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MUST READ=> Lawyer Explains How Rosenstein Unconstitutionally Usurped AG Sessions’s Power, Gave Mueller “Secret Authorization” To Go After Manafort

MUST READ=> Lawyer Explains How Rosenstein Unconstitutionally Usurped AG Sessions’s Power, Gave Mueller “Secret Authorization” To Go After Manafort


by Joshua Caplan
April 3, 2018

In an insightful Twitter thread Tuesday, lawyer Robert Barnes explained why he believes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein usurped the power of his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and ultimately granted special counsel Robert Mueller “secret authorization,” to go after former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

“Thread: Legal analysis on problems w/ Rosenstein’s purported “authorization” of to investigate matters outside the time frame & subject matter of the 2016 campaign. Upshot: Rosenstein usurped Sessions’s power & gave secret authorization to Mueller to witch-hunt Manafort,” Barnes begin.

“Problem 1: Rosenstein was “acting attorney general” only on matters Sessions had recused himself. Sessions only recused himself from DOJ investigations of 2016 campaign. Yet, Rosenstein claimed to authorize Mueller to investigate matters dating back to 2006 & ending before 2016,” Barnes noted.

“Problem 2: Rosenstein’s original authorization of Mueller extended only to matters of “Russia government collusion” in 2016 campaign, not to internal Ukranian politics from 2006 & ended years before 2016 campaign. A special counsel cannot be continually used as a substitute AG.”

“Problem 3: Rosenstein does not have authorization over tax crimes. Only the Assistant Attorney General in charge of Tax Division can authorize indictments of tax crimes. Rosenstein could not authorize Mueller to look at tax crimes when Rosenstein himself never had that authority,” Barnes pointed out.

“Problem 4: Rosenstein’s letter tells Mueller only to look to Rosenstein for clarification of Mueller’s authorization. Rosenstein is not the Attorney General of the United States, and could not monopolize supervision of Mueller for matters that did not relate to Sessions’ recusal.”

“Problem 5: issuing his expanded authorization in secret creates a secret Inquisitor, unelected & un-appointed by elected officials, with all the powers of the federal criminal law enforcement, but none of the democratic checks and balances. Unconstitutional!” Barnes concluded.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, last night, Mueller and Rosenstein presented to the courts a rebuttal for Manafort’s latest action – they presented a previously undisclosed memo to a federal court in Washington supposedly addressing Manafort’s argument.

The memo is dated August 2nd, 2017 and is from Rosenstein to Mueller supposedly directing Mueller to look into Manafort actions with a Russian operative perhaps before 2016.

This, however, is clearly outside the scope of Sessions’ recusal as argued by Manafort and doesn’t even address Manafort’s argument that these actions are not for Mueller to take or Rosenstein to order but are Sessions actions alone as Attorney General.

In January, Manafort filed a civil lawsuit in a D.C. court against Mueller, Rosenstein and the Justice Department, alleging the special counsel went outside of the investigation’s scope.

 

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Foreign student threatened to shoot up a Catholic school – here’s the arsenal cops found

Police say that a foreign exchange student was prevented from shooting up his high school after they were tipped off by his friend about his plans.

Here’s what happened

18-year-old foreign exchange student An Tso Sun told a fellow student who was 17 years old not to come to their school on May 1 because he was going to attack the other students. That classmate spoke to school authorities about the threat, and they contacted the police.

Sun was arrested later by the police, and said that he was joking when he warned his classmate at Bonner and Prendergast Catholic High School.

Police say they discovered 16,000 rounds of ammunition and a handgun in a black carryall case and they allege that these belong to Sun, but have not revealed how they discovered the evidence.

Sun is originally from Taiwan.

The social media account for the Upper Darby police tweeted the booking photo for Sun.

“An Tso Sun, 18, arrested for threatening to shoot up local high school,” they tweeted.

“Sun was found to have a military vest and ammunition at his residence,” they added. “Kudos to the person who stepped forward and helped to avert a tragedy.”

“We have zero tolerance for anyone who threatens to shoot, bomb, or hurt a school,” said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood. “They will be locked up. Period.”

Sun denies the charges

Lawyers for Tso Sun released a statement denying the allegations and asserting rhetoric was growing overheated in the media about the case.

