Who Is Christine Blasey Ford...

On July 10, 2018, President Donald J. Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court to succeed the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. He has served as Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit since May 30, 2006, after his nomination by President George W. Bush and his confirmation by the Senate.

On September 6, 2018, Senator Cory Booker, (D) New Jersey, released confidential "racial profiling" emails concerning Judge Kavanaugh. The self proclaimed Spartacus dared his colleagues to expel him for breaking the rules and releasing the confidential emails. He doesn't agree with the rule so therefore it doesn't apply to him? Booker was quite dramatic about the entire thing....but the emails had already been cleared for release so his "show" of bravery was nothing but that... a show. The alleged racial profiling concerned internal emails after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American soil. Here are a couple of excerpts from the emails in question.

In a 2002 email, Kavanaugh, who was working as a lawyer in the Bush White House, said he “generally” favored race-neutral security measures, but said they need to “grapple” with the “interim question of what to do before a truly effective and comprehensive race-neutral system is developed and implemented.”
Kavanaugh wrote that the “interim question” is of “critical importance to the security of the airlines and American people in the next 6 months or so, especially given Al Qaeda’s track record of timing between terrorist incidents.”

It's clear that Judge Kavanaugh is against racial profiling but has questions about what to do concerning radical Islamic groups who wish us harm. Sorry Booker. Guess your Spartacus moment was more like a Spartassacus moment instead.

On September 14, 2018, a report by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer reveals that a complaint was filed by a woman accusing Judge Kavanaugh os sexual misconduct that allegedly took place more than 30 years ago. The woman claimed that in the 1980's, when she and Judge Kavanaugh were in high school, that he and a friend of his held her down and attempted to force himself on her at a party. She was able to escape but claimed that the encounter left her psychologically distraught and that she has had to seek psychiatric care over the ordeal. The friend of Judge Kavanaugh has denied these allegations as has the Judge himself. 

A letter detailing the incident was given to Anna Eshoo (D) Congresswoman for California's 18th district and also to Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) California, who is the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Feinstein kept the letter to herself and did not share it with other members of the committee. In fact, she outright denied requests from other Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to share the woman's letter and other relevant communication.

On September 16, 2018, Kavanaugh's accuser is identified as California Professor Christine Blasey Ford. In the initial correspondence between Blasey-Ford and Eshoo and Feinstein, Blasey-Ford demanded that her identity remain confidential. Feinstein forwarded the letter with her Blasey-Ford's name redacted to the FBI for investigation into the matter. Blasey-Ford's name was eventually known when she spoke out.

But who is Dr. Christine Blasey Ford? The trail into her background is interesting to say the least.

Christine Blasey was born to Ralph G. Blasey, Jr. But who is he?

Currently Ralph Blasey serves as Vice President of Business Development of Red Coats, Inc., a private company that specializes in commercial office cleaning, uniformed guard services (Admiral Security Services) and access control systems. Those in the D.C area are very familiar with his security services company, Admiral, because their uniformed officers are in the lobbies of virtually every single building in the metropolitan area.

Mr. Blasey was once the Vice President of National Savings and Trust of Washington, D.C., which is directly across the street from the treasury department. As VP of National Savings and Trust from 1962-1974, Mr. Blasey reported directly to Nicholas Deak. Who is he? Mr. Deak was the chairman of the Deak-Perera group and a secret service operative. He served in both the OSS during WW II and in its successor, the CIA during the Cold War. Mr. Deak was primarily a banker...more specifically...he was the CIA's paymaster. He was assassinated in 1985 by a mentally unstable and homeless woman named Lois Lang. Lang lived in California and had no prior knowledge of Deak, yet she traveled all the way from California to New York to kill him.

Lang was a women's tennis coach and fencing instructor at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

In 1970, the university declined to renew her coaching contract. Lang and her husband soon divorced. Her life quickly became a blur. Lang complained of “amnesia” and said that her ex-husband’s business partner moved her into an apartment in Mountain View, Calif., where she lived on “grants” and “took flying lessons” […]  She told psychiatrists in 1985 that this business partner, or his “fakes,” took her to Deak’s offices at 29 Broadway in 1971. She said that “friends” taught her marksmanship at firing ranges.

After the assination, Lang was put under the care of Dr. Frederick Melges of the Stanford Research Institute which received CIA funding. Dr. Melges published works about using drugs and hypnosis to create "disassociative states" which is nothing more than induced schizophrenia.

A few years after Lang was placed under Melges' care, the New York Times exposed the Stanford Research Institute as a center for CIA research into 'brain-washing' and "mind-control" experiments. This was known as MK-ULTRA. Many subjects were unknowingly dosed with hallucinogenic drugs and subjected to hypnosis.

Ralph Blasey took Nicholas Deak's position of VP of National Savings and Trust of Washington, D.C. upon his death.

So what does Stanford, the CIA and MK-ULTRA have to do with Christine Blasey Ford? She oversees the Stanford CIA undergraduate Internship program. So Ralph Blasey's predecessor, Nicholas Deak, who was the CIA's paymaster, was assassinated by Lois Lang, who was brainwashed by Dr. Frederick Melges, who founded the CIA project MK-ULTRA at Stanford University, in which Blasey's daughter, Christine, now oversees.

Let's look at some of Dr. Blasey-Ford's publications:

• Saxena, Kirti; Blasey, Christine (2004). “Research Methodology in Clinical Trials”. In Steiner, Hans. Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents: An Integrated Developmental Approach. Jossey-Bass. ISBN 978-0787961541.
• Blasey, Christine; Belanoff, Joseph K.; DeBattista, Charles; Shatzberg, Alan F. (2013). “Adult Psychopharmacology”. In Koocher, Gerald; Norcross, John C.; Greene, Beverly A. Psychologists’ Desk Reference: Third Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199845491.
• Cohen, Jeffrey M.; Blasey, Christine; Taylor, C. Barr; Weiss, Brandon J.; Newman, Michelle G. (2016). “Anxiety and related disorders and concealment in sexual minority young adults”. Behavior Therapy. 47 (1): 91–101. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2015.09.006. PMID 26763500.

This gives a lot of insight as to what type of psychologist she is. She understands perfectly well how to portray a person that has been through a traumatic event. During her testimony, she spoke with a quivering voice but yet had no tears and needed no tissues. And then when she wasn't testifying, she was laughing and joking with her attorney. 

Let's look at Blasey-Ford's brother, Ralph Blasey, III. He used to work for the D.C. based  law-firm of Baker Hostetler. This is the same firm that paid Fusion GPS $523,651 between March 7, 2016 and October 31, 2016.

What is so interesting about Fusion GPS?

If you recall, Fusion GPS was at the center of attention not long ago concerning the election of Donald Trump and the alleged Russia interference. They were behind the now infamous dossier that contained numerous unverifiable allegations of Trump's collusion with Russia.

According to its website, Fusion GPS "provides premium research, strategic intelligence, and due diligence services to corporations, law firms and investors worldwide."

Fusion GPS was started in 2009 by former Wall Street Journal reporters Peter Fritsch and Glenn Simpson.

After Donald Trump became the Republican nominee, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee retained Fusion GPS through attorney Marc Elias and his firm, Perkins Coie.

