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Last night following a fiery Pentagon briefing, Bret Baier interviewed the former Secretary of State (and currently a Stanford Professor) Condoleezza Rice. She told Baier that the United States and Israel’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities are a significant moment for the Middle East (a reset for the middle east) and a sign of bolstered American credibility on the global stage. She called the media's release of low confidence assessments within 24 hours of the strike "irresponsible."
Ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls US strikes on Iran a 'shot in the arm' for American credibility
Oddly enough, despite a cease fire and a prospective peace deal between Iran and Israel after Iran lost both its nuclear program and its military capabilities, the American left is angry. Suddenly they are saying things like the US bombing strike wasn't successful, we got a guy from our side who leaked from the Pentagon, and he says you didn't do it, the Iranians say you didn't do it. So, they are kind of rooting for America's enemy's vs Trump. What the media is not telling the American people is that Trump will be President for 3 more years and Netanyahu is likely to be Israel's Prime Minister for a good deal of that time, and they will have their thumb on Iran. Iran would need to spend billions to rebuild their nuclear program and if the regime survives it will have to explain to the Iranian people why it needs to do it after the current nuclear program went up in smoke.
The good news for the middle east and the entire world is that Iran knows that as long as the US President's name is Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister is Benjamin Netanyahu, this is not the end. If there is an attempt to rebuild that nuclear program it will be taken out again. It is just the end of the beginning.
In the news:
Today is the final day of the SCOTUS current session. Six decisions are expected including limits on the authority of district court judges. Release begins at 10:00 AM EST. Yesterday the Court ruled that federal law doesn’t allow health care providers or patients to sue if a state violates a provision of federal law guaranteeing that Medicaid patients can visit their preferred provider.
Centrifuges at Iran’s Fordo enrichment plant are no longer operational the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, climbed out of the bunker he has been hiding in and basically played down damage to his country’s nuclear program. Iran’s foreign minister, however, said the nuclear facilities had sustained significant and serious damage.
The Senate received classified intelligence on the Iran strike. Today the House will also have a closed session brief.
The Senate Parliamentarian has once again sent Republican Senators scrambling to amend the Big Beautiful Bill.
The Trump administration indicated that it intends to once again deport Kilmar Armando Garcia to a country other than El Salvador.
Mayor Eric Adams, who is running for re-election as an independent, met with New York City business leaders who were concerned about the strong possibility of a Socialist becoming mayor of NYC. Businesses may flee the big apple.
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It was revealed that one of these "anonymous sources" was a CNN blogger who had contributed to the report without actual knowledge of what was going on. This same blogger was also involved in the "Hunter Laptop" lie that was pushed.
As far as the Pentagon leaker, last I heard there was an investigation into who released classified information. I don't see that investigation just going away like we've seen under previous administrations.
This is the CNN reporter , Natasha Bertrand who passed on inaccurate information about the US military strikes on the nuclear facilities in Iran. She's the same reporter who called Hunter Biden's laptop Russian disinformation.
If she printed classified material charge her with treason.
I am all for that.
I assume any article authored by her is simply propaganda, she’s not a serious reporter.
In the days of Edward R Murrow, she probably wouldn't have been trusted to deliver newspapers.
In the days of Edward R Murrow, right wing media wouldnt have been trusted to deliver toilet paper.
Is that because back then there were more centrists and "both-siders"?....
"The law firm that represented Hunter Biden in two federal trials sued him on Monday, alleging he failed to pay at least $50,000 in legal fees.
Winston & Strawn recently filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia , arguing Biden's failure to pay despite the law firm's repeated requests amounts to a breach of contract. He owes upward of $50,000 as of April 30, the court filing notes."
Law firm sues Hunter Biden over $50,000 in unpaid legal fees
The money flow seems to have slowed since daddy is no longer in office or "influential".
Maybe there will be some accountability.
I love that he even screwed the lawyers!
That was kind of expected. Remember we are talking about a crackhead.
That would explain taking a damning laptop to a computer repair shop and forgetting all about it.
"Following the uncovering of a massive bribery scandal at USAID, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is ordering a full audit of all government contracting officers who have exercised grant-awarding authority under the agency’s business development program over the last 15 years.
In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said the scale of the USAID fraud is a "damning reflection of systemic failures in oversight and accountability." She further said that the fraud "was not an isolated incident."
In response, Loeffler instructed Associate Administrator Tre Pennie, who oversees government contracts awarded by SBA, to "act decisively" to crack down on any potential similar abuses in the agency."
Trump SBA initiates audit of all government contracts awarded in last 10 years | Fox News
"Tucker Carlson slammed his former Fox News colleague Jennifer Griffin as 'the deepest of the deep state' as he continued to hammer at his former employers over their coverage of the Israel-Iran war.
