Friday, May 31, 2019

Deep Staters and Swamp Creatures Are Everywhere, But President Trump Rolls Right Over Them

AMERICANS ARE BEGINNING TO SEE THAT SITTING QUIETLY WHILE DEEP STATE RADICALS SHRED THEIR COUNTRY IS NOT THE BEST IDEA. And, it is about time. Enter the Equal Justice Tour. • • • THE EQUAL JUSTICE TOUR STARTED RIGHT AT GROUND ZERO. In Chappaqua, New York. Canada Free Press wrote about it, not the Fake news media. The title of Doug Hagmann's Wednesday article was "Americans Unite to Demand Justice." Hagmann said : "The Equal Justice Tour kicked off in Chappaqua, New York. Something happened this weekend that is just too big to ignore, although It is unlikely that you will see any mention of this event on the evening news or read about it in newspapers. A spirited group of American patriots, many traveling from several hundred miles away, gathered in Chappaqua, New York, the hometown of Hillary Clinton, to demand that justice -- equal justice be restored to our nation. The Equal Justice Tour kicked off in Chappaqua, New York, where citizens assembled outside the home of Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday, May 26, 2019, to call attention to her illegal activities as documented by FBI Director James Comey during her tenure as Secretary of State. As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton used an unauthorized, unsecured server to store, send and receive classified emails, exposing some of the nation’s most sensitive information to hostile foreign powers. She deleted tens of thousands of emails, used software to irretrievably erase the server, and physically destroyed computer and telephone hardware while under FBI investigation. Despite the obvious violations of law, Clinton was 'exonerated' by former FBI Director James Comey on July 5, 2016. Hillary Clinton was also Secretary of State during the September 11, 2012, attack on the State Department sanctioned CIA compound in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans, including a US Ambassador, were murdered. It was during the congressional hearings about Benghazi that her personal server was discovered. For the first time in nearly two decades, Hillary Clinton was publicly called out at her home and on her home turf by Americans concerned about restoring America to the principles of our Founders and the US Constitution. By all accounts, Hillary Clinton took notice as did so many others in Chappaqua and beyond. At the time of this report, at least one member of the US Department of Justice was aware of the events of The Equal Justice Tour this weekend and the demand for action on the part of the Department of Justice to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton." • Hagmann wrote : "As Sunday progressed, the crowd of supporters for 'equal justice' grew, and so did the positive reinforcement by passersby by a 7-3 margin. This writer spoke with three separate people who were driving by our meeting point, turned around and stopped to offer their encouragement and support. Interestingly, two of the three stated that they reside in New Castle, Westchester County, NY, and the third lives in Elmsford, NY. 'If she broke the law as [former FBI Director James] Comey said she did, then yes, she should be held accountable, especially if her emails fell into the hands of our enemies,' stated a 46-year-old female resident of Elmsford, NY. When asked for her name she declined, stating 'I have to live here -- you don’t know what it’s like, these people who support [Hillary Clinton] don’t care what she’s done -- it’s like a cult.' The call for equal justice extended into Memorial Day as Hillary Clinton, accompanied by former President Bill Clinton and New York Governor Cuomo marched in their hometown parade." • Hagmann said : "Participants of The Equal Justice Tour, including “Coach” Dave Daubenmire, tour founder and one of the event organizers, attended the parade in Chappaqua, holding signs and demanding justice. It was evident that Hillary and Cuomo took notice, as did many others along the parade route. It was noted that the news media appeared careful not to photograph or video any of the participants or the signs that shadowed the former Secretary of State." • Why are Americans willing to march for "Equal Justice"? Doug Hagmann's explanation is clear : "Just over three years ago, millions of Americans enthusiastically embraced the prospect of the restoration of the rule of law amid the chants of 'drain the Swamp.' Sick of the status quo and a two-tiered system of justice, Americans voted to return America to the rule of law and the framework of the US Constitution. Today, a thousand days later, we are still mired in the Swamp of corruption. The criminal 'elite' who held positions of power continue to walk free and unencumbered by the laws that govern the rest of us. This is about to change by the works and deeds of Americans who refuse to accept inequity or remain indifferent for the sake of convenience. The change sought by more