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"According to the New York Times, Mueller took over the counterintelligence probe when he was appointed days after it was opened as part of his broader mandate to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether Trump or any of his associates colluded with Russia. 

It is not clear whether Mueller pursued the matter." 

NYT FBI Trump Report Could Take Muller's Probe to a New Level 

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January 12, 2019

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Michael_Novakhov shared this story from "Investigations of Donald Trump" - Google News. Donald Trump says wall talks 'waste of time', dismisses Russia ... The Australian Financial Review-Jan 31, 2019 Washington | A defiant President Donald Trump declared Thursday ... of wrongdoing in the investigations that have ensnared his associates. Trump, in Interview, Calls Wall Talks 'Waste of Time' and Dismisses ... Highly Cited-New York Times-Jan 31, 2019 Donald Trump's campaign cash machine: big, brawny and burning ... International-Center for Public Integrity-Jan 31, 2019 New York Times Where the investigations related to President Trump stand Economic Times-6 hours ago Where investigations related to President Donald Trump stand and what ... Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into whether the Trump ... The FBI is playing politics with Donald Trump: Today's talker USA TODAY-Jan 14, 2019 The New York Times reported Friday that after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, the bureau began to investigate ... FBI Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on ... Highly Cited-New York Times-Jan 11, 2019 The FBI's Reported Investigation of President Trump Could Take the ... International-TIME-Jan 12, 2019 Trump: report FBI investigated him as possible Russian agent is ... In-Depth-The Guardian-Jan 13, 2019 View all
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Michael_Novakhov shared this story . At a closed-door meeting on February 15, the justices are scheduled to consider what additional portions, if any, of the Supreme Court’s file on the dispute can be opened up. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images mueller investigation Mueller role confirmed in subpoena battle with mystery firm By JOSH GERSTEIN Updated 2019-02-02T12:15-0500 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Attorneys from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office are the prosecutors locked in a mysterious grand jury subpoena fight that a state-owned foreign company has taken all the way to the Supreme Court, court records now confirm. A docket unsealed by the U.S. District Court in Washington shows two prosecutors from Mueller’s office, Scott Meisler and Zainab Ahmad, are handling the dispute on behalf of the special counsel. Story Continued Below The country and the company resisting Mueller’s demand for information have still not been publicly identified, but the district court and a federal appeals court confirmed this week that Atlanta-based Alston and Bird is representing the firm at the center of the fight. Alston and Bird’s clients have included Russian interests including a Russian oligarch, although it’s unclear if the present fight involves a company from Russia or elsewhere. The dispute has proceeded with unusual secrecy, including — until now — the names of the lawyers for both sides being withheld by the three different federal courts to grapple with the matter. However, with journalists pressing for more access to the details of the fight, the district court released a docket sheetWednesday laying out a timeline of the filings in the dispute. With no fanfare, the same court posted a slightly less redacted version of that docket online Thursday. The new version revealed the names of Meisler and Ahmad, as well as four attorneys for the foreign company: Brian Boone, Ted Kang, Emily Costin and Karl Geercken. AdChoices ADVERTISING On Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unsealed a document also naming Boone and Kang as lawyers for the company in that court. The Friday order making that document public also discloses that the opposition to unsealing the records has come from Mueller’s prosecutors, at least in recent weeks. Meisler is an appellate lawyer who has worked on Mueller’s prosecution of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Ahmad, who worked previously as a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, is assigned to the case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. Last month, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press asked the Supreme Court and the D.C. Circuit to unseal more information about the legal imbroglio. “It looks like it is the government that is resisting disclosure and that the company wanted the public to know that fact,” said Ted Boutrous, who is representing the Reporters Committee in its bid to unseal details of the case. “Absent some extraordinary order that we don’t know about, there is nothing stopping the company from revealing its identity and we are hoping it will do so now that its lawyers have gone on the record with their identity in this filing.” Boone and Kang did not immediately reply to a request for comment Friday. The government’s explanation of the need for some of the more extreme