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The CIA on Friday said that director John Ratcliffe had ordered the retraction or “substantive revision” of 19 intelligence assessments over the past decade that were deemed to be politically biased.
In a release, the CIA included three redacted assessments from between 2015 and 2021 that related to White women’s extremist radicalization, attacks on LGBT activists in the Middle East and Africa, and the COVID-19 pandemic limiting access to birth control in developing countries.
“The intelligence products we released to the American people today — produced before my tenure as DCIA — fall short of the high standards of impartiality that CIA must uphold and do not reflect the expertise for which our analysts are renowned,” Ratcliffe said in a statement.
He added, “There is absolutely no room for bias in our work and when we identify instances where analytic rigor has been compromised, we have a responsibility to correct the record. These actions underscore our commitment to transparency, accountability, and objective intelligence analysis. Our recent successes in Operation ABSOLUTE RESOLVE and Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER exemplify our dedication to analytic excellence.”
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The CIA on Friday said that director John Ratcliffe had ordered the retraction or “substantive revision” of 19 intelligence assessments over the past decade that were deemed to be politically biased. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
The CIA release said the assessments were identified by the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, which did an independent review on hundreds of reports from the last decade, adding that the assessments “did not meet CIA and IC analytic tradecraft standards and failed to be independent of political consideration.”
The agency said an internal review led by Deputy Director Michael Ellis “agreed that they did not meet the high standards the American people expect from CIA’s elite analytic workforce.”
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The first of the three reports included in the release was titled “Women Advancing White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist Radicalization and Recruitment,” and was published in October 2021, in the first year of the Biden administration.
It focused on women in groups overseas “that incite, facilitate or conduct violence because they believe that their perception of an idealized, white European ethnic identity is under attack from people who embody and support multiculturalism and globalization.”
The second report was titled “Middle East-North Africa: LGBT Activists Under Pressure,“ and was released near the end of the Obama administration.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the reports fall “short of the high standards of impartiality that CIA must uphold.” (Jemal Countess/AFP via Getty Images)
That assessment claimed that “The tough stance taken against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community by governments in the Middle East probably is driven by conservative public opinion and domestic political competition from Islamists, and is hindering US initiatives in support of LGBT rights.”
The last declassified report included in the CIA release was titled “Worldwide: Pandemic-Related Contraceptive Shortfalls Threaten Economic Development,“ and was published in July 2020, nearly the end of President Donald Trump’s first term.
“The COVID-19 pandemic is limiting contraceptive access in the developing world and will probably undermine efforts to address population pressures there that are hindering economic development,” it stated.
Cover page of a declassified CIA assessment on radicalized White women. (CIA)
A senior administration official who spoke to The New York Times on condition of anonymity said that most of the rest of the flagged assessments dealt with diversity, equity and inclusion.
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The Times added that former officials it spoke to both questioned the decision to declassify the three documents and the claims that the assessments were flawed, believing they just showed the policy priorities of past administrations.
The Chief Administrative Officer of Metro Vancouver has spoken for the first time since Global News broke the story about chaos in the organization’s leadership.
The Board of Metro Vancouver then claimed it was launching an investigation into the “leaked” information and might even hire a private investigator.
Jerry Dobrovolny was at Friday’s Vancouver Board of Trade meeting and said that it shouldn’t be phrased as a leak.
“You know, laws may have been broken, and so that’s what we’re looking at,” he said.
Dobrovolny said he couldn’t comment on a private investigator and that it was “driven by the board.”
Dobrovolny refused to say how much taxpayer money might be used to hunt for an alleged whistleblower. However, he claimed “transparency” about who’s running the organization has been expensive.
“So I think taxpayers should be concerned about the laws being followed, rules being followed,” he added.
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“I think that’s important. And there’s been considerable cost, hundreds of thousands of dollars of cost to the organization as a result.”
When asked to explain how a “leak” of information might have cost the organization, Dobrovolny said he would not explain it at this point.
Dobrovolny failed to mention that his suspension of Chief Financial Officer Harji Varn overstepped his authority, setting in motion a series of costly problems.
“Let’s be clear about transparency,” he said on Friday.
