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Is The ICIG Guilty of A Corrupt Act?

sunbeam October 3, 2019 Comments Off

It was widely known that in order to submit an ICIG whistleblower report that the information had to be firsthand knowledge. No hearsay or gossip was permitted. It was stated unequivocally that submitting second-hand knowledge would result in the complaint being rejected.

As Sean Davis at The Federalist noted,

“The [Intelligence Community Inspector General] cannot transmit information via the ICPWA based on an employee’s second-hand knowledge of wrongdoing,” the previous form stated under the bolded heading “FIRST-HAND INFORMATION REQUIRED.” “This includes information received from another person, such as when an employee informs you that he/she witnessed some type of wrongdoing.”

“If you think that wrongdoing took place, but can provide nothing more than second-hand or unsubstantiated assertions, [the Intelligence Community Inspector General] will not be able to process the complaint or information for submission as an ICWPA,” the form concluded.

Coup

sunbeam October 2, 2019 Comments Off

The media is running with the Democratic storyline that the Democrats just want to govern and provide a good country for their fellow Americans. They really do not want to impeach the President but that PDJT has left them little choice. Hogwash!

The Democrats and the media have been colluding to overthrow the Trump administration since before PDJT was inaugurated. As PDJT said on Tuesdsay, this is nothing short of an attempted coup.

A Whistleblower

sunbeam October 1, 2019 Comments Off

“Whistleblower” is the media’s word of the week. The MSM are still working tirelessly to overturn the 2016 election.

What is a whistleblower? There are many definitions for whistleblower, some legal and others not so. However, a generally accepted definition is that a whistleblower is a person who comes forward and shares his/her direct knowledge of wrongdoing that he/she believes is happening in an organization or government. A whistleblower could be an employee, contractor, or a supplier who directly becomes aware of illegal activities.

Recently we have heard a lot about the term whistleblower because of desperate activities by the Democrats in our nation’s capital. They are afraid that a lot of their malfeasance is going to be exposed in the near future. And, most likely, it will be. To create a smokescreen, they manufactured a “whistleblower” complaint against the President.

To do this they first changed the rules for filing a whistleblower complaint within the Intelligence community. The IGIC (Inspector General of the Intelligence Community) “decided” to allow secondhand complaints. That is, the whistleblower did not have to have direct knowledge of the supposed illicit activity. Two days after this change, the current complaint roiling Washington was filed. Coincidence?

CBS’ 60 Minutes Impeachment Coverage Begins With A Lie

sunbeam September 30, 2019 Comments Off

CBS Reporter Scott Pelley led the CBS broadcast of the House impeachment “inquiry” of PDJT with a stunning claim:

“Tonight, “60 Minutes” has obtained a letter that indicates the government whistleblower who set off the impeachment inquiry of President Trump is under federal protection, because he or she fears for their safety.”

This is quite a claim. Obviously it conjures up the image of the witness protection program and Mafia-style evildoers stalking this person with intent to do bodily harm and more. The only problem? It wasn’t true. Apparently Pelley “misconstrued” the contents of a letter sent by the “whistleblower’s” attorney.

The End of Prayer Shaming

sunbeam September 28, 2019 Comments Off

This is an excellent video made by high school students from East Catholic HS in Connecticut. They do not say a word. It was created in response to a Senator’s remark about “Where is God in all the tragedy in the world?”

The video is 2 minutes and 17 seconds long.

Bizarro Schiff

sunbeam September 27, 2019 Comments Off

“Sequels are rarely better than the original. If we have learned anything over the last six days, as the feeding frenzy over the whistleblower has overtaken official Washington, it is this: Democrats want to impeach President Trump and they do not care if the facts support their cause.

“After more than two years of Democrats’ hyperventilating, Mr. Trump was cleared of collusion and conspiracy. Democrats and their media allies overhyped their claims and won Pulitzer Prizes along the way. But they failed in their objective, and soon we will learn more about the origins of the Russia collusion hoax and FISA warrant abuses.

“Instead of overhyping this story, Democrats should have been more careful and measured. But they could not help themselves.”

Spoiled Teenagers

sunbeam September 26, 2019 Comments Off

Is Joe Biden being cast aside? Have the Democrats decided that he cannot be their candidate just like they did with Bernie Sanders in 2016? Is the “whistleblower” complaint part of a strategy by the Democrats to discredit Biden and edge him aside in favor of somebody else (anybody else except Sanders, of course)?

Biden seems very exposed in all of this. Biden is on video boasting how he got the Ukrainian prosecutor fired. Biden claimed that Obama was in on it. This prosecutor was the one that was looking into corruption in the company where Hunter Biden, his son, was a director. It was reported in 2016 Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, in his investigation of corruption involving Burisma Holdings, a natural gas company, identified Hunter Biden as the recipient of over $3,000,000 from the company.

A Speech For The Ages

sunbeam September 25, 2019 Comments Off

Some 20 years ago Howard Stern asked Trump if he would run for president. Mr. Trump said,

“Personally I don’t need it, I will be ok. But I really worry about my children and grandchildren, the world is moving in the wrong direction. If, in the near future, the next Reagan does not become president, then I will try. See how much support I get, and then decide”.

On Tuesday President Trump gave a speech at the UN. Without a doubt this is the best speech he has given as President. In all my decades of life, I have never heard as good a speech as the one PDJT gave. It was the most honest speech that any world leader has ever done. He came to an organization that is used to hearing how important they are as leaders. President Trump set a new tone to world politics. Presidents serve people, not people serving presidents.

Why Trump?

sunbeam September 24, 2019 Comments Off

What Recession?

sunbeam September 23, 2019 Comments Off

The Democrats and their pals in the lame stream media continue to insist that the economy is headed into a recession based on some spurious signal from the bond markets. They insist this is the direct result of PDJT’s economic policies. Now I would agree that the signal in the bond market that lasted about an hour a couple of weeks ago is the result of government policies, just not ours. Central banks overseas caused the effect when they continued to affirm negative interest rates and when foreign governments continued to devalue their currencies in relation to the US.

So how is the economy doing? Last week U.S. economic data included the Labor Department’s report on initial filings for unemployment benefits that continue to be at historically low levels. No state was triggered “on” the Extended Benefits program during the week ending August 31. Insured unemployment benefits are at low levels not seen in many decades.