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Afghanistan: Kabul voter centre suicide attack kills 48 52 57
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The Wheels of Justice Have Caught Up With McCabe
[Townhall] The Department of Justice Inspector General has officially referred fired Deputy FBI Director for criminal prosecution after revealing he lied multiple times under oath to FBI and OIG investigators. In other words, McCabe is being served up to the U.S. Attorney in Washington D.C. for criminal charges.

Attorneys for government watchdog Judicial Watch, who have sued the Department of Justice over documents related to Andrew McCabe's handling of the FBI's criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's repeated mishandling of classified information, are saying it's long past time for accountability.

"The wheels of justice finally caught up with McCabe for repeatedly lying under oath to investigators. It’s high time America had some accountability for his misconduct," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton released in a statement. "Judicial Watch uncovered documents about McCabe’s conflicted handling of the Clinton investigation that should have triggered action months ago. Judicial Watch’s finds on FBI and McCabe corruption generated irresistible public pressure for accountability."

"McCabe’s potential criminal acts, on James Comey’s watch, are further proof that both the Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations were irredeemably compromised. The Clinton email investigation was a sham and the Trump-Russia investigation is an abuse," he continued. "Unfortunately, the cover-up continues, the Justice Department and FBI are playing shell games and refusing to turn over McCabe text messages in Judicial Watch FOIA litigation."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/22/2018 04:44 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry - the 'wheels of justice' will not have caught up to McCabe, Comey, Lerner, etc., until they are tried (and convicted) in court. Everything else is pure speculation.
Posted by: Raj || 04/22/2018 7:45 Comments || Top||

#2  At least the wheel of justice has appeared on the horizon.
Posted by: Ebbang Ebbeanter1040 || 04/22/2018 8:46 Comments || Top||

#3  If we didn't have two systems of justice, this guy would be screwed. Otherwise, McCabe is still walking around and out of jail.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/22/2018 9:47 Comments || Top||

#4  So, now everyone knows how POC feel.
Posted by: CC READER || 04/22/2018 13:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Lied? LIED?! I thought he just lacked candor.

Maybe if he goes to jail for a good long time some of the other little weasels will think twice before they do the bidding of the Deep State bosses.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/22/2018 14:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Heard he just got a book deal too...Good work if you can get it.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 04/22/2018 17:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Let me know when the steamroller of Justice has run him over.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/22/2018 18:06 Comments || Top||

#8  McCabe might just throw Comey under the bus. And that will start the bus rolling as long as AG Sessions can get his head out of his ass.

Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 04/22/2018 21:58 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Erdogan’s shadow army: The influence of SADAT, Turkey's private defense group
[Jpost] Turkey’s SADAT defense group is heavily involved in Ankara’s training of Syrian Sunni rebels for the fight against Assad.

In the collapsed and fragmented space that constitutes much of today’s Middle East, the key to success increasingly lies in the ability to combine political strategy with military muscle, under a single banner and in a single structure.

Examples abound.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: Politix
Trump administration dumps another pro-Palestinian shibboleth
[AmericanThinker] So far, there has been little reaction because the change came so quietly. But on Friday, the US State Department issued an important document that refused to conform to the previously mandatory language that paid lip service to political correctness's Palestinian Division. The Times of Israel reports:

The US State Department released its annual report on human rights violations around the world on Friday, and there was at least one discernible difference from past reports: It no longer refers to the West Bank as "occupied."

Whereas previous iterations of the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices had a section on "Israel and the Occupied Territories," this year's document refers instead to "Israel, Golan Heights, West Bank and Gazoo."

While not as visible as moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, this is still very significant. To use the language of Trump-haters, it is "normalizing" Israel's hold on the lands it won in war – the way conquest, especially in defensive wars, works. Poland is not about to give back to Germany the territory that was taken at the end of World War 2. It's Gdansk, not Danzig. And the children and grandchildren of former Deutchlanders of Danzig are bot considered refugees, the way the descendents of Arabs who once lived in the territory that is now Israel claim to be (with a right of "return" to a land they never set foot in).

