With Allies Like This...

I assume the Brits, like everyone else, thought Hillary Clinton was a shoo in so they went along with a request from US intelligence sources. Their mission, should they accept it, is to lift the skirts of Trump's electronic communications and have a looksee at The Donald's goodies.

"This'll put us in good with the Yanks", says they, "and after the election Winnie's bust will soon be back where it belongs, in the White House, glaring at that dreadful, horse-faced lesbian. Cheerio!"

Fox News Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano claimed “three intelligence sources” say President Obama looked to British spy agency GCHQ to obtain transcripts of conversations involving President Donald Trump on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday.

[..]He used GCHQ. What the heck is GCHQ? That’s the initials for the British spying agency. They have 24/7 access to the NSA database. So by simply having two people go to them saying, ‘President Obama needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump, conversations involving president-elect Trump,’ he’s able to get it, and there’s no American fingerprints on this.”

No one is sure what Trump will do in the best of circumstances. Lord only knows how he will take the Brits to task for this.

Story here.

And of course the Brits enter the frey, they say, "Nay, no way Jose":

A spokesperson for the British government is speaking out several hours after Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano claimed that “three intelligence sources” informed him that former President Barack Obama employed the British intel service to spy on then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

“No part of this story is true,” the spokesperson told The Blaze Tuesday afternoon.

Their response here.

The Pink Slime Lawsuit Against ABC Stands

From the WSJ:

A judge in South Dakota has cleared the way to trial of a lawsuit claiming ABC News “pink slime” coverage caused $1.9 billion of damage to the business of Beef Products Inc., which makes the meat product tagged with the term.

Judge Cheryle Gering threw out defamation claims against anchor Diane Sawyer but left standing accusations against ABC News and multiple Emmy award-winning journalist, Jim Avila.

Judge Gering, in rejecting ABC’s bid to have the case dismissed, said a jury could find the network was pursuing “a negative spin” on the story before conducting any research and that Mr. Avila had an anti-meat-industry agenda.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people. Unfortunately the suit against Diane Lyin' Sawyer was thrown out.

My sister was interviewed by Sawyer back in either 1989 or 1990. She was the regional rep for an anti-abortion organization and was invited to be interviewed on 60 Minutes. The producer sent a limo out to eastern Long Island to pick her up and bring her to Manhattan.

There was  a studio audience present and the interview lasted almost an hour. She said that it was clear that Sawyer was out to embarrass her and tried every trick in the book to make her look bad.

My sister is one of the sweetest and most reasonable gals on the planet and it didn't work. She called me soon after and told me what transpired. A few weeks later she learned that her interview would not be aired.We weren't surprised. Sis makes a very compelling narrative against abortion and Sawyer et al. would not allow this to be shown to the public.

Sis is still very active in pro-life circles down in Maryland.

Go Beef Products, Inc.

Dinner With The Afghan Ambassador

A reporter for the Independent Journal Review was invited to participate in a dinner given by Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US, Dr. Hamdullah Mohib. This was a Gold Star dinner for the wives of US servicemen who were KIA in Afghanistan.

Over the course of the evening, Dr. Mohib led a vibrant, gracious conversation about the struggles of his home country and displayed deep appreciation to the family members of the Americans lost on its soil.

Dr. Mohib was asked to give his opinion on the differences between President Trump and the previous administration. His response stunned his audience.

The Obama administration was the most academic administration we have ever had to deal with but the Trump administration has been the most thoughtful and intelligent.

Trump continually asked “How can you win? What does Afghanistan need to win?” in reference to our fight with terrorism. Trump wants to win. Sincerely. All the Obama administration wanted to do was not lose.

The Obama administration was hesitant with us. The enemy could sense that. When the Obama administration announced its plans to pull troops out of the region, they announced the exact date they would do it. All our enemies had to do was wait ...

The Ambassador was optimistic in his appraisal of his country's future with American assistance under the leadership of President Trump.

This is good, for the future of Afghanistan.

Of course the Ambassador is not about to say that he thinks Trump is an idiot. He wouldn't do that to the previous administration even if he thought so. But his remarks are somewhat revealing.

