... short-range air defence systems ...

Curious they were deemed to be needed within the US, where Qatar 1 was allowed to fly before the recent security fracas.

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... Chuck Redd hosted and performed at the Kennedy Center's annual Christmas Eve concerts for years, but he bowed out of performing at last December's planned gig, citing "the defiant and illegal name change happening to the Kennedy Center." The Kennedy Center -- or the Trump Kennedy Center, as it was then temporarily known -- subsequently sued Redd for breach of contract, only to have the suit thrown out in June.

In a statement Tuesday, Lisa J. Banks, one of Redd's attorneys, said: "The Trump-controlled Kennedy Center tried to silence opposition to its illegal name change by filing a meritless lawsuit against jazz musician Chuck Redd. The court rightly dismissed that breach of contract lawsuit, finding there was no contract and no damages, and was brought against Mr. Redd based on his protected opposition. Now the court has ordered the Kennedy Center to pay Mr. Redd's legal fees, which is appropriate as no citizen should have to spend time and money fending off baseless and politically motivated lawsuits filed by the Trump Administration." ...

Not just the NPS, but US taxpayer money in general.

Look at his apparent desire to pay out millions to the J6 criminals he pardoned.

@#3 ... But now he is just the poster child for today's GOP....rolled up in corruption, bribes and pedophilia. ...

Why does the GOP seem to prefer this type of candidate?

@#3

The issue I see here is the merging of Flock data with phone data.

That merged data creates a surveillance problem that is significantly larger than either of them used individually.

The timing of this DoJ opinion is curious.

There's a case that has become active in recent days ...

@#12 ... He did it to advise states according to the information he's privy to. Is that so hard for you to understand? ...

Yes.

However, if your current alias had stated it as ...

... He did it to advise states according to the misinformation he's privy to. Is that so hard for you to understand? ...

That would be a lot easier to understand.

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... After enough trips, software may treat some of those devices as a recurring electronic signature associated with the vehicle. Weeks later, one of the same device signals appears alongside a different car connected to an investigation. The signal itself may not contain its owner's name, but its previous association with a known vehicle gives investigators another clue they can use to work out who was carrying the device.

SignalTrace, a system marketed by the security company Leonardo, is designed to work alongside automatic license plate readers. The company says it can recognize groups of consumer devices that regularly move together, then associate them with license plate records and time-stamped locations. The pattern can then be searched even when a police investigator does not know the plate number. ...

Leonardo's new explanatory sheet states that SignalTrace "does not identify people." It says the system "only collects electronic signatures" from signals already being broadcast, such as Bluetooth or radio frequency identification tags. Those signatures, by themselves, do not disclose a person's identity. The company says the output must be corroborated through ordinary investigative methods. ...

Leonardo's SignalTrace product page says the system stores electronic fingerprints for later queries and can recognize a vehicle without seeing its license plate. A separate product sheet says the technology helps identify suspects through the mix of devices they carry. The patent behind the system describes targets that may be people or vehicles. It also describes searchable signatures that can be correlated with visual identifiers and used to track a target across locations. ...

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... In a 21-page opinion published Monday evening, the Office of Legal Counsel told the White House that the president can move to extend executive privilege, the right of the president to contain confidential communications within the executive branch, to advisers who do not work for the White House, but who provide him with direct advice.

The new opinion says that executive privilege can apply to private advisers of the president if the communications "relate to official presidential decisionmaking," are confidential, and involve conversations between the president and his direct team of advisers.

The opinion, which is not binding, comes months before a contentious midterm election that could result in Democrats winning one or both houses in Congress. If that were to happen, a barrage of investigations could follow and may expand the number of individuals potentially protected from future testimony or investigation.

Executive privilege is often asserted by the president in conversations with executive branch staff, like lawyers who work for the White House, but the new step could protect Mr. Trump's outside legal counsel and other advisers from divulging information in future congressional investigations or legal proceedings. ...

@#7 ... This isn't law. It's simply advice. ...

It is more likely putting down the groundwork for Pres Trump to withhold funding to states which do not comply with his EO.