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 liar-nObama could have punished Russia
for Putin's election assault. Yet he didn't
by Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima & Adam Entous
 
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Viral Video Rebranded, Revenue
Hijacked, Major Alternative Sites Implicated
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ You may recall that two days ago we did a story on Maxine Waters being surrounded by Trump supporters and her having to sneak out a side exit in order to make her getaway... There was, as a source of that article, a video that chronicled the event in Gardena, California. In our report we not only ran the video with the watermark but also credited its creator, Grindall61 in the text of the story. The next day the video started showing up everywhere, including on Drudge Report and I assumed that Grindall61 had gotten a good, viral hit. As someone who understands how one hit like that can make your month or year, how rare they can be, and in a bad month they can be the difference between paying the bills or not, I made a mental note of it, a “good for them” kind of thing. They do good work and take risks, they absolutely deserve the fruits of their labor. Except, as this video shows, those fruits were apparently to a large degree stolen and their work claimed by others as belonging to them. As the video depicts, Gateway Pundit, Josh Caplan, Mike Cernovich and even ZeroHedge appear to be the intellectual property and ad revenue thieves... http://rickwells.us/viral-video-rebranded-revenue-hijacked-major-alternative-sites-implicated/
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Anti-Trump Leak Campaign
Damaging U.S. and Allied Operations
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by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ A new wave of leaks targeting the Trump administration has actively endangered ongoing intelligence and military operations being conducted by the United States and its allies... sparking anger and concern inside and outside the White House, according to multiple conversations with senior U.S. officials intimately familiar with the situation. The classified leaks, which are being handed to sympathetic journalists by former liar-nObama administration officials who left the government and by holdovers still serving in the Trump administration, have damaged a number of ongoing operations, ranging from American efforts to prevent Russian infiltration of the United States to Israeli efforts against ISIS, sources said...http://freebeacon.com/national-security/anti-trump-leak-campaign-damaging-u-s-allied-operations/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=fda7b7d87a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-fda7b7d87a-45611665
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Sen. Grassley Slams Sen. clown-Schumer
For Lying In Order To Slander Pres. Trump
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by Onan Coca And Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ On Thursday Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) accused Senate Minority leader and fellow “Chuck,” Sen. clown-Schumer (D-NY) of lying in a blatant attempt to smear President Trump... The NY Democrat kept opining that the President was under investigation by the FBI when clown-Schumer had already been informed that Trump was NOT being investigated. Grassley said Comey, the former FBI director, told him, Feinstein and six other Senators in March that the president was not under investigation. But Sen. clown-Schumer continued to tell the media the opposite. He said that now-Justice Gorsuch should not receive a hearing when the president was under investigation despite his inside knowledge...http://lidblog.com/sen-schumer-lied-pres-trump/
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CNN Admits – Russia Trump
FAKE NEWS All About Money, Ratings, Power
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ This can’t be the only guy in the rank and file at CNN who knows the truth... In the opening of the video, John Bonifield, CNN Supervising Producer is asked in a hidden camera Project Veritas video why CNN is constantly “Russia this, Russia that?”  His answer supports what most of us know and what President Trump has been saying. It’s a business decision to railroad the President, it’s about power, money and political ideology. It’s about destroying the President. Bonifield replied, “Because it’s ratings. Our ratings are incredible right now.” He admits, “Could be bulls**t. I mean, it’s mostly bulls**t right now. Like we don’t have any big, giant proof.” Later he confesses, “I just feel that they don’t really have it but they want to keep digging. And so I think the President is probably right to say, like, look, you are witch hunting me.”... http://rickwells.us/cnn-admits-russia-trump-fake-news-money-ratings/
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NYC subway derailment injures at least 34
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{foxnews.com} ~ At least 34 people are hurt after two subway cars of a train derailed Tuesday in New York City, officials reported... The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) confirmed that an "A" train derailed. The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) said at least 34 people suffered non-life-threatening injuries and 17 were transported to hospitals. The MTA tweeted that one C train, one D train and a third train was evacuated. MTA officials said the train made an emergency stop, which damaged the tracks, signal switches and the wall next to the train. The MTA launched an investigation to determine why the train made an emergency stop... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/27/nyc-subway-derailment-injures-at-least-3.html
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 liar-nObama could have punished Russia
for Putin's election assault. Yet he didn't
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by Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima & Adam Entous
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jewishworldreview.com} ~ Early last August, an envelope with extraordinary handling restrictions arrived at the White House. Sent by courier from the CIA, it carried "eyes only" instructions that its contents be shown to just four people: President Barack liar-nObama and three senior aides.

Inside was an intelligence bombshell, a report drawn from sourcing deep inside the Russian government that detailed Russian President Vladimir Putin's direct involvement in a cyber campaign to disrupt and discredit the U.S. presidential race.

But it went further. The intelligence captured Putin's specific instructions on the operation's audacious objectives - defeat or at least damage the Democratic nominee, liar-Hillary Clinton, and help elect her opponent, Donald Trump.