secrecy in the case, such as the deletion of prosecutors’ names and titles from the public record, has not been disclosed. However, in a Supreme Court filing last week, the Justice Department said it believed some more information in court filings there could be released without harming grand jury secrecy. A spokesman for Mueller’s office declined to comment Friday, but acknowledged that Meisler and Ahmad are assigned to Mueller’s team. POLITICO first reported last October that the court fight appeared to involve Mueller’s prosecutors. Shortly after a deadline on an appeal the firm was pursuing, a man entered the appeals court clerk’s office and said he needed a copy of the filing just submitted by the special counsel. The law firm representative refused to identify himself to a reporter who was present. Another hint came from records showing D.C. Circuit Judge Greg Katsas — who formerly worked as deputy White House Counsel under President Donald Trump — recused himself from the dispute. CNN has reported that it observed prosecutors from Mueller’s office emerging from Chief Judge Beryl Howell’s courtroom in September and October along with Kang and Boone. Kang’s page on the Alston and Bird website touts his involvement in Mueller-related matters. “Representing numerous entities and individuals in connection with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election,” the page says. Story Continued Below So far, the firm has failed to get much traction for its arguments that the company should be immune from the grand jury demand because the firm is effectively part of a foreign government. Both Howell and a three-judge D.C. Circuit panel rejected those arguments. When the firm took the issue to the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts briefly stayed Howell’s contempt order and the $50,000-a-day financial penalty Howell imposed for defying her order. However, the high court lifted that stay several weeks ago. After that ruling, the two sides squared off again in front of Howell over whether she has power to enforce the financial sanction. She denied the firm’s motion to declare the order unenforceable, a docket made public this week shows. While the Supreme Court turned down the company’s bid for emergency relief, the firm’s petition asking the justices to review the lower court rulings remains pending at the high court. At a closed-door meeting on February 15, the justices are scheduled to consider what additional portions, if any, of the Supreme Court’s file on the dispute can be opened up. Disclosure: Gerstein serves on a governing board of the Reporters Committee.
Facebook faces seven data probes as watchdog here to use tougher EU rules
Michael_Novakhov shared this story . Stephanie Bodoni Facebook faces seven separate data protection probes here as the Data Protection Commissioner looks to take advantage of new rules that allow the watchdog to impose hefty fines. The investigations are among 16 cases targeting big technology companies including Twitter, Apple, LinkedIn, and also Facebook's WhatsApp and Instagram. Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon told Bloomberg that many of the probes opened by the Irish and other EU regulators "are centered on the activities of very big internet companies with tens and hundreds of millions of users". That could ultimately be "a very large factor when looking at the scale of a fine". Regulators across Europe are looking to increase the level of fines they issue under the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which allows penalties as large as 4pc of a company's annual revenue. A record €50m French fine against Google last month showed that watchdogs took the new guidelines seriously. "Undoubtedly, the Google fine is not the last of them," said Ms Dixon, who has been in the post since 2014. Ms Dixon is the Eurozone's key regulator, because of the fact that so many American tech companies have their European headquarters here, including Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple. Google has appealed its French fine. Facebook didn't immediately respond to a request for comment and Twitter declined to comment. Facebook in October became the first big test case under the new EU rules when the Irish authority opened a probe into a security breach that affected as many as 50 million accounts. In December, Ms Dixon's office announced a second probe into several other breach notifications by Facebook. That probe also looks at a breach caused by a software bug that gave outside developers broader access to the photos of millions of users. Ms Dixon says she is aware that many of the decisions her office will make will act as a precedent. "They're not trivial, the cases we're deciding," she said, indicating that first decisions in open cases may come as soon as this summer. ADVERTISEMENT "We're at various concrete stages in all of them, but they're all substantially advanced," she said. "The soonest I am going to see an investigation report on my desk, which is when my role kicks in" to make a final decision on sanctions in case of an infringement "is likely to be June or July in the bigger cases". Scrutiny of Facebook has intensified with the revelations last year that the data of millions of users, mostly in the US and UK, could have ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that was linked to Donald Trump's US presidential campaign. Irish Independent
