| Former Mattis speechwriter says he was surprised by the retired general's attack on Trump Posted: 05 Jun 2020 02:40 PM PDT  Guy Snodgrass, who worked as a top aide to former Defense Secretary James Mattis, says that while he was surprised that Mattis recently issued a rare public criticism of President Trump, he also believes he was eager to speak up.
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| China urges citizens to shun Australia as dispute simmers Posted: 05 Jun 2020 07:26 PM PDT  China is advising its citizens not to visit Australia, citing racial discrimination and violence against Asians, in what appears to be Beijing's latest attempt to punish the country for advocating an investigation into the coronavirus pandemic. A notice issued by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism late Friday said there has "been an increase in words and deeds of racial discrimination and acts of violence against Chinese and Asians in Australia, due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic." "The ministry advises Chinese tourists to raise their safety awareness and avoid travelling to Australia," the notice said.
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| Minneapolis mayor jeered after refusing to support abolishing police department Posted: 07 Jun 2020 03:19 AM PDT  Mayor Jacob Frey, a former civil rights attorney who took office two years ago vowing to repair the police department's strained relations with minorities, was showered with angry chants of "Go home, Jacob, go home," and "Shame, shame," as he stalked away through the crowd, head bowed. Onlookers' video of the spectacle went viral on social media on a day when tens of thousands of demonstrators in cities across the country staged a 12th straight day of protests demanding an end to racial bias and brutality in America's criminal justice system. Within days, as street protests raged amid a storm of arson and looting that went largely unchecked by police, Frey drew criticism from some, including U.S. President Donald Trump, for doing too little to restore order.
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| 75-year-old man pushed to ground by Buffalo police 'comes from a peace tradition' Posted: 05 Jun 2020 06:05 PM PDT  Gugino — 75 of Amherst, New York, — tried to bring the community together and stand in quiet solidarity for peace, friends and his lawyer said Friday.
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| New arms race taking shape amid a pandemic and economic crisis Posted: 06 Jun 2020 08:01 AM PDT  Three decades after the Cold War ended without a feared nuclear cataclysm, arms control experts are starting to think the sigh of relief heard around the world then might have been premature.
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| 'Kettling' of Peaceful Protesters Shows Aggressive Shift by New York Police Posted: 05 Jun 2020 12:08 PM PDT  NEW YORK -- It was about 8:45 p.m. in Brooklyn on Wednesday, 45 minutes past the city's curfew, when a peaceful protest march encountered a line of riot police, near Cadman Plaza.Hundreds of demonstrators stood there for 10 minutes, chanting, arms raised, until their leaders decided to turn the group around and leave the area.What they had not seen was that riot police had flooded the plaza behind them, engaging in a law enforcement tactic called kettling, which involves encircling protesters so that they have no way to exit from a park, city block or other public space, and then charging them and making arrests.For the next 20 minutes in downtown Brooklyn, officers swinging batons turned a demonstration that had been largely peaceful into a scene of chaos.The kettling operations carried out by the city's police after curfew on recent nights have become among the most unsettling symbols of the department's use of force against peaceful protests, which has touched off a fierce backlash against Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police commissioner, Dermot F. Shea.In the past several days, New York Times journalists covering the protests have seen officers repeatedly charge at demonstrators after curfew with seemingly little provocation, shoving them onto sidewalks, striking them with batons and using other aggressive tactics.The escalation in the use of force in New York is part of a national trend. Across the country, local police have resorted to violent tactics to control the protest movement that was ignited by the death George Floyd, a black man, as he was being held down by a white officer in Minneapolis.The strategy has been broadly defended by both de Blasio and Shea, who said it was necessary escalation to deter looters who ransacked parts of Manhattan over the weekend."There comes a point where enough is enough," de Blasio said Thursday.But there have been few reports of looting in the last three days of unrest. Instead, police are deploying their aggressive tactics against protesters who have done little beyond violating the city's 8 p.m. curfew to march. About 270 people were arrested Thursday night.As images of police officers using force to arrest seemingly peaceful demonstrators circulated online, de Blasio, who ran on a platform to reform the police, came under fierce criticism from some elected officials, community