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World & Nation
Secret Service Director Cheatle Resigns Over Trump Shooting
U.S.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday after the
agency came under harsh scrutiny for its failure to stop a would-be
assassin from wounding former President Donald Trump during a campaign
rally, according to media reports.
The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The
Secret Service, which is responsible for the protection of current and
former U.S. presidents, faces a crisis after a gunman was able to fire
on Trump from a roof overlooking the outdoor rally in Butler,
Pennsylvania, on July 13.
Johnson, Jeffries announce bipartisan House task force to investigate attempted Trump assassination
House
Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries formally
announced on Tuesday plans for a bipartisan task force to investigate
the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump that the
House will vote on this week.
Mr. Johnson teased his plans for
the panel last week, but Mr. Jeffries’ participation in the formal
announcement signals that both parties are involved.
The
decision to add 13 members to the panel is a slight change from the
original resolution released Sunday that would have authorized up to 11
members to be appointed to the panel.
Kamala Harris Campaign Raises More Than $100 Million
Vice
President Kamala Harris' campaign raised more than $100 million between
Sunday afternoon and Monday evening, The Hill reported Tuesday, without
naming its sources.
More than 1.1 million individual donors contributed to the campaign, the report said.
"Over
the next few months, I will be traveling across the country talking to
Americans about everything that is on the line," Harris said in a
statement after clinching the nomination with the pledges from
President Joe Biden's delegates. "I fully intend to unite our party,
unite our nation, and defeat Donald Trump in November."
Trump wants ‘many’ debates with Harris, but not with ABC News as host
Former
President Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, said he is
looking forward to many debates with Vice President Kamala Harris, who
has become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
However,
Mr. Trump appeared to count out ABC News, which is slated to host the
next debate on Sept. 10. He is pushing instead for Fox News to host it.
“ABC
Fake News is such a joke, among the absolute WORST in the business.
They try to make Crooked Joe into a brave warrior because he didn’t
have the ‘guts’ to fight it out — He quit! They then tried to make
‘Sleepy’ look like a great President - he was the WORST, and Lyin’
Kamala into a competent person, which she is not,” Mr. Trump said in a
Truth Social post.
“ABC, the home of George Slopadopolus, is not
worthy of holding a Debate, of which I hope there will be many!
MAGA2024,” Mr. Trump said.
U.S. would defeat China in a war over Taiwan, Joints Chiefs head says
Brown says military ready to respond to any takeover attempt by Beijing
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The U.S. fields
the most powerful army in the world and would defeat China if war
breaks out over Taiwan, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.
Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, who became the
president’s most senior military adviser on Oct. 1, said a conflict
with China is neither imminent nor inevitable, but that the U.S.
military must be ready if war breaks out.
Asked if the United States could defeat China in a conflict, Gen. Brown said: “Yes, I’m fully confident in our force.”
Netanyahu Seeks Support in U.S. Visit, but Will Find a Nation Distracted
With
his visit to Washington this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of
Israel will step away from one political maelstrom and into another.
He
is facing anger at home over the prolonged war in Gaza and failure to
bring home the hostages held in the enclave. Washington is divided over
Israel’s conduct of the war and treatment of the Palestinians.
But
now, the U.S. government and the entire country is preoccupied by the
political upheaval surrounding President Biden’s withdrawal over the
weekend from the presidential race.
White House, Democrats dig in against calls for Biden to resign
White
House officials and Democratic lawmakers rebuffed calls Monday for
President Biden to resign because of doubts about his ability to serve
as commander in chief after he bowed out of his reelection campaign.
As
they defended the president, who has remained out of sight since a
COVID-19 diagnosis last week, Rep. Lauren Boebert raised the stakes.
Mr.
Biden, 81, quit his reelection bid Sunday and endorsed Vice President
Kamala Harris to take his place on the ticket, but he did not respond
to the proof-of-life challenge. He called in to his former campaign
headquarters on Monday and thanked the staffers.
DOJ Now Finds Biden-Biographer Transcripts After Denying Existence
The
Justice Department informed a federal judge it had located a partial
transcript of President Joe Biden's interviews with his ghostwriter.
The
DOJ previously denied it had the transcript, which played a role in
special counsel Robert Hur's recently completed criminal investigation
into Biden's handling of classified material.
In a court filing
late Monday, DOJ attorneys told a federal judge that transcripts of
Biden's interviews with Mark Zwonitzer had been located, Politico
reported.
The filing came one day after Biden announced he was ending his reelection bid.
Secret Service’s incompetence a secret no more
The
July 13 attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life at a campaign
rally in Pennsylvania was a complete law enforcement failure, made more
profound by the amateurism of the assailant. It revealed perhaps the
biggest “secret” of the Secret Service: Our nation’s top executive
protection agency is hindered by the same bureaucratic rot that has
long infected our government — and threatens to destroy our freedom,
one catastrophic failure after another.
Had the gunman been a
mysterious traveler from two states away, cloaked in espionage and
intrigue, we might believe that such a glaring error was the product of
a conspiracy — culminating in the death of the sniper to hide his
connection to said conspiracy.
Instead, we got a troubled young
man strolling by the most elite security protection in the world,
seemingly exclaiming, “Look at me, I am here to shoot the president!”