“Our client just turned 18 in January and is a senior in high school,” the statement said. “This young man has had no prior contacts with the courts and has been considered an affable, precocious student with no discipline or antisocial tendencies. The young man’s parents have flown in from Taiwan and fully support their child.”

“Our investigation reveals that there was no intention to terrorize or otherwise commit any criminal act,” they added. “The family is concerned by the rising level of rhetoric that is being transmitted to the news media and hopes that the public will keep an open mind as all the facts and circumstances are brought forward.”

Here’s a media briefing with Upper Darby official Chitwood:

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Unhinged Leftists Blame the NRA For Shooting at YouTube Headquarters

Unhinged Leftists Blame the NRA For Shooting at YouTube Headquarters

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by Cristina Laila
April 3, 2018

As TGP’s Cassandra Fairbanks previously reported, an active shooter unleashed a barrage of bullets at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California Tuesday afternoon.

The female shooter, who is now deceased, opened fire at her boyfriend before turning the gun on herself, according to witnesses.

Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein immediately called for gun control.

We saw the same blame game after the Parkland shooting. NRA memberships exploded after liberals attacked the gun rights organization.

On Tuesday, unhinged leftists blamed the NRA and spread false statistics about gun violence and mass shootings. Shocker.

New York Assemblyman from the Bronx, Jeffrey Dinowitz admits he doesn’t know all the facts about Tuesday’s tragic shooting at YouTube HQ, but he still decided to blame the NRA, because why not?

Other Twitter users falsely claimed Tuesday’s shooting was the 58th mass shooting in 2018.

It appears the trend of tweeting about the ’58th mass shooting for 2018′ started with Hillary Clinton’s former digital strategist:

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911 centers being hacked by criminals, systems held for ransom

In an effort to use scare tactics for financial and political gain, hackers are now disabling American 911 call centers and holding them for ransom.

Henry County, Tennessee’s 911 call center was shut down in 2016 via a ransomware attack, leaving dispatchers hobbled and forced to use pen and paper to take calls. The county’s information technology manager recalled: “It basically brought us to our knees.”

The hackers demanded thousands in bitcoin currency to reestablish services, which Henry County refused to pay.

Baltimore’s emergency services also had to scale back to manual calls during a similar instance in late March, and Atlanta is still reeling from a digital ambush of their police department systems a week or so ago.

NBC News reports “there have been 184 cyberattacks on public safety agencies and local governments in the past 24 months” in the US, pointing to a growing threat. They cite information from cybersecurity firm SecuLore Solutions, which has been tracking the attacks.

According to the firm, roughly 23 percent of centers have been directly attacked, while a few dozen more were overcome by the use of viruses to control programs remotely. The remaining large majority of attacks caused the immobilization of systems via a barrage of automated bogus dials which resulted in a “denial of service” for legitimate 911 calls.

SecuLore’s CEO, Tim Lorello, says, “911 is the perfect [target] because it can’t afford to be shut down.”

A six-month-old boy in Dallas died last year following breathing troubles after his babysitter called 911 and was put on hold for over 30 minutes and hung up on three times. While the system was not held up by hackers, but rather a glitch, it’s an example of how critical immediate emergency services are.

The hacker in Tennessee was able to gain access after a former employee had left a weak password in the system. But the perpetrator was never caught in Henry County or in Baltimore.

While increasing the sophistication of security measures on emergency systems would help block such attacks, many states have diverted 911 fees paid by consumers via phone bills to other uses. Between 2008 and 2015, the FCC cited two dozen states who had redirected dedicated 911 funds away from emergency services.

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Record-Low Ratings for Politicized Kids’ Choice Awards

Editor’s Note: The following has been adapted with the author’s permission from its original publication on Carolina Culture Warrior. To be fully transparent, the author also owns shares in ABC (as previously disclosed).

If Nickelodeon thought politicizing its annual Kids’ Choice Awards would draw viewership, the liberal tween-centered network was sadly mistaken. In fact, despite a slew of star power and a fun segment based on the critically-acclaimed Nintendo Switch game Super Mario Odyssey, the blatant and unnecessary March for Our Lives references looks to have turned kids and their parents away in droves.

