thelibertydaily--2020-08-14--Attorney General William Barr Says Expect ‘Development’ on Durham’s Crossfire Hurricane Probe Friday

U.S. Attorney General William Barr said that there “ will be a development ” in U.S. Attorney John Durham ’ s probe into the FBI ’ s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign on Friday .
“ There are going to be significant developments on this before the election , ” Barr told Fox News host Sean Hannity Thursday night .
“ But we ’ re not doing this on the election schedule , ” he noted .
“ We ’ re aware of the election .
We ’ re not going to do anything inappropriate before the election .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to by this schedule.
” Barr said that the development would not be “ earth-shattering , ” but provide “ an indication things are going along at a proper pace , as dictated by the facts in this investigation .
Barr told Hannity that the investigation is going quickly , despite some delay due to the CCP ( Chinese Communist Party ) virus pandemic .
He added that he is “ satisfied ” with the progress Durham has made .
Last month , Barr said that the November elections will not delay Durham @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Durham was appointed by Barr in May 2019 to examine the origins of the FBI ’ s Russia-Trump collusion investigation , code named “ Crossfire Hurricane.
” The investigation seeks to determine whether intelligence collection on the 2016 Trump campaign by top Obama-administration officials was “ lawful and appropriate , ” and is assessing whether the FBI ’ s surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page was free of improper motive .
The investigation was designated a formal criminal investigation in October 2019 , which gives Durham ’ s team the ability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jury , compel witnesses to give testimony , and bring federal criminal charges .
This includes targeting the conduct of current and former senior FBI officials who were involved in obtaining a warrant in October 2016 to surveil Page and sending at least two spies to target Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos .
Barr had signaled in May that he was not expecting former President Barrack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden to face criminal indictments as a result of Durham ’ s investigation , saying “ I don ’ t expect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a criminal investigation of either man .
Our concern over potential criminality is focused on others.
” He told Hannity on Thursday that “ if people crossed the line , if people involved in that activity violated criminal law , they will be charged ” if the Department of Justice feels that it can prove a crime beyond a reasonable doubt .
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said in July that he was expecting criminal charges to come out of Durham ’ s investigation .
The FBI ’ s Crossfire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ campaign was launched in July 2016 to investigate allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections , including possible links between Russia and any political campaigns .
The investigation was taken over in May 2017 by then-special counsel and former FBI Director Robert Mueller .
By April 2019 , he concluded that the investigation found no evidence to establish that Trump or his campaign had knowingly conspired or coordinated with the Russian government to sway the outcome of the election , although the Russian government was found to have interfered in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recently repeated his allegation that previous administration officials had spied on his campaign “ both before and after ” his presidential victory , and committed treason in doing so .
“ They spied on my campaign , which is treason .
They spied both before and after I won .
Think of that .
Using the intelligence apparatus of the United States to take down a president , ” Trump said during a live phone interview with Fox Business .
“ It ’ s the single biggest political crime in the history of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pentchoukov , and Zachary Stieber contributed to this report .

Update: U.S. Attorney John Durham on August 14 charged a former FBI attorney with making a false statement
Original story below.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said that there "will be a development" in U.S. Attorney John Durham's probe into the FBI's counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign on Friday.
"There are going to be significant developments on this before the election," Barr told Fox News host Sean Hannity Thursday night.
"But we're not doing this on the election schedule," he noted. "We're aware of the election. We're not going to do anything inappropriate before the election. But we're not being dictated to by this schedule."
Barr said that the development would not be "earth-shattering," but provide "an indication things are going along at a proper pace, as dictated by the facts in this investigation."
Barr told Hannity that the investigation is going quickly, despite some delay due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. He added that he is "satisfied" with the progress Durham has made.
Last month, Barr said that the November elections will not delay Durham's investigation and pending report.
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Durham was appointed by Barr in May 2019 to examine the origins of the FBI's Russia-Trump collusion investigation, code named "Crossfire Hurricane." The investigation seeks to determine whether intelligence collection on the 2016 Trump campaign by top Obama-administration officials was “lawful and appropriate," and is assessing whether the FBI's surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page was free of improper motive.
The investigation was designated a formal criminal investigation in October 2019, which gives Durham’s team the ability to issue subpoenas, impanel a grand jury, compel witnesses to give testimony, and bring federal criminal charges. This includes targeting the conduct of current and former senior FBI officials who were involved in obtaining a warrant in October 2016 to surveil Page and sending at least two spies to target Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.
Barr had signaled in May that he was not expecting former President Barrack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden to face criminal indictments as a result of Durham's investigation, saying "I don’t expect Mr. Durham’s work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man. Our concern over potential criminality is focused on others.”
He told Hannity on Thursday that "if people crossed the line, if people involved in that activity violated criminal law, they will be charged" if the Department of Justice feels that it can prove a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said in July that he was expecting criminal charges to come out of Durham's investigation.
The FBI's Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign was launched in July 2016 to investigate allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, including possible links between Russia and any political campaigns.
The investigation was taken over in May 2017 by then-special counsel and former FBI Director Robert Mueller. By April 2019, he concluded that the investigation found no evidence to establish that Trump or his campaign had knowingly conspired or coordinated with the Russian government to sway the outcome of the election, although the Russian government was found to have interfered in the 2016 election.
President Donald Trump recently repeated his allegation that previous administration officials had spied on his campaign "both before and after" his presidential victory, and committed treason in doing so.
"They spied on my campaign, which is treason. They spied both before and after I won. Think of that. Using the intelligence apparatus of the United States to take down a president," Trump said during a live phone interview with Fox Business.
"It’s the single biggest political crime in the history of our country."
Janita Kan, Ivan Pentchoukov, and Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.


thelibertydaily--2020-08-14--Democrats in Minneapolis Tell Residents With Riot-Wrecked Buildings They Can’t Clean Up Property Dem

Democrats in Minneapolis Tell Residents With Riot-Wrecked Buildings They Can’t Clean Up Property Democrats Allowed Rioters to Destroy Until They’ve Paid Their 2020 Property Taxes in Full

[ UPDATE : The city of Minneapolis this afternoon announced that it was going to cease requiring the paying of property taxes to get demo permits , the practice this following story discusses .
The original story follows as initially posted . ]
The city of Minneapolis suffered around 1,500 heavily damaged buildings , with 150 set fire to and dozens burned to the ground .
The city suffered half of a billion dollars in estimated damages from the riots following the police murder of George Floyd .
Defenders of government 's necessity argue that the protection of life and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government uniquely provides and for which we pay taxes , yet Minneapolis demonstrably did a terrible job on this task .
But whether the government delivers on what it promises , it will always be diligent in insisting we pay for those promises .
Today the Minneapolis Star Tribune takes a long look at one reason why the aftermath of rampant destruction , as yet untended to , continues to haunt the city .
As social scientists understand , such riot damage can have dire effects on development and poverty in an area @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one city policy in Minneapolis is ensuring , for now , that even early faltering attempts at clearing the rubble ca n't move forward in many cases .
You see , you ca n't rebuild or do anything useful with your land until you 've cleared off the rubble left on it by the rioting .
And you ca n't do that without a permit , of course .
Minneapolis is a city of order , after all .
And you ca n't get the permit without paying off your 2020 property tax @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , only around 20 wrecked buildings have been demolished , according to the city .
The city , enforcing a state law at its discretion , is holding this demand for a full tax payment over the head of property owners trying to get themselves and the city back to something approximating normal .
Owners of destroyed stores are finding they ca n't even get an estimate as to what the cleanup will cost from contractors without the permit , though the paper reports costs ranging from $ 35,000 to as much as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to get debris cleared .
The average amount owners of destroyed property owe for the second half of their 2020 tax payments is $ 25,000 , which the city demands be laid on the line before any step toward normalcy can happen .
And owners of commercial properties are now without their only source of the income with which to pay that property tax bill , as one former restaurateur lamented to local ABC station KSTP .
St. Paul , Minneapolis ' sister city , is choosing not to add injury to insult @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and clean up their destroyed property .
Hennepin County , which has the legal responsibility for enforcing the state law , told Minneapolis it would not interfere should Minneapolis choose to do the decent thing and give citizens a chance to start over , and make the city look less like a pile of rubble ( though , as the Star-Tribune story relates , city officials feel they 've gotten conflicting signals from the county on this point ) .
Minneapolis City Councilmember Andrew Johnson told the Star-Tribune that he agrees it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tax payments just to get a demo permit , but his suggested solutions are more complicated than just going ahead and giving out the permits , including asking `` city workers to look for evidence that a property is a public health hazard , which would qualify it for expedited demolition and waive the property tax requirement .
The city also has told property owners they do n't need to survey their lots as part of the demolition process , which can save them a few thousand dollars… . ''
St. Paul pharmacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saner policies to clean up and told the Star-Tribune that he : would have thought twice about rebuilding in St. Paul if the city had asked him to prepay $ 11,793 in property taxes when he applied for a demolition permit in June .
`` It would have been a little insulting , considering the circumstances , '' said Stage , who paid $ 65,000 to remove the rubble left from the destruction of Lloyd 's Pharmacy .
`` I 'd say , 'Do you really want us to build back in your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ makes you feel . ''
The state legislature neglected to officially change that aspect of state law earlier this month , but the actions of sister city St. Paul and Hennepin County show that Minneapolis should not kick the blame upstairs for enforcement actions that further harm its citizens and slow down any attempt to get the city 's commercial sector back on its feet .

