California law enforcement officers seize Planned Parenthood videos, activist says

Just what the hell country are we living in? The baby killers at PP break the law and the whistleblowers are raided by the DOJ!

Think the last paragraph sums it up perfectly. 

And a special shout out to Paul Ryan in recognition of his efforts to continue to fund PP even after the appalling videos. 

This photo provided by The Center for Medical Progress shows anti-abortion activist David Daleiden, who produced a series of undercover videos that seek to implicate Planned Parenthood in illegalities related to the handling of fetal tissue. (The Center for Medical Progress via AP)

Agents from the California Department of Justice raided the home of an indicted anti-abortion activist and seized undercover videos allegedly showing Planned Parenthood officials arranging to illegally sell fetal tissue for profit, the activist said late Tuesday. 

David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, which released the videos, said in a Facebook post that agents had "seized all video footage showing Planned Parenthood's criminal trade in aborted baby parts, in addition to my personal information."

Daleiden added that the agents left behind documents that he contends implicate Planned Parenthood in illegal behavior related to the handling of fetal tissue.

Center for Medical Progress spokesman Peter Robbio told the Associated Press the social media posting was authentic, but he declined further comment. He said Daleiden lives in Orange County, Calif.

Rachele Huennekens, a spokeswoman for state Attorney General Kamala Harris, said in an email that she can't comment on any ongoing investigation.

Harris said in July that she planned to review the undercover videos to see if center violated any state charity registration or reporting requirements. She said that could include whether Daleiden and a colleague impersonated representatives of a fake biomedical company or filmed the videos without Planned Parenthood's consent.

Harris, a Democrat, is running for the U.S. Senate. Daleiden suggested in the social media posting that the raid was politically motivated because Harris has accepted campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood.

Daleiden faces related charges in Texas. One of his Texas attorneys, Terry Yates, did not return telephone and email messages Tuesday.

Texas authorities initially began a grand jury investigation of Planned Parenthood after the undercover videos were released in August.

But the grand jury cleared Planned Parenthood of misusing fetal tissue and indicted Daleiden and a colleague, Sandra Merritt, in January on charges including using fake driver's licenses to get into a Houston clinic.

Daleiden previously said his group followed the law in making the videos. His post Tuesday called the raid an "attack on citizen journalism" and said he will "pursue all remedies to vindicate our First Amendment rights."

Matt Heffron, a former federal prosecutor and a legal adviser to Daleiden, said the raid was "outrageously out of proportion for the type of crime alleged. It’s a discredit to law enforcement [and] an oppressive abuse of government power."

California law enforcement officers seize Planned Parenthood videos, activist says

CONGRESS INVESTIGATING OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOR DECEPTION ON IRAN DEAL

On a tip from ed Kilbane

State Department: Iran Never Signed Nuclear Deal, Which Isn't 'Legally Binding'

Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reports that Congress is investigating whether the Obama administration misled lawmakers last summer about the extent of concessions granted to Iran under the nuclear deal. It is also looking into whether administration officials have been quietly rewriting the deal’s terms.

The investigation stems from statements by top administration officials last week suggesting that Iran is set to receive weapons and sanctions relief the administration had promised Congress would not occur back when Team Obama was promoting the deal last summer. The invaluable Rep. Mike Pompeo put it this way:

When multiple officials—including Secretary Kerry, Secretary Lew, and Ambassador Mull—testify in front of Members of Congress, we are inclined to believe them. However, the gap between their promises on the Iran nuclear deal and today’s scary reality continues to widen. 

We are now trying to determine whether this was intentional deception on the part of the administration or new levels of disturbing acquiescence to the Iranians.

Either way, it sounds like treachery.

What are the instances of misrepresentation that concern Pompeo and others? For one thing, according to Kredo, congressional leaders are concerned that the administration no longer considers recent Iranian ballistic missile tests a “violation” of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which codifies the nuclear deal.

Top administration officials including Secretary of State John Kerry assured Congress that Iran would be legally prohibited from carrying out ballistic missile tests under the resolution. In response to a question from Sen. Menenedez, Kerry insisted that old language banning Iranian ballistic missile launches had been imported unchanged into the new UNSCR. Similarly, ambassador Stephen Mull, our Lead Coordinator for Iran Nuclear Implementation, said that such missile launches would continue to be banned by U.N. Security Council resolutions. 

But these statements now appear to be “inoperative.” Last week, U.N. ambassador Samantha Power refused to call recent Iranian launches a “violation” in a letter she signed criticizing those launches.

Second, Treasury Department officials are suggesting that the administration is now set to grant Iran non-nuclear sanctions relief, including indirect access to the U.S. financial system, weeks after top Iranian officials began demanding this form of relief. Top administration figures, including Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, had promised Congress that pre-existing restrictions barring Iran from accessing the U.S. financial system in any way would remain in place even after the nuclear deal. 

Here is what Lew said on July 23 of last year: 

But a number of key sanctions will remain in place. . .Iranian banks will not be able to clear U.S. dollars through New York, hold correspondent account relationships with U.S. financial institutions, or enter into financing arrangements with U.S. banks. Iran, in other words, will continue to be denied access to the world’s largest financial and commercial market. The JCPOA makes only minor allowances to this broad prohibition.

This statement now appears to be “inoperative.”

Team Obama’s duplicity apparently has generated dissension within the administration. Kredo reports that in a letter to the State Department, Rep. Peter Roskam and Lee Zeldin complained that the administration is stifling voices within its ranks for stronger action against Iran. Roskam and Zeldin suggested that the administration is “putting the JCPOA [the Iran deal] and political legacy above the safety and security of the American people.”

I suspect that putting the Iran deal above the safety and security of the American people will be a major part of President Obama’s legacy.

