Democrats Cheat, Spy and Lie about It, but America Has President Trump's Back

THE REAL NEWS OF THE DAY -- PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS CHEAT, SPY, AND LIE ABOUT IT. • • • OBAMA ILLEGALLY VIOLATED THE PRIVACY OF AMERICANS. Newsmax reported on Wednesday that Circa has revealed that the National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama frequently violated privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts -- and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until late last fall. According to Circa, declassified documents unveil serious constitutional abuses by the intelligence community -- showing more than 5% of searches seeking internet data on Americans inside the NSA's controversial Section 702 database violated safeguards. The Obama administration disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing last October 26 before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Circa reported. The FISA court even rebuked administration officials, saying the failure to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to an "institutional lack of candor" and the improper searches constituted a "very serious Fourth Amendment issue," Circa reported, citing a court document from April. Circa reported finding a three-fold increase in NSA data searches about Americans -- and a rise in the unmasking of American citizens' identities -- since 2011 when so-called minimization rule changes were made by the Obama administration. Though Obama administration officials have said the unmaskings were legal and intelligence agencies were monitored to avoid abuses, Circa reported that the FISA court and NSA's own internal watchdog found otherwise. The April FISA court ruling stated : "Since 2011, NSA's minimization procedures have prohibited use of US-person identifiers to query the results of upstream Internet collections under Section 702. The October 26, 2016, notice informed the court that NSA analysts had been conducting such queries in violation of that prohibition, with much greater frequency than had been previously disclosed to the Court." • Senator Rand Paul, who had already asked officials for a verification whether he was surveilled or unmasked, told Fox News : "If we determine this to be true, this is an enormous abuse of power. This will dwarf all other stories. There are hundreds and hundreds of people." • Surprisingly, the leftist American Civil Liberties Union called the lack of oversight "shocking." According to Circa, Neema Singh Guliani, the ACLU's legislative counsel in Washington, said : "You have these problems going on for years that only come to the attention of the court late in the game, and then it takes additional years to change its practices. I think it does call into question all those defenses that we kept hearing, that we always have a robust oversight structure and we have culture of adherence to privacy standards." • NSA acknowledged it self-disclosed the mass violations to the court last fall and said that in April it suspended the type of searches that were violating the rules, even deleting prior collected data on Americans to avoid any further violations : "NSA will no longer collect certain internet communications that merely mention a foreign intelligence target," the agency said in the statement dated April 28. But, since NSA and Obama have been lying to America since 2011 about this sweep surveillance and unmasking, why should we believe NSA now?? • In fact, Judge Andrew Napolitano said on Fox Business last week that the late Justice Antonin Scalia told him "that he often thought that the Court was being surveilled" roughly four or five years ago. Yes, the Supreme Court. The full story of the Obama administration’s crimes against the American people -- and the Constitution -- has yet to be uncovered. But we’re getting glimpses -- the first threads into this story -- a story that is far bigger and far more real than imaginary conspiracies dreamed up by the left about Trump and Russia. Obama was engaged, it appears, in years of Fourth Amendment violations, but, does anyone outside the Republican Party even care about Susan Rice’s unmasking of Trump associates? She isn’t even being compelled to testify before Congress. It's just taking her word for it that she did it in the interests of national security. • • • COMEY USED FAKE DOCUMENT TO JUSTIFY HILLARY'S GET-OUT-OF-JAIL CARD. Slmange Reyner of Newsmax reported on Wednesday that former FBI Director James Comey used a possibly fake Russian document to justify his decision to end the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server to send classified information during her tenure as Secretary of State. Reymer cited a Washington Post report. The document, received by the FBI in March 2016, mentioned a supposed email between then-Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schlultz