March 13, 2026

Jacqueline Alemany, et al., of MS NOW: “A federal judge has quashed the Justice Department’s subpoenas targeting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, according to a court filing unsealed Friday — a major blow to the Trump administration’s criminal investigation into the central bank’s leader. In a remarkable decision, Chief Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote that 'a mountain of evidence' suggested that 'the Government served these subpoenas on the [Federal Reserve] Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning.' Boasberg added that federal prosecutors “produced essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime,'  calling the Trump administration’s case 'so thin and unsubstantiated that the Court can only conclude that they are pretextual.' Boasberg went even further, writing that the investigation into Powell fit a 'pattern' that several of the president’s adversaries have now faced from Trump’s Department of Justice.... [U.S. Attorney Jeanine] Pirro[, who opened the case,] responded immediately and defiantly in a press conference, calling the decision ... 'untethered to the law.'” ~~~

     ~~~ Andrew Weissmann, speaking on MS NOW Friday afternoon emphasized how "unusual" it was for a judge to quash a grand jury subpoena or to find that the suit was brought for "improper purposes."

Tara Copp, et al., of the Washington Post: “All six service members aboard a U.S. Air Force refueling aircraft that crashed in Iraq while supporting operations in Iran are dead, military officials said Friday. U.S. Central Command said, in an apparent midair accident with another aircraft. Centcom’s announcement brought the death toll of the crash from four to six, after earlier saying that rescue efforts were underway for the last two crew members.” The NBC News report is here.

Christopher Rugaber of the AP: “An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs. Prices rose 2.8% in January compared with a year earlier, the Commerce Department said Friday, slightly below December’s increase in a report that was delayed by last fall’s six-week government shutdown. The shutdown created a backlog of data that is nearly cleared. Yet excluding the volatile food and energy categories — which the Fed pays closer attention to — core prices rose 3.1%, up from 3% in the prior month and the highest in nearly two years.”

Michigan. Praveena Somasundaram & Victoria Craw of the Washington Post: “The man suspected of ramming a car into a Michigan synagogue Thursday had family members who were killed in an Israeli attack on Lebanon this month, officials said. The crash, which started a fire at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, is being investigated as a targeted attack on the Jewish community. The Department of Homeland Security identified the perpetrator as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, and said he came to the United States from Lebanon in 2011 as the spouse of a U.S. citizen and was granted citizenship in 2016. Dearborn Heights Mayor Mo Baydoun said in a Facebook post late Thursday that the suspect was a resident of the city. Several of Ghazali’s loved ones, including his niece and nephew, were killed in an Israeli attack on their home, Baydoun wrote.... 'Yesterday’s attack was antisemitism. It was hate, plain and simple,' Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said Friday at a news conference.”

Canada. Ian Austen of the New York Times: “Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada unveiled a multibillion-dollar plan on Thursday to significantly build up the country’s military capacity in the Arctic, including establishing new bases in a region where the country has had to rely on the United States to ensure its defense. The announcement follows ... [Donald] Trump’s repeated calls for Canada’s annexation and his musings about acquiring Greenland, Canada’s Arctic neighbor. Mr. Carney is not the first Canadian prime minister with grand plans for improving the security and asserting Canada’s sovereignty over its enormous yet largely unpopulated Arctic region. But his proposal is more comprehensive and extensive than past efforts.”

Cuba. Frances Robles, et al., of the New York Times: “In what was seen as a last-ditch effort to save his hobbled government, President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba announced on Friday that his government had been holding talks with the Trump administration while managing an increasingly severe lack of fuel. Cuba’s government is facing an existential crisis as the Trump administration ratchets up pressure on the 67-year-old Communist state, maintaining what amounts to an oil blockade. Fuel is rapidly running out, plunging Cuba into prolonged periods of darkness. Though the discussions with the United States had previously been reported by U.S. news outlets, it was the first time the government had acknowledged that talks were underway.” The link appears to be a gift link.