than half of America, if it is to come, and come it must, will originate from 'we, the people.' We cannot rely solely on government or expect change without our voices being heard and more importantly, without our presence being felt. It is up to us to be the impetus for change and demand action from those who work for us. In the words of Robert Kennedy, '[T]he glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution -- nor by the courts -- nor by the officers of the law -- nor by the lawyers -- but by the men and women who constitute our society -- who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.' The torch for equal justice was lit over the weekend, its bright light a beacon summoning all Americans who seek to restore our nation to its founding principles of equal justice and the rule of law. Now lit, it will not be easily extinguished, but only made brighter by patriotic Americans who care about the moral future and integrity of the laws of our nation." • Hagmann says The Equal Justice Tour is "just getting started, raising awareness and demanding accountability for the crimes committed by public servants who behaved more like royalty -- and were treated the same." It is our duty, as Hagmann states, "to keep the pressure on the current Department of Justice and enlist the support of the Executive branch to see that equal justice prevails for members of the 'Deep State.' The vehicle for change is The Equal Justice Tour. It might be one of many, but it is a powerful one indeed." • • • JUDICIAL WATCH IS ANOTHER POWERFUL EQUAL JUSTICE TOOL. Canada Free Press noted this Deep State review by Judicial Watch : "Today, Judicial Watch aired its hard-hitting panel reviewing the Deep State Coup against President Trump! The panel also discussed the corruption at the FBI, corrupt handling of the Clinton Investigation, the Obama Administration’s hand in the Russia hoax, the Mueller Probe, and other important topics. The panel featured a litany of high profile guests that include some of the greatest minds on this important issue : Dr. Carter Page; Chris Farrell, Director of Investigations and Research at Judicial Watch; Victoria Toensing, partner at the law firm Toensing & DiGenova; Chuck Ross, investigative reporter at the Daily Caller; moderated by Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. You can watch the panel discussion on the Deep State and its corruption at < https://youtu.be/XKunDsQuhec >. • • • THE DEEP STATE HAS TENTACLES THAT ARE NOT ALWAYS OBVIOUS. Canada Free Press wrote an article on Wednesday about former Attorney General Jeff Sessions "burying a federal investigation." Author Lee Cary said what most of us knew -- there was something wrong with Sessions a AG, but it was hard to pinpoint exactly what it was. Cary gives the perfect example of the Sessions misfire as AG : "During his tenure as Attorney General of the US Department of Justice, Jeff Sessions gave a lesson in how to abort an investigation into the Clinton Foundation before it started. Here are the four steps to killing the investigation of the Russian Uranium One Deal, and more. ( I.) Appoint an investigator who’s a hold-over from the Obama administration. But, don’t announce the appointment right away, in order to avoid fanfare from the media, and scrutiny from those suffering from critical thinking. Sometime in the Fall of 2017, according to TheHill, 'Attorney General Jeff Sessions quietly tapped [John] Huber -- apparently last fall -- to work in tandem with the Justice Department’s inspector general to determine whether conservative allegations of abuse at the FBI and the Justice Department merit investigation.' Here’s Huber’s basic vita : 'John W. Huber (born 1967) is an American lawyer who has served as the United States Attorney for the District of Utah since June 2015. He was first nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in February 2015. Huber offered his resignation in March 2017 at the request of the Trump administration. However, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions subsequently appointed Huber as interim US Attorney under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. Huber was renominated by President Donald Trump in June 2017. On August 3, 2017, he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to an additional four-year term as a U.S. Attorney.' Skepticism concerning Huber’s appointment surfaced early. Again, from TheHill came this : 'One former senior Justice Department official called the appointment ‘window dressing...more aimed at placating Congress than anything else.’ Brett Tolman, who was the US attorney for Utah prior to Huber and a former counsel in the Senate Judiciary Committee under Hatch, also said the appointment is ‘form over substance...to pacify those that might be clamoring for [a second special counsel].’ With his contrary opinion, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley approved of the Huber appointment saying that, 'by having Huber work with the Department of Justice, the administration is combining all the work of the DOJ inspector general and previous investigations, with an active prosecutor who can quickly bring charges, seek indictments, and get results for President Trump -- far more quickly than a second special counsel could.' Turley called Session’s move 'brilliant.' That’s what he said. The Professor’s reasoning sounds...professorial. But, unfortunately, nothing came quickly, or even at all, from Huber and the DOJ inspector general collaborating -- if they ever did. Utah US Senator Orin Hatch strongly endorsed Huber’s nomination. Uranium mining is an important industry in Utah. ( II.) Appoint someone far from DC : The Out-of-Sight/Out-of-Mind Factor. Since his appointment became known, reports of Huber’s progress are...non-existent. Finally, one news outlet noticed the deafening silence coming from Huber. In an article with a title that alluded to the play 'Waiting for Godot,' a Spectator USA writer asked, 'Waiting for Huber : whatever happened to the investigation into FBI abuse of power?' Answer: Like Godot - it never appeared. Nearly 18 months after US Attorney John W. Huber was appointed to investigate whether the Obama-era FBI and Department of Justice abused their power when they obtained spy warrants on Trump campaign operatives and their handling of alleged pay-for-play Clinton Foundation schemes, there’s no sign of any activity. Members of Congress remain in the dark about what if any progress has been made, and likely witnesses say they haven’t been contacted.' No grand jury. No subpoenas. No indictments. No witnesses interviewed -- particularly the key one, William Campbell. In short, the Huber investigation has shown no signs-of-life. Campbell’s attorney, and former Justice Department prosecutor Victoria Toensing, called the Huber investigation 'a head fake...It’s a farce. It’s an embarrassment how this has been handled.' Toensing is renowned for her clarity and candor. Meanwhile, all the juicy, bombshell news about Trump’s Collusion with Putin and the Russians (not the Siberian Rock Band) dominated the MSM Northeast Corridor big news sources, centered around the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Three-Letter-Acronym TV networks. ( III.) Assign someone a wide mission, and the liberty to ignore it all. Huber has been more than just a no-show concerning his alleged investigation into Uranium One. He’s also failed at his other assigned tasks. Again, the Spectator USA reported on April 3, 2019 that : '[T]he Justice Department just found the document authorizing Huber to look into how the department handled the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, after claiming no such document existed. The Department testified in Federal court that ‘when the Attorney General directed Mr. Huber to evaluate these matters, no written guidance or directives were issued to Mr. Huber in connection with this directive, either by the Attorney General, or by other senior leadership office staff.’ But in response to a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request, a DOJ lawyer now says they found the document that started Huber’s work.' What a Surprise! Poof! The missing document suddenly appears. It’s a miracle. There’s even more in his mission that Huber has neglected. Realclearinvestigations.com reported last December 22, 2018, that Sessions assigned Huber to investigate alleged FBI misrepresentations to the FISA Court. A very bad thing to do. 'Sessions told Congress he also tasked Huber with looking into whether FBI investigators and Justice lawyers misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] court by making deliberate misrepresentations about evidence presented against Page, whom they targeted as a ‘Russian agent.’ Allegations include omitting material facts and exculpatory evidence undermining their probable-cause case.' As we approach two years of Hubering, all we’ve heard from his team of investigator are...crickets. But what’s worse than silence is their negligence. The story of “Batman and Robins,’ the two forensic finance-crime experts who, on December 13, 2018, appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, was told here on March 23, 2019. Later, on April 3, 2019, the Spectator USA reported what The Dynamic Duo told the committee about their strange contact with Huber’s staff in Utah. '[P]rivate financial-crimes investigators Lawrence Doyle and John Moynihan say they sent evidence of alleged Clinton Foundation pay-for-play schemes, tax fraud, and misappropriation of funds to Huber’s office by mail in April and again in May, but heard nothing back. They were told the materials had been ‘lost’ when they followed up, so they re-sent them by FedEx in October, only to finally receive a call on November 30 [2018] that an assistant US attorney would ‘review’ it.' Lost? Twice? Resent a third time? Accidentally? That’s hard to believe. Okay, it’s not possible to believe. And finally, there’s step 4 -- the short