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Psy-ops propaganda goes mainstream.

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 14:03

A live "ops center" in a country SCL won't identify LONDON'--Over the past 24 hours, seven people have checked into hospitals here with telltale symptoms. Rashes, vomiting, high temperature, and cramps: the classic signs of smallpox. Once thought wiped out, the disease is back and threatening a pandemic of epic proportions.

The government faces a dilemma: It needs people to stay home, but if the news breaks, mass panic might ensue as people flee the city, carrying the virus with them.

A shadowy media firm steps in to help orchestrate a sophisticated campaign of mass deception. Rather than alert the public to the smallpox threat, the company sets up a high-tech "ops center" to convince the public that an accident at a chemical plant threatens London. As the fictitious toxic cloud approaches the city, TV news outlets are provided graphic visuals charting the path of the invisible toxins. Londoners stay indoors, glued to the telly, convinced that even a short walk into the streets could be fatal.

This scenario may sound like a rejected plot twist from a mediocre Bond flick, but one company is dead set on making this fantasy come to life.

Strategic Communication Laboratories, a small U.K. firm specializing in "influence operations" made a very public debut this week with a glitzy exhibit occupying prime real estate at Defense Systems & Equipment International, or DSEi, the United Kingdom's largest showcase for military technology. The main attraction was a full-scale mock-up of its ops center, running simulations ranging from natural disasters to political coups.

Just to the right of the ops center, a dark-suited man with a wireless microphone paces like a carnival barker, narrating the scenarios. Above him a screen flashes among scenes of disaster, while to his right, behind thick glass, workers sit attentively before banks of computer screens, busily scrolling through data. The play actors pause only to look up at a big board that flashes ominously between "hot spots" like North Korea and Congo.

While Londoners fret over fictitious toxins, the government works to contain the smallpox outbreak. The final result, according to SCL's calculations, is that only thousands perish, rather than the 10 million originally projected. Another success.

Of course, the idea of deluding an entire city seems, well, a bit like propaganda.

"If your definition of propaganda is framing communications to do something that's going to save lives, that's fine," says Mark Broughton, SCL's public affairs director. "That's not a word I would use for that."

Then again, it's hard to know exactly what else to call it. (Company literature describes SCL's niche specialties as "psychological warfare," "public diplomacy," and "influence operations.") The smallpox scenario plays out in excruciating detail how reporters would be tapped to receive disinformation, with TV and radio stations dedicated to around-the-clock coverage. Even the eventual disclosure is carefully scripted.

In another doomsday scenario, the company assists a newly democratic country in South Asia as it struggles with corrupt politicians and a rising insurgency that threatens to bubble over into bloody revolution. SCL steps in to assist the benevolent king of "Manpurea" to temporarily seize power.

Oh, wait, that sounds a lot like Nepal, where the monarchy earlier this year ousted a corrupt government to stave off a rising Maoist movement. The problem is, the SCL scenario also sounds a lot like using a private company to help overthrow a democratically elected government. Another problem, at least in Nepal, is that the king now shows few signs of returning to democracy.

The company, which describes itself as the first private-sector provider of psychological operations, has been around since 1993. But its previous work was limited to civil operations, and it now wants to expand to military customers.

If SCL weren't so earnest, it might actually seem to be mocking itself, or perhaps George Orwell. As the end of the smallpox scenario, dramatic music fades out to a taped message urging people to "embrace" strategic communications, which it describes as "the most powerful weapon in the world." And the company Web page offers some decidedly creepy asides. "The [ops center] can override all national radio and TV broadcasts in time of crisis," it says, alluding to work the company has done in an unspecified Asian country.

The government's use of deception in the service of national security is not new. During World War II, for example, Allied forces conducted a massive misinformation campaign, called Operation Fortitude, designed to hide plans for the Normandy invasion. More recent efforts have met with controversy, however. In 2002, the Pentagon shuttered its brand new Office of Strategic Influence after public outcry over its purported plans to spread deceptive information to the foreign press.

Government deception may even be justified in some cases, according to Michael Schrage, a senior adviser to the security-studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "If you tell the population that there's been a bio-warfare attack, hospital emergency rooms will be overwhelmed with people who sincerely believe they have all the symptoms and require immediate attention," Schrage says.

The problem, he adds, is that in a democracy, a large-scale ruse would work just once.

The U.S. government has generally sought to limit disinformation; some agencies'--such as the CIA'--are explicitly prohibited by law from misleading domestic press. And while the CIA is fond of concealment, it takes pride in the belief that truth is necessary for an open government, a sentiment chiseled into the agency's lobby.

A successful outcome means thousands, not millions, will die in a catastrophe What makes SCL's strategy so unusual is that it proposes to propagate its campaign domestically, at least some of the time, and rather than influence just opinion, it wants people to take a particular course of action. Is SCL simply hawking a flashier version of propaganda?

The spokesman's answer: "We save lives."

Yes, Broughton acknowledges, the ops center is not exactly giving the truth, but he adds, "Is it not worth giving an untruth for 48 hours to save x million people's lives? Sometimes the means to an end has to be recognized."

Who buys this stuff? Broughton declined to mention many specific clients, noting that disclosing SCL's involvement'--particularly in countries with a free and open media'--could make its campaigns less effective. However, he says that post-apartheid South Africa has employed SCL. So has the United Nations, he says.

The company's Web site is even vaguer, mentioning international organizations and foreign governments. A Google search produces only a handful of hits, mostly linked to the company's Web site. The company's work is based on something that even the spokesman admits you "won't find on the Web": the Behavioral Dynamics Institute, a virtual lab led by Professor Phil Taylor of Leeds University.

But the company, which is funded by private investors, is now taking on a higher profile, and visitors flocked to the flashy setup here at the show. "Basically, we're launching ourselves this week on the defense market and homeland security market at the same time," Broughton explained.

If SCL has its way, its vision of strategic communications'--which involves complex psychological and scientific data'--could be used to shape public response to tsunamis, epidemics, or even the next Hurricane Katrina.

