Feds Storm John Bolton’s Home and Office in Classified Docs Crackdown

The feds just turned John Bolton's world upside down. Early this morning, FBI agents kicked in the door, figuratively, I assume, at Bolton's Bethesda, Maryland, home and his D.C. office, tearing through both in a hunt for classified documents. Yes, you heard that right: the guy who spent years preaching about national security is now in the crosshairs of a federal probe. Sources say agents are convinced Bolton’s still got sensitive docs stashed somewhere, and they're not playing games.

Fox News Digital caught agents hauling boxes out of Bolton's D.C. office, with the man himself spotted in the lobby looking like he just swallowed a lemon. "NO ONE is above the law…
@FBI agents on mission," tweeted FBI Director Kash Patel, dropping a not-so-subtle hint about the raid without naming names. 

Deputy Director Dan Bongino piled on, retweeting Patel and adding, "Public corruption will not be tolerated." Attorney General Pam Bondi didn't hold back either, warning, "America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always." 

Sounds like the Trump-era crew is out for blood.

This entire situation stems from intel provided by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who gave Patel just enough juice to justify the search warrant. One source, dripping with sarcasm, told the outlet, "I can't give you any more details than that, but let's just say that John Bolton really had some nerve to attack Trump over his handling of classified information."

Now, let's rewind. 

Bolton, Trump's National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019, has been a thorn in the side of just about everyone. His 2020 memoir, 'The Room Where It Happened', caused a firestorm when the Trump DOJ tried to block it, claiming it was packed with classified info, think U.S. intelligence sources, foreign policy pow-wows, and chats with world leaders. A federal judge let the book hit shelves anyway, and the Biden DOJ later dropped both a criminal probe and a civil suit against Bolton in 2021, calling it quits after a senior NSC official supposedly cleared the book of any classified material. Bolton's lawyer at the time swore up and down that the memoir was clean after a four-month review. 

But there's more. The probe into Bolton's handling of classified docs was apparently shelved by Biden's team "for political reasons" according to a senior U.S. official. Now, with Trump back in the game, it's open season again. And let's not forget the irony: Bolton had the gall to slam Trump over his classified docs mess, which led to the 2022 Mar-a-Lago raid and a 40-count indictment (later tossed in July 2024). Pot, meet kettle.

Bolton, of course, is no stranger to the spotlight. The hawkish ex-advisor, who served as U.N. ambassador under George W. Bush, has been both a Trump cheerleader and critic. He called Trump’s 2022 strike on Iran's nuclear facilities "a decisive action" and "the right thing to do," predicting "huge change in the Middle East." 

But he also trashed Trump's competence and character, saying in 2022 that the guy didn't have what it takes to sit in the Oval Office. Trump, never one to stay quiet, fired back, booting Bolton in 2019 over "strong" policy disagreements and later yanking his Secret Service detail amid Iranian death threats. Savage.

When Fox News Digital called Bolton's office for comment, a staffer chirped, "Have a nice day," and slammed the phone down. Meanwhile, agents were spotted loading bags and boxes into vehicles outside both Bolton's home and office, with one image showing an FBI agent lugging a box like it's evidence Christmas.

So, what's the deal? Is Bolton hoarding state secrets, or is this just political payback? One thing's for sure: when the feds come knocking at 7 a.m., it's going to be a bad day. 

Meanwhile, the Clintons have gone scot free.

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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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"No TikTok state ban for me, only for thee" Dem gov implies

Frau Whitmer

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) is the female version of South Park's Cartman: she does what she wants. But if you try it, you're in a world of trouble.

Michigan has banned the Communist Chinese-owned app TikTok on March 1st, on state-owned devices, but that doesn't stop Whitmer from flipping off the ban when it comes to herself.

“It is banned for state devices,” Jayson Cavendish, Michigan’s acting chief security officer, said in an interview with the MLive media group.

So TikTok is not allowed to be on state-owned devices except for Frau Whitmer's, which is the most state owned a state owned device can be.

The ban applies to all state-owned devices except for Whitmer, a [hypocrite], and for purposes of promotion, law enforcement, and cybersecurity, MLive reported.

Cavendish also noted, according to MLive, that Whitmer’s TikTok account “is accessed on a secure device that has never been on the state’s network, nor connected to the state’s wireless environment.”

Like most Democrat governors and others on the left, the rules don't apply to them, only to the peons who pay their salaries. So during the pandemic travel bans, Mr. Whitmer attempted to travel in order to take out his boat. The Landshark Bar & Grill in East Lansing where Gretchen sat with a large group of Democrats in violation of her own COVID-19 policies wasn't a problem as she saw it because hey, she's the governor. 

Gov. Newsom (D-CA) was with a dozen people at an expensive restaurant known as The French Laundry. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the very attractive Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot (D) had their hair done at a salon when establishments such as those were ordered to remain closed. 

Back to Whitmer.

Since the ban, Whitemer has posted on TikTok many times, as late as last Thursday, because she's special.

“It’s a state of Michigan device, but it follows the guidelines that are in place for the exceptions,” said Bobby Leddy, a spokesman for the governor’s office. “And the exceptions are for any department that feels that they need it for their job to convey with the public, or for investigative purposes.”

I think it's time the public reacts to this elitist crap at the ballot box. However, most Democrats don't generally know who or what they're voting for. As Nancy Pelosi pointed out [and I paraphrase]: if a turd shaped like the letter "D" ran against any Republican in her state, the turd would win."

This seems to be a proven fact.

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Pelosi's former neighbor always saw security at the Pelosi mansion

If you feel the case of the Pelosi hammer incident has a similar feeling of information cloaking as the Jeffrey Epstein "suicide," you are not alone. In fact, the invasion-beating of Nancy Pelosi's husband has one of her former neighbors scratching their head.

Marjorie Campbell, the former neighbor was very surprised about the alleged break-in and attack. She spoke with the Daily Mail who reported the conversation on Tuesday.

Campbell described the round-the-clock presence of a security detail outside Pelosi's home in which a 42-year-old illegal alien, who lives in a bus that has a gay pride flag and a BLM sign, was charged with entering Pelosi's home and beating Paul Pelosi with a hammer Friday morning. He supposedly asked "where is Nancy" indicating an intent of hammering the Speaker herself.

So where was security? What about the cameras? What really happened to Jeffrey Epstein? Was this entire debacle an attempt of a tryst gone wrong? Who killed JR? Lots of questions, no concrete answers.

‘There were black cars outside that house, particularly up on Normandie Terrace, all of the time,” Campbell said, citing her knowledge as Pelosi's neighbor.

 “When she was there, there certainly was a huge presence. And my impression was that the house was constantly monitored.”

Nancy Pelosi and her dancing hands weren’t in town on the night of the home invasion.

San Francisco Police ultimately responded to the scene after Paul Pelosi called 911 from a phone inside a bathroom. When they arrived, they found suspect David DePape struggling with the 82-year-old Pelosi over a hammer.

Ms. Campbell, who moved away from San Francisco to Utah where crime is somewhat less frequent, said that even when the Speaker was not at home there was still a security detail present outside the residence.

“I don’t distinguish between her being there and not being there. There were always multiple cars.”

Campbell was a neighbor of the Pelosis on San Francisco’s Broadway Street for ten years, according to the Daily Mail.

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Campbell described the Pelosi family’s security measures as so stringent that they interfered with her own electronic devices.

“There was monitoring equipment to make sure that residents couldn’t be spied on remotely from any place in the neighborhood, which involved something that interfered with our computer,” Campbell recalled.

DePape is facing federal charges for an assault on the spouse of a federal official, according to the inept Department of Justice, and organization that has become an oxymoron under the current administration. 

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Pelosi: 'The border wall is immoral'

Nancy "Dancing Hands" Pelosi (D-Calif.) spoke and gestured at a press conference Thursday as she is yet again, the presumptive incoming Speaker of the House. She criticized the idea of having a border wall to protect U.S. sovereignty and enhance our ability to screen who comes into the country.

She said that a border wall is "immoral" when asked by a reporter about the chances that a Continuing Resolution (CR) passed by the House of Representatives might fund the project. Pelosi's incoherent response was that such funding is for "border security." She thinks a wall, like the one around her home for security, goes a step too far.

She waved her hands around as she searched her failing mind for the right words and spaketh in dentures and tongues:

". . . most of us, speaking for myself, consider the wall immoral, ineffective, expensive, and the president said he promised it. He also promised Mexico would pay for it. So, even if they did, it's immoral still . . .

"We have a responsibility, all of us, to secure our borders – north, south, and coming in by plane...and that's a responsibility we honor, but we do so by honoring our values as well."

And let us never forget that even those coming here illegally who belong to MS-13 or other gangs, or have criminal records, DUI's, drug crimes, and other felonies, still have a spark of that good ole "Pelosi divinity."

The battle over the wall, a campaign promise of a southern border wall, hit a fever pitch as the House and Senate on Thursday passed a stopgap spending bill, [as has become a political habit], in order to continue funding the government and avoid a shutdown. Both parties have until December 21 to devise a budget plan.

Democratic leaders were supposed to meet with President Trump this week, but the meeting had to be rescheduled following the death of former President George H.W. Bush and a funeral that would make a king blush if he weren't dead.

The meeting will now take place on Tuesday morning.

I know of one way we can save some spending that can then be redirected for the wall: stop funding Planned Parenthood! That should have been done when Trump first sat in the Oval Office and the House and Senate had a GOP majority.

On Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck "Meganostrils" Schumer (D-NY) echoed Pelosi's feelings about a border wall, whining:

"As everyone knows, Democrats have offered to pass the bipartisan DHS appropriations bill, agreed to six months ago, which includes $1.6 billion for border security.

"Now there has been some confusion about that figure. Let me be clear: the $1.6 billion cannot be used to construct any part of President Trump’s 30-foot-tall concrete border wall. It can only be used for fencing, using technology currently deployed at the border, and only where the experts say fencing is appropriate and makes sense as a security feature. This is something Democrats have always been for – smart, effective, appropriate border security.

