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House Republicans Demand Answers from FBI on FISA Abuse FBI Director Christopher Wray arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 2, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via Reuters) REPUBLICANS House Republicans Demand Answers from FBI on FISA Abuse Revelations BY  TOM OZIMEK   May 4, 2021   Updated: May 4, 2021 bigger smaller   Print House Republicans have called on  FBI  Director Christopher Wray to provide a “detailed accounting” of every instance since 2019 that the agency has used warrantless surveillance authority to obtain information unrelated to national security, while accusing the FBI of “illegal spying activities.” Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), in a  joint letter  to Wray, cited a  67-page opinion  from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), which they said shows the FBI has been “seriously and systematically abusing its warrantless electronic surveillance authority

Michael Novakhov's favorite articles on   Inoreader Voice of America – English: Netanyahu Fails to Form Government Before Deadline posted at 06:50:57 UTC by  wayixdff   via   Russia News Review – russianewsreview.org Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said he would contact parties in the Knesset on Wednesday about the process of forming a government following the expiration of a 28-day period in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was unable to assemble a ruling coalition.  Netanyahu’s failure sent the process back to Rivlin, who is expected in the coming days to give one of Netanyahu’s opponents a chance to form a government.  Among the likely candidates are Yair Lapid, whose centrist Yesh Atid party finished second behind Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party in March elections, and Naftali Bennett, head of the small religious, nationalist Yamina party.  Rivlin also has the option of asking parliament to select one of its own members as prime minister.  The process of seeking a co

  Rescuers work at a site where an overpass for a metro partially collapsed with train cars on it at Olivos station in Mexico City late Monday.  Luis Cortes / Reuters “A support beam gave way,”  Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said at the scene. She said the beam collapsed just as the train passed over it. The accident occurred on Line 12 near the Olivos station in the southeast of the city around 10:30 p.m. (11:30 p.m. ET).  M.N.: It looks like someone helped this beam "to give way", which is not that difficult.  View image on Twitter This photo reminds the similarly spectacular pictures from our previous observations , recently reprinted: "Labrat Knats" . Style and signatures look very similar, both incidents look like the high tech, computer assisted PERFORMANCE (or MESSAGE) CRIMES : these crimes are produced for the purposes of the impressive show and transmission of the message.  Place explosives  discreetly  in the key locations in advance, and activate