Friday, June 27, 2014

Eric Holder’s ‘terrorism committee’ has identified the enemy, and it is us

Eric Holder’s ‘terrorism committee’ has identified the enemy, and it is us

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Think the National Security Agency is doing enough snooping in “The Homeland?” A federal spying coalition aims to drill deeper under the Orwellian title, Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee.
“Call it massive surveillance of the U.S. population,” said John Whitehead, president of the civil libertarian Rutherford Institute.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder soft-pedaled DTEC earlier this month.
He said the committee — whose members are not yet known — would “coordinate closely with U.S. attorneys and other key public safety officials across the country to promote information-sharing and ensure an effective, responsive and organized joint effort.”
Whitehead and other skeptics are not assuaged:
This is a government exercise to chill free speech and further nationalize the police force.
Gabriel Rottman, the American Civil Liberties Union’s legislative counsel on the First Amendment, told Reason magazine:
Given the already lenient standards for when the government can launch an investigation, the task force is both unnecessary and an invitation to investigate Americans because of the beliefs they hold, not because of any wrongdoing.
While the Southern Poverty Law Center hailed Holder’s pivot against “domestic terrorists” and the “hate groups” it lists, U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, said DTEC’s mission to root out “anti-government animus” practically screams abuse:
Would a group advocating strenuously for smaller government and lower taxes be included in the attorney general’s definition of a group with ‘anti-government animus?
Goodlatte didn’t get a straight answer from FBI Director James Comey.
With no congressional approval of DTEC required under the Patriot Act, and no budget transparency, Whitehead expects the worst:
The object is not to find a jihadist, but to watch people and to stop dissent through intimidation. The government is moving heavily into what’s called ‘pre-crime.’ It’s watching everything.
Whitehead noted the apprehension of a Marine veteran who had posted anti-government comments on a Facebook page. A Secret Service task force, along with local police, involuntarily incarcerated Brandon Raub in a psychiatric facility — until Rutherford lawyers freed the Virginia man.
Whitehead’s takeaway from that Soviet-style treatment of a U.S. citizen:
If you’re chatting [online], you’re talking to the government.
Advances in technology and the rapid growth of a privatized homeland security industry since 9/11 will help DTEC cast an even broader net, he warned.
“The stuff we used to regard as free speech isn’t any longer.”
Read more by Kenric Ward at Watchdog.com.

Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/06/19/eric-holders-terrorism-committee-identified-enemy-us/#IJt9MvIGUFsY3WPy.99

WATCH The ISIS Dumping Victims In What Seems To Be The BOTTOMLESS PIT

WATCH The ISIS Dumping Victims In What Seems To Be The BOTTOMLESS PIT

By Theodore Shoebat (Shoebate Exclusive)
An amazing leaked video surfaced from Middle Eastern media showing where the ISIS is sending victims to their final resting place in what seems to be the bottomless pit.
And it was all caught on video
Here’s the story.
When most of the ISIS fighters in Deir al-Zour moved to Raqqa, which is now a black province in every sense of the word, countless executions take place continually and families never get to collect the bodies of their loved ones. In one incident, the ISIS taped an execution of three men, and when the film was leaked, it was a heart-wrenching experience to the families of the victims.
The people finally found out where the countless bodies were sent. Thirteen kilometers south of Raqqa is an empty wilderness called Ghota (Canyon-pit). There one finds terrorists dumping the lifeless bodies of their victims in this deep gorge which funneled the bodies into what seems to be a huge endless pit:
Civilians and fighters alike are having a change of mind about the so-called revolution share how grim life has turned out to be. Al-Hayat, a Middle East news secretly met a number of civilians in Raqqa and reported that many of the Raqqa city features have been painted black, to match the color of the ISIS banner of the Caliphate. Women, like the Ka’ba shrine, wear black from head to toe, and you can’t ignore how many foreign fighters there are. They are called the muhajirin [immigrants] and come mostly from Chechnya. They are in Raqqa with their families and can be recognized because they are taller than the locals and look different.
The immigrant fighters have a long story. The civilians each told their stories, or what they witnessed, with the immigrants. They all said that the population won’t remain silent for long. The pressure on the civilians will lead to an explosion, according to “Mohammad,” 24. He and his family fled Deir al-Zour. He said, “[The following story] summarizes what the immigrants think about the people of the city and the region. One day, when I was at an internet cafe filled with Tunisian fighters, [I overheard one fighter say] to his friend via Skype to come do jihad in Syria, especially in Raqqa, where food is abundant and where there are many empty homes, and where the women are pretty, and ‘the men are cowards.’”
Chechen immigrants have their own story. Many of them came to Syria with the intensification of fighting, and most joined Jabhat al-Nusra or ISIS. In the words of more than one person we met, Chechen immigrants have special privileges over others because they came with all their family members. And that can be noticed as you walk Raqqa’s streets.
Rim, a Raqqa local said that, “Chechen immigrants are living a luxurious life. You always see them in the city’s restaurants and they buy food in large quantities. Their children keep buying chocolate, especially foreign chocolate, such as Mars or Snickers, which cost 100 or more Syrian pounds. The Chechens also have the latest technology in mobile phones, computers, computer tablets and many others.”
Defecting from ISIS equals death

