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Judge says Manafort ‘intentionally’ lied to Mueller investigators.

A federal judge on Wednesday found that Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager, “intentionally” lied to Special Counsel Robert Mueller in response to some, but not all, of their inquiries — a ruling that voids his plea deal and exposes Manafort, at a minimum, to a harsher sentence.

In her decision, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson pointedly rejected some of the claims by Mueller’s team, while noting that legally, prosecutors were entitled to deference on the question of whether Manafort breached the terms of his plea deal as long as they made the claim in “good faith.”

Manafort, 69 seemingly avoided a second trial in Washington, D.C., before Jackson last year by agreeing to cooperate with investigators and pleading guilty to two felony conspiracy charges related to his overseas lobbying work. Prosecutors, in turn, agreed to recommend he receive a reduced sentence.

Manafort has denied intentionally misleading Mueller’s team during the approximately 50 hours of interviews with investigators that he participated in following his plea deal, and said he is under stress and physically ill.

“The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) made its determination that the defendant made false statements and thereby breached the plea agreement in good faith,” Jackson wrote. “Therefore, the Office of Special Counsel is no longer bound by its obligations under the plea agreement, including its promise to support a reduction of the offense level in the calculation of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for acceptance of responsibility.”

Jackson’s ruling proceeded to respond point-by-point to Mueller’s allegations against Manafort to assess whether he had, in fact, breached the plea agreement — and, in some cases, Jackson rejected the special counsel’s contentions as wholly unfounded.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller alleged that Manafort breached the terms of his plea agreement last year.
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For example, Jackson wrote: “OSC has failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that on October 16, 2018, defendant intentionally made a false statement concerning his contacts with the administration.”

LAST WEEK: JUDGE GRILLS MUELLER TEAM ON CLAIM MANAFORT LIED

The preponderance of evidence standard is among the lowest possible standards and means only that it is more likely than not that Manafort lied. Toward the end of a contentious hearing last week, Jackson took particular umbrage at prosecutors’ contentions that Manafort had lied about his contacts with the Trump administration.

“And of all of them, this is the one where I have the most difficulty figuring out where the real contradiction is of moment to the investigation,” Jackson said.

At that point, a member of Mueller’s team replied that Manafort had lied by denying having any direct or “indirect” contacts with the administration — and that the “indirect” statement was a lie.

Also in her ruling Wednesday, Jackson found that “OSC has failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that on October 16, 2018, defendant intentionally made false statements concerning Kilimnik’s role in the obstruction of justice conspiracy” to tamper with witnesses in the Russia probe.

That was a reference to Russian-Ukrainian political consultant Konstantin Kilimnik, who has ties to Russian intelligence. Prosecutors said Manafort made false statements about sharing polling data during the 2016 presidential election with Kilimnik.

Jackson held separately: “OSC has established by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant intentionally made multiple false statements to the FBI, the OSC, and the grand jury concerning matters that were material to the investigation: his interactions and communications with Kilimnik.”

Top Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann told Jackson that Manafort’s connection to Kilimnik — whose Aug. 2, 2016, meeting with Manafort at the Grand Havana Club cigar bar in New York is under particular scrutiny — “goes, I think, very much to the heart of what the Special Counsel’s Office is investigating. … In [August] 2016 there is an in-person meeting with someone who … is understood by the FBI, assessed to be — have a relationship with Russian intelligence.”

The meeting occurred while Manafort was still in a high-ranking role in the Trump campaign. Rick Gates, Manafort’s longtime deputy and also a Trump campaign aide, attended. And prosecutors say the three men left separately so as not to draw attention to their meeting.

HOUSE DEMS PLANNING MORE RUSSIA PROBES, EVEN AFTER MUELLER WRAPS IT UP

Kevin Downing, Paul Manafort’s defense attorney, right, walks to the entrance of federal court on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019 in Washington. At left is attorney Tim Wang, another member of the defense team for Manafort. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Additionally, Jackson found by a preponderance of evidence that Manafort had lied about a wire transfer sent in 2017 to a firm by a political action committee that spent millions to help Trump’s candidacy.

“OSC has established by a preponderance of the evidence that defendant
intentionally made false statements to the FBI, the OSC, and the grand jury
concerning the payment by Firm A to the law firm, a matter that was material to the investigation,” Jackson wrote.

Jackson told Manafort’s lawyers last week she wasn’t entirely convinced by their argument that his “succession of inconsistent explanations” about the wire transfer could be chalked up to confusion caused by accounting practices.

The judge specifically ruled that the lies regarding Kilimnik and the wire transfer were “material to the investigation,” as prosecutors had claimed.

