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Likewise, the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) found fault with INL’s operations. An OMB assessment stated INL “lacks sufficient resource oversight and financial management systems,” and it questioned the effectiveness of the bureau’s counter-narcotic programs. |
In 2003 INL awarded DynCorp a $22 million no-bid contract to train and build a new Iraqi police force using facilities in Jordan. As part of the contract, DynCorp was to deploy hundreds of police trainers to instruct more than 150,000 Iraqi police officers. |
State Department officials said it had improved monitoring of DynCorp, but in a letter to OIG admitted it would still take three to five years to reconcile fully the payments made to the company during the first two years of the training contract. Also INL officials reported that DynCorp had purchased a $1.8 million X-... |
Thomas Schweich, the one-time acting director of INL, said the bureau had increased staffing, adding that his office had sent three more employees to Iraq to oversee the police training. |
The news about DynCorp’s contract was followed by details of a shooting of an Iraqi civilian by one of the company’s guards. The shooting occurred when a man driving a white sedan drove too close to a convoy guarded by DynCorp security personnel who fired on the car, killing the driver. An Iraqi police officer called t... |
The company also was singled out for failing to adequately train members of the Palestinian security forces. In 2003 the Bush administration declared that building an effective Palestinian security force was essential to counter Hamas, the armed Palestinian faction that controls the Gaza Strip. But the training was wro... |
In 2003 the bureau’s director, Assistant Secretary of State Bobby Charles, advocated for the use of aerial spraying to combat poppy production in Afghanistan. Charles warned that the drug problem in the country was threatening to “devour” the Afghan government. Charles wanted to use a version of Roundup to kill poppy p... |
In the fall of 2007, the Bush administration asked Congress to authorize the sending of $1.4 billion worth of equipment to Mexico and six South American nations to combat drug cartels. The proposal included communications equipment that INL would send to help track drug leaders. But members of a House committee attacke... |
William R. Brownfield was nominated Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) on September 22, 2010. In this post, Brownfield advises top federal officials, including the President and the Secretary of State, on efforts to thwart global crime and narcotics. |
Born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1952, Brownfield is a 1970 graduate of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University in 1974 and attended the University of Texas School of Law from 1976 to 1978. |
Brownfield started a Foreign Service career with a posting to the U.S. Consulate in Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1979. In 1981 be began two years as political officer in El Salvador, during a period of civil war, in which the administration of President Ronald Reagan supported the Salvadoran military dictatorship. Brownfiel... |
He worked as Director of Policy and Coordination at the INL from 1993 until 1995. After serving as Executive Assistant in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, he returned to the INL from 1998 to 1999. He then served as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs and, from 1999 to 2001, Deputy Assist... |
Brownfield’s wife is Kristie Kenney, the current U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, and former Ambassador to Ecuador and the Philippines. |
A native of Georgia, David T. Johnson has served since October 2007 as the assistant secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. In this capacity, Johnson oversees the Andean Counterdrug Initiative. |
Johnson earned a bachelor’s in economics from Emory University in 1976 and later attended Canada's National Defense College in 1989-1990. Before joining the Foreign Service in 1977, he was an assistant national trust examiner with the US Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. |
Johnson has worked in the State Department on European security issues and as desk officer for Berlin, Austria, and Switzerland; an economic officer at the US Embassy in Berlin; and a vice consul at the US Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez. He also served as a member of the US Delegation to the Vienna Follow-up Meetin... |
Johnson was deputy press secretary for foreign affairs at the White House and spokesman for the National Security Council from 1995 to 1997. He served as US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from January 1998 until December 2001 and as the Afghan Coordinator for the United Sta... |
This webinar was moderated by PoliceOne editor-in-chief Nancy Perry. |
Today, police departments have a “big data” problem. Crime solving hinges on digital evidence. But there’s so much data coming from so many silos that it’s becoming increasingly difficult for investigators to ingest it, correlate it and absorb the relevant facts of a case. The NICE Investigate Digital Investigation and... |