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My prediction is nothing will come out of this investigation because when it comes to leadership we have none in the House and Senate.

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Oh... and let's not forget about this recent weapons seizure.

US Navy: Weapons shipment from Iran to likely Yemen seized

CONGRESS INVESTIGATING OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOR DECEPTION ON IRAN DEAL

Trump to NYT on Heidi Cruz retweet: 'Yeah, it was a mistake'

This I didn't know and strikes me has odd for someone who seeks the approval of evangelicals.

Trump is so exceptional he has never had to ask God for forgiveness. This is without a doubt the most asinine thing he ever said...assuming he really believes in God. 

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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump admitted to The New York Times on Saturday that retweeting an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz was a mistake and that he would not do it again if given the opportunity. 

"Yeah, it was a mistake," he told columnist Maureen Dowd. "If I had to do it again, I wouldn't have sent it."

Dowd was asking about an incident last month in which Trump retweeted a picture of Cruz, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's wife, during a spat involving a nude photo of Trump's wife, Melania, that was circulated by an anti-Trump super PAC.

It was a rare moment of contrition for Trump, who has previously said he has never asked God for forgiveness and who told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday that one of the most recent apologies he could remember was to his mother years ago for using foul language.

The Times interview also was posted after a week in which the Republican front-runner made headlines for his comments on abortion and the arrest of his campaign manager in an incident involving a female reporter.

Asked if he was ever involved with a woman who had an abortion, Trump declined to answer.

"Such an interesting question," he said. "So what's your next question?"

Trump insisted his controversial comments to MSNBC host Chris Matthews -- in which he said there should be "some form of punishment" for women who get abortions if the procedure was outlawed -- was in response to a hypothetical question.

"This was not real life," he said. "This was a hypothetical, so I thought of it in terms of a hypothetical. So that's where that answer came from, hypothetically."

As for the Lewandowski incident, Trump responded affirmatively when asked if it would have been better if his campaign manager had called Fields to apologize for the incident.

"You're right, but from what I understand it wouldn't have mattered," he said.

Trump to NYT on Heidi Cruz retweet: 'Yeah, it was a mistake'

20,000 KILLER BEES attack Muslims at Arizona mosque

Unfortunately, none were donned in suicide vests.

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More than 20 people were stung and one hospitalized when a swarm of up to 20,000 killer bees invaded a Phoenix mosque Friday afternoon.

The incident occurred at the Muslim Community Mosque near 32nd Street and McDowell Road, ABC 15 reported. 

The road outside the mosque was shut down and fire crews dispatched to spray the building with foam in order to quell the swarms of angry bees.

Attacked: Covered by blankets, worshipers at the Muslim Community Mosque in Phoenix flee the swarm of up to 20,000 killer bees that attacked them Friday afternoon. The bees' nest was located in the mosque's eaves

Foam: Firefighters coated the mosque with a foam to quell the bees. Killer bees, officially known as Africanized bees, are a particularly aggressive strain of bee

Mosque worshippers run for cover from swarm of killer bees.

The bees had formed a nest under the eaves of the mosque. One mosque worker there told Azfamily.com that a man had already been booked for Saturday to remove the nest but the bees attacked earlier than expected.

Nearby residents were told to stay in their homes. John Chavarria, one such local, told ABC 15 that he witnessed the attack from his house. 

'I don't know, it was just crazy how everyone was running everywhere,' he said.

Miming swatting at bees around his head, he continued: 'They were making some movements like that ... some people would even fall in the grass over there and then they'd get up and start running.

'I can’t believe they had the whole street blocked off for the bees.' 

Some worshipers used blankets to protect themselves from the swarm, but more than 20 were stung 'multiple times' and one 24-year-old man hospitalized, although everyone was said to be in stable condition. 

One man told Azfamily.com that he was stung on the face in five different places.

The bees are believed to have been disturbed by the mosque's speakers, which are located next to their nest.

20,000 KILLER BEES attack Muslims at Arizona mosque

State Dept. Halts Clinton Email Investigation, Defers to FBI

Well, looks like the sh** is about to hit the fan. If Killary's own State Department found 22 emails that should have been "Top Secret" God only knows what the FBI has found!

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The U.S. Department of State has halted its internal review of Hillary Clinton's most sensitive emails until the FBI's own investigation is complete, the State Department announced today.

"We do not want our internal review to complicate or impede [the FBI probe]," spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said. "We are prioritizing the law enforcement investigation."

In January the department revealed that during its review of Clinton's 52,000 pages of private email it had come across 22 documents that had to be upgraded to "Top Secret" and totally withheld from public release. It said at the time that it would conduct a separate internal review to determine if the secret information in those emails had been mishandled at the time the emails were sent.

State Dept. Deems 22 Clinton Emails Top Secret, Refuses to Release Them

Hillary Clinton's Emails: The Final Batch Released

Today the State Department said it is deferring that judgment to the FBI, which is conducting a more comprehensive security review of Clinton's email. The outcome of that investigation is highly anticipated amid the 2016 election cycle. Clinton has said she is confident that will not happen and that she did not break any laws with her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

A department spokesman said it is standard practice to allow a law enforcement agency to first complete its work before any parallel investigation is done. Trudeau called the move announced today a prudent "procedural matter."

In March the FBI responded to a formal inquiry from the State Department about how it should proceed with its internal review. It recommended that the State Department follow standard practice and put its investigation on hold.

The State Department has not ruled out conducting its own review after the FBI investigation is complete, with Trudeau saying her agency will "reassess" at the appropriate time.

The FBI is expected to interview Clinton's closest aides and the presidential candidate may also be part of its investigation. It's not clear when the investigation will be completed. The FBI has not formally named Clinton as a target and she has not been accused of any crimes.

State Dept. Halts Clinton Email Investigation, Defers to FBI