The immigrant’s life isn’t always easy. His jihad in Syria could also be a curse. Recently, many immigrants were executed in the field, according to Raqqa locals. Not a week goes by without someone being executed. There have been as many as five executions per week. The charges against them range from disbelief in God to leaving the “group” [ISIS]. But according to the locals, executions are for those who defected from ISIS after they saw how it truly functions.
Patrols to enforce Islamic attire

“They leap over the walls so as not [to] give us a chance to correct matters,” said “Sarah” to Al-Hayat about what’s happening in her high school, where ISIS conducts foot or car patrols to check that women are wearing Islamic attire. ISIS fighters jump over the walls of the schools to surprise the girls and to catch those not complying. Sarah added, “The patrol consists of two teams, the first consists of men who jump over the school’s wall, and the second consists of women who enter through the main door. They are mostly the wives of immigrant fighters and they enter the school armed with machine guns and beat up students breaking [ISIS] laws. In many cases, the students are arrested along with the teachers and the school director as punishment for violating ISIS laws. They are released hours later after being humiliated by the patrol elements.”
Men also get punished

Men are not better off than the women under the rule of the black state. Men are harassed in different ways. The man is the first and last one responsible for the actions of the women of his family. Men are often punished as a result of the behavior of a girl within the family, such as lack of commitment to Islamic dress. Men are often given several lashes in the public squares for violating some Islamic law. Anyone who smokes or sells cigarettes is given a punishment ranging from having his store closed to being given several lashes.
We entered Raqqa at prayer time. ISIS has forced everyone to pray, and all shops have to close at prayer time and all men must go to mosque, or a group of shop owners can put a prayer mat and perform their prayers in congregation.
“Khaled,” 40, told Al-Hayat, “Many men don’t actually pray but pretend to be doing so in front of ISIS patrols that roam the city. … Many worshipers pray without ablution to avoid harm. Many shop owners lock themselves in their shops by lowering the iron doors till prayer time ends. However, ISIS patrols found out, so ISIS now goes to the shops and sometimes pulls their owners out and forces them to perform prayer.”
“Mohammad,” a Raqqa resident and a friend of Khaled, said, “One mosque preacher who is of Tunisian origin said during a Friday sermon that the reason the people are being forced to pray is so that they get admitted to paradise. Then a worshiper said that some are praying while doing a lot of things forbidden by God. The Tunisian imam answered: We will take you to paradise, even if we have to drag you in chains on the way there.”
Many throughout Syria have become aware of ISIS’s religious strictness. ISIS conducts tests on those stopped at checkpoints. They ask them questions about how many rak’aas [kneels] are performed for each prayer time and the way one is supposed to pray. At first we doubted that, but then we saw it ourselves in Azaz in the Aleppo countryside. In Azaz, an ISIS fighter asked the driver the number of rak’aas for each prayer. The driver answered wrongly, so the Chechen ISIS fighter asked the driver to get out of the car, took him to a nearby field, explained to him how to pray properly, and didn’t let the driver go till after praying four full rak’aas.
This is life under true Islam.
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REFERENCES

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Al-Hayat as reported by Al-Monitor

#ISIS Commander Abu Omar Photographed in Tent Marked ‘U.S. Agency of International Development’ (USAID)

#ISIS Commander Abu Omar Photographed in Tent Marked ‘U.S. Agency of International Development’ (USAID)

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American Power Blog researched this photograph today.

His research will show you that the Obama administration is possibly funding these terrorists in Iraq.
-David Ben Moshe

Prosecuting Lerner now imperative

Prosecuting Lerner now imperative

Gary Gross - Now that it’s been revealed that Lois Lerner targeted sitting US Sen. Chuck Grassley with an audit, the debate over whether to prosecute Ms. Lerner should be over. I say should be because we don’t have a real attorney general or a real Justice Department. If we did, we’d already have an indictment in hand and a trial date would’ve been set.
The emails appear to show Lerner mistakenly received an invitation intended for Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, in 2012.

