Obama’s final booby trap
Posted By: Mercedes44, 9/29/2025 5:52:48 AM
In the final days of the Obama presidency — while Americans were focused on inaugurating a new president and turning the page on a divisive era — President Barack Obama signed a quiet but sweeping executive order that many now see as a ticking time bomb planted in the heart of our Intelligence Community. On January 3, 2017, just 17 days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Obama signed a modification to Executive Order 12333, authorizing the National Security Agency (NSA) to share raw signals intelligence (SIGINT) with all 16 other intelligence agencies — including the FBI, the CIA, and even obscure agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration’s intel wing.
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It’s a terrible fix for a problem that doesn’t exist — and one that would lead to worse policing, and so more crime; it would likely even produce a force with far more bad cops.
“What I would do is ensure that the recommendations of the CCRB be understood to be the final voice of the question of accountability,” Mamdani says — without pointing to any actual bad results of the current law, which gives final say to the police commissioner.
The federal government has shut down, readers, and that’s as close as I get to a “snow day” around here at National Review. Nobody’s budging on their negotiating position in Washington for the time being, and we’ve all placed our bets on who’s going to catch the blame. (My position: While this will likely factor into Virginia’s statewide elections in November, it will have no effect on 2026 either way.) Meanwhile, I’m still trying to convince my editors that as long as the feds are on strike I qualify for a fully paid vacation. (Surely I am the living definition of a “nonessential worker,” no?)
Keir Starmer strayed into fantasy when he claimed Channel migrants come to Britain aboard “Farage boats” and cannot be removed from this country due to Brexit.
The Prime Minister’s claim is preposterous and simply not grounded in fact, as even impartial observers agree.
When he referred to pre-Brexit Britain having “a returns agreement with every country in the EU” he was referencing the Dublin Agreement, which was supposed to facilitate asylum seekers being sent back to other European Union countries through which they had travelled.
But, put simply, the Dublin Agreement did not work.
Brilliant! CNN Photobombed in Memphis
Live Shot, Forcing Reporter to Destroy
Dem Crime Narrative 3 replies
Live Shot, Forcing Reporter to Destroy
Dem Crime Narrative 3 replies
Brilliant move by a patriot down in Memphis who photobombed a CNN live shot about President Donald Trump's efforts to crack down on crime in the blue city, forcing the reporter to destroy another Democrat narrative, noting that residents do want federal help.
During the CNN live broadcast in Memphis, the reporter was doing a report from Tennessee about Trump making good on his promise to make all of America safer again by sending in the National Guard to assist local law enforcement efforts in the blue-run city in the red state.
Following the midterm “shellacking” of 2010, President Obama and Eric Holder began the “secret research project” targeting political opposition using the IRS. DOJ asked the IRS for the donor data of all supporters to conservative groups. [Schedule B’s of 501c(3)(4)].
The IRS was used to identify targets 2011 and 2012, until discovered April ’12. President Obama has a problem. President Obama then sends his Chief of Staff, Jack Lew, to run the IRS and block discoveries around the IRS weaponization.
From 2012 through April 2016, the Obama administration then began spying on political opposition, using the FBI to conduct surveillance through their access to the NSA database.
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Regina Santos-Aviles “doused herself in gasoline” in Uvalde on September 13, according to a report from responding firefighters obtained by the Uvalde Leader News.
Regina Santos-Aviles, a congressional staffer, stands in front of the Capitol Building.
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Texas congressional staffer Regina Santos-Aviles, who burned to death in her backyard, appears to have sparked the blaze herself.
Regina Santos Aviles / Facebook
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Google has entered the chat.
Long a primary offender when it comes to free speech and censorship, the Big Tech giant made what could go down as one of the most consequential 180’s in modern history last week. In a letter sent to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Google admitted to its ugly past of viewpoint-based censorship on its flagship brand, YouTube. The company’s mea culpa blames a host of cancellations on sustained pressure from the Biden administration, which it now denounces as “unacceptable and wrong.”
Following the example set by Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg just before President Trump was sworn back into office earlier this year,
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In fact, it reminded me of why I once turned to one of history’s greatest Anglicans, the legendary Christian author C.S. Lewis, for help with understanding what lies at the core of Christianity, as well as why Christians of different denominations feel so strongly about their differences.
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But the revelation was no great surprise to those of us who have followed the settlement of some 100,000 Somali immigrants in Minnesota over the past three decades.
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A new gubernatorial candidate has entered the fold in Georgia with an incredibly cringeworthy advertisement to let voters know who she is.
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It wasn’t close. Just 17% responded that AI would create jobs,