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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

THE OPM HACK: Intel Community Warned White House of Impending "Digital Pearl Harbor"

By Mackenzie Eaglen

Don’t say we get it wrong 100% of the time. This year’s US government threat assessment by the entire intelligence community again placed the cyber and counterintelligence threat above that of terrorism.


U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta rubs her eyes, as she testifies before a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the data breach of OPM computers, on Capitol Hill in Washington June 16, 2015. Reuters.
The report, published in February, highlights the obvious, stating that “cyber threats to US national and economic security are increasing in frequency, scale, sophistication, and severity of impact.” The massive recent breach of the government’s personnel office (OPM) is just the latest and worst example, affecting well over 10 million federal workers.

More worrisome than the acts themselves is the increasingly political calculus and rationale behind these cyber penetrations—and the failure of deterrence by the US.

The OPM breach is the perfect example. In a warning act of déjà vu, the 2015 intelligence report also noted the vulnerability of OPM’s systems specifically based on a similar attack last year. In explaining the costs of data theft, the threat assessment referenced earlier unauthorized computer intrusions on the networks of the Office of Personnel Management as well as its contractors, both of whom are “involved in processing sensitive [personally identifiable information] related to national security clearances for Federal Government employees.” Unfortunately for those current and former federal workers and military servicemembers whose information was hacked and stolen, the government cannot say it didn’t warn us.

DOING THE RAPING AND MOLESTING AMERICANS WON’T DO: Obama DHS freed thousands of violent illegal aliens

By Judicial Watch

Thousands of illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes—including rape, child molestation and kidnapping—have been released in the United States by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the agency doesn’t bother keeping track of the alien convicts.

The DHS agency responsible for removing dangerous illegal aliens, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), simply releases sex offenders when they complete their criminal sentence and fails to monitor or force them to register with local authorities in the communities where they resettle. The incredulous story of this outrageous system comes via an investigative series published this week in a Boston newspaper that sued the government for the records. It includes a database of criminals that one former federal prosecutor calls “chilling.” The offenders are “dangerous and predatory individuals who should not be prowling the streets,” the prosecutor says in the article. “In fact, they should not be in the United States at all.”

But our famously inept Homeland Security officials simply let these monsters loose in unsuspecting communities, even though one law enforcement agency cited in the series calls the illegal immigrant cons “the worst of the worst.” At the very least, ICE is supposed to assure that the thugs register with local authorities as sex offenders, but the agency doesn’t even bother to do that. Instead, once ICE frees the offenders, agency officials often lose track of them despite outstanding deportation orders. It’s like negligence on steroids.

One disturbing case mentioned in the article focuses on a Cuban national named Santos Hernandez Carrera, who raped a woman at knifepoint and spent roughly half his life in jail. He was supposed to stay in custody until he could be deported, but instead the feds released him and lied about it.

OBAMA THE LAME DUCK: Constitution Rising

Liz Peek, writing at The Fiscal Times, offers an incisive description of a president at war with the Constitution. His serial affronts to our precious system of checks and balances are made all the more egregious thanks to an opposition party leadership that is either afraid of conflict or simply crypto-conspirators.

...It turns out that you actually can’t run the country all by yourself, even if you’re the smartest fellow in the room. That’s proving quite a shock to our legacy-hungry commander in chief, who is responding to various setbacks with increasing indignation and hauteur. But, never, ever, moderation.

Mr. Obama has pursued an ambitious agenda since he entered the White House, increasingly acting alone. Ever since he won passage of Obamacare in 2010 through an odious series of back-room favors, and then got burned looking for a “Grand Bargain” on the budget with House Speaker John Boehner, he has eschewed the normal horse-trading with Congress and chosen to govern instead through executive actions and regulations.

...On the griddle currently is the president’s Trans Pacific Trade pact, which Democrats in Congress oppose. Members of his own party snubbed President Obama’s humiliating last-ditch overtures [in which] he promised goodies galore – rides on Air force One, Oval Office visits and campaign help for those willing to vote for his bill. He hoped to counter AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka’s reported threats that Big Labor will mount primary challenges against those who back the trade measure.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

WEIMAR II? The Next Great European Financial Crisis Has Begun

By Michael Snyder

The Greek financial system is in the process of totally imploding, and the rest of Europe will soon follow.

Neither the Greeks nor the Germans are willing to give in, and that means that there is very little chance that a debt deal is going to happen by the end of June. So that means that we will likely see a major Greek debt default and potentially even a Greek exit from the eurozone. At this point, credit default swaps on Greek debt have risen 456 percent in price since the beginning of this year, and the market has priced in a 75 percent chance that a Greek debt default will happen.

Over the past month, the yield on two year Greek bonds has skyrocketed from 20 percent to more than 30 percent, and the Greek stock market has fallen by a total of 13 percent during the last three trading days alone. This is what a financial collapse looks like, and if Greece does leave the euro, we are going to see this kind of carnage happen all over Europe.

Officials over in Europe are now openly speaking of the need to prepare for a “state of emergency” now that negotiations have totally collapsed. At one time, it would have been unthinkable for Greece to leave the euro, but now it appears that this is precisely what will happen unless a miracle happens…

"Islamophobia" or... common sense?

By Raheel Raza

Massive confusion is created around the issues of Islamophobia where young vulnerable Muslim youth are made to believe that they are targets of an institutionalized hate-mongering campaign against Islam and Muslims.

Let’s be clear that Islamophobia is a growing, well-funded, well-“oiled” industry which is being used as a lethal weapon against the West.

As usual, massive confusion is created around the issues of Islamophobia where young vulnerable Muslim youth are made to believe that they are targets of an institutionalized hate-mongering campaign against Islam and Muslims.

These naïve Muslims are not informed that Islamophobia was created in the 1990s, when U.S. Muslim Brotherhood groups decided to “play victim” for the purpose of “beating down critics.”  

They seem to have succeeded in “beating down critics” because there is an intentional muzzling of debate and discussion about Islam and Muslims. Any criticism against acts by Muslims is immediately dubbed “Islamophobia,” which petrifies the non-Muslim community into silence.

Monday, June 15, 2015

SERIOUSLY: Hillary Clinton lists her second greatest accomplishment ever as... watching TV

Named to ask her two signature achievements in politics, the thoroughly unaccomplished Hillary Clinton stumbled for an answer. What she came up with was worthy of a scene in Being There:

Without looking it up on any liberal media news site, please list for me two Hillary Clinton accomplishments. You’re right, my bad. Please name one accomplishment.

Come on, you got this. Just one.

No? Okay, well, I’m stumped too....


Let's unpack this:

Russia: After her ill-advised efforts to appease the dictator Vladimir Putin by handing him a cheap plastic bauble (the infamous "reset" button), Russia has responded with an unprecedented wave of expansionism:

• As it became clear that Republicans would lose the White House in 2008, Russia invaded Georgia.

• It invaded Crimea in 2014.

• This month, it restarted the proxy war with Ukraine.

• It is preparing for war in the Arctic, executing plans "to put 'Bastion' anti-ship missile systems at their Arctic bases in 2015, to go along with airfield improvements, aircraft deployments, and installation of mobile anti-air missile systems and early warning radars."

• It has resumed overt aggression against U.S. warships, begun executing joint military drills with Red China in the Mediterranean, stood fast as Iran's staunchest ally in its race to acquire nuclear weapons, and -- most importantly -- it paid the Clinton Crime Family off in exchange for one-fifth of all U.S. uranium, one of America's most precious military assets.

Oh, and that's just Hillary's finest accomplishment.

Her second one's even funnier.

She watched the Bin Laden raid on TV.

That's it.

That's all she's got.

And this is the Democrat Party's de facto Presidential candidate?

This isn't a political party. It's an SNL skit.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Top 10 Questions Hillary Clinton Won’t Answer

Highlighting the funniest line from Hillary Clinton's campaign relaunch ("We need to stop the flow of secret, unaccountable money."), author Peter Schweizer lays down the hurt on the Clinton Crime Family.

1. Why did Hillary Clinton approve the transfer of 20% of U.S. uranium to the Russian government, even as her family foundation hauled in $145 million from investors in the deal, and Bill received $500,000 from a Kremlin-backed bank for a speech in Moscow?

2. Why did Hillary Clinton allow top investors in the Keystone XL pipeline to pay her husband $1.8 million to deliver 10 speeches, even as she quietly shepherded an environmental impact study through her State Department that (surprise!) proved largely supportive of the pipeline?

3. Why did Hillary Clinton violate the memorandum of understanding she signed with the Obama administration promising to disclose all donors, including the foreign head of the Russian government’s Uranium One, Ian Telfer, who funneled four donations totaling $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation that were never revealed?

4. How does HIllary Clinton explain the 2 million shares of stock foreign mining magnate Stephen Dattels gave the Clinton Foundation, even as her State Department allowed “open pit coal mining” in Bangladesh, where Dattels’ Polo Resources had a stake?

