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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

FISA Court Ruling Admonished FBI For Abusing NSA Data To Conduct Surveillance On Americans

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court chided the FBI for what appeared to be systemic abuse of its surveillance authority in 2017 and 2018, saying the bureau collected communications on more than 3 million American’s through the National Security Agency’s database, according to a new court ruling.

The October 2018 ruling — first released to the public last week — is highly redacted but still reveals the concerns of the the secret court. U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg, who serves in the District of Columbia and the FISA court, wrote in his decision that the bureau abused its surveillance authority more than other agencies under review. His decision revealed that the bureau had mined data on more than 3.1 million ‘U.S. Persons’ in 2017. The FBI’s numbers soar in comparison to the 7,500 combined searches by the CIA and NSA during the same year.

FISA Court Has Exposed Surveillance Abuse Before

It is not the first time the FISA court has admonished what it deems illegal surveillance by the FBI and other government agencies. In 2017, this reporter published a FISA-court opinion that revealed that during the Obama Administration, the NSA had routinely intercepted and conducted reviews of American citizen communications in violation of the Constitution. Then the court noted that it was a massive abuse of the government’s foreign-intelligence-collection authority. Further, the then Obama administration failed to disclose its unlawful surveillance of...

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Video: Gender Studies Professor Blames Trump For Black Female Obesity

Says it’s harder for black women to lose weight because of racism.

During a television appearance, a New Jersey gender studies professor claimed that Donald Trump’s policies were to blame for black female obesity.

“I hate when people talk about Black women being obese. I hate it, because it becomes a way to blame us for a set of conditions that we didn’t create,” said Brittney Cooper during a discussion on ‘Black Women OWN the Conversation’, which is broadcast on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

“We are living in the Trump era,” the professor added. “And look, those policies kill our people. You can’t get access to good health care, good insurance.”

“I hate when people talk about Black women being obese. I hate it, because it becomes a way to blame us for a set of conditions that we didn’t create.” – @ProfessorCrunk.

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— Black Women OWN the Conversation (@BlackWomenOWN) September 16, 2019

Presumably, she believes there were no black obese women before Trump was elected.

Cooper then went on to assert that it’s harder for black women to lose weight than white women because they are more stressed about racism and it slows down their metabolism.

Yes, really.

“It’s literally that the racism that you’re experiencing and the struggle to...

In Trump Fact Check, CNN Fact-Checker Leaves Out …the Facts

CNN’s fact-checking unit reached out last week to The Heritage Foundation for analysis of President Donald Trump’s recent comments about the U.S. military’s munitions stockpile at the time he took office.

Bewilderingly, the fact-checker for the cable news pioneer then ignored those facts.

Some 24 hours and multiple emails after the initial request, CNN published its “fact check,” claiming Trump severely exaggerated the sad state of the munitions stockpile when he became president, and also his impact on the rebuild since.

Just one problem: CNN completely omitted the wealth of data provided by a Heritage Foundation defense analyst demonstrating exactly the opposite to be true.

This episode highlights an important question—every reporter is a fact-checker. But what’s the response when someone, especially someone with “fact-checker” in his title, just … gets the fact checks wrong?

Based on research provided to CNN, Col. John “JV” Venable, Heritage’s senior research fellow for defense programs, laid out how the U.S. military was indeed facing a munitions shortage in the waning years of the Obama administration. Venable is a retired Air Force pilot with 25 years of service.

Using publicly available data from U.S. Central Command and the secretary of the Air Force’s Financial Management website, Venable showed that the joint force dropped more than twice as many precision-guided munitions (PGMs)—think “smart bombs,” like the JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition)—in just the last three years of the Obama administration than the Air Force could purchase during the full eight years of President Barack Obama’s tenure.

While Navy numbers were not included in the analysis to CNN, Venable did note that Air Force acquisition of precision-guided munitions dwarfs that of the Navy—analysis the numbers also showed to be true.

According to a 2018 Defense Department Selective Acquisition Report, the service purchased a total of 4,485 JDAM guidance kits during the eight years of the Obama presidency. When added to the 45,198 the Air Force purchased during the same years, the joint force collectively acquired 49,963 precision munitions, while it dropped around 96,000 in just the three years preceding Trump’s inauguration.

Not only was the force dropping far more bombs than it was taking in—the delay between getting munitions from the checkout line to the flight line was also a compounding factor.

