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Bad Boys Exposed: Secret Service's 229-Page Log Reveals Agents' Porn, Wiretap, Embezzlement and Drunken Misdeeds

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© Kevin Lamarque/ReutersPresident Obama walks, with Secret Service agents by his side
It went way beyond hookers.

Secret Service agents and officers have been accused of leaking sensitive information, publishing porn, sexual assaults, illegal wiretaps, embezzlement and drunkenness on duty, according to a 229-page log released yesterday.

After a prostitution scandal in April, when agents consorted with hookers while preparing for President Obama's arrival in Colombia, Service Director Mark Sullivan apologized. But he said it was an isolated case, not a "systemic issue."

However, the log, which the Service Service released yesterday after news organizations requested it under the Freedom of Information Act, shows a pattern of misdeeds dating back to 2003.

Dollar

Sheldon Adelson Tops Romney Donor List That Now Includes 32 Billionaires

Sheldon Adelson
© Agence France-Presse/Getty Images/Aaron TamSheldon Adelson, billionaire #32 to give to Romney-backing super PAC.
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has reportedly donated $10 million to a super PAC supporting Mitt Romney, as he hinted he would after a recent Las Vegas meeting with the GOP candidate.

Adelson's $10 million check is by far the biggest gift to date to Restore Our Future, a group that's attracted five new billionaire donors in as many weeks.

As my colleague Steve Bertoni pointed out, having spoken at length to Adelson for a Forbes cover story, $10 million may just be the start of the Las Vegas Sands chief's generosity. He may well give $100 million, as he'd planned to donate to Newt Gingrich's now-defunct campaign.

Question

Julian Assange: After Sweden Will He End Up Like Manning?


Now that Julian Assange's appeal against extradition has failed, fears are that he will then be shipped on from Sweden to the U.S.A.

Digital Journal reported on June 14 that Assange's appeal to the U.K. Supreme Court to reopen his extradition case had been denied.

He is due to be extradited to Sweden in two weeks, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault and rape. It is feared that once in Sweden, he is likely to then be sent on to the U.S.A.

Pirates

US backtracks on claims Russia is arming Syrian regime

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© Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesCaught in another bald-faced lie: Hillary Clinton's accusation against Russia prompted a stern denial.
State department acknowledges Damascus already owned attack helicopters, cited by Hillary Clinton as escalating violence

The US state department has acknowledged that Russian helicopters it claimed had been sent recently to the Syrian regime were, in fact, refurbished ones already owned by Damascus.

Secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, claimed on Tuesday that "the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria".

The state department admitted details had been omitted from Clinton's speech in which she accused Russia of escalating the violent situation in Syria. But spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said: "Whether they are new or they are refurbished, the concern remains that they will be used for the exact same purpose that the current helicopters in Syria are being used, and that is to kill civilians.

Bell

Obama bickers with "heckler" who accuses him of favouring immigrant workers to Americans

A reporter for a conservative news website heckled Obama as he announced his new immigration policy on Friday, clearly angering the president.

During Obama's speech, Neil Munro, an Irish-born reporter for the Daily Caller, yelled: 'Why do you favor foreigners over American workers?'

The president, who was speaking in the White House's Rose Garden, stumbled before placing up his hand in Mr Munro's direction and responding: 'Not while I'm speaking.'


Attention

Homeland Security Video on Conspiracy Theorists- Public Service Announcement


Stormtrooper

Invasion in the making: U.S. military completes initial planning for Syria

The U.S. military has completed its own planning for how American troops would conduct a variety of operations against Syria, or to assist neighboring countries in the event action was ordered, officials tell CNN.

In recent weeks, the Pentagon has finalized its assessment of what types of units would be needed, how many troops, and even the cost of certain potential operations, officials tell CNN.

Multiple military officials say initial planning is complete with a full understanding of what types of troops and units would be needed. This has been done so that if President Obama were to ask for options the military would be ready to present them. But officials say additional detailed work would have to be done before forces could be deployed.

The planning comes as the U.S. has become increasingly concerned that the violence in Syria is verging on civil war. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the recent series of bombings have heightened the worry.

Dempsey said it reminded him of the escalating violence during the Iraq war.

Comment: Read: General Wesley Clark Reveals US Plan To Invade Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, And Iran


Propaganda

Propaganda reminiscent of Cold War: US says Russian-made weapons are killing Syrians on 'an hourly basis'

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© Jim Lo Scalzo/EPALying through her teeth and without flinching, Hillary Clinton stands by her assertion that Russian attack helicopters are on their way to Syria.
The US has alleged that Russian-made weapons are killing Syrians on "an hourly basis" as the feud between Washington and Moscow over the arming of the Assad regime intensified Wednesday.

In the face of a strong denial from the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, stood by her assertion that Russian attack helicopters are on their way to Syria in a move that would "escalate the conflict quite dramatically".

The state department spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, repeated the claim and ratcheted up the confrontation by saying that the Russians have also been resupplying arms used against the civilian population.

"On a daily basis, on an hourly basis, we are seeing Russian- and Soviet-made weaponry used against civilians in towns all across Syria," she said.

Comment: Lies and more lies, to hide the fact that the genocide in Syria is being directed by Western secret agencies and the blessings of the real Axis of Evil. And while the number of innocent people murdered in Syria is increasing by the day, the media war that the US is waging, makes victims by the second, those who believe these lies and are dead to the reality of the Syrian people's suffering and enemies.
Read also: 'Russia does not sell combat helicopters to Syria' - Lavrov


Light Saber

'Russia does not sell combat helicopters to Syria' - Lavrov

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© Agence France-Presse/File, Mandel NganUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) poses with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L)
Responding to claims made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Foreign Minister stated that Russia complies with international law and is merely fulfilling previous obligations with Syria related to air-defense systems.

Speaking in Tehran on Wednesday, Lavrov was unequivocal about Russia's military trade relationship with Syria, which is presently involved in protracted hostilities between pro-government and opposition forces.

"I already said during one of the news conference in Moscow several days ago that we are now finishing the fulfillment of contracts that were signed and paid for a long time ago. All of (the contracts) are solely for means of air defense," Lavrov told reporters in Tehran after talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.

Russia supplies Syria "only with something that Syria would need in the event of an armed attack on it from without," the minister added.

Bad Guys

Best of the Web: CIA, MI6 agents direct massacres in Syria: American analyst

An American author says agents of the CIA and MI6 are directing armed groups to carry out massacres inside Syria, Press TV reports.


Stephen Lendman, writer and radio host from Chicago, said the CIA and MI6 "special forces" are in Syria now, directing massacres.

"They go after pro-Assad loyalists," Lendman stated in an interview with Press TV on Saturday.

"There is no question this is a Washington-orchestrated war."