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How Radical Islam Penetrated
The U.S. House of Representatives
by George Rasley
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Top Headlines
Pence vows to end "liar-nObamaCare nightmare." (The Daily Signal)
American Conservative Union executive strongly condemns the alt-right movement. (Washington Examiner)
"Impeachment" talk dominates DNC chair candidate debate. (Washington Examiner)
New York Times' new ad theme is, "The Truth Is..." because you know NYT is the arbiter of truth. (The Washington Free Beacon)
AFL-CIO cutting staff as union membership declines. (Hot Air)
Many Texas Republicans prefer a mix of fencing and more personnel to Trump's solid wall along the Rio Grande. (The Wall Street Journal)
European welfare benefits help fund Islamic State fighters. (USA Today)
Kim Jong Un kills Kim Jong Nam with UN-banned VX nerve agent. Korean dictator runs afoul of Chinese... (The Washington Post)
Hundreds of scientists urge Trump to withdraw from UN climate change agency. (The Washington Times)
Most scientists "can't replicate studies by their peers." But climate science is settled! (BBC News)
Policy: Missing the Medicare forest for the liar-nObamaCare trees. (Real Clear Health)
Policy: Take back Al Gore's Nobel and give it to the fracking industry. (Investor's Business Daily) ~The Patriot Post
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Russia Says War In Syria Is Over
and Russia Won
by Mikhail Klikushin
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R)
and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (L)
{observer.com} ~ During his speech to the Russian Parliament on February 22, Russia’s Defense Minister General Sergei Shoigu made victorious announcement that the days of the Syrian war conflict were numbered, INTERFAX reported... The Russian military dealt a deathblow to the forces of international terrorists in Syria and prevented the collapse of the country, he said. “The collapse of the Syrian state has been prevented, the civil war virtually has been stopped, as well as the attempts to change the legal government in Syria, directed from abroad,” Mr. Shoigu stated. “The Russian military solved the geopolitical tasks, caused substantial damage to the international terrorist organizations in Syria, disrupted their financial support and the system of their recourses supply,” he declared...
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Environmental Protesters Burn 7-Year-Old
Boy, Cause $1.2 Mil in Damage
by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Stand with the non-indigenous lefties protesting for the environment by starting fires. The Standing Rock anti-energy protesters are finally being shown the door after everyone, and I mean everyone... was tired of them from the local Indian tribes to the Federal government, which was no longer being run by radical lefties. Hundreds left peacefully on Wednesday after the 2 p.m. deadline, and 10 were arrested hours later after they taunted cops. But hours later, 18 National Guardsmen and dozens of law officers entered the camp from two directions, along with several law enforcement and military vehicles. A helicopter and airplane flew overhead... http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/265915/environmental-protesters-burn-7-year-old-boy-cause-daniel-greenfield
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Israel Prepares As Iran and
Hezbollah Ratchet Up the Rhetoric
by Ari Lieberman
{frontpagemag.com} ~ According to Arab media sources, the Israeli Air Force launched a series of strikes against military targets within Syria in the early morning hours of Wednesday... The attacks, which reportedly targeted a Hezbollah weapons convoy, occurred near Damascus. According to at least one report, a busload of Hezbollah terrorists was hit, though this was not confirmed. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement. The muted Israeli response is consistent with Israel’s policy of acting resolutely to preserve its interests while keeping unnecessary rhetoric and gratuitous bravado under wraps. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Israel’s enemies who have struck an extremely belligerent tone in recent weeks, even more so than usual. On Tuesday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei referred to Israel as a “cancerous tumor” and encouraged Palestinians to revolt until achieving the goal of “complete liberation of Palestine.” Earlier in the week, an unnamed but high-level Syrian official told a Kuwaiti media outlet that Syria “will be partners with Hezbollah in any future war against Israel.”... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265903/israel-prepares-iran-and-hezbollah-ratchet-ari-Lieberman
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Bill to Eliminate Environmental Protection
Agency Introduced in Congress
by Christian Gomez
