Kamala Harris Has a Really Deep-State View of the Department of Justice

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As attorney general of the United States, William Barr serves at the pleasure of Donald J. Trump and takes direction from him as president of the United States. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., seems to have a problem with that.

On a recent MSNBC appearance, Harris told host Rachel Maddow, “The attorney general is supposed to act on behalf of the people and not act as the president’s henchman.”

Harris made the statement after Maddow asked whether or not Barr had been given direction from the White House on his current probe into what led to his agency’s Russia election investigation.

Harris also sent a letter Friday asking DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to look into whether the White House directed Barr to investigate anyone, saying, “There must be no doubt that the Department of Justice and its leadership stand apart from partisan politics, and resist improper attempts to use the power of federal law enforcement to settle personal scores.”

That talking point sounds great to Trump-haters and those looking to undermine AG Barr’s investigations. But it just doesn’t stand up to a simple understanding of the Constitution. Like it or not, President Trump is William Barr’s boss, and the attorney general serves at the president’s choice.

Executive appointees pursue the agenda of the president who nominated them. That’s what they do. They act on behalf of the people by pursuing the agenda of the guy the people elected.

And if the agenda is to find out what happened in some very shady-looking stuff at the DOJ and FBI during a previous administration, well, that job goes to the AG, folks.

It may sound like a great thing to have government officials and agencies that are completely independent from political considerations. But in the real, imperfect world that we inhabit, “independent” government is usually just fancy marketing for unaccountable government, and political considerations are what keep government actors in check.

But indeed, Americans should make sure that the people who enforce our laws “resist improper attempts to use the power of federal law enforcement to settle personal scores.”

After all, law enforcement officials could do some pretty bad stuff if they felt themselves too independent from political oversight and public backlash. They could, for example, target political candidates and their campaigns for clandestine investigation via dubious intelligence warrants based on specious political research documents. Some could even leak information about said investigations to a hungry, biased media, thereby giving fuel to their political opponents to bog them down with partisan investigations for years at a time.

And that’s the sort of thing that belongs in a corrupt banana republic or a totalitarian police state, not the United States of America. And that just happens to be the sort of thing Barr is investigating right now.

After all the high-flown language about serving the American people, law enforcement agencies and their heads have to be accountable to someone. And that someone has to be accountable to the voting public. That plus legislative oversight and legal checks from the judicial branch are how the AG remains accountable to the Constitution and the people.

Since she used to be California’s attorney general herself, Harris should be familiar with the concept.

Harris’ MSNBC appearance can be found here:

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Flashback Reveals Truth About Bernie – 2020 Dem Wanted to Send Children to Soviet Union

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Back in the 1980s, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wanted to send children to the Soviet Union and other communist regimes to learn about communism and socialism.

His statement was made on “Bernie Speaks with the Community” — a local television show show that Sanders starred in back when he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont. A recent story at Politico magazine points out some other highlights of Bernie’s time as a local TV star.

Sanders served as the mayor of Burlington for eight years, from 1981-1989. And at that time, while President Ronald Reagan and other leaders of the free world were working to bring down the Iron Curtain, Bernie wanted to send regular Americans families and children behind it.

“You know what I would love to see?” he asked a group of school children. “I would like to see families — your mothers and dads and yourselves maybe — go to the Soviet Union and learn about that country, and people from there come to here.”

He continued: “If you actually had kids here who were from Nicaragua or from the Soviet Union, and they could tell you what’s going on in their own country, boy, you could learn a whole lot. And then if kids from Vermont or Burlington were in those countries, they could tell those people what was going on in their hometown.”

Perhaps those people could have told the kiddos about the hunger during food shortages in a centrally planned economy. Maybe they would have talked to children whose uncle or father had disappeared into the gulag system. Perhaps they would even have met some lucky survivors of Stalin’s mass killings or the relatives of the Jewish intellectuals he murdered. They might have traveled south and visited some Holodomor survivors.

Perhaps some of them could have gone to the People’s Republic of China instead and learned firsthand about the horrors of Chairman Mao’s “Great Leap Forward.” And, hey, since it didn’t happen until Bernie’s last year in office, they could have even witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre firsthand!

On second thought, in all seriousness, there actually may have been a lot for those kids to learn in an exchange program, but only as long as the necessary post-traumatic therapy was included with the total cost of the program.

