California Democrats to consider resolution linking Israel to synagogue massacre

California Democrats at the party’s state convention are to debate a resolution blaming Israel for promoting the anti-Semitism which led to the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. David Mandel, a California Assembly delegate, authored the amendment titled "Commending the House for resolving to fight all racism and bigotry and for resisting the false conflation of support for Palestinian rights with antisemitism," which was obtained by Fox News.

The draft resolution says the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October 2018 was "the culmination of an alarming re-emergence of virulent antisemitism that is a core element of historical and currently resurgent white supremacism in the United States and around the world." It continues, "Israeli government, along with some of its U.S. backers, welcomed support from Christian fundamentalist and ultra-right groups in the United States and abroad, dangerously ignoring their deeply rooted antisemitism while aligning with their virulent Islamophobia." "The Israeli government and its supporters here seem to be embracing the right-wing and not caring what they say about anything else — Islamophobia, dog whistles for anti-Semitism," Mandel told Fox. "That, I think, does indirectly lead to some of the violence."

The convention’s Resolutions Committee will determine whether the resolution is adopted. If the committee kills it, Mandel could gather signatures to bring the resolution to the convention floor for debate. "Most of the 3,000 or 4,000 delegates at the convention will agree with us," Mandel predicted. In 2017, Mandel helped pass a resolution at the convention to condemn “occupation of the Palestinian lands” by the Israeli government. Mandel is a liberal attorney and American Israeli citizen who lived in Israel for 10 years.

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New York Times bars reporters from MSNBC and CNN opinion shows

The New York Times is clamping down on its reporters appearing on opinionated cable news shows to avoid the appearance of “bias.”

The newspaper recently blocked its finance editor David Enrich from appearing on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show to talk about his reporting on President Trump’s finances and Deutsche Bank, according to according to Vanity Fair. The paper has also placed Lawrence O'Donnell’s show on MSNBC and Don Lemon’s show on CNN on its blacklist.

“In deciding whether to make a radio, television or Internet appearance, a staff member should consider its probable tone and content to make sure they are consistent with Times standards,” the New York Times ethics guide states. “Staff members should avoid strident, theatrical forums that emphasize punditry and reckless opinion-mongering."

Reporters with the New York Times have been able to turn their reporting into numerous hits on MSNBC and CNN, boosting their brand and sometimes landing lucrative contributor contracts. It’s unclear how the New York Times’ recent enforcement of its ethics rules may affect those contributor contracts and the paper’s relationship with the networks.

The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, Julie Davis, Patrick Healy, Caitlin Dickerson, Astead Herndon, and others are paid contributors to CNN. Michael Schmidt, Nicholas Confessore, Jeremy Peters, Mike Isaac, Megan Twohey, and others have similar contracts with MSNBC. No New York Times reporters are contributors to Fox News.

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Breaking with Trump, Barr doesn’t think DOJ or FBI committed treason 'as a legal matter'

Attorney General William Barr says that he does not believe that the former top government officials involved in heading up the investigation into possible ties between Donald Trump and the Russian government were involved in treasonous activity, parting ways with comments made by President Trump in recent days. In an interview on CBS that aired on Thursday evening, Barr said that he did not think those members of the Justice Department and the FBI committed treason — at least “not as a legal matter.” Barr’s comments stand in contrast to controversial remarks made by Trump at the White House earlier in May. Referring to an alleged attempt to bring down his presidency, Trump named former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok as officials who had, in his view, “unsuccessfully tried to take down the wrong person.” “And that’s treason,” Trump said. Treason as defined in Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution “shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.” Barr did not agree with Trump that anyone’s actions had crossed that line. When CBS chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford asked if he thinks “that they committed treason”, Barr replied, “Not as a legal matter.”

Crawford then followed up, asking, “But you have concerns about how they conducted the investigation?” “Yes, but, you know, sometimes people can convince themselves that what they’re doing is in the higher interest and the better good,” Barr answered. “They don’t realize that what they’re doing is really antithetical to the democratic system that we have.”

Earlier this month, Trump gave Barr "full and complete authority to declassify information" related to the origins of the federal investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. The move was the strongest sign yet that Trump is taking serious action to "investigate the investigators" and has found a willing champion in Barr, who rankled Democrats last month when he said "spying did occur" on the Trump campaign. Last week, the White House issued a memorandum to the heads of several agencies instructing them to cooperate with Barr's inquiry, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Department, the State Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Treasury Department, the Homeland Security Department, and the Energy Department. Earlier this week, Trump said that “I think in the end I will consider what’s happening now to be one of my greatest achievements — exposing this corruption.”

In his interview with CBS, Barr again defended his use of the word “spying” to refer to the government’s use of informants and its electronic surveillance through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. “I guess it’s become a dirty word somehow. It’s never been for me. I think there’s nothing wrong with spying,” Barr said. “The question is always whether it’s authorized by law and properly predicated. And if it is, it’s an important tool that the United States has to protect the count.”

Barr has selected U.S. Attorney John Durham as his right hand man to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and the way that the DOJ and FBI conducted themselves during it. Beyond that, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been looking into potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse since early 2018 and is “homing in” on the potential misuse of British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s unverified dossier by the DOJ and FBI. Steele’s dossier, which was packed with unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, formed a key part of the FISA applications that were used to justify surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Steele was working for Fusion GPS, which received funding through the Perkins Coie law firm from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Steele's Democratic benefactors were not revealed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Barr has said Horowitz's probe should be done by May or June.

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Trump sets date for 2020 campaign kickoff

President Donald Trump will kick off his 2020 campaign for reelection on June 18 in Orlando, Fla.

"I will be announcing my Second Term Presidential Run with First Lady Melania, Vice President Mike Pence, and Second Lady Karen Pence on June 18th in Orlando, Florida, at the 20,000 seat Amway Center. Join us for this Historic Rally!"

Trump tweeted Friday with a link to reserve a ticket. The date is almost four years to the day from the the June 16, 2015 announcement of his 2016 campaign, made at Trump Tower in New York City. So far, only former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld is challenging Trum for the nomination. Another potential challenger, former Ohio Gov. John Kasich Friday dismissed the chance of a 2020 run, at least for the time being, telling CNN, "I don't see a way to get there."

Most analysts give Weld little chance of interfering with Trump's ability to secure the GOP nomination.

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>>6639178

Sedition, is probably the closest thing to treason and anything else that follows the crimes they have committed, so it not that it's out of the realm that they acted criminally, its more of what laws have been broken to charge them with.

So we agree :)

>>6639202

Wonder if there will be an excuse for their departure or will the country hear, what has been going on.. thinking of the letter here.