Chao’s father isn’t just some random guy, and his awards aren’t the sort you get from the local Kiwanis club. He founded Foremost Group that ships goods globally and maintains significant relationships with both Chinese gov officials and biz elites
No, Chao doesn’t work for the business, but her fortune — estimated net worth $20 million — comes from family gifts.
In 2018, Politico flagged Chao for sitting in on interviews between her father and the Chinese press, including one that looked to many like it took place at the Transportation Department headquarters in Washington.
The inspector general’s report goes into all of this in detail. When it came to the canceled China junket, it turns out Chao instructed Transportation Department officials to include her family members in its “planning.”
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a website leak from the American Patriots Three Percent shows the anti-government militia group have recruited a network across the United States that includes current and former military members, police and border patrol agents.
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But the leak also demonstrates how the radical group has recruited from a broad swath of Americans, not just military and LE. Members include both men and women, of ages ranging from 20s to 70s, doing jobs from medical physics to dental hygiene and living in all parts of the US
Experts say the revelations of the broad scope of the movement’s membership shows the mainstreaming of the radical politics of militia and so-called “Patriot Movement” groups during the Trump era and beyond.
Way back in 2014 this kind of thing used to be a huge problem. A London retailer was forced to apologize and recall a jacket that “inadvertently” displayed the Nazi odal.
However, CPAC specifically chose the very distinct Nazi odal as their platform, which cannot be confused with any other time or affiliation other than Hitler. CPAC went out of their way to use the exact symbol banned in Germany
McConnell’s security detail rushed past and into the chamber. The adviser began walking toward the Rotunda and came face to face with a U.S. Capitol Police officer sprinting in the opposite direction. The two made eye contact and the officer forced out a single word: “Run!”
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The screaming and shouting soon seemed right outside. Only then, a text alert from Capitol police blared on every phone in the room: “Due to security threat inside: immediately, move inside your office, take emergency equipment, lock the doors, take shelter.”
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Some Americans have traveled a path to radicalization that reminds current and former U.S. national security officials of the indoctrination of Islamist militants.
adherents in both cases were drawn to an ideology that emphasizes a loss in control or status. “We had this glorious past and it got screwed up and now we need to do something about it” What makes such movements turn violent is the additional belief that some other entity —
nationwide survey showing a striking desire for strong authoritarian leadership among Republican voters.
They also find shockingly high levels of anti-democratic beliefs and prejudicial attitudes among Trump backers washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
And regardless of what happens in 2020 Trump supporters will be a potent pro-authoritarian voting bloc in the years to come.
The authors define authoritarianism as what happens “when followers submit too much to the authorities in their lives.” They measure it using a tool Altemeyer developed in the early 1980s, called the right-wing authoritarian (RWA) scale. monmouth.edu/polling-instit…
Obama feared that if he took tough countermeasures against Moscow’s cyberwarriors it might “prompt the Russians to recoil or to step up their election interference campaign making matters worse.” Obama was cautious to the point of being intimidated it seem washingtonpost.com/outlook/former…
But Brennan, who shied at the idea that the CIA’s job was “stealing secrets,” assumed an increasingly large role in the government’s killing machine. While he was Obama’s homeland security adviser from January 2009 to December 2015, he writes, Obama approved 473 strikes that
killed between 2,372 and 2,581 enemy combatants and between 64 and 116 civilians. (The civilian toll seems very low, relative to estimates by human rights organizations, but Brennan claims it’s accurate.)