leaders and even his former aides. He was jeered and booed at a memorial for Floyd on Thursday.By Friday, after more than a week of protests, the mayor had softened his tone, pledging to review reports of police officers behaving inappropriately and promising he would announce disciplinary measures against some officers shortly.Later, in an interview on WNYC, the mayor said the encircling of protesters was sometimes necessary for public safety."I don't want to see protesters hemmed in if they don't need to be," he said, but he added "that sometimes there's a legitimate problem and it's not visible to protesters."On Thursday, the police commissioner said some police officers could be suspended if their behavior is found to have violated department standards. But he also said the anti-police rhetoric of the protesters and some elected officials who support them was putting officers in danger and he pointed to numerous instances in which the police had been injured with flying debris."We need healing," Shea said. "We need dialogue. We need peace."For many protesters, however, the aggressive tactics of police to enforce the curfew have only worsened the crisis.Axel Hernandez, 30, was protesting at Cadman Plaza on Wednesday night when police rushed into the crowd. Hernandez, who had marched several times this week, said it was one of the most peaceful demonstrations he had attended until the police charged in."That was the most peaceful, no bottles thrown, no anything," he said. "The next thing I know, police rush in, with batons, and started moving people, and start hitting people."The kettle is a crowd control technique that has been used for decades. In theory, officers surround protesters and give them no exit, tire them out, then let them disperse in small groups.But in New York in recent days, the maneuver has often ended with a charge and mass arrests. Since the city put a curfew in place this week, police have used the technique in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx.According to accounts from Times journalists, other witnesses, and protesters who were arrested, many demonstrators have been trapped in kettle formations by police and have had no way to disperse. In one instance, in Manhattan, police refused to let compliant protesters leave the area and comply with their orders."We were asking them, 'Where should we go?' Everyone's hands were in the air," said Lucas Zwirner, one of the protesters arrested Wednesday after being surrounded by police officers in Manhattan after curfew.Many demonstrators told police they would disperse and go home, Zwirner said, but officers would not let them through.Police officers have used the maneuver to end some marches but not others. In Brooklyn on Wednesday, the police waited until 9 p.m. -- an hour beyond the 8 p.m. curfew -- to surround protesters and charge.The day before, they allowed thousands to march peacefully across the Manhattan Bridge hours after curfew had ended and escorted a group of thousands back to Brooklyn to disperse. In the Bronx on Thursday, officers began surrounding a group of demonstrators before 8 p.m. and began making arrests by 8:02 p.m."We are continuing to exercise discretion," Shea said Thursday evening. "Where we have made arrests, we have made them strategically."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company
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| Coronavirus: This is not the last pandemic Posted: 06 Jun 2020 05:30 AM PDT  Pandemic hunting scientists warn of a 'perfect storm' for new diseases to emerge from wildlife.
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| Anger as Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro removes surging coronavirus death toll from official websites Posted: 07 Jun 2020 02:57 AM PDT  Brazil's government was accused of trying to cover up the scale of its catastrophic coronavirus epidemic after it stopped publishing its total rates of deaths and infections. The Federal Health Ministry closed the webpage showing daily, weekly and monthly figures on infections and deaths in Brazilian states on its Website on Friday. The move came as president Jair Bolsonaro, who has previously dismissed the deadly virus as "a little flu," claimed that the official count was "not representative" of the country's situation and threatened to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organisation. The last figures released before counting stopped showed Brazil had recorded over 34,000 deaths from Covid-19, the third highest in the world after the United States and the United Kingdom. It had 615,000 infections, the second-highest behind the United States. The webpage reappeared on Saturday, but only showing the numbers of infections for states and the nation recorded over the previous 24 hours - not cumulative totals.
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| Trump praises success against coronavirus in states that are seeing cases spike Posted: 05 Jun 2020 11:02 AM PDT  "Look at what's going in Florida, it's incredible," Trump said at one point. "The job the governor of Florida's done, it's incredible. The numbers they're doing ... you gotta open it up." Much like Florida, Georgia has had the integrity of its coronavirus numbers questioned.
