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EU backs controversial copyright law – BBC News
EU backs controversial copyright law – BBC News

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Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned about the possible consequences of copyright changes

The European Parliament has backed controversial copyright laws critics say could change the nature of the net.

The new rules include holding technology companies responsible for material posted without proper copyright permission.

Many musicians and creators say the new rules will compensate artists fairly – but others say they will destroy user-generated content.

The Copyright Directive was backed by 348 MEPs, with 278 against.

The laws on copyright were last amended in 2001.

It has taken several revisions for the current legislation to reach its final form.

It is now up to member states to approve the decision. If they do, they will have two years to implement it once it is officially published.

The two clauses causing the most controversy are known as Article 11 and Article 13.

Article 11 states that search engines and news aggregate platforms should pay to use links from news websites.

Article 13 holds larger technology companies responsible for material posted without a copyright licence.

It means they would need to apply filters to content before it is uploaded.

Article 13 does not include cloud storage services and there are already existing exemptions, including parody.

The European Parliament said that memes – short video clips that go viral – would be “specifically excluded” from the Directive, although it was unclear how tech firms would be able to enforce that rule with a blanket filter.

‘Step forward’ or ‘massive blow’?

Robert Ashcroft, chief executive of PRS for Music, which collects royalties for music artists, welcomed the directive as “a massive step forward” for consumers and creatives.

“It’s about making sure that ordinary people can upload videos and music to platforms like YouTube without being held liable for copyright – that responsibility will henceforth be transferred to the platforms,” he said.

However the campaign group Open Knowledge International described it as “a massive blow” for the internet.

“We now risk the creation of a more closed society at the very time we should be using digital advances to build a more open world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few,” said chief executive Catherine Stihler.

‘Noble aims’

Google said that while the latest version of the directive was improved, there remained “legal uncertainty”.

“The details matter and we look forward to working with policy-makers, publishers, creators and rights holders, as EU member states move to implement these new rules,” it said.

Kathy Berry, senior lawyer at Linklaters, said more detail was required about how Article 13 would be enforced.

“While Article 13 may have noble aims, in its current form it functions as little more than a set of ideals, with very little guidance on exactly which service providers will be caught by it or what steps will be sufficient to comply,” she said.

European Parliament Rapporteur Axel Voss said the legislation was designed to protect people’s livelihoods.

“This directive is an important step towards correcting a situation which has allowed a few companies to earn huge sums of money without properly remunerating the thousands of creatives and journalists whose work they depend on,” he said.

“It helps make the internet ready for the future, a space which benefits everyone, not only a powerful few.”

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Purdue Pharma settles Oklahoma opioid case for $270 million – CNBC
Purdue Pharma settles Oklahoma opioid case for $270 million – CNBC

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Supreme Court weighs crackdown on gerrymandering – POLITICO
Supreme Court weighs crackdown on gerrymandering – POLITICO

Chief Justice John Roberts, who has emerged as more of consensus-builder in recent years, has been skeptical of judicial efforts to police gerrymandering. | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

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The justices will hear two cases Tuesday challenging congressional maps drawn to limit one party’s political power.

For the second straight year, the Supreme Court has an opportunity to establish limits on partisan gerrymandering — or go the other direction and send mapmakers an anything-goes message ahead of the 2020 census.

Republicans used their power over redistricting in many states after the 2010 election to cement control of the House of Representatives and state governments for most of the next decade. Limiting that power has become a rallying cry on the left before the next round of political map-drawing in 2021.

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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will scrutinize political maps in two states where lawmakers have openly admitted they drew congressional lines earlier this decade to favor one party, a practice that the court has long considered reining in.

In North Carolina, Republicans explicitly sought to ensure the GOP would control 10 of the state’s 13 House districts. In Maryland, Democrats openly targeted a long-time Republican congressman, altering the lines of his district to defeat him and give Democrats a 7-1 advantage in the state.

But a year ago, the Supreme Court declined an earlier chance to strike down Maryland’s congressional map or dictate firm guidelines about how far is too far when it comes to partisan gerrymandering. And one pivotal figure will be missing from this year’s cases: retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, who had looked skeptically at districts drawn for partisan advantage but never assembled a majority to set standards policing partisan map-drawing.

With Kennedy replaced on the bench by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, most experts agree new limits on gerrymandering are no more likely this time around.

“There are many plausible ways that the court could create a test and police those partisan gerrymanders,” said Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California-Irvine who also runs the popular Election Law Blog. “The bigger question is whether there’s the will among five justices to do that.”

Opponents of partisan gerrymandering believe the court — despite its new, more conservative lineup — might be willing to crack down because the Maryland and North Carolina cases present such blatant examples of mapmaking to benefit one party.

“The cases that are teed up before the court now mark something of a new extreme of candor … in seeking partisan advantage,” said Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt. “They don’t have to try to figure out what the legislature was doing here. The legislature said what it was doing.”

In Maryland, a lower court ruled the day after the 2018 election that Maryland violated the First Amendment rights of GOP voters in the state’s 6th District when it redrew the lines to flip the seat away from then-Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), who had held it for two decades. “That was my hope,” former Gov. Martin O’Malley said in a 2017 deposition. “It was also my intent to create … a district where the people would be more likely to elect a Democrat than a Republican.”

The seat has remained in Democratic hands since John Delaney, now running for the Democratic presidential nomination, defeated Bartlett in 2012.

In North Carolina, federal judges had previously struck down congressional lines for unconstitutionally diluting the voting power of African-Americans by packing as many of them as possible into just two congressional districts. But when the state’s Republican legislators redrew the map in 2016, state Rep. David Lewis said the GOP should “draw the maps to give a partisan advantage to 10 Republicans and three Democrats” — one of the pieces of evidence that led federal judges to strike down the new map as a partisan gerrymander.

“The case presents the most extreme, overt and brutal partisan gerrymander this court — or any other court — has ever seen,” said Emmet Bondurant, the attorney for Common Cause, which sued to have the North Carolina map thrown out.

But Jason Torchinsky, an attorney with the National Republican Redistricting Trust, a GOP group, said the Supreme Court shouldn’t try to take politics out of the redistricting process, as long as legislators don’t draw complicated districts that split cities and counties or aren’t otherwise logical.

“Is drawing for political success okay? As long as you’ve respected other districting principles, I think the answer is yes,” said Torchinsky.

Ultimately, experts say there are four justices eager to crack down on partisan gerrymandering: the court’s liberal bloc of Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.

On the other side, Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch have been skeptical of judicial efforts to police gerrymandering. So has Chief Justice John Roberts — who has emerged as more of consensus-builder in recent years but also voted in the majority in two key election cases as chief, striking down elements of the Voting Rights Act in a 2013 case and campaign-finance law in the Citizens United ruling.

Kavanaugh, who was an appellate judge for the District of Columbia Circuit prior to his elevation to the Supreme Court, hasn’t ruled on a major redistricting case, making him something of a wild card.

An expansive ruling striking down partisan gerrymanders “now seems much less likely given the change of the composition of the court,” said Hasen. “It’s really going to come down to Roberts and Kavanaugh.”

The Maryland and North Carolina cases are Benisek v. Lamone (18-726) and Rucho v. Common Cause (18-422), respectively.

While these cases have worked their way through the federal court system, a number of states have moved to limit the role of politics in redistricting. Just last year, voters in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri and Utah approved ballot initiatives reforming the redistricting process, while Ohio lawmakers enacted a law overhauling that state’s redistricting process.

The political fight around the cases is bringing together reformers from both parties. Roy Cooper, the Democratic governor of North Carolina, and Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, co-authored an op-ed in Monday’s Washington Post under the headline, “Politicians can’t be trusted to draw electoral maps.”

But opponents of gerrymandering worry that a high court ruling this year that permits district maps drawn to maximize partisan advantage — or even another punt, like last year — will give both parties free rein to craft political lines in most states after the 2020 Census. The data and technology available giving politicians better tools than ever to choose their voters, they say, rather than the other way around.

