Report: Obama Administration Arming Those Killing Us in Middle East

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What happens when Obama sends weapons, money, and American troops into a theater of war with no coherent mission and no clear enunciation of American strategic interests? Our own weapons and training are used against our soldiers and intelligence workers.

Last November, two American contractors were killed at a Jordanian police training center in Amman, Jordan, when a former trainee turned his guns on the Americans and several other foreign workers. This training facility is funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars to train Palestinian security forces, an endeavor we should not be supporting at all. To make matters worse, the New York Times is now reporting that the weapons used in the attack were purchased on the black market in Jordan through a stream of weapons from a CIA program intended to train and equip Syrian rebels!

Weapons shipped into Jordan by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia intended for Syrian rebels have been systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, according to American and Jordanian officials.

Some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman, F.B.I. officials believe after months of investigating the attack, according to people familiar with the investigation.[…]

This program, which operated under code name Timber Sycamore, according to the Times, began in April 2013 in conjunction with Saudi Arabia and other gulf states. Remember, these are some of the same actors who are also directly funding Al Qaeda in Syria. Many of the Syrian rebels are either Islamists themselves or have allowed weapons to fail into the hands of Al Nusra and Ahar al-Sham, two Al Qaeda-linked groups operating in Syria . Now it has been revealed that some of those weapons, including Kalashnikovs, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, were purloined by corrupt Jordanian officials and are now out on the “streets” of the Middle East’s black market.

This is just the latest example of how Obama is helping arm our enemies and sending our brave CIA and special operations troops into war to risk their own lives in helping our enemies or doing the bidding of Saudi Arabia. The House and Senate recently passed the annual defense authorization bill, which authorizes several hundred million dollars for the Syrian rebel train and equip program. As I noted at the time, it was a colossal lost opportunity for Republicans not to defund the program. Fortunately, they still have the opportunity to do so between the Senate-House conference committee or in the upcoming defense appropriations bill.

If Democrats want to distract from the problem of Islamic jihad and discuss gun control, they might want to start by preventing our own government from repeating the Fast and Furious gun running scandal on a global level. (For more from the author of “Report: Obama Administration Arming Those Killing Us in Middle East” please click HERE)

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Open Borders Zealot Zuckerberg Angers Neighbors by Building Massive Security Wall Around His Hawaiian Home

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Gee, I don’t sense anything hypocritical about this factoid:

For years, Kilauea, Kauai resident Gy Hall has enjoyed the view of the ocean and the breeze along Koolau Road. Then, a few weeks ago, a crew started to build a wall which happens to belong to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

“The feeling of it is really oppressive. It’s immense,” Hall said. “It’s really sad that somebody would come in, and buy a huge piece of land and the first thing they do is cut off this view that’s been available and appreciative by the community here for years.”

Hall said the wall extends along Koolau Road, near mile marker 20, and is about six-feet tall. He said its projected length and completion are unclear.

Multiple attempts by TGI to contact Shawn Smith, former Falk Partners manager, who Hall says sold some of the $200 million, 700-plus-acre property to the billionaire, were unsuccessful Friday…

…Shosana Chantara, a Kilauea resident, voiced her concerns about the breeze that’s being obstructed.

“It’s hot behind that wall. Because it’s up on a berm, there’s not a breath of air on this side from the ocean,” Chantara said. “You take a solid wall that’s 10 or more feet above the road level; the breeze can’t go through.”

…Another Kilauea resident, Donna Mcmillen, calls the wall a “monstrosity.”

The island of Kauai is a masterpiece of natural beauty.

That Zuckerberg would both build a security wall and despoil one of the most spectacular islands in the world would shame a normal person, but not — of course — any Democrat. (For more from the author of “Open Borders Zealot Zuckerberg Angers Neighbors by Building Massive Security Wall Around His Hawaiian Home” please click HERE)

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Mitch McConnell Faces One Question on Trump That He Won’t Answer

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On ABC’s This Week Sunday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell whether Republican candidate Donald Trump is qualified to be president of the United States.

“Well look, I think there’s no question that he’s made a number of mistakes over the last few weeks,” McConnell said. “I think they’re beginning to right the ship. It’s a long time until November, and the burden obviously will be on him to convince people that he can handle this job.”

Stephanopoulous, who was communications director for President Bill Clinton, the husband of Trump’s Democratic opponent, pressed the senator about the issue, saying, “I didn’t hear you say whether you thought he was qualified.”

McConnell answered, “Look, that’ll be up to the American people to decide.”

“You know, he won the Republican nomination fair and square. He got more votes than anybody else against a whole lot of well-qualified candidates,” he said. “And so our primary voters have made their decision as to who they want to be the nominee.”

In a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, 64 percent of the respondents said they didn’t think Trump was qualified to be president.

“I think a good step in the right direction was the changes he made in the campaign,” McConnell said. “He’s beginning to use a prepared script more often, which I think is absolutely appropriate for any candidate, whether you’re a longtime politician like Hillary Clinton or whether you’re new to the game like Donald Trump.”

