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Public prosecutors in Japan have not released information regarding the case and did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. Rina Gonoi, a former member of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, checks old photos on her phone. “That makes it hard for people to speak out.”Rina Gonoi says she endured physical and verbal sexual abuse while she served in Japan's Self-Defense Forces. In 1992, Japan’s National Defense Academy finally began accepting women, which made it possible for them to become senior officers. “We are aware that the perpetrators of sexual harassment cases are scheduled to be punished severely.

Persons: Tokyo CNN — Rina Gonoi, Gonoi, “, ”, Rina Gonoi Gonoi’s, Staff Yoshihide Yoshida, dishonorably, Rina Gonoi, Philip Fong, Japan’s, Fumika Sato, ” Sato, Sato, ” Rina Gonoi, Rina, Shinzo Abe, Richard A, Brooks, –, ” Gonoi, Gonoi’s, I’d, Yasukazu Hamada, Fumio Kishida, hasn’t, you’ve, “ I’m Organizations: Tokyo CNN, Defense Force, Japan’s Ministry of Defense, Staff, Defense Forces, NHK, Public, Getty, Hitotsubashi University, Defense Ministry, CNN, National Press Club, Japan’s National Defense Academy, Defense, Japan’s, Self - Defense Force, Ministry of Defense, ”, “, SDF Locations: Japan’s, Japan, AFP, Japan's, North Korea, China, Tokyo, Higashi, Miyagi, Fukushima

☆ Top US-China exchanges since Biden took office
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Below is a list of some of the other high level U.S.-China exchanges since President Joe Biden took office in 2021. FIRST TRADE TALKS - May 26, 2021U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and China's then Vice Premier Liu He held talks virtually, the first such high level trade talks between the world's two biggest economies since Biden took office. DIPLOMAT VISITS CHINA - July 26, 2021Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman held talks with State Councillor Wang Yi, in Tianjin, China. DEFENCE CHIEFS HOLD FIRST TALKS - April 20, 2022U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin held a call with China's then defence minister Wei Fenghe, the first talks between the two officials since Biden took office. BIDEN AND XI MEET IN BALI - November 14, 2022Biden and Xi held their long-awaited first face-to-face leadership talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.

Persons: Janet Yellen, John Kerry, Joe Biden, BIDEN, Biden, Xi Jinping, Xi, Jake Sullivan, Yang Jiechi, Wang Yi, Katherine Tai, China's, Liu, Wendy Sherman, SULLIVAN, YANG, Sullivan, Yang, Lloyd Austin, Wei Fenghe, WANG, Wang, Nancy Pelosi, HARRIS, Kamala Harris, Gina Raimondo, Wang Wentao, National Defense Li Shangfu, Li, BLINKEN, Antony Blinken, Washington's, Martin Quin Pollard, Raju Gopalakrishnan, Kim Coghill Organizations: . Treasury, U.S, FIRST, National Security, . Trade, CHIEFS, . Defense, General Assembly, BIDEN, IN, Economic Cooperation APEC, CHINA COMMERCE, . Commerce, Commerce, Washington D.C, China's, National Defense, Pentagon, Austin, BEIJING, Thomson Locations: China, Beijing, Yellen's, U.S, Anchorage , Alaska, Blinken, CHINA, Tianjin, Taiwan, North Korea, ROME, Russia, Ukraine, New York, IN BALI, Bali , Indonesia, BANGKOK, Asia, Thailand, MUNICH, Munich, WASHINGTON, Washington, Singapore

☆ Special counsel Jack Smith spent $5.4 million on Trump probes through March
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Special counsel Jack Smith's office spent more than $5.4 million during the four and a half months since he took over two criminal probes centered on former President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice said Friday. Smith's operation spent the remainder of the money on travel, rent, printing, supplies, acquisition of equipment, according to the statement of expenditures. The DOJ on Friday also released separate spending reports for two other special counsels, Robert Hur and John Durham. The special counsels' activities are funded by the permanent appropriation for independent counsels, the reports note. Marshals Service also incurred a combined $3.8 million in support of Smith's probes, but that figure is not included in the $5.4 million total because the agencies paid their own respective costs.