“If the court doesn’t step in here, then what you saw in North Carolina and what you saw in Maryland is the new normal. It becomes ‘Mad Max’ territory,” said Levitt. “It is abundantly clear that the legislators can’t police themselves.”

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Tlaib asking colleagues to support impeachment investigation resolution | TheHill – The Hill
Tlaib asking colleagues to support impeachment investigation resolution | TheHill – The Hill

Rep. Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibTlaib asking colleagues to support impeachment investigation resolution Omar controversy looms over AIPAC conference Hoyer says AIPAC remarks were ‘misinterpreted’ MORE (D-Mich.) is asking colleagues to support a resolution to investigate President TrumpDonald John TrumpPapadopoulos claims he was pressured to sign plea deal Tlaib asking colleagues to support impeachment investigation resolution Trump rips ‘Mainstream Media’: ‘They truly are the Enemy of the People’ MORE for crimes worthy of impeachment following the release of a summary of the special counsel’s investigation.

In a letter to House Democrats sent Monday, Tlaib called on lawmakers to support the formation of a commission that would “inquire whether President Trump committed impeachable offenses” surrounding his businesses while in office and other alleged improper behavior.

“I, firmly, believe that the House Committee on Judiciary should seek out whether President Trump has committed ‘High crimes and Misdemeanors’ as designated by the U.S. Constitution and if the facts support those findings, that Congress begin impeachment proceedings,” Tlaib wrote.

“Congress can provide an open and transparent process with the sole goal of ensuring we know the truth and make sure it does not continue, nor happen again,” she added.

Beyond Trump’s ownership of businesses while in the White House, the resolution also calls on the House to investigate the president for obstruction of justice over his firing of former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien ComeyTlaib asking colleagues to support impeachment investigation resolution Democrats face dilemma after Mueller probe ends Barr faces political storm over Mueller report MORE as well as hush money payments made through former Trump attorney Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenTlaib asking colleagues to support impeachment investigation resolution Democrats face dilemma after Mueller probe ends Feehery: The legitimacy of President Trump MORE to adult-film star Stormy Daniels and another woman who alleged past affairs.

Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrSchiff brushes off calls for resignation: ‘I am more than used to attacks by my GOP colleagues’ MORE‘s summary of special counsel Robert MuellerRobert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE‘s findings said investigators declined to take a position on whether the president obstructed justice and found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016.

Barr announced this week that the Justice Department would not prosecute the president for obstruction of justice. Democrats, however, have called for a full release of the Mueller report, while the White House and Trump’s lawyers have echoed the sentiment.

“Sure,” Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani told CNN when asked if the report should be released. “We would all like it to happen because if it doesn’t happen, somebody is going to say there is something in there.”

“Let me say for the 400th time, the president did not do anything wrong,” he added.

Rep. Al GreenAlexander (Al) N. GreenTlaib asking colleagues to support impeachment investigation resolution Winners and losers from Mueller’s initial findings The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Pass USMCA Coalition – Mueller report is huge win for President Trump MORE (D-Texas), meanwhile, said late Sunday that he’ll continue his push to impeach Trump.

Green said Mueller’s findings were unrelated to that “bigotry.” 

“#MuellersReport did NOT investigate bigotry emanating from the Presidency harming our country. The findings do NOT negate the President’s bigotry,” Green tweeted Sunday evening. “As long as bigotry influences the President’s policies, I will continue to seek his impeachment.”

He included a second hashtag: #ImpeachmentIsNotDead.

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Now it’s up to voters to give the verdict on Trump’s presidency – CNN
Now it’s up to voters to give the verdict on Trump’s presidency – CNN

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      Pentagon authorizes up to $1B to start 57 miles of border wall construction – Fox News
      Pentagon authorizes up to $1B to start 57 miles of border wall construction – Fox News
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      Trump vetoes congressional resolution blocking southern border emergency

      The Pentagon notified Congress late Monday that it authorized the transfer of up to $1 billion to erect 57 miles of “pedestrian fencing” along the U.S.-Mexico border in direct support of President Trump’s national emergency declaration from last month.

      The fencing, which will be 18 feet high, is to be erected in the Yuma and El Paso sectors, the statement read. The Pentagon’s announcement was notable. A reporter from the New York Times tweeted that it is the first time the funds will be transferred under section 284 for the border wall.

      Section 284 allows the Pentagon to “construct roads and fences and to install lighting to block drug-smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States in support of counter-narcotic activities of Federal law enforcement agencies,” the statement read.

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      The Pentagon’s announcement was made as Trump nears a victory over Democrats as the House tries to override his first veto, a vote that seems certain to fail and allow his declaration to stand. The vote, which is set for Tuesday, would keep the border emergency intact, which for now, would allow the president to shift an additional $3.6 billion from military construction projects to work on a barrier along the southwest boundary.

      “The president will be fine in the House,” said Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in a brief interview. “The veto will not be overridden.”

      Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, “Christmas came early this week,” in response to the announcement.  He was likely also referring to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report that said there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 presidential election.

      Patrick M. Shanahan, the acting Secretary of Defense, announced that the funds will be used to support the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol. He authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to begin its planning and execution.

      A group of Democratic senators criticized the Pentagon’s move and called the maneuver a violation of congressional appropriations, Bloomberg reported. Democrats have called the national emergency declaration a crisis manufactured by Trump

      “The $1 billion reprogramming that the department is implementing without congressional approval constitutes a dollar-for-dollar theft from other readiness needs of our Armed Forces,” Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and others wrote in a letter to Shanahan, according to the report.

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      Even with his veto remaining intact, Trump may not be able to spend the money for barriers quickly because of lawsuits that might take years to resolve.

      The Associated Press contributed to this report

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      The end for Obamacare? Trump administration says it will ask a court to throw out entire health law – USA TODAY
      The end for Obamacare? Trump administration says it will ask a court to throw out entire health law – USA TODAY

      A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that nearly 60 percent of likely voters across the nation want the Affordable Care Act to remain in place.
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      Parkland, Fla., Struggles To Respond To Two Recent High School Suicides – NPR
      Parkland, Fla., Struggles To Respond To Two Recent High School Suicides – NPR

      A candlelight vigil was held last year for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Seventeen students died in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

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      A candlelight vigil was held last year for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Seventeen students died in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

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      The community of Parkland, Fla., is reeling from the news this weekend that two young people took their own lives. On Friday, 19-year-old Sydney Aiello was buried, five days after she killed herself. Aiello was a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year at the time of the mass shooting. A day later, on Saturday, another student took his life. He was a current student, a sophomore whom authorities haven’t identified.

      Ryan Petty, the father of Alaina Petty, a freshman killed in the February 2018 high school shooting, calls the two new deaths “heartbreaking.” This weekend, a post to his Twitter account read “17 + 2” with a broken heart. Petty says, “This is something we recognized was a possibility early on and tried to drive awareness [about] in the MSD community. I’m hoping now that as a community, we recognize that the threat is very real.”

      It’s impossible to say exactly what led these two young people to take their lives. Aiello was close friends with Meadow Pollack, one of the students killed in the attack.

      Her parents say she struggled with “survivor’s guilt.” Shortly after her graduation, she shared a post about suicide prevention on her Facebook page with a hashtag, “asking for help is not a weakness.”

      Les Gordon, a family therapist who counsels students and former students of the high school, says survivor’s guilt is a problem for many of his clients. “They wonder why they’re alive and their friend is not,” he says. “I’ve had kids just tell me that they should have been able to do something to stop the shooting.”

      On Sunday, school officials, mental health professionals, parents and others held an emergency meeting on how to respond to the suicides and reach others who may be at risk.

      In a shopping center just a mile from the school, volunteers on Monday were moving in furniture and supplies for a health and wellness center for the community. The center was supposed to open in about a month.

      Because of the suicides, Director Sarah Franco said it is opening ahead of schedule now with a critical message: “What we’re asking parents to do,” she says, “is on a daily basis to sit down with their children who are of middle or high school age to ask them if they have any thoughts of dying or any thoughts of suicide or hurting themselves. And that is a conversation that has to happen.”

