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London Police Chief: Terror Victims Show How Diverse We Are
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Comey and Mueller Have a History as a Deep State Tag Team
[American Thinker] In my Sunday column I wrote of the similarity of the Comey - Mueller investigation of purported "Russian collusion" with the Trump campaign to the confected search for who leaked Valerie Plame's name. This was a scheme against Vice President Cheney that ended in the conviction of his aide, Lewis Libby, for a weakly-proven process crime. I had missed that Comey and Mueller may well have honed their deep state purge of political opponents then, something clearly at the bottom of this nonsensical investigation into "Russian collusion" with the Trump campaign.

According to Michael Isikoff, writing in 2006, the FBI (then headed by Mueller) and an unnamed "senior Department of Justice official" were advised in October 2003 that Armitage was the man who leaked Plame's identity -- and yet two months later upon his appointment to be Deputy Attorney General, James Comey appointed his friend Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate the leak. It's hard to believe that he didn't at the time know full well who the leaker had been.

Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection indicates Comey's testimony suggests Mueller is already going beyond the narrow mandate of Acting Attorney General Rosenstein, and considering whether the President's discussion with him about General Flynn constitutes "obstruction."

By the Order from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Mueller includes within his jurisdiction "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation." Comey testified that he believes Mueller is evaluating the communications between Comey and Trump with regard to potential obstruction of justice. Indeed, Comey expressed certainty in his testimony that the Special Counsel was investigating Comey’s conversations with Trump:
COMEY: ... I don’t think it’s for me to say whether the conversation I had with the president was an effort to obstruct. I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning, but that’s a conclusion I’m sure the special counsel will work towards to try and understand what the intention was there, and whether that’s an offense.

What started as concerns over Russian interference in the election now is about the interactions between Comey and Trump.

CBS News reported that Mueller reportedly gave approval for Comey to testify before Congress and that the testimony was coordinated. Comey testified that he was permitted to review his memos in preparation of his written opening statement for the Committee submitted the day before his live testimony:

COMEY: Yes. I think nearly all of my written recordings of my conversations, I had a chance to review them before filing my statement.

LANKFORD: Do you have a copy of any of the notes personally?

COMEY: I don’t. I turned them over to Bob Mueller’s investigators.

There are a lot of questions that need to be answered about how Rod Rosenstein came to appoint Mueller in those few days after the Comey leak, and whether Comey and Mueller, directly or indirectly, had any communications regarding Trump prior to Mueller’s appointment.

Regardless, we now have the prospect of the Special Counsel investigating and necessarily assigning credibility (or lack thereof) to witnesses, including Comey.[/quote]

It's time to shut this down. Rosenstein should do it, and if he fails to, Attorney General Sessions must.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2017 07:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mueller is not the guy for a Special Prosecutor. He should recuse himself. Who was it that thought Special Prosecutor Mueller was a good idea again?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2017 10:55 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Arab powers will prevail over Qatar
By Hussein Ibish

[The National] When Donald Trump tweeted strong support for the Arab coalition confronting Qatar, the final window of hope slammed shut on Doha. Qatar's only practical way out of the crisis was to hope that Washington would mediate the crisis in a spirit of strict neutrality and press all sides to return to the status quo ante. That’s clearly not going to happen.

Qatar may drag this out, but it knows it will have to capitulate eventually. And just as it is openly working with Turkey and quietly with Iran to maximize its options and minimize the damage, it is simultaneously now taking steps to reach out and seek a resolution.

Qatar also knows that it can not end the crisis without agreeing to a series of measures the Arab bloc is demanding, especially insofar as they are also insisted on by Washington. Doha is therefore moving towards negotiating the terms of its inevitable climb down, and limiting the price it must pay. Doha cannot endure current circumstances, let alone an additional significant escalation. Qatar has no choice.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They could go all in with Iran. Not so unlikely with Turkey coming down their side.
Posted by: phil_b || 06/12/2017 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Hopefully, not without huge casualties on both sides.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2017 5:04 Comments || Top||


Britain
Look how diverse our dead are! London police chief touts ‘diversity' of the terror victims
My apologies -- that should have been filed under Britain, and I missed it. Fixed now.

-- trailing wife at 3:50 p.m.m EDT
[BizPacReview] This is what happens to a nation when political correctness usurps common sense.

And if the left has its way, it could come to America.

Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, spoke on Saturday about the victims of the June 3 London terror attacks, and her comments infuriated many on social media.

"It’s desperately sad and poignant but among those who died is someone who’s British, there are French, Australian, Canadian, Spanish," she told the Associated Press.

"In terms of our witnesses that we’ve spoken to so far, out of the 300-odd people, there are about 20 different countries of origin. And the London British population comes from all kinds of backgrounds and every kind of faith and ethnicity," she continued.

But it was her next statement made by the 56-year-old, who became the first female police chief of the city in April, that made her the target of scorn on social media.

"We believe of course that that’s what makes our city so great," Dick aid. "It’s a place where the vast majority of time it’s incredibly integrated and that diversity gives us strength."

That must give a great sense of comfort to the families that had to bury their loved ones.

You had to bury the people you love but, hey, at least they were murdered as a sacrifice on the altar of politically correct diversity.
The comments are worth the visit.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We provide a varied diet for our Muslim masters.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2017 5:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Better to die diverse than live without?
Posted by: Thravimp Lover of the Antelope7006 || 06/12/2017 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Victims are diverse; perps are not - at least religiously.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/12/2017 9:18 Comments || Top||

#4  The fact that the killers are sociopaths that don't care who they kill as long as they are a kuffar... Is this supposed to make us happy somehow?
Posted by: magpie || 06/12/2017 10:38 Comments || Top||

#5  A good way to end this period is to inject liquid lard into the terrorist remains. For those who blew themselves to pieces, gather as much of the remains as they can and soak them in liquid lard. Afterward, give the larded remains to whatever mosque will take them for burial. If no one will take them, then cremate the remains and dump them in the landfill or wherever.

Publicize the entire process. Once the terrorists realize they will not get to go to paradise, they'll quit doing this.

They're terrorists, they get no respect!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 06/12/2017 12:06 Comments || Top||

#6  this woman is completely absurd, off the mark and a danger to here constituents
Posted by: 746 || 06/12/2017 12:09 Comments || Top||

#7  This woman, IMO, is typical affirmative action.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2017 12:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Google "common purpose"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/12/2017 13:34 Comments || Top||

#9  tw: "that should have been filed under Britain"

Because there's no CLUELESS IDIOTS category?
Posted by: Barbara || 06/12/2017 15:55 Comments || Top||

#10  Gives off this creepy sense that everything is as it should be.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/12/2017 17:53 Comments || Top||

#11  Translation: "None of the victims were elite, so all is okay. Carry on!"
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 06/12/2017 22:46 Comments || Top||


Economy
Trump's dream of blue-collar jobs? In Kokomo, success calls for more
[CS Monitor] JUNE 9, 2017 KOKOMO, IND.--In Kokomo, Ind., soon after Highway 931 bends away from due north, two long, low factories stretch for more than a quarter-mile.

On the right is General Motors, a shell of its former self; on the left, a Fiat-Chrysler transmission plant, going full tilt. With five facilities in the area, Fiat-Chrysler employs twice as many people as it did in the depths of the Great Recession. It churns out more transmissions here than anyone anywhere else in the world.

In some ways, this factory city in America’s most manufacturing-dependent state is living the Donald Trump dream. Jobs are plentiful. Foreign immigration is extremely low. In the presidential election, the county went 2 to 1 for Mr. Trump, better than red-state Indiana as a whole.

But for a conservative region, Kokomo and surrounding Howard County are committing a kind of economic heresy. While the president touts more manufacturing jobs as one of the central pieces of his overall economic plan, the county is diversifying away from them.

The city's mayor, a Democrat, has transformed the downtown to make it a livable, walkable place for professionals. And despite the partisan strife in Washington, local Republicans ‐ at least, many of those who live or work in the city ‐ have come around to back the strategy, which turns traditional economic development on its head.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2017 01:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The city's mayor, a Democrat, has transformed the downtown to make it a livable, walkable place for professionals.
Ethnic Cleansing Transformation sounds so pretty the way they say it.
Posted by: magpie || 06/12/2017 13:37 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought everyone realized by now that prosperity based on real estate development is a fake one?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2017 13:44 Comments || Top||

#3  With five facilities in the area, Fiat-Chrysler employs twice as many people as it did in the depths of the Great Recession. It churns out more transmissions here than anyone anywhere else in the world.

