Thursday, August 3, 2017

DONALD TRUMP RALLY HUNTINGTON WV



DONALD TRUMP RALLY
HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA





President Trump Rally in Huntington, West Virginia  

President Trump delivered remarks to supporters at a rally in Huntington, West Virginia

The president called the Russia story a “total fabrication” and urged prosecutors to investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails instead.  


During the rally, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice  

announced he is switching parties from a Democrat to a Republican.





https://www.c-span.org/video/?431931-1/president-trump-holds-rally-west-virginia

For the Babies


By Anna Von Reitz

I get numerous pleas from desperate new parents wishing to establish their claim to their own children.  This is a measure of just how crazy and depraved things have gotten.  You can't even assume your parental rights because these crazy out of control corporations are claiming to own you and your children as "products" of "licensed activity".

This is one way to challenge and stop it.  Whenever any "State of______" or "County of __________" organization offers to interfere with you or your family, you should immediately raise a "moral objection" to their presumptions and read them the riot act with a certified copy of a recorded (not registered) action such as the example below --- firmly in hand. 

What these judges and so-called "public prosecutors" are doing in so-called Family Courts is nothing less than kidnapping for profit.  Shut them down. Make sure new parents get this information and know how to use it.  And remember to inform your clergymen that nobody in this country needs a "marriage license" --- only a proof of Marriage Covenant.  Marriage licenses were created in the wake of the Civil War and imposed on former plantation slaves who had to prove they could support children before they were allowed to marry. This kind of subjugation was possible because they were considered "US citizens" and bound to do whatever the Congress told them to do.

Public Announcement to the World: We Have Re-Venued


By Anna Von Reitz

In response to my solution--- nationalizing the banks and keeping the account system intact--- I have gotten back no end of palaver about Glass-Steagall and the evils of investment banks and derivatives and the corrupt Securities and Exchange Commission, blah, blah, blah.

The people responding in this way are so indoctrinated that they can't read the words on the page and grasp what I said. 

In America, the word "national" means "state".  This is because this country is composed of fifty separate nation-states.  Therefore, "First National Bank of Anchorage" means "First State Bank of Anchorage".  And when I say, "nationalize the banks" I clearly mean that the states--- the actual states--- should take over the banks operating within their borders and force them to operate in a responsible and honest fashion. 

In our case, because of our unique heritage and foundational structure, every state is a separate nation with its own statehood compact.  In America, the word "international" means "interstate" and vice-versa.  When you cross over a state border, you are entering another nation--- just like when you cross the border between Belgium and France. 

By agreement, the states have relaxed their borders to promote trade and transportation and via the infamous "interstate commerce clause" they even authorized the federal service provider running the delegated services contract the responsibility to "regulate" interstate trade so as to expedite it and ensure free access to goods and services.  That does not imply that the federal government has any special right to meddle with banking conducted within any state of the Union.

I said we need to "nationalize the banks" and so the talking heads naturally assumed that had to have something to do with federal take-overs and federal legislation------ pardon me?
 
We have fifty nation-states.  Banking is the business of those states, or in international "waters", it is the business of their primary association of states, doing business as the unincorporated United States of America. 

The only banks that the Congress is supposed to control are commercial banks and they aren't doing the job.  So when I say "nationalize" the banks, I am saying bluntly and purely that the states need to exercise their actual statehood compacts and take over the banks within their borders, including the failed commercial banks which are now bankrupt.

Any non-existent federated "nation" run by the failed and chronically corrupt "U.S. Congress" needs to get out of the kitchen.  They were dumb enough and corrupt enough to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act and let loose the final corruption of the commercial banks, thereby proving beyond any doubt that they are incompetent to transact any business related to us and our states. The present situation should be enough to convince anyone of that.

Every commercial bank on this planet is bankrupt and subject to its creditors. We, the American states and people, are the Paramount Security Interest Holders and Priority Creditors.  Those who would "presume" that we abandoned our assets would be making a self-interested and criminal false claim on abandonment without any sovereign power or standing to do so.

When you delegate power, you retain the right to take back that power in the face of the obvious failure of those delegated to perform. 

The members of Congress, the Presidents, the Judges, the various Generals, and the whole shebang have been given Due Notice and Due Process for over twenty years, telling them politely, point-blank, that they are not getting the job done.  Their job performance is either non-existent, or it is incompetent and inadequate to meet the requirements of any contract we have with them.  So the grounds for the severance is already there, and in fact, it already exists.

They have not provided the services they have contracted to provide and have otherwise messed things up so badly that nobody in their right mind would continue to pay them for such "service".  They have been given plenty of Notice and Due Process releasing them from their contract, and that is fortunate, because the federal Municipal government has been bankrupt and in liquidation since 2015 and the federal Territorial government has been bankrupt and in reorganization since May.

Read that---- even if they wanted to do the right thing now, they couldn't, because they are in receivership all the way across the board.

