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The Council Has Spoken!! Our Watcher’s Council Results

JoshuaPundit on Jan 08 2016 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!.

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787

“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.” – Clint Eastwood

“A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.” -Larry Elder

“And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.” – Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia: The Civil War

This week’s winning essay,Joshuapundit’s–Obama’s Gun Diktat – The Devil In The Details is my take on what’s really behind President Obama’s new, unconstitutional diktat for what he calls ‘commonsense gun control’ – and why it’s a lot more far reaching and dangerous to our liberty than he’d like us to realize. Here’s a slice:

President Barack Hussein Obama has followed through on his promise to ‘go after guns’ via executive order and it was really quite a show. I especially liked the part where he started weeping crocodile tears over schoolchildren gunned down in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012.

“First graders in Newtown. First graders,” Obama said, pausing to collect himself. “Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad.”

This concern for children from a man who fought tooth and nail for infanticide? So touching.

At first glance, the president’s diktat on guns seems reasonable. Prog fascists are very good at that, and of course, the president was quick to use the usual progressive talking point that everyone knows this is the right thing to do. Or to use his exact words, there’s what he called ‘a broad consensus’ supporting this, but those mean nasty Republicans in Congress just won’t act, so he has to.

The president admitted that his plan wouldn’t have stopped what happened in San Bernardino, but he feels this has to be done anyway, in order to ‘make if harder for criminals to get guns.’

I wish all the victims of the murders attributed to the President’s own efforts to put guns in the hands of criminals via Fast and Furious had been in the room, looking right at him when he said that. Now, their reaction would have been must see TV.

Before we discuss what the president has in mind, let’s get something out in the open. Prog fascists aren’t interested in getting guns out of the hands of criminals. They want confiscation of guns from the law abiding, because that’s the route to the absolute power they revel in. There’s nothing the president is proposing that’s going to get guns out of the hands of criminals, but it will make a lot of law abiding citizens helpless before them.

When you deal with a Barack Obama and those of his ilk, you have to realize that they play the long game. First, they propose something that sounds relatively reasonable, like say, ObamaCare where if you liked your plan, you could keep your plan…and just think of the savings and how cheap the premiums will be! Months later when the peons wake up down the road and realize how they’ve been lied to and screwed over, it’s too late to get rid of it without a major effort.

Please keep this in mind as we continue our discussion…Obama’s agenda never changes. When it comes to our pathological liar of a president, whatever he and his dutiful minions might say to grease something through has nothing to do with how it’s eventually applied. And the ultimate destination remains the same. In this case, it’s gun confiscation.

So with that said, let’s look at President Obama’s new diktat on guns. And remember, he’s tried to get this sort of thing through congress twice before and both times it has failed by bi-partisan majorities.

The first thing he wants is to promulgate that wonderful lefty myth, ‘the gun show loophole.’ The truth, as anyone who’s ever been to one can tell you is that it doesn’t exist.

If you go to a gun show, what you will see is licensed dealers,, because the people whom put on these things aren’t looking to go to jail for aiding and abetting illegal weapons transaction. If you see something on one of the dealer’s tables you like, they still are required to do a background check, the same as if you were in a brick and mortar store. All the laws, restrictions, waiting periods etc. all still apply. Also, as a licensed dealer in every state of the union you’re restricted to either selling guns at the registered address of your store or at an organized, licensed gun show. You can sell guns online out of state, but they must be legal in your buyer’s home state and they must be shipped to a licensed dealer in your buyer’s home state, where once again a background check has to be done and a waiting period imposed in accordance with the laws of the purchaser’s home state. Doing it any other way is a felony offense and not something a licensed gun dealer is going to risk prison and the loss of his livelihood for.

So the president talking about closing this fairy tale ‘loophole’ this means very little in and of itself and it certainly won’t keep guns out of the hands of criminals, but it fits in with the rest of the president’s agenda when it comes to convincing people who aren’t even aware of which end of a firearm points where that this is somehow necessary and important.

