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June 30, 2014
Shooters Grill staff packing six shooters while serving burgers Second Amendment-style
From left, Shooters staffers Ashlee Saenz, owner Lauren Boebert, Jessie Spaulding and Dusty stand in front of the business in their work attire. Photo credit: Christopher Mullen / Post Independent
Shooters Grill staff packing six shooters while serving burgers Second Amendment-style
While establishments around the country are setting up gun-free zones, one Colorado restaurant is welcoming customers who are packing – and they’re waited on by armed servers.
The restaurant’s name: Shooters Grill, located in the gun-friendly town of Rifle.
Waitress Ashlee Saenz serves customers with a loaded Ruger .357 Blackhawk handgun holstered to her leg, Old West-style,and she knows how to use it, she told the Post Independent.
“Guns are welcome on premises,” a sign on Shooter’s front door says. “Please keep all weapons holstered, unless the need arises. In such cases, judicious marksmanship is appreciated.”
Shooters owner Lauren Boebert called herself a strong supporter of the Second Amendment.
“We encourage it, and the customers love that they can come here and express their rights,” Boebert told the Post. “This country was founded on our freedom. People can come in carrying their gun, and they can pray over their food.”
Boebert and her husband, Jayson, opened the Western-themed restaurant a little more than a year ago. Its menu features American and Mexican food. Alcohol is not in the offing, and the décor and philosophy reflect Boebert’s strong faith..
“I consulted with my Christian friends, and everyone said ‘Shooters’ sounded like a bar or a strip joint,” she said. “But I thought, this is Rifle — it was founded around guns and the Old West. We called it Shooters and started throwing guns and Jesus all over the place.”
The restaurant offers training classes every other month so participants can qualify for a concealed carry permit in Colorado and Utah. The sessions even include dinner.
In a town with a low crime rate, Police Chief John Dyer told the Post he likes Shooters’ business model.
“If it was a bar, I might be saying something different. But I have no problem with it,” he said. “And besides, they make a really good burger.”
Wild Thing's comment...........
God bless them.
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Dangerous and Irresponsible Obama and Democrats to blame for this! Canada Pulls Plug on Keystone Pipeline and Makes Deal With Asia
Dangerous and Irresponsible Obama and Democrats to blame for this! Canada Pulls Plug on Keystone Pipeline – Makes Deal With Asia
The proposed project would have extended from Alberta, Canada to Illinois, transporting approximately 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Estimated cost is $1.7 billion.
But Obama rejected the plan in 2011 and in 2014.
Obama’s inability to make a decision on Keystone has finally yielded a result – Canada has made the decision for him.
Canada has just approved the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project – a major pipeline to ship Canadian oil to Asia.
The Canadian oil will still be burnt – in Asia, instead of America.
All the jobs and energy security which Canadian oil could have delivered to America, will instead be delivered to Asia.
Rather than purchasing crude from a friendly and allied neighbor, the United States will most likely need to continue its reliance upon hostile sources like Venezuela.
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Damn Obama to hell !!!!! Obama is EVIL.
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June 29, 2014
Judicial Watch: IRS Has Made False and Misleading Statements – “They Are in Real Trouble” (video)
Judicial Watch: IRS Has Made False and Misleading Statements – “They Are in Real Trouble”
Judicial Watch representative Chris Farrell joined Kimberly Guilfoyle tonight on Justice with Judge Jeanine. Farrell announced that Judicial Watch has forced the IRS to court on July 10, 2014. This came after the IRS withheld information from the courts on the conservative targeting scandal.
“We’ve been involved in litigation for months now. In fact, the revelations that have come about are because of our litigation to force the IRS to produce records… They never mentioned to us or the court about the supposedly lost emails. So, we forced them into court. They need to appear on July 10… The real problem with the IRS in this case is they’ve been in communication with the court and they have never told the court about these missing or lost emails. So they’ve made what appear to be false and misleading statements to the court about the records themselves and how they’re producing them to us. They’ve pinned themselves in a corner. They are in real trouble.”
The court granted Judicial Watch a hearing over the missing IRS emails to be held on July 10.
Wild Thing's comment..............
I am glad Judicial Watch is doing this. I hope they will be successful in their attempts.
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Benghazi Terror Suspect Pleads NOT GUILTY..........John Bolton Weighs In!
Benghazi Terror Suspect Pleads NOT GUILTY..........John Bolton Weighs In!
Wild Thing's comment............
I am glad Bolton is around to tell what he thinks about this. I can just see him shaking his head like we do with all this happening.
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June 28, 2014
Top Border Control Official: The US Is Now Part of the Smuggling Business
Albert Spratte, the sergeant-at-arms of the National Border Patrol Council, Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, said the US is now in the smuggling business. Illegal immigrants know the Obama administration will not send them back once they come into the US.
Albert Spratte, the sergeant-at-arms of the National Border Patrol Council, Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, said the Obama administration is largely to blame for waves of illegal immigrants that have been flooding the Southwest U.S. border since February, saying the government opened the door for the crisis by making it “clear they’re not going to deport people.”
Spratte, who was speaking with CNSNews.com as a representative of the union, further said “we don’t have control of the border,” and if the Obama administration claims it is not in effect giving amnesty to the illegals, then “don’t believe them.”
Also, by allowing so many young illegal aliens to be released into this country, “the U.S. government has become a part of the smuggling business,” he said.
“This is Washington’s problem to fix. This administration has made it pretty clear they’re not going to deport people, with things like the DREAM Act and all that,” Spratte told CNSNews.com during an interview on June 22 in McAllen, Texas, currently the busiest zone of the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border.
“It used to be that if you got caught, we sent you back. Now we don’t do that,” he said. “The people in Central America, they’ve heard we aren’t sending people back. Word’s gotten around. When these people come up to us and turn themselves over, that’s what they tell us. So we’ve created a suction now.”
Wild Thing's comment............
This is a FREAKING NIGHTMARE for our Country ! Everything Obama touches turns into a nightmare.
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10 Things You May Not Know About Our 239-Year-Old US Army
Stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door, jump right out and count to four!
When the 173rd Airborne traveled to Central West Africa to take part in Exercise Central Accord, they made history by jumping with Cameroonian paratroopers. Chief Warrant Officer and Jumpmaster Bobby Sattazahn offers us his take on the operation.
10 Things You May Not Know About Our 239-Year-Old US Army
1. It’s older than the US.
The American Revolution was fought right here in Massachusetts by the country’s first militias in 1775. After several major battles were fought, a measure to create The Army’s unified command structure passed on June 14, 1775. While George Washington led our Army in 1775, The United States of America was not an independent nation until 1776.
2. It’s huge.
The size of the US Army peaked a few years ago at about 570,000 active duty soldiers. Reserve and National Guard soldiers accounted for at least another 500,000 members, which put the total number of men and women in the Army over 1 million.
3. The Army now has astronauts.
NASA selects soldiers to join them in space exploration efforts. In 2013, Major Anne McClain and Major Andrew R. Morgan were selected as astronaut candidates and joined the Army Forces Strategic Command’s NASA Detachment in Houston, Texas. They also get to wear astronaut “wings” on their uniform.
4. Many celebrities and most of our presidents have worn the Army uniform.
Celebrities who have served in the Army include Ice-T, Mel Brooks, Tom Selleck, Mickey Rooney, Hugh Hefner, and Tony Bennett.
Most of our 43 presidents have also served with the Army: 24 to be exact, including Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan.
5. We can thank them for exploring and mapping most of the country.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition was an Army affair, and Army officials were the first Americans to see national landmarks like the Grand Canyon and Pike’s Peak.
6. The Air Force was part of the Army until 1946.
Originally called the Army Air Corps, the US Air Force existed within the Army for 16 years.
7. Their official song was the last one to be adopted by a military service.
“The Army Goes Rolling Along” became the Army song in 1956.
8. Special Forces are everywhere.
SF Counterterrorism responds to terroristic threats all over the world and aims to prevent terrorist groups from forming. In 2012 the Special Forces Command Public Affairs Office reported that U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers had deployed to 135 of the 195 recognized countries in the last decade.
9. Army equipment is some of the most advanced technology in the world.
From aircraft to ground vehicles, our Army has the best technical support available.
The Apache Longbow is the Army’s primary attack helicopter, followed by the UH-60 Black Hawk, which is used for both assault and transport. Referred to as their “workhorse,” a Chinook helicopter can transport up to 50 troops and carry up to 26,000 pounds from its main hook.
Down on the ground, the M1 Abrams tank is the Army’s principal combat tank and offers quite a bit of firepower. Each one costs about $9 million, operates under all weather, and “provides nuclear, biological, and chemical survivability.”
10. If you don’t already follow them on Twitter, you’re missing out.
From throw-back photos to live-streams of official Pentagon Channel broadcasts, they tweet everything Army. They even shared this gem on National Donut Day: World War I soldiers frying donuts — in their helmets, of course.
During WWI, Salvation Army volunteers used Soldiers' helmets to fry donuts
Donut Day is a celebration of brave women of The Salvation Army going to the front lines and serving the men there. To this day we still celebrate those brave women.
Wild Thing's comment...........
Very cool, love learning about all these things. God bless our US Army.
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Obamacare pushing doctors, hospitals to check spending habits, credit cards of patients
Obamacare pushing doctors, hospitals to check spending habits, credit cards of patients
Socialized medicine at work. Because hospitals can be fined for administering the same treatment to a patient who is readmitted with the same ailment, they will now be checking your credit card data to make sure your spending habits aren’t contributing to your bad health.
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Big government in everyone's life.
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June 27, 2014
Corrupt Nancy Pelosi will greet illegal aliens to America at the US border on Saturday
Nancy Pelosi will greet illegal aliens to America at the US border on Saturday
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will travel to the southern border of the U.S. on Saturday to be briefed by Customs and Border Protection on the flood of unaccompanied minors entering the country.
The California Democrat will also meet with a group of children held at the South Texas Detention Facility.
“The humanitarian crisis unfolding across our nation’s southern border demands Congress come together and find thoughtful, compassionate and bipartisan solutions,” Pelosi said. “We must ensure our laws are fully enforced, so that due process is provided to unaccompanied children and the safety and well-being of unaccompanied children is protected. We must also work to address the root causes of the problem.”
More than 50,000 unaccompanied children from central America have crossed the border into the United States since last October, but federal law says the U.S. cannot immediately turn the minors away if they are from non-contiguous countries such as Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
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If she is so concerned with her wanting them here she should take every last one of them to her home, board them, feed them etc. Then pay them out of HER own money to support them. And they still will be criminals for entering illegally into our country.
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White House Threatens Obama Will Take Action On Favoring ILLEGALS and Not Obey Our Immigration Laws
White House Warn Pres Obama Will Take Exec Action On Immigration Soon - The Kelly File
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Obama created this whole mess , he invited all these children to be dropped off in our country just so he could push his illegal agenda against our country. I am so fed up witrh his crap.
Katie was awesome on Megyn's show.
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Dictator Barack Obama Tells Americans Not to Pay Attention to all the “Phony Scandals” that are “Not on the Level”
Barack Obama Tells Americans Not to Pay Attention to all the “Phony Scandals” that are “Not on the Level”
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Once again he calls all his scandals phony. He is demanding that he just be allowed to do any and all scandals and corruption and not be blamed for anything.
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Obama Calls Benghazi A “Phony Scandal”
Obama Calls Benghazi A “Phony Scandal”
Obama charged that his Republican opponents had “nothing to offer except cynicism and fear and frustration” during a fundraiser Thursday in Minnesota.
The fundraiser capped off a day Obama spent with Rebekah Erler, a working mother who wrote the president to detail her financial struggle.
“It moved me,” Obama said of the letter, adding that he only went into politics to help people like her.
Obama said he remembered what it felt like to be struggling to figure out “how you lead a good life and raise your kids, not looking to get wildly wealthy… trying to make ends meet.”
That’s what we should be talking about every day in Washington,” he said. “We talk about everything else. .. We talk about phony scandals. We talk about Benghazi. and we talk about polls and we talk about the tea party and we talk about the latest controversy... We don’t talk about her.”
Wild Thing's comment............
Amazing how he truly does not care about the American lives that were murdered, and the massacre. I think he hates American citizens.
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Ted Cruz: Attorney General Eric Holder Should Appoint IRS Special Prosecutor or Be Impeached
Ted Cruz: Attorney General Eric Holder Should Appoint IRS Special Prosecutor or Be Impeached
Attorney General Eric Holder should be impeached if he refuses to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the targeting of tea-party groups by the IRS, according to Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas).
With the IRS claiming to have lost two years of former official Lois Lerner’s e-mails, Cruz is headed to the floor to introduce a resolution calling for the special prosecutor.
“He’s going to say, if Attorney General Holder does not appoint a special prosecutor, he should be impeached,” a Cruz aide told National Review Online. “Eric Holder has been at the center of every big scandal in this administration . . . If he doesn’t act on this issue, it’s perfectly appropriate for him to be impeached.”
Cruz believes that Holder’s failure to appoint a special prosecutor would rise to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” the constitutional standard for impeachment.
Senate Democrats, of course, are very likely to block the resolution. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) articulated the party line last week when she was asked if she was suspicious of the hard-drive crash that the IRS says eradicated Lerner’s e-mails.
“What it convinces me of is that they need a new technology system at the IRS,” Pelosi told reporters. “They need to upgrade their technology, get it right, so that there’s no suspicion about what agenda anyone may have on that.”.
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Thank you Ted I agree.
Cruz did great. he is always so good at expressing himself and so natural at speaking.
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June 26, 2014
A Poor-Off - Hillary Clinton Vs Joe Biden - Jon Stewart - Special Report
A Poor-Off - Hillary Clinton Vs Joe Biden - Jon Stewart - Special Report
Wild Thing's comment............
LOL thought you might like to see this from Bret Baier's show pm FOX.
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Megyn Kelly discusses EPA Claims Emails Requested By Congress Lost Do To Computer Crash
EPA Claims Emails Requested By Congress Lost Do To Computer Crash
Wild Thing's comment.........
As long as these people keep getting away with their crimes they will do even worse things. I am so tired of being outraged every single day by these people but there is nothing I can do about it. Not one day since Obama became president have any of us had a break in his being horrible, his getting his own way and his destruction.
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Obama's EPA Joins Obama IRS in Missing Emails and Crashed Hard Drives Club (Video) - Total Corruption from Obama
Obama's EPA Joins Obama IRS in Missing Emails and Crashed Hard Drives Club (Video)
The IRS is not the only federal agency with lost emails.
The EPA too has lost emails as well as having crashed hard drives.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told Congress yesterday the EPA may have lost emails belonging to a former agency official due to a crashed hard drive.
Move over, IRS — now the EPA is having its own problems with missing emails.
The environmental agency is having trouble locating emails belonging to a former agency employee and pulling information from his crashed hard drive, House members revealed Wednesday while questioning Administrator Gina McCarthy at a hearing on complaints of mismanagement.
“What is it with bureaucrats and public employees … the hard drives crash?” asked Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-Mich.).
He and others on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee questioned McCarthy about missing information related to the committee’s investigation into the potential environmental impact of a proposed gold and copper mine in the Bristol Bay watershed in Alaska.
“It sounds like we have another missing hard drive,” said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.).
McCarthy said her agency hasn’t given up.
“We’re having trouble getting information off of it and are trying different ways,” McCarthy said.
The agency also notified the National Archives on Tuesday that there may be some unrecoverable emails that should have been preserved under federal law. “I’m still hoping we recovered all those emails,” she said.
Wild Thing's comment...........
Sooooooooooo many lies and corruption and all from Obama's people. just like Obama.
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ROTFLMAO - White House’s Bizarre Claim: Obama’s Climate Change Plan Will Prevent 3,300 Heart Attacks
White House’s Bizarre Claim: Obama’s Climate Change Plan Will Prevent 3,300 Heart Attacks
Barack Obama’s Climate Action Plan will stop 3,300 heart attacks and 150,000 asthma attacks, according to a report released by the White House Wednesday.
The plan, which includes new efficiency standards and renewable energy projects, will reportedly prevent 6,600 deaths — when “fully implemented.”