According to recent reports, the annual ceremony has reached a record low, with only 1.87 million viewers. It’s a particular embarrassment for Nick considering that even last year’s Video Music Awards on sister network MTV garnered more viewers — although it too was at an all-time low.

Could part of the reason be that most of the content that was honored wasn’t kid-appropriate? Popular superhero movies were honored this year, but so were songs in the music categories with lewd lyrics with N.E.R.D. performing their recent song Lemon on the show, which includes numerous profanities (although most weren’t used in their Kids’ Choice performance). NewsBusters’ Corinne Weaver has more:

[T]he appropriateness of some content honored at the awards was questionable, at best. Ed Sheeran’s sensual “Shape of You,” with lyrics that most elementary school students can’t relate to (“Now my bedsheets smell like you” isn’t really a lyric you want to hear on a kids’ camping trip), was given the award for best song, while Fifth Harmony and Camila Cabello both won awards for their music. The band and the singer do not create family friendly content, for the most part. Fifth Harmony’s “Worth It” has girls singing that they “like it a little rough.”

It’s Nickelodeon. How old is their target audience again?

Like MTV, Nickelodeon has eroded down to a shell of its former self thanks to not only its left turn but the growing abundance of streaming options like Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix. From the perspective of a ’90s kid, children and tweens alike used to watch the Viacom-owned network because it spoke to and for them, from the imaginary adventures of the Rugrats to the slice-of life tales of Doug to (more recently) the nonsensical and surreal humor of flagship show SpongeBob SquarePants.

In part, although some shows were a bit too controversial for children’s TV at the time (sometimes a bit too gross for some parents to let their children watch, i.e. Ren & Stimpy), the Nickelodeon brand used to mean something. 

Today, Nickelodeon has gone the way of MTV, wanting kids to grow up too fast — from politics to crude humor. The Kids’ Choice Awards definitely proved that, and sacrificed ratings and parents’ trust in the process.

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New York Times Reportedly In ‘Civil War’ With Its Own ‘Woke’ Millennial Reporters

Employees at The New York Times are reportedly in a simmering generational "civil war," debating whether or not the newspaper should abandon longstanding journalistic norms in the age of Trump.

"I’ve been feeling a lot lately like the newsroom is split into roughly the old-guard category, and the young and ‘woke’ category, and it’s easy to feel that the former group doesn’t take into account how much the future of the paper is predicated on the talent contained in the latter one," a Times employee told Vanity Fair.

"I know a lot of others at the paper with similar positions to mine, especially women and people of color, who feel that senior staff isn’t receptive to their concerns."

The younger staffers are reportedly angry with the hire of op-ed contributors Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss, the decision not to fire accused harasser Glenn Thrush, and being banned from participating in political demonstrations like the Women’s March.

The Vanity Fair piece comes after Slack transcripts leaked to the Huffington Post showed reporters complaining about Weiss and constant "microaggressions" at the paper.

In both stories, the "woke" faction of the Times complained that opinion columnists were allowed to tweet their opinions on Twitter, but "a Times reporter could conceivably get into hot water for tweeting something that seems to endorse gun control or Black Lives Matter."

The more institutionally-minded Times staffers stress the need for neutrality and impartiality. "We do not see ourselves, and we do not wish to be seen, as partisan media," said managing editor Joe Kahn. "That means that the news and opinion divide."

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BREAKING: YouTube Shooter Identified as 38-Year-Old Far Left Protester Nasim Aghdam

BREAKING: YouTube Shooter Identified as 38-Year-Old Far Left Protester Nasim Aghdam

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by Cristina Laila
April 3, 2018

As TGP’s Cassandra Fairbanks previously reported, an active shooter unleashed a barrage of bullets at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California Tuesday afternoon.

“KPIX 5 reporter Andria Borba said at least two Homeland Security units were responding. Police radio transmissions describe casualties being taken to local hospitals,” CBS reports. “San Francisco General Hospital spokesman Brent Andrew said the hospital received patients from the incident but could not confirm a number.”


Photo: Nasim Aghdam at PETA protest

YouTube employees took to Twitter to report hearing shots and seeing people running from the scene, as police surrounded the building.

