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-Lurid Crime Tales-
NSA Whistleblower: Agency Has All of Clinton's Deleted Emails
[Breitbart] PHILADELPHIA ‐ The National Security Agency (NSA) has "all" of Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails and the FBI could gain access to them if they so desired, William Binney, a former highly placed NSA official, declared in a radio interview broadcast on Sunday.

Speaking as an analyst, Binney raised the possibility that the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s server was done not by Russia but by a disgruntled U.S. intelligence worker concerned about Clinton’s compromise of national security secrets via her personal email use.
Could have been a parallel or possibly collaborative effort.
Binney was an architect of the NSA’s surveillance program. He became a famed whistleblower when he resigned on October 31, 2001, after spending more than 30 years with the agency.

He was speaking on this reporter’s Sunday radio program, "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio," broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM.

Binney referenced testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2011 by then-FBI Director Robert S. Mueller in which Meuller spoke of the FBI’s ability to access various secretive databases "to track down known and suspected terrorists."

Stated Binney: "Now what he (Mueller) is talking about is going into the NSA database, which is shown of course in the (Edward) Snowden material released, which shows a direct access into the NSA database by the FBI and the CIA. Which there is no oversight of by the way. So that means that NSA and a number of agencies in the U.S. government also have those emails."
Access? If not, why not ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/31/2016 11:47 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought they only spy on "right wing extremists"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/31/2016 12:44 Comments || Top||

#2  The ghost of John Edgar Hoover smiles.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/31/2016 12:56 Comments || Top||

#3  They may be in the NSA database, but, at this point, what does it really matter?
Posted by: jvalentour || 07/31/2016 13:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Mook Juke: Hillary’s Deleted Emails Are ‘Not A Relevant Discussion’ [VIDEO]

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 07/31/2016 18:42 Comments || Top||

#5  More accurately, he assumes (probably accurately) that the NSA has them. If he resigned in 2001, it seems a bit unlikely that he has accurate information from years after he left. Or is he saying he has friends there who are still feeding him info?
Posted by: james || 07/31/2016 22:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Muslim Dad on Clinton News Network: Terror ‘Has Nothing to Do with Islam'
[Breitbart] Khizr Khan, the bereaved father of fallen soldier Capt. Humayun Khan who attacked Donald Trump last week in a speech at the Democratic National Convention, told CNN’s Jim Acosta Sunday morning that terror has "nothing to do with Islam."

Here is Khan’s full quote:

In addition to this, there was in the speech that my good wife asked me to refrain from saying, I wanted to say we reject all violence. We are faithful, patriotic, undivided loyalty to this country. We reject all terrorism. She asked me not to say that because that was not the occasion for such a statement. We say to his ignorance, I address his ignorance, that the dirt effect, the most effect of the menace of terrorism have been Muslims in the world, Muslims hate this menace of terrorism as much as any other place. It is our duty to keep this country, our country, beautiful country, safe. We have always thought of [it] that way, we will continue to do our part to keep it safe and beautiful. What he cites in the name of Islam, and all that -- that is not Islam at all! I wish he would have, somebody would have put something in his head that these are terrorists, these are criminals, these folks have nothing to do with Islam.

Khan also asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to "repudiate" Trump, calling it a "moral obligation" and warning that failing to do so would be a "burden on their souls" that history would not forgive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/31/2016 11:02 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What trap? Most people, world over, know that individuals like Capt. Khan is an exception that proves the rule.
Maybe somebody should put the father of Nidal Hasan on the stand?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/31/2016 12:38 Comments || Top||

#2  So you are saying that Trump isn't trying to win, just playing to his ego and playing all the people that voted for him as tools and fools?

That means during the primaries, a vote for Trump was a vote for Hillary.

I need a drink.
Posted by: Andy Ulomp1621 || 07/31/2016 14:26 Comments || Top||

#3  let's see.... 3 non-regular commenters in a row...hmmmm
Posted by: Frank G || 07/31/2016 14:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump will need to learn that sometimes it's best to stay silent.
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/31/2016 15:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Lower your guard, infidel, so that we may smite thee into submission
Posted by: Khizr Khan || 07/31/2016 16:37 Comments || Top||

#6  The attack on a silently grieving mother of a war hero was absolutely uncalled for. Sorry, this is not what a wannabe Commander in Chief will do.

Trump doesn't embody core Republican values.
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/31/2016 17:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Trump doesn't embody core Republican values.

And neither do the Republicans any more.

Any person who will raise their hand and say "I believe in the Constitution" (and mean it!), I will call them my fellow citizen. But trying to sell the story that there is no connection between Islam and terror is either deception or Merkelism. (yes, that's a word now)
Posted by: SteveS || 07/31/2016 17:09 Comments || Top||

#8  I've put a lot of distance between me and Merkel
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/31/2016 17:15 Comments || Top||

#9  The attack on a silently grieving mother of a war hero

Tell it to the mothers of all US servicemen killed by their Muslim comrades.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/31/2016 17:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Non sequitur
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/31/2016 17:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Only to somebody who doesn't realize that excluded third was buried with Aristotle.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/31/2016 17:34 Comments || Top||

#12  Whats with these parents who exploit a sons death to score political points? Is a lefty or Muslim thing?
Posted by: regular joe || 07/31/2016 18:37 Comments || Top||

#13  HUMAYUN KHAN DIED IN 2004 – WHY ONLY NOW IS HE A STORY?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 07/31/2016 19:17 Comments || Top||

#14  An Open Letter to Mr. Khizr Khan

Dear Mr. Khan:

I, like millions of Americans saw your speech at the DNC on Thursday night.