Maybe because the current crop of Fix It Again Tony trannys are crap. Ask your MoPar friends that have a new one about the reliability. There is a reason about 5 or 6 of the latest 'Worst New Car to buy " list candidates are the pentastar.

Give me a 426 and a 727 auto anyday.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/12/2017 15:20 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Two Americas
[American Thinker] For many years now, we conservatives have had the impression that our nation is fragmenting. Day by day, more signs of this disintegration accumulate. Throughout it all, many of us had hoped that the fragmentation could be reversed. We tried to persuade ourselves that our republic would prove resistant to unconstitutional ideas, and that the American people would come to their senses and reunite, before irreversible catastrophe occurred.

That hope seems to be quickly vanishing.

Two items in the news are of special interest. One of them is that protesters are conducting marches against Sharia Law.

The other involves a young woman named Reality Winner, who has been arrested and jailed on charges of stealing and publishing secret government documents, that purport to link Russia to election hacking. Winner’s motive seems linked to the fact that she has been publicly opposed to the Trump presidency -- so much so as to have advocated destroying the White House.

These news items are only two of the latest, among the many examples of the increasingly rancorous divide in American politics.

The march against Sharia Law is predictably being characterized by the left as an example of right-wing racism and intolerance. (One wonders, when will the left march against Islamic homophobia?)

However, the fear of Sharia Law is not entirely imaginary. There is a recurring effort by Moslems to institute it. And there are other ways in which Moslems segregate themselves from the rest of society. Most recently, this has taken the form of demanding that the government provide Muslims with "safe spaces." The spaces would shield them from surveillance, so that they could -- and the Moslems specify this -- say things that they otherwise could not say in the open.

What, pray tell, are they afraid to say in the open, that radicals of both the right and left are not already saying? Burn down the White House? Murder homosexuals?

My lifelong optimism for America is being challenged by the divisiveness in our society. Once the mighty boulder is cleft, there is no way to return it to its former state.

The American Revolution gave us a war not only against the British Empire, but it also pitted Americans against each other, Tory versus Patriot.

A second American Civil War would be bloody and destructive on a scale none of us has seen in our lifetime within these borders. Even so, a Second American Revolution may be unavoidable. Constitutional government may require it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2017 08:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A second American Civil War would be bloody and destructive on a scale none of us has seen in our lifetime within these borders. Even so, a Second American Revolution may be unavoidable. Constitutional government may require it.

A political party in total denial and dedicated to systematic obstruction, urban unrest, mall and store closures, epidemic drug abuse, college campuses in rebellion; I reckon we know where the fires will start.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Note - first American Civil War was back in 1776, see - King's Mountain, loyalist vs patriots.

Unlike the second when America was largely a rural nation that grew its own, independent of a very elaborate infrastructure, the contemporary world is very dependent upon processes that can easily be disrupted which will result in the old four horsemen of the apocalypse consequences. The most susceptible being large urban areas which will become death traps without outside support. Think Hurricane Katrina or Andrew without the outside world coming to the rescue a dozen times over.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  There are two Americas? Where have I heard this before?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2017 10:49 Comments || Top||

#4  A 'second' civil war would be short, and horrible for any minority communities that fall for the liberals siren call of uprising. After all one "faction" is very well armed, contains most of the military and police, and controls the food.

Sure a civil war could play out in multiple ways but most likely it's rioting in the inner cities, blackouts, a system to process refugees as they flee the quarantine, starvation in the inner cities, and a round-up of traitors for trial (and probably light sentences in the name of reconciliation).

A lot of good might come in the aftermath as everyone finally talks about WTF.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/12/2017 11:52 Comments || Top||

#5  (and probably light sentences in the name of reconciliation).

The last time around that got us the Klan and local suppression of civil liberties.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2017 12:04 Comments || Top||

#6  The last time around that got us the Klan and local suppression of civil liberties. One person's civil liberty is another person's terrorism/fascism/insert favorite -ism here. Two Americas.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/12/2017 12:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Found this little ditty by Bill Whittle again on another website.

Similar in scope.

Worth the read
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/12/2017 14:56 Comments || Top||

#8  ...(and probably light sentences in the name of reconciliation)

I'm past that. If I'm rounding up these traitors and fascists trying to flee, they will end up at the end of a rope or against a wall. No truce with these evil people.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/12/2017 15:43 Comments || Top||

#9  No truce with these evil people.

