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UK Using Terrorist Attacks To Justify Massive Censorship And Invasion Of Privacy

Every time a terrorist strikes in the UK, the government pounces on some new initiative or measure to strip rights from citizens and censor content deemed to be offensive – all under the guise of security.

After this week’s attack on a London Mosque, the Muslim Council of Britain warned that “Newspapers are spreading hate.”

“We have national newspapers spreading hate and talking about how less Islam is the answer to terrorism that we face right now.

“These people are spreading hate against Muslims and people might be responding to that hate, talking about less Islam, and [something like this attack] may be the result.” –Independent

Prime Minister Theresa May responded to the attack with a promise to crack down on ‘growing extremism online,’ adding “There has been far too much tolerance of extremism in our country over many years – and that means extremism of any kind, including Islamophobia.”

And when British Muslim Salman Ramadan Abedi killed 23 and wounded 119 after detonating a shrapnel-laden bomb at an Ariana Grande concert on May 22nd, Theresa May issued a statement saying that the act was a “perversion of Islam,” followed by government officials telling newspapers that change was in the air – per the UK’s new Investigatory Powers Act…

The specific powers being discussed – named Technical Capability Orders – require big technology and internet companies to break their own security so that messages can be read by intelligence agencies. Government will ask parliament to allow the use of those powers if Theresa May is re-elected, senior ministers told The Sun.

May also accused tech companies such as Google of providing a “safe space” for content deemed extremist (deemed by whom?). Two weeks later, Google General Counsel Kent Walker rolled out four new measures which basically translate to “we will censor whatever the fuck we don’t like, or whatever we’re told not to like.” Per ZeroHedge:

The biggest change? Questionable content that doesn’t explicitly meet the grounds for removal under the YouTube’s terms of use will now be buried, as the New York Times noted, while the site also plans to enhance its abilities to automatically filter out content that does meet these standards.

These videos will now come with a warning, be banned from featuring adds or collecting advertising revenue, or be recommended, endorsed, or commented on. Users will still be able to find the content once the policy goes into effect, but it will eliminate one of the most prominent means of transmission – sharing over social media networks like Twitter and the messaging app Telegram.

And from Google:

“…we will be taking a tougher stance on videos that do not clearly violate our policies — for example, videos that contain inflammatory religious or supremacist content. In future these will appear behind an interstitial warning and they will not be monetised, recommended or eligible for comments or user endorsements. That means these videos will have less engagement and be harder to find. We think this strikes the right balance between free expression and access to information without promoting extremely offensive viewpoints.”

Google is also launching a new ‘social-intervention’ program which uses ‘targeted online advertising’ to dissuade young terrorist recruits from a life of Jihad – redirecting them to non-terrorist content. So along with the UK’s massive internet crackdown, internet giants like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are (selectively) taking active measures to censor content under the pretext of fighting terrorism.

In addition, the #1 search engine will utilize a “trusted flagger” program – which probably won’t include an even balance of conservatives and liberal arbiters of fake or offensive content.

What that slippery slope translates to is anything deemed counter to Google / Facebook / Twitter’s core liberal values won’t be monetized in the future – which is something conservative content producers have already encountered since the 2016 election.

Make no mistake – the ‘wild west’ internet is about to get steamrolled by ‘progress.’

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Megyn Kelly Blows It – Alex Jones Hit Piece Is Piss Poor Propaganda

If there’s one thing about me it’s that I do what I say I’m going to do and I don’t double cross. It’s not going to be some gotcha hit piece, I promise you that… You just trust me. -Megyn Kelly

NBC aired Megyn Kelly’s controversial interview with Infowars host Alex Jones Sunday night, and the best the network was able to cobble together after an 8 hour interview was a flaming dumpster of highly edited spin. During the 20 minute exposé, 10-20 second clips of Jones and Kelly were used to segue into propagandized vignettes attacking various topics the Infowars host has reported on over the years – ultimately tying Jones to Donald Trump in an effort to undermine the President. To help Kelly peddle this fiction, NBC even wheeled Tom Brokaw out to triage Kelly’s diced up yellow journalism.