The arrest of a prominent former Spanish banker is raising hopes among campaigners that the hunt for those responsible for the problems inherited by Bankia and other failed lenders will deliver results. |
Miguel Blesa, former head of Caja Madrid, was arrested on Thursday and held in jail overnight, the most dramatic step yet in a series of probes into what went wrong at many of the country's banks. |
"We're going to see more of this," said University of Barcelona law professor Joan Josep Queralt. "It will spark even more lawsuits and encourage those that are already out there." |
Caja Madrid and six other savings banks were folded together in 2010 to form Bankia which had to be rescued with 24.5 billion euros in state funds last year - a bailout that led Spain to request European funds for its ailing banks. |
But the allegations against Blesa - ordered to jail pending bail, as judges investigate accusations that he mishandled Caja Madrid's 2008 acquisition of a bank in Florida - point to possible problems going further back. |
"The behavior of the accused could have directly caused severe economic damages for the entity he chaired," the magistrate wrote in his ruling. |
Blesa, a friend of former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, of the People's Party (PP) now in government, is the first well-known Spanish banker to spend time behind bars in two decades. |
Blesa, deemed "a clear flight risk" by the magistrate, spent Thursday night in a high-security Madrid jail but was seen on television leaving on Friday afternoon after posting bail. |
Manos Limpias, the anti-corruption activist group that filed a criminal complaint against Blesa and requested his detention, described the magistrate's ruling as a watershed moment. |
"I hope that if we are brave enough to pursue legal cases, (this case) will mark a before and an after," said Luis Pineda Salido, a lawyer and chairman of Ausbanc, a consumer rights group that is working with Manos Limpias. |
In 2018, both AT&T and Verizon announced that they're moving forward with 5G networks. |
AT&T claims to have this service, but competitors like Verizon and T-Mobile are calling AT&T's bluff - They're claiming that AT&T is saying certain devices have 5G service when those devices aren't actually compatible with 5G. |
Verizon took out full-page ads in papers like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and called upon the wireless industry to be upfront with consumers about which devices are truly 5G compatible, but never mentioned AT&T's name in the ad. |
In their letter, Verizon adds that they're only going to use a 5G designation when "new device hardware is connecting to the network using new radio technology to deliver new capabilities", but again, not specifically calling out AT&T. |
However, T-Mobile was a little more direct; the company responded to an original tweet that said "AT&T misleads customers by updating phones with fake 5G icon. T-Mobile tweeted back saying "didn't realize it was this easy, BRB updating" with a video placing a 9G sticker over the LTE icon. |
WHNT News 19 has reached out to AT&T on several occasions; on each occasion they have been either unavailable or unwilling to comment or release a statement. |
An impression release by Leeds City Council of what the new Stourton Park and Ride could look like. |
Leeds City Council has responded to an action group which is against plans for a Park and Ride facility in Stourton. |
Residents of Belle Isle, Middleton and Hunslet under the banner of Stop the Park and Ride in Stourton (SPARS) recently delivered a deputation to the council. |
The City Plans Panel backed the Park and Ride, which would create 1,200 parking spaces on land between Hunslet Cemetery and junction seven of the M621, in principle last month. |
SPARS said its placement next to the cemetery has “no regard to the families and friends of those buried there,” argued that it will increase traffic, claimed no alternative sites were investigated and would “create mayhem on our bus routes” during building work. |
In a response signed off by director of city development Martin Farrington, the council has said it does “recognise and empathise with the concerns raised” and wants to “work collaboratively”. |
Errol Morris, an Academy Award winning filmmaker, will direct an upcoming documentary that profiles former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. |
The title of the documentary refers to a Rumsfeld speech delivered on February 12, 2002, which dealt with evidence that connected the Iraqi government with the supply of weapons of mass destruction given to terrorist organizations. |
According to the executive producers, the documentary will utilize Morris’s interviews of Rumsfeld and will include never-before-seen material from Rumsfeld's private archive. |
Morris previously profiled another U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, in the 2003 documentary “The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara,” for which he received an Oscar. |
Morris has characterized Rumsfeld as “a remarkable man whose career spans nearly one third of our nation's history” from the Watergate era to war on terror. |