RAS links to a Joe.My.God post that captures the essence of Trump. Read the whole page. ~~~

~~~ AND There's This. Barak Ravid of Axios: Donald "Trump told G7 leaders in a virtual meeting Wednesday that Iran is 'about to surrender,' according to three officials.... 24 hours later, Iran's new supreme leader issued his first public statement vowing to keep fighting.... While claiming Iran was about to surrender, he also suggested there were no officials left alive in Tehran with the power to make that decision. 'Nobody knows who is the leader, so there is no one that can announce surrender,' Trump said, according to two officials briefed on the call." ~~~

~~~ AND This. Nicholas McEntyre of the New York Post: Donald “Trump issued a new threat against the 'deranged scumbags' leading Iran, vowing to use his 'unparalleled firepower' for a fresh wave of deadly attacks Friday — which Secretary of War Pete Hegseth warned would see the 'highest volume of strikes that America has put over the skies of Iran.' Trump’s chilling message came after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei delivered his first public remarks and after two extremists attacked a synagogue and a college in the US on Thursday. 'We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning,' Trump wrote on Truth Social just after midnight Friday.... 'Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today,' Trump said.” So presidential*.

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Hello, Bad Luck Day!

The New York Times' live updates of developments in the Iran+ war are here. From the pinned item at 6:30 am ET: “The Israeli military said early Friday that it had struck a Hezbollah operative in the Beirut area, as Israel’s escalation of attacks against the Iran-backed Lebanese militia spread beyond the group’s traditional strongholds and into parts of the city once considered comparatively safe. Military exchanges between Iran, Israel and the United States showed no signs of slowing.... In the Persian Gulf, the authorities in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said they were intercepting drones and missiles on Friday morning. Strikes on Tehran wounded aid workers with Iran’s Red Crescent Society. And an attack in Iraq killed a French soldier and injured several others, President Emmanuel Macron of France said. The war in the Middle East has killed thousands of people and displaced millions of others.... In Lebanon, officials said that more than 700 people had been killed and over 1,500 others injured.” ~~~

     ~~~ The Guardian's live updates are here. From the AP's live updates: “During a Pentagon briefing Friday, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei 'is wounded and likely disfigured,' without providing evidence about his condition. Israel suspects Khamenei was wounded at the start of the war. Khamenei has not been seen in public since taking over leadership.” MB: I'll bet the disfigurement aspect of this hypothesis kinda thrills Drunk Pete, who has an unconstitutional fetish about his own appearance. (See yesterday's page.)

Helene Cooper, et al., of the New York Times: “Four of six crew members died after a U.S. military KC-135 refueling aircraft that was part of the American war against Iran crashed in neighboring Iraq, United States Central Command said on Friday. In a statement, it said that rescue efforts were continuing and that the circumstances of the crash were under investigation, but added that 'the loss of the aircraft was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire.'... Central Command ... said on Thursday that an incident involving two aircraft had 'occurred in friendly airspace,' and one aircraft went down, while the other landed safely.” The AP's report is here.

Watch as Trump & his troupe of Not Ready for War Time Players bumble their way through a war they started without a plan:

~~~ Marie: Perhaps I'm being unfair here. There was a plan. I'd call it the Cheney Plan. Three days before the U.S. invaded Iraq, Dick Cheney predicted, We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.This is the plan Trump adopted for his invasion of Iraq's neighbor. Garrett Graff disagrees: ~~~

Garrett Graff: “The hardest thing for the media to wrap its hands around over the last year is that Donald Trump has no plan — for anything, ever. Time and again, national pundits and the White House press corps invent a logical Donald Trump who sets, announces, and later 'changes' real 'policies' or 'plans,' failing to convey what is clear to anyone who is actually following events closely: In each public appearance and social media post, the Mad King Donald Trump spouts a string of words, devoid of meaning or purpose, that may or may not represent anything at all. Every single thing he says may, at any given time, be taken as an official hard-line policy of the US government, the opening gambit to a long flexible negotiation, or a random pronouncement that will never be mentioned again.... The new New York Times tick-tock of the Trumpian miscalculations that led us [to the Iran quagmire] is eye-popping: 'Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war. But they have been careful not to express that directly to the president, who has repeatedly declared that the military operation is a complete success.'” ~~~

Presidential commands are never self-executing. -- political scientist Jeffrey Tulis ~~~

