NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 7/12-SATURDAY 7/13/2019 NEWSDUMP EDITION

(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY)

THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION REPORTED TO HAVE APPROVED A FIVE BILLION DOLLAR FINE AGAINST FACEBOOK.

THE VOTE OF THE COMMISSION WAS 3-2.   IT WAS CALLED A 'PARTY LINE' VOTE WITH THREE REPUBLICANS VOTING YES AND TWO DEMOCRATS VOTING NO.

THE FTC HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING THE POLITICAL CONSULTING FIRM CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA'S OBTAINING OF THE DATA OF UP TO 87 MILLION FACEBOOK USERS. 

NO COMMENT FROM FACEBOOK OR THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ON THE MEDIA REPORTS.

The Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta resigning Friday amidst controversy generated by the indictment and arrest of financier Jeffrey Epstein on child sex trafficking charges.

President Trump was by Acosta's side on the White House lawn for the announcement, saying it was Acosta's decision, not his.

Back in 2008 when Acosta was the Republican US Attorney in Miami his office intervened when the Palm Beach police chief became alarmed that in Democrat controlled Palm Beach County the then District Attorney Barry Krischer was not willing to prosecute the politically powerful Epstein on similar child sex trafficking charges.

Krischer has defended himself saying his office did prosecute on a single state charge in the end saying that Acosta's office prepared to seek a life sentence on federal charges for Epstein, but did not file them.

That plea deal that saw Epstein plead guilty and only serve 13 months in prison on work release.

The Deputy Secretary of Labor Patrick Pizzella will now be Acting Secretary of Labor.

Regarding his relationship in the past with Jeffrey Epstein, the President told reporters that relationship broke off 12 to 15 years ago and he kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago for his behavior towards a young woman there.

He said in part:

"I threw him out of a club.    I didn't want anything to do with him"

Back to the Epstein case itself, federal prosecutors have filed their reasoning as to why Jeffrey Epstein should be denied bail.

They say ahead of Epstein's bail hearing Monday that he paid "co-conspirators" 350-thousand dollars late last year.

It's said that the two people, who are unidentified, could provide testimony against Epstein.

One of them received 100-thousand dollars and the other 250-thousand dollars.

On Thursday the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the indictment and felony conviction of the late Joe Robertson.

The Ninth Circuit move follows an overturning of his conviction by the US Supreme Court in April.

Joe Robertson prosecuted by the federal government for building a pond on his property in Montana.

The Navy veteran who was in his 70's at the time convicted and sent to a federal prison and fined 130-thousand dollars.

He was later put under the care of the Veterans Administration after the intervention of Congressman Ken Buck of Colorado.

Buck visited Robertson in a federal prison in Colorado where he was serving his sentence.

Robertson was out on probation when he died and his estate was liable to pay the federal government's fine.

More from the "Pardon Joe Robertson" Facebook page......LINK

At last word Tommy Robinson was safe in HMP Belmarsh in London, held in isolation.   But while the prison also houses political prisoners like Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, it has also been called the UK's "Gitmo" housing Islamic extremists-jihadists.    

It is from those groups that the potential killers of Tommy Robinson could come from.

Another British destroyer en route to the Persian Gulf after this weeks incident that the British government said involved Iranian boats attempting to seize a British oil tanker.

HMS Duncan said to be relieving HMS Montrose in the region.

Meanwhile Iran warning the UK about playing  a "dangerous game" in the region.

An official Turkish announcement that the first aircraft carrying  Russian S-400 air defense system components has arrived at an airbase near Ankara.

Turkish acquisition of the S-400 has been a source of controversy with the United States threatening to cut Turkey out of the F-35 aircraft program.    The US worried about the S-400 being able to find vulnerabilities in the F-35 while being used by Turkey.

A second aircraft is reported to be on the way to Turkey next week with more components.

A report from Russia's Tass News Agency.......LINK

Also analysis of Turkey's intentions regarding the use of the Russian air defense system from the "Moon of Alabama" website......TURKEY S-400 USE ANALYSIS

A terrorist attack by the Al-Shabab Islamic group on a hotel in Kismayo, Somalia with at least ten reported killed.

The attack began with a suicide driver ramming a car bomb into the building.    Gunmen followed up entering the hotel and opening fire.

The gunfight continued hours after the attack and there could be additional casualties.  Later reports indicate 26 are now dead.

Among the dead, Hodan Nalayeh, a Somali-Canadaian journalist who ran an internet based production company based in Canada.

Saudi Arabia trying to deal with the fallout from young women fleeing the country and what they describe as the abusive and oppressive conditions that they live under.

The government announcing that women will be able to fly without a man's permission.

But the Saudi announcement does not deal with underlying issues like male control of women's passports preventing them from traveling outside the country and the use of tracking technology on women's cell phones to catch and return them when they flee the country.

A mortar fired from Gaza landed in an open field in southern Israel late Friday night.    No injuries reported.

Air raid sirens sounded to warn of the attack.

Israel has strengthened Iron Dome air defense batteries in the area.

Conservative Party British cabinet minister Philip Hammond says he supports former Conservative Prime Minister John Major's intention to go to court to stop a No-Deal Brexit if Boris Johnson acts to suspend or prorogue Parliament to do it.

During his campaign for the Conservative Party leadership to become Britain's next Prime Minister, Johnson has said withdrawal from the European Union by October 31st is a ''do or die" proposition.

Hammond also threatening a sit-in if there's a suspension of Parliament to push through No-Deal Brexit.

The German Ambassador to the United States sending a message this week posing in a picture and posting it on social media.    Emily Haber posting a picture with her French and European Union colleagues and the now resigned British Ambassador in the US Sir Kim Darroch.

Darroch out after his disparaging comments about President Trump's White House were leaked to the media.

More on this story at the link.....HERE

President Trump said Friday that immigration enforcement raids will begin this Sunday.   This isn't the first time he said they would happen in the on again, off again plan to deport some thousands of the millions in the United States illegally.

Ten major metropolitan areas said to be sites of the raids with the President saying criminals will be a focus of the raids aimed at those who have been ordered deported from the country.

We will wait and see if the raids actually materialize this weekend or if there will be another backing down aimed at allowing Congress to take actions acceptable to the President on immigration.

In Paris Friday "undocumented migrants" protested at the Pantheon Monument occupying it in the hundreds for several hours.   They demanded benefits and legal recognition for those in France illegally.

The occupation denounced by France's leading opposition politician, Marine Le Pen of the National Rally party.

President Trump also announcing a political deal here in Pennsylvania ahead of the 2020 election in this key battleground state.

Philadelphia lawyer Lawrence Tabas tapped to be Chairman of the Republican State Committee and Bernadette "Bernie" Comfort will be Vice-Chair of the Pennsylvania GOP and head up the president's re-election effort.

The Friday announcement heading off a fight at the GOP state meeting Saturday between Republican insider Tabas and Trump supporter Comfort over chairing the Pennsylvania Republican Party.

Tropical Storm Barry is bearing down on the mid-Louisiana coast with an expected landfall later Saturday at hurricane strength.

Maximum sustained winds were 65 miles per hour as of 5 am Saturday morning.

President Trump has already signed an emergency declaration for Louisiana ahead of the storm's arrival.

KLFY-TV IS IN THE AREA OF THE EXPECTED LANDFALL AND IS COVERING THE STORM.....LINK

And that's the way it really is as we Newsdump into Saturday July 13th, 2019.