[NYPOST] The Broward County sheriff, whose disgraceful performance in the Stoneman Douglas shooting has been a master class in evasion of responsibility, is the latest entry in why we don’t trust our public institutions.
It’s hard to imagine a more comprehensive and catastrophic failure from beginning to end than that of the sheriff’s office in the Parkland massacre. It ignored warnings that were specific and chilling about the shooter and at least one of its deputies waited outside the school while the shooting occurred. (And perhaps others did as well in the immediate aftermath.)
Sheriff Israel appropriately pronounced himself disgusted with the deputy, who has lost his job. But asked in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday if he acknowledges that had his department acted differently the shooter might have been foiled, the sheriff responded with a flip rhyme, "ifs and buts were candy and nuts."
It’s not as though the sheriff, mindful of the need to get a handle on his department’s handling of the case, has been quietly tending his own shop. At the CNN town hall last week, he turned in a crowd-pleasing performance. He opined about the new authorities that the police require and joined in lambasting NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch to cheers from the audience.
He was emphatic about everything not touching on what officers under his authority did or didn’t do. When attention turned to that, he suddenly became mincingly precise and demanded to know more details about reported warning signs.
When Loesch cited media accounts of 39 calls to the police, Israel denounced the figure as categorically false. And the lawman was right ‐ it was at least 18 calls.
What were these warnings? In 2016, a caller to the sheriff’s office said the perpetrator "planned to shoot up a school." More recently, on Nov. 30, a caller told the sheriff’s office that the shooter was amassing weapons and "could be a school shooter in the making."
The motto is that when we see something, we should say something. In the case of the Parkland shooter, people said something, over and over again, to little or no effect. The cliché after disasters is that no one "connected the dots." In the case of the Parkland shooter, the dots were connected with bright lines.
Yet nothing happened, and the sheriff’s office had a large hand in that. Israel’s performance at the CNN town hall was even more shamefully dodgy when considering it’s likely that he already knew one of his deputies had done nothing to stop the shooter at the scene.
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I am offended by this man and his graft train. It serves no purpose but to bear false witness and destroy protections.
This piece of shit provided nothing for the very high paying jobs they hold and provided no function but a backrest for the Moslem brotherhood, communists, and democrats. It is a plastic badge they all bought and people are dead for it.
Fuck you, your whole department, and the Mayor.
Also, that school turns out some very stupid people and you can burn that entirely to the ground too.
You are all silly people, all the way up and down the chain.
#3
The more to this story is even more horrid. It is as if this political actor all but beat a path for this psychopath directly to do this through inaction. And there is more, much much more.
Fine. Don't resign and let US pick this bullshit to the bone and every actor and in-actions and I will start to draw up charge sheets of Mis-fesance.
#4
We changed SOP 10 years ago to rush the target because they had no reasoning when people are getting chopped to bits. Israel figured it out 40 years ago.
#5
The Sheriff is a liberal politician impersonating law enforcement. I wonder how common this sort of thing is and hope this is a wake-up call around the nation.
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How many different forms of fraud are we dealing with here?
I'm sure the insurance companies are thrilled to find out the stats were manipulated to make a dangerous work environment appear safe. By not expelling students they receive more education money on account of attendance.
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I still say this is NOT just an unfortunate string of events leading to a mass shooting.
Cruz did everything except put a neon sign on his house proclaiming his intentions.
Police ignore warning signs and multiple threats on line, in person, and on every social media platform in the galaxy.
First responders are told to stand down and wait for the SWAT team and all of their pretty gadgets.
Sheriff is calling for gun control while they are still bringing the dead and wounded out of the school.
Media seems to have a completely scripted response and puts the usual anti gun/disarm the citizenry spin out within minutes of the first announcements of the shooting.
If I wasn't so paranoid about the left, I would say this was almost orchestrated.
I wonder what triggered the kid? He's been simmering for weeks, something set him off.
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criminal negligence - (law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)
[Breitbart] The Public Interest Legal Foundation argued that non-citizens have been voting in Pennsylvania for decades, and that problem has been evident in other states the organization has worked with‐including New Jersey and Virginia.
But the state has not granted PILF’s open records requests to access the data at the root of the problem, the organization said in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Harrisburg.
"For months, Pennsylvania babus bureaucrats have concealed facts about non-citizens registering and voting ‐ that ends today," PILF President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams said.
Adams said the state already admitted that it allowed non-citizens renewing their driver’s licenses to have the opportunity to register to vote.
Pennsylvania officials, however, declined to comment on the lawsuit or the more than 100,000 non-citizen voters.
"We’re not going to comment on anything related to litigation," said Wanda Murren, director of communications and press at the Pennsylvania Department of State.