      The wellness center, dubbed “Eagles Haven,” after the Stoneman Douglas mascot, is being funded by a Department of Justice grant and is modeled after similar programs that were created following school shootings in Columbine, Colo., and Sandy Hook, Conn. Franco says counselors are available at the drop-in center and are reaching out to students and others affected by the shooting to connect them with therapists.

      More than a year later, therapists say only a fraction of those affected by the shootings have sought counseling. The recent suicides are a reminder, they say, that for many, the trauma is still fresh and healing requires help.

      Petty says that following the death of his 14-year-old daughter, Alaina, he and his family have seen counselors, and it has helped. “You know we’re not there yet,” Petty says. “We have good days and we have bad days. But I can just tell everyone how important it is to seek help. And for those we’re concerned about, you know, friends, families, neighbors, let’s help them get the help that they need.”

      Monday, there was another sad reminder that long after a tragedy, trauma continues to take its toll. In Parkland, people were hit hard by news from Connecticut that the father of one of the 20 children killed in Sandy Hook took his own life.

      If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889) or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

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      DeVos opens investigation into universities tied to college admissions scandal: report | TheHill – The Hill
      DeVos opens investigation into universities tied to college admissions scandal: report | TheHill – The Hill

      Education Secretary Betsy DeVosElizabeth (Betsy) Dee DeVosCelebrity college scandal exposes deeper issues in academic system Trump signs executive order on campus free speech Student loan debt: The government broke it, and must fix it MORE has reportedly opened an investigation into several universities at the center of a college admissions bribery scandal.

      Politico, citing individuals familiar with the investigation, reported Monday that the Department of Education is looking into whether the universities broke laws or rules “governing the Federal student financial aid programs” or “any other applicable laws.”

      Earlier this month, federal prosecutors charged dozens of people allegedly implicated in a scheme to buy admission to eight universities including Yale University, Stanford University and UCLA. The scandal involved several celebrities and CEOs, who allegedly payed money to ensure their children were accepted into the schools.

      The Education Department sent letters to the presidents of Yale, UCLA, Stanford, Wake Forest University, the University of San Diego, Georgetown University, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Southern California informing them that the universities faced a “preliminary investigation” stemming from the scandal, according to Politico. 

      Politico also reported that the universities could face penalties if the department concludes that they violated federal education regulations. Those penalties could include eliminating a school’s ability to access Pell Grants and federal student loans, according to Politico.

      “The allegations made and evidence cited by the Department of Justice raise questions about whether your institution is fully meeting its obligations,” an official with the department wrote in the letters, per Politico.

      Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/435758-devos-opens-investigation-into-universities-tied-to-college

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      Steve Bannon: Trump will ‘go full animal’ against enemies with Mueller probe over – Fox News
      Steve Bannon: Trump will ‘go full animal’ against enemies with Mueller probe over – Fox News
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      Will the media’s bias against Trump change following the Mueller report?

      Following the submission of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and the subsequent summary showing that President Trump and his campaign did not collude with Russia, former White House adviser Steve Bannon said the president will “go full animal” against his political enemies.

      In an interview with Yahoo! News over the weekend, Bannon predicted that the president will “come off the chains” and will use the Mueller report findings against opponents especially if they demand additional documents.

      “He will use it to bludgeon them,” Bannon said.

      Former White House strategist Steve Bannon in a photo from last week. Bannon said President Trump would use the Mueller report against his enemies. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

      “When I saw no new indictments — I thought, Oh my God! They didn’t indict anybody regarding the Flynn investigation, they didn’t indict Don, Jr.! Maybe [Mueller] could have details about obstruction of justice that are not indictable, but are meaningful,” Bannon, who was fired from his White House role in August 2017, told the outlet. “But right now, it looks like they have nothing.”

      BANNON SAYS ‘SIX TO A DOZEN’ ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS LIKELY BEHIND ANONYMOUS OP-ED

      In the interview, Bannon said he repeatedly had told the president not to discredit Mueller, opining that the ultimate determination would vindicate Trump.

      “I kept telling him, ‘Don’t say Mueller’s bad, I don’t think he’s going to have anything.'”

      Bannon also said Democrats were “left in tears” following the report’s conclusion.

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      “On ‘Rachel Maddow,’ she went 10 minutes into her show before the words ‘no indictment’ crossed her lips. On CNN, they’re in the mumble tank,” he said. “They’re crestfallen. They thought this would be it.”

      Bannon is currently on an overseas tour geared toward supporting and unifying populist parties throughout Europe.

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      Why would AG Barr prevaricate on the Mueller report? – Washington Examiner
      Why would AG Barr prevaricate on the Mueller report? – Washington Examiner

      Over the past 24 hours, a new line of attack has emerged from liberals upset about how the Mueller investigation appears to be turning out. Some of them are livid at Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Mueller report, asking: How can we trust a Trump appointee to fairly represent its findings?

      If Mueller found a shred of evidence proving that Trump conspired or coordinated with a dictatorial foreign adversary to compromise the basis of our republic, I’d want the facts unearthed and perhaps Trump bounced out of office in a heartbeat. But I’m also a patriot who would prefer that an elected president — even one I often disagree with — is not a traitor and is not removed from office in an angry coup.

      So sure, it’s worth taking Barr’s letter with a grain of salt. But we also have to be honest about how limited this caveat truly is.

      Barr’s hands were pretty much tied when it came to how much time he had to release his summary. The media spent the better part of two years promising that the Mueller report would spell the end of the Trump administration, and if Barr held on to it for too long without disclosing anything, allegations of a cover-up would surely have emerged.

      And this is not Barr’s first rodeo. He’s hardly a Trump shill — he backed “Jeb!” in the primaries. Barr cut his teeth as a tough-on-crime prosecutor during the first Bush administration, first as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, then as deputy AG.

      Bush then appointed Barr as his AG. Congress unanimously approved his confirmation in hearings described by the LA Times as “unusually placid.” He followed his tenure at the Justice Department with the standard corporate-counsel college circuit and led a relatively uncontroversial life until Trump flailed in his search to replace former AG Jeff Sessions.

      Trump reportedly chose Barr specifically because Barr’s establishment credentials would make his confirmation possible. Until then, polarizing figures such as Pam Bondi and Chris Christie were being floated by the Trump team. Barr was the safe, “cuckservative” pick, the one who had been just critical enough of the Mueller team to garner Trump’s respect but not so sycophantic as to lose pivotal votes from purple state Senate democrats like Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

      So we have an establishment intelligence figure more detested by Sen. Ron Paul, R-Ky., than by Joe Biden, who lauded Barr during his AG confirmation hearings. And perhaps even more importantly, we have an establishment intelligence figure who’s close, personal friends with Robert Mueller himself.

      Sure, Barr could have sugarcoated the Mueller report in his summary with the intention of never revealing it to the public, perhaps equivocating around Trump’s malfeasance in the bet that no one in the entire Justice Department would leak Barr’s embellishments to the press. But doesn’t that seem like a bit of a gamble? Mueller would know if Barr is misrepresenting the truth, and surely that would make their wives’ Bible study quite awkward.

      And isn’t that reputational risk not justifiable, considering the reward would be to protect a president who hasn’t proven deeply pivotal in Barr’s career? If anything, Barr did Trump more of a favor in agreeing to take over the messiest department of his presidency than the reverse. It’s not as though, prior to December, Barr’s career wasn’t already a notable success.

      Again, anything is possible, and there’s nothing wrong with a little skepticism when the stakes are as high as they are with the Mueller report. But the notion that Barr had ample motive to spin the truth for Trump isn’t just misguided. It’s downright laughable.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-would-ag-barr-prevaricate-on-the-mueller-report

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      Michael Avenatti arrested for trying to extort Nike for up to $25M, SDNY says – Fox News
      Michael Avenatti arrested for trying to extort Nike for up to $25M, SDNY says – Fox News
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      Michael Avenatti arrested on federal charges of extortion, bank fraud and wire fraud

      Michael Avenatti, the former attorney for adult-film star Stormy Daniels, was accused Monday by federal prosecutors in New York of operating “an old-fashioned shakedown” by trying to extort between $15 and $25 million from sports apparel giant Nike, part of a string of bombshell claims against the celebrity lawyer.

