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AG Sessions, DNI Coats: Briefing on Leaks of Classified Material Threatening National Security

04 Friday Aug 2017

Posted by bydesign001 in Government

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, August 4, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions Delivers Remarks at Briefing on Leaks of Classified Materials Threatening National Security

I want to thank Director Coats for being here. Together, we lead the National Insider Threat Task Force that was established in 2011. This task force has an important role to play and one we are taking seriously. Progress has been made and we intend to reach a new level of effectiveness.

First, let me say I strongly agree with the President and condemn in the strongest terms the staggering number of leaks undermining the ability of our government to protect this country. Just yesterday, we saw reports in the media about conversations the President had with foreign leaders. No one is entitled to surreptitiously fight their battles in the media by revealing sensitive government information. No government can be effective when its leaders cannot discuss sensitive matters in confidence or to talk freely in confidence with foreign leaders.

We are here today to talk about the dramatic growth in the number of unauthorized disclosures of classified national security information in the past several months. This includes leaks to both the media and in some cases even unauthorized disclosures to our foreign adversaries. Referrals for investigations of classified leaks to the Department of Justice from our intelligence agencies have exploded. In the first six months of this Administration, DOJ has already received nearly as many criminal referrals involving unauthorized disclosures of classified information as we received in the last three years combined.

Classified information, by definition, is information that if disclosed would do harm to our national security. As Director Coats will discuss, these leaks are incredibly damaging to our intelligence mission and capabilities. Simply put—these leaks hurt our country. All of us in government can do better. The first requirement is for discipline within all agencies of the government. To prevent these leaks, every agency and Congress has to do better.

We are taking a stand. This culture of leaking must stop.

Furthering this goal, today, we are here to announce some of the steps being taken and underway by the National Insider Threat Task Force to ensure that this government’s first priority—to protect this country and her citizens—is not undermined by the very people who have been entrusted to protect it.

While the Department of Justice does not discuss ongoing investigations or confirm specific matters, it is important for the American people—and for those who might be thinking about leaking sensitive or classified information—to know that criminals who would illegally use their access to our most sensitive information to endanger our national security are, in fact, being investigated and prosecuted. Since January, the Department has more than tripled the number of active leak investigations compared to the number pending at the end of the last Administration. And we have already charged four people with unlawfully disclosing classified material or with concealing contacts with foreign intelligence officers.

Soon after I arrived here in February, I initiated a review of our leak investigations and prosecutions. I reviewed how these cases were being referred and handled and was concerned with what we found—too few referrals, too few investigations with insufficient resources dedicated to them. I concluded the unprecedented rise in leaks required a surge of additional support for more investigations and to speed up our existing investigations.

Our system here relies on the intelligence community making a determination of whether classified material has been improperly handled or released and then sending referrals to the Department of Justice. This means it is vital for the intelligence community to know that the Department of Justice is committed to investigating and prosecuting these referrals. And when few investigations take place, criminal leaks may occur more often and a culture of leaking takes hold.

So, today, I have this message for the intelligence community: The Department of Justice is open for business.

And I have this warning for would-be leakers: Don’t do it.

For the past several months, we have already made changes and are seriously ramping up our efforts.

First, I directed my Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein—whose district in Maryland encompassed the NSA headquarters and who has personally led these kinds of investigations— and FBI Director Christopher Wray to oversee all classified leak investigations and actively monitor the progress of each and every case.

Second, I directed the National Security Division and U.S. Attorneys to prioritize cases involving unauthorized disclosures. The Department will not hesitate to bring lawful and appropriate criminal charges against those who abuse the nation’s trust.

Third, as I said, we tripled the number of active leak investigations. In response, the FBI has increased resources devoted to leak cases and created a new counterintelligence unit to manage these cases. Simultaneously, the Department is reviewing policies that impact leak investigations.

