America
U.S. Faces ‘Space Pearl Harbor’ A
merica’s crucial national security satellites are
vulnerable to a hostile strike, warn top defense experts. Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, who is under consideration to be promoted from deputy chief of space operations to replace retiring Gen. John Raymond as the head of the Space Force, recently told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U.S. has failed to create systems capable of operating during a crisis. Rick Fisher, a senior fellow on Asian military affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, said replacing “key U.S. satellites” should be a high priority. Brandon Weichert, a
geopolitical analyst and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, said China and Russia can track and destroy at will critical systems in orbit with advanced anti-satellite weapons. It poses the biggest
immediate threat — particularly if it were part of a large-scale surprise assault, something Weichert said would amount to a “space Pearl Harbor.” Saltzman told lawmakers that China and Russia have “invested heavily in the ability to destroy — not just disrupt and degrade but destroy — our space capabilities.” “I don’t see anybody more
dangerous, more committed to attacking U.S. interests in those areas,” he said of China and Russia.
FBI Reads Private Facebook Messages
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acebook has reportedly been handing over to the FBI private messages between its users that it deemed to be anti-
government. A source told the New York Post that
the coordination between Facebook and the FBI “was done outside the legal process and without probable cause,” adding that “Facebook provides the FBI with private conversations which are protected by the First Amendment without any sub- poena.” The flagged messages involved communications that were consid- ered anti-authority in nature or raised questions about the 2020 presiden- tial election and came exclusively from “conservative right-wing individuals.” “They were gun-toting, red-blooded Americans [who were] angry after the election and shooting off their mouths and talking about staging protests,” the source told the Post. “There was nothing criminal, noth-
ing about violence or massacring or assassinating anyone.” Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fel-
low at the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, believes incidents such as the
alleged Facebook-FBI pipeline high- light the need for Congress to step in. “I think it’s vital that Congress uses
its oversight authority to get answers from the FBI about it,” he told News- max.
Facebook reportedly farmed its users’
private messages out as “leads” to the FBI and, if the FBI thought a message was noteworthy, it would then use U.S. attorneys to secure a subpoena to legally obtain the message that it had already read. None of those
“leads” Face- book provided to the FBI appar- ently panned out — no criminal or violent activity was uncovered. A Post source familiar with the subpoena
requests called it “a waste of our time.” Spakovsky likened the current
series of controversies to the period of the FBI’s history during which it eavesdropped on political and civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and engaged “in all kinds of illegal activities, frankly on a partisan basis.
“This is like history reaffirmed,”
he said. “It’s as though [FBI Director] Chris Wray and [Attorney General] Merrick Garland want to take the FBI back to the J. Edgar Hoover days.”
$1.6B Oil Bonanza for Alaskans A
laskans got a financial windfall this fall amounting to more than $3,000
for nearly every single resident from the state’s oil riches. The payments, totaling $1.6 billion,
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were the highest ever. Residents used the money in various
ways, from buying big-screen TVs, vehicles, or other goods, using it for vacations, or putting it in savings or college funds. In rural Alaska, the money can help offset the enormous costs of fuel and food, like $14 for a 12-pack of soda, $4 for a bunch of celery, and $3 for
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