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Why did Pope Benedict Resign? McCarrick, Vigano and Vatican Bank Scandals Explained in Detail
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After 33 years of decorated service, Gen. Michael Flynn has been silenced by Robert Mueller
There’s a reason why you haven’t heard much from Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn lately. The man who served his country honorably for 33 years has been effectively silenced by special counsel Robert Mueller as he awaits sentencing.
Given the circumstances of his plea deal, Flynn cannot speak publicly about anything related to the charges against him. Doing so could void his plea agreement with Mueller’s team and open him up to further legal proceedings that he is financially unable to defend himself against.
Flynn, who has worked his entire career on a government salary, has spent over one million dollars on his legal defense. The financial burden has forced him to sell his home in Alexandria, Virginia, and move into a family home in Rhode Island.
He has been effectively bankrupted and has had his reputation torn to shreds, all for the supposed crime of misleading the FBI about a perfectly legal conversation he had, as incoming national security adviser, with the former Russian ambassador to the U.S.
Remember that the charges against Flynn stem from his advocacy for a detente with Russia, in addition to his reported lobbying against an anti-Israel United Nations resolution, which the Obama administration infamously endorsed through omission by abstaining from the vote. Neither of those activities are illegal or even immoral. In fact, foreign policy observers can be left to conclude that Gen. Flynn was merely acting in America’s best interests.
In order to come to the conclusion that Flynn apparently misled the FBI, the Obama intelligence community wiretapped Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador. Those conversations were then leaked to the press by elements of the intelligence community, in gross violation of federal law. The FBI review found no evidence of wrongdoing by Gen. Flynn, except for the charge of lying to the FBI, a charge that is now reportedly being disputed by the agents who interviewed him.
President Trump’s initial pick for national security adviser had long been skeptical of the unchecked power of the U.S. intelligence community. Flynn wanted to prioritize several foreign policy agenda items, such as ending the Iran deal, moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
There was one more priority item for Flynn. Through his experience as a general in foreign war zones, he found that there were several fractures in the intelligence cycle, which harmed U.S. troops’ ability to succeed on the battlefield. As national security adviser, Flynn intended to conduct an audit on the intelligence community as a whole. A full audit of the U.S. intelligence community’s activities has not been completed since 1975, following the Nixon administration’s Watergate scandal.
While serving in the Obama administration, Flynn’s earlier attempts at intelligence reform infuriated the upper echelons of the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency. Flynn’s enemies list continued to grow when, as Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) director, he testified in front of the Congress and challenged the Obama White House narrative that al Qaeda had been “decimated.” The Obama administration forced him into early retirement shortly thereafter.
It became quite clear that the incoming national security adviser posed a direct challenge to the fourth branch of government — the unaccountable Washington bureaucrat class, including the intelligence community, which some have come to refer to as the “deep state.”
A man who has spent his entire life dedicated to his country, who has served in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones on behalf of the United States, has been targeted for destruction.
Robert Mueller’s team of Democrat prosecutors — using unethical wiretaps, along with the now-contested testimony of wholly corrupt FBI officials — has silenced Gen. Michael Flynn.
Some of Flynn’s associates have suggested that he should set up a GoFundMe drive to help with his tremendous legal expenditures, in addition to his legal defense fund. The former DIA director has outright refused, on moral grounds. “He refuses to do it. He is an honorable man and will not ask for money,” a person close to Flynn tells CR, on condition of anonymity due to the legal situation.
After being intimidated into pleading guilty for lying to the FBI — when the charges continue to fall flat under increased scrutiny — a lifelong patriot who has committed virtually zero wrongdoing now faces the prospect of a multi-year prison term.
The intelligence community and Mueller’s team have used leaks to the media and contacts with members of the TV pundit class to recklessly attribute labels to Gen. Flynn. Without evidence, we have heard for years now that Flynn has colluded with the Russians, with some even claiming he committed a form of treason. Flynn, on the other hand, has been silenced through legal intimidation tactics. He cannot speak for himself, so others must make the case for him.
