The Senate Homeland Security Committee authorized committee chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) to subpoena 40 people, including many top Obama administration officials, in connection with a Senate probe into the Russian collusion investigation into the Trump campaign.
The committee voted along party lines eight to six on Wednesday to authorize subpoenas for dozens of Obama administration officials as Johnson investigates the origin of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign. The committee had approved subpoenas for 33 people during a July meeting, but Democrats objected on procedural grounds and forced a new vote on Wednesday that included subpoenas for seven more people, according to <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/16/ron-johnson-subpoena-stefan-halper/">The Daily Caller News Foundation</a>.
The new additions under Johnson’s subpoena power include Cambridge professor Stefan Halper, who served as an informant to the FBI during Crossfire Hurricane, as well as former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Justice Department official Bruce Ohr.
“We are here today … to overcome a ridiculous assertion by the ranking member regarding committee subpoena rules and, while we’re at it, to vote on subpoena authority for seven additional individuals based on new information,” Johnson said at the hearing, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate-panel-votes-to-allow-subpoenas-for-stefan-halper-and-his-fbi-handler">The Washington Examiner</a>. “Regarding the committee subpoena rules, Sen. [Gary] Peters has raised a procedural objection based on an absurd interpretation of committee rules. According to Sen. Peters, when the committee authorized deposition subpoenas on June 4, that vote did not include the authority to actually schedule any depositions.”
Peters, the ranking member on the committee, and other Democrats have consistently opposed the probe into the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, alleging that the investigation is politically motivated.
“I’m disappointed that our committee is once again meeting to discuss the authorization of subpoenas instead — let me say that again — instead of the serious challenges facing Americans,” Peters said. “Today, we’re voting on an unprecedented 40 subpoenas to further the chairman’s investigations into Crossfire Hurricane and the unmasking of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s name.”
Rep. Doug Collins, (R-GA) appeared on Fox Business on Thursday morning with host Maria Bartiromo and commended the Senate for approving the dozens of subpoenas against Obama administration officials tied in with Crossfire Hurricane.
“I’m glad to finally see the Senate is issuing these subpoenas. I’m glad to finally see these hearings are taking place. You know, I’ll be honest, I would’ve loved to have seen them earlier because we knew this stuff was coming out, and now it’s taken to September to get them,” Collins said. “But now we have them, let’s get the truth to the American people because you’re right. Every time we peel back the onion, every time I’ve been on your show and many other shows and we’ve talked about it and the left and the mainstream media would make fun of us saying, ‘You’re just on a wild goose chase trying to protect the president.’”
&#8220;Everything we’ve talked about turned out to be true. So it’s time for them now, it is time for the Senate who has that subpoena power to get them under oath, to get them in here,” Collins continued, referring to officials that Johnson now has the authority to subpoena. “It’s time to hold them accountable and Attorney General [William] Barr needs to do that.”
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&quot;I&#39;ve never wanted to see a Durham report, I want to see Durham indictments. And I believe there&#39;s more coming.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/RepDougCollins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepDougCollins</a> this morning on with <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MariaBartiromo</a> 
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Former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona now claims Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is more conservative than President Donald Trump, a Republican, when it comes to “preserving institutions.”
Speaking with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Flake explained why he is supporting Biden over Trump in November’s general elections.
&#8220;Conservatives believe in preserving institutions, to preserve what we know works and the institutions of American democracy — our freedom of the press, for example, or separation of powers, an independent judiciary,&#8221; Flake said. &#8220;The president has shown that he little understands or little appreciates these institutions.&#8221;
Flake went on to explain that Biden is the first Democrat the former Arizona senator will be voting for in a presidential election.
&#8220;I’m not pretending Joe Biden is as conservative as I am on fiscal issues and whatnot, but on those important issues of American democracy, frankly he’s more conservative than the president is,&#8221; Flake added.
It is odd for Flake to suggest Biden would preserve America’s institutions, considering what Biden accepted during the Obama administration when he was vice president.
The Obama administration spied on journalists and tried its best to ignore Fox News. In fact, as The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board <a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/sd-obama-trump-media-leakers-20180910-story.html">wrote</a> in September 2018, Obama’s White House communications director Anita Dunn admitted to The New York Times that the administration would “treat [Fox] the way we would treat an opponent.” In 2013, former executive editor of The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. <a href="https://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php">wrote</a> that the Obama “administration’s war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I’ve seen since the Nixon administration.”
In 2015, James Risen, who at the time was a reporter for the Times, <a href="https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/02/risen-obama-administration-is-greatest-enemy-of-press-freedom-202707">said</a> the Obama administration was “the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation.”
“Some specifics? Obama’s administration prosecuted three times as many cases targeting whistle-blowers and leakers than all previous administrations combined. It said there was probable cause that a Fox News reporter was a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/justice-departments-scrutiny-of-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-in-leak-case-draws-fire/2013/05/20/c6289eba-c162-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_story.html?utm_term=.b26404e13c27">‘co-conspirator’</a> in a plot against the U.S. government because of his attempts to gather information about North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. It secretly scoured the phone records of nearly 100 Associated Press reporters and editors for two months, which an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/opinion/spying-on-the-associated-press.html">editorial</a> in The New York Times characterized as ‘a fishing expedition for sources and an effort to frighten off whistle-blowers.’ And in 2014, according to AP, the Obama administration <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-administration-sets-new-record-withholding-foia-requests">broke its own record </a>for censoring government files or refusing to provide files sought under the Freedom of Information Act,” the Union-Tribune editorial board wrote.
Trump has merely criticized the press verbally, including calling them the “enemy of the people.”
Flake did not offer any examples for how Trump has undermined the separation of powers or an independent judiciary. The Obama administration stacked the courts with liberal justices, while the Trump administration is doing so with conservative justices. The Obama administration, however, undermined Americans’ core right to due process by demanding colleges and universities find more students responsible for sexual assault, leading schools to adopt policies that eviscerated due process. The Obama administration cheered these schools on and insisted anyone who disagreed was a rape apologist. Biden himself was the biggest cheerleader for these policies and stated he would overturn Trump administration requirements that schools provide basic due process.
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Carl and Marsha Mueller, whose daughter was killed by ISIS during the Obama administration, delivered a powerful message at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night comparing the response the family received from the two administrations.
&#8220;Our daughter Kayla was taken as a hostage and murdered by ISIS. From a young age, Kayla was amazing,&#8221; Marsha Mueller said. &#8220;She taught herself languages, how to write music, how to play guitar. She worked with troubled youth, military veterans, and Native Americans. Everywhere Kayla went, people smiled. Kayla had a gift to be able to see the world through someone else’s eyes. She became a humanitarian aid worker, and when she was helping children at an orphanage in India, Kayla wrote, ‘I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.’&#8221;
&#8220;She went to Turkey to help Syrian refugees in 2012. In August 2013, she was asked by another aid worker to cross the border into Syria to help at a hospital,” Marsha Mueller continued. “On August 4, 2013, ISIS terrorists stopped her vehicle and took her captive.&#8221;
&#8220;Kayla was mostly held in a 12 x 12 cell in solitary confinement. It was cold and dirty. ISIS terrorists shined bright lights in her face,&#8221; Carl Mueller said. &#8220;They shaved her head, they beat her, and tortured her. The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, raped her repeatedly. For 18 months, she endured, and we endured in agonizing back-and-forth between us, the Obama administration, and ISIS.&#8221;
&#8220;We put all our faith in the government, but the government let us down. President Obama refused to meet with us until ISIS had already beheaded other Americans,&#8221; Carl Mueller continued. &#8220;To this day, we never heard from Joe Biden. Instead, the Obama administration hid behind policy so much that we felt hopeless when they kept us from negotiating to save Kayla’s life. The administration showed more concern for the terrorists in Guantanamo than the American hostages in Syria.&#8221;
“The military prepared a rescue mission, but the White House delayed it,” Carl Mueller continued. “By the time it went forward, Kayla had been moved to another location. After 18 months of brutal torture, we learned from ISIS that Kayla had been killed. The Obama administration kept telling us they were doing everything they could, but their version of everything wasn’t enough.”
“What a difference a president makes,” Carl Mueller continued. “Under President Trump, U.S. Army special operators conducted a raid on al-Baghdadi’s compound. After we learned that al-Baghdadi was killed, we learned something else: the operators named themselves Task Force 814, after August 14, Kayla’s birthday. And the mission was named Operation Kayla Mueller. To those soldiers, thank you. Kayla was looking down on you.”
“The Trump team gave us empathy we never received from the Obama administration,” he said. “The Obama administration said it was doing everything it could; the Trump administration is. Let me just say this—Kayla should be here. If Donald Trump had been president when Kayla was captured, she would be here today.”
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&quot;God gave us Kayla, and she gave herself to the world.&quot;
In heartbreaking testimonial, parents of Kayla Mueller, humanitarian worker captured and killed by ISIS, honor their daughter, praise Pres. Trump, and call on Americans to &quot;stay strong like Kayla.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/EyJzJDolZ4">https://t.co/EyJzJDolZ4</a> <a href="https://t.co/WcxGfb4PrR">pic.twitter.com/WcxGfb4PrR</a>
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama admonished the nation during her Monday address to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) about the importance of &#8220;going high&#8221; against their political opponents and stressed the need for &#8220;empathy.&#8221;
Referencing the famous catchphrase she rolled out during the DNC in 2016, Obama said, &#8220;Over the past four years, a lot of people have asked me, &#8216;When others are going so low, does going high still really work?&#8217; My answer: going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that’s drowning out everything else. We degrade ourselves. We degrade the very causes for which we fight.&#8221;
In examples such as those listed below, however, the Obamas and those around them have not always followed Michelle&#8217;s advice.
1. &#8216;You&#8217;re Likable Enough&#8217;: Bitter 2008 Democratic Primary
The 2008 Democratic primary between then-Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was particularly <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/was-the-2008-democratic-primary-battle-as-bitter-as-this-one-election-2016/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">hard-fought</a> and contentious. Obama lobbed attacks at Clinton for supporting the Iraq War and allowing jobs to be shipped oversea, and Clinton, in turn, attacked Obama for having spent so many years in the church pews of the radically left-wing preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright in Chicago.
During one memorable <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kf4uXO-gDk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">exchange</a>, Clinton complimented her opponent, saying, &#8220;He&#8217;s very likable, I agree with that. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m that bad.&#8221; To which Obama replied, &#8220;You&#8217;re likable enough.&#8221; Clinton responded awkwardly, &#8220;Thank you so much.&#8221;
Obama at one time also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opNmTcTwFp0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blurred</a> the distinction between Clinton and her husband after attacking her for something he said. &#8220;You talked about Ronald Reagan being a transformative political leader,&#8221; Hillary said during a debate. &#8220;I did not mention his name.&#8221; Obama replied, &#8220;Your husband did.&#8221; After Hillary said that her husband didn&#8217;t speak for her, Obama said, &#8220;Okay, well, I can&#8217;t tell who I&#8217;m running against sometimes.&#8221;
The two apparently <a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/06/09/480645291/bitter-rivals-to-allies-how-president-obama-evolved-on-hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">made amends</a> in their relationship, with Clinton going on to become Obama&#8217;s secretary of state. The two also shared a seemingly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUlsTem7w0g" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">warm embrace</a> during the 2016 DNC, when Obama threw his endorsement behind her.
2. Obama Condescends To Small-Town Voters As Bitter Clingers To Guns And Religion
During the 2008 campaign, Obama <a href="https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/04/obama-on-small-town-pa-clinging-to-religion-guns-xenophobia-007737" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">characterized</a> rural voters as embittered people whose economic disenfranchisement has led them to cling to religion and guns for comfort:
<blockquote>You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing&#8217;s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it&#8217;s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren&#8217;t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.</blockquote>
The comment became a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/14/barackobama.uselections2008" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">key soundbite</a> of the 2008 campaign and maintained its relevance even into 2016, when former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin alluded to it in her <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/us/politics/sarah-palin-endorsement-speech-donald-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">speech</a> endorsing Donald Trump. &#8220;How about the rest of us?&#8221; she said. &#8220;Right-winging, bitter-clinging, proud clingers of our guns, our God, and our religion, and our Constitution.&#8221;
3. DNC Implies Romney And Ryan Want To Kill Old People
During the 2012 campaign, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2187843/Obama-AGAIN-paints-Ryan-granny-killer-medicare-proposals-new-attack-ad-warns-elderly-chose-medicine-meals-Romney-elected.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> that a vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would &#8220;force us back to the days&#8221; when seniors were &#8220;choosing between medicine and meals…choosing between healthcare and paying their rent.&#8221;
&#8220;If you go back to before Medicare was a safety net in place for our seniors, you had seniors who were not able to pay for their own health care needs, whose children went medically bankrupt trying to care for them,&#8221; Wasserman-Schultz added.
Wasserman-Schultz based her claim on Ryan&#8217;s budget reform plan, which would have increased Medicare eligibility to age 67 beginning in 2023 in an attempt to reduce the nation&#8217;s astronomical debt.
Political ads also circulated at the time of a man who looks like Ryan pushing an old lady in a wheelchair off a cliff.
4. Biden Says Romney Will Put Black People &#8216;Back In Chains&#8217;
Also during the 2012 campaign, Biden warned a largely black audience that a Romney administration would &#8220;unchain Wall Street&#8221; and &#8220;put ya&#8217;ll back in chains.&#8221;
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Joe Biden is a serial race-baiter who spent decades fanning the flames of hatred and trafficking in fear and division.
8 years ago today, he told Black Americans that Republicans wanted to “put y’all back in chains!” <a href="https://t.co/9HZ5cgOucM">pic.twitter.com/9HZ5cgOucM</a>
&mdash; Trump War Room &#8211; Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1294365338155581440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Biden, who has a penchant for making racially insensitive remarks, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-tense-you-aint-black-interview-goes-viral-sparks-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sparked backlash</a> in May when he told popular black commentator and radio host Charlamagne tha God that &#8220;if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.&#8221;
5. &#8216;The 80s Called&#8217;: Obama Accuses Romney Of Implementing Cold War-Era Foreign Policy
Obama hit at Romney during a 2012 debate for placing so much emphasis on the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/opinions/obama-romney-russia-opinion-drucker/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">geopolitical threat</a> from Russia. Romney, who at one point had said Russia is &#8220;without question, our No. 1 geopolitical foe,&#8221; presaged the Democratic Party&#8217;s obsession with the country.
&#8220;Governor Romney, I&#8217;m glad you recognize al-Qaida is a threat, because a few months ago when you were asked what is the biggest geopolitical group facing America, you said Russia, not al-Qaida,&#8221; said Obama. &#8220;You said Russia. And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. Because the Cold War has been over for 20 years. But Governor, when it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policy of the 1950s, and the economic policies of the 1920s.&#8221;
Lanhee Chen, Romney&#8217;s top policy adviser from the 2012 campaign, told CNN:
<blockquote>Gov. Romney was very careful with his words. He chose the term &#8220;geopolitical foe&#8221; deliberately, because he wanted to differentiate the challenge posed by Russia from other significant national security threats, like radical Islamic terror or North Korea&#8217;s nuclear weapons program. The phrase &#8220;geopolitical foe&#8221; was meant to evoke a game of Chess, where an opponent is trying to counteract or block every move you make. That&#8217;s what he was trying to convey by characterizing our relationship with Russia in that way.</blockquote>
After Trump&#8217;s electoral victory, the Democratic Party would pinpoint Russia as the primary source of much of the nation&#8217;s turmoil and use its alleged interference in the election as a pretext for impeaching him.
6. Eric Holder: &#8216;When They Go Low, We Kick Them&#8217;
Perhaps most strikingly, Obama&#8217;s attorney general Eric Holder flatly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-eric-holder-when-republicans-go-low-we-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">contradicted</a> Michelle&#8217;s dictum when he offered the inverse as his political philosophy. Speaking to a group in the lead-up to the 2018 mid-term election, Holder said, &#8220;Michelle always says, Michelle Obama, I love her. She and my wife are really tight. Which always scares me and Barack. Michelle always says, &#8216;When they go low, we go high.&#8217; No. No. When they go low, we kick them.&#8221;
&#8220;That is what this new Democratic Party is about,&#8221; Holder told the cheering audience. He later added, &#8220;When I say we kick them, I don&#8217;t mean we do anything inappropriate, we don&#8217;t do anything illegal, but we have to be tough and we have to fight.&#8221;
Holder&#8217;s rhetoric echoed the sentiment of Obama&#8217;s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who around the same time <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/politics/hillary-clinton-civility-congress-cnntv/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>, &#8220;You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. That&#8217;s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that&#8217;s when civility can start again. But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength.&#8221;
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Maxine Waters: “Tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!” Cory Booker: “Get up in the face of some congresspeople!” Hillary Clinton: “You cannot be civil with” Republicans. Eric Holder: “Kick &#39;em!”
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7. Michelle Obama Blames Her &#8216;Low-Grade Depression&#8217; On Trump
Earlier this month, Michelle Obama <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michelle-obama-blames-her-low-grade-depression-partly-on-hypocrisy-of-trump-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">revealed</a> that she has been suffering from &#8220;low-grade depression&#8221; in recent months and blamed her affliction partly on the Trump administration for its response to the nation&#8217;s racial tensions.
&#8220;There have been periods throughout this quarantine where I just have felt too low,&#8221; Obama said during an interview with Washington Post columnist Michele Norris. &#8220;You know, I’ve gone through those emotional highs and lows that I think everybody feels, where you just don’t feel yourself.&#8221;
Describing her sleep disturbances, Obama continued, &#8220;I know that I am dealing with some form of low-grade depression. Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting.&#8221;
&#8220;I have to say that waking up to the news, waking up to how this administration has or has not responded, waking up to yet another story of a black man or a black person somehow being dehumanized or hurt or killed, or falsely accused of something, it is exhausting,” she said. “It has led to a weight that I haven’t felt in my life — in, in a while.&#8221;
8. Obama Politicizes Funeral Of Rep. John Lewis
Last month, Barack Obama <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-obama-takes-trump-shots-during-hyper-political-eulogy-for-john-lewis" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">used</a> the funeral of late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) as a platform to accuse Trump of suppressing the minority vote. He also alleged during his eulogy of the Civil Rights icon that the Senate filibuster is racist and likened federal law enforcement quelling riots to the police who enforced segregation.
&#8220;George Wallace may be gone,&#8221; Obama said after invoking the image of George Floyd&#8217;s death in Minneapolis police custody. &#8220;But we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators.&#8221;
&#8220;We may no longer have to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar in order to cast a ballot,&#8221; Obama continued. &#8220;But even as we sit here, there are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations, and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws, and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision – even undermining the postal service in the run-up to an election that’s going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick.&#8221;
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Urging his audience to &#8220;keep marching,&#8221; Obama also took aim at the filibuster, which he claimed is &#8220;another Jim Crow relic&#8221; that impinges on American rights.
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&quot;If all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the god given rights of every American, then that&#39;s what we should do.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@barackobama</a> calls for automatic voter registration, statehood for D.C., Puerto Rico. <a href="https://t.co/0rTsRrwYWS">pic.twitter.com/0rTsRrwYWS</a>
&mdash; The ReidOut (@thereidout) <a href="https://twitter.com/thereidout/status/1288905632033251330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In a July 30 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQu4ZHXItr0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">monologue</a>, Fox News host Tucker Carlson offered Obama&#8217;s politicized eulogy as an example of how the Left worships power:
<blockquote>Imagine if some greasy politician showed up at your loved one&#8217;s funeral and started throwing around stupid partisan talking points about Senate procedure. Can you imagine that? You would be shocked if that happened. You&#8217;d probably walk out. Desecrating a funeral with campaign slogans? What kind of person would do that?
But Democrats in the audience didn&#8217;t seem offended. They didn&#8217;t blink. They cheered. It all seemed normal to them. And why wouldn&#8217;t it? Political power is their religion. It&#8217;s not out of place in a church. It&#8217;s what they worship. People who will politicize a funeral will do anything, and they&#8217;re trying to. Democrats are working systematically to dismantle the core institutions of American life, beginning with the family and with faith.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-obama-takes-trump-shots-during-hyper-political-eulogy-for-john-lewis" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Obama Takes Trump Shots During Hyper-Political Eulogy For John Lewis</a>
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8 Times The Obama Administration Didn’t Exactly ‘Go High’ Against Their Political Opposition

