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From: To: Subject: FW: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] - FBI Public Affairs News Briefing Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:27:37 +0000 Importan c Normal e: From: Bulletin Intelligence Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 6:26:54 AM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] - FBI Public Affairs News Briefing Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Mobile version and searchable archives available at fbi.bulletinintelligence.com. ;`.7B1 News Briefing TO: THE DIRECTOR AND SENIOR STAFF DATE: TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2020 6:30 AM EDT TODAY'S TABLE OF CONTENTS LEADING THE NEWS • Administration Sending Additional Federal Agents To Portland. PROTESTS • FBI Arrests Homicide Suspect Through Operation LeGend. • Some Chicagoans Welcome Federal Investigators. • Authorities Brace For More Violent Protests Across The Country. • Mayors Appeal To Congress To Restrict Use Of Federal Agents. • Dozens Of Seattle Police Officers Injured During Weekend Violence. • Austin Police Release Man Who Fatally Shot Protester. • National Guard Officer: Protesters Cleared From Lafayette Square Without Provocation. • Cotton Criticized For Says Founding Fathers Viewed Slavery As "Necessary Evil." • Police Departments Withdraw From Security Agreements For Democratic Convention. • Illinois County Board Candidate Quits Over Tweet "Laughing" At Officer Getting Hit. • Black Soldiers Monument In Boston Under Scrutiny. • NYTimes Analysis: NFL Efforts To Combat Racism Undercut By Team Owners. • WTimes Analysis: Black Lives Matter Has "Leftist" Goal. COUNTER-TERRORISM • Georgia Man Sentenced For Planning White House Attack. EFTA01658070 • Arizona Woman Charged With Helping Al Qaeda To Appear In Court Next Week. • Sentencing Postponed For Man Who Supplied Guns To San Bernardino Shooter. • Changes Made To 9/11 Commemoration In New York Due To Pandemic. • Prosecutors Struggle To Resume Guantanamo Trials. • State Department Declares "Unwavering" Commitment To Seeking 'Justice For The Families' Of US Citizens Killed By ISIS. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • Yates To Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee Next Week. • Jarrett: Christopher Steele's Secret Source For Anti-Trump Dossier Is Finally Exposed. • Carter Page Sues Yahoo, HuffPost Parent Company For "False And Defamatory" Articles. • Op-Ed: Biden May Want To Forget About The Russia Investigation. • Chinese Scientist Charged With Visa Fraud Ordered Held As Flight Risk. • Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou Seeks Canadian Spy Agency Documents Linked To Canadian Arrest. • Spanish Court Hears Testimony On Whether Assange Was Spied On. • Lowenthal Says Intelligence Analysis Needs Course Change. • Pentagon Issues Contract Guidance On China Tech Ban. • IARPA Funds Study Showing Randomness Theory Could Hold Key To Internet Security. • Op-Ed: Russian Spying is Privatized and Competitive. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS • Maxwell Seeks To Seal Evidence. • FBI Investigating Washington State Murder. • Continuing Coverage: FBI Investigating Disappearance Of Missing Iowa Child. • FBI Task Force Arrests Two In Connection To Colorado Party Shooting. • Continuing Coverage: California Police Arrest Parents In Connection To Disappearance Of Toddler. • Mississippi Man Charged With Threatening Federal Judge. • Georgia Man Sentenced Over Producing Child Pornography. • FBI Agents Investigating In Pennsylvania. • Connecticut Man Sentenced For Embezzling. • New Mexico Police Continuing To Investigate Disappearance Of Local. • Wisconsin Man Sentenced Over Child Enticement. • Former FBI Task Force Officer Facing Trial In Guam. • Continuing Coverage: FBI Investigating Disappearance Of Pennsylvania Teenager. • Continuing Coverage: US Marshal Task Force Announces Arrests Of Juvenile Prison Escapees. • Michigan Man Sentenced Over Bank Robbery. • FBI Searching For Virginia Man. • Massachusetts Gang Member Ordered Held Without Bail. • Former Medical Doctor Pleads Guilty To Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone. • Notices Filed To Seize Properties In Connection With Marijuana Firm Raid Operation • Federal Prosecutors: Drug Offender Was Involved In Prison Smuggling Scheme. • Maryland Resident Facing Drug Charges. FINANCIAL CRIME & CORPORATE SCANDALS • Ohio Candidate Went To FBI In March Over Householder, Dark Money. • Man Captured After Faking Own Death Over Fraudulent PPP Loans. • Former UCLA Soccer Coach Pleads Guilty To Taking College Admissions Bribes. • Visa, Mastercard Fined Wirecard For Questionable Transactions Over A Decade Ago. • US Charges Former Florida Tech CEO With Wire Fraud. • US Charges Trustify CEO With Defrauding Investors. EFTA01658071 • New York Man Charged With Defrauding Drug Maker. • Top Tech CEOs To Be Grilled On Antitrust Issues At House Hearing. • Under Armour Receives SEC Wells Notice Of Possible Enforcement Action. CYBER DIVISION • Garmin Says Cyberattack Made Its Software Unavailable. • Fund Administrator To Pimco, Others Saw Breach At Vendor. • House Spending Bill Details Funding For Cyber Defenses. • Cyberstalker Gets Four Years In Prison For "War" On Woman. • DOD Issues RFI With Goal Of Advancing Cybersecurity Technology. • CISA Says 62,000 QNAP NAS Devices Have Been Infected With The QSnatch Malware. • NDAA Would Create National Cyber Director Position In White House. LABORATORY • FBI Joins Probe Of Human Remains Found In Kentucky. • NIST Study Finds Pandemic Masks Thwarting Face Recognition Technology. LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES • US Launches Minnesota Office On Missing Indigenous Cases. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS • Former Malaysian PM Convicted In First 1MDB Trial. • Operation Conducted By Honduran, Colombian Authorities Leads To Big Cocaine Seizure. • Bulletin: Cartel Likely Used Phones That Were Compromised By Law Enforcement. OTHER FBI NEWS • Senate GOP's COVID-19 Stimulus Proposal Includes $1.75B For New FBI Headquarters. • Barr To Defend Administration In Congressional Testimony. OTHER WASHINGTON NEWS • Trump Touts "Tremendous Success" In Development Of Coronavirus Vaccine. • O'Brien Tests Positive For Coronavirus, Is "Self-Isolating." • Commerce Department: Ross Hospitalization Was Not Related To Coronavirus. • Birx Advocates Mask-Wearing, Bar Closures In Tennessee Visit. • Azar Credits Mask-Wearing For "Plateauing" Of COVID Cases In Key States. • Report: 4,000 Federal Workers Seeking Disability Compensation For Contracting COVID-19 At Work. • Ten States Set Single-Day Records For New Infections. • Florida Reports Lowest Number Of New COVID Cases In Three Weeks. • DC Mayor's Quarantine Order Takes Effect. • Coronavirus Outbreak Could Endanger Baseball Season. • Cain Still Hospitalized For Coronavirus. • NYTimes Analysis: Expanding Data Set Helps Americans Make Sense Of Pandemic. • Some Patients With Coronavirus Suffer From Symptoms, Effects Months After Initial Infection. • Colleagues Say Doctor Responsible For Discredited Studies Has History Of Cutting Corners. • Republicans Say Border-Crossers Responsible For Rise In Coronavirus Cases. • DO) Reaches Settlement With Company That Discriminated Against Permanent US Residents. • Trump Lawyers File To Block Manhattan DA's Subpoena For President's Tax Records. • Senate GOP Relief Plan Would Cut Weekly Unemployment Aid To $200 Per Week. • Kudlow: "V-Shaped Recovery" Is "Very Much Intact." • Sen. Collins Joins Romney In Opposing Fed Nominee Shelton. • Trump Retweets Praise For Defense Bill He Has Threatened To Veto. • Politico Report: White House Aides Struggle To Revise List Of Potential SCOTUS Nominees. EFTA01658072 • Trump Says Twitter's "Trending" Tweet Listing Is Illegal. • Commerce Department Enlists FCC In "Tech Crackdown." • EPA IG Investigating Rollback Of Auto Emissions Standards. • Lewis Lies In State At Capitol; Trump Says He Will Not Pay Respects. INTERNATIONAL NEWS • Cases Surge Around World, Prompting Lockdowns And Travel Bans. • Navarro Says He Predicted China Would Create A Deadly Pandemic. • Iran Moves Mock Aircraft Carrier Into Strait Of Hormuz. • Israel Says It Fired On Hezbollah Fighters Who Crossed Over From Lebanon. • Taliban Executes Prison Guard As UN Releases Report On Violence Against Civilians. • China Takes Control Of US Consulate In Chengdu. • Russian Fighter Intercepts US Spy Plane Over Black Sea. • Experts Worry North Korea's Undelivered "Christmas Gift" Will Become An "October Surprise." • Ambassador To South Korea Shaves Off Controversial Mustache. THE BIG PICTURE • Headlines From Today's Front Pages. WASHINGTON'S SCHEDULE • Today's Events In Washington. LEADING THE NEWS Administration Sending Additional Federal Agents To Portland. The Washington Post (7/27, Barrett, Miroff, Lang, Fahrenthold, 14.2M) reports the Administration is "sending more federal agents to Portland, Ore., as officials consider pushing back harder and farther against the growing crowds and nightly clashes with protesters, vandals and rioters." In order to "strengthen federal forces arrayed around the city's downtown courthouse, the U.S. Marshals Service decided last week to send 100 deputy U.S. Marshals to Portland." DHS is "also considering a plan to send an additional 50 U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel to the city, but a final decision on the deployment has not been made." The CBS Evening NewsVI (7/27, story 7, 1:30, O'Donnell, 4.33M) similarly reported it "has learned the White House is not backing down, and more agents are on standby for cities like Portland and Seattle." Appearing on Fox Business (7/27, 1.73M), Acting CBP Commissioner Morgan said, "We need to separate two distinct things happening. One is the violence and anarchy against federal property. That's going to require one response. That's what you're seeing in Portland and Seattle. Versus the increased crime that's going on in Chicago and Kansas City and other states and cities. That's going to require special agents and other federal officers to work with state and locals, specifically to address violent crime. That's not what we're seeing in Portland. ... We're going to go wherever the threat tells us we need to go and keep in mind. ... This is serious and people need to separate peaceful protests from the criminal anarchy that's going on." On Fox News' Your World, Morgan similarly said, "This is not about peaceful protesters. This is about anarchists and criminals, who, every single night, or hijacking these peaceful protests with the intent to damage property and harm federal enforcement. That is a fact. Until we are united on that, this problem is not going to be solved." The AP (7/27, Balsamo, Flaccus), meanwhile, reports on the scene at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland. According to the AP, "To the protesters, the men inside the battened down courthouse are at best thoughtless political minions, at worst murderous henchmen. To the agents inside, the demonstrators that pack the downtown each night are EFTA01658073 violent anarchists, an angry sea of humanity bent on hurting - or even killing - federal agents doing their job." The Wall Street Journal (7/27, Gottfried, Subscription Publication, 7.57M) has a similar report headlined "In Portland And Other Protest Cities, Neither Left, Right Nor Center Is Happy." The New York Times (7/27, Conger, Fuller, Baker, 18.61M) reports that in recent weeks, protesters "have pointed laser beams, lobbed water bottles and trash bags and, in one case, according to the Portland Police Bureau, hurled an open pocketknife at the officers guarding the courthouse." According to the Times, the "nightly assault on the federal courthouse has been part of a much wider peaceful resistance - high school students, military veterans, off-duty lawyers, lines of mothers who call themselves the 'Wall of Moms' - that began assembling nearly two months ago." Trump Warns Those Caught Vandalizing Federal Property Will Be Prosecuted. President Trump tweeted, "Anarchists, Agitators or Protestors who