DNI Tulsi Gabbard targeting "deep state" intelligence leakers with criminal referrals

Tulsi Gabbard, our new Director of National Intelligence, is swinging a sledgehammer at the deep-state leakers who’ve been treating classified information like it’s gossip at a D.C. cocktail party. In a Wednesday X post that radiated “don’t mess with me” energy, Gabbard dropped a bombshell: she’s recommended charges for a pair of leaks, with a third on deck.

“Politicization of our intelligence and leaking classified information puts our nation’s security at risk and must end. Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” she said, sounding like she’s ready to personally drag these traitors to court. She’s not playing—Gabbard’s got her sights on a recent Washington Post leak about Iran and Israel, which she flagged back in March when she first vowed to hunt down these slime-balls.

“Today, I referred two intelligence community LEAKS to the Department of Justice for criminal referral, with a third criminal referral on its way, which includes the recent illegal leak to the Washington Post,” she added, making it clear she’s got receipts and isn’t afraid to use them. 

No names were dropped, and we’re still waiting to see if the DOJ and FBI will grow a spine and actually pursue charges. Don’t hold your breath, though—those agencies aren’t exactly known for speed.

Gabbard’s not mincing words about the culprits: “These deep-state criminals leaked classified information for partisan political purposes to undermine POTUS’ agenda. I look forward to working with [the DOJ] and [the FBI] to investigate, terminate and prosecute these criminals,” she said, practically daring the swamp to keep testing her. 

This is the same Tulsi who traded her Hawaii congressional seat for a combat vet’s grit and a Senate-confirmed DNI gig under Trump, passing with a 52-48 vote in February. She’s got the scars and the resolve to back up her threats. [Remember how the Left said Trump is afraid of strong, intelligent women?]

Flash back to March, when Gabbard first promised to clean house in the sprawling 18-member Intelligence Community—think CIA, NSA, FBI, and military branches. “Our nation’s Intelligence Community must be focused on our national security mission. Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security and the trust of the American people, and will not be tolerated,” she warned on X, sounding like a Parris Island drill instructor fed up with recruits. 

“Unfortunately, such leaks have become commonplace with no investigation or accountability. That ends now. We know of and are aggressively pursuing recent leakers from within the Intelligence Community and will hold them accountable,” she added.

She even name-checked some of the media’s favorite leaker landing spots: The Washington Post, HuffPost, The Record, and NBC, where some IC weasel spilled U.S.-Russia intel. “Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such,” she capped off, basically etching “you’re toast” on every leaker’s forehead.

This all ties back to a messy episode before The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg—yeah, that jerk—bragged about snooping on a Signal chat where Trump officials were hashing out airstrikes on Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen. He should have alerted the chat that he was mistakenly put there, but he didn't and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz took the fall, blaming his iPhone’s “automated suggestion” feature for the breach. The Trump team swears no classified info was spilled, and the boss is standing by Waltz. 

Still, it’s a bad look, and Gabbard’s clearly done with the excuses and she plans to kick ass.

Bottom line? Gabbard’s on a mission to plug the leaks and restore some semblance of integrity to our intelligence ops. Whether the DOJ and FBI will match her gusto or just shuffle papers remains to be seen. For now, she’s got the deep state sweating—and that’s a beautiful thing. Keep your powder dry, folks.

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NSA agent arrested for supplying gov't secrets to undercover FBI agent, feds say

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Jareh Sebastian Dalke of Colorado Springs, CO is a 30-year former NSA agent who was arrested after he tried to sell government secrets to an undercover FBI agent he believed was a foreign operative. He made his first court appearance Thursday and was hit with espionage-related charges for allegedly trying to transmit National Defense Information (NDI) to a Russian operative.

Dalke used an encrypted email account to send classified documents to a person he thought worked for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, but was an FBI agent, the Department of Justice reported.  "Dalke subsequently arranged to transfer additional classified information in his possession to the undercover FBI agent at a location in Denver, Colorado,” the DOJ said.

Dalke was an information systems security designer for the NSA from June and July this year. He was arrested Wednesday when he went to meet with his contact to sell classified information, he thought. 

The DOJ said that Dalke told an undercover FBI agent that he was still working for the agency and that he would exchange secrets for a specific cryptocurrency. The information in question reportedly related to U.S. cyber security.

