John Kerry says he's not sure how to "interpret" anti-American remarks by the Iranian Supreme Leader after the nuclear deal, but they are "disturbing."
Posted by Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday, 21 July 2015
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
An IRS document confirms that the organization supplied the FBI with 21 computer disks containing 1.25 million pages of confidential information from more than 113,000 tax returns.
“The FBI and Justice Department worked with Lois Lerner and the IRS to concoct some reason to put President Obama’s opponents in jail before his reelection, and this abuse resulted in the FBI’s illegally obtaining confidential taxpayer information,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said in the release.
Lerner, a former IRS official, was at the center of past allegations that the agency had specifically targeted conservative groups applying for 501(c)(4) nonprofit status. More than 6,000 Lerner emails thought to be lost were turned over to the Senate Finance Committee in April.
The new documents shed light on the relationship between various agencies in the Obama administration and their plans to gain access to unredacted documents forbidden under federal tax law, according to Judicial Watch.
A Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb For Iran
Rather than publicly report this departure from the accord, the Obama administration chose to quietly accept it. When a respected independent think tank, the Institute for Science and International Security, began pointing out the problem, the administration’s response was to rush to Iran’s defense — and heatedly attack the institute as well as a report in the New York Times.
This points to two dangers in the implementation of any longterm deal. One is “a U.S. willingness to legally reinterpret the deal when Iran cannot do what it said it would do, in order to justify that non-performance,” institute President David Albright and his colleague Andrea Stricker wrote. In other words, overlooking Iranian cheating is easier than confronting it.
This weakness is matched by a White House proclivity to respond to questions about Iran’s performance by attacking those who raise them. Mr. Albright, a physicist with a long record of providing non-partisan expert analysis of nuclear proliferation issues, said on the Foreign Policy Web site that he had been unfairly labeled as an adversary of the Iran deal and that campaign-style “war room” tactics are being used by the White House to fend off legitimate questions.
Baby Boomers
A new Isil video shows teenage executioners using the Unesco heritage site as a theatre for death…
Southern Flank
One can conceive of an arc that starts in the Ukraine, descends through the Black Sea to Turkey and Iran then follows the coast of the Mediterranean around through Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt. That whole arc is now trembling on its foundations, while president Obama celebrates the supposed best week of his two terms.
Take Me, Obama
This photo of Obama shooting a rainbow out of Air Force One is perfect for this week http://t.co/F1V49BJpT0 #LoveWins pic.twitter.com/dEX50DMxxo
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) June 30, 2015
Operation Empty Chair
For those who say ISIS doesn’t have a strategy. #blackgold pic.twitter.com/ILeEko1W0L
— Aaron Y. Zelin (@azelin) June 11, 2014
More here.
Not A Muslim
Forward!
Bin Laden Is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead
A new report released by the U.S. State Department analyzing terrorist attacks reveals a sharp rise in both the number of attacks worldwide and the effectiveness of terror groups to inflict mass casualties.
According to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), the number of terrorist attacks in 2014 increased by 35 percent, while total fatalities increased 81 percent.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Operation Empty Chair
They Miss W
Things you’ll never see on the CBC – Americans now have a more favorable view of former President George W. Bush than they do of President Barack Obama.
Operation Empty Chair
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has ramped up its activities in Southeast Asia so effectively that there is now an entire military unit of terrorists recruited from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, according to Singapore’s prime minister.
“Southeast Asia is a key recruitment center for ISIS,” Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said at the Shangri-La Dialogue here in Singapore Friday. He noted that this included more than 500 Indonesians and dozens of Malaysians. “ISIS has so many Indonesian and Malaysia fighters that they form a unit by themselves — the Katibah Nusantara — Malay Archipelago Combat Unit,” he added.
Operation Empty Chair
…this new Saudi phase of the ISIS battle plan threatens to shatter the illusion of the Saudi behemoth. And that’s terrifying. Because without a real and present Saudi threat, the last remaining check on Tehran becomes Israeli spies and American bombs.
Trust The Experts
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How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Since April 12, the day Freddie Gray was arrested, 51 people have been killed in Baltimore, 47 of whom have been black and none of whom died at the hands of a police officer.
And it’s not just Baltimore.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
“If the United States’ bottom line is that China has to halt its activities, then a US-China war is inevitable in the South China Sea”, said the paper, which is often seen as a mouth-piece of hardline nationalists in the government in Beijing.
Harper should have threatened war. We’d have Keystone up and running by now.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Marie Harf promoted to senior advisor, will focus on negotiations with Iran http://t.co/A0qMQvT3fq
— TwitchyTeam (@TwitchyTeam) May 27, 2015
Forward!
Hmmmm… let’s see: propaganda? Check. Censorship? Check. Co-opting potential critics with material rewards? Check. Control over media through various civil or criminal means? Check. As for hiring trolls to flood comments and vandalizing opposition media sites, that can all be accomplished through private groups, without the need for government fingerprints.
But hey, I’m sure that could never happen here.
People are slow to catch on.