Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered that FBI agents shared extensive classified materials with former British spy Christopher Steele, despite knowing the Democratic National Committee was paying Steele and that Hillary Clinton herself was aware of Steele’s research, according to a new report by Eric Felten at RealClearInvestigations.
FBI agents met with Steele in Rome just a month before the 2016 election, where they gave him a “general overview” of Crossfire Hurricane as well as details of the cases against Trump campaign staffers Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn. In addition to the intel, Steele was compensated $15,000 by the FBI for attending the three-hour meeting.
According to Felten, the FBI agent referred to as “Handling Agent 1″ in the Horowitz report is FBI agent Michael Gaeta, who worked on cases fighting organized crime in Russia. Gaeta and Steele met working on the investigation of corruption at international soccer organization FIFA. “Between 2014 and 2016, Steele collected $95,000 from the bureau for his work on the FIFA case and reports on corruption in Russia and Ukraine,” Felten reports. Gaeta became Steele’s go-to for work and began feeding Gaeta information on Trump and Russia connections that would eventually form the “dossier.” . . .
Horowitz’s IG report implies that permission was given to share classified information simply by the presence of the “section chief” at the meeting with Steele. “FBI Security staff told us [the IG’s office] that the Assistant Director for CD [Counterintelligence Division] can authorize the disclosure of classified information,” reads a footnote in the report. (Read more from “Report: FBI Handed Over Classified Information to Spy Christopher Steele” HERE)
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From the invaluable Byron York, please consider this internal Mini-Mike memo that admits the terrifying truth. Yes, a Communist could win the Democrat nomination.
But, wait, there’s more!
Michael Bloomberg, who will not appear on any ballot for another two weeks, would like Biden, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar to drop out of the race, leaving Bloomberg to challenge Sanders alone. From Bloomberg strategists: https://t.co/1LFiJt8bLJ
I’m going out to get some beers. Leave your comments in the, eh, comments section. (For more from the author of “Oh, My: China Mike Bloomberg Advisers Secretly Admit Bernie Has a “Likely Insurmountable Advantage”” please click HERE)
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By The Blaze. The coronavirus that is infecting thousands of people per day in China is much deadlier than the common flu, according to a new analysis by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China.
Some, in downplaying the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, have pointed out how many people die from the common flu every year. During the 2017-18 flu season, about 61,000 people died.
Although the coronavirus has not yet registered such a high number of fatalities, early analysis indicates that there is reason to be more concerned about coronavirus than about the flu. From the New York Times:
An analysis of 44,672 coronavirus patients in China whose diagnoses were confirmed by laboratory testing has found that 1,023 had died by Feb. 11. That’s a fatality rate of 2.3 percent. Figures released on a daily basis suggest the rate has further increased in recent days.
That is far higher than the mortality rate of the seasonal flu, with which the new coronavirus has sometimes been compared. In the United States, flu fatality rates hover around 0.1 percent.
People saying 2.3% mortality rate is nothing to worry about
Some predictions say 40-70% of global population could be infected. Let’s say it’s 40, that means 64 million dead https://t.co/N1KY1e1Xxo
Americans on Coronavirus Cruise Ship Barred From U.S. After Failed Quarantine
By Ars Technica. On Wednesday, the initial 14-day quarantine aboard a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship docked in Yokohama, Japan, officially ended. But the grueling saga seems far from for over for the ship’s 3,711 passengers and crew.
As the quarantine time ran out, Japanese officials were still reporting dozens of new cases of COVID-19 aboard. As of Wednesday, the number of coronavirus infections linked to the ship total 621—by far the largest cluster of COVID-19 infections anywhere outside of China. The next-largest cluster outside of China is in Singapore, which has 84 confirmed cases.
Japanese health officials are facing international criticism for their handling of the quarantine on the ship, the Diamond Princess. The quarantine was intended to curb the spread of disease by keeping people aboard, isolated from each other and from the public on land. But as cases mounted over the two weeks, it became clear that the control efforts only enabled the new coronavirus to spread. In fact, the 621 cases include at least three Japanese health officials, who were there to support the quarantine efforts but ended up becoming infected themselves.