And even after receiving fierce criticism and being called out by Jones prior to airtime for lying about his position on the Sandy Hook massacre, NBC and Kelly shamelessly trotted out the parent of a child killed in the mass shooting to share his horror.

Meanwhile, Jones is calling on NBC to release the full, unedited tapes of the interview.

What did Megyn Kelly actually accomplish?

Most of the ravenous left already hate Jones – but millions of curious Americans who haven’t been introduced to the Infowars host are now going to check out his platform. And what will they find? Firebrand red-pilled journalists like Paul Joseph Watson and the rest of the crew, Harvard PhD. Jerome Corsi, and frequent guests who have been deep inside government like Roger Stone and Dr. Steve Pieczenik.

And why will Jones receive millions of new readers, listeners, and watchers thanks to Megyn Kelly? Because free thinking people don’t trust the MSM anymore – especially after the 2016 election. Thanks to the internet and the relatively free flow of information, people know about all the fake news spewing out of the MSM.

From Blue screened Iraq war coverage, to the enraged protestor who turned out to be a camera man, to that reporter in the canoe covering the ‘flood‘ – people are wise to all the fiction peddled by the MSM. People aren’t buying it! And thanks to Wikileaks we know about the MSM’s propaganda huddles dinners at John Podesta’s house and other close ties to liberal politics.

As the saying goes – there’s no such thing as bad publicity, and when Megyn Kelly and NBC decided to shotgun blast America with a diced up hit-piece on Alex Jones, they didn’t count on people seeing right through their bullshit. At the end of the day, the Megyn Kelly interview was nothing more than a gigantic advertisement for Infowars. Oops!

Analysis (full interview below):

 

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Conservatives Interrupt Trump Murder-Porn Climax For Second Time, Deny Liberals Satisfaction

New York Public Theater’s Trump-murder fantasy Julius Caesar was interrupted for a second night after a protestor rushed the stage and yelled “Goebbels would be proud” and “CNN is ISIS” – protesting the production’s mock-assassination of Donald Trump.

The disruption follows a Friday night protest when conservative activists Laura Loomer and Jack Posobiec made headlines with a public protest of the production. Loomer stormed onstage during the climatic “Stab the sitting President until he’s dead” scene to admonish the production, while Posobiec let the crowd know that Hitler’s minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels “would be proud” of the production.

Defense Fund
 Loomer was arrested and released until her upcoming court date, and a defense fund was set up in her name. It’s been pointed out that the website was set up four hours before the event by The Rebel, with some suggesting the disruption was a scam – however I can’t imagine anyone thought this protest was organic, or that Loomer didn’t anticipate being arrested for running on stage and disrupting a play. Had Loomer protested but not been arrested, the website would be a non-issue.
Reactions
Many on the left and some on the right have called the protest an attack on free speech and a stunt, while supporters of the disruption say there is nothing wrong with civil disobedience and ‘culture jamming’ Julius Caesar, considering the anti-American, anti-democratic subject matter.
Attorney and pundit Will Chambelain nails the left’s selective outrage and hypocrisy (follow this guy)…

Progressives: “We love civil disobedience. We are anti-violence. And yet here we are, we’re watching a play that is essentially assassination porn, and then we are also angry and going to punish someone engaging in very very brief civil disobedience.”

Normalizing evil 
The left moralized for months about the dangers of ‘normalizing’ Trump and his ‘facist’ movement – yet these same liberal paragons of virtue are paying money to enjoy the sweet release that apparently comes with watching a bunch of angry minorities theatrically murder a Donald Trump effigy after he stole the White House from Hillary Clinton.
And while Julius Caesar is covered under the first amendment, the fact that people have the freedom to stage a mock-assassination of the President in Central Park suggests Trump might not be a fascist. I can’t imagine liberal heroes Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro letting a bunch of dissidents glorify their assassination in a famous park, hiding behind the nebulous defense that it’s ‘art.’
‘Normalizing’ the assassination of political opponents is how nations drift into chaos, and the left has been carefully molded into an army of angry losers who think they’re ‘resisting’ some huge injustice. George Soros sits in a wood paneled room somewhere smirking with his withered fingers steepled together under his sagging chin.
Hit List
Speaking of normalizing violent acts, Dave Brooks and Ben Decatur over at the Daily Caller have compiled an eye-opening list of attacks against conservatives. Here’s May and June of 2017 alone…

May 2017:

– Republican Rep. Tom Garrett, his family and his dog were targeted by a series of repeated death threats deemed credible by authorities.