The former Fox News host had briefly feuded with both the president and engaged in a viral showdown with Senator Ted Cruz over America's support for Israel 's war on the Iranian nuclear program.
As Trump announced a ceasefire - one Carlson reacted to by tweeting: 'Thank God' - he released an episode of his show where he continued to question his ex-employers coverage, zeroing in on Griffin, the network's Chief National Security Correspondent."
'Jennifer Griffin is, even by the standards of Pentagon employees, she's not technically an employee of the Pentagon. She's a shill, obviously, for the deepest of the deep states. But she's like a parody. She's like parody. It's like the whole thing,' Carlson said.
Carlson and fellow former Fox host Clayton Morris joked about Griffin's water-carrying for the 'deep state.'
'The crazy thing is Jen Griffin is a liar, but also very liberal, true Trump hater, to the point where I complained about her and I really tried not to complain about other people at Fox when I worked there,' he said.
'She was discrediting the channel, she was such a Trump hatter, and it was emotional.'
Tucker Carlson unleashes stunning insult on Fox News icon while blasting network's Iran coverage | Daily Mail Online
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The birthright citizenship/district court authority case decision will be the first decision to be released today.
It is coming soon.
It is a 6-3 decision on district court authority. It appears to be a huge Trump victory.
If a president can decree the end to birthright citizenship, a president can decree the end of the right to bear arms.
No that is not what they are saying.
They are saying that district court judges can't issue national injunctions.
Did or did not Trump issue an order decreeing the end to birthright citizenship?
That has not been addressed in the ruling.
What has been addressed is that the administration will no longer be tied up for months appealing nationwide injunctions from hundreds of activist district judges.
Trump decrees that every federal employee is required to wear a MAGA hat when they are in public. Will he now be able to enforce that decree until the Supreme Court rules on the case a year later, or will dozens of district court judges have to each individually rule on the matter for their own little jurisdictions?
That would make a farce of the judicial system.
I think it will go that way. It will fragment federal rule for a bit, but the SCOTUS will accelerate the appeals to the injunctions from the districts issuing them. Federal employees in the rest of the country better have their hats on their heads.
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It isn't even real. That was JR's example.
Trump would never do that.
Those who think Trump is capable of the same level of craziness as Joe Biden are forgiven.
I guess you dont get the point.
I think we all got it.
Not when it is a conservative court. By the time the SC ruled on it tens of thousands of people would have to walk around with red hats on against their will or be fired.
When you get a left wing president and a left wing court, which will happen at some point, owning a gun may be made illegal. I hope you are happy then.
I regard it as a Constitutionalist Court.
The Second Amendment is clear. You'll need more than that.
I don't know about the far left winning another national election.
LOL. Because Antonin Scalia said so? Heller was a 5-4 decision on ideological lines. When you have a liberal court with a liberal "Scalia" there will be nothing to prevent them reversing Heller, and they will make flawless arguments for the decision.
The language is too clear.
You'll need another amendment.
No its not. In the Heller case many observers thought the dissenting opinion was more persuasive than the majority opinion, but justice Stevens didnt have the votes.
That case tried to determine if an individual had a right to keep and bear arms for self-defense or whether the right was only intended for state militias.
Close but as expected due to language inevitable.
Holy fuck John, quit posting stupid shit, trump didn't order that a constitutional right be removed. the ruling only says piece of shit judges have to stay in their own lane. THERE WAS NO RULING ON BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP!
Decision two: A win for parental rights and religious freedom
Mahmoud v Taylor
Another 6-3 decision.
Maybe , but it wont happen in either of the lifetimes we both have left allotted to us in my view .
Never say never, lol.
I didnt say never .
but since i think my life expectancy at this point in my life , is 12 -13 yrs (educated guess due to how long males in my family live ) i simply just do not see it happening , maybe soon after im dead and gone , but in that case i wont give a rip will i ?
I think the point here is that if some dipshit judge in Seattle tries to rule over gun ownership in Texas, we can bless her heart and go on with our day.
Supreme Court decisions on gun ownership would apply nationwide.
He was pointing out the SC decision had to do with federal judges, not the Supreme Court
And the birthright opinion really isn't about the "correctness" or "legality" of the present interpretation - it's all about the District Court's unauthorized jurisdiction of their expansion of power.
So, again, the original intent of the 14th (birthright) amendment still is not being addressed.
I think they are leaving birthright citizenship issue for another day.
it does somewhat address the "anchor baby issue" though , which is movement .
