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I can still remember an exchange that I overheard in a small shop in a nondescript market town when I was thirteen. First sales assistant 'She's quite' pretty', second sales assistant 'Not really, but I suppose she has nice hair'.
Within a year I had hit puberty and for some reason my hair, long, wavy sun-kissed blonde, shed until it was thin mousey and half the length. After teen years of competitive swimming and a lot of sport, it was even worse, a bit of fluff with no body or shine that would not grow to more than about 4 inches before breaking off. I spent my 20s trying to find the magic cure, visiting Chinese herbalists, Philip Kingsley ( the man himself), spending a fortune on all of the best hairdressers in London from Josh Wood to Sam McKnight and Nicky Clarke. Nothing worked so I just pulled it up into a messy top-knot and tried to forget about it.
In my thirties hair extensions were no longer the Barbie style acrylic lumps preferred by Page 3 girls and porn stars, and I spent thousands on a decade of 'pretend' hair. Recently the time, effort and money all seems a bit wasteful and decided to go back to my roots.
Both in my hair regime and where I am living.
I am still mousey brown, with blonde ends, and I have the added bonus of white/grey that grows visibly around my face after about 3 weeks of having a root touch up. Despairing of ever owning a 'crowning glory' I set out to find a cheap and cheerful local salon who could do my roots at minimal expense.
Wheatley is a tiny Cotswold stone town just outside of Oxford, since it does not have controlled parking, and only a handful of shops, it feels more like a village.
The reviews for the established hairdressing salon were very positive online, so I decided to give it a go. As I was parking I saw a tiny jewel box of a salon with only two chairs and the clean modern country feel that is reminiscent of Daylesford, Brissi and Farrow and Ball. This definitely wasn't my original destination, but I went in to find out more. The salon had just been set up by a young duo who had both trained with Aveda. The good reviews of the other salon that I had read online were actually about one of the partners of Identity, so it looked like I had struck gold with this little treasure.
Hannah undertook my appointment, and was so warm and friendly that I told her all about my hair saga, almost from the very beginning. She told me to start eating a protein rich breakfast, as hair is protein and as a non-essential body part, is the last to benefit from protein intake. I do a lot of sport which compounds the problem and as a semi vegetarian, I am aware that I don't eat enough protein so it all made perfect sense. She also told me to try Viviscal, a new shellfish based supplement that she has seen work wonders for some of her clients. Finally we discussed the best regime for my fine lifeless hair. Since I need to colour every four weeks, she suggested a monthly semi-permanent tint for the roots, with sporadic foil highlights (every four months or so) so that they colour does not become too much of a 'block'. The semi-permanent colour lasts the whole month, but is less aggressive than a permanent hair dye and a few highlights make any grey growth less visible, but are not as damaging as regular foils.
Hannah and Katie are both so positive and full of energy, they regularly work on fashion shows and photoshoots and of course are running their own business. It is rare to meet people who genuinely love what they do. Their energy and enthusiasm is contagious and I left their salon determined to do all that had been suggested.
Three months down the line and my hair is the best it has ever been. It has grown! It is all one length rather than the raggedy and I have thickness around my face that feels (almost) heavy.
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We went to the beach for vacation this year and stopped by New Orleans on the way for a one night stop. This is a group picture on July 2nd in New Orleans!
Turtle Eggs?
Well, I'm not sure but I think she was working on laying some eggs! I went out in the yard this morning and couldn't figure out why that squirrel wasn't running off on the other side of the yard like they usually do. Turns out, it was a big old turtle that had dug a hole and was sitting over it like she was ready to drop some eggs! She is happy in Red Chute Bayou now!
Our Garden
I've been meaning to post some garden pictures since we first got started but I'm a little slow! Here is how Stephanie wanted to do a garden this year and I finally got around to getting the wood and dirt work done. This is when it all began on March the 18th.
Here is March the 28th
Here is April the 6th (Nat's Birthday!)
And on May the 4th
And the tomatoes on May the 4th
Starting the harvest! This is a few things picked on May the 8th. Stephanie is one proud Mama!!
Cope Athletic Awards
Hot Springs Day Trip
Stephanie and I went to Hot Springs over night during this spring break. We stayed at the Arlington for the first time. We've talked about staying there before but always changed at the last minute. That is one old hotel! Check out the view.
I usually don't valet park but did here cause I have this bad idea that someone's gonna cut into my car one day! Anyway, when we were leaving the old valet guy went on and on about Bill Clinton and how he put my car in Bill's parking spot. The valet area for the Arlington is only for about a dozen cars but I guess Bill's spot is the one right next to the door to the hotel!
Thanks to the Meme for keeping the children!
Sheamus in Town!
We went to the World of Wheels Friday night and after waiting in line for a while, Caden got to see one of his favorite wrestlers. Sheamus was at this World of Wheels. Here is a little about Sheamus, Facebook Page and WWE page. In all honesty, he seemed like a good guy seeing him with the kids and even a bunch of disabled kids that couldn't make it up on the stage. I'm not a wrestling fan like Caden!!, but glad Caden got to meet him since he didn't seem like a jerk! Here are a few pictures. Click on the picture below to see a few more pics, taken with my phone and not very good though! Caden even got him to sign his shoe!
|Sheamus at World of Wheels
Cope Dance Line Halloween Dance
Again they did great and looked a little scary too! Check it out.
Pumpkin Light Night Cope Dance
The Cope Dance Line did a great job with their Halloween dance at Stockwell's Pumpkin Light Night. Here are a few pictures and I'll post a video when I get a chance.
|2011 Pumpkin Light Night Cope Dance
National Beta Club
We had to go to the National Beta Club induction yesterday for Natalie at Cope Middle School. I don't know much about the Beta Club but it looked like a bunch of smart kids and I think they have to help out in the community! For some reason, I don't remember being asked to join this club! More about the Beta Club here.
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Why did you choose to share your home?
When my children left the family nest, I found I had a completely free floor at home. Suddenly, I made up my mind to open up my home to travellers from all over the world. I enjoy the friendliness and meeting new people. I decided to open up part of my house at certain periods, depending on my personal activities.
Why do you love sharing?
I like being a host as I take real pleasure in welcoming people from different backgrounds. Each guest has their own story to tell. For me, I see it as the perfect opportunity to open up to the world. I like the welcome, the friendliness and the open-mindedness.
What local gem do I recommend to my guests?
As I say on my ad, I am on the boundary of three districts: Uccle, Saint-Gilles and Ixelles. The Châtelain area in Ixelles is very lively with many restaurants, as is the Town Hall area in Saint-Gilles with its cosy cafés. I also recommend taking a walk around the streets of the three districts as there are lots of magnificent art nouveau houses to see.


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What is this project?
This project is an attempt to produce a working 6502 assembly compiler for the LOLCODE language written in Java.
