Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2015

Propagandem Fail o’ the Day

Speaking of conflicts of interest:


Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Turkey, the invasion of Ukraine, and a nuclear Iran. Yes, Hill has a done a bang-up job.


Priceless.

Hat tip: Willie.
 

Sunday, August 16, 2015

THE REAL EMAIL QUESTION: Did Hillary Clinton Sell U.S. Secrets?

Over at RedState, author "streiff" makes a stunning -- and quite rational -- assertion:

While the media is focusing your attention on the shiny object that is her email server, the real story is not being told. The circumstantial evidence indicates that Hillary Clinton, or members of her inner circle with her connivance, purloined highly classified US intelligence and either sold it, traded it, or used it for personal gain. This is not a conspiracy theory and it is not hyperbole. Stick with me for a moment.

Let's summarize what Clinton and her associates may be in for:

• Removing TOP SECRET documents from a SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility, an installation specifically designed to handle highly sensitive information) and placing them on a non-secure system: A Felony

• Removing classification markings from government documents: A Felony

• Trading classified information for money or favors: Not Just a Felony, Possibly Treason

Back to streiff's agenda, the first bullet point of which is the media smokescreen, happily relayed by -- among other -- the Associated Press.

CLINTON CRIME FAMILY COMICS: Hillary’s 5 Funniest Email Lies

Another instant classic by our long-suffering summer intern @BiffSpackle, based upon an editorial by The New York Post:
On Fox News the other day, blogger and counterterror analyst John Schindler explained the ramifications of Clinton's actions.

And if Vegas had a line on it, my guess is that longtime aides Huma Abedin and/or Cheryl Mills illegally removed the classification markings from the emails destined for Hillary, so she could always claim she didn't know they contained TOP SECRET information. And each such action is a felony, too.
 
 
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Saturday, August 15, 2015

VEGAS: Even Odds That Aides Huma Abedin or Chery Mills Removed TOP SECRET Classification Markings (a Felony) from Hillary’s Emails

You know it's gotten serious. I refer, of course, to the nearly unbelievable saga of Hillary Clinton's private email server, which the former Secretary of State used to conduct official government business. In clear violation of the National Records Act. And generate a billion or more in cash to the Clinton Global Graft Initiative in exchange for favors from the U.S. government.

And we all know where the Clinton "charities" spend their donations (hint: it starts with C, ends with N and has "LINTO" in the middle).

The negative PR has gotten to the point that even Granny Catlady was forced to address the scandal. In a public forum today, Hillary says that she never sent or received material that was marked classified.

Yet, my friends, Top Secret information was discovered among her various illegal email accounts, which makes clear that someone intentionally removed the TS/SI/TK/NOFORN classification markers. These denote "Top Secret, Signals Intelligence, Talent Keyhole, No Foreign Nationals" classified information -- in this case, spy satellite photos.

One State Department official has a theory as to how the classification markers were removed:

OBAMA’S POST-RACIAL AMERICA: Mentor of His Minister Shrieks "White People Deserve to Die" in Latest Sermon

Likely only a very few political junkies (i.e., losers) like myself remember the close personal relationship between Barack Obama's longtime minister, Jeremiah Wright, and the virulent racist Louis Farrakhan. Obama marinated in the hateful, anti-white, anti-semitic rhetoric of Wright for 20 years, which were mere echoes of statements by Nation of Islam chief Farrakhan.

It turns out that Farrakhan has been on one of his verbal jihads of late, this time calling for an ethnic cleansing of white people.

After two weeks of news reports that Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan had called for an army of 10,000 volunteers to kill white people if the government doesn’t give the black community “justice,” Farrakhan is reshaping his message – but only slightly.

In a new video of a three-hour address given Aug. 13, Farrakhan said white people (presumably the news media reporting on his previous comments) reported his controversial comments to provoke a race war when he gathered with his followers at the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March on Oct. 10 in Washington, D.C.