5. Why has Hillary Clinton released the names of only 24 of the roughly 1,100 hidden foreign Clinton Foundation donors, leaving 1,076 still secret?

6. Why did Hillary Clinton deliver eight speeches totaling $1.6 million in speaking fees paid for by two of the largest banks tied to the Keystone XL pipeline (in addition to the $1.8 million Bill bagged for the 10 Keystone investor-funded speeches he delivered during Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State)?

7. Why did Hillary Clinton allow 181 Clinton Foundation donors to lobby Hillary’s State Department?

8. Why did the Clintons’ family foundation receive millions from Qatar, as well as donations from FIFA, the soccer organization now enmeshed in a bribery and corruption scandal of global proportions?

9. Why did the Clintons create a secret “pass-through” company, WJC, LLC?

10. Which did Hillary’s State Department “approve $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation” according to the International Business Times?

I can't wait for Hillary's campaign to implode.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Citizen Activists Protest Dirty Clinton Deal Handing Over Critical U.S. Port to Terror-Tied Interests

By Daniel Greenfield

You may remember the Dubai Ports World controversy, but while that deal became a high profile controversy because it happened under Bush, another UAE company has moved in on an even more significant port.

Beginning next month, ocean shipping container operations at Florida’s deep-water Port Canaveral, teeming with U.S. Navy nuclear submarines, NATO-ally nuclear submarines, and record numbers of cruise ships, and situated close to Kennedy Space Center, will be controlled by Gulftainer, a foreign company from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with close ties to former President Bill Clinton.

Port Canaveral is home to critical national security operations and infrastructure. A plethora of space and defense installations and programs, many of them highly classified, are situated either inside the port or within the immediate vicinity:

The Democrats who objected to the DPW deal have kept quiet and waved it through.

Is Ted Cruz Too Smart to Be President?

By Dan Friedman

Consider this a free seminar on the intricacies of enacting a trade deal in Congress.

Only last week the media was all atwitter about Cruz jumping the Conservative ship, and voting to support (parts of) Obama’s pacific trade pact. This is complicated stuff, and not very sexy. You simply can’t explain it with a sound bite. But listen to this twenty-minute radio interview with Cruz as he brilliantly breaks down his position and in the process teaches us a lot about foreign trade, the Congressional process, and himself.

People who question Ted Cruz’s “electability” are missing the point. The question isn’t whether or not he can win, but what happens to us if he doesn’t.


Read more at BadBlue News.
 

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Candidate for Best Political Cartoon of the Year

Spotted at The American Thinker:

If it worked for Rachel Dolezal...


Hillary Clinton is a fraud, a criminal, and a national security nightmare.

All reasons why the Democrat Party seeks to make her President.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

GREEN BERET HERO FACES COURT MARTIAL: He Reported on Illegal Ransom Paid for Bowe Bergdahl

By Sara Noble

A Green Beret and a real American war hero, Lt. Col. Jason Amerine, exposed illegal and amoral activities by the Obama administration worthy of a tinpot dictatorship that took place over the Bergdahl swap. A complaint about an illegal ransom of about $2 billion paid for Bergdahl in addition to swapping five dangerous Taliban thugs implicated the DOD and the DOJ.

Amerine told Congress, which is well within his legal rights. In fact, it was his duty.

Because this brave man told the truth, he is facing a court-martial.

INFOGRAPHIC: How to Tell Age in Prog Years

By The People's Cube

Need help figuring out an age in prog years? Use this handy-dandy reference chart as a tutorial:


Read more at The People's Cube
 

DIABOLICAL: Obama now wants to fundamentally transform your neighborhood (into a ghetto)

By Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Obama is now making offers to debt-ridden municipalities that they dare not take. It’s like the devil offering you a way out and then collecting on that debt. Or, if you prefer, it’s like the mafia giving you money to solve your problems and then you owe them. Forever. The leaders in these areas won’t ask the residents and voters, they’ll let the silver cross their palms and will be blinded by the shininess of the coin they pocket. Corruption will finish selling free America down the proverbial river. I’ll be blunt… these municipalities should not be taking money from the feds. They should solve their problems at the local level, stand on their own and not be beholden to a governmental behemoth.

Under the guise of Obama’s Utopia, our president has been plotting for years the ultimate wealth redistribution here in America. It’s Marxist social and demographic engineering on a breathtaking scale. I believe this is the most insidious thing he has planned for us and it is a killer.

