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Pyongyang on the Prairie
by Michelle Malkin
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Monday Top Headlines
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More than one in four Americans postpone medical treatment because of the expense (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Fusion GPS tried to tie Trump to liar-Clinton’s pedophile pal Epstein as part of smear campaign (The Washington Times)
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Policy: National health expenditure report shows we have not solved the cost problem (Health Affairs)
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Nikki Haley – Time For All Female
Accusers To Be Heard, Women To Rule
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ When President Trump nominated Nikki Haley as UN Ambassador... a lot of folks who resented her attack on a Southern culture that she, as a first generation American, had no attachment to and her removal of a the Confederate Battle Flag from display in South Carolina felt he was making a mistake. Now President Trump may be wondering the same thing with Haley’s latest comments on Face the Nation. Host John Dickerson led her down the path like Little Red Riding Hood going to visit her grandmother, skipping and singing her liberal, feminist tunes all along the way. Dickerson describes some individuals being held accountable for their bad behavior as a cultural shift, although it might more accurately be described as a breakdown of the Democrat firewall or a re-positioning for strategic exploitation after misbehaving politicians of both parties and others who are overwhelmingly Democrats, have been caught... https://rickwells.us/haley-time-women-rule/.
Archaeological Discovery
Is Nightmare for Devout Muslims
by BEN MARQUIS
{conservativetribune.com} ~ There has been a lot of talk about Jerusalem in recent days... following President Donald Trump’s recognition of the city as the true capital of Israel. This decision has reignited the debate over which major religious faith lays a true claim to the ancient city — Jews, Christians or Muslims. The archaeological duo also discovered early Islamic clay pottery and lead vessels which also bore images of the menorah. “They are dated to the early days of the Islamic caliphate, and were in use by Muslims,” Avraham stated, and added, “We wish that many Muslims will be exposed to this knowledge, which is part of their own religious and cultural heritage.” According to The Times of Israel, the pair of archaeologists believe these and other recent discoveries are evidence of a “dialogue” and peaceful co-existence of the Judaic and Islamic faiths in the early days of Islam — one they hope could be resumed today or in the near future... https://conservativetribune.com/discovery-for-devout-muslims/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriottribune&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance.
Did scum-Adam Schiff Just Get Caught
in an Elaborate Counterintelligence Sting?
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How Robert Mueller
Sabotaged Counterterror Training in 2012
by TIM BROWN
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ We knew Robert Mueller was selling out America to our enemies in 2009... when liar-Hillary Clinton told him to deliver uranium to the Russians at a secret tarmac meeting. We also know that Mueller obstructed Congress' investigation into the 9/11 attacks. However, were you aware that Robert Mueller, the very man who is investigating the Trump administration for alleged collusion with the Russians was behind scrubbing any and all references of Islamic jihad from counter terror training manuals? You didn't? Well, take a listen to the following video by Robert Spencer for the details and if you don't have time for the video, I've transcribed it below... https://freedomoutpost.com/robert-mueller-sabotaged-counterterror-training-2012/.
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Victory Over ISIS Declared But Is Iraq’s Civil War Really Over?.
President Trump Pays Tribute To Civil Rights Movement.
‘Nancy Pulosi Is a Stooge’: Bossie Reacts After House Minority Leader Calls Trump Clueless.
Sarah Sanders: ‘Laughable’ for liar-nObama to Try to Take Credit for Economy.
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Pyongyang on the Prairie
{townhall.com} ~ A criminal justice system that operates in the dark is arbitrary, unjust and criminal.
In Oklahoma this year, a Kafkaesque set of sealed motions, secret orders and closed-door hearings completely shut out a criminal defendant, his public defenders and the public. A trial judge served as handmaiden for the prosecutors, even failing to notify the defendant and his lawyers of the kangaroo court proceedings until after they had occurred.
The defendant, who is appealing his convictions and maintains his complete and actual innocence, was denied an opportunity to challenge the state's legal arguments for hiding information about a crime lab analyst's shoddy work on his case that could be exculpatory and key to his exoneration. His public defenders were also denied the opportunity to cross-examine witnesses -- all government employees from Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma City Police Department.
Welcome to Pyongyang on the Prairie.
The Oklahoma attorney general's office claims that the trial judge, Timothy Henderson, conducted an "exhaustive" review of the protected materials and "deeply explored" their contents with government witnesses who only represented the government's side of the story.
