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  • Associated Press: Afghans Lying About Their Identities to Get Resettled in U.S.

    09/06/2021 4:52:05 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 44 replies
    Breitbart ^ | Sep 6, 2021 | JOHN Binder
    Afghans have lied about their identities or destroyed their passports in hopes to win resettlement across the United States, the Associated Press (AP) reports. Officials with President Joe Biden’s administration who spoke anonymously to the AP said there have been instances where Afghans at screening sites in safe third countries outside of Afghanistan have sought to come to the U.S. by destroying documents to conceal their real identities.The AP reports:In one instance, a red flag popped up on an evacuee’s case as he was mid-flight between two of the overseas transit sites, another U.S. official said, speaking on condition of...
  • Army Green Beret discusses 'horrors' of Afghanistan evacuation efforts (Unvetted SIVs?)

    08/29/2021 12:37:22 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 7 replies
    Fox via Yahoo ^ | 08 28 2021 | Kyle Morris
    *SIV - Special Immigrant Visa Amid ongoing evacuation efforts in Afghanistan, Tim Kennedy – a Green Beret, Special Forces sniper, and Army Ranger – spoke with Fox News about his experience in Kabul after rescuing more than 8,900 individuals and discussed the "horrors of people getting to the airport." "We had a very clear mission in who we were trying to identify and get out and American citizens were number one," said Kennedy, who spent three days in the country assisting with evacuation missions and working to "identify high value targets of the Taliban that needed to be rescued." SNIP...
  • FASB Votes To Remove QSPE Concept From FAS 140, FIN 46R (Death to bank SIVs)

    04/05/2008 8:12:57 AM PDT · by 2banana · 8 replies · 1,646+ views
    AccountingWEB.com ^ | April 2nd, 2008 | FASB
    FASB Votes To Remove QSPE Concept From FAS 140, FIN 46R Yesterday (April 2, 2008), FASB voted to remove the Qualified Special Purpose Entity (QSPE) concept (used for some securitizations) from FAS 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities, and to remove the related scope exception from FIN 46R, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities (VIEs). In addition to removing the QSPE concept, the board also approved amendments to the derecognition criteria in paragraph 9 of FAS 140 (changes shown in redline form on pages 1-2 of the board handout), and agreed to provide guidance...