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Leaning Windward
by Tom McLauglin
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Shut Down Independent Counsel –
Mueller Witch Hunt A Politicized Trap
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Newt Gingrich warned on a tweet that was later highlighted on Fox News Sunday that “Republicans need to focus on closing down independent counsel because it clearly isn’t independent.”... Chris Wallace asks, “What’s your reasoning and wouldn’t that really look like an obstruction of justice?” Gingrich answers, “Well, first of all, look at what Comey said. Comey said, ‘I deliberately leaked through an intermediary to create this counsel, who happens to be one of his closest friends. Then look at who Mueller’s starting to hire. I mean these are people that, frankly, look to me like they are setting up to go after Trump, including people, by the way, who have been reprimanded for hiding from the defense, information in two major cases.” He continues, “I think this is going to be a witch hunt, I think that – Comey himself, by his own testimony, tainted this particular process. You have a director of the FBI deliberately leaking in order to create a special counsel who we’re now supposed to believe is going to be this neutral figure. I think that’s just nonsense.”... http://rickwells.us/gingrich-shut-down-independent-counsel-mueller-witch-hunt-politicized-trap/
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Russia Special Counsel Mueller Worked with Radical Islamist Groups to Purge Anti-Terrorism Training Material
{judicialwatch.org} ~ Now that Robert Mueller has been appointed special counsel to investigate if Russia influenced the 2016 presidential election it’s worth reiterating his misguided handiwork and collaboration with radical Islamist organizations as FBI director... Judicial Watch exclusively obtained droves of records back in 2013 documenting how, under Mueller’s leadership, the FBI purged all anti-terrorism training material deemed “offensive” to Muslims after secret meetings between Islamic organizations and the FBI chief. Judicial Watch had to sue to get the records and published an in-depth report on the scandal in 2013 and a lengthier, updated follow-up in 2015. As FBI director, Mueller bent over The records obtained as part of Judicial Watch’s lawsuit show that Mueller, who served 12 years as FBI chief, met with the Islamist organizations on February 8, 2012 to hear their demands. Shortly later the director assured the Muslim groups that he had ordered the removal of presentations and curricula on Islam from FBI offices nationwide. The purge was part of a broader Islamist operation designed to influence the opinions and actions of persons, institutions, governments and the public at-large. The records obtained by Judicial Watch also show similar incidents of Islamic influence operations at the Departments of Justice and State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the liar-nObama White House... http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/05/russia-special-counsel-mueller-conspired-radical-islamic-groups-fbi-chief/
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The FBI’s Pathetic Track Record on Terrorism
by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ Former FBI Director James Comey has finally admitted publicly that President Donald Trump has not been under investigation, after months of deliberately leaving the impression that he was... Now the issue becomes whether Trump somehow obstructed justice in trying to save one of his subordinates, a decorated military veteran who ran the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), from a frivolous prosecution. Trump had fired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (Ret.), who supported him during the campaign, but couldn’t stand to see this patriot raked over the coals by the press and the Democrats for some confusing statements he made about his own Russian contacts during the period when he was preparing the new Trump administration’s foreign policy. Trump was loyal to a friend and supporter. For that, according to Comey, Trump is now in the crosshairs of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The media agenda has to be exposed and challenged. The issue is not Trump but the FBI, whose two former directors are now tag-teaming Trump for the purpose of destroying him. In short, Congress is investigating the wrong thing... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-fbis-pathetic-track-record-on-terrorism/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Jun-13-2017&utm_medium=email
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liar-nObama hampered law enforcement
investigation of Iranian terrorism funding
by Jim Kouri CPP
{aim.org} ~ On Thursday, all of the attention of Trump-impeachment-obsessed Democrats and the majority of their news media minions was focused on the hearing of fired FBI director James Comey... But on Thursday, there was another hearing that uncovered much more explosive and disturbing information: President Barack liar-nObama and his administration disbanded national security units which were originally charged with investigating Iran’s network of Islamic terrorism funding. liar-nObama, Valerie Jarrett (born in Iran), Susan Rice and other members of the former President’s inner-circle “systematically disbanded” special law enforcement units throughout the federal government that were investigating the Iranian, Syrian, and Venezuelan terrorism financing networks. The key witness during the Iran hearing, David Asher, had worked for U.S. Army Gen. John Allen at both Defense and State Departments. He testified that top cops and spies with several key law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the liar-nObama administration were intentionlly prevented from targeting the terrorism financing operations of Iran, Hezbollah, and Venezuela during hanoi-Kerry’s nuclear negotiations with his Iranian counterparts... http://www.aim.org/guest-column/obama-hampered-law-enforcement-investigation-of-iranian-terrorism-funding/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Jun-13-2017&utm_medium=email.