-FBI agents arrested a person for threatening to shoot Republican Rep. Martha McSally over her support for Trump.

-Police in Tennessee charged a woman for allegedly trying to run Republican Rep. David Kustoff off the road.

-Police in North Dakota ejected a man after he became physical with Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer at a town hall.

-A former professor was arrested after police said they identified him on video beating Trump supporters with a U-shaped bike lock, leaving three people with “significant injuries.”

June 2017:

-James Hodgkinson opened fire on a congressional GOP baseball practice, injuring five, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.

-Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney received an email threat that read, “One down, 216 to go,” shortly after the shooting at the Republican congressional baseball practice.

-A man driving a white Malibu reportedly fired several shots at a man driving a truck displaying a “Make America Great Again” flag in Indiana.

What’s wrong with these people?

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U.S. Led Coalition Shoots Down Syrian Warplane – Syria Calls Attack By “American Zionist Project”

A U.S. Navy F-18 Super Hornet shot down a Syrian government SU-22 on Sunday after Assad’s forces reportedly bombed positions held by the ‘Syrian Democratic Forces’ in the southern Raqqa countryside.

There are conflicting reports – with the Syrians claiming they were conducting counterterrorism missions, and the United States claiming they were defending a Coalition partner whose mission is to defeat ISIS. An independent Syrian journalist named Alaa Ebrahim reports that the Syrian government plane was engaging a fleeing ISIS convoy.

Which, as ZeroHedge reports – comes just days after the U.S. military reported watching ISIS escape from Raqqa.

US Report on Sunday’s downing of Syrian plane

According to the United States, the Syrian government launched an attack on the Syrian Democratic Forces Sunday afternoon in the town of Ja’Din at approximately 4:30 p.m. Syria time, wounding a number of SDF fighters and driving them from the town.

The U.S. then reportedly contacted Russia and told them to get Syria to de-escalate the situation. When that did not happen, a little over two hours after the initial attack on the SDF, a Syrian government SU-22 dropped bombs near U.S. backed SDF fighters south of the town of Tabqah, and was immediately shot down by a U.S. F/A-18E Super Hornet.

In a statement issued by the U.S. backed Coalition, the mission of the SDF is to “defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The Coalition does not seek to fight the Syrian regime, Russian, or pro-regime forces partnered with them, but will not hesitate to defend Coalition or partner forces from any threat.”

Syrian Report

According to the Syrian government, they were conducting a counterterrorism mission in the region when the U.S. shot down their plane. From a statement issued by the Syrian General Command of the Army and Armed Forces:

The International Alliance (IAAF) this afternoon called for the targeting of one of our fighter jets in the Rusafa area in the southern Rifqa district while carrying out a combat mission against an organization calling on the terrorist in the area, which led to the plane crash and the loss of the pilot.

This blatant attack confirms beyond doubt the reality of the US position supporting terrorism, which aims to try to influence the ability of the Syrian Arab army the only effective force with its allies that exercise their legitimate right to fight terrorism throughout the territory of the homeland, especially as this attack comes at a time that achieves In which the Syrian Arab Army and its allies made clear progress in fighting the organization calling on the terrorist who is being defeated in the Syrian desert on more than one direction.

It also affirms the existing coordination between the United States of America and the organization of the terrorist advocate, and exposes the malicious intentions of the United States of America in the management and investment of terrorism to achieve its objectives in passing the American Zionist project in the region.

The General Command of the Army and the Armed Forces, warning of the serious consequences of this blatant attack on counterterrorism efforts, affirms that such attacks will not discourage them from their determination and determination to continue the war against the terrorist organizations and groups associated with them and restore security and stability to all the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.