Well aware that the company may face controversy, particularly with its push into the defense market, Broughton emphasizes the company's role in saving lives.

"It sounds altruistic," he said. "There is some altruism in it, but we also want to earn money."

Net Netrality

Tumblr Note on IRA

Dear sickenmcsluggets,

As part of our commitment to

transparency, we want you to know that we uncovered and terminated 84 accounts

linked to Internet Research Agency or IRA (a group closely tied to the the

Russian government) posing as members of the Tumblr community.

The IRA engages in electronic

disinformation and propaganda campaigns around the world using phony social

media accounts. When we uncovered these accounts, we notified law enforcement,

terminated the accounts, and deleted their original posts.

While investigating their

activity on Tumblr, we discovered that you either followed one of these

accounts linked to the IRA, or liked or reblogged one of their posts:

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bellygangstaboo

cartnsncreal previously

known as: feelmydragonballs

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known as: delightfullyghostlysong

gogomrbrown previously

known as: go-mrbrown, infectedv0ice, todd-la-death

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known as: 5cubes, bangbangempire, empireofweird, gifemprireohh,

innerpicsempire, picsempire

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known as: blondeinpolitics, blvckcommunity, classylgbthomie, hwuudoin,

politixblondie

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known as: the-inner-mirror

You aren’t in trouble, and

don’t need to take any action if you don’t want to. We

deleted the accounts but decided to leave up any reblog chains so that you can

curate your own Tumblr to reflect your own personal views and perspectives.

Democracy requires

transparency and an informed electorate and we take our disclosure

responsibility very seriously. We’ll be aggressively watching for

disinformation campaigns in the future, take the appropriate action, and make

sure you know about it.

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Dutch referendum: Spy tapping powers 'rejected' - BBC News

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:35

Image copyright EPA Image caption The "no" vote is marginally ahead after an exit poll forecast a "yes" victory Voters in the Netherlands appear to have narrowly rejected new online data collection powers for intelligence agencies in a referendum.

With about 90% of votes counted, 48.8% have rejected the powers, with 47.3% in favour.

An exit poll by the national broadcaster had earlier suggested a victory for "yes".

Supporters say the powers could help fight terrorism, while opponents say the law could be invasion of privacy.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte promised to take the vote seriously. Although the result is non-binding a no-vote would need to be taken into account by the government.

What are the Dutch voting on?The Netherlands put to a referendum new legislation, officially the Intelligence and Security Law.

The bill gives new powers to the Netherlands' intelligence services.

They would be able to install wire taps on whole areas, rather than just individuals, store information for up to three years and share this data with other spy agencies.

An independent panel would have to approve these wire taps before they could go ahead.

Both the lower and upper chambers of the Netherlands parliament passed the law last year, but a "no" vote would force them to re-debate it.

The referendum coincided with municipal elections around the country.

Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption PM Mark Rutte has said the powers will protect the country from terrorism Why the controversy?From its introduction, opposition politicians, legal experts, civil rights organisations and journalists have come out against it.

There are complaints the powers go too far, could be a violation of privacy and do not have enough oversight.

A lawsuit is reportedly in progress claiming the new powers break human rights laws, while Amnesty International has condemned the law in its annual report on the country.

But Mr Rutte has insisted the spy agencies need these new powers to help fight terrorism.

"It's not that our country is unsafe, it's that this law will make it safer," he said.

Intelligence services head Rob Bertholee said: "This law is for the safety of the Netherlands and for the Dutch people... I am voting in favour."

The CLOUD Act: A Welcome Legislative Fix for Cross-Border Data Problems - Lawfare

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 14:21

Lawfare readers are familiar with the perennial regulatory challenge of determining which country's law enforcement agents ought to be able to access internet data stored in the cloud. This is a considerable problem in two distinct contexts: (1) American law enforcement officers seeking access to data held abroad and (2) law enforcement officers around the world seeking access to data held by American firms. The Stored Communications Act (SCA) is problematic in both cases, because it does not specify whether it allows the American government to compel U.S. providers to produce content they have chosen to store abroad (the first problem), and it has been interpreted to prohibit American firms from complying with foreign government requests for user content (the second problem). The first issue has percolated through the U.S. courts for the last few years, and the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral argument in United States v. Microsoft, or the ''Microsoft-Ireland'' case, on Feb. 27. In that case, the court must decide whether a warrant issued under the SCA can compel Microsoft to produce emails that it stores in an Irish data center.

On Tuesday, Sens. Orrin Hatch, Christopher Coons, Lindsey Graham and Sheldon Whitehouse announced a bill that could address both problems at once and even moot the Microsoft-Ireland case. If passed into law, the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act of 2018 would accomplish two things: It would specify that an order under the SCA applies to all data that is in the ''possession, custody, or control'' of the provider, regardless of where that data is stored, and it would pave the way for executive agreements'--such as the contemplated U.S.-U.K. agreement'--to allow foreign governments to request content directly from American providers.

The Microsoft-Ireland Fix: U.S. Law Enforcement Access to Data Stored Abroad

The bill proposes amending the SCA by adding a section, 18 U.S.C. §2713:

A provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service shall comply with the obligations of this chapter to preserve, backup, or disclose the contents of a wire or electronic communication and any record or other information pertaining to a customer or subscriber within such provider's possession, custody, or control, regardless of whether such communication, record, or other information is located within or outside of the United States.' (Emphasis added.)

This provision reflects the Justice Department's position in the Microsoft Ireland case and would, if adopted, likely make that case moot. In other words, it codifies the so-called ''Bank of Nova Scotia standard'''--the standard, developed in United States v. Bank of Nova Scotia and a related line of cases, that allows for subpoenas to compel a bank to bring foreign-held records into the U.S. as long as those records are in the ''possession, custody or control'' of the bank. This will likely be decried as an exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction, but it is entirely consistent with longstanding notions of state authority to legislate in areas that have domestic effects, or notions of jurisdiction that are grounded in both domestic and international law.