Persons: Jack Smith, Donald Trump, Jack Smith's, General Merrick Garland, Smith, Trump, Joe Biden, Robert Hur, John Durham . Hur, Durham Organizations: US Department of Justice, Department of Justice, IT, DOJ, White, FBI, U.S . Marshals Service Locations: Washington ,, Durham

NEW YORK, July 7 (Reuters) - Private equity firms Blackstone Inc (BX.N) and Veritas Capital Fund Management LLC are competing against large defense companies to acquire the aerospace business of Ball Corp (BALL.N), according to people familiar with the matter. The unit, which accounted for 13% of Ball's consolidated net sales in 2022, provides aerospace and national defense hardware, such as sensors and antennas. In June, Ball said it was considering options for its aerospace unit, after Reuters reported on the sale process. Blackstone owns Arka Group, an aerospace and defense technologies firm whose clients include the U.S. military, while Veritas owns companies including CAES Space Systems, which is a supplier of advanced electronic systems for aerospace and defense. Ball could incur a hefty tax bill of over $1 billion if the aerospace unit is sold for $5 billion or more, according to analysts at Jefferies.

Persons: Ball, Blackstone, David Carnevali, Mike Stone, Daniel Wallis Organizations: YORK, Blackstone Inc, Veritas Capital Fund Management, Ball Corp, BAE Systems, General Dynamics Corp, Textron Inc, Reuters, Blackstone, Veritas, Arka Group, U.S ., CAES, Systems, Bae Systems, Textron, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin Corp, Rocketdyne Holdings, L3Harris Technologies, Jefferies, Thomson Locations: New York, Washington

☆ 2020 election interference probe: New glimpses into investigation suggest peril could be growing for Trump and his associates
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Revelations that special counsel Jack Smith has been digging into efforts to overturn former President Donald Trump’s Arizona election loss in 2020 bolster growing indications that his investigation is nearing a critical point. Smith has already made Trump the first former president to be formally accused of federal crimes. But a flurry of details about Smith’s inquiries into alleged election-stealing efforts suggest his investigators have had an industrious summer. He said he talked about a call that he had with Trump and Giuliani after the election, and a second call just from Trump. Prosecutors were also set to talk to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, CNN reported in June.

Persons: Jack Smith, Donald Trump’s, Smith, Trump, pushback, Rusty Bowers –, –, Joe Biden’s, Biden, Rudy Giuliani, He’s, specter, it’s, Bowers, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Giuliani, Smith’s, Adrian Fontes, CNN’s Erin Burnett, Brad Raffensperger, Robert Costello, Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn, Patrick Byrne Organizations: CNN, Trump, Republican, Arizona House, FBI, GOP, Capitol, Arizona Republican, Arizona Republic, Arizona’s, Prosecutors Locations: Donald Trump’s Arizona, Florida, Arizona, Georgia, Washington, Manhattan, Trump, Nevada, York

☆ Pentagon has strategic germanium stockpile but no gallium reserves
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) - The Pentagon holds a strategic U.S. stockpile for germanium but currently has no inventory reserves for gallium, a spokesperson said on Thursday, after China announced export restrictions on the two metals used in semiconductors. "The (Defense) Department is proactively taking steps using Defense Production Act Title III authorities to increase domestic mining and processing of critical materials for the microelectronics and space supply chain, including gallium and germanium," the spokesperson said. Germanium is used in high-speed computer chips, plastics and military applications such as night-vision devices, as well as satellite imagery sensors. Gallium is used in radar and radio communication devices, satellites and LEDs. While major defense contractors like Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) may not buy gallium and germanium directly, they likely purchase semiconductors from suppliers who source Chinese gallium and germanium, said Arun Seraphin, executive director for the National Defense Industrial Association’s Emerging Technologies Institute.

Persons: Arun Seraphin, ”, Dak Hardwick, Hardwick, Xi Jinping, Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart, Valerie Insinna, Rami Ayyub, Doina Chiacu, Mark Porter, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Pentagon, China, Defense, Department, Lockheed Martin Corp, National Defense Industrial, Emerging Technologies, Aerospace Industries Association, U.S, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Thomson Locations: U.S, China

☆ Matt Gaetz blames the 'gerontocracy' for stymieing psychedelics legislation in Congress
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Gaetz said he's happy the fight is being led by two younger lawmakers, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Dan Crenshaw. "Not collecting Social Security," Gaetz told the Post about his colleagues, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, and Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican. But Crenshaw said Gaetz told him that the duo was being dismissed. "He was like, 'I needed you to do this,'" Crenshaw told the Post of Gaetz's pitch. "'Otherwise it's just typical Gaetz, typical AOC.'"

