Corrupt Chuck Schumer Asks DOJ to Investigate Richard Grenell for Bogus FARA Violations

Corrupt and Crying Democrat Chuck Schumer from New York in January 2017 said that the Deep State Intel Community has six ways from Sunday and getting back at you if you take them on. Corrupt Chuck never said that he was one of the six.

In January 2017 Crying Chuck was on MSNBC and stated one of the most shockingly honest and corrupt statement in modern American history:

Let me tell you, you take on the Intelligence Community, they’ve got six ways from Sunday of getting back at ya. So, even for a practical and supposedly hard nosed business man he’s [Donald Trump] being really dumb to do this.

From what I am told they [Obama’s corrupt Intel Community of Brennan, Clapper, Comey, etc.] are very upset about how he has treated them and talked about them [at the time they were months into a criminal and corrupt fraudulent coup of the President].

How disgusting. This is where President Obama left us. A totally corrupt party and a totally corrupt media. And, a totally corrupt Deep State Intel Community full of biased and hateful anti-American crooks.

What Crying Chuck didn’t tell us is that he was one of the ‘six ways from Sunday’ operatives!

Earlier this week, Schumer sent a letter to the DOJ asking them to look into President Trump’s selection for temporary head of the DNI, Richard Grennell, for bogus charges of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA):

The President selected Grenell to step in and clean up the corrupt Intel community. This had to be stopped, so the corrupt Democrats have to bring in their new trick, FARA violations.

The FARA is an obscure law which until recently was rarely, if ever enforced:

FARA, which was originally enacted in 1938 to combat Nazi propaganda, is a disclosure statute that requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities. Failure to register with the DOJ can result in criminal penalties — fines up to $10,000 and up to five years’ imprisonment — or civil enforcement enjoining a party from acting as an agent of a foreign principle.

Despite the seriousness of FARA’s penalties, it has long been an afterthought because of federal prosecutors’ hesitancy in bringing FARA prosecutions. DOJ brought only seven criminal FARA cases between 1966 and 2015 (securing FARA convictions in just three cases) and had not employed FARA’s civil injunctive relief since 1991. In the last three years, however, there has been a significant uptick in the number of FARA prosecutions. The influx of FARA prosecutions is consistent with the DOJ’s recent public avowals to prioritize FARA enforcement. Congress has also given extra attention to FARA, as over a dozen bills related to FARA were introduced in the last session, most of which seek to eliminate statutory exemptions and give additional powers and resources for investigating potential violations and increased enforcement.

After only seven criminal cases between 1966 and 2015, the Deep State Mueller gang used the FARA against Paul Manafort and General Michael Flynn. Now they are using this obscure law intended to stop Nazi propaganda as a Deep State tool to take down another innocent American, Richard Grenell.

Crying and corrupt Chuck is a disgrace and a scoundrel. Everything he does is to protect the corrupt and criminal Deep State while ignoring issues facing America today. What a piece of work.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/outrageous-corrupt-chuck-schumer-asks-doj-to-investigate-richard-grenell-for-bogus-fara-violations/

Tesla Burning: Down 30% In Days As Markets Blindsided By Worst Weekly Selloff Since The Financial Crisis

Stocks take the stairs up, and the elevator down… usually. In Tesla's case, they took the elevator both up and then back down again.

While Tesla longs may have won the last month or two as the stock ripped from $300 to almost $1000 on a massive short squeeze - they are now starting to learn the very important (and very overdue) adage that when the tide goes out, you see who is swimming naked.

Yes, every millennial and annoying family member crowing over the last 2 months at family gatherings and social events about what investing geniuses they are for buying Tesla is now rushing to slam the sell button and get ahead of what is likely to be continued, non-stop selling, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to grind the global economy to a halt and strike the investing public with fear of the many unknowns that still remain.

Tesla is down about 12% today so far and about 30% off its 52 week highs.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tesla-burning-down-30-days-markets-blindsided-worst-weekly-selloff-financial-crisis

Covid-19 Infects Iranian Vice President, Kills Iran Ambassador To Vatican

Update (0940ET): FARS news agency reports that for former Iranian Ambassador to The Vatican has died from Covid-19.

Nothing says 'we've got this under control' like confirming that a handful of your government's most-senior officials have caught the virus at the root of a deadly pandemic sweeping the globe.

After confirming on Thursday that its 'official' death toll from the outbreak had reached 22 with 141 cases confirmed (lawmakers have claimed that the death toll as of Monday was up to 50 in Qom alone), Iranian state media reported that the country's vice president for women and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar has tested positive for the virus.

She is the third senior official to be infected, alongside the Deputy Health Minister and Cleric Hadi Khosroshahi, who succumbed to the pneumonia due to his advanced age.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-vice-president-infected-coronavirus

‘Data breaches are part of life?’ Theft of list from MASSIVE privacy-annihilating facial recognition database downplayed by firm

Facial-recognition tool Clearview AI has had its client list stolen, though the secretive corporation, which boasts billions of scraped photos in its archive, insists no servers were breached and that the security flaw is fixed.

