[Daily Caller] James Woolsey, former CIA director under President Bill Clinton, believes the Russians are "probably" behind some of the hacking of Democratic Party officials, but thinks that more than one country may ultimately be involved.
Appearing on CNN’s "New Day" on Tuesday, Woolsey said, "This is not an organized operation that is hacking into a target. It’s not like taking a number at a bakery and standing in line to politely get your dozen cookies that you want to buy. It’s more like of a bunch of jackals at the carcass of an antelope."
"Is it Russian? Probably some. Is it Chinese and Iranian? Maybe. Who knows? Somebody may be getting more information about it. We may find out more from Mr. trump coming up today and we may find out more from people in the intelligence community, but it shouldn’t be portrayed as one guilty party. It’s much more complicated than that."
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I think you were hacked before obama "became" President. Barry had two pops on your radar and a radical woman and Moslem Brotherhood connects thru yen and yang in Indonesian Madrassa. And financiers all that time.
"Subversants" you called them.
How does that suit you, malingerers.
Or traitors. ?
[Hurriyet Daily News] On the afternoon of Jan. 1 a group of young men and women staged a brief public demonstration in a teahouse in Okmeydani, a working-class neighborhood of Istanbul, declaring that they would struggle to keep The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s secular system alive and not let the propagandists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) or similar jihadist organizations recruit people in their area.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The first breaking point in Turkey’s policy against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was the raid on the Turkish Consulate General in Mosul, Iraq on June 11, 2014.
Up until then Ankara underestimated the ISIL threat, perhaps mixing this newly emerged (January 2013) Salafi-Jihadi group with earlier ones, including the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra. When the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government in summer 2011 decided that there was no way they could convince the Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus to come into terms with the Arab Spring-inspired rebels, it started to take a radical position to help the latter (mostly Muslim Brotherhood-based Islamist groups at the time), despite warnings from the opposition parties in Turkey about interfering in the politics of a neighboring country.
With the collapse of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt in a military coup in 2013, the Brotherhood-based spine of the Syria opposition was broken and quickly disintegrated, ultimately joining smaller but more armed and effective jihadi groups. Until the end of 2014 the jihadi groups took advantage of this situation, as well as Turkey’s lax border security policy and its training of “rebel forces” possibly infiltrated by more radical elements than Ankara realized. This all caused a huge “foreign fighters” problem.
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[No-Pasaran] Representative Maxine Waters of California has a curious explanation for why Democrats were so thoroughly humiliated in 2016
writes Benny Huang (in disbelief)
--they were just too nice. "That has been a problem in my party, that when we’re in power we’re nice," said Waters. "We bend over backwards to work with people."
Any hope that the Democrats would conduct a serious post-mortem was dispelled with these remarks. The Democrats lost this year and they’ve been losing with some degree of consistency since Barack Obama swept to power in 2008 but they’re still avoiding introspection. As usual, they’re finding ways to flatter themselves in defeat, convinced that it was their own virtue that did them in--plus Russia, racists, and fake news, of course.
...Compromise is something the modern Democrat party just does not do. They’re quite skilled at all sorts of subterfuge intended to look like compromise but the real thing eludes them. In some rare instances, when the votes simply aren’t there for their pet projects, they may be forced to give a little ground. But it wounds them deeply. They quickly turn to the judiciary or to Daddy Obama to achieve what they can’t achieve through the legislature. By hook or by crook, they get what they want.
What ails the jackass party is what I call "parachute politics," named in honor of Maxine Waters’ fellow California Democrat, Nancy Pelosi. During the 2010 Obamacare debate Pelosi displayed an arrogance that I found shocking. "We’ll go through the gate," said Pelosi at a press conference. "If the gate’s closed, we’ll go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in but we’re going to get health care reform passed for the America people."
Heat Street updates the hypocrites at MSNBC, who call for higher taxes on everybody but don't walk the walk themselves.
MSNBC’s hosts have a tax problem.
A Heat Street review of public records show that a total of six current, prominent MSNBC pundits have recently settled federal or state tax liens, while one still has tax problems. Moreover, at least two other hosts who recently left the network have also had massive tax liens filed against them.
MSNBC declined to comment, and none of the current or former tax debtors responded to requests for interviews sent through an MSNBC spokesperson.
The Rev. Al Sharpton -- MSNBC’s Sunday morning host -- easily comes in first place when it comes to "issues" with the taxman. He and his various entities--including several dissolved by New York for failure to pay taxes--currently owe about $1.5 million in state and federal taxes, interest and penalties, according to public records.
It’s a staggering sum, but down substantially from the $4.5 million in outstanding tax liens tallied by the New York Times two years ago. Sharpton has repeatedly said he’s worked out agreements with authorities to settle his tax debt, and a source close to him says he’s been paying it down aggressively, aware of how it may affect his legacy. The reverend has repeatedly called publicly for the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes. The only reason he's paying this off is because it's payroll taxes, where the president of the company is generally deemed personally responsible for the tax. He's in agreement plans, which extend the statute of limitations on collections (generally ten years). I'll have to give him some credit bringing the tab down 3 mill.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Daily Caller] James Woolsey, former CIA director under President Bill Clinton, believes the Russians are "probably" behind some of the hacking of Democratic Party officials, but thinks that more than one country may ultimately be involved.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The first breaking point in Turkey’s policy against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was the raid on the Turkish Consulate General in Mosul, Iraq on June 11, 2014.
