Anonymous ID: af8f93 Jan. 27, 2019, 6:17 p.m. No.4933922   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4002 >>4006 >>4020 >>4407 >>4409 >>4484 >>4507

Federal Court Refused To Unseal Documents Justifying FBI Raid On Reported Clinton Foundation Whistleblower

 

A federal court is keeping documents justifying an FBI raid on a reportedly recognized whistleblower secret.

Attorneys and whistleblower advocates say the court should disclose whether prosecutors told the judge that Dennis Cain was a whistleblower.

Cain reportedly gave documents pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One to a presidentially appointed watchdog before the raid.

A federal court refused to unseal government documents that permitted the FBI to raid the home of a reportedly recognized whistleblower who, according to his lawyer, delivered documents pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One to a presidentially appointed watchdog.

 

The U.S. District Court of Maryland’s Chief Magistrate Judge Beth P. Gesner, a Clinton appointee, also sealed her justification for keeping the documents secret in a single-page Dec. 20 order.

 

On Nov. 15, federal Magistrate Judge Stephanie Gallagher authorized the raid on Dennis Cain’s Union Bridge, Maryland, home. She sealed the government documents justifying it.

 

The Daily Caller News Foundation asked Gallagher on Nov. 29 to unseal the documents, noting that Cain’s attorney has said his client, a former employee of an FBI contractor, is a recognized whistleblower. The documents should be released in light of “an urgent public interest” surrounding the case, TheDCNF wrote. (EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Home Of Whistleblower On Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says)

 

Attorneys and experts who defend government whistleblowers told TheDCNF the court should disclose whether prosecutors told Gallagher that Cain was a protected whistleblower under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act.

 

Cain enjoyed his whistleblower status as early as last summer when he handed over documents to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, according to Cain’s lawyer, Michael Socarras. Horowitz instructed a top aide to personally hand-deliver the documents to the House and Senate intelligence committees, the attorney said.

 

The documents reportedly show that federal officials failed to investigate potential criminal activity regarding the Clinton Foundation and Rostam, the Russian company that purchased Uranium One.

 

On Nov. 19, however, Cain was confronted with 16 FBI agents who entered and rummaged through his home for six hours, according to Socarras. Cain informed the lead FBI agent that he was a protected whistleblower, but the raid commenced, anyway.

 

Cain has not been charged with any crime. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia is handling the case with Karen Seifert assigned as the prosecutor assigned to the case, according to Cain’s criminal defense lawyer, Nina Ginsberg.

 

Maryland U.S. Attorney Robert Hur opposed TheDCNF’s initial request to unseal the documents. In a Dec. 6 letter, Hur told the court doing so “would seriously jeopardize the integrity of the ongoing investigation.”

 

His letter, which was also sent to TheDCNF, said nothing about the merits of the government’s case or why the raid was warranted. His specific arguments remain under seal.

 

TheDCNF subsequently told Gallagher in a Dec. 12 letter: “We wish to narrow our request to obtain any documents presented by the government that informed the judge of Mr. Cain’s status as a whistleblower.”

 

“It seems the Justice Department should be able to address [TheDCNF’s] more narrowly tailored request without compromising the investigation,” the director for investigations at the nonpartisan government watchdog group the Project on Government Oversight, Nick Schwellenbach, told TheDCNF. “Revealing whether the court was informed of his protected disclosures, on its own, doesn’t seem to compromise anything.”

 

And Mark Zaid, an attorney who has defended government whistleblowers in national security cases, told TheDCNF: “It would be interesting to know if the judge was aware this person had invoked whistleblower status.”

 

Kel McClanahan, an attorney who represents government whistleblowers and is the executive director of National Security Counselors, told TheDCNF: “Should the judge have considered that he was a whistleblower and they were looking for whistleblower stuff? Yes.”

 

McClanahan added that government officials could face punishment if they hid information from the magistrate.

 

“Hiding the ball can be considered sanctionable conduct because there’s duty to what’s called ‘candor to the court,'” he told TheDCNF. He said Judge Gallagher could eventually rule that the Department of Justice “‘did not demonstrate complete candor to the court.’ It doesn’t affect her conduct. It affects the DOJ’s conduct.”

 

 

https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/27/fbi-raid-clinton-whistleblower/

Anonymous ID: af8f93 Jan. 27, 2019, 6:24 p.m. No.4933998   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Texas ex-teacher who joined ISIS indicted on terror-related charge

A Texas man captured in Syria – where he said he joined the Islamic State – has been brought back to the U.S. on a terrorism-related charge.