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Clear Case of Collusion: Bruce Ohr, the FBI & Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska
![DEEP STATE GATE: Darrell Issa on DOJ’s Bruce Ohr Closed-Door Testimony: He Admitted to Submitting ‘As Fact’ a Dossier ‘He Knew Was Fiction’ [VIDEO]](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/QSeKymfG0DHWXRPzvkz-xzHKy8kyEV1zD8hzNmbXcb-45WkXPaTN72mIK2bMqVRkinSIhuvXn8UYalItP0w4PVwGOyUitFvlu5MyDBBMqxz3JdA5Gas2gY8gMGqYAWjryoddAZxt)
DEEP STATE GATE: Darrell Issa on DOJ’s Bruce Ohr Closed-Door Testimony: He Admitted to Submitting ‘As Fact’ a Dossier ‘He Knew Was Fiction’ [VIDEO]
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Conservative Speaker Candidate Jim Jordan: Deep State Gate ‘is the Biggest Abuse of Power I Have Ever Seen’ [VIDEO: Watch at 5:00 Mark]
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/28/jim-jordan-discusses-bruce-ohr-testimony/
Bob Newhart Updates Fans on Legendary Actor Tim Conway’s Deteriorating Condition
Hailed as one of comedy’s most gifted personalities, legendary actor Tim Conway is reportedly suffering from dementia.
Fans were saddened to learn that Conway is now “almost entirely unresponsive,” according to his daughter, Kelly Conway.
Fans also learned that Kelly Conway appears to be at odds with her father’s wife, Charlene, about the decisions made in regard to Conway’s health.
On Aug. 28, another famed comedic legend, 88-year-old Bob Newhart, spoke up on behalf of his longtime friend.
Newhart wanted to reassure Conway’s friends and fans that Conway is currently receiving the best of care.
“To the many fans and friends of Tim Conway,” Newhart began on Twitter.
“We have been best friends with Charlene and Tim for many years and want to assure you that he is receiving the most devoted care. Sincerely, Ginnie and Bob Newhart.”
To the many fans and friends of Tim Conway,
We have been friends with Charlene and Tim for many years and want to assure you that he is receiving the most devoted care.
Sincerely,
Ginnie and Bob Newhart
We have been friends with Charlene and Tim for many years and want to assure you that he is receiving the most devoted care.
Sincerely,
Ginnie and Bob Newhart
Happy birthday to my friend Bob Newhart, if you see him today remember to order him Moo Goo Gai Pan for his birthday.Newhart’s voice comes at a time when fans are worried that the apparent family drama in the Conway family might detract from Conway’s immediate needs.
But according to Newhart, fans needn’t worry.
A representative of Kelly Conway released a statement thanking everyone for their love and concern for Conway during this difficult time.
“Kelly Conway wants to thank everyone for their outpouring of love and support for her dad and cannot make any statements at this moment due to a pending court date,” the representative told Fox News.
Fans of Conway still delight in remembering all the laughs he brought to television week after week.
Some loved him best for his role as Ensign Charles Parker in “McHale’s Navy,” while others are still drawn to his contribution to “The Carol Burnett Show.”
Conway won six Emmy Awards during his career and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2002.
Fans have been vocal on social media, pouring out their support and best wishes for the beloved actor.
We wish his family all the best as they endeavor to do what’s best for Conway.
The Catholic Church Is Losing Its War On Human Nature
The Catholic Church's 'pedophile priest' scandal, which goes to the heart of the organization, is the wreckage of its doomed war on human nature.
For 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has been at war with human nature. It usually loses, as it must, and over the past few weeks it has been losing more than usual.
The “pedophile priest” scandal has gotten widespread publicity in the United States since the Boston Globe broke the story all the way back in 2002. A few weeks ago, a grand jury convened by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released its report detailing the vast extent of the priests’ criminal action, and of the church’s cover-up. Here is just a small sampling, from John Daniel Davidson’s summary in The Federalist. I promise this is all that I will quote.
There is the priest who raped a seven-year-old girl in the hospital after she’d had her tonsils out. There is the priest who raped a girl, got her pregnant, then arranged for an abortion. There is the ring of priests in the Pittsburgh diocese who ‘shared intelligence or information regarding victims,’ created child pornography and exchanged victims among themselves, using ‘whips, violence and sadism in raping their victims.’ It goes on and on, and it is sickening.
