CIA officials, including the upper echelons are required to be apolitical.  The main purpose of the CIA is to gather intelligence on America’s enemies and guarantee the safety and security of the citizens of this country. The administration of CIA chief John Brennan came nowhere near meeting this standard. Brennan used the CIA to lies for political ideological goals. This has been shown earlier when Brennan used the CIA to conduct illegal surveillance of the Senate Intelligence Committee and then lied about it. This the same investigations that Brennan lied to Senator Feinstein about, and Brennan later apologized to the leaders of the SIC.

This the same Brennan who coerced the FBI into investigating this sham of Trump-Russia collusion using the unverified Steele dossier. In Brennan’s own words “Just because it is unverified doesn’t mean it isn’t true. A sad idea pushed by a biased has been that was trying to hold on to his job through a Hillary administration. Lying to the Security Intelligence Committee as stated above, it is now known that it was Brennan who passed on and spoke of the Steele dossier to Harry Reid and other Democrat leaders, fed allegations that remain unverified to the FBI and fed information detrimental to President Trump to the press.

 This is the same Brennan that lied about NSA surveillance of American citizens, and only avoided a perjury trial because he resigned, and the statute of limitations ran out because of obfuscation from the Obama administration. Brennan even had the audacity to proclaim he just gave the “least untruthful answer”. For anyone else, a lie like this would land them in jail. But the Obama administration and the sycophantic media ignored this crime, once again.

 The administration of the CIA under the orders of Brennan operated as a offshoot of the Hillary campaign. Using spies and connections in England and Estonia, Brennan weaponized the CIA  with the phony intelligence obtained through these sources in his attempt to delegitimize the Trump candidacy, to try and cause maximum political damage on the conservatives, and led a multiagency smear campaign that has led the government to end up in a sham of a Special Council investigation being used by the leftists to effect the midterms.

 It was John Brennan who proudly admitted voting for Communist Party leader Gus Hall, and even know supports such fellow progressive socialists as Andrew McCabe, James Comey, and his partner in crime at the highest level, James Clapper. This is the same John Brennan who invited a plethora of communist subversives into the highest positions of the CIA. Brennan talks of corruption in the Trump presidency, but fails to mention and will not discuss the political corruption of the “Resistance” which he helped to get started and continues to push lies, innuendo, and double talk. To those like Brennan, even those still in government, the though of legality is second to the thought that the ends justifies the means in the ideology of leftist thought. They have yet to understand the juvenile antics of those in government and the media are not making a difference, The only difference is the #WalkAway movement which they claim are Russian bots but are actually millions of honest Americans who are tired of the lies.

In March of 2016 The Moscow Times reported the John Brennan, still head of the CIA made a secret visit to Moscow.  At the time he met with the FSS the successor of the KGB, of which the man being demonized by Brennan, Vladimir Putin was a part.

It was in the summer of 2016, when British spy Robert Hannigan passed material to John Brennan. Brennan then passed this information to the progressives socialists on Capitol Hill. After beefing the “Gang of Eight” this same information was then passed to the New York Times, which dutifully emblazoned the front pages of their liberal rag with this information.

One on the main reasons for Brennan’s animus towards President Trump was his sympathies towards the Muslim Brotherhood and his college days where spent a year in Cairo learning about the Muslim sharia law and high end courses in Middle East Studies. He applied for and received the station chief position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

His background and sympathies for the Muslim outlook was also a primary reason for the intense dislike he felt for Michael Flynn. It was Brennan who instigated the investigation of Michael Flynn after he had already been cleared by the FBI. It was Brennan who released the confidential transcripts of Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador and made sure the press, long in Brennan’s pockets because of earlier leaks, to spread the supposed lies to Mike Pence by Flynn.

The latest unhinged tirade from this Muslim/socialist sympathizer is laughable. This self important narcissist now claims “America will triumph over you…”

Brennan also sent a aggressive threatening tweet to both Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claiming they will bear the “responsibility of the harm done to our democracy is President Trump does not stop his disastrous path”. First, we are a Republic, not a democracy, a difference any competent CIA Director would understand. Second, the path the President Trump is following, less government control, lower taxes, and border security, is the one the majority of Americans back and understand. His tweet pertained to the definitive proof that the FBI had an informant in the Trump campaign.

