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☆ If you left your cocaine at the White House, you're in the clear now
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Taylor Berman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Secret Service concluded their investigation into the cocaine bag without identifying any suspects. Surveillance footage of the area in the West Wing also was no help in finding the culprit. The Secret Service has concluded their investigation into the incident without identifying any suspects, CNN and the Associated Press were the first to report. The cocaine was confirmed as cocaine by subsequent lab tests, and the Homeland Security's National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center eventually confirmed it posed no actual threat. Surveillance footage of the area also proved inconclusive, CNN reports, and the Secret Service wasn't even able to determine what day the drugs were left behind.

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☆ If you left your cocaine at the White House, you're in the clear now: reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Taylor Berman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Secret Service concluded their investigation into the cocaine bag without identifying any suspects. The AP reports no DNA or fingerprints were found on the bag. Surveillance footage of the area in the West Wing also was no help in finding the culprit. The Secret Service has concluded their investigation into the incident without identifying any suspects, CNN and the Associated Press were the first to report. Surveillance footage of the area also proved inconclusive, CNN reports, and the Secret Service wasn't even able to determine what day the drugs were left behind.

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☆ WSJ Opinion: The FBI's Christopher Wray and Defining Disinformation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

What Burger King’s New Logo Says About Its StrategyBurger King revealed its first total rebrand in over 20 years as it looks to win back sales from rivals like McDonald’s and Wendy’s. A branding expert and reporter explain what Burger King is trying to say with its new logo. Photo illustration: Ryan Trefes

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☆ FBI director boasts that applications are 'up over 100%' in Florida after Matt Gaetz says people trusted the FBI 'more when J. Edgar Hoover was running the place'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

FBI Director Christopher Wray bragged about the agency's recruitment when informed of its low popularity. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz claimed the bureau was trusted more under the notorious leadership of J. Edgar Hoover. Gaetz grew agitated with Wray after a series of aggressive questions about Hunter Biden and the FBI's January 6 investigation. "People trusted the FBI more when J. Edgar Hoover was running the place than when you are. "I certainly didn't perjure myself," Wray shot back Gaetz, who had accused him of lying to lawmakers.

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☆ Former FBI agent shares 3 things people with high emotional intelligence always do when talking to others
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Polina Marinova Pompliano | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A key skill he mastered during his 24 years as one of the FBI's lead international negotiators was emotional intelligence. To resolve the conflict, he did three things that he says people with high emotional intelligence do when communicating with others, especially during sensitive conversations:1. This keeps you present and emotionally sober while allowing the bank robber to continue talking. Label the other person's emotionsVoss then told the second bank robber, "It wasn't your fault, was it?" High emotional intelligence requires strategic listening

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Their tormentors have also called in false bomb threats to venues using their names in three states. To combat the growing problem, the FBI has begun taking formal measures to get a comprehensive picture of the problem on a national level. Chief Scott Schubert with the bureau's Criminal Justice Information Services headquarters in Clarksburg, West Virginia, told NBC News that the agency formed a national online database in May to facilitate information sharing between hundreds of police departments and law enforcement agencies across the country pertaining to swatting incidents. No central agency has tracked swatting incidents or suspects in the U.S., so official statistics are not available. The couple was mostly recently swatted at their home on Tuesday, bringing the total of swatting incidents to 43.

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☆ 'Planned in plain sight': Senate report finds intel agencies failed in the lead-up to Jan. 6
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Ryan Nobles | Ryan J. Reilly | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement agencies failed to correctly analyze a wide range of intelligence showing the potential for violence on Jan. 6, 2021, Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee concluded in a report released Tuesday. That post was one of many alluding to the potential for violence leading up to Jan. 6. "What was shocking is that this attack was essentially planned in plain sight in social media," Peters said in an interview, "And yet it seemed as if our intelligence agencies completely dropped the ball." According to the report, similar streams of intelligence continued to flood federal agencies tasked with keeping watch for violent activity. "On the contrary, these threats were made openly, often in publicly available social media posts, and FBI and I&A were aware of them."

