In a letter on Thursday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) blasted the Justice Department for not fully producing documents related to the Trump dossier, subpoenaed by the committee four months ago.

“At this point it seems the DOJ and FBI need to be investigating themselves,” Nunes wrote in the letter, which was obtained by Breitbart News.

Nunes said in the letter that several weeks ago the Justice Department informed the committee that basic investigatory documents (FBI Form FD-302s) subpoenaed on August 24 “did not exist.”

“However,” Nunes wrote, “shortly before my meeting with you in early December, DOJ subsequently located and produced numerous FD-302s pertaining to the Steele dossier, thereby rendering the initial response disingenuous at best.”

“As it turns out, not only did documents exist that were directly responsive to the Committee’s subpoenas, but they involved senior DOJ and FBI officials who were swiftly reassigned when their roles in matters under the Committee’s investigation were brought to light,” he said.

Nunes did not reference who those officials were, but it has been widely reported that senior FBI official Peter Strzok was removed from the special counsel and reassigned to human resources after Robert Mueller found he sent anti-Trump texts. Strzok had also played key roles in the Clinton email investigation and the FBI’s initial Russia probe.

Senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr was also removed from his position as associate deputy attorney general after it came to light that he had met with the author of the dossier as well as a co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind it. His wife, Nellie Ohr, was also found to have worked for Fusion GPS.

FBI General Counsel James Baker is also being reassigned at the FBI.

Nunes said, given the content and impact of these “supposedly newly-discovered” documents, the committee was no longer able to accept the Justice Department’s refusal to provide other requested documents — FBI Form FD-1023s that document meetings between FBI officials and FBI confidential human sources.

Nunes is now demanding that the DOJ and FBI hand over all requested documents no later than January 3, 2018.

Those documents, he said, include but are not limited to:

• All responsive FD-1023s, including all reports that summarize meetings between FBI confidential human sources and FBI officials pertaining to the Steele dossier;
• All responsive FD-302s not previously provided to the Committee; and
•In addition to the FD-302s and FD-1023s, certain responsive analytical and reference documents that were specifically identified and requested by the Committee, and supposedly subject to imminent production, as of December 15.

If DOJ withholds any relevant documents, it must provide a written legal justification from Rosenstein personally, Nunes wrote. He also requested dates in January 2018 for interviews with:

• Former DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr;
• FBI Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Peter Strzok;
• FBI Attorney James Baker;
• FBI Attorney Lisa Page;
• FBI Attorney Sally Moyer; and
• FBI Assistant Director for Congressional Affairs Greg Brower.

Nunes also noted other outstanding requests:

The Committee further reminds you of these other outstanding requests for information:
• Details concerning an apparent April 2017 meeting with the media involving DOJ/FBI personnel, including DOJ Attorney Andrew Weissman (due December 13) and
• The remaining text messages between SSA Strzok and Ms. Page (due December 15).

“Unfortunately, DOJ/FBI’s intransigence with respect to the August 24 subpoenas is part of a broader pattern of behavior that can no longer be tolerated,” Nunes wrote.

Nunes has threatened to begin drawing up a resolution to hold Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress.

The Los Angeles Times points out an odd bit of presidential trivia as 2017 comes to a close: President Donald Trump could become the first president since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower not to visit the State of California in his first full year in office.

The Times reports:

Trump is about to become the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower 64 years ago to skip a visit to California during his first calendar year in office. And he doesn’t appear to have any plans to take Air Force One to the country’s most populous and economically powerful state before he marks his first full year in office Jan. 20.

Even past presidents who, like Trump, didn’t win the state’s electoral votes made it a destination, if only for California’s allure as the Golden State of campaign cash.

The Times notes that California might be a problematic destination for Trump in particular because the state has declared itself to be “ground zero” for the so-called “Resistance” to his presidency. State politicians have sued the administration over almost all of its major policies, and thousands of activists have organized regular protests against Trump in the Golden State, even taking over Hollywood’s vaunted Gay Pride festival for the purpose.

Trump has also accused California of allowing voter fraud, which he alleged earlier this year had cost him a popular vote victory over Hillary Clinton because of the large margin she ran up in the state. (Without California, Trump would have won the popular vote nationwide as well as the Electoral College vote.)

The president did provide rapid disaster aid for California to aid with flooding as well as wildfires in 2017.