Of the more than 100,000 non-citizen voters in Pennsylvania, one city commissioner found in September that at least 90 of those non-citizens registered to vote cast ballots in Philadelphia. Hundreds more non-citizens who did not vote were also on the voter rolls.
The PILF also went after a county in Texas for failing to release non-citizen voting records back in December.
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I would bet most blue and blue leaning states have their rolls stuffed with non-citizen and dead voters to keep the "blue" votes coming and to keep them in power.
#3
Amazingly enough in 2016 even that was not enough.
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When are these PILF people coming to California?
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The Pubs, PILF, Judicial Watch and other groups interested in honest elections had better head off and clean up this steaming pile in Pennsylvania as well as other States.
#6
I think if the real numbers of fraudulent / manufactured / multiple / unlawful votes ever saw the light of day, people would be shocked to the core. As in, no election in the last several decades can be trusted.
#10
Voters are leaving blue states with corrupt voter rolls for red states that have been cleaning up their voter rolls, which means the corruption will be left behind in states that have ever fewer Electoral College votes. In other words, it is working exactly as intended — each state has the level of corruption its citizens will accept.
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those states are demanding that electoral votes be apportioned by # of residents, legal OR illegal.... just #'s in the census
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Considering that California had Shillary winning the state by 2.5 million with some presicts with 200% of registered voters casting ballots
I'd say we have a huge problem
[ChicagoTribune] Municipal ID cards that Mayor Rahm Emanuel is launching for undocumented immigrants and others will be a valid form of identification for people both registering to vote and voting in Chicago, according to a letter aldermen received Friday.
Clerk Anna Valencia, who’s heading up the CityKey program, cited state election rules to explain why the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners will accept the card.
"The Illinois Election Code requires the Board of Elections to accept current, valid photo identification cards and other local governmental documentation that includes an individual’s name and address, as proof of identity and residency," Valencia’s letter reads in part. "The CityKey fits both of these requirements."
The municipal ID is not yet available to the general public, but Valencia has said it will be in the spring. Most aldermen voted in favor of the program, which is viewed in City Hall circles as a way for Emanuel to boost his standing with Hispanic voters and immigrant rights supporters as he preps a 2019 re-election bid. Continues.
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Most aldermen voted in favor of the program, which is viewed in City Hall circles as a way for Emanuel to boost his standing with Hispanic voters and immigrant rights supporters as he preps a 2019 re-election bid.
And just about everybody else, as all of the sane and responsible flee the city.
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Pretty obviously they should not be allowed to vote in Federal elections at all if they are such indiscriminate whores with their registration
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Well, fortunately the Founders were wise enough to go with a united STATES of America. Thus, you can have IL, CA, NY and still not win. Keep stuffing the ballot box in a couple of places has diminishing returns.
[IsraelTimes] Brad Parscale, Kushner ally and former Trump Organization employee, appointed to lead run.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has named former digital adviser Brad Parscale as campaign manager of his 2020 re-election campaign.
In a statement, the Trump campaign said Parscale will lead "advanced planning" for the 2020 effort, and that the campaign will also be engaged in the 2018 midterm elections ‐ which are shaping up to be a challenging environment for Republicans.
Trump has left little doubt about his intentions to seek re-election. He filed the paperwork to organize his re-election committee on the same day as his inauguration, held his first campaign rally on Feb. 18, 2017, in Florida, and has mused publicly about would-be Democratic challengers.
Parscale, an Austin-based digital consultant and ally of Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, ran the Trump campaign’s digital operations in 2016, which included sophisticated social media targeting. He previously worked for the Trump Organization.
In an interview with CBS’s "60 Minutes" last year, Parscale described how a team that grew to 100 people created 50,000 to 60,000 ads on Facebook daily to reach different swaths of Trump supporters to maximize support and online donations.
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#1 VRWC: How sweet it was. With luck, hard work, and prevention of Donk rigging there ought to be a repeat of 2016 in 2020. If Pubs get serious about Donk corruption prosecution, this should red pill many voters away from the Corruptocrat Party. Hopefully, we can enjoy watching butt-hurt lefties again.
A former Department Head in the DOJ expressed his anger and shame with his former agency in an exclusive discussion with The Gateway Pundit. We were told that current and former agents throughout the FBI feel the same way. They are repulsed by the corruption of the recent leadership in the Department of Justice.
We interviewed a former Head of a major department under the Justice Department. We’ve kept the identity of the individual anonymous and will refer to this person as "Mr DOJ". Here are the notes from our discussion.
Mr. DOJ started off by commenting that former leaders in the FBI are ’pissed’ and ’ashamed’ of the recent actions taken by the corrupt leadership at the FBI. Both current and past leaders within and retired from the FBI are very upset with the current leaders within the FBI who committed what they describe as criminal acts.
