Motion Seeks Removal of Arpaio-Case Judge

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Photo Credit: WND A federal judge hearing the contempt of court case against Maricopa, Arizona, County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday stayed further proceedings until a dispute over his involvement in the case is resolved.

Judge G. Murray Snow’s decision came after a second motion for his removal arrived in U.S. District Court. An earlier motion, filed by attorney Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch on behalf of a whistleblower who was drawn into the Arpaio case, Dennis Montgomery, was rejected both by Snow and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . .

At the center of the effort to remove the judge from the case is a statement from a witness, Karen Morris Grissom, who told the sheriff the judge hates him. The witness explained to Arpaio that she was a childhood friend of the judge’s wife . . .

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The latest effort to remove Snow came from A. Melvin McDonald and Michele Iafrate, who have been representing Arpaio in a case that stemmed from claims the sheriff failed to follow the court’s orders regarding his department’s policing procedures.

“No doubt, moving for the recusal or disqualification of any sitting judge is a serious matter,” their motion stated. “Under statute, case law, and judicial canons, the perception of judicial bias and the appearance of impropriety, punctuated by the material witness status of the presiding judge’s spouse, mandate the recusal and disqualification of the Honorable G. Murray Snow. (Read more from “Motion Seeks Removal of Arpaio-Case Judge” HERE)

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The Day-By-Day Clinton Scandal Tracker

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Just so you can keep ’em all straight. Summarized and sanitized for your protection!

27-May-2015

• Clinton Foundation hit with racketeering lawsuit

• Clinton Foundation finds itself drawn into FIFA soccer corruption scandal

26-May-2015

• Hillary never disclosed secret shell company funneling income to Bill

25-May-2015

• Did Clinton pay-to-play arrangement hand over port container operations to UAE?

24-May-2015

• Emails reveal Hillary cared so much about Benghazi she slept through intel briefing 4 days later

• Stephanopoulos joined Bill Clinton on Pedophile Island

• The 15 Benghazi emails you need to read

23-May-2015

• Hillary’s Real Benghazi Problem

• Hillary claim she used only one email address while at State? Another lie

• Hillary Deliberately Caused Delay Of Email Release By Submitting Only Paper Copies

22-May-2015

• New Hillary Emails Confirm She Received Classified Info on Private Email

• Hillary Was Pushing For Tax Breaks To Benefit Clinton Library Donors

• Clinton Foundation Had $26M In Contributions It ‘Forgot’ To Disclose

21-May-2015

• Clinton Aides at State Handled FOIA Requests, Not Experts: WSJ

• Hillary can’t shake email controversy

• Does Hillary deserve to be President after jeopardizing national security?

20-May-2015

• The State Department’s In-Kind Contribution to the Clinton Campaign

• State Dept Won’t Comment on Report Cheryl Mills Interfered with Hillary Clinton FOIA Requests

19-May-2015

• Did Hillary Clinton know of Benghazi attack in advance?

• Hillary, “Sid Vicious”, and Libya

18-May-2015

• The Truth About Benghazi Slowly Emerges

• Proof: US Was Running Weapons Thru Benghazi to Syria

• Key Hillary Clinton Claim on Emails Was a Lie

17-May-2015

• Stop me if you’ve heard this one; Hillary took money from more companies seeking influence

• ‘Clinton Cash’ author: George Stephanopoulos guilty of ‘hidden-hand journalism’

• ‘Clinton Cash’ Author Reveals Other Ties Stephanopoulos DIDN’T Admit or Apologize For

16-May-2015

• ABC, Stephanopoulos Clinton Foundation Hypocrisy Staggering

• Hillary Clinton personally took money from companies that sought to influence her

• Clintons Earned $30 Million in 16 Months, Report Shows

15-May-2015

• Former Obama CIA Chief: Hillary’s Emails Compromised By Our Enemies

• Guess Who Delayed Response to Stephanopoulos Scoop So Politico Could Publish First?

• Clinton Foundation donors include dozens of media organizations, individuals

• Stephanopoulos Another Example Of Revolving Door Journalism

14-May-2015

• Clinton Connections Paid Off for Indonesian Tobacco Tycoon

• Former CIA Official: WH’s Story on Benghazi Talking Points Isn’t Credible

13-May-2015

• Clinton Foundation donor can’t explain role in Russian uranium deal

• Alan Colmes: FBI Should Investigate Clinton Foundation

12-May-2015

• Clinton Foundation Donors Fill Hillary’s Campaign Coffers

11-May-2015

• Report: Clinton Foundation Tried to ‘Strong-Arm’ Leading Charity Watchdog

• Federal Court Reopens State Dept. FOIA Lawsuit: “Newly Discovered Evidence” of Clinton Crimes

9-May-2015

• Stunned Reporter Grills State Dept.: Why Won’t Hillary’s Breaches Be Investigated?