There are still three weeks left before the first anniversary of Trump taking office, but he seems to have no plans to visit before then.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the “most influential” people in news media in 2016. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

German domestic intelligence has warned of a growing number of Islamic extremist women who are taking over the Salafist scene, as their men head to prison, and are radicalising the next generation of young jihadis.

The Agency for the Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia claims that the Islamic extremist scene is becoming increasingly more influenced by women. Burkhard Freier, head of the regional branch of the agency, said that the women have come into prominence and they have at least 40 female radicals under observation, Die Welt reports.

“The men have realised that women can network much better and therefore are much more able to tie the scene together and keep it alive,” Freier said.

According to the agency head, the real danger is that the women are creating Salafist communities in which mothers preach extremism and raise their children as young jihadis in a parallel society.

“This makes Salafism a family affair, it begins to create something that is much harder to liquidate, namely a Salafist society,” Freier said and added that “every jihadist terrorist we’ve seen in Europe in recent years came from the Salafist scene.”

“There is an increasing number of underage Salafists who fantasise about violence,” Frier noted.

Police confirm 15-year-old girl who stabbed police officer was ISIS youth https://t.co/tLolBfZPZA http://pic.twitter.com/UTdFoZff3F

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) April 16, 2016

Women, particularly young women, have proven to be actively involved in Salafist extremist groups like Swiss Burqa advocate Nora Illi who was recently arrested in Vienna protesting the Austrian full-face veil ban.

Others, like German Muslim teen Linda Wenzel, travelled to the Middle East to join Islamic State. The 16-year-old currently faces the death penalty after she was captured by forces liberating territory from the terror group’s control.

She is said to have served as a female enforcer of the strict Sharia law endorsed by the extremist group.

Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at @TomlinsonCJ or email at ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com 

Russell Kirk set out sixty years ago to refresh the minds of his fellow American about the beliefs “we Americans live by.”

First published in 1957, Kirk’s The American Cause maintains its power to refresh our minds about why we love America and what that love requires of us.

The book was not a set of political slogans or a history of American politics. Kirk, who was a columnist for National Review and had become famous as one of the leading lights of the post-war conservative movement after publishing The Conservative Mind, had grown concerned that many of his countrymen were badly prepared for the task of “defending their own convictions and interests and institutions” against enemies both external and internal. Many Americans needed a brief reminder of why their way of life was worth defending.

Kirk organizes his book around three quintessential American principles and how these are put into practice through American institutions and habits. The first is the “moral principle,” which centers around the nature of man and his relation to God. We can see its function in a healthy division between church and state, where tolerance is practiced and religious faith is honored.

The second principle is political, which is based on the concept of ordered liberty and embodied in our constitutional structure of a federal republic with strong states.

The third, however, may be the most interesting for us–in part because it has largely been lost in the intervening years. The economic principle of a “Free Economy” would probably be unrecognizable to many who call themselves conservatives or libertarians today. Here is how Kirk described it:

Now in the economic realm, what is the American cause? It seems to be the defense of an economic system which allows men and women to make their own principle choices in life, which reinforces political liberty, which adequately supplies the necessities of life, which recognizes and guides beneficently the deep-seated human longing for competition and measurable accomplishment. What we call the “free economy” does those these thing.

An economy focused merely on maximum efficiency or productivity is one that has lost its proper focus, according to Kirk. It must also contribute to the maintenance of “a decent society.” An American economy organized as a “free economy” must provide its people with fruitful work, sufficient leisure, and “hopeful competition.”

It will not take much to convince Breitbart readers that our economy has failed this test in recent years. Opening the American market to imports from mercantilist China and low-wage competition from developing nations has devasted large parts of our country. The destructive impact on American manufacturing, in particular, has been far worse than even pessimists foresaw. In many areas of the country, “fruitful work” and “hopeful competition” are more legends than reality, something that might have existed for our ancestors but has not been seen in generations.

Here is how Kirk described the American economy of the 1950s:

A free economy is one in which men and women can make their own choices. They can choose the kind of work they want to do, and where they want to do it. They can buy what they choose, and abstain from what they choose. They can work when they like, within limits, and rest when they like. They can change their occupations and employers and their material circumstances much as they like. These are great benefits: they help to satisfy the fundamental human longing for self-reliance. They make men and women free.

