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Did Putin Order U,K. Poison Attack?
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
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Sen Warner Warns Trump Against Action
To End Democrat COUP Attempt
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ CNN Propagandist Wolf Blitzer asked the Senate equivalent of scum-Adam Schiff, Mark Warner (D-VA)... ”How concerned are you that President Trump has gone from calling it the Russia investigation to now calling it the Mueller Probe?” Of course that’s a much more accurate description of what is going on, since Russia was and remains just a phony pretext for setting the “get Trump” operation into motion. In his typical overly dramatic, Harry dinky-Reid voice, the equally despicable Democrat says, “I’m very concerned. I raised these issues back before the beginning of the year, calling on all of my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans RINOs alike to stand up for the independence of the Mueller investigation.” The hypocrite calls the Mueller inquisition independent because he wants to smear President Trump as somehow “impeding justice” for defending himself from a totally unfounded rogue investigation that has already exceeded the minimal semblance of legitimacy it once had. It is a globalist Democrat-DC establishment effort to overthrow the President because he’s a threat to them. Warner’s a propagandist and a traitor to this nation... https://rickwells.us/warner-trump-democrat-coup/.‘I Want To Keep You Focused On The Facts’ —
Jim Jordan Slams Katy Tur In Fiery Interview
by JUSTIN CARUSO
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan clashed with MSNBC’s Katy Tur Monday. “I want to keep you focused on the facts,” Jordan told Tur... “If the president feels so confidently that he’s innocent and feels so confidently it will end well in his favor, and if he really wants the Mueller investigation to go on unimpeded, why is he tweeting what he’s tweeting?” Tur asked. “Why did he tweet what he tweeted over the weekend? Why is his lawyer coming out–and saying this investigation needs to end? Why is he, why is he saying as much as he’s saying?” “Think about what the FBI did,” Jordan responded. “The top people, the people I just talked about, many of them have been fired, a bunch of them have been demoted, they took a campaign opposition research document, dressed it all up, made it sound like it was legitimate intelligence, took it to a FISA court to get a warrant to spy on a fellow American citizen, when they went to the court, they didn’t tell them the whole truth, they didn’t tell them who paid for the document…” http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/19/jim-jordan-katy-tur-msnbc/?utm_medium=emailVIDEO at the site.
.Before He was FBI Director, Chris Wray Supervised an
Investigation that Found Erik Prince Likey Broke U.S. Law
by Jeremy Scahill and Matthew Cole
{ theintercept.com } ~ AS A PRIVATE attorney in 2016, FBI Director Chris Wray supervised a team of lawyers that informed the Justice Department... that Blackwater founder Erik Prince had likely violated U.S. law while trying to sell secretly modified paramilitary attack aircraft to Azerbaijan’s military. Wray and Robert Hur, now a senior Justice Department official, were both partners at the powerhouse law firm King & Spalding in 2015 when officials at Prince’s Hong Kong-based logistics company, Frontier Services Group, discovered suspicious activity by Prince over the proposed sale of the planes. Hur is currently the top lieutenant to Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. deputy attorney general. At King & Spalding, he was one of the lead lawyers on the Prince investigation. FSG retained King & Spalding to conduct a review of the company’s legal exposure to violations of U.S. law on weapons sales and the export of defense services to foreign governments and militaries. The attorneys concluded that Prince could potentially be charged with brokering defense articles without a license, according to a copy of the review obtained by The Intercept. The FSG-hired lawyers briefed the liar-nObama Justice Department’s National Security Division in February 2016 on Prince’s activities and, a month later, FSG’s CEO notified the State Department that FSG intended to voluntarily report its possible violations of U.S. defense export laws....
Jersey’s U-Haul Budget
by STEVEN MALANGA
{ city-journal.org } ~You can say one thing about New Jersey’s new governor Phil Murphy: he promised the state’s voters a progressive agenda of higher taxes and more spending... and that’s what he delivered in his budget proposal last week. Despite warnings from some of his fellow Democrats that he should tread carefully—New Jersey is already among the nation’s most highly taxed states, and some residents will shoulder a heavier burden from limits on state and local deductions in the new federal tax law—Murphy proposed $1.5 billion in new taxes on the wealthy, on everyone who purchases goods in Jersey, on marijuana which is still illegal, and on hedge-fund managers. Some Democrats are pushing instead a plan to raise corporate taxes, preferring that to higher taxes on millionaires. Though his state already collects taxes on a greater percentage of income than most others only New York and Connecticut scoop up more, Murphy said that he needed the new revenue “to get things right,” adding, “we cannot afford to remain stuck, uncompetitive and unfair.” Echoing Gilbert & Sullivan’s pompous Major General Stanley, the Newark Star-Ledger, the state’s largest newspaper, called the plan “the very model of a modern progressive budget.”...Trump’s Mueller ‘Witch Hunt’ ‘Is
‘A Page Out Of The liar-Bill Clinton Handbook’
by CHRISTIAN DATOC
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Fox News contributor Byron York told host Bill Hemmer Monday morning that President Trump’s weekend tweets on Robert Mueller... show he’s apparently taken a page out of liar-Bill Clinton’s “handbook” on dealing with special counsels. “As we know, the independent counsel or the special counsel has charged a bunch of people high in the Trump campaign who might have been expected to be involved in collusion, if collusion were actually going on, but he hasn’t charged them with anything resulting in that,” York opened. “I think there is an important point here about the president. He is not threatening to fire Mueller, but he is clearly trying to discredit Mueller.” “I think in doing that, he is taking a page out of the liar-Bill Clinton handbook,” he continued. “Back in 1998 during the Lewinsky scandal, the liar-Clinton White House went on a full-force offensive against the independent counsel.”... http:///2018/03/19/trump-bill-clinton-handbook-mueller-witch-hunt/VIDEO at the site.
