State Department Releases Documents Signed By Hillary Clinton's Aides About Classified National Security Emails

Former state employee Brian Pagliano also asserted his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination before the House Benghazi committee.

[From article]
Senior Hillary Clinton aide Jake Sullivan and former tech support staffer Brian Pagliano each signed agreements with the government pledging not to disclose classified information, according to government documents released Thursday by Republicans.
Both men signed the nondisclosure statements swearing to protect 'marked or unmarked classified information, including email communications,' according to documents released by the Republican National Committee.
The document each of them signed is called a form 312, which requires federal employees to swear, under potential criminal penalty, that they won't mishandle classified information.
Sullivan is a senior campaign advisor who served as Clinton's direct (sic) of policy planning at State, and who sent more than 200 emails that weren't marked classified at the time but were later found to be classified following an agency review.
That review occurred after revelations Clinton maintained her own home email server rather than conducting business on a State.gov account.
The matter is currently under investigation by the FBI.
Pagliano was an IT staffer for Clinton's 2008 campaign, and helped to set up her server at her home in Chappaqua, New York.


Jake Sullivan, a top foreign policy advisor to Clinton at her campaign, left, with Hillary Clinton

Pagliano invoked his 5th Amendment right not to testify in a lawsuit by Judicial Watch related to the email scandal.
"Mr. Pagliano will invoke his right under the Fifth Amendment and decline to testify at the deposition" scheduled for June 6, attorneys Mark MacDougall and Connor Mullin wrote in a court filing.
The documents state that the signers have received 'security indoctrination' about proper handling of classified information.
Spreading such information could cause 'damager or irreparable injury' to the U.S. government, according to the language included in the document.
Pagliano is also seeking to prohibit an 'audiovisual recording' of his deposition, citing constitutional arguments and the risk of 'absue.'
Clinton's longtime aide Cheryl Mills recently gave a deposition and was able to prevent release of a video recording, although a transcript was released.
The RNC got the documents through a FOIA request from the State Department. They released them hours before Clinton delivered a slashing foreign policy address in San Diego where she ripped Donald Trump as 'dangerously incoherent' and said he was unequipped to be near the nation's nuclear codes.
'These documents show that the conspiracy to conceal Hillary Clinton's emails from the public involved many top aides casting aside their sworn obligations to protect classified information in the interest of her political ambition,' said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.
'Hillary Clinton endangered our national security and created a culture where top staffers went rogue, silenced career officials and hid a reckless email scheme that placed her political ambitions above all else,' he added. 'These records show that like Clinton, her closest aides did not meet their responsibilities to protect classified information regardless of whether it was marked.'
The document release was just the latest instance of the email scandal intruding on Clinton's campaign schedule. Throughout the past year, the State Department has released troves of internal documents from those Clinton handed over to the agency after she left her post in 2013.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3622803/Bad-sign-Republicans-release-signed-documents-Clinton-aides-caught-email-scandal-pledging-protect-marked-unmarked-classified-information.html

Bad sign: Republicans release signed documents from Clinton aides dragged into email scandal pledging to protect 'marked and unmarked' classified information
Campaign aide and former state official Jake Sullivan signed document pledging to protect classified info 'including email communications'
So did tech aide Brian Pagliano, whose lawyers say he plans to take the Fifth rather than answer questions in a Judicial Watch lawsuit
The papers were standard for such federal employees, but Republicans released them Thursday in what looks like a bid to undercut Hillary Clinton on the day of a major foreign policy speech where she blasted Donald Trump
Clinton is under FBI investigation in connection with the email scandal
By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE.COM
PUBLISHED: 17:01 EST, 2 June 2016 | UPDATED: 18:42 EST, 2 June 2016

Updated: Smartest Man in The White House, Boasts Of Fooling Voters, Taxpayers About Iran Nuclear Deal

Posted May 18, 2016 10:48 PM ET; Last updated May 25, 2016 5:11 PM ET


Updated May 25, 2016 5:11 PM ET

http://nypost.com/2016/05/05/playing-the-press-and-the-public-for-chumps-to-sell-the-iran-deal/

White House admits it played us for fools to sell Iran deal
By John Podhoretz
New York Post
May 5, 2016 | 8:39pm
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http://nypost.com/2016/05/09/obamas-storyteller-backs-off-boasts-about-selling-iran-deal/

Obama’s storyteller backs off boasts about selling Iran deal
By David K. Li
May 9, 2016 | 1:40pm
New York Post

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http://townhall.com/news/around-the-web/2016/05/10/state-dept-faces-questions-over-missing-tape-amid-scramble-over-wh-aides-iran-boast-n2160987

State Dept. faces questions over missing tape, amid scramble over WH aide's Iran boast
Townhall.com Staff
Posted: May 10, 2016 12:20 PM

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/10/state-dept-faces-questions-over-missing-tape-amid-scramble-over-wh-aides-iran-boast.html

State Dept. faces questions over missing tape, amid scramble over WH aide's Iran boast
Published May 10, 2016

FoxNews.com

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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ex-obama-staff-laugh-at-you-can-keep-your-plan-pledge/article/2590943

Former Obama speechwriters laugh at 'you can keep your plan' promise
By T. BECKET ADAMS (@BECKETADAMS) 

5/10/16 4:45 PM

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Posted May 18, 2016 10:48 PM ET
[From article]
What a surprise! It was revealed from the highest level that the Obama White House has been downright deceptive and had lied to the American public and media about the nuclear deal with Iran, as well as carrying on secret bilateral negotiations with Iran.
In spite of arguments by the Obama administration to the contrary, it has been clear from the beginning that the nuclear deal with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed on July 14, 2015, will not stop the Iranian effort to develop nuclear weapons.
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In spite of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 of July 20, 2015 that calls on Iran not to launch tests of ballistic missiles, this was the third test by Iran. One of the two missiles fired in March 2016 carried the slogan "Israel must be wiped out."
By chance, the ballistic missile testing coincided with the publication of the extraordinary revealing article by David Samuels in the New York Times on May 8, 2016 on Ben Rhodes, the Boy Wonder of the Obama White House, the single most influential voice next to the president shaping American foreign policy.



