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To: Mrjns who wrote (100518)	10/25/2018 11:31:37 PM
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As I've said on this thread before, I would love to see Candace Owens one day become America's first legitimate black President.

To: Mrjns who wrote (100518)	10/25/2018 11:41:38 PM
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I hope you're right.

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10/26/2018 3:04:05 AM

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Rep. Keith Ellison Trailing in New
Poll for Minnesota Attorney General

Roll Call, by Griffin Connolly Original Article

Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison has fallen behind Republican Doug Wardlow in the race for Minnesota attorney general, a new poll released this week showed. Wardlow flipped the race on its head, pacing Ellison by 7 points, 43 percent to 36 percent, according to the Star Tribune/MPR News poll

To: Mrjns who wrote (100518)	10/26/2018 7:14:02 AM
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U.N. Envoy Accused of Hacking Into Major Trump Fundraiser — Claims Diplomatic Immunity bloomberg.com Russian Hackers Aren’t the Only Ones to Worry About By Eli Lake Other states are learning that “hacking and leaking” is an effective strategy against foreign citizens. September 18, 2018, 1:00 AM CDT Crime scene. On the surface, John Podesta and Elliott Broidy are not at all alike. Podesta chaired Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, whereas Broidy was a major fundraiser for Donald Trump. Broidy is a businessman who has long been on the outskirts of national politics. Podesta, a former White House chief of staff, is the consummate Washington insider. And yet Broidy, like Podesta, looks to be the victim of a new kind of political warfare: state-sponsored hacking and leaking. Governments have been spying on foreigners since the dawn of war. Until recently, however, they kept most of the details to themselves. That changed in 2014, when the Russian government intercepted a phone call between two senior U.S. diplomats discussing the Ukrainian government after a popular uprising and posted a recording of it on the internet. Podesta’s privacy was violated when his emails were pilfered by Russian operatives and distributed in 2016 through fake websites and WikiLeaks. In Broidy’s case, his lawyers say, the hacker and leaker is Qatar. Like Podesta, his emails were hacked through a technique known as phishing. Emails sent to Broidy and his assistant were made to look like they came from legitimate sources such as Google or the BBC, but directed them to fake sites that captured their passwords and log-in credentials. And, just as the Podesta hack was only one facet of a more complex scheme, Broidy’s lawyers now say they have uncovered a much wider operation than previously known. Broidy gained some notoriety last spring after The Associated Press reported about his efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy away from Qatar. Those stories were based on Broidy’s emails, and Broidy later sued Qatar in federal court, charging that it had hired a consulting firm that specializes in cybersecurity, Global Risk Advisors, to coordinate the hacking campaign. Last month, the judge threw the case out, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction. And representatives of both the government of Qatar and Global Risk Advisors have denied their involvement in the hack of Broidy’s email account, with a lawyer for the consulting firm telling me that his lawsuit was “baseless” and its allegations “totally false.” Nevertheless, last month’s decision does not address the substance of Broidy’s charges, and his lawyers have uncovered some compelling details in their investigation. They began by issuing subpoenas to TinyURL, a company that shortens lengthy web addresses into more manageable texts, which was used in the phishing attack to obscure the fake website’s real address. Broidy’s lawyers uncovered first the fake website that collected Broidy’s password and log-in information. Then they issued subpoenas for every website created by the TinyURL user who made the phishing websites that snookered Broidy. It turned out to be a gold mine. Eventually a team of specialists was able to uncover both a pattern of phishing and a list of other email accounts — more than 1,000 — that they say were compromised by the same kind of phishing attack. Broidy’s lawyers claim that these hackers had been conducting phishing attacks since at least 2014. The alleged victims range from Syrian human rights activists to Egyptian soccer players (Qatar will host the World Cup in 2022). They include celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and his wife, Debbie; the Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris; and Mouaz Moustafa, a U.S. citizen who is the executive director of the Syria Emergency Task Force. For the most part, the hackers used virtual private networks to mask their IP addresses. In a couple instances, however, they did not — and the addresses linked back to the internet service provider, Ooredoo, which is majority-owned by Qatari government agencies. Usually phishing operations are interested in bank accounts or identity theft. In this case, the project looks like it was designed to yield political intelligence of interest to the Qatari government. Broidy himself has had close ties to Qatar’s Gulf rivals, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The scale of the operation, as well as the targets, suggest this was a state operation. “The extent and volume of information that they were able to obtain in these subpoenas goes beyond the capabilities of an individual,” said Sam Rubin, a vice president of Crypsis Group, a cybersecurity firm, who has seen the research conducted by Broidy’s lawyers. “It’s set up in a systematic manner, to be shared by what appears to be a team.” Broidy’s theory of the case is that this team was working for the government of Qatar. His litigation has produced damning evidence in this regard. But the significance of this lawsuit bears on more than the reputation of a once-obscure Republican fundraiser. It shows how nations are copying Russia by merging traditional espionage with information warfare. That’s not a problem for just Elliott Broidy. It’s a problem for all of us. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. To contact the author of this story: Eli Lake at elake1@bloomberg.net