I think they may be leaving it up to Congress to handle. The judiciary is there to ensure application of the law follows the law and the constitution, not to make or modify laws. Any changes handed down by SCOTUS would lead to legislating from the bench.
And right on time...
I don't really expect this to go anywhere as the numbers in Congress are too even and the current partisan divide seems to be that if one side wants something the other side is automatically against it. Getting a two-thirds passage from both House and Senate seems almost impossible to see happening. But I think this is how resolution of this issue (birthright citizenship) needs to start, it should not be handled by the Judiciary.
Correct and I'm sure that in the next session of the high Court, the issue of birthright citizenship will be taken up.
So for one year Trump can deport people based on lack of birthright citizenship. When the SC reverses him in a year will Trump pay to bring those people back ?
That case will be decided in the October session.
Stop worrying about illegal migrants.
Ya, she was pissed.
Kagan was for it when Obama & Biden were president. Now she is against it.
"Justice Elena Kagan criticized the practice of individual U.S. District Court judges blocking federal government policies nationwide, calling it a threat to the Supreme Court's legitimacy. She also expressed concerns about the public perceiving the justices as an extension of the political process due to changes in membership rather than adherence to the Constitution. "
The Supreme Court has limited the power of federal district judges to hand down orders that apply nationwide.
By 6-3 vote , the justices said Friday that judges may not issue orders that apply to people beyond those who sued.
"Federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch," said Justice Amy Coney Barrett. And while judges can give full relief to plaintiffs, including groups of people, their injunctions should not be "broader than necessary" to shield those people.
Supreme Court rules for Trump, limits district judges' power to block his orders nationwide
The ruling is supported by the Constitution. Does that bother you?
Is it retroactive?
I wish!
That was a question I had. If the SC ruled the way they did, then i would think that the fed judge rulings would be null and void and should be dismissed through the appeals or other courts.
They are null and void and they should be. They wasted 6 months of the Trump Presidency, tied up DOJ lawyers and cost the government a lot of money.
And their enforcement mechanism is what?
Will Trump send ICE, HSI or some other storm troopers to enforce SCOTUS decisions?
The DOJ is truly politicized this time. SCOTUS is impotent.
They reserved the right to decide Constitutional questions for the high Court.
You see, district court judges aren't even mentioned in the Constitution. They were a creation of congress, and their authority was never clearly spelled out. Most recently district judges became the lefts mode of resistance to Trump's policies. It is they who have been rendered impotent.
What comes around goes around, no more anti abortion judge shopping in Texas I guess.
Be careful what you wish for unless you are ready for equality.
I'm ok with that. It looks like no more Planned Parenthood funding either.
Be careful what you wish for unless you are ready for equality.
I am more than ready. Six months was a long time to tie down a President. It is over. May no other President have to go through it.
Now that people with credentials are publicly weighing in on the bombing mission in Iran, the unbiased liberal press is making a concerted effort to pull the story off the news cycle. The unintended collateral damage of the press politicizing itself has been throwing the keffiyeh protesters under the bus. The shock of having actually ended 45 years of Iranian terror naturally distracted everyone away from pointing out the manifest flaws and lies in the press attempts to discredit the Trump administration and defend the Iranian bogeyman.
A Bomb Damage Assessment would focus attention on the 3 bombing missions. A BDA would be assessing whether or not the weapons worked and how effective the weapons were. A preliminary BDA wouldn't make any sort of assessment concerning Iran's nuclear program. The sole purpose of a preliminary BDA is to provide guidance on whether or not the 3 targets need to be bombed again.
One tidbit that received scant attention during the debriefing by General Dan Caine was that the primary targets were ventilation shafts. It's amazing to think that Iranians would incorporate such a shoddy design flaw into the underground bunkers. But it is necessary to accept that as possible (and plausible). Especially considering that the GBU-57 is specifically designed to assume a vertical trajectory to maximize penetration. One thing is certain, mission planners would be targeting any design flaws that would increase potential damage caused by the weapons.
One aspect of the overall intelligence gathering capability is that Israel had commando units operating inside Iran. There really were boots on the ground and eyes on targets. The IDF commandos were acting as forward observers for Israeli air strikes on numerous targets. Whether or not the commandos gathered intelligence for the Midnight Hammer missions is unknown and may possibly never be known.
Absolutely true. The conjecture is over the top. Social media has generated millions of nuclear weapons program experts overnight.
Assumed, not in evidence.
Absolutely true.
Beg to differ...............
God save us all from Instagram "experts".
Now you believe Aljazeera?
really?
wow!
Don't like the message, shoot the messenger, right?