Rhodes is officially the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications in the Obama administration, but he is really the spin-doctor narrating or fabricating fantasies or half-truths to the mainstream media that he arrogantly seems to despise. The willingness of the media to consume and disseminate the inaccurate information given them has long been known, but the full extent to which the media was spun has now been revealed.
The main revelation was that Rhodes presented the story of negotiations on the nuclear deal with Iran as having started in 2013 due to the fact the moderates in Iran, led by Hassan Rouhani, had won the election and became president. The moderates therefore were influential and were willing to make a deal with the United States. The media believed this, though it was disputed by well-informed individuals such as Leon Panetta, former secretary of defense, who denied any such division between hard and soft Iranians. Rhodes, with evident contempt, regards previous decision makers on Iran and Iraq – the Washington foreign policy establishment, or The Blob, as he calls it, which includes Hillary Clinton – as "morons."


Ben Rhodes, Novelist, White House National Security Deputy

Rhodes's spin was false. The negotiations with Iran had in fact started earlier in 2012, before Rouhani was elected. The White House deliberately spun the view that Iran moderates wanted peace with the U.S. and with Middle East neighbors. What is important is his contempt for the media as well as for the Washington establishment. Rhodes observed that news bureaus today do not have foreign bureaus, as they used to have, and they therefore call the White House to find out what is happening.
The result is that most of the news outlets are reporting on world affairs from Washington. Rhodes said the average reporter he talks to is 27 years old and literally knows nothing. The White House therefore shapes the news and has particular journalists it can use for spreading it and validating what the White House gives them to say. As Samuels writes, "[t]he way in which most Americans have heard the story of the nuclear deal … was largely manufactured for the purpose of selling the deal."
The consensus in the U.S. today is that the Iran deal was a major political blunder. Of the two main adversaries during the discussion, most informed commentators would agree that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposed the deal, was right, and President Obama was wrong.
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Two factors are involved in the White House attempt to prevent Netanyahu from speaking. The first expressed by the media was on the wisdom of the invitation, because Netanyahu was going to criticize the Obama policy. Though most of Congress expressed opposition to the negotiations, there was a genuine difference of opinion on them. President Obama believed and still appears to believe that a deal in which Iran agreed to limit its nuclear program in exchange for relief from sanctions was the way to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu disagreed on the whole idea and believed that Iran was not negotiating in good faith. Iran has a record of secret uranium enrichment facilities, and Israel was in danger. Netanyahu argued that the sanctions on Iran, the removal of which was the real reason for Iran's willingness to negotiate, should not be removed – in fact, should be increased.
The second factor was the White House spin, which the media highlighted, that the invitation was unconstitutional. Either Rhodes or someone else in the White House invented something called the "presidential protocol." The White House spokesperson on January 20, 2015, slightly off the point, informed the media that the typical protocol would suggest that "the leader of a country would contact the leader of another country when he is traveling there." The media, though few of whom if any were constitutional lawyers, claimed that such an invitation had no precedent in American history.
One may disagree on whether the invitation was unwise or inopportune, but it was not unconstitutional. There was no breach of any constitutional provision.
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The New York Times incorrectly reported that Netanyahu had accepted the invitation to speak before the White House had been informed. This was not true, and the NYT had to issue a correction. Netanyahu did not formally accept the invitation until after the White House had been informed. It was not true, as Earnest had said, that the White House did not know about the invitation until Boehner announced it publicly. The spin converted the difference of opinion on an important issue into a diplomatic row with constitutional implications. In reality, Boehner had earlier in 2011 invited Netanyahu to speak and had informed the White House, which never responded.
Many in the media bought the White House spin and deception that to oppose the nuclear deal was to support Israel against the Obama administration. That made the State of Israel a partisan issue, while in the past support for Israel has been overwhelmingly bipartisan. The White House and the mainstream media owe Netanyahu an apology for their fallacious and dishonorable presentation of a controversial issue.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/when_obama_lies_to_the_media_and_laughs_doing_it.html

May 11, 2016
When the White House Lies to the Media, and Laughs Doing It
By Michael Curtis