The next thing he wants, and the heart of his plan is to hire a lot more ATF and FBI agents to provide scrutiny on things like enhanced background checks. But remember two things; first of all, they work for President Obama and are going to do what he tells them to do – just like the IRS. And second, criminals don’t obtain firearms using methods where a background check is required. In the case of San Bernardino, the two killers and the friend that purchased additional firearms and explosives for them had no criminal record. And in the Newtown shooting, Adam Lanza likewise had no record, and got his weaponry by murdering his own mother in her bed. Not only that, but as I’ve pointed out before, the only reason any children died is because a school employee violated lock down procedure and let him in.

So if gun confiscation is the ultimate aim, criminals aren’t really a very productive target. To really confiscate as many guns as possible, you have to go after the law abiding and somehow transform them into people who shouldn’t be allowed to own firearms to defend themselves. And the best way is to work the ‘mental health’ and the enhanced background check angles, the really devious parts of Obama’s plan.

Doctor-patient confidentiality? Faggedabboudit. Health and Human services rules have now been changed to put the onus on physicians to report anything you tell them that seems even slightly amiss to the FBI or the ATF. And what doctor is going to take the risk of potential liability by not doing so? No matter how minor or what the cause is, just a report from your physician that you seemed slightly depressed or not your usual self can ultimately be used to confiscate any guns you own.

And you can trust states ruled by ‘progressives’ to take this even further. California just put a law into effect requiring physicians to ask patients if they own guns, which guns they posses and where they keep them. Failure to answer alone is grounds for the doctor to report this to the FBI or the ATF, and a doctor can even order your guns seized by court order if he really wants to cooperate with the State. After all, if he doesn’t and something happens…do I need to draw you a picture? We could even be talking about criminal liability here, or forfeiting a license to practice. Fear of government is the meat prog fascists thrive on.

VA will also be a fertile grounds for this. Veterans, after all, can all be labeled victims of PTSD, mental stress, maladjustment to peacetime society, call it what you want. The psycho veteran beloved of Hollywood scriptwriters has become a cliche these days. And these are men and women who likely own firearms and have been trained to use them. You can expect them to be heavily targeted for confiscation by the Regime.

What about victims of lawfare? A spurned girl friend can accuse a man of sexual assault, claim he threatened her and/or file a police report with no proof at all except her word. Thanks to VAWA, a woman can even have a man locked up with no real evidence at all, or say that self inflicted bruises were the result of assault or domestic abuse. Any family law attorney or criminal lawyer will tell you that this sort of thing happens with disturbing frequency nowadays. That’s especially true when it comes to divorce cases, particularly where child custody is involved. And even if its proven that the accusation is totally unfounded, it remains on the record. Goodbye Second Amendment rights!

Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was Daniel Greenfield with Nimr al-Nimr, The Non-Violently Violent Ayatollah submitted by The Noisy Room. It’s a nice look at who the Shi’ite cleric the Saudis just beheaded was.

Here are this week’s full results:

Council Winners

*First place with 3 2/3 votes!–Joshuapundit–Obama’s Gun Diktat – The Devil In The Details
Second place with 2 votes –Bookworm Room – Obama’s and the Left’s crocodile tears for the victims of gun violence
Third place with 1 2/3 votes –The Right Planet – Ex-Muslim’s Warning to the West: ‘Islam is the Problem’
Fourth place with 1 vote –The Noisy Room – Obama’s Back Door Attempt To Intimidate Americans Through Gun Control
Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Fausta’s Blog – Found: a Puerto Rican who hates the Beatles
Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Puma By Design – Andrew Cuomo’s EO 151 Forcibly Removes Homeless off Streets During Winter Cold
Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –The Glittering Eye –Chicago As Synecdoche
Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes –The Independent Sentinel – This Is How Obama Brazenly Violated the Second Amendment Today
Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – “Divine Vengeance”
Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –VA Right! – The History of the Republican Loyalty Oath and Why the RPV is a National Joke