Moreover, a number of safeguards are built into the bill. The bill creates a mechanism whereby providers can apply for a motion to quash or modify legal process if the provider reasonably believes the subscriber is not a U.S. person and that the required disclosure would create a material risk that the provider would violate the laws of a qualifying foreign government. It also requires a court to conduct a comity analysis in the event of such a motion to quash, which may alleviate foreign government concerns about sovereign interests. It is not clear why this comity provision is in the statute except as a symbolic gesture; courts were already free under the common law to conduct a comity analysis in thinking through whether to issue an order with extraterritorial impact. Its presence in the statute is perhaps a reminder that trust and mutual respect play an important role in these cross-border matters.

The idea is that if a provider is in the U.S., it should comply with the SCA, regardless of whether it chooses to offshore its data. The bill also provides a precedent for the reverse to be true: If an American provider is in a foreign market, in many instances (subject to comity principles) the provider ought to comply with local law, and law enforcement in that market ought to be able to compel the provider to respond to lawful requests.

Foreign Law Enforcement Requests to U.S. Providers (The U.S.-U.K. Agreement)

The other and perhaps more significant piece of the bill is that for certain nations the bill removes a number of blocking features'--those provisions of American law that prevent American providers from complying with lawful foreign law enforcement requests, which are the sources of enormous frustration for American providers and foreign law enforcement alike. The bill amends multiple parts of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) related to stored records, wiretaps, and pen/trap access, to allow providers to permit disclosures to certain foreign governments'--but only those that have struck executive agreements with the U.S. of the sort contemplated between the U.S. and U.K.

Those agreements are not available to every country'--only to those that meet a stringent set of requirements. The president can strike such an agreement with a country only ''if the Attorney General, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State,'' determines that:

(1) The country has ''robust substantive and procedural protections for privacy and civil liberties in light of the data collection and activities of the foreign government that will be subject to the agreement'' (to be determined by reference to a laundry list of human rights and rule of law standards);

(2) The foreign government has adopted minimization procedures regarding information concerning US persons; and

(3) The agreement has protections to prevent the foreign government from targeting or collecting information about US persons or persons located in the US, and to prevent the US government from requesting the foreign government to use the agreement as a runaround on current restrictions on data collection.

Foreign government orders issued under the agreement must relate only to serious crimes, including terrorism, and must meet a number of requirements. Orders must provide a ''reasonable justification based on articulable and credible facts, particularity, legality, and severity regarding the conduct under investigation;'' they must be ''subject to review or oversight by a court, judge, magistrate or other independent authority;'' they cannot be used ''to infringe freedom of speech;'' and more.

This approach'--with a stringent set of requirements'--provides a way to address the globalization of criminal evidence that is similar to how nations addressed the globalization of travel in the 1980s. At that time, the U.S. created the ''visa waiver program'' so that countries with stringent standards would permit citizens of the other countries to enter without the need for a visa interview. Now that evidence for criminal cases so often is housed in other countries, this ''ECPA waiver program'' would allow streamlined access to criminal data for the countries that meet the strict standards.

A Very Good Start

This bill does not resolve the cross-border data problem, but it is good start. Privacy and human rights groups will argue that the bill offers insufficient protections for foreign-held data. If you compare the due process protections in this bill with those provided under the Fourth Amendment, it is likely less privacy-protective'--meaning that foreign governments will get access to more information than they do currently. But that is not the right comparison. We are heading towards a world in which a growing number of foreign governments force providers to store data locally in order to comply with local orders, regardless of whatever strictures apply under U.S. law. As compared to that world, this bill'--which might forestall or prevent localization efforts'--offers privacy advocates quite a lot.

Perhaps a bigger concern is what happens if the bill passes and the president uses it to negotiate an agreement with the U.K. but no one else. This would leave some of the world's biggest markets, such as India and Brazil, in the cold and would incentivize them to mandate localization. That is a problem inherent to any attempt to address this issue bilaterally rather than by simply amending SCA to not apply to U.S. providers abroad (as Woods argued in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last year). One promising way to expand the ''club'' of countries that qualify could be to permit the executive agreements to apply to specific offices or agencies of a nation, rather than any criminal request from that nation. Swire and Deven Desai have suggested that approach forIndia, where requests from an office such as a specialized cybercrime bureau might qualify for the streamlined approach.

The challenges of the globalization of criminal evidence will not be solved by any one bill. Still, for a problem that has seen too little movement for too long, this represents a very compelling start.

War on Guns

The machine only knows how to make stars and then take them down child abuse as usual

Let us Remember the injustice BSO did to all the kids with their no reporting policy

Political Child Abuse

Freddie Mac texts

Hi Adam,

I wanted to send you the past week's texts from Freddie that

encourage students to participate in March for our Lives protest today. Our

family was encouraged to give our student's cell phone information so that they

could get financial aid offers for student loans and scholarships from what

they thought was related to their FAFSA application and with Freddie Mac or

Fannie Mae, only to discover they signed up with "Freddie" a real

human being who is marketing for DoSomething.org, which is a social organization

that directs students to do various protests and community activities to 'win'

scholarships by using their social media accounts or inviting their friends to

protest.

I want to share with you what they are directing the folks

who opted in for a chance to get a scholarship this week:

Tuesday, March 20, 5:28 pm

"Hi it's Freddie again! Just 4 more days until the

March for Our Lives, I'll be attending the NYC march with the DoSomething staff

and friends. Who will you march with?

Click here to find a march near you and tag a friend you

want to invite: https://www.dosomething.org/us/campaigns/do-something-about-gun-violence/blocks/4grHyJPp60wecqmkOCG8UY?id+58ba9c3ea0bfad659b6b482d

"

Wednesday, March 21, 2:10pm

"Freddie here! Want to make a big impact at the

march on Saturday? Get as many people registered to vote! Imagine if all the

people who turn out at the march also show up at the polls.