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[From article]
Ben Rhodes is perhaps the weirdest foreign policy adviser in the history of the White House. His path to his current position as deputy national security adviser for strategic communications was, as this New York Times profile informs us, "perhaps not strictly believable, even as fiction."
Forget his title. Ben Rhodes is "the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself," according to the Times. What makes that so bizarre is that Rhodes has no background in foreign policy at all. He was a failed short story writer who wandered into the orbit of Obama aides almost by accident and served as a speechwriter during the campaign.
But he helped the administration identify friendly reporters and nonprofits who could be counted on to carry a completely false and misleading "narrative" about the Iran deal.
And it worked.
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What the Samuels piece shows is that the Obama administration chose to attempt to get its way not by winning an argument but by bringing an almost fathomless cynicism to bear in manipulating its own clueless liberal fan club.
It's amazing how Rhodes sees himself and his role. He refers to the foreign policy establishment as "the blob," and at bottom, he believes he and Obama are the only smart ones in the room.
Samuels's profile is an amazing piece of writing about the Holden Caulfield of American foreign policy. He's a sentimental adolescent with literary talent (Rhodes published one short story before his mother's connections won him a job in the world of foreign policy), and high self regard, who thinks that everyone else is a phony. Those readers who found Jeffrey Goldberg's picture of Obama in his March Atlantic profile refreshing for the president's willingness to insult American allies publicly will be similarly cheered here by Rhodes's boast of deceiving American citizens, lawmakers, and allies over the Iran deal. Conversely, those who believe Obama risked American interests to take a cheap shot at allies from the pedestal of the Oval Office will be appalled to see Rhodes dancing in the end zone to celebrate the well-packaged misdirections and even lies—what Rhodes and others call a "narrative"—that won Obama his signature foreign policy initiative.
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All you have to do to discover the extent of their flim-flamming is to look at the talking points about the agreement after the preliminary deal was agreed to in April and compare it with the final agreement in July. The dishonesty in selling this deal to Congress was so profound that we still don't know yet how Iran is interpreting parts of it.
Samuels's profile is very long and, at times, strains credulity that such a creature could become a top adviser to the president. But it also unintentionally reveals how easily the Washington press corps can be manipulated into doing the president's bidding. There was very little objective analysis of the Iran deal, nor any attempt to reconcile what was in the deal with what the administration was claiming in public.
If there had been, it's doubtful that the deal would have gone through Congress.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/ben_rhodes_admits_administration_lied_to_sell_iran_deal.html

May 6, 2016
Ben Rhodes admits administration lied to sell Iran deal
By Rick Moran

CBS Boston Liberal Journalist Worried More About Facebook Deceptions, Than White House National Security Fraud

Jon Keller, CBS News Boston, MA

Jon Keller is an opinion reporter on WBZ-TV (CBS News) in Boston, MA. He also is a regular on the local PBS television show Beat The Press hosted by Emily Rooney, daughter of CBS News famous journalist Andy Rooney.


Keller is at far left of this image

He appears to be indignant about deception. But only by individual civilians. Not a problem when the White House fools the people and journalists. Below is an email I sent to him on May 17, 2016. No reply as usual. He has never responded to my previous comments to his misguided criticism of his colleagues.


Ben Rhodes, White House National Security Adviser 

Saw your report on WBZ-TV news at about 5:20 PM on Tuesday May 17, 2016, regarding false Facebook posts which fool the public. I am curious why that gets priority over the reports that high ranking national security mogul Ben Rhodes, boasted of fooling American voters and taxpayers about the Iran nuclear deal. How he boasted of how stupid Americans are and how smart he and his colleagues are. Isn't that an abomination deserving of your access to air time? Or do you share the elitist attitude of the White House staff? Then there was similar boasting by Jonathan Gruber, about how stupid Americans are that the health care law was passed by his propaganda too.



Low information voters is nothing new. H.L. Mencken regularly ridiculed Americans for that 50-80 years ago. He was not a White House official. Does how one reacts to knowing that, measure the integrity of the individual?

See also Congressional hearing on May 17, 2016 before Government Oversight Committee on the deception of Rhodes. The Democrats on the committee argued that because some working for George Bush deceived Colin Powell about weapons of mass destruction, that makes it OK. Republicans and Democrats wonder why Trump is so popular.

[Entire hearing is about 2 hours and 45 minutes]

http://www.c-span.org/video/?409709-1/house-oversight-committee-examines-iran-nuclear-deal-messaging 

Nonsensical Foreign Policy, Destructive To US Security, Public Safety

Essay analyzed:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262307/fighting-isis-plays-isis-hands-daniel-greenfield

FIGHTING ISIS PLAYS INTO ISIS’ HANDS?
Is letting ISIS kill us our only hope of beating ISIS?
March 28, 2016

Daniel Greenfield

[From article about essay]
Because terrorism has no religion. Even when it’s shouting, “Allahu Akbar”.
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Obama initially tried to defeat ISIS by ignoring it. This cunning approach allowed ISIS to seize large chunks of Iraq and Syria. He tried calling ISIS a JayVee team in line with his recent claim that, “We defeat them in part by saying you are not strong, you are weak”. Unimpressed, ISIS seized Mosul. It was still attached to the old-fashioned way of proving it was strong by actually winning land and wars.
Then Obama tried to defeat ISIS by arming the Islamist allies of Al Qaeda and now a lot more American weapons are in the hands of Islamic terrorists. Some of them are even in the hands of ISIS.
Europe and the United States decided to prove that we were not at war with Islam by taking in as many Muslims as we could. Instead of leading to less terrorism, taking in more Muslims led to more terrorism.
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There’s a reason that the counterintuitive strategies for fighting Islamic terrorism by not fighting Islamic terrorism don’t work. They make no sense. They never did. Instead they all depend on convincing Muslims, from the local Imam to Jihadist organizations, to aid us instead of attack us by showing what nice people we are. Meanwhile they also insist that we can’t use the words “Islamic terrorism” because Muslims are ticking time bombs who will join Al Qaeda and ISIS the moment we associate terrorism with the I-word.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/following_the_logic_of_the_obama_administration_on_isis.html

March 29, 2016
Following the logic of the Obama administration on ISIS
By Thomas Lifson

Lack Of Security For Technology Diminishes United States

One more example of national suicide.