and easy one. ( IV.) When asked about the investigation, say 'No comment.' There’s apparently an on-going cricket infestation in Utah that reaches all the way to DC." • Lee Cary's conclusion is deadly in its accuracy : "So, how should we understand the Huber episode? Why would then Attorney General Sessions do what Victoria Toensing called a 'head fake.' On April 4, 2018, The Hill posted an article entitled 'Mystery surrounds Sessions appointee to FBI investigation.' That mystery remains unsolved. But a clue surfaced recently. According to an April, 24, 2019, Associated Press article that posted on USNews.com. : 'Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday said it is time to move past special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and ‘get on with the business of America...The [Mueller] process was followed and a decision has now been rendered. I think it deserves respect...I have the greatest confidence in the integrity of our system.’ About a month earlier, in late March 2019, a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Karl 'Bush’s Brain' Rove said essentially the same thing. It was entitled : 'Move On From Robert Mueller, Mr. President, Obsessing over the investigation’s origins isn’t the way to win over swing voters.' Coincidence? Maybe. But it may represent efforts to push a GOP Establishment meme calling Republicans to forgive-and-forget. If so, the meme died quickly. BUT, an unanswered question lives on : How is it that Jeff Sessions assigned responsibility to a US Attorney to investigate Uranium One, the Clinton Foundation, and the alleged misleading of the FISA Court by senior FBI officials, and did not want to see anything come of it?" • The sad answer, too late to heal all the errors AG Sessions presided over, is that the Deep State takes many forms, and the Swamp where the Deep Staters live is filled with politicians and media culprits whose names will undoubtedly shock us if they are ever fully revealed. [NOTE : Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). His work has been quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). He is quoted in Jerome Corsi’s book “The Obama Nation,” in Mark Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny.” His pieces have posted on the Drudge Report and on the website Real Clear Politics. Cary holds a BS in Economics from Northern Illinois University, and a Masters and a Doctorate in Theology from the Methodist seminary at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He served in Vietnam with the US Army in Military Intelligence. Cary lives in Texas.] • • • TRUMP AND HIS NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL. TheHill posted an article on MAy 26 about an interview George Papadopoulos gave to AM 970's "The Answer" in New York. PApadopoulos talked about AG Bill Barr's new powers, cheering the President's decision to direct Attorney General William Barr to declassify information related to the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign, calling it a sign Trump was going "on the offense." TheHill said : "Papadopoulos told John Catsimatidis that his prosecution and the prosecutions of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former national security advisor Michael Flynn were unsuccessful attempts to force Trump to cooperate with the special counsel investigation. 'They wanted to make an example out of us. They wanted to squeeze us in order to get Trump. It didn’t work,' Papadopoulos said in the interview. 'President Trump is now on the offense. And once he starts declassifying materials -- as you probably have been seeing in the media about my case, where I’m basically telling informants that I have nothing to do with the Russians, yet they still use it against me -- you might start seeing people on the other side going to jail for conspiracy. And I hope they do.' Papadopoulos added that the federal government targeted him because of his connection to the President and not because of actual wrongdoing. 'Most people who work for Donald Trump, if not all of them, either got bankrupt, their life thrown in a whirlwind, or found themselves in short or long jail sentences. My short answer to you is if the feds want to get you, they’re going to get you,' he argued." Papadopoulos was released from prison in December after serving time for his conviction for lying to investigators about foreign contacts. In his new book, he states that he was pressured into signing a plea agreement with the threat of charges pertaining to working as an unregistered foreign lobbyist. He told Catsimatidis : "I was faced with a choice : accept the charges that I lied or face FARA charges. I made a deal. A deal forced on me. My story is part of a larger story. The story of Trump and the story of stopping Trump, or trying to. The Trump presidency was the primary target of all this insanity." • This Deep State America is not what America is, and these Swamp Deep Staters are surely going to get their comeuppance as AG Barr