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Border Crossings PLUMMET as Trump Remains Tough on Illegal Immigration

President Trump’s approach to illegal immigration appears to be working so far, if early numbers are any indication.

A story published Wednesday at the Washington Times highlights Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly’s announcement the same day that, only a month into Trump’s new administration, illegal border crossings are plummeting at an “unprecedented” rate:

All told, 23,589 people were caught trying to enter without permission at the border in February. That was the lowest number for the month in years and a 40 percent drop from the 42,504 caught in January.


In fact, it’s the lowest number for any month dating back at least to 2012, when monthly statistics were first released.

Additionally, the numbers are also surprisingly low for a winter month, when desert border crossings are typically higher than the warmer months. The decrease in overland passage has, however, led to increased prices for black market coyote crossings, according to the same statement.

“The early results show that enforcement matters, deterrence matters, and that comprehensive immigration enforcement can make an impact,” Kelly went on, explaining the numbers drop. He echoed Obama critics’ objections to the previous administration’s laissez faire demeanor on immigration enforcement.

It would appear that enforcing the law while making it know that the law will be enforced actually deters people from breaking it. Who knew?!

The numbers are just from the first few weeks of President Trump’s term, but they serve as a stark rebuke to critics of the Trump’s strong public stance on illegal immigration during and after the campaign.

They also serve to counter the protests of Obama boosters who held up the former president’s deportation stats as evidence of a viable policy to combat illegal immigration.

Sure, he sent millions back; but by failing to effectively communicate anything serious about immigration to his citizens and those that sought to enter the country without consent, he may as well have left out a great welcome mat along the southern border, begging people the world over to disregard our laws and our sovereignty.

If people think they can get away with breaking a law and benefit from it, some (many) are going to do it. It’s that simple. In this specific instance, failing to enforce immigration policy in word perversely encourages people to put their lives and wellbeing at risk to cross a desert, all the while ticking people off and costing people national elections. The law has to be enforced, not only in deed, but in word.

For all the flak that Trump has gotten from the open borders Left about his tough talk on immigration, the numbers just don’t lie. Republican legislators, take note. (For more from the author of “Border Crossings PLUMMET as Trump Remains Tough on Illegal Immigration” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/03/border-crossings-plummet-trump-remains-tough-illegal-immigration/

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reporting and analysis of current events from a biblical and prophetic perspective

Bill Wilson Jobs, jobs and more jobs

NOTE: When writing about God and Jesus, The Daily Jot means YHVH as God and Yeshua Ha Mashiach as Jesus--the actual original names and the true nature and character of them. Friday, March 10, 2017 The left's media machine was dead set on creating fear about a US economy led by a Donald Trump presidency. News talk shows before the election were parading Ivy League economists one by one before the cameras who decried the horror that would play itself out if Trump were elected. They said the stock market would crash and the world would be plunged into a recession if Trump won. Of course, there were no facts to back up these opinions, but they were stated as if they were locked-down outcomes. These experts ignored the previous 10 years of quantitative easing policies that drove record national debt and jobs out of the country. But something happened on the way out of the voting booth. Between the election and the inauguration, Trump started getting commitments from businesses to bring jobs back to America. A confidence in making America great again seemed to overcome the negativity of the so-called experts. The Trump election incentivized businesses such as Ford and Carrier, to keep jobs here in the US. The steel industry, which has been depressed for decades due in part to repressive Democratic-inspired tax and regulation policies, also made commitments. US Steel CEO Mario Longhi told CNBC News that the American steel industry could bring back 10,000 jobs because of "future improvement to the tax laws, improvements to regulation" as a result of Trump taking office. A record 95 million Americans were not in the labor force in November 2016, about 15 million more than when the immediate past "president" took office. These are folks who have either retired or gave up finding a job. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics some 3.6 million people had lost their jobs and those who have been jobless for 27 weeks or more stood at 1.9 million, a quarter of the unemployed. That was the last job report before the election. In the first full month of the Trump Presidency, the economy added nearly 300,000 private sector jobs according to a survey of economists by ADP and Moody's Analytics-over 100,000 more jobs than they expected. If there is a recession, and there very well could be, it is caused by the record debt laid on the economy by the federal government under its globalist Marxist direction of the two terms of the ex "president" and the last term of George W Bush. The best way out of a recession is putting people back to work, making having a job a priority. Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 3:13, "...that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God." In this country, we have strived to create a freedom where everyone who wants a job can work; where everyone has opportunity. When politicians extol the virtues of the working man, yet govern with policies that oppress him, they rob the worker of the blessing of enjoyment of his labor. Already, we are seeing the impact of more hope and less oppression. Have a Blessed and Powerful Day! Bill Wilson www.dailyjot.com PS. Please use the "Share This Email" link below to pass this on to as many people as you can!

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Mark Levin: There Is Something Horribly Immoral About RINOcare
March 9, 2017/by Chris Pandolfo

Thursday on the radio, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin gave the rundown on the press conference of Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. (F, 51%), in which Ryan tried to give the hard sell to Americans on the Republican American Health Care Act “reform” plan.

Levin called Ryan’s proposal “repeal in name only.” Or, if you will, “RINOcare,” because the GOP plan keeps the core of Obamacare in place.

Listen:

Levin had a “number of questions” for the speaker, questions that so far remain unanswered.

“Now, here’s my question Mr. Ryan,” Levin said. “How much will the average American’s deduction go up, or down?”

Further, Levin asked, how much will the federal government be spending on subsidies for certain individuals? Will individuals be able to see the doctors they want? The specialists they need? Will individuals be able to go to the hospital of their choice? Will they be able to get the medicines they need to get?

At the end of the day, the problem with RINOcare, Levin explained, is it embraces the Left’s assumption that government involvement is needed to make health insurance affordable. It embraces progressivism; it embraces centralization.

“Republicans have blown it,” Levin said. “There is something horribly immoral about RINOcare.” (For more from the author of “Mark Levin: There Is Something Horribly Immoral About RINOcare” please click HERE TO READ MORE AND HEAR Mark Levin

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Most College Humanities and Social Science Programs Have Become Enemies of Freedom and Reason

In the wake of the riots that have silenced free speech on one campus after another, it is clear that few colleges or universities still offer a real liberal arts education. Nor have most even lapsed into simple careerism, aiming solely at getting students ready to support themselves and their families. That would be bad enough, a grim decline from the reason that the Church created the first universities back in the Middle Ages: forming the “whole person,” as West Point still aims to do.

No, things are much worse than that. The reason that most students go to college is grimly careerist — it’s like getting a green card that permits you to work at most jobs in America. But the schools have kept the infrastructure of old-fashioned Western liberal arts institutions, adding on the apparatus of 19th-century quasi-sciences like sociology and history. However, the ideas about human nature, politics, economics, morality and culture that have captured most humanities and social science departments are aggressively hostile to the culture of the West, especially Christianity, limited government, and economic freedom. Even the unique value of human life is no longer taken for granted, thanks to the explosion of ecological fundamentalism in the name of “sustainability.”

So we have the worst of both worlds: schools that keep up the pretense of forming young people in humanistic disciplines, while the teachers who’ve grabbed control of the relevant departments are doing exactly the opposite. So students pass statues of Homer, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare and Washington, en route to classes whose teachers and texts sneer at every value any of those men would have treasured.

Your average humanities department is thus like a seminary whose theology department has been captured by tenured atheists. Even in schools that still retain a Western core curriculum, there are influential teachers like the late Edward Said of Columbia, who boasted that he taught the “canon” of Western literature as a means of exposing our culture as the oppressor of most of the world.

Rejecting Reason, Freedom and Objectivity

Even worse than that, whole disciplines have turned against ideals of reason, free discourse and objectivity, and rest their conclusions instead on untestable, aggressively political dogmas whose premises are unquestioned. In fact, if a student or teacher attempts to question them, he will simply be punished, academically or professionally. Thus they operate less as intellectual fields of inquiry than intolerant, man-made religions — or ideologies. That word means more than just “worldview.” It’s a term for a set of intellectual rationalizations for positions you chose for non-rational reasons, such as the craving for money, power, privilege, or revenge. An ideology is a half-baked idea with a fully loaded pistol.

The great critic of Nazi and Communist totalitarianism, Eric Voegelin, explained how to distinguish a legitimate, grounded worldview from an ersatz religion, or ideology. In The New Science of Politics, he noted that ideologues defend their systems not by anticipating objections and answering them, but instead by forbidding the questions.

Marx allowed no room in his system of materialistic determinism for the possibility of God. When students asked him about that, he told them that in a future socialist paradise, the question of God would never come up. (Indeed, future Marxist governments would send the secret police to make sure of that.) Of course that is not an answer but an evasion. It’s the response not of a philosopher but of an ideologue.