Persons: Matt Gaetz, Gaetz, he's, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Dan Crenshaw, —, Ocasio, Crenshaw, Gray Organizations: psychedelics, Service, Florida Republican, Washington Post, New, New York Democrat, Texas Republican, Post, National Defense, Pentagon, Senate Locations: Alexandria, Cortez, New York, Texas, America

☆ Read the less redacted FBI search warrant that formed the basis of the DOJ's unprecedented Trump indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The DOJ has released a less redacted document underpinning the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. A judge ordered the less redacted FBI affidavit's release after news organizations filed a motion for it to be unsealed. These details were redacted in the initial version of the affidavit that was released last year, shortly after the Mar-a-Lago search and before Trump was formally charged. The less redacted affidavit also lays out how investigators sought and were granted security camera footage of the area where the storage unit is located. Reinhart ordered Wednesday's release of the less redacted affidavit following a push from numerous news organizations.

Persons: Trump, —, Donald Trump's Mar, Bruce Reinhart, Department's, Donald Trump, Reinhart, Waltine Organizations: DOJ, Service, Department, Justice, Wednesday, FBI, Mar, National Archives, Trump, Prosecutors Locations: Mar, Lago, Bedminster , New Jersey, Miami

☆ Pentagon to tighten controls on classified information after leak
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, July 5 (Reuters) - The Pentagon announced on Wednesday plans to tighten controls on classified information after an alleged leak incident that saw an airman arrested in April and later indicted on accusations of posting classified documents on the messaging app Discord. Jack Douglas Teixeira, 21, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, was indicted last month on six counts of wilful retention and transmission of classified information relating to national defense. Prosecutors say Teixeira leaked classified documents to a group of gamers on the messaging app Discord. "As someone who has read a lot of DoD policies, they are not the clearest documents," the official said. The official said the Pentagon needed to be more clear about policies related to classified information and spaces it can be accessed in, along with greater accountability for personnel who work with sensitive information.

Persons: Jack Douglas Teixeira, Teixeira, Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, Franklin Paul, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Pentagon, WikiLeaks, Justice Department, Prosecutors, Thomson Locations: North Dighton , Massachusetts, U.S

A federal magistrate judge unsealed on Wednesday additional portions of the affidavit that the F.B.I. used last summer to obtain a warrant to search for sensitive documents at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald J. Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, revealing a few new details about how that extraordinary process had unfolded. Much of the material in the affidavit unsealed on Wednesday had already been made public in the expansive indictment of Mr. Trump and Mr. Nauta issued in Miami last month. That indictment charged the former president with 31 counts of illegally retaining national defense information and a separate count of conspiring with Mr. Nauta to obstruct the government’s efforts to reclaim them. The judge who ordered the unsealing, Bruce E. Reinhart, had issued two previous orders unsealing separate portions of the warrant affidavit in response to media requests.

Persons: Donald J, Walt Nauta, Trump, Mr, Nauta, Bruce E, Reinhart, unsealing Organizations: Mar Locations: Florida, Mar, Miami

☆ Special counsel office still investigating Trump’s handling of documents, sources say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Katelyn Polantz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Washington CNN —The special counsel’s office is continuing to investigate around Donald Trump’s handling of documents after his presidency ended, multiple sources tell CNN. That includes continued grand jury activity in Florida and inquiries of witnesses, though it is not yet clear what aspects of the investigation the prosecutors are still pushing toward. Trump has pleaded not guilty, and Nauta is expected to enter a plea of not guilty next week. The two men are expected to head to trial as early as this year. A spokesman for the special counsel’s office declined to comment on Thursday.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Trump, Walt Nauta, Prosecutors, It’s, Nauta Organizations: Washington CNN, CNN, Republican, Trump, Trump’s Bedminster Locations: Florida, New Jersey

But now, as Mr. Putin seeks to project an image of restored stability and control, he has been putting his defense minister on display, even if Mr. Shoigu has not addressed the public or even been heard speaking. Mr. Shoigu was also present on Monday as Mr. Putin convened a meeting of his top security chiefs. On Tuesday, as Mr. Putin praised his security forces in a grandly choreographed speech, Mr. Shoigu was again present, wearing his military uniform. Mr. Shoigu, who was a very popular minister of emergency situations before becoming defense minister in 2012, has had a long and friendly relationship with Mr. Putin. Mr. Putin may have kept both men in charge as part of his decades-long efforts to place the sprawling Russian military more under his control.