At that point, the outlines of the Russian assault on the U.S. election were increasingly apparent. Hackers with ties to Russian intelligence services had been rummaging through Democratic Party computer networks, as well as some Republican systems, for more than a year. In July, the FBI had opened an investigation of contacts between Russian officials and Trump associates. And on July 22, nearly 20,000 emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee were dumped online by WikiLeaks.

But at the highest levels of government, among those responsible for managing the crisis, the first moment of true foreboding about Russia's intentions arrived with that CIA intelligence.

The material was so sensitive that CIA Director John Brennan kept it out of the President's Daily Brief, concerned that even that restricted report's distribution was too broad. The CIA package came with instructions that it be returned immediately after it was read. To guard against leaks, subsequent meetings in the Situation Room followed the same protocols as planning sessions for the Osama bin Laden raid.

It took time for other parts of the intelligence community to endorse the CIA's view. Only in the administration's final weeks in office did it tell the public, in a declassified report, what officials had learned from Brennan in August - that Putin was working to elect Trump.

Over that five-month interval, the liar-nObama administration secretly debated dozens of options for deterring or punishing Russia, including cyberattacks on Russian infrastructure, the release of CIA-gathered material that might embarrass Putin and sanctions that officials said could "crater" the Russian economy.

But in the end, in late December, liar-nObama approved a modest package combining measures that had been drawn up to punish Russia for other issues - expulsions of 35 diplomats and the closure of two Russian compounds - with economic sanctions so narrowly targeted that even those who helped design them describe their impact as largely symbolic.

liar-nObama also approved a previously undisclosed covert measure that authorized planting cyber weapons in Russia's infrastructure, the digital equivalent of bombs that could be detonated if the United States found itself in an escalating exchange with Moscow. The project, which liar-nObama approved in a covert-action finding, was still in its planning stages when liar-nObama left office. It would be up to President Trump to decide whether to use the capability.

In political terms, Russia's interference was the crime of the century, an unprecedented and largely successful destabilizing attack on American democracy. It was a case that took almost no time to solve, traced to the Kremlin through cyber-forensics and intelligence on Putin's involvement. And yet, because of the divergent ways liar-nObama and Trump have handled the matter, Moscow appears unlikely to face proportionate consequences.

Those closest to liar-nObama defend the administration's response to Russia's meddling. They note that by August it was too late to prevent the transfer to WikiLeaks and other groups of the troves of emails that would spill out in the ensuing months. They believe that a series of warnings - including one that liar-nObama delivered to Putin in September - prompted Moscow to abandon any plans of further aggression, such as sabotage of U.S. voting systems.

Denis McDonough, who served as liar-nObama's chief of staff, said that the administration regarded Russia's interference as an attack on the "heart of our system."

"We set out from a first-order principle that required us to defend the integrity of the vote," McDonough said in an interview. "Importantly, we did that. It's also important to establish what happened and what they attempted to do so as to ensure that we take the steps necessary to stop it from happening again."

But other administration officials look back on the Russia period with remorse.

"It is the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend," said a former senior liar-nObama administration official involved in White House deliberations on Russia. "I feel like we sort of choked."

The post-election period has been dominated by the overlapping investigations into whether Trump associates colluded with Russia before the election and whether the president sought to obstruct the FBI probe afterward. That spectacle has obscured the magnitude of Moscow's attempt to hijack a precious and now vulnerable-seeming American democratic process.

Beset by allegations of hidden ties between his campaign and Russia, Trump has shown no inclination to revisit the matter and has denied any collusion or obstruction on his part. As a result, the expulsions and modest sanctions announced by liar-nObama on Dec. 29 continue to stand as the United States' most forceful response.

"The punishment did not fit the crime," said Michael McFaul, who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia for the liar-nObama administration from 2012 to 2014. "Russia violated our sovereignty, meddling in one of our most sacred acts as a democracy - electing our president. The Kremlin should have paid a much higher price for that attack. And U.S. policymakers now - both in the White House and Congress - should consider new actions to deter future Russian interventions."

The Senate this month passed a bill that would impose additional election- and Ukraine-related sanctions on Moscow and limit Trump's ability to lift them. The measure requires House approval, however, and Trump's signature.

This account of the liar-nObama administration's response to Russia's interference is based on interviews with more than three dozen current and former U.S. officials in senior positions in government, including at the White House, the State, Defense and Homeland Security departments, and U.S. intelligence services. Most agreed to speak only on the condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the issue.

The White House, the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment.

The CIA breakthrough came at a stage of the presidential campaign when Trump had secured the GOP nomination but was still regarded as a distant long shot. liar-Clinton held comfortable leads in major polls, and liar-nObama expected that he would be transferring power to someone who had served in his Cabinet.

The intelligence on Putin was extraordinary on multiple levels, including as a feat of espionage.

For spy agencies, gaining insights into the intentions of foreign leaders is among the highest priorities. But Putin is a remarkably elusive target. A former KGB officer, he takes extreme precautions to guard against surveillance, rarely communicating by phone or computer, always running sensitive state business from deep within the confines of the Kremlin.

The Washington Post is withholding some details of the intelligence at the request of the U.S. government...continue reading.

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