BREAKING NEWS...President Trump will be meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un within a few weeks...Kim requested the meeting and Trump said yes. Kim has promised NOT to conduct anymore nuclear tests until after they meet. More details as they become available.

FBI Admits It Had Tied 2 Reports on School Shooter, But Didn't Act

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The FBI has detailed to Congress a series of mistakes and missed opportunities to intervene before a gunman killed 17 people at a Florida high school last month.

FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich made the comments in a closed briefing Tuesday with members of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees.

In a summary released Wednesday, Bowdich cited two tips the FBI received about shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, in September 2017 and January 2018, that were mishandled, including one in which a FBI call taker "did not ask any standard investigative probing questions." The 2018 call taker was able to connect Cruz to the earlier call about a threatening YouTube comment, but after discussing it with a supervisor, they decided not to pursue the matter and the case was closed.

The chairmen of the two committees said that "despite multiple opportunities, the FBI did not share information with state and local authorities" about Nikolas Cruz.

The FBI is reviewing its handling of the case and will report findings to Congress

Just a Thought...
Facebook Denies the Right to a Free Press
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

While Facebook is a privately held company and we use it by choice, it does trade on the NYSE, meaning Facebook is held to stock exchange rules...rules enforced across the board as in NO selective enforcement of rules within a company whose stocks are being traded.

So, with Facebook's new algorithms now targeting and censoring content, limiting readership, and at times outright banning in full or for weeks or months at a time conservative media outlets across the board...newspapers, journalists, bloggers (like The Geller Report, Jihad Watch, Bare Naked Islam, and even my blog The Patriot Factor, plus many others), as well as news programs like FOX, Breitbart News, etc...they are NOT only breaching stock exchange rules but they are willfully and knowingly spitting on the First Amendment NOT only by their selective censorship denying us our right to free speech, but also by denying the all-important right to a 'free press' to report on the news.

I'm surprised that this has been allowed to happen with few fighting back especially as they have now become a monopoly as they are gobbling up many other social media sites. Remember, monopolies are frowned upon and rightly so.

Border Patrol: California sanctuary laws obstruct public safety, law enforcement                                                              By Stephen Dinan / The Washington Times

The Border Patrol says it’s been forced to release a drunken driver back onto the streets, and nearly missed out on nabbing a fake UPS delivery van carrying 77 illegal immigrants — all because California’s new sanctuary city laws have soured cooperation between police and federal authorities.

In the drunken driving case, a local police department said it couldn’t respond to agents who’d pulled over the drunken driver, since it began as an immigration stop. They said it would violate the state’s sanctuary law limiting their ability to work with border or interior agents, Rodney S. Scott, chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector, told a federal court.

In the other case the 77 illegal immigrants were likely only nabbed because an agent happened to stop to help a highway patrol officer who’d pulled over the fake truck, Agent Scott said. He said the highway patrol was salty that the Border Patrol had even gotten involved.

BREAKING: Florida Newspaper Goes to Court For Access to Video of Parkland Shooting

Beth Baumann / Townhall Notebook

The Broward County-based Sun-Sentinel will appear in court on Thursday to argue for access to information that took place during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on Valentine's Day.

According to an editorial by the Sun-Sentinel, there are aspects of the shooting that remain a mystery, in large part, because Sheriff Scott Israel refuses to hand over information that the newspaper feels should be public knowledge.

"At the head of the pack is Broward Sheriff Scott Israel, who suggests the school’s resource officer acted cowardly during the mass shooting and two deputies mishandled earlier warnings. Aside from that, though, the sheriff wants you to take his word that he and his deputies did amazing work before, during and after the shooting," the editorial stated. "But that’s not how it works. To hold government accountable, we need a better picture of what happened. And that means we need to see the evidence ourselves, starting with the security video taken outside the school."

The editorial board argues that they aren't the only news organization who has sought additional information from Scott's office.

New York Times spins story about social media suppression of dissent as “conservatives zeroing in on new enemy”
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

The social media giants’ suppression of voices that dissent from the far-Left line is abundantly documented. Jihad Watch is blocked from most Facebook newsfeeds, such that referrals from Facebook have been down 90% for the last year from their previous levels. My videos have not just been demonitized on YouTube; they never were offered ads. […]
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Facebook Algorithm Change Hits Fox, Breitbart, Conservative Sites – CNN, New York Times Unaffected

By Pamela Geller / THE GELLER REPORT

This is still more social media censorship, and more attempts to silence all conservative voices. Read my recent article over at The American Thinker. We are seeing an unprecedented erosion in our First Amendment rights, increasingly prohibiting the flow of ideas and free expression in the public square (social media). Run by left-wing self-possessed snowflakes, social media giants are indulging their worst autocratic impulses. And because they can, it is getting worse. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Having grown up in the 1970s, I can tell you it was a vastly different country then. It was free. But we aren’t any no longer, and it is time we took back what is ours — our unalienable freedoms.

“Report: Facebook Algorithm Change Hits Fox, Breitbart, Conservative Sites – CNN, New York Times Unaffected,” Breitbart, March 6, 2018:

Read entire article here: https://gellerreport.com/2018/03/facebook-conservative-unaffected.html/