In case that sounds a little too out there, even for a man who honeymooned in the U.S.S.R., here’s the video to prove it. His idea for an exchange program starts at the 4:30 mark:

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Video of Muslim Children in the U.S. Reveals SHOCKING Remarks

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By Daily Wire. Shocking footage of children in a Philadelphia Islamic center has emerged that shows them saying that they would “chop off…heads” for Allah.

“The Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center in Philadelphia posted the video to its Facebook page celebrating ‘Ummah Day’ in which young children wearing Palestinian scarves sang and read poetry about killing for Allah and the mosque in Jerusalem,” Fox News reported. “One girl talks about martyrs sacrificing their lives without hesitation to conquer Jerusalem.”

“We will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies, and we will sacrifice our souls without hesitation,” another girl says. “We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque. We will lead the army of Allah fulfilling His promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture.” . . .

The video sparked reaction online from some in the Muslim community, including Imam Mohamad Tawhidi, who tweeted: “We warn the West from what we fled from in the Middle East, but the West doesn’t want to listen. This is your next generation:”

On MAS’s website, the organization did condemn the recent anti-Semitic white nationalist terror attack against the synagogue in California and the organization did condemn the Islamic terrorist attacks last month in Sri Lanka on Christian churches on Easter day. (Read more from “Video of Muslim Children in the U.S. Reveals SHOCKING Remarks” HERE)

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Shocking video of children in Philadelphia Muslim Society: ‘We will chop off their heads’ for Allah

By Fox News. The Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center in Philadelphia posted the video to its Facebook page celebrating “Ummah Day” in which young children wearing Palestinian scarves sang and read poetry about killing for Allah and the mosque in Jerusalem.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a watchdog group, alerted Fox News to the video. . .

MAS Philly belongs to the Muslim American Society (MAS), which has 42 chapters in the United States and one in the United Kingdom.

MAS’ website says that its mission is to “move people to strive for God-consciousness, liberty and justice, and to convey Islam with utmost clarity,” and that its vision is “a virtuous and just American society.” (Read more from “Shocking video of children in Philadelphia Muslim Society: ‘We will chop off their heads’ for Allah” HERE)

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Biden-China Ties Are a Major Threat to U.S. National Security

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Newly announced presidential contender Joe Biden has a massive conflict of interest — both in his personal and professional capacities — when it comes to dealing with America’s chief adversary, China.

The former VP made waves Wednesday when he appeared to refuse to categorize the nation of China as a U.S. competitor, let alone an adversary.

“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” Biden said at a campaign stop, adding, “They’re not competition for us.”

Biden’s wave-off of the China threat contradicts much of the data on the subject. According to some projections, China’s GDP will overtake that of the United States by 2030, or even sooner.

And much of Beijing’s success in catching up to the U.S. is credited to its theft of American intellectual property (IP), both in waging cyber warfare campaigns against our private sector and through stealing U.S. defense secrets. Each year, American businesses lose out on tens of billions per year thanks to Chinese IP theft, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission. Beijing receives a massive competitive advantage through this strategy, as it does not have to invest the billions necessary to build up its defense apparatus. China prefers to simply steal our military technology, which was developed with trillions of dollars on research and development costs through U.S. companies and government entities.

So why is Joe Biden so soft on China?

Some point to his family’s massive financial ties to Beijing. The Biden-China conflict of interest is perhaps best documented in Peter Schweizer’s Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends. In the book, Schweizer details how the firm of Hunter Biden and John Kerry’s stepson received a $1+ billion private equity deal with Beijing.

And the money did not come from an American business that deals with China, but straight from the Chinese government, Schweizer explained. Over time, the deal’s value increased to $1.5 billion.

Adding to the questions surrounding the sketchy deal, the agreement was secured in December 2013, just 10 days after then-Vice President Biden and his son Hunter took an official visit to China.

The Hill reported on the deal’s national security implications:

Deals made by the firm — co-owned by the government of China and the two sons of top American officials — would go on to have serious national security implications for the United States. One such deal was with the automotive subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), a major Chinese military contractor accused of frequently stealing U.S. military technology.

In addition to his son’s corrupt dealings with China, Biden has always had a soft spot for Beijing, beginning with his first trip to the mainland in 1979. Over the course of his career, Biden has rarely critiqued Beijing, other than some meaningless rhetoric about generally improving their human rights practices.

In a 2011 op-ed for the New York Times titled “China’s Rise Isn’t Our Demise,” the then-vice president rejected the notion that China’s rapid economic development and expansion were a threat to the United States.

“I reject these views,” Biden said. “I remain convinced that a successful China can make our country more prosperous, not less.”

