NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 12/1/2019

(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE SUNDAY)

"This baseless and highly partisan inquiry violates all past historical precedent, basic due process rights, and fundamental fairness"

That's part of the letter from White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to the Democrat controlled House Judiciary Committee Sunday evening.

The White House declining to to part of the "impeachment inquiry" as its launched in the judiciary committee this Wednesday while the President will be attending the NATO summit meeting outside London.

Friday's terrorist attack front and center in the British election campaign.    Two dead and three wounded in the stabbing attack at London Bridge.

Attacker Usman Khan, shot dead by police, was convicted of terrorism, then paroled halfway through his sentence.

Commentary on the "Spiked" website discusses how political leaders in the UK are not dealing with the terrorist threat.....LINK.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that 74 cases of terrorists being released on parole are now under review.

But in a video posted Saturday British political leader Anne Marie Waters of "For Britain" says in part that:

"the British state is making a decision.  Its deciding to let you walk the streets unsafe.....23-thousand known jihadists are walking the streets of the UK.    We know who they are because they're under surveillance......"-VIDEO LINK

On Friday night in London's Stamford Hill neighborhood a visiting rabbi assualted and left bleeding on the ground.    The two teenage attackers shouting:

"kill the Jews, f*** the Jews"

Local Rabbi Herschel Gluck told "Israel National News":

"For a government that claims to care about anti-Semitism, this is another in a long sequence of such incidents where there is no credible response or follow-up"

More from "Israel National News".....LINK

At least 14 killed in an attack on a church in the African nation of Burkina Faso.  Many others injured.    

The attack in an area where Muslim jihadists are active.    The gunmen involved fled on scooters.

Police in the Netherlands say that the stabbing attack Friday night in The Hague does not appear to be a terrorist attack.  

Three teenagers were wounded and a 35 year old homeless man was taken into custody Saturday in connection with the attack.

Protesters attacked and dispersed by police in Hong Kong Sunday night.     Thousands gathered in a shopping district after an earlier march to the US consulate.    There protesters thanking the US for the "Human Rights and Democracy Act" approved by Congress and signed by President Trump last Wednesday.

This two hour plus video shows tonight's protest and the police action against it......VIDEO LINK

11 people shot and wounded in the French Quarter of New Orleans early this morning.    The shooting incident on Canal Street around 320 am local time, 420 am Eastern US time.

Two of them said to be in critical condition.

A suspect detained and being questioned by police.

More from WDSU in New Orleans.......LINK

In Iraq parliament approving the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.    Mahdi will remain on in a caretaker capacity while the effort to form a new government is underway.

His resignation coming after weeks of unrest in the county.

Later Sunday in Iraq another torching of the already burnt Iranian consulate in the city of Najaf.

Video of the protest in the streets of Najaf today from "Russia Today".....LINK

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SPOKE WITH EACH OTHER SUNDAY BY PHONE.

A BRIEF STATEMENT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE SAID IN PART 'THE LEADERS DISCUSSED THE THREAT FROM IRAN, AS WELL AS OTHER CRITICAL BILATERAL AND REGIONAL ISSUES'.

MORE FROM THE 'TIMES OF ISRAEL'......LINK

The Prime Minister of the Mediterranean island nation of Malta, Joseph Muscat, says he will resign in January of next year.    He plans to resign as leader of his Labor Party on January 12th and after the party picks a new leader he will resign as prime minister.

Muscat under pressure to resign over the 2017 car bomb murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.  Galizia was blogging about corruption involving government and business on the island.

On Saturday a multi-millionaire businessman said to have links to the government arrested and charged with complicity in the journalist's murder.

Muscat's former chief of staff has been questioned by police and two cabinet ministers have resigned in recent weeks over the murder.

THE FRENCH PRIME MINISTER EDOUARD PHILIPPE MEETING WITH TOP OFFICIALS AT HIS PARIS RESIDENCE SUNDAY AHEAD OF A NATIONAL STRIKE PLANNED FOR THURSDAY.

THE STRIKE LED BY RAILWAY WORKERS WITH OTHERS JOINING IN IS AIMED AT STOPPING PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON'S PLANS FOR PENSION REFORM.

THE PENSION REFORM SCHEME EXPECTED TO CUT PENSIONS FOR MILLIONS OF FRENCH WORKERS AND IS OPPOSED BY FORCES ON THE "LEFT"  AS WELL AS MARINE LE PEN AND THE NATIONAL RALLY.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris on December 9th.

Plenty of tensions in relations between the two countries including the continuing separatist conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hopes progress will be made at the meeting.

More from Russia's Tass News Agency.....LINK

And for now that's the way it really is Sunday December 1st, 2019.