What is LOLCODE?
LOLCODE is fairly new language, created solely by the online community. It derives its syntax from contemporary Internet slang, but has a very imperative/procedural grammar.
Why use LOLCODE?
Since LOLCODE code is fairly esoteric, it appears to be a very fun language to program in and work with. Most of the satisfaction comes from writing a fairly complex program that appears to be the ramblings of Anonymous.
What is the 6502?
It is an 8-bit microprocessor originally created in the 80s and remains in use today (mostly in embedded and microsystems). The 6502 was used in many contemporary electronics, notably the NES.
Why use the 6502?
6502 assembly is not too complex and not too large (56 instructions in ~8 addressing modes). The lack of many hardware registers and the heavy use of memory access, adds a difficulty in creating compiler optimizations.
What are your milestones?
- Completion of a working grammar for LOLCODE specification 1.2 [1 week]
- Implement a working scanner + parser for above grammar [1 week]
- Type-checking and semantic checking on IR-code [2 weeks]
- Instruction selection based on basic ruleset + code generation [1 week]
- Compiler optimizations: register allocation, control flow, etc [2 weeks]
- Advanced instruction selection using addressing modes [2 weeks]
- Final code generation step [1 week]
- Examples and sample programs [1 week]
What tools will you be using?
Several tools will be used for this project, (mostly based in Java):
- A lexer generator: JLex
- A LALR(1) parser generator: java_cup
- A 6502 emulator and assembler: 6502 Macro Assembler and Simulator
- A LOLCODE interpreter: Java LOLCODE


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Embracing with Strength & Grace
My piece will be a one of a kind bra to help raise cancer awareness. My inspiration for the bra stems from my Mother who embraced cancer with both strength & grace. My Mother was an amazing woman, my role model. She was very patient, graceful and always had a positive outlook on life. Cancer was not stopping her from living life to its fullest. We were blessed with 34 yrs with her after her diagnosis of breast cancer. Unfortunately, she succumbed to brain cancer last yr. As we all know Cancer is Big, Powerful, and Overwhelming. Each person diagnosed with cancer has a different experience; the beautiful part about the experience is that you learn to love yourself more for being stronger than you ever imagined you could be. The bra is a representation of what it means to make it through cancer. It is big, shocking, overwhelming and its beauty represents the person facing it head on. The straps & clasps represent support –the blessing of family and friends.
- Art form: Installation
- Depth: 3'
- Medium: fabric
- Width: 23' 7
- Year created: 2013
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When I was diagnosed, pediatric diabetes education in my hometown was limited. A few months after diagnosis, at the suggestion of my diabetes educator in Bismarck ND, my parents and I traveled to the International Diabetes Center to learn more. My parents still speak of this experience and the lessons we learned about how to manage things successfully. My personal story allows me to approach my patients and their families with empathy and experience. I understand the work that it takes to live with type 1 diabetes every day because I also do it myself with the support of my own family.
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In case you didn't know, this past week was Spring 2008 Couture Week in Paris. Couture week is where we see the most creative and innovative works from top designers. This year's selection did not disappoint.
Below are my top picks for the best looks of couture week from all the hottest designers. I chose 6 looks from each show that I found the most interesting and reflective of the designer's collection. Click the photos to enlarge.
Armani Prive
Armani Prive was an amazing collection, though when has Armani not been impressive? The tailored pieces were impeccable and fitted perfectly to the model's body, whereas the gowns literally looked as if they were made out of flowers. Armani's red dress (6th picture below) was a special tribute to Valentino, who retired this year.
Chanel's couture show was elegant, ladylike and still fun at the same time. I loved how most of the outfits were short and most of the models were wearing flats. The light, pastel colors would be perfect for spring, and how gorgeous do they look on the short dresses? The Chanel collection also incorporated silver gray and metallics, which are both going to continue as hot trends this season.
Christian Dior
The Dior collection was the epitome of what I think couture should be – crazy "wouldn't wear them in real life but they're so amazing to look at" outfits. The models looked like neon-wrapped birthday presents, plus just check out the shoes in the photos below! I can't imagine how the models were able to walk in them but they make the outfits look even more fabulous.
Christian Lacroix
Lacroix isn't one of my favorite designers, and that's probably why the couture show seemed a bit lackluster to me. I liked the tights that all the models wore, but aside from that, most of the pieces didn't appeal to my taste, so there isn't much to comment on.
Elie Saab
Elie Saab is one of my favorite designers right now. His designs are 100% glamor – what you'd probably wear if you were a famous singer going to Grammy's, or an actress at the Academy Awards. The couture collection was full of gowns covered in sparkles, shimmery fabrics, and figure-flattering shapes. I love love loved all the dresses below!
The looks at Givenchy's couture show reminded me of glammed up ballerinas when I first saw them (probably because of the ribboned shoes and full skirts.) Loved the use of sheer fabrics, metallics and shiny black material – very modern and pretty in my opinion. Also, ohmygod the gold dress in the first picture… so gorgeous!
Jean Paul Gaultier
As expected, Gaultier's collection was fabulous. I loved the use of warm colors, florals and of course, the fact that the show was mermaid themed. (Best Disney movie ever?) The dress in the first photo below was my favorite of all. It's one couture dress that I would have no problem wearing all the time in real life. Bonus points go to the gold tights in the last photo on the right below. I would definitely rock those.
For his final show before retirement, Valentino showed an amazing collection of signature looks. His dresses consistently blow me away and this show was, of course, no exception. Valentino incorporated many "girly" elements into the looks – lace, fringe, beading, and floral. It all worked beautifully. I'm sure he will be sorely missed in the fashion community.
Versace's collection of couture gowns blew me away. I literally found myself staring at the dresses in awe – the gorgeous colors, incredible draping and perfect shapes were just impeccable in my opinion. While Versace does a black dress very well, my two favorite designs below were the turquoise and orange dresses. The bright colors look amazing on such perfectly designed gowns. This was one of my favorite collections of the whole week.
What do you think of the couture shows above? Which looks did you like best? Which designer is your favorite? Let me know in the comments and make sure to take the poll below! For more images from these fashion shows, visit style.com.
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What a great post! Thank you for sharing this knowledge!
At the beginning of the Capicollo video you said it had been marinating in salt for 5 days. Does that mean it has been injected then put in a marinade or do you mean coated with salt and let sit in the fridge for 5 days? I make capicollo With buts and we used to let it salted in the fridge for 25 days then rinse, coat with spices and stuff letting them cure for 20 days in the basement. They turn out good but your method looks easier. I also use cure with my salt. Any suggestions? Do I need to salt that long? Yours is more like my Grandpa's who came from Cavassaga, Italy. I was to young for him to teach me and my Father didn't think it worth the effort and now he has passed and I am trying to implement the family traditions with nothing but books. I have been successful in making salami's with cure and bacteria and they are great but not the taste my Grandpa had. I also have made other dried meats but like I say I am following a book and not someone teaching me. Well let me know about the brine vs dry salt cure. Thanks for the video and inspiration.