~~~ Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times (March 11): “There is no apparent evidence that Trump is capable of even the slightest bit of deferred gratification.... Trump is so solipsistic, so plainly consumed with narcissism, so deeply indifferent to the details of governance and so eager to satisfy his basest impulses that there was little chance he’d ever complete the authoritarian consolidation of his dreams. All of this is simply to contrast what might have been with what plainly is: a presidency in terminal decline, if not outright collapse.... [Trump's] fast-eroding position has curtailed Trump’s ability to pressure lawmakers into backing his agenda....  I do not think it is an accident that the two most consequential rulings against Trump issued by this Supreme Court were decided as the president’s standing entered a tailspin.”

The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money. -- Donald Trump, in social media post, Thursday ~~~

~~~ Josh Boak of the AP: “Since starting a war with Iran caused oil and gasoline prices to spike..., Donald Trump has pivoted from a focus on keeping energy prices low to trying to paint high oil prices as a positive. The about-face comes as Trump’s team has struggled to offer a clear plan for opening up the critical Strait of Hormuz so that tankers full of oil and natural gas are no longer stranded — even as the administration took a series of decisions to try to quickly stabilize surging prices.”

White House: Sports & Killing People Are Fun Things that Americans Are Good At. Robert Klemko of the Washington Post: “A Trump administration social media video montage that juxtaposes collisions in pro and college games with military attacks [has drawn] criticism from former players.... [Some former players featured in the football clips] said they believed the White House should remove the video, and if it doesn’t, the rightsholders including the NFL should achieve removal through legal means. Having the video removed on legal grounds may not be an option for the broadcasters and the NFL, said Rebecca Tushnet, a First Amendment professor at Harvard Law School.... Courts have historically been hesitant to let copyright owners assert infringement in political ads and political speech, she said. 'Once you’re making an argument, no matter how offensive an argument it is, courts are much more willing to find fair use,' Tushnet said. 'The argument here seems to be: Sports and killing people are fun things that Americans are good at. That is, although repulsive, an argument.'” (Also linked yesterday.)

Ah, It's A Lucky Day for Putin. Alan Rappeport of the New York Times: “The United States on Thursday temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil that is currently at sea, allowing it to be shipped to buyers around the world as the Trump administration scrambles to contain energy prices that have been soaring because of the war in Iran. The exemptions, which were issued by the Treasury Department, will be in place until April 11. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent estimated that freeing Russian oil could add hundreds of millions of barrels of crude to global markets, curbing prices that have been hovering near $100 per barrel as a result of the Iran conflict. The decision was a significant turning point in America’s effort to punish Russia for its war in Ukraine.” ~~~

~~~  Nette Nöstlinger &  Hans von der Burchard of Politico: “German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized the Trump administration on Friday for temporarily lifting sanctions on Russian oil.... 'We think that’s wrong,' Merz said, speaking alongside Norwegian Prime Minster Jonas Gahr Støre. 'There is currently a price problem, but not a supply problem. And in that regard, I would like to know what other factors led the U.S. government to make this decision.... We want to ensure that Russia does not exploit the war in Iran to weaken Ukraine,' Merz said.... Merz said the decision by the U.S. administration had come as a surprise on Friday morning....  He also reiterated his fears that the U.S. and Israel lack a strategy for ending the war [against Iran].” ~~~

~~~ Marcy Wheeler reminds us that as Trump serves Putin's interests, Russia has given Iran the locations of U.S. military assets and is helping Iran with drone tactics. Even before Bessent lifted the sactions, Russia has enjoyed a $150 million increase in oil revenues. Wheeler also notes that Trump's war has led to an increase in Iranian oil shipping.

Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly.... Our rules of engagement are bold, precise and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. -- Pete Hegseth, March 4 briefing ~~~ 

