The revelation that the U.S. intelligence community, under the Obama administration, sought the assistance of the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Donald Trump’s associates before the 2016 election is a chilling reminder of the lengths to which the Deep State will go to protect its interests and challenge its adversaries. (The Five Eyes countries are the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.) This bombshell, reported by a team of independent journalists, exposes a dark chapter in American political history, where foreign intelligence services were reportedly mobilized against a presidential candidate.
The alleged operation against Trump and his associates, which predates the official start of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, is a stark example of political weaponization of intelligence. The involvement of foreign allies in surveilling American citizens under the pretext of national security raises serious questions about the integrity of our democratic processes and the autonomy of our nation’s intelligence operations.
The narrative that has been pushed for years, that the investigation into Trump’s campaign began with an Australian tip about a boastful Trump aide, now appears to be a cover for a more extensive and coordinated effort to undermine Trump. If reports are accurate, British intelligence began targeting Trump on behalf of American intelligence agencies as early as 2015, long before the official narrative claims.
He Cut His Finger Smashing A Glass
The man who forgot how to swim.
The story became one of palace intrigue due to the anonymous 911 call, the location of the Obamas at the time of the incident, and the former president’s injuries at a golf course not long after the event. He was sporting bandaged hands and a black eye. It might be a coincidence, but the drowning has sparked many conspiracy theories and accompanying fact-checks, which don’t mean anything. The liberal media destroyed the ‘fact check’ beat when weaponizing these pieces against the Trump presidency.
Like the FBI, it’s lost all credibility. If anything, it only pours more gasoline on the conspiratorial bonfire. Later, it was determined that the Obamas were on the island but not at their residence, though the emergency call log from police appeared scattered. And the freakish thing about the Campbell case is that he isn’t the first chef to die serving a former Democratic president. The Clintons personal chef, who also served the Bush White House, died in 2015. The cause of death: drowning.
He Cut His Finger Smashing A Glass
You can take the boy out of Chicago…
Barack Obama’s private chef, Tafari Campbell, vanished on Sunday evening while paddleboarding in Edgartown Great Pond. He turned up drowned Monday morning in a pond off the former president’s Martha’s Vineyard estate.
Biden Sets Israel on Fire
It’s not foreign interference when Democrats do it.
The world has learned a lot watching America’s Middle East freedom agenda wind its way through the Fertile Crescent, North Africa, and then up the Nile, first under George W. Bush and then under Barack Obama. The first of these lessons is that when U.S. policymakers selectively deploy the rhetoric of democracy and human rights against target governments, their words are typically accompanied by practical measures to destabilize those governments, including U.S. allies.
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A similar operation is now underway in Israel, where the Biden administration has departed from diplomatic protocol by repeatedly advertising its meetings with the political faction seeking to undo Israel’s newly elected right-wing government. More significantly, Biden’s State Department is now directly funding local activists organizing the protests. By publicly putting its prestige and money behind the coalition that lost the latest Israeli election, Washington is openly advertising its desire to bring down Netanyahu.
Maybe it seems strange that the current U.S. presidential administration considers Israel’s government hostile to American interests. Why, it was just months ago that Biden aides mediated an arrangement between Israel and Lebanon over their maritime border. Even practical, hard-minded Israeli officials said the deal enhanced security and may even lead to more positive steps with the Beirut government. Surely that’s indicative of good relations between Washington and Jerusalem, no?
In reality, the maritime agreement was just the latest in a series of initiatives to realign U.S. interests with those of the terror regime in Tehran…
Via Instapundit.
It’s Probably Nothing
Not every Obama policy came to naught.
Inspectors from the UN atomic agency discovered uranium enriched to 84-percent purity in Iran last week, closer than ever to weapons-grade levels, Bloomberg reported Sunday, citing two unnamed senior diplomats.
Iran has been known thus far to have enriched uranium to 60%. A purity of 90% is needed to produce nuclear weapons.
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors are trying to determine whether Tehran deliberately made the move or if it was an “unintended accumulation within the network of pipes connecting the hundreds of fast-spinning centrifuges used to separate the isotopes,” the report said.
h/t Dumb Biker
In Conversation With Barack Obama’s House, Model For A Healing Planet
Let’s Go Brandon
I can’t quit watching this. Obamy can’t control crowd as they chant FJB FJB. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/vMeZIRBsRT
— Larry Andress #justheretolaughpatriot (@LarryAndress2) October 29, 2022
(Note: video is doctored, but still funny. – Kate)
Virtue Signal Activated
What the hell is this for. https://t.co/D3wjX4JpVQ
— Terry Glavin 格立文 (@TerryGlavin) March 13, 2022
The Fog of Media
Matt Walsh- This is the early days of covid all over again. People are hysterical. Media feeding the panic. Lots of blatantly false information being spread around. You are expected to believe everything you hear. People who question the narrative are shouted down and shamed.
James Lindsay- I don’t know what’s going on in Ukraine right now, but I do know the news won’t help me understand it correctly.