works his way through the files that must be piled up waist high in his office. • • • THE BEAUTY OF DONALD TRUMP IS THAT HE JUST KEEPS MOVING HIS "AMERICA FIRST" AGENDA FORWARD. Nobody in the mainstream media has said much about it, but TheHill published an article on May 26 about the intelligence President Trump, John Bolton, Patrick Shanahan, and Mike Pompeo have been citing as the reason for their slight military build-up in the Middle East. TheHill's reporter Chris Mills Rodrigo wrote that Representative Will Hurd (R-Texas) said the intelligence on Iran as a rising threat is "credible." Hurd, a former CIA officer, told CBS's Face the Nation : “I’ve seen the intelligence, it’s very credible intelligence. This intelligence was produced by hard-working men in the CIA, in our intelligence community. It’s our military leaders that are asking for some of these moves to make sure that we’re protecting our folks in that region. I don't think anybody wants to go to war with Iran, but we need to be prepared to protect our troops that are already there.” Iran tensions have been high since the Trump administration last year pulled out of the Obama-era nuclear deal and reinstated sanctions on Teheran, said Rodrigo, and : "The situation has escalated in recent weeks, particularly after the administration sent a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East amid what officials called 'troubling and escalatory indications and warnings' from Iran that had not been publicly identified. Trump said Friday that he would send about 1,500 troops to the Middle East to counter Iran's influence, again citing intelligence about Iran. Lawmakers were briefed last week by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan on the intelligence supporting these military moves. Democrats and foreign intervention skeptics have been critical of the moves, accusing Trump of being the one provoking conflict." • BUT, as usual, President Rump and his team are right, but the lapdog media covers the truth up and gives interviews to ProDems who say whatever is necessary to push along their fantasy that the President is dangerous because does not understand what his actions could lead to internationally. HOW WRONG they are. • And, Canada Free Press gives another example that proves how well President Trump understands what he is doing. David Singer wrote an article on Wednesday that opens with this : "Hamas and the PLO will be left to hang out and dry -- having been responsible for prolonging the Jewish-Arab conflict that should have been resolved decades ago. Freedom from PLO and Hamas rule awaits Gaza and West Bank Arabs." We have received NO information from the mainstream media about it, but the fact is, says Singer, that : "Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar" have announced their participation in the 'Prosperity for Peace Conference' in Manama on 25-26 June -- jointly convened by President Trump and Bahrain (“Manama Conference”) -- [it] promises to offer unique opportunities for Gaza and West Bank Arabs to emigrate to other Arab countries to seek better lives for their families. Tens of millions of desperate people have fled their birthplaces in recent years seeking entry illegally into other countries. There is no reason to believe that Gaza and West Bank Arabs would not similarly want to emigrate if offered the opportunity to do so legally. Gaza and West Bank Arabs have personally suffered under the oppressive rule of Hamas in Gaza since 2006 and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank since 1993. They have not been given the opportunity at any time to determine their own future in free and fair elections -- except in 2006 when the PLO refused to accept the result. A bitter internecine struggle since then has ensued between Hamas and the PLO for political control of the Gaza and West Bank Arab populations that still remains unresolved. Elections are not even being contemplated to resolve this impasse. The policies espoused by both Hamas and the PLO in relation to Israel have wrought disaster on Gaza and West Bank Arabs both in regard to their personal lives and economic prospects for themselves and their children. The UAE has voiced its support for the Manama Conference and what it hopes will be achieved : 'The UAE supports all international efforts aimed at supporting economic progress and increasing opportunities in the region, and alleviating the suffering of people in the region, particularly our brothers in Palestine...It (the Conference) aims to lift the Palestinian people out of misery and to enable them for a stable and prosperous future.' " Singer tells us that "Hamas and the PLO are both violently opposed to the Manama Conference and have indicated they will not be attending. They are well aware of the threat an exodus from Gaza and the West Bank would pose to their hold on power and financial privilege. Hamas -- which has turned Gaza into a hell hole since Israel unilaterally disengaged from there in 2005—had