousands. That, too, his acolytes generally justified, minimized or concealed.

In June of 2008, Obama marked his election as “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.” Media did not mock their leader’s delusions of grandeur.

All the estrogen-oozing amoebas of mainstream media would do in response to the Obama charm offensive was to turn to one another and check, “Was it good for you? Did he make the earth move and the oceans recede for you, too?”

Recently, Obama romped on to the Third World stage “bigly.”

He delivered an address in this writer’s birthplace of Johannesburg, South Africa. The occasion: the centennial commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s birth.

On that occasion, Obama praised “the liberal international order,” which is founded on inverted morality: Good is bad and bad is good.

Small wonder, then, that nobody—broadcaster Tucker Carlson excepted—was willing to shame Obama for lauding genial thug Cyril Ramaphosa as an inspiration for “new hope in [his] great country.”

President hope-and-change Ramaphosa has gone where his four peer predecessors had not dared to go. He led a wildly fruitful effort to tweak the already watered-down property-rights provision in the South-African Constitution. Theft of land owned by whites will now be permitted.

Other than their modern-day-messiah status, BHO and his hero Mandela share something else. Both were silent about the systematic ethnic cleansing and extermination, in ways that beggar belief, of South-African farmers, in particular, and whites in general.

Does the barefaced Barack care that white men, women and children are being butchered like animals, their bodies often displayed like trophies by their proud black assassins?

https:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-09/obama-ignores-genocide-south-africa

The World's Largest Cybercrime Empire

Fri, 08/10/2018 - 03:30

Authored by Alex Kimani via SafeHaven.com,

When you hear of state-sponsored cybercrime, you probably conjure up images of cybercriminals linked with the Russian government outwitting sophisticated infosec systems and stealing mountains of state data

Well, that’s pretty representative of your average state-sponsored hack, only that the latest and biggest hacking ring to be busted (sort of) is run by regular Ukrainian guys and employs sophisticated state-sponsored techniques, primarily targeting American businesses and companies.

Biggest Hacking Organization

Meet the Fin7 hacking Group, the most costly cybercrime ring in town. The group has earned its stripes as one of the most sophisticated and aggressive hacking organizations in the world, alleged to have leeched a billion dollars from companies in America and around the world.

Fin 7, aka Carbanak Group, has stolen more than 15,000 credit card data-sets from at least 3,600 businesses around the world in its years-long operation. The DoJ has already indicted three Ukrainian nationals for their involvement and charged them with 26 counts of felony each, including conspiracy, hacking and wire fraud.

The three men, Dmytro Fedorov (44), Fedir Hladyr (33), and Andrii Kopakov (30), were high-level operatives in the underground empire as an administrator and group supervisors, respectively. But make no mistake: Fin 7 still continues its insidious operations even with the three firmly behind bars.

Sophisticated Techniques

Barry Vengerik, threat analyst at FireEye Inc. and coauthor of the Fin7 report, says the have been surprised by the sophistication of the techniques employed by the group, most of them associated with state-sponsored hacks and not your average financially motivated cybercrime.

It’s a plot that would impress even the most battle-weary sleuth.

Take the case of one unnamed employee at a Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews. One day this employee received an email from ray.donovan84@yahoo.com from what appeared like a normal email from a disgruntled customer kvetching about a bad experience they had at the hotel.

The email urged the recipient to open a certain attachment for further details. Unfortunately, the employee fell for the ruse and opened said attachment, unwittingly granting access to the Fin 7 network.

read more:

https:// www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-09/worlds-largest-cybercrime-empire

Mueller doesn’t need Trump’s testimony and other comments

By Post Editorial Board August 9, 2018

Ex-prosecutor: Mueller Doesn’t Need Trump Testimony

For months now, says former Watergate prosecutor Jon Sale at The Hill, pundits have “propagated the myth” that special counsel Robert Mueller is entitled to interview President Trump in order to determine his “knowledge and intent.” But Mueller “is not so entitled, and the president should not do it,” warns Sale. Fact is, government prosecutors conduct similar cases every day without the benefit of such interviews. And Trump’s legal team is right that all a sitdown can do is help Mueller “advance an arguable case against the president.” Frankly, given Trump’s conclusion — rightly or wrongly — that Mueller’s probe is “conducted by partisans who have pre-determined” his guilt, a voluntary interview would be “tantamount to walking into the lion’s den.”

Media critic: Jim Acosta’s Performance Journalism

CNN’s Jim Acosta raised eyebrows last week when he publicly confronted Sarah Huckabee Sanders, demanding to know if the White House press secretary shared President Trump’s belief that the press is the enemy of the people. The question may have been justified, but Todd Purdum at The Atlantic says that by becoming an actor in his own story Acosta played “directly into Trump’s received narrative about a hostile, combative and even unfair press.” White House press briefings generally have become “a circus of reportorial self-expression and sometimes self-promotion.” And Acosta’s broadside blurred “the line between reporting and performance” when journalists “have a greater obligation than ever to demonstrate that what they do . . . is not just part of the passing show.”

