Kirk Wagar

personal account of the former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore. Follow @redwhitebluedot for official U.S. Embassy updates. views are my own.

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@EWErickson You have become a total sellout.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Border Patrol agents were caught attempting to force an arrest inