Anonymous ID: 347f6d March 31, 2019, 9:21 a.m. No.5991705   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1729 >>1810 >>1817 >>2122 >>2224

AOC rallies against DCCC 'blacklist' that has left-wing Democrats in uproar

 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., spoke out Saturday against a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee plan to help incumbents fight off challengers in the Democratic primary.

 

“The @DCCC’s new rule to blacklist+boycott anyone who does business w/ primary challengers is extremely divisive & harmful to the party,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter. “My recommendation, if you’re a small-dollar donor: pause your donations to DCCC & give directly to swing candidates instead.”

 

Ocasio-Cortez was elected last fall as part of a Democratic freshman class which included the most women ever in Congress and many progressive representatives. She defeated longtime Rep. Joe Crowley, who was chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, in their primary. The new policy from the campaign arm for House Democrats targets primary challengers' ability to raise funds and build up their campaign organization, saying specifically that their "core mission" is to protect incumbents. “[T]he DCCC will not conduct business with, nor recommend to any of its targeted campaigns, any consultant that works with an opponent of a sitting Member of the House Democratic Caucus,” the DCCC said in their statement on the policy. A number of left-wing Democrats are dismayed by the policy, including Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., the vice chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, who called it "totally tone-deaf to the grassroots activists across our nation."

 

Rep. Ayanna Pressley D-Mass., who also ran as a progressive challenger against an establishment candidate, also spoke out against the DCCC’s new rule in a long Twitter thread.

 

“If the DCCC enacts this policy to blacklist vendors who work with challengers, we risk undermining an entire universe of potential candidates and vendors - especially women and people of color - whose ideas, energy, and innovation need a place in our party,” Pressley said. “So, let me be clear: I believe fiercely in the potential of our party, but we cannot credibly lay claim to prioritizing diversity & inclusion when institutions like the DCCC implement policies that threaten to silence new voices and historically marginalized communities,” she added.

 

The fight over the new DCC policy is the latest example of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the Democratic establishment struggling to get a handle on the members and demands of the young, progressive wing of her party. Other recent clashes have centered on the Green New Deal from Ocasio-Cortez and talk of impeaching President Trump.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aoc-rallies-against-dccc-blacklist-that-has-left-wing-democrats-in-uproar

Anonymous ID: 347f6d March 31, 2019, 10:06 a.m. No.5992186   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Jihadi Recruit Nicknamed ‘Osama bin Bieber’ Killed by ISIS for Spying

 

A teenage ISIS recruit nicknamed “Osama bin Bieber” for his youthful appearance has reportedly been executed by the terror group for being a spy. Mohammed Ismail was 18 when he left the British city of Coventry to join the jihadi terror cult in March 2014. Ismail was killed by his fellow jihadis supposedly for giving away the movements of Nasser Muthana, a high-profile ISIS recruiter and propagandist, according to the Sunday Times. Muthana was killed in a precision air strike in the Iraqi city of Mosul, a former ISIS stronghold. According to the report, ISIS operatives were convinced Muthana was successfully targeted due to Ismail’s espionage. The jihadi recruit’s last moments alive were recorded on video, in which he apologized, according to the newspaper. His execution is believed to be the first known ISIS killing of a suspected British spy. No information was immediately available as to how Ismail was killed

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/jihadi-recruit-nicknamed-osama-bin-bieber-killed-by-isis-for-spying_2860408.html

Anonymous ID: 347f6d March 31, 2019, 10:12 a.m. No.5992245   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2271 >>2274

Watchdog Sues to See If Every Clinton Email Was Sent to Foreign Entity

 

A government watchdog sued the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on March 27 seeking documents related to an alleged FBI coverup of a lead in the Clinton email investigation, which suggested that virtually every email Hillary Clinton sent during her tenure as secretary of state was forwarded to a foreign actor. Judicial Watch, a conservative foundation, filed the lawsuit after ODNI failed to produce documents responsive to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed on July 13, 2018.

 

Judicial Watch filed the FOIA on the heels of an explosive committee hearing on Capitol Hill featuring FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok. During the hearing, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) accused Strzok of ignoring a major Clinton email investigation lead from the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG). The inspector general discovered an “anomaly on Hillary Clinton’s emails,” Gohmert said, with nearly every single email “going to an address that was not on the distribution list.” Gohmert did not disclose the entity to which the emails were forwarded, describing it as a foreign actor other than Russia.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/watchdog-sues-to-see-if-every-clinton-email-was-sent-to-foreign-entity_2860404.html

 

Judicial Watch Sues for Details of an Intelligence Office Meeting with FBI Regarding Security Threats Caused by Hillary Clinton’s Illicit Email System

 

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-for-details-of-an-intelligence-office-meeting-with-fbi-regarding-security-threats-caused-by-hillary-clintons-illicit-email-system/