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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)  the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)  fell for a spoof by Russian pranksters who promised in a call with the top House Democrat to furnish him withâkompromatââcompromising dirtâon President Donald Trump.
The notorious Russian pranksters  who the Daily Mailâs Alana Goodman notes are âcomedians nicknamed âVovanâ and âLexusââ who have become famous for âtheir phony calls to high-ranking American officials and celebrities  including UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Elton John â posed as leading Ukrainian officials in their call to  Schiff  in early 2017.
âOn an audio recording of the prank call posted online   Adam Schiff  can be heard discussing the committeeâs Russia investigation and increasingly bizarre allegations about Trump with a man who claimed to be Andriy Parubiy  the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament â Goodman wrote in the Daily Mail.
On April 10  2017  an assistant to  Adam Schiff   the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee  which is investigating Donald Trumpâs campaign for possible collusion with the Kremlin  patched in a long-planned call from Andriy Parubiy  the speaker of the Rada  the Ukrainian parliament. Parubiy said he had some potentially explosive information about Trumpâs visit to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in 2013.
The call  per the audio available on YouTube  begins with platitudes and introductions and  Schiff  thanks the man he thinks is Parubiy for his time addressing him as âMr. Chairman.â
The man then pitches that he wants to provide materials to  Schiff  for his committeeâs investigation on âTrumpâ and the âRussian government â to which  Schiff  cautions him that the Russians were likely listening to the call.
âI would just caution that our Russian friends may be listening to the conversation  so I wouldnât share anything over the phone that you donât want them to hear â  Schiff  said.
After the Russian prankster posing as the Ukrainian official said he had no concerns with what the Russians may or may not hear  he proceeded to tell  Schiff  about what would have been explosive allegations against the now-sitting president of the United States if they were true.
Sobchak has extensive ties to Putin  the prankster told  Schiff   adding that  she  is âalso known as a person who provides girls for escort for oligarchs. And  she  met with Trump and  she  brought him one Russian girl  celebrity Olga Buzova.â The prankster even told  Schiff  that Sobchak is a âspecial agent of Russian secret service.â
In reality  Sobchak is actually anti-Putinâan ex-Playboy model running against the Russian president on an anti-corruption platform after  her  time as a television anchor. But no matter to  Schiff ; he was entranced by the possibility of âkompromatâ on Trump.
After  per the Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian officials in their conversation with  Schiff   Sobchak introduced Trump to Buzova  Buzova âgot compromising materials on Trump after their short relations.â
 Schiff   per the Atlantic report  âbetrayed no emotion.â
âAnd so Putin was made aware of the availability of the compromising material?â  Schiff  asked the man  he  thought was a Ukrainian leader.
Adding insult to injury  the pranksters convinced  Schiff  that they had a recording of Sobchak and Buzov discussing this during a recent visit to Ukraine and that the Ukrainian officials would provide said recording to the FBI and the House Intelligence Committeeâs Democratic minority staff.
But thatâs not all. The pranksters told  Schiff  that Trumpâs ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn met with Russians in Brighton Beach in Brooklyn speaking in code words. From the Atlantic piece  here is more:
 He  told  Schiff  about meetings that Trumpâs former national-security adviser  Michael Flynn  had had with a Russian pop singer who served as an intermediary for the Kremlin. Theyâd met at a cafÃ© in Brighton Beach  a Russian-immigrant enclave in Brooklyn  where  Parubiy said  âthey used a special password before their meetings.â One would say  âWeather is good on Deribasovskaya.â The right response was âIt rains again on Brighton Beach.â
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Adam Schiff


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Kamila Shamsie  didnât have to stretch to fit the plot to the times when  she  decided to adapt the Greek tragedy Antigone into a contemporary novel about terrorism.
The gripping novel explores how western responses to terrorism show the limits of our ideals and laws. In an interview over Skype   Shamsie  told me  her  initial imperative with the novel was to explore the question of citizenship  to delve into what it means to begin stripping people of citizenship for certain crimes.
