OBAMA’S CIA AND THE WORST INTELLIGENCE FAILURE IN DECADES
[President Trump has denounced Obama’s John Brennan as “the worst CIA Director in our country’s history.” Yet, as Foreign Policy’s investigative journalist Zach Dorfman describes below, Obama’s CIA as a whole is responsible for the disaster he recounts. –JW]
It was considered one of the CIA’s worst failures in decades: Over a two-year period starting in late 2010, Chinese authorities systematically dismantled the agency’s network of agents across the country, executing dozens of suspected U.S. spies.
Since then, a question has loomed over the entire debacle. How were the Chinese able to roll up the network?
Now, nearly eight years later, it appears that the agency botched the communication system it used to interact with its sources, according to five current and former intelligence officials.
LAST CHANCE FOR THE HOLY LAND
Temptation Mount where Jesus was tempted by Satan (Matt 4:8)
True, the Holy Land of Israel – birthplace of the two founding religious traditions of Western Civilization, Judaism and Christianity – will be around for a long time to come.
But this is the Last Chance to visit the Hidden Holy Land with me this coming October. This will be my sixth time there and the last.
We have a marvelous group of TTPers coming – and we have room for only one more couple. This really is your last chance to make your life-long dream of experiencing the Holy Land come true – with me.
So please – click here on Wheeler Expeditions Holy Land October to get the full itinerary, details, and a lot of great pictures. Let’s make your dream come true. See you in Jerusalem!
REMEMBER MOLLIE TIBBETTS!
Mollie Tibbetts and her illegal alien murderer Cristhian Bahena Rivera
Donald Trump won in 2016 precisely because love trumps hate—the love of a parent for her children; the love of people for their community; and the proper love citizens have for their country.
Those people—62 million Americans, give or take, and counting—are tired of seeing their love undermined and negated by years of hateful Democrat Party policies. That’s the truth of the matter.
Over the past few weeks, a missing persons case involving a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, Mollie Tibbetts, has been in the news daily. While taking a run in the evening in July, the Iowa student did not come back home.
And why did this happen? Because Mollie was murdered by an illegal alient—24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera. Not only is Rivera an illegal alien but he had been in the country illegally for seven years.
Angel Moms ask, “How many more will it take for all of America to wake up and get behind President Trump to secure our borders and clean up our country?”
Let the memory of young Mollie Tibbetts, of her family, and of all the people who’ve been victims of illegal immigration remember just what’s at stake in November.
THE DANGER OF SOCIAL MEDIA MONOPOLIES MUST BE ENDED NOW
Facebook, Twitter, and Google are far worse than the original monopolies like International Harvester and Standard Oil and far more dangerous because they monopolize not just our industries but our brains. They control, or at least inordinately influence, how Americans and even much of the world think.
The news that Facebook has "trust" scores for users but will not reveal them to those same users is, to put it mildly, distressing.
Indeed, Facebook has a lot in common with Communist China these days. From the Daily Mail: Communist China will use a 'social credit score' to rank it citizens and give those with the most favored behavior perks.
So here’s what we need to do to end their evil – and it has to be done now, before they cause irreparable damage to the viability of our coming mid-term elections.
THE PASTOR SHINING THE TRUTH ON TURKEY TO THE PRESIDENT
For the better part of the past 15 years since Erdogan and his Islamist AJP party were first elected in December 2002, Turkey watchers in the US – like here at TTP – have warned that US leaders and policymakers that Erdogan is an Islamist revolutionary who intends to transform Turkey into a radical Islamic state.
The Trump administration, like its two predecessors, was not at all eager to acknowledge reality, let alone act on it.
But since Trump entered office, there has been a major obstacle that made ignoring Turkey’s hostility to the US and its interests increasingly difficult to sweep under the rug.
That obstacle is the imprisonment of Pastor Andrew Brunson. Now, thanks to him, President Trump finally understands the evil that is Erdogan.
GOVERNMENT BULLIES ARE DEDICATED TO DESTROYING OUR FREEDOM
California is putting people in jail for using plastic straws because they pollute the ocean
The modern idea of individual liberty and the right to own and control property is of very recent vintage.
It was not until England’s Glorious Revolution in 1688 that as many as 12 percent of the English population actually had voting rights and clear title to property.
And it was not until the passage of the American Constitution in 1789 that property and voting rights were extended to all males (except for slaves) — which was unique for the world at the time.
Democracy, liberty and property rights expanded in much of the rest of the world from the two centuries from the birth of the United States through the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Unfortunately, there has been some retrogression in liberty and property rights in the past two decades as a new class of bullies has emerged in many parts of the world and the United States.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 08/17/18
August 15, 2018: Clapper: Trump revoking Brennan's security clearance is an 'infringement' on free speech
In the middle of August when the primary concern of most folks is whether the inside of their forearms is as tanned as the outside, instead we’re up to our eyeballs in unhinged news. Feel free to say what you think we missed in the Forum.
It’s been a Wacko Week, so much so it’s hard to know where to begin. Might as well begin the most wacko of all, CNN’s latest heartthrob even dumber than Stormy Daniels. How dumb? She titled her book after herself, not PDJT: Unhinged. Let the fun begin.
ANTIVIRUS IS DEAD
Brian Dye, Senior Vice President of Information Security at Symantec, (in)famously declared back in 2014 that “Antivirus is Dead” in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Symantec, if you’re not aware in non-Tex-land is the maker of Norton Antivirus. So, needless to say, his remarks generated significant shock and criticism at the time.
The truth is he was and is absolutely right. However, as with most things that’s not the whole story.
In my first article on TTP, A Clean Start, I made the following assertion, echoing Dye’s sentiment:
“Anti-virus is today at best about 30% effective at stopping malware. It’s near-0% in stopping a determined attacker and also near-0% if not kept up-to-date daily.”What he and I mean when we say Antivirus programs are “dead” is that any computing defense that relies on a “blacklist” of programs that shouldn’t be allowed to run is ineffective by itself in today’s connected world. We need defenses based on new technologies like behavioral analysis and “whitelisting.”
THE OPPORTUNITY OF TRUMP DERANGEMENT
As the flagship of the British Libtard Press, the London Guardian, celebrates today (8/16), 350 US News Outlets Publish Editorials Denouncing Trump's 'Dirty War' on Press.
The Washington Times, by contrast, flipped the game with Solidarity In The Trench. Agreeing with the claim the media is not “the enemy of the people,” the media instead should be called “the enemy of Donald Trump,” concluding:
“Setting out to take down a president by any means necessary is not the role of a responsible press. When newspapers return to their fundamental role, the public reputation of the press will recover. The sooner the better.”
What the WashTimes also did was ask their media colleagues so suffused with TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome – to reflect on their own sins and not those solely of our President.
This is something that the Fake News Media, together with Dems on Capitol Hill, all the way to #Resistance and Antifa thugs, not only won’t do but cannot do. Why? What really is the source of their maniacal, hysterical, unhinged Trump Derangement?
And what could be the historical opportunity the Left is handing us and America with their dementia?