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From the Internet Research Agency Indictment:

5. Certain Derfendants traveled to the United States under false pretenses for the purpos of collecting intelligence to inform Defendants' operations.
Defendants also procured and used computed infrastructure, based partly in the United States, to hide the Russian origin of their activities and to avoid detection by U.S. regulators and law enforcement.

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12. b. For example, on or about May 29, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through an ORGANIZATION-controlled social media account, arranged for a real U.S. person to stand in front of the White House in the District of Columbia under false pretenses to hold a sign that read "Happy 55th Birthday Dear Boss."
Defendents and their co-conspirators informed the real U.S. person that the sign was for someone who "is a leader here and our boss... our funder."
PRIGHOZHIN's Russian passport identifies his date of birth as June 1, 1961.

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30. c. Only KRYLOVA and BOGACHEVA received visas, and from approximately June 4, 2014 through june 26, 2014 KRYLOVA and BOGACHEVA traveled in and around the United States, including stops in Nevada, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana, Texas, and New York to gather intelligence.
After the trip, KRYLOVA and BURCHIK exchanged an intelligence report regarding the trip.
d. Another co-conspirator who worked for the ORGANIZATION traveled to Atlanta, Georgia from approximately November 26, 2014 through November 30, 2014.
Following the trip, the co-conspirator provided POLOZOV a summary of his trip's itinerary and expenses.

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41. In and around 2016. Defendants and their co-conspirators also used, possessed, and transferred, without lawful authority, the social security numbers and dates of birth of real U.S. persons without those persons' knowledge or consent.
Using these means of identification, Defendants and their co-conspirators opened accounts at PayPal, a digital payment service provider, created false means of identification, including fake driver's licenses, and posted on ORGANIZATION-controlled social media accounts using the identities of these U.S. victims.
Defendants and their co-conspirators also obtained, and attempted to obtain, false identification documents to use as proof of identity in connection with maintaining accounts and purchasing advertisements on social media sites.

And then there's that bit where they organized rallies, offered money to cover rally expenses, paid someone to "BUILD A CAGE ON A FLATBED TRUCK" and another person to "WEAR A COSTUME PORTRAYING CLINTON IN A PRISON UNIFORM".

They can steal identities, travel around U.S., pay people to construct motorized cages and other people to dress up and be driven around in those cages... but they'll somehow not be able to mail in a postcard?

Which part of "run like a KGB operation by former KGB people for current FSB people" is Facebook pretending to not understand?

Really?

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Try again.. I just heard the presser for these charges. They where actively supporting BOTH sides

No, go read the actual indictment. It's very clear that the charges indicate help for Donald Trump only.

Read this section of the indictment:

"“included supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J Trump ... and disparaging Hillary Clinton,”

It goes on to say that during the primaries, the indicted Russians sought to give support to Trump and disparage his GOP opponents (Cruz, et al). Here is a direct link to the indictment:

https://www.justice.gov/file/1...

Oh, the indictment is juicy, folks. Among other things, it specifically charges that these Russians sought to help the candidacy of Donald J. Trump, and that they also sought to suppress minority votes, and to create social media accounts pretending to be US media outlets and American individuals.

We got us a RICO case against the White House. This is 'bout to get real interesting.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1...

Try again.. I just heard the presser for these charges. They where actively supporting BOTH sides. One day they actually set up two rallies in the same city, one for Clinton and one for Trump...

I'd be careful with your conclusions here..

Why would they do this? They where spreading FUD about the election SYSTEM in this country. They didn't care one wit about which candidate won, they just wanted to make people not trust the system. They where sowing unrest, not trying to get Trump elected....

Oh, the indictment is juicy, folks. Among other things, it specifically charges that these Russians sought to help the candidacy of Donald J. Trump, and that they also sought to suppress minority votes, and to create social media accounts pretending to be US media outlets and American individuals.

We got us a RICO case against the White House. This is 'bout to get real interesting.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1...

they risk the kind of nightmarish government intervention that once plagued his Microsoft

It was found that Microsoft violated a de facto monopoly position, and they got off with a handslap. "Plagued" is not the right word here, unless you want to say that we were plagued by Microsoft, as it has been said that Microsoft set back computing significantly.

