Left Loses Big in Citizenship-Verification Supreme Court Case

June 17, 2013 by ACRU Policy Board Member J. Christian Adams

Something perverse happened after the Supreme Court’s decision today invalidating citizenship-verification requirements in Arizona for registrants who use the federal voter registration form. The Left knows they lost most of the battle, but are still claiming victory. That’s what they do. Election-integrity proponents and the states are saying they lost, but don’t realize they really won.

The Left wins even when they lose, and conservatives are often bewildered and outfoxed in the election-process game.

Earlier today, I called the decision a nothingburger. After re-reading the case and reflecting a bit more, it’s clear that the decision was a disaster for the Left and their victory cackles are hollow–and they know it.

Worse, conservative dooms-dayers who have never litigated a single National Voter Registration Act case have taken to the airwaves, describing the case as a disaster which invites illegal-alien voting.

In the last year, I’ve litigated five NVRA cases and worked on the preemption issues for years, and there is more to cheer in today’s opinion than there is to bemoan. Those complaining about the opinion don’t understand what the Left’s goal was in this case: total federal preemption. On that score, Justice Scalia foiled them; indeed, the decision today was a huge war won, even if the small Arizona battle was lost.

From my time in the Justice Department Voting Section, I can remember intimately the wars over some of the preemption issues decided today.

The Left essentially believes that anyone who fills out a federal Election Assistance Commission registration form should be allowed on the rolls, no questions asked. There were complex fights over the “citizen check-off box” issues, with the Left wanting the box rendered meaningless, and conservatives and election-integrity proponents believing a registration cannot be processed until a registrant affirms on the box that he or she is a citizen.

Before the decision today, here is what the Left wanted:

-Invalidation of Arizona’s requirement that those submitting a federal form provide proof of citizenship with their federal form. Mind you, the citizenship-proof requirement is NOT part of federal law and the Election Assistance Commission does NOT require it in the form they drafted.
-Invalidation of state citizenship-verification requirements when a state voter registration form is used (yes, such forms exist separate from the federal requirement) on the basis of federal preemption. They wanted the Arizona case to invalidate all state citizenship-verification requirements.
-Automatic registration if a registrant submits a completed federal EAC approved registration form, no questions asked.
-Federal preemption on the ability for states to have customized federal EAC-approved forms that differed from the default EAC form.
-Federal preemption over states, like Florida and Kansas, looking for independent information on citizenship to root out noncitizens from the voter rolls. Again, the Left wanted the federal EAC form to be the no-questions-asked ticket to the voter rolls.

So what is the score on these five goals after Justice Scalia’s opinion today? Election-integrity advocates are batting .800; left wing groups, .200. And the most insignificant issue of the five is the one issue the Left won. Justice Scalia foiled 4 of 5 of their goals, and the 4 biggest ones.

http://theacru.org/acru/left_loses_big_in_citizenship-verification_supreme_court_case/
Related previous posts on this blog:
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/supreme-court-no-proof-of-citizenship-needed-to-vote-amnesty-now-in-place/

http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/video-az-ag-tom-horne-us-supreme-court-decision-shows-ultimate-path-for-arizona-victory/

VIDEO Yahoo Reveals 13,000 Surveillance Requests & NSA Does listen to our Phone calls

Obama’s ‘Nobody Is Listening To Your Phone Calls’ Morphs Into NSA Can Tap Whomever It Wants – In 11 Days
June 18, 2013 By Matt Egan

Following in the footsteps of its tech rivals, Yahoo (YHOO) this week disclosed it received up to 13,000 requests for data in the last six months and reaffirmed its pledge to protect the sanctity of its users’ information.

The comments come after Silicon Valley was rocked earlier this month by disclosures from a former intelligence worker revealing the National Security Agency is allowed to directly mine some data from Internet companies through a controversial program known as PRISM.

“As always, we will continually evaluate whether further actions can be taken to protect the privacy of our users and our ability to defend it. We appreciate — and do not take for granted– the trust you place in us,” Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and General Counsel Ron Bell said in a statement posted on Tumblr, the social blogging service Yahoo acquired last month.