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama admonished the nation during her Monday address to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) about the importance of

8 Times The Obama Administration Didn&#039;t Exactly ‘Go High’ Against Their Political Opposition

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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said via Twitter that Americans living the &#8220;Suburban Lifestyle Dream&#8221; will no longer be &#8220;bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing&#8221; built in their neighborhoods, referencing the recent repeal of the Obama era &#8220;Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing,&#8221; or AFFH.
The rule was enacted in 2015 and was gutted by the Trump administration soon after he took office. On Thursday, the president officially repealed what was left of the AFFH.
&#8220;I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood,&#8221; POTUS posted to Twitter on Wednesday morning.
&#8220;Your housing prices will go up based on the market, and crime will go down,&#8221; Trump promised in a follow-up post. &#8220;I have rescinded the Obama-Biden AFFH Rule. Enjoy!&#8221;
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&#8230;Your housing prices will go up based on the market, and crime will go down. I have rescinded the Obama-Biden AFFH Rule. Enjoy!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288509572223651840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Obama era rule was written under the Fair Housing Act and &#8220;required local governments to prove that federal subsidies for housing projects would not go to developments with zoning laws or other regulations that are effectively discriminatory to minorities, particularly Black and Hispanic Americans,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/finance/509595-trump-claims-decision-to-repeal-fair-housing-rule-will-boost-home-prices-lower">reported</a>, noting: &#8220;HUD claimed that the original rule effectively stripped local control over regulations and drowned localities with onerous and unnecessary paperwork.&#8221;
In a recent op-ed touted by President Trump, New York Post columnist Betsy McCaughey <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/21/joe-bidens-disastrous-plans-for-americas-suburbs/">described</a> the AFFH in disastrous terms, tying it to presumptive Democratic candidate and former Obama VP Joe Biden.
&#8220;The ex-veep wants to ramp up an Obama-era social engineering scheme called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) that mercifully barely got underway before President Trump took office, vowing to stop it,&#8221; McCaughey outlines. &#8220;Biden’s plan is to force suburban towns with single-family homes and minimum lot sizes to build high-density affordable housing smack in the middle of their leafy neighborhoods — local preferences and local control be damned.&#8221;
The Obama rule was initially &#8220;floated a cookie-cutter requirement for &#8216;balanced housing&#8217; in every suburb,&#8221; says McCaughey. &#8220;&#8216;Balanced&#8217; meant affordable even for people who need federal vouchers. Towns were obligated to &#8216;do more than simply not discriminate,&#8217; as a 2013 HUD proposal explained. Rather, towns had to make it possible for <a href="https://nypost.com/2016/05/08/obamas-last-act-is-to-force-suburbs-to-be-less-white-and-less-wealthy/">low-income minorities</a> to choose suburban living and provide &#8216;adequate support to make their choices possible.'&#8221;
&#8220;Had the rule been implemented nationwide,&#8221; the columnist argues, &#8220;towns everywhere would have had to scrap zoning, build bigger water and sewer lines to support high-density living, expand schools and social services and add mass transit. All pushing up local taxes. Towns that refused would lose their federal aid.&#8221;
McCaughey notes that black Americans, according to Brookings Institution data, &#8220;have been steadily leaving inner cities and choosing suburban lifestyles.&#8221;
&#8220;Many families — of all races — want the peace of mind of letting their kids ride bikes around quiet neighborhood streets. That’s what zoning laws provide,&#8221; she says.
And that&#8217;s what the Obama AFFH would destroy: &#8220;Biden and the equality warriors are using accusations of racism to accomplish something different. Their message is: You worked and saved to move to the suburbs, but you can’t have that way of life unless everyone else can, too.&#8221;
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Trump Repeals Obama-Biden Rule: Suburbanites ‘Will No Longer Be’ ‘Hurt’ By ‘Low Income Housing’ Built In Neighborhoods