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| Venezuela's Guaido reappears after claim he hid in French embassy Posted: 06 Jun 2020 08:59 PM PDT  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido reappeared in the street in videos distributed Saturday by his team and parliamentary allies, after foreign minister Jorge Arreaza claimed he had taken refuge in the French embassy in Caracas. Guaido, the parliamentary speaker who is recognized as interim president of Venezuela by 50 countries, was referring to the accusation by the United States of "narcoterrorism" against the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro. The videos -- which did not specify the date or location they were filmed -- were released after Arreaza on Thursday said Guaido was hiding in the French embassy, and demanded he be handed over to "Venezuelan justice."
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| After 30 years, wrongfully convicted death row inmate freed Posted: 05 Jun 2020 12:01 PM PDT  A man who spent nearly three decades in behind bars, most of them on death row, after he was convicted at his second trial of killing a 4-year-old girl in Philadelphia was released Friday after prosecutors concluded he very likely did not do it. Walter Ogrod left death row and the State Correctional Institution-Phoenix hours after his charges were reduced and he was granted bail in the 1988 death of Barbara Jean Horn. "He was very pleased and relieved to be out of prison," Rollins said.
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| Ten shot dead in attack on Mexican drug rehab center Posted: 06 Jun 2020 11:28 PM PDT |
| Lightning strikes Washington Monument; two National Guardsmen hospitalized in separate strike Posted: 05 Jun 2020 11:56 AM PDT  Two guardsmen were injured in Lafayette Park, near the White House, in a separate incident from the lightning bolt that struck the Washington Monument
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| US Marines order Confederate flag to be removed from public display Posted: 06 Jun 2020 07:44 AM PDT  The US Marine Corps has officially ordered the removal of the Confederate battle flag from public display on its bases and offices, citing the flag's use by racist groups as a "threat to our core values".In a statement on 5 June, the service branch said: "The Confederate battle flag has all too often been co-opted by violent extremist and racist groups whose divisive beliefs have no place in our Corps."
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| Al-Qaeda chief in north Africa Abdelmalek Droukdel killed - France Posted: 06 Jun 2020 01:44 AM PDT  Veteran jihadist Abdelmalek Droukdel was killed in an operation in Mali, the defence minister says.
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| I flew on America's 2 largest airlines for the first time in months and was shocked to discover stark differences in how they're each adapting to the new reality Posted: 07 Jun 2020 05:36 AM PDT  While I was prepared to be within six feet of my fellow passengers, I certainly felt better about flying on one airline over the other.
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| The president of the Chicago Police Board said he was struck five times by officers with batons after trying to defuse tensions at a protest Posted: 05 Jun 2020 11:42 PM PDT  "This is the duality I live with as a black man in America, even one who is privileged to be part of systems of power," Ghian Foreman said.
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| AstraZeneca approached Gilead about potential merger - Bloomberg News Posted: 07 Jun 2020 01:21 AM PDT  Britain's AstraZeneca Plc has approached U.S. rival Gilead Sciences Inc about a possible merger that would form one the world's largest drug companies, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. Any deal would unite two of the companies at the forefront of the industry's efforts to fight the new coronavirus and could be politically sensitive as governments seek control over potential vaccines or treatments. AstraZeneca contacted Gilead last month, but the U.S. firm was not interested in combining with another big pharmaceutical company, the Bloomberg report https://bloom.bg/3h2GU9e said.
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| Tropical Storm Cristobal path moving closer to Gulf Coast; landfall expected today Posted: 07 Jun 2020 10:09 AM PDT  Tropical Storm Cristobal was expected to make landfall Sunday along the Louisiana coast with flooding rain, dangerous storm surge and blustery winds.
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| Why China Looked To Israel's Lavi Jet For Its J-10 'Vigorous Dragon' Posted: 06 Jun 2020 08:00 AM PDT  Though not a cutting-edge stealth aircraft, it marked an important milestone in China's military modernization—achieved, most likely, with a little foreign assistance.
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| Great white shark kills surfer off Australia's New South Wales Posted: 07 Jun 2020 12:29 AM PDT  The surfer was brought back to the New South Wales beach by "heroic" boarders but died of his wounds.
