Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) suggested in an interview Sunday that Edward Snowden could have given sensitive national security information to Russia and China. Clearly, that's why she's on the Intelligence Committee! Got it in one, did she...
"He went to two big cyber-intruding powers -- China and Russia -- and left China and went to Russia," Feinstein said on CNN's "State of the Union." "You've got to ask, why did he choose those two? You've got to also ask, do the Chinese have all this material? Do the Russians have it?"Asked whether Snowden has shared the information, Feinstein said: "We don't know." And you thought Obama and Kerry were smart? What a stupendous intellect! She is one of the taller dwarves in the circus...
Feinstein has said Snowden is guilty of treason.
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You've got to also ask, do the Chinese have all this material? Do the Russians have it?"
No you feckless, uninformed moonbat, no one "has to ask". You conduct an immediate damage assessment and properly assume you've been royally buggered compromised. You immediately change tactics and methodology, and move on.
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A day late, but not a dollar short. DiFi is a symptom of the real problem, which is the moonbattery of the electorate which puts her in office again and again. We have met the enemy and he is us.
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He's handy with a shot glass and customers travel from far and wide to admire him at work.
The only strange thing about Carl the bartender is that he's not quite human.
The humanoid robot mixes drinks for guests at the Robots Bar and Lounge in Ilmenau, eastern Germany.
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Just saw this on Google news. This man was a true hero.
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Even without his unquestioned heraldic service, being a Swiftboater alone made him a hero as far as I am concerned. Interesting to note, COL Day fought in WWII, Korean, and Vietnam... was awarded the CMH and was still non-select for 07. Nothing more need be said.
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Another interesting story from that day near Menotomy:
A little after 1:30 in the afternoon on April 19, 1775, several hardy residents of Menotomy who were not fit to serve in the militia captured British wagons full of supplies and reinforcements at this intersection.
The story of the wagons capture began earlier that morning, when British Lord Hugh Percy began marching about 1,000 men and two artillery pieces over Boston Neck through Roxbury with the goal of relieving the beleaguered Lt. Col. Francis Smith and his column returning from Concord. Percys reinforcements had been delayed passing through Cambridge at the place of a bridge that had been disassembled by the colonists. Although the British soldiers quickly reassembled the bridge so that infantry could easily cross, it was not strong enough to hold the heavy supply wagons that followed behind the troops. As a result, the convoy of supplies became separated from the main force.
A message was sent to Menotomy to inform the militia and minutemen of the wagon train and its situation. A group numbering twelve - later known as the old men of Menotomy who were up in years and unfit for military duty, met at Coopers Tavern to form a plan for capturing the wagons. They chose David Lamson, a courageous man supposedly of African and Indian descent to lead them in their attack on the convoy. The band hid behind a stonewall to wait for the convoys arrival. As it passed, Lamson and his men jumped up, leveled their muskets and ordered the British troops (one officer; thirteen soldiers) to surrender. When they refused to comply and instead hurried their horses to gallop away, Lamson and his men fired, killing a few horses and wounding some of the soldiers.
Frightened, the British soldiers abandoned their wagons and a number ran to Spy Pond, throwing their weapons in the water so that the colonial militia could not capture and use them and to hopefully avoid being fired upon again as they were unarmed. These soldiers walked around the pond until they met an old woman, Mother Batherick, who was digging dandelion greens so the story goes. They surrendered to her, begging for safety. Mother Batherick led them to the house of Captain Ephraim Frost, saying to her prisoners, If you ever get back, you tell King George that an old woman took six of his Grenadiers prisoner. The men were treated well and returned to British military control.
Later, English critics of the war would remark, If one old Yankee woman can take six Grenadiers prisoner, how many soldiers will it take to conquer the colonies in America?
[AnNahar] Kuwait on Saturday awaited the results of its second parliamentary election in eight months, after day-long voting and early indications showing a higher turnout despite an opposition boycott.
No official figures were released when polling stations closed at 8:00 pm (1700 GMT) but state-run Kuwait television broadcast partial figures indicating a higher turnout from December's record-low 40 percent.
The first results for the 50-seat parliament in the oil-rich emirate were expected to trickle in after midnight (2100 GMT), as ballot papers are still counted manually in Kuwait.
At some of the 100 polling centers, specially in tribal areas which boycotted the previous polls, voting was brisk while the pace was slow elsewhere amid scorching temperatures.
Information Minister Sheikh Salman Humoud al-Sabah said after visiting a polling station earlier in the day in Jahra, west of Kuwait City, that turnout was high.
Besides opposition calls for a boycott, the sweltering heat of around 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit), combined with the Ramadan dawn-to-dusk Mohammedan fast, also affected turnout.
It was the second time the opposition had called for a boycott in protest at an electoral law that it alleges enables the ruling al-Sabah family-controlled government to manipulate the outcome.
The law was ruled legal in June by the constitutional court, even though it dissolved parliament on procedural flaws, and ordered Saturday's election.
"I just hope this parliament completes its (four-year) term," said civil aviation employee Bassam Eid, after voting in al-Qadsia.
"We are frustrated at the repeated dissolution of the house," Eid told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The last two parliaments were dissolved by the constitutional court on procedural grounds, while previous parliaments were dissolved by the emir.
"I am really concerned at the turn of events in the country as there will be no development without political stability, which we hope will be achieved after this election," Dr. Jawad Abulhassan told AFP.
It was Kuwait's third general polls since February 2006 and the sixth in the past seven years.
Some groups that boycotted the last election -- notably the liberal National Democratic Alliance and some of the emirate's powerful tribes -- did take part on Saturday.
But only a few opposition members were among the 300 hopeful candidates.
They included eight women, the lowest number since Kuwaiti women won political rights in 2005.
Around 30 Arab election observers visited polling stations and were assisted by monitors from the Kuwait Transparency Society.
The opposition failed to mirror the support it mobilized ahead of the last election, but has remained adamant that it will not take part in a "corrupted" political system.
Just days before polling day, the authorities tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! at least four candidates and dozens of their campaign staff on suspicion of attempted vote-buying.
Although Kuwait has the Gulf's oldest elected parliament, all key government posts are held by members of the al-Sabah dynasty which has ruled the country unchallenged for more than 250 years.
Analysts see little hope the election will bring political stability to the emirate, which has been rocked by lingering disputes since mid-2006 -- when about a dozen cabinets were formed and voters went to the ballot five times -- stalling development despite an abundance of petrodollars.
"I think the root of the problem is the unwillingness of some sections of the al-Sabah ruling family to see an elected parliament," analyst Anwar al-Rasheed said ahead of the polls.
Of Kuwait's population of 3.9 million, just 31 percent are citizens and of that 1.23 million only 440,000, aged 21 and over, are eligible to vote.
The OPEC member says it sits on 10 percent of global crude reserves and pumps around 3.0 million barrels of oil per day. It has amassed around $400 billion in assets over the past decade.
Dr. Steve, what is the International Classification of Diseases code for liberalism?. The ICD-9 code is 294.1: Dementia in conditions classified elsewhere...
This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial Museum -- because it was "rah-rah" American, a new book says.
Michael Shulan, the museum's creative director, was among staffers who considered the Tom Franklin photograph too kitschy and "rah-rah America," according to "Battle for Ground Zero" (St. Martin's Press) by Elizabeth Greenspan, out next month. Mr. Shulan probably objects to the Iwo Jima flag raising picture for the same reason. How about George Washington crossing the Delaware? Someone should tell this clown that if we want any crap out of him we'll squeeze his head.
"I really believe that the way America will look best, the way we can really do best, is to not be Americans so vigilantly and so vehemently," Shulan said.
Shulan had worked on a popular post-9/11 photography exhibit called "Here is New York" in Soho when he was hired by Alice Greenwald, director of the museum, for his "unique approach."
Eventually, chief curator Jan Ramirez proposed a compromise, Greenspan writes. The Franklin shot was minimized in favor of three different photos via three different angles of the flag-raising scene.
"Several images undercut the myth of 'one iconic moment,' Ramirez said, and suggest instead an event from multiple points of view, like the attacks more broadly," the book says.
"Shulan didn't like three photographs more than he liked one, but he went along with it."
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) suggested in an interview Sunday that Edward Snowden could have given sensitive national security information to Russia and China.
[AnNahar] Kuwait on Saturday awaited the results of its second parliamentary election in eight months, after day-long voting and early indications showing a higher turnout despite an opposition boycott.