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Additionally, Jackson ruled that “OSC has established by a preponderance of the evidence that on October 5, 2018, the defendant intentionally made false statements that were material to another DOJ investigation.” It was not immediately clear what investigation was implicated.

Jackson said the precise impact on Manafort’s upcoming sentencing on two felony charges related to his Ukrainian lobbying work, set for March 13, will be determined at a later date. It appeared unlikely Manafort would face new charges as a result of Jackson’s ruling Wednesday, but it remained possible.

Manafort faces up to ten years in prison in the separate case in Virginia, where he was convicted on tax and fraud charges.

Fox News’ Jake Gibson contributed to this report.

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House passes measure to end U.S. military involvement in Yemen war, repudiating Trump’s continued backing of Saudi-led coalition – The Washington Post

February 13 at 7:59 PM

The House on Wednesday passed a resolution to end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led coalition operating in Yemen, a repudiation of President Trump’s continued cooperation with and defense of the kingdom and its crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

The measure passed 248 to 177, and was supported by 230 Democrats and 18 Republicans. It marks the end of a months-long campaign from the legislation’s sponsors, whom House Republican leaders blocked last year from bringing the measure to the floor — even as a bipartisan majority of the Senate voted to approve it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had promised a vote when Democrats took over the House this year.

The war-powers legislation now heads back to the Senate, where sponsors said they are “hopeful” that similar numbers of Republicans and Democrats will vote for it when the measure comes up in the next few weeks. But even if they manage to pass the resolution in that body, Trump is already threatening to veto the measure — and Congress does not have the votes to overcome it.

The president’s advisers this week warned that the War Powers Resolution raised constitutional concerns and was “flawed” in its premise, as U.S. forces were not fighting on the ground in Yemen. Their statement also stressed that the United States had already curtailed the aerial refueling of Saudi warplanes, and that other forms of assistance the United States was providing, such as intelligence sharing and logistical support, would not fall under the auspices of the War Powers Resolution.

Its sponsors, however, rejected that notion. “This is exactly the type of hostilities that the framers of the War Powers Resolution contemplated,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said in an interview.

The United States is one of several countries backing Saudi forces, which entered Yemen’s long-running civil war in 2015 seeking to oust the Houthi rebels, who are sponsored to an extent by Iran, Saudi Arabia’s chief regional competitor.

But in the four years since the United States joined the Saudi coalition, there has been little progress toward resolving the civil war, while an already bleak humanitarian situation there has worsened. Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have been afflicted by cholera and malnutrition, and millions are at risk of starvation as the stalemate persists.

In the meantime, human rights organizations have charged that Saudi blockades and attacks on Yemen’s ports are preventing civilians from getting much-needed aid. The United States has also come under fire for continuing to provide the Saudis with weapons.

In their veto threat, the president’s advisers also said that the War Powers Resolution would “harm bilateral relationships in the region.”

Before the House passed the resolution, lawmakers attached an amendment to it stating that the measure would not restrict the collection and sharing of intelligence as the president deems appropriate. Intelligence-sharing is a major piece of U.S.-Saudi cooperation, particularly since the administration ended the practice of refueling planes last year.

The House also voted to attach an amendment to the legislation condemning anti-Semitism, an apparent response to comments made this week by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), for which she has apologized. Trump has nonetheless called for her to resign, prompting a retort from Omar that Trump had “trafficked in hate” his entire life, and charges from Democrats that Trump, who has refused to condemn white supremacists on multiple occasions, was being hypocritical.

Republican opponents of the Yemen resolution argued that by focusing solely on ending U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s campaign, the resolution “sends a green light to the Houthis and their Iranian backers to press on,” as Mike McCaul (Tex.), the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, put it.

Democrats objected to Republicans characterizing the resolution as soft on Iran, stressing that its chief motivation was to address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

“We can go after Iran another time, and heaven knows I’ve been the sponsor of many resolutions and bills sanctioning Iran,” said Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “There is a civil war going on now in Yemen and innocent children are dying. We have an ability to put an end to that, and that’s what we should do with this humanitarian crisis. It’s critical that we don’t delay.”

Even if Trump ultimately vetoes the resolution, sponsors argued, the resolve of both the Senate and the House will send a message to the parties equipped to end the conflict.

“Each of these milestones, this has had a dramatic consequence on the actual negotiations in Yemen,” Khanna said, referring to the Senate’s passage of a similar resolution last year. “I do think the famine will be averted if the War Powers Resolution passes the House and Senate.”

Congress has never successfully passed a resolution under the authority Congress granted itself in the War Powers Act to end U.S. participation in hostilities, and less than a year ago, leaders of both parties still thought doing so was a bad idea.

But the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi prompted lawmakers to take a critical look at Saudi leaders, in particular Mohammed, whom many lawmakers have said is liable for the murder.