7-May-2015

• Why Did a Nigerian Company Pay Bill Clinton $1.4MM for 2 Speeches?

• Clinton Crime Fund Reportedly Took Funds From Human Rights Violators

• Four Clinton Foundation Trustees Charged Or Convicted Of Financial Crimes

6-May-2015

• The Hill-Billy Cash Pump

• Bill Clinton Puts Blame for Family’s Scandals on Accountant

5-May-2015

• The Clinton Foundation isn’t a “charity” in any normal sense of the word

4-May-2015

• Bill Clinton: Foundation didn’t do anything ‘knowingly inappropriate’

• Bill Clinton on Huge Speaking Fees: ‘I Gotta Pay Our Bills,’ You Know

3-May-2015

• The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor from Canada

30-April-2015

• The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor from Canada

• Hillary Opposed Sending Nuke Tech to India… Until Huge Donations Flowed In

• Benghazi Committee Gets Some Subpoeaned Docs from State Dept.–Two Years Later

29-April-2015

• Benghazi Committee Gets Some Subpoeaned Docs from State Dept.–Two Years Later

• Clinton Foundation spent more on office supplies than on charity gifts in 2013

• 181 Clinton Foundation donors who lobbied Hillary’s State Department

28-April-2015

• Report alleges Clintons personally profited from Hillary’s tenure at State

• The Clintons lower the bar — again

• If This Is the Best Defense of the Clinton Foundation, She’s in Trouble

27-April-2015

• Sunlight Foundation leader: Clinton Foundation a “slush fund”

• So About the Clintons’ So-Called ‘Charity’…

• Who’s Afraid of the Benghazi Hearings?

26-April-2015

• The Fall of the House of Clinton

• Hillary’s Day of Wrath

• Clinton Foundation distributed useless drugs to AIDS patients

• For the Clinton Defense

• ABC & This Week With George Stephanopoulos owe their viewers an Apology

25-April-2015

• Report: Clintons Engaged in Pay-for-Play During Efforts to Rebuild Haiti

• Clinton relatives, donors got rich off taxpayer-funded Haiti contracts

• Clinton Greed

24-April-2015

• Who is really drawing out the Benghazi investigation?

• ‘Hillary Thinks She Is Bigger Than God’

• Hillary now raising funds off of … evidence of her corrupt fundraising

• Muslim Brotherhood Payrolled By Clinton Foundation

23-April-2015

• How long can this train wreck continue?

• Bill Clinton sold us to the ChiComs; Hillary sold us to the Russians

• White House Refuses to Comment on Shady Deal Hillary Made With Russia

• Many Clinton charity donors got State Dept. awards under Hillary

• Clintons Lied on Tax Forms, Claiming No Foreign Money to Foundation

• Oops: Clinton Foundation Re-Filing Five Years of Tax Returns Over ‘Errors’ •

• State Dept. Documents Reveal Concern about Bill Clinton’s Activities with ‘Saudi Entities’

22-April-2015

• Cash Flowed to Clintons as Russians Pressed for Control of Uranium Company

• Former Clinton Employee Tied To Muslim Brotherhood Sentenced To Life In Prison

21-April-2015

• White House Won’t Deny Clinton Foundation Donors Got Special Treatment

• The Latest Available Clinton Foundation Filings Appear Deceptive

19-April-2015

• ‘Clinton Cash’ Reveals Foreign Pay-to-Play Deals with Clinton State Dept.

18-April-2015

• Newsweek: Largest donor to Clinton Foundation has trade ties to Iran

• Cisco Used Clinton Foundation To Cover-up Human Rights Abuse In China

12-April-2015

• Here’s a breakdown of every scandal swirling around Hillary

9-April-2015

• Hillary Reversed Position on Trade Deal With Colombia After Huge Donation to Clinton Foundation

• Hillary For Sale: At Least $1 Million From Morocco Flowing Into Clinton Foundation

7-April-2015

• Top Spy: Hillary’s Emails ‘Likely’ Hacked by China, Russia, Iran

• How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House

• Hillary’s Brothers Unlike Any Others

31-March-2015

• Hillary’s accidental drone email about decorating reveals BIG new problems

• Hillary’s private intel chief Sidney Blumenthal also an illegal lobbyist?

