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-- 2017 --
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/trump-naturalization-ceremony-iraqi/index.html
March 12:
Intruder breaches White House grounds, arrested near
residence entrance
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/11/politics/man-breeches-white-house/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/politics/steve-bannon-white-house-national-security-council/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/us/politics/trump-interview-susan-rice.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/opinions/steve-bannon-white-house-national-security-bergen/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/opinions/steve-bannon-white-house-national-security-bergen/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
April 14: Among [protester] concerns: the president's foreign ties could
pose a national security risk and his potential conflicts of interest might
violate the
Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/14/news/economy/trump-tax-returns/index.html
The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner
through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details
have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S.
government, officials said. ... [that] partner had not given the United States
permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said Trump’s
decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the
inner workings of the Islamic State. ... For almost anyone in government,
discussing such matters with an adversary would be illegal. As president, Trump
has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that
his disclosures broke the law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-high_trumpintel-0504pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d36be6b17c19
May 15:
In his meeting with [Russian Foreign Minister] Lavrov,
Trump ... “I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day,”
the president said, according to an official with knowledge of the exchange. ...
Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States learned
only through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the
specific intelligence-gathering method, but he described how the Islamic State
was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could
cause under varying circumstances.
Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State’s
territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat. ... “This is
code-word information,” said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using
terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by
American spy agencies. Trump “revealed more information to the Russian
ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-high_trumpintel-0504pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d36be6b17c19
May 16:
President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday he had the right to share information
with Russia related to terrorism and other issues, his first public response to
the revelation he disclosed classified information at an Oval Office meeting
last week. ... "As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly
scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining
to terrorism and airline flight safety, Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia
to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism," he tweeted. Two
former officials knowledgeable of the situation confirmed to CNN that the main
points of the Post story are accurate: The President shared classified
information with the Russian foreign minister.
... The ability to protect [the] source whoever he is, wherever he is has
been seriously undermined ...
... national security adviser, H.R.
McMaster ... "At no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed and the
President did not disclose any military operations that weren't already publicly
known," he said. "I was in the room. It didn't happen."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/politics/donald-trump-russia-right/?iid=ob_lockedrail_longstory_pool
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/22/529498045/flynn-to-take-the-5th-refuses-to-turn-over-documents-to-senate-panel?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170522&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/michael-flynn-pleads-fifth/index.html
October 14:
Intel leaders urge Congress to reauthorize NSA surveillance program
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Friday that members of Congress who are
trying to restrict the bureau's access to information obtained through the
monitoring of foreign nationals are jeopardizing national security.
The Section 702 program, first amended to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act in 2008 and reauthorized in 2012, allows intelligence agencies to legally
monitor emails and phone calls of foreign nationals outside of the US and is set
to expire at the end of the year.
Speaking at the Heritage
Foundation in Washington, Wray said Friday that narrowing the ability of the FBI
to utilize the information would be a "self-inflicted wound" that "would create
a serious risk to the American public."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/chris-wray-fisa-reauthorization/index.html
October 19: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a
longtime opponent of warrantless searches of Americans’ communications, is
planning to introduce legislation next week along with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to
overhaul Section 702, according to Wyden’s spokesman.
https://morningconsult.com/2017/10/19/senators-disagree-on-need-for-changes-to-section-702-foreign-surveillance-tool/
October 19: Former US Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright said Thursday that she has yet to see a national security
strategy emerge more than nine months into Donald Trump's presidency ... She
noted that many positions remain unfilled in the State Department. ... Albright
was secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Before
then, she was the US ambassador to the United Nations for four years.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/politics/albright-no-national-security-strategy-trump-white-house-cnntv/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
October 19: Department of Homeland Security
press secretary David Lapan, the voice of the department and a longtime
colleague of White House chief of staff John Kelly, is leaving the Trump
administration...