      Avenatti, who briefly considered a bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, also was charged with wire fraud and bank fraud in a separate case out of California. He was taken into custody at a law firm where he had gone to meet with Nike executives. The 48-year-old appeared Monday evening in Manhattan federal court, where a magistrate judge ordered his release on $300,000 bond. He did not enter a plea.

      Prosecutors said Avenatti tried to extort Nike “by threatening to use his ability to garner publicity to inflict substantial financial and reputational harm on the company if his demands were not met.”

      A suspected co-conspirator working alongside Avenatti was identified Monday afternoon by The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal as Mark Geragos, who has represented celebrities including Michael Jackson and — more recently — “Empire” star Jussie Smollett. Geragos also was a CNN contributor.

      “As alleged, Michael Avenatti approached Nike last week with a list of financial demands in exchange for covering up allegations of misconduct on behalf of the company,” FBI Assistant Director in Charge William Sweeney Jr. said in a statement. “The lofty price tag included a $1.5 million payoff for Avenatti’s client and upwards of tens of millions of dollars for the legal services of his firm – services Nike never requested. This is nothing more than a straightforward case of extortion”

      The counts against Avenatti in the New York case are extortion, transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort, conspiracy to transmit interstate communications with intent to extort, and conspiracy to commit extortion..

      MICHAEL AVENATTI CUTS TIES WITH STORMY DANIELS

      At a news conference Monday, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said Avenatti used illegal tactics and threats in an effort to obtain millions of dollars for himself. He claimed that if Nike did not meet his demands, “the company might die.”

      “Our system of justice requires and relies on attorneys, members of the bar, to not simply follow the law, but uphold its finest principles and ideals,” Berman told reporters. “But when lawyers use their law licenses as weapons, as a guise to extort payments for themselves, they are no longer acting as attorneys. They are acting as criminals, and they will be held responsible for their conduct.”

      According to the New York complaint against him, Avenatti and the co-conspirator met with attorneys for Nike on March 19 and “threatened to release damaging information” if the company did not agree to make multi-million dollar payments to them, as well as an additional $1.5-million payment to a client Avenatti claimed to represent.

      He allegedly told the attorneys that if his demands were not met, he would “go take ten billion dollars off your client’s market cap … I’m not f—ing around.”

      The complaint said Avenatti threatened to hold a news conference on the eve of Nike’s quarterly earnings call and the start of the NCAA tournament to announce allegations of misconduct by Nike employees.

      “Nike will not be extorted or hide information that is relevant to a government investigation,” the company said in a statement obtained by Fox News. “Nike has been cooperating with the government’s investigation into NCAA basketball for over a year. When Nike became aware of this matter, Nike immediately reported it to federal prosecutors. When Mr. Avenatti attempted to extort Nike over this matter, Nike with the assistance of outside counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner, aided the investigation.

      Mark Geragos, left, is seen in this March 2015 photo representing R&B singer Chris Brown at a court hearing in Los Angeles.
      (Reuters)

      “Nike firmly believes in ethical and fair play, both in business and sports, and will continue to assist the prosecutors.”

      JUSSIE SMOLLETT IS VICTIM OF ‘MEDIA GANGBANG,’ DEFENSE ATTORNEY MARK GERAGOS SAYS

      The law office of Geragos & Geragos told Fox News that “our office has no comment” on the allegations. A spokeswoman for CNN, for whom Mark Geragos had contributed legal analysis, told the Washington Examiner that Mark Geragos was no longer a contributor at the cable network.

      Meanwhile, the alleged client was identified as a coach for an amateur athletic union men’s basketball program based in California.

      Earlier Monday, Avenatti tweeted he would be holding a news conference Tuesday to “disclose a major high school/college basketball scandal perpetrated by @Nike that we have uncovered. This criminal conduct reaches the highest levels of Nike and involves some of the biggest names in college basketball.”

      Meanwhile, at a separate news conference in California, federal investigators announced additional criminal charges against the lawyer for a separate matter. In that case, Avenatti was accused of embezzling a client’s settlement money to pay his own expenses and debts — as well as those of his coffee business and law firm.

      U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said Avenatti was charged with wire fraud and tax fraud stemming from a two-year IRS tax investigation after he allegedly obtained $4.1 million in loans for his law firm and coffee business from a Mississippi bank by using phony tax returns stating that he had made $4,562,881 in 2011, $5,423,099 in 2012, and $4,082,803 in 2013. Avenatti also stated that he had paid more than $1 million in estimated taxes to the IRS in 2012 and 2013 when, according to prosecutors, he actually owed the IRS $850,438 plus interest and penalties for the years 2009 and 2010. In addition, authorities say, Avenatti paid no personal income taxes for 2011, 2012 and 2013 and paid no estimated taxes in 2012 and 2013.

      “[Avenatti] is a corrupt lawyer who instead fights for his own selfish interest,” Hanna said, adding that the allegations against the attorney “paint an ugly picture of lawlessness and greed.”

      Avenatti became famous as the lawyer for Daniels, the adult-film actress who alleged she had an affair with President Trump in 2006 while his wife Melania was pregnant with the couple’s son, Barron. In the last year, Daniels and Avenatti became household names in their fight against Trump, dominating cable news shows for months and taunting the president in interviews.

      Daniels released a statement Monday saying she was not “shocked” by the charges against Avenatti.

      “Knowing what I know now about Michael Avenatti, I am saddened but not shocked by news reports that he has been criminally charged today,” Daniels said. “I made the decision more than a month ago to terminate Michael’s services after discovering that he had dealt with me extremely dishonestly and there will be more announcements to come.”

      Charles Harder, who represented President Trump in the Daniels case, told Fox News that Avenatti’s arrest marked “a great day for the American justice system.”

      Before Avenatti started representing Daniels in February 2018, he was virtually unknown outside of the California legal community. However, in a matter of months, he had become known as a no-holds-barred lawyer with a media style — and a penchant for tweeting — similar to Trump’s.

      On Monday, Berman emphatically denied that politics played any role in the case, noting that investigators “received the call six days ago by the victim saying that three was extortionist threats made against them and that’s how we became involved in this case.

      A senior Justice Department official told Fox News that while the California investigation into Avenatti had been going on for “a long time,” the Nike case in New York “came out of nowhere” and progressed “very quickly.”

      “We could have arrested him last week,” the official told Fox News, adding that officials wanted the charges in both cases unsealed at the same time and wanted to ensure that Avenatti’s arrest went smoothly.

      Both cases against Avenatti were overseen by the office of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Justice Department officials tell Fox News that Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed O’Callaghan, Rosenstein’s right-hand man, was involved in “significant coordination” on the Avenatti matter over the weekend while also playing a part in Attorney General William Barr’s letter to Congress summarizing the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The officials added that Barr was also aware of the Avenatti case as it developed.

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      Avenatti briefly mulled a 2020 presidential run as a Democrat — he even visited Iowa at one point — but ultimately ruled that out. He also was involved in another high-profile case, representing dozens of parents whose children were separated from them at the U.S. border as a result of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. More recently, he’s been representing women who said they were sexually abused by R&B star R. Kelly.

      In the California case, Avenatti faces up to 50 years in prison, while in the New York case, the charges carry a potential penalty of 47 years in prison.

      Fox News’ Jake Gibson, Lee Ross, Marta Dhanis and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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      Brexit goes off the cliff, again – Washington Examiner
      Brexit goes off the cliff, again – Washington Examiner

      It was supposed to take effect this week, but Brexit continues to be trapped in a political black hole.

      In the British House of Commons on Tuesday, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she will not call a third vote on her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the European Union. May stated that unless members of parliament can find an alternative Brexit arrangement, she will again delay Brexit from taking place, at least until EU elections scheduled at the end of May. But seeing as there isn’t obvious majority support for alternatives to May’s deal, Brexit itself is increasingly at risk.

