Sunday, February 24, 2019
Police suspect Litzman met with top psychiatrist to sway him on Leifer case
timesofisrael.
Police suspect Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman met with Jerusalem’s district psychiatrist to pressure him into issuing a false assessment for an accused sex offender, thus preventing her extradition to Australia, a legal official told The Times of Israel Saturday.
The official confirmed a report by the Kan public broadcaster, which pointed out that the mere existence of a meeting between the de facto head of the Health Ministry and a key witness in the case against Malka Leifer during legal proceedings could constitute obstruction of justice on Litzman’s part.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
TRUMP WON'T CONDEMN SELF-PROCLAIMED WHITE NATIONALIST CHRISTOPHER HASSON BECAUSE "THOSE ARE HIS PEOPLE," EX-RNC CHAIR SAYS
The former head of the Republican National Committee blasted President Donald Trump on Friday, speculating in a cable news appearance that Trump may have tempered his remarks about a self-identified white nationalist and domestic terrorist because “those are his people.”
“Why are we acting like this is a space that Donald Trump is going to go in and behave of the American ideal?,” said Michael Steele, who is also a former lieutenant governor of Maryland, in an appearance on MSNBC. “No, he is not. These are his people. And he’s not going to thank law enforcement because he’s probably not happy about what law enforcement did.”
Steele, who served as the chair of the Republican National Committee from 2009 to 2011, delivered some of his harshest criticism of the Trump administration to date during the appearance. The remarks came while discussing reports that Trump failed to adequately condemn Christopher Paul Hasson, a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant whom FBI officials accuse of concocting a plot to assassinate Democratic officials and journalists. Hasson, arrested Feb. 15, allegedly had a cache of weapons in his home and a hit list that investigators say includedprominent politicians, including freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former congressman and MSNBC commentator Joe Scarborough.
Trump characterized the Hasson allegations as a “shame” in a meeting with White House reporters, though critics have said he should have gone further to condemn Hasson in light of a flurry of statements Trump has previously made accusing reporters being the “enemy of the people.”
“I think it’s a shame,” Trump said while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday. “I think it’s a very sad thing when a thing like that happens. I’ve expressed that.” He rebuffed accusations that his harsh language could have played a part in Hasson’s plot, saying he thinks his “language is very nice.”
Friday, February 22, 2019
Jussie Smollett: Judge calls alleged hate hoax 'despicable'
bbc
A Chicago judge has said charges that US actor Jussie Smollett staged a hoax hate crime against himself are "utterly outrageous" and "despicable" if true.
The 36-year-old African-American actor is accused of filing a fake police report claiming he was the victim of a homophobic and racist assault.
Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke, who is also black, said the "most vile" part of the incident was the use of a noose.
Police say he staged the attack because he was "dissatisfied with his salary".
The star's lawyers issued a strongly-worded statement after the hearing, calling it an "organised law enforcement spectacle" and describing Mr Smollett as "a young man of impeccable character"
COAST GUARD LIEUTENANT ARRESTED IN ALLEGED DOMESTIC TERROR PLOT TO ATTACK U.S.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-coast-guard-christopher-hasson-senator-maryland-elizabeth-warren-cory-1338058
Stephen Colbert Slams Trump’s ‘Silence’ on Coast Guard Terrorist Christopher Hasson
“The defendant is a domestic terrorist bent on committing acts dangerous to human life."
That was the first sentence in the case of United States of America v. Christopher Paul Hasson, a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant accused of being inspired by Norwegian far-right Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and "bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect government conduct."
The U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant was silently serving a darker cause as a "domestic terrorist" for telegraphing biological attacks against the homeland and keeping a hit list featuring notable Democratic politicians and media figures, court documents show.
Christopher Hasson was posted as an Acquisitions Officer for at the U.S. Coast Guard's Headquarters in Washington D.C. On Feb. 15, he was taken into custody at his Silver Spring, Maryland home by agents from the FBI's Baltimore Field Office and the Coast Guard Investigative Service, a U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Maryland confirmed to Newsweek.
Hasson faces possessing opioid drugs and weapons charges.
The seeds of his extremist beliefs were spelled out in a draft email dated on June 2, 2017, floating in an almost feverish dream a plan to carry out "biological attacks" to eradicate civilization.
"I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth," the email reads, according to a motion for detention pending trial. "I think a plague would be the most successful but how do I acquire the needed / Spanish [sic] flu, botulism, anthrax; [sic] not sure yet but will find something."
Apparently, some of the doomsday notions he was espousing were fueled by partaking from his supply of “at least 100 pills” of the opioid Tramadol or TDL.
"Need to come off TDL [Tramadol], to clear my head," he wrote in the letter.
Agents also found a bag containing “suspected Tramadol" that Hasson carried at the moment when he was placed under arrest.
Aside from the drugs, Hasson’s home allegedly featured a cache of weapons, including 15 firearms and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
A locked case filled with 30 bottles of Human Growth Hormone or HGH, was found and after it was pried open, the agents inventoried the stash as evidence by federal agents, according to the documents.
Months later, and the documents say that in Sept. 2017, Hasson revisited his warpath and allegedly penned another letter. The feds say he sent it to a "known" American Neo-Nazi (he also purportedly mailed a copy to himself "roughly seven weeks after the Charlottesville" rally).
SpaceX successfully sends Israel’s historic moon mission on its way
https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-space-x-beresheet-moon-mission-israel/
On Thursday evening, just after 5:45 p.m. PT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a small spacecraft on its way to the moon from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. And if the little lander, known as Beresheet, makes it all the way to the lunar surface, it'll mark several milestones that've been years in the making
On Thursday evening, just after 5:45 p.m. PT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a small spacecraft on its way to the moon from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. And if the little lander, known as Beresheet, makes it all the way to the lunar surface, it'll mark several milestones that've been years in the making
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