Daily Beast working hard to do an ‘Alinsky’ on
Stephen Miller, by Ann Corcoran 6/5/17
Saul Alinsky, as everyone knows now
was a special idol (a soulmate really) of our dear leader Barack Hussein
Obama. One of Alinsky’s rules for radicals was to pick a target and make
him/her the
face of the issue because people “bleed” and institutions don’t. You then
target all your fire on the person to bring him down and thus win on the issue.
Spencer Ackerman, a reporter at the
Daily Beast, fills in some of the blanks about how the Deep State undermined
the Trump refugee order.
In this article at the Daily Beast we watch in fascination as
reporter Spencer Ackerman, in tones expressing shock, wants you to believe that
Stephen Miller (Senator Jeff Sessions former Senate aide) is Machiavelli in the
flesh and has been, are you ready, stepping outside his role on the Domestic
Policy Council and sticking his nose in to the National Security Council on the
subject of refugees. Gasp! How dare he?
Nevermind that refugee policy is domestic policy! But,
that isn’t why I’m posting this article from the Beast (hat tip: Peter). I’m
posting it because last Wednesday, I said this (below) in a post about what
went wrong while Trump was out of the country? This is one line from that post:
“Every day that the White
House is silent on the stunning news we
heard last week says to me that the White House agrees with the 75,000
admissions this year.”
Now the Beast gives us some insight in to how the ‘Deep State’ did, in
fact, line up the lawyers to keep the President from going ahead (ignoring the
Hawaii judge) with the most important part of the EO and the part that I
highlighted in my post yesterday—the President could have ignored the courts on the refugee moratorium.
It was an across-the-board temporary (120-day) slowdown that involved all religious and ethnic people (not just
Muslims!) entering as refugees and it set the CEILING for the year
at 50,000 after the moratorium would have ended. It was not a religiously-based ban!
For the umpteenth time, the Refugee Act of 1980 gives the
President enormous power to set a CEILING and to choose the countries from
which we will take refugees in “consultation” with Congress. Congress
does not have to approve the plan, but Congress can use the Appropriations
process to pay for more (or less) refugees. But, then the President has
the power of the pen to tell them to take a hike if they appropriate more
than is needed! He can also ask for a rescission of funds now!
Be sure to see lawyer for Human Rights Watch—there is no legal obligation to resettle a single refugee!
Here are some snips from the Daily Beast (take some of this with a grain of salt because this
is a Leftwing publication) for you to ponder:
Stephen Miller, the hard-right White
House speechwriter and domestic-policy adviser, became a conservative celebrity
for penning President Donald Trump’s apocalyptic “American Carnage” inaugural
address and for serving as the public face of the administration’s travel ban.
But Miller is trying to take on a second role—a power move known only
to a handful people in the White House and across the administration. The
nationalist firebrand has elbowed his way into national-security and foreign
affairs, trying to push the U.S. government to adopt hard-line stances on
refugees and other international issues. [Gasp!—ed]
Now look at this! Who are the
“horrified administration officials?” Could they be the Obama holdovers, the
‘Deep State?’
The series of moves has so horrified
administration officials that they’ve created a paper trail to try to keep Miller
from implementing his nationalist goals for international issues—spelling out
the consequences of disobeying court orders, for example, that prevent Trump
from further curtailing the number of refugees coming into this country.
Among those documents,
officials told The Daily Beast on the condition of anonymity, is a guidance
paper from the Justice Department about the legal liabilities the
administration would incur for flouting a judge’s order on refugees.
Who in the Justice Department? Obama holdover lawyers?
Back to Ackerman’s complaints about
Miller’s nose in national security issues….
Too funny! David Rothkopf is the guy
we are supposed to believe is the ultimate expert on Stephen Miller! Here he is
speaking at the New America Foundation. See who is on the board! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_America_(organization)
Since the National Security Council’s
composition is up to each president, Miller’s involvement isn’t “per se”
inappropriate, said David Rothkopf, an NSC historian. But, Rothkopf said,
Miller “has no national-security experience and is largely seen as a political
operative, and neither of these characteristics tends to be a positive on the
NSC.”
Miller’s incursions into the realm
ordinarily reserved for the NSC are not limited to refugees.
Continue reading about Miller/Machiavelli ….He took that focus to the White House, playing a leading role
in drafting the controversial restrictions on entry to the U.S. of travelers
from majority-Muslim nations and refugees.