      It’s hard to see where we go from here.

      There’s little indication that MPs will change their minds and give May the votes she needs. At the same time, the opposition Labour Party now sees May’s inability to effect Brexit as making a general election more likely. It is therefore opposing the prime minister in the hope that she’ll be forced to call an election that gets them into power.

      If Brexit is delayed until June, then May might well call an election that gauges public support for the various Brexit proposals that each party is offering. Alternatively, she might seek parliamentary assent for a second referendum on Brexit itself.

      But the topline is simple: Brexit continues to be a big mess. Very little is certain anymore, including whether Britain will ever leave the EU at all.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/brexit-goes-off-the-cliff-again

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      Lindsey Graham calls for focus after Mueller to shift to FBI, Clinton campaign – Washington Examiner
      Lindsey Graham calls for focus after Mueller to shift to FBI, Clinton campaign – Washington Examiner

      Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday he intends to uncover whether there was any wrongdoing by the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton’s campaign now that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe found the Trump campaign did not conspire with the Russians.

      Graham said he wants more answers on the “shady behavior” of Democrats and Obama administration officials during the 2016 presidential campaign.

      “When it comes to the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] warrant, the Clinton campaign, the counterintelligence investigation, it’s pretty much been swept under the rug except by a few Republicans in the House. Those days are over. Going forward, hopefully in a bipartisan fashion, we’ll begin to unpack the other side of the story,” Graham said at a news conference.

      Republicans have accused the Justice Department and the FBI of abusing FISA and misleading the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in their investigation into Trump and his associates during the campaign, particularly focusing on the use of an unverified dossier that detailed Trump’s alleged links to Russia. Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm, was paid by the conservative Washington Free Beacon to conduct research on Trump and other candidates during the Republican presidential primaries. When the outlet’s interest in the research lapsed, Fusion GPS approached a law firm for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to continue that funding.

      Graham also questioned the FBI’s actions during its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state and said he believes there is more to be uncovered about what happened when former Attorney General Loretta Lynch secretly met with former President Bill Clinton in a plane on the tarmac in Phoenix during the investigation.

      “What was the conflict that made Loretta lynch so unable to preside over the Clinton email investigation? Was it just a tarmac meeting or was it more? I believe there was more there. And I intend to get to there,” he said.

      [Read: Attorney General William Barr’s letter on Mueller final report]

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-calls-for-focus-after-mueller-to-shift-to-fbi-clinton-campaign

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      A cruise ship sailed into an intense cyclone. These warning signs showed trouble was brewing at sea. – Washington Post
      A cruise ship sailed into an intense cyclone. These warning signs showed trouble was brewing at sea. – Washington Post

      When a big storm is brewing, sailing into it generally isn’t such a great idea. Rolling the dice on a well-forecast “bomb cyclone” is just asking for trouble.

      The cruise ship Viking Sky’s mayday call came midmorning Saturday just off the shore of Norway. It followed an engine failure that left the ship stranded in harsh conditions. Waves topping 60 feet and winds exceeding hurricane strength buffeted the crippled vessel. The storm had the air pressure of a Category 3 hurricane.

      The storm system that would eventually terrify people aboard the Viking Sky didn’t come without warning. It didn’t materialize out of nowhere. And it didn’t develop on a whim. Instead, the sprawling low-pressure zone was hinted at by weather models up to a week in advance.

      Simulations as early as March 16 indicated a wave of low pressure would rapidly intensify sometime around the weekend of March 23-24 between Iceland and Norway. But it wasn’t clear exactly where.


      Weather models warned about a cyclone days earlier. (Weather.us, adapted by Matthew Cappucci)

      It’s not unusual for intense cyclones to develop in this part of the world in March. The equinoctial seasons are known for their vicious transitions, which often manifest as violent open-ocean storms. The northeast Atlantic is a notoriously rough patch of maritime real estate in the late winter and early spring, often spinning up gales that can test even the most experienced captains.

      The forecast became much clearer Wednesday into Thursday, when it appeared obvious that the central coast of Norway would be hard-hit.

      The Viking Sky departed Bergen, Norway, on March 14, bound for a port-hopping excursion northward up the coast. It would then turn around and hit several cities on its way south, eventually steaming to Tilbury, England, where it was slated to arrive Monday.


      The Viking Sky arrives at port in Molde, Norway, on Sunday. (Svein Ove Ekornesvag/NTB Scanpix/AP)

      But Saturday’s system was on a crash course with the Viking Sky’s desired path. The ship could have remained docked in Bodo to ride out the storm. Instead, it continued south and stranded, prompting an airlift evacuation. The Viking Sky arrived safely into the port of Molde, Norway, on Sunday.

      A significant wave height of 43.6 feet was reported at 4 p.m. local time Saturday at the Heidrun buoy by Weather.us. This reflects just an average of the biggest waves, and several may have been taller, even topping 60 feet.

      Waves are a byproduct of wind, and they take time to build to such impressive heights. Thirty-foot waves occurred for an astonishing 17 consecutive hours at the same station.


      Gusty winds hammered the Norwegian coast on Saturday. (Weather.us, adapted by Matthew Cappucci)

      The winds were extreme, measuring 87 mph over the open ocean and clocking in closer to 70 mph nearest to shore. At Svinoy — 60 miles southwest of where the Viking Sky is docked — winds hit 69 mph.

      In ordinary circumstances, the Viking Sky can cruise at 20 knots, or 23 mph. That would have been enough time to make it back to shore within a half-hour or so because most of its journey was spent in sight of land. The issue in this case was the engine failure, which could not have been planned for. So while the ship did continue to operate in treacherous weather, it probably was not a conscious decision — unlike Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas’s infamous 2018 encounter with a bomb cyclone.

      The inability to navigate or turn the ship also left the Viking Sky susceptible to being broadsided by waves. Several large breakers plowed into the ship, shattering windows. Video footage shows the ship listing at nearly 20 degrees to the horizontal. That’s because the ship’s 95-foot width tucked it in between wave crests, exposing the vessel to maximum sideways rocking motion when a wave passed through.

      The storm system has since dissipated, weakening over the Norwegian and Barents seas.

      The incident is set to be probed by the Norwegian Accident Investigation Board.


      Passengers are helped from a rescue helicopter in Fraena, Norway, on Sunday. (Svein Ove Ekornesvag/NTB Scanpix/AP)

      Related: ‘Freak thing’: 115 mph ‘extreme’ gust rattles Bahamas-bound cruise ship, injuring passengers

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/03/25/cruise-ship-sailed-into-an-intense-cyclone-these-warning-signs-showed-trouble-was-brewing-sea/

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      Why Israel is so good at targeting Hamas – Washington Examiner
      Why Israel is so good at targeting Hamas – Washington Examiner

      Responding to a Hamas rocket strike that wounded seven Israelis, the Israeli Defense Forces successfully targeted high-value Hamas facilities across the Gaza strip. Once again, the IDF showed their great knowledge of where Hamas posts are hidden.

      But how do they know those locations? It’s an important question because the IDF hasn’t been picking off low-hanging fruit. On the contrary, its targets included Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s office, Hamas’ military intelligence headquarters, and its internal security headquarters.

      The answer: Israel is better at spying than Hamas is at catching spies. That’s down to Israel’s ability to saturate the Gaza strip with a wide range of highly capable intelligence platforms. Consider how these efforts come together.

      First up, there are the IDF’s drones that provide near-constant real-time intelligence flow from the skies above Gaza. Monitoring the movement of Hamas officers, these drones allow the Israelis to know where targets are traveling to and from. That allows for other intelligence assets to be directed at locations that have a nexus to Hamas. Once identified as such, these facilities or officials can then be targeted by Israeli strikes.

      Then there’s the work of the IDF’s Unit 8200 signal intelligence service. Monitoring Hamas communications, Unit 8200 provides insight into the group’s planning and enables IDF targeting.