Persons: Vladimir V, Sergei K, Shoigu, Valery V, Putin, Yevgeny V, Wagner, ” Mr, Gerasimov, Mr, Prigozhin, Ramzan Kadyrov, —, ”, ” Andrei Guryulov, Aleksandr Dugin, Aleksandr G, Lukashenko, Dugin, Long, General Gerasimov, It’s, Andrei Soldatov, Putin “, ” Oleg Matsnev Organizations: Putin, Cuban, National Defense Control Center of Russia, Russian military’s Zvezda, United, Defense Ministry, General Staff Locations: Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, United States, Cuba, Russian, Ukrainian, Lyman, Chechnya, United Russia, Belarus

☆ Leaked audio of Trump saying he has a 'secret' document that he knows he can't declassify is 'more damning than indictment,' one expert said
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An audio clip obtained by CNN shows Trump saying he has a "highly confidential" document. Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, said on Twitter Monday the audio clip was "even more damning than it reads in the indictment." In the audio, Trump says "I have a big pile of papers" as it sounds like someone rifling through pages. "This totally wins my case, you know," Trump says, "except it is like highly confidential, secret — this is secret information." The audio clip shared by CNN ends with Trump saying to someone, "Hey, bring some Cokes in please."

Persons: Trump, —, Donald Trump, Jack Smith's, Renato Mariotti, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner Organizations: CNN, Service, FBI, Trump, Twitter, Fox News, National Archives Locations: Lago, Iran

☆ Leaked audio of Trump saying he has a 'secret' document that he knows he can't declassify is 'even more damning than it reads in the indictment,' one expert said
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

☆ Trump's latest attack includes special counsel's family after bombshell tape revealed
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump addresses The Faith and Freedom Coalition's 2023 "Road to Majority" conference in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2023. A spokesman for the Department of Justice declined to comment on Trump's latest broadside against Smith, who was tapped last year to lead multiple criminal investigations involving the former president. Trump indicates that the document has to do with a plan of attack on Iran. Trump's attacks on Smith fit the pattern and style that the former president has employed against many of his other legal and political foes. Ahead of that court appearance in Manhattan, Trump targeted the presiding judge, Juan Merchan, accusing him and his family of being "Trump haters."

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Jack Smith, Smith, Trump's, Mark Meadows, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Juan Merchan Organizations: U.S, Department of Justice, Presidential Records, Trump, CNN, White, White House, Manhattan, Attorney Locations: Washington , U.S, United States, Florida, Bedminster , New Jersey, Iran, Manhattan

☆ News organizations ask court to reveal witness list in Trump documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A group of news organizations asked a federal court Monday to reveal the special counsel's list of 84 witnesses who are prohibited from speaking with former President Donald Trump about the facts of his criminal classified documents case. The request came three days after special counsel Jack Smith, who led the probe into Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents, moved to file the witness list under seal with the court. Smith noted in a court filing Friday that the Department of Justice has shared a list of those witnesses with the lawyers for Trump and Nauta. The coalition pointed to the First Amendment, common law and the principles of an open judicial system in their appeal to see the witness list. "The filing of the list of potential witnesses in this case is a highly significant initial step in this extraordinary prosecution," they wrote.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith, Smith, Aileen Cannon, Trump, Walt Nauta Organizations: Washington Hilton, NBCUniversal Media, CNN, The New York Times, Trump, Department of Justice, DOJ, Government Locations: Washington ,, U.S, West Palm Beach , Florida

☆ The Marine Corps might not get a confirmed leader for first time in 164 years due to standoff with Republican senator
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Rebecca Kheel | Konstantin Toropin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

On July 10, the Marine Corps may be led an acting commandant for the first time in 164 years. A GOP senator is blocking the next commandant's confirmation over the Pentagon's abortion leave policy. The Justice Department has already conducted a legal analysis of the Pentagon policy. Smith, then commander of III Marine Expeditionary Force, at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in September 2018. "It was a spirited discussion, and it took a long time," Kaine said about the committee's closed-door debate on the abortion policy.

