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Gen. Michael Flynn: nObama Has a 'Policy of Willful Ignorance' on Iran
Rick Wells
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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What Time Is It? Time to Start Arctic Drilling
While the U.S. is enjoying a boom in oil production, it has been no thanks to Barack nObama's policies -- as federal lands remain closed, the growth is almost entirely on private lands. Yet no good thing lasts forever, and even the government says we should be prepared. The Associated Press reports, "The U.S. should immediately begin a push to exploit its enormous trove of oil in the Arctic waters off of Alaska, or risk a renewed reliance on imported oil in the future, an Energy Department advisory council says in a study submitted Friday." It takes years from exploration to first barrel on the market, so best to get started. Thanks to economic growth in China, India and elsewhere, fossil-fuel demand is expected to grow -- in spite of leftist climate alarmism. So why the Arctic? The AP says geologists estimate it "holds about a quarter of the world's undiscovered conventional oil and gas deposits." More oil drilling has never been a policy goal for the nObama administration, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day. That said, an Energy Department study is hardly going to persuade nObama to open up the spigots.
-The Patriot Post 
The Left Defends Individual License, Not Rights
Indiana is ground zero for the latest in a long line of protests now mandatory in the standard operations of the Left. At issue is the Hoosier State's new religious liberty law, which most of the Leftmedia are inclined to put in scare quotes -- as if "religious liberty" is a made-up fantasy. And that's exactly why such laws are needed. All the ingredients are present to cook up a hyper-responsive framework to marginalize targets -- celebrities and corporate CEOs yammering about discrimination and "hate," raving partisans calling for resignations and activists organizing boycotts. The leaders of the Left, including Saul Alinsky disciple Barack nObama, must be very proud of the kerfuffle. Indeed, nObama's spokesman Josh Earnest said the law appears to "legitimize discrimination." Last week, Indiana's state house, senate and governor all supported legislation based upon current federal law to protect religious liberty. Republican Governor Mike Pence's signature placed the state in the same category of 19 others in modeling legislation on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. That law was signed by Bill Clinton after Democrats led by the likes of Ted Kennedy and Chuck Schumer supported religious liberty. -The Patriot Post
Outing Israel's Nuke Program
No doubt by command of a president with the impulses of a passive-aggressive teenager, the nObama administration recently declassified a formerly top-secret Department of Defense document illuminating the details of Israel's nuclear program. The betrayal occurred early last month, when the release of the 1987 report, "Critical Technological Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations," breached a longstanding mutual silence aimed at preventing a Middle East arms race. Released just prior to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's March 3 address to Congress, the 386-page report reveals critical details regarding how Israel advanced its military technology and its development of a nuclear infrastructure during the 1970s and 1980s. The document reveals that the Jewish State's nuclear infrastructure is "an almost exact parallel of the capability currently existing at [U.S.] National Laboratories," and that Israeli research efforts "are equivalent to our Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories." It further revealed that, in some cases, Israel's military prowess "is more advanced than in the U.S." Israeli news site Arutz Sheva, highlighting this story with an intensity that stands in stark contrast to an American mainstream media that ignored it, says Israel was singled out: "[W]hile the Pentagon saw fit to declassify sections on Israel's sensitive nuclear program, it kept sections on Italy, France, West Germany and other NATO countries classified, with those sections blocked out in the document."
-The Patriot Post
ONE EMAIL FROM OBLIVION: HILLY’S BIG BET ON SECRET SERVER
With the revelation that presumptive Democratic nominee Hilly Clinton “wiped clean” any trace of tens of thousands of emails from her time as secretary of state, the 2016 presidential campaign enters a new phase. With a move as audacious as any in the evidence destruction game, Clinton has set her candidacy dangling. Clinton told reporters that the more than 30,000 emails she ordered deleted would have exonerated her, but she destroyed them in the interest of her and her family’s privacy. By her reasoning, there is nothing related to emails with foreign powers who donated money to her family foundation. No directions to staffers about dealing with political controversies. No emails to her political network and friends about government business. Nothing official or of a foreign-policy nature. At all. Just yoga lessons and bridal bouquets. And if that’s the case, she has nothing to worry about.
[Fox News: “Senate Republicans are renewing efforts to learn why Huma Abedin, a top assistant to then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton, was allowed to keep working at the agency under a special, part-time status while also being employed at a politically-connected consulting firm.]