To: Mrjns who wrote (100518)	10/26/2018 9:59:30 AM
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One year later: John Huber’s probe of Obama FBI-DoJ abuse of power produced nothing? - SWAMP CREATURE, ESTABLISHMENT, RINO, PIECE OF SH$T thenationalsentinel.com ( National Sentinel) Mystery: It’s been a year since Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed “top prosecutor” John Huber from Utah to probe ‘alleged’ abuses of power by the FBI and Justice Department during the Obama administration as those actions related to the scandal collectively known as “Spygate.” But hardly anyone’s heard from him since, and that includes key witnesses whom he should have interviewed by now — but hasn’t. *And many of them are anxious to tell him their story, the Washington Times* reported Friday.** In fact, Huber has also kept Congress in the dark. “I would just like to know what he’s doing,” Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, told The Times. “I’ll take anything. All I know is that we haven’t heard a single thing about what he’s doing.” Presumably, then, Sessions hasn’t updated Congress on the progress of the investigation either. Indeed, Jordan — along with House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., sent the AG a letter last week requesting an update, the Times said. Meadows wants Huber to appear before Congress to provide some updates into his investigation — if he’s got any to give. “I have not seen a lot of evidence that Mr. Huber has done anything other than be appointed by Jeff Sessions,” he said. “It’s been portrayed that he’s making great progress, but I’m not sure there is a whole lot to show for it other than rhetoric right now. I’m not aware of any substantial work that he’s doing.” As we reported in May, DoJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said there was “reasonable grounds” suggesting that the FBI and Justice Department broke laws during their investigation — such as it was — into Hillary Clinton’s gross mishandling of classified emails, which are felonies. We reported again in August that Huber had yet to interview key witnesses in the case including top-ranking DoJ official Bruce Ohr, who appears to have been neck-deep in Spygate. We noted: In March amid calls for him to do something to get to the bottom of the Obama-era abuses of the FISA court to spy on POTUS Donald Trump’s campaign by the FBI and Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Utah-based U.S. Attorney John Huber to the task. In the months since, we’ve not heard much about Huber — about what he’s investigating, who he’s investigating, and what progress, if any, he’s made thus far. As the Times notes, additional key figures in Spygate have also not yet been contacted by Huber, including onetime 2016 Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, whom the Obama FBI secured a FISA court warrant to place under surveillance beginning in September 2016. “I have been willing to speak with anyone who wants to talk,” Page told the paper. Fox News‘ Catherine Herridge said in August that GOP lawmakers have noted some of Ohr’s testimony about the dossier and its author, Christopher Steele, doesn’t line up with previous testimony by former FBI lawyer and anti-Trump texter Lisa Page and Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS. So, in Sessions’ absence and knowing that special counsel Robert Mueller is only focusing on getting POTUS Trump, many of the president’s supporters have been counting on Huber to bring some wins (in the form of indictments) for the home team. Where is he? What’s he doing? *Never miss a story! Sign up for our daily email newsletter —* *Click here*!