Now what?  We, that American states and people, are the Paramount Security Interest Holders and Priority Creditors of both the Territorial and Municipal United States.  Back in November of 2015, we chose new federal partners in order to preserve the actual Constitution----which would otherwise be vacated by these federal bankruptcies.

The American Native Nations have separate federal charters formed by Treaty, similar to the statehood compacts, and are therefore "federal" entities without being subject to the federal bankruptcies.  They aren't merely "franchises" like the State of State organizations.

By partnering with the Athabascans and the Lakota Sioux to be our federal service providers under the constraints of the actual Constitution, we have provided the means for a smooth transition of our constitutional government despite the bankruptcy of the failed despots in Washington, DC.

The responsibility of government resides with the unincorporated United States of America and with the individual sovereign states and in the face of the incompetence of both the Territorial and Municipal United States, the federal role has been transferred to the American Native Nations and the responsibility for the individual state government functions returns to the actual land jurisdiction state governments.

We are "re-venued" and in position to reclaim all our assets. 

We have issued our renewed Sovereign Letters Patent, we have updated our National Trust, we have established our International Trade Bank, we have clarified and established our standing on the public record, we have a viable international currency -- the American Silver Dollar -- and via our federal partners, the American Native Nations, we have representation in the United Nations. 

We have placed our non-UCC and agricultural liens upon all the State of State and STATE OF STATE organizations as well as their parent corporations.  We have established our international private registered indemnity bonds and we have also established our international payment bond so that there can be no complaint against us and no suit brought against our sovereign assets.

We are not bankrupt simply because our Housekeeping Service goes bankrupt and our assets are not subject to their bankruptcy, either.

And this is all possible precisely because in America, "national" means "state" and because the unincorporated United States of America is and has always been in control of all aspects of international powers, both delegated and non-delegated, on land and on the sea, retroactive to the moment the British Monarch and the then-Pope secretly breached our national trust in 1822.

We are free to write our own future and to recoup from past history all the assets that are owed to us and to our actual land jurisdiction states of the Union.

All this is possible because in America, the word "nation" means "state" and because the unincorporated United States of America is still here, still functioning and still acting under the retained rights of the American states and people. 

I wish to draw it to everyone's attention, again, that America is not the "United States".  These are two distinct and profoundly different entities each foreign to the other, and they always have been. 

The bankruptcy of the federal Municipal and Territorial United States in no way implies any bankruptcy on the part of the Continental United States--- meaning the actual states and people --- who are in fact the Paramount Security Interest Holders and Priority Creditors of all Municipal and Territorial United States holdings and franchises.


Please support the continuing effort to bring these facts forward.  Our team is working around the clock to make sure that every impacted government and every American who stands to be swindled otherwise, is made aware of the circumstance.  We need your help and support to spread the word and pursue the legal and other work necessary to reclaim the birthrights of our own and many other nations.

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See this article and over 600 others on Anna's website here:www.annavonreitz.com

But not these two?




There's no England now

Cut the BS and get to ACTION - TRUMP!

OPA - Aug 2nd, Cut the BS and get to Action

Dear Trump,
You’re a man of action, supposedly.
Well, here is your people that you say you care about and fighting for, direction for YOU:

Get this RV done, so we get off of Federal Reverse Notes and onto US Treasury dollars - USN / TRN’s aka gold backed currency.

Get the restored Republic funded so we can move to the rule of law and back into Natural Law some call it Common Law and using the organic Constitution – Bill of Rights as our form of Government once again.

Arrest all those bastards from past Presidents 41-44, Congress & Senate, Justices, their leaders like Soro's, Rockerfelder, Rothschild, .. who have been keeping the slave system alive for past hundred plus years!

So, all this talk about draining the swamp is no more than a FART passing by, a MAN WHO CALLS FOR ACTION LIKE YOURSELF, JUST DO IT!

We don’t care if you got to kick the shit out of Chinese Government, the Elders, the Royals, Congress, Senate, Republicans, Democrats or even your staff; the Americans who knows what this will do for our Country are saying to you, GET THIS DONE, TODAY!

No more dam meetings, its all talk, no action! Talk is not doing, its just talk! 
And maybe, when this is done, we - American's - will call you a GREAT President; right now, your words are falling on deaf ears and it ain’t worth a pile of good shit for any garden!
One Pissed Of American -
 

Chemtrail Pilot Signals the World! 100% Proof!


Chemtrail Pilot Signals the World!
100% Proof!