Persons: —, David Berger, Jim Stenger, Military.com, Berger's, Eric Smith, Smith, Sen, Tommy Tuberville, Read, Stenger, Berger, Chip Somodevilla, Archibald Henderson, Tuberville, Andrew Jones, Joe Manchin, Joni Ernst, Tim Kaine, Kaine, Charles " C.Q, Brown, Mark Milley, James McConville, Mike Gilday, — Rebecca Kheel, — Konstantin Toropin Organizations: Marine Corps, GOP, Service, Corps, Defense Department, Senate, Senate Armed Services, Capitol, Armed Services Committee, stonewall, National Defense, Pentagon, Justice Department, Peace Corps, Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air, Iwakuni, US Marine Corps, Andrew Jones Senators, Marines, Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Twitter Locations: Iowa, Smith

☆ Prosecutors request Trump's classified documents trial be delayed until December
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Ginger Gibson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith's office have requested that former President Donald Trump's criminal trial for alleged mishandling of classified documents be delayed until December, according to a court filing on Friday. But prosecutors said more time is needed before the trial can begin and requested that the trial be delayed until Dec. 11. Trump is accused of mishandling classified documents that he took with him after leaving the White House. The Classified Information Procedures Act provides a set of guidelines to allow classified documents to be used in a trial. The filing detailed a proposed timeline to allow both sides to litigate how classified documents will be addressed during the trial.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith's, Donald Trump's, Aileen Cannon, isn't, Trump, Prosecutors, Walt Nauta Organizations: U.S, GOP, Columbus Convention, Trade Center, Prosecutors, White Locations: Georgia, Columbus , Georgia, Iowa, New York City, Miami

☆ Prosecutors Seek to Delay Trump Documents Trial to December
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Mr. Smith’s team also provided the defense lawyers with its first estimate of the number of witnesses — 84 — who might be called to testify. The judge presiding over Mr. Trump’s initial hearing requested the list to impose a restriction against the former president discussing the case with them, to prevent witness tampering. The defense may not share the prosecution’s urgency, and prosecutors said in their filing that defense lawyers planned to object to the special counsel’s timeline. Mr. Trump’s strategy in legal matters has long been to delay. The extent to which the two sides clash on scheduling and procedure poses an early test for Judge Cannon, a relatively inexperienced jurist appointed by Mr. Trump in 2020.

Persons: Smith’s, ”, Trump, Nauta, Trump’s, Judge Cannon Organizations: Prosecutors, Mr, White

☆ Trump and a former FBI analyst were charged with similar crimes. The FBI analyst just got nearly 4 years in prison.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Lloyd Lee | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A former FBI analyst was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for keeping classified documents at her home. She had unlawfully kept about 386 classified documents, according to the Justice Department. In her training, Kingsbury was warned that classified information could only be kept in an "approved facility and container," the DOJ wrote. Each count of willfully retaining national defense secrets alone carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Kingsbury pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense in October.

Persons: Donald Trump's Mar, —, Donald Trump's, Kendra Kingsbury, Kingsbury, Usama, Trump Organizations: FBI, Justice Department, Service, Kanas, Division of, DOJ, The New York Times Locations: Lago, North Kansas City , Missouri, U.S, al Qaeda, Africa, United States, Kingsbury

☆ Trump's push for new sex abuse trial is 'magical thinking,' Carroll says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's push for a new trial in the civil case in which a Manhattan jury last month found the former U.S. president sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll is "magical thinking," Carroll's lawyers said on Thursday. In court papers filed Thursday in opposition to Trump's request, Carroll's lawyers maintained that the attack has harmed her ability to have romantic and sexual relationships, and she has suffered intrusive memories. They pointed to a psychologist's testimony at trial that Carroll had some symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. "Trump's motion is nothing more than his latest effort to obfuscate the import of the jury's verdict by engaging in his own particular Trump-branded form of magical thinking," her lawyers wrote. Carroll, a former Elle magazine advice columnist, filed a separate lawsuit in November 2019 for defamation only.