I wish to offer my sympathy for the death of your son, Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in action in Iraq.

As a former US Army officer, and a veteran of the Gulf War, I can certainly understand the pain and anguish that you and your wife endure every day.

Your son died saving the lives of his fellow soldiers. As John wrote, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Captain Khan is a hero. I am sure the soldiers he served with regard him as one. I know you and your wife do. Rest assured that millions of veterans regard your son as a hero as well.

To paraphrase from the Book of Ecclesiasticus, your son’s name liveth for evermore.

Your son made the ultimate sacrifice for his country, a country that was new to you and your family and one which you openly embraced and certainly love.

When you and your family arrived to America from Pakistan, you assimilated into our country. You adopted American ways, learned our history and apparently you even acquired a pocket Constitution along the way. Good for you sir.

But, there are many Muslims in America who not only have no desire to assimilate, but wish to live under Sharia Law.

That is unacceptable to Americans. There is only one law of the land. That is the US Constitution.

As you well know, Mr. Khan, we live in violent times, dangerous times. Muslim madmen from ISIS and other radical Jihadi groups are on a murder and terror spree across the globe.

Your religion of peace, Islam, is anything but that in 2016. That is a fact that is confirmed every time a Muslim shoots, bombs, beheads and tortures innocent men, women and children. This does not mean that every Muslim is a terrorist, but most terrorists, sir, are indeed Muslims.

A Muslim terrorist attack has become the sign of the times.

Regardless of what the feckless, naïve, leftist ideologue Barack Obama and his dimwitted colleagues John Kerry, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel state, the United States and the West are at war with Radical Islam. It is the job of the President of the United States to protect his nation from all enemies; foreign and domestic. Unfortunately, Mr. Obama romanticizes Islam and refuses to accept reality, which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people across the world.

Groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda have one goal, the complete destruction of the Judeo-Christian culture, our religions and our way of life.

Many Americans have families that have been here for decades, even centuries. Many families like mine have relatives who fought in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm. Some families have relatives who fought in the American Revolution.

We don’t plan on letting our country be devoured by Muslim maniacs. We are Americans sir, and not unarmed, socialist European zombies. We will do what is necessary to protect the United States. While many Democrats and liberals see the world through rose colored glasses, conservatives understand that there is good and evil in this world. Evil must be destroyed before it destroys us.

Strong measures, wartime measures, must be taken to protect this country from those that wish to annihilate us and our way of life.

Mr. Trump’s plan to temporarily halt immigration from Muslim countries that are known to either support terrorism or harbor terrorist groups is not only pragmatic, but indeed it is constitutional. It is the constitutional duty of the President of the United States to protect this nation.

There is simply no way to vet hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees from war zones like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Europe is being destroyed because reckless leaders like Angela Merkel have opened the continent’s doors to a flood of over one million undocumented Muslims arriving with nothing more than a bad attitude and a haversack of Jihad.

Do you think Americans are stupid? While the left lives in a dream world, the right does not. Mr. Trump understands the threat to his nation and the threat, sir, is not from Swedish Lutherans named Anna and Lars. The threat, sir, is from Radical Islam.

How in God’s name are US immigration authorities supposed to know the true intentions of a 22 year old Syrian man? It is impossible. You know it is impossible.

How in God’s name are US immigration authorities supposed to know the true intentions of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and thousands of other sundry Muslims who wish to arrive on our shores?

It is impossible. You know it is impossible.

Whether you, your wife, the Muslim world and millions of Democrats are offended by Mr. Trump’s realistic view of the world is irrelevant.

Whether you, your wife and son would have been prohibited from emigrating from Pakistan to America under Mr. Trump’s wartime plan is irrelevant. The security of this great land supersedes your desires and the desires of others who wish to come here now. The United States of America has no obligation to open its doors in order to placate foreigners and liberals in our government.

To adopt any other course but Mr. Trump’s would be a cause for further endangering the lives of Americans every day. That, sir, is unacceptable.

You attacked Mr. Trump in front of a worldwide audience, yet you can’t understand the fact that he defends himself against attacks from you, Hillary Clinton and the left. What else is one to do sir?

We must live in a world of reality, not a world of denial, delusion and fantasy the Democrats inhabit every waking day of their lives.

Radical Islam is the enemy of everyone on this planet who believes in freedom and justice. Until it is destroyed, this nation must protect itself from enemies both foreign and domestic.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 07/31/2016 19:29 Comments || Top||

#15  because he's a useful tool til November?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/31/2016 19:31 Comments || Top||

#16  Well said BU. Well said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/31/2016 21:23 Comments || Top||


Gorka: DNC Ignores ISIS Because Its Existence Disproves Multiculturalist Narrative
[Breitbart] Dr. Sebastian Gorka, National Security Editor for Breitbart News and author of the best-selling Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, appeared on Fox News’ "Hannity" with guest host Tucker Carlson on Friday night to discuss the way terrorism was downplayed at the Democratic National Convention.