“Since the Climate Action Plan’s release, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed carbon pollution standards for new and existing power plants that put our nation on track to cut carbon pollution from the power sector by 30 percent and reduce pollutants that contribute to the soot and smog that make people sick by over 25 percent in 2030,” the report explains.
Wild Thing's comment............
Oh please this is just too stupid.
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Total Weirdo! Rand Paul Backs Black Democrats Voting For Cochran In GOP Primary: “I’m For More People Voting”
Rand Paul Backs Black Democrats Voting For Cochran In GOP Primary: “I’m For More People Voting”…
He wouldn’t be saying that if it was his primary opponent pulling dirty tricks like Cochran.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a potential 2016 presidential contender, declined to support tea party critics of Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran’s efforts to mobilize non-GOP voters to win the Republican nomination.
“I’m for more people voting, not less people voting,” Paul told reporters Wednesday.
Paul, an original tea party icon for his 2010 GOP primary win over the establishment, has worked assiduously the past year on broadening his party’s appeal to minority voters, including negotiating with Democrats on efforts to rewrite the Voting Rights Act.
Cochran’s vote total grew by almost 40,000 votes from the initial June 3 primary to Tuesday’s runoff against state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R). Much of that growth has been credited to courting independent and Democratic voters on the state’s Gulf Coast, where shipyard work has been supported by Cochran for decades, and also an aggressive effort to turn out black voters.
In Mississippi all voters can cast ballots in one party’s primary. Paul noted that one of his sons spent time at summer camp working on a proposal that would open up Kentucky’s closed primary system to independent voters.
“I’m for more people voting,” Paul said.
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I am no fan of Rand Paul. and there is no way he will ever be president.
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June 25, 2014
Pushups For Charity with Boot Campaign supporting our Troops and Veterans Visits Tyler, Texas
Boot Campaign headed to Tyler to help out at Premier CrossFit. With more than 144 participants, it’s not hard to see why this event logged 10,764 pushups! Members, kids and even Boot Campaign volunteers joined in to blow the original goal of 7,500 pushups right out of the water. Early fundraising totals exceed $26,000 for this event – woohoo! Special guests Morgan and Leslie Luttrell and Boot Campaign’s SSgt Joey Jones (USMC Ret) made the event even more special. We love it when a plan comes together!
In 90 seconds you can change the life of a Veteran. Pushups For Charity® is an annual fundraiser that raises awareness and support for our military heroes through the national nonprofit, Boot Campaign®. 1.4 Million Pushups to Raise $1 MILLION
Americans throughout the U.S. will show their support of the 1.4 million men and women who are currently serving by completing as many Pushups as they can in 90 seconds.
Each Pushup completed raises much needed funds for Boot Campaign®, a national nonprofit that promotes patriotism, raises awareness and provides vital assistance for our nation's heroes.
The Boot Campaign® provides assistance to our military and their family members through six key initiatives: Jobs, Housing, Wellness, Education, Urgent Assistance and Family Support.
It doesn't matter how many Pushups you can do or how well you can do them... Every PUSHUP makes a difference!
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Wild Thing's comment............
Great cause and wonderful people that head this up. I love seeing how they have such an awesome reaction across the USA.
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Malaysia’s Muslim PM Urges Followers To Be “Brave” Like ISIS Jihadists
Malaysia’s Muslim PM Urges Followers To Be “Brave” Like ISIS Jihadists
MALAYSIA: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has stirred controversy with his comment on ISIS militants.
In his speech to his ruling party the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) on Monday night, he said that if UMNO members were as brave as ISIS militants, the party would be strong.
It was meant as a pep talk of sorts when PM Najib spoke to his fellow party members.
He said UMNO members need to have six traits in order for the party to survive and flourish — bravery, obedience, loyalty, unity, excellence and sincerity. But it was his example of bravery that caused concern.
PM Najib said that UMNO members should emulate militants in the Middle East, whom he described as fearless in fighting for their cause.
Keith Leong, a research analyst with the KRA Group, said: “I think he was simply saying that he expects UMNO members to be brave and selfless. Of course, it’s a rather awkward and clumsy example to use given what’s happening in Iraq now.”
Already, some militants from Malaysia were reported to have received physical and weapons training by ISIS militants in order to join the insurgencies in Syria and Iraq.
Malaysian police believe more than 20 Malaysians are now in the Middle East fighting alongside ISIS militants.
Sixteen people have been arrested in the past few weeks for suspected links to militant groups. Four have been charged, while another four are still under investigation. The rest were released due to insufficient evidence.
The police now fear that these militants may pose a threat to Malaysia's national security as the militants believe the UMNO-led government is a secular one and needs to be ousted through violent means.
Wild Thing's comment.............
Typical muslim, this jerk is all pro terrorists all the way.
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Hannity: IRS Commissioner Is An 'Arrogant Little Deceptive Jackass' Who Was Brought in By Obama to 'Stonewall, Delay and Protect the Administration' (AUDIO)
Hannity: IRS Commissioner Is An 'Arrogant Little Deceptive Jackass' Who Was Brought in By Obama to 'Stonewall, Delay and Protect the Administration' (AUDIO)
Wild Thing's comment............
Hannity is right , this man is horrible.
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Obama's Homeland Security adviser tweets America is ‘Islamic country’
Homeland Security adviser tweets America is ‘Islamic country’
A leading adviser at the Department of Homeland Security has jumped from the frying pan into the fire, following up comments about the Constitution being “Islamically compliant” with an even more head-turning tweet — that America is an Islamic country.
In October, adviser Mohamed Elibiary sent out a Twitter message that said, “Yes, I do consider the United States of America an Islamic country with an Islamically compliant constitution. Move on!”
The tweet generated hundreds of retweets and comments. But, as Breitbart reported, Mr. Elibiary hasn’t backed off his assessment of America.
In a tweet over the weekend, he responded to another writer with this clarification, and doubling down of his earlier comments, Breitbart found: “I said America was an Islamic country not a Muslim country. Pls study up on the difference before attacking me.”
Breitbart also reported that the tweet seemed to have disappeared from Mr. Elibiary’s Twitter feed. And he still hasn’t clarified to the Investigative Project what he meant by the comment — given Census Bureau figures put the Muslim population in America compared to the world’s at less than’s .2 percent, Breitbart said.
But some — like Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy — say his assessment of America just doesn’t fit and is pure spin.
“His entire attempt to repeatedly say that ‘America is Islamic’ is pure deception in the context of an Islamist ideologue like him who has not only never critiqued Islamism but rather continuously advocates for it,” Mr. Jasser said, Breitbart reported.
“In fact, it is not. American Islamists like Elibiary have consistently rejected debate with other anti-Islamist Muslims about the threat of Islamism and the way to separate Islam from Islamism. Why? If they lost that debate, his entire raison d’être inside the U.S. government ceases to exist,” he said.
Mr. Jasser also went on to say in Breitbart that “Islamism is incompatible with liberty and is a supremacist doctrine for which he deceptively argues is Islam the faith.”
Mr. Elibiary founded Lone Star Intelligence LLC, a security consulting company, and was appointed to President Obama’s Homeland Security Advisory Council in 2010.
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Remember how we found out in Obama's first term as president that he had put many muslims and those favoring Islam in his administration. This jerk is part of that and what a bunch of propaganda he is spewing.
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June 24, 2014
Trey Gowdy OWNS IRS Commissioner John Koskinen
Trey Gowdy OWNS IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.
GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy just destroying IRS Commissioner John Koskinen during a Congressional hearing held tonight on the destruction of two years’ worth of Lois Lerner emails pertaining to the IRS targeting of Conservative Groups.
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Trey Gowdy is awesome. Trey Gowdy is a hell of a prosecutor.
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Jim Jordan hammers IRS commissioner Koskinen over missing Lois Lerner emails
Jim Jordan hammers IRS commissioner Koskinen over missing Lois Lerner emails
During testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, IRS Chief John Koskinen said he could not remember who told him that Lois Lerner’s emails were lost. This was unbelievable. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) nailed him during testimony.
Rep. Jim Jordan: The chairman asked you, “Who told you this information?” You can’t remember?
IRS Chief John Koskinen: No, I… do not remember.
Jordan: Did someone tell you in person? Did they send you an email?
Koskinen: I do not get emails on these subjects so I’m sure it was someone in person.
Jordan: This has been a major news story for the past 13 months and you don’t remember who came up to you and said, ‘Hey boss, we lost Lois Lerner’s emails”? You don’t remember anything about that situation?
Koskinen: I remember being told in April… I do not recall who told me.
Wild Thing's comment........
Jim Jordan is another favorite of mine. He has always been great at getting in their and hammering away.
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IRS Commissioner: No One Has Been Fired Who Was Involved In Lerner Email Loss Scandal -Disgusting!
IRS Commissioner: No One Has Been Fired Who Was Involved In Lerner Email Loss Scandal
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If you are a dem you don't get fired for corruption or doing anything wrong.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM
CNN Anchors Can’t Keep from Laughing at Hillary Clinton’s, “I’m not Truly Well-Off” Remark!
CNN Anchors Can’t Keep from Laughing at Hillary Clinton’s, “I’m not Truly Well-Off” Remark!
Wild Thing's comment........
It makes me smile to see this happening, when the left media does this to their own.
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June 23, 2014
Chris Wallace hammers Juan Williams over IRS scandal - "I know facts are inconvenient" - Good For Wallace!
Chris Wallace hammers Juan Williams over IRS scandal - "I know facts are inconvenient" . Juan is being his usual Obama apologist self
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I am glad Chris Wallace stood up to Juan. Juan is constantly making excuses for Obama.
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Obama’s ‘Dumping of Illegals is Intentional’
Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Obama’s ‘Dumping of Illegals is Intentional’
All the illegals rushing the border are using rehearsed answers to get into the US. They claim they are escaping the violence, drug wars and economic oppression. These are the things people say who are refugees seeking asylum and it’s all his majesty needs to get his new pool of voters one way or another.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is dead on saying the dumping of illegals is intentional. It was orchestrated with complete mastery of a radical progressive, the son and student of communists who became a professor of Alinksy, Cloward & Piven and Marx! And wouldn’t you know it we have that guy in barack obama!
He is always one step ahead planning how to run this country into the ground. A crisis is all he needs to act and he got one with this manufactured humanitarian crisis.
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Sheriff Joe has been such a good guy.
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How Eric Holder Has Destroyed the Justice Department’s Reputation
How Eric Holder Has Destroyed the Justice Department’s Reputation
I don’t know who the next U.S. attorney general will be, but I know I pity that person. Restoring the Justice Department’s reputation in the wake of Eric H. Holder Jr.’s tenure will take a lot of work.
You can find out just how big a task it will be in “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department,” a new book by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky. Even at a relatively slim 217 pages, it’s quite a bill of indictment.
It’s one thing to read about certain cases as they pop up in the news cycle — an article about a civil rights investigation here, a blog post about Operation Fast and Furious there. It’s another to assemble them in one place and get the big picture in one sitting.
Holder is the first attorney general in U.S. history to be held in contempt of Congress. Considering his behavior toward the legislative branch, it’s not surprising. He stonewalled, for example, when the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned him about the scandal that erupted when it was revealed that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting conservative organizations.
Or take the testimony he gave the House Judiciary Committee when asked about prosecuting the press over publishing classified material. Holder swore that he had never been involved in that or even thought about doing so.
Yet the committee subsequently learned that Holder had approved a search warrant for Fox News reporter James Rosen’s emails by “swearing to a federal court that Rosen was a co-conspirator in a national security leak investigation.”
How did Holder explain this gap between his answer and the truth when the committee asked about it? He didn’t. He refused to answer.
Then there’s the deplorable way the Civil Rights Division has been run under Holder and Thomas Perez, an assistant attorney general from 2009 to 2013.
In their chapter “The (Un)Civil Rights Division,” Fund and von Spakovsky detail numerous instances in which Holder and Perez “pursued a militant civil rights agenda intended to help Democrats win elections and implement a socialized America where racial, ethnic, and sexual quotas are required in everything from college admissions to public employment to school discipline.”
But Holder will probably be best known for overseeing Operation Fast and Furious, which put more than 2,000 guns into the hands of a Mexican drug cartel and led to the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens and a U.S. Border Patrol agent. When federal lawmakers began investigating, Holder again opted not to cooperate, but to cover up.
Any claim “that ATF ‘sanctioned’ or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them to Mexico is false,” Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich wrote to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa in February 2011. “ATF makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation into Mexico.”
But nine months later, after weeks of foot-dragging and attempts to find “dirt” on those who had blown the whistle on Fast and Furious, the Justice Department finally came clean. In November 2011, Holder admitted under oath that the gun-walking had, in fact, occurred. The February denial was rescinded.
To some observers, the idea of a truly ethical Justice Department is something of a pipe dream. As far as they’re concerned, the attorney general is nominated by a president who’s either Democrat or Republican, so we shouldn’t be surprised when he conducts business is a partisan manner.
Such a cynical view, though, is unfounded. Many fine attorneys general have served ethically defensible terms under both Republicans and Democrats. The tenures of Edwin Meese under Ronald Reagan and Griffin Bell under Jimmy Carter, for example, prove that the Justice Department can be run in an entirely independent, professional way.
Holder’s term as attorney general represents the other end of the spectrum: driven by politics, tainted by scandal and mired in corruption. The need for an attorney general that will, in fact, uphold the Constitution in a fair, impartial and ethical fashion has never been greater.
Wild Thing's comment.........
I am glad there is a book about him, not that it will change his vile time in office but it helps to know people are writing about it.
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June 22, 2014
Obama Whines That Michelle Is Not Getting Paid For All The Hard Work She Does (video)
Obama Whines That Michelle Is Not Getting Paid For All The Hard Work She Does
Wild Thing's comment..........
The two of them are really something from another planet. They really believe their BS.
Obama how about all the paid trips by we the tax payers, think about that you jerk.
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Jealous Feud Between The Obamas And “Hildebeest” Clintons
Jealous Feud Between The Obamas And “Hildebeest” Clintons
In his new book, “Blood Feud,” journalist Edward Klein gets inside the dysfunctional, jealous relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack and Michelle Obama — and how it could explode in 2016.
Outwardly, they put on a show of unity — but privately, the Obamas and Clintons, the two power couples of the Democrat Party, loathe each other.
“I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived,” Bill Clinton said to friends on one occasion, adding he would never forgive Obama for suggesting he was a racist during the 2008 campaign.
The feeling is mutual. Obama made excuses not to talk to Bill, while the first lady privately sniped about Hillary.
On most evenings, Michelle Obama and her trusted adviser, Valerie Jarrett, met in a quiet corner of the White House residence. They’d usually open a bottle of Chardonnay, catch up on news about Sasha and Malia, and gossip about people who gave them heartburn.
Their favorite bête noire was Hillary Clinton, whom they nicknamed “Hildebeest,” after the menacing and shaggy-maned gnu that roams the Serengeti.
‘Michelle could be president’
The animosity came to a head in the run-up to the 2012 election, when Obama’s inner circle insisted he needed the former president’s support to win. Obama finally telephoned Bill Clinton in September 2011 and invited him out for a round of golf.
“I’m not going to enjoy this,” Bill told Hillary when they gathered with a group of friends and political associates at Whitehaven, their neo-Georgian home on Embassy Row in Washington, DC.
“I’ve had two successors since I left the White House — Bush and Obama — and I’ve heard more from Bush, asking for my advice, than I’ve heard from Obama. I have no relationship with the president — none whatsoever,” Clinton said.
“I really can’t stand the way Obama always seems to be hectoring when he talks to me,” Clinton added, according to someone who was present at the gathering and spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Sometimes we just stare at each other. It’s pretty damn awkward. Now we both have favors to ask each other, and it’s going to be very unpleasant. But I’ve got to get this guy to owe me and to be on our side.”
During the golf game, Clinton didn’t waste any time reminding Obama that as president he had presided over eight years of prosperity, while Obama had been unable to dig the country out of the longest financial doldrums since the Great Depression.
