[facebook] WATCH: Washington sheriff after latest school shooting: "You started glorifying cultures of violence -- you’ve glorified the gang culture, you’ve glorified games that actually give you points for raping and killing people. Gun didn’t change. We changed."
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We put a lot of trust in the gate keepers and their background checks and it doesn't look like the FBI takes it very seriously.
Someone reports a video about a guy threatening violence on a school, the guy made it under his own name, the guy had a background check within two years to buy firearms.
Perhaps all of that is nothing but it seems certainly that its enough for further investigation. Perhaps a visit to the school where they would have learned pretty much everyone at the school suspected the guy would go shooter.
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When I was a teen in the rural MidWest all the kids- boys and girls drove pickups to school with gun racks in the rear window. I don't recall these kids ever shooting anybody. Coyotes, rabbits and other vermin yes, people no.
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#2 When I was a teen in the rural MidWest all the kids- boys and girls drove pickups to school with gun racks in the rear window. I don't recall these kids ever shooting anybody. Coyotes, rabbits and other vermin yes, people no.
We have a lot of urban spillover, peoples of shitholes, and drug trash now. Neighbor town had the local live in drug gang rep shoot down 2 in a deal gone bad then threatened some he knew prompting a number of lock-downs. Meat packing cities are turning into shitholes. Story from someone who went into a pizza joint to get dinner and felt like a scene from Captain Philips, customer who lives outside packing city was in shopping for body armor because latin kings and such. Traveling pawn shops mean users can steal local and buy/sell/trade a different town's stolen goods. Meth hives usually have at least one war dog such as pit bull and boy are they neat when they aren't fed right and escape to find a bite to eat. Had a drifter covered in prison tats yelling at me from across the street because I didn't give him the big cheese greeting. So yeah, we still varmint hunt but have had to consider 4 yards as well as the usual 400.
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Friend in the army was deployed to Haiti back in the 90s and told stories about Pakistani Peacekeeprs, little boys. The UN has known about this for a long time, and like the Catholic church they did nothing.
[Daily Caller] White House problems with the Democrats’ "rebuttal memo" on the surveillance of Trump associates are genuine and the document could disclose "sources and methods," California Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence confirmed.
"We need to go through that and identify that which remains classified and would implicate sources and methods or investigative interests," he said at a newsmaker’s breakfast meeting on Wednesday sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
His comments constituted a direct rebuke to his party’s top boss in the House of Representatives, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
White House counsel Don McGahn said in a statement Friday that Trump was "inclined" but "unable" to declassify the Democrat’s 10-page memo because it "contains numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages," according to Politico.
[Townhall] Demoted Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr is about to get towel slapped again. He was the associate deputy attorney general and headed up the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. Then, it was revealed that he had met with the author of the Trump dossier, Christopher Steele, and the founder of the firm that hired him, Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS.
Fusion, a research firm, was hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign, which then contracted Steele, a former MI6 operative, to gather information on Donald Trump during the 2016 election. This dossier, which is largely unverified, was used to obtain a FISA warrant against former Trump adviser Carter Page; a piece of partisan political opposition research was used to spy on someone who worked for the opposing presidential campaign.
Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS during the election, but he never disclosed that on his ethics forms. He didn’t apply for waivers either. The Daily Caller had the scoop, adding that willingly falsifying government ethics forms is a criminal offense; Ohr was rather vague on them and wasn’t transparent about the fact that the research firm was paying his wife:
Bruce Ohr, the Department of Justice official who brought opposition research on President Donald Trump to the FBI, did not disclose that Fusion GPS, which performed that research at the Democratic National Committee’s behest, was paying his wife, and did not obtain a conflict of interest waiver from his superiors at the Justice Department, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The omission may explain why Ohr was demoted from his post as associate deputy attorney general after the relationship between Fusion GPS and his wife emerged and Fusion founder Glenn Simpson acknowledged meeting with Ohr. Willfully falsifying government ethics forms can carry a penalty of jail time, if convicted.
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He did not "fail to disclose" - he DELIBERATELY WITHELD. The latter is a crime that is prima facia evidence of intent. This guy needs to be charged and put on trial.
