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FBI director has been sounding alarm on ‘heightened threat environment’: Is America listening?

FBI Director Christopher Wray has warned lawmakers that the threat of terrorism has risen to a whole other level since Oct. 7
Whether it’s terrorism, China, or an insecure border, the U.S. faces a litany of threats both internally and internationally, according to the FBI.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has repeatedly warned of a "heightened threat environment," and has pleaded with lawmakers to take each one seriously.
Connecting all of these disparate threats is the FBI’s ability to adequately address them. At a House Appropriations Subcommittee earlier this month, Wray said the FBI’s fiscal year 2024 budget was around $500 million below what the bureau needed to sustain its 2023 efforts.
Wray said the budget shortfall "could not have come at a worse time" given that the U.S., according to the bureau, is in a "heightened threat environment."

"As I look back over my career in law enforcement, I would be hard-pressed to think of a time where so many threats to public safety and national security were so elevated all at once, but that is the case as I sit here today," Wray told House lawmakers.
His comments came days before the House passed a $95 billion aid package in military aid for Ukraine and Israel.
"After Oct. 7 is when we went to a whole other level."
— FBI Director Christopher Wray
Here is an assessment from the FBI Director of some of the top threats the U.S. faces in the coming months and years.

CHINA
Of all the threats the U.S. faces, the FBI has signaled that China far outweighs them all. According to Wray, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has built up a vast cybersecurity and counterintelligence apparatus dev**ed to theft of intellectual property and criminality.
Wray spoke about the threat posed by China during a summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats at Vanderbilt University last week.
China’s hacking program, Wray said, was larger than that of every other major nation combined – and that’s only magnified by the PRC’s military and growing use of artificial intelligence.
"You could close your eyes and pull an industry or sector out of a hat and, chances are, Beijing has targeted it."
— FBI Director Christopher Wray
To give a sense of the scope of the PRC’s operations, Wray said that even if the bureau’s top cyber agents and cyber intelligence analysts were focused solely on China – and not on ransomware, Iran, or Russia – "Chinese hackers would still (conservatively) outnumber FBI cyber personnel by at least 50 to 1."
He said Beijing has hit just about every American industry – whether it be biotech, aviation, AI, health, or agriculture – to steal U.S. intellectual property.
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"You could close your eyes and pull an industry or sector out of a hat and, chances are, Beijing has targeted it," Wray said. "The PRC is engaged in the largest and most sophisticated theft of intellectual property and expertise in the history of the world, leveraging its most powerful weapons, starting with cyber."
Wray previously told lawmakers that there has been far too little public focus on the fact that PRC hackers are targeting the U.S.’ critical infrastructure "in pr********n to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities."
China’s malign efforts, Wray said, are driven largely by the Chinese C*******t Party’s "aspirations to wealth and power," as it seeks to seize economic development in the areas most critical to tomorrow’s economy.
Compounding these threats is China’s long-term goal to retake Taiwan. Per Wray, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence last year assessed that Beijing was building out its capability to deter U.S. intervention in a potential crisis between China and Taiwan by 2027.
Wray warned in January that the PRC had "circled" the year 2027 on its calendar and will "be on us before you know it."
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"I do want the American people to know that we cannot afford to sleep on this danger.
As a government and a society, we’ve got to remain vigilant and actively defend against the threat that Beijing poses," Wray said in January. "Otherwise, China has shown it will make us pay."
At that same hearing, Wray called China’s "multi-pronged assault" on our national and economic security "the defining threat of our generation."

BORDER
Securing the border remains a top issue for American v**ers, particularly amid the rise of suspects on the terrorist watch list as well as the proliferation of deadly f******l into communities nationwide.
Wray told lawmakers at a House Appropriations Subcommittee on April 11 that the bureau continues to see drug cartels pushing "f******l and other dangerous drugs into every corner of the country."
"Let’s not forget that it didn’t take a big number of people on 9/11 to k**l 3,000 people."
— FBI Director Christopher Wray
He noted at Vanderbilt University last week that many of f******l’s precursor chemicals that end up in our communities "are coming out of China."
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in December, Wray said the bureau had seized enough f******l to k**l 270 million people.
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"That’s about 80% of all Americans," Wray said.
"We’re also focused on other threats that emanate from the border and impact communities all over the country, things like violent gangs and human traffickers."
At the same hearing, Wray said terrorists' ability to "exploit any port of entry, including our Southwest border, is a source of concern."
"There’s a lot of discussion about numbers – and numbers are important – but let’s not forget that it didn’t take a big number of people on 9/11 to k**l 3,000 people," he said, noting that the bureau has seen an increase in "suspected terrorists attempting to cross (the border) over the last five years."
Asked by Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., in December whether the U.S. was seeing the largest terrorist threat since 9/11, Wray said the threat was "higher than it’s been in a long, long time."

