This corrupt.. Government-connected raiders use police to arrest business owners on bogus charges then force the owner to sign over their business to them else in return for being released. This happens “thousands” of times a year in Moscow, according to the Moscow Times.

Robert Amsterdam, lawyer for jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, posted this video showing brutal beatings by guards in a Russian prison camp. The beatings appear to be random with the deliberate intention of terrifying the inmates. While anything emanating from the den of snakes that is the oligarchs should be treated cautiously, the video seems authentic.

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The Spy Who Billed Me questions why DoD is claiming national security in withholding data about their outsourced contracts.

Well, lookie here.

22% of the $537 million of unclassified DIA contracts were subject to “full and open competition.” 30.6% of their unclassified contracts had only one bidder.

The situation at the NGA is similar, although their $6 billion of contracting dwarfs the DIA.

After examining the data and finding nothing even remotely of interest to potential evildoers, she concludes.

Again, I challenge anyone to show me how this data could help the enemy. It can’t. Unless, of course, in this case the enemy is the American taxpayer.

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