30-March-2015

• Did Clinton’s Backdoor Adviser Illegally Lobby for Putin Ally?

• The long, complicated story of Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi subpoena

• Obstruction of Justice – A Must For Hillary

• The Latest Bombshell from Mrs. Clinton’s Lawyer

29-March-2015

• Situation Normal: Hillary Clinton obstructs justice and operates outside the law

28-March-2015

• Get Hillary’s server, it’s now evidence of a potential crime

• GOP: ‘Even Nixon Didn’t Destroy the Tapes’

27-March-2015

• Hillary Clinton Defies Subpoena, ‘Wiped Her Server Clean’

• Hacked Hillary Emails: Getting Fed Intelligence By Her Own Private Spy Service

26-March-2015

• Clintons Received Money from ‘Front for the Government of Iran’

• Did Hillary Run Her Own Intelligence Operation?

• Lawsuit: Clintons are guilty of racketeering, influence peddling

• Business dealings of Hillary Clinton’s brother raise new questions

25-March-2015

• Clinton Nemesis Ramps Up Effort to Get State Dept. to Spill on Hillary’s Tenure

21-March-2015

• Bill Clinton ‘Unaware’ Brother-In-Law on Board of Haitian Gold Mine that Landed Rare Permit

20-March-2015

• Trey Gowdy to Hillary Clinton: Hand Over Your E-Mail Server

• Now Huma Abedin is Being Scrutinized for Possible Corruption

19-March-2015

• Emails sought of nearly a dozen U.S. State Department workers under Clinton

18-March-2015

• State Dept. Employees Who Don’t Sign Separation Agreement Face Dire Consequences

• Hillary committed obstruction of justice

17-March-2015

• Clintonworld’s Self-Pitying Shadiness Returns

• Clintons UAE Quid Pro Quo

• Hillary Clinton’s Top Five Secrecy Scandals

16-March-2015

• Hillary Clinton’s Top Five Secrecy Scandals

• Clintons Cover-Up Team

• Hillary Clinton should face criminal charges

• The “Hillary Was Right to Break the Law Because Republicans Are Mean” Defense

15-March-2015

• Trey Gowdy: House may go to court to get Clinton email server

• On Benghazi, a timeline of State Department obstruction

• Clinton camp issues clarification on deleted emails, claims ‘every’ message was reviewed

14-March-2015

• Valerie Jarrett behind leak of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal

• State Department contradicts Hillary Clinton’s email claim

• An Open Letter to [email protected]

13-March-2015

• Hillary Is Being Investigated for a Possible Felony

• Clinton Faces Broader Email Deception Issue Involving Entire State Department

12-March-2015

• Did Hillary let friends use State Department gigs as a piggy bank?

• Hillary’s Rose Law Firm Career a Sign of What Was to Come?

11-March-2015

• Hillary’s email explanation is self-contradictory – here’s how

10-March-2015

• The Hillary Email Scandal: Who Profits?

• The Mendacious, Charmless, Painfully Mediocre And Unelectable Hillary Clinton

• Hillary’s Train Wreck Press Conference: Spin, Lies and Unanswered Questions

• Carefully scripted Hillary knocked out of comfort zone

• Internet Catches Hillary in Three Provable Email Falsehoods

• Hillary emerges from behind stonewall for tightly controlled press conference

• Mystery location of Clinton email server seen as ‘matter of national security’

• Hillary Tries To Quell Email Controversy, But Only Creates More Questions

• Trey Gowdy: Hillary’s Server Or Hillary’s Testimony

• Hillary’s brother got the gold mine, Haiti got the shaft

9-March-2015

• ‘It will be a crime if she knowingly withholds documents pursuant to subpoena’

• Clinton e-mail scandal disqualifies her for president

• Hillary Clinton’s Possibly Fatal Email Mistake

• Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton: What We Musn’t Forget About Benghazi

• New FOIAs Probe Clinton Secret Email System, Lawsuits May Follow In 20 Days

• White House: Hillary And Obama Did Email Each Other

• Why Would Foreign Governments’ Donations to the Clinton Foundation Not Count as Bribes?