and Leonard Benardo, an official at the Open Society Foundations founded by George Soros, where Wasserman-Schultz said then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch told a top Clinton campaign aide she would not allow the Clinton probe to go too deep. The WP reported that Comey might have used the document to go public with his decision in order to make it clear the FBI, and not the Justice Department, was making the call. The WP story quoted a source familiar with the matter, who said : "It was a very powerful factor in the decision to go forward in July with the statement that there shouldn't be a prosecution. The point is that the bureau picked up hacked material that hadn't been dumped by the bad guys [the Russians] involving Lynch. And that would have pulled the rug out of any authoritative announcement." • BUT, the FBI later found the document was bad intelligence and some sources believed it to be a fake planted to confuse the FBI. Wasserman Schultz and Bernardo told the Post they do not know each other and have never communicated. The Clinton campaign aide, Amanda Renteria, said she does not know Lynch. People close to Lynch said she does not know Renteria. • Even if we take all those self-serving statements as factual, the truth seems to be that Comey is now prepared to use a fake document successfully planted to confuse him as his excuse for saving Hillary from indictment. A source told the WP : "It didn't mean anything to the investigation until after [senior FBI officials] had to defend themselves. Then they decided it was important. But it's junk, and they already knew that." • Can James Comey sink any deeper into the swamp of lies and politicizing of the FBI in trying to play nice with the Clintons? What could Bill and Hillary have on Comey that would make him carry out the destruction of his own career and integrity??? • • • DONNA BRAZILE DEMANDED PRIVATE DETECTIVE STOP INVESTIGATING SETH RICH MURDER. The Ex-DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile, already disgraced for passing questions to Hillay before presidential debates with Donald Trump, apparently had another Hillary role in the DNC -- stopping uncomfortable murder investigations. Brazile reportedly asked Washington police why an investigator was "snooping" into a mysterious, unsolved murder of a DNC stafff member. WND revealed that it was Brazile, after earlier stories had said such phone calls had occurred but did not name the caller. WND's Alicia Powe and Liz Crokin reported : "Former Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile is the high-ranking DNC representative who allegedly called police and the family of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich and demanded to know why a private investigator was 'snooping' into Rich’s death." The private investigator, Rod Wheeler, told the WND reporters that it was Brazile. Rod Wheeler, a veteran homocide detective, told WND : “The high-ranking DNC official that called the police after I inquired about Rich’s case was Donna Brazile. Why shouldn’t I reveal who it was?” • Brazile, who was also a CNN contributor and a Hillary for America donor at the time, was caught providing Democrat Party nominee Hillary Clinton with questions that would later be asked of Clinton at a televised CNN town hall. In an interview with Fox News before the election, Brazile denied leaking the questions to Clinton. But in a March 17, 2017, column for Time magazine, she finally admitted doing so, saying it was a “mistake I will forever regret.” • A spokesman for the Rich family has repeatedly criticized Wheeler, who was hired by Rich’s family in March to find the DNC staffer’s murderer, for not ruling out the possibility that Rich may have leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks. The Rich family recently sent Wheeler a “cease and desist” order to stop his investigation into the murder. [Is the family being pressured or paid by the Clinton clique to clamp down on all efforts to investigate their son's murder? The FBI and Washington police have already practically 'cold-cased' the file. • On July 22, just 12 days after Rich’s murder and days before the Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia, WikiLeaks released 20,000 emails from DNC officials. Wheeler said in several interviews last week that a federal investigator has elaborate details about Rich’s connection to WikiLeaks and is a credible source. Wheeler told Fox News' Sean Hannity : “I don’t like to suggest things without saying the person’s name, but I can’t say that person’s name, because that person would be thrown under the bus. This person, we checked him out, we have to check him out, he’s very credible -- he said he laid eyes on the computer and he laid eyes on the case file. When you look at that with the totality of everything else that I’ve found