“On or about Aug. 26, 2022, Dalke requested $85,000 in return for additional information in his possession. Dalke also told the FBI undercover agent that he would share additional information in the future, once he returned to the Washington, D.C., area. Although he was not employed by the NSA while communicating with the FBI, Dalke re-applied to the NSA in August 2022,” the DOJ said.

Court documents show that scumbag allegedly told the undercover agent that he “recently learned that my heritage ties back to your country, which is part of why I have come to you.” [Fun Fact: Dalke, in Russian, means traitorous asshole.]

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According to the charges, one of the documents that were intended to be sold were classified as “secret,” while two more were “top secret.” He was charged with three violations of the Espionage Act.

If convicted, Dalke could be sentenced to life in prison or execution, unlike Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA) who actually had crazy monkey sex with a Chinese spy.

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BREAKING: Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship but will he fight in Ukraine?

Serial scumbag and former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is now a Russian citizen by order of Russian President [for life] the execrable Vladimir Putin.

Putin signed the order granting the traitor Russian citizenship on Monday. Snowden has been living in Moscow since 2013, evading U.S. authorities after exposing top secret military information to the world. He had received permanent residency to remain in Russia in October 2020.

Snowden was a contractor for the National Security Agency in 2013 when he left the NSA's Hawaii facility and went to Hong Kong at which time the POS released thousands upon thousands of U.S. documents revealing surveillance programs in the U.S. and abroad along with security operations.

Some on the Left praised his actions because they hate the United States, while others called him a traitor as the U.S. sought his extradition to prosecute him on charges of violating the Espionage Act.

Before moving into the private sector, this high school drop out was a systems administrator for the CIA. 

He contracted with Dell and later with Booz Allen Hamilton. It was at Dell that he did contract work for the NSA, where he worked at a facility in Japan then moved to Hawaii. In early 2013, Snowden left Dell and went to work for Booz Allen, staying at the same Hawaii-based NSA facility.

It was in 2013 when Snowden downloaded thousands of classified documents on U.S. and foreign intelligence operations and probably endangered the lives of the once-covert agents. He shared these documents with journalists who exposed the classified contents, irreparably impairing field operations.

The House Intelligence Committee began an investigation into the leaks in 2014 and published a 38-page report two years later highly critical of the former intelligence contractor. Snowden is “not a whistleblower,” the report said.

“Snowden caused tremendous damage to national security, and the vast majority of documents he stole have nothing to do with programs impacting individual privacy interests – they instead pertain to military, defense, and intelligence programs of great interest to America’s adversaries,” it continued.

The POS moved to Russia to receive asylum protections from U.S. authorities. While there, he openly criticized the U.S.'s treatment of journalists, but never spoke out about Russia's treatment of journalists, some of whom no longer live above ground and those who do are limited in their reporting.

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After receiving permanent residency in Russia in 2020, comrade Snowden applied for Russian citizenship so he could hold the same citizenship as his son, who at the time was not yet born.

Now the question remains: with Russia engaged in open conflict with Ukraine, will Snowden volunteer to fight for his adopted country and carry the hammer and sickle in battle?

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Media leaker Reality Winner is biggest loser in sentencing

Savannah, Ga. -- Ex-National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner pleaded guilty in June to mailing a secret U.S. report to an online news organization and is scheduled for sentencing August 23rd by a federal judge in Augusta.

Winner's plea deal was for a five year three month prison sentence but the judge isn't bound by that agreement. The charge for leaking secret information is ten years.

Winner's arrest last year was announced on the same day The Intercept published a story on a classified report by the NSA on Russian hackers and the 2016 election.

Intellectual giant and American heroine, Rosie O'Donnell, defended Winner and called her a "brave young patriot" and gave her $1,000. She tweeted:

"I support reality winner speak truth to power #resist #womenUNITE" 

She also added a GoFundMe link page to raise money for the traitor, which illustrates O'Donnell's lack of judgment.

It's about time the law clamps down on leakers of classified information.


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Possible pardon of Assange worries intel community

You have to admit it--sometimes President Trump says dumb stuff. Like the time he said that he loves WikiLeaks because they revealed Hillary Clinton's emails. Now a GOP lawmakers suggested that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be pardoned by Trump and that isn't sitting well with the intelligence community.