Wednesday, August 2, 2017

EASIER TO UNMASK MEMBERS OF CONGRESS


SPY AGENCIES CHANGED RULES MAKING IT EASIER TO UNMASK MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

  
John Solomon
July 31 2017

 
Former President Barack Obama’s intelligence chief issued revised procedures in 2013 that made it easier for executive branch officials to “unmask” the names of lawmakers or congressional staffers caught up in intelligence intercepts overseas, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Hill.
Procedures issued by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper in March 2013 formally supplanted a 1992 set of rules that made the dissemination of names of intercepted lawmakers or congressional aides an act of last resort.
The new standard allowed for a lawmaker’s or staffer’s name to be unmasked if  “an executive branch recipient of intelligence” believed that learning “the identity of the Member of Congress or the Congressional staff is necessary to understand and assess the associated intelligence and further a lawful activity of the recipient agency,” according to a memo released earlier this month by the DNI's office with little public fanfare.
Under the previous rules authorized by former President George H.W. Bush and his CIA director, Robert Gates, the CIA chief himself had to give “prior written approval” that the release of the identifying information had met “a legitimate foreign intelligence or counter-intelligence need” that “cannot be satisfied in any other fashion.”
In the absence of such a finding, executive branch spy agencies had to redact or delete the name of any congressional employee from intelligence reports under a process known in the intelligence world as minimization. The minimization practice exists to protect Americans’ privacy because most spy intercepts overseas are captured without a court-approved warrant required by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
Intelligence officials familiar with the process say there was no political motive behind the new standard and that the changes authorized by Clapper largely codified practices that had been adapting in the intelligence community over several years.
Congressional leaders were consulted as practices within the intelligence community evolved following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The placement in 2005 of a new director of national intelligence above the CIA in the intelligence community power structure was also a factor, the officials said.
“The document we created in 2013 was essentially a way of incorporating those changes already in practice,” said Robert Litt, who oversaw the process as the Office of Director of National Intelligence general counsel.
Clapper's successor as DNI, former Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.), reissued the 2013 congressional unmasking rules as an official directive on June 29, signaling the Trump administration is comfortable with the same procedures. 
Yet the changes appear to have had a significant effect on the practice of unmasking.
The frequency of unmasking of Capitol Hill figures has increased in the last few years to as often as one per month, compared to a few per year historically, say sources in the intelligence community.
This has raised concerns in congressional circles.
Two 2016 GOP presidential candidates, Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.), have said they believe their identities were unmasked by Obama intelligence officials. The intelligence community has not confirmed that information publicly.
Obama’s former national security adviser Susan Rice came under fire from the right earlier this year over suggestions she had asked for the identities of Trump transition officials in documents. Rice said she had not asked to unmask the names of Trump associates for political reasons.
The 1992 rules were designed to make the release of congressional identities a rare exception, recognizing the separation of powers clause in the Constitution that created co-equal legislative, judiciary and executive branches in U.S. government, officials told The Hill. The rules also included a commitment that Congress in most cases be notified if one of its lawmakers or staff was unmasked by the intelligence community, according to a copy of the memo made public on the DNI’s web site. Gates wrote in his memo that he would “resolve all close questions” in favor of notification.
Officials said the notification standards were left mostly intact by Clapper but actual practices inside intelligence agencies on who could seek and who could approve congressional unmaskings began evolving well before Clapper’s memo.The DNI, for instance, took over from the CIA the approval process in the mid- to late 2000s, and intelligence analysts and intelligence community leaders expressed a need to more aggressively share the names of intercepted lawmakers or their aides to react to more complex threats, the officials said.
By 2013, Clapper wanted to memorialize the changes that had occurred in practice as a formal set of procedures that supplanted the Gates standards, according to Litt.
“DNI Clapper very much wanted all ODNI processes to be documented in ODNI procedures rather than legacy CIA procedures,” Litt said
Clapper did not return a message seeking comment. 
Litt said by the time he drafted the 2013 rules, he did not believe he was changing policy, because the procedures had been evolving for years.
“We believed we were formalizing simply what we had inherited,” he explained.
But Clapper’s March 29, 2013, memo to all spy agencies showed just how far the intelligence community’s protections of congressional privacy had changed from the 1992 Gates standard.
Gone was the "last resort" language from 1992 that mandated a congressional unmasking could occur only if the need “cannot be satisfied in any other fashion.”
The new guidance also empowered intelligence agencies that intercepted information from or about a congressional employee without a warrant to ask the DNI to unmask the name on their own — without a request from leaders — before disseminating an intelligence report if they believed it was “necessary” for others to “understand and assess” the intelligence reports.
Such proactive unmasking language was not contained in the 1992 rules.
Likewise, the old rules required written authorization from only the CIA director. The new rules allowed the DNI’s chief lawyer to make the decision in most cases.
Officials stressed that the Gang of Eight leadership group in Congress — the House Speaker, House minority leader, Senate majority leader, Senate minority leader and the bipartisan heads of both chambers’ intelligence committees — were consulted about the changes in rules and routinely are alerted when a congressional identity has been unmasked.
The officials acknowledged, though, that it was possible rank-and-file members of Congress were not alerted to the changing privacy standard or instances when a congressional employee has been unmasked.
Officials said the rule changes came at a time when threats to members of Congress and their staffs were increasing, including increasingly aggressive hacking and counterintelligence efforts by foreign powers.
They declined to be more specific, though Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), the chairman of the subcommittee overseeing Eurasia policy, recently acknowledged he received a warning from the intelligence community in 2012 that Russia was trying to “recruit” him as an influence agent.
Rohrabacher also recently parted ways with his top staffer on the subcommittee because of concerns about Russian efforts to influence the panel.
The Clapper memo reflected other significant changes from the Gates procedures.
For instance, the 1992 rules exempted the president, vice president, the secretaries of Defense and State and the president’s national security adviser as the only executive branch officials who could request an unmasked congressional identity without first getting written approval from the CIA director.
Clapper’s procedures expanded that circle of exempted officials to include “the senior deputies and senior advisors for these named principles,” meaning, for instance, Obama’s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes could request congressional unmaskings on behalf of Rice, his boss, as could the deputies and senior advisers to Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretaries Ash Carter and Chuck Hagel.
Clapper’s rule did, however, put a limitation on the expanded circle of executive branch officials who could unmask without going through the normal procedures. It did so by declaring “the dissemination of Congressional identities to these named principles pursuant to a special request does not authorize further dissemination of that information within the principles department or agency.”
An intelligence official directly familiar with the 2013 rules told the Hill, “We understood we were more than doubling the universe of those who could make special requests outside the normal de-minimization process and that language was added to ensure we did not accidentally create downstream leaking of information.”
If a special requestor wanted to share the unmasked congressional names more widely throughout their agency, they had to submit a “routine request” through the normal DNI channels to get permission, the new rules stated.
http://commonsensewonder.blogspot.com/2017/08/spy-agencies-changed-rules-making-it.html