Foreign desk: Confessions of a Burqa-Phobe

Judging by the furious reaction that greeted UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s recent remarks, liberal opinion doesn’t allow Europeans “to discuss the burqa openly, honestly and fearlessly,” contends Commentary’s Sohrab Ahmari. Johnson has been assailed “by the left and much of the right” for suggesting the Muslim veil makes women look “like letterboxes.” This, even though Johnson was opposing a proposed Danish ban on the burqa. But the British pol understands that “anxiety over the burqa courses through the whole European body politic,” even if “few native Europeans dare voice it honestly.” Ahmari, a self-confessed “burqa-phobe” born and raised in the Islamic Republic of Iran, cites “legitimate” anxiety over the burqa, which “crystalizes the sense that European immigration and assimilation policy has gone horribly wrong.” And that, he says, “isn’t tantamount to hatred.”

Political scribe: Can a Grown-Up Tea Party Save the GOP?

https:// nypost.com/2018/08/09/mueller-doesnt-need-trumps-testimony-and-other-comments/

Carter Page: The FBI ruined my life

By Paul Sperry May 26, 2018 | 3:55pm

FBI surveillance of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page cost him business, income and even his girlfriend.

Page tells The Post that during the media barrage he faced in late 2016, he visited his girlfriend at her London flat, where she was “freaking out with the fake news about me.”

“Talking with her later in the evening after dinner, she told me that she didn’t want me staying there anymore, and that our relationship was over.

“So late that night,” Page continued, “I booked a last-minute hotel reservation as part of this early chapter of the redefinition of my life.”

Page believes the FBI’s mole, professor Stefan Halper, was secretly spying on him as part of a “politically motivated” investigation of Team Trump, using fake sympathy to gain his trust — all while fishing for dirt on Page’s ties to Russia, where he’d worked as an energy consultant.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out to be a trap,” Page said.

Halper contacted Page in early July 2016, weeks before the FBI claims it first opened an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

The timing is significant because if Halper was being used as an informant before a case had been officially opened, it raises the possibility the Trump campaign was spied on for political — not law enforcement — reasons.

Page believes that’s exactly what happened, and agrees with the president’s characterization of the scandal as “Spygate.”

“It is particularly appropriate given recent developments,” the former campaign aide said.

Page said while he was under surveillance, Halper “portrayed himself as someone offering help” to him and the campaign, providing “insights and perspectives” on various foreign policy issues, including relations with Russia.

Page recalled the professor “expressed sympathy about what I had been put through with the defamation and smear campaign led by the DNC and the Clinton campaign,” which underwrote the dossier claiming Page conspired with the Kremlin to swing the election for Trump.

For instance, Halper penned a July 28, 2017 “Dear Carter” e-mail, assuaging him that new White House controversies may have taken pressure off him.

“I must assume this gives you some relief,” Halper wrote, adding that it “would be great to catch up.” Halper signed the note, “Stef.”

Since the breakup of his relationship and the decline of his consulting business, Page has gone on the offensive, sharing his side of the story as Washington politicians battle over the role that Halper, a British-American professor, played while informing on top Trump campaign officials starting in the summer of 2016.

https:// nypost.com/2018/05/26/carter-page-the-fbi-ruined-my-life/

Sally Moyer not ‘Agent 5’ in IG report on FBI

By Paul Sperry June 27, 2018

A House Republican says he didn’t mean to imply that both FBI investigators he unmasked by name in a congressional hearing were among five unidentified agents cited for pro-Clinton, anti-Trump bias by the Justice Department inspector general in his recently released report on the Clinton email investigation.

IG Michael Horowitz said he did not name the politically biased investigators in his report because the FBI said they worked in counterintelligence and requested he protect their identities.

However, Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, who heads a House Oversight subcommittee, argued the FBI was wrong to ask Horowitz to conceal their identities, because not all of them work in counterintelligence.

“But they don’t work in counterintelligence,” said in a June 19 exchange with Horowitz. “If that’s the reason the FBI is giving, they’re giving you false information, because they work for the general counsel.”

Meadows then named Kevin Clinesmith and Sally Moyer as two examples, and his staff later confirmed they were among the five unidentified FBI investigators in the IG report.

Dozens of media outlets reported the names, including the Post. However, Moyer’s lawyer insists she is not one of the biased five and “has not been referred for investigation.”

Adding to the confusion is that Moyer, who does work in the general counsel’s office, is mentioned throughout the IG report as a senior FBI investigator on the Clinton probe who made key and controversial decisions in the case. Clinesmith, who in fact was referred by Horowitz for bias review, worked as a second, more junior lawyer on Moyer’s team.

Clinesmith is “FBI Attorney 2” in the report, while Moyer is, in fact, “FBI Attorney 1,” which is not listed as one of the agents or lawyers cited for bias or referred for investigation.

Meadows’ office says it regrets the “misinterpretation.”

https:// nypost.com/2018/06/27/sally-moyer-not-agent-5-in-ig-report-on-fbi/