Customs and Border Protection agent faces inquiry after questioning reporter about her sources – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/customs-and-border-protection-examining-agents-questioning-of-national-security-reporter/2018/06/12/05dac696-6e74-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html

«Rambo’s search of travel records could be a crime if he didn’t have a legitimate reason to examine that information, which is protected by privacy laws and regulations that prevent unauthorized disclosures of personal information, officials said.

As a DHS employee, Rambo could have had access to records of when Americans leave and reenter the United States, including from the Advance Passenger Information System, first developed by U.S. customs officials in the 1980s.

The passenger records may be shared only with Homeland Security personnel “who have a need to know the information as part of the performance of their official employment duties,” according to a privacy assessment the department completed in 2015. The rules were put in place to keep government employees from inappropriately using Americans’ personal information.»

Web of elite Russians met with NRA execs during 2016 campaign | McClatchy Washington Bureau

The National Russia Association.

Source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/latest-news/article212756749.html

«While Russian cyber operatives unleashed an attack on the U.S. elections in 2015 and 2016, National Rifle Association officials were meeting with figures in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and high in the Russian Orthodox Church. U.S. investigators are trying to determine whether Russian money flowed to the nation’s leading gun rights group to boost Donald Trump’s election prospects.»

 

“Cobra chicken”

https://twitter.com/bibliophileq/status/1005339119000674304?s=20

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I work with a guy from Mexico who doesn’t speak a lot of English. A Canadian goose made a nest by one of the paddock gates and hissed at him while he was putting horses out. He comes back to us after and says, “I do not like the cobra chicken.”
how can anyone be mad at other people for imperfect english when gems such as that exist, cobra chicken I’m dying»

Tweet from 𝕀𝕥𝕤 𝕒𝕟 ℍ𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕋𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕆𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕣𝕖 (@Maltaplication)

𝕀𝕥𝕤 𝕒𝕟 ℍ𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕋𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕆𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕣𝕖 (@Maltaplication) Tweeted:
I couldn’t resist. This photo was just so Norman Rockwell.
#G7 #G7Summit #G72018 https://t.co/U6rAD6hXae https://twitter.com/Maltaplication/status/1005556928565555201?s=17

Good start.