... “I wouldn’t bring our young women and young men into some place to be slaughtered. But that’s what the white man hopes for. That’s why he makes mischief with my words. ‘Farrakhan wanna get an army to kill people,’ because, you see, white people deserve to die. And they know so and they think it’s us coming to do it. No, no, no.”

Farrakhan later said in the video that a God will send a UFO, “a chariot” or “wheel in the sky,” to rescue his followers and carry out justice if a race war began

In other words, Louie has backed away from a call for direct racial cleansing by his army of Islamic warriors and instead wants some aliens to do it.

Say, if memory serves, that appears to be happening as we speak (e.g., "Illegal Aliens Account for Over 30% of All Murders in Some States").


Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.
 

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT LOST: Huge Majorities of Voters Want an End to Sanctuary Cities, Aggressive Deportations

Not that you heard any of this from vintage media, but it turns out that the electorate actively seeks an end to Barack Obama's illegal amnesty executive order; that it wants illegal aliens aggressively deported; and would love the federal government to go medieval on sanctuary cities.

What, exactly, do voters want the government to do with illegal alien criminals?
President Obama's plan to exempt up to five million illegal immigrants from deportation remains tied up in court, but most voters still don’t think the United States is aggressive enough in deporting those who are here illegally.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 60% of Likely U.S. Voters think the U.S. government is not aggressive enough in deporting those who are in this country illegally...
As for sanctuary cities:
Following the murder of a young woman in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant from Mexico, voters want to get tough on so-called “sanctuary cities” that refuse to enforce immigration laws.

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the U.S. Justice Department should take legal action against cities that provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 26% oppose Justice Department action against sanctuary cities.
Which could be why Donald Trump's immigration rants have struck such a chord. And why pro-illegal immigration candidates like Jeb Bush and John Kasich are dead candidates walking.


Hat tip: BadBlue Uncensored News.
 

Friday, August 14, 2015

SURPRISE: The Schmucks Running Hillary Clinton’s Email Server Had No Security Clearances

By Richard Pollock

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton entrusted her email server to an IT firm that was not cleared to handle classified materials, according to the chief spokesman for the Defense Security Service.

The DSS is an arm of the Defense Department and is the only federal agency authorized to approve private sector company access to sensitive or confidential material.

The agency reviews and approves private contractors to assure they have secure facilities and approves security clearances for employees to clear them for access to sensitive or classified materials.

Since 2013, Clinton used Platte River Networks, a small Denver-based company, to upgrade and maintain her private email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York.

About 13,000 companies have received FCL or facility-wide clearance. But Platte River is not one of them.

I’M WARNING DEMOCRATS HERE AND NOW: Putting Obama Over Country Is Treason

By Daniel Greenfield

“I think it's a bad deal and I've said so for several weeks now. I think we need to put country ahead of party,” Senator Jim Webb said. "It troubles me when I see all this debate about whether this is disloyalty to the president or the Democratic Party.”

Webb is a Democrat and he joins a number of other Democrats in criticizing a bad deal that even Obama admitted will allow Iran to get nuclear weapons after a number of years.

Obama and his cronies have pursued an extraordinary campaign of vilification against Republicans and Democrats who dared to question the deal that will allow Iran to upgrade its nuclear program and obtain ICBM missiles, that will fund its terrorist activities around the world and even lift sanctions on terrorists like Anis Naccache, who engaged in nuclear proliferation, over European protests.

The apocalyptic rhetoric out of the White House is meant to shut down the debate. Threats of war and accusations of treason are not the language of an administration that is confident in its own arguments.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

IF I WERE TREY GOWDY...

If I were Trey Gowdy and actually concerned with the future of the Republic, here's the statement I'd make:

Ladies and gentlemen of the press:

I'm about to lose my job as the chairman of the House Select Investivative Committee on Benghazi. I'm about to lose my office in the Capitol Building and get relegated to Melvin's office in the basement. I'm about to be ridiculed on ABC, CBS, NBC and the pages of Politico.