[From article]
The application of new technology revitalized sagging military systems in the United States by acting as a force multiplier. Suddenly we could do things the enemy couldn't do. By 1982 these new capabilities and platforms will put to the test: Israel and Syria battled over the Bekaa Valley where hundreds of Israeli warplanes (F-15s, F-16s, F-4s and Kfirs) tangled with Syrian warplanes (MiG-21s, MiG-23s, MiG-25s, and Su-25s). The result was a box score that could have put the Washington Nationals into the World Series: nearly 90 to 0 -- that is, no Israeli plane was shot down in an air-to-air encounter (two were lost to ground fire) and approximately 90 Syrian planes, including the Mach 3 MiG 25, were knocked out. A number of new technologies contributed to the huge win, but most important was the “look down-shoot down” radar in American-made F-15s.
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It would be 20 years before the Soviets caught up – and by then they weren’t Soviets.
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Nothing could be more dramatic than the decisive defeat of an empire based on technology.
So it would seem to make sense for the United States to protect technology to its utmost, to prevent the rise of a capable competitor or adversary that would be able to undermine the newly founded Pax Americana.
Make no mistake about it: Pax Americana is, in the author's opinion, good for the world as long as America supports democratic values and champions human rights.
But any thought that the Pax Americana would persist turns out to be, at best, wishful thinking. America's century has gone in the dumpster largely because we have squandered our technology by proliferating it abroad.
Looking at a modern Russian or Chinese factory one will see the same equipment, or even better equipment, than might be found in the United States. CAD-CAM, robotics, advanced autoclaves and isostatic presses, networked systems or supercomputers -- and much more -- can be found promoting military production outside the United States.
[. . .]
We are a country that has squandered a good part of our technological leadership by putting some of our best manufacturing abroad, and some of our most sophisticated systems in China and Russia, taking a great risk and making a bad bet on the future.
[. . .]
All of this has de-Americanized our technology and added to our vulnerability as America's critical infrastructure now is exposed to exploitation and existential risk in the form of cyber spying and cyber-attacks.
But perhaps the biggest risk is the approaching neutralization of our conventional war fighting systems. America, as a democratic country, cannot fight wars where the best it can hope to achieve is a draw,
[. . .]
America has to wake up to a threat it has largely created on its own by failing to protect its technological edge. Depending on profits as we export technology and jobs will not save us.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/technology_security_the_profit_disconnect.html

February 17, 2016
Technology Security: The Profit Disconnect
By Stephen D. Bryen and Shoshana Bryen

Trump's Call For Ban On Muslim Immigration Gets Sharp Reactions

[From article]

Nearly all Republicans, [are angry] over Donald Trump’s proposal to prevent Muslims from entering the United States.
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One thing is certain: the wisdom of welcoming hundreds of thousands of Muslims as refugees and immigrants is on the table. Whether or not you believe the poll Trump cited, it is certain that some percentage of Muslims sympathize with ISIS, some want sharia law in the United States, and many hold deeply anti-Semitic views, as the Quran instructs them.
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And I think it is a legitimate question if we should be adding large numbers of Muslims to our population, considering that it is a certainty that some percentage will hold views anathema to our civic values, and a smaller percentage will act violently in support of jihad. The Quran and Hadith are indisputably political as well as religious documents, and their politics are incompatible with the U.S. Constitution. And unlike other religions that have violence in their scriptures, Islam alone is on a violent quest for world domination.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/trump_changes_the_political_conversation.html

December 8, 2015
Trump changes the political conversation
By Thomas Lifson

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So state governors cannot ban Muslim migrants but a mayor can ban a US citizen from traveling to his city? Is this a college student's new standard of behavior?

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article48552220.html

DECEMBER 7, 2015
Mayor bans Trump after candidate suggests blocking Muslims
Associated Press

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http://nypost.com/2015/12/07/trump-calls-for-total-shutdown-of-muslim-immigration-to-us/

GOP rivals blast Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ plan
By Geoff Earle
New York Post
December 7, 2015 | 5:13pm

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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/peter_gelzinis/2015/12/gelzinis_trump_s_slogan_should_be_make_america_hate_again

Gelzinis: Trump’s slogan should be ‘Make America Hate Again’
Peter Gelzinis

Boston Herald

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/adriana_cohen/2015/12/adriana_cohen_muslim_migrant_ban_a_step_short_close_the_border

Adriana Cohen: Muslim migrant ban a step short – close the border
Adriana Cohen

Boston Herald

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/12/08/trump-muslims-ban-charlie-baker/

Gov. Baker: Trump’s Call To Bar Muslims From US ‘Ridiculous’
December 8, 2015 12:04 AM
CBS News Boston MA

German Intelligence Agencies Raise Alarm About Migrant Invasion, Anti Semitism

Sryian Refugees in Berlin. 

(photo credit:URIEL HEILMAN/ JTA)

[From article]
Germany's security and intelligence agencies expressed alarm over the influx of refugees and migrants who harbor radical Islamic views and hatred of Jews, according to a Sunday report in Welt am Sonntag.
According to a security document obtained by the paper and read by top-level agency personnel, “We are importing Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, national and ethnic conflicts of other peoples as well as a different societal and legal understanding.”
The newspaper wrote that security sources warn that “the integration of hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants Germany is no longer possible in light of the number and already existing parallel societies.”
The term “parallel societies” in Germany is frequently defined as insulated Muslim communities that have little or no contact with mainstream society.
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A senior level security official told the paper that, “The high influx of people from all parts of the world will lead to instability in our land.” The official added, “We are producing extremists through immigration. Mainstream civil society is radicalizing because the majority don’t want migration and they are being forced by the political elite.”
He predicts that many Germans “will turn away from the constitutional state.” The paper’s exclusive information came from the four major security agencies in Germany – the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the Federal Intelligence Service, the Federal Police and Federal Criminal Police Office.
According to the paper, the agencies raised pressing security concerns about the wave of migrants entering Germany.