Separation Of Powers Prevents
Trump From Testifying Before Congress
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ As is usually the case, Mark Levin is right, at least as it relates to the exchange he had with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl in the Rose Garden... President Trump did not say he would testify before Congress, but that he would to the special prosecutor, Robert “witch hunt” Mueller. He then plays a clip from the Face the Nation program in which host John Dickerson served up what Levin believes is an obviously scripted question that clown-Schumer knew was coming. It’s just even more probable that they discussed what clown-Schumer needed to get out on national television to advance the leftist agenda and the two of them formulated the script together, as is the common practice for Democrats on news programs. Dickerson asked, “The President said he would testify in front of the Senate, I assume you’re all for that?” Sleazeball clown-Schumer responds, “Well, I’d like to invite the President to testify before the Senate. I think we could work out a way that it could be dignified, public, with questions, with leader McConnell. Of course we’d have to consult with prosecutor Mueller before doing it.”...http://rickwells.us/levin-separation-powers-prevents-trump-testifying-congress/
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I’m a small-time columnist and he’s the founder and editor of a widely respected, national, conservative magazine. Can he prevent the conservative Republican ship of state from capsizing? Can he bring the mast up straight? I don't know. We’ll see.
Leaning Windward
by Tom McLauglin
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~What the old man said about me was accurate. He’s been dead a while now and I’d forgotten about it, but his words have been popping back into my head a lot lately. “You have the character of the tiller,” he told me.
“I don’t get it,” I said.
“You know when someone stretches way out over the windward gunnel when a sailboat leans too far? He’s trying to bring the mast upright lest the boat capsize.”
“I don’t get it,” I said.
“You know when someone stretches way out over the windward gunnel when a sailboat leans too far? He’s trying to bring the mast upright lest the boat capsize.”
“Yes,” I said. “I’ve seen that.”
“That’s what you try to do in your writing.”
“That’s what you try to do in your writing.”
He was a liberal, but more of a classical liberal than a leftist or a “progressive” as they call themselves today. He was willing to consider any idea on its merit and wasn’t dubious because it might be conservative. If he didn’t agree he would argue logically, not acrimoniously. Together we formed a political discussion group, an old-fashioned salon. For the first few years it was all men, many of them WWII vets and all somewhat left of center, I was too — then. I was the youngest member at a time when my own perspective started moving right. We met every two weeks in a library the old man had built in part of his barn.
The old man
During the ten or so years of my involvement I was still a Democrat, but the party’s movement left was accelerating. The old man saw me trying to counteract that in my writing even before I did. I had voted for Bill liar-Clinton in 1992, but was dismayed by what he was doing and considered resigning from the Democrat Party, but the old man urged me to work from within. Our group started moving left also as new members came in and railed against liar-Clinton’s impeachment. I began to skip meetings and eventually stopped attending altogether. Not long after, the group disbanded.
My movement right continued. I registered Republican but I was still feeling isolated as the education establishment was moving harder left along with all of New England, including Maine’s Republican Party. Some in the community began assuming that I was inculcating students with the same conservative views I expressed in my columns. I was “poisoning young minds,” they claimed. They pressured my district’s administrators, the school board, and Maine’s teacher licensing agency to discipline me and worse. My administrators knew their charges were baseless but had to respond to their complaints with an investigation. I was cleared, but being an out-of-the-closet conservative in public schools got increasingly difficult. Other leftists came after me too, which is the subject of a book I’m still working on.
Antifa
Nationwide now, acrimony dominates left-right debate and is increasing to dangerous levels — even to violent attacks by far-left "Antifa" goons on college campuses and in the streets. That’s bad enough, but what is perhaps worst of all is something The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol wrote last week:
For young Americans today, Donald Trump is the face of Republicanism and conservatism.
They don't like that face. And the danger, of course, is that they'll decide their judgment of Trump should carry over to the Republican party that nominated him and the conservative movement that mostly supports him. If he is indeed permitted to embody the party and the movement without challenge, the fortunes of both will be at the mercy of President Trump's own fortunes.
For young Americans today, Donald Trump is the face of Republicanism and conservatism.
They don't like that face. And the danger, of course, is that they'll decide their judgment of Trump should carry over to the Republican party that nominated him and the conservative movement that mostly supports him. If he is indeed permitted to embody the party and the movement without challenge, the fortunes of both will be at the mercy of President Trump's own fortunes.
Trump’s fortunes are tanking. That scares me because I think Kristol’s analysis is on the mark. At the 41st annual convention of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists last weekend, I sat in the audience as Maureen Dowd delivered a devastatingly effective diatribe against Trump. The smart-ass Irish wit in her DNA was on full display. On Ms. Dowd’s bad side isn’t a safe place for anyone to be. Earlier that day, Manchester Union Leader publisher Joe McQuaid, a conservative, also displayed his disdain for Trump in just a couple of short remarks.
Trump and McQuaid
With majorities in the House and Senate, Republicans cannot unite behind Trump and, so far, Trump isn’t a good enough leader to bring them together. Has he got it in him to become one? I hope so, but I’m not optimistic. At this point, I’m afraid of how much more damage he’ll do to the conservative movement if he doesn’t.
In Bill Kristol, I see myself as the old man saw me thirty years ago. He’s been leaning far out over the gunnel too, trying to steer his party away from Trump. He has a bigger megaphone and might persuade more people
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