• Wealthy at Scandal-Plagued HSBC Have Donated/Bribed $81 Million to Hillary’s Bribery Storefront

8-March-2015

• Gowdy: Huge Gaps Of “Months And Months” In Emails Hillary Turned Over

• Hillary Milhous Clinton

7-March-2015

• Hillary Exposed Her Emails To
Spies… To Hide Them From You

• While Clinton Hid Emails, $6 Billion Went Missing in Her State Dept.

6-March-2015

• State Department: Hillary decides what emails we can see

• FOIA Request for Hillary Clinton’s Email Address Went Missing

5-March-2015

• Hillary fired US Ambassador to Kenya for using personal email account

• Server, Serve Her: Clinton Crumbling

• Hillary Clinton Still Doesn’t Get It

• Hillary’s Brother Gets Exclusive Mining Permit from Haiti After Taxpayers Sent Country Billions

4-March-2015

• Emailgate May Be the Final Scandal to Sink Hillary Clinton

• Hacker Reveals Contents from Hillary’s Private E-Mails and Shows Who She Was Talking To

• Bigger Question: Did Hillary use unsecured email for Classified Info?

• Hillary Clinton leaked e-mail story to New York Times before tweet

• MSNBC: Hillary Personal Email Use at State ‘Staggering’, ‘Shocking’ and ‘Ridiculous’

3-March-2015

• The Hillary Cover-Up and the End of Democracy

• Hillary Clinton’s Private E-Mail Draws Scrutiny

2-March-2015

• Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules

• Report: Hillary Clinton Evaded Government Email While Secretary Of State
(See “The Day-By-Day Clinton Scandal Tracker”, originally posted HERE)

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‘Don’t Let Bill Back in the White House, He Abused Women and He’ll Do It Again.’ Paula Jones Warns Against Voting for Hillary

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She was the woman who almost brought down the president, with her allegations of sexual harassment.

But 21 years after Paula Jones accused Bill Clinton of lurid behavior, she is speaking out against Hillary and insisting that his wife is not fit to be President either – because of her husband’s history of bad behavior.

In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Online Jones delivers her own verdict on Hillary’s bid to become president, saying that her husband’s attitude towards women disqualifies Bill from re-entering the White House – while what she calls Hillary’s ‘lies’ disqualify her from the Oval Office.

‘There is no way that she did not know what was going on, that women were being abused and accosted by her husband,’ she says. ‘They have both lied’ . . .

Her lawsuit led to Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky being uncovered and led to Clinton being impeached, accused of lying about the nature of his relationship with the White House intern. (Read more from “‘Don’t Let Bill Back in the White House, He Abused Women and He’ll Do It Again.’ Paula Jones Warns Against Voting for Hillary” HERE)

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Outrageous, Massive Federal Expansion: Obama’s EPA Now Asserts Dominion Over Mud Puddles, May Destroy US Agriculture [+video]

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President Obama’s administration on Wednesday claimed dominion over all of America’s streams, creeks, rills, ditches, brooks, rivulets, burns, tributaries, criks, wetlands — perhaps even puddles — in a sweeping move to assert unilateral federal authority.

The Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Army Corps of Engineers, says it has the authority to control all waterways within the United States — and will exercise that authority.

[Listen to this environmental law expert discuss the terrifying implications of this expansion of federal jurisdiction]

“We’re finalizing a clean water rule to protect the streams and the wetlands that one in three Americans rely on for drinking water. And we’re doing that without creating any new permitting requirements and maintaining all previous exemptions and exclusions,” EPA head Gina McCarthy told reporters Wednesday.

The moves comes as part of the Clean Water Act and federal officials say they are simply trying to help businesses comply with regulations.

“This rule is about clarification, and in fact, we’re adding exclusions for features like artificial lakes and ponds, water-filled depressions from constructions and grass swales,” McCarthy said. “This rule will make it easier to identify protected waters and will make those protections consistent with the law as well as the latest peer-reviewed science. This rule is based on science.” (Read more from “Obama Administration Asserts Dominion Over Creeks, Streams, Wetlands, Ditches — Even Big Puddles” HERE)

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San Andreas Ready to Blow – in Theaters AND in Real Life

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Admit it, there’s nothing more fun than sitting in a dark theatre, munching on a bucket of buttery popcorn, and watching the Earth get demolished. In the latest round of catastrophic flicks, California is destroyed as the famous San Andreas Fault unleashes unimaginable (and unrealistic) devastation across the state.