Perhaps this man needs to go back to American History in about the sixth grade. President Trump was elected by the people of this country contrary to what Brennan, Clapper, and all the others ensconced in the Deep State believe. He had already called for the executives in the Trump administration of refuse the orders of the President if they didn’t agree with the order. There is no doubt that Brennan and the others will continue to move forward in the adolescent ranting of impeachment and a coup to lead to civil war.  It is all they have. They couldn’t beat Trump, they can’t turn his supporters (a group growing every day) against him, and no one listens to their lapdogs in the media anymore.

There is so much more to this web that Brennan has achieved. Passing the information to Harry Reid, who then wrote an open letter to James Comey which also happened to end up with the New York Times filled with lies and unverified innuendo. Or other agents and intelligence officials who were invested in a Clinton victory like former deputy of the CIA Mike Morell.

30 years CIA field operations officer Gene Coyla said the “Brennan is known as the greatest sycophants in the history of the CIA and a big supporter of Hillary Clinton. What has not been made clear if the John Brennan, along with a multitude of others are no longer part of any governmental decision process, and as such should have the clearances they are still using to leak to the press dismissed.

Thinking they are our betters, they understand that the media and those still in place will do the best they can to protect them. Drawing out the Mueller sham of an investigation until after the midterms will allow the progressive socialists to shut down the investigations in Congress. Then the Stalinist “show trials and investigations will begin. The impeachment process based on the banshee caterwaulings of Mad Mouthy Maxine Waters will move forward if these slimy animals are allowed to take over Congress.

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Bottom line:

"We have an out-of-control, unaccountable Justice Department, which aggressively impedes serious journalists and citizen advocacy groups from learning about their justice-obstructing activities while masquerading as our country’s top law enforcement officials…just like their ancient counterparts, the Roman Praetorian guards."   ,,, by LV @

"The Praetorian Guard within the U.S. Department of Justice"

This is part one of a five part piece taken from my blog at whileweslept.org

As the tide of political correctness rolls over our nation there are millions of Americans who will wear their vote as a civic crown of acceptance; of broad-mindedness. Just as a vote for Barack Obama seven years ago was seen as an exclusive gesture of modernity by pronouncing our transcendence of race, this election may well be the same for gender. The landscape seems to have been assembled with that in mind.

Let us realize that for over thirty years Hillary Clinton has been the beneficiary of the American public’s short-sighted memory. And now, as she hopscotches her way into position as the front-runner for the Democratic Party it is important the we look objectively at the trail of wreckage that both she and her husband have left behind.

Has there ever been a Presidential candidate so mired in controversy? For example, as I write this, despite the preponderance of evidence that during her time serving as Secretary of State she broke a number of federal laws – regarding the handling of classified material as well as operating on a personal server instead of the required government appointed one – there are still millions of people who seem to regard the Oval Office as Mrs. Clinton’s just reward for her long pursuit of it.

Many people who may vote in the democratic primary election and the general election in 2016 have no genuine knowledge of Mrs. Clinton. Millions of first-time voters will not remember the dozens of prior scandals that date back to the late-seventies. As the public’s critical vetting of a candidate has been reduced to an embarrassing confluence of smack-down banter and feckless mudslinging many have lost sight of Hillary Clinton’s sustained tradition of using felonious methods to further her own self-interest.

For those of us who remember headlines like ‘Travelgate’, ‘Filegate’ and ‘Whitewater’ this will serve as a reminder; for those whose image of her is a convoluted knot of sound-bytes about the ‘middle class’ and ‘college loans’, this will exhibit a forty year quest by an arrogant, sanctimonious, and reckless collectivist who has created inexhaustible resources through deceit and treacherous means.  

Surely, most potential voters are likely to associate Hillary with Benghazi but what does it mean? During a recent conversation with a lifelong Democrat and Clinton supporter I asked what she thought about what happened in Benghazi: “C’mon, it’s just like everything that happens over there.”

Actually, it isn’t.

It is in fact, a grotesque and criminally negligent mishandling of a terrorist attack that occurred on the eleventh anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks. On September 11, 2012 a group of Islamist militants launched an organized attack the American Consulate. Chris Stevens had been appointed to Ambassador just two months prior to the attack. Upon his arrival in Benghazi he’d asked for an additional 13 security guards citing the increasingly dangerous situation on the ground. His request went unanswered. 5 weeks prior to attack, Ambassador Stevens sent an urgent cable to Hillary Clinton personally requesting a protective detail bodyguard. Three days later, Hillary Clinton ordered the removal of his entire security team. In fact, there were hundreds of messages sent to the State Department and to Mrs. Clinton personally describing how Al-Qaeda militias had been patrolling the area around the Benghazi Consulate. There had been as assassination attempt on the British Ambassador nearby. In April of 2012, terrorists threw an IED (improvised explosive device) over the Consulate wall. In June of that same year terrorists blew a large hole in the Consulate gate.