During the course of the investigation, the FBI recorded Sporyshev and Podobnyy speaking inside the SVR’s offices in New York, known as the “Residentura.” The FBI obtained the recordings after Sporyshev attempted to recruit an FBI undercover employee (“UCE-1”), who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company.

That undercover employee ("UCE-1") was Carter Page. He was the primary witness and worked for the FBI up to May of 2016.
But then, suddenly, in October of 2016, the FBI applies for a Title 1 FISA application against Carter Page. What is a Title 1 FISA? It says the target "is working on behalf of a foreign government". Why???
Let me tell you why! A Title 1 FISA allows the FBI to retroactively monitor all communications of not just the target, but ANYONE he communicated with as well!
The FISA warrant was an excuse that allowed the Obama WH to spy on Donald Trump's entire team.

Facilitating copyright infringement. Specifically, providing means to perform copyright infringement in a way that makes finding the infringers exceptionally difficult.

Citation needed.

What trial convicted him of that crime? Oh... it's just your uninformed opinion then? Nothing to see then... moving along...

Citation.

This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime.

The post you are replying to is talking about the crimes he was alleged to have done. Nobody is saying that he did them, but what he is charged with.

Actually, 83% is often used as a cutoff in both the US and Canada, derived from (US) judge Learned Hand's opinion...

Hand's opinion is certainly not the last word on the subject. From the horse's mouth: "Somebody has 40 percent of the market but everybody else has one percent each."); id. at 52 (Sidak) ("Would we infer that there is not a problem because the market share is only 40 percent and that is way below Judge Hand's ALCOA threshold or would we look at a price increase or loss of competitor market share and say that is a more direct set of facts that elucidates what the price elasticity of demand is?"

Maybe because the investgation was triggered by a DNI report which was subsequently investigated by the FBI and led to a special counsel being appointed after Trump fired the guy looking into the election which made him president.

See? Real facts are not hard.

Yeah, that's what people with zero understanding of running a business say. Most executives I've run across are easily worth more than what they're paid, and very few aren't. Just as a case in point:

https://aflcio.org/paywatch/TM...

The AFL-CIO thinks it's terrible that John Legere makes 533 times more than the line workers. But here's why he gets paid what he gets paid: He turned that carrier around from hemorrhaging customers to being the fastest growing carrier within three years, overtaking Sprint as the #3 carrier in the process.

Besides that, because of him, my phone bill has seen both a 50% reduction in cost and a massive increase in quality of service. The same can be said of non T-Mobile customers. When Verizon started losing subscribers for the first time in over a decade and kept doing so for several quarters, they abandoned their line of "customers don't want unlimited data" to offering unlimited data.

AFL-CIO is welcome to suck my balls. And the CWA union can suck my balls as well. It's because of them that Centurylink's employees are lazy as fuck and have made phone service here really turn to shit. I kid you not, Centurylink's employees, as per union rules, are required to bring a lawn chair and an umbrella to their work sites.

I personally have avoided working for unionized companies not only because I would have yet another boss to answer to, but I really don't want to have money taken out of my paycheck to fatten up some mafia boss that ultimately doesn't do anything for me other than pretend he's looking out for my best interests. (Not to mention union executives everywhere make well over 6 figures...tell me...why am I supposed to hate the CEO's pay, but not theirs?)

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There are two sides to this coin.

In Austin, TX, the Fire Department was sued by the Obama Administration for racial discrimination. Why?

Well, let's find out from them:

Title VII’s prohibitions of discrimination in employment forbid not only intentional discrimination, but also the use of employment practices, such as written tests, that result in disparate impact against any group based on the race, color, sex, national origin or religion of that group’s members, unless an employer can prove that such practices are job related and consistent with business necessity. Absent such proof, those practices do not identify the best qualified candidates and violate the law. The complaint, filed along with the consent decree in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in Austin, alleges that in 2012, the city used a written test that disproportionately eliminated African-Americans and Hispanics from the hiring process, and that Austin cannot demonstrate that its use of the test was job related and consistent with business necessity. Similarly, the complaint alleges that Austin’s method of weighting the 2012 assessments and processing candidates in descending rank order by composite score had an adverse impact on individuals in these protected groups who passed the written test, and that this practice was also not job related or consistent with business necessity. The United States has challenged the hiring process Austin planned to use for these positions in 2013 as well.

