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Freed Americans Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan are on their way back to the United States after their lengthy imprisonment in Russia. Their release was part of a historic prisoner swap between Moscow and the West, bigger than any exchange since the Cold War. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper joins to discuss what may have gone into the negotiations.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- Rich introduces a new assistant producer to the show: Andrew. Andrew admits he has never seen The Sopranos, BUT he has seen Breaking Bad. Plus, his favorite breakfast meat is turkey sausage…which enrages Rich! Who eats turkey sausage?!?! 4:20pm- Prior to the 2020 presidential election, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, along with other high-ranking members of the intelligence community, signed a letter dismissing The New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The laptop has since been confirmed as being authentic—but Clapper recently stated he does not regret his decision. 4:30pm- Is The New York Times calling out President Joe Biden for lying? Linda Qiu writes: “In President Biden's telling, he was a teenage civil rights activist, a former trucker, the first in his family to go to college and the nephew of a cannibalism victim. All of these claims stretch the truth or are downright false. But Mr. Biden persists in telling personal tales with rhetorical flourishes and factual liberty when he works a room or regales an audience.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/us/politics/biden-history-fact-check.html 4:40pm- During a segment on PBS, host Amna Nawaz and NPR's Tamara Keith claimed that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “not at all coherent” during his recent campaign rallies. However, they played clips of Trump being perfectly coherent and funny. 4:50pm- Yesterday, a jury in Wilmington, Delaware found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to lying on a background-check he submitted when acquiring a firearm in October of 2018. According to reports, the president's son could face up to 25-years in prison and a fine up to $750,000. Following the trial, Juror #10 spoke with Katy Tur on MSNBC—explaining that he does not believe Hunter deserves prison time.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (06/12/2024): 3:05pm- Could Joe Biden be replaced as the Democrat nominee for president? Yesterday, a jury in Wilmington, Delaware found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to lying on a background-check he submitted when acquiring a firearm in October of 2018. According to reports, the president's son could face up to 25-years in prison and a fine up to $750,000. Could President Biden pardoning his son become the perfect excuse to step aside? 3:30pm- According to an election forecast model from The Economist, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has a 66-in-100 chance of beating President Joe Biden in the 2024 election. Similarly, The Hill believes Trump has a 56-in-100 chance of winning. 3:40pm- Anders Hagstrom of Fox News writes: “A fleet of Russian warships entered Cuban waters on Wednesday as they prepare to hold military drills in the Caribbean. The deployment is likely a warning to President Biden after he gave approval for Ukrainian forces to strike some targets within Russia using U.S. weaponry, according to Rebekah Koffler, strategic intelligence analyst and author of ‘Putin's Playbook.' Russian President Vladimir Putin is telling Washington, ‘we can touch you,' Koffler said.” You can read the full article here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/putin-fleet-warships-cuba-direct-warning-biden-experts-say 4:05pm- Rich introduces a new assistant producer to the show: Andrew. Andrew admits he has never seen The Sopranos, BUT he has seen Breaking Bad. Plus, his favorite breakfast meat is turkey sausage…which enrages Rich! Who eats turkey sausage?!?! 4:20pm- Prior to the 2020 presidential election, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, along with other high-ranking members of the intelligence community, signed a letter dismissing The New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The laptop has since been confirmed as being authentic—but Clapper recently stated he does not regret his decision. 4:30pm- Is The New York Times calling out President Joe Biden for lying? Linda Qiu writes: “In President Biden's telling, he was a teenage civil rights activist, a former trucker, the first in his family to go to college and the nephew of a cannibalism victim. All of these claims stretch the truth or are downright false. But Mr. Biden persists in telling personal tales with rhetorical flourishes and factual liberty when he works a room or regales an audience.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/us/politics/biden-history-fact-check.html 4:40pm- During a segment on PBS, host Amna Nawaz and NPR's Tamara Keith claimed that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “not at all coherent” during his recent campaign rallies. However, they played clips of Trump being perfectly coherent and funny. 4:50pm- Yesterday, a jury in Wilmington, Delaware found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to lying on a background-check he submitted when acquiring a firearm in October of 2018. According to reports, the president's son could face up to 25-years in prison and a fine up to $750,000. Following the trial, Juror #10 spoke with Katy Tur on MSNBC—explaining that he does not believe Hunter deserves prison time. 5:00pm- The House of Representatives has held U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. The vote was 216 to 207. 5:10pm- Jack Carr—New York Times Bestselling Author of “The Terminal List” & U.S. Navy Seal Sniper—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his new book, “Red Sky Mourning.” Plus, Carr talks about his recent trip to Normandy, France commemorating the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. Don't miss 1210 WPHT's next Politics and Pints with Jack Carr—hosted by Rich! Tuesday, June 25th from 7:30 to 8:45pm ET at Zlock Performing Arts Center Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pennsylvania. You can find more information and tickets here: https://www.audacy.com/1210wpht/events/politics-and-pints-with-jack-carr 5:50pm- Rich pays Andrew a compliment for his music selection today—much better than Matt's selections of Wham! and Rick Astley. 6:05pm- State Senator Mike Testa—New Jersey State Senator representing the 1st Legislative District—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his mission to make sure Jersey shore towns are safe for families and vacationers this summer. You can learn more about Senator Testa here: https://testafornj.com 6:30pm- According to a recently released Marist College poll, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump currently leads President Joe Biden by 2-points in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. 6:50pm- Rich wraps up the show! See you tomorrow!

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (06/11/2024): 3:05pm- A jury in Wilmington, Delaware has found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to lying on a background-check he submitted when acquiring a firearm in October of 2018. According to reports, the president's son could face up to 25-years in prison and a fine up to $750,000. Could President Joe Biden pardon his son—and would that potentially impact his status as the Democrat Party's 2024 presidential nominee? 3:30pm- In a new article for Politico, Ben Schreckinger documents the numerous connections between Joe Biden aides and the Biden family's business. He writes: “For years, Joe Biden shared a bookkeeper with his son, Hunter. He also shared a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim. And when Jim Biden wanted to know more about one of Hunter Biden's associates, he hired the former head of Joe Biden's Secret Service detail to investigate. Since 2019, Joe Biden has repeatedly distanced himself from his family's business dealings, saying that he has never so much as discussed them with his relatives or with anyone else. But House impeachment inquiry interviews, public records and emails reviewed by POLITICO show that members of his inner circle were regularly enmeshed in those dealings: Many of the president's closest staffers and advisers have doubled as his relatives' business associates, both during and after their stints working for the man at the center of the Biden family orbit.” You can read the full article here: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/08/joe-biden-aides-family-business-dealings-00161476 3:40pm- In reaction to President Joe Biden's abysmal approval ratings, statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight suggested that it might be in the Democrat Party's best interest to replace Biden as their 2024 presidential candidate. According to RealClearPolitics polling averages, Biden now trails Donald Trump in all seven key swing states and is only up 2-points in Democrat strongholds like Minnesota and Virginia. 4:05pm- Dr. Victoria Coates—Former Deputy National Security Advisor & the Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to recap the European Parliament elections which saw right-leaning parties perform particularly well. The results led to French President Emmanuel Macron calling for a snap legislative election. Plus, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stated that there should be a universal ban on fossil fuel advertisements in order to protect “green energy” from criticism. Dr. Coates is the author of: “David's Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art.” You can find her book here: https://www.amazon.com/Davids-Sling-History-Democracy-Works/dp/1594037213. 4:30pm- Caroline Sunshine—Deputy Director of Communications for the 2024 Trump Campaign—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss a jury in Wilmington, Delaware finding Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to the purchase of a firearm in October of 2018. Plus, Sunshine reacts to polling previewing the 2024 presidential election, as well as President Biden's backwards economic policies. She jokes: “Joe Biden is a few French fries short of a Happy Meal.” 4:50pm- Rich reveals that he never got to select his own show's theme tune. Matt nearly gets fired when he suggests it should be changed to “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! He played the song yesterday and was endlessly yelled at by both Rich and the audience… 5:05pm- A jury in Wilmington, Delaware has found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to lying on a background-check he submitted when acquiring a firearm in October of 2018. According to reports, the president's son could face up to 25-years in prison and a fine up to $750,000. Could President Joe Biden pardon his son—and would that potentially impact his status as the Democrat Party's 2024 presidential nominee? 5:10pm- Prior to the 2020 presidential election, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, along with other high-ranking members of the intelligence community, signed a letter dismissing The New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The laptop has since been confirmed as being authentic—but Clapper recently stated he does not regret his decision. 5:15pm- While appearing on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, CBS News poll director Anthony Salvanto revealed that 62% of registered voters support the deportation of migrants living in the United States unlawfully. 5:20pm- Listeners react: Could the Democrat Party actually consider replacing Joe Biden at the top of their 2024 ticket? 5:40pm- According to report from Adam Reiss and Dareh Gregorian of NBC News: “The New Jersey attorney general's office is investigating the eligibility of the liquor licenses of three Trump-owned golf courses in the state following former President Donald Trump's conviction on felony charges in New York, officials confirmed Tuesday. The three properties under review by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, which is a part of the AG's office, include Bedminster, Pine Hill and Colts Neck.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/new-jersey-attorney-general-reviewing-trump-golf-liquor-licenses-rcna156550 5:50pm- Speaking at a gun violence prevention conference in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden insisted that Americans don't need guns to protect themselves from the government—because the government could simply use an F-15 fighter jet to target people. Well, that makes me feel safe… 6:05pm- Prior to his interview with a House of Representatives Subcommittee investigating the government's response to COVID-19, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo defended his actions during the pandemic—specifically his decision to send sick patients back to nursing homes. 6:15pm- During a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, former President Donald Trump posed a hilarious hypothetical question to his audience: Would you rather be electrocuted or eaten by a shark? 6:20pm- In newly released footage from January 6th,  2021, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) can be heard saying: “I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more,” referring to the National Guard. The video was shot by Pelosi's daughter Alexandra and provided to Congressional investigators via HBO. 6:25pm- While appearing on Fox News with Jesse Waters, billionaire David Sacks noted that Silicon Valley is suddenly backing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Although the California-based technology sector has historically been progressive in political ideology, Sacks says he believes people are starting to realize that Trump's policies benefit them. 6:30pm- A jury in Wilmington, Delaware has found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to lying on a background-check he submitted when acquiring a firearm in October of 2018. According to reports, the president's son could face up to 25-years in prison and a fine up to $750,000. Following the trial, Juror #10 spoke with CNN—explaining that he never considered that Hunter was the son of the president of the United States. 6:40pm- When asked about the Hunter Biden trial during an interview with Dana Bash on CNN, Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) claimed that her internet connection dropped and could not continue the conversation…perfect timing! 6:50pm- A progressive journalist secretly recorded a conversation she had with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. At one point Justice Alito agrees that the country is polarized and that it should return to a place of godliness. How is anything he said controversial? The left is, of course, losing its mind.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: 5:05pm- A jury in Wilmington, Delaware has found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony charges related to lying on a background-check he submitted when acquiring a firearm in October of 2018. According to reports, the president's son could face up to 25-years in prison and a fine up to $750,000. Could President Joe Biden pardon his son—and would that potentially impact his status as the Democrat Party's 2024 presidential nominee? 5:10pm- Prior to the 2020 presidential election, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, along with other high-ranking members of the intelligence community, signed a letter dismissing The New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The laptop has since been confirmed as being authentic—but Clapper recently stated he does not regret his decision. 5:15pm- While appearing on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, CBS News poll director Anthony Salvanto revealed that 62% of registered voters support the deportation of migrants living in the United States unlawfully. 5:20pm- Listeners react: Could the Democrat Party actually consider replacing Joe Biden at the top of their 2024 ticket? 5:40pm- According to report from Adam Reiss and Dareh Gregorian of NBC News: “The New Jersey attorney general's office is investigating the eligibility of the liquor licenses of three Trump-owned golf courses in the state following former President Donald Trump's conviction on felony charges in New York, officials confirmed Tuesday. The three properties under review by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, which is a part of the AG's office, include Bedminster, Pine Hill and Colts Neck.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/new-jersey-attorney-general-reviewing-trump-golf-liquor-licenses-rcna156550 5:50pm- Speaking at a gun violence prevention conference in Washington, D.C., President Joe Biden insisted that Americans don't need guns to protect themselves from the government—because the government could simply use an F-15 fighter jet to target people. Well, that makes me feel safe…