US lawmakers question Russia sanctions relief
Michael_Novakhov shared this story from Daily Nation | World. Three influential US Democratic lawmakers asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to justify lifting sanctions against Russian aluminum giant Rusal and two related companies, a move they said leaves "many" unanswered questions. Eliot Engel, the chair of the House foreign relations committee, asked in a tweet on Friday if lifting the sanctions was related to President Donald Trump's "business dealings in Russia" or his "cozy relationship" with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The tweet was accompanied by a copy of a letter dated January 29 asking the Treasury Department to "provide each of our committees with copies of all documents pertaining to the decision-making process." The letter was signed by Mr Engel as well as Maxine Waters, the chair of the House financial services committee and Adam Schiff, who heads the House intelligence committee. It requested that Mr Mnuchin comply with the request by February 5. The Treasury Department lifted sanctions against Rusal and the related companies on Sunday after blacklisted billionaire Oleg Deripaska took action to sharply cut his stake in them. The tycoon is known to have friendly relations with President Putin and had business ties with Mr Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The lawmakers wrote in the letter that Mr Manafort at one point "owed Deripaska close to $20 million and may have leveraged his position as campaign chairman to negotiate that debt in exchange for providing briefings to Deripaska related to the campaign". The terms of removing the sanctions "are unusual and many questions remain unanswered," the lawmakers wrote, saying that they believe the oligarch and his family's ties with the companies allow him to keep de facto control.
Moving NATO in right direction
Michael_Novakhov shared this story . Given the importance of America’s global alliances, it is always unnerving when President Trump crashes into the diplomatic arena like the proverbial bull in the china shop. Last July, for example, he tore into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at a press conference with its secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg. Mr. Trump blasted the “delinquent spending” of most of NATO’s 29 other partners, in that they had failed to meet the agreed-upon 2 percent threshold of their economic output for defense. He also criticized Germany’s $11 billion pipeline with Russia, the Nord Stream 2, noting that “we’re supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.” On these issues, though, he was not far out of line with past presidents. For a long time, the United States has been pressuring NATO nations to bear a greater share of the burden of their own defense. These are not the poor, war-ravaged nations of Europe that existed in the wake of World War II. They have dynamic modern economies, and plow resources into social services for their citizens while depending heavily on U.S. taxpayers for their protection. George W. Bush pursued this issue at the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest. Barack Obama did so at the 2014 summit in Brussels. Finally, it seems, the message is being heard. By the end of next year, NATO will reportedly be contributing an additional $100 billion toward its defense, instead of breaking into America’s piggy bank. Our NATO partners, including Germany, France and the United Kingdom, are wealthy nations. They can easily afford the 2 percent threshold, and it’s about time they met their financial obligations. Mr. Stoltenberg recently observed, “we see some real money and some real results. And we see that the clear message from President Donald Trump is having an impact.” Characteristically, Mr. Trump has already boasted about this on Twitter, and he may deserve to take a bow. But it remains troubling that he periodically questions the continued usefulness of NATO. Though the organization was created to counterbalance a superpower that no longer exists, the Soviet Union, America benefits from such alliances, in projecting greater influence in the world. Meanwhile, the German-Russian economic relationship is becoming troubling. Germany has made a deal with Russia for the energy it desperately needs, through a pipeline that will permit Russia to cut off supplies to Eastern Europe without cutting off Western Europe. The last thing our NATO allies should be doing is making Russia stronger and expanding its strategic ability to threaten and undermine neighboring free nations. Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, recently sent out a stern letter to some German companies involved in the construction of the pipeline. He warned that these companies could eventually face sanctions through the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act if they continued building Nord Stream 2. That is the most strongly worded reaction to this controversial project to date. If NATO is going to succeed, its partners must not only pay their fair share, but also check Germany’s inclination to become more dependent on Russia. A stronger and more belligerent Russia is hardly in NATO’s interest. We hope America succeeds in pressuring Germany to rethink this relationship.