The Austin Fire Department had an opportunity to argue its case. They chose to revise their procedures instead.

What's the problem, sycodon? You think they should just throw a test together without having to worry about potential racial bias even if they don't intend to do so?

why should some narrow-minded parents restrict what is taught to my child, in school?

Because you and those like you support the government's monopoly on children education. And now the same monopoly is creeping into higher education too:

1. "Title IX" lets Federal government control, what can and can not be said by the students.
2. The recently-introduced monopoly on college-loans allows the government to decide, at any moment, where the would-be students can (and can not) take spend tuition loans.
3. Profit: thought the 1st Amendment is still, ostensibly, the law of the land, the government can already control, what the students — and their professors — are allowed to say. And teach... And read

It happened to public schools years ago, it is happening to colleges right now.

http://www.miamiherald.com/new...

Opa-locka Fruit and Produce Market didn’t just sell fruits and vegetables.

Instead, owners Karla Rodriguez Diaz and Luis Marzo Machado allegedly used their produce market inside the Opa-locka Hialeah Flea Market to bilk the government out of $2.4 million, Wifredo A. Ferrer, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said Wednesday.

Diaz and Machado were two of 22 people charged in 15 cases Wednesday in “Operation Stampede,” organized to bust business owners and their employees who allowed customers to use their government-issued EBT food stamp card as a means to get cash, in exchange for a cut. In total, Ferrer said there were more than $13 million in fraudulent food stamp transactions stemming from markets throughout South Florida, the largest food stamp fraud take-down in U.S. history.

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Baltimore, Maryland – In August 2016, a federal grand jury returned nine indictments charging 14 retail store operators in the greater Baltimore area with food stamp fraud and wire fraud in connection with obtaining over $16 million from the United States Department of Agriculture by illegally trading food stamp benefits for cash. Twelve of the fourteen charged defendants have pleaded guilty, and two defendants were sentenced this week to federal prison.

Today, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Mohammad Shafiq, age 51, of Baltimore, Maryland to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Bennett ordered Shafiq to pay restitution in the amount of $3,712,353.00.

In a separate sentencing hearing held on May 18, 2017, Judge Bennett sentenced Mohammad Irfan, age 59, of Baltimore County, Maryland, to 51 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Bennett also ordered Irfan to pay restitution in the amount of $3,550,662.00.

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/352...

NBC2 started tracking local court cases to see how Heacock’s team is doing.

From 2012 to 2014, 31 people were charged with welfare fraud in Lee, Charlotte, and Collier counties.

That number has nearly doubled in recent years. Since 2015, 71 people have been charged with welfare fraud, almost all of it from false reporting.

“We're pursuing it more,” Heacock said.

“We don't go after misdemeanor cases. We only go after felony cases.”

The results are easy to see.

DPAF discovered $20,719,036 in fraud in FY 2015-16. Compare that to just $5,527,677 in FY 2010-11.

But there’s another area of food stamp fraud that Carroll would like to see better enforced.

Food stamp trafficking, as it’s called, consists of retailers trading cash for government benefit dollars. Here’s how it works:

Store customer offers retailer food stamps for cash;

Store charges $100 of food stamps then gives customer $50 cash;

Store receives $100 reimbursement from government and makes $50 profit.

“It's organized crime,” Carroll said.

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Sami Deffala, who's managed a corner store in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood for 13 years, said he hears that every day from customers vying for a private moment in hopes of using their Link cards to exchange SNAP benefits, the modern-day version of food stamps, for cash — an illegal practice called trafficking by federal regulators. And every day, Deffala said, he hears them out but refuses to take part in the scheme.

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NASA, like many federal agencies, is in violation of the law,

That means nothing if there are no penalties for violation. There are some sanctions for violating FOIA, but I am unaware of them every being applied, and I don't think any bureaucrat has ever been fired for denying or ignoring a FOIA request. So why should they care?

https://www.justice.gov/crt/pr...

