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WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Trump defends CIA
nominee, says she is
‘tough on terror’
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump today defended Gina Haspel, his nom-
inee to head the Central Intelligence Agency,
dismissing debate over her involvement in a
harsh interrogation program and arguing Dem-
ocrats want her out because she “is too tough
on terror.”
Haspel offered to withdraw her nomination,
two senior administration officials said Sunday,
amid concerns that a debate over a harsh inter-
rogation program would tarnish her reputation
and that of the CIA.
White House aides on Friday sought out
additional details about Haspel’s involvement
in the CIA’s now-defunct program of detaining
and brutally interrogating terror suspects after
9/11 as they prepared her for Wednesday’s con-
firmation hearing. This is when she offered to
withdraw, the officials said.
They said Haspel, who is the acting director
of the CIA, was reassured that her nomination
was still on track and will not withdraw. The
officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to
discuss internal deliberations.
Haspel, who would be the first woman to
lead the CIA, is the first career operations officer
to be nominated to lead the agency in decades.
She served almost entirely undercover and
much of her record is classified. Democrats say
she should be disqualified because she was the
chief of base at a covert detention site in Thai-
land where two terrorism suspects were sub-
jected to waterboarding, a technique that sim-
ulates drowning.
She has told lawmakers in recent weeks that
she would stand firm against any effort to restart
the brutal detention and interrogation program.
She is expected to reiterate that publicly this
week.
State election systems
still waiting for
security checkups
With the midterm congressional primaries
about to go into full swing, the Department of
Homeland Security is playing catch-up in help-
ing to ensure that state election systems are
secure against cybertampering by the Russians
or others bent on mischief.
The department said it has completed on-site
risk assessments of election systems in just nine
of 17 states that have formally requested them
so far. It has pledged to do so by November for
every state that asks.
The security reviews are designed to iden-
tify any weaknesses that could be exploited by
hackers; such examinations are routinely con-
ducted in the private sector. They are just one
tool, although an important one, in ensuring a
computer network has a robust defense.
Homeland Security officials attribute the
backlog to increased demand for such reviews
since the 2016 presidential election and say they
are devoting more money and shifting resources
to reduce wait times. The reviews typically take
two weeks each.
Among those still waiting for Homeland
Security to conduct a risk assessment is Indiana,
one of four states with primaries on Tuesday.
Its ballot includes several hotly contested races,
including a Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
The concerns aren’t just theoretical. The
nation’s intelligence chiefs warned earlier this
year that Russia remains interested in disrupt-
ing U.S. elections after a multipronged effort
to interfere in 2016. That included attempts to
hack into the election systems of 21 states.
There is no indication Russian hackers suc-
ceeded in manipulating any votes, but U.S.
security agencies say they did manage to breach
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A new fissure erupts Saturday in Leilani Estates in Pahoa, Hawaii.
Kilauea volcano claims more
than two dozen homes in Hawaii
PAHOA, Hawaii — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has destroyed 26 homes since it began spew-
ing lava hundreds of feet into the air last week, and residents who evacuated don’t know how
long they might be displaced.
The decimated homes were in the Leilani Estates subdivision, where molten rock, toxic gas
and steam have been bursting through openings in the ground created by the volcano. Another
four unspecified structures were covered by lava, officials said in revised figures issued Sunday.
Some of the more than 1,700 people who evacuated were allowed to briefly return to gather
medicine, pets, and other necessities. They will be able to do so each day as long as authori-
ties believe it is safe.
Amber Makuakane Kane, 37, a teacher and single mother of two, said her three-bedroom
house in Leilani Estates was across from a fissure that opened Friday. At the time, “there was
some steam rising from all parts of the yard, but everything looked fine,” Makuakane said.
On Saturday, she received alerts from her security system that motion sensors throughout
the house had been triggered. She later confirmed that lava had covered her property.
Makuakane grew up in the area and lived in her house for nine years. Her parents live in
the same subdivision.
“The volcano and the lava — it’s always been a part of my life,” she said. “It’s devastating
... but I’ve come to terms with it.”
the voter rolls in Illinois. That state and Texas
are the only two to hold statewide primaries so
far this year, and neither reported any intrusions
into their election systems.
Secret witness
testifies against US
pastor in Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey — A witness testify-
ing anonymously against a U.S. pastor accused
of spying and terror-related charges in Tur-
key claimed today that the American helped
Kurdish militants and aimed to create a Chris-
tian Kurdish state, the country’s state-run news
agency reported.