vandalize or damage our Federal Courthouse in Portland, or any Federal Buildings in any of our Cities or States, will be prosecuted under our recently re-enacted Statues & Monuments Act. MINIMUM TEN YEARS IN PRISON. Don't do it! @DHSgov" Administration Sued For Use Of Tear Gas, Force In Portland. The Washington Post (7/27, Lang, 14.2M) reports protesters "who say they were tear gassed, shot at, pepper sprayed and assaulted outside the federal courthouse while peacefully demonstrating and rendering aid to others sued the Trump administration Monday for its use of force during nightly demonstrations in downtown Portland." A "group of five women and two organizations, including longtime Black Lives Matter protesters" and the Wall of Moms group filed a lawsuit "alleging that several agencies - the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Federal Protective Service - have violated their constitutional rights of free speech, assembly and due process and against unreasonable seizures." Federal Officials Acknowledge Actions Have Contributed To Escalation. Oregon Public Broadcasting (7/27, Wilson, Levinson, 13K) reports on its website, "Federal officials are internally acknowledging they have contributed to the quick escalation between law enforcement and groups of protesters, which had dwindled to a couple hundred people or less earlier this month. 'Anytime you shoot someone in the face and beat them with a baton, it's going to be criticized,' said one federal law enforcement official. 'That's not a controversial statement:" One "federal law enforcement source" said of Donavan La Bella, who was "shot...in the head with a crowd control weapon" by US Marshals, "Crowds were very small and the incident with La Bella — that was a flare up point that the government tried to deescalate." Another said, "The van arrests that happened overnight on July 14 - after that, everything went to hell." Agent: Portland Protesters Shout Racial Slur At Black DHS Officers. The Washington Times (7/27, Dinan, 492K) reports that a "Homeland Security agent deployed to help quell the violence demonstrations in Portland says protesters shouted a racial epithet at a Black Federal Protective Service officer providing security at the courthouse, according to an account given to the Center for Immigration Studies." The unnamed agent is quoted as saying, "I'm seeing African American Federal Protective Service inspectors, twenty years' law enforcement officer, being called the N-word to their face for the first time in their careers." PROTESTS FBI Arrests Homicide Suspect Through Operation LeGend. The AP (7/27) reports from Kansas City, Missouri, "FBI agents in Kansas City as part of new controversial federal crime fighting effort assisted police in the arrest of a homicide suspect." Federal prosecutors "praised the apprehension of 44-year-old Joel Roseberry as 'good work' in a tweet Monday. He is jailed on $200,000 bond on charges of second-degree murder, armed EFTA01658074 criminal action and evidence tampering in the March 1 fatal shooting of 28-year-old Frederick Outley outside of a convenience store." The Kansas City (MO) Star (7/27, Nozicka, 549K) reports, "FBI agents in Kansas City as part of Operation LeGend assisted police in recently arresting a homicide suspect - the first known murder charge connected to the federal anti-crime initiative." FBI agents, "in the city as part of the surge in federal resources, assisted in locating and arresting" Roseberry, "who was charged with second-degree murder and other crimes in the March 1 fatal shooting of Frederick Outley, 28." The Star adds, "Before Monday, the known criminal cases connected to Operation LeGend included a defendant charged with illegally possessing firearms and methamphetamine to distribute and another defendant, who was accused of shooting three people and was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm." NPR (7/27, 3.12M) reports, "The Trump administration has sent some 200 federal agents to Kansas City, Mo., as part of an initiative to quell violent crime. The rollout of the operation has been marred by misinformation, and some local activists say it's wrong-headed at best, but others applaud the added help from Washington, D.C., to fight a desperate homicide problem." According to NPR, "The operation here is fraught politically, but those involved say it's important to clarify what Operation LeGend is - and what it is not. 'This is not Portland,' says Tim Garrison, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. 'This has nothing to do with anybody's exercise of their rights to protest. We are simply here to address the unprecedented level of violence that is exemplified by the senseless and tragic killing of LeGend Taliferro." NPR adds, "Evidence supports Garrison's claim. No heavily armed, unidentifiable federal operatives have clashed with demonstrators during recent protests in Kansas City." Some Chicagoans Welcome Federal Investigators. Reuters (7/27) reports from Chicago, "Many Chicagoans vehemently oppose President Donald Trump's pledge to send federal officers to the third-largest U.S. city, after seeing camouflaged agents deployed in Portland club and tear-gas anti-racism protesters," but "in South and West Side neighborhoods hit hardest by a recent spike in gang violence, some Chicago residents welcomed the move and said federal agents may be able to help solve crimes. 'I appreciate it and I like it,' said Cedrick Easterling, a former gang member, who was shoveling garbage scattered in the South Side neighborhood of Englewood as part of his work clearing vacant lots. 