Jeh Johnson Criticizes DNC for Being Uncooperative During Russian Hacks

Cortney O'Brien / Townhall Tipsheet
 

During his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday, former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson revealed that his agency offered help to the Democratic National Committee during its WikiLeaks scandal. Unfortunately, he said, they did not cooperate. In the midst of the 2016 presidential election, emails authored by DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and other DNC staffers, Hillary Clinton, and Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta, were hacked by Russians. Yet, for some reason, instead of taking steps to prevent more breaches, the committee resisted any help from the DOJ.

As Johnson explained, without a search warrant, he and his employees had no power to enter the DNC headquarters.

“It was a nonpartisan interest,” Johnson told the intelligence panel Wednesday. “I was not pleased that we were not in there helping them patch this vulnerability.”

In January, reports surfaced that the DNC also reportedly rebuffed an FBI request to examine their computer services.

Hungary and Poland: “No refugees, no terror”

By Christine Douglass-Williams / Jihad Watch

Polish PM Beata Szydło and Hungarian Prime Minster Viktor Orban are courageous leaders who not only fulfill their duties to protect their citizenry from jihad massacres and the migrant crime, chaos and financial crises experienced by other European countries, but also show up the dhimmitude and ineptitude of their useful idiot fellow leaders of the […]

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Robert Mueller Hires Another Clinton Donor for Russia Investigation

By Geller Report Staff

 

Robert Mueller, the special counsel in charge of investigating the extent of Russia’s intervention into U.S. elections — and whether President Donald Trump had anything to do with it, as Democrats allege — has now hired yet another far-left, Hillary Clinton donor to his team of investigators.

Key phrase: yet again.
 
In fact, Mueller’s team of investigators are pretty much heavy on the Democratic donor lists — light on the Republican donor side.

Here’s more, from the Daily Caller:

“The former FBI director recently recruited Elizabeth Prelogar, a lawyer in the Office of the Solicitor General, to work on the Russia probe, The National Law Journal reports.

“A former law clerk for liberal Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, Prelogar has donated in the past to Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, Federal Election Commission records show.

Read entire article here: http://pamelageller.com/2017/06/robert-mueller-hires-another-clinton-donor-russia-investigation.html/

Fed policymakers in tug-of-war on inflation, instability

By Ann Saphir and Lindsay Dunsmuir / Reuters Business News

 

The outlook for inflation and the future of financial stability are emerging as dueling concerns at the heart of a debate at the U.S. central bank over how fast to proceed on future interest-rate hikes.

That is a change from years past, where high unemployment was at the top of the Federal Reserve's worry list for the U.S. economy. But with the U.S. unemployment rate now at 4.3 percent, most Fed officials are now convinced that nearly all Americans who want jobs can and do get them.

That is a main reason the Fed last week raised its target range for short-term interest rates for the second time this year, even though recent inflation readings have drifted away from the Fed's 2-percent target, confounding expectations based on history and theory.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen expressed confidence inflation would eventually perk up, but some policymakers cast doubt.

Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans on Tuesday became the latest to express worries on that front, saying he is increasingly concerned that a recent softness in inflation is a sign the U.S. central bank will struggle to get price pressures back to its 2 percent objective.

Here's What Lt. Col. Shaffer Believes Killed Otto Warmbier

Leah Barkoukis / Townhall Tipsheet

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer told Fox Business Tuesday that he believes Otto Warmbier’s brain damage was caused by repeated drugging.

“He was tortured not so much the way—pulling fingernails out with tools but by repeated drugging—sodium pentothal,” the retired Army general told the FOX Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo, adding that the drug’s frequent use is what caused Warmbier’s brain damage.

Shaffer said North Korea was likely trying to figure out if he was a CIA spy.

“I think that during his confinement they did it over and over and I think that was one of the reasons that they released him,” he said. “But no doubt they kind of like saw that some things are going to go tragically wrong, we better get this guy out of here anyway so it served their purpose to get him out.”

Shaffer said the U.S. should not “sit back” and let a dictator like Kim Jong Un murder an American and “think they can get away with it.”

“We need to rethink our foreign policy,” he said, “in a way that those bad guys … understand that there’s going to be consequences.”

See video here: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2017/06/21/heres-what-lt-col-shaffer-believes-killed-otto-warmbier-n2344152

Google plans to fight the Islamic State with targeted ads

By Robert Spencer/ / Jihad Watc

“Google says it will also take a stance on videos that contain ‘inflammatory religious or supremacist’ sentiments: They’ll put warnings on those videos and make them harder to find.” Ten to one these warnings will end up going not on jihad videos, but on anti-jihad videos. “Google Has Announced A Plan To Fight ISIS… With […]
 
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Trump’s Right: Millions of Noncitizens Have Been Voting

By Geller Report Staff

 

President Donald Trump, in the leadup to the election and in the immediate aftermath of winning the White House, offered up fiery remarks about the voting trend of illegals and noncitizens, and how that trend has impacted U.S. elections in recent times — remarks for which he was soundly critized and condemned, by Democrats and members of his own Republican Party.

Well, looks like Trump is being proven right.

A nonpartisan research group in New Jersey, Just Facts, looked at the rate of noncitizen voting and found: in the 2008 election, as many as 5.7 million of them may indeed have cast ballots.

From the Washington Times:

“Just Facts President James D. Agresti and his team looked at data from an extensive

Harvard/YouGov study that every two years questions a sample size of tens of thousands of voters. Some acknowledge they are noncitizens and are thus ineligible to vote.

Read entire article here: http://pamelageller.com/2017/06/trumps-right-millions-noncitizens-voting.html/