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Jo Thomas
Review written by Abi Bliss
The Wire 355 / September 2013
With the scope that it offers for shaping sounds into actors or scenery of a drama, electronic music lends it's self willingly to metaphor. Sometimes - particularly in works conceived with one eye on academic plaudits - this plays out as laughable melodrama or leaden farce , relaying heavily upon once innovative but now familiar sonic acrobatics , or drawing connections between sound and connections that are obscure to everyone but the creator.
Fortunately Jo Thomas wields metaphor with greater subtlety. The titles of the four tracks have a watery theme , yet it is unclear which way the allusion flows - are the sharp , glitchy edits and darting pans of 'Bream Choir' meant to evoke the momentary glinting of individual fish within a larger school or is the piece about the sounds them selves , there transformations best understood through a sub aquatic lens?
Regardless of the power of suggestion the album conjures up images of a chill , pressurised realm , whose borders are muffled and diffuse and where the world of detail shrinks to a few centimetres ' diameter . Thomas 2012 album Nature of Habit had a similarly contrasting sense of the intimate and the distant but Mermaids creates a more tactile , if still fantastical sonic space, where the echoing , popping sounds of the title track suggest bubbles rising to the surface in a way speaking more directly to the imagination rather than the laws of physics .
As with her 2010 Album Alpha where the voice became the basis for a Donna Haraway informed post human space , vocal sounds comprise the raw palette of Mermaids . Only rarely is this apparent . Scales features bovine groans that might be how underwater residents perceive human speech , while the richly glittering 'Earth , Moon And The Stars concludes with a ghost of a song . For the most part , however, Thomas transforms her samples beyond recognition, rendering them not so much half human , half fish as new and seamlessly fused mythical beings.
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Russian trolls went on attack during key election moments
NBCNews.com–Dec 20, 2017
Thousands of Russian trolls targeted national events during the 2016 U.S. presidential election to infiltrate the online conversations of millions of Americans, …. but we knew there were underground networks to spread content that would undermine Hillary," said Emmy Bengtson, former deputy social media …
Bess: From Russia with love … sort of
Bolivar Herald-Free Press–42 minutes ago
Putin and his disciples have infiltrated numerous public and private institutions and made off with information sensitive to both our government and its citizens. They have exploited our free press, spread disinformation through social media, and have created online propaganda networks and websites.
What does Trump think Mueller will find?
Washington Post–Jan 4, 2018
Trump and his top advisers were distributors of the Russian social media propaganda, retweeting and distributing it widely. And much of this happened after Trump was briefed in July by top U.S. professional counterintelligence officers who warned him of a Russian effort to infiltrate the 2016 campaign.
American Elections Remain Unprotected
The Atlantic–Dec 28, 2017
Two weeks before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the U.S. intelligence community released a declassified version of its report on Russia's interference in the 2016 election. It detailed the activities of a network of hackers who infiltrated voting systems and stole documents from the Democrati
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Twitter misses Senate deadline on Russian meddling
CNNMoney–15 hours ago
Twitter missed a Senate Intelligence Committee deadline to answer questions about Russian meddling in the 2016 election and its platform, Senator Mark … testified before the committee in November on how a Russian troll army had set up accounts posing as American in an effort to influence U.S. politics.
Russian trolls went on attack during key election moments
NBCNews.com–Dec 20, 2017
Thousands of Russian trolls targeted national events during the 2016 U.S. presidential election to infiltratethe online conversations of millions of …. we knew there were underground networks to spread content that would undermine Hillary," said Emmy Bengtson, former deputy social media director for the …
American Elections Remain Unprotected
The Atlantic–Dec 28, 2017
Two weeks before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the U.S. intelligence community released a declassified version of its report on Russia's interference in the 2016 election. It detailed the activities of a network of hackers who infiltrated voting systems and stole documents from the Democratic …
|Grim dossier claim spurs speculation about possible Russian rubout
A bombshell revelation made public Tuesday that "somebody's already been killed" as a result of the publication of an unconfirmed anti-Trump dossier has sparked speculation that it was a reference to an ex-KGB agent mysteriously found dead in his car a year ago in Moscow.
The attorney for Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson told Senate investigators in a 300-page deposition released Tuesday that a murder had been carried out as a result of the publication of an unverified and salacious dossier about Donald Trump.
"Somebody's already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier and no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work," said Joshua Levy in the deposition, which was taken Aug. 22, but released by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The cryptic reference spurred a guessing game about who the unlucky person was. The best guess, at least for now, seems to be former KGB general, Oleg Erovinkin, who was found dead in the back of his car on a Moscow street in December 2016.
According to a January 2017 report in British newspaper The Telegraph, Erovinkin was a top aide to Igor Sechin, a former deputy prime minister who was named repeatedly throughout the dossier. The KGB chief was also suspected at the time of helping former MI6 spy Christopher Steele compile info on Trump for the dossier.
Erovinkin and details of his death were published in the book, "Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump win." It alleges that the street his body was found on in Moscow was desolate with no cafes or other businesses and not much pedestrian traffic, making it an ideal spot to carry out an assassination.
"The vehicle had halted in Kitaigorodsky Proyezd – a street devoid of pedestrians and home to government buildings and an unfinished office block," reads a line from the book detailing where Erovinkin's body and the car were found. "It was three weeks after [Center for Information Security head Sergei] Mikhailov's arrest, Monday, December 26. At number 9 there is a military academy named after Peter the Great. Guards turn back any errant drivers who try to enter the courtyard."
Local media reports suggested at the time of his death that foul play was involved, but it was later claimed that his death was a result of a heart attack.
Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion, which commissioned the dossier, was deposed in August (Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
In the aftermath of his death, media reports speculated that Erovinkin was an unnamed informant for the dossier and Christo Grozev of Risk Management Lab, a think-tank based in Bulgaria claimed in a January 2017 Haaretz article eluded to the former KGB general being the main source of information for the dossier.
"Insiders have described Erovinkin to me alternately as 'Sechin's treasurer' and 'the go-between between Putin and Sechin,'" Grozev said to the newspaper. "One thing that everyone seems to agree – both in public and private sources – is that Erovinkin was Sechin's closest associate."
"I have no doubt that at the time Erovinkin died, Mr. Putin had Mr. Steele's Trump dossier on his desk. He would – arguably – have known whether the alleged… story is based on fact or fiction," Grozev also said. "Whichever is true, he would have had a motive to seek and find the mole… He would have had to conclude that Erovinkin was at least a person of interest."
Levy did not immediately return messages requesting information about who he was referring to.