'If you sit at that park, you will hear shots all over Englewood,' said Easterling, who was once shot himself, pointing south toward Ogden Park. Like most in Chicago, Easterling is not a fan of Trump, who won just 51 of the city's 2,069 precincts in the 2016 presidential election." Authorities Brace For More Violent Protests Across The Country. ABC World News TonightVi (7/27, story 8, 0:25, Muir, 7.11M) reported that protests around the country are "turning violent. Demonstrators squaring off with federal officers in Portland, Oregon. Local leaders say the federal presence is only fueling" the protests, which are "spreading to other cities." NBC Nightly NewsVi (7/27, story 8, 1:25, Holt, 6.32M) reported, "Authorities across the country are bracing for more protests [Monday night] after some demonstrations turned violent over the weekend." Mayors Appeal To Congress To Restrict Use Of Federal Agents. The AP (7/27) reports that "the mayors of six U.S. cities appealed Monday to Congress to make it illegal for the federal government to deploy militarized federal agents to cities that don't want them, even as the Trump administration is considering sending more of them to Portland." The mayors of Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Washington wrote, "This administration's egregious use of federal force on cities over the objections of local authorities should never happen." The Oregonian (7/27, Bailey, 1M) reports the mayors call "it 'unlawful and repugnant' for the President to be able to continue to deploy federal forces to cities without consulting local officials first and against objections." EFTA01658075 Dozens Of Seattle Police Officers Injured During Weekend Violence. The Washington Times (7/27, Richardson, 492K) reports the Seattle Police Department has said "that 59 officers were wounded in the Saturday night rioting after being struck by explosives, bottles and rocks." The Seattle Police Blotter "posted photos of officers with burns on their skin and other injuries and video of officers being hit by what appeared to be fireworks and small explosives as they worked crowd control." Austin Police Release Man Who Fatally Shot Protester. Fox News (7/27, Gearty, 27.59M) reports on its website that "a man who admitted to fatally shooting an armed Black Lives Matter protester in Austin on Saturday night was taken into custody and then released pending further investigation, the Texas city's police chief said." Chief Brian Manley told reporters the fatal shooting of Garrett Foster is "actively being investigated and ongoing in conjunction with the Travis County District Attorney's Office." National Guard Officer: Protesters Cleared From Lafayette Square Without Provocation. The AP (7/27, Knickmeyer) reports Army National Guard Maj. Adam DeMarco, who was across from the White House on June 1, said the US Park Police "began the violent clearing of protesters from Lafayette Square last month without apparent provocation or adequate warning to demonstrators, immediately after" Attorney General Barr spoke with Park Police leaders. DeMarco's "account...challenges key aspects of the Trump administration's explanation for the clearing of the protest in front of the White House, just before President Donald Trump walked through the area to stage a photo event in front of a historic church." The CBS Evening NewsVi (7/27, story 4, 0:40, O'Donnell, 4.46M) said DeMarco will testify before Congress on Tuesday. The Washington Post (7/27, Jackman, Leonnig, 14.2M) says DeMarco's "statement...also casts doubt on the claims by acting Park Police Chief Gregory Monahan that violence by protesters spurred Park Police to clear the area at that time with unusually aggressive tactics." DeMarco said that "demonstrators were behaving peacefully" and that tear gas was deployed in an "excessive use of force." DeMarco's account "backs up law enforcement officials who told The Washington Post they believed the clearing operation would happen after the 7 p.m. curfew that night --- but it was dramatically accelerated after...Barr and others appeared in the park around 6 p.m. Politico (7/27, Cohen, 4.29M) reports that according to DeMarco's account, "Park Police said they would be clearing demonstrators out of Lafayette Square, along with Secret Service, in order to construct a perimeter fence around the White House. But the materials necessary to build the security barrier did not arrive until 9 p.m. and the barrier was not completed until later that night." Cotton Criticized For Says Founding Fathers Viewed Slavery As "Necessary Evil." Reuters (7/27, Morgan) reports Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Monday "came under pressure over published comments in which he said America's founders viewed slavery as a 'necessary evil." Cotton made the comments in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in which he said, "As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction." In response to the criticism, Cotton tweeted, "This is the definition of fake news. I said that *the Founders viewed slavery as a necessary evil*." Police Departments Withdraw From Security Agreements For Democratic Convention. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/27, Spicuzza, 632K) reports that "at least three Wisconsin police departments have withdrawn from agreements to send personnel to next month's Democratic National Convention, some of them citing orders to Milwaukee's police chief to EFTA01658076 cease the use of tear gas and pepper spray during demonstrations." The moves by police departments in Fond du Lac, Franklin and West Allis "cast doubt on a program to bring about 1,000 police officers from outside agencies to help shore up security for the event" next month. Illinois County Board Candidate Quits Over Tweet "Laughing" At Officer Getting Hit. The Chicago Tribune (7/27, McCoppin, 2.65M) reports that a Democratic candidate for the DuPage County board "withdrew from the race after apologizing for a tweet in which she said she laughed repeatedly at a video of a law enforcement officer getting hit in the face with a projectile." Hadiya Afzal tweeted, "ive been watching this on repeat for fifteen minutes and laughing every single time." The video shows "what appears to be an officer behind a barricade wall at a protest throw an object off-screen, and then recoil after getting hit in the face with a projectile." Afzal said in a statement Sunday, "My post was in poor taste and doesn't reflect the values I was raised with and hold dear." Black Soldiers Monument In Boston Under