[UPDATE: The city of Minneapolis this afternoon announced that it was going to cease requiring the paying of property taxes to get demo permits, the practice this following story discusses. The original story follows as initially posted.]
The city of Minneapolis suffered around 1,500 heavily damaged buildings, with 150 set fire to and dozens burned to the ground. The city suffered half of a billion dollars in estimated damages from the riots following the police murder of George Floyd.
Defenders of government's necessity argue that the protection of life and property is allegedly one of the goods government uniquely provides and for which we pay taxes, yet Minneapolis demonstrably did a terrible job on this task. But whether the government delivers on what it promises, it will always be diligent in insisting we pay for those promises.
Today the Minneapolis Star Tribune takes a long look at one reason why the aftermath of rampant destruction, as yet untended to, continues to haunt the city. As social scientists understand, such riot damage can have dire effects on development and poverty in an area for decades down the line. But one city policy in Minneapolis is ensuring, for now, that even early faltering attempts at clearing the rubble can't move forward in many cases.
You see, you can't rebuild or do anything useful with your land until you've cleared off the rubble left on it by the rioting. And you can't do that without a permit, of course. Minneapolis is a city of order, after all.
And you can't get the permit without paying off your 2020 property tax bill in full. As a result, only around 20 wrecked buildings have been demolished, according to the city.
The city, enforcing a state law at its discretion, is holding this demand for a full tax payment over the head of property owners trying to get themselves and the city back to something approximating normal. Owners of destroyed stores are finding they can't even get an estimate as to what the cleanup will cost from contractors without the permit, though the paper reports costs ranging from $35,000 to as much as $400,000 for a strip mall just to get debris cleared.
The average amount owners of destroyed property owe for the second half of their 2020 tax payments is $25,000, which the city demands be laid on the line before any step toward normalcy can happen. And owners of commercial properties are now without their only source of the income with which to pay that property tax bill, as one former restaurateur lamented to local ABC station KSTP.
St. Paul, Minneapolis' sister city, is choosing not to add injury to insult. It is letting residents go ahead and clean up their destroyed property. Hennepin County, which has the legal responsibility for enforcing the state law, told Minneapolis it would not interfere should Minneapolis choose to do the decent thing and give citizens a chance to start over, and make the city look less like a pile of rubble (though, as the Star-Tribune story relates, city officials feel they've gotten conflicting signals from the county on this point).
Minneapolis City Councilmember Andrew Johnson told the Star-Tribune that he agrees it is "outrageous" to demand full property tax payments just to get a demo permit, but his suggested solutions are more complicated than just going ahead and giving out the permits, including asking "city workers to look for evidence that a property is a public health hazard, which would qualify it for expedited demolition and waive the property tax requirement. The city also has told property owners they don't need to survey their lots as part of the demolition process, which can save them a few thousand dollars…."
St. Paul pharmacy owner Jim Stage used his city's saner policies to clean up and told the Star-Tribune that he:
would have thought twice about rebuilding in St. Paul if the city had asked him to prepay $11,793 in property taxes when he applied for a demolition permit in June. "It would have been a little insulting, considering the circumstances," said Stage, who paid $65,000 to remove the rubble left from the destruction of Lloyd's Pharmacy. "I'd say, 'Do you really want us to build back in your city?' That's how it makes you feel."
The state legislature neglected to officially change that aspect of state law earlier this month, but the actions of sister city St. Paul and Hennepin County show that Minneapolis should not kick the blame upstairs for enforcement actions that further harm its citizens and slow down any attempt to get the city's commercial sector back on its feet.


thelibertydaily--2020-08-14--Former US Official Threatens To Blow Up ‘Spygate’ by Exposing the Activities of FBI Source Stefan Ha

Former US Official Threatens To Blow Up ‘Spygate’ by Exposing the Activities of FBI Source Stefan Halper Who Spied on Trump Campaign

