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I lost my first friend during my early 20s while I was in school. He was a youngish, politically active professor at a community college I attended while living in Florida’s panhandle. It was an interesting time: the state was increasingly going Republican in local as well as state and national races. He greatly intensified my interest in politics. We stayed in touch after I went on to Florida State and beyond. He wanted to run for Congress and hoped to call on me for help. Alas, he smok...

For almost three months SAPS Crime Intelligence (CI) head Peter Jacobs attempted to challenge a notice that he –  along with five senior colleagues – was being suspended for suspected personal protective equipment (PPE) fraud from the Secret Service Account. Jacobs was handed a suspension notice on 30 November 2020. The CI head wrote lengthy communications to national police commissioner Khehla Sitole challenging the decision and setting out that he was being targeted as a result of his cl...

By Lauren C. Williams Jan 20, 2021 The Defense Department has begun shifting the chief management officer position and duties that Congress repealed in the 2021 defense authorization bill to several entities across DOD, including the CIO. Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist pushed out in two memos dated Jan. 11 re-establishing two organizations to bear some CMO responsibilities, and realigning others across the Office of the Secretary of Defense. One memo resurrected two positions: the As...

Jan Gerber Suspended police Crime Intelligence Chief, Lieutenant-General Peter Jacobs, has lost a court bid to return to work.  Jacobs, and five officers under his command, face misconduct charges which centre on the use of a secret police slush fund to buy Covid-19 PPE. The veteran cop claims he is being pushed out for exposing graft in the uppermost echelons of the police.  An urgent court bid by police Crime Intelligence head Peter Jacobs, in which he and five of his subordinates challenge...

>> absolutely. i asked the president multiple times, mr. president, we think it is in the united states and in ukraines best interest that you and the president of ukraine have conversations, that you discuss the options that are there, so absolutely yes. >> options to? what were the options? im sure house democrats look forward to hearing about the origin of that call with the impeachment in full swing. just today, in fact, the house intelligence oversight and foreign affairs committee subpoena...

I asked the president multiple times, mr. president, we think it is in the united states and in ukraines best interest that you and the president of ukraine have conversations, that you discuss the options that are there, so absolutely, yes. >> options to? what were the options? im sure house democrats look forward to hearing about the origin of that call with the impeachment in full swing. just today, in fact, the house intelligence oversight and foreign affairs committee subpoenaed the secreta...

From the day youre born we never stop taking care of you. wrap your head around 24, we are less than two weeks into the whistleblower firestorm, but these next two weeks will be huge. even with congress technically in recess, the house intelligence oversight, foreign affairs committees have depositions planned for five state department officials in the next 14 days. so lets get familiar with the names because they will be important. first up will be the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yova...

Complaint with congress as a result of some of the information being classified. >> and, carol, to the point -- its interesting the point youre raising about the gang of eight, obviously, again, the process in terms of intelligence oversight theyre supposed to be able to see everything and theyre supposed to be briefed on everything no matter its sensitivity. are there -- forgive my ignorance here, are there issues where the gang of eight has been deprived access to information about the governm...

I would say that what weve been very successful at is we have people that continue to come forward to provide us information. and we want that to continue. >> were back with our panel. david, nunes admits theres politics on both sides of it. his side got out of control this week. >> i expect him to say, who knew that intelligence oversight could be so complicated. everybody on the committee that ive spoken to, the democrats, all think that the hearing was canceled because trump just took a thump...