"This is so good that every Republican appropriator signed off on that bill a few months ago, including Leader McConnell, Senator Shelby, Senator Rubio, and Senator Graham. They were all for it. This is a bipartisan compromise proposal. Now if they cannot go for that, the proposal they signed off on and negotiated, because President Trump is pounding on the table in an irrational way, there’s a second option."

Time is running out for the GOP's power options. They have until January 3rd to get something done. Trump needs to put his tweeting on hold long enough to get things done--even if it's just defunding PP.

And forget Mexico--ain't gonna happen.

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John Brennan lies like a Persian rug

It's almost laughable that former CIA director John Brennan wants to sue the Trump administration because the president took away his security clearance. But let's not kid ourselves, it's totally laughable.

Brennan is as believable as a Stormy Daniels climax.

Let's look at his history.

In 2011 Brennan swore to Congress that scores of drones abroad have not killed even one noncombatant; not one civilian, only the bad guys. But both Brennan and Barack Obama received many reports of civilian deaths.

Perhaps he was under presidential orders to lie, but it's still a lie and if that was the case, it also makes Obama culpable as a liar. But we knew that long ago.

In 2012, Brennan released information about having a double agent in Yemen, which put the agent in jeopardy.

As CIA director in 2014, Brennan swore to Congress that the CIA never illegally accessed the computers of U.S. Senate staffers who just so happened to be looking into the CIA's role in the torturing of detainees.

In fact, Brennan told Andrea Mitchell: "As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth . . . "We wouldn't do that. I mean, that's just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do."

Even the Democrats were angry at him and called for his resignation. And it was only after months of his lies, when the CIA's inspector general report was released, did Brennan apologize to the senators he spied on because he got caught.

In May 2017, Brennan most likely lied to Congress when questioned by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC).

Brennan said that he had no idea who commissioned the Christopher Steele dossier and lied again when he claimed that the CIA did not rely on that dossier for action on the Russia investigation. But retired NSA director Michael Rogers and former director of the National Intelligence Agency James Clapper, both admitted the dossier, along with the knowledge that it was a Clinton campaign-funded product, absolutely did help shape the Obama's intelligence community interagency assessments and actions, often with the push by Brennan.

There are many reports that, while he denied knowledge about the dossier, he was a covert conduit to ensure it was widely disseminated, as evidenced in the meeting he had with Sen. Harry Reid in August 2016.

Brennan briefed Reid on the dossier's unverified content in hopes Reid would pressure the FBI to dig deeper in the investigations which Reid actually did two days later with a call he made to James Comey.

Now Brennan is complaining that taking away his security clearance will silence him. Ironically, he hasn't shut up about this since Trump yanked it from him. He threatened to take legal action, but if he does, he will be exposed as the security risk and mentally deranged Communist-voting scumcrumpet that he is.


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Nine CNBC crew arrested for fake bomb plot

Nine failed fake bomb-plotters of a CNBC news crew were arrested Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to the TSA. The network thought they could sneak a fake explosive device through a security checkpoint but they got nailed.

Perhaps the liberal cable network was trying to show how the real problem wasn't immigration, but instead, airport security.

A law enforcement source said the team was filming for CNBC, which is based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Names of the idiots arrested were not released, and the Port Authority only said that it was investigating the incident.

One source said the fake bomb was a length of PVC pipe with wires protruding from it. A TSA bomb tech determined the device posed no threat, only an incredible inconvenience for workers and travelers. 

May the CNBC crew rot in prison with no chance for parole. Okay, okay, that's a bit over the top.

A third source said the crew was from the Endemol Shine Group based in the Netherlands and contracts with CNBC. Endemol is the production company behind MasterChef and The Biggest Loser.  Now nine of their crew are the biggest losers.

"We are looking into the details of what happened as a matter of priority and are in contact with relevant authorities on the ground. While this process is ongoing, we are unable to comment further, but in the meantime, we sincerely apologize for any disruption caused," said Julie Holland, a spokeswoman with an ironic last name for the Dutch company.

The law enforcement source said the crew would probably be charged by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office with creating a false public alarm, conspiracy and interference with transportation, but that Essex County would make that determination.

Alex Jones likely believes it was a "dry-run" and that the Netherlands is planning an attack on the United States mainland.

The TSA said the group "attempted to intentionally carry through the security checkpoint an item in a carry-on bag that had all of the makings of an improvised explosive device. At the same time, others in the group covertly filmed the encounter" [possibly to assist Islamic extremists in planning future attacks by showing security 'soft points'].

"The preliminary investigation indicates that all were in collaboration and claimed to be working for a television network," Lisa Farbstein, acting director of media relations wrote in the news release. "The group did not make it past the checkpoint because TSA officers detected the item, which was concealed in a roller bag."

The group faces civil penalties of up to $13,000 for each security violation in addition to criminal charges, which is as likely as Hillary Clinton or James Comey going to the slammer for their illegal activities.


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Senate report warns of national security fallout from leaks

A Senate report released Thursday warns that the Trump administration is experiencing an "alarming" and "unprecedented" scads of media leaks that pose a real danger to national security.

The Republican-generated report estimates the administration has dealt with about one leak per day. It was sent to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and urges law enforcement officials to press harder in their investigation of these leaks exposing potentially sensitive information.

