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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Republicans urge airstrikes in Syria to defeat ISIS

By Leigh Ann Caldwell, CNN

updated 4:28 PM EDT, Sun August 24, 2014

Is ISIS an immediate threat to the U.S.?

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Republicans urge Obama to begin a military campaign into Syria to defeat ISIS
Sen. Lindsey Graham would even support U.S. troops on the ground
Republicans want to repeal defense budget cuts

(CNN) -- Republicans in Congress have begun their most forceful push yet in urging President Barack Obama to begin a military campaign into Syria to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

"One of the key decisions the President is going to have to make is air power in Syria. We cannot give (ISIS) a base of operations," Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said on "Fox News Sunday."

For nearly three years, Obama has refused to engage in a complicated civil war in Syria where different factions are fighting each other and attempting to topple President Bashar al-Assad.

The President has actively defended his decision to not get involved in the war-torn country. But now that ISIS, which gained prominence and power in Syria, is expanding its scope, the domestic calls for the President to act in Syria are loud.

Conservatives pushing for military action dominated the Sunday political talk shows less than one week after an ISIS militant with a British accent beheaded American journalist James Foley in a video of his killing.

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"I don't want to hear from the President about how he's reacting to events," U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, said on CBS News' "Face the Nation." "I want to hear a strategy how he's going to fend ISIS off."

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said on CNN's "State of the Union" that it is to "America's peril" if ISIS is not stopped.

"It's about time now to assume the worst about these guys, rather than to be underestimating them," he said.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel gave a stark assessment of ISIS on Thursday, indicating the terror group, which has expanded its grip to western Iraq, needs to be addressed.

"This is beyond anything that we've seen. So we must prepare for everything. And the only way you do that is you take a cold, steely, hard look at it and get ready," Hagel said.

At the same news conference, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. is going to expand its reach to address ISIS. He refused, however, to confirm that the U.S. would conduct airstrikes in Syria.

"It requires a variety of instruments, only one small part of which is airstrikes. I'm not predicting those will occur in Syria, at least not by the United States of America. But it requires the application of all of the tools of national power -- diplomatic, economic, information, military," he told reporters Thursday.

Graham said the United States must do everything it can to defeat ISIS, even if that means U.S. ground troops become engaged.

"If our military commanders tell us that we need ground forces to defeat ISIL, which is a threat to the United States, so be it," he said.

But Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the only Democrat to appear on the Sunday shows to talk about ISIS, pushed back against the idea that U.S. troops should enter into another ground war.

"The most effective use of our force is not putting troops on the ground, but using capable troops like Kurds with (U.S.) airstrikes," Reed said.

Threat to the United States

The Republican lawmakers said their calls for expanded military action are justified because ISIS poses an "imminent threat" to the United States.

"We should, in my view, look at ISIL as a direct threat to the United States," Graham said, using the alternate name for ISIS.

Graham's assessment mirrors all of the other top Republicans who appeared on political talk shows Sunday, who insisted that ISIS is capable of committing an attack on U.S. soil.

"I do think they present the greatest threat we've seen since 9/11," Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said on ABC's "This Week."

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Top military officials issued dire warnings about the severity of ISIS and their mission but stopped short of saying ISIS posed an immediate, direct threat to the United States.

Dempsey described their mission as "apocalyptic," and Hagel called the threat "imminent ... to every interest we have."

McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he believes an attack on the U.S. is in the works.

"They would love more than nothing else to hit the United States of America," he added.

Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said the estimated 100 ISIS fighters who are American citizens and "thousands" that hold European passports make it easy for the trained militants to enter into the United States.

"They are one plane ticket away from U.S. shores," Rogers said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Reed, a top Democratic member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, however, softened the immediacy of the threat.

"But to jump from what they have done, which is horrific, particularly the murder of Mr. Foley, to the assumption that they're going to be an immediate and within days a threat to us here in our homeland, I think you don't jump to that assumption, but you don't dismiss it," he said on "State of the Union."

But Graham fired back: "Here is the question. Can America be safe if ISIL is not defeated? I don't think we can."

Criticism of Obama

Republicans blamed the President for the expansion of ISIS, saying the terror groups' dominance stems from a lack of inaction in Syria when that country's civil war broke out nearly three years ago.

"I am heartbroken ... about what has happened to the Syrian people and a lot of that is due to our total inaction. And it's going to be one of the more shameful chapters in American history," McCain said.

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Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire said the President's limited foreign policy is no longer acceptable.