“Bill got into it right away,” said a Clinton family friend. “He told Obama, ‘Hillary and I are gearing up for a run in 2016.’ He said Hillary would be ‘the most qualified, most experienced candidate, perhaps in history.’ His reference to Hillary’s experience made Obama wince, since it was clearly a shot at his lack of experience when he ran for president.
“And so Bill continued to talk about Hillary’s qualifications . . . and the coming campaign in 2016. But Barack didn’t bite. He changed the subject several times. Then suddenly, Barack said something that took Bill by complete surprise. He said, ‘You know, Michelle would make a great presidential candidate, too.’
“Bill was speechless. Was Barack comparing Michelle’s qualifications to Hillary’s? Bill said that if he hadn’t been on a mission to strike a deal with Barack, he might have stormed off the golf course then and there.”
Blackberry snub
Bill Clinton would go on to campaign for Obama in 2012, but he felt betrayed when the president seemed to waver when it came to a 2016 endorsement of Hillary. Obama attempted to smooth things over with a joint “60 Minutes” interview with Hillary, and later a private dinner for the two couples at the White House.
And so, on March 1, 2013 — the very day that the $85 billion in budget cuts known as the “sequester” went into effect — the Clintons slipped unnoticed into the White House and sat down for dinner with the Obamas in the Residence.
Typically, once Obama decided to do something (for example, the surge in Afghanistan), he immediately had second thoughts, and his behavior during dinner degenerated from moody to grumpy to bad-tempered.
After the obligatory greetings and small talk about family, Obama asked Bill what he thought about the sequester: Would it turn out to be a political plus for him? Bill went into a long — and boring — lecture about the issue.
To change the subject, Hillary asked Michelle if it was true, as she had heard, that the first lady was thinking about running for the Senate from Illinois.
Michelle said that she was warming to the idea, though she had yet to make up her mind.
Bill shot Hillary a look of incredulity.
Bill then moved the conversation to Obama’s vaunted 2012 campaign organization. He told Obama that it would be a good idea to fold the organization, along with all its digital and social-media bells and whistles, into the Democratic National Committee.
Obama’s only response was a disparaging smile.
“You have to use your organization to aid the candidate in 2016,” Bill pressed Obama.
“Really?” Obama replied in a tone of undisguised sarcasm.
The two men went back and forth over the subject of where the money for Obama’s campaign organization had come from and how to allocate funds for the 2016 presidential election. Bill raised his voice. So did Obama.
As Bill Clinton went on about his managerial experience, Obama began playing with his Blackberry under the table, making it plain that he wasn’t paying attention to anything Clinton had to say. He was intentionally snubbing Clinton. Others around the table noticed Obama thumbing his Blackberry, and the atmosphere turned even colder than before.
Hillary changed the subject again.
“Are you glad you won’t have to campaign again?” she asked Obama. “You don’t seem to enjoy it.”
“For a guy who doesn’t like it,” Obama replied tartly, “I’ve done pretty well.”
“Well,” Bill said, adding his two cents, “I was glad to pitch in and help get you re-elected.”
There was another long pause. Finally, Obama turned to Bill and said, sotto voce, “Thanks.”
After the dinner, and once the Clintons had been ushered out of the family quarters, Obama shook his head and said, “That’s why I never invite that guy over.”
Obama’s mini-me
Lately, Bill Clinton has become convinced that Obama won’t endorse Hillary in 2016. During a gathering at Whitehaven, guests overheard Bill talking to his daughter Chelsea about whether the president would back Joe Biden.
“Recently, I’ve been hearing a different scenario from state committeemen,” Clinton said. “They say he’s looking for a candidate who’s just like him. Someone relatively unknown. Someone with a fresh face.
“He’s convinced himself he’s been a brilliant president, and wants to clone himself — to find his Mini-Me.
“He’s hunting for someone to succeed him, and he believes the American people don’t want to vote for someone who’s been around for a long time. He thinks that your mother and I are what he calls ‘so 20th century.’ He’s looking for another Barack Obama.”
Wild Thing's comment..........
LOL wow what a soap opera these two couples are hahahhaa....narcissistic, giant egos, full of lies, filled with thirst for power and its only natural each can’t stand the other.
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Father Of Soldier Killed Hunting For Bergdahl Testifies Before Congress
Father Of Soldier Killed Hunting For Bergdahl Testifies Before Congress
Wild Thing's comment...........
Heartbreaking.
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June 21, 2014
CAIR Demands TV Critics Monitor New FX Show “Tyrant” For Islamophobia
CAIR Demands TV Critics Monitor New FX Show “Tyrant” For Islamophobia
A Muslim advocacy group is asking that critics reviewing FX’s upcoming drama “Tyrant” address possible stereotyping of Arab and Muslim culture.
Leaders for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which calls itself the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, made the request after attending a screening of the pilot in Washington, D.C.
“In the pilot of FX’s ‘Tyrant,’ Arab Muslim culture is devoid of any redeeming qualities and is represented by terrorists, murderous children, rapists, corrupt billionaires and powerless female victims,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “In ‘Tyrant,’ even the ‘good’ Arab Muslims are bad.”
The group had earlier asked for a meeting with network officials to discuss potential stereotypes in the series.
“Tyrant,” which debuts Tuesday, is about an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle East nation: “Bassam ‘Barry’ Al Fayeed, the younger son of the dictator of a war-torn nation, ends a self-imposed 20-year exile to return to his homeland, accompanied by his American wife and children, for his nephew’s wedding. Barry’s reluctant homecoming leads to a dramatic clash of culture as he is thrown back into the familial and national politics of his youth.”
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We plan on watching it, it looks interesting.
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IRS Scandal - Ben Shapiro: The Obama Administration Works Like Like A Mafia Organization - Kelly File
IRS Scandal - Ben Shapiro: The Obama Administration Works Like Like A Mafia Organization - Kelly File
Wild Thing's comment...........
Ben Shapiro is good, I wish though he would learn to slow down when he speaks. He talks so fast it is to the point of being hard to concentrate on what he says. LOL But other then that he is well worth listening to.
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Senate Democrats Pushing Bill To Wipe Out Every Single Pro-Life Law On Abortion - Democrats LOVE killing babies
Senate Democrats Pushing Bill To Wipe Out Every Single Pro-Life Law On Abortion
Few Americans are aware that a “Gosnell Prerogative Act” has been introduced in Congress. This bill would permit the grisliest abortion providers—like the now-convicted murderer, Kermit Gosnell—to set the standard of care for abortion.
Unsurprisingly, this bill is not actually called the “Gosnell Prerogative Act”—instead, S.1696 is deceptively titled the “Women’s Health Protection Act.” However, it is difficult to imagine a bill less protective of women and their unborn children.
In spite of court interference, we have made great strides in the enactment and defense of state legislation that regulates and limits abortions since Roe v. Wade, with approximately 160 laws enacted across the country between 2011 and 2013 alone.
Now, imagine the laws in 32 states requiring varying degrees of informed consent prior to an abortion invalidated overnight. Twenty laws prohibiting partial-birth abortion – gone. Twenty-nine state laws requiring abortion clinics to meet some degree of safety standards—gone. Other abortion bans, admitting privileges requirements, regulations on abortion-inducing drugs, ultrasound requirements, and limitations on the use of public funds and facilities for abortions and abortion training–all gone.
Imagine the vast majority of pro-life laws wiped out with the enactment of a single piece of federal legislation. That is the purpose behind S. 1696.
S. 1696 attempts to override U.S. Supreme Court precedent and other legal standards and would logically permit abortionists to set the standard of care for their patients with no oversight from the state and no effective remedies for the abortion industry’s abuses. This bill could reasonably be interpreted to invalidate virtually any type of state restriction or regulation on abortion, and would also prohibit the future enactment of any of these laws.
S. 1696 adopts the myths that abortion is good for women, asserting that it is “essential to women’s health,” and, condescendingly, that abortion is “central to women’s ability to participate equally in the economic and social life of the United States.”
Abortion advocates understand that Roe v. Wade will likely be overturned in the future. Abortion providers are also shaken by the success of pro-life laws enacted across the country. One surefire way to guarantee that the abortion industry continues to flourish in this country would be to enact federal legislation that invalidates state pro-life laws.
Shamefully, the abortion industry is pursuing this strategy in the name of protecting women, when in reality they are much more concerned about protecting their pocket book.
Wild Thing's comment.........
I can't see this passing but then I did not think Obama would ever be elected with his socialist agenda. I also never thought our country would allow socialized medicine, I thought Americans would fight back even with guns in hand marching on Washington D.C but that never happened either. So who knows this horrible bill could pass if one looks at how easily the left has gotten what they wanted.
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Feds Confirm Flying Planeloads Of Illegal Immigrants To Massachusetts
Feds Confirm Flying Planeloads Of Illegal Immigrants To Massachusetts
Wild Thing's comment......
I miss the America I grew up in so much. It feels like as a country we will not survive having Obama in the WH. He messes with everything about our country and destroys it.
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June 20, 2014
The Health Care at Guantanamo Compared to What Many of our Veterans Receive
The Health Care at Guantanamo Is Probably Better Than Yours
'Unlike the VA, there's no wait times for detainees, no shadow lists, no delays for treatments' -Fox News
Guantanamo:
24/7 medical care
Access to specialists
Dental services
Mental health services
124 medical personnel for 149 detainees
Wild Thing's comment........
Not all the VA's a bad I know that but the ones we have been hearing about the treatment of our awesome Veterans is unforgivable.
Looking at how the terrorists are treated it is sickening how they get better care then so many of our Veterans.
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Senator Ted Cruz: 'Under NO Circumstances Should We Be Partnering With Iran'
Cruz 'Under NO Circumstances Should We Be Partnering With Iran'
Sen. Ted Cruz opposes the U.S. partnering with Iran to stop the terrorist group threatening to take over Iraq.
Wild Thing's comment............
Thank God for Cruz and others speaking out about this and what a bad thing it would be.
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Insanity! John Kerry says US is open to talks with Iran
John Kerry says US is open to talks with Iran
Iran and the United States are starting to signal a cautious willingness to work together, reflecting their shared interest in protecting the fragile Iraqi government against al-Qaeda-inspired fighters and, more broadly, in preserving regional stability.
U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry suggested Monday that Washington has not ruled out such cooperation.
“I think we are open to any constructive process here that could minimize the violence, hold Iraq together — the integrity of the country — and eliminate the presence of outside terrorist forces that are ripping it apart,” he said.
Kerry’s comment echoed remarks Saturday by Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, who said Iran would consider working with its longtime enemy if the United States became involved in the fight.
Iranian and U.S. diplomats discussed the possibility of cooperation during meetings in Vienna on Monday about limits to Iran’s nuclear program, a State Department official said.
Wild Thing's comment..............
This is so totally stupid!
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Obama Says “Uh” More Than 140 Times During Iraq Press Conference
Obama Says “Uh” More Than 140 Times During Iraq Press Conference
Wild Thing's comment...............
It always amazed me how all the way back to when he ran for president the first time the media even at Fox would go on and on about what a great speaker he was.....I never agreed.
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Pathetic Charlie Rangel Compares The Tea Party To Hamas Terrorists
Charlie Rangel Compares The Tea Party To Hamas Terrorists
RANGEL: We know that these victims these kids are being held by people that have no moral standards… the question is how do we handle these types of people who don’t mind dying. They hate so much that they don’t mind dying themselves. And you have to admit this complex to have someone to think that attacking human beings and innocent by missiles, and destroying the lives of children that they are going to get some reward after they die. That’s worst than the tea Party’s thinking.
INTERVIEWER: You can’t compare the Tea Party to Palestinian terrorists!
RANGEL: Well, I am just saying that is a cult type of thinking-its’ a poor analogy when you talk about terrorism-but when you talk about not recognizing the United States as a nation, not recognizing the president, trying to repeal bills that are already law and sticking to the principles of the civil war, you know these are people that you cannot talk rationally to and the president can’t. And at some point, if the Palestinians come to the table and say they can’t control the people in the backroom, the same way Republicans say they can’t control the Tea Party — the Republican Party would no longer exits because they can’t control the Tea Party — and the Palestinian Authority… if they believe in this partnership with terrorists.. then they cannot come to the table.. You cannot talk to a person who says their primary goal is to have you distinguished. There is no conversation there.
Wild Thing's comment..............
He is nuts! Poor Charlie, so filled with his hate and he continues to get away with his lies.
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June 19, 2014
Libyan government demands U.S. RETURN Benghazi 'mastermind' and calls Delta Force raid that captured him a 'an attack on our sovereignty
Libyan government officials have condemned the U.S. Delta Force raid that captured an alleged Benghazi mastermind and demanded that he be returned to Libya.
Libyan Justice Minister Saleh al-Marghani said American forces has no right to abscond with Ahmed abu Khattala and another official added that the operation was an ‘attack on Libyan sovereignty.’
Khattala, who was indicted by a U.S. federal court last August for the 2013 attack that killed four Americans, should face trial in Libya for the crimes, al-Marghani said – in the first official response from the government in Tripoli.
‘We had no prior notification. We did not to expect the U.S. to upset our political scene,’ he told a press conference on Wednesday..
-Ahmed Abu Khattala, 42, was captured Sunday outside Benghazi, Libya
-Terror leader taken in joint raid by Delta force FBI without a single shot
-Raid was based on 2011 assault against Osama bin Laden in Pakistan
-The were no civilian or military casualties in the extraction of Khattala
-U.S. justified raid as self-defense, as Khattala 'was planning more attacks'
-Khattala was reportedly read his Miranda rights shortly after his capture
-Was also read safety exemption allowing authorities to quiz him on terrorism
-Khattala charged in August 2013 with leading attacks that killed 4 Americans
-Had been living in Libya and flouted U.S. authorities - even giving interviews
-Khattala is now en route to the United States to stand trial in federal court
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Can't blame Bush for this one Obama.
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Texas Approves Border Security Surge
Texas Approves Border Security Surge\
Texas Governor Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, and Speaker Joe Straus today directed the Texas Dept. of Public Safety (DPS) to immediately begin law enforcement surge operations on the Texas/Mexico border. The DPS will attempt to combat the flood of illegal immigration into the state in the absence of adequate federal resources to secure the border. State leaders have authorized approximately $1.3 million per week to fund border security operations.
HOUSTON, Texas—State Representative Debbie Riddle (R-Tomball) told Breitbart Texas she spoke with Governor Rick Perry’s (R-TX) Office and they confirmed the surge to deal with the Texas border crisis is about to begin. Details are not available at this time, but Riddle said, “It is going to happen.”
Riddle spoke with Governor Perry’s office about the issue and was assured it “is going to be coming soon.” She said Governor Perry’s office is working very closely with Lt. Governor David Dewhurst’s office along with the office of House Speaker Joe Straus.
“They are gathering together everything they need to begin this right away,” Riddle said. She told Breitbart Texas that she could not divulge any information about exactly when, how long, and where the surge would be for reasons of operational security. She also could not disclose what the operational objectives would be at this time.
Riddle said, “We are going to feel this particularly here in the Houston area because of Houston’s role as a command and control center for the cartels--for both their drug and human trafficking operations.” She added that Texas Department of Public Safety Director (DPS) Steve McCraw told her last week that Houston is still the hub for these operations.
Riddle said, “Governor Perry is very angry that the feds are doing nothing about this problem.” She went on to say, “I didn’t expect the feds to do anything." Breitbart Texas reported on June 17 that Governor Perry expressed his frustration with the Obama Administration on Fox New’s Fox and Friends Show.
Riddle reiterated several times that “this is going to happen very soon.” She said that with the cooperation of the Governor, Lt. Governor, and Speaker this can come together without the need for the special session being called for by several legislators and grassroots activists.
Wild Thing's comment............
God bless Gov. Perry!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Liz Cheney: There Is No Question That Obama Is a Dangerous President
Liz Cheney: There Is No Question That Obama Is a Dangerous President
Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz were on The Kelly File tonight to discuss their editorial today in the Wall Street Journal where they offered a blistering critique of Obama’s handling of the escalating violence in Iraq. Liz Cheney told Megyn Kelly “there is no doubt” Obama is a dangerous president.
Megyn Kelly: Do you think that President Obama is dangerous?