We need your help on the ground. Click here for easy tips

and tools to register people vote at the march: https://www.dosomething.org/us/campaigns/do-something-about-gun-violence/blocks/3R07b5fBiQaY86eA2WUwiw+58ba9c3ea0bfad659b6b482d "

Then they realized that the wrong link was sent and texted

at 2:21pm

"Whoops, I sent you the wrong link! Try this: https://www.dosomething.orgus/campaigns/do-something-about-gun-violence/blocks/3R07b5fBIQaY86eA2WUwiw?id+58ba9C3ea0bfad659b6b6b482d

Friday, March 23, 4:57pm

"Hi it's Freddie again! The march is tomorrow! I'm so

excaited to come out in support of students everywhere. we're having a sign

making party at the Dosomething office tonight.

Are you making signs of your own? Text START to share photos

of the signs you make - we'll be sharing our favorites on social."

Saturday, March 24, 8:09am

A photo of adults and students protesting is sent. The

participants are holding various signs that have the following messages:

Orlando shooting victims listed on a board, Black Lives Matter signs and signs

that are anti-NRA. Many are wearing 'Do Something' hats and t-shirts.

"Hi it's Freddie! I'm texting you from the March For

Our Lives sibling march in NYC. There are so many people here! show us what's

happening at marches in your city or town today. Text START to send back photos

of your at the march to share with the Dosomething community. We'llshare our

favs on social."

Here is one of the scholarshp posts that they offer:

http://blog.nextstepu.com/dosomething-org-march-scholarships-1-create-recycling-bin-to-reduce-waste-2-share-digital-guide-to-help-save-lives/

There was no other indicator stating that when the girls

used my phone number to sign up for FAFSA loan information that Freddie was

related to DoSomething.org. We were under the impression it was Freddie Mac or

Fannie Mae information for student loans that were associated with their FAFSA

information.

DoSomething has been very deceptive in gaining information

to promote their own agenda for the chance to win a scholarship. And I am

impressed how they are still permitted to collect young people's data in a

manner that is not immediately transparent.

Freddie is not Freddie Mac, he is Freddie from

DoSomething.org, but that doesn't stop students and parents from being confused

by their messaging regarding aid. It is diabolical how DoSomething.org was not

transparent when we reviewed information that came along with the Free

Application for Federal Student Aid.

I dug a little deeper into how they have developed their

message to be intermixed with offering college aid for volunteer community

protesting. Please review this when you have a moment: https://www.dosomething.org/sites/default/files/blog/2012-Web-Singleview_0.pdf

One exerpt I will highlight though:

"WORRIES For high school students who volunteer, their

worries for the future are all about college: getting in, doing well, and most

importantly, paying for it. That’s right: more young people worry about paying

for college than getting into college. High school students also ranked paying

for college as a bigger worry than getting a good job, having enough money, the

health of the environment, crime rates in their neighborhood, their personal

health, or dying. (Hint: for adults and organizations looking to engage young

people, incentives related to college are a strong option.)

Offer the Right Incentives: High school (and college)

students are worried about paying for school. So when offering incentives to

volunteer, don’t always turn to free t-shirts. Consider scholarships. (E.g.,

everyone who volunteers is entered into a raffle for a scholarship.)"

And this is how we were duped into thinking that applying

with them would be a valid scholarship offer.

All the best,

Lorraine

David Hogg: "Our Parents Don't Know How To Use A F*cking Democracy, So We Have To" | Video | RealClearPolitics

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:32

The Outline interviewed David Hogg, a 17-year old survivor of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, who says he is the NRA's "worst nightmare." Hogg's interview was laced with profanity against his detractors, Gov. Rick Scott, the NRA, old people and others.

Watch the march live

Hogg said he became an activist because adults don't know how to "use a f*cking democracy":

"When your old-ass parent is like, 'I don't know how to send an iMessage,' and you're just like, 'Give me the fucking phone and let me handle it.' Sadly, that's what we have to do with our government; our parents don't know how to use a fucking democracy, so we have to."

An edited down version of this clip was removed by YouTube as harrassment after it was linked by the Drudge Report.

"I'm beyond exhausted," Hogg said. "I get to a certain point where I just get so tired that I keep going. It creates a positive feedback loop in some ways '-- the more stress and work I put on me, the more stress and work I can deal with."

"It just makes me think what sick fuckers out there want to continue to sell more guns, murder more children, and honestly just get reelected," Hogg said. "What type of shitty person does that? They could have blood from children splattered all over their faces and they wouldn't take action, because they all still see these dollar signs."

"Honestly, it's alright that people are buying more guns. I just care that they are being safe individuals. And they can practice their Second Amendment rights all they want. I don't give a f*ck about that. I just want to make sure that a crazy-ass individual doesn't get an AR-15 or any weapon at all," Hogg said about guns.

To Florida Gov. Rick Scott: "You're kind of like Voldemort at this point. You should just retire, because you aren't going to get elected to Senate."

To Sen. Marco Rubio: "What about the $176,000 you took for those 17 people's blood?"

F-Russia

Guccifer 2.0 unmasking makes it a lot harder for Trump to deny collusion '' VICE News

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:30

The hacker who stole emails from the Democratic National Committee was identified Thursday as a member of Russia's elite GRU intelligence agency, according to a Daily Beast report.

Known as Guccifer 2.0, the hacker claimed he was from Romania and had no connection to the Kremlin when he passed DNC emails to WikiLeaks months before the 2016 election.

But a single slip-up, when he failed to activate his VPN client before logging on, left an IP address on a server in France, which U.S. investigators traced back to the GRU's headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street, Moscow.

Officials have reportedly identified the particular GRU officer who is responsible, but the Daily Beast's sources didn't name them.

The sources did say the U.S. investigation into Guccifer 2.0 had been taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, a move sure to rattle Trump campaign staff.

The hacker who stole emails from the Democratic National Committee was identified Thursday as a member of Russia's elite GRU intelligence agency, according to a Daily Beast report.