Trump has to date defended the crown prince’s denials of involvement. Last week, he also missed two congressionally mandated deadlines to report to lawmakers on the status of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and announce sanctions against which officials he deemed to be responsible for Khashoggi’s death — or explain why he was declining to do so.

The CIA in November assessed that the crown prince had ordered the killing.

According to a recent news report, Mohammed also told a top aide in 2017 that he would use “a bullet” on Khashoggi if he did not return to the kingdom and end his criticism of the government. The conversation, which was picked up by U.S. intelligence agencies, was first reported by the New York Times on Thursday. After it was published, a Saudi official contacted the CIA and relayed that the crown prince was livid about the news report, according to a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe classified information.

Ellen Nakashima and Anne Gearan contributed to this report.

FEMA Administrator Brock Long resigns

Brock Long, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), announced Thursday that he was resigning from his position, saying “it is time for me to go home to my family.”

In a statement, Long said FEMA had provided assistance on “more than 200 declared disasters” and thanked President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, whom he said “have been extremely supportive of me, the FEMA workforce and our mission.”

“As a career emergency management professional, I could not be prouder to have worked alongside the devoted, hardworking men and women of FEMA for the past two years,” Long added. ” … I leave knowing the Agency is in good hands.”

Long had been investigated by the Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog last year over allegations that he inappropriately used government vehicles to travel to his home in North Carolina. Officials found he had misused vehicles, but Long was not asked to resign, and he agreed to reimburse the government. Homeland Security sources told Fox News that they did not know whether the controversy had anything to do with Long’s decision to step down, but added that no one at DHS had asked the administrator to resign.

FEMA Deputy Administrator Peter Gaynor will become acting administrator upon Long’s departure. Trump must nominate a permanent replacement for Long and that person must be confirmed by the Senate. Sources told Fox News that Long submitted his resignation when he did so the White House could identify, nominate and have a successor confirmed in time for the forthcoming hurricane season.

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“Over the last two years, Administrator Long has admirably led the men and women of FEMA during very difficult, historic and complex times,” Nielsen said in a statement. “Under Brock’s leadership, FEMA has successfully supported State and Territory-led efforts to respond and recover from 6 major hurricanes, 5 historic wildfires and dozens of other serious emergencies. I appreciate his tireless dedication to FEMA and his commitment to fostering a culture of preparedness across the nation.”

Sources told Fox News the tempo of the job may have played a role in Long’s resignation, noting that FEMA had more disasters and emergencies to deal with in the past 15 months than it had in the previous 10 years.

Fox News’ John Roberts and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Post-verdict, ‘El Chapo’ jurors rely on anonymity to stay safe – Reuters UK

(Reuters) – When U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan read the verdict finding Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman guilty of smuggling tons of drugs to the United States, he warned the 12 jurors who had decided the notorious Mexican drug lord’s fate not to speak to the press.

“Once that door is open, it can’t be closed again,” Cogan told the jury in federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday. The jurors were escorted from the courthouse by armed federal marshals and their identities have been kept secret for fear of retaliation by the Sinaloa Cartel, which El Chapo headed.

Despite the judge’s unusual warning and the extraordinary security measures during the three-month trial, some legal experts said it could be difficult for the jury to remain anonymous and at least one law enforcement agent involved in the chase for Guzman said jurors might be at risk if their identities are leaked.

“The Eastern District of New York has done a great job to protect the witnesses and jurors, but in 2019 with social media and instant access to information, you can’t really hide,” said Derek Maltz, a former special agent-in-charge of Drug Enforcement Agency Special Operations, who coordinated federal agency activity to capture Guzman twice in Mexico.

Following the verdict, late-night television host Trevor Noah joked about the jurors needing plastic surgery to disguise themselves – dark humour that reflected a genuine concern about their safety.

Maltz said if the jurors’ identity became public, they could face potential threats from the Sinaloa Cartel, which has a strong presence in New York and a long history of violence and drug dealing in Mexico.

“They have plenty of operatives in that area that are ready to take orders from Mexico to take measures to keep this cartel moving ahead,” he said.

The Sinaloa Cartel has retaliated against enemies in the past, including members of rival cartels and undercover agents, by torturing and murdering them.

REASON TO FEAR?

John Gleeson, who led the prosecution team that won a conviction against crime boss John Gotti in 1992, said he was not aware of any case where jurors received formal protection after a trial.

Jurors who have delivered guilty verdicts to crime lords and serial murderers have “informally” sought post-trial protection, said Gleeson, once a judge in the same Eastern District.

When a jury in Brooklyn convicted drug ring leader Delroy Edwards in 1989, they sent a note to the judge asking if any precautionary measures would be taken on their behalf.

The answer was no.