{thenewamerican.com} ~ On February 3, 2017, freshman Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) introduced H.R. 861, a bill to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency (also known as the EPA)... Representative Gaetz's bill, which is only one sentence long, states, "The Environmental Protection Agency shall terminate on December 31, 2018." On a video posted on his Facebook page, Congressman Gaetz explained, "For six years in the Florida state legislature, I had a front row seat to the failures of the federal government in protecting the environment." Gaetz continued, "The question isn't whether to protect the environment. The question is who is better equipped to actually do that?" Gaetz further explained that his bill wouldn't affect the 1963 Clean Air Act or the 1972 Clean Water Act. Instead, such responsibilities would return to the states and local communities to address... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/25468-bill-to-eliminate-environmental-protection-agency-introduced-in-congress?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm_content=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines+Feb+24+17
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Texas County Sues State Attorney General
Over Election Records
by Kelly Holt
{thenewamerican.com} ~ In the latest election kerfuffle in the Lone Star State, Travis County, Texas, is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in order to avoid releasing documents sought in a public information request... Election activists are viewing the case as another argument for paper ballots. Readers of The New American will remember our article last fall detailing the lawsuit of Austinite Dr. Laura Pressley against Travis County after her unsuccessful run for a city council seat in 2014. Dr. Pressley’s simple pursuit of a vote recount led to the revelation of widespread election irregularities in many Texas counties. Now Travis County, in an unrelated case, is suing the Texas attorney general after being ordered to release documents requested in the case. As an election integrity activist, and based on her experience in pursuing a recount after her City Council bid, Dr. Pressley wanted to know in advance of the November election if Texas elections would be administered according to law. So, in August of 2016, she submitted a Public Information Request (PIR — similar to a FOIA request, only at the state level) hoping to determine if other irregularities existed in Texas... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/25459-texas-county-sues-state-attorney-general-over-election-records?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm
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How Radical Islam Penetrated
The U.S. House of Representatives
by George Rasley
{conservativehq.com} ~ Our friend Luke Rosiak, Investigative Reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation, should receive a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting of the vast national security breach of the House of Representatives perpetrated by five Pakistani Muslims who were employed as information technology staff by dozens of House Democrats.
In his latest report on a story that, we might add, has been completely ignored by the establishment media Rosiak documents how the five Pakistanis have been connected to the Iranian-backed terror organization Hezbollah, that has killed hundreds of Americans and Israelis.
Brothers Imran, Abid and Jamal Awan, as well as their wives Natalia Sova and Hina Alvi, were all on the congressional payroll serving as IT administrators for House Democrats.
Rosiak has reported that while working for Congress, the Pakistani brothers controlled a limited liability corporation called Cars International A (CIA), a car dealership with odd finances, which took–and did not repay–a $100,000 loan from Dr. Ali Al-Attar.
Laundering money through used car dealerships is a known Hezbollah tactic. In 2011 the government filed a civil asset forfeiture action in New York against 30 car dealerships from Michigan to Florida.
To launder the terrorist money, vehicles were moved from the US to West Africa and resold, and cash from the sales was mixed with profits from illegal drug distribution and funneled back to Lebanon to fund Hezbollah terrorist activities.
The government, which was trying to seize $400 million in assets in the case, lists Hezbollah as the most technically capable terrorist group in the world, with strong ties in Syria and Iran.
One of our intelligence community friends said calling their car dealership CIA was a tell and “a big middle finger to the US intelligence community.”
And it is very interesting how the car dealership’s finances were strangely interwoven with those of the U.S. House of Representatives. A car-dealing associate who was owed money by the brothers, Rao Abbas, also a Muslim, was placed on the congressional payroll.
Abbas is listed as the IT professional for former Democratic Representative Patrick Murphy, a then-member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and its Subcommittee on Department of Defense, Intelligence and Overhead Architecture and irony alert Subcommittee on the NSA and Cybersecurity.