Whole Disciplines Without Dissenters

Women’s studies professors, almost to a person, take for granted the right to abortion. How many “queer theory” teachers are willing to entertain the natural law objections to same-sex marriage? Will they let students defend that position in papers in their classes, without subjecting them to classroom shaming and punitive grading? Would students who end up in one of these classes have the nerve to make the experiment? I don’t advise it. I advise not taking those classes, and if they are required I advise transferring colleges.

Can we really take seriously the claim that these are legitimate academic fields, when the answers to complex questions that are widely and justly debated — not just across America, but around the world and throughout the centuries — are so blithely taken for granted that there are simply no dissenters? Worse still, these disciplines poison other departments, as history professors adopt the “consensus” of women’s studies “scholars” on one issue, and philosophers, theologians, even chaplains accept the queer theorists’ party line.

It’s not just that classes infused by such corrupted, politicized disciplines indoctrinate students with pat, false conclusions, and encourage them to wield them self-righteously as cudgels. Nor even that students are being robbed of the chance to appreciate thinkers, artists, and statesmen of the past with any sympathy or pleasure. All that is bad enough.

Lazy Thinking Makes Snowflakes

Even worse, in the long run, are the intellectual laziness and emotional fragility that such an education produces. Can you imagine college Democrats in 1952 reacting to the election of immigration hawk Dwight Eisenhower as today’s “snowflakes” responded to Donald Trump’s win? Even the self-righteous and often violent radicals who took over campuses in the 60s didn’t have melt-downs, public crying fits, and apparent nervous breakdowns when Nixon beat McGovern. Whatever crackpot ideologies they might have adopted, they had been through the training in rigorous, critical thinking that Western education has prided itself on since the ancient Greeks. Our current generation wouldn’t know rigor from rigor mortis.

All these are excellent, and to my mind decisive, reasons to shutter most humanities and social science departments, and reduce English faculty to teaching remedial reading, correct grammar, and the basics of business writing. Let universities and colleges shrink down to their icy, pragmatic core: preparing future taxpayers, without poisoning their minds with toxic ideologies founded on crass intellectual sloth. First do no harm.

But who will pass on the really important traditions of humanistic learning, which our current crop of “humanists” has poisoned like a virus yet clings to like a tapeworm? Tomorrow I’ll grope toward an answer at how to replace the wrecked infrastructure of liberal education in our current tough conditions. (For more from the author of “Most College Humanities and Social Science Programs Have Become Enemies of Freedom and Reason” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/03/college-humanities-social-science-programs-become-enemies-freedom-r

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Whistleblowers vs. The State

Whistleblowers vs. The State

Immediately after WikiLeaks released thousands of documents revealing the extent of CIA surveillance and hacking practices, the government was calling for an investigation — not into why the CIA has amassed so much power, but rather, into who exposed their invasive policies.

“A federal criminal investigation is being opened into WikiLeaks’ publication of documents detailing alleged CIA hacking operations, several US officials,” reportedly told CNN.

According to USA Today:

The inquiry, the official said, will seek to determine whether the disclosure represented a breach from the outside or a leak from inside the organization. A separate review will attempt to assess the damage caused by such a disclosure, the official said.

Even Democratic representative Ted Lieu, who has been urging whistleblowers to come forward to expose wrongdoing within the Trump administration, has turned his focus away from what the documents exposed and toward determining how it could have possibly happened.

“I am deeply disturbed by the allegation that the CIA lost its arsenal of hacking tools,” he said while calling for an investigation. “The ramifications could be devastating. I am calling for an immediate congressional investigation. We need to know if the CIA lost control of its hacking tools, who may have those tools, and how do we now protect the privacy of Americans.”

According to Lieu’s statements, the problem isn’t necessarily that the CIA is spying on Americans and invading innocent people’s technology without consent. It’s that the CIA mishandled their spying tools, and in doing so, endangered Americans’ privacy by exposing the tools to presumably ‘bad actors.’ The problem isn’t the corrupt agency violating basic privacy rights, but that they weren’t skillful enough to keep their corruption under wraps.

So goes the familiar whistleblower narrative in the United States. Whistleblowers step forward to expose wrongdoing on the part of government — something the government claims to support — and immediately, establishment institutions and the media bend the conversation away from the wrongdoing in order to focus on the unlawful release of secrets.

Putting aside the fact that, according to popular American mythology breaking the law is a patriotic duty, the government and politicians’ reactions are both hypocritical and habitual.

When Chelsea Manning revealed damning evidence of U.S. war crimes in Iraq, including soldiers directly targeting Reuters news staff, the response was not to investigate who allowed those crimes (in fact, a later Pentagon manual went on to describe instances in which it’s permissible to kill journalists; that version was later retracted after outcry from reporters). Rather, Manning was subject to a military tribunal and issued multiple life sentences, a cruel and unusual punishment reversed only in President Obama’s last days in office amid his attempts to salvage his abysmal human rights, transparency, and whistleblower record.

When Edward Snowden revealed the extent of the NSA’s warrantless mass surveillance of American citizens and millions of others around the world, the government’s response was not to investigate why those programs existed in the first place. Rather, they thrashed and flailed around the world, ordering the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales to be grounded in the hopes of catching the whistleblower. Congress later passed the deceptive “USA Freedom Act,” which codified continued surveillance.

Edward Snowden remains in exile, and establishment politicians repeatedly call him a traitor for exposing the crimes of his government. Some, including Trump’s CIA Director Mike Pompeo, have called for his execution. Mass surveillance continues, and the president himself is seeking to retain those powers as he condemns former President Obama for allegedly spying on him.

And so on and so forth. The same was true for John Kiriakou, Thomas Drake, William Binney, and Jeffrey Sterling. The government is exposed for wrongdoing, and rather than prove themselves to be representatives of the people by remedying those transgressions, they point fingers and divert, all the while refusing to relinquish the unjust power any given agency is exposed for having.

Many people are already aware that the government does little to actually serve them (Americans’ trust in political leaders and government, in general, is abysmally low). Rather, government agents and agencies operate to advance and concentrate their own interests and power. This is why penalties against killing government employees are more stringent than killing civilians. It is why stealing from the government is perceived as more outrageous to the State than stealing from a civilian. The government considers “crimes” committed against itself to carry the utmost offense, yet often fails to deliver justice to the people who provide their financial foundation.

s a result, the State does not even try to show remorse for its violative policies, even when they are exposed and splattered across social media for the world to see. Instead, with the help of corporate media, the debate is shifted to whether or not WikiLeaks is a criminal organization, or whether or not Edward Snowden is a traitor.

As White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said of the leaks:

This is the kind of disclosure that undermines our country, our security. This alleged leak should concern every American for its impact on national security. … Anybody who leaks classified information will be held accountable to the maximum extent of the law.

Meanwhile, we’re supposed to accept the government’s investigation of itself, which (surprise!) usually finds little or no wrongdoing on their own behalf and often consolidates and extends the very same power whistleblowers exposed the first place. (For more from the author of “Whistleblowers vs. The State” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/03/whistleblowers-vs-state/in

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Tapping Trump…The Plot Thickens

By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

WT-1.jpg?width=211Obama says it never happened. He says that President Trump’s claim of having been wiretapped is completely false.

Once again…Obama is flat-out lying.

Somebody apparently got wiretap permits from a FISA court…and reportedly, six different intel organizations  engaged in wiretapping and cyber surveillance of Donald Trump and his advisors since late last October…and those six agencies sought, and received permission to SHARE any information they gleaned with SIXTEEN intel agencies.

Obama had to know all about it and furthermore…it’s a damn good bet that he, himself, ordered it from start to finish.

In fact, the federally filed surveillance requests…FISA court requests…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
The Beltway Conspiracy to Break Trump
by Patrick Buchanan
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300 refugees subject of FBI terror investigations. (Fox News)
 
Police chief to illegal aliens: "Your immigration status is completely irrelevant." (CNS News)
 
District of Columbia councilwoman holds meeting teaching illegal immigrants how to resist ICE. (The Daily Signal)
 
WikiLeaks publishes thousands of purported CIA documents. (Associated Press)
 
CIA, DOJ sued over leaks of classified wiretaps on former NSA Flynn. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
"A Day Without a Woman" ignites backlash over left-wing agenda, school closures. (The Washington Times)
 
University language guide deems "homosexual" and "housewife" to be offensive terms. (National Review)
 
Noted social sciences expert blocked from speaking by leftists mob. (The Washington Post)
 
Women's studies has changed over the years — and it's more popular than ever. (USA Today College)
 
Humor: Protesting the Protesters — the brutal truth! (Chad Prather Video)
 
Policy: Stop proof-texting refugee policy with misapplied Bible verses. (The Federalist)
 