Spokeswoman Lynzey Donahue for the U.S. Marshals Service, which is responsible for the protection of the federal judicial process, declined to comment on whether the agency has protected former jurors after other trials, or planned to protect the El Chapo jury.

Gleeson said protection would not be necessary since cartels have no incentive to target a jury once it renders its verdict.

“If you have any hopes really for post verdict relief of any sort, one good way to extinguish those is to tamper with the jury,” he said.

‘LOUDMOUTH UNCLE’

During El Chapo’s trial, authorities used armed guards and a bomb-sniffing dog and required passage through two metal detectors to enter the courtroom. But those efforts did not alleviate the concerns of some potential jurors.

At the start of the trial, many potential jurors expressed fear about deciding the fate of Guzman. One selected juror dropped out because of anxiety.

The courtroom was closed to the public and electronic and camera-equipped devices were banned, but a rotation of people who sat in the family and friends section of the courtroom throughout the trial, and who saw the jurors’ faces, put court security guards on high alert.

On the fourth day of deliberations, marshals arrested a spectator who claimed to be part of the Guzman family. Rene Javier Rivera Martinez had been convicted of multiple felonies in the United States and had a deportation order against him, said Rachael Yong Yow, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Guzman’s wife regularly appeared in court, and other family members occasionally attended.

The jurors’ continued anonymity ultimately depends on how much information they choose to share.

In the past, jurors who have served on high-profile cases have made money by signing book deals. In this case, sharing what happened in the deliberation room, even with immediate family, may put the jurors at risk.

“Some loudmouth uncle or aunt or sister or brother could actually put the jurors in a very difficult situation,” former DEA agent Maltz said.

Reporting by Gabriella Borter; Additional reporting by Tina Bellon and Jonathan Stempel; Editing by Frank McGurty, Noeleen Walder and Grant McCool

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Border security package hits hurdles in final stretch – Fox News

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Trump says he’s looking for ‘land mines’ in compromise border security deal

The border security compromise package on Capitol Hill aimed at averting another government shutdown is running into problems, with one conservative source telling Fox News that the bill “is leaking oil right now” — and President Trump not saying if he’ll support it.

The text of the bill was expected to be available later Wednesday. But one source close to the process said lawmakers are “struggling” to finish it.

TRUMP ‘NOT HAPPY’ WITH BIPARTISAN BORDER DEAL, BUT DOESN’T WANT ANOTHER SHUTDOWN

The difficulties come as the conservative lawmakers on the House Freedom Caucus, who want more funding for the wall, said Wednesday they’re pushing for a one-week continuing resolution to fund the government — giving lawmakers more time to work out a deal with more wall funding.

“The conference report is projected to be thousands of pages long and was negotiated behind closed doors,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said in a statement. “We believe that members should be given enough time to read it before voting on it, so they can decide whether or not a better deal can be negotiated.”

Congressional negotiators announced Monday that they’d reached “an agreement in principle” on border security funding that includes more than $1.3 billion for physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. The White House initially requested $5.7 billion for the border wall.

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Lawmakers have until 11:59 p.m. Friday to get the agreement through both houses of Congress and signed by Trump before several Cabinet-level departments shut down and hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed in what would be the second partial government shutdown this year.

When asked Wednesday if they had an agreement that Trump would approve, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told reporters: “We think so. We hope so.”

But on Wednesday, the president remained noncommittal about signing.

“Well, we haven’t gotten it yet,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We’ll be getting it and we’ll be looking for land mines — because you could have that.”

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Now,the administration is dangling the possibility that Trump could declare a national emergency and divert money from the federal budget for wall construction, but that move would almost certainly be challenged in both Congress and the courts..

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A highly placed administration official told Fox News on Wednesday that there has been no decision to sign the compromise legislation – and that Trump, White House officials and Department of Homeland Security officials will first need the opportunity to go through the entire bill with a fine-tooth comb.

The possibility of declaring a national emergency is still on the table, the official said, though no decision has been made on that front, either.

Fox News’ John Roberts and Sam Chamberlain and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Former U.S. Air Force officer faces spy charges after defecting to Iran – Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged former Air Force intelligence officer Monica Witt with helping Iran launch a cyber-spying operation that targeted her former colleagues after she defected from the United States.

The U.S. Justice Department said Witt, 39, assembled dossiers on eight U.S. military intelligence agents she had worked with for Iranian hackers, who then used Facebook and e-mail to try to install spyware on their computers.

She defected to Iran in 2013 and presumably still lives there, U.S. officials said.

“She decided to turn against the United States and shift her loyalty to Iran,” said Jay Tabb, the FBI’s executive assistant director for national security. “Her primary motivation appears to be ideological.”