I am so sorry Jim, the UN, the UK, the EIAE and others have all come out this weekend and 'declared' that the Presidents premature declaration of absolute total obliteration was wrong as far as the world's acceptance of the definitions of those three words means, based on the BDA that is slowly forming, showing that the Iranian's removed most of the important material and tools from the three known facilities.
Bombing empty buildings was just a waste of $200million in missiles and bombs, spectacular, but pointless.
The Iranians will just be more secretive about their R&D or just buy nukes from their new BFFS North Korea
and Russia, whose mouthpiece Medved has already called for The Axis to donate nukes to Iran.
And your diatribe has nothing to do with what you asked for, that being that Israel was on the inside aiding the attempt. I provided proof, and you poo poo and attack the source. Can't say I'm surprised at all.
What exactly did I ask for Jim?
Can you point out anything in that article that says the Israeli's hung around to help the USA bombing attacks? You said they were forward observers for Israeli air strikes, not the top secret American mission.
It sounds like they bugged out before their three story building hideout was finally compromised.
You provided poo poo and zero proof of the Israeli's being responsible for anything to do with the "obliteration attack".
I can't say I'm surprised by your confusion, AlJazeera has a pretty poor reputation for being unbiased about ME issues and anti-American and antisemitic and Holocaust deniers. Are you going to add AlJezeera to your must read feeds?
In more developments about the US airstrikes effectiveness;
Too bad.
A "low confidence" assessment leaked out of Trump's mouth a few hours after the air strike, far less than 24 hours.
What did Condoleeza say about that?
Why would she comment on anything?
There seems to be two groups that hang on every word Trump utters.
His loyal followers and people looking for a good laugh.
‘His loyal followers and people looking for a good laugh.’
You seem not to pay attention to this site. There are a couple of leftists that post entire articles about Trump’s words every single day. Never seen a conservative here do that.
I love the side that always freaks out at every little utterance. Their articles are fkng hilarious.
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Then you're either memory challenged or being deliberately dishonest.
The tables were reversed not only throughout the two Obama Administrations but the last 4 years of the Biden Administration.
You remember the black, funny name, 59 states, gay lover, gay murderer Obama and Pizzagate articles that papered this place and others about Kenya, birth certificates, raised by Commies and Union organizers stories about the guy who dared to wear a tan suit in the WH and put his feet on the desk? It's literally what propelled Vic to start publishing on a previous site.
Biden, pedo, grifter, crime family, senile, for sale, crackhead son, slurred words, crass jokes, troop killer etc.
Not a day went by without the kind of salacious crap you want to read and now you can't remember?
C'mon Chief, you are better than that.
Ok I concede that conservatives have done some of what you stated, but damn, it is an every day, multiple times a day, occurrence when leftists here post stories about every single thing Trump says.
The infatuation of one man for no other reason than his name is Donald Trump is nothing more than a mental illness.
Started with Reagan....
There's a daily news article here inked every day, sold as informative, that repeats provable misinformation soley on the basis of partisan loyalty to the point of blindness.
You have every right to contradict him and ridicule him as you do JR. But...
Please dont put me in the same sentence with him.
It just seems that way because this is your life. This is the window or time frame when you became of age or aware of politics.
If it were 1865 or 1867 you would be steeped in the history of antipathy towards Lincoln or Johnson and their lackeys because it was the news of the day.
Social media just magnifies the worst in us regularly
and occasionally the best of us.
Multiple simple solutions.
Stop reading them.
Stop commenting on them
Stop complaining about them
because I sure as shit cannot do anything to either one of them to make them stop,
it's their time and their right.
Right?
Oh yes, that is when they wrote up the law which made the children of the newly freed slaves citizens.
Very true. Maybe you can say the same to the left leaners here that complain about conservative articles…..for example….the one you complained about in 9.1.7
‘that repeats provable misinformation soley on the basis of partisan loyalty to the point of blindness.’
But yet, no one has ever proven any of it as misinformation….just complaining about it being posted…….right?
That's the rub.
The piece that comes under the heading of "In the news" has gone unchallenged since it began.
In talking about this Trump suggested the Civil War ended in 1869.
He's not a very good guesser.
Trump Mocked for Not Knowing When the Civil War Ended: 'The …
I heard it when he said it. I knew the haters would jump right on that.
Of course, he indicated he didn't know the exact date. You can clearly hear him say "what was it 1869?"
You may recall that Barack Obama claimed that Abraham Lincoln formed the Republican Party. Obama wasn't mocked for it, instead PBS covered for him by editing the comments right out of his speech.
Controversy Erupts After Obama Gaffe Goes Missing From PBS Transcript – JONATHAN TURLEY
Anyone who has ever read anything at all about the Civil War, and comprehended it, knows it ended in 1865.