In the name of “free trade,” we killed the free economy. Now, many Americans find their opportunities limited and, if they complain, they are told they should move and take what is on offer in a far-off city. Rather than changing occupations and employers as much as they would like, they find themselves shuffling between low-paying jobs and working whatever hours their employers demand. They cannot buy the things they want but are forced to buy health insurance.

Our men and women are not free. Our economy is not a free economy; it is a servile economy. It more closely resembles the economy of a colony than a free republic.

Kirk praised America of the 1950s because its “wealth is very widely and equitably distributed.”

“Never before, in any civilized society, has there been a greater equality of incomes than there is now in America,” Kirk wrote. “So far as material achievement can satisfy human longings, nevertheless, we Americans have gone further than have any other people; and we have diffused our prosperity more widely throughout our nation.”

The last two decades have seen the process reverse. Prosperity has become concentrated in the hands of the few; inequality of income has risen to mind-bending ratios. This is not unprecedented in the history of civilized society. But it is not an economy built on what Kirk saw as the principles of America.

Kirk did not think the economy of the 1950s was perfect. He warned that prosperity was only the starting place, not the goal.

Kirk wrote:

We have many grave problems. We need to humanize mass production, and to restore craftsmanship and personal accomplishment to work, and to teach ourselves how to make our leisure something better than boredom. We need to infuse into modern industrial life a sense of community and purpose and hope and deep-rooted security.

It was easy enough for those with open minds to hear this idea in the words President Donald Trump spoke on the day of his inaugural. Kirk was describing the economics of American greatness in the 1950s–while Trump was promising to “Make America Great Again” by restoring the institutions and ideas that had been forsaken in the passing decades.

Today, we call this patriotic faith in a free economy “economic nationalism.” Russel Kirk simply referred to it as the economic principle of the American cause.

CNN has always been left-leaning but in the Age of Trump the biased network has gone into full fake news mode to attack the President. Hardly a week goes by without the beleaguered network having to retract a false or misleading story and that’s on top of their journalist decision to pass partisan opinion off as hard news. While that’s bad, it gets worse because CNN nimrod Brian Stelter is mad as hell at competitor Fox News for spreading accurate information.

You have to know this is Trump related. The president sent out a tweet, which always gets the left scarring around like a cockroaches when the kitchen light comes on:

While the Fake News loves to talk about my so-called low approval rating, @foxandfriends just showed that my rating on Dec. 28, 2017, was approximately the same as President Obama on Dec. 28, 2009, which was 47%…and this despite massive negative Trump coverage & Russia hoax!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017

“While the Fake News loves to talk about my so-called low approval rating, [Fox & Friends] just showed that my rating on Dec. 28, 2017, was approximately the same as President Obama on Dec. 28, 2009, which was 47%…and this despite massive negative Trump coverage & Russia hoax!” Trump wrote.

To which Stelter replied:

This is a prime example of how “Fox & Friends” does a disservice to viewers: https://t.co/ErJBOTAHbo

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 29, 2017

“This is a prime example of how “Fox & Friends” does a disservice to viewers,” wrote Stelter, linking to Trump’s tweet.

What exactly is the “disservice” that Fox & Friends is doing to it’s viewers? Providing accurate information? That’s what Stelter has his panties in a bunch over? Well, his initials are “BS.”

Even the Trump-hating fraudsters at Newsweek believe this information to be true:

TRUMP APPROVAL RATING SAME AS OBAMA AFTER FIRST YEAR, AT LEAST ACCORDING TO ONE POLL

President Donald Trump and his predecessor, Barack Obama, have at least one thing in common: identical approval and disapproval ratings in one national poll after their first year in office.

Rasmussen Reports’ latest poll showed Thursday that Trump had a 46 percent approval rating compared to a 53 percent disapproval figure, which were near the same percentages Obama received at the end of 2009.

Okay, so we have established that the information presented by Fox & Friends is factual, not an opinion and not a lie. Getting back to Brian Stelter, he calls reporting this information a disservice to people. In other words he’s saying, “ how dare Fox spread the truth.” He’s outraged that a competing news network isn’t a lying sack of shit like CNN.

Looking at it in a slightly different and funnier way, Trump accused the liberal media of being fake news and CNN responded by attacking Fox for being real news. I doesn’t get any crazier than that, folks.

The left has long suffered from Trump Derangement Syndrome and what we are starting to see is that the President is literally breaking these fragile liberals. They are so damaged by him that they can no longer function or form semi-coherent thoughts.