Washington also charged four Iranian nationals who it said were involved in the cyberattacks. U.S. officials also imposed sanctions on an Iran firm, Net Peygard Samavat Company, that it said conducted the hacking operation, and Iranian events company, New Horizon Organization, that it said works to recruit foreign attendees.

Witt faces two counts of delivering military information to a foreign government and one count of conspiracy.

According to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday, Witt served as a counterintelligence officer in the Air Force from 1997 until 2008 and worked as contractor for two years after that.

During that time, she was granted high-level security clearances, learned Farsi at a U.S. military language school, and was deployed overseas for counterintelligence missions in the Middle East.

Witt appears to have turned against the United States some time before February 2012, when she traveled to Iran to attend a New Horizon conference that featured anti-U.S. propaganda.

When warned by the FBI that trip that Iranian intelligence services were trying to recruit her, Witt allegedly promised that she would not talk about her counterintelligence work if she returned to Iran.

But later that year, she helped an unnamed Iranian-American official produce an anti-American propaganda film. “I am endeavoring to put the training I received to good use instead of evil,” she told that person in an email.

In February 2013, Witt returned to Iran for another New Horizon conference and told officials there that she wanted to emigrate.

She faced resistance for months.

“I just hope I have better luck with Russia at this point,” Witt wrote her Iranian-American contact in July. “I am starting to get frustrated at the level of Iranian suspicion.”

She successfully defected in August 2013, after providing a resume and “conversion narrative” to her contact. “I’m signing off and heading out! Coming home,” she wrote as she was about to board her flight from Dubai to Tehran.

Provided with housing and computer equipment by the Iranian government, Witt tracked down U.S. counterintelligence agents she used to work with on Facebook, the indictment said, and disclosed the classified identity of at least one of those agents, according to the charges.

Iranian hackers then set up fake Facebook personas to befriend those agents and attempt to install spyware that would track their computer activity, the indictment said. The hackers managed to gain access to a Facebook group of U.S. government agents.

Iranian nationals Mojtaba Masoumpour, Behzad Mesri, Hossein Parvar and Mohamad Paryar were charged with computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft.

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Mesri, Masampour and Parvar also face sanctions for their involvement with Net Peygard, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

The Air Force has adjusted its security measures to prevent similar incidents in the future, said Terry Phillips, a special agent in the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations.

Additional reporting by Makini Brice; Editing by Doina Chiacu, Steve Orlofsky and Tom Brown

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Omar, Trump envoy Elliott Abrams clash in fiery exchange | TheHill – The Hill

Rep. Ilhan OmarIlhan Omar Pence rips Omar’s ‘inadequate’ apology for tweets criticized as anti-Semitic Webb: Presidential hopefuls underline Democrats’ strong leftward drift Rep. Steve King pushes GOP to reinstate his committee assignments MORE (D-Minn.) engaged in a testy back and forth on Wednesday with special envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams, accusing the diplomat of being a liar and pressing him on his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair and killings in Central America during the Reagan administration.

,@IlhanMN “In 1991 you pleaded guilty … regarding your involvement in Iran-Contra … I fail to understand why [we] should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful”
Elliott Abrams “That was attack. It is not right .. to attack witness who is not permitted to reply” pic.twitter.com/yQq3xYHGxm

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) February 13, 2019

“I don’t understand why members of this committee or the American people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful,” she said in her initial comments to Abrams, who pleaded guilty to withholding evidence from Congress in the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s.

Abrams tried to interject, but Omar said she was not asking a question.

“It was an attack,” Abrams responded.

Omar pressed Abrams repeatedly on U.S. involvement in Nicaragua and El Salvador during the Regan administration, when the U.S. backed the Salvadoran military and Nicaraguan insurgents. Abrams served at the time as assistant secretary of State.

Omar specifically questioned Abrams about his past comments on the El Mozote massacre, where the Salvadoran military killed hundreds of civilians.

“You later said that the U.S. policy in El Salvador was a fabulous achievement. Do you still think so?” Omar asked.

Abrams noted that El Salvador has been a democracy for decades since the Reagan administration, calling it a “fabulous achievement.”

“Do you think that massacre was a fabulous achievement?” Omar asked.

“That is a ridiculous question,” Abrams replied sharply. “I am not going to respond to that kind of personal attack, which is not a question.”

Abrams continued to push back as the freshman Democrat challenged him on U.S. policy in Central America during his time in the Regan administration.

“I am not going to respond to that question,” he said. “I’m sorry. I don’t think this entire line of questioning is meant to be real questions, and so I will not reply.”

Omar finally got Abrams to respond to a question when she asked if Abrams will ensure that human rights are upheld in Venezuela under U.S. policy.

