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The National Security Council cannot hand over records relating to former National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s surveillance of Americans, because they have been moved to the Obama presidential library and may be sealed for as may as five years, conservative watchdog Judicial Watch announced Monday.

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The National Security Council cannot hand over records relating to former National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s surveillance of Americans, because they have been moved to the Obama presidential library and may be sealed for as may as five years, conservative watchdog Judicial Watch announced Monday.

They may not be available for public perusal, FOIA requests, etc. but I bet a criminal subpoena would loosen them up.

Breitbart sometimes gets over exuberant in things like this. Judicial Watch, too.

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The National Security Council cannot hand over records relating to former National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s surveillance of Americans, because they have been moved to the Obama presidential library and may be sealed for as may as five years, conservative watchdog Judicial Watch announced Monday.

They may not be available for public perusal, FOIA requests, etc. but I bet a criminal subpoena would loosen them up.

Breitbart sometimes gets over exuberant in things like this. Judicial Watch, too.

Those records were all about Yoga routines. The library staff will probably just shred/delete them.

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In the real good news column, Eric Holder is now part of the resistance to President Trump and is thinking about running for President in 2020. Only the dims could come up with a worse candidate than Hilary. Eric Holder and Maxine Waters 2020! Or should his running mate be Loretta Lynch or Susan Rice?

Holder Joins the Resistance and Thinking of Running For President in 2020

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In the real good news column, Eric Holder is now part of the resistance to President Trump and is thinking about running for President in 2020. Only the dims could come up with a worse candidate than Hilary. Eric Holder and Maxine Waters 2020! Or should his running mate be Loretta Lynch or Susan Rice?

Holder Joins the Resistance and Thinking of Running For President in 2020

Haha wow!! Please make it so dems..

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Dems Suddenly Worry Trump Impeachment Could Backfire
Al Franken publicly frets what left-wing writers have been warning about for weeks — President Pence
by Brendan Kirby | Updated 20 Jun 2017 at 1:27 PM

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said this week what liberal writers have been warning about for weeks: Impeaching and removing President Donald Trump could backfire.

The replacement for Trump, as fantastical as it would be to imagine his removal, would still not be defeated 2016 contender Hillary Clinton or a progressive in good standing. It would be Vice President Mike Pence.

Franken told the International Business Times during a stop on his book tour that “everything points” to collusion between Trump and the Russian government during the 2016 election campaign. But he was not exactly enthused about what impeachment would lead to.

Senator Al Franken Doesn't Like the Idea of a President Pence

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"Pence ran the transition and some of the very worst nominees, I felt — [Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott] Pruitt, [Education Secretary Betsy] DeVos, [Health and Human Services Secretary Tom] Price, [Office of Management and Budget Director Mick] Mulvaney — were Pence selections, clearly, I think," he said. "He's ideological, I consider him a zealot, and I think that in terms of a lot of domestic policy certainly would be worse than Trump."

Most Democratic lawmakers have not voiced such concerns out loud. Instead, 27 members of the House or Senate have discussed at least the possibility of impeachment, with some ready to draw up papers right now.

But Franken is far from alone on the Left in worrying that a President Pence would be worse for them.

"Removing Trump would just replace him with someone who is also terrible in his own right: Mike Pence," Alex Bolinger wrote this month on LGTBQ Nation. "While there are legitimate reasons for advocating that Trump be removed from office (to show that Congress still believes in the rule of law, for example), better policy is not one of them."

Bolinger added that, "Maybe it's because Pence actually had a job in politics before becoming vice president that he seems less destructive than Trump. But that's unlikely."

Progressive journalist Megan Carpentier wrote last moth in Dame that Pence would be an improvement on style only:

"Pence may not tweet like a Ritalin-addicted teenager with an impulse-control problem, a deep sense of entitlement, and something to prove, and he probably has the good sense not to yell at other world leaders and constantly publicly praise the most murderous ones … but in terms of actual, actionable policy decisions, the idea that Mike Pence would somehow be preferable to the man who is enacting every policy Mike Pence would himself enact is, and always was, the product of a fevered imagination."

Jeff Alson, an engineer from Ann Arbor, Michigan, expressed similar sentiments at the online magazine In These Times last month.

"Indeed, Pence could well turn out to be a complete disaster as president for liberal-minded Americans."

"If Trump were impeached and convicted, Vice President Mike Pence, a right-wing, evangelical ideologue, would be a much more reliable and competent rubber stamp for the conservative policy agenda," he wrote.

And the liberal hand-wringing over Trump's potential replacement is not confined to the United States. Toronto Star columnist Bob Hepburn last month urged his neighbors to the south to not to impeach Trump — at least not yet.

"Indeed, Pence could well turn out to be a complete disaster as president for liberal-minded Americans," he wrote. "In sharp contrast to Trump, the former Indiana governor is a serious politician with extremist policy views that liberals seriously don't like."

Hepburn wrote that Pence, with a Republican Congress rallying behind him, would push through a much more conservative agenda than Trump could pass.

