SecDef Hegseth demands stricter orders on credentials to "protect national security"

Secretary of Defense, Peter Brian Hegseth, has issued orders Friday for journalists with access to the Pentagon, as the Trump administration is trying to plug the holes where sensitive information had been leaking like a used three-day-old baby diaper.

According to the new rules, credentialed reporters from most DoD headquarters in Arlington, VA, will not have access without official approval and escort, Hegseth's memorandum states.

The SecDef describes this move to protect classified national intelligence information and even sensitive unclassified information regarding operational security as "an unwavering imperative for the Department."

"While the Department remains committed to transparency, the Department is equally obligated to protect [Classified National Security Information] and sensitive information - the unauthorized disclosure of which could put the lives of U.S. Service members in danger," the secretary, a former US Army Major, said.

The new order will soon have members of the Pentagon press corps sing a form acknowledging their responsibility to protect national intelligence and sensitive information. [It's amazing this hasn't been standard operating procedure prior to Hegseth's appointment.] Journalists will also be issued new shiny badges that clearly identify them as members of the Pentagon press corps.

"We also anticipate a forthcoming announcement of additional security measures and enhanced scrutiny on the issuance of [credentials]," the memo said. "Failure by any member of the resident or visiting press to comply with these control measures will result in further restrictions and possibly revocation of press credentials."

The Pentagon Press Association (PPA), a membership organization representing the press corps covering the U.S. military, whined that the new rules seem to demonstrate a "direct attack on the freedom of the press." [What, is the PPA funded by China?]

"The decision is purportedly based on concerns about operational security," the group said in a statement. "But the Pentagon Press Corps has had access to non-secured, unclassified spaces in the Pentagon for decades, under Republican and Democratic administrations, including in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, without any concern about OP-SEC from DoD leadership."

Yes, and thus the leaks, you dolts. Just last month, the Pentagon fired three officials after announcing a leak investigation in March at the Department of Defense, so Hegseth is getting out ahead of the curve.

The Pentagon has also required legacy news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, NPR, CNN and NBC News, to vacate their office spaces in the building, and will have their offices fumigated from the stink. They plan to bring in more administration-friendly outlets like the New York Post, the Daily Caller, One America News Network, and Breitbart. 

The department said the rotation system aimed to allow other media outlets the opportunity to cover the Pentagon as resident members of the press corps.

Hopefully these outlets will report honestly and not simply be typists for the administration. Based on their track record, it's likely we will get a better, more honest perspective of government than we did in the past.

Finally, the administration has begun using lie detector tests to probe unauthorized leaks at federal agencies. Some Department of Homeland Security officials were told they could be fired for refusing polygraphs. It's like a cop asking you to take a breathalyzer test to see why you rear-ended a car parked in a driveway and you sound like Joe Biden when you speak but you refuse the test. You're going to jail and lose your driving privileges for a period of time.

The White House said President Trump will not tolerate leaks to the media and that federal employees who leak material should be held accountable.

Hegseth is ensuring it doesn't happen on his watch.

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Trump leaves WHO, WHO cuts staff: who figured?

It looks like the globalist goons at the World Health Organization (WHO) are finally getting a taste of their own medicine—and it’s about damn time! The insidious architects of the disastrous Covid-19 lockdown policies are now facing some serious belt-tightening after the Trump administration told them to take a hike and withdrew from their little tyranny club. Cue the world’s tiniest violin.

You see, these sanctimonious international leeches and their buddies in hostile nations have gotten mighty comfy vilifying the United States while simultaneously slurping up American taxpayer dollars like it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet. So, naturally, they’re clutching their pearls in shock that Donald Trump—God bless his America-First soul—is slamming the cash register shut on their grift. That includes the United Nations’ WHO, a proud cheerleader for oligarchical tyranny that cribbed its awful Covid playbook straight from Communist China. Now they’re whining because our Republic won’t keep bankrolling their efforts to undermine our interests and founding principles. Boo-freaking-hoo. Hey, while we’re at it, how about we pull the plug on the terrorist-coddling, tyrant-loving UN entirely? Just a thought.

