Obama clarified in Saturday's podcast interview with host Brian Tyler Cohen that he saw no evidence of extraterrestrial species during his time in office and noted after the clip went viral that "statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there."
It's inherent to their business model: When you make a website where anyone can bet on anything, there is going to be someone with some nonpublic information ready to place a wager and make a killing. Sometimes, those insider-trading scandals are relatively harmless, like the one-day-old Polymarket account that correctly predicted 17 out of 20 Super Bowl halftime show events, including appearances from Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin.
they don't want to return the Jim Comey memo that was up-classified after he sent it to Richman in 2017 because it is now classified, and they don't want Pam Bondi to make promises herself (which is different from Todd Blanche doing so). To that latter end, though, they cannot imagine any reason why it'd be necessary for someone at Main DOJ - and not someone at EDVA - to certify compliance, not even given Pam Bondi's repeated intrusion in this matter.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth definitely broke the rules when he sent sensitive information to a Signal chat group, say Pentagon auditors, but he's not the only one using insecure messaging, and everyone needs better training. The Pentagon Office of Inspector General on Thursday released two reports, one specifically dealing with the "Signalgate" incident, and a second that found Hegseth's massive OPSEC failure was just the latest in a long line of similar failures among DoD employees with regard to the use of improper methods of communication.
A report by the Pentagon's acting inspector general says he risked endangering troops when he sent messages containing classified information about strikes in Yemen to a social media chat group last spring, in the scandal dubbed Signalgate. Meanwhile, the secretary is under scrutiny for a potential war crime in the double attack on an alleged drug-running boat in the Caribbean, in which the follow-up strike killed two survivors of the first attack.
Bolton, who was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday on the charges following an FBI investigation lasting over three years, is the third political foe of Donald Trump to be indicted in the past three weeks, since the Republican sent a social media message to his attorney general, Pam Bondi, ordering her to force the prosecution of people he believes have harmed his political career.
The US-India relations expert is alleged to have retained classified information and met with Chinese officials. Ashley Tellis, a United States government adviser and expert on India-US relations, has been arrested and charged with unlawfully retaining national defence information and allegedly meeting with Chinese officials, US prosecutors said on Tuesday. Tellis made his initial court appearance on Tuesday. A detention hearing is scheduled for October 21, US media reported.
Henrik Landerholm, the former national security adviser, is on trial for negligent handling of classified information after leaving documents in an unlocked hotel safe.
Hegseth pushed back on claims that he shared military plans via private channels, asserting they were informal and unclassified, despite strong contrary opinions from military experts.