Extreme Police State Tactics Used By Obama


New  Declassified  Memo  Details  Extreme  Police  State  Tactics Used By  Obama  Administration

 



The National Security Agency and FBI violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama administration by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts, according to newly declassified memos that provide some of the richest detail to date on the spy agencies’ ability to obey their own rules.

According to thehill.com:
The memos reviewed by The Hill were publicly released on July 11 through Freedom of Information Act litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union.
They detail specific violations that the NSA or FBI disclosed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the Justice Department’s national security division during President Obama’s tenure between 2009 and 2016.
The intelligence community isn’t due to report on compliance issues for 2017, the first year under the Trump administration, until next spring.
The NSA says that the missteps amount to a small number — less than 1 percent — when compared to the hundreds of thousands of specific phone numbers and email addresses the agencies intercepted through the so-called Section 702 warrantless spying program created by Congress in late 2008.
“Quite simply, a compliance program that never finds an incident is not a robust compliance program,” said Michael Halbig, the NSA’s chief spokesman. “The National Security Agency has in place a strong compliance program that identifies incidents, reports them to external overseers, and then develops appropriate solutions to remedy any incidents.” 
But critics say the memos undercut the intelligence community’s claim that it has robust protections for Americans incidentally intercepted under the program. 
Americans should be alarmed that the NSA is  vacuuming up their emails and phone calls without a warrant,” said Patrick Toomey, an ACLU staff attorney in New York who helped pursue the FOIA litigation. 
“The NSA claims it has rules to protect our privacy, but it turns out those rules are weak, full of loopholes, and violated again and again.”
Section 702 empowers the NSA to spy on foreign powers and to retain and use certain intercepted data that was incidentally collected on Americans under strict privacy protections.
Wrongly collected information is supposed to be immediately destroyed.
The Hill reviewed the new ACLU documents as well as compliance memos released by the NSA inspector general and identified more than 90 incidents where violations specifically cited an impact on Americans.
Many incidents involved multiple persons, multiple violations or extended periods of time.
For instance, the government admitted improperly searching the NSA’s foreign intercept data on multiple occasions, including one instance in which an analyst ran the same search query about an American “every work day” for a period between 2013 and 2014.
There also were several instances in which Americans’ unmasked names were improperly shared inside the intelligence community without being redacted, a violation of the so-called minimization procedures that Obama loosened in 2011 that are supposed to protect Americans’ identity from disclosure when they are intercepted without a warrant. 
Numerous times improperly unmasked information about Americans had to be recalled and purged after the fact, the memos stated.
“CIA and FBI received unminimized data from many Section 702-tasked facilities and at times are thus required to conduct similar purges,” one report noted.
“NSA issued a report which included the name of a United States person whose identity was not foreign intelligence,” said one typical incident report from 2015, which said the NSA eventually discovered the error and “recalled” the information.
Likewise, the FBI disclosed three instances between December 2013 and February 2014 of “improper disseminations of U.S. persons identities.”

