Damning Report: Officer Passed Up Shot at TX Gunman Before Shooter Entered School

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A report published Friday offered new details about the law enforcement response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, last month that killed 21 people, including 19 children, and injured 17 others.

Perhaps most striking among the revelations was that an officer passed up an opportunity to shoot the gunman as he approached Robb Elementary School for fear of hitting a child, a senior sheriff’s deputy who spoke to the officer told the New York Times.

“I’m not bashing him or anything. I get it,” said Chief Deputy Sheriff Ricardo Rios of neighboring Zavala County. “The ranger who took my statement even said, ‘It’s come to the point where we’re second-guessing ourselves shooting somebody because we’re scared. Every bullet has our names.'”

Rios, who responded to the violence in his own county, said he was told two Uvalde officers engaged with the shooter outside the building, a different version of events than what other officials have presented — that the gunman had fired at a nearby funeral. (Read more from “Damning Report: Officer Passed Up Shot at TX Gunman Before Shooter Entered School” HERE)

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Leaked Internal Audio From TikTok Shows U.S. User Data Accessed From China Despite Denials: Report

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TikTok employees based in China have repeatedly accessed sensitive data from U.S. users despite the company previously indicating that the information would only be accessed from inside the U.S.

The revelation was contained in a report from BuzzFeed News that highlighted various statements made from numerous employees over the course of more than 80 internal TikTok meetings.

The fear that U.S. officials have is that U.S. user data could be accessed by ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, because Chinese companies are subjected to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party.

“The risk is that the government could force ByteDance to collect and turn over information as a form of ‘data espionage,’” the report said. “There is, however, another concern: that the soft power of the Chinese government could impact how ByteDance executives direct their American counterparts to adjust the levers of TikTok’s powerful ‘For You’ algorithm, which recommends videos to its more than 1 billion users. Sen. Ted Cruz, for instance, has called TikTok ‘a Trojan horse the Chinese Communist Party can use to influence what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think.’” (Read more from “Leaked Internal Audio From TikTok Shows U.S. User Data Accessed From China Despite Denials: Report” HERE)

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British Government Signs Extradition Order for Julian Assange

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British Home Secretary Priti Patel signed an extradition order Friday against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange so he can be returned to the United States to face espionage charges.

Assange has 14 days to appeal the order, according to a statement from the Home Office. Should Assange be brought back to the US, he faces a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison.

“The UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr Assange. Nor have they found that extradition would be incompatible with his human rights, including his right to a fair trial and to freedom of expression, and that whilst in the U.S. he will be treated appropriately, including in relation to his health,” the Home Office wrote in their statement.

Assange played an alleged role in “one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States,” the Department of Justice wrote in 2020. The charges filed in 2020 expand upon 18 counts filed in May 2019, broadening the scope of the conspiracy surrounding alleged hacking.

“Assange conspired with Army Intelligence Analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password hash to a classified U.S. Department of Defense computer,” the DOJ alleged.

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Pro-Life Groups Call Out Biden Admin for Ignoring Vicious Leftist Attacks

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Pro-life groups across the country are bracing themselves for future attacks from alleged pro-abortion protesters, telling the Daily Caller that authorities need to do more to stop vandalism and firebombing before they strike again in what has been more than a month-series of attacks.

Dozens of pregnancy centers have been vandalized with graffiti and fire-bombings after the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicated Roe v. Wade may be overturned. Places of worship and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh have also been targeted in the wave of attacks since May 2. Directors of the pregnancy centers, which offer free services to women who are considering not having an abortion, are calling on the federal authorities to launch thorough investigations.

“I wish the FBI would say that these attacks on religious organizations are hate crimes,” Executive Director of Loreto House Randy Bollig told the Daily Caller. “I think there needs to be an example made, and rapid prosecution.”

“I’m definitely afraid,” Bollig said, adding he “would feel much better if I had FBI agents coming to visit,” and that he has been working with local authorities to track down the suspect.

