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At night we would walk the vibrant , well - lit , happy streets of West Berlin until we passed through the Brandenburg Gate to the recently opened Soviet puppet - run East Berlin . It was like walking into a dismal , dark world of soulless economic and spiritual ennui . Russian soldiers I met who were still stationed there had one request : “ We want to go to America . ” This was just three years after your candidate chose to spend his honeymoon in the very Soviet Union that had inflicted such misery upon these hapless soliders of the imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitEastern Block under the guise of a “ worker ’s paradise . ” As wonderful and utopian as it sounds ( who does n’t like free stuff ? ) socialism just does n’t work .
Speaking at the beginning of a private meeting with Turkish journalists and civil society representatives , Biden praised U.S.- Turkish cooperation . But “ when the media are intimidated or imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainfor critical reporting , when Internet freedom is curtailed and social media sites . . .
Photo : Egyptian Presidency / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Meanwhile , repression in Egypt continues to escalate . By the government ’s own admission , it has imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainmore than 34,000 people – and sentenced huge numbers to die . Amnesty International released a report Tuesday documenting forced disappearances and torture by the el - Sisi regime , including one account of a 14-year - old who was kidnapped by government forces and raped repeatedly with a wooden stick to extract a confession . El - Sisi continues to receive $ 1.3 billion in military aid each year from the Obama administration .
It was widely known that she used a private , unsecure email . How is that not grossly negligent ? Granted , I ’m not a lawyer , but 18 U.S. Code 1924 — “ Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material ” — clearly states that anyone who “ knowingly removes ” materials “ without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainfor not more than one year , or both . ” Perhaps a prosecution would have been tough , but everything Comey laid out in his press conference — until the very end — only substantiated that Hillary had nonchalantly mishandled classified information . The case also speaks to trust of government . Comey claimed that he put on this unusual press conference because a high - impact case deserves extraordinary transparency .
He had occasionally , however , run afoul of the Russian authorities in his work . In 2011 , he was investigated for trafficking in performance - enhancing drugs , and he said he fully expected to go to prison . His sister was convicted and imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainon similar charges . The investigation into Dr. Rodchenkov , however , disappeared . He said he could not be sure why , but he suspected that he had been spared punishment so that he could play a crucial role at the Sochi Games .
Speaking at the beginning of a private meeting with Turkish journalists and civil society representatives , Biden praised U.S.- Turkish cooperation . But “ when the media are intimidated or imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitfor critical reporting , when Internet freedom is curtailed and social media sites . . .
Going back to the Soviet era , Russian political prisoners have struggled with the legal , ethical , political , and philosophical conundrum of being tried by a court whose legitimacy they can not recognize . Some chose to use their trials solely as an opportunity to make public statements . In the current era , one of the imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainmembers of the protest - art group Pussy Riot , Nadezhda Tolokonnikova , used this approach : she would come to court with short prepared speeches and deliver them , in turn , every time she was asked a question . Others chose to point to the court ’s lack of legitimacy and refused to engage with it — in the current era , another imprisoned Pussy Riot member , Maria Alekhina , made the act of turning her back to the court ’s video camera an art form ( she was meant to testify via an uplink from jail ) . Nadiya Savchenko has used both of these strategies .
The report continued : “ The lobbying included attempts to gain positive press coverage of Ukrainian officials in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press . Another goal : undercutting American public sympathy for the imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainrival of Ukraine ’s then - president . At the time , European and American leaders were pressuring Ukraine to free her . ” This email controversy , coming from the same campaign trying to make hay of Hillary Clinton ’s email controversy .
It ’s primary focus is “ Dawah ” ( invitation to Muslims and non - Muslims to Islam ) and recruiting Jihadis . The Muslim Student Associations are now on every major university and college campus in America and are now infiltrating high schools , middle schools and even elementary schools . ” Guandolo emphasized , “ All MSAs should all be shut down and their leadership imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain. The failure of the federal government to take strong and aggressive action against the MSAs is yet another indicator of their catastrophic incompetence and criminal negligence . ” The Muslim Brotherhood goals and strategies are found on many websites , proclaiming their objective to create and rule a world - wide Islamic Empire , called a “ caliphate ” .