And "evil" is the correct term. There's no other way to describe anyone over the age of 30 with at least a high school education that supported HRC. I'm no longer willing to write such support off as "willful blindness"--there HAD to be some part of their soul who knew she was evil...and went along with her anyway.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/12/2017 17:49 Comments || Top||


Victor Davis Hanson: Mr. Nunes Went to Washington
[National Review] Devin Nunes is subpoenaing former Obama administration officials who may have played a role in inappropriate monitoring of the Trump transition team.

Representative Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), the now-controversial chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is a bit different from what Washington expects in its politicians. He grew up in the agricultural cornucopia of the Central Valley of California -- fruits, vegetables, beef, dairy products, and fibers -- the concrete expression of a myriad of hard-working ethnic groups. Their diverse ancestors fled poverty and occasional horrors in Armenia, Basque Country, Greece, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, the Punjab, Southeast Asia, and the Oklahoma Dust Bowl.

Central to this mix of immigrants, farmers, and ranchers is a valley culture of pragmatism, bluntness, and tenacity. Of all these groups, none are more unabashedly patriotic and outspoken than Portuguese-immigrant dairy farmers, most from the islands of the Azores. I live in rural Fresno County at the juncture of three congressional districts. All three are currently represented by Portuguese-Americans from farming families and from both parties: Nunes (22nd district); my own representative, David Valadao (R., 21st district); and Representative Jim Costa (D., 16th district).

All three keep getting re-elected for their accessibility, informality, and commitment to the traditional values of their districts. Nunes became a controversial public figure nationally when he revealed that the surveillance of foreign governments by American intelligence agencies may have resulted in the inappropriate monitoring of members of the Trump transition team -- and perhaps some private citizens, too -- and the unmasking of their identities. What followed this disclosure could have mirror-imaged the script of director Frank Capra’s classic film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It all started when Nunes said he had received unsolicited information of wrongdoing from one or more whistleblowers. Unfortunately for Nunes, he approached complaints of improper surveillance in a Central Valley sort of way (but a most un-Washington manner).

Instead of the usual pattern of leaking the whistleblower’s information to friendly media (and, of course, denying that he was the source of the leaks), Nunes went ballistic -- and, heaven forbid, public. Nunes first notified House speaker Paul Ryan of his intention to bring the information to both the president and the public. Nunes then held a press conference to reveal the potentially inappropriate monitoring, then told the president himself that some of his associates may have been swept up in potentially improper surveillance and leaking conducted by bureaus that fall under the executive branch. Nunes also served subpoenas to the NSA, CIA, and FBI. The result? Suddenly, Nunes himself became the object of Washington vituperation for not immediately informing House Democrats about the potentially inappropriate monitoring.

Nunes was targeted by progressive activists and investigated by the House Ethics Committee -- which has thus far not released any findings of improper behavior -- apparently because he went public and is now viewed as a partisan of Trump. Nunes next announced that he was temporarily delegating his leadership of the House Intelligence Committee as it investigated charges of collusion between the Trump administration and Russia. In melodramatic fashion, Nunes was said to have "recused" himself from all committee leadership. But he really did not. "Recusal" is a legal term that denotes disqualifying oneself due to conflict of interest. Instead, Nunes only took a temporary respite from leading a single investigatory thread of supposed Trump-Russian collusion. Was that a de facto dare for the committee to investigate what Nunes supposedly had blocked? The House Intelligence Committee has not interviewed a single witness for more than two months.

Is that laxity because the committee so far has been unable to find concrete evidence of Trump-Russia collusion? While some other members of the near-dormant House Intelligence Committee apparently have continued to leak information about the possible prospect of grand-jury investigations of Trump and of forthcoming information about collusion with Russia, none of these stories has been accompanied by supporting evidence.
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Trump is Winning for America
[American Thinker] Vice President Mike Pence said nothing touches and encourages himself and President Trump more than hearing Americans say they are praying for them. Folks, given president Trump's superhuman focus on winning for America while enduring unprecedented vitriolic attacks from all sides, I'd say our prayers are working.