      But while the IDF controls the sky above Gaza and listens to the sounds inside the territory, Israeli intelligence forces also play a crucial role on the ground. This mission centers on the IDF covert infiltration units Samson, and Unit 217, and the border police’s Yamas unit. Operating in small teams throughout the Gaza strip, these units dress and act like normal Palestinian residents of Gaza. But they take extraordinary risks in monitoring Hamas leaders and identifying new Hamas facilities. This constant human intelligence effort is crucial because Hamas constantly relocates its operation centers so as to reduce the probability of Israeli detection. Of course, Israeli spies also recruit Hamas officials who can then provide intelligence on the group from a position of access.

      The basic point is that when this effort comes together, it allows Israeli commanders to know where their enemies are located, and what they are doing in those locations. In turn, the IDF is able to launch short notice, but highly effective, strikes that drive Hamas to reconsider whether escalation with Israel is really such a good idea.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-israel-is-so-good-at-targeting-hamas

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      Trump allies await results of two internal probes that could expose Russia investigation backstory – Fox News
      Trump allies await results of two internal probes that could expose Russia investigation backstory – Fox News
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      Scrubbing of sensitive information from Mueller report begins

      Secret grand jury testimony and information related to ongoing investigations will be removed from the report before it can be made public; Doug McKelway reports from Washington.

      Following the revelation that Special Counsel Robert Mueller unearthed no evidence that President Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election, Trump allies are now awaiting the results of two long-running internal probes that could expose the backstory behind the Russia probe’s beginnings — and provide more detail on already-documented misconduct among top FBI and DOJ officials.

      DOJ Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz confirmed at a panel discussion last week that his office is continuing to review potential surveillance abuses by the FBI, a review that began last March and that Fox News is told is nearing completion. Horowitz has previously found that senior FBI officials routinely leaked information without authorization to the media, and also received “improper gifts” from reporters, including meals and sporting event tickets. Most notably, Horowitz found that FBI officials’ anti-Trump communications raised doubts as to the integrity of their work.

      Republicans, meanwhile, are increasingly looking for answers from U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber, who was appointed a year ago by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to review not only surveillance abuses by the FBI and DOJ, but also authorities’ handling of the probe into the Clinton Foundation. Huber, Republicans have cautioned, has apparently made little progress, and spoken to few key witnesses and whistleblowers.

      But in January, then-Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker reportedly indicated at a private meeting that Huber’s work was continuing apace.

      Among the primary looming questions that the IG has said he will address, and that Huber is expected to review: Did the FBI follow all applicable “legal requirements” when FBI lawyer Lisa Page and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil Trump aide Carter Page — weeks before the 2016 presidential election — by relying heavily on a dossier created by a firm working for the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC)?

      STRZOK-PAGE TEXT MESSAGES REVEAL FBI ‘LEAKING LIKE MAD‘; STRZOK VOWS TO ‘STOP’ TRUMP FROM BECOMING PRESIDENT

      Internal text messages exclusively published last week by Fox News showed that a senior DOJ official apparently battled with the FBI over the political bias of the author of the dossier, British ex-spy Christopher Steele. The unverified dossier was eventually published by BuzzFeed News, fueling months of speculation about the Trump team’s alleged ties to Russia — even though key assertions in the dossier have since been contradicted or proven entirely unsubstantiated.

       Michael Horowitz, inspector general of the Justice Department, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee in Hart Building titled “Oversight of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and Attempts to Influence U.S. Elections: Lessons Learned from Current and Prior Administrations,” on July 26, 2017.  (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
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      The texts also showed FBI brass circulating a Mother Jones article, among others, that racheted up media attention on Page’s supposed links to Russian officials and ominously warned of a “Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump.” One anti-Trump blog post circulated by Lisa Page, which she said had “surely” been read by then-FBI Director James Comey, called Trump a “useful idiot” for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Another, which Lisa Page called a “must read,” characterized Trump as a national security threat.

      Carter Page has not been charged with any wrongdoing despite more than a year of federal surveillance, and he is now suing multiple actors, including the Democratic National Committee, for defamation.

      In its FISA application, the FBI incorrectly assured the FISA court that a Yahoo News article provided an independent basis to surveil Page, even though Steele was the source of the Yahoo News article. The FISA application also did not make clear that the Steele application had been funded by Fusion GPS, a firm retained by the Clinton team — it instead only stated that Steele’s work was done in connection with a campaign.

      FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: NEW TEXT MESSAGES SHOW FBI FIGHTING WITH DOJ OVER WARRANT TO MONITOR TRUMP AIDE

      The text messages also revealed that, just days after Trump said during an October 2016 presidential debate that a special prosecutor should investigate the tens of thousands of emails deleted from Hillary Clinton’s private email server, FBI lawyer Lisa Page pushed for the FISA warrant to monitor the Trump aide.

      “We have a FISA-related review that people might have heard about that the deputy attorney general asked us to take a look at,” Horowitz told attendees at a Washington, D.C. event organized by the Atlantic Council. He took no further questions on the topic. Although only the government presents a case at FISA warrant hearings, defendants retain their constitutional rights against unlawful searches, and DOJ guidelines preclude the FBI from omitting exculpatory evidence, or misrepresenting sources, in FISA applications.

      SYSTEM-WIDE FBI SOFTWARE FAILURE BLAMED FOR MISSING STRZOK-PAGE TEXTS; STRZOK’S PHONE FROM DAYS ON MUELLER TEAM TOTALLY WIPED

      Separately, federal investigators are also continuing their review of systemic leaks at all levels of the FBI. Former FBI Acting Director McCabe was fired from the bureau in March 2018 after it was determined he lied to FBI investigators and Comey about a leak four times, including under oath, and a grand jury has been impaneled to investigate the matter.

      McCabe, officials say, authorized a leak to a newspaper reporter about the contents of a telephone call on August 2016 in order cast himself in a positive light in the upcoming story about an investigation involving Hillary Clinton. While McCabe had the authority to authorize such a disclosure, the IG determined that the authorization was aimed at advancing his own rather than the bureau’s interests.

      Newly obtained texts between Andrew McCabe and Lisa Page reveal that they mocked President Trump

      Fox News obtained texts between former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page revealing that the two shared derogatory blogs about Trump and mocked former Congressman Trey Gowdy; Catherine Herridge reports.

      DOJ investigators have also uncovered a slew of unauthorized contacts between FBI agents and reporters. Remarkably, at least two unauthorized phone calls to reporters came from an “unattributed FBI HQ phone number,” the IG said last year — suggesting that some employees at the bureau were brazenly leaking information from phones in the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

      Huber’s investigation, meanwhile, has been dogged by allegations that he has not interviewed witnesses who could shed light on those topics. In a letter to Mr. Huber, Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan and Georgia GOP Rep. Doug Collins said they interviewed dozens of witnesses while his probe was simultaneously running.

      “During the course of our extensive investigation we have interviewed more than a dozen current and former DOJ and FBI personnel, and were surprised to hear none of these potentially informative witnesses testified to speaking with you,” Jordan, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Collins, the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote to Huber.

      Republicans have charged that John Huber, the U.S. Attorney assigned to probe the FBI’s handling of Clinton and FISA matters, has not done his job. (Official government photo.)

      In a deep dive published late last year, RealClearInvestigations reported that Huber’s appointment was internally seen as little more than a political effort to placate Republicans.

      “At the time, people wanted a special counsel, but Jeff Sessions announced he brought in Huber and people said, ‘OK, we got Huber on it,’” former Justice Department prosecutor Victoria Toensing told the outlet. “But it was a head fake.”

      Toensing added: “It’s a farce. It’s an embarrassment how this has been handled.” (Weeks later, Whitaker reportedly told former Attorney General Ed Meese over breakfast, in a meeting first reported by the Associcated Press, that Huber’s work was ongoing.)

      Carter Page told The Washington Times late last year that he had not spoken to Mr. Huber, but was eager to do so.

