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12/18/2015

Unfair Establishment Attacks on Cruz, Part 2: Classified Information

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:49 am



It’s already a non-story, but it’s instructive on how Big Media and establishment Republicans operate. Here’s the type of story we were seeing over the last couple of days:

A Republican senator is investigating whether Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz released classified information while discussing the National Security Agency during Tuesday night’s debate.

“I’m having my staff look at the transcripts of the debate right now,” Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Intelligence Committee, told reporters, according to The Hill, a political website. “Any time you deal with numbers… the question is, ‘Is that classified or not?’ or is there an open source reference to it?”

Guess what? A Jeb Bush PAC gave Richard Burr the maximum contribution.

Now it turns out there were will be no investigation — because Cruz didn’t do it. Everything he said had already been reported in Big Media. That’s why they’re not investigating. He didn’t do it.

No matter. There were still about a hundred million stories in Big Media asking whether Cruz released classified information.

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And that was always the goal.

Now, many low-info voters will go into the booth thinking: wasn’t there something about Cruz releasing classified information?

And that’s what they want.

By the way, remember how awful it was when Cruz said McConnell lied? Here’s Jeff Sessions saying leadership misrepresented the contents of the horrible omnibus bill that just passed the House.

85 Responses to “Unfair Establishment Attacks on Cruz, Part 2: Classified Information”

  1. how can sleazy dick burr not know jeb is a lost cause

    everyone knows jeb is a lost cause

    happyfeet (a037ad)

  2. I like him.

    OT trivia, I saw and purchased the fabled “tri-tip” cut of meat today, first time I had ever seen it in a store, ever. Now to cook it…

    MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84)

  3. Why I love Trump: let me count the ways!

    Reason #549 – Trump voters, most of whom, I think we’d agree, are not “high information” voters, are not swayed by media smears. If anything, media attacks have had the effect of cementing support for Trump. A mechanism, which, in the past, has worked like a charm for the Left, has broken down, at least in the case of Trump.

    Cruz’ pitch should be: “They’re trying to smear me the same way they have been trying to smear Donald Trump.”

    Although I agree that this sort of hackery is disgusting, I find it less concerning than I used to. Crying wolf has a long history of diminishing returns.

    ThOR (a52560)

  4. Countdown the seconds ’til the loyal Repugnants chime in as if nothing, once again, is amiss. Vote for the father-rapers because they’re better than the godless Donks and we won’t go to hell as quickly.

    STFU in advance.

    DNF (ffe548)

  5. I have never said his before, but I’m not voting in 2016. I’m through. I believe that the web of money and favor between government and business and the people is so dense and complex that it will never be unraveled. So why should I torture myself?

    So thanks Senator Sessions, and GTH, GOP. And same to you, stupid young people, who cannot get jobs but lecture me about the “compassion” of the personal and corporate welfare/environmental state.

    I’m just going to enjoy the rest of my life with blinders on.

    Patricia (5fc097)

  6. I don’t completely understand your comment, Patricia.
    Are you criticizing Sessions also for not doing enough while saying the “right” things?

    I understand your intention to not vote,
    But it may end up that Hillary or whoever is such a disastrous choice that you can’t help voting against them when the time comes.

    MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84)

  7. Whether one votes or not,
    We could become desperate enough to remember where the Scriptures say it is God who raises up and brings low,
    But I guess that applies not only for leaders but nations,
    And maybe we are getting the leadership we deserve.

    MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84)

  8. And maybe we are getting the leadership we deserve.

    We are if we don’t vote!

    Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27)

  9. Trump voters, most of whom, I think we’d agree, are not “high information” voters, are not swayed by media smears.

    They’re not swayed by quoting Trump’s own non-conservative positions either. Some of them have this kind of deranged Obama-voter type of non-sequitur response “Oh so what’s so conservative about McConnell!” (or whoever) as though McConnell is running against Trump.

    Gerald A (5dca03)

  10. Remember, folks, the goal is to hammer the slogan, the bumper sticker slogan, over and over and over again. Like a Rick Astley video, it will stick in your head.

    This is the new game in town: memetic warfare.

    The truth doesn’t matter. Just the slogans.

    And how you feel about yourself either repeating the slogan, or being angry at the slogans.

    Notice how little either of those things have to do with truth.

    Slogans are more important.

