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DOJ warns scumbag liar-Nadler that Barr
won't stand for protracted hearing
by Daniel Chaitin A committee source told CNN that Barr objects to the format planned for Thursday's hearing, which is focused on special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Chairman scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., wants two rounds of questions, one for members and a second in which each counsel for the Democratic Party and Republican Party would have the opportunity to ask questions. He also proposed a closed session to discuss redacted sections in dirty cop-Mueller's report. Barr objects to the added sessions and the closed session. The Justice Department has signaled that Barr may not show up unless scumbag liar-Nadler backs off. "Discussions are still ongoing, to be picked back up tomorrow," a Justice Department official told the Washington Examiner. "Our position is that it’s a congressional hearing, therefore members do the questioning." Nadler told CNN that Barr would not "dictate the format of the Judiciary Committee. "Barr is also scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, which is still expected to happen.
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AG Bill Barr faces criticism from Democrats
over judge’s arrest for obstruction
by Jerry McCormickAnd they are using the arrest of Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph to make their case. If you break the law, especially as a judicial official, you should be held accountable. Judge Joseph and one of her court officers did just that, and now they are about to pay the price. As you may recall, Joseph helped an illegal immigrant escape an ICE agent last year. Court recordings caught Joseph and the defense attorney working out a scheme when the judge ordered her clerk to cut off the recorder. Not long after, one of Joseph court officers escorted the illegal immigrant out of the courthouse to freedom. All the while, an ICE officer had been waiting in the lobby to take custody of the illegal immigrant...
These liberals have no case, she broke the law..
Here's How Kushner Wants
to Reform the US Immigration System
by Jason Hopkins
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Jared Kushner developed a comprehensive immigration proposal that consists of fortifying border security and shifting U.S. immigration to a more merit-based system... Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, formulated a tactic to immigration reform, and he hopes to present a legislative form of the plan to Trump within the coming days. The package essentially takes a two-pronged approach to immigration reform. The first part of the plan tackles legal immigration into the U.S., with Kushner looking to limit the number of low-skilled migrants who enter the country based on family ties. In their place, high-skilled foreign nationals would be encouraged to join the U.S. workforce under an immigration program that is more similar to the merit-based systems seen in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, CNN reported. The second part of the proposal pertains to border security. Trump’s son-in-law hopes to build more barrier walls on the U.S. southern border in areas that see high levels of illegal immigration. He also wants to modernize ports of entry so everything coming into the country is scanned, preventing anything illegal from getting past immigration enforcement. Changes to asylum laws and seasonal guest worker programs are also included in the plan. Kushner, who has already discussed the issue with a group of GOP senators, has worked with a number of top immigration experts inside and outside of the White House. Impressed with Kushner’s work on criminal justice reform, Trump tapped his son-in-law to tackle the issue that has been long been a priority for the administration...
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US Navy Sends Message to Russia, China
with ‘200,000 Tons of Diplomacy’
by Ben Marquis. have been actively working to establish and/or expand their spheres of influence in areas around the globe that directly impact U.S. interests, as well as those of our nation’s allies and partners. However, in what can only be described as a show of force intended to send a direct message to those rivals — as well as any others who’ve contemplated challenging the U.S. — the U.S. Navy just joined with a few European allies to send two major aircraft carrier strike groups into the Mediterranean Sea for joint exercises. The U.S. Naval Institute reported that the “dual-carrier, multi-national operation” was composed of the USS John C. Stennis and USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carriers. The typical array of escorts those carriers usually travel with were joined in the exercises by additional warships, including guided-missile destroyers and frigates, from France, Spain and the United Kingdom. U.S. ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman, was invited aboard the Lincoln to observe the exercises as they took place, perhaps signifying the fact that the military exercises were largely intended as a message to Russia and display of solidarity and cooperation among NATO allies. In an interview with CNN, which was granted exclusive media access to document the maneuvers, Huntsman said, “When you have 200,000 tons of diplomacy that is cruising in the Mediterranean — this is what I call diplomacy, this is forward operating diplomacy — nothing else needs to be said.”...