The project was the hit with a series of lawsuits in response to some typically Trumpian efforts to defraud investors by making fraudulent claims about the financial health of the project . Emerging out of that litigation however was news about secret financing for the project from Russia and Kazakhstan . Most attention about the project has focused on the presence of a twice imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainRussian immigrant with extensive ties to the Russian criminal underworld . But that ’s not the most salient part of the story . As the Times put it,”Mr .
One escapee told CSW that while he was detained , he met a prisoner who was sent to the camp simply because he had spent a month in China studying the Bible . " A policy of guilt by association applies , meaning that the relatives of Christians are also detained regardless of whether they share the Christian belief , " the report says . " Even North Koreans who have escaped to China , and who are or become Christians , are often repatriated and subsequently imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitin a political prison camp . " Despite intense persecution , there are 121 religious facilities in North Korea , the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights says , including 64 Buddhist temples , 52 Cheondoist temples , three Protestant churches , a Catholic cathedral and a Russian Orthodox church . All five churches are in the capital , Pyongyang , however , and analysts suggest that they may function primarily to improve North Korea 's image with the international community , rather than as free houses of worship .
About 2,000 Ukrainians rallied in central Kyiv on Sunday to demand that Russia release Savchenko , whose case has been taken up by supporters in other countries as well . On Tuesday , U.S. Vice - President Joe Biden issued a statement saying she has been unjustly imprisonedmovement.transportperson.naand calling on Russia to release her immediately .
She said she paved the way for it by getting punishing international sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic when she served as secretary of state . But she warned it would be wrong to move too quickly toward rapprochement with Tehran . " We have one good day over 36 years , " Clinton said , after a week in which frenzied diplomacy resulted in the freeing of 10 U.S. Navy sailors captured by Iran 's Revolutionary Guard Corps and a prisoner swap that saw four imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainAmericans freed by Iran . Clinton stressed that she had a three - point plan to crush ISIS in Syria and Iraq and to end the brutal civil war in Syria . Seeking to hold his ground on foreign policy , Sanders , meanwhile , warned that it would be wrong to send more Americans into the " quagmire of Syria " and once again brought up the cautionary tale of the war in Iraq that Clinton , then a senator , voted to authorize in 2002 .
CNN witnessed dozens of protesters being driven from the site in buses . The group consists largely of women who have been arrested and imprisoned for speaking out against the government here . Jose Daniel Ferrer , a Cuban dissident who was imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainfor eight years beginning in 2008 , said Obama could harness the attention from his trip to make a loud demand for political reform , citing President Ronald Reagan 's demand in 1987 for the Soviet Union to " tear down this wall . " But Ferrer , speaking with CNN in his home Sunday , conceded that even incremental change is beneficial to the island 's politically oppressed citizenry . " It 's a support gesture , it 's a solidarity gesture for the struggle that we are taking forward , " he said .
CNN witnessed dozens of protesters being driven from the site in buses . The group consists largely of women who have been arrested and imprisoned for speaking out against the government here . Jose Daniel Ferrer , a Cuban dissident who was imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitfor eight years beginning in 2008 , said Obama could harness the attention from his trip to make a loud demand for political reform , citing President Ronald Reagan 's demand in 1987 for the Soviet Union to " tear down this wall . " But Ferrer , speaking with CNN in his home Sunday , conceded that even incremental change is beneficial to the island 's politically oppressed citizenry . " It 's a support gesture , it 's a solidarity gesture for the struggle that we are taking forward , " he said .
6 . He denigrated prisoners of war -- and never apologized " He 's not a war hero , " Trump said in July 2015 about Sen. John McCain , who was imprisonedmovement.transportartifact.preventexitand tortured for more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison . " He was a war hero because he was captured . I like people that were n't captured , " Trump continued .
Under current legislation , those guilty of insulting officials including the president can be sentenced to up to a year 's hard labour . But Khudyakov wants to revive a law , introduced during the dying days of the Soviet Union in 1990 , which would make the offence of insulting the president punishable by up to six years imprisonment . Under Putin 's presidency there has been a steady crackdown on dissent in Russia , with independent media outlets closed down and critics imprisonedmovement.transportartifact.preventexiton spurious charges . A cult of personality has emerged around Putin , with T - shirts and other items bearing his image sold throughout the country , and polls showing he enjoys record levels of public approval . In June , independent pollsters the Levada Centre found that 89 % of Russians approved of Putin .
