Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Explains Alex Jones Suspension, "Timeouts"

In the latest media pit stop, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat down with NBC News' Lester Holt, where he defended the company's decision to put Infowars' Alex Jones under a seven-day timeout over an offensive tweet linking to a video in which Jones encourages his audience to "act on the enemy before they do a false flag," and to get "battle rifles" ready.

Dorsey said that despite calls to ban Jones last week amid a seemingly coordinated multi-platform blacklisting, he resisted until now.

“We can’t build a service that is subjective just to the whims of what we personally believe,” Dorsey told Holt, while saying he believes a suspension can be an effect deterrent which can change user behaviors.

“I feel any suspension, whether it be a permanent or a temporary one, makes someone think about their actions and their behaviors,” Dorsey added - though he admitted he has no idea if Jones' timeout will result in any changes in behavior.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-15/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-explains-alex-jones-suspension-timeouts

DEVELOPING: Manafort Lawyers Hammer Mueller’s Prosecutors in Closing Arguments ‘Fishing For a Crime’

On Tuesday, Paul Manafort opted to skip out on a defense and proceeded to closing arguments instead, reported ABC News.

“Mr. Manafort just rested his case. He did so because he and his legal team believe that the government has not met its burden of proof,” Manafort’s lawyer Kevin Downing said on Tuesday.

The closing arguments began at 9:30 AM ET Wednesday morning.

Mueller’s prosecutors said in their closing arguments that Manafort’s money is ‘littered with lies.’

Manafort’s defense attorneys hammered the Special Counsel prosecutors Wednesday afternoon after the jurors returned from a lunch recess, arguing the prosecution slapped together a smorgasbord of evidence and failed to prove any crimes were committed by Manafort.

Defense attorney Richard Westling spoke first the Kevin Downing will speak, reported Courthouse News reporter, Brandi Buchman.

Westling told jurors ‘the only reason why Manafort is here is through a “cobbling” together of information by the Special Counsel.’

“Their goal was to stack counts against Paul Manafort and to give you a sense that the evidence was so overwhelming, there’s only one conclusion to make,” argued Westling.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/developing-manafort-lawyers-hammer-muellers-prosecutors-in-closing-arguments-fishing-for-a-crime/

328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and A Fervor for Voice Matching Technology

It began not by tapping enemy insurgents’ phones or capturing their emails, but by following the money.

When the National Security Agency discovered that Iran may have been buying computer chips from the United States, routing them through a U.S. ally, and potentially supplying them to detonate bombs against U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, it credited so-called economic intelligence with the find.

And the solution was not a death blow delivered by the military, but rather a new regulation on the export of certain technologies via the Commerce Department, which the spy agency said would end up “saving American and coalition lives.”

The unusual strategy of tracing monetary flows to stop explosions is one of many significant disclosures contained in a batch of 328 internal NSA documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden and released by The Intercept today after research and redaction.

Also included in the material, which originates from SIDtoday, the newsletter of the agency’s core Signals Intelligence Directorate, is the untold story of how intelligence related to Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was finally acquired; an assessment that a “vast … network of Iranian agents” operated in Iraq and influenced its government; a major push to hone the agency’s voice identification technology; details on how NSA staff deployed abroad viewed, and sometimes stereotyped, their host countries; and grumbling about having to comply with public-records laws.

Those stories and others are detailed in the highlights below; the NSA declined to answer questions about them. Also with this SIDtoday release, drawing on the same set of documents, Peter Maass profiles the NSA’s “SIGINT Curmudgeon,” Rahe Clancy, who wrote a beloved set of articles for SIDtoday, trying to instigate change from within the agency and riling up his fellow spies against its corporatization. Alleen Brown and Miriam Pensack, meanwhile, detail instances in which the NSA has spied on environmental disputes and around issues like climate change, overfishing, and water scarcity. And Micah Lee reveals that the NSA infiltrated virtual private computer networks used by various airlines, the Al Jazeera news network, and the Iraqi government.

In Iraq, a “Vast and Disperse Network of Iranian Agents”

The NSA caught Iran smuggling American microprocessors that may have been used to bomb U.S. troops in Iraq, according to a May 2006 SIDtoday article. To import the chips, Iran set up front companies in the United Arab Emirates, an agency staffer wrote; the front companies then sent the microprocessors to customers in Iran and Syria.

https://theintercept.com/2018/08/15/nsa-edward-snowden-whistleblower-document-leaks/

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Six weeks later, another article described how two of five transmissions by al-Zawahiri in a nine-month span failed to yield a high-confidence voice match with previous transmissions. This was solved with new technology from MIT, which “allows optimal combination of vocal-tract models from contentious intercepts,” according to SIDtoday. The lesson to NSA: “Careful modeling” is “critical” for making voice identification actually work — and particularly important once voice matching is applied on a “large scale” to identify those “bent on terrorist activities against U.S. forces or the local populace.”

The same article goes on to describe a hand-held device, close to going into production, which would provide field access to MIT’s “mathematical engine” and voice matching estimates in “hostile environments.”

A May 2006 article describes another voice recognition stumble, when an October 2003 audio recording of bin Laden could not identify the Al Qaeda chief’s voice because it “proved to be of too low quality.” The file was later “enhanced” using software from a “local vendor … to yield a perfect match.” Still, there were successes, credited to the MIT software, with which “voice matching has become simplicity itself.” For example, an April 2006 recording of bin Laden was successfully matched against a January 2005 recording of bin Laden and against multiple other recordings.

The May SIDtoday article included references to screenshots of the MIT software’s “Speaker Comparison Algorithm” interface. Though those screenshots were not included in the SIDtoday articles as provided by Snowden, two images from an article on Lincoln Laboratory’s webpage — which were removed during the course of reporting this article — refer to a similarly named interface:

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cate the process, when the Snowden revelations prompted an 888 percent rise in FOIA requests to the agency.

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James O’Keefe on Omarosa Recordings: ‘I Don’t Hear Anyone Talking About Selective Editing

https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/15/james-okeefe-on-omarosa-recordings-i-dont-hear-anyone-talking-about-selective-editing/

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OBL died of kidney failure in Pakistan December 15 I think, 2001

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Somali American Hodan Hassan Says Muslims Are the Victims of 9-11 – Wins Democrat Primary in Minnesota (VIDEO)

On Tuesday night Hodan Hassan won her Democrat primary for Minneapolis House District 62A.

She is the second Somali-American to likely be a state representative.

Hodan Hassan believes Muslims in the United States are victims following the 9-11 attacks on America.

This video was posted by Voice of America Somali in 2011.

Hodan Hassan told the audience that Muslims in America have been targeted since 9-11.

Hodan Hassan: Well, to tell you the truth, 9-11 have changed a lot of things for the Muslims in the United States. My experience, post 9-11, there have been a lot of negative experiences as a Muslim, especially a Muslim woman in the United States. There have been many incidents where people have been targeted, where people have been discrimination, name-calling, vandalism of mosques… 9-11 have opened a new experience, a new eye-opening for me and the people that live in this country and call themselves Muslim for we have experienced many prejudice against us.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/somali-democrat-hodan-hassan-says-muslims-are-the-victims-of-9-11-wins-democrat-primary-in-minnesota-video/

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