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Fox's Napolitano asked me to pardon
his friend, put him on Supreme Court
by John Bowden. as well as grant a pardon to one of Napolitano's friends. Napolitano, a former superior court judge in New Jersey, works as a legal analyst for Fox News. In a pair of tweets Saturday evening following his campaign rally in Green Bay, Wis., the president accused the commentator of becoming "very hostile" after Trump supposedly turned him down for the nation's highest court. "Thank you to brilliant and highly respected attorney Alan Dershowitz for destroying the very dumb legal argument of 'Judge' Andrew Napolitano," Trump wrote. "Ever since Andrew came to my office to ask that I appoint him to the U.S. Supreme Court, and I said NO, he has been very hostile! Also asked for pardon for his friend. A good 'pal' of low ratings Shepard Smith," the president added, referring to Fox's chief news anchor, who has often been critical of the White House. The White House did not immediately return a request for comment regarding when the conversation with Napolitano occurred or whom the Fox News commentator supposedly asked Trump to pardon. Trump frequently showers praise on Fox News figures who are seen as allies of his administration, including Dershowitz, who has defended the president amid the now-concluded investigation into Russia's election interference and Trump's campaign.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/441009-trump-foxs-napolitano-asked-me-to-pardon-his-friend-put-him-on .
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NSA Metadata Collection May Be a Thing of the PastMichael Swartz: Since we all learned back in 2013 that the federal government was collecting metadata from phone calls placed by average citizens without terrorist intentions, the PATRIOT Act’s Section 215 has been under fire by civil libertarians who claim it’s unnecessary and ineffective as a tool for stopping terrorism.
The Section 215 practice was temporarily thwarted by a 2015 appellate court ruling that restricted the government’s PATRIOT Act powers, but Congress quickly created the authorization later that year through the USA Freedom Act to resume the practice. Unfortunately for Congress, overzealous telecommunications companies botched the program by giving away more information than was required. That led to the purging of millions of records last year and shifted sentiment even farther away from continuing the program — a program that has yet to have been proven to even help stop a domestic terrorist act.
That’s not to say that Congress won’t continue the Section 215 program for fear of being dubbed “soft on terrorism.” But those who run it at the NSA now favor scrapping the telephone spying, arguing that the program is “difficult to manage” and “more a burden than a useful tool,” according to a Wall Street Journal report. One insider claimed the Section 215 program has been shuttered for several months already.
Since Section 215 is already fighting for its very existence, it may seem like overkill to propose a bill to do away with it. Last month, however, several of the more libertarian members of Congress introduced the Ending Mass Collection of Americans’ Phone Records Act. It’s a bill that Sen. Rand Paul, one of its sponsors, says “permanently stops one of the sprawling surveillance state’s most intrusive overreaches and is the first step in a movement to reclaim the constitutional liberties sacrificed by the overreaching provisions of the PATRIOT Act.” Unlike a simple failure to reauthorize, though, the bill would be a permanent repeal of Section 215-style authority.
Some, though, argue that ending the Section 215 program would be a hollow victory — not because the idea of domestic spying has lost its appeal to those would-be snoops within the system, but because technology has made the practice all but obsolete. Reason’s Scott Shackford cautions, “Should the White House accept the NSA’s recommendation here and let the USA Freedom Act expire, that makes it all the more important that we pay attention to governments’ efforts across the world to force social media platforms and app makers to introduce backdoors to encryption or some other form of structural weakness that would allow government spies to access our private communications without our knowledge.” One example given by Shackford is Australia, where that government is actively attempting to gain a bypass to encryption programs. We’d also note that the FBI has demanded a bypass to Apple’s iPhone encryption.
It’s often been said that the Constitution is not a suicide pact, and there have been times when its protections took a back seat to ensuring national security. Yet the Section 215 program’s lack of demonstrable success coupled with our natural desire to communicate free of government snooping may be enough to tip the scale just a bit back toward freedom. While the Long War is ongoing, its battlefield has completely changed over the last 18 years. Technology now enables “lone wolf” perpetrators who don’t need to call overseas for marching orders, and it’ll take other means to sniff out their schemes.
In short, we’ve evolved from and made unnecessary this phase of government spying. Let’s see if President Trump and Congress concur. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/62626?mailing_id=4233&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4233&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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