Who and what are the Syrian Democratic Forces?

Established in 2015, the Syrian Democratic Forces is a coalition of 13 organizations established with the stated mission of fighting ISIS and other terrorist organizations. Not much else is known about the organization.

At the time of it’s founding, SDF spokesman Şêx Bender Himêdî El-Deham said all the forces joining the Democratic Syrian Forces herald the birth of future’s Syria, adding; “This democratic step will enable the democratic unity of all Syrian peoples on the basis of women’s freedom. Our basic objective is the founding of democratic Syria.”

Stay tuned as 4chan dissects this shadowy Coalition the United States is suddenly defending with acts of war.

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Trump Lawyer Jay Sekulow And Fox’s Chris Wallace Have Testy Father’s Day Exchange

Trump attorney Jay Sekulow had a heated exchange with host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday while discussing the President’s June 16th tweet about being under investigation for firing former FBI Director James Comey.

When Wallace asked whether or not Trump was under investigation, Sekulow responded that the President had not been notified of any, and that his tweet was in response to a Washington Post article based on five anonymous sources who allegedly leaked to the paper.

Sekulow: Nothing’s changed since James Comey said the President was not a target or a subject of investigation.

Wallace: Well, but, you don’t know that he isn’t under investigation now, do you.

Sekulow: No one’s notified us that he is, so I can’t read people’s minds, but I can tell you this – we have not been notified that there is an investigation of the President of the United States.

Wallace then pushed Sekulow over why the President’s tweet targeted deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for ‘telling him to fire’ Comey, when Trump said in an NBC interview that he had planned to fire Comey well before meeting with the Deputy AG.

Sekulow: There is a constitutional issue when you have this scenario. The President made a determination based on consulted advice he decided ultimately he’s the commander in chief – he gets to make that decision that James Comey had to go.

Here’s where it gets spicy

In answering Wallace’s question, Sekulow prefaced his response with “Here’s the constitutional threshold question,” which Wallace interpreted as an admission of an investigation:

Here’s the constitutional threshold question Chris – the President takes action based on numerous events, including recommendations from his Attorney General and the deputy Attorney General’s office. He takes the action that they recommended, and now he’s being investigated by the Department of Justice…  So he’s being investigated for taking the action that the AG and deputy AG recommended him to take, by the agency who recommended the termination. So that’s the constitutional threshold question here.

Wallace jumped on Sekulow like a bespectacled vulture:

Wallace: You just said that he’s being investigated.

Sekulow: No, Chris… Let me be crystal clear so you completely understand. We have not received nor are we aware of any investigation of the President of the United States. Period.

Wallace: Sir you just said two times that he’s being investigated!

Sekulow: No… I just gave you the legal theory, Chris, of how the constitution works. If in fact it was correct that the President was being investigated, he would be investigated for taking action that an agency told him to take. So that is protected under the constitution as his article 1 power. That’s all I said, so I appreciate you trying to re-phrase it.

Wallace: Jay, the tape will speak for itself. You said that he is being investigated. And its’ not just being investigated for firing Comey, there’s also the question of what he said to Comey when Comey was still the FBI Director.

Sekulow: Chris, let me be clear. You asked me a question about what the President’s tweet was… that’s what you asked me. And I responded to what that legal theory would be. So I do not appreciate you putting words in my mouth when I’ve been crystal clear that the President is not and has not been under investigation. I don’t think I could be any clearer than that.

Wallace and Sekulow then sparred over whether or not Assistant AG Rod Rosenstein should recuse himself based on “constitutional theory.”

Does the President think that Rosenstein – because you talked about this ‘constitutional theory’ that he took action on the advice of Rosenstein. Does he think that Rosenstein should recuse himself? And is he laying the groundwork to fire Rosenstein and Mueller?

Sekulow: Chris – let me tell you one thing about the ‘Constitutional Theroy” as you call it. It’s actually called the Constitution.

Wallace: You do call it Constitutional Theory sir.

