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The undoing of limited government
by Andrew P. Napolitano
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Judge Napolitano WARNS President TRUMP 
IT’S A TRAP- Don’t Talk To MUELLER
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{rickwells.us} ~ There are those who have questioned the quality of the legal advice that Ty Cobb has been providing to President Trump... and as this video shows there does seem to be some validity to those concerns. Cobb is speaking with CBS reporter Major Garrett regarding the possibility of President Trump being interviewed under oath by the grand inquisitor, witch hunter Robert Mueller. Garrett asks, “Is it, from your vantage point right now, Ty Cobb, a virtual certainty that the President will have some Q and A with the special counsel, Robert Mueller?” Cobb replied, “That’s my belief.” Garrett asked, “And do you think there is any danger for the President in that encounter?” The obvious response for anyone would be “yes,” no matter the location or the reason for being questioned, there’s always the chance that things are not as they appear or that they could go wrong. For some reason Cobb had to take a brief moment to think it over.”...   https://rickwells.us/napolitano-warns-trump-trap/
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Democrats Literally Hold American Kids’
Medical Care Hostage to Help Illegals Instead
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by BEN MARQUIS
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Funding for regular government functions ran out at midnight eastern time Friday night... and the federal government entered a partial shutdown after the Senate was unable to pass a continuing resolution that would have extended necessary funding for a short period of time. The reason the CR failed is because Democrats refused to vote for it unless it provided a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program which is set to expire in March. This, despite the fact there was no viable DACA legislation that could be attached to the CR to earn Democrat votes and the immigration issue has nothing whatsoever to do with government funding. Senate Democrats led by Chuck clown-Schumer have now created quite the public relations predicament for themselves in that their immovable stance on demanding a DACA fix for illegal immigrants right now has essentially placed them in opposition to providing necessary funding for the military and one of their own favorite pet programs, the state Children’s Health Insurance Program...  https://conservativetribune.com/democrats-hold-hostage-illegals/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=conservative-50
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Jason Chaffetz With Maria Bartiromo
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Former congressman Jason Chaffetz (Roosterhead’s brother) appears on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo... to discuss the government shutdown, and the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo revealing DOJ/FBI corruption - Sara Carter also appeared on Fox News to discuss the same.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/21/sunday-talks-jason-chaffetz-with-maria-bartiromo/
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FBI Mysteriously “Loses” Five Months of Text
Messages Between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ The Daily Caller journalist Chuck Ross has some extremely   interesting information released today... surrounding former top FBI Counterintelligence Agent Peter Strzok and DOJ/FBI liaison attorney Lisa Page which includes a disclosure by top FBI officials that text messages between Strzok and Page have gone missing. Peter Strzok was the head FBI Agent in charge of the ‘liar-Clinton Operation’ (exoneration), and ‘Trump Operation’ (political surveillance).  Strzok reported to the FBI Director of Counterintelligence, Bill Priestap.  Lisa Page was the DOJ attorney assigned to the FBI and key legal aide for FBI Asst. Director Andrew “Andy” McCabe. According to information relayed to Senator Ron Johnson, the period of time the FBI has “lost” is from December 14th, 2016 to May 17th, 2017, the exact day that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was assigned to lead the Russia collusion probe...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/21/fbi-mysteriously-loses-five-months-of-text-messages-between-peter-strzok-and-lisa-page/
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Democrats vote to hide 
‘FISA memo’ in flagrant coverup
by Jonathon Colman
{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ President liar-nObama promised that his administration would be “the most transparent administration in American history.”... This, of course, would become one of the many promises broken by during his administration. As President Trump continues to dismantle liar-nObama’s legacy piece-by-piece, Democrats are scrambling to save the last vestige of liar-nObama’s presidential legacy: his popularity among the American people. On Thursday, Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee unanimously voted against a motion to allow members of Congress to see a classified memo that allegedly contains proof of the U.S. government’s abuses of FISA surveillance under the liar-nObama administration...People with half a brain would vote you dems out of office.   https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/political-corruption/democrat-congressmen-caught-coverup.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=afternoon&utm_campaign=CNA_20180121-2
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The undoing of limited government
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by Andrew P. Napolitano
{washingtontimes.com} ~ Late last week, Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, repeated his public observations that members of the intelligence community — particularly the CIA, the NSA and the intelligence division of the FBI — are not trustworthy with the nation’s intelligence secrets. Because he has a security clearance at the “top secret” level and knows how others who have access to secrets have used and abused them, his allegations are extraordinary.