Policy: The Feds have transformed Title IX into an enemy of common sense. (The Heartland Institute
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Judge Napolitano: liar-nObama
Wiretapping ‘Legal’ But ‘Unconstitutional’
by James Oleen
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano discussed the legality of then President Barack liar-nObama’s alleged eavesdropping of Trump Tower and concluded it is “legal,” but “profoundly unconstitutional.”... The Fox News senior judicial analyst said that the NSA could have legally communicated recorded conversations of Trump’s campaign staff to the liar-nObama White House without obtaining a traditional warrant. But, in order to explain how this could occur, Napolitano first had to clear up the details of an argument which he called a “mixing of apples and oranges.”...  http://www.westernjournalism.com/judge-napolitano-obama-wiretapping-legal-unconstitutional/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=C50ConservativeBrief&utm_content=2017-03-07
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Trump Has Probably Already Seen
The FISA Warrant, Requests
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ It is likely that President Trump has already seen the FISA requests and subsequent warrants and that was what set him off on Saturday morning... The liberal talking heads would have us believe that it was the unhinged and unfounded over-reactions of an increasingly mentally compromised madman that they will eventually need to save us from. Baloney; the most likely scenario is that there are hideous abuses of power taking place and President Trump discovered just how pervasive and offensive of an assault they are on our free, self-governing principles. Trump had suspicions, based upon whatever reasons he may have been able to glean and when they were confirmed by the supporting documents, he became outraged at the duplicity and level of anti-American subversion not only at the liar-nObama White House, but the Justice Department, probably the Intelligence agencies and perhaps the FBI as well. Jay Sekulow says, “The President would have knowledge of a FISA warrant, who it was issued to and against, and what information was received. Now we know from media reports that there were multiple attempts at a FISA. The first time was deemed to broad, the second time maybe not so broad, the third time they finally got it.”...  http://rickwells.us/sekulow-president-trump-has-probably-already-seen-the-fisa-warrant-requests/
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CIA, DOJ Sued Over Leaks of Classified
Info About Former NSA Flynn
by Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The CIA and Departments of Justice and Treasury are being sued by a prominent legal organization for their role in leaking highly classified material as part of an effort to undermine the credibility of former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn... according to an announcement. Judicial Watch, known for its role in exposing former secretary of state liar-Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, announced on Monday that it has sued several federal agencies for information related to Flynn's discussions with Russian officials before he officially entered the White House. Flynn was forced to resign from the White House for apparently misleading President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence about the substance of these conversations...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cia-doj-sued-leaks-classified-info-former-nsa-flynn/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=6a9ea085e2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-6a9ea085e2-45611665
 
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Clapper/liar-nObama Police State Cover Up –
6 Agencies After Trump With No Crime
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin joined Sean Hannity for more exploration into the twisted tale of the liar-nObama regime’s spying activities which appear to have directly involved not only the pretend ‘president’ liar-nObama himself... but his Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, DNI James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan, at a minimum. Levin lays the case out in a manner that highlights the falsehoods and gaping holes in the stories of the liar-nObama regime when contrasted and compared to the accounts of their comrades within the liberal mainstream propaganda machinery. He begins by pointing out that only conservatives or those who are not part of the globalist movement are concerned with their own reports which now cast a bright light on their leaders. Levin says, “the media is very confounded right now, they’re very confused. They don’t know whether to trash themselves, trash their colleagues or what.”...  http://rickwells.us/levin-clapper-obama-police-state-cover-6-agencies-trump-no-crime/
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Investigate This: Russia, liar-nObama,
Trump and liar-Hillary
by Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ Once again the dominant media narrative has shifted overnight. Last week the media exploded with stories about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ admitted contacts with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.... the latest attempt to somehow derail and delegitimize the Donald Trump presidency. It is part of the narrative concocted by the Democrats and their allies in the media to claim that Trump won the election thanks in part to help from Russia. Collusion has been the word of choice, though no evidence has surfaced to support it. It turns out that the liar-nObama administration, according to reports, did go to the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court to gain permission to spy, or electronically eavesdrop, or wiretap some members or elements of Trump’s campaign. Former federal prosecutor and journalist for National Review Andy McCarthy examined how disingenuous the denial coming from an liar-nObama spokesman was. In essence, it comes down to, “It depends on what the definition of ‘surveillance’ is,” and who is a “White House official.”...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/investigate-this-russia-obama-trump-and-hillary/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Mar-07-2017&utm_medium=email
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The Beltway Conspiracy to Break Trump
by Patrick Buchanan
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{freedomsback.com} ~ At Mar-a-Lago this weekend President Donald Trump was filled “with fury” says The Washington Post, “mad — steaming, raging, mad.”

Early Saturday the fuming president exploded with this tweet: “Terrible! Just found out that liar-nObama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”

The president has reason to be enraged. For what is afoot is a loose but broad conspiracy to break and bring him down, abort his populist agenda, and overturn the results of the 2016 election.

At its heart is the “deep state” — agents of the intel community, their media collaborators, and their amen corner in a Democratic party whose control of our permanent government is all but total.

At the heart of the case against Trump is what appears to be a Big Lie.

It is that Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence hacked the DNC and John Podesta’s email account, then colluded with Trump’s friends or associates to systematically sabotage liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Therefore, Trump stole the election and is an illegitimate president. In this city, Trump is looked upon as a border-jumper, an illegal alien.

Yet let us consider the constituent components of the charge.

For months, we have heard that U.S. intel agencies agree that the Russians hacked the DNC and liar-Clinton campaign, and gave the fruits of their cybertheft to WikiLeaks, because Putin wanted Trump to win.

For months, this storyline has been investigated by the FBI and the intelligence committees of both houses of Congress.

Yet where is the body of evidence that the Russians did this?

More critically, where is the evidence Trump’s people played an active role in the operation? Why is it taking the FBI the better part of a year to come up with a single indictment in this Trump-Putin plot?

Is this all smoke and mirrors?

In late February, The New York Times reported that Trump officials had been in regular touch with Russian intelligence officers.

The smoking gun had been found!

Yet, almost immediately after that report, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told Fox News “the top levels of the intelligence community” had assured him that the allegations of campaign contacts with Russia were “not only grossly overstated, but also wrong.”

If what Reince says is true, the real crime here is U.S. security officials enlisting their Fourth Estate collaborators, who enjoy First Amendment privileges against having to testify under oath or being prosecuted, to undermine the elected commander in chief.

Now we expect Russia to seek to steal our secrets as we steal theirs. After all, our NSA wiretapped Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Our National Endowment for Democracy pushes “color revolutions” to bring about regime change in the near abroad of Putin’s Russian Federation.

Our NGOs are being restricted, shut down, expelled from Russia, China, Israel and Egypt, because they have been caught interfering in the internal affairs of those countries.

There is talk that Putin use the pilfered emails as payback for liar-Clinton’s urging demonstrators to take to the streets of Moscow to protest a narrow victory by his United Russia party in 2011.

As for the alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower, President liar-nObama has denied ordering any such thing and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper assures us nothing of the sort was ever done.

Yet, there are other reports that intelligence officials got a warrant to surveil Trump campaign officials or the Trump Tower, and, though failing to succeed in the FISA court that authorizes such surveillance in June, they did succeed in October.

If true, this is a far more explosive matter than whether a Trump aide may have told the Russians, “You’re doing a great job!” when WikiLeaks blew DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz out of her job for tilting the playing field against Bernie Sanders in the primaries.

What needs to be done now?

The White House should tell the Justice Department to tell the FBI to expedite its investigation and file a report on what was done by the Russians. And if any Trump campaign official criminally colluded with the Russians, send the recommendation to indict to Justice.

The acting attorney general should instruct Director James Comey to run down, remove and recommend for prosecution any FBI or intel agent who has leaked the fruits of their investigation, or fake news, to the media. If Comey cannot find the source of the leaks, or lies, coming out of this investigation, a housecleaning may be needed at the bureau.

While President liar-nObama may not have ordered any surveillance of Trump or his advisors, the real question is whether he or Attorney General Loretta Lynch were aware of or approved of any surveillance of Trump and his staff during the campaign.

Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal. The scandal is this: Who inside the government of the United States is trying to discredit, damage or destroy the President of the United States?

