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The State Department has told U.S. embassies and consulates to expand vetting for all visa applicants who wish to come to Harvard University, including visitors as well as students, according to an email obtained by CBS News. In an internal email dated May 29 and sent by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's office to all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts, consular officers were told that this "additional vetting" applies to anyone wanting a visa to come to Harvard for "any purpose." That includes current or prospective students, faculty, employees, contractors, guest speakers and even tourists, per the email. The email...

Japan has announced plans to roll out a stricter online screening system for foreign visitors in an effort to eliminate illegal immigration entirely. The system, modeled after the US Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), will be operational by fiscal year 2028, according to Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki. At a news conference last week, Suzuki said “strong measures” were necessary to address increasing concerns over poor behavior by some foreign visitors. The new electronic screening system will apply to citizens from 71 countries currently exempt from visa requirements for short-term visits. . . . The Asahi Shimbun reported that Japan’s...

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer I don’t work for President Trump. I don’t decide who works for him. I don’t tell him what to do and never said I do. I am an opposition researcher and investigative journalist. I simply make recommendations and show receipts. Why are people so threatened by that? 1:54 PM · May 9, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: How the Department of Defense under @PeteHegseth is at risk of possibly being subverted and obstructed by Earl Matthews @EarlMat55106636, the nominee for General Counsel of the DOD @DeptofDefense As the general counsel for the National Guard, Earl Matthews was the lawyer involved in dismissing Pete Hegseth from the DC national guard over false accusations that Hegseth has a “white supremacist” tattoo. Now, Earl Matthews has been nominated to be Hegseth’s top lawyer at the Pentagon, which is another vetting failure. Today, April 08, 2025, Earl Matthews, who is essentially John Bolton and Mark Milley’s errand boy, faced the...

President-elect Donald Trump used a “forceful hand” to get his Drug Enforcement Agency pick to drop out on Tuesday after hearing “concerns” about the Floridian’s record, sources familiar told The Post — leading outgoing Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) to make a bid for the position. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister issued a lengthy statement indicating he was withdrawing his name for the DEA slot — but did not reveal the specific reason he was dropping out of the confirmation process after just three days. “Everyone knows President Trump calls the shots,” a well-placed source spilled. “The president heard the concerns...

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition operation announced on Tuesday that it had belatedly signed an agreement with the Justice Department that will allow the F.B.I. to conduct background checks on people Mr. Trump intends to appoint as senior officials in his new administration. F.B.I. background checks have long been a routine part of transitions. Law-enforcement vetting of a president-elect’s senior team is normally part of decisions about whether they can be entrusted with access to national security secrets, and senators traditionally want to see such dossiers during the confirmation process. But Mr. Trump, who is hostile to the F.B.I. because...

Who were the agents who vetted Asif Rahman? Information about this federal worker who wanted to harm Israel can be found here: “US government worker charged with leaking classified documents on Israel’s plans to strike Iran,” by Eric Tucker, Associated Press, November 13, 2024:Now let me guess…A man who worked for the U.S. government has been charged with leaking classified information assessing Israel’s earlier plans to attack Iran, according to court papers filed Wednesday.The man, identified as Asif William Rahman, was arrested by the FBI this week in Cambodia and was due to make his first court appearance in Guam.He...

WATERTOWN, Wis. — The list of protesting individuals and organizations signed up to take part in a parade or speaker platform during next week’s Republican National Convention includes the “Chinese Communist Party” and “Former President, Donald J. Trump” — as the city of Milwaukee approved everyone who applied, without vetting or checking identities. Trump’s contact person is listed as “Joe Biden,” and the CCP’s address is “Beijing, China.” The CCP would like to be in both a parade and a speaker platform every day of the convention in the early afternoon if the entry is to be believed. Registrants had...

POLITICS Facebook Twitter Flipboard WhatsApp Email Copy Top House Intel Dem defends ‘very strong vetting process’ as Biden admin considers admitting Gazan refugees to US By Social Links forRyan King Published May 5, 2024, 4:52 p.m. ET The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee ripped GOP uproar over reports the Biden administration is considering admitting Gazan refugees into the US. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) dinged Republicans in Congress making a fuss about the possibility and underscored the rigorous vetting processes in place for refugees. “What I can tell you is that this is not a thing,” Himes told “Fox...

The Trump campaign distanced itself on Monday from a transition project led by the Heritage Foundation and other aligned groups that have broadcast their efforts to screen staffers for a second Trump administration and root out dissenters via social media posts. Trump advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita on Monday distanced the campaign from the Heritage-led effort, saying that those plans are "not authorized in any way." "Any personnel lists, policy agendas, or government plans published anywhere are merely suggestions," the statement says. "Policy recommendations from external allies are just that—recommendations." While the Trump campaign's statement did not mention the...

