The late pundit Robert Novak used to say that government officials can choose to be either “a source or a target.” In other words, leak information to reporters and you can count on flattering coverage and protection from them. An added bonus to leaking, as former Intelligence Director Jim Clapper discovered, is that the network to which you are leaking will turn you into a paid contributor. According to Congressman Jim Jordan, speaking to Fox News, “Clapper was actually the guy leaking information” to CNN about the presidential briefing on the Steele dossier that served as the pretext for the media feeding frenzy over possible Russian blackmail of Trump.
One can only laugh at the utter fraudulence of CNN: it pads its panels with government officials who leak to it, then presents them to its audience as “nonpartisan” experts commenting on the aftershocks of the very stories they leaked.
Trump’s intuition about a politicized intelligence community is confirmed daily by the rantings of its former members who treat the studios of television news like a retirement center. Eager to get in on this act, NBC recently hired former CIA director John Brennan, who also ingratiated himself to reporters through leaks. On his Twitter account, he describes himself as “nonpartisan” and NBC supports that con by letting him comment on the investigation his partisan manipulation of intelligence instigated.
Almost all of the principals responsible for the Russian farce are confirmed liars and leakers. They said Trump Tower wasn’t the target of spying. It was. They said a FISA warrant wasn’t issued. It was. They said Trump officials weren’t unmasked. They were. They said (as even the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman acknowledged) Hillary didn’t finance the Steele dossier. She did.
[Orange County Register] Los Alamitos might try to opt out of California’s new sanctuary law.
The City Council in Orange County’s second-smallest city is scheduled to vote Monday, March 19 on an ordinance that calls for exempting itself from the California Values Act, SB54, a new law that limits cooperation between law enforcement and immigration authorities.
The state law, which took effect Jan. 1, "may be in direct conflict with federal laws and the Constitution of the United States," reads the proposed local law.
Stating that council members have taken an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, the ordinance says the council "finds that it is impossible to honor our oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States" and at the same time be in compliance with the new state law.
The proposed ordinance might be the first local attempt in California to officially challenge the law, said Kathleen Kim, a Loyola Marymount University law professor who specializes in immigrants’ rights and human trafficking.
The proposed ordinance contains "flawed argument," Kim said Friday, March 16. The new state law is "absolutely consistent with the U.S. Constitution," she said.
Annie Lai, co-director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at UC Irvine, said Los Alamitos is inviting a lawsuit if the ordinance is adopted.
"It looks like they’re setting themselves up for litigation," she said.
#1
Yeah, mention shutting down the school board and listen to the whining about "local control" being what America is all about. Like lefties suddenly being interested in "states rights," this is a delicious inversion.
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Another motion for state breakup. See - West Virgina. When a state is in open rebellion against the federal government and law, its an opportunity for others to vote.
[Right Scoop] I know, I know, "both" right? But this isn’t a broad question applicable to all their past statements and dealings with investigators and congress. If it were that sort of lie tabulation could take the rest of the night.
No, it’s about a very specific instance, where they each made a statement on the same topic, and those statements appear to be in disagreement. Specifically, this is a contradiction about who was doing what leaking, when, and under whose authority. One that, in the words of streiff at Redstate, "pits Mentor (that would be St. James of Comey) against Protege (Lying Andrew McCabe)."
This was first noticed and pointed out on Twitter by Judicial Watch’s Jerry Dunleavy, and it’s a really great question. Here’s the tweet:
BLUF:
[Townhall] There was collusion in the election of 2016. It involved Russians, a British ex-spy, law firms, FBI agents, DOJ attorneys, an FBI director that prejudged evidence, an Attorney General that had an unethical meeting with the spouse of a target, FISA warrants obtained on faulty information that stemmed from political sources, a Deputy Director whose wife received monetary support in an election, an FBI director who lied to Congress, an FBI Deputy Director who lied to the Justice Department’s Inspector General, loads of classified materials that were mishandled and criminally passed to those without clearances, and partisan hacks spearheading inquiries aiming for political outcomes. The scope of this collusion is overwhelming, the attempts are a damning indictment of political operatives that have lost all integrity, and sadly an administration, a major political party, and agents of a deep state that attempted in a wide sweeping number of ways to undo an election that they lost.
Former high-ranking FBI officials (like Chris Swetzer who appeared with Harris Faulkner’s FoxNews broadcast on Friday) believe that the Inspector General’s coming report will be explosive.
For the sake of justice, above all else, I hope it brings clarity to a story our modern media landscape is highly invested in keeping as convoluted as possible.
#3
If what is stated in the first paragraph ever breaks loose there will be a collusion bloodbath. That is why all those involved are so desperate to deep six this by pointing their fingers at Trump and Russia.
Yes, #1 "From your mouth to the ear of G*d." Otherwise, Americans will be put in a hole from which they may never be able to dig out of.