With this kind of theory, an American girl visiting Saudi Arabia can be detained because she was not wearing a head scarf while walking in the middle of LA....

If Saudi law prohibited the non-wearing of headscarves in LA, and the American woman were then to visit Saudi Arabia, that's exactly what could happen. When you visit another country, you are subjecting yourself to their laws and judicial system.

Similarly, many countries will prosecute over sexual abuse of minors, even if the abuse occurred in an overseas jurisdiction where it was not prohibited.

I am not in the habit of replying to anonymous cowards. You are a troll, sir and should be modded as such.

However, I am going to provide two links. The first is an article that includes the motion before the Court in the "All Writs Act" case. Now, you are claiming that this was just a PR stunt. I don't know what planet you live on, but hiring outside counsel to appeal such an order from the FBI is expensive, and there is absolutely no profit in it. So the document from Apple cost them money and did not produce iPhones, iPads or computers. Here is the article.

But that's not all. Were this just a publicity stunt, there would have been a quiet backroom agreement that Apple did complain in the "All Writs" case. If your hypothesis that this was a PR stunt were true, the agreement would have been made in secret, Apple would have provided the code and all would be well. The public relations issue would have been handled and everyone would think that Apple had won. But that is not what happened.

Instead, the Department of Justice filed a countermotion. And you can read it here.

So your hypothesis is dead wrong, Anonymous Coward-Troll. So you can believe whatever you want, but beliefs are not facts.

Whats discriminatory about wanting people that are voting to have an ID?

The documented behavior in North Carolina is one place for you to find numerous examples of the discriminatory practices that occur.

Are you so ignorant of the situation that you don't know what has happened when it was proven in a court of law? And North Carolina wasn't' the only one. Alabama, Texas, Pennsylvania, had lawsuits they lost as well.

Or for asking for public voter records?

I think you are confused, the issue with the actions taken by Trump's "commission" is related to the objectionable nature of it, as it includes demands for information that cannot be shared. Furthermore, it was also improperly done, as it was not compliance with the proper procedures, and there are concerns about how the data will be stored.

Of course, knowing Kris Kobach (threatened with contempt for his discriminatory actions regarding voters already), he might well end up engaging in some misconduct.

You can look up each and every conviction - they are public record.

The public records indicate your solution of voter ID won't work for their actions in large part.

Of course, it's kind of funny I got modded down to zero as a troll, given I provided factual, documented, legal court convictions of voter fraud.

You got modded down because people looked at your link, and realized your representation of it was bogus.

That's the price of lying.

Which is something the liberal side simply cannot tolerate as it completely destroys their entire claim that there is no voter fraud and there is no reason to ensure the sanctity of the vote...

Too bad for you, that's not the claim being made, which is what destroys you, is your persistence on creating a falsehood to advance your cause.

If you simply committed to affirmatively ensuring that everybody had ID, then that'd be one thing. Instead, you insist that elections are tainted, which means the current people in office can't be trusted to pass laws, but offer no substantive proof, and only pick a solution which has had documented misuse.

In fact, you lie about your evidence. Check out those numbers, you're claiming things about those convictions which are not voter fraud, instead they're a horse of a different color.

Now here's something for you to read, and tell us how you intend to correct North Carolina's misconduct.

Go ahead. Tell us.

Yea, they are not the only one. Oh wait. It didn't come from a legitimate news source like CNN, MSNBC, AP? The Intercept published the original article, multiple others picked up the arrest. DailyCaller, Heavy, etc...

And when they point to this, then YEAH IT HAPPENED.

Same as your USD

The USD has a lot of people with big guns saying we need to use it or we'll be arrested (in the US) or even killed (see: wars). They have billion dollar budget agencies to ensure the currency is secure and stable.

So no. It's nothing like bitcoin.

and Gold

This is more true. However, gold has a multi-millennia history backing it. Bitcoin has a, what, 10 year history? Gold is basically a bubble, but one which has stood the test of time. Bitcoin... not so much...

In the USA? The cops steal five times as much stuff, year in year out as burglars do.

Yes, yes.. Cops are bad, gub'mint is bad... I'm quite familiar with the typical bias of Slashdotters.

