Coronavirus: China announces drop in new cases for third straight day https://t.co/C2Y3Us6TSW
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 16, 2020
#UPDATE More than 68,000 people have now been infected in China from a virus that emerged in central Hubei province in December before spreading across the country and some two dozen countrieshttps://t.co/6NYpEWe5PC pic.twitter.com/UNMp41e3At
— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 16, 2020
North Korea's Kim makes first public appearance in 22 days amid virus outbreak https://t.co/UI2TnCgFP4 pic.twitter.com/x4NMgg8FJW
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 16, 2020
#UPDATE Multiple rockets hit near the US embassy in Iraq's capital, the latest in a flurry of attacks against US assets in the country https://t.co/QTaWqw2mOn pic.twitter.com/DlyygDv7Nf
— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 16, 2020
Now that the Taliban and the United States have agreed to a "reduction in violence" in Afghanistan, hopes are high a peace deal will follow - although analysts warn the attempt to stem the bloodshed is fraught with complications pic.twitter.com/FIEjcqDbxA
— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 16, 2020
Saturday marks the 31st anniversary of the last Soviet soldier leaving Afghanistan. Some of the same Afghan insurgent leaders who drove out the former Soviet Union have fought the U.S. for 18 years and are now negotiating for peace. https://t.co/232vtvLpCT
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 15, 2020
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Biden Finally Admits He and Obama Put ‘Kids in Cages’ but Only to ‘Keep Them Safe’
Yup, Biden and O'bunghole did that.
"'I'm not going to take lectures on family values from the likes of Rush Limbaugh' Pete Buttigieg slams Republican Party for embracing 'homophobic rhetoric' and responds to criticism for kissing his husband on stage"
Rush was not making a value judgment. What he was doing was describing the voting habits of the public at large both Democrat & Republican
Rush has a love and let live philosophy. I Dems were not so histrionic and hysterical, they would remember he had Elton John at his wedding.
If Dems did remember it, they would have only done so to complain. LOLOL!
"Senate Democrats Insist Babies Born Alive After Abortions Should Be Left To Die"
Murderous Kakacrats.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/14/senate-democrats-insist-babies-born-alive-after-abortions-should-be-left-to-die/
Trump campaign manager deletes dramatic Air Force One photo after people point out it's from 2004
Why President Trump asked Ukraine to look into a DNC "server" and CrowdStrike
The consensus view of the CIA, NSA, FBI and a Senate investigation is that Russians interfered in the 2016 election. But those findings don't line up with the ever-evolving story President Trump has been telling about Ukraine.
More than 1,100 past Justice Department employees sign petition demanding Attorney General Bill Barr quit over his handling of Roger Stone case
Russians interfered. They sided with Hillary.
"1,100 past Justice Department employees" that will turn out to be as bogus as the 97% of scientists.
It is another big # argument to fool gullible people like the kind Dogbert can swindle out of their life savings.
ok anon: prove it is fake! you are full of shit
Barr’s conduct has shown that such expectations were misplaced. Beginning in March with his public whitewashing of Robert Mueller’s report, which included powerful evidence of repeated obstruction of justice by the president, Barr has appeared to function much more as the president’s personal advocate than as an attorney general serving the people and government of the United States. Among the most widely reported and disturbing events have been Barr’s statements that a judicially authorized FBI investigation amounted to “spying” on the Trump campaign, and his public rejection in December of the inspector general’s considered conclusion that the Russia probe was properly initiated and overseen in an unbiased manner. Also quite unsettling was Trump’s explicit mention of Barr and Rudy Giuliani in the same breath in his July 25 phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, as individuals the Ukrainian president should speak with regarding the phony investigation that Ukraine was expected to publicly announce.
Still more troubling has been Barr’s intrusion, apparently for political reasons, into the area of Justice Department action that most demands scrupulous integrity and strict separation from politics and other bias—invocation of the criminal sanction. When Barr initiated a second, largely redundant investigation of the FBI Russia probe in May, denominated it criminal, and made clear that he is personally involved in carrying it out, many eyebrows were raised.
But worst of all have been the events of the past week. The evenhanded conduct of the prosecutions of Roger Stone and Michael Flynn by experienced Department of Justice attorneys have been disrupted at the 11th hour by the attorney general’s efforts to soften the consequences for the president’s associates. More generally, it appears that Barr has recently identified a group of lawyers whom he trusts and put them in place to oversee and second-guess the work of the department’s career attorneys on a broader range of cases. And there is no comfort from any of this in Barr’s recent protests about the president’s tweeting. He in no way suggested he was changing course, only that it is hard to appear independent when the president is publicly calling for him to follow the path he is on.
Bad as they are, these examples are more symptoms than causes of Barr’s unfitness for office. The fundamental problem is that he does not believe in the central tenet of our system of government—that no person is above the law. In chilling terms, Barr’s own words make clear his long-held belief in the need for a virtually autocratic executive who is not constrained by countervailing powers within our government under the constitutional system of checks and balances.
Indeed, given our national faith and trust in a rule of law no one can subvert, it is not too strong to say that Bill Barr is un-American. And now, from his perch as attorney general, he is in the midst of a root-and-branch attack on the core principles that have guided our justice system, and especially our Department of Justice, since the 1970s.
Few people understand what's at stake as well as Ambassador Bill Taylor. He led the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine as the Trump administration withheld military aid while pressing for investigations of Democrats.
Taylor's testimony carried the weight of his resume; Westpoint, 101st Airborne in Vietnam, 33 years as a diplomat, and an expert on Ukraine.
"Ukraine's security is important to our security and the reason I believe that is that Ukraine is on the frontline," Taylor told correspondent Scott Pelley. "The Russians are fighting a hybrid war against Ukraine, but it's not just about Ukraine, they are fighting a hybrid war against Europe and against the United States."
"The war that the Russians are fighting in Ukraine," Pelley said to Taylor, "We have a stake in?"
"We have a stake in, but it's not just the military war," Taylor said. "Hybrid war is more than tanks and soldiers. Hybrid war is information war, it's cyber war, it's economic war, it's attacks on elections and as we know they have attacked our elections."
The Russian attack on the 2016 election included hacking the computers of the Democratic National Committee. U.S. intelligence agencies found, "…the Russian government aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton…" Former deputy national intelligence officer and CIA Russia analyst, Andrea Kendall-Taylor worked on that report.
"The report itself was based on a large body of evidence that demonstrated not only what Russia was doing, but also its intent," Kendall-Taylor said. "And it's based on a number of different sources, collected human intelligence, technical intelligence."
Kendall-Taylor said the evidence is convincing and it isn't a close call.
"If you read the intelligence report, it's the consensus view of three intelligence agencies; CIA, NSA and the FBI," Kendall-Taylor said.
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