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I've not seen much coming from all this so far. Some people have left the agency. In other cases the Feeb deck chairs have merely been rearranged. There's been a lot of CYA. No special counsel, no arrests, and no indictments. Perfect no-hitter; no hits, no runs. Maybe something will come of DOJ IG Horowitz's investigation and report.
[Free Beacon] Foreign Service officer Susan Thornton offers Obama-era policies toward Beijing at hearing
The nominee for a key State Department Asia policymaking post confirmed Thursday the State Department took part in preventing the FBI from arresting Chinese intelligence officials for conducting illegal activities in New York recently, but asserted she did not take part in the decision.
Susan Thornton, a career foreign service officer widely viewed among Republicans as favoring conciliatory policies toward China, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that if confirmed, her policies toward China at State would closely resemble the soft-line policies of the Obama administration.
Thornton, currently acting assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs was nominated for the key China post by Trump in December.
While acting secretary, she has taken positions toward China that sought to avoid upsetting relations with Beijing, according to administration officials who have taken part in interagency discussions with her.
[The Federalist] Half the country wants to know why the press won’t cover the growing scandal now implicating the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice, and threatening to reach the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, and perhaps even the Obama White House.
After all, the release last week of a less-redacted version of Sens. Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham’s January 4 letter showed that the FBI secured a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to search the communications of a Trump campaign adviser based on a piece of opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The Fourth Amendment rights of an American citizen were violated to allow one political party to spy on another.
If the press did its job and reported the facts, the argument goes, then it wouldn’t just be Republicans and Trump supporters demanding accountability and justice. Americans across the political spectrum would understand the nature and extent of the abuses and crimes touching not just on one political party and its presidential candidate but the rights of every American.
That’s all true, but irrelevant. The reasons the press won’t cover the story are suggested in the Graham-Grassley letter itself.
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Yesterday: "Russia! The Sky Is Falling! Russia!"
Today: "Old News. At this point, what difference does it make?"
Tomorrow: "Trump's Gardener's Nephew's Half-Brother was seen reading Huckleberry Finn ... Raaaacissst!"
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Because it besmirches the LightBringer's Legacy™ when it all comes back to him
As the Media sing: "Barack Hussein Obama. Mmm-Mmm-Mmm!"
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Because it takes a serious craftsman time and effort to manufacture evidence. Just any old slap together won't do. A good, strong, made up story is a credit to it's creator.
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Democracy dies in darkness, indeed. Especially when the press refuses to shine the light on themselves and their political allies.
If this nation falls, I will be happy to place on trial (then against the wall or under a lamp post) the complicit members of the press who colluded in the deception and blinding of the public. That includes reporters, editors and executives.
Hey guys we gave away the barn to the Chinese under Slick Willie. It is no coincidence that so much Chinese military hardware looks a lot like ours in many ways.
And how about the discussions of the nuclear weapons technology that I am sure is in the hands of the NORKS and Mullahs thanks to Willie and Shillary (a well connected sadistic sociopath).
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I dunno, man - I'm sure someone will bring up 'Russian collusion' again in a month or so. Someone really stupid & stupid looking, like Chris Cuomo.
[Bloomberg] U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller unveiled the details of a widespread and coordinated campaign by Russians to influence the U.S. presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, delivering on his initial mandate by the Justice Department.
In an indictment announced Friday in Washington, Mueller describes a years-long, multimillion-dollar conspiracy by hundreds of Russians aimed at criticizing Hillary Clinton and supporting Senator Bernie Sanders and Trump. Mueller charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities and accused them of defrauding the U.S. government by interfering with the political process.
Prosecutors provided a remarkably detailed picture of how Russians used social media, fake rallies and secretive operatives in the U.S. to create “political intensity” by backing radical groups, opposition social movements and disaffected voters. The outreach from the Russians included direct contact with over 100 Americans.
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This indictment is nothing but a Mueller Dog and Pony show (see attached graphic). We already knew about Russian meddling in our electoral process. Most importantly, the Russians indicted are outside the jurisdiction of the US Courts and Law enforcement. Putin will never allow their extradition. Finally you can't have a trial or even a first appearance before a US Magistrate without a Defendant standing there in court. Sure the Govt can issue arrest warrants, for a lot of good that will do. No Defendant, no trial. Finally, where was there any Trump campaign collusion in the indictment ? Answer, none.