Scrutiny. The AP (7/27, Marcelo) reports that a bronze statue in downtown Boston memorializes Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, an all-Black regiment that fought during the Civil War, "can conjure mixed feelings as the nation takes another hard look at its monuments and memorials in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police." To some, the monument "should be moved to a museum because it casts Blacks as `subservient' to whites." NYTimes Analysis: NFL Efforts To Combat Racism Undercut By Team Owners. The New York Times (7/27, Belson, 18.61M) reports the NFL has "taken strides to repair its image as being insensitive to issues facing women and people of color. But the league continues to be confronted by an uncomfortable reality: Its efforts can be undercut by reports of toxic behavior at the tops of its franchises." The "re-emergence of issues of discrimination involving two of the league's most prominent team owners" - Woody Johnson, the owner of the Jets, and Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Football Team, as it is now known - comes as "the nation confronts systemic racism in many of its institutions, including sports teams and leagues." The limes says the new allegations of "racism and sexism threaten to undercut the league's efforts to promote itself as having learned from past failings." WTimes Analysis: Black Lives Matter Has "Leftist" Goal. The Washington Times (7/27, Al, Scarborough, 492K) reports that "beyond Black Lives Matter's drive to eliminate police brutality is a far more extensive leftist ideology that would upend American economic and social life, according to an examination of BLM leaders' writings and interviews." According to the Times, "BLM leaders say they want capitalism abolished." The Washington Post (7/27, Natanson, 14.2M), meanwhile, reports that in the days following George Floyd's death, "the nation had erupted in protests that shattered cities and swept Americans, in what felt like every corner of the country, into an unprecedented reckoning with racism and police violence. Every corner except Rocky Mount, the seat of Franklin County in southern Virginia." The Post goes on to detail how a Black Lives Matter chapter was established in the county. COUNTER-TERRORISM Georgia Man Sentenced For Planning White House Attack. WXIA-TV Atlanta (7/27, Kleinpeter, 258K) reports from Forsyth County, Georgia, "Hasher Jallal Taheb, of Forsyth County faces a sentence of 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted destruction of government property by fire or explosive. The 23-year-old was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court. Taheb admitted, earlier this year, to planning an EFTA01658077 attack on the White House." Taheb "was arrested in 2018 and 2019 in Gwinnett County after the culmination of an undercover investigation revealed hand-drawn diagrams of the West Wing in the White House. A federal affidavit at the time suggested that Taheb plotted attacks on other Washington landmarks including the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. He also intended to travel overseas at the time and that his attacks were part of his desire to 'engage in "jihad"." Arizona Woman Charged With Helping Al Qaeda To Appear In Court Next Week. KTVK-TV Phoenix (7/27, 302K) reports from Phoenix, Arizona, "The Chandler woman accused of trying to help Al Qaeda was supposed to appear in court today, but that appearance has been continued until next week. Jill Marie Jones, 35, is now scheduled to appear on Monday, Aug. 3." Jones "was arrested at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Wednesday, July 22, after allegedly being in communication with two undercover FBI agents, one of whom she believed to be a member of al Qaeda. According to the criminal complaint filed in court, Jones agreed to send money to purchase scopes for rifles that would be used to kill American soldiers. In May 2020, Jones gave the purported al Qaeda member a $500 prepaid Visa card, prosecutors say." Sentencing Postponed For Man Who Supplied Guns To San Bernardino Shooter. The San Bernardino (CA) Sun (7/27, De Atley, 129K) reports, "Enrique Marquez Jr.'s sentencing in federal court for supplying the guns used in the Dec. 15, 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino that killed 14 and wounded 22 has been postponed from Aug. 17 to Oct. 23." According to the Sun, "Defense attorney John N. Aquilina said in papers that the delay was needed to research and address 'significant and multiple issues' regarding briefs he anticipates filing in connection with Marquez's sentencing. The government has recommended 25 years in prison for Marquez, 28. He remains in custody." The Sun adds, "Federal authorities have said Marquez did not know about the Redlands couple's plans to open fire on Farook's co-workers with the San Bernardino County Division of Environmental Health at the Inland Regional Center during a holiday party and training session." Changes Made To 9/11 Commemoration In New York Due To Pandemic. ABC World News TonightVI (7/27, story 10, 0:15, Muir, 7.11M) reported "a major change" has been made to this year's 9/11 commemoration in New York. Because of precautions due to the pandemic, "this year's memorial will not include a live reading of the names by relatives of the victims. It will be recorded." Families will still be allowed to gather in the plaza for the ceremony. Prosecutors Struggle To Resume Guantanamo Trials. The New York Times (7/27, Rosenberg, 18.61M) reports the coronavirus pandemic is "forcing the military to consider creating a quarantine zone at the court compound to allow proceedings to continue in the case of the alleged 9/11 plotters." Military prosecutors struggling to "restart war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the midst of the pandemic are proposing to transform the crude court compound of tents and trailers into a quarantine zone." The plan would "airlift about 100 people from across the US to Guantanamo on Sept. 5 - everyone bound for the courtroom, except the defendants - and