"To ensure the security of our country's most sensitive information, federal law enforcement officials ought to thoroughly investigate leaks of potentially sensitive information flowing at an alarming rate," the report's executive summary read.

The 24-page report, titled "State Secrets: How an Avalanche of Media Leaks is Harming National Security," was compiled by Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), along with the committee's majority staff.

The report authors analyzed media leaks that began on Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration to May 25, his 126th day in office. In that time period, the Trump administration faced one leak per day involving potentially destructive information to national security under the standards laid out in an executive order by then-failed-President Barack Obama in 2009.

The leaked information is "potential violations of federal law, punishable by jail time."

The report notes that the leaks flowed "seven times faster" under Trump's administration than the first 126 days of both Obama and George W. Bush's presidency.

"It is also apparent that the arguments often used to justify leaks are at odds with the Trump administration--that leakers are bringing to light potentially illegality, unwise policies, or concerns about the President's temperament--have no legal basis," the report found.

A total of 78 leaks were about the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and potential collusion with the Trump campaign, revealing intelligence community intercepts, FBI interviews and intelligence, grand jury subpoenas, and "the workings of a secret surveillance court."

Some of the violations may fall under the Espionage Act, which are punishable by up to 10 years in prison--something that Hillary Clinton is apparently immune to.

A letter by Johnson to Sessions with the report said it's the "responsibility of the Justice Department" to decide if the leaks justify criminal prosecution.

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Berkeley students threaten to sue over Ann Coulter's right to speak

Students at the University of California at Berkeley are threatening to sue the school if they do not find the time and a proper venue for conservative commentator, Ann Coulter, to speak next week. 

All I can say is that it's about time.

Harmeet Dhillon (who doesn't sound at all like a privileged white guy) represents the Berkeley College Republicans. She wrote in a letter, sent Friday to UC Berkeley's Interim Vice Chancellor Stephen Sutton and chief attorney Christopher Patti, that if Coulter isn't allowed to give a speech on campus April 27th, she will file a lawsuit in federal court because the university is in violation of the student's constitutional right to free speech.

"It is a sad day indeed when the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, is morphing before our eyes into the cemetery of free speech on college campuses," she wrote.

According to school officials (aka fascists) told the Berkeley College Republicans on Tuesday and Bridge USA, a nonpartisan group which coordinated the event, that Coulter's speech was being cancelled due to security concerns.

Security concerns has become the liberal veto of conservative speech.

Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks (aka Comrade Dirks) said the police have "very specific intelligence regarding threats that could pose a grave danger to the speaker," her audience and protesters if the event goes ahead next Thursday.

Whatever happened to: "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to say it?"

School fascists offered the afternoon on May 2nd, when they can provide an "appropriate, protectable venue" because school is out that week--there are no classes at Berkeley the week of May 2nd. That week is known as Dead Week--a time when students are studying for final exams.

Coulter spoke on "Hannity" Thursday and said that "You cannot impose arbitrary and harassing restrictions on the exercise of a constitutional right. None of this has to do with security."

In the past, it seems quite probable that campus officials in schools across the country are telling campus police to 'stand down.' This past February, Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at Berkeley but rioters smashed windows, set fires and shut him down.

Just last week, the Berkeley College Republicans said threats of violence forced the cancellation of a speech by David Horowitz, another conservative writer. 

Charles Murray's speech appearance at Middlebury also saw riots in March and Heather Mac Donald, who wrote The War on Cops, was to speak at Claremont McKenna College but protesters blocked the door of the venue. She streamed the speech online in spite of that.

We have become a divided nation, thanks in large part to the last administration, race baiters and far-left fascists who refuse to allow free speech to exist. These aren't merely snowflakes, they are socialists whose strings are pulled by people such as George Soros.

And it looks like it's going to have to get far worse before it gets better.


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60 percent of French population don't feel safe anywhere

The majority of French people aren't trusting of their nation's security situation with a full 60 percent saying they no longer feel safe anywhere. 

In a IFOP-FIDUCIAL poll, it found that 93 percent of the French believe the threat of future terror attacks is high; and 71 percent feel that security in France has worsened over the last five years.

Broadly speaking, 59 percent said they didn't feel safe anywhere, with about 24 percent saying they "strongly agree" with the statement.

The survey also discussed security measures and it found that 69 percent believe the police and gendarmerie are understaffed. It also found that the French overwhelmingly have a positive view of law enforcement.

A small majority (55 percent) wold like France out of the European Union's open borders Schengen zone.

A majority of French nationals (fully 88 percent) believe France should deport foreigners sentenced to prison for serious crimes, and 84 percent want the increase in prison places.

The French found Marine Le Pen to be judged the candidate with the best policies in keeping people and property safe (32 percent) and in the fight against Islamic extremism (35 percent).

With the loss of Geert Wilders for Prime Minister of the Netherlands, and his strong stance on Islamic terrorism, it appears that people have gone back to the thinking of 9-10, not 9-11. If France has not gone back, Le Pen has an excellent chance of winning the election.


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Tis the terrorist season

Security forces across Western Europe are praying for silent nights and peaceful days. To assist in that endeavor they have been rounding up terror suspects throughout the month of December, the most hated month by Islamic extremists.

