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February 12, 2017
JOHN SCHINDLER: The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins.
In light of this, and out of worries about the White House’s ability to keep secrets, some of our spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway? A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was systematically holding back some of the “good stuff” from the White House, in an unprecedented move. For decades, NSA has prepared special reports for the president’s eyes only, containing enormously sensitive intelligence. In the last three weeks, however, NSA has ceased doing this, fearing Trump and his staff cannot keep their best SIGINT secrets.
Since NSA provides something like 80 percent of the actionable intelligence in our government, what’s being kept from the White House may be very significant indeed. However, such concerns are widely shared across the IC, and NSA doesn’t appear to be the only agency withholding intelligence from the administration out of security fears. . . . I previously warned the Trump administration not to go to war with the nation’s spies, and here’s why.
This will end well.
CALIFORNIA’S FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE: Threat of Oroville spillway collapse prompts evacuation of Marysville, Yuba, Butte and Sutter counties.
DEM OFFICIAL TURNS BLIND EYE TO VOTING FRAUD: Investigation of Voter Affidavit Fraud Abandoned by NH AG: Past voter fraud incidents may never be known due to thousands of affidavits from voters without IDs in 2012, 2014, sitting in boxes.
Here’s a bio for New Hampshire’s Democrat Attorney General, Joseph Foster.
WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF VIOLENCE? Girls, 11 and 12, critically wounded in Saturday shootings less than 30 minutes apart.
Maybe because the politicians who run the cities are in bed with the gangs.
SHADES OF THE LEFT’S MELTDOWN OVER SARAH PALIN’S CLIP-ART: Sarah Silverman confuses surveyor’s marks with swastikas.
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TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): California Teacher Arrested on Suspicion of ‘Lewd Acts’ with Female Student. “The victim, who police say is 14 or 15 years old, told the Riverside Police Department that the relationship with Camryn Zelinger, 32, had been going on for ‘several months.'”
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FEMINISM IS ONLY ABOUT RESISTING DOMINATION BY WESTERN MEN: Walk of shame: Sweden’s “first feminist government” don hijabs in Iran.
They’re only doing this because they want a piece of the money that Obama sent to Iran.
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TO BE FAIR, HE ALSO CALLS HIMSELF A COMEDIAN: Al Franken calls President Trump a terrorist.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The first step to recovery is understanding the problem. Knowing that suicidalist memes were launched at us as war weapons by the espionage apparatus of the most evil despotism in human history is in itself liberating. Liberating, too, it is to realize that the Noam Chomskys and Michael Moores and Robert Fisks of the world (and their thousands of lesser imitators in faculty lounges everywhere) are not brave transgressive forward-thinkers but pathetic memebots running the program of a dead tyrant.”
YES, CNN IS FAKE NEWS, ANDREW KLAVAN WRITES: “CNN — like the New York Times, like the network news departments at NBC and ABC and CBS — is virtually the definition of Fake News, a phrase made up by the left to attack Trump but which blew up in their faces like a trick cigar when it turned out everyone knows what liars they’ve been for the past sixteen years at least.”
Analysis: True.
“NO REPUBLICANS NEED APPLY” – Kevin Williamson on totalitarianism in the classified ads: “One of the less understood criticisms of progressivism is that it is totalitarian, not in the sense that kale-eating Brooklynites want to build prison camps for political nonconformists (except for the ones who want to lock up global-warming skeptics) but in the sense that it assumes that there is no life outside of politics, that there is no separate sphere of private life, and that church, family, art, and much else properly resides within that sphere…The people who close their doors against those who simply see the world in a different way, who scream profanities at Betsy DeVos or chant ‘You should die!’ at Jewish musicians, are people who cannot rise far enough above their own pettiness to understand that the thing they fear is the thing they are.”
Read the whole thing.
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Agility Robotics Introduces Cassie, a Dynamic and Talented Robot Delivery Ostrich.
RIP to a vocalist with truly excellent phrasing and improv skills, who was also one of the featured singers in the epochal “We are the World” song from 1985.
HUMANS VERSUS MACHINES. “The biggest change he’s referring to is the technologically driven separation of people from traditional jobs. Experts predict that, by 2020, over 5 million jobs will be lost due to robotics, AI, 3D printing, and other technologies—largely in office and administrative work. But other sectors will be affected as well. After all, robots can deliver pizza, mop floors, make soup, work an assembly line, check in hotel guests, carry cargo onto battlefields, and perform surgery. It’s not too much of a stretch to imagine them one day displacing sex workers.”
INSERT BERKELEY JOKE HERE: NASA Has Developed Electronics to Withstand the Toxic Hellhole That Is Venus.
BOO-HOO: ‘Civil Servants’ Upset by Arrival of Trump.
It’s Michael Walsh, so just read the whole thing.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College Endowment Returns Sink To Their Lowest Level Since The Financial Crisis.
PAUL SPERRY: How Obama is scheming to sabotage Trump’s presidency.
In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular “America First” agenda.
He’s doing it through a network of leftist nonprofits led by Organizing for Action. Normally you’d expect an organization set up to support a politician and his agenda to close up shop after that candidate leaves office, but not Obama’s OFA. Rather, it’s gearing up for battle, with a growing war chest and more than 250 offices across the country.
Since Donald Trump’s election, this little-known but well-funded protesting arm has beefed up staff and ramped up recruitment of young liberal activists, declaring on its website, “We’re not backing down.” Determined to salvage Obama’s legacy,” it’s drawing battle lines on immigration, ObamaCare, race relations and climate change.
Obama is intimately involved in OFA operations and even tweets from the group’s account. In fact, he gave marching orders to OFA foot soldiers following Trump’s upset victory.
If they actually had the American public on their side, the “Progressive” Left wouldn’t have lost the House, the Senate, and now the White House.