I can predict this with absolute certainty because I'm about to reveal the dirty, ugly secret of Washington: if you disturb the status quo, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, you will be crushed.

The elites in DC -- I call them the Beltway One Percenters -- don't give a flying monkey poop what the people think. Representative government has become corporatist government. And that goes for Democrats and Republicans alike.

Ever wonder why Hillary Clinton's long history of felonious malfeasance (an easy prosecution, I can assure you) hasn't led to criminal charges?

Easy answer: Democrats and Republicans alike are protecting her, because public sector unions, corporate cronies, and other rentseekers carry far more influence than do the people.

Term limits be damned: my suggestion is even simpler. A full term in the House should be three months; and nine months in the Senate. It would cut down on the election cycles, on the fundraising, and -- most importantly -- recidivism. The Internet has empowered voters with more information than the Framers could ever imagine. Faster election cycles for our representatives, I'm now convinced, would tilt the balance of power back to the people.

Plus, it would distract members of Congress from legislating on all but the most urgent of matters. It would get them out of our undershorts, like legislating on our toilet paper and lightbulbs.

Every member of Congress needs to be looking over their shoulder for the voter, every day. And the special interests would be hard-pressed to get priority over the interests of the electorate.

That's why a Senator like Ted Cruz is so popular. He dares to speak truth to the Beltway Elite.

So think about it. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

Sincerely, Trey Gowdy, soon to be writing to you from the House Basement.
 
 

WELL, AT LEAST THE DHS FINALLY STARTED PROFILING: Problem is, they’re only targeting conservatives

James O'Keefe, an investigative reporter with Project Veritas, crossed the border in 2014 dressed as Osama Bin Laden. Since the video showing his crossing was posted on YouTube, an apparently embarrassed DHS has targeted O'Keefe for interrogation at least a half-dozen times.

It all started in August 2014 when O’Keefe donned green fatigues and an Osama bin Laden costume and sneaked across the U.S. border to Mexico and then back into Texas, a stunt cited by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) during congressional hearings. His point, O’Keefe said in an interview Wednesday, was to “show that our elected officials were lying to the American people” by saying the border is secure.

But he may have messed with the wrong bureaucrats, since the powerful DHS — the third-largest Cabinet department — controls border security. Ever since, O’Keefe says, he has been stopped and questioned at length by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers each of the five times he has tried to reenter the United States. The questions, he says have been overly intrusive, covering everything from his business operations and what his next investigative project will be to his political views.

“It is our contention that this is retaliation for our journalism along the Mexican border,” O’Keefe said. “It’s troubling that they are doing this to a citizen reporter. … These questions have nothing to do with national security or border issues or smuggling narcotics into the country. They are questions that they would never ask a Washington Post reporter, that they would never ask NBC News"...

In other words, DHS is profiling investigative journalists, but not those who actually penetrate America's porous southern borders with intent to smuggle drugs, or humans, or weapons, or actual weapons of mass destruction.

Here's a thought experiment for even the most dimwitted of drones.

Imagine James O'Keefe had brandished a 33-round magazine like NBC's dimwitted hairpiece known as David Gregory did on national televsion.

Do you think he'd avoid prosecution as Gregory did? </Rhetorical>


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Federal Judge Orders State Department to Report on Status of Hillary Email Server by... Friday

The invaluable investigators at Judicial Watch continue to perform the Congressional oversight duties that Darrell Issa, Trey Gowdy, John Boehner, and the rest of the feckless GOP leadership hacks refuse to do. That is, actually see some tangible results related to the serial perfidy of Hillary Clinton and the entire Obama administration.

...Judge Emmet Sullivan today ordered the State Department to file by noon, Friday information about what it is doing to search Hillary Clinton’s email server now in the custody of the Justice Department and FBI. The court also reiterated its directive that the State Department disclose additional information about where government records may reside. The order is the result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial employment status of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). The lawsuit was reopened because of revelations about Hillary Clinton’s email records...