Persons: Sen, Gary Peters, Parler, …, Peters Organizations: Senate Homeland Security, FBI, Department of Homeland Security's, of Intelligence, Capitol, U.S . Capitol Police, Washington Metropolitan Police, Washington Field Office, DHS National Operations Center Locations: WASHINGTON, Washington

☆ Newly declassified report shows U.S. intelligence community remains divided over likely origin of Covid
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Zoë Richards | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

(L-R) Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, Director of the National Security Agency Gen. Paul Nakasone, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, CIA Director William Burns and FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a House Select Committee on Intelligence hearing concerning worldwide threats, on Capitol Hill March 9, 2023 in Washington, DC. The leaders of the intelligence agencies testified on a wide range of issues, including China, Russia, Covid-19 origins, and TikTok. "All agencies continue to assess that both a natural and laboratory-associated origin remain plausible hypotheses to explain the first human infection," the 10-page declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said. But "almost all" intelligence agencies agreed that the virus wasn't genetically engineered, and all agencies agreed that Covid was not manufactured as a biological weapon. The spokesman added that "getting to the bottom of the origins" of Covid remains a top priority for the president.

Persons: Scott Berrier, Paul Nakasone, National Intelligence Avril Haines, William Burns, Christopher Wray, Covid, Joe Biden Organizations: Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, National Intelligence, CIA, Capitol, Intelligence, National Intelligence Council, Department of Energy, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan Institute, Virology, White House National Security Council Locations: Washington ,, China, Russia, Covid, Wuhan, U.S

☆ Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd jumps into the 2024 GOP presidential race
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Rose Horowitch | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Will Hurd, a retired CIA officer and former Texas congressman, announced Thursday that is joining the race for the Republican presidential nomination, launching a long-shot bid as a moderate alternative to GOP hard-liners. But he faces long odds in a growing primary field still dominated by former President Donald Trump, analysts say. Hurd called a 2024 battle between Trump and President Joe Biden the "rematch from hell," claiming that a majority of Americans would prefer other candidates. Hurd has cast himself as a moderate Republican who can appeal to voters across the political spectrum. "Republican voters want to win," Terrill said.

Persons: Will Hurd, Hurd, Donald Trump, J, Miles Coleman, Coleman, Hillary Clinton, Trump, Joe Biden, It's, Biden, Matt Terrill, —, Terrill Organizations: CIA, Republican, GOP, CBS, Trump, University of Virginia's Center, Politics, Black Republican, Press, Russian, OpenAI, CNN Locations: Texas, New Hampshire, Ukraine, America, Iowa, South Carolina

☆ Spy balloon 'chapter should be closed’ after China talks, Blinken tells NBC News
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Janis Mackey Frayer | Jennifer Jett | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

China's President Xi Jinping (R) receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prior to their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 19, 2023. President Xi Jinping hosted Antony Blinken for talks in Beijing on June 19, capping two days of high-level talks by the US secretary of state with Chinese officials. BEIJING — Secretary of State Antony Blinken told NBC News on Monday that his trip to Beijing marked an "important start" in stabilizing U.S. ties with China and that the countries should move on from the spy balloon incident that postponed his earlier visit. "That chapter should be closed," Blinken said in an interview before leaving Beijing, where he spent two days meeting with senior Chinese officials including President Xi Jinping. Blinken's trip to China, the first by a U.S. secretary of state since 2018, was postponed in February after the discovery of an alleged Chinese spy balloon over U.S. territory.

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☆ Trump is 'toast' if classified records case is proven, ex-attorney general says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Sarah N. Lynch | Thomson Reuters | Sarah N. Lynch Is The Lead Reporter For Reuters Covering The U.S. Justice Department Out Of Washington | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Trump told Politico on Saturday that he would continue his presidential campaign, even if he were convicted in the case, saying "I'll never leave." Of the 37 counts against Trump, 31 of them relate to secret and top secret classified documents that he kept after leaving the White House in early 2021. NOT 'PERSONAL DOCUMENTS'Trump has previously defended his retention of classified records, claiming without evidence he declassified them while in office - a defense that his allies have also repeated. Trump and his allies have also separately tried to argue that the records at the heart of the case are personal in nature and covered by the Presidential Records Act. "He has every right to have classified documents that he declassifies under the Presidential Records Act," Habba told Fox News Sunday.