The Trump campaign is working to raise money in order to compete with Democratic rival Clinton, who has a much larger war chest. McConnell’s closing statements acknowledged that Trump would not be able to win if he was unable to raise more money.

“He needs to be able to compete financially,” the majority leader said. “Where the money comes from, whether it comes out of his own pocket or from others, it doesn’t really make all that much difference. But he’s going to have to have way more than he has now in order to run the kind of campaign he needs to win.” (For more from the author of “Mitch McConnell Faces One Question on Trump That He Won’t Answer” please click HERE)

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Top Democrat Announces Resignation Following Fraud Conviction

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Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., who was convicted earlier this week of charges including racketeering, bank fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud, has announced his resignation, effective on Thursday, Politico reported.

Responding to the news of the conviction Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan issued a statement Wednesday calling for Fattah to step down immediately. “Mr. Fattah has betrayed the trust of this institution and the people of Pennsylvania, and for that he should resign immediately from the House of Representatives,” Ryan said. “We must hold members to the highest ethical standard, and I hope that Democratic leaders will join me in seeking his immediate resignation.”

Fattah had previously stated he would resign in October; however, in a letter on Thursday to the speaker, Fattah wrote, “In my previous letter I indicated a later resignation date in order to provide for an orderly transition of my office after 21 years of service in the House. However, out of respect for the entire House Leadership, and so as not to cause a distraction from the House’s work for the people, I have changed my effective date.”

In a Philadelphia courthouse on Tuesday, a jury found Fattah guilty of numerous federal charges, including bribery and money laundering.

Since several of the charges carry a 20-year sentence, Fattah could face life in prison. Sentencing is set to take place in October.

In a statement shortly after his conviction, Fattah said, “Today’s decision notwithstanding, it has been my privilege to serve the constituents of the Second Congressional District for over 20 years.”

It is reported that Fattah, along with some of his co-defendants, illegally obtained a $1 million loan in 2007, which they helped repay by using federal and charitable funds.

At the time of his indictment in July 2015, Fattah was the top Democratic representative on the Appropriations Committee.

Included in the indictment were Herbert Vederman, Robert Brand, Karen Nicholas and Bonnie Bowser.

Fattah’s son, Chaka Fattah Jr., is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for bank fraud and tax fraud. (For more from the author of “Top Democrat Announces Resignation Following Fraud Conviction” please click HERE)

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Mexico President Urges North American Integration After Brexit

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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday called for greater integration with Canada and the United States in the wake of Britain’s vote to split with the European Union.

Nieto, who spoke during a stopover in Quebec City, is scheduled to attend a North American leaders summit in Ottawa on Wednesday with his US and Canadian counterparts.

The three countries are economic partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and work closely on security matters.

At Wednesday’s summit, the leaders are expected to announce joint energy and environmental strategies, including matching renewable energy targets.

“The purpose of this visit is to renew our bilateral relationship, to give it new life, to find ways to advance the prosperity and competitiveness of North America,” Pena Nieto said. (Read more from “Mexico President Urges North American Integration After Brexit” HERE)

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2016 Presidential Candidate Found Dead at Cleveland Motel

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A “fearless advocate for liberty” who sought the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president has been found dead.

Dr. Marc A. Feldman, 56, of Cleveland, was found dead Wednesday at the Americas Best Value Inn near the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. No official cause of death has been released.

Feldman lost the Libertarian nomination in May to former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson.

“How do you make a miracle happen?” he said once. “Start by asking for what you want, and see what you get. Sometimes you’re not given what you ask for, you’re given what you need.” He called himself the “No fear” candidate.

At the Libertarian convention, he rapped his concluding statement.

“I’m that be what you want to be Libertarian,” he began. “That Muslim Libertarian, that Jew Libertarian, the Christian, Atheist, Hin-DU Libertarian.”

“We will miss his dedication as a member of the national committee and candidate for public office, but most of all, I will miss a good friend. He was a delightful, spirited, and dedicated Libertarian who inspired and won the hearts of many. Our deepest condolences to his family on their loss,” said Nicholas Sarwark, chairman of the party’s national committee.

“Dr. Feldman was truly a beacon of unity and empowerment within the party. His campaign website was www.votesnotforsale.com – during his campaign he refused to accept supporting donations higher than $5. His campaign slogan was ‘Empower Yourself,’ and focused on encouraging individuals to achieve greater power and control over their own lives,” Avens O’Brien wrote on The Libertarian Republic. (For more from the author of “2016 Presidential Candidate Found Dead at Cleveland Motel” please click HERE)

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Where the Hell Is the Orlando Jihadist’s Missing Wife?

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Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the Orlando jihadist’s wife is a missing, AWOL, gone girl?

Where the hell is Noor Salman? Can we hold a sit-in at the FBI until someone finds her?

The keystone cops in Washington admit they lost track of her last week. So what are they doing to hunt her down? Playing Marco Polo in the pool with their eyes closed?

How crazy is this? In America in 2016 you can real-time track your dog, your kid, your iPhone, your luggage, and your Uber driver around the corner.

But the people in charge of homeland security are losing a dangerous game of Ji-hide-y and Seek with the devout Muslim Palestinian woman who chauffeured her radicalized Orlando jihadist husband around as he scoped out massacre locations and shopped for weapons.