At the onset of the attack on September 11, 2012 newly appointed Ambassador Chris Stevens and State Department Information Manager Sean Smith become separated from their meager security. They take refuge in the main building of the compound behind a fortified door with metal bars but the militants set fire to the building. Shortly thereafter, Ambassador Stevens is captured. He is raped and tortured before being killed. His body is dragged through the streets. Sean Smith dies of asphyxia caused by smoke inhalation.

A militant group advocating the strict implementation of Sharia law across all of Libya – Ansar al-Sharia – claims credit for the attack.

Around this time a U.S. surveillance drone arrives over the compound. It sends real-time footage back to the White House, the State Department and the CIA.

About a mile from the Consulate Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty (both former Navy Seals) were at the CIA Annex when the attack began. They radioed to their higher headquarters asking for permission to help and they were denied per the State Department. Also nearby, a Foreign Emergency Support team trained specifically for when a Consulate comes under terrorist attack had been deployed – but was held back by the State Department under the direction of Hillary Clinton. CIA officers on the ground nearby during the attack sent three separate requests for help but those, too, were denied. Woods and Doherty waited another hour and sent another request that was immediately denied. In a devastating exhibit of heroism, while knowingly disobeying their orders, they made their way to the Consulate to help. They requested air support. They called for ground support. The fighting went on for more than six hours with an unarmed drone hanging in the sky directly above them. Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were killed by a mortar shell nearly seven hours after the fight began. One of them was on the roof with a laser pointer on the mortar team – that laser could have helped guide in an armed drone easily. Tyrone’s body was found slumped over his machine gun.

Eight minutes after Doherty and Woods were killed Hillary Clinton issued an official statement in which she claims that the attack was a spontaneous response to ‘inflammatory material posted on the internet” and not a planned terrorist attack. The alleged ‘inflammatory material’ turned out to be a low budget satirical depiction of the early life of Muhammad.  

Two days later, as Doherty and Woods were returned to the U.S. in boxes, Obama again blamed the attack on this internet video. Hillary Clinton told Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone, “We will make sure the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted” and indeed the filmmaker was jailed. On September 20 the White House began airing apology ads for the internet video – apology ads.

This is the story the precedes the current email scandal.

Perhaps that according to Mrs. Clinton is another attempt by the ‘vast right wing conspiracy’ to knock her off from her pedestal.  

Perhaps you have scrolled through various headlines reporting on recent developments in this ongoing email scandal that alleges that while Clinton was Secretary of State she operated her communications through a private email server instead of the government-issued server. An email scandal may not have a dire ring to it – unless of course, the emails and files that were deliberately scrubbed from Mrs. Clinton’s private server contained detailed information regarding the illegal shipment of millions of dollars of arms to terrorist cells operating in Syria, Qatar, Libya, and Turkey.

In 2011 then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with the aid of President Obama authorized the sale of literally hundreds of millions of dollars in arms to the government of Qatar which then, at their request, were sold and given to Libyan and Syrian rebel groups in the hopes that these rebels would overthrow their governments. It is a chilling fact that the Libyan rebels who attacked the American Consulate in Benghazi did so with weapons procured from Mrs. Clinton’s State Department.

This is what all the headlines spring from. The irritating banter from the ‘vast right wing conspiracy’ that Mrs. Clinton has been advancing for so many years has been brought on by her own criminal arrogance.  

The State Department has the power to authorize the sale of weapons to other countries and organizations. They can also declare a country or state a terrorist nation, in which case the selling of arms to these nations would be a felony. However, Libya and Syria were on the U.S. terror list hence the sale of weapons to them is a felony. This is where Hillary’s private server comes into play. If Hillary Clinton had been conducting business as the U.S. Secretary of State on her government-issued email address (you know, ending in .gov instead of clintonemail.com) then her emails would have been subject to the Freedom of Information Act. That means that anyone can access them at any time through the proper legal channels. Government servers are encrypted and backed up regularly. Her personal email address had no encryption, meaning that it is safe to assume that the rumors alleging that both Russia and China had hacked her email account years ago are true.

