Liberty and Security Headlines for Aug. 3, 2017

Unto the Breach ^ | August 3, 2017 | Chris Carter

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The Cold Civil War

• While leaving Obama-era holdovers in place, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster continues his purge of Trump Administration officials viewed as pro-Israel and loyal to the president. According to Caroline Glick, McMaster refers to Israel as an "occupying power."
• Special Counsel Robert Mueller picks yet another Obama appointee to the investigation into Russia's purported efforts to influence the presidential election. Mueller has packed his team with Obama appointees and contributors to the Hillary Clinton campaign and the troubled Clinton Foundation.
• U.S. Congressman Trent Franks declared that Mueller's conflict of interest is in violation of the law and that Mueller should resign.

War on Jihad/War of Ideas

• An American ISIS supporter in Akron, Ohio has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for "disseminating ISIS’s violent rhetoric, circulating U.S. military personnel information and explicitly calling for the killing of American service members."
• The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a NATO convoy near Kandahar, Afghanistan which has killed two U.S. troops and wounded four.
• A top Iranian general...

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[Don Corleone]

This nonsense must stop!