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Below is the link to the "whistleblower" complaint filed against President Trump.
Read the entire complaint by clicking the link below:
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf
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Most people say the latest whistleblower story against President Trump will serve to ensure his re-election.
That's according to our latest poll at SharylAttkisson.com.
Only about four percent (4%) of those who responded say the story will take down or hurt Trump.
About eight percent (8%) said the whistleblower story would have no impact on Trump's fate in 2020.
Read the full results below. And leave your comments here.
Meantime, answer our latest poll on the home page of SharylAttkisson.com. Look for the black box in the right sidebar or scroll way down on the mobile site.
1% Take Trump down
2% Hurt Trump only a little
14% Help Trump a little
72% Ensure Trump's re-election
8% Have no impact
2% Not sure/Don't care
The violent legacy of a secret government operation lives on.
Another weapon from Operation Fast and Furious has been found in the hands of violent armed groups in Mexico. The newest recovery happened on June 20 in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Mexican police and military arrested nine people and confiscated ten weapons after a gunfight between two groups. According to arrest documents, one of the weapons, a semi-automatic rifle, traces back to Fast and Furious.
The gun is listed as a “Romarm Cugir GP-WASR 10/63 rifle.”
Authorities traced the serial number to a purchase in Prescott, Arizona by Fast and Furious suspect Sean Steward nearly a decade ago: December 9, 2009.
Steward eventually pled guilty to trafficking firearms while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was monitoring him under Operation Fast and Furious.
Fast and Furious was one of numerous secret "gunwalking" operations launched by the federal government in the 2009-2011 time period that put thousands of assault rifles and other weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
Border patrol agent Brian Terry and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata were murdered by Mexican drug cartel thugs in separate incidents in 2010 and 2011 related to guns that were trafficked while under the watch of U.S. agents who neither intervened nor tracked the “walked” weapons.
Read: The Violent Legacy of Fast and Furious
Federal agent John Dodson of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms helped blow the whistle on the dangerous Fast and Furious operation in an interview with me for CBS News in 2011. At that time, and in interviews since, Dodson has warned that the violent legacy of the federal gunwalking programs would be felt for decades as many of the weapons remain in circulation.
In a 2017 interview for Full Measure, Dodson told me some of the important unanswered questions include "the amount of homicides or murders that have been caused by the firearms that we allowed to be trafficked, what the ultimate cost of this strategy was."
Unanswered questions include 'the amount of homicides or murders that have been caused by the firearms that we allowed to be trafficked, what the ultimate cost of this strategy was.'
John Dodson, Special Agent, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Watch the "Full Measure" interview with Dodson by clicking here: http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/fast-and-furious-08-24-2017
Since 2011, the Justice Department has refused repeated requests from Congress and the news media to fully disclose details of incidents involving guns that had been illegally trafficked to Mexican drug cartels under the watch of U.S. agents in Operation Fast and Furious.
Based on news reports and other sources, I’ve tracked the following known crimes linked to the “walked” weapons.
Deaths
At least 69, including 2 U.S. federal agents, 3 Mexican police, 1 terrorist torture/kidnaping/murder in Mexico.
Attempted murders or injuries
3: 1 in Mexico; 2 in U.S.
Kidnapings
4 (all in Mexico)
Assaults/Shootouts
6 incidents including, 2 in Mexico against military, 2 in U.S. against Phoenix law enforcement
In 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for withholding relevant documents. Subsequently, President Obama declared executive privilege to keep White House documents regarding Fast and Furious from being produced to the public or Congress.
Most people consider themselves "middle adopters" of new technology.
That's according to the latest unscientific poll at SharylAttkisson.com.
Coming in second place, the next greatest number of respondents called themselves "late adopters." Fewer consider themselves "early adopters."
The full results are below. Meantime, vote in our newest poll on the home page at SharylAttkisson.com. Look for the black box on the right sidebar or scroll way down on the mobile site.
23% An early adopter
37% A middle adopter
30% A late adopter
10% A non-adopter
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The following is an excerpt from Smithsonianmag.com
With their striking black-and-white stripes, zebras boast one of the most iconic coats of the animal kingdom. But every now and then, a zebra is born that doesn’t fit the striped mold. At the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, a tour guide and photographer named Antony Tira recently caught sight of an unusual foal, its deep black coat covered with white spots.
“At first I thought it was a zebra that had been captured and painted or marked for purposes of migration,” Tira tells George Sayagie of the Daily Nation, a Kenyan newspaper. “I was confused when I first saw it.”
The baby zebra, which has been named Tira, in fact has a genetic condition known as “pseudomelanism,” which causes abnormalities in zebra stripe patterns, as Ren Larison, a biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, explains to Katie Stacey of National Geographic. Zebras are dark skinned animals, and their stripes arise from specialized skin cells called melanocytes, which transfer melanin into some of their hairs; the hairs that have melanin appear black, and those that do not appear white. But on rare occasions, something goes awry and the melanin does not manifest as stripes.
Read the rest of the article and see a video of the zebra by clicking the link below:
Here's the video of the Paley Center Media Bias panel from Tues. Sept. 17.
(Click the arrow below.)
In Person:
Sharyl Attkisson, Author; Host, Full Measure
Angelo Carusone, President, Media Matters
Tim Graham, Director of Media Analysis, Media Research Center
Michelle Malkin, Commentator and Author
Christine Quinn, Politician and Commentator
Brian Stelter, Host, Reliable Sources, CNN
Moderator: Marie Hardin, Dean, Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State University
There's a bit of news in the case of Jeffrey Epstein. He's the convicted sex offender who somehow managed to commit suicide in a New York jail last month while he was supposed to be under close watch.
My public information request about his death— has been formally denied.
Shortly after Epstein died in August, I filed a Freedom of Information request for public documents about his injuries and medical care for both the day he died and earlier, in July, when he reportedly attempted suicide.
Member of the public and press are entitled to review documents and communications generated and collected by federal agencies and officials because-- we own them. However, federal agencies often delay, obstruct and resist the release of such documents.
Guidance from FOI court cases and the executive branch indicates that federal agencies are supposed to make every effort to release as much information as possible-- and at least partial information if exemptions are at play.
In the case of the Epstein documents I requested, the federal Bureau of Prisons responded by stating that it is withholding all of the documents entirely.
The Bureau cites six exemptions, including that releasing the information "could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of an(y) individual.”
The Bureau of Prisons invited me to keep refiling in the future to see if the status changes.
The FBI is said to be investigating how jail authorities missed Epstein committing the act of suicide in their custody while awaiting trial on new sex trafficking charges.
The letter from the Bureau of Prisons is below:
It's one thing that Trump advocates and Trump opponents apparently agree on: Trump will win again in 2020.
That's according to the results of our unscientific poll at SharylAttkisson.com.
Most of those who chose to weigh on this poll say they like Trump. But 12% who dislike Trump also responded.
All together, 95% of respondents said that-- as of today-- they believe Trump will win.
Eighty-five percent (85%) said they like Trump and believe he'll win.
Twelve percent (12%) who answered the poll dislike Trump but most think he'll win anyway. Ten percent (10%) said they dislike Trump but believe he'll win.
Read the full results below. And visit our home page at SharylAttkisson.com to answer our latest poll. Look for the black box in the right sidebar or scroll way down on the mobile site to answer.
85% Like Trump; he'll win
10% Dislike Trump; but he'll win
2% Like Trump; but he'll lose
2% Dislike Trump; he'll lose
1% Don't know/don't care