The probability for a pardon of Assange appears unlikely, but the fact that not only has the president praised the website, Assange's own efforts to question the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia tried to influence the presidential election helped get Trump off the hook to some degree.

So the idea that Trump might pardon Assange is being taken seriously by intelligence organizations.

"It would send a terrible message to the intelligence community," said Robert Deitz, former senior counselor to the director of the CIA and general counsel at the NSA. 

Deitz is currently a professor at George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government.

"What moral are people supposed to draw from that? Why on Earth would you believe Julian Assange before the intelligence community?" asked Deitz.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) is being investigated for having ties to Russia and he's behind the Assange pardon pursuit. 

The deal Rohrabacher is pushing: pardon Assange in exchange for information he claims proves Russia didn't collude with the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential race.

He was the first lawmaker to meet with Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London last month. Assange is holed up there for years in order to avoid arrest. Rohrabacher claims at that time, Assange offered him "firsthand" evidence that would prove there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Rohrabacher also claims that a meeting is in the works with himself and Trump to discuss Assange's information and a potential pardon. 

If President Trump pardons the scumquat seditionist, it would be a horrible mistake and it's possible that many people will see it as an indication of some sort of conspiracy.

But a pardon of Assange, while it would be self-serving for Trump, would also cast doubt on the CIA, NSA, FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

And if you don't think that would suck, you might be reading this post from Russia.

"He'd [Trump, that is] show that he'd do anything to skate out of the not just allegation, but clear fact of Russia's involvement [in the election]. That would be appalling," said Glenn Carle, a 23-year veteran of the CIA's clandestine service and who ended his career as deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats on the National Intelligence Council.

Remember, however, Assange hasn't been charged or convicted of any wrongdoing by the United States, so "It would be extremely unusual to pardon someone who hasn't been charged," said Margaret Love. 

Love served as Department of Justice pardon attorney between 1990 and 1997, and noted the exceptions: Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, Carter's pardon of Vietnam draft dodgers, and Reagan's pardon of illegal immigrants. 

Michael Borohovski, a former intelligence contractor said that a pardon of Assange would reinforce the idea the it's okay to leak.

"Assange allegedly was involved with a few of the largest intelligence leaks of all time. Pardoning him would make it seem okay," he said.

No, most informed Americans don't love WikiLeaks.

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CNN's Acosta dubbed "Fake News Guru"

CNN's annoyingly rude Jim Acosta was the target of conservative angry bird tweets on Twitter after he accused the President of holding a "fake news conference." Afterward, he vomited some "fake news" of his own when he pedantically claimed that President Trump misstated the number of intelligence agencies that came to the conclusion Russia was involved with meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Trump took questions from MSNBC and The Daily Mail in a joint news conference with President Andrzej Duda (duda) in Poland. 

Acosta wasn't pleased.

"Trump finally held a news conference overseas. But he took a question from a friendly reporter [and Barack Obama never did] and then attacked CNN as 'fake news.'" Acosta tweeted, using his pinky to hit 'Send.' He went on, "Isn't it a 'fake news conference' to take a question from a reporter who is essentially an ally of the White House?" [Because Barack Obama had no allies in the news media.]

Acosta was probably referring to The Daily Mail's U.S. political editor David Martosko, a journalist who was possibly being considered for Trump's communication department but pulled out of the running.

Of course, right-wing social media folks went after the CNN "journalist's" sarcastic tweets, saying that the Obama Administration was inundated with friendly reporters who thought Obama could do no wrong and that he often called on friendly journalists.

Some even helped him without his ever asking--Candy Crowley comes to mind.

Donald Trump Jr. even got into the act, tweeting: "So by that logic, was every news conference for the last 8 years #fakenews Jim?"

Steve Deace, a conservative radio host tweeted: "Jim, over two dozen 'journalists' went to work in the Obama WH, including the former WH spokesman."

There's no doubt that 'journalists' tend to be liberal--more than 9 out of 10 vote Democrat and donate to the Democratic Party. 

There is also no doubt that Obama's press conferences could have been used as campaign ads for his party and the questions he often got were powderpuff softballs.

An Atlantic article in 2013 noted Time managing editor Rick Stengel was "at least the 24th journalist to work for the Obama Administration." 

Obama's White House Press Secretary Jay Carney also worked for Time as the Washington Bureau Chief.

