Leopold had requested FBI Director James Comey‘s talking points for a variety of subjects, including „going dark,“ the terrorist attacks in Paris, the „Ferguson Effect,“ and encryption. The FBI responded with two things, both of which add up to nothing.

Efforts to rein in civil forfeiture have been moving forward around the country. Several states have passed laws that remove some of the perverse incentives that have allowed law enforcement agencies to seize cash, cars, homes, and whatever else might be laying around without criminal convictions. Very few efforts have gone as far as to make convictions a requirement in every case, but most have at least closed the federal loophole that allowed agencies to bypass more restrictive state laws to take control of citizens‘ assets.

The federal government‘s use of asset forfeiture still remains untouched.

Last Friday at midday, around 12:15, a group of protestors – residents of the village and Israeli activists – began marching toward a roadblock on the eastern side of the village. Testimonies collected by B’Tselem indicate that they reached a house on the eastern edge of the village, unaware of the presence of soldiers in the area. At that point, several children kept walking eastward, separately from the rest of the protestors.

Village resident Muamen Murad Mahmoud Shteiwi, 7, was one of these children.

ISIS gangs yesterday attacked the villages of Eastern Jaber and Western Jaber, which resulted in heavy clashes.
More than 20 ISIS members were killed in the fighting in Eastern Jaber village.
Clashes in the region are reported to be ongoing.

For 3 hours on Friday, ISIS attempted to infiltrate the Syrian Army‘s defenses in Al-Rashidiyah, only to retreat at dawn due to their inability to seize any territory.
According to a military source at the Deir Ezzor Military Airport, the Syrian Arab Army‘s Al-Qassem Group killed at least 15 ISIS terrorists, while also seizing 2 pick-up trucks mounted with anti-aircraft machine guns, AMN reported.