on this case, it’s very consistent for a person with my experience to begin to think, perhaps there were some email communications between Seth and WikiLeaks.” Wheeler told Fox's Hannity : “There were some problems that Seth was having on his job at the DNC right before he was killed. And the person that called the father after I called the police to get information (Brazile), that’s the person that Seth was having problems with at the DNC. So connect the dots, here; it’s starting to all come together. I don’t know for sure, I don’t know as matter of fact, if the emails went out to WikiLeaks or anybody else. But it sure appears that way.” • Wheeler said he felt less compelled to stay quiet about Brazile’s identity after what he believed to be an unrelenting assassination of his character by the Rich family’s spokesman, Democrat political crisis consultant Brad Bauman, who excoriated Wheeler for not eliminating the possibility that Rich leaked emails, accusing the veteran detective of fabricating his claims in a desperate attempt for media attention. • Bauman's personal attack on Wheeler in n WND interview had all the earmarks of a Clinton attempt ar character assassination : “I don’t think at this point, given Detective Wheeler’s lack of credibility – that I am going to dignify any accusations that he makes with any sort of discussion, I’m sorry. Anyone who believes Rich may have leaked DNC e-mails “deserve(s) a place in hell.” • While Wheeler has concluded after months of extensive investigation that the idea that Rich was killed during a robbery is implausible, he maintains that his motivation to find Rich’s murderer has nothing to do with politics : “Now if that murderer is a neighborhood knucklehead who had a gun and killed him that night, then that is who I want to capture. Then the story ends for me when I find him. If that murderer is someone who worked with him on his job, then that is who I want to capture.” • Donna Brazile's retort was to say : “Seth Rich was a hard worker and proud to be an American. This desire to scar Seth’s legacy to his country and party is shameful." Is this another character assassination by a Clinton insider meant opeate as a gag order for inconvenient facts?? • • • IS SETH RICH ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS MURDER VICTIM? Rush Limbaugh on Monday said Americans are determined to uncover the truth about Rich’s murder : “This story is now starting to get legs, that Seth Rich was murdered. It was [allegedly] a contract hire killing because he was leaking to WikiLeaks. He was the one -- he may have been a Bernie supporter -- and the only colluding and rigging here, folks, is the Democrat primary election. KimDotCom, the noted hacker, has now come forward and said he was working with Seth Rich to get the documents to WikiLeaks. Right now it’s conspiracy-theory status. But it won’t go away. It just won’t go away. That’s about as much as I can say right now.” [“Kim Dotcom” is the Twitter handle for the German-Finnish hacker described as an “entrepreneur, innovator, gamer, artist, Internet freedom fighter,” who founded Megaupload. On May 20, “Kim Dotcom” tweeted: “I knew Seth Rich. I know he was the @Wikileaks source. I was involved.”] • On Sunday, Fox's Sean Hannity called on Congress to get to the bottom of Rich’s murder. In a Twitter response to “Kim Dotcom” that received nearly 19,000 “likes,” Hannity wrote: “Congress, investigate Seth Rich Murder! @JulianAssange made comments u need to listen to! If Seth was wiki source, no Trump/Russia collusion.” Hannity was referencing comments by WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange during an August 2016 interview on the Dutch television program Nieuwsuur. Assange appeared to suggest that Rich was the source of the WikiLeaks-exposed DNC emails. • Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appeared on “Fox & Friends” Sunday and called Rich’s murder an “assassination” : "We have this very strange story now of this young man who worked for the Democratic National Committee, who apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments. Nobody’s investigating that, and what does that tell you about what’s going on? Because it turns out, it wasn’t the Russians. It was this young guy who, I suspect, was disgusted by the corruption of the Democratic National Committee. He’s been killed, and apparently nothing serious has been done to investigative his murder." • • • THE END OF CONSERVATIVE NEWS OUTLETS? The strangest news yet in the Seth Rich affair is that on Tuesday on Fox News' Sean Hannity said he was no longer “discussing” the matter of now-deceased Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich and the suggestion that he was behind DNC emails being leaked to Wikileaks. Hannity alluded to communications with the Rich family as for why he had made that decision. Hannity said to