Yahoo News' Michael Isikoff Inverts Reality On Trump-Assange Pardon Tale

The media's top story on Wednesday was the claim from Julian Assange's lawyer that President Trump allegedly sent former Rep Dana Rohrabacher to the Ecuadorian embassy in London to offer Assange a pardon in exchange for him claiming the Russians did not leak Hillary Clinton's emails to Wikileaks.

As Reuters reported on Wednesday:

At Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Assange’s barrister, Edward Fitzgerald, said that former Republican U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher had been sent by the president to visit Assange in 2017 to offer him a pardon.

The pardon would come on the condition that Assange say the Russians were not involved in the email leak that damaged Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016 against Trump.

The story was immediately called into question as Julian Assange told Sean Hannity very publicly in 2017 Wikileaks' source was not the Russian government or a state party.

HANNITY: Can you say to the American people, unequivocally, that you did not get this information about the DNC, John Podesta's emails, can you tell the American people 1,000 percent that you did not get it from Russia or anybody associated with Russia?

JULIAN ASSANGE: Yes. We can say, we have said, repeatedly that over the last two months that our source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party.

Rohrabacher on Wednesday afternoon released a statement saying he never spoke to Trump about his meeting with Assange and did not offer Assange a pardon on behalf of Trump.

At no time did I talk to President Trump about Julian Assange. Likewise, I was not directed by Trump or anyone else connected with him to meet with Julian Assange. I was on my own fact finding mission at personal expense to find out information I thought was important to our country. I was shocked to find out that no other member of Congress had taken the time in their official or unofficial capacity to interview Julian Assange. At no time did I offer Julian Assange anything from the President because I had not spoken with the President about this issue at all. However, when speaking with Julian Assange, I told him that if he could provide me information and evidence about who actually gave him the DNC emails, I would then call on President Trump to pardon him. At no time did I offer a deal made by the President, nor did I say I was representing the President. Upon my return, I spoke briefly with Gen. Kelly. I told him that Julian Assange would provide information about the purloined DNC emails in exchange for a pardon. No one followed up with me including Gen. Kelly and that was the last discussion I had on this subject with anyone representing Trump or in his Administration.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61222

US Agency Which Secures President's Communications Says Its Systems Were "Breached"

A US defense agency responsible for securing the communications of the president and senior officials has said it believes personal data from its systems were "compromised" during a 2019 data breach.

Reuters broke the story Thursday, based on a letter sent from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to potential victims of the high level breach:

The U.S. defense agency responsible for secure communications for the U.S. president and other high-level officials said social security numbers and other personal data in its network may have been “compromised”, in a letter seen by Reuters that was sent to potential victims.

The letter identifies the breach as occurring between May and July 2019, and involved personal data possibly compromised “in a data breach on a system hosted by” the agency.

The agency employs some 8,000 military and civilian employees and is under the Department of Defense.

It's believed that among sensitive data leaked are Social Security numbers and other personnel information; however, it's as yet uncertain whether the data was stored on a classified system.

A follow-up statement by a DISA spokesperson confirmed that, “The Defense Information Systems Agency has begun issuing letters to people whose personally identifiable information may have been compromised in a data breach on a system hosted by the agency.”

It noted further: “While there is no evidence to suggest that any of the potentially compromised PII was misused, DISA policy requires the agency to notify individuals whose personal data may have been compromised,” according to Tech Crunch.

While there's no indicator or evidence shared thus far as to who or what entity may have been behind the breach, one report highlights that "Last week, the Justice Department charged four members of the Chinese military with hacking into Equifax, the credit rating agency, which saw more than 147 million credit reports stolen."

Chinese state-linked hackers are also believed behind broader efforts to breach US federal systems such as the Office of Personnel Management.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/us-defense-agency-overseeing-presidents-communications-says-its-systems-were-breached

Texas Couple Sentenced to a Combined 140 Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Produce Child Pornography and Other Crimes Against Children

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-couple-sentenced-combined-140-years-prison-conspiracy-produce-child-pornography-and

Billion Dollar Family Offices Now Get Direct Access To Investment Bank Trading Desks

In what probably should come as a surprise, but most likely won't, it appears that multi-billion family offices are getting access to trading desks that smaller offices and retail traders can't access.

We know, you're shocked.

