[OpsLens] So, who is Bill Priestap...and why should you care? Because it’s Game over! for the Democrats. The first thing you need to realize is just how central E.W. "Bill" Priestap is to the entire "Russian Conspiracy" story concocted by the Democrats. The second thing you need to understand is why the absence of his name from the media circus is a cause for concern...for the Democrats.
In short, Priestap is the head of FBI counterintelligence operations. As FBI Assistant Director in charge of counterintelligence, Bill Priestap was immediate supervisor of Peter Strzok. Therein lies the lynchpin that can cause the entire house of cards to collapse.
For those of you who don’t know, Peter Strzok was the leader of the FBI’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. The same Peter Strzok whose text messages clearly showed a bias against Donald Trump.
The investigation into then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was, in fact, a counterintelligence operation. That operation began in July 2016. As such, Bill Priestap would be directly in charge of that operation along with all other FBI counterintelligence operations. Meaning, Peter Strzok reported directly to Bill Preistap. This is important because, under current FBI structure and policy, Strzok would be reporting every detail of the investigation and would not be able to make any move without Priestap’s approval.
Strzok would have needed to go to Priestap to get authorization to engage with Christopher Steele over the "Russian Dossier." Priestap would be the one to approve of the underlying investigative process used for both FISA applications (June 2016 and October 2016). Bill Priestap would also be the one to approve of arranging, paying, or even reimbursing Christopher Steele for the Russian Dossier.
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This entire FBI, DoJ, FISA, Trump thing has scared the crap out of me.
While I was scared because of the earlier revelations and putting it up against arming of formerly benign and administrative three letter agencies (deliberate because no one really watches BLM), promotion of awarding the citizen rights of voting to illegal aliens bribed into the US with the promise of welfare benefits and higher pay for menial tasks. THIS latest stuff is historically frightening...especially given how both Lenin and Adolph came to power using intelligence and the police against the opposition.
The more I look at it, the end game was, as I have said before, establishment of a totalitarian democratic party state, with Hillary to fully implement the programs started by Obama...Hillary screwed the Obama pooch and showed her true colors and corruption...and Trump got elected.
Now all of those agencies that Obama infected with his burrowed in political appointees are working full time to overturn the administration of an elected President.
This is more scary to me than the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Now all of those agencies that Obama infected with his burrowed in political appointees are working full time to overturn the administration of an elected President.
I hope and pray he (along with all of us) survive these evil bastids.
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The FBI and Department of Homeland Security say hackers from the GRU, the Russian intelligence service, successfully attacked the computers of the Illinois State Board of Elections. Of 7.9 million registered Illinois voters, the state Board of Elections told Fox News that a total of 76,000 Illinois voters may have had their information viewed, with the greatest number of them -- 14,121 -- being Galesburg residents. "The FBI considered this a very grave threat," Bill Priestap, assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division, told the Senate Intelligence Committee last year about the cyberattack.
Does Putin have the right to confront his accusers and get Discovery or the introduction of any exculpatory evidence???
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This is more scary to me than the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Yes. With the Cuban Missile Crisis the WH was in communication with Moscow and it was not in the interest of either the US or the USSR to have a nuke war. Now, the enemies of the US are internal. It is not so easy to rid the body of cancer but it can be done.
[OpsLens] There has been a popular scam gaining traction in the past few years involving members of the United States Armed Forces. During this time, many military members have discovered that someone has taken their photos and information to create fake social media accounts and online profiles. As a result of this, a Minnesota National Guardsman has been given the task of sifting through the Internet searching for fake profiles. According to Master Sergeant Blair Heusdens, criminals find easy targets by first gaining trust posing as romantic interests.
While experienced military members can easily spot fakes, unsuspecting victims‐usually women‐don’t have enough knowledge about how military affairs operate to become suspicious. Most of the scams originate overseas. Scammers search for military members on Facebook and other social media platforms in order to steal pictures and information. Then the anonymous users seek out vulnerable targets, such as older women. Once the mark has been identified, a scammer will make contact and begin an online relationship. After the grooming stage is complete, these criminals will spin sad stories claiming they need money because the military doesn’t provide funds for such things as housing, travel, and food.