"And that's why liberal-minded Americans, and like-minded Canadians, should be hoping the U.S. Congress doesn't impeach Trump — at least not just right away," he wrote.

There is evidence that rank-and-file Democrats are thinking the same thing.

"Democrats should not even pursue impeachment," Brooklyn resident Kenneth Roff wrote in a letter to the editor of The New York Times. "It would be better to run against the presidency of Mr. Trump in 2018 than Mike Pence, a sane, mentally stable, true conservative who would become president if Mr. Trump were impeached and removed from office. But would that be putting politics before country?"

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Wins for President Trump underreported by American Press
Posted by Leslie Eastman Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 2:30pm

As we approach the 150 day mark for President Donald Trump’s first term, I thought in might be useful to have a retrospective post about how the American press has presented his record, outside of Twitter, Russia and Comey hearings…and highlight some of his underreported victories.

Professor Jacobson so noted, the news cycle is essentially over for the assassination attempt on the Republican congressional baseball team. To be sure, if the Democratic congressional representatives had been targeted (and the assassin found with a list of Democratic targets in his pocket), this would have been “top of the fold” for many more weeks to come.

Furthermore, the press will manipulate the headlines and ledes of stories to make it appear that President Trump is not going to keep his key promises, all in a media effort to peel off supporters. The New York Times reporting on Trumps supposedly retaining Obama Dreamer’s policy is one of the many examples.

In fact, at one point it was reported that Trump was going to keep the Paris Climate accord! That is why I have personally found it useful to wait 3-4 days for the real details of any story to finally make an appearance before swooning.

Today I thought I would highlight the President Trump’s top 16 wins, which may have gone under the radar with the media-generated obstruction and collusion drama.

1) #HePersisted.

Yes, the US is officially withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord. He has also stopped payment to the Green Climate Fund.


2) Here come the judges!

President Trump has used the Reid rule and the Republican congress to appoint a slew of conservative judges.


3) The Art of the Re-deal.

President Trump has hit the reset button on the odious agreement that our former president made with the dictatorship of Cuba. He will retain the embassy for leverage. Additionally, he withdrew from the Trans Pacific Partnership and is looking to get better terms for this country under the North American Free Trade Agreement.


4) The return of our political prisoners.

Aya Hijazi and Otto Warmbier were languishing in foreign prisons during the Obama administration. They are now reunited with their families.


5) The Apprentice, White House Edition.

President Trump signed an executive order to expand apprenticeships and vocational training to help all Americans, offering an alternative to the progressive college educational pathway that has undermined the success of an entire generation.


6) Trump shatters a ceiling….with the stock market.

President Trump hasn’t allowed the press-induced political dramas to distract him from engaging with business leaders and implementing policies that actually help the American economy. The stock market’s record highs are a vote of confidence.


7) Trump ends the Y2K crisis.

The President ordered the end to record-keeping related to the preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century.


8) Regulations are now on the endangered species list.

The key to many wins on this list, and likely all the future lists that I will need to make, is that President Trump and his team are focused on ending regulations, rather than mending them or allowing them to breed unchecked.


9) Illegal border crossings have plummeted.

The number of attempts to illegally cross the southern border have dropped each month for the past 6 months, and President Trump gives no indication of his changing policies.


10) ICE ices violent gangs.

President Trump promised that his immigration policy priority would be the deportation of violent gang members, and Immigration and Customs enforcement is working to decapitate the worst of them: MS13.


11) Classic energy sources are making a return.

A new mine has opened up in Pennsylvania, while Obama-backed green energy companies go bankrupt.


12) American companies are now “in-sourcing” jobs.

Lowering regulatory burdens and fuel prices has meant that manufacturing plants are beginning to come back to both coasts and the Midwest. In fact, the business climate is so improved that some foreign companies are now planning to outsource to the U.S.


13) Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Bonus: The nuclear option was deployed, ending the 60 vote requirement the next time President Trump nominates a Supreme Court Justice candidate.


14) Over 800,000 jobs created.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the labor market under President Trump has added over 810,000 jobs in his first five months. This can be compared very favorably with the record the former President (who lost over 3 million jobs in his first 5 months).


15) Melania Trump, First Lady of the United States.

President Trump’s mending of fences with allies, damaged by Obama, during his tour of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Rome, Brussels and Sicily will be the core upon which he will build a successful foreign policy that puts American first. However, the First Lady may have stolen the show and demonstrated what an asset to this country she is.


16) He’s still not Hillary Clinton.

A reminder of what life could have been like, in this video production in which she compares herself to Wonder Woman.

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[QUOTE]Dems Suddenly Worry Trump Impeachment Could Backfire
Al Franken publicly frets what left-wing writers have been warning about for weeks — President Pence
by Brendan Kirby | Updated 20 Jun 2017 at 1:27 PM

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Help is on the way for law enforcement.

Justice Department gives aid to 12 cities for crime fighting help

Jun. 20, 2017 - 4:32 - Fox News contributor Deroy Murdock and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on the Justice Department picking 12 cities to help develop long-term strategies to lower violent crime.

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