The concern is that the Christian/Jew-hating Muslim extremists may launch holiday-timed attacks and intel has suggested there may be plans for just that in a number of countries.

Dozens of suspects have been arrested in recent weeks in the UK, Germany, France and other countries. Law-enforcement is trying to stop the attacks before they happen, and anyone with common sense knows that there is a good possibility a strike may occur around Christmas and Hanukkah.

About 30 people have been arrested since the start of the month for alleged involvement in terrorist activities. On Monday, 11 folks were arrested in France in connection with the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice.

In the UK, 6 Muslim folks were arrested on suspicion that they were getting ready to launch a terrorist attack.

In France, a Muslim gentleman was also arrested as a sixth suspect in a thwarted plot to attack a metropolitan area of Paris including the Champs Elysees and Disneyland Paris. The gentleman in question evidently enjoys killing children and may not actually be all that gentle.

In the Netherlands, a man was arrested with an AK-47 and two loaded magazines in his apartment.

In London, a man was arrested on suspicion that he was preparing a terrorist act at Stansted Airport.

In Sweden, a Syrian national on suspicion of terrorism was arrested for an October arson attack at a Shi'ite prayer room in Malmo.

Last Friday, two teens in Germany were arrested on suspicion of plotting an "Islamist-motivated" attack on a public institution near Aschaffenburg. An Afghan gentleman was also arrested earlier this month on suspicion of being a member of the Taliban.



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Hillary's maid had illegal access to secrets

It sounds like an SNL skit rather than something that actually happened in real life--nobody is that stupid or careless. 

Unless we're talking about then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

When she was secretary of state Clinton routinely had her maid print out sensitive and classified government emails and documents for her from her house in Washington D.C., emails and FBI memos show.

Her maid! 

Marina Santos might be a lovely lady but she lacked a security clearance at any level to handle such sensitive material. But she was called on so often that she may know more than the FBI about state secrets and E-mailgate.

Hillary Clinton expected the Filipino immigrant to handle state secrets in addition to her duties as housekeeper of Whitehaven, the name of her DC residence with obvious racist implications in the name if she had been a Republican. 

Clinton pays as much attention to national security matters as a hurricane does to leaving things tidy.

The way it worked was: Hillary would receive highly sensitive emails from top aides at the State Department and then request that the aides, in turn, forward those messages and attachments to Santos so that she could print them out at the home.

Santos printed out confidential memos and "call sheets" (background information and talking points for Hillary in advance of a phone call with a foreign head of state) and drafts of her speeches, among other things.

Clinton emailed Huma Weiner Abedin, her top aide, to "Pls ask Marina to print for me in am" a redacted 2011 message marked sensitive but unclassified.

But Marina did classified material too. In a classified 2012 email regarding the new president of Malawi, another Clinton top aide, Monica Hanley, told Clinton, "We can ask Marina to print this."

In an April 2012 classified email to Clinton from Hanley was the subject line: "Revisions to the Iran points." The text reads, "Marina is trying to print for you."

Marina Santos also had access to a highly secure room known as SCIF, or sensitive compartmented information facility. This was set up by diplomatic security agents at the Whitehaven residence, according to FBI notes from an Abedin interview.

From within the SCIF, Santos "collected documents from the secure facsimile machine for Clinton," the FBI notes revealed. This same fax machine periodically received the Presidential Daily Brief--a top-secret document prepared by the CIA and other US intelligence groups.

I can see Saturday Night Live doing the skit where Marina is handed the "Nuclear Football" by Obama and asked to clean it and give it back to him later.

But Clinton was never asked by the FBI over the year it sort of investigated her, to turn over the iMac Santos used to receive the emails, or the printer she used to do the printouts. And we later discovered that although Clinton destroyed 33,000 emails, copies in other locations still exist.

Maybe the FBI's latest policy is: "What we don't see won't hurt the country."

The more obvious truth is that the top brass at the Justice Department allegedly blocked the FBI from obtaining search warrants to collect the evidence that would implicate the Clintons.




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France wants to use the "Israeli model" to deal with jihadists

Paris -- In the aftermath of recent terrorist attacks in France, leaders there are calling for national unity in the face of "the war" that ISIS has waged on them. The recent killing of an 86-year-0ld priest, Fr. Hamel, has shown that terrorism can strike anywhere and at anytime, even in the jerkwater towns across France.

Many believe that voters will turn on President Francois Hollande, the current socialist in charge who they deem responsible for the anemic responses that have been shown after each horrific attack which are happening with greater regularity.

The new government is expected to call for new security measures to assuage the fears of the populace, as it did after the January and November attacks last year, and in Nice two weeks ago. They called for a state of emergency and that had been thrice extended. They called in military personnel to patrol streets and monitor sensitive locations (such as mosques, 'no-go' zones, and other Islamic hangouts). 

In addition, the government added to its clampdowns: provoking or apology for terrorist acts is now a criminal offense. A new category of "crimes of terrorist nature" was also created. This has reopened the debate regarding the appropriate balance between liberties and security. 

There are calls by people to "do something," which would allow police and the courts to impose more severe punishments on the perpetrators, or the plotters of terrorist acts before the act is committed, (because the perpetrators are often blown to tiny bite-size bits after an attack, or are killed by the police).

