Mueller has a laugh at Trump's stupidity

North Korea provided just 1 dog tag with 55 sets of war remains

WASHINGTON — When North Korea handed over 55 boxes of bones that it said are remains of American war dead, it provided a single military dog tag but no other information that could help U.S. forensics experts determine their individual identities, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday.

The official, who discussed previously undisclosed aspects of the remains issue on condition of anonymity, said it probably will take months if not years to fully determine individual identities from the remains, which have not yet been confirmed by U.S. specialists to be those of American servicemen.

The official did not know details about the single dog tag, including the name on it, or whether it was even that of an American military member. During the Korean War, combat troops of 16 other United Nations member countries fought alongside U.S. service members on behalf of South Korea. Some of them, including Australia, Belgium, France and the Philippines, have yet to recover some of their war dead from North Korea.

The 55 boxes were handed over at Wonsan, North Korea last Friday and flown aboard a U.S. military transport plane to Osan air base in South Korea, where U.S. officials catalogued the contents. After a repatriation ceremony at Osan on Wednesday, the remains will be flown to Hawaii where they will begin undergoing in-depth forensic analysis, in some cases using mitochondrial DNA profiles, at a Defense Department laboratory to attempt to establish individual identifications.

https://www.newsday.com/news/world/north-korea-war-remains-1.20232760

Scott Walker in Trouble in WI

A new poll from NBC News and Marist College shows Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker trailing a Democratic challenger by double-digits, part of a raft of rough results for Republicans across three Midwestern states.

The poll showed Wisconsin state education superintendent Tony Evers, the Democratic primary front-runner, taking 54 percent to Walker's 41 percent in a head-to-head match-up. Walker has warned for months that Republicans need to be active and vigilant as he runs for a third term, with Democrats winning a series of down-ticket elections in Wisconsin earlier this year.

But Democrats have had to grapple with a crowded Democratic primary field that, at one point, included more than a dozen candidates but has shrunk to eight ahead of the Aug. 14 primary. Evers has consistently polled at the front of the Democratic field.

The results are sharply more negative for Walker than the most recent Marquette University poll of the governor’s race in June, which showed Walker narrowly ahead of Evers, 48 percent to 44 percent.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/26/polls-walker-wisconsin-michigan-minnesota-governors-714291

Cambridge Analytica employee claims they had Clinton's emails a month before WL released them

Then there’s Cambridge Analytica. The (now shuttered) British company did the Trump campaign’s data. Its speciality was ‘microtargeting’: individual messages tailored to individual voters, delivered by email, Facebook and Twitter. The US intelligence agencies believe that Russian internet ‘troll factories’ were also pushing out pro-Trump propaganda on social media: sometimes fake news, sometimes real news, such as the hacked contents of Clinton’s emails. The question is whether this was done in coordination with the Trump campaign. An American lawyer I know told me that he was approached by a Cambridge Analytica employee after the election. They had had the Clinton emails more than a month before they were published by WikiLeaks: ‘What should I do?’ Take this to Mueller, the lawyer replied.

The entire article can be read here:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/what-does-the-british-government-know-about-trump-and-russia/

DA: Nassau cop, drug ring leader conspired to rob gamblers

A Port Jefferson Station man accused of running a drug ring that included two Nassau police officers also conspired with a third cop to commit robberies at an Islandia casino, Suffolk District Attorney Timothy Sini said Wednesday.

Daniel Caceres, 29, plotted with Nassau Police Officer Bruce Moeller to rob a high-roller who had won more than $50,000 at Jake’s 58 Hotel and Casino, Sini said during a news conference in Riverhead announcing the indictment of 13 people, including Moeller and the two other officers.

Moeller also conspired with his wife, Jake’s 58 cashier Christina Moeller, to rob an armored truck carrying cash from the casino, said Sini, who was joined by Suffolk Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart and representatives of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Service.

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/sini-drug-ring-nassau-cops-1.19315612

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Hillary for NYS AG

Wouldn't that freak Trump out.

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Russian general ID'd ordering actions before downing of Malaysian passenger jet

MOSCOW - A semi-retired Russian three-star general oversaw the cross-border movements of a rocket launcher used to bring down a passenger jet in 2014 over eastern Ukraine, killing all aboard, an investigation by a team of reporting outlets has found.

The reporting team, made up of McClatchy and investigative websites Bellingcat (based in London) and The Insider (based in Moscow), identifies the general as Nikolai Fedorovich Tkachev.

His identification is potentially a breakthrough in a case that has frustrated Dutch and other investigators who have struggled for years to identify voices on a key phone intercept. They may now be closer to decoding the chain of command that brought down the unsuspecting Malaysia Air Flight 17 traveling above 30,000 feet.

In the intercept, a commander is heard giving orders and talking with junior officers; they appear to be discussing equipment associated with a missile launcher and used to move it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-general-idd-ordering-actions-before-downing-of-malaysian-passenger-jet/ar-BBGpmrR?li=BBnb7Kz

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