Friday, December 13, 2019

The Nationality of Jews






So Maggie Haberman, of the New York Times, wrote that three Administration officials said the new executive order would make Jews part of a nationality.
Now, either
1. Haberman made that up out of whole cloth, or
2. the three officials coordinated and lied to her or
the three officials coordinated and somehow all thought they saw the same language in the EO, or:
3. the nationality of Jews WAS in the original EO (written by Stephen Miller, whose ideology that would factually represent) and after the immense criticism, the Administration delayed the EQ after announcing it and Jared Kushner had it re-written to be similar to previous EO's.

As far as I know, Haberman has not explained why the EO turned out so anodyne. 

Sunday, June 30, 2019

3 times

At least three times in my life has a Republican presidential candidate conspired with a foreign power in order to attain the office of the Presidency and succeeded.
At least twice, the previous Democratic administrations had been aware but decided to not bring the case to law enforcement or to the American people for fear that the press would consider it "politicizing" or fear of burning intelligence assets.

  • In 1968 Anna Chennault, conspired with the South Vietnamese government to scuttle the Paris peace talks, assuring Saigon that Nixon would give them a much better deal if he became President. It was a clear violation of the Logan act, which Johnson called treason. Chennault was directed by Nixon to contact Saigon and keep the Paris peace process from continuing. 
  • In 1980, the Reagan team clearly executed an agreement with Tehran to keep the American hostages until after he won the election, preventing Carter from getting an October Surprise. Yeah, the Gary Sick allegations turned out to be nonsense, but let's get real -- the hostages were turned over 20 minutes after Reagan was inaugurated and then, for some reason, the Reagan Administration decided to participate in the Iran-Contra Affair
  • And now, Trump/Putin.