Nor is the US about to hand over the lands it won from Mexico,as La Raza wants.

War and conquest is how pretty much every nation established itself as sovereign over whatever territory it rules. But for reasons as old as the World's Oldest Hate, Israel is held to a different standard. Except that now, the Trump administration is signaling that it no longer will follow the Israel-only rules, at least in choice of labels. Exactly as it is doing with another phony-baloney Israel-only shibboleth: that one can be born in one country, and yet be a refugee from another country

I want all those people who think Trump is Hitler to explain how this could possibly happen with Hitler in charge.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/22/2018 12:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  I want all those people who think Trump is Hitler

Trump can't be Hitler because everybody knows that Zionism = Nazism. And therefore, Bibi is Hitler.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/22/2018 14:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Nor is the US about to hand over the lands it won from Mexico,as La Raza wants.

Well, there are those who would, among them our own governor Moonbeam.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/22/2018 14:28 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 -- Hold up, I gotta think about that one.

#2 -- Does Moonbeam realize he's gonna be the first against the wall?
Posted by: Matt || 04/22/2018 14:44 Comments || Top||

#4  ...I keep telling the Stupid Party should play astroturf like the Donks and register the PRI as a legit party in CA.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/22/2018 15:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Trump can't be Hitler because everybody knows that Zionism = Nazism. And therefore, Bibi is Hitler.

OK, so can Trump be Sharon?
Posted by: SteveS || 04/22/2018 15:31 Comments || Top||


Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano talks politics
[NY Post] Sammy "The Bull" Gravano ‐ who helped James Comey bring down Gravano’s fellow mobsters more than 25 years ago ‐ was surprised to be mentioned in Comey’s memoir, "A Higher Loyalty."

When President Trump told Comey, "I need loyalty. I expect loyalty," the fired FBI director wrote: "The demand was like Sammy the Bull’s Cosa Nostra induction ceremony."

Gravano, 73, in his first interview outside of prison after serving a 17-year sentence for dealing ecstasy, told mob expert Jerry Capeci of GanglandNews.com that there’s nothing wrong with that.

"The country doesn’t need a bookworm as president, it needs a mob boss," Gravano said.

The former hit man, who confessed to his involvement in 19 murders, said Trump has to deal with the leaders of North Korea, Iran and Russia.

"You don’t need a Harvard graduate to deal with these people. These guys are real gangsters. You need a f‐king gangster to deal with these people."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/22/2018 10:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is this a backhanded endorsement of Trump, or does The Bull want the VP slot in 2020?
Posted by: Raj || 04/22/2018 10:40 Comments || Top||

#2  In a way, I can see where he's coming from... and in a way, I can't.

Sammy the Bull only had to worry about the FBI. He didn't need to seriously worry about being whacked by the KGB.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/22/2018 17:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump may sound like one, but Obama and company acted like one. Seems a lot of 'guidelines' where issued that didn't have the backing of law, but were none the less imposed upon us.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/22/2018 19:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Given that the government especially Justice Dept has behaved like a leftist version of the mafia, look at the omerta around Benghazi and the goonery against those ranchers, maybe he is not off base.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 04/22/2018 23:19 Comments || Top||


Harry Truman and the Deep State
[American Thinker] President Donald Trump is not the first president who has had trouble with the Deep State. Harry Truman had a major problem, too, which revolved around the resistance by the State Department and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to his decision to recognize the state of Israel.

In the matter of Israel's recognition, Secretary George Marshall and other high-ranking officials at State and the CIA were adamantly opposed. In a series of contentious meetings as related by Clark Clifford, the State Department argued continually with Truman not to do it. It came to a point where a furious Marshall told the president that if he recognized Israel, Marshall could never vote for him again.

Such arguments are certainly not bad for our democratic form of government. A wise president welcomes and solicits advice and comments from his Cabinet. This is all part of good decision-making. The difficulty came in after Truman formally recognized Israel on May 14, 1948, for that did not end the resistance to his decision.