Yahoo said it received between 12,000 and 13,000 requests for user data between December 1 and May 31 from U.S. law enforcement agencies, including criminal and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, requests.

By comparison, Apple (AAPL) on Monday said it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for user data over that span, while last week Facebook (FB) disclosed receiving between 9,000 and 10,000 requests and Microsoft (MSFT) said it received 6,000 to 7,000 requests.

Unlike those companies, Yahoo didn’t say how many individual accounts were specified in those law-enforcement requests. It’s possible the company wasn’t permitted by the government to release that information.

“Like all companies, Yahoo! cannot lawfully break out FISA request numbers at this time because those numbers are classified; however, we strongly urge the federal government to reconsider its stance on this issue,” the company said in the blog post.

Yahoo did say that the most common of the data requests were related to fraud, homicides, kidnappings and other criminal investigations.

Looking ahead, Yahoo said it plans to release its first global law enforcement transparency report later this summer, covering the first half of the year. The company plans to refresh the report twice a year with current stats.

“We’ve worked hard over the years to earn our users’ trust and we fight hard to preserve it,” Yahoo said.

Yahoo didn’t reference the PRISM allegations, but earlier this month the company said it does not provide the government with “direct access to our servers, systems, or networks,” mirroring denials from other Internet companies about giving the NSA “direct” access.

Shares of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo were inactive in premarket trading on Tuesday, but have soared 33% so far this year and 73% over the past 12 months.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2013/06/18/yahoo-reveals-13000-surveillance-requests/

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Barack Obama 11 Days Ago vs. Today: ‘Nobody’s Listening’ Becomes NSA Can Tap Whomever it Wants
June 18, 2013 Kyle Becker

David Seaman breaks it down before your very eyes: the president said just 11 days ago about the NSA’s domestic surveillance that “nobody’s listening to your phone calls.”

Since then, the NSA announced it can listen to phone calls and data-mine without a warrant if it wants to. Is this the kind of transparency he was promising back in the “hope and change” days?

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/06/60154-barack-obama-11-days-ago-vs-today-nobodys-listening-becomes-nsa-can-tap-whomever-it-wants/

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Related previous post on blog:
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/video-big-data-farming-obama-prism-riot-fisa-ofa-nsa-big-brother/

Obama working both sides against the middle, so what if you are an ally

- Heads Obama wins, Tails we lose
-Pentagon has a new helicopter contract with a Russian company which is supplying the Syrian regime while Obama is arming the Syrian rebels while Syria poised to attack Israel
-Afghan President Karzai rejects peace talks with the Taliban, suspends talks with US
June 19, 2013 By Judson Berger

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas blasted the Pentagon after it entered into a new helicopter contract with a Russian company which is supplying the Syrian regime — even as the U.S. moves to arm the Syrian opposition.

The contract was announced Monday with Russian arms firm Rosoboronexport, for military helicopters that will go to Afghan security forces. The Pentagon argues the helicopters are the only option, but Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is adamant that the U.S. find an alternative considering the company’s ties to the Bashar Assad government in Syria.

“American taxpayers should not be indirectly subsidizing the murder of Syrian civilians,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a statement.

Cornyn first challenged the Pentagon over a prior contract with Rosoboronexport last year, and was able to successfully pass an amendment in November barring the use of funds for contracts with the company.

But the latest contract used money from the fiscal 2012 budget, which was approved before Cornyn’s amendment.

Cornyn said Tuesday that the Obama administration also could get around that amendment by arguing the contract was in the country’s national security interests.

“In other words: they want us to believe that we are promoting U.S. security by doing business with a Russian arms dealer that is helping an anti-American, terror-sponsoring dictatorship commit mass atrocities,” he said.

The $572 million contract announced Monday would purchase 30 Mi-17 helicopters for Afghan security forces, which deals with counterterrorism and other missions. The contract also includes spare parts, test equipment and engineering support services. The contract lasts through the end of 2014.

The Pentagon has defended its arrangements with Rosoboronexport, arguing that the Mi-17 helicopters are “uniquely suited” for Afghanistan.