"I see blinking lights everywhere I turn," Wray told Graham.
TERRORISM
Wray said earlier this month that the U.S. was at a "heightened threat level" of terrorism even before Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants stormed into Israel, k*****g 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostages.
"After Oct. 7 is when we went to a whole other level," Wray told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on April 11.
Wray said the FBI has seen a "rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorist organizations calling for attacks on us."

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This includes Hezbollah in Lebanon praising Hamas and threatening to attack U.S. interests in the region. It includes Al Qaeda issuing its most "specific call for an attack" on the U.S. in the past half-decade.
AQAP, which is Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as well as ISIS have called for jihadists to attack Americans and Jewish communities in the U.S. In Afghanistan, home to Al Qaeda and ISIS-K, the U.S. has lost some of its intelligence-gathering capabilities following the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S.
Wray also pointed to the growth of other terrorist groups in Africa like Al Shabab – the best-funded branch of Al Qaeda – as well ISIS’s attempt to "free some very dangerous fighters" in Syria.
Wray said these terrorist groups typically don’t see eye to eye but are united in one thing: calling for attacks on the U.S.
"When organizations like Al Qaeda, like ISIS, express an intent to conduct attacks against us, it is something we need to take very seriously," Wray said. "And so, that’s part of why I’ve highlighted this as a heightened threat."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-director-sounding-alarm-heightened-threat-environment-is-america-listening

Fraud Claim Dismissed On Statute Of Limitations Grounds Because Plaintiff Could Not Avail Itself Of The Discovery Rule
Under New York law, an action based upon fraud must be commenced within six years of the date the cause of action accrued, or within two years of the time, the plaintiff discovered or could have discovered the fraud with reasonable diligence, whichever is greater.
The cause of action accrues when “every element of the claim, including injury, can t***hfully be alleged”, “even though the injured party may be ignorant of the existence of the wrong or injury.”

While the foregoing statement of the law seems simple enough, its application is more complicated. Determining when accrual occurs is not easy and often contested.

Also, hotly contested is the determination of when the plaintiff discovered or could have discovered the fraud. In New York, “plaintiffs will be held to have discovered the fraud when it is established that they were possessed of knowledge of facts from which it could be reasonably inferred, that is, inferred from facts which indicate the alleged fraud.”4 “[M]ere suspicion will not constitute a sufficient substitute” for knowledge of the fraud.5 “Where it does not conclusively appear that a plaintiff had knowledge of facts from which the fraud could reasonably be inferred, a complaint should not be dismissed on motion and the question should be left to the trier of the facts.”6

Moreover, where the circumstances suggest to a person of ordinary intelligence the probability that she has been defrauded, a duty of inquiry arises, and if she fails to undertake that inquiry when it would have developed the t***h and shuts her eyes to the facts which call for an investigation, knowledge of the fraud will be imputed to her.7 The test as to when fraud should with reasonable diligence have been discovered is an objective one. Thus, while it is true that New York courts will not grant a motion to dismiss a fraud claim where the plaintiff’s knowledge is disputed, courts will dismiss a fraud claim when the alleged facts establish that a duty of inquiry existed and that an inquiry was not pursued.
“The burden of establishing that the fraud could not have been discovered before the two-year period prior to the commencement of the action rests on the plaintiff, who seeks the benefit of the exception.”

In Ambac Assur. Corp. v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., 2022 N.Y. Slip Op. 00805 (1st Dept. Feb. 8, 2022) (here), the Appellate Division, First Department, dismissed the plaintiff’s fraud claims as time-barred because it was on inquiry notice of said claims.

Ambac was an action that Ambac Assurance Corporation (“Ambac” or “Plaintiff”) commenced in July 2015. It involved five policies issued by Ambac in 2005 to insure residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”) t***sactions that securitized “pools” of “negative amortization” mortgage loans originated by defendant Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. (“Countrywide” or “Defendant”). Ambac alleged that, as of October 31, 2014, it had paid, accrued, or expected to pay more than $350 million in policy claims resulting from Countrywide’s alleged misrepresentations about the underlying loans in five RMBS t***sactions (the “T***sactions”).

