Migrants…isn't there supposed to be another wave of them coming to the border?
There is a reason for it anon, I believe that if they work with in a position like this, its easier to take care of their past deeds. They are no longer a pvt citizen.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Admits Trump’s Sanctions Are Working
The ruler of Iran’s Islamic regime admitted in a speech on Jan. 9 that sanctions reimposed by the administration of President Donald Trump are putting unprecedented pressure on the nation. Last year, Trump quit the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions in order to diminish Tehran’s oil exports, curb its missile program, and clip its regional influence.
“The sanctions do put pressure on the country and the people,” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, according to a transcript on his website of one of his speeches in Tehran. “The Americans happily say that these sanctions are unprecedented in history. Yes, they’re unprecedented,” Khamenei said, before launching into an attack on U.S. officials and declaring that the “defeat that the Americans will face will be unprecedented.”
Iran’s economy has faced instability in recent months with the rial fluctuating in value, making it difficult for ordinary people to make ends meet. Sporadic protests linked to the tough economic situation have been led by truck drivers, farmers, workers, merchants, and teachers, occasionally resulting in violent confrontations with security forces. On the same day that Khamenei delivered his speech, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in Jordan that the United States is “redoubling not only our diplomatic but our commercial efforts to put real pressure on Iran.” “There is enormous agreement on the risk that Iran poses to Jordan and other countries in the region,” Pompeo added. He also noted that the U.S. military withdrawal from Syria won’t jeopardize Washington’s campaign to counter Iran’s malign activity in the region.
The day before Khamenei’s remarks, the European Union imposed its first round of sanctions on Iran since the signing of the Iran nuclear deal. The Netherlands said there was a strong indication that Iran was responsible for the assassinations of two Dutch nationals in 2015 and 2017. Denmark and France foiled two Iranian terrorist attacks last year. “The EU and the Netherlands take strong action against Iranian unlawful interference in Europe. Targeted sanctions and a clear message underline that this behavior is unacceptable and needs to stop immediately,” Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok wrote on Twitter. The European Union is one of the signatories to the Iran nuclear deal, officially titled the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The other remaining participants are China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
Pompeo lauded the European Union for imposing the sanctions, as the United States considers Iran an outlaw regime. The State Department accuses its rulers of being the world’s largest sponsors of terrorism, facilitating illegal financial activities, threatening maritime security, committing cybercrime, abusing human rights, and exploiting the environment. “Iran and Hizballah have terrorized Europe since 1979. By taking action today, European nations sent Iran a clear message that terrorism will not be tolerated,” Pompeo wrote on Twitter on Jan.8. “The U.S. strongly supports the new sanctions and stands with our European allies as we counter this common threat.” On Jan. 3, Pompeo warned Iran about its plans to launch three space vehicles, which feature technology that’s nearly identical to intercontinental ballistic missiles.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/iranian-leader-admits-trumps-sanctions-are-working_2761245.html
Yes that is BIS…
Pelosi Ignores DOJ Precedent on Impeachment Question
Last fall, Nancy Pelosi pledged to find “common ground” with President Trump and the Republicans once she became House Speaker. Sadly, she abandoned that pledge even before being sworn in. In so doing, she displayed either a flagrant ignorance of or willful blindness to Department of Justice legal rules. In an NBC interview hours before officially starting her speakership, Pelosi responded to a question about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller could indict President Trump while in office: “I think that is an open discussion in terms of the law.”
No, it is not. Two DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinions hold unequivocally that a sitting President cannot be indicted. Mueller, who reports to the Attorney General and is therefore considered a DOJ employee, must comply with those decisions. In 2000, a Democratic (Clinton) Justice Department OLC clearly found that indicting a sitting president would be “unconstitutional,” confirming the equally clear decision that a Republican (Nixon) DOJ OLC had reached in 1973.
The two opinions grounded their reasoning in both the Constitution and policy. There is a constitutionally created national process for electing the President. It would be “incongruous,” observes the 1973 opinion, for a “jury of twelve, selected by chance ‘off the street’” to remove the President. Both opinions weighed the constitutional balance of the President’s powers as Chief Executive to oversee all federal prosecutions and the Presidential authority to assert executive privilege over evidence to be used against him. Both opinions agreed that being “chief executive and the defendant in a federal prosecution brought by the executive branch” set up a “structural anomaly.”
The most compelling constitutional argument, concluded both opinions, is that indictment of a sitting President violates “the doctrine of the Separation of Powers” –and therefore the Constitution—because it “unduly interfere[s] …with the conduct of the presidency.” The opinions also viewed policy as a factor to be considered, noting that the modern Presidency is all-consuming, having assumed “a leadership role undreamed of” in the 18th century. In 1973, the OLC marveled: “The spectacle of an indicted President still trying to serve as Chief Executive boggles the imagination.” Both agreed: only impeachment complies with the constitutional process for removing a president.
When asked about the unambiguous opinions, Pelosi merely shrugged, “I do not think that that is conclusive.” It is possible that Pelosi forgot the promise she made to voters when campaigning for Democrats so she could regain her Speakership, thus succumbing to a selective amnesia that afflicts many politicians once elected. It is more likely that she never meant what she told the American people in the first place. Consider that she is now doing whatever she can, short of allowing impeachment hearings to proceed, to tarnish Trump. A flurry of frivolous House investigations has been launched, all aimed at the President and/or his family.
Pelosi wants it both ways. The longtime Democrat House leader longs to dump Trump via an indictment. Mueller prosecuting the President, rather than Democrats pursuing impeachment, eliminates a political gamble the Republicans lost during the Bill Clinton travails. Pelosi’s thumbing her nose at DOJ’s long-established precedent of following the guidance of OLC opinions corrupts the legal process. Mueller cannot do the Democrats’ dirty work by indicting the President. Impeachment is the only route for riddance. Democrats will have to decide, even when Mueller fails to find criminal conduct, whether to go there.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/pelosi-ignores-doj-precedent-on-impeachment-question_2761659.html