Marry me, baker?

>>8334342

Take it back to the old bread, eh? Solved. Each shoe is 5, not 10. He is wearing a shoe on each foot.

spice this kun up already

>>8334419

It's over and you're still wrong…

>>8334452

(Wow. Sorry all.)

Okay. Last time: You forgot to count the MAN. He is worth 5, plus 2 shoes, plus 2 straps.

19+5=24x2-48

>8334452

Uncovering The CIA's Audacious Operation That Gave Them Access To State Secrets

Heard on Fresh Air

This was a Swiss firm, Crypto or Crypto AG. What exactly was its business?

GREG MILLER: So Crypto AG was a maker of encryption devices; that is, it made equipment that was mainly for governments, for nations to use to protect their communications. So basically, these are machines that scramble messages and code them and then decode them at the other end so that other governments can't listen to what you're saying to your diplomats or to your military or to your spies. It's designed to protect the secrecy of countries' communications.

DAVIES: And do we know how many countries bought the stuff?

MILLER: Yeah. So Crypto AG was, for most of its history, the world's leading supplier of this kind of technology, and it sold its devices to more than 120 countries around the world.

DAVIES: And all that time, the buyers didn't know the true owners, right?

MILLER: (Laughter) Right. So the - Crypto AG, from its inception, was cooperating with U.S. intelligence agencies and, for most of its history, was actually owned by the CIA. From 1970 until 1998, it was essentially a subsidiary of the CIA, even while dozens and dozens of countries around the world were buying these machines, this equipment, encryption equipment, trusting this company with their most precious secrets.

DAVIES: Right. And it was the CIA and the German intelligence agency, the BND, too, right?

MILLER: That's right. So initially, the CIA purchases and acquires Crypto AG in a partnership with German intelligence. That relationship goes on for several decades. And then the Germans left, but then the CIA kept going for decades after that.

DAVIES: OK, so governments buy this so that they can send encrypted messages to their agents elsewhere, whoever they might be, or their diplomats. What kind of material did the CIA and their German counterparts get from these devices?

MILLER: So it essentially lays bare all of the most sensitive communications of dozens of governments around the world, including a lot of adversaries of the United States. So countries that bought this equipment included Iran, included almost all of Latin America, most countries in the Middle East, most countries in Africa, some countries in Europe. I mean, it's staggering, the scale of this operation. And what the U.S. got as a result is just intelligence on the activities of these countries, on terrorist operations, on bombings - like the bombing of a disco in Berlin in the 1980s - of military operations. The United States helped England in its war over the Falklands Islands with Argentina thanks to these devices. I mean, there are just example after example where this operation gave the United States amazing insight into what other countries' plans and intentions were.

DAVIES: It's interesting that so many countries bought it and didn't know for years what its true use was. But not the Soviet Union and China. Why?

MILLER: Right. I mean, that's a really important point to make here because as successful as this operation was, it had certain limits. The United States main adversaries, of course, throughout the Cold War were the Soviet Union and China, and they never bought these devices because it was a Western-based company. It's in Switzerland. It has, you know, ties to other European governments. And there's no way the Soviet state was going to trust its secrets to something coming out of the West. And also, I mean, the Soviets were capable of building their own equipment. They had their own sophisticated encryption machines. And so as a result, they were never exposed. They were never penetrated as part of this program.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812499752/uncovering-the-cias-audacious-operation-that-gave-them-access-to-state-secrets

When was POTUS in Nashville? This morning, right?

Warrant: Nashville man pretended to be CIA agent while ‘highly intoxicated’

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A man has been charged after Metro police said he was pretending to be an active member of the U. S. military.

Early Friday morning, police saw Charles Deskins walking down Rosa L. Parks Boulevard and drinking a Bud Light Lime.

He told police he was a cop in England, that he worked for the ATF, worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and was a CIA agent.

According to the warrant, Deskins wanted the officer to “look the other way and just give him a ticket.”

Police said he was highly intoxicated with slurred speech, watery eyes, and a strong smell of alcohol. He was charged with public intoxication and criminal impersonation.

https://www.wkrn.com/news/crime-tracker/warrant-nashville-man-pretended-to-be-cia-agent-while-highly-intoxicated/

Romney to vote for subpoena seeking records on Hunter Biden’s Ukraine work

The Utah senator’s approval all but ensures the subpoena will be issued.

Sen. Mitt Romney will vote in favor of a subpoena seeking records about the work Joe Biden’s son Hunter did for the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, a spokeswoman for the Utah Republican said on Friday.

Romney’s decision comes after several days of expressing dismay over the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s investigation targeting the Bidens, even suggesting on Thursday that the panel shouldn’t even be looking into the issue.