While on CNN's "New Day" after Trump's joint news conference Thursday, Jimbo repeated the "fake news" schtick to describe an answer Trump gave to a question about Russian meddling in the election.

"The other thing that was 'fake news' coming from President Trump is when he said, 'Well, I keep hearing it's 17 intelligence agencies that say Russia meddled in the election; I think it's only three or four,'" Acosta said. "Where does this 'three or four' number come from? My suspicion . . . is that if we go to the administration and ask them for this question, I'm not so sure we're going to get an answer." 

Here's the answer, Jimmy: The New York Times, and other media outlets, reported for months that "17 American intelligence agencies" agreed Russia orchestrated cyber-attacks before the election. BUT ON JUNE 28, THE NEW YORK TIMES ISSUED A CORRECTION. 

The Times noted "the assessment was made by four intelligence agencies--the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency.

Of course, The Times put the correction at the bottom of the page where only people with OCD would see it.

Certainly not Jimmy A.



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Mueller hired 8 more lawyers for Trump probe

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is going full-hog into the Russian 2016 campaign interference investigation and hired an additional eight lawyers for the case President Trump just can't stop tweeting about.

The probe will cover alleged collusion, obstruction of justice and foreign interference. It is also looking into Trump's top aides and former campaign advisers and will include Jared Kushner, his son-in-law. Of course, former national security adviser Michael Flynn will be under the legal microscope as well.

The Daily Wire had previously reported about the three attorneys brought in by Mueller who were donors to Democrats including Hillary Clinton. In fact, one lawyer, Jeannie Rhee, actually represented Crooked Hillary twice, "once personally, and once for the Clinton Foundation." [Also personally, in a way]. 

CNN said that Mueller will probably bring on even more attorneys, but who can believe what they say? But in any case, they said his "investigators have asked for informatin and will talk to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers, according to a source [obviously an anonymous as is their wont], who said they have also sought information from recently retired NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett."

If what we know of the evidence [that is, there is no evidence] proves that's all there is, President Trump would be well off--but only if he could keep his Twitter finger in his pants.


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Leaker Nabbed!

They finally made some headway in the Russian hacking efforts. A federal contractor was arrested over the weekend--she is accused of leaking a top secret intelligence report on Russian hacking efforts during the presidential campaign last year.

Reality Leigh Winner, 25, appeared in federal court in Augusta, GA. She is facing the reality of one charge of removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, the Justice Department said.

Winner's arrest was announced soon after the Intercept website published a story on Russian hackers attempting to penetrate computers belonging to over 100 local election sites. The story cites an NSA report that claims the hacking efforts were masterminded by Russia's military intelligence unit known as the GRU.

Although the DoJ didn't specify that Winner was being charged in connection with the Intercept's report, the site noted that the NSA report cited in its story was dated May 5 while the affidavit supporting Winner's arrest stated that the report was dated "on or about" May 5. 

Coincidence? Not likely.

According to The Washington Examiner Winner worked for Pluribus International Corporation assigned to a U.S. government facility in Georgia. (The Georgia down south in the U.S.A., not Russia's Georgia.)

She held a top-secret classified security clearance, which goes to show us that they're as easy to get as an Obama phone.

Then there's always the usual suspects like WikiLeaks' Julian Assange who said that must be supported. "She is a young woman accused of courage in trying to help us know," Assange stupidly said.

No, she is a young woman accused of violating the Espionage Act and being a traitor, and not all information should be made public for national security purposes, you freaking idiot.

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Prosecutors said the young Loser admitted to printing off a copy of the NSA report and sending it to an "online news outlet." The outlet contacted federal authorities and it was determined the information had been illicitly leaked.

Winner (her name is an oxymoron) was identified as the leaker after investigators determined that she was one of six people to print the report off her computer (not very bright) and the only one of the six to have contact with the news outlet.


The alleged violator of the Espionage Act was home when questioned Saturday. She admitted that she was aware of the contents of the report and that "the contents of the reporting could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation.

It looks like Reality needs a reality check and a change of her last name.




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Susan Rice pulls a "Master Sergeant Schultz"

Former National Security Adviser and abject liar Susan Rice appeared on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" Sunday. 

Zakaria, a known plagiarist, interviewed Rice. She denied claims that she was the one who unmasked Americans in order to embarrass Trump campaign officials who were incidentally surveilled in the Russian collusion investigation.

