[EpochTimes] The Obama holdover heading the Pentagon office reportedly under investigation by the U.S. attorney who is conducting the criminal probe of the Trump–Russia investigation was accused of leaking a classified document, in a recent court filing for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
According to a Nov. 21 report by independent journalist Sara Carter, U.S. Attorney John Durham is questioning personnel in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA). ONA awarded about $1 million in contracts to FBI informant Stefan Halper, who appears to have played a key role in alleged U.S. intelligence agency spying on 2016 Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
In addition, however, a court filing indicates that ONA’s director, James H. Baker, “is believed to be the person who illegally leaked the transcript of Mr. Flynn’s calls” to The Washington Post. Specifically, the filing states, “ONA Director Baker regularly lunched with Washington Post Reporter David Ignatius.”
The filing adds that Baker “was Halper’s ‘handler’” at ONA. Moreover, according to the court filing, the tasks assigned to “known long-time operative for the CIA/FBI” Halper “seem to have included slandering Mr. Flynn with accusations of having an affair with a young professor (a British national of Russian descent).”
Baker didn’t respond to a request for comment by The Epoch Times as of press time.
The filing notes that Flynn’s defense team has requested phone records for then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, likewise in order to confirm contacts with Ignatius. The filing singles out records for Jan. 10, 2017, when, according to the filing, “Clapper told Ignatius in words to the effect of ‘take the kill shot on Flynn.’”
Clapper didn’t respond to a request for comment by The Epoch Times as of press time.
The Pentagon’s current inspector general has already found that Baker’s office “did not maintain documentation of the work performed by Professor Halper or any communication that ONA personnel had with Professor Halper.” As a result, according to the inspector general, ONA staff “could not provide sufficient documentation that Professor Halper conducted all of his work in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.”
Acting Pentagon Inspector General Glenn A. Fine in November 2017 started an investigation into charges that Baker retaliated against a whistleblower who red-flagged “rigged” contracts, including Halper’s. Another $11 million in contracts under scrutiny went to the Long Term Strategy Group (LTSG), which is run by a schoolmate of Chelsea Clinton, whom she has referred to as her “best friend.”
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... Another $11 million in contracts under scrutiny went to the Long Term Strategy Group (LTSG), which is run by a schoolmate of Chelsea Clinton, whom she has referred to as her “best friend.”
According to the whistleblower’s attorney, “Baker’s interest was his awareness of the LTSG-Clinton connection; his presumptive desire to exploit that to his advantage in the event of a Clinton election win; and the fact that contractors like LTSG served as a lucrative landing pad for ONA retirees.”
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Apparently Prince Charles plans to reduce the royals on the company payroll to himself, his sons, and their wives when he ascends to the throne. The rest will have to live off their rents, their spouses, or get real jobs.
“When we raise taxes on the poor, it’s good because then the poor will live longer because they can’t afford as many things that kill them.” ~Nanny State Mayor Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/23p443ieg4
[FOX40] A church in Michigan denied Holy Communion to a state district court judge because she is married to a woman.
Judge Sara Smolenski, the chief judge of Michigan’s 63rd District Court, received a call from the priest at St. Stephen Catholic Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, requesting she not attend communion.
"This is not about me against the priest, and it’s not really me against the church," Smolenski told CNN. "This feels like selective discrimination. Why choose gay people, and why now?"
Smolenski, 62, said that the Rev. Scott Nolan, the priest at St. Stephen for approximately three years, called her on November 23 and told her, "’It was good to see you in church on Sunday. Because you and Linda are married in the state of Michigan, I’d like you to respect the church and not come to communion.'"
Smolenski was baptized at St. Stephen. She and her nine siblings attended the church’s school from first through eighth grade. Her parents were married in the church in the 1940s.
Communion is a significant and sacred act in Catholicism. Through this sacrament, Catholics unite with Christ and symbolically form a single body, according to Catechism of the Catholic Church on the Vatican’s website. To be denied communion is essentially to be denied one’s right to the holiness of Catholicism.
Bets on the Argentine PC Pope reversing it?
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Whatever happened to the idea that you can't eat your cake and keep it too?
p.s. Just imagine the verdicts the Honorable Sara Smolenski hands down.
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I have never understood the concepts that birthed a hatred for Jews as a people in the first place. It all seems to boil down to this thought pattern.