The NSA also admitted it was slow in some cases to notify fellow intelligence agencies when it wrongly disseminated information about Americans. The law requires a notification within five days, but some took as long as 131 business days and the average was 19 days, the memos show.
U.S. intelligence officials directly familiar with the violations told The Hill that the memos confirm that the intelligence agencies have routinely policed, fixed and self-disclosed to the nation's intelligence court thousands of minor procedural and more serious privacy infractions that have impacted both Americans and foreigners alike since the warrantless spying program was created by Congress in late 2008.
Alexander Joel, who leads the Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency under the director of national intelligence, said the documents chronicle episodes that have been reported to Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for years in real time and are a tribute to the multiple layers of oversight inside the intelligence community.
The memos reviewed by The Hill were publicly released on July 11 through Freedom of Information Act litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union.
They detail specific violations that the NSA or FBI disclosed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the Justice Department's national security division during President Obama’s tenure between 2009 and 2016.
The intelligence community isn't due to report on compliance issues for 2017, the first year under the Trump administration, until next spring.
The NSA says that the missteps amount to a small number — less than 1 percent — when compared to the hundreds of thousands of specific phone numbers and email addresses the agencies intercepted through the so-called Section 702 warrantless spying program created by Congress in late 2008.
“Quite simply, a compliance program that never finds an incident is not a robust compliance program,” said Michael Halbig, the NSA’s chief spokesman. “The National Security Agency has in place a strong compliance program that identifies incidents, reports them to external overseers, and then develops appropriate solutions to remedy any incidents.”
But critics say the memos undercut the intelligence community’s claim that it has robust protections for Americans incidentally intercepted under the program.
“Americans should be alarmed that the NSA is vacuuming up their emails and phone calls without a warrant,” said Patrick Toomey, an ACLU staff attorney in New York who helped pursue the FOIA litigation. “The NSA claims it has rules to protect our privacy, but it turns out those rules are weak, full of loopholes, and violated again and again.”
Section 702 empowers the NSA to spy on foreign powers and to retain and use certain intercepted data that was incidentally collected on Americans under strict privacy protections. Wrongly collected information is supposed to be immediately destroyed.
The Hill reviewed the new ACLU documents as well as compliance memos released by the NSA inspector general and identified more than 90 incidents where violations specifically cited an impact on Americans. Many incidents involved multiple persons, multiple violations or extended periods of time.
For instance, the government admitted improperly searching the NSA’s foreign intercept data on multiple occasions, including one instance in which an analyst ran the same search query about an American “every work day” for a period between 2013 and 2014.
There also were several instances in which Americans’ unmasked names were improperly shared inside the intelligence community without being redacted, a violation of the so-called minimization procedures that Obama loosened in 2011 that are supposed to protect Americans' identity from disclosure when they are intercepted without a warrant. 
Numerous times improperly unmasked information about Americans had to be recalled and purged after the fact, the memos stated.
“CIA and FBI received unminimized data from many Section 702-tasked facilities and at times are thus required to conduct similar purges,” one report noted.
“NSA issued a report which included the name of a United States person whose identity was not foreign intelligence,” said one typical incident report from 2015, which said the NSA eventually discovered the error and “recalled” the information.
Likewise, the FBI disclosed three instances between December 2013 and February 2014 of “improper disseminations of U.S. persons identities.”