I have listened to career investigators and prosecutors about how to most successfully investigate and prosecute these matters. At their suggestion, one of the things we are doing is reviewing policies affecting media subpoenas. We respect the important role that the press plays and will give them respect, but it is not unlimited. They cannot place lives at risk with impunity. We must balance their role with protecting our national security and the lives of those who serve in our intelligence community, the armed forces, and all law abiding Americans.

Finally, here is what I want to tell every American today: This nation must end the culture of leaks. We will investigate and seek to bring criminals to justice. We will not allow rogue anonymous sources with security clearances to sell out our country any longer.

These cases are never easy. But cases will be made, and leakers will be held accountable.

All of us in government and in every agency and in Congress must do better. The first requirement is personal discipline. Education and repetition will make a difference. Prevention is what’s required. An investigation of a leak is too late, the danger is done.

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Trump’s Personal Attorney Marc Kasowitz Press Conference in Response to Comey Hearing

08 Thursday Jun 2017

Posted by bydesign001 in Election 2016, Progressives War on Donald Trump

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President-elect Donald J. Trump’s first press conference

11 Wednesday Jan 2017

Posted by bydesign001 in Election 2016

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CNN, Donald Trump, intelligence agencies, Presidentiial appointees, press conference, Propaganda, Trump organization


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President-elect, Donald J. Trump in a rather feisty press conference, the first since the 2016 presidential election, took on fake news and questionable activities by U. S. intelligence, Progressive media propagandists as well as having his legal counsel on hand, front and center who reported Trump’s “plans to resign all offices and positions in his companies, and place his assets and investments in a trust.”

As we have seen thus far from the president-elect and his transition team, if the Progressive media propaganda machine that has been smearing Republicans for decades believes for one moment that they will be permitted to walk over a Trump presidency/administration, a harsh awakening is forthcoming.

When media propagandists attempted to hit Trump repeatedly on fake Russian news, the president-elect responded, “It’s all fake news. It’s phony stuff. It didn’t happen.”

At one point, the temperature at the press conference shot up about 10 degrees, when an exchange broke out between Trump and member of CNN and/or Buzzfeed who pushed a fake news report that even a 10-year-old would question. Trump fired back.

Moreover, he commended those media outlets more than once who did not run with this latest fake news report.

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The crux of the press conference, however, was an announcement from his team about his plans for The Trump Organization — which now includes handing control of the global company bearing his name to sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump, along with chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg.

Trump also plans to resign all offices and positions in his companies, and place his assets and investments in a trust. According to an attorney who spoke at the press conference, daughter Ivanka – whose husband Jared Kushner has accepted a senior adviser job in the White House – will relinquish all management authority as well[…]

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First thing this morning, Trump despatched the following tweets. No wonder he wants to revamp our intelligence agencies.

Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to “leak” into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017

 

I win an election easily, a great “movement” is verified, and crooked opponents try to belittle our victory with FAKE NEWS. A sorry state!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017

During the press conference, Trump revisited his promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, build the wall and announced his David Shulkin as his choice to run the Veterans Affairs Department. Shulkin, an Obama nominee is currently the Undersecretary of Health.

Below is this morning’s press conference held at Trump Tower in New York City.

 

Cross-posted at Grumpy Opinions.

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Hillary Clinton to Sycophantic Journalists When Asked About Black Friends: “They’ve tried to expand my musical tastes.”

06 Saturday Aug 2016

Posted by bydesign001 in Election 2016

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Black America, Hillary Clinton, mainstream media, pandering, press conference, Racist


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Hillary Clinton held a press conference on Friday at the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.  It was the first I believe in more than 250 days and while the press conference is being panned by a mainstream media, journalists in attendance literally fawned over their celebrity idol.

Jeremy Stahl of Slate wrote an article entitled, Hillary Finally Gave a Press Conference. It Was a Master Class in Obfuscation.

A number of her answers revealed why she doesn’t hold press conferences more: Her answers to both difficult and easy questions were often evasive, excessively legalistic, and frustrating to watch….