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- Jury deliberation is underway in the Hunter Biden gun trial taking place in Delaware. If Hunter is ultimately found guilty, will President Joe Biden simply pardon him? 4:20pm- Prior to the 2020 presidential election, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, along with other high-ranking members of the intelligence community, signed a letter dismissing The New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The laptop has since been confirmed as being authentic—but Clapper recently stated he does not regret his decision. 4:30pm- Rich yells at Matt for playing “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! as return music. Matt claims the song is catchy and the audience will enjoy it—but do they agree with him? Nope! 4:40pm- Earlier this month, the restaurant chain Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy, closing dozens of restaurants nationally—but rapper Flavor Flav has vowed to save the franchise: “We have to save the lobster!” In a show of support, Flavor Flav bought every item on the menu.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (06/10/2024): 3:05pm- James Lynch of National Review writes: “Hunter Biden's legal team rested its case in his felony gun trial on Monday without the first son taking the stand in his own defense. Hunter's lawyer Abbe Lowell on Friday left open the possibility of Hunter testifying, but ultimately opted against the high-risk maneuver. Lowell declined to call any witnesses on Monday after two gun-store employees and Hunter's daughter Naomi testified on his behalf on Friday.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hunter-biden-declines-to-take-the-stand-as-defense-rests-in-gun-trial/ 3:15pm- While appearing on Megyn Kelly's podcast, Lunden Roberts claimed that her cellphones and iCloud crashed after she found out that she was pregnant with Hunter Biden's child—with her data being erased. Was this a coincidence? Or could it have been part of some sort of conspiracy to protect Hunter Biden? 3:30pm- Over the weekend, Rich—alongside his family and the family of Dr. Mike Vanaria—sold lemonade to raise money for children with cancer. It turns out his 4-year-old daughter is quite the saleswoman! 3:40pm- Thomas McKenna—a Student at Hillsdale College & Contributor at National Review—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest article, “Protesters Surround White House, Call for ‘Intifada Revolution.'” McKenna attended the protests and witnessed instances of vandalism and open advocation for violence, specifically directed towards Israel and Jews. There were no arrests made. You can read McKenna's article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/protesters-surround-white-house-call-for-intifada-revolution/ 4:05pm- Jury deliberation is underway in the Hunter Biden gun trial taking place in Delaware. If Hunter is ultimately found guilty, will President Joe Biden simply pardon him? 4:20pm- Prior to the 2020 presidential election, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, along with other high-ranking members of the intelligence community, signed a letter dismissing The New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The laptop has since been confirmed as being authentic—but Clapper recently stated he does not regret his decision. 4:30pm- Rich yells at Matt for playing “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham! as return music. Matt claims the song is catchy and the audience will enjoy it—but do they agree with him? Nope! 4:40pm- Earlier this month, the restaurant chain Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy, closing dozens of restaurants nationally—but rapper Flavor Flav has vowed to save the franchise: “We have to save the lobster!” In a show of support, Flavor Flav bought every item on the menu. 5:05pm- David Gelman—Criminal Defense Attorney & Surrogate for Donald Trump's Legal Team—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the Hunter Biden gun trial. The jury began deliberation on Monday, though they did not reach a verdict prior to being dismissed for the day. Jimmy Failla vowed to co-host The Rich Zeoli Show's June 21st broadcast at the Grand Hotel of Cape May if the Zeoli Army purchased 100 tickets for one of his upcoming standup shows. Gelman generously offered to buy 100 tickets and give them away to men and women in the military—as well as police officers and first responders! So, Jimmy AND David will be co-hosting the show alongside Rich from Cape May next Friday! Don't miss it! 5:20pm- During a recent radio interview, Democrat political strategist James Carville said President Joe Biden should not have run for re-election. 5:25pm- In newly released footage from January 6th,  2021, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) can be heard saying: “I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more,” referring to the National Guard. The video was shot by Pelosi's daughter Alexandra and provided to Congressional investigators via HBO. 5:40pm- Dr. EJ Antoni—Economist & Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss how a strange woman gave him the middle finger while he provided testimony to the U.S. Senate last week. The hilarious clip has since gone viral on social media. Plus, California restaurants have been forced to cut an estimated 10,000 jobs since the state raised the minimum wage to $20 per-hour. You can find Dr. Antoni's work here: https://www.heritage.org/staff/ej-antoni 6:05pm- Oh, no! Could Congress ban alcoholic beverages on flights? C. Jarrett Dieterle of Reason writes: “Newly released research argues that it should be. The study, published in Thorax by researchers from the Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Germany, concludes that in-flight alcohol can increase the risk of heart attack. While the topline conclusion sounds concerning and compelling, the research itself is less so.” You can read the full article here:https://reason.com/2024/06/08/oh-god-what-if-congress-bans-drinking-on-airplanes/ 6:20pm- Don't miss 1210 WPHT's next Politics and Pints with New York Times best-selling author Jack Carr—hosted by Rich! Tuesday, June 25th from 7:30 to 8:45pm ET at Zlock Performing Arts Center Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pennsylvania. You can find more information and tickets here: https://www.audacy.com/1210wpht/events/politics-and-pints-with-jack-carr 6:30pm- Has Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) ever met a war he didn't like? While appearing on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Sen. Graham advocated for seizing $300 billion in Russian assets and giving it to Ukraine. 6:40pm- REPLAY: Thomas McKenna—a Student at Hillsdale College & Contributor at National Review—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest article, “Protesters Surround White House, Call for ‘Intifada Revolution.'” McKenna attended the protests and witnessed instances of vandalism and open advocation for violence, specifically directed towards Israel and Jews. There were no arrests made. You can read McKenna's article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/protesters-surround-white-house-call-for-intifada-revolution/

Israel conducts “large-scale strikes” on Hamas, as 300,000 troops amass near the Gaza border, according to the Israeli military. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper joins to discuss what's likely to be happening behind the scenes, and what could happen next. Plus, Laura Coates speaks with a dual US/Israeli citizen, who says five of her relatives have been kidnapped from a Kibbutz by Hamas. And, Rep. Steve Scalise is picked as the GOP Speaker nominee, but struggles to lockdown votes to win the gavel. Also tonight: The FBI and DHS warn of potential safety concerns around places of worship in the US after the attacks in Israel, and, what the Israel-Hamas war means for US allies.  For daily information on the Israel-Gaza conflict, check out CNN's podcast 'Tug of War: Attack on Israel'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Israel conducts “large-scale strikes” on Hamas, as 300,000 troops amass near the Gaza border, according to the Israeli military. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper joins to discuss what's likely to be happening behind the scenes, and what could happen next. Plus, Laura Coates speaks with a dual US/Israeli citizen, who says five of her relatives have been kidnapped from a Kibbutz by Hamas. And, Rep. Steve Scalise is picked as the GOP Speaker nominee, but struggles to lockdown votes to win the gavel. Also tonight: The FBI and DHS warn of potential safety concerns around places of worship in the US after the attacks in Israel, and, what the Israel-Hamas war means for US allies.  For daily information on the Israel-Gaza conflict, check out CNN's podcast 'Tug of War: Attack on Israel'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (02/13/2023): 3:05pm- On February 3rd, a freight train consisting of roughly fifty rail cars—ten of which were carrying hazardous materials—derailed in East Palestine near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. According to reports, emergency crews purposefully ignited the contents of several rail cars, attempting to burn-off toxic chemicals. According to The Hill, three more hazardous chemicals have been discovered at the scene of the derailment. Meanwhile, Tom Perkins of The Guardian reports one of the chemicals released is phosgene, which “is a highly toxic gas that can cause vomiting and breathing trouble, and was used as a weapon in the first world war.” Should residents be concerned about health consequences?  3:20pm- On Sunday afternoon, United States fighter jets shot down a fourth mysterious flying object—this time flying 20,000 feet above Lake Huron, Michigan. In a news conference following the shootdown, Air Force General Glen VanHerck suggested the objects did not pose a military threat—though, he would not speculate on the origins of the objects. Why won't the Biden Administration be more forthcoming with information? 3:40pm- In a statement released on Monday, Senator JD Vance (R-OH) wrote of the Ohio train derailment, “[t]he local fire department has borne the brunt of this catastrophe, and they need resources from FEMA to decontaminate equipment and ensure they continue to operate.” 4:00pm- Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs John Kirby held a press conference on Monday to address the three flying objects that U.S. fighter jets shot down between Friday evening and Sunday afternoon. Despite speaking with the press for an extended period of time, Kirby offered no hints as to what the objects were or from where they may have originated. 4:10pm- While speaking with George Stephanopoulos on “This Week,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) seemed to suggest that the objects most recently shot down, according to intelligence meetings he has been a part of, are likely Chinese reconnaissance instruments. Contradicting Sen. Schumer, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) of the House Intel Committee told Chuck Todd that he would be surprised if the most recent flying objects were of Chinese origin.  4:30pm- While appearing at the National Association of Counties Conference, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg did not address the massive train derailment in Ohio—but, bizarrely, did have time to discuss how too many white construction workers are employed in non-white neighborhoods. 4:35pm- Henry continues to insist that the mysterious flying objects are actually extraterrestrials…  4:40pm- Speaking from Brussels, Belgium on Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated, “the three objects taken down this weekend are very different from what we were talking about last week.”  Sec. Austin also noted that debris has not yet been recovered and he's uncertain if the flying objects were meant to gather intelligence.  4:55pm- Chris Stapleton performed an incredible rendition of the National Anthem at Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.  5:00pm- Super Bowl Commercial Review: Everyone loves Ben Affleck (except Rich) following his appearance in a Dunkin Donuts commercial and, in a world where everyone gets cancelled, how on earth is Ezra Miller still starring in D.C. 's “The Flash”? 5:25pm- Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has accused Politico of misrepresenting a letter he signed declaring that the Hunter Biden “laptop story” was merely Russian disinformation being used to manipulate American voters prior to the 2020 presidential election.  5:45pm- Earlier this month, Governor Ron DeSantis petitioned the College Board to alter its AP African American Studies (APAAS) course for public high schools. DeSantis explained the proposed course included things like “queer theory” and “abolishing prisons”—topics not relevant to African American history. After initially appearing to remove progressive propaganda from the course, the College Board has now indicated it will not make the alterations being requested. According to Stanley Krutz of National Review, Gov. DeSantis “has not formally accepted APAAS as a for-credit course in Florida.” 6:05pm- In response to the Ohio train derailment, Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) tweeted: “Nearly 1 million pounds of vinyl chloride were on this train. Now, the EPA has confirmed it's entered the Ohio River basin…This is one of the deadliest environmental emergencies in decades and no one is talking about it.” 6:35pm- Why is no one talking about the Ohio train derailment? CBS News, ABC News, and NBC News don't have the story prominently featured on their webpages. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is imploring Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to address the derailment and offer information about the dangerous chemicals that have subsequently been released.    6:50pm- Mystery Movie Clip!

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: Super Bowl Commercial Review: Everyone loves Ben Affleck (except Rich) following his appearance in a Dunkin Donuts commercial and, in a world where everyone gets cancelled, how on earth is Ezra Miller still starring in D.C. 's “The Flash”? Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has accused Politico of misrepresenting a letter he signed declaring that the Hunter Biden “laptop story” was merely Russian disinformation being used to manipulate American voters prior to the 2020 presidential election. Earlier this month, Governor Ron DeSantis petitioned the College Board to alter its AP African American Studies (APAAS) course for public high schools. DeSantis explained the proposed course included things like “queer theory” and “abolishing prisons”—topics not relevant to African American history. After initially appearing to remove progressive propaganda from the course, the College Board has now indicated it will not make the alterations being requested. According to Stanley Krutz of National Review, Gov. DeSantis “has not formally accepted APAAS as a for-credit course in Florida.”

3:05pm- The Biden Administration's Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing “new energy-efficiency standards” for household furnaces, according to a report from National Review's Ben Lieberman.  3:15pm- During a press conference, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner suggested it was “racist” to accuse diverse, Democratic cities of experiencing high-rates of violent crime, according to RNC Research on Twitter. Krasner denied that his progressive prosecutorial preferences are impacting the safety of city residents. 3:30pm- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) advisory committee voted to recommend COVID-19 vaccines be added to the childhood immunization schedule—which could potentially result in vaccination being required in order to attend public schools. 3:40pm- Steve Bannon, a former adviser for Donald Trump, has been sentenced to four months in prison after refusing to comply with a House of Representatives subpoena seeking information about the Capitol Building riot on January 6th, 2021. But why wasn't former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ever held accountable for refusing to provide Congress with documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal when subpoenaed? 4:00pm- Daniel Keating of The Keating Group and Medal of Honor Recipient Specialist Five James “Doc” McCloughan join the show to discuss the 2022 Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation Gala on Saturday October 22nd. One of the prizes being auctioned at the gala will be an opportunity to co-host The Rich Zeoli Show! For more information visit: https://www.mclefphila.org/events-overview 4:15pm- Executive Producer of The Dom Giordanao Show Dan Borowski is LIVE! From Citizen Bank Park ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies' NLCS Game 3 against the San Diego Padres.  4:30pm- Steve Bannon, a former adviser for Donald Trump, has been sentenced to four months in prison after refusing to comply with a House of Representatives subpoena seeking information about the Capitol Building riot on January 6th, 2021. In March 2013, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denied collecting information on U.S. citizens while speaking to a U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. By June 2013, it was revealed the NSA had collected telephone metadata on millions of Americans—yet, he was not held accountable. Where is the consistency?  4:45pm- On Friday, President Joe Biden delivered remarks from the White House on budget deficit reduction—claiming to have reduced the annual deficit by $1.4 trillion. In September, Washington Post Fact-Checker gave Biden's claims of reducing the deficit “three Pinocchio's.” Kessler writes, “Biden is citing real deficit-reduction numbers, but doing so in a way to mislead…The budget deficit was supposed to shrink as the massive spending caused by the pandemic faded. Indeed, the budget-deficit picture…would have been better if not for Biden's policies…he cannot suggest that they reduced the budget deficit.” 4:55pm- President Biden warns of “Mega MAGA Trickle-Down”—is that an economic theory or an ice cream?  5:15pm- According to polling from Data for Progress, only 8% of American young-adults consider student loan-debt forgiveness a top three issue heading into the 2022 midterm elections.  5:20pm- During a Fox News voter panel, a Pennsylvania voter whose son was shot and killed in Philadelphia said there was a “huge sense of lawlessness” in the city right now. Similarly, CNN spoke with a woman in Bucks County who explained she planned to vote for Dr. Mehmet Oz—based on his perceived strength on economics and fighting crime. 5:40pm- VICE asked a question no one was wondering: Are “jimmies” a racist way to refer to “sprinkles”? 6:05pm- During a segment on HBO's Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver defended gender affirmation procedures on children and dismissed the “social contagion theory”—insisting “trans children” have existed throughout history.  6:30pm- While appearing on Fox News, Johns Hopkins Professor Dr. Marty Makary explained that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) vote to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule could potentially undermine confidence in the CDC's recommendations moving forward. 6:55pm- Who Won Social Media? + Zeoli's Final Thought

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:00pm- Daniel Keating of The Keating Group and Medal of Honor Recipient Specialist Five James “Doc” McCloughan join the show to discuss the 2022 Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation Gala on Saturday October 22nd. One of the prizes being auctioned at the gala will be an opportunity to co-host The Rich Zeoli Show! For more information visit: https://www.mclefphila.org/events-overview 4:15pm- Executive Producer of The Dom Giordanao Show Dan Borowski is LIVE! From Citizen Bank Park ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies' NLCS Game 3 against the San Diego Padres.  4:30pm- Steve Bannon, a former adviser for Donald Trump, has been sentenced to four months in prison after refusing to comply with a House of Representatives subpoena seeking information about the Capitol Building riot on January 6th, 2021. In March 2013, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denied collecting information on U.S. citizens while speaking to a U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. By June 2013, it was revealed the NSA had collected telephone metadata on millions of Americans—yet, he was not held accountable. Where is the consistency?  4:45pm- On Friday, President Joe Biden delivered remarks from the White House on budget deficit reduction—claiming to have reduced the annual deficit by $1.4 trillion. In September, Washington Post Fact-Checker gave Biden's claims of reducing the deficit “three Pinocchio's.” Kessler writes, “Biden is citing real deficit-reduction numbers, but doing so in a way to mislead…The budget deficit was supposed to shrink as the massive spending caused by the pandemic faded. Indeed, the budget-deficit picture…would have been better if not for Biden's policies…he cannot suggest that they reduced the budget deficit.” 4:55pm- President Biden warns of “Mega MAGA Trickle-Down”—is that an economic theory or an ice cream? 

In late July 2016, FBI director James Comey notified certain members of the Obama White House, along with director of National Intelligence James Clapper, of the FBI's opening of their Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign. CIA director John Brennan was already aware as he was the one who had been providing the FBI with information regarding the Trump campaign. As Brennan testified to Congress in May 2017, “I was aware of intelligence and information about contacts between Russian officials and U.S. persons that raised concerns in my mind about whether or not those individuals were cooperating with the Russians, either in a witting or unwitting fashion, and it served as the basis for the FBI investigation to determine whether such collusion—cooperation occurred.” Welcome to Truth over News with Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke. ⭕️Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

Former U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says Russia is still an "existential threat" to the U.S because of President Vladimir Putin and its nuclear weapons.