• A former U.S. government official is threatening to expose the activities of Stefan Halper , an FBI source who cozied up to several Trump campaign advisers as part of Crossfire Hurricane .
• President Trump coined the term “ Spygate ” in 2018 following revelations that the FBI used Halper to gather intelligence on Carter Page and George Papadopoulos .
• Steven Schrage , who served in the Bush administration , says that Halper delayed his Ph.D. work at Cambridge in order to use him to help research Trump associates .
• Schrage invited Page to the Cambridge event @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first met Halper .
A former U.S. government official who studied at the University of Cambridge under FBI informant Stefan Halper says he has the goods to expose “ Spygate , ” the term that President Donald Trump coined for the intelligence-gathering activities against his campaign .
Steven Schrage , who served as a deputy assistant secretary of state in former President George W. Bush ’ s administration , alleges that Halper used his position at Cambridge to force him to research Trump associates in 2016 under the guise of working on his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used his position of power to keep me silent and stretch out my research as well as having me research things to support his activities , ” Schrage told the Daily Caller News Foundation of Halper .
“ I believe that beyond a shadow of a doubt and have hard evidence supporting it.
” Schrage , who worked on his Cambridge Ph.D. from 2013 through 2019 , first came forward to discuss Halper on Sunday in an essay and an appearance on Fox ’ s “ Sunday Morning Futures.
” Schrage said he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other Cambridge luminaries , including former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove .
He said he believes that the “ real smoking gun ” in the Trump intelligence operation is what went on at Cambridge .
In his essay , Schrage teased information from August 2016 that “ should have immediately ended their investigation alleging Page was a master spy linking top Trump officials to Putin.
” At that point in time , the FBI was ramping up its Crossfire Hurricane investigation into several Trump campaign aides , including Carter Page , George Papadopoulos and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ general ’ s report said that FBI agents first met with Halper on Aug. 10 , 2016 to discuss using him in the Trump probe .
The report said that Halper covertly recorded Page during a meeting in Virginia on Aug. 20 , 2016 .
He taped Papadopoulos during multiple meetings in London in mid-September 2016 .
Schrage has so far been hesitant to provide specific dates or documents that will shed light on his interactions with Halper , though he says to stay tuned .
“ There is a lot more information @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he told the DCNF in a phone interview .
Schrage is who organized the July 2016 political conference where Carter Page first met Halper , he says .
His involvement in setting up the forum , which Madeleine Albright , former President Bill Clinton ’ s secretary of state also attended , has led to speculation that Schrage worked with Halper to lure Page over to England as part of an FBI spy operation .
( RELATED : EXCLUSIVE : Cambridge Prof With MI6 , CIA Ties Met With Trump Aides During Campaign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apparition in the press has also stoked skepticism among some Trump supporters who have questioned why he laid low for more than two years after Halper was outed as an FBI informant .
Schrage says that he remained out of the spotlight so that he would not tip Halper and others off to the information that he had .
“ Talking would have helped me and my family avoid smears , but hurt the mission of catching those behind it , ” he says .
Schrage denies knowing that Halper was serving as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Halper was identified as a confidential human source ( CHS ) for the bureau .
Schrage ’ s invitation to Page was reported soon after Halper was outed .
“ I had no idea he was spying on Trump officials , ” Schrage told the DCNF of Halper .
“ By every indication he was doing all this to revive his own career by ingratiating himself to the Trump team , which it now seems clear that he was , just for a hidden purpose.
” Schrage says that he invited Page to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Trump campaign represented at the Cambridge forum .
Page , who is releasing a memoir later this month , has told the DCNF that he maintained contact with Schrage after the Cambridge seminar .
He has also said he does not believe that Schrage was involved in Halper ’ s work for the FBI .
Schrage has released some evidence showing that Halper displayed interest in Flynn .
He aired audio on “ Sunday Morning Futures ” of a conversation he said he had with Halper on Jan. 10 , 2017 discussing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump administration .
According to Schrage , Halper told him that Flynn was “ fucked ” and that he didn ’ t think Flynn was “ going to be around long.
” In his essay , Schrage also cited an earlier conversation he had with Halper at an unspecified date in which he told the professor that Flynn was “ indispensable ” to the Trump campaign and that removing him would be like “ decapitating ” the campaign .
“ I had no idea I had been unintentionally aiding a spy preparing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such a beheading , ” wrote Schrage .
The University of Cambridge , its staff and students have stayed silent amid revelations about Halper .
Prior to Schrage coming forward , only Svetlana Lokhova , a former Cambridge researcher , has blown the whistle on the activities of Halper and other Cambridge figures .
Lokhova , who was born in Russia but is a British citizen , says she was collateral damage in a smear campaign against Flynn that centered around his visit to Cambridge in February 2014 , when he served as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stories about an allegedly lurid encounter between Lokhova and Flynn first appeared in an essay that Christopher Andrew , Lokhova ’ s Cambridge mentor , published in the Sunday Times in February 2014 .
The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian reported the following month that Flynn ’ s interactions with Lokhova drew the attention of U.S. and British intelligence agencies .
No evidence has emerged to support the allegation of improper contacts between Lokhova and Flynn .
And a Pentagon aide to Flynn told The Journal for its story that he did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ event .
Schrage said that he was not aware of any rumors regarding Lokhova .
He also said he did not hear of anything derogatory regarding Flynn until after the conference he hosted in 2016 , more than two years after Flynn visited Cambridge .
“ No rumors of any impropriety involving Flynn that I was aware of until after my conference , ” he told the DCNF .
Christopher Steele , the former British spy who wrote the anti-Trump dossier , also peddled salacious rumors about Flynn that appear similar to those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ event .
Steele , who studied at Cambridge in the 1980s , told David Kramer , a former State Department official who gave the dossier to BuzzFeed , that he heard a rumor that Flynn had an extramarital affair with a Russian woman in the United Kingdom .
( RELATED : Dossier Author Told John McCain Aide Of Unfounded Rumor About Michael Flynn ) An unidentified FBI informant also shared the rumor with the bureau at some point in 2016 , according to a Jan. 4 , 2017 memo regarding the Flynn investigation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sir Richard Dearlove , the former MI6 chief , is key to unraveling Cambridge ’ s role in Spygate .
Dearlove , Halper and Christopher Andrew , the mentor to Lokhova , operated the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar through late 2016 .
Schrage says that Halper and Dearlove also approached Page at his political symposium , which was held from July 10-12 , 2016 .
“ Halper seemed to put Dearlove on a pedestal , and he seemed to be the most important person to him at Cambridge , ” Schrage told the DCNF @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Halper and Steele .
Steele , who was a top Russia officer at MI6 through 2009 , reportedly briefed Dearlove in late 2016 about his investigation of Trump associates .
The Washington Post has reported that Dearlove advised Steele to provide his information about Trump to British and U.S. authorities .
Whether Halper and Steele were aware of the others ’ activities is unknown .
Halper and Steele may have another connection through Vyacheslav Trubnikov , the former head of SVR , Russia ’ s foreign intelligence agency .
Trubnikov appeared at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ co-convener , in 2012 and 2015 .
And FBI transcripts show Halper boasted about his links to Trubnikov over drinks with Papadopoulos in London on Sept. 15 , 2016 .
As part of his FBI cover , Halper paid Papadopoulos $ 3,000 to write a paper on the energy industry in the Middle East .
Trubnikov may have been an indirect source for information in Steele ’ s dossier .
Steele ’ s first dossier memo , dated June 20 , 2016 , cites a former Russian intelligence officer who said that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Notes from Steele ’ s Oct. 11 , 2016 meeting at the State Department identify Trubnikov as a source of some sort , though it is not clear what information he might have provided .
Halper also hosted his own FBI handler , Steven Somma , at the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar in 2011 .
The Justice Department inspector general ’ s report criticizes Somma ( referred to as “ Case Agent 1 ” ) as being “ primarily responsible ” for many of the errors in the Crossfire Hurricane probe .
The IG @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Halper ’ s handler in 2011 after the FBI briefly cut ties with Halper over his “ aggressiveness ” towards his previous handler .
The report also said that Halper showed “ questionable allegiance ” to the target of an ongoing intelligence probe .
Somma was central to several aspects of Crossfire Hurricane .
In addition to working as Halper ’ s handler , Somma was the first agent at the bureau to propose surveilling Carter Page .
He also took part in interviews in January 2017 with Igor Danchenko , the primary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criticized the interview participants for failing to disclose that Danchenko undercut the reliability of Steele ’ s information .
The IG report also pins blame on Somma for withholding exculpatory evidence from Halper ’ s covertly recorded conversations with Page and Papadopoulos .
Both Trump aides indicated that they had no knowledge of Russia ’ s election interference , but the FBI failed to disclose those denials in applications to surveil Page .
Cambridge has repeatedly declined comment regarding Halper ’ s activities at the school .
The few Cambridge faculty and students @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comment on anything related to Halper or Dearlove .
The Washington Post reported in June 2018 that Cambridge personnel were instructed to not discuss Halper or any of his activities .
Halper ’ s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment about Schrage ’ s comments .
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A former U.S. government official is threatening to expose the activities of Stefan Halper, an FBI source who cozied up to several Trump campaign advisers as part of Crossfire Hurricane.
President Trump coined the term “Spygate” in 2018 following revelations that the FBI used Halper to gather intelligence on Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
Steven Schrage, who served in the Bush administration, says that Halper delayed his Ph.D. work at Cambridge in order to use him to help research Trump associates.
Schrage invited Page to the Cambridge event in July 2016 where the Trump aide first met Halper.
A former U.S. government official who studied at the University of Cambridge under FBI informant Stefan Halper says he has the goods to expose “Spygate,” the term that President Donald Trump coined for the intelligence-gathering activities against his campaign.
Steven Schrage, who served as a deputy assistant secretary of state in former President George W. Bush’s administration, alleges that Halper used his position at Cambridge to force him to research Trump associates in 2016 under the guise of working on his dissertation.
“I definitely believe he used his position of power to keep me silent and stretch out my research as well as having me research things to support his activities,” Schrage told the Daily Caller News Foundation of Halper.
“I believe that beyond a shadow of a doubt and have hard evidence supporting it.”
Schrage, who worked on his Cambridge Ph.D. from 2013 through 2019, first came forward to discuss Halper on Sunday in an essay and an appearance on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Schrage said he plans to release information about Halper and other Cambridge luminaries, including former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove. He said he believes that the “real smoking gun” in the Trump intelligence operation is what went on at Cambridge.
In his essay, Schrage teased information from August 2016 that “should have immediately ended their investigation alleging Page was a master spy linking top Trump officials to Putin.” At that point in time, the FBI was ramping up its Crossfire Hurricane investigation into several Trump campaign aides, including Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn.
A Justice Department inspector general’s report said that FBI agents first met with Halper on Aug. 10, 2016 to discuss using him in the Trump probe. The report said that Halper covertly recorded Page during a meeting in Virginia on Aug. 20, 2016. He taped Papadopoulos during multiple meetings in London in mid-September 2016.
Schrage has so far been hesitant to provide specific dates or documents that will shed light on his interactions with Halper, though he says to stay tuned.
“There is a lot more information that will be coming out,” he told the DCNF in a phone interview.
Schrage is who organized the July 2016 political conference where Carter Page first met Halper, he says.
His involvement in setting up the forum, which Madeleine Albright, former President Bill Clinton’s secretary of state also attended, has led to speculation that Schrage worked with Halper to lure Page over to England as part of an FBI spy operation. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Cambridge Prof With MI6, CIA Ties Met With Trump Aides During Campaign, Beyond)
Schrage’s sudden apparition in the press has also stoked skepticism among some Trump supporters who have questioned why he laid low for more than two years after Halper was outed as an FBI informant.
Schrage says that he remained out of the spotlight so that he would not tip Halper and others off to the information that he had.
“Talking would have helped me and my family avoid smears, but hurt the mission of catching those behind it,” he says.
Schrage denies knowing that Halper was serving as an FBI informant until 2018, when Halper was identified as a confidential human source (CHS) for the bureau. Schrage’s invitation to Page was reported soon after Halper was outed.
“I had no idea he was spying on Trump officials,” Schrage told the DCNF of Halper. “By every indication he was doing all this to revive his own career by ingratiating himself to the Trump team, which it now seems clear that he was, just for a hidden purpose.”
Schrage says that he invited Page to Cambridge in order to have someone from the Trump campaign represented at the Cambridge forum.
Page, who is releasing a memoir later this month, has told the DCNF that he maintained contact with Schrage after the Cambridge seminar. He has also said he does not believe that Schrage was involved in Halper’s work for the FBI.
Schrage has released some evidence showing that Halper displayed interest in Flynn. He aired audio on “Sunday Morning Futures” of a conversation he said he had with Halper on Jan. 10, 2017 discussing Flynn’s future role in the Trump administration.
According to Schrage, Halper told him that Flynn was “fucked” and that he didn’t think Flynn was “going to be around long.”
In his essay, Schrage also cited an earlier conversation he had with Halper at an unspecified date in which he told the professor that Flynn was “indispensable” to the Trump campaign and that removing him would be like “decapitating” the campaign.
“I had no idea I had been unintentionally aiding a spy preparing the guillotine and helping lead Flynn to exactly such a beheading,” wrote Schrage.
The University of Cambridge, its staff and students have stayed silent amid revelations about Halper.
Prior to Schrage coming forward, only Svetlana Lokhova, a former Cambridge researcher, has blown the whistle on the activities of Halper and other Cambridge figures.
Lokhova, who was born in Russia but is a British citizen, says she was collateral damage in a smear campaign against Flynn that centered around his visit to Cambridge in February 2014, when he served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Stories about an allegedly lurid encounter between Lokhova and Flynn first appeared in an essay that Christopher Andrew, Lokhova’s Cambridge mentor, published in the Sunday Times in February 2014. The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian reported the following month that Flynn’s interactions with Lokhova drew the attention of U.S. and British intelligence agencies.
No evidence has emerged to support the allegation of improper contacts between Lokhova and Flynn. And a Pentagon aide to Flynn told The Journal for its story that he did not see anything suspicious during the Cambridge event.
Schrage said that he was not aware of any rumors regarding Lokhova. He also said he did not hear of anything derogatory regarding Flynn until after the conference he hosted in 2016, more than two years after Flynn visited Cambridge.
“No rumors of any impropriety involving Flynn that I was aware of until after my conference,” he told the DCNF.
Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the anti-Trump dossier, also peddled salacious rumors about Flynn that appear similar to those floated about Lokhova and the 2014 Cambridge event.
Steele, who studied at Cambridge in the 1980s, told David Kramer, a former State Department official who gave the dossier to BuzzFeed, that he heard a rumor that Flynn had an extramarital affair with a Russian woman in the United Kingdom. (RELATED: Dossier Author Told John McCain Aide Of Unfounded Rumor About Michael Flynn)
An unidentified FBI informant also shared the rumor with the bureau at some point in 2016, according to a Jan. 4, 2017 memo regarding the Flynn investigation.
In Schrage’s telling, Sir Richard Dearlove, the former MI6 chief, is key to unraveling Cambridge’s role in Spygate.
Dearlove, Halper and Christopher Andrew, the mentor to Lokhova, operated the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar through late 2016. Schrage says that Halper and Dearlove also approached Page at his political symposium, which was held from July 10-12, 2016.
“Halper seemed to put Dearlove on a pedestal, and he seemed to be the most important person to him at Cambridge,” Schrage told the DCNF.
Dearlove is also a link between Halper and Steele.
Steele, who was a top Russia officer at MI6 through 2009, reportedly briefed Dearlove in late 2016 about his investigation of Trump associates. The Washington Post has reported that Dearlove advised Steele to provide his information about Trump to British and U.S. authorities.
Whether Halper and Steele were aware of the others’ activities is unknown.
Halper and Steele may have another connection through Vyacheslav Trubnikov, the former head of SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency.
Trubnikov appeared at the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, where Halper was co-convener, in 2012 and 2015. And FBI transcripts show Halper boasted about his links to Trubnikov over drinks with Papadopoulos in London on Sept. 15, 2016. As part of his FBI cover, Halper paid Papadopoulos $3,000 to write a paper on the energy industry in the Middle East.
Trubnikov may have been an indirect source for information in Steele’s dossier. Steele’s first dossier memo, dated June 20, 2016, cites a former Russian intelligence officer who said that the Kremlin had blackmail material on Trump. Notes from Steele’s Oct. 11, 2016 meeting at the State Department identify Trubnikov as a source of some sort, though it is not clear what information he might have provided.
Halper also hosted his own FBI handler, Steven Somma, at the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar in 2011.
The Justice Department inspector general’s report criticizes Somma (referred to as “Case Agent 1”) as being “primarily responsible” for many of the errors in the Crossfire Hurricane probe. The IG report said that Somma took over as Halper’s handler in 2011 after the FBI briefly cut ties with Halper over his “aggressiveness” towards his previous handler. The report also said that Halper showed “questionable allegiance” to the target of an ongoing intelligence probe.
Somma was central to several aspects of Crossfire Hurricane. In addition to working as Halper’s handler, Somma was the first agent at the bureau to propose surveilling Carter Page. He also took part in interviews in January 2017 with Igor Danchenko, the primary source for Steele.
The IG report criticized the interview participants for failing to disclose that Danchenko undercut the reliability of Steele’s information.
The IG report also pins blame on Somma for withholding exculpatory evidence from Halper’s covertly recorded conversations with Page and Papadopoulos. Both Trump aides indicated that they had no knowledge of Russia’s election interference, but the FBI failed to disclose those denials in applications to surveil Page.
Cambridge has repeatedly declined comment regarding Halper’s activities at the school. The few Cambridge faculty and students who the DCNF has reached have declined comment on anything related to Halper or Dearlove. The Washington Post reported in June 2018 that Cambridge personnel were instructed to not discuss Halper or any of his activities.
Halper’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment about Schrage’s comments.
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thelibertydaily--2020-08-14--Slain DHS Whistleblower Philip Haney Not Resting in Peace