The hacker “gained unauthorized access” to Clearview’s customer list, the shadowy firm told customers on Wednesday in an email obtained by the Daily Beast, explaining that the intruder had accessed the number of user accounts set up by those customers as well as the number of searches they’d conducted. Clearview hastened to add that there had been “no compromise of Clearview’s systems or network,” claiming it had fixed the vulnerability (which was apparently not in its systems or network) and that its law enforcement customers’ search histories were safe.

“Data breaches are part of life in the 21st century,” Tor Ekeland, a lawyer for the company, told the Beast defensively, insisting “our servers were never accessed. We patched the flaw, and continue to work to strengthen our security.”

Despite the company’s efforts to downplay the breach, it nevertheless unsettled a security expert to whom the outlet spoke. “If you’re a law enforcement agency, it’s a big deal, because you depend on Clearview as a service provider to have good security, and it seems like they don’t,” Aspen Cybersecurity Group Managing Director David Forscey said.

Knowing who does have access to that treasure trove would in theory allow the hackers to choose a target with lax security and crack their systems to gain access to the tantalizing database. Over 600 federal and state law enforcement agencies have signed up with Clearview in the past year, according to the New York Times, which published a feature on the company last month unequivocally titled “This company might end privacy as we know it.” Beyond that, “at least a handful of companies” in the private sector, including banks, also have the app “for security purposes.”

Clearview was credulously described by the Times as the brainchild of an “Australian techie and onetime model” who, with the help of a former aide to former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the financial backing of Big Tech bogeyman Peter Thiel, managed to devise an image-scraping system that has slurped up over three billion images from across social media platforms and the wider internet, cross-referenced them, and fed the results into a facial recognition app. It even has the capability to interface with augmented-reality goggles, though founder Hoan Ton-That insisted he had “no plans” to release that feature.

https://www.rt.com/usa/481759-clearview-facial-recognition-list-theft/

New IG report: Sanctuary policies place massive strain on ICE resources, put public at risk; over 17,000 illegals still at large

'Arresting violent offenders at large requires even more resources to ensure officer safety'

A recent Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report found that sanctuary jurisdictions not only put considerable strains on federal immigration enforcement resources and have also resulted in over 17,000 illegal aliens who were still at large as of last year.

The report, which the department's inspector general released earlier this month, evaluated the difficulties that ICE's Criminal Alien Program, or CAP, faces as a result of having to deal with "uncooperative jurisdictions" that try to shield illegal immigrants from enforcement.

"ICE's inability to detain aliens identified through CAP who are located in uncooperative jurisdictions, results in increased risk those aliens will commit more crimes," the report found. "Furthermore, having to arrest 'at-large' aliens may put officer, detainee, and public safety at risk and strains ICE's staffing resources."

According to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's website, CAP provides the enforcement agency "direction and support in the biometric and biographic identification, arrest, and removal of priority aliens who are incarcerated within federal, state, and local prisons and jails, as well as at-large criminal aliens that have circumvented identification."

When ICE finds out that an illegal alien is in law enforcement custody on criminal charges, it will issue a detainer request asking that local law enforcement agency notify ICE of the individual's expected release and to hold onto said individual until federal immigration agents can take him or her in for removal proceedings.

However, many sanctuary jurisdictions do not honor such requests to varying degrees and instead release removable aliens without notifying ICE, which forces the agency to conduct at-large arrest operations as a result.

"In such cases, ICE officers must investigate to determine each alien's location and then make arrests in communities rather than in more secure and safe environments such as in jails or prisons," the audit report noted. "Moving arrests from secure, controlled locations (jails) to unknown environments (homes, workplaces, or the public) places heavy demand on ICE personnel and increases safety risks for officers, arrestees, and local communities. Arresting violent offenders at large requires even more resources to ensure officer safety."

In addition, the report also showed that the number of ignored immigration detainers has consistently gone up during the Trump administration. In fiscal year 2017, the report said, law enforcement agencies ignored 7,565 ICE detainers. That number spiked to 15,451 in FY 2018 and increased still to 16,396 during FY 2019.

The report concluded that "ICE does not have sufficient resources" to fully address the enforcement challenges posed by sanctuary jurisdictions refusing its detainer requests, which means that thousands of removable aliens have slipped through the cracks as a result.

"Of the 58,900 declined detainers between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2019, ICE arrested about 70 percent of those aliens," the report said "As of September 30, 2019, the remaining 17,700 remained at-large."