"The containment aspect of it is not going to defeat them," Ayotte said on CBS News' "Face the Nation."

McCaul echoed that same sentiment: "I don't think you're going to win this with a containment policy alone. This administration thus far has only dealt with containment."

"This is an opportunity for the President to take a step back, change his presidential guidance," Rogers said.

Congress' role

Members of Congress have not yet expressed concern that the Obama administration has acted unilaterally by launching nearly 100 airstrikes in northern Iraq.

More concerning to Republicans are cuts to the defense budget that cost more than half a trillion dollars, or 10% of its budget, over 10 years as part of an effort to reduce overall government spending.

McCain said his "his first goal" when Congress returns to Washington in September is to repeal reduction to the defense budget.

Ayotte agreed. "There's a disconnect with sequester from the threats that we face around the world and the resources we are going to need to fight this threat," she said.

Was TEAM OBAMA/McCAIN the reason that the Islamic State (ISIS) was able to roar to power so fast?

Why are the mainstream media ignoring this? As reported by BNI in 2013, John McCain, as envoy for Barack Hussein Obama, secretly met with the leader of ISIS, Abu Abkr al-Baghdadi, to discuss supplying the ‘rebels’ with weapons, training, and funding.

NTEB Just the other day, US Senator John McCain said that “One of the key decisions the President is going to have to make is air power in Syria. We cannot give ISIS a base of operations.” McCain has been very outspoken against ISIS and that the president step up efforts to eradicate them. But this was not the case just one year ago.

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In May of 2013, John McCain took a secret trip to Syria to discuss giving arms and support to Syrian rebels. On 29 June 2014, ISIS announced the establishment of a caliphate, al-Baghdadi was named its caliph, to be known as Caliph Ibrahim, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was renamed the Islamic State (IS).

On the same day that the above photo was taken, hours earlier the photo below was taken as well. John McCain is seen talking intently with Ibrahim al-Badri, otherwise known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader and commander of the Islamic State in Iraq, otherwise known as ISIS.

John McCain photographed in secret meeting with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Commander of the Islamic State terror group known as ISIS. Is this where the funding for ISIS came from?

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wearing the black shirt on the far left, is seen in deep discussions with John McCain. Within 12 short months of these photos being taken, al-Baghdadi would explode on the scene in 2013 as the leader/caliph of the monstrous terror group ISIS (Islamic State) John McCain does not deny the existence of these photos, obviously, as he posted one to his own Twitter account.

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Why is there no mention of this in the main stream media? Why is this story being buried? Did McCain help funnel money and weapons to al-Baghdadi after his secret meeting in 2013? Is ISIS a creation of the Pentagon? How did ISIS get so big so fast?…

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ISIS reportedly developing 'bubonic plague' bomb

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"The advantages of biological weapons is the low cost and high rate of casualties..."
Critics of the ISIS terrorist network have often condemned the jihadists of attempting to revert civilization back to the Dark Ages both theologically and culturally. According to reports from The Telegraph (of London, Great Britain) on Aug. 29, 2014, and also by the Beirut, Lebanon-based Sada Al-Balad (Arabic: صدى البلد‎) meaning The echo of the country) on Aug. 30, 2014, the al-Qaeda branch office in Iraq and Syria, better known to the West as ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) are now full steam ahead on weaponizing bubonic plague, also known as The Black Death.
True to the definition of terrorism, there is chatter in the shadows of Western intelligence agencies regarding a recently obtained ISIS computer detailing the weaponization of biological and chemical agents aimed directly at civilian targets. As reported, the jihadists had a 19-page manual on the laptop that al-Aan news of the United Arab Emirates ostensibly acquired from one of the many rebel groups in Syria fighting not only against President Bashir al-Assad, but also ISIS, who also go by the acronyms ISIL or simply IS (Islamic State in the Levant - Islamic State).
Other than the technical know-how of constructing a delivery system, such as being attached to an explosive device on a missile or suicide car-bomb attacks, what is most recommended would be releasing the plague through an aerosol directly into the atmosphere, "The advantages of biological weapons is the low cost and high rate of casualties. There are many methods to spread the biological or chemical agents in a way to impact the biggest number of people. Air, main water supplies, food. The most dangerous is through the air." Specifically cited was contaminating large air-conditioning systems, presumably the likes of indoor stadiums of shopping malls.
All but eradicated in the West, the Black Death has reared its ugly head occasionally in the Third World as well as the former Soviet Union. With the mortality date normally between 50-80 percent, the symptoms usually manifest themselves 2–5 days after exposure. Symptoms include:
Gangrene of the extremities such as toes, fingers, lips and tip of the nose.
Chills.
General ill feeling (malaise).
High fever (39 °C; 102 °F).
Lenticulae (pus oozing black dots scattered throughout the body).
Muscle cramps.
Seizures.
Smooth, painful lymph gland swelling normally in the groin, but also could occur in the armpits or neck..
Pain may occur in the area before the swelling appears.
Continuous vomiting of blood.
Extreme pain as a direct consequence of the decay or decomposition of the skin while the victim is still alive.