Spokeswoman Maureen Schumann said Wednesday the Russian government has notified the U.S. that Rosoboronexport is the “sole legal exporter of Mi-17s for military use.”

“The department explored whether there were any alternatives to contracting with Rosoboronexport to meet this requirement, but none were identified,” she told FoxNews.com.

Gen. Joseph Dunford, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, also said Tuesday that the Mi-17 is favored in part because of its “simplicity.”

“I can tell you, having watched them very closely here over the last several months, the Mi-17 is actually operating very well for the Afghans. It seems to be going through their operational construct and they seem to be using it very effectively, both for casualty evacuation, to move troops around the battlefield, and in fact, this week we’ve just equipped it with a weapons system, so it’s also now capable of providing some limited fire support,” he said.

The contract comes as U.S. forces look to hand security responsibility in Afghanistan over to the Afghans.

As for the company’s work with Syria, Russia’s government has claimed the company’s arms cannot be used against Syria’s civilian population.

“Weapons do not shoot all by themselves. It is people who shoot from them. Unlike its partners, Russia has never tried to add oil to the fire,” a Russian official was quoted as saying last year.

But Human Rights Watch claimed last year that Rosoboronexport nevertheless appears to be Syria’s main weapons supplier, questioning how the company tracks how its weapons are being used.

The Pentagon contract comes at a vital time, as the Obama administration steps up its support for the anti-Assad opposition by pledging to provide small arms to certain opposition groups. The contract potentially puts the U.S. government in the uncomfortable position of funding a company that is aiding the other side of that civil war.

Despite Russia’s claims, a Pentagon official wrote a letter to Cornyn in March 2012 that acknowledged “evidence” that Rosoboronexport’s arms “are being used by Syrian forces against Syria’s civilian population.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/19/senator-rips-pentagon-over-contract-with-company-arming-syrian-regime/

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Afghan President Karzai rejects peace talks with the Taliban, suspends talks with US

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will refuse peace talks with the Taliban in a new office in Qatar unless only Afghans are involved and violence stops, after the militant group claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four American troops.

On Tuesday, after months of delays, the Taliban opened an office in Doha, Qatar, where representatives from the U.S. and the Taliban will hold peace talks on Thursday, senior U.S. administration officials and a Taliban spokesman said.

Karzai’s High Peace Council was expected to follow up with its own talks a few days later, but it is now unclear whether or not those talks will happen.

Karzai is making the moves to protest the way the U.S. is reaching out to the Taliban in efforts to find a political solution to the war.

Karzai said his High Peace Council would “neither attend nor participate in the talks” until the process is “completely” in the hands of Afghans, according to a statement from his office.

He changed his mind after objecting to the way the office announcement was handled, in particular the Taliban’s use of its formal name “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.”

In an attempt at damage control, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said late Wednesday that the Taliban had violated an agreement with them to call the office the “Political Bureau of the Taliban Afghan in Doha.” It was not clear from the official Qatar News Agency report, however, if the Taliban would be forced to change the name.

Shafiullah Nooristani, a member of the High Peace Council, told The Associated Press that the use of the name violated agreements Karzai’s government had made with the U.S. and caused diplomatic issues for Afghanistan.

“The agreement was that the office should open only — and only — for negotiations, not as a political entity like a parallel institution to the Afghan Embassy, which is already there,” Nooristan said.

Karzai also suspended negotiations on a new U.S.-Afghan security deal that would allow some American troops to remain in the country after the international combat mission ends in 2014 to protest the fact that his government was being left out of the initial Taliban peace talks process.

The statements came despite an olive branch from President Barack Obama to Karzai, with Obama telling reporters during a visit to Berlin Wednesday that “ultimately we’re going to need to see Afghans talking to Afghans.”

Obama said later the U.S. had anticipated “there were going to be some areas of friction, to put it mildly, in getting this thing off the ground. That’s not surprising. They’ve been fighting there for a long time” and mistrust is rampant. Obama said it was important to pursue a parallel track toward reconciliation even as the fighting continues, and it would be up to the Afghan people whether that effort ultimately bears fruit.