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But after securing certain commitments from the committee’s chairman, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Romney has decided to support the subpoena when the panel votes on it next Wednesday — all but ensuring it will be issued.

“Senator Romney has expressed his concerns to Chairman Johnson, who has confirmed that any interview of the witness would occur in a closed setting without a hearing or public spectacle,” Romney’s spokeswoman Liz Johnson said. “He will therefore vote to let the chairman proceed to obtain the documents that have been offered.”

Romney has said in recent days that the committee’s investigation into the Bidens has the “appearance” of being politically motivated, given Biden’s resurgence in the Democratic presidential primary. Romney was the only Republican who voted to convict President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial last month, saying he believed Trump violated his oath of office when he pressured the Ukrainian government to investigate the Bidens.

“There’s no question the appearance is not good,” Romney told reporters on Thursday, later adding: “I would prefer that investigations are done by an independent, nonpolitical body.”

The subpoena seeks documents from Blue Star, a Democratic public affairs firm, as part of the committee’s investigation into conflict-of-interest claims surrounding the younger Biden’s role on the board of Burisma.

The committee has an 8-6 Republican majority, meaning that if Romney were to oppose the subpoena, it would not be issued. The other seven GOP members of the panel are likely to vote in support of the subpoena.

Democrats have said such an investigation is politically motivated and could even aid Russian disinformation efforts. Some Republicans, too, have raised concerns about the type of information the committee receives as part of its probe, including the possibility that some of it is connected to Russian intelligence.

Johnson has insisted that his probe has nothing to do with the presidential election. But on Wednesday, a day after Biden’s Super Tuesday rout, he said he would likely release an interim report on

the investigation within one to two months.

“If I were a Democrat primary voter, I’d want these questions satisfactorily answered before I cast my final vote,” Johnson said.

And Trump heightened Democrats’ criticisms of the effort when the president said in a Fox News interview earlier this week that he would use the Burisma issue against Biden in the general election if the former vice president becomes the Democratic nominee.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/romney-to-vote-for-subpoena-seeking-records-on-hunter-bidens-ukraine-work-122846

>>8334667

shoes are 5 each. 10 for a pair. check again.

Young chess star couple are found dead after overdosing on laughing gas in Ukraine

Stanislav Bogdanovich, 26, was Ukraine's fast chess champion in 2013

Aleksandra Vernigora, 18, also a chess professional, was a student in Moscow

According to reports from the scene, the couple died after inhaling laughing gas, while covering their heads with plastic bags.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8084069/Young-chess-star-couple-dead-overdosing-laughing-gas-Ukraine.html

Posted: Fri 2:44 PM, Mar 06, 2020

SOMERSET, Ky. (WKYT) — An FBI agent was hurt in a shooting in Pulaski County Friday morning.

The shooting happened on Mountain View Drive at the home of Gary Baldock, a Pulaski County constable.

We're told federal arrest warrants were issued for Baldock and another Pulaski County constable, Michael Wallace.

Wallace's attorney confirms to the Herald-Leader that he was arrested Friday morning.

It all started around six o'clock Friday morning. The FBI was at Baldock's home to serve an arrest warrant. That's when the FBI says an agent and another person were shot.

Both were taken to the hospital and the FBI says both are stable.

We're told an investigation last month led to arrest warrants being issued for Baldock and Wallace on February 27.

Both were indicted for conspiracy against rights. The indictment,

unsealed Friday, says the charges specifically involve unreasonable searches and seizures.

We spoke with a neighbor who says he woke up to the sound of gunshots.

"Well I was laying in bed and I heard gunshots," said Christopher Klemetson. "I jumped up and I went in the hallway and was like looking through the window and I saw in the dark a guy dressed in black standing there with a gun leaning over the hood of my truck."

The FBI Mobile Command Center is on the scene and we're told that the investigators are coming from DC.

https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/FBI-agent-shot-while-serving-warrant-for-Pulaski-County-constable-568564291.html

Officials involved in Trump campaign surveillance barred from pursuing FISA wiretaps

by WorldTribune Staff, March 6, 2020

Officials from the Department of Justice and FBI who are under review for their role in obtaining wiretaps to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page have been banned from having any involvement in the pursuit of electronic monitoring through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a judge ruled.

In a 19-page opinion issued on March 4, Judge James Boasberg ordered that “no DOJ or FBI personnel under disciplinary or criminal review relating to their work on FISA applications shall participate in drafting, verifying, reviewing, or submitting such applications to the Court.”

“Any finding of misconduct relating to the handling of FISA applications shall be promptly reported to the Court,” Boasberg added.