the gall to declare : 'We warn Arab states against the malicious activities aimed to pave the way for normalisation with the Israeli occupation and involvement in the deal of the century.' Saeb Erekat -- secretary general of the PL -- —expressed his opposition against the Conference claiming : 'There will be no economic prosperity in Palestine without the end of the occupation.' " BUT, Singer describes the "many exciting initiatives expected to be presented at the conference," including Saudi Arabia’s already announced NEOM project -- a planned US$500 billion mega city. The project includes a bridge spanning the Red Sea, connecting the proposed city to Africa. Some 10,000 square miles (25,900 square kilometers) -- the size of Israel -- have been allocated for the project -- which will be close to the borders of Jordan and Egypt. The opportunities for work and the prospects of enjoying happier and safer lives in being part of NEOM and other to-be announced projects would prove irresistible for Gaza and West Bank Arabs -- fed up with decades of deprivation and suffering supposedly pursuing the goal of 'ending the occupation' by creating another Arab State. Hamas and PLO threats, objections and non-attendance will not see the Manama Conference cancelled. Hamas and the PLO will be left to hang out and dry -- having been responsible for prolonging the Jewish-Arab conflict that should have been resolved decades ago." WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME we read about an American President co-hosting a conference whose aim is to create homes, jobs, and security for Gaza and West Bank Arabs??? Don't strain -- the answer is NEVER before. • • • PRESIDENT TRUMP IS TAKING A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO THE SOUTHERN BORDER CRISIS. In the total absence of any help from Democrats in Congress, or their propagandist media, to solve the southern border crisis, President Trump is doing everything he can that doesn't require Congress. Even then, Democrats find Obama-appointed federal judges who are willing to stop the President's actions with injunctions that they apply nationwide, forcing the President to go to appellate courts and finally the Supreme Court to break the injunctions. • The flood of illegal immigrants pouring over the southern border is escalating at an alarming rate. Newsmax reported on Thursday that : "Border Patrol set a record early Wednesday morning, apprehending 1,036 migrants attempting to illegally cross the southern US border near El Paso, Texas, snapping the previous high of 424 set last month, NBC News reported. A majority of the migrants were coming from Central America's Northern Triangle -- El Salvador (76), Guatemala (515), and Honduras (135) -- and traveling in the largest group ever apprehended for 'safety in numbers,' according to the report. Families comprised 934 of the people, while 63 children and 39 single adults traveled alone, per NBC News, citing two US officials and a document it had obtained. The record numbers come as President Donald Trump on Thursday teased his 'biggest statement on the border,' which will come later in the day or Friday. A third US official expects this large apprehension to be a 'major part of his announcement,' per the report. As Congress struggles to act on immigration [read that, refuses to act because the Democrats control the House], President Trump builds the wall through national emergency funding reappropriated from Defense budgets, large-scale migration has continued to grow. March and April reported over 100,000 undocumented immigrants, illegally and legally crossing the border -- the highest total in 12 years -- and a DHS official expects that number to exceed 120,000, according to the report. • Well, President Trump did make his"biggest statement on the border" on Thursday evening. CNBC broke the news that the President tweeted that the US will impose a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports from June 10. Here is his tweet : "@realDonaldTrump On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP. The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied." The Democrats and media will have a "Get Trump" feast with this news. • • • DEAR READERS, as we slip into the weekend, there's one more story that never got air time on any mainstream media outlet this week. Western Journal Conservative Tribune reported on Wednesday that : "As many Americans know and appreciate, the foundation for President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is the protection of Americans. It’s one of the reasons his supporters voted for him and, quite frankly, it’s what Americans should be able to expect of any President. Since taking office in 2017, Trump hasn’t backed down from taking on what he considers foreign and domestic threats, but former officials from President Barack Obama’s administration might be in a position to hinder Trump’s ability to keep one major international rival at bay. According to a report by the