One particular case I have knowledge of involves an older woman in the United States. A young soldier reached out to her claiming he was a widower stationed in London. Over a few weeks, the two began an online relationship. The "soldier" even sent photos of a young boy to the woman, supposedly the "soldier’s" son.
Then came the story of a sick uncle needing immediate medical attention and food. The woman subsequently sent roughly $4000 to a location in London for the individual. After eventually becoming suspicious, the woman began her own research online and found the real service member’s Facebook page. Her suspicions were confirmed when she alerted the soldier’s wife, who was horrified to learn a stranger was using photos of her husband and young son. As soon as the scammer was confronted, the fake profile disappeared.
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A number of them have approached me on Facebook, as well as some claiming to be good Christian lads in Africa. They are laughably obvious, after the first of each kind... and all the others may well be the same scammer under a variety of identities. I don’t suspect anything more nefarious than conmen using whatever works.
[The Federalist] The attacks on former ambassador John Bolton following his appointment as National Security Advisor (NSA) have inadvertently served as some of his strongest endorsements.
First there were the hysterical cries of "neocon warmonger!" This would come as news to the NSA-designate, who was never a "liberal mugged by reality" but a self-identified "Goldwater conservative" from the start; explicitly rejects the belief in democracy-building as imperative to achieving America’s national interest under democratic peace theory; and suggests, exaggerating for effect, that following the removal of Saddam Hussein, as soon as practicable he would have told the Iraqis, "You’re on your own. Here’s a copy of the Federalist papers. Good luck."
Although the "neocon warmonger" moniker is inapt, to say the least, maybe it is not such a bad thing if our enemies buy this line. In fact, this may be part of President Trump’s strategic rationale as a dealmaker for elevating a "peace-through-strength" realist portrayed as a cantankerous cowboy to the top of the National Security Council.
Then followed another narrative: Bolton is not only a real-life Dr. Strangelove, but worse. He is actually an adroit bureaucrat‐"crazy and dangerous." Then-senator Joe Biden, a man prone to malapropism, actually put it best when, in Bolton’s retelling, Biden said of him in 2005: "My problem with you, over the years, has been, you’re too competent. I mean, I would rather you be stupid and not very effective."
But the truly revelatory attacks concern Bolton’s positions on Islamic supremacism, which reflect an understanding that jihadists pose a mortal threat that must be countered using every element of national power. You know these attacks are meaningful partly because they have been made under cover of a smear campaign.
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But without George Voinovich around, nobody seems to want to play the role of "tears on demand" in the Senate.
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Bolton has a clear-eyed view of Islamic supremacism, i.e. it's inherent in the religion.
[IsraelTimes] It's not that West Bankers don't care, it's more that physical separation is gradually creating emotional separation
For the Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip, Friday was another difficult day.
For the Paleostinians in the West Bank, Friday was just another ordinary day ‐ a day for weddings, family gatherings, and, for some, dining at the fancy restaurants in Ramallah and Nablus.
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(West Bank Paleos) just want to earn a living and look after their families," he explained.
An old Jewish lady once said something to the effect that peace will come when the Paleos care more about their children than about killing Jews. Maybe that is starting to happen.
BLUF:
[The Anatomically Correct Banana] There is actually no upside to the globalist project; if it works, then we will have re-created what we had before mass Third World immigration just with lots of different races and religions. If it doesn’t, the civilized world dies and a new Dark Age descends. 1838 Painting of a Zulu attack on the "Voortrekker" camp at Bloukrans, by Charles Bell 1813-1882
If things completely fall apart, who would even take us? Where are native Europeans and the Eurowestern Diaspora supposed to go? As we’ve witnessed with the universal cold shoulder given white South Africans, with not a single nation deigning to grant them refugee status while the West hands out asylum like promotional fliers on the Vegas strip to every Khalid, Mahmoud, and Mohammed, it must become do or die. Immigrants have their home countries that they theoretically could always return to, but they are coming into our home countries. There is nowhere else for us to go. Action must be taken now, for even the strongest man will eventually meet a weight he cannot lift.