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/German-intel-Migrants-will-bring-anti-Semitism-430058

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL \
10/26/2015 00:45
German intel: Migrants will bring anti-Semitism

German security agencies have raised pressing concerns about the wave of migrants entering the country.

White House May Win Iran Nuclear Weapons Deal Vote By Manipulation, But It Will Not Stand and Threatens National Security

[From article]
By enlisting Barbara Mikulski as the 34th Senate vote for his disastrous nuclear deal with Iran, enough to sustain his veto of a resolution of disapproval, President Obama has scored a political victory — but a hollow one.
That’s because his agreement, the most important foreign-policy measure in decades, will take effect with the support of only a third of Congress — and a similar minority of the American people.
The president won’t win approval of his odious deal; a majority of Congress remains firmly opposed. He’s simply manipulated the process by demonizing his opponents as warmongers.
Yes, Obama’s rallied enough Democrats to back him in a show of blind partisan loyalty. But his “supporters” all stress their serious misgivings on the deal.
It’s an agreement about which no one — save Obama, John Kerry and the rulers in Tehran — is enthusiastic.
[. . .]
As House Speaker John Boehner noted, getting just enough Democrats to help him put over a bad deal, over the objections of a solid majority of Americans, is no victory.
If Democrats insist on this charade on the American people, Republicans have a duty to force them to debate the issue — and put themselves squarely on record.

http://nypost.com/2015/09/02/obamas-political-win-on-the-iran-deal-is-a-hollow-victory/

Obama’s political win on the Iran deal is a hollow victory
By New York Post Editorial Board
September 2, 2015 | 7:43pm

Columbia University, Dean Of Journalism School, and The Note In The Bedroom

[From article]
In the current issue of the New Yorker, Steve Coll, Dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism, has a brief piece on Hillary Clinton’s private email problems. He traces the current scandal to…Rush Limbaugh!
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Hillary Clinton, in her memoir “Living History,” recounts her struggle to defend her privacy while residing in the White House. Some of her stories have a gothic tone. After Bill Clinton’s first inauguration, Harry and Linda Thomason, friends from Hollywood, found a jocular note under a pillow in the Lincoln Bedroom. It was from Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host. How did the note get there?
[. . .]


Steve Coll, Dean, Columbia Journalism School

Was Rush George H.W. Bush’s last Lincoln Bedroom guest? Did he really leave a note? Or did the White House staff already detest the Clintons so much that someone left the note as a joke? I don’t know. Perhaps Rush can tell us. But the real question is, what on God’s green Earth does this have to do with Hillary Clinton’s decision to conduct official State Department business on an unsecured, off-the-books server? Mr. Coll thinks it is a matter of privacy, explained by Rush’s “haunting” of the White House:
[. . .]
See, here’s the thing: privacy was never the question. No one cares if Hillary uses a private email system to schedule her yoga lessons and plan her daughter’s wedding. On the contrary: that is what everyone does, and it would be inappropriate to use the official (and relatively secure) State Department system for this purpose.
Rather, the issue is that Hillary chose to carry on her official State Department correspondence, in which she had no legitimate expectation of privacy, through the home server that housed information on yoga lessons. Hillary is in trouble because 1) her decision to circumvent the State Department computer system for substantially all of her official communications unquestionably violated State Department policy, and 2) if she had classified information on her home server–as she evidently did–she is in violation of federal criminal statutes.
[. . .]



You might think that this is a trivial deconstruction of an unusually stupid magazine article, and you would probably be right. But note: Steve Coll currently is the dean of what used to be regarded as America’s foremost school of journalism. It may still be, for all I know. Not only that, Coll was the managing editor of the Washington Post from 1998 to 2005, has won a Pulitzer prize, has authored numerous prize-winning books and has served as president of the New America Foundation. He is a model of contemporary liberalism, and he apparently doesn’t understand that Hillary’s use of a private email system for official correspondence has nothing to do with privacy. Let alone with Rush Limbaugh’s haunting the White House. Sadly, this is the state of today’s dominant, Democratic Party news media.
[. . .]


Rush Limbaugh, Lives Rent Free in the Minds of Many

[Limbaugh replies]
Here it is 2015 and there’s a story in the New Yorker about her e-mail server, and she remembers something that happened in 1993 that’s at the top of her mind. This is why I say I live rent free in these people’s heads.
[. . .]
There were things happening in the White House she wasn’t controlling, things happening in the White House she didn’t know, and if it was that easy, if it was that easy to get that close to her, like a note under the pillow in the Lincoln Bedroom and suspiciously out of place furniture, why, I need my own e-mail server. I mean, that’s the thinking.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/09/hillarys-email-scandal-rush-limbaugh-made-her-do-it.php

POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

BY JOHN HINDERAKER
HILLARY’S EMAIL SCANDAL? RUSH LIMBAUGH MADE HER DO IT!

Iran Nuclear Weapons Deal Provisions Which Harm The United States

Candidate Ben Carson Views Drug Cartels Operating In Arizona Controlling US Land

[From article]
Among other things that Babeu showed Carson and Breitbart News on this helicopter tour were how this far inside the border on high ground there are scores of scout sites where cartel operatives serve as lookouts for smugglers bringing drugs, people and other contraband into the country.
“If they can operate up to this degree, 70 miles north of the border, in law enforcement we call that a clue,” Babeu said in a brief exclusive interview outside the helicopter after landing back at the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office. The lack of United States sovereignty this deep into the country is highly concerning to Carson, who told Breitbart News that this shouldn’t be happening.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/19/exclusive-az-sheriff-takes-dr-ben-carson-on-helicopter-tour-of-cartel-sites/

EXCLUSIVE — AZ SHERIFF TAKES DR. BEN CARSON ON HELICOPTER TOUR OF CARTEL SITES
by MATTHEW BOYLE
19 Aug 2015
Florence, AZ

Nuclear Deal Good For Iran, Bad For United States and Israel

Stopping a Nuclear Iran: How You Can Help



Call Your Senators and Representative and Tell Them This is a Bad Deal
As we look at this deal the Obama administration has made with Iran, it is important to

remember one key fact — absolutely nothing has changed about Iran's objectives during the course of these negotiations. Iranian leaders still chant "Death to America, Death to Israel," and they still actively support terrorism against the U.S., Israel, and our allies.