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The more Hamas-affiliated CAIR whines, the more Oklahoma Republican legislators double down on their condemnation of Islam

Oklahoma lawmakers refuse to apologize for cautioning people to ‘be wary’ of Muslim-Americans. Republican state Rep. John Bennett, combat Marine reservist who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is under fire for an anti-Muslim comment on Facebook that critics say ‘promote misunderstanding and incite hatred.’ The Council on American-Islamic Relations is demanding an apology, but Bennett says he’s tired of being politically correct.

NY Daily News An Oklahoma politician is under fire for cautioning people to be “wary” of Muslim Americans — but he’s not backing down. State Rep. John Bennett (R-Sallisaw) refused to apologize for a private Facebook post that called on Christians to “be especially wary” of people who call themselves Muslim-Americans because the Koran “clearly states that non-Muslims should be killed.”

The politician then linked to an article about the violent actions of Islamic State militants, NewsOK reports.

Bennett says he’s tired of being politically correct about Muslims. “For us to sit back and listen to their lies and deflection and let them continue on their claims that this is all racist and I’m an ‘Islamaphobe,’ it’s just absolutely ridiculous,” he told KFOR

Oklahoma state Rep. John Bennett (R-Salisaw) is a U.S. Marine Corps reservist who has served his country in Iraq and Afghanistan.

On Wednesday, the Oklahoma chapter of a national Muslim advocacy group roundly rejected the implication that all Muslim-Americans are to be feared and asked Oklahoma’s Republican Party leaders to repudiate his message.

Adam Soltani, the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Oklahoma director, compared it to accepting the KKK as representatives of all Christians. “Anti-Muslim bigotry and statements that promote misunderstanding and incite hatred toward a minority group have no place in the Oklahoma Republican Party,” Soltani told NewsOK. “Individuals elected to represent the people of Oklahoma should be held accountable for such extremist, inaccurate and intolerant views.”

Adam Soltani, CAIR thug

Soltani said that verses used to justify killings are taken out of context in the same way that Bible verses about violent historical periods can be taken out of context. One of the verses most often quoted in anti-Islamic rhetoric is Chapter 47, Verses 3-4, which condones the killing of nonbelievers. Soltani said that verse should only be read as part of the struggle that people in that particular time period had with foreign oppressors who persecuted Muslims for a decade.

Elsewhere in the Koran, Islam teaches that killing just one innocent person is like killing all of humanity. (Too bad Muslims don’t follow that idea stolen from Judaism)

Bennett, a U.S. Marine Corps reservist who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, lashed back with a claim that CAIR is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in America. “We must shine a bright light on the role of the Muslim Brotherhood and its varied tentacles in the U.S.,” Bennett said. “These tentacles include un-indicted co-conspirators of the U.S. vs. Holyland Foundation trial like the Council on American-Islamic Relations here in Oklahoma. Our borders are wide open to drug and human traffickers. Terrorism could come to Oklahoma just as easily.”

Instead of rejecting Bennett’s claims, Oklahoma’s Republican leaders appeared to support him.

It seems as if (CAIR’S) attack on his comments is disingenuous at best,” Weston said. “If they’re legitimate in wanting to come to the table and have an honest discourse, they can prove that by acknowledging the Jewish Holocaust happened, they can publicly recognize the right of Israel to exist and they can denounce the killing of Muslim converts to Christianity and other religions around the world.”

Oklahoma’s House Speaker Jeff Hickman said that “all members of the Oklahoma Legislature are duly elected by and accountable to their constituents, and are free to voice their own opinions.”

CAIR has repeatedly denied any connection to terrorist groups and condemned the Islamic State’s violent tactics.

The advocacy group is part of the recently formed U.S. Council of of Muslim Organizations that has condemned the extremists’ actions and emphasized that the Islamic State doesn’t speak for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims.

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French newspaper Le Point reports that its reporter Nicholas Henin was tortured by Mehdi Nemmouche.