Non-Council Winners

First place with 2 1/3 votes! –Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage –Nimr al-Nimr, The Non-Violently Violent Ayatollah submitted by The Noisy Room
Second place *t* with 2 votes –Stuart Schneiderman – The Atheist Cabal submitted by Fausta’s Blog
Second place *t* with 2 votes –Milo Yiannopoulas/Breitbart–Coming 2016: All-Out War On So-Called “Social Justice”submitted by Bookworm Room
Third place *t* with 1 vote –Robert Spencer – Cologne Mayor: Women should be more careful after Muslim mass rapes, promises “guidance” so they can “prepare” submitted by Joshuapundit
Third place *t* with 1 vote –Robert Tracinski/ The Federalist – The Year The Politically Correct Chickens Came Home To Roost submitted by The Glittering Eye
Third place *t* with 1 vote –Daily Surge – Limbaugh: Trump Turns the War on Women Around on the Clintons–Democrats Are Panicking
submitted by VA Right!
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes –National Interest – 5 Iranian Weapons of War Saudi Arabia Should Fear submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Scott McKay/American Spectator –We Need A Conservative Alinsky submitted by Nice Deb
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Reason.Com –Armed Protesters in Oregon Occupy Remote Federal Outpost at Wildlife Refuge After Marching Against Sentence of Father and Son Ranchers submitted by The Razor
Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes –Godfather of Politics – Pro-Abortionist Upset With ‘Newsweek’ Cover Because an Unborn Baby Looks Like a Baby submitted by The Right Planet

See you next week!

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Our Weasel Of The Week!

JoshuaPundit on Jan 07 2016 | Filed under: Weasel Of The Week.

Yes, once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were all particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner…the envelope please…

Democrat Front Runner, Rape Enabler and Corrupt Snake Hillary Clinton!

The Noisy Room : My nomination this week goes to the Hildabeast. At a rally (this time with more than two people), Hillary Clinton was taking questions in New Hampshire. A Republican State Representative who was a rape survivor started asking Clinton about Bill Clinton raping Juanita Broderrick in the late 1970’s and getting away with it. Unsurprisingly, Clinton would not take the question and moved on. The woman sat down. But the Hildabeast was not done with her. She turned on the woman and in a vicious tone, she lashed out saying, “You are very rude, and I am not going to ever call on you.” Touchy and thin skinned.

The rally applauded when Clinton bit at the woman asking the question. Nice minions you got there. Gee, Hillary will coddle communists, racists, radicals and especially Islamists, but ask a pointed question about her husband’s ‘indulgences’ and she comes unglued. Imagine what she would do during war. It’s not rude to want the facts and Bill Clinton walked away free and clear after assaulting I don’t know how many women. Incidents that Hillary actively covered up and destroyed people’s lives over. Not out of concern for Billy-boy, but out of calculating manipulations concerning her political future and her lust for power. You also won’t find this clip much of anywhere but here as the media is doing their darndest to cover up Hillary’s outburst. It makes her look like the shrew she is and very un-presidential. That weasel will look really nice in her cell.

Puma By Design : My choice for Weasel of the Week is Hillary Clinton who this weekend at a NH Town Hall lashed out at a rape survivor seeking to question Hillary about that lech, she’s married to, Bill Clinton.

Clinton, showing her true hand was rude, condescending and the perfect representative of Progressives and their war on women.

Ah, dear Mrs. Clinton. Now, ordinarily my view would be that you can’t blame someone for the bad and immoral actions of their spouse. That is,unless that someone had an active role in covering up and enabling said spouse’s activities and was attempting to besmirch the reputations of others for allegedly doing the same things they helped their spouse get away with. To wit, Mrs. Clinton in a nutshell.

Of course, that aside, there are a lot of other reasons to expect Mrs. Clinton to be occupying a cell at a posh, white collar prison like Allentown rather than the Oval Office, and even today rumors sparked by an unnamed FORMER federal prosecutor about an upcoming indictment are dancing around the internet like butterflies.

