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  • Is Our President a National Security Threat?

    05/30/2025 11:30:44 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 46 replies
    Yale University Press ^ | June 17, 2024 | Harold Hongju Koh
    The following is an excerpt of the book description written for The National Security Constitution in the 21st Century which Professor Harold Hongju Koh published on June 25, 2024.If re-elected, could President Trump, by a single tweet, withdraw America from the United Nations, NATO, and every treaty and international organization to which the U.S. belongs? Or if re-elected, could President Biden gradually take us to war throughout the Mideast—Gaza, Yemen, Iran, the Red Sea—by supplying weapons and ordering drone strikes, cybercommands and Special Forces without congressional approval?SNIPThis increasing imbalance of foreign affairs power has intensified across recent administrations of both...
  • New Docs Reveal How FBI Insiders Buried Evidence Of Spygate Crimes

    05/30/2025 5:41:39 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 23 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 30 May, 2025 | Hans Mahncke
    A bigger scandal than Nellie Ohr’s crimes is how the FBI handled them. Instead of referring her for prosecution, they buried the evidence. Nellie Ohr isn’t a new name in the Russiagate saga, but newly released documents from Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office shatter the fiction that she was just a low-level researcher and reveal her as a key conduit between Clinton operatives, the DOJ, and the FBI. The documents also pull back the curtain on a darker truth: an internal black hole FBI system designed not just to restrict access to sensitive Russiagate documents, but to bury them so completely...
  • Grassley Releases Newly Declassified Russiagate Documents Related to Nellie Ohr

    05/28/2025 3:56:14 PM PDT · by george76 · 29 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | May. 28, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    Senator Chuck Grassley on Wednesday released a newly declassified document proving Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr lied to Congress about her involvement in Russiagate. Last month Grassley asked FBI Director Kash Patel to declassify the FBI’s analysis of Nellie Ohr’s criminal referral after she lied to Congress. Recall that Nellie Ohr played a key role in the genesis of the FBI’s 2016 “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into President Trump. Nellie Ohr, wife of fired DOJ official Bruce Ohr was criminally referred to the Justice Department in 2019 by House Republicans after hundreds of new emails surfaced, contradicting her previous statements to...
  • Ex-police chief serving time for rape, shotgun execution of city worker escapes prison wearing homemade cop uniform

    05/26/2025 4:14:43 PM PDT · by Libloather · 31 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/26/25 | Ronny Reyes
    A disgraced ex-Arkansas police chief who was serving 80 years in prison for rape and a shotgun-to-the-head execution escaped from a high-security prison disguised as a cop. Grant Hardin, 56, the former police chief of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was seen on security cameras walking out of the North Central Unit prison, in Calico Rock, dressed in what appears to be a homemade law enforcement uniform on Sunday afternoon. Hardin, who is considered extremely dangerous, used the outfit to sneak through the controlled gate while inconspicuously pushing a cart full of utility materials, according to the Stone County Sheriff’s...
  • THE FATHER OF PULSE ATTACKER OMAR MATEEN WAS AN FBI INFORMANT. DID HE CONVINCE THE BUREAU trunc

    03/27/2018 6:11:06 PM PDT · by bitt · 19 replies
    theintercept.com ^ | 3/26/2018 | Trevor Aaronson
    BEFORE OMAR MATEEN charged into the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and killed 49 people in June 2016, the FBI conducted two so-called assessments, the bureau’s term of art for limited national security investigations that do not require probable cause. In both cases, the bureau determined that Mateen was not a potential terrorist. During the attack, while barricaded in a bathroom, Mateen suggested to hostage negotiators that he had committed the nightclub massacre in response to U.S. airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, including one that killed senior Islamic State member Abu Wahib. “You have to tell America to stop bombing Syria...
  • VIDEO: Agitators bang on doors at Trump fundraiser, punch attendees in ‘gauntlet’

    08/20/2016 5:28:06 AM PDT · by Kyle Olson · 108 replies
    The American Mirror ^ | 8/20/2016 | Kyle Olson
    Leftist agitators employed fascist tactics at a Donald Trump fundraiser in Minneapolis on Friday night. Video shows protesters banging on the doors of the Minneapolis Convention Center where Trump was speaking to attendees. When the event concluded, Trump supporters were forced to run a “gauntlet,” with many, including elderly women, being punched and pelted with garbage.
  • Jewish man stabbed to death in Uruguay