They are industrious and 'too inventive'.
They are snooty. The Jews think they are better'n us.
Somehow they get by even when we are fucking starving. Over that, they've the nerve to lend us money !
They may've killed the Christ ! Whom we do not give a hoot for anyway. But the pope says they killed the Christ. And the pope we love !
They are smarter. Or think they are ! Waving those nobels in our goggle eyed faces...
Their very existence 'traumatizes' the fuzzy islamic sasquatch we must force ourselves to love.
Basically it's the hatred that Cain felt, unofficially doctrinized and propagated as a worldview. And hence they all bear the mark of Cain, they ride the tiger to their bitter ends, starting cycles of sevenfold vengeance wherever they go, wars and desolation...
The people who hate Jews are basically haters of Israel. And as I said before, someone who hates Israel is cosmically fucked, his/her fuckedness is like foreordained.
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What is the "the mark of Cain"? I thought they all died in the great flood, the humans that's alive nowadays are all descendants of Noah family, none of AFAIK has the "the mark of Cain".
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I think about 87% of all politicians are Jew haters. And their constituents reflect that.
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I believe that if you are guilty of the infraction that earned the original guy the punishment, you can bet you're getting the same punishment he got. Not just that. You are him.
Like the Christian is the seed promised to Abraham in Spirit, every man who murders his fellow man for envy or hates him with a deadly hatred is the same Cain in Spirit. It follows that the very envy in a man's mind is as good as the mark that it earns.
But that's just what I believe.
'For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.' - From 1 John, Chapter 3.
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Boy! This thread took a skewed turn! HA!
Anyway I'm sure this [full sentences]is a pre-emptive move to make sure any of the liberals with their hands in the cookie jar don't have to miss all the golf and tennis matches.
Terrifying. I worry about what we will leave the trailing daughters and their generation. I hope and pray President Trump’s innovations will have a positive impact even before the next budget is — hopefully! — reduced.
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The world has a record $250 trillion of government, corporate and household debt outstanding. That’s almost three times global economic output and equates to about $32,500 for every man, woman and child on earth. https://t.co/HF3dYZwET4
Get governments to overspend and pay you for non work, boost rents with immigration (and thus rents and mortgages) then loan it back to them and collect the interest.
[WashingtonExaminer] Joe Biden left many Twitter users queasy after a clip from the campaign trail showed him discussing children playing with his leg hair.
During the campaign speech, Biden, 77, described how little kids used to play with his blond leg hairs in the swimming pool while telling a story about his time working as a lifeguard.
"By the way, you know I sit on the stand and it’d get hot. I got a lot of ‐ I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun," Biden said. "And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again."
He concluded his tale by saying, "I love kids jumping on my lap."
The first witness they’ll attempt to call is Adam Schiff. The wrinkle in Doug Collins’s plan is that the rules passed by the House for the Judiciary phase of the impeachment process are similar to the rules for the phase that was conducted by Schiff’s committee. Nothing happens without Democratic approval:
(c) (1) The ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary is authorized, with the concurrence of the chair of the Committee on the Judiciary, to require, as deemed necessary to the investigation—
It's a nice thought, but the game is rigged.
Either Doug Collins doesn't know this, or he's doing the standard GOPe "get the rubes' hopes up" routine.
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Possible set up for questioning during the impeachment trial in the Senate? “If only you’d let us question him/them when we asked in the House, we could have avoided all your humiliation.”
BREAKING: Members of the House Intelligence Committee will begin reviewing a report Monday on the panel's investigation of President Donald Trump's efforts to press Ukraine to investigate his Democratic adversarieshttps://t.co/P2xhgXPD5F
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They are going to review a report they wrote on things they did? That sounds like something my girlfriend would make me do after drinking too much. Oh, yeah, it's about the same thing ...
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The end of Pete Buttigieg ...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country... ’s term as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, on Dec. 31 comes at a fortuitous time for him in the Democratic presidential race, freeing him from mayoral obligations a full month before the first state nominating contests begin while his competitors tend to Washington obligations.
Buttigieg, 37, will become a full-time candidate as most of his primary competitors are due to be pulled away from Iowa and New Hampshire so they can sit in the Senate observing impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
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Unintended consequences? Maybe the Dims hadn't thought that far ahead, all giddy with the thought of finally getting rid of The Orange Man.