Sekulow: Yeah, it is a Constitutional theory based on the Constitution. Not ‘so-called’… it’s part of the Constitution. Here’s what you’re trying to do Chris…

Wallace: Now you’re reading minds again! …don’t tell me what I’m trying to do because you don’t know what I’m trying to do. Actually what I’m trying to get is a straight answer out of you.

Indictment?

Wallace then shifts the conversation to indictment, asking Sekulow whether or not the President thinks he can be indicted.

Wallace: As a matter of law, does the President think he can be indicted?

Sekulow: The President can’t be indicted under the Constitution for the activities alleged in something like this. Of course not.

Wallace: Why is that?

Sekulow: Because there’s not an investigation!

Wallace: Oh boy. This is weird. You don’t know if there’s an investigation.

President’s Tweets

Wallace: Do you think he should stop tweeting about this case?

Sekulow: The President has changed the way in which engagement goes on. You’ve got great ratings, no doubt about it Chris – but let’s face it; the President speaks to 107 million people through social media platforms. He revolutionized the election process by utilizing media in a different way.

Nothing that he’s tweeted is causing me any issues whatsoever at his point – nothing.

Video below:

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Mark Levin: The Mueller Investigation is Pretext to Impeachment

Mark Levin – Radio host and Editor-in-Chief at Conservative Review, elegantly laid out how the Democrats have orchestrated a kangaroo court to go after the Trump administration with the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel in the FBI investigation Russia and the Trump campaign – referred to by many including Trump as a “witch hunt.”

For starters, Comey and Mueller personal friends…

John Legato is a former deep cover FBI special agent – and he writes that Comey and Mueller – their families have vacationed together, have had picnics together, hours spent at the office together, had a few cocktails after work. So Mueller can’t possibly be impartial here. Not when he’s very close friends with a key witness.

The point is this – he’s not independent.

Levin then brought up the four democrat-supporting attorneys Mueller has hired for the investigation – which Newt Gingrich tweeted about last week:

Michael Dreeben – donated to Obama and Clinton

Jeannie Rhee – deputy assist AG, Wilmer Hale, Donated to DNC, Obama, Clinton

James Quarles – asst. special prosecutor, Wilmer Hale, long history of Dem donations, Clinton

Andrew Weissman – oversees fraud at Justice. Donated six times to Obama PACs as well as DNC in 2006.

Noting the hypocrisy of it all…

I can assure you if the shoe were on the other foot, if Hillary Clinton was being investigated like she should have been and there was a special counsel, and that special counsel had a close relationship with a key witness against Hillary Clinton, a personal relationship – a professional realationship, and if that special counsel had hired four republicans who were prosecutors that donated heavily to a Trump PAC or Trump campaign or Bush campaign, you would never hear the end of this. Never.

The hypocrisy, the contradictions smack you in the face.

Mechanics of the setup

James Comey’s leaked memo resulted in the Special Counsel, which has morphed in scope from Russian interference to obstruction and collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow – as well as the finances of members of Trump’s team such as Jared Kushner.

And so now, because Mr. Comey leaked the memo information and Mr. Rosenstein buckled under the slightest Democrat pressure, the Russia investigation has moved from a counter intelligence investigation to a criminal investigation, and now Mr. Mueller is claiming authority over all the Russia investigation, the Flynn investigation, now he’s looking into financial relationship.

And MORE Hypocrisy!

He’s [Mueller] not looking into any of the financial relationships between the Clinton Foundation and Russia. Any of the violations of the espionage act by Hillary Clinton and if the Russians got a hold of any of those emails. Mr. Comey nicely and neatly closed that investigation.

So what do we have now?

What have the democrats and Mr. Comey succeeded in doing? Completely gumming up the works at the Justice dept. Gumming up the works at the WH, and trying to create a pretext for impeachment.

Clip below. Well worth 16 minutes and 32 seconds of your life, and for more of Levin’s show from Friday, click here.

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Seven Sailors Feared Dead After US Navy Destroyer Collides With Philippine Merchant Vessel

Seven sailors are missing and feared dead after the US Navy Destroyer USS Fitzgerald was involved in a collision with a 29,000 ton Philippine merchant ship ACX Crystal off the coast of Japan yesterday. The cause of the collision is unclear.