~~~ Charlie Savage of the New York Times: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has made contempt for what he calls 'stupid rules of engagement' — limits meant to reduce risks to civilians — central to his political identity, and has boasted that he unleashed the military to use 'maximum authorities on the battlefield' in the Iran war.... He has tried to reshape Pentagon culture, reveling in lethality with 'no apologies, no hesitation.' He has portrayed this approach as a 'warrior ethos,' one that is tough and manly.... [Such] statements are now the backdrop to a body of evidence that the destruction of an Iranian elementary school during the opening hours of the war was likely caused by an American missile strike.... Retired commanders argue that the point of ... constraints is not just law, morality and honor, but strategic self-interest. Mistakes that kill civilians stoke anti-Americanism — alienating allies, creating new enemies and making wars harder to win.” Update: the link has been changed on one that appears to be a gift link.

Andrew Kramer & Maria Varenikova of the New York Times: “For most of its four-year-long war with Russia, Ukraine has been a recipient of security aid from the United States and European allies. With war now raging in the Middle East, Ukraine’s government is seeking to turn the tables by offering a pivotal technology to intercept the exploding drones menacing the region’s oil facilities and shipping. In a possible prelude to sales agreements, Ukraine has sent interceptor drones and teams to operate them to three American allies in the Persian Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Eleven countries in all, including the United States, European nations and Gulf monarchies, have sought Ukraine’s assistance or advice on shooting down Iranian-made Shahed drones, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. For years, Ukraine has been fine-tuning defenses against such drones, which Russia fires into the country by the thousands each month. Ukraine wants to leverage its defense expertise into political recognition of a security partnership with the United States and European countries, and to reap potentially vast profits for its arms industry. While no deals have been announced yet, the market for drone defenses for oil fields and tankers could run to many billions of dollars, Ukrainian defense executives say.”

⭐Paul Goldberger, in a New York Times op-ed: Donald Trump's ballroom “brings to mind not any previous American president but the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who was obsessed with rebuilding Rome into some grand new version of itself.Like Mussolini, Mr. Trump grasps at things that he thinks will express the strength of his regime but that only show its vulgarity....  As a builder, [Trump] has always confused size with excellence.... Right now, the future of our nation’s capital is being guided not by any legitimate system of architectural review but by sycophants who want only to please their leader. It’s just how things worked under Mussolini in Rome, until his power came to an end.” The link is a gift link.

“Friendly Adversaries.” Zach Montague of the New York Times: By suing friendly states for policies set by state legislation, then reaching the quick settlement the Trump administration desires, Trump is doing “an end run around the legislative process and enact[ing] policies that will affect states and, in some cases, the whole country.” 

Ana Swanson of the New York Times: “The Trump administration on Thursday evening initiated a sweeping trade investigation targeting dozens of countries over their trade policies on goods made with forced labor. The inquiry was part of an effort by the Trump administration to resurrect a global system of tariffs after ... [Donald] Trump’s first attempt was struck down by the Supreme Court last month. On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced another major trade investigation that could lead to tariffs, focusing on excess production in the factory sectors of more than a dozen major trading partners. The new investigation will focus on the laws that countries use to regulate the use of forced labor in goods they trade, not their domestic situations. It will target 60 economies, including Algeria, Canada, Norway, Saudi Arabia, China and the United Kingdom, as well as the 27-country bloc of the European Union.” ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: I'm touched that Donald Trump is so interested in protecting laborers around the world. 