Liz Cheney: Yes… I think there is no question. I think he is unique in terms of a president who is sitting in the Oval Office who has made very clear his desire is to weaken the nation. And, whether you say it is his intent, whether you say it’s naivete you can now look at the result of the policy the last six and a half years and you got the black-clad terrorists of ISIS now taking over city after city after city in Iraq.
Wild Thing's comment........
I agree, he IS dangerous to our country.
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Obama Says He Won’t Ask Congress For Permission If He Takes Military Action In Iraq
Obama Says He Won’t Ask Congress For Permission If He Takes Military Action In Iraq
Barack Obama is still considering what to do about Iraq, but he told the top congressional leaders Wednesday that he doesn’t think he needs Congress’ permission to act.
“We had a good discussion,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arriving back at the Capitol after the meeting. “The president basically just briefed us on the situation in Iraq and indicated he didn’t feel he had any need for authority from us for the steps that he might take and indicated he would keep us posted.”
Obama met for about an hour in the Oval Office with McConnell, Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.Pelosi told reporters that she agreed that the president has all of the authorities that he needs in the authorizations to use military force passed by Congress previously.
“All of the authorities are there. That doesn’t mean I want all of them to be used, especially boots on the ground,” she said. “But I definitely think the president has all of the authority he needs by dint of legislation that was passed in 2001 and 2003.”
Wild Thing's comment.............
As he has said so many times he would like it better not to ever have to ask Congress about anything he wants to do.
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June 18, 2014
Obama and His Regime Dumping Planeloads Of Illegal Immigrants In Massachusetts
ICE shipping planeloads of illegal immigrants to Massachusetts
A Boston TV station has discovered that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been flying planeloads of illegal immigrants to Massachusetts over the past couple of weeks.
ICE officials confirmed to Fox 25 on Friday that at least six commercial, agency-owned charter flights have transported detainees to the Boston area. The agency told the station that moving detainees from the southern borders to other areas of the country is routine.
“There are a number of concerns,” said Jessica Vaughn spokesperson for the Center for Immigration Studies, adding that the crisis at the border is distracting U.S. agencies from their regular mission to deport illegal immigrants convicted of crimes.
Recent reports found that in May, ICE released 36,000 immigrants with criminal convictions into communities for a number of reasons, Vaughn said.
“This influx of people is a direct result of recent policies,” she said. “According to border patrol’s own intelligence, what the immigrants are telling them, is that they’re coming now because there’s a new law that gives them permission to stay.”
When Fox 25 questioned Massachusetts Gov. Duval Patrick about the flights, he said he was just hearing about the situation.
“I don’t know anything about it,” Patrick said.
“How does the governor not know anything about this?” the news anchor asked.
Wild Thing's comment..........
Horrible nightmare from Obama.
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Cheney: Obama "so wrong about so much"
The Collapsing Obama Doctrine
Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.
By Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney
As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President Obama's past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. "If a J.V. team puts on Lakers' uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant" (January 2014). "[C]ore al Qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated" (August 2013). "So, let there be no doubt: The tide of war is receding" (September 2011).
Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Too many times to count, Mr. Obama has told us he is "ending" the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—as though wishing made it so. His rhetoric has now come crashing into reality. Watching the black-clad ISIS jihadists take territory once secured by American blood is final proof, if any were needed, that America's enemies are not "decimated." They are emboldened and on the march.
The fall of the Iraqi cities of Fallujah, Tikrit, Mosul and Tel Afar, and the establishment of terrorist safe havens across a large swath of the Arab world, present a strategic threat to the security of the United States. Mr. Obama's actions—before and after ISIS's recent advances in Iraq—have the effect of increasing that threat.
On a trip to the Middle East this spring, we heard a constant refrain in capitals from the Persian Gulf to Israel, "Can you please explain what your president is doing?" "Why is he walking away?" "Why is he so blithely sacrificing the hard fought gains you secured in Iraq?" "Why is he abandoning your friends?" "Why is he doing deals with your enemies?"
In one Arab capital, a senior official pulled out a map of Syria and Iraq. Drawing an arc with his finger from Raqqa province in northern Syria to Anbar province in western Iraq, he said, "They will control this territory. Al Qaeda is building safe havens and training camps here. Don't the Americans care?"
Our president doesn't seem to. Iraq is at risk of falling to a radical Islamic terror group and Mr. Obama is talking climate change. Terrorists take control of more territory and resources than ever before in history, and he goes golfing. He seems blithely unaware, or indifferent to the fact, that a resurgent al Qaeda presents a clear and present danger to the United States of America.
When Mr. Obama and his team came into office in 2009, al Qaeda in Iraq had been largely defeated, thanks primarily to the heroic efforts of U.S. armed forces during the surge. Mr. Obama had only to negotiate an agreement to leave behind some residual American forces, training and intelligence capabilities to help secure the peace. Instead, he abandoned Iraq and we are watching American defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
The tragedy unfolding in Iraq today is only part of the story. Al Qaeda and its affiliates are resurgent across the globe. According to a recent Rand study, between 2010 and 2013, there was a 58% increase in the number of Salafi-jihadist terror groups around the world. During that same period, the number of terrorists doubled.
In the face of this threat, Mr. Obama is busy ushering America's adversaries into positions of power in the Middle East. First it was the Russians in Syria. Now, in a move that defies credulity, he toys with the idea of ushering Iran into Iraq. Only a fool would believe American policy in Iraq should be ceded to Iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terror.
This president is willfully blind to the impact of his policies. Despite the threat to America unfolding across the Middle East, aided by his abandonment of Iraq, he has announced he intends to follow the same policy in Afghanistan.
Despite clear evidence of the dire need for American leadership around the world, the desperation of our allies and the glee of our enemies, President Obama seems determined to leave office ensuring he has taken America down a notch. Indeed, the speed of the terrorists' takeover of territory in Iraq has been matched only by the speed of American decline on his watch.
The president explained his view in his Sept. 23, 2009, speech before the United Nations General Assembly. "Any world order," he said, "that elevates one nation above others cannot long survive." Tragically, he is quickly proving the opposite—through one dangerous policy after another—that without American pre-eminence, there can be no world order.
It is time the president and his allies faced some hard truths: America remains at war, and withdrawing troops from the field of battle while our enemies stay in the fight does not "end" wars. Weakness and retreat are provocative. U.S. withdrawal from the world is disastrous and puts our own security at risk.
Al Qaeda and its affiliates are resurgent and they present a security threat not seen since the Cold War. Defeating them will require a strategy—not a fantasy. It will require sustained difficult military, intelligence and diplomatic efforts—not empty misleading rhetoric. It will require rebuilding America's military capacity—reversing the Obama policies that have weakened our armed forces and reduced our ability to influence events around the world.
American freedom will not be secured by empty threats, meaningless red lines, leading from behind, appeasing our enemies, abandoning our allies, or apologizing for our great nation—all hallmarks to date of the Obama doctrine. Our security, and the security of our friends around the world, can only be guaranteed with a fundamental reversal of the policies of the past six years.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan said, "If history teaches anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom." President Obama is on track to securing his legacy as the man who betrayed our past and squandered our freedom.
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Good write up.
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Rush Limbaugh on Capture of Benghazi Terrorist
Rush Limbaugh: What an amazing coincidence, Iraq falling apart and we just happen to capture this Benghazi terror leader
Wild Thing's comment..........
Exactly Rush!!
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June 17, 2014
Obama Sending Some Boots On The Ground to Iraq
Obama tells Congress U.S. deploying up to 275 troops to Iraq
WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told Congress on Monday the United States was deploying up to 275 military personnel to provide support and security for U.S.
personnel and the country’s embassy in Baghdad after militants seized control of the north of the country.
“This force is deploying for the purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and property, if necessary, and is equipped for combat,” Obama said in a letter to lawmakers. “This force will remain in Iraq until the security situation becomes such that it is no longer needed.”
The president said he was notifying Congress under the War Powers Resolution.
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May God watch over these soldiers.. for surely Obama and his evil administration will not!!
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Today Obama to Honor Illegals at White House ~ TREASON
Obama to Honor Illegal Immigrants
Obama’s White House will honor illegal immigrant activists at a ceremony Tuesday.
Two activists with the group Mi Familia Vota Education Fund will be honored as “Champions of Change” at a special White House ceremony.
Fernanda Zaragoza-Gomez, 19, a Colorado Mi Familia Vota canvasser, and Steven Arteaga Rodriguez, a Texas activist with the group, are both “DREAMers” who began their activism careers after applying for and gaining Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program established by Obama to provide living and working status for undocumented young immigrants.
The activist group, which has offices in six states, works for the goal of “expanding the electorate” through “direct, sustainable citizenship, voter registration, census education, GOTV and issue organizing in key states.”
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Also remember when Barack Obama released 36,000 illegal alien criminals in 2013 – including 193 murderers.
Obama knows this is a provocative thing to do, that is why they are doing it. It is actually an insult to the American people and a slap in the face to all of the people who come her legally.
To honor someone for the illegal status of their family is shameful.
Disgraceful, and equivalent to giving the finger to the hard-working immigrants who sacrificed to get here legally.
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Video: Medal of Honor Winner Who Dove on a Grenade Shares a Message About the Power of Determination
Medal of Honor Winner Who Dove on a Grenade Shares a Message About the Power of Determination
Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, a Marine,......... highest honor this nation has to give: the Medal of Honor.
Cpl. Carpenter, in November, 2010, dove on a grenade to save his fellow Marines. Devastating his body, the grenade nearly killed the Marine. The Huffington Post reports, “he lost his right eye and injured his left, both eardrums were blown, most of his teeth were blown out and much of his jaw was missing. His right arm was shattered, his left arm, wrist and hand had multiple breaks, his right lung collapsed and he had shrapnel wounds in his legs.”
Now, years later, Carpenter is set to receive the Medal of Honor and discusses his recovery and outlook on life in a powerful video.
“Upon arriving at Camp Bastion, I was labeled PEA: patient expired on arrival,” Carpenter said in his video. ”I flat-lined at Walter Reed. People always assume I was in a motorcycle wreck. My response to them: no, Taliban. The enemy killed me; I came back.”
Cpl. Carpenter preaches the power of determination. “I ran a marathon, completed a mud run and jumped from a plane,” said Carpenter. “I will never quit. I am just getting started.”
Waking up at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center six weeks after the attack, Cpl. Carpenter spent over two years rehabilitating with doctors working to save his face and arm. The Marine is now a student at the University of South Carolina and simply refuses to give up.
Carpenter and a 12-man squad from his 9th Regiment, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, were on patrol outside Marjah. They were in the fifth month of a seven-month deployment.
They were in a village they called Shadier, between two other villages they named Shady and Shadiest.
They had been in hard combat, he said, as the Marines were pushing out farther from their base, expanding the territory they controlled.
"For two days we had been hit pretty hard," he said. "We moved into (enemy) territory, and they didn't like it."
He was fighting on a rooftop when the grenade hit.
Carpenter also spent most of his recovery time -- which so far has included 25 surgeries and more than 100 hours of physical therapy -- at Bethesda.
There, he said, he was inspired by the other patients, many of whom had no legs or no eyes or no arms.
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God bless you Cpl. Carpenter and thank you for your service to our country. We will never forget your sacrifice and that of others.
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June 16, 2014
DOJ lawyer says gov’t emails are backed up nightly; calls IRS claim they were deleted ‘laughable’
DOJ lawyer says gov’t emails are backed up nightly; calls IRS claim they were deleted ‘laughable’
Source Powerline Blog
A reader writes from inside the Department of Justice to comment on the two-year gap in Lois Lerner’s intra-government email messages:
"I’m a DOJ lawyer, so you obviously cannot use my name or any identifying information. But the idea that a “hard drive crash” somehow destroyed all of Ms. Lerner’s intra-government email correspondence during the period in question [2009-2011] is laughable. Government email servers are backed up every night. So if she actually had a hard drive fail, her emails would be recoverable from the backup. If the backup was somehow also compromised, then we are talking about a conspiracy."
He didn't want to release his name, understandably, but he also said it's getting very, very bad.
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Lerner must know these emails would bury her under the jailhouse...she is so desperate they not see the light of day!
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US Embassy in Baghdad Starts Evacuation – Internet Service Shut Down – Green Zone Evacuating
US Embassy in Baghdad Starts Evacuation – Internet Service Shut Down – Green Zone Evacuating
The United States said Sunday it was evacuating some staff from its embassy and beefing up security as deadly explosions rocked the Iraqi capital and advancing militant Islamic insurgents released graphic images appearing to show its fighters massacring captured Iraqi soldiers.
The U.S. State Department said in a statement that an undisclosed number of staffers will be moved to Amman, Jordan or U.S. consulates elsewhere in Iraq not immediately threatened by the insurgent group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
UPDATE: The US Embassy in Baghdad has reportedly lost its internet service.
A three word text was released from inside the Embassy about six hours ago: “Too late Alamo.” That message is open to interpretation.
Just minutes ago news came from within the United States Embassy in Baghdad that the Iraqis have shut down internet service for those barricaded inside. Limited text messages via private cell phones are still coming through.
It is unknown how many of the more than 5,000 U.S. civilians in Baghdad are actually taking refuge inside the embassy compound. NBC war correspondent, Richard Engel reported last night that civilians in and around Baghdad have boarded up residences and businesses.
The embassy lockup is a reminder of when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August of 1990 and U.S. civilians were held hostage for months, including those from the State Department and Department of Transportation.
UPDATE: Green Zone embassies evacuating…
BREAKING several embassies in the Green Zone evacuating tonight as ISIS advances
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What a mess!
I saw this in an article from CNN, ,it toward the bottom of the write up.
Partial staff relocation at U.S. Embassy
Between 50 and 100 U.S. Marines and U.S. Army personnel have arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, a U.S. official told CNN on Sunday.
A U.S official acknowledged to CNN that the additional embassy security personnel being added include U.S. Marines who specialize in embassy protection during high-threat conditions.
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June 15, 2014
Obama Opens Borders to Mexican Gang Members
OBAMA OPENS BORDERS TO MEXICAN GANG MEMBERS
Border Patrol officials are swamped by the number of minors crossing illegally into the United States and frustrated that they can’t turn away known Mexican gang members.
Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, said that confirmed gang members in Mexico — including those from Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) — are coming into the country to be reunited with their families, National Review reported Friday.
“If he’s a confirmed gang member in his own country, why are we letting him in here? … I’ve heard people come in and say, ‘You’re going to let me go, just like you let my mother go, just like you let my sister go. You’re going to let me go as well, and the government’s going to take care of us,’” Mr. Cabrera told the magazine.
He said that the only way to solve the problem was to implement harsher restrictions on who can be allowed to cross.
“Until we start mandatory detentions, mandatory removals, I don’t think anything is going to change. As a matter of fact, I think it’s going to get worse,” he said, National Review reported.
Other Border Patrol officials said that officers must treat minors with gang-affiliated tattoos the same as anybody else wishing to cross the border.
“It’s upsetting that a lot of them are 16 pr 17 years old and a lot of them are not going to face deportation,” said Art Del Cueto, president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 2544 in Tucson, Ariz, National Review reported.
Mr. Cabrera told the news agency that the Rio Grande Valley location has nine stations. The largest facility is in McAllen, Texas, with a capacity of 275 people. Its agents sees between 700 and 1,500 people daily.
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This is how National Socialists Conquer. They break the system, and rule the pieces that are left. We're losing this country in seconds and minutes as we watch.
The Cloward-Piven method of high speed totalitarian transition is accelerating to the point of no return -- and this is NOT by accident.
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Obama Administration Risking Lives of Agents, says Border Patrol Union
Obama Administration Risking Lives of Agents, says Border Patrol Union
Our jobs are immensely dangerous as we interrupt cartel activity on U.S. soil. Their border security policy failures have already reduced the number of agents securing the border, and now they have fewer agents out there to back each other up.” He added, "The lives of Border Patrol agents should not be pawns in the political games of Washington, D.C. and this administration is literally risking our lives."
