[Gateway Pundit] In an exclusive interview with RAIR Foundation USA retired CIA Station Chief Brad Johnson claims the attempted coup against Donald Trump looks like a CIA operation.
Johnson even suggests that former CIA Chief John Brennan is behind it.
Brennan added, "This is the last big gasp so they’re pulling out all the stops. You can see who the desperate people are... We just saw former CIA Director John Brennan out on national news saying, "Please anybody else out there who can be a whistleblower please step forward. Nows the time."
On Monday night former State Department whistleblower Peter Van Buren spoke with Tucker Carlson on the current Democrat-Deep State coordinated attack to remove President Trump in a political coup.
Peter described the current accusations of the left as a "three way pitch-and-toss" between the Democrat Party, the liberal media and these deep state whistleblowers.
Van Buren then alleged that the second whistleblower is actually an accomplice with the first whistleblower.
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There's plenty of culpability to go around in this attempted coup. Personally IMO, the conspirators deserve to get kicked around for awhile in each level of the 9 circles of hell.
[Washington Examiner] For the past several months, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been looking into allegations that the FBI and DOJ abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to launch a probe into a Trump campaign aide Carter Page and kickstart the Russia investigation.
That report could be released within the next two weeks, according to Rep. John Ratcliffe, who sits on both the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees.
Horowitz’s report is important because it could confirm what many critics have been saying for years: The origins of the investigation into President Trump’s 2016 campaign were unreliable, and the intelligence bureaucrats we trust with our national security have been unaccountable for too long.
Hopefully, Horowitz’s report will shed some light on three important allegations against the FBI and DOJ:
The FISA court turned down the FBI and DOJ’s original request to surveil Page. Because FISA warrants remain hidden and uncontested, they require a higher burden of proof than typical criminal warrants. The court determined the FBI had not met its standards and turned the agency away. It wasn’t until the FBI bolstered its original request with details from Christopher Steele’s dossier that the court granted its request.
In its second application for a FISA warrant, the FBI assured the court Steele was a reliable source despite the fact that not a single U.S. intelligence agency had verified his claims. Another important detail the FBI neglected to tell the court was that the agency had fired Steele six months earlier for misconduct.
The FBI also conveniently forgot to tell the FISA court that the Steele dossier it had used as evidence in its application for a warrant had been bought and paid for by key Democratic firm Perkins Coie, the Democratic National Committee’s law firm, and Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm used by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
If these allegations are indeed true, then it is also true that the FBI intentionally withheld and lied about information in order to investigate Trump’s campaign. And if the FBI did indeed lie, the origins of the Russia investigation can rightly be decried as irresponsible and unnecessary.
FISA court abuses do indeed exist. And they point to a disturbing rot in the justice system: unelected political appointees taking power into their own hands to surveil and investigate political opponents topics under the guise of national security. This goes beyond Trump, Mueller, and the rest. This is about a total lack of transparency and accountability in a government that is supposed to work for us. We need answers, and it looks like we’re about to get them.
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The FBI also conveniently forgot to tell the FISA court that the Steele dossier it had used as evidence in its application for a warrant had been bought and paid for by key Democratic firm Perkins Coie...
Likely also "forgot" to tell the FISA court that Carter Page was a paid FBI source.
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It's a feature not a bug. In the Ardennes in '44, Tet in '68, and the 50th Maintenance Company In Nasiriyah, Iraq in '03, there were no cooks, clerks, or mechanics, just plain infantrymen.
This issue has been a big coverup by the command chain for over a couple generations unwilling to face the truth but to follow political orders. Every company CO and 1st Sgt has had to live with first hand, double standards.
It's also an indictment of trying to make one size fit all. Look there are auxiliary functions and direct military functions. The institutional bias has been trying to force the military structure on things that do not fit nicely into it's organization. Quit trying to make it something it is not. It's already being done through the work around of civilianizing and contracting many support functions out.
Combat is Darwin writ large. The enemy doesn't care one bit about 'political correctness', just victory.