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And hundreds of thousands of small credit card donations from Europe given to a particular candidate's campaign in 2008 which had turned off verification software were not widespread and coordinated effort to influence an American presidential election?
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The Russians have been playing grabass with our electoral process for as long as I can remember.
Need I mention the anti-war movement of the 60's?
Or the "Ban the Bomb" group from the 5o's and 60's who were all in favor of unilateral disarmament?
Of course, reading the article, I don't see anything the Russians were doing that Zero and Shillary (a well connected sadistic sociopath) were not doing with their nonsense and lies on social media and their fake news and smear campaigns of opposition.
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One other thing, in the article, did you notice how they said that "the Mueller investigation is ALSO looking at Russian influence in the Trump organization" suddenly the collusion is a sidelight to this earthshaking investigation.
At least they didn't Scooter Libby someone in the Trump organization...I think Flynn skates on everything because of all of the irregularities in the process.
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Hillary was not mentioned! It looks like Mueller was the Clinton insurance policy. Muhller is a crook and the FBI DC nest of vipers should be fired. That will not happen if we do not vote in 18. I am not Russian;)
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So when does Mueller foldup shop and go back into retirement?
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Mueller spent millions to indict a bunch of Russians for spreading info that caused discord. They posted stuff on FB. But they had no effect on the election. WTF? Even the Russians didn't like Hillary. The left is dumbfounded about her loss. They threw everything at Trump and still lost. They owned the MSM; they never gave Trump an even break--that is why Trump bypassed the MSM by tweeting. The left must have never watched the turnouts at Trump's rallys. I've never seen a candidate work as hard as Trump. Let's face it , Trump outworked and outsmarted the left and they are still pissed. Let's look at the real culprits in this election: The MSM, Hillary and the DNC, and even the FBI were all complicit. You can't have a guy (Mueller) running a Special Counsel who may be complicit with Hillary and WJC in U1. Let's shutdown the witch hunt and go after the real criminals who have corrupted this country for the past few decades.
WaPo laments the pending demise of GOPe/Dem/Media fav Maverick, hope Romney carries their torch
[WAPO] In more ways than one, followers of traditional Republican orthodoxy are facing an emotional inflection point this week.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), at home battling an aggressive form of brain cancer, will not attend this weekend’s Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of foreign policy leaders from NATO nations that has become a central clearinghouse for global security matters and a celebration of Western values and democratic institutions.
McCain, an avatar of all of the above, has been a regular attendee for decades. Last year, less than a month after President Trump took office, he stole the show with a speech that denounced the new president’s refusal to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Our fellow citizens seem to be flirting with authoritarianism and romanticizing it as our moral equivalent,” McCain said there last February.
But with McCain’s retreat comes the reemergence of another man: Mitt Romney, his political rival for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Romney had been scheduled to begin his campaign for senator from Utah on Thursday, but he delayed the announcement Wednesday “out of respect for the victims and their families” of a shooting at a South Florida high school.
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Well, I think McCain has done a lot of damage to the cause of conservative politics. But he is not all bad. On the ground in Libya, I found out that McCain was in the country several times and spent a lot of time trying to get some traction on the complete disaster that Shillary (a well connected sadistic sociopath) had created in Libya. He was also on the ground in Syria after the first Asaad gas attacks and couldn't get any traction in the media about Zero's refusal to honor his redline.
Some good some bad, John obviously wore out his well deserved title as a war hero. The swamp got him. As VDH said, you go to Washington and it is a cesspool, in six months, it is a hot tub. Sorta what happened to John.
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It’s not clear how Romney, a heavy favorite to win, would approach his role as a senator, particularly in the era of Trump. His aides say that on the campaign trail he will avoid the role of chief foil to the president.
But on the trail, he has sounded just like McCain. So the voters end up with a choice beteen an establishment RINO and a corrupt Dem; both of the UniParty?
#4
Romney's little lap dog Bain Capital has been fighting tooth and nail to destroy a great American company Western Digital. It is my hope to toast Bain biting the dust on this.