But if there are things that Clinton wants to keep from congressional investigators, she had better hope that her deletion crew bleached every corner of the digital world. Because if even a pixel of something Clinton should have handed over is unearthed in her domain or in a musty folder in someone else’s email system, Clinton would be a political goner. Her bold move to destroy emails even after being asked for them by the government would leave her in major-league trouble in the middle of her second presidential run. And Clinton has placed herself in the digital shark cage. If there’s anything amiss, she’d better hope that her IT guys are the very best on the business.
[A ‘reset,’ you might even say - NYT: “[Clinton] told a representative of a group of prominent Jewish leaders on Sunday that she wanted to put the relationship between the United States and Israel back on ‘constructive footing,’ the representative said.”] -Fox News
With the revelation that presumptive Democratic nominee Hilly Clinton “wiped clean” any trace of tens of thousands of emails from her time as secretary of state, the 2016 presidential campaign enters a new phase. With a move as audacious as any in the evidence destruction game, Clinton has set her candidacy dangling. Clinton told reporters that the more than 30,000 emails she ordered deleted would have exonerated her, but she destroyed them in the interest of her and her family’s privacy. By her reasoning, there is nothing related to emails with foreign powers who donated money to her family foundation. No directions to staffers about dealing with political controversies. No emails to her political network and friends about government business. Nothing official or of a foreign-policy nature. At all. Just yoga lessons and bridal bouquets. And if that’s the case, she has nothing to worry about.
[Fox News: “Senate Republicans are renewing efforts to learn why Huma Abedin, a top assistant to then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton, was allowed to keep working at the agency under a special, part-time status while also being employed at a politically-connected consulting firm.]
But if there are things that Clinton wants to keep from congressional investigators, she had better hope that her deletion crew bleached every corner of the digital world. Because if even a pixel of something Clinton should have handed over is unearthed in her domain or in a musty folder in someone else’s email system, Clinton would be a political goner. Her bold move to destroy emails even after being asked for them by the government would leave her in major-league trouble in the middle of her second presidential run. And Clinton has placed herself in the digital shark cage. If there’s anything amiss, she’d better hope that her IT guys are the very best on the business.
[A ‘reset,’ you might even say - NYT: “[Clinton] told a representative of a group of prominent Jewish leaders on Sunday that she wanted to put the relationship between the United States and Israel back on ‘constructive footing,’ the representative said.”] -Fox News
2016 DEMOCRATIC POWER INDEX: O’MALLEY SHOWS MUSCLE
Presidency ‘not a crown’ - WaPo: Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley took a swipe at likely 2016 contenders Hilly Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush on Sunday, saying that ‘the presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.’ Appearing on ABC’s ‘This Week,’ O’Malley, who is weighing a possible run against Clinton for the Democratic nomination, called the presidency ‘an awesome and sacred trust to be earned and exercised on behalf of the American people.’ O’Malley — who at times has been reluctant to take on Clinton directly — declined to say whether he thought the former secretary of state would stand up to Wall Street and other special interests. ‘I don’t know where she stands,’ he told host George Stephanopoulos. ‘Will she represent a break with the failed policies of the past? Well, I don’t know.’” -Fox News
Presidency ‘not a crown’ - WaPo: Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley took a swipe at likely 2016 contenders Hilly Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush on Sunday, saying that ‘the presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.’ Appearing on ABC’s ‘This Week,’ O’Malley, who is weighing a possible run against Clinton for the Democratic nomination, called the presidency ‘an awesome and sacred trust to be earned and exercised on behalf of the American people.’ O’Malley — who at times has been reluctant to take on Clinton directly — declined to say whether he thought the former secretary of state would stand up to Wall Street and other special interests. ‘I don’t know where she stands,’ he told host George Stephanopoulos. ‘Will she represent a break with the failed policies of the past? Well, I don’t know.’” -Fox News
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Taking on Leftist Hollywood--The Matrix Reloaded...again!