The Victims Of Illegal Aliens Finally Have A V.O.I.C.E.

In one of his first acts as President, Donald Trump issued an executive order ending years of liberal advocacy for criminal aliens. From the National Review:

The “Office for Victims of Crimes Committed by Removable Aliens,” now called “Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE),” was created by an executive order on immigration enforcement on January 25 and enhanced in a memorandum by DHS secretary John Kelly on February 20. VOICE is a very appropriate name for this office. For years American families victimized by illegal aliens have been ignored. Because of the misuse of “privacy” rules and indifference, they have been unable to find out whether the criminals who attacked their family members were in the country legally or illegally, or even whether the aliens were incarcerated, deported, or set free.

This class of victims finally joins the ranks of those who have suffered loss at the hands of citizen criminals. Funds for this effort are channeled through programs that previously aided criminal aliens under the Obama administration. Taxpayer funds will no longer be available for the following:

• In the past two years, the Obama Administration spent $9 million of taxpayer money to provide attorneys to illegal aliens.

• DHS had previously offered hotlines to help illegal aliens seeking executive amnesty and enable complaints against those seeking to enforce U.S. immigration law, and even opened an illegal alien advocate office. 

• Even today, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) still advertises safe zones (“sensitive locations”) – such as school bus stops, health clinics and parades - where illegal aliens will be free from enforcement actions.

There are other victim assistance programs available through the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). This is a program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The Crime Victims Fund was established under the 1984 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) to help victims of crime. One of the goals of this funding was to keep crime victims appraised of the progress of prosecutions involving their assailant. I administered one of these programs that operated on a county-wide basis and can testify as to their advocacy for victims and the assistance they provide.

Apparently the same level of assistance was not extended to federal prosecutions involving criminal aliens.  Indeed, under Obama the deportation of criminal aliens was replaced by their release back into society.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement released 90,000 illegal aliens back onto the streets that were deemed as criminal threats in 2015. The massive release was a result of Pres. Obama’s Priority Enforcement Program that puts the focus only on criminal aliens who pose a "serious" threat.

In fiscal year 2015 ICE encountered 152,393 illegal criminal aliens, mostly through local jails, but only charged 64,116. According to Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, around 88,000 were not even processed for deportation.

If the crime occurred in one of the 300 sanctuary cities, the crime may not have been reported to ICE and the suspect alien not remanded to federal custody as required;  the numbers quoted above may be greater as the accuracy of these statistics is dependent upon the cooperation of local jurisdictions.

Hopefully this situation has been rectified by Trump's executive order and the issue of sanctuary cities will soon be addressed.

Enough Already

"The difference between stupidity and genius is
that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

Again and again I am amazed at the perfidy and stupidity of the Democrats.Stupidity on the part of its voter block and the perfidy of its leaders.

Ignorance can be educated.
Crazy can be medicated.
But there is no cure for stupid.
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"You'll have to pass it to see what's in it."
"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan"
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

Stupidity should be painful.
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The past eight years have been disastrous for America under the guise of leadership from a man who never really held a job, who fought to conceal his birth circumstances and more than doubled the national debt. Yet sixty some odd million people voted for a woman who would have continued the same policies that have bankrupted this nation financially, morally and spiritually.

Errare humanum est, in errore perservare stultum.

"It is human to make a mistake, it is stupid to persist on it."

Seneca

Our military strength is at it's lowest in decades at a point in time when the world is at its most dangerous. The US Treasury has been looted for social justice and globalist interests. Our borders resembled a sieve rather than a protective wall. Many of our public schools are a shambles. Our most dangerous technologies have been stolen and duplicated in countries that have openly threatened us.

Mal Pericolosam Libertatem Quam Quietum Servitum 

“Better Liberty with Danger, than Peace with Slavery"
Some dead guy - Jefferson stole it

Last November the American electorate decided to place a man in our highest office; a man who promised to correct this imbalance. He has come under a consistent, scurrilous attack orchestrated by, for the most part, unelected bureaucrats who represent not the American public, but their own political interests.

Capillamentum? Haudquaquam conieci esse! 