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Hillary Clinton famously tried to move past the Obama administration’s mistakes in Benghazi by claiming, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Now another former Obama official wants to pretend nothing happened just because a few years have passed. Former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett suggested Tuesday we all move on from how the previous administration used the FBI to spy on its opponent, then-candidate Donald Trump, in 2016.
Appearing on Fox Business with host Maria Bartiromo, Jarrett tried to absolve the FBI investigators who looked into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election – an investigation that resulted in a two-year special counsel investigation that found no collusion.
&#8220;Well, Maria, look, I have a high degree of confidence that our of intelligence community, our investigators comported themselves responsibly,” Jarrett said. “Look, Lindsey Graham is the one that encouraged Senator McCain to turn over the dossier in the first place to the FBI.”
McCain was involved in jumpstarting the allegations that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia, but Jarrett ignores the major role the Obama FBI played in inappropriately surveilling campaign adviser Carter Page. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ig-report-here-are-the-17-specific-inaccuracies-and-omissions-in-the-fbis-fisa-warrants-against-carter-page">reported</a>, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found 17 “inaccuracies and omissions” in FISA warrant applications to spy on Page. The FBI blatantly ignored information from a U.S. government agency that said it had a prior relationship with Page involving contacts with Russian intelligence officers. An FBI agent went so far as to alter an email to make it look like this agency said Page did not work with them.
The FBI hid this information from the FISA court in order to obtain another warrant to continue investigating Page, even though it knew there was nothing to investigate. By spying on Page, the FBI gained access to other Trump associates to spy on in order to find some evidence that could be used against Trump.
Jarrett then pushed the blame for the dubious investigation onto former FBI Director James Comey, who was a major player in the whole situation, but she again pushes the blame from the Obama administration.
“So, I can’t tell you all of the reasons why Comey went forward with his investigation. Maybe this was one piece of a bigger puzzle. But I do know that it’s nearly four years ago and I don’t understand why our focus isn’t on what’s happening right now and today. That’s the investigation I would like to see going on,&#8221; Jarrett said.
Jarrett is essentially demanding we move on from the biggest scandal in political history since Watergate because it happened four years ago. She neglects that two years were spent investigating Trump, while DOJ-appointed investigators are continuing to work on how that dubious investigation began. Newly declassified documents continue to paint a picture of an FBI that knew there was no evidence of collusion, but continued to investigate and leak information to the press to create a narrative that Trump stole the election. The real scandal is the investigation itself, which started at the behest of the Obama administration.
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Former Obama Adviser Valerie Jarrett Wants To Move On From Origins Of Trump-Russia Investigation: ‘It Was Four Years Ago’

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Hillary Clinton famously tried to move past the Obama administration’s mistakes in Benghazi by claiming, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

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Oracle America is fighting back against a troubling “<a href="https://www.insidesources.com/bogus-lawsuits-continue-to-haunt-american-businesses/">midnight lawsuit</a>” filed by the Obama administration in the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency. The California-based computing infrastructure company now needs the Trump administration to stand up against the bogus suit in order to prevent an unjustified $400 million punishment.
An agency within the Department of Labor (DOL) called the <a href="https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/aboutof.html">Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs </a>(OFCCP), levied the lawsuit against Oracle and other government contractors claiming the companies were guilty of hiring and pay discrimination. In reality, the claims were based on crude analysis of personnel data provided by the businesses. There were never any actual complaints against the companies, and no proof of wrongdoing has ever emerged.
“These actions to unfairly attack businesses under the guise of promoting diversity were a key tool for the DOL under the liberal Obama Administration,” according to Stacy Washington, an Emmy Nominated TV personality, Air Force Veteran and co-chair of Project 21, the national leadership network of black conservatives.
“OFCCP’s unfair system to determine the intent of companies hiring and promotions activities assumes guilt before any real proof is shown, which is antithetical to the American justice system,” Washington <a href="https://www.stacyontheright.com/2020/02/obama-era-labor-department-lawsuits-brought-without-evidence-must-be-stopped/">wrote in a column</a> lambasting the lawsuits. “Statistical analysis simply cannot accurately encompass the myriad factors involved in hiring decisions.”
These last-minute Obama Administration lawsuits against government contractors should have been withdrawn by the current administration the moment President Trump was sworn in. The Trump administration, however, has yet to get involved, leaving the companies to waste millions of dollars and man-hours battle the bogus lawsuits.
OFCCP levied a discrimination lawsuit against Google, even though <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-pay-gap.html">investigations</a> meant to determine whether the search engine giant was underpaying women and members of minority groups actually found that Google paid men less than women for doing the same job. Google fought the OFCCP’s claim and won a costly and protracted court battle.
Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies decided it would be cheaper to pay <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/palantir-pays-1-7-million-to-settle-discrimination-suit-1493169802">a $1.7 million settlement</a> than to fight the suit in court.
Oracle decided to stand up to the OFCCP. After the bureaucracy demanded Oracle pay out $400 million to workers in back pay for various unsubstantiated discrimination claims, the tech company <a href="https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/oracle-files-lawsuit-112719.html">sued OFCCP</a>.
Under the current system, OFCCP claims against government contractors are not prosecuted in federal courts with a federal jury. Instead, according to Oracle’s complaint, “the Department of Labor itself serves as investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and appellate court, usurping the role of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Justice and the Courts.”
“Oracle filed this case because it is being subjected to an unlawful enforcement action by the Labor Department utilizing a process with no statutory foundation whatsoever,” said Ken Glueck, Oracle’s executive vice president.
OFCCP’s system for adjudicating discrimination claims against government contractors, it turns out, was not authorized by Congress or the President, and directly contravenes federal rules forbidding agencies from investigating, prosecuting, and adjudicating allegations entirely in-house. Additionally, there is no statutory authority for litigation alleging discrimination by federal government contractors using statistical analysis, and without actual evidence of discrimination.
The fact that OFCCP is engaging in improper and unauthorized discrimination lawsuits based on flimsy data, and without a victim, hasn’t stopped progressive extremist group Democracy Forward from concocting a campaign in support of the OFCCP’s schemes.
In March, Democracy Forward announced its plan to intervene in Oracle’s lawsuit against OFCCP in an attempt to expand the bureaucracy’s unconstitutional authority to be the judge, jury, and executioner when it comes to discrimination claims against government contractors.
It is unlikely the outfit would’ve become involved in the case – and pushed for an unelected and unchecked bureaucracy to gain additional, unusual and improper power – if a Democrat were president.
That’s because Democracy Forward was founded in 2017 by Democratic activists for the express purpose of attacking the Trump administration and exploit the legal system to advance progressive policies. In fact, despite being a little over three years old, the group has already sued the U.S. Department of <a href="https://democracyforward.org/work/democracy-forward-foundation-v-u-s-doj/">Justice</a>, the Department of the <a href="https://twitter.com/DemocracyFwd">Treasury</a>, and the Office of <a href="https://twitter.com/DemocracyFwd">Management</a> and Budget. Democracy Forward has also <a href="https://democracyforward.org/work/democracy-forward-dot/">filed</a> complaints about injunctive relief against the Department of Transportation and Department of <a href="https://democracyforward.org/work/democracy-forward-foundation-v-u-s-dod/">Defense</a>
<a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/person/anne-harkavy/">Anne Harkavy</a>, Democracy Forward’s executive director, was a legal counsel to the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John Kerry, and is married to an Obama administration Deputy Attorney General.
Hillary Clinton&#8217;s former campaign attorney and a &#8220;<a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/when-dems-are-in-trouble-they-call-marc-elias/">go-to fixer</a>&#8221; for Democrats, Marc Elias, is <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/clinton-lawyer-podesta-involved-with-anti-trump-litigation-group/">involved in the group</a>. So is John Podesta, Clinton&#8217;s former campaign manager. Democracy Forward’s former <a href="https://giffords.org/press-release/2018/10/glc-democracy-forward-lawsuit/">policy and strategy director</a>, Corey Ciorciari, was a policy advisor for Clinton during her 2016 campaign. <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/person/maya-harris/">Maya Karris</a>, the sister of U.S. Senator and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, is a member of the organization’s advisory board.
Democracy Forward appears to be intentionally vague about its funding. The group’s website does not name donors and <a href="https://democracyforward.org/about/">offers no information</a> about sources of financial support. But money apparently isn’t a problem for the secretive group.
According to 2018 IRS documents, the organization’s non-profit foundation arm funneled <a href="https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2018/821/007/2018-821007988-10d4a359-9.pdf">$1.4 million</a> to the Center for American Progress, the socialist-leaning think tank founded by John Podesta with $65 million in assets.
Clearly, the unaccountable bureaucrats at the Labor Department and the wealthy backroom schemers at Democracy Forward want to expand the OFCCP’s authority so that no federal contractors are able to get a fair shake when they’re improperly accused of discrimination.
The final hope to stop this troubling power grab appears to be <a href="https://www.dol.gov/sol/people/solicitorbio.htm">Kate O’Scannlain</a>, the Trump Administration’s Solicitor of Labor. O’Scannlain’s office has the authority to halt these Obama era lawsuits – and it must.
It is vital for the government to hold companies accountable when they are engaging in unequal pay, unfair hiring practices, and other discriminatory practices. But it’s just as important for government leaders to take a stand when a federal agency is allowed to wildly overstep its boundaries, lob false allegations, trample the Constitution, and thumb its nose at the rule of law.
We will soon find out if the Trump administration has what it takes to stand up for what’s right and rein in the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
Drew Johnson is a government watchdog who serves as a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research.
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JOHNSON: Progressive Extremists Keep Pushing Shady Obama Era Lawsuits

Oracle America is fighting back against a troubling “midnight lawsuit” filed by the Obama administration in the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency.

