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Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano said the heavy-handed early morning raid and arrest of Roger Stone was “staged” by authorities.

Napolitano appeared on Fox Business Thursday morning to decry the way the longtime Trump adviser’s arrest was handled, following his op-ed declaring the show of force “an American nightmare.”

After explaining how federal agents, armed with automatic weapons, stormed Stone’s home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida last week, Napolitano said “this is not to arrest a kidnapper of babies or a terrorist.”

“The charge is lying to Congress,” Napolitano continued. “It’s not a violent crime, there’s no evidence that he’s going to flee, he doesn’t have a valid passport, he’s not an imminent danger to society.”

“Why on earth would the government put on a show of force like that?” host Stuart Varney asked.

Napolitano offered two reasons: either the government thought it could intimidate Stone into flipping on President Donald Trump or create an impression among the public that Stone is dangerous.

The Fox News analyst pointed out that despite the show of force, Stone’s bail was set at $0. “So the federal judge concluded this was preposterous for this type of a crime, for this type of a background, for this person.”

Napolitano also revealed that off-air, Stone told him that authorities were polite and “somewhat apologetic” in private.

“So, implication, it was staged,” Varney said.

“It was staged,” Napolitano confirmed. “It’s like the behavior of a police state.”

“They won’t give him a transcript of his alleged lies because the testimony for Congress was classified,” Napolitano added. “This is really Kafkaesque — that he should have to defend against something, the government has the paper that claims contains his lies, he is not allowed to see that paper.”

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Alan Dershowitz, a longtime liberal and supporter of Hillary Clinton, says Congress needs to rein in the FBI’s use of SWAT tactics when it makes arrests for process crimes.

He pointed to the pre-dawn raid to arrest former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone last Friday.

At least a dozen FBI agents in tactical gear with long guns drawn showed up at his Florida home and pounded on his door.

All for charges that stem from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The charges, however, had nothing to do with Russia or collusion.

Dershowitz, an emeritus professor of law at Harvard, insisted the arrest could have been facilitated with a telephone call to Stone’s lawyer.

He wrote at the Gatestone Institute that the American public “is entitled to an honest explanation of why Stone was arrested.”

“We have not received the truth. Congress should hold a hearing and call as witnesses those who ordered the arrest and demand they explain and justify it,” he wrote.

“It is unlikely that a plausible and credible explanation will be offered, but Mueller and his FBI agents should at least have an opportunity to set the record straight. Maybe there is a good reason for why the arrest was necessary, but if so, we have not heard it and it is unlikely that the reason involves national security or other secrets,” he said.

“These hearings should lead to legislation setting enforceable standards for when the kind of arrest to which Stone was subjected should be permissible. The power to arrest, using armed FBI agents, handcuffs and shackles must not become a tactic to be used by law enforcement for impermissible reasons. Nor should it become routine. Congress must act to prevent these abuses from recurring.”

Dershowitz said the FBI’s stated reasons for the arrest are “utterly unconvincing.”

“He was not a flight risk, as evidenced by the low bail and easy conditions of release set by the judge without objection from the government. Stone knew he was going to be indicted and if he wanted to flee, he had plenty of time to do so. The same is true of destroying evidence, wiping his electronics or doing anything else that would warrant an arrest rather than a notice to his lawyer to appear in court at a specified time.”

Dershowitz asserted that the “illegitimate purpose of the arrest was to intimidate the potential witness – namely Stone – into not invoking his constitutional right to remain silent, rather than to testify as a government witness. ”

“The arrest was nothing more than a show of toughness – a foretaste of what Stone could expect if he did not cooperate with Mueller,” he said.

He said police do it all the time, but enough with that.

“As Judge T.S. Ellis, III, who presided over the Manafort trial, observed: ‘You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort’s bank fraud – what you really care about is what information Mr. Manafort could give you that would reflect on Mr. Trump or lead to his prosecution or impeachment,'” he wrote.

The danger is that defendants not only could “sing,” or testify, they could “compose,” meaning make up evidence.

“If Hillary Clinton had been elected president and if a special prosecutor had arrested one of her associates in the rough and demeaning manner by which Stone was arrested, civil libertarians would be up in arms,” he said. “But because the arrest is of a Trump associate and the purpose is to get evidence against President Trump, we have not heard from fair-weather civil libertarians who use civil liberties and constitutional rights as tactics to serve their partisan political agendas.”

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President Donald Trump's longtime political ally Roger Stone on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to seven criminal counts after becoming the latest member of Trump's inner circle charged in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

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A Canadian man charged with the murder of eight men who disappeared over several years pleaded guilty to the charges on Tuesday, police said, in a case that shook Toronto's gay community.

(COLLEGE FIX) — Thought the Obama administration’s Title IX guidance for sexual misconduct proceedings was bad? Look at some of the legislation under consideration in states.

New Mexico is considering a bill that would threaten colleges with defunding if they don’t make assumptions that are favorable to accusers in sexual misconduct proceedings.

HB 133 passed the House Health and Human Services Committee Friday, and will now be considered by the House Education Committee, the Los Alamos Daily Post reports. The bill’s sponsor, Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Thomson, said it’s intended to give young people “the resources they need to make the best decisions for themselves and their bodies.”

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A horrific video of a Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber in Murmansk - a crash that left two of the fighter's crew members dead and two badly injured - was caught on video.  And the footage has now emerged online.

Highlighted by RT, the video shows the strategic bomber’s approach to an air base in near-zero visibility and the moment it slammed into the airstrip and burst into flames. The video was recorded by a Russian serviceman at the base, which is located near the city of Olenegorsk, and was recently leaked online.

The video shows the heavy fog that was covering the area during the incident, which took place on Jan. 22.

During the crash-landing, the bomber literally broke apart, with its cabin engulfed in flames while tumbling on the ground.

The plane crashed during what the Russian Ministry of Defense said was a routine training mission. Though initially the ministry said there were no weapons aboard the jet at the time of the crash, later reports indicated that it had been armed with one Kh-22 long-range anti-ship missile and several hundred rounds aircraft cannon ammo. The bomber that was involved in the crash was built 33 years ago, but underwent an overhaul in 2012.

White House warns of "significant response" if Maduro harms U.S. diplomats, opposition leader  CBS News

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Veteran country rock star Charlie Daniels took New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to task over the passage of a new law in his state legalizing abortion into the third trimester.

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