Director Coats and President Trump
Michael_Novakhov shared this story . Brian Howey, Columnist Published 11:01 p.m. CT Feb. 1, 2019 INDIANAPOLIS - The last time I was with Dan Coats, we had breakfast at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. He looked and sounded like a man ready to retire and enjoy his grandkids. He had been a public servant since 1980, his career coursing through the U.S. House, Senate and as ambassador to Germany, taking that post just hours before the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Coats was a late supporter of Donald Trump. He and his wife, former Republican National Committeewoman Marsha Coats, had concerns about candidate Trump. Marsha wrote Trump a letter, hand-delivered by her husband, and at a subsequent appearance in Fort Wayne, Trump "sought her out,” the senator said. “He said, ‘Marsha, I will not let you down.” This Donald Trump listened and asked questions. Brian Howey (Photo: Provided) But Coats understood the political attraction of Trump, in awe that he could draw 20,000 people to an arena. As for Trump's style, Coats told him, “If you change your speech, you might draw 250 people. I think you really need to be Donald Trump, but what I see now is a Donald Trump who listens and asks questions.” Coats didn't retire at the end of 2016. By appeal from Vice President-elect Mike Pence, Coats became director of National Intelligence. He is guardian of the American empire, boss to spies and spooks, assessor of the plethora of threats we face and our ardent defender. He has had a tormented relationship with President Trump, most conspicuously coming to a head in Helsinki last July, when Trump met with Russian President Putin alone for two hours. Asked if he believed U.S. intelligence services or Putin over whether the Kremlin assaulted the 2016 U.S. election. Trump responded, “My people came to me, Dan Coats and others, they said they think it’s Russia. I have Putin, he just said it’s not Russia. I will say this, I don’t see any reason why it would be. I have great confidence in my intelligence people. But I will tell you President Putin was extremely strong in his denial.” Appearing before a congressional hearing Tuesday with FBI Director Christopher Wray and CIA Director Gina Haspel to assess threats facing the United States, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden asked Coats if knew what Trump and Putin talked about. “This is a sensitive issue and an issue we ought to talk about this afternoon and discuss in a closed session,” Coats responded. When Coats testified about the threats facing America, he, Wray and Haspel contradicted Trump on an array of fronts. The president has said that North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat, ISIS has been defeated, and Iran is defying its nuclear agreement. What were Coats' assessments? "We assess that foreign actors will view the 2020 US elections as an opportunity to advance their interests,” Coats said of Russia. “We expect Russia will continue to wage its information war against democracies and to use social media to attempt to divide our societies. The Kremlin has aligned Russia with repressive regimes in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Venezuela, and Moscow’s relationship with Beijing is closer than it has been in many decades." Has ISIS been defeated? "Remaining pockets of ISIS and opposition fighters will continue to stoke violence," Coats said. "The conflicts in Iraq and Syria have generated a large pool of skilled and battle-hardened fighters who remain dispersed throughout the region." Is North Korea no longer a nuclear threat? "We currently assess that North Korea will seek to retain its WMD capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities, because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival," Coats said. Is Iran in violation of the denuclearization accords? Coats explained, "We do not believe Iran is currently undertaking the key activities we judge necessary to produce a nuclear device.” For those of you who wonder what the big deal is with the weird and troubling Trump/Putin relationship, hours after Coats testified, the Financial Times reported the two met alone (with just a Russian translator) at the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires with video emerging of the two hand signaling each other at dinner. Coats offered this kicker: "We assess North Korea, Russia, Syria, and ISIS have all used chemical weapons over the past two years, which threatens international norms and may portend future use." And about that “emergency” of the “caravan” in Mexico, Coats did not describe a dire threat as Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have. “High crime rates and weak job markets will continue to spur U.S.