President Biden punishes Vladimir Putin with economic sanctions and Biden is warning there is worse to come if Putin takes even more of Ukraine. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper joins to answer if Biden's sanctions will stop Putin from annexing the entire Donbas.  Plus, gas prices are already soaring. Now, the Russia and Ukraine crisis could send even more prices surging.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Jill and Victor are joined by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to break down the importance of recent spy cases and the risks posed by the events on 1/6.  Then, they discuss the need for diversity in our intelligence services and their role in protecting us, before emphasizing the need for public service and defense of the common good. Get More From Fmr. DNI James Clapper: DIA Bio | Author of “Facts and Fears” Get More From Victor and Jill:  Jill Wine-Banks: Twitter | Facebook | Website | Author of The Watergate Girl: My Fight For Truth & Justice Against A Criminal President | iGen Politics Victor Shi: Twitter |Medium | Blog w/Jill Wine-Banks |  Former Biden Delegate: @Bideninaugural | iGen Politics Email iGen Politics at igp@politicon.com Or tweet using #iGenPolitics

Join hosts TOOTS SWEET & the lovely JEWELS JONES 

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper discusses the greatest threats, cyber, surveillance, the information being collected on each one of us and individual rights to privacy. Learn how we can protect ourselves against future health or biological threats. 

Executive producer of Absolute Proof, Mary Fanning, rejoins the program to discuss her documentaries and what those messages are for Americans and the world. She also discusses the current state of affairs today and where we are headed if we do not fight back immediately. Lastly we discuss what Trump meant when he said he was returning in August. You can learn more about Mary Fanning and her great work at TheAmericanReport.org     C60Complete Black Seed Oil & Curcumin Gel Capsules - Proven 200x more effective than Vitamin C! Learn more or get your bottle of Z-Stack, Dr. Zelenko's Vitamin Pack specifically for building your immune system (over the counter Hydroxychloroquine) and protecting you from getting sick (a weapon to protect you from the "vaccine" weapon): Get Z-Stack Now See exclusive interviews on SarahWestall.TV or on Ebener (what is Ebener?)! Sign up at SarahWestall.com/Subscribe Sign up for my newsletter and my other platforms @ SarahWestall.com/Subscribe MUSIC CREDITS: "Apex" licensed for broad internet media use, including video and audio     See the full video on Odysee | Bitchute | Rumble | SarahWestall.tv | Freedom.Social   Mary Fanning Biography: Mary Fanning is the executive producer of Mike Lindell's documentary “ABSOLUTE PROOF,” and "ABSOLUTE PERIL" and the entire series of documentaries exposing the corruption behind the 2020 election. She is one of the sharpest and most UNrecognized investigative reporter in the field. Her sources are unparalleled, her reports groundbreaking. Fanning's investigative journalism covers national security and up until lately, she was best known for her series “The Betrayal Papers” that exposed the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into the highest levels of American government. The six part series exposed the influence the Muslim Brotherhood exerted over the Obama administration, members of Congress, and on American policy foreign and domestic. Fanning exposed the penetration by Qatar, home of the Muslim Brotherhood, into U.S. universities and corporate America in her series Qatar Awareness. Fanning has collaborated with investigative journalist Alan Jones breaking a series of national security stories. Fanning and Jones uncovered connections between Hawaii Director of Health Loretta Fuddy, to Chicago communists, SUBUD, and to the Soviet Silvermaster spy ring. Fuddy had released a copy of Barack Obama's birth certificate to the White House before she was reportedly killed in a plane crash. Fanning and Jones uncovered the connections between rogue Iraqi nuclear physicist Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar and Port Canaveral's 2014 Project Pelican cargo container terminal lease to Gulftainer where the Obama also administration bypassed the required National Security Threat Analysis and CFIUS review. Dr. Jafar was the scientific mastermind behind Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program. Fanning and Jones subsequently connected Project Pelican to Russia's Club-K Container Missile System and to the Clinton's, The Clinton Foundation and The Clinton Global Initiative. Fanning and Jones were the first reporters to expose the Jafar family's connections to the now collapsed middle eastern hedge fund The Abraaj Group. They further exposed the connections of Barack Obama's college roommates to The Abraaj Group and the Jafar family. Fanning and Jones were the first reporters to connect President Trump's 2017 tweet accusing President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower to the case of CIA whistleblower Dennis Montgomery. Montgomery asserted that President Obama's CIA Director John Brennan and his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper illegally spied on Trump using an illegal super surveillance system known as “The Hammer.” Mary Fanning's work has appeared at The Center for Security Policy, Breitbart News, Community Digital News, Lifezette, The Gateway Pundit,

#TuneIn2InTune Tonight w/ your hosts TOOTS SWEET & JEWELS JONES w/ special guest MARY FANNING / @realMaryFanning / https://theamericanreport.org/.    Mary Fanning is an investigative journalist covering national security. Fanning is known for her series “The Betrayal Papers” that exposed the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into the highest levels of American government. Fanning exposed the penetration by Qatar, home of the Muslim Brotherhood, into U.S. universities and corporate America in her series Qatar Awareness. Fanning has collaborated with investigative journalist Alan Jones breaking a series of national security stories. Fanning and Jones uncovered connections between Barack Obama and the Soviet Silvermaster spy ring. Fanning and Jones were the first reporters to connect President Trump's 2017 tweet accusing President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower to the case of CIA whistleblower Dennis Montgomery. Montgomery asserted that President Obama's CIA Director John Brennan and his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper illegally spied on Trump using an illegal super surveillance system known as “The Hammer.” ***Disclaimer: The opinions and views of our guests DO NOT necessarily reflect the opinions and views of the "Patriots In Tune" channel. PATRIOTS IN TUNE channel hosted by Toots Sweet and the lovely Jewels Jones. Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 7:00​pm-9:00pm ET and  Catturd Wednesdays from 12:00​pm-2:00pm ET Donate To Us! PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/PatriotsInTune Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PatriotsInTune

It's a new era for the study of UAP. The UFO topic's popularity, and legitimacy has been bolstered by recent comments from individuals in the highest echelons of power — and they've all been saying the same thing.President Obama, CIA Chiefs John Brennan, James Woolsey, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Directors of National Intelligence James Clapper, John Ratcliffe — the similarity in their message appears to be the leading edge of an official change in policy on UFOs; that the objects, performing otherworldly feats of aerodynamics, moving at thousands of miles an hour, pulling hundreds if not thousands of G-forces, are real, not imagined.With the information that we know, what does this tell us about these vehicles, about this technology? Today, my guest host Thomas Morrison and I, speak with Robert Powell, a founder of SCU — the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. SCU is an association of scientists unpacking the data and have authored peer reviewed papers on UAP performance. Undoubtedly, there is another group of analysts, a shadow SCU- type group operating from within the Pentagon, and as more data and testimony become public, it is likely these efforts will begin to merge.      This month, the U.S. Government will release an unclassified report on UAP… now that tens of thousands have turned into millions of people watching, what will it be like when we finally see the truth?For more information, please visit the Facebook Group "Advanced Aerospace Threat identification Program Discussion Cell (AATIP DC)" at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/AATIPDiscussionCellScientific Coalition for UAP Studies -  June 4 & 5 conference https://www.explorescu.org/conferencesPhysics Frontiers Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/physics-frontiers/id1171827836UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiryby Michael Swords and Robert Powellhttps://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords/dp/1933665580/The Truth About UFOs: A Scientific Perspectiveby Robert Max Powell (Author), Reena S Powell (Cover Art)https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-UFOs-Scientific-Perspective/dp/1087891493

Margaret Flowers, a pediatrician, health reform activist and co-director at Popular Resistance, joins us to discuss coronavirus news. Facing significant questions about his actions during the early stages of the pandemic, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his administration should have been more transparent in how it counted deaths related to COVID-19 in long-term care homes. Jim Kavanagh, a writer at The Polemicist and CounterPunch and author of "The American Farce Unravels: Shreds of January 6th," joins us to discuss domestic terrorism legislation. A number of Democrats are pushing for further legislative action on domestic terrorism. The coalition of "blue dog" Democrats argue that “the threat of domestic terrorism has never before been as stark as it is now, in the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.” Civil liberties and human rights groups opposed to the legislation counter that the actions that took place on January 6 were already illegal, and that these new laws will likely be used against minority groups with little or no political power. George Koo, a journalist, social activist, international business consultant and chemical engineer, joins us for the latest news about China. The never-ending flow of US sanctions against China may soon turn on the Biden administration as China is eyeing counter sanctions related to rare earth minerals. Such minerals, which are used in everything from smartphones to warplanes, may be on the line, according to the Financial Times. China's foreign ministry has not answered any questions regarding this possibility to date. Ajamu Baraka, the 2016 US vice presidential candidate for the Green Party, joins us to discuss US sanctions on Latin America. Alena Douhan, the United Nations special rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, visited Venezuela for an investigation on the impact of US sanctions. The diplomat concluded, Washington's state of national emergency in 2015, and the US', EU's and allies' subsequent sanctions “violates international law,” “the principle of sovereign equality of states,” while also constituting “an intervention in the domestic affairs of Venezuela.” Mark Sleboda, a Moscow-based international relations and security analyst, joins us to discuss the deterioration in relations between Russia and the European Union. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently stated Russia wants to have a strong relationship with the European Union, but the constant bashing and sanctions from the other side is making it nearly impossible to continue with business as usual. He indicated that the never-ending cascade of sanctions and unsubstantiated accusations along with a refusal to cooperate on international investigations are creating an environment in which Russia must act to protect its economic interests. Ted Rall, a political cartoonist and syndicated columnist, joins us to discuss cancel culture. In his latest article, Chris Hedges states that "elites and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically-correct speech are the new Jacobins." Hedges goes on to argue that the liberal class, who move to attack people using unacceptable language, lacks the courage to confront the centers of power in the military industrial complex, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the intelligence agencies. Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, joins us to discuss the latest information on the investigation of the origins of Russiagate. Recent documents released as a result of court orders show that former FBI Director James Comey contradicted his sworn statements to the FISA court. Comey gave written confirmation to the FISA court that the infamous Steele Dossier was verified; however, Comey wrote in a Jan. 12, 2017, email to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that "we are not able to sufficiently corroborate the reporting," which was the exact same day that he signed a document headed to the court stating the opposite. Will Comey be held criminally liable or will this be another whitewash? Dan Lazare, an investigative journalist and author of "The Velvet Coup: The Constitution, the Supreme Court and the Decline of American Democracy," joins us to discuss the Biden administration's early foreign policy moves. The US government outlet has confirmed the Biden administration is building a new military base in northeastern Syria, as the Syrian government complains that the US is plundering the nation and stealing their oil. The Pentagon is increasing its presence in Syria by sending more troops and fortifying existing bases. Additionally, the Biden team is increasing hostilities towards Iran, backing out of the Afghanistan peace deal, and pledging support for Trump's decision to move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

For eleven years the Obama Administration used a supercomputer called The Hammer to spy on American citizens. It is this, the most powerful surveillance tool in the history of man, that has caused the extreme political tumult of the past four years. As a government contractor, Dennis Montgomery created the Hammer in 2003. As you can imagine, it quickly became a highly effective tool for the US in its War on Terror. Created and built to protect the American people, it was eventually turned on them for illegal domestic surveillance. In February 2009, the Hammer was commandeered by the Obama Administration for massive domestic surveillance and hacking of American citizens. Not even president yet for a whole two months, Obama had obviously made his administration's theft of the Hammer a priority. With the help of the then FBI Director Robert Mueller, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and CIA Director John Brennan, it was moved to Fort Washington in Maryland.

Mary Fanning & Allen Jones return to the program to discuss how traitors and their foreign supporters are working together to destroy the United States. The stolen election is an important step in their playbook to take control and demoralize a proud nation. Fanning & Jones, the journalists who broke the Hammer story, explain how the Hammer and Scorecard was used to fix the election. We discuss why the mainstream media and the traitors in our government are determined to declare the Hammer and Scorecard as "fake news" and conspiracy theory. Also we discuss other important information they have uncovered that Americans need to know. You can learn more about Mary Fanning & Allen Jones on their website at TheAmericanReport.org See the show on Roku, Apple TV, Google TV and more - Sign up at SarahWestall.TV   C60Complete Black Seed Oil & Curcumin Gel Capsules - Proven 200x more effective than Vitamin C! Consider supporting this channel by joining Patreon at Patreon.com/SarahWestall - See exclusive interview with Sharry Edwards and others, eBooks, discount coupons, and more! Sign up for my newsletter, Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms @ SarahWestall.com/Subscribe         See more information on great products, including the C60 BlackSeed Oil Gel Caps, Snake Oil, and much more @ http://SarahWestall.com/Shop   See the full video on Odysee or Bitchute   Mary Fanning Biography: Mary Fanning is an investigative journalist covering national security. Fanning is known for her series “The Betrayal Papers” that exposed the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into the highest levels of American government. The six part series exposed the influence the Muslim Brotherhood exerted over the Obama administration, members of Congress, and on American policy foreign and domestic. Fanning exposed the penetration by Qatar, home of the Muslim Brotherhood, into U.S. universities and corporate America in her series Qatar Awareness. Fanning has collaborated with investigative journalist Alan Jones breaking a series of national security stories. Fanning and Jones uncovered connections between Hawaii Director of Health Loretta Fuddy, to Chicago communists, SUBUD, and to the Soviet Silvermaster spy ring. Fuddy had released a copy of Barack Obama's birth certificate to the White House before she was reportedly killed in a plane crash. Fanning and Jones uncovered the connections between rogue Iraqi nuclear physicist Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar and Port Canaveral's 2014 Project Pelican cargo container terminal lease to Gulftainer where the Obama also administration bypassed the required National Security Threat Analysis and CFIUS review. Dr. Jafar was the scientific mastermind behind Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program. Fanning and Jones subsequently connected Project Pelican to Russia's Club-K Container Missile System and to the Clinton's, The Clinton Foundation and The Clinton Global Initiative. Fanning and Jones were the first reporters to expose the Jafar family's connections to the now collapsed middle eastern hedge fund The Abraaj Group. They further exposed the connections of Barack Obama's college roommates to The Abraaj Group and the Jafar family. Fanning and Jones were the first reporters to connect President Trump's 2017 tweet accusing President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower to the case of CIA whistleblower Dennis Montgomery. Montgomery asserted that President Obama's CIA Director John Brennan and his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper illegally spied on Trump using an illegal super surveillance system known as “The Hammer.” Mary Fanning's work has appeared at The Center for Security Policy, Breitbart News, Community Digital News, Lifezette, The Gateway Pundit, 1776 Channel and The American Report.   Alan Jones Biography: Alan Jones is an investigative journalist covering national security. Jones joined Communities at WashingtonTimes.com in 2012,