“The quarantine process failed,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said Monday. “I’d like to sugarcoat it and try to be diplomatic about it, but it failed. People were getting infected on that ship. Something went awry in the process of the quarantining on that ship. I don’t know what it was, but a lot of people got infected on that ship.” (Read more from “Americans on Coronavirus Cruise Ship Barred From U.S. After Failed Quarantine” HERE)
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Virginians might have dodged the bullet of a mass gun control bill, but lest some think sanity has been restored to the Virginia legislature, the same Democrat politicians relentlessly promoting restrictions on self-defense for law-abiding citizens are pushing for release of violent criminals. One major bill is now headed to Governor Ralph Northam’s desk.
On Monday, Virginia’s Senate passed HB35, which offers early release to juveniles serving a life sentence without parole once they have already served 20 years. This is a growing trend in a lot of liberal states, but a number of Republicans have bought into this radical idea of retroactively abolishing life without parole for juvenile murderers. This bill will potentially offer release for over 700 people sentenced to life as juveniles, according to liberal activists supporting the bill.
Shockingly, seven of the 11 Republican senators joined every Democrat in supporting this bill. The bill passed the state House 56-44 last month, with support of just one Republican, and now heads to Governor Northam’s desk.
So much for the promise of jailbreak only targeting low-level offenders. Proponents of these bills try to elicit sympathy for juveniles, as if we should treat them more leniently than adults, but murder is not a juvenile crime. It’s one thing to say we will treat juveniles more leniently for petty theft, drugs, or even armed robbery. But in order to get a sentence of life in prison without parole, one has to be a first-degree murderer, and even many of them escape this sentence. Thus, this leniency, by definition, is targeting the worst of the worst.
The infamous D.C. sniper, Lee Boyd Malvo, who, along with his older partner, killed 17 and injured 10 in 2002 in the D.C. area, is an example of who is serving life without parole in Virginia as a juvenile convict.
Increasingly, more violent crime in this country is being committed by juveniles. Roughly 8 percent of homicide suspects and 16 percent of rape suspects in 2018, according to the FBI, were juvenile offenders. This is not something that can be ignored. The suspects charged in the horrific murder of New York college student Tessa Majors are 13- and 14-year-olds. Does their tender age make the pain of her murder less? Does it entitle her family to a lesser degree of justice? Does it make these offenders, if convicted, less a threat to public safety?
What liberals in both parties refuse to recognize is that the murder or rape victims of juvenile offenders are no less victimized and no less deserving of justice than those victims of offenders a few years older. A life is a life. This is not a low-level crime where age should factor in. This bill makes no exceptions for MS-13 murderers or anyone with multiple murders. It truly rewards the worst offenders imaginable.
Moreover, this is not just about juvenile murderers. The bipartisan Left in this country doesn’t believe in the concept of incarceration, and leftists are now seeking to dismantle life sentencing for adult murderers as well. As I reported in January, the Virginia Senate passed the Orwellian-named “Geriatric prisoners; conditional release” bill, which would release, in most cases, anyone who is 55 years of age or older and has served at least 15 years or anyone who is 50 years of age or older and has served at least 20 years of the sentence imposed. Most murderers and rapists would be eligible. The bill passed the Senate along party lines, making it all but certain to pass the House, where Democrats enjoy a larger majority.
What’s worse, these very same Democrats pushing gun control on law-abiding citizens introduced a bill in the House last month restoring gun rights for those convicted of murder and other serious offenses as juveniles 16 or younger!
Meanwhile, although the massive gun ban on commonly owned guns, rifles, and magazines failed to pass a Senate committee, other gun control bills are slated to become law. The so-called “red flag” law already passed the Senate and is expected to sail through the House. It would require law enforcement to confiscate guns, circumventing the normal judicial due process required to limit constitutionally protected rights, upon belief that an individual is a danger to himself or others.