Vice President Moran invoked the case of Robert Rosas, a Border Patrol agent who was ambushed by illegal immigrants in 2009 in Southern California. In that instance, Agent Rosas was dispatched alone to check on a sensor activation. Breitbart News has covered that issue extensively and revealed that one of the men involved had been on supervised release from U.S. authorities. The illegal immigrants wanted Agent Rosas's night-vision equipment so they lured, trapped, and murdered him, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. “A repeat occurrence of an incident like this is what we fear, especially now without full staffing in the field,” said Vice President Moran. “Our agents are often fathers and mothers and we accept that there are risks involved with our service, but what this administration is doing amplifies these risks. This is avoidable and unacceptable.”
Though Border Patrol are often heavily grouped in urban areas along the U.S./Mexico border, they are often alone in desolate rural areas--and most of the U.S./Mexico border is desolate. Breitbart News has extensively covered the conditions Border Patrol agents must work in, including the fact that many areas along the border do not have radio coverage for them to call for backup or help if they are injured and attacked. Vice President Moran said that the issues are made worse now that the influx is occurring in the Rio Grande valley Sector of Texas.
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I feel sorry for these agents, they did not sign on for this kind of world from Obama. They want to do their jobs and be able to protect each other while they do it. Obama could care less about them, he only cares about letting as many illegals in as possible.
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Border Patrol Agents Threatened with Criminal Charges for Speaking to Reporters
Border Patrol Agents Threatened with Criminal Charges for Speaking to Reporters
HOUSTON, Texas—A surge of thousands of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has left federal resources and facilities overwhelmed. Most of the new migrants are children from Central America. In the aftermath of Breitbart Texas releasing photos showing minors warehoused in crowded U.S. cells, Border Patrol agents in Texas have been instructed not to speak to media outlets.
The Associated Press (AP) obtained an email from Eligio "Lee" Pena, an assistant patrol agent, that ordered more than 3,000 agents to not speak to reporters about the "humanitarian crisis." The email allegedly said that reporters are likely to press for details and "may try to disguise themselves" in the process."
Pena's email went on to warn agents that they could be disciplined or even charged with a crime if they speak to media, according to the AP.
Since the news of the spike in foreign minors, Border Patrol contacts--many of whom used to speak on the record regularly--have not returned numerous phone calls or emails from Breitbart Texas.
The silence comes in the face of the apprehension of 47,000 foreign children traveling alone to the U.S. since October.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson implied at a press conference on Thursday that many of the children will not be deported. "The law requires that we act in the best interest in the child," he said. "When we turn over a child to HHS, HHS acts in the best interest of the child which very often means reuniting that child with the parent in the United States. That's what the law requires."
It is unclear, then, how immigration laws will be enforced moving forward.
Many are concerned that by providing the migrants with shelter, transportation, meals, education, and even legal counsel, other children may be encouraged to make the dangerous trek north from Central America. Since agents on the ground are not able to give insight into the situation, the actual severity of the situation may be unknown.
This is not the first time Border Patrol agents have been ordered to remain silent on an issue. In May, Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) ordered agents not to speak to reporters regarding the 36,000 convicted criminal illegal immigrants that were released onto U.S. soil.
"We were given specific instructions not to comment on that report," said Greg Palmore, a Texas-based ICE spokesman, during a phone interview with Breitbart Texas. He was referring to the report by the Center for Immigration Studies that outlined the criminals' release.
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So much for freedom of speech. Obama would never allow free speech to happen when people want to tell the truth about his policies.
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June 14, 2014
Good grief!! Psychologist Who Will Treat Bergdahl: Goal Of Reintegration Is To Return To Duty
Psychologist Who Will Treat Bergdahl: Goal Of Reintegration Is To Return To Duty
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could return to active duty after he completes medical treatment for being held captive for five years by the Taliban, Army officials said Friday.
“The goal of reintegration is to return a soldier to duty,” said Colonel Bradley Poppen, a psychologist who will be treating the 28-year-old Idaho native at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
Bergdahl returned to the US early Friday after spending 12 days in Germany as part of his recovery process. He was captured by the Taliban in 2009 and released May 31 in a swap that freed five high-level Taliban terrorists from Guantanamo Bay.
The former prisoner of war has chosen not speak to his parents since his release, officials said.
“It is a returnee’s choice to make that determination when, where and who they want to” reconnect with, said Poppen. “ I believe the family understands that process at this time.”
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First I think it is insulting to real POW's to refer to this Bergdahl person as a POW.
Secondly to even suggest that he should return to service after what he did even if he wanted to is the stupidest thing I ever heard in my life. What guarantee would there be he would NOT open fire on the rest of our troops.
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Disgusting!!!!!!!! Obama Ambassador To Israel Flies Gay Pride Flag Outside U.S. Embassy
Obama Ambassador To Israel Flies Gay Pride Flag Outside U.S. Embassy
Via U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro: PHOTO at link to his Facebook page.
"For the first time in history, the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv has raised the Pride flag together with our American flag. We are proud to join with the municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo and its residents in celebrating LGBT Pride Week."
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I posted on his page how he should be ashamed of himself and how disgusting he was to push his and Obama's agenda in such a way.
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LIARS! After a Year of Delays – IRS Says They Lost Lois Lerner’s Emails in Computer Crash
After a Year of Delays – IRS Says They Lost Lois Lerner’s Emails in Computer Crash
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the Internal Revenue Service informing the Committee that they have lost Lois Lerner emails from a period of January 2009 – April 2011. Due to a supposed computer crash, the agency only has Lerner emails to and from other IRS employees during this time frame. The IRS claims it cannot produce emails written only to or from Lerner and outside agencies or groups, such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices.
“The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to Congressional inquiries. There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.
“Just a short time ago, Commissioner Koskinen promised to produce all Lerner documents. It appears now that was an empty promise. Frankly, these are the critical years of the targeting of conservative groups that could explain who knew what when, and what, if any, coordination there was between agencies. Instead, because of this loss of documents, we are conveniently left to believe that Lois Lerner acted alone. This failure of the IRS requires the White House, which promised to get to the bottom of this, to do an Administration-wide search and production of any emails to or from Lois Lerner. The Administration has repeatedly referred us back to the IRS for production of materials. It is clear that is wholly insufficient when it comes to determining the full scope of the violation of taxpayer rights.”
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Burn in hell liars! I am so sick of Obama and his people and their never ending lies.
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Drug Cartels Now Call The Shots On Illegal Surrendering - The Kelly File
Drug Cartels Now Call The Shots On Illegal Surrendering - The Kelly File
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It just keeps getting worse and it all is because of Obama.
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June 13, 2014
The Crisis On The Southern Border - The Kelly File
The media is being kept out of these holding facilities, agents are being prohibited from having their cameras or other electronic devices. The video Megyn Kelly plays from inside one of these holding facilities is sad to see but people need to understand it didn’t have to happen. This crisis is manufactured by the obama regime. The poor conditions of no running water, no restrooms, mixing of sick people with the healthy only to be separated with yellow tape will all be used by obama to ram through amnesty. He is putting these people in this situation and using them like puppets to fulfill fundamental transformation!
The Reverend confirms what we all know that the media in Central America is telling these people to come to the US. To this day NO ONE from the admin or any dept or agency of the US govt has made a public speech/ announcement that will be replayed in those countries telling the people what they are being told is false. Any other POTUS would have immediately taken to the podium and issued an official statement that the US is not open, all immigration policies and laws are in full effect. Is emperor obama doing this? NO! Has emperor obama deployed the NAtional Guard to the border? NO! He, his regime including and Congress (ALL OF THEM), are sitting back as illegals continue to flood the border!
Prepare America, they are going to allow the number of illegals crossing into the US to skyrocket where conditions like what you see in this video will get worse. When they have enough deaths occur from the poor living conditions obama will demand Congress pass amnesty. IF they don’t he will use his pen and offer asylum to these refugees! One way or another these illegal aliens in the US are not going back to their home countries. They will be fed, clothed, housed, medicated and educated at the expense of the US tax payer!
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Ex-border agents: Immigrant flood 'orchestrated' blame path to citizenship and Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
An organization of former Border Patrol agents Wednesday charged that the federal government, under the administration of President Obama, is deliberately arranging for a flood of immigrant children to arrive in America for political purposes.
“This is not a humanitarian crisis. It is a predictable, orchestrated and contrived assault on the compassionate side of Americans by her political leaders that knowingly puts minor illegal alien children at risk for purely political purposes,” said the statement released by the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers.
“Certainly, we are not gullible enough to believe that thousands of unaccompanied minor Central American children came to America without the encouragement, aid and assistance of the United States government,” the officers said.
“Anyone that has taken two six- to seven-year-old children to an amusement park can only imagine the problems associated with bringing thousands of unaccompanied children that age up through Mexico and into the United States.”
Blaming Obama’s immigration policies for enticing the illegals, particularly the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program launched in 2012, which recently was renewed.
More than 33,000 have been caught in Texas alone over the last eight months, the report said, overwhelming Border Patrol capabilities.
A federal judge even concluded the White House “has simply chosen not to enforce … border security laws.”
FoxNews.com reported this week Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer calls the situation a “creation” of the federal government, and Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., assigned blame for the “calamity” to Obama.
Fox News reported it had obtained a memo from an official with Customs and Border Protection who said the current policies are serving as an incentive for illegal aliens to sneak into the U.S.
“If the U.S. government fails to deliver adequate consequences to deter aliens from attempting to illegally enter the U.S., the result will be an even greater increase in the rate of recidivism and first-time illicit entries,” said Ronald Vitiello, a deputy Border Patrol chief.
Officials say among Obama’s policies that are attracting illegals is his instructions for “deferred action” for young illegals. Recently, the federal government said it was hunting for lawyers to provide legal help to children who are in the U.S. illegally.
The White House is asking for $1.4 billion more for the illegal-alien children, which by some estimates will grow to 150,000 next year.
The former Border Patrol agents said the campaign is a “political deception,” and the responsibility rests with the political leaders who support “a path to citizenship, regularization or any other form of amnesty for illegal aliens before providing for full protections for national security (jobs and economy) and public safety (the right of the people to be secure in their property and person).”
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This is all so sickening and people really should be outraged about it. Obama's destruction of our country and now using children to help. Obama has also put these children's lives at risk just to get his agenda accomplished.
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Bergdahl Returning To US Last Night around Midnight to Brook Army Medical Center, at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio
Bergdahl Returning To US Last Night around Midnight In Texas
He will be flown to Brook Army Medical Center, at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio .
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LOL What happened to his life-threatening illness?
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Arizona AG Threatens to Sue Obama Administration over Illegal Immigrant Dumping
Arizona AG Threatens to Sue Obama Administration over Illegal Immigrant Dumping
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne formally demanded the federal government “cease and desist” from transporting illegal immigrants to his state or else face a possible lawsuit.
In a letter to Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson, Horne called on the the government to halt the shipments of untold hundreds of illegal immigrant families to Arizona.
“In the past two weeks, the Department of Homeland Security has transported, and continues to transport, a significant number of illegal immigrants from other states into Arizona,” Horne said Thursday. “Men, women and children left at bus terminals in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees with nothing more than instructions to report to the nearest ICE office within 15 days, posing significant health and safety risks both for the people being abandoned and the communities in which they are being stranded, is not acceptable.”
Horne cited laws that he says DHS is violating, specifically a “duty to control and guard the boundaries and borders of the United States and against illegal entry of aliens.” He further noted that the transporting of illegal immigrants under similar circumstances, if done by a citizen, would be a federal crime.
“Not only were these inadvisable and irresponsible actions done without notifying Arizona officials, but DHS has yet to explain why it is apprehending aliens in Texas, moving them some 1200 miles and simply releasing them in our state,” Horne continued. “There does not appear to be any lawful authority for such actions, and I am demanding it immediately stops. In the meantime, my office is aggressively looking into what legal remedies are available to allow for a federal lawsuit.”
He went on to demand DHS reveal how many illegal immigrants they have transported to Arizona from Texas and left at bus stations since May 1, as well as the steps the department has taken to ensure they were not convicted criminals, would report back to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, were healthy, and had enough financial means.
Also on Thursday, Arizona Republican Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake called on President Obama to “send a clear message” that the new illegal arrivals are not eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or protections under the Senate-passed immigration bill.
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This invasion is brought on completely bu Obama. They should issue a warrant for Obama's arrest.
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June 12, 2014
US spy agencies heard Benghazi attackers using State Dept. cell phones to call terrorist leaders (video)
US spy agencies heard Benghazi attackers using State Dept. cell phones to call terrorist leaders
Bret Baier and James Rosen at FOX News
The terrorists who attacked the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 used cell phones, seized from State Department personnel during the attacks, and U.S. spy agencies overheard them contacting more senior terrorist leaders to report on the success of the operation, multiple sources confirmed to Fox News.
The disclosure is important because it adds to the body of evidence establishing that senior U.S. officials in the Obama administration knew early on that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and not a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam video that had gone awry, as the administration claimed for several weeks after the attacks.
Eric Stahl, who recently retired as a major in the U.S. Air Force, served as commander and pilot of the C-17 aircraft that was used to transport the corpses of the four casualties from the Benghazi attacks – then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods – as well as the assault’s survivors from Tripoli to the safety of an American military base in Ramstein, Germany.
In an exclusive interview on Fox News’ “Special Report,” Stahl said members of a CIA-trained Global Response Staff who raced to the scene of the attacks were “confused” by the administration’s repeated implication of the video as a trigger for the attacks, because “they knew during the attack…who was doing the attacking.” Asked how, Stahl told anchor Bret Baier: “Right after they left the consulate in Benghazi and went to the [CIA] safehouse, they were getting reports that cell phones, consulate cell phones, were being used to make calls to the attackers' higher ups.”
A separate U.S. official, one with intimate details of the bloody events of that night, confirmed the major’s assertion. The second source, who requested anonymity to discuss classified data, told Fox News he had personally read the intelligence reports at the time that contained references to calls by terrorists – using State Department cell phones captured at the consulate during the battle – to their terrorist leaders. The second source also confirmed that the security teams on the ground received this intelligence in real time.
Major Stahl was never interviewed by the Accountability Review Board, the investigative panel convened, pursuant to statute, by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as the official body reviewing all the circumstances surrounding the attacks and their aftermath. Many lawmakers and independent experts have criticized the thoroughness of the ARB, which also never interviewed Clinton.
In his interview on “Special Report,” Stahl made still other disclosures that add to the vast body of literature on Benghazi – sure to grow in the months ahead, as a select House committee prepares for a comprehensive probe of the affair, complete with subpoena power. Stahl said that when he deposited the traumatized passengers at Ramstein, the first individual to question the CIA security officers was not an FBI officer but the senior State Department diplomat on the ground.
“They were taken away from the airplane,” Stahl said. “The U.S. ambassador to Germany [Philip D. Murphy] met us when we landed and he took them away because he wanted to debrief them that night.” Murphy stepped down as ambassador last year. A message left with Sky Blue FC, a private company in New Jersey with which Murphy is listed online as an executive officer, was not immediately returned.
Stahl also contended that given his crew’s alert status and location, they could have reached Benghazi in time to have played a role in rescuing the victims of the assault, and ferrying them to safety in Germany, had they been asked to do so. “We were on a 45-day deployment to Ramstein air base,” he told Fox News. “And we were there basically to pick up priority missions, last-minute missions that needed to be accomplished.”
“You would've thought that we would have had a little bit more of an alert posture on 9/11,” Stahl added. “A hurried-up timeline probably would take us [an] hour-and-a-half to get off the ground and three hours and fifteen minutes to get down there. So we could've gone down there and gotten them easily.”
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Major Stahl also says at the end of the interview that they had requested a C-130 be on standby at the airport(Tripoli?) a month prior to 9/11.Major Stahl also says at the end of the interview that they had requested a C-130 be on standby at the airport(Tripoli?) a month prior to 9/11..
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Obama White House Says It’s “Energetically” Working To Release Remaining Gitmo Terrorists
White House Says It’s “Energetically” Working To Release Remaining Gitmo Terrorists
Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama’s national security team is pushing forward on moving detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to other countries amid outrage in Congress at the recent transfer of five Taliban prisoners in exchange for captive Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
While there aren’t any “imminent transfer announcement in the works,” the team assigned to moving detainees is “energetically working this issue every day from Washington, foreign capitals, and places in between,” according to National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden.