Mary Fanning & Allen Jones return to the program to discuss how traitors and their foreign supporters are working together to destroy the United States. The stolen election is an important step in their playbook to take control and demoralize a proud nation. Fanning & Jones, the journalists who broke the Hammer story, explain how the Hammer and Scorecard was used to fix the election. We discuss why the mainstream media and the traitors in our government are determined to declare the Hammer and Scorecard as "fake news" and conspiracy theory. Also we discuss other important information they have uncovered that Americans need to know. You can learn more about Mary Fanning & Allen Jones on their website at TheAmericanReport.org See the show on Roku, Apple TV, Google TV and more - Sign up at SarahWestall.TV   C60Complete Black Seed Oil & Curcumin Gel Capsules - Proven 200x more effective than Vitamin C! Consider supporting this channel by joining Patreon at Patreon.com/SarahWestall - See exclusive interview with Sharry Edwards and others, eBooks, discount coupons, and more! Sign up for my newsletter, Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms @ SarahWestall.com/Subscribe         See more information on great products, including the C60 BlackSeed Oil Gel Caps, Snake Oil, and much more @ http://SarahWestall.com/Shop   See the full video on Odysee or Bitchute   Mary Fanning Biography: Mary Fanning is an investigative journalist covering national security. Fanning is known for her series “The Betrayal Papers” that exposed the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into the highest levels of American government. The six part series exposed the influence the Muslim Brotherhood exerted over the Obama administration, members of Congress, and on American policy foreign and domestic. Fanning exposed the penetration by Qatar, home of the Muslim Brotherhood, into U.S. universities and corporate America in her series Qatar Awareness. Fanning has collaborated with investigative journalist Alan Jones breaking a series of national security stories. Fanning and Jones uncovered connections between Hawaii Director of Health Loretta Fuddy, to Chicago communists, SUBUD, and to the Soviet Silvermaster spy ring. Fuddy had released a copy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate to the White House before she was reportedly killed in a plane crash. Fanning and Jones uncovered the connections between rogue Iraqi nuclear physicist Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar and Port Canaveral’s 2014 Project Pelican cargo container terminal lease to Gulftainer where the Obama also administration bypassed the required National Security Threat Analysis and CFIUS review. Dr. Jafar was the scientific mastermind behind Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program. Fanning and Jones subsequently connected Project Pelican to Russia’s Club-K Container Missile System and to the Clinton’s, The Clinton Foundation and The Clinton Global Initiative. Fanning and Jones were the first reporters to expose the Jafar family’s connections to the now collapsed middle eastern hedge fund The Abraaj Group. They further exposed the connections of Barack Obama’s college roommates to The Abraaj Group and the Jafar family. Fanning and Jones were the first reporters to connect President Trump’s 2017 tweet accusing President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower to the case of CIA whistleblower Dennis Montgomery. Montgomery asserted that President Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan and his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper illegally spied on Trump using an illegal super surveillance system known as “The Hammer.” Mary Fanning’s work has appeared at The Center for Security Policy, Breitbart News, Community Digital News, Lifezette, The Gateway Pundit, 1776 Channel and The American Report.   Alan Jones Biography: Alan Jones is an investigative journalist covering national security. Jones joined Communities at WashingtonTimes.com in 2012, where he investigated Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis...

Chris discusses Russian and Iranian interference in the 2020 election with Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Then, Chris previews the final presidential debate before the election with Dana Bash and Timothy O'Brien. Chris wraps up the show with Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the CDC's revised definition of "close contact." To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Chris discusses Russian and Iranian interference in the 2020 election with Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Then, Chris previews the final presidential debate before the election with Dana Bash and Timothy O'Brien. Chris wraps up the show with Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the CDC's revised definition of "close contact." To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

[00:30] Deception (9 minutes) To fully understand world events, we must know the spiritual dimension behind them. The Bible plainly teaches that Satan is the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4) and that his deceitful broadcasts permeate the air (Ephesians 2:2), causing the entire world to be deceived (Revelation 12:9). John 8:44 says that Satan is the father of lies, and we are living in a society drenched in falsehoods and deceit! [10:00] Communism (10 minutes) Americans who used to sound the alarm on the infiltration of communism in the United States were branded by the Communist-controlled universities and media as scaremongers and witch-hunters. If anything, we’ve underestimated the degree to which the Communist ideology has taken over America. [20:00] Obama Spied and Lied (19 minutes) The Obama team is out in force to defend why it spied on several members of the Trump transition team up to the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. Former CIA Director John Brennan says the “Obamagate” outcry is just a distraction from coronavirus. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says the practice of spying on the incoming administration was just “routine” intelligence gathering. [39:00] Nothing but Coronavirus (16 minutes) Governments, along with Big Tech companies, are censoring any dissent about the coronavirus statistics. Why is it so difficult to get to the truth about this crisis?

Top Obama administration officials purportedly requested to "unmask" the identity of former national security adviser Michael Flynn during the presidential transition period, according to a list of names from that controversial process made public.https://youtu.be/65V9DDk2ZjwThe declassified list specifically showed officials who “may have received Lt. Gen Flynn’s identity in response to a request processed between 8 November 2016 and 31 January 2017 to unmask an identity that had been generically referred to in an NSA foreign intelligence report.”"I declassified the enclosed document, which I am providing to you for your situational awareness," Grenell wrote to the GOP senators in sending along with the list.“Each individual was an authorized recipient of the original report and the unmasking was approved through NSA’s standard process, which includes a review of the justification for the request,” the document said. “Only certain personnel are authorized to submit unmasking requests into the NSA system. In this case, 16 authorized individuals requested unmasking for [REDACTED] different NSA intelligence reports for select identified principals.”The document added: “While the principals are identified below, we cannot confirm they saw the unmasked information. This response does not include any requests outside of the specified time-frame.”The list revealed that then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power made unmasking requests seven times between Nov. 30, 2016, and Jan. 11, 2017. The list revealed that Clapper made three requests from Dec. 2, 2016, through Jan. 7, 2017; and that Brennan made two requests, one on Dec. 14 and one on Dec. 15, 2016. Comey also made a request on Dec. 15, 2016. On Jan. 5, 2017, McDonough made one request, and on Jan. 12, 2017, Biden made one request.The list also includes then-FBI Director James Comey, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Obama's then-chief of staff Denis McDonough.https://www.spreaker.com/user/9922149/list-of-officials-who-sought-to-unmask-fhttps://gorightnews.com/list-of-officials-who-sought-to-unmask-flynn-released_-biden-comey-obama-chief-of-staff-among-th/

On Thursday's Mark Levin Show, General Michael Flynn's Attorney Sidney Powell joins the program to discuss the breaking news that the DOJ has dropped their charges against Flynn after internal FBI memos showed a bias toward harming Flynn. In fact, there was never even a legally-sound reason to investigate Flynn, to begin with. This is evidence of a culture of corruption that has damaged the leadership level of the FBI during President Barack Obama's tenure. These bad actors must be pursued to make sure these kinds of political prosecutions and the soft coup against a duly elected President never happens again in the United States. Then, according to Byron York, newly declassified court papers show that during the Presidential transition, top Justice Department official Sally Yates learned about the Flynn-Kislyak phone call from President Obama himself. Former Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Vice President Joe Biden met in the White House with Susan Rice for a meeting of the National Security Council in January 2017. Yates and Comey stayed behind after this meeting to discuss how the Logan Act might be used on General Flynn. The meeting ended with President Obama allegedly saying " don't tell me anymore" suggesting Obama wanted to have plausible deniability. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Thursday's Mark Levin Show, General Michael Flynn's Attorney Sidney Powell joins the program to discuss the breaking news that the DOJ has dropped their charges against Flynn after internal FBI memos showed a bias toward harming Flynn. In fact, there was never even a legally-sound reason to investigate Flynn, to begin with. This is evidence of a culture of corruption that has damaged the leadership level of the FBI during President Barack Obama's tenure. These bad actors must be pursued to make sure these kinds of political prosecutions and the soft coup against a duly elected President never happens again in the United States. Then, according to Byron York, newly declassified court papers show that during the Presidential transition, top Justice Department official Sally Yates learned about the Flynn-Kislyak phone call from President Obama himself. Former Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Vice President Joe Biden met in the White House with Susan Rice for a meeting of the National Security Council in January 2017. Yates and Comey stayed behind after this meeting to discuss how the Logan Act might be used on General Flynn. The meeting ended with President Obama allegedly saying " don't tell me anymore" suggesting Obama wanted to have plausible deniability. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shortly after President Trump took office and details of the Spygate plot to entrap him with the fake “Russian collusion” narrative and remove him from office started to leak, conservatives and supporters of the administration began crying foul.As Americans learned that figures like FBI Director James Comey, top FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strok, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie Ohr, CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and others were implicated in the plot, it appeared as though the shadowy “deep state” was responsible.But as conservative media began using the term to describe the alleged suspects, they were lampooned by Democrats and their Left-wing Washington establishment media allies as conspiracy theorists and kooks.“There is no deep state, you buffoons,” we were told — despite the fact that its well known elements of the U.S. intelligence community, the media, and federal law enforcement have long worked behind the scenes to effect policies and priorities they preferred.On this episode of The Truth Podcast: Question Everything, we seek to answer the question, What is the Deep State?

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper talks about his book, "Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence," with Penn Law Professor Claire Finkelstein.

Today, Rich discusses the 'Schiff' show that's being caused by House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff's shenanigans and Speaker Nancy Pelosi's balancing act on secret impeachment depositions. Then, Democrats parade around a ukranian-born war hero to distract from their weak case against President Trump. Plus, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper nervously stutters his way through a CNN interview as he's faced with questions regarding his role in alleged crimes. Comment and follow on Twitter at RichValdes and online at TheRichValdes.com. Support the show.

North Korea today remains one of the most repressive regimes on earth restricting the freedom of its own people and considering Christianity a threat to the state. Kenneth Bae is a Christian missionary and American citizen who knows all too well about North Korean oppression. Although it is difficult to enter North Korea, Bae hosted state approved tourism visits from China. Each trip, though a risk, was a successful time of prayer for the Korean people until the country's security officials arrested Bae after believing he posed a threat to the communist state. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor and, after two years, became the longest held U.S. citizen to be imprisoned in North Korea. He was released in 2014 returning home on a flight with then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Kenneth Bae joins Jeff Pickering at the Leland House to share his story of imprisonment and release, holding onto hope in Christ, and his ministry to the North Korean people. Guest Biography Kenneth Bae is an American citizen, born in South Korea, who serves as a Christian missionary in Seoul, South Korea. Since being released, Kenneth founded the Nehemiah Global Initiative, which is devoted to remembering the 25 million North Koreans and helping North Korean refugees physically and spiritually to rebuild new lives in South Korea. His book Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea recounts his full story. Resources from the Conversation EVENT INVITE | Join the ERLC in Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 18 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for Humanity Denied: Religious Freedom in North Korea ERLC podcast | Olivia Enos on North Korea, nuclear summits, and the persecuted church ERLC article by Travis Wussow | What it's like to follow Jesus in North Korea CNN video | Kenneth Bae Interview New York Times article | Kenneth Bae, Longest Held U.S. Prisoner in North Korea Washington Times | Kenneth Bae details North Korea prison ordeal, says ‘God's will” put him there ERLC | Capitol Conversation Podcast

North Korea today remains one of the most repressive regimes on earth restricting the freedom of its own people and considering Christianity a threat to the state. Kenneth Bae is a Christian missionary and American citizen who knows all too well about North Korean oppression. Although it is difficult to enter North Korea, Bae hosted state approved tourism visits from China. Each trip, though a risk, was a successful time of prayer for the Korean people until the country’s security officials arrested Bae after believing he posed a threat to the communist state. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor and, after two years, became the longest held U.S. citizen to be imprisoned in North Korea. He was released in 2014 returning home on a flight with then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Kenneth Bae joins Jeff Pickering at the Leland House to share his story of imprisonment and release, holding onto hope in Christ, and his ministry to the North Korean people. Guest Biography Kenneth Bae is an American citizen, born in South Korea, who serves as a Christian missionary in Seoul, South Korea. Since being released, Kenneth founded the Nehemiah Global Initiative, which is devoted to remembering the 25 million North Koreans and helping North Korean refugees physically and spiritually to rebuild new lives in South Korea. His book Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea recounts his full story. Resources from the Conversation EVENT INVITE | Join the ERLC in Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 18 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for Humanity Denied: Religious Freedom in North Korea ERLC podcast | Olivia Enos on North Korea, nuclear summits, and the persecuted church ERLC article by Travis Wussow | What it’s like to follow Jesus in North Korea CNN video | Kenneth Bae Interview New York Times article | Kenneth Bae, Longest Held U.S. Prisoner in North Korea Washington Times | Kenneth Bae details North Korea prison ordeal, says ‘God’s will” put him there ERLC | Capitol Conversation Podcast

First, Brianna Keilar, filling in for Jake, talks with Fareed Zakaria and Director James Clapper about President Trump's meeting with Chairman Kim Jong Un, his invitation to Kim Jong Un to Washington. Next, Brianna talks with 2020 Presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar about President Trump conducting foreign diplomacy by tweet, the idea that Russia could be behind the twitter bot attacks on fellow 2020 Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris, and the most recent House Border bill. Next, Brianna talks to 2020 Presidential contender Julian Castro about President Trump's 'haphazard' approach to North Korea, potential immigration raids in 10 major cities, and the policy differences between himself and fellow Texan, 2020 democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke. Then, Bakari Sellers, David Urban, Mary Katharine Ham, and Jess McIntosh join Brianna to discuss President Trump's reaction to the 2020 Democratic debate, 2020 Democratic candidate Kamala Harris' performance at the debate, and the latest with President Trump's visit to North Korea. Finally, a look at how the USWNT is the latest sports team to make a a trip to the White House a political issue.