After months on the road working to elect conservatives in special elections, I'm back home. I ran into my favorite bank teller, a middle-aged Hispanic woman. "Oh Mr Marcus, it is so good to see you." Folks, I was taken aback as she began expressing her extremely heartfelt thanks for my working to elect Trump and the work I do around the country. Frankly, I was stunned by how much Trump winning meant to her. Fake news media will never understand the phenomenal connection Trump has with a majority of the American people. They (We the People) get it. They know Obama was destroying our country. They know Trump is committed to bringing us back from the edge of destruction and they are extremely excited and grateful. None of fake news media's 24/7 attempts to politically assassinate Trump is working -- quite the opposite.

Who could have imagined that Trump's Washington DC inexperience would be one of his greatest strengths? Trump governs free of pro-politician political correctness. A gifted businessman, Trump is instinctively using his talent; making deals good for America while getting us out of deals bad for America. Case in point: Trump pulled us out of the disastrous Paris climate deal.

Meanwhile, Washington, DC establishment elites are outraged, "That's not how we do things in this town. Trump can't say that! Trump can't do that! How dare Trump speak directly to the American people via tweets!"

I've heard talking heads supposedly on our side say they wish Trump would conform more to traditional presidential behavior. I say Trump is doing just fine being 100% Trump. He has made remarkable positive changes in 100 days that would have taken other Republicans 10 years. Whenever Republicans win elections, they are advised to move slowly and be careful not to anger leftists too much to avoid fake news media backlash.

America's number one radio personality, Rush Limbaugh, said, "If what you do relies on talent, you will never be your best doing it someone else's way." Based on his proven talent, I trust Trump to govern his way as long as he functions according to our Constitution. I could not care less that Washington insiders view him as a bull in their Washington DC china store. Break more stuff Mr. President. Please break more stuff.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2017 07:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "That's not how we do things in this town. Trump can't say that! Trump can't do that!"

When I read that I can't help but think how brave and enlightened Obama was every time he broke with the norms.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/12/2017 11:55 Comments || Top||


Byron York: Five notes on Trump's current predicament
[Washington Examiner] The danger President Trump faces from the various investigations into the Trump-Russia matter has changed dramatically in recent weeks. If you're a Republican and you still believe the critical question is whether Trump or his associates colluded with Russians to influence the 2016 election -- if you still think that, you're behind the times. So now, a few notes on where the Trump affair is today:

1. It's not about collusion anymore

Fired FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee marked the full shift of the Trump-Russia investigation from a probe dedicated to discovering collusion to a probe dedicated to proving the president obstructed justice. (See "At this rate, it won't matter if Trump colluded with Russia.") Democrats at the Comey hearing barely touched on collusion, which appears to have turned out to be a dry hole. When it did come up in Comey's appearance, it was during questioning from Republicans, who wanted to highlight their point that collusion -- the core of the case and the reason everybody got so excited in the first place -- has so far turned out to be nothing.

To Democrats, that no longer matters. Now, it's all about obstruction of justice, or alleged obstruction of justice, or fantasized obstruction of justice, depending on your partisan perspective. Senate Democrats focused almost exclusively on obstruction in their questioning of Comey, and their House counterparts are sure to do the same. As far as the Justice Department investigation of the president is concerned, we know that as of the time Comey was fired on May 9, there was no investigation of the president concerning collusion, which strongly suggests that after 10 months of probing, authorities had nothing against him on that issue. Now, however, after the Comey memos and the Comey firing, it seems safe to predict that special counsel Robert Mueller will investigate Trump for obstruction. So it is a new game, even if Republicans keep trying to play the old one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2017 01:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  1. It's not about collusion anymore

It never was about 'collusion.' The author's #5 pretty well sums it up however.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2017 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  It never was about 'collusion.'

It's about American voters inability to vote for a right candidate because of their innate racism, sexism, and lack of education! It is the duty of these smarter and better educated to save the American People from their own folly!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/12/2017 5:42 Comments || Top||


McCain says American leadership was better under Obama
[The Hill] Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said American leadership was stronger under President Trump's predecessor, President Barack Obama, according to a Guardian report published Sunday.

Asked if the country stood on sturdier ground under Obama's leadership, McCain said "yes," according to the report.

"As far as American leadership is concerned, yes," said McCain, who also vocally criticized many of the Obama administration's foreign policy decisions.

McCain also lost to Obama when he ran as the GOP nominee in the 2008 presidential election.

The top Senate Republican was also asked what "message" the president delivered to the U.K. last week when he publicly criticized London's mayor, shortly after a terror-related attack that left eight people dead and many more wounded.