Don’t believe a word of it.

As I’ve pointed out before, the people at the FBI and the Justice Department in charge of such things now all work for a man named Barack Hussein Obama, and they’ll follow his orders and do what they’re told. There is no independent prosecutor’s office any more. Mr. Bill saw to that just before he left office in 2001. It’s all under the Justice Department and the president’s hand picked attorney general Loretta Lynch now.

And while congress could hire an independent prosecutor and allocate funds for an investigation, we all know they won’t.

So barring an investigation by a future administration, Hill and Bill will likely end up living quite well on the money they ‘earned’ by selling their offices and squirreling it away in their bogus foundation. Crime, unfortunately, does pay from time to time, at least on this mortal coil. And that kind of soulless weaselness is exactly what this award, the Statuette of Shame commemorates since the real reward for this kind of behavior comes from a very different place…see Psalm 92 among other places for details.

A decent society would have voted the Clintons off the Island a long time ago. It remains to be seen if they will at least deny her the throne she’s schemed so relentlessly to steal.

Well, there it is.

Check back next Tuesday to see who next week’s nominees for Weasel of the Week are!

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum, and remember, every Wednesday, the Council has its weekly contest with the members nominating two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The votes are cast by the Council, and the results are posted on Friday morning.

It’s a weekly magazine of some of the best stuff written in the blogosphere, and you won’t want to miss it…or any of the other fantabulous Watcher’s Council content.

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Our Watcher’s Council Nominations – ‘Come And Take It’ – Edition

JoshuaPundit on Jan 06 2016 | Filed under: Nominations.

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Greg Abbott ✔ @GregAbbott_TX

Obama wants to impose more gun control. My response.#? COME & TAKE IT @NRA #tcot #PJNET https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/01/obama-to-impose-new-gun-control-curbs-next-week/ …

10:48 AM – 1 Jan 2016

Well said, Governor!

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

A vacancy has opened up on the The Watcher’s Council. If you’re interested in finding out more information the Council and what’s involved, please leave a comment (which won’t be published) containing your site name, a link to your site and your contact e-mail.

So, let’s see what we have for you this week….

Council Submissions

Puma By Design – Andrew Cuomo’s EO 151 Forcibly Removes Homeless off Streets During Winter Cold
The Noisy Room – Obama’s Back Door Attempt To Intimidate Americans Through Gun Control
Fausta’s Blog – Found: a Puerto Rican who hates the Beatles
Joshuapundit–Obama’s Gun Diktat – The Devil In The Details
The Right Planet – Ex-Muslim’s Warning to the West: ‘Islam is the Problem’
Bookworm Room – Obama’s and the Left’s crocodile tears for the victims of gun violence
The Razor – Cord Cutting Update
Nice Deb – Heroes of Benghazi: 13 Hours, Nobody Comes
The Glittering Eye –Chicago As Synecdoche
VA Right! – The History of the Republican Loyalty Oath and Why the RPV is a National Joke
The Independent Sentinel – This Is How Obama Brazenly Violated the Second Amendment Today
GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – “Divine Vengeance”

