The secret story of how America lost the drug war with the Taliban
A high-stakes plan to indict Afghan drug lords and insurgency leaders on criminal conspiracy charges ran afoul of the Obama team. Five years later, it remains buried under Trump.
Author Archives: Denise Simon
El Chapo’s Rivals Extradited to US to be Witnesses
Primer: El Chapo complained repeatedly about his living conditions in prison while awaiting his case. So, a Brooklyn federal judge has ordered the Bureau of Prisons relax accommodations for notorious cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman–by giving him a glorified mail slot to pass documents with his attorneys.
Guzman can now enjoy a second, $1,000 screen and the slot during visits with his attorney Eduardo Balarezo, judge Brian Cogan ruled. The judge has yet to rule on the rest of a defense motion requesting the infamous inmate be allowed in-person visits with his legal team ahead of next April’s trial.
Smart TV’s vs. Your Privacy
It is all getting quite tiresome.It is a cyber war you are in and you don’t know it.
There is Facebook sharing your data with foreign entities and governments. Then the NSA announced it was deleting 685 million personal records.
Then it was Siri and Alexa. Then we are told that Google is reading your GMail. And Google defends the practice.
Smart TVs are spying on you
IRGC a Terror Organization? Ah, Yeah
Why would there need to be some consideration to list the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror organization? Anyone?
Begin with Hezbollah:
US State Department-designated terrorist group Hezbollah announced that Facebook and Twitter had terminated its main accounts. In a post on encrypted messenger, Telegram, Hezbollah opined that the shutdowns were “part of the propaganda campaign against the resistance due to the important role of the organization’s information apparatus in various arenas.” Hezbollah then began redirecting people to other Hezbollah accounts on social media. More here.
The Bombing Plot in Paris Reveals Wider Iranian Threat
Tower: Two Iranian nationals, recently arrested by France and Germany, will be extradited to Belgium in connection to a terror plot that targeted an Iranian opposition rally outside of Paris, Reuters reported Wednesday.
The rally, which took place Saturday, was held by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an Iranian opposition group. Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s lawyer, spoke at the rally calling for the removal of the regime’s rulers.