ABC 7 previously reported that, “another law enforcement source confirms to ABC7 News reporter Dan Noyes that the shooter is a white, adult female wearing a dark top and head scarf.”

NBC Bay Area investigative reporter, Vicky Nguyen identified the YouTube shooter late Tuesday evening:

Nasim Aghdam ranted against YouTube on YouTube:

Nasim Aghdam complained she was being “discriminated and filtered on YouTube.”

The state of California has the strictest gun control laws in the country.

Breakdown via WaPo:

If you’re a gun owner in California, you must:

  • Pass a universal background check, no matter where you buy your gun
  • Wait at least 10 days to receive that gun (the idea here is to give law enforcement enough time to conduct the background check)
  • Get your handgun microstamped, which means the make, model and serial number of the gun is transferred to each cartridge case every time the gun is fired (the idea is to allow police at a crime scene to trace a gun back to its owner)
  • Take and pass a written safety test

You can’t:

  • Own most assault weapons or buy and sell large-capacity ammunition magazines or .50 caliber rifles
  • Buy your gun through a private sale, like online or via a friend, without first going through a licensed dealer (and thus getting a background check)
  • Buy more than one handgun a month

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Trump to Mobilize National Guard to Help Block Migrants

The White House confirmed late Tuesday that it will deploy the National Guard to help contain the rising flood of Central American economic migrants during this spring and summer.

The statement said:

Last week, the President received a briefing from senior administration officials on the growing influx of illegal immigration, drugs and violent gang members from Central America, and directed a vigorous administrative strategy to confront this threat and protect America’s national security.

Today, he received a follow up briefing to discuss his administration’s strategy, which includes the mobilization of the National Guard. President Trump and senior officials present also agreed on the need to pressure Congress to urgently pass legislation to close legal loopholes exploited by criminal trafficking, narco-terrorist and smuggling organizations.

Among those briefing the President were Defense Secretary James Mattis, Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Joseph Dunford, Chief of Staff John Kelly, and other senior White House officials.

“We’re going to be doing things militarily,” Trump said Tuesday at a White House meeting. “Until we can have a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military.”

Trump is being forced to deploy the National Guard because Democrats — and business-first Republicans — blocked his immigration reforms plan in a February 15 vote. Trump’s plan offered a generous amnesty to at least two million illegal immigrants in exchange for funding for a border wall, ending the visa lottery, winding down chain-migration and patching the various legal loopholes which allow migrants to exploit Congress’ “catch and release” laws.

Democratic leaders also worked with Republican leaders to cut Trump’s border spending in 2018. They denied increased funding for extra border agent, extra detention beds, and extra border barriers, despite the 2016 election results. The March omnibus only allows construction of 50 miles of new fencing along the 2,000-mile border.

The opposition from Congress leaves Trump with fewer tools to stem the wage-cutting illegal and legal immigration into the United States. But he is using his power over the agencies to improve immigration policies and border defenses, and also is using his power as Commander-in-Chief to deploy the National Guard to the border.

The Trump mobilization stands in sharp contrast to the welcome policies set by former President Barack Obama. Those policies allowed more than 400,000 Central American economic migrants into the United States to plead for asylum designed to help persecuted individuals.

Very few of the migrants have won their asylum cases, partially because many did meet their court appointments. This meant that Obama’s policies have allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to live and work in the United States for years.

That progressive concern for distant foreigners delivered migrant MS-13 gang members into Americans’ neighborhoods, filled up the public schools used by working-class Americans, and reduced the pressure on U.S. employers to raise Americans’ wages, hire sidelined Americans or train young Americans. This “telescopic philanthropy” for foreigners rather than nearby Americans also helped persuade the public to elect Donald Trump in 2016.

The Trump announcement did not say how the National Guard could be used.

However, Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies, says the Guard can be used to build emergency processing centers, where federal judges can quickly review the migrants’ claims for asylum.

The Guard could also provide other support services to the border patrol, ensuring the patrol has enough personnel to quickly jump on cartel smuggling operations that are often conducted amid the rush of illegal immigrants.

The Guard also operates transport aircraft which can be used to quickly return migrants to their home countries, she said.

The pending rise in 2018 migration was spotlighted by the northward “caravan” march of at least 1,500 migrants. The open-borders organizers say they will limit their march, but they are also providing cover for other migrants to reach established smuggling routes in Mexico.