Those restrictions, spelled out in
executive orders, faced massive legal pushback. In March, Trump attempted to
revise the so-called Muslim ban to pass judicial muster. The revamped executive
order retained a critical provision on refugees: Section 6 of the March order
limited their entry to 50,000 in fiscal year 2017, less than half of the
110,000 refugees Obama forecasted admitting into the country this year. [These Leftwing reporters never mention that
Obama in his previous 7 years NEVER set a ceiling this high, why now, in his
final months in office? It
was to give Hillary a running start! (or to screw Trump)—ed]
Almost as soon as Trump issued the new order, federal judges blocked
the administration from enforcing key aspects, including the Section 6 refugee
cap.
I want to remind you that the
Maryland case that went to the 4th Circuit did not address the refugee cap! I
suspect that was because in that case the judge understood that Trump had the
power on the refugee cap (CEILING). The Hawaii judge did put a halt on
the cap issue, but the 9th Circuit has not ruled. Readers, try hard to
separate the so-called ‘travel ban’ (for all forms of entry from 6 majority
terror-producing Muslim countries) in your mind from the refugee
across-the-board moratorium and ceiling issue as I did here yesterday.
In retrospect, Trump’s team should
have kept the issues separate.
Broken record alert! Trump did
not need an Executive Order to slow the flow of refugees to your towns and
cities. At most, he should have simply notified Congress.
Here we go again, unnamed
“officials” are worried about Miller! The Beast continues….Inside the government, however, officials [Obama
holdovers?—ed] had concerns about whether Miller would abide by the
injunction. With the U.S. almost certain to surpass the order’s intended
refugee limits, those tasked with implementing refugee policy [State Department
bureaucrats?–ed] this spring began fearing that the nationalist wing of the
administration would attempt to blame bureaucrats for undermining Trump’s
policies. So they did what experienced officials [Deep State bureaucrats and
RINOs in the WH or on the Hill?—ed] excel at doing: They created a paper trail
to keep the entire administration on the same page.
Lawyers across the
government discussed and created documentation spelling out the government’s
obligations now that the judges had blocked the refugee cap. A critical aspect
of that effort was a Justice Department guidance making clear that the
administration would put itself in legal jeopardy by defying the injunction.
Time to fire those Justice
Department lawyers, the ones mentioned in the NYT article? And, does Ackerman mean lawyers on the Hill as well, when
he says “across the government?”
“While we stand ready to implement
the executive order to its maximum effect should the court order be lifted, in
the meantime, we don’t want to run afoul of the legal rulings,” said the U.S.
official.
Miller and his allies “know the
lawyers are really skittish, so they’re trying to avoid the lawyers, who say
‘No, you can’t do that,’” another official said.
Along with a spending bill for the rest of the fiscal year that did not
curb refugee admissions, the maneuver worked. Last week, the State Department
acknowledged that it is lifting weekly refugee quotas. The U.S. has already
admitted nearly 50,000 refugees in fiscal year 2017, with four months to go.
The “spending bill” is
where the Republicans in Congress teamed up with the refugee industry and the
Deep State bureaucrats to end-run the White House.
Here is Ackerman’s wrap-up on Miller/Machiavelli. Conclusion: Bannon and Miller
are one and the same (so they need to be side-lined or canned) and the Left
appears to love McMaster (scary, very scary!).
Stephen Miller (31-year-old
“incendiary conservative”) must be marginalized if the Left is to keep its hold
on the government. And, keep the flood of third-worlders to your towns
unimpeded.
Trump in January placed Bannon on
the NSC, only to reverse course under pressure, including dissatisfaction from
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. Rothkopf, the NSC historian, said
Miller’s incursions into NSC territory indicated the persistent potency of the
administration’s nationalist faction.
Miller “is seen as a vestige of the Bannon regime that was supposed to
have been defunct or marginalized. Clearly that didn’t work out as promoted,”
Rothkopf said.
“They remain influential, and Miller’s role is a further sign that
McMaster’s control of the NSC process is not complete, which is very
worrisome.” [Does
this mean that the Left is happy with McMaster and is trying to save his power?
Now that is scary!—ed]
Back to what I said last
Wednesday: Every day that the White House is silent on the new 75,000 admission
level for this year signals acquiescence.
If the White House was rolled by the
Deep State (with the help of the refugee industry contractors) and the
Republican leadership in Congress, the White House should admit it and tell
Trump voters that they are trying to drain the swamp and trying to keep us
safe, but it is very very hard. There is no shame in saying that! Don’t miss
the portrait of Niccolo Machievelli at wikipedia, here.
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