Lapan began telling people this week of his move to the private sector, a source
familiar with his plans said. In confirming the news, Lapan said he would be
joining the Bipartisan Policy Center as senior director of communications and
public affairs at the end of the month.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/david-lapan-dhs-spokesman/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
November 28: North Korea warning: U.S.
security abilities are eroding and must be rebuilt ... The combination of Trump,
State Department cuts and NSA hacks is putting us at risk.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/28/trump-state-department-cuts-nsa-hacks-compromising-u-s-security-gabriel-schoenfeld-column/902112001/
ABC reports Michael Flynn promised "full cooperation to the Mueller team"
and is prepared to testify that as a candidate, Donald Trump "directed him to
make contact with the Russians."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/12/01/hecklers_chant_lock_him_up_as_flynn_leaves_courthouse.html
-- 2018 --
January 11: Trump Is On His Way to
Record-Setting Defense Spending in 2018
As the president doubles down on wars abroad, companies like Boeing stand to
reap billions.
https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-is-on-his-way-to-record-setting-defense-spending-in-2018/
February 9: Dozens of Trump officials still
lack full security clearance
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/politics/trump-officials-pending-security-clearances/index.html
February 14: At least 100 White House
officials served with 'interim' security clearances until November
Top administration officials working without a security clearance included
ousted senior staffer Rob Porter, senior advisors Ivanka Trump and her husband,
Jared Kushner, the special assistant to the president for national security
affairs and the National Security Council’s senior director for international
cybersecurity.
White House
staffers lacking permanent security clearance reportedly have access to the
President’s Daily Brief.
“The security clearance process is critical to keeping America’s secrets,”
former congressman Mike Rogers told CNN. “Foreign intelligence services look for
vulnerabilities in individuals with access to our most sensitive information.
Not following the process is a disservice not only to the individual but to our
countries [sic] security interests.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/100-white-house-officials-served-interim-security-clearances-least-november-including-ivanka-trump/
February 28: ... the sustainability of
[Kushner's] role
as a top foreign policy adviser to Trump [is] in doubt because he will have
access to far fewer government secrets and cannot see the Presidential Daily
Brief, the collection of the spy community's treasures prepared for the
commander in chief.
[Kushner's downgrade from "temporary Top Secret" to Secret] appears to make it
all but impossible for Kushner to do his job even though the White House and his
lawyer say that is not the case.
But how for example can he carry out his duties
running the Middle East peace process or liaising with top Gulf powers if he
is not privy to the latest intelligence about his interlocutors or other key
regional players like Iran?
Similarly, Kushner could find himself asked to leave sensitive meetings in the
White House or force top intelligence or foreign policy officials to avoid the
most sensitive subjects in meetings that he is in with the President.
"He can't see intercepted communications -- that's top secret, he's now
downgraded to secret ... he can't see the most secret CIA information about
their informants," said Phil Mudd, a former CIA and FBI official who is now a
CNN national security analyst.
"He can't see some of the stuff our Western allies see," he added.
Ultimately, unless Kushner is cleared by the FBI to receive a permanent security
clearance or gets a waiver from the President his diminished role will spur
fresh speculation about his longevity as a White House staffer.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/politics/donald-trump-jared-kushner-investigations/index.html
February 27: [Kushner's] downgrade would
mean that anyone giving top-secret material to Kushner could be accused of
mishandling classified material, according to David Priess, who wrote a history
of the President's Daily Brief, the highest-level intelligence document produced
in the United States. Still, a president has the ultimate authority to classify
or declassify information, so he could show the brief — covering hot spots
around the globe, U.S. covert operations and intelligence about world leaders—
"to whomever he damn well pleases," Priess tweeted.
The White House's handling of security clearances has come under intense
scrutiny in the wake of revelations that former White House staff secretary Rob
Porter had worked for more than a year with only interim clearance. Porter,
whose job gave him constant access to the most sensitive of documents, had been
accused of domestic abuse by his two ex-wives. The White House has repeatedly
changed its timeline about who knew what and when about the allegations.
Kushner has been forced to repeatedly correct omissions in his "SF-86," the
government-wide form used to apply for clearances, as well as his financial
disclosure forms, which experts said could delay or even nix his chances of
earning a clearance through the normal process.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/Jared-Kushner-Secret-Intelligence-Trump-Administration-475320293.html
February 27: Friday’s decision is the first
change to the clearance process instituted in the wake of the Porter debacle
that will directly affect Kushner, who serves as a senior adviser to Trump and
until now has had access to the president’s daily brief, the most highly
classified document that Trump sees.