Philip Giraldi, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, wrote that Dr. Ali Al-Attar “was observed in Beirut, Lebanon conversing with a Hezbollah official” in 2012–shortly after the loan was made.
Luke Rosiak reports that Giraldi, the former Central Intelligence Agency officer, wrote in the American Conservative in 2013 that Attar advised President George W. Bush’s key Iraq policy advisors that U.S. forces would be “greeted as liberators.”
“In late 2002 and early 2003, then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz regularly met secretly with a group of Iraqi expatriates, consisting mostly of Shias but also including several Sunnis, who resided in the Washington area,” Giraldi wrote. “The Iraqis were headed by one Dr. Ali A. al-Attar.”
Attar’s prediction was wrong, and his qualifications for making it — supposedly based on what the D.C.-area Iraqis were hearing from relatives — were questionable because, although Attar was born in Iraq, his parents were Iranian.
But the U.S.-backed regime change served Attar well says Rosiak. In 2003 he told The New York Times that “he was one of four people chosen by General Garner to re-establish the Iraq Ministry of Health, and that he expected to be called to Baghdad next week.”
And scamming the gullible George W. Bush administration into doing what it really wanted to do in Iraq wasn’t Dr. Ali Al-Attar’s only con.
Rosiak reports that in 2009, his medical license was suspended by Maryland for separate instances of billing patients and insurance companies for unneeded services.
While practicing medicine in Maryland and Virginia he allegedly defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and insurance companies by billing for non-existent medical procedures. The FBI raided his offices in 2009 and the Department of Health and Human Services sued his business partner in 2011.
In November 2010, the Maryland State Board of Physicians brought charges of “unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine and failure to cooperate in a lawful investigation.”
Attar was indicted in March 2012 on separate tax fraud charges after the IRS and FBI found he used multiple bank accounts to hide income. He fled back to Iraq to avoid prison reports Luke Rosiak.
Why has none of this made the front page of The Washington Post, New York Times or the lead segment of the ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN evening news?
According to Politico, as of February 6, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Rep. Gregory Meeks, two Democratic lawmakers, still had not cut ties with the Awan cell. “At this time we are continuing to gather information from House officials and will determine the best approach to move forward once we have reviewed that information,” David Damron, communications director for Wasserman Schultz, said in an email when asked by POLITICO if Imran Awan was still working for the Florida Democrat.
Jack Langer, spokesman for the intelligence committee, said the committee office has its own IT staff and security measures and classified information from the panel is not allowed to be sent to members’ personal offices.
That policy was also in place for State Department computer networks, yet classified material still found its way onto liar-Hillary Clinton’s private email server and Huma Abedin’s personal laptop.
The House of Representatives, and especially the Capitol Police, cannot be trusted to conduct a full and politics-free investigation of this national security disaster.
It is time this investigation became a national security investigation and the FBI and counterintelligence agencies replaced the politics-tainted Capitol Police as the lead agency investigating how House Democrats handed over the backdoor to the House computer network to a Hezbollah cell laundering its money through a car dealership and a crooked Iranian doctor.
In his latest report on a story that, we might add, has been completely ignored by the establishment media Rosiak documents how the five Pakistanis have been connected to the Iranian-backed terror organization Hezbollah, that has killed hundreds of Americans and Israelis.
Brothers Imran, Abid and Jamal Awan, as well as their wives Natalia Sova and Hina Alvi, were all on the congressional payroll serving as IT administrators for House Democrats.
Rosiak has reported that while working for Congress, the Pakistani brothers controlled a limited liability corporation called Cars International A (CIA), a car dealership with odd finances, which took–and did not repay–a $100,000 loan from Dr. Ali Al-Attar.
Laundering money through used car dealerships is a known Hezbollah tactic. In 2011 the government filed a civil asset forfeiture action in New York against 30 car dealerships from Michigan to Florida.