The Clinton campaign and the DNC paid Perkins Coie more than 9 million dollars. How much of that went towards the dossier? That's anybody's guess. But the Clinton campaign funded the project until October 2016...right before the election.

George Soros also admitted to funding Fusion GPS. Now it makes more sense, doesn't it? All things wrong eventually lead back to this uber wealthy Kenite.

Debra Katz, the attorney for Christine Blasey Ford, is an influential Democratic donor and also the Vice CHair of the Project on Government Oversight...a non-profit organization that is funded by Soros' Open Society Foundation.

I wrote an article about Fusion Centers in February of 2014. You can find it here 

All in all, the entire debacle is nothing more than another pathetic attempt by the left to derail a good, Christian Conservative man from becoming a Supreme Court Justice. They do not care who they hurt, what lies they tell, or even who has to die in order to retain the power they crave. It's a long black train carrying putrid offenses that is being driven by Satan himself. And the Democrats are all on board. 

May God have mercy upon their souls

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John McCain Was Pardoned For Treason

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More and more it is becoming evident that John McCain is not the "hero" he likes to portray himself to be. He has been riding the coattails of his heroism for years. It has worked too as is evidenced by his being re-elected as an Arizona Senator for the past 31 years. That's a long time for someone to serve. But what exactly has McCain done during his tenure? We will get in to that and a lot more but first, Let's take a stroll down memory lane and delve a little deeper into ol' Johhny boy.

John McCain was born on August 29, 1936, at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone.  In 1951, the McCains moved to Northern Virginia and he attended Episcopal High School, which was a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria. He graduated in 1954. From there, McCain entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. While there, he came into conflict with higher ranking personnel and did not always obey the rules which contributed to a low class rank. He was ranked 894 of 899. Seems John McCain has always been a "maverick", which is a so called attribute that he gave himself during his 2008 failed Presidency run against Barack Obama. Maverick is just another word for someone who isn't a team player. Someone who serves their own interests above those of others. But I digress.

McCain became a commissioned ensign and started two and a half years of training at Pensacola to become a naval aviator. While he was there, McCain earned a reputation as a partying man. He completed flight school in 1960 and became a naval pilot of ground-attack aircraft. He was assigned to A-1 Skyraider squadrons aboard the aircraft carriers USS Intrepid and USS Enterprise. McCain began as a sub-par pilot who was more than a few times careless and reckless. During the early to mid-1960's, the planes he was flying crashed twice and once collided with power lines. Even though his flying skills improved over time, he was still known as a pilot who tended to push the envelope in his flying.

On July 3, 1965, John McCain married Carol Shepp. She was a model who was originally from Philadephia. MCCain adopted her two young children and then later had a daughter of their own. McCain requested a combat mission and assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal flying A-4 Skyhawks. This was mid-1967 when the Forrestal was assigned to a bombing campaign, Operation Rolling Thunder, during the Vietnam War. On July 29, 1967, McCain, who was now a Lieutenant Commander, was at the epicenter of the USS Forrestal fire. He escaped his burning jet and was attempting to help another pilot to escape whan a bomb exploded, striking him in the legs and chest with fragments. The fire killed 134 sailors and took 24 hours to control. An electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket to discharge on the flight deck which then triggered a chain reaction of explosions.

With the Forrestal out of commission, McCain volunteered for assignment with the USS Oriskany, another aircraft carrier engaged in Operation Rolling Thunder. He was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal and the Bronze Star for missions flown over North Vietnam.

On October 26, 1967, McCain was flying his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam when his A-4E Skyhawk was shot down over Hanoi. He fractured both arms and a leg ejecting from the aircraft and then nearly drowned when he parachuted into Trúc Bach Lake. Some North Vietnamese pulled him ashore and then others crushed his shoulder with a rifle butt and bayoneted him. He was then transported to Hanoi's main Hỏa Lò Prison which was nicknamed the Hanoi Hilton.

Although his wounds were bad, his captors refused to treat his injuries. He was beaten and interrogated for information. Only when the North Vietnamese discovered that his father was a high ranking Admiral did he receive medical care. His status as a POW made the front pages of major newspapers, again, only because of his fathers status. McCain spent six weeks in the hospital receiving marginal care, after which he was sent to a different camp on the outskirts of Hanoi in December of 1967. He was placed in a cell with two other Americans. In March of 1968, he was placed in solitary confinement where he remained for the next two years.

In the middle of 1968, John McCain's father, John S. McCain Jr., was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater. The North Vietnamese wanted to appear merciful as part of their propaganda and so they offered McCain an early release. They also wanted to show other POW's that elite prisoners were willing to be treated preferentially. McCain turned down the offer stating that he refused to leave unless every man taken in before him was released. In truth, such early releases were prohibited by the POW's interpretation of the military code of conduct. In order to prevent the enemy from using prisoners as propaganda, officers were to agree to be released in the order in which they were captured. 

In August of 1968, a regiment of severe torture began on McCain. During this time, McCain attempted suicide but was stopped by guards. Eventually, McCain made the first of several anti-American propaganda confession video. He was released as a POW on March 14, 1973, having been a prisoner for five and a half years.

John McCain returned to the United States and was reunited with his family. His wife Carol had suffered an automobile accident on Christmas Eve of 1969 that left her crippled and terribly disfigured. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered from massive internal injuries. In order to save her legs, surgeons had to cut away very large sections of shattered bone, which took away her tall, willowy frame. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter. She eventually learned to walk again but had gained a lot of weight by the time McCain came home.

As a returned POW, McCain became a celebrity of sorts. There was much fanfare at his return and even a handshake from President Richard Nixon. McCain enjoyed the limelight. During 1973-1974, McCain attended the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. By late 1974, he had his flight status reinstated and in 1976 he became the commanding officer of a training squadron in Florida.During his time in Florida, McCain had extramarital affairs which led to the breakdown of his marriage. He no longer was attracted to Carol because of her injuries. In 1980, the McCain's divorced and one month later, John married Cindy Hensley, whom he had met in April of 1979, who was 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune.

All of the above was taken from McCain's life as is listed on Wikipedia and other sites that outline his life. Now let's take a look at what really happened.

According to writings by McCain, himself, after about 3-4 days of torture by the Vietnamese, he called for an officer and stated that he would give them information. He told the officer, "O.K., I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital." -U.S. News and World Report, May 14, 1973 article written by former POW John McCain. So these are his own words. After this McCain was taken to Gai Lam military hospital which was normally unavailable to American POW's. This from U.S. government documents.

On November 9, 1967, according to U.S. government documents, the Hanoi press began quoting McCain who was giving specific military information. One report read, "To a question of the correspondent, McCain answered: "My assignment to the Oriskany, I told myself, was due to serious losses in pilots, which were sustained by this aircraft carrier (due to its raids on the North Vietnam territory - VNA) and which necessitated replacements. From 10 to 12 pilots were transferred like me from the Forrestal to the Oriskany. Before I was shot down, we had made several sorties. Altogether, I made about 23 flights over North Vietnam."