Photo courtesy Daily Mail

In addition to the seven missing sailors, Captain Bryce Benson and two other crewmembers of the Fitzgerald were airlifted to the hospital

‘It was a was real fight by crew to keep the ship afloat. Our concerns now are with ship mates; seven sailors missing and 2 evacuees. When the news came we were all focused on the safety of or ship and the crew,’ a naval spokesman in Yokosuka told DailyMail.com. ‘We at the base are still reeling from the events.’  –Daily Mail

Aerial footage shows extensive damage to the 9,000 ton $1.5 billion destroyer.

Navy Statement

President Trump has sent his thoughts and condolences to those affected:

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Alex Jones Gets Jump On Megyn Kelly – Leaks Recordings To Set The Record Straight

After NBC’s Megyn Kelly lied to Alex Jones about the scope and purpose of an upcoming Father’s Day airing of his sit-down interview for Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, the Infowars host set the record straight on Thursday night – preempting Kelly’s segment with ‘leaked’ recordings of their conversations before she could smear Jones on Sunday.

The Setup

As Jones and Kelly began to discuss the details of the interview, Kelly played the part of earnest lawyer turned plucky journalist – batting her eyelashes and insisting her new show was about profiling ‘interesting people’ so the public can get to know them better.

I’m trying to create a different kind of program. I’ll ask you about some of the controversies, of course, and you’ll say what you want to say. But it’s not going to be some ‘gotcha’ hit-piece, I promise you that.

I just want to talk about you. I want people to know you.

Of course I’m going to do a fair interview – I’m going to be me, you know, I’m not going to go out there and be a Barbara Walters… you just trust me.

-Megyn Kelly

Lies!

In a highly edited promo released ahead of Sunday’s airing, Kelly made it clear that she was gunning for Jones, and was about to twist the Infowars host’s coverage of the Sandy Hook massacre into the centerpiece of an attempt at character assassination. In response to Kelly’s promo, both Alex Jones and the families of Sandy Hook victims urged Kelly to scrap the interview, while JP Morgan and other advertisers pulled spots scheduled to air during the segment.

Kelly has defended the interview, issuing an inflammatory statement that Jones’ ‘Sandy Hook hoax claim’ is ‘revolting.’ In fact, the New York Post reports that Kelly has doubled down and ‘completely overhauled’ the interview, re-editing it to be ‘tougher’ on Jones and inviting Sandy Hook families on the program.

Preemptive Strike

When Jones suspected the interview might be a hit-job, he began recording conversations with Kelly – and to that end, released a 30 minute video on Thursday night featuring a behind the scenes look at their pre-interview encounter and provides context to Jones’ claims.

Megyn Kelly waltzed in here in Austin, Texas, and told me that she wasn’t going to talk about Sandy Hook, she wasn’t going to talk about Pizzagate, she wasn’t going to talk about Chobani, she wasn’t going to talk about Islamic terror attacks – that she wanted to do a softball profile of Alex Jones. And when she got here with her crew of intelligence operatives, she did the opposite of what she said. And so I was recording the whole time.

Jones proceeds to set the record straight on a number of issues…

Sandy Hook

“She didn’t show in her promo video that I said I believe Sandy Hook happened and that I had war gamed the three views – that criminal groups went in and killed the kids, or it happened as they officially said, or they use actors.”

Iraq War Lies

“We saw in 1990 our congress being lied to by the daughter of the head of a PR firm about Saddam Hussein’s soldiers killing hundreds of babies – bashing their brains out. It’s not that Saddam was a good guy…. We were lied to with propaganda that they admittedly came out and told us was a fraud later.”

Misquoting Jones on Pizzagate

Alex lays out how the MSM edited and ran with an incomplete statement of his that Hillary Clinton “personally murdered and chopped up and raped” children. The MSM twisted this into an accusation of Clinton’s involvement in the pizzagate controversy, however what the MSM left out was second part of that statement in which the Infowars host makes clear he’s talking about Clinton’s foreign policy decisions as Secretary of State resulting in the massacre of Christians at the hands of terrorists.