Known as Guccifer 2.0, the hacker claimed he was from Romania and had no connection to the Kremlin when he passed DNC emails to WikiLeaks months before the 2016 election.

But a single slip-up, when he failed to activate his VPN client before logging on, left an IP address on a server in France, which U.S. investigators traced back to the GRU's headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street, Moscow.

Officials have reportedly identified the particular GRU officer who is responsible, but the Daily Beast's sources didn't name them.

The sources did say the U.S. investigation into Guccifer 2.0 had been taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, a move sure to rattle Trump campaign staff.

That Russia interfered in the U.S. election is widely accepted, and there is growing evidence that some members of Trump's campaign team had contact with people linked to the Kremlin ahead of the vote. However, confirmation of the long-held suspicion of U.S. intelligence officials that Guccifer 2.0 is a Russian spy brings the notion of collusion into sharper relief.

Trump and his allies have consistently disputed the claim that Moscow was behind the DNC hack, particularly Roger Stone, a member of Trump's inner circle, who claimed to be in contact with the hacker during the campaign. Stone even released chat messages he exchanged with Guccifer 2.0 last year, in an attempt to debunk claims of a Kremlin link.

Stone was already reportedly in Mueller's crosshairs before it came to light Thursday that he was admittedly in contact with a Russian intelligence agent during the campaign.

On Friday morning, Trump again tweeted a denial of collusion between Russia and his campaign:

Earlier this month Mueller signaled his intention to go after Moscow's agents when he charged 13 Russians tied to the Internet Research Agency, known as the ''Troll Factory,'' with a conspiracy ''for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.''

Cover image: President Donald Trump holds a working lunch with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office at the White House on March 20, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)

'Guccifer' calls Fox from Romania, says he shouldn't be sent back to U.S. | Fox News

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 14:41

EXCLUSIVE - Guccifer, the Romanian hacker who first revealed to the world that Hillary Clinton used a non-secure private email address while serving as secretary of state, has reached out to Fox News from behind prison bars in Arad, Romania to argue that he shouldn't be sent back to the U.S. to serve another jail sentence.

Marcel Lehel Lazar, 45, known by his famous moniker "Guccifer," told Fox he wants to stay in a Romanian prison and not be returned to America to serve his 52-month sentence for U.S. computer hacking crimes involving unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.

Lazar made a series of calls to Fox Senior Executive Producer Pamela Browne from the prison where he is finishing his seven-year sentence for hacking crimes committed in his native country. After giving permission to be recorded by Fox, Lazar said he has an upcoming mid-August court hearing in Timisoara, the third largest city in western Romania, and will ask judiciary authorities to allow him to serve his U.S. and Romanian sentences concurrently in his country.

His wife and family live near the prison.

Lazar does not deny he hacked over 100 Americans, including Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and members of the Bush family using Russian proxy servers because they were ''the fastest.''

In the midst of the highly contentious U.S. presidential campaign, on March 31, 2016, Lazar was extradited to the U.S. from his Romanian cell. Meanwhile, the FBI was pursuing its criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a non-secure private server and multiple non-government issued devices while she served as secretary of state. The timing for Lazar's extradition remains striking in the overlap of the cases.

Indeed, the summer of 2016 was a 'summer of hacking' and to this day, Guccifer's hacking remains at the epicenter.

After he pled guilty to two of the nine counts against him, Lazar was sentenced on September 1, 2016 to 52 months by U. S. District Court Judge James C. Cacheris, who noted that Lazar was cooperative with U.S. government officials, including the FBI. Still, the judge imposed a harsh sentence, citing escalated cyberattacks against Americans, the hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and other revelations by WikiLeaks.

During Lazar's sentencing, Cacheris specifically noted that Romanian prison conditions are much "worse" than in the U.S.

In his wide-ranging new interview, Lazar weighed in on several current events, including a bombshell claim as to why he believes the hackers behind "Guccifer 2.0," who claimed to have hacked into the DNC computer network, are not "the Russians" but instead the "U.S. government." Lazar told Fox the idea came from one his handlers assigned to the State Department during his extradition plane ride to the U.S. in spring 2016.

''Ok, so now, now I think that it is maybe Guccifer two-zero, the State Department, or this guy from the State Department, who is handling my case,'' he said. ''I think it was more like they were planning this. I mean they, this guy from the State Department.''

''So I think Guccifer two-zero is an inside job,'' Lazar added. ''I think Guccifer two-zero is something made from some guys at the State Department. Some guys from the cyber command of the NSA, and some guys from the Vault, Vault 7 of the CIA. So there are these guys, you know Pam, I'm in this business for sort of 15 years now, this is my take on this whole. They were setting up something of Guccifer two-zero. Because the State Department guy was asking me, 'What is your opinion,' or something like this, 'what do you say if another Guccifer is showing up?'

''And I said, 'You know something, I expect that not one, but one hundred Guccifers will show up.'''

Lazar has made repeated claims to Fox News that he had successfully breached Clinton's private server. In May 2016, he made the same claims to NBC News. Today, Lazar still adamantly maintains that he breached Clinton's server in Chappaqua, New York despite a denial by former FBI Director James Comey. In a House hearing on July 7, 2016, Comey, responded to a question from Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, that Lazar lied about hacking into Clinton's server. Comey said, "He did not. He admitted that was a lie," but added: "We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account."

The FBI's files on the case showed that Clinton's private server was targeted immediately after "IP addresses from Russia and Ukraine attempted to scan the server on March 15, 2013, the day after the Blumenthal compromise, and on March 19 and March 21, 2013."

According to Lazar's highly redacted FBI 302 witness summary, reviewed by Fox News, Lazar hacked Blumenthal in March 2013. He said it only took him 20 minutes to get inside Blumenthal's AOL account. Once inside, "Lazar recalled that Blumenthal's account contained approximately 30,000 emails, which took him approximately six to seven hours to sort and review. Lazar downloaded approximately 25 attachments that were contained in the emails, including memorandums and briefing documents. He recalled that some of those attachments were official memos between Blumenthal and Clinton. Additionally, Lazar took screenshots of other items in the account that he deemed to be of interest. Lazar recalled taking a screenshot of an email that contained information related to the Benghazi incident." On Page 32 Lazar noted, "One of the screenshots captured a list of 19 foreign policy and intelligence memos authored by Blumenthal for Clinton."

