Minor overlook:Media Fails to Note 6 Murder Suspects are Illegal Immigrants, MS-13 Gangbangers - Judicial Watch
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Inspector General Horowitz Debunks Comey Suggesting Exoneration: ‘Activities We Found Here Don’t Vindicate Anybody Who Touched This FISA’
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This from a down to earth PHD friend of mine and fellow memo reader responding to my climate posting several
memos ago:
You may know these facts already, but by far the most important greenhouse gas is water vapor, humidity/clouds...and this varies dramatically with time and location. Secondly, if you do a mass-balance on the production of atmospheric carbon dioxide, you will find that man contributes a whopping 3% of the total, 97% being natural. Thirdly, four times in our planet’s history, there has not been a speck of ice from pole to pole, all natural. Fourthly- did you know that half the energy to heat our planet comes from nuclear reactions in the earth’s core? Also- yes carbon dioxide has historically correlated with surface temperature, but carbon dioxide rises some 300 years after the planet’s temperature rises; it is a lagging indicator. In other words, heat causes CO2! Just saying’ that if just 3% of the second most important greenhouse gas in the second most source of energy is driving the climate bus.... better ask liberals to stop exhaling fast! C----"
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After three years and more to come, because of Trump's impeachment and Durham's Report, which may last another 6 months, what are the consequences of what we have learned to date regarding the various investigations.
My perception: trust in government, the FBI has reached a new low. Trust in the mass media follows the same trajectory of government and trust that high profile politicians, who commit crimes, are less likely to be held accountable is down around ankles.
What I find most reprehensible is that Democrats have done everything in their power, which is awesome, to blame others, to deny the obvious, to circumvent the law and lie when confronted by overwhelming contrary evidence. The list of Democrats extends from those in senior positions, those who led committees involved in the various impeachment efforts to newly elected Representatives who are frightened at the prospect of their re-election being burdened by the actions of their more radical associates.
It is quite evident, partisan politicians, who seek their version of the truth, seem not to care a whiff about the real truth so that our nation benefits. The mass media lead the pack.
One would think the ranks of Hillary's "deplorables" should increase and hopefully they will express their contempt in 2020 and re-elect Trump. Not because he is everything one would wish in a president but because he has worked tirelessly for America, against unprecedented odds, is associated with an economic recovery that is historically exceptional. and has been instrumental in causing other needed critical changes. Trump's support of religious freedom on university campuses was validated by his executive order Wednesday. Every president prior to trump as well as every Congress failed.
What the Comey crowd did had to be driven by political bias because what they did rose above "mistakes."
One can possibly believe the genesis of the investigation was not driven by political bias. Nevertheless, it's continuance became driven by a cesspool of political bias and that is the guts, the unexpressed message of the Horowitz Report whether it was tagged as such.
In the final analysis, there were major purposeful efforts to disrupt a president's campaign and, failing that, the Comey crowd sought to bring down a duly elected president.
Against this tragic trail of events, Democrats will be busy impeaching Trump as the New Year begins. Not only bad optics but a tragedy based on hatred.
Schiff, Nadler and Pelosi are this generations new McCarthy's.
There is always a price paid.
Schiff, Nadler and Pelosi are this generations new McCarthy's.
There is always a price paid.
Again you decide. (See 1 and 1a below.)
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Has Pete replaced Hillary? Don't these people ever learn?
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Has Pete replaced Hillary? Don't these people ever learn?
Pete Buttigieg Accuses Trump Supporters Of Being Racists - Read More
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Will a bit more pressure topple Iran? (See 2 below.)
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Lindsey Graham WRECKS FBI With Just One Question |
Proof that the FBI tried to destroy Trump.
Today, according to the Gateway Pundit, Lindsey Graham asked the FBI why President Trump wasn’t informed about possible foreign agents working in his campaign.
“[The FBI] never made any effort to brief Donald Trump about suspected problems within his campaign,” Graham said. “Nothing about Carter Page. Nothing about Papadopoulos. Nothing about the other people that they thought might be working with the Russians.”
“Why did they not tell him that?” Graham asked. You can read the full story here.
1a) The Horowitz Horror Show The inspector general is circumspect in his judgments but the facts speak clearly.
By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
A shorthand version of his report: Here are 50 facts that can be explained only by FBI incompetence or political bias. We find no documentary or testimonial evidence of bias.
The mystique of Christopher Steele has gone poof, along with the reputations of many pundits. The FBI saw that he was being paid to sell claims to the press even as his third-hand sources were contradicting his claims to the FBI. He was the kind of reporter (we’ve known a few) prone to “follow the shiny object.” The CIA considered his reporting “internet rumor.”
On the surveillance warrant on the peripheral and unimportant Carter Page, we learn that a host of mistakes, omissions and outright fabrications “made it appear that the information supporting probable cause was stronger than was actually the case.” Exculpatory evidence was ignored. Mr. Page conveyed persuasively that he had never spoken to or communicated with Paul Manafort whose intermediary with Russian co-conspirators Mr. Page was supposed to be. Mr. Steele’s implausible claim of a giant dangled Rosneft bribe was denied even by Mr. Steele’s own source as the inspector general was able to confirm by looking at the source’s text messages. Still unexplained, and inexplicable, is why the FBI was in a panic to eavesdrop on Mr. Page at all. Nobody could have believed Mr. Steele’s story about him. More than ever it seems FBI headquarters, from which the demand originated, was under some unidentified outside pressure to spy on the Trump campaign.
A line from Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” comes to mind. A senior French general, reflecting on the crimes and disasters spawned by his chain of command, insouciantly declares, “Wherein have I done wrong?”