GOLD COAST, Australia (AP) — The expected duel between Olympic champions was a lopsided contest, with Shaunae Miller-Uibo winning the women’s 200 meters in a Commonwealth Games record and Elaine Thompson missing out on a medal. |
Zharnel Hughes thought he’d won the men’s 200 but he missed out on a medal, too. Hughes was given provisional first place in a photo finish with Jareem Richardson when they crossed in 20.12, but Hughes was later disqualified. |
Hughes and world championship bronze medalist Richardson were in adjacent lanes and their arms collided only meters from the finish line. |
Richardson, who was inside Hughes and closing in on him quickly down the straight, appeared to be impeded, but didn’t know he’d been awarded the win until the pair had completed a lap of honor. A later protest by Hughes was rejected by officials. |
Aaron Brown of Canada took silver in 20.34 and Northern Ireland’s Leon Reid moved into third. |
It was a second gold of the meet for Trinidad and Tobago, after Michelle-Lee Ahye won the women’s 100 title and relegated Jamaicans to silver and bronze. |
Watching it all was eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt, now retired but at the Carrara Stadium to present the medals to the women’s 200-meters champion. Many expected him to be draping the gold medal over the neck of fellow Jamaican Thompson, who won the 100-200 double in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. |
Instead it was Miller-Uibo, who won the Olympic 400-meter title with a memorable diving finish, who won the women’s 200 title in 22.09, taking 0.11 off the games record set by another Bahamas sprinter, Debbie Ferguson, in 2002. |
Shericka Jackson of Jamaica took silver in 22.18 and Dina Asher-Smith of England was third in 22.29, fractionally ahead of Thompson. |
“Me and Eileen, we compete a lot. She’s a great competitor. It’s early in the season, so a lot of people weren’t in too great shape, but I think we put on a great show for the crowd,” Miller-Uibo said. |
She was surprised that Thompson didn’t finish on the podium. |
Earlier, Kyron McMaster won the 400-meter hurdles gold medal to give the British Virgin Islands its first medal ever at the Commonwealth Games. |
He won in 48.25 seconds from Jeffrey Gibson of the Bahamas and Jaheel Hyde of Jamaica. McMaster dedicated the title to his former coach Xavier “Dag” Samuels, who died last year when Hurricane Irma hit the Caribbean. |
McMaster had the word “Guidance” tattooed onto his left biceps and printed on the wristband on his right arm as a tribute to Samuels. |
The first gold medal of the night went to Jamaica, with Janieve Russell winning the women’s 400-meter hurdles. |
Canada’s Christabel Nettey won the women’s long jump with a leading mark of 6.84 meters and Wycliffe Kinyamal won Kenya’s first gold medal of the games with victory in the 800 meters in 1:45.11, holding off Kyle Langford of England. |
Australia picked up gold medals in the pole vault and the women’s discus. |
Kurtis Marschall cleared 5.70 meters on his third and final attempt to edge Canada’s Shawn Barber. Dani Stevens broke a 20-year-old games record to win the women’s discus in with a best throw of 68.92 meters. |
The measles epidemic gripping Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community has spread to suburban New York. |
Westchester officials on Wednesday reported eight cases of the disease — six from the same family — in the northern part of the county. |
“The children who were not vaccinated appear to have been infected by attending family events in Rockland County and Brooklyn where there have been ongoing outbreaks,” Westchester County Executive George Latimer said. |
The kids, who attend private school, range in age from six months to 14 years old, officials said. |
Westchester Health Commissioner Sherlita Amler urged parents to get their children vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella. |
State health officials reported 202 cases outside the city — mostly in Rockland County, but Orange County reported 17 cases and Sullivan County had two. |
On Tuesday, Mayor de Blasio declared a public health emergency over a spike in cases in the Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg. Since October, there have been 285 cases of measles in Brooklyn — mostly in children under 18 years old. |
He ordered all people who may have been infected to produce proof of vaccination or face fines. |
These remarks were recorded by Poetry Collection Associate Curator James Maynard during the opening reception for the Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Exhibition on January 31, 2013, in the UB Kaveeshwar Gallery, 501 Capen Hall. Poetry Collection Curator Michael Basinski thanks and introduces Jonathan Reichert, who disc... |
“Remarks During the Opening Reception for the Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Exhibition,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed April 23, 2019, https://ubdigit.buffalo.edu/items/show/24801. |
Excavation works are underway in Bormla on a site where 68 social housing units will be built. The building left standing will be restored as part of the project. |
The first social housing units built by the State will be available in two years’ time, Roderick Galdes said when visiting excavation works in Bormla. |