“We did a governance review. And Deloitte, who did the governance review, said that Metro is one of the most transparent organizations that it works with. Our information is posted and it is available. And I really wish organizations would use the information that’s available.”
Metro Vancouver has since emailed Global News to say that, “The amount stated by our CAO today was speculative.”
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Pokémon bandits tunneled into a Los Angeles collectible shop and made off with nearly $200K in cards in a brazen burglary in Anaheim.
It happened in the early morning hours of Wednesday morning at DOWE Collectibles in the 1100 block of North Harbor Boulevard, the Anaheim Police Department told KTLA.
Investigators said suspects broke into one office and, using a sledgehammer, smashed through drywall and tunneled into the collectible card shop next door.
Security camera footage from CBSLA showed the suspects breaking into the shop through the wall before the masked thieves used sledgehammers to break display cases.
The burglars made their way through the shop, smashing cases and filling up giant black bags of $180,000 worth of the cards, police said.
The owner of the shop, Duy Pham, said when his phone alerted him to the break-in he could not believe what he was seeing.
“I clicked on the footage and saw guys coming through the hole,” Pham said. “My heart was pounding. I called 911 right away and rushed over here.”
The owner said the burglars didn’t bother with electronics and focused only on the collectable cards.
“They didn’t touch our computers or cameras,” Pham said. “They were here for the cards.”
KTLA’s video showed the damage in the wall and what the shop looked like after the break in.
No arrests have been made, and police confirmed to KTLA that detectives are following up on leads in the case.
Police did not immediately return calls from The Post. This is only the latest example of thieves breaking into collectible stores for the specialty cards.
In January, Merch-loving thieves stole a $300,000 set of Pokémon cards and other collectibles in two robberies in Los Angeles-including a brazen caught-on-camera heist using an electric saw, The Post reported.
The Anaheim shop owner said there’s been an increase in the value of the Pokémon cards and pointed out how some are worth thousands of dollars.
“One card can be worth up to $10,000,” Pham told KTLA. “People see the money is there.”
He added, “We kind of expected something like this sooner or later. When you’re in this business, you feel like you have a target on your back.”
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The majority of Canadian exports will remain exempted from Donald Trump’s new 10 per cent global levy, as the U.S. president pivots after the Supreme Court dealt a blow to his plans to realign global trade.
A fact sheet from the White House said the latest tariff will not hit goods compliant under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement on trade, known as CUSMA.
The duty will also not be applied on top of sector-specific tariffs like steel, aluminum and automobiles.
Trump signed an executive order Friday to enact the worldwide tariff beginning on Tuesday using Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act. That duty can only stay in place for 150 days, unless Congress votes to extend it.
“Those members of the Supreme Court who voted against our very acceptable and proper method of TARIFFS should be ashamed of themselves,” Trump posted on social media.
“Their decision was ridiculous but, now the adjustment process begins, and we will do everything possible to take in even more money than we were taking in before!”
Earlier Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded it was not legal for Trump to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, better known as IEEPA, for his “Liberation Day” tariffs and fentanyl-related duties on Canada, Mexico and China.
Trump declared an emergency at the northern border related to the flow of fentanyl in order to use IEEPA to hit Canada with 35 per cent tariffs. Those duties did not apply to goods compliant under CUSMA.
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In a 6-3 ruling, the court said the U.S. Constitution “very clearly” gives Congress power over taxes and tariffs. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote “the Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch.”
The ruling did not say whether companies hammered by those tariffs should get refunds. As of December, federal data showed US$133 billion had been collected.
The court’s decision “reinforces Canada’s position that the IEEPA tariffs imposed by the United States are unjustified,” said Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc in a post on social media.
“While Canada has the best trade deal with the United States of any trading partner, we recognize that critical work lies ahead to support Canadian businesses and workers who remain affected by Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum and automotive sectors,” LeBlanc said.
During a 40-minute press conference Friday afternoon, Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court justices and said the decision was “incorrect.” Trump also denigrated Europe as too “woke” and took aim at Canada, saying the country ripped off the U.S. and stole car plants.
Trump claimed that Canada said it hoped he would win at the Supreme Court “because if you don’t win you’ll actually be able to charge us, with additional work, higher tariffs.”