The new film, San Andreas, depicts the rupture of an unknown fault near the Hoover Dam in Nevada, which gets the destructive ball rolling by setting off powerful earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault. And although earthquakes are nothing new to Californians, and pose serious threats along the famous fault, Hollywood has once again thrown caution (and science) to the wind in order to feed our catastrophic needs.

The San Andreas Fault is a very real hazard. At almost 800 miles long, the fault marks the boundary where the North American plate meets the Pacific plate. And it’s the movement of these plates against each other that causes the powerful quakes characteristic to the region.

A recent report by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the inevitability of just such a quake, which is predicted to hit within the next couple of decades.

“The new likelihoods are due to the inclusion of possible multi-fault ruptures, where earthquakes are no longer confined to separate, individual faults, but can occasionally rupture multiple faults simultaneously,” lead author of the study and USGS scientist, Ned Field says. “This is a significant advancement in terms of representing a broader range of earthquakes throughout California’s complex fault system.” (Read more from “San Andreas Ready to Blow – in Theaters and in Real Life” HERE)

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After Secret Service Seized $115,000, North Carolina Man Continues Fight for ‘Justice’

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Photo Credit: Marla Bednar On the morning of Sept. 25, 2014, Tom Bednar was sitting in the bedroom of the Raleigh, N.C., home he shared with his wife, Marla, and two sons when Marla entered the room crying.

She had just looked at the bank account for their three-decade old business, Marla Enterprises, to find it empty. Now, Capital Bank was requesting close to $18,000 to cover the outstanding checks the couple had written.

After transferring money to straighten out their finances with the bank, the Bednars learned just what had happened with the $115,018.01 they had in their bank account: The United States Secret Service seized the money . . .

After months of litigation against the United States government, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen West moved to dismiss the case earlier this month, meaning the Bednars will get their money back.

However, the government refused to cover the Bednars’ $25,000 in legal fees, which the couple is entitled to under the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act. Though the fight to get their $115,000 back is now over, the family is continuing to push to have their expenses covered. (Read more from “After Secret Service Seized $115,000, North Carolina Man Continues Fight for ‘Justice'” HERE)

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Pentagon: Military Mistakenly Shipped Live Anthrax Samples to as many as 9 States

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to at least one, and perhaps as many as nine, laboratories that expected to receive dead spores.

“At this time we do not suspect any risk to the general public,” CDC spokeswoman Kathy Harben said.

A Pentagon spokesman, Col. Steve Warren, said the suspected live anthrax samples were shipped from Dugway Proving Ground, an Army facility in Utah, using a commercial delivery service.

Warren said the government has confirmed one recipient, a laboratory in Maryland, received live spores. It is suspected, but not yet confirmed, that anthrax sent to labs in as many as eight other states also contained live spores, he said.

“There is no known risk to the general public, and there are no suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax infection in potentially exposed lab workers,” Warren said. (Read more from “Pentagon: Military Mistakenly Shipped Live Anthrax Samples to 9 States” HERE)

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Exasperated White House Pushes Senate to Pass Surveillance Reform Bill

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By Dustin Volz. An exasperated White House on Tuesday ratcheted up pressure on the Senate to pass surveillance-reform legislation before intelligence tools considered crucial to national security expire at the end of the month—while appearing to throw a direct barb at Sen. Rand Paul for gumming up the process.

Though he didn’t call out Paul by name, White House press secretary Josh Earnest seemed to accuse the Kentucky senator of using the debate over the Patriot Act’s sunsetting spying powers to bolster his presidential campaign.

“At some point, the political ambitions of individual members of the United States Senate are going to have to come second to the national security of the United States,” Earnest said.

Earnest’s comments come after the Senate failed to forge a path forward on dealing with the June 1 sunset of the Patriot Act’s spy provisions following a late-night round of votes Friday night into Saturday morning. Those authorities include the controversial Section 215, which the National Security Agency uses to justify its bulk collection of U.S. call data.

House-passed reform legislation known as the USA Freedom Act, which would effectively end the NSA’s phone dragnet, failed to advance Saturday, coming three votes short of the 60 necessary to clear a procedural hurdle. A bill to extend the provisions unchanged also failed. (Read more from “Exasperated White House Pushes Senate to Pass Surveillance Reform Bill” HERE)

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Obama Claims Bill is Necessary to Keep Nation “Safe and Secure”

Photo Credit: APBy Erica Werner. President Barack Obama called on the Senate Tuesday to extend key Patriot Act provisions before they expire five days from now, including the government’s ability to search Americans’ phone records.