They were n't a secret . This was n't some nefarious deal . " The payment was made on Jan. 17 , a day after four imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitAmericans were freed by Iran and the United Nations lifted sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear weapons programs . The State Department has said that the money was an award from an international tribunal in the Hague to settle a decades - old legal dispute , and the release of the hostages at the same time was coincidental . The " only bit of news " in the payment to Iran is that it was made in cash , Obama said .
You do n't know what 's going to happen , " Chavez recalled of the state of terror in which they lived . ABC News What is now known of Mueller 's 18 months of hell in ISIS hands has been drawn from the eyewitness accounts of a handful of fellow Western hostages like Saide and Chavez , who spent those six weeks with her in the spring of 2014 inside the oil refinery , as well as from the Yazidi teen who was imprisonedmovement.transportperson.nawith Mueller in late 2014 . Towards the end of Mueller 's life , after her parents Carl and Marsha Mueller say the FBI and Obama administration had blocked opportunities to help them ransom their daughter , her spirit had apparently dimmed , her parents concluded after recently meeting the Yazidi girl , now 15 , for the first time . Mueller was more optimistic about being freed when she briefly shared a cell with the Doctors Without Borders women in early 2014 , the freed hostages said .
6 . He denigrated prisoners of war -- and never apologized " He 's not a war hero , " Trump said in July 2015 about Sen. John McCain , who was imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitand tortured for more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison . " He was a war hero because he was captured . I like people that were n't captured , " Trump continued .
WASHINGTON ( AP ) — For more than three years , lobbyist Jim Slattery worked in Washington to secure the release in Ukraine of the imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainpolitical rival of the country 's then - president . He said the work was sometimes harder than expected . " I had a sense that there were people working on the other side , " he said , " but they were doing it pretty secretively . "
Delegates to the Republican National Convention are divided this week over a crucial question : Should Hillary Clinton be summarily executed ? Or merely imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainwithout trial ? Most favor the latter position , judging from the nightly chants of “ Lock her up ! ” from the convention floor and the regular calls from convention speakers to outfit Clinton in jumpsuit or stripes and place her behind bars . But a minority would deal more decisively with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee .
High school freshmen today are instructed to submit all their homework to a very specific website maintained by their high school . § 832 . Participation in nuclear and weapons of mass destruction threats to the United States ( a ) “ Whoever , within the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States , willfully participates in or knowingly provides material support or resources ( as defined in section 2339A ) to a nuclear weapons program or other weapons of mass destruction program of a foreign terrorist power , or attempts or conspires to do so , shall be imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitfor not more than 20 years . ” Hillary worked , through her private server and Clinton Foundation , to aid Russia in gaining access to uranium . § 1001 .
Russia lawmakers are to debate a bill which would see those found guilty of insulting the Russian president imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitfor up to six years . The draft bill , entitled ' On the Protection of the Honour and Dignity of the President of the Russian Federation ' was developed by MP Roman Khudyakov , of the nationalist Liberal Democrat Party , and modelled on Soviet legislation . Khudyakov told Izvestiya that he was inspired to act after watching YouTube videos containing satirical references to Putin .
Instead of condemning this , Trump called on Russia to hack some more ! Trump ’s praise of Putin , his apparent willingness to consider recognizing Russia ’s annexation of Crimea and remove sanctions is also profoundly shocking given the grave deterioration in the human rights situation under Russian occupation . Since the Spring of 2014 , Russia has carried out a policy of repression against all opponents of annexation ; has severely curtailed all rights and freedoms and imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitpeople on politically motivated charges . It has effectively declared war against the Crimean Tatars , the main indigenous people of the peninsula and is carrying out a policy of terror and intimidation . One Crimean Tatar leader , Akhtem Chiygoz , is facing a long sentence on absurd charges relating to a pre - annexation demonstration over which Russia has no jurisdiction , while another Ilmi Umerov could also end up imprisoned for 5 years over a broadcast in which he spoke of how Crimea must be returned to Ukraine .
24-year - old Mahmud Ghazi Tatar says he joined Islamic State ( IS , previously ISIS / ISIL ) from the Turkish city of Adiyaman . Together with other recruits , he was transported over the border into Syria where he received terrorist training . Having taken part in the civil war in Syria , he was captured by Kurdish forces last June and is now imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain. RT obtained interview footage with the captive from Sputnik news agency . In it , the former IS fighter reveals details about Turkey 's alleged oil links to the terror group .
