Anonymous ID: 023144 May 9, 2019, 2:11 p.m. No.6456321   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6424

New “Evidence” in Backpage Case Reveals Government’s Flawed Prosecution

 

The prosecution in the Backpage case recently released company emails from 2012, claiming they prove the defendants' guilt; they instead belie the strength of the government's case.

 

The full quote from the 2012 email exchange reads as follows:

 

“We do how many million ads, and he picks out one, tells us by the end of the day and wants our total response by a.m.? Of course there are kids who get through the system. As there are in bars. This makes pursuit of solution, i.e., USC study, more critical rather than scoring political points.”

 

The “USC study” apparently refers to a report on human trafficking online by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. The study advised against “singling out [online] technologies as a root cause of trafficking,” and proposed that these technologies “be leveraged to provide actionable, data-driven information in real time to those positioned to help victims.”

 

Given such context, as well as the fact that Backpage regularly cooperated with law enforcement in order to catch perpetrators who were misusing the site, only a latter-day Inspector Javert would look at such an email and assume that it established guilt.

 

https://frontpageconfidential.com/new-evidence-in-backpage-case-reveals-governments-flawed-prosecution/

Anonymous ID: 023144 May 9, 2019, 2:31 p.m. No.6456482   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Austin Man Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Scheme to Solicit Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Contributions to Scam-Pacs

 

According to admissions made in connection with his plea, in 2015 and 2016, Prall created several political committees—including Feel Bern, HC4President and Trump Victory—which he advertised online to solicit contributions purportedly in support of presidential candidates in the 2016 election.

 

Specifically, Prall admitted that of the $548,428 in contributions, he transferred $205,496 to himself through sham LLCs that he created for the purpose of moving the money, while contributing less than $5,100 to political causes.

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/austin-man-pleads-guilty-fraudulent-scheme-solicit-hundreds-thousands-dollars-contributions

Anonymous ID: 023144 May 9, 2019, 2:35 p.m. No.6456525   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6534 >>6567

HR McMaster says the public needs to learn accept more wars

 

War in Afghanistan can be sustained, but the narrative of a war-weary American public is hurting that effort, former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster said Wednesday.

 

Long wars are manageable when waged alongside allies, utilizing burden sharing, said McMaster, who now serves as chairman of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

 

“There’s this defeatist narrative that’s inaccurate, and doesn’t reflect what’s at stake and doesn’t reflect the actual situation,” McMaster said at a think tank forum in Washington, D.C.

 

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/05/08/hr-mcmaster-says-the-public-is-fed-a-war-weariness-narrative-that-hurts-us-strategy/

Anonymous ID: 023144 May 9, 2019, 2:49 p.m. No.6456628   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7013 >>7073

It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

 

Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and former college roommate of Mark Zuckerberg, sounds the alarm on the tech giant and Zuckerberg’s “staggering” world influence.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-co-founder-says-zuckerberg-not-accountable-calls-government-break-n1003606