Max Rego of the Hill: “Current and former UFC fighters will train FBI agents in Quantico, Va., this weekend, the mixed martial arts company announced Wednesday. The fighters will visit the FBI Special Agent Academy to host an 'exclusive training seminar for academy students as well as senior FBI staff from around the world,' according to a UFC release.... FBI Director Kash Patel called the partnership a “tremendous opportunity for our FBI agents to learn and train with some of the greatest athletes on earth” and said it will help the bureau 'be even better prepared to protect the American people.'... UFC CEO Dana White said..., 'Our UFC fighters are some of the baddest men and women on the planet and they are heading to Quantico to train the best FBI agents in mixed martial arts.'” (Also linked yesterday.)

Chris Geidner, the Law Dork, on "Donald Trump's Justice Department." 

Scott Nover & Adam Taylor of the Washington Post: “...  Donald Trump nominated Sarah B. Rogers, a State Department official, as chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, amid a protracted legal battle between employees and the agency’s top official, Kari Lake. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan administration nominee, ruled Saturday that Lake has been illegally running the agency, which oversees VOA and funds international broadcasters like Radio Free Asia. The ruling also nullified months of Lake’s actions, including a mass layoff of hundreds of employees, which he had previously paused. Lake attempted to portray herself as the agency’s CEO, despite never being nominated by Trump for the role, Lamberth wrote in an opinion.... The State Department said Rogers would continue to serve ...  as the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy ... if confirmed as CEO of USAGM.”

Ronda Kaysen of the New York Times: “The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed the largest piece of housing legislation in 36 years, as Republicans and Democrats banded together to tackle a major cost-of-living issue just months before midterm elections in which affordability is expected to be a main focus. But the bill still faces major hurdles, as Republicans feud over what should be included and ... [Donald] Trump, who backs the measure,* signals that it is not a priority. The package, which passed by a vote of 89 to 10, aims to boost the supply of new housing, a critical step toward bringing down housing costs, by removing regulatory barriers, providing incentives and preserving the existing supply. It would also set new limits on the role institutional investors play in the single-family housing market, a top goal of Mr. Trump, who signed an executive order on the issue in January.” (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~

     ~~~ *According to Chris Hayes of MS NOW, Trump "is whipping against the bill." 

Katherine Tully-McManus & Jennifer Scholtes of Politico: “For the fourth time in so many weeks, senators voted down a bill Thursday to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, then left town for the weekend — ensuring the agency remains shuttered past the one-month mark come Friday. The Senate voted 51-46 against moving ahead with the House-passed measure to fund all of DHS, failing to meet the 60-vote threshold necessary to move forward. Senate Majority Leader John Thune voted 'no' for procedural reasons, allowing him to bring the motion back up at a later date.” (Also linked yesterday.)

Annie Karni of the New York Times: “Shuttered by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2024 but reopened by ... [Donald] Trump last year, [the Dilley Immigration Processing Center] has become a symbol of the indiscriminate nature of the administration’s crackdown. And [Rep. Joaquin] Castro, a seven-term Democrat from San Antonio, is on a crusade to close it. In the meantime, he has been highlighting the plight of its most sympathetic detainees in a bid to shame immigration authorities into releasing them — and in the process, calling attention to the cruel consequences of the president’s immigration agenda.... For now, Mr. Castro says his pressure campaign is working. On his first visit in January, there were 1,100 people at Dilley. On Monday, he said, the number of detainees was down to about 450. 'The public outcry is making a difference,' he said. 'More people are being released.' Still..., lawmakers who visited on Monday described wretched scenes of cruelty and neglect.”

Cheyanne Daniels of Politico: “Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Thursday shared a social media post calling Muslims 'the enemy,' joining a growing number of sitting GOP members to share Islamophobic rhetoric. Tuberville on Thursday retweeted a post that showed a picture of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani sitting cross-legged on the floor surrounded by people that was juxtaposed with a photo of the Twin Towers in New York burning on Sept. 11, 2001. The caption of the original post read, 'Less than 25 years apart.' Tuberville added his own caption: 'The enemy is inside the gates.'” (Also linked yesterday.) 