Karzai’s spokesman was not immediately reachable Wednesday for questions, and the U.S. Embassy in Kabul said it had no immediate comment.

Nooristan, however, is holding out hope that the Qatar talks would still be possible.

“We are working to solve these contradictions and fix these problems and act based on the agreements we had before so the High Peace Council can go there and start the peace talks,” he said.

U.S. administration officials, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record, say the peace process will be “complex, long and messy” because of the ongoing level of distrust between the parties.

In another incident highlighting the fragile situation in Afghanistan, only hours after announcing they would hold talks with the U.S., the Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for an attack on the Bagram Air Base in which four American troops were killed.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the insurgents fired two rockets into the base outside the Afghan capital, Kabul, late on Tuesday. American officials confirmed the base had come under attack by indirect fire — likely a mortar or rocket — and that four U.S. troops were killed.

Also Tuesday, five Afghan police officers were killed at a security outpost in Helmand province by five of their comrades, officials said, the latest in a string of so-called “insider attacks” that have shaken the confidence of the nascent Afghan security forces. Local official Mohammad Fahim Mosazai said the five officers had only been on the local force for three months. He blamed the killings on Taliban infiltrators, saying the gunmen escaped with the victims’ weapons.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/19/afghan-president-karzai-says-will-suspend-talks-with-us-over-talks-with-taliban/?
COMMENT:
We have been have been trying to figure out which side Obama is on for years….
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VIDEO “We Were Told to Lie” Say the Bank of America Employees & Behind the Mortgage Curtain

DO You have a similar situation with any US bank – let us know.
Jun 18, 2013 By Paul Kiel, ProPublica

This report was first published on ProPublica.

Bank of America employees regularly lied to homeowners seeking loan modifications, denied their applications for made-up reasons, and were rewarded for sending homeowners to foreclosure, according to sworn statements by former bank employees.

The employee statements were filed late last week in federal court in Boston as part of a multi-state class action suit brought on behalf of homeowners who sought to avoid foreclosure through the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) but say they had their cases botched by Bank of America.

In a statement, a Bank of America spokesman said that each of the former employees’ statements is “rife with factual inaccuracies” and that the bank will respond more fully in court next month. He said that Bank of America had modified more loans than any other bank and continues to “demonstrate our commitment to assisting customers who are at risk of foreclosure.”

Six of the former employees worked for the bank, while one worked for a contractor. They range from former managers to front-line employees, and all dealt with homeowners seeking to avoid foreclosure through the government’s program.

When the Obama administration launched HAMP in 2009, Bank of America was by far the largest mortgage servicer in the program. It had twice as many loans eligible as the next largest bank. The former employees say that, in response to this crush of struggling homeowners, the bank often misled them and denied applications for bogus reasons.

Sometimes, homeowners were simply denied en masse in a procedure called a “blitz,” said William Wilson, Jr., who worked as an underwriter and manager from 2010 until 2012. As part of the modification applications, homeowners were required to send in documents with their financial information. About twice a month, Wilson said, the bank ordered that all files with documentation 60 or more days old simply be denied. “During a blitz, a single team would decline between 600 and 1,500 modification files at a time,” he said in the sworn declaration. To justify the denials, employees produced fictitious reasons, for instance saying the homeowner had not sent in the required documents, when in actuality, they had.

Such mass denials may have occurred at other mortgage servicers. Chris Wyatt, a former employee of Goldman Sachs subsidiary Litton Loan Servicing, told ProPublica in 2012 that the company periodically conducted “denial sweeps” to reduce the backlog of homeowners. A spokesman for Goldman Sachs said at the time that the company disagreed with Wyatt’s account but offered no specifics.

Five of the former Bank of America employees stated that they were encouraged to mislead customers. “We were told to lie to customers and claim that Bank of America had not received documents it had requested,” said Simone Gordon, who worked at the bank from 2007 until early 2012 as a senior collector. “We were told that admitting that the Bank received documents ‘would open a can of worms,’” she said, since the bank was required to underwrite applications within 30 days of receiving documents and didn’t have adequate staff. Wilson said each underwriter commonly had 400 outstanding applications awaiting review.