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Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was at the red-hot center of the Robert Mueller probe into the phantom menace of Donald Trump&#8217;s collusion with the Russians. He testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 3.
You may not know that happened. ABC, CBS and NBC ignored it that night. PBS gave the story 55 seconds. NPR gave it 4 minutes, but those minutes sounded bizarre.
Anchor Mary Louise Kelly said: &#8220;May I start with an observation? Does this seem a little out of left field? With everything going on in the country right now, senators are focused today on the Russia investigation?&#8221;
Reporter Philip Ewing replied, &#8220;The short answer for that is, politics.&#8221;
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts devoted 2,202 minutes of coverage to the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory from Jan. 21, 2017, to Feb. 10, 2019. When the Senate Intelligence Committee announced on Feb. 12, 2019, that there was no collusion? There was zero coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC.
The short answer for that? Politics.
These networks, alongside the &#8220;prestige&#8221; print press, CNN and MSNBC, obsessed about Russian-collusion claims 24/7 for more than two years. It was never &#8220;out of left field.&#8221; It was the fiercely beating heart of the &#8220;news&#8221; product. The media repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of President Trump&#8217;s election and even welcomed bald-faced lies about Trump being a Russian agent. &#8220;Bombshell&#8221; after &#8220;bombshell&#8221; led to claims that collusion was going to end Trump&#8217;s presidency early. Now the papers bury the story on the inside pages.
Under questioning from senators, Rosenstein claimed he was not well-informed at all about everything the FBI — under his direct supervision — was doing to railroad Team Trump. Sen. Ted Cruz asked him if he knew that the primary source behind the Steele dossier disavowed it as rumors and hearsay. He said no. Did he know the Steele dossier was funded through the Democratic National Committee? No. But that partisan pile of hearsay was used repeatedly to authorize spying on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Cruz claimed what the Obama-Biden team did to undermine the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team and the Trump administration made Watergate pale by comparison. This would explain why the partisan networks skipped over this. They have labored to ensure that Trump — just like George W. Bush before him — was designated as the &#8220;worse than Watergate&#8221; president.
When Sen. Lindsey Graham asked if Rosenstein would agree in retrospect that, by August 2017, there was ultimately &#8220;no there there&#8221; to support the &#8220;concept that the campaign was colluding with the Russians,&#8221; Rosenstein responded, &#8220;I agree with that general statement.&#8221; But no one in that department, and no one in the press, backed down and stopped pushing a false collusion narrative.
The crowning audacity after the Rosenstein hearing came from MSNBC star Rachel Maddow, the Collusion Queen and Duchess of the Dossier. Without uttering the words &#8220;dossier&#8221; or &#8220;Rosenstein,&#8221; she complained that 53 new subpoenas would be issued to investigate the origins of this get-Trump conspiracy. With a megaton of chutzpah, she lamented this is designed to &#8220;create an air of criminality around Vice President Biden and the whole Obama administration in time for the election in November.&#8221;
A politicized &#8220;air of criminality&#8221; still wafts over the Trump administration, thanks to the &#8220;objective&#8221; media. But they offer no apologies, no retractions, no admissions of fault on the overall Russia mess. Their drumbeat of collusion &#8220;news&#8221; turned out to be &#8230; &#8220;fake news.&#8221;
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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GRAHAM: When Russiagate Conveniently Vanishes

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Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was at the red-hot center of the Robert Mueller probe into the phantom menace of Donald Trump&#039;s collusion

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) released a new ad on Tuesday afternoon that highlighted scandals from the Obama-Biden administration after former Vice President Joe Biden, currently the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party, has claimed on numerous occasions that the administration had no scandals.
The video highlights the following scandals from the Obama administration:
<ul>
<li>The administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-benghazi-report-slams-administration-response-to-attacks">response</a> to the Benghazi attacks.</li>
<li>Former President Barack Obama being <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it/">awarded</a> the &#8220;lie of the year&#8221; for falsely claiming that &#8220;if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.&#8221;</li>
<li>The Obama administration&#8217;s IRS <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-aggressive-scrutiny-of-conservative-groups">investigating</a> conservative groups.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-made-1-7-billion-transfer-to-iran-in-foreign-cash-treasury-says">Sent</a> pallets of cash to Iran, which is the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terrorism.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fast-and-furious-hearing-rips-holder-doj-for-deception-in-gun-running-scandal">Armed</a> Mexican drug cartels with weapons that were used to kill U.S. federal agents.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/shinseki-resigns-amid-va-crisis-1401463093?mod=article_inline">Attempted</a> to hide long wait times across the VA health system.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/remember-solyndra-loss-of-taxpayer-millions-seems-forgotten-expert-says">Funded</a> Solyndra by giving the struggling company, which eventually collapsed, hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funded money.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/06/05/us-army-commander-approves-bergdahl-sentence-no-prison-time/">Traded</a> <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/10/30/5-freed-from-gitmo-in-exchange-for-bergdahl-join-insurgents-in-qatar-taliban-says/">five terrorists</a> for a U.S. soldier who &#8220;abandon[ed] his post in Afghanistan.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
&#8220;The Biden campaign, along with their friends in the media, repeatedly try to whitewash the scandal ridden Obama/Biden administration, but the American people know the truth,&#8221; RNC Rapid Response Director Steve Guest. &#8220;From the IRS investigating conservative groups, to sending pallets of cash to the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism, arming drug dealers, and lying about the Benghazi terrorist attack, Obama-Biden continuously put their political interests ahead of the American people and Joe Biden would do so again if given the chance.&#8221;
WATCH:
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The examples highlighted by the RNC are by no means exhaustive as there are numerous other scandals that occurred during the Obama-Biden administration.
Another major scandal was the revelation that the Obama-Biden administration had “prosecuted more whistle-blowers for leaks and gone after more journalists than any of its predecessors,” according to The New York Times. By going after journalists, The Times is referring to the Obama-Biden administration <a href="https://apnews.com/ffc60235c26c470c9047e0da6ff19f95/AP-FACT-CHECK:-Obama-doesn%2527t-always-tell-the-straight-story">spying</a> on reporters and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/06/08/seizing-journalists-records-an-outrage-that-obama-normalized-for-trump/">seizing</a> their records.
There was also a bombshell Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/">report</a>, which most of the mainstream media largely ignored, that revealed that Obama killed a massive federal investigation into the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah, which allowed the group to expand and continue to engage in trafficking narcotics into the U.S.
Currently, another scandal is being unraveled from the Obama-Biden administration that involved allegedly using law enforcement and intelligence agencies that Attorney General William Barr <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ol0bKk7kZo">said</a> last year amounted to “spying” on the Trump campaign. In an <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-on-michael-flynn-obamacare-and-coronavirus-restrictions-transcript/">interview</a> with CBS News earlier this month, Barr said that he believes that the activities that the FBI was engaging in “was not a legitimate counterintelligence investigation.” The criminal investigation, dubbed “the Durham investigation” for U.S. Attorney John Durham, is on going but is reportedly looking at a “pattern of conduct” that includes “a number of related acts” that targeted the Trump campaign. Barr has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-barr-what-obama-admin-did-to-trump-with-russian-collusion-actions-is-unprecedented">said</a> that actions that were taken by Obama-era officials against the Trump campaign were “unprecedented in American history” and represented a “grave injustice.”
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Democratic Presidential Candidates Attend The South Carolina Convention

RNC Releases Ad Highlighting Scandals From Obama-Biden Admin After Biden Claimed They Didn’t Have Any

Republican National Committee (RNC)

The Republican National Committee (RNC) released a new ad on Tuesday afternoon that highlighted scandals from the Obama-Biden administration after former

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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany shredded journalists during Friday&#8217;s press briefing for not questioning former Obama administration officials over the Flynn unmasking scandal, saying that if the Trump administration did what the Obama administration did, journalists would be all over it.
McEnany’s comments come after it was revealed last week that numerous former top officials in the Obama administration unmasked then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn and someone appeared to have illegally leaked his name to the media.
“I laid out a series of questions that any good journalist would want to answer about why people were unmasked and all sorts of questions, and I just wanted to follow up with you guys on that,” McEnany said. “Did anyone take it upon themselves to pose any questions about Michael Flynn and unmasking to President Obama’s spokesperson?”
“Oh, not a single journalist has posed that question?” McEnany continued, as ABC reporter Jonathan Karl tried to interrupt. “Okay, so I would like lay out a series of questions and perhaps if I write them out in a slide format, maybe we&#8217;re visual learners, and you guys will follow up with journalistic curiosity.”
“So, number one, why did the Obama administration use opposition research funded by a political organization and filled with foreign dirt to surveil members of the Trump campaign?” McEnany said. “Number two, why was Lieutenant General Michael Flynn unmasked, not by the Intel community entirely, but by Obama&#8217;s chief of staff? By the former Vice President Joe Biden? By Susan Rice? By the Treasury Secretary? I mean, this is extraordinary and, you know, if it were political appointees in the Trump administration, I can guarantee you, I&#8217;d have questions in my inbox right now, but apparently Obama&#8217;s spokesperson does not.”
“Why was Flynn&#8217;s identity leaked in a criminal act?” McEnany continued. “It is a criminal act to leak the identity of Michael Flynn to the press, but it happened. Where are the questions to Obama’s spokesperson? Because my team would be running around this building should this have happened under the Trump administration.”
“Why did the DOJ’s Sally Yates learn about the unmasking from President Obama?” McEnany continued. “So much for going ‘by the book’ as Susan Rice said three times, thou doth protest too much, Susan Rice.”
“And then finally, question number five, why did James Clapper, John Brennan, Samantha Power, and Susan Rice privately admit under oath they had no evidence of collusion while saying the opposite publicly?” McEnany concluded. “It&#8217;s a long weekend, you guys have three days to follow up on those questions, and I certainly hope the next time I ask some hands go up because Obama’s spokesperson should be asked those questions because President Trump’s spokespeople certainly would be.”
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President Trump Holds Press Briefing

Kayleigh McEnany Uses Slide Show To School Reporters On Obama Admin’s Flynn ‘Unmasking’ Scandal

Kayleigh McEnany

Michael Flynn

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany shredded journalists during Friday&#039;s press briefing for not questioning former Obama administration officials

