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2016 The turth is the gold of today
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TSA: Total Security Abyss
MICHELLE MALKIN
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There's Nothing Democratic About Democrat Primaries Hilly Clinton is winning handily against Bernie Sanders. Oh sure, the Democratic Socialist, with his message pledging a "political revolution" against Wall Street, tied in Iowa and cleaned up in the New Hampshire primary. But Clinton campaigned where it matters: to the Democrat Party's superdelegates — lawmakers and key players in the party that can vote for whomever they want at the convention. Leaving New Hampshire, Sanders had the support of 42 delegates. Clinton? 394. The eventual Democrat candidate for president needs 2,382 delegates to win the party's nomination.
For all their talk about dark money polluting the political system, Democrats sure do operate an unequal system. National Review's Jim Geraghty wrote that 10,000 young Democrat primary voters feelin' the Bern are equal to one superdelegate voting how they please, and those superdelegates are rallying to protect the establishment's favorite politician in a pantsuit.
It's false advertising to call the Democrat Party democratic. Why does the party even care about voter ID laws, or even participatory politics with a system tilted with superdelegates? So much for the principle of one person, one vote. The New Democrat Party is one where "Democrats" and Socialists is a distinction without a difference. -The Patriot Post
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Ferguson: Rally the Black Vote
As the nation's news junkies focused their attention on the New Hampshire primary returns, the City Council of Ferguson, Missouri, took another twist related to the 2014 justified shooting death of Michael Brown. The six-member council voted unanimously to approve the Justice Department's settlement to reform the city's unjust policing practices — but "subject to certain conditions." The DOJ responded to the city's request by filing a lawsuit against Ferguson, just in time to agitate the black vote in the southern primaries.
The city council wants to amend the section of the 131-page consent decree that stipulates a pay increase for its police officers. If you recall, the city was balancing its budget through aggressive policing practices and a court system that collected fines from city residents hand over fist. With the reform already in place, Ferguson is running a $2.8 million deficit, and the DOJ's plan would increase expenditures $3.7 million in the first year. Perhaps DOJ didn't understand that unlike the federal government, local governments have to operate on a balanced budget.
"So just to make it clear," Reason's Scott Shackford explained, "the city stands accused of having an abusive law enforcement agency that violates the rights of its citizenry in order to fund itself and its court employees, and the correction being imposed by the Department of Justice is to force the city to have to find sources of even more money to fork over to the very officers that have been abusing residents." What's Ferguson to do? Raise taxes on its poor residents?
Make no mistake: Timing is everything. The DOJ's actions will benefit Hilly Clinton throughout the southern primaries, as blacks are reminded once again of injustice. Never mind that Ferguson (and every other city in which Black Lives Matter is fomenting discord) is run by Democrats. "Residents of Ferguson have suffered the deprivation of their constitutional rights — the rights guaranteed to all Americans — for decades," said Attorney General Loretta Lynch. "They have waited decades for justice. They should not be forced to wait any longer." As long as Democrats run the show, they will have to wait longer.
-The Patriot Post
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Presstitutes and the Clintons Who Pimp Them
For at least two prominent Beltway journalists, trading independence for fleeting scoops is all part of the media churn. A recent batch of emails released by the State Department thanks to a FOIA requests contained a 2009 exchange between former Atlantic contributing editor Marc Ambinder and Hilly Clinton mouthpiece Philippe Reines that demonstrated a clear example of transactional journalism. Clinton was a few months into her appointment as secretary of state when she gave a July 15 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations — a speech that The Washington Post's Erik Wemple notes nobody remembers anymore. Ambinder contacted the Clinton machine to ask for an advance transcript of the speech. In the reply email, Reines said he would hand over the transcript, provided Ambinder complied with three conditions.
"Got it," Ambinder replied. And sure enough, in the journalist's finished piece, all three of Clinton's demands were met in the first paragraph. Fellow Beltway scribbler Mike Allen of Politico also used the adjective "muscular" to describe Clinton's speech, implying that he too followed directions from Clinton's spin machine.The two journalists violated a key tenet of the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics: To act independently because "[t]he highest and primary obligation of ethical journalism is to serve the public." People may debate whether or not Clinton generally receives favorable media coverage, but it seems evident that some reporters are content to become Clinton's presstitutes. And then they wonder why nobody trusts the Leftmedia. -The Patriot Post1) You in your own voice describe them as "muscular"
2) You note that a look at the CFR seating plan shows that all the envoys — from Holbrooke to Mitchell to Ross — will be arrayed in front of her, which in your own clever way you can say certainly not a coincidence and meant to convey something
3) You don't say you were blackmailed!