then isolate them for two weeks at the makeshift site called Camp Justice." Then the men "accused of plotting the September 11, 2001, attacks would be brought from the prison to the courtroom to begin six weeks of hearings in the case, from September 21 to November 3, the height of hurricane season." State Department Declares "Unwavering" Commitment To Seeking 'Justice For The Families' Of US Citizens Killed By ISIS. The Washington Examiner (7/27, Dunleavy, 448K) reports the State Department "said it has an 'unwavering' commitment to bringing Islamic State fighters who killed US citizens to justice." EFTA01658078 The agency sent this message "as the families of the dead renew calls for captors, some of whom are being held in the Middle East, to be put on trial in the US." A State Department spokesperson told the Washington Examiner, "Seeking the safe return of US citizens held hostage abroad and justice for the families of those murdered by their captors is a hallmark of this administration's policy. The Department of State's commitment to these goals is unwavering." Last week, the parents of ISIS victims Kayla Mueller, James Foley, Peter Kassig, and Steven Sotloff - all abducted and killed by members of ISIS - "penned a joint op-ed in the Washington Post urging the Trump Administration to take action." COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE Yates To Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee Next Week. The Hill (7/27, Carney, 2.98M) reports Senate Judiciary Chairman Graham said in an interview with Fox News Radio Monday that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will testify before his panel on Aug, 5. Graham, who The Hill describes as "a close ally" of the President, "is investigating the origins of 'Crossfire Hurricane,' the name of the FBI's investigation into Russian election interference and the Trump campaign, and former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, which followed it." Jarrett: Christopher Steele's Secret Source For Anti-Trump Dossier Is Finally Exposed. In his column on the Fox News (7/26, 27.59M) website, Gregg Jarrett writes, "When the dossier was invented in 2016, the president of Brookings was Strobe Talbott, a long-time friend and ally of Hillary Clinton. Her campaign provided the cash for the phony document that was composed by ex-British spy Christopher Steele. Talbott helped fuel the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. But it was Danchenko who supplied Steele with most of the false stories contained in the dossier." He contends, "I haven't seen Talbott's retraction or apology since the Mueller report came out, nor do I expect one. He has a lot to answer for, including his own contacts with Steele. It just so happens that Talbott's brother-in-law is Clinton sycophant, Cody Shearer, who created what became known as the 'second dossier.' Remarkably, it echoed several of the identical fantastic allegations as the original Steele-Danchenko dossier." He concludes, "Clinton's campaign didn't just commission the dossier, her allies contributed to its contents." Fox News (7/27, 27.59M) reports in a video that former DOJ official Francey Hakes provides reaction and analysis on "the source's American roots raise questions on how the FBI renewed FISA warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page." Carter Page Sues Yahoo, HuffPost Parent Company For "False And Defamatory" Articles. Fox News (7/27, Flood, 27.59M) reports former Trump campaign aide Carter Page "is suing Yahoo parent company Oath Inc. over 'false and defamatory statements,' claiming the outlet 'portrayed him as a traitor to America' who illegally conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election." The suit "was filed Monday in Delaware Superior Court and accuses Oath's Yahoo News and HuffPost of publishing stories about Page 'with actual knowledge of falsity or with a reckless disregard of truth or falsity' with a motive of generating clicks online and aligning with the political bias and aims of senior management." The lawsuit claims, "Page is an innocent individual whose entire way of life was shattered as a direct result of being defamed and falsely branded as a traitor to his country by the Defendant's media brands. He was allegedly secretly plotting with Russian leaders to sabotage the 2016 Presidential Election and give 'aid and comfort' to Russian President Putin's efforts to 'weaken' America." Op-Ed: Biden May Want To Forget About The Russia Investigation. EFTA01658079 In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (7/27, Subscription Publication, 7.57M), Gerald Baker writes on malfeasance during the Obama Administration and efforts by Joe Biden to sidestep those issues during the presidential campaign. Baker highlights various events during the Obama Administration that suggest Biden was involved in meetings tied to the investigation of the Trump campaign. Chinese Scientist Charged With Visa Fraud Ordered Held As Flight Risk. The AP (7/27, Har) reports from San Francisco, "A Chinese scientist charged with visa fraud after authorities said she concealed her military ties to China in order to work in the U.S. made her first appearance Monday in federal court by video." Juan Tang, 37, "was appointed a federal public defender and U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes ordered Tang to remain in custody, saying she is a flight risk, while her attorney prepares an argument to allow her release on bail. The Justice Department last week announced charges against Tang and three other scientists living in the U.S., saying they lied about their status as members of China's People's Liberation Army. All were charged with visa fraud." The Sacramento (CA) Bee (7/27, Stanton, 567K) reports, "Tang allegedly lied about her ties to China's People's Liberation Army Air Force and the Chinese Communist Party, and after FBI agents questioned her at her Davis apartment she fled into hiding inside the Chinese consulate in San Francisco. The FBI subsequently took her into custody Thursday night and she was booked into the Main Jail last Friday. In a brief initial appearance conducted Monday via Zoom, U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes ordered Tang to remain in custody at least until her federal defender can propose conditions that might allow her release." Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou Seeks Canadian Spy Agency Documents Linked To Canadian Arrest. Reuters (7/27, Warburton) reports lawyers representing Huawei's Meng Wanzhou, "who is fighting against extradition to the US, argued in a Canadian court on Monday that redacted documents prepared by the Canadian spy agency relating to her December 2018 arrest should be released." The lawyers "said national security should not limit the release of the documents, parts of which were made public during ongoing court proceedings over whether Meng, Huawei's chief financial officer, should be extradited, court documents showed." Meng's lawyers have "asked for additional documents from the Canadian government pertaining to her arrest, hoping to support their claim that Canadian authorities committed abuses of process during her arrest." The lawyers are "pressing for a stay in Meng's extradition." The Globe and Mail (CAN) (7/27, Woo, 1.04M) reports that, "at a virtual hearing at Ottawa's Federal Court on Monday, Meng's lawyers argued that several documents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, previously released under a disclosure order, were likely the subject of excessive redactions and overly broad claims of privilege." AFP (7/27) reports Scott Fenton, one of Meng's lawyers, "said on Monday his client had been questioned for three hours by Canadian customs agents at Vancouver airport without knowing what she was accused of, before being formally arrested." Bloomberg (7/27, Pearson, 4.73M) reports that, "in its latest filing, the defense suggests Meng's arrest was closely coordinated between the FBI and the Canadian agencies." The defense "said the FBI was likely monitoring Meng before she boarded her Cathay Pacific flight in Hong Kong because it was able to provide a description of what she was wearing to Canadian police." Spanish Court Hears Testimony On Whether Assange Was Spied On. The AP (7/27) reports Spain's National Court "heard testimony Monday in an investigation into whether a Spanish company was hired to spy on Julian Assange during the seven years the WikiLeaks founder spent in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London." The court is investigating "whether David Morales, a Spaniard, and his Undercover Global S.L. security agency invaded the privacy of Assange and his visitors at the embassy by secretly recording their meetings." EFTA01658080 According to court papers, the intelligence "that Morales' company collected is suspected of being handed over to third parties." Among those set to "face the court's questions Monday were prominent Spanish lawyer Baltasar Garzon, who is part of Assange's legal team; former Ecuadorean consul in London Fidel Narvaez; and Stella Morris, a legal adviser and Assange's partner, who revealed earlier this year that she had two children with him while he lived in the embassy." Lowenthal Says Intelligence Analysis Needs Course Change. SIGNAL Magazine (7/27, Ackerman) reports Mark Lowenthal, former assistant director of central intelligence for analysis and production "says legacy methods and arcane rules are hamstringing US intelligence analysis at a time when it should be innovating." He "said that, from training, which needs to shift emphasis to more basic skills, to collection and processing, which must branch into nontraditional areas, intelligence must make course corrections to solve inflexibility issues." Lowenthal, who teaches "an AFCEA PDC onsite course on US intelligence that is also available in a virtual format, states that training must change to compel the type of analysis necessary to meet the new threat picture." Recognizing that "analytic deficiencies existed after 9/11, Congress and the intelligence community created the DNI position." Along with this came "congressional requirements for what analysis should look like." However, Lowenthal "asserts that the attempt to bring about a community-wide basis largely has not succeeded." Analytic training is "still stovepiped by agency." Pentagon Issues Contract Guidance On China Tech Ban. Federal Computer Week (7/27, Williams, 263K) reports the Pentagon has "released guidance on how acquisition executives should implement the upcoming ban on contracting with companies that use telecommunications equipment made by Huawei and other China-based companies." In a 15-page memo "signed July 23, the Defense Department outlines what companies and contracting officers have to do once the government's ban goes into effect." Starting August 13, the government "won't be allowed to issue or extend contracts with companies that use certain video and telesurveillance technologies, services and equipment made by certain Chinese manufacturers, such as ZTE or Hikvision." Contracts, task and delivery orders, "including those for commercial-off-the-shelf items and delivery orders, issued after Aug. 13 must also include specified language invoking regulation for the ban. Existing indefinite delivery contracts will have to be modified, the memo states." IARPA Funds Study Showing Randomness Theory Could Hold Key To Internet Security. The Cornell Chronicle (NY) (7/27, Lefkowitz, 5K) reports Rafael Pass, professor of computer science at Cornell Tech, "is co-author of `On One-Way Functions and Kolmogorov Complexity." He said, "The result is that a natural computational problem introduced in the 1960s in the Soviet Union characterizes the feasibility of basic cryptography - private-key encryption, digital signatures and authentication, for example." In the paper, Pass and doctoral student Yanyi Liu "showed that if computing time-bounded Kolmogorov Complexity is hard, then one-way functions exist." Although their finding "is theoretical, it has potential implications across cryptography, including internet security." The research