By mandate, all electronic government communication is copied, stored and backed up. Since Mrs. Clinton was running her email through a personal server her communications were completely off the grid.

In fact, her tenure as Secretary of State enriched more than Syrian rebels and terrorist cells from Qatar. Though it is against the law to pay an government employee like a Secretary of State directly for any services, Hillary Clinton found a convenient loophole by using The Clinton Foundation as well as payments made to her husband Bill for ‘speaking engagements’. Isn’t it curious that in 2011 the Kuwait American Foundation wanted to buy arms from Boeing and shortly thereafter Bill Clinton gets paid 175,000 dollars by that very same foundation for giving a forty-five minute speech at a gala event. Quite suddenly, Kuwait is no longer considered a terrorist nation – so it is absolutely safe to sell weapons to them. In that same year, Bill Clinton is paid 625,000 dollars to speak at an event put on by Goldman Sachs (one of the largest donors to Hillary’s 2016 campaign). Two days later Goldman Sachs is awarded a contract to sell arms to Algeria; arms that would aid in the human trafficking industry. At the time Senator Richard Luger noticed these parallels and reported it to the media, who promptly tossed the story in the dustbin of history. Let us not forget that it is our job to discover who our ‘public servants’ really are. Hillary Clinton is banking on the notion that you won’t. 

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Liberals don't like this fact ....it's their cities ! it really boils down to black and Hispanic gangs in this country that run up the gun crime numbers but the liberals don't want to admit it because it is their voters, But they want to control the law abiding peoples gun rights ...and we need our guns to protect ourselves from these same thugs and our government !

The Muslim world has been without a Caliph and Commander of the Faithful for ninety years, and now the new fundamentalist Islamic entity in Iraq and Syria known as the Islamic State has put forth a pretender to claim the title. At the age of 43, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi burst upon the national scene as the operational and political leader of ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ), and now is the new spiritual leader of the newly proclaimed Islamic State.

Armed with a Ph.D. in Islamic studies, Abu Bakr was a cleric at the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal Mosque in Samarra at the time of the US invasion of Iraq, He joined the Mujahideen Shura Council  (associated with Al Qaeda in Iraq and later to morph into ISIS) and battled US forces. As the Iraqi war continued, he rose through the ranks of Islamic militants and became the leader of ISIS in May of 2010. ISIS is considered an al Qaeda offshoot and a spawn of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). It even runs a "Zarqawi Camp" training center on the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus named in his honor.

A caliphate was proclaimed on June 29, 2014 and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—now known as Amir al-Mu'minin Caliph Ibrahim—was named as its caliph. At the same time ISIS was renamed the Islamic State.

In a remarkable fashion, Abu Bakr has transformed a few shattered Al-Qaeda-in-Iraq terror cells who were on the verge of extinction into the fastest growing, wildly successful, and most dangerous militant group in the world. ISIS mutated and grew exponentially during the ongoing civil war in Syria as well as in the security vacuum that followed the departure of American forces from Iraq. In 2013 it absorbed  the Syrian opposition group Jabhat al-Nusra and added thousands of battle hardened fighters to its ranks. In 2014 Abu Bakr formerly broke ISIS away from Al-Qaeda to follow his own path and seek his own destiny on the world stage.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyzEVBAc8S4&feature=youtu.be

ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi Calls to Wage Jihad, Says: Becoming a Caliph Is a Heavy Responsibility

Now Abu Bakr has hundreds of millions of dollars in his war chest, captured a vast horde of modern arms and ammunition of American origin from the collapsing Iraqi army, and has been reinforced by thousands of Jihadists from around the world eagerly traveling to join his Islamic State caliphate and fight a holy war. The newly self-anointed caliph seeks to follow in the footsteps of Muhammad himself and convert and conquer the world for Islam by the edge of the sword.

The eery truth, which few acknowledge and understand, is that Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and similar groups are following a purer form of Islam than many other Muslims. What Abu Bakr teaches, the tactics his army practices, and the reasons for the wars he now wages is far closer to the true teachings and actions of Muhammad and original Islam than most are ready to admit. Yet, such a statement is historically accurate.