One of the chief villains to emerge from this scandal is Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who in July was forced to resign from the College of Cardinals, but had been promoted to it back in 2001 despite widespread knowledge of his actions in the American church, which no one in authority cared to investigate.
Over the weekend, it got worse. A letter from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former Vatican ambassador to the United States, alleges that the corruption goes all the way to the top. According to Vigano, the top leadership of the Catholic Church, including Pope Francis, has been running interference for the pedophile priests.
This is the sort of thing that ought to have people nailing manifestos to church doors. But that’s not quite what’s happening. Or rather, it already happened 500 years ago, and those who still persist in their loyalty to the Catholic Church are not as easily shaken off.
Vigano blames the scandal on a “pro-gay” cabal within the church who want to change its teachings on the evil of homosexuality. (We tend to think of this as a problem of “pedophile” priests, and that is the most grotesque part of the story, but the majority is actually about high-ranking priests foisting their attentions on young adult men in seminaries.) Similarly, after his clear-eyed summary of the facts, Davidson offers this explanation.
The crisis did not arise from the teachings of the Catholic Church, it arose from the abandonment of those teachings by a faction of US priests, bishops, and theologians amid the ferment of the sexual revolution in the 1960s and ’70s. More than anything, the sex abuse crisis in the church stems from the ‘culture of dissent’ that prevailed in seminaries and dioceses across the country during this time.
So if the problem is all those hippie priests from the sixties, who better to blame for it than Frank the Hippie Pope? This is a form of deep denial. The Catholic Church’s problems go back much farther than the 1960s. They are the wreckage of its doomed war on human nature, which it has carried out on two fronts.
The church’s war begins, most obviously, with its attempt to suppress human sexuality. The early church father Augustine cemented the doctrine that sexual desire is the ultimate manifestation within us of original sin and is therefore inherently evil. It is difficult to understate how central this was and still is to Catholic teachings. It is, for example, the origin of Catholic opposition to birth control, since in this view, procreation is the only positive value that can justify sexual intercourse as a kind of necessary evil.
In Augustine’s time, the question of whether priests could marry was still a matter of contention within the church, but eventually his views won out. In this respect, the Catholic Church is, and remains, more puritanical than the Puritans, Protestants who allowed their priests to marry.
But when you attempt to totally suppress a normal and natural part of human life—and nothing could be more normal and natural than a desire that ensures the existence of our species in the first place—you are fighting a battle that you can’t win. More specifically, when you try to repress sexuality, it tends to come out sideways. Those who have no concept of a healthy sexuality will tend to develop an unhealthy sexuality. Hence the concentration within the church hierarchy of men with a sexual preference for children and teenage boys.
One other factor virtually ensures the corruption of the whole organization: the Catholic conception of its institutional authority. The distinguishing feature of the Catholic Church, and its central conflict with Protestantism, is the idea that it is not merely the ideas and values of Christianity that are necessary for man’s salvation, but the institution itself.
Priests in the Catholic Church are not merely men who have studied religion or distinguished themselves by their example of virtuous behavior. They are supposed to enjoy a special metaphysical status as God’s representatives on Earth, acting in persona Christi, “in the person of Christ,” and according to the Vatican II conference, “partak[ing] of the function of Christ the sole mediator” between man and God.
Yes, well, clearly that’s not working out. And how could it possibly work out? The Catholic Church is attempting to invest a literally god-like, otherworldly infallibility in an earthly institution run by fallible and corruptible men. So of course this organization will attract and promote the kind of men who like to wield power while being shielded from scrutiny. This is the fundamental problem of making an institution synonymous with an idea and of equating devotion to that idea with devotion to specific people.
This is the second way in which the church is at war with human nature. Human nature includes the ability to reason, to weigh ideas and to make judgments for oneself. Everyone senses, on some level, that we have to do this for ourselves as a matter of survival. But the Catholic Church, by asserting its authority as the literal voice of God on Earth, calls on its followers to suppress their private judgment and cultivate a habit of mental obedience. Back to Vatican II: “religious submission of mind and will must be shown in a special way to the authentic magisterium,” that is, the religious authorities. This is what makes believers into a “flock,” that is, into sheep ready to be preyed upon by a wolf in priests’ clothing.