Is the FBI withholding evidence until after the election ?
Through his work in the Middle East , Philip Haney gained deep knowledge of Islam , jihad , and terrorist networks around the world .
In 2016 , Philip Haney authored See Something Say Nothing : A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government 's Submission to Jihad .
Haney was reportedly at work on a sequel , which has yet to appear .
On February 21 , 2020 , Haney was found dead from a gunshot wound in Amador County , California .
Haney ’ s friends denied he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had been murdered .
CNN set the tone for the way establishment media would cover the case .
“ Haney ’ s controversial accusations that the Obama administration could have prevented terrorist attacks were polarizing among Americans , ” Laura Hoy reported on February 23 .
Hoy had no take on whether Haney ’ s accusations were true , and she included no citations from Haney ’ s book or his Frontpage articles such as , “ Deobond Attacks in San Bernardino , Sri Lanka , ” and “ The Terrorist Ties that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Haney ’ s death is likely to become political ammo for Republicans heading into the 2020 presidential elections.
” That raises questions about another key player in the case .
In February , the Amador County sheriff reached out to the FBI “ to assist in analyzing documents , phone records , numerous thumb drives and a laptop that were recovered from the scene and Mr. Haney ’ s RV.
” Nearly six months later , the FBI has yet to deliver , and as the election looms , so do troubling revelations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the FBI and DOJ spearheaded the coup attempt against President Trump .
FBI counterintelligence boss Peter Strzok ran both the Midyear Exam and Crossfire Hurricane operations .
FBI boss James Comey sent agents to set a perjury trap for Gen. Michael Flynn , whose legal woes continue .
The FBI targeted Trump adviser Carter Page and FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith altered a crucial document to cover up FBI misconduct in FISA applications .
Clinesmith was on the team of special counsel Robert Mueller , former director of the FBI .
On Mueller @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hundreds of counterterrorism training documents going back to September 11 , 2001 .
This was the kind of activity Philip Haney set out to expose .
As he explained in The Hill on May 5 , 2016 , the Department of Homeland Security ordered him “ to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database , the Treasury Enforcement Communications System ( TECS ) .
” After Haney ’ s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2016 , Sen. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Secretary from 2013-17 , if Haney ’ s testimony was accurate .
“ I have no idea .
I don ’ t know who Mr. Haney is , ” Johnson replied .
“ I wouldn ’ t know him if he walked into the room.
” Haney said DHS investigated him nine times and revoked his security clearance .
The Department of Justice charged that Haney “ misused a government computer , ” charges later dropped .
Friends of Haney told the California Globe he was considering a return to DHS and preparing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 election season .
Neither prospect would please those who had opposed the whistleblower ’ s revelations on Islamic jihadists .
The Haney case also raises issues for FBI boss Christopher Wray , a Yale law alum who like Mueller and Comey never attended the FBI Academy .
While Wray was assistant attorney general from 2003 to 2005 , James Comey was the deputy attorney general and Robert Mueller headed the FBI .
Both threatened to resign when President Bush planned to renew the NSA ’ s Terrorist Surveillance Program , and Wray @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Attorney General William Barr agreed there had been “ spying ” on the Trump campaign , Christopher Wray told senators “ that ’ s not the term I would use.
” And as Wray told Sen. Lindsey Graham , “ I do not consider Director Mueller to be on a witch hunt , ” and told Sen. Dianne Feinstein “ I ’ m very committed to supporting Director Mueller in the special counsel investigation.
” On the other hand , Wray has not been very committed to John Durham ’ s investigation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been slow to emerge , and not a single FBI or DOJ player is facing criminal charges .
If nothing emerges before the election , key players may get away with major crimes .
In the Haney case , somebody could possibly get away with murder .
Few knew more about Islamic jihadists than Philip Haney , and few if any were more willing to expose their networks and supporters .
So jihadists and their supporters had ample motive to target Haney .
The material in Haney ’ s documents , laptop and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possibly flag potential suspects .
Nearly six months after Haney ’ s death by gunshot , the Amador County sheriff is still waiting for the FBI analysis .
If anybody thought the FBI was delaying until after the election to avoid providing “ political ammo for Republicans ” it would be hard to blame them .
And if someone in the FBI tampered with evidence or destroyed evidence , it would hardly be the first time .
According to the DOJ Inspector General , the mobile phones of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clean .
A records officer did not review Lisa Page ’ s phone “ for records that would possibly need to be retained prior to the phone having been reset .
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Through his work in the Middle East, Philip Haney gained deep knowledge of Islam, jihad, and terrorist networks around the world. In 2016, Philip Haney authored See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad. Haney was reportedly at work on a sequel, which has yet to appear.
On February 21, 2020, Haney was found dead from a gunshot wound in Amador County, California. Haney’s friends denied he was suicidal, and some were certain he had been murdered. CNN set the tone for the way establishment media would cover the case.
“Haney’s controversial accusations that the Obama administration could have prevented terrorist attacks were polarizing among Americans,” Laura Hoy reported on February 23. Hoy had no take on whether Haney’s accusations were true, and she included no citations from Haney’s book or his Frontpage articles such as, “Deobond Attacks in San Bernardino, Sri Lanka,” and “The Terrorist Ties that Bind.”
As Hoy explained, “Haney’s death is likely to become political ammo for Republicans heading into the 2020 presidential elections.” That raises questions about another key player in the case.
In February, the Amador County sheriff reached out to the FBI “to assist in analyzing documents, phone records, numerous thumb drives and a laptop that were recovered from the scene and Mr. Haney’s RV.” Nearly six months later, the FBI has yet to deliver, and as the election looms, so do troubling revelations about the FBI.
The upper reaches of the FBI and DOJ spearheaded the coup attempt against President Trump. FBI counterintelligence boss Peter Strzok ran both the Midyear Exam and Crossfire Hurricane operations. FBI boss James Comey sent agents to set a perjury trap for Gen. Michael Flynn, whose legal woes continue. The FBI targeted Trump adviser Carter Page and FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith altered a crucial document to cover up FBI misconduct in FISA applications.
Clinesmith was on the team of special counsel Robert Mueller, former director of the FBI. On Mueller’s watch, the FBI removed hundreds of counterterrorism training documents going back to September 11, 2001. This was the kind of activity Philip Haney set out to expose.
As he explained in The Hill on May 5, 2016, the Department of Homeland Security ordered him “to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS).”
After Haney’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz asked Jeh Johnson, DHS Secretary from 2013-17, if Haney’s testimony was accurate. “I have no idea. I don’t know who Mr. Haney is,” Johnson replied. “I wouldn’t know him if he walked into the room.” Haney said DHS investigated him nine times and revoked his security clearance. The Department of Justice charged that Haney “misused a government computer,” charges later dropped.
Friends of Haney told the California Globe he was considering a return to DHS and preparing to go on the road during the 2020 election season. Neither prospect would please those who had opposed the whistleblower’s revelations on Islamic jihadists. The Haney case also raises issues for FBI boss Christopher Wray, a Yale law alum who like Mueller and Comey never attended the FBI Academy.
While Wray was assistant attorney general from 2003 to 2005, James Comey was the deputy attorney general and Robert Mueller headed the FBI. Both threatened to resign when President Bush planned to renew the NSA’s Terrorist Surveillance Program, and Wray threatened to resign with them.
When Attorney General William Barr agreed there had been “spying” on the Trump campaign, Christopher Wray told senators “that’s not the term I would use.” And as Wray told Sen. Lindsey Graham, “I do not consider Director Mueller to be on a witch hunt,” and told Sen. Dianne Feinstein “I’m very committed to supporting Director Mueller in the special counsel investigation.” On the other hand, Wray has not been very committed to John Durham’s investigation of the coup plotters.
FBI documents have been slow to emerge, and not a single FBI or DOJ player is facing criminal charges. If nothing emerges before the election, key players may get away with major crimes. In the Haney case, somebody could possibly get away with murder.
Few knew more about Islamic jihadists than Philip Haney, and few if any were more willing to expose their networks and supporters. So jihadists and their supporters had ample motive to target Haney. The material in Haney’s documents, laptop and thumb drives could be quickly recovered and possibly flag potential suspects. Nearly six months after Haney’s death by gunshot, the Amador County sheriff is still waiting for the FBI analysis.
If anybody thought the FBI was delaying until after the election to avoid providing “political ammo for Republicans” it would be hard to blame them. And if someone in the FBI tampered with evidence or destroyed evidence, it would hardly be the first time.
According to the DOJ Inspector General, the mobile phones of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were “reset,” meaning scrubbed clean. A records officer did not review Lisa Page’s phone “for records that would possibly need to be retained prior to the phone having been reset.”
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thelibertydaily--2020-08-14--A Century Ago, a Citizen Army Stopped a Soviet Communist Takeover of Europe