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Ethnic cleansing in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet not even refugee status for the abused racial minority? Intellectual honesty requires one to face the obvious difference and the selective outrage machines of the progressive media.
[Daily Caller] Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey aroused controversy after labeling a Medium article "great" that claimed there’s no "bipartisan way forward" in the United States and that the country is engaged in a "fundamental conflict between two worldviews that must be resolved in short order."
Dorsey shared the Medium article on his personal Twitter account Thursday night, with the accompanying acclaim that it was a "great read."
Author and media consultant Peter Leyden and political commentator Ruy Teixeira argued in the article titled "The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War" that America is already in the midst of a second major domestic conflict of sorts and the way out is for the rest of the country to imitate California.
"In this current period of American politics, at this juncture in our history, there’s no way that a bipartisan path provides the way forward," they wrote. "The way forward is on the path California blazed about 15 years ago."
Essentially, the authors called for a complete marginalization of the Republican Party and its voters since they only care "about rule by and for billionaires at the expense of working people" and not "average citizens."
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Essentially, the authors called for a complete marginalization of the Republican Party and its voters since they only care "about rule by and for billionaires at the expense of working people" and not "average citizens.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Ignoring for a moment the political platform that seems to have been stolen from Pol Pot, has this guy even been to the California outside his gated community? News from Cali seems to be all about housing shortages, bitching about taxes, savage income inequality, disease epidemics and homeless camps. The U-Haul rates in and out of California are a tell.
[Daily Caller] It’s been a year since Dr. Ben Carson was confirmed as Secretary for Housing and Urban Development. For most of its existence HUD is the cabinet-level agency probably best known for management challenges and the occasional corruption scandal involving local government officials abusing funds.
Liberals love HUD, because it hands out billions of dollars in the name of social justice. Not coincidentally, the money is often hard to account for, which is why it often ends up in the pocket of corrupt officials.
HUD has a long history of mismanagement and neglect. The agency’s financial statements are such a mess that the agency’s own Inspector General couldn’t complete an internal audit of the agency’s books. In fact, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report in 2016, based on numerous HUD IG and GAO audits over a 15-year period, in which it reported that the agency failed to implement multiple financial accountability recommendations. Additionally, the agency seemingly ignored recommendations to dedicate staff and implement and enforce policies to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.
This level of institutional corruption is the very essence of the swamp. And indeed, the swamp dwellers are fighting to keep things the way they were.
Then Ben Carson moved in and started turning things around.
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This began with the hiring of a former partner with one of the big four accounting firms to serve as the agency’s chief financial officer.
That's how they start. Then they bring in auditing teams from Anderson, to 'capture workflow efficiencies'. Then outsourcing is proposed and AA makes a bid. Staff augmentation starts with AA bench players then the middle manager layoffs begin so AA can 'clear the line of sight'.
Good luck with all of that after the downsizing and privatizing.
Hank the Cowdog: Book 71
'The Case of the Monster Fire'
John R. Erickson
Maverick Books, 2018
Illustrated by Gerald L. Holmes
Mr. Erickson is a storyteller from Texas who has been writing Hank the Cowdog books for decades. This is his 71st book, no small accomplishment. It is writing for younger children - boys tend to take a liking to it, but my daughter sure loves them too. The stories are told from the view of Hank, head of ranch security, and involve many different characters such as his human, Slim, and his dog buddy, Drover, who come and go throughout the stories.
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Bam Bam Bam!
Yipes, somebody was banging on the door! Well, We'd gotten an Alert from DC and our procedures were very clear. Make no assumptions about intruders until we see some ID and clear them through Security. As far as I was concerned, we had come under attack.
I went straight into Sirens and Lights. "on your feet, Drover, battle stations, Red Alert, we've got Charlies on the porch!"
