Coming attractions: How the biggest political scandal in history will play out in 2018

Coming attractions: How the biggest political scandal in history will play out in 2018
Coming attractions: How the biggest political scandal in history will play out in 2018-By Thomas Lifson

"A lot of frustration has been expressed – on these pages and elsewhere – over the slow pace of progress in unraveling the Deep State coup against Trump.  
But "the process of uncovering the worst political scandal in American history," as I called it a couple of days ago, needs to be done the right way, or else it will founder under the waves of abuse that will pour from the media and political branches of the establishment.  
Not only must legal niceties be observed, but the rollout of information must be undertaken with a strategy in mind. Each step builds on the previous and addresses the probable response...

Sundance of Conservative Treehouse has a must-read column today, analyzing the pattern of disclosures from the I.G.  
In Sundance's words, "It looks just like a prosecutor laying out his case."

Consider what is at stake; and further consider that you were given the task of revealing the outcome of an investigation of such consequence.  How would you introduce the findings to the larger U.S. electorate?   Given the timing of the releases from the IG's investigation, I think that's what we are seeing in the past two weeks.  A prosecutor laying out his case over the course of multiple media cycles. ...

There is a pattern in the released OIG information and how we retrieve it from the media.

♦Ahead of FBI Director Christopher Wray appearing before congress the IG released the information about FBI Agent Strzok and his mistress FBI/DOJ Attorney Lisa Page.

♦Just before Asst. FBI Director Andrew McCabe was going to appear before congress the IG released information about DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie Ohr.

Andrew McCabe ducked out of the hearing, and will now appear next week. Boy-oh-boy that one should be interesting.  If he's still employed. (anticipating more releases here)

♦Just before DOJ Asst. AG Rod Rosenstein appeared before congress the IG released the actual text messaging information from Agent Strzok and Lisa Page.

See the pattern?

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California's War on Guns Broadens to a War on Ammunition Beginning January 1, 2018

California's War on Guns Broadens to a War on Ammunition Beginning January 1, 2018:

"California’s war on guns will soon broaden to a war on ammunition as a ban on the possession of bullets purchased out-of-state takes effect January 1, 2018.
This is one of many steps going into effect which will quickly place ammunition under controls similar to those which Democrat lawmakers have placed on firearms."

Weapons Went From The CIA To ISIS In Less Than Two Months, New Study Reveals | The Daily Sheeple

Weapons Went From The CIA To ISIS In Less Than Two Months, New Study Reveals | The Daily Sheeple:

• Mainstream media in 2013: “Conspiracy Theorists!” 
• Mainstream media in 2017: “ISIS Got a Powerful Missile the CIA Bought!” 

Years late to the party, mainstream media outlets like USA Today, Reuters, and Buzzfeed are just out with “breaking” and “exclusive” stories detailing how a vast arsenal of weapons sent to Syria by the CIA in cooperation with US allies fueled the rapid growth of ISIS. 
Buzzfeed’s story entitled, Blowback: ISIS Got A Powerful Missile The CIA Secretly Bought In Bulgaria, begins by referencing “a new report on how ISIS built its arsenal highlights how the US purchased munitions, intended for Syrian rebels, that ended up in the hands of the terrorist group.”
...the CAR experts began finding that as early as 2013 to 2014 much of the Islamic State’s advanced weapons systems as well as small arms were clearly sourced to the United States and the West.
...“These weapons include anti-tank guided weapons and several varieties of rocket with tandem warheads, which are designed to defeat modern reactive armor.”...
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Student suspended for sharing a news article about lawsuit against school district - The College Fix

Student suspended for sharing a news article about lawsuit against school district - The College Fix
A student ‘violated the school’s user policy involving technology’

One of the wacky recurring policies in college speech codes is improper use of campus information technology.

Georgetown Law formally banned students from using the campus network for “political speech” during the 2016 campaign. 

Some colleges’ policies are broad enough to ban sending or receiving lewd, inappropriate or similarly vague content. 

...And as you might expect, K-12 schools are still a gulag when it comes to the expressive rights of students.

Ohio’s Sandusky Register reports that a local high school suspended a student for three days after he used his school-provided email to share a news article with classmates.

...After they told the Register reporter there’s no such policy that bans students from “sharing negative news stories about the district,” the superintendent said with no further elaboration that a student “violated the school’s user policy involving technology.”...