Hillary Clinton
We spoke to Mr. DOJ in 2016 after Former FBI Director James Comey announced that he was not going to recommend charges for Hillary Clinton in the email scandal. Mr. DOJ said at the time that Comey let Hillary off because Comey wanted to get out the information on Hillary’s crimes before the election and the only way to do this was to announce them and then let her off easy. Mr. DOJ stated then that if Comey had pressed charges, he thought that all of this would be buried until after the election and the American people would never know. Mr. DOJ implied that he spoke with Comey directly about Comey’s actions but this was not verified at the time.
Now Mr. DOJ says that it appears that Comey was contacting leaders within the Justice Department both current and retired to share the narrative noted above. Mr. DOJ mentioned he has a picture signed by Comey with himself which he took down and will no longer put on his wall. Mr. DOJ can’t stand Comey and is very angry about the actions that Comey and others at the DOJ and FBI took that he sees as criminal.
Former and current DOJ leadership are very discouraged, angered and ashamed of James Comey’s actions. Mr. DOJ says Comey’s actions to leak information to the press were "criminal." Comey is no longer respected in any way by the current and former leaders in the FBI.
Mr. DOJ said that if he had done what Hillary Clinton did with classified information he’d be in prison. The information Hillary stored on her server included extremely classified material. Some of the items were so classified that for anyone to see them they would have to go into a special room at a special location and leave their phone behind. Also, Mr. DOJ said that anyone with the ability to see the classified information that Clinton had access to is constantly reminded by the DOJ that classified information should be handled appropriately and with care.
Hillary lied when she said that she didn’t know the information was classified.
FISA
Mr. DOJ stated that he prepared and presented FISA applications to the FISA Court. The reason that the rate of applications approved is so high is because the standards are so high with the court. Mr. DOJ knows that applications have to be well written and cover all the bases before being provided to the court. He reviewed applications for a time and was responsible for reviewing them. They had to be perfect when they went to the court. When the FISA applications were sent to the FISA Court to spy on President Trump, the fact that any information was omitted or hidden from the court, was a criminal act.
Inspector General
Mr. DOJ believes that the report coming out from the IG will detail many criminal acts. The reason he believes this is because the key individuals who are involved in the FISA and Hillary scandals (e.g. McCabe and Strzok) are all lawyering up.
We asked what about the IG finding the texts between Strzok and Page and notifying Mueller and not the Congress. Mr. DOJ stated that that is standard protocol. If the IG finds someone doing criminal activity the proper action would be to inform the related party’s supervisor ASAP.
We also asked why did the IG turn the 5 months of lost Strzok and Page text messages over to the FBI and not Congress after the DOJ had said they lost these text messages. Again, according to Mr. DOJ, this was proper procedure and the IG had no duty to hand these over to Congress as the IG works for the DOJ and not Congress. Also, Mr. DOJ said that it was lie when the FBI said they lost the text messages. "The FBI doesn’t lose anything." Congress can request these text messages from the IG if they wish.
Overall, Mr. DOJ believes that the IG report will be very damning to current and former DOJ employees.
Trump and Mueller
Mr. DOJ said that that President Trump should never sit for an interview with Mueller. He said that he and Mueller’s team could easily get the President or anyone to lie when in a question and answer session. It is easy. Often times the FBI and DOJ would get those they were interrogating to lie and then state that it’s 5 years in prison for lying under oath and use this as a measure to get people to talk.
Mr. DOJ knows Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Strzok and all the leadership at the FBI and DOJ in the news. McCabe was always trying to move ahead. Strzok was a punk. Lisa Page was a slut. It is sick what they were doing. He is disgusted with Comey.
He doesn’t know why Mueller ever took the case. He has many reasons to recuse himself. The investigation is tainted because of this. Overall, Mr. DOJ doesn’t believe anyone will get charged. His significant other disagrees.
We mentioned that we believe that the Manafort suit of Mueller, Rosenstein and the DOJ will shut down the Mueller investigation. We also hope that the real crooks will then be investigated and thrown in prison.
#3
Hoft was earned a reputation requiring skepticism
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I realize it’s a lot to ask, but if Mr. DOJ is the real deal, he has a moral and ethical obligation to do the right thing and blow the whistle on this whole charade.
Are there any good guys left in the FBI or DOJ with the requisite credibility to end this highly corrosive nonsense by coming forward with the truth?
I know I would celebrate the individual who does it as the American hero they are.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] The Public Interest Legal Foundation argued that non-citizens have been voting in Pennsylvania for decades, and that problem has been evident in other states the organization has worked with‐including New Jersey and Virginia.
[IsraelTimes] Brad Parscale, Kushner ally and former Trump Organization employee, appointed to lead run.