In that report, McCain was quoted describing the number of aircraft in his flight, information about rescue ships, and the order of which his attack was supposed to take place. All of these things place American soldier lives at risk and subsequently, American planes were shot down at a 64% increase after he told the Vietnamese these things. Through the Freedom of Information Act, the U.S. Veteran Dispatch acquired a declassified Department of Defense (DOD) transcript of an interview that prominent French television reporter, Francois Chalais, had with McCain. Following is said transcript:

"My meeting with John Sidney McCain was certainly one of those

meetings which will affect me most profoundly for the rest of my life.

I had asked the North Vietnamese authorities to allow me to personally

interrogate an American prisoner. They authorized me to do so. When

night fell, they took me---without any precautions or mystery--to a

hospital near the Gia Lam airport reserved for the [North Vietnamese]

military. (passage omitted) The officer who receives me begins: I ask

you not to ask any questions of political nature. If this man replies

in a way unfavorable to us, they will not hesitate to speak of

'brainwashing' and conclude that we threatened him.

"'This John Sidney McCain is not an ordinary prisoner. His father is

none other than Admiral Edmond John McCain, commander in chief of U.S.

naval forces in Europe. (passage omitted)'"

". . . Many visitors came to talk to me [John McCain]. Not all of it was for interrogation. Once a famous North Vietnamese writer-an old man with a Ho Chi Minh beard-came to my room, wanting to know all about Ernest Hemingway . . . Others came to find out about life in the United States. They figured because my father had such high military rank that I was of the royalty or governing circle . . . One of the men who came to see me, whose picture I recognized later, was Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the hero of Dienbienphu." U.S. News and World Report, May 14, 1973 article written by former POW John McCain.

The two Americans that McCain was held prisoner with were Air Force Majors George "Bud" Day and Norris Overly. Overly was offered release and he accepted. Day was "relocated" to another cell and about a month later, McCain was moved into another building, the largest in the camp called "the warehouse". This is where McCain spent his two years of solitary confinement as he was considered a "special prisoner". He became the target of intense indoctrination and psychological programs the communists had perfected during the Korean War.

The communists were very much aware that McCain would be under tremendous psychological pressure not to do or say anything that would tarnish his famous military family and they considered that to be the key to eventually breaking and then "turning" him. McCain's handlers kept meticulous records of his behavior, including his personal strengths, weaknesses and any special favors he had accepted while under isolation.

McCain's interrogators believed that because he came from a "royal family", he would, when he was finally released, return to the United States to some important military or government job. Because he was isolated during those two years, no one except for McCain himself and his captors know exactly what he was subjected to or how he responded. Most of the information in the public record detailing his ordeal during this time comes from McCain and McCain only.

"In May of 1968, I [McCain] was interviewed by two North Vietnamese generals at separate times." 

U.S. News and World Report, May 14, 1973 article written by former POW John McCain

McCain claimed (page 133 of The Nightingale's Song, by Robert Timberg) that he was first offered early release in late June of 1968. He said that after months of interrogation he was "summoned" to a room that had soft chairs, a glass table, cookies with a pot of tea, and cigarettes. He said "Major Bai, known to the prisoners as the Cat," was waiting for him. He said a second Vietnamese known as the Rabbit, stood by to serve as translator."

McCain said that he helped himself to the cookies, tea and cigarettes as the Cat began speaking through the translator. He said they talked about "his father, other members of his family, the war." McCain said that after about two hours of talking, the Cat asked him if he wanted to be released. The Cat, according to McCain, told him to go back to his cell and think about it. --The Nightingale's Song.

According to McCain, the Cat sent for him three nights later and again asked him if he wanted to go home. McCain said he answered no. A week later, he was taken to a room in which the camp commander, who the prisoners had nicknamed Slopehead, was waiting. McCain said ten guards and interrogator, nicknamed The Prick, was also in the room. He said the guards charged into him, beating and kicking him until he "lay on the floor, bloody, arms and legs throbiing, ribs cracked, several teeth broken off at the gumline." According to McCain, the Vietnamese wanted him to admit to being a "black criminal." -- The Nightingale's Song.

I will insert here that pictures of McCain's arrival back in the U.S. after his release as a POW do not conclusively show that he was missing any teeth. I'm not saying it didn't happen, just that pictures do not conclusively show any missing teeth. And his arm and leg were broken as a result of his ejecting from his aircraft.

June 1969 - "Reds Say PW Songbird Is Pilot Son of Admiral. . . Hanoi

has aired a broadcast in which the pilot son of United States

Commander in the Pacific, Adm. John McCain, purportedly admits to

having bombed civilian targets in North Vietnam and praises medical

treatment he has received since being taken prisoner." New York Daily

News, June 5, 1969

A declassified DOD document reports an interview between POW McCain and Dr. Fernando Barral, a Spanish psychiatrist who was living in Cuba at the time. The interview was published in the Havana Granma in January of 1970. According to the report, the meeting between McCain and Barral, which was photographed by the Vietnamese, took place away from the prison at the office of the Committee for Cultural Relations in Hanoi. During this meeting, McCain sipped coffee and ate oranges and cakes with his interrogator. While talking with Barral, McCain seriously violated the military Code of Conduct by failing to evade answering questions "to the utmost" of his ability when he, according to the DOD report, helped Barral by answering questions in Spanish. He didn't have to let them know he understood and spoke another language.

McCain was released from Hanoi Hilton on March 15, 1973. Two former POW's say they doubt that McCain was ever physically abused.

1999 - March 25, 1999, The Phoenix New Times: Ted Guy and Gordon

"Swede" Larson, two former POWs, who were McCain's senior ranking

officers (SRO's), at the time McCain says he was tortured in solitary

confinement, told the New Times that while they could not guarantee

that McCain was not physically harmed, they doubted it.

"Between the two of us, it's our belief, and to the best of our

knowledge, that no prisoner was beaten or harmed physically in that

camp [known as "The Plantation"]," Larson says. ". . . My only

contention with the McCain deal is that while he was at The

Plantation, to the best of my knowledge and Ted's knowledge, he was

not physically abused in any way. No one was in that camp. It was the

camp that people were released from."

In 1993, during one of his many trips back to Hanoi, McCain asked the Vietnamese not to make public the records they hold pertaining to returned U.S. POW's.

 But what about all his medals? He has a Silver Star, a Distinguished Flying Cross. three Bronze Stars, two Commendation medals, and two Purple Hearts and a dozen service gongs. He has more medals than Audie Murphy, who performed extraordinary deeds while in service to his country. McCain's valor awards are based solely on what happened in 1967, when he was shot down and taken prisoner. David M. Hackworth, who was a highly decorated and very unconventional former career Army Officer, asked McCain's Senate office three times to provide copies of the narratives for each of his medals. They never responded.  Next, he went to the Pentagon and within a week, he received a recap of McCain's medals and many of the narratives that give the details of what he did to "earn" each one.

None of the awards, except for the Distinguished Flying Cross, were for heroism over the battlefield where he spent no more than 20 hours. Two Naval Officers described the awards as "boilerplate" and "part of an SOP medal package given to repatriated Vietnam era POW's."