"A wig? I never would have guessed!"

Jut threw it in there

 I don't want to hear any more about Trump's hair, wives, vacation homes, taxes or Russians. Let the man do his job and let that speak for itself.

Inflationes in ventum  
"A fart in the wind"
My Dad 

All the nonsense coming out of Deep State sources is smoke without a fire. There's plenty of evil just smouldering under the surface of the prior administration waiting for some oxygen to burst into flames. The media is desperate to smother it. Let's not let that happen.

Soon...

Captain Cannoli checks out my grandson.

Alexa Takes The Fifth

Close Quarter Political Combat

I missed this article in PJ Media when it came out four days ago. It gives an example of desperate close quarters combat and a summation of the Trump-Clinton-Obama tiff that is s thing of beauty. Trump doesn't attack the extremities seeking to weaken his opponent, he goes much deeper than that.

The most singular thing about Donald Trump's wiretap accusation against Barack Obama is how he's refusing to play the game of extremities — losing a Flynn here and getting a Sessions paralyzed there — and getting right into lethal range. Trump's gone right past Schumer, ignored the surrogates and gone straight for the former president himself.

Once elected, Trump gives Hillary a pass on her criminal activities and the Democrats thought it was a sign of weakness. They pile on Trump by attacking his Cabinet choices, fatally wounding National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and harassing AG Jeff Sessions. In return, Trump does not go after Democratic flunkies, he goes right for Obama's throat.

He accuses Obama of criminal activity while he was President. Now Obama has a different problem to tackle and Trump is in a position where he cannot back off. He must kill Obama politically.

This escalation represents a real threat to Obama. Suddenly everything is out of control. Nobody would have minded much if Trump had gone after one of Obama's henchmen — which is probably what was expected — but none can foresee how an exchange of blades between principals will end. It is safe to say, however, that unless the combatants disengage, someone will get hurt. It will be a terrible moment for American political civility when a king lies on the political floor. The whole point of a peaceful transition of power is to prevent a clash between kings. Yet the very tragedy the electoral process is intended to prevent is happening before our eyes.

Obama and his minions are evil, traitorous slime. Trump needs to end them. I trust he will.

More CIA Deep State Stuff

Oh goody, I stumbled across another rabbit hole. The Vault 7 WikiLeaks leaks are yielding a surprising amount of fruit.

WikiLeaks released Vault 7, a slew of CIA files on surveillance and hacking, encrypted with the password “SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds”, a phrase that President John F. Kenndy used a month prior to his assassination. Kennedy hated the CIA.

Speaking in a History Channel documentary years ago, Samuel Halpern, author of “The Assassination of JFK,” claimed that the threat against JFK’s life stemmed from Kennedy’s frustration with the CIA, which he believed was becoming a “state within a state.”

More here

It's an interesting read, especially since the 40,000 documents pertaining to the Kennedy assassination must be released to the public this October. Supposedly there are 3,600 documents that have never been released. After fifty some odd years, it's time.

A special team of seven archivists and technicians with top-secret security clearances has been set up at the National Archives and Records Administration to process all or portions of 40,000 documents that constitute the final collection of known federal records that might shed light on the events surrounding JFK’s murder, POLITICO has learned — files that, according to law, must be made public by October 2017.

But the records’ release is not guaranteed, says Martha Murphy, head of the National Archives’ Special Access Branch. While the JFK Records Act of 1992 mandated the files be made public in 25 years, government agencies that created the paper trail can still appeal directly to the president to keep them hidden. And some scholars and researcher not to mention the army of JFK conspiracy theorists, fear that is exactly what will happen given the details about the deepest, darkest corners of American spy craft that could be revealed — from three inner workings of the CIA’s foreign assassination program and front companies to the role of a CIA psychological operations guru accused of misleading congressional investigators about alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities.

More here.

Does the iPhone Bluetooth Blab?

I was talking to my daughter this morning and she brought up a troubling subject. She stated that she was puzzled by something that her iPhone Bluetooth app may be doing. Recently she was talking with her roommates about a subject, overweight males, and a little bit later she starting receiving ads in her favorite apps for swim suits (a product named Chubbies?). She had her iPhone Bluetooth adapter on as she uses it to send music to her Bluetooth speakers.