She told the far left-leaning plagiarist that she never did anything "untoward with respect to the intelligence" she received on the Trump campaign, which defies her original story where she denied knowing anything whatsoever about the "incidental collection of intelligence" on Trump transition officials.

The "Adviser Liar" told Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour host in March, "I know nothing about this" and "I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that account today."

But now she admits she got the information but didn't do anything with it.

Of course not--she never lies very--much.

"I think now we've had subsequently members of Congress on the intelligence committees on both sides of the aisle take a look at the information that apparently was the basis for Chairman Nunes' concern, and say publicly that they didn't see anything that was unusual or untoward," Rice contended, likely referring to anonymous House and Senate sources who claimed she did nothing wrong.

"I did my job, which was to protect the American people, and I did it faithfully and to the best of my ability, and never did I do anything that was untoward and with respect to the intelligence I received," she lied.

The problem is, her job was not to protect the American people nor conduct investigations in the way she claims--that's for the FBI, NSA and CIA to do. 

She might consider changing her name to Master Sergeant Schultz.

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Congress digs deeper into 'unmasking' probe over Rice role

The 'unmasking' controversy investigation by the House and Senate intelligence committee is going deeper into the bowels of Susan Rice's involvement of who released the names of those Americans citizens to the public. They will be examining whether other lawmakers or candidates beyond President Trump's associates were affected.

Thus far, the investigation explored how the identities and communications of the Trump transition team were collected by U.S. intelligence agencies and then revealed to, and disseminated among high-ranking members of the Obama administration.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) plans to audit files from the National Security Agency (NSA) and White House to discover whether conversations and identities of presidential candidates, or members of Congress, were also swept up during NSA's surveillance of foreign leaders.

Nunes also will review whether the Obama National Security Council and White House counsel collected and distributed the information for reasons unrelated to foreign intelligence (and probably for political reasons).

"We will be performing an accounting of all unmasking for political purposes focused on the previous White House administration," one committee member told Fox News. "This is now a full-blown investigation."

Senate committee staffers have also broadened their investigation to determine whether presidential candidates were unmasked and information was misused. It is a felony to unmask the names of American citizens. They also want to find out what role Susan Rice, among others, played following reports that she requested Trump-affiliated names be unmasked. 

For a private American citizen to be 'unmasked' in an intelligence report is quite rare and usually done only if it has some foreign intelligence value. Thus, it is typically done if the American is a suspect in a crime, is in personal danger, or has to be named to explain the context of the intelligence report.

If it is found that Rice unmasked those names and leaked them to the media, she should, but likely will not, go to prison. (For more on this reasoning, see Hillary Clinton and Benghazi.)


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It's Rice who uncovered the covered

The lady who brought us the scoop on Benghazi, informing us the attack of the American compound was caused by a video, and that Bowe Bergdahl "served with honor and distinction" in the Army, is now the focus of the ongoing investigation into Russia's involvement with the 2016 election, and the unmasking of names of Americans caught up in NSA surveillance. 

That lady is Susan Rice.

It wasn't a video that started the terrorist attack and Bergdahl is currently facing court martial charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy for allegedly walking off his post in Afghanistan and being a traitorous pus biscuit.

Rice, the former national security adviser (which, when you think of it, is an oxymoron) under then-President Obama, was the person who requested to unmask the names of the Trump transition officials in the surveillance. She denied this last month in an interview.

The unmasked names made the rounds: to all at the Defense Department, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Rice deputy Ben Rhodes.

It's even possible some of the names were placed on milk cartons to be distributed across the nation, but we're still checking on that.

The names were ostensibly part of incidental electronic surveillance of then-candidate and President-elect Trump and those close to him, including family members. This began up to a year before he took office.

White House Press Secretary and butt of SNL jokes, Sean Spicer, was asked about the revelations at the Monday press briefing but declined to comment on the role Rice may have played or what her motives might be.

"I'm not going to comment on this any further until [congressional] committees have come to a conclusion," Spicer said. He made note of how the media doesn't appear interested in the Rice revelation as much as it is with the possible Trump-Putin links.

Names in this situation are supposed to be masked (redacted from reports) whether it's international or domestic collection. The only time it can be unmasked is when it's an issue of national security, crime, or if the security of the individual whose name was unmasked  is in any danger. There are loopholes and names can be unmasked through backchannels, but Americans are supposed to be protected from incidental collection, and Mike Flynn, for example, was unmasked and illegally revealed to the public. 