The former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was the first on Tuesday to make a statement asking the government to "implement without delay the measures [the conservative opposition] has been asking for months." He said the government ought to put an end to "legalese nitpicking," but that's what others describe as the rule of law.

The Socialist French government has done linguistic gymnastics insisting it would respect constitutional order, and not seeing the current "war" against ISIS (as referred to by Hollande) as a reason to suspend civil liberties. 

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls in his speech to Parliament last week asked for the state of emergency to be renewed. He said the government would "turn down the temptation to propose arbitrary measures or steps that would run counter to [France's] democratic and constitutional principles." The example he gave was how they resisted the conservative Les Repubicains party's calls for severe consequences for those with "direct or indirect connections" with terrorist groups, either by expelling foreigner or interning French citizens.

The French have recently been discussing at length the Israeli model, which is based on a clear awareness of the risk of a terror attack on the population. It calls for armed patrols in pubic transports and systematic controls at entrance points of public places.

That sounds like it reduces individual freedoms but in reality, it allows people to feel more secure in attending public events. 

Francois Heisbourg, special adviser at France's Strategic Research Foundation, said "It seems clear to me the Israeli model is the direction we should be moving towards." Heisbourg is also a former adviser to Socialist governments and has co-authored several government papers on terrorism. He has publicly called Hollande's response to terror attacks "inefficient and laughable" in terms of intelligence and prevention.

"We have to move to a life where you can't carry backpacks in public spaces, where bags are seriously and systematically searched, not by tired employees who only take a quick look," Heisbourg said.

Personally, I'd rather go to an event where I go through a metal detector, for example, and backpacks aren't allowed. That would give me the freedom to go where I might otherwise not want to take the chance.

One security firm head, who wished to remain anonymous, raised doubts about the Israeli model. "Do we want closed terrestrial borders and to bring back the draft?" he asked.

Yes, if that's the only thing it would take to combat Islamic terrorism. The security firm talking head did not offer an alternative and I doubt he has any constructive ideas.

But it's Francois Hollande who faces the political fallout next year when he's up for re-election. With every new terrorist attack, his chances of winning another term diminish.

That's a good thing.


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Europe Sort of Readies for More Jihadist Attacks

European security officials are preparing for terrorist attacks by the religion of peace, a religion whose idea of peace is when there is no opposition left to disturb their peace. They are specifically worried about public places where large numbers of infidels gather, such as sports stadiums, music concerts (music is prohibited in Islam) and other venues where girls, and others, just wanna have fun.

France officials are preparing for attacks against the european Football Championships which begin June 10th, and comprise 51 matches among 24 teams playing in 10 host cities across the land of the dead Muhammad satirists.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that over 90,000 security personnel will be assigned to protect the 2.5 million infidel spectators expected to be at the games, and hundreds of thousands watching "Jumbo-trons" in areas known as "fan zones" in major cities.

The head of France's domestic intelligence agency, Patrick Calvar said "We know that the Islamic State is planning new attacks in France. We risk being confronted with a new form of attack, a terrorist campaign characterized by placing explosive devices in places where large crowds are gathered, and repeating this type of action to create a climate of panic."

Calvar believes that at least 645 French nationals or residents, 245 of whom are women, are with ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Another 200 are in transit, either on their way to the Middle East or returning to France.   At least 244 jihadists have already returned to France.

If they are allowed to return, then France will get the coveted International Idiot Award, currently held by Germany. The spoiler hopeful, Donald Trump, may ruin our chances of winning the award if elected POTUS as he will stop Muslim immigration "until we know what's going on."

Around 23,000 police will be assigned to protecting the Tour de France and will be taking steroids to enhance their ability to perform their jobs.

The laptop of Salah Abdeslam, the scumcrumpet who lost his nerve when it came to becoming a martyr, had information and photos on it that showed an Islamic State plot to attack British football fans in the southern France city of Marseille when England plays Russia on June 11th.

Spoil sports.

British police are mostly unarmed, which makes perfect sense if you're suicidal and view impotence as sexy. If ISIS attacks, they will retaliate with strong admonishments and perhaps tell on them to their mothers.

British police chiefs are having a hard time recruiting police officers who are willing to carry a firearm because liberals will treat them as criminals if they have to use them in the line of duty. 

We are our own worst enemy.


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Proof that men are better at math

An American Airlines flight was delayed two hours because a woman thought her seat mate might be a terrorist.

Guido Menzio, an Ivy League professor of economics was working on a mathematical problem for a presentation he was preparing to give at Queens University, in Kingston, Ontario. 

The woman left the flight, claiming to feel ill, but then went to report that she believed the man she sat next to was a terrorist. Casey Norton, an American Airlines spokesman said the allegations about the math professor was not deemed credible, because math by itself is harmless.

Menzio was working on a differential equation, something beyond the pale of the idiot seat mate. The guy was not doing the "Allahu Akbar Shuffle" and wasn't even from the Middle East. He's an award-winning economist from Italy.

Relax, lady.

And since when do terrorists write stuff before blowing themselves up? It would be a waste of paper.

