This and That...

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The Hillary Cackle

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All you wanted to know about the former First Lady,
Hillary "What difference does it make!" Clinton.

(Watch it on full-screen):

"Hillary Clinton Exposed, Movie She Banned From Theaters"

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Obuma Ramps Up Domestic Surveillance:
Secret Court Order Requires Verizon To Hand Over
All Call Records On A Daily Basis To NSA

"In the mid-1970s, Congress, for the first time, investigated the surveillance activities of the US government. Back then, the mandate of the NSA was that it would never direct its surveillance apparatus domestically.

At the conclusion of that investigation, Frank Church, the Democratic senator from Idaho who chaired the investigative committee, warned: 'The NSA's capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter.''

(Welcome to 1984.... I'm guessing the left miraculously won't have a problem with this)

Via Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order

The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.

The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.

The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on July 19.

Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered.

The disclosure is likely to reignite longstanding debates in the US over the proper extent of the government's domestic spying powers.

Under the Bush administration, officials in security agencies had disclosed to reporters the large-scale collection of call records data by the NSA, but this is the first time significant and top-secret documents have revealed the continuation of the practice on a massive scale under President Obama.

The unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is extremely unusual. Fisa court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target who is suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets.

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Allen West On Holder And Obama: America "Cannot Survive Treason From Within"

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is scarier than Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda — according to former Rep. Allen West.

In a fundraising email from Allen West Guardian Fund, West calls Holder the "bigger threat to our Republic."

"Al Qaeda is a very serious and persistent threat, but I trust the U.S. military to protect us from future attacks. I cannot say the same about President Obama and his Justice Department," West writes in the email, quoting ancient philosopher Cicero, who posited that a nation "cannot survive treason from within."

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Poll: 90% Consider "Fundamentalist Islam" A "Threat" To America,
56% Say War On Terror Is Not Over

(Obuma believes the exact opposite)

Via IBD:

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-polls/060513-658981-new-poll-shows-obama-misreading-war-sentiment.htm?p=full


President Obama may need to give another national security speech, because a new poll shows Americans aren't nearly as convinced the war on Islamic terror is over.

A solid majority also think the national security threat comes not just from terrorism but also the Islamic faith. And it's a fear held intensely by Obama's most loyal voters: African-Americans.

In a May 23 address before the National Defense University in Washington, the president vowed to wind down military actions against "violent extremists," arguing he can better protect America via law enforcement actions and diplomacy.

"This war, like all wars, must end," Obama said. "That's what history advises, that's what our democracy demands."

He also denied terrorists are inspired by fundamentalist Islam. Only, the public isn't buying it.

Fifty-six percent of Americans think the U.S. "continues to be in a war on terror," while 8% are not sure, according to an IBD/TIPP poll taken May 28-31. The remaining 36% of respondents say the nation only faces threats of "violent crime by extremists."

At the same time, a whopping 90% consider "fundamentalist Islam" a "threat" to the U.S. and other Western countries, with 58% viewing it as a "major threat."

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FBI: The Koran Is The "Revealed Word Of God"

http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/fbi-expert-quran-is-revealed-word-of-god/

(More like the rantings of a 7th-century warlord)

The FBI has censored and modified hundreds of pages of materials to satisfy Muslim critics, including a change that was made because an agency "expert" insisted the Quran "is the revealed word of God."

The details come from Judicial Watch, which obtained documentation of the hundreds of pages of FBI memos, training documents and other paperwork that the agency purged on the demands of Muslims.

"The FBI is rewriting history in order to help al-Qaida," said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. "This shows that the law enforcement agency is in need of serious top-to-bottom reform."

Fitton said a lesson learned from the Boston Marathon terrorist attack is that the country is less safe when it allows radical Muslim organizations to tell the FBI how to train its agents and do its job.

"The FBI's purge of so-called 'offensive' material is political correctness run amok, and it puts the nation at risk," he said. "The Obama administration needs to stop putting the tender sensibilities of radical Islamists above the safety of the American people."

The organization recently released hundreds of pages of documents from the FBI that demonstrate the effort to purge from anti-terrorism training materials and curriculum anything that a number of unidentified "subject matter experts" deemed "offensive" to Muslims.

For example, according to Judicial Watch, one expert insisted that a particular slide in a training program describing the Quran as the teachings of Muhammad be removed or changed.

The reason?

"The Quran is not the teachings of the prophet," wrote the expert, "but the revealed word of God."

According to Judicial Watch, another criticism was leveled against a particular article because it "inaccurately argues the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization."

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Pelosi: Congress "Rigged" Against Women

(I see some of the Botox from Pelois's last trip to the doctor seeped into her brain again)

Via HuffPo:

The day after Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and an all-male panel of his colleagues advanced a bill to restrict abortion rights across the U.S., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Congress is "rigged" to suppress the interests of women and keep their voices out of the discussion.

"This is an environment that is almost rigged, intentionally or not, wittingly or not, rigged so that the status quo just goes on," Pelosi told The Huffington Post in an interview. "We have to kick open the door and make our own environment, reduce the role of money [in campaigns], insist on the civility of debates, and bring more women here, and that's a better reflection of our country."

Pelosi said that as a mother of five children, it infuriates her to see an all-male subcommittee pushing a bill to restrict women's reproductive rights. "What right — I mean, really, I guess they're elected, they have a committee, they write a bill, but by what moral authority are they to make such a suggestion?" she said. "It always gets me because I have five children. When I brought my baby home, Alexandra, my oldest was turning six. As a practicing Catholic, I think I have the credentials to talk about this subject. Any of you who've had five children in six years can step up to the plate."