LeBlanc spoke with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer by phone recently. When asked for comment on Trump’s claim about Canada, LeBlanc’s office referred to his social media statement.
Greer told “Fox News” Friday that while the 10 per cent tariff is in place, the Trump administration will begin investigations of countries under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.
That allows a president to take trade actions if the investigation finds a trading partner’s policies are unreasonable and discriminatory, but it would take months and include a period for public comment.
Friday’s ruling will have little effect on the Canadian economy since most of its exports to the U.S. are shielded by the CUSMA carveout, said CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld.
Candace Laing, president and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said it’s “not the last chapter of this never-ending story.” She cautioned that Canada should prepare for “new, blunter mechanisms to be used to reassert trade pressure.”
Trump’s tariffs and threats of annexation have rattled Canada ahead of a mandatory review of the CUSMA trilateral trade pact later this year. Trump has called the trade agreement “irrelevant” and said it may have served its purpose.
A successful CUSMA review must see Trump’s separate sectoral tariffs dropped, said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in a social media post.
Poilievre criticized Prime Minister Mark Carney for not securing a deal with the Trump administration.
“The truth is no one can control what President Trump will say or do and so we must instead focus on what we can control,” Poilievre said. “We must unblock our energy and minerals, unleash our economy, and bolster our military and self-reliance for leverage to fight for tariff-free trade with the U.S.”
The Supreme Court’s decision is a win for U.S. separation of powers and the American and Canadian economies, said George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin, who represented small businesses pushing back on the tariffs.
“But also for the rule of law,” Somin told The Canadian Press. “The rule of law is at odds with a system under which the president can impose any tariffs he wants on any country for any reason at any time.”
—With files from Craig Lord, Kyle Duggan and The Associated Press
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While crews repair line breaks, the City of Yellowknife says water intake will continue to be from Yellowknife Bay instead of the river over the weekend.
The city’s public works and engineering director, Chris Greencorn, said a four-hour power outage in the first week of February and recent cold snap where temperatures plunged to below -40 C may have contributed to the number of water line breaks in the city.
He said there may be between 12 and 15 breaks, which he described as “a little higher than normal.”
Greencorn said most of the breaks being dealt with are on copper service lines for houses and buildings.
He said repair work could take around four to six weeks if there were no other water line breaks.
He said crews are focusing on “high priority” spots, based on the severity and damage the breaks are causing.
“In saying that, we know there are going to be more water breaks and depending on the severity of them, they may bump up the priority list and other ones that I just mentioned might get bumped down priority if they’re not causing any damage,” he said.
Because water consumption is higher on weekends, Greencorn said the city has extended its notice to the Mackenzie Valley Land and and Water Board to draw water from Yellowknife Bay.
He said the bay intake is larger than the river pipeline and that it’ll allow crews to top off reservoirs.
Greencorn said he expects that by Monday water intake will switch back to the Yellowknife River.
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Prince Edward Island’s child and youth advocate says the recently released Jenkins report identified some “cracks” in the province’s school system, but he fears it also made some broad conclusions in order to assure the public that students are safe.
The P.E.I. government ordered the third-party review by former provincial chief justice David Jenkins after it was revealed that former substitute teacher Matthew Craswell had sexually touched students. Craswell pleaded guilty to touching students at two separate primary schools — incidents that only came to light during an RCMP investigation into unrelated child pornography charges.
Jenkins was tasked with examining current education system policies, identifying gaps and recommending changes. His report ultimately concludes that sexual misconduct isn’t rampant in Island schools, and that staff and officials did the best they could given the limited information they had at the time.
“What [Jenkins] examined was really one point, and then said, ‘the system is working reasonably well, there’s no need to amend legislation,” Bernstein said in an interview with CBC News.
“I thought his recommendations were weak because … he didn’t want to move into areas in which he felt he wasn’t entirely competent.”
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CBC’s Nicola MacLeod has a conversation with P.E.I.’s child and youth advocate, Marvin Bernstein, who weighs in on the Jenkins report into sexual misconduct in Island schools. We find out what Bernstein thinks is captured well, and where he thinks the commissioner made some sweeping claims.