Perry Chiaramonte is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter at @perrych
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ABC News–3 hours ago
BuzzFeed's top editor says he's "proud" that the organization published an uncorroborated dossierabout Donald Trump and his presidential campaign. Ben Smith writes in an opinion column in The New York Times that it's clear "the dossier is unquestionably real news." Smith argues that the investigation …
Trump lawyer files lawsuits against BuzzFeed, Fusion GPS over …
CNN–12 hours ago
I'm Proud We Published the Trump-Russia Dossier
Highly Cited–New York Times–16 hours ago
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Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies suffer big declines
USA TODAY–Jan 8, 2018
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Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Heres todays news.
The transcript of the Glenn R. Simpsons interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee was unilaterally made public by the top Democrat on the panel, Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Simpson is the co-founder of the opposition research firm Fusion G.P.S. and the transcript provides details about the commissioning of a dossier which alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia compiled by former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele. In an op-ed for the New York Times last week, Simpson and his co-founder Peter Fritsch called on the Judiciary Committee to release the transcript, but this was met with a pushback from Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa). Nicholas Fandos, Matthew Rosenberg and Sharon LaFraniere report at the New York Times.
The transcript of Simpsons testimony is available at Just Security.
Steele sat down for a full debriefing with the F.B.I. in September 2016 over his concerns about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and that Trump could have been blackmailed over an alleged sexual escapade at a hotel in Moscow in 2013. Ken Dilanian and Mike Memoli report at NBC News.
An internal Trump campaign source reported his or her concerns about Trump-Russia connections to the F.B.I., Simpson said in the testimony, also saying that Steele severed his relationship with the F.B.I. as he was concerned based on an article that was published by the New York Times in October 2016 that agents were being manipulated by Trump insiders. Alan Yuhas, Julian Borger and Stephanie Kirchgaessner report at the Guardian.
Its political rhetoric to call the dossier phony. We can argue about whats prudent and whats not, but its not a fabrication, Simpson said in the interview, adding that Fusion G.P.S. were mostly concerned with Trumps business dealings until Steele brought back something very different. Katie Bo Williams and KJonathan Easley report at the Hill.
Somebodys already been killed as a result of the publication of the Steele dossier, Simpsons testimony claimed, declining to reveal further details because, Simpsons lawyer claimed, he wanted to be very careful to protect his sources. Brandon Carter reports at the Hill.
Feinstein said that she decided to release the transcript because the American people deserve the opportunity to see what he [Simpson] said and judge for themselves, a spokesperson for Grassley said that Feinstein made the transcript public with no agreement from committee Republicans and accused her of undermining the integrity of the committees oversight work. Kyle Cheney reports at POLITICO.
Speculation over the New York Times article published in October 2016 has increased following the release of Simpsons testimony, Erik Wemple explains at the Washington Post.
The key points from Simpsons interview are provided by Amber Phillips at the Washington Post.
Trumps personal lawyer Michael Cohen has filed a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed for publishing the Steele dossier, Cohen said that allegations against him in the dossier are provably false, including claims that Cohens wife is Russian and that her father is a leading property developer in Russia. Alex Johnson reports at NBC News.
The editor in chief of BuzzFeed News has defended his websites decision to publish the Steele dossier in an op-ed at the Washington Post, saying that a year of government inquiries and blockbuster journalism has made clear the dossier is unquestionably real news.
Twitter has failed to meet a deadline to provide lawmakers with further information on Russian interference in the 2016 election, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee Mark Warner (Va.) yesterday expressed disappointment with the social media company. Ali Breland reports at the Hill.
U.S.-Russia relations would be done if Russia attempts to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections, the U.S. ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman said yesterday in a closed-door session with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Andrew Desiderio reports at The Daily Beast.
North Korea has agreed to send a delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea next month but the issue of North Koreas nuclear weapons program was not mentioned in the joint statement released after yesterdays inter-Korean talks, which were the first official face-to-face talks in over two years, with North Koreas chief delegate saying that the nuclear weapons were strictly aimed at the U.S. and it would be ridiculous to discuss the program. Andrew Jeong reports at the Wall Street Journal.
I am giving a lot of credit to President Trump, the South Korean President Moon Jae-in said in a press conference today, recognizing Trumps contribution to forcing North Korea to engage in discussions, but adding that relations between the two Koreas were ultimately dependent on Pyongyangs willingness to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. Choe Sang-Hun reports at the New York Times.
While Moon praised Trump, he also warned that pressure on North Korea could raise tensions and bring about unintentional clashes, James Griffiths reports at CNN.
South Korea presented North Koreas agreement to send athletes to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as a significant breakthrough in bilateral relations, however it is unclear whether North Korea would engage sincerely with South Korea to further improve relations. Anna Fifield reports at the Washington Post.
The talks between North and South Korea were a good first step in the process to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, Steve Goldstein, said yesterday in response to the North and South Korea joint statement. Christine Kim and David Brunnstrom report at Reuters.
President Moon said today that he was willing to meet with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un under certain conditions, saying that a summit must be committed to resolving the nuclear issue and not just for the sake of holding a summit. Bryan Harris and Katrina Manson report at the Financial Times.
The U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed the progress made at the inter-Korean talks and welcomed North Koreas decision to send a delegation to the Winter Olympics. The U.N. News Centrereports.
North Korea stepped up its criticism of the U.S. and Trump as the talks with South Korea took place, putting forward a message that calls on the U.S. to steer clear of the crisis and let Koreans solve the issue, however such a message would be hard for South Koreans to accept due to Seouls close relationship with Washington. Eric Talmadge provides an analysis at the AP.
The State Department has proposed a military sale of more than $133m worth of missiles and equipment to Japan to counter the North Korean threat, the State Department told Congress yesterday. Ellen Mitchell reports at the Hill.
A profile of President Moon, and a discussion of whether he has the ability to resolve the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, is provided by Paula Hancocks and James Griffiths at CNN.
The inter-Korean talks offered Kim a propaganda victory and drove a wedge between the U.S. and South Korea, President Moon faces huge obstacles in achieving reconciliation and the presence of the a U.S. military aircraft off the coast of Korea during the Olympics offers a more reliable guarantor of peace than the gestures of a young dictator who pretends to want peace even as he threatens war. The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes.
Moon and Kim are well-placed to resolve the crisis due to their respective abilities to leverage political capital, they must now use this political capital to promote the possibility for peace. S. Nathan Park writes at Foreign Policy.
[Trump] must realize that these extreme and psychotic episodes wont be left without a response, the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday, blaming the U.S. for fomenting the recent unrest in Iran. Thomas Erdbrink reports at the New York Times.
Iran foiled the U.S., Britain and others in their attempts to overthrow the Islamic Republic, Khamenei also said, making the comments as the protests in Iran have started to wind down. Babak Dehghanpisheh reports at Reuters.
