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Trump, McMaster & Trust

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Over the past several days, there has been a suspicious buildup of voices calling for the firing of National Security Advisor Lt. Gen H.R. McMaster. It started on Twitter and quickly spilled into the MSM. It’s not the first time this has happened. There was a big push for McMaster’s ouster back in May 2017, as well.

The accusations leveled at McMaster are many, but they generally boil down to this. He’s a Globalist, anti-Israel – and opposes many of President Trump’s policies.

He’s been accused of firing behind-the-scenes Trump loyalists, particularly Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council – a man about which very little is actually known.

That McMaster has fired these people is fact. The loyalties and motives of those fired is not.Continue Reading

Hillary Clinton, Judicial Watch & A Job for Jeff Sessions

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Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch recently obtained 1,606 pages of documents from the U.S. State Department that showed transmission of classified data by Clinton aides – including Huma Abedin. Many emails showed acts of Clinton Foundation donors requesting – and obtaining – favors. A separate release (discussed further down) pertains to talking points developed by the Justice Department in relation to the Bill Clinton-Loretta Lynch Tarmac Meeting. From Judicial Watch’s Huma Abedin email press release:

The documents were obtained in response to a court order from a May 5, 2015, lawsuit filed against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) after it failed to respond to a March 18, 2015, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Judicial Watch today released 1,606 pages of documents from the U.S. Department of State revealing repeated use of unsecured communications for classified information and numerous examples of Clinton Foundation donors receiving special favors from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s staff.Continue Reading

Fusion GPS, the Trump Dossier, Russian Money & the Magnitsky Act

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Fusion GPS is the firm who commissioned the infamous – and discredited – Steele dossier on President Trump. Fusion GPS is currently stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation into Fusion GPS ties to the Democratic Party. And Fusion steadfastly refuses to say who paid for the dossier.

Now, it turns out that Fusion GPS was employed by the Russian government – at the exact same time that Fusion commissioned the Trump dossier.

Stop and think on that a moment.

The FBI was actually utilizing propaganda potentially commissioned by Russia as a reason for launching the entire Trump-Russian investigation in the first place.Continue Reading

Russian Dolls – A NYT Correction & An Intelligence Fabrication

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An interesting correction appeared in the New York Times from a Maggie Haberman article on June 25th. I missed the actual correction but was alerted to it by a later article on the matter.

Part of what made the correction interesting was the manner in which the article was rewritten – done in a fashion that made it difficult to see where the correction actually applied – thereby attempting to render the whole correction moot.

Equally interesting was how the correction glossed over the makeup of our intelligence agencies – and inadvertently exposed how the Times – and almost every other news organization – exaggerated the role of the intelligence agencies in promoting the notion of Russian Collusion. It also highlights the roles played by the intelligence agencies actually involved:Continue Reading

Illegal Voting – Some Uncomfortable Facts and Findings

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A while back, in A Voter-Fraud Friendly Environment, I documented the laughably lax voting requirements in my home state of California. Now we have a new report by Just Facts that concludes that “as many as 5.7 million noncitizens may have voted in the 2008 election“. The Washington Times reported on the study yesterday.

I don’t know if the headline number is correct – although the methodology looks sound. I am far more interested in showing that illegal voting took place on some sort of significant scale than I am in determining the actual number. You can examine the Just Facts findings I highlight later in this piece and decide for yourself.

But first, a quick summary of the California voting situation:

  • No ID of any kind is required to actually vote at the ballot box
  • Illegal immigrants are legally allowed and encouraged to obtain CA drivers licenses
  • State officials chose not to make non-citizen license holders searchable in the DMV database
  • Eligible holders of CA driver licenses are automatically registered to vote
  • The California NVRA manual dictates a process of voter registration that makes it difficult not to be registered

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John Brennan Heads for the Exits

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CIA Director John Brennan testified before the full House Intelligence Committee on May 23, 2017. And judging from his opening statements, Mr. Brennan had closely watched former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony on March 20th 2017.

The full video of Brennan’s testimony is below (transcript here). I will highlight some key moments:Continue Reading