McCain's Silver Star narrative for the October 27, 1967, the day after he was shot down to December 8, 1968 reads:

"His captors subjected him to extreme mental and physical cruelties in an attempt to obtain military information and false confessions for propaganda purposes. Through his resistance to those brutalities, he contributed significantly towards the eventual abandonment" of such harsh treatment by the North Vietnamese. 

But in McCain's own words he admitted that just four days after being captured, he violated the U.S. Code of Conduct by telling his captors "O.K., I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital."

The rest of his valor awards, which were issued automatically every year while he was a POW, read much like the Silver Star. More boilerplate that often repeat the same words. But McCain's conduct while a POW negates those glowing comments. The fact is, McCain signed a confession and declared himself a "black criminal who performed deeds of an air pirate." This statement and other interviews he gave to the Communist press were used as propaganda to fan the flames of the anti-war movement.

McCain's accounts of torture and beatings were never witnessed by a single other POW. The U.S. Navy says that two eyewitnesses are required for any award of heroism, but for McCain's valor awards, there are no witnesses except for McCain himself and his captors.

As for McCain refusing an early release, three different POW's have said that he was ordered to turn it down by his U.S. POW commander. And I have yet to find accounts of other POW's that were given cakes, fruit, tea and cigarettes. That doesn't sound like torture to me but more like a man who has become comfortable with the enemy.

Upon McCain's return from Vietnam, his records as a POW were immediately marked classified. His commanding officer while he was a POW, Colonel Ted Guy, submitted a series of charges to military prosecutors that cited McCain with treason among other things. McCain, along with 33 other POW's, faced court martial with McCain by far being the one accused of the most serious of crimes. But it was also McCain, who was the son and grandson of distinguished Navy Admirals, that had to be protected at all costs for the sake of his family's distinguished reputation. Because of this, the worst traitor in American history became known as a war hero and was elected to the Senate. President Richard Nixon issued a blanket pardon For McCain and the other 33 POW's.

Sgt. Major John Holland, Army Colonel Earl Hopper and the CIA's Ted Sampley, who are all dead now, had cited McCain for crimes as serious as planning air defenses for the Hanoi government to aid them in downing American pilots. Hopper credits McCain with helping to shoot down 60 American aircraft. Many others who actually served with McCain claim it was he who nearly sunk the nuclear super-carrier USS Forrestal. Nearly 300 servicemen were killed and wounded from that incident. I have no definitive proof of these claims.

When it was known that American POW's were still being held in Southeast Asia, this after McCain became a Senator, he worked to block repatriation through evidence of surviving POW's. It was then that McCain began to be referred to bu those in the military, intelligence and veteran's community, as the "Manchurian Candidate". Many wonder why Russia has not opened their files on McCain. Files that include recordings of the 32 propaganda broadcasts he made while he was a POW.

All in all, I will say with full confidence that McCain is no war hero. I believe he was doing what was expected of him by his family when he joined the navy. He has never been a team player and he never will be. His life has not been one of distinguished service but rather one of putting himself and his selfish needs first. Everything about his story is questionable. Perhaps one day, it will all come to light.

Here is a documentary that outlines more of McCain's treasonous acts:
http://www.mccainbetrayspows.org/

The documentary alleges McCain manipulated the legislative process, mandating his POW records be sealed forever to conceal his actual behavior in captivity from the legend that has evolved. It also suggests that this same motivation explains McCain's history of opposing and shutting down all Congressional POW inquiries.

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It's Been A While

It really has been a while since I have visited my old stomping ground here...Life has a way of turning your whole world upside down sometimes. It certainly has been a whirlwind of a year though. I have sat down so many times, looking at a blank screen here trying to find something...anything to write about. It's not like there hasn't been plenty of stories and scandals by Obama and Hillary. The problem has been choosing one and being able to research a viable, credible story before the next thing broke. That is where the trouble came in. The scandals just started coming too fast and by the time I would have a cohesive story put together in my head, something else had already taken its place.

Everything has started moving at a feverish pace. But I wanted to come back here...come back to my home in a sense...and begin again. I miss sitting down with my coffee and just letting the words flow and even the arguments that would sometimes ensue. I miss my friends...Neal from Golden Geese News and Mr. Garibaldi from the Kona Times. Anonymous C.J. who always had a comment for me. So I am trying to come back. I am working on a story in my head right now...Maybe I can make it work. If my old friends stop by and see this, be sure and say hi...I've missed you. My hope is that by coming back here, to the place where I could always empty my thoughts for whomsoever would read, that maybe the other thoughts that I tell no one will somehow begin to make sense to me and I can sort the tangles out. And tangled it is...but life is beautiful in all its chaos. You just have to look in the right places.

Let me know you were here....I will return and before you know it...it will be like I was never gone from this place....

TCW

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Judge seals file in Somali-Muslim suspect's murder trial

 

Freddy Akoa, a 49-year-old health-care worker, was killed in his apartment Sunday, allegedly by three Somali-Americans whose families came to the United States through the United Nations-U.S. State Department refugee resettlement program.

Authorities in Portland, Maine, have arrested three Somali-American men in connection with the brutal killing of a man inside his apartment, then moved quickly to seal the case from public view.

Police arrested Abil Teshome, 23, Mohamud Mohamed, 36, and Osman Sheikh, 31, on Thursday. All three are charged with the murder of 49-year-old health-care worker Freddy Akoa.

Police have provided almost no information on the killing, not the cause of death, not the type of weapon used, nor any possible motive for the killing. They even refused to release prison mugshots of the suspects. The Associated Press and local TV stations failed to identify the three suspects by their country of origin or race.

Watch the local TV report on the murder below:

Akoa was found dead in his apartment at 457 Cumberland Avenue on Tuesday and it was revealed at a court hearing Friday that he had been dead since Sunday. He lived alone and, according to his LinkedIn page, worked as a hospital and health-care professional in the Portland area.

Police said all three suspects were arrested on unrelated charges and placed in custody Wednesday and Thursday when they were charged with Akoa's murder.

Osman Sheikh Said, 31, a Somali-American living in Maine, is one of three suspects charged with the murder of 49-year-old Freddy Akoa.

WND found a mugshot of a man named Osman Sheikh at an online police mugshot site that matches the age and place of residence of the Osman Sheikh who was arrested.

Akoa was found dead about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday by an apartment manager after his mother called police and requested a check on his well being.

The killing "wasn't random in nature," said Police Chief Michael Sauschuck, indicating the alleged killers knew their victim.

The U.S. State Department, in cooperation with the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, has sent 1,379 Somali refugees to Maine since 2002, with 1,010 of them going to Portland, according to the State Department's refugee database. Records prior to 2002 are not kept online, but the U.N. has been sending Somali refugees to the United States since the early 1990s with the full support of the U.S. Congress, despite the fact that hundreds of them have turned out to be jihadists or criminals.

Mohamed Mohamud, one of three suspects charged in the killing of Freddy Akoa in Portland, Maine. Credit/Portland Press Herald

Of all the countries participating in the U.S. refugee resettlement program, Somalia has the worst record. Countless Somalis resettled in America have been investigated, arrested and convicted of violent crimes and terrorism-related charges. More than 50 have left the U.S. to join the ranks of ISIS, al-Shabab and al-Qaida, the FBI has confirmed.