To launder the terrorist money, vehicles were moved from the US to West Africa and resold, and cash from the sales was mixed with profits from illegal drug distribution and funneled back to Lebanon to fund Hezbollah terrorist activities.
The government, which was trying to seize $400 million in assets in the case, lists Hezbollah as the most technically capable terrorist group in the world, with strong ties in Syria and Iran.
One of our intelligence community friends said calling their car dealership CIA was a tell and “a big middle finger to the US intelligence community.”
And it is very interesting how the car dealership’s finances were strangely interwoven with those of the U.S. House of Representatives. A car-dealing associate who was owed money by the brothers, Rao Abbas, also a Muslim, was placed on the congressional payroll.
Abbas is listed as the IT professional for former Democratic Representative Patrick Murphy, a then-member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and its Subcommittee on Department of Defense, Intelligence and Overhead Architecture and irony alert Subcommittee on the NSA and Cybersecurity.
Philip Giraldi, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, wrote that Dr. Ali Al-Attar “was observed in Beirut, Lebanon conversing with a Hezbollah official” in 2012–shortly after the loan was made.
Luke Rosiak reports that Giraldi, the former Central Intelligence Agency officer, wrote in the American Conservative in 2013 that Attar advised President George W. Bush’s key Iraq policy advisors that U.S. forces would be “greeted as liberators.”
“In late 2002 and early 2003, then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz regularly met secretly with a group of Iraqi expatriates, consisting mostly of Shias but also including several Sunnis, who resided in the Washington area,” Giraldi wrote. “The Iraqis were headed by one Dr. Ali A. al-Attar.”
Attar’s prediction was wrong, and his qualifications for making it — supposedly based on what the D.C.-area Iraqis were hearing from relatives — were questionable because, although Attar was born in Iraq, his parents were Iranian.
But the U.S.-backed regime change served Attar well says Rosiak. In 2003 he told The New York Times that “he was one of four people chosen by General Garner to re-establish the Iraq Ministry of Health, and that he expected to be called to Baghdad next week.”
And scamming the gullible George W. Bush administration into doing what it really wanted to do in Iraq wasn’t Dr. Ali Al-Attar’s only con.
Rosiak reports that in 2009, his medical license was suspended by Maryland for separate instances of billing patients and insurance companies for unneeded services.
While practicing medicine in Maryland and Virginia he allegedly defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and insurance companies by billing for non-existent medical procedures. The FBI raided his offices in 2009 and the Department of Health and Human Services sued his business partner in 2011.
In November 2010, the Maryland State Board of Physicians brought charges of “unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine and failure to cooperate in a lawful investigation.”
Attar was indicted in March 2012 on separate tax fraud charges after the IRS and FBI found he used multiple bank accounts to hide income. He fled back to Iraq to avoid prison reports Luke Rosiak.
Why has none of this made the front page of The Washington Post, New York Times or the lead segment of the ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN evening news?
According to Politico, as of February 6, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Rep. Gregory Meeks, two Democratic lawmakers, still had not cut ties with the Awan cell. “At this time we are continuing to gather information from House officials and will determine the best approach to move forward once we have reviewed that information,” David Damron, communications director for Wasserman Schultz, said in an email when asked by POLITICO if Imran Awan was still working for the Florida Democrat.
Jack Langer, spokesman for the intelligence committee, said the committee office has its own IT staff and security measures and classified information from the panel is not allowed to be sent to members’ personal offices.
That policy was also in place for State Department computer networks, yet classified material still found its way onto liar-Hillary Clinton’s private email server and Huma Abedin’s personal laptop.
The House of Representatives, and especially the Capitol Police, cannot be trusted to conduct a full and politics-free investigation of this national security disaster.
It is time this investigation became a national security investigation and the FBI and counterintelligence agencies replaced the politics-tainted Capitol Police as the lead agency investigating how House Democrats handed over the backdoor to the House computer network to a Hezbollah cell laundering its money through a car dealership and a crooked Iranian doctor.
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