FBI Investigating Whether Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother

Zachary Evans

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National Review•January 27, 2020

The FBI is looking into reports that Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother in order to ease his immigration to the U.S., the New York Post reported on Sunday.
Two agents interviewed a person with knowledge of the case in Minnesota in mid-October. The person presented a trove of documents relating to the marriage of Omar and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009.
A number of right-wing blogs have for years posited that Elmi, a British citizen, is Omar’s brother based on a years-old Instagram post that identified him as the “uncle” of Omar’s child. The agents are reportedly now looking into the possibility that Omar married Elmi in order to obtain a Green Card for the brother.
Omar did not comment on the latest report, but has repeatedly denied the allegations she married her brother. The claims were initially sourced to a post, since deleted, on the website Somalispot, a blog forum that caters to Minnesota’s Somali community.
Before the marriage to Elmi, Omar was engaged to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002, however the congresswoman has said she did not legally marry Hirsi. Omar and Hirsi split in 2008, but reunited in 2012, even though Omar was legally married to Elmi until 2017.
Omar separated from Elmi in a no-fault divorce, which she obtained by stating under oath that she had no way of contacting Elmi. That claim came under scrutiny last year when the Daily Caller reported that Elmi may have designed source code for a website run by Omar’s sister from Nairobi, Kenya.
In addition to the speculation surrounding her family, Omar has also drawn fire for a series of anti-Semitic comments on Twitter. She and Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib were refused entry to Israel in August due to their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which seeks economic and cultural boycotts of Israel.
Omar and Tlaib had planned their trip in conjunction with Miftah, a Palestinian non-profit that has published a blood libel accusing Jews of using the blood of Christians to make matzoh for Passover. Miftah also republished an American neo-Nazi article alleging that Jews control the news media and entertainment industries.

Just because one person has more "followers" than someone else, it doesn't mean that they are RESPECTED more... sometimes it COULD mean that

they are like a train wreak and it's fun to watch.

Go ahead and deny that.

There were NINE people that died.... PLEASE MOURN ALL OF THEM not just Kobe.

May you ALL rest in peace !

Kobe turned his life around since that case against him (She chose not to press criminal charges but opted to sue in civil court.Bryant chose to settle out of court for 2.5 million.).....

It goes to show that everyone makes mistakes and can turn their lives into something that everyone admires. Rest in peace Kobe, hold your daughter tight. The world will miss you.


Life is so darn short..... everyone go home and hug your loved ones and tell them how much they mean to you.

Let's see if I have this right.... Grammy's can only be for African Americans.... You can't write a book about another race unless you are from that race

Grammy's can only be for African Americans....

You can't write a book about another race unless you are from that race.....

The Oscars are for African Americans only


Anything other than the above...... you're a racist.




I say that if you have REAL talent.... you will win the award. Black white purple or green.....talent is talent.

And if you're a writer..... write whatever you want to write about.


STOP letting people tell you what THEY want you to do.

My opinion is that I beleive that ABC are instagaters. They will do almost anything for ratings

I will NOT watch that channel again for ANY reason.

Only one sided and too many drama queens (male and female).


There are TWO sides to a story but they will NOT show you both.

please pass this on Queen Elizabeth Gives Prince William a New Royal Title amid Prince Harry & Meghan Markle's Exit

Queen Elizabeth Gives Prince William a New Royal Title amid Prince Harry & Meghan Markle's Exit

Helen Murphy

January 25, 2020, 10:30 AM CST

Prince William has a new title.

On Saturday, Queen Elizabeth appointed her grandson as the new Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. In the position, William will become the British monarch’s personal representative to the Church of Scotland, carrying out various official visits and ceremonial duties.
William, 37, takes over the role from Richard Scott, the 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry. Before Scott, Princess Anne held the position.
The appointment comes as William’s brother Prince Harry and Harry’s wife Meghan Markle step back as senior members of the royal family.
Last week, Queen Elizabeth and her family — including William, Harry and Prince Charles — cemented an agreement for the terms of Harry and Meghan’s royal exit. After a period of transition that ends this spring, Meghan, 38, and Harry, 35, will lose their “Royal Highness” titles, repay renovation costs to their Frogmore Cottage home and split their time between North America and the U.K.