Also discussed are Alex’s Custody Battle, Kelly’s overt schmoozing, and the total media circus that’s erupted out of the entire affair.

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DOJ Issues Warning On ‘Anonymous Sources’ After Hysteria-Driven GOP Shooting

In the aftermath of a politically charged Bernie Sanders supporter targeting and gunning down members of the GOP during a baseball practice session, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein issued a statement Thursday warning people not to blindly accept news “attributed to anonymous ‘officials,’ particularly when they do not identify the country – let alone the branch or agency of government – with which the alleged sources are supposedly affiliated.”

Rosenstein was involved in anonymously sourced story last month in the Washington Post, which claimed the Deputy AG had threatened to resign based on the word of a “person close to the White House, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.”

Except that this was fake news which Rosenstein flat out denied.

The dangers of Fake News

This week’s shooting at a GOP baseball practice session by a crazed liberal proves that fake news hysteria has real world consequences. As David French of National Review brilliantly laid out in a prescient February letter written to anonymous sources:

“You’ve led us astray more than once. You’ve offered competing and incompatible stories about the allegedly “botched” special-forces raid in Yemen. A Washington Post blow-by-blow detailing an alleged confrontation between the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, John Kelly, and Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon had to be significantly revised. And let’s not forget that one or more of you leaked an “excerpt” of a transcript of Trump’s call with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto that made it appear that Trump had threatened to invade Mexico, after which American and Mexican officials alike denied that any such threats were made.

You’re helping build and sustain an atmosphere of national anxiety and even (in some quarters) outright hysteria. You’re leading us to believe that the nation is in the very worst of hands, with incompetent and malicious people at the helm, ready or even eager to plunge the nation into new wars and completely unable to handle new crises as they emerge.”

Instead of owning up, the left doubles down…

In the aftermath of this week’s GOP shooting, the left has once again refused to consider introspection – going so far as to blame Trump for the incident.

The New York Times came out after the shooting and attempted to remind everyone how ‘crazed conservative’ Jared Loughner targeted Democrat Gabby Giffords due to a map published by Sarah Palin with Giffords in stylized cross hairs. Except the story was a flat out lie and the NYT was forced to retract.

Next, look at how Politico writer Darren Samuelsohn’s responds to Rosenstein’s statement – failing to address the entire point of the memo and instead complaining that it was “so generic and didn’t actually specify which news reports it was addressing” that it “caught many in Washington off guard.”

Really Darren? You think that after 18 months of anonymously sourced MSM lie after anyone was caught off guard?

And look at this smug asshole, whose father Irving was the ‘Godfather’ of Neoconservatism

Heaven forbid the media discover integrity and report how violent social conditioning, anonymously sourced Fake News articles, and a MSM which promotes and defends the destruction of democracy amounts to sedition.

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Jared Kushner Reportedly Probed By FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller III

After striking out on collusion and proffering another weak obstruction case, the deep state (via the Washington Post) reports that Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is trying to justify his existence by digging into the finances and business dealings of Jared Kushner – President Trump’s son-in-law and advisor.

Speculation that Kushner had become a focus of the probe surfaced nearly a month ago when the Washington Post reported that a senior advisor to the President was under suspicion. Contributor to New York magazine, GQ, and HuffPo – Yashar Ali, dropped a bit of insider info (someone keep an eye on this guy):

Kushner may be in a sticky situation over meetings with Russian government and banking officials at a time when the Kushner family sought financing for a $1.8 billion office building on Fifth Avenue in New York.

The White House has said that the subsequent meeting with the banker was a pre-inauguration diplomatic encounter, unrelated to business matters. The Russian bank, Vnesheconombank, which has been the subject of U.S. sanctions following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, has said the session was held for business reasons because of Kushner’s role as head of his family’s real estate company. -WaPo

More recently, Kushner came under fire for reportedly trying to establish a diplomatic ‘back channel’ with Russia (which suggests there was none to begin with, libtards.)

Is this it for the Kush? Is his career as Israel’s most important asset in the White House up in smoke? This, and more, on the next episode of DC Witch Hunt.

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