Four Russian strategic bombers triggered U.S. air defense systems while conducting practice bombing runs near Alaska this week, with two of the Tu-95 Bear H aircraft coming within 50 miles of the California coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) confirmed Wednesday.
“The last time we saw anything similar was two years ago on the Fourth of July,” Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Norad spokesman, told the Free Beacon.
Davis said the latest Bear H incursions began Monday around 4:30 p.m. Pacific time when radar detected the four turbo-prop powered bombers approaching the U.S. air defense zone near the far western Aleutian Islands.
Two U.S. Air Force F-22 jets were scrambled and intercepted the bombers over the Aleutians.
After tracking the bombers as they flew eastward, two of the four Bears turned around and headed west toward the Russian Far East. The bombers are believed to be based at the Russian strategic base near Anadyr, Russia.
The remaining two nuclear-capable bombers then flew southeast and around 9:30 P.M. entered the U.S. northern air defense zone off the coast of Northern California.
Two U.S. F-15 jets were deployed and intercepted the bombers as they eventually flew within 50 miles of the coast before turning around and heading west.
A defense official said the four bombers also were supported by two IL-78 aerial refueling tankers that were used for mid-air refueling during the operation this week.
The Tu-95 is a long-range strike aircraft capable of carrying nuclear cruise missiles. Other versions are equipped with intelligence-gathering sensors and electronic warfare gear. It has a range of around 9,400 miles without refueling.
Davis said the aircraft “acted professionally” and the bombers appeared to be conducting a training mission.
Sarah Palin has been very vocal in the media recently about wanting to remove Obama from office. Things were only made worse after the horrible comments Obama made about the Constitution.
“We have a president who doesn’t understand or just chooses to disrespect our Constitution,” Sarah Palin, former Alaska Governor, said of President Obama recently in an interview with Fox News.
Palin continued on to say that Obama has single-handedly shaped immigration laws, healthcare policies, and welfare programs—all without the support and approval from the American people. What we need, accordingly to Palin, is a “new energy.”
She is in support of electing officials who will focus on states’ rights, instead of the expanding power of the federal government. According to Palin, we need someone who will “promise to pay whatever price it is going to take to protect our Constitution.”
Two U.S. B-2 Spirit stealth bombers are being deployed to Europe for the first time. The deployment of the advanced aircraft will be used for “short term deployment” at Fairford, a Royal Air Force base in England — just three hours from Russia.
“This deployment of strategic bombers provides an invaluable opportunity to strengthen and improve interoperability with our allies and partners,” said Adm. Cecil Haney, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, CNN reported Tuesday.
“The training and integration of strategic forces demonstrates to our nation’s leaders and our allies that we have the right mix of aircraft and expertise to respond to a variety of potential threats and situations,” he continued.
The radar-evading B-2 bombers are likely being used as a show of force to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been accused of fomenting unrest in eastern Ukraine after the Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea.
The stealth bombers, which can carry up to 50,000 pounds of bombs, assisted Europe and NATO allies in 1999 with targeting bombing runs in Serbia, but they were operating at the time out of Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, the International Business Times reported Tuesday. The round-trip missions lasted 30 hours.
On Sunday, June 8th, John Kerry stated his belief it is “baloney” that releasing Taliban detainees posed a risk to U.S. troops. Since our Secretary of State used the term “baloney,” I thought it appropriate to offer this letter from me, published on Michelle Makin’s website, titled “A Vietnam Vet Fisks ‘Tour of Duty,’” as John Kerry campaigned for the presidency, on August 24, 2004. I leave it to the reader to determine the source of the “baloney.”
“People don’t get it. They point out how “suspicious” it
is that the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” are “only now” coming out
with their charges, as though they should have formed their organization
to refute John Kerry when he was a twenty-six year old nobody. Kerry
has made his service in Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign. He has
only himself to blame that his service has been questioned. Michael
Moore and Whoopie Goldberg spew their venom. The “MoveOn.org” website
carries the motto “Democracy in Action”. The Swift Boat Veterans are
supposed to shut up.