Obama last met with his Guantanamo special envoys in November. It’s been a longstanding goal of Obama’s to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, which requires moving prisoners detained there to other facilities.
United States law currently does not allow Guantanamo detainees to be moved to the U.S., a provision that has impeded the administration’s efforts to close the prison, since detainees cannot be tried in civilian courts or moved to American prisons.
Wild Thing's comment..........
And we're energetically working to clean out the White House! It has become a cesspool.
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June 11, 2014
Eric Cantor lost his Republican primary Tuesday in a stunning defeat to Dave Brat - Congratulations Dave Brat!!
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his Republican primary Tuesday in a stunning defeat to Dave Brat, a little-known tea party-backed challenger, in one of the biggest upsets in recent political history.
Brat had 56 percent of the vote to Cantor's 44 percent.
Mr. Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College who called his win a “miracle,” defeated Mr. Cantor by 56 percent to 44 percent with all precincts reporting. CNN and The Associated Press called the race just a little over an hour after Virginia polls closed at 7 p.m.
Wild Thing's comment...........
This was great news.
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Mark Levin Weighs In On Dave Brat Win
Levin Weighs In On Dave Brat Win
Enjoy this 7 minute clip of The Great One slamming establishment GOP for being useless too busy attacking conservatives and TEA Party candidates. When you listen to Levin anyone in doubt should have a clear picture who our enemies are in DC. Yea its the demoncrats but it’s also their progressive brothers and sisters in the GOP!
Levin threw a few bombs at the imperial president too!
Brat’s win is epic, no Majority Leader has ever lost a primary so the win gives some hope that not all Americans are asleep.
Wild Thing's comment...........
Love how Mark Levin speaks and how clear he is about what needs to be done.
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June 10, 2014
Hillary Clinton Says She Doesn’t Regret “What Difference Does It Make” Remark On Benghazi
Hillary Clinton Says She Doesn’t Regret “What Difference Does It Make” Remark On Benghazi
Wild Thing's comment.............
Well OK for you then. It can always be a campaign slogan against you Hillary if you run for president. She is so self involved she doesn't even get it how horrible her remark was ....... "what difference does it make."
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Andrew McCarthy: Obama has “Stepped over the Standard for Impeachment” Many Times
Andrew McCarthy: Obama has “Stepped over the Standard for Impeachment” Many Times
( Andrew C. McCarthy III is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. A Republican, he is most notable for leading the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others. )
The Taliban Swap and ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’
Excellent article by Andrew C. McCarthy
I addressed the swap in a Corner post over the weekend and in a column yesterday.
Obama did what Obama does when the law is against him: He ignored it, claiming not to be bound by it if he concludes the circumstances are “unique and exigent,” as a White House spokesman put it.
The swap, it should be noted, also violates federal laws prohibiting material support to terrorism.
There surely is an impeachable offense in this irresponsible deal, but it involves the commander-in-chief’s dereliction of duty..
While the president is obviously abandoning the war effort, it has not been fully abandoned yet. The Taliban and Haqqani have not surrendered or settled; they are still working hard to kill our troops. It is thus mind-bogglingly irresponsible for the commander-in-chief to replenish their upper ranks. The reason the laws of war permit enemy combatants to be detained until the conclusion of hostilities is humane: when enemy forces are depleted, they have a greater incentive to surrender, bringing a swifter, less bloody conclusion to the war. By giving the enemy back its most effective commanders, Obama, by contrast, endangers our forces, potentially extends the war, and otherwise makes it far more likely that the war will end on terms injurious to American interests.
As I demonstrate in Faithless Execution, high crimes and misdemeanors are not primarily statutory offenses. They are the political wrongs of high public officials—the president, in particular—in whom great public trust is reposed. When the commander-in-chief replenishes the enemy at a time when (a) the enemy is still attacking our forces and (b) the commander-in-chief has hamstrung our forces with unconscionable combat rules-of-engagement that compromise their ability to defend themselves, that is a profound dereliction of duty.
That’s what we ought to be outraged about. The chitter-chatter about a 30-day notice requirement is a sideshow. Yes, the president has once again violated a statute. And as I said in yesterday’s column, he undoubtedly did so in order to get the swap done before public and congressional protest could mount. But in the greater scheme of things, that’s a footnote to the real travesty.
Wild Thing's comment..........
Andrew is a good person to have on a show to discuss the things Obama has been doing.
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June 09, 2014
Report: Bergdahl Is ‘Physically Sound,’ Healthier Than Expected
Report: Bergdahl Is ‘Physically Sound,’ Healthier Than Expected
One of the main claims that the Obama administration made to justify giving up five Taliban commanders in exchange for Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has been undermined, according to U.S. officials who say he is “physically sound.”
Obama administration officials have said that Bergdahl’s health was deteriorating rapidly and that he was in imminent danger after being held captive by the Haqqani network for nearly five years.
Because of his condition, a deal to free him from captivity was fast-tracked, the administration has maintained.
But U.S. officials who have been briefed on Bergdahl’s condition since his return into U.S. hands told The New York Times that he is healthier than expected.
According to the report, the officials said that Bergahl is not malnourished. He weighs 160 pounds, a healthy weight for his 5-foot-9 frame.
“He suffers from skin and gum disorders typical of poor hygiene and exposure, but otherwise is physically sound, one official said,” the Times reported.
Bergdahl is recovering at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.
Wild Thing's comment............
Obama and Bergdahl both need to be spending the rest of their pathetic lives sitting in a Federal Prison!
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Hillary: I May Not Testify, If Subpoenaed By Benghazi Committee, If I Don’t Like How They Conduct Themselves
Hillary: I May Not Testify, If Subpoenaed By Benghazi Committee, If I Don’t Like How They Conduct Themselves
In the interview, Sawyer also asked about the new congressional committee that will examine the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. Clinton did not say definitively whether or not she will testify before the new committee if called to do so.
“That’s going to be up to the people running the hearing,” she said. “We’ll see what they decide to do, how they conduct themselves, whether or not this is, you know, one more travesty about the loss of four Americans, or whether this is, in the best tradition of the Congress, an effort to figure out how – what we can do better.”
Check that. She’s saying if she is called to testify before the Select Committee (hence, under subpoena), SHE would decide whether or not she would go, depending upon whether she likes the way the committee conducts itself. The hubris and PR ever on display…
Wild Thing's comment............
Typical of both Hillary and Bill when it comes to our laws and investigations when they are needing to be questioned.
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Rep. Mike Rogers: Bergdahl Swap Has “Empowered the Taliban”
Rep. Mike Rogers: Bergdahl Swap Has “Empowered the Taliban”
ppearing on ABC’s This Week, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) declared that the prisoner exchange that will bring Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl home has effectively “empowered the Taliban.”
“We’ve made a serious, serious geopolitical mistake,” the lawmaker told host George Stephanopoulos. “We’ve empowered the Taliban. The one thing they wanted more than anything was recognition from the U.S. government, so they can use that to propagandize against areas that are unsecure still in Afghanistan.”
Rogers also lamented the timing of the swap, noting that the administration had just recently announced its intentions to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2015. This sends “the wrong message at the wrong time,” he asserted.
“We’re going to pay for this decision for years,” Rogers concluded.
Wild Thing's comment................
I agree, it will probably hurt our troops the most. But it could mean attacks here at home as well.
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June 08, 2014
Author Brad Thor asks a very important question that isn’t being asked about the Bergdahl terrorist swap
Author Brad Thor asks a very important question that isn’t being asked about the Bergdahl terrorist swap
Brad Thor brings up another discrepancy that points to the possibility that there’s much more to the Bergdahl terrorist swap than we’re being told. It all hinges on the fact that the Haqqani Network is actually the group that found Bergdahl, but he ended up being traded for Taliban leaders.
While the Taliban is animated by their extreme Islamist ideology, the Haqqanis are driven more by material gain. So why would Bergdahl be traded for guys they don’t really care for? Brad concludes reasonably that the Obama administration most likely paid off a ransom in addition to the trade. And it that’s true, then we’ve funded a terrorist organization just to please Obama’s political agenda.
Finally, why is the media so inept it can’t even ask the simplest questions of this administration?
Wild Thing's comment..........
Good question, I would like to know if we gave them money too. .
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Sen. Inhofe: Forcing Military Bases to Shelter Illegal Immigrants Threatens National Security
Sen. Inhofe: Forcing Military Bases to Shelter Illegal Immigrants Threatens National Security
Barack Obama's administration is forcing a military base in Oklahoma to shelter illegal immigrant children whom officials in Texas cannot handle, and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, thinks that will only encourage more illegal immigrants to flood into the country and create national security concerns.
After the Obama administration informed the Fort Sill military base in Lawton, OK, to expect about 600 illegal immigrant children to be sent to its facilities this weekend, Inhofe noted that the Obama administration is making military bases care for illegal immigrants while Obama is "drastically reducing defense spending funds at a historically rapid rate."
"Our nation has an immigration problem and a national security crisis, but I don't believe the answer is for our military facilities to be transformed into a center that houses, feeds, and cares for illegal immigrants," Inhofe said in a statement. "This only encourages parents to send their children unaccompanied over the border and, with the average-aged child being between 13 and 17, it exposes our military facilities to unknown security concerns."
Inhofe also said that though "the Obama administration has said that Fort Sill should be prepared to receive children as early as June 10, they have failed to provide any further details such as what is to be expected of the military facility and its service members, and for how long."
As Breitbart Texas first reported, illegal immigrants who are not from Mexico are being warehoused after they are detained. Those that Texas cannot handle are first being dumped in Arizona before some are shipped to other parts of the country, including Oklahoma, California, and Alabama.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer was told that the federal government would be dumping at least a thousand illegal immigrants from Texas to Arizona this weekend. Though Arizona officials have said they have no idea where the illegal immigrants are going after they leave the Nogales holding station, some are being sent to Oklahoma and California, which will allow the Obama administration to dump even more illegal immigrants in Arizona, especially to the Nogales warehouse that reportedly has a capacity of about 1,500. A Homeland Security official told the Associated Press, "As quickly as we move them out, we get more. We believe this is just a start."
Wild Thing's comment..............
What a total mess! Obama will not give up on his push for illegals to be above our immigration laws.
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Judge Jeanine Pirro ripping this lawless administration to shreds over the controversial and dangerous Bergdahl terrorist swap deal
Judge Jeanine Pirro ripping this lawless administration to shreds over the controversial and dangerous Bergdahl terrorist swap deal.
udge Jeanine Pirro again calls for Obama's impeachment -- this time for the astonishing exchange of one (alleged) US deserter for 5 top Taliban leaders held at Guantanamo Bay. Judge Jeanine warns that the future atrocities these five perpetrate will be attributable to Barack Obama. Obama didn't "release" these murderers, he"unleashed" them says Judge Jeanine.
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Ditto that! He won't be impeached, I wish it so but dems always seem to get away with things they do. If I had a vote about it, I say prison and punished for his treasonous crimes.
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June 07, 2014
Obama and Eric Holder Using Money Meant To Secure Border To Pay For Lawyers For Illegals To Avoid Deportation
Holder Using Money Meant To Secure Border To Pay For Lawyers For Illegals To Avoid Deportation
Yes, that headline is real. You have not gone insane, although we wouldn’t be surprised if you did, given the utter lawlessness of this administration.
Texas is being overrun by illegal aliens at the highest rates in U.S. history. More than 47,000 unaccompanied minors have been caught in the first five months of this year, a 92% increase over the same time period in 2013 . Obama is also dumping thousands of those illegals into Arizona, as payback for the crackdown on illegals by Gov. Jan Brewer and Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The Obama Administration is working hand-in-hand with Central American governments to engineer this deliberate, unprecedented invasion of illegal aliens. La Raza groups are spreading the word that Obama will sign administrative amnesty. And nations like El Salvador and Honduras are urging women and children to make the grueling trek to cross the U.S. border, because Obama will never deport them, and they can receive jobs and taxpayer-funded welfare for life.
Obama has requested $2 billion — not to deport the illegals from this unprecedented invasion — but to house, clothe and feed them, and even deliver them to relatives already here illegally, so they can stay here indefinitely.
And now Eric Holder, who is supposed to be the highest law enforcement official in America, is unleashing a new lawless program to actually provide taxpayer-funded lawyers to these invading illegals — to make sure they will never be deported by an immigration judge. And Holder is grabbing $2 million of a $315 million fund that is supposed to help secure the border, not make a mockery of border security.
Wild Thing's comment...........
Holder and Obama should be arrested for the things they do against our country.Then tried for treason and punished to the max. It won't happen but if there was real justice in the world it would and should happen.
This is treason, plain and simple. In a sane nation, Obama and Holder would be doing a perp walk right now on their way into a Federal courthouse. But as radio legend Mark Levin has described it, we are now living in a “post-Constitutional America“, and no one will dare stand up to this lawless president no matter what he does.
And time is running out. What Obama and Holder are doing will change the fabric of this nation, forever.
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First time in history, Islamic prayers and readings from the Quran at the Vatican on Sunday ~ Very bad idea!
For the first time on record Islamic prayers will be held at the Vatican this weekend. It is a move by Pope Francis to usher in peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
For the first time in history, Islamic prayers and readings from the Quran will be heard at the Vatican on Sunday, in a move by Pope Francis to usher in peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Francis issued the invitation to Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit last week to Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority.
Abbas, Peres, and Francis will be joined by Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious leaders, a statement released by Peres’s spokesperson said, according to the Times of Israel.
Wild Thing's comment.............
Islam is evil and as far as I’m concerned the Pope is legitimizing it. Muslims will see it as a territorial victory.
Notice it is Peres and NOT Bibi that is present at this unholy event. Peres never hesitates to sell Israel up the river!
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Democrat Sen. Diane Feinstein Shoots Down Latest Obama Team’s Claim that Taliban Threatened to Kill Bergdahl
Democrat Sen. Diane Feinstein Shoots Down Latest Obama Team’s Claim that Taliban Threatened to Kill Bergdahl
Feinstein’s comments, part of an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Political Capital with Al Hunt airing Friday evening, put her at odds with White House officials.
Feinstein: No 'credible threat' to Bergdahl's life......Despite White House claim to keep plans secret from Congress
Feinstein accusing the White House of lying flat-out about its reasons for keeping Congress in the dark before the swap.
When asked whether there was a “credible threat” on Bergdahl’s life if word had gotten out, the California Democrat responded: “No, I don’t think there was a credible threat, but I don’t know. I have no information that there was.”
Feinstein’s comments, part of an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Political Capital with Al Hunt airing Friday evening, put her at odds with White House officials. At a briefing Wednesday, administration officials told lawmakers that they couldn’t give Congress advance notice on the Bergdahl deal because the Taliban vowed to kill him if any details about the prisoner exchange came out.
Sen. Diane Feinstein just comes right out and says the Obama White House’s latest claim that they made the deal for Bowe Bergdahl without the 30-day notice to Congress required by law – because the Taliban was about to kill him – is just not credible. Feinstein said she has seen nothing to indicate there was “a credible threat” to his life. Obama’s Team came up with this story yesterday after their original claim he was so sick his life was in danger was blown out of the water by the Taliban-released video showing him walking under his own power, looking reasonably healthy when U.S. Special Forces picked him up.
Democrat Sen. Feinstein is clearly not going along with the White House’s talking points.
Wild Thing's comment.............
Good for Diane.
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June 06, 2014
Remembering D-Day, June 6, 1944
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 and the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its ½ mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing in a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial are inscribed 1,557 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt speech on the eve of invasion of Normandy, June 06, 1944. Prevalent today.
On June 6, 1944, a date known ever since as D-Day, a mighty armada crossed a narrow strip of sea from England to Normandy, France, and cracked the Nazi grip on western Europe.
President Ronald Reagan Speaks at Normandy ...Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day 6/6/84
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On Megyn Kelly's show....6 of Bowe Bergdahl's Platoon Members Speak Out
PART ONE
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PART TWO
Watch part one of the interview and tune in to 'The Kelly File Friday at 9p ET for must-see part two.
