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Sunday, May 7, 2017

Democrats Sold Out The US For Iranian Nuclear Deal

GOP Sen: Iran Deal Meeting Between 30

Dems And World Ambassadors

L.B

Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue stepped up on Thursday

to emphasize that 30 Democratic senators had a meeting with

the Russian ambassador in 2015 to pitch President Obama’s Iran

nuclear deal, all while publicly endorsing Democratic presidential candidates.

In an attempt to protect ex – Senator and current Attorney General Jeff Sessions from allegations that

he lied to Congress regarding his contact with a Russian ambassador throughout the presidential

campaign, Perdue confronted his colleagues for “slandering” an ex – member of the upper chamber.

He said, “We have literally reached a point where members of this body are slandering former

colleagues for having and taking the same opportunities afforded to them.”

Perdue continued to say, “This morning my colleague, the senior senator from Missouri

Claire McCaskill, tweeted that she had never, ever, met with or taken a call from the Russian

Ambassador. But her own Twitter account proved that she has at least twice in the last four years.”

Sessions worked for the Senate Armed Services Committee along with Perdue and Democratic

Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, who started making contradictory statement regarding her

communication with the Russian ambassador.

“Thirty members, as a matter of fact, of this body met with the Russian Ambassador and

ambassadors from other nations in 2015 for a sales pitch on President Obama’s deal with Iran.

Many of them – including the senior senator from Missouri – were open supporters at that

time of candidates in the presidential race,” he stated.

The Huffington Post informed early on in August 2015 that Senate Democratic staff invited

three Democrats uncertain on the Iran nuclear deal Democrats together with other members

of their caucus to meet up with with ambassadors from Russia, England, France, China and

Germany in the capitol city.

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, as outlined by HuffPo, organized the Iran nuclear deal

briefings for his Democratic colleagues that involved getting acquainted the ambassadors.

The presentations were powerful enough to persuade the three undecided ones to accept it

and conquer a Republican filibuster of the Iran deal.

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Those Who Leaked Classified Information Should Be Convicted Of Sedition And Jailed For Life

Former Obama Official: Intelligence Community Raced To Pump Out Classified Info About Trump Team

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Evelyn Farkas

BY:

BEN SHAPIRO

MARCH 30, 2017

While the media fulminates over supposed connections between the Trump
Team and the Russian government, the only scandal of which we have
real evidence – members of the Obama intelligence community leaking
classified information about American citizens – continues apace.

And the media don’t seem to care.

Evelyn Farkas, deputy assistant secretary of defense under President
Obama said on March 2 on MSNBC that she was telling members of
the intelligence community as well as Democrats in Congress to gather
as much information as possible on the Trump transition team.

She explained:

I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the

people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill

people, get as much information as you can, get as much

intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration. Because I had a fear that somehow that

information would disappear with the senior [Obama] people

who left, so it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy ...

that the Trump folks – if they found out how we knew what

we knew about their ... the Trump staff dealing with Russians –

that they would try to compromise those sources and methods,

meaning we no longer have access to that intelligence….So

I became very worried because not enough was coming out

into the open and I knew that there was more. We have

very good intelligence on Russia. So then I had talked to

some of my former colleagues and I knew that they were trying

to also help get information to the Hill.

In other words, there’s a hint here that Team Trump may have been targeted
by Obama intelligence officials specifically; there’s definitive testimony here
that the Obama team tried to distribute material on Team Trump as widely
as possible, likely leading to the outing of National Security Advisor Mike Flynn's
conversations with the Russian Ambassador and then his firing.

This squares with reporting from The New York Times the day before
Farkas’ appearance that, “In the Obama administration’s last days,
some White House officials scrambled to spread information about
Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election — and about
possible contacts between associates of President-elect
Donald J. Trump and Russians — across the government.
Former American officials say they had two aims: to ensure that
such meddling isn’t duplicated in future American or European elections,
and to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators.”

It’s not illegal for intelligence officials to do that. It is illegal for intelligence
officials to unmask American citizens needlessly, or to disseminate such
information to the press. Yet somehow The Washington Post’s David
Ignatius ended up with such information in January prior to Trump’s
inauguration, quoting a “senior US government official” who said “Flynn
phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on
December 29…” How did he get that information?

Trump has always been right about the danger of intelligence community
leaks. He’s slathered that real scandal in the evidence-less stupidity that
he was personally wiretapped at Barack Obama’s behest. But just
because Trump’s twitter feed is filled with gossipy silliness doesn’t mean
that the media have a right to ignore the burning scandal of intelligence
coordination to damage the Trump White House.