“He cannot see the PDB [President's Daily Brief], not a chance,” said Bradley
Moss, a lawyer who specializes in national security law and clearances. “He no
longer has access to a range of intelligence information that ordinarily someone
in his position and somebody with his responsibilities would normally be privy
to in order to perform their functions.”
Moss said Kushner and others will be debriefed by officials in the White House
security office, an event scheduled to take place Thursday, according to a
person with knowledge of the situation. “They’re going to give him a list,
‘Here’s what you’ve been debriefed from, you’ve been debriefed from this program
and that compartment, you no longer have any access to it, and any breach of
that would be a serious security violation and a possible criminal issue.’”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/27/jared-kushner-security-clearance-downgrade-427178
March 3: A man ... shot himself beyond the
north fence line outside the White House Saturday, a law enforcement official
told CBS News' Pat Milton. U.S. Secret Service responded to the sound of shots
fired.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/breaking-news-white-house-north-lawn-reports-shots-fired-today-03-03-2018-live-updates/
March 9: Democrats seek subpoenas for White
House security clearance data
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-clearances/democrats-seek-subpoenas-for-white-house-security-clearance-data-idUSKCN1GL2ME
March 27: Arrest made in case of suspicious
packages sent to D.C.-area military and intel sites
Suspect Tranh Cong Phan, 43, was arrested at his home in the Seattle area.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/arrest-made-case-suspicious-packages-sent-d-c-area-military-n860371
March 29: EX-CIA Chief John Brennan
Describes Trump as a National Security Risk
https://thedailycoin.org/2018/03/29/ex-cia-chief-john-brennan-describes-trump-as-a-national-security-risk/
April 24: Trump Reportedly Uses
Private Cell Phone More Often Amid Kelly’s Waning Influence
“This is potentially a gold mine of intelligence,” James Clapper said.
Trump isn’t the first resident of the White House to have access to a
private cell phone. Former President Barack Obama used a Blackberry while in
office, but it was outfitted with
security measures and specialized encryption. It’s unclear if Trump’s phone
has the same protections.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called the reports
about Trump using a personal cell phone troubling and said that such
communications could be targeted by foreign intelligence.
“He may be keeping things from his chief of staff, but he will elicit the
interest of foreign intelligence services,” Clapper told CNN’s Don Lemon. “This
is potentially a gold mine of intelligence for them. Even if he is using some
kind of secure app, there’s all kind of inferential things you can derive from
the fact he’s doing that ... even if you don’t get the content.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-personal-cell-phone_us_5adebcbbe4b0b2e81132a499
May 15: Top intelligence official says
Chinese ZTE cellphones pose security risk to U.S.
President Trump wants to help the Chinese firm, but a top intel official told
the Senate that ZTE cellphones may be used by the Chinese government to spy.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/top-intelligence-official-says-chinese-zte-cellphones-pose-security-risk-n874276
May 17: Man yelling 'anti-Trump' rhetoric
opens fire at President's Miami-area golf resort
Perez [Miami-Dade police Director Juan Perez] said the man's immediate motive
seemed to be to lure police into a gunfight.
"He did succeed (in luring police), and he did lose," Perez said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/politics/trump-golf-course-shots-fired/index.html
March 23: Sink hole appears on White House
lawn
"Sinkholes, like this one, are common occurrences in the Washington area
following heavy rain like the DC metro area has experienced in the last week. We
do not believe it poses any risk to the White House or is representative of a
larger problem,"
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/politics/white-house-sinkhole/index.html
May 24: Trump Identifies His Trade Weapon of
Choice, to the Dismay of Congress
The president’s use of a national security law to threaten tariffs, most
recently on imported cars, has lawmakers, the auto industry and foreign trade
partners worried
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-gop-allies-worry-over-possible-new-u-s-auto-tariffs-1527179893
July 8:
What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?
Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?
A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
July 19: Trump's immigration policies were
supposed to make the border safer. Experts say the opposite is happening.
