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What Trump Should Really Do With Iranby National Security Desk
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Secret FISA Blueprint
Document Released! Read it here!
by TIM BROWN
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ Infowars released a copy of a secret 99-page FISA memo along with a special report on Tuesday... Below is a copy of the document and following that is a video of the report. Keep in mind, this is not the 4-page document that Congress is attempting to release, but rather the forerunner of that document. https://freedomoutpost.com/secret-fisa-blueprint-document-released-read/.
No Deal: clown-Schumer
Yanks Offer Of Funding For Border Wall
{hotair.com} ~ C’mon, did anyone expect otherwise? Knowing that he was going to get clubbed by liberals for caving on the shutdown... the least clown-Schumer could do to save a little face and soothe the progressive id would be to tear up the offer he made to Trump last Friday to carve out a few billion for the wall. Democrats just got thwarted on a DREAM amnesty; at a minimum, clown-Schumer’s now obliged to thwart Trump on his big ask too. Besides, leaving money for the wall on the table as a new round of negotiations begins would have been terrible bargaining strategy. Republicans would have treated that as clown-Schumer’s baseline offer and sought to build on it by demanding additional concessions. With wall funding momentarily off limits, clown-Schumer can “reset” the terms and force them to make some concessions of their own to entice him to put it back in the mix... https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/23/no-deal-schumer-yanks-offer-funding-border-wall/.
GOP Leaders Plot
Amnesty in Exchange for National ID
by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Republican leaders in Congress are once again plotting with Democrats to stab the American people and the U.S. Constitution in the back... on multiple key issues. Under the guise of getting “something” in exchange for providing amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants and future Democrat voters in liar-nObama's illegal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the establishment wing of the GOP is pushing a radical longtime goal of the bipartisan Deep State: mandatory national biometric ID cards for all Americans. Privacy and liberty are under serious threat, critics warned. The Orwellian national ID scheme, known as “E-Verify,” is ostensibly aimed at making it harder for illegal immigrants to find work in the United States. Basically, as part of the program, which would become mandatory under the bill, every employer would be forced to buy a scanner and use it to check the legal work status of potential employees. On top of that, every worker would be forced to have a biometric ID issued by the federal government in order to be able to legally work. Without this national ID, employers would not legally be able to hire somebody. But in reality, illegal immigrants are typically paid under the table anyway — many of them simply work as day laborers and get paid in cash at the end of the day. In light of that fact, the unconstitutional plot to mandate national ID will do little to prevent unscrupulous employers from continuing to hire illegal immigrants, off the books... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/28093-gop-leaders-plot-amnesty-in-exchange-for-national-id.
FBI covered up scandal involving both
liar-Hillary and liar-nObama at the same time
{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ The Justice Department released a fresh batch of texts exchanged between top FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page to Congress last week...One of those messages mentions a notable omission in James Comey’s statement closing out the liar-Clinton email probe. An earlier draft referred to emails exchanged between liar-Clinton and former president liar-nObama while liar-Clinton was “on the territory of a hostile adversary,” but the reference to liar-nObama was later changed to “senior government official,” and ultimately was omitted entirely. It was revealed late last year that the language in Comey’s statement had been changed significantly from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless” to exonerate liar-Clinton of any wrongdoing. Comey’s original statement also said that it was “reasonably likely” that hostile hackers were able to access liar-Clinton’s unsecured server, but was changed to “possible” in the final version... https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/government-corruption/hillary-obama-scandal-fbi.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=afternoon&utm_campaign=CNA_20180123-2.
Senate confirms Jerome Powell as Fed chair
by Matthew Rocco
oxbusiness.com} ~ The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Jerome Powell as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve... Powell will assume the role of the central bank’s top official in February, replacing Janet Yellen. President Donald Trump chose Powell, a member of the Fed’s board of governors, as his nominee for Fed chair in November. During his confirmation hearing before lawmakers, Powell signaled that he would largely support current Fed policies, including gradual increases to interest rates... http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2018/01/23/senate-confirms-jerome-powell-as-fed-chair.html.
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What Trump Should Really Do With Iran
by National Security Desk: The bickering and grandstanding last week over a soon-to-be-realized government shutdown, complete with a week of debate over a vulgar word, pushed another highly important issue off the front pages — namely President Donald Trump’s statement that he had waived sanctions on Iran for the last time and would be moving forward to get the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action modified to correct its numerous deficiencies. As is his usual practice, the president went all-in regarding his administration’s position: “This is a last chance. In the absence of such an agreement, the United States will not again waive sanctions in order to stay in the Iran nuclear deal.”
The president wants the deal’s terms re-negotiated, but that is very likely impossible. Even our closest ally, the United Kingdom, is openly opposed to any re-negotiation, as UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson made clear. He stated bluntly that the JCPOA is not subject to re-negotiation, pointing out — fairly and correctly — that those who want to replace the JCPOA with something else have yet to put forward a better alternative.
More importantly, China and Russia are doing what they always do, which is anything they can to counter U.S. influence and interests. Each has UN Security Council veto power, and as Barack liar-nObama’s administration cynically took the JCPOA to the UN for approval rather than to Congress, any changes would require the UN to go along. That simply will not happen.
Iran of course adamantly insists the deal cannot be re-negotiated. On Saturday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani remarked, “Except for one or two countries, the international community currently supports the JCPOA and the U.S. administration is undoubtedly making a miscalculation in this regard. … Commitment to the JCPOA can constitute a very strong base for the establishment of broader cooperation between Iran and the European Union and promotion of peace and security in the region and the world.”
Rouhani was joined in this fantasy view by UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric: “The [nuclear deal] constitutes a major achievement of nuclear non-proliferation and diplomacy, and has contributed to regional and worldwide peace and security.” People in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Iran itself might differ about how you define peace and security.
In short, President Trump will face a long uphill struggle to get the JCPOA re-negotiated. Iran and even our notional European allies will undoubtedly play the same game Iran used to run out the clock on George W. Bush’s administration: They’ll pretend to negotiate only until Democrats win majorities in Congress and/or the 2020 presidential election removes Trump from the equation, at which time everyone can return to pretending the nuclear deal was a brilliant success. China and Russia will threaten and if necessary use their veto power, negating any progress in changing the deal. And the president’s domestic political problems may overshadow everything else if the 2018 mid-terms deliver a Democrat House, as impeachment proceedings would likely be the first and only item on the agenda.
What then is to be done? First, in order to show that he is serious, the president must explain to the American population, Congress and the UN what he wants to achieve and why it is so important. A blueprint for doing so was provided in August by former UN Ambassador John Bolton.
But as Bolton pointed out last week, re-negotiating the JCPOA just to have Iran cheat and obfuscate under a new set of terms is pointless. U.S. policy should be to apply maximum pressure on Iran with the goal of changing Iran’s government. The recent nationwide protests in Iran provided a glimpse of the powder keg that is the Iranian population’s hatred of the clerical regime. By re-imposing the sanctions waived under the JCPOA, and implementing new sanctions, maximum economic pressure can be brought to bear on Iran. By providing moral and material support to the Iranian population, maximum political pressure can likewise be brought to bear.
As we said recently, even the Soviet Union was brought down by economic and political pressures despite its enormous state security apparatus, and Iran is no different. This should be our ultimate goal, not tinkering around the margins of a diplomatic agreement like the JCPOA. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53611-what-trump-should-really-do-with-iran
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