Hmm, #3 oil producer with a lot of land and a strong economy...? Why, you'd think such a small-s state could almost be its own capital-S independent State.
The future charter state of New America will pass Iran in oil production, and will be second only to Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Sexton points out that if another accounting of total US oil production is credited as right, the US is already the number 2 producer. Already.
By the way: The anti-fracking agitprop designed to stop America from becoming the world's biggest oil producer is of course funded by Russia, "interfering" in our domestic politics and influencing elections, trying to get candidates elected who would outlaw fracking.
Why doesn't CNN ever talk about that, he asked rhetorically.
I guess sometimes Russian Interference in Our Precious Democracy is a good thing. As long as it's in service of Russia's actual allies in the US, the socialist/Democrat left. Don't forget the Saudis also heavily invested in anti-fracing propaganda. I'm looking at you, Matt Damond for your Saudi funded bullshit.
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Texas has always been a big oil producer. Congratulations on #3 spot. What's Alaska or North Dakota?
[Daily Caller] In the last few years, Russia and China have increased political, economic and military cooperation, as well as conducting joint diplomatic offensives against American interests, for example, in Afghanistan.
No doubt the steps taken against Russia by the Obama Administration and the personal animus that developed between the then U.S. president and Vladimir Putin accelerated that cooperation.
Writing in The Diplomat, Francis P. Sempa makes cogent historical points that should be seriously considered by the Trump administration in light of its relations with Russia and China:
While these developments are not indicative of a Sino-Russian security alliance reminiscent of the Sino-Soviet bloc of the 1950s, they nevertheless should cause U.S. policymakers to reflect on diplomatic and policy options for ensuring the preservation of U.S. security interests and a favorable balance of power.
The geopolitical threat posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc gradually receded when the Sino-Soviet split emerged and was successfully exploited by the Nixon administration with its famous ’opening’ to China.
According to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in his book "World Order," the key to triangular diplomacy was to balance "China against the Soviet Union from a position in which America was closer to each Communist giant than they were to each other."
We now have the situation in reverse, to balance the power of an ascending China with a less dominant, but militarily potent Russia.
Unnecessarily alienating Russia, either through politically-motivated or emotionally-satisfying gestures decoupled from the requirements of triangular diplomacy, is not in the national interest of the United States.
h/t Gates of Vienna
There’s no chance China will cut its trade surplus with the U.S. in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff threats. For starters, Washington has made no specific demand to which Beijing can respond. But its efforts may have an unexpected side effect: a debt crisis in China.
The 25 percent additional tariffs on exports of machinery and electronics looked, at first blush, like a stealth tax on offshoring. The focus on categories like semiconductors and nuclear components, in which U.S.-owned manufacturers in China are strong, recalled Trump’s 2016 promise to tax "any business that leaves our country."
It seems, though, that offshoring wasn’t the target after all. Now, with the imposition of new tariffs on low-value exports that mostly involve Asian value chains, the simple fact of selling cheap products that the U.S. buys has become the problem.
Either way, the administration appears set on shrinking its current-account deficit (which, at a moderate 2.4 percent of GDP, is far lower than the 6 percent clocked in 2006-7) just as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates. Distress has already been registered in China. On July 13, the yuan (also known as the renminbi) hit 6.725 to the dollar, the weakest in a year and 5 percent lower than at the end of May.
Such a move is nothing earth-shaking for less controlled currencies. But a stable renminbi is a key plank in the leadership’s promise to its people, and the exchange rate is tightly managed by the central bank.
...The Ponzi economy has been sustained by cheap dollars coming in through legitimate or illegitimate channels, and the problem now is that structural surpluses are disappearing and there is less "hot" money from the U.S. seeking yield. When dollars enter, the central bank buys them and issues renminbi. If it has to issue more than is justified by the amount of inflows, it creates inflation, and inflation, which has toppled or almost toppled governments from the Ming dynasty to Tiananmen, is the third rail of Chinese politics.