In a powerful interview with Megyn Kelly, six of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's platoon members, including the platoon's former leader, spoke out on the latest developments in the embattled Taliban trade that secured Bergdahl's freedom.
Responding to Kelly's questions about an exclusive Fox News report by James Rosen that alleges Bergdahl converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a "warrior for Islam," former platoon leader Evan Buetow said, "We knew that he had deserted."
Buetow went on to say that the unit on the ground in Afghanistan had knowledge that Bergdahl was attempting to find the Taliban, or someone outside of the platoon with whom he could speak in English who could talk to the Taliban for him.
When asked by Kelly for a head-count of how many among the six platoon members thought Bergdahl deserted, every hand went up.
"It doesn't matter what his motives were. We all took an oath and had to abide by orders, and you don't just leave your fellow Americans to join somebody else," said Cody Full, who was Bergdahl's former roommate.
Former platoon leader Evan Buetow described in detail the morning the platoon realized Bergdahl was missing, and the subsequent search that ensued.
In the days since the platoon members first spoke out about Bergdahl, reports have surfaced that some White House aides have accused the former platoon members of "swift boating," a reference to a group of Vietnam veterans who questioned now Secretary of State John Kerry's military service record during his presidential run in 2004.
Department of State spokespeople have openly called into question the credibility of the soldiers who were there on the ground in Afghanistan when Bergdahl disappeared.
In an even more outrageous turn, a deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development suggested on Twitter that the platoon members speaking out against Bergdahl were "psychopaths." The deputy secretary, Brandon Friedman, was formerly a VA official.
When asked by Kelly for their reaction, the six platoon members gave an incredulous chuckle. Gerald Sutton said he was flattered, because it meant that the administration was noticing their story.
The platoon members all agreed that none of them have political motivations in speaking out against Bergdahl.
"This is not about politics. This is about the fact that Bergdahl walked away from us, went to try to find the Taliban, and we know that for a fact. We were all there, and there is not one person you could find who would say that they don't believe that -- at least who was there," said Buetow.
"He's not a hero, and he did not serve with distinction, and that's a spit in the face to everyone who joined the Army and anyone who died looking for him. What do you think their families think? They don't get their loved one back like Bergdahl's family," said Buetow.
"When you're in a combat zone, it doesn't matter if you're left, right, independent, Jedi, whatever you want to be, okay? The only thing that matters is that you have an American flag on your shoulder... We're all going to ride together, we're all going to die together," said Full.
"I don't know how he felt about us, but we all would die for him, and he left," Full said.
"I would just ask him, 'Why?'" said Sutton, who added that he'd considered Bergdahl a close friend.
"We have no idea why he did it," Buetow said.
When asked to raise their hands if they would like to see Bergdahl court-martialed, all six hands went up.
"He needs to answer for what he did," said Buetow.
Wild Thing's comment............
These two videos are from her show last night, there will be a rest of it on tonight ( Friday) on her show.
The Obama Administration is attacking them already, but they come across as supremely believable and honorable.
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The Veterans of the 29th Infantry Division continue their tour of small Normandy towns they liberated in 1944
Veterans of the 29th Infantry Division continue their tour of small Normandy towns they liberated in 1944
Wild Thing's comment............
Our awesome Veterans!
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WW2 planes fly over Pegasus Bridge for D-Day anniversary
WW2 planes fly over Pegasus Bridge for D-Day anniversary
A number of historic planes including a Spitfire, a Lancaster bomber and DC-3 Dakota have taken part in a flypast over Pegasus Bridge in Normandy to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
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Harry Reid Asked Why Only He Got Heads-Up on Bergdahl Release: “What Difference Does It Make?!”
Harry Reid Asked Why Only He Got Heads-Up on Bergdahl Release: “What Difference Does It Make?!”
Wild Thing's comment.......
Maybe old Harry would liek that quote on a bumper sticker. It seems to be a quote the left likes to use over and over again.
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A sign from Tactical Firearms in Texas Says: Will Trade Obama to Mexico for Sgt. Tahmooressi
A sign from Tactical Firearms in Texas:....“Will trade Obama to Mexico for Sgt. Tahmooressi”
Wild Thing's comment.........
Good one, I love this place.
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June 05, 2014
Lawmakers on both sides rip Obama over Bergdahl deal
Lawmakers on both sides ripped Obama over the Bergdahl deal, saying they were not notified in advance and that Obama broke the law.
Wild Thing's comment........
Lawless Obama, the thug at Penn Ave. doing all he can to get his way no matter what.
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Military sources tell James Rosen: Further allegations pending against Bergdahl
Chief FOX News correspondent at FOX News James Rosen told Hugh Hewitt today that further allegations are pending against James Rosen:
“Now I reported for FOX News on Monday, for our website FOXNews.com, there is a major classified file associated with Sgt. Bergdahl that has been compiled by the intelligence community. And that many in that community harbor ongoing outstanding concerns that Sgt. Bergdahl may not have been just a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy… I can report accurately as I have that there are many in the intelligence community that harbor that concern. I am speaking presently with many people, in and out of the military, in and out of government and in and out of the national security apparatus who are detailing further allegations to me and I am trying to run underground. But this have been a major area of focus for some time now.”
And Jim Angle tweeted this out: The Pentagon advised Obama not to do it.
One senior military source says many at Pentagon advised the President not to make the trade of Taliban prisoners for Bergdahl.
— Jim Angle (@JimAngleFox) June 4, 2014
Wild Thing's comment........
Obama is overriding our Branches of the United States Government. He thinks he is above the Law. He coluld care less that our troops still fighting the War.
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Lib professor Jonathan Turley: Obama absolutely broke the law by not notifying Congress
Lib professor Jonathan Turley: Obama absolutely broke the law by not notifying Congress
Wild Thing's comment...............
Obama hates our laws and give his middle finger at them all the time.
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The last surviving member of the 'code talkers' passes away at 93
Last Surviving 'code Talker' Dead at 93
The last surviving member of the 'code talkers' -- an elite group of Navajo Marines that developed a code using their native language during World War Two -- died Wednesday. (June 4)
Wild Thing's comment..............
God rest his soul! A true hero.A true Chief.
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Col. Jeannie M. Leavitt takes her final flight as the Fourth Fighter Wing commander
Col. Jeannie M. Leavitt takes her final flight as the Fourth Fighter Wing commander.
Wild Thing's comment..........
Thank you Col. Jeannie M. Leavitt for your service.
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June 04, 2014
Pakistani militant commander told Agence France Presse on Sunday that Bergdahl played badminton with his captors
A Pakistani militant commander told Agence France Presse on Sunday that Bergdahl played badminton with his captors, and developed a fondness for kawa, an Afghan green tea.
"He was fond of kawa (Afghan green tea). He drank a lot of kawa all day, which he mostly prepared himself," the commander told AFP by phone from an undisclosed location in Pakistan's tribal areas.
Wild Thing's comment...............
While I was reading at the link and I noticed where it says this about playing badminton. Is that a new form of torture??? I think not.
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Revealed: Search For Bowe Bergdahl Left Troops Unprotected During Infamous Afghan Battle That Left 8 U.S. Soldiers Dead And 22 Wounded
The Battle of Kamdesh, one of the most deadly military engagements during the U.S. war in Afghanistan, turned especially bloody – leaving eight Americans dead and 22 wounded – because troops and aircraft normally tasked to support U.S. fighting men and woman were diverted to search for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
The Oct. 3, 2009 battle at Combat Outpost Keating, near the town of Kamdesh in Nuristan province, lasted more than 12 hours and earned two Army staff sergeants the Medal of Honor, the highest award for bravery the Pentagon can bestow on a warrior.
But multiple sources including a well-placed Pentagon official told MailOnline that the bloodshed was far worse than it needed to be, and blamed the months-long shuffling of American military resources all across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region after Bergdahl walked away from his post on June 30 of that year.
‘The COP Keating battle was so deadly because ISAF numbers were so low,’ a Pentagon official said, referring to the International Security Assistance Force, the generic term for the U.S.-led coalition fighters that included small numbers of soldiers from Afghanistan, Latvia and other nations.
‘And that was because so many U.S. troops were off searching for Bergdahl.’
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to comment publicly.
An internal Pentagon report released in 2010 found that air support was late to arrive at the battle, and no ‘quick reaction force’ showed up for 13 hours.
By that time, Taliban fighters had pushed through fences and overrun the facility, killing or wounding more than half of the U.S. personnel at the site and laying waste to most of the base.
American forces abandoned the outpost days later, but had to bomb its remains from above in order to prevent the Taliban from carrying away the last of the live ammunition that it had once housed.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid bragged to the Associated Press at the time that 'this is another victory for Taliban. We have control of another district in eastern Afghanistan. Right now Kamdesh is under our control, and the white flag of the Taliban is raised above Kamdesh.'
On that same day, President Barack Obama was announced as the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
Two staff sergeants, Clinton Romesha and Ty Carter, were awarded the Medal of Honor for their bravery in defending COP Keating.
Romesha 'wouldn’t have had to put him and his men into the meat grinder of RPGs and B-10 rifle fire,' the official said, if so many resources hadn't been re-tasked to hunt for Bergdahl.
Gerald Sutton, a former Army infantryman who served in Bergdahl's platoon, said Monday that while the Idaho native's desertion put his own unit at grave risk, countless others also had to shoulder the burden.
'I felt like I was in immediate danger all the time' after Bergdahl left, Sutton said. 'All of us did. We were sent out for about 30 to 35 days straight looking for him.'
'And there were plenty of other people. I mean, the complete 501st [Infantry Regiment] was pulled out of there to search.'
'People lost resources that were in the Korengal Valley,' Sutton continued, before bringing up the name 'Clint Romesha' and the battle that raged at COP Keating.
'Those guys didn't have the complete support they needed at the time,' he said, 'because all the assets and everything were diverted to us.'
That redistribution of military men and materiel was par for the course after Bergdahl vanished.
'All units up and down the border in eastern Afghanistan were tasked with the Bergdahl hunt,' a Middle East expert who was in-country repeatedly during the U.S. fighting there told MailOnline.
And 'counterinsurgency operations up and down the border were curtailed in order to hunt for Bergdahl. It was an all hands on deck kind of thing.'
n particular, he said, air support – which arrived late at COP Keating – was lacking on the front lines.
'The shortage was helicopters,' he said. 'If you direct all helicopters into a search you cut off the forward operating bases.'
Ssgt. Carter's Medal of Honor citation captures the chaotic scene, recalling how soldiers 'awakened to an attack of an estimated 300 enemy fighters occupying the high ground on all four sides of Combat Outpost Keating, employing concentrated fire from recoilless rifles, rocket propelled grenades, anti-aircraft machine guns, mortars and small arms fire.'
When President Obama presented the Medal of Honor to Carter, he described the attack that left eight American personnel dead.
'Fifty-three American soldiers were suddenly surrounded by more than 300 Taliban fighters,' the president said at the White House on August 26, 2013. 'The outpost was being slammed from every direction – machine gunfire, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, sniper fire.'
'It was chaos – the blizzard of bullets and steel.'
Obama didn't mention why help was late in coming that day, but the Pentagon official who spoke with MailOnline filled in the gaps.
'It's simple,' he said: 'We lost eight good soldiers because someone wanted to go look for a single rotten one.'
Wild Thing's comment..........
There are photos CLICK HERE to see them with the location of the article. Thank you.
We have troops killed looking for him, troops killed because support was diverted to look for him, and troops killed because he gave aid to the Taliban. And I haven’t even considered the number of serious injuries.
So then along with the six killed during the rescue attempt reported in several other posts.....we now can add 8 more for a total of 14 American Soldiers killed due to Bergdahl’s treasonous escapade, along with 22 more wounded.
The body count continues.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (1)
Hagel Visits Afghanistan....Troops React With Silence When Hagel Informs Them of Bergdahl’s Release
Hagel Visits Afghanistan....Troops React With Silence When Hagel Informs Them of Bergdahl’s Release
Questions persisted, too, about the circumstances of Bergdahl’s 2009 capture. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel declined to comment on earlier reports that the sergeant had walked away from his unit, disillusioned with the war. Such matters “will be dealt with later,” Hagel said.
Hagel, visiting troops in Afghanistan, was met with silence when he told a group of them in a Bagram Air Field hangar: “This is a happy day. We got one of our own back.” It was unclear whether the absence of cheers and applause came from a reluctance to display emotion in front of the Pentagon chief or from any doubts among the troops about Bergdahl.
Wild Thing's comment...........
I can only imagine how shocked our troops were to hear the news. To know fellow soldiers that have been killed when they captured the 5 Taliban and now to hear they are released for a deserter..........horrible.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:49 AM | Comments (3)
Krauthammer's Take: 'Very Important that the Army Pursue' Trying Bergdahl for Possible Desertion
Krauthammer's Take: 'Very Important that the Army Pursue' Trying Bergdahl for Possible Desertion
“He walked away. He walked right off the base,” Bergdahl’s old team leader, former Army Sgt. Evan Buetow, told ABC News Monday. “The fact of the matter is, he deserted us in the middle of Afghanistan to go and find the Taliban"
"People calling him a hero, people calling him this great soldier, it’s a spit in the face to the soldiers who were there… and more importantly it’s a spit in the face to the soldiers who died as a direct result of him leaving.”
Wild Thing's comment..........
I agree and I hope this time we have some honesty and dot tons of pages redacted when they do investigate.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:47 AM | Comments (1)
The Obama 5 (Taliban) to live in Luxury in Qatar
the 5 terrorists Traded for Bowe Bergdahl Not 'Prisoners' in Middle Eastern oasis.
Wild Thing's comment.............
Notice to on the video how they ....the Obama .......will have any access to communicating with others back in Afghanistan. From watching this video we can pretty much know they can be sitting on the beach sipping drinks with umbrellas in them and planing the next attack.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM | Comments (1)
June 03, 2014
Former CIA agent: “We could not have traded five more genocidal Taliban savages for Bowe Bergdahl if we tried”
Former CIA agent: “We could not have traded five more genocidal Taliban savages for Bowe Bergdahl if we tried”
Wild Thing's comment.........
This makes me so sick. The only thing I disagree with this CIA agent about is that the soldier is a traitor a deserter and no way do I feel sorry for him even IF he was tortured and we don't know that he was tortured.
They say he is poor health but we have no proof of that so far.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (2)
Senior Defense Department Official: Sgt. Bergdahl May Have Been More Than Just a Deserter
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl may have not only been a deserter, but an active collaborator with the enemy, a senior Defense Department official told Fox News.
by James Rosen
A senior official confirms to Fox News that the conduct of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl -- both in his final stretch of active duty in Afghanistan and then, too, during his time when he lived among the Taliban -- has been thoroughly investigated by the U.S. intelligence community and is the subject of "a major classified file."
In conveying as much, the Defense Department source confirmed to Fox News that many within the intelligence community harbor serious outstanding concerns not only that Bergdahl may have been a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy.
The Pentagon official added pointedly that no relevant congressional committee has sought access to the classified file, but that if such a request were made, key committee chairs would, under previous precedent, likely be granted access to it. Separately, the Pentagon confirmed Monday that it is looking into claims Americans died during the search for Bergdahl.
The administration announced over the weekend that Bergdahl's release had been secured, in exchange for five Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. President Obama was joined by the soldier's parents in making a public statement on the release Saturday evening from the Rose Garden.
Sources told Fox News that many officials in the Executive Branch are "quite baffled" by the White House's decision to allow the president to stand alongside Bergdahl's father this past weekend, given the father's history of controversial statements, emails and online posts.
Asked Monday about reports that Bergdahl's father was communicating on Twitter with a man described as a Taliban spokesman, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney declined to comment on those reports but defended the administration's handling of the release.
"The fact is they are the parents of Sergeant Bergdahl. Their son was held in captivity for five years," he said. "And it was absolutely the right thing to do, for the commander in chief, for this administration to take action to secure his release, the last prisoner of war from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars."
Asked whether Obama stands by National Security Adviser Susan Rice's claim Sunday that Bergdahl served with "distinction," Carney said the president "stands by actions that he took as commander in chief" to secure his release.