Communism arose in a time of pandemic and war .
In 1918 , the Bolshevik party led by V. I. Lenin seized control of Russia amid a world numbed by the slaughter of a world war and the seemingly unstoppable spread of influenza .
Promising a utopia of equality , the communist message proved seductive to many in Europe and America .
In the summer of 1920 , having defeated his most serious internal foes , Lenin decided to launch a full-scale invasion of Europe to spread communism all across the continent .
Soviet communism proved anything but a utopian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bolsheviks brutally eliminated their political opponents on both left and right , sparking a four-year civil war that killed several million people in Russia and neighboring lands .
Tsarist autocracy had a justified reputation for cruelty and in the half century preceding the Revolution , it had executed almost 6000 people and exiled tens of thousands to Siberia .
Yet in just four years , Lenin ’ s communist regime carried out at least thirty times as many death sentences , not counting hundreds of thousands murdered in extrajudicial killings .
Despite this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ West grew as left-wing groups mobilized to help the Bolsheviks abroad and imitate their success at home .
By early 1920 , White armies were in full retreat and Western resolve to oppose communism faded .
To Russia ’ s west , Germany ’ s defeat and Austria-Hungary ’ s collapse allowed the emergence of newly independent nations from Finland to Hungary .
As long as White armies had posed a threat to the Bolshevik regime , Lenin had been content to let these new countries alone .
Now , with a reorganized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million he turned his eyes West .
His main objective was Germany .
The birthplace of Karl Marx had been disrupted by revolts and unrest and had one of Europe ’ s strongest communist movements .
Germany appeared ripe for revolution that could be easily achieved with the help of the Red Army .
In the spring of 1920 , the Soviets issued orders for a massive western offensive .
To reach central Europe , however , the Red Army would first have to overrun newly independent Poland which recovered its independence in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
With its economy and infrastructure wrecked by four years of war and occupation , Poland was in rough shape and its situation was made even worse by widespread famine and epidemics of influenza and typhus .
Its leader , socialist Józef Piłsudski , saw a resurgent Russia under Lenin as his country ’ s greatest threat and tried without success to create a confederation with the Baltic States and Ukraine to resist communist expansion .
Despite this , the Poles were determined to resist Soviet invasion .
As the Red Army began @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into Europe , Piłsudski decided on a pre-emptive attack , sending the Polish Army into Ukraine .
His plan was to drive out the Red Army and create an independent Ukraine under Symon Petliura that would be a bulwark against the Reds .
At first the attack seemed to succeed , and the Reds abandoned Kiev in early May .
But the Poles failed to destroy a significant portion of the Red Army which simply withdrew eastward .
The majority of Ukrainians , exhausted and terrorized by years of war , proved just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as they had toward the Reds or Whites .
The Soviets turned the incident into a propaganda victory , claiming to be the victims of Polish aggression .
In the summer of 1920 , Lenin launched his offensive with two massive army groups .
Gen. Mikhail Tukhachevsky , a violent nihilist but also the Red Army ’ s best general , led the Northern Front advancing from Belarus .
The Southern Front , led by Alexander Yegorov , was spearheaded by a corps of 16,000 Red Cossacks commanded by Semyon Budyonny and his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ armies despite being outnumbered and ill-equipped had some key advantages .
They were often more disciplined and had a better air force .
Polish fliers were joined by a group of American volunteers , led by Cedric Fauntelroy and Merian Cooper .
In addition , Polish cryptologists had broken Red Army radio codes .
In July , Tukhachevsky ’ s army broke through Polish lines and began its drive westward .
In the south , Budyonny ’ s Cossacks forced the Poles back .
Unlike most fighting in World War I , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rapid maneuver often using cavalry , but also armored trains and small units of motorized vehicles .
By the beginning of August 1920 , hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers bore down on the gates of Warsaw while in the south Red Cossacks , swarmed toward the city of Lwow .
The Soviet advance was accompanied by murder , rape , and destruction .
The communists killed landowners , clergy , prisoners of war , business people , and anyone suspected of being a capitalist .
Towns and villages were systematically wrecked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the universal calling card of a visit by Red soldiers was shit—on furniture , on paintings , on beds , on carpets , in books , in drawers , on plates.
” Poland seemed doomed and with the fall of her capital the gates of Europe would be opened .
In the West , communist sympathizers blocked both military and humanitarian aid for Poland , stopping trains and refusing to unload ships .
The French sent a small group of military advisors who provided no useful advice .
Unrest and exhaustion at home @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Europe ’ s leaders .
Yet all was not lost .
In Warsaw and throughout the country tens of thousands of civilians joined volunteer units .
Groups of workers and Orthodox Jews mobilized to build a ring of defenses around the city .
In the south , Polish and American pilots , flying mission after mission , harassed and disrupted advancing Red Forces .
The Americans were singled out for their courage , one Polish report stating “ The American aviators , although exhausted , fought like madmen.
” The Americans were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ put a price on their heads and a death sentence for their officers if captured alive .
Meanwhile , Piłsudski conceived of a daring plan to save his country .
As the Reds advanced on Warsaw , he placed one force to blunt the Soviet advance while he secretly shifted a strike force of his best divisions to the south of the city toward the exposed flank of Tukhachevsky ’ s onrushing army .
On August 12 , the Red Army began its assault .
Tukhachevsky declared “ Over the corpse of White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
” Masses of Bolsheviks broke through the first line of Warsaw ’ s defense .
Volunteer units made up of workers , peasants , boy scouts , and women joined the defense .
Priests armed only with crucifixes led counterattacks .
The town of Radzymin , just 20 km from Warsaw , changed hands five times in hand to hand fighting .
For three days , the defenses barely held on , pinning down the bulk of Tukhachevsky ’ s men .
On August 16 , with the Red Army just miles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ force into action , hitting the lightly defended Soviet left flank .
The surprise was complete .
Polish forces advanced almost 30 miles in the first day , cutting off the Bolshevik spearheads .
It took Tukhachevsky almost two days to realize what had happened as his army began to collapse .
Some units surrendered enmasse , others fled across the border into Prussia , others turned into a panicked mob .
In the south , the Poles counterattacked Budyonny and Stalin ’ s Red Cossacks and nearly annihilated them .
( Stalin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Poles and would later take his revenge by ordering the mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Poles . )
By October , any hope of a communist advance into central Europe had vanished and Lenin agreed to a ceasefire .
During the fighting , the American pilot Merian Cooper was shot down and captured by Red Cossacks .
Despite the price on his head , he concealed his identity from his captors and survived a mock execution .
With two Polish comrades , he escaped a POW camp and made his way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to free Latvia .
Awarded Poland ’ s highest military decoration , Cooper returned to the United States where he became a noted movie director , most famously directing King Kong .
His experiences in the war made him one of Hollywood ’ s staunchest anti-communists .
As a result of the Battle of Warsaw , the communist “ utopia ” would be locked inside Russia for almost two decades , its leaders becoming ever more extreme , paranoid , and violent .
A brief , wary interlude of peace settled over Europe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Germany which would once again set the world ablaze and allow the Soviets to revive their dream of worldwide conflagration .
Temporary though it was , the Polish victory a century ago proved that the march of communism is not inevitable and that with determination and courage , free people can prevail even when the odds seem overwhelming and all hope seems lost .
The author is professor of history at the University of Alaska .