Obama believes the suburbs and wealthier neighborhoods are far too white. They are not racially diverse enough for his tastes. So, he is now going to municipalities that are sorely in need of funds and very much in debt up to their eyeballs, and offering them a way out. Say they are $5 or $10 million in the hole… well, the feds will give them $50 million. All they have to do is buy some land in an upscale area; sell it to a contractor that will build affordable housing and the government will take care of the rest. They will bring in minorities, the poor and disadvantaged… but even more importantly, liberal voters who will vote for Marxist policies. They will also resettle Islamic refugees and immigrants from across our southern border throughout these neighborhoods, leveling the demographic playing field into one huge ghetto from sea to shining sea. Just ask Sweden and the Netherlands how that has worked out for them.

Friday, June 12, 2015

FEDERAL COURT TO IRS: Produce Lois Lerner Emails... Today!

By Judicial Watch

Calling all conservative activists, citizens and groups who were silenced and harassed by the Obama Internal Revenue Service in the run-up to the 2012 elections and beyond — you should know that we have moved a few steps closer to holding the Obama administration accountable for its criminal misuse of the federal tax-collecting agency.

We are pleased to announce that Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a Judicial Watch request to issue an order requiring the IRS to provide answers by June 12, 2015, on the status of the Lois Lerner emails the IRS had previously declared lost. Judicial Watch raised questions about the IRS’ handling of the missing emails issue in a June 2 court filing, demanding answers about Lois Lerner’s emails, which had been recovered from backup tapes. Judge Sullivan issued the court order on June 4, 2015.

In its June 2 filing, Judicial Watch detailed:

Baby Jihad

By Raymond Ibrahim

In 1900, the Muslim population of the world was less than 200 million. Conversely, the Christian population of the world was almost 560 million—almost three times the number of Muslims.

Times have changed. According to the findings of a Pew Research Center in America:

The number of Muslims will increase at more than double the rate of the world’s population, which is expected to rise by 35 per cent in the next four decades.

There will be more Muslims than Christians in the world in less than sixty years, new research revealed.

The [Islamic] religion’s share of the world’s population will equal the Christian share – at roughly 32 per cent each – in 2070, analysis by the Pew Research Center showed.

[…]

By 2050 Muslims will make up around ten per cent of Europe’s population.

For a better idea of what is in store for Europe, simply look to the UK’s “Londonistan”—the apt name for London and other regions with a notable Muslim presence: Already with a 10 percent Muslim population, Londonistan is a reflection of Europe 35 years from now when it too is projected to be ten percent Muslim (and by which time the UK will likely have an even much larger Muslim population).

The same sorts of anti-infidel violence and sexual abuse that is a daily fixture in Muslim majority nations is already a normal feature of Londonistan with its mere 10 percent Muslim minority.

Put differently, if “ISIS” and other Islamic groups regularly behead “infidel” men and sexually enslave “infidel” women in the Middle East—so are “average” Muslims doing so in the UK:

Thursday, June 11, 2015

SURE, WHY NOT? Clinton Crime Fund Taps "Mistress of Disaster" Jamie Gorelick as Defense Counsel

No, it's not a headline from The Onion. It's real. And it's spectacular:

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation are asking a federal judge in Florida to toss out a conservative legal activist's lawsuit claiming the former secretary of state used her private email account and the promise of changes in U.S. foreign policy to shake people down for speaking fees and donations to the foundation.

The Clinton Foundation has also pulled in a legal big-gun, former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick [Ed: "The Mistress of Disaster"], to lead its defense against the racketeering suit filed in March by Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch.

In her first filing in the case last week, Gorelick — a partner at D.C. law firm Wilmer Hale — called the claims in the lawsuit "fatuous." She argued that Klayman's grievance is derived from what he contends were incomplete responses to Freedom of Information Act requests his organization filed with the State Department. Klayman contends those responses could not have been complete because Hillary Clinton used a private email account and server for all her email and only returned some of her messages to the department at its request last year.

Gorelick and longtime Clinton personal lawyer David Kendall argued in separate motions filed last week with U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks that any of Klayman's issues with the FOIA responses should be resolved through litigation pending in Washington against the State Department, not through a racketeering lawsuit against the Clintons personally and the foundation... "Plaintiff has no constitutional right to Secretary Clinton’s e-mail," Kendall wrote in a parallel motion filed by the Clintons.

Gorelick is known worldwide as "The Mistress of Disaster" for her involvement in not one, but two, trillion-dollar disasters.

Oh, and Politiho's Josh Gerstein notes that Gorelick's last federal litigation experience was also a catastrophe: she represented Duke University in its infamous persecution of the school's lacrosse team for rapes that never occurred.

Duke was forced to settle with members of the team after Gorelick's stellar work.

