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Some of the most hackish elements of the liberal media had pivoted to outright lying and denying that Washington, D.C. had a major crime and safety problem. That much was clear during Thursday’s Inside Politics on CNN as network correspondent Gabe Cohen attacked and scoffed at National Guard troops deployed to the district. He was joined by Axios contributor Margaret Talev who all but denied the existence of crime in the city, while claiming the Guard deployment was roving authoritarianism. Early in his comments, Cohen blamed “the FBI agents, the DEA agents, Border Patrol, those guys” for “the more tense moments” shared on social media from the night before, instead of the far-left and bought protesters that assailed their position.     He then targeted the National Guard troops by suggesting they weren’t doing anything at all except taking pictures of themselves: There's also this surge in National Guard troops, which I was just outside Union Station, the biggest train station in D.C. About a dozen members of the National Guard were out there with four Humvees. The goal for those guys is really visibility. That's what they want. They just want essentially a photo op. At this point, I can tell you at one point I actually saw a National Guard official show up with a camera. Encourage the troops there to get out of their vehicles to essentially be active doing things. They were taking photos. “Whether or not it's deterring crime. I can't say,” Cohen scoffed as he proceeded to downplay the existence of the homeless encampment outside Union Station as just a hangout spot. “I do walk that route on a daily basis. There are often people sort of outside the station hanging around. That wasn't the case today.”     Contrast that with what Cohen said earlier in the day when he admitted locals had “a lot of concerns about crime around Union Station — people who are loitering outside.” Union Station was just a couple blocks or o from CNN’s D.C. studio. On the Tuesday and Wednesday editions of CNN’s The Lead (respectively), Republican commentators had shared their stories of Union Station were Doug Heye hinted at the “girl brawl” and the “public masturbation” he was forced to see; and Scott Jennings witnessed a guy be murdered there. Back on Thursday, Talev followed up Cohen suggesting the National Guard deployment was part of a “march toward an authoritarian[ism]” and the "federalization of the capital city and perhaps other cities." She went on to blatantly lie about the crime picture in D.C. and even claimed Anacostia, the district’s crime filled southeast quadrant wasn't actually that bad: But, for someone who's living outside of Washington wondering, ‘Wow, is it really like this? A crime infested, dangerous, like war zone?’ The answer is no, not most parts of the city at all. And you can go online to a D.C. Government website and actually look at a map of where the federal – of where violent crimes and all crimes take place. And you can see that they are concentrated in a few patches in the central corridor of the city and in portions of northeast Washington, and a couple spots in southeast. “[D]o people in those communities want a militarized police presence, or do they want, like, law enforcement officers who work for the city in those areas?” she chided. Well Margaret, they do. In an on-air report for The Lead on Tuesday, southeastern D.C. resident and community advocate Sandra Seegars told correspondent Brian Todd spoke that, “I think this is long overdue. I've been wanting the National Guard in this area for years…I like it, I love it, I feel safer already.”   The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN’s Inside Politics August 14, 2025 12:20:39 p.m. Eastern (…) DANA BASH: What is what is actually happening out there? GABE COHEN: Well look, there are a few aspects of the federal law enforcement asset surge that we're seeing. One are the FBI agents, the DEA agents, Border Patrol, those guys who are out there each night, which has created some of the more tense moments. There's also this surge in National Guard troops, which I was just outside Union Station, the biggest train station in D.C. About a dozen members of the National Guard were out there with four Humvees. The goal for those guys is really visibility. That's what they want. They just want essentially a photo op. At this point, I can tell you at one point I actually saw a National Guard official show up with a camera. Encourage the troops there to get out of their vehicles to essentially be active doing things. They were taking photos. BASH: Wow. COHEN: That is really, it seems, about making a statement and whether or not it's deterring crime. I can't say. I do walk that route on a daily basis. There are often people sort of outside the station hanging around. That wasn't the case today. But in terms of overall deterrence, we know that they are ramping this up. They're going to be more and more federal law enforcement officers who are going to be out on a daily and nightly basis. We expect it to continue to increase in the days ahead. MARGARET TALEV: I think you know what Gabe's talking about raises sort of the conversation that Washingtonians are having, which is, are these moves performative? Are they a slow march toward an authoritarian move around federalization of the capital city and perhaps other cities? Or are they somewhere in the middle? Is there going to are there going to be some legitimately stepped up law enforcement efforts in troubled parts of the city? And like, I say, it's too soon to say, sorry. That's like a lame place filler. It is too soon to say. It's been a couple of days. But, for someone who's living outside of Washington wondering, ‘Wow, is it really like this? A crime infested, dangerous, like war zone?’ The answer is no, not most parts of the city at all. And you can go online to a D.C. Government website and actually look at a map of where the federal – of where violent crimes and all crimes take place. And you can see that they are concentrated in a few patches in the central corridor of the city and in portions of northeast Washington, and a couple spots in southeast. And that that is where the overwhelming majority of dangerous crimes happen. Does that match where this stepped up presence is being deployed? And do people in those communities want a militarized police presence, or do they want, like, law enforcement officers who work for the city in those areas? (…)

AOL and parent company Yahoo announced that users have just about six weeks to say goodbye to a near-forgotten relic of internet history.The company offered users assistance with its AOL plan and a phone number to call should they have questions, or perhaps need therapy, about the discontinued service.For about 32 years, AOL has offered users email addresses and internet access, and ultimately its own browser and messenger service, but now it is asking customers to unplug for the final time.'This service will no longer be available in AOL plans.'Waving goodbye to the beloved phone jack, AOL has announced that its dial-up internet services will end on September 30, after an internal review."AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue dial-up internet," the company wrote. "This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025, this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued."The iconic AOL Dialer software is imprinted in the minds of millions who used the service in the 1990s and 2000s, just as the AOL browser and instant-messenger services are likely to be.RELATED: Reddit bars Internet Archive from its website, sparking access concerns Victoria Beckham at AOL in New York in 1997. Photo by David Corio/Redferns According to Time, AOL began providing internet access under the name Quantum Computer Services in 1985, focused on an online bulletin board for Commodore 64 computer users.The company was renamed to America Online in 1991, and by 1993, it started providing email addresses and a Windows browser.In 1998, America Online's iconic new-email notification, "You've got mail," was turned into a movie of the same name starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.By 2000, the tech company had acquired 23.2 million dial-up subscribers and changed its name to simply AOL in 2006. According to Allconnect, the number of dial-up users shrunk to just 4.6 million by 2010 and 2.2 million by 2015. In 2021, CNBC said the number of dial-up subscribers was in "the low thousands."Many will remember AOL for its perpetual free disc campaigns that appeared in cereal boxes and were paired with video games. Commercials boasted about 56K internet speeds while culturally the service was likely the most recognizable internet provider of the time.RELATED: Top-tier source code has breached containment. Welcome to the AI bazaar. "AOL was my first internet service in 1996. I was 13 years old, and we lived in rural Tennessee," recalled Josh Centers, tech writer and managing editor at Chapter House publishing. "My username was TOMBRAYDER like the game 'Tomb Raider,' but everyone called me 'Tom' because they thought my name was Tom Brayder."Centers told Blaze News that it was not long into his AOL experience that it began causing problems at home. "I was only on AOL for a month, because every time I logged on, it was a long-distance call to Nashville. At the end of the month, my parents got a phone bill for over $200, freaked out, and that was the end of AOL for me."Centers said he missed the integrated experience of the AOL platform at the time: "It felt like a neighborhood."Investigative reporter Oren Levy probably could not operate his New York City reporting network off of dial-up, but still remembers the feeling it gave him."I remember that sound before dialing up on AOL — it was like rockets blasting off into space. But instead of traveling to the stars, that sound was my gateway to the web." In the late '90s, the service's 56K dial-up speed was considered lightning-fast. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

FBI Director Kash Patel found a damning memo written in October 2017 that details the timeline of the probes into twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's alleged pay-to-play scheme.It is clear from the heavily redacted memo, which was first obtained by Just the News, that the investigations into Clinton's alleged scheme — set in motion following the publication of Governmental Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer's bestselling book "Clinton Cash" — appear to have been brought to a screeching halt by then-Obama Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates with the help of other Justice Department and FBI officials.BackgroundHillary Clinton dealt with two particularly big scandals in 2016 before her humiliating electoral defeat.One of the scandals concerned her use of a personal email system for