Communism arose in a time of pandemic and war. In 1918, the Bolshevik party led by V. I. Lenin seized control of Russia amid a world numbed by the slaughter of a world war and the seemingly unstoppable spread of influenza. Promising a utopia of equality, the communist message proved seductive to many in Europe and America. In the summer of 1920, having defeated his most serious internal foes, Lenin decided to launch a full-scale invasion of Europe to spread communism all across the continent.
Soviet communism proved anything but a utopian “worker’s paradise.” The Bolsheviks brutally eliminated their political opponents on both left and right, sparking a four-year civil war that killed several million people in Russia and neighboring lands. Tsarist autocracy had a justified reputation for cruelty and in the half century preceding the Revolution, it had executed almost 6000 people and exiled tens of thousands to Siberia. Yet in just four years, Lenin’s communist regime carried out at least thirty times as many death sentences, not counting hundreds of thousands murdered in extrajudicial killings. Despite this, support for the Soviets in the West grew as left-wing groups mobilized to help the Bolsheviks abroad and imitate their success at home.
By early 1920, White armies were in full retreat and Western resolve to oppose communism faded. To Russia’s west, Germany’s defeat and Austria-Hungary’s collapse allowed the emergence of newly independent nations from Finland to Hungary. As long as White armies had posed a threat to the Bolshevik regime, Lenin had been content to let these new countries alone. Now, with a reorganized and victorious Red Army numbering over 5 million he turned his eyes West. His main objective was Germany. The birthplace of Karl Marx had been disrupted by revolts and unrest and had one of Europe’s strongest communist movements. Germany appeared ripe for revolution that could be easily achieved with the help of the Red Army. In the spring of 1920, the Soviets issued orders for a massive western offensive.
To reach central Europe, however, the Red Army would first have to overrun newly independent Poland which recovered its independence in 1918 after 123 years of foreign subjugation. With its economy and infrastructure wrecked by four years of war and occupation, Poland was in rough shape and its situation was made even worse by widespread famine and epidemics of influenza and typhus. Its leader, socialist Józef Piłsudski, saw a resurgent Russia under Lenin as his country’s greatest threat and tried without success to create a confederation with the Baltic States and Ukraine to resist communist expansion. Despite this, the Poles were determined to resist Soviet invasion.
As the Red Army began to transfer forces west for its push into Europe, Piłsudski decided on a pre-emptive attack, sending the Polish Army into Ukraine. His plan was to drive out the Red Army and create an independent Ukraine under Symon Petliura that would be a bulwark against the Reds. At first the attack seemed to succeed, and the Reds abandoned Kiev in early May. But the Poles failed to destroy a significant portion of the Red Army which simply withdrew eastward. The majority of Ukrainians, exhausted and terrorized by years of war, proved just as apathetic toward the Polish-supported Petliura government as they had toward the Reds or Whites. The Soviets turned the incident into a propaganda victory, claiming to be the victims of Polish aggression.
In the summer of 1920, Lenin launched his offensive with two massive army groups. Gen. Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a violent nihilist but also the Red Army’s best general, led the Northern Front advancing from Belarus. The Southern Front, led by Alexander Yegorov, was spearheaded by a corps of 16,000 Red Cossacks commanded by Semyon Budyonny and his political commissar Josef Stalin. The Polish armies despite being outnumbered and ill-equipped had some key advantages. They were often more disciplined and had a better air force. Polish fliers were joined by a group of American volunteers, led by Cedric Fauntelroy and Merian Cooper. In addition, Polish cryptologists had broken Red Army radio codes.
In July, Tukhachevsky’s army broke through Polish lines and began its drive westward. In the south, Budyonny’s Cossacks forced the Poles back. Unlike most fighting in World War I, the Polish-Soviet war would be a war of rapid maneuver often using cavalry, but also armored trains and small units of motorized vehicles.
By the beginning of August 1920, hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers bore down on the gates of Warsaw while in the south Red Cossacks, swarmed toward the city of Lwow. The Soviet advance was accompanied by murder, rape, and destruction. The communists killed landowners, clergy, prisoners of war, business people, and anyone suspected of being a capitalist. Towns and villages were systematically wrecked. According to author Adam Zamoyski “the universal calling card of a visit by Red soldiers was shit—on furniture, on paintings, on beds, on carpets, in books, in drawers, on plates.”
Poland seemed doomed and with the fall of her capital the gates of Europe would be opened. In the West, communist sympathizers blocked both military and humanitarian aid for Poland, stopping trains and refusing to unload ships. The French sent a small group of military advisors who provided no useful advice. Unrest and exhaustion at home and communist agitation at home paralyzed most of Europe’s leaders.
Yet all was not lost. In Warsaw and throughout the country tens of thousands of civilians joined volunteer units. Groups of workers and Orthodox Jews mobilized to build a ring of defenses around the city. In the south, Polish and American pilots, flying mission after mission, harassed and disrupted advancing Red Forces. The Americans were singled out for their courage, one Polish report stating “The American aviators, although exhausted, fought like madmen.” The Americans were singled out the Soviets as well who put a price on their heads and a death sentence for their officers if captured alive. Meanwhile, Piłsudski conceived of a daring plan to save his country. As the Reds advanced on Warsaw, he placed one force to blunt the Soviet advance while he secretly shifted a strike force of his best divisions to the south of the city toward the exposed flank of Tukhachevsky’s onrushing army.
On August 12, the Red Army began its assault. Tukhachevsky declared “Over the corpse of White Poland lies the path to worldwide revolution!” Masses of Bolsheviks broke through the first line of Warsaw’s defense. Volunteer units made up of workers, peasants, boy scouts, and women joined the defense. Priests armed only with crucifixes led counterattacks. The town of Radzymin, just 20 km from Warsaw, changed hands five times in hand to hand fighting. For three days, the defenses barely held on, pinning down the bulk of Tukhachevsky’s men.
On August 16, with the Red Army just miles from Warsaw, Piłsudski ordered his strike force into action, hitting the lightly defended Soviet left flank. The surprise was complete. Polish forces advanced almost 30 miles in the first day, cutting off the Bolshevik spearheads. It took Tukhachevsky almost two days to realize what had happened as his army began to collapse. Some units surrendered enmasse, others fled across the border into Prussia, others turned into a panicked mob. In the south, the Poles counterattacked Budyonny and Stalin’s Red Cossacks and nearly annihilated them. (Stalin would never forget this loss to the Poles and would later take his revenge by ordering the mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Poles.) By October, any hope of a communist advance into central Europe had vanished and Lenin agreed to a ceasefire.
During the fighting, the American pilot Merian Cooper was shot down and captured by Red Cossacks. Despite the price on his head, he concealed his identity from his captors and survived a mock execution. With two Polish comrades, he escaped a POW camp and made his way through hundreds of miles of hostile territory to free Latvia. Awarded Poland’s highest military decoration, Cooper returned to the United States where he became a noted movie director, most famously directing King Kong. His experiences in the war made him one of Hollywood’s staunchest anti-communists.
As a result of the Battle of Warsaw, the communist “utopia” would be locked inside Russia for almost two decades, its leaders becoming ever more extreme, paranoid, and violent. A brief, wary interlude of peace settled over Europe, lasting until rise of Nazism in Germany which would once again set the world ablaze and allow the Soviets to revive their dream of worldwide conflagration. Temporary though it was, the Polish victory a century ago proved that the march of communism is not inevitable and that with determination and courage, free people can prevail even when the odds seem overwhelming and all hope seems lost.
The author is professor of history at the University of Alaska.


thelibertydaily--2020-08-14--No Wonder She Likes Sexual Predator Joe Biden: Phony Kamala Harris Enabled Sexual Harassment Through

No Wonder She Likes Sexual Predator Joe Biden: Phony Kamala Harris Enabled Sexual Harassment Throughout Her Career