Around 3,700 people have been arrested during the demonstrations in Iran, according to an Iranian member of parliament. Al Jazeera reports.
Withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal could make it difficult to make an agreement with North Korea in the future, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) warned yesterday, making the comments ahead of a series of deadlines that Trump faces regarding the deal and whether to continue to waive sanctions on Iran. Rebecca Kheel reports at the Hill.
The decision to whether to waive or re-impose sanctions on Iran is expected to be made Friday, the State Department said yesterday, Reuters reporting.
Trump should waive sanctions on Iran and play the long game, with the aim of fixing the nuclear deal. Michael Doran writes at the Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley faces a difficult task when it comes to Iran and the nuclear deal, if she aspires to be president, she would be wise to avoid trouble with Iran that could easily backfire. Richard Gowan writes at POLITICO Magazine.
The Syrian army has started to advance on the rebel-held Idlib province, leading to around 70,000 civilians to flee the area. Kareem Shaheen reports at the Guardian.
Turkey today urged Russia and Iran to pressure Syria to respect the de-escalation zone in Idlib and to stop the Syrian military advance. Tuvan Gumrukcu reports at Reuters.
A spate of attacks on the Russian Hmeimim air base in Syria has raised numerous questions, it is unclear who is responsible and it appears to be part of a concerted assault. Liz Sly reports at the Washington Post.
Russia appeared to suggest that the U.S. were behind the attacks in a statement yesterday, the APreports.
Russias ambassador to the U.N. yesterday expressed hope that a new round of U.N.-led peace talks in Geneva would be more fruitful and contribute to the peace initiative being held in the Russian city of Sochi. The AP reports.
U.S.-led airstrikes continue. U.S. and coalition forces carried out 58 airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq between December 29, 2017 and January 4, 2018. [Central Command]
The U.S. are exploring a range of theories in relation to the symptoms experienced by employees at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba in 2016, the State Department said yesterday, 24 U.S. personnel and family members experienced mysterious illnesses in Havana and there have been speculation that they were subjected to some sort of acoustic or sonic attack. Matt Spetalnick reports at Reuters.
The State Department did not follow the law in failing to set up a review board months ago to establish what happened in Havana, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said at a hearing yesterday. Gardiner Harris reports at the New York Times.
An Israeli man was killed by a suspected Palestinian gunman yesterday, according to Israeli military and medical officials, the man was a resident of a West Bank settlement near the Palestinian city of Nablus. Reuters reports.
The Israeli military has conducted raids near Nablus following the shooting, Al Jazeera reports.
The Swedish ambassador to the U.N. yesterday expressed concern about the Trump administrations plan to review funding for the U.N.R.W.A. aid agency for Palestinian refugees, saying that such action would have negative humanitarian implications and would be destabilizing for the region. Reutersreports.
The Trump administrations nuclear posture review plans to loosen constraints on the use of nuclear weapons, according to what is believed to be the final draft of the review. Julian Borger reports at the Guardian.
Ecuador has been exploring ways for the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to leave its embassy in London, the Ecuadorean foreign relations minister said, who was quoted as saying that it was unsustainable for Assange to remain at the embassy indefinitely and that the solution would require international cooperation and the cooperation of the U.K., Ryan Dube reports at the Wall Street Journal.
Trump has signed a memorandum calling on the Director of National Intelligence to establish a new policy on unmasking Americans in intelligence reports, Morgan Chalfant reports at the Hill.
Senior National Security Council official Kevin Harrington proposed withdrawing some U.S. troops from Eastern Europe to please the Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to two former administration officials. Spencer Ackerman reveals at The Daily Beast.
Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are playing the same game, both are embroiled in domestic issues that involve their sons and both are pursuing illiberal agendas. Ishaan Tharoor writes at the Washington Post.
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NSA and GCHQ activities appear illegal, says EU parliamentary …
The Guardian–Jan 9, 2014
The inquiry by the European parliament's civil liberties committee says the activities of America's National Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart, GCHQ, appear to be illegal … The former allows the NSA to conduct mass surveillance on EU citizens through the servers of US internet companies.
NSA created 'European bazaar' to spy on EU citizens, Snowden tells …
PCWorld–Mar 7, 2014
The European Parliament had invited Snowden to provide testimony for an inquiry into the electronic mass surveillance of EU citizens. That surveillance, often instigated by the NSA but carried out with help of EU member states, is quite extensive, he wrote. The NSA has been pressuring EU member states …
'Extreme surveillance' becomes UK law with barely a whimper
The Guardian–Nov 19, 2016
Even in Germany, with East Germany's history of mass surveillance by the Stasi and where Snowden's revelations produced the most outcry, the Bundestag recently passed legislation giving the intelligence agencies more surveillance powers. The US passed a modest bill last year curtailing bulk phone …
Investigatory Powers Bill: 'Snoopers Charter 2' to pass into law …
In-Depth–The Independent–Nov 18, 2016
EU counter-terrorism laws "stripping rights", says Amnesty
EUobserver–Jan 17, 2017
Executive power grabs and counter-terrorism laws are rolling back freedoms across the EU, according to a report by Amnesty International. … Germany, Poland, and the UK, among others, have recently passed laws described by London-based Privacy International as "a new era of mass surveillance" in …
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Europe's Courts Decide: Does US Spying Violate Europe's Privacy?
EFF–Oct 3, 2017
The decision confirms the suspicion of Ireland's privacy regulators (and EFF) that Facebook's business practices are not the only matters under the microscope in Europe: the EU courts also care about the American mass surveillance of ordinary innocent Europeans. The judge in the matter, Justice Caroline …
European court may rule on Facebook data transfers to US, where …
The Boston Globe–Oct 3, 2017
EU court to probe new Facebook data challenge
EUobserver–Oct 3, 2017
High Court asks ECJ to examine Facebook case
International–Irish Times–Oct 3, 2017
High Court asks European Court of Justice to examine Facebook …
International–Independent.ie–Oct 3, 2017
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Devin Nunes Messed With NSA's Most Cherished Surveillance Power
Daily Beast–Jan 9, 2018
It's the NSA's most cherished mass–surveillance law, albeit one civil libertarians consider dubiously constitutional. … include in the bill an unrelated a provision on so-called unmasking, the process that intelligence agencies use to reveal the names of U.S. persons who may be involved in crimes like spying.
