“Lies, Lies, Lies” Dom Raso calls out Hillary Clinton's false claims

Dom Raso calls out Hillary Clinton's false claims of having dodged sniper fire as dishonorable and proof that she is unworthy to lead our country.

ISIS’ Worst Nightmare: An Axe-Wielding Badass Known As ‘Angel Of Death’

ISIS is now facing dual challenges in Tikrit, as the Iraqi army and Iranian-backed Shia militias are both fighting to recapture the city. The most frightening single nemesis Islamic State militants face, however, is the notorious Abu-Azrael (“Angel of death” in Arabic). 

Azrael is a legendary commander from the al-Imam Ali brigades, an Iranian proxy group fighting in Iraq. He has become a cult figure, with Iraqi social media users creating tribute Facebook pages to him, and circulating images of Abu-Azrael holding axes, waving swords and abusing the corpses of ISIS fighters.

Abu-Azrael (“Angel of death” in Arabic)

Although his real identity remains unclear, local reports name Abu-Azrael as Ayoub. He worked as a university lecturer before joining the militia. It has also been claimed that he was, at one point, Iraq’s national Taekwondo champion, although with swirling hyperbole, the legend surrounding Abu Azrael is hard to separate from the reality.

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URGENT: 47 Senators Being Called TRAITORS for What They Did in Defiance of Obama

The letter, authored by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, was signed by 46 other Republican senators. More senators may add their names at a later date. Cotton said that he felt this letter was necessary based on the terms of the deal that are known thus far, such as allowing Iran to continue their enrichment program and a ten-year “sunset clause” on any restrictions in the deal.

Judge Jeanine Pirro trashes Hillary for Hypocrisy

Judge Jeanine Pirro trashes Hillary for Hypocrisy Hypocrisy, thy name is Hillary. The Judge didn’t say that in the video below, but she might as well have. In just 5 minutes, Judge Jeanine Pirro devastates Hillary Clinton for rank hypocrisy when it comes to transparency, openness, and following the same rules she expects everyone else to follow.

 

S.C. National Guard Conducts Door-to-Door “Wellness Checks” (Gun Confiscations) Exercises

Operation Vigilant Guard which we exposed 5 years ago as an exercise to set up gun confiscations and intern citizens is being run across the country under the guise of helping citizens. Even though we've seen National Guard go door to door and confiscate guns after Hurricane Katrina.

Report raises questions about Hillary's email

A report released Wednesday by the State Department’s internal watchdog raises questions about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s claim that a large proportion of her emails were formally archived because they involved State employees using official email

The State Department Inspector General review highlights that State staffers using an email system known as SMART did not have their emails automatically saved for federal record keeping purposes. Staffers using that system had to formally designate individual emails for archiving and rarely did so, the watchdog found.

In 2011, “Department employees created 61,156 record emails out of more than a billion emails sent,” the report says. In 2013, even fewer emails — 41,749 — were designated for preservation.

At a news conference Tuesday, the likely presidential candidate argued that her decision to use a personal email account “for convenience” did not interfere with the department’s ability to retrieve those messages in response to Freedom of Information Act requests or for the historical record.
“The vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department,” Clinton said Tuesday.
Transparency advocates said the report undermines the former secretary’s assertion.

“Her justification around FOIA requests and around preservation became that most of the documents were cc’d or sent to .gov or state.gov addresses used by employees and therefore were preserved and accessible to requests, ” said John Wonderlich of the Sunlight Foundation. “This [report] suggests that is not reliable at all.”

In some State Department diplomatic posts and offices, trivial numbers of emails were marked as “records” to be preserved in accordance with department policies. State’s Bureau of Energy Resources designated two emails for archiving in 2013. The Population, Refugees and Migration Bureau sent seven such messages, according to the report.
It’s not clear from the report whether officials with whom Clinton traded emails were covered by the SMART system, which required message-by-message selection for archiving, or by other email systems which may have taken a more automated approach. The IG review says in a footnote that the SMART system was not used by State’s “high-level principals, the Secretary, the Deputy Secretaries, the Under Secretaries, and their immediate staffs, which maintain separate systems.”


Clinton provided 55,000 pages of emails from her private account to the State Department in December at the agency’s request. The full set of emails was not previously accessible to State when conducting records searches or for Freedom of Information Act requests, though some were discovered in email accounts belonging to other State employees.