Menzio told the media that he was troubled by the woman's ignorance and also felt the security was "bazzo." 

"Issa no wondera Bernie Sanders issa doing so well. You people are 'stupido come lo sporco.'


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Zuckerberg armed to the teeth with protection

"When you're famous, like me, you can't spend enough on personal security. I mean, people want me dead. ISIS wants to cut my freaking head off. It's scary. I'm scared. I'm worried and I'm going to protect myself, even though I'm anti-gun for the common man. I'm not common and I'm not going down without a fight (by my bodyguards). 

These are not the actual words of Facebook founder and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, but his actual uncensored thoughts picked up by a mind reading device I got on EBay for a great price.

The Zuckster spent $7.8 million for protection in 2014 and $6.5 million last year. The total amount of money his company has paid to keep him from being "offed" is around $19 million. 

The Facebook CEO is scared, very scared, and has no less than 16 big strong people protecting his rich butt at his California home.

But who can blame him? He has been threatened by ISIS and others whose FB privacy settings were allegedly messed with.

He doesn't fly on public airlines but has FB pay for private jets, security cameras, alarms, parachutes, safe spaces in buildings he visits, and earmuffs given to him by his mom.

Nobody knows the actual number of legal firearms Zuckerberg has to protect him, but like others who hate the Second Amendment, he's a scaredy cat hypocrite.


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Trump stands behind his unconstitutional words

One of the most disturbing things about president Obama is his flagrant circumventing of the Constitution in order to get what he wants. For example, he would love it if all of the guns in America were confiscated and thrown in the trash heap, which, of course, goes against our Second Amendment.

Obama is an ideologue and a socialist who is intolerant to other ideologies that conflict with his. 

He calls an American's right to challenge Islamic ideology a hate crime, which is actually a thought crime when you come down to it.

 He has no problem with anyone lampooning Christianity, or with derogatory "art" like the ""Piss Jesus," and he certainly doesn't talk about the disproportionate number of "hate crimes" against the Jews, which is the highest of any group. But say anything against Islam and he goes "all Mohammad" over you.

He and Attorney General Loretta Lynch want to keep you from exercising your First Amendment right of freedom of expression. When it comes to discussing the problems we are seeing in America with radical Muslims who want to kill us, you better be careful what you say.

When it comes to immigration, the U.S. Constitution has nothing to say about non-Americans insofar as their rights are concerned. They are not protected by the Constitution to enter this country and we should have final say as a majority if they are to be allowed in.

In spite of this, Obama wants to bring in thousands of Syrians, people who ISIS promised to blend with and infiltrate into the U.S. in order to kill us. The majority of Americans disapprove of this move, including many Democrats. 

But Obama's ideology trumps the majority.

So Americans are angry and frustrated. There used to be a time when the majority ruled in the nation's decision-making, but now it seems we have a monarch who does what fits his ideology. 

Enter Donald Trump.

Mr. Trump is saying things that angry, frustrated Americans feel deeply about--the need to protect our country by doing whatever it takes. Americans feel they have little or no voice to do that, so Trump has become that voice. His anger is our anger.

The Republican presidential candidate said that his plan to protect us would be to shut the door on Muslims and not allow them entry to the United States. The plan would include refugees, tourists and possibly Muslim Americans returning from trips abroad.

Really?

Americans with passports are not to be denied entry back to America. Period. 

If you deny Americans this Constitutional right, then what right will you decide to deny them in the future? It is no different than taking away our Second Amendment right to own a gun, or our First Amendment right to speak our mind.

But Trump, when challenged, doubled down on his plan.

"We have no idea who is coming into our country, no idea if they like us or hate us," he told supporters in South Carolina. "I wrote something today that is very salient .  .  .  and probably not very politically correct, but I don't care."

We love that Trump isn't politically correct. And he's absolutely correct in saying that we don't know who is coming into our country; those are the people who need to be denied access, not Muslim Americans.

We need to do a better job discovering our security threats. We know many are home-grown, but many come across our porous borders. We certainly don't need to welcome them with open arms from Syria and other Muslim nations. Therefore, we need to stop being politically correct, just like Donald Trump.

However, as conservatives we need to care if we are honest in our belief that the U.S. Constitution is the greatest document ever penned for any nation on earth. If we believe that, then we need to follow it.

But I also know that we are at war with radical Islam.

I am not at all suggesting that we allow non-Americans, particularly those people from Muslim nations, to come into our country. They cannot be accurately vetted and we shouldn't trust the information Islamic countries would provide to us as part of the vetting process.

I agree with Trump on not allowing refugees in--I don't trust strangers who belong to the same religion that clearly sees itself as superior and wants a world caliphate--but if you keep American Muslims from re-entering the country, you are doing nothing different than what Islam does to Christians and Jews. 

It's wrong. It creates more enemies than the security it provides. It is not smart.

When Trump calls for sweeping proposals to create a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," the condemnation he gets from jihadist-supporting groups like CAIR, appears to have some credibility. 

You never want to give Muslim Brotherhood associated groups any credibility.

Trump has lots of appeal because he appeals to our anger and fears. His words are tough, but I don't believe he has thought things out completely. 