his followers : “I totally and completely understand how upset and how hard this is on this family, especially over the recent coverage of Seth’s death. I’ve been communicating with them. I got a very heartfelt note. I also sent them a heartfelt note back. However, out of respect for the family’s wishes, for now, I am not discussing this matter at this time. I want to say this to you -- my loyal audience, which is very important : Please do not interpret what I’m saying tonight to mean anything. Don’t read into this. I promise you I am not going to stop doing my job to the extent of my ability. I am not going to stop trying to find the truth. That’s what we do here every single day. That effort is not stopping in any way, shape, matter or form. I am continuing the work I promised to do every day for you and at the proper time, we shall continue and talk a lot more. As for my job here at the Fox News Channel, there is now an effort now abound to silence me. Media Matters is attacking my advertising base. That is what we have called on this program ‘liberal fascism’ -- attack, boycott -- all in an effort to silence conservatives. I serve at the pleasure of the Fox News Channel. And I am here to do my job every night. I’m under contract, as long as they seem to want me.” • Could Hannity have a reason to fear Clinton disclosures, or is he simply reacting to his advertisers waffling, as they are pressured by Progressive activists to withdraw their ads from his program. Is this the beginning of the end of Hannity, as it was for Bill O'Reilly?? Is Fox News strong enough and honorable enough to keep Hannity even if all his advertisers leave?? This attack on conservative news has to end somewhere if America is to be saved. It is a totalitarian tactic being used by ProgDems to get rid of the few voices who actually defend conservative ideals and President Trump. Hannity, like O'Reilly, is vastly more popular than the Progressive propagandists on CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS -- but the conservative voice demanded by Americans requires an outlet. If Fox does not provide it, nobody else will, and George Soros and Hillary will have won the battle by killing off all 'nonconforming' news. The second vital step of the destruction of America, of the Republic, will have been completed. • • • DEMOCRATS IN TROUBLE DESPITE THEIR BRAVADO. Thomas Lifson of American Thinker reported earlier this week that he was "under the impression that Democrats are fired-up, energized by the sheer awfulness of Donald Trump, all those women marching in funny hats, all the anger, all that negative media coverage must assuredly mean that the Democratic Party is prospering, buoyed by anger-fueled donations." Actually, not so much, says Lifson : "WeaselZippers highlights the dismal fundraising picture over the weekend in a tweet that the RNC raised $9.6 million in April and has $41.4 million in the bank, while the DNC raised $4.7 million in April and has just $8.8 million in the bank. The DNC actully spent more than it saved according to the latest FEC filing. For a political party that is supposed to be energized by #Resistance to the President, the Democrats are running into #FundraisingResistance. Maybe if the party chairman didn’t use obscenities in speeches and flip the bird onstage, the grownups would loosen their purse strings. Or maybe even Democrats realize that it is a swamp out there." • • • FOR DEMOCRATS, REALPOLITIK DOESN'T EXIST. What the Democrats lack is a sense of reality. Another American Thinker writer, James Lewis, recently nailed it : "When Abraham Lincoln came to town as the first Republican president, the Democrats hated him on sight. They were the party of African-American slavery, after all, and while Lincoln phrased his beliefs carefully to give minimal offense, he was clear that 'no nation can survive half slave and half free.' The mildest curse they flung at him was to call him a hairy ape. Until the Civil War broke out, nobody thought that this uneducated hick from the backwoods of Illinois would be anything but a disaster. The DC establishment hated him as an outsider. Even his own cabinet members plotted against him. His early generals were half-hearted and incompetent. Lincoln saved the nation because he was focused on reality, not on some barmy fantasy, like Democratic Presidents from Jimmy Carter to Obama. They all refused to face the reality of reactionary jihad in the Moslem world, starting with Khomeini in Iran, and the massacre of 9/11....Trump is a realist, because you can't have two major careers in two tough businesses if you live in fantasy. Plus winning the presidency as one of the biggest outsiders in history. Trump 'uses' PR images, but he doesn't fall for them. Unlike other Presidents since Bill Clinton, Trump is not in gross denial about jihad. Trump and Mattis understand the