Spokespeople for the State Department and for Clinton did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
It’s possible that some State officials are still archiving emails the old-fashioned way, by printing them out and putting them in paper files. The IG report did not attempt to quantify such efforts.
However, the IG report said a large number of employees seemed to be neglecting their archival duties because they did not understand them.
“Most mission and bureau employees who did not use record emails as intended told OIG they were usually unaware of what types of information should be saved as record emails,” the report said. “The Department does not give employees adequate training to distinguish between information that should be preserved as records and information that may be discarded.”


The report also said some State staffers acknowledged not marking some emails as “records” because that would make them more widely available. “Many interviewees expressed a fear that if participants in…a debate knew that their opinions would be permanently recorded or accessible in searches, they would not express their opinions in an uninhibited manner,” the report said. It was unclear whether employees feared disclosure within the department or outside of it.

One former State Department employee agreed there was widespread confusion about what email to save and what to discard.
”I think it’s an all-of-government problem with all of this stuff. People aren’t given proper instructions,” said the former official, who asked not to be named. “They don’t tell you how to manage these systems going in.”

Wonderlich noted that if every government employee assumed that every other email recipient was responsible for saving it electronically or on paper, then none of those records would be preserved.

“It’s absurd,” he said. “We don’t allow everyone to every messages sent to their inbox simply simply because someone may be able to reconstruct them from emails in some other office or agency.”

In 2013, the National Archives proposed a new email archiving strategy known as Capstone, under which agencies designate official accounts of high-ranking officials or decision-makers to be permanently archived in their entirety or by default. The Capstone approach remains voluntary.

Congress Speaks Out Against Obama's Proposed Ammo Ban

In this week's news minute from the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, Jennifer Zahrn reports that 238 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed a letter to the Obama Administration opposing its attempt to ban commonly used ammunition for the most popular rifle in America, the AR-15.

The White House Is Justifying Trying to Ban Certain Ammo Without Congress

The White House on Monday defended the Obama administration’s move to ban certain bullets used in a wildly popular rifle, a proposal that has stirred opposition from Second Amendment advocates and a prominent member of Congress.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is considering a ban on M855 ball ammunition, which pro-gun groups have said is among the most popular cartridge used for the AR-15 rifle and is frequently used for sporting purposes like hunting, because of its so-called “armor-piercing” capabilities.

“It would be fair to say, as we are looking at additional ways to protect our brave men and women in law enforcement, and believe that this process is valuable for that reason alone,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told TheBlaze during the press briefing. “This seems to be an area where everyone should agree that if there are armor-piercing bullets that fit into easily concealed weapons, that puts our law enforcement at considerably more risk.”

“So I put this in the category of common-sense steps the government can take to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans, while also making sure that our law enforcement officers who are walking the beat every day can do their jobs just a little more safely,” he continued.

Current law provides exemptions for certain ammunition that could be considered “armor-piercing” bullets – such as the M855 – if the ammunition is primarily used for sporting purposes.

The proposal is open now for public comment at the ATF level.

Gun Owners of America spokesman Erich Pratt called it an attempt to do through executive branch regulation what the White House couldn’t get done in Congress.

“In 2013, the administration lobbied hard to get Congress to ban AR-15s and other similar semi-automatic rifles. But even in a Democrat-controlled Senate, anti-gunners could only muster 40 votes, a clear minority,” Pratt told TheBlaze Monday. “So the proposed ATF ban on M855 ammo is simply an attempt by the Obama administration to make an end-run around the Congress. After all, if it can ban a common cartridge that is used for the AR-15 rifle, then it can substantially drive up the cost of using the firearm.”

Last week, the National Rifle Association and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, drafted a letter to ATF Director B. Todd Jones, saying the regulation being considered “does not comport with the letter or spirit of the law, and will interfere with Second Amendment rights.”

“ATF has now rescinded that exemption because repeating handguns that fire the M855 round are commercially available,” the letter said. “Yet this round is amongst the most commonly used in the most popular rifle design in America, the AR-15. Millions upon millions of M855 rounds have been sold and used in the U.S., yet ATF has not even alleged – much less offered evidence – that even one such round has ever been fired from a handgun at a police officer. The idea that Congress intended LEOPA to ban one of the preeminent rifle cartridges in use by Americans for legitimate purposes is preposterous.”

The ATF proposal states: “The firearm industry has developed commercially available handguns designed to use conventional rifle ammunition. This ammunition meets the content requirement of the definition, but previously was not classified as ‘armor piercing’ under the statute because there were no handguns that could ‘use’ it. As a result of the availability of these handguns, however, some conventional rifle ammunition now falls within the statutory definition and is properly classified as ‘armor piercing ammunition,’ despite the fact that the ammunition itself has not changed. Consequently, ammunition manufacturers have requested exemptions for this ammunition.”