Persons: Donald Trump's, Jean Carroll, Carroll, Trump's, Trump, Goodman, Luc Cohen, Angus MacSwan Organizations: YORK, Trump, Republican, Elle, CNN, Thomson Locations: Manhattan, New York, Lago, Florida

Teixeira has been held in federal prison in Plymouth County, south of Boston, while waiting trial. Prosecutors say Teixeira leaked classified documents to a group of gamers on the messaging app Discord. The leaked documents on Discord held highly classified information on allies and adversaries, with details ranging from Ukraine's air defenses to Israel's Mossad spy agency. President Joe Biden has ordered an investigation into why the alleged leaker had access to the sensitive information. Reporting by Rami Ayyub and Kanishka Singh; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Alistair BellOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Jack Douglas Teixeira, Teixeira, Teixeira's, Jack, Joe Biden, leaker, Rami Ayyub, Kanishka Singh, Jonathan Oatis, Alistair Bell Organizations: An Air National, Prosecutors, WikiLeaks, Justice Department, Thomson Locations: Worcester , Massachusetts, Ukraine, Plymouth County, Boston

☆ It's not just spy bases in Cuba, China could be sending troops right to Florida's doorstep: WSJ
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

China is planning a new joint military training facility in Cuba, per The Wall Street Journal. At 100 miles off Florida's coast, the facility would put China's troops at Florida's doorstep. Intelligence officials told the Journal China's move is a likely response to US's involvement in Taiwan. The officials told the Journal that the facility could allow China to "house troops permanently on the island" and "broaden its intelligence gathering" against the US. The new facility in Cuba would be just 100 miles off Florida's coast, and effectively allow China to station troops right at the Sunshine State's doorstep.

Persons: —, Mao Ning, Mao, Biden, Miguel Díaz, Xi Jinping, H.R Organizations: Street, Service, Privacy, China, US, White, Foreign Ministry, Intelligence, Associated Press, Cuban, Trump, McMaster, CBS, State Department Locations: China, Cuba, Taiwan, Cuban, Florida, Havana, South, Russia

CNN —Special counsel Jack Smith has begun producing evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case to Donald Trump, according to a Wednesday court filing that hints that investigators collected for the case multiple recordings of the former president – not just audio of an interview Trump gave at Bedminster for a forthcoming Mark Meadows memoir. Prosecutors in the filing used the plural “interviews” to describe recordings of Trump – made with his consent – obtained by the special counsel that have now been turned over to his defense team. The prosecutors’ update to the court on Wednesday night marks another swift move toward trial, which the Justice Department has said should happen quickly, and captures at least some of the extent of the evidence investigators secured to build their historic case against Trump. The first batch of evidence, provided on Wednesday, “includes the grand jury testimony of witnesses who will testify for the government at the trial of this case,” the special counsel’s office wrote. “Defense counsel can contact the government to arrange for inspection of unclassified items seized at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022,” the filing said.

Persons: Jack Smith, Donald Trump, –, Trump, Mark Meadows, ”, Trump –, Walt Nauta, Smith Organizations: CNN, Bedminster, Prosecutors, Justice Department, Trump, “ Locations: Bedminster, Washington ,, Florida, “, Mar, Lago

☆ Pentagon leaks suspect Jack Teixeira pleads not guilty to federal charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Worcester, Massachusetts CNN —Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking highly classified military documents on social media, pleaded not guilty in a Massachusetts court Wednesday to six federal charges. Teixeira, 21, was indicted earlier this month on several counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information related to the national defense. The Massachusetts native stands accused of sharing classified military documents on the social media platform Discord. The documents included detailed intelligence assessments of allies and adversaries alike, including the state of the war in Ukraine. Teixeira held a top-secret security clearance, and internal Air Force memos that prosecutors highlighted in court revealed that his superiors repeatedly warned him about inappropriately accessing classified intelligence.

Persons: Massachusetts CNN — Jack Teixeira, Teixeira, Texeira, “, Jack, Jen Reed, ” Organizations: Massachusetts CNN, Air National, Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 102nd Intelligence Wing, Air Force Locations: Worcester, Massachusetts, Ukraine

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