...Until now, China has managed to keep its huge raft of nonperforming debt afloat thanks to capital inflows, as successive waves of quantitative easing pushed dollars into the world. A tighter dollar would seem to make the bursting of China’s credit bubble an inevitability. When that happens, the renminbi will have to depreciate sharply. This will have a deflationary impact on the world. It will also lead to a decline in China’s share of global GDP, dramatically reduce the nation’s demand for commodities, and diminish its role on the international political stage.
I love my president so much. Why wasn't this done decades ago? Oh, right, because the globalists in charge despised American citizens and wanted hostile countries who hate us to become wealthy, on the preposterously stupid notion that somehow they'd start liking us.
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Ref #1: A Henry Kissinger notion that permitted him to construct Kissinger Associates, Inc., a New York City-based international geopolitical consulting firm, founded and run by Henry Kissinger in 1982. The firm assists its clients in identifying strategic partners and investment opportunities and advising them on government relations.
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China has had a debt crisis for years. They have also had enough foreign money to paper over the cracks. They blew through a trillion of their reserves last year and only have an estimated 3 trillion left and are having to spend more at a faster rate to keep their property bubble from popping.
Trump knows this and he knows he has them in a real twist now. The challenge is to keep this from turning into an actual war where China raids the Taiwan piggy bank and seizes the south sea trade routes and demands money to let nations trade through it.
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China can't invade Taiwan. No amphibious capability. There's a reason they call it the "million man swim".
If they start any crap in the South China Sea, the US Navy closes the Strait of Malacca. All of China's oil comes from the Middle East through there. Who sits at the choke point of the strait? Why, Singapore, a staunch US ally that doesn't shirk its duty to carry its fair share of the load like most of NATO does.
Why do you think China is so big on the whole "belt & road" strategy? To bypass the Strait of Malacca. Of course, road transport costs 13x that of sea transport, but money isn't the issue here.
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The only way China can conquer Taiwan is to destroy the island and occupy the rubble. In response Taiwan can be expected to blast that big damn. Mutually assured destruction.
China stuff included, oil industry stuff snipped, read the link for the whole piece.
[Zeihan] The economic conflict between the United States and China continues to ramp up. Earlier this week the Trump administration announced plans for tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese exports to the United States. Barring (substantial) Chinese concessions the new tariffs will likely come into effect around the end of August. This is now the third volley in what has become a tit-for-tat trade war. I’m starting to think up snazzy names. "Pacific Pong" doesn’t have quite the right je ne sais quoi, but I’m working on it. Suggestions welcome.
The Americans’ imports from China are triple China’s imports from the United States (quadruple if you factor out services). The simple fact is the Chinese are already running out of American imports to penalize. Any effort to shift the dispute to something beyond goods trade will similarly end in colossal failure. The Americans control global trade routes, global energy, global security, and global finance ‐ everything that makes the Chinese system possible. The Chinese simply can’t bring the fight to other fields without suffering immeasurably. (Which isn’t the same thing as me saying I’d like to be an American company operating in China right now.) Chinese holdings of American government debt don’t even give Beijing leverage as such "investments" in reality are capital flight from the Chinese system. Endless inspectors already vex American companies in China, issuing fines and demanding compliance with laws local competitors are given a pass on. They don't like our companies in their country.
While Chinese state media continues to put on a brave face, the days of tone-deaf chest-beating are gone. Government censorship guidelines now regularly bar terms like "Trump tantrum" and "trade war" and in general discourage the discussing of any angle of the issue whatsoever. One of the problems with stoking nationalism is that it can be hard to turn off. With the Politburo realizing they have little ammo for this sort of fight, political consolidation at home is far more important than scoring points in a media firestorm.
But that’s not what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about one of the funniest things I’ve seen in months. On July 11 the Chinese floated the possibility of a 25% tariff on U.S. oil exports. Several media commentators immediately pounced on the trial balloon as evidence of something that would get Trump’s attention because of his stated interest in "achieving American energy dominance." Maybe it will. The criteria for what attracts or doesn’t attract the American president’s attention continues to elude me.
But that doesn’t mean a tariff on American oil isn’t a fabulously stupid idea. It has to do with the nature of the oil market, and in particular the role of American crude within it.