CNN’s credibility has suffered greatly because of their biased and fraudulent coverage of Donald Trump. Their reaction to regain some respect has been to be even more full of shit, which seems like an odd way to go. With Brian Stelter attacking Fox for spreading accurate information it’s clear CNN no longer cares what anyone thinks. If they can’t be a trusted news network they have decided to be the least reliable news possible.

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Gun Owners of America (GOA) is decrying the latest push from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for bump stock gun control, contending that part of the solution is to defund the ATF altogether.

The GOA’s statements come after the DOJ announced that the ATF is weighing whether to redefine the term “machinegun,” so as to include accessories that do not convert semiautomatic firearms into automatic ones. This would place firearm accessories like bump stocks on par with actually firearm conversion devices, therefore bringing an entire new category of firearm accessories under the auspices of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). Placing such accessories under the purview of the NFA would require bump stock owners to pass a background check, be fingerprinted, photographed, and pay a $200 tax to the federal government.

GOA executive director Erich Pratt told Breitbart News, “Gun Owners of America will rally its members in opposition to any proposed restrictions on bump stocks by the ATF.  GOA holds that any such limitations are unconstitutional and would open the door to additional regulations, even while doing nothing to stop evil people from committing heinous acts.”

GOA’s Larry Pratt concurred, adding that the ATF ought to be defunded and disbanded in the name of liberty:

We don’t need any opinion from the ATF to tell us what “shall not be infringed” means. It means, among other things, there should be no ATF.  We don’t have a Bureau of Speech and Thought Control because that would be as unconstitutional as the ATF. Every day that agency exists is another day the federal government violates the Constitution.

Larry added, “We should stop funding both the ATF and the U.N. and use the money to build a border wall. That would be a constitutional way to lower crime.”

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On Friday morning President Trump sent a message to Chuck and Nancy that both of the leading Democrats should have received loud and clear.

In reemphasizing his commitment to immigration reform, Trump advised the Dems that there would be no deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the illegal alien “Dreamers” unless there was a border wall included.

The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect our Country at all cost!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017

The Dems are not in a positive negotiating position having just gotten creamed on tax reform which not only passed with ZERO Democrat votes but also included the opening of the ANWR Wildlife Reserve to oil drilling but also did away with the fascistic Obamacare mandate.

Without the blue jackass party’s fixation on Russia, Resistance and Regurgitated sexual misconduct allegations it would have likely been impossible to get that baby passed. It was a serious blow to their radical tree-hugger base to have ANWR opened after years of obstructing progress. Nice job Chuck!

Now, only a short time after Nancy Pelosi promised Latino activists that the year wouldn’t end without a deal on DACA, the weasel queen is left holding a flaming bag of dogshit that isn’t likely to sit well with that particular demographic.

Trump: Democrats know there will be no DACA deal without the border wall https://t.co/7c6hc7kFhm http://pic.twitter.com/u39IhKZl5N

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) December 29, 2017

Via The Washington Examiner “Trump: Democrats know there will be no DACA deal without the border wall”:

President Trump on Friday said that Democrats have been fully informed that the border wall must be built for consideration around an immigration deal to take place.

Trump also slammed the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program” and “chain migration,” reiterating his call for the two immigration programs to come to an end.

“The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect our Country at all cost,” Trump tweeted.

In addition to the border wall, Trump also blasted “chain migration” which lets recent immigrants obtain visas for relatives and the “visa lottery system” aka the “diversity visa lottery” which provides for those from underrepresented countries to enter the U.S.

During the last months of 2017, Trump has vehemently pushed for an end to the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program” and “chain migration” after multiple terror attacks in New York City were performed by individuals who were able to enter the country through those programs.

In September, Trump ended an Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, that allowed roughly 800,000 immigrants who came here illegally as children to remain in the country, which had never been approved by Congress.

The “diversity lottery” has come under fire recently – especially from Trump – after a terrorist from Uzbekistan rented a truck and then proceeded to mow down people in New York City who were on a bike path, killing eight. The soldier of ISIS was in the USA thanks to a diversity visa.

Even though Democrats have been making noise about holding the American people hostage by engineering a government shutdown over DACA, it’s clear that Trump is holding all the cards at the table and Chuck and Nancy are sitting there in their underwear.