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Assuming that Putin read the polls like everyone else, would he risk infuriating the likely next President of the United States – Hillary Clinton – by embarrassing her with an email leak that would amount to a pinprick? Clinton herself blamed her surprise defeat on FBI Director Comey’s decision to briefly reopen the investigation into whether she endangered national security by using a private email server as Secretary of State.

Unless one assumes that Putin’s Ouija board also predicted Comey’s actions or perhaps that Comey is another Russian mole, wouldn’t it be a huge risk for Putin to anger Clinton without ensuring her defeat? There’s the old saying that “if you strike a king, you must kill him,” which would seem to apply equally to a queen. But logical thinking no longer applies to what’s going on in Official Washington.

There are real reasons to worry about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, including his casual belligerence toward Iran and North Korea and his failure to rethink U.S. alliances with Saudi Arabia and Israel, but The New York Times obsesses on Trump’s willingness to work with Russia.

On Saturday, the Times devoted most of its op-ed page to the Times’ favorite conspiracy theory, that Trump is Vladimir Putin’s “Manchurian candidate” though evidence continues to be lacking.

Rom – Zum Treffen der Innenminister aus europäischen und nordafrikanischen Ländern am Montag in Rom stellt die libysche Regierung unter Ministerpräsident Fayez Serraj konkrete Forderungen, um die Migration zu stoppen. 800 Millionen Euro verlangt Libyen zur Umsetzung eines Abkommens mit Italien, um die Schlepperkriminalität zu bekämpfen und damit Flüchtlinge von der Überquerung des Mittelmeers abzuhalten.

Investigators unearthed the skulls of 47 more suspected victims of Mexico‘s drug war in Veracruz state, just days after uncovering 250 skulls at a separate mass grave used by drug cartels, the state‘s attorney general said on Sunday.

(17.3.2017) Authorities were led to the graves by a group of mothers who‘ve spent months digging there in search of their loved ones.

(18.3.2017) The area is part of a broad front where forces loyal to Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, backed by a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states, are fighting the Iran-allied Houthi movement which controls most of north and western Yemen.

It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack.

(13.3.2017) „But the way it works is, the FISA court, through Section 702, wiretaps foreigners and then listens to Americans. It is a backdoor search of Americans. And because they have so much data, they can tap — type Donald Trump into their vast resources of people they are tapping overseas, and they get all of his phone calls.

And so they did this to President Obama. They — 1,227 times, eavesdropped on President Obama‘s phone calls. Then they mask him. But here is the problem. And General Hayden said this the other day. He said even low-level employees can unmask the caller.“

Gowdy said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is in place to protect national security and allows spying on certain foreign agents. Rules state that if an American with Constitutional protections is collaterally caught in such surveillance, his or her identity must be protected.

The fact the Flynn was caught on tape was reported by the Washington Post last year, citing „senior administration officials.“ But Comey would not say if the FBI is investigating the apparent leak.

Gowdy: What does the term mask mean in the concept of FISA and other surveillance programs?

Comey: As Director Rogers explained, it‘s our practice, approved by the FISA court, of removing the names of U.S. persons to protect their privacy and their identity, unless it hits certain exceptions. So, masking means, as Mike Rogers said, I‘ll often see an intelligence report from NSA that will say, U.S. person number one, U.S. person number two, U.S. person number three and there‘s no further identification on the document.

Gowdy: Admiral Rogers said that there are 20 people within the NSA that are part of the unmasking process. How many people within the FBI are part of the unmasking process?

Comey: I don‘t know for sure as I sit here. Surely more, given the nature of the FBI‘s work. We come into contact with U.S. persons a whole lot more than the NSA does because we may be conducting — we only conduct our operations in the United States to collect electronic surveillance, to conduct electronic surveillance — so I can find out the exact number. I don‘t know it as I sit here.

James Comey ist der Mann, der mögliche Verbindungen zwischen Trumps Wahlkampfteam und dem Kreml untersuchen soll. Doch der FBI-Chef hat es nicht nur geschafft, zwischen alle politischen Fronten zu geraten, sondern auch Zweifel an seiner Kompetenz zu wecken.

Behind closed doors, China and Israel have close security ties too, rarely discussed in public. „You shouldn‘t ask me this question,“ Deng said, when asked whether Li and Netanyahu discussed intelligence sharing.