Yet, the Obama administration, with the full support of Congress, continues to infuse American cities with a steady stream of Sunni Muslim "refugees" from Somalia. They arrive in the U.S. at a rate of 7,000 to 10,000 per year, or about 600 to 800 a month, according to records obtained by WND through a search of State Department databases. They get resettled in more than 190 cities and towns, with many sent to the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota; Columbus, Ohio; Portland, Maine; San Diego, California; Fargo, South Dakota; Wichita, Kansas, Boise and Twin Falls, Idaho; Amarillo, Texas; and Seattle, Washington; among other cities.

WND has reported on numerous other criminal and terrorist elements who entered the country legally through the refugee resettlement program, including one case where a refugee from the west African country of Togo was in the country only nine days before raping a woman in Virginia.

Congressman calls for 'pause' in refugee program

Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, recently introduced H.R. 3314, the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act, which would press the pause button on a program that grants permanent legal residency to nearly 70,000 new refugee immigrants a year. The refugees qualify for a smorgasbord of welfare benefits on day one upon arrival, including food stamps, subsidized housing, public education, Medicaid and WIC (federal aid for women, infants and children).

Babin's bill would temporarily suspend the program until the Government Accountability Office completes a thorough examination of its costs on local governments, states and American taxpayers, as well as the risks to national security.

"The Refugee Resettlement Program has been running on autopilot for far too long with little regard to economic, social and national security implications," Babin wrote in a recent op-ed. "We need to step back and examine all aspects of this program. Such as, why is the U.N., whose policies often run counter to the best interests of the U.S., even in the equation?"

Babin introduced his bill July 29 and is still looking for his first co-sponsor.

The Portland Press Herald reported that Akoa, the murder victim, had a clean record with no arrests, but at least two of his alleged killers have extensive criminal rap sheets.

Sheikh has 33 criminal convictions, mostly public order crimes such as criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and drinking in public, according to the State Bureau of Identification. Teshome's criminal record includes convictions for drinking in public and theft.

Akoa lived alone on the third floor of the Cumberland Avenue apartment building. He is divorced and has three children, according to the Press Herald article.

Alice Page, a resident of the complex, said the apartments are not as safe as they were when she first moved in six years ago. She told local TV station WMTW 8 that she used to be able to do her laundry at any time of the day or night, but "now, you do it during the day or you don't do it at all."

Authorities tight-lipped, keep case files sealed

An autopsy was performed on Akoa's body, but police declined to release the results, the Bangor Daily News reported.

Police announced Wednesday they were investigating the death as a homicide but refused to say how the killing was carried out. When the final arrest was made Thursday, they remained mum, and the secrecy then spilled over into Friday's court hearing.

Assistant Attorney General John Alsop, who is prosecuting the cases, asked the judge at the start of Friday's first-appearance hearings to seal the case files against each of the three men from public view for one week as investigators continue to compile evidence in the murder investigation, the Press Herald reported.

Warren granted Alsop's motion with the condition that if the prosecution doesn’t file an extension within a week, the cases against the men will become public, including the detailed affidavits police filed to obtain arrest warrants against each man, the Press Herald reported.

Victim was 'kind and loving person'

Akoa's brother, Benoit Akoa, released an emailed statement on behalf of the victim's family.

"Freddy was a very kind and loving person. Freddy did not deserve to be the victim of such acts of violence, no one deserves that. We, his brothers sisters and parents will miss him dearly. This was a senseless and violent crime and we trust in the system, that justice will prevail," Benoit Akoa said in the email.

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Top Dem: Monitor U.S. citizens, not Muslim 'refugees'

 

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.

The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee has a history of making controversial statements.

He did it again Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., led off a hearing on the security risks of Syrian refugees by saying the committee would be better served if it looked within at U.S.-born citizens for potential terrorists.

Thompson said the mass shooting at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last week illustrated America’s more pressing problems with “violent extremism.” He suggested that the threats posed by “domestic terrorism” were more acute than those posed by Muslim refugees being sent to the U.S. from Syria.

“Time and time again, I have urged this committee not to have a narrow view of violent extremism, which ignores violent extremist activity of domestic groups,” Thompson said.

“Regrettably, last week’s attacks at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston brought this issue into stark focus,” he continued. “Congress, the president, and the Department of Homeland Security need to come together with state and local governments to honestly acknowledge that domestic terrorism is a threat to the safety and security of the American homeland, including the refugees who resettle within our borders. We must move beyond the perceived fears of the unknown and focus on credible threat information and allow the security vetting systems we have in place (for refugees) to work.”

After Wednesday’s hearing on the security risks posed by Syrian refugees, Thompson sent a letter to Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, asking that he convene hearings on domestic terrorism in the United States.

Thompson criticized his colleagues on the committee who seemed more concerned about terrorists slipping into the ranks of Islamic refugees from war-torn Syria.

He urged them to focus more attention on Americans as the primary threat of launching terrorist attacks. The 70,000 United Nations-certified refugees coming to the U.S. each year should be welcomed, he said. He added that it was mostly U.S. citizens who were leaving the country to fight for ISIL, also called ISIS or the Islamic State. Syrians, he said, were fleeing ISIS and needed a safe haven in America.

“They are the most vulnerable to the violence and know first-hand the cruelty of ISIL and other groups that have brought harm upon their communities,” Thompson said. “These refugees, like most others that arrive in the U.S., are fleeing difficult, even life-threatening, situations. The idea that they would be met with suspicion and hate upon arrival in the United States is an affront to the values we uphold and promote.”

“In fact,” Thompson added, “the leading demographic of those seeking or joining ISIL in the U.S are U.S.-born citizens, including citizens with no ancestry from majority-Muslim countries.”

Congressman’s past rants stirred controversy

Thompson made news last year when he appeared on a New Nation of Islam radio show and said Clarence Thomas is an “Uncle Tom,” Mitch McConnell is a “racist,” and Republicans are only anti-big government and anti-Obamacare because President Obama is black.

In 2011, after a congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization, Thompson said the hearing could be used to inspire a new generation of suicide bombers, the Associated Press reported. He said Congress has a responsibility to make sure its words do not make the problems of Islamic terrorism worse.

Read Rep. Thompson’s entire statement before the House Homeland Security Committee Wednesday.

Thompson’s latest comments echoed the sentiments of Democrats in the Senate who have called for a more laissez-faire policy on refugees.

Last month 14 U.S. senators, all Democrats led by Richard Durbin of Illinois, Diane Feinstein of California and Al Franken of Minnesota, sent a letter to President Obama urging him to “dramatically increase” the number of Syrian refugees coming into the U.S. citing the brutal conditions from which they are fleeing and America’s proud tradition of offering itself as a beacon for the world’s poor and oppressed.

The same type of language was used last summer when tens of thousands of unaccompanied alien children, along with many families, surged at the U.S. southern border from Central America.

Children of immigrants at risk of radicalization

Security experts testified Wednesday that the children of Islamic refugees and immigrants tend to have a worse record for being radicalized than the refugees themselves. Such was the case with Hoda Muthana, the 20-year-old daughter of immigrants from Yemen who decided to leave the country late last year, to the surprise of her parents, and become an ISIS bride. Her parents emigrated from Yemen more than 20 years ago and lived peacefully in an upscale subdivision near Birmingham, Alabama. She became radicalized over the Internet, left for Syria via Turkey, and publicly renounced her parents on Twitter.