He pointed to the high-ranking members of the liar-nObama administration who engaged in unmasking the names of some people whose communications had been captured by the country’s domestic spies and the revelation of those names for political purposes. The most notable victim of this lawlessness is retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, a transcript of whose surveilled conversation with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak found its way into print in The Washington Post.

During the George W. Bush and Barack 
liar-nObama years, captured communications — digital recordings of telephone conversations and copies of emails and text messages — did not bear the names of those who sent or received them. Those names were stored in a secret file. The revelation of those names is called unmasking.

Mr. Nunes also condemned the overt pro-
liar-Hillary Clinton bias and anti-Trump prejudice manifested by former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey and their agents in the field, some of whose texts and emails we have seen. The secrets that he argued were used for political purposes had been obtained by the National Security Agency pursuant to warrants issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Yet Mr. Nunes voted to enhance federal bulk surveillance powers.

Bulk surveillance — which is prohibited by the Constitution — is the acquisition of digital versions of telephone, email and text communications based not on suspicion or probable cause but rather on geography or customer status. As I have written before, one publicly available bulk surveillance warrant was for all Verizon customers in the United States; that’s 115 million people, many of whom have more than one phone and at least one computer. And it is surveillance of Americans, not foreigners as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act contemplates.

How did this happen?

It happened in the dark. The NSA has persuaded the FISC, which meets in secret and only hears the government’s arguments, to permit it to spy on any American it wishes on the theory that all Americans know someone who knows someone else who knows someone who could have spoken to a foreign person working for a foreign government that could wish us ill.

This is the so-called judicial logic used to justify the search warrant on all of Verizon’s customers. This is what happens when judges hear only one side of a dispute and do so in secret.

The FISA amendments for which Mr. Nunes and other House members voted, which are likely to pass in the Senate, would purport to make bulk surveillance on all Americans lawful. At present, it is lawful only because the FISC has authorized it. The FISA amendments would write this into federal legislation for the next six years.

And these amendments would permit the FBI and any American prosecutor or law enforcement agency — federal, state or local — to sweep into the NSA’s databases, ostensibly looking for evidence of crime. If this were to become law, there would no longer be any unmasking scandals, because the stored data contains the names of the participants in the communications and would be readily available for harassment, blackmail or political use.

It would also mean that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution — which guarantees privacy in our persons, houses, papers and effects — would have been gutted by the very office holders who swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend it.

Does the American public know this? Does the president?

Last week, I made an impassioned plea on Fox News Channel directly to the president. I reminded him that he personally has been victimized by unlawful surveillance and the political use of sensitive surveillance-captured data; that the Constitution requires warrants for surveillance and they must specifically describe the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized; that warrants must be based on probable cause of individual behavior, not an area code or customer list; that the purpose of these requirements is to preserve personal privacy and prohibit bulk surveillance; and that he took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.

About an hour later, the president issued a tweet blasting bulk surveillance and unmasking. Two hours after that, he issued another tweet supporting the enactment of the FISA amendments.

What’s going on here?

I suspect that leaders in the intelligence community hurriedly convinced the president that if he sets aside his personal unhappy experiences with them and any constitutional qualms, they will use the carte blanche in the FISA amendments to keep us safe. This is a sad state of affairs. It means that Donald Trump changed his mind 180 degrees on the primacy of personal liberty in our once-free society.

The elites in the federal government and the deep state — the parts of the government that are unauthorized by the Constitution and that operate in the dark, what candidate Trump called “the swamp” — have formed a consensus that marches the might of the government toward total Orwellian surveillance.

This is a march that will be nearly impossible to stop. This is the permanent destruction of the right to privacy. This is the exaltation of safety over liberty, and it will lead to neither. This is the undoing of limited government, right before our eyes.
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