      ANALYSIS: BRUCE OHR TESTIMONY SHOWS SOMETHING’S REALLY ROTTEN AT THE DOJ

      Justice Department official Bruce Ohr also told Congress in August that he had not spoken with Huber. Ohr effectively served as a back channel between Steele and the FBI, after the FBI dropped Steele as a source for leaking to the media.

      New details, nevertheless, have emerged about the FBI’s handling of its investigation into the Clinton Foundation — ostensibly an area of focus for Huber. Among the key new information: The Justice Department “negotiated” an agreement with Clinton’s legal team in 2016 that ensured the FBI did not have access to emails on her private servers relating to the Clinton Foundation.

      Former FBI special agent Peter Strzok, who was fired for breaking FBI protocol by sending numerous anti-Trump text messages on his government-issued phone while working as the No. 2 official on the Clinton and Trump investigations, first acknowledged the arrangement during a secretive closed-door appearance before the House Judiciary Committee last summer.

      Senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, left, continued to communicate with former British spy Christopher Steele, right, even after the FBI cut ties with him.
      (AP)

      Republicans late last year renewed their efforts to probe the Clinton Foundation, after tax documents showed a plunge in its incoming donations after Clinton’s 2016 presidential election loss. The numbers fueled longstanding allegations of possible “pay-to-play” transactions at the organization, amid a Justice Department probe covering foundation issues.

      Even aside from the probes by Huber and the IG, Republicans on Monday called for new inquiries, including a special counsel to probe “the other side of the story.”

      “I’d like to find somebody, like a Mr. Mueller, that can look into what happened with the FISA warrants, the counterintelligence investigation,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Monday. “Am I right to be concerned? It seems pretty bad on its face—but there are some people that are never going to accept the Mueller report, but by any reasonable standard, Mueller thoroughly investigated the Trump campaign. You cannot say that about the other side of the story.”

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      Graham added: “I hope Mr. Barr will appoint somebody outside the current system to look into these allegations, somebody we all trust, and let them do what Mueller did,” he continued, adding that he has been calling for the appointment of a second special counsel since 2017 to investigate “whether or not a counterintelligence investigation was opened as a back door to spy on the Trump campaign.”

      “A counterintelligence investigation is designed to protect the entity being targeted by a foreign power…I still am at a loss as to why nobody went to President Trump to tell him,” Graham told reporters.

      Fox News’ Catherine Herridge, Brooke Singman, and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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      Moscow feels vindicated in the wake of “no collusion” – Fox News
      Moscow feels vindicated in the wake of “no collusion” – Fox News
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      Does the Mueller report give President Trump a leg up going into 2020?

      A sense of victory and vindication emanated from the Kremlin on Monday, following the revelation that the special counsel concluded there was no evidence that Trump team had colluded with Russia for a 2016 presidential victory.

      “It is hard to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if it is not there,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov – who has long dismissed any allegations of connivance – in a call with journalists on Monday, referencing a Chinese philosopher. “Centuries have passed, but unfortunately there has been no understanding of this on the other side of the ocean.”

      In a four-page letter to Congress released Sunday, Attorney General William Barr said “the Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from Russia-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.”

      “The agents of conspiracy theory have been discredited,” wrote Alexey Pushkov, a foreign affairs specialist in the upper house of parliament, tweeted – pointing to Democratic and media attempts to push a theory of collusion. “From now on, only an idiot can believe them.”

      FORMER CLINTON ADVISER SAYS DEMOCRATS RISK BACKLASH IF THEY DON’T ACCEPT MUELLER FINDINGS AND MOVE ON

      He also contended that the “biased, artificial, provocative, conspiratorial, designed-to-fuel hatred toward Trump campaign” had a second objective, which was to “demonize Russia and prevent any U.S. moves towards better relations with Moscow.”

      The Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom also took aim at those who maintained the narrative that Trump’s campaign did indeed conspire with Russia for election victory.

      “That awkward moment when another anti-Russian fake crumbles to dust,” the official tweet said. “Excuses, anyone?

      And for Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of parliament, it was both an “I told you so” moment and a moment of regret over two withered years of deteriorating Russia-U.S. ties.

      “Mueller’s long-awaited report proved what was known in Russia from the very beginning,” he wrote in a Facebook post on Monday. “Two years of unceasing lies. Two years of the highest-level policy built on the allegation of collusion. A conspiracy explaining the allegedly pro-Russian position of Trump, because of which he was essentially forced to impose more and more stringent measures against our country.”

      Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with U.S. National security adviser John Bolton during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

      Kosachyov also sought some kind of reconciliation.

      “That is why two years were not just lost for Russian-American relations, but simply crushing for them,” he continued. “Someone will answer for this damage? Someone apologize? Someone will adjust something?”

      Moreover, Russian media, which is mostly owned or overseen by authorities, didn’t waste any time in boasting about the report.

      According to Vitali Shkliarov, an expert in U.S.-Russian relations and former senior adviser to Russian opposition presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, the news about the Mueller report was “received with great enthusiasm’ in the former Soviet nation.

      “This is a topic that has garnered a great deal of interest and attention there,” he told Fox News. “There was wide coverage about the announcement of the results, much of it tinged with sarcasm. Even liberal politicians seem pleased with the results and are critical of the length and cost of the investigation.”

      One anchor of the popular Moscow daytime political show “Time Will Tell” stated on Monday that “the investigation was useless” and “its results proved that it was useless.”

      Nonetheless, scores of political pundits, analysts and anti-Trump advocates in the United States still beg to differ on the summary. Many have voiced skepticism of Barr’s findings, while also emphasizing the fact that the attorney general’s summary said Mueller had reached no explicit resolution on whether or not Trump had attempted to obstruct justice.

      HOLLYWOOD STARS APOPLECTIC OVER MUELLER PROBE FINDINGS: ‘YOU CAN’T INDICT A HAM SANDWICH’

      But that, too, became fodder for laughs among the Moscow media.

      A “Russia Today” headline on Monday was titled “Mueller meltdown: #Resistance licks wounds, MAGA camp enjoys salty popcorn & meme.”

      The Moscow-funded outlet crowed that as the “Russiagate conspiracy theory disintegrates in the wake of the Mueller report’s conclusions, resistance (on) Twitter is struggling to cope, while Trump supporters are basking in the foes’ suffering.”

      “The reality-based community could only look on in amazement. And laugh,” the article continued, underscoring those who “screeched about a cover-up.”

      Putin and Trump souvenirs for sale in Moscow
      (Fox News/Hollie McKay)

      According to data exclusively obtained by Fox News from Sc2 Corp, a private analytics firm that combs online and social media data for the Special operations and national security community-based in Clearwater, Fla., the overall analogy was that few in Russia expressed surprise over the Mueller findings. The news prompted a spike in user engagement in Russia, with “positive sentiment” towards the news outweighing negative sentiment, but much of the engagement on the issue was relatively neutral.

      “Russians are more concerned about internal ‘Troll Farms’ fomenting dissension and division at home and abroad,” one of the firm’s data experts noted.

      Trump, who has from the very beginning framed the Mueller probe as a “witch hunt,” also claimed a triumph over the weekend, and questions have since swirled as to what that means for the Washington-Moscow accord in the near future.

      “Russia is celebrating. There may not have been coordination with the campaign, but the U.S. intelligence community had documented extensive influence operations,” said Brett Bruen, a former U.S. diplomat who previously served as Director of Global Engagement at the White House. “I am very worried that Moscow will interpret this report as a bright green light to accelerate their influence operations. The Mueller report is the perfect tool to try and further divide Americans who have dramatically opposing interpretations of his decision.”

      Nonetheless, other experts see a positive path for a genuine relationship reset.

      “No one in Russia expects immediate changes, especially in respect to sanctions, but most believe that by the end of this year there will be more constructive dialogue and a real potential for improvement in our bilateral relations,” observed Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. Attorney, and lawyer in foreign affairs. “Trump’s original goal of exploring ways to improve Russia relations has been paralyzed by the investigative processes. While political resistance will remain, he is now able to focus his efforts on what is best for the United States.”