Trump didn’t waste a second this time around, yanking us out of the WHO with an executive order on his very first day back in office this January. That’s a refreshing upgrade from his first term, when he occasionally bought into some of the WHO’s devastating lockdown and vaccine nonsense. This move guts a hefty chunk of their funding—nearly a fifth, since the U.S. was footing 18 percent of their bill, according to Breitbart’s March 30 report. Maybe now the WHO can cozy up to their old pals in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for a bailout. I’m sure Xi Jinping’s got some spare yuan lying around.
In that January EO, Trump laid it out plain and simple: “China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO.”

During his first term, he said, we shelled out $500 million to the WHO—all so they could repay us with deadly health advice and a disturbing habit of kowtowing to the CCP, especially during Covid. What a deal, right?

Now, the WHO’s crying broke. A memo from their Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, dated March 28 and reported by Reuters, whined, “The United States’ announcement, combined with recent reductions in official development assistance by some countries to fund increased defence spending, has made our situation much more acute.” Translation: their piggy bank’s running dry, and they’re panicking. The memo also admitted, “The U.S. withdrawal has exacerbated a funding crisis due to member states reducing their development spending.” Oh, the humanity!

Facing a $600 million shortfall this year, the WHO’s proposing to slash its 2026-27 budget by 21 percent, from $5.3 billion to $4.2 billion. Breitbart noted they’d already trimmed their planned budget, but apparently, that wasn’t enough. “Despite our best efforts, we are now at the point where we have no choice but to reduce the scale of our work and workforce,” the memo sobbed. Good. That’s precisely what we voted for. America’s scraping by to fund its own government—sorry, WHO, we’re not your ATM anymore. Time to cut off these evil globalist clowns without so much as a penny.

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Fox News accuses Israel of killing "two Palestinian Journalists" when, in fact, they were Hamas terrorists

It seems the intrepid Fox News reporter Trey Yingst has once again taken to the airwaves to castigate Israel, this time accusing them of killing "two Palestinian journalists, Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat." 

Of course, Yingst conveniently omits some rather pertinent details - namely that Mansour worked for the terror outfit Palestinian Islamic Jihad's propaganda arm Filastin Al-Youm, while Israeli intelligence revealed months ago that Shabat moonlighted as a sniper for a Hamas battalion. 

But why let inconvenient facts get in the way of a good story?

Appearing on America's Newsroom this Monday morn, Fox's chief foreign correspondent solemnly intoned about "new developments out of Gaza today, where two Palestinian journalists, Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat, were killed by the Israelis." He went on to lament that "Last year, 124 journalists were killed around the world, two-thirds of them in Gaza," to which host Bill Hemmer could only grimly reply, "More to come, unfortunately."

 
Yingst doubled down on Twitter, mournfully noting that "Palestinian journalists Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat were killed by Israel today in Gaza" and that "124 journalist were killed around the world in 2024, around two-thirds of them were Palestinian." Stirring stuff. One can almost hear the violins swelling.

Except Shabat's Hamas ties are hardly news. 

As far back as September, the diligent Egyptian-British researcher Khaled Hassan uncovered Shabat's social media posts from that fateful October 7th in 2023, replete with celebratory captions and emojis alongside photos of Hamas terrorists infiltrating Israel and returning triumphant to Gaza. 

"All of Beit Hanon is at the garage, receiving the kidnapped soldiers," he crowed in one missive about the Israeli hostages, including a 9-month-old babe. "The heroes are in Beit Hanon," he gushed beside a snap of the returning killers.

A month later Israel released declassified intelligence from documents unearthed in Gaza confirming that six Al Jazeera journalists, Shabat among them, were in fact terrorists tied to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The files detailed training courses, salaries, personnel rosters - including Shabat's role as a sniper in Hamas's Beit Hanoun Battalion. Fox's own LiveNow covered it under the banner "Israel-Hamas war: IDF exposes Al Jazeera journalists as Hamas terrorists." Anchor Stephanie Coueignoux breathlessly shared the "breaking news" that "Six Al Jazeera journalists have been exposed as Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists."