Anxious homeowners calling in for an update on their application were frequently told that their applications were “under review” when, in fact, nothing had been done in months, or the application had already been denied, four former employees said.

Employees were rewarded for denying applications and referring customers to foreclosure, according to the statements. Gordon said collectors “who placed ten or more accounts into foreclosure in a given month received a $500 bonus.” Other rewards included gift cards to retail stores or restaurants, said Gordon and Theresa Terrelonge, who worked as a collector from 2009 until 2010.

This is certainly not the first time the bank has faced such allegations. In 2010, Arizona and Nevada sued Bank of America for mishandling modification applications. Last year, Bank of America settled a lawsuit brought by a former employee of a bank contractor who accused the bank of mishandling HAMP applications.

The bank has also settled two major actions by the federal government related to its foreclosure practices. In early 2012, 49 state attorneys general and the federal government crafted a settlement that, among other things, provided cash payments to Bank of America borrowers who had lost their home to foreclosure. Authorities recently began mailing out those checks of about $1,480 for each homeowner. Earlier this year, federal bank regulators arrived at a settlement that also resulted in payments to affected borrowers, though most received $500 or less.

The law suit with the explosive new declarations from former employees is a consolidation of 29 separate suits against the bank from across the country and is seeking class action certification. It covers homeowners who received a trial modification, made all of their required payments, but who did not get a timely answer from the bank on whether they’d receive a permanent modification. Under HAMP, the trial period was supposed to last three months, but frequently dragged on for much longer, particularly during the height of the foreclosure crisis in 2009 and 2010.

ProPublica began detailing the failures of HAMP from the start of the program in 2009. HAMP turned out to be a perfect storm created by banks that refused to adequately fund their mortgage servicing operations and lax government oversight.

Bank of America was far slower to modify loans than other servicers, as other analyses we’ve cited have shown. A study last year found that about 800,000 homeowners would have qualified for HAMP if Bank of America and the other largest servicers had done an adequate job of handling homeowner applications.

For related posts search “foreclosure” on this blog
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bank_of_america_lied_to_homeowners_and_rewarded_foreclosures_ex-employees_s/?

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Bank of America Horror Story

Why Bank Of America Fired Me

Bank of America Loan Modification Fraud Testimonial by Wanda Bowlby

Mortgage and MERS Fraud Exposed: Learn how to save your house from foreclosure
Alex Jones interviews Randy Kelton about mortgage fraud, securitization, MERS, robo-singing, credit default swaps and derivatives.

Fight Mortgage Fraud and MERS with Quiet Title, Securitization and RICO.
This teleseminar explains MERS and Securitization

VIDEO MSNBC Bank of America Employees were told to Lie
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/all-in-/52247190#52247190
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VIDEO Fmr. Press Sec. was Ordered to Lie About Active U.S. Drone Program – FBI Admits Using Drones in Domestic Surveillance Today

-The first rule of the drone program is that you do not talk about the drone program
-Mueller Admits FBI Uses Drones in Domestic Surveillance
Feb 25, 2013 by Steve Watson

In a rare admission, Robert Gibbs, the former White House Press Secretary under Obama, told reporters Sunday that he was ordered to act as if there was no such thing as an active US drone program.

“When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was, you’re not even to acknowledge the drone program,” Gibbs said on MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes” this past weekend.

Gibbs said that he was told “You’re not even to discuss that it exists.”

Noting that the notion was “inherently crazy”, Gibbs said “You’re being asked a question based on reporting of a program that exists.”

“So you’re the official government spokesperson acting as if the entire program—pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” Gibbs, who was Press Secretary between 2009 and 2011, said.

As we have tirelessly noted, the Obama administration has been heavily criticized for blocking the release of information relating to its overseas drone assassination programme, and will not even officially acknowledge that it exists, despite countless public references to the programme and the proven existence of an official “kill list”.

Gibbs stated that he expects the drone program to remain secret for the most part, despite moves in Congress to force more transparency.

