New Emails Show John Kerry Blocked FBI From Making Arrests on Iranian Terrorists to Protect Iran Deal

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Everyone knows Obama didn’t want to bomb Iran, which was becoming the only option to slow their nuclear weapons program unless a deal was struck. That infamous deal, which became Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement, did next to nothing to slow Tehran’s ambitions to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Guy wrote extensively about the deal’s shortfalls, and now we have a new chapter in the annals of Obama’s failed foreign policy: the FBI was muzzled from arresting suspect Iranian agents and terrorists to avoid mucking up the Iran deal negotiations. 

Fox News obtained documents showing that in 2015, John Kerry’s State Department vigorously stymied the FBI from doing its job regarding arresting individuals who posed a threat to national security. A whistleblower has come forward with these allegations (via Fox News):

The Obama-Biden State Department "actively interfered" to prevent the FBI from executing arrest warrants on individuals illegally in the United States who were allegedly supporting Iranian financial efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction, whistleblowers told Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson. Read more, see letter, and emails here.

Trump’s map edge: Biden has tougher path to victory, veteran Dem adviser says

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Just over six months from Nov. 5, longtime Democratic adviser Doug Sosnik tells Axios that while either candidate can win, President Biden has the narrower, tougher path to 270 electoral college votes, for three reasons.

Why it matters: Biden has been rising in polls since the State of the Union address. But Democrats continue to sweat their chances in the state-by-state math that determines U.S. presidents.

1. The electoral college favors Republicans: The last two Republican presidents were first elected despite losing the popular vote.
2. Biden can no longer count on carrying Michigan, which voted overwhelmingly Democratic in the past three election cycles.
3. Biden’s 2020 victories in the Sunbelt battleground states — Arizona, Nevada and Georgia — were due to his overwhelming support from young and non-white voters. Polling shows Biden has suffered a significant erosion with these voters during his presidency. Read more here.

Here's When Merrick Garland Will Testify Before the House Judiciary Committee 

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Attorney General Merrick Garland has certainly been in the news quite a bit lately, as the House Oversight and Committee and House Judiciary Committee just voted last week to move forward with holding him in contempt, albeit in the midst of some late night drama. This comes after the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) has refused to turn over the audio from Special Counsel Robert Hur's investigations, though Matt's highlighted how Garland has "torched" his own argument. Reports are now coming in that Garland will also be testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on June 4 to discuss "broad oversight."

A source familiar confirmed the June 4 date with Townhall as well. Such a date is just two weeks away.

Ted Cruz Didn't Mince Words When Ripping Into Antony Blinken

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) showed no mercy toward Secretary of State Antony Blinken for presiding over unprecedented chaos regarding American foreign policy before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. The Texas Republican did not mince words ripping into Blinken and the Biden administration for pushing policies that undermine our allies and appease and strengthen our enemies. 

Cruz bashed our top diplomat for nearly 10 minutes, highlighting the shambolic mess we’ve created in Ukraine, the inability to curb Iran’s influence, and our Russian roulette-like tactics with Israel. Trump had Iran under control. Biden allowed them to be flushed with oil money again, which Blinken tried to deny, but Cruz kept pushing how the world’s largest state sponsor of terror was selling 300,000 barrels of oil a day to 2 million under Biden’s watch. That oil revenue went to training the Hamas terrorists who carried out the October 7 attacks.

RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS...Podcast 

 

If you missed last nights live broadcast where RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discussed 'Lies Told...Truths Not Accepted'; 'Between Dumb as a Rock and a Hard Place'; the defense in the Trump trial rests its case; and our UN ambassador Robert Wood takes part in official moment of silence for now dead Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi aka the 'Butcher of Tehran'...listen to it and past shows at https://rspradio1.com ... go to Podcasts.

 

Op-ed: 

Lies Told...Truths Not Accepted 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google. 

 

...The Israel/Hamas War will eventually end, for war itself begins and ends in its own dictated time. However, I have a suggestion that might help end this war sooner rather than later, and I'll start by saying that those in Israel calling for Netanyahu's resignation for not having secured all the hostages release, to please wake up to the fact that few if any hostages are still alive.

 

It's my belief that most were killed soon after Israel's entry into Gaza, and that's why Hamas has not surrendered or even agreed to another ceasefire as the hostages, to them, were always but bargaining chips...bargaining chips now gone...bargaining chips likely used as “human shields” to protect Hamas' own miserable lives. Hamas never intended to release all the hostages for to do so would show weakness and vulnerability on their part...not something genocidal terrorists want as their calling card.

Netanyahu knows this as likely as do most not personally involved, an unfortunate reality that the families of those taken still have trouble facing. BiBi Netanyahu made a decision to save his country and its multitude of people, and while we cry for the hostages now likely lost, imagine instead having to cry for the entire nation of Israel and the sum of her people lost...Read entire article and see video here.

Wait, The US Senate Chaplain Said What About the Death of the Iranian President

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The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash over the weekend. He shouldn’t be mourned or prayed for. If anything, we should all hope the man is burning in hell. He was a terrorist, allegedly responsible for the murder of thousands of dissidents in Iran, earning him the nickname the “butcher of Tehran.” And yet, you’d thought he was Mother Theresa. Spencer covered the reaction from our ambassador to the United Nations, which was deplorable:

 

"The United Nations, unsurprisingly, was generally gutted to learn that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — known as the "butcher of Tehran" — died in a helicopter crash over the weekend. In a Monday meeting of the U.N. Security Council, a "moment of silence" was held to mourn the dead murderer rather than his thousands of innocent victims.

Most egregiously, United States Ambassador Robert Wood — a Senate-confirmed Biden nominee who serves as America's Alternate Representative to the United Nations and its General Assembly — also stood to join the moment of silence "in remembrance of the loss of life in a crash of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi."

Then, the Biden White House weighed in:...Read more, see Xs and video here.