Bradley ‘Chelsea’ Manning Released From Prison

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By Townhall. Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, the former U.S. Army soldier who was court martialed for leaking government secrets to WikiLeaks, has been released from prison after 62 days following the expiration of the grand jury’s term. Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist who broke the similar Edward Snowden bombshell back in 2013, shared the news on Twitter.

Manning was behind bars for refusing to testify about those WikiLeaks connections, but had previously admitted to leaking more than 725,000 classified documents to the organization, including military documents. [His] attorneys revealed what comes next. (Read more from “Bradley ‘Chelsea’ Manning Released From Prison” HERE)

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Chelsea Manning Released From Jail After Refusing to Testify to Grand Jury

By The Hill. Manning’s attorneys said that while [he] was being released, [he] had been served with another subpoena to testify before a different grand jury or face more jail time.

“Today marked the expiration of the term of the grand jury, and so, after 62 days of confinement, Chelsea was released from the Alexandria Detention Center earlier today,” her lawyers said in a statement.

“Unfortunately, even prior to [his] release, Chelsea was served with another subpoena. This means [he] is expected to appear before a different grand jury, on Thursday, May 16, 2019, just one week from [his] release today.”

The lawyers said it was “conceivable” that Manning would again be held in contempt of court and return to the jail in Alexandria, Va., as soon as next week.

“Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions, and will use every available legal defense to prove to District Judge Trenga that [he] has just cause for her refusal to give testimony,” the lawyers said. (Read more from “Chelsea Manning Released From Jail After Refusing to Testify to Grand Jury” HERE)

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Did Swalwell Really Just Compare Mueller Report to September 11?

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who thinks President Trump is a Russian agent (and, yes, I will mention this every day until the primary), has made another farfetched comparison. On Twitter, he put special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation on par with the attack on Pearl Harbor and the September 11 terror attacks by way of condemning Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin.

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Bush Judge Creates Fake Right for Non-Doctors to Perform Abortions

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Remember when judges had to take the abortion issue away from the legislatures so that women wouldn’t receive abortions performed with hangers in back alleys? Now, judges have to take the health care standards away from legislatures so that non-doctors can perform back alley-type abortions. The common denominator is that abortion is a religion where typical rules of law don’t apply, and judges are gods who can contradict law, the Constitution, and their own precedents at will.

On Monday, Virginia federal district Judge Henry E. Hudson, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that suddenly the commonwealth’s commonsense law dating back to 1975 requiring abortions to be performed only by licensed physicians is unconstitutional. You see, states and even the federal government can regulate every aspect of health care and even every aspect of medical insurance. But life-and-death procedures like abortions must be free from the most basic health care standards, including the requirement to have a doctor perform the procedure. Imagine a judge declaring that because gun ownership is a real right (unlike abortion), anyone could sell firearms without a license.

Once again, we see vividly how once the other branches of government have ceded every issue to the federal courts, everything goes when it comes to their preferred policy outcomes. Judges don’t even follow their own precedents. Once we grant judges the right to unilaterally make law, set morals, and remake culture, what is to stop them from changing the rules midway? In the landmark Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA v. Casey ruling affirming the individual “right” to an abortion, the court made clear that states could still regulate the health care standards for performing abortions. “The Constitution gives the States broad latitude to decide that particular functions may be performed only by licensed professionals, even if an objective assessment might suggest that those same tasks could be performed by others,” wrote Justice O’Connor in the 1992 abortion case upholding a state’s ability to require that licensed physicians provide all relevant information in counseling on abortions.

Indeed, states regulate the standards for licensed professionals all the time – everything from lemonade stands to mowing grass – even when “an objective assessment might suggest that those same tasks could be performed by others.” But when it comes to the sacred ideals of abortion, all rules must be broken.

Hudson even quotes from physician testimony noting how “serious complications” could come up during surgical abortions, yet he still orders that all non-physician clinicians be allowed to perform even dilation and evacuation procedures during the first three months of pregnancy. Moreover, Hudson himself conceded that “potential complications in performing second trimester abortions may arise that may warrant the judgment and skills that a physician can best provide.”

When it comes to abortion, everything goes. Take, for example, an authentic right, such as donating to a political campaign or owning a gun. A legal immigrant has no such rights and is indeed barred from donating to political campaigns (First Amendment) or owning a gun (Second Amendment) in most circumstances. Yet in October 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. ruled that even illegal aliens have a right to demand direct access to an abortion. Additionally, courts are increasingly throwing out all safety and health care regulations governing abortions and clinics, ignoring standards for every other aspect of health care.

Everything goes when it comes to the religion of abortion. (For more from the author of “Bush Judge Creates Fake Right for Non-Doctors to Perform Abortions” please click HERE)

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Trump Defends National Emergency Declaration, Reveals the BIG Immigration Problem With Dems

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By Fox News. President Trump again described the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border as a “national emergency” at a Florida campaign rally Wednesday, saying the caravans headed to the United States were an “invasion” and voicing his concerns against human and drug trafficking.

“No nation can tolerate a massive organized violation of its immigration laws. And no one should run for office without an ironclad pledge to protect and defend America’s borders,” Trump told the Panama City Beach crowd. “Shouldn’t be allowed to run. And to confront this crisis — you saw that! It was a big deal two months ago. I declared a national emergency, which is what it is. This is an invasion!”

Trump said Democrats “don’t mind crime” and spoke about caravans heading through Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“When you see these caravans starting out with 20,000 people, that’s an invasion. I was badly criticized for using the word ‘invasion.’ It’s an invasion!” Trump said, defending his rhetoric. (Read more from “Trump Defends National Emergency Declaration, Reveals the Problem With Dems” HERE)

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Trump Briefs Republican Senators on Emerging U.S. Immigration Plan

By Reuters. President Donald Trump and aides on Tuesday briefed a group of Republican senators on a merit-based immigration plan that would let more highly-skilled workers into the United States and fewer low-skilled workers, a senior administration official said.

The overall effect of the plan, the official told a group of reporters, would be to leave the number of legal immigrants allowed into the United States at about the same.

“We want to encourage immigration. But it’s got to be through the legal system,” the official said.

Separately, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, whose committee would have to shepherd such legislation through the Senate, described the effort to reporters as “a merit-based immigration proposal that deals with increases in work visas and decreases family visas.” The latter refers to visas for relatives of immigrants already in the United States. (Read more from “Trump Briefs Republican Senators on Emerging U.S. Immigration Plan” HERE)

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Ridiculous: Leftist Nadler Declares a Constitutional Crisis

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By Breitbart. During a press conference after the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt on Wednesday, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY) stated that we “are now in a constitutional crisis.”

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Nadler: Trump Claim of Executive Privilege Could Delay Mueller Testimony

By Politico. President Donald Trump’s sweeping effort to block congressional access to the Mueller report could complicate Democrats’ efforts to bring special counsel Robert Mueller in as a witness, a top Democrat told POLITICO on Wednesday.

Noting that Mueller is still an employee of the Justice Department, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said Trump’s claim of executive privilege could succeed in delaying the House’s efforts to access Mueller’s report and hear his testimony. . .

Nadler said he hasn’t received a definitive assurance about when Mueller intends to leave the Justice Department but that “by all accounts it’s very short.” He indicated that he’s banking on Mueller’s departure to ease his path to testifying to the Judiciary Committee.

It’s unclear whether that could set back the committee’s efforts to call Mueller on May 15, a tentative date that House Democrats have eyed. But there’s no indication Mueller has consented to testifying or that he’s operating on the committee’s tentative schedule. (Read more from “Nadler: Trump Claim of Executive Privilege Could Delay Mueller Testimony” HERE)

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Couple Dies of Bubonic Plague After Eating Raw Marmot

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By Breitbart. Nine tourists were left stranded in a remote region of Mongolia after an unidentified local couple died from the bubonic plague.

The ethnically Kazakh couple died on May 1 after ingesting raw marmot kidney — traditionally believed to have health benefits, according to Ulaanbaatar’s World Health Organization spokesperson Ariuntuya Ochirpurev. . .