I served twelve months with the Mobile Riverine Force, in the Mekong
Delta, during 1968 and 1969, manning automatic weapons on an Armored
Troop Carrier. During the first three months of 1969, I operated in and
around the little village of Ha Tien, at times, with Kerry’s Coastal
Division 11 Swift Boats. If one of the men I served with was running for
President, I would be extremely proud. If there was any way I could
support him for President, I would. The bonds that are formed in combat
are special. They are strong. For the men that served in Kerry’s unit to
state that he is unfit for command cannot and should not be brushed off
as “partisan politics.” It is not a “Republican vs. Democrat”, or
“conservative vs. liberal” issue. They aren’t doing it for money. It is
personal. The Swift Boat Vets are men who came to know John Kerry in the
crucible of war and saw things in John Kerry that are so disturbing,
that they cannot sit quietly. They also saw and heard one of their own
come back from Vietnam and trash the legacy of everyone who served
honorably. John Kerry’s lies of atrocities are largely responsible for
the terrible reputation Vietnam veterans have lived with for their
entire lives. He testified that we were murdering, raping and torturing,
with the consent and direction of the entire chain of command. Now,
John Kerry is angry that these 254 men dare to question him.
I haven’t read “Unfit for Command”, yet. I have read John
Kerry’s “Tour of Duty.” He reminds me of a popular cartoon in Vietnam,
the “Saigon Warrior”. The “Saigon Warrior” cartoon figure had his helmet
pushed down over his shaded eyes, ammunition belts crossing his puffed
out chest, a sword in one hand and his M-16 in the other. He was a
caricature.
If
you served in Vietnam, you don’t have to read “Unfit for Command” to
question Kerry’s record. His own book; “Tour of Duty” will do that. I
will only point out a few things in his book that stood out, to me.
A photo caption in Kerry’s book states; “A Swift boat convoy heading
up the Bo De River.” If Kerry had spent more than four months in
Vietnam, he may have known the picture was actually a column of “PBR’s”
(Patrol Boat, River), not his swift boats.
Every day, thousands of illegals are flooding our borders at a cost of $252 per illegal to US taxpayers. Just wait until we're paying for their housing, food and health care!
Newspapers in El Salvador and Honduras are promoting policies by the Obama administration that defer deportation to minors brought to the United States as children by their parents — known as "Dreamers" — and those that are housing illegal children at military bases in the South and West.
"Almost all agree that a child who crossed the border illegally with their parents, or in search of a father or a better life, was not making an adult choice to break our laws, and should be treated differently than adult violators of the law," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is quoted in a story about a new two-year extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act published by Diario El Mundo in El Salvador.
Signed by President Barack Obama in 2012, the law grants temporary legal status to many young illegal immigrants, ending the threat of deportation for at least two years.
The policy, however, does not entitle the immigrants to state services. The law was renewed for two more years.
"With the renewal of DACA, we act according to our values and code of this great nation," Johnson said. "But the biggest task of comprehensive immigration reform is yet to come."
Meanwhile, La Prensa of Honduras discusses in a report how as many as 500 illegal minors are being housed at the Naval Base Ventura County in Southern California.
"The children will be accommodated for between three and four months, while their parents or relatives are located in the United States," the report says.
"The administration of President Barack Obama has acknowledged he faces a serious crisis for the continuous arrival of children, mostly Central Americans, who are illegally entering the country on the border with Mexico."
Besides Mexico and Honduras, the report notes that many of the children are coming from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
"During their stay, in addition to accommodations and food, children receive English classes, play sports and participate in targeted programs while immigration authorities contact their families," the La Prensa report says.
On Monday, the Obama administration said that it would begin housing as many as 1,200 illegal minors at the Army base in Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
The plan was attacked last week by Oklahoma Republicans, who accused the administration of not giving them sufficient notice and that it would strain limited resources.
A similar shelter for that has accommodated about 1,820 minors over nearly four weeks has been operating at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
Housing the illegals cost American taxpayers $252 per child per day.
The deluge of illegal immigrants is causing a burden on the border states of Texas and Arizona, and officials have been transporting children from south Texas to Arizona and leaving them at various locations, including holding centers and bus stations.
A rush of young children crossing alone and illegally into the United
States from Texas is so large and unexpected that senior officials with
the Obama administration said Monday the White House is asking Congress
for about $2 billion to grapple with what is being called a
humanitarian crisis.