For these are the real subversives.
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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Was liar-nObama's tap of Trump legal, American?
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 by Joseph Farah
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 The MSM Russian Obsession 
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Mainstream media outlets across the nation this morning essentially ran the same headline — Attorney General Sessions Lied About Not Meeting With Russians. Democrats couldn't cue up fast enough to offer their best renditions of Joseph McCarthy in calling for Sessions' immediate resignation. Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D-MA), who had been an especially vocal critic of Sessions during his confirmation hearings, bloviated, "We need a special prosecutor totally independent of the AG. We need Attorney General Jeff Sessions — who should have never been confirmed in the first place — to resign. We need it now."
          So what's the story here? Did Sessions lie? The short answer is no, because context is crucial. It was revealed Wednesday that Sessions had met twice with the Russian ambassador before the election. One meeting was in an official capacity in his role as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the second was a public meeting at the Heritage Foundation directly after a speech Sessions gave. Neither meeting had anything to do with Donald Trump's campaign. At his confirmation hearings, Sessions was asked if he had communications with the Russians regarding the Trump campaign. Sessions responded, "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in [Trump's] campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians." In a questionnaire, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) asked whether Sessions "had been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day." Sessions' replied, "No."
          In reality, there are two components to this story, the Leftmedia's fiscal bottom line and the Democrats' resistance agenda. The mainstream media is trolling a molehill of a story, seeking to play it up to scandal proportions as a means to gain attention and sell advertising. There is almost nothing to this story, but because of the juicy Russian component the MSM can feature it for great click bait. For the Democrats, the story serves as yet another vehicle to further their "Trump is an illegitimate president" mantra and the narrative of the Russian election-meddling conspiracy. We're sure it's pure coincidence that this story broke just after Trump's hugely successful speech.
          So, stay tuned, as one can expect more of these types of non-scandal scandalous stories from the Leftmedia far into the foreseeable future.  ~The Patriot Post 
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The Democrats’ Russia Narrative
is Filled With Holes and Hypocrisy
 
{fixthisnation.com} ~ According to the organization Global Cleveland, the July event at which Sen. Jeff Sessions met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak was sponsored by none other than President liar-nObama’s State Department... The event, which took place in Cleveland at the same time as the Republican National Convention, was attended by 80 ambassadors from around the world, including Kislyak. It was coordinated by the Global Cleveland organization in conjunction with the RNC and the U.S. Department of State, according to the official website. But the media and the Democrats are trying desperately to avoid reporting the details of the event so they can make it look like Sessions was scheduling secret, private, under-the-radar meetings with the Russians. And the implication, of course, is that Sessions and Kislyak were plotting and scheming over the DNC hacks, setting up quid pro quo scenarios, and just generally cooking up treasonous acts against the U.S. government. When you see how innocuous these “meetings” really were, that storyline falls apart. But if you still think Kislyak is a nefarious Russian agent, then your questions shouldn’t be limited to Jeff Sessions and the Trump campaign team. Indeed, why not ask Barack liar-nObama himself why he felt it necessary to meet with Kislyak at least 22 times between 2009 and 2016? Was liar-nObama working to overthrow the U.S. government? Was he secretly planning traitorous schemes with Vladimir Putin? Or was he simply meeting with the official diplomat of a country that remains a huge player on the global map?...  http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/the-democrats-russia-narrative-is-filled-with-holes-and-hypocrisy/
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Homegrown Terrorism is Top Threat to UK
by Soeren Kern
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British soldier Lee Rigby (right, holding his son) was
murderedoutside London's Woolwich Barracks by
IslamistsMichael Adebolajo (left) and Michael Adebowale
 
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Homegrown terrorism inspired by the Islamic State poses the dominant threat to the national security of the United Kingdom, according to a comprehensive new report on violent Islamism in Britain... The 1,000-page report — "Islamist Terrorism: Analysis of Offenses and Attacks in the UK (1998–2015)" — was published on March 5 by the Henry Jackson Society, a foreign policy think tank based in London. The report, authored by terrorism researcher Hanna Stuart, identifies, profiles and analyzes all 269 Islamism-inspired terrorism convictions and suicide attacks in the United Kingdom between 1998 and 2015...Hey protesters you need to read this article. You might wake-up.
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How the Use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
Saved Thousands of American Lives
by JANET LEVY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The intelligence community unjustly suffered a black eye when its use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EIT) was publicized by the media and used as a political issue by Democrats trying to discredit a Republican administration and undermine the post 9/11 war effort...  In addition, CIA black site operations were unfairly tied to an isolated case of prisoner abuse by military police at Abu Ghraib, a U.S.-run Iraqi detention facility for terrorist detainees.  What was missing from the head-on attacks on the intelligence agency was the reality of how EIT thwarted terrorist plans and potentially saved thousands of American lives. A new book, Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of Islamic Terrorists Trying to Destroy America (Crown Forum, 2016) by psychologist and retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, Dr. James E. Mitchell, describes the author's involvement in the development and implementation of the CIA's enhanced interrogation program from its inception in 2002 until it was shut down by liar-nObama in 2009. The book is an eye-opening account of how thoughtfully and judiciously enhanced interrogation techniques were developed, how they were applied, how much valuable intelligence was gleaned from their use and how effectively they thwarted potentially deadly attacks...
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Former Intel Officer Says liar-nObama Could Be First Former President with a Felony Indictment
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ While there of course has been substantial pushback against the extreme accusation by both the media and liar-nObama’s people... there does seem to be some circumstantial evidence that Trump’s allegations were correct — at least more than any proving Trump was somehow colluding with the Russian government. If indeed it does turn out to be the case that the liar-nObama administration illegally surveilled Trump’s team ahead of Election Day as some have speculated, the end result could be the unprecedented indictment of a former president on felony charges...
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Limbaugh: Trump’s Wiretap Claim
Has Clear Basis In Fact
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ President Donald Trump’s accusation that he was spied upon at the behest of former President Barack liar-nObama sends a message that Trump will fight against the enemies of his presidency... talk show host Rush Limbaugh said Monday. Limbaugh also noted that Trump’s conclusion is grounded in the reality of an administration stalked by leaks of sensitive information and also reflects published media reports that Trump aides were targets of surveillance. He also noted that the accusation comes in the context of a political fight to the death between conservatives and liberals...  http://www.westernjournalism.com/limbaugh-trumps-wiretap-claim-clear-basis-fact/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=C50ConservativeBrief&utm_content=2017-03-07
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Was liar-nObama's tap of Trump legal, American?
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 by Joseph Farah
{wnd.com} ~ After Donald Trump blew the whistle on the eavesdropping of his 2016 campaign headquarters by Barack liar-nObama’s administration, few in the media or elsewhere seem to be asking the obvious questions:

Was it legal?

Was it ethical – in the American way?

One thing is for certain: If the roles were reversed and the Trump administration bugged Democrats, you can imagine the media would take a much different view.

Let’s first take a look at how the media reported this travesty of justice, political decorum, the Constitution and American legal tradition:
  • Washington Post: President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former President Barack liar-nObama of orchestrating a “Nixon/Watergate” plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters in the run-up to last fall’s election, providing no evidence to support his explosive claim and drawing a flat denial from liar-nObama’s office.
  • CNN: Trump’s baseless wiretap claim
  • Atlantic: Trump’s Unfounded Claims of a “Nixon/Watergate” Wiretapping Scheme
  • Huffington Post: liar-nObama Refutes Allegation that He Wiretapped Trump Tower During Campaign
  • New York Daily News: Trump’s poor understanding of national security investigations may prove dangerous
  • New York Times: President Trump on Saturday accused former President Barack liar-nObama of tapping his phones at Trump Tower the month before the election, leveling the explosive allegation without offering any evidence.
The emphasis of all of these “fake news” reports is disingenuous to say the least. liar-nObama didn’t deny his administration wiretapped Trump. He said no one at the White House did. That is a virtual admission that his administration did, probably Justice Department, meaning the “apolitical Loretta Lynch” who just called for “blood and death” in the streets to stop Trump, much to the approval of Senate Democrats. It’s an obvious parsing of words by the slick liar-nObama.

The accusation is indeed bigger than Watergate, which began with an attempt not to eavesdrop directly on Richard Nixon’s opponent in the 1972 presidential election, but on Larry O’Brian, the head of the DNC, whose offices were in the Watergate Hotel. He was the Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of his day, but she and liar-Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta didn’t bother securing their email communications, and you could read them all on WikiLeaks.

And that brings us to the excuse for Trump’s campaign being undoubtedly bugged – the elusive evidence for Russian hacking and interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

If you doubt there is no evidence, just carefully read every New York Times story on the fake scandal. Way down near the bottom of every story, the paper that has trumpeted this story the most admits there’s no evidence.

So, here’s the way this thing obviously went down.

liar-nObama’s team first tried to get a broad FISA warrant to investigate the Russian fantasy. The judge turned it down.

It tried again with a narrower FISA warrant request. The judge turned it down.

Then it tried a third time, and the judge approved it in October. Coincidentally, that is the exact time Trump says the wiretapping began.

Not one of these big news organizations will tell you that.

It’s the attorney general who would request such wiretap authorizations for heavy-duty, politically charged requests such as this – not that any have ever been requested or authorized in the history of the republic.

Do news organizations really want to be covering up stuff like this? Don’t they understand the same tactics can be used against them? liar-nObama, or (wink-wink) Lynch, just set the precedent.

Nixon never did anything remotely like this – and he was forced from office as a result. liar-nObama or Lynch could well be prosecuted by the Trump administration. And one or both probably should be.

Misuse of FISA statutes is a clear violation of the law.

FISA can only be used for “foreign intelligence information” as the basis for surveillance to protect the U.S. against a “grave” or “hostile” attack, war-like sabotage or international terror.