It was Lazar's 2013 compromise of Blumenthal's email accounts that sent Clinton's aides into a frenzy of reaction, hammering non-secure Blackberrys. Blumenthal, although not listed by name, was Victim No. 5 in the (Plea Agreement) federal court proceedings against Lazar. The hacking of Blumenthal's account, although not listed by name, was part of Lazar's criminal conviction.

In a controversial July 2016 press conference, the former FBI Director declared that Hillary Clinton and her colleagues were ''extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information'' and had sent seven e-mail chains which concerned ''matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received.'' However, Comey said that Clinton's email practices were not criminal.

Lazar also offered Fox a new theory that Clinton's server was compromised as early as 2012 by multiple countries.

''Look, about the server in Chappaqua, in New York state,'' he said. ''That server was scanned well before me. It was scanned 2012, from IP numbers in Serbia, Belgrade, it was scanned again in 2013 from IPs in Ukraine and Russia. The point is, somebody had mirrored, had copied, mirrored the whole server of Hillary Clinton, the question is how many countries. One, two or three? At one point, it was the whole server. I just think, I'm sure some people, I can say some people, I'm sure some people have the server contents.''

''It's not the case that it was or it was not mirrored, her server,'' he said. ''The case is how many people did this. How many countries?

Asked if he thought there had been at least three intrusions between 2012 and 2013, Lazar replied, ''Yeah. Yeah. In 2012, it was, there were from Serbia, in '13, they were from Ukraine and Russia. I mean this is information from all sources.''

Morgan Wright, cybersecurity analyst and senior fellow at the Center for Digital Government, told Fox News, "There is nothing inconsistent about Lazar's statement, given the facts that Mrs. Clinton had a third rate homebrew setup while serving as secretary of state." As a security expert, he added, 'I would have expected it. Mrs. Clinton visited hostile countries with her unsecure devices--including Blackberrys and iPads--and her communications would have been targeted by foreign intelligence agencies."

Fox News spoke to both Romanian and U.S. authorities associated with Lazar's case and upcoming August court hearing. No one would comment on the record, with a State Department spokesman saying to contact the FBI, who declined to comment as did a spokesman for the Eastern District Department of Justice.

Fox was told by multiple sources that there are still outstanding legal matters in Lazar's case.

Recently returning from Romania, Father Chris Terhes, a dual Romanian and American citizen and president of the Romanian Community Coalition in California, said, "Marcel Lazar's attorney contacted us to look into his case."

Terhes was referring to the nearly six months Lazar was held at the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention center in Alexandria, Virginia after his 2016 extradition to the U.S.

He told Fox in email and phone conversations that "Romania refuses to acknowledge the sentence he (Lazar) received in the United States, which is violating his rights and the law. As far as the pretrial detention time he spent in a U.S....this period of time is not acknowledged by either the U.S. or Romania, so he has to serve this time again, which is absurd."

Referring to the Romanian justice system, he added, "what we saw in his (Lazar's) court case in Romania is another proof of how the rights and the law means nothing to many Romanian judges."

Meanwhile, in the U.S. as Special Counsel Robert Mueller expands his investigation into possible ties between President Trump's campaign and Russia, Lazar still remains the only person behind bars who has been connected to the Clinton email affair. Lazar does not believe a Russian connection will be found because, "the Russians are more skillful than this, to let the tracks saved in the documents point to them. So, this is made by the other guys who want to put and point to the Russians."

And as for how President Donald Trump is doing? "People don't give him enough credit...understand-- the guy is not a politician, but he wants the good of his country. Ok."

Pamela K. Browne is Senior Executive Producer at the FOX News Channel (FNC) and is Director of Long-Form Series and Specials. Her journalism has been recognized with several awards. Browne first joined FOX in 1997 to launch the news magazine ''Fox Files'' and later, ''War Stories.''

Cyd Upson is a Senior Producer at FOX News.

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Prince Harry sprayed Taliban with bullets while rescuing US soldiers | Daily Mail Online

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 21:48

Prince Harry blew Taliban extremists to pieces in a helicopter rescue mission while he was serving in Afghanistan.

The royal's role in saving US soldiers after they were ambushed was revealed in a new biography detailing his time in the Army.

He co-piloted an Apache as it flew in to rescue injured servicemen who were then airlifted to safety in 2012.

The prince is pictured on an Apachi, the kind of helicopter he co-piloted to save US servicemen and spray the Taliban with bullets

The prince is understood to have sprayed the fundamentalist forces with bullets, allowing the soldiers to escape, The Sun reports.

One of those rescued was Christopher 'Tripp' Zanetis, whose 73-year-old father John said: 'Prince Harry came in with his protection squadron and blew the enemy to pieces.'

His 63-year-old mother Sarah, from Indiana, added: 'They provided enough cover for Tripp to get his men loaded on the helicopter. I believe there were Taliban members killed.'

The royal served two tours in Afghanistan, where he helped rescue soldiers in a mission revealed in a new biography

Harry - who was stationed at Helmand Province's Camp Bastion at the time - said 'see you at New Year's' to the soldiers when they were saved.

Tripp was killed aged 37 on Thursday when his helicopter hit a power line and crashed at the border between Iraq and Syria, killing seven.

His mother described her son as 'remarkable' and said that although he did not talk about his service a lot, he did talk about Prince Harry's rescue after he had dinner with the royal.

Called Captain Harry Wales by fellow servicemen, the 33-year-old completed two tours of Afghanistan, from 2007 to 2008 and then 2012 to 2013.

