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‘Playpen’ Creator Sentenced to 30 Years

Dark Web ‘Hidden Service’ Case Spawned Hundreds of Child Porn Investigations The creator and lead administrator of what was believed to be the world’s largest child pornography website—with more than 150,000 users around the world—was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison. Steven W. Chase, 58, of Naples, Florida, created a website called Playpen […]

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Think Tank Predicted Russian Cyberwar v. United States

Washington, D.C., May 3, 2017 – A Rand Corporation 1967 paper predicted many of the cyber dilemmas faced by policy makers today, and a 2017 expanded analysis of the “GRIZZLY STEPPE” hacking by Russian cyber operators disclosed key findings about the techniques the hackers used and ways to mitigate them, according to the National Security […]

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Readout: Senate Meeting at WH on N. Korea

Joint Statement by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Press Operations Past efforts have failed to halt North Korea’s unlawful weapons programs and nuclear and ballistic missile tests. With each provocation, North Korea jeopardizes stability in Northeast Asia and poses a growing threat to our […]

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Answer to Those Missile Failures of N. Korea

The author has mentioned for several months the reason for the recent failed missile launches of North Korea. There are two distinct causes and both point to the United States. They are cyber operations and electronic warfare. Over the past decade of conflict, the U.S. Army has deployed the most capable communications systems in its […]

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IT’S MARCH, AND TRUMP IS NOW IN CONTROL OF THE NATION’S IMMIGRATION AGENDA

President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night demonstrated yet again that he is now in complete control of America’s immigration agenda. At about the 24 minute mark, he begins to discuss immigration. It was short, sweet and to the point. The language is being widely celebrated as a shift in […]

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CENTCOM Already Implementing Recommendations To Improve Intelligence Efforts

The Pentagon’s inspector general’s office is following up on 29 recommendations it made to ensure intelligence analysis in U.S. Central Command remains unbiased and not politicized, the acting IG told a key congressional subcommittee. Glenn Fine, testifying Tuesday before the House Armed Services oversight and investigation subcommittee, said “we want specific details” on what CENTCOM […]

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Intel Takeover

POWER CONSOLIDATION in ‘LAW ENFORCEMENT’ United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC AKA FISA Court) Established and authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against foreign spies inside the United States by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Such requests are made most often by the […]

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Attacks Planned on Trump Inauguration

James Simpson I told you about what happened earlier this week when Fox News reported a secret meeting of #DisruptJ20, a collection of anarchist groups planning to disrupt the inaugural. The covert recording was a project of Matthew Vadum’s Capital Research Center to expose these leftists: That story was an intro to a 20 minute […]

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UN Report Shows Refugee System Needs Changes

Will the Trump administration change an archaic process? Nayla Rush Senior Researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies. Download a PDF of this Backgrounder. The latest United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resettlement assessment report summarizes its 2015 activities and introduces its 2017 strategic direction and needs.1 At a time when refugee protection is […]

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? in Port Canaveral, Florida

Center Occasional Paper Exposes Nightmare Scenario: Ominous Ties Raise Alarms About Foreign Entity’s Lease At U.S. Port  (Washington, DC): A new Center for Security Policy Occasional Paper authored by two intrepid and indefatigable researchers, Alan Jones and Mary Fanning, has brought to light a shocking fact: The family of Iraqi nuclear physicist Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, […]

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Weekly Immigration Report, Trump’s Contract with Americans on Immigration Promises

From the Federation for American Immigration Reform Border Surge Continues as Obama’s Presidency Dwindles Displaced Tech Workers Sue Disney Again Trump’s ‘Contract with the American Voter’ Contains Key Immigration Promises California Democrats Introduce Legislation to Undermine Immigration Enforcement Border Surge Continues as Obama’s Presidency Dwindles Unaccompanied alien minors (UAMs) and “family units,” primarily from Central […]

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Tackling Sanctuaries

  Key Findings This report examines the justifications given by sanctuary jurisdictions for their policies, and finds them to be largely unfounded: Cooperation with immigration enforcement has not been shown to undermine community trust nor cause immigrants to refrain from reporting crimes; there are better ways to address issues of access to police assistance without […]