Monday, March 6, 2017

Russian Ambassador At The White House On A Regular Basis. Any Smoke Here?

Turns out the Russian

Ambassador was in

Obama’s White House

22 TIMES!

MAR. 3, 2017 9:57 AM BY THE RIGHT SCOOP • 322 COMMENTS

The same Russian ambassador that the media and Democrats are up in
arms over visited the Obama White House and met with White House
officials at least 22 times, and several of those visits were in 2016 during
the election:

DAILY CALLER – The visitor logs, which Obama made public in

2009 in a push for transparency, show that the long-time Russian

ambassador to the United States visited the White House at least

22 times between 2009 and 2016.

Kislyak appeared in the logs as recently as September 2016

when he had a meeting scheduled with one of Obama’s senior

advisers, John Holdren, in the Eisenhower Executive Office

Building. The other visitors listed at the meeting are Marina

W. Gross, Alexander Ermolaev, Alexey Lopatin, Vyacheslav

Balakirev and Sergey Sarazhinskiy. Though the appointment

was scheduled to begin at 12:00 pm, it does not include an

end time.

Kislyak was also listed on the logs in July 2016, March 2016,

January 2016, August 2015, April 2014, February 2014,

May 2013, February 2013, November 2012, December 2011,

July 2011, December 2010, October 2010, May 2010,

April 2010, February 2010, March 2010, December 2009 and

September 2009.

Put this with the fact that Obama promised Medvedev and Putin that
he’d be more flexible after he won the election and you’ve got yourself a…

Nevermind.

Thursday, March 2, 2017

When You Start Throwing Stones You Had Better Not Live In A Glass Houses. McCaskill Just Learned This Lesson!

Claire McCaskill

accused of lying

in attack on

Jeff Sessions

Deirdre Shesgreen , USATODAYPublished 11:57 a.m. ET March 2, 2017 | Updated 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON — Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who fired off one of
the harshest
criticisms of
Attorney
General Jeff
Sessions over
his meetings
with a Russian
ambassador,
faced blowback
herself Thursday when the senator's own tweets
contradicted her claim that she never had
met the ambassador.

McCaskill called on Sessions to resign, saying
he "misled the Senate" about his contact with
Russian officials during the 2016 election
campaign.

The Washington Post reported Wednesday
night that Sessions met twice with the
Russian ambassador to the U.S. last year.
During his confirmation hearing to become
President Trump's top law enforcement official,
Sessions said he had no contact with Russian
officials and did not know anything about
reported contacts between Trump's campaign
advisers and allies of Russian President
Vladimir Putin.

“I’m not aware of any of those activities,”
Sessions told the Senate Judiciary Committee
during his January confirmation hearing. "I have
been called a surrogate at a time or two in that
campaign, and I did not have communications
with the Russians.”

GOP lawmakers call on Sessions to recuse himself on Russia

Trump team's many, many denials of contacts with Russia

Sessions was more than Trump surrogate in meetings with Russian envoy

A spokeswoman for Sessions, in a statement
responding to the Post story, said he did not
disclose his meetings with the Russian
ambassador because he was asked during
the hearing about communications between
Russia and the Trump campaign. His
spokeswoman said Sessions' meetings with
the Russian ambassador were held in his role
as a senator and a member of the Armed
Services Committee, not in his role as a top
Trump campaign adviser.

McCaskill blasted that explanation.

“A good prosecutor would have known these
facts were relevant to the questions asked,”
McCaskill said in a statement Thursday morning.
"It's clear Attorney General Sessions misled the
Senate — the question is, why? I’ve been on
the Senate Armed Services Committee for
10 years, and in that time, have had no call
from, or meeting with, the Russian ambassador.
Ever.

"That’s because ambassadors call members
of Foreign Relations Committee," McCaskill
added. "Attorney General Sessions should
resign.”

McCaskill's statement that she never met with
Russia's ambassador was immediately
challenged by Charles C. Cooke, editor of
National Review Online, a conservative
news site. Cooke noted that McCaskill had
tweeted about a 2013 meeting with
Russia's top diplomat in the U.S.

Asked to explain, McCaskill said the meeting
on adoption was with about a dozen other
senators. She said she never had been
contacted by the Russian ambassador nor
had a one-on-one meeting with him.

"The Russian ambassador has never called
me. The Russian ambassador has never
requested a meeting. I have never met with
the Russian ambassador one-on-one,"
McCaskill said. "I went to a meeting on
adoptions, and he was there. But it was
a bunch of senators. And it had nothing to
do with the Armed Services Committee."