The NSA also admitted it was slow in some cases to notify fellow intelligence agencies when it wrongly disseminated information about Americans.
The law requires a notification within five days, but some took as long as 131 business days and the average was 19 days, the memos show.
U.S. intelligence officials directly familiar with the violations told The Hill that the memos confirm that the intelligence agencies have routinely policed, fixed and self-disclosed to the nation's intelligence court thousands of minor procedural and more serious privacy infractions that have impacted both Americans and foreigners alike since the warrantless spying program was created by Congress in late 2008.
Alexander Joel, who leads the Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency under the director of national intelligence, said the documents chronicle episodes that have been reported to Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for years in real time and are a tribute to the multiple layers of oversight inside the intelligence community.
We take every compliance incident very seriously and continually strive to improve compliance through our oversight regime and as evidence by our reporting requirements to the FISC and Congress,” he told The Hill. “That said, we believe that, particularly when compared with the overall level of activity, the compliance incident rate is very low.”
The FBI said it believes it has adequate oversight to protect Americans' privacy, while signaling it will be pushing Congress hard this fall to renew the Section 702 law before it expires.
"The FBI’s mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States," the bureau said in a statement to The Hill.
"When Congress enacted Section 702, it built in comprehensive oversight and compliance procedures that involve all three branches of government.
These procedures are robust and effective in identifying compliance incidents. The documents released on July 11, 2017 clearly show the FBI’s extensive efforts to follow the law, and to identify, report, and remedy compliance matters.
"Section 702 is vital to the safety and security of the American people. It is one of the most valuable tools the Intelligence Community has, and therefore, is used with the utmost care by the men and women of the FBI so as to not jeopardize future utility.
As such, we continually evaluate our internal policies and procedures to further reduce the number of these compliance matters."
The new documents show that the NSA has, on occasion, exempted itself from its legal obligation to destroy all domestic communications that were improperly intercepted.
Under the law, the NSA is supposed to destroy any intercept if it determines the data was domestically gathered, meaning someone was intercepted on U.S. soil without a warrant when the agency thought they were still overseas.
The NSA, however, has said previously it created “destruction waivers” to keep such intercepts in certain cases.
The new documents confirm the NSA has in fact issued such waivers and that it uncovered in 2012 a significant violation in which the waivers were improperly used and the infraction was slow to be reported to the court.
“In light of related filings being presented to the Court at the same time this incident was discovered and the significance of the incident, DOJ should have reported this incident under the our immediate notification process,” then Assistant Attorney General Lisa Monaco wrote the FISA court in Aug. 28, 2012, about the episode, according to one memo released through FOIA.
The NSA declined to say how often destruction waivers are given. But Joel, of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has supervised such waivers and affirmed they are “consistent with the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution and the statutory requirements of Section 702.”
Other violations cited in the memos:
  • Numerous “over collection incidents” in which the NSA gathered information about foreigners or Americans it wasn’t entitled to intercept
  • “Isolated instances in which NSA may not have complied with the documentation requests” justifying intercepts or searches of intercepted data.
  • The misuse of “overly broad” queries or specific U.S. person terms to search through NSA data.
  • Failures to timely purge NSA databases of improperly collected intelligence, such as a 2014 incident in which “NSA reported a gap in its purge discovery processes.”
In annual and quarterly compliance reports that have been released in recent years, U.S. intelligence agencies have estimated the number of Section 702 violations has averaged between 0.3 percent and 0.6 percent of the total number of “taskings.”
A tasking is an intelligence term that reflects a request to intercept a specific phone number or email address.
The NSA now targets more than 100,000 individuals a year under Section 702 for foreign spying, and some individual targets get multiple taskings, officials said.
“The actual number of compliance incidents remains classified but from the publicly available data it is irrefutable that the number is in the thousands since Section 702 was fully implemented by 2009,” said a senior U.S. official with direct knowledge, who spoke only on condition of anonymity.
The increasing transparency on Section 702 violations is having an impact on both critics and supporters of a law that is up for renewal in Congress at the end of this year.
Of concern are the instances in which Americans’ data is incidentally collected and then misused.
Retired House Intelligence Committee Chairman Pete Hoekstra, a Republican who strongly supported the NSA warrantless spying program when it started under President George W. Bush, said he now fears it has now become too big and intrusive.
“If I were still in Congress today, I might vote with the people today to shut the program down or curtail it,” Hoekstra, who has been tapped by Trump to be ambassador to the Netherlands, said in an interview.
“One percent or less sounds great, but the truth is 1 percent of my credit card charges don’t come back wrong every month. And in my mind one percent is pretty sloppy when it can impact Americans’ privacy.”
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/343785-newly-declassified-memos-detail-extent-of-improper-obama-era-nsa
 

Improper Obama-era NSA spying



NEWLY DECLASSIFIED MEMOS DETAIL EXTENT OF IMPROPER OBAMA-ERA NSA SPYING

 By John Solomon -

The National Security Agency and FBI violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama administration by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts, according to newly declassified memos that provide some of the richest detail to date on the spy agencies’ ability to obey their own rules.

The memos reviewed by The Hill were publicly released on July 11 through Freedom of Information Act litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union.

They detail specific violations that the NSA or FBI disclosed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the Justice Department's national security division during President Obama’s tenure between 2009 and 2016. 

The intelligence community isn't due to report on compliance issues for 2017, the first year under the Trump administration, until next spring.
 
The NSA says that the missteps amount to a small number — less than 1 percent — when compared to the hundreds of thousands of specific phone numbers and email addresses the agencies intercepted through the so-called Section 702 warrantless spying program created by Congress in late 2008.

“Quite simply, a compliance program that never finds an incident is not a robust compliance program,” said Michael Halbig, the NSA’s chief spokesman. “The National Security Agency has in place a strong compliance program that identifies incidents, reports them to external overseers, and then develops appropriate solutions to remedy any incidents.”

But critics say the memos undercut the intelligence community’s claim that it has robust protections for Americans incidentally intercepted under the program.

“Americans should be alarmed that the NSA is  vacuuming up their emails and phone calls without a warrant,” said Patrick Toomey

 Pat ToomeyNewly declassified memos detail extent of improper Obama-era NSA spyingOvernight Tech: FCC won't fine Colbert over Trump joke | Trump budget slashes science funding | Net neutrality comment period opens Appeals court decision keeps lawsuit against NSA surveillance aliveMORE, an ACLU staff attorney in New York who helped pursue the FOIA litigation.

“The NSA claims it has rules to protect our privacy, but it turns out those rules are weak, full of loopholes, and violated again and again.”

Section 702 empowers the NSA to spy on foreign powers and to retain and use certain intercepted data that was incidentally collected on Americans under strict privacy protections. Wrongly collected information is supposed to be immediately destroyed.

The Hill reviewed the new ACLU documents as well as compliance memos released by the NSA inspector general and identified more than 90 incidents where violations specifically cited an impact on Americans. 
Many incidents involved multiple persons, multiple violations or extended periods of time.

