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State Department officials were explicitly ordered in spring 2019 to stop tracking 13 prominent Americans' social media accounts for information about the Joe Biden-Ukraine scandal because the monitoring violated federal law, according to emails that were originally redacted to hide the concerns from the American public. "We are barred by law from actively monitoring the accounts of American citizens in aggregate — and particularly from identifying and monitoring individual, selected accounts," a State Department official wrote in an April 1, 2019 email to officials in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Kiev The unredacted emails, obtained by Just the News,...

Retired four-star Gen. Stanley McChrystal has endorsed Joe Biden for the White House, citing his time working with the former vice president under the Obama administration and saying the Democratic nominee is "someone that you can trust." McChrystal, speaking on MSNBC Thursday morning, said Biden “is humble enough to listen to experts, is humble enough to respect people who serve and have served.” “I think that he would surround himself with an effective team of good people, I think he would set a tone in which he would bring out the best of people. Again, not everyone will agree with...

CBS News’ John Dickerson calls out Democrat Sen. Kamala Harris for Joe Biden’s “straight up dodge” on packing the Supreme Court

President Trump gets a lot of heat for his answers to questions. Much of the criticism is appropriate, some of it is mock outrage, but one way or the other, Trump does answer the questions. In fact, he answers hundreds more questions than his opponent. COVID has been devastating for the country, but it’s been a boon for Joe Biden, who has undeniably lost a step or three and does not do well with sustained exposure. Since the former vice president is rarely made available for questioning, you’d think he would answer the questions that he faces on those few...

Joe Biden told a Milwaukee television station on Monday that voters do not deserve to know whom he would appoint to the Supreme Court. After acknowledging he has a list of potential nominees, Joe Biden told TMJ 4 he simply is not going to share it. Biden also said his 1st choice is to select an African-American woman, but outlined his reasoning for not releasing a list of nominees

The discussion involves the low number of coronavirus cases emerging from bars and restaurants and how to handle that.and most disturbingly how to keep it from the public. On June 30th, contact tracing was giving a small view of coronavirus clusters. Construction and nursing homes causing problems more than a thousand cases traced to each category, but bars and restaurants reported just 22 cases. Leslie Waller from the health department asks “This isn’t going to be publicly released, right? Just info for Mayor’s Office? “Correct, not for public consumption.” Writes senior advisor Benjamin Eagles

Guest post by Col. Lawrence Sellin (Ret.)Did COVID-19 cause the Chinese miners deaths in 2012? Probably not. The latest attempt to demonstrate that the COVID-19 pandemic arose from a naturally-occurring transmission from animals to humans has failed, leaving a laboratory origin as the only logical conclusion. In April 2012, six miners in the Mojiang mine in southwestern China’s Yunnan province became sick with a pneumonia-like illness after spending between 4-14 days removing bat feces. Three eventually died.Virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson believe that the miners’ illness resulted from being infected with bat coronavirus during a cave clean-up...

Susan Rice Can’t Recall Much About Benghazi Cover-Up Judicial Watch Sues for Answers on Hunter Biden Travels A Victory for Election Integrity in Alabama Virus Update: The FDA and the Inside War Over Hydroxychloroquine U.S. Keeps Intel Given to 9/11 Mastermind’s Lawyers from Victims Susan Rice Can’t Recall Much About Benghazi Cover-Up Susan Rice has as much trouble with her memory as Hillary Clinton. Rice testified in writing that she “does not recall” who gave her key Benghazi talking points she used on TV, “does not recall” being in any meetings regarding Benghazi in five days following the attack,...

On January 12, Professor Kwok Yung Yuen diagnosed a family with the coronavirus in Shenzhen, 700 miles from Wuhan. Only some of the family members had been to the city where the COVID-19 outbreak originated, so Yuen knew immediately that he was seeing evidence of human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus. He immediately alerted the authorities in Beijing. But it took eight days for Beijing to warn the world that the coronavirus, which has now killed almost 650,000 people and infected over 16 million, could be spread through human-to-human transmission. Yuen, who spoke to the BBC show Panorama for an...

Do a little research, and ask yourself if it is OK for them to purposely try a stop an inexpensive drug that works for a large portion of the population, hydroxychloroquine, and instead promote an unproven one, Remdesivir, that is massively and profitably expensive. A group of medical professionals called America’s Frontline Doctors are trying very hard right now to expose a plot to prevent people from having access to hydroxychloroquine, HCQ, which is very effective against the COVID-19 coronavirus, and instead promote a new drug called Remdesivir, from Gilead pharmaceuticals. The cost per dose for HCQ is under $10,...

