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*'''7 August.''' DIA Director Gen. Micahael T. Flynn fired.<ref name="newsmax.com"/>
*'''7 August.''' DIA Director Gen. Micahael T. Flynn fired.<ref name="newsmax.com"/>
[[File:The Khororsan Group Does Not Exist.PNG|right|300px|thumb|''The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist'', Andrew McCarthy, National Review, September 27, 2014.<ref>https://archive.is/wip/0siKU</ref>]]
[[File:The Khororsan Group Does Not Exist.PNG|right|300px|thumb|''The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist'', Andrew McCarthy, National Review, September 27, 2014.<ref>https://archive.is/wip/0siKU</ref>]]
*'''27 August.''' ''Financial Times:'' Stefan Jajecznyk and Taras Kuzio: Russia’s war in east Ukraine – time for the diaspora to step up,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190405165132/www.taraskuzio.com/media13_files/40.pdf</ref>
:*"The same Ukrainian diaspora communities who idolise nationalist leaders have been unable to raise significant funds for the Ukrainian military and [[Territorial Defense|National Guard]]. Such funds could have been used to buy bulletproof vests, night vision equipment and medicines and possibly to hire contractors to train and advise the Ukrainian security forces. In Ukraine, volunteers are providing the army with everything from food to body armour to medical kits while, volunteers are increasingly doing the actual fighting, the Kyiv Post has reported.
"*In the decades following [[World War II]], the first generation émigrés of the [[Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists]] (OUNb) led by assassinated leader [[Stepan Bandera]] raised large amounts of money for a ‘Liberation Fund’ to support the fight for Ukrainian independence. The UK, with its unique and extensive community of Ukrainian clubs and bars, was the source of the greatest diaspora contributions to the Fund.
:*"With Ukraine bankrupt and its military depleted of resources, the Fund would have been ideally placed to provide resources for the country’s first de facto war with Russia since Ukrainian partisans fought Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union in the 1940s. But the Fund is either depleted or the younger generation, primarily born in [[the west]] and now leading émigré nationalist organisations, are no longer able to solicit large donations. The Ukrainian diaspora community in the UK is in decline and the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain has been quite passive. There are prominent figures in the diaspora communities with ties to Ukrainian nationalist politicians but their silence is deafening. The [[OUNb]] – the most vilified of all Ukrainian organisations by the USSR and still by Russia today – resembles a rabbit caught in headlights.
*'''29 August.''' Project on Government Oversight sends letter to President Obama and members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to voice concerns over Executive Order 12333, the primary authority under which the NSA gathers foreign intelligence. Unlike a FISA warrant, the EO provides the government with the latitude to conduct sweeping surveillance on US and non-US persons without judicial review as long as the monitoring is necessary to protect US interests from "foreign security threats," an umbrella term that likely permits the surveillance of any foreign person.<ref>http://www.pogo.org/our-work/letters/2014/pogo-joins-group-letter-EO-12333.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/?referrer=http://circa.com/politics/government/if-proven-true-nunes-surveillance-revelations-raise-concerns-about-civil-liberties</ref>
*'''29 August.''' Project on Government Oversight sends letter to President Obama and members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to voice concerns over Executive Order 12333, the primary authority under which the NSA gathers foreign intelligence. Unlike a FISA warrant, the EO provides the government with the latitude to conduct sweeping surveillance on US and non-US persons without judicial review as long as the monitoring is necessary to protect US interests from "foreign security threats," an umbrella term that likely permits the surveillance of any foreign person.<ref>http://www.pogo.org/our-work/letters/2014/pogo-joins-group-letter-EO-12333.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/?referrer=http://circa.com/politics/government/if-proven-true-nunes-surveillance-revelations-raise-concerns-about-civil-liberties</ref>