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PARIS – The French Islamist who killed four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in May and had tortured hostages in Syria for Islamic State had a “violent and provocative character,” one of his French ex-detainees said.

Nicolas Henin told the press Saturday of Mehdi Nemmouche’s love for torture, confirming a long and exclusive report the daily Le Monde published.

Henin was one of four French journalists freed from Syria on April 20, who then gave information on the conditions of their detention to the Direction Generale de la Securite Interieure (DGSI), and was then transferred to the anti-terrorist section of Paris’s public prosecutor’s office, according to Le Monde.

The hostages gave details of Nemmouche as a torturer, whose victims included American journalist James Foley and Israeli-American journalist Steven Sotloff, both beheaded by Islamic State terrorists.

Nemmouche, 29, from Roubaix near Lille in northern France, was arrested six days after he committed the May 24 terrorist attack in Brussels.

He shot to death a tourist couple from Tel Aviv, as well as two others, a French woman and a Belgian museum worker.

He was arrested in Marseille and extradited to Belgium, after he received assurances he would not be transferred to a third country (Israel).

He is to appear before a Brussels court on Friday.

He was among the captors of the four French hostages who were freed after 10 months of detention in Syria, Le Monde reported. The daily added that he had tortured prisoners.

According to Le Monde, the four, Didier Francois, Edouard Elias, Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres, who were captured in June 2013, don’t agree whether to testify against Nemmouche or not.

“Their memories are not similar...for some it is just a possibility, others are more sure about that,” Le Monde wrote about the hostages uncertainty if Nemmouche was their torturer and not some other figure. The paper said the testimony given to French intelligence was “suspicious.”

“There are different degrees of estimation [toward the identity of the torturer].”

Since their arrest, the hostages have been regularly consulted by the secret services.

“I wish to maintain the preliminary investigation, which is the best way to preserve the security of the people still in the hands of the Islamic State,” said Didier Francois, who, according to web sites, is opposed to identifying Nemmouche for the safety of those who are still there.

A source responsible for a nongovernmental organization told Le Monde, “They [the four] have right to demand justice, since Mehdi Nemmouche was there.”

On April 20, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius revealed that some guards “spoke French,” adding there were also Belgians, Italians and “Europeans in general participating in the jihad.”

Judicial sources told Le Monde that the status of the four has been changed “from simple witnesses to victims demanding reparations,” and the Paris public prosecutor’s office, lead by Francois Molins, “wishes to avoid such a situation.”

The question, according to Le Monde, is now, concerning Nemmouche’s Brussels attack: “was he on a mission or did he take the initiative?” Another ex-hostage, Belgian Jejoen Bontinck, 18, who was originally a jihadist and then detained with Foley after refusing to fight, escaped from jail and gave a similar testimony to the four French hostages, according to Le Monde.

Henin told the magazine Le Point that he was “mistreated” by Nemmouche.

“When he was not singing, he was torturing. He was a member of a small group of French nationals whose arrival used to terrify about 50 Syrian prisoners in cells near ours...I myself had been interrogated...the torture went all night long, until the dawn prayer,” Henin said. “For one-and-a-half months, we were chained up together.”

Nemmouche “took pleasure” in carrying out torture, according to BFMTV television.

The fact that Nemmouche was in charge of the four French nationals “is not surprising, since ISIS [Islamic State] tries to recruit people of same nationality as their detainees,” BFMTV reported.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called Nemmouche a “big terrorist” and a “horrific character” who “must be judged... in order to insure French citizens’ security.”

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BREAKING: ISIS Just Suffered A Blow That Could Send Shock Waves Through The Group

Among a number of terrorists killed in northern Iraq...

Norvell Rose — September 4, 2014

Several credible sources are now reporting that a senior aide to the self-proclaimed leader of ISIS — some say the terror group’s number-2 commander — has been killed in clashes in northern Iraq. There’s been no official confirmation yet on the reported death of Abu Hajar al-Suri.
The Times of Israel, noting that the death of this Islamic State leader has been reported previously, says that circumstances of the most recent battle allegedly resulting in the death of this ISIS commander remain unclear:

The latest Lebanese and Iraqi reports indicated that the high-ranking figure had been killed in a US airstrike near Mosul. However, al-Suri, who is also known as Majed Muhammad Suhaim and Abu Hajar al-Shami, was said to be killed in a botched suicide bombing on August 22 in the Taqaba airport. On August 19, in an apparent reference to the forthcoming suicide attack, Suhaim tweeted that he was headed to paradise.

