[Dawn] FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday the agency is investigating several cases in which people sought to fly drones equipped with home-made bombs within the United States.
"We are investigating, even as we speak, several instances within the US of attempts to weaponise drones with homemade IEDs," Wray told a Senate hearing.
He was referring to improvised bombs.
Wray said the threat of widely available drones has risen quickly with rapid technological advances "in terms of their visibility, the speed with which they can move, the distance with which they can move, and also the loads that they can carry."
"These are extraordinarily sophisticated tools that can carry drugs that can launch weaponry, and we must be able to counter it," he said.
Wray was speaking in a hearing on domestic threats by the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
He did not provide any detail on the armed drone cases.
But the rapid increase in the use of armed unmanned aerial vehicles in the Ukraine war, including cheap hobbyist drones jury-rigged with grenades and mortar shells, has demonstrated how easy they are to make and deploy.
"That is the future that is here now," Wray said, urging legislation to expand the powers of the FBI and other authorities to counter the security threat of private drones.
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Speaking of bombs, what about the investigation about the bombs at the DNC on J6? How is that going? Also, how is the investigation going regarding attacks on Pro-Life clinics?
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[PJMedia] Elon Musk is rich enough that he doesn’t need our sympathy. And when you’re that rich, offering to help would be an insult.
But things have not been going well for Musk ever since he took over Twitter. It appears he completely underestimated the entitled arrogance of Gen Z employees as well as the amount of political trouble the anti-free-speech Democrats could make for him.
The company was a poster child for Big Tech arrogance. With 7,000 employees — about twice the number of workers that were needed — when Musk decided to trim some of the fat, the national media went ballistic.
The media were shocked, shocked, I say, that a businessperson would fire employees who disrespected him — in public, no less. It’s one thing to trash the boss in a private email, but going public with gripes and criticisms is a firing offense in any era for any employee.
But this is a separate issue. The real beef these employees — and Democratic senators — have with Musk is that the billionaire wants to allow more freedom of speech on his platform.
Since Democrats cannot stop Musk from transforming Twitter into more of a free speech zone, they want to sic the regulators on him to make him behave.
“In recent weeks, Twitter’s new Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, has taken alarming steps that have undermined the integrity and safety of the platform, and announced new features despite clear warnings those changes would be abused for fraud, scams, and dangerous impersonation,” the lawmakers said in a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan.
Undermined the “safety” of the platform? Is Twitter going to leave cyberspace and start attacking liberals? It’s a thought.
Reuters:
There have been concerns that the upheaval would lead to Twitter failing to abide by a May 2022 settlement with the U.S. regulator in which Twitter agreed to improve its privacy practices and place responsibility on people who held certain positions.
The FTC said last week it was “tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern. No CEO or company is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees.”
The left has its panties in a twist because Musk has very slightly — slightly — relaxed the overly aggressive rules governing speech on Twitter. But the problem is that the left doesn’t have a stranglehold on the platform anymore. They can no longer go on a collective tirade to get someone canceled.
This doesn’t mean that the racists, the kluxers, the skinheads, and the wild men of the internet have free rein to spread hate, disinformation, and threats of violence. Twitter’s rules haven’t been altered. But they are being slightly reinterpreted to allow for a little bit more freedom of thought.
But it’s the thoughts that are the problem. They haven’t been cleared by the left. They aren’t under the left’s control.
Musk gave an ultimatum to his employees: prepare for “long hours and high intensity” or leave. It appears that hundreds are taking him up on his offer to exit. Some of the quitters are engineers who are supposed to keep the application running smoothly. Last night there was a seven-fold increase in the number of outages across the platform.
No wonder Musk tried to see a little humor in the chaos.
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Thus proving the whole thing was a deep state controlled operation all along. It's not just a property that anyone can buy. It's an important tool of social control. They can censor anyone who doesn't support their narrative.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The San Francisco liberal who met JFK at 17 and has been a bogeyman for Republicans for 35 years: Pelosi steps aside after a Taiwan trip, tearing up Trump's speech, a controversial freezer video and attack on her husband that shocked D.C.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she is not going to mount another bid for Democratic leadership in an emotional speech on Thursday
She's the longest-serving Democratic Speaker and first woman to hold the gavel
Pelosi has been integral to passing key liberal agenda items like the Affordable Care Act and President Biden's bipartisan infrastructure deal
Her exposure to politics came early, growing up the youngest child of a father who was the mayor of Baltimore and a Congressional representative
Pelosi made a splash on the political scene early with an act of protest against China's authoritarian leanings in Tiananmen Square in 1991
She also led a blue wave in Congress in 2006, driven by her opposition to George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq and involvement in the Middle East
[Daily Caller] Democratic Pennsylvania Governor-elect Josh Shapiro charged a former campaign consultant Wednesday with "wide scale" voter fraud, according to authorities.
