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Topic: Undermining faith in law enforcement and
national security: the legacy of Eric Holder |
Undermining faith in law enforcement and
national security: the legacy of Eric Holder
Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 12/5/2012 6:10:22 AM
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| I wrote here about the sustained persecution of CIA agents who protected America by obtaining information from terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11. The persecution culminated in a decision by Attorney General Holder to reopen cases against some agents that the Justice Department had already deemed unworthy of prosecution. I now know the “back story” to Holder’s decision. It renders that decision even more disgraceful than I had thought. (Snip)My focus, though, is on Holder’s decision to reopen the investigation of the CIA agents. Understand first that the techniques used by these agents had been analyzed in detailed legal memos
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/5/2012 6:31:56 AM (No. 9049310)
The left sees waterboarding,sleep depredation or playing loud music as more barbaric than flying planes into building or stoning or beheading people under Sharia.
You hadleft wing privacy nuts going ape over intercepting international calls to possible terrorists overseas, but they don´t have a problem with the huge expansion of government spying and building dossiers against everyday Americans.
Holder reopening the cases against the CIA agents after they were already exonerated was probably to make left wing cultists like MoveOn.org happy.These are the same crackpots that are obsessed with Bush tax cuts on the rich.These people live in one continuous obsession over anything Bush related.
This country is becoming like the old Soviet empire,only they´re enhanced with modern technology. Why doesn´t the government need probable cause or search warrants to snoop through Americans emails and internet travels?These are nothing but witch hunts hoping to stumble on a crime,or at the very least,blackmail information.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 12/5/2012 7:28:23 AM (No. 9049372)
If the Media hadn´t sold out America and ceased doing their job none of this would be happening. Obama wouldn´t have got elected the first time. The American Media and Press are in full collaboration with Obama and the Democrat Party, both enemies of America.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 12/5/2012 8:53:08 AM (No. 9049505)
Hitchens also considered anything short of the finest single malt whiskey to be torture.
Liberalism does not suffer from slipshod analysis. It REQUIRES it. Promotes it.
Glories in it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 12/5/2012 11:23:15 AM (No. 9049914)
Amen and Hallelujah, #2. If the balloon ever does go up, I´m starting with some of the rat newsfolk...
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Obama’s Climate of Intimidation
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American Spectator, by Matthew Sheffield
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 6:14:10 AM
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Both parties constantly make accusations that their rival is engaged in hypocritical, unethical, or illegal behavior. Given the drastic lack of ideological diversity in the American elite media, the general public usually only hears about such accusations against Republicans. Beyond the fact that biased reporting shapes public opinion to favor the left, it may also have an effect on law enforcement. The persistent lies that have been told about right-leaning political groups by leading Democrats, including President Obama himself, may have led to the IRS abuses of power that we’ve heard so much about in recent weeks.
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FBI names former USC professor
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Los Angeles Times, by Richard Winton & Kate Mather
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 6:07:46 AM
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A former USC professor was named Monday to the FBI´s Ten Most Wanted fugitives list after he was indicted for sex crimes against children abroad, FBI officials said. Walter Lee Williams, 64, became the 500th person named to the list, officials said. He faces charges of sexual exploitation of children, traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places. Bureau officials said they had identified at least 10 alleged victims between the ages of 9 and 17. Many live in Third World countries, officials said, adding that Williams has traveled extensively
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Immigration and the Republicans
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Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 5:57:15 AM
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Writing today in the Corner at National Review Online, Jonah Goldberg takes up the point I discussed earlier today about the necessity for Republicans not to frame the immigration reform issue as one in which their principal motivation is to avoid allowing more Hispanics become Democratic voters. He agrees with me that’s wrong, but he also says that supporters of the gang of eight bill are mistaken to try and sell their legislation to the GOP on the grounds that it is good politics. He thinks the debate on the bill should rise and fall on its merits,
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Left Loses Big in Citizenship-Verification
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PJ Media, by J. Christian Adams
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 5:01:45 AM
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Something perverse happened after the Supreme Court’s decision today invalidating citizenship-verification requirements in Arizona for registrants who use the federal voter registration form. The Left knows they lost most of the battle, but are still claiming victory. That’s what they do. Election-integrity proponents and the states are saying they lost, but don’t realize they really won. The Left wins even when they lose, and conservatives are often bewildered and outfoxed in the election-process game. Earlier today, I called the decision a nothingburger. After re-reading the case and reflecting a bit more, it’s clear that the decision was a disaster
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7-Eleven Stores Operated ´Modern
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ABC News, by Aaron Katersky
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 4:27:41 AM
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The owners of 7-Eleven franchises in New York and Virginia created a "modern day plantation system" in which undocumented workers were furnished with stolen identities and forced to work 100 hours a week for a fraction of their wages, according to a federal authorities. Ten stores in New York and four in Virginia were seized today as part of the federal investigation which found the undocumented workers from Pakistan were given identities stolen from children and the deceased, according to federal prosecutor Loretta E. Lynch. Farrukh Baig, his wife Bushra, and seven others were charged with fraud, identity theft