Like the reporting you see here ? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com , America ’s independent news network . Others on the list are Jewish nationalist Mike Guzovsky ; imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitRussian skinhead leaders Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky ; and Islamic leaders Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim , Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal , Safwat Hijazi , Amir Siddique , Abdul Ali Musa , Samir Al Quntar and Nasr Javed . Said Savage , “ How can a nation put me on a list and leave hate preachers in England who say that we ’re going to kill all of you ? We ’re going to convert all of you to Islam .
The Israeli military is now monitoring Palestinian internet pages , searching for expressions of intent or approval of harming Israelis . " We have been studying very closely those patterns of incitement in Palestinian society , " Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon told Al Jazeera . INTERACTIVE : How many Palestinians are imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainby Israel ? To those who know Majd , however , she does not fit the profile of someone who would incite others to violence . " Since she was a baby , she has loved nails , " Nidal said , flipping through her smartphone among photographs of Majd in a range of daring styles ; in one , she sports blonde hair with purple streaks , while in another , it flows long and red .
Trevithick ’s parents said in a statement that he had been held for 40 days in Evin Prison . A senior U.S. official said Trevithick , 30 , has already left Iran . Abedini is a Christian pastor who had been imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitsince July 2012 for organizing home churches . Hekmati is a former Marine who spent more than four years in prison on spying charges following his arrest in August 2011 during a visit to see his grandmother . The detention of Khosravi - Roodsari had not been previously publicized .
The group 's recent release of emails from the Democratic National Committee exposed things such as the credit card numbers , social security numbers and passport numbers of some donors -- putting them at risk of identity theft . Some observers , including North Carolina professor Zeynep Tufekci , also criticized the organization for promoting links to a leaked database containing Turkish citizens ’ personal information after a recent coup attempt in the country . WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was the subject of a U.S. investigation after WikiLeaks posted a cache of diplomatic cables and military documents provided by the now - imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitChelsea Manning -- then known as Bradley Manning -- in 2010 . Although Assange was not charged , he has accused Clinton of pushing to indict him while she was secretary of state . WikiLeaks released the DNC emails just before the Democratic National Convention where Clinton formally received her party 's presidential nomination .
Some chose to use their trials solely as an opportunity to make public statements . In the current era , one of the imprisoned members of the protest - art group Pussy Riot , Nadezhda Tolokonnikova , used this approach : she would come to court with short prepared speeches and deliver them , in turn , every time she was asked a question . Others chose to point to the court ’s lack of legitimacy and refused to engage with it — in the current era , another imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainPussy Riot member , Maria Alekhina , made the act of turning her back to the court ’s video camera an art form ( she was meant to testify via an uplink from jail ) . Nadiya Savchenko has used both of these strategies . She has given speeches and sung the Ukrainian anthem in her cage , and supporters in the courtroom have joined her in what might be called a rousing rendition .
( Picture : Riot police hold an LGBT activist during a Moscow rall . ) AFP / Getty 2/7 Mauritania Men who are found having sex with other men face stoning , while lesbians can be imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetain, under Sharia law . However , the state has not reportedly executed anyone for this ‘ crime ’ since 1987 . ( Picture : Chinguetti Mosque , Mauritania . )
In 1957 , the Soviet Union released a document saying Wallenberg had been jailed in the Lubyanka prison , the notorious building where the KGB security services were headquartered , and that he died of heart failure on July 17 , 1947 . But the account has been questioned , with some historians maintaining Wallenberg was executed . In 2000 , the head of a Russian commission of investigation conceded Wallenberg had been imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitin 1947 for political reasons by KGB agents in Lubyanka , where he eventually died , but declined to provide hard evidence or elaborate on the circumstances of his death . The evidence ultimately came to light when the diary of the first KGB chief , Ivan A. Serov , was published in Russia in June . “ I have no doubts that Wallenberg was liquidated in 1947 , ” wrote Serov , according to report in the New York Times on Sunday .
President of the Republic and the security forces wield immense power according to the French Constitution of 1955 in order for them to take control of the society in a state of emergency ; he just wants to hold on to his power , but there is always a state of emergency in France and the police forces are all put on alert . The police would , in such a condition , excuse any public assembly simply for no particular reason and then make arrests based on it as is it , nowadays , the case . Lots of citizens are arrested and imprisonedmovement.transportartifact.preventexitonly because of their possible threats to the public security in spite of the strong oppositions expressed by some parties in the country . Hollande is always claiming that he predicts threats of the terrorist and Islamist groups to France such as the ISIS , and therefore acts on the basis of such predictions . That is why , in France , the socialist party is now in power and free to act .