Meanwhile, the most violent criminal offenders who have absolutely exhausted endless due process are being given new parole opportunities to terrorize people. (For more from the author of “Virginia Governor to Sign Bill Releasing Hundreds of Juvenile Murder Convicts” please click HERE)
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By CCN. Coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the Chinese mainland. As more information leaks out, people are growing concerned that coronavirus is a human-made bioweapon.
During an interview earlier this month, a CBS anchor addressed the concern head-on with Chinese Ambassador Ciu Tiankai. His response was far from a denial. . .
Initially, rumors suggested that the patient zero had contracted the virus at the Wuhan seafood market. Just a few yards away from the seafood market lies the Wuhan Virology Institute. According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the institute is China’s first Biosafety Level 4 Lab that researches “the most dangerous pathogens.”
A recent study done by the Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology concluded that coronavirus “probably” originated from that lab.
Scholars Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao claim the WHCDC kept disease-ridden animals in labs. The study also mentions that the bats linked to coronavirus once attacked a researcher and “blood of bat was on his skin.” (Read more from “Bombshell Chinese Study Fuels Conspiracy of Coronavirus Being a Bioweapon” HERE)
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Chinese Doctors: Coronavirus Can Reinfect People, and the Second Infection Can Lead to Heart Failure
By The Blaze. Doctors in China say patients who recover from coronavirus can be reinfected — and if that happens, they become significantly more likely to suffer fatal heart attacks due to the nature of the virus and the effect of the medicine used to treat it, according to the Taiwan News.
The information comes from doctors working in the Hubei province of China, where the virus originated, who spoke under the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from the Chinese government, which has attempted to suppress information about the virus outbreak and punish those who leak info.
“It’s highly possible to get infected a second time,” a doctor told the Taiwan News. “A few people recovered from the first time by their own immune system, but the meds they use are damaging their heart tissue, and when they get it the second time, the antibody doesn’t help but makes it worse, and they die a sudden death from heart failure.”
Additionally, the true scope of the infections still may not be known, due to some complicating variables. Chinese doctors have had issues with false negatives from the coronavirus tests, with cases in which X-rays reveal significant lung infections for people who tested negative for coronavirus multiple times. (Read more from “Chinese Doctors: Coronavirus Can Reinfect People, and the Second Infection Can Lead to Heart Failure” HERE)
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In a series of tweets this Tuesday morning, President Trump threatened to sue various people involved in Robert Mueller’s expansive probe into Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 election.
“These were Mueller prosecutors, and the whole Mueller investigation was illegally set up based on a phony and now fully discredited Fake Dossier, lying and forging documents to the FISA Court, and many other things,” Trump tweeted. “Everything having to do with this fraudulent investigation is badly tainted and, in my opinion, should be thrown out.”
As Law&Crime points out, his Twitter rant was sparked by the recent events surrounding the sentencing of his longtime confidant, Roger Stone, and Attorney General Bill Barr’s intervention in the case — followed by Barr’s public statements where he seemingly expressed frustration with Trump’s tweeting about cases of which he’s involved. (Read more from “Trump Threatens to Sue Mueller and His Team” HERE)
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Tuesday claimed “wealthy Zionists” control America.
America has reached the “peak of arrogance,” and it is controlled by “corporate owners,” which makes it a “manifestation of oppression, abhorred by the world,” he said in a tweet.
Attacking Zionists is the Iranian regime’s usual rhetoric. But claiming that “Zionists” control America is intended to push antisemitic conspiracy theories while hiding behind its official anti-Israel line.
The official slogan of some of Iran’s allies, such as the Houthis in Yemen, is “death to America, death to Israel, curse the Jews.” . . .
The Iranian leader has slammed Jews before. He claims the US “Deal of the Century” is “satanic” and that it includes the “Jewishization” of Jerusalem. (Read more from “Iran’s Ayatollah Claims ‘Wealthy Zionists’ Control America” HERE)
By CNBC. Japan could be a key indicator when it comes to predicting a pandemic-level spread of the deadly coronavirus, former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Tuesday.