    Simon Jester (2708f4)

  11. marco sleazio couldn’t even be bothered to vote on boy ryan’s whorebudget

    happyfeet (a037ad)

  12. The question mark is a journalist’s license to promote false ideas as fact.

    “Is Dick Cheney a racist?”
    “Did Bush lie?”
    “Brietbart: Homosexual?”
    “Is Sarah Palin is league with Lucifer?”

    CrustyB (69f730)

  13. Yup. Nothing worse than not voting. Agree completely.

    Simon Jester (2708f4)

  14. #3, ThOR, contrary to your smarmy assertion, informed voters can support Trump just as enthusiastically as short-sighted virtue signaling pisspots can reject the GOP’s leading candidate.

    Losers always find a way to justify their ignorance.

    ropelight (3d922b)

  15. And, that goes double for you Gerald.

    ropelight (3d922b)

  16. he’s a non-voting pooper!

    happyfeet (399b2b)

  17. MD in Philly, I should have said…but GOP GTH.

    I appreciate Sessions so much! But he is a lone voice.

    Patricia (5fc097)

  18. Thanks for the clarification, Patricia.

    MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84)

  19. Yes, people who don’t vote are lazy, self serving, and the source of many of our problems. I’m glad you see that, HF.

    Simon Jester (2708f4)

  20. I bet there are the same MSM outlets that ignored Hillary’s improper handling of TS/SCI documents.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  21. I’m watching Obama on TV now. What a disappointing waste of time. He’s worse than useless, he’s an insult to integrity and an obstacle to reason.

    ropelight (3d922b)

  22. I disagree. If one thinks a vote means nothing, it is not lazy to refuse to do it.
    The stages of rationale for voting:
    1) One candidate is better than the other.
    2) One candidate is worse than the other.
    3) The candidates are not significantly different from each other.
    4) One candidate is so absolutely terrible you have to vote for the other one, no matter how worthless they are.

    Even the argument about Supreme Court justices is a #4 reason at best, not a #2.

    MD in Philly (not in Philly at the moment) (deca84)

  23. And, that goes double for you Gerald.

    ropelight (3d922b) — 12/18/2015 @ 10:36 am

    All I said is that when you point out to Trump backers that he’s liberal as often as he’s conservative, they respond with some non-sequitur, i.e. something that logically has nothing to do with whether he’s conservative nor do they explain why they’re fine with him being liberal on lots of things.

    I see that repeatedly, so my statement is not debatable.

    Gerald A (5dca03)

  24. obama muslim communist born in kenya cruz fascist sociopath born in canada.

    nate (9c5dec)

  25. Gerald, I don’t care if Trump is Uncle Joe’s son-in-law or Beelzebub’s nephew, he’s talkin’ the talk I wanna hear and you’re welcome to point out anything that floats your boat. My response is I don’t give a tinker’s damn what he might of said last week or last year. I like what he’s saying now, I like the fact he’s driven the GOP race to an open discussion of a range of topics that were considered verboten till he blasted the PC cone of silence into oblivion.

    We owe him the credit he’s earned. Everyone of us owes him a debt of gratitude.

    ropelight (3d922b)

  26. Yes you don’t care what he said last week only what he’s saying now. I guess you’re listening to a speech right at this moment. Whatever. I think Obamanauts actually tend to make more sense than that statement.

    Gerald A (5dca03)

  27. Up yours, you ignorant ass.

    ropelight (3d922b)

  28. I like the fact he’s driven the GOP race to an open discussion of a range of topics that were considered verboten

    Yea, I feel the same way since the ethos of political correctness has gotten so extreme and corrosive, that it, all by itself, is ruining this society. However, I’m wary of what’s at the core of such plain-speak because Trump is philosophically untethered, surrounded by decades of the squish-squish that dominates the DC-Noo-Yawk-Boston corridor.

    Some Republicans may feel irked when looking at and thinking about Donald Trump, while I feel much more — far more — that same way when thinking of and looking at Republicans similar to Jeb Bush, much less the Republican dork that allowed the bloated budget to pass the House.

    Mark (74fce8)

  29. Gerald A,

    If you look back over my recent comments, you’ll see that I’ve been doing my best to get others to acknowledge Trump’s important contributions. I coach my arguments in terms that I think will persuade non-believers. You aren’t the target audience; no was offense intended.

    ThOR (a52560)

  30. And in fact I do give the Donald credit for taking positions you’re not “supposed” to take, whether or not I totally agree with them. When Bush said you better not say stuff on immigration or we can’t get the Hispanic vote in one of the debates he showed what makes his type of Republican virtually useless.