Same thing happened when she was talking about switching her cell phone provider, she started getting ads about different cell phone service plans. Then one of her roommates got ads about Brooklyn hair salons ... this a few hours after  she was talking about looking for a different salon, in Brooklyn. They both use ATT cellular service on their iPhones.

My daughter used AirDrop to send images, etc., to her work phone or her computer. She kept it on all the time. Once she stopped the Bluetooth adapter until she needed it, the ads stopped. Coinky-dink?

Does any one have any information on this?
Are cellular service companies doing something illegal or is this part of the tiny, tiny script that you don't read in your service agreement?

This is why I refuse to have an Amazon Echo or anything like it in the house. It is just another way for someone to listen in on your life.

And Away We Go... Again

Here's another swamp thing that needs to be yanked out of the water once and for all. From The American Mirror:

An Obama has joined the birther movement.

Malik Obama, Barack Obama’s half-brother, tweeted image of what appears to be Barack’s birth certificate.

Except it’s not from Hawaii, but rather Kenya.

One of the issues that gave Obama a lot of confidence was that his place of birth might possibly be half a ocean away from Hawaii and the media, law enforcement and judges all covered for him. Any one who dared question Obama's claims to natural citizenship was attacked. Now let the narcissistic commie stew. Trump  is now in a position to quietly have the FBI send a few agents to Kenya to kick things around.

But wait, there's Comey he has to deal with. This could be another embarrassing cock up waiting for Trump to step in it.

Obama's half brother posts a document (if that's what it is) that has a footprint. If true, this can be used to provide positive identification. I am not sure how you would get Obama to submit to having his right footprint taken, but waterboarding seems promising.

And why now? Sure, Malik most likely was warned to keep his mouth shut during the past eight years. With a change in administration there could be something afoot, a counter move to Obama's shadow government that seeks to discredit him. Could this be Trump's initial opening volley?

You know what? Ask Putin if he would send some Rooskie agents into Kenya to take a looksee. Let the Kenyans mess with the Spetsnaz instead.

Yank On The Plug, Then Drain The Swmp

USAG Sessions is dropping hints that Obama's DoJ may be subjected to an investigation.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggested Thursday that he would be open to the appointment of an outside counsel to review actions taken by the Justice Department during the Obama administration.

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Sessions in an interview if the new attorney general would consider designating an outside counsel "not connected to politics" to take a second look at Justice Department actions that provoked Republican ire in the last eight years. Those include the Fast and Furious gun scandal and the decisions against bringing criminal charges over Hillary Clinton's email practices or the Internal Revenue Service's treatment of conservative groups.

I'm finding these floaters to be tiresome.
Do it or don't.
Shit or get off the pot.

Sessions was noncommittal but left the door open, saying he would do everything he could to "restore the independence and professionalism of the Department of Justice."

"So we would have to consider whether or not some outside special counsel is needed," Sessions said. "Generally, a good review of that internally is the first step before any such decision is made."

There's been eight years of review, enough already. Still, this may be a negotiating maneuver to shake things loose a bit.

Story here.

CIA Imitates Russian Hackers

And now we go a little bit further down the rabbit hole. I need to lose some weight so I'm looking for the pill that makes me smaller. If only the government could find the pill that makes them honest.

Wikileaks now uncovers more of the CIA's possible culpability in the 2016 elections mess.  

The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.

With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from.

So the so-called evidence that the Russians hacked the election could have been the CIA hacking our own elections. This is a Rooskie source but what the hell, more here and WikiLeaks here.

Zero Hedge also has something to say about the WikiLeaks leaks and the CIA's use of Russian malware to imitate cyber attacks:

WikiLeaks said that ‘Year Zero’ revealed details of the CIA’s “global covert hacking program,” including “weaponized exploits” used against company products including “Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.”

WikiLeaks tweeted the leak, which it claims came from a network inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.