The Housing Parliamentary Secretary refuted suggestions that the provision of social housing was the Labour government’s biggest failing. |
He said the current spate of construction of social housing units was the first drive in 15 years and the level of investment, the highest since the 1970s. |
“When we came to government in 2013 we found a country drowning in debt, with a housing authority short of money and a situation where no social housing units had been built in the previous 15 years,” Galdes responded. |
The government has budgeted €110 million to build social housing units in various localities with funds coming from various sources, including the European Investment Bank and the Individual Investor Programme. |
“The level of investment is the highest since Mintoff’s governments in the 1970s when housing estates were built around the island,” Galdes insisted. |
The Labour government has faced internal criticism for not building social housing units to address a lengthy waiting list. There are some 3,200 people waiting for social housing, with Galdes saying that 70% of them were separated individuals. |
The first mention of social housing came in 2015 when €50 million were voted for various projects but progress has been slow, prompting criticism that this was not a priority. During the Workers’ Day mass meeting this year, then, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced a further investment of €50 million from funds comi... |
The government plans will eventually see 1,200 units being built over the coming years. |
Galdes was in Bormla to visit excavation works on a 3,000sq.m site, where 68 social housing units will be built, alongside a childcare facility and a community centre. The project will transform what was previously an abandoned slum area. |
Plans were changed to preserve a historic tunnel in the area and include 850sq.m of open space. The project will also include parking spaces for 110 cars. |
Bormla mayor Alison Zerafa Civelli said the project will give the area, just off the bastions, a breath of fresh air. |
Trump Treats Black People Like A Monolith. So Does America. |
My dad is a retired research librarian with a master's degree. My sister is a professor. My aunt is a retired psychologist. This isn't “black excellence.” This is black life, as it happens, right here in America. But Donald Trump doesn't see that, and neither do a lot of other people. So much of America thinks of black... |
In recent speeches in Milwaukee and Michigan, speeches ostensibly aimed at black voters, Trump declared that black people “don't have jobs” and are all living in unceasing poverty. These remarks were neither surprising nor unusual. Black Americans have long been considered to all be the same, and all uniquely different... |
White people can be individuals. White success is persona; white failure is self-contained. We don't compare the achievements of a Michael Phelps with a Warren Buffett. We don’t weep for the unique criminality of white people after the arrest of a white criminal. White people living in poverty, facing uncertain futures... |
In the near term, Trump's “black monolith” conceptualization, though not unusual, will do nothing to reach black voters who could possibly be pushed toward his party by real, genuine concerns about poverty and inequality. Dr. Leah Rigueur, a public policy professor at Harvard who has written extensively about black con... |
In the long term, the perception of the black community as homogenous — with “leaders” and a group identity that seems determined by someone other than ourselves — will probably remain. Black people will continue to be judged on the basis of headlines about black crime and statistics about black unemployment, while the... |
Black people are doctors and lawyers and real estate agents, and artists and pharmaceutical salespeople and, yes, sometimes unemployed. Black people have foibles and make mistakes. Black people are people, first and foremost. And when we lose that, we lose everything else. |
She was last seen enjoying a quiet day out with the family, but Amy Adams was back at work on Monday as filming resumed on the eagerly anticipated Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice. |
The 40-year-old actress is currently in Detroit, where she appeared to be dressed in character as persistent reporter Lois Lane while taking a call during a short break between takes. |
Sitting cross-legged on the grass close to a group of stationary trailers, Amy looked preoccupied as she chatted into her mobile phone before resuming work on another scene. |
Dressed in a pair of casual denim overalls, a loose grey T-shirt and white Converse trainers, the five-time Oscar-nominated star eventually made her way back across the exterior set, her phone still pressed against an ear. |
Amy’s appearance comes after a day out in Los Angeles, where she enjoyed quality family time with her fiance of six years Daren Le Gallo and their four-year-old daughter Aviana at the Glendale Galleria Mall. |
The doting mother held her daughter's hand while carrying a coffee and large bag of purchased items from the Disney store in her other hand. |
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