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Flynn's string of gaffes don't add up to treason
by Eli Lake
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. Trump to NRA: You've Got a Friend in Me
Atlanta could use a pick-me-up after a slew of traffic woes in recent weeks. And on Friday, the NRA and Donald Trump delivered. Recall that in 2016 Trump spoke at the National Rifle Association Leadership Forum as a Republican presidential candidate. This year he emerged again, only this time as president of the United States. The last active president to give remarks to the NRA was Ronald Reagan. Here are a few highlights from Friday's speech:
"The eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end."
"[C]ountless members of law enforcement are also members of the NRA, because our police know that responsible gun ownership saves lives, and that the right of self-defense is essential to public safety."
"Our police and sheriffs also know that when you ban guns, only the criminals will be armed."
"As your president, I will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Never ever. Freedom is not a gift from government. Freedom is a gift from God."
This is a refreshing change from Barack liar-nObama's anti-gun diatribes. Continuous record-setting gun sales in response to liar-nObama's clear distaste of firearms is the reason he earned the moniker "Gun Salesman of the Decade." The recent gun sales decline speaks to this. Fewer guns are being purchased not because Americans are less gun-friendly but because they feel more comfortable with a pro-Second Amendment president. That said, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre cautions: "We must do all we can to support our president, because as you know, there's an intense war that's being waged by leftist zealots to destroy President Trump and destroy his administration. It's up to us to speak up against the three most dangerous voices in America: academic elites, political elites, and media elites. These are America's greatest domestic threats."
Our own Mark Alexander was at this weekend's confab. Stay tuned for his assessment in Wednesday's column.
Our own Mark Alexander was at this weekend's confab. Stay tuned for his assessment in Wednesday's column.
~The Patriot Post
Report: European States Finance NGOs That Support Terrorism Against Israel
by IPT News
{investigativeproject.org} ~ Several European governments fund NGOs that often justify attacks against Israeli civilians and maintain ties to terrorists, according to a new report by the research institute NGO Monitor released on Tuesday... The report, "White Washing 'Resistance' – Human Rights Funding to Organizations Blurring the Line Between Violence and Nonviolence," outlines several groups with links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization designated by the EU and other Western states. According to the report's findings, many of these NGOs fail to clearly distinguish between the legitimacy of non-violent and violent activity, and frequently promote the concept of "resistance" – a term Palestinians often exploit in reference to terrorist attacks targeting Israel... https://www.investigativeproject.org/6068/report-european-states-finance-ngos-that-support#by IPT News
Rep Jordan – America’s Tax Code
Is Both Broken And Stupid
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Suddenly, now that Hussein liar-nObama and the criminals, at least those at the very top, have been removed from power, the leftist media wants problems fixed... After 8 years, lofty, empty promises are no longer enough. Fortunately, there’s a sizeable portion of Republicans who agree and have no use for empty rhetoric. Jim Jordan, on many issues, is one of those guys. As the host demonstrates, Republicans will be required to fix the Democrat mess and reverse the downward spiral exacerbated by Hussein liar-nObama. It’s good she wants the same thing out of our Representatives and our President that we do now. It’s just unfortunate that the media was willing to accept attacks on America and the American people and label them as productivity from the White House for the last eight years...http://rickwells.us/rep-jordan-americas-thttp://rickwells.us/rep-jordan-americas-tax-code-broken-stupid-reason-trying-fix/ax-code-broken-stupid-reason-trying-fix/
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Ex-FBI Employee Traveled to Syria,
Married ISIS Terrorist
by Solange Reyner
{newsmax.com} ~ Daniela Greene was later prosecuted and served two years in prison, her sentence reduced after she cooperated with authorities. Her case was never publicized, and the court documents sealed... because "charges against her would contribute to a substantial likelihood of imminent danger to a party, witness, or other person as well as a substantial likelihood that the ongoing investigation will be seriously jeopardized," prosecutors argued at the time. Greene started working for the FBI in 2011 as a contract linguist. Her job came with a top-secret national security clearance. In June 2014, she flew to Turkey and then traveled to Syria, where she married Denis Cuspert, an ISIS pitchman who had a major influence as an online recruiter for violent jihadists. She quickly realized her mistake... http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/FBI-married-terrorist-arrest/2017/05/01/id/787502/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1728429_05022017&s=al&dkt_nbr=7mgt6wao