Democrats should take the initiative in ending warrantless surveillance
The Hill–Jan 8, 2018
Snowden hosts Reddit AMA over Congress' mass surveillance plan
RT–Dec 20, 2017
As early as tonight, Congress plans to sneak an expansion of mass surveillance into law. Only your call, right now, can stop them. The @ACLU and I are here to help, doing a live Q&A on @reddit in a half hour (https://t.co/qlo4REMoFl @ 2PM EST). Ask usanything! (SuddenlySnowden) pic.twitter.com/ …
Federal Agencies May Be Regularly Hiding Surveillance Methods in …
Reason (blog)–22 hours ago
A DEA training slide on parallel constructionAlthough mass surveillance is usually identified with the war on terror and the National Security Agency, a subsequent USA Today investigation found the DEA and Justice Department had been collecting logs of billions of phone calls originating from the U.S. in a …
Welcome to Law Enforcement's "Dark Side": Secret Evidence, Illegal …
The Intercept–20 hours ago
Federal agents at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration speak in veiled terms about the secret DEA unit that shares intelligence from the National Security … The Special Operations Division receives raw intelligence from the NSA's surveillance programs, including from the mass surveillance programs …
The tech generation should reject mass surveillance
Washington Examiner–Dec 20, 2017
Last week, the two gave a joint talk at George Washington University about the implication of mass surveillance and the eroding of the Fourth … This lessens their confidence in the U.S. economy and can lead to fewer jobs for millennials, who will be shouldering the brunt of expenses when it comes to …
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Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark
WIRED–Dec 23, 2017
For the first time, the American people learned that the NSA was collecting millions of their phone calls and electronic communications—emails, Facebook … Hanging in the balance is the legal framework the government largely relies on to conduct mass surveillance of foreigners, and Americans who …
Urgent: We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill
EFF–Dec 19, 2017
According to reports published Tuesday evening by Politico, a group of surveillance hawks in the House of Representatives is trying to ram through a bill that would extend mass surveillance by the National Security Agency. We expect a vote to happen on the House floor as early as tomorrow, which means …
Congress is sneaking through a major expansion of NSA …
The Verge–Dec 20, 2017
ACT NOW: Only hours remain to stop Congress from sneaking in …
Boing Boing–Dec 20, 2017
Court Challenges to NSA Surveillance: 2017 in Review
EFF–Dec 28, 2017
"[T]he volume of documents and electronic data that the government defendants must review for potentially responsive information is massive," the … "We have long advocated for reining in NSA mass surveillance, and the 'incidental' collection of Americans' private communications under Section 702 …
America No Safer Under Mass Surveillance
Newsmax–Dec 12, 2017
Just in time for Christmas, the deep state wants to give America the gift that keeps on giving — never-ending mass surveillance. … second of every day, the American people are being spied on by the U.S. government's vast network of digital peeping Toms, electronic eavesdroppers and robotic snoops.
|How the Government Hides Secret Surveillance Programs
In 2013, 18-year-old Tadrae McKenzie robbed a marijuana dealer for $130 worth of pot at a local Taco Bell in Tallahassee, Florida. He and two friends had used BB guns to carry out the crime, which under Florida law constituted robbery with a deadly weapon. McKenzie braced himself to serve the minimum four years in prison.
But in the end, a state judge offered McKenzie a startlingly lenient plea deal: He was ordered to serve only six months' probation, after pleading guilty to a second-degree misdemeanor. The remarkable deal was related to evidence McKenzie's defense team uncovered before the trial: Law enforcement had used a secret surveillance tool often called Stingray to investigate his case.
Stingrays are devices that behave like fake cellphone towers, tricking phones into believing they're pinging genuine towers nearby. By using the device, cops can determine a suspect's precise location, outgoing and incoming calls, and even listen-in on a call or see the content of a text message.
McKenzie's lawyers suspected cops had used a Stingray because they knew exactly where his house was, and knew he left his home at 6 a.m. the day he was arrested. The cops had obtained a court order from a judge to authorize Verizon to hand over data about the location of Mckenzie's phone. But cell tower data isn't precise enough to place a device at a specific house.
The cops also said they used a database that lets law enforcement agencies locate individuals by linking them with their phone numbers. But the phone McKenzie was using was a burner, and not associated with his name. Law enforcement couldn't adequately explain their extraordinary knowledge of his whereabouts.
The state judge in the case ordered police to show the Stingray and its data to McKenzie's attorneys. They refused, because of a non-disclosure agreement with the FBI. The state then offered McKenzie, as well as the two other defendants, plea deals designed to make the case go away.
The cops in McKenzie's case had ultimately failed to successfully carry out a troubling technique called "parallel construction."
First described in government documents obtained by Reuters in 2013, parallel construction is when law enforcement originally obtains evidence through a secret surveillance program, then tries to seek it out again, via normal procedure. In essence, law enforcement creates a parallel, alternative story for how it found information. That way, it can hide surveillance techniques from public scrutiny and would-be criminals.
A new report released by Human Rights Watch Tuesday, based in part on 95 relevant cases, indicates that law enforcement is using parallel construction regularly, though it's impossible to calculate exactly how often. It's extremely difficult for defendants to discern when evidence has been obtained via the practice, according to the report.
"When attorneys try to find out if there's some kind of undisclosed method that's been used, the prosecution will basically stonewall and try not to provide a definitive yes or no answer," says Sarah St. Vincent, the author of the report and a national security and surveillance researcher at Human Rights Watch.
In investigation reports, law enforcement will describe evidence obtained via secret surveillance programs in inscrutable terms. "We've seen plenty of examples where the police officers in those reports write 'we located the suspect based on information from a confidential source;' they use intentionally vague language," says Nathan Freed Wessler, a staff attorney at the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology project. "It sounds like a human informant or something else, not like a sophisticated surveillance device."
Sometimes, when a savvy defense attorney pushes, an unbelievable plea deal is offered, or the the case is dropped entirely. If a powerful, secret surveillance program is at stake, a single case is often deemed unimportant to the government.
"Parallel construction means you never know that a case could actually be the result of some constitutionally problematic practice," says St. Vincent. For example, the constitutionality of using a Stingray device without a warrant is still up for debate, according to the Human Rights Watch report. Some courts have ruled that the devices do violate the Fourth Amendment.
Hemisphere, a massive telephone-call gathering operation revealed by The New York Times in 2013, is one of the most well-documented surveillance programs that government officials attempt to hide when they use parallel construction. The largely secret program provides police with access to a vast database containing call records going back to 1987. Billions of calls are added daily.
In order to create the program, the government forged a lucrative partnership with AT&T, which owns three-quarters of the US's landline switches and much of its wireless infrastructure. Even if you change your number, Hemisphere's sophisticated algorithms can connect you to your new line by examining calling patterns. The program also allows law enforcement to have temporary access to the location where you placed or received a call.
The Justice Department billed Hemisphere as a counter-narcotics tool, but the program has been used for everything from Medicaid fraud to murder investigations, according to documentation obtained in 2016 by The Daily Beast.
"What Hemisphere's capabilities allow it to do is to identify relationships and associations, and to build people's social webs," says Aaron Mackey, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). "It's highly likely that innocent people who are doing completely innocent things are getting swept up into this database."