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A video clip from March 22, 2017, recirculated on social media early this week shows Obama national security adviser Susan Rice denying in an interview that she knew anything about the Obama administration&#8217;s unmasking of any Trump associates, which would include then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn.
&#8220;So, we invited you on to talk about several things but in the last few hours we&#8217;ve been following the disclosure by the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, that in essence during the final days of the Obama administration, during the transition after President Trump had been elected that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals and that their identities may have been disclosed,&#8221; PBS News Hour host Judy Woodruff said. &#8220;Do you know anything about this?&#8221;
Rice responded, &#8220;I know nothing about this.&#8221;
Rice&#8217;s 2017 claim has come under renewed scrutiny in light of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-government-declassifies-susan-rice-email-on-obamas-oval-office-meeting-discussing-flynn">newly declassified documents</a> that were made public on Tuesday that show, by her account, that she was present for an Oval Office meeting with former President Barack Obama and other top Obama administration officials where they discussed Flynn&#8217;s phone calls with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Rice has come under fire <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/susan-rice-is-a-liar-now-even-the-liberal-media-is-starting-to-admit-it">repeatedly</a> for her long &#8220;<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/5/susan-rice-lies-will-haunt-liberals/">record of deceit</a>.&#8221;
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<blockquote>HOST JUDY WOODRUFF: Susan Rice, welcome to the program.
FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER SUSAN RICE: Good to be with you, Judy.
WOODRUFF: So, we invited you on to talk about several things but in the last few hours we&#8217;ve been following the disclosure by the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, that in essence during the final days of the Obama administration, during the transition after President Trump had been elected that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals and that their identities may have been disclosed. Do you know anything about this?
RICE: I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today.
And let&#8217;s back up and recall where we have been. The president of the United States accused his predecessor, President Obama, of wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign. Nothing of the sort occurred, and we have heard that confirmed by the director of the FBI, who also pointed out that no president, no White House can order the surveillance of another American citizen.
That can only come from the Justice Department, with the approval of a FISA court. So, today, I really don&#8217;t know to what Chairman Nunes was referring, but he said that whatever he was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance, and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Right.
SUSAN RICE: And I think it&#8217;s important for people to understand what incidental means. That means that the target was either a foreign entity or somebody under criminal investigation, and that the Americans who were talking to those targets may have been picked up.</blockquote>
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Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice Interview

WATCH: Resurfaced Susan Rice Comments From 2017 Show She Denied Knowing Anything About ‘Unmasking’

Susan Rice

A video clip from March 22, 2017, recirculated on social media early this week shows Obama national security adviser Susan Rice denying in an interview

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Two Senate committees are expanding their investigations into the Obama-era scandal that involved surveilling members of the Trump campaign, which Attorney General William Barr has said amounts to &#8220;spying,&#8221; saying that they have reason to believe that they are becoming increasingly concerned that the surveillance started before the FBI&#8217;s &#8220;Crossfire Hurricane&#8221; investigation.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson and Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley wrote a letter to Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell asking for the declassification of &#8220;additional information related to the unmasking of Americans around the time of the 2016 election, but also to expand the scope of our request to include information as early as January 2016.&#8221;
&#8220;Based on our investigation and recent press reports, we are increasingly concerned that the surveillance of U.S. persons affiliated with the Trump campaign began earlier than the opening of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation in late July 2016,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;It has become evident that the FBI, and possibly members of the U.S. Intelligence Community, were focused on U.S. persons affiliated with the Trump campaign in early 2016, if not even earlier.&#8221;
&#8220;Again, the best way to resolve these issues is to determine the truth, and to make clear to the American people what did and did not occur,&#8221; the letter concluded. &#8220;For these reasons, we respectfully request that you make available to us, as soon as possible, all information regarding the “unmasking” of U.S. persons affiliated with the Trump campaign requested by members of President Obama’s administration from January 2016 through January 2017.&#8221;
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Grassley and Johnson are dramatically expanding their request for Obama era unmasking records. 
They want records on all Trump associates from Jan. 2016-Jan. 2017, saying they are &quot;increasingly concerned&quot; that surveillance began before Crossfire Hurricane<a href="https://t.co/KO2r72RmyC">https://t.co/KO2r72RmyC</a> <a href="https://t.co/RNtnuOk9Ss">pic.twitter.com/RNtnuOk9Ss</a>
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The demand for more information comes after last week&#8217;s bombshell revelation that numerous Obama officials, including then-Vice President Joe Biden, unmasked then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grenell-releases-list-of-officials-who-sought-to-unmask-flynn-biden-comey-obama-intel-chiefs-among-them">reported</a>:
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The list was declassified in recent days by Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell and then sent to GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, who made the documents public. The roster features top-ranking figures including then-Vice President Joe Biden &#8212; a detail already being raised by the Trump campaign in the bare-knuckle 2020 presidential race where Biden is now the Democrats&#8217; presumptive nominee.
The list also includes then-FBI Director James Comey, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Obama&#8217;s then-chief of staff Denis McDonough.</blockquote>
Obama officials, including disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, thought that there was something wrong with Flynn&#8217;s phone calls with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Attorney General William Barr debunked that notion earlier this month, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-on-michael-flynn-obamacare-and-coronavirus-restrictions-transcript/">saying</a> that Flynn made “a perfectly legitimate and appropriate call he made as a member of the transition.”
“Let me say that, at that point, he was the designated national security adviser for President-Elect Trump, and was part of the transition, which is recognized by the government and funded by the government as an important function to bring in a new administration,” Barr continued. “And it is very typical, very common for the national security team of the incoming president to communicate with foreign leaders.”
“And that call, there was nothing wrong with it whatever. In fact, it was laudable. He– and it was nothing inconsistent with the Obama administration’s policies,” Barr concluded on the matter. “And it was in U.S. interests. He was saying to the Russians, you know, ‘Don’t escalate.’ And they asked him if he remembered saying that, and he said he didn’t remember that.”
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PERU-APEC-SUMMIT

Senators ‘Dramatically Expanding’ Probe Into Obama-Era Scandal, Think Surveillance May Have Started ‘Even Earlier’ Than 2016

Charles Grassley

Richard Grenell

Two Senate committees are expanding their investigations into the Obama-era scandal that involved surveilling members of the Trump campaign, which

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On Tuesday, the U.S. government declassified a suspicious email from Obama national security adviser Susan Rice dated on the day of President Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration that memorialized a January 5 meeting that Rice and other top Obama officials had in the Oval Office about incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn.
The email revealed that disgraced former FBI Director James Comey allegedly suggested to then-President Barack Obama that he should &#8220;potentially&#8221; not give &#8220;sensitive information related to Russia&#8221; to Flynn because of his communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Comey said that he had no indication that Flynn had passed any classified information to Kislyak but claimed that &#8220;the level of communication is unusual.&#8221;
Attorney General William Barr debunked that notion earlier this month in an interview with CBS News investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-on-michael-flynn-obamacare-and-coronavirus-restrictions-transcript/">saying</a> that Flynn made &#8220;a perfectly legitimate and appropriate call he made as a member of the transition.&#8221;
&#8220;Let me say that, at that point, he was the designated national security adviser for President-Elect Trump, and was part of the transition, which is recognized by the government and funded by the government as an important function to bring in a new administration,&#8221; Barr continued. &#8220;And it is very typical, very common for the national security team of the incoming president to communicate with foreign leaders.&#8221;
&#8220;And that call, there was nothing wrong with it whatever. In fact, it was laudable. He&#8211; and it was nothing inconsistent with the Obama administration&#8217;s policies,&#8221; Barr concluded on the matter. &#8220;And it was in U.S. interests. He was saying to the Russians, you know, &#8216;Don&#8217;t escalate.&#8217; And they asked him if he remembered saying that, and he said he didn&#8217;t remember that.&#8221;
Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell declassified the document and sent it to the Department of Justice. Herridge was the first to report the declassified email.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Flynn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Flynn</a> Triangulate records: Rice “by the book” email memorializes 1/5/2017 WH meeting but time stamp 1/20. Acting AG Yates tells FBI she first learned Flynn calls during same meeting. Comey transcript “..in the course of that conversation, the President mentioned this(redacted.) <a href="https://t.co/jHoCl37irm">pic.twitter.com/jHoCl37irm</a>
&mdash; Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1262794149918642179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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One thing in the email that stuck out to top lawmakers and journalists was Rice&#8217;s insistence that everything was done &#8220;by the book,&#8221; a phrase she mentioned three times in the short email.
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This is the weird Rice email memorializing the infamous Jan 5, 2017 meeting at which Flynn was discussed and insisting all was done &quot;by the book.&quot; We will hopefully find out more of what was discussed/done.
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In Star Trek II (Wrath of Kahn &#8211; the best of the series), when Kirk says “by the book” it’s code to mean he’s lying. 🤔🤔 <a href="https://t.co/fNXzC49sWa">https://t.co/fNXzC49sWa</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1262840515202080768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Susan Rice sent an email on Inauguration Day to let everyone know that everything was completely legit, and Obama definitely did not order the Code Red. Not weird at all!
&mdash; David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1262834439979184128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Obama-era scandal has grown to the point that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is now looking for records from 53 Obama-era officials, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-senate-judiciary-to-vote-on-subpoenaing-53-obama-era-officials-over-crossfire-hurricane-scandal">including</a>, “Trisha Anderson, Brian Auten, James Baker, William Barr, Dana Boente, Jennifer Boone, John Brennan, James Clapper, Kevin Clinesmith, James Comey, Patrick Conlon, Michael Dempsey, Stuart Evans, Tashina Gauhar, Carl Ghattas, Curtis Heide, Kathleen Kavalec, David Laufman, Stephen Laycock, Jacob Lew, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, Mary McCord, Denis McDonough, Arthur McGlynn, Jonathan Moffa, Sally Moyer, Mike Neufield, Sean Newell, Victoria Nuland, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Stephanie L. O’Sullivan, Lisa Page, Joseph Pientka, John Podesta, Samantha Power, E.W. “Bill” Priestap, Sarah Raskin, Steve Ricchetti, Susan Rice, Rod Rosenstein, Gabriel Sanz-Rexach, Nathan Sheets, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Glenn Simpson, Steve Somma, Peter Strzok, Michael Sussman, Adam Szubin, Jonathan Winer, Christopher Wray, and Sally Yates.”
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Ambassador Susan Rice, former U.S. National Security Adviser

U.S. Government Declassifies Susan Rice Email On Obama’s Oval Office Meeting Discussing Flynn

William Barr

On Tuesday, the U.S. government declassified a suspicious email from Obama national security adviser Susan Rice dated on the day of President Donald