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National Interest Ignored in Government Funding Bill
by Robert Law
by Robert Law
{fairus.org} ~ The 1,665 page bill prioritizes special interests over hardworking Americans. Buried on page 735 is a provision that authorizes the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Labor... to unilaterally increase the H-2B low skilled guest worker cap “upon the determination that the needs of American businesses cannot be satisfied in fiscal year 2017 with United States workers who are willing, qualified, and able to perform temporary nonagricultural labor.” It is possible that this provision will allow for 66,000 additional cheap foreign workers to flood the job force through the end of September—further suppressing blue collar wages and taking away opportunities from Americans trying to get back into the labor force... http://www.fairus.org/legislative-updates/legislative-update-5-2-2017#1
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Ryan Does It Again – Sticks America With Another
“liar-nObama Budget Giveaway”
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ What does Paul Ryan have that keeps his completely worthless anti-American butt in the Speaker position? Mark Meadows, offer another motion to vacate the chair... how much betrayal can America survive? liar-nObama and his predecessors combined with white flag subversive cowards in both the House and Senate is more than we are willing to accept. Get this swamp weasel out of there. Charles Payne asks the obvious question of his first guest, former Reagan economist David Smick, “Why do you think we ended up with this sort of spending bill when I think a lot of conservatives would have been fine with the government shutting down?” Smick volunteers to “be the contrarian,” saying that President Trump needs to fixate on two issues, that he’s spread too thin and it would have been a disaster if the government had “shut down.” He says it would have felt good but would have derailed the replacement of liar-nObamacare and tax code reform... http://rickwells.us/ryan-again-sticks-america-another-obama-budget-giveaway-cave-democrats/
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by Eli Lake
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ There is something about the fixation on the Michael Flynn story that doesn't add up.
It doesn't look great that in January 2016, the future Trump national security adviser did not disclose payments he received from Russia's propaganda network, RT, on his application to renew his security clearance.
But he did brief the government in 2015 about his trip to Moscow to speak at RT's annual gala that December -- and in April of last year, with that information in hand, the liar-nObama administration renewed Flynn's top-secret security clearance.
All of this is important because Democrats are insinuating that Flynn was one of the links between President Donald Trump and Russia, potentially contributing to collusion in the 2016 election.
Among the drip-drip of leaks about ongoing probes, none has indicated that Flynn played a role in Russia's influence operation against the Democrats last year. But because Flynn did not disclose his payment from Russia's propaganda network and because he is accused of not telling his White House colleagues that he discussed U.S. sanctions before taking office, partisans now freely tar Flynn as a Russian agent.
That insinuation grew on Thursday when the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a letter from the Pentagon's inspector general that confirmed that office had begun an investigation into whether Flynn failed to obtain approval to be paid $33,750 for a speaking engagement at the Russian network's annual gala in December 2015. This is also a subject of that committee's own probe. It's likely this issue will come up in the House and Senate intelligence committee investigations into Russia's influence of the 2016 election as well.
On this score, Flynn screwed up. Another letter released by the oversight committee Thursday says the Defense Intelligence Agency, which Flynn directed from 2012 to 2014, has no record of him disclosing this payment in the context of the security clearance process.
All of this sounds pretty bad. And yet, that letter also says the agency was well aware of Flynn's trip to Moscow. Flynn not only briefed his former colleagues in September 2015 about his upcoming trip, he also briefed them after he returned.
If Flynn was trying to hide his trip to Moscow, why did he tell the Defense Intelligence Agency about it before and after his trip? Also while Flynn was in Moscow, officials at the agency's headquarters exchanged emails with their liaison at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow about Flynn's participation in the RT gala, according to the letter.
This was known to the agency in April 2016, when the agency approved Flynn's "top secret/sensitive compartmented information" clearance -- as is standard for a former top official who might need to be consulted on sensitive topics. That approval is significant.
The process for renewing a security clearance at that level is intense. It includes interviews with associates and friends and an extensive background check. Flynn took a polygraph test as part of his reapplication for the security clearance.