Alabama passes bill that would make almost all abortions illegal; House Dems target Trump lawyersAlabama looks to outlaw nearly all abortionsAlabama’s state Senate passed a controversial bill on Tuesday that would outlaw nearly all abortions in the state and make performing one a felony unless the mother’s health is at risk. The bill will make the punishment for performing abortions up to 99 years or life in prison, although the woman who undergoes the procedure would not be subject to a felony charge. Democratic lawmakers pressed for amendments that would creation exceptions for instances of rape and incest but failed. The vote is expected to reignite a debate over Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion across the nation, and push Supreme Court justices to re-evaluate the laws. Meanwhile, a government report being released Wednesday says the nation's birth rates for women in their teens and 20s reached record laws last year, leading to the fewest babies in 32 years.House Democrats investigating Trump's lawyers for possible obstructionPresident Trump's legal team slammed House Democrats on Tuesday evening after a report that the House Intelligence Committee has been investigating possible obstruction by Trump's lawyers after the 2016 election. “Instead of addressing important intelligence needs, the House Intelligence Committee appears to seek a truly needless dispute,” Patrick Strawbridge, who represents attorney Jay Sekulow, told Fox News. The statement came in response to a New York Times article published Tuesday that said the committee, led by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., “is investigating whether lawyers tied to President Trump and his family helped obstruct the panel’s inquiry into Russian election interference by shaping false testimony.”Biden has some other 2020 Dems hitting reset buttonWith Joe Biden surging to double-digit leads in polls as the frontrunner to face President Trump in 2020, some Democratic candidates are already reinventing their strategies and reintroducing themselves to the media. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, generated buzz by slamming former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and mocking the Clintons during her appearance Monday on the podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience." Once-leading contenders like Beto O'Rourke and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., , whose momentum was sapped by South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and then by Biden, have conducted a string of new interviews and plan town hall events over the next few weeks. Harris was interviewed by CNN's Jake Tapper last weekend and will appear on MSNBC on May 28. O'Rourke has been interviewed by Rachel Maddow and on "The View" this week and will be featured in a CNN town hall on May 21. Buttigieg will be on a Fox News town hall next Sunday, May 19. Still, as "Media Buzz" host Howard Kurtz noted in his column, "When you're relaunching, you're losing."Freshman Dem 'sisters' stick together, vow not to be silencedRep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., defended her colleague, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., from criticism over controversial remarks about the Holocaust, insisting that the backlash is "designed" to "silence" Muslim voices. Appearing on MSNBC, Omar said that she and Tlaib, whom she referred to as "my sister," have the "strength to endure any of the mischaracterization or efforts to distort and vilify and mischaracterize" their message. "I think we are seeing what happens when people really see these kind of attacks for what they are. It is designed to silence, sideline, and sort of almost eliminate [the] public voice of Muslims from the public discourse," Omar told MSNBC host Chris Hayes.Duke star NOLA-bound?The New Orleans Pelicans won the NBA Draft lottery Tuesday night, and with it, the likely right to select Duke superstar Zion Williamson in next month's NBA Draft. The Memphis Grizzlies received the second overall pick, followed by the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers. The Cleveland Cavaliers received the fifth overall pick, despite having the joint-highest odds to win the lottery at 14 percent, alongside the Knicks and Phoenix Suns. The Suns received the sixth overall pick. 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On Friday's Mark Levin Show, Rich Zeoli of WPHT fills in. President Trump followed his own logic along with the advice of his advisors and did not fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Yet the Democrats claim that the mere thought of firing Mueller is obstruction of justice. Does that make sense? Then, the media continues their smear of the president, in particular, MSNBC Analyst and former CIA Director John Brennan. Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were aided by the media in spreading these collusion falsehoods. When Trump says fake news is the enemy of the people, he is right. As is Mark Levin, in his new book "Unfreedom Of The Press" which is available for pre-order right now on Amazon. Later, Zeoli reiterates the timeline and means used to start the investigation to begin with while analyzingbother aspects of the Mueller report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Friday's Mark Levin Show, Rich Zeoli of WPHT fills in. President Trump followed his own logic along with the advice of his advisors and did not fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Yet the Democrats claim that the mere thought of firing Mueller is obstruction of justice. Does that make sense? Then, the media continues their smear of the president, in particular, MSNBC Analyst and former CIA Director John Brennan. Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were aided by the media in spreading these collusion falsehoods. When Trump says fake news is the enemy of the people, he is right. As is Mark Levin, in his new book "Unfreedom Of The Press" which is available for pre-order right now on Amazon. Later, Zeoli reiterates the timeline and means used to start the investigation to begin with while analyzingbother aspects of the Mueller report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harley Schlanger, www.LaRouchePAC.com, MUELLER REPORT FINDS NO TRUMP COLLUSION OR OBSTRUCTION, THE “TIME OF RECKONING” FOR THE COUP PLOTTERS HAS ARRIVED!, Trade with Russia and China Helps De-Nuke North Korea Venezuela Nicaragua, Belt and Road, Missile Defense Worldwide, Defense of EARTH, Coming Pole Shift Ozone Collapse, Ten Years Danger of Apophys Meteor, End of Pollution a Tech Issue, NOT to Old Green No Deal!, Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,NutriMedical Report Show, Bill — my latest article, on shaping the fight in the post-Mueller era. HarleyMUELLER REPORT FINDS NO TRUMP COLLUSION OR OBSTRUCTION: THE “TIME OF RECKONING” FOR THE COUP PLOTTERS HAS ARRIVED!by: Harley Schlanger March 29 — “After three years of lies and smears and slander, the Russia hoax is finally dead.  The collusion delusion is over.”With these words, President Donald Trump opened a raucous rally in front of more than 15,000 enthusiastic supporters in Grand Rapids, Michigan on March 28, celebrating the release of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller on March 22.  According to the summary submitted by Attorney General William Barr, Mueller found no evidence of collusion, nor of obstruction of justice, thus vindicating Trump's repeated claim that the investigation was a “witch hunt.”    In his remarks, Trump did not merely proclaim vindication.  He issued a call to action, asking those at the rally to join him in defeating the anti-Trump coup plotters, who are foolishly continuing their campaign to remove him from office.  He forcefully denounced leading Democrats, such as Representatives Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler, who are using House committees to expand the “investigation.” Trump said they “need to decide whether they will continue to defraud the public,” now that Russiagate has been exposed as a fraud.  He also excoriated the media, and intelligence officials who served under President Obama, such as former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, suggesting that both of them could be prosecuted for lying, and using their positions to illegally unleash the witch hunt.In an interview with Fox television's Sean Hannity before the rally, Trump stated that he will soon release all documents related to the attack on him, including those compiled by the FBI, which used the fictional dossier written by “former” British MI6 operative Christopher Steele, to get surveillance warrants from the secret FISA court, as well as the “302” reports on FBI interrogations, text messages and emails from the coup plotters, and more.  “I have plans to declassify and release,” he said.  “We must never let this happen to another president.  I hope they don't get away with it….It's an investigation that should never have happened.”  In particular, on the role of corrupt leading officials of the FBI who were part of the coup apparat, he said, “They wanted to do a subversion….It was treason.  It was really treason.”That Trump survived the persistent and vicious assault against him is in itself quite remarkable.  He had to endure years of media leaks and lies, attacks on his family, his businesses and his associates, many of whom were threatened and bullied, to get them to turn against him, as his former attorney Michael Cohen did.  Mueller also secured fraudulent indictments of “Russians” for cyber meddling, which will never be tested in court, and convictions for “process crimes” unrelated to the assignment given him.  Yet, in his final report, Mueller was forced to  admit there was no proof that Trump colluded with foreign efforts to steal the 2016 election.  This conclusion represents a harsh blow to the anti-Trump fanatics committed to his impeachment, leaving them reeling, stammering that they will “go further” than the special counsel in their hysterical resolve to overturn their defeat by Trump in the 2016 election.  The Schiller Institute's Helga Zepp LaRouche, who has taken the lead in exposing the fraud behind the attempted coup, said in a webcast on March 28 that it is not surprising that Trump's opponents will continue, as the report “did not lead to the desired result,” i.e. his removal!  But now is not time for complacency, she added.  Instead, “Now is the time for reckoning” for those who ran the attempted coup.WHO AND WHY MUST NOW BE ANSWEREDIn her March 28 webcast, LaRouche made clear that she is not talking about revenge in pursuing the coup plotters, but of something more profound, which is a matter of war and peace.  The attempted putsch against Trump was never simply about disgruntled supporters of Hillary Clinton seeking revenge for her electoral defeat.  It was launched by the highest levels of British intelligence, in collaboration with accomplices from the Bush and Obama-Clinton networks, to prevent Trump from overturning the post-Cold War consensus of using geopolitical confrontation to protect the unilateral world order, which was imposed following the collapse of the Soviet Union.  This unipolar world is being challenged by the rise of China, and its Belt-and-Road Initiative, which is adding nations as collaborators every day, and which is occurring as the Trans-Atlantic neo-liberal financial and trading system is following the Soviet system into the trash heap of history.In his presidential campaign, and throughout his presidency, Trump made clear that he wants to lead the U.S. out of this collapsing order, as it has been defined by endless wars, regime change policy, false flag provocations, and a bubble economy, which has again built up a level of unsustainable debt which could implode at any time.  Rather than preparing to go to war with China and Russia to defend this financially and morally bankrupt system, as the imperial neocons intend, Trump said he wants to achieve a peaceful, mutually beneficial relationship with the two other leading powers.  He emphasized this again in his Grand Rapids rally, saying the U.S. should have a “great relationship with Russia and China,” but that “fake news” turned it into Russiagate. That Trump understands the British role is evident in tweets he sent out March 18, when he retweeted comments from William Craddick of Disobedient Media.  Craddick tweeted that  “Russiagate was designed in part to help the UK counter Russian influence by baiting the United States into taking a hard line against them….Just another episode of the Great Game.”  A second retweet by Trump was a Craddick retweet of a comment from Democratic Party presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who wrote that “Short-sighted politicians and media pundits who've spent the last 2 years accusing Trump as a Putin puppet have brought us the expensive new Cold War & arms race.  How?  Because Trump now does everything he can to prove he's not a Putin puppet — even if it brings us closer to nuclear war.”  Gabbard is the only true anti-war candidate among the 16 to 20 Democrats who are campaigning for their party's nomination to run in the 2020 presidential election.In the West, other than Mrs. LaRouche, Rep. Gabbard, and a handful of other courageous individuals, such as former NSA Technical Director and whistleblower Bill Binney and his associates, the assertion in the Mueller report that the Russians did interfere in the U.S. election has gone unchallenged.  In her webcast comments, Mrs. LaRouche identified the escalation against Venezuela, led by Bolton, Pompeo and Pence, members of both parties in Congress, and the same media hacks still smarting from being slapped down by the Mueller report, as part of the effort to trap Trump into a position on Venezuela against Russia and China.  She said that, “…unless this apparatus is dismantled, they will find new ways to entrap” Trump, calling the Venezuela escalation “the continuation of the coup against Trump, with other colors,” a reference to the launching of “color revolutions”, as in Ukraine, as regime change operations under the cover of “humanitarian” efforts.In an interview done with me on radio station KTKK in Salt Lake City this week, Bill Binney fully endorsed Mrs. LaRouche's insistence that the perpetrators from the UK intelligence community and the “shadow government” in the U.S. must be “held accountable.”  If this does not happen, “they will do it again, lying as they did to get us into war in Vietnam (in the 1960s), and with the lies about weapons of mass destruction to justify the overthrow of Saddam and mass murder in Iraq,” and again with the lies from the “British and Brennan about Russian hacking.”  Binney has conducted the most thorough forensic investigation into the charge that the Russians hacked the DNC and Clinton campaign computers — which is at the heart of Russiagate — and refuted it on every level.  He said he knew from August 2016 that the charge was a fake, and that, instead of hacking by Russia, he proved that the data leak was the result of an “inside job”, with a thumb drive or similar device (see  https://larouchepac.com/20190226/bill-binney-and-larry-johnson-shred-robert-mueller-s-russian-hack-fable).  Yet, despite his known expertise in this area, he was never called to testify by Mueller, and his reports have been blacked out of the major media. Binney said the intelligence agencies must be “cleaned up — President Trump has the potential to do this, to give the intelligence agencies a double lobotomy”!    If this is not done, they will continue to “build their empire of destruction, with full support of a submissive media.”  While the combative spirit shown by Trump in the Grand Rapids is a sign that he is up to the fight, the question which now remains is whether the American people will respond to this call to action, and join with the LaRouche movement to use this opportunity to take down the corrupt British-U.S. networks responsible for war, chaos and poverty.   ENDhttps://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/how-to-identify-a-globalist-criminal/How to identify a globalist criminalIn my work analyzing the behavior and motives of globalists I often hear people question the validity of the label. Sometimes this is done by those who are purely uneducated about the background of what I can only call an organized cabal or criminal syndicate. Sometimes it is done by dishonest people who are seeking to sow the seeds of doubt. To be clear, yes, globalists are a very real group with a very real agenda, and this agenda is not morally or rationally sound.The argument then arises – “If globalists are a real threat, then we should identify them one by one…”This argument is often a ruse which insinuates that if a person points out the facts surrounding a crime on the part of globalists, his position is still not valid until he names them all in succession. This is a classic Alinsky tactic; to demand that the researcher catalog every person involved in a conspiracy or present a perfect solution to the criminality which may or may not be available, otherwise they should shut up and stop talking about the problem. The intent is to get us caught up in the weeds debating the extent of who is involved or whether one solution is superior to another.Acknowledging that a specific agenda exists is the first step before anything else can be accomplished.Obviously, one cannot outline a long list of globalist names in every essay or article. This would make each article dozens of pages long and is counterproductive. Naming names might be helpful in some circumstances, as I have done in the past such as in my article ‘Globalist Disinformation Spotlight On – Mohamed El-Erian'. I welcome readers to examine that article because El-Erian is a good example of what a globalist is and the kind of ideology they espouse. It is my feeling though that it is more important to focus on the behaviors, rhetoric, institutional affiliations and beliefs of globalists, because these elitists often hide in plain sight.Not all of them publicly call themselves “globalists”; some of them do. However, they ALL have the same character traits and they all support the same agendas.First and foremost I suppose I should address the so called “elephant in the room”; it is important to note that there is a concerted disinformation effort by a small group of people lurking in the corners of the liberty movement to push the notion that globalism is a purely “Jewish conspiracy”. And, as our social and economic structures grow more unstable, people look for easy answers and the idea is starting to gain some traction.  Their claim? It's all about the Jews, all the globalists are Jewish or somehow secretly related to Jews or are married to Jewish partners, etc. This is simply false, so let's get this out of the way…The Jewish conspiracy narrative, I believe, is 4th generation warfare, a psychological operation, an attempt to mislead liberty movement activists away from a much deeper and darker issue. It also may be an attempt to attach the movement to white supremacy or white identity groups as if they are interchangeable. Frankly, I do not care what other people believe as long as they keep to themselves and leave others alone. If someone takes special pride in their pigmentation or culture, great, I wish them the best of luck. It is true that some cultures function better than others, but this has far more to do with the superior cultures being more free.Just because we have a distaste for the race baiting insanity and hatred of white people or western culture displayed by the social justice left, this does not mean we need to swing to the other extreme and become zealots ourselves. I actually think the ability to discriminate at times is highly useful, but such simplistic divisions based on bias and broad generalizations make us weak, not strong. It makes us easy to conquer, not a formidable opponent to the globalists.Here are the facts:The vast majority of globalists are not of Jewish origin and are not zionist in their political affiliations. While there are sectors of globalist institutions that have more Jewish people than others (such as the Federal Reserve), this does not indicate a majority or any sort of broad “Jewish conspiracy”. On the contrary, the directorial boards and memberships of most globalist institutions have a small minorities of Jews, and are majority Anglo in origin. One can simply look at the board of directors of groups at the top of the globalist pyramid like the International Monetary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements, or World Bank and verify that this is the case.We can also examine the attendees of past globalist summits like the Bilderberg Group, or the World Economic Forum in Davos and see that again, some Jews might be involved, but are not a majority or even in the highest positions of authority. While the Rothschild family (Jewish) gets a lot of attention as being a major power center within globalist circles, we can see they are but one influence among many.These people herald from all over the world, and are of every ethnicity and national affiliation one can imagine. So, the broad brush of white identity conspiracy becomes rather useless in helping us figure out who the globalists truly are. It actually misleads us and points us in the wrong direction, and perhaps this is its underlying purpose.The fallback argument is that they might not be majority Jewish, but they are all “zionists”; which, again, is simply not true. Zionism is definitely a globalist scheme, but more of a side venture designed to manipulate some Jews and evangelicals into zealotry, to be exploited in supporting efforts like war in the Middle East. Zionism itself actually makes Jewish centers like Israel less safe and more prone to destruction. The globalists only care about Israel or the Jewish people in general in so much as they can be used as a tool for other more important efforts.And, while I have criticized the actions of the Israeli government on many occasions (and been accused of being an anti-semite for it), this is not the same as attacking the Israeli people. Globalism threatens them just as much as it threatens others.  I welcome readers to look over the rosters of many of the top globalist organizations; they will find a minority of zionists, not a majority.If it's not about the Jews or zionism, then what is globalism really all about? It is vital that we look at the intent, actions, motivations and beliefs of these people. Hyperfocusing on their genetic backgrounds will get us nowhere.  How do we know when we are dealing with a globalist? Let's look at some of the real and universal elements that make globalists an organized and identifiable culture, separate, distinct and destructive…Globalism As An “Inevitable” FutureGlobalists will often claim that globalism, the centralization of all governmental and economic power, is an inevitable byproduct of “progress”. They will state, without any evidence of course, that globalism represents a pinnacle of evolution in human society. Therefore, anyone that stands in the way of globalism is standing in the way of progress, which is apparently a cardinal sin in the new world order.But centralization of power is nothing new, and dreams of global empire ruled by self appointed “elites” goes all the way back to Plato and his “Republic”. Utopia by the elites for the elites is a tale as old as mankind. It does not represent evolution, but regression to an ideology that human beings have been struggling for thousands of years to escape from.We should also make the distinction here between globalists and useful idiots. Globalists are people in a position of power adequate enough to help affect the the changes and agendas they describe. Useful idiots (socialist/communists) might espouse globalist rhetoric, but they have no power. They are exploited as a blunt weapon by globalists, but they are not globalists, and will not likely benefit from globalism in the end.End Of SovereigntyGlobalists treat the idea of sovereignty with disdain. Their attacks usually revolve around nationalism and they will incessantly pontificate on the virtues of open borders. They can also sometimes be caught criticizing the concept of individual sovereignty, but they do seem to fancy the idea that THEY are unique and superior individuals. Individuality and freedom are meant for them, but not for the rest of us.Single Economic Authority And Monetary SystemA key element of globalism is economic centralization which makes perfect sense when you understand that trade is the root of human civilization and survival. Trade is almost as important as the air we breath and the water we drink. The consistent plan presented by globalists is that the IMF in particular must become the bottleneck point for global economic management, and that all the world's major currencies will be absorbed by the IMF into their SDR basket system.This would give the IMF the ability to dictate currency exchange rates on a whim, allowing them to homogenize currency values until they are so similar that a single world currency becomes a natural next step. This final product would be a cashless society, based on a digital blockchain-based currency or cryptocurrency.Single World GovernmentGlobalists all argue that the answer to most of the world's ailments is one world governance, or the end of nation states and cultural divisions in the name of “peace”. The UN is so far the impetus of this effort, but it is shadowed by various organizations like the IMF, BIS, World Bank, as well as dozens of think tank organizations like the CFR, Tavistock, the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, Darpa, etc., etc. A practice model for this type of government can be seen in the European Union, which is controlled by a supranational bureaucratic machine run by mostly faceless officials who are not elected and who do not answer to the public.Globalists have different terms for the shift into a single world government or single currency system.  They call it a “global reset, or a “new world order”, or a “multipolar world order”.  But all of these marketing labels are basically referring to the same thing.Close AssociationAny politician that works closely with globalist institutions or think tanks is likely a globalist. Any politician or government official that associates regularly and cooperates with known globalists is probably also a globalist.Environmental Crisis As Hegelian ThreatNot all globalists hit on this topic publicly, but most do.  The strategy, which was planned by the Club Of Rome along with top globalists like former UN Director Robert Muller, was to create the idea of an environmental threat so potentially devastating that the only option would be for the public to accept global governance as the solution.  Global warming and “climate change” became that existential threat.It does not seem to matter how often or how brutal the climate change argument is debunked by real data; the globalists desperately push the ideology.  It is a primary key to everything they hope to accomplish in terms of centralization, and their timeline is set for the year 2030.  Globalists also seem to enjoy fabricating fake moral dilemmas which force people to choose between one evil solution or another.  The fake moral dilemma here being that if we do not accept global centralization and elitist management of the planet, we are risking the destruction of our environment on an apocalyptic scale.Psychological Similarities Of GlobalistsProbably the most overwhelming epiphany I have come to in my 12 years of analysis into globalism and the nature of evil is that globalists are in fact tied together by a root mental illness or psychological aberration. This occurred during my research on narcissistic sociopathy, or what some circles might call “psychopathy”. Criminology indicates that not all criminals are full blown narcissistic sociopaths, but most full blown narcissistic sociopaths are criminals. Some are simply more successful criminals than others, and this usually depends on their ability to blend in and mimic or manipulate normal people.Full blown narcissistic sociopaths (or psychopaths) make up around 1% of any given population, but are responsible for the vast majority of violent crimes or criminal enterprises. The lion's share of justice system resources are used in dealing with these people, as they are four to eight times more likely than the average person to use violence in daily interactions or as a tool to gain advantage, and twenty-five times more likely to end up in prison.There is a long list of character traits that make a narcissistic sociopath, but the defining features are a complete lack of conscience and empathy, a propensity for moral relativism (the ability to rationalize any and all destructive behavior), a desperate need to be adored or admired by everyone around them, a feeling of being “more special” than most people, a feeling of superiority, delusions of grandeur or an inherent right to manage the lives of others, an obsessive need to control and manipulate, impulsive desires and deviant sexual inclinations, and elitist associations (they will only associate with people they feel are like them and are “equally superior”).A defining fact of narcissistic sociopathy is that these traits are inborn, not a product of environment. In some cases environment can play a role in activating these traits, but if a person is not born with them, they generally do not adopt them later in life because of a traumatic environment. The following documentaries linked here and hereare an excellent overview of high level narcissistic sociopaths.Narcissistic sociopaths defy all forms of treatment and cannot be reformed. They have no concrete personality beyond these traits, therefore, if you remove the traits, they are left with nothing else. They are almost anti-human; while most people are born with unique personality combinations, narcissistic sociopaths have none, so they mimic the personalities of those around them, mirroring behaviors and collecting or stealing quirks.Their primary drives are to fulfill their fantasies of superiority and godhood, as well as an endless quest to satiate their dopamine addiction. The more deviant the action, and the more successful they are at getting away with it, the more dopamine they generate and the more satisfied they feel. This leads to an endless cycle, seeking out more and more exploitation of others which becomes less and less satisfying, which leads to even greater deviance.I came to realize in my studies that these characteristics described almost exactly the observable behaviors of globalists. The difference being that globalists were so high functioning that they had actually built a society of narcissistic sociopaths that operated like a kind of cult, or a corporate entity. The only other historic example I could compare it to would be the mob, or other gangs which have blended into the surrounding normal society and operated in their midst.I do not know if a society of narcissistic sociopaths with its own tribal customs, mythologies and beliefs has ever been recorded before. While psychopathic people have been known in the past to organize into groups for mutual benefit, the globalists are something different. They are an anomaly; a well maintained culture of parasites that has blended almost seamlessly within normal society in order to feed off of non-psychopathic and empathetic people. The best fictional representation I can think of is the vampire. They are so similar I sometimes wonder if folklore creatures like vampires were based on narcissistic sociopaths as a way to warn people of their presence.Globalists are indeed a culture, a secretive and occult phenomenon that wants so badly to be recognized and worshiped, but fears public scrutiny. Their motivation at bottom is to condition or tear down normal, moral and free society until it becomes a place in which they can openly be what they really are without fear of judgment or consequences. 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It's funny how the Left has one set of rules for themselves but when it comes to anyone on the Right, the rules are much different.Consider what former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for someone he likes.