President Donald Trump has said that he wants immigration policy that secures
the border. But his aggressive policy has instead resulted in organized crime
groups preying on droves of desperate asylum seekers who have been turned away
by US authorities, according to people familiar with the smuggling operations.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/19/americas/trump-migration-border-smuggling/index.html
July 24: Paul Ryan: Trump is just 'trolling
people' with his security clearances threat
The White House said Monday that the president is considering revoking the
security clearances of several former national security officials critical of
his policies
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/paul-ryan-trump-just-trolling-people-his-security-clearances-threat-n894031
July 25: The Adidas soccer ball Russian
President Vladimir Putin gave to President Donald Trump at their summit in
Helsinki had a chip with a small antenna inside, but the chip is a feature of
all World Cup soccer balls, according to a report from Bloomberg
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/07/25/trump-putin-adidas-soccer-ball-transmitter-chip-ip-vpx.cnn
July 26:
Blockchain technology is often touted for its potential to transform everything
from how we vote, to the way we pay. But the digital ledgers also enable much
darker use cases, as demonstrated by a blockchain platform that has been used
to set up an online assassination market.
Users of the recently-established Augur protocol are using its underlying
blockchain technology to bet on the deaths of high-profile public figures,
including US President Donald Trump, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and billionaire
investor Warren Buffett.
Set up by the Forecast Foundation, Augur allows people to choose an event to
predict, create a market for it, and then trade shares on the outcome of the
event. “Anything is fair game,” the website states, “from the next presidential
election to the success of a company’s product.”
The cryptocurrency associated with Augur is currently the 40th most valuable,
according to
CoinMarketCap, with a market cap of over $340 million, but trading on
the Augur protocol is done with ethereum – the world’s second most valuable
cryptocurrency behind bitcoin.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-assassination-market-blockchain-augur-a8464516.html
August 15: Ex-CIA Chief says Americans
should worry after Trump revokes his security clearance.
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he has revoked
former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance, marking an
unprecedented use of a president's authority over the classification system to
strike back at one of his prominent critics.
"I have a unique constitutional responsibility to protect the nation's
classified information, including by controlling access to it. Today, in
fulfilling that responsibility, I have decided to revoke the security clearance
of John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency," Trump said
in a statement dictated in the White House briefing room by his press secretary
Sarah Sanders. "Mr. Brennan's lying and recent conduct characterized by
increasingly frenzied commentary is wholly inconsistent with access to the
nation's most closely held secrets."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/15/politics/john-brennan-security-clearance/index.html
August 15: In response, Brennan tweeted hours
later: "This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom
of speech & punish critics. It should gravely worry all American's, including
intelligence professioanls, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are
worth far more than clearances. I will not relent."
Last month, the White House said they were looking into the clearances for other
former officials and Trump critics, including former FBI director James Comey;
former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe; former director of national
intelligence James Clapper; former national security adviser Susan Rice and
former CIA director Michael Hayden (who also worked under President George W.
Bush).
On Wednesday, Sanders added to the list Justice Department official Bruce Ohr,
former FBI agent Peter Strzok (who was fired from the bureau last week) and
former FBI general counsel Lisa Page.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/15/trump-revokes-security-clearance-for-former-cia-director-john-brennan.html
August 15: Sen. John Kennedy defended
President Donald Trump's decision to revoke John Brennan's security clearance
and called the former CIA director a "butthead" who doesn't need the clearance.
"I think most Americans look at our national intelligence experts as being above
politics. Mr. Brennan has demonstrated that that's not the case. He's been
totally political. I think I called him a 'butthead' and I meant it. I think
he's given the national intelligence community a bad name,"
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/15/politics/cia-brennan-security-clearance-trump-congress-cnntv/index.html
On Twitter: If there ever
was a case of the pot calling kettle black,
this has got to be it. Brennan will forget
more than Trump will ever know when it comes to protecting US national
security.
August 15
https://twitter.com/aarondmiller2/status/1029804343946563584
August 15: Brennan on Tuesday rebuked Trump
on Twitter after the president attacked former aide
Omarosa Manigault Newman
“It’s astounding how often you fail to live up to minimum standards of decency,
civility, & probity. Seems like you will never understand what it means to be
president, nor what it takes to be a good, decent, & honest person. So
disheartening, so dangerous for our Nation,” he wrote.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/401989-trump-revokes-brennans-security-clearance
August 15: Brennan faces no formal charges
or allegations of violating any regulations or laws. Another former CIA
director, John Deutch, had his security clearance revoked in 1999, three years
after he resigned as CIA chief, after he violated security rules for keeping
classified information on computers at his home.