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Hollywood Celebrities Throw Christmas Fundraiser — For Planned Parenthood | Daily Wire

Hollywood Celebrities Throw Christmas Fundraiser — For Planned Parenthood | Daily Wire:

"There's nothing quite like celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, perhaps the most important pregnancy of all time, by throwing a star-studded variety show fundraiser for the organization that ends the lives of more than 300,000 unplanned children every year.
But, of course, celebrities have no sense of irony, so they're doing precisely that: throwing a "Christmas extravaganza" in Los Angeles, all for the benefit of Planned Parenthood. The "second annual Feliz Navipod’s Feliz Navidad Variety Show" will be held in Los Angeles next Monday. "

Governmental accountability board? More like Wisconsin's Secret Police.

Governmental accountability board? More like Wisconsin's Secret Police.

It was a partisan witch hunt masquerading as an inquiry into campaign irregularities. And it might presage the outcome of the Mueller investigation.

The “Cheesehead Stasi.” 
That’s what Twitter humorist IowaHawk called a long-running and politicized investigation organized by Democratic politicians in Wisconsin, targeting supporters of Republican Gov. Scott Walker. 
The mechanism for this investigation was an allegedly nonpolitical, but in fact entirely partisan, “Government Accountability Board.”

In the course of its secretive “John Doe” investigation, the GAB hoovered up millions of personal emails from Republican donors and supporters, and even raided people’s homes, while forbidding them to talk about it:

“I was told to shut up and sit down. The officers rummaged through drawers, cabinets and closets. Their aggressive assault on my home seemed more appropriate for a dangerous criminal, not a longtime public servant with no criminal history,” Archer wrote in a June 30, 2015, Wall Street Journal op-ed. The column was published a day before she filed her civil rights lawsuit.

When the agents finally left her home, Archer said she took inventory of the damage. She found drawers and closets ransacked, her “deceased mother’s belongings were strewn across the floor.” Like so many other targets of the secret John Doe investigation, Archer was forced to watch her neighbors watch her — the star of a very public search-and-seizure operation. . . .

And like her fellow targets, she was told she could say nothing publicly about being a target of Chisholm’s probe. Doing so could have landed her in jail and hit with hefty fines. The secret investigations come with strict gag orders."...

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Experts say internet reliant on vulnerable undersea fiber-optic cables | McClatchy Washington Bureau

Experts say internet reliant on vulnerable undersea fiber-optic cables | McClatchy Washington Bureau
"WASHINGTON-Hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable lay on the ocean floors, a crucial part of the global internet’s backbone, and only rarely do ship anchors, undersea landslides or saboteurs disrupt them.
...Undersea cables conduct nearly 97 percent of all global communications, and every day an estimated $10 trillion in financial transfers and vast amounts of data pass through the seabed routes. Satellites, once crucial but now limited in speed and bandwidth, handle only a tiny percentage of global communications.
...But in recent years, a few incidents have drawn attention to sabotage and espionage.
In October 2015, U.S. authorities scrambled to monitor Russian submarine patrols and a high-tech Russian surface ship, the Yantar, in a corridor of the North Atlantic that hosts a cluster of undersea cables.
The Yantar carried deep-sea submersibles and cable-cutting gear."

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MSU scholars find $21 trillion in unauthorized government spending; Defense Department to conduct first-ever audit | MSUToday | Michigan State University

MSU scholars find $21 trillion in unauthorized government spending; Defense Department to conduct first-ever audit | MSUToday | Michigan State University:
"Earlier this year, a Michigan State University economist, working with graduate students and a former government official, found $21 trillion in unauthorized spending in the departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development for the years 1998-2015.
The work of Mark Skidmore and his team, which included digging into government websites and repeated queries to U.S. agencies that went unanswered, coincided with the Office of Inspector General, at one point, disabling the links to all key documents showing the unsupported spending. (Luckily, the researchers downloaded and stored the documents.)
Now, the Department of Defense has announced it will conduct the first department-wide, independent financial audit in its history (read the Dec. 7 announcement here)..."
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Byron York: Former top spy rethinks: Maybe we shouldn't have attacked a new president

Byron York: Former top spy rethinks: Maybe we shouldn't have attacked a new president:

"Morell admits he went after the new president without even considering what that might mean. "I think there was a significant downside to those of us who became political," he told Glasser. "So, if I could have thought of that, would I have ended up in a different place? I don't know. But it's something I didn't think about.""