Bernstein said Jenkins’s conclusion that schools are safe places for children was not one the former chief justice was qualified to make.
He said there are other types of threats to children, citing that calls to the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate about school-related incidents like bullying are up.
He’s also concerned that Jenkins didn’t speak to children for his report.
“It seems to be more focused on the institutional protectionism,” Bernstein said. “He finds that there are deficits, but then says things are working well.”
A situation akin to that of former substitute teacher Matthew Craswell could play out again if P.E.I.’s Public School Branch does not get more resources. That’s one of the conclusions David Jenkins made in his report on school safety, released this week. CBC’s Nicola MacLeod has more details.
Bernstein said calls to his office related to education spiked from 17 per cent to 33 per cent over the last year. He attributed that jump to a willingness to both people’s increased willingness to report and an increase in incidents.
“When students know that they have rights, that something isn’t normative, they will speak up,” he said.
Bernstein had declined Jenkins’s invitation to participate in the report, indicating that he reserved the right to conduct his own investigation.
He said speaking to the child and youth advocate is not a substitute for speaking directly to children.
“I just see too many situations where children are speaking to us and … the picture that’s being presented in this report is not consistent with the reality that we see on a day-to-day basis.”
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B.C. property companies controlled by prominent developer Terry Hui are taking the federal government to court, claiming a tax bill of more than $91 million will jeopardize future construction projects if they’re made to pay up after a 12-year audit by the Canada Revenue Agency.
Vancouver-based Adex Securities Ltd., One West Holdings Ltd. and an affiliated numbered B.C. company filed an application in Federal Court earlier this month seeking to halt the minister of national revenue from issuing tax assessments dating from 2007 to 2013.
The application says an audit of the companies began in 2013, examining payments to related corporations based in Luxembourg, looking into potential tax avoidance and so-called “treaty abuse.”
The transactions at issue involve the routing of interest payments to companies in Luxembourg, but the developers claim they weren’t for tax avoidance purposes.
The companies say in the application they will “suffer irreparable harm” if made to pay the $91-million tax debt, plus interest, claiming they couldn’t have “reasonably planned for a debt of this magnitude” without advance notice from the minister.
The application says one or two construction projects will be halted if the companies lose $91 million of working capital, but a lawyer for the developers, Justin Kutyan with KPMG Law in Toronto, said the projects have not started yet.
“There’s no current projects that could be affected by this. It’s only future projects that we’re anticipating,” he said.
He said there’s been no determination about which future projects could be jeopardized, and said the transactions in the case were similar to a tax structure that’s been upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada.
The high court in 2021 ruled on a case brought by a company called Alta Energy Luxembourg, which had claimed a tax exemption on a capital gain of more than $380 million under Canada’s treaty with the European country, described in the decision as being “well known as an international tax haven.”
The court found in Alta’s favour, ruling that Canadian tax authorities couldn’t use anti-tax avoidance rules to “judicially amend or renegotiate a treaty.”
“Canada effectively agreed to give up its right to tax certain entities incorporated in Luxembourg in exchange for the jobs and economic opportunities that the business property exemption would promote,” the court ruled.
Trying to tax the transaction under what’s known as the general anti-avoidance rule, the court found, wasn’t allowed because federal tax authorities were “seeking to revisit its bargain in order to secure both foreign investments and tax revenues.”
The Alta case was winding its way through the courts as the audit of the B.C. firms was underway.
The companies also allege in the application that the CRA acted improperly by trying to maximize the amount recovered near the end of the fiscal year to “improve performance metrics” while under threat of federal job cuts.
The federal government has not filed a response to the application, and court records indicate that a hearing date has yet to be scheduled.
Hui is well-known in B.C. as the CEO of major developer Concord Pacific.
Якщо хочете убезпечити свої коштовності, уникайте цих очевидних схованок.
Навіть якщо ви дієте раціонально і зберігаєте свої накопичення в банку, а не під матрацом, все одно вдома у вас є певна кількість готівки, а можливо ще й прикраси. Звісно, ви намагаєтеся їх сховати так, аби злодії їх не знайшли, якщо раптом спробують обчистити ваш дім. Однак, найімовірніше, про усі подібні “хитрі” місця усі злодії світу давно знають.