Does anyone suggest such a thing with regard to Russian hacks?

That’s what makes this scandal, pardon the expression, “bigger than Watergate.”

Out of more than 35,000 FISA court requests, only 12 have ever been rejected. But two out of three requested by the liar-nObama administration to investigate the Russia deal were. What does that tell you?

It tells me this was a political fishing expedition to build a case against Trump if or when he beat liar-Hillary.

Since the election, the hysteria over Russia’s role in the election has only increased exponentially.

And that’s why:
  1. I believe Trump.
  2. I don’t believe liar-nObama.
  3. I don’t believe the “fake news cartel,” which is all in for finding the elusive Trump-Russia link.

What we’ve got here at first glance is a prima facie case for “bigger and worse than Watergate.”

But the Washington Post and New York Times have already signaled they won’t be investigating. They are already publishing front-page editorials that stake out a rather shrill “see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil” approach.

Was it legal? No.

Was it ethical in the American political tradition? No.

Is it one of the most dangerous developments in American political history? Yes.

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Muslims do not assimilate,they infiltrate

Sure, you don’t have to believe me when I tell you that “Islam is not a religion”

But what about when a woman, Wafa Sultan, who spent most of her life as a Muslim tells you the same thing?

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Muslims do not assimilate, they infiltrate

Khizr Khan’s claim that his “travel privileges are being reviewed” by US authorities is unraveling

According to a hadith, Muhammad said, “War is deceit.” (Bukhari 4.52.268) And the production of fake hate crimes, supposedly committed by “Islamophobes” and Trump supporters, and “Islamophobic” Trump supporters, is a growth industry. So it is no surprise at all that this victimhood propagandist would fabricate a claim that he was being illegally prevented from […]

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Blogging the Qur’an: Sura 9, “Repentance,” verses 6-14

Part 25

Read find out what the Qur'an really teaches

According to the twentieth century Islamic scholar Muhammad Asad, verses 4 and 6 of Sura 9 belie the impression that many take from v. 5: that pagans are to be offered the choice of “conversion or death.” V. 4, however, only specifies that if non-Muslims honor the terms of their existing treaties with Muhammad and the Muslims, the Muslims will honor those treaties to the end of their term. And v. 6, according to Ibn Kathir, gives pagans “safe passage so that they may learn about the religion of Allah, so that Allah’s call will spread among His servants….In summary, those who come from a land at war with Muslims to the area of Islam, delivering a message, for business transactions, to negotiate a peace treaty, to pay the Jizyah, to offer an end to hostilities, and so forth, and request safe passage from Muslim leaders or their deputies, should be granted safe passage, as long as they remain in Muslim areas, until they go back to their land and sanctuary.” The reference here to paying the Jizyah refers to the tax specified for the People of the Book under Islamic rule in v. 29; thus the choice, at least for those who have received a written scripture (mainly Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians), is not conversion or death, but conversion, subjugation or death.

The Tafsir al-Jalalayn, As-Suyuti, and Ibn Juzayy agree with this view of v. 6. Ibn Juzayy says that it means that Muslims should “grant them security so that they can hear the Qur’an to see whether they will become Muslim or not. (then convey them to a place where they are safe) If they do not become Muslim, return him to his place.” He notes, however, that this is not a unanimous view: “This is a firm judgment in the view of some people while other people say that it is abrogated by fighting.”

The treaty that the Muslims concluded with the pagans “near the sacred Mosque” (v. 7) refers to the Treaty of Hudaybiyya. In 628, according to Islamic tradition, Muhammad had a vision in which he performed the pilgrimage to Mecca — a pagan custom that he very much wanted to make part of Islam, but had thus far been prevented by the Quraysh control of Mecca. But at this time he directed Muslims to prepare to make the pilgrimage to Mecca, and advanced upon the city with fifteen hundred men. The Quraysh met him outside the city, and the two sides concluded a ten-year truce (hudna), the treaty of Hudaybiyya.

Some leading Muslims were unhappy with the prospect of a truce. After all, they had recently broken a Quraysh siege of Medina and were now more powerful than ever. Were they going to bargain away their military might for the sake of being able to make the pilgrimage? According to Muhammad’s first biographer, Ibn Ishaq, a furious Umar went to Abu Bakr and said, “Is he not God’s apostle, and are we not Muslims, and are they not polytheists? Then why should we agree to what is demeaning to our religion?” The two of them went to Muhammad, who attempted to reassure them: “I am God’s slave and His apostle. I will not go against His commandment and He will not make me the loser.”

But it certainly didn’t seem as if the treaty was being concluded to the Muslims’ advantage. When the time came for the agreement to be written, Muhammad called for Ali and told him to write, “In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.” But the Quraysh negotiator, Suhayl bin Amr, stopped him: “I do not recognize this; but write ‘In thy name, O Allah.'” Muhammad told Ali to write what Suhayl had directed.

But Suhayl was not finished. When Muhammad directed Ali to continue by writing, “This is what Muhammad, the apostle of God, has agreed with Suhayl bin Amr,” he protested again. “If I witnessed that you were God’s apostle,” Suhayl told Muhammad, “I would not have fought you. Write your own name and the name of your father.” Again the Prophet of Islam, to the increasing dismay of his followers, told Ali to write the document as Suhayl wished.

In the final form of the treaty, Muhammad shocked his men by agreeing to provisions that seemed disadvantageous to the Muslims: those fleeing the Quraysh and seeking refuge with the Muslims would be returned to the Quraysh, while those fleeing the Muslims and seeking refuge with the Quraysh would not be returned to the Muslims.

Yet soon Muhammad broke the treaty. A woman of the Quraysh, Umm Kulthum, joined the Muslims in Medina; her two brothers came to Muhammad, asking that they be returned “in accordance with the agreement between him and the Quraysh at Hudaybiya.” But Muhammad refused: Allah forbade it. He gave Muhammad a new revelation: “O you who have believed, when the believing women come to you as emigrants, examine them. Allah is most knowing as to their faith. And if you know them to be believers, then do not return them to the disbelievers…” (60:10).

In refusing to send Umm Kulthum back to the Quraysh, Muhammad broke the treaty. Although Muslim apologists have claimed throughout history that the Quraysh broke it first, this incident came before all those by the Quraysh that Muslims point to as treaty violations. The contemporary Muslim writer Yahiya Emerick asserts that Muhammad based his case on a bit of legal hair-splitting: the treaty stipulated that the Muslims would return to the Quraysh any man who came to them, not any woman. Even if that is true, Muhammad soon — as Emerick acknowledges — began to accept men from the Quraysh as well, thus definitively breaking the treaty.

The breaking of the treaty in this way would reinforce the principle that nothing was good except what was advantageous to Islam, and nothing evil except what hindered Islam. Once the treaty was formally discarded, Islamic jurists enunciated the principle that truces in general could only be concluded on a temporary basis of up to ten years, and that they could only be entered into for the purpose of allowing weakened Muslim forces to gather strength to fight again more effectively.

Nevertheless, Ibn Kathir and others maintain that the Quraysh broke the treaty first. And Allah certainly give the impression that they did indeed break it, excoriating the pagans for selling “the signs of Allah” for a “miserable price” (v. 9) and for violating oaths they made with the Muslims (vv. 12, 13). Thus because of all their enormities, Allah exhorts the Muslims to fight them (vv. 13-14). According to Ibn Juzayy, “Allah will punish them by your hands” (v. 14) means “killing and capture. That is a promise of victory for the Muslims.” The Tafsir al-Jalalayn concurs: “Fight them, and God will chastise them, He will have them killed, at your hands and degrade them, humiliate them through capture and subjugation, and He will give you victory against them.”

Allah will punish them by your hands” is a momentous statement: it means that Muslims on earth are the executors of Allah’s judgment, and are charged with the responsibility of punishing the unbelievers in accord with the divine wrath. Thus when Muslims call upon Allah to punish someone, they’re essentially calling upon their fellow Muslims to carry out that punishment. Doing so will “satisfy the breasts of a believing people and remove the fury in the believers’ hearts” (vv. 14-15): doing violence to unbelievers in the cause of Allah will calm the hearts of the believers.

(Revised May 2015)

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Ex-Secret Service agent: Media missing 1 huge wiretap point
'The FBI's not going to tell the Secret Service if they're monitoring the president-elect'



President Trump has caught plenty of flak from the establishment media and members of Congress for his weekend statement that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had Trump Tower wiretapped while Trump was still a candidate.

Some believe Trump is lying, while others think he may have pressured the FBI to tell him about an investigation against him.

But Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, says there's a third possibility no one is considering.

He shared his thoughts in a video posted to his Facebook page over the weekend.

"The Secret Service does ECM sweeps, electronic counter-measures, where they go in frequently and look for listening devices, radio frequencies, all kinds of things to make sure the president or president-elect is not being, in fact, wiretapped or listened in on on specific phone lines," Bongino revealed.