#6
...Back after the first Gulf War there was a IG of the Army report that read of the significant number of females who got pregnant in order to get out of theater of operations. The Army leadership choose to whistle past the grave yard. That was the Bush I era.
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Ref #6: ..Back after the first Gulf War there was a IG of the Army report that read of the significant number of females who got pregnant in order to get out of theater of operations.
I knew an aviator who never made it to the fight. He spent his time in a theater repo-depot supervising a detachment that processed PG cases for re-deployment stateside.
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I have first hand experience of something along these lines albeit on a smaller scale. My federal law enforcement organization was required, by law, to establish physical fitness standards. We hired an outside consultant to survey our agents and develop a job task-based test. I was part of 30 agent group of lab rats. We spent 2 weeks learning the skills and practicing testing protocols. On game day - we all took the test. Every female in the group failed - about 7. Last I ever heard of that test.
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Biology is sexist
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Grom, I don't see reports of females in the IDF having this issue. This true or just a blind spot in my reading?
If they don't, I would recommend adopting the Israeli methods.
Yes. And very few women have the gross strength of men. In my youth we gymnastics team girls did 60 army push-ups and 120 tuck sit-ups (much harder than those sissy bent-knee things men do) to warm up before working on our routines, which put me at the far end of the female fitness curve. But Mr. Wife could bench press double what I could.
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Darth. IDF tried it couple of times - didn't work out. Today there are units of remote operators etc...
TW it's not so much a matter of physical strength as of biological value. Men are adapted to fighting - both physically and psychologically - because males are expendable.
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Prediction: Within six months the Army will have done away with the ACFT and transitioned to a program of group self-assessment and fitness self-marked coursework.
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Prediction: Within six months the Army will have done away with the ACFT and transitioned to a program of group self-assessment and fitness self-marked coursework.
No problemo! We'll just do like the cops & firefighters and decide that being big and strong really isn't part of the job description. With that out of the way and a little paper-shuffling, we can get more women into the upper ranks and meet that quota too. Wins for everyone!
#16
The long-term plunge in readiness across the military (across both genders and all services) makes me think that this is less a part of gender and more a major institutional failure (with women failing at a much higher rate because they are naturally physically not as able to pass these tests). I mean, this is the same military that wasn't training people how to steer and had ships crashing into each other with an alarming regularity at sea. The fact that the IDF, as noted, hasn't had the same problems, is probably because the constant alert level and general need for soldiers is so much higher. They can't afford to act as stupidly as our bureaucrats.
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The US is also some 1.3 million active + 800,000 reserve spread across the entire world; its a little different. Shitpot of co-eds on a ship far from home for months at a time.
That said, any advice or improvement is welcome - I won't share the stories I've been told because they are depressing. Are there places in the military for women, sure. Just make sure the truck driver is strong enough to lift the hood to check the oil and clean the filter. At least. Nevermind change a tire.
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The IDF issued UZI equivalents to the ladies. Much more accommodating to physical stature than full size battle rifles carried by all US and male IDF.
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I'd like to point out that a military exists for the very specific purpose of warfare. It's not an expansive corporation of depts and sub-depts that should keep re-inventing itself to suit the employment policies of socially aware governments. Neither is it a place to fulfill one's ambitions of mobility into 'male bastions'.
Compromise the fighting arms with loose links and the security and defense integrity of your country is fucked. There are practical problems with women serving in combat roles, sometimes even as assist in the field.
In my own little view, men exist so women don't have to fight. Of course, because the world is beset by armed hedonism, cruelty and criminality there must be a training regimen and compulsory service like Israel does, and nations that are challenged with malignancies must recruit everyone who volunteers, and my greatest respect to the gals who make the cut.
#23
You want commitment, intelligence and dedication to a task, look at the INTEL teams in the field. Most times brute force and ignorance WILL NOT deliver timely mission sensitive satellite tasking and PI exploits.
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OldSpook told of how the person who organized his Special Forces missions (he never mentioned rank) was the woman who subsequently became Mrs. Spook...
[National Review] The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled that an FBI program intended to target foreign suspects violated Americans’ constitutional right to privacy by collecting the personal information of American citizens along with the foreign targets of the surveillance.