"What do you think the message is? The message is that America doesn’t want to lead," said McCain, chairman on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"They are not sure of American leadership, whether it be in Siberia or whether it be in Antarctica," he added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2017 00:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, you weren't as feeble back then, Johnny.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/12/2017 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Geriatric masterbatory delusions. Someone quick, wrist restraints please, and check his vitals.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2017 8:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Obama was all for the swamp as is McCain. McCain benefits from the status quo. A patriot puts country before self. McCain stopped being a patriot long ago.

Regarding Trump; nice guys don't successfully drain swamps.
Posted by: Captain Hatfield9247 || 06/12/2017 8:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Term limits anyone? Maybe in the next republic.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/12/2017 10:12 Comments || Top||

#5  If Obama turns out to be the worst President ever, how does that reflect on McCain, the guy Obama crushed to get the job? Not well.

I think that is McCain's motivating force, whether he knows it or not.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/12/2017 11:59 Comments || Top||

#6  At the state level the Republican should be pushing (a) Term Limits and (b) Electoral cleanup.

They should do it now while half the country hates their elected and think that Russia actually hacked boating booths.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/12/2017 12:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Obama was a stuffed glove puppet with a glue on smile.

Trump is leading.

Jeez, I'm glad McCain never won the presidency now!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/12/2017 12:17 Comments || Top||

#8  I look forward to the day when the voters of Arizona are compelled to elect a new Senator.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/12/2017 13:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Again, McCain is absolutely right. By the measures they use in DC Obama was great. He was corrupt and every decision could be bought. He pandered to special interests. He love the far left, the PC culture, being an activist but finishing nothing, and of course hating the voting middle class. In DC terms he's a God!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 06/12/2017 15:00 Comments || Top||

#10  Keep an eye on him Crusader, if he only makes night votes we got a problem.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/12/2017 16:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Crusader, I am an Arizonan. For the first time in my 55 years I vote for a democrat, against McCain. Our republican part is more corrupt and engrained with Rino mentality than DC... It is the poster child for the old republic, and needs to change.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 06/12/2017 16:27 Comments || Top||

#12  how does that reflect on McCain, the guy Obama crushed to get the job? Not well.

I think the scriptwriter nailed the motivation. :-)

I think if Mr. McCain had been elected president, he would not have been as subversive for the country as President Obama. He would have tried to work with his colleagues in the Senate, and even the House, unlike the kingly Obama with his phone and pen. But since he did not win...
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/12/2017 16:34 Comments || Top||

#13  McCain sold himself to Obama for a Green Badge of Porridge and front of the trough for a Syrian shooting war.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/12/2017 17:02 Comments || Top||

#14  DC Establishment: How dare the people put someone in the Oval Office who never held a political position in his life>

American Voters: How dare every time we send a conservative to DC, DC Establishment converts him to DC Establishment. No more politicians.

The battle is jointed.
Posted by: Blossom Unineting1593 || 06/12/2017 21:39 Comments || Top||


Why Trump Wins - Will Mueller investigate intelligence agencies for playing in domestic politics?
[WSJ] Ex-FBI chief James Comey played well in Thursday’s hearing to the audience he cares about, the media and bicoastal elites. Donald Trump may well have scored a win among the audience he cares about, Trump’s America.

Much was made of Mr. Comey saying he didn’t trust Mr. Trump not to "lie" about what transpired in their private meetings. Yet despite our president’s dubious relation with veracity, President Trump was shown to be the source of important truths. Mr. Comey had indeed told him he was not under personal investigation in the Russia "collusion" matter. As Sen. Marco Rubio, not a big Trump fan, noted, this fact was remarkable for also being widely known among Senate colleagues and yet was the one fact that never leaked to the media.

Mr. Comey made much of conflicting statements about why he was fired. But it was Mr. Trump who, belying his own White House flackery, stated candidly it was because of the "Russia thing." Even a non-Trump fan listening to the hearing could readily gather that Mr. Trump had reason to be frustrated that his administration was being paralyzed by insinuations of collusion for which there is zero evidence.

As a rule, when there is no evidence of a particular act, the FBI does not investigate. The FBI is investigating now only because Democrats and Trump opponents so filled the airwaves with unsubstantiated speculation.

Now here’s a secret: Most Democrats understand the hunt will come a cropper. If a Trump associate brushed shoulders with a Russian-looking individual on the way to the men’s room, it has leaked. The U.S. government sucks up and archives vast gobs of communication data.