    03/08/2016 9:09:04 PM PST · by Lera · 18 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 3/9/2016
    Jewish man stabbed 10 times by man who shouted "Allahu Akbar". The motive is under investigation. A Jewish man was stabbed to death on Tuesday night in Uruguay by a man who shouted "Allahu Akbar", local media reported. According to reports, the incident occurred in the town of Paysandu in western Uruguay. The Jewish man, who was stabbed in the back ten times, was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, where he died of his wounds shortly after. The perpetrator, who reportedly is known to local police and has a criminal background, was caught and taken in for...
  • The Erdogan Enigma

    04/24/2017 7:14:43 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 18 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | April 24, 2017 | Daniel Pipes
    I nominate Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, as the most inconsistent, mysterious, and therefore most unpredictable major politician on the world stage. His victory in a referendum last Sunday formally bestows him with near-dictatorial powers that leave Turkey, the Middle East, and beyond in a greater state of uncertainty than ever.Here are some of the puzzles:Mystery #1: Holding the referendum. The Turkish electorate voted on April 16 in a remarkable national plebiscite that dealt not with the usual topic – floating a bond or recalling a politician – but with fundamental constitutional changes affecting the very nature of their...
  • The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin

    02/26/2024 5:30:53 AM PST · by george76 · 45 replies
    New York Times ^ | Feb. 25, 2024 | Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz
    For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia... Nestled in a dense forest, the Ukrainian military base appears abandoned and destroyed, its command center a burned-out husk, a casualty of a Russian missile barrage early in the war. But that is above ground. Not far away, a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line followed the route of an explosive...
  • Woman gets 6 years in prison for damaging pipeline

    09/22/2022 5:50:11 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 25 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | September 22, 2022 | By DAVID PITT
    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge sentenced an Arizona woman on Thursday to six years in prison for using a cutting torch to damage the Dakota Access pipeline in Iowa and setting fire to pipeline equipment in three counties in 2016 and 2017. The judge also ordered Ruby Katherine Montoya, 32, to pay nearly $3.2 million in restitution together with Jessica Reznicek, a woman who helped her. Montoya pleaded guilty to conspiracy to damage an energy facility. She admitted to helping Reznicek and others damage the pipeline in several locations in Iowa. “The sentence imposed today demonstrates that...
  • Russian Businessman Taken By U.S. Accused of Swiping Earnings Reports From Tesla, Others

    12/21/2021 9:22:29 PM PST · by blueplum · 5 replies
    Gizmodo ^ | 20 December 2021 | Dell Cameron
    Swiss authorities in Zurich put Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian businessman widely noted for his Kremlin ties, on a flight bound for the U.S. on Saturday, ending a months-long extradition fight that cast a pall over this summer’s Putin-Biden talks in Geneva. Swiss reporters first confirmed Klyushin’s extradition Saturday night; the U.S. Justice Department on Monday said the 41-year-old, a top official at Moscow-based IT firm called M-13, would stand trial on charges of insider trading, citing information allegedly “stolen from U.S. computer networks,” netting “tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits.” The charges carry potentially decades’ worth of prison...
  • Cesar Sayoc & Stormy Daniels Worked At Same Strip Club

    10/31/2018 1:06:23 PM PDT · by deandg99 · 22 replies
    DC Dirty Laundry ^ | 10/31/2018 | Pamela Gellar
    Is this evidence that Daniels and Sayoc, and possibly Michael Avenatti, are involved in a false flag operation to destroy President Trump? Shouldn’t that possibility at least be investigated? See also here. Shad Olson captured Sayoc’s Facebook page before it was scrubbed, and found that until 2016, Sayoc was a hardcore leftist who posted memes of George W. Bush with blood on his hands (above) and the like. Then he suddenly became a conservative Trump supporter, with no hint of a change of heart?
  • Pelosi and Schiff are colluding with their puppetmaster Putin

    10/07/2019 9:41:21 AM PDT · by Starman417 · 6 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 10-07-19 | DrJohn
      Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi are Putin's puppets. Let's see why. For the last three years Donald Trump has been falsely under assault from he left. Why? The phony dossier and more. Russia-linked accounts were said to have spent a grand total of $4700 in Google ads in 2016 to influence the elections. NADLER: According to meda reports, Google found evidence that Russian agents spent thousands of dollars to purchase ads on its advertising platforms that span multiple Google products as part of the Russian agents’ campaign to interference in the election, two years ago. Additionally, Juniper Downs, head...
  • Utah Oil Tycoon James Jensen and Wife Arrested in $300M Mexican Oil Smuggling Scheme — Feds Raid $9.2M Mansion with Battering Ram