Come to think of it, the Clinton Crime Fund's employment of Gorelick may be the best thing that could have happened. For us.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

At what point does a President’s actions become treason?

Writing at the Wall Street Journal, Jay Solomon proffers "U.S. Strategy in Lebanon Stirs Fears":
Critics say Washington’s funding cut for a program in Lebanon to develop alternative Shiite political voices to Hezbollah is an effort to appease Iran...Coming on the heels of an expected deal with Iran, it is bound to generate much speculation about possible ulterior motives.

AMMAN, Jordan—The U.S. cut funding for a civil society program in Lebanon that seeks to develop alternative Shiite political voices to Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed militia and political party.

The group that received the U.S. support and critics said that the Obama administration was curtailing its efforts to counter Hezbollah to avoid confronting Shiite Iran, with which it is negotiating to conclude a historic nuclear accord this month.

These people say the funding cut imperils a program that underpinned criticism in Lebanon of Hezbollah’s growing role in supporting President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s civil war... "We are more immediately worried about the message this sends to Shia communities, in Lebanon and the region, about their options for the future," said Lokman Slim, director of Hayya Bina, the organization that lost the funding.

...the U.S. move feeds into an increasingly alarmed narrative held by many Arab leaders who say that U.S. and Iranian interests appear increasingly aligned—at their expense. Both Washington and Tehran are fighting Islamic State forces in Iraq and Syria, with U.S. conducting airstrikes against the militants, but notably not against Mr. Assad’s Iran-backed regime.

Hezbollah, which the U.S. classifies as a terror organization, receives extensive funding and arms from Iran. It has deployed 10,000 soldiers in Syria to back Mr. Assad’s forces and counter Islamic State, U.S. officials estimate.

Saudi Arabia’s leadership, which supports the exiled leader of Yemen, was concerned when the U.S. last month met secretly with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels there that caused him to flee.

Most significantly, the Obama administration is seeking to conclude a deal with Iran by June 30 to curb its nuclear program in exchange for a lifting of international sanctions.

I don't know how else to say it. Barack Obama seeks a nuclear Iran that has hegemony over the Middle East.

I leave his rationale as an exercise for the reader.
 
 

"Let me be perfectly clear: I have no frickin’ clue what I’m doing."

By Alan Caruba

The headline topping the Wednesday, June 10 Wall Street Journal read “Obama Set to Expand Troops in Iraq.” We are six years, 143 days into the two terms Barack Hussein Obama has served in the office of President of the United States and he is as clueless now as he was when he arrived on January 20, 2009.

“President Barack Obama is poised to send hundreds more American advisers to a new base in a strategic Iraqi region to help devise a counterattack against marauding Islamic State militants, U.S. officials said Tuesday, a shift that underscores American concern over recent battlefield losses.” It’s 450 “trainers.”

We have had losses because: (1) Obama was elected on a promise to end the conflict in Iraq and (2) reelected by pulling out troops to the point that the remaining Iraqi troops -- Shiites in the south --decided it wasn’t worth dying for their leaders. Can’t say I blame them, but dying at the hands of ninth century Islamic fanatics is the fate that threatens the entire Middle East, not just Iraq or what’s left of it.

This is how we lost the war in Vietnam. There was a time when Americans utterly destroyed their enemies on the battlefield. In the latter half of the last century, starting with the Korean War, we lost the will to completely engage with the enemy.

Huge AP Scoop Catches Obama With His Pants Around His Ankles (Not Reggie Love-related)

By Dan Friedman

Barack Obama was just caught red-handed lying through his teeth about the Iran deal and attempting to fool Congress and the American people about “sanctions.” I contend this takes us well beyond the point of questioning Obama’s judgment and brings us to the point of questioning his motives.

I fear if enough Americans continue to ignore what Obama is doing in broad daylight, we will become victims of the greatest scam since the Trojan Horse rolled into Troy – with similarly disastrous results only on a worldwide scale.

Read this explanation of the AP story first, and then go on to read the actual story below that.

There's a lot going on in this piece, it's 1,100 words, and it gets highly technical very early. But it's also functionally an expose of how the Obama administration is going to shred the entire sanctions regime despite having promised lawmakers the exact opposite, and so the story will rightly be driving the discussion for the next couple of days at least.

In short, the AP has must revealed two major scoops:

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

INFOGRAPHIC: Which Dictator Killed the Most People?

Each and every one a radical socialist committed to centralized, totalitarian government. Every single one.


Yes, Hitler was a self-proclaimed socialist, not a right-winger.

Don't bother alerting the media. They don't care.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.