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Justice Department Sues Ferguson
Over Unconstitutional Policing
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch
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Former Spokesliar Carney –
nObama Prefers An Unindicted Clinton
Rick Wells.
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Union Slams nObama for Catering to Environmentalists
Bill McMorris
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How Iran Took Obama Hostage
Daniel Greenfield
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The Times’ David Brooks Misses nObama
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Roger Aronoff
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David Brooks
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{aim.org} ~ David Brooks, The New York Times’ resident “conservative,” has once again gone all out to support President nObama, claiming that the misconduct of the current presidential campaigns has already made him “miss” the President’s “superior integrity” and poise... Brooks’ “strange sensation” that he is feeling seems reminiscent of the thrill up his leg for the President that MSNBC’s Chris Matthews once spoke of experiencing. Brooks has been with the Times for over 12 years, and is also a political analyst for PBS. That would be more than enough left-wing influence to severely cloud anyone’s judgment, and clearly Brooks has not been immune. The mainstream media refuse to throw away their rose-colored glasses when judging nObama because the reality of this President’s corruption and dishonesty contradicts the liberal narrative. To the contrary, if Brooks were to be believed, President nObama has demonstrated “basic care and respect for the dignity of others,” sound decision-making, “grace under pressure,” and “optimism.” And yes, just like former senior nObama advisor David Axelrod, Brooks argues that President nObama has been “remarkably scandal-free” when compared with prior presidencies. This David guy is really sick. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-times-david-brooks-misses-obama-and-a-few-facts/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email021116&utm_medium=email.
The Latest In Nuclear Cheating,
From Iran To North Korea
Benny Avni
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Liberals Blaming Republicans
for Islamic Terrorists
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{totalconservative.com} ~ Not satisfied with merely smearing Republicans as racist, xenophobic, and sexist, liberals both inside and outside the world of politics have decided that Donald slimp-Trump and other security-conscious conservatives are actually turning moderate Muslims into radical terrorists... Despite lacking even the slightest shred of proof for this accusation, they are repeatedly and shamelessly trying to convince Americans that strong rhetoric against Islamic terrorism is enabling the enemy. At a Women’s Equality event called the Night of Comedy, “Hanoi” Jane Fonda took to the stage to accuse slump-Trump of preying upon people’s “anxieties and racism.” “Even if he doesn’t make it which I don’t think he will, the fact that he’s said the things he’s said about Muslims for example, the damage has been done,” hanoi-Fonda said. “All those young Muslims now can say, ‘Yeah I guess they really are waging a war against us.’ It will draw them closer to the terrorists. I think it’s really, really dangerous.”.
slump-Trump Lets Slip
'We're Going to Keep' Common Core
Tyler O'Neil.
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A Disaster Worse Than Libya
Cliff Kincaid
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France to Shut Down 100 to 160 Mosques; War-grade Weapons Found in Some
Selwyn Duke
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TSA: Total Security Abyss
MICHELLE MALKIN
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Intelligence officials released video footage of airport employees in Mogadishu handing a laptop to a jihadist suspect before he boarded Daallo Airlines Airbus Flight D3159 last week. The device allegedly contained a bomb that exploded on the plane, which created a massive hole out of which the bomber was fatally sucked. Two other passengers were injured in the blast before the pilot successfully made an emergency landing.
Intelligence officials released video footage of airport employees in Mogadishu handing a laptop to a jihadist suspect before he boarded Daallo Airlines Airbus Flight D3159 last week. The device allegedly contained a bomb that exploded on the plane, which created a massive hole out of which the bomber was fatally sucked. Two other passengers were injured in the blast before the pilot successfully made an emergency landing.
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Several airport workers have now been arrested and the FBI is in Africa assisting the investigation.
Several airport workers have now been arrested and the FBI is in Africa assisting the investigation.
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The Somalia incident is not the only suspected in-flight inside job of late. Investigators believe a ramp worker at Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh airport was recruited by ISIS to plant a bomb on the Russian airliner that crashed last fall in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula. All 224 passengers and crew members aboard Metrojet Flight 9268 perished.
The Somalia incident is not the only suspected in-flight inside job of late. Investigators believe a ramp worker at Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh airport was recruited by ISIS to plant a bomb on the Russian airliner that crashed last fall in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula. All 224 passengers and crew members aboard Metrojet Flight 9268 perished.
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America can rest easy knowing that TSA aggressively tackled my harmless chignon like the Denver Broncos on Super Bowl Sunday.
America can rest easy knowing that TSA aggressively tackled my harmless chignon like the Denver Broncos on Super Bowl Sunday.
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But as the TSA carries out its multibillion-dollar charade of homeland security on babies’ bottles of breast milk, veterans’ prosthetic devices and suburban moms’ updos, who is screening the screeners?