The Republicans on the committee took issue with Thompson’s open-doors approach to refugees, as did the expert witnesses called to testify before the committee.

“Refugees will continue to play a pivotal role in expanding the rich cultural diversity of America, but the risks may be higher due to the high number of fighters and more operatives heading to the West, and the potential for ISIS to use them to gain refugee status,” said Seth Jones, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the Rand Corp. “I do think it’s worse in terms of data management for refugees, rescreening procedures, DNA checks and a few other issues. The U.S. does have a longstanding tradition of offering refuge to people fleeing persecution, but an integral factor is that we have a responsibility to assure they do not present a risk to the West. I think we’re after a balance here.”

The Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, the attacks in Garland, Texas, Brussels, Belgium, Ottawa, Canada, at the Boston Marathon, and the 9/11 attacks were all cited by Jones as being committed by Islamic terrorists, as were the recent slaughter of 147 Christians in Kenya and 21 Coptic Christians in Libya. Many foiled operations have been connected to Middle Eastern or African terror groups, such as the arrests in April of four young Somali men from Minnesota who tried repeatedly to leave the country and join ISIS.

The U.S. has imported more than 100,000 Somalis as refugees since the early 1990s. Since 2005 dozens of the Somali refugees brought to the U.S. and children of the refugees have been arrested on charges of providing material support to overseas terrorist organizations.

No records to vet

Syria, like Somalia, has become a failed state where chaos reigns. The U.S. has no access to reliable data on the backgrounds of potential refugees, FBI counter-terrorism experts warned at a previous congressional hearing in February.

“Our human sources (in Syria) are minimal and we don’t have a government we can partner with (to vet the refugees) and that’s the key thing,” said Tom Fuentes, former FBI assistant director, at the June 24 hearing. “If these individuals were not on a database, that’s why they’re refugees. The children become a problem as well, as we saw in the Somali case, as in the Tsarnaev (Boston bombing) case, children grew up and became radicalized even as their parents were unaware. I know the FBI does not have the ability to really do an adequate vetting on this.”

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Help refugees ‘where they are’

Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y.

Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., asked the panel of experts to put aside for a moment any moral obligations the U.S. may have to take in foreign refugees fleeing violence. Strictly from a security standpoint, Katko asked “does anyone believe we should let the refugees in if we can’t vet them?”

No one on the panel – Fuentes, Jones, and Daveed Gartenstein, a senior fellow at Foundation for the Defense of Democracies – said that would be a good idea.

“We do have a moral imperative to help the refugees but we also have a moral imperative to protect U.S. citizens, and therein lies the rub,” Katko said. “So my next question is, can we help them somehow without bringing them here?”

Gartenstein said “actually addressing the situation over there is arguably getting more bank for our buck.”

There are nearly 4 million Syrian refugees displaced by the civil war. The U.S. is being asked to take in 65,000 over two years.

“So that is a drop in the bucket,” Gartenstein said. “Jobs here are scarce, they miss a year or more of schooling (as they learn language).”

He said more could be done to help the refugees where they are, particularly in Jordan because most of the refugees there are not in camps.

“Anything you can do over there is advantageous and may actually be, from a humanitarian perspective, the best use of our money,” Gartenstein said.

Fuentes agreed. “If you made the camps more livable, the length of time you would be doing those services would also provide an incentive against them becoming terrorists, if we did more for the refugees before they come here, they may be more loyal to the U.S.”

Jones said a long-term strategy for Syria is lacking and resettling a small percentage of the refugees falls far short of the humanitarian mark.

“We need to be finding, in addition to taking refugees, ways to wind down the war. Whatever administration comes next, as well as this one, I would encourage them to get a long-term strategy,” Jones said. “I would also note that this issue of vetting is significant in Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and other places, not just Syria.”

Katko said the U.S. can’t have “people coming into this country who we’re not able to vet. And if there’s something we can do over there to help them maybe that’s the way forward and I hope we will look at that in the future.”

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said there were “no easy answers” to the Syrian refugee situation.

“You can try to minimize the risks but there are still going to be considerable risks there.”

Yet, King said, he felt something needed to be done to relieve the refugee pressure building in Jordan, one of the America’s best allies in the region.

“I think we’ve raised issues today that there are no clear answers to. But it is in our national interests that something be done to alleviate pressure on Jordan. Now we have to find ways to do it,” he said, and that involves finding better ways of vetting the refugees.

King asked the panelists if the refugees could be “tailed” by the FBI once they arrive in the U.S. “Would that violate FBI procedures and are there resources for that?”

Fuentes said no such policy exists at the FBI. “There has to be some sort of criminal activity,” before that type of monitoring can be activated. “Right now they have active investigations in every single state,” he added. “You could be looking at tens of thousands of potential subjects that there’s a reason to follow them, so you have to prioritize, and so the practicality of that in a refugee vetting process I think just doesn’t exist.”

Rep. Louis Barletta, R-Pa., asked, “Does the U.S. accept risk by accepting refugees from a country that admittedly is an enemy?”

Fuentes said al-Qaida had a different strategy than ISIS. “They wanted the giant attack, but other groups like Hezbollah believe in a different philosophy, death by a thousand cuts, so they were willing to kill four or five at a time in Israel, but they were happy with that because they were able to kill four or five as they were doing everything things. So the average citizen hears about the attack on a bus stop or a café and says ‘wait a minute, I go to a café, I ride a bus.’ It generates fear. You can’t carry out a large one by courier or by remote control. Syrians are not going to be able to come in and launch a major attack but can they come in and do death by a smaller cut? I think we are much more likely to see that type of attack.”

The U.S. traditionally accepts the vast majority of the world’s displaced persons for permanent resettlement. But in the case of Syria, the U.S. has been slow to jump on board with the United Nations plan for resettlement. Of the more than 130,000 Syrians the U.N. wants to permanently resettle in outside countries, Germany has agreed to take the most at 30,000 followed by Canada with 11,000. The U.N. wants the U.S. to take 65,000 over the next two years but so far the U.S. State Department hasn’t committed to any specific number, saying only that it would take 2,000 this year and “many more” in following years.

The biggest question has been how to screen the Syrians for ties to the many terrorist organizations operating in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. There is not only ISIS but al-Nusra Front, Free Syrian Army, and Hezbollah.

Gartenstein said the U.S. system of vetting is “antiquated.”

“The risk is greater with al-Nusra than ISIS because it’s not as overtly brutal. They’re brutal but they’re not tweeting out pictures of their beheadings and people they’ve burned alive. I would also point out that our vetting system is very antiquated,” he said. “One of the things that’s disturbing about our asylum process is it’s really difficult to tell if someone is lying. Someone can say ‘My family was massacred by al-Shabab.’ Well did that really happen? Does it actually match what was actually going on there on the ground at that particular time at a granular level? We need to use data that way. That’s something we should think about for the future because this will not be the last refugee crisis that we face and getting that on-the-ground level data will actually make us safer as a country.”