These people aim to kill as many Americans and Israelis as possible.When someone says they want to kill you, believe them.

Iran is utterly desperate to have sanctions lifted. They want to sell oil, they want to buy arms, including the technology to build missiles that can hit Israel and Europe, and they want billions in frozen assets returned — assets they will then turn around and use to fund terrorism around the world.

What has changed, though, is that Iran seems to have learned the lessons of Libya, Iraq, and North Korea. Libya and Iraq both had nuclear programs at one time. When they ceased to have those programs, they were vulnerable to attack. Now Mohmar Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein are dead. North Korea, when faced with the same pressure, made a deal and then broke it.

Now North Korea has nuclear weapons, and the Kim family remains in power.

Iran has learned. The West has not.

But this deal isn't done yet. Congress still has to vote on it, and with 67 votes in the Senate, we can stop it.
That means there are concrete, real actions you can take to help stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
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A country that has vowed to destroy the U.S. and Israel has just been given a timetable to build a nuclear weapon. The stakes have never been higher.

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White House Works At Worsening His Legacy

[From article]
Now, for the first time, the King and his consults, the Crown Prince and myriad other Sunni royalty must not discount the option of tacit cooperation with Israel. Sure, it’s fun to rail against Zionists and their lapdogs in world finance and Hollywood, but the Saudis know as well as anyone that a Shia minority with the power of a nuclear bomb is a thousand times the threat Israel would ever be.
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The last words that these Christian men utter are “Ya Rabbi Yesou”, or “My Lord Jesus” in English. Then, the barbarians of ISIS decapitate them in front of their in-house film crew.
As Pope Tawadros, leader of the Coptic church, and Pope Francis, the Catholic pontiff of one billion souls, both pray for the slain, the ISIS butchering is digitally immortalized.
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No, no, this isn’t Islam, “and we are not at war with Islam” the Infant harps. Obama plugs his ears and pronounces with a tone of authority that doesn’t quite square with his ignorance in stating that “we are at war with people who have perverted Islam.” Very bold words for someone who is not an Islamic scholar.
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They laugh as Zarif recalls his latest humiliation of John Kerry, of his manhandling of the Secretary of State from the world’s single Great Power, of his expert use of taqiyya -- the Shia precept of justifiable deceit in the face of peril -- in keeping the Americans at the negotiating table. Zarif and Khameini double over in laughter after watching our State of the Union Address, because they could see Obama the Fool at his very best. The Ayatollah may well have busted his guts guffawing when he heard President Obama insist that his “…diplomacy is at work with respect to Iran, where, for the first time in a decade, we’ve halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material.”
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Obama the Impotent says to the American public that he is an alchemist, taking an impossible scenario and manipulating it to conform to his desires, changing iron ore into sparkling, shimmering gold. Really, any impartial observer can see that he’s instead cultivating a nice, fat field of horse manure. The core problem that the President has is that foreign policy isn’t a high gloss campaign commercial, or a speech given in front of a teleprompter, and Middle Eastern despots aren’t his media cheerleaders, or vapid college kids
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At home, in the Oval Office, a seat is occupied not by a leader, but by a man who should have never ascended beyond the harmless provincial position of the Illinois State Senate.
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Across the globe, prime ministers and potentates rightfully doubt the seriousness of a leader who hits 18 rounds at the greens after James Foley, an American, was decapitated by a legion of benighted butchers who believe that they are doing the work of Allah. Obama’s final term has been unique in its unwitting combination of incompetence and idiocy.
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Even after the adoring chorus of press adulation dies down to a whisper, as the present becomes the past, proper historians will always remember the current president as Obama the Impotent, the Infant, the Fool.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/obama_the_impotent_the_infant_the_fool.html

February 23, 2015
Obama the Impotent, the Infant, the Fool
By Alexander Grass

Misguided White House Policy Creates Threats To Nation

[From article]
Obama says that we are not fighting a war on Islam. What he leaves out is that under his administration the United States is fighting in a civil war that is taking place within Islam.
It’s not a conflict between the proverbial moderate Muslim and the raging fanatic. That was an outdated Bush era notion. Instead Obama has brought us into a fight between Muslim governments and Muslim terrorists, not on the side of the governments we were allied with, but on the side of the terrorists.
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In Syria and Iraq, Obama is fighting ISIS alongside Islamic terrorists linked to Al Qaeda and Iran. In Libya, he overthrew a government in support of Islamic terrorists. His administration has spoken out against Egyptian air strikes against the Islamic State Jihadists in Libya who had beheaded Coptic Christians.
At the prayer breakfast where he denounced Christianity for the Crusades was the foreign minister of the Muslim Brotherhood government of Sudan that has massacred Christians. Unlike Libya, where Obama used a false claim of genocide to justify an illegal war, Sudan actually has committed genocide. And yet Obama ruled out using force against Sudan’s genocide even while he was running for office.
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In the White House, Obama has tried to shape an Islamist future for the Middle East, favoring Islamist governments in Turkey and Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood. He saw his role as paving the way for the next generation of regional regimes that would be explicitly Islamist.
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Obama does not believe that the terrorists are the problem. He believes that we are the problem. His foreign policy is not about fighting Islamic terrorists. It is about destroying our power to stop them.
He isn’t fighting terrorists. He’s fighting us.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/aiding-islamic-terrorists-is-our-foreign-policy/

Aiding Islamic Terrorists Is Our Foreign Policy
February 20, 2015

Daniel Greenfield

Misguided Priorities Continue Among National Security Agencies

Health workers in protective suits look at an ambulance upon its arrival at Island Hospital in Monrovia on September 30, 2014. Liberia has been hit the hardest by the worst ever outbreak of Ebola, which has killed more than 3,000 people in west Africa. The latest UN data said 1,830 people have died from the killer virus in Liberia so far, and 3,458 people have been infected.
Photo credit: PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images

This pattern applies emphatically to my life of misguided government abuses. Currently it is the FBI, black homosexuals FBI informants who conduct a relentless harassment campaign. On Wednesday November 26, 2014, after 44 years of criminal abuses by police, crime families, FBI informants, Communists and Harvard University campus police, a new young woman graduate student in psychology joined the fun. She replaced a lesbian graduate student in psychology at Harvard University Medical School. This one is at Tufts University. Contrary to the image of psychiatry and psychology as healers, these arrogant, greedy professionals accept employment from crime families and police agencies to conduct brutal campaigns of harassment, intentional infliction of emotional and psychological stress, provocations trying to have me arrested and/or jailed. It is what these gentle healers do. They are control freaks in lovers clothing.

[From article]
At a certain point, you have to choose. My line with the Homeland Security guys is a simple one: every 20 minutes you spend on me, or my kids' chocolate eggs, or Cameron Webster's bagpipe is 20 minutes you're not spending on the guy with Ebola, or Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The price of bagpipe scrutiny is a big hole blown in the lives of American families attending the Boston Marathon, or a bunch of schoolkids in Dallas having to be quarantined for a vicious, ravaging disease with a high fatality rate.
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Big Government is, inevitably, stupid government. The bigger it gets the more it will focus on trivia, and the less it will even be able to discern the few things it should be doing. But something more pathological is going on here: "Homeland Security" is more interested in controlling law-abiding Americans than protecting them.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1014/steyn100614.php3

Ebola Yes, Bagpipes No
By Mark Steyn
Published Oct. 6, 2014

White House Endangers Security, Health Of Americans

[From article]
a Dallas nurse who cared for Thomas Duncan, the Ebola-stricken Liberian man who died last week, has tested positive for the deadly disease.
This is what happens when President Obama refuses to ban travel to America from Ebola-
ravaged countries in West Africa, strictly for political and politically correct reasons.
The Dallas case suggests that the disease is more contagious than Americans are being told, given the fact that the nurse who was in contact with Duncan was wearing full protective gear. It certainly calls into question Obama’s statement that “you cannot get it through casual contact like sitting next to someone on a bus.”
By not banning flights — or shutting the southern border — Obama is putting our national security at risk, to say nothing of the 3,000 U.S. troops whose lives are now in danger after he nonsensically deployed them to Africa to fight the disease.
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The L.A. Times is already reporting that “some question the official assertion that Ebola cannot be transmitted through the air.” The report went on to say that in late 1989, virus researcher Charles L. Bailey studied Ebola among several dozen rhesus monkeys in Reston, Va. What Bailey learned then informs his suspicion now that the current strain of Ebola might be spread through tiny liquid droplets propelled into the air by coughing or sneezing.
“We know for a fact that the virus occurs in sputum and no one has ever done a study (disproving that) coughing or sneezing is a viable means of transmitting,” he said. Unqualified assurances that Ebola is not spread through the air, Bailey said, are “misleading.”
[. . .]
The problem is, Ebola has a 21-day incubation period, meaning that a carrier may not display symptoms for weeks. Which strongly suggests that a carrier can arrive at JFK Airport with no temperature, pass a screening test and be allowed into the U.S. What’s more, people who know they have the disease can hide a temperature spike by taking an aspirin or an Ibuprofen just before their plane lands.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/adriana_cohen/2014/10/adriana_cohen_obama_puts_our_security_at_risk

Adriana Cohen: Obama puts our security at risk
Monday, October 13, 2014
By: Adriana Cohen
Boston Herald

Use of Undercover Operatives Extends to Many U.S. Agencies

In 1968 New York City police, FBI agents and CIA agents were masquerading as students and faculty at Columbia University during and after the student protests. Today psychiatrists masquerade as librarians, artists, and political activists. Attending almost any city council meeting are FBI informants, police employees, and psychiatrists masquerading as activists. Performing psychiatric evaluations without consent is a violation of state and U.S. privacy laws. When will the New York Times reveal the undercover psychiatric abuses?

