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We are sick and tired of the DOJ giving Congress the runaround. As a separate branch of government, we have a right to get information.
@RepMarkMeadows and I want the full weight of the House behind our resolution. It's time to act.
ZERO HEDGE reports:
The Judiciary Committee will be meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday to discuss the OIG report. Moreover, GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is expected to bring a House floor vote demanding that the DOJ turn over documents.
Also Thursday, a Republican resolution demanding that Rosenstein and the Justice Department turn over more internal documents is expected to be brought to the House floor for a vote. It will be a test of how widely Republicans back the push by party conservatives to probe inner workings of the FBI and Justice Department and cast doubt on the legitimacy of the continuing Russia probe. -Bloomberg
"All we are asking for are documents we deserve to get -- and they are giving us the finger," said Jordan.
Meanwhile, every Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to protest Jordan's resolution on "emergency bias," as they say that it shows the committee "has been hijacked by its most extreme majority members at the expense of upholding longstanding committee rules and minority rights."
It was not exactly clear how Congress asking the DOJ to see documents related to a massive political scandal constitute a hijacking.
The Democrats look ridiculous right now. They, also, should be demanding records.
Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Wednesday, June 27, 2018. Is ISIS defeated is the bigger question before arguing over credit for it's alleged defeat.
Starting with David DeGraw:
Staying with bombs being dropped, the US Defense Dept announced the following yesterday:
On June 18, coalition military forces conducted two strikes consisting of two engagements against ISIS targets near Rutbah. The strikes engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS vehicle.
On June 19, coalition military forces conducted two strikes consisting of three engagements against ISIS targets:
-- Near Rutbah, a strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit.
-- Near Kisik, a strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit.
On June 20, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of three engagements against ISIS targets near Rutbah. The strike destroyed three ISIS caves.
On June 21, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of one engagement against ISIS targets near Tal Afar. The strike destroyed an ISIS tunnel.
There were no reported strikes in Iraq on June 22.
On June 23, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of one engagement against ISIS targets near Basheer. The strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS-held building.
There were no reported strikes in Iraq on June 24.
Now let's stop a minute for a claim that pops up in e-mails from time to time. US President Donald Trump has not defeated ISIS. ISIS remains. Every now and then someone e-mails the public e-mail account insisting that we (this site) are not giving Donald credit for defeating ISIS and neither is the media. ISIS has not been defeated. Go back to the so-called 'liberation' (destruction) of Mosul. We did not run with the lie that ISIS was defeated. We noted that their original plan was never to seize cities. That's not why they came into being. Because Iraq was run so poorly (Nouri al-Maliki), ISIS was able to seize control of cities.
If there's some outlet you're watching or reading that's claimed ISIS has been defeated? By all means, slam them for not giving Donald credit for that. But we have never said ISIS was defeated -- and it's not defeated -- no matter how lazy some outlets are.
Not only is the US still dropping bombs on Iraq, supposedly to target ISIS, but ISIS continues fighting on the ground in Iraq. For example, Mohammed Ebraheem (IRAQI NEWS) reports:
Six Iraqi pro-government fighters were killed and wounded Wednesday in an attack launched by Islamic State on a village in Kirkuk.
A security source told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper that “IS militants stormed al-Bashir village in southern Kirkuk, and clashed with the security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi fighters deployed there for two hours.”
“The fierce clashes between the two sides left a member of al-Hashd al-Shaabi dead and five others wounded,” according to the source.
On the topic of the militias -- al-Hashd al-Shaabi -- let's again note this Tweet:
This is not the first time that the Hashd al Shaabi has publicly threatened US troops (most recently, they did so last November).
These threats are among the reasons that the US government designates
Hashd al Shaabi as a terrorist organization. Of course, Hashd al-Shaabi
is also part of the PMU (militias) and they came in second in the May
12th national elections in Iraq.
Bryant Harris (AL-MONITOR) reported earlier this month:
Starting with David DeGraw:
Here's
a 20 minute interview that I just did w/ Lee Camp. We discuss the
latest news on the unaccounted for $21 Trillion & the insanity of
dropping 121 bombs a day... (Watch Video)
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I haven't been able to keep Changemaker.Media online without insanely
long load times, another topic we discuss in this interview. You can
watch the full interview via YouTube here.
There are two short excerpts from the interview posted to Facebook...
- 2 Minute Version Here
- 5 Minute Version Here
Staying with bombs being dropped, the US Defense Dept announced the following yesterday:
On June 18, coalition military forces conducted two strikes consisting of two engagements against ISIS targets near Rutbah. The strikes engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS vehicle.
