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Monday, June 18, 2018

Legal Experts Say Free Sports Tickets, And Other Freebies for FBI Leakers Raise ‘Bribery’ Issues

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is investigating FBI leakers, as legal experts say revelations about gifts in an inspector general’s report this week raise new legal and ethical issues.

The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General noted that “dozens” of FBI agents had contact with the news media, and many were taking sports tickets, golf outings, and other gifts from reporters to whom they were leaking unauthorized information about a criminal investigation.

The FBI’s Office of Integrity and Compliance discourages the acceptance by agents of anything of value, said Ron Hosko, a former FBI assistant director.

“Accepting something from someone who clearly expects something back has the whiff of a quid pro quo,” Hosko told The Daily Signal.

“Any agreement for something of value in exchange for information—particularly, information related to an investigation—would constitute a corrupt relationship and warrants the strongest sanction,” he added.

The inspector general’s report about the FBI’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s private email server scandal, released on Thursday, said:

We have profound concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered during our review.

In addition, we identified instances where FBI employees improperly received benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events.

We will separately report on those investigations as they are concluded, consistent with the Inspector General Act, other applicable federal statutes, and OIG policy.

The report goes on to recommend that “the FBI evaluate whether (a) it is sufficiently educating its employees about both its media contact policy and the Department’s ethics rules, and (b) its disciplinary penalties are sufficient to deter such improper conduct.”

The Office of Government Ethics describes specific restrictions on executive branch employees accepting gifts. A “prohibited source” of a gift is “seeking official action” or “has an interest.”

The question arises if and when that affects a news organization with an interest in information held by a government employee who is taking gifts, potentially using that job for...

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REPORT: WOMAN CRYING ‘ALLAHU AKBAR’ STABS 2 IN SOUTHERN FRANCE SUPERMARKET

Proof of equal opportunity in Muslim Society.

A woman crying “Allahu akbar” attacked at least two people with a box cutter at a supermarket in southern France on Sunday, according to French media reports.

The attack occurred in La Seyne-sur-Mer, a Mediterranean seaside town about 30 miles southeast of Marseilles. A customer was seriously injured and hospitalized with a chest wound, and a woman at the market’s cash register was less seriously hurt, Europe 1 radio reported, citing the Toulon prosecutor’s office.

The attacker, who was not known to authorities, has been arrested and detained, Toulon prosecutor Bernard Marchal said. Investigators believe the attack was an isolated incident committed by a person with “psychological troubles,” but they have not ruled out terrorism as a motive, Marchal added.

Toulon police were conducting a search of the attacker’s home on Sunday afternoon to determine “whether she has links to Daesh,” Marchal said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State.

The possible terror attack comes just over a month after a Chechnya-born French citizen went on a stabbing rampage in central Paris, killing one person and injuring four others. The attacker, who also shouted “Allahu akbar” while stabbing bystanders, was on France’s so-called “S file” of people suspected of radicalized views who pose a...

While all eyes are on the Soccer World Cup and the Trump-Kim handshake, Julius Malema, has warned whites in South Africa once again that they may one day face genocide.

In an interview with TRT World News published this week, Malema, leader of the Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters, said, “We have not called for the killing of white people. At least for now. I can’t guarantee the future.”

When the journalist remarked that these statements were as good as a call to genocide, Malema responded, “Crybabies. Crybabies,” but later warned white South Africans that “the masses are on board” for “an un-led revolution and anarchy”.

He added: “The white people hate the idea that we think we can be equal to them. That irritates them that a monkey can never be equal to a white man. They don’t want that. I’m hated for that.”

He said farm attacks on whites were merely crimes. “The farm attacks [are] just an act of crime; it’s not a genocide on white people,” continuing that “Even in the farms there where black workers are killed, should we now be alarmist and say there is genocide of black farm workers? No, it’s a crime.”

The numbers of whites killed on farms are far greater than those of blacks murdered. In fact white South African farmers boast the highest murder rate in the world.

Malema, a darling of the South African media, is at the forefront of calls to confiscate land from white property owners without compensation. The economic consequences of such a policy played out in Zimbabwe, a neighbouring country where land expropriation caused an economic cataclysm spanning two decades.

But Malema, the consumate Marxist, casually downplayed Zimbabwe’s economic catastrophe, saying “You cannot [measure] the Zimbawean revolution based on the capitalist definition.”

He did not elaborate on the Marxist definition to measure “success”. Millions of starving Zimbaweans had fled to South Africa to escape the famine following Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s land grab.

Long considered the breadbasket of southern Africa, Zimbabwe ‘s Marxist policies left than a quarter of the population is in danger of starving to death.

“It’s truly astonishing that someone so dangerous and out of touch has been able to rise to power. And even more astonishing how quickly...