...Late last night, the State Department filed correspondence in response to another order by Judge Sullivan requiring the State Department to report on his directive to take steps to ensure that Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Abedin, and Clinton aide Cheryl Mills did not destroy government records. The filing included a letter from Hillary Clinton’s lawyer David Kendall that read in part:

[W]e have voluntarily provided to the Department of Justice on August 6, 2015, the .pst file containing electronic copies of the 55,000 pages of emails on a thumb drive (along with two copies), which had been securely stored in my possession, after receiving from the Department of Justice an assurance that it would maintain this file in an appropriately secure manner and the Department’s opinion that such maintenance would satisfy any preservation obligations I am under. Similarly, Platte River Networks is today providing to the Department of Justice the server and related equipment on which emails to and from Secretary Clinton’s clintonemail.com were stored from 2009 to 2013 and which PRN took possession of in 2013. This is following the Department of Justice’s assurances to us and counsel for PRN that it would maintain the server equipment in an appropriately secure manner. The Department also gave counsel its opinion that such maintenance would satisfy any preservation obligations we have.

“This latest order shows the courts are expecting quick action on Mrs. Clinton’s email system and that the Justice Department won’t be able to bury her emails,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “And her lawyer’s letter in response to the court’s orders shows Mrs. Clinton continues to withhold material information from the court. It also looks as if Mrs. Clinton is still withholding emails from the FBI and Justice Department.”

I hope you're sitting down to hear this bit of breaking news: Hillary Clinton hasn't been fully forthcoming in answering questions about her secret email server and the reasons for its mysterious degaussed hard drive.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

ALINSKY TACTIC #5,034: Hillary Blames the Clinton Global Graft Initiative and Email Scandal on... Judicial Watch

No, really, she did.

In an interview with the Mexican government's official broadcasting system, which is aligned with the Beltway One-Percenters' policies of open borders and the breakdown of the civil society, Hillary asserted that she has done absolutely nothing wrong.

Conducting official government business on a private email server, transferring classified files over insecure networks, violating the National Records Act, allowing sensitive White House communications to be compromised by foreign entities, running the Clinton Global Graft Initiative to generate nine figures in income during her term as secretary of state, and then deleting the evidence... well, it's the fault of the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy a small group of investigative journalists, you see:

MES: Let’s talk about a subject that seems that it’s very difficult to go away. And that’s the e-mail scandal. Even though you swore under penalty of perjury that you have turned over all e-mails that are related to any kind of, you know, federal record. Judicial Watch is still claiming that it’s not enough. Do you think that at the least that this has created the perception that you’re hiding something?

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

WHITE HOUSE: China's been hacking our emails since, oh, around the time Hillary began using her own insecure email server

Completely unexpected news o' the day: it would appear that Red China's cyber-warriors have been hacking sensitive White House, State Department, and related diplomatic emails since -- you guessed it -- Hillary Clinton began operating her own private email server to conduct official government business.

Chinese cyberspies have been reading the private emails of Obama-administration officials and "top national security and trade officials" since 2010, according to a senior administration official and a top-secret NSA document obtained by NBC.

The email espionage — codenamed "Dancing Panda" by the US before being dubbed "Legion Amethyst" — was detected in April 2010... "The intrusion into personal emails was still active at the time of the briefing and, according to the senior official, is still going on," NBC reported... "Dancing Panda" has successfully attacked at least 600 targets over the last five years, according to NBC.

The period overlaps with Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server for work-related correspondences while she served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013...

In fact, a wide variety of cybersecurity experts had claimed that it was a virtual certainty that Clinton's private email server had been hacked by China, Russia, and Iran.

As even the ludicrous DNC (and GOP establishment) newsletter known as Politico opined in March:

Monday, August 10, 2015

IRANIAN GOVERNMENT NEWS SOURCE: Obama will side with us in case of attack by Israel

Troubling news, relayed by Israel Matzav:


Analyst Omri Ceren observes, "Problem is not whether analysis is true. Problem is emboldened #Iran thinks it's true, and will act accordingly."