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| Delta says it will stop flying to 11 US cities indefinitely — here's the full list Posted: 05 Jun 2020 01:27 PM PDT  Delta is continuing to shrink its route network amid a slow-going recovery and subpar summer season with daily passenger numbers still below 500,000.
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| A majority of voters are uncomfortable attending large gatherings, dining out Posted: 07 Jun 2020 06:01 AM PDT  As states continue to ease restrictions, Americans remain wary about the pandemic's spread according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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| Floyd protests and Trump's response gave Washington a week it won't soon forget Posted: 06 Jun 2020 04:00 AM PDT  Whatever does happen next, one thing is clear: Washington has never seen a week like this one.
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| Netanyahu calls for Iran sanctions over nuclear 'violations' Posted: 07 Jun 2020 03:58 AM PDT  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers Sunday to reimpose tough sanctions against Iran, vowing to curb Tehran's regional "aggression" hours after another deadly strike on pro-Iranian fighters in Syria. "The International Atomic Energy Agency has determined that Iran refused to give the agency's inspectors access to secret sites where Iran conducted secret nuclear military activity," Netanyahu told his cabinet. The UN nuclear watchdog said Friday that Iran had accumulated enriched uranium at nearly eight times the limit under a landmark 2015 deal, and has for months blocked inspections at sites where nuclear activity may have taken place.
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| One of the officers charged in George Floyd's killing was hired despite having a criminal record and slew of traffic violations Posted: 05 Jun 2020 11:53 AM PDT  Lane, who was charged this week with aiding George Floyd's killing, had been charged with damaging property, disobeying police, and other offenses.
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| Minneapolis restaurant owner loses everything after trusting law enforcement to protect his business Posted: 06 Jun 2020 04:47 AM PDT  El Chuchi Market and El Sabor Chuchi owner Luis Tamay speaks out.
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| Tropical storm Cristobal nears US forcing evacuations of coastal island and oil platforms Posted: 06 Jun 2020 12:56 PM PDT  Tropical Storm Cristobal moved through the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, with strong winds and heavy rains forcing the evacuation of part of coastal Louisiana and more than 170 offshore oil platforms.Cristobal is expected to strengthen before making landfall late on Sunday on the Louisiana coast but is unlikely to reach hurricane strength according to the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC).
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| 65% of Americans Believe Racial Profiling is Commonly Used: Study Posted: 06 Jun 2020 07:00 PM PDT  Want to know what Americans really think about the police? One study has some important clues.
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| Mike Huckabee ‘Livid’ at Republicans Who Won’t Bow Down to Trump Posted: 07 Jun 2020 09:16 AM PDT  Former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR) expressed his shock and dismay Sunday morning that several prominent Republicans will reportedly not support President Donald Trump in the 2020 election."Well I don't know if it's true because it's in The New York Times," Huckabee snarked on Fox & Friends Weekend, claiming that the paper is "wrong more than they're right." "But if that's true and if you have people who were nominated, and in the case of President Bush actually elected to be president by Republicans, and they will no longer support the Republican nominee who went through the process and got elected," Huckabee said, "then I'm going to be not just unhappy, I'm going to be livid." He went on to say that he and his fellow conservatives "didn't all agree on some of the policies of Bush or McCain or Romney" but "when it came down to it" they knew they could either "choose a far-left liberal or we could choose somebody that was closer to our views."Huckabee admitted that Trump might not have the best "bedside manner," but still, he added, "Here's what I just don't understand with these never-Trumpers." "This president is more pro-life than we've ever had, period," he said. "He's more pro-Israel. He has deregulated so much government so that the businesses of America can thrive and they have until this COVID stuff happened." He notably neglected to mention that the president's inaction on COVID-19 made that situation much worse.LeBron James Calls Out Fox News Host Laura Ingraham Over Drew Brees HypocrisyAfter baselessly claiming that Trump has "done more for minorities than any president in my lifetime in actually helping people to have good, decent jobs and a future," Huckabee told Republicans who don't like Trump's "personality" to "get over it!" "This is not about electing a personality," Huckabee said. "This isn't Hollywood. This is the rough, tumble world of politics. And maybe he's not as genteel as some of us would like. But, by gosh, he's getting the job done, and it's time Republicans rally because if they don't, they're going to get Joe Biden, who isn't pro-life, who is for higher taxes, open borders, he's going to succumb to China. Everything that we find disgusting he's going to embrace it, including the socialists out here. That's why we have to realize this is a simple choice and we better make the right move." After Huckabee delivered his fear-based rant Sunday morning on Fox, yet another prominent Republican, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, officially endorsed Joe Biden on CNN. Calling Trump's rhetoric "dangerous for our democracy" and "dangerous for our country," Powell said he believes "the country is getting wise to this and we're not going to put up with it anymore." Joe Biden Gets Super Unhelpful Defense from Mike HuckabeeRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| US records 749 virus deaths in past 24 hours: tracker Posted: 06 Jun 2020 06:21 PM PDT |
| Combat drone to compete against piloted plane Posted: 06 Jun 2020 12:40 AM PDT  The US Air Force will pit an advanced autonomous aircraft against a piloted plane in tests.