On June 19, coalition military forces conducted two strikes consisting of three engagements against ISIS targets:
-- Near Rutbah, a strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit.
-- Near Kisik, a strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit.
On June 20, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of three engagements against ISIS targets near Rutbah. The strike destroyed three ISIS caves.
On June 21, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of one engagement against ISIS targets near Tal Afar. The strike destroyed an ISIS tunnel.
There were no reported strikes in Iraq on June 22.
On June 23, coalition military forces conducted a strike consisting of one engagement against ISIS targets near Basheer. The strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS-held building.
There were no reported strikes in Iraq on June 24.
Now let's stop a minute for a claim that pops up in e-mails from time to time. US President Donald Trump has not defeated ISIS. ISIS remains. Every now and then someone e-mails the public e-mail account insisting that we (this site) are not giving Donald credit for defeating ISIS and neither is the media. ISIS has not been defeated. Go back to the so-called 'liberation' (destruction) of Mosul. We did not run with the lie that ISIS was defeated. We noted that their original plan was never to seize cities. That's not why they came into being. Because Iraq was run so poorly (Nouri al-Maliki), ISIS was able to seize control of cities.
If there's some outlet you're watching or reading that's claimed ISIS has been defeated? By all means, slam them for not giving Donald credit for that. But we have never said ISIS was defeated -- and it's not defeated -- no matter how lazy some outlets are.
Not only is the US still dropping bombs on Iraq, supposedly to target ISIS, but ISIS continues fighting on the ground in Iraq. For example, Mohammed Ebraheem (IRAQI NEWS) reports:
Six Iraqi pro-government fighters were killed and wounded Wednesday in an attack launched by Islamic State on a village in Kirkuk.
A security source told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper that “IS militants stormed al-Bashir village in southern Kirkuk, and clashed with the security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi fighters deployed there for two hours.”
“The fierce clashes between the two sides left a member of al-Hashd al-Shaabi dead and five others wounded,” according to the source.
On the topic of the militias -- al-Hashd al-Shaabi -- let's again note this Tweet:
Bryant Harris (AL-MONITOR) reported earlier this month:
Which makes for interesting relations between the governments of Iraq and the US.
Shi'ite cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr came in first in the
elections, followed by the militias, followed by current prime minister
Hayder al-Abadi. Moqtada and the head of the militias, Hadi al-Ameri,
teamed up. Now they have been joined by Hayder al-Abadi. 163 seats are
needed to form a government -- seats in Parliament. Those three
represent 143 seats. (That's a CORRECTION to my math on Monday.) They
are twenty seats shy of forming the government.
«May 12’s Iraqi parliamentary election led to a surprising result, with cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s bloc winning a plurality. Sadr, a nationalist with long opposition to both US and...
Although Abadi and the US were
deeply disappointed by the result of the election, he could emerge as a
compromise candidate for prime minister. Sadr cannot aspire to the post
because he is not a member of parliament.
Sadr, who led two violent
uprisings against the US and whose followers killed hundreds of Sunnis
during inter-sectarian warfare, has projected himself as an
anti-sectarian man of the people. His electoral alliance, which included
communists, secularists and Sunnis, rejected all foreign intervention
and promised to fight corruption, build schools and hospitals and
provide for the poor.
What's in it for Hayder? Possibly he will remain prime minister. IRAQI NEWS notes:
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has agreed to fulfill a condition set by Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to retain his post as prime minister in the new government.
According to Alkhaleej Online, Sadr his requested Abadi to withdraw from the Islamic Dawa Party to enter into an alliance and allow him to retain his prime minister’s post.
The long-awaited alliance deal between Abadi’s Victory Alliance, which came third in a May parliamentary election, and Sadr’s Sairoon list, which won the largest number of seats, is expected to help in forming the new government after weeks of political tensions as a result of vote-ragging.
Let's move over to the topic of burn pits:
Amie Muller of Woodbury died of cancer at 36. She served in Iraq & was around toxic burn pits. I’ve worked with her husband Brian who's fighting to save others. Yesterday my bill to help treat these health issues passed the Senate. Time to get it thru the House & signed into law.
And let's pair that with the latest from Burn Pits 360:
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among many others. While in the military, he worked to recover Desert
Storm era military equipment in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, including
depleted uranium munitions and debris. He also worked on environmental
guidance and practice management for US bases.
Supervisor.
He had four combat deployments to Afghanistan and two overseas
deployments to Jordan and Chad. After his military service, SFC Dardia
created the Special Operations Forces Health Initiatives Program (SHIP)
for the Task Force Dagger Foundation in 2012.
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