“For fans of the 2002 Tom Cruise film ‘Minority Report,’ this will sound like life catching up with art.”
“Federal agencies seized over $5 billion in 2014, which was more than the amount of property burglarized that same year, $3.9 billion.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/keeping-cops-hands-out-of-your-pockets/
“Don’t you miss the good old days when you could believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the media reported it?”
“In his last decision before being nominated by President Trump to serve on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh ruled in favor of the CIA.”
Read more: http://jfkfacts.org/judge-karen-henderson-dissents-from-brett-kavanaughs-decision-favoring-cia/
“What Rehnquist saw as one of his biggest achievements, Kavanaugh noted, was freeing law enforcement from the annoying restrictions placed on it in the 1960s and ’70s. And Kavanaugh was there to second the motion.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/16/brett-kavanaughs-soft-spot-for-police-ab
“The officers will be given the benefits and rights of a sitting government minister, and will enjoy diplomatic immunity when travelling abroad. They also will be protected from prosecution for any offences committed in the course of duty between 3 July 2013 – the day Mr Sisi led the military’s overthrow of Morsi following mass protests against his rule – and 10 January 2016 – when the Egyptian parliament was reconvened. That period featured one of the bloodiest episodes in Egypt’s modern history.”
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44848757
“The officers used the terms ‘A’ or arrest for heads, and ‘R’ for release for tails, according to the station.”
“The major culprits in Malaysia’s epic 1MDB financial scandal may already have destroyed much of the evidence against them but newly minted Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng is confident a global money trail will reveal the truth.”
“More than a year later, state and federal officials don’t know where the plutonium – one of the most valuable and dangerous substances on earth – is. Nor has the cesium been recovered.”
“On Monday night, he rewarded the swamp denizens and deep state outliers by nominating one of their own to the Supreme Court.”