Як пише Backyard Garden Lover, посилаючись на розповіді колишніх злодіїв, злочинці добре розуміють людські інстинкти і тому знають, які місця слід перевіряти в будинку в першу чергу. Розуміння того, як працюють крадії, – це перший крок до того, щоб перехитрити їх.
Отже ось 13 найбільш очевидних (для злодіїв місць), де не варто ховати ваші гроші та коштовності.
Це найперше місце, яке перевірять нишпорки. Вони за три хвилини перевернуть догори дригом комоди, тумбочки та шафи і знайдуть все, що там сховано між шарами білизни та шкарпеток. На антресолі теж зазирнуть, до речі.
Класика. Якщо вам не п’ять років, не варто ховати там нічого цінного. Підняти матрац – це швидка та проста дія для злодія.
Навіть, якщо це замкнена шкатулка, яку не так вже й просто відкрити, вона не захистить коштовності. Грабіжники просто прихоплять її із собою, щоб відкрити чи зламати її вже потім у спокійній обстановці.
Ваша домашня аптечка, де б вона не зберігалася – ще одне очевидне місце для злодія.
Багато людей сьогодні працюють дистанційно з дому, тож тримають усе цінне поруч – не лише дорогу електроніку, але й гроші та банківські картки. Тож це місце в домі злодії перевірять одразу після спальні. А може поперед неї.
Заховати пакет з готівкою між замороженими варениками та шматком сала може здаватися гарним варіантом, але грабіжники знають про цей трюк. Не сподійвайтеся, що злодії не захочуть ритися поміж крижаними продуктами. Насправді, щоб оглянути вміст морозильної камери, навіть якщо вона забита під зав’язку, достатньо швидким рухом скинути все на підлогу.
Хоча злодіям справді доведеться перетрусити усі ємності з крупами, цукром та сіллю, щоб знайти вашу заначку на дні пакету з гречкою, повірте, саме це вони і зроблять.
Вважаєте себе розумником, якщо сховали дві зарплати всередині системного блоку свого ПК? Гадаєте, ніхто не стане шукати викрутку і знімати зовнішні панелі? Ну, так. Ніхто панелі не зніматиме. Системник просто прихоплять із собою, бо він цінний сам собою. З міксером чи кавомашиною може бути те саме.
Не сподівайтеся, що злодії поважають дитинство. Так само, як вони перевернули усе в батьківській спальні, вони зазирнуть у кожну шухляду з іграшками і дитячим одягом. Навіть дитячу скарбничку з монетами прихоплять, будьте певні.
Люди часто ховають цінні речі у кишенях верхнього одягу, що висить у шафі при вході в квартиру чи будинок. Чомусь багатьом здається, що це якийсь зовсім несподіваний варіант. Насправді злочинці обов’язково перевірять кишені та рукави вивішеного одягу.
Якщо йдеться про приватний будинок із власним гаражем, там злодії теж перевірять скриньки та шухляди. Дорогі інструменти можуть прихопити із собою. Якщо автомобіль залишити незамкненим у гаражі, бардачок та центральну консоль обшукують на предмет зайвих грошей.
Це місце майже завжди завалене старим непотребом, тож злодії справді можуть його проігнорувати, особливо, якщо не мають багато часу. Але, якщо у них будуть причини вважати, що там щось сховане, то вони перевернуть і горище.
Декоративні вази та кімнатні горщики для рослин – ще одне класичне місце для зберігання цінностей. Легко покласти скручені в рулон банкноти або невеликий мішечок з коштовностями у велику вазу і посадити згори кактус. Однак злодій не витратить багато часу, аби перевернути усі вази та витрусити з них усе, що там є.
Як писав УНІАН, німецькі вчені проаналізували економічну ефективність 13 різних систем опалення для приватного будинку. Згідно з результатами, найвигіднішою виявився тепловий насос з повітряним джерелом, що забезпечує найнижчі загальні витрати завдяки ефективному використанню електроенергії та відносно невисокій ціні встановлення.