Fortunately, statistics are easily available which provide a more reasonable picture: In 2015, the last year for which full reports are available, burglary alone cost Americans $3.6 billion, while asset forfeiture only totaled $1.6 billion.

Also, some bendejho federal judge has recorded an opinion that opening your door amounts to inviting the cops into the front room.

I'm not familiar with the precise case in question, but the usual rule of thumb is that the officers are allowed to check to ensure their own safety. If that means they have to check the area immediately inside the door, then so be it.

Per Order No. 3915-2017 (pdf), Mueller has been authorized to prosecute federal crimes, and given a fairly broad scope of investigation - any links between the Trump campaign and the Russians, and any matters arising from these investigations (such as obstruction of justice).

Forget power to investigate, this guy has powers to prosecute. He's going out loaded for bear.

It looks like the laws used to prosecute phishing at the federal level are:

18 U.S.C. 1029 (access device fraud)
18 U.S.C. 1028 (fraud in connection with identification documents and authentication features)
18 U.S.C. 1028A (aggravated identity theft)
18 U.S.C. 1343 (wire fraud)
18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(4) (accessing a computer to defraud and obtain something of value)
18 U.S.C. 1001 (making false statements in any matter within the jurisdiction of the government)

There are a number of state laws that handle it, too.

Not a wise move on their part.

Are you claiming that phishing isn't illegal?

On a federal level it seems to be prosecuted mostly under wire fraud and identity theft laws, but there are other laws that also apply. There are also various state laws that deal with it. Here is a little information on the state laws that apply. Here is a Justice Dept discussion of federal computer crimes that mentions phishing.

The law mostly used to prosecute phishing seems to be 18 U.S.C. 1029(e)(1). "Penalties for violations of section 1029 range from a maximum of 10 or 15 years of imprisonment depending on the subsection violated."

Phishing is not legal and it was not a great idea to publicly confess to attempting a phishing campaign against the US government.

Sessions isn't "dismantling" anything. The commission was created in 2013 and was supposed to do its job by 2017. It apparently has done that, Sessions has thanked them. The Trump administration is now deciding what to do next.

Calling this "ordering the Justice Dept. to end forensic science commission" or "dismantling forensic science commission", as if Trump or Sessions had taken extraordinary steps to kill the commission, is tendentious, politically motivated b.s. that reflects badly on the Washington Post and the submitter.

Errrm. Yes, and, no, and no, and no. Yes, it was created in 2013 and yes, it was due for termination in 2017. But that would be it's second termination after its first renewal, and there was supposed to be a another renewal hearing. https://www.justice.gov/ncfs/file/624216/download

11. Termination:
The Commission's termination date is two years from the date this Charter is filed with Congress, and is subject to renewal in accordance with Section 14 of FACA.

And more importantly: it wasn't "supposed to do its job by 2017". The charter clearly says: "10. Duration: The period of time necessary for the Commission to carry out its purpose is indefinite"

a) Why do think the number of recommendations is the way to measure the committee's effectiveness? A single recommendation could have a far-ranging impact.

b) Where do you get '20' from? There's over 40 in this list: https://www.justice.gov/ncfs/w... And that list doesn't include works in progress.

Section 241 of Title 18 is the civil rights conspiracy statute. Section 241 makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same). Unlike most conspiracy statutes, Section 241 does not require that one of the conspirators commit an overt act prior to the conspiracy becoming a crime. https://www.justice.gov/crt/co...

From the official announcement by the Department of Justice, the guy was NOT a sysadmin. He was a help desk monkey.

Appearing before Senior United States District Judge David Briones, Venzor pleaded guilty to one count of transmission of a program to cause damage to a computer. By pleading guilty, Venzor admitted that on September 1, 2016, after being terminated from his position at the company’s help desk, he logged onto the company’s network through an administrator account and shut down the company’s email server and application server while deleting systems files essential to restoring computer operations.

All this "sysadmin gone bad" stuff is one big April Fools joke.

But none of the machines should be open to being destroyed by a help desk jockey, which is the job this guy was doing when he was fired. He was NOT a sysadmin. Just that the people writing the headlines and stories puffed it up by assuming (wrongly) that the guy was an admin. Sort of like Tony Blair and Colin Powell with their WMD stories. Or Trump with his brain-fart of the day tweet.

