DOCUMENTS: CIA SUCCESSFULLY PRESSURED MICHAEL BAY TO CHANGE BENGHAZI MOVIE

The CIA released a batch of documents detailing how their Office of Public Affairs (OPA) staff met with the film director Michael Bay and successfully leaned on him to make changes to the script to “13 Hours.”

The 2016 action thriller is the only major movie Hollywood has produced about the attacks on the United States Special Mission in Benghazi and the nearby CIA annex.

It grossed less than $70 million against a $50 million budget and is the least commercially successful film Bay has ever produced. While audiences rated “13 Hours” more highly than critics, the film’s attempt to capitalize on the politics of the Benghazi attacks largely failed.

On the night of September 11, 2012, a mob attacked the State Department’s outpost in Benghazi, setting fire to the main residence and murdering ambassador Chris Stevens, who was in town for a visit from the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, as well as another State employee.

Several of the CIA’s Global Response Staff (GRS)—military veterans contracted by the CIA to provide security for their bases—left the nearby CIA Annex to help defend the outpost. A few hours after they had rescued the survivors and returned to base a string of attacks hit the Annex, killing two GRS operators.

The documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that Bay first approached the CIA in early March 2015, weeks before production started.

OPA staff were initially enthusiastic, according to emails. When one CIA officer pointed out that they were unlikely to support a film based on a book containing “unauthorized disclosures” another responded, “Dude, you’re such a Debbie Downer. Waaah, waaah.”

https://shadowproof.com/2019/07/30/cia-pressured-michael-bay-change-13-hours-benghazi-movie/

CIA Documents on Benghazi movie 13 Hours

https://www.scribd.com/document/417263259/CIA-Documents-on-Benghazi-movie-13-Hours

This doesn't actually surprise any anons does it?

Schumer compares DNI nominee to disgraced Michael Flynn

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he opposes President Trump’s nominee to become the next director of national intelligence, comparing him to ousted national security advisor Michael Flynn.

Schumer said he soured on Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, after watching him question former special counsel Robert Mueller last week.

“This reminds me of General Flynn,” Schumer recounted. “He shouldn’t be acting the way. He strikes me as extremely unqualified in every way.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/schumer-compares-dni-nominee-to-disgraced-michael-flynn

There it is anons… all the confirmation we needed that Ratcliffe is who we want in the ODNI!

The Yahoo news article…

>according to a previously unpublicized document obtained by Yahoo News.

It is freaking Yahoo News…

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Baker/anons, consider this only because Schumer will be eating his reference to Gen. Flynn when declass happens…

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Liberal Watchdog Group That Targeted Google And Devin Nunes Paid Fusion GPS $140K For Research

A liberal watchdog group that has investigated the Trump administration, Republican lawmakers like California Rep. Devin Nunes and Google paid Fusion GPS nearly $140,000 last year, according to tax documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service.

The payment, by Campaign for Accountability (CfA), was for research on an unknown project.

Fusion GPS is best known for its work with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored a dossier alleging a vast conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian government. Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the Clinton campaign and DNC, paid Fusion GPS more than $1 million for the project. Fusion also conducts research and provides media outreach on behalf of corporate clients, law firms and activist groups such as Planned Parenthood.

CfA was formed in 2015 by several former employees of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), another liberal watchdog group. The group describes itself as a “nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog organization that uses research, litigation, and aggressive communications to expose misconduct and malfeasance in public life.”

CfA’s $138,684 payment to Fusion GPS was for work as an independent contractor, according to CfA’s Form 990 filing. The document does not reveal the date of payment, and CfA’s donors are not disclosed.

Two of CfA’s main targets in the Trump administration were Alex Azar, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Scott Pruitt, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The watchdog filed multiple ethics complaints against the pair.

Its two biggest congressional targets are both Republicans.

Republican Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo was hit with several complaints over alleged campaign funding issues. CfA filed three ethics complaints last year against Nunes, the top Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).

One of the complaints, filed on Jan. 25, 2018 with the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), accused Nunes of leaking confidential information about Fusion GPS and its founders’ testimony before HPSCI.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/01/liberal-watchdog-fusion-gps-trump/

N.Y.P.D. Adds Children as Young as 11 to Facial Recognition Database

With little oversight, the police have been using the powerful surveillance technology on photos of children and teenagers.

The New York Police Department has been loading thousands of arrest photos of children and teenagers into a facial recognition database despite evidence the technology has a higher risk of false matches in younger faces.

For about four years, internal records show, the department has used the technology to compare crime scene images with its collection of juvenile mug shots, the photos that are taken at an arrest. Most of the photos are of teenagers, largely 13 to 16 years old, but children as young as 11 have been included.

Elected officials and civil rights groups said the disclosure that the city was deploying a powerful surveillance tool on adolescents — whose privacy seems sacrosanct and whose status is protected in the criminal justice system — was a striking example of the Police Department’s ability to adopt advancing technology with little public scrutiny.

Several members of the City Council as well as a range of civil liberties groups said they were unaware of the policy until they were contacted by The New York Times.

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Police Department officials defended the decision, saying it was just the latest evolution of a longstanding policing technique: using arrest photos to identify suspects.

“I don’t think this is any secret decision that’s made behind closed doors,” the city’s chief of detectives, Dermot F. Shea, said in an interview. “This is just process, and making sure we’re doing everything to fight crime.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/nyregion/nypd-facial-recognition-children-teenagers.html

Congress NEEDS to pass laws ASAP in regards to personal privacy that is being undermined from invasive tech that is being provided to law enforcement.

This new age of technology should be address immediately by Congress.

Some real bullshit excuses for 'fighting crime'…