      NO TRUMP MEETING THIS TRIP, BUT PUTIN’S STAGE-MANAGING ALWAYS A FACTOR

      But Luke Coffey, director of the Allison Center for Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation cautioned there are many more obstacles impeding diplomatic ties beyond the Mueller matter.

      “Russia invaded and occupies a large section of Ukraine, and continues to occupy a large section of Georgia. Both of these countries are U.S. partners. Russia also continues to prop up Assad, which allows the civil war in Syria to continue,” he noted. “Moscow is also showing support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela, thus prolonging the suffering there. Until Russia stops its regional aggression and malign activity, U.S.-Russia relations can never get back on track.”

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      Yet others predict the worst may be yet to come.

      “In the larger context, those who lean against Trump will continue to destabilize the presidency,” added one source closely connected to the investigation. “This will only fuel efforts of Democrats to mess with the President.”

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      Stormy Daniels’ ex-lawyer Michael Avenatti arrested for alleged $20 million extortion scheme against Nike, embezzling client’s money, defrauding bank – CNBC
      Stormy Daniels’ ex-lawyer Michael Avenatti arrested for alleged $20 million extortion scheme against Nike, embezzling client’s money, defrauding bank – CNBC

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      Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was arrested Monday in New York City on charges of trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening to reveal claims that company employees authorized payments to the families of top high school basketball players.

      Avenatti also was separately charged in a second federal case in Los Angeles with embezzling a client’s money “in order to pay his own expenses and debts” and those of his law firm and coffee company, and of “defrauding a bank in Mississippi,” prosecutors said.

      The famously aggressive litigator gained widespread notoriety in the past year for representing porn star Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Donald Trump and his former lawyer Michael Cohen related to a nondisclosure agreement she signed on the eve of the 2016 presidential election to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump in exchange for a $130,000 payment. Last year, Avenatti announced that he was considering running for president.

      Daniels replaced Avenatti as her lawyer earlier this month after a fallout with him.

      Daniels, in a statement released by her new lawyer Clark Brewster, told CNBC that, “Knowing what I know now about Michael, I’m saddened but not shocked regarding his arrest.”

      “I made the decision weeks ago to terminate Michael’s services after discovering that he had dealt with me extremely dishonestly, and I will have my own announcement coming soon,” Daniels said.

      Avenatti, 48, was arrested in Midtown Manhattan at the law offices of Boies Schiller Flexner at 12:30 p.m. ET by FBI agents, about 15 minutes after he tweeted that he would be disclosing a big high school and college basketball scandal “perpetrated by” Nike that he supposedly had uncovered.

      Boies Schiller lawyers were representing Nike and were scheduled to meet with at their office with Avenatti and his unidentified co-conspirator to discuss Avenatti’s demands, according to the company and prosecutors.

      The co-conspirator was identifed by sources to NBC News as Mark Geragos, a high-profile California criminal defense lawyer, who is now representing actor Jussie Smollet in a case where the “Empire” cast member is accused of lying to Chicago cops about a purported hate-crime attack.

      A person who answered Geragos’s office phone told CNBC, “We are not at liberty to speak on the matter. We are not releasing any comments.”

      Nike stock initially nose dived after Avenatti’s tweet, but later recovered much of the losses.

      Prosecutors said Avenatti’s alleged effort to shakedown Nike for millions of dollars kicked off in earnest last Tuesday, and quickly escalated over the next two days as he threatened to hold a press conference accusing the company of being involved in bribing amateur basketball players.

      According to a criminal complaint, Avenatti offered to refrain from that press conference “only if Nike made a payment of $1.5 million to a client of Avenatti’s in possession of information damaging to Nike … and agreed to ‘retain’ Avenatti and [a co-conspirator] to conduct an ‘internal investigation’ — an investigation that Nike did not request — for which Avenatti and [the co-conspirator] demanded to be paid, at a minimum, between $15 [million] and $25 million.”

      The co-conspirator is “an attorney licensed to practice in the state of California, and similarly known for representation of celebrity and public figure clients,” the complaint said.

      The client of Avenatti’s is “a coach of an amateur athletic union … men’s basketball program based in California,” who for a number of years had a sponsorship agreement with Nike, the complaint said.

      The complaint says that on Wednesday, Avenatti and a cooperating witness spoke by phone with lawyers for Nike “during which Avenatti stated, with respect to his demands for payment of millions of dollars, that if those demands were not met ‘I’ll go take ten billion dollars off your client’s market cap … I’m not f—ing around.'”

      U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, speaking at a press conference in Manhattan, said, “By engaging in the conduct alleged in the complaint, Avenatti was not acting as an attorney. “

      “A suit and tie does not mask the fact that at its core, this was an old-fashioned shake down,” Berman said. The prosecutor said the investigation is continuing.

      Avenatti is due to be appear in Manhattan federal court on Monday on charges of conspiracy, extortion and transmitting interstate communications with intent to extort. That is the same court where Trump’s ex-lawyer Cohen pleaded guilty last year to crimes that included campaign finance law violations related to the hush-money payments to Daniels.

      Avenatti is charged in the Los Angeles case with two criminal counts, wire fraud and bank fraud.

      In a statement, Nike said, “Nike will not be extorted or hide information that is relevant to a government investigation.”

      “Nike has been cooperating with the government’s investigation into NCAA basketball for over a year,” the company said. “When Nike became aware of this matter, Nike immediately reported it to federal prosecutors. When Mr. Avenatti attempted to extort Nike over this matter, Nike with the assistance of outside counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner, aided the investigation.”

      “Nike firmly believes in ethical and fair play, both in business and sports, and will continue to assist the prosecutors,” the company said.

      Avenatti’s law firm in Los Angeles had no immediate comment. The White House did not immediately comment.

      But Trump’s re-election campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted a reference to Avenatti’s arrest and to the release of a summary of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller that did not end in criminal allegations against the president.

      In the Los Angeles federal case, Avenatti is accused in a 197-page complaint of negotiating a $1.6 million settlement for a client in a civil case, but then giving the client “a bogus settlement agreement with a false payment date of March 10, 2018.”

      The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles said “Avenatti misappropriated his client’s settlement money and used it to pay expenses for his coffee business, Global Baristas US LLC, which operated Tully’s Coffee stores in California and Washington state, as well as for his own expenses.”

      “When the fake March 2018 deadline passed and the client asked where the money was, Avenatti continued to conceal that the payment had already been received,” according to prosecutors.

      “Mr. Avenatti is facing serious criminal charges alleging he misappropriated client trust funds for his personal use and he defrauded a bank by submitting phony tax returns in order to obtain millions of dollars in loans,” U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said.

      Hanna’s office said Avenatti also allegedly defrauded a bank in Mississippi by submitting to that bank fake tax returns to get three loans totaling $4.1 million for his law firm and coffee business in 2014.

      The tax returns indicated that he had “substantial income even though he had never filed any such returns with the Internal Revenue Service,” the prosecutor’s office said. “The phony returns stated that he earned $4,562,881 in adjusted gross income in 2011, $5,423,099 in 2012, and $4,082,803 in 2013. … Avenatti allegedly also claimed he paid $1.6 million in estimated tax payments to the IRS in 2012 and paid $1.25 million in 2013.”

      “In reality, Avenatti never filed personal income tax returns for 2011, 2012 and 2013 and did not make any estimated tax payments in 2012 and 2013,” Hanna’s office said.

      “Instead of the millions of dollars he claimed to have paid in taxes, Avenatti still owed the IRS $850,438 in unpaid personal income tax plus interest and penalties for the tax years 2009 and 2010. Avenatti also submitted a fictitious partnership tax return for his law firm,” the investigators said.

      U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles Nicola Hanna said, “On his Twitter account, Mr. Avenatti describes himself as ‘Attorney, Advocate, Fighter for Good.’ But the allegations in this case describe something different: A corrupt lawyer who instead fights for his own selfish interests by misappropriating close to $1 million that rightfully belong to one of his clients.”

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