    Gerald A (5dca03)

  31. Team r will soon be joining forces with obama and come for our guns.

    mg (31009b)

  32. Trump isn’t at the top of my list, but he’s nowhere near the bottom either.

    I love a candidate who will stir the pot – it’s a pot that really needed stirring.

    Bush is useless, though he is not alone in his uselessness. Trump is very useful.

    ThOR (a52560)

  33. “Team r will soon be joining forces with obama and come for our guns.” – mg

    I’m surprised that Ryan didn’t think to include gun confiscation in the Omnibus.

    ThOR (a52560)

  34. All I said is that when you point out to Trump backers that he’s liberal as often as he’s conservative,…..

    The point Gerald A is that he’s a conservative 100% more of the time than Hillary! or that tired nut job Sanders. Trump is what I call a wingnut. He’s off the wall. Bit of a whack job. But he’s mixing up the pot and scarin’ the livin’ begeezes out of the Republican hierarchy. And that I like. I would have bet money the guy would have imploded long ago and I’d have lost.

    Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27)

  35. #30

    But, while I do give him credit, perceptive people realize he doesn’t take those positions because he’s trying to tilt the political landscape in a more conservative direction, unlike Goldwater who paved the way for Reagan. He does it solely to get attention. He’ll back off those positions the minute he calculates they don’t work in his favor, i.e., when/if he has the nomination wrapped up.

    Gerald A (5dca03)

  36. Thor- The amount of fencing and security installations at elite republican and democrat palatial estates is telling. Next summer I will be putting up barb wire around the 360 acre farm. Just the way my grandpa liked it.

    mg (31009b)

  37. Patricia, things may be as bad as you suggest next November. But between now and then you can do something to support a candidate that has earned your respect. He or she may not get the nomination, but if you don’t work to help your selection succeed, I think you are being irresponsible. I’ve been reading a ton of history books in the last month, and the one thing that is really clear is that if you don’t take care of business now (because it is inconvenient, or uncertain, or costly, or uncomfortably confrontational, or not supported by your peers, or … etc.) then the cost in lives of correcting your/our collective negligence will be horrendous. The complaint about the lives lost in Iraq by our servicemen is ridiculous if you assume that we intended to accomplish something there. These guys performed brilliantly once they had the right leadership. Indeed, the current occupant of the WH and his clownish VP sidekick declared victory in 2010, and threw it all away. They showed the ultimate disrespect for those who sacrificed everything for our country.

    Death in war is a commodity. The 50,000 Americans who surrendered at Bataan suffered 10,000 killed, usually by bayonet when they stumbled out of line, weak from hunger, disease, or festering wounds, on the forced march to the POW where many more perished. The civilians in Syria and Iraq, particularly the Christians, have been slaughtered by the tens of thousands. It doesn’t do much good to hypothesize that this is all because of what we say or think. It happens because of what the other guy decides to do, and his motivations are much closer to greed, envy, and a quest for power than to hurt feelings over words spoken half way around the world. The only reason that libertarians and the appeasers in Democrat ranks operate on this hypothesis is that it gives them a lever to either suppress political opposition to their intended tyranny, or to rationalize surrender as in the case of libertarians.

    BobStewartatHome (a52abe)

  38. Heck, if rubio can’t vote why should Patricia?

    mg (31009b)

  39. This is no time for GOP voters to get uppity. Respect the primary process, support the candidate. Don’t blow the opportunity we have to put things right. There may not be another opportunity. Wise up, put your ego aside and do the right thing.

    ropelight (3d922b)

  40. Cruz or trump or I stay home.

    mg (31009b)

  41. These are the only two running that won’t come for my guns.

    mg (31009b)

  42. Vote or don’t vote, but help the candidate that is closest to your conscience. Our democracy demands nothing less. Unless you wish to let others rule even the minutest details about your daily life. We are too dependent on each other to pretend that we can just run off to the “wilderness” and let the rest of the world stew in its own juices. If the government really wants to get you, it can. And governments that resort to these kinds of things won’t hesitate to slaughter any family or acquaintance that bear some relation to you. Just consider how the “justice department” (under Bush even) went after Conrad Black. They seized all his assets so that he couldn’t hire a defense team that was up to the job. They typically threaten the children and close relatives of a targeted individual with numerous felonies in order to coerce a confession by their target. It’s not pretty, and it will get worse if nothing is done.

