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Originally posted by signewt:
I wonder whether the 'all caps' format is actually a significant part of the message.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Sarah Sanders today:

President Trump is looking at removing the security clearances of

Brennan
Comey
McCabe
Clapper
Rice
Hayden

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Originally posted by sdy:
Sarah Sanders today:

President Trump is looking at removing the security clearances of

Brennan
Comey
McCabe
Clapper
Rice
Hayden

They have "politicized" and in some cases "monetized" their public service

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Iran is the Worlds Largest State Sponsor of Terrorism in the World. What President Trump said is Appropriate.

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Originally posted by sdy:
President Trump is looking at removing the security clearances of

Brennan
Comey
McCabe
Clapper
Rice
Hayden

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I agree that those Zippy administration officials ought to have their clearances revoked because they have no “need to know”. But I don’t see that the revocation will impact them at all. Would be happy to be enlightened about that…

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Originally posted by PD:

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Why on earth do "former" anythings (pick a position) get to keep a security clearance? Granted, they no longer have a "need to know", but apparently that doesn't much matter anymore...

Aside from the Comey/McCabe situation, everyone gets to hold on to their clearance unless they did something bad. Having a clearance does not give you the “right to know”.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
Non citizen voting

https://www.investors.com/poli...sure-looks-that-way/

Did Votes By Noncitizens Cost Trump The 2016 Popular Vote? Sure Looks That Way
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6/22/2017
Election 2016: Late in 2016, we created a stir by suggesting that Donald Trump was likely right when he claimed that millions of noncitizens had illegally voted in the U.S. election. Now, a study by a New Jersey think tank provides new evidence that that's what happened.

Last November, just weeks after his Electoral College win that gave him the presidency, then President-elect Donald Trump tweeted, "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."

The reaction was angry and swift, with the left accusing him of being an "internet troll" and of hatching a "Twitter-born conspiracy theory."

At the time, we noted that a group called True The Vote, an online anti-voter-fraud website, had claimed that illegals had cast three million votes last year. The media and left-wing groups immediately portrayed True The Vote as a fringe group with little credibility.

The only problem is, a study in 2014 in the online Electoral Studies Journal made a quite similar claim: In the 2008 and 2010 elections, they said, as many as 2.8 million illegal noncitizen votes were cast, "enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes and congressional elections," said the study, authored by Jesse T. Richman and Gushan A. Chattha, both of Old Dominion University, and David C. Earnest of George Mason University.

The bombshell was this: "Noncitizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress."

It got little coverage in the mainstream media, and what coverage it did get was almost entirely dismissive.

Now comes a new study by Just Facts, a libertarian/conservative think tank, that used data from a large Harvard/You.Gov study that every two years samples tens of thousands of voters, including some who admit they are noncitizens and thus can't vote legally.

The findings are eye-opening. In 2008, as many as 5.7 million noncitizens voted in the election. In 2012, as many as 3.6 million voted, the study said.

In 2016, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there were 21.0 million adult noncitizens in the U.S., up from 19.4 million in 2008. It is therefore highly likely that millions of noncitizens cast votes in 2016.

And it was no accident. Democrats had extensive get-out-the-vote campaigns in areas heavily populated by illegal aliens. As far back as 2008, Obama made sure that those who wanted to vote knew it was safe, announcing that election records would not be cross-checked with immigration databases.

And last year, the Obama White House supported a court injunction that kept Kansas, Alabama and Georgia from requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. The message was sent, loud and clear: If you're a noncitizen or here illegally, don't be afraid. You're free to vote. No one will stop you.

We don't know the exact number of illegal votes. No one does. But the data that are available suggest that the number of illegal votes was substantial — probably in the millions, as Trump said — and likely had a significant impact on the election's outcome.

Even Democrats should find this troubling; every vote cast by a noncitizen voter negates the vote of a citizen voter. It's that simple. It's time the Democratic Party started living up to its name and stop encouraging noncitizens and illegal aliens to vote in our election.

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Originally posted by lkdr1989:
I still don't understand why their clearances hadn't been revoked...unless 6D chess-wise, seeing if they'd incriminate themselves?

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
I generally like the job Trump's doing, but then he goes and does stuff like this...

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To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!

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To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!