The pregnancy center in Denton, Texas, was vandalized May 8 with the words “Forced birth is murder” and “not a clinic.” The graffiti was on the front door and the brick, which had to be replaced, Bollig said. “It’s a class A felony” because the damage was over $2,500, he added. (Read more from “Pro-Life Groups Call Out Biden Admin for Ignoring Vicious Leftist Attacks” HERE)

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China Praises Cuba for Defending Uyghur Genocide

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The communist government of Cuba hijacked this week’s ongoing U.N. Human Rights Council session to deliver a statement, signed by 69 countries, in support of China’s genocide of Uyghur and other non-Han ethnic groups in occupied East Turkistan.

Cuba and China, in addition to several other dictatorships and human rights abusers, enjoy seats on the Council, regularly using them to undermine the mission of the Council by forcing it to focus on Israel or America. Under President Donald Trump, America vacated the Council in protest of the disproportionate representation that human rights abuses have on the U.N. body, but President Joe Biden reversed that decision, making America a participant in the Council’s activities.

The Council recently expelled Russia in response to the eight-year-old invasion of Ukraine, which is also on the Council, but has made no similar moves against Cuba, China, Venezuela, Qatar, and other serial human rights violators.

Cuba’s intervention to defend genocide at the Human Rights Council was a response to 47 countries, including the United States, issuing a statement on Tuesday directed at U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, who recently visited East Turkistan and concluded that the extensively documented Chinese concentration camp system had been dismantled and praised China’s atrocious human rights record. (Read more from “China Praises Cuba for Defending Uyghur Genocide” HERE)

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SEE IT: Reporter Reveals Photos Showing Pence Hiding During Capitol Riot; AG Garland Will Criminally Charge Donald Trump; Democrats Try to Connect Supreme Court Justice’s Wife to January 6

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By Washington Examiner. Photos of former Vice President Mike Pence and his family hiding during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot were unveiled Wednesday.

ABC Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl described the images in his book Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show and previously said the ex-vice president’s team did not want him to release them.

The photos were published one day before the Jan. 6 committee is expected to hold a hearing on the pressure campaign by former President Donald Trump and his allies against Pence to overturn the 2020 election results.

Pence was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 to preside over the counting of electoral votes. Despite pressure from Trump, Pence did not try to send the results back to certain states Trump lost in November over claims of election fraud. In fact, he sent a letter to Congress saying he did not have the power to reject Electoral College votes, dealing a blow to Trump’s hopes to deny a victory for President-elect Joe Biden. (Read more from “Reporter Reveals Photos Showing Pence Hiding During Capitol Riot” HERE)

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Laurence Tribe: Merrick Garland Will Criminally Charge Donald Trump

By Breitbart. Thursday on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront,” Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe said that his former student Attorney General Merrick Garland would criminally charge former President Donald Trump. . .

Burnett said, “Do you believe, Professor Tribe, that Attorney General Merrick Garland will bring charges against Trump?”

Tribe said, “I do believe, though he’s doing it meticulously and not as quickly as some would like, that Merrick Garland will approve criminal charges against this president.” (Read more from “Laurence Tribe: Merrick Garland Will Criminally Charge Donald Trump” HERE)

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January 6 Panel Wants to Hear From Justice Thomas’s Wife, Chairman Says

By AP News. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol has asked Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for an interview, the panel’s chairman said Thursday afternoon.

Thomas, a conservative activist, communicated with people in President Donald Trump’s orbit ahead of the attack and also on the day of the insurrection, when hundreds of Trump’s supporters violently stormed the Capitol and interrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.

“We have sent Ms. Thomas a letter, asking her to come and talk to the committee,” Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the panel, told reporters after a three-hour public hearing Thursday. He didn’t specify a time or date for an interview. (Read more from “January 6 Panel Wants to Hear From Justice Thomas’s Wife, Chairman Says” HERE)

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Is There Anyone Keeping Track of These FBI Agents?