“I have not talked to him about this, so I want to be careful,” Gibbs said, “but I think what the president has seen is, our denial of the existence of the program when it’s obviously happening undermines people’s confidence overall in the decisions that their government makes.”

While the program itself remains classified, it is no secret that Obama has vastly expanded the US drone war since entering office in 2009. Daily drone strikes are raining down on Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as Somalia.

A recent report released by Washington based think tank, The New America Foundation revealed that the number of secret US drone strikes in Yemen almost tripled in 2012, compared to 2011.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, has found that at least 171 civilians, including 35 children, have been slaughtered in Yemen by secret US drone strikes over the past ten years.

Communications released by WikiLeaks in 2010 revealed that the US and Yemen have repeatedly attempted to cover up the use of US warplanes to bombard Yemen.

Last week it was announced that despite the fact that drone strikes have killed thousands of innocent civilians in Yemen and Pakistan, the Pentagon is to reward drone operators with medals.

The DoD is creating a new ribbon, called the Distinguished Warfare Medal that will be awarded for “extra achievement” related to a military operation. This will encompass sitting at a computer console and pressing a button to release Hellfire missiles from Predator drones hundreds and thousands of miles away.

The medal will become the fourth-highest ranking combat decoration, placing above the Bronze Star.

Despite the official secrecy, the president has referred to the drone program several times in public, as have officials such as counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan.

Last year, the New York Times ran a major piece on the program revealing that the White House has asserted the right to carry out state-sponsored assassination anywhere in the world without having to provide any evidence or go through any legal process.

The administration merely has to state that the target is a terrorist and it doesn’t matter whether they are an American citizen or not, as we saw in the case of American-born Anwar al-Awlaki and his son, who were both killed last year.

In December of last year, Obama administration lawyers reaffirmed their backing for state sponsored assassination, claiming that “U.S. citizens are legitimate military targets” and do not have the right to any legal protection against being marked for summary execution.

During a CBS 60 Minutes interview in January, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta revealed that Obama himself personally approves the policy to kill American citizens suspected of terrorism without trial on a case by case basis.

Perhaps the real reason that the administration wants the details of the programme kept under wraps is that, as reported by Propublica recently, the programme is potentially much bigger in scope than anyone had previously thought.

The administration’s figures do not add up, they are chock full of contradictions and discrepancies, and there can be little doubt that there have been many many more civilian deaths as a result of drone attacks than have been publicly acknowledged.

Experts, including UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns, as well as Pakistan’s UN ambassador in Geneva, Zamir Akram, have described the drone assassination programme as a violation of the international legal system, saying that some attacks may constitute war crimes.

Akram, who noted that US drone strikes had killed more than 1,000 civilians in Pakistan, also said “We find the use of drones to be totally counterproductive in terms of succeeding in the ‘war against terror’. It leads to greater levels of terror rather than reducing them.

Many also contend that the attacks infringe the national sovereignty of Pakistan and constitute an act of war.

In 2010, a report by Washington think tank The New America Foundation found that 32% of the more than 1,200 people killed since 2004 in Pakistan, or around 1 in 3, were innocent bystanders rather than dangerous terrorists.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

This article was posted: Monday, February 25, 2013 at 11:00 am
http://www.infowars.com/former-obama-press-secretary-was-ordered-to-act-as-if-drone-program-did-not-exist/

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-Mueller Admits FBI Uses Drones in Domestic Surveillance
19 June 2013

The FBI uses drones in domestic surveillance operations in a “very, very minimal way,” Director Robert Mueller said.

Mueller, in Senate testimony today, acknowledged for the first time that the Federal Bureau of Investigation uses “very few” drones in a limited capacity during its investigations.

“It’s very seldom used and generally used in a particular incident when you need the capability,” Mueller said when asked about the bureau’s use of pilotless aircraft with surveillance capabilities. “It is very narrowly focused on particularized cases and particularized needs.”

Lawmakers, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, and civil liberties groups have raised concerns about the impact on privacy of drones used by federal law enforcement agencies. The Homeland Security Department regularly deploys drones to oversee the southern border.

Mueller said the FBI is in “the initial stages” of formulating privacy guidelines related to its use of drones.