According to the ruling, tens of thousands of searches the FBI made of raw intelligence databases from 2017 to 2018 were illegal, the Wall Street Journal first reported. The searches involved personal data including emails and telephone numbers of private citizens.
"The court...finds that the FBI’s querying procedures and minimization procedures are not consistent with the requirements of the Fourth Amendment," wrote U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in the ruling, which was released Tuesday in partially redacted form.
Boasberg said the Trump administration failed to persuade the court that adjusting the program to more efficiently protect American citizens’ privacy would impede the FBI’s ability to counter threats.
[Free Beacon] The CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods told CBS News this weekend that his decisions to stop selling certain guns and hire lobbyists to push for new gun bans have cost his company roughly $250 million.
CBS Sunday Morning host Lee Cowan asked Dick's CEO Ed Stack how much his company lost after the retailer decided to stop selling firearms to anyone under the age of 21.
"About a quarter of a billion," Stack replied. "Pretty close."
Stack also said the company destroyed $5 million worth of rifle inventory because Stack believed no one should be allowed to own them.
"I said, ’You know what? If we really think these things should be off the street, we need to destroy them,'" he told CBS.
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"In the company's 2018 annual report, he wrote that gun sales were a "sizeable part" of Dick's business" Are they a privately held company, how does he still have a job?
There are many ways they could have gone about removing guns from inventory (Sell existing stock, split the company to create a hunting-based spin-off, quietly return the guns to the manufacturers) but Dick's CEO insulted customers while virtue-signaling to never-gonna-be-customers and he cost the company big.
And he said the losses are about what he expected. He should be tarred-and-feathered.
DENVER (Reuters) - Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell on Tuesday flagged openness to further rate cuts to fend off global economic risks, repeating that the central bank will act "as appropriate" amid an economy that he said is likely to continue to expand.
"This feels very sustainable," Powell said in Denver at the annual meeting of the National Association of Business Economics.
"Clearly things are slowing a bit," he said, noting that it’s normal for long expansions to have such periods. Twice in the 1990s, he said, the economy similarly downshifted, only to gain steam once the Fed cut interest rates a few times.
The Fed two interest rates this year, in July and September, were made in that spirit and have helped maintain a "favorable" outlook for jobs and inflation, Powell said. The U.S. economy "may just be gathering itself - there’s no reason why the expansion can’t continue," he added.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐Hillary Clinton has announced that after much debate she will seek reelection as president of the United States.
Pundits on MSNBC, CNN, and ABC News have long pondered whether Clinton would seek reelection or allow someone else to step in, and now she's made a definitive declaration.
"After much deliberation, consultation, and prayer to Moloch, I have decided that I will seek a second term," she said to a crowd gathered at a local Wendy's restaurant. "I feel I haven't accomplished everything I wanted to in my first term, and I really need a full eight years to implement my final solution to all of America's problems."
"Orange man bad! Orange man bad!" she chanted at one heckler, though the heckler turned out to be a Wendy's worker asking if she wanted the Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger 4 for $4 or the chicken sandwich one.
Aides then gently ushered her back onto the bus to take her back to Bright Sunrise Home For Seniors.
[Townhall] New York Times columnist James Stewart is out with a new book about the "deep state." Its content is much different from other books on the topic, most of which condemn politically motivated government bureaucrats. Instead, it celebrates a federal bureaucracy dedicated to halting or slowing down President Trump's agenda.
During an interview with the Today Show, Stewart said he interviewed fired FBI Director James Comey and argued the deep state is an important group of people "dedicated to the constitution."
"You meet these characters in my book and the fact is, in a sense, he’s right. There is a deep state. There is a bureaucracy in our country who has pledged to respect the constitution, respect the rule of law. They do not work for the President, they work for the American people," Stewart said. "And as Comey told me in my book, thank goodness for that because they are protecting the constitution and the people when individuals...they restrain them from crossing the boundaries of all."
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The current DoJ investigations are rapidly approaching the point or level of discovery I thought possible. I now fear for the Orange Man and key DoJ investigatory personnel.