The EFF filed Freedom of Information Act and Public Records Act requests in 2014 seeking info about Hemisphere, but the government only provided heavily redacted files. So the EFF filed a lawsuit in 2015. It's currently waiting for a California judge to decide whether more information can be made public without impeding law enforcement's work.
"[The government] is obscuring what we believe to be warrantless or otherwise unconstitutional surveillance techniques, and they're also jeopardizing a defendant's ability to obtain all the evidence that's relevant," says Mackey.
Parallel construction can also involve a simple event like a traffic stop. In these instances, local law enforcement follows a suspect and then pulls them over for a mundane reason, like failing to use a turn signal. While the stop is meant to look random, cops are often working on a tip they received from a federal agency like the DEA.
"Sometimes when tips come through, the federal authorities don't even tell the local authorities what they're looking for," says St. Vincent. The tip could be as simple as to watch out for a car at a specific place and time.
These stops are referred to as "wall off" or "whisper" stops, according to the Human Rights Watch report. In these instances, local law enforcement has to find probable cause for pulling the suspect over to avoid disclosing the tip. The tip is then never mentioned in court, and instead the beginning of the investigation is said to be the "random" stop.
The Human Rights Watch report concludes that Congress should pass legislation forbidding the use of parallel construction because it impedes on the right to a fair trial. Some representatives, like Republican Senator Rand Paul, have also called for banning the practice.
Opponents of parallel construction believe it should be outlawed because it prevents judges from doing their jobs. "It really gives a lot of power to the executive branch," says St. Vincent. "It cuts judges out of the role of deciding whether something was legally obtained."
One of the most concerning aspects of the practice is it shields government surveillance technology from public scrutiny. Stingrays, the cellphone-tracking device used in the Florida robbery case, have existed for years, but they've only recently been disclosed to the public. Lawyers and legal scholars haven't yet conclusively decided whether their use without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment, in part because so little is known about them. That means many people may have been convicted using techniques that violated their rights.
In the future, if the government hides new surveillance technology like facial recognition, the public will be unable to discern if it's biased or faulty. Unless judges and citizens understand how surveillance techniques are used, we also can't evaluate their constitutionality.
The public needs to determine if hiding surveillance programs is something it's comfortable with at all. On one hand, keeping certain techniques secret likely helps authorities apprehend criminals. But if we don't know how at least the basic contours of how a program works, it's hard to have any discussion at all.
|How the Government Hides Secret Surveillance Programs – WIRED
|9:16 PM 1/9/2018 FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people, Simpson said FBI knew of possible Trump-Russia collusion, according to Glenn Simpsons Senate testimony Mike Novas Shared NewsLinks
"Steele broke off contact with the FBI sometime between Oct. 31, 2016, and the election on Nov. 8, Simpson said, because Steele concluded that the information he had given to the FBI was not elevated to the highest levels of the bureau and was not being vigorously pursued. A front-page New York Times article on Oct. 31 … Continue reading"9:16 PM 1/9/2018 – "FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people", Simpson said" – FBI knew of possible Trump-Russia collusion, according to Glenn Simpson's Senate testimony – Mike Novas Shared NewsLinks"
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|Democratic Senator Releases Transcript of Interview with Dossier Firm
"The American people deserve the opportunity to see what he said and judge for themselves," she said. "The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice. The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public."
For Ms. Feinstein and Mr. Grassley, two senior senators who worked closely last summer to initiate a joint Russia investigation, the breach was striking. But it reflects the growing divide between the two parties.
Republicans have repeatedly and vocally raised concerns that the dossier — a set of reports paid for by Democrats — could have been mishandled by the F.B.I. as it was opening its own investigation into the Russian effort and the Trump campaign. Democrats say scrutiny of the dossier's provenance is a distraction from the central question: Did the Trump campaign knowingly seek aid from Russia?
The Fusion GPS founder appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Aug. 2017 to answer questions about the dossier on President Trump that the research company compiled with the assistance of Christopher Steele, a former British spy.
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Democrats were still seething on Tuesday at the decision by Mr. Grassley and another Republican on the panel, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, to issue a criminal referral last week for Mr. Steele. The senators said they had reason to believe Mr. Steele had lied to federal authorities about his contacts with the media and urged the Justice Department to investigate.
A spokesman for Mr. Grassley said Ms. Feinstein's decision was "totally confounding."
"Her action undermines the integrity of the committee's oversight work and jeopardizes its ability to secure candid voluntary testimony," the spokesman, Taylor Foy, said.
Mr. Simpson said he hired Mr. Steele in the late spring of 2016, and the former spy grew alarmed soon after getting to work. With Mr. Simpson's blessing, he reached out to an old contact at the F.B.I. in early July.
"To me, it was like, you know, you're driving to work and you see something happen, and you call 911," Mr. Simpson said.
Current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the investigation say that the federal inquiry did not start with Mr. Steele's dossier, early parts of which did not reach counterintelligence investigators at the F.B.I. until August, after the bureau's inquiry had already begun. But the officials have said that the dossier added material and buttressed what American law enforcement and spy agencies were gleaning from other sources.
According to Mr. Simpson, it was not until late September, nearly two months after the F.B.I. investigation had begun, that the F.B.I. reached out to Mr. Steele. He then met with agents in Rome to brief them on his work.
At that meeting, Mr. Steele learned that his information was considered credible by the F.B.I. "because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization," Mr. Simpson testified.
Mr. Simpson did not disclose the identity of the human source in his August testimony. But people familiar with the matter said that Mr. Steele, after being questioned by the F.B.I., came to believe that the bureau's human source was George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign foreign adviser.
In fact, the source was an Australian diplomat who had spent a night drinking in London with Mr. Papadopoulos in the spring, and then shared with American officials what he had learned from the Trump aide.
Mr. Simpson said Fusion played no role in deciding what to include in the memos that would eventually be compiled into the dossier.
But Mr. Simpson said that Mr. Steele "broke off" his connections with the F.B.I. after The New York Times ran an article on Oct. 31 that said the bureau had found no conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government.
Citing law enforcement officials, the Times article said that "none of the investigations so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government."
Since then, investigators and journalists have developed extensive evidence linking Mr. Trump's associates to Russian government and intelligence operatives, but as yet there is still no public evidence of a direct link between President Trump himself and the Kremlin.
At the time, many in the F.B.I. did not believe Russia was aiming to explicitly help Mr. Trump. That consensus did not emerge fully until January 2017 when American intelligence agencies released a report saying that the Kremlin's intentions were twofold: to "undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process" and to "help President-elect Trump's election chances."
Mr. Simpson, in his testimony, called the Times article "a real Halloween special."
"There was a concern that the F.B.I. was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people and that we didn't really understand what was going on," Mr. Simpson said. "So he stopped dealing with them."