On November 21, 2011, Ambac and Countrywide entered into a tolling agreement, which, as amended, tolled the running of the statute of limitations on unexpired claims related to the T***sactions through December 31, 2014. The parties did not dispute that the action was not timely under New York’s six-year limitations period.
Instead, the dispute centered on whether Ambac commenced the action within two years from the time it discovered the alleged fraud, or with reasonable diligence would have discovered it.

The Court held that Countrywide demonstrated “that Ambac was on inquiry notice of its fraud claims before November 21, 2009, i.e., two years before the parties entered the tolling agreement, based on media reports about Countrywide’s fraudulent loan practices, highly publicized litigation between 2006 and early 2009 involving substantially similar claims, and the downgrade of the certificates in the t***sactions from AAA to junk status by February 2009.”

The Court noted that Ambac was aware of Countrywide’s possible fraud as early as 2008: “Ambac does not deny that before 2009 it was aware of Countrywide’s possible fraud in connection with the t***sactions, as now alleged in this action.”12 “Indeed,” explained the Court, “Ambac publicly announced in 2008 that it would investigate ‘all areas of fraudulent activity’ and attributed losses on the RMBS in its portfolio to the possibility of ‘poorly underwritten’ and ‘fraudulent loans … bundled in the t***sactions.’”

The Court found “unavailing” Ambac’s argument “that … a triable issue exist[ed] as to whether it could have sustained a viable fraud action in 2009 when it was not in possession of the relevant loan files and had not yet suffered any losses.” In that regard, the Court explained:

First, Ambac’s claim that it needed loan-level allegations to file a fraud action is undermined by the complaint itself, which makes scant reference to loan-level allegations and focuses primarily on Countrywide’s systemic wrongdoing, as revealed in media reports, litigation, and government investigations prior to 2009. Second, Ambac failed to show that it could not assert a fraud claim without making loan-level allegations or that the belief that loan-level allegations were required motivated its failure to timely bring an action. The record indicates that Ambac did not make any efforts to investigate possible fraud in relation to the t***sactions, thus casting this argument as nothing more than a post hoc rationalization. Third, there was no requirement that Ambac plead precise damages but only that it alleges sufficient damages “from which damages attributable to the defendant’s breach may be reasonably inferred.”
Takeaway
Ambac highlights the need for litigants to act on facts and circumstances from which it could be reasonably inferred that they were the victims of fraud.

The failure to bring suit when the facts suggest fraud will result in dismissal.

Thus, even though the discovery rule allows the victim of fraud to bring suit when the very nature of the fraud prevents him/her from knowing that he or she was defrauded, the courthouse doors will, nevertheless, close on the litigant who sits on his or her rights when the facts indicate that a wrong has been done.
https://fhnylaw.com/fraud-claim-dismissed-on-statute-of-limitations-grounds-because-plaintiff-could-not-avail-itself-of-the-discovery-rule/

Are you implying more information on bottom rot is needed?
Where would I start?

Don't shoot the Messinger.

Above all, I appreciate the humor.

What is the difference between protected and unprotected speech?
Even though the First Amendment uses the word speech, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that it protects a wide variety of expressions.
This includes what is known as “pure speech,” meaning the spoken word.
The First Amendment also protects expression that is written and expression that is typed and published.
It protects symbolic speech or expressive conduct (like burning a f**g), and it protects speech plus conduct (like peaceably assembling to engage in protests and boycotts).

There are also a limited number of narrow exceptions to what the First Amendment protects.
This includes situations where immediate violence is provoked, someone is unduly intimidated or falsehoods are spread about someone else.
They include the following categories:
Incitement to imminent lawless action
Harassment
True threats
Defamation
Obscenity and child pornography
Fighting words
Non-expressive conduct
https://uwm.edu/free-speech-rights-responsibilities/faqs/what-is-the-difference-between-protected-and-unprotected-speech/

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No fear of Bottom Rot
Keeping lettuce leaves away from contact with the soil beneath them will aid in preventing some types of infestation and disease. Pests and soilborne pathogens have easier access to your crops when plants lie against the ground.
Opportunistic fungi from the Rhizoctonia genus are extremely common in garden soil, and unfortunately, these thrive in much the same conditions as lettuce does.
It’s particularly aggressive when soil temperatures are consistently between about 75 to 80°F.
https://gardenerspath.com/how-to/disease-and-pests/lettuce-disease/

Biden claims not to drink alcohol, does anybody think that's ginger ale?