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Me, I worry about something else.
It's believed that J. Edgar Hoover blackmailed politicians. It's likely that his successors continued the tradition. Can we be sure that they don't have enough "kompromat" on enough R-senators to assure impeachment?
James B. Stewart is too smart to buy into this bullshit.
That he's fallen for it suggests that lots of otherwise intelligent and fair-minded people have simply lost their good sense when it comes to Orange Man Bad.
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Years ago a worked for a boss who worked for the vice-president of a large manufacturing company. I was privy to a conversation at the time by the VP of the division with my boss.
The VP popped in and said "He's gone or at least he will be in 5 minutes." IMO, that ought to be an option available to Trump as well to clean out the seditious weasels in the Deep State.
[Townhall] As U.S. Attorney John Durham continues his criminal investigation into the origins of the government's targeting of the 2016 Trump campaign, former Obama administration intelligence officials are denying any wrong doing and justifying their actions.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is arguing he was concerned about the Russians interfering in the election, which is why his agency gathered "information." During a recent interview with CNN, Clapper admitted he was simply following orders from the "commander-in-chief," who had ordered intelligence agencies to do so.
"I don't know. I don’t think there was any wrongdoing," Clapper said. "My main concern was with the Russians and the threat posed by the Russians to our very political fabric and ugh, the message I'm getting from all of this is apparently what we were supposed to have done was to ignore the Russian interference, ignore the Russian meddling and the threat that it poses to us and oh by the way, blown off what the then commander-in-chief, President Obama, told us to do, which was to assemble all of the reporting we could."
[METRO] A man has been awarded a huge payout after drugs he took for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder made him grow breasts. Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals were blamed for failing to warn people of the side effect of taking the psychiatric drug Risperdal.
Nicholas Murray took the case to a court in Philadelphia where a jury ruled that J&J must pay $8 billion (£6.55 billion) to him. He took the drug as a child to help him sleep because he suffered as a result of his autism.
However, the company challenged that ruling saying it was ’grossly disproportionate’ compared to the initial award of $680,000 (£557,000) in 2015. J&J said in a statement: ’The company is confident (the ruling) will be overturned and will be immediately moving to set aside this excessive and unfounded verdict.’
[Jpost] Kurdish forces in Syria will likely seek an alliance with Moscow and Damascus after the United States announced a looming Ottoman Turkish incursion into Syria, analysts have told The Media Line.
A statement from the White House after President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... spoke with Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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Loathsome as Assad is there is a natural fit between Assad's Alaiwites and the Kurds -- they are both minority "outsiders". Besides, "Kurdistan Irredenta" would require the Kurds, or their sponsor, declaring war on Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
[Seattle Times] If you are a petty thief who wants to support a drug habit through stealing, or if you just feel inclined to grab things off a shelf and exit a store without paying, Seattle is your kind of town.
A study done on behalf of local businesses and neighborhood groups indicates that nearly half of the criminals caught ripping off small businesses never face charges and that four in 10 of those cases that are brought to court remain unresolved after two years. Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes says he cannot effectively deal with the wave of property crime unless he gets more staff and a bigger budget, although, in past years, prosecution rates for these kinds of misdemeanors were much higher even with fewer city lawyers and less money.
There seems to be no sense of urgency at City Hall. Meanwhile, the thieves keep cycling through the system only to get back out on the street where they can continue breaking into cars and shoplifting with little worry that they might have to pay the consequences of their acts.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Gateway Pundit] In an exclusive interview with RAIR Foundation USA retired CIA Station Chief Brad Johnson claims the attempted coup against Donald Trump looks like a CIA operation.
[Free Beacon] The CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods told CBS News this weekend that his decisions to stop selling certain guns and hire lobbyists to push for new gun bans have cost his company roughly $250 million.
[Townhall] New York Times columnist James Stewart is out with a new book about the "deep state." Its content is much different from other books on the topic, most of which condemn politically motivated government bureaucrats. Instead, it celebrates a federal bureaucracy dedicated to halting or slowing down President Trump's agenda. 
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