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Former senators make lousy presidents anyway.
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Technical Sergeant Donald George Malarkey (July 31, 1921[1] – September 30, 2017)[2] was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II, was obviously not available.
[BREITBART] On this week’s broadcast of "Fox News Sunday," panelist Juan Williams said President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... ’s Thanksgiving trip to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan looked like a "photo-op." Sure did. And Bush's turkey when he visited the troops in Iraq was plastic. You could look it up.
Williams said, “The other part of the political spin is that with Trump, it seemed —and I think this is why you had the thought, I certainly had it, it looks like a photo op. Remember, he hadn't gone to visit any war zone until last year. He was criticized for it. This is his first visit to Afghanistan, our longest war, 2,000 plus Americans dead. He had no preparation. He e talked about a cease-fire, but his military people said we know nothing about any cease-fire with the Taliban, and the Taliban said they know nothing about a cease-fire.”
“He then talked about negotiations with the Taliban, and again, his own diplomats said we know nothing about any ongoing talks with the Taliban,” he added. “The president canceled talks with the Taliban last September if you’ll recall after they were engaged in a violent incident.”
[BREITBART] On Sunday’s broadcast of NBC’s "Meet the Press," 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar Senatrix from Minnesota, candidate for the Dem presidential 2020 nomination. You can tell the kind of husband a boy will make by the way he treats his mother. You can tell the kind of leader a politician will make by the way he treats his staff. Klobuchar is reportedly overbearing, snide, and dictatorial with her people. She see this as merely getting the best from them. Her name spelled backward in the Russian alphabet would be "Rachubolk," which sounds pretty daggone suspicious... (D-MN) argued voters will not want to watch President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... on television throughout possible impeachment proceedings.
When asked if impeachment will hurt Democrats at the polls, Klobuchar said, "My evidence is what just happened when we took back the Virginia State House and State Senate in the middle of all of this because the voters were looking at that, yes, this is a patriotism check. This is a values check. There are people that don’t even want to have to watch the president on TV anymore."
"They have to turn the volume down on their TV," she continued. "It is also an economic check. So, when I went on that ’Blue Wall’ tour to places like Michigan and Pennsylvania and to Wisconsin and talked to citizens who may be voted for him before, they said enough, he hasn’t come through for us. Our prescription drug costs are skyrocketing. What has he done? He’s whining on TV all the time."
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She said "Trump will make us look stupid if we allow him to speak", "Look we already control the MSM and limit his exposure, so why would we give him publicity?"
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Democrat party operatives tell her the president's not popular! People who stood to benefit from Hillary's reign are tired of working for a living! The president acts like he was elected to chief executive!
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Trump on TV means impeachment nonsense, of course folks want to turn it down, or off.
[BREITBART] On Sunday’s broadcast of NBC’s "Meet the Press," Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... was "as rigged as a carnival ring toss."
Kennedy said, "Rounds one and two by Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation... are as rigged as a carnival ring toss, and we both know that."
He added, "Have they allowed the president to call his own witnesses? No. Have they allowed him to have his lawyer present? No. Have they allowed him to offer rebuttal evidence? No. Have they allowed him to cross-examine the witnesses that were hand-picked by Speaker Pelosi? No. Whether you like the president or don’t, we both I know agree with due process. Nobody is above the law, but nobody is beneath the law. The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu."
[BREITBART] On Sunday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s "AM Joy," 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Housing Secretary Julian Castro complained that Republicans "get off" on President Donald Trump’s ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... "cruelty."
Host Joy Reid said, "You mentioned Ben Carson. ... a neurosurgeon who was under the delusion that being brilliant qualifies him to be president.... We were going to mention the back and forth between himself and Congresswoman Comrade The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Maxine Impeach 45! Waters ...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.002 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.000 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was any brighter she'd be a Communist... where he’s got a plan to essentially drive people out of the public ‐or drive homeless people out of where they’re trying to take shelter, and he went after Congresswoman Waters and called her shameless and a hypocrite on the issue. She was saying what you’re trying to do is cruelty. The cruelty aspect is a big deal. As a presidential candidate‐"
Castro interjected, "I think, for whatever reason, on the other side of the aisle, on the Republican side of the aisle, people get off on that. They like ‐ I mean, look at Trump at the debates in 2016. There’s a certain element within that base that seems to love it when people are cruel to one another. And I don’t know why that is. You know, I don’t think that that’s the ‐ all of the people in that party or that side of the aisle by any means but, clearly, Trump has built up his political record and reputation, and this administration has continued a record of cruelty toward migrants colonists, toward people who are poor, and there’s a certain amount of that base that seems to love it."