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| Man who sheltered protesters from police says he saw "horrific use of force" Posted: 06 Jun 2020 10:02 AM PDT  Rahul Dubey sheltered more than 70 protesters in his Washington, D.C., home Monday night as police were enforcing curfew. "It was unfathomable," Rahul Dubey said of the police violence he saw used against peaceful protesters outside his home.
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| China to strengthen global cooperation in COVID-19 vaccine trials Posted: 06 Jun 2020 08:00 PM PDT  China will strengthen international cooperation in future COVID-19 clinical vaccine trials, building on earlier collaboration in vaccine development, the science and technology minister said on Sunday. China is expending great efforts in the global scramble to develop a vaccine for the new coronaries epidemic that began in its central city of Wuhan, with Chinese researchers conducting five separate clinical trials on humans, or half of all such trials globally, according to the data compiled by the World Health Organization. President Xi Jinping vowed last month at the World Heath Assembly, the WHO's governing body, that vaccines China's develops will become a "global public good" once they are ready for use, and it will be China's contribution to ensuring vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing countries.
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| ‘Shame!’: Minneapolis mayor booed out of protest for refusing to commit to abolish police Posted: 07 Jun 2020 06:37 AM PDT  Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey faced a chorus of boos and chants of "shame" when he refused to commit to abolishing the city's police department this weekend.Saturday was the 12th day of protests over the killing of George Floyd while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department.
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| George Floyd marches: Five slang words, terms that protesters want you to know Posted: 05 Jun 2020 04:29 PM PDT  The demonstrations have their own language, written on signs or walls
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| Administration officials: U.S. doesn’t have systemic police racism problem Posted: 07 Jun 2020 07:33 AM PDT  William Barr and Chad Wolf both reject the notion.
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| Re-energized Tropical Storm Cristobal bears down on U.S. Gulf Coast Posted: 07 Jun 2020 09:45 AM PDT  Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency to prepare for the storm's possible arrival.
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| Top US military officer reaches out to Capitol leaders Posted: 05 Jun 2020 05:28 PM PDT  The nation's top military officer, Gen. Mark Milley, has spoken privately with key congressional leaders as Pentagon officials come under fire for the Defense Department's role in containing protests following the police killing of George Floyd. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to express her concerns Tuesday, according to a person who was unauthorized to publicly discuss the private conversations and was granted anonymity.
