A senator 'intervened' to see if a promotion for an Inland Fisheries employee who was to be a 'key witness' in a garda probe into alleged fraud in the organisation could be blocked, its ousted former CEO has said.
Sensitive details of around 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees-including almost 2,000 agents working in frontline enforcement-have allegedly been released by a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower following last week's fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good. The Jan. 7 killing of the mother by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked nationwide protests and worldwide outrage, including among some DHS employees.
"Critical Incident: Death at the Border" recounts the death of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, a 42-year-old undocumented immigrant who died in 2010 days after immigration agents handcuffed, beat and Tasered him near the San Ysidro Port of Entry after trying to deport him to Mexico. Border Patrol at the time said they used force after Hernández Rojas, who had lived in this country since he was 15, resisted them.
The whistleblower's testimony alleged that commanders at the highest levels knew about suspected executions as early as 2011, but chose to bury the claims rather than report them to military police. The evidence suggests the inaction allowed the killings to continue for at least two more years, raising questions about accountability within one of the world's best training and lethal military units.
The former director of UK special forces and other senior military officers tried to cover up concerns that SAS units were carrying out unlawful killings in Afghanistan, an inquiry has heard. A senior special forces whistleblower said the chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of two small children, after the alarm was first raised in early 2011. That failure allegedly allowed them to continue until 2013.
Trump had himself a little crash out on Truth Social on Wednesday following the news, as he is wont to do. "The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they'll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they've done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects," he wrote. "Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap," adding that "there should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else."
It recently emerged that a whistleblower from CHI made an unprotected disclosure in August regarding the late Harvey Morrison (9). The child suffered from spina bifida and scoliosis and waited in pain for nearly three years for spinal surgery. The whistleblower alleged he was mistakenly taken off the waiting list because he was deemed to be in palliative care. CHI said it only received the protected disclosure from the HSE on Monday.
Our investigators wear badges; they are law enforcement agencies. That is what Congress has charged them with. And that is the oath that we took when we decided to take these positions. And the frank fact of the matter is that right now discrimination is not being prosecuted. Fair housing laws are not being enforced. And what that means is that every American is less able to secure safe and stable housing.
Alphabet's health tech subsidiary, Verily, used the health data of more than 25,000 patients without authorization and actively covered up those violations, a former company executive alleges. The executive, Ryan Sloan, claims Verily fired him after he discovered breaches of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, and reported his concerns to the company's senior management. Patient data in the U.S. is protected under HIPAA, which ensures the sensitive information cannot be disclosed without a patient's consent.
The letter outlined not only the improper access engineers had to WhatsApp user data, but a variety of other shortcomings, including a "failure to inventory user data," as required under privacy laws in California, the European Union, and the FTC settlement, failure to locate data storage, an absence of systems for monitoring user data access, and an inability to detect data breaches that were standard for other companies.
John Finnegan has announced his resignation as vice-president of the Football Association of Ireland, citing personal and family reasons. This decision comes after two years in the role.