#1
When the Vietnam war ended all the titles of the Air America planes along with the CIA chief who "owned" them and the planes themselves disappeared.
The CIA still had "redline" money for years later so maybe they still helped out the Burma Triangle folks.
So, after their dark lord Obama, what "resources" did Brennan and his clique help themselves to?
#2
Brennan is the son of Irish immigrants from Roscommon, Republic of Ireland. He was born in North Bergen, New Jersey.[10] He attended the Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary School, and graduated from Saint Joseph of the Palisades High School in West New York, New Jersey before enrolling at Fordham University in New York City.[6]
While riding a bus to class at Fordham, he saw an ad in The New York Times that said the CIA was recruiting, and he felt a CIA career would be a good match for his "wanderlust" and his desire to do public service.[6] His studies included a junior year abroad learning Arabic and taking Middle Eastern studies courses at the American University in Cairo.[4][6]
In 1976, he voted for Communist Party USA candidate Gus Hall in the presidential election; he later said that he viewed it as a way "of signaling my unhappiness with the system, and the need for change."[17]
He received a B.A. in political science from Fordham in 1977.[4] He then attended the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a Master of Arts in government with a concentration in Middle Eastern studies in 1980.[6] He speaks Arabic fluently.[10]
#5
Brennan lied under oath. Clapper lied under oath. Koskinen lied under oath. Lerner pled the fifth. Holder lied under oath. Lynch lied under oath. McCabe lied under oath. Comey lied under oath. Hillary lied under oath. Bill Clinton lied under oath.
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IMHO, and the opinion of many other Americans, the likes of Soetero, Brennan and HRC were a far greater threat and concern to the U.S. than Donald Trump.
#7
Funny how the media, Brennan, and Clapper and others have danced around the issue that it was the IG that recommended McCabe be fired and the actual decision to fire him came from the DoJ HR department...Trump had nothing to do with it.
They keep trying to bury how they leaked false information to the media before and after the election to create a false narrative for a willing media.
Will anyone ever fully investigate how Fusion GPS paid some media critters to publish some of their stories about the dossier (I still believe that was a separate operation from the dossier and afterall $4 million is a lot of money).
#9
A notable usage was that of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky referring to the Mensheviks: "You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!"
#1
What they really don't want to publicize is that disarmament of the general population is ALWAYS the first step in the establishment of a totalitarian government.
Notice how the left always starts the drums rolling on this when they think they are coming to power.
I'd love to see a little more attention to Fast and Furious by the DoJ IG after he finishes with the "Russian Collusion" probe.
#2
Completely bogus Meme that keeps on being circulated on internet: US has 3rd highest murder rate, but if you remove 5 worst cities, US rate then one of the lowest - Crime Prevention Research Center
#3
AND newc, don't forget that two of those democrap cities have the most restrictive gun laws in the nation...what am I missing here? Very restrictive gun ownership laws, high gun violence? According to the buffoons in the media it should be the opposite.
h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] So imagine our surprise when the left, after their defeat in November 2016, decided it was all the Russian's fault, and went from unfounded accusations of "hacking the elections" which seem to indicate that Russia had hacked the vote gathering or counting apparatus (they didn’t) to claims that Russia had, somehow, hacked our national psyche with their few purchased ads on Facebook, their trollish comments on political blogs, and their organizing of a half dozen demonstrations.
...Even then, it is almost impossible to understand why they think this helped Trump, since ads, demonstrations and probably (not sure since the Russian IP ones on my blog were uniformly either crazy-religious or racist. Neither of which, btw, tracks with supporting Trump, really) the trolling were on both sides of the political spectrum.
Almost impossible, but not impossible if you realize two things about the left:
They have no conceptual model under which they fail. They simply never expected another Republican would ever be elected president, and though I’m not willing to spend time looking, I’m sure you can find dozens of articles saying that.
...They’re born and bred oikophobes. ALL other countries are better than the US. All of them. But Russia is particularly good because most of these red-diaper babies or their parents were raised on the idea that Russia had founded the perfect communist state. Even after the Soviet Union fell, they lamented "the good guys lost" and even now if you want to wind one of them up, any mention of the Stalinist massacres brings foaming at the mouth denial. So of course, if some mastermind could be really sneaky and "hack" America, it must be Russia. And as they all know the "good guys" lost in Russia too, hence, of course, they might sabotage them here.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc faced new calls for regulation from within U.S. Congress and was hit with questions about personal data safeguards on Saturday after reports a political consultant gained inappropriate access to 50 million users’ data starting in 2014.
Facebook disclosed the issue in a blog post on Friday, hours before media reports that conservative-leaning Cambridge Analytica, a data company known for its work on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was given access to the data and may not have deleted it. WTF? We may have helped the Trump campaign ?
The scrutiny presented a new threat to Facebook’s reputation, which was already under attack over Russians’ alleged use of Facebook tools to sway American voters before and after the 2016 U.S. elections.