You know, I get a kick out of waking him up. Hee Hee. I mean, he started running before he got his eyes open, before his feet even hit the floor, and all four legs were pumping air.
"Help, murder, mayday, Charlies on the porch!"
"On your feet, soldier, and load up Number Three Warning Barks!"
Mr. Erickson resides in the Texas panhandle as was deeply affected by the Perryton fire outbreak of 2016. In fact, he lost his home. Four youngsters lost their lives trying to save their animals. This book is based on the happenings of March 6, 2017, as Mr. Erickson attempts to summarize those events.
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Our Normal Procedure calls for the dog to follow his people wherever they go, whether that's rom to room or out on the porch, and to show some interest in their lives. We follow them because we care
But he ruined that by screeching at me and telling me to dry up, and I no longer cared. Dogs have feelings too. We're not just furniture.
He came back into the house. "That's a bad wind."
Did I care? No. I turned by back on him.
He noticed. "Hey pooch, it's liable to be a bad day for fires."
Oh, he wanted his dog back now, someone to sit there and listen to him ramble about wind and fire. Too bad.
For a children's book - and me still, I guess - it is a bit difficult, yet Mr. Erickson captures so much of those events in a very simple, modest fashion.
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Slim shook his head. They got into Loper's pickup and we dogs hopped in the back, and drove to the county road, where two big trucks were parked with their motors running.
The driver of the first truck, a nice red Pete, rolled down his window. "There do you want this hay?"
"What hay? Who are you?"
"We're from Garden City, Kansas, heard about the wildfires and figured you could use some hay. We'll be back tomorrow with more."
Loper jumped on the running board and shook his hand. "Brother, you don't know how glad I am to see you! Our world is upside-down."
"Man, this place looks like the moon! I'm sure sorry about your loss."
We led the trucks to the stack lot. Instead of unload ing the bales one at a time and putting them into a neat stack, Loper used the tractor to push the bales off the trailer into a big pile. That got the truckers back on the road, and Slim and Loper went to work loading both pickups with hay.
They were in the midst of doing that when three pickups pulled in, neighbors whose ranches hadn't burned. They showed up in work clothes and said, "Tell us what to do." Loper seemed a little confused at first, then said, "Load up with hay and drive until you find hungry cattle. Feed 'em, come back, load up, and do it again."
Absolutely true. If it were not for the actions of the agriculture community across this nation, tens of thousands of cattle would have starved. And again in Montana. And in California. And flood relief in Texas and Florida.
Fun books for the youngsters, and a good way to spend a couple hours waiting in line at the dentist or wherever.
[The Anatomically Correct Banana] If you import the Third World, you become the Third World. It really is that simple.
A facility in Artesia, New Mexico, meant to house illegal aliens’ families, offers a glimpse in microcosm of what the United States is allowing to pass through its indefensibly undefended southern border. Per the Washington Times:
Communicable diseases continue to be a problem at the New Mexico facility built to house illegal immigrant families surging across the U.S.-Mexico border, and the immigrants themselves aren’t taking their own health care very seriously, according to an audit. “Family unit illnesses and unfamiliarity with bathroom facilities continued to result in unsanitary conditions,” Inspector General John Roth wrote in a memo to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. Mr. Roth said the illnesses—which put the facility in Artesia, New Mexico, on lockdown earlier this year, preventing any immigrants from being transferred in or out—have proved to be a continuing problem. Part of the issue is the immigrants themselves, some of whom have never seen a doctor before, don’t follow up afterward, either for themselves or their children.[2]
Unfamiliarity with bathroom facilities? This is what we’re allowing to occur on our own soil—adults who are not potty trained. This is absolutely disgusting, and it facilitates the spread of diseases like E. coli and Hepatitis A. Incidentally, California is at present wrestling with a huge Hepatitis A outbreak originating in San Diego County, most likely attributable to a) the burgeoning homeless population the state ignores, and b) unchecked illegals inter-mingling—and for both, a lack of access to and/or unwillingness to use public toilet facilities. The outbreak has spread as far afield as Sacramento, and at least six hundred people have been infected. Hepatitis A is most commonly spread by feces-to-mouth contact, often through contaminated food. According to Dr. Monique Foster of the CDC: “It’s not unusual for [outbreaks] to last quite some time—usually over a year.” As Santa Cruz public health manager Jessica Randolph states: “I don’t think the worst is over.”