“There are a number of issues related to drones that will need to be debated in the future,” Mueller said. “It’s still in its nascent stages, this debate.”

© Copyright 2013 Bloomberg News. All rights reserved.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/mueller-fbi-drones-surveillance/2013/06/19/id/510758?

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http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/the-black-book-and-obamas-kill-list/

VIDEO ‘KKK-Type of Intimidation’: Kansas Sec. of State Targeted by Mob Asking Prosecutors to Consider Using ‘Klan Laws’

June 18, 2013 by Erica Ritz

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) compared the tactics used by hundreds of protesters who marched on his home over the weekend to “KKK-type of intimidation” on the Glenn Beck radio program Tuesday.

Targeted for his work on combating illegal immigration, Kobach has certainly faced opposition in the past, but it has always been in public locations. Now, he says, “the left has crossed a line” by surrounding his home.

Kobach said he is asking prosecutors to look into how the mob may have violated civil rights laws, explaining: “They’re called the Klan Laws…a set of laws that say you cannot intimidate an official by trespassing on his property threatening violence, [and] you cannot intimidate an individual by threatening violence so that they don’t vote or don’t exercise their civil rights.”

After Beck noted that Martin Luther King, Jr. faced similar intimidation tactics, Kobach agreed: “This is exactly — they’re just not wearing white cloaks — but this is exactly KKK-type of intimidation.”

The secretary of state proceeded to describe what he has learned about the protesters, organized by a group called “Sunflower Community Action.” He said the group rose to prominence around the time ACORN shut down, has “lots of money,” and at least one full-time, paid community organizer.

And what’s unique about this protest, he noted, is that it seems to have been designed specifically to intimidate him. It wasn’t staged in a public place, where there would be guaranteed press. It happened in a suburban neighborhood where he and his family would have been isolated (though thankfully they were out of town at the time).

Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach Speaks With Glenn Beck About Immigration Protests at His Home

Kobach noted that a police officer did arrive at the beginning of the protest, but was so overwhelmed by the mob he couldn’t even get out of his car.

“A police officer thinks it’s too dangerous outside standing with this mob — what about the homeowner?” Kobach asked.

He continued: “Let’s think about what the…brazenness of what the members of this mob are doing. The ones who are illegal aliens — they’re already saying let’s break the law and enter the United States illegally. Then let’s trespass on this elected official’s property, and there are a number of other state crimes…that could also apply. And then let’s demand amnesty…!”

At this point, Kobach said he is proceeding “full-steam ahead” in his work to combat illegal immigration, though he will be forced to “beef up” security for his family.

Watch Video Glenn Beck interview Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach at the link below:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/18/kkk-type-of-intimidation-kansas-sec-of-state-targeted-by-mob-asking-prosecutors-to-consider-using-klan-laws/

VIDEO Former Jihadist Kamal Saleem Speaks Out

Kamal Saleem: A Muslim Cries Out to Jesus
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will see peace
June 18, 2013 by Victoria Jackson

He reveals the thoughts and plans of Muslims in the USA and his training. His message about Islam is similar to Nonie Darwish’s: “The goal of Islam is to conquer the world”, a previous post.

He heard a voice call his name and saw a vision of Christ. This was miraculous, because up until then, Kamal was a Muslim.

I had the honor of meeting Kamal Saleem on a phone interview, where he repeated his powerful testimony for a WND story. Let’s pray for the Muslim community in our country. Let’s pray that Jesus will reveal Himself to them and heal their spiritual blindness and lead them to our Heavenly Father who is a God of love, and a personal friend, a Healer, a Counselor, and a Savior.

“For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6

There are some youtube videos claiming Kamal Saleem is a fake. I wonder what his motivation would be to put his life in danger and pretend to be an ex-Muslim, Christian. There is a death penalty for leaving Islam. Only God knows our hearts. But, I’m hearing more and more stories of ex-Muslims finding Jesus.

http://victoriajackson.com/9126/kamal-saleem
Related previous post on this blog:
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/video-nonie-darwish-the-goal-of-islam-is-to-conquer-the-world/