Saudi Arabian students at a Florida Navy station are confined to base following last week’s mass shooting, the Pentagon said on Thursday. Saudi students close to the shooter, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, are at Naval Air Station Pensacola as the Pentagon continues to deal with the fallout of the shooting. Alshamrani killed three sailors before he […]
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New Jersey AG: Shooting ‘Fueled by Anti-Semitism,’ Being Investigated as Terror Attack…
The two killers who stormed a kosher market in Jersey City were apparently acting alone and were “fueled both by anti-Semitism and anti-law enforcement beliefs,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said Thursday. Grewal said the attackers expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites, a fringe group whose members have been known to rail against […]
U.S. Military Grounds 300 Saudi Aviation Students After Pensacola Shooting Spree…
Following the shooting spree last week at the Naval air station in Pensacola, Fla. last week by 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, who shot and killed three people, Reuters reports that roughly 300 Saudi Arabian military aviation students have been grounded as part of a “safety stand-down.” Genualdi said the grounding included three different military […]
Former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Arrested for Drug-Trafficking Conspiracy and Making False Statements…
An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Genaro Garcia Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, with three counts of cocaine trafficking conspiracy and one count of making false statements. In exchange for multimillion-dollar bribes, the defendant allegedly permitted the Sinaloa Cartel to operate with […]
Treating Pakistan as a Friend Was a Critical Error: U.S. Officials in Afghanistan Papers…
US officials in the Bush and Obama administrations believe the treatment of “Pakistan as a friend” in the country’s trillion-dollar 18-year-long Afghanistan war was a “critical error”, The Washington Post has revealed in its “secret history” of the conflict. On Monday, the American daily published US government papers in an extensive report, ‘The Afghanistan Papers’. […]
The Afghanistan Papers Show the Swamp at Its Worst…
On Monday, the Washington Post published its story on the Afghanistan papers: 2,000 pages of interview notes of those involved in the war effort. It details the widespread deception and futility that characterized the war in Afghanistan. SIGAR, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, compiled these interviews and adjacent data into seven reports. SIGAR […]
Clinton-Appointed Judge Blocks Billions in Funding for Trump’s Border Wall…
A federal judge dealt the White House a major blow Tuesday, ruling that the administration cannot use several billion in military funding to pay for border wall construction. David Briones, who has served on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas since his appointment by former President Bill Clinton in 1994, ruled […]
Velvet Revolutionaries – Iran and U.S. Exchange Assets…
While the U.S. calls Xiyue Wang a “scholar” and Iran calls Massoud Soleimani a “scientist“, it’s likely both were not exactly forthcoming as as they presented themselves to the professional networks within each host nation. Just my cynical opinion [nudge, nudge – wink, wink – say no more, say no more]…
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Forty-three years after the Supreme Court reversed course and reinstated the death penalty, reliable data on the individuals sent to death row is maddeningly difficult to obtain. The Intercept set out to compile a comprehensive dataset on everyone sentenced to die in active death penalty jurisdictions since 1976. Our findings show that capital punishment remains […]
The Afghanistan Papers – “the American people have constantly been lied to.”
A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable. The documents were generated by a federal project […]
‘Full Measure of Sorrow’: Three Fatal Incidents in a Week Hit Navy, Leaving Seven Dead…
Three different attacks on three Navy facilities over the last six days have left seven people dead and at least 11 wounded. The most recent attack took place on Friday morning at Naval Air Station Pensacola, in Florida, where a gunman opened fire on a classroom killing three and injuring at least 10. Escambia County […]
Terror Related?: Saudi Air Force Trainee Who Opened Fire in Pensacola Naval Base Classroom Killing Three and Wounding Eight…
The suspected gunman who opened fire at a naval base in Florida, killing three people and injuring eight, has been been identified as a Saudi aviation student. Authorities are now investigating if the attack at Naval Air Station in Pensacola early Friday morning was terrorism-related. The shooter, who was shot dead by police, was first […]
An 8-Year-Old Girl Was Strip Searched at a Virginia Prison. She Was Told It Was the Only Way to See Her Dad…
An 8-year-old girl was stripped naked and searched by Virginia Department of Corrections staff after she was led to believe refusal would result in not being allowed to see her father. State policy allows for such searches at the Buckingham Correctional Center in Dillwyn, about 60 miles west of Richmond, and other state DOC prisons. […]
Inspector General Ramps Up Investigaton of FBI Employees…
Open investigations of FBI employees by the Justice Department’s Inspector General (IG) have about doubled in recent years and, as far as available records go, there have never been so many investigations of this kind. The Office of IG Michael Horowitz had 104 “open criminal or administrative investigations of alleged misconduct related to FBI employees” […]
Whistleblower Lawsuit Says Defense Contractor Defrauded the Marines of $1.3B for Vehicle Parts…
A government contractor allegedly defrauded the Pentagon of $1.3 billion by inflating prices for armored vehicle parts sold to the Marine Corps, according to court documents filed in a whistleblower case. Navistar Defense allegedly forged fraudulent invoices and other documentation so that it could inflate prices for suspension systems on mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles, or […]
‘Operation Throne Down’: Officials Arrest 56 ‘Latin Kings’ Gang Members in Early Morning Sting Near Boston…
More than 650 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested 56 people during a single morning in New England suspected of belonging to one of the world’s largest Hispanic street gangs, the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation. Law enforcement early Thursday morning served 31 search warrants at 24 locations in what is the […]
Mexican Authorities Detain Three Suspects Connected to Cartel Ambush That Killed Nine Americans…
Three individuals connected to a recent attack that left nine Americans dead last month were detained by Mexican authorities Sunday, CBS News has confirmed. According to the report, the operation was a coordinated effort between Prosecutor General, the National Guard and the National Center for Intelligence. The attack left three women and six children dead […]
Australian Taliban Hostage Believes U.S. Navy SEALs Attempted to Rescue Him 6 Times…
An Australian teacher who arrived home this week after being held hostage by the Taliban for more than three years believes U.S. Navy SEALs attempted to rescue him six times, he told a press conference on Dec. 1. Timothy Weeks, 50, landed in Sydney on Nov. 28 after being released by the terror group in […]
Peace Is the Prize – President Trump Holds Bilateral Meeting with Afghan President Ghani on Thanksgiving Day – Video and Transcript…
After President Trump met with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un to stop a region headed toward military crisis, the President was asked about the Nobel peace prize for his efforts with South Korean Moon Jae-in. President Trump responded: “Peace is the prize“. Yesterday U.S. President Donald Trump secretly flew to Afghanistan to spend time with […]
Texas Cities Evacuated After Second Explosion at Chemical Plant; Three Injured in First Blast…
A second explosion Wednesday at an East Texas chemical plant prompted officials to issue evacuation orders for three small cities and a portion of another as flames and smoke surged into the sky. KBMT-TV reported that an afternoon blast at the TPC Group plant in Port Neches, about 80 miles east of Houston, followed a […]