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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as AMLO, has requested information from the U.S. government on former President Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Fast and Furious&#8221; illegal gun running scheme where the Obama administration allegedly instructed gun store owners to break the law and sell firearms to suspected criminals.
Obrador urged on Friday that &#8220;the United States to shed light on a gun-running sting that caused bilateral friction under the Obama presidency,&#8221; Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-usa-politics-idUSKBN22K2UR">reported</a>. &#8220;Setting out to stop cross-border gun smuggling, the U.S. scheme allowed people to illegally buy arms in the United States and take them to Mexico so that the weapons could be tracked and lead law enforcement officials to drug cartel bosses.&#8221;
&#8220;How could this be?&#8221; Obrador said at a news conference. &#8220;A government that invades in this way, that flagrantly violates sovereignty, international laws.&#8221;
Obrador brought up the illegal gun running scheme, which was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/us/operation-fast-furious-brian-terry-death.html">tied</a> to the deaths of U.S. federal agents during the Obama administration, during a press conference while &#8220;discussing the case of Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico’s security minister from 2006-12, who was arrested in the United States in December and charged with drug-trafficking offenses,&#8221; Reuters added. &#8220;Roberta Jacobson, a former American ambassador to Mexico appointed under U.S. President Barack Obama, had suggested both governments knew about possible corruption by Garcia Luna in an interview with Mexican magazine Proceso published at the weekend.&#8221;
During the press conference, Obrador <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-usa-corruption-idUSKBN22G2SK?taid=5eb0d5b461019300012709ce&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter">urged</a> that the probe should cover &#8220;all those who intervened during this period, because without a doubt, there was cooperation&#8221; and noted that &#8220;criminal&#8221; behavior could be uncovered from officials from both the Mexican and U.S. governments.
&#8220;Lopez Obrador said U.S. officials at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who cooperated with Garcia Luna should be investigated,&#8221; Reuters added. Lopez Obrador has continued to ask &#8220;for U.S. officials to be investigated for their ties to Garcia Luna, saying &#8216;cover-ups&#8217; during the era were not the work of just “one government.&#8221;
The calls from Obrador for investigations into U.S. officials under the Bush and Obama administrations who had ties to Luna comes as former Obama officials are coming under increasing scrutiny over a major political scandal that is unfolding in the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-unmaskers-unmasked-11589411876">writes</a>:
<blockquote>When news stories appeared in early 2017 about Michael Flynn’s conversation with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., these columns wondered how Mr. Flynn’s call was so widely known. The names of private U.S. citizens caught on tape by U.S. intelligence are supposed to be “masked” so their privacy is protected.
Well, now we know. GOP Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson on Wednesday released a declassified list of Obama Administration officials who in their waning days in power “unmasked” the conversations of Mr. Flynn, who was set to become President Trump’s National Security Adviser. It seems everyone but the night janitor wanted to know who Mr. Flynn was talking to.
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The list includes then White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, then Vice President Joe Biden, and then Secretary of Treasury Jacob Lew. Ambassador to the U.N. and Obama confidante Samantha Power made no fewer than seven requests, though she told Congress she had no recollection of unmasking Mr. Flynn.</blockquote>
Continue reading <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-unmaskers-unmasked-11589411876">here</a>.
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President Lopez Obrador Daily Morning Briefing

Mexico’s President Is Looking Into Obama’s ‘Fast And Furious’ Illegal Gun Running Scheme, Requests Info From U.S.

Mexico

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as AMLO, has requested information from the U.S. government on former President Barack Obama&#039;s

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Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) explained during a Wednesday night interview on Fox News why the latest &#8220;unmasking&#8221; revelation in the case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn is a serious scandal for the Obama administration.
&#8220;Well, in a FISA court surveillance operation, the U.S. government can only surveil foreign people associated with terrorists,&#8221; Johnson began. &#8220;When they&#8217;re monitoring their phone calls, they will sometimes inadvertently pick up the conversation with somebody talking to an American citizen.&#8221;
&#8220;When those transcripts are released, the identity of the American citizen is masked,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;And so there&#8217;s a very limited number of people in the administration that can request that those American citizens&#8217; names be unmasked, because, again, those shouldn&#8217;t – American citizens should not be captured in these foreign surveillance investigations.&#8221;
&#8220;And it is, from my standpoint, pretty curious that the Vice President of the United States would be requesting unmasking in this case of General Flynn eight days before he left office,&#8221; Johnson continued. &#8220;This is outrageous, what the Obama administration and members of it high up in the administration were doing toward – during the election toward the tail end of their administration, and the ones that were held over, what they did in the early days of the Trump administration as well.&#8221;
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Sen Ron Johnson shines a big ole spotlight on the unmasking scandal. This is a great breakdown. 
Some questions needing answers: What is Joe Biden hiding? What did he know? <a href="https://t.co/OpDTlVIQPH">pic.twitter.com/OpDTlVIQPH</a>
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<blockquote>BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: One of the senators who pushed hard for the disclosure of Michael Flynn&#8217;s &#8212; the names of the unmaskers is Homeland Security and Government &#8212; Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Republican Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
We want to talk about that. He joins us now.
Senator, thanks for being here.
SEN. RON JOHNSON (R-WI): Hello, Bret.
BAIER: I want to start at the beginning.
For somebody sitting at home saying, why is this important, let&#8217;s start with, what is unmasking? Explain it.
JOHNSON: Well, in a FISA court surveillance operation, the U.S. government can only surveil foreign people associated with terrorists.
When they&#8217;re monitoring their phone calls, they will sometimes inadvertently pick up the conversation with somebody talking to an American citizen.
When those transcripts are released, the identity of the American citizen is masked. And so there&#8217;s a very limited number of people in the administration that can request that those American citizens&#8217; names be unmasked, because, again, those shouldn&#8217;t &#8212; American citizens should not be captured in these foreign surveillance investigations.
BAIER: Right.
So, the ones &#8212; the administration officials who are asking, it&#8217;s not uncommon for intelligence officials to be in that list, because they want to see where the intel is and who they&#8217;re talking to. It&#8217;s a little bit more uncommon for administration officials up the chain, for example, Vice President Biden, to be on that list.
But they wouldn&#8217;t know who the American was before they requested the unmasking, would they?
JOHNSON: Again, those are some of the questions that need to be answered.
And it is, from my standpoint, pretty curious that the vice president of the United States would be requesting unmasking in this case of General Flynn eight days before he left office.
So, what I would say, what information that we released &#8212; and let me also point out, Bret, that Attorney General Barr and acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, they are heroes, they are patriots.
They&#8217;re being unfairly attacked right now, mercilessly attacked. And these gentlemen realize that this is a threat to our democracy. This is outrageous, what the Obama administration and members of it high up in the administration were doing toward &#8212; during the election toward the tail end of their administration, and the ones that were held over, what they did in the early days of the Trump administration as well.
So, these are real heroes in terms of what information they are beginning to divulge, declassify, so the American people really understand what happened.
BAIER: Senator, within the past few minutes, the Biden campaign has responded to all of this.
The common line from Democrats had been that this is all a distraction by the president to take away from COVID-19 coverage. I will get past that in this statement.
But this says that: &#8220;The documents simply indicate the breadth and depth of concern across the American government, including among career officials, over intelligence reports of Michael Flynn&#8217;s attempts to undermine ongoing American national security policy through discussions with Russian officials or other foreign representatives.
&#8220;Importantly, none of these individuals could have known Flynn&#8217;s identity beforehand. These documents have absolutely nothing to do with the &#8212; any FBI investigation, and they confirm that all normal procedures were followed. Any suggestion otherwise is flat-out a lie.&#8221;
They go on to suggest that the only people with questions to answer are you and Ric Grenell and Senator Grassley for politicizing this intelligence process.
So, your response to all of that?
JOHNSON: Well, first of all, I thought it was interesting the vice president used the word diversion.
Ever since I have been highlighting the texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page on December 15 of 2016, where Strzok texts Page, saying that, I think our sisters are leaking like mad, scorned, worried and political. They&#8217;re kicking into overdrive.
What were they worried about? Obviously, they were highly political individuals, people like Brennan and Clapper and Comey.
So, I have always felt that what we witnessed with the whole Russia investigation, the hoax, the fact that the FBI knew full well by the end of January that there was nothing there, and yet James Comey set up the appointment of a special counsel, I have always thought that was a massive diversionary operation on the part of members of the Obama administration to really divert attention away from what they were doing during the campaign, the exoneration of Hillary Clinton.
Now, again, we are starting to see that, and with the revelation of the House Intelligence Committee transcripts, the fact that the &#8212; and, by the way, I also got to credit my staff members who painstakingly went down into the Senate secure area, painstakingly went through the FISA report, found those footnotes that showed that, if there&#8217;s any disinformation, Russian disinformation in the 2016 campaign, it was paid for by Hillary Clinton.
And they found those footnotes. So they called me down there. I saw that those things needed to be made public. And that really is what broke this information logjam.
Again, credit to Attorney General Barr and Ric Grenell for declassifying those footnotes, declassifying the House Intelligence transcripts, and now declassifying the members of the Obama administration that unmasked.
In this case, all we&#8217;re talking about is Michael Flynn.
BAIER: Yes.
JOHNSON: There were many, many other unmaskings which we also need to investigate.
BAIER: Well, we will follow all of it, and anxiously as well. We have got a lot of things to cover here.
Thank you, Senator, for the time.
JOHNSON: Have a good day.</blockquote>

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Senator Breaks Down Why The Obama Administration’s Unmasking Scandal Is A Big Deal

Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) explained during a Wednesday night interview on Fox News why the latest &quot;unmasking&quot; revelation in

