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White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that "no one" is coming into the U.S. without a thorough background check amid terrorism concerns following the evacuation of more than 120,000 people from Afghanistan in the final weeks of the U.S. military withdrawal. "I can absolutely assure you that no one is coming into the United States of America who has not been through a thorough screening and background check process," Psaki said during her daily press briefing. The press secretary said the individuals who have not yet passed the screening have been sent to third countries, like Qatar and...

Joe Biden was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 and spent eight years as President Barack Obama’s veep, yet the corporate media weren’t curious about, or just simply ignored, his ties to Democratic Party segregationists, radio host Rush Limbaugh pointed out on June 20. The same was true about questionable deals with China and Ukraine that financially enriched his son. Suddenly, Biden found himself in the crosshairs of an ABC special report this week in the kind damaging media attack reserved exclusively for Republicans, he said. Why now? Because the media is deciding whom will be the Democrat...

“20 ‘Vetted’ Refugees Who Turned to Terrorism After Being Allowed Into America,” by Chris Menahan, InformationLiberation, January 29, 2017: While the lying media is perpetuating the lie refugees do not pose a terrorist threat, the facts show otherwise. Senator and soon-to-be Attorney General Jeff Sessions compiled this list of refugees-turned-jihadists in 2016 while Obama was pushing to dramatically increase the amount of so-called “refugees” allowed into the United States.

A damaging Friday news dump before a holiday weekend? Who could have seen that coming? Dump away, Justice Department: The Justice Department said on Friday that officials up to Attorney General Eric Holder vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose report on North Korea prompted a leak investigation. In a statement emailed to Reuters, the department said the search warrant for the reporter's email account followed all laws and policies and won the independent approval of a federal magistrate judge. We're apparently supposed to feel better about everything because the DOJ "followed...

Republican Mitt Romney said on Tuesday his White House campaign was vetting U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as a potential vice presidential pick, denying a report that Rubio was not being seriously considered as his running mate. "The story was entirely false, Marco Rubio is being thoroughly vetted as part of our process," Romney told reporters outside an ice cream shop in Holland, Michigan, as he wrapped up a five-day, six-state bus tour of battleground states. It was the first time Romney has publicly acknowledged exploring the background of a potential Republican vice presidential

From Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.: "President Obama demonstrated his citizenship during his campaign by circulating copies of his birth certificate, which showed he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961." From U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla.: "The claim that Barack Obama is not a citizen of the U.S. is false. This rumor is simply election year politics." She referred questioners to Snopes for documentation. From U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich.: "Rest assured, however, I will well remember your concerns regarding this issue during the 111th Congress." From Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas: "I welcome President-elect Obama's commitment to reform the...

Finally! I have proof positive that Obama was born in Kenya! I guarantee that this will hold as much credibility in a court of law as the Rather National Guard letters or the COLB that Obama posed on Kos.

It's been amazing to see a media shunned... since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the McCain veep, the unofficial 4th branch of power has been in overdrive for their own personal "vetting". And evidently, they are so insulted that they were not included in the campaign vetting, they've swarmed Wasilla like locusts, concentrating on just about anything *but* Palin's political record. So here's a roundup of the desperation, twists and turns, and tales of just what the media there is up to. And this doesn't even include the antics of Obama's team of lawyers, researchers and investigators.By Sept 3rd,...

This blog is the result of about a month worth of research on potential Republican Vice-Presidential candidates for the 2008 election. I had been considerably less than thrilled with all of the early speculation, mostly swirling around second-tier presidential candidates, so I decided to see if there was anyone better suited for the job that I hadn't been hearing about. So, I developed the following profile for the perfect VP candidate (using Rudy Giuliani as my presumptive presidential candidate): 1) A energetic, young, fresh face who will energize the electorate 2) Not connected to the current administration 3) Pro-Life 4)...

Documents released Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee reveal that the Bush administration's vetting of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers was controlled by a few insiders, a stark contrast to what Chief Justice John Roberts experienced as a contender for a court seat two months earlier. On a questionnaire from the committee, Miers — the White House counsel and a longtime friend of President Bush — gave new insight into how she was chosen by Bush after she initially helped lead the search for a successor to Sandra Day O'Connor. Miers, 60, said that during the two weeks before Bush...

Lock up refugees until they are vetted, say Tories By George Jones, Political Editor (Filed: 28/01/2003) The Tories will demand today that all asylum seekers should be held in secure accommodation on arrival in Britain until they have been vetted on security grounds. Iain Duncan Smith, the Conservative leader, will give a warning that the current "chaos" in the asylum system means that terrorists and criminals are entering Britain. He will announce that a future Tory government would seek an urgent review of international law on asylum, including the European Convention on Human Rights and the 1951 United Nations convention...