It's funny how the Left has one set of rules for themselves but when it comes to anyone on the Right, the rules are much different.Consider what former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for someone he likes.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Max Blumenthal, a journalist and bestselling author whose latest book is “The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza,” the senior editor of Grayzone Project, and co-host of the podcast “Moderate Rebels.”National Security Advisor John Bolton gave a fiery speech in Miami yesterday declaring the existence of a “troika of tyranny” in Latin America — Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Bolton also pledged support for far-right Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who made several bold announcements yesterday. Since the election Bolsonaro said that he would move Brazil’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, he would merge the Environment and Agriculture Ministries, threatening the Amazon, and he would name former president Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva’s prosecutor as the new Minister of Justice. Friday is Loud & Clear’s regular segment on the midterms, taking a look at political races around the country in the runup to midterm elections in November. Jacqueline Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, which hosts a livestream every Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. on Facebook, joins the show. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican of Iowa, announced yesterday that for four years during the Obama Administration, the CIA intercepted the emails of potential Intelligence Community whistleblowers and the emails of the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees. Grassley said that he had known this was happening for four years, but the information was classified. It was finally declassified at his request this week. Grassley blames former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper by name for what appears to be an overtly illegal act. President Trump offered remarks yesterday evening about immigration and the thousands of troops he’s sending to the border. He said he hopes the military doesn’t have to shoot, but he told reporters that he’s told the military that if any migrants seeking asylum throw any rocks, that the military should consider the rock a rifle. Pedro Rios, the director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S./Mexico Border Program and chairperson for the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium, joins the show. US sanctions against Iran will take effect again on Monday, six months after the Trump Administration withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran trade deal. The question, though is what other countries will do about the sanctions and whether waivers will make a difference. Professor Hamed Mousavi, a professor of political science with the University of Tehran, joins Brian and John. Just hours after President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a positive phone call that pointed to an improvement in diplomatic relations, the Department of Justice issued indictments against two Chinese companies and three individuals yesterday for allegedly stealing trade secrets. What’s behind the mixed signals coming from the U.S. government? David Ewing, he is the chair of the San Francisco chapter of the US-China People’s Friendship Association, joins the show.It’s Friday! So it’s time for the week’s worst and most misleading headlines. Brian and John speak with Steve Patt, an independent journalist whose critiques of the mainstream media have been a feature of his blog Left I on the News and on twitter @leftiblog, and Sputnik producer Nicole Roussell.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Max Blumenthal, a journalist, the senior editor of Grayzone Project, co-host of the podcast “Moderate Rebels,” and bestselling author whose latest book is “The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza.”This month, Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of users, including man alternative media sites. Most of those purged were popular sites that scrutinized police brutality and US interventionism, like The Free Thought Project and Cop Block. Max Blumenthal has written a major article exposing the neoconservative cadres, they are former government officials and now affiliated with DC think tanks, which are playing a dominant role in the new cenersoship of alternative media. Friday is Loud & Clear’s regular segment on the midterms, taking a look at political races around the country in the runup to midterm elections in November. Jacqueline Luqman, the co-editor-in-chief of Luqman Nation, which hosts a livestream every Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. on Facebook, joins the show. Cesar Sayoc was arrested in Florida today in connection with more than a dozen pipe bombs that have been mailed to prominent critics of Donald Trump. Two more bombs were intercepted today after being mailed to Democratic Senator Cory Booker and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Brian and John speak with Ted Rall, an award-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist whose work is at rall.com. Rep. Mark Meadows, a Republican from North Carolina, said following a seven-hour-long closed-door session with former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos that the FBI’s Russia investigation was on weak footing from the beginning, and that the investigation of Papadopoulos in and of itself was unconstitutional. Papadopoulos told Fox & Friends this morning that the FBI had violated his constitutional rights and that he was considering withdrawing from his plea deal, even though he has already cooperated with the Mueller team and served two weeks in jail. Daniel Lazare, a journalist and author of three books—“The Frozen Republic,” “The Velvet Coup,” and “America's Undeclared War,” joins the show. Sixteen years ago today the US anti-war movement burst onto the scene with a massive protest in Washington DC. The focus of the protest was to stop George W. Bush and Dick Cheney from taking the country to war in Iraq. Within a few weeks, that movement became a global anti-war movement, drawing in more than 10 million people. The NYT in February 2003 called this unprecedented movement “the world’s second superpower.” John interviews co host Brian Becker, the national director of the Answer Coalition, the group that initiated these mass protests 16 years ago today. An oil spill that has been quietly leaking million of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in American history. Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil per day have been leaking from a site off the coast of Louisiana for the past 14 years, since an offshore oil platform sank during Hurricane Ivan. It has never been capped. Scott Edwards, co-director of the Food & Water Justice project at Food & Water Watch, joins the show.It’s Friday! So it’s time for the week’s worst and most misleading headlines. Brian and John speak with Steve Patt, an independent journalist whose critiques of the mainstream media have been a feature of his blog Left I on the News and on twitter @leftiblog, and Sputnik producers Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek.

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The intelligence community typically focuses too much on the here-and-now and urgent, as opposed to the more distant and important future. In this culminating podcast in the Intelligence series, WAR ROOM welcomes former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to discuss the strategic roles of intelligence and his perspectives on themes presented throughout this series. How do unrealistic expectations on the intelligence community increase risks to national security? What are the unique intelligence challenges that ground combat presents? These and other topics as discussed with Genevieve Lester, Chair of Strategic Intelligence at the U.S. Army War College.     James Clapper is the former Director of National Intelligence. Genevieve Lester is the DeSerio Chair of Strategic Intelligence at the U.S. Army War College. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Army War College, the U.S. Army, or the Department of Defense. Image Credit: U.S. Army photo. Composite by Tom Galvin. Other Posts in the "Intelligence" series: THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE TODAYPOLICY SUCCESS VS. INTEL FAILURE?IMPACT (OR NOT) OF INTEL ON STRATEGIC DECISION MAKINGSTRATEGIC ATTACKS AND THEIR FALLOUTNEEDLES IN HAYSTACKS: ANALYZING TODAY’S FLOOD OF INFORMATIONWHERE DOES INTELLIGENCE GO FROM HERE? AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES CLAPPERTHE DOD-CIA RELATIONSHIP: ARE WE MILITARIZING STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE?THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ODNI: AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES CLAPPER

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper recalls how tinkering with a TV set as a boy led to a career in signals intelligence, his frustration when working as an intelligence briefer to General William Westmoreland during the Vietnam War, and what it was like to be in the room when President Obama ordered the raid on Osama Bin Laden.  He discusses Russia's interference in the 2016 election, the now infamous intelligence meeting with President-elect Trump at Trump Tower, and why he believes that Russia’s efforts successfully tipped the election for Donald Trump. Plus he weighs in on the North Korean Summit, his war or words with President Trump, and much more. Order James Clapper's book Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence on Amazon or Audible. Today's podcast is sponsored by The Jim Jefferies Show podcast and Dollar Shave Club.