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This week, former President Barack Obama reemerged from hibernation to lecture Americans about the threat to rule of law posed by the Trump administration.
After Attorney General Bill Barr announced that the Department of Justice would be dropping its case against President Donald Trump&#8217;s former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who had pled guilty to one count of lying to the FBI, Obama told his former aides, &#8220;our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.&#8221; He explained, &#8220;There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free&#8230;.And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly, as we&#8217;ve seen in other places.&#8221;
In reality, of course, Flynn was never charged with perjury. He was charged with lying to the FBI in the course of an investigation, a separate and far lesser offense, particularly given the fact that his alleged lie was immaterial to any underlying crime. In fact, as America found out over the past two weeks, Flynn wasn&#8217;t supposed to be the subject of any investigation at all: The FBI had decided to close an investigation into Flynn in January 2017, even after supposedly nefarious calls between Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok — the same man who pledged to lover and former FBI attorney Lisa Page that Donald Trump would never be president and suggested an &#8220;insurance policy&#8221; against that possibility — then intervened to keep the investigation open. The next day, during an Oval Office meeting, President Obama himself asked then-FBI Director James Comey about the Flynn-Kislyak communications.
Next, Comey upped the ante: He avoided following normal FBI-White House protocols in order to interview Flynn and Comey&#8217;s deputy director, Andrew McCabe, avoided informing Flynn of his rights. Nonetheless, the FBI agents who conducted the interview suggested that they did not think Flynn was lying during that interview. As it turns out, notes between top FBI officials at the time said, &#8220;What&#8217;s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?&#8221; Flynn would later plead guilty to one count of lying to the FBI — at least in part because the FBI was threatening his son with prosecution.
This should be a massive scandal. It should be a massive scandal because, at the very least, it demonstrates the nation&#8217;s chief law enforcement agencies, prompted by political actors at the very top of the government, racing to bend the rules in order to pursue a case they were convinced they would make: the case that the Trump campaign had conspired with the Russian government. From the purposefully botched Carter Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to the absurdly conjured prosecution of Flynn, the most powerful institutions in American life violated the protocols meant to restrict abuse, firmly secure in their own feelings of moral rectitude.
That&#8217;s the best-case scenario.
The worst-case scenario is far darker: that by early January, with no evidence of Russian collusion, leaders of the nation&#8217;s political and law enforcement agencies decided that guilt was irrelevant, and that the Trump administration had to be strangled in the crib. This seems like a major stretch, but in a highly partisan era, such a narrative will have legs.
Meanwhile, blithe in the knowledge that they were on the side of the angels, members of the Obama-era government continue to chide Attorney General Bill Barr for ending a charade of a case. Their incredible inability to see how their conduct looks beyond the echo chamber of sycophantic media sources only undermines their credibility further.
As it turns out, President Obama isn&#8217;t wrong — at least not entirely. Our basic understanding of the rule of law is at risk, not because Bill Barr stepped in to prevent an unjust prosecution but because our institutions under the Obama administration were politicized in ways that should shock the American conscience.
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The Department of Justice dropped its case against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn on May 7 after prosecuting the former national security adviser for nearly 18 months for lying to the FBI.
Attorney General William Barr ended the DOJ&#8217;s pursuit of Flynn after a review of the case turned up evidence that the FBI investigation into Flynn was carried out on unjust grounds, and that Flynn&#8217;s statements did not have a &#8220;material impact&#8221; on the Justice Department&#8217;s investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election.
“It&#8217;s on the question of materiality that we feel really that a crime cannot be established here because there was not, in our view, a legitimate investigation going on,” Barr said in a May 7 interview with <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-on-michael-flynn-obamacare-and-coronavirus-restrictions-transcript/">CBS News</a>. “They did not have a basis for a counterintelligence investigation against Flynn at that stage, based on a perfectly legitimate and appropriate call he made as a member of the transition.”
Barr&#8217;s decision to drop the case is the likely end of United States v. Flynn. The following timeline highlights some of the case&#8217;s key moments:
2016
Nov. 18: Trump names retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as his national security adviser. Flynn had joined Trump’s campaign in February as an adviser on national security issues.
December: Flynn holds a series of phone calls with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kisilyak. The incoming national security adviser tells Kisilyak that the Trump administration will review sanctions that will soon be placed on Moscow by the Obama administration. The conversation presumably causes Russia to give an uncharacteristically muted response after sanctions are <a href="https://apnews.com/9ccb9a5ab1394a168db8b8362d94790d/US-punishes-Russia-for-hacking-presidential-campaign">announced</a> on Dec. 29.
Unknown to Flynn, U.S. intelligence agencies are spying on Kisilyak and, through the course of that surveillance, gain recordings of the Flynn-Kisilyak phone calls. Those recordings are later used to charge Flynn with lying to the FBI.
2017
Jan. 4: The FBI&#8217;s Washington Field Office prepares to close an investigation into Flynn launched as part of a larger FBI probe into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, known as Operation Crossfire Hurricane. The field office’s investigation into Flynn, dubbed Crossfire Razor, found “no derogatory information” and drafted a memo to close the case file.
FBI special agent Peter Strzok intervenes before the case is officially closed, texting the FBI case manager on the day the memo to close Crossfire Razor is drafted, “Hey don’t close RAZOR.” Strzok said that FBI leadership are involved in the case and that he needs “to decide what to do with [Flynn with respect to] the [REDACTED].” 
The messages are published in <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/459199066/us-v-flynn">court documents</a> unsealed on April 30, 2020.
Jan. 12: David Ignateus at The Washington Post writes a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking/2017/01/12/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html">column</a> revealing Flynn spoke to Kisilyak in December and openly speculates whether those phone calls were the reason for Russia&#8217;s response to President Obama&#8217;s sanctions.
Jan. 15: Vice President-elect Mike Pence appears on <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcript-january-15-2017-pence-manchin-gingrich/">CBS’s Face The Nation</a> and other networks and denies that Flynn spoke with Kisilyak about sanctions on Russia, citing conversations the incoming vice president had with Flynn.
 “[Flynn] had sent a text to the Russian ambassador to express not only Christmas wishes but sympathy for the loss of life in the airplane crash that took place. It was strictly coincidental that they had a conversation. They did not discuss anything having to do with the United States’ decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against Russia,” Pence tells host John Dickerson.
  Jan. 24: FBI director James Comey sends two FBI agents, including Strzok, to the White House to interview Flynn about his conversations with Kisilyak. Comey, by his own <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxNhjFrjXqI">admission</a>, skirted normal FBI-White House protocols and communications channels to get the interview. Strzok and the other FBI interviewer have already been briefed on the contents of the Flynn-Kisilyak calls.
After the interview, Strzok and the other FBI interviewer “had the impression at the time that Flynn was not lying or did not think he was lying,” according to an FBI summary of the interview.
FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe was central to setting up the FBI-Flynn interview, urging Flynn in a phone call that morning to meet with the FBI agents without a lawyer. McCabe said that recent leaks about Flynn’s phone calls made the interview necessary and that the fewer people involved, the faster the investigation into Russian election meddling could move on, according to December 2018 court <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592.56.0_1.pdf">filings</a>.
McCabe and others made the decision not to warn Flynn that lying to the FBI is a crime. They “wanted Flynn to be relaxed, and they were concerned that giving the warnings might adversely affect the rapport,” according to FBI documents.
Feb. 13: Flynn resigns as national security adviser, admitting that he misled Pence about the full extent of the conversations with Kisilyak.
“I inadvertently briefed the Vice President Elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian Ambassador. I have sincerely apologized to the President and the Vice President, and they have accepted my apology,” Flynn writes in his <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/flynn-resignation-ltr.pdf">resignation letter</a>.
May 17: Robert Mueller is appointed as special counsel and takes over the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Dec. 1: Mueller’s team charges Flynn with lying to the FBI. Flynn pleads guilty and faces up to five years in prison. According to the charging documents, Flynn’s “false statements and omissions impeded and otherwise had a material impact on the FBI&#8217;s ongoing investigation into the existence of any links or coordination between individuals associated with the [Trump] Campaign and Russia&#8217;s efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.”
Flynn begins cooperating with federal investigators on the Russia probe and other DOJ investigations.
2019
April 18: Attorney General Barr releases a redacted version of the Mueller report, which says in part, “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” 
May 29: Mueller announces an end to his investigation and closes the special counsel’s office. Brandon Van Grack, who served as Mueller’s senior assistant special counsel, takes over the Flynn case from Mueller.
June 6: Flynn fires his legal team at Covington &amp; Burling.
June 12: Flynn hires attorney Sydney Powell, an outspoken critic of the Mueller investigation. Powell starts aggressively defending Flynn, and Flynn’s cooperative relationship with federal investigators begins to break down.
Aug. 30: Powell accuses Van Grack’s team of violating her client’s civil rights and withholding exculpatory evidence in violation of the Brady rule. Powell demands the DOJ turn over more documents such as unredacted texts between Strzok and DOJ attorney Lisa Page and summaries on FBI interviews with DOJ official Bruce Ohr.
Oct. 1: Van Grack <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592.122.0_3.pdf">insists</a> the government has turned all relevant materials and calls Powell’s accusations “an effort by the defendant to have his case dismissed.”
“Since the beginning of their involvement, the defendant’s new counsel, have sought to get the charges dropped, professed their client’s actual innocence, and perpetuated conspiracy theories, all while stating that the defendant does not intend to withdraw his guilty plea,” the prosecution writes.
 2020
Jan. 14: Flynn files a<a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592.151.0_1.pdf"> motion</a> to withdraw his guilty plea. 
Feb. 14: Barr taps U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Jeff Jensen, to work alongside Van Grack and review Flynn’s case.
April 29: Unsealed <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/459057200/doc-188">court documents</a> reveal handwritten notes <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michael-flynn-fbi-handwritten-notes-get-him-lie-fired">reportedly</a> made by FBI&#8217;s former head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap. The notes, purportedly written by Priestap after a meeting with Comey and McCabe, suggest that the FBI intended to set a trap for Flynn. 
“What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” the notes say.
“I don&#8217;t see how getting someone to admit their wrongdoing is going easy on him,” the notes continue. “If we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act, give facts to DOJ + have them decide.”
April 30: Strzok’s messages to keep the FBI investigation into Flynn open past Jan. 4 are published in more unsealed court documents. 
May 7: DOJ drops its case against Flynn.
“The Government has determined, pursuant to the Principles of Federal Prosecution and based on an extensive review and careful consideration of the circumstances, that continued prosecution of this case would not serve the interests of justice,” the <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592.198.0_6.pdf">filing</a> says. 
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The DOJ Just Dropped Its Case Against Flynn. Here Are Some Of The Key Moments

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Last week, the founder of the #MeToo movement, Tarana Burke, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/metoo-movement-founder-on-biden-sex-assault-allegations-he-can-be-accountable-and-electable">declined to back Tara Reade</a>, a former staffer for presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who says Biden sexually assaulted her when she worked in his Senate offices in the mid-1990s.
Now, &#8220;Time&#8217;s Up&#8221; the organization developed from the #MeToo movement and charged with providing financial and legal assistance to women who accuse high-powered men of sexual harassment and assault has declined to provide that assitance to Reade. Instead, it&#8217;s CEO, Tina Tchen, praised Biden for his &#8220;transparency.&#8221;
Tchen, of course, worked alongside Biden as a senior advisor to the Obama administration. She&#8217;s been active in a number of causes since leaving the White House, including Time&#8217;s Up, and even, last year, acted as a go-between, delivering messages from the family of Jussie Smollett, who was then accused of staging his own hate crime in Chicago, and the Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney, urging prosecutors to drop the case against Smollett or refer it to the FBI.
Reade sought help from Tchen and Time&#8217;s Up but was refused, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/times-up-ceo-praises-biden-after-declining-to-aid-accuser-tara-reade/">according to the Washington Free Beacon</a>.
&#8220;Formed during the #MeToo movement to help victims of sexual assault with legal fees and public relations, the Time&#8217;s Up Legal Defense Fund declined to assist Reade in her case against Biden, claiming his presidential candidacy would threaten its nonprofit status,&#8221; the outlet reported. Experts dispute that excuse, per the WFB, noting that so long as the organization applied &#8220;neutral criteria&#8221; that &#8220;its non-profit status would not be threatened.
Tchen wasn&#8217;t asked about Time&#8217;s Up&#8217;s decision on MSNBC, but did show strong support for Biden.
&#8220;Biden has called for full transparency, he&#8217;s called for records to come out—that&#8217;s what needs to happen every time these issues come up, and I would suggest that it needs to happen with other candidates who are running for president,&#8221; Tchen said in an interview Friday.
Biden&#8217;s behavior is difficult to label as &#8220;transparent.&#8221; The candidate, Free Beacon notes, did at least eighteen interviews before being asked a single question about Reade&#8217;s claims and, until last Friday, refused to address the subject directly. The campaign referred any reporters raising questions about Reade&#8217;s allegations to a statement made earlier in April by Biden&#8217;s campaign director.
Tchen also insisted that the media did not employ a double standard when it declined to pursue the Reade&#8217;s allegations against Biden after doggedly pursuing every lead alleging sexual misconduct by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. She said, instead, that the media has done its job investigating claims of sexual assault, and giving women a &#8220;forum&#8221; to raise their allegations.
&#8220;I think the media, throughout the movement for the last two years, I have to say, investigative journalism has done an incredible job in digging into claims and believing women and giving them at least a form in which their allegations can be heard and listened to and investigated,&#8221; she said.
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Time’s Up Declined To Assist Biden Accuser Tara Reade, CEO Praised Biden Instead

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Attorney General William Barr had harsh words for the Obama administration and its Department of Justice in an interview with Fox News&#8217; Laura Ingraham, warning that there was &#8220;no basis&#8221; for opening a probe into whether the Trump presidential campaign and the Trump transition team improperly collaborated with Russian officials to impact the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Barr even went so far as to suggest that there was something more sinister behind the probe.
“My own view is that the evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness. There is something far more troubling here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it,&#8221; he told Ingraham. &#8220;And if people broke the law, and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted.&#8221;
Last week, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his own report on the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;Crossfire Hurricane&#8221; investigation into Trump campaign-Russia connections, and revealed a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) program rife with abuse of power, with warrants issued on faulty evidence and inaccuracies.
This week, Barr told Fox that concerns about the &#8220;Crossfire Hurricane&#8221; investigation go even deeper than requests made to execute surveillance on Trump campaign officials.
&#8220;I think the president has every right to be frustrated because I think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in American history,” he said. “Without any basis, they started this investigation of his campaign and even more concerning actually is what happened after the campaign, a whole pattern of events while he was president.”
Barr even went so far as to suggest that the Obama administration&#8217;s investigation was designed to &#8220;sabotage&#8221; President Donald Trump&#8217;s tenure before he even took office.
In 2019, the Justice Department charged John Durham with compiling a report on how the &#8220;Crossfire Hurricane&#8221; investigation came together. &#8220;The review upgraded into a criminal investigation in the fall,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/barr-says-evidence-from-durham-investigation-is-far-more-troubling-than-mistakes-or-sloppiness">Washington Examiner</a> adds, &#8220;giving the prosecutor the power to impanel a grand jury and hand down indictments. The attorney general told Durham to focus just as much on the time period after the 2016 election as before it.&#8221;
Barr says that Durham&#8217;s investigation is likely to conclude soon &#8212; but that it may not produce an official report, at least not as a primary product. Instead, Barr seems to believe Durham&#8217;s own probe will produce indictments.
&#8220;I think a report may be and probably will be a byproduct of his activity but his primary focus isn’t to prepare a report. He is looking to bring to justice people who were engaged in abuses if he can show that they were criminal violations and that’s what the focus is on,” Barr said.
“And as you know, being a lawyer you yourself,&#8221; Barr added, referring to Ingraham&#8217;s background, &#8220;building these cases — especially the kinds of sprawling case we have between us that went on for two or three years here — it takes some time — it takes some time to build the case. So, he’s diligently pursuing it.&#8221;
That, of course, suggests that Durham&#8217;s evidence is compelling, to say the least.

