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Deep State Resisters At State Dept. Defy Jerusalem Directive
FrontPageMag ^ | Dec 12, 2017 | Ari Lieberman

Posted on 12/11/2017 11:42:42 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

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It's getting to the point where referring to someone you disagree with as Deep State is making the term as meaningless as all of the other cute sayings that have come and gone over the years.
1 posted on 12/11/2017 11:42:42 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Yes indeed. But president Trump either Drains the Swamp or else the alligators will continue to subvert his presidency and eat him alive.


2 posted on 12/11/2017 11:58:18 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Oshkalaboomboom.
The State Department’s current position as enumerated by Satterfield is also inconsistent with the will of Congress. In 2002, Congress passed the Foreign Relations Authorization Act. Section 214(d) of the FRAA states in relevant part “For purposes of the registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a United States citizen born in the city of Jerusalem, the Secretary shall, upon the request of the citizen or the citizen’s legal guardian, record the place of birth as Israel.” In 2015, a divided Supreme Court struck down the law stating that Congress had overstepped its bounds when it passed the bill. Justice Kennedy, who issued the majority decision in Zivotofsky v. Kerry, stated that the power to recognize foreign nations rests with the executive branch of government and the ability to determine what a passport says is part of this power.

3 posted on 12/12/2017 12:04:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

The take away is that this is, in every respect, President Trump’s State Department. It is his charge to be carried out, there. I doubt the president has any reason to know these absurd conditions at State, against Israel even exist.

Perhaps this column will inform him. It has informed me. If true, it will be fixed by Trump.


4 posted on 12/12/2017 12:16:54 AM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public education & academia= the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: faithhopecharity

This is easy. Anyone at State who refuses to follow Trump’s directives gets fired. SOS Marshall was opposed to recognizing Israel altogether, but when Truman said “jump,” he did.


5 posted on 12/12/2017 12:36:29 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

It doesn’t take years to move the embassy to Jerusalem. We already have an office there, the U.S. Consulate General.

Just change the sign out front to “Embassy”.

Do it yesterday.


6 posted on 12/12/2017 12:50:27 AM PST by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason. Its proponents are traitors.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Will those individuals be fired, or is the Executive Branch controlled by the Judicial Branch with lawsuits, judicial decisions and other tactics? We already know that the Legislative Branch is controlled by the many lawyers sitting in it.


7 posted on 12/12/2017 1:06:18 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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It appears that the State Department, staffed with a cadre of career civil servants and employees of the diplomatic corps, is conducting its own foreign policy, one that deviates from the goals of the White House and undermines its objectives. This group is perhaps more fanatical in its opposition to the president’s historic declaration than some Arab leaders.
8 posted on 12/12/2017 3:11:51 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

,,,,,, don’t let the door hit you in the ass ,, bye !


9 posted on 12/12/2017 3:14:33 AM PST by Lionheartusa1 ()-: There is nothing DEMOCRATIC about the democrat party ,, stop using that term :-()
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I don't quite see how this can be resisted short of actions that are cause for termination or worse. Other than private disagreement, of course, perhaps the President's mind can be changed. At the risk, of course, of being replaced by those of a similar mindset.

10 posted on 12/12/2017 3:22:52 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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Time to hand down some SEVERE PENALTIES, and take it out of THEIR paychecks !
11 posted on 12/12/2017 3:27:02 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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They are always sad and regretful AFTER
their treason and sedition are CAUGHT.

They must be indicted, tried, and punished.
Their freedom must be taken and their pensions seized.


12 posted on 12/12/2017 3:44:06 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

“...the State Department, staffed with a cadre of career civil servants and employees of the diplomatic corps, is conducting its own foreign policy,...”

This is insane. The FBI / dossier / Ohr / McCabe / Mueller / Sessions / etc. is insane. Enough already. Trump has had 11 months to use his position and authority to eliminate his saboteurs and install competent patriots in those positions. Starting 1/20/18 I’m done defending him if things don’t improve.

A Christmas gift multi-person perp walk would make me happy. I keep hoping that Sessions isn’t really asleep at the wheel and that he’s conducting major investigations to arrest about 20 people om Christmas Eve.


13 posted on 12/12/2017 3:45:19 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Free men are not equal, and Equal men are not free".)
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It's like we're LIVING at the start of "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace" ... when the government no longer works !

READ or LISTEN TO the words of Judge Roy Moore's poem below
14 posted on 12/12/2017 3:53:13 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

These federal employees need to either follow the directive of the president, or find another job. If they cannot follow instructions, they should be fired.


15 posted on 12/12/2017 4:01:16 AM PST by BOBWADE (RINOs suck)
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To: SJackson

He should replace them. Period. This is insubordination.


16 posted on 12/12/2017 4:41:58 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Trust in the President. Even Hercules couldn’t clean the Augean stables in one day.


17 posted on 12/12/2017 5:13:35 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Satterfield went on to note that consistent with current State Department policy, U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem would not be able to state their place of birth as “Israel” on their passports. The only options currently available to U.S citizens born in Jerusalem are to note either “Jerusalem” as their place of birth or if born prior to 1948, “Palestine.”


I cannot wait for someone to sue the state department on this issue. The Court ruling in the Zivotofsky case was clear: only the executive branch can make this decision. Well, the chief executive has now made the decision that Jerusalem is part of Israel. There is no sort of Twisted logic that anyone can offer which calls a place the capital of the country, and simultaneously says that that place is not part of that same country.

As for the various State Department officials who refuse to implement policy handed down from the elected president of the United States, I believe that they should not be fired. They should instead be transferred to our newest State Department facility in Deadhorse, Alaska. Of course, the State Department has priorities and limited funds, so that facility is just a few Quonset Huts surrounded by a fence, and will not be fully heated until sometime after the embassy in Jerusalem is completed.


18 posted on 12/12/2017 6:12:49 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Foggy Bottom has always had their own agenda(s). I don’t know how you’d drain that swamp of snakes. Maybe a few runs with the A-10 warthog?


19 posted on 12/12/2017 8:14:08 AM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I’ve heard for many years that the State dept is full of communists disguised as diplomats.


20 posted on 12/12/2017 9:45:48 AM PST by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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