ISIS has had tremendous success in attracting foreigners to its ranks with thousands flowing in from all over the world to join the fight. Its membership requirements are minimal and most foreign recruits are even allowed to fight in single nation battalions. It has become a recipe for success. This new conflict is just getting started and I suggest that you educate yourself on the new face of the old enemy the West and all civilized peoples are facing.

Currently, ISIS fields the most impressive and fanatical army in the Middle East and Abu Bakr has wielded it with great success. In just a few months of offensive operations it routed the Iraqi army, killed tens of thousands of its enemies, forced hundreds of thousands to flee before them, conquered vast swaths of territory, embarrassed the famed Kurdish Peshmerga, attracted tens of thousands of new recruits, and captured the attention of the world. Sheer will and ferociousness, a much deserved reputation for brutality, strategic alliances, and shrewd battlefield tactics have been a winning combination for Abu Bakr and his men. Creative tactics, recent atrocities, and battlefield successes have allowed him to redraw the map of the Middle East and probably drag the United States and its allies into a new war (or a new chapter of the old one if you prefer).

Osama bin Laden is dead and gone and Al-Qaeda is just a pale shadow of its former self. But a new bin Laden and a new terrorist army has arisen from chaos and conflict to take its place, carry on the vision of ruthless Jihad against the infidel, and proclaim the re-establishment of the caliphate.

Abu Bakr's five year plan for his Islamic State

ISIS is on the march

Senator Ted Cruz has written a bill that would restore citizens and groups 1st Amendment rights. Unsurprisingly the main stream media have not reported this challenge to their communication monopoly.

Call your Senators and demand they co-sponsor and vote for Ted Cruz’ “Free All Speech Act of 2014”:

S.2416 - Free All Speech Act of 2014

https://beta.congress.gov/113/bills/s2416/BILLS-113s2416is.xml

113th CONGRESS
2d Session

S. 2416

To apply laws that restrict the political speech of American citizens to media corporations.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

June 3, 2014

Mr.  Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

A BILL

To apply laws that restrict the political speech of American citizens to media corporations.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Free All Speech Act of 2014”.

SEC. 2.  Application of laws that restrict the political speech of American citizens to media corporations.

(a) In general.—Any law that restricts the political speech of American citizens shall apply with equal force to media corporations, such as the New York Times, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and the CBS Television Network.

(b) No application to American citizens if application to media corporations found unconstitutional.—To the extent that the application of a law to a media corporation under subsection (a) is found unconstitutional, such law shall have no force or effect with respect to American citizens.

The IRS is not the major obstacle to the 1st Amendment in America. Stories of IRS oppression swat at a gnat and swallow the proverbial camel.

Hint: Lois Lerner previously worked at the Federal Election Commission an entity dedicated to abridging citizens and groups rights to participate in American politics.

After Watergate, campaign laws were passed:

• But media corporations were exempted creating a State approved press. Is it any wonder news media are among the biggest promoters of campaign law?
• Regulations limited citizen’s donations to politicians. This made it unlikely challengers, who would benefit more from large sums from a few, can defeat incumbents.
• Lawyers have gotten rich defending clients against infractions of myriad, incomprehensible and unconstitutional laws.
• Many non-profits are more concerned with raising donations to defend their tax exemption than restoring 1st Amendment rights to the electorate.

However, freedoms of speech, press and assembly are inalienable rights not privileges. The 1st Amendment does not say unless you assemble as for-profit, non-profit, church, political party, media Corporation or unincorporated group. The 1st Amendment does not limit how much you can spend as an individual or like minded group or require reporting donations and expenditures to the Federal government. The 1st Amendment does not say candidates give up the right to associate with or coordinate with like minded citizens or groups.

A free press is the right to use a printing press without a license from government.

Other than who pays for it, there is no difference between an editorial, slanted news story and a political ad? The poor can make their voices heard by assembling and combining their donations to buy space in newspapers and time on broadcast networks.

San Diego evangelical minister, James L. Garlow, says if history books are not distorted by today’s revisionistic tendencies, President Obama’s legacy should be that he’s responsible for “morally and economically destroying a wonderful experiment called America.”

In this two part video interview with Daily Caller, Pastor Garlow also says that President Obama’s Attorney General has brought the nation “legal anarchy.”

POLL: Should Barack Obama resign the Presidency?