But yet zero leftists had tje same whine when the Hur report came out and Biden could not remember when he was VP and that had only been about 7 years.
They want to suppress it before it was released to the public.
Anyone who cares about history. I know a mathematician who can't place a date on any historical event.
That won't do.
Lincoln did not create the Republican Party.
Obama said he did.
Without Lincoln and his assassination the Republican party would have folded again, becoming the Whigs again.
Instead it became the Party of Lincoln, their first elected POTUS and author of their radical liberal policies.
It's accepted history. Obama was just repeating it.
Stop hating every word he uttered and being so literal.
Sorry I missed this nonsense in real time. The hubris is truly remarkable.
Pathetic is more like it.
I'll tell you a little secret. Ninety percent of the "in the news" stories come from the New York Times.
Please share the source of your commentary. Thanks.
Would absolute love to see/read/be shown that very misinformed "fact's" source or is this another "because I said he did" comment which makes all things right.
Yeah - I know - will never happen.
Dont ask stupid questions.
A few hours after the attack Trump appeared in the East Room of the White House and said Iran's nuclear program had been obliterated. If CNN was wrong the next day, Trump was wrong on the same day of the attack. He did not know whether Iran's "nuclear" had been completely destroyed or not, but told the nation it had been.
His reckless comment probably inspired CNN to look for more information.
Minutes after I saw the pictures I said to myself Iran's nuclear program had been obliterated.
Not anywhere the same thing as leaking a low confidence report that has a kind of legit status attached.
Then I feel sorry for you.
Almost as soon as I heard the word "obliterated" I knew he was still ignorant of what it takes to do BDA on underground facilities.
Hint: you can't do it from a satellite picture or even a plane.
All he has done is open Pandoras box.
Have we ever had that done? Did Iran ever allow inspectors to go where they wanted, when they wanted under the Obama deal?
Don't forget the link.
Btw, this just in:
"Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement on Friday, raising hopes for an end to fighting that has killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands more this year.
The agreement marks a breakthrough in talks held by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and aims to attract billions of dollars of Western investment to a region rich in tantalum, gold, cobalt, copper, lithium, and other minerals.
At a ceremony with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington, the two African countries’ foreign ministers signed the agreement pledging to implement a 2024 deal that would see Rwandan troops withdraw from eastern Congo within 90 days, according to a copy seen by Reuters."
"Kinshasa and Kigali will also launch a regional economic integration framework within 90 days, the agreement said.
“They were going at it for many years, and with machetes – it is one of the worst, one of the worst wars that anyone has ever seen. And I just happened to have somebody that was able to get it settled,” Trump said on Friday, ahead of the signing of the deal in Washington."
Rwanda, Congo sign US-brokered peace deal to end fighting that killed thousands
Leaving in place all of the cities and townships controlled by the rebel M23 "gangs" in the Congo east?
As I understand it, the cease fire/withdrawal is 90 days away. According to Trump, verbally, both sides are to make mineral rights deals. the implication there is that the US won't tolerate interference with it's mineral rights.
Did (fill in the blank with any name of one of the nine nuclear powers) ever allow inspectors to go where they wanted?
No.
The only time that happened was in South Africa, Libya, Kazakstan and Belarus and the Ukraine.
How did that work out for Libya and Ukraine, lol.
Final thoughts:
It has been a big day for the Supreme Court and the President. The Supreme Court frequently deals with complicated Constitutional issues, many of which are divisive. What is even more problematic for the nation are the activist judges that now populate the judicial system, thanks to Harry Reid changing the rules on Judicial appointments. That is what got all of these radical judges appointed, two of which are on the Supreme Court.
Today the Attorney General pointed out that of the 40 nationwide injunctions against Trump policies, 35 were issued out of 3 blue districts. In other words, the judges were cherry picked. The Supreme Court finally did what was needed. It defined the limits of district judges' authority. That authority, short of a class action suit, is limited to their districts.
In case anyone missed it Justice Barrett wrote the majority opinion and put the radicals in their place: “Everyone, from the President on down, is bound by law. That goes for judges too.”
"Good night and good luck."
That's going to make many on the left and all the democrats cry.
Lawyers are thrilled over the ruling. Now they get to sue in 94 separate districts or file a class action lawsuit,
exactly what Alito was afraid of.
Your definition of radical needs a lot of calibration and self reflection possibly.
By the way the more you say it the more it reminds me of the boy who cried "Wolf"!
Nicely and diplomatically done , impressive job with a most minimal of bias, if any. wish i had that capability
Anyone who had had a soft pretzel for breakfast from one of those homeless guys knows how , lol.
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