Last month, in a TV interview with Dr. Evelyn Farkus (whose brother Marcus Farkus runs a Marcus Farcus focus group) said in part: "I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill--it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration." 

Perhaps it was no coincidence that just as Obama and his crew left office, he approved new rules giving the NSA much broader powers by relaxing the rules about sharing intercepted personal communications and the ability to share the communications with 16 (!) other intelligence agencies. 

This makes it even harder to determine who in any intelligence agency is leaking things illegally. 

Think of it as Obama-style camouflage.

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Putin extends Snowden's asylum

Moscow -- Now that Obama virtually freed Chelsea/Bradley Manning from almost all of his 35 year prison sentence, the Russian government made it clear Wednesday that Edward Snowden, the other guy who gave away US government secrets, will be allowed to remain in Russia for "a couple more years," Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Facebook.

Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor who, like Manning (who thinks he's a woman) gave away national secrets, so of course Putin loves him. But so might Obama who apparently loves anyone who doesn't love the USA--the Castros are the first to come to mind, but there are others.

Snowden and his leftist supporters have been actively campaigning for a pardon from Obama but his name did not appear on a list of pardons that have been prepared. He has been stuck in Moscow since 2013 after he tried to fly to Latin America but was stopped in his tracks after providing information revealing surveillance and data collection programs operated by the NSA.

Josh Earnest was asked about why Snowden and Manning were being treated differently and he said that was because Manning is a transgender person who has been punished enough. 

Just kidding. What he really said was that the documents leaked by Snowden were "far more serious and far more dangerous" than those Manning disclosed. This, of course, is a lie. Both individuals compromised US intelligence and in Manning's case, people in covert operations likely died and others clearly had to be pulled from the field as their lives were compromised by the disclosures of names and identifying information. In fact, the Taliban went on a "killing spree" based on Manning's information.

Snowden is just a scum who needs to be incarcerated for violating the Espionage Act. Manning, of course, should not only not be released, as Obama is doing, but should have probably received a much more harsh punishment due to the fact that our nation is and was at war when the document dump to WikiLeaks was done by him.

I don't think Obama will pardon Snowden, nor should he, but if he does, it will be yet another slap in the face. 

Sadly, I wouldn't put it past him.

Two more days and he's out of the White House on yet another taxpayer paid vacation after coming back just days ago from his last one.

Sad!


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Lyin' James Clapper submits his resignation

James Clapper, the director of national intelligence said that he has formally submitted his resignation.

It's a common practise for those in the outgoing administration to formally put in their letter of resignation knowing that the President-elect will likely select a person who sees "eye-to-eye" with him (it could have been 'her' but Hillary lost and it gives me a fine feathered feeling of schadenfreude).

Clapper has said long ago that he would call it quits at the end of the Obama error and told the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday that he submitted the letter of resignation.

Committee members joshed him in earnes and asked him to stay on for mayber four more years, but the comical Clapper said his wife would probably have a problem with that.

Before serving as director, Clapper was a lieutenant general in the Air Force and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

You may remember Clapper as the liar at the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing when Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) asked him: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"

Clapper: "No sir."

Sen. Wyden, sounding totally incredulous asked: "It does not?"

Clapper: "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertantly perhaps collect, but not wittingly."

Clapper was given this question a whole day in advance of the hearing and this was how he responded. When the hearing completed, Clapper was even given the chance to change his answer but he opted not to do so.

Of course, this was a lie as whistleblower comrade Edward Snowden revealed to the world that the NSA had a secret program to collect tens of millions of American's phone records, web browsing histories, chat logs and email usage. They even collected physical locations.

When forced to acknowledge his remarks as "erroneous" (aka lying through his tooth), Clapper claimed he "misunderstood" the question, in spite of having it given to him a day in advance. He claimed he had simply "forgotten" the relevant section of the Patriot Act convering these programs.

I'm not a big fan.



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Clapper Simply Forgot

Should the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, be forced to take an intelligence test or be diagnosed for Alzheimer's Disease?

Winner of Ed Rollins Look-alike Contest

Based on the fact that two years ago he supposedly "forgot" that the huge data collection program of the NSA existed, I would say yes, analyze the guy.