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Bongino, who wrote about his time in the Secret Service in his book "Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away From It All," said if Trump were being wiretapped or surveilled, it's highly unlikely that he walked into the FBI and demanded to know.

The former agent, noting Trump had Secret Service protection as a candidate, thinks it's much more likely the Secret Service discovered something while performing one of their ECM sweeps of Trump Tower and later found out it was the DOJ that had ordered the surveillance.

"That makes total sense, but of course the media's not really interested in the story, because they want to find fault with Trump. So their story's gonna be, 'Did Trump force the FBI to tell him he was being monitored in some kind of an investigation?'" Bongino said. (Story continues below)

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"They've never considered the third option, that he had Secret Service protection and there was likely an ECM sweep done to check for bugs. The FBI's not going to tell the Secret Service if they're monitoring the president-elect, and if Obama or his DOJ officials wanted Trump monitored, the Secret Service probably didn't know at all."

In a series of Saturday night tweets, Bongino asserted "#ObamaGate is going to blow wide-open this week" and that he, Bongino, will be sharing more information concerning the Obama administration this week.

Bongino joined the Secret Service in 1999 and served on the elite Presidential Protective Division during the latter George W. Bush years and the beginning of Obama's term. He resigned in 2011 to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Maryland.

Today, he hosts a radio show, "The Renegade Republican," is affiliated with the Conservative Review website, and contributes to CNN and Fox News.

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Thursday, March 9, 2017
Over the weekend President Donald Trump made history by accusing the ex-"president" of wiretapping the president-elect's offices at Trump Towers. While some compare it to Watergate, where sitting President Richard Nixon had curried a national spy effort on those he considered his detractors, this "lame duck president" allegedly was gathering information that could be used to undermine Trump when he took office. It is the type of stuff spy novels are made of, yet it is playing out before our very eyes. The ex-"president" has set up a shadow government and is working with seditious forces to undermine the duly elected President of the United States. Trouble is, he has apparently walked the line of the law.
 
The Wall Street Journal reported that the ex-"president" was livid over Trump's accusations. A statement was issued immediately that the ex-"president's" regime had never approved wire tapping or spying on US citizens. This is an outright lie because there are multiple high-profile cases where the White House was caught intercepting phone calls and emails on our citizens. The Guardian published documents signed by Attorney General Eric Holder July 29, 2009 indicating the White House used the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to back door "authority" to collect information on American citizens. AP, CBS and Fox know first hand as their reporters were spied on, as were thousands of citizens.
 
Was the ex-"president" livid that Trump called him out, or because he got caught doing something he shouldn't have that may have legal implications? It would appear that the former "president" is walking a thin line between political opposition and sedition. Many are asking why this person is not arrested and brought up on charges of sedition, high crimes and misdemeanors. It is because there is no appearance on the surface of actual law breaking. Paid protesters, encouraging protesting, setting up offices to "keep an eye on" the Trump Administration, stirring up a willing media against the government are all disruptive and undermining actions, but not really illegal. Power and money drive this organization.
 
Dinesh D'Souza documented just how the progressives in the Democratic Party, the ex-"president" and Hillary Clinton use deception and denial to enrich themselves and garner power. In "Hillary's America," D'Souza documents how "progressives" seek to steal from the government and the people. He said, " The methodology of theft is very simple and involves five distinct steps. First, plan the theft. Second, recruit allies. Third, pitch or justify the theft. Fourth, carry out the theft. And finally, cover up the theft." When caught, they never give up the gig, but rather deny, deny, deny. And we see this play out every day in this deepening feud between the ex-"president" and Trump. Proverbs 14:8 says, " The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit." And, hence, we have the tale of two Americas and a revolutionary feud deepening.
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson

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Obama CIA Monitored President Trump 24/7, Video And Audio

– Kim DotCom Obama CIA Monitored Trump 24/7, Video And Audio - Says Kim Dotcom The Obama CIA was watching every move the president made during the campaign and after, according to KIm DotCom, who said if Trump knew, he'd go… rickwells.us To

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While Women ‘Strike,’ Victim of Chinese Forced Abortion Shares Her Story

Many women in the United States and other parts of the world are commemorating International Women’s Day by striking under the hashtag battle cry #ADayWithoutAWoman. The organizers declared that during the strike, arguably replete with problems, “women and our allies will act together creatively to withdraw from the corporations that harm us and find ways to support the businesses, organizations and communities that sustain us.”

But while elitist feminists took a day off work (even forcing some schools to shut down), Yue Zhang, a Chinese immigrant and victim of forced abortion, participated on a panel at the Heritage Foundation about the gross human rights violations intertwined with China’s family planning policy.

Zhang’s Story

“Today I understand that the victim must be grave enough to share the truth,” Zhang began Wednesday afternoon.

In August 2013, she found she was pregnant. Her initial reaction of surprise and happiness was quickly followed by worry. Zhang, 28 at the time, was not married. In China, giving birth out of wedlock is illegal. “I was worried for the future of my child,” she said.

If a woman does give birth out of wedlock, her child will not receive registration, or hukou —meaning they can never attend school, receive healthcare or even be officially married. “They are illegal persons for their entire lives in China,” Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and a fellow panelist, explained.

Nevertheless, Zhang wanted her child. But five months into her pregnancy, she found government officials waiting outside her home. They’d discovered she was pregnant, and informed her that she would need to have an abortion or pay a social maintenance fee. The next month they returned, this time breaking into Zhang’s house. Again, family planning officers told Zhang that she would have to have an abortion or pay a fee. They also threatened to call her bank, have her house confiscated and tell her employer to fire her.

Zhang inquired about the family planning policy and social maintenance policy of her province. “I learned that with my annual income and in order for my child to get hukou, I needed to pay over $60,000 U.S. dollars of social maintenance fee, a penalty I simply couldn’t afford,” she said. “But I never wanted to give up [my child’s] innocent little life.”

To the Chinese government, what Zhang wanted didn’t matter. For a third time, government officials came to Zhang’s home, pulling her into a vehicle outside. At the hospital she was placed on an operation table. “I kept shouting and struggling,” Zhang said. The doctor administered an injection into her abdomen.

“After a few hours of stomach pain, I started to see blood,” Zhang, struggling through visibly painful emotion, recalled before the panel. Hours later she gave birth to her lifeless baby.

“I dared not open my eyes to see the child. … I cried when the doctor and the nurse took away the little life. I wanted to beg them to leave this with me, but I couldn’t speak. After a while the doctor gave me another shot saying it was to stop the pain, but the pain did not stop. … Lying on that bed, I felt my body was cut open and broken.”

Zhang’s pain continued long after the abortion as she experienced nightmares, hallucinations and feelings of guilt. “Sometimes I believed it was my fault,” Zhang confessed. “I hated myself for getting pregnant without getting married and causing my child to die.”

The Continued Abuse and Extermination of Chinese Women

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ 4th District) is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Congressional Executive Commission on China. Even though in 2016, China adopted a two-child policy to replace their one-child policy, Smith said nothing has changed.

“There has been no change in the basic structure of coercive population control in China,” he said, pointing out that women’s menstrual cycles are still monitored, and that women are required to get regular ultrasounds to ensure that they are not pregnant without permission.

“When a woman is so maltreated by her own government … that has psychological impacts on her that are lifelong,” Smith said, noting that between 25 and 40 percent more women than men kill themselves in China. “The cruelty is just unimaginable.”

Olivia Enos, a research associated at Heritage, said during the panel that China’s child limitation and anti-female policies are leading to a future shortage of workers in the labor force and an increasingly older society. “On average China has 114 boys for every 100 girls,” Enos said, adding that in some provinces, as many as 126 boys are born for every 100 girls.

As Smith pointed out, it’s estimated that by 2020, 40 million men will be unable to find wives “because they have been exterminated” through sex-selective abortion.

So why does China continue to maintain child limitation policies? Littlejohn suggested that “terror is the purpose of the policy. … I believe this is social control masquerading as population control.”

What the United States Should Do

Even though “it’s easy to think that there’s nothing more that can be done,” Enos said, the U.S. government could do three things to help end China’s child limitation policies and human rights violations.

The first thing, Enos said, is to create working groups in China to work with Chinese officials to roll back and eventually eliminate the coercive family planning policies. Secondly, Enos said the new presidential administration should engage on human rights issues in any forum possible. Third, the U.S. should stop sending contributions to UNFPA — the United Nations Population Fund.

Federal taxpayer contributions to UNFPA have funded coercive family planning in China, Enos said. Smith added that rather than condemning human rights violation in China, the UNFPA actively encourages other nations to adopt child limitation policies. “When you whitewash crimes against humanity, you become complicit,” he said.

The Rest of Zhang’s Story

With her mother’s help, Zhang came to the United States at the end of 2014.

“As a stranger in this country, I feel the culture of open society. I feel the air of freedom, democracy and human rights,” she said.