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Lisa Page and Peter Strzok are the two folks who serve as the face of the FBI’s bias and corruption. The lovebirds’ texts have tarnished the bureau’s reputation as an impartial and professional law enforcement agency. Donald Trump broke the FBI. The 2016 election broke the FBI. There are also other instances of the FBI dropping the ball. They totally screwed up the investigation into Larry Nassar, the now-convicted child predator who abused scores of American gymnasts, which forced FBI Director Wray to issue an apology. Now, we have a top FBI official having inappropriate interactions with journalists, including receiving gifts, which is the least surprising thing to emanate from this the J. Edgar Hoover post-Trump (via Free Beacon):

The FBI’s top national security official had dozens of improper meetings with journalists and accepted tickets from one journalist to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, interactions that FBI officials said were a “no-no” and “dangerous.”

Michael Steinbach, who served as an FBI executive assistant director, failed to report the gifts on his federal financial disclosures, according to an inspector general report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. He met regularly from 2014 until his abrupt retirement in February 2017 with 7 reporters and had contact with 21 others. His interactions with journalists overlapped with his work on major counterterrorism cases and Crossfire Hurricane, the ill-fated investigation into collusion between the 2016 Donald Trump campaign and Russia.

The report, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, is the latest example of a top FBI official accepting gifts from journalists. The former head of FBI public affairs, Michael Kortan, received baseball game tickets and other gifts from CNN and New York Times reporters. Journalists also plied Steinbach’s former deputy, Bryan Paarmann, with a variety of gifts.

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Biden Says a Recession Is ‘Not Inevitable’

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President Joe Biden said Thursday the American people are “really, really down” after a tumultuous two years with the coronavirus pandemic, volatility in the economy and now surging gasoline prices that are slamming family budgets. But he stressed that a recession was “not inevitable” and held out hope of giving the country a greater sense of confidence.

Speaking to The Associated Press in a 30-minute Oval Office interview, the president emphasized the battered economy that he inherited and the lingering psychological scars caused by a pandemic that disrupted people’s sense of identity. He bristled at claims by Republican lawmakers that last year’s COVID-19 aid plan was fully to blame for inflation reaching a 40-year high, calling that argument “bizarre.”

As for the overall American mindset, Biden said, “People are really, really down.”

“The need for mental health in America, it has skyrocketed, because people have seen everything upset,” Biden said. “Everything they’ve counted on upset. But most of it’s the consequence of what’s happened, what happened as a consequence of the COVID crisis.” (Read more from “Biden Says a Recession Is ‘Not Inevitable’” HERE)

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Lawyers: Inmate Claims She Was ‘Offered Money’ to Murder Ghislaine Maxwell

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Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell claim that her cellmate alleges she was offered financial compensation to kill the disgraced British socialite.

Global News reports:

Maxwell’s lawyers provided details of the alleged death threat in a pre-sentencing report Wednesday. They also made the case that Maxwell suffered an abusive upbringing, which made her vulnerable to Epstein’s influence, in arguing for leniency in her sentencing. Her lawyers wrote: “One of the female inmates in Ms. Maxwell’s housing unit told at least three other inmates that she had been offered money to murder Ms. Maxwell and that she planned to strangle her in her sleep.”

Maxwell was convicted of helping to recruit teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse between 1994 and 2004. Her sentencing is slated for June 28 and she faces up to 55 years in prison. (Read more from “Lawyers: Inmate Claims She Was ‘Offered Money’ to Murder Ghislaine Maxwell” HERE)

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Putin Crony Suggests Ukraine Won’t Exist in 2 Years

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One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies ominously suggested that Ukraine might not exist in two years’ time.

Dmitry Medvedev, former president and prime minister of the Russian Federation, who currently serves as deputy head of the country’s Security Council, took to his Telegram channel Wednesday to muse about Ukraine’s attempts to secure gas imports from its Western allies.

“I saw a report that Ukraine wants to receive from its overseas masters [liquified natural gas] as part of a land-lease plan with payment for delivery after 2 years,” Medvedev wrote. “Otherwise the country will freeze next winter.

“But here’s a question. Who said that after two years Ukraine will even exist on the world map?

“But it makes no difference to the Americans – they are so invested in their ‘anti-Russia’ project, that everything else is trivial to them.” (Read more from “Putin Crony Suggests Ukraine Won’t Exist in 2 Years” HERE)

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