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Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, an Obama administration official, stormed off MSNBC on Thursday during a segment on how the federal government should be responding to the coronavirus pandemic, declaring that he did not &#8220;have time to listen to bulls**t people.&#8221;
Former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Andy Slavitt argued that the federal government needed to be more involved in responding to the outbreak while Fugate argued that state and local governments needed to take the lead.
&#8220;The myth of a single person in charge taking control and running this is a myth,&#8221; Fugate said. &#8220;This is going to be dealt with on the frontlines at local and state levels, and each state is going to be addressing this unique to their systems.&#8221;
&#8220;But I&#8217;ve always believed the best way the federal government can support our governors is to get out of their way, get them funding, use CDC to give guidance,&#8221; Fugate continued. &#8220;As we&#8217;re running out of stuff, I&#8217;m asking the question, why are we not looking at idle capabilities now and governors go contract for that resource? Why wait for the federal government? If they will go to 100% on protective measures and reimburse them, how much more can states do so we can focus the few federal resources we have on the hardest hit areas.&#8221;
&#8220;So with all due respect to your other guest, there&#8217;s not a governor in the country that&#8217;s waiting for the federal government right now,&#8221; Slavitt said, later adding, &#8220;So, what your other guest is suggesting here is not helpful. We need a great partnership between the federal and state government.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t have time to listen to bullsh** people,&#8221; Fugate responded.
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Obama-era FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate storms off MSNBC over debate on how the government should respond to the coronavirus: &quot;I don&#39;t have time to listen to bulls**t people.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/C7xu1VOfdr">pic.twitter.com/C7xu1VOfdr</a>
&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1240804404803989504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>KATY TUR: Joining me former FEMA administrator Craig Fugate and acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Andy Slavitt. Gentlemen, thank you, so we&#8217;re hearing about FEMA taking the lead on this, Craig. What does that mean?
CRAIG FUGATE: Well, they&#8217;re not taking the lead on it. That’s going to be Health and Human Service that will the lead on the disease. What FEMA is going to be doing is supporting health and human services and the governors as we start getting more and more requests for assistance, so FEMA&#8217;s job will be coordinating on behalf of the president, federal resources in support of our lead federal agency this, for Health and Human Services as well as supporting the governors as we see these outbreaks in all of our states.
TUR: Alright, so when they start to try and coordinate the response federally and what we&#8217;re seeing is just a frantic lack of personal protective equipment. We just got this word from the CDC saying, hey, listen, if you&#8217;re out of face masks, use a bandanna or a scarf. I mean Andy, that is &#8212; that is astonishing to think that here in the united States, this first world with all of our advanced, all of our advances, all of our money, all of our resources, that here in this country, doctors and nurses are being told to tie a scarf around their face.
ANDY SLAVITT: Well, we owe them more than that. These folks, the frontline doctors and nurses and first responders, they&#8217;re going to be on the frontline for quite some time. It&#8217;s not going to be measured in days or weeks. It’s going to be measured in months and we’re already sending them into battle without the things that they need to protect us and themselves and that&#8217;s not right and that&#8217;s what happens when there&#8217;s a lack of preparation. But, you know, we can&#8217;t navigate from where we wish we were. We have to navigate from where we are and so we are going to have to do some dramatic things that so far the President has been unwilling to do. Number one, he seems to be backtracking from using the Defense Production Act, which would allow him to start making these masks in large numbers which could be done in a very short time and getting them out to people. He has to face the pressure to do that. It doesn’t make sense. If he wants to be a wartime general, he has got to arm his troops and he says he’s a wartime general. He’s got to do that. The second thing, I called for this yesterday, we need to pass a $5,000 a month payment for every frontline health care worker in the country so they can afford to take care of their family, they can afford child care, they can afford all of the things they need. We need to start thinking of them the same way as veterans and people in the military. They&#8217;re a protected class and we owe them a great deal.
TUR: Why don&#8217;t you think we are mobilizing to the extent that&#8217;s needed on a federal level? Why is the President not using all of those levers, Andy?
SLAVITT: Yeah, I think frankly &#8212; yeah, I think frankly, he doesn&#8217;t have the command and control structure in that he needs. He doesn&#8217;t have the Ron Klain. If I were him, I would call up General Dunford, I would call up General Mattis, and say I want you to come back and I want you to run this effort. You know, it’s not &#8212; it&#8217;s not very comforting to hear that HHS runs it but FEMA is helping them. That&#8217;s going to create more cooks in the kitchen. You need a very streamlined command and control structure here with one person in charge who has been in battle, commanded hundreds of thousands of people, who moved both systems and units and personnel and operations, like tented hospitals, across the country, very, very quickly and we don&#8217;t have that person in place. So I would love for President Trump to be the wartime general. As someone who&#8217;s been a critic of President Trump&#8217;s in the past, I am 100% on his side in solving this problem. But he has got to do the things he claims he wants to do.
TUR: I&#8217;m just still confused about why we are so behind in testing and this was a Reuters report out of South Korea. Craig, I’m going to give this to you. “South Korea’s swift actions stands in stark contrast to what has transpired in the United States….the Koreans have tested well over 290,000 people and classified over 8,000 infections. New cases are falling off: 93 reported Wednesday down from a daily peak of 909 two weeks earlier.” The [U.S.], whose first case was detected the same day as South Korea&#8217;s is not even close to meeting demands. About 60,000 tests have been run by public hand private labs in a country of 330 million, federal officials said Tuesday.” So, not to be too backward looking here, but if you don&#8217;t have a handle on the tests, you don&#8217;t have a handle on the infection or how to contain the infection, why is this &#8212; why is this so delayed and how can we start expediting it?
FUGATE: I think we were using hope as a strategy. It wasn&#8217;t going to be this bad, we could ease into it. We had a lot of capacity. The alarms were going off early. I think we’re slow to this. Now, we’re playing catch-up and that’s the worst position to be in. And the whole thing about having a single person in charge? I&#8217;m going to call B.S. on it. I strongly disagree that comes as a single point of failure. We actually have 50 people that are the lead and that&#8217;s the state governors and their public health departments. The biggest thing right now the federal government can do is get them money because there&#8217;s not enough federal resources to do what needs to be done. Governors need to be in power to take dramatic action to protect lives, make sure they’re doing everything to maximize their resources, start up production, and get things moving. If we wait for the federal government, we&#8217;re too late.
TUR: Well, let me ask you this. There are governors ramping things up across the country but taking different steps than other governors. This is a virus not respecting state lines. How can you have a coordinate the response if you don&#8217;t have it coordinated from the very top?
FUGATE: The myth of a single person in charge taking control and running this is a myth. This is going to be dealt with on the frontlines at local and state levels, and each state is going to be addressing this unique to their systems. There will be some variation and it gives us resiliency cause there are different ways to approach this. Hopefully they&#8217;re sharing information. But I&#8217;ve always believed the best way the federal government can support our governors is to get out of their way, get them funding, use CDC to give guidance. As we&#8217;re running out of stuff, I&#8217;m asking the question, why are we not looking at idle capabilities now and governors go contract for that resource? Why wait for the federal government? If they will go to 100% on protective measures and reimburse them, how much more can states do so we can focus the few federal resources we have on the hardest hit areas.
TUR: I just got news from Mayor de Blasio here in New York and there&#8217;s been a dramatic increase in the number of cases here in New York City: 3,615 positive cases of COVID and 22 fatalities. Currently, to spread that out, there are 980 cases in Queens, 976 in Manhattan, 1,030 in Brooklyn, and 436 in the Bronx, 165 in Staten Island. I&#8217;m struck, Andy, by how quickly this escalated. Just last week we were considering whether or not some people in this company would go to Florida to cover the primary. That was on, you know, Wednesday. On Thursday that was off the table. Friday all travel seems &#8212; was off the table. And that&#8217;s just mirroring what&#8217;s been happening across the country. At first lockdowns weren&#8217;t even considered and now we&#8217;re seeing lockdowns around the country. What we saw in China seemed so draconian and now people are wondering why we aren&#8217;t doing these fever tests for people walking into buildings? Why aren&#8217;t we going out and aggressively trying to find those who might be spreading symptoms and separating them from the population?
SLAVITT: Right. So, it&#8217;s a hard thing for people to grasp, but the number of cases we have right now and even those tragic figures you just read are going to seem minuscule in a week. The number of cases we have will double every three days. Right now it&#8217;s exceeding that and we have a large number of cases that are untested still. So with all due respect to your other guest, there&#8217;s not a governor in the country that&#8217;s waiting for the federal government right now. They are all acting. What they need is coordination because we have believe it or not we have masks, we have a lot of these things. Guess where they are? They&#8217;re sitting in the supply chain, people are profiteering off of them or they&#8217;re going to places where people are hoarding them. Now, that happens in a crisis. It&#8217;s only because &#8212; it’s only by someone looking through the entire system, and seeing where those needs are, that you can say, stop hoarding them in Texas. We need them in New York right now while we build manufacturing capability and put them in Texas. So, what your other guest is suggesting here is not helpful. We need a great partnership between the federal and state government.
FUGATE: I don’t have time to listen to bullsh** people.
TUR: Ah, Craig, you want to sit down and respond to this? I guess Craig has left. Andy, he doesn&#8217;t agree with you at all.
SLAVITT: I guess not. But look, these are trying times and everyone is trying their best, and I know Craig is &#8212; I don&#8217;t know Craig personally, but I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s working as hard and trying his best. Everybody is. These are unprecedented times. So understandable that he&#8217;s frustrated.
TUR: Can we see if we can get Craig back? I&#8217;d just like him to respond. I never like to leave a conversation like that. Andy I&#8217;m going to say goodbye to you in the meantime. Thank you very much for joining us.</blockquote>

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