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Obama Used National Security to Spy on Americans Opposed to Islamic Terrorists Obamagate redefined opposition to Islamic terrorism as a national security threat. Mon Jun 8, 2020 Daniel Greenfield 55 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. We know when Obamagate ended, but we don’t know when the policy of spying on Americans began. The tangled roots of the domestic surveillance of political opponents by the NSA predate the alarmism about Russia. Tracing them back into the fetid swamp takes us not toward...

THE second wife of Saddam Hussein and his only surviving son are living in Lebanon under assumed names and receive a telephone call or a letter from the ousted Iraqi dictator at least once a week. Samira Shahbandar, described by those who know Saddam as being the closest to him of his four wives, said in an interview with The Sunday Times that she had been given permission to live in France and expected to move to Paris next month. She said that Saddam, who has a $25m price on his head, gave her $5m in cash and a hoard...

*************************************************** STUDENT LEADERS PERSECUTED FOR BELIEFS One Student Faces Suspension, the Other Impeachment *************************************************** HERNDON, VA - What started as a dispute at Arizona State University over "gifts or information" received from a Young America's Foundation activist rewards program has quickly escalated to one student leader being threatened with impeachment, and another suspended from school without due process. Shanna Bowman, vice president of activities for the ASU student government, and Oubai Shahbandar, her chief-of-staff, are the first student government leaders at ASU to advocate a balanced lecture program. They have invited several well known conservatives to counter the leftist speakers...