    BobStewartatHome (a52abe)

  43. From PowerLine
    Senator Tom Cotton agrees with Harry Reid’s assessment:
    A rotten process yields a rotten result, and this 2,000-page, trillion-dollar bill is rotten to its core, resulting from secret, backroom negotiations and getting dumped in the dead of the night on Americans with barely two days before the vote. Corporate lobbyists had a field day, but working Americans lost out. Take just one sordid example: this bill will quadruple the number of foreign guest-worker visas at a time when millions of Americans are still looking for full-time work and working-class wages remain stagnant.
    It’s especially disappointing that the new House leadership, in fewer than two months on the job, broke its promise not to bring major immigration legislation to the floor this year. One must wonder how many other promises in the Capitol have an expiration date. But one need not wonder why our voters are in open rebellion and our presidential candidates are successfully running against Congress.

    If there is no reasonable incumbent in 2016, Tom Cotton from ARK is my pick.

    MD in Philly (not in Philly at the moment) (deca84)

  44. I mean in 2020.

    MD in Philly (not in Philly at the moment) (deca84)

  45. “These are the only two running that won’t come for my guns.”

    – mg

    Trump will come for your guns. After defining you as a “Muslim,” Trump will come for your guns.

    Leviticus (f9a067)

  46. His robot overlords and teh Love Borg…

    Colonel Haiku (3bf827)

  47. They’ll have to pry my gun out of Leviticus’s cold, dead ratclaws…

    Colonel Haiku (3bf827)

  48. lefty lawyer laughfest, leviticus?

    mg (31009b)

  49. christmas cookies

    happyfeet (a037ad)

  50. Enemies of the people:

    Leviticus, you, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch, and Chuck Schumer are much more likely to come for me than Donald Trump ever would. I’m no threat to Trump but my 2nd amendment rights and my very existence offends fascists of every stripe and no matter what deceit or camouflage they adopt they can never conceal their totalitarian intentions.

    ropelight (3d922b)

  51. Ya left out Nate, ropelight.

    Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27)

  52. Time to reread Codevilla’s The Ruling Class, and remember that there a few, very few, honest men in DC. One is Sessions the other has left but was Tom Coburn. I have hopes that, after he recovers from his prostate cancer, maybe he can be induced to return.

    The honest women might be Joni Ernst. She hasn’t been there long enough to be corrupted, perhaps.

    Mike K (90dfdc)

  53. Yes, yes, yes. First “they” will take your guns. Then “they” will take your Barbie dolls. Then “they” will take your frilly lace underwear. Not even your lipstick and eye-shadow will be safe from “them”. Vote for the Daddy who loves you and will protect you from the bad people who want to take away all your nice things.

    nk (dbc370)

  54. Regarding Cruz in the Senate, he did as he promised on the Omnibus bill and voted against it. Being there for a vote like this matters, and matters a lot, even if his vote didn’t change the outcome.

    Rand Paul also showed up to vote against. I thank them both.

    Rubio, as expected, was out to lunch yet again and skipped the vote.

    Arizona CJ (dabb2a)

  55. My daughters would vote for their protective, profiling daddy…

    mg (31009b)

  56. Heh, mg.

    And I am not criticizing the military for sure! I just think think the welfare state and K street are unstoppable.

    Patricia (5fc097)

  57. Blinders would make me sane, compared to paying attention all these years and feeling betrayed by the liars of team republican.

    mg (31009b)

  58. I’m pretty much with Patricia. Even if you get the ‘good one’ another Obama will come along and knock it down. Wasn’t Churchill dumped as PM just months after winning WWII? It’s human nature, I suppose, but it’s a shame we have to repeat the past.

    That said, I’ll go to the polls for Trump or Cruz, if either is still in the mix when Cali votes. But I need to vote FOR something, not just against the Democrats. Too many with an R after their name might as well be Democrats, and you can start with Ryan (the biggest disappointment in politics over the last three years) and McConnell.

    East Bay Jay (c65ac0)

  59. boy ryan is worser even than the bad boy of pharma

    he’s execrable!

    happyfeet (831175)

  60. Reason #549 – Trump voters, most of whom, I think we’d agree, are not “high information” voters, are not swayed by media smears.

    They’re not swayed by logic or reason, either. But hey, thanks for highlighting that Trump supporters are like Obama supporters: constantly whining about people pointing out the many flaws in his rhetoric.

    If anything, media attacks have had the effect of cementing support for Trump.

    Well, nothing cements support like whining like a baby on Twitter about being asked difficult questions.

    A mechanism, which, in the past, has worked like a charm for the Left, has broken down, at least in the case of Trump.