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Obama Genocide Panel Chair Backed Invading Israeli Territory

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/04/24/obama-atrocity-board-chair-backed-invading-israeli-territory/

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Obuma Reaches for New Extremes: Susan Rice as National Security Adviser, Moon-Bat
Samantha Powers (who's married to far-left winger Cass Sunstein) as UN Ambassador

Obuma advisor calls for a military invasion of Israel:

Obama is doubling down on both his hard left ideology and his trademark Audacity of Arrogance by actually promoting Susan Rice, the woman who went on multiple talk shows 5 days after Benghazi to tell brazen lies blaming an American video for the terror attack. Her appointment as National Security Advisor, which will not require approval from the Senate, can only be seen as yet another poke in the eye to those who take America's national security seriously.

Speaking of pokes in the eye, Rice's current position as Ambassador to the UN will be taken by the ultra-left barking moonbat Samantha Power.

With this appointment, the mask has been removed. You could scour Occupy Wall Street infestations, liberal media newsrooms, and even Ivy League faculty lounges and not come up with a kook more extreme in her pernicious views than Ms. Power. Here she is calling for a US military invasion of our ally Israel for the purpose of imposing pro-Palestinian policies:

(Nut-Case Samantha Power will fit in perfectly at the United Nations)

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PRISM Scandal: Tech Giants Say NSA Tapped Their Servers Without Their Knowledge

Silicon Valley executives insist they did not know of secret PRISM program
that grants access to emails and search history

(Not sure what to believe here, at best the firms are trying to cover their asses, at worst... and this would be very, very, very bad.... the Obama administration allowed the NSA to secretly tap the servers that run the internet)

Via Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/prism-tech-giants-shock-nsa-data-mining

Two different versions of the PRISM scandal were emerging on Thursday with Silicon Valley executives denying all knowledge of the top secret program that gives the National Security Agency direct access to the internet giants' servers.

The eavesdropping program is detailed in the form of PowerPoint slides in a leaked NSA document, seen and authenticated by the Guardian, which states that it is based on "legally-compelled collection" but operates with the "assistance of communications providers in the US."

Each of the 41 slides in the document displays prominently the corporate logos of the tech companies claimed to be taking part in PRISM.

However, senior executives from the internet companies expressed surprise and shock and insisted that no direct access to servers had been offered to any government agency.

The top-secret NSA briefing presentation set out details of the PRISM program, which it said granted access to records such as emails, chat conversations, voice calls, documents and more. The presentation the listed dates when document collection began for each company, and said PRISM enabled "direct access from the servers of these US service providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple".

Senior officials with knowledge of the situation within the tech giants admitted to being confused by the NSA revelations, and said if such data collection was taking place, it was without companies' knowledge.

An Apple spokesman said: "We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers and any agency requesting customer data must get a court order," he said.

Joe Sullivan, Facebook's chief security officer, said it did not provide government organisation with direct access to Facebook servers. "When Facebook is asked for data or information about specific individuals, we carefully scrutinise any such request for compliance with all applicable laws, and provide information only to the extent required by law."

A Google spokesman also said it did not provide officials with access to its servers. "Google cares deeply about the security of our users' data. We disclose user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such requests carefully. From time to time, people allege that we have created a government 'backdoor' into our systems, but Google does not have a 'back door' for the government to access private user data."

Microsoft said it only turned over data when served with a court order: "We provide customer data only when we receive a legally binding order or subpoena to do so, and never on a voluntary basis. In addition we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers. If the government has a broader voluntary national security program to gather customer data we don't participate in it."

A Yahoo spokesman said: "Yahoo! takes users' privacy very seriously. We do not provide the government with direct access to our servers, systems, or network.

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WSJ Report: NSA Tracking Credit Card Transactions,
Also Has Access To Phone Records From AT&T And Sprint Along With Verizon

WASHINGTON (WSJ) —The National Security Agency's monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also has cataloged credit-card transactions, said people familiar with the agency's activities.

The disclosure this week of an order by a secret U.S. court for Verizon Communications Inc.'s phone records set off the latest public discussion of the program. But people familiar with the NSA's operations said the initiative also encompasses phone-call data from AT&T Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp., records from Internet-service providers and purchase information from credit-card providers.

The agency is using its secret access to the communications of millions of Americans to target possible terrorists, said people familiar with the effort.

Civil-liberties advocates slammed the NSA's actions. "The most recent surveillance program is breathtaking. It shows absolutely no effort to narrow or tailor the surveillance of citizens," said Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law expert at George Washington University.

The arrangement with the country's three largest phone companies means that every time the majority of Americans makes a call, NSA gets a record of the location, the number called, the time of the call and the length of the conversation, according to people familiar with the matter. The practice, which evolved out of warrantless wiretapping programs begun after 2001, is approved by all three branches of the U.S. government.

(I wonder what Senator Obuma would have to say about this.... you, ask?  Well, check this out):

SEN. BARACK OBUMA (2006): I have no doubt that General Hayden will be confirmed. But I am going to reluctantly vote against him to send a signal to this administration that even in these circumstances, even in these trying times, President Bush is not above the law. No President is above the law. I am voting against Mr. Hayden in the hope that he will be more humble before the great weight of responsibility that he has not only to protect our lives but to protect our democracy.

Americans fought a Revolution in part over the right to be free from unreasonable searches–to ensure that our Government could not come knocking in the middle of the night for no reason. We need to find a way forward to make sure we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy and liberty of innocent Americans. We have to find a way to give the President the power he needs to protect us, while making sure he does not abuse that power. It is possible to do that. We have done it before. We could do it again.

(With past comments like this it's easy to see why the NY Times is turning on him)