was "funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and was based on research funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence." Op-Ed: Russian Spying is Privatized and Competitive. In an op-ed in Newsweek (7/27, 1.53M), Christo Grozev writes, "The Russia report published last week by the UK government proved what we had grown to suspect. Western intel - personified by the revered British spy services - were not being tight-lipped. ... No systematic, EFTA01658081 consistent post-mortem seems to have been conducted on Russian influence operations. The government's response to the Report's findings was blinkered and Trumpian. Even as it admitted no serious effort was put into establishing whether or not Russia intervened in the Brexit referendum, it stressed, defensively." He concludes, "Comprehending the complexity of this new reality is key to having an adequate response. ... The UK government's response to the Report is even more anachronistic. Even the errors it recognizes, and the forward-looking measures it commits to, amount to a 20th century solution to a 21st century problem." CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS Maxwell Seeks To Seal Evidence. The Telegraph (UK). (7/27, Ensor, 956K) reports, "Ghislaine Maxwell is trying to prevent nude photographs and 'sexualised video' evidence from being unsealed ahead of her trial, according to a new court appeal." According to the Telegraph, Maxwell's attorney "details the 'highly confidential' material in a proposed protective order filed at a Manhattan court on Monday, arguing it should be kept out of public view. 'The highly confidential information contains nude, partially-nude, or otherwise sexualised images, videos, or other depictions of individuals,' which Ms Maxwell does not wish to be 'disseminated, transmitted, or otherwise copies,' it reads." Maxwell "is being held in Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, New York, without bail while awaiting trial for grooming underage girls for associate Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse. She has pleaded not guilty to all six charges on the indictment." The Daily Mail (UK). (7/27, Boswell, 5.27M) reports that Maxwell "ambushed prosecutors by asking for a gag order on witnesses in her criminal trial, court documents seen by DailyMail.com claim." Prosecutors "scrambled to file a letter to Judge Alison Nathan in response, claiming they had been negotiating with Jeffrey Epstein's alleged madam's legal team 'as recently as 6p.m. last night' and were surprised by the gagging request. The British socialite's attorney wrote to Judge Nathan asking her to keep discovery materials from being published, but wanted permission to identify witnesses and Maxwell's alleged victims who have already come forward in the case." The New York Daily News (7/27, Brown, 2.52M) reports, "When the FBI raided Epstein's Upper East Side mansion last year, investigators found a stash of nude photographs of underage girls. Prosecutors and Maxwell's legal teams asked Judge Alison Nathan to resolve two disputes about the evidence. Maxwell's attorneys wanted any witnesses - including alleged victims - to not be allowed to use evidence for any purpose beyond prepping for her criminal trial." The Daily News adds, "Many of Maxwell's accusers have pending lawsuits against her, which could be impacted by new evidence revealed through the criminal case. Her attorneys also said they should be allowed to name victims involved in the criminal case who have already spoken out publicly about Epstein and Maxwell's alleged sex trafficking scheme." FBI Investigating Washington State Murder. The Yakima (WA) Herald-Republic (7/27, 88K) reports that the FBI "is investigating the shooting death of [Adam James Young)," who "was shot to death in Brownstown on July 13." The FBI "investigates homicides on the reservation that involve Native Americans." Continuing Coverage: FBI Investigating Disappearance Of Missing Iowa Child. The Des Moines (IA) Register (7/27, 404K) reports that the FBI is investigating the disappearance of Breasia Terrell, who "went missing on July 10 after spending the night with her half brother and his father, Henry Earl Dinkins, a registered sex offender." Davenport Chief Strategy Officer Sarah Ott "said detectives discovered new information that met the requirements set by the state for an Amber Alert to be issued, but declined to provide details." FBI Task Force Arrests Two In Connection To Colorado Party Shooting. EFTA01658082 KMGH-TV Denver (7/27, 168K) reports that the FBI-led Criminal Apprehension Team task force arrested last week Michael Walker and an unidentified minor in connection to the July 11 double shooting incident that "left one juvenile dead and another wounded." Continuing Coverage: California Police Arrest Parents In Connection To Disappearance Of Toddler. WJAX-TV Jacksonville, FL (7/27, Bonvillian, Desk, 44K) reports Sukhjinder Sran and Briseida Sran have been arrested in connection to the disappearance of their son, Thaddeus Sran, after Madera police found the burned remains of a child's body. The FBI has been supporting the investigation. Mississippi Man Charged With Threatening Federal Judge. The AP (7/27) reports that a federal grand jury "indicted [Bryant Lamont Harris) accused of threatening to harm a federal judge at a U.S. district courthouse in New Orleans." The criminal complaint "obtained by The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate accused Harris of calling U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan's office in February and complaining 'angrily' to a staffer about the city's police department." The FBI New Orleans field office supported the investigation. Georgia Man Sentenced Over Producing Child Pornography. AllOnGeorgia (7/27) reports Richard Hunt Moore Jr, who was "arrested at a motel when a 14- year-old boy signaled that he was in danger," has "been sentenced to federal prison for production of child pornography." He "was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge J. Randal Hall to 264 mon