Survey: 66 Percent Of The National Security Community Reject Iran Deal

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

 

To piggyback off Guy's post showing that Americans  overwhelmingly oppose Obama’s Iran deal, a new survey conducted by Government Business Council and Defense One shows that 66 percent of the national security community also opposes the agreement. Additionally, the national security publication also found that almost an equal number–62 percent–feel that the country would be better off rejecting the deal:

The group’s outlook was even dimmer about the deal’s effect on U.S. allies. Most respondents said that it would have a somewhat or mostly negative impact on the security of Israel (71%), Saudi Arabia (67%), the Gulf Arab states (67%), Jordan (59%), Iraq (58%), and Europe (53%). […]

The survey was conducted by Defense One and Government Business Council, the research division of Government Executive Media Group, between August 20-27. The survey was emailed to a random sample of Defense One, Government Executive and Nextgov subscribers. There were 465 respondents from the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, State, and the military service branches. Of that total, 15 percent were active duty military and 7 percent were military reservists. Fifty-eight percent of respondents are at least GS/GM-13, or military equivalent. The margin of error is +/-3.29 percent.

Cortney wrote about Secretary of State John Kerry's press conference earlier today, where he defended the agreement–saying it's based on "truth, not trust."

VA Inspector General Report: 307,000 Veterans Died Waiting For Health Care

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

 

Before Dan Doherty departed, he wrote about how the Veterans Affairs estimated that hundreds of thousands of their patients had died while waiting for care. At the time, Scott Davis, a program specialist at the VA Health Eligibility Center, divulged a report that was conducted within his department and that of the VA Office of Analytics titled “Analysis of Death Services. It was released in April of 2015. Now, we the Veterans Affair Inspector General’s report has given the exact number: 307,000. That’s how many veterans have died before their application had been process by the Eligibility Center (via CNN):

Hundreds of thousands of veterans listed in the Department of Veterans Affairs enrollment system died before their applications for care were processed, according to a report issued Wednesday. 

The VA's inspector general found that out of about 800,000 records stalled in the agency's system for managing health care enrollment, there were more than 307,000 records that belonged to veterans who had died months or years in the past.

In a response to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs' request to investigate a whistleblower's allegations of mismanagement at the VA's Health Eligibility Center, the inspector general also found VA staffers incorrectly marked unprocessed applications and may have deleted 10,000 or more records in the last five years.

In one case, a veteran who applied for VA care in 1998 was placed in "pending" status for 14 years. Another veteran who passed away in 1988 was found to have an unprocessed record lingering in 2014, the investigation found.

MPAC top dog in CNN: Just ignore ISIS and see Islam as “breath of fresh air”

By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

Salam Al-Marayati is the executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Here he laments “our collective failure as humanity to respond appropriately to extremism.” How are we supposed to “respond appropriately to extremism”? We have to “stop giving ISIS so much attention” so that it will be “shunned into irrelevancy.” How likely is it […]
 
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Obama Finds Final Traitor: Iran Nuke Vote, The Sellouts – Here’s the Full List of US Senators 

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

Another point in what my work has increasingly become, a play-by-play on the road to Armageddon.

Democratic (of  course) Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland announced support for the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday, providing Obama the votes he needs to override a veto. Mikulski is retiring and so has nothing to lose, although her place in history is assured now as the quisling who unleashed the jihad nuke. 

All Democrats — the party of treason.

The second Holocaust will not be like the first. The Nazis, of course, industrialized mass murder. But still, the perpetrators had one-on-one contact with the victims. They may have dehumanized them, over months and years of appalling debasement and in their minds,..

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