The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Roberts, fills vacancies on the Foreign Intelligence Serveillance Court (FISC). Eleven Judges take turns serving, usually rotating every week. Their pictures and resumes are linked here. Every few months, the FISA judges set aside their regular, public federal court cases and travel to Washington, D.C. Their courtroom is at 333 Constitution Avenue, NW.
"One of the great new technologies we have here at ESPN is that we can look at you in your house through your TV!", bragged ESPN's Bill Walton. Many viewers were unaware until Saturday night that the network was spying on them as they were watching the game.
Mark Hazelwood, former President of Pilot Flying J, was found guilty today of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; witness tampering and one count of fraud. He was acquitted on one count of fraud. Hazelwood was Jimmy Haslam's right hand man at Pilot. Haslam remains subject to prosecution and was never granted immunity. Prosecutors have asked the Judge to have Hazelwood imprisoned immediately. Prosecutors told Judge Curtis Collier that they believe Hazelwood to be a flight risk. Karen Mann was found not guilty.
Railway police in Zhengzhou, China were the first to make arrests using two inch Face ID cameras mounted on sunglasses. When "caught" on camera, according to the Chinese Government, their "spyglasses" will be able to identify their targets within three seconds.
The targeted suspect's photo is sent from the sunglasses' camera to a handheld computer tablet. Police are able to identify suspects from a 10,000-person database within one-tenth of a second. The spy glasses cost $630. Companies in the U.S. and Japan have already bought them.
According to Carter Page, "...retaliatory investigations against me were based entirely upon lies from the Clinton Campaign as these untruths were aggressively advanced by that Campaign's allies in Congress and the media".
Carter Page was working for the FBI as a secret informant, posing as a Russian spy when he was planted into the Trump Presidential Campaign. Page admitted "(interacting) with members of the U.S. intelligence community including the CIA and FBI for decades". This admission is in a letter Page wrote to then FBI Director James Comey on Sept. 25, 2016.
Carter Page worked for the FBI from 2013 through September, 2016. One month later, the FBI called him a Russian spy. Why? They needed someone to get a warrant to spy on the Trump team.
Since the creation of the court in 1979, the FISA Court has approved 33,942 warrants while declining 12. Of those declined, nine were in 2016, the year of the last Presidential Election. These numbers are from the Court's website. FISA stands for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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.