Philadelphia political consultant Rasheen Crews was arrested Wednesday and charged with forging signatures on nomination petitions so that he could get his Democratic clients on the ballot during the 2019 primary races in the city, Shapiro’s office announced. So the takeaway is mess with elections all you want, but don't touch our in-house primaries. One putz thrown under the bus so Dems can say "See. We're for election integrity."
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They must have found the only Dem operative in the country who didn’t have dirt on anyone important. Gotta be a surprising suck for that guy. Kind of like getting arrested for drug possession in San Francisco. Guy must have thought he was being pranked all the way through booking.
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consider that by arresting him now, you get control of the investigation and the timeline for prosecution. Wait and see how long till he goes free with no bail and if drags on into the memory hole. Once underway, "cannot comment on ongoing investigation..." can be a great defense.
[FOX] Several House Republicans are pressing Secretary of State Antony Blinken about their concerns that Ukraine military aid may have been improperly invested in the bankrupt crypto-exchange FTX Trading Limited.
Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, led the letter with several of his GOP colleagues to Blinken, expressing their concerns about the potential investment of Ukraine military financial aid into FTX, whose founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, made significant donations to Democrats this midterm cycle.
"This whole situation stinks to high heaven," Nehls told Fox News Digital. "I voted against Ukraine spending in the House, and for good reason."
"We have no idea where this money is going and how much is actually going to support Ukraine’s defense," Nehls continued. "Now that we have the majority in the House, we will get to the bottom of this."
In the letter exclusively obtained by FOX Business, the lawmakers wrote it has come to their "attention that billions of taxpayer dollars sent to Ukraine to assist with their war efforts were potentially invested in a crypto exchange that then made massive donations to Democrats" during the midterm elections.
Nehls and the Republicans wrote the Ukrainian government officially partnered with FTX in March to "launch a crypto donations website, ’Aid for Ukraine,’ within days of President Joe Biden pledging billions of American taxpayer dollars to assist the country with war efforts against the Russian invasion."
"While this partnership was touted as a way to assist Ukraine in cashing out crypto donations for ammunition and humanitarian aid, we have serious concerns that the Ukrainian government may have invested portions of the nearly $66 billion of U.S. economic assistance into FTX to keep Democrats in power — and keep the money coming in," the lawmakers wrote.
The Republicans wrote that Bankman-Fried "was the second-largest contributor to Democrat-affiliated political action committees (PACS) and organizations, only behind liberal billionaire, George Soros."
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...I am 100% behind the Ukrainians trying to keep their country free - Jeffersonian democracy they ain't, but nobody deserves what the Russians were trying to drop on them.
On the other hand...if there's evidence - not political maneuvering, not he-said-we-said - then by God get to the bottom of it.
'The press reported ... you were flying on a Gulf Stream jet for a personal vacation in the Adirondacks. Please tell me that's not accurate,' Josh Hawley said
'I am required not only permitted, but required, to fly on an FBI plane wherever I go,' Wray said. 'So you were going on vacation,' asked Hawley. 'Yes'
Wray's rushed Aug. 4 departure cut short Republicans' questioning over allegations of a cover-up in the FBI probe into Hunter Biden's foreign dealings
'Did you enjoy the flight? Did you pay for it?' Hawley pressed. 'Yes, I paid for it,' said Wray, adding that he was visiting family and
He said was required to use a government jet at all times as FBI director
[Yahoo] On a livestream Friday, Democratic candidate Adam Frisch announced that he had called GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert to concede the race in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.
Boebert was leading Frisch by 551 votes, but in percentage terms, they were tied at 50% with 99% of the expected vote in. Given how slim Boebert's lead was, the race was heading into a recount.
Boebert breezed through her Republican primary with 66% of the vote and was expected by many observers to comfortably win her general election in a district that went for former President Donald Trump by 15 points in 2020.
The closer-than-anticipated race for Boebert is representative of the struggles the GOP faced this midterm cycle despite predictions of a "red wave."
Boebert has been a political lightning rod since first winning Colorado's conservative-leaning 3rd Congressional District in 2020 as a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment who fully embraced both Trump and his provocative style.
She infamously heckled President Joe Biden during his first State of the Union address in 2021, eliciting groans from the chamber after shouting, "You put them in there, 13 of them" -- referencing the 13 soldiers killed during the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan -- when Biden was discussing the death of his son Beau.
Boebert spent her first few months in Congress disregarding COVID-19 mask rules and vowing to bring her gun to the House floor.
The congresswoman was one of the many election deniers on the ballot this cycle and has frequently touted that she voted against the congressional certification of Biden's victory in 2020. She refused to tell the Colorado Times Recorder whether she would accept the outcome of her own race against Frisch.
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.
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
[Daily Caller] Democratic Pennsylvania Governor-elect 