“[I]t takes 2-3 years from purchase order to delivery of these munitions,” Venable wrote to CNN, adding that, “Currently the Trump administration is rebuilding the PGM stockpile by purchasing as many munitions as...

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How Wokeness Is Turning Back the Clock

If you need an accurate update on some of the madness at the nation’s institutions of higher learning, check out Minding the Campus, a nonprofit independent organization.

John Leo, its editor-in-chief, says that the organization’s prime mission is dedicated to the revival of intellectual pluralism and the best traditions of liberal education at America’s colleges and universities.

Leo’s most recent compilation of campus madness leaves one nearly breathless.

In a USA Today op-ed, Emily Walton, a sociology professor at Dartmouth College, said that all college students should take a mandatory course on black history and white privilege. She says that by taking her class, white students “come to understand that being a good person does not make them innocent but rather they, too, are implicated in a system of racial dominance.”

Walton adds, “After spending their young lives in a condition of ‘white blindness,’ that is, the inability to see their own racial privilege, they begin to awaken to the notion that racism has systematically kept others down while benefiting them and other white people.”

This is inculcating guilt based on skin color. These young white kids had nothing to do with slavery, Jim Crow, or other horrible racial discriminatory acts.

If one believes in individual responsibility, he should find the indoctrination by Walton offensive. To top it off, she equates the meritocratic system of hard work with white discrimination against minorities.

If you thought integration was in, check out the University of Nevada. Based on a report in The College Fix, Leo describes how integration on that campus is actively discouraged—and at taxpayer expense.

The university provides separate dorms for different identities, including Howell Town for black students, Stonewall Suites for LGBTQ students, the women-only housing of Tonopah community, the Healthy Living Floor for tofu and kale lovers, and study-intensive floors for those who want to graduate.

According to a New York Post report, New York City school administrators have been taught that pillars of Western civilization such as objectivity, individualism, and belief in the written word all are examples of white supremacy.

All school principals, district office administrators, and superintendent teams were required to attend the anti-white supremacy training put on by...

Very Shifty.

Bret Baier reviews Dem debate and ‘Word Salad’ Biden, as Squad is set to join Bernie’s Army

With the fourth Democratic presidential primary in the books, Fox News host Bret Baier offered his take on who did well and who didn’t, and his assessment was not great news for Joe “Salads” Biden.

The segment started off with host Shannon Bream noting that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., will likely endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders — more on that later — before Baier lit into Biden.

“Vice President Biden, he just did not seem like he had a great night from the beginning,” Baier said. “There were some answers that were word salad. I mean they were just all over the map.”

” I had no idea what some of them meant,” Bream interjected, in reference to Biden’s answers.

Case in point:

QUOTE OF THE NIGHT!

"Why in God's name should someone who is clipping coupons in the stock market make, in fact, pay a lower tax rate than someone who, in fact, is like I said a, uh, school teacher or

FIRE PIRATE#DemDebate #DemocraticDebate pic.twitter.com/D4rRs7D2lL
— aaron (@leftyaaron) October 16, 2019

Baier pointed to Biden’s response when asked about his son’s controversial business dealings in Ukraine while he was vice president. Biden denied any wrongdoing and not only defended Hunter Biden’s actions, but said he was “proud” of them.

“We’ve always kept everything separate even when my son was the attorney general of the state of Delaware. We never discussed it so there’d be no potential conflict,” Biden told CNN moderator Anderson Cooper. “My son made a judgment. I’m proud of the judgment he...

Hong Kong protesters reacted to LeBron James’ comments on free speech by trampling on and burning his jersey in the street.

Following Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeting his support for the Hong Kong protesters, James said that Morey “wasn’t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke.”

“We all talk about this freedom of speech, yes, we all do have freedom of speech. But at times, there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you’re not thinking about others and you’re only thinking about yourself,” James told reporters.

These remarks sparked fury in Hong Kong itself, with around 200 people gathering in one area of the city to burn his jersey.

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— Lancy是小拿抓呀🌈 (@Lancy39681596) October 15, 2019

“Students, they come out like every weekend. They’ve got tear gassed and then they got gun-shot, like every weekend. Police beating students and then innocent people, like every day. And then he (James) just comes up with something (like) that. We just can’t accept that,” said James Lo, a web designer who runs a Hong Kong basketball fan page on Facebook.

Protesters leveled the same accusations at James that so-called “woke” companies in the United States have faced – they support social justice causes domestically but cave in when it comes to China, one of the biggest human rights abusers on...