    Except for that part where he loses every head-to-head match-up against Hillary. But hey, winning the nomination is the only part of a presidential election, right? Oh, wait, it’s not.

    Cruz’ pitch should be: “They’re trying to smear me the same way they have been trying to smear Donald Trump.”

    So, your advice to Cruz is for him to whine like a baby?

    Leviticus, you, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch, and Chuck Schumer are much more likely to come for me than Donald Trump ever would.

    And if you can’t trust the only GOP candidate in favor of stripping 2nd Amendment rights from people on the No-Fly list, who can you trust?

    tops116 (d094f8)

  61. team republican is all done. These lying biotches are ten times worse than bho.

    mg (31009b)

  62. I think the time has come to sell the farm. And head for a third world warm beach to die.

    mg (31009b)

  63. Making America Great Again is the opposite of what the republican party wants. They want us in the gutter. These sic people and their families can suck my grits.

    mg (31009b)

  64. Still waiting for Beldar to tell me how great this ryan b.s. is.

    mg (31009b)

  65. If the nominee is not Cruz or trump, it will be the lowest turnout to vote in history. And these ingrate republicans will lose the senate and possibly the house of ill repute.

    mg (31009b)

  66. Rest in burning hell rethuglicans.

    mg (31009b)

  67. I have a pair of boots like that. Dan Post. Mine are old and worn, though.

    nk (dbc370)

  68. Unholy Alliance: Christian Charities Profit from $1 Billion Fed Program to Resettle Refugees, 40 Percent Muslim

    plus the slimy thugpope is trying to rape capitalism with his sick perverted global warming propagandas

    plus the US catholic bishop trash lobbied their lil boy loving hearts out for obamacare

    and i’m supposed to care if these misogynist anti-american vermin have to hire a poofter?

    happyfeet (831175)

  69. oops wrong thread

    deficit spending pig Paul Ryan who just did a nasty whorebudget on top of america and didn’t even say thank you

    he is also a catholic btw

    happyfeet (831175)

  70. In Texas it’s the Baptists resettling the Mexican kids with cooties. And you know why it’s the religious who are getting these contracts? Because they’re there. They, the religious, are there. Always there. When they are making a profit and when they are not. Not when the flea market makes it profitable for them to be there. And the profits they are making here will pay for the work they do in places where there are no profits and no Starbucks.

    nk (dbc370)

  71. i do not understand Mr. nk it’s still wrong, what they’re doing

    they’re undermining failmerica’s sovereignty

    and as such i am disinclined to have sympathy for them when they whine about their religious freedoms

    and the real catholics need to speak out against the communist freedom-hating ones like the pope and the bishops and many of these “nun” characters as well

    happyfeet (831175)

  72. And all y’all’s real problem with Francis is that he’s not poofter enough. He fired the poofter Cardinal in Scotland; he told Hollande to keep his poofter ambassador to the Vatican in his bedroom closet; and he’s firing child-molesting poofter priests left and right.

    nk (dbc370)

  73. plus he’s all up in the global warming fraud like a poodle on a bowl of sherbet

    happyfeet (831175)

  74. lick dat sherbet francis gogogo

    good boy

    happyfeet (831175)

  75. He also believes that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and from the Son. What can you do with a guy like that?

    nk (dbc370)

  76. yes yes when he stickers to his briefs he can be very constructive

    happyfeet (831175)

  77. 45. …Trump will come for your guns. After defining you as a “Muslim,” Trump will come for your guns.

    Leviticus (f9a067) — 12/18/2015 @ 1:13 pm

    Funny. The only people talking about confiscating my guns are liberals like Hillary! and Obama.

    Aside; isn’t it funny how liberals talk? Like good Bolsheviks they’re only going to ask to take things away from you. For instance, when Bernie Sanders talks about raising taxes on the rich (if you’re reading this, that’s you) he says he’s going to “ask” the rich to pay more. As if the IRS isn’t going to come after you with armed agents, lawyers, and the promise of long prison sentences if you don’t do what you’re “asked.”

    But back on point, the open talk from people like Hillary! about confiscating guns made me proud to be a Texan.

    http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/texas-governor-greg-abbott-three-word-warning-hillarys-gun-confiscation-plans/

    During a campaign stop in New Hampshire, Clinton spoke of the Australian confiscation programs which collected hundreds of thousands of banned firearms.

    “I think it would be worth considering doing it on the national level, if that could be arranged,” Clinton responded.

