Last week the FBI arrested 19 year-old John William Kirby Kelley, who it’s alleged was part of a group responsible for a range of dangerous swatting incidents. Kelley was also, and I type this with my most surprised face, part of a number of openly racist Steam groups.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
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My Dad Was a Spy, Maybe
I remember my first phone call from the FBI clearly. It was mid-May 2015. I was sitting in my dreary Midtown cubicle, chugging iced coffee and trying to hold out for the end of the day as a lowly junior reporter. My eyelids were drooping when my wrist buzzed. Someone was calling me. My fitness […]
My Dad Was a Spy, Maybe
I remember my first phone call from the FBI clearly. It was mid-May 2015. I was sitting in my dreary Midtown cubicle, chugging iced coffee and trying to hold out for the end of the day as a lowly junior reporter. My eyelids were drooping when my wrist buzzed. Someone was calling me. My fitness […]
Man Accused Of Using His PlayStation 4 To Sell Cocaine
Last month, the FBI got in touch with Sony and requested information on a PlayStation 4 user who it’s alleged has been using the PlayStation Network to sell cocaine at “$34,000 per kilogram”.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
New Game From The Developers Of Her Story Is An Unsettling Trip Through Stolen NSA Footage
Telling Lies, the latest work of interactive fiction from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, invites players to curl up in front of their computer and comb through hours of leaked fictional National Security Agency footage. Mostly, that involves watching the game’s characters via their webcams and other video sources,…Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Michael Flynn’s Sentencing Memo Should Terrify Trump
Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office released both a sentencing memo and a heavily redacted addendum regarding former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn. He recommended a “sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration,” because …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
BREAKING: Paul Manafort Met With Julian Assange Prior To Election
A bombshell report released by The Guardian this morning revealed that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in the spring of 2016. This was the third time Manafort had visited the WikiLeaks founder; he’d previously gone to the …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
Inside The Cockamamie Plot To Take Down Robert Mueller
Last night it was revealed that two right-wing grifters, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, were reported to the FBI for a hasty, rushed-together conspiracy that involved forcing women to make false claims of sexual assault against Robert Mueller. For those unfamiliar with either Burkman or …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
Here Are the Secret Documents About the Surveillance of Ex-Trump Adviser Carter Page
The Justice Department has released hundreds of pages of documents relating to an FBI application for a secret warrant issued in October 2016 authorizing surveillance on former Donald Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Denver bar-goer shot by breakdancing FBI agent
Early in the morning on June 2, police officers responded to a call about a shooting at Mile High Spirits, a Denver bar. Upon arriving at the scene, they discovered that an FBI agent had unintentionally shot someone in the establishment. The agent had done a backflip, causing his gun to fall to the ground. […]
The Right Is Freaking Out Over The “Crossfire Hurricane” Story
We’re in the middle of another right wing meltdown over the latest revelation that the FBI was investigating Trump’s treasonous collusion with Russia by the summer of 2016, well before they had even heard of the Steele Dossier. After a drunken George Papadopoulos blabbed to the Australian …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
Poll: Propaganda Has Republicans Convinced The FBI Is Framing Trump
As we move closer to the midterms, it’s important to understand exactly what is at stake. This goes far beyond just sticking it to Trump or, more urgently, putting a check on his insanity; we are on the brink of collapse as a nation. I want very badly for this to be hysterical hyperbole but […]
Why Cars Intentionally Ramming Into Crowds Is A Relatively New Problem
It’s happened again. In Toronto, a suspect used a Ryder van to drive into a crowd, this time killing 10 people and injuring 15 others just trying to get through their Monday routine. It is yet another example of cars—one of the most high-profile symbols of independence and Western wealth—being used as weapons against…Read more… […]
Donald Trump is Obsessed with the Russian Pee-Pee Tape
Yesterday, the Associated Press published former FBI director James Comey’s memos from his meetings with President Trump. The memos reveal things we either know or have assumed about Trump: he’s petty, vindictive, obsessed with loyalty, and has an attention span that makes fleas look as …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
Crackpot Nina Turner Compares FBI Raid on Michael Cohen to Treatment of Martin Luther King
Nina Turner, the former Ohio State Senator and head of the SuperPAC Our Revolution, has managed to offend almost every reasonable center-left Democrat in the last two years. One of the only prominent African-American women to endorse Bernie Sanders in the primary, she refused to endorse …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
Reality Check: Trump Personally Hired Almost Everyone Involved In The Michael Cohen Raid
Donald Trump spent a good part of Monday ranting about how there’s a conspiracy by “the other side” to destroy him and once again talked about firing Special Consul Robert Mueller. But, as Bob Cesca keeps pointing out, everything Trump does makes things worse for Trump and this appears to be no …Continue reading Continue […]
The Kremlin Kept Romney from Becoming Secretary of State, and Other Revelations
This morning, New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer published a summation of Christopher Steele and his investigation into Donald Trump that culminated in BuzzFeed leaking his dossier to the press shortly before Trump’s inaugural last year. It is the most thorough article that I have read on the …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
The Just Released Democratic Memo Proves Devin Nunes Was Lying
Yesterday, the House Intelligence Committee released a memo that not only counters the one that Devin Nunes wrote but proves that the information contained in it was untrue. At the beginning of February, Nunes released a memo alleging that the FBI had overstepped its boundaries in obtaining a FISA …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
Jill Stein’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Interview
Jill Stein, Susan Sarandon’s candidate, isn’t having a good weekend. This Friday, Mueller revealed in his indictments that Russians interfered on behalf of her campaign, posting on the Instagram account Blacktivist, “Choose peace and vote for Jill Stein. Trust me, it’s not a wasted vote.” This is …Continue reading Continue Reading at https://thedailybanter.com
The Nunes Memo Lands With A Thud And Twitter Explodes With Laughter
After weeks of hype, the much anticipated “secret memo” put together by Devin Nunes (with apparently a lot of help from the White House) was released (a day late) on Friday. Republicans and white Republican voters have been in a state of almost constant frenzy leading up the big day. This was it! …Continue reading […]