But as the TSA carries out its multibillion-dollar charade of homeland security on babies’ bottles of breast milk, veterans’ prosthetic devices and suburban moms’ updos, who is screening the screeners?
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Last summer, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general raised the alarm on the TSA’s faulty aviation worker vetting process. The IG’s testing showed “that TSA did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes because TSA is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related information under current interagency watchlisting policy.” Nor does the transportation bureaucracy have effective controls in place for ensuring that its employees “had not committed crimes that would disqualify them from having unescorted access to secure airports areas” and “had lawful status and were authorized to work in the United States.”
Last summer, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general raised the alarm on the TSA’s faulty aviation worker vetting process. The IG’s testing showed “that TSA did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes because TSA is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related information under current interagency watchlisting policy.” Nor does the transportation bureaucracy have effective controls in place for ensuring that its employees “had not committed crimes that would disqualify them from having unescorted access to secure airports areas” and “had lawful status and were authorized to work in the United States.”
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On top of that, “thousands of records used for vetting workers contained potentially incomplete or inaccurate data, such as an initial for a first name and missing social security numbers,” investigators found. “TSA did not have appropriate edit checks in place to reject such records from vetting.”
On top of that, “thousands of records used for vetting workers contained potentially incomplete or inaccurate data, such as an initial for a first name and missing social security numbers,” investigators found. “TSA did not have appropriate edit checks in place to reject such records from vetting.”
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Stunningly, the IG disclosed that TSA has had to “deny credentials to 4,800 individuals that the airports had previously cleared for work in the United States because it could not verify lawful status for those individuals.” The report does not specify when exactly these 4,800 potential illegal immigrants from around the world finally had their badges yanked.
Stunningly, the IG disclosed that TSA has had to “deny credentials to 4,800 individuals that the airports had previously cleared for work in the United States because it could not verify lawful status for those individuals.” The report does not specify when exactly these 4,800 potential illegal immigrants from around the world finally had their badges yanked.
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Eight months after this disclosure, the IG reported this week, “as few as one percent of all aviation workers applications” at larger airports are subjected to the inspections process to screen out aliens here illegally, visa overstayers and individuals convicted of disqualifying crimes.
Eight months after this disclosure, the IG reported this week, “as few as one percent of all aviation workers applications” at larger airports are subjected to the inspections process to screen out aliens here illegally, visa overstayers and individuals convicted of disqualifying crimes.
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Only in the last year has the nObama administration cracked down on airport and airline employees’ unfettered access to sensitive areas and ability to bypass security checkpoints.
Only in the last year has the nObama administration cracked down on airport and airline employees’ unfettered access to sensitive areas and ability to bypass security checkpoints.
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Only in the last week has the federal government finally changed its policies to allow TSA to access counterterrorism databases.
Only in the last week has the federal government finally changed its policies to allow TSA to access counterterrorism databases.
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Actually, it’s not clear from the DHS inspector general John Roth’s follow-up testimony on Capitol Hill this whether and when exactly this will happen. “TSA now or will soon have access to this information,” he told Congress. Hmm.
Actually, it’s not clear from the DHS inspector general John Roth’s follow-up testimony on Capitol Hill this whether and when exactly this will happen. “TSA now or will soon have access to this information,” he told Congress. Hmm.
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Even if and when TSA officials gain access to terrorism data, however, the question is whether that information is worth anything at all. DHS whistleblower Philip Haney, a 15-year veteran of the bureaucracy, reported last week on politically correct purges of counter terrorism databases ordered by his superiors. He says he was forced to “delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System.”
Even if and when TSA officials gain access to terrorism data, however, the question is whether that information is worth anything at all. DHS whistleblower Philip Haney, a 15-year veteran of the bureaucracy, reported last week on politically correct purges of counter terrorism databases ordered by his superiors. He says he was forced to “delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System.”
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It gets worse. “Going forward,” Haney recounted, “my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database.” Whitewash in, whitewash out.
It gets worse. “Going forward,” Haney recounted, “my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database.” Whitewash in, whitewash out.
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A budget of $7 billion. A workforce of 55,000. Useless explosives-screening “puffing” machines. Unreliable full-body scanners. Thousands of lost and stolen badges and weapons. Unknown numbers of criminals, illegal aliens, imposters and terror operatives with security clearance to do as they please on ramps and runways across America.
A budget of $7 billion. A workforce of 55,000. Useless explosives-screening “puffing” machines. Unreliable full-body scanners. Thousands of lost and stolen badges and weapons. Unknown numbers of criminals, illegal aliens, imposters and terror operatives with security clearance to do as they please on ramps and runways across America.
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Welcome to TSA: The Total Security Abyss.
Welcome to TSA: The Total Security Abyss.
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