Yes, we  need to "bomb the shit out of ISIS," as he said. We definitely need to win the war against Islamic terrorism. But to win it, we need to be as smart as we are tough, and alienating an entire religion (I use the term 'religion' loosely) is not a winning strategy.

We need a strategy because Obama doesn't have one.


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Closing the barn door after the plane takes off

Why is it that we wait until after the horse runs away to close the barn door?

Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh airport has more security gaps than SpongeBob's teeth. Their baggage screening device doesn't often work, their security personnel don't want to offend passengers by searching them, and there are no plans to change the old scanners. In fact, to save power, the scanners are often unplugged. And while the Obama folks may like the idea of keeping the planet green, I think it's a bad idea in this climate of Islamic terror plaguing the planet.

The October 31 explosion about the Russian airbus that occurred 23 minutes after leaving Sharm el-Sheikh airport makes my point. All 224 people on board were killed, and it's still suspected that a bomb inside the plane cause the "man-made disaster" as Obama would call it with all the PC he can muster.

Russia has since stopped flights to and from the Egyptian airport until security is secured.

Interestingly enough, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said British officials evaluated the airport 10 months ago in cooperation with Egyptian officials, and these idiots were satisfied with the results.

I wonder how satisfied these British officials were when a missile came within 1000 feet of a British airliner in the same airspace the Russian jet was flying when it exploded. They made the ridiculous claim that it was an Egyptian military accident. I doubt that based on the proximity of the missile's path to the plane.

Now the British Transportation Secretary Patrick McLoughlin suggested that the baggage check-in screening process was insufficient, telling the BBC that it imposed its own added checks on its flights "because we weren't wholly satisfied with the way screening had been done."

The barn door is now closed for your safety and security, they're saying.

Officials are blaming what happened at Sharm el-Sheikh airport on "human stupidity" because the scanner operators didn't use the 10-year-old equipment properly.One of the airport officials who anonymously spoke with Fox News said "We only care about appearances. Once they (higher-ups) hear something is coming, suddenly everything gets fixed . . . We wish we had visits every day."

Other officials claims that the scanner was only used selectively and arbitrarily. Is that being Islamophobic?

Charter planes are flying to the resort airport to return stranded passengers home to Russia and Britain. But passengers must leave their baggage back because they still don't have the confidence to ensure that the luggage will not explode midair.

Several ground crew are now being placed under surveillance, which seems to be another "barn door" tactic.

Why weren't any of these measures in place before tragedy struck?

Israel does it right. In an interesting article by Daniel Wagner entitled: What Israeli Airport Security Can Teach the World, the security at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport is discussed. They don't wait for the horse to run away before closing the door.

A combination of diligence, common sense, and consistency are key. Unfortunately, any one or combination of all three elements are usually lacking in our airports throughout the world.

All vehicles arriving at Ben Gurion must go through a preliminary checkpoint where armed guards search the vehicle, exchange some conversation with the driver and passengers to gauge their mood and intentions.

Vehicles are subject to weight sensors and trunk x-ray as well as an undercarriage scan.

Plainclothes officers patrol outside the terminal building. Sophisticated cameras work 24/7 to assist.

Armed security personnel patrol inside the terminal and watch closely those entering the building. Suspicious people, or those who appear anxious, are approached and engaged in conversation.

Departing passengers are questioned by highly-trained security agents, not by people whose goal is to go home to keep up with the Kardashians. The interview process can be as short as a minute to as long as an hour, based on factors like age, race, religion or destination.

There are no fancy x-ray machines or shoes to be removed, but rather, traditional metal detectors are used along with common sense. Security is focused on the human factor, not political correctness or the need to be "cosmetic" about security in order to make people feel safe, rather than making them safe.

Checked-in baggage is put into a pressurized chamber that will set off any explosive device before being put aboard the plane.

Security is not sub-contracted out to private companies and staff are highly trained army graduates with special skills in detection and interrogation. Passenger security increases in scrutiny as people arrive closer to the plane.

In spite of all this, nothing is perfect, but Israel's airport security is as close as it comes .

Nothing is left to chance. The barn doors are nailed shut.




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Hillary: a clear and present danger

First she thought you possibly had to wipe a server clean with a cloth, now she's saying that all those pesky classification rules are the real problem. Not her obvious poor judgment of putting government business on her private server in a Colorado bathroom, but the fact that she had to know and understand all those difficult rules when dealing with classified, secret and top secret information.

Claiming ignorance is an Obama tactic. While it usually works for him, it doesn't seem to be working for Hillary, and it goes with the old saying, "ignorance of the law is no excuse."

 

Hillary ClintonVerified account‏@HillaryClinton

From a former @TheJusticeDept official: “Our ridiculous classification rules” are the real problem: http://hrc.io/1UXaWd7 

Remember, back in March when she claimed that she is "certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material." So which statement is the lie?

Hillary may be a snake in a pants suit, but she's a lawyer and is fully aware of the ins and outs of law. To call our classification rules "ridiculous" is an arrogant mockery of why these rules exist: to protect us and our agents from harm, both foreign and domestic.

It is Hillary Clinton who, I believe, is most harmful to our national security.

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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.