enemy's pre-medieval doctrine using fanatics who are will to die as long as they can kill infidels at the same time.....James Mattis, who is a deep scholar of war, has said that this enemy is no different than the ones faced by Alexander the Great." And, says Lewis : "It was Lincoln's ability to face painful facts that ended up abolishing slavery and preserving the Union. It also led to his assassination. Lincoln took minimal precautions. He was ready to die in the worst war in US history, but not because he believed he would be rewarded in heaven. Lincoln had a deep sense of guilt about all the bloodshed, but he was also a realist, and he saw no other way. Lincoln was a tragic figure, not an evil one." Consider Trump's statement to the assembled Moslem world in Riyadh : "This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects or different civilizations... this is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life, and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it. This is a battle between good and evil." • Lewis wrote : "Saudi Arabia is big, with a small population. Their real protector is Egypt, which needs Saudi oil to survive. In return, Sisi has the military manpower to protect Saudi Arabia -- with the support of the United States, and the secret help of Israel. (The Saudis are de facto recognizing Israel in return). What we are seeing is the beginning of a workable settlement in the Middle East, with only Iran and Turkey on the outs. • And, in a display of realism that has frightened Democrats into a frenzied self-interested attack on him, Trump has, says Lewis : "signaled his interest in a shared US-Russian great power guarantee for a Middle East settlement; so has Putin. The only thing standing in the way is...the Democrats, who are deliberately sabotaging Trump's attempts to bring Putin to the bargaining table. The Democrats have been bought up, lock, stock and barrel by the Moslem Brotherhood, who are never-say-die fanatics with a big money investment in the Clintons. Huma Abedin is only their public face, but the Democrats are deeply penetrated by the MB's and probably by radical Iran." • The Brotherhood will not let Russia again play a major role in the Middle East wihtout a fight. They want it for themselves -- and for their ProgDem puppets. It would give them the "riches of Araby" and end sunni domination of Islam through jihad, murder and terrorism. This multidimensional chess game took a lot of planning and preliminary contacts, says Lewis : "Israel and Russia were part of the conversation, because they had to be....I think it's brilliant, and let's all pray it works." • • • DEAR READERS, from Obama illegal spying and unmasking to a DNC staff member's murder that reaks of Hillary cover-up to Democrat attempts to destroy President Trump before he can disable their networks in the Deep State and free America of its Progressive traitors, there is much to discuss and something for each of us to do. Blind obedience is never the answer, but when prominent Republicans attack their President Trump and refuse, if they do not attack, to be weak or ambivalent in his support, I can only ask myself again and again -- where is the Evidence? Where is the crime? The answer is always the same -- there is No Evidence of any crime. It is these same Republicans -- RINOs -- who for eight years of a cheating, spying, lying Obama administration, stayed in their congressional offices or at home, silent for the most part. Now that they have a President who is worthy of the name, they attack or cringe like the Progressive lapdogs who spout propaganda instead of reporting the news. The enemies of America are both within and without, in an array of political opposition never before aligned against a duly elected US President. • But, President Trump's base remains loyal. It is voters who continue to support him and his agenda. Trump MUST clean out the leakers and those in his administration actively trying to undermine him and his presidency. He would not tolerate such actions in any of his businesses. And, at the same time, President Trump MUST find the ways to plow ahead with his policy initiatives -- build the wall even if it takes voluteer workers; repeal Obamacare; cut taxes, help Veterans; pump up the defense budget, continue to deport illegals; CREATE JOBS. There is the key. Whatever Trump does, jobs are essential if America is to survive as a constitutional Republic and not sink into being a welfare state. Americans have President Trump's back. He should use its protectiive shield to get on with the job of draining the swamp. Remember the Trump voter from Michigan who reminded us : "Don't try to win over the people who don't support you. They're never gonna support you. There's nothing you can do to please them. Remember: the people who elected you are still strongly behind you. We have your back."