 
As for Mansour, he plied his trade for Filastin Al-Youm, a mouthpiece of Palestinian Islamic Jihad that Israel's Shin Bet says works to "incite the population, calling for terrorist attacks against the State of Israel and its citizens." Israeli forces shuttered its West Bank HQ back in 2016, nabbing its director, though it continued spewing venom from Gaza.

Neither Fox nor Yingst had the stones to comment. Quelle surprise.

This all unfolded as Israel resumed operations in Gaza last week after Hamas nixed a US-brokered ceasefire. Monday's strikes took out Hamas finance chief Ismail Barhoum as well as Shabat and Mansour, the former killed in his car in a precision hit while moonlighting for Qatar-funded Al Jazeera. 

Beyond his October 7th paeans and Hamas ties, Shabat peddled lurid propaganda, falsely alleging Israeli "occupation army" atrocities - from soldiers sexually assaulting a pregnant Palestinian woman before her family to using "new weapons that cause bodies to evaporate on the scene."

 
Yingst has made a cottage industry of spotlighting Gaza journalists killed in Israel's operation. 

Just this month at the Radio Television Digital News Association's First Amendment Awards gala, he waxed eloquent: "I would like to give special recognition to the brave Palestinian journalists in Gaza, who have risked and often given their lives to practice our craft. We live in a dangerous time of attack on journalists, of misinformation, and efforts to silence those holding truth to power. Our work is more important now than ever." Cue the applause. And pass the sick bag.

Perhaps it's time to take a pass on Fox News and check out other sources such as The Daily Wire, Newsmax, Townhall, Breitbart, and blogs [like mine, hopefully].

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Joe Biden sarcastically says "Inshallah" at debate, making fun of Islam

Joe Biden claims to be a devout Catholic except for that abortion thingy he supports, and if this is true, he made fun of Islam on national television in the first [and likely the last] presidential debate.

The debate issue was about Trump's 2016 tax returns. Trump said his returns were under audit and insisted they would be released as Biden still tried to push him. When President Trump repeated that they will be released in the future, Biden replied, "Inshallah."

Now Arabic-speaking Christians and Muslims use the word "Allah" when referring to the God of Islam. But Biden saying Inshallah is a sign that he's being sarcastic with the Arabic-Islamic term meaning "God willing." In other words, it appears that Sleepy Joe was making fun of Islam by his use of mindless sarcasm.

If this is the wrong take on his use of the word, then one can imply that he's pandering to the Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Muslim crowd and the Left, whose support of Islam is an oxymoron in respect to their lack of support of Christians and Jews.

A Twitter user, whose handle is Danny Hajjar, posted the moment whereby Joe Biden said Inshallah:

#Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/wLptvwOe9C

— Danny Hajjar داني حجار 🇱🇧 (@DanielGHajjar) September 30, 2020

Joel B. Pollak [Breitbart, September 29, 2020] wrote about the moment the mushy-mouth Biden said the word then chuckled at his own sarcasm. 

Hopefully, Biden's remark will be recognized as a turn-off to the Muslim community rather than a sign of respect. You can't have it both ways, Joe. Either you're a devout Catholic making fun of Islam, or you're a pandering pusillanimous piss-pot who will do or say anything to get votes, much like your running-mate.

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Now irrelevant Steve Bannon 'regrets' his scummy betrayal of POTUS

Steve Bannon, the former useless political strategist for Donald Trump, apologized Sunday after the president lambasted his sorry butt for unflattering comments he is alleged to have made in the Trump White House gossip book "Fire and Fury." 

Bannon says he "regrets" his delayed response and that he continues to support the president.

How exactly has Bannon ever supported President Trump? All he's trying to do is save himself and latch onto power as he always did before.

"My support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda," he lied in a statement to Axios, later confirmed by Fox News Sunday.

In one part of the book, he calls Donald Trump Jr.  "treasonous" and "unpatriotic" based on a meeting Trump Jr. had with a Russian, a meeting that took place before Bannon was a staffer for the president, so it's impossible for Bannon to have inside information.