In Friday’s press questioning, the trouble began when she was asked her first question about her private email server and recent statements about that server which independent fact checkers have labeled as categorically untrue. Clinton’s responses here—and her previous responses to questions about the truthfulness of past statements—are so overly legalistic and convoluted that they are difficult to even explain[…]

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The media’s way of not calling Clinton a liar when in fact Clinton response yet again is to re-write history while doubling down on her lies*but that’s only part of it.

During a semi-press conference full of softball questions, Clinton’s non-answers, lies, propaganda, attacking and blaming Conservatives, in particular Donald Trump, propagandist editor-in-chief Kevin Merida of ESPN, an African American (surprise) asked, “What is the most meaningful question that you’ve had with an African American friend?”

QUESTION: Kevin Merida:  I’m editor-in-chief of The Undefeated at ESPN. What is the most meaningful conversation you’ve had with an African-American friend?

CLINTON:  Oh my gosh. Well, could I tell you that I am blessed to have a – a crew of great friends and I’ve had two chiefs of staff who were my African-American women friends, Maggie Williams and Cheryl Mills.

I have been blessed to have people by my side in politics like Minyon Moore who is one of the leaders of my campaign. I’ve had a great group of young people who I have been really motivated by and, frankly, learned from.

So I really have had a lifetime of friendship going back to my college years when one of my best friends was an African-American student, so I can’t compress into one conversation — they’ve supported me, they’ve chastised me, they’ve raised issues with me, they’ve tried to expand my musical tastes.

So we’ve had — we’ve had a lot of — we’ve had a lot of great, great times because of our friendships, so I can’t really pick one conversation out of, you know, 50 years of conversation and I don’t want to embarrass my friends.

Peggy Lewis is here, she just became the Dean of Communications at Trinity Washington and I want to congratulate her. Donna Brazile is here, she’s our acting chair of the DNC.

So I — I guess I’ll leave it at that. I think I’m going to – *I’m going to respect the code of friendship silence* but please know I’ve got a lot of great friends who have given me so much more.

First off, the media is guilty of pandering.

Next, Hillary’s response was anything but and racist.  She was trying to sound cool because of the venue in which the press conference was taking place.  “Crew?”  Do people still say that?  Young people anyway.

She would have been better off referring to her Black collaborators (calling them by that which they are) her posse or even Klan who by the way are elitists which means that they’re out of touch with the average Black American whom they all look down upon meaning that Clinton is equally out of touch.

Apparently, they only discuss the plight of the Black community in terms of establishing talking points to secure the votes of Black Americans but then maybe not since Black America makes no demands of Democrats so why bother.

I stand corrected, in Hillary’s own words:  “they’ve supported me, they’ve chastised me, they’ve raised issues with me. they’ve tried to expand my musical tastes.…”

Now THAT is CLEARLY RACIST just like that time on Ellen de Generes program last year Clinton tried to “Whip and NaeNae” only to darned near break the internet by  setting Black Twitter ablaze which resulted in Clinton further distancing herself from Black Americans.

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I rest my case.  Hillary Clinton is out of touch with Black America. Hillary Clinton is out of touch with ALL AMERICANS and is not incentivized to discuss the plight of every day Americans, let alone Black Americans and so the establishment candidate/elitist dismisses the very thought of doing so.

The very thought that Clinton has put out there her closest connection to Black America is being taught songs, how to “whip and naenae” is RACIST and Black America should be deeply offended and mad as hell.

Had a Republican responded saying the very same words, the media would have run with it. In addition, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, Black Lives Matter and every other SJW would be protesting, blocking traffic and kicking up a storm on social media.

H/t  100% FED UP.

*One final note, Clinton doubling down on lies mentioned something about short-circuiting her answers during last Sunday’s interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News.  Hillary has been short-circuiting a lot these past months but it has nothing to do with her answers and statements, all of which are lies.

Good grief, this woman cannot help herself.  Hillary Clinton is a pathological liar.

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