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Chrysler Expected to Formally
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Associated Press, by Tom Krisher
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/18/2013 4:23:43 AM
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DETROIT -- In one of the biggest-ever showdowns between an automaker and the government, Chrysler on Tuesday is expected to file papers explaining its refusal to recall 2.7 million older Jeep SUVs that are at risk of catching fire in rear-end collisions. The government says 51 people have suffered fiery deaths in Jeep Grand Cherokees and Libertys with gas tanks mounted behind the rear axles. But Chrysler is expected to stick to its contention that the SUVs are as safe as similar vehicles on the road. The Jeeps, it says, met all federal safety standards when they were built,
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The Reckless Rhetoric
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Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 6/17/2013 4:41:05 PM
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According to Sarah Palin, the GOP’s vice presidential candidate in 2008, the United States is “becoming a totalitarian surveillance state.” And Herman Cain, who ran as a GOP presidential candidate in 2012, said, “This train is running full speed down the tracks towards socialism and towards communism. Yes, I said it. Before we stop it and reverse it, we got to slow it down. That’s what we do in 2014.” Now, we actually know what genuine totalitarian surveillance states and communist nations look like, and America is nothing close to becoming anything like them. Whatever one thinks
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Edward Snowden Is In The
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Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/18/2013 5:34:23 AM
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Amid a steady rise of backlash, Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former National Security Agency contractor who was the source of a spring of leaks about the agency´s surveillance methods, conducted a live chat on The Guardian´s website Monday morning. Judging from some of the pointed questions he´s been asked and the reaction to newly leaked revelations over the past few days, it´s clear that much of the sympathy and support Snowden had built up for his early exposures is eroding. Many Americans supported his decision to leak information about a pair of National Security Agency surveillance programs, which, he detailed, gathered information
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Barbara Walters Defends Maher
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Newsbusters, by John Nolte
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/17/2013 5:19:02 PM
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As NewsBusters reported last week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called out vulgarian comedian Bill Maher for referring to her Down Syndrome son Trig as "retarded." On ABC´s The View Monday, co-host Barbara Walters astonishingly defended Maher saying, "I don´t think he intended it to be mean-spirited" (video follows with transcript and commentary): WHOOPI GOLDBERG: At a recent standup show in Las Vegas, comedian Bill Maher apparently called Sarah Palin’s five-year-old developmentally-challenged son Trig retarded. And Sarah blasted him on Twitter as a bully. Is that, is it, is he a bully? Is he a bad, what is he?
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Jeb Bush labels conservative
critics ‘the chirpers’
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Washington Post, by Aaron Blake
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/17/2013 1:22:30 PM
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Jeb Bush says he’s not worried that his work toward comprehensive immigration reform and his ties to the GOP establishment will alienate conservatives and negatively impact a potential 2016 presidential campaign, referring to critics as “the chirpers.” “If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record,” the former Florida governor said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody. “And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.” Bush (R) pointed to his conservative
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Obama: You Can´t Fathom
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 6/18/2013 5:30:04 PM
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Charlie Rose last night asked President Obama his new Syria policy. The president first objected to it being called a new policy. "I´m not sure you can characterize this as a new policy. This is consistent with the policy that I´ve had throughout," he said. Obama then explained the goal is regional stability, and especially in Syria. "Really, what we´re trying to do is take sides against extremists of all sorts and in favor of people who are in favor of moderation, tolerance, representative government, and over the long-term, stability and prosperity for the people of Syria," said Obama.
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The IRS Immigration Fraud Scandal
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 10:37:24 AM
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Marco Rubio. Paul Ryan. The IRS. Illegal immigration. And fraud to the tune of billions.. Now there’s a combustible mix. Let’s start with the IRS, illegal immigration and fraud. We’ll come back in a minute to Senator Rubio and Congressman Ryan. For those who came in late, a year before the IRS scandals burst onto the scene in early May of 2013, an alert investigative reporter for WTHR-Indianapolis (Channel 13), Bob Segall by name, produced a stunning piece of journalism. Segall’s video report is found here and we will quote from his story for the basics.
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TWA Flight 800 investigators break silence
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FOX News, by Staff
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Posted By: smcchk- 6/19/2013 12:41:02 AM
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A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago. However, the six whistleblowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down. Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996 enroute to Paris when it exploded
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Obama assassination bid fears -
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Belfast Telegraph [Ireland], by Staff
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Posted By: SoCalGal- 6/17/2013 11:39:01 PM
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It is understood that a contingency plan is in place for the unlikely event that an attempt would be made on the President’s life. The Secret Service also have diplomatic immunity which will allow them to shoot to kill a would-be assassin without fear of prosecution. As part of the “evacuation route” plan, they would be able to spirit the President by chopper to one of the carriers where a jet is on standby to take him back to the United States.
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