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FAA Reveals Alleged Cause of Nationwide System Going Down,
Causing All Flights to Be Grounded

the FAA issued a statement later on Jan. 11 indicating that the outage was caused by an internal system error.

“The FAA is continuing a thorough review to determine the root cause of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage,” the FAA said in the statement. “Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file.”

The FAA didn’t disclose why the database file was damaged.

“At this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack,” the statement reads. “The FAA is working diligently to further pinpoint the causes of this issue and take all needed steps to prevent this kind of disruption from happening again.”
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“Pete Buttigieg couldn’t organize a one-car funeral,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote on Twitter. “He was never remotely qualified for this role.”
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“Today the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) grounded all flights because of a failure in their old, outdated system,” Crenshaw wrote. “So what was [Buttigieg] doing behind-the-scenes to prevent outages like this from happening?”

Buttigieg was “making acronyms more ‘inclusive’ by renaming the NOTAM system from ‘Notice to Airmen’ to ‘Notice to Air Missions,'” Crenshaw wrote in a subsequent Twitter post.
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the FAA has long struggled to modernize some long-standing parts of air traffic control. A 2021 Transportation Department Office of Inspection General (OIG) report repeatedly cited challenges in the FAA’s multibillion-dollar Next Generation Air Transportation System infrastructure project.

The OIG said that its work “has shown that FAA has struggled to integrate key NextGen technologies and capabilities due to extended program delays that caused ripple effect delays with other programs.”

 The official statement sounds extremely laughable after knowing what took place in both Canada and the UK the very same day. Plus, they should always have some backups or backup systems, that's something any wise IT guy should know very well by now.

Internal Twitter Documents Show Prominent Democrats Pushed Russiagate Lie

The 14th installment of the Twitter Files was released on Jan. 12 by journalist Matt Taibbi, who explained in a series of posts that, at a key moment in the Trump-Russia investigation, Democrats alleged that “Russian bots” were spreading an explosive report from then-Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).
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“Twitter officials were aghast, finding no evidence of Russian influence,” Taibbi continued.

In support of this take, Taibbi shared screenshots of correspondence from Twitter executives to several Congressional Democrats, including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), confirming that Twitter had “not identified any significant activity connected to Russia with respect to Tweets posting original content to this [#ReleaseTheMemo] hashtag.”
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The memo showed how the FBI under the Obama administration used unverified opposition research—the infamous “Steele Dossier” funded by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee—to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page as part of an investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The claims made in the Nunes memo were confirmed by Justice Department Inspector-General Michael Horowitz in his report, released on Dec. 9, 2019.
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Just days later, on Jan. 23, 2018, Democrat lawmakers, including Feinstein and Schiff, wrote an open letter to then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to investigate allegations of “Russian bots and trolls surrounding the #ReleaseTheMemo online campaign.”
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to himself issue a letter later that day that also alleged the hashtag was a part of Russian disinformation campaigns.

“We find it reprehensible that Russian agents have so eagerly manipulated innocent Americans,” he wrote in a letter issued later that day—even though before the letter’s issuance, Twitter’s staff told the senator’s staffers they did not believe Russian bots were behind the hashtag, Taibbi reported.

Here are the controversial memo and the hashtag letter mentioned above.