Another administration official, whose duties are focused on counterterrorism, told Fox News when asked about the status of any investigations into Bergdahl's initial disappearance and his conduct over the last five years: "Everybody's looking at this. He's not going to get a free pass" in the interrogations that Bergdahl will face during his repatriation process. "He's going to have a lot of questions to answer -- a lot. Is he a hero? No."
Although this source had not seen the classified file described by the Pentagon source, the counterterrorism official agreed that given the high priority attached to the Bergdahl case over the last five years, the need for clarity about Bergdahl's actions before and during his time with the Taliban "would have been a high priority for intelligence tasking."
Asked if the process of repatriation would include questioning of Bergdahl geared towards determining whether he engaged in any forms of collaboration with the enemy, the counterterrorism official replied: "Of course. ... It's there. This is extremely untidy."
Wild Thing's comment..........
He walked off because he wanted to and I would not be surprised if he wanted to help the enemy in some way. Especially form the emails he sent to his parents before he left his post.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (4)
5 Gitmo Terrorists Arrive in Qatar “With No Sign They Are – Under Custody”
5 Gitmo Terrorists Arrive in Qatar “With No Sign They Are – Under Custody”
The five Guantanamo detainees released by the Obama administration in exchange for America’s last prisoner of war arrived in Qatar today.
As Brian Ross reported on ABC:
“The terror group is calling their release a major victory. New video posted this morning on an Afghan news website shows the five former detainees arriving in Qatar with no sign they are under any sort of custody or guard.… They received a hero’s welcome.”
Wild Thing's comment..........
Obama has allowed evil out to be free.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM | Comments (1)
June 02, 2014
Ticked Off Green Beret Shreds Gwyneth Paltrow In Sarcastic Letter: ‘You Should Receive A Medal!’
Ticked Off Green Beret Shreds Gwyneth Paltrow In Sarcastic Letter: ‘You Should Receive A Medal!’
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow put her foot in her mouth again — and it took a decorated Green Beret to yank it out.
The outspoken star of “Shakespeare in Love” on Tuesday compared cyberbullied celebrities to combat soldiers, according to the London Daily Mail’s coverage of a conference that featured Paltrow as a speaker.
“It’s a very dehumanizing thing,” she said. “It’s almost like, how in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing, and then something is defined out of it. My hope is, as we get out of it, we’ll reach the next level of conscience.”
Her self-pity angered Sgt. First Class Brian Sikes, a Purple Heart recipient who mounted a frontal assault with 32-caliber sarcasm.
Sikes, who was wounded in an IED explosion and saw buddies killed and lose limbs during a combat tour in Afghanistan, called Paltrow’s rant “dehumanizing” for daring to compare battlefield stress to her life of luxury.
To Miss Paltrow,
I’d first like to start out by saying how terrible I feel for you and all your friends that on a daily basis have to endure mean words written by people you don’t know. I can only imagine the difficulty of waking up in a 12,000 square foot Hollywood home and having your assistant retrieve your iPhone, only to see that the battery is low and someone on twitter (the social media concept that you and all of your friends contribute to on an hourly basis to feed your ego and narcissistic ways), has written a mean word or 2 about you. You’ve hit the nail on the head, war is exactly like that. You should receive a medal for the burden you have carried on your shoulders due to these meanies on social media.
You said, “Its almost like, how in war, you go through this bloody dehumanizing thing and then something is defined out of it.” I could see how you, and others like you in “the biz”, could be so insecure and mentally weak that you could pair the difficulty of your life on twitter to my brothers who have had their limbs ripped off and seen their friends shot, blown up, burned and disfigured, or wake up every morning in pain – while just starting the day is a challenge. How about our wives? The ones that sign on to be there for us through thick and thin, that help us to shake the hardships of war upon our return? And do all this while being mothers to our kids, keeping bills in order because we are always gone, and keeping our lives glued together. They do all this, by the way, without a team of accountants, nanny’s, personal assistants, and life coaches. Yeah, reading a mean tweet is just like all that.
You know what is really “dehumanizing”, Miss Paltrow? The fact that you’d even consider that your life as an “A-list” celebrity reading internet comments could even compare to war and what is endured on the battlefield. You and the other “A-listers” that think like you are laughable. You all have actually convinced yourselves that you in some way face difficulty on a regular basis. Let me be the first to burst your bubble: a long line at Starbucks, your driver being 3 minutes late, a scuff mark on your $1200 shoes and a mean tweet do not constitute difficulty in the eyes of a soldier.
Understand me when I say this: war does not define me. It is a chapter in my life that helped shaped me. Being a husband and father is what defines me. Remember, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never…be close to what war is.
from Green Beret Bryan Sikes, SFC, USA
Wild Thing's comment.......
Thank you for your service & God bless you!
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (2)
Fellow Soldiers Call Bergdahl A Deserter Not a Hero, His “Selfish Act” Cost Lives
Not only are they saying he deserted, but that he was ‘seeking out the Taliban’ and that after he was ‘captured’, suddenly IEDs and ambushes against his unit were more accurate and successful.
Fellow Soldiers Call Bergdahl A Deserter, His “Selfish Act” Cost Lives
by Jake Tapper
The sense of pride expressed by officials of the Obama administration at the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is not shared by many of those who served with him — veterans and soldiers who call him a deserter whose “selfish act” ended up costing the lives of better men.
“I was pissed off then and I am even more so now with everything going on,” said former Sergeant Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl’s platoon when he went missing on June 30, 2009. “Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him.”
Vierkant said Bergdahl needs to not only acknowledge his actions publicly but face a military trial for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
A reporter asked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Sunday whether Bergdahl had left his post without permission or deserted — and, if so, whether he would be punished. Hagel didn’t answer directly. “Our first priority is assuring his well-being and his health and getting him reunited with his family,” he said. “Other circumstances that may develop and questions, those will be dealt with later.”
Following his release from five years of captivity in Afghanistan on Saturday, Bergdahl was transferred to a military hospital in Germany.
Idaho hometown prepares for homecoming
A senior Defense official said Bergdahl's "reintegration process" will include "time for him to tell his story, decompress, and to reconnect with his family through telephone calls and video conferences."
Said Bergdahl's former squad leader, Greg Leatherman: "I'm pleased to see him returned safely. From experience I hope that he receives adequate reintegration counseling. I believe that an investigation should take place as soon as healthcare professionals deem him fit to endure one."
Another senior Defense official said Bergdahl will not likely face any punishment. "Five years is enough," he told CNN on condition of anonymity.
Questions surround the circumstances of Bergdahl's disappearance. Conflicting details have since emerged about how the militants managed to capture Bergdahl. Published accounts have varied widely, from claims he walked off the post to another that he was grabbed from a latrine.
According to first-hand accounts from soldiers in his platoon, Bergdahl, while on guard duty, shed his weapons and walked off the observation post with nothing more than a compass, a knife, water, a digital camera, and a diary.
At least six soldiers were killed in subsequent searches for Bergdahl, and many soldiers in his platoon said attacks seemed to increase against the United States in Paktika Provice in the days and weeks following his disappearance.
Many of Bergdahl's fellow troops -- from the seven or so who knew him best in his squad, to the larger group that comprised the 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division -- told CNN that they signed nondisclosure agreements agreeing to never share any information about Bergdahl's disappearance and the efforts to recapture him. Some were willing to dismiss that document in hopes that the truth would come out about a soldier who they now fear is being hailed as a hero, while the men who lost their lives looking for him are ignored.
Many are flocking to social media, such as the Facebook page "Bowe Bergdahl is NOT a hero," where they share stories detailing their resentment. A number of comments on his battalion's Facebook page prompted the moderator to ask for more respect to be shown.
"I challenge any one of you who label him a traitor to spend 5 years in captivity with the Taliban or Haqqani, then come back and accuse him again. Whatever his intent when he walked away or was captured, he has more than paid for it."
Emails reported by the late Michael Hastings in Rolling Stone in 2012 reveal what Bergdahl's fellow infantrymen learned within days of his disappearance: he told people that he no longer supported the U.S. effort in Afghanistan.
"The future is too good to waste on lies," Bowe wrote to his parents. "And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting."
Bergdahl wrote to them, "I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting."
A former member of Bergdahl's squad who has yet to identify his last name publicly but goes by "Cody" tweeted this weekend that before he disappeared, Bergdahl once told him, "If deployment is lame, I'm going to get lost in the Mountains and make my way to China."
Leatherman told CNN that Bergdahl "always looked at the mountains in the distance and talked of 'seeing what's on the other side.'"
Cody noted in his Twitter recollections a story that others from Blackfoot Company relay. While soldiers were searching for Bergdahl, a platoon "came upon some children, they asked him have they seen an American. The children said 'yes, he was crawling on his belly through weeds and acting funny a while ago,'" according to Cody.
The platoon went to the village where the children said the American had gone. "Villagers said an American did come through the area and was wanting water and someone who spoke English," Cody shared. "Wanted to meet with Taliban."
Former Pfc. Jose Baggett, 27, of Chicago, was also in Blackfoot Company, and said he was close to two men "killed because of his (Bergdahl's) actions."
"He walked off," Baggett told CNN. "He left his guard post. Nobody knows if he defected or he's a traitor or he was kidnapped. What I do know is he was there to protect us and instead he decided to defer from America and go and do his own thing. I don't know why he decided to do that, but we spend so much of our resources and some of those resources were soldiers' lives."
Cody is among the soldiers who noted in uptick in attacks following Bergdahl's disappearance.
"A huge thing in country is not building patterns. Well when you are looking for a person everyday that creates a pattern. While searching for him, ambushes and IEDs picked up tremendously. Enemy knew we would be coming. IEDs started being placed more effectively in the coming weeks. Ambushes were more calculated, cover and concealment was used," Cody tweeted.
On August 18, 2009, Staff Sgt. Clayton Bowen and Pfc. Morris Walker were killed by an IED in the search for Bergdahl. Staff Sgt. Kurt Curtiss was killed on August 26; 2nd Lt. Darryn Andrews and Pfc. Matthew Michael Martinek were killed after being attacked in Yahya Khail District on September 4; Staff Sgt. Michael Murphrey was killed September 5 by an IED at the Forward Operating Base, Sharana.
Moreover, other operations were put on hold while the search for Bergdahl was made a top priority, according to officers who served in Afghanistan in that time. Manpower and assets -- such as scarce surveillance drones and helicopters -- were redirected to the hunt. The lack of assets is one reason the closure of a dangerous combat outpost, COP Keating, was delayed. Eight soldiers were killed at COP Keating before it was ultimately closed.
One soldier with the 509th Regiment, a sister unit of the 501st, told CNN that after Bergdahl disappeared, the U.S. Army essentially was told to lock down the entire province of Paktika. He described sitting in the middle of a field with his platoon, vulnerable, with capabilities and personnel mismanaged throughout the region. Different platoons ran out of water, food, and ammunition.
Two mortarmen -- Pvt. Aaron Fairbairn and Pfc. Justin Casillas -- were killed in a July 4, 2009, attack.
"It was unbelievable," the soldier said. "All because of the selfish act of one person. The amount of animosity (toward him) is nothing like you've ever seen before."
That Bergdahl was freed in an exchange for five detainees at Guantanamo Bay is a further source of consternation.
"I don't understand why we're trading prisoners at Gitmo for somebody who deserted during a time of war, which is an act of treason," Vierkant said.
Wild Thing's comment............
IMO our brave men died because they were trying to save the life of a traitor who considered the war “Lame” and wanted to leave..he didn't get taken hostage by the Taliban, he JOINED the Taliban.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:50 AM | Comments (1)
Sen. Ted Cruz : Barack Obama has Set a New and Dangerous Policy of Negotiating with Terrorists: “Have We Just Put a Price on Other U.S. Soldiers?”
Sen. Ted Cruz : Barack Obama has Set a New and Dangerous Policy of Negotiating with Terrorists: “Have We Just Put a Price on Other U.S. Soldiers?”
"If you capture a U.S. soldier you can trade that soldier for 5 terrorists?"
"What does that do for every single soldier stationed abroad?"
"The reason why the U.S. has had the policy for decades of not negotiating with terrorists is because once you start doing it, every other terrorist has an incentive to capture more soldiers"
Wild Thing's comment.............
We will see in the future what comes of what was done by Obama. I agree with Ted Cruz, I just hope this does not put our troops in more danger.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:45 AM | Comments (1)
June 01, 2014
Obama Broke U.S. Law, Did Not Inform Congress Before Transferring Prisoners Off Gitmo In Bergdahl Trade
Blatant distraction from Benghazi, and VA scandal.
BareNakedIslam blog.....reminds readers:
Don’t forget, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was NOT captured on the battlefield. He left the U.S. base camp in Afghanistan in 2009 of his own free will and turned up with the Taliban a short time later.
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Bergdahl release arrangement could threaten the safety of Americans, Republicans say
Amid jubilation Saturday over the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from captivity by the Taliban, senior Republicans on Capitol Hill said they were troubled by the means by which it was accomplished, which was a deal to release five Afghan detainees from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Top Republicans on the Senate and House armed services committees went so far as to accuse President Obama of having broken the law, which requires the administration to notify Congress before any transfers from Guantanamo are carried out.
“Trading five senior Taliban leaders from detention in Guantanamo Bay for Bergdahl’s release may have consequences for the rest of our forces and all Americans. Our terrorist adversaries now have a strong incentive to capture Americans. That incentive will put our forces in Afghanistan and around the world at even greater risk,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. McKeon (R-Calif.) and the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, James M. Inhofe (Okla.), said in a joint statement.
Lawmakers were not notified of the Guantanamo detainees’ transfer until after it occurred.
The law requires the defense secretary to notify relevant congressional committees at least 30 days before making any transfers of prisoners, to explain the reason and to provide assurances that those released would not be in a position to reengage in activities that could threaten the United States or its interests.
Before the current law was enacted at the end of last year, the conditions were even more stringent. However, the administration and some Democrats had pressed for them to be loosened, in part to give them more flexibility to negotiate for Bergdahl’s release.
A senior administration official, agreeing to speak on the condition of anonymity to explain the timing of the congressional notification, acknowledged that the law was not followed. When he signed the law last year, Obama issued a signing statement contending that the notification requirement was an unconstitutional infringement on his powers as commander in chief and that he therefore could override it.
“Due to a near-term opportunity to save Sergeant Bergdahl’s life, we moved as quickly as possible,” the official said. “The administration determined that given these unique and exigent circumstances, such a transfer should go forward notwithstanding the notice requirement.”
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said that the detainees transferred from Guantanamo to Qatar, where they are to stay for at least a year, “are hardened terrorists who have the blood of Americans and countless Afghans on their hands. I am eager to learn what precise steps are being taken to ensure that these vicious and violent Taliban extremists never return to the fight against the United States and our partners or engage in any activities that can threaten the prospects for peace and security in Afghanistan.”
Beyond this individual instance, some raised the larger question of whether it is sound policy for the United States to have, in the words of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), “negotiated with terrorists.”
Rogers said the action marked a “fundamental shift in U.S. policy.”
Wild Thing's comment.............
I agree with my friend that has the Bare Naked Islam blog as I noted at the top of this post.
I am also glad that some Republican leaders are making comments about what Obama did was illegal.
Bergdahl’s dad twitter is @bobbergdahl
He is a terrorist sympathizer. And “ameen” is seen in his timeline, which is a word included in muslim prayer.
Posted by Wild Thing at 12:55 AM | Comments (2)
Netanyahu: Obama Regime Demanded “That Not Even One House Be Built” In Israeli Settlements
Netanyahu: Obama Regime Demanded “That Not Even One House Be Built” In Israeli Settlements
In a meeting this week between Prime Minister Netanyahu and twenty settlement leaders, Netanyahu said that it was the US’s demand to freeze settlements that prevented the meeting of the Department of Planning in the Civil Administration.
Netanyahu said he was the one who gave the order for the department to not meet, but didn’t anticipate the extensive damage that came about as a result, where, even to put up a light post, much less build a needed nursery school, became impossible.
Netanyahu told the leaders that Obama had demanded of him that not even one house be built.
Wild Thing's comment.........
Typical of the Israeli hating Obama.
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“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” - VP Dick Cheney
A toast to each of you 