Watch Homeland Security Chair Rep. Michael McCaul’s response to the planned importation of 2,000 Syrians into U.S. cities and towns over the next year:

McCaul, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said the U.S. “must not be naïve” when it comes to Syrian refugees. He said Congress may be forced to “consider additional steps” if the Obama administration doesn’t address the problem of vetting.

McCaul’s entire statement is transcribed below:

“We’ve been sounding the alarm for months on this issue and for good reason. America has a proud tradition of welcoming refugees and immigrants but we need to make sure the extremists don’t exploit this pathway to our country, especially from terrorist safe havens. Last year the administration announced plans to surge the admission of Syrian refugees into the United States, including plans to resettle 2,000 of them this year and thousands more next year. This is concerning for two reasons. First, terrorists have made it known they want to manipulate refugee programs to sneak operatives into the West. Second, top national security officials have admitted that intelligence gaps in Syria will make it hard to weed them out of refugee pools. Testifying before our committee in February, the director of the National Counter Terrorism Center called these refuges a ‘population of concern’ given the expansive presence of ISIS and al-Qaida in Syria. Testifying at the same hearing, the FBI’s assistant director, Michael Steinbach from counter-terrorism, argued that identifying potential operatives will be difficult because ‘our databases won’t have the information we need.’ Simply put, We cannot screen applicants confidently if we don’t have good intelligence on the ground. We can’t vet them properly if we don’t have the proper databases. In light of these concerns I sent a series of letters to the administration this year, highlighting the risk of accelerating Syrian refugee admissions and requesting greater assurances regarding the screening process. The responses were inadequate and the administration was vague in explaining how the screening process would overcome the intelligence gaps. I just wrote the president two weeks ago, again asking for answers in a classified briefing for members of this committee. We are still waiting for a serious response. I do not take this issue lightly. Terrorists are constantly probing our defenses and would not hesitate to exploit a program meant to save innocent people fleeing from violence for the purpose of attacking our homeland.

I remind you that members of al-Qaida in Iraq, the predecessor to ISIS, have already managed to sneak into our country through refugee resettlement programs. Two of these terrorists arrested in 2009 were responsible for killing four Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers in Iraq and yet they gained entry and were resettled in Bowling Green, Kentucky. And that was when we had far better intelligence on the ground in Iraq to vet refugees whereas in Syria we are dark. The situation today in Syria is even more chaotic, making it difficult to get the biometric, biographic and other information needed to ensure individuals being admitted into our country do not intend to do our people harm.

Since its founding America has welcomed refugees from conflict zones in the darkest corners of the globe. We will not abandon that tradition. It embodies the compassion of our people and represents our deepest values. But we must also not abandon our vigilance and we cannot be naïve. In Syrian we are witnessing largest convergence of Islamist terrorists in world history, and some of these fanatics want to turn our refugee programs into a Trojan horse to carry out attacks here at home. We cannot allow that to happen. And I hope the White House will do more to convince Congress and the American people that it is moving forward cautiously, appropriately, but most importantly with the security of the American people as the priority. If it does not we may need to consider taking additional steps here on Capitol Hill.

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Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:32:47 GMT

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Blumenthal offered Hillary Benghazi defense from Media Matters

 

Long-time Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal sent Hillary Clinton an email containing links to blog postings he helped to generate for the progressive activist group Media Matters allegedly “refuting” right-wing “smears” about the September 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks.

Blumenthal had suggested to Clinton that the State Department circulate the Media Matters postings on Benghazi.

Blumenthal serves as an on-and-off paid consultant for Media Matters. Since 2009, he also has been a paid employee for the Clintons’ non-profit, The Clinton Foundation.

Blumenthal had sent Clinton an email with the Media Matters links followed by a message reading, “H: Got all these done. Complete refutation on Libya smear. Philippe can circulate these links. Sid.”

Philippe was most likely a reference to Philippe I. Reines, who served as Clinton’s senior adviser and was later promoted to deputy assistant secretary of state under Clinton.

Reines is a founder and managing director of Beacon Global Strategies, a consulting firm that also employs former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, who was implicated in the Benghazi talking-points scandal.

“Hillary Unhinged” is a precious resource for Americans as the 2016 presidential campaign ramps up. It has all of her best quotes, such as she will not run for president, insisting she and Bill were dead broke when they left the White House, and much more. Included are QR codes to direct you to videos and audios.

Blumemthal’s email to Clinton containing the Media Matters links was sent October 10, 2012. The correspondence was part of 179 pages of newly released Blumenthal emails made public Monday by the House Select Committee on Benghazi. WND conducted a thorough review of all of the new emails.

Blumenthal’s employment at Media Matters has raised questions about the organization’s official non-profit status.

IRS rules for 501C3 nonprofits such as Media Matters specifically state:

“All section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office.”

Rules further restrict such nonprofits from taking political sides, but they may spend up to 20 percent of their operating budgets on so-called lobbying efforts if the organizations follows the rules of “non partisanship,” About.com adds.

Earlier this week, Media Matters founder David Brock wrote an op-ed published on his website that his organization specifically defends Hillary Clinton.

Wrote Brock: “By refusing to release the transcript, the Republicans want to hide the true nature of the Blumenthal deposition: Their partisan attempt to both chill Blumenthal’s right to freely express his own political views and more broadly to intimidate our organizations – organizations that have led the way in exposing the fraudulence of the Benghazi investigation itself. (Not to mention our role in specifically defending Hillary Clinton from the Republicans’ unfair attacks on the subject).”

Brock was also the co-author of an e-book entitled, “The Benghazi Hoax.” The work was largely a defense of Clinton’s actions regarding the Benghazi attacks.

Earlier this year, Brock, a known Clinton ally, abruptly resigned from the board of Priorities USA Action, a Super PAC that supported Clinton for the presidency.

Meanwhile, Blumenthal’s October 10, 2012, email to Clinton circulated five Media Matters articles on Benghazi.

The subjects include:

• “Right-Wing Media’s Libya Consulate Security Mythology Falls Apart”
• “Fox Favorite Jason Chaffetz And The Right-Wing Media’s Libya Hearings”
• “Myths And Facts About The Benghazi Attack And Protests In The Middle East”

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Bombshell report: U.S. fighting for Iranian militia in Iraq

 

WASHINGTON – “This is such an unbelievable betrayal of all those troops who were attacked, maimed and killed by these same Iran-backed Shi’ite terror militias in the 2000s.”

That was the reaction of Iran expert Clare Lopez to the news that U.S. forces in Iraq are now supporting Iranian militias.

The headline of a Bloomberg article Monday blared: “Iran’s Forces and U.S. Share a Base in Iraq.”

But buried within the story was an item that Lopez found significantly more alarming.

According to the report, U.S. troops are not just cohabitating with Iran’s Shiite militia units, “But the U.S. is flying close air support missions for those forces.”

Clare Lopez, vice president for research and analysis at the Center for Security Policy

“Fighting on the same side of anything that includes this jihadist Iranian regime ought to be unthinkable,” Lopez told WND.

“I guess not for this White House,” added the woman who manages the counter-jihad and Shariah programs at the Center for Security Policy, run by former Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney.