The concerns prompted Mr. Steele to share his work with a former British diplomat, who passed the information to Senator John McCain after the election.
Mr. McCain is believed to have then met with James B. Comey, then the F.B.I. director, to discuss the dossier. In January, weeks before the inauguration, the dossier became public after news broke that Mr. Comey had briefed President Barack Obama and Mr. Trump on Mr. Steele's work.
The release of the transcript broke what had more or less been a prevailing rule of secrecy around Congress's various investigations into Russia's efforts and the Trump campaign. Though pieces of information from witness interviews in the House and the Senate have leaked to the news media, only two complete transcripts — from House Intelligence Committee interviews with Carter Page and Erik Prince — had been publicly released among hundreds.
In a brief interview, Ms. Feinstein left open the possibility of releasing other transcripts from the committee's investigation.
|FBI knew of possible Trump-Russia collusion, according to Glenn Simpson's Senate testimony
WASHINGTON — By the time the FBI sat down in September 2016 for a full interview with the ex-British spy who had been researching Donald Trump's Russia connections, the bureau had already received information raising concerns about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to a transcript made public Tuesday.
Glenn Simpson, a former newspaper reporter and the founder of a research firm called Fusion GPS, spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee for more than 10 hours in August about his research into Trump, and on Tuesday more than 300 pages of his testimony were released by the committee's ranking Democrat, Dianne Feinstein of California.
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Simpson told the committee that his associate, the former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, sat down for a "full debriefing" with an FBI contact in Rome in September 2016. During the debriefing, Steele shared information from his Russian sources, who said Trump had been coordinating with the Russian election-interference campaign of hacking and leaking.
For the FBI, it wasn't entirely new information, Simpson testified.
"They believed Chris might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing," Simpson said. "One of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization." He added that the FBI had a "walk-in" whistleblower who was someone in Trump's orbit.
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However, two sources close to Fusion GPS told NBC News that Simpson's testimony inaccurately conflated what he had been told, and that the human source was actually George Papadopoulos, the Trump campaign aide who has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller.
By the time Steele sat down with the FBI in September, an Australian diplomat had passed to U.S. officials details of his conversation with Papadopoulos, who seemed to know that the Russians possessed hacked Democratic emails.
Steele first reached out to the FBI in early July 2016, because he was alarmed by the information he collected in June and felt obligated to step forward, Simpson said.
"He said he was professionally obligated to do it," Simpson testified. "Like if you're a lawyer and, you know, you find out about a crime, in a lot of countries you must report that."
Steele was concerned that Trump could be blackmailed by the Russians over an alleged 2013 sexual escapade Steele believed had been recorded at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Moscow, Simpson testified.
The FBI responded to Steele "by September," Simpson said, and Steele then met in mid- or late September with an FBI legal attaché in Rome.
Steele broke off contact with the FBI sometime between Oct. 31, 2016, and the election on Nov. 8, Simpson said, because Steele concluded that the information he had given to the FBI was not elevated to the highest levels of the bureau and was not being vigorously pursued.
A front-page New York Times article on Oct. 31 about the Trump-Russia investigation said the FBI had found no conclusive link between Trump and Russia.
After the article was published, Simpson said, Steele severed his relationship with the FBI. "There was a concern that the FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people and that we didn't really understand what was going on," Simpson said.
It has since emerged that there was an active FBI counterintelligence investigation, which began in July 2016 but which the bureau kept secret.
Simpson said a dossier, which contained unverified allegations that Russia had been cultivating Trump for years and had gathered compromising information on Trump, contained all the memos Steele had produced for Fusion GPS, and that neither Fusion nor Simpson selected the content or edited the memos. The dossier was published by Buzzfeed.
Simpson said when he began his research into Trump, he was struck by Trump's many connections to people linked to Russian organized crime, including Felix Sater, who pleaded guilty in 1998 to a mafia stock swindle and later helped Trump develop the Trump Soho hotel.
Simpson said he found Steele's reports that the Russians were coordinating with the Trump campaign credible.
During the Senate hearing, he was asked to respond to a comment from a White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that his was a "Democrat-linked firm" that "took money from the Russian government" and "created the phony dossier that's been the basis for all of the Russia scandal fake news."
"It's a false allegation," he said. "It's political rhetoric to call the dossier phony. The memos are field reports of real interviews that Chris's network conducted and there's nothing phony about it. We can argue about what's prudent and what's not, but it's not a fabrication."
Simpson acknowledged that at the time he was working with Steele he was also working with a law firm that was defending a Russian oligarch in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Attorney in New York. But he testified that the two cases were entirely separate, and did not influence one another.
Two of the people working on the New York case with Simpson were Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin, both of whom attended a now-notorious June 2016 Trump Tower meeting that had been billed as an attempt by Russian officials to give negative information about Hillary Clinton to the Trump campaign. Simpson said he was unaware of that meeting at the time it occurred.
Simpson said he concluded from his research that Trump was not as rich as he has claimed, and that he had a lot of questionable business entanglements that bear further scrutiny.
"There were various allegations of fraudulent business practices or dishonest business practices or connections with organized crime figures," Simpson said. "It was a long history of associations with people accused of involvement in criminal activity."
|Democratic Senator Releases Transcript of Interview with Dossier Firm – New York Times
|Trump-Russia dossier transcripts expose Donald Trumps ties to organized crime
The worst kept secret in the entire Trump-Russia scandal is that Donald Trump has decades of business relationships with organized crime figures, and those deals are likely a big part of how the Russian government took control of Trump financially ahead of his entry into politics. Today's release of Trump-Russia transcripts reveals that organized crime is indeed at the heart of the Trump-Russia scandal.
Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, the company behind the Trump-Russia dossier, testified privately before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the summer of 2017. Democratic ranking member Dianne Feinstein released the transcripts of that testimony today over the objections of Trump's Republican apologists on the committee. The transcripts reveal what was behind the effort to assemble the dossier: "It was, broadly speaking, a kind of holistic examination of Donald Trump's business record and his associations, his bankruptcies, his suppliers, you know, offshore or third-world suppliers of products that he was selling. You know, it evolved somewhat quickly into issues of his relationships to organized crime figures but, you know, really the gamut of Donald Trump."
In fact the three hundred-plus page transcript references "organized crime" fourteen different times. While the testimony does not give away the specifics of how Trump is tied to organized crime, it's a given that Fusion GPS has already provided these details to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Some of Trump's ties to organized crime, and more specifically Russian organized crime, have already been publicly documented.
For instance, the Trump Organization has done several major real estate deals in New York City with a guy named Felix Sater, who has done prison time in relation to laundering money for the Russian mafia. In addition, the U.S. Treasury Department hit the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City with a hefty fine for years of facilitating money launderers, which included the period of time in which Donald Trump still owned a commanding stake in the property.
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