“This needs to get done,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “It’s necessary to keep the American people safe and secure.”

But with the May 31 deadline fast approaching, there was scant evidence Tuesday of a search for a deal on Capitol Hill. The House and Senate stood in recess for the week, and a House GOP leadership aide said there were no talks happening between the two chambers. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity, because the aide was not authorized to discuss the issue on the record.

The Senate adjourned for its Memorial Day break early Saturday after a chaotic late-night session during which senators failed to pass a White House-backed House bill reforming the phone collection program. Attempts by GOP leaders to extend current law also repeatedly fell short, amid objections from presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and others.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is calling the Senate back into session on Sunday, May 31, just hours before the midnight deadline, but it’s not clear lawmakers will have any new solution. (Read more from “Obama Urges Senate to Renew Phone-Records Program” HERE)

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Marine Court-Martialed for Refusing to Remove Bible Verse

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Photo Credit: Fox News By Todd Starnes. A United States Marine was convicted at a court-martial for refusing to remove a Bible verse on her computer – a verse of Scripture the military determined “could easily be seen as contrary to good order and discipline.”

The plight of Lance Corporal Monifa Sterling seems unbelievable – a member of the Armed Forces criminally prosecuted for displaying a slightly altered passage of Scripture from the Old Testament: “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.”

Sterling, who represented herself at trial, was convicted February 1, 2014 in a court-martial at Camp Lejune, North Carolina after she refused to obey orders from a staff sergeant to remove the Bible verses from her desk.

She was found guilty of failing to go to her appointed place of duty, disrespect toward a superior commissioned officer, and four specifications of disobeying the lawful order of a noncommissioned officer.

The Christian Marine was given a bad conduct discharge and a reduction in rank from lance corporal to private. (Read more from “Marine Court-Martialed for Refusing to Remove Bible Verse” HERE)

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More Background on the Court-Martialed Christian Marine

By Liberty Institute. While stationed at Camp Lejune, LCpl Sterling, a devout Christian of Haitian descent, noticed that other service members had placed various personal items in their work spaces at the military base. So she decided to express herself as well in her workspace by displaying one of her favorite Bible verses.

LCpl Sterling printed out the words of Isaiah 54:17: “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” But after taping it in three different places in her workspace, LCpl Sterling’s supervisor—who also happened to be her former drill instructor—ordered her to remove the Bible verse, cursing at her in the process. When LCpl Sterling asked why, her supervisor said, “I don’t like the tone.” The service member explained it was her First Amendment right to display the Bible verse and declined to take them down. Moreover, no other person in the unit ever complained about the verse.

The next day, LCpl Sterling discovered that her supervisor tore down the Bible verse and threw it in the trash. Adding injury to insult, the U.S. Government charged LCpl Sterling with the crime of failing to obey a direct order because she did not remove the Bible verse.

“If a service member has a right to display a secular poster, put an atheist bumper sticker on their car, or get a Star of David tattoo,” explains Berry, “then Lance Corporal Sterling has the right to display a small Bible verse on her computer monitor.”

Liberty Institute has defended service members in all four branches of the military—from officers to enlisted service members to chaplains who are black and white, male and female. “Nobody in the military is safe anymore,” adds Berry, “regardless of rank, age, color, gender or branch of service. Whether you are a lowly private, or a commanding general, opponents of religious freedom simply don’t care. Clearly, people of faith are the targets.” (Read more from this story HERE)

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More Airport Security Badges Missing as Washington Demands Answers [+video]

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Photo Credit: NBC News Washington lawmakers are demanding an accounting of how many airport security badges have been lost or stolen around the country as an NBC News investigation reveals the problem may be bigger than originally thought.

“Clearly there are an awful lot of things falling through the cracks and there’s just no room for error when it comes to this issue. We need answers. They’re not providing them,” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), who chairs the Transportation Committee . . .

As NBCDFW reported in March, more than 1,400 of the badges — which allow employees to access secure areas like runways and boarding gates — went missing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport over approximately two years.

Now, the station, in partnership with NBC San Diego, has learned that more than 270 badges went missing at the San Diego International Airport in the last two years. (Read more from “More Airport Security Badges Missing as Washington Demands Answers” HERE)

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