Unfortunately, marmots are known carriers of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that culled Europe as the “Black Death” in the middle ages. Once contracted by humans, it is extremely contagious and can be spread by coughing.

After their deaths, a six-day quarantine locked down the area, preventing nine tourists from Germany, Russia, and Switzerland from leaving. They, as well as 24-year-old American Peace Corps volunteer Sebastian Pique, were invited to the governor’s office on Friday to have the situation explained.

“After the quarantine [was announced], not many people — even locals — were in the streets for fear of catching the disease,” Pique said. Fortunately, as no other cases have been reported, the quarantine is expected to lift on Monday. (Read more from “Couple Dies of Bubonic Plague After Eating Raw Marmot” HERE)

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Mongolian Couple Die of Bubonic Plague After Eating Marmot

By The Guardian. Each year in Mongolia at least one person dies of the plague, mostly due to consuming such meat, according to the US National Center for Zoonotic Disease.

The Black Death wiped out millions of people in the Middle Ages but cases are now very rare. Its most common form is bubonic, which is spread by fleas and causes swelling of the lymph node. The more virulent form is pneumonic plague, which can be transmitted between humans through coughing. (Read more from “Mongolian Couple Die of Bubonic Plague After Eating Marmot” HERE)

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Obama’s Spy Czar Nukes Assertion That Trump Campaign Wasn’t Spied On

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The cat is out of the bag. You cannot put the toothpaste back in the tube. It seems like the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign. The only thing left is figuring out the final cast of characters. James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, and some other familiar faces should be yanked back onto the Hill to discuss everything. From this apparent spy operation against the Trump campaign to FISA abuses, there are rumblings that the impending IG report on these abuses will be “scorching.” So, is there panic? There might be, especially after former Director of National Intelligence under Obama, James Clapper, nuked the FBI’s position that no spying occurred against the Trump team in 2016. The New York Times reported that some woman named Azra Turk was sent over by the FBI (or CIA) to oversee the spying operation, which also included longtime CIA operative Stefan Halper trying to infiltrate the campaign. Ms. Turk reportedly was a “honeypot” trying to pump information out of George Papadopoulos, who said he has no gripes with the Times’ piece other than he thought Turk was CIA. Yeah, former CIA director under Obama, John Brennan, is also on the list of people who need to get the hell back to the Hill to answer questions.

Yet, Michael Goodwin of the NY Post also noted how it’s a bit disturbing that the liberal media takes all of this at face value. How do we know this wasn’t a plot to stop Trump from being elected? How do we know nothing illegal occurred? All should be answered in due time. With Attorney General William Barr at the helm at DOJ, I have confidence that this will happen.

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But Clapper had already come in like a wrecking ball, saying what happened to the Trump campaign fits the dictionary definition of—wait for it—spying. Of course, he also spun it to make it seem less pernicious, but it’s becoming clear that some unprecedented operation was executed against a rival presidential campaign (via Free Beacon):

James Clapper, a CNN contributor and former Director of National Intelligence, admitted last Friday that what the Obama administration did to the Trump campaign “meets the dictionary definition of spying.”

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Why This Rifle Maker Keeps Its Base of Operations in One of the Most Anti-Gun Parts of the Country

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Indianapolis- It’s right there for all to see—and with pride: Henry—Made In America, or Not At All. That’s the mantra of Henry Repeating Arms, a gun manufacturer based out of Bayonne, New Jersey. Yes, I know. What’s the gun maker doing sticking around in one of the most anti-gun states in the country? It’s a question that the company’s president, Anthony Imperato, answered and it made total sense. We’ll get to that in a bit, but what kind of firearms does this company make? They’re lever action rifles and shotguns commonly seen in any Western film. Think Battle of the Little Big Horn. Okay—bad example, but the Clint Eastwood classic film “Unforgiven,” or “Pale Rider,” would feature rifles that Henry doles out on a daily basis. All parts are made in America, a phrase that’s become perilously close to ornamentation as more companies ship their production overseas. For Henry, that’s not an option. And it likes to be seen as a beacon, an example of an American company that’s thriving while still making its product in the good U.S. of A.