Pastor Andrew Craig Brunson forcefully
rejected the claim in the second session of his
trial, insisting that he never permitted “poli-
tics to enter the church,” the Anadolu Agency
reported.
The 50-year-old evangelical pastor from
Black Mountain, North Carolina, faces up 35
years in prison in Turkey on charges of “com-
mitting crimes on behalf of terror groups with-
out being a member” and “espionage.”
He denies any wrongdoing.
Brunson was arrested in the aftermath of a
2016 coup attempt in Turkey for alleged links to
the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK,
as well as a network led by U.S.-based Muslim
cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed by Tur-
key for the political unrest. Gulen denies any
knowledge of the failed coup.
The case has strained ties between Turkey
and the United States. President Donald Trump
tweeted in Brunson’s defense last month, say-
ing: “Pastor Andrew Brunson, a fine gentle-
man and Christian leader in the United States,
is on trial and being persecuted in Turkey for
no reason.”
The Trump administration later warned
Turkey that it is considering punitive “conse-
quences” if the NATO ally does not throw out
the charges or acquit Brunson.
Report: Millions of
tweets spread anti-
Semitic messages
Millions of anti-Semitic messages on Twit-
ter have spread negative stereotypes and con-
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spiracy theories about Jews across the social
media platform, according to a report today by
the Anti-Defamation League.
ADL national director and CEO Jonathan
Greenblatt said the data showed many used
Twitter as a “megaphone to harass and intimi-
date Jews.”
An earlier report from the Jewish civil rights
group said anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last
year had reached the highest tally it has counted
in more than two decades. That increase
appeared to be fueled by emboldened far-right
extremists as well as the “divisive state of our
national discourse,” Greenblatt said in February.
In the new report, the group estimated that
about 3 million Twitter users posted or re-posted
at least 4.2 million anti-Semitic tweets in
English over a 12-month period ending Jan. 28.
The finding is based on a reviewed sample of
55,000 tweets and had a 3 percent margin of
error, the report said.
Twitter says it has made more than 30
changes to its platform, policies and operations
in the past 16 months to protect its users from
abuse and hateful images.
“We are an open platform and hold a mirror
up to human behaviors, both the good and the
bad,” the company said in a statement. “Every-
one has a part to play in building a more com-
passionate and empathetic society, including
Twitter.”
Jennifer Grygiel, an assistant professor
of communications at Syracuse University,
said the ADL’s findings reinforce the need for
Twitter and other platforms to hire more “human
content moderators” to weed out hateful
activity. It’s not enough to rely on artificial
intelligence or users to do that job, Grygiel
added.
“The tech is not good enough because
humans are really smart, and they will learn
how to maneuver around the machines,” Gry-
giel said. “It’s getting better, but it’s not there
yet.”
Russia’s Putin sworn
in for 4th term; vows
economic reforms
MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin took the oath
of office today for his fourth term as Russian
president, promising to pursue an economic
agenda that would boost living standards across
the country.
In a ceremony in an ornate Kremlin hall in
Moscow, Putin, 65, said improving Russia’s
economy following a recession partly linked to
international sanctions would be a primary goal
of his next six-year term.
Although Putin has restored Russia’s prom-
inence on the world stage through military
actions — including intervening in Syria’s war
to help President Bashar Assad — he has been
criticized for inadequate efforts to diversify
Russia’s economy away from its dependence
on oil and gas exports or develop the country’s
manufacturing sector.
Russia’s economy was hit hard by low world
oil prices and sanctions connected to Rus-
sia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and military
involvement in the separatist uprising in east-
ern Ukraine, with the ruble losing half its value
between 2014 and 2016.
The country recorded an anemic improve-
ment in 2017, with gross domestic product ris-
ing 1.5 percent and the ruble recovering some
of its value. But the ruble dropped about 8 per-
cent again last month in the wake of new U.S.
sanctions.
Putin has effectively been the leader of Rus-
sia for all of the 21st century. He stepped down
from the presidency in 2008 because of term
limits, but was named prime minister and con-
tinued to steer the country until he returned as
president in 2012.
He became acting president on New Year’s
Eve 1999 following the surprise resignation of
Boris Yeltsin and was elected to his first four-
year term in 2000.
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