To his credit, once the decision was made, George Marshall let the president know that he would never agree with it but that he would not oppose it. Not so with the boys in the CIA. As Michael Doran of the Hudson Institute puts it:
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/22/2018 05:24 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So it didn't start with Brennan?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/22/2018 8:02 Comments || Top||

#2  https://radiopatriot.net/2017/06/18/how-the-us-government-got-into-the-drug-business-by-george-webb/
Posted by: Ebbang Ebbeanter1040 || 04/22/2018 8:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Link to #2. Very interesting article by the way.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/22/2018 9:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Whether one agrees with Truman or not, to undermine his decision was patently wrong. He was the president. And this underhanded resistance was carried out by a CIA that was created just a year earlier by Truman himself as an organization that was to assist the office of the president by merely collecting intelligence, not undermining policy.

Reads a lot like treason.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/22/2018 9:11 Comments || Top||

#5  https://radiopatriot.net/2017/06/18/how-the-us-government-got-into-the-drug-business-by-george-webb/

If this is true I fear they won't be satisfied with attempts to impeach Trump. There's too much money at stake. I sure hope he's able to maintain his security. Also explains Afghanistan.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/22/2018 14:46 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
California School District Says Parents Can't Pull Kids Out Of New LGBT Sex Ed Class
[Daily Caller] A California school district says that parents can’t opt out of a new sex education course that will deal with abortion, homosexuality and transgender issues.

California passed a law called the California Healthy Youth Act in 2015 to promote "healthy attitudes" about "gender [and] sexual orientation." The law is meant to teach students about the "effectiveness and safety of all FDA-approved contraceptive methods" and allow for "objective discussion" about "parenting, adoption, and abortion."

The law also gives parents the ability to opt-out of this education and said that the "pupil" shall not be punished academically in any way if they don’t participate.

However, the Orange County Board of Education has decided that parents don’t have a right to exclude their kids from the class, LifeSite News reports. A memo from the Orange County Department of Education general counsel Ronald Wenkart on March 29 stated that the opt-out provision "does not apply to instruction, materials, or programming that discusses gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, relationships, or family and does not discuss human reproductive organs."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/22/2018 11:27 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Indoctrination.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 04/22/2018 21:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Private school, charter school and home schooling are the options of comfortably middle class families, which means it is only the children of the poor who are trapped in mal-education,
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2018 22:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Creating a large voting bloc of poor who not only depend on the government but who believe all the lies the government tells them to be the truth, keeping them perpetually enslaved
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 04/22/2018 23:17 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2018-04-22
  Afghanistan: Kabul voter centre suicide attack kills 48 52 57
Sat 2018-04-21
  Soros foundations to quit Hungary amid political hostility
Fri 2018-04-20
  In first, European Parliament condemns Hamas for terror, use of human shields
Thu 2018-04-19
  Iraq sentences French female jihadist to life in jail
Wed 2018-04-18
  U.S. Air Campaign Destroys $42 Million Worth of Taliban Heroin Profits
Tue 2018-04-17
  Angry Muslim Protesters Take to the Streets of Fulda, Germany
Mon 2018-04-16
  Troops kill seven Boko Haram insurgents in Borno
Sun 2018-04-15
  East Ghouta officially under the Syrian Army’s control after last militant convoy leaves Douma
Sat 2018-04-14
  Day 2:Joint US, France, UK attack launched on Syria on rural Damascus
Fri 2018-04-13
  Trump announces U.S. military strikes in Syria
Thu 2018-04-12
  Russia threatens to shoot down any US missiles fired at Syria
Wed 2018-04-11
  Ten ISIS fanatics who planned to film beheading, attack police, banks and Jooos in Barcelona jailed
Tue 2018-04-10
  Iraq sentences seven key Islamic State leaders to death on genocide charges
Mon 2018-04-09
  AP: Breaking the US is not attacking Syrian AFBs. Somebody else is.
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  ISIS Khurasan leader Qari Hekmat killed in Jawzjan airstrike


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