Tripp (pictured, left) was killed on Thursday along the Iraq Syria border. He was rescued by Prince Harry (pictured during his service, right) in 2012

He has talked previously of killing Islamic extremists while he was serving in his second tour, saying: 'Take a life to save a life. The squadron's been out here. Everyone's fired a certain amount.'

Deployed with the Household Cavalry in 2007, he was first employed as a forward air controller watching out for heat signatures that would give away the positions of enemy fighters.

His surveillance led to a Taliban bunker being destroyed as Allied forces dropped a 500 lb bomb on the base.

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White House: Congress only paid for 33 miles of new border barriers | Daily Mail Online

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 14:46

White House officials said Thursday that President Donald Trump will sign a hotly contested budget bill when lawmakers send it to him, despite the fact that it provides for only 33 miles of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump vowed in April 2017 that his long-promised border wall would be finished by the end of his first term in office.

'It's certainly going to '' yeah,' he told reporters then, answering a specific question about a four-year timeline and adding that 'we have plenty of time.'

But at the rate the White House has agreed to, the project could stretch through more than two administrations.

President Donald Trump promised to build a border wall in his first term to separate the U.S. from Mexico, but the latest congressional budget sets a pace that would take more than a decade to complete it

White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney said Thursday that the six-month budget includes money for 110 miles of walls and fencing but just 33 miles of that will go up in places that don't already have them

More than half of the 110 funded miles '' 63 in all '' will look like this section, with replacement 'bollard walls' going up so weaker fencing can be torn down

White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said Thursday in a hastily assembled briefing that Capitol Hill inertia is to blame.

'If Congress would give us the money to do this, we would do it now,' he told DailyMail.com.

His team and that of Legislative Director Marc Short have secured funding for 110 miles of border barriers costing a sliver of the $1.3 trillion spending bill set to finish its path through Congress later in the day.

Including new roads, Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps assets, technological improvements, facilities, border patrol vehicles, boats, weapons and new personnel, he total package will consumer $1.6 billion in taxpayer dollars.

Some estimates put funding for border barriers in Thursday's spending bill at just $600 million of that

Trump has said he would only need to build between 700 and 900 miles of walls to secure the border; more than half of the 1,954 miles is lined by 'natural barriers' like mountains and rivers

The president made a show last week of visiting border wall prototypes in San Diego last week, but it's unclear if or when they'll ever be included in actual construction

Hundreds of miles of U.S.-Mexico border, like this area in southern Arizona, are completely unprotected

Those plans include only 33 miles of fencing and levee walls where there are currently no barriers. The rest consists of replacements for deteriorating structures and 'secondary' walls running parallel with existing ones.

The president agreed during his campaign that the entire 1,954 miles of U.S.-Mexico border doesn't need physical protection from illegal immigration and the drug trade.

He said last year aboard Air Force One on his way to Paris for a Bastille Day celebration that between 700 and 900 miles would be sufficient because the rest is blocked by 'natural barriers' including mountains and 'rivers that are violent and vicious.'

Ordinary fencing already stretches along 650 miles of the border. An administration official said this week that a stronger wall 'would have to be replacing all of that.'

The appropriations bill that Mulvaney said will get a presidential signature only covers about six months '' until the end of the government's fiscal year on September 30.

This fencing is all that separates Mexico from 'El Norte' in some parts of Arizona

White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short (left) told reporters Thursday that his office is already pressing for more wall funding in 2019

At the rate of 33 miles per half-year, it would take the federal government between 10-1/2 and 13-1/2 years to complete the project, depending on the exact mileage targeted.

'Did we get everything we wanted when it comes to immigration? Absolutely not,' Mulvaney said.

Short emphasized that the administration is already preparing to go to battle over next year's budget, suggesting that Thursday's six-month deal is only a taste of what's to come.

'We're already halfway through this fiscal year,' he told DailyMail.com, adding that the White House has 'already submitted budgets for 2019.'

'We certainly continue to ask for additional funding to continue the wall throughout this year,' he said. 'This is for six months because Congress has been unable to complete the appropriations process.'

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Airlines Conquer Challenges of Long-Haul Flights. Now Can Passengers? - WSJ

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:18

LONDON'--Qantas Airways Ltd. is inaugurating one of the world's longest commercial flights on Sunday'--a roughly 17-hour journey between Perth, Australia, and London that adds another really long flight to a growing roster of them.

To help passengers start adjusting to the new time zone, Qantas is

rescheduling food service at the start of the journey to synchronize more

closely with meal times at the destination. It has bolstered the onboard menu

with lighter meal options such as a tuna poke salad bowl, a bespoke herbal tea to

encourage relaxation and a bedtime hot-chocolate drink containing Tryptophan,

an amino acid credited with helping to induce sleep.

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Karen McDougal - Wikipedia

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 01:13

Karen McDougal (born March 23, 1971) is an American model and actress. She is known for her appearances in Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month for December 1997[1] and Playmate of the Year of 1998.[3] In 2001, the readers of Playboy voted McDougal the runner-up of "The sexiest Playmate of the 1990s".[4]

McDougal taught pre-kindergarten before winning a swimwear competition that launched her career as a glamor, promotional, and swimsuit model. Since her appearances in Playboy, she has extended her career into a wide variety of appearances in mainstream media, including other magazine modeling, television commercials, and minor acting, with mixed success. She has been a successful fitness model, with multiple magazine appearances including being the first woman to appear on the cover of Men's Fitness magazine. She starred in The Arena, a direct-to-video film, and inspired the creation of a fantasy artstatuette and a doll.

McDougal is a fitness enthusiast, having since childhood engaged in ballet study and high school sports. She is an avid motorcycle and car collector. Since her Playmate days, she has maintained a largely private social life. The revelation of an alleged affair with Donald Trump from 2006-07 has put her into national headlines before and after the 2016 United States presidential election.

