aaron schaffer

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Her billionaire marriage broke up. Her VP campaign fizzled. Now she’s a Trump-world star.

With a massive divorce settlement from Google’s Sergey Brin, the former Democrat is remaking herself as a pro-Trump ‘Make America Healthy Again’ wellness guru.

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Metro said Walz never taught him, and that he was irate that his name and biographical information were being used to bolster a lurid false accusation — and that he may be forever associated with it online. “It’s an invasion of my privacy and my personal life.”

https://wapo.st/4fdK0Ve

Viral attack on Walz features fake former student making false claim

A Hawaii man who attended a school where Tim Walz taught was dismayed to see someone using his name to make a false allegation against the vice presidential candidate.

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The CIA analyst who triggered Trump’s first impeachment asks: Was it worth it?

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The CIA analyst who triggered Trump’s first impeachment asks: Was it worth it?

The whistleblower’s lonely stand upended his career and put his life at risk. Now he’s speaking about it for the first time.

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Police seldom disclose use of facial recognition despite false arrests

A Post investigation found that many defendants were unaware of the technology’s role in linking them to crimes, leading to questions of fairness.

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@briankrebs Oh gotcha, makes sense!

@briankrebs Interesting piece. One thing: You write that "Urban’s indictment is currently sealed. But a copy of the document obtained by KrebsOnSecurity shows the name of the federal agent who testified to it has been blacked out."

But the indictment does not appear to be unsealed (I just downloaded it from PACER). Also, that space on the indictment is normally where the foreperson signs (and is often redacted).

The filing was ordered unsealed after a request from journalist Jacob Silverman and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. More here: wapo.st/3WYQaB5
A scoop: We got a previously-sealed court filing showing all of the people and companies that invested in Elon Musk's Twitter. Posted here: https://wapo.st/3WYQaB5
Elon Musk’s X reveals investors in court filing

A judge ordered Elon Musk’s X to reveal its shareholders, showing who helped with his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform formerly called Twitter.

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Exclusive: A probe into whether Donald Trump took money from the Egyptian government ended after then-Attorney General William Barr questioned the case, which centered on if Egypt's president sought to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 campaign. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/
$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt

Then political appointees shut the case down.

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Sue Mi Terry, wife of WaPo columnist Max Boot, has been charged with acting as an agent of South Korea; the indictment cites a WaPo column she wrote with Boot (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/16/terry-south-korea-cia-fara/
http://mediagazer.com/240718/p18#a240718p18

Ex-CIA analyst accused of working for South Korean intelligence service

Sue Mi Terry, a senior fellow for Korea studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, was charged with failing to register as a foreign agent.

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