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a report in December which found the DOJ and the FBI had committed at least 17 “significant errors and omissions” related to the FISA surveillance of Page.

Judge Boasberg said that the “frequency and seriousness” of the errors found by Horowitz “called into question the reliability of the information proffered in other FBI applications.” The judge said the government has been “acknowledging its deficiencies” and “undertaking multiple remedial measures” in response to Horowitz’s report and to court orders but also noted that “the errors the OIG pointed out cannot be solved through procedures alone” and that everyone at the DOJ and FBI “must fully understand and embrace the heightened duties of probity and transparency” in the secret court proceedings.

The Washington Examiner noted in a March 4 report that Boasberg touched on three main areas of the FBI’s internal FISA reforms: improvements to procedures for preparing FISA applications, improvements to training and other efforts to institutionalize the importance of accuracy and completeness, and oversight more broadly.

“While more rigorous procedures for preparing FISA applications should prove helpful, the Court is also mindful that changes in culture will require more than checklists,” Boasberg said.

All FBI employees mentioned in Horowitz’s FISA report were referred to the Office of Professional Responsibility, which is the bureau’s disciplinary arm, FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers last month.

Horowitz recommended that the FBI conduct performance reviews of all employees in the chain of command who had responsibility for the FISA applications. Wray pledged to take appropriate disciplinary action and vowed individual accountability.

“Yet, the integrity of the FISA process must be protected while those disciplinary reviews are ongoing,” Boasberg said, ruling that any FBI or DOJ officials under any review related to the Page saga should not participate in the FISA process at this time. The judge also ordered new oaths to be sworn by DOJ and FBI officials working on FISA applications going forward.

FBI applicants and DOJ attorneys will now be required to affirm, “To the best of my knowledge, this application fairly reflects all information that might reasonably call into question the accuracy of the information or the reasonableness of any FBI assessment in the application, or otherwise raise doubts about the requested findings.”

The Examiner reported that Boasberg also ordered the FBI to provide the court with a copy of its updated confidential human source checklist, a description of the specific responsibilities that FBI Office of the General Counsel lawyers have during the FISA process, and a report on any other proposed FISA reforms by later this month.

The judge noted two controversies were advancing on a “separate track” and were not addressed in much detail in the Wednesday opinion. Those controversies comprise scrutiny of all the filings touched by FBI lawyer Kevin Clinsemith and a review of the government’s handling of the intelligence gleaned through the Page FISA monitoring.

Clinesmith, who altered a document in FISA filings to say Page was “not a source” for the CIA when he was, is the only person publicly known to be under criminal investigation by U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is conducting a review of the Russia investigation.

The Justice Department said at least the final two of four Page FISA warrants were “not valid” and that the FBI sought to “sequester” the information obtained from that surveillance.

Wray testified that the behavior of some in the DOJ and the FBI was “utterly unacceptable” and agreed that there had been at least some illegal surveillance. He said he was working to “claw back” the FISA information.

https://www.worldtribune.com/officials-involved-in-trump-campaign-surveillance-barred-from-pursuing-fisa-wiretaps/

Another fake news media sued!

Trump campaign sues CNN for libel over opinion article

The Trump campaign announced Friday that it sued CNN for libel over an opinion article, saying it wants the network to be held "accountable for intentionally publishing false statements against" it.

The big picture: It's the latest of a series of libel suits by the campaign aimed at media outlets' opinion articles on issues linked to Russia. Over the last few weeks, the campaign has also sued the New York Times and the Washington Post, alleging similar motives.

While President Trump has often threatened to sue news organizations for libel, he has rarely followed through.

The efforts face a relatively high bar for proof compared to most lawsuits. In order for a public official to successfully sue for libel, they must be able to prove that the defendant acted with "actual malice."

The article named in the suit, written by CNN contributor Larry Noble and published in June, states that "the Trump campaign assessed the potential risks and benefits of again seeking Russia's help in 2020 and has decided to leave that option on the table."

That assertion is backed up earlier in the piece by citing a Trump interview last year with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, where Trump said he'd "want to hear" information offered on political opponents by a foreign government. His statement in that interview was also used to support an argument in one of the Post pieces that resulted in a lawsuit.

The CNN piece also cites an "Axios on HBO" interview with White House adviser Jared Kushner, who said that he doesn't know whether he'd call the FBI if he were to receive another email like the one before the campaign's Trump Tower meeting, which had the subject line: "Re: Russia - Clinton - private and confidential."

https://www.axios.com/trump-campaign-sues-cnn-libel-efc35dae-455f-40e4-b7ca-f3045ac3acfb.html