While the pot-stirrer in me would love to see what would happen to a trade-dependent internationally-wired oil-importing economy like China’s under full financial embargo, I’m fairly sure the Chinese will blink on this one. Financial sanctions of the type the White House is preparing would hit China at least an order of magnitude harder than the tariffs they are staring down, and the Chinese are not suicidal. And while I firmly stand by my claim that no one can really claim to know what Trump is thinking I have to admit things are starting to look more than coincidental: a last-minute cave by the Chinese on Iran just as the third round of tit-for-tat tariffs really start to bite? I see some serious negotiating leverage there, useful in many theaters.
The concentration of power in the global system continues to gather in the Americans’ favor. Trump is demonstrating he doesn’t need to build an alliance to fight and win a trade war with multiple countries simultaneously. Trump is showing he can wield financial tools simultaneously with trade tools to crushing effect. Trump is showing an enthusiasm for standing up to the business community, something that resonates not just with his base, but also Bernie Sanders’. And in case you missed it, last week the United States became the world’s largest oil producer courtesy of shale, granting Trump even more leverage and autonomy in international relations. America first.
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China tariffs the imported oil, sells it higher to Nkor. Nkor asks world for more financial aid.
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The trade imbalance is more than just money. America can live a lot longer without cheap a$$ plastic stuff than China can live without oil and food.
[Washington Examiner] Jobless claims haven’t been this low since 1969. President Trump is taking the credit, and he isn’t all wrong. Bills he has signed and regulatory actions he has taken have helped unleash businesses to hire more, pay more, and in the end make life better for workers.
Where Trump errs is in taking direct credit. Trump’s interventions in the economy, his tariffs to protect favored manufacturers, and the subsidies he has advocated for some industries or employers have boosted fortunes in the short term for a few jobs. But they haven’t on the aggregate improved the jobs picture. That’s because government intervention generally can only reshuffle resources and jobs, while only economic growth can enrich and empower the working man.
Tariffs can protect certain employers from competition, thus giving them more room to raise prices and thus possibly hire more and increase wages. If we look narrowly at aluminum jobs, then tariffs can be considered a success. But that’s how the Left views economic policy. They look at a narrow, politically favored slice of the economy, like wind turbines or a friendly labor union, and figure out how government can help that segment. In the process, they stultify the broader economy by dragging capital away from more productive activities.
Similarly, special subsidies (such as Trump and Vice President Mike Pence’s favors for Carrier’s Indiana plant) can protect a few jobs. But government-protected jobs are not sustainable, and they typically come at the expense of other jobs.
The Left has no real economic policy. It's first and foremost based upon centralized control and regulation. Power. Profitability only is factored in enriching members of the Inner Party, usually by raiding directly or indirectly the public treasury not in commerce.
[InMilitary] US Army M1 Abrams tanks train in Bulgaria
President Trump’s harsh words for Germany set the tone for a tense NATO summit ‐ but America’s allies now know they have no right to assume the US will keep cutting fat checks to cover the cost of Europe’s defense. However, it would be wrong for Europeans to conclude that President Trump wants to withdraw all US forces from Europe. The President simply wants the US military to be NATO’s security guarantor of last resort, not NATO’s "first responder."
Skipping down to the author's suggested key points:
1. Turn US bases in Europe into austere Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) designed to receive deploying forces and then project them into training exercises or combat. Stop the expensive practice of building elaborate facilities for military communities in foreign countries, complete with family housing, schools, and grocery stores, that create jobs for foreign nationals, but do nothing for the U.S. economy.
2. Establish permanent bases in the United States from which future forces will deploy and where service members’ families can live. End accompanied tours overseas except for the few specialists needed to sustain forces deploying through the FOBs.
3. Build regionally focused, lean Joint Force Command (JFC) organizations to replace today’s overly large single-service headquarters. These bloated relics of World War II and the Cold War are too slow to deploy and they obstruct the rapid decision-making required in future warfare. Flatten command with the JFCs and exercise them regularly on short notice.
4. Build self-contained Army formations of 5,000-6,000 soldiers for rapid deployment under joint command. Disband the large 15,000-18,000-man divisions. Extract billions in savings by shedding equipment and organizationsthat are no longer needed.