Townhall caught up with Mr. Imperato at the National Rifle Association’s Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, where we got to learn a little more about his company. . .

As for Henry itself, it’s not Proctor and Gamble, but it employs 535 people in Wisconsin and New Jersey. Imperato said it’s not massive, but it’s “535 jobs that the state of Wisconsin and NJ are happy to have…well, maybe not the state of New Jersey,” he added with a chuckle. Of the 535 employees, 300 are based in Wisconsin, while 235 work out of the Garden State.

So, why stay, to put it bluntly, in an anti-gun hellhole? It’s very simple. It’s a family history. It’s also the fact that 235 people would probably have to find new jobs. That’s not acceptable either.

“I’m in the gun business because my grandfather had a police equipment gun shop in Lower Manhattan that dates back to 1911,” Imperato said of why he remains in the Tri-State area. “So, we’ve been on the east coast in the gun business for over 100 years, and with that–that whole region Connecticut, Massachusetts, etc. is considered gun valley, and if you want to lump New Jersey into it, now you can,” he added. (Read more from “Why This Rifle Maker Keeps Its Base of Operations in One of the Most Anti-Gun Parts of the Country” HERE)

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Judge Rules D.C. Radio Station Must Register as a Foreign Agent

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By The Hill. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a radio station in Washington, D.C., must register as a Russian foreign agent.

U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenburg ruled in favor of the Justice Department in finding that RM Broadcasting, which airs Sputnik International 24/7 from Moscow, is a foreign principal, WTOP reported.

RM, a Florida-based company owned by an American named Arnold Ferolito, argued in a lawsuit that it was only buying and reselling airtime to Rossiya Segodnya, a Russian government-owned news agency.

RM in 2017 agreed to broadcast the agency’s communications continuously without edit until 2021, the AP reported. (Read more from “Judge Rules D.C. Radio Station Must Register as a Foreign Agent” HERE)

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Judge Rules DC-Based Radio Station Register as Russian Agent

By WTOP. The station airs Sputnik International broadcast from Moscow.

The ruling enforces the Foreign Agents Registration Act, originally adopted by Congress in 1938 to combat Nazi propaganda.

In her opinion, Rosenburg writes that while RM’s owner, an American named Arnold Ferolito, contended the station simply buys and resells airtime to the creators of Sputnik International, it’s required to do much more, including its own programming.

Though Ferolito acknowledged selling airtime to Rossiya Segodnya, the Russian Federation government-owned news agency, and contends “this commercial transaction in no way created an agency relationship,” the judge sided with the Justice Department’s argument based on FARA.

“FARA is a disclosure statute that requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities,” according to the definition on the DOJ’s website. (Read more from “Judge Rules DC-Based Radio Station Register as Russian Agent” HERE)

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Donald Trump, Jr. Subpoenaed by Senate Intelligence Committee

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The Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena to Donald Trump, Jr., to compel him to testify in an investigation related to the committee’s Russia inquiry, according to a report from Axios.

The report is somewhat shocking, coming a little less than a day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared the Senate’s investigation “case closed,” and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s several hundred-page report on the issue the definitive answer to the question of whether Trump campaign officials colluded with Russians to impact the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Nevertheless, the committee, led by Republican Richard Burr (R-NC) and Democrat Mark Warner (D-IN) appears to have issued the demand to Trump, Jr. on Wednesday, ordering him to appear to testify a second time in front of a Senate panel about his role in a Trump Tower Moscow project, which allegedly put him in contact with agents of the Russian government.

Trump, Jr. has already testified about the project under oath in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee back in September 2017. At the time, Trump, Jr. admitted to knowing little about the Trump Tower Moscow and being only “peripherally aware” of negotiations surrounding a potential Russian expansion for the Trump company.

At the time, Trump, Jr. also agreed to answer as many questions as the Senate had, leading to a marathon of testimony, Axios reports — “more than 25 hours with three different committees, per a source familiar with the situation.” (Read more from “Donald Trump, Jr. Subpoenaed by Senate Intelligence Committee” HERE)

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