In a tidal wave of negligence that can only be described as more
ordinary than anyone would have hoped, this misfit nearly pulled off
the crime of the century.
The assassination of a former
president and current presidential candidate would not have been just
an ordinary murder but rather a catastrophic political and economic
disruption to the free world — simply unthinkable.
Biden bows out — and so the gaslighting begins
Rachel
Maddow said during her recent MSNBC broadcast about Joe Biden’s
departure from the 2024 White House race that this president, this man,
this larger-than-life gift to humanity is a “patriot,” a “selfless”
devotee to country, a “phenomenal” leader, and a “decent and civil and
honorable” individual.
Let the gaslighting games begin!
Biden,
one of America’s worst presidents, has suddenly, overnight, in a blink
of an eye, become the be-all and end-all of all of America’s best
presidents. Why? How so? Here’s why; here’s how: Because he finally set
aside his peevish, petty nature to acknowledge what we on the sane side
of life all knew to be true from Day One of his administration — that
is, that he’s utterly incompetent and unfit for the high office.
Of course, he didn’t say it that way.
From the Archive....
TO KILL OR FEED A MOCKINGBIRD
By Geoff Metcalf
July 29, 2002
Two mutually exclusive and under reported stories have been troubling
me.
* The apparent penchant for political operatives to leak
classified information that jeopardizes national security.
* The generational control of information dissemination by
powerful controllers.
So we have another ‘Catch-22’.
The complicity of the mainstream media to spin, cover, and obfuscate
government abuse of power under the color of authority was not unique
to the Clinton administration. It may have been more ubiquitous,
and at times even clumsy, but it was not unique.
It has been reported that in June 1991 David Rockefeller allegedly told
a Bilderberg meeting in Baden Baden German, "We are grateful to the
Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great
publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected
their promises of discretion for almost forty years." He went on to
explain: "It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for
the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during
those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march
towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an
intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the
national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."
Some argue that quote is apocryphal urban legend. However,
although I have never been able to find three corroborating independent
sources for it, it IS consistent in content and tone with other
Bilderberg quotes I HAVE been able to confirm.
“If we had been subjected to the light of publicity….” Indicates the
one world, globalist, wannabe controllers were/are successful in
managing the message.
Operation ‘Mockingbird’ was a program supposedly conceived by a
brilliant Machiavellian State Department official, Frank Wisner.
Wisner selected Philip Graham, then publisher of the Washington Post to
manage the program. According to Deborah Davis, author of
‘Katharine the Great’, "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected
members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications
vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all, according to a
former CIA analyst."
Over twenty five major newspapers and wire services became willing
house organs for the CIA media manipulation.
Investigators digging into MOCKINGBIRD have been flabbergasted to
discover FOIA documents in which agents boast (in CIA office memos)
of pride in having placed "important assets" inside every major
news publication in the country.
I know, this is the stuff of Ludlum novels conspiracy wackos, but not
until 1982 did the ‘Company’ finally concede that reporters on the CIA
payroll have been case officers to field agents.
I have too often observed, “Some people don’t like to be confused with
facts that contradict their preconceived opinions.” I have also
noted (and struggle to maintain) “It is not WHO is right or wrong…but
WHAT is right or wrong.”
Anyone with almost ‘any’ military experience has no doubt seen the once
ubiquitous posters cautioning “Loose Lips Sink Ships”. It is a
left over phrase from WWII and among “lessons learned”.
In the complex world of intelligence loose lips can and have cost lives.
Once upon a time, not so long ago, Senator Patrick Leahy (currently the
Senate Judiciary committee’s lead obstructionist) used to be the Vice
Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the mid 80s.
Leahy allegedly ‘inadvertently’ exposed a top-secret intercept of
Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak that led to the capture of the Achille
Lauro terrorists. That supposed slip of the tongue “cost the life
of at least one Egyptian operative.”
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2001/1/31/85757
Loose Lip Leahy was forced to resign in disgrace 14 years ago in the
wake of having to acknowledge he leaked secret intelligence to the
press. However today he lords his power over the Senate
Judiciary committee. Congress’ institutional memory must be as
short as some of Jennifer Flowers former paramours.
In our contemporary environment in which whistleblowers have become in
many cases heroes it is important to make the distinctions between the
appropriateness of corporate and political whistleblowers and the idiot
or miscreant who leaks information with genuine national security
implications.
Currently the FBI is investigating national security leaks from
specifically the House and Senate Select Intelligence committees.
This is serious stuff.
Defenders of the indefensible will argue it is a political witch-hunt
by politicians in a heavy C.Y.A. mode. That is not true but a
convenient political spin job.
Sure it is true the white house is p.o.-ed over media reports that the
National Security Agency had received but not acted on two early
warning messages to 9/11. Dick Cheney reportedly went ballistic
and ripped congressional leaders. Both House and Senate Select
Intelligence committees asked the Attorney General to conduct an
investigation (and no doubt quietly prayed it would be botched).
Justice said in a statement, “…the appropriate department officials
will expeditiously review this matter and take any appropriate
action.” Not if congress has anything to say about it.
Don’t expect anything fast. Remember Leahy resigned in disgrace
14 years ago and today has the chutzpah to pontificate ad nauseum to
the Judiciary committee and stall any and all Bush judicial
appointments.
More on Operation Mockingbird
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/