Olivia George of the Washington Post: “Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have asked a federal judge to allow their lawsuit over the long-delayed installation of a plaque honoring their service to continue, days after The Washington Post revealed it was quietly hung at the end of a hallway in the middle of the night. Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and D.C. police officer Daniel Hodges, who sued last summer after Congress blew past its own installation deadline, argue the placement of the plaque continues to violate federal law. 'Hidden from all visitors, the current location is no different than the basement the plaque was kept in for years,' Brendan Ballou, a former federal prosecutor who now works for the Public Integrity Project and is representing Dunn and Hodges, wrote in court filings Tuesday....  The location is not on the public tour route offered through the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, a spokesperson for the center confirmed.” 

Patrick McGeehan of the New York Times: “A federal judge on Thursday said that the Trump administration had paid what it owed on the rail tunnel project being built under the Hudson River and largely dismissed a lawsuit over the federal government’s temporary hold on more than $200 million in funding. Now that the federal Department of Transportation has provided all of the money it had promised for the tunnel project, known as Gateway, the agency overseeing the work no longer has much of a claim against the department, said the judge, Richard A. Hertling of the Court of Federal Claims in Washington.” (Also linked yesterday.) 

Kelby Vera of the Huffington Post: “During a Thursday interview with CNBC, Palantir CEO Alex Karp said he thinks advancements in artificial intelligence will undermine the political and economic power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat' more than anyone. 'This technology disrupts humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters and makes their economic power less and increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working class, often male voters,' he explained.” ~~~

     ~~~ Evan Hurst of Wonkette: "Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir who is so off-putting he makes founder Peter Thiel seem like a regular guy you’d have a beer with, said a thing yesterday in a CNBC interview that’s going viral for how weird and gross and revelatory it is of the mindset that drives these socially inept techbro creepers who happen to have a lot of money they didn’t really earn. Apparently these dicks think their AI is going to somehow be the thing that shows all those educated Democratic-voting women who refuse to fuck them who’s really boss.... You can draw a direct line from their misogyny to regular old MAGA misogyny, which travels right through JD Vance (AKA Peter Thiel’s personal AI robot) and into the wider world of those MAGA incels and Christian extremists.” Read on.

Ana Swanson of the New York Times: “The North American Free Trade Agreement, the deal that began integrating the Mexican economy with the United States and Canada in the 1990s, has been a politically charged topic for decades.... A new paper adds to the understanding of NAFTA’s costs. In it, economists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago found that American workers in communities that were more exposed to competition from Mexican imports saw a significant shortening of their life spans after the trade deal went into effect in 1994.... The economists sought to demonstrate causation, not just correlation, between NAFTA and the increase in mortality. 

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Michigan. Praveena Somasundaram of the Washington Post: “A person apparently rammed a car into a Michigan synagogue Thursday, starting a fire, and was found dead after security engaged him with gunfire, officials said. A security guard was injured in the attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, and the alleged perpetrator was found dead inside the car, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. Children and staff inside the temple were not hurt, he said.” (Also linked yesterday.)

New Mexico. Michael Levenson of the New York Times: “The authorities in New Mexico are searching for a retired, high-ranking Air Force officer who has not been seen since he left his home in Albuquerque nearly two weeks ago, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said. The retired officer, Maj. Gen. William N. McCasland, 68, is a former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio. He was responsible for managing the Air Force’s science and technology program and oversaw a global work force of approximately 10,800 people involved in Air Force technology.”  

Virginia. Jonathan Mattise & Olivia Diaz of the AP: “The suspect who killed one person and injured two others at Old Dominion University on Thursday has been identified by authorities as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State, according to the FBI. The shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism, FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media post.... Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard, was sentenced to 11 years in prison and was released from federal custody in December 2024.” (Also linked yesterday.)