Washington Examiner, Samir Jain -- a former senior director for cybersecurity policy under Obama’s National Security Council and now a partner with the international law firm Jones Day -- was recently hired by the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei as a lobbyist. Jain works alongside James Cole, who was Obama’s deputy attorney general from 2011 to 2015. Huawei hired Cole for legal representation in 2017, the Examiner reported." The Conservative Tribune asks, "So, what’s the big deal, right?" The answer is, says the Tribune : "According to the Examiner, the US government suspects that Huawei may be working directly with the Chinese government in an attempt to access data flowing through 5G cellular networks across the world, ultimately posing a major cybersecurity threat for Americans. In an effort to defend against these threats, as The Associated Press reported, Trump recently signed an executive order that calls out foreign adversaries for exploiting vulnerabilities within communications technology, ultimately declaring a national emergency and demanding action be taken against such companies. But that raises the question : What are these former high-ranking Obama officials doing at Huawei? It’s not like Jain doesn’t know the threat his new employer poses for communication across the globe. HIs Jones Day biography notes that he represented the Department of Justice in 'White House cybersecurity meetings and international negotiations, such as China’s agreement not to engage in cyber-enabled intellectual property theft for commercial gain.' Despite his knowledge of the cyber-warfare originating out of China, Jain and his colleague Cole are now siding with (and being paid by) the very entity they previously worked together to fight." • The Conservative Tribune goes on to state that : "In fact, Cole is defending Huawei from a long list of charges brought on recently by Trump’s Department of Justice. The charges include criminal conduct such as 'bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy to commit money laundering, obstruction of justice, illegal actions related to dodging Iran sanctions, and more,' according to the Washington Examiner." • We can imagine President Trump's reaction to all this. He put it in an April 15 tweet : "@realDonaldTrump Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei hires former Obama Cyber Security Official as a lobbyist. This is not good, or acceptable! @FoxNews @SteveHiltonx." • As the Conservative Tribune says, "Samir’s and Cole’s hypocritical actions will only cause more headaches for the US Justice Department as it works to get to the bottom of these budding, international security threats." • We can now add two names ot the list of Democrats who seem to prefer China and its money over the well-being of the United States -- Jain, Cole, Feinstein, Biden father and son. Which Democrat will be next to jump on the China gravy train??

2 comments:

  1. AG Barr I think is the only real thing in the catacombs of Washington DC. At least he is the loudest real thing in the Swamp in many years. A realist of what is palatable and what needs force - both of which Barr is possible of administering. As it was once said of Richard Nixon ... “only Nixon could go to China.” I think Trumps survival lies with Barr.

    President Trumps cabinet and his trusted advisors from the West Wing & Executive Offices next door to the Oval Office are affixed to dreams of historical ranking and not the possibility of China 30 years ago or exactly what Trump wants to accomplish.

    President Trump has been chasing what abruptly ended 30 years ago in China. His staff sees only Trade (their apparent goal) Agreements.

    Trade is a shopping trip successfully executed, trust is a foundation.

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  2. I would never advocate that the United States slides into some level of ‘isolationism’, but we seem to be driven by a fresh, new group of foreign policy “experts” that see bestowed rewards of our conception of Human Rights, or our level of tranquility in dealings with countries far from what our new trading partners imagine to be instantly possible. Thus slamming opportunities in our faces.

    Foreign Policy execution is far greater than simply having an Ivy League college degree and a passport. It is talent that Donald Trump oozes with and most people (on both sides of the aisle) in Congress have no understanding of.

    The illusion of power and wealth are seemingly exceeding the reality of functionality.

    If change at any level is desired by indigenous citizens of any country, that drive must start with the inhabitants not outsiders I believe. Let’s accept the the saying ...”the enemy of if my enemy is my friend” is as untrue as the day Dean Acheson (Sec. of State under Truman & co-ordination of our foreign policy for most of the Cold War) thought it to summarize the United States effort.

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