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell has a wide-ranging conversation with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. They discuss Clapper's five-decade career in the intelligence community, his views on the U.S. approach to nuclear adversaries like Iran and North Korea, and how to best address ongoing threats to American democratic institutions. Clapper shares details about his tough conversations with President Obama and President-elect Trump, and explains why he personally believes Russia, in its meddling efforts, was successful in tipping the balance in Trump's favor.

Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman sit down with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to discuss his latest book, “Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence.” Clapper reveals to Isikoff and Klaidman that by the time he left office in Jan. 2017, intelligence officials were “pretty confident” that they had identified a suspect responsible for the hacked emails to WikiLeaks. Yahoo News White House Correspondent Hunter Walker also joins the podcast to discuss the latest from the Trump White House and the big news on the president’s birthday. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Fmr. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper talked about the 2016 election, Michael Flynn, and his new book about life in intelligence.

Fmr. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper talked about the 2016 election, Michael Flynn, and his new book about life in intelligence.

Year of the woman? A Democratic wave? What the primaries tell us about the midterm elections. Then, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on his belief that Russian interference changed the result of the 2016 election and why it'll happen again.

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America applaud President Trump for backing away from next month's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, proving he is not desperate for deal and keeping Kim off balance.  While denouncing kneeling during the national anthem as the time or place to make a protest, they also slam Trump for suggesting maybe NFL players who kneel for the national anthem "shouldn't be in the country."  And they unload on former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for randomly concluding that Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 campaign definitely made the difference in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania and flipped the election results from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump.  Jim points out that Clapper and other Trump critics simply refuse to believe that voters made a choice they don't like.

Yeah, that last one got me too. It appears that in an attempt to make the shutdown sound as bad as humanly possible CNN may have overstepped in it's reporting when it suggested an asteroid might strike earth while NASA's program to monitor the sky was on hold. I question the need for the program at all given the fact that there's nothing you can do about it if a gigantic rock decided to crash into earth. Better to just live in blissful ignorance. ***We're also talking FISA and the memo floating around claiming widespread abuses. What I find funny is CNN again decided to refute the claims by bringing on disgraced Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to claim he knew of no abuses while serving as DNI. Luckily he's not under oath this time, so when the truth comes out, he won't be eligible for another purgery charge. ***Finally, we'll turn to California where a couple of economically illiterate assemblymen want a new 10% tax on any business that nets over a million dollars a year. You'd think people would learn from the mistakes of the past, so they don't repeat them, but most of the politicians I've known seem to live in a kind of reality denial that allows them to support and promote the most ridiculous ideas for the sake of their ideology. Enjoy the Show! Jason Support the show.

While traveling on Air Force One this week in Asia, President Trump lamented the fact that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is insulted by United States accusations that Russia meddled in the 2016 Presidential election. Trump contended that Putin’s bruised feelings would prevent him from making “deals” with the US concerning Syria and North Korea. The President also referred to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former C.I.A. Director John O. Brennan as “political hacks” and that the investigation into Russian meddling is an “artificial Democratic hit job.” The next day, Pres. Trump adjusted his comments to say that he was not supporting the views of Putin but was instead just acknowledging his beliefs. This latest “dust-up” again brings to focus the tenuous relationship between the U.S. and Russia and the strange relationship between the country’s two leaders. To put this ongoing relationship into focus, Spectrum podcast talked with international expert and specialist in Russia/Soviet and East European history Dr. Steven Miner. He is also a professor at Ohio University. Miner says that Putin is a far better political tactician than Trump but that, overall, he has not proven to be a good strategist. Miner describes the tenuous nature of the Russian economy and its suffering from U.S. sanctions. He also notes that Russia has dedicated part of its military strategy to cyber warfare and cyber interference with other nations’ electoral processes…especially the U.S. and others in Western Europe. Putin feels that effort has been successful. This tactic costs little money but causes major upheaval – as evidenced by the current U.S. Congressional and legal inquiries. Miner also suggests that we watch for Russia to acquire more adjacent territory while the U.S. is preoccupied with N. Korea and our internal investigations into Russian meddling. Miner is an award winning author and is putting the finishing touches on his latest book called “The Furies Unleashed: The Soviet People at War, 1941-1945.”

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on the wiretapping of Paul Manafort. All the things that were lined up in favor of Hillary Clinton winning, still didn't work. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America cheer the successful test of a missile defense system targeting intercontinental ballistic missiles. They also appreciate former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper once again confirming that he saw no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. And they are excited by initial reports that President Trump plans to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, but are confused after Trump himself suggests a decision has not yet been made. 

President Trump returns to the Swamp after a successful trip abroad. Democrats hit rock bottom after the Republican "body slammer" wins decisively in Montana. Another failure for "The Resistance." We discuss the media's Russian Obsessions to background music from the Jaws soundtrack. But where's the shark? Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper again says he's seen no "evidence" of collusion. Former Democratic Senator from Ohio Nina Turner tells stunned CNN colleagues that "no one in Ohio is asking about Russia." The manufactured nonsense is not resonating with the American people. Meanwhile, we discuss the proposed mega-development boondoggle in Greenwood Village with Dave Kerber, Treasurer of "Save Our Village." We advise voting "NO" on June 6th. With Listener Calls & Music via Toby Keith, Social Distortion, the Rolling Stones, George Harrison and Johnny Horton.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Weekly Recap Monday, March 20 Milwaukee jail inmates forced to give birth in shackles: suit alleges NY Daily News New York Attorney General Steps Up Scrutiny of White House WSJ Gorsuch Confirmation Hearing - Day 1 - Opening Statements FBI Director James Comey to testify at Russia hearing White House tries to distance Trump from Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn Tuesday, March 21 Gorsuch Confirmation Hearing - Day 2 - Senators question Gorsuch Ted Cruz questions Gorsuch Amy Klobachar questions Gorsuch Al Franken questions Gorsuch Ivanka Trump given an office in the West Wing and access to classified information Eric Trumpâ??s Trump Vineyard Estates, better known as Trump Winery, has asked to bring in 29 workers this season through the federal H-2A visa program. CBS http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-winery-looking-for-foreign-workers/ Tillerson to Skip NATO meeting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will skip NATOâ??s April meeting of foreign ministers. He intends to travel to Moscow. Politico http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/rex-tillerson-skip-nato-meeting-236291 Wednesday, March 22 Gorsuch Confirmation Hearing - Day 3 Senators continue to question Gorsuch. Testimony about Gorsuch by outside witnesses Frozen Trucker testifies Manfort accused of money laundering. US probe extends to Cyprus AP House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes plays lapdog CNN reports TrumpWorld possibly coordinated with Russia Thursday, March 23 House health care vote scheduled for Thursday night at the house delayed Keystone XL pipeline approved by Trump Time Magazine cover story - Trump interview Trump Friday, March 24 Roger Stone, Carter Page volunteer to talk to House committee House health care vote originally scheduled for rescheduled for Friday afternoon in the house pulled Nunes abruptly canceled an open hearing scheduled for next Tuesday, at which former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA Director John Brennan were all set to testify. Saturday, March 25 CNN National Security analyst Juliette Kayyem discussed the possibility Flynn had turned on Trump Boris Epshteyn, Trump TV Surrogate, Is Leaving White House Job NYT Sunday, March 25 Trump handed Merkel â??outrageousâ?? NATO bill Politico US-led strike caused civilian deaths in Mosul, Iraqi official says CNN End Game Segment Mayte Unpresidented - Trump not owning his loss on Healthcare Carla Politics is local - PR Plebicito Andrea Beltway Hypocrites - Republican apoplectic about a constitutional crisis You can also email us: info[at]ProgressiveChat.com You can leave us feedback by calling (347) 709-3247

Melinda Epler (@changecatalysts) is Founder and CEO of Change Catalyst, a certified B Corp whose mission is to empower diverse, inclusive and sustainable tech innovation through education, mentorship and funding. Change Catalyst won a Certified B Corporation "Best for the World” award for community impact in 2014 and “Best in the World” overall in 2015. Melinda has more than 20 years of experience elevating brands and developing business innovation strategies for social entrepreneurs, mature social enterprises, Fortune 500 companies and global NGOs. As Founder & CEO of Change Catalyst, Melinda empowers diverse, inclusive and sustainable tech innovation through events, education, mentorship and funding. Through Tech Inclusion, an initiative of Change Catalyst, she partners with the tech community to solve diversity and inclusion together. Her work spans the full tech ecosystem, from Education to Workplace, Entrepreneurship and Policy. Melinda speaks, mentors and writes about diversity and inclusion in tech, social entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurs and investing. She is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker – her film and television work includes projects that exposed the AIDS crisis in South Africa, explored women's rights in Turkey, and prepared communities for the effects of climate change. She has worked on several television shows, including NBC's The West Wing. In this episode, we discussed: building bridges toward inclusiveness in tech after a damaging and divisive presidential campaign season key areas the diversity and inclusion and policy communities should focus on in a Trump administration. Resources Insight Timer Headspace Tara Brach Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg NEWS ROUNDUP Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and members of the intelligence community want President Obama to fire National Security Agency Director Admiral Mike Rogers, according to Ellen Nakashima at The Washington Post. Clapper and Rogers cite numerous instances of security breaches under Rogers' watch, including one by Booz Allen Hamilton contractor Harold T. Martin III, who was arrested in August for the largest ever theft of classified government data. There was also another breach in 2015 allegedly carried out by an individual whose name has not been disclosed, but who has since been arrested. President-elect Trump is considering putting Rogers in charge of all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, and Congressional Republican leaders have come out in support of Rogers, including California Representative David Nunes who also serves on Trump's transition team, who praised Rogers in the Washington Post. Rodgers is also the head of U.S. Cyber Command. Ash Carter has not been impressed with Rogers' performance in that role, either, as the cyber command's operations in Syria and Iraq have been largely unsuccessful, according to Carter. Further annoying Carter and Clapper is the fact that Rogers met with Trump last week unbeknownst to the White House. Further complicating matters, Clapper and Carter are also looking to split Cyber Command from the National Security Administration, a move opposed by Senate Republicans including John McCain. Meanwhile, as Mallory Shelbourne at The Hill reports, at a news conference in Peru last week, President Obama called Rogers a "patriot". In separate comments, Obama told German newspaper Der Spiegel that he had no plans to pardon Edward Snowden. The president said Snowden would first need to appear before a court. -- Mark Jamison, a member of Trump's tech policy transition team, suggested in a blog post last week that maybe the FCC shouldn't exist. Jamison wrote, "Most of the original motivations for having the FCC have gone away." He also said there are few monopolies in telecom, an assertion with which FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has disagreed. Brian Fung has this story in the Washington Post. -- A new Stanford University report found that most students from Middle School to college are unable to tell the difference between sponsored content and real news. The study of 7,804 students found 82% could not tell what was sponsored and what was real. Seventy percent of middle schoolers also found no reason to distrust a finance article that was written by the CEO of a bank. Amar Toor has the story on The Verge. -- Downloads of the encrypted messaging app Signal have soared by 400% since Donald Trump's election, according to Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike. Governments have the ability to tap unencrypted text messages for intelligence gathering. Paresh Dave has the story in the LA Times. -- Following a successful effort to get the FCC to clear its entire November meeting agenda, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Senate Commerce Committee Chair John Thune have now asked Federal Trade Commission Chair Edith Ramirez and Consumer Product Safety Commission Chair Elliott Kaye not to move forward on any controversial regulations. Upton and Thune wrote that the American people decided to make a change on November 8th and that agencies should this refrain from passing new regulations. Trump, of course, lost the popular vote by over 2 million. -- Finally, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai issued a statement last week praising Trump's Department of Justice nominee Jeff Sessions. The Washington Post reports that Sessions is widely seen as a climate change skeptic and his entire career has been dogged by accusations that Sessions is a virulent racist, which cost him a federal judgeship back in '86. Sessions has been quoted as saying that he thought the Ku Klux Klan was "okay, until he learned that they smoked marijuana." Pai is reportedly on the short list to become Trump's nominee to Chair the FCC.  