Japan appears to be “on the cusp of a large outbreak and maybe epidemic growth in Japan. We need to watch that very closely. They’ve had a doubling of cases just in the last four days” with a total of 59 confirmed cases and one death so far, Gottlieb said on “Squawk Box.”
If other countries report sharp rises in COVID-19 cases, Gottlieb said it could be a sign that the new virus can’t be controlled on a global scale. The CNBC contributor said earlier in February it’s likely the flu-like virus will grow into a pandemic but avoid becoming an epidemic in the United States.
A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease, according to the World Health Organization. An epidemic is an often sudden increase in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in a population in an area, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Syra Madad, an expert in public health and special pathogen response, said that while it’s still early in the outbreak, a pandemic could be near. (Read more from “COVID-19: Are We on the Verge of a Global Pandemic?” HERE)
Russia to Ban Entry of Chinese Nationals to Halt Virus
By Associated Press. Russia will temporarily ban Chinese nationals from entering the country due to the virus outbreak centered in China that has infected more than 73,000 people worldwide, Russian authorities said Tuesday.
The entry ban goes into effect Thursday at midnight Moscow time (2100 GMT) for an indefinite period, according to a decree signed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The government said it took the move due to the “worsening epidemiological situation” in China.
Russia already had cut off most Chinese visitors by closing the long land border with China and Mongolia and imposing other travel restrictions. The new entry ban won’t affect travelers who need to transfer flights at Russian airports, authorities said. (Read more from “Russia to Ban Entry of Chinese Nationals to Halt Virus” HERE)
Bare-Faced Robbery: Thieves Steal 6,000 Hygiene Masks in Japan
By Yahoo. Thieves in Japan have made off with some 6,000 surgical masks from a hospital, with the country facing a mass shortage and a huge price hike online due to the coronavirus.
Four boxes containing the face masks disappeared from a locked storage facility at the Japanese Red Cross hospital in the western port city of Kobe, a hospital official said on Tuesday.
“We still have a large number of masks — enough to continue our daily operations at the hospital, but this is so deplorable,” the official told AFP.
Police have launched an investigation as they suspect the thieves intend to resell the masks.
Masks have sold out at many drug and discount stores across the nation as the number of infections have increased in Japan — one of the most affected countries after China where the death toll from the virus has hit 1,800. (Read more from “Bare-Faced Robbery: Thieves Steal 6,000 Hygiene Masks in Japan” HERE)
Mask Shortages Threaten U.S. Hospitals After Warnings Ignored
By Asian Review. The U.S. is facing a potentially severe shortage of surgical masks due to the coronavirus outbreak in China, despite repeated warnings that American hospitals are overly dependent on Chinese-made medical supplies.
While the coronavirus has caused just 12 confirmed cases in the U.S., the country sources the bulk of its surgical masks, respirators and other “personal protective equipment” from China, where the disease has killed 1,770 and infected tens of thousands.
The epidemic has not only disrupted mask production in the country, it has also sent China’s own demand for medical supplies soaring.
Now hospitals in the U.S. are having to ration their inventory amid one of the worst flu seasons in decades.
Last week, staff at Mt. Sinai Health Systems received an email informing them that, among other measures, surgical masks will only be available in departments such as intensive care units, divisions involved in infection prevention and emergency departments, according to a person familiar with the matter. (Read more from “Mask Shortages Threaten U.S. Hospitals After Warnings Ignored” HERE)
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A pro-lifer with autism explained why unborn babies with disabilities deserve a chance at life.
A pro-life young man at the Virginia March for Life explained to the Daily Caller News Foundation that he marched to “encourage people to not abort children with disabilities.”
(Read more from “WATCH: Pro-Lifer With Autism Explains Why Unborn Babies With Disabilities Deserve a Chance” HERE)
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