Yahoo! News carries a story that says this high-ranking ISIS leader was among a number of terrorists killed as Iraqi forces, supported by U.S. air power, continue their offensive against ISIS militants.

At least five soldiers and Kurdish armed volunteers have been killed in clashes with the IS group in northern Iraq, as the government continues its offensive against the armed Sunni group, sources have told Al Jazeera.
The clashes on Thursday also killed seven IS fighters in the Yenkoujah district of Tuz Kharmatu, in the province of Salaheddin, between the capital Baghdad and Kirkuk.

In addition to the reported killing of al-Suri, The Times of Israel says Islamist fighters have taken numerous hostages.

Also Thursday, jihadists kidnapped dozens of residents of a northern Iraq village on Thursday after villagers burned one of their positions along with a jihadist flag, police and witnesses said.
The IS terrorists had withdrawn from Tal Ali in Kirkuk province on Wednesday, but returned in force on Thursday and abducted some 50 people, the sources said.
It is not the first time IS has carried out mass kidnappings in Iraq, with the group abducting thousands of civilians as it overran minority-populated northern villages last month, according to human rights group Amnesty International.

As we know, ISIS has not hesitated to behead hostages and post barbaric videos of the bloody executions.

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BROOKLYN: “I’m going to cut your head off like Muslims do to us, you Arab bitch”

Radical pro-Hamas Muslim activist was threatened with beheading in the streets of Brooklyn. Linda Sarsour, the 34-year-old extremist director of the Arab American Association of New York, was allegedly attacked and insulted by Brian Boshell as she left her group’s headquarters on Fifth Ave. in Bay Ridge.

Linda Sarsour, Radical Muslim activist

NY Daily News An Arab Muslim rights activist was attacked in Brooklyn Wednesday by a man who hurled slurs and threatened to behead her to “see how your people feel about it,” authorities and the victim said.

Linda Sarsour, 34, director of the Arab American Association of New York, was leaving the group’s headquarters on Fifth Ave. in Bay Ridge at 12:20 p.m. when Brian Boshell, 45, allegedly threatened her, called her an “Arab b—-” and insulted her in Arabic. Boshell, who is white, then allegedly chucked a trash can at her and a woman walking with her, Sarsour said. Neither woman was injured.

She said she had called the police reporting Boshell as a suspicious person before the attack, but officers didn’t respond until afterward. Sarsour vented her anger at the allegedly slow response on her Facebook page.

Boshell was charged with menacing and aggravated harassment as a hate crime and criminal possession of weapon.

Here’s what the media isn’t telling you about Linda Sarsour: An Islamist activist honored by the White House last December as a “Champion of Change” called Zionism “racism” and said “nothing is creepier” than the belief in a Jewish homeland. Linda Sarsour also posted two links on her Twitter feed to a rabidly anti-Israel video by a New York poet that accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing.

IPT Sarsour, director of the Arab American Association of New York, is on record defending terror suspects, casting skepticism over law enforcement investigations and advancing conspiracy theories. She also believes there is a government conspiracy against Muslims and that the authorities were behind Malcolm X’s assassination. During a Feb. 23, 2012 interview with Russia TV, Sarsour claimed that “Islamophobia” today is a continuation of the genocide of native Americans and the slavery of African Americans.

Sarsour dismissed reports about an al-Qaeda plot to blow up an airplane using a more sophisticated, more difficult to detect, underwear bomb. Rather than celebrate this outcome, Sarsour leapt to a false conclusion, claiming that in a May 8 Twitter post that it was a CIA inside job. In fact, the bomb plot was quite real.

But it fits with her view that there is “War on Islam” led by the United States. That narrative is considered among the most effective messages in radicalizing young Muslims.

“The value of Arab life – whether nameless Palestinian children bombed by American-funded fighter jets or American youth profiled, questioned and incarcerated for frequenting a particular mosque – is spiraling downwards rapidly in the US and at a more accelerated rate in the Arab World,” she wrote in a March 22, 2012 Al-JazeeraEnglish opinion piece.

She demonized law enforcement at a 2010 panel discussion at the Islamic Society of North America’s national convention. During a question and answer session at New York University with White House terrorism adviser John Brennan two years earlier, Sarsour lamented the Patriot Act and cast the arrest of terror suspects as an unjust and everyday occurrence in the Muslim community.

But it is her Palestinian advocacy that seems to set Sarsour most at odds with American policy and ideals. She expressed misgivings about Saddam Hussein’s 2003 capture by American forces in Iraq, saying she felt humiliated by his appearance because he was a hero to Palestinians. “”I think he’s done a lot of things he shouldn’t have done, but I was hurt. My Arab pride was hurt,” she said. “Palestinians are under so much oppression and no other Arab country ever helped them.”