Among the more notable disclosures which, if confirmed, "would rock the technology world", the CIA had managed to bypass encryption on popular phone and messaging services such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. According to the statement from WikiLeaks, government hackers can penetrate Android phones and collect “audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.”

Another profound revelation is that the CIA can engage in "false flag" cyberattacks which portray Russia as the assailant. Discussing the CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group, Wikileaks' source notes that it "collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.

Well, apparently everyone in the US intelligence community got into the act. The DHS tried to hack the State of Georgia's election servers last year. The only difference between them and the CIA is that they suck at it.

The Georgia Secretary of State's Office now confirms 10 separate cyberattacks on its network were all traced back to U.S. Department of Homeland Security addresses.

In an exclusive interview, a visibly frustrated Secretary of State Brian Kemp confirmed the attacks of different levels on his agency's network over the last 10 months. He says they all traced back to DHS internet provider addresses.

"We're being told something that they think they have it figured out, yet nobody's really showed us how this happened,” Kemp said. "We need to know."

This isn't a swamp, it's a lake. Drain the damn thing.

The National Debt Is A Form Of Slavery

We are watching two opposing forces fighting for control of the country. This is the fiercest competition since the issue of slavery was on the table and it could very well result in the same type of resolution.  And the conflict is again ultimately one of economic advantage; the Deep State wants to protect its deep pockets.

There are trillions of dollars at stake here; Obama provided an unprecedented massive infusion of  taxpayer funds to the Deep State and it wants those deep fiduciary arteries to remain open.  Hillary was just a stent to keep them open and allow the bleeding to continue and both Democrats and Republicans participated in the operation.

We have enslaved future generations of Americans in order to feed our secretive overlords. The plantation now covers the entire country. The IRS is their whip and the media preaches that all is good and to challenge that relationship is evil.

We are twenty trillion dollars in debt with naught to show for it and yet this is not enough to quench the Deep State's thirst. Or perhaps the Democrats, using Whoopi Goldberg's "rape rape" definition, think that this massive financial burden has not reached the level of "debt debt." That level, my friends, will become apparent when the whole bloody kit and caboodle collapses and the government can finally assume control over every aspect of our lives.

Where or when will we find our Fort Sumter?
Perhaps it is now.
Has Trump fired the opening shots? I think so.

Trump Accusations Based On Vapor Evidence

These people need to be shot thrown in jail for the rest of their lives and their personal fortunes seized. Let their spouses and children beg in the streets.
From Gateway Pundit:

We now know that the meeting between Bill Clinton and Attorney General Lynch occurred at about the same time that the Obama administration filed a request with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers.

There is circumstantial evidence that the entire plot to eavesdrop on the server in Trump Tower started with Bill Clinton's visit to Loretta Lynch in the Phoenix airport last summer, around July 2016. The FISA court initially refused the warrant application but after it was rewritten it was approved just a month (October) prior to the Presidential elections.

Also last October WikiLeaks released another batch of emails that show close coordination between the DoJ and Clinton apparatchiks during the Hillary email investigation that was underway. Bill must have had quite a laundry list when he decided to pop in on Loretta's jet.

Thus far no particulars have emerged that detail the activities allegedly under investigation by the DoJ that precipitated the eavesdropping applications on the Trump HQ. Both warrant applications that were submitted to the FISA court need to be examined as well as the documentation that provided the reasonable cause upon which the applications were based. Let the public know just what Lynch's people were looking for... because they obviously found nothing and that is precisely the basis for the allegations now sweeping the liberal media. Vapor evidence.

Now former US AG Lynch is calling for riots, blood on the streets in order to bring down the Trump administration. IMHO this is nothing more than the last desperate gasps of a woman who knows she is about to drown in the waters of her former agency. Indict the traitorous bitch and be done with it. And don't forget the Clintons. I'd say let them all rot in prison; but then again there is merit in North Korea's use of surplus military equipment to permanently remove corrupt politicians. And sponges, don't forget the sponges.

As a bonus, this is an interesting graphic of Obama's scandal-free administration. Some of these involve wiretapping, such as the May 2013 federal seizure of AP reporters' phone calls.