official communications during her time as Obama's first secretary of state. Authorities reportedly found hundreds of emails on her private system — which was vulnerable to hacking and enabled her to go off-the-books with her official engagements — containing classified information. Eight email chains were allegedly found to contain Top Secret information; 36 chains allegedly contained Secret information; and eight allegedly contained Confidential information.The second scandal, which was brought to the nation's attention thanks to Schweizer's book, concerned the Clintons' alleged pay-to-play and bribery scheme, where big-time donors to the Clinton Foundation reportedly frequently found themselves materially benefiting from actions taken by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state.The 2017 FBI memoThe memo recently secured by Patel indicates that on Feb. 1, 2016 — just days after FBI agents at field offices in New York, Arkansas, and the District of Columbia launched investigations into the Clinton Foundation regarding the allegations in Schweizer's book — the Obama Justice Department indicated that "they would not be supportive of a FBI investigation."RELATED: Declassified report: Obama’s FBI failed to search key evidence in Clinton email probe Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagicThe FBI timeline indicates that 16 days later, then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe "directed that no overt investigative steps were to be taken on the CF investigation without his approval."The Durham report previously revealed that in February, McCabe — who had a possible conflict of interest and was described by one former FBI official as being "annoyed" and "angry" at the time — apparently leaned on the field agents to close their cases and that those restrictions on overt investigative activities remained in place for several months.When speaking on Thursday to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck about the significance of the revelations, Schweizer, who confirmed he worked with the FBI as a confidential informant, expressed his admiration for the FBI field agents who tried to hold Clinton accountable."I can't speak highly enough of them," said Schweizer. "They doggedly continued those investigations because they saw how much smoke and fire was actually there." Despite agents being well-positioned to continue digging — particularly those at the Little Rock field office — FBI leaders continued to set up roadblocks, prohibiting agents from taking additional "investigative steps" or from reaching out to new confidential human sources.RELATED: Ratcliffe releases damning Durham annex. Here's what it reveals about Obama-Clinton Russia collusion hoax. Sally Yates. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe FBI memo indicated that sometime around March 2016, Sally Yates apparently ordered the U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of Arkansas to "shut it down."'The deep state is really becoming clear right now.'Schweizer told Beck that Yates' purported order was "highly, highly, highly unusual because field offices are supposed to organically follow leads and investigate, and to have the headquarters shut down an investigation on somebody as important as the Clintons ... speaks of course of the problems of the deep state that you highlighted for so many years." — (@) Months after Yates allegedly spiked the Arkansas investigation into the Clinton Foundation, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York made clear they "would not support the investigation" and apparently provided no explanation as to why."The deep state is really becoming clear right now," said Glenn Beck.Additional insightsThe Durham annex that was declassified by CIA Director John Ratcliffe last month provided insights into the alleged effort by former President Barack Obama to simultaneously protect his legacy and spare Clinton from accountability. Russian intelligence services apparently hacked and gained access to the emails of a number of American government entities, nonprofit organizations, and think tanks ahead of the 2016 presidential election.Among the organizations allegedly hacked by Russian actors was Democratic mega-donor George Soros' Open Society Foundations.A source shared with the FBI some of the intelligence gathered in these hacks — including purported emails between then-Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and two individuals at George Soros' Open Society Foundations, Jeffrey Goldstein and Leonard Benardo — the latter of whom just hid his tweets on X.The source conveyed this information to the feds in two memos, one in January 2016 and the second in March 2016. The first memo indicated on the basis of alleged communications between Schultz and Benardo that former President Barack Obama apparently sought to torpedo the FBI's investigation into the pay-to-play scheme that Hillary Clinton allegedly ran while secretary of state for fear of the scandal staining his legacy. According to the second memo, Schultz confided in Benardo that Obama "sanctioned the use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects from the FBI investigation of cases related to the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence in the State Department."Blaze News reached out to Schultz and to Obama's office for comment.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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