“I’ve been to Bethesda to visit soldiers maimed for life, missing arms & legs, thanks to EFPs (explosively formed projectiles) and IEDs (improvised explosive devices) in Iraq that came from Iranian factories & were set by these Iranian terror proxies,” Lopez told WND.

“And now we’re co-locating (based at the same facility) with them, helping them fight ISIS, which is every bit as bad as the mullahs, but the only credible Sunni force fighting against them,” she added incredulously.

Lopez recently appeared on a Capitol Hill panel on Iran and was introduced by former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Pentagon spokeswoman KT McFarland as “a career CIA operations officer. You know that movie, ‘Zero Dark Thirty’? The woman who was the hero? Think Clare Lopez.”

Jessica Chastain as “Maya”in “Zero Dark Thirty”

Her insights are backed by an impressive array of credentials. In addition to spending two decades in the field as a CIA operations officer, Lopez was an instructor for military intelligence and special forces students; has been a consultant, intelligence analyst and researcher within the defense sector; and has published two books on Iran.

“We’ve really got no business getting in the middle of what is in fact an intra-Islamic sectarian struggle between Shiite jihadis who hate us and Sunni jihadis who hate us,” Lopez told WND.

But the American-Iranian cooperation in Iraq fits in perfectly with what Lopez told WND more than a year ago, that America has switched sides in the war on terror under President Obama.

An that Obama seeks to ally with Iran.

Lopez had told WND the Obama administration “consistently has engaged with this Iranian regime, pleaded with it to engage, and continue to engage, in obviously fruitless negotiations over their nuclear weapons program. The administration extended deadlines repeatedly, refused to hold Iran to account meaningfully for its terror support, including involvement in Sept. 11, lethal support to Iraqi militias in the 2000s and continuing harboring al-Qaida operations cell on its soil.”

In another interview with WND, Lopez explained what she thought was Obama’s real goal: Far from seeking the defeat of jihadism in the Mideast or globally, Obama preferred to let Sunni and Shiite jihadists each have their own spheres of influence in the Muslim world.

“The administration’s plan, I believe, is to remove American power and influence, including military forces, from Islamic lands,” Lopez asserted.

When WND remarked that was just what Osama bin Laden had demanded, Lopez pointed out that is the aim of all jihadis, “Because that is what Islam demands, that foreign forces be kicked out of Islamic lands.”

Does Obama think if we leave the Mideast the jihadis will then leave us alone?

“I don’t know,” she said. “I can just see the pattern that is enabling the rise of Islam, empowering the Muslim Brotherhood domestically and abroad, alienating and distancing ourselves from our friends and allies and debilitating the American military.”

Obama bows to Saudi King Abdullah, on April 1, 2009

Lopez doesn’t just think Obama wants to withdraw entirely from the Mideast.

She believes he wants to turn most of it over to Iran.

“I am convinced that this administration intends Iran to become the nuclear power hegemon of the entire Persian Gulf region – and that includes especially the oil-rich areas. This includes the east coast of Saudi Arabia as well as southern Iraq and Iran itself.”

And, she believes the Obama administration is, in fact, following a plan to let Iran become the dominant power in the Middle East, with the intention of turning the state that sponsors more terrorism than any other, into a security partner of the U.S.

“We pull all our forces out, which has been done, and we let them take over,” Lopez explained. “I think that’s already underway.”

“Its not in the United States’ best interests, but it is one way of getting us out of Muslim lands, which is what this administration wants done. They are trying to be even-handed between the Shiites and the Sunni, especially with the Muslim Brotherhood clamoring in their ear,” she said.

“So, what happens? Arab Spring. North Africa goes to the Sunnis: al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood. They should be happy with that: They get Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. The Persian Gulf region goes to Iran.”

And Iran is permitted to be a nuclear power.

Iran’s third test of its Sajjil-2 medium range ballistic missile in Dec. 2009

“I think it already is a nuclear power,” Lopez asserted.

“I think they have functioning warheads. They obviously have functioning missiles, including ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles). The Pentagon has published openly its estimate by next year, 2015, Iranian ICBMs will be capable of reaching the continental U.S. from Iran. This is open, unclassified, open-source publication.”

“So, the plan of this administration is to pull out of the Middle East, allow it to revert to Islamic control, as in the caliphates of old, or imamates, in the case of the Shiites. And to allow Islam to resurge, which is exactly what’s happening.”

WND asked, Obama’s plan is to take us back 1,300 years?

“Well, not us, but to let the Middle East do that,” she clarified.

Lopez noted a distinct peculiarity to keep in mind when negotiating with Iran: “Islamic law obligates Muslims to lie to non-Muslims. Why on earth would anyone expect Iran, a jihad and Shariah state, to negotiate with Westerners in good faith?”

Lopez does see “a tremendous naiveté about what jihad and Shariah really mean” on the part of the Obama administration.

She detects “an apparent trust that if the U.S. adopts a more accommodating attitude, well, then so will the Iranians. I’m not sure how Ivy League graduates could be so ignorant of world history. I cannot imagine they’d want to inflict the legacy of Islamic jihad on anyone if they knew what it has meant historically.”

Lopez cited the reasons Obama has decided to remove U.S. power and influence from the Middle East and North Africa:

• He has a worldview that sees America as influence for ill in the world; therefore, he must diminish that influence wherever and however possible.

• He has a worldview that sees Islam as suppressed and oppressed by Western (colonial) powers and the U.S. as the inheritor of that oppressive role.

• He has a desire to “rectify” what is viewed as “injustice” suffered by Islam at the hands of the West and has decided that best way to do that is for the U.S. to withdraw and allow and empower Islam to rise back up again to what is seen as its “rightful” place in the world.

The former CIA operative said, “as Israel fought enemies on all sides to remain free, secure and Jewish, America began to move away from Israel and toward its Muslim enemies. And, as Iran moved inexorably toward a deliverable nuclear weapons capability, America helped.”

Lopez reiterated many of those themes, and added some fresh insights, during her Capitol Hill appearance Friday on a panel of national security experts discussing the dangers of negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran.

“I don’t lose sleep because Britain has nukes or France has nukes,” Lopez told the audience.

Iran?

“That’s worrisome.”

She noted Iran is a signatory of the Cairo Declaration which was essentially a withdrawal from the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a pledge of allegiance to Islamic law, which allows amputations, beheadings and crucifixions.

Lopez said 500 Iranians have been executed just this year.

“Women are second-class citizens. They are literally unequal to men. They (morality police) roam the streets looking for people who are not wearing the right clothing.”

A mainstay of the Iranian regime’s ideology, she said, was “Jew hatred.”

“Jew hatred is intrinsic to the Quran but the genocidal threats have been nonstop. There is no way that Israel can look at this regime and listen to its daily threats of genocide, its dehumanization of Jewish people, calling them bacteria and cockroaches and other insects” and not feel its survival is at stake.

Lopez recalled how just in March, the commander of the Iranian forces said, during the middle of negotiations between Iranian diplomats and the U.S., that the “annihilation of Israel is non-negotiable.”

“That (Israel) is our number one ally and partner in the Middle East, standing between the barbarism of (Islamist) regimes and Western Civilization.”

“Why are we talking to these people?”

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