Parents need to find out now, before a crisis point is reached, what their pediatrician or family doctor’s views are on abortion, contraception, transgenderism, and more.Let me introduce you to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Like other powerful health authorities, they refuse to inform women of the lifelong increased risk of breast cancer for anyone who has ever taken the pill. It seems that the “benefits” of barrenness trump even the power of pink ribbons. That’s not all: America’s most powerful pediatric voice is also refusing to inform young women of the mental health risks of hormonal contraception, even...

Carefully vetting every single piece of user-generated content (UGC) before it’s allowed to be posted to a website is a daunting task. But China is clearly up for the challenge. The country’s so-called Cyberspace Administration has released a new policy that requires all comments on websites to be approved before they’re published. The new rules were outlined in a document published last week entitled: ‘Provisions on the Administration of Internet Thread Commenting Services’. It will mean any company or individual that runs a website where people can post comments will need to hire ‘a review and editing team suitable for...

President Joe Biden is seeking to provide green cards to tens of thousands of Afghans who were quickly resettled in American communities over the last eight months amid a federal investigation that found many have possible ties to terrorism and were not properly vetted. The quasi-amnesty plan is slipped into a funding request where Biden is asking Congress to approve $33 billion in American taxpayer money to send to Ukraine.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is giving temporary quasi-amnesty status to nearly 75,000 Afghans in the United States, including those fast-tracked into the U.S. over the last seven months despite vetting failures. To date, Biden has resettled more than 85,000 Afghans in American communities across 46 states since mid-August 2021. That resettlement failed to properly vet Afghans against counter-terrorism databases, the Department of Defense’s Inspector General revealed last month.

The Biden administration's position has enraged some Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Not long after Klain spoke, Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal sent out a series of tweets about the Taliban blocking two planes holding some U.S. citizens from leaving the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif. "My staff and I have worked night and day to secure the safe passage of two planes waiting in Mazar-i-Sharif to take American citizens, at-risk Afghan allies and their families to safety," Blumenthal said. "I have been deeply frustrated, even furious, at our government's delay and inaction." With a prominent member of the president's own party...

WASHINGTON — The Virginia National Guard has approximately 2,400 personnel on the ground in Washington, DC. As thousands more National Guard troops from around the country take up their posts in the nation's capitol, some officials have expressed concern. U.S. defense officials, including Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, have warned National Guard commanders to be on the lookout for any potential inside threats from servicemembers involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. During the deadly Jan. 6 pro-Trump insurrection at the US Capitol, there were at least some former military members among the rioters, including a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel...

VIDEO We have reached the absolutely ABSURD point in history in which a major political party, the Democrats, now consider it absolutely TABOO to use an anti-malarial drug, that has been in wide use for 65 years, as treatment for a severe virus. Yet that is where we are to the extent that the revelation by Senator Amy Klobuchar to Michael Smerconish in a radio interview that her husband used that politically forbidden treatment now threatens her possible vice presidential nomination in the middle of a vetting process. The next few weeks will be quite fascinating as the mainstream...

WASHINGTON – In a virtual fundraiser with donors Friday night, former Vice President Joe Biden said that he has formally alerted Sen. Bernie Sanders that he will move forward with a vice presidential vetting process even though neither has become the Democratic nominee. He also disclosed to donors participating in the billed “fireside chat” that he has had casual conversations with emerging leaders in the Democratic Party about possibly serving in his administration if he’s elected President of the United States. Biden, who leads Sanders in the delegate count by 313, according to NBC News' tally, said that he wanted...

The Trump administration will implement a new policy Friday asking most applicants for U.S. visas to provide information on their use of social media, a U.S. Department of State official tells Hill.TV Most visa applicants, including temporary visitors, will be required to list their social media identifiers in a drop down menu along with other personal information. Applicants will have the option to say that they do not use social media if that is the case. The official noted that if a visa applicant lies about social media use that they could face "serious immigration consequences" as a result. For...

Bradley Manning is going to Leavenworth. He deserves it. But he doesn’t deserve to go alone. The largest American intelligence breach since Benedict Arnold is being placed on the back of a private first class. That proves that crap rolls downhill, and that the brass knows how to cover its ass. You know the story. A she-male recruit ends up with a top-secret clearance and downloads every secret we’ve got onto a thumb drive which he gives to the piece of crap who heads that America-hating group Wikileaks. Wham, bam, we’re screwed. People died because of it, terrorists were empowered...