It might sound like I’m throwing in with the Protestants, and I’ll admit to having a soft spot for those Protestant preachers who believed in the supremacy of reason and the “right of private judgment.” But having already been branded an “anti-Catholic writer” because I criticized Pope Francis for his insane level of ignorance about money and capitalism, I hasten to add that, as an atheist, I don’t see it as my job to pick sides among various religious sects and denominations. So rather than using this as an opportunity to kick the Catholic Church while it’s down—it has been bleeding power and moral authority for at least 500 years—let me use this to make the case for the Enlightenment.
One of the critiques of the Enlightenment offered by religious conservatives, especially by Catholic conservatives, is that it exalts reason over faith. The fault of the Enlightenment, in this view is that of “claiming too much for human reason,” which can only be repaired “by acknowledging the limitations of human reason and the necessity for reliance upon tradition.”
If you want to appeal to faith and tradition and institutions, nobody can beat the claims of the Catholic Church. Yet the manifest evidence is that such an institution can be corrupt at the very core, and not for the first time. So how is anyone supposed to judge such an institution or its members?
Put yourself in the position of an American Catholic reading the Vigano letter and trying to choose which side to take in the brewing civil war within the church. What would you have to do? You can’t fall back on faith, tradition, and institutions, because that is precisely what both sides are appealing to. You would have to weigh the evidence, consider the arguments, look at the alternative courses of action—in a word, you would have to use reason, just like the rest of us out here in the secular world.
That’s not just the case in a crisis like this one. It’s what you have to do on every issue, every time. The supposed alternatives to reason are not alternatives at all, because they also always offer a multitude of competing options. If you want to rely on faith, which faith do you accept? Islam, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism (it’s still around), Christianity? And which version of each faith: Sunni or Shia, Catholic or Protestant? You still have to weigh the options and make a choice.
Traditions and institutions may have value, but that value has to be judged by our own thinking. To follow them in the absence of rational scrutiny, or in defiance of rational doubt, is to let yourself be led to an unknown end by men whose character you refuse to investigate. History provides plenty of examples, both religious and secular, of how this leads to grief.
Reason is supreme because it has to be, and not just because a bunch of French philosophes got a little carried away two centuries ago. The current agony of the Catholic Church is just the latest bit of evidence that if we aren’t guided by reason, we will be guided by authority figures who have given us little reason to think they deserve that kind of trust.
Robert Tracinski is a senior writer for The Federalist. His work can also be found at The Tracinski Letter.
Lindsey Graham Reveals Powerful Message Trump Gave Him After McCain Eulogy
By Randy DeSoto
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., revealed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump called him after the senator’s tearful tribute speech to the late Sen. John McCain, telling him, “you did right by your friend.”
During an appearance on CNN, anchor Dana Bash asked Graham how he can square his friendship with McCain to being willing to “carry the water” for Trump.
“It’s pretty simple, if you knew anything about me. I want to be relevant,” Graham responded. “I want to make sure this president, Donald Trump, who I didn’t vote for and ran against, is successful.”
He added, “I regret the relationship between the two. John is my dearest friend in the world, and I am going to try to help President Trump, and I will. I think ‘Country First’ means that.”
The South Carolinian went on to say that when Trump speaks poorly of McCain, “it pisses me off.”
“He called yesterday after my speech, and he couldn’t have been nicer,” Graham recounted. “He said, ‘That was very sad. I just want to let you know you did right by your friend.'”
“When he says something bad about John, it pisses me off," says Sen. Lindsey Graham on Trump and McCain’s strained relationship, adding that Trump called him after his tribute in the Senate on Sunday to say "you did right by your friend" http://cnn.it/2BXZUoX
12:59 PM - Aug 29, 2018
“To those who say the only way you can honor John McCain is to fight Donald Trump and try to kick him out of office, I don’t agree,” the senator said.
Graham and Bash talked about Graham’s emotional tribute from the Senate floor during which he said, “It is going to be a lonely journey for me for a while. I am going to need your help, and the void to be filled by John’s passing is more than I can fill.”
“What hit me was the desk,” he recalled to Bash. “Funerals are for a reason. They’re for the living.”
