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Police investigating an incident at RAF Mildenhall can confirm that the incident is not being treated as terrorism.
A 44 year old British man was initially arrested on suspicion of criminal trespass.
The male, who sustained cuts and bruises in the incident, has been taken into custody. Police are not looking for anyone else on the site in relation to the incident.
There is no wider threat to the public or occupants on the base and no other people have been injured as a result of the incident.
The incident remains a police investigation at this time and enquiries are on-going and police are receiving support from other law enforcement agencies.

Why is Trump nominating such judicial idiots? Because for the ideologically-driven core of his conservative base, the courts are a generational battleground where the future of the United States can be shaped for a lifetime.

Under the pretense of opposing “activist” judges, the rightwing ideologues and demagogues have engaged in several decades of parachuting their own activists into the judicial system, from the supreme court on down.

Under the pretense of Senate etiquette, Republican leaders refused to consider Obama’s nominees during the last year of his presidency. For their part, Democrats blocked George W Bush’s nominees when they controlled the Senate in Bush’s final two years.

By now, it may be impossible to stop the Senate politicking around judicial nominees. There’s just too much bad blood. But it should be possible to stop the obviously incompetent nominees from getting considered in the first place.

That responsibility lies with the Trump White House and the justice department under Jeff Sessions. Which are both otherwise showing such a great respect for the rule of law, whether it involves firing the FBI director, preventing Trump’s own conflicts of interest, or investigating Russian interference in US elections.

They say you get the leaders you deserve. But in the case of Trump’s judicial nominees, who will serve long after he leaves office, the country clearly deserves a lot better.

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Since when is unbridled speculation about what "might" have happened "news?" It aint.

But it would certainly qualify as "fake news," ya know?

Eureka, the essence of Drudge, Brietbart, Info Wars and Fox News.

Why Republicans are ignoring public attitudes on the tax plan

As it closes in on a significant expansion into major cities and battleground states across the country, conservative local news behemoth Sinclair Broadcast Group has gone into overdrive with its pro-Trump and anti-media propaganda.

Sinclair is known for its history of injecting right-wing spin into local newscasts, most notably with its nationally produced “must-run” commentary segments. The segments, which all Sinclair-owned and operated news stations are required to air, have included (sometimes embarrassing) pro-Trump propaganda missives from former Trump aide Boris Epshteyn since the spring
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But, but...G-Bag worked for the government!

Nevertheless, lawyers representing the Trump presidential transition team have accused special counsel Robert Mueller of obtaining unauthorized access to the tens of thousands of emails.

They also say some of the documents are protected by attorney-client privilege. This argument might be stronger in regards to some communications, but that fight would have to waged in court.

After this debate went public, Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, said, “When we have obtained emails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owner’s consent or appropriate criminal process.”

Also, GSA Deputy Counsel Lenny Loewentritt says that Trump’s transition officials were told that “in using our devices,” this data “would not be held back in any law enforcement” query. Therefore, he argues, there was no expectation of privacy in regards to these emails.

For these, and other legal reasons, this doesn’t appear to be a battle Trump’s attorneys have a chance of winning.

"Extremist right-wing families!"

You must be a screenplay writer for Hollywood.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H.L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

Exclusive: Rex Tillerson, in Meeting With U.S. Diplomats, Says Russia ‘Interfered’ in Election
The secretary of state acknowledged Moscow’s 2016 interference. Then he continued to talk about cutting back on U.S. diplomacy.

Counsel representing the remnants of President Donald Trump’s transition team has claimed, in a lengthy, headline-grabbing letter to Congress, that Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller improperly obtained transition emails from the General Services Administration, which the transition contends was not within its rights to hand over thousands of documents preserved on government-owned IT infrastructure.

That claim appears to conflict with the agreement the Trump transition entered with GSA before the election, which contains no obvious prohibition on GSA providing law enforcement officials with transition documents, no provision denoting the documents as being the property of the transition team, and even suggests Trump transition officials waived their privacy rights when they accepted government-furnished laptops and smartphones.

The memorandum of understanding between the GSA and Trump—which I obtained over a year ago, pursuant to an unrelated FOIA request for “[a]ll memoranda of understanding and correspondence between the GSA and the Trump PTT produced after May 6, 2016”—specifically, and with added emphasis, advises the Trump transition that “Office of the President-elect staff members will be required to individually sign and accept [government furnished] laptop and Smartphone while accepting IT Rules of Behavior to safeguard the assets and the integrity of the network infrastructure.”

Those rules of behavior include a privacy waiver, which notes that, “Users have no expectation of privacy on GSA IT resources since all activities are subject to monitoring.”