Carlson observed that ISIS and terrorism were scarcely mentioned during the convention, and wondered if it was a matter of Democrats not understanding the threat of Islamic terrorism, or being unwilling to acknowledge it for political reasons.

"If you look at the last seven and a half years, I think it has to be the latter," said Gorka.

"I want to be careful here, Tucker," he continued. "I don’t want to lambaste all Democratic voters in America. The DNC is really a function of the left-wing machine. It’s part of a Party that’s been captured by the radicals."

"Just look at what happened. The convocation was booed. The serviceman with a Medal of Honor, trying to read the names of his fellow servicemen killed in combat was booed. The female police officer who asked for a moment of silence for fallen police officers was heckled by the Black Lives Matter. This is unbelievable, and clearly the thing that they’re most concerned about isn’t ISIS, it’s Donald Trump and global warming," Gorka said.

Carlson asked what it was about ISIS and Islamic terrorism that Democrats are so reluctant to acknowledge.

"I think the trouble with ISIS, or with radical Islam, is that its existence, its bare existence, countermands the one-world kumbaya moral relativism and multiculturalism that the Democrat Party has been ramming down our throats for 30 years," Gorka replied. "If all cultures are equal, if everybody has the same values, then how does this thing called jihadism exist, and why do people shout ’Allahu akbar’ as they’re running out of the church in Normandy, having beheaded a Catholic priest in front of the altar?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/31/2016 07:32 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'd say that those who are supporting multiculturalism, dumbing down of education, cap and trade, climate change, destruction of culture, open borders, and the rest of the claptrap that goes along with the NWO must be getting very rich off of this claptrap.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/31/2016 7:57 Comments || Top||

#2  IMO, JQC, is not a question of reaches as such. A lot of rank and file know --- if only subconsciously --- that they would be manual laborers if it wasn't for the new order.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/31/2016 8:05 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Cooling down Kashmir
[DAWN] ONE wonders why the Indian army, with nearly 600,000 soldiers and paramilitary personnel, saw 22-year-old Burhan Wani and his Kashmiri lads as a terrible threat needing elimination. Surely these were not the monsters that murdered dozens at the Victoria Terminus and then scoured the rooms of the Taj looking for Hindus and Jews to shoot. They were not crazed religious myrmidons, nor on Pakistain’s payroll. Instead these angry rebellious youth were drawn by romance and bravado into their war against Indian occupation. They had a few guns but their real weapons were Facebook images.

That Wani was hunted down, and killed instead of captured, was bad enough. But the use of pellet guns to blind and maim hundreds of protesters at his funeral -- no less than 200,000 -- is downright criminal. Wani’s killing was also a clear slap in the face for India’s Supreme Court which, on July 8, had curtailed the immunity enjoyed thus far by the Indian armed forces. Specifically, its ruling declared that every armed person in a disturbed area, including Kashmire, may not be necessarily considered an enemy but, even if he turns out to be an enemy, excessive use of force is still not legally permitted.

Having chosen to create another dead hero for Kashmiri independence, India must once again deal with a rebellion that threatens to go viral. Reports say that protesters chanted ’Tum kitne Burhan marogay? Har ghar se Burhan niklega’ (How many Burhans will you kill? A Burhan will emerge from every home). Wani’s killing may well have set into motion an action-reaction cycle that could take Kashmire back to the carnage of 1987. Set off by protests against the rigging of Kashmiri elections by far-off Delhi, India’s massive over-reaction had sparked off an insurgency that lasted into the early 2000s and resulted in the deaths of nearly 90,000 civilians, myrmidons, police, and soldiers.

Posted by: Fred || 07/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies



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  Developing: Thousands Of Turkish Forces Surround U.S. Base At Incirlik Airbase
Sat 2016-07-30
  Afghan official: Taliban capture district in Helmand
Fri 2016-07-29
  Houthis, Saleh Declare Formation of "Presidential Council"
Thu 2016-07-28
  Morocco says 52 arrested planning to set up IS group branch
Wed 2016-07-27
  Islamist Militants Kill Nine Christians in Democratic Republic of Congo
Tue 2016-07-26
  Hostage Killed in French Church
Mon 2016-07-25
  Bomb blast kills 1, injures 11 at German restaurant
Sun 2016-07-24
  80 dead, 231 wounded as twin blasts strike Hazara demonstration in Kabul
Sat 2016-07-23
  Russian Warplanes Targeted U.S., British Outpost in Syria
Fri 2016-07-22
  Terror attack in Munich
Thu 2016-07-21
  Breaking: Brazil arrests 10 suspected of Olympic terror plot
Wed 2016-07-20
  Syrian rebels capture ISIS command center in Manbij
Tue 2016-07-19
  Indonesia's ISIS-linked, most wanted terrorist dead
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