"And, you know, I don’t understand it," he continued. "But I can say that we’re going to move in a completely different direction where we build an America that’s not based on cruelty. That’s based on compassion and common sense. That’s the kind of country that we need."
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Florida Rep. Val Demings maintained that President Trump should be impeached even if the alleged quid pro quo with Ukraine never took place.
Demings, a Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, was asked during an interview on This Week whether it was relevant to the impeachment proceedings that Trump’s request for an investigation into Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... never came to fruition. Host Martha Raddatz noted that no investigation into the Bidens ever happened and Ukraine received its military aid anyway, but Demings maintained that it was irrelevant.
"You’re going to make me go back to my law enforcement experience. I had an opportunity in 27 years to deal with a lot of people who attempted to rob a bank, attempted to burglarize a house, attempted to carjack an individual," Demings said. "We didn’t say, ’Well, since you weren’t successful, we caught you, you weren’t successful so let’s just let you go and forget it."
Whatever else Trump has done or will do-- good, bad, brilliant, dumb or otherwise-- he has done a magnificent job of causing the Democrats to expose themselves, and their paid propagandists in the media, as the Marxist totalitarians we've always known them to be.
If Reagan was "The Great Communicator," Trump is "The Great Clarifier."
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When the demonrats lose next year, they will go completely insane and there will be blood as they will riot and commit acts of terror. It's not that they are insane, they are psychotically insane and violent. They are finally realizing their slaves aren't worshiping them anymore and the rest of the country hates them.
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So by her logic, it doesn't matter if we have treason trials for all the attempted coup plotters, we can just skip to the mass executions on the White House lawn. Sounds good to me.
[PJMEDIA] Until today, Jessica Kwong was a political news hound for Newsweek. More specifically, it was her job to keep an eye on the Trump administration, the Trump family, and the 2020 race for president. This week, however, she was fired. The reason? On Thanksgiving Day, she published an article in which she claimed that the president and first lady planned to spend the holiday golfing, tweeting, "and more" some such. Sadly for her, President Trump secretly flew to Afghanistan, where he met the troops (and served them turkey).
After President Trump had landed, pro-Trump Twitter users rightfully went after her. One of her fiercest critics was First Son Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... Jr. "The President spends his Thanksgiving with American troops deployed in Afghanistan, including serving them lunch," he wrote on Twitter. "Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... over at the Fake News..."
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...a winner on 1. She was charged with writing up something before the Prez even left and turn it in to her editor who released it. She shouldn't go, the editor and manager should be tossed for the deadline and the publication.
They once reported that Harry and Meghan had set up a wedding registry at Target.
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She should have been fired. She phoned it in and took the paycheck and only later found out she stepped on a rake and made Newsweek, which is already circling the drain, look inept and confirmed the meme of Fake News in a very obvious way.
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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[EpochTimes] The Obama holdover heading the Pentagon office reportedly under investigation by the U.S. attorney who is conducting the criminal probe of the Trump–Russia investigation was accused of leaking a classified document, in a recent court filing for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
[FOX40] A church in Michigan denied Holy Communion to a state district court judge because she is married to a woman.
[WashingtonExaminer] Joe Biden left many Twitter users queasy after a clip from the campaign trail showed him discussing children playing with his leg hair.
Pete Buttigieg
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
Senatrix from Minnesota, candidate for the Dem presidential 2020 nomination. You can tell the kind of husband a boy will make by the way he treats his mother. You can tell the kind of leader a politician will make by the way he treats his staff. Klobuchar is reportedly overbearing, snide, and dictatorial with her people. She see this as merely 
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation...
[BREITBART] On Sunday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s "AM Joy," 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Housing Secretary Julian Castro complained that Republicans "get off" on President 
...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.002 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.000 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was any brighter she'd be a Communist...
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
[PJMEDIA] Until today, Jessica Kwong was a political 