NEW YORK—If Albanian television had shown the program CBS showed last week—with a woman who has sex on camera for a living describing how she had unprotected BingBing with The Donald—I think even Albanians would feel so diminished they’d move to Kosovo. But this is America, and it’s a woman’s, woman’s, woman’s world! Or perhaps a frontal lobe is missing.
The reverential coverage afforded to a porn actress by Anderson—kiss me—Cooper was at its zenith. His smoldering gaze of restraint in not bringing up anal sex was touching, as was his phony squint of chagrin that no protection was used. (Anderson Cooper is good at talking about such matters as protection. He knows all about it.) See what I mean about moving to Kosovo? But this is America, not Albania, the Home of the Depraved.
Newspapers and TV have all become sacred spaces of the sisterhood, no ifs or buts about it, as they used to say in the Bronx. My hero H.L. Mencken said something quite different, but that was some time ago: “Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.” Mencken also quipped that “When women kiss it always reminds one of prizefighters touching gloves.” Great stuff, isn’t it? But I hate to think what these female versions of Vlad the Impaler who are in the news would do to Mencken if he were around today.
Never mind. The avenging warriors may be weasel-brained and look like four-eyed turds, but they’ve got the major news outlets and all the big-city populations behind them. In an editorial, the Big Bagel Times thundered: “We live at a time when a porn star displays more credibility and class than a president.” Well, that’s because the Bagel Times prefers someone who has sex in front of a camera for money over The Donald, who I admit has never been accused of having class, except he has a bit more than The New York Times. The paper can no longer be taken seriously, its animus against anyone white, heterosexual, and Christian so pronounced, it makes some of us who are still all three of the above feel like Jews in Germany circa 1936.
Again, never mind. Somewhere in the middle of all the shouting, the Weinsteining of all men, natural law is taking a back seat. Natural law can trace its lineage to the Greeks, Plato and Aristotle, and then to Cicero and on down the line to Montesquieu and Burke. Natural law clashed with natural rights during the French Revolution, and I think the two are clashing once again now that the sisterhood has taken over the American media. I hope there will be a reaction to all this, but for the moment it is all one-sided. More at the link
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The paper can no longer be taken seriously, its animus against anyone white, heterosexual, and Christian so pronounced, it makes some of us who are still all three of the above feel like Jews in Germany circa 1936.
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Both the NYTs and CNN have ceased to be serious journalistic media. Toss in WAPO too. The left owns the MSM. Probably best to tear down much of the MSM and start over since most of is propaganda.
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.
[OpsLens] So, who is Bill Priestap...and why should you care? Because it’s Game over! for the Democrats. The first thing you need to realize is just how central E.W. "Bill" Priestap is to the entire "Russian Conspiracy" story concocted by the Democrats. The second thing you need to understand is why the absence of his name from the media circus is a cause for concern...for the Democrats.
BTW, who establishes the definition of..... "scams?" 
[The Federalist] The attacks on former ambassador John Bolton following his appointment as National Security Advisor (NSA) have inadvertently served as some of his strongest endorsements.
[Daily Caller] Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey aroused controversy after labeling a Medium article "great" that claimed there’s no "bipartisan way forward" in the United States and that the country is engaged in a "fundamental conflict between two worldviews that must be resolved in short order."
[Daily Caller] It’s been a year since Dr. Ben Carson was confirmed as Secretary for Housing and Urban Development. For most of its existence HUD is the cabinet-level agency probably best known for management challenges and the occasional corruption scandal involving local government officials abusing funds.