As I reported in July, credible sources have reported that "The [Obama-Kerry] Deal Is To Protect Iran... From Israel."

And it would seem that the Mullahs agree.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Saturday, August 08, 2015

CONFIDENTIAL FBI MEMO: Military Families Harassed and Intimidated by Muslims Right Here in the U.S.

By Judicial Watch

It was not meant for public disclosure but a news outlet got ahold of a chilling Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alert warning U.S. military families that they are being watched and confronted by Middle Eastern men.

The cryptic FBI memo was issued to law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Wyoming and says that Middle Eastern men are approaching families of U.S. military members at their homes in both states, specifically in Greeley and Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Middle Eastern men have also tried to gain personal information about military members and their families through intimidation, according to the FBI bulletin, which reveals that the victims reported feeling scared.

Among the stalking victims is the wife of a military member who was approached by two Middle Eastern men in front of her house. The FBI statement says the Middle Easterners told the woman that she's the wife of a U.S. interrogator and the men laughed when she denied their claims. Then they fled in a dark, four-door sedan with two other Middle Eastern males inside. "The woman had observed the vehicle in the neighborhood on previous occasions," the FBI alert confirms. This was not an isolated incident and in fact, the FBI reveals that it has received similar reports of similar events occurring in Wyoming throughout June.

Yes, the FBI’s Investigation of Hillary's Emails is Definitely a 'Criminal Probe'

By Catholic Online

"It's definitely a criminal probe," an unnamed source says in regards to the FBI investigation into whether Hillary Clinton knowingly sent classified information through personal email. "I'm not sure why they're not calling it a criminal probe," the source adds. The Clinton camp, in the meantime, downplays this.

Federal agents are investigating to what extent Clinton used her home server and other private devices to send and store classified documents.

"The DOJ [Department of Justice] and FBI can conduct civil investigations in very limited circumstances," but that is not what this is, the source says. "In this case, a security violation would lead to criminal charges. Maybe DOJ is trying to protect her campaign."

In the meantime, Hillary Clinton is "confident" that she never willfully received or sent any classified information.

But of 40 Clinton emails, randomly reviewed while she served as secretary of state, four contained classified information, the inspector general in charge of the case informed Congress.

Former federal prosecutor Bradley Simon says that if Hillary Clinton knowingly sent, received, or stored classified information in an unauthorized location, she may face "prosecution under the same misdemeanor federal security statute used to prosecute former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus," according to the NY Post.

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

What I enjoy most about the Obama era is the civility: Prez says GOP supports Iranian "Death to America" Chants

Post-racial, post-partisan healing. It's what I love most about this administration.

I realize that resorting to force may be tempting in the face of the rhetoric and behavior that emanates from parts of Iran. It is offensive. It is incendiary. We do take it seriously. But superpowers should not act impulsively in response to talks… Just because Iranian hardliners chant ‘Death to America” does not mean that that’s what all Iranians believe. In fact, it’s those hardliners that are more satisfied with the status quo. It’s those hardliners chanting “death to America” who’ve been most opposed to the deal. They’re making common cause with the Republican Caucus.

In related news, Iran's leaders openly seek the nuclear annihilation of America, England, and Israel.

And water is wet.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

Terror Victims’ Lawsuit Seeks to Block Obama’s Gift of $150 Billion to Iran

By Investigative Project on Terrorism

A deal to provide Iran with as much as $150 billion in sanctions relief over its nuclear weapons program should be blocked until the Islamic Republic pays court-awarded damages to American victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism, a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York federal court said.

The plaintiffs, victims of attacks by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have judgments worth $152 million that they have been unable to collect. Similar lawsuits in U.S. courts have generated billions of dollars more in damages. Iran, the lawsuit said, should not see a dime of sanctions relief until those victims are compensated.