5. Invest in new airlift and sea-lift to meet demands that commercial transport cannot. Invest in transportation support systems to off-load military cargo in unimproved locations.
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The giant comfortable bases in Europe do nothing but enable our military adventures in the Middle East. Close them all down. Bring the troops home. End the postwar occupation of Europe. Receive the applause of Europeans as the world bully finally leaves.
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Invest in new airlift and sea-lift to meet demands that commercial transport cannot.
Heh, right. The Air Force continually wants to kill the A-10 to fund their next generation of ever fewer fighters. Transport won't even stand a chance in budget looting to support 'sexy' bleeding edge incredible expensive technology.
Robert Mueller must be convicted of treason and executed. And the reasons are
...Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for developing software, under orders from their leadership, in Russia.
Not for using it against us, which still wouldn't be a crime (since US law does not apply in Russia), though it might be an act of war.
For DEVELOPING it.
And in the process he's exposed them to the world. They effectively can never leave Russia without a diplomatic discussion and guarantee of their safety in any nation they might stop in.
Now, anyone capable of basic rational thought (apparently, not-liberals) realizes this is a precedent for Russia, and any other nation, to likewise file charges against any and all of our intelligence community.
Or, really, anyone at all who has done anything that is restricted.
My wife contracts to a defense contractor who produces products for aerospace. She has in fact had Russian sites taken down, sometimes simply by calling the host and saying, "Hey, this server XYZ is sending out a ton of malware, could you? Thanks."
At this point, Russia could say, "That server was conducting operations for our Ministry of Defense, and you have interfered with it. We issue a warrant for your arrest."
Certainly it's bullshit. In response to Mueller's bullshit.
Now, let's move to second order effects, which everything since the election has taught me are impossible for a liberal mind to comprehend.
What if, and I expect they will, the Russians send lawyers on behalf of said agents, as they did for the corporation Mueller charged with something or other, for a timeframe months before said corporation existed? (Yes, he's that much of a shithead, and always has been, and even noted right-winger (/sarc) Alan Dershowitz says so:
The lawyers will commence discovery, demanding all of Mueller's information regarding the case.
Which almost certainly includes intelligence information we don't want them to have. Otherwise, how did he find out about what Russians are doing in Russia in a secret context?
Third order effect (try to wrap your brain around this. I know it's hard) is that the Russians use THAT intel, and that admitted precedent (because just because you do something, doesn't mean you admit it, but once you do, the rules change) as an excuse to then actually hack our defense apparatus or, (GASP!) our elections?
And now we have him arresting a student for "failing to register as an agent of the Russian government," because AS A STUDENT she talked to the head of the NRA.
FUN FACT for liberals and other shitheads: The NRA is not a political organization. It's a tax exempt non-profit educational organization. The NRA-ILA (Institute for Legislative Action) is the 501(c)4 political arm, donations to which are NOT tax deductible.
Do you want a Cold War? Because this is how you get a Cold War.
And aren't you the same fucking shitweasels who were screaming about Iraq, accusing Trump of risking a war with North Korea, a nation who is outgunned by several metropolitan police departments, now willing to risk a war with Russia, that, paraphrasing Trump "Also has a button and it's bigger and it works"?
It's small comfort to me that most of their bombs will vaporize urban liberals, which no rational human being regards as a loss, but there are fallout effects.
To reiterate:
1) We have Mueller going Full McCarthy. Of course, in the long run, McCarthy's fears were proven valid, even though his techniques were wrong. Mueller is simply full of shit.
B: We have Mueller pulling the same shit the Soviets did during the Cold War of arresting students and tourists as bargaining chips, accusing them of being spies for taking photos or meeting with people.
c] We have the entire Demorrhoid Party cheering this on, because who gives a shit if South Korea gets shelled, or Russia bombs another country, or who cares, because FUCK TRUMP! FUCK FUCKING FUCKITY FUCKING TRUMP! (Actual quote from the Shithead Wing of the Demorrhoid Party, which is apparently 143% of them at this point.) My god! Can you imagine how the universe will END if Trump is seen to do anything positive?
So:
Mueller has risked US intelligence assets.