Wherein can the agency be shown to have done wrong, though it flouted its own rules in publicly chastising Hillary Clinton even while excusing her from criminal liability, then flouted its own rules again when it reopened her case before Election Day; though the inspector general found many of the FBI’s decisions inexplicable; though he uncovered clear expressions of partisan hostility by FBI agents and their sources?
But wherein did the FBI do wrong?
Mr. Horowitz, of course, is largely restricted to looking at official acts, but unofficial and unrecorded acts are also part of the story. Specifically, the FBI was a leakfest. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lost his job and part of his pension for lying about leaks. Director James Comey was recommended by Mr. Horowitz for criminal prosecution for leaking. Mr. Steele was leaking to the press when the FBI considered him a confidential informant. Yet even Mr. Steele himself complained to the FBI about its leaking.
Mr. Horowitz is not a criminal investigator. He lacks subpoena power, much less mind-reading power. If somebody was thinking, “This Steele material looks bogus but let’s use it anyway;” he would not expect to find documentary and testimonial proof of it. And which file drawer should he search for documentary and testimonial evidence that the country would have been better served by a wiser, more circumspect FBI leadership, one less influenced by a manifest belief that Mr. Trump was unfit and Mrs. Clinton was certain to be the next president?
Ultimately federal prosecutor John Durham will have his say. He brings tools and powers that Mr. Horowitz lacks. He should be able to suss out the contribution of other U.S. intelligence agencies to the debacles here. Historians will have their say, with their special perspective on the temptations of bureaucratic self-deception and the comedy of errors that official life frequently entails (a crucial framing, we suspect, of the 2016 intelligence follies).
Whatever his legitimate complaints about his treatment at the hands of the FBI, Mr. Trump managed to win in 2016. Hillary Clinton fans are the ones still contending that improper FBI actions cost her the election. We can only wonder when Democrats and their media supporters will find their way out of their own fog and start demanding an unsparing examination of the FBI’s role in the 2016 race.
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2) Iran's Regime Will Fall if U.S. "Keeps Pressure On"
by Gary C. Gambill and Marilyn Stern
Middle East Forum Radio |
By Jonathan S. Tobin
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Middle East Forum Radio host Gregg Roman spoke on December 4 with Jonathan S. Tobin, editor in chief of the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) and a contributing writer for National Review, who called in a recent op-ed for the Trump administration to exploit a "historic moment of Iranian weakness" by ramping up pressure on its Islamist regime.
Tobin emphasized that recent waves of protests in Iran "are a greater threat to the regime than it has faced in the last forty years of its existence," judging from the amount of violence needed to suppress them. This puts Iran at an inflection point similar to that during the Obama administration when "international sanctions ... put it in a very difficult place." Unfortunately, at that time Iran's ruling mullahs were "rescued by the weakness of the Obama administration and its willingness to make a ... nuclear deal with them at any price."
For starters, the Trump administration should further ramp up economic pressure on the regime. "As draconian as the sanctions have been for Iran up until now, they can get worse. The United States can seek to embargo all oil sales from Iran," says Tobin. "Trump hasn't gone quite all the way to really strangle the Iranian economy."
Secondly, the Trump administration must take European countries to task for their continuing, if largely ineffective, attempts to circumvent U.S. sanctions on Iran via INSTEX, a bartering mechanism established at the beginning of the year to enable trade outside the U.S. financial system. Iran "is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and the Europeans are looking to keep a lifeline and the money flow to the terrorists."
Finding a way to "slap the Iranians down without escalating" is no easy task.
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Thirdly, the Trump administration must respond more forcefully to Iranian provocations, such as attacks on oil tankers. However, he acknowledges that finding a way to "slap the Iranians down without escalating ... into a conflagration that the United States can't control" is no easy task.
According to Tobin, Iran's extraordinary provocations over the past nine months are not a reflection of regime confidence, but rather are efforts to "distract everyone from the fact that it cannot withstand the pressures" of tightening sanctions. The Trump administration understands this – that "the more extreme the Iranians get, it shows that this policy is working," but "has erred too much on the idea of 'these are just bluffs, let's not play into their hands.'"
"This is an administration whose foreign policy has always been a mixed bag. It's always been engulfed in deeply contradictory impulses, which are embodied by the president's own beliefs," said Tobin. He continued:
[Trump's] desire to withdraw from the Middle East ... has always been at odds with his instinctive distrust and hostility toward the Iranian regime and his willingness to brave the brickbats he's gotten for reversing Obama's nuclear deal. These two policies don't fit together. His brain, love him or hate him, has always allowed contradictory impulses to reside rather comfortably next to each other. His policy in northern Syria, his softness toward Turkey doesn't really mix well with other elements of this administration's very strong, very commendable foreign policy initiatives.
"Iran can't help being what it is."
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At the end of the day, however, contradictory impulses within the administration have tended to get ironed out by the "vital" presence of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and they "do[n't] gainsay the fact that on Iran, the United States has consistently tended to do the right thing."
Asked if the ultimate goal of U.S. pressure on Iran should be regime change or a deal, Tobin argued that it doesn't really matter so long as the administration continues ramping up the pressure:
Our end goal should be to change that regime; I think that's what the Iranian people want. ... [But] there's nothing wrong about Trump ... or even Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying, "If you want to act like a normal country, we're willing to deal with [you] as a normal country." But the definition has to be ... stop supporting terrorism, stop building illegal missiles, stop threatening to destroy Israel, stop doing all the things that make you the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the end it's a circular argument. Iran can't help being what it is. ... [W]hether we say our goal is a better deal ... it's always going to go back to "change the regime" because that regime is not capable of being normal.
The Obama administration outwardly framed its pursuit of a deal with the Iranians in this fashion – as something that would lead Iran to "get right with the world," Tobin remarked, though in actuality nothing of the sort happened. "They took all the money that they got from the deal and plowed it right back into all the same rogue-regime mischief-making that they had been doing all along."
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