(Sher Zieve) - What would you do if a large portion of your life's work was stolen by the billionaires in the Hollywood entertainment community?...You're about to find out what one brilliant and intrepid woman did. She has her detractors and supporters, alike. She has had judges rule against her only to have rulings overturned in her favor. Some rulings she won by default because the defendants and their attorneys didn't show up in court. She has spent an inordinate number of years fighting the very powerful Hollywood Entertainment Complex. It has been an increasingly uphill battle all the way. Note: I don't know of anyone who would have spent decades of her life and suffered the paid troll "she's crazy" treatment unless she knew she was right and fighting for that which was and is rightfully hers. You decide. http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/150401
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IRS Koskinen Tells Republicans – You Can’t Abolish The IRS
(rickwells.us) - The same guy that told us all that there was no targeting of conservatives being conducted by the IRS commissioner and that they were looking high and low for Lois Lerner’s emails made another statement which may prove to ultimately be untrue as well on Tuesday...John Koskinen, combative IRS head insisted that in whatever form it might take, even if America is able to get to the point of a post-card tax return, there will still need to be a collector and verification service provider. He dismissviely suggested after a National Press Club speech, “You can call them something other than the IRS if that made you feel better.” If this guy thinks the only problem with his agency is the name, it’s just more evidence that the wrong person is seated at his desk. http://www.rickwells.us/irs-commissioner-koskinen-tells-republicans-you-cant-abolish-the-irs-but-hes-been-wrong-before/
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Iran militia top dog: “Erasing Israel off the map” is “non-negotiable”
(Robert Spencer) - This is nothing new: Iranian leaders have said it many times before. Still, no one in the West seems to believe that they mean what they say...The commander of the Basij militia of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that “erasing Israel off the map” is “nonnegotiable,” according to an Israel Radio report Tuesday. Militia chief Mohammad Reza Naqdi also threatened Saudi Arabia, saying that the offensive it is leading in Yemen “will have a fate like the fate of Saddam Hussein.” Naqdi’s comments were made public as Iran and six world powers prepared Tuesday to issue a general statement agreeing to continue nuclear negotiations in a new phase aimed at reaching a comprehensive accord by the end of June. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/03/iran-militia-top-dog-erasing-israel-off-the-map-is-non-negotiable?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=1c89bdc187-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-1c89bdc187-123451509
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Hilly Clinton Is Going to Have to Testify in a Federal Court’
(Brent Scher) - Hilly Clinton knowingly acted to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act by creating a private email server, according to legal experts...Speaking at a panel hosted by government watchdog group Judicial Watch, experts in the field of government accountability agreed that Clinton’s decision to create her own email server was a deliberate attempt to avoid transparency laws. Daniel Metcalfe, who was the founding director of the Justice Department’s office of information and privacy, said that the regime created by Clinton at the State Department was a “prescription for blatant circumvention of FOIA.” http://freebeacon.com/politics/former-u-s-attorney-hillary-clinton-is-going-to-have-to-testify-in-a-federal-court/
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The Capitulationist: nObama’s Diplomatic Surrender to Iran
(David Rutz) - In numerous areas of the proposed Iranian nuclear deal, the high bars President nObama said the Islamic Republic needed to clear have disappeared...Look at his G20 speech in September 2009, when nObama said Iran would have to “come clean” on its nuclear secrets. Now, as the Wall Street Journal‘s Bret Stephens writes, the White House is letting that parameter go: “Under the new plan,” The Wall Street Journal’s Jay Solomon and Laurence Norman reported last week, “Tehran wouldn’t be expected to immediately clarify all the outstanding questions raised by the IAEA in a 2011 report on Iran’s alleged secretive work. A full reckoning of Iran’s past activities would be demanded in later years as part of a nuclear deal that is expected to last at least 15 years.” http://freebeacon.com/national-security/the-capitulationist-obamas-diplomatic-surrender-to-iran/
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An Open Letter To JCS Chairman General Martin Dempsey
(Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.) - In November 1965, the Chairman and other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) met alone with President Lyndon Johnson to express their concerns that an increasingly dangerous U.S. role in Vietnam would prove disastrous...The Korean War had ended twelve years earlier, leaving an indelible mark upon their collective psyche. A war with North Korea – aided by China and the Soviet Union – ended in stalemate, making victory unlikely for a conflict in Vietnam similarly supported. After quietly listening to his service chiefs, Johnson erupted into a profanity-laced verbal attack, calling them cowards. They were ordered to stay the course – he would not allow history to label him as the first American president to lose a war. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/an-open-letter-to-jcs-chairman-general-martin-dempsey/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email040115&utm_medium=email
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Atomic Energy Agency admits that nObama is lying about Iran
(AmyElizabeth) - BNI-If the Mullah-in-Chief of the United States signs this deal with Iran, Israel will do what it has to do with the backing of several Arab states. nObama be damned... http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/01/even-the-head-of-the-international-atomic-energy-agency-admits-that-obama-is-lying-about-iran/
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U.S. Military Might Relax Recruitment Standards
(Sara Noble) - Pentagon Chief Ashton Carter spoke to students at a Philadelphia high school Monday and announced the upcoming relaxing of enlistment standards aimed at improving the quality of recruits...Among the changes will be consideration of hiring older people, mostly for high-tech or cybersecurtiy jobs, and allowing recruits who have a criminal history of some drug offenses. This administration does not support strict drug laws, particularly when it concerns marijuana. In 2006, relaxed standards meant hiring recruits with criminal records. That might be the reason bad behavior reports have increased according to some military leaders. http://www.independentsentinel.com/u-s-military-might-relax-recruitment-standards-for-people-convicted-of-crimes/
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Desperate nObama Begs Iran “Pretty Please w/Nukes on Top?”