Garlow says, “I do not recall in my lifetime anything remotely close to what we are seeing. For the law enforcer in Washington D.C., the chief in America, to tell the Attorneys General across the states that you don’t have to enforce the law if you don’t like it. That is beyond anything I was taught in school. Rule of law and consent of the governed has been lost.”

Raised on the plains of Kansas, Pastor Garlow has written 12 books, having been a Wesleyan church leader in Texas for 13 years before he came to lead Skyline Church near San Diego, CA in 1995.

Courageous in the public square and a leader in the battle to protect traditional marriage from the secular humanists in California, Garlow has felt the wrath of the militant, vile left for his leadership roles, yet he continues to take strong stances for his beliefs.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/18/mega-church-pastor-obama-legacy-is-that-he-destroyed-the-experiment-called-america/#ixzz326FUi8lB

Follow the money - specifically - follow the State Department aircraft tail number N-604EP, see where it went and see where US money magically appeared and was spent on mosques, islamic schools, businesses and given to muslim leaders of foreign countries the US has no formal involvement or agreements with..... "read", We have no business being there or giving them money for any purpose.... and Congress, the American taxpayer NEVER approved it.

Anyone still wondering why our deficit is SO high? He is draining our Treasury, I believe for a purpose.
Call it "conspiracy theory" if you will - but this administration is spending millions a minute and it looks very much like Cloward-Piven is hard at work..................

http://patdollard.com/2012/09/investigation-finds-obama-financing-mosques-worldwide-with-u-s-taxpayer-dollars/

The Bureau of Land Management’s siege of the Bundy Ranch in Nevada compels me to re-publish this post. I ask readers to carefully research this issue and to decide for yourself whether or not the federal government has violated public trust and the Rule of Law.

For a painfully long time now, our federal masters and their judicial enablers have ignored and, to my way of thinking, flagrantly violated the Constitution with impunity. All too often, Supreme Court rulings have served to override common sense, constitutionality and original intent.

And so long as black-robed, unelected and unaccountable judicial oligarchs, aka judges–as well as the submissive states themselves–allow “judicial supremacy” to trump “constitutional supremacy” on a whole host of foundational constitutional issues, our economic growth will be hobbled, our liberties diminished, state sovereignty further degraded, constitutional order imperiled, common sense and Rule of Law abandoned.

To wit, per Art 1.8.17 of the Constitution and provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and despite a veritable cesspool of clubby, contrived and revisionist court rulings over the years through which I was barely able to wade, it appears glaringly obvious to me that our federal overseers are occupying millions of otherwise productive acres within the several states without the “concurrence” of those states and without constitutional justification.

Article 1.8.17 (“Enclave Clause”) granted power to Congress “to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States [i.e. the District of Columbia], and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.” Crystal-clear what the original meaning is here despite the shamelessly self-serving litany of subsequent spin on the part of our judicial overlords, lap dogs of the federal government.

POLL: Will Lois Lerner go to jail to protect Obama?

Clearly this clause meant that the people of the states empowered Congress to exercise complete jurisdiction and authority over all lands or facilities purchased within a state, provided it was with the consent of the legislature of that state, and that such lands would be used for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful buildings.” Clearly implied in this clause is that the several states, the immediate fiduciary agents of the people, reserve the right to assume title to all lands within their borders which are not being used by the federal government for the specific purposes provided in the clause, that being “the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful buildings.”

It is also important to note that nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government granted the enumerated power of complete jurisdiction and authority over state territory; thus, state retention and ownership of public lands stems from the 10th Amendment which reserves all rights to the states which are not specifically granted to Congress. The twisted and carefully crafted Delphic court rulings notwithstanding, the original meaning seems abundantly clear to me.

Art 4.3.1 allowed a mechanism for the formation and admission of new states into the union, and Art 4.3.2 described the extent of congressional authority over federal territory within those states. Subsequently, the Supreme Court ruled that federal property applies only to the territory at the time of the Constitution’s adoption and is considered public land only until that territory is granted statehood and the national debt incurred by the Revolutionary War is paid. In other words, temporary federal control over those lands.

In accordance with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which was re-enacted after the Constitution’s ratification, all new states were to be admitted to the union on the basis of full equality with the original thirteen states. It was generally understood that as territories were granted statehood, the people of those states would acquire title to all lands within their state boundaries—except, of course, those lands granted to the feds for those well-defined purposes cited in Art 1.8.17.

