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Warring terrorist groups -- some consider
legitimate political parties -- thrown
into turmoil. Israel blamed
by Hazem Balousha & Loveday Morris
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Trump calls fired McCabe ‘choirboy’,
suggests FBI corruption ‘at the highest levels’
by Brooke Singman
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump called Andrew McCabe a 'choirboy' as he lauded the former acting FBI Director's firing... suggesting multiple federal reports show “corruption at the highest level.” “Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!” Trump tweeted hours after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the dismissal. McCabe was fired just days before he would have been eligible for a lifetime pension after it was determined that he lied to investigators reviewing the bureau’s probe of liar-Hillary Clinton’s email server... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/17/trump-calls-fired-mccabe-choirboy-suggests-fbi-corruption-at-highest-levels.htmlJoe Lieberman Predicts Pompeo
at State Will be a ‘Strong Ally’ of a Free Iran
by Patrick Goodenough
{ cn snews.com } ~ Thursday about President Trump’s nomination of Mike Pompeo to head the State Department... Former Democratic Sen. Lieberman expressed enthusiasm calling the CIA director “tremendously gifted” and a likely ally in the cause for a free Iran. “I take great heart and encouragement from Trump’s nomination of Mike Pompeo to be the next secretary of state,” Lieberman told an Iranian new year Nowruz event on Capitol Hill, according to provided transcripts. “I know Mike. He’s a tremendously gifted person. On the question of Iran, he understands the threat they represent to our security and to our values,” he said, adding that he believes Pompeo “will be a strong ally of our cause.”... https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/joe-lieberman-predicts-pompeo-state-will-be-strong-ally-free-iran?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRVek9XUXhNelpoTlRjeCIsInQiOiI4U2ptZDE0ZFZTQ2s4T3laK1J5allkMnJRMVwvdU1zSDVkQVhWRzZqdjNiUm9wSW9zY0hxSnBkQTVuVGpDcXNQRGxDckhGUlg2bTFQR3graGltYVEzRUsxWDV3c2s3dmU0NXdnN0EreWhlWVdYajFaMWNvWk9ibUdXQmVEZTQ2N0EifQ%3D%3D .
Chairman Devin Nunes Discusses
Ending HPSCI “Muh Russia Collusion” Investigation
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes appears on Fox News at Night to discuss the ending of the Trump-Russian investigation... and the continuance of the ongoing FISA abuse and FBI/DOJ corruption investigations. Part of the interview surrounds the new request by Senator Chuck Grassley for a second special counsel. As Nunes notes the Grassley request is almost identical to his own. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/16/chairman-devin-nunes-discusses-ending-hpsci-muh-russia-collusion-investigation/.So Long to the Iran Deal
by Matthew Continetti
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Almost immediately after the news broke that President Trump intends to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA director Mike Pompeo... media figures speculated that the decision was about Russia. The argument went like this: Tillerson was fired because he had recently criticized the Russian government for its attack using a nerve agent on a former spy living in the United Kingdom. He thereby endangered détente with Russian president Vladimir Putin and so, the critics said, Trump sacked him. Yet the rumor was exposed as false almost as soon as it was aired. For one thing, Tillerson had been informed that he would be removed days before he made his entirely justified condemnation of Russian behavior. For another, the Trump administration soon came out hard against the assassination attempt. Nikki Haley lambasted Russia at the United Nations. President Trump signed a joint statement with the British prime minister, French president, and German chancellor assigning responsibility to Russia. The Treasury Department announced further sanctions against Russian cyber-warfare. It was Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon who first reported the real story. Tillerson had been engaged in a months-long defense of the Iran nuclear deal that finally reached an impasse when he took Europe's side in debates over the agreement... http://freebeacon.com/columns/long-iran-deal/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=431cdac183-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-431cdac183-45611665Capitol Police Arrested Male Dem
Operative For Assaulting Female Trump Admin Official
by MICHAEL BASTASCH
{ dailycaller.com } ~ U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a male Democratic operative for assaulting a female Interior Department communications official... following a House budget hearing Thursday. The assault happened after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke finished testifying on the department’s 2019 budget proposal before the House Committee on Natural Resources. The suspect identified himself as a reporter with American Bridge and pushed a female Interior Department communications official to the floor, chasing after Zinke, The Daily Caller News Foundation learned. Interior communications director Laura Rigas was “greatly alarmed and extremely irate that a female senior member of my DOI Communications team was physically assaulted today by a Democrat staffer from the PAC American Bridge,” she told Politico... http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/16/dc-capitol-police-american-bridge/ .