In his apology statement, Bannon said, "Donald Trump Jr. is both a patriot and a good man. He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around."

Question: So how can anyone know when Bannon is telling the truth?
Answer: He doesn't. Everything he says is for his own self-aggrandizement and the only "friend" he has left is the mainstream media. He has even alienated Breitbart News.

"I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding Don Jr. has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency," Bannon said, after he removed his lips from Trump's rump.

Bannon said in the statement that the comments about the meeting were aimed at Paul Manafort, not Don Jr.

Trump's epic response can be heard on the Daily Wire video posted above. The statement begins at the 24:20 mark, but the entire video is worth watching.

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Will Bannon run with Milo in 2020?

It's no secret that Breitbart head case Steve Bannon is getting more and more frustrated with President Donald Trump. He's so frustrated that he might run for president of the United States just to stick it to him in 2020. And while he isn't saying who he'd select as a running mate, my anonymous source said he's looking at Milo Yiannopoulos. 

And it's hard to imagine anyone who'd make a better president than a chronically angry guy who called the president "an eleven-year-old child."

Vanity Fair (the magazine that groveled on their symbolic knees in a stark apology to liberals and leftists everywhere for have the audacity to make a fun video about Hillary Clinton and their recommendation she get out of politics and maybe take up knitting) wrote an extensive report about Bannon. 

The writer, Gabriel Sherman, stated that the former White House chief strategist expressed concern over Trump's longevity as president. Evidently Bannon isn't happy about the direction the administration is going and is thinking that his own direct hands-on is needed for national politics.

Nothing could be further from the truth. What Bannon knows about politics was what 18th Century barbers knew about surgery. 

It was the genius Bannon who stood behind the election of Roy Moore, if that example means anything to you.

In October, Bannon told an adviser he'd run for president if Trump doesn't run again in 2020. In private conversations since getting fired from his White House gig, Bannon said Trump only as a 30 percent chance of serving out his term, whether it be impeachment or removed by the Cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment.

Sherman reached out to White House staff for a comment and was told that Bannon has been calling to get his old job back. One staffer told him "the president's best decision was firing James Comey. His second best decision was firing Steve Bannon, bar none."

That's hard to disagree with. 


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Aunty Maxine Waters said people online are trying to kill her

Repulsive. Maxine Waters (D- Calif.) said at a House Financial Services Committee hearing that people on the internet are trying to kill her. Sadly, she's crazy, but the people of California elected her to the House of Representatives and it looks like they're stuck with her until she's back in diapers and needs her food liquified.

The focus of the hearing was basically focused on financial aspects of terror plots, particularly those of the so-called "lone-wolf" threats, according to PJ Media.

As is her wont, when Waters heard the word 'terrorism', she saw her opening and linked the KKK, white supremacists, and extremists to the "alt-right."

"I think we should focus a lot on domestic terrorism also," the senile anti-white racist said. "So I would like to ask again, given all that you have said about how difficult it is and the privacy concerns, do you have any thoughts about what we can do to begin to deal with the KKK, the white nationalists, the, the extremists, the Alt-Right?"

Then Waters dribbled over the edge and said, without any evidence other than her daily delusions, that the right-wing media is trying to kill her.

"They're on the internet, Breitbart, if you look at YouTube, you see how much they want to kill me and others. What can we do? Anybody, any one of you," she blathered . . . bwah ha ha.

Apparently, Waters' only reason for remaining in office, and the main thing on her failing mind, is for her calling for the impeachment of Trump.

Just a few weeks ago, she lumped African-American HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson and Jewish Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in with the KKK and Nazis.

She once called Trump's cabinet a "bunch of scumbags," and told the idiots on "The View" that she was "so glad" damaging information is being leaked about Trump and she doesn't care if the leaked information compromises national security.

So it's clear that Waters would be willing to see Trump impeached at the expense of American lives. This is how crazy politics has become.


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POTUS calls for congressional probe into wiretapping of his campaign

The Trump administration called for congressional investigations on Sunday, into his claim the Obama administration orchestrated an attempt to gain information on then-GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement: "Reports concerning potentially motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling . . . President Donald J. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committee exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016."