Ned Price, a former National Security Council spokesman for Obama and former CIA
official, said Trump was trying to shift public attention away from the critical
book by Manigault Newman.
"The proximate target was John Brennan, but the real intent of today’s
announcement was to simultaneously shift and silence," he said.
https://japantoday.com/category/world/update-3-trump-revokes-ex-cia-chief's-security-clearance-slamming-critic
August 15: Trump told The Wall Street
Journal in an interview Wednesday that his decision — and threat to revoke other
clearances — stemmed from his frustrations with the ongoing investigation into
Russian election meddling and potential collusion with his campaign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/the-latest-brennan-calls-trump-action-abuse-of-power/2018/08/15/e894cb60-a0ee-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html?utm_term=.d17e5671c12e
August 17: Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark
Warner on Friday said he plans to present an amendment preventing President
Trump from “arbitrarily revoking security clearances.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/17/mark-warner-to-reveal-amendment-to-block-trump-from-arbitrarily-revoking-security-clearances.html
August 17: White House drafts more clearance
cancellations demanded by Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-intelligence-officials-rebuke-trump-for-pulling-brennans-security-clearance/2018/08/17/ea8382f2-a20d-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html?utm_term=.a2a7e29ef84e
October 3: 1 arrested in case of suspicious
letters sent to Trump, others
The three letters did not contain ricin, but the substance was castor seeds,
from which the poison is derived, an official said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1-arrested-case-suspicious-letters-sent-trump-others-n916416
October 3: Trump has lost $1 billion in
personal wealth since running for president
Some wealthy patrons are steering clear of Trump properties, saying the country
club experience is now ruined "by metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs."
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-has-lost-1-billion-personal-wealth-running-president-n916221
October 3: A nationwide wireless emergency
test was sent out Wednesday afternoon, as the Federal Emergency Management
Agency conducted its first "presidential alert."
While users can choose not to participate in messages of missing children and
natural disasters, they are required to receive presidential alerts, which are
sent out at the direction of the White House and activated by FEMA.
Rules outlined in a 2006 law states that the White House can issue a
presidential alert only if the public were in peril, or during national
emergencies. The alert cannot be a personal message on behalf of the president.
The wireless alert system launched in 2012.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fema-tests-presidential-alert-to-225-million-electronic-devices
October 12:
Hackers accessed personal information of 30 million Facebook users
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/12/tech/facebook-hack-personal-information-accessed/index.html
October 12: Senators urge Canada against
using Huawei in 5G development due to national security concerns
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/411199-senators-urge-trudeau-against-using-huawei-in-5g-development-citing
October 24: When the Postal Service Is Used
to Stoke Panic
Officials have intercepted explosive items bound for an array of high-profile
targets ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
First it was George Soros, then in quick succession the Clintons and the Obamas.
This week a number of potential explosive devices made their way into the U.S.
mail system, each disarmed before anyone was injured.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/10/suspicious-packages-clintons-obamas/573805/
October 24: Trump calls for 'peace and
harmony' in wake of bomb threats, urges politicians, media to change behavior
In listing off ways the country can ease political hostilities, the president
did not refer to any of his own repeated and intense attacks on Democrats and
the media, but instead appeared to blame both groups for the current state of
affairs.
"The media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless
hostilities and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories,"
Trump added.
Trump has regularly derided negative coverage as "fake news," has labeled the
press the "enemy of the people" and suggested that coverage of his summit with
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was "treasonous"
because it was not positive enough.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/413054-trump-calls-for-peace-and-harmony-in-wake-of-bomb-threats-urges
October 24: Trump rally chants 'lock her up'
after bomb threats made to Clinton
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/413050-trump-rally-chants-lock-her-up-after-in-wake-of-bomb-threats-to
October 24: Former CIA chief John Brennan
called President Donald Trump's anti-media rhetoric "counterproductive" and
"un-American" while speaking at an event in Texas on Wednesday night, hours
after a pipe bomb
was mailed to Brennan himself at CNN headquarters in New York. Brennan has
appeared on the network but is a contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.
