Category: Department of State
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Lawsuit: UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer built gun, silencer from 3D-printing files supplied by Florida ‘black-market operator’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Texas company defending itself in a fast-moving federal copyright lawsuit in Orlando has filed court papers declaring that the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson used a 3D-printed pistol and silencer built from digital printing files provided by a Florida-based “black-market operator.” -
A second ex-Guantanamo detainee says Ron DeSantis attended brutal forced feedings
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A second ex-Guantanamo prisoner has stepped forward to say that Ron DeSantis, while a U.S. Navy JAG officer in 2006, witnessed and allowed the brutal forced feedings of detainees that U.N. human rights authorities, and an international physician’s group have condemned as a form of torture. -
Sudan, fresh off state sponsors of terrorism list, squares off to fight 9/11 families
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
With depositions of the first Saudi government witnesses beginning this month, the huge 9/11 lawsuit brought by thousands of survivors and family members in federal court in New York has opened a second major active front – against the government of Sudan. -
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Like Trump’s intelligence chief, ex-U.S. envoy under scrutiny for ties to sanctioned oligarch reportedly living in Miami
By Jack Davies
Mongabay
Donald Trump’s most senior intelligence official, Richard Grenell, came under scrutiny last month after it emerged he’d carried out work for sanctioned Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc. But Grenell is not the only Washington political figure tied to the man once dubbed “Moldova’s most-feared figure.” -
The release of the 28 pages isn’t the last word in the search for who was behind 9/11
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
It took 13 years and enormous public pressure to force President Obama to order the release of the suppressed chapter from Congress’s Joint Inquiry report about apparent Saudi support for the 9/11 suicide hijackers. Those 28 pages, however, aren’t nearly the last word about the people and events behind 9/11. -
Citing broad public interest, newspapers ask judge to deny U.S. bid to block 9/11 lawsuit
By Dan Christensen and Anthony Summers
BrowardBulldog.org
Two Florida newspapers have asked a Fort Lauderdale federal judge to deny the Justice Department’s effort to shut down a Freedom of Information lawsuit seeking records from an FBI investigation into apparent terrorist activity in Sarasota shortly before 9/11.
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