Air Force: GPS Satellites Vulnerable to Attack
by Bill Gertz
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Global Positioning System satellites that guide both precision guided weapons and car navigation systems are vulnerable to attack... from Chinese and Russian lasers and missiles, Air Force officials told Congress this week. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said in House testimony on Wednesday that her service is working on developing jam-proof GPS satellites that currently can be disrupted by a variety of weapons. "With respect to the threat that we face, I think it's everything from jamming from the surface or a cyber attack, to direct-ascent satellite weapons, either from Russia or in 2007 the Chinese tested an anti-satellite weapon and spread debris all over orbit," Wilson told a House Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing. The testimony on space warfare threats came a day after President Donald Trump told Marines in California that the military needs a "space corps."... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/air-force-gps-satellites-vulnerable-attack/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=431cdac183-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-431cdac183-45611665.
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Warring terrorist groups -- some consider
legitimate political parties -- thrown
into turmoil. Israel blamed
by Hazem Balousha & Loveday Morris
{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ An explosion hit the convoy of the Palestinian prime minister during a rare visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, threatening to derail floundering reconciliation efforts between the two main Palestinian parties.
The Palestinian Authority described the blast, which did not harm Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah but caused minor injuries to at least six bodyguards, as an assassination attempt. It held Hamas, the Islamist party in control of the Gaza Strip, responsible for what it described as a "treacherous act."
For its part, Hamas condemned the incident and said it has opened an investigation, quickly arresting several suspects. It accused "Israel and its agents" of being behind the attack in an effort to undermine Palestinian unity efforts.
Hamdallah was in Gaza to meet with Hamas officials in an attempt to restart talks between the Palestinian Authority, controlled by his party, Fatah, and its rival, Hamas. His convoy was just a few hundred yards from the Erez Crossing, which separates Gaza from Israel, when it was struck.
Three cars in the convoy were damaged in the explosion, their windows blown out.
The reconciliation talks were canceled after the blast, but the prime minister did go on to attend the scheduled opening of a wastewater-treatment plant in the northern Gaza Strip before leaving.
Security services personnel inspect the site of the explosion that occurred as the convoy of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah entered Gaza.
At the ceremony, Hamdallah described the incident as a "disgraceful act."
"What happened today will only increase our resolve to continue our work in the service of the Gaza Strip and end the division," he said.
The two factions have been in conflict for more than a decade, fighting bloody street battles in Gaza in 2007 after Fatah refused to cede control when Hamas won elections. Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip, while the Palestinian Authority continued to govern in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Hopes of a detente were raised last year when Hamas said it was ready to dissolve its shadow government in Gaza and hand over power to the Palestinian Authority, which had ramped up pressure on Hamas by cutting salaries and electricity supplies to the area.
The Gaza Strip has been blockaded by Israel since Hamas took control in 2007, with trade and the exit and entry of civilians strictly controlled. The border with Egypt also has remained largely closed.
After Egypt-brokered talks, Fatah and Hamas signed a reconciliation deal in October.
As part of the deal, Hamas handed over control of border crossings with Israel, including Erez, to the Palestinian Authority late last year. However, progress has stalled over thornier issues, such as whether Hamas will give up arms.
The Trump administration held a conference at the White House later Tuesday aimed at solving a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as United Nations, Palestinian and Israeli officials warn that it may be on the brink of economic collapse.
After returning to the West Bank city of Ramallah, Hamdallah said he would be back in Gaza, with all of the Palestinian Authority's ministers and security forces, "soon."
He called on Hamas to allow the government to take control, saying there will be no security in Gaza until then.
Hamdallah also said he has been informed that the attack was planned in detail, with the explosives planted at a depth of 6 1/2 feet. The Palestinian Authority said intelligence chief Majid Faraj was also in the convoy but was not hurt.
Describing the convoy attack as a "grave incident," the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Nickolay Mladenov, called for a prompt investigation.
"Until the legitimate Palestinian Authority is fully empowered in Gaza, Hamas has a responsibility to ensure that the government is able to carry out its work in the Strip without fear of intimidation, harassment and violence," he said in a statement.
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