Immigration agents are so overwhelmed that
some children are being kept in detention and being processed during a
longer time period than the 72-hour maximum requirement, these senior
administration officials acknowledged. The officials briefed reporters
on condition of anonymity.
Although they said they had been
prepared for an increase this year in the Rio Grande Valley, the influx
was much greater than anticipated. As many as 90,000 minors are forecast
to enter the U.S. this year without their parents or guardians, the
officials said.
But these officials also reiterated that the
increased influx of unaccompanied children who are crossing illegally
into the United States through Texas is due to escalating violence in
Central America and not because of false rumors that people who cross
will be eligible for some sort of permanent immigration relief.
The
Obama administration request for the funds would cover costs of the
Health and Human Services' Unaccompanied Alien Children program and is
just the latest effort by federal immigration officials to contain the
crisis.
Another $160 million is being sought for the Department of
Homeland Security, these senior officials said. In addition, they said
the U.S. is coordinating communications with Central American officials
to educate people in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador about the
dangers of crossing without proper documents.
‘The trust has been broken’ between Congress and White House
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
admitted that “the trust has been broken” between the White House and
Congress following the Obama administration’s decision to skirt U.S. law
and release five top Taliban leaders without first consulting with
lawmakers.
Hagel admitted to lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee
Wednesday that the administration unilaterally inked a deal with the
Taliban to release five top prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison
camp without first notifying Congress, as is legally mandated.
The deal was signed “without providing 30 days notice to Congress,”
as is required by law, Hagel told lawmakers before attempting to justify
the administration’s decision to ignore this law.
The White House’s decision to skirt this law has prompted the House
Armed Services Committee to launch a full investigation into the matter,
lawmakers revealed on Wednesday.
When asked directly by Rep. Jeff Miller (R., Fla.) if the Obama
administration had complied with the law as written, Hagel responded,
“No.”
“We believe … the president has the constitutional authority to do
that,” Hagel said. “He had the authority to make the decision he did.”
Meanwhile, it was disclosed
in a classified briefing Tuesday that the top U.S. commanders in
Afghanistan—Gens. Joseph Dunford and Lloyd Austin—also were not informed
in advance by the Obama administration of the release of the five
Taliban leaders, according to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., Okla.).
Hagel vigorously defended the decision to skirt the law, claiming
that “under these exceptional circumstances” the White House “national
security team and the President of the United States agreed we had to
act swiftly.”
Hagel went on to reveal for the first time that the deal to exchange
the five Taliban leaders for captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was inked
about a month ago, raising new questions about the administration’s
decision to withhold the information from Congress.
The Obama administration “did what we believe was in the best
interest of our country, our military, and Sgt. Bergdahl,” Hagel said,
claiming that Obama has certain “constitutional authorities” that
justify his decision.
“We made the right decision and did it for the right reasons,” Hagel
said, admitting that the White House’s decision to leave Congress in the
dark has eroded its credibility with Congress.
“I know the trust has been broken,” Hagel said.
It's the last thing you would ever think could happen to an American
President. Since 1841, over one-third of all American Presidents have
either died in office, became disabled, or resigned. However, no American President has ever been forced from office due to impeachment.
In fact, only four times in our history, has Congress held serious discussions of impeachment:
- Andrew Johnson was actually impeached when Congress became
unhappy with the way he was dealing with some post-Civil War matters,
but Johnson was acquitted in the Senate by one vote and remained in
office.
- Congress introduced a resolution to impeach John Tyler over state's rights issues, but the resolution failed.
- Congress was debating his impeachment over the Watergate break-in when President Richard Nixon resigned.
- William J. Clinton was impeached by the House on charges of
perjury and obstruction of justice in relationship to his affair with
White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton was eventually acquitted by
the Senate.
The Impeachment Process
In the House of Representatives
- The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee will propose a
Resolution calling for the Judiciary Committee to begin a formal inquiry
into the issue of impeachment.
- Based on their inquiry, the Judiciary Committee will send
another Resolution to the full House stating that impeachment is
warranted and why (the Articles of Impeachment), or that impeachment is not called for.
- The Full House (probably operating under special floor rules set by the House Rules Committee) will debate and vote on each Article of Impeachment.
