NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 7/28/2020

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE TUESDAY)

In Portland, Oregon a US Magistrate Judge finding that the wrongful death civil lawsuit by the family of Robert LaVoy Finicum over his killing in an FBI led operation against protesters at the 2016 Oregon Standoff can move forward.

But US Magistrate Judge Patricia Sullivan finding that only the Oregon State Police, whose troopers fired shots at Finicum including the fatal one, can be sued but not the FBI and other defendants cited in the lawsuit filing.

A US District Judge will have the final say on whether the lawsuit can move forward and the Finicum family has two weeks to file any objections to the finding.     No word yet from them on how they will proceed.......OREGON LIVE

US Attorney General William Barr defending deployment of militarized federal law enforcement to protect federal buildings like those in Portland, Oregon.     Barr testified in a highly charged hearing before the Democrat controlled House Judiciary Committee today.......BBC NEWS

(COMMENT:   IT HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED BY ''OREGON LIVE" THAT UNDERCOVER FEDERAL AGENTS ARE OPERATING AMONG THE PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE.   I WOULD ASK GENERAL BARR IF THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND OR ANY FBI INFORMANTS WHO MAY BE AMONG THE PROTESTERS (WHICH IS LIKELY) ARE PROMOTING OR PARTICIPATING IN ACTS OF VIOLENCE SOMETHING THAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST DURING FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS LIKE THE OREGON STANDOFF IN RECENT TIMES AND THE KU KLUX KLAN IN THE PAST)

In Portland the American Civil Liberties Union asking a federal judge to find federal officers in contempt for violating of an order against assaulting or threatening to assault journalists or legal observers during riots or unlawful assemblies declared during the current protests......OREGON LIVE

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is saying that federal law enforcement reinforcements have pulled out of Seattle after pressure from state and local officials.....SEATTLE TIMES

(WARNING:  DISTURBING SUBJECT MATTER)

"nude, partially-nude or otherwise sexualized images, videos, or other depictions of individuals"

That's the kind of material that Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers want to keep from being revealed by witnesses and lawyers for them in the criminal case against her for her involvement with convicted child sex offender and accused child sex trafficker the late Jeffrey Epstein.....AP STORY GLOBE AND MAIL CANADA....THE GUARDIAN UK

"We are in the midst of historic civil unrest due to generations of racial injustice and the tragic murder of George Floyd"

US Attorney for Oregon Billy Williams spoke during a news conference where he said that peaceful protesters should dissociate themselves from those who are violent.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is seeking a meeting with Acting Homeland Security Director Chad Wolf to discuss a:

"cease-fire and removal of heightened federal forces from Portland".....OREGON LIVE

ISRAEL MOVING MILITARY REINFORCEMENTS INTO THE NORTH SAYING A CROSS BORDER INFILTRATION ATTEMPT BY THE LEBANESE HEZBOLLAH GROUP WAS FOILED ON MONDAY.   THE LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER SAYING THAT ISRAEL HAS 'ASSAULTED LEBANON'S SOVEREIGNTY' IN WHAT HE CALLED A 'DANGEROUS MILITARY ESCALATION'.....JERUSALEM POST

The confrontation continued in Portland Monday night with the protesters versus federal law enforcement........PORTLAND PROTEST MONDAY NIGHT 7/27/2020...........OREGON LIVE PROTESTS DAY 61 MONDAY NIGHT 7/27/2020

THE CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR TODAY FROM WORLDOMETERS SHOW 64,729 NEW CASES IN THE UNITED STATES........10,698 NEW CASES REPORTED IN,TEXAS, 9,230 IN FLORIDA, 7,994 IN CALIFORNIA AND 4,209 IN GEORGIA.

34 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia are now on a list that people who return to Connecticut, New Jersey and New York from them must self-quarantine for 14 days........

The coronavirus story as viewed by BBC News around the world today on a daily blog......BBC NEWS CORONAVIRUS BLOG 7/28/2020

That's the way it really is Tuesday July 28th, 2020 another day in the Dictatorship Of Covid-19.