"Unfortunately I think Donald Trump too often has helped to incite some of these
feelings of anger, if not violence, when he points to acts of violence or also
talks about swinging at somebody from the press, the media," Brennan said of
Wednesday's pipe bomb scares. "That's why I have spoken out so strongly, some
would say very stridently, because of what I think is a continued failure on the
part of Donald Trump to live up to what I think should be all our expectations
about what an American president should be doing, especially in times like
this."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cia-chief-john-brennan-calls-trump-anti-press-rhetoric-american-1154881
October 26: Suspect Identified In Suspicious
Package Case Following Arrest In Florida
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/26/660823141/authorities-search-miami-postal-sorting-facility-in-suspicious-packages-investig?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20181026&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews
November 16: U.S. Marshals Service spending
millions on DeVos security in unusual arrangement
The cost to taxpayers could be as much as $19.8 million through next year,
according to figures provided to NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/u-s-marshals-service-spending-millions-devos-security-unusual-arrangement-n909001
November 22: Interpol's new chief: the
'bulldozer' with a taste for tackling cybercrime
Kim Jong-yang likely to refocus organisation and popularise South Korean police
tactics known as ‘K-cop wave’
The election of South Korea’s Kim Jong-yang as
president of Interpol after months of scandal will likely see the
organisation return to its core mission, as delegates chose a career cop over
Kremlin insider Alexander Prokopchuk.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/nov/22/interpols-new-chief-the-bulldozer-with-a-taste-for-tackling-cybercrime
December 13: America's Growing Cop Shortage
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/675359781/americas-growing-cop-shortage
December 20: It started with Nazis: Concerns
over foreign agents not just a Trump-era phenomenon
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/It-started-with-Nazis-Concerns-over-foreign-13480225.php
December 22:
Two arrested in Gatwick Airport drone scare that delayed flights
"The military measures we have in place at the airport have provided us with
reassurance necessary to re-open our airfield," airport officials said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/two-arrests-gatwick-airport-drone-scare-delayed-flights-n951161
December
23: Trump: Drones are ‘lots of fun,’ but only a ‘good
old fashioned wall’ works
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/422636-trump-drones-are-lots-of-fun-but-only-a-good-old-fashioned-wall-works
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January 24: Jared
Kushner's application for a top-secret clearance was rejected by two career
White House security specialists after an FBI background check raised concerns
about potential foreign influence on him — but their supervisor overruled the
recommendation and approved the clearance, two sources familiar with the matter
told NBC News.
The official, Carl Kline, is a former Pentagon employee who was installed as
director of the personnel security office in the Executive Office of the
President in May 2017. Kushner's was one of at least 30 cases in which Kline
overruled career security experts and approved a top-secret
clearance for incoming Trump officials
despite unfavorable information, the two sources said. They said the number
of rejections that were overruled was unprecedented — it had happened only once
in the three years preceding Kline's arrival.
“The system is supposed to be a nonpartisan determination of an individual’s
fitness to hold a clearance, not an ad hoc approach that overrules career
experts to give the president’s family members access to our nation’s most
sensitive secrets,”
"What you are reporting is what all of us feared," said Brad Moss, a lawyer who
represents persons seeking security clearances. "The normal line adjudicators
looked at the FBI report … saw the foreign influence concerns, but were
overruled by the quasi-political supervisor."
The supervisor agreed with the "unfavorable" determination and gave it to Kline,
the head of the office at the time, who overruled the "unfavorable"
determination and approved Kushner for "top secret" security clearance, the
sources said.
"No one else gets that kind of treatment," Moss said. "My clients would get body
slammed if they did that."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/officials-rejected-jared-kushner-top-secret-security-clearance-were-overruled-n962221
April 1: John Bolton may have been denied a
White House security clearance
President Trump may have let his questionable security practices slip beyond the
family.
... House Democrats said a whistleblower told them at least 25 people headed for
the Trump White House had been denied security clearances, but somehow ended up
with clearances anyway. The House Oversight and Reform Committee is now
investigating those alleged security sidesteppers, and National Security Adviser
John Bolton is on the list,
The New York Times reports.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/832547/john-bolton-may-have-been-denied-white-house-security-clearance
November 24: Greenland Is Not For Sale. But
It Has The Rare Earth Minerals America Wants
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/24/781598549/greenland-is-not-for-sale-but-it-has-the-rare-earth-minerals-america-wants
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