Yet the earnestly desired evidence of collusion has not materialized, so Democrats have turned instead to charging "obstruction of justice," with many already baying for impeachment.

Here’s another secret: Such "process" crimes don’t impress voters when there is no underlying crime. If Mr. Trump leaned on his intelligence officials to remove the Russian cloud, this was ill-advised on the part of a president whose specialty is the ill-advised. But his behavior will also increasingly appear in a new light if it turns out Washington’s tail-chasing has been partly driven by Russian fabrications.

The Washington Post and CNN reported late last month that the single most shattering series of events for the Hillary Clinton campaign--the events that began with FBI chief Comey’s intervention in the race--was partly influenced by planted Russian fake intelligence.

Likewise the dossier of repulsive Trump allegations, assembled by a retired British spy supposedly tapping his Russian intelligence sources, also appears to have been a Russian plant and yet may have played a role in justifying the Obama administration’s decision to launch an intelligence investigation of the Trump campaign.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/12/2017 00:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Somehow, I don't think so since there might be spillover from his tenure as head Feeb.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2017 12:22 Comments || Top||

#2  IMHO the deputy AG jumped the gun on appointing a special investigator. But even so, he couldn't find one from outside the DC Deep State bubble? The fix is in.
Posted by: PBMcL || 06/12/2017 17:35 Comments || Top||


DC Whispers: REPORT: Everything You Need To Know About Comey & His Deep State History
BEGIN OP

There are very few crime/mystery novels that approach this true story for compelling drama, intrigue and brinkmanship (with the nation in the balance).

Don’t believe the fake-media story that Trump made a mistake or huge gaffe by firing Comey.

Don’t believe the media narrative from the left that it was an attempt to silence Comey from some investigation into Trump.

Don’t believe the RINO narrative that Comey is a good guy just trying to do his job in terrible circumstances and the timing was bad.

Don’t believe the lie that Comey was admired and respected by career FBI investigators and agents.

Don’t believe the lie that Trump’s "tweets" are not professional and have no strategic purpose. His tweets are ’weaponized’ and deadly.


ReJames Comey is a poisonous snake of the highest order... a deep-water Swamp Denizen who has been highly paid to deliberately provide cover for high-level corruption by the Clintons and Obama. He is has been central to trying to destroy the Trump campaign and then the Trump administration from the start. He is as dirty as they come in DC. He had highest-level cover (the FBI no less) and was deep into an effort to eliminate Trump. Trump had to move hard, fast, and at exactly the right time to cut the head off the snake without getting bitten by the snake or being finished by the other swamp denizens.

Begin by noticing how the President fired Comey when Comey was 3,000 miles away from his office, that Comey had no inkling he was being cut, that all his files, computers, and everything in his office were seized by his boss Sessions and the justice department.
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AG Sessions and his Deputy AG use the Comey trove of information to determine who has been part of the Comey Syndicate at the FBI. They will be appointing an "interim" Director of the FBI shortly who has not been compromised by Comey, Clinton or Obama.

That "interim" Director does not have to be approved by Congress or anyone, and can immediately begin cleaning house at the FBI of all Comey/Clinton/Obama minions, initiating investigations of the Clintons, Clinton Fund, violations of intelligence confidentiality laws by Susan Rice and Obama, human trafficking in DC, political corruption... draining the Swamp.

Using the Comey files they can be fairly certain they are not getting another Comey as an "interim", and they do not have to wait for the circus of appointing a new permanent "Director" through Congressional approval. Most of the heavy lifting on rooting out FBI corruption and starting investigations into the swamp will be done by the "interim" before a new director is appointed. I suspect the Trump administration hopes the approval FBI Director process will be slow and tedious, so there is no political interference with the housecleaning that is starting.

In one masterstroke, Trump has eliminated a truly toxic and dangerous enemy to his administration and our country, dealt a horrendous blow to the Clinton/Obama and deep state machines, begun the restoration of the integrity of the FBI and the DOJ, and gained incredible ammunition to begin hunting the foul creatures in the swamp.

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The major Democratic party has gone anti-Democracy. They have embraced violence, constitutional treason, ongoing subversive activities. If people from China, Cuba, Venezuela or Russia invaded DC, you could not tell the difference between them and the Democratic party.