ICE's acting chief Matthew Albence hailed the audit's findings, saying that they back up the administration's point about the dangers of sanctuary policies.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/new-ig-report-sanctuary-policies-place-massive-strain-on-ice-resources-put-public-at-risk-over-17000-illegals-still-at-large

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Criminal Alien Program Faces Challenges

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2020-02/OIG-20-13-Feb20.pdf

Bad Apple? Two Troopers in Same Dept. Arrested for Sharing Child Porn

Trenton, NJ — Child predator police officers are an unfortunate and all too common reality in the land of the free. On a near daily basis, cops across the country are busted for horrifying acts against children. Highlighting the severe nature of this problem is the fact that two cops in a single department were recently arrested for possession and sharing child porn.

On Tuesday, New Jersey State Trooper Andrea V. Knox of Mount Holly was arrested and charged with official misconduct and possession of child pornography, according to the state Attorney General’s Office.

Knox is accused of receiving the child porn from trooper Jeffrey Reitz of Williamstown. Reitz was indicted in December on two counts of possession of child pornography. Those charges were related to a separate exchange of texts with a different woman, the statement said.

“During those exchanges, the woman proposed that Reitz sexually assault a young girl and sent him a sexually explicit photo of the girl,” the Attorney General’s Office said.

Horrifyingly enough is the fact that the text had described the girl as the woman’s own 5-year-old daughter.

A criminal complaint in that case alleges Reitz responded to the child’s photo by texting “NICE!” and making a reference to sexual arousal.

Knox made similar exchanges with Reitz. As of now, she has been charged for failing to report Reitz when he sent her the images. But more charges could follow.

“Knox failed to report that Reitz shared items of child pornography with her, despite her duty as a police officer to enforce and uphold the laws of the State of New Jersey,” the attorney general’s office said in a statement on Tuesday.

The initial images were discovered on Reitz’ iCloud account and further investigation into that account revealed the exchange with Knox.

As the Courier Post reports:

Additional images of alleged child pornography were found in an iCloud account that belonged to Reitz, the statement said.

It said further investigation of the iCloud account revealed alleged text exchanges between the troopers that allegedly included sexually explicit conversations about an underage girl.

According to the statement, Knox asked Reitz for details about sex acts he’d like to perform on the child during a text exchange on Aug. 27, 2018.

“The following day, the pair had another sexually explicit text exchange, during which Reitz sent Knox photos of people at a nudist location” the statement said.

The images included photos of two girls “with their genitals visible” it said.

“Knox failed to report that Reitz shared items of child pornography with her,” the statement said.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/two-troopers-arrest-child-porn/

‘Can’t participate, can’t communicate’: Day 3 of Assange’s US extradition hearing as it happened

The third day of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing saw lawyers honing in on the particulars of a US-UK extradition treaty, and unexpected drama as the whistleblower spoke to complain about lack of access to his defense team.

Proceedings began with a note of housekeeping from Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who said a photograph had been taken in court earlier in the week. She reminded attendees that this is a criminal offense, and said she would consider the culprit “in contempt” of court.

For the third day running, Assange sat in the glass-fronted dock, wearing a suit jacket, inspecting his notes and able to communicate with his lawyers only through holes in the glass. At the outset, his lawyers cautioned that he was on medication and may need occasional breaks.

‘Political offenses’

The crux of the defense’s argument was that, since Assange is charged under the US Espionage Act, he is wanted for “political offenses,” and extraditing under these circumstances would be unlawful under the 2003 US-UK extradition treaty.

Edward Fitzgerald QC argued that the exception for political offenses under the treaty is an essential and “fundamental” protection which the US includes in all of its extradition treaties to protect their own citizens abroad. This protection seems to fall by the wayside, however, when the US wants a foreign citizen extradited, he said.

Fitzgerald worked to establish that Assange’s extradition for political offenses is illegal under English domestic law, as well as under the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 5) and the bilateral treaty. Unless the charges relate to terrorism or violence, a person should not be extradited for political offenses. This fact is “virtually universal,” he said.

There was a back-and-forth between Fitzgerald and the judge, who said the “political offenses” provision was removed from the UK’s Extradition Act of 2003. Fitzgerald argued that this was “not determinative” and that it is still included in the treaty itself.

No ‘treason’ possible

Observing proceedings, Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi, who has worked with WikiLeaks for over a decade, tweeted to complain that Baraitser was speaking so quietly that even reporters very close to the judge could hardly hear. “How can Julian Assange hear her words, considering he is 5 meters from her in a glass wall box?” she wrote.

The defense also sought to establish that the US charge of “conspiracy to commit computer fraud” is an espionage offense and that this is a political offense, not a criminal one. Obtaining information that a state wants hidden is a “pure political crime,” he said.

https://www.rt.com/uk/481756-assange-extradition-hearing-treaty/

Department of Justice Files Statement of Interest Defending Photographer on Free Speech Claim

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-statement-interest-defending-photographer-free-speech-claim

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