Hospitals are bloody boring ... and draining on a wallet / Media Dragon might have to sell Rare Apple Sneakers
CEO Travis Kalanick has started meditating in Uber’s lactation room, as his company spins in a whirlwind of bad press Business Insider
Chinese influence in Australia
Chinese authorities bust private data stealing syndicate detaining 20 Apple employees
Insider HigherEd – How Not To Fight Terrorism – Some thoughts on the role information plays in the response to recent attacks. Barbara Fister. June 5, 2017
[Snipped] “I suppose it’s inevitable, given that information-driven tech-centered global corporations dominate the list of Big Rich Companies, that information systems play a significant role in 21st century terrorism. ISIS has famously made effective use of social media platforms for recruitment purposes. So have white nationalists and neo-Nazis. The responses have been fumbling, partly because the job of moderating messages that globally flow by the billions is difficult and partly because that flow is the current that produces power and money for these companies.
Study of recent terrorist events ...
Those were lies, plain and simple,” James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday ...
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. Cheap Talk on Comey leaks and bombshells
Initial Comments on James Comey’s Written Testimony Benjamin Witte, Lawfare‘Pressure’ Is Not Obstruction Andrew C. McCarthy, National ReviewComey’s testimony kind of proves Trump right. It also damns him entirely.Vox. “The question is no longer whether Trump broke the law with Russia. It’s whether Trump broke the law with Comey.”Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe WaPo. “According to officials.”Intelligence Officials Won’t Say If Trump Asked About Russia WSJ. “Won’t say” in the hearing, that is.
Would You Trust These Men With a Massive Surveillance Dragnet? Marcy Wheeler, Motherboard. Section 702 hearing. Wheeler concludes: “But the rest of the hearing showed that these men have been anything but forthright and diligent.” There is likely to be at least some overlap between “these men” and WaPo’s anonymous “officials.” Eh?
From Comey’s testimony this morning: “There should be no fuzz on this whatsoever. The Russians interfered in our election during the 2016 cycle. They did it with purpose. They did it with sophistication. They did it with overwhelming technical efforts. It was an active measures campaign driven from the top of that government. There is no fuzz on that…. That’s about as unfake as you can possibly get.”
Opening Statement – Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation James Comey – Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, June 8, 2017. [Bloomberg Will Livestream James Comey’s Testimony on Twitter]
- AXIOS – Trump’s “tapes” tweet prompted Comey to leak memos
- The New York Times – Trump and Obstruction of Justice: A Primer – “Several statutes criminalize actions that impede official investigations. Here’s what you need to know about a murky law.”
- Washington Post – Comey could turn lawmakers’ Russia probes to questions of obstruction – “If the testimony of former FBI director James Comey suggests that President Trump’s actions constituted an obstruction of justice on investigations of Russia-related matters, the focus of congressional inquiries could shift from intelligence details to legal and criminal matters.”
- The New York Times – Comey Accuses White House of ‘Lies’ and Says Trump Tried to Derail Inquiry
- The Hill – Comey’s dramatic account on Trump rocks Washingto Roll Call – Comey
- Will Tell Congress Trump Asked Him to Drop Flynn Probe
- LawFare – “James Comey’s seven-page written statement, released by the Senate Intelligence Committee this afternoon in connection with Comey’s impending testimony tomorrow, draws no conclusions, makes no allegations, and indeed, expresses no opinions. It recounts, in spare and simple prose, a set of facts to which Comey is prepared to testify under oath tomorrow. Despite this sparseness, or maybe I should say because of it, it is the most shocking single document compiled about the official conduct of the public duties of any President since the release of the Watergate tapes.”
- AXIOS – The parallels between Russia investigation and Watergate – a visualization.
- Recode – These are the top revelations from former FBI director James Comey’s testimony before Congress
- The New York Times – Fired F.B.I. Chief Says He and Agency Were Defamed
- After Comey’s testimony, Senate Intel Committee Chair Burr: “This is nowhere near the end of our investigation.”
- BBC – Trump’s lawyer accuses James Comey of “unauthorised disclosures” to press of communications he had with president