Andrew Jay Schwartzman (@aschwa02) is the Benton Senior Counselor at the Institute for Public Representation of Georgetown University Law Center. He directed Media Access Project, a public interest media and telecommunications law firm, for 34 years. Mr. Schwartzman serves on the International Advisory Board of Southwestern Law School's National Entertainment & Media Law Institute and on the Board of Directors of the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council and was the Board President of the Safe Energy Communications Council for many years. Mr. Schwartzman's work has been published in major legal and general journals, including Variety, The Nation, The Washington Post, COMM/ENT Law Journal, the Federal Communications Law Journal, and The ABA Journal. He has also been a frequent guest on television and radio programs. In recognition of his service as chief counsel in the public interest community's challenge to the FCC's June, 2003 media ownership deregulation decision, Scientific American honored Schwartzman as one of the nation's 50 leaders in technology for 2004. Schwartzman was the 2002 Verizon Distinguished Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, the 2004 McGannon Lecturer on Communications Policy and Ethics at Fordham University in 2004, and the Distinguished Lecturer in Residence at the Southwestern University School of Law Summer Entertainment and Media Law Program at Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge (2004). In this episode we discussed: possible scenarios regarding the AT&T/Time Warner merger. what an FCC under an Ajit Pai Chairmanship might look like. the possible future of net neutrality under a Donald Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress. Resources Andy's Schwartzman's 'The Daily Item' Newsletter (subscribe here) Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University Law Center The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump by G.B. Trudeau NEWS ROUNDUP A BuzzFeed analysis of news stories appearing on Facebook found fake news stories received more engagements during the final three months before the presidential election than news stories from the leading real news outlets. The difference was some 1.4 million combined likes, shares and comments. At a news conference in Germany, President Obama expressed concern about the spread of fake news saying Q“If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not ... if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems". On the Washington Post's The Intersect Blog, a fake news writer by the name of Paul Horner, who has written numerous fake news stories which have gone viral, expressed regret for the stories he wrote and said he thinks President-elect Trump won the election because of him. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg  was initially dismissive, saying the week before last that the notion of fake news having impacted the election in any significant way is a "pretty crazy idea". Since then, Zuckerberg has announced initiatives to identify fake news, such as through user generated reports. Meanwhile, a group of students participating in a hackathon at Princeton last week developed a Chrome plug-in that allows users to assess the veracity of news stories. -- Policymakers are increasingly concerned about the role that mobile apps play in distracted driving incidents. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that between January and June of this year, highway fatalities were up 10.4% to 17,775, compared to the same period in 2015. Neal Boudette reports in The New York Times on goals set during the Obama administration to eliminate highway fatalities by 2047. -- SnapChat filed for an initial public offering last week. The IPO is expected to be valued at around $20 billion. It is the largest IPO since Facebook's in 2012.  Reuters has more. -- Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has submitted his resignation after a 50- year U.S. intelligence career. In October, Clapper's office formally concluded that Russia was behind cyberattacks intended to sway the U.S. presidential election, and that Rusian President Vladimir Putin has almost certainly approved them. Clapper told the House Intelligence Committee that submitting his resignation "felt pretty good." Greg Miller has the story at the Washington Post. -- A new Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure--Rule 41--which would give federal authorities sweeping powers to search devices, is set to go into effect on December 1st. Currently, federal judges can only authorize searches within their own jurisdictions. Once Rule 41 goes into effect, judges will have the authority to issue search warrants for computers located outside their jurisdictional boundaries, potentially allowing a single judge to issue searches of millions of computers.  Civil rights groups are concerned about the rule would intrude on innocents, particularly communities of color. Senator Ron Wyden has proposed legislation to scale back Rule 41, but it hasn't even gotten a committee hearing. On Thursday, Delaware Senator Chris Coons introduced legislation that would delay Rule 41's implementation. David Kravets covers this for Ars Technica. -- Twitter has suspended several accounts linked to the alt-right--super-conservative ideologues, many of whom promote white nationalism. The Southern Poverty Law Center had asked Twitter to remove about 100 accounts expressing white nationalist views for violation of Twitter's terms of service. Among the suspended accounts -- Richard Spencer, President of the National Policy Institute--an organization whose website says is "dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of  people of European descent in the United States." Spencer said Twitter's deletion of his account was akin to a "digital execution". USA Today notes that Spencer has called for removing blacks, Asians, Hispanics and Jews from the United States. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also apologized last week for allowing an ad promoting a white supremacist group. Jessica Guynn has the story at USA Today. -- Amar Toor at the Verge reported that China has threatened to cut iPhone sales if President-elect Trump follows through on his threat to declare China a currency manipulator and impose a 45% tariff on Chinese exports. China also threatened to limit automobile and other sales. -- It appears that the Trans-Pacific Partnership--the trade deal that would have enhanced American ties with 11 countries, counterbalancing China's influence in the region--appears to have been defeated even before President-elect Trump has taken office. The deal simply doesn't have enough votes in Congress, and President-elect Trump has stated he would oppose the deal. Elise Labott and Nicole Gaouette reported this for CNN. -- The GOP has successfully forced the FCC to cancel nearly its entire November open meeting agenda, which was supposed to take place last Thursday. Up for consideration were bulk data caps, the Mobility Fund, and a proposed rule on roaming obligations of mobile providers. One Freedom of Information Act request remained on the agenda. Senate Commerce Committee Chair John Thune had sent a letter to the FCC Tuesday warning against “complex, partisan, or otherwise controversial items.” Massachusetts Senator Markey blasted Thune's heavy-handed approach, with Thune responding that he was only referring to the most controversial items. Brendan Bordelon has the story in Morning Consult. -- Finally, the hold on Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel's nomination has been lifted. Democrats Ron Wyden and Ed Markey had put a hold on the Commissioner's nomination following her rejection of the set-top box competition proposal. Rosenworcel will need to be confirmed before the end of the Commission in order to stay on. Some analysts are speculating that Rosenworcel might vote in favor of the set-top box rules currently on circulation.  Brendan Bordelon covers the story in Morning Consult.

Last week, the Aspen Security Forum featured interviews from a host of Obama administration national security officials, some of which we provided last week. This week is part II, wherein we share edited discussions from White House Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch.  Monaco's conversation with Mike Isikoff of Yahoo News ventures into the Administration's policy on ISIS and what she calls a "generational struggle," the trials of social media as a recruitment vehicle, and most interestingly, whether Obama would act unilaterally to move Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the United States.  Clapper's discussion with Andrew Mitchell of MSNBC is most notable for his comments on lone wolf attacks and going dark, a threat about which he shares much of the same concern as FBI Director Comey. Later, Clapper touches on the OPM hack and why the United States is choosing to respond much more forcefully to economic espionage than "traditional" espionage. Finally, in her interview with Andrew Mitchell, Loretta Lynch walks us through the challenges of domestic terrorism, the Justice Department's approach to intvestigating and prosecuting home grown ISIS supporters, and the legal protections afforded to Guantanamo Bay detainees should they be moved to the United States. 

It's law! The USA Freedom Act, which reauthorizes and privatizes portions of the Patriot Act, is being called a victory for privacy... but it's not. In this episode, find out all the details of the bill that was signed into law just hours after this episode was recorded, including how it continues bulk data collection and lets the most powerful men in the United States get away with breaking the law. Please support Congressional Dish: Click here to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! H.R. 2048: USA Freedom Act of 2015 Title I: FISA business records reforms The government will need to provide "a specific selection term to be used for the basis" for the data being collected The term can't be the name of a telecom, unless that telecom is under investigation The term can't be a "broad geographic region, including the United States, a city, a county, a State, a zip code, or an area code" The term must be something that "specifically identifies an individual, account, or personal device." The government will have 180 days to comply after the bill is signed into law Limits ongoing phone call record collection to 180 days unless extended Orders the telecoms to keep secret the order from the government to turn over call records The Attorney General can require records be turned over in "emergencies" if he/she informs a judge and applies for the warrant within 7 days. If the warrant is denied, nothing collected under the Attorney General's emergency power will be admissible in court, "except with the approval of the Attorney General if the information indicates a threat of death or serious bodily harm to any person." The Attorney General will be in charge of determining if the standards above are met. Eliminates a clause that lets a judge immediately dismiss a protest from a company fighting a FISA order Gives immunity to any company that hands over information under a FISA order or an emergency order from the Attorney General Companies will be paid for "expenses incurred" producing the information or assisting the government with FISA or emergency orders "Call detail record" will not include the contents of the call, the person's name, address or financial information, or the cell phone's GPS location. The bill expressly says that nothing in the USA Freedom Act will limit the government's authority to get orders from the secret FISA court, as authorized in by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Title II: FISA pen register and trap and trace device reform The Attorney General will get to determine the privacy procedures for the use of tracing devices installed to track phone numbers dialed in monitor Internet communications. Title III: FISA acquisitions targeting person outside the United States reforms "Limits on use of unlawfully obtained information" can be waived if the government fixes whatever illegal thing they were doing, which would allow information they collected before the fix to be used in court. Within 180 days after enactment, FISA court judges will pick at least five people to serve as amicus curiae - "friends of the court" - to argue on behalf of privacy and civil liberties. FISA court judges will write the rules for the amicus curiae participation. The FISA court gets to decide if the amicus curiae's participation is appropriate The Director of National Intelligence must make publicly available "to the greatest extent practicable" any FISA court decision that includes "a significant construction or interpretation of any provision of law" The decision, order, or opinion can be released to the public in redacted form The Director of National Intelligence can waive the requirement to make FISA decisions, orders, and opinions public as long as they say it's "necessary to protect the national security of the United States or properly classified intelligence sources or methods". Title V: National Security Letter reform National Security Letter (NSL): Letters served by the FBI to telecoms that allow the FBI to secretly demand data. There is a gag order on anyone who receives these letters, guaranteeing that the public is not told and that there is no judicial review. Allows NSLs to be issued for telephone, financial, and consumer records if the order "specifically identifies a person, entity, telephone number, or account as the basis for a request". There will be a gag order, preventing companies from telling anyone that the FBI is requesting the information, as long as the order also has a notification of the telecoms right to judicial review and if the FBI says disclosure could result in: "A danger to the national security of the United States" "Interference with a criminal, counterterrorism or counterintelligence investigation" "Interference with diplomatic relations" (new) "Danger to the life or physical safety of any person" Title VI: FISA transparency and reporting requirements Orders the government to submit a bunch of new reports to Congress Allows companies served with National Security Letters to publicly report approximately how many NSLs they've received They can only report the number of FISA orders and NSLs subject to a gag order to the nearest thousand They can only report the number of FISA orders and NSLs not subject to a gag order to the nearest 500. They can report twice a year on the total number of orders, directives, and NSLs served to the nearest 250 These reports are only allowed to cover NSLs for the previous 180 days Once a year, they can report on the total number of orders, directives, and NSLs they were required to comply with to the nearest 100 The FISA court, if their ruling "includes significant construction or interpretation of any provision of law or results in a change of application of any provision of this Act", will have to submit their decision or denial of disclosure petition to Congress within 45 days Title VII: Enhanced national security provisions Emergency monitoring of a person outside the United States is limited to 72 hours without a warrant Extends PATRIOT Act and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 provisions until December 15, 2019. Title VIII: Safety of Maritime Navigation and Nuclear Terrorism Conventions Implementation Allows civil forfeiture of property of people suspected of trying to harm a United States ship Gives a fine of up to $2,000,000 and possible life in prison to a person who possesses radioactive material or a device with intent to damage people or property or someone who threatens to do so. Sound Clip Sources Hearing: House Judiciary Committee Markup of H.R. 2048 from April 28, 2015 Senate Floor Proceeding: May 20, 2015 Senate Floor Proceeding: May 31, 2015, Part 1 Senate Floor Proceeding: May 31, 2015, Part 2 Speech: President George W. Bush speaks at Kansas State University, January 23, 2006. Television Appearance: President Barack Obama on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, August 6, 2013. Hearing: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lies to Congress, March 12, 2013. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: HBO, October 5, 2014 Information Presented in This Episode USA Freedom Act Article: White House backs bill that would end NSA bulk collection of phone records by Ellen Nakashima and Mike DeBonis, Washington Post, May 11, 2015. Article: House Votes to End NSA’s Bulk Phone Data Collection by Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, May 13, 2015. Article: House reaches deal on bill to end NSA phone collection by Associated Press, April 30, 2015. Article: House Says No To NSA Bulk Data Collection As Fight To End Mass Surveillance Gathers Momentum by Thomas Fox-Brewster, Forbes, May 14, 2015. Article: US Congress to vote on bill banning NSA from bulk-collecting phone calls by Spencer Ackerman and Sabrina Siddiqui, The Guardian, May 13, 2015. Patriot Act Expiring Provisions Legal Summary: Section 206 - Roving Surveillance Authority under FISA by Mary DeRosa, American Bar Association. Legal Summary: Lone Wolf by Mary DeRosa, American Bar Association. Legal Summary: Section 215 - Access to Business Records under FISA ("Libraries Provision") and Section 214 - Pen Register and Trap and Trace Authority under FISA by Mary DeRosa, American Bar Association. NSA Surveillance System Article: Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, December 16, 2005. Article: The NSA is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) by James Bamford, Wired, March 15, 2012. Article: The NSA's New Spy Facilities are 7 Times Bigger Than the Pentagon by Aliya Sternstein, Defense One, July 25, 2013. Article: In NSA-intercepted Data, Those Not Targeted Far Outnumber The Foreigners Who Are by Barton Gellman, Julie Tate, and Ashkan Soltani, Washington Post, July 5, 2014. Editorial: Meet Executive Order 12333: The Reagan Rule That Lets the NSA Spy on American by John Napier Tye, Washington Post, July 18, 2014. Podcast Appearance ProfitCast Episode #48: Effective NON-Marketing Ways to Grow Your Podcast - Interview with Jen Briney Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Bill of Rights Song by Rhythm, Rhyme, and Results Let Their Heads Roll by Jack Erdie (found on Music Alley by mevio)

On November 17, the United States' Office of the Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) announced a new speech recognition initiative called ASPIRE.  ASPIRE stands for Automatic Speech Recognition in Reverberant Environments. The goal of the initiative is for the intelligence community to improve its speech recognition capabilities in areas where acoustic quality is not optimal.  This would allow any conversation within a certain range of a “networked microphone” to be “searchable in real-time.” Watch the report as we break down this and other technology advances that are forever removing privacy from almost all areas of our lives. Watch in HD Video Here

The US is under pressure to respond to allegations of war crimes in connection with its air strikes on Syria. But how do you assess disproportionate harm when this entire assault is disproportionate and premised on undefined threats? Local residents in the village of Kafr Deryan recently video taped bits of a Tomahawk missile at the site of a strike that they say killed at least two men two women and five kids September 23. Only the US and UK have Tomahawks so Human Rights Watch is asking the US to investigate. The group is further demanding that international law be obeyed and strikes be avoided that might have a disproportionate impact on civilians versus the expected military advantage. Now I've always been skeptical of international laws of war. They tend to coddle the conscience and imply war can be made kind. But the problem here is even more specific. Even when Barack Obama launched his bombing campaign he made no claim of self defense. At that time, remember, American intelligence had concluded that ISIS posed "no immediate threat" to the U.S. so-called "homeland." In his speech, launching the attack, the president said exactly that. The no-threat story was front page news. Many officials and terrorism experts quoted at the time believed that the actual danger of ISIS had been distorted by hours of alarmist TV. An anti-terror analyst with the Rand Corporation was quoted by the New York Times, saying “It's pretty clear that upping our involvement in Iraq and Syria makes it more likely that we will be targeted by the people we are attacking.” And still the campaign was launched. All that history's worth remember because now officials and the press are full of talk of a brand new supposed threat, dire enough to merit the US assault. The Khorasan Group: supposedly a pack of Al Quaeda veterans whom the Administration say do intend to target the US. Frankly, when it comes to threats to the so-called "homeland" the White House seems way more vulnerable to the disturbed veterans of the US's own wars. No Al Qaeda vet has so far managed to open the front door and run through the place with a knife. Still the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made it sound scary when he said “In terms of threat to the homeland, Khorasan may pose as much of a danger as the Islamic State.” Scary, Until you remember, that that's not saying much. The point is, proof of claim doesn't seem to be required for the US to bomb and kill; nor even any evidence of military advantage. In that Syrian village, it's the reverse. There, the Department of Defense says it has no credible proof of civilian deaths, despite video and eye witness reports. They do, on the other hand, claim that several strikes have “disrupted an imminent attack against the US and Western interests.” To all those who imagined the presidency of phantom threats was over with the departure of George W. Bush, that's over. The one threat that is very real is that the US public will be terrified by all this and the killing and dying will escalate. ..... The "F" Word is a weekly commentary from Laura Flanders. Watch The Laura Flanders Show in full, on TeleSUR English or at GRITtv.org. This week, Gar Alperovitz on "America After Capitalism" . Find out more at GRITtv.org.

On Monday, North Korea declared the 1953 Korean War armistice nullified. On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper emphasized the danger posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs, calling them, for the first time, "a serious threat to the United States." "The rhetoric, while it is propaganda-laced, is also an indicator of their attitude and perhaps their intent," Clapper said. Is it time to start to take North Korea more seriously? Karin Lee, executive director of the National Committee on North Korea, weighs in.