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originally posted by: pavil
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I was wondering about the consensual recording myself.
Federal law permits recording telephone calls and in-person conversations with the consent of at least one of the parties. ... This is called a "one-party consent" law. Under a one-party consent law, you can record a phone call or conversation so long as you are a party to the conversation
Randy Schriver, the assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, has resigned his post, three sources confirmed to Foreign Policy, creating yet another vacancy in an increasingly empty Department of Defense despite new Pentagon chief Mark Esper’s push to fill top jobs.
Schriver carved out a reputation as a China hawk, helping oversee the Pentagon’s strategic shift from wars in the Middle East to confronting Beijing. He was one of the first senior U.S. officials to publicly criticize China for its mass internment of ethnic Uighurs and describe the internment facilities as “concentration camps.”
Bipartisan defense bill passed. As impeachment rocked one side of Capitol Hill, there was a rare surge of bipartisanship in another. On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense policy bill authorizing $738 billion for the Pentagon’s budget, including the creation of a new Space Force, operating under the Air Force. The bill also includes $300 million in funding for military assistance to Ukraine, an issue at the center of the impeachment inquiry into Trump.
The federal government is poised to take over responsibility for alerting the public of a missile threat under a provision authored by U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) that was inserted into the proposed National Defense Authorization Act. The measure was introduced in response to Hawaii’s false missile alert of two years ago.
consensual monitoring of the August 20 meeting between Source 2 and
Carter Page was presented to McCabe, Priestap, then FBI General Counsel James
Baker, Strzok, Anderson and other FBI personnel during briefings on August 25,
2016. Baker told the OIG that what he remembered about the briefing
was feeling comfortable that the focus was on the Russians, the focus
was on trying to get foreign-intelligence information, [and] that this
other stuff [regarding the campaign] was part of the cover story and
not what we were interested in, and something that we ... just weren't
going to make any use of.
He added that "even though the FBI was collecting some type of political
information" through Source 2's conversation with Carter Page, the political
information "was not the focus of what we were after ... [and] it was being minimized
I'll be on @seanhannity 2nite @FoxNewsat 9pm ET and will explain how @realDonaldTrump will be eligible for a 3rd term due to the illegal attempts by Comey, Dems, and media , et al attempting to oust him as @POTUS so that's why I was named to head up the 2024 re-election.