Non-Council Submissions

Rasmussen Reports –44% of Democrats Have Had Enough of 2016 Race submitted by Puma By Design
Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage –Nimr al-Nimr, The Non-Violently Violent Ayatollah submitted by The Noisy Room
Stuart Schneiderman – The Atheist Cabal submitted by Fausta’s Blog
Robert Spencer – Cologne Mayor: Women should be more careful after Muslim mass rapes, promises “guidance” so they can “prepare” submitted by Joshuapundit
Godfather of Politics – Pro-Abortionist Upset With ‘Newsweek’ Cover Because an Unborn Baby Looks Like a Baby submitted by The Right Planet
Milo Yiannopoulas/Breitbart–Coming 2016: All-Out War On So-Called “Social Justice”submitted by Bookworm Room
Reason.Com –Armed Protesters in Oregon Occupy Remote Federal Outpost at Wildlife Refuge After Marching Against Sentence of Father and Son Ranchers submitted by The Razor
Scott McKay/American Spectator –We Need A Conservative Alinsky submitted by Nice Deb
Robert Tracinski/ The Federalist – The Year The Politically Correct Chickens Came Home To Roost submitted by The Glittering Eye
Daily Surge – Limbaugh: Trump Turns the War on Women Around on the Clintons–Democrats Are Panicking
submitted by VA Right!
Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage–Obama: Taking Away Guns from Women is Just Like Giving Women the Vote submitted by The Independent Sentinel
National Interest – 5 Iranian Weapons of War Saudi Arabia Should Fear submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
Caroline Glick – The Return Of The Rule Of Law submitted by The Watcher
Gates Of Vienna – Ezra Levant Interviews Tommy Robinson submitted by The Watcher

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Our Weasel Of The Week Nominees!

JoshuaPundit on Jan 05 2016 | Filed under: Nominations.

It’s time once again for the Watcher’s Council’s ‘Weasel Of The Week’ nominations, where we pick our choices to compete for the award of the famed Golden Weasel to a public figure who particularly deserves to be slimed and mocked for his or her dastardly deeds during the week. Every Tuesday morning, tune in for the Weasel of the Week nominations!

Here are this weeks’ nominees….

Democrat Front Runner, Rape Enabler and Corrupt Snake Hillary Clinton!

Puma By Design : My choice for Weasel of the Week is Hillary Clinton who this weekend at a NH Town Hall lashed out at a rape survivor seeking to question Hillary about that lech, she’s married to, Bill Clinton.

Clinton, showing her true hand was rude, condescending and the perfect representative of Progressives and their war on women.

What Passes For Venezuela’s Supreme Court!!

Fausta’s Blog: The Venezuelan Supreme Court, for blocking three elected members of the National Assembly from taking office tomorrow.

Well, there it is. What despicable Weasels…ANY OF THEM COULD WIN! Check back Thursday to see which Weasel walks off with the statuette of shame!

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The Council Has Spoken!! Our Watcher’s Council Results

JoshuaPundit on Jan 01 2016 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!.

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

“It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.” – Sun Tzu

Once you’ve lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It’s a mentality, a double standard of existence. – John Le Carre

“Espionage is the world’s second oldest profession.” -Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. – Vladimir Putin

This week’s winning essay,The Noisy Room’s
In From The Cold And Out Again… How The CIA Was Duped And Their Double Agent Failure is an incisive commentary and examination of a recent piece by Bill Gertz at the Washington Free Beacon. Here’s a slice:

Bill Gertz at the Washington Free Beacon has written a fascinating piece on the CIA being fooled by scores of double agents who pledged their loyalty to the agency, but instead reported back to the communists during the Cold War right on up into the present day. As I have said for years… the Cold War never ended, it shifted. Now Benjamin B. Fischer, the CIA’s former chief historian, analyst and operations officer, is verifying what I have long said. That is cold comfort, I assure you.

The duping of the CIA included at least 100 fake recruits in East Germany, Cuba and Russia. For decades, these double agents supplied false intelligence to senior U.S. policymakers that ranged all the way to the presidency. And it’s still happening. Fischer writes, “During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency bucked the law of averages by recruiting double agents on an industrial scale; it was hoodwinked not a few but many times.” Is anyone surprised by this? Trevor Loudon and I have both said for years that the agencies and our governmental leaders couldn’t pass a background check to clean a toilet. It was true then and it is true today. These double agents weren’t thoroughly vetted. They were hurriedly turned and because of sloppiness, we invited the enemy into the midst of our intelligence agencies. It’s mind boggling. In an article last week, Fischer stated, “The result was a massive but largely ignored intelligence failure.” How’s that for national security? Feeling warm and fuzzy yet?