The event organizer, whose name is not disclosed, apparently offered to pay for Grassley’s wife to attend the event, which caught Lerner’s attention. The December 2012 emails show that in response, Lerner suggested to an IRS colleague that the case be referred for an audit.

“Looked like they were inappropriately offering to pay for his wife. Perhaps we should refer to Exam?” she wrote.

Her colleague, though, pushed back on the idea, saying an offer to pay for his wife is “not prohibited on its face.” There is no indication from the emails that Lerner pursued the issue any further.
What’s disturbing is the fact that Lerner is a lawyer within the IRS. Apparently, she didn’t know that this offer didn’t violate the law. Last night on Greta, she said that Lerner should know better. Then she said that everything is fine if the Grassleys report the payment on their income tax filings. Then Greta threw in a final caveat of import: At the time she wanted Grassley audited, it wasn’t clear if Sen. Grassley would accept the speaking engagement.

It’s stunning that Ms. Lerner targeted a sitting US senator. This clearly proves that, at least in her mind, the IRS should be weaponized against conservatives. This also proves that President Obama’s statement that there “isn’t even a smidgen of corruption” within the IRS is pure BS.
Lois Lerner is exceptionally corrupt. Ditto with John Koskinen and Steven Miller.
Grassley said in a statement that this kind of incident fuels concerns people have about “political targeting” at the highest levels. “It’s very troubling that a simple clerical mix-up could get a taxpayer immediately referred for an IRS exam without any due diligence from agency officials,” the senator said.
That type of corruption should make indicting and prosecuting Ms. Lerner an imperative. Unfortunately, like I said before, that won’t happen because Attorney General Holder and President Obama are as corrupted by ideology as Ms. Lerner is.

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FBI seizes 80,000 emails from Murdoch’s News Corp

FBI seizes 80,000 emails from Murdoch’s News Corp

Published time: June 26, 2014 17:43
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch arrives at his home in London June 26, 2014 (Reuters / Luke MacGregor)
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch arrives at his home in London June 26, 2014 (Reuters / Luke MacGregor)
A probe of media mogul Rupert Murdoch might soon take shape in the United States upon reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has 80,000 emails in its possession seized from the servers of the tycoon’s News Corp headquarters.
The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday this week that “the FBI has copies of at least 80,000 emails taken from the servers at News Corp in New York,” prompting Britain’s Daily Mail to allege that new hacking allegations could be lobbed at Murdoch in the US as matters on the other side of the Atlantic near wrapping up.
According to reporters Nico Hines and Peter Jukes at the Beast, this correspondence is contained on a single compact disc and was obtained by the FBI during the just resolved, high-profile phone hacking case in the UK surrounding journalists employed by Murdoch’s since-shuttered News of the World paper. The journalists also allege that the message include communications sent up the chain of command by Murdoch protégée Rebekah Brooks, who was spared by a jury in London this week of involvement in the NOTW hacking scam.
The FBI emails,” the Beast claims, “…were shared with investigators in London, but their existence was not disclosed to the judge until late in the phone-hacking trial and they were ultimately not entered into evidence and therefore could not be reported until the jury had reached its verdicts.”
On Tuesday, former NOTW editor Andy Coulson was found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones by a British court, but Brooks was acquitted. The decision came roughly three years after allegations surfaced that the paper — under the umbrella of Murdoch’s News Corp-controlled media empire — had illegally obtained the voicemails of celebrities, politicians and even a slain teenage girl.
As that trial prepares to become a matter of the past, speculation is surfacing that the FBI may begin an investigation of its own into possible misconducted perpetrated by Murdoch or other employees of News Corp, which is headquartered in Manhattan.
The Mail reported that the contents of the messages in question are unknown and the FBI declined to comment when approached by the paper about what purpose, if any, they may serve.
According to the Beast, however, interest in Murdoch’s operations abounds elsewhere. In their report this week, the website wrote that they’ve been provided by a letter in which Scotland Yard acknowledged that London’s Metropolitan Police is pursuing charges against News Corp.
Meanwhile, RT has reported in the past that both the US Department of Justice and the Senate have expressed interest in related matters dating back to the dawn of the scandal in June 2011. With sentencing in the Coulson case expected in only days, American prosecutors may take over from their British counterparts and soon pursue charges stateside, reports suggest.