    Gov. Greg Abbott’s response?

    NOT IN TEXAS

    It’s amusing, Leviticus, that you’re fear mongering about Trump and his secret plans to classify me as a Muslim and confiscate my guns. While overlooking Hillary! and her open talk about confiscating my guns guns without classifying me as anything.

    Or Obama’s insistence that people some bureaucrat arbitrarily places on a secret “Terrorist Wath List,” or, err, “No Fly List,” no that doesn’t quite capture it, either. Ahh, here it is. “Enemy of the state” are too dangerous to fly, and therefore lose Fifth Amendment rights to due process of law on the way to trampling their Second Amendment rights.

    But you want me to worry about Trump.

    Why, it’s almost like you’ve lost touch with reality.

    Steve57 (50e6a1)

  78. Leviticus- re-read Steve57 post 79

    mg (31009b)

  79. Inter armes, silent leges.

    When guns talk, laws shut up. A man who deserves to have a gun does not snivel that somebody is coming to take it from him.

    nk (dbc370)

  80. Let us compare and contrast.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/04/irs-tea-party-harassment/2388203/

    WASHINGTON — Tea Party, anti-abortion and other conservative groups told Congress on Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service held up their applications for tax exemptions, harassed them with questions and leaked their donor lists to political opponents…

    The latter is particularly interesting. An IRS official leaked a pro-marriage (I’m not going to say “traditional,” as marriage is between a man and a woman or it’s not marriage) group’s donor list to the HRC in order to enable their campaign of harassment against them. And the IRS acknowledged that was exactly what happened. But the IRS couldn’t tell Congress who that was, they claimed. Why? Because the taxpayer confidentiality laws that were enacted to protect that group’s donor list actually, in reality, protects the IRS agent who breaks those laws.

    And liberals want more government.

    To continue:

    The questioning included requests for copies of Facebook postings, the content of prayers, political beliefs of members, résumés of board members and dealings with the media…

    Got that? American citizens, who actually have constitutional rights have to reveal to the government what they said on social media and in their prayers.

    Meanwhile…

    https://gma.yahoo.com/secret-us-policy-blocks-agents-looking-social-media-122017778–abc-news-topstories.html#

    …Fearing a civil liberties backlash and “bad public relations” for the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end the secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, according to a former senior department official.

    “During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process,” John Cohen, a former acting under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis. Cohen is now a national security consultant for ABC News.

    One current and one former senior counter-terrorism official confirmed Cohen’s account about the refusal of DHS to change its policy about the public social media posts of all foreign applicants.

    Alrighty then.

    Let’s review.

    Barack Obama has no problem with the IRS demanding to know what American citizens, who have actual constitutional rights, said on Facebook and in their prayers when they apply for 501(c)(3) status. Which they have an actual right to do. Yet, no one lost their job. In fact, after this information became public Prom Queen said this represented “not a smidgen” of wrongdoing.

    But Barack Obama has a huge problem with DHS or DoS looking at what foreign nationals, who have no constitutional rights and certainly no right whatsoever to enter the US, said on Facebook. Imagine Tiger Beat’s outrage if DHS or State held up her visa application for a day to inquire into the content of Tashfeen Malik’s prayers.

    And Leviticus wants me to worry about what he suspects are Donald Trump’s secret plans to violate my civil liberties.

    I have a serious question for you, Leviticus. Are you doing meth?

    Steve57 (50e6a1)

  81. 67. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/18/omnibus-spells-death-of-the-gop/

    As Caddell said the other day, government has abandoned its social contract with its citizenry. The entitlement classes are just cannon fodder for that government.

    The government intends to survive the nuclear winter it incites but its reach will exceed its grasp.

    DNF (755a85)

  82. 79. “Why, it’s almost like you’ve lost touch with reality.”

    Nietzsche: Reality bites, let us make a new reality. How fitting he met with a cerebralvascular accident and ended life in a sanitarium, rats chewing on his extremities.

    DNF (755a85)

  83. 81. Inter armes, silent leges.

    When guns talk, laws shut up. A man who deserves to have a gun does not snivel that somebody is coming to take it from him.

    nk (dbc370) — 12/19/2015 @ 7:55 am

    True. I’m just observing who is saying what. I’m not in the least worried about anybody taking my guns, despite their big talk about it. They can’t do it. Besides, they’ll have to get past the Texas Rangers, the Texas State Troopers, and the Texas State Guard before they get to me.

    Steve57 (50e6a1)


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