One day during a class at a language school in the U.S., a classmate asked Zhang whether it was true that China enforced child limitation policies. When Zhang explained the policy to them and witnessed their indignation, she realized she was blameless for what happened in that hospital.

“It was at that time I realized it was not my fault,” she said. “In fact, my children always had the rights to come into this world. On the contrary, it was the Chinese government’s fault. China’s family planning policy prosecuted me and violated my legal rights. It is the government that represents Chinese Communist party that should feel ashamed.”

Watch the entire panel discussion below.

(For more from the author of “While Women ‘Strike,’ Victim of Chinese Forced Abortion Shares Her Story” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/03/women-strike-victim-chinese-forced-abortion-shares-story/

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haMFPNy9Ne4

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TSA’s New Groping Process So Invasive, They’re Warning Police to Prepare for Complaints

Something ominous is taking place at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) right now, having to do with a more aggressive version of the already invasive pat-down method. The TSA is so certain their new groping method will offend that they have taken action to warn police ahead of time that they will undoubtedly be receiving complaints.

The TSA — one of America’s most corrupt and incompetent agencies whose ostensible job is fighting terrorism — is apparently so unsatisfied with the mere ability to strip search babies, remove colostomy bags, beat up blind cancer patients, and fondle your genitalia, that this week they announced a more invasive physical pat-down.

Taking note of their increased ability to grope anyone who wishes to fly on an airplane, the agency expects passengers to consider the examination unusual.

In fact, as Bloomberg reports,the TSA decided to inform local police in case anyone calls to report an “abnormal” federal frisking, according to a memo from an airport trade association obtained by Bloomberg News. The physical search, for those selected to have one, is what the agency described as a more “comprehensive” screening, replacing five separate kinds of pat-downs it previously used.

“Passengers who have not previously experienced the now standardized pat-down screening may not realize that they did in fact receive the correct procedure, and may ask our partners, including law enforcement at the airport, about the procedure,” TSA spokesman Bruce Anderson wrote March 3 in an email, describing why the agency notified police.

The fact that the TSA is alerting police to the fact that there will likely be an increase in complaints is bad enough. However, their vague details about the newly enhanced sexual assault with the fronts of their hands leave the imagination open for the worst.

On its website, the TSA says employees “use the back of the hands for pat-downs over sensitive areas of the body. In limited cases, additional screening involving a sensitive area pat-down with the front of the hand may be needed to determine that a threat does not exist.”

“Due to this change, TSA asked FSDs [field security directors] to contact airport law enforcement and brief them on the procedures in case they are notified that a passenger believes a [TSA employee] has subjected them to an abnormal screening practice,” Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) wrote

As the Free Thought Project has pointed out countless times, the TSA has been caught in a myriad of criminal activities — including everything from massive drug trafficking conspiracies to brutal beat downs. Granting this already despicable group of cronies the ability to further dehumanize Americans for the facade of safety is nothing short of irresponsible and tyrannical.

Laughably, the ACI-NA is justifying these enhanced pat-downs by claiming TSA agents aren’t intelligent enough to remember all the procedures.

The pat-down change is “intended to reduce the cognitive burden on [employees] who previously had to choose from various pat-down procedures depending on the type of screening lane,” the ACI-NA wrote in its notice, as reported by Bloomberg.

Now, instead of a dimwitted TSA agent fumbling to remember what pat-down to do in which lane, they can just pull the person off to a secret room and have their way with the front of their hands. Thanks, America!

Of course, when they were pressed with questions in regards to their new molestation techniques, the TSA said they couldn’t comment because “knowing our specific procedures could aid those who wish to do travelers harm in evading our measures.”

To the average American who buys into the ‘terrorists hate our freedom’ propaganda, this move by the TSA to grant them the legal ability to grope themselves and their children, will be mostly accepted. However, to those of us who pay attention and realize that the TSA has a 95% failure rate at stopping anything from coming through, as well as being a massively corrupt and predatory organization, this move is seen for what it actually is — conditioning for the police state. (For more from the author of “TSA’s New Groping Process So Invasive, They’re Warning Police to Prepare for Complaints” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/03/tsas-new-groping-process-invasive-theyre-warning-police-prepare-com

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The 5 Stages of a Trump Scandal

The 5 Stages of a Trump Scandal

Another week, another “nothing burger” Trump scandal.

This week, President Trump took to Twitter to accuse former President Obama of ordering him to be wiretapped at Trump Tower. That accusation, of course, had no evidence to support it. But instead of merely stating that the accusation was false, the media responded with volcanic rage, declaring that it was outrageous to suggest that Obama would ever have done such a thing. To this, conservatives rightly responded saying that Obama has a long history of targeting enemies through bureaucratic surrogates, and that multiple media reports stated that the Obama Department of Justice sought FISA warrants against Trump associates. To this, leftists responded by accusing conservatives of covering for Trump’s lies.
And so it goes.

This is the typical Trump scandal. It has five stages:

Stage one: A media outlet of Trump’s liking reports something.

Stage two: Trump simplifies that report into an incorrect headline.

Stage three: The media jump on the incorrect headline, tacitly suggesting that there is no relationship between Trump’s headline and the truth.

Stage four: The right fires by pointing out that while Trump may be getting the headline wrong, there’s underlying truth to the narrative.

Stage five: The left seethes that anyone would defend Trump’s falsehoods.

And then we repeat this routine over and over, further ensconcing ourselves in our partisan bubbles.

We saw this exact pattern just two weeks ago, when Trump saw a piece on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” during which video journalist Ami Horowitz traveled to Sweden and talked about rising crime rates related to increased Muslim immigration. Trump took that in, processed it and then blurted out that something awful had happened “last night in Sweden.” The media quickly declared that not only had nothing bad happened in Sweden the prior night but that there was also no evidence of a serious crime problem in Sweden due to Muslim immigration. To this, the right responded with statistics showing that Sweden did indeed have a rising crime problem, and that lack of statistics did not denote lack of crime but rather politically driven lack of reporting. The media then asked incredulously whether the right would continue to defend Trump’s nonsense.

Now, note that nothing here is actually scandalous. Trump will always play fast and loose with the truth; the media will always split hairs in order to declare Trump’s entire program out of bounds; and the right will generally defend Trump’s larger program. But it does point out a lack of truth telling on all sides because at any stage of this process, the scandal could die. Trump could simply speak accurately. The left could point out Trump’s inaccuracies while telling the whole story. The right could do the same.

But because Trump has become such a controversial litmus test, everyone’s reacting to Trump rather than to the truth. That means truth becomes secondary, which actually helps Trump, since his commitment to the truth is less than strict.

It’s time to get beyond this cycle of stupidity. Next time Trump tweets something silly, everybody ought to simply take a deep breath — both left and right. Instead of letting Trump’s Twitter feed choose the battleground over facts, Americans on both sides ought to decipher facts and then fight over narrative. That’s what decent politics would look like. (For more from the author of “The 5 Stages of a Trump Scandal” please click HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/03/5-stages-trump-scandal/