However, border officials say the immigration wave has already arrived and is forcing them to adopt “catch and release” policies because they do not have enough detention beds, immigration judges, and aircraft to process asylum claims and repatriate migrants within the deadline of 72 hours set by Congress.

 

 

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Exclusive – Secretary Ben Carson on Illegals: HUD Is ‘Going to Cooperate Very Much with the Justice Department’

Exclusive – Secretary Ben Carson on Illegals: HUD Is ‘Going to Cooperate Very Much with the Justice Department’

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Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Dr. Ben Carson told Breitbart News it is his aim to ensure federal contracting jobs and other economic opportunities go to “our people” and that his agency will cooperate “very much” with the Department of Justice to enforce the U.S.’s immigration laws.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Monday, Carson explained it is past time for American citizens — “our people,” he said — to reap the full benefits of HUD projects.

“What we want to do, obviously, is empower people – that’s a major goal that we have – our people, American citizens. Our programs are aimed at that,” said the secretary.

“Our tremendous emphasis on [the] Section 3 [program], for example – which has been on the books for 50 years – [which says] if you are receiving HUD money you have an obligation to hire people of low income in that area or to train them or to give contracts to them. It’s been largely ignored.”

“We are putting incentives into that to make sure that it is used to develop our people,” Carson added.

Construction is one of the top industries occupied by illegal aliens in the United States. HUD provides billions in taxpayer funds to developers annually, much of it for public housing, which means homes meant for Americans run the risk of not only housing illegal aliens but also being built by them.

“In terms of what is happening with illegals, obviously, we are going to cooperate very much with the Justice Department and with the administration’s push to try to control that,” Carson said.

Federal contractors are required (with some exceptions), by presidential executive order and subsequent federal regulations, to use E-verify — the free, Internet-based system that allows employers to verify the eligibility of their employees to work in the U.S.

When asked whether he thinks HUD should commit to tying its grants, cooperative agreements, and tax credits also received by developers and businesses to their enrollment in E-verify, Carson replied, “We have to look at all these possibilities.”

“You know, E-verify has been shown to be effective in some places and I think it’s certainly worthy of a close look.”

As for what HUD is doing to ensure illegal immigrants themselves are not receiving housing benefits intended for Americans, Carson responded: “We have an inspection process, an application process that people go through that is supposed to screen that out.”

Amanda House is Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor. You can follow her on Twitter at @AmandaLeeHouse.

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Illinois city bans assault weapons, imposes fines up to $1,000 per day

The Village of Deerfield, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago, enacted a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines Monday night that carries stiff penalties for those found in violation.

The Deerfield Board of Trustees unanimously approved the ban during Monday night’s meeting, although some community members spoke out against it. It will go into effect June 13.

What about the ban?

The new ordinance says that because assault weapons have been used in numerous mass shootings, present unique dangers to law enforcement, and are not “reasonably necessary to protect an individual’s right to self-defense or the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia,” those weapons will be banned from the village.

People who violate the ban are subject to fines of between $250 and $1,000 per day.

The trustees decided that prohibiting the possession, manufacture and sale of assault weapons will “increase the public’s sense of safety at the public schools, public venues, places of worship and places of public accommodation located in the Village of Deerfield.”

The ordinance defines the term assault weapon to include semiautomatic rifles, semiautomatic pistols, semiautomatic shotguns, or shotguns with a revolving cylinder. It also includes conversion kits and goes on to name specific rifles such as the Uzi, AK-47 and AR-15, among others.

How did the community respond?

According to Steve Sadin of the Pioneer Press, there was no debate by the trustees during Monday’s meeting, but 20 people spoke during public remarks: 14 in opposition to the ban, and six in support.

Larry Nordal of Deerfield said the ban was just going to be used as a building block for future infringements on the Second Amendment.

“First, it’s going to be assault rifles,” Nordal said. “There will be new bans in the future. It’s just a matter of time.”

Ariella Kharasch, a local high school student, characterized the ban as a part of the larger gun control movement spearheaded by some survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting.

“This is our fight,” Kharasch said. “This is our generation’s fight. We’re going to keep fighting and this is part of it.”

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