"It’s clear these platforms can’t police themselves," Democratic U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar tweeted.
"They say ’trust us.’ Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before Senate Judiciary," she added, referring to Facebook’s CEO and a committee she sits on.
Facebook said the root of the problem was that researchers and Cambridge Analytica lied to it and abused its policies, but critics on Saturday threw blame at Facebook as well, demanding answers on behalf of users and calling for new regulation.
#5
Zuck was the only person Hillary had not blamed for her loss.
(1) She doesn't understand the issues well enough to make a talking point out of them.
(2) She'd like some of his money.
(3) If it worked for Trump It could work for her.
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Wow, the media blows a fuse over Analytica getting access to a bunch of Facebook info.
I wish it had blown a fuse when Google and Facebook said they gave the same info to the Obama campaign for FREE.
#7
Zuck was the only person Hillary had not blamed for her loss.
Y’all don’t think Facebook was not feeding information to her campaign, as well as altering algorithms to aid Democrats while hindering Republicans and conservatives? Of those of you who are on Facebook, who has not had problems over the past few years posting comments and links supportive of the right side of things? Because I have, and I work hard to be balanced and using confirmed sources.
The only reason this has come out is because it was a Trump-supporting company that got hold of information that was supposed to be restricted to left side of things.
[WAPO] A University of Pennsylvania law school professor will no longer teach required courses following outcry over a video in which she suggested ‐ falsely, according to the school ‐ that black students seldom graduated high in their class.
Amy Wax, a tenured professor, will continue to teach electives in her areas of expertise but will be removed from teaching first-year curriculum courses, Penn Law Dean Theodore Ruger said in a statement Wednesday.
Ruger said Wax spoke "disparagingly and inaccurately" when she claimed last year that she had "rarely, rarely" seen a black student finish in the top half of their class.
#1
Amy Wax, a tenured professor, will continue to teach electives in her areas of expertise but will be removed from teaching first-year curriculum courses
#2
Yes, 'bravo' indeed. She's probably been trying to escape teaching 'first-year curriculum courses' for years. Freed from the nodding rabble, she can finally move on to the serious student.
#4
1. Compile the stats
2. Publish the results
3. Lawsuit against school for restricting free speech
4. Move into private practice like I always wanted
[LI] California isn’t just at war with Donald Trump. It is conducting a culture war against several red states in the form of Assembly Bill 1887.
The measure prohibits state-funded and state-sponsored travel to Alabama and several other red states Thursday due to laws that could discriminate against the LGBTQ community (e.g., prohibiting adoptions).
Now, a group of California’s real "best and brightest" are collateral damage in the Golden State culture war.
The Citrus College Rocket Owls were one of 60 school teams invited to Huntsville to compete in NASA Student Launch Program in April. Groups from 23 states are competing in the 18th annual event in which teams design, build, test and fly a high-altitude reusable rocket.
Despite their invite, Citrus College, a community college located outside Los Angeles, won’t be attending. Last year, California announced it was banning publicly funded travel to Alabama and seven other states due to laws that could discriminate against the LGBTQ community. In Alabama’s case, it was a law that allows adoption agencies to follow faith-based policies, which includes not placing children with same-sex couples.
Homer Hickam, the famous Huntsville author and rocket scientist, whose October Sky is an inspiration to many young students, challenges the assertion that this is a state funded trip. Additionally, reports indicate college administrators are re-interpreting the rules to prevent the team from heading to Alabama. Going out on a limb here, but I doubt anyone in Alabama gives a hoot if the Rocket Owls show up or not.
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Yeah, but they'll make a 'based on real life' movie about it where the plucky fruitbat California team wins the competition and everyone else is real sorry and stuff.
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One of the competing teams will be all white and blond who wear plain light colored clothing and are mean to everyone.
Another competitor is the Southern Redneck version of our California Owls, and we find that even tho dey steel goz muddin n sheet, they are brilliant yet misunderstood. One finds out xe is gay because the Owls' culture allows more freedom of expression.
Don't forget the all black team who stands out as the pure academics. They don't play basketball or football, don't jive or listen to loud music, don't dance....until the end party when they decide to cut loose and wow do they stomp the yard.
Even the WASP group has a come to Cali moment at the end. Leader ends wanting to learn to surf.
#9
Of course, the team with the muslima whose philosophical views on space travel earn her high praise 'in her home country' and scorn from fundamental Christians. Her brother develops a clock which auto-terminates the rocket if there is a malfunction....and there is, and the team's rocket, led by the Jewish kid, goes out of control and hurdles towards and emotional impact scene such as a kindergarten. Rocket terminates just in time.
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.
[WAPO] A University of Pennsylvania law school professor will no longer teach required courses following outcry over a video in which she suggested ‐ falsely, according to the school ‐ that black students seldom graduated high in their class.