#5
Romney is a wonderful family man and a gentlemen. Unfortunately, he is not a Conservative and is way too embedded in the arms of the one-party Establishment.
[The Hill] Three former CIA analysts argued Wednesday that Chairman Devin Nunes (Calif.) and other Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee can’t be trusted to defend national security after they pushed for the release of a classified memo that accuses the FBI of abusing surveillance programs.
Former analysts Jeff Asher, Nada Bakos and Cindy Otis wrote in an opinion piece for CNN that Nunes degraded the committee’s effectiveness as an oversight mechanism by politicizing intelligence information.
"Republicans who were so concerned about leaks of classified information during the last year are now pushing for the release of top secret information to the public, cherry-picked to undermine agencies for which they are meant to be stewards," they wrote.
"From this point forward, the House Intelligence Committee’s assessment of the intelligence community should be met with skepticism by the public and Congress alike. When we look back on this administration in a few years, we believe this incident will be marked as one of the worst cases of politicization of intelligence in modern American history," they added.
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These people have confused NATIONAL security with JOB security. This is pure ass covering and institutional reaction to being caught out committing crimes.
Notice that they cannot attack the substance of the memo so they are attacking the messenger...in the best traditions of the best practices of the Marxist/Leninist play book.
I wonder what the heck they will do when the DoJ IG report comes out????
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So these three C.I.A. analyts were against truth, freedom, honest government, and justice for those who were corrupt and treasonous? Hope Nunes and the Pubs put these three on the list of those to investigate for Deep State ties.
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Jeff Ashers' employer: WWL-TV (New Orleans, LA) Television
WWL-TV virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 36) is a CBS-affiliated television station located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc. as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WUPL-TV (channel 54). The two stations share studio and office facilities located on Rampart Street in the historic French Quarter district; WWL-TV's transmitter is located at 4 Cooper Road in Gretna.
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Cindy Otis Useful(?) former Deep State idiot living out a fantasy.
Ms. Bakos worked in a key role with Starbucks Corporation Barista serving up over-priced java?
Jeff Asher crime analysis for 538 Is this Nate Silver's 538 organization? Analyzing crime for the Dems to find new opportunities? Not the same 538? Oh well, analyzing crime trends for NO--Another Dem stronghold.
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Does anyone with two brain cells to rub together see anything in these bios to indicate these clowns are qualified to write an opinion piece on a document that took over a year to research???
Oh yeah, the kid barista at my local starbucks is a bright kid let's have him write a hit piece on Nunes...
[DAILYCALLER] White House officials took aim in a Thursday background briefing call at South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO, fellow maverick of Honest John McCain... for opposing the administration’s immigration proposal framework.
Graham himself blasted the Department of Homeland Security Thursday morning for releasing a statement opposing a recently revealed bipartisan Senate immigration proposal. The statement said the bill would be "the end of immigration enforcement in America and only serve to draw millions more illegal aliens with no way to remove them."
The Republican senator angrily reacted to the bill saying "the DHS blurb is over the top. It’s poisonous. I think its ridiculous and I’ve long since stopped paying attention to them." He added that it was if the statement was written by a "political hack."
An administration official struck at Graham in response telling news hounds to let him know the statement was written by people "who care deeply about the rule of law," with another official saying, "I’m not aware when Lindsey Graham became the chairman of the Democratic conference."
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"I’m not aware when Lindsey Graham became the chairman of the Democratic conference."
Well, that's an excellent summary of his career, isn't it?
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He is McCain's bitch. What happens when that traitorous bastard finally dies? Bet he retires, because Haley will come take the seat if she wants it. Or else find someone like Sen Tim Scott, far better than McCain wannabe RINO Graham.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Free Beacon] Foreign Service officer Susan Thornton offers Obama-era policies toward Beijing at hearing
[The Federalist] Half the country wants to know why the press won’t cover the growing scandal now implicating the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice, and threatening to reach the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, and perhaps even the Obama White House.
[The Hill] Three former CIA analysts argued Wednesday that Chairman Devin Nunes (Calif.) and other Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee can’t be trusted to defend national security after they pushed for the release of a classified memo that accuses the FBI of abusing surveillance programs.
Lindsey Graham