Does FBI stand for fumbling, bumbling idiots? Get your shizzle together, please! (For more from the author of “Where the Hell Is the Orlando Jihadist’s Missing Wife?” please click HERE)

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REVEALED: Clinton Held Secret Meetings With Billionaire Foundation Donors and Scrubbed Official Records of Them

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The American people have overwhelmingly shown this year they do not find Hillary Clinton to be trustworthy. Two key reasons why Clinton is dogged by distrust are her private email scandal and the shadiness surrounding the Clinton Foundation and its donors. Two breaking stories by the Associated Press only deepen Clinton’s trust deficit.

First, the AP reported that, contrary to what Clinton has claimed, key emails held on her private server were never turned over to the State Department. They also reported that Clinton went as far as declining a State Department Blackberry. An email discovered from November 2010 also raises new questions about what other State Department emails Clinton is hiding from the American people:

“Former Secretary Hillary Clinton failed to turn over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrew email server, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure makes it unclear what other work-related emails may have been deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.”

The second story was just as explosive. It documented that Clinton’s official State Department schedule has been scrubbed of at least 75 meetings Clinton held as Secretary of State with “longtime political donors and loyalists, Clinton Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests”:

“The AP review of Clinton’s calendar — her after-the-fact, official chronology of the events of her four-year term — identified at least 75 meetings with longtime political donors and loyalists, Clinton Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests that were either not recorded or listed with identifying details scrubbed. The AP found the omissions by comparing the 1,500-page document with separate planning schedules supplied to Clinton by aides in advance of each day’s events. The names of at least 114 outsiders who met with Clinton were missing from her calendar, the records show.”

This new development also raises new and damaging questions for the FBI criminal investigation into Clinton’s illicit, private server set-up:

“At a time when Clinton’s private email system is under scrutiny by an FBI criminal investigation, the calendar omissions reinforce concerns that she sought to eliminate the ‘risk of the personal being accessible’ — as she wrote in an email exchange that she failed to turn over to the government but was subsequently uncovered elsewhere.”

Since Clinton’s email scandal broke it has been overwhelmingly obvious that the reason Clinton used a private server as Secretary of State was to shield less-than-flattering correspondence from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process and, by extension, the American people. These two stories show that even after she was caught, Clinton never provided a full accounting of her work emails to the State Department, and that she spent a significant time as Secretary of State hobnobbing with her cronies and wanted to prevent the country from knowing it. This was a cover-up, plain and simple. (For more from the author of “REVEALED: Clinton Held Secret Meetings With Billionaire Foundation Donors and Scrubbed Official Records of Them” please click HERE)

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George Will Quits GOP Over Trump’s Judge Comments, Paul Ryan’s Trump Endorsement

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Conservative writer George Will is no longer a Republican, and he says it’s all Paul Ryan’s fault.

During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Will said the last straw for him was that Ryan, the Speaker of the House, was willing to endorse Trump even after his statements attacking judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is handling the Trump University case. Trump has suggested Curiel is biased against him because he has Mexican heritage.

“After Trump went after the ‘Mexican’ judge from northern Indiana, then Paul Ryan endorsed him, I decided that in fact this was not my party anymore,” Will said during his appearance. “I changed my registration to unaffiliated 23 days ago.”

Will compared his defection to Ronald Reagan’s decision to leave the Democratic Party, saying that it was Republicans who had changed, not him.

“I left [the party] for the same reason I joined it in 1964, when I voted for Barry Goldwater,” he said. “I joined it because I was a conservative, and I leave it for the same reason: I’m a conservative,.”

Will first said he was leaving the Republican Party Friday, during a Federalist Society luncheon, but his comments Sunday add further context to his decision. Will has been heavily critical of Trump throughout the nomination process, and he has even written that it would be advantageous for Trump to lose in a 50-state landslide.

Trump himself said Sunday morning that Will would not be missed via Twitter:

Will responded on Fox News Sunday by calling Trump clueless on every topic.

“He has an advantage on me, because he can say everything he knows about any subject in 140 characters and I can’t,” he said. (For more from the author of “George Will Quits GOP Over Trump’s Judge Comments, Paul Ryan’s Trump Endorsement” please click HERE)

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GOP Leaders Stall Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Act

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Eighty members of Congress, including two Democrats, now support the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, with one more congressman and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee signing up since the last update. There’s only one problem: The Republican leadership is stalling it, even though the House version passed the Judiciary Committee.

The two new cosponsors are Senator David Perdue (R-GA) and Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA). The former is especially significant because he is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where it is held up. A list of cosponsors and opponents is available at the bottom of this article.

Terrorism expert Patrick Poole writes that the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker (R-TN), has not even held hearings on the bill, much less arranged for it to be voted on. Corker is reportedly being vetted as a potential running mate for Donald Trump.

The story is even more discouraging in the House, where support for the bill was proven when it passed the Judiciary Committee. Yet, Speaker Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy have not given any public indication that he’ll have the House vote on it. (Read more from “GOP Leaders Stall Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Act” HERE)

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