[Washington Examiner] Staffer who 'doxed' GOP senators faces nearly 50 years in federal prison.
The former Democratic congressional staffer who posted personal information about Republican senators online faces nearly 50 years in prison.
Jackson Cosko, a 27-year-old Washington, D.C., resident, was arrested Wednesday by U.S. Capitol Police when he was caught sneaking into the offices of Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., after 10 p.m. Tuesday and using an aide’s computer and log-in.
He was charged with five federal offenses: making public restricted personal information, making threats in interstate commerce, unauthorized access of a government computer, identity theft, and witness tampering.
The criminal complaint against him also charges him with second-degree burglary and unlawful entry, which are both criminal offenses in D.C.
Cosko appeared Thursday afternoon before Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who ordered him detained pending a Tuesday hearing.
From August until his arrest, Cosko worked as an unpaid fellow with the office of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, which said it ended his fellowship and is cooperating in the investigation.
Prior to that, he worked for roughly 17 months as an aide to Hassan and before that was employed by former Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. According to an affidavit, five U.S. senators’ restricted personal information was posted on Wikipedia.com by Cosko.
The investigation began on Sept. 27 when it was found the Wikipedia pages of three U.S. senators had been edited to include restricted personal information without their knowledge or permission — information that included home addresses and personal telephone numbers.
Three edits took place nearly in parallel with the high-stakes Senate hearings on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Then, on Oct. 2, according to the affidavit, similar information was posted on the Wikipedia pages of two additional senators.
The senators are not named in the court documents, but the pages of Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch, both of Utah, appeared to be edited during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Kavanaugh.
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So how bout some background on this hipster's family. No, not addresses and phone numbers, thanks.
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I imagine this level of incarceration will prompt a very talkative perp, but how brave are the investigators, given that the police involved are a part of the Legislative branch? Or will the FBI take over the investigation and prosecution by the DoJ? We have seen how trustworthy those agencies can be when serious political juice is involved!
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Cosko wrote on LinkedIn that he was receiving a master’s of engineering degree from George Washington University in the field of cybersecurity policy and compliance.
He indicated that his expected graduation date was 2020. He has a bachelor’s degree in political science and communications, earning it in 2014.
Obviously no technical actual knowledge needed for the above Masters degree! Shocking lack of awareness of how easy he'd be to find...
Or he's a patsy for someone he worked for... I'd like to hope that's true or universities are more FUBARed than even I think.
[USNEWS] NEWARK MAYOR AND U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker is accused of mismanaging a large grant to his New Jersey city's school system in an ad released Thursday by a conservative political group. The charge is vigorously denied by Booker's staff.
"This laughable and deeply misleading ad denigrates the efforts of thousands of people who work hard every day to improve Newark's public schools," said Kevin Griffis, a spokesman for the Democratic mayor's Senate campaign, in an emailed statement to U.S. News.
The ad, released online by the American Commitment Action Fund, implies the $100 million donated by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the school system hasn't made anything better for students.
The enormous grant was announced on Oprah Winfrey's TV show in September 2010. Winfrey is hosting a fundraiser for Booker's Senate campaign Thursday evening in Jersey City – with tickets starting at $1,000, according to the Sunlight Foundation.
[ALSO: Booker Hosts 'Hipster' D.C. Fundraiser]
Debate surrounding the donation isn't new. The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in 2011 seeking emails between Facebook representatives and Newark officials about the funds.
A judge ordered the emails be released in December. "[Zuckerberg's] money is not going in to classrooms," Booker aide Sharon Macklin said in one of the messages, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"A mayoral adviser outlined a rough plan to spend $315,000 on efforts such as polling, focus groups, mailing and consultants," the Journal reported, citing the emails. "The [Foundation for Newark's Future] has spent at least $2 million on such efforts since."
Around $50 million of the donation reportedly went to a new teachers contract - adopted in November 2012 - that featured merit-based pay increases, and additional funds are reportedly going to open new charter schools.
[READ: Fur Flies Between Booker, Animal Shelter]
Booker's campaign points to the teachers contract as one highly significant and positive change for students.
"The giving Mayor Booker has attracted is making a difference in the lives of Newark's children, and the evidence is everywhere," Griffis wrote. "From funding in the breakthrough teacher's contract that rewards great teaching to longer school days to a 61 percent increase in pre-schoolers in district classrooms to the launch of an innovation fund that supports teachers who have new ideas for enriching classroom learning."