Appearing before Senior United States District Judge David Briones, Venzor pleaded guilty to one count of transmission of a program to cause damage to a computer. By pleading guilty, Venzor admitted that on September 1, 2016, after being terminated from his position at the company’s help desk, he logged onto the company’s network through an administrator account and shut down the company’s email server and application server while deleting systems files essential to restoring computer operations.

But of course, both the original submission and the register claim that he was a sysadmin. Probably because a hell desk jockey shouldn't be able to create sysadmin accounts in the first place. I wonder who left their password on a post-it stuck to the bottom of their keyboard this time.

Sorry for not checking the link.

Where is the right trying to "deplatform" left-wing speakers?

On News Corp platforms, Breitbart, twitter, 4chan, all sorts of places?

Just look for all the hand-wringing over "BLM" and "Anti-Trump" riots, against "Planned Parenthood", all the "Birther" claims, and you''ll find it.

Let's see, who is committing the violence [rollingstone.com] and trying to prevent the speech of others? That would be the left.

Also, case in point, here, by a user named Raenex. Who will never look at the right's actions.

But you, you want us to be upset over Milo's hiring a bunch of guys in masks to disrupt his own rallies and get attention. But Milo is out so you didn't even get your memo about that.

Which political party responds to critiques of Islam with cries of "Islamophobia" and "racist"? Which political party is against restrictions on Muslim immigration? Which political party has apologists for Sharia law leading [breitbart.com] women marches?

The left went from fighting political Christians to embracing Islam.

Which political party denounces Islam and creates lies about Sharia law? Which political party tries to convince us that Islam is a material threat? Which political party wants to ignore the terrorists among us?

Which political party lies about Planned Parenthood? Which political party has been found in court to engage in unlawful gerrymandering? Which political party is threatening judges who dared to reject Trump's unlawful ban? Which political party attacks how women dressed? Which political party claims to be pro-life, but resents paying for maternity care?

The right is the party that loves everything about radical Islamists, except the name they operate under.

IANAL, but the penalty for trolling a person with epilepsy by sending a tweet saying "Look at this, I hope you have a seizure!" would be much less severe than for sending something that actually DID cause a seizure.

The FBI press release asserts that a seizure actually occurred. -PCP

I don't see how that matters. Policies should not be judged on intentions or goals, but actual effects.

Good luck getting any news reporting on ADA settlements that don't stir the public outrage.

In this case, this expression was considered illegal because it didn't meet some regulation (thus "not free speech").

In this case, there was no such thing happening, what happened was the University of California decided not to offer the material rather than offer any ADA accommodations at all.

The DOJ, not having the power to compel UC Berkeley to do anything about that, ended up having to walk away from it.

looks like it's been happening around the country but with smaller schools https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...

Having screamed for anti-immigrant violence and sexual assault becoming common place because of Trump, Illiberals could never offer any actual evidence. Maybe, this guy is what they need. Finally...

Yeah, that's why Robert Doggart was totally convicted, there was no evidence presented. And he didn't talk with anyone about his plans. Nor anyone else. The FBI is totally not reporting an increase in hate crimes either.

But hey, it's not like it's new in America. They even had the support of John Wilkes Booth. Remember him?

Meanwhile the number of victims of the "Black Lives Matter" assholes — the very foundation of their movement based on a lie — uncounted scores.

And then you read a few DOJ reports.

Gosh, I wonder why little old mi never mentions any of that. Is it because you support the authoritarian and oppressive police state that they represent?

Having screamed for anti-immigrant violence and sexual assault becoming common place because of Trump, Illiberals could never offer any actual evidence. Maybe, this guy is what they need. Finally...

Yeah, that's why Robert Doggart was totally convicted, there was no evidence presented. And he didn't talk with anyone about his plans. Nor anyone else. The FBI is totally not reporting an increase in hate crimes either.

But hey, it's not like it's new in America. They even had the support of John Wilkes Booth. Remember him?