For instance, the government admitted improperly searching the NSA’s foreign intercept data on multiple occasions, including one instance in which an analyst ran the same search query about an American “every work day” for a period between 2013 and 2014.

There also were several instances in which Americans’ unmasked names were improperly shared inside the intelligence community without being redacted, a violation of the so-called minimization procedures that Obama loosened in 2011 that are supposed to protect Americans' identity from disclosure when they are intercepted without a warrant. Numerous times improperly unmasked information about Americans had to be recalled and purged after the fact, the memos stated.

“CIA and FBI received unminimized data from many Section 702-tasked facilities and at times are thus required to conduct similar purges,” one report noted.

“NSA issued a report which included the name of a United States person whose identity was not foreign intelligence,” said one typical incident report from 2015, which said the NSA eventually discovered the error and “recalled” the information.

Likewise, the FBI disclosed three instances between December 2013 and February 2014 of “improper disseminations of U.S. persons identities.”

The NSA also admitted it was slow in some cases to notify fellow intelligence agencies when it wrongly disseminated information about Americans. The law requires a notification within five days, but some took as long as 131 business days and the average was 19 days, the memos show.


U.S. intelligence officials directly familiar with the violations told The Hill that the memos confirm that the intelligence agencies have routinely policed, fixed and self-disclosed to the nation's intelligence court thousands of minor procedural and more serious privacy infractions that have impacted both Americans and foreigners alike since the warrantless spying program was created by Congress in late 2008.

Alexander Joel, who leads the Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency under the director of national intelligence, said the documents chronicle episodes that have been reported to Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for years in real time and are a tribute to the multiple layers of oversight inside the intelligence community.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/343785-newly-declassified-memos-detail-extent-of-improper-obama-era-nsa

The Dow reached the 22,000 mark! Thank you President Trump!


MAGA:  AMERICAN COMPANIES POSTING DOUBLE DIGIT PROFIT GROWTH!!!


(Reuters) - The Dow breached the 22,000 mark briefly in early trading on Wednesday, August 2nd, powered by Apple's stellar results, before stocks retreated sharply across sectors as investors locked in gains.    However, the S&P 500 information technology index .SPLRCT is up about 22 percent year to date, leading other sectors, as investors look for growth in an otherwise low-growth environment. 


31 Jul 2017
PatriotNewsDaily.com
 
According to a new analysis from Reuters, American companies recorded by the S&P 500 are on their way to posting two consecutive quarters of double-digit profit growth, the first time they’ve done so since 2011. Among the factors contributing to the rise: Cost-cutting, a weakening dollar, and an improvement in consumer spending.

But one cannot look at the hard figures and come away with any other conclusion that by putting a pro-business president in the White House for the first time since (at least) 2007 (??), we have stimulated the American economy in ways that may not even be fully evident for some time to come.

That said, many of the country’s top CEOs are concerned with the (demo-RAT) gridlock in Washington that has hindered the Trump agenda and prevented his economic boom plan from coming fully to life. With the failure of healthcare reform and the uncertainty of the next item on the Republican agenda – tax reform – many investors are worried that the current state of growth will not be sustainable heading into the year’s third quarter.

Overall, the U.S. economy accelerated growth in the spring, expanding to a 2.6% annual rate in April through June. That’s a remarkable uptick from where we were under the Obama administration, but it’s still short of the lofty promises made by Donald Trump on the campaign trail. Without the tax cuts and regulatory relief that Trump wants to implement, it’s not clear if Washington will be able to give American businesses the boost they need to send sustained growth into the 4% range.

“Consumers continue to drive the economy’s growth, but firmer business investment is also a plus,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told CBS News. “Weaker housing construction was the only significant drag on growth in the quarter.”

The media has no choice but to mention the positive news on the economy, but they’re doing their damned best to either downplay the president’s role in that news, stifle it with endless White House drama speculation, or give the credit – laughably – to his predecessor. 

Two of the biggest economic stories of the past week – 

Foxconn’s $10 billion investment in a Wisconsin plant and the record high Dow Jones Industrial Average – were given short shrift by the networks last week as they spent the majority of their broadcasts focused on Trump’s transgender military ban and his ongoing criticism of Jeff Sessions.

But that’s fine. It’s to be expected. These economic advancements don’t need to be touted through NBC Nightly News.  The American people will feel it in their paychecks and on the store shelves. That’s all they’ll need to know when they decide whether or not to vote for Democrats next November.

(Let's hope and pray that most of America is now waking up - if not already - and they will know that voting along party lines is NOT THE ANSWER. There are ignorant, stupid, dumbed down, drugged, snowflake and well PAID TRAITORS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE.)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-idUSKBN1AI1F2
http://patriotnewsdaily.com/maga-american-companies-posting-double-digit-profit-growth/ 

Sen. John McCain cements his legacy as an enemy of Americans


THANKS  FOR  NOTHING  JOHN  MCCAIN!               YOU ONCE AGAIN SHOWED AMERICANS WHAT YOU ARE REALLY ALL ABOUT!