A voicemail left with the group behind the ad was not immediately returned. The group's website says it is "committed to defeating big government liberals and electing free-market conservatives" and that targeting Booker is its first project.
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...Given the smarts Senator Booker has shown over the last few weeks, I'm now convinced that he was an Empty Suit(TM) pushed to be the Official Guy In Charge while the usual crowd continued to loot the good city of Newark.
Mike
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10/07/2018 12:38 Comments ||
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#6 - Heh
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/07/2018 13:03 Comments ||
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I’ve seen FBI “report” too: 1. Interviewed ALL those named as present at gathering where alleged assaulted occurred: 2. Not one could recall any such gathering much less an assault: 3. After over 150 interviews no one has ever told FBI that Kavanaugh drugged or assaulted anyone; https://t.co/6wk88zqiW2
#4
Just apply what the left wants for guns. All these parties must be permitted and registered with the gummint and documented in the event of future problems. Interferes with Article 11 of the Bill of Rights, you say? You don't have any qualms about interfering with Article 2...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#3
She's not thinking big enough -- her goal should really be to rewrite the Constitution from scratch. Quick, somebody send her a box of crayons and a stack of paper.
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#4
Hysterical. We have have the female match to Florida Man — Bronx West Chester Woman. As long as we have the electoral college, the small states that have a majority under that system will never allow it to be done away with. So the young lady can agree all she wants with those who agree with her; the rest of us can point and laugh while we wait to see if her nonsense serves to overcome the odds and deliver a Republican to the House after she so decisively defeated the incumbent in the Democratic primary.
#10
I was unaware the electoral collage had anything to do with the senate.
If you want to change it, it requires 2/3rds of both house, along with 3/4th of the states. Or SCOTUS by fiat terminating the entire contract in attempting to alter it.
#11
That’s why liberals need the courts. They could never convince the required numbers. They have to lie about their intentions half the time as it is.
[Free Beacon] Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) is backing legislation that would heavily benefit a foreign gambling conglomerate and a string of special interests, despite pledging to end public corruption in Washington.
Warren, a potential 2020 presidential contender, introduced the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act in March of this year along with the rest of the Massachusetts congressional delegation. The act aims to circumvent legal obstacles currently thwarting the Mashpee Wampanoag's attempts to establish a casino.
The senator, who has been dogged by controversy surrounding her claims of Native American heritage, has embraced Mashpee Wampanoag's cause as her own. The embrace has been especially surprising considering Warren, until recently, was hostile to legalized gambling.
As a candidate for the Senate in 2011, Warren strongly opposed successful efforts to expand casino-style gambling in Massachusetts. In 2014, she backed an unsuccessful ballot initiative to repeal the expansion on economic grounds.
"It's a tough call here. People need jobs, but gambling can be a real problem economically for a lot of people," Warren told the Boston Herald. "I didn't support gambling the first time around and I don't expect to support it [now]."
Earlier this year, however, Warren's tone shifted. Before the National Congress of American Indians, the senator promised the tribal leaders in attendance she would fight against "our country's mistreatment of your communities." Shortly after making that promise, Warren sponsored the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act.
[Breitbart] Vice President Mike Pence decided to face his foes head on, refusing to exit the Capitol building through a side entrance as protesters swarmed the area following the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Pence and his security detail had been exiting toward the front steps of the Senate when he appeared to stop for a second as the crowd stationed in the plaza outside the Capitol chanted "Shame! Shame! Shame!"
Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms Jim Morehand reportedly told Pence he could exit through a back entrance if he wanted to escape the protesters. As Pence’s security detail told him about the updated exit plan, the vice president stopped and told his handlers, "Let’s do it."
The doors opened to the mob of protesters while Pence walked toward his motorcade, waving to the crowd on the way down the steps. Many of the protesters wore black, carried signs with profane language, and disparaged Kavanaugh and President Trump while the Senate voted to confirm Kavanaugh.
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And some gentleman named Peter Cozy is pwning twitter with his musical variations on a theme of Senator Graham smilingly walking away from a shrieking harpy before the final vote. See here — just keep scrolling down.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote a letter to Christine Blasey Ford's lawyers Thursday asking for records and descriptions of communications with the offices of Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Mazie Hirono "in light of recently uncovered information."