Meanwhile the number of victims of the "Black Lives Matter" assholes — the very foundation of their movement based on a lie — uncounted scores.

And then you read a few DOJ reports.

Gosh, I wonder why little old mi never mentions any of that. Is it because you support the authoritarian and oppressive police state that they represent?

Having screamed for anti-immigrant violence and sexual assault becoming common place because of Trump, Illiberals could never offer any actual evidence. Maybe, this guy is what they need. Finally...

Yeah, that's why Robert Doggart was totally convicted, there was no evidence presented. And he didn't talk with anyone about his plans. Nor anyone else. The FBI is totally not reporting an increase in hate crimes either.

But hey, it's not like it's new in America. They even had the support of John Wilkes Booth. Remember him?

Meanwhile the number of victims of the "Black Lives Matter" assholes — the very foundation of their movement based on a lie — uncounted scores.

And then you read a few DOJ reports.

Gosh, I wonder why little old mi never mentions any of that. Is it because you support the authoritarian and oppressive police state that they represent?

"Hands up, don't shoot" was well covered. Took months and an actual trial to learn it never happened.

Neither did this but I never see you complaining about that one. Of course, the trial has a prosecutor who allowed perjury to occur, so who knows what really happened? That prosecutor's conduct does not inspire confidence.

Of course, you could have read the Report on the Ferguson Police Department as a whole, and tell us what you think is important about it.

Twelve Current and Former TSA and Airport Employees Indicted for Smuggling Approximately 20 Tons of Cocaine

Oh, it seems I've misinterpreted the law once again. Silly me! I read the white paint on the barn wall as "It is illegal to import cocaine", but somehow I never noticed the next line, "unless you are a TSA agent." I wonder why the handwriting is different... looks like a pig wrote it.

Define child porn for us.

Fair enough.

Child pornography is a form of child sexual exploitation.

Federal law defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (persons less than 18 years old). Images of child pornography are also referred to as child sexual abuse images.

It is important to distinguish child pornography from the more conventional understanding of the term pornography.
Child pornography is a form of child sexual exploitation, and each image graphically memorializes the sexual abuse of that child. Each child involved in the production of an image is a victim of sexual abuse.

While some child sexual abuse images depict children in great distress and the sexual abuse is self-evident, other images may depict children that appear complacent.
In most child pornography cases, the abuse is not a one-time event, but rather ongoing victimization that progresses over months or years. It is common for producers of child pornography to groom victims, or cultivate a relationship with a child and gradually sexualize the contact over time.

Furthermore, victims of child pornography suffer not just from the sexual abuse inflicted upon them to produce child pornography, but also from knowing that their images can be traded and viewed by others worldwide.
Once an image is on the Internet, it is irretrievable and can continue to circulate forever.
The permanent record of a childÂs sexual abuse can alter his or her live forever. Many victims of child pornography suffer from feelings of helplessness, fear, humiliation, and lack of control given that their images are available for others to view in perpetuity.

Unfortunately, emerging trends reveal an increase in the number of images depicting sadistic and violent child sexual abuse, and an increase in the number of images depicting very young children, including toddlers and infants.

Child Pornography

It can be a useful exercise for the geek to have a look at the registry of sex offenders for his state or county. No better way I think to dispel the fantasies he promotes about child pornography.

I'm sorry.

Old age.

Here ya go.

And, thank you.

Quick question: Doesn't this violate the government regulations regarding destruction of records?

https://www.justice.gov/usam/c...
and:
https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen...

After all, if Trump’s tweets are now presidential records (and, by law, they are), wouldn't these also be included under those rules?

"Federal records may not be destroyed-except in accordance with the procedures described in Chapter 33 of Title 44, United States Code. These procedures allow for records destruction only under the authority of a records disposition schedule approved by the Archivist of the United States. NARA issues a General Records Schedule (GRS) that gives record descriptions of records that are common to most Federal agencies and authorizes record disposals for temporary records."

Yes, yes, I know, "But Hillary Hillary Hillary....", right, I get it, but if her doing it was illegal (and I think it was), how can this be legal?

Like Obama and his cabinet? Particularly his Attorneys General, who refused to prosecute anyone who was black.

Why do you tell such easily disproven lies, ChrisMaple?