The liar-nObama administration knew about his Moscow trip. His clearance was renewed. That leaves two explanations. One would be that the officials responsible for these background investigations are incompetent and didn't learn he was paid to speak at the RT event. That would be bizarre; Flynn himself had mentioned in later media interviews that he was paid by his speaker's bureau for the RT event, even though he did not acknowledge that his speaker's bureau was paid by RT.
The other explanation for the renewed clearance would be that at the time, the Defense Intelligence Agency's investigators did not assess Flynn's trip to Moscow to be grounds to suspend or revoke his access to government secrets.
It's strange that Flynn would not consistently disclose his payment by RT, and that he did not ask permission in the first place to be paid. That showed poor judgment on his part. Agreeing to speak at a Russian propaganda network's annual gala is also evidence of poor judgment. But bad judgment is not evidence of collusion. Bad judgment is also not the same as treason. Just ask the investigators who approved Flynn's security clearance a year ago.
Flynn's string of gaffes don't add up to treason
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ There is something about the fixation on the Michael Flynn story that doesn't add up.
It doesn't look great that in January 2016, the future Trump national security adviser did not disclose payments he received from Russia's propaganda network, RT, on his application to renew his security clearance.
But he did brief the government in 2015 about his trip to Moscow to speak at RT's annual gala that December -- and in April of last year, with that information in hand, the liar-nObama administration renewed Flynn's top-secret security clearance.
All of this is important because Democrats are insinuating that Flynn was one of the links between President Donald Trump and Russia, potentially contributing to collusion in the 2016 election.
Among the drip-drip of leaks about ongoing probes, none has indicated that Flynn played a role in Russia's influence operation against the Democrats last year. But because Flynn did not disclose his payment from Russia's propaganda network and because he is accused of not telling his White House colleagues that he discussed U.S. sanctions before taking office, partisans now freely tar Flynn as a Russian agent.
That insinuation grew on Thursday when the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a letter from the Pentagon's inspector general that confirmed that office had begun an investigation into whether Flynn failed to obtain approval to be paid $33,750 for a speaking engagement at the Russian network's annual gala in December 2015. This is also a subject of that committee's own probe. It's likely this issue will come up in the House and Senate intelligence committee investigations into Russia's influence of the 2016 election as well.
On this score, Flynn screwed up. Another letter released by the oversight committee Thursday says the Defense Intelligence Agency, which Flynn directed from 2012 to 2014, has no record of him disclosing this payment in the context of the security clearance process.
All of this sounds pretty bad. And yet, that letter also says the agency was well aware of Flynn's trip to Moscow. Flynn not only briefed his former colleagues in September 2015 about his upcoming trip, he also briefed them after he returned.
If Flynn was trying to hide his trip to Moscow, why did he tell the Defense Intelligence Agency about it before and after his trip? Also while Flynn was in Moscow, officials at the agency's headquarters exchanged emails with their liaison at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow about Flynn's participation in the RT gala, according to the letter.
This was known to the agency in April 2016, when the agency approved Flynn's "top secret/sensitive compartmented information" clearance -- as is standard for a former top official who might need to be consulted on sensitive topics. That approval is significant.
The process for renewing a security clearance at that level is intense. It includes interviews with associates and friends and an extensive background check. Flynn took a polygraph test as part of his reapplication for the security clearance.
The liar-nObama administration knew about his Moscow trip. His clearance was renewed. That leaves two explanations. One would be that the officials responsible for these background investigations are incompetent and didn't learn he was paid to speak at the RT event. That would be bizarre; Flynn himself had mentioned in later media interviews that he was paid by his speaker's bureau for the RT event, even though he did not acknowledge that his speaker's bureau was paid by RT.
The other explanation for the renewed clearance would be that at the time, the Defense Intelligence Agency's investigators did not assess Flynn's trip to Moscow to be grounds to suspend or revoke his access to government secrets.
It's strange that Flynn would not consistently disclose his payment by RT, and that he did not ask permission in the first place to be paid. That showed poor judgment on his part. Agreeing to speak at a Russian propaganda network's annual gala is also evidence of poor judgment. But bad judgment is not evidence of collusion. Bad judgment is also not the same as treason. Just ask the investigators who approved Flynn's security clearance a year ago.
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