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☆ Trump's defenders have launched a plan months in the making that ignores the substance of the indictment while attacking the credibility of federal prosecutors
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Supporters of Trump in Congress have now launched a plan months in the making to discredit federal prosecutors. McCarthy called it a "grave injustice" and said that House Republicans "will hold this brazen weaponization of power accountable." "God bless President Trump." As special counsel Jack Smith was preparing this week to release the indictment, Trump's allies on Capitol Hill were working overtime to prepare the defense of the former president. Jordan issued a series of letters to the Justice Department, demanding documents related to his investigation into Trump's handling of classified records.

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A member of the conservative Federalist Society, Cannon had relatively little experience as a lawyer when nominated by Trump and confirmed in November 2020 to the federal bench by the U.S. Senate then led by Trump's Republican Party. The ruling was criticized by many legal observers, including William Barr, who served as attorney general under Trump. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2024, was indicted on Thursday for illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing justice. Cannon, born in 1981 in Cali, Colombia, appears set to oversee at least the initial stages of one of the most consequential legal cases in U.S. history. Reporting by Rami Ayyub, Sarah N. Lynch, Luc Cohen and Jacquelyn Thomsen; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Howard GollerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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[1/3] Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., April 27, 2023. REUTERS/Brian SnyderWASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - The indictment of former President Donald Trump on multiple charges related to his handling of classified documents on Thursday has thrust the Justice Department back into the center of the Republican presidential primary campaign. In a video posted on his Truth Social platform on Thursday, he reiterated previous assertions that the Justice Department has been weaponized for political ends. But he has shied away from promoting more aggressive reforms at the Justice Department. In a statement on Thursday night, he lambasted the Justice Department, calling it part of a "federal police state."

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June 9 (Reuters) - Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge initially assigned to oversee Donald Trump's classified documents case, made headlines last year when she decided in favor of the former U.S. president at a pivotal stage of the case and was later reversed on appeal. A member of the conservative Federalist Society, Cannon had relatively little experience as a lawyer when nominated by Trump and confirmed in November 2020 to the federal bench by the U.S. Senate then led by Trump's Republican Party. An indictment was unsealed on Friday charging Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2024, with illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing justice. The ruling was criticized by many legal observers, including William Barr, who served as attorney general under Trump. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2024, was indicted on Thursday for illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing justice.

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A 37-count criminal indictment against Donald Trump was unsealed Friday, revealing allegations that the former president willfully retained hundreds of classified government records and conspired to prevent their return to U.S. officials. Among other allegations, the indictment says that Trump showed classified documents to other people in the summer of 2021, after leaving office in January of that year. Follow our live coverage of Donald Trump's indictment in the classified documents case. The FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago last August discovered hundreds of classified documents, which Trump had failed to turn over to U.S. officials after they spent a year or so trying to recover them. During the time had had the documents at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's club hosted more than 150 social events, which drew tens of thousands of guests, the indictment noted.

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☆ Robert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for Russia, found dead in prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent turned spy whom the bureau describes as the most damaging in its history, was found dead in his prison cell on Monday, U.S. authorities said. Hanssen, 79, was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison after pleading guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for over 20 years. Prison staff initiated life-saving measures after finding Hanssen unresponsive on Monday morning but were not successful, the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. Hanssen joined the FBI in 1976 and began selling classified information to the Soviet Union in 1985, according to the FBI's website. An arrest team took Hanssen into custody after catching him making a "dead drop" of classified materials in a park in suburban Virginia, the FBI says.

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☆ Insider Interview: James Comey explains the rule-bending feds in his new and 'real' mystery novel
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Insider: Let's talk about Benny Dugan, the salty, streetwise investigator who works with prosecutors for the Southern District of New York. And I would say, "What makes you think I'm a good person?" Insider: Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't all the good people get bought up by the end of the book? There are at least 57 FBIs — a New York FBI, a Saint Louis FBI, headquarters, the Washington Field Office. I don't think we've grappled with the implications of that, and whether it fits within our normal Fourth Amendment framework.

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☆ 5-year-old children in Texas are being given Winnie the Pooh books that teach them how to survive a school shooting
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Dallas school district distributed Winnie-the-Pooh books about dealing with a school shooter. The book shows the bear telling kids to "run, hide, fight," as per the FBI's recommendations. The Dallas Independent School District did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, sent outside of working hours. The "run, hide, fight" advice in the book is consistent with the FBI's advice to schools on dealing with an active shooter. Winnie the Pooh has been in the public domain since January 1, 2022, so this is not an official production.

