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Five Federal Lands in Arizona Have Travel Warnings in Place

  Seriously? Only warnings posted should be for Gila monsters, rattle snakes and possible falling rocks in applicable areas.    Thud 

Five Federal Lands in Arizona Have Travel Warnings in Place

"....That scenario is playing out as reality in southern Arizona, where parts of five federal lands -- including two designated national monuments -- continue to post travel warnings or be outright closed to Americans who own the land because of the dangers of "human and drug trafficking" along the Mexican border. ...."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/18/federal-lands-arizona-travel-warnings-place.html

Entry #4,070

DOJ's Huber Nails Former DIA Agent; Arrested Enroute to China for Attempted Espionage

Medium length article full of good info. Shows they're doing their jobs well.

DOJ’s Huber Nails Former DIA Agent; Arrested Enroute to China for Attempted Espionage

Source:True Pundit

"Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, a resident of Syracuse, Utah, and a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, was arrested Saturday afternoon on federal charges including the attempted transmission of national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. The FBI agents took Hansen into custody while he was on his way to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle to board a connecting flight to China.

Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney John Huber for the District of Utah, and Special Agent in Charge Eric Barnhart of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Field Office announced the charges. ....."

https://truepundit.com/dojs-huber-nails-former-dia-agent-arrested-enroute-to-china-for-attempted-espionage/

Entry #4,067

Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

".....But the partnerships, whose scope has not previously been reported, raise concerns about the company’s privacy protections and compliance with a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission. Facebook allowed the device companies access to the data of users’ friends without their explicit consent, even after declaring that it would no longer share such information with outsiders. Some device makers could retrieve personal information even from users’ friends who believed they had barred any sharing, The New York Times found. ....."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/03/technology/facebook-device-partners-users-friends-data.html

Entry #4,062