Offices with at least $1 billion are increasingly bypassing private bankers and are allowed to go direct to investment bank trading desks, according to Bloomberg.

Luigi Pigorini, Citi Private Bank’s region head for Europe, Middle East and Africa said: “Some of them are so sophisticated and have such buying power. We have them trading directly with some of our desks in the markets division. There’s not that many, but there’s quite a few and that number keeps growing.”

The number of family office style firms has surpassed 10,000 globally over the past 10 years, including the offices of names like Bill Gates and Michael Dell. Last year, the average family office had assets of $917 million, according to UBS. The offices with direct access to desks at banks like Citigroup generally trade equities, forex and futures. By having a direct line to the trading desk, they can get the undivided attention of traders and get access to some products not traditionally offered through the private bank.

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/billion-dollar-family-offices-now-get-direct-access-investment-bank-trading-desks

>>8200283

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>>8200154

>>8200462

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The rise of Trump’s new pro-Israel and anti-Iran intel director - analysis

Richard Grenell took the lead in Europe by highlighting Iran’s genocidal antisemitism targeting Israel.

US President Donald Trump’s Wednesday appointment of Richard Grenell, the American ambassador to Germany, to acting director of national intelligence should not ambush foreign policy specialists.

Grenell’s meteoric rise within the US government was based on high-intensity diligence, tough diplomacy and a rapid –fire analytical assimilation of vast amounts of data to bring about brilliant policy-making changes. This troika marked his tenure as ambassador to Germany since 2018.

Just this week, Grenell tweeted that “I’ve watched as Germany has ignored long-standing US requests on NATO spending, NS2 [Nord Stream 2], a Hezbollah ban, the return of a Nazi guard, etc. Happy to debate the tactics of our shared goal - anytime. Our style is working.”

Grenell has pushed Germany to meet its NATO requirement to increase its military budget and exerted pressure on Germany not to create dependency on Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas system. Germany has drifted away from Western values over the years.

The ambassador cajoled and twisted arms in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to secure her country's acceptance of the Nazi camp guard Jakiw Palij from Queens, New York, to Germany.

Prior US ambassadors to Germany were not able to influence a change in German government resistance to allow Palij into the federal republic. Grenell did it.

Grenell blocked Merkel’s government from sending more than $400 million in cash to Iran’s regime – the worst state-sponsor of terrorism – to circumvent American sanctions. That type of money could have been used by Iran’s regime to finance its war against Syrian civilians, Yemenites and Israelis.

He succeeded in convincing Germany’s government to ban Iran’s Mahan Air, “the airline of choice for terrorists.”

https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/The-rise-of-Trumps-new-pro-Israel-and-anti-Iran-intel-director-Analysis-618248

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Belgian court sentences Turkish migrant who pretended to be an Imam to six years for sexually abusing children

A Turkish migrant who posed as an imam who claimed to “purify” young girls by sexually abusing them has been sentenced to six years in prison by a Belgian court for the abuse.

On Tuesday, the Hainaut Court of Appeal convicted the Turkish migrant of rape and attempted rape and as a result handed the fake holy man a six-year prison term, Sudinfo reports.

The Turkish migrant was one of several men who had been sentenced in the case which goes back to 2012.

Originally, the investigation into the case was opened up in June 2012 after one of the victims came forward to Belgian authorities. The first victim had been referred to the fake imam for “purification” by his aunt.

The same aunt had also referred her two daughters to the Turkish migrant who claimed to be a holy man for the same “purification” procedure. The fake imam also sexually abused these two girls on numerous occasions. Unfortunately, however, the two victims did not come forward about the sexual abuse until 2015 when they had become adults. It was only then when they reported to Belgian police that they had been sexual abused by the man.

Defense lawyers lobbied for the defendants acquittal, arguing that the evidence failed to meet the threshold needed to prove the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

The defendant, who presented himself as an imam, had no previous criminal convictions but the court ruled that his statements were not credible and rejected his denials of the allegations levied against him. Thus, the court moved to convict him and sentenced him to six years in prison.

The mother who had referred the children to the sexual abuser was handed a four-year prison sentence. No appeal was made.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/02/belgian-court-sentences-turkish-migrant-who-pretended-to-be-an-imam-to-six-years-for-sexually-abusing-children/

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