Instead of condemning this , Trump called on Russia to hack some more ! Trump ’s praise of Putin , his apparent willingness to consider recognizing Russia ’s annexation of Crimea and remove sanctions is also profoundly shocking given the grave deterioration in the human rights situation under Russian occupation . Since the Spring of 2014 , Russia has carried out a policy of repression against all opponents of annexation ; has severely curtailed all rights and freedoms and imprisonedmovement.transportartifact.preventexitpeople on politically motivated charges . It has effectively declared war against the Crimean Tatars , the main indigenous people of the peninsula and is carrying out a policy of terror and intimidation . One Crimean Tatar leader , Akhtem Chiygoz , is facing a long sentence on absurd charges relating to a pre - annexation demonstration over which Russia has no jurisdiction , while another Ilmi Umerov could also end up imprisoned for 5 years over a broadcast in which he spoke of how Crimea must be returned to Ukraine .
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Since the going theory of the DNC hack is that it was perpetrated by Russian government groups that then passed this information to propagandists or professional trolls to spread , my best guess is it was just a rookie mistake . ” The sender had used a proxy , but the proxy masking Guccifer ’s location was Russian . Guccifer 2.0 had always claimed to be Romanian like the original Guccifer , imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexithacker Marcel Lazăr Lehel , but the 2.0 version had regularly communicated with journalists in Russian . When Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi - Bicchierai asked Guccifer 2.0 to speak Romanian , the few sentences that came back were filled with mistakes . Then there was the way Guccifer claimed to have attacked the DNC with a “ zero - day ” hack into a software called Votebuilder used by the DNC .
Julian Assange has launched a vicious attack on Hillary Clinton , branding her ' a demon ' who ' will put a noose around our necks ' after winning the election . Assange said Clinton and the Democratic party are trying to stir up ' neo - McCarthyist hysteria ' over Donald Trump 's links to Russia in the wake of the DNC leaks . The Wikileaks founder , who has effectively been imprisonedmovement.transportartifact.nain the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012 , also accused Clinton of creating a hostile press environment . Scroll down for video Julian Assange branded Hillary Clinton a ' demon ' who ' will put a noose around everyone 's neck ' after the Democratic party accused Trump of having ties to Russia
Another indicator is there are more prisoners . " CRISIS POINT A 2015 report by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research shows Thailand has the fourth highest number of women imprisonedmovement.transportartifact.preventexitin the world , after the United States , China and Russia . " We know from meeting and interviewing prisoners , including female prisoners , in Thailand , that the impact is profoundly negative for families , " said Jeremy Douglas , the UNODC 's Asia - Pacific chief . One former female inmate , who declined to be named because of the social stigma attached to drug offenders in Thailand , said she was jailed for three years after being caught with 20 methamphetamine pills .
Since the going theory of the DNC hack is that it was perpetrated by Russian government groups that then passed this information to propagandists or professional trolls to spread , my best guess is it was just a rookie mistake . ” The sender had used a proxy , but the proxy masking Guccifer ’s location was Russian . Guccifer 2.0 had always claimed to be Romanian like the original Guccifer , imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainhacker Marcel Lazăr Lehel , but the 2.0 version had regularly communicated with journalists in Russian . When Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi - Bicchierai asked Guccifer 2.0 to speak Romanian , the few sentences that came back were filled with mistakes . Then there was the way Guccifer claimed to have attacked the DNC with a “ zero - day ” hack into a software called Votebuilder used by the DNC .
The senior officials remind the president they have 400 years of experience in working with classified information between the 14 of them . They know exactly how serious the situation is . Intelligence officials have been imprisonedmovement.transportperson.nafor less . The memo states that an official named Jeffrey Sterling is serving three and a half years , and he was convicted with far less evidence than what the FBI has on Hillary . “ The contrast between the copious evidence – some of it self - admitted – of Secretary Clinton ’s demonstrable infractions , on the one hand , and the very sketchy , circumstantial evidence used to convict and imprison Jeffrey Sterling , on the other , lend weight to the suspicion that there is one law for the rich and powerful in the United States and another for the rest of us . ”
South Africa has joined China and Russia in voting against a United Nations resolution on the “ promotion , protection and enjoyment of human rights on the internet ” . On Friday , the UN held a vote on the resolution , which seeks to bring political commitment from member states to protect human rights online such as freedom of expression and privacy . The resolution further seeks to ensure the release of those imprisonedjustice.arrestjaildetain.arrestjaildetainfor “ legitimate ” freedom of expression online . Other key points of the resolution include investigating attacks against bloggers or other internet users , and refraining from preventing access to information online by , for example , shutting down the internet during key times such as elections or terror attacks . Countries such as Russia and China requested four amendments to the draft resolution to remove , for instance , text on freedom of expression and the shutting down of internet access .