Now she can do it for Joe Biden .
Daniel Greenfield , a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center , is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism .
“ The Democratic Party has become an enabler to sexual predators , '' Tara Reade , Biden 's former Senate staffer , who accused him of sexual assault , recently told an interviewer .
In May , Reade revealed that she tried to get Kamala Harris to listen .
`` Kamala Harris is my representative , so I tried to reach out to her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wanted to get a safe place to tell what happened .
And I did n't get a response .
So I kept , again , trying to get it out there , '' she said .
A senior adviser to the Kamala Harris campaign claimed that never happened .
Last year , Kamala Harris had expressed support for Democrat female activists who had complained about Biden touching them inappropriately .
Many of the complaints were not new and Biden had not yet entered the campaign .
`` I believe them and I respect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and having the courage to do it , '' Harris said , and implied that Biden might want to consider the consequences of running .
By next year , she had dropped out and was hoping Biden would pick her as the nominee .
Kamala Harris told a San Francisco Chronicle podcast that she would be `` honored '' to be chosen and defended Biden against Reade 's accusations by praising him as a feminist .
Within the space of a year , Kamala Harris had gone from believing Biden accusers to disbelieving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden 's accusers , but by 2020 , she was insisting that the `` Joe Biden I know is somebody who really has fought for women and empowerment of women . ''
Like Hillary Clinton , Kamala Harris built her career around powerful men .
The most important of these was Willie Brown , the San Francisco political boss whom Kamala had an affair with , who gifted her with a BMW and , more valuably , an introduction to his political network .
Back then , the 60-year-old political boss would `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on one arm and his girlfriend on the other.
” One of the women on his arm was Kamala , then in her twenties .
`` I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker , '' Brown coyly said .
`` And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco . ''
But there were women who didn ’ t fit on Brown ’ s arm and had a different experience .
In the 90s , two aides @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had fired them for reporting sexual harassment by one of his allies .
They were able to settle their cases for $ 100,000 .
`` Under my leadership as speaker , the Assembly adopted a zero-tolerance policy against sexual harassment , '' Brown claimed .
He neglected to mention that it was zero tolerance for women complaining about sexual harassment .
The allegations against Connolly were investigated by a Brown ally and the future mayor took part in strategy sessions to smear the women to get them “ to back off or go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we complained , the top man in the state Legislature was out to get us so he could protect his friend Tom Connolly , '' one of the women claimed .
Connolly was sentenced to two years in prison shortly thereafter for taking a 14-year-old runaway to a motel and engaging in sex with her .
When Willie Brown protected Connolly , the Democrat had quite the past with allegations of cocaine use .
The San Diego vice squad even caught Connolly with a pregnant hooker in his car .
Brown 's cover-up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Speier who falsely claimed `` at no time .
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did Brown become active or intervene '' .
Rep. Speier is a Kamala Harris ally who recently wrote a letter accusing Facebook of sexism for not removing criticism of the California senator .
A year later , a top Brown ally , John Barry Wyatt , was sued by an assistant who accused him of harassing and even assaulting her .
The accuser was paid $ 59,500 to go away .
His accuser claims that she was demoted to the typing pool @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her job .
The typing pool was where women who complained about harassment were dumped .
Wyatt 's accuser claimed that Brown had rejected the settlement and blamed him for what happened to her .
The Brown operative , who had also worked on Ted Kennedy ’ s campaign , had previously been arrested after being accused of raping a teenage hitchhiker at knifepoint .
This bottomless pit of sleaze was the way things were in the Brown camp .
And Brown is the hub around which California ’ s Democrat politics , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ senators , and San Fran ’ s current mayor , has been built .
They all owe a good deal to Willie Brown .
Did Kamala Harris not know what was going on at the time ?
Her connection to these abuses may have been tentative , but that wasn ’ t the case with another powerful man .
In 2012 , Kamala Harris endorsed Bob Filner for mayor .
The Democrat politician was running to head San Diego , and he had a compulsive habit of groping and choking women .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racked up seventeen accusers including a great-grandmother , a military veteran , a future congresswoman , and a rape victim .
Attorney General Kamala Harris negotiated a plea deal in which Filner served no jail time and wouldn ’ t even be listed in the state ’ s sex offender database .
Kamala had given ‘ Filthy Filner ’ the Jeffrey Epstein special .
But there was another powerful man even closer to Kamala Harris .
Larry Wallace had spent fourteen years working with Kamala Harris .
He had been `` a longtime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confidantes '' who followed her from job to job .
He ran her security , appeared in her campaign book , and acted as her senior adviser .
Wallace was accused of sexually harassing his assistant .
Xavier Becerra , Kamala 's successor , settled for $ 400,000 with a non-disclosure agreement .
That allowed Wallace to follow Kamala to D.C. as her senior adviser , until the story came out , and Wallace had to resign .
Wallace then got a job working as a corruption investigator for Contra Costa DA Diana @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by George Soros , was endorsed by Kamala .
Becton has made headlines for profoundly mishandling the criminal justice system and illegally charging a couple who painted over a Black Lives Matter sign with a hate crime .
Becton was so close to Kamala Harris that she had even plagiarized one of her letters .
The Wallace case was n't unusual .
Public records show that Kamala 's office looked a whole lot like Willie Brown 's office .
Under Kamala , the California DOJ had paid out over $ 1 million in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from groping to verbal harassment .
Kamala claimed that she was unaware of the Wallace lawsuit , but Nathan Barankin , her Deputy AG , who would normally have reviewed these matters , went on to become her Senate chief of staff , and then joined her Fearless for the People PAC .
All this made it very clear that nothing was going to change .
In the spring of this year , Senator Kamala Harris had already gotten into the business of covering up Joe Biden ’ s sexual assault problem .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a job that the new senator is wholly qualified for .
Kamala Harris has little national experience and could potentially go from Attorney General of California to President of the United States in four years .
But when it comes to stepping out on the arms of powerful men , and playing defense for their peccadillos , Kamala is overqualified .
Between Biden ’ s long history of inappropriate touching and the assault allegations , Kamala is likely to have her hands full .
Joe Biden ’ s habit of sniffing , stroking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ women is not likely to improve as his mental condition declines .
And it will be his running mate ’ s job to step out , smile , and repeat the familiar talking point that the , “ Joe Biden I know is somebody who really has fought for women '' while trying to keep his hands away .
This is the job that Kamala has been auditioning for since she was 29 and on Willie ’ s arm .
Even as the Democrats roll out false accusations of sexism against Republican critics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coming from inside their own house .
Kamala has spent a quarter of a century looking away from or covering up sexual harassment by Democrat bosses .
Her reward is repeating that the “ Joe Biden I know is somebody who really has fought for women '' until the fall of the year or until the day he dies .
`` Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want , and deserve to get it good and hard , '' H.L .
Mencken once observed .
Kamala Harris always @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has it .

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“The Democratic Party has become an enabler to sexual predators,” Tara Reade, Biden’s former Senate staffer, who accused him of sexual assault, recently told an interviewer.
In May, Reade revealed that she tried to get Kamala Harris to listen.
“Kamala Harris is my representative, so I tried to reach out to her in particular for help, like I wanted to get a safe place to tell what happened. And I didn’t get a response. So I kept, again, trying to get it out there,” she said.
A senior adviser to the Kamala Harris campaign claimed that never happened.
Last year, Kamala Harris had expressed support for Democrat female activists who had complained about Biden touching them inappropriately. Many of the complaints were not new and Biden had not yet entered the campaign.
“I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it,” Harris said, and implied that Biden might want to consider the consequences of running.
By next year, she had dropped out and was hoping Biden would pick her as the nominee.
Kamala Harris told a San Francisco Chronicle podcast that she would be “honored” to be chosen and defended Biden against Reade’s accusations by praising him as a feminist.
Within the space of a year, Kamala Harris had gone from believing Biden accusers to disbelieving them.
In 2019, she believed Biden’s accusers, but by 2020, she was insisting that the “Joe Biden I know is somebody who really has fought for women and empowerment of women.”
Like Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris built her career around powerful men. The most important of these was Willie Brown, the San Francisco political boss whom Kamala had an affair with, who gifted her with a BMW and, more valuably, an introduction to his political network.
Back then, the 60-year-old political boss would “go to a party with his wife on one arm and his girlfriend on the other.”
One of the women on his arm was Kamala, then in her twenties.
“I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker,” Brown coyly said. “And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco.”
But there were women who didn’t fit on Brown’s arm and had a different experience.
In the 90s, two aides filed a lawsuit alleging that Willie Brown had fired them for reporting sexual harassment by one of his allies. They were able to settle their cases for $100,000.
“Under my leadership as speaker, the Assembly adopted a zero-tolerance policy against sexual harassment,” Brown claimed.
He neglected to mention that it was zero tolerance for women complaining about sexual harassment. The allegations against Connolly were investigated by a Brown ally and the future mayor took part in strategy sessions to smear the women to get them “to back off or go away”.
“As soon as we complained, the top man in the state Legislature was out to get us so he could protect his friend Tom Connolly,” one of the women claimed.
Connolly was sentenced to two years in prison shortly thereafter for taking a 14-year-old runaway to a motel and engaging in sex with her.
When Willie Brown protected Connolly, the Democrat had quite the past with allegations of cocaine use. The San Diego vice squad even caught Connolly with a pregnant hooker in his car.
Brown’s cover-up was backed up by future Rep. Jackie Speier who falsely claimed “at no time . . . did Brown become active or intervene”. Rep. Speier is a Kamala Harris ally who recently wrote a letter accusing Facebook of sexism for not removing criticism of the California senator.
A year later, a top Brown ally, John Barry Wyatt, was sued by an assistant who accused him of harassing and even assaulting her. The accuser was paid $59,500 to go away.
Wyatt was appointed Brown’s director of field operations.
His accuser claims that she was demoted to the typing pool, investigated, and forced to quit her job. The typing pool was where women who complained about harassment were dumped.
Wyatt’s accuser claimed that Brown had rejected the settlement and blamed him for what happened to her.
The Brown operative, who had also worked on Ted Kennedy’s campaign, had previously been arrested after being accused of raping a teenage hitchhiker at knifepoint.
This bottomless pit of sleaze was the way things were in the Brown camp. And Brown is the hub around which California’s Democrat politics, from its governor, to its two senators, and San Fran’s current mayor, has been built. They all owe a good deal to Willie Brown.
Did Kamala Harris not know what was going on at the time?
Her connection to these abuses may have been tentative, but that wasn’t the case with another powerful man.
In 2012, Kamala Harris endorsed Bob Filner for mayor. The Democrat politician was running to head San Diego, and he had a compulsive habit of groping and choking women.
A year later, ‘Filthy Filner’ had racked up seventeen accusers including a great-grandmother, a military veteran, a future congresswoman, and a rape victim.
Attorney General Kamala Harris negotiated a plea deal in which Filner served no jail time and wouldn’t even be listed in the state’s sex offender database.
Kamala had given ‘Filthy Filner’ the Jeffrey Epstein special.
But there was another powerful man even closer to Kamala Harris.
Larry Wallace had spent fourteen years working with Kamala Harris. He had been “a longtime aide and one of her closest professional confidantes” who followed her from job to job.
He ran her security, appeared in her campaign book, and acted as her senior adviser.
Wallace was accused of sexually harassing his assistant. Xavier Becerra, Kamala’s successor, settled for $400,000 with a non-disclosure agreement. That allowed Wallace to follow Kamala to D.C. as her senior adviser, until the story came out, and Wallace had to resign.
Wallace then got a job working as a corruption investigator for Contra Costa DA Diana Becton. Becton, who is backed by George Soros, was endorsed by Kamala. Becton has made headlines for profoundly mishandling the criminal justice system and illegally charging a couple who painted over a Black Lives Matter sign with a hate crime.
Becton was so close to Kamala Harris that she had even plagiarized one of her letters.
The Wallace case wasn’t unusual. Public records show that Kamala’s office looked a whole lot like Willie Brown’s office.
Under Kamala, the California DOJ had paid out over $1 million in sexual harassment and retaliation claims covering everything from groping to verbal harassment.
Kamala claimed that she was unaware of the Wallace lawsuit, but Nathan Barankin, her Deputy AG, who would normally have reviewed these matters, went on to become her Senate chief of staff, and then joined her Fearless for the People PAC.
All this made it very clear that nothing was going to change.
In the spring of this year, Senator Kamala Harris had already gotten into the business of covering up Joe Biden’s sexual assault problem.
Unlike the presidency, it’s a job that the new senator is wholly qualified for. Kamala Harris has little national experience and could potentially go from Attorney General of California to President of the United States in four years. But when it comes to stepping out on the arms of powerful men, and playing defense for their peccadillos, Kamala is overqualified.
Between Biden’s long history of inappropriate touching and the assault allegations, Kamala is likely to have her hands full.
Joe Biden’s habit of sniffing, stroking, kissing, and otherwise inappropriately touching women is not likely to improve as his mental condition declines. And it will be his running mate’s job to step out, smile, and repeat the familiar talking point that the, “Joe Biden I know is somebody who really has fought for women” while trying to keep his hands away.
This is the job that Kamala has been auditioning for since she was 29 and on Willie’s arm.
Even as the Democrats roll out false accusations of sexism against Republican critics, the real sexism had always been coming from inside their own house. Kamala has spent a quarter of a century looking away from or covering up sexual harassment by Democrat bosses. Her reward is repeating that the “Joe Biden I know is somebody who really has fought for women” until the fall of the year or until the day he dies.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard,” H.L. Mencken once observed.
Kamala Harris always knew what she wanted. Now she has it.