The new request, revealed in a late-Thursday press release sent hours after senators got a chance to read the FBI's report on its investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations levied against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, was coupled with Grassley's third attempt to ask Ford's attorneys Debra Katz, Michael Bromwich, and Lisa Banks to share evidence cited as part of their client's claim she was sexually assaulted by the judge when they were teenagers.
"I urge you once again, now for the third time in writing, to turn over the therapy notes, polygraph materials, and communications with The Washington Post that Dr. Ford has relied upon as evidence," Grassley wrote at the end of his letter.
Some of those notes were given to the Washington Post and mentioned in the report last month in which Ford came forward as Kavanaugh's first accuser. Ford's lawyer refused the chairman's request, saying in a letter Wednesday that they would only turn over her therapist's notes and other documents to the FBI if she was interviewed by FBI investigators. Ford, however, was not interviewed, and the FBI completed it's report this week. After speaking to 10 people, the FBI found "no corroboration of the allegations" made by two of Kavanaugh's accusers, including Ford and Deborah Ramirez, according to an executive summary.
"In addition to the evidence I requested in my October 2 letter," Grassley continued in his letter, "in light of recently uncovered information, please turn over records and descriptions of direct or indirect communications between Dr. Ford or her representatives and any of the following: (1) U.S. Senators or their staffs, particularly the offices of Senators Feinstein and Hirono, other than your communications with me and my staff in preparation for the September 27 hearing; (2) the alleged witnesses identified by Dr. Ford (Leland Keyser, Mark Judge, and Patrick "P.J." Smyth); and (3) Debbie Ramirez, Julie Swetnick, or their representatives."
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Nice opening. Grassley should say "give us everything Five-O has on the Choom Gang and whatever the Hawaii Dept. of State has on Soetoro's birth certificate and well call it a wash..."
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[DailyWire] Once Kavanaugh is officially confirmed, perhaps there should be another investigation ‐ an investigation into Christine Ford, her attorneys, and Senate Democrats. There is plenty of smoke to indicate that this was all a highly-coordinated political hit job. If it was ‐ indeed, if there was any coordination at all, in any form ‐ then this would be one of the great scandals in American political history.
1) Leland Keyser, the (former, I'm assuming) friend of Christine Ford who denied ever attending the party she described or even knowing Brett Kavanaugh at all, now reports that she was pressured to change, or "revisit," her testimony...
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In the interest of law and order, governmental transparency and accoutability, there should be an investigation. If there is wrongdoing, throw the book at them. There need to be consequences for wrongdoing.
#3
Shouldn't leave this to official bodies/proof of criminal conspiracy. Should found an NGO. A woman MeToo-es a Republican candidate before election/conformation and drops it after - win or lose, you sue her in civil court for defamation of character afterwards - put her through the wringer.
#5
The Democrats mission. A one party government even if it means lieing, smearing, character assasinations. Impeach current non-Democrat officiaĺs in office.
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And not just Ford, but her prior 5(?) candidate speakers for their testimony. Also their agents or sponsors encouraging them to engage in testimony.
Burn the bunch to find the truth,
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A year from now Ford will be sitting around playing "Go Fish" with Cindy Sheehan. Sunday Snark of The Day
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Actually, I don't see DiFi being around next year. She's 85, and her own party didn't nominate her for re-election. (They have a much more leftist guy they prefer.)
From their point of view, 'the show was nice but results pay the bills' will probably be the story.
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The precedent is now set.
Get the FBI after Bill!
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Used Ford for Sale
-mid 60s model
-appears to have some “rough” miles on it
-Owner alleges a few unauthorized/unsubstantiated test drives in the early to mid 80s...can’t seem to recall who,what,why,when, or how...
Contact Sen. Diane Feinstein or former FBI agent Monica McLean for more info...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Staffer who 'doxed' GOP senators faces nearly 50 years in federal prison.
[USNEWS] NEWARK MAYOR AND U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker is accused of mismanaging a large grant to his New Jersey city's school system in an ad released Thursday by a conservative political group. The charge is vigorously denied by Booker's staff.
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[DailyWire] Once Kavanaugh is officially confirmed, perhaps there should be another investigation ‐ an investigation into Christine Ford, her attorneys, and Senate Democrats. There is plenty of smoke to indicate that this was all a highly-coordinated political hit job. If it was ‐ indeed, if there was any coordination at all, in any form ‐ then this would be one of the great scandals in American political history.