“The answer is that the entire thrust of American policy in Venezuela is to support the Venezuelan people’s effort to restore democracy to their country,” he said. “That’s our policy.”

Asked if that included protecting human rights, Abrams said “that is always the position of the United States.”

.@IlhanMN on Elliott Abrams’ role in Iran-Contra: “I fail to understand why members of this committee or the American people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful.”

(Abrams gets mad)

Omar: “That was not a question. Thank you for your participation.” pic.twitter.com/QBagSpOQXs

— Frank Dale (@fwdale) February 13, 2019

Abrams was named the special envoy to Venezuela last month, shortly after the Trump administration recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the country’s legitimate president. The move came as part of an increasing effort to pressure embattled President Nicolás Maduro amid an economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.

Wednesday’s contentious exchange was the latest high-profile moment for Omar in what has been a trying week for the freshman lawmaker. She came under bipartisan scrutiny after she sent multiple tweets on Sunday that were criticized as anti-Semitic for suggesting that lawmakers supported Israel for financial reasons.

Omar apologized, but has continued to receive criticism from President TrumpDonald John Trump Schultz won’t say if he will sell all Starbucks shares if he becomes president Sarah Sanders cites El Chapo in push for border security Pence rips Omar’s ‘inadequate’ apology for tweets criticized as anti-Semitic MORE and other Republicans.

Omar’s exchange with Abrams at Wednesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Trump administration’s policy in Venezuela opened a bit awkwardly.

The Minnesota Democrat referred to Abrams as “Mr. Adams,” then cited his 1991 guilty plea to withholding information from Congress in the investigation into the Iran-Contra affair.

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Supermax: ‘El Chapo’ expected to join these men in prison – CNN

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By Jason Hanna, CNN

Updated 1:17 PM ET, Wed February 13, 2019

Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán twice escaped from Mexican prisons in the last two decades. Now that he’s been convicted in the United States, officials are likely to do their utmost to keep him in place.

The feds won’t reveal his destination until he’s sentenced and arrived, but the United States Penitentiary Administrative-Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado — also known as Supermax and ADX Florence — fits the bill.

“He’s going to Supermax, I’m sure, in Colorado,” his lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman told CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday. “No one has ever escaped. It’s absolutely impossible. It’s not even an issue.”

It’s the nation’s most secure Supermax prison, built for the worst of the worst in the penitentiary system, including the most violent inmates and convicted terrorists. Many of the more than 400 inmates spend up to 23 hours a day alone in 7-by-12-foot concrete, soundproofed cells.

A former warden once told CNN that imprisonment there is “far much worse than death.” Here are some of the high-profile prisoners who are there now:

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/13/us/gallery/el-chapo-supermax-prisoners/index.html

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Officers shown with ‘blackface’ in 1993 photo prompt apology – KATC Lafayette News

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A photo of two white Baton Rouge police officers wearing dark makeup has prompted an apology by the police chief of the Louisiana capital city.

The photo was taken before a 1993 undercover drug sting in a predominantly black community that the police chief at the time recalled as “very successful,” The Advocate reported.

Current Chief Murphy Paul issued an apology Monday after the photo surfaced.

The photo was posted online over the weekend by The Rouge Collection, a black-owned urban media collection. It shows two officers, Crimestoppers coordinator Lt. Don Stone and since-retired police Capt. Frankie Caruso, posing above a caption reading “Soul Brothers.”

“Blackface photographs are inappropriate and offensive,” Paul wrote in a statement. “They were inappropriate then and are inappropriate today. The Baton Rouge Police Department would like to apologize to our citizens and to anyone who may have been offended by the photographs.”

Paul said there will not be any administrative ramification for Stone because of a statute of limitation on internal officer investigations. However, he noted there are now policies in place to prevent officers from engaging in such practices.

Caruso and the police chief at the time, Greg Phares, have defended the decision to have white officers dressing to appear black as a part of the police operation. They said it was done only with the intent to get drugs off the streets – not to degrade or make fun of African-Americans.

And while the officers’ behavior did not quite match that which threatens the careers of two top Virginia politicians, the photo has triggered discussions about how to address and move on from the image. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and that state’s Attorney General Mark Herring both admitted earlier this month to wearing blackface years ago. They remain in office despite varying calls for their ouster.

“I would like to see communities recognize what was wrong with it, and act from that,” said Maxine Crump, founder of Dialogue on Race Louisiana, a local nonprofit working to eradicate racism. “Defending it and justifying it does not change the fact it was wrong then, even if they weren’t aware.”

Walter “Geno” McLaughlin, a black activist who has worked with the police department on community initiatives, said, “It’s always unsettling when you see people deciding to go with blackface. . I don’t think there’s ever a place for it. . It’s time to have a conversation about it.”

East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome also weighed in with a statement.