    05/13/2025 7:12:00 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 60 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May 13, 2025 | Staff
    Federal agents have arrested Utah oil magnate James Lael Jensen, his wife Kelly Anne Jensen, and two of their sons, Maxwell Sterling Jensen (aka “Max”) and Zachary Golden Jensen, in connection with a sprawling $300 MILLION smuggling and money laundering conspiracy tied to Mexican criminal organizations. Court records reveal that all four members of the Jensen family were arrested on Wednesday, April 23 — with sons Max and Zachary taken into custody in the Rio Grande Valley, while James and Kelly Jensen were apprehended at their 26,893-square-foot mansion in Sandy, Utah, reportedly worth over $9.1 million. The arrest was carried...
  • A Communist Pope? An interview with author George Neumayr

    09/01/2017 2:20:53 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 16 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | September 1, 2017 | Maike Hickson / George Neumayr
    EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in the following conversation are those of the book's author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of LifeSiteNews. September 1, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Journalist Maike Hickson conducted an interview with author George Neumayr on his new book, The Political Pope. Neumayr offers insights into communist influences on Pope Francis.  Maike Hickson: Throughout your book, you make references to Pope Francis' relationship with communism or with certain communists in particular. Could you describe for us in general his attitude toward communism? George Neumayr: He tends to speak of communism in benign terms. He told the Italian press that he wasn't "offended"...
  • Trump Just Fired the Librarian of Congress

    05/09/2025 8:28:01 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 45 replies
    townhall.com ^ | May 09, 2025 | Leah Barkoukis
    President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, on Thursday. Hayden was informed of the president’s decision through an email from Trent Morse, the deputy director of presidential personnel. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately,” the email said. Hayden was appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2016 to serve a 10-year term, which was set to expire next year.
  • Biden’s New ‘Global Media’ Guy Richard Stengel Supports Limiting Free Speech, Bragged About Being a Propagandist

    11/17/2020 4:07:22 PM PST · by rustyweiss74 · 20 replies
    MenRec ^ | 11/17/20 | Staff
    Richard Stengel, new ‘team lead‘ for Joe Biden’s agency for global media, wrote an op-ed last year arguing for free speech restrictions. Stengel, a former MSNBC political analyst until he was named to Biden’s transition team, argued that the First Amendment needed redefining and that “hate speech” should be a crime. “All speech is not equal. And where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails,” he wrote. “I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate.” ‘Speech that incites hate’ was defined in Stengel’s op-ed by two examples – Burning the Quran,...
  • China seizes disputed reef near key Philippine military outpost

    04/27/2025 7:47:17 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    The Japan Times ^ | 4/27 | Jesse Johnson
    China has “enforced maritime management and exercised sovereign jurisdiction” over an uninhabited reef in the disputed South China Sea, planting the country’s flag on the tiny sand bank just kilometers from a key Philippine military outpost. Photographs released by Chinese state-run media on Saturday showed China Coast Guard officers unfurling the flag as part of an effort to effectively seize Sandy Cay reef, which Beijing calls Tiexian Jiao, earlier this month. The reef, located in the flash point Spratly Island chain, is also claimed by Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines. Sandy Cay also sits just over 3 kilometers from Thitu...
  • McCabe memos show how disgraced FBI leader kept Trump-Russia collusion hoax alive in 2017

    04/25/2025 5:40:33 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 30 replies
    Just The News ^ | April 24, 2025 | Jerry Dunleavy
    Newly-declassified memos written by disgraced FBI official Andrew McCabe shine new light on how he kept the Trump-Russia collusion hoax investigation alive during a critical period in the first half of 2017 before he got it handed off to a special counsel. The eight memos penned by McCabe, most of which had never been released until earlier this month, span his discussions and meetings (including with President Donald Trump) held from January 24, 2017 to May 21, 2017 — a critical time period ranging from just before the FBI sprung an interview on retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn to just...
  • Jill Stein campaign asked for documents as part of Senate Intelligence Committee's Russia probe

    12/18/2017 4:01:57 PM PST · by EdnaMode · 13 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | December 18, 2017 | Diana Stancy Correll
    The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested documents from a 2016 Green Party presidential candidate as part of the committee’s Russia probe, according to a new report. Last week, candidate Jill Stein contacted Dennis Trainor Jr., who worked as her communications director and acting campaign manager from January to August 2015, because the committee had requested documents from the campaign, BuzzFeed reported Monday. Trainor said that he was contacted because his personal cellphone had been given as the “primary point of contact” to those trying to reach Stein, such as producers from the Russian state-funded media company, RT News. Stein had...