-bound migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras,” is how Coats put it. Following his testimony, Trump tweeted, "The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran. They are wrong! Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!"" My final thought? Dan Coats is anything but passive and naive. He is learned, connected and has a firm grip on the dangerous world that surrounds us and, potentially, within us. I’ll repeat what I said in a column last July: We should all be thankful Dan Coats is where he's at and pray that he stays there for the next two years.  The columnist is publisher of Howey Politics Indiana at <a href="http://www.howeypolitics.com" rel="nofollow">www.howeypolitics.com</a>. 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Michael_Novakhov shared this story from Trump Investigations. The Operation Trump and The New Abwehr: A Study In Psychohistory by Michael Novakhov – Google Search Michael_Novakhov shared this story . >> Mike Nova’s Shared NewsLinks Review In Brief  » German Intelligence Chief Wilhelm Franz Canaris 24/01/19 06:17 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story from Warfare History Network. Adolf Hitler’s spymaster, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, was actually a dedicated anti-Nazi who did everything he could to frustrate the Führer’s plans. by David… » Canaris and Heydrich – Axis History Forum 24/01/19 06:16 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . Canaris and Heydrich #1 Post by Ezboard » 29 Sep 2002, 21:37 GFM2001 Member Posts: 55 (8/20/01 12:32:55 pm) Reply Canaris and Heydrich ————————————————————… » Canaris – Heydrich Gay Love Affair – Google Search 24/01/19 05:53 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . » Canaris – Heydrich Gay Love Affair – Google Search 24/01/19 05:52 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . » Canaris – Heydrich Gay Love Affair – Google Search 24/01/19 05:50 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . » Canaris – Heydrich Gay Love Affair – Google Search 24/01/19 05:48 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . » Canaris – Heydrich Gay Love Affair – Google Search 24/01/19 05:47 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . » Canaris – Heydrich Gay Love Affair – Google Search 24/01/19 05:46 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . » Canaris – Heydrich Gay Love Affair – Google Search 24/01/19 05:45 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . » Canaris – Heydrich Gay Love Affair – Google Search 24/01/19 05:45 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . » Service record of Reinhard Heydrich 24/01/19 05:43 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . SS- service record cover of Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich The service record of Reinhard Heydrich was a collection of official SS documents maintained at the SS Pers… » RUSSIA and THE WEST – РОССИЯ и ЗАПАД: – Командир, ручка от жопы отваливается! | – Ништяк, а мы её стразами укрепим! – 6:10 AM 1/7/2019 24/01/19 05:26 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story from RUSSIA and THE WEST – РОССИЯ и ЗАПАД. Monday, January 7, 2019 – Командир, ручка от жоп… » 1:55 PM 9/5/2018 – Canaris’ love affair with Reinhard Heydrich, both of whom were at least in part Jewish and Gay… | The Global Security News 24/01/19 05:12 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story from The Global Security News. Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany, gay men and, to a lesser extent, lesbians, were two of the numerous groups targeted by the Nazis and were ulti… » Amazon.com: Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery eBook: Richard Bassett: Kindle Store 24/01/19 04:54 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . » Heydrich’s homosexuality? – Axis History Forum 24/01/19 04:52 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story . Heydrich’s homosexuality? #1 Post by Ezboard » 29 Sep 2002, 19:03 HannahR New Member Posts: 1 (5/26/01 5:43:01 pm) Reply Heydrich’s homosexuality? ————————————————… » Canaris – Heydrich Gay Love Affair as the source and the engine of German Fascism of 1930-1940-s – Psychohistorical Hypothesis by Michael Novakhov 24/01/19 04:15 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story from Trump Investigations. Canaris – Heydrich Gay Love Affair as the source and the engine of the German Fascism of 1930-1940-s  Psychohistorical Hypothesis by Michael Novakhov 9:19 AM 9/21/20… » 9:19 AM 9/21/2018 – (Abwehr? Drag?) Queens (Are?) Flushing (With Rage? Shame? Anger? Angst? All of the above? None of the above?) | The Global Security News 24/01/19 03:56 from Mike Nova’s Shared Newslinks Michael_Novakhov shared this story from The Global Security News. Mike Nova’s Shared NewsLinks Drag Bang Drag, Gala de Eleccion Drag Queen 2015 LPGC – YouTube   mikenova  shared this story  . Drag Bang Drag, Ga…

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