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No Pardon for Partisan Hypocrisy
by Michelle Malkin
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Republicans press top FBI official
on Strzok's role in federal probes
by OLIVIA BEAVERSAndrew McCabe Seeks Immunity For Senate Testimony
by Chuck RossISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities Confirm
{ judicialwatch.org } ~ ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector... The exact location where the terrorist group has established its base is around eight miles from the U.S. border in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm. During the course of a joint operation last week, Mexican Army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as “plans” of Fort Bliss – the sprawling military installation that houses the US Army’s 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation. Law enforcement and intelligence sources report the area around Anapra is dominated by the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Cartel (“Juárez Cartel”), La Línea (the enforcement arm of the cartel) and the Barrio Azteca (a gang originally formed in the jails of El Paso). Cartel control of the Anapra area make it an extremely dangerous and hostile operating environment for Mexican Army and Federal Police operations...
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Iran: The Hollowing-Out of the Regime
by Malcolm Lowe.
Santa Teresa Border Wall Replacement Project to Begin
{ cbp.gov/newsroom } ~ As part of the President's Executive Order 13767, and at the direction of the Department of Homeland Secretary... construction for a border wall replacement in Santa Teresa with new bollard style wall will begin on Monday, April 9. “We need effective barriers to deny the entry of illegal aliens and contraband,” said Chief Patrol Agent Aaron A. Hull, U.S. Border Patrol, El Paso Sector. “Our agents know that a balance of physical infrastructure, technology and personnel is key to securing the border and keeping our communities safe.” CBP awarded a construction contract January 22 to Barnard Construction of Bozeman, Montana. The area of the border wall replacement will be a 20-mile section of existing vehicle barrier located just west of the Santa Teresa Port of Entry and extending westward. The existing barrier will be replaced with an 18- to 30-foot high bollard-style wall. The contract also includes removal of existing vehicle barrier as well as roadway and drainage improvements...
No Pardon for Partisan Hypocrisy
{ townhall.com } ~ Quick, grab the smelling salts and clear the fainting couches.
President Trump's pardon of conservative author Dinesh D'Souza last week violently triggered Beltway media elites. It's peanut butter, weed pollen, gluten, manspreading, Chick-fil-A, the national anthem, and Kryptonite all rolled into one giant political allergen. Allow me to administer the rhetorical, metaphorical antihistamine.
To The Washington Post editorial board, President Trump's use of the pardon is "another show of disrespect for the justice system." Outspoken D'Souza was the subject of a highly politicized prosecution by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara now an anti-Trump resistance leader over campaign finance violations totaling $20,000. The WaPo punditocracy grudgingly admits that the president "has constitutional power to do this" and that it is "Mr. Trump's prerogative" to pardon individuals the newspaper considers "unsavory."
Yet, the editorialists fulminate that what "is offensive here is not the pardon power, but the use of it" for "arbitrary, political and unjustified" reasons.
G-U-Double F-Awww. The protesting Posties wouldn't be capable of acknowledging an acceptable exercise of the pardon power by Trump if it body-slammed them off the ropes on UFC Fight Night.
Former Navy sailor Kristian Saucier received a Trump pardon after serving a year in prison for taking photos on his submarine to show his family where he worked in contrast to the hands-off treatment of the classified information-breaching liar-Clinton brigade. Too political, the pundits cry.
The late boxer Jack Johnson, America's first black heavyweight champion, received a Trump pardon after being jailed under Jim Crow for traveling with a white woman who later became his wife across state lines. Publicity stunt, the bitchers bitched. Not enough, the moaners moaned. Trump's still a racist, the grievance-mongers mongered.
Indeed, The Washington Post opinion writers have depleted their Bank of Selective Outrage accounts while spewing about Trump's pardons. "Nothing but right-wing trolling," harumphed Paul Waldman. "Twisted brand of mercy," decried Ruth Marcus. "A warm-up for a constitutional crisis," squawked Jennifer Rubin.
Spare us all the hot air, media heavers. Democrats have long wielded pardon powers to reward deep-pocketed cronies, absolve unrepentant domestic terrorists and lionize national security leakers. The "democratic values" that WaPo-lemicists claim are now under siege thanks to Trump's pardons got crushed under the wheels of the corruptocrat bus a long, long time ago.
Self-dealing liar-Bill Clinton handed out pardons and commutations like Pez candy to relatives like half-brother Roger liar-Clinton convicted of cocaine possession and family-tied associates like his brother-in-law Hugh Rodham's clients, including convicted cocaine distributor Carlos Vignali and convicted herbal supplement fraudster and perjurer A. Glenn Braswell; the two felons had forked over $400,000 to Rodham in legal fees to win their clemencies.
liar-Hillary's other brother, Tony, raked in more than $240,000 from a couple convicted of bank fraud, who he just happened to mention to his brother-in-law in the White House, who granted the pardon -- after which brother Tony denied being paid for any work having to do with a pardon. Meanwhile, Madame HRC's Senate campaign treasurer, William J. Cunningham III, pocketed $4,000 to prepare clemency for two Arkansas-based convicted tax cheats, Robert Fain and James Manning. President liar-Clinton granted both; liar-Hillary played dumb and feigned shock, shock that political favor-trading was going on in Clinton land.
And don't even get me started on the putrid Marc and Denise Rich pardon scandal, overseen by liar- Clinton/ liar-nObama alum scumbag-Eric Holder.
If systemic pay-for-play pardons aren't a "twisted brand of mercy," what else are?
Critics assail President Trump for "bypassing the traditional review process," which 1) is his prerogative; 2) was standard operating procedure during the liar-Clinton years; and 3) has been questioned by watchdogs on all sides of the ideological aisle because of the inherent conflict in the federal pardon lawyer's office being overseen by federal government prosecutors reluctant to undo any convictions.
No one did more damage to the integrity of the federal pardon attorney's office than scumbag-Eric Holder, who pressured its staff to abandon its full-scale opposition toliar-Clinton's clemency for 16 members of the deadly FALN Puerto Rican terrorist group and Los Macheteros. The office tossed its original report rejecting clemency at Holder's behest and replaced it with a new and improved "neutral" memo giving liar-Clinton cover to grant the pardons without contradicting the "traditional review process," to borrow a phrase.
These liar-Clinton/scumbag-Holder beneficiaries were linked by the FBI to more than 130 bombings and six murders. Nearly two decades later, scumbag-Holder was at the DOJ helm as attorney general when President liar-nObama commuted the sentence of another seditious FALN terrorist, Oscar Lopez Rivera, who proudly declared to a federal judge, "I am an enemy of the United States government."
"Unsavory" is in the eye of the beholder. So is the "arbitrary" use of the presidential pardon. Will the resistance ever acknowledge a legitimate use of this power by President Trump?
Quoth the raving ravers: Never. Never. And never more.
Comments
Bonnie
I also agree with you. they should be arrest period.
This Firday I will be in Vegas leaving here at noon and won't be back 'til 3?
if i am still alive i hope i see obama; hillary and the admin of a tsunami of a pres go to prison
leavenworth is nice and florence is max sec. the unibomber is there. i pray that w/this unfolding and falling to shreds that America keeps on and the constution is saved. God help us