Politics Ex treasury employee leaking; Great Trump treat; Saudi shooting act of terror
Diary 1/23/20
Some miscellaneous political tidbits of late.
Ex-Treasury employee guilty of leaking.
Ex-Treasury Employee Pleads Guilty Of Leaking Trump Team Info, After Dramatic Bust With Flash Drive In Hand
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/treasury-natalie-edwards-leaking-trump-documents-guilty-plea
A former top Treasury Department official pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy for leaking confidential banking reports associated with members of the Trump campaign, following her dramatic arrest in October 2018 as she toted a flash drive full of sensitive documents. Natalie Edwards, 41, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court, where U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods set sentencing for June 9.
The SARs related to wire transfers made by Paul Manafort and other figures in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, including campaign official Richard Gates, Maria Butina and the Russian Embassy.
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Is the FBI Really Addressing the FISA Abuse? Trump Weighs In, People Ask Where Is Joe Pientka?
https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/01/12/764485/
For example, an unidentified FBI supervisory special agent (SSA) mentioned in the IG report was responsible for ensuring that the bureau’s “Woods Procedures” were followed in the Page warrant application. According to the procedures, factual assertions need to be independently verified, and information contradicting those assertions must be presented to the court. But Horowitz found several instances in which the procedures were not followed. Horowitz’s report leaves little doubt that the unnamed SSA is Joe Pientka — a current bureau employee. Pientka briefly appeared on the FBI’s website as an “Assistant Special Agent in Charge” of the San Francisco field office late last year, according to the Internet archive Wayback Machine — although Pientka no longer appears on any FBI website. Twitter user Techno Fog first flagged the Wayback Machine’s archive of the page.
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Attorney General: Mass shooting by Saudi national was an act of terror
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/attorney-general-mass-shooting-by-saudi-national-was-an-act-of-terror
Attorney General William Barr announced Monday the December mass shooting by a Saudi national that left three American sailors dead in Pensacola, Florida was an act of terrorism. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force, shot and killed three U.S. navy sailors — Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, Airman Mohammed Haitham, 19, and Airman Apprentice Cameron Walters, 21 — and wounded at least eight others at the Naval Air Station Pensacola. Haitham and Walters received posthumous promotions, and Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly praised them for displaying “the finest warrior ethos and quick decision-making that undoubtedly saved many lives.” Alshamrani was shot and killed by responding deputies from the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.
Some miscellaneous political tidbits of late.
Ex-Treasury employee guilty of leaking.
Ex-Treasury Employee Pleads Guilty Of Leaking Trump Team Info, After Dramatic Bust With Flash Drive In Hand
A former top Treasury Department official pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy for leaking confidential banking reports associated with members of the Trump campaign, following her dramatic arrest in October 2018 as she toted a flash drive full of sensitive documents. Natalie Edwards, 41, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court, where U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods set sentencing for June 9.
The SARs related to wire transfers made by Paul Manafort and other figures in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, including campaign official Richard Gates, Maria Butina and the Russian Embassy.
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Is the FBI Really Addressing the FISA Abuse? Trump Weighs In, People Ask Where Is Joe Pientka?
https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/01/12/764485/
For example, an unidentified FBI supervisory special agent (SSA) mentioned in the IG report was responsible for ensuring that the bureau’s “Woods Procedures” were followed in the Page warrant application. According to the procedures, factual assertions need to be independently verified, and information contradicting those assertions must be presented to the court. But Horowitz found several instances in which the procedures were not followed. Horowitz’s report leaves little doubt that the unnamed SSA is Joe Pientka — a current bureau employee. Pientka briefly appeared on the FBI’s website as an “Assistant Special Agent in Charge” of the San Francisco field office late last year, according to the Internet archive Wayback Machine — although Pientka no longer appears on any FBI website. Twitter user Techno Fog first flagged the Wayback Machine’s archive of the page.
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Attorney General: Mass shooting by Saudi national was an act of terror
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/attorney-general-mass-shooting-by-saudi-national-was-an-act-of-terror
Attorney General William Barr announced Monday the December mass shooting by a Saudi national that left three American sailors dead in Pensacola, Florida was an act of terrorism. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force, shot and killed three U.S. navy sailors — Ensign Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, Airman Mohammed Haitham, 19, and Airman Apprentice Cameron Walters, 21 — and wounded at least eight others at the Naval Air Station Pensacola. Haitham and Walters received posthumous promotions, and Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly praised them for displaying “the finest warrior ethos and quick decision-making that undoubtedly saved many lives.” Alshamrani was shot and killed by responding deputies from the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.
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