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Did Putin Order U,K. Poison Attack?
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knows who ordered the hit.
“We think it overwhelmingly likely that it was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the U.K.”
“Unforgivable,” says Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov of the charge, which also defies “common sense.” On Sunday, Putin echoed Peskov: “It is just sheer nonsense, complete rubbish, to think that anyone in Russia could do anything like that in the run-up to the presidential election and the World Cup. … It’s simply unthinkable.”
Putin repeated Russia’s offer to assist in the investigation.
But Johnson is not backing down; he is doubling down.
“We gave the Russians every opportunity to come up with an alternative hypothesis … and they haven’t,” said Johnson. “We actually have evidence … that Russia has not only been investigating the delivery of nerve agents for the purposes of assassination but has also been creating and stockpiling Novichok,” the poison used in Salisbury.
Why Russia is the prime suspect is understandable. Novichok was created by Russia’s military decades ago, and Skripal, a former Russian intel officer, betrayed Russian spies to MI6.
But what is missing here is the Kremlin’s motive for the crime.
Skripal was convicted of betraying Russian spies in 2006. He spent four years in prison and was exchanged in 2010 for Russian spies in the U.S. If Putin wanted Skripal dead as an example to all potential traitors, why didn’t he execute him while he was in Kremlin custody?
Why wait until eight years after Skripal had been sent to England? And how would this murder on British soil advance any Russian interest?
Putin is no fool. A veteran intelligence agent, he knows that no rival intel agency such as the CIA or MI6 would trade spies with Russia if the Kremlin were to go about killing them after they have been traded.
“Cui bono?” runs the always relevant Ciceronian question. “Who benefits” from this criminal atrocity?
Certainly, in this case, not Russia, not the Kremlin, not Putin.
All have taken a ceaseless beating in world opinion and Western media since the Skripals were found comatose, near death, on that bench outside a mall in Salisbury.
Predictably, Britain’s reaction has been rage, revulsion and retaliation. Twenty-three Russian diplomats, intelligence agents in their London embassy, have been expelled. The Brits have been treating Putin as a pariah and depicting Russia as outside the circle of civilized nations.
Russia is “ripping up the international rulebook,” roared Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson. Asked how Moscow might respond to the expulsions, Williamson retorted: Russia should “go away and shut up.”
Putin sympathizers, including Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, have been silenced or savaged as appeasers for resisting the rush to judgment.
The Americans naturally came down on the side of their oldest ally, with President Donald Trump imposing new sanctions.
We are daily admonished that Putin tried to tip the 2016 election to Trump. But if so, why would Putin order a public assassination that would almost compel Trump to postpone his efforts at a rapprochement?
Who, then, are the beneficiaries of this atrocity?
Is it not the coalition – principally in our own capital city – that bears an endemic hostility to Russia and envisions America’s future role as a continuance of its Cold War role of containing and corralling Russia until we can achieve regime change in Moscow?
What should Trump’s posture be? Stand by our British ally but insist privately on a full investigation and convincing proof before taking any irreversible action.
Was this act really ordered by Putin and the Kremlin, who have not only denied it but condemned it?
Or was it the work of rogue agents who desired the consequences that they knew the murder of Skripal would produce – a deeper and more permanent split between Russia and the West?
Only a moron could not have known what the political ramifications of such an atrocity as this would be on U.S.-British-Russian relations.
And before we act on Boris Johnson’s verdict – that Putin ordered it – let us recall:
The Spanish, we learned, did not actually blow up the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898, which ignited the Spanish-American War.
The story of North Vietnamese gunboats attacking U.S. destroyers, which led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and 58,000 dead Americans in Vietnam, proved not to be entirely accurate.
We went to war in Iraq in 2003 to disarm it of weapons of mass destruction we later discovered Saddam Hussein did not really have.
Some 4,500 U.S. dead and tens of thousands of wounded paid for that rush to judgment. And some of those clamoring for war then are visible in the vanguard of those clamoring for confronting Russia.
Before we set off on Cold War II with Russia – leading perhaps to the shooting war we avoided in Cold War I – let’s try to get this one right.
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