This is not a lite issue considering how violently militant this party has become. Sanders attitude in his attack on a Christian nominee to head a federal agency is no different than the Chinese attitude of beating Christians and burning their church down. The Constitution was written by predominately Christian founders. And the Constitution is the enemy of the now radical Democratic party leadership and rank and file.
Posted by: Lampedusa Thraimble9394 || 06/12/2017 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  What Lampedusa Thraimble9394 said.
Posted by: Captain Hatfield9247 || 06/12/2017 8:58 Comments || Top||

#3  The fact that Comey has been the gate-tender for years for the Clintons and their vast corruption network is all I need to know about Comey. The only other thing I want to know is when all these perps are going to do the perp-walk and how long they are going to be in the Graybar Hotel.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2017 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  "Trump broke me. I couldn't stand it, it was awful."
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/12/2017 16:58 Comments || Top||

#5  #4, JohnQC, that was totally unexpected! That was funny!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 06/12/2017 22:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Congress must protect 'soft' terrorist targets
[Wash Examiner] Our public spaces face an unacceptable terrorist threat. Though terrorism-related casualties are comparatively low, their cumulative impact is corrosive to the public happiness.

And the corrosion is growing.

Manchester, London, San Bernardino and Orlando.

Islamic State has inspired a toxic but potent rise of terrorism. It's a terrorism that sees streets not symbols and gatherings, not government offices, as its primary targets.

Fortunately, we are in a somewhat better position than are our European allies. People who go to large and medium-size public events in this country are nearly always screened with metal detectors. Event-goers can also expect their bags to be opened and inspected at the entry point.

The United States is also a harder place for terrorist recruiting. Our culture of assimilating immigrants isn't as consistently seen in Europe and is close to non-existent in some places. By including Muslim immigrants in the life of the nation, America reduces radicalization. Birthright citizenship, which some conservatives question, is actually one of the strongest tools for giving Muslim immigrants a stake in their new country's future. It also guarantees a stronger allegiance to Uncle Sam than Muslims in, say, France feel toward their adopted homeland.

This allegiance has been critical in snuffing out a considerable share of the failed terrorist plots since 9/11. A 2011 report by Duke University estimated that between 2001 and 2010, voluntary tips from Muslims loyal to America were decisive in thwarting at least 48 (and possibly as many as two dozen more) Islamic terror plots out of 161.
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India-Pakistan
Guidelines to curb terror financing
[DAWN] THE State Bank has just updated its rules for banks so they can be more diligent about handling funds that could be connected with persons or entities designated by the UN as terrorists. The move is obviously linked to the upcoming review of Pakistain’s compliance with global money laundering and anti-terror financing regulations that is due in July. It will be conducted by the Financial Action Task Force, the UN body tasked with developing the regulatory architecture to prevent the use of the banking system by bully boyz and criminals. The costs of failing such a review can potentially be high and lead to the disconnection of the country’s financial system from the global financial system, making it impossible for the economy to transact with the outside world. There is little chance that Pakistain will land up there in the near future, but it is a slippery slope; one wrong step can have very damaging consequences -- which could mean a terrible hit for our external trade and remittances.

A drama has always played out whenever Pakistain’s case has come up for review before the FATF -- the last time was in February 2015 when the country was actually removed from the ’grey list’ of jurisdictions whose financial system pose a risk to the global financial system. The drama preceding this was linked to the unfinished business of ensuring compliance with the regulatory framework created by the FATF, to which Pakistain is a signatory. The unfinished business has to do with certain individuals and entities that have been designated by the UN body as terrorists, but who roam freely, with some openly operating large organizations and charities that collect donations across the country -- work that requires the use of the banking system.

Pakistain managed a step forward in 2015 because it gave a commitment to the FATF to move against these groups before the next review due in July. Of course, that commitment was never delivered on; a small step towards sensitising key stakeholders about the importance of the issue led to the outbreak of civil-military tensions that have only recently subsided. Now we are moving towards another review when Pakistain will be asked again whether action has been taken against the designated groups as it is committed to doing -- perhaps, a long-winded answer will have to be furnished. It is in preparation for this review that the State Bank has apparently acted to update its regulations and guidelines, bringing in clauses that hew closer to the requirements mandated by international regulatory authorities. It seems the government is preparing to go back to the FATF with yet another ’commitment’ to take action -- at a later date -- against designated terrorist groups, hoping this will be enough to get past the referee until the next review.

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