Taliban Kills Scores Of Afghan Soldiers And Attack NATO Vehicles In Kandahar

On December 5, the Taliban announced that its fighters had carried out a coordinated attack on a base of the Afghan National Army (ANA) in the district of Shawalikot in the southern province of Kandahar.

Voice of Jihad, the official news agency of the Taliban, said that 25 soldiers and officers of the ANA were killed and many others were injured in the attack. The agency also acknowledged that 4 personnel of the Taliban were killed and injured.

Earlier, the Taliban said that its fighters destroyed two military vehicles of the NATO in the district of Daman and in the outskirt of the capital of Kandahar with Improvised explosive devices (IEDs). According to the Afghan group’s claims, several service members of the NATO were killed and injured as a result of the attacks.

The NATO has not commented on the Taliban’s claims so far. The US-led coalition usually acknowledges its loses days after the attacks for security reasons.

Kandahar is well-known as one of the main strongholds of the Taliban. Afghan government forces and the NATO carried out dozens of operations in the province during the last few years. However, the Taliban’s influence there is still strong.

https://southfront.org/taliban-kills-scores-of-afghan-soldiers-and-attack-nato-vehicles-in-kandahar/

Border Patrol Agent Hospitalized Following Contact with Powdery Substance

A Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent had to be taken to a hospital on Monday after being exposed to “an unknown substance” reportedly carried by an illegal alien.

An agent working near Douglas, Arizona, on Monday had an adverse reaction to an unknown substance after he came in contact with a man believed to be an illegal alien, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office told the AZFamily news organization. Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived to assist the agent and called for medical assistance.

The agent reportedly became ill after touching a bundle carried by the suspected illegal alien. The bundle contained a powdery substance, the news outlet reported.

The responding EMS personnel transported the Border Patrol agent to a local hospital for evaluation and treatment. No one has been arrested at the scene where the incident took place.

The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Border Patrol are investigating the incident.

Border Patrol officials have not yet released a statement on the incident because of the national day of mourning on Wednesday for the late President George H.W. Bush.

A statement is expected to be released early Thursday morning.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/12/05/border-patrol-agent-hospitalized-following-contact-with-powdery-substance/

DAG Rod Rosenstein Trolls President Trump at DOJ Conference

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein trolled President Trump Wednesday while delivering remarks at the Project Safe Neighborhoods National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.

“You let the President know that his favorite Deputy Attorney General was here,” a snarky Rosenstein said to the crowd, referring to Trump’s scheduled Friday appearance at the end of the three-day conference on crime.

There has been tension between Trump and Rosenstein ever since the DAG appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate President Trump for ‘Russian collusion.’

Rosenstein has also stonewalled House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes’ investigation into FISA abuses and Obama’s Spygate and smugly refused to answered questions by GOP lawmakers.

Furthermore, the New York Times reported in September that Rosenstein planned to wear a wire to secretly record President Trump and oust him via the 25th Amendment.

Last week, President Trump upped the ante and retweeted an image of Mueller, Rosenstein and other crooks from the Obama administration behind bars for treason.

Although President Trump has stated he will not fire Rod Rosenstein, Sessions’ resignation has ushered in a new Acting Attorney General which puts Rosenstein’s position in jeopardy.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/dag-rod-rosenstein-trolls-president-trump-at-doj-conference/

Sauce doc

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/deputy-attorney-general-rod-j-rosenstein-delivers-remarks-project-safe-neighborhoods

Top Harris Advisor Resigns Over Harassment Settlement. Harris Claims She Didn't Know.

A longtime staffer for California Democratic Senator Kamala Harris resigned on Wednesday after a harassment and retaliation settlement came to light from his time working in California's Department of Justice for then-Attorney General Harris.

The Sacramento Bee reports that Larry Wallace, who worked as the director of the Division of Law Enforcement, "was accused by his former executive assistant in December 2016 of 'gender harassment' and other demeaning behavior, including frequently asking her to crawl under his desk to change the paper in his printer."

The lawsuit, which was filed at the very end of 2016, was settled in May 2017 after Wallace transitioned to work for Harris in her new role as a U.S. Senator.

Harris claims she had no knowledge of the incident that happened on her staff.

"We were unaware of this issue and take accusations of harassment extremely seriously. This evening, Mr. Wallace offered his resignation to the senator and she accepted it," Harris spokeswoman Lily Adams wrote told The Sacramento Bee an email.

The accuser, Danielle Hartley, said in her lawsuit that she was brought on to be Wallace's assistant and that she "had concerns she was being harassed and demeaned due to her gender."

Hartley's lawsuit claims that Wallace put his printer on the floor under his desk and ordered her to service the printer on a daily basis.

Hartley claims that she asked Wallace to move the printer to a different spot in the office so she wouldn't have to crawl under the desk, while he was sitting there, to service the printer while she was wearing "dresses and skirts."

Wallace allegedly refused to honor Hartley's request and continued to force her to "replace the paper or ink" on a daily basis, sometimes in front of other men from around the department. The Sacramento Bee adds:

Hartley also complained in the lawsuit that Wallace took away her "meaningful tasks" and put her in charge of running personal errands instead, including booking flights for Wallace’s children and washing and performing maintenance on his car. When she would return from these assignments, the lawsuit states, "co-workers would make hostile comments to her including, 'Are you walking the walk of shame?'"

According to the lawsuit, Hartley eventually informed her supervisor, Shannon Patterson, of the harassment and asked for help. "Hartley observed Patterson enter Wallace’s office and met with him behind closed doors," the lawsuit states, but after that, she began to experience retaliation.

The lawsuit describes that Hartley was "set up to fail," micro-managed by Patterson, investigated by internal affairs on a "fabricated charge" for which she was never informed of the outcome, and "told she should quit her job and seek employment elsewhere."

Hartley says she was involuntarily transferred to another bureau within California's DOJ as she started to search for a new job outside the department.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/39083/top-harris-advisor-resigns-over-harassment-ryan-saavedra

Gregg Jarrett: Mueller strikes out trying to nail Trump – Flynn sentencing memo is a big nothing

A sentencing memo that Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed in U.S. District Court in Washington Tuesday recommending little or no prison time for President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn doesn’t implicate the president in any wrongdoing.

The memo isn’t a “smoking gun” showing President Trump colluded with Russians to win the 2016 presidential election or did anything else illegal. In fact, the memo isn’t even a squirt gun. In terms of President Trump’s conduct, it amounts to nothing of any significance.

In recommending that Flynn – who served as President Trump’s national security adviser for just 24 days – get a sentence ranging from no prison time to six months at most, the memo filed by Mueller said Flynn has offered “substantial” help to investigators about “several ongoing investigations.”

“Given the defendant’s substantial assistance and other considerations set forth below, a sentence at the low end of the guideline range – including a sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration – is appropriate and warranted,” the memo states.

The sentencing memo says that Flynn was interviewed 19 times by prosecutors on Mueller’s team and other Justice Department lawyers. But crucially, the memo doesn’t specify anything that Flynn told Muller’s team regarding allegations against President Trump or anything else.

https://truepundit.com/gregg-jarrett-mueller-strikes-out-trying-to-nail-trump-flynn-sentencing-memo-is-a-big-nothing/