“They give us a chance to remember what we’ve lost and how we can cope with it. It hit me really hard when I saw the cloth on the desk, because I’ve sat next to that desk by him for years talking about everything under the sun, and that will be an empty desk. My life has changed like everybody who knew John.”
“It hit me really hard when I saw the cloth over the desk," Sen. Lindsey Graham says about seeing his friend John McCain’s desk in the Senate draped in black.
Graham told NBC’s “Today” on Tuesday that Trump had gotten to the right place in terms of honoring McCain’s service to the country while acknowledging the two men often didn’t see eye-to-eye.
“John Kelly, (the White House) chief of staff has been terrific,” the lawmaker said. “The president told Gen. Kelly whatever they need, they get,” referring to the McCain family.
CNN reported that besides his Senate tribute speech, Graham will read a scripture at McCain’s memorial service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Saturday and speak at his burial service on Sunday at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Sarah Palin Reportedly Not Invited to John McCain’s Funeral
If this is true, it’s an unneeded swipe at someone who doesn’t deserve it.
The death of Senator John McCain has opened up old wounds between him and President Trump, whom he’s never seen eye-to-eye with. Much ado has been made about the contentious relationship between the late Senator and President. In the immediate wake of his death, the White House even neglected to lower the flag to half staff in honor of the deceased Senator, only later relenting after media outcry.
(McCain isn’t innocent in this tit-for-tat either. Before his death, he reportedly made it known that he didn’t want Trump anywhere near his funeral. Patton said old soldiers never die, but it looks like that applies more to grudges.
And to make matters worse, Trump isn’t the only person who wasn’t invited to the funeral. Sarah Palin, McCain’s former running mate, hasn’t received an invitation. From Raw Story:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has reportedly not been invited to attend the memorial for her one-time running mate, the late John McCain.
MSNBC booking director Jesse Rodriguez tweeted Wednesday that NBC White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell learned that Palin was not invited to McCain’s memorial.
MSNBC booking director Jesse Rodriguez tweeted Wednesday that NBC White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell learned that Palin was not invited to McCain’s memorial.
Here is the tweet that prompted the report:
We know that Palin and McCain haven’t been on the best of terms in recent years.
In McCain’s final book before he died, he wrote he even regretted choosing Palin as his running mate. His confession may have been honest, but it wasn’t exactly a nice thing to say. Regardless, the former Alaska Governor didn’t hold it against him, and wrote a powerful tribute to McCain upon his passing.
To not invite Palin to the funeral is an unnecessary shame. It shows where McCain’s priorities really stood.
REVEALED: Chinese Govt. Killed and Imprisoned 18-20 CIA Spies After Penetrating Hillary Clinton’s Private Server
REVEALED: Chinese Govt. Killed and Imprisoned 18-20 CIA Spies After Penetrating Hillary Clinton’s Private Server
by Jim HoftHillary’s carelessness and criminal actions may have led to the deaths of 20 CIA operatives in China.
The Chinese government killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA operatives in China from 2010 to 2012.
At the same time a Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington, D.C., area hacked Hillary Clinton’s private server throughout her term as secretary of state.
Her criminal behavior severely damaged US foreign policy.
And the FBI refused to act.
The Chinese government murdered or imprisoned 18-20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012 while Feinstein had a Chinese spy as her office manager.
Business Insider reported:
China killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012, hobbling U.S. spying operations in a massive intelligence breach whose origin has not been identified, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
Investigators remain divided over whether there was a spy within the Central Intelligence Agency who betrayed the sources or whether the Chinese hacked the CIA’s covert communications system, the newspaper reported, citing current and former U.S. officials.
The Chinese killed at least a dozen people providing information to the CIA from 2010 through 2012, dismantling a network that was years in the making, the newspaper reported.
One was shot and killed in front of a government building in China, three officials told the Times, saying that was designed as a message to others about working with Washington.
The breach was considered particularly damaging, with the number of assets lost rivaling those in the Soviet Union and Russia who perished after information passed to Moscow by spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, the report said. Ames was active as a spy in the 1980s and Hanssen from 1979 to 2001.
The CIA declined to comment when asked about the Times report on Saturday.
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