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President Trump announced Sunday afternoon that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen "will be leaving her position" after 16 months in the job. Trump also announced that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan will replace Nielsen as acting secretary, tweeting: "I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!" ... Nielsen's departure is the latest staffing shakeup in the department, which was founded to combat terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. On Friday, Trump confirmed he had withdrawn the nomination of acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Ron Vitiello to become the permanent head...

Excerpt from "Barack Obama: America’s First Marxist President?"... One of these groups allied to America’s enemies was the Weatherman, a terrorist organization formed in 1969 by the most radical elements of the larger Socialist anti-war organization Students for a Democratic Society then protesting the Vietnam War. Willing to go much farther than most in the anti-war movement to bring an end to America’s effort to defend South Vietnam, the Weatherman engaged in a campaign of bombings and terrorist attacks in the late 1960s and early 1970s against numerous targets across the country including police stations, the Capitol in Washington DC,...