She does not condemn Hamas leadership, its history of suicide terrorism or its indiscriminate firing of rockets at Israeli communities. Any notion that she’s a responsible and moderate voice for the Muslim community, one worthy of access to the halls of power, ignores a darker, extremist record.

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Senate Report Confirms That Republicans Lied About The IRS Only Targeting Conservatives

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A newly released report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations confirms that both liberal and conservatives groups received the same bad treatment and were targeted by the IRS. In short, Republicans lied about the IRS only targeting conservatives.

The Executive Summary section of the report put the Republican IRS conspiracy down for the count,

The Subcommittee investigation has reached many of the same conclusions as the TIGTA audit of the 501(c)(4) application process. The Subcommittee investigation found that the IRS used inappropriate screening criteria when it flagged for increased scrutiny applications based upon the applicants’ names or political views rather than direct evidence of their involvement with campaign activities. The Subcommittee investigation also found significant program mismanagement, including years-long delays in processing 501(c)(4) applications; inappropriate, intrusive, and burdensome questioning of groups; and poor communication and coordination between IRS officials in Washington and Cincinnati. At the same time, like TIGTA, the Subcommittee investigation found no evidence of IRS political bias in selecting 501(c)(4) applications for heightened review, as distinguished from using poor judgment in crafting the selection criteria. Based on investigative work that went beyond what TIGTA examined, the Subcommittee investigation also determined that the same problems affected IRS review of 501(c)(4) applications filed by liberal groups.

In addition, the Subcommittee investigation found that, by focusing exclusively on how the IRS handled 501(c)(4) applications filed by conservative groups and excluding any comparative data on applications filed by liberal groups, the TIGTA audit produced distorted audit results that continue to be misinterpreted. The TIGTA audit engagement letter stated that the audit’s “overall objective” was to examine the “consistency” of IRS actions in identifying and reviewing 501(c)(4) applications, including whether “conservative groups” experienced “inconsistent treatment.” Instead, the audit focused solely on IRS treatment of conservative groups, and omitted any mention of other groups. For example, while the TIGTA report criticized the IRS for using “Tea Party,” “9/12,” and “Patriot” to identify applications filed by conservative groups, it left out that the IRS also used “Progressive,” “ACORN,” “Emerge,” and
“Occupy” to identify applications filed by liberal groups. While the TIGTA report criticized the IRS for subjecting conservative groups to delays, burdensome questions, and mismanagement, it failed to disclose that the IRS subjected liberal groups to the same treatment. The result was that when the TIGTA audit report presented data showing conservative groups were treated inappropriately, it was interpreted to mean conservative groups were handled differently and less favorably than liberal groups, when in fact, both groups experienced the same mistreatment. By excluding any analysis of how liberal groups were handled and failing to provide critical context
for its findings, the TIGTA audit inaccurately and unfairly damaged public confidence in the impartiality of the IRS.

The bipartisan report confirmed what liberals have known since shortly after the scandal broke. Liberal groups were also targeted by the IRS. People like Rep. Darrell Issa have been claiming for more than a year that conservatives were targeting by an Obama plot. The Senate report debunks this claim, and highlights the widespread issues with the handling of 501(c) (4) applications.

For Republicans, the IRS scandal is really about preventing new rules and investigations that would hurt the flow of Koch money into our elections. John Boehner admitted earlier this year that House Republicans were hoping to use the IRS scandal as grounds for impeaching President Obama and Attorney General Holder. Those who claim that the IRS targeted only conservatives are lying.

As much as Republicans want the story to be true, it isn’t. There is no vast Obama conspiracy to use the IRS to punish his political critics. In light of what this report reveals, Republicans should drop their waste of taxpayer funds IRS investigations. There was no conspiracy. There was no targeting of just conservatives. The IRS scandal is dead and buried, but this won’t stop Republicans from repeating the completely debunked lie.