28 Jul 2017 
PatriotDailyNews.com


In the early morning hours of July 28, 2017, Sen. John McCain cemented his legacy as an enemy of American conservatism with his vote against the “skinny repeal” of Obamacare, thus likely tanking the one and only chance Republicans will ever have of ridding the nation of this burdensome, socialist form of government-sponsored 'healthcare'. 

Thanks to McCain (with a special shout out to Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Maine’s Susan Collins), millions of Americans will continue to be forced to buy health insurance they don’t want, thousands of business owners will continue to struggle to meet an unacceptable federal mandate, and the government itself will continue to grow and grow and grow…  (Despite repeated THREATS against the people and the businesses to sign up, American REFUSED to do so thereby demonstrating their non-approval of the scam being FORCED upon them.)

Of course, why should anyone be surprised at McCain’s betrayal? Not only did he signal his last-minute back stabbing vote with his sanctimonious “Why can’t we all just get along” speech earlier in the week, he’s made a career for himself voting against the interests of the American people

Oh, he can talk a good game when there’s no pressure, but when it comes to his legislative legacy, he’s been one of the most effective liberals in the Senate for a long time. Who needs Democrats when you have 'Republicans' like John McCain?  

On the other hand, let’s be realistic about what this was. Republicans did NOT want this bill to become law. If McCain had voted 'yes', someone else would have voted 'no'. It would have probably been Dean Heller of Nevada, but there are a few others who might have been willing to be the “patsy.” 

As it was, McCain gave cover to the other cowardly Republicans who can now go home and say, “Hey, I voted for it, y’all.” When really, they only did so because they knew it was safe. This was a show. What we don’t know is when it stopped being about repealing 'obamacare' and started being about pandering to the right. This week? This year? Or has it always been this from the very beginning?

Retaining 'obamacare' doesn’t just have its own ramifications for healthcare and the economy.  It also makes it very difficult for the Senate to pass any form of truly revolutionary tax reform in the fall. 

Without the adequate reductions in Medicaid spending, Mitch McConnell’s going to find it hard to reduce the deficit enough to pass tax reform through the budget reconciliation process. That means they’ll have to bring in Democrat votes, and that means they may as well not even bother. Democrats aren’t interested in working with the GOP right now, and it’s hard to imagine they would ever vote for tax reductions in the first place. 

With the failure of 'obamacare" (bozo buzzard) repeal, Republicans may be staring at more than a year’s worth of legislative inaction. (NOT just Republicans - but ALL America.  The DemoRATS need to be removed - period. They are ANTI AMERICA)
 
Which means many voters are going to start wondering (again) why they even bothered to come out to the polls last November.  

(SO SAD because Americans obtained through our votes in 2016 THE ABSOLUTE BEST PERFORMING PRESIDENT THIS NATION HAS EVER HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE OF ELECTING TO THE OFFICE.)

http://patriotnewsdaily.com/thanks-for-nothing-john-mccain/

Jeff Sessions: HUGE leak arrests coming!


Jeff  Sessions  announces:  HUGE                   leak  arrests  coming!


August 2 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to announce a major crackdown on the illegal leaks coming out of the White House on Friday — and his plan to lock-up anyone behind illegal leaks has conservatives cheering.

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has grown increasingly frustrated by leaks that undermine his administration’s goals.

New *Chief of Staff General John Kelly has declared that one of his first points of order is to get these rogue employees under control. (*https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/28/meet-john-f-kelly-donald-trumps-new-white-house-chief-of-staff.html)

“If [former Chief of Staff Rhince Priebus] couldn’t control those leaks … then he was the one who was ultimately responsible, and General Kelly was brought in to make sure those leaks do not continue,” former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said on an appearance on Fox News’ morning show Tuesday.

But don’t expect anyone caught leaking information to the liberal media to simply lose their job. Instead of being fired, Sessions has plans to slap handcuffs on them and haul them to jail!  

“Sessions is expected to go further with an announcement on criminal leak investigations — specifically, concerning news reports that published sensitive intelligence material according to officials who have been briefed on the matter,” Fox News reported.

Sessions has a Friday press conference scheduled to discuss his plans at which he is expected to outline what the Department of Justice is aiming to accomplish moving forward — and possibly even highlight a high-profile arrest.

The attorney general’s announcement comes after increased criticism from Trump.

Last week the president said: “I want the attorney general to be much tougher. I want the leaks from intelligence agencies, which are leaking like rarely have they ever leaked before, at a very important level. These are intelligence agencies we cannot have that happen.”

Sessions heard the order and is setting up the anvil.

Leakers beware… the hammer falls this week.

— The Horn editorial team

https://thehornnews.com/jeff-sessions-huge-leak-arrests-coming-lock/