âRepeatedly people in [Theresa Mayâs] government have said  âcitizenship is a privilege not a right ââ  Shamsie  said. âAnd thatâs simply legally untrue  but increasingly they want to be able to take away citizenship for people who they think are unworthy. And they get to decide.â
 She  added: âItâs your own citizens and youâre saying that for all that we have our judicial system and prison system and probation and all of that  this is the one crime that we donât know how to deal with  so weâre just going to leave you out of the country. It should be seen as a real failing of a state  to say that our judicial system is incapable of knowing how to respond to this criminal act.â
And  as in the United States  the notion of terror is racialized and associated with Muslims (President Trump entertaining the idea of sending Sayfullo Saipov  the man who killed eight people when he drove a truck down a bike path in Manhattan on Halloween  to GuantÃ¡namo  is at this point to be expected.) While stripping citizenship might initially be justified only in terrorism cases   Shamsie  noted Theresa Mayâs attempts to revoke the passports of a group of British-Pakistani men convicted of sex crimes â âthereâs no way of saying itâs not about Islamophobia and racism  because no one is making those suggestions about anyone who is white and committing similar crimes.â
In the narratives that she read of radicalization  of youth attempting to join ISIS   Shamsie  saw only demonization and one-dimensional narratives: â It âs almost an inevitability now. If youâre young  Muslim and male  and angry  then youâre going to strap a bomb onto yourself.â But she dug into research on ISIS propaganda and youth who were convinced by it  and found that the reality  for many teenage would-be fighters  was complex.
âOne of the things I was interested in was the lure being something other than violence  and all the other ways that this world that we know to be nihilistic and brutal could also be seductive â  Shamsie  said.
âThere is this link between masculinity and violence that should be inescapable  it should be part of every conversation on violence â said  Shamsie . âInstead we compartmentalize violence: Thereâs the violence of gun shooters in America  thereâs the violence of suicide bombers in Iraq  thereâs domestic violence everywhere  there are men in Pakistan who are committing honor killings â and we donât draw the line between all of them and say what is it with men  what is it with masculinity  what is it that young men do to prove to themselves or to someone else that they are a man in the right kind of way?â
All of these complexities are missing from most media narratives of radicalization  and so also is the possibility of empathy   Shamsie  believes. In  her  research   she  found little compassion for the families whose children had gone to Syria  âfamilies facing the most horrendous thing â your child or your sibling who is very young or very stupid or angry â has gone to a place from where you know they will probably never return. And these families are treated as though they are guilty  rather than as if they are mourning.â
The novel gave  Shamsie  the space to create that empathy.
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Kamila Shamsie


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Says he âprobablyâ has âa very good relationshipâ with  Kim 
President Donald Trump refused to say whether he has spoken directly with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in an interview on Thursday  but said he âprobablyâ has âa very good relationshipâ with the dictator.
âI donât want to comment on it â Trump told the Wall Street Journal after he was asked directly if he had spoken with  Kim . âIâm not saying I have or havenât. I just donât want to comment.â
Direct talks between the U.S. president and  Kim  would be unprecedented. No conversation has been publicly reported between any sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader in decades  if ever.
Trumpâs relationship with  Kim  has been primarily distinguished by escalating barbs and insults. North Koreaâs aggressive pursuit of a ballistic missile capable of hitting the U.S. with a nuclear warhead has emerged as the presidentâs most fraught foreign crisis.
Trump has mocked  Kim âs weight and called him âlittle rocket manâ in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly. He quipped on social media last week that the ânuclear buttonâ on his desk was larger than that of the North Korean leader.  Kim  has dismissed Trump as a âdotardâ and âfrightened dogâ in public statements.
White House spokespeople didnât immediately respond to questions about whether Trump and  Kim  had spoken.
Trump has said North Korea wonât be allowed to develop a nuclear missile capable of striking the U.S.  and has threatened war if economic sanctions and negotiations canât avert  Kim âs ambitions for such a weapon.
 Kim  has vowed never to give up  his  countryâs nuclear weapons  regarding them as  his  last line of defense against a U.S. invasion. Technically  South Korea and the U.S. remain at war with North Korea after the Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice instead of a peace treaty.
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Kim Jong Un