“Blackface is more than just a costume,” she wrote. “It invokes a painful history in this country and it is not appropriate in any situation.”

An Advocate story in 1993 about the operation noted there were seven undercover police officers involved. Stone and Caruso dressed up to appear black because the two black narcotics officers at that time were too well-known and easily recognized in the community, the officers said then.

Caruso likened his actions to other undercover work in his career, including posing as a gay man, a biker and a prostitute.

“You got to dress the part,” Caruso said. “It wasn’t done offensively.”

Neither Caruso nor Phares would describe the makeup as blackface.

“I have no problem whatsoever with that these officers did,” said Phares, who currently serves as chief deputy at the East Feliciana Sheriff’s Office. “For anyone to try to make this some sort of racial issue two decades or more later is just beyond ridiculous.”

But Crump said because of the painful history of blackface in America, it is always wrong.

A release from the Baton Rouge Chief can be read below:

The Baton Rouge Police Department was made aware of a post circulating on social media in which two Baton Rouge Police Officers are dressed in blackface. According to the post, the pictures are from a Baton Rouge Police Department yearbook. A preliminary review of the matter indicates the officers were working in an undercover capacity during a department-approved operation when the photos were taken. The Advocate published a story about the operation on February 22, 1993.

Blackface photographs are inappropriate and offensive. They were inappropriate then and are inappropriate today. The Baton Rouge Police Department would like to apologize to our citizens and to anyone who may have been offended by the photographs.

The photographs in the post were taken more than 25 years ago. Administratively, the department cannot apply existing policies to conduct that happened before the policies were in place. Policies that were existing at the time of the behavior would have to be applied. The department is bound by the Louisiana Law Enforcement Bill of Rights, which places a timeline on administrative investigations related to officer conduct.

Today, we would not allow our officers to wear blackface in an official capacity under any circumstances. We have policies in place to prevent our officers from engaging in this type of behavior both on and off-duty.

Our BRPD Training Staff recently returned from Oakland Stockton, California where they received training on Procedural Justice Policing. The Procedural Justice Program will be part of the training academy curriculum for new BRPD officers, as well as our annual in-service training for all Baton Rouge Police Officers. The Baton Rouge Police Department is diligently working to apply 21st Century Policing best practices and standards to our agency.

Source Article from https://katc.com/news/2019/02/12/officers-shown-with-blackface-in-1993-photo-prompt-apology/

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Trump reportedly installed a new $50000 golf simulator in the White House to replace the one left by Obama – Business Insider

“The media was able to get my work schedule, something very easy to do, but it should have been reported as a positive, not negative,” he wrote. “When the term Executive Time is used, I am generally working, not relaxing. In fact, I probably work more hours than almost any past President…..”

Trump frequently departs the White House to hit the links at the many golf courses he owns across the US, including his courses in Virginia, New Jersey, and Florida.

While Trump has played golf or visited his clubs well over 100 times since becoming president, he stayed in the White House during the record long government shutdown, with the exception of a brief trip to Iraq to visit US military personnel.

Shortly after the government shutdown ended, Trump took a trip to Mar-a-Lago, his golf club in Florida.

Source Article from https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-installed-white-house-golf-simulator-to-replace-obamas-report-2019-2

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Parkland Student Survivors Brace For 1st Anniversary Of School Shooting – NPR

A memorial garden for the 17 people killed in the Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

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There will be no marching.

There will be no school walkouts.

Only a day of reflection and service and, perhaps most consequential, a time to grieve.

That is how many of the Parkland, Fla., survivors turned activists plan to spend Thursday, the first anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Seventeen students and staff members were gunned down last Valentine’s Day. Another 17 people were injured. The alleged shooter, a former student, is awaiting trial, and the state’s attorney in Broward County, Fla., has signaled he is seeking the death penalty.

David Hogg, now a Marjory Stoneman Douglas graduate, has become one of the most prominent figures in the March For Our Lives gun violence prevention movement.

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Since the shooting, young Parkland survivors have emerged as the driving force in calling for stricter gun laws in the U.S. through a series of marches, school walkouts and voter registration drives.

David Hogg, now a Marjory Stoneman Douglas graduate, has become one of the most prominent figures in the March For Our Lives gun violence prevention movement. He was blunt when asked whether he has had time to grieve since the shooting.

“The entire aspect of grieving and getting over something like this is bull****,” Hogg told NPR Morning Edition host David Greene on Wednesday.

“You don’t get over something like this. You never can. You can’t get over something that never should have happened.”

He pointed out that while Parkland gets a lot of attention, gun violence is a “preventable epidemic” in the United States.

“This issue is beyond Parkland. This issue is about America and the war that we have on our streets, because it’s time for us not to fight each other but to truly fight gun violence.”