He has compromised at least some of them just by naming these "suspects" who are suspected of doing their jobs, because obviously someone at THIS end IDed them, and just knowing THAT is useful intel to the Russians.
He has raised the risk of an actual shooting war with the only nation that could actually harm us in a shooting war.
He has interfered with the President's ability to negotiate peacefully and to our benefit (OUR. Americans AND liberals both).
Had a single shot been fired or a declaration made, that would constitute treason, for which the penalty is death.
And since he's done so with blatantly partisan intent, I'm calling it "good enough."
Drag that sack of shit out back. Put a 9mm through the base of his fucking skull. Toss the corpse into a trash burner, because we don't want to pollute American soil with it, and get on with the business of NOT STARTING WARS WITH RUSSIA. They'll believe we're serious, and we might actually make headway.
Of course, if you're cool with pissing off Russia, preventing any kind of discussion with them as long as Trump is president, and risking a war...
You liberal shitstains are responsible for this mess. And you are disgusting.
[WND] Peter Strzok, the disgraced and disgraceful Federal Bureau of Investigation official, is the very definition of a slimy swamp creature. Strzok twitched, grimaced and ranted his way to infamy during a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, on July 12.
In no way had he failed to discharge his professional unbiased obligation to the public, asserted Strzok. He had merely expressed the hope that "the American population would not elect somebody demonstrating such horrible, disgusting behavior."
But we did not elect YOU, Mr. Strzok. We elected Mr. Trump.
Strzok is the youthful face of the venerated "Intelligence Community," itself part of the sprawling political machine that makes up the D.C. comitatus, now writhing like a fire-breathing mythical monster against President Donald Trump.
Smug, self-satisfied, cheating creature that he is, Strzok can’t take responsibility for his own misconduct and blames ... Russia for dividing America. In the largely progressive bureau, moreover, Agent Strzok is neither underling nor outlier, for that matter.
He’s an overlord, having risen "to become the Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, the second-highest position in that division."
As Ann Coulter observed, the FBI is not the FBI of J. Edgar Hoover.
Neither is the Intelligence Community Philip Haney’s IC any longer.
Haney was a heroic, soft-spoken, demure employee at the Department of Homeland Security. Agents like him are often fired if they don’t get with the program. He didn’t.
Haney’s method and the authentic intelligence he mined and developed might have stopped the likes of the San Bernardino mass murderers and many others. Instead, his higher-ups in the "Intelligence Community" made Haney and his data disappear.
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I don't doubt their intelligence. I doubt their reasonability and judgement. I take their malice for granted.
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Intelligence? You mean stuff like predicting the collapse of the soviet union? Or 9/11, or rise of ISIS? Or Russian response to USA engineered Ukrainian coup?
[American Thinker] Robert Mueller's indictment of 12 officers of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, was purely for domestic propaganda purposes. The case was never intended to come to trial because it was presumed by Mueller that Russia would never extradite its own intelligence officers, and thus no holes would be poked in the purported evidence by defense counsel. Thus, the accusations in the indictment would be taken as dispositive by the mainstream media, and the theory that Russia was behind Donald Trump's victory would gain support with an official imprimatur.
Mueller tried this before, with his indictment of Russian entities that supposedly supplied Facebook advertising, only to unexpectedly face a defense team hired by one of the entities, Concord Management. His response has been to delay and obfuscate, quite shamefully (dumping four terabytes of untranslated Russian documents in response to discovery requirements), and then pass off the prosecution to "outside prosecutors" so his team can escape accountability for their phony indictment.
In his second round of indictments purely for show, Mueller tried to avoid the danger of a defense being mounted by making the indictments criminal and naming defendants who are real individuals who would face prison if convicted.
Of course, anybody with half a brain would see that once the United States legitimizes criminal indictments of foreign intelligence officers in this way, other nations will apply the same logic to our own intelligence operations. And the former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul (an Obama appointee) tweeted:
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Let me see if I understand part of this. With the first set of indictments against the Russian companies managed by Concord Management, Concord fought back in court and demanded discovery documents. In answer to the interrogatory, Mueller dumped 4 terabyes of untranslated Russian social media documents. This untranslatd Russian stuff was on Facebook and it was supposed to have influenced the U.S. political process?--Very doubtful unless you read and understand Russian. Give me a break! And were supposed to believe this is not a witch hunt?