You remember the hearings when he scratched his forehead as he answered the question regarding whether or not the agency collected data on millions of Americans. 

Before Edward Snowden leaked the damning information about the program, Clapper told the Senate committee in answer to the question, "Not wittingly."

Clapper supposedly forgot the program of data collection even existed. If this is true, then we should all be scared about who's in charge of our nation's security. If it's simply a lie, then we should all be scared about who's in charge of our nation's security.

Robert Litt, the DNI's general counsel, was the person who revealed Clapper's "memory lapse." Litt said that Clapper wasn't lying, "It was perfectly clear that he had absolutely forgotten the existence of the 215 program."

He also forgot his car keys and had to take the bus home.



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Coincidences and Coverups

Ahmed Abu Khatalla is captured after 2 years since his involvement with the Benghazi 911 attack that killed our ambassador and 3 Americans. Hillary Clinton gets interviewed by Fox News Network practically at the same time we learn of this. Coincidence?

The IRS loses 2 years of emails that would have clarified the involvement of Lois Lerner and perhaps Barack Obama in the scandal that targeted conservative groups, keeping them from obtaining their tax exempt status. Then 6 more IRS officials had "the dog eat their emails."  Another coincidence?

Obama trades 5 Taliban terrorists for a lowly Army deserter. This happens at the same time when he is planning to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Now there's talk of him releasing scores more of these dangerous thugs. Yet another coincidence?

We had the Fast and Furious scandal, Benghazi, Bergdahl, Solyndra, the IRS, AP, NSA, James Rosen, and the New Black Panthers voting suppression scandal, lest we forget. One administration, so many "phony scandals." 

We have to ask ourselves the question: what are the chances we will ever get the hard evidence, the communications, emails and the like, about these scandals? Probably about as much chance as catching Jay Carney being totally truthful about Obama.

According to the Associated Press, the Obama administration last year cited "national security" 8,496 times to withhold information requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This is a 57% increase from the previous year. In fact, 36% of FOIA requests made in 2013 were either censored or denied, and in 196,034 other occasions, the "dog ate the homework" excuse was used--that is, they simply could not find the records requested.

So "the most transparent administration ever" is exactly the opposite of that claim. It should give you pause to wonder what other lies have they told, and what are they not telling us.






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Looking Back at Nothing

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas Day yesterday and you all feel at peace in your life. As the year comes to an end next week, I look back at all that has taken place and realize that what's more relevant to what has taken place is that which has not taken place. Let me explain.

Flushings of the Day

Killed for the fun of it

I wonder what Al Sharpton does when blacks aren't being killed by white people. I wonder if he ever thinks about Tawana Brawley and the six white men she falsely accused of raping her. Does he ever think of Steven Pagones who was awarded $345 thousand for being falsely accused? And does he ever think of the Australian, Yankel Rosenbaum, an Hasidic Jew that was murdered at a riot Sharpton encouraged? Probably not, based on his overt anti-Semitic remarks. But MSNBC knew who he was when they hired him.

NSA: Redefining Abortion

The National Security Agency (NSA) has violated the US Constitution around a thousand times every year since Barack Obama has been president. An internal audit and a handful of Top Secret documents delineated how the NSA put US citizens under surveillance and foreign intelligence targets within the USA. In order to do this within the law, an executive order and statute are required, neither of which were obtained in the cases cited. There were other violations that were referred to as office typographical errors that resulted in phone call and email interceptions. Oops.

I'm All Trayvonned Out

I'm getting all Trayvonned out. The black community has followed PMSNBC's influence and has made George Zimmerman into a racist, cold-blooded child killer; it's ridiculous. First of all, there was no evidence that Zimmerman is a racist because if there was even a tiny shred of evidence in his past, if like Paula Deen, he used the "N" word any time in his past, all the way back to the cradle, the prosecution would have used it against him. But they had nothing to use.

Trayvon Zimmerman Morsi and Concomitant Scandals

Says he was overpowered by Trayvon

The country is focused on the Zimmerman trial. The race hustlers are upset that the prosecution is now saying that it isn't about race anymore; it's about profiling. Of course, the profiling they're talking about may actually have something to do with race--that's why they call it racial profiling. But I don't mean to cast aspersions on anyone. Now the case is in its second week and it seems that the witnesses called by the prosecution are actually benefitting the defense.