To help pay down the national debt, Congress assured the states of full title to those lands not used for federally sanctioned purposes when that land was sold off. The following then became the established policy for new states:

1. The feds would retain all ungranted public lands.

2. The feds guaranteed that it would dispose of these lands as soon as possible.

3. The new state would acquire jurisdiction over these lands as fast as they were sold to private individuals.

4. States would be admitted on the basis of “equal footing” with the original 13 states (each of which retained complete ownership/control over their respective territories.

As a result, all states east of the Mississippi and those comprising the Louisiana Purchase eventually acquired title to all but a very small portion of the land lying within their state boundaries.

However, following our war with Mexico, Congress inexplicably digressed from this policy and virtually eliminated the sale or disposal of federal lands in the western states. This resulted in Congress’s retaining major portions of those state lands, this in seemingly direct contravention of the Constitution and of the Northwest Ordinance. Essentially, the federal government became the sole owner and manager of nearly 30%, or a whopping 650 million acres, of America’s landmass, for the constitutionally unspecified purposes of maintaining national forests, national parks, national monuments, Indian reservations, coal and oil reserves, lands leased to farmers and ranchers, and resources-rich so-called “wilderness areas”. And, of course, the cost to taxpayers for maintaining the sprawling federal bureaucracy in order to manage these federally controlled lands is in the billions of dollars.

Federal defenders of this overreach breathlessly point to the so-called “property clause” (Art 4.3.2) which provides that “Congress shall have power to dispose of and make any needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States and any territory or property belonging to the United States.” Clearly, doesn't this create a convenient constitutional ambiguity by contradicting the original intent of Art 1.8.17? Does this not exact restrictions on the western states, which had never been imposed on earlier states? So much for states being admitted into the union on “equal footing” and “full equality” with earlier states. Is federal retention of 30% of America’s real estate really a “necessary and proper” exercise of federal powers? For me to believe that would require a willful suspension of common sense.

To give you an idea of how much state land is now imperially held by the feds, check this out: NV 85%, AL 70%, UT, 60%, OR 53%, AZ 47%, CA 45%, WY 42%, NM 42%, CO 37%, and poor Alaska 96%! Note: 65% of federal land holdings are located west of the Mississippi and a paltry 1% of all federally controlled land in the country is currently being utilized for those specific purposes cited in Art 1.8.17. One must wonder why these lands are still being held by the feds. Pay off the Revolutionary War debt? Gee, I don’t think so. Lofty, if not entirely contrived, constitutional justifications? Or, more likely, the relentless federal grasp for power and, today, a way to placate a host of environmental allies by denying the states and the country access to those climate-warming pollutants such as oil and gas.

Regarding the Enclave Clause, James Madison stated that “the public money expended on such places, and the public property deposited in them, require that they should be exempt from the authority of the particular State. Nor would it be proper for the places on which the security of the entire Union may depend to be in any degree dependent on a particular member of it. All objections and scruples are here also obviated by requiring the concurrence of the States concerned in every such establishment.” But, have the courts sought the concurrence of the states? Nope.

Clearly, the federal government is occupying millions of acres without the “concurrence” of those states, but maintains their grip with the twisted and self-serving judicial sanction of federal Courts intent upon expanding and strengthening federal power.

So, what is the recourse of the several states? My opinion, which is shared by many other originalists, is that in keeping with the doctrine of state sovereignty, original intent and the 10th Amendment, states should simply legislatively assume title of all lands not being utilized by the federal government as specified in the Enclave Clause. Of course, to placate the courts and public opinion, states should first sue the federal government to acquire title. And since the states will not prevail in such a lopsided judicial struggle, they should then rightfully and unhesitatingly assert their 10th Amendment rights by immediately assuming direct ownership and control of what I have dubbed the “royal federal reserves” lying within their state boundaries.

But, do the chastened, weak-kneed, and heavily bribed states have the backbone to hazard the restoration of their constitutional sovereignty and honor? Ah, yes, that’s the burning question.

The constitutional issue aside for a moment, in truth the achievement of energy independence alone should provide ample motivation for the states and their people to step up and take back their land, which is illegally held by the feds. And should the states fail to assert their rights under the original constitution, they should quietly accept their bondage and compliantly move on with their drab, submissive lives.

“An injustice unchallenged is justice denied. “Author Unknown

“Nothing should ever be implied as law which leads to absurd or unjust consequences. “Abraham Lincoln (1861)