Senate investigators find no IRS bias against conservatives

FILE – In this April 9, 2013 file photo Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, talks with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. on Capitol Hill in Washington. After investigating the IRS for more than a year, two key senators, a Democrat, Levin, and a Republican, McCain, disagree on whether the tax agency treated conservative groups worse than their liberal counterparts when they applied for tax-exempt status. The Senate’s subcommittee on investigations released competing reports Friday on how the IRS handled applications from political groups during the 2010 and 2012 elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) — FILE – In this April 9, 2013 file photo Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, talks with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. on Capitol Hill in Washington. After investigating the IRS for more than a year, two key senators, a Democrat, Levin, ... more >

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Sunday, September 7, 2014

The Senate’s chief investigative panel has concluded that there was no political bias in the agency’s targeting of nonprofit groups for special scrutiny, saying that while the questions were intrusive, the IRS inspector general blew the matter out of proportion.
Investigators from the permanent subcommittee on investigations, controlled by Democrats, blamed Internal Revenue Service leaders for mismanagement but cleared them of charges that they tried to unfairly target tea party or other conservative groups. They said the agency also asked probing questions of some liberal groups.
“The subcommittee found no evidence that political bias influences the decisions made by IRS personnel,” the report issued Friday concluded. “A review of nearly 800,000 pages of documents and nearly two dozen interviews produced no evidence of political bias influencing IRS decision-making about how to process [nonprofit] applications filed by conservative organizations, and no evidence that the IRS singled out conservative groups for harsher treatment than other groups.”
The investigators said part of the proof was that “key IRS personnel” were registered Republicans or viewed themselves ideologically as aligned with the tea party.

But True the Vote, one of the groups caught up in the targeting, said the investigation was tainted because Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat and chairman of the investigative panel, was one of those who pushed the IRS to go after nonprofit groups’ political activity in the first place.
“This report’s primary author has zero credibility,” True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht said. She said investigators never talked to her group, nor did they mention interviewing any of the other “victims” of IRS scrutiny.
Friday’s report marks the end of the first of four congressional investigations into the targeting. The Justice Department also is looking into whether the IRS engaged in criminal behavior.
Mr. Levin’s report focused heavily on the scope of the targeting and concluded that some liberal groups also were caught in the IRS dragnet. The report questioned the inspector general’s own investigation, which exposed the scope of targeting in a May 2013 report.
Senate investigators said that by highlighting the targeting of conservative groups, J. Russell George, Treasury inspector general for tax administration, left Americans with an erroneous picture of the scandal.
Mr. George said in a statement that he is still looking into the targeting and “facts are still coming to light.”
But he said he firmly stands behind the 2013 audit that found the IRS gave “inappropriate treatment” to nonprofit groups, and he pointed out that the IRS apologized for its behavior.
In a stinging dissent from the Senate report, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the ranking Republican, said almost all of the special scrutiny of nonprofit applications reviewed by the IRS was aimed at conservative groups, and the fact that “a scant few” liberal groups also were swept up does not mean there was no bias.
More than 80 percent of the 298 groups found to be targeted for intrusive screening and delays were right of center. Only 10 percent were left-leaning, and the remaining groups’ political leanings were undetermined.
Conservative groups also were asked more th

Huge Alert: ISIS Targeting Schools, Malls, and Power Grid on 9/11?! Steve Quayle and Anita Fuentes Alert…

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As the ISIS threat increases and our borders stand weakened, new information has surfaced on Steve Quayles website about these possible coming attacks. Here is the official alert from his site:

MAJOR HEADS UP–’Middle East’ looking man videotaping the school from inside a van. WENDELL

“ATTENTION TEACHERS/PARENTS: Spoke to a VERY close friend today, he went to a tactical rifle training course yesterday in Hattisburg, Mississippi. The class was told of a “recent” incident in LaMar County a noisy (alert) parent dropping her kids off at school saw a ‘Middle East’ looking man videotaping the school from inside a van. She went reported it to the school security officer, who called the police. Police came and stopped the video, and there were actually 4 men inside. Arrested the men, and once they played the video, there was actually (4) FOUR schools they had videotaped. The police called the FBI, and they came got the 4 men……..the guy telling the story was a retired deputy from the area……you didn’t hear that on the NEWS I bet. I wrote on here a while back that the Intel community has stated in the past that our schools are IN FACT targets much like now the US shopping malls. Stay Alert….SQ NOTE -SUGGEST PARENTS CONSIDER KEEPING THEIR KIDS HOME ON 9/11 TOO MUCH CHATTER THAT THEY ARE GOING TO HIT SCHOOLS-ALSO BE WARY AND ALERT TO ALL PANEL VANS AND BLACKED OUT WINDOW SUV’S -THE MALLS ARE ALSO TARGETS DURING THIS TIME-CARRY YOUR CAMERAS AT ALL TIMES WITH YOU_REMEMBER THEY WONT ALL BE MIDDLE EASTERN LOOKING MEN-KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN AT ALL FOREIGN OWNED AND STAFFED CONVENIENT MARKETS AND GAS STATIONS.”