Sen. Marco Rubio expanded on Biden’s coziness with Chinese officials in a 2015 interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt.

“He’s got this personal friendship with the president of China that he brags about,” Rubio explained. “The guy who he told, basically, you know, we talk about human rights for domestic, political purposes, but we don’t really mean it,” he added, criticizing the Obama administration’s soft stance on China.

Over the course of the Obama administration, China grossly abused its cordial personal relationship with top members of the U.S. administration and continued its rampant theft and sabotage practices. On Obama and Biden’s watch, the Chinese government hacked the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM), stealing records on over 21 million government employees. Beijing faced zero reprisal. China not only hacked government resources, but waged a massive cyber warfare campaign against major U.S. corporations. And between 2010 and 2012, the Chinese government went on a killing spree against American intelligence assets inside the country. The public news of the mass killings only came out after President Obama left office.

Biden’s long record of capitulating to China makes it quite clear that he is not willing to push back against Beijing’s continuing threats to U.S. sovereignty. Whether that has anything to do with his son’s $1.5 billion-plus financial windfall — thanks to the government of China — remains a mystery.

Unlike the Trump-Russia hoax perpetrated against candidate and then President Trump, Biden-China is a very real, established connection, one that should be understood as a potential national security threat. (For more from the author of “Biden-China Ties Are a Major Threat to U.S. National Security” please click HERE)

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WATCH: Leftist Students Freak out, Get Arrested – Over a MAGA Hat

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It appears another gaggle of left-wing college students have allowed the sight of a “Make America Great Again” hat — the iconic symbol of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign that’s more or less become kryptonite to leftists — get the better of their decision-making skills and emotions.

A Texas State University student shot video Wednesday of what he told Campus Reform occurred after another student stole his MAGA hat amid a heated political discussion on campus. . .

An apparent officer is heard speaking to the student whose MAGA hat was allegedly stolen, asking if he wants to press charges, and the student responds that he does and then is directed to follow the person.

As the pair of handcuffed students are led away, someone is heard off camera stating, “If that’s not white privilege I don’t know what the f*** is.” . . .

Police said four students were arrested Wednesday but didn’t mention the MAGA hat. It isn’t clear what the fourth arrested student did in relation to the incident, as the clip shows only three in handcuffs. Police added that the students were transported to the Hays County Jail for arraignment before a judge. (Read more from “WATCH: Leftist Students Freak out, Get Arrested – Over a MAGA Hat” HERE)

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Illegal Alien Convict Charged With Execution-Style Murder After NEVER Being Deported

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An illegal alien convict who had been previously granted refugee status by the federal government and was supposed to be deported has now been charged with murdering, execution-style, a Miami, Florida, father of one.

Illegal alien 29-year-old David Panequeusper has been charged with murdering 31-year-old Leandro Lopez this month after surveillance cameras captured the alleged killing in March, depicting an armed Panequeusper shooting Lopez to death.

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Panequeusper, Breitbart News confirmed, first arrived in the U.S. in June 2001 from Cuba and was given parole to remain in the country. Years later, in 2004, Panequeusper was granted refugee status by the federal government despite his alleged associations to the violent Sur-13 Gang, which has ties to the Mexican mafia.

In 2007, Panequeusper was convicted of attempted murder and armed robbery and sentenced to ten years in prison, Breitbart News confirmed. The 2007 attempted murder involved a 17-year-old Panequeusper nearly stabbing a man to death outside of a restaurant. After the attack, Panequeusper attempted to cash the victim’s checks. . .

After being released from prison, Panequeusper was ordered deported from the U.S. back to Cuba. Due to Cuba’s non-cooperation with U.S. immigration officials, the illegal alien was never deported and continued living in Miami, unsupervised. (Read more from “Illegal Alien Convict Charged With Execution-Style Murder After NEVER Being Deported” HERE)

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Dem: Some Kids Are Unwanted, Kill Them Now or Kill Them Later

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Democrat Alabama State Rep. John Rogers made horrifying remarks on the floor of the Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday about abortion, saying: “Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later.” . . .

“Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later,” Rogers said. “You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair. So, you kill them now or you kill them later.”

“Some parents can’t handle a child with problems,” Rogers continued, according to a local media report. “It could be retarded. It might have no arms and no legs.”

“Supporters said the bill is intentionally designed to conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationally, hoping to spark court cases that might prompt the justices to revisit Roe,” Fox News reported. “The bill contains an exemption for situations in which there is a serious risk to the mother’s health, but not for rape and incest.”