UnHerd- Konstantin Kisin: Has the media got Ukraine wrong?
Audio only version of UnHerd
Francisco- The UnHerd interview with Konstanin Kisin is excellent. He admits he’s part of the alternative media which also by and large doesn’t have a good handle on what’s going on yet. But then goes on to give his own account of what he understands the situation to be, both on a micro and a macro level. He’s a recent Russian immigrant and his wife is Ukrainian. “It’s not really about the Ukraine, it’s about you”.
Russian Road Trip
Aris Rousinos over at UnHerd had a good essay at the end of January on what we’re seeing unfold today in the Ukraine.
UnHerd- Putin’s next move, a shock and awe campaign could overwhelm Ukraine
And in case you missed it earlier this morning O.J. had a good piece from Victor Davis Hansen as well.
Putin’s Predictabilities- It is easy to predict what the Russian president will do in any given situation. Biden is making it easier for Putin to act with aggression.
The View From Britain
Dementia Joe may think the allies back him, but the foreign media tells a different story. Heels Up Harris will be president? What a mess.
Conrad Writes About the Afghan Mess
Always interesting to get Conrad Black’s take on things. And he isn’t impressed. General Blackie and Dementia Joe make a great team.
Truinnerashuvaduprezure
Now 22 minutes late for his 5pm live broadcast.
Well, that was brutal.
This is what weakness looks like. pic.twitter.com/a7vqlqYUhU
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 26, 2021
It’s a shit show : U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city’s airport, a choice that’s prompted outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials. […] “Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” said one defense official
He’s A Chicago Democrat. It’s Their Nature.
On the road from stirring symbol of hope and change to the Fat Elvis of neoliberalism, birthday-partying Barack Obama sold us out…
Its Rude To Say Dementia Joe Has Dementia
The nursing home that used to be called the White House, is upset that a news host trashed Dr. Jill for letting Old Joe run for the presidency. I guess they have nothing else to worry about. Don’t worry, Joe will have forgotten about it by tomorrow.
Screwing Up the Retreat
Kevin Newman: The people we left behind at the gas station
Despite claims of “miraculous” progress, we are still failing to evacuate our people from Afghanistan
Each family included an average of 10 people — so make it a hundred — told it was time to leave for Canada. Others followed, and pretty soon there were 500 Afghans at the gas station hoping for rescue. Some in the huge crowd were told to wear red to identify themselves on a list Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) had compiled. One even wore a Roots Canada jacket a soldier had sent over to him years ago. But it didn’t matter. No one from Canada was there to meet them.
For at least another 40 hours they sat at that gas station, trapped in the middle, unable to leave, with no further word from Canada on whether they should attempt to return to hiding, or keep praying for a miracle.
They Left in the Middle of the Night
Not Our Problem
Kevin Newman: Kabul shows the unflattering truth: Canada is slow, risk-averse and selfish
There were no buses, soldiers or escorts for these terrified people . Thursday they received a short text from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). They were instructed (in English only) to urgently head to the airport on their own, try to find a way through multiple Taliban checkpoints searching for them, and then if they survived that kilometres-long trip, figure out a way through thousands of desperate Afghans trying to flee. They were told by IRCC to carry documents to identify themselves to a gate agent, but because those same documents would be used to identify them by the Taliban, it was up to them to decide whether to carry them. With that, IRCC wiped its hands of responsibility. No direction on where to avoid Taliban checkpoints, no specific gates to head to (there are eight), and no Canadians on site to help. In fact there hadn’t been any Canadian officials in Kabul for a week, and when a few arrived hours after that text blast, reporters said they had travelled on an American military flight because their Canadian C-17 needed servicing somewhere else.
Needless to say, no one got through the airport, so they returned to their safe houses — wondering if their last flight to freedom had left without them.
Prime Minister Trudeau could be found yesterday at a Food Fare in Winnipeg talking about paid sick leave. Good to see him focusing on the important things and the media allowing him to do just that.
More than 40,000 Canadians served in Afghanistan, and 158 were killed. The recapture of the country by the Taliban is probably the most significant foreign story for Canadians since we pulled out a decade ago.
Truinnerashuvaduprezure
Get over it.
Biden dismisses Afghans falling out of planes by saying “that was 4-5 days ago.” It was 2 days ago. pic.twitter.com/jWaxaHXsMT
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 18, 2021
More @JackPosobiec: Biden telling staff he wants to go back to Delaware. Hasn’t been sleeping well this week. Thinks he will be more functional if he stays over at home in Wilmington.
Into the quagmire: Biden declares war on Republican governors.
Update: Biden and Kamala Camps Falling Out Over Afghanistan Disaster
Trading Private Bergdahl
Mohammad’s Man in The White House: Taliban leader Khairullah Khairkhwawas was freed from Guantanamo Bay in 2014 by Barack Obama in an exchange for American deserter Sgt. Robert “Bowe” Bergdahl.