thelibertydaily--2020-08-15--Say His Name! Tucker Carlson & Nancy Grace Take Up Cannon Hinnant Story; Fake News Media Hardest Hit

Say his name : Cannon Hinnant .
That ’ s the name of the 5-year-old boy murdered in North Carolina last week by a black man , execution style , in his front yard in the middle of the day .
It ’ s a story you don ’ t hear on any liberal national media .
But you would if the races were reversed , said commentator Matt Walsh this week in a tweet that was retweeted almost 50,000 times .
It ’ s funny how a few people tweeting that they are offended by butter can show up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but this murder that has outraged and shocked a nation doesn ’ t merit a peep .
Well it got a peep today from Tucker Carlson and Nancy Grace .
“ Maybe this crime will get the entire country to pause and ask where are we going , ” said Tucker .
“ The question is why haven ’ t the media covered this story ?
What about it don ’ t they like ?
” he asked rhetorically .
“ You ’ re right , this case has not been covered , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said Grace before laying out the case .
“ I predict this will be death penalty case.
” “ I ’ ve said many times , and I mean it that I don ’ t think you should draw broad societal conclusions from a single horrific crime , the media specializes , obviously , in that and some of those conclusions are misleading if not lies , ” Tucker said .
“ But to ignore something completely — and they ignore murders every day on the south side of Chicago as well — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coverage is guided purely by political imperatives .
Purely !
” And that is the answer right there and y ’ all know it .
This story doesn ’ t serve their narrative , it cuts against it .
“ What about justice in this case , what about my children and your children ?
They deserve to get just as much attention about all the other headlines , ” said Grace .

Say his name: Cannon Hinnant. That’s the name of the 5-year-old boy murdered in North Carolina last week by a black man, execution style, in his front yard in the middle of the day.
It’s a story you don’t hear on any liberal national media. But you would if the races were reversed, said commentator Matt Walsh this week in a tweet that was retweeted almost 50,000 times.
Say his name. 5 year old Cannon Hinnant was executed in cold blood while riding his bike. The accused killer is Darius Sessoms. He allegedly walked up to the boy and shot him dead in front of his sisters. Reverse the races and this is the only thing anyone talks about for a month pic.twitter.com/5V72YhAOlI — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 11, 2020
It’s funny how a few people tweeting that they are offended by butter can show up on CNN in 4 minutes flat, but this murder that has outraged and shocked a nation doesn’t merit a peep.
Well it got a peep today from Tucker Carlson and Nancy Grace. “Maybe this crime will get the entire country to pause and ask where are we going,” said Tucker.
Maybe.
“The question is why haven’t the media covered this story? What about it don’t they like?” he asked rhetorically.
Gee, I wonder.
“You’re right, this case has not been covered, and I wonder why too,” said Grace before laying out the case. “I predict this will be death penalty case.”
“I’ve said many times, and I mean it that I don’t think you should draw broad societal conclusions from a single horrific crime, the media specializes, obviously, in that and some of those conclusions are misleading if not lies,” Tucker said. “But to ignore something completely — and they ignore murders every day on the south side of Chicago as well — you really get the feeling that news coverage is guided purely by political imperatives. Purely!”
And that is the answer right there and y’all know it. This story doesn’t serve their narrative, it cuts against it.
Innocent white child? No such thing.
“What about justice in this case, what about my children and your children? They deserve to get just as much attention about all the other headlines,” said Grace.
Darn right.


thelibertydaily--2020-08-15--PEPSI HATES CONSERVATIVES- Soft Drink Company Promotes Hate Video of Tucker Carlson Mispronouncing K

PEPSI HATES CONSERVATIVES- Soft Drink Company Promotes Hate Video of Tucker Carlson Mispronouncing Kamala’s Name Just Like Joe Biden Did This Week

Pepsi is one of those American brands that turned over the reins to far left operatives who hate conservative Americans @ @ @ @ @ retweeted a video of Tucker Carlson “ losing it ” when he was corrected on @ @ @ @ @ MUST SEE : The Gateway Pundit 's Alicia Powe Asks President Trump a Meaningful Question @ @ @ @ @ President Responds in Classic Trump Style ( Video ) Of course , Joe Biden did @ @ @ @ @ her name this same week .
But Pepsi felt the need to take a swipe @ @ @ @

Pepsi is one of those American brands that turned over the reins to far left operatives who hate conservative Americans.
Earlier this week Pepsi retweeted a video of Tucker Carlson “losing it” when he was corrected on his pronunciation.
The liberal media blasted Tucker Carlson for mispronouncing “Kamala” Harris.
Of course, Joe Biden did the same thing and mispronounced her name this same week.
CNN crucified Tucker Carlson for mispronuncing Kamala’s name. They called him a racist. Watch good ole Biden mispronounce his own VP mate’s name TODAY! And he is FAR FROM NORMAL!! pic.twitter.com/qTVG3VL2g5 — Noah (@Noah24850579) August 13, 2020
But Pepsi felt the need to take a swipe at Tucker Carlson.
Mike Cernovich correctly tweeted this out: “Pepsi hates conservatives.”
Pepsi hates conservatives, as they just promoted a hate video by a far left wing group run by anti-American bigots. pic.twitter.com/1aKWW1Vw3d — Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 15, 2020
More… Black man sets Pepsi straight.


thelibertydaily--2020-08-15--8 Things You Should Know About Fast Kamala, Slow Joe’s Running Mate

This post first appeared at Fellowship of the Minds ( 2 ) At age 31 , fresh out of law school , Kamala Harris “ slept her way ” into two lucrative state government jobs that paid her nearly half a million dollars in just 4 years .
• Not only does she support late-term abortions , Harris supports abortion up to birth .
In other words , she supports infanticide .
• Harris wants the federal government to overturn state and local laws protecting the unborn .
• Harris is endorsed by Planned Parenthood , the abortion mill that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ campaigns .
• As senator , Harris has produced legislation targeting pro-life journalists who expose Planned Parenthood ’ s sale of organs and parts from aborted babies .
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( 4 ) In February 2019 , Kamala Harris said she would support reparations for “ black people ” .
( 5 ) In July 2019 , Kamala Harris said that if elected president , she would use executive orders for gun control .
• In 2010 , Harris opposed Arizona ’ s since-struck-down immigration law , declaring that we “ can ’ t afford to divert scarce local law-enforcement resources to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2012 , Kamala Harris submitted a brief supporting an illegal immigrant ’ s application for a law license .
In 2014 , the California Supreme Court ruled in the immigrant ’ s favor , even though the California State Bar ’ s rules state that it is disqualifying professional misconduct to commit a criminal act .
• In her first speech on the Senate floor , Harris declared , “ An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.
” She later avowed the belief that illegal immigration is “ a civil violation , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ • When she was California ’ s attorney general , Harris filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to refuse craft-store Hobby Lobby ’ s request to deny women health care coverage for contraception because of the owner ’ s Christian beliefs .
( Religion News ) • In November 2018 , Senator Kamala Harris opposed federal judicial nominee Brian Buescher because he is a member of the Knights of Columbus , a pro-life Catholic group .
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(1) Kamala Harris is neither a “natural born” U.S. citizen (defined as both parents being U.S. citizens at the time of her birth), nor she is an African American. Her mother is a Tamil Indian, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1960 from Madras, India (Madras was renamed Chennai in 1996); her father came to the U.S. in 1961 from Jamaica, to attend graduate study in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. (Wikipedia)
(2) At age 31, fresh out of law school, Kamala Harris “slept her way” into two lucrative state government jobs that paid her nearly half a million dollars in just 4 years.
(3) Kamala Harris is rabidly pro-abort:
Not only does she support late-term abortions, Harris supports abortion up to birth . In other words, she supports infanticide.
. In other words, she supports infanticide. Harris wants the federal government to overturn state and local laws protecting the unborn.
Harris is endorsed by Planned Parenthood, the abortion mill that has generously and consistently contributed to her campaigns.
As senator, Harris has produced legislation targeting pro-life journalists who expose Planned Parenthood’s sale of organs and parts from aborted babies.
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(4) In February 2019, Kamala Harris said she would support reparations for “black people”.
(5) In July 2019, Kamala Harris said that if elected president, she would use executive orders for gun control.
(6) Kamala Harris is pro-illegal immigration:
In 2010, Harris opposed Arizona’s since-struck-down immigration law, declaring that we “can’t afford to divert scarce local law-enforcement resources to enforcing federal immigration laws.”
In 2012, Kamala Harris submitted a brief supporting an illegal immigrant’s application for a law license. In 2014, the California Supreme Court ruled in the immigrant’s favor, even though the California State Bar’s rules state that it is disqualifying professional misconduct to commit a criminal act.
In her first speech on the Senate floor, Harris declared, “An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.” She later avowed the belief that illegal immigration is “a civil violation, not a crime.” (National Review)
(7) Kamala Harris discriminates against Christians:
When she was California’s attorney general, Harris filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to refuse craft-store Hobby Lobby’s request to deny women health care coverage for contraception because of the owner’s Christian beliefs. (Religion News)
In November 2018, Senator Kamala Harris opposed federal judicial nominee Brian Buescher because he is a member of the Knights of Columbus, a pro-life Catholic group.
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