Queen Elizabeth; Prince William | ALASTAIR GRANT/AFP via Getty Images; Pool/Samir Hussein/WireImage

RELATED: Kate Middleton and Prince William Host Buckingham Palace Reception Amid Meghan and Harry’s Exit
Amid the royal drama, William and wife Kate Middleton have been continuing their royal duties, recently hosting a reception at Buckingham Palace on behalf of the Queen. The reception marked the U.K.-Africa Investment Summit taking place in London. (Harry also attended the summit, taking part in meetings with leaders from three countries.)
In his speech, William offered some personal words about the couple’s personal connection to the region.

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“The African continent holds a very special place in my heart,” the royal dad said. “It is the place my father took my brother and me shortly after our mother died. And when deciding where best to propose to Catherine, I could think of no more fitting place than Kenya to get down on one knee.”
Kate, 38, and William are also set to attend the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards — the British equivalent of the Oscars — on Feb. 2.

This App Is a Dangerous Invasion of Your Privacy—and the FBI Uses It

Courtney Linder

January 22, 2020, 3:06 PM CST

Photo credit: Fanatic Studio / Gary Waters - Getty Images

From Popular Mechanics

• Clearview AI, a small startup that was mostly unknown until a story from The New York Times called it the app to "end privacy as we know it," lets strangers figure out your identity through the quick snap of a single photo.
  
• Hundreds of law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, are already using this facial recognition technology, despite bans on the tech in cities like San Francisco.
  
• The app uses over three billion images to find a match. These photos were sourced from social media sites and even apps like Venmo.

Let's say a random stranger approaches you on the street, snaps a quick photo of you in a public place (which is perfectly legal), uploads the photo to an app, and soon finds your social media profiles. And your Venmo account. And your full name. And your address.

That's a privacy disaster any way you slice it—but it's also at the heart of an app called Clearview AI, which The New York Times recently called "The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It."

It's not just extremely dangerous because stalkers could instantly find people through the app and hound them over social media or even show up at their house, but because hundreds of law enforcement agencies, plus the FBI, are currently using this facial recognition technology, despite the pushback the tech has seen in legislative spaces.

In San Francisco, for instance, it's not even legal for law enforcement to use facial recognition. What's more, some security companies even have access to Clearview AI, which sets a dangerous precedent.

Clearview AI features a database of over three billion images, which were scraped from websites like Facebook, Twitter, and even Venmo. Other databases pale in comparison, according to marketing materials the company provided to law enforcement agencies. The FBI has a database of 411 million photos, while more local authorities, like the Los Angeles Police Department, only have access to about eight million images.

Sure, Clearview AI isn't readily available to the public, and when you visit the company's website, there isn't really much information on the app at all. You have to request access to learn more, let alone use the service. However, both the Times and investors in Clearview AI think that the app will be available for anyone to use in the future.

That's frightening, and it's led technology think tanks like Fight for the Future, a nonprofit based in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Washington, D.C.-based Demand Progress, to call on legislators to take action on facial recognition tech.

Even Google Wouldn't Build This

When companies like Google—which has received a ton of flack for taking government contracts to work on artificial intelligence solutions—won't even build an app, you know it's going to cause a stir.

 Back in 2011, former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said a tool like Clearview AI's app was one of the few pieces of tech that the company wouldn't develop because it could be used "in a very bad way."

Facebook, for its part, developed something pretty similar to what Clearview AI offers, but at least had the foresight not to publicly release it. That application, developed between 2015 and 2016, allowed employees to identify colleagues and friends who had enabled facial recognition by pointing their phone cameras at their faces. Since then, the app has been discontinued.

Meanwhile, Clearview AI is nowhere near finished. Hidden in the app's code, which the New York Times evaluated, is programming language that could pair the app to augmented reality glasses, meaning that in the future, it's possible we could identify every person we see in real time.

Early Pushback

Perhaps the silver lining is that we found out about Clearview AI at all. Its public discovery—and accompanying criticism—have led to well-known organizations coming out as staunchly opposed to this kind of tech.

Fight for the Future tweeted that "an outright ban" on these AI tools is the only way to fix this privacy issue—not quirky jewelry or sunglasses that can help to protect your identity by confusing surveillance systems.

Demand Progress tweeted that "our worst fears have become real."

These fears and disavowals of facial recognition tech come just months after two senators introduced a bipartisan bill to limit how the FBI and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency could use it.

"Facial recognition technology can be a powerful tool for law enforcement officials," Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, said in a statement at the time. "But its very power also makes it ripe for abuse."