 

Warren Christopher Clark, 34, appeared before a judge Friday in Houston Federal Court on an indictment accusing him of attempting to provide material support to the terrorist group. The judge ordered Clark held without bail pending a detention hearing Wednesday, according to reports.

 

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces gave Clark to the FBI after announcing his capture earlier this month.

 

The George Washington University's Program on Extremism found Clark had sent ISIS a resume seeking a job as an English teacher.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-man-who-joined-isis-indicted-for-terrorism?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fnational%20%28Internal%20-%20US%20Latest%20-%20Text%29

 

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Lansing man charged with supporting ISIS told investigators he didn't mean it in his heart

In a hearing before Magistrate Judge Phillip Green, Dunham detailed the more than two-year investigation, which he opened in December 2016, that led to Monday's arrest of Haji, Mohamud Abdikadir Muse, and Muse Abdikadir Muse.

 

Mohamud Muse, 23, and Muse Muse, 20, are brothers, officials said. Haji is their brother-in-law and cousin. All three were born in Kenya — Muse in a Somali refugee camp, Dunham said — and have lived in Lansing since at least late 2016.

 

Bob Kolt, a Lansing School District spokesperson, confirmed that records show Haji entered Otto Middle School in 2005 and graduated from Sexton High School in 2011. Muse Muse entered Eastern High School on Sept. 6, 2016 and graduated a year later, Kolt said. There are no records, Kolt said, that indicate Mohamud ever attended a school in the district.

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2019/01/25/lansing-men-isis-support-federal-hearing/2666920002/

Anonymous ID: af8f93 Jan. 27, 2019, 6:45 p.m. No.4934279   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Jan 29 2018 23:36:24 (EST)

Narrative shift.

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Nation on alert.

Firing RR = block Mueller.

Firing RR = set up to firing Mueller.

Firing RR = Red line.

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What was the Senate conf vote re: RR?

Why did RR [BEG] Ryan to block the FISA MEMO from Congressional review/further advancement?

REAL TIME: [7] Congressional members + [3] Senators + [2] former O-senior officials + [4] OUTSIDE CONTRACTORS [NO C/TOP/SENS-LEVEL CLEARANCE] @ SCIF [DC-CAP].

TOP SEC CLEARANCE IS MANDATORY FOR ADMISSION - HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

WE SEE YOU.

Q

 

'Food is a weapon': Fight over Yemen granary tests truce

"The loss of this wheat comes at a terrible time," said the UN's humanitarian coordinator Lise Grande.

 

"More than 20 million Yemenis, nearly 70 percent of the entire population, are hungry."

 

  • 'Red line' -

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-6638729/Food-weapon-Fight-Yemen-granary-tests-truce.html

 

France: first there were the ‘yellow vests’, now meet the ‘red scarves’

More than 10,000 commie bastards wearing red scarves march through Paris in protest at ‘yellow vest’ violence

The centrist initiative is the brainchild of an engineer from Toulouse

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2183869/france-first-there-was-yellow-vests-now-meet-red-scarves

Anonymous ID: af8f93 Jan. 27, 2019, 6:52 p.m. No.4934386   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Former Deciem CEO, Brandon Truaxe, dead

Deciem founder Brandon Truaxe was found dead in Toronto, Canada on Jan. 21, 2019. The National Post reported that "it is understood he fell from a condominium building near Toronto’s downtown." Truaxe's boyfriend and current Deciem employee Riyadh Sweedan confirmed, stating "I don’t think he jumped. I think he fell." He was 40 years old.

 

However, removing Truaxe from Deciem was not enough to remove him as a controversial figure. On Oct. 20, he posted screenshots of graphic and threatening emails he had sent to one of Deciem's earliest shareholders, Estee Lauder. "I'll be in your hometown in a few hours," the email read. "Please advise if you prefer silicone-based or water-based lubricants for my approach into your criminal, destructive c***s, for the most politically-correct wording. You have now illegally removed access to my phone, email, and social channels. I’m confident that you know the world will have never seen a downfall greater than that of the fraudulent empire ELC, the Lauder family, and those related have built." Consequently, the brand filed a restraining order against Truaxe, which was successful. Truaxe later admitted that the email sent was "admittedly very impolite" and that he was "very angry and confused."

 

Even while the series of events were unraveling, it was clear that Truaxe was a troubled man. Although he denied having problems with his mental health, the Financial Post shared Truaxe's history of psychiatric hospitalization and diagnosis as psychotic and presumptive bipolar disorder. Additionally, doctors in London revealed that Truaxe was receiving treatment for abuse of crystal meth and magic mushrooms. The eccentricity that once created Deciem's success ultimately led to his partners considering him "a liability."

 

http://thetartan.org/2019/1/28/pillbox/deciem