Don't worry, be happy, comrades.
Here's the thing: While the defendant was denied representation at the secret hearings, Oklahoma County Assistant District Attorney Gayland Gieger was allowed to enter the star chamber with an entire "team" of fellow prosecutors. We only know this after two local TV journalists obtained video footage from a surveillance camera outside the hearing room. In fact, the state attorney general divulged in one of the few unsealed court filings on the matter, Gieger "facilitated the District Court's inquiry by thoroughly examining those witnesses in an ex parte proceeding."
Gieger was the original prosecutor in the defendant's case. The defendant's appeal argues that Gieger "repeatedly and flagrantly misrepresented" evidence at trial, including the forensic evidence and testimony of the OCPD crime lab analyst, Elaine Taylor. A report by six internationally renowned DNA scientists and experts released this summer highlighted Taylor's "flawed forensic science, including insufficient serological analysis and improper DNA testimony" in the case at hand. The scientists concluded that the defendant, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, who is now serving 263 years for a bandwagon pile-on of sexual assault allegations, "was deprived of his due process right to a fair trial because the State misused DNA evidence" and stated that his "conviction should be overturned and he should be given a new trial."
Taylor's work on the case, the state was forced to acknowledge, just happened to be the subject of the secret hearings that Assistant District Attorney Gayland Gieger was allowed to "facilitate."
Can you spell "conflict of interest"?
Incredibly, the state attorney general pats itself on the back for "its strong commitment to transparency" and argues that the "State was forbidden by law from turning any of the material over to the defendant" because a crime lab review of Taylor's work is "an unfinished personnel review" protected by the state open records act. Nonsense on a stick. The law specifically states that a public body "may," not must, keep personnel records confidential -- and there is no indication that a review of Taylor's work would invade her privacy.
Both the public's right to know and the defendant's constitutional rights to exculpatory information as well as information subject to cross-examination trump the phony "personnel records" shield erected by the state attorney general's office and its collaborators.
In fact, given the wave of crime lab scandals across the country from Austin, Texas, to Washington, D.C., it is in the national interest to disclose such information about questionable forensic analysis and testimony which I've exposed more at length in my CRTV.com work on the Holtzclaw case and other wrongful convictions for "Michelle Malkin Investigates".
It's even more imperative given the Oklahoma City Police Department's sordid history of fabricated forensic evidence and misconduct dating back more than 15 years.
Fact: Elaine Taylor worked under disgraced former OCPD forensic chemist Joyce Gilchrist, who was fired for systematic fraud, false testimony and planting evidence that led to countless death row and other convictions.
Fact: Taylor reportedly told a former supervisor that she destroyed rape kits under Gilchrist's orders because she "believed the only thing she could do was to follow Gilchrist's orders or else pay the consequences."
Fact: Elaine Taylor is the mother-in-law of Detective Rocky Gregory, the co-lead investigator in the current defendant's case a relationship that was not disclosed at trial.
Fact: My attempt through a public records request to obtain a list of cases from the DA's office in which Taylor served as an expert witness -- so that the public can learn if she botched other analyses and testimonies -- was flippantly rejected because "our office maintains no list of cases in which Ms. Taylor appeared as a witness to give testimony as an expert or otherwise," and so "this matter is now closed."
Nearly six months after the cloak-and-dagger confab on Taylor's work held in late June in Judge Henderson's locked courtroom, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has yet to respond to Holtzclaw's motion to unseal the secret proceedings. In fact, the criminal appeals court has yet to issue a ruling on his public defenders' simple motion for an order to preserve evidence in light of the police department's admission that it had deleted Taylor's email account after she retired on Feb. 2, 2017 a fact not known to the defendant until media public records request forced disclosure.
Legal experts left, right and center tell me they've never seen anything like this. Former ACLU of Oklahoma president and retired University of Oklahoma law professor Randall Coyne blasted the secrecy circus this summer, and his words bear repeating:
"This is no way to run a criminal justice system. In 29 years of practicing and teaching criminal law in Oklahoma, I have never seen the level of sealed orders and secret, ex parte courtroom proceedings that has occurred in the Holtzclaw matter. ... The dark cloud of secrecy over the Holtzclaw case gives rise to suspicions that somebody is hiding something. ... The court immediately should unseal all orders and filings so the public -- as well as other convicted defendants whose cases and lives may be impacted -- can see the details."
Is this North America or North Korea? Over to you, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.
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