Across Parkland on Thursday, a number of events are scheduled to commemorate the anniversary. Marjory Stoneman Douglas will have a nonacademic school day that will end at 11:40 a.m. Meanwhile, the Broward County School Board is sponsoring a “Day of Service and Love” that will include Marjory Stoneman Douglas students and staff serving breakfast to first responders.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior and March For Our Lives co-founder Jaclyn Corin sits at the March For Our Lives office in Florida. Though Corin admits that at times she feels emotionally drained from all the ups and downs of the past year, she describes it overall as “monumental.”

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior and March For Our Lives co-founder Jaclyn Corin sits at the March For Our Lives office in Florida. Though Corin admits that at times she feels emotionally drained from all the ups and downs of the past year, she describes it overall as “monumental.”

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As for March For Our Lives, the movement is planning to take time away from social media on the anniversary and the days immediately following it.

“We don’t know how we’re going to feel,” said Jaclyn Corin, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and a co-founder of March For Our Lives.

Corin added that she and other Parkland survivors have been given advice from survivors of other mass shootings, including communities in Newtown, Conn.; Columbine, Colo.; and Las Vegas, on ways to prepare for the anniversary.

“I think it’s the proper thing to go dark — actually spend that day to ourselves in our own thoughts,” Corin said.

Though Corin admitted that at times she feels emotionally drained from all the ups and downs of the past year, she described it overall as “monumental.”

“The last year has been incredible for the modern gun violence prevention movement, and we’ve made so much of a dent on public opinion, and I think that’s something to be proud of,” Corin said.

Boxes of books for sale at the March For Our Lives office. The movement is planning to take time away from social media on the anniversary and the days immediately following it.

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She points to a statistic from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence: It tallied 67 gun safety laws that were enacted last year across 26 states and Washington, D.C., following the Parkland shooting.

Corin said it is nice to take a break from the activism to focus on “normal” aspects of high school. Part of her responsibility as senior class president is helping to plan the prom. She recently bought a dress and in a few weeks will tour the venue.

But the reminders of what happened at her school that day last year are inescapable. Corin tutored the alleged gunman, something she does not talk about publicly anymore. Then there will be talk among classmates about what life was like before the shooting and what it has been like after it.

“A lot of people talk about the shooting like it’s a time stamp,” Corin said.

Fellow senior Sarah Chadwick agreed. She described having to pass the campus building where the rampage took place.

“The fact that the 1200 building is still there, it’s actually incredibly difficult having to walk by it every single day,” Chadwick said. “It takes a toll on your emotional state, and it’s not even a place that we can avoid.”

March For Our Lives co-founder Alex Wind and Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior and March For Our Lives member Sarah Chadwick sit at the group’s office. Once their social media hiatus ends this weekend, March For Our Lives activists say they have no plans to stop organizing or recruiting in the months to come.

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March For Our Lives co-founder Alex Wind and Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior and March For Our Lives member Sarah Chadwick sit at the group’s office. Once their social media hiatus ends this weekend, March For Our Lives activists say they have no plans to stop organizing or recruiting in the months to come.

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She said that it’s a feeling that only those who were present on that day can understand.

“There’s definitely comfort being surrounded by people who kind of know what you are feeling and have been through the same thing as you.”

Once their social media hiatus ends this weekend, March For Our Lives activists say they have no plans to stop organizing or recruiting in the months to come.

Congress is considering legislation requiring background checks on all gun sales and the majority of gun transfers. It is likely to pass in the Democratic-controlled House but faces an uncertain future in the Senate, which is led by Republicans.

Alex Wind, another co-founder of March For Our Lives, said his primary focus is on making further gains in the gun violence prevention movement.

“I think what’s really important is that we keep this momentum going throughout this year and next year and throughout every year to come.”

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Former Air Force Intelligence Agent Charged With Spying for Iran – The New York Times

WASHINGTON — A former United States Air Force counterintelligence agent was charged with espionage after she defected to Iran and helped it target her former colleagues, the authorities said.

In an extraordinarily detailed indictment made public on Wednesday, prosecutors disclosed that Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, gave the Iranians the code name and mission of a secret Pentagon program involving American intelligence operations.

According to the indictment, she was working with members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The elite paramilitary group is known to carry out terrorist operations around the globe and has been sanctioned by the American government.

Prosecutors described how Ms. Witt provided a copy of her biography and job history in August 2013 to a person with ties to Iran’s intelligence services. That same month, she moved to Iran and, while living there, officials provided her with housing and computer equipment. Prosecutors said that she searched Facebook accounts for Americans and created “target packages” for Iran against American counterintelligence officials.

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Trump intends to sign border deal to avoid another shutdown – CNN

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