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Some statements are simply bizarre: Trump should *Force* the Russians to do 'things'. If the Russians want something it is 'Treason, TREASON I Say!' to agree to their demands.
Warmongering, much?
[Breitbart] Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday that he wished President Donald Trump had made a different statement at his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki summit on Monday.
Coats traveled to Aspen, Colorado, where the nation’s elite gather annually to exchange ideas under the auspices of the non-partisan Aspen Institute. He was interviewed onstage by Andrea Mitchell of the left-wing cable news network MSNBC.
"I wish he had made a different statement, but I think that now that has been clarified," Coats said, referring to the president taking Putin’s denials of interfering in the 2016 presidential election seriously despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies. He noted that Russian interference had not changed the outcome of the election.
Coats had other criticisms for the commander-in-chief.
[The Hill] Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Thursday that he didn’t know about the meeting between President Trump and Russian officials in the Oval Office last May before it occurred.
Coats, who Trump nominated to the intelligence post shortly before his inauguration, also acknowledged that it was "probably not the best thing to do" when asked about the meeting during remarks at the Aspen Security Summit. I recommend you (DNI Coats) get to know WH Chief of Staff Kelly (foto attached) a bit better. By the way, your critique "not the best thing to do" of the meeting was less considerably less than professional.
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A Question I would like to ask. There is a rumor floating around that Putin dropped 160 terabytes of info on swamp denizens across several administrations. I'd like to ask Trump: Is there any truth to this or is it just a rumor? As much pushback as has come from the Dems and a few Rinos about the Trump-Putin meeting, one would almost think there is something to this. The Dems seem scared. They are reported to be asking to question the translator about the 2-hour meeting.
[Daily Caller] The frenzied furor and fomented outrage over President Donald Trump’s reluctance to express blind trust for our "intelligence community" defy reason and reality. In their choreographed cries of contempt for Mr. Trump, the "left’s" increasingly shrill proclamations of political apocalypse make "Chicken Little" look rational. At least we’ve moved on from the impending annihilation from the nuclear war with North Korea.
Power is the only thing leftists worship, and they are unraveling in front of our eyes without it. They can’t control Mr. Trump. That alone drives them insane. They have no policies that work. Cities and states they control are criminal sanctuaries and bankrupt cesspools. Check out San Francisco, Portland and Chicago.
Each of the president’s remarkable accomplishments ‐ from unprecedented high employment, our booming economy and the tax cuts to his historic summit with Kim Jong-un ‐ highlights their abject failures and serves to prick their narcissistic egos. The country is doing better without them every day. Even worse, they are desperate to keep their countless crimes and abuses covered up.
We know that there are many honorable, dedicated and legitimate members of our multiple intelligence and law enforcement agencies who strive to protect us the right way every day. So, why might any of us not just declare blind trust for our "intelligence community" writ large? Let me count the ways.
Aside from the fact that former CIA Director John Brennan does not even attempt to conceal his loathing of Trump, it was none other than Brennan who had the CIA spying on members of Congress‐indeed the entire Senate Intelligence Committee. Surely, there were others in the Agency who helped him. How many like Brennan are still there?
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Trump got elected because of the likes of Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Strzok and many others in the intelligence community.
Toss in a few other weaponized agencies like the IRS and it's easy to see why Trump is POTUS. Now if he could just speed up the drainage of the Swamp and have these swamp-dwellers answer for their misdeeds.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Breitbart] Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday that he wished President Donald Trump had made a different statement at his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki summit on Monday.
[The Hill] Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Thursday that he didn’t know about the meeting between President Trump and Russian officials in the Oval Office last May before it occurred.
[Daily Caller] The frenzied furor and fomented outrage over President Donald Trump’s reluctance to express blind trust for our "intelligence community" defy reason and reality. In their choreographed cries of contempt for Mr. Trump, the "left’s" increasingly shrill proclamations of political apocalypse make "Chicken Little" look rational. At least we’ve moved on from the impending annihilation from the nuclear war with North Korea.