Producers for @FoxNews cut away from the White House press briefing when @PressSec showed a video of the ongoing violence in Portland. We expect that from CNN, but et too @HARRISFAULKNER ?

Award winning journalist Simone Gao, who hosts the program "Zooming In", goes for a detailed and in depth expose of the Covid-19 outbreak and initial cover-ups, from China and the CCP in this documentary, "The Coverup of the Century."

Washington (CNN)Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is undergoing chemotherapy to treat a recurrence of cancer. The treatment is yielding "positive results." The liberal justice, 87, said she remains "fully able" to continue in her post. Here is the full statement as distributed by the court: "On May 19, I began a course of chemotherapy (gemcitabine) to treat a recurrence of cancer. A periodic scan in February followed by a biopsy revealed lesions on my liver. My recent hospitalizations to remove gall stones and treat an infection were unrelated to this recurrence.

Hollywood star James Woods just courageously called out Bill and Hillary Clinton after a federal judge ruled that lawyers representing Virginia Roberts Giuffre must “destroy” files they obtained on late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. James Woods Calls Out The Clintons “Is there anybody the Clintons don’t own?” Woods tweeted in response to the outrageous ruling. Judge Rules Virginia Giuffre's Lawyers Must 'Destroy' Jeffrey Epstein Files // Is there anybody the Clintons don’t own? https://t.co/oYlvmSj6kQ — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) July 9, 2020 He tweeted this along with a link to a Newsweek article stating that senior U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska...

CIA Involvement in the Creation of the Russia Hack and Seth Rich Cover-up is now the focus of Group requesting the truth behind Trump-Russia collusion sham. In June 2016, Ellen Nakashima, a Deep State favorite from the Washington Post, released a report that the Democrat National Committee (DNC) had been hacked by Russia. The firm that validated this was Crowdstrike and its President Shawn Henry confirmed the claims. In December 2016, Ms. Nakashima followed up her reporting with the outlandish claim that the CIA had determined that Russia hacked the DNC because Russia wanted Trump to win the election. Nakashima...

.... The Justice Department released 80 pages of records showing top Obama White House officials scrambling to “evolve” its false claims that the September 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on U.S. Government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, began “spontaneously” in response to an anti-Muslim video on the Internet. .... Additionally, Rhodes says to Sullivan and other redacted officials: At least you’re only a liar. Could be worse – we’re liars and also allegedly leakers. So you’ve got that going for you, which is something. Sullivan replies: “We’re only lying footsoldiers [sic]. You’re lying masterminds. That’s cooler.” A redacted official replies to Sullivan:...

At 7:14 a.m. on this date in 2001, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. More ink has been spilled about the 33-year-old Gulf War veteran and his infamous crime than this space can possibly hope to summarize. Books can be — and have been — written debating whence McVeigh sprang and whether he was rightly convicted. McVeigh tended to keep coy about his version of his activities on April 19, 1995,* but he was never less than frank about his philosophy. Though his avowed motive, the Waco slaughter that occurred two...

Fresh evidence of China’s shocking cover-up of the pandemic outbreak has been found in censored media reports from Wuhan. Samples taken from sick patients and analysed by at least five laboratories had confirmed the existence of a lethal new coronavirus before China told global health authorities about an infectious disease that it claimed was unidentified. The reports obtained by The Mail on Sunday reveal that one team even found the virus was ‘clearly contagious’ while others had unravelled its genetic composition – vital for developing diagnostic tests and vaccines.

[Catholic Caucus] Catholics criticize Vatican’s long delay in releasing McCarrick report Catholic author John Zmirak declared that McCarrick was not only a 'monster' but 'the spider who wove today's U.S. church, picking its bishops.' VATICAN CITY, June 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― In the wake of Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington harshly criticizing the John Paul II National Shrine for allowing President Donald Trump to make a long-planned visit there, Catholics are wondering when the long-expected report about his disgraced predecessor will be released.  “Regular requests made to the #Vatican asking when the #McCarrickReport will be released have gone unanswered,” Rome-based journalist...

It's hard to keep track of all the news that's been happening, due to sheer volume -- but within just the last few days, President Trump announced that the United States government was terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization, as well as imposing new sanctions on Chinese government officials responsible for the unlawful and totalitarian crackdown on civil and political rights in Hong Kong. The Trump administration had previously leveled visa restrictions over China's human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minorities. The WHO decision comes on the heels of a temporary halt is US financial contributions...