- Should any one of the Articles of Impeachment be approved
by a simple majority vote, the President will be "impeached." However,
being impeached is sort of like being indicted of a crime. There still
has to be a trial, which is where the US Senate comes in.
In the Senate
- The Articles of Impeachment are received from the House.
- The Senate formulates rules and procedures for holding a trial.
- A trial will be held. The President will be represented by
his lawyers. A select group of House members will serve as
"prosecutors." The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (currently John G. Roberts) will preside with all 100 Senators acting as the jury.
- The Senate will meet in private session to debate a verdict.
- The Senate, in open session, will vote on a verdict. A 2/3 vote of the Senate will result in a conviction.
- The Senate will vote to remove the President from office.
- The Senate may also vote (by a simple majority) to prohibit the President from holding any public office in the future.
- Dan
Emmett was a Secret Service agent with the Presidential Protective Unit
and guarded George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
- Hillary was said to have hurled a book at the back of the head of one agent
- Bill was always friendly with the agents, inquiring about their families, making small talk, posing for pictures
- Out
of shape agents were expected to keep up with the extremely fit Clinton
on his daily runs, as well as carry a pistol and a radio
- Agents travel on a special plane with the limos and Suburbans and do not have to go through customs
- One agent brought home a brass bed, another a large supply of wine; many more unmentionables came home
If Hillary
Clinton runs, and wins the Presidential race in 2016, the Republicans
won't be the only ones with trepidation. The Secret Service, who have
tangled with Hillary since she became First Lady in 1993, will also be
quaking in their lace-ups.
Hillary
has been known to hurl a book at the back of the head of one agent
driving her in the Presidential limo accusing him of eavesdropping,
forget her ps and qs by never thanking her protectors and lob
profanity-laced orders when she just wanted the agents to carry her bags
- a job not on agents' 'to do' list.
'Stay
the f**k away from me! Just f*****g do as I say!!!' she is quoted as
saying to an agent who refused to carry her luggage in the book
Unlimited Access by FBI agent Gary Aldridge.
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Just a few blocks from the White House,
in the basement of a black Baptist church, the chief of the Cuban
Interests Section plotted with former terrorists and members of the
communist Workers World Party this past week to convince President Obama
to release communist spies and terrorists from American prisons.
Coming in the wake of freed U.S. Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl, in a
trade for terrorists arranged by the Obama administration, these
possible developments cannot be dismissed out of hand.
The conference dramatized how the far-left “progressives,” operating
under the direction of Cuba, have calculated that Obama’s last two or so
years in office represent the perfect opportunity for their comrades to
leave prison with presidential pardons, clemencies, or commutations,
and then return to the “struggle,” or “resistance,” in the streets.
The two-day event, the main focus of the “Five Days for the Cuban Five”
campaign, was open to the press, enabling this columnist to attend and
film the activities of the hard left as they operated under the watchful
eyes of José Ramón Cabañas, Chief of the Cuban Interests Section in
Washington, D.C., and his agents. About 150 people attended the event.
The Cuban Interests Section
functions as Castro’s embassy, in the absence of formal diplomatic
relations, and operates as a front for the Cuban intelligence service,
the DGI.
Even the Obama administration has conceded that the “Cuban Five” were members of a Castro spy network.
Before being appointed to the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan was Obama’s solicitor general and submitted a legal brief
in the case. She noted in the brief that members of the “Cuban five”
were affiliated with the Cuban intelligence service and the “Wasp
Network,” whose purpose included penetrating U.S. military facilities
and transmitting information about the facilities’ operations and layout
to Cuba, and infiltrating Cuban-American groups.
The brief noted that three Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR) planes made a
scheduled flight over the Florida Straits to search for rafters, and
that the flight plans were transmitted to Cuba. “When the planes passed
the boundary between Miami and Havana air traffic control, which lies in
international airspace, they identified themselves to Havana,” it said.
“Within minutes, Cuban fighter jets pursued two of the BTTR planes. The
Cuban fighters shot down both planes, killing all four men aboard,
three of whom were U.S. citizens. Both planes were in international
airspace, heading away from Cuba, when they were shot down. Neither
plane had entered Cuban airspace.
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