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| Irene Triplett, last person to collect an American civil war pension, dies at 90 Posted: 07 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Daughter of private who fought for both sides and had children in his 80s lived for years in a North Carolina nursing homeThe last person to receive a US government pension from the American civil war has died.Irene Triplett was 90 when she died last Sunday in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Her father, Mose Triplett, fought for the Confederacy and the Union in the civil war, which began in 1861 and ended with the defeat of the slave power in 1865. He applied for his Union pension 20 years after the war and in 1930, when his daughter was born, he was 83.The Wall Street Journal, which spoke to Irene Triplett for a story in 2014, reported that she died "from complications following surgery for injuries from a fall, according to the nursing home where she lived".Dennis St Andrew, a commander of the North Carolina Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, told the Journal Triplett was "a part of history"."You're talking to somebody whose father was in the civil war," he said. "Which is mind-bending."But to Stephanie McCurry, a historian of the civil war and Reconstruction era at Columbia University in New York, Triplett's death acquired a deeper resonance by occurring in the midst of national civil unrest over the killing by Minneapolis police of George Floyd, an African American man."Just like the Confederate monuments issue, which is blowing up right now, I think this is a reminder of the long reach of slavery, secession and the civil war," she told the Washington Post. "It reminds you of the battle over slavery and its legitimacy in the United States."Each month, Triplett collected $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), a total of $877.56 a year. Her father earned the sum by defecting north in 1863 after missing the battle of Gettysburg, the turning point of the war."Pvt Triplett enlisted in the 53rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment in May 1862," the Journal reported, citing Confederate records which showed he was then 16.And Triplett "transferred to the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment early the following year", "fell ill as his regiment marched north" then "ran away from the hospital … while his unit suffered devastating losses at Gettysburg".A deserter, Triplett "made his way to Tennessee and, in 1864, enlisted in … the 3rd North Carolina Mounted Infantry", Kirk's Raiders, which "carried out a campaign of sabotage against Confederate targets".Mose Triplett was unsurprisingly not popular in post-war North Carolina but eventually, in 1924, still childless, he married a second time. He was nearly 80. His new wife, Elida Hall, was 34. As the Journal put it, "such an age difference wasn't rare, especially during the Great Depression when civil war veterans found themselves with both a pension and a growing need for care."Triplett and Hall had five children but only two survived: Irene, who like her mother suffered from mental disabilities, and Everette, a son born when Mose Triplett was 87. As the Journal wrote in 2014, "Irene and Everette Triplett were born in tough country during tough times. The forested hills ran with white lightning from illegal stills. Ms Triplett said she didn't drink moonshine, but she got hooked on tobacco in first grade.""I dipped snuff in school, and I chewed tobacco in school," Triplett said then. "I raised homemade tobacco. I chewed that, too. I chewed it all."In 1938, aged 92, Mose Triplett attended a reunion at Gettysburg. In his remarks, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to the Gettysburg Address, delivered in November 1863: "Lincoln spoke in solace for all who fought upon this field; and the years have laid their balm upon their wounds. Men who wore the blue and men who wore the gray are here together, a fragment spared by time."Newsreel footage posted to YouTube by CSPAN tells of "2,500 veterans, north and south", black and white, marking "the 75th anniversary of America's Armageddon".Housed in the Confederate camp, Triplett reportedly kept quiet about the double service that placed him in rarefied company. The Victorian journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, for example, also fought for both sides.Triplett died shortly afterwards. His gravestone, in Wilkes county, says only: "He was a civil war soldier."In 1943, Irene and her mother moved to the Wilkes county poor house. In 1960, they moved to a care home. Elida Hall died in 1967. Everette Triplett died in 1996. Irene lived on, her care paid for by Medicaid and the civil war pension.The Journal reported that though Irene "saw little of her relatives … a pair of civil war buffs visited and sent her money to spend on Dr Pepper and chewing tobacco".Jamie Phillips, the home's activities director, told the Post Triplett liked gospel music, cream cheese cheeseballs and laughing."A lot of people were interested in her story," Phillips said, "but she'd always deflect the conversation to something different going on in the news."
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| Why Hitler's V-1 Buzz Bombs Were Scary but Could Not Win the War Posted: 06 Jun 2020 12:00 PM PDT  The Nazis thought about turning them into one-way jets.
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| U.S. senator Scott says China trying to sabotage vaccine development Posted: 07 Jun 2020 01:57 AM PDT  The United States has evidence China is trying to slow down or sabotage the development of a COVID-19 vaccine by Western countries, Republican senator Rick Scott said on Sunday. "China does not want us ... to do it first, they have decided to be an adversary to Americans and I think to democracy around the world." Asked what evidence the United States had, Scott declined to give details but said it had come through the intelligence community.
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