[From article]
Undercover work, inherently invasive and sometimes dangerous, was once largely the domain of the F.B.I. and a few other law enforcement agencies at the federal level. But outside public view, changes in policies and tactics over the last decade have resulted in undercover teams run by agencies in virtually every corner of the federal government, according to officials, former agents and documents.
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It has also resulted in hidden problems, with money gone missing, investigations compromised and agents sometimes left largely on their own for months.
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At convenience stores, for example, undercover agents, sometimes using actual minors as decoys, look for illegal alcohol and cigarette sales, records show.
[especially popular in  college towns like Cambridge MA]
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director of the F.B.I., [James B.] Comey wrote in a letter to The New York Times that “every undercover operation involves ‘deception,’ which has long been a critical tool in fighting crime.”
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In one investigation, the bureau paid an undercover informant from the tobacco industry nearly $5 million in “business expenses” for his help in the case.
[The FBI used me to fight organized crime for 15 years after government psychiatrists drugged me for 80 days using hallucinogens. The FBI paid me nothing. They went on to coordinate 22 years of retaliation by up to nine crime families. Charming agency.]
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Across the federal government, undercover work has become common enough that undercover agents sometimes find themselves investigating a supposed criminal who turns out to be someone from a different agency, law enforcement officials said. In a few situations, agents have even drawn their weapons on each other before realizing that both worked for the federal government.
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The numbers are considered confidential and are not listed in public budget documents, and even Justice Department officials say they are uncertain how many agents work undercover.
But current and former law enforcement officials said the number of federal agents doing such work appeared to total well into the thousands,
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An intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss classified matters, said the agency alone spent $100 million annually on its undercover operations.
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“There is a danger to democracy,” he said, “in having police infiltrate protests when there isn’t a reasonable basis to suspect criminality.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/us/more-federal-agencies-are-using-undercover-operations.html?_r=0

More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and WILLIAM M. ARKINNOV. 15, 2014

Misguided Priorities and September 11, 2001

[From article]
At least three eyewitnesses spotted al Qaeda hijackers casing the security checkpoints at Boston’s Logan Airport months before the 9/11 attacks. They saw something and said something — but were ignored, newly unveiled court papers reveal.
One of the witnesses, an American Airlines official, actually confronted hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta after watching him videotape and test a security checkpoint in May 2001 — four months before he boarded the American Airlines flight that crashed into the World Trade Center.
The witness alerted security, but authorities never questioned the belligerent Egyptian national or flagged him as a threat.
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The three Boston witnesses were never publicly revealed, even though they were interviewed by the FBI and found to be credible. Their names didn’t even appear as footnotes in the 9/11 Commission Report.
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But authorities never followed up. The men boarded an American flight to Washington, DC.
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the worst terrorist hijacker in history was allowed to waltz through security without anyone stopping him, asking his name, checking his ticket, taking a picture, looking at his drivers license or passport, opening his bags or patting him down.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/05/airport-security-ignored-pre-911-warnings-on-hijackers-court-docs/

Terrorists caught testing airport security months before 9/11: secret docs
By Paul Sperry
New York Post
October 5, 2014 | 2:07am

Clueless Politicians Danger To Survival Of Nation

[From article]
The West today is infected with a psychic parasite, the parasite of the radical Left that rose to power starting in the 1960s. Simultaneously, media ownership in the US has become concentrated in a handful of Big Corporations with no visible love or loyalty to the United States.
After politically primitive Persian Gulf nations became obscenely rich starting in the 1970s with the OPEC oil monopoly, the parasite of Islamic reactionary indoctrination combined with radical leftism into a new “Red Black” alliance, so that Europe imported what are now 44 million Muslims from backward political cultures to serve as welfare-dependency votes for the Left.
Recent media exposures show that Pakistani Muslims in the UK also imported criminal habits like massive child sexual abuse, “honor killings,” and ethnic hatreds that the West has not seen since the Nazis. For years the most prestigious “news organ” in the world, the BBC, was literally run by a politically powerful child-abuse ring, led by children’s program presenter Jimmy Savile -- but by no means only him. Estimates of the number of sexually abused children at the BBC range above a thousand. That is only possible in a closed culture that operates by secrecy and blackmail to maintain its power. For years, Hollywood was run by a similar pedophile-and-blackmail network.
New exposures in the English town of Rotherham show another Pakistani child abuse ring with 1,400 young victims. The London Parliament has not been immune to this Black Plague either.
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Domestically, “multiculturalism” imposed a massive taboo on the American people, who were no longer allowed to be critical of media-boosted “victim” groups.
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African-American string puppets covered up the basic truth that African slaves were kidnapped by native chiefs and sold to (white) Arab slave traders in the thousands, to be shipped across the Atlantic. Black slavery in Africa has always been run by Muslim raiders and traders, just as the Islamist gang Boko Haram in Nigeria today specializes in kidnapping hundreds of children from their homes to sell into sexual slavery. African Americans can see on their television screens precisely what happened to their ancestors -- and nobody seems to say a word about it.
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Carter, the Clintons and Obama were in tacit collusion with radical Islam, notably Khomeini in Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) in Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere. It was the Ikhwan that assassinated President Anwar Sadat, an extraordinary patriot and the greatest peacemaker in history between Arabs and Israel. Sadat’s successor President Hosni Mubarak was finally brought low by the Ikhwan, with the active and pernicious assistance of the Obama administration.
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The United States is therefore saddled with a double near-lethal political infection: The America-hating left, and their Islamofascist allies. These forces are so strong that they hardly bother to lie about their intentions any more.
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Constitutional government in the world is only two centuries old, and the US Constitution is the longest-lasting and most benevolent one in existence. Lincoln truly did not know “whether any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.” In 1860 the Constitution was only seven decades old.
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Unlike the Founding generation, the generation of Lincoln, and the Greatest Generation of World War 2 our people today are steeped in folly and self-indulgence.
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Today we must mobilize our resources for another life-and-death struggle or give in to the forces of barbarism.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/09/the_utter_failure_of_our_political_class_to_respond_to_mortal_danger.html

September 13, 2014
The utter failure of our political class to respond to mortal danger
By James Lewis

Sarah Palin: President Gets His Intel From Drudge Report

Sarah Palin: President Gets His Intel From Drudge Report

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