Fischer wrote in the International Journal of Intelligence that this wreaked havoc within the agency. I’ll bet. What’s worse is that the CIA dismissed the infiltration by communists and the disinformation as insignificant. No one, including congressional oversight committees, pushed for reform in the agency when this was uncovered either. Their vetting processes still suck and they aren’t listening to the likes of Fischer. The man was a career CIA officer. He joined in 1973 and worked in the Soviet affairs division during the Cold War. He sued the CIA in 1996, charging he was mistreated for criticizing the agency for mishandling the 1994 case of CIA officer Aldrich Ames, a counterintelligence official, who was unmasked as a long time KGB plant. It was a case of blaming the messenger instead of the spy. This was during the Clinton Administration, so it does not come as a surprise.

From Bill Gertz:

Critics have charged the agency with harboring an aversion to counterintelligence — the practice of countering foreign spies and the vetting of the legitimacy of both agents and career officers. Beginning in the 1970s, many in the CIA criticized counter-spying, which often involved questioning the loyalties of intelligence personnel, as “sickthink.”

The agency’s ability to discern false agents turned deadly in 2009 when a Jordanian recruit pretending to work for [the] CIA killed a group of seven CIA officers and contractors in a suicide bombing at a camp in Afghanistan.

Double agents are foreign nationals recruited by a spy service that are secretly loyal to another spy agency. They are used to feed[ing] false disinformation for intelligence and policy purposes and to extract secrets while pretending to be loyal agents.

Double agents are different than foreign penetration agents, or moles, who spy from within agencies while posing as career intelligence officers.

Lord only knows how many moles we have within our agencies.

Predictably, the first major double agent failure was in Cuba. The Cubans are notorious for using a variety of traps for agents from honey traps to straight up blackmail. Cuban intelligence officer Florentino Aspillaga revealed a massive failure when he defected to the CIA in 1987. No less than four dozen recruits over 40 years had been secretly working for communist Cuba while on the dole of the CIA. They easily supplied disinformation to the CIA, endangering agents and scuttled operations left and right. This is the same government – Castro’s government – that Obama just reinstated relations with. Now, instead of being made fools by the communists, we just crawl into bed with them. It’s the other definition of coming in from the cold. Then came the revelation on Cuban state television which confirmed the existence of 27 fake CIA agents. You would think that would have set off alarms in the agency and caused them to adjust their vetting procedures. But you’d be wrong. Instead, the intelligence failure was covered up by congressional intelligence committees. You see, the enemies within go way back. We willingly let the enemy in our doors and let them set up shop in our intelligence agencies and abroad. Is it any wonder we now have a Marxist in power who colludes with communist dictators and tyrants, as well as Islamists?

In East Germany, all the recruited CIA agents working there were found to be double agents working secretly for the Ministry of State Security spy service, also known as the Stasi. All. Of. Them. Noodle that for a moment. According to Stasi officers, they failed at placing agents in the CIA. But there wasn’t a single CIA op on their turf that they weren’t able to detect using double agents and counterespionage operations. Fischer said the controlled East German assets “rendered U.S. intelligence deaf, dumb and blind.”

Markus Wolf was an East German spymaster. He wrote in the late 1980’s: “We were in the enviable position of knowing that not a single CIA agent had worked in East Germany without having been turned into a double agent or working for us from the start.” Wolf brashly claimed that, “On our orders they were all delivering carefully selected information and disinformation to the Americans.” He tagged a CIA officer working in West Germany and then dispatched double agents for him to recruit. Nifty.

Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was Powerline with Obama’s disgraceful Hanukkah party [Updated] submitted by Joshuapundit. What occurred, of course was a leftist revisionist version of Hanukkah which desecrated both the historical and the spiritual meaning of the holiday.But there are quislings and sell outs in every group, and just as in the days of the Maccabees, there were Jews willing to cooperate. מבושה הם צריכים למות

Here are this week’s full results. The Glittering Eye and the Right Planet were unable to vote this week and one member only was able to find time to pick a first choice in each category, but no one was subject to the usual 2/3 vote penalty for not voting :