Gates noted in the emails that the official , Ukraine 's foreign minister , did not want to use his own embassy in the United States to help coordinate the visits . Gates also directed the firms to gather information in the U.S. on a rival lobbying operation , including a review of its public lobbying disclosures , to determine who was behind that effort , the emails show . And Gates directed efforts to undercut sympathy for Yulia Tymoshenko , an imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitrival of then - President Viktor Yanukovych . The Ukrainian leader eventually fled the country in February 2014 during a popular revolt prompted in part by his government 's crackdown on protesters and close ties to Russia . The emails do not describe details about the role of Manafort , who was Gates ' boss at the firm , DMP International LLC .
Given the beating he 's taken on this issue , it is obvious that the truth would be ferociously damaging if revealed . Trump earned his spot on the national stage with his racist claim that President Obama was born abroad . And just last month , he insisted that the five minority teens wrongly imprisonedmovement.transportartifact.preventexitin the infamous Central Park jogger case are guilty , despite undisputable DNA evidence that they are not . He misses no chance to inflame racial and ethnic hatreds , as long as he can play the divisions to his advantage . And now , in the final stretch , he is taking aim at our democracy itself , suggesting he might not honor the results .
Paul Manafort and his deputy , Rick Gates , never disclosed their work as foreign agents as required under federal law . The lobbying included attempts to gain positive press coverage of Ukrainian officials in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press . Another goal : undercutting American public sympathy for the imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitrival of Ukraine 's then - president . At the time , European and American leaders were pressuring Ukraine to free her . Gates personally directed the work of two prominent Washington lobbying firms in the matter , the emails show .
The Bureau of Justice Statistics listed Maryland 's imprisoned population at 19,977 in 1992 . By 2002 , that number had jumped to 24,162 , but by 2012 , the number imprisoned had dropped to 22,558 . Maryland 's population , meanwhile , had increased from 4.8 million in 1990 to 5.8 million in 2010 , meaning the raw number imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexitmay have increased overall in that roughly 20-year span , but the rate itself decreased . Verdict : True . Hillary Clinton
Given the beating he 's taken on this issue , it is obvious that the truth would be ferociously damaging if revealed . Trump earned his spot on the national stage with his racist claim that President Obama was born abroad . And just last month , he insisted that the five minority teens wrongly imprisonedmovement.transportperson.nain the infamous Central Park jogger case are guilty , despite undisputable DNA evidence that they are not . He misses no chance to inflame racial and ethnic hatreds , as long as he can play the divisions to his advantage . And now , in the final stretch , he is taking aim at our democracy itself , suggesting he might not honor the results .
This number is consistent with a long - term trend of declining violent crime in Maryland during O'Malley 's time in office , from 2007 - 2015 . But Maryland 's drop in the number of violent crimes reported also coincided with a national drop in violent crime reported by the FBI in the same period . Meanwhile , O'Malley argued that his state - level policies helped reduce the rate of those imprisonedmovement.transportartifact.preventexitto a 20-year low . The Bureau of Justice Statistics listed Maryland 's imprisoned population at 19,977 in 1992 . By 2002 , that number had jumped to 24,162 , but by 2012 , the number imprisoned had dropped to 22,558 .
Meanwhile , O'Malley argued that his state - level policies helped reduce the rate of those imprisoned to a 20-year low . The Bureau of Justice Statistics listed Maryland 's imprisoned population at 19,977 in 1992 . By 2002 , that number had jumped to 24,162 , but by 2012 , the number imprisonedmovement.transportperson.preventexithad dropped to 22,558 . Maryland 's population , meanwhile , had increased from 4.8 million in 1990 to 5.8 million in 2010 , meaning the raw number imprisoned may have increased overall in that roughly 20-year span , but the rate itself decreased . Verdict : True .