☆ FBI search of home of a journalist and a Tampa Bay councilwoman related to alleged leaks at Fox News: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The FBI is investigating alleged leaks at Fox News linked to unaired footage of Tucker Carlson's interview with rapper Kanye West. The feds executed a search warrant at the home of a Tampa Bay city councilwoman and her husband, a media consultant and ex-journalist, earlier this month. Potential crimes being investigated include unauthorized computer access and conspiracy, The Tampa Bay Times reported. That's according to The Tampa Bay Times, which reported that as part of the investigation, the FBI executed a search warrant on the home of city councilwoman Lynn Hurtak and her husband, Tim Burke, earlier this month. A Tampa Bay prosecutor sent a letter to Fox News informing the network of the ongoing criminal investigation into the alleged hacks, The Times reported.

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☆ FBI broke rules in scouring foreign intelligence on Jan. 6 riot, racial justice protests, court says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of foreign intelligence for information related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and racial justice protests in 2020, according to a heavily blacked-out court order released Friday. The violations were detailed in a secret court order issued last year by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which has legal oversight of the U.S. government's spy powers. At issue are improper queries of foreign intelligence information collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which enables the government to gather the communications of targeted foreigners outside the U.S. That program expires at the end of the year unless it is renewed. FBI searches must have a foreign intelligence purpose or be aimed at finding evidence of a crime. The order says the FBI had maintained that the queries were likely to return foreign intelligence, though the reasons given for that assessment are mostly redacted.

☆ Factbox: Why does the US want to ban TikTok? The allegations against it
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Members of Congress in March complained that the Chinese government has a "golden share" in ByteDance, giving it power over TikTok. He asserted the TikTok platform could enable sweeping influence operations because TikTok could proactively influence users and could also "turn off the message." TikTok says it "does not permit any government to influence or change its recommendation model." -TikTok will hand American's data over to Chinese government officialsLawmakers have alleged that the Chinese government, under a 2017 National Intelligence law, can force ByteDance to share TikTok user data. "-TikTok spies on journalistsIn December, ByteDance said some employees improperly accessed TikTok user data of two journalists.

On Tuesday, the U.S. government accused a former Apple employee, Weibao Wang, of stealing trade secrets from the company's self-driving car division, including the entirety of Apple's "autonomous" source code. Following that, he worked as chief technology officer at Neolix, a Chinese self-driving car company. Wang is the third former Apple employee from China to be accused of stealing trade secrets from Apple's self-driving car division. Xiaolang Zhang, who worked at Apple around the same time as Wang, pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from Apple in August. Apple has reportedly been working on a self-driving car since at least 2015, although it has never discussed its goals or plans publicly and no car has been announced.

☆ US special counsel faults FBI's handling of 2016 Trump-Russia probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Sarah N. Lynch | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI lacked “actual evidence” to investigate Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and relied too heavily on tips provided by Trump’s political opponents to fuel the probe, U.S. Special Counsel John Durham concluded in a report released on Monday. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at his final campaign event at the Devos Place in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. November 8, 2016. That Crossfire Hurricane investigation would later be handed over to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who in March 2019 concluded there was no evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. In his new 306-page report, Durham concluded that U.S. intelligence and law enforcement did not possess any “actual evidence” of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia prior to launching Crossfire Hurricane. He also accused the bureau of treating the 2016 Trump probe differently from other politically sensitive investigations, including several involving Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

☆ Special counsel appointed by Trump's attorney general says FBI had no basis for investigating Trump's links to Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Special Counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI didn't have sufficient evidence to open its investigation into Donald Trump's connections with Russia, according to a report published by the Justice Department on Monday. For nearly four years, Durham — appointed by former President Trump's attorney general Bill Barr — investigated the origins of the FBI's investigation into links between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia. In his 300-page report, he found that it had no basis for opening the investigation in the first place. The FBI investigation, with the code name Crossfire Hurricane, was opened in July 2016 to examine Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election. "After extensive research, Special Counsel John Durham concludes the FBI never should have launched the Trump-Russia Probe!"

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