All that's needed is ONE prosecution, and you're just a liar.

If you're trying to make Republicans look bad, out of some misguided sense of trying to discredit them, please don't bother, they look bad enough on their own. If you simply don't know how bad you look, then please correct yourself. Stop regurgitating mindless prattle, and seriously look at your own behavior.

1. Does the $586 Million cover the losses of the individuals that were scammed? 2. Will they get it or is this a big, fat payday for the Government? (Hint: usually is)

Yes, it's for the individuals.

From the report:

Persons who believe they were victims of the fraud scheme should visit the Department of Justice’s victim website at https://www.justice.gov/crimin... for instructions on how to request compensation through the Victim Asset Recovery Program.

Yeah, you're full of shit.

Example number one.

Example number two.

I could pull up more, but to be honest you're just an intellectually dishonest shithead.

In addition, after serving in the military with contractors doing our job for five times the price I think I have a bit of perspective that you don't.

I'm actually rather concerned that contrary to the implication in the summary that this is no longer simply citizen hacking but in fact escalation of state sponsored hacking. It seems we're beginning to find out more and more that nation states are engaged in hacking from the hacks we know about for sure such as the North Korean hack of Sony, through to the ones that we can make a reasonable assumption on such as the Russian hacks of the DNC (even Trump finally said on Wednesday he thinks it was the Russians), through to those we simply don't know about.

Even if we step back a few years we had the Syrian cyber army being quite active in it's hacking attempts. Given that Syria worked closely with North Korea on their attempted nuclear program (Syria's nuclear program destroyed by Israel in 2007 was shown to be a clone of North Korea's) then would it really be far fetched to assume that given that North Korea also has strong offensive hacking capabilities that it wasn't engaging with them on that too? Similarly the UEA ClimateGate hack was eventually believed based on analysis to be an act by Russia as it was carried out just days before a major climate conference in 2009 that sought to reduce emissions by cutting fossil fuel use - far and away the foundation of Russia's entire economy so they had clear interest also in sabotaging such an agreement and it worked, the conference was largely a failure as a result.

Of course it's not one sided, we know about Stuxnet being a likely US-Israeli attack, and we know that the five eyes countries have been engaging in these sorts of things for years thanks to the revelations by Snowden. I'm not saying it's just some countries or others doing it, on the contrary, I think everyone is doing it. Frankly I suspect at least some of the purported hacks by anonymous were merely just nation states using the broad anonymous idea as cover for their actions.

Could this Cellebrite hack for example be revenge by Iran for Stuxnet? At this point I do not think that's far-fetched for one minute, though hopefully time will tell.

My concern is that this is getting out of control. How long before this escalates and what we once laughed at as being paranoia, the idea of "cyber war" becomes a reality and someone decides to break a damn, or overload a powerplant? Ukraine already saw last year an outage on their powergrid because of hackers. Thankfully I believe no one died, but how long before someone does and it stops just being a cyber war?

We're learning more and more about this and so far solutions
have been purely political and diplomatic. A couple of years back we were seeing constant hacks on the US from China, and this died down - I saw an article recently explaining what happened, and it turns out that there was more than meets the eye to the US charges against 5 Chinese mentioned here:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...

The images that the US used for these arrest warrants were apparently personal images the US themselves had stolen from these Chinese general's laptops after their own hacks against them. The effect was to send a public message to the Chinese that "we can do it too" and it seems to have been succesful as China/US relations on this front seem to have significantly improved and this seems to have been the driver for the China/US cyber agreement agreed late last year. It appears the Chinese cyber command got spooked when they saw their own non-publicly available data used to provide pictures in arrest warrants against them and forced a whole Chinese reconsideration of the issue.

It's clear therefore that increased state hacking isn't merely the paranoia that people once thought it was and that it's generally becoming more prolific, or at least, we're becoming far more aware of it as time goes on and more information is released. So the point I was going to make in reply to your post was this - I'm

> I'm fuzzy on what's actually illegal?

See, this is why I'm glad the submitter actually included the indictment because it goes over everything law the government believes these guys broke.

Some of the more damning allegations are the different ways they've been charged with lying to the courts.