In a reflexive tweet Mr. Trump wrote: "Who was it that secretly said to Russian President, 'Tell Vladimir that after the election I'll have more flexibility?'"

Spicer's statement comes after President Trump's explosive allegation that former President Obama ordered phones wiretapped at Trump Tower and added that nobody in his administration "will comment further until such oversight is conducted."

Trump's wiretap allegations in a bunch of tweets Saturday, along with the White House statement, are the latest developments in the "Vladimir Putin is trying to influence the U.S. election for Trump over his rival and shrew, Hillary Clinton" controversy. 

National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had to resign over this situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any DoJ probe in the matter because it was learned that he spoke with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak after a gaggle of Democrats did the same.

"Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism," the president tweeted Saturday.

And then he tweeted again: "Is it legal for a sitting president to be 'wire tapping' a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!"

It isn't clear to whom Mr. Trump was directing the legal question, but we can rule out Alan Dershowitz and Rosie O'Donnell.

And then he tweeted again that a "good lawyer could make a great case of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to election!"

And again: "How low has President Obama gone to tap (sic) my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!" he said, overusing exclamation points and asking rhetorical questions, as he often does.

Obama denied Trump's accusation that he had Trump's phones tapped weeks before the November election. But that doesn't mean he didn't have someone else do it for him--like Loretta "How-are-your-grandkids-Bill" Lynch.

But Kevin Lewis, an Obama towel boy and caddy, refuted the idea that Lynch or Obama had anything to do with the alleged wiretapping. "Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply racist false."

So deniable plausibility aside, it's possible that the FBI or an outside source did the tapping.

In a Breitbart article on Friday it claimed the Obama administration made two Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) requests last year to monitor Trump's communications and a computer server in Trump Tower. The purpose was to determine if there were links with Russian banks.

No evidence of such links were found. Nada. Zilch.

Trump, on Sunday, has again attacked Obama saying he colluded with Russia.

Brilliant strategy: throw the grenade back at him.



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Careful, the Clintons are moving their lips

Yes, it's the GOP's fault that Bill Clinton's darling wife, Hillary, got caught with her pants down in an email scandal. Wait, it was Bill who got caught with his pants down in an Oral Office scandal--sorry for the confusion.

But seriously, Bill says it's the media and Republican's fault for the controversy claiming that the GOP led a "full-scale frontal assault" on her campaign, reports Fox News. 

"I think that there are lots of people who wanted there to be a race for different reasons," Monica Lewinsky's one-time boyfriend said. "And they thought the only way they could make it a race was a full-scale frontal assault on her. And so this email thing became the biggest story in the world.

Of course, the Clintons would never launch a "full-scale frontal assault" on anyone else's campaign, and absolutely not with members of their own party with whom they have competed with for votes.

Except for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.  Hillary was supposed to have won since it was her turn. Her campaign was responsible for starting the rumor that Obama was born in Kenya to a mother who wasn't able to travel to the United States--yes, Hillary's campaign started the birther controversy. For an a Fox News video on this, go here. There is also an excellent article in Breitbart.com that clearly points to her campaign's responsibility for the birther movement.

For Bill to blame the media is laughable because everyone knows the mainstream media is in the bag for the Democrats. The fact that honest questions by The NY Times and other media are being raised about a secretary of state using a private email server (which is clearly an issue in and of itself) is a powerful statement. 

And the fact that Hillary lied over and over to us about: a) the number of devices she used for her email, b) that there were no confidential emails sent or received, then days later corrected the statement with "there were no emails marked confidential," c) that she lied to Obama after he told her not to involve Sidney Blumenthal in Secretary of State business and she did, d) that the Benghazi terrorist attack was a response from Libyan locals over a video depicting Muhammad accurately, and e) lying to the families of the fallen from that attack, again asserting to them, in front of the coffins of their dead, that they were going to get the guy who made the video that caused all this.

And so on.

I don't always agree with Ann Coulter but I definitely agree with her take on Hillary Clinton's intelligence.

But it's Hillary's obscene arrogance that really pisses me off.


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