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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Special Prosecutor or Witch Hunter?
by Debra J. Saunders
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 Five Huge Problems With liar-nObamaCare 
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'In Donald Trump's Address to Congress last night, he made much of repealing liar-nObamaCare. "Mandating every American to buy government-approved health insurance was never the right solution for America," he said. "The way to make health insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of health insurance, and that is what we will do." He laid out the guiding principles for reform: "First, we should ensure that Americans with pre-existing conditions have access to coverage, and that we have a stable transition for Americans currently enrolled in the health care exchanges. Secondly, we should help Americans purchase their own coverage, through the use of tax credits and expanded Health Savings Accounts — but it must be the plan they want, not the plan forced on them by the government. Thirdly, we should give our great state governors the resources and flexibility they need with Medicaid to make sure no one is left out. Fourthly, we should implement legal reforms that protect patients and doctors from unnecessary costs that drive up the price of insurance — and work to bring down the artificially high price of drugs and bring them down immediately. Finally, the time has come to give Americans the freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines — creating a truly competitive national marketplace that will bring cost way down and provide far better care."
          Most Americans at this point know that liar-nObamaCare isn't all it was cracked up to be. But do they know just how bad it's been? Hudson Institute senior fellow Jeffrey Anderson explains, "In passing liar-nObamacare, its supporters promised the moon. liar-nObamacare was allegedly going to cost $938 billion over ten years, result in 23 million people getting insurance through its exchanges as of 2017, reduce the typical family's premiums by $2,500 a year, and make sure that if you liked your health plan and doctor, you could keep your health plan and doctor. Seven years later, liar-nObamacare is projected to cost $1.938 trillion over ten years (exactly $1 trillion more), only 9 million people have insurance through its exchanges as of 2017 (just 40 percent of the original CBO projection), the typical family's premiums have exploded, and millions of people who liked their plans lost their plans, as liar-nObamacare effectively banned them. Many of them lost their doctors as well."
          That's pretty bad. Anderson also lays out the five worst things about the law.
          * It denies Americans choice and undermines their liberty.
          * It denies Americans affordable health insurance.
          * It raises federal spending by about $2 trillion when we're nearly $20 trillion in debt.
          * It fuels the unseemly alliance between Big Government and Big Business.
          * It consolidates and centralizes power and money.
          That's all why repeal is so critical. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker made just that case, saying, "This is an important issue because I don't think we can reiterate enough, liar-nObamaCare is collapsing. The Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable, and not me or any of these [Republican] governors ... but a Democratic governor said that last year. It is collapsing right now and to show compassion [toward] our fellow citizens, we've got to do something about it. That's why we're on top of it." Let's all encourage our elected representatives in Congress to repeal this monstrosity.  ~The Patriot Post
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House Republicans release long-awaited
liar-nObamaCare replacement bill
by foxnews
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{foxnews.com} ~ House Republicans on Monday evening released the text of their long-awaited liar-nObamaCare replacement bill, calling to eliminate the myriad taxes and penalties tied to the original legislation while still preserving certain patient protections... The bill, called the American Health Care Act, can be read online at readthebill.gop. The sweeping legislation would repeal liar-nObamaCare’s taxes along with the so-called individual and employer insurance mandates. It also would repeal the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies, replacing them with tax credits for consumers... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/06/house-republicans-release-long-awaited-obamacare-replacement-bill.html
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Trump orders reports on U.S. 'honor killings'
by Chelsea Schilling
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{wnd.com} ~ When President Trump issued an executive order “protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry” into America Monday, he also called for a report on foreign nationals charged with and convicted of terrorism-related offenses... including so-called “honor killings” committed in the U.S. The new executive order takes effect in about 10 days and includes a 90-day ban on travelers from six countries – Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syrian and Libya – and 120 days for refugees. Section 11 of Trump’s order, “Transparency and Data Collection,” also requires the federal government to publicly release information on the crimes “to be more transparent with the American people and to implement more effectively policies and practices that serve the national interest …”  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/trump-orders-reports-on-u-s-honor-killings/
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The Republican Healthcare Plan is
Just liar-nObamacare With a Different Polish
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ The biggest winner in Washington this week is Barack liar-nObama, whose signature legacy is going to remain largely untouched by Republicans who are going so far as to keep the individual mandate... Of course, they will not call it that, but individuals will get a 30% penalty, i.e. a fine, if they do not keep insurance. That is the individual mandate in all but name. In fact, this is actually of questionable constitutionality because the government imposed fine would be paid to the insured person’s previous insurance company when they subsequently try to buy a new policy. Gone? Most of the ways Barack liar-nObama paid for his healthcare plan. In? A death panel for senior citizens. Under the Republican plan, senior citizens can be charged up to five times higher than young people who can enter an insurance plan with a pre-existing condition. By keeping the pre-existing conditions provision, which causes rates to increase, along with the permitted increase in senior citizen insurance costs, the Republicans will price a large number of seniors out of the insurance market...  http://theresurgent.com/the-republican-healthcare-plan-is-just-obamacare-with-a-different-polish/
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Dem Super-Lobbyist Podesta Got $170K to
End US Sanctions On Russian Bank
by Richard Pollock
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Democrat super-lobbyist Tony Podesta was paid $170,000 over a six-month period last year to represent Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, seeking to end one of the liar-nObama administration’s economic sanctions against that country... The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned. Podesta, founder and chairman of the Podesta Group, is listed as a key lobbyist on behalf of Sberbank, according to Senate lobbying disclosure forms. His firm received more than $24 million in fees in 2016, much of it coming from foreign governments, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Podesta is the brother of John Podesta, who was the national campaign chairman for former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s losing 2016 campaign for the presidency. Former President Barack liar-nObama imposed the sanctions following the Russian seizure of the Crimean region of Ukraine in 2014...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/06/exclusive-dem-super-lobbyist-podesta-got-170k-to-end-us-sanctions-on-russian-bank/
 
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SAME NY Times Reporter Said Trump
Team Was Wiretapped In Jan., But
Said TRUMP Lacked Evidence In March
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ On January 19th and 20th 2017, The NY Times reported that wiretaps of people on the Trump team were passed along to the liar-nObama White House, one of the story’s authors was Michael S. Schmidt... On Saturday that same Michael S. Schmidt was one of the reporters who wrote the story, “Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says liar-nObama Tapped His Phones.” That’s right, the same NY Times reporter who was one of the sources for the President’s claim, said that there was no evidence for the claim. The first story by Mr. Schmidt appeared on the NY Times website the evening of January 19, 2017 and appeared on the front page of the paper the morning of Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017:...
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Special Prosecutor or Witch Hunter?
by Debra J. Saunders
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{townhall.com} ~ Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer of the Senate and Nancy Pulosi of the House on Thursday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from any investigations into possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, to resign from office and to appoint a special prosecutor.

"A special prosecutor is what's called for and if the administration has nothing to hide, they won't object," Schumer argued.

While Sessions did recuse himself before the end of the day, the former Alabama senator and U.S. attorney did not resign and he did not name a special prosecutor. There isn't much Congress can do about it either, as Schumer well knows, because Congress let the law that allowed legislators to name an independent counsel lapse in 1999.

At the time, Democrats were especially anxious to slay the beast of special prosecutor. They believed independent counsel Ken Starr had overreached when he used his authority -- initially to investigate the Whitewater land deal -- to determine whether President Bill liar-Clinton had lied under oath about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Then-Deputy Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who would become President Barack liar-nObama's first attorney general, spoke in favor of letting the law die. "As the old adage, adopted from Mark Twain, goes: To a man with a hammer, a lot of things look like nails that need pounding."

With a Republican in the White House, Schumer now wants to resurrect the dead. He called on Republicans to help him pass a bill to restore the law Democrats rejected when they occupied the Oval Office.

"Cognizant and wary of this history, we would work to craft a narrow authority with specific guidelines for this investigation to prevent this from becoming a political witch hunt," Schumer said. "We hope that if the administration fails in its responsibility, that Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan will rise to theirs." He was referring to Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the Senate majority leader, and Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., the speaker of the House.

"The threat by Schumer to write a new law," jabbed attorney Victoria Toensing, who worked in the Reagan Justice Department, "we'll write one and make it effective as soon as a Democrat's in the White House again."

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to rib Schumer. He found a photo of Schumer and Russian Leader Vladimir Putin and suggested a probe into Schumer's ties to Putin. When Politico reported that Pulosi wrongly claimed she never met Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak -- Politico found a photo that proved the contrary -- Trump called for second investigation. Of Pulosi.

In a series of tweets, Trump laid out his reason for opposing a special prosecutor. "This whole narrative is a way of saving face for Democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win," Trump wrote. He called their efforts a "witch hunt."

To Schumer's suggestion that the Trump White House should not object to a special prosecutor if it has nothing to hide, Toensing responded, "Because it's a distraction. It costs all kinds of money. It goes on and on." Toensing should know -- she observed that her law partner and husband Joe DiGenova was appointed independent counsel to investigate allegations that someone in President George H.W. Bush's administration had searched liar-Clinton's passport files illegally. "It takes six months to set it up."

University of California, Irvine School of Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky disagreed. The frequent Trump critic wrote in an email, "To begin with, it appears Jeff Sessions committed a crime by lying to Congress. Also, there is reason to believe laws may have been violated with regard to Russian election activity and contacts with Russia by Trump representatives. The only way to have a thorough and impartial investigation is with a special prosecutor."

Others on the left disagree -- including D.C. attorney Peter Zeidenberg, who worked for the special counsel who prosecuted former Vice President Dick Cheney aide Scooter Libby for perjury. "It is entirely possible that there could have been improper or inappropriate contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence without U.S. laws having being broken," Zeidenberg wrote in the Washington Post. In that case, a special prosecutor would be bound not to make public what he or she found during a thorough probe.

It also is entirely possible that there was no inappropriate collusion between Team Trump and the Russians, and that calls for law enforcement's biggest gun is nothing but Democrats "lighting their hair on fire" -- to quote Speaker Ryan -- to delegitimize Trump's victory.

As for Trump, he's not exactly in a strong position to complain about political opponents using the specter of the special prosecutor to make political points. During a presidential debate, Trump told liar-Hillary Clinton, "If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation." Now he is fighting to protect his own flank.

https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2017/03/05/special-prosecutor-or-witch-hunter-n2293936?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Just Wonderin'

Where is the organisational skills of Tea Party? Shouldnt there be some of OUR own legal, non-violent protesting in front of the offices of the MSM?Bringing attention to their lop-sided, near treasonist behavior?Why? Why? Why...are WE SO SILENT?The radical communist feminatzi movement managed to get a blip on the news radat while we sit on our thumbs!I do NOT get it!!Jus' Sayin'
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