(James Soviero) - As the Mideast spins out of control, President nObama continues making dangerous, indefensible concessions to the world’s leading sponsor of terror, Iran...Desperate to reach a “legacy deal”, Barack plunges ahead, blindly erasing one “red line”, diplomatic position after another. Sheltered from any serious, real world bargaining experience by a cheer-leading media and lock step party, nObama has proven most adept in the art of negotiating against himself….and by extension, the rest of America and her allies. On the international stage, absent his pen and phone and an unnerved adversary, our Commander in Chief appears perilously impotent. The global bad actors see this, and relish squaring off against a pampered, self inflated egoist with no real record of action against genuine, hardened-in-battle opponents. This crew of heavies recognize Barack as the fighter who’s amassed an undefeated record versus pushover challengers. As a consequence, he’s become the guy they’d love to fight. And so they have. Putin takes Crimea, Assad remains a killing machine in Syria, the barbaric ISIS J.V. squad collects critical real estate, and Iranian leaders, in the midst of our negotiations, chant “Death to America”. http://www.independentsentinel.com/desperate-obama-begs-iran-pretty-please-wnukes-on-top/
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Judge Napolitano – Hilly Clinton Is Eligible for Criminal Prosecution
(Sara Noble) - The Hilly Clinton email scandal is not simply a scandal. She broke the law and she did it more than once. Will she be prosecuted for it? Judge Napolitano was asked that question and in the end, she could be but it will depend on the prosecutor...Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton has given us her word that she only destroyed personal emails, but she has refused to turn over her husband’s server. She brazenly wiped the server clean when it was subpoenaed. Information on Benghazi, the Russian reset and all the other dealings she has been involved in are lost. Communications with her aides, including Huma Abedin, are lost. Possible information about donations to her charity from foreign nations is gone. Schedule information is also gone. She has clearly broken the law and the public was told to just trust her. Trey Gowdy is not just trusting her. http://www.independentsentinel.com/judge-napolitano-hillary-clinton-is-eligible-for-prosecution/
Gen. Michael Flynn: nObama Has a 'Policy of Willful Ignorance' on Iran
Rick Wells
(rickwells.us) - Chris Wallace interviews General Michael Flynn, the recently retired director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, about the current situation in the Middle East.
Wallace notes three characteristics which indicate the complex nature of what is taking place; that we are fighting against Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen, with Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, and in the process of negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran. His first question to General Flynn is to ask him to explain the “president’s” grand strategy for the Middle East.
Flynn responds by stating two points, where we are and what we should do about it. He describes where we are as “almost a complete breakdown of order in the Middle East, a new Middle East is essentially struggling to be born. The second thing is we have Iran on the March.” He notes that, “We have a takeover of Islam by radical extremists,” noting that it is made up of both Shiites and Sunnis.
He says, “We also have what I would call a real, sort of a pushback by the Sunni governments and their lack of trust and their lack of respect for the United States. And I think that at the end of the day we have just this incredible policy confusion, never mind what our strategy is to execute that policy.”
Flynn says, as an intelligence officer, that intelligence has to be part of the calculus of every strategic decision. He describes his sense of where are policy is as “almost a policy of willful ignorance.” He says, “We have some major problems that we are dealing with and here we are talking to Iran about a nuclear deal with this almost complete breakdown of order in the Middle East.”
He notes Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities, cyber capabilities and their state sponsorship of terrorism. Noting that nObama is negotiating a Nuclear Iranian future, he says, “Give me a break.”
He’s asked how close we are to a sectarian, regional war in the Middle East. Flynn says we aren’t close, we’re there. Flynn also points out that Iran and the radical Islamists plan to eradicate our way of life and that this message is not being relayed to the American people. He repeats his assessment that those planning our foreign policy are seeking the comfort of willful ignorance rather than the unpleasant “reality that we actually have right now.”
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