By law, the lawsuit said, Iran should not be granted any relief until there is "a certification by the President that Iran is no longer a financier and sponsor of terror. That terrorism condition has not been satisfied."

Even the White House admits that Iran continues to sponsor international terrorism.

The lawsuit, facilitated by Shurat Hadin, or Israel Law Center, names the departments of State and Treasury, along with their respective secretaries, John Kerry and Jacob Lew. The two departments are responsible for enacting and enforcing the sanctions against Iran.

Releasing the frozen Iranian assets strips victims of "their last remaining opportunity to pressure Iran to satisfy their judgments,' the lawsuit said. And it violates terms of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, passed by Congress in 2002. The law aimed to help victims enforce their judgments by pursuing blocked assets belonging to terror sponsors. It contains the phrase "Notwithstanding any other provision of law," which should prevail over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the formal name of the Iran deal, negotiated by the U.S. and the P5+1 allies, the lawsuit said.

Monday, August 03, 2015

NEW BOOK BY OBAMA’S PARTNER IN PEACE: Denies Holocausts, Calls for Destruction of Israel

By The Tower

A new book by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei refers to the Holocaust as “a propaganda ploy” and promotes the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state, Iran expert Amir Taheri wrote Saturday for The New York Post.

Taheri wrote that he received a copy of the book, currently available only in Iran, from a friend living there. In the book, Khamenei writes that his plan does not involve a plan to “massacre the Jews” or engage in “classical wars” to destroy Israel. Rather, his goal is to engage Israel in a long period of “low-intensity warfare,” which would prompt most Israeli Jews to leave for the safety of other countries.

Khamenei boasts about the success of his plans to make life impossible for Israelis through terror attacks from Lebanon and Gaza. His latest scheme is to recruit “fighters” in the West Bank to set up Hezbollah-style units.

“We have intervened in anti-Israel matters, and it brought victory in the 33-day war by Hezbollah against Israel in 2006 and in the 22-day war between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip,” he boasts.

Khamenei describes Israel as “a cancerous tumor” whose elimination would mean that “the West’s hegemony and threats will be discredited” in the Middle East. In its place, he boasts, “the hegemony of Iran will be promoted.”

Khamenei’s plan would allow Jews with “genuine roots” to remain in Israel as “protected minorities.” At some point, Israel would revert to United Nations control, and a referendum of Palestinians and their descendants and any remaining Jews would be held “to create the new state of Palestine.”

Khamenei wrote that his proposal is not based on anti-Semitism, which he claimed was a European phenomenon, but on “well-established Islamic principles.” One of those principles is that any land that was once under Muslim control – which includes large chunks of Europe, China, and India – can never be ruled by non-Muslims.

Saturday, August 01, 2015

Obama Hiding Text of Iran Nuclear Deals And Unclassified Documents From the American People and... Congress

By The Investigative Project on Terrorism

Crucial aspects of the Iran nuclear deal remain hidden from the public, and in some instances, from the American government, Bloomberg reports.

In a closed-door session with House members Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry revealed that two side deals between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were reached. Kerry said he neither read nor possesses the secret agreements.

According to U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., a member of the House Intelligence Committee who attended the closed-door session, Congress also is in the dark on these agreements.

"Kerry told me directly that he has not read the secret side deals. He told us the State Department does not have possession of these documents," Pompeo told Bloomberg View columnists Josh Rogin and Eli Lake.

Furthermore, other secret agreements kept from the public were presented to Congress on Monday – part of 18 documents the White House were required to disclose – including secret letters of understanding between the U.S., France, Germany , and the United Kingdom that outline some of the ambiguous aspects of the nuclear deal.

Seventeen of these documents are unclassified, yet they are stored in ultra-secure facilities intended for top-secret information, the Daily Beast reports. These extraordinary precautions indicate that the Obama administration is seeking to keep unclassified documents from reaching the public.