Spying on citizen's increased 60 per cent during the Presidential Election year compared to the year before. It was 1,378 in 2016 and 836 in 2015. No explanation for the increase was given by the Director of National Intelligence. Previously, surveillance was limited to non-citizens under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Government source documents are linked here.
John Kerry's State Department made a second "Russian collusion dossier". It fails to explain how the Russians helped elect President Donald J. Trump. It does, however, mention Russian influence in European elections. The 44-page memo was revealed last week by Judicial Watch. It is linked here.
Barack Obama was the first President to have never reached a growth rate of at least three per cent. The economy's growth rate over his eight year term was 1.48 per cent.
The Justice Department collected over $15 billion in civil and criminal actions over the last year. This money is paid into the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury. It can be used to pay for anything. Why not the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico? Some of the court approved seized assets are paid as restitution to victims and their states' victim compensation programs.
The warship. USS Little Rock, is frozen in ice in Montreal, Canada. It has been stuck there since Christmas. It will be March until the ice melts and the vessel continues on its way to its home port in Jacksonville, Florida. The USS Little Rock is brand new. It was officially announced ready to go on Dec. 19th in Buffalo, New York. While stuck in Montreal, the Navy said the sailors will update their training in medical, damage control, navigation, and security.
Public Law No: 115-118 passed Jan. 18, 2018. Full text of law linked. This law, without revision, was used to spy on his family, administration, Presidential Campaign. Why did the President sign it? How will he use it?
Protection for who from what? Since all the civil cases for money damages against Pilot have been settled, what need or purpose is served by keeping Haslam's trial testimony sealed? Haslam never received immunity. He remains subject to prosecution. This deposition is evidence in the event he is.
In five YouTube videos, Jimmy Haslam tells why he is innocent in the Pilot Flying J fiasco. After viewing them, do you believe he is telling the truth? Jimmy remains subject to prosecution, however, because he never received immunity.
Guns are being confiscated from medical marijuana users in states like Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Nevada, and Alaska. A court ruling last year said that Second Amendment rights no longer apply to any marijuana user.
The U.S. State Department said they will release portions of 2800 Hillary Clinton's State Department emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop tomorrow. These emails were the work product of Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. Clinton had told the FBI that she had given them all her previous State Department emails contained on her illegal, non-secure personal email network. Why they were on Weiner's laptop is unknown.
it was either Judge John Roberts or Judge Rosemary Collyer who removed Judge Rudolph Contreras from the Flynn case.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, resigned within minutes after Trump's executive order was signed and became effective. Schmidt’s whereabouts are unknown.
Haslam "prides himself on asking a thousand questions in every meeting he is in", said Bud Shaw, a Cleveland sports columnist. "If you heard him talk about why the A.J. McCarron trade fell through, it was because he (Haslam) was asking too many questions, too late in the process. He gets easily confused and easily swayed."
Because the Pentagon has never had an audit, no one knows what it spends or where it goes. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) admitted that the Army spent $6.5 trillion without receipts. That was 54 times the amount approved by Congress. In 2015, the Army had $794 billion in deposits. It only got $120 billion from Congress. No one knows where the extra money came from. The Army spent $929 billion on credit. No one knows who is to be paid for what they bought.
Jimmy Haslam, CEO of Pilot Flying J, responded to Judge Curtis Collier's ruling Thursday that Mark Hazelwood's remarks on FBI informant tapes will be played in his court on Jan. 10th. Collier said Thursday that Hazelwood's taped remarks were vile, inflammatory, prejudicial, and beyond the pale. Collier is a Federal U.S. District Court Judge in Eastern Tennessee, Knoxville.
Here is how Haslam responded to Collier's ruling:
Judge Curtis Collier ruled yesterday to allow the jury to hear "vile" remarks made by the former President of Pilot Flying J, Mark Hazelwood. Hazelwood's remarks were directed against black people, women, Clevelanders and its football team, the Cleveland Browns. The remarks, captured on an FBI wiretap, will be played to jurors when Judge Collier resumes Hazelwood's criminal trial on Jan. 10th.
Jimmy Haslam said that Pilot's fiasco was caused by "a very few rogue employees that figured out how to manipulate the system". The statement was made to Tommy Hodges two weeks after the FBI had 200 agents raid Flying Pilot J to seize evidence in a rebate scam. Hodges is Chairman of Titan Trucking Inc. in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, Church World Services, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and the National Association of Evangelicals’ World Relief Corp were paid $1.6 billion to move one per cent of Somalia to the States.
Jimmy Haslam, CEO of Pilot Flying J, never received immunity. He remains subject to prosecution. Pilot received corporate immunity in exchange for copping guilty to a variety of crimes, paying a $92 million fine, and cooperating with investigators. The deal was signed by Halam and is linked here.