Explosive Texts Point To FBI, Not Russian, Meddling In 2016 Election | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Explosive Texts Point To FBI, Not Russian, Meddling In 2016 Election | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"...But explosive text exchanges between top FBI agents suggest it should be looking in the mirror.
The text messages sent between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, which became public on Wednesday, provide a rare and illuminating window into just how rabidly partisan putatively nonpartisan law enforcement officials can be.
...Strzok was a key player in the FBI's investigation into whether Clinton had broken the law by using a private, unsecured email server to handle highly classified documents.
...He was also the person who watered down the language in the statement used by Comey to exonerate Clinton, changing it from "gross negligence" to "extremely careless," which as we noted in this space was critical to Comey's claim that Clinton didn't break any laws.
Remember, too, that when Strzok was busy airbrushing Clinton's email crimes, he would have known that, had the FBI done the right thing and indicted her for putting national security at risk, it would have crushed her campaign, and helped elect the man Strzok clearly felt should never be president.
In other words, Strzok had motive, means and opportunity to sabotage that investigation..."
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History for December 15

History for December 15 - On-This-Day.com
Nero (Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) 37 AD - Fifth and last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Gustave Eiffel 1832 - Engineer: designed Paris’ Eiffel Tower and helped design Statue of Liberty, Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey (John Edward Kelly) 1862 - Boxer


J. Paul Getty 1892 - Oil magnate: Getty Oil, Tim Conway 1933 - Actor, comedian ("McHale’s Navy," "The Tim Conway Show," "The Carol Burnett Show"), Dave Clark 1942 - Singer (The Dave Clark Five), TV producer, actor


1791 - In the U.S., the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, went into effect following ratification by the state of Virginia.


1877 - Thomas Edison patented the phonograph.


1939 - "Gone With the Wind," produced by David O. Selznick based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, premiered at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta. The movie starred Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.


1944 - A single-engine plane carrying U.S. Army Major Glenn Miller disappeared in thick fog over the English Channel while en route to Paris.


1944 - Dr. R. Townley Paton and a small group of doctors laid the groundwork for the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration.


1964 - Canada's House of Commons approved a newly designed flag thereby dropping the Canadian "Red Ensign" flag.


1966 - Walter Elias "Walt" Disney died in Los Angeles at the age of 65.


1978 - U.S. President Carter announced he would grant diplomatic recognition to Communist China on New Year's Day and sever official relations with Taiwan.

$7.8 Million Settlement Against Biomedical Companies Accused of Profiting from Fetal Tissue Sales - Breitbart

$7.8 Million Settlement Against Biomedical Companies Accused of Profiting from Fetal Tissue Sales - Breitbart:

"Two Yorba Linda biomedical procurement companies have reached a $7.8 million settlement with the Orange County, California, district attorney’s office following allegations they illegally profited from the sale of fetal tissue."

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Net Neutrality 101 | Competitive Enterprise Institute

Net Neutrality 101 | Competitive Enterprise Institute:

What is net neutrality?

"Net neutrality" refers to a controversial set of Internet regulations issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). 

The concept of net neutrality originally focused on requiring broadband providers to let their subscribers use applications, services, and devices of their choosing.

But net neutrality has come to mean the straightjacketing of the Internet by treating broadband providers like public utilities (like phone or cable companies) under the same 1934 regulatory regime used to govern the old AT&T Ma Bell telephone monopoly. 

For example, under the FCC's net neutrality regulations, a wireless broadband provider may not prioritize video-chat applications—which can suffer greatly during periods of network congestion—over other applications. 

Simply put, after decades of enjoying a hands-off approach from Washington that allowed a vibrant, open, and free Internet to flourish, the new FCC rules subject the Internet to more government control than it has ever known in the United States..."

All the answers you need.

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How Bob Hoover Stole A Fw 190 To Escape POW Camp | Frontline Videos | Raw, Uncut, Real Videos From The Frontlines

How Bob Hoover Stole A Fw 190 To Escape POW Camp | Frontline Videos | Raw, Uncut, Real Videos From The Frontlines:
HOOVER’S HEROES.

Not too long ago Bob Hoover left this world but he left quite a legacy in aviation. 

Known as “The Pilot’s Pilot” Hoover had an amazing career with fighter planes, experimental aircraft and will always be regarded as one of the greatest pilots who ever lived. 

Hoover had some incredible stories during the war, one of the most impressive tales how he escaped from a German POW camp by stealing a German plane....

“We ran across this airfield and all the planes were damaged or unflyable. But I found one that had a lot of damage but it was full of fuel. I got in the cockpit, didn’t have a parachute but I was in there and I was going and got the engine started. I took off, I didn’t even go to the runway, I went out right across the grass and got airborne.”

– Bob Hoover

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Migrant Family Of NYC Terror Suspect TRASH The Police | Daily Wire

Migrant Family Of NYC Terror Suspect TRASH The Police | Daily Wire:

"The family reacted to Ullah's attempted terror attack by expressing "outrage" over American police authorities and suggesting institutionalized Islamophobia.

In a statement provided via Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-New York, Ullah's family said they were "outraged by the behavior of law enforcement officials during this investigation.""