“The heart of this bill is to confront a decision that was made by the courts in 1973 that said the baby in a womb is not a person,” Alabama State Rep. Terri Collins (R) said. (Read more from “Dem: Some Kids Are Unwanted, Kill Them Now or Kill Them Later” HERE)

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AG William Barr Confirms ‘Multiple Criminal Investigations’ to Find Russia Probe Leakers Are Under Way

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In his first congressional appearance since the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his investigation into Russian election interference, Attorney General William Barr told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that his department is actively looking for officials who made unauthorized leaks to the media.

“We have multiple criminal leak investigations under way,” Barr said when asked by former committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, what his team is doing to address leaks to the media from sources within the FBI and Department of Justice throughout the course of the Russia investigation.

Barr, however, did not explain which leaks from the 22-month investigation are currently being investigated.

Grassley’s question followed up on a letter he sent to Barr last week asking whether or not the attorney general was looking into “whether DOJ or FBI officials had unauthorized contacts with the media” during the course of the Russia investigation.

“Much of DOJ’s work involves non-public, sensitive matters,” a Department of Justice outline of the agency’s confidentiality and media contacts policy states. “Disseminating non-public, sensitive information about DOJ matters could violate federal laws, employee non-disclosure agreements, and individual privacy rights; put a witness or law enforcement officer in danger; jeopardize an investigation or case; prejudice the rights of a defendant; or unfairly damage the reputation of a person.”

“DOJ personnel should presume that non-public, sensitive information obtained in connection with work is protected from disclosure, except as needed to fulfill official duties of DOJ personnel, and as allowed by court order, statutory or regulatory prescription, or case law and rules governing criminal and civil discovery,” the DOJ document continues.

In April, House Intelligence ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., sent a letter to Barr outlining eight criminal referrals in relation to the Russian interference investigation, which included “global leaks” among several other allegations. (For more from the author of “AG William Barr Confirms ‘Multiple Criminal Investigations’ to Find Russia Probe Leakers Are Under Way” please click HERE)

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GOP Senator Calls to Investigate Team Mueller’s Leaks to the Media

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During Attorney General Williams Barr’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday afternoon, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., encouraged Barr to declassify as much as possible in order to be transparent with the American people about the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe.

Discussing the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, Kennedy commented:

“I do think there were a handful of people — maybe some are still there [at the FBI] — who decided in 2016 to act on their political beliefs.”

“There were two investigations here. One was an investigation of Donald Trump. There was another investigation of Hillary Clinton. I’d like to know how that one started too,” the Louisiana senator added.

“And it would seem to me that we all have a duty, if not to the American people, to the FBI, to find out why these investigations were started, who started them, and the evidence on which they were started,” Senator Kennedy continued.

“And there’s another short way home here as well,” he told AG Barr. “All you’ve got to do is release — the president [of the United States] can — release all the documents at the FBI and the Justice Department pertaining to the 2016 election. Now you can redact national security information, but just release them instead of us going through all this spin and innuendo and leaks and rumors. Let’s just let the American people see them.”

“When you’re investigating leaks at the Department of Justice and the FBI, I hope you’ll include the Mueller team as well,” he concluded.

Conservatives have long suspected that Mueller’s team of Democrat prosecutors was leaking selective information on the investigation in order to damage the president. On Tuesday evening, the night before Barr’s testimony, a letter from Mueller to AG Barr leaked through the media.

During his testimony Wednesday, AG Barr also confirmed that the Department of Justice has “multiple leak investigations” under way. It remains unclear if that includes leaks from the Mueller team.

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Joy Behar Claims Trump ‘Culprit’ Behind Synagogue Attack. Here’s the Truth.

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ABC’s “The View” co-host Joy Behar falsely claimed on Monday that President Donald Trump was “the culprit” behind the tragic attack on a California synagogue over the weekend. . .

Behar, a leftist, sought to immediately politicize the attack when the show ran again on Monday by falsely claiming that Trump was “the culprit” behind it and that he needed to take responsibility for it.

“He’s provocative. He gives dog whistles constantly to these people,” Behar said. “Take responsibility for your actions, Mr. President. You are the culprit.”

Behar conveniently did not tell viewers what the alleged terrorist wrote about Trump in his alleged manifesto, where the terrorist answered his own questions so people could know his views. . .

The terrorist hated Trump because of Trump’s love for Israel and the Jewish community.

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