Wednesday, January 22, 2020
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DHS Approves $100k Grant of Taxpayers’ Money to Terror-Tied CAIR
Go to TruthAboutCAIR.com.
CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. During that case, a captured internal document of the Muslim Brotherhood was released, naming CAIR’s parent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine, as one of its allied groups, and explaining that the mission of Brotherhood groups in the U.S. was “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in...
Hillary Clinton Shreds Bernie Sanders And His Dupe Supporters In New Docuseries: ‘Nobody Likes Him’
The unlikable vs. the unlikable.
A new docuseries titled “Hillary” is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 25. The four-episode series covers Hillary Clinton’s view on the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the lead-up to the 2016 election, and paints a narrative about women in politics.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Clinton expanded on her problems with 2020 Democratic candidate and 2016 Democratic contender Sen. Bernie Sanders.
In the docuseries, Clinton says Sanders was impossible to work with and had little to no Democratic support.
“He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney, and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it,” she said.
When asked if that assessment still rings true in 2020, she said it does. Clinton also refused to acknowledge whether or not she would endorse Sanders for president if he wins the Democratic nomination.
“I’m not going to go there yet. We’re still in a very vigorous primary season. I will say, however, that it’s not only him, it’s the culture around him. It’s his leadership team. It’s his prominent supporters. It’s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women,” Clinton said, then insinuating Sanders tells his supporters to attack female candidates, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
“You either don’t know what your campaign and supporters are doing, or you’re just giving them a wink and you want them to go after Kamala [Harris] or after Elizabeth [Warren],” Clinton said.
The day before the seventh round of Democratic debates, an anonymous source leaked a story to CNN alleging Sanders ...
Coronavirus: Six people die in Wuhan amid warning outbreak might spread and become a pandemic...
The World Health Organisation looks at declaring it an international health emergency as the number of cases increases rapidly.
Six people have died from a coronavirus outbreak in China as officials warned it is likely to spread in the coming days.
All the victims were in Wuhan, the capital of China's central Hubei province where the virus originated at its seafood market. The virus has been dubbed "Wuhan Virus" after the city.
Officials confirmed the new mystery virus, which has no cure, can spread between humans, and 15 medical staff in Wuhan have now been infected, prompting fears of a pandemic.
Concerns are growing as hundreds of millions of people in China are set to travel home, often from cities to the countryside, or travel abroad for the week-long Lunar New Year holiday which starts on Saturday.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called an emergency meeting for Wednesday to consider declaring an international health emergency, a move only used for the worst epidemics.
WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic warned: "More cases should be expected in other parts of China and possibly other countries in the coming days."
China's National Health Commission said 291 people have been infected in the country - mainly in Wuhan - since the virus emerged in mid-December, but reports are coming in all the time from different Chinese regions indicating the virus is spreading fast.
A study by Hong Kong University in collaboration with WHO estimated by Tuesday 1,343 people had been infected, along with 116 people in 20 other Chinese cities.
Thailand has also reported two cases, while South Korea, Japan and Taiwai have all reported one case, all people who had been to...
How Expansive is FBI Spying?
Cato Institute Research Fellow Patrick Eddington recently filed several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to find out if the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever conducted surveillance of several organizations dealing with government policy, including my Campaign for Liberty. Based on the FBI’s response, Campaign for Liberty and other organizations, including the Cato institute and the Reason Foundation, may have been subjected to FBI surveillance or other data collection.
I say “may have been” because the FBI gave Mr. Eddington a “Glomar response” to his FOIA requests pertaining to these organizations. A Glomar response is where an agency says it can “neither confirm nor deny” involvement in a particular activity. Glomar was a salvage ship the Central Intelligence Agency used to recover a sunken Soviet submarine in the 1970s. In response to a FOIA request by Rolling Stone magazine, the CIA claimed that just confirming or denying the Glomar’s involvement in the salvage operation would somehow damage national security. A federal court agreed with the agency, giving federal bureaucrats, and even local police departments, a new way to avoid giving direct answers.
The Glomar response means these organizations may have been, and may still be, subjected to federal surveillance. As Mr. Eddington told Reason magazine, “We know for a fact that Glomar invocations have been used to conceal actual, ongoing activities, and we also know that they’re not passing out Glomars like candy.”
Protecting the right of individuals to join together in groups to influence government policy is at the very heart of the First Amendment. Therefore, the FBI subjecting such groups to surveillance can violate the constitutional rights of everyone involved with the groups.
The FBI has a long history of targeting Americans whose political beliefs and activities threaten the FBI’s power or the power of influential politicians. The then-named Bureau of Investigation participated in the crackdown on people suspected of being communists in the post-World War I “Red Scare.” The anti-communist crackdown was headed by a young agent named J. Edgar Hoover who went on to become FBI director, a position he held until his death. Hoover kept and expanded his power by using the FBI to collect blackmail material on people including politicians.
In the 1930s and 1940s, the FBI spied on supporters of the America First movement, including several Congress members. Two of the most famous examples of FBI targeting individuals based on their political activities are the harassment of Martin Luther King Jr. and the COINTELPRO program. COINTELPRO was an organized effort to spy on and actively disrupt “subversive” organizations, including...
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