Although her Playmate datasheet stated she was born in Gary, Indiana, McDougal was actually born in Merrillville, Indiana, near Gary.[2] She is of Cherokee Indian, Scottish and Irish descent.[1] McDougal is the first daughter in the family, with 3 older brothers, Bob, Dave and Jeff, and a younger sister, Tina. Her mother, Carol,[5] remarried when McDougal was 9 years old and the family moved to Sawyer, Michigan[6] where she remained until college.

McDougal studied tap dance and ballet as a child. Her childhood dream, prior to teaching and modeling, was to become a ballerina.[1] She attended River Valley High School[6] and became a cheerleader, band member, color guard, volleyball and softball player, as well as Michigan state champion clarinet player for 4 years in a row in high school.[4] Her high school nickname was "Barbie" due to her wholesome sweetness.[1] After graduating high school in 1989,[7] she attended Ferris State University at Big Rapids, Michigan, majoring in Elementary Education.[6]

After 2 years of college, McDougal moved to a Detroit suburb where she taught pre-kindergarten, before being persuaded to try out for a swimsuit competition.[6] One of her professional goals has always been to open a learning center for children,[1] but she has put those plans on hold to focus on pursuing roles in acting and modelling.[7]

Playboy Edit In 1997, McDougal tried out and won her local Venus Swimwearswimsuit competition in Michigan, earning her place at the international final in Florida. Her victory caught the eye of Playboy photographer David Mecey.[4] Soon after that she was approached by Playboy for a test shoot at Playboy Studio West which she accepted.[6] Upon completing her test shoot, she was promptly selected to return for a complete photo and video shoot and chosen as Miss December 1997.[4] Her pictorial, which was shot by photographersRichard Fegley and Stephen Wayda, has a winter theme[1] and its outdoor portion was shot in the snowy fields near Park City, Utah.[8] Her video, the "Playmate Profile", was featured on Playboy TV soon after her magazine debut.[2]

In May 1998, she was announced to have been chosen by Hugh Hefner and fans as Playmate of the Year (PMOY) of 1998 at a luncheon at the Playboy Mansion.[9] As her reward, she was awarded $100,000 and a special edition silver Shelby Series 1 convertible with a customized Michigan license plate "PMOY 98".[3] McDougal's PMOY pictorial was featured in the July 1998 issue of Playboy where she also appeared on its cover.[10] In contrast to her Playmate pictorial, her PMOY pictorial has a tropical theme and its outdoor portion was shot at Saint Lucia.[3] According to her interview in her Playmate of the Year "Video Centerfold" which was released soon after her PMOY issue debuted, she believes her physical imperfections are her "funny" smile, her crooked pinkies which she inherited from her grandfather and her "ugly feet" which she wishes others would not look at.[5] Because of the popularity of the VH1television series "Pop-up Video" at the time, one of the segments in her PMOY video was done as a Pop-up Video parody filled with factoids about her and Playboy.[5] During her appearance on The Magic Hour to promote her PMOY issue, McDougal demonstrated her signature pose, straddle split on TV in front of a live studio audience.[11]

Many regard her as a favorite Playmate because of her combination of beauty, "Girl next door" appeal and curvaceous figure, according to a November 2001 Playboy poll in the special edition Sexiest Playmates. In that issue, she was voted runner-up of "Readers' Choice Sexiest Playmate of the 1990s", with Pamela Anderson taking the No.1 spot.[4] In an online chat in 2002, McDougal expressed interest in posing nude for Playboy again if offered.[12]

Fitness modeling Edit In March 1999, McDougal became the first woman to appear on the cover of Men's Fitness magazine.[4] Since then she expanded her career into fitness modeling by appearing in fitness and body building magazines such as Muscle & Fitness (January 2000), Physical (June 2004) and Iron Man (October 2005, January 2006, June 2007[13] and November 2009[14]).[15] She appeared in a 10-page pictorial in the January 2006 issue of Iron Man as "Hardbody" of the month,[16] and on the cover of its October 2005 and June 2007 issues. McDougal returned as "Hardbody" of the month in the November 2009 issue in a pictorial together with fellow Playmate Katie Lohmann.[14] In interviews, she stated that her transition to fitness modeling was unintentional.[14][17]

Other appearances Edit

Karen McDougal at the Home Theater Forum 2007 in Las VegasPlayboy released a limited edition doll in 2002 based on the likeness of McDougal and emphasized that it was an accurate model of her statuesque physique. Her collectors' figure was originally slated to be the first in the series to be released, however it was delayed due to redesigns.[18] McDougal collaborated with fantasysculptor Bill Toma in creating a limited edition bronze statuette titled Warrior Princess in 2003. McDougal posed for Toma in the creative process and the pedestal of each statuette bears her signature.[19]

In early 2004, McDougal appeared in a photo spread in the Italian edition of Vogue with fellow Playmates, Pamela Anderson, Audra Lynn and Tishara Cousino. It was a tennis themed men's fashion spread shot in Las Vegas by photographerDavid LaChapelle. The spread contained her first published nudes since her contract with Playboy expired years earlier.[20] She traveled to Japan to be one of the eye candies for Scott Hall and Kevin Nash (The Outsiders) when they wrestled at Yokohama, Japan in May 2004.[21] McDougal also participated in the 50th Anniversary celebrations of Playboy throughout the year at Las Vegas, New York and Moscow with other Playmates past and present.[15]

McDougal appeared in the 2005 Playmates at Play at the Playboy Mansion swimsuit calendar as the calendar girl of July.[22] The calendar was the inaugural Playmates at Play calendar and it was shot on the grounds of Playboy Mansion in 2004.[23] It was Playboy's first attempt at creating a non-nude swimsuit calendar featuring Playmates similar in style with those from Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. While all Playmates appeared in bikinis in the calendar, McDougal and Hiromi Oshima were the only two Playmates actually wearing only painted on bikinis.[22]

In November 2006, she was part of a trio of Playmates (along with Tina Marie Jordan and Katie Lohmann) that appeared in the "Celebrity Playmate Gift Guide" pictorial of Splat magazine, a paintball enthusiasts magazine. The pictorial showcased new paintball products for the 2006 holiday