But that wasn’t the only alert! Another came in this past Friday claiming disturbing news of a possible terrorist attack that could impact the country. Here is the other breaking alert:

“Hi Steve, I work in the media and just received some disturbing news from our editor-in-chief. He has a longtime friend he has known who works in one of the 3 letter agencies (you know what is meant). Our editor just received an email from him (using an alias of course) and told him to “start immediately buying canned goods and non-perishables. We are going to get hit and hit hard and it is going to affect the whole country.” He also stated they (terrorists?) are already here and in place. The message ending by saying “God bless and you were right”–meaning a post on the internet our editor had made about his theory on the missing 11 aircraft. Don’t know how much of this info you have gotten from your sources. I’ve tried to tell as much as possible without giving any possible idea to the ptb where this came from.”

Furthermore according to Evangelist Anita Fuentes latest video it is also possible that we could see an attack on the Power Grid. Here is her breaking report…

Whether or not any of this will come to fruition only time will tell. But either way, this is your heads up!! Just in case…

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Republicans urge airstrikes in Syria to defeat ISIS

Is ISIS an immediate threat to the U.S.?

Was TEAM OBAMA/McCAIN the reason that the Islamic State (ISIS) was able to roar to power so fast?

Why are the mainstream media ignoring this? As reported by BNI in 2013, John McCain, as envoy for Barack Hussein Obama, secretly met with the leader of ISIS, Abu Abkr al-Baghdadi, to discuss supplying the ‘rebels’ with weapons, training, and funding.

On the same day that the above photo was taken, hours earlier the photo below was taken as well. John McCain is seen talking intently with Ibrahim al-Badri, otherwise known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader and commander of the Islamic State in Iraq, otherwise known as ISIS.

John McCain photographed in secret meeting with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Commander of the Islamic State terror group known as ISIS. Is this where the funding for ISIS came from?

Why is there no mention of this in the main stream media? Why is this story being buried? Did McCain help funnel money and weapons to al-Baghdadi after his secret meeting in 2013? Is ISIS a creation of the Pentagon? How did ISIS get so big so fast?…

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The more Hamas-affiliated CAIR whines, the more Oklahoma Republican legislators double down on their condemnation of Islam

The politician then linked to an article about the violent actions of Islamic State militants, NewsOK reports.

Bennett says he’s tired of being politically correct about Muslims. “For us to sit back and listen to their lies and deflection and let them continue on their claims that this is all racist and I’m an ‘Islamaphobe,’ it’s just absolutely ridiculous,” he told KFOR

On Wednesday, the Oklahoma chapter of a national Muslim advocacy group roundly rejected the implication that all Muslim-Americans are to be feared and asked Oklahoma’s Republican Party leaders to repudiate his message.

Elsewhere in the Koran, Islam teaches that killing just one innocent person is like killing all of humanity. (Too bad Muslims don’t follow that idea stolen from Judaism)

Instead of rejecting Bennett’s claims, Oklahoma’s Republican leaders appeared to support him.

Oklahoma’s House Speaker Jeff Hickman said that “all members of the Oklahoma Legislature are duly elected by and accountable to their constituents, and are free to voice their own opinions.”

CAIR has repeatedly denied any connection to terrorist groups and condemned the Islamic State’s violent tactics.

The advocacy group is part of the recently formed U.S. Council of of Muslim Organizations that has condemned the extremists’ actions and emphasized that the Islamic State doesn’t speak for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims.

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BROOKLYN: “I’m going to cut your head off like Muslims do to us, you Arab bitch”

NY Daily News An Arab Muslim rights activist was attacked in Brooklyn Wednesday by a man who hurled slurs and threatened to behead her to “see how your people feel about it,” authorities and the victim said.

She said she had called the police reporting Boshell as a suspicious person before the attack, but officers didn’t respond until afterward. Sarsour vented her anger at the allegedly slow response on her Facebook page.

Boshell was charged with menacing and aggravated harassment as a hate crime and criminal possession of weapon.

But it fits with her view that there is “War on Islam” led by the United States. That narrative is considered among the most effective messages in radicalizing young Muslims.

She does not condemn Hamas leadership, its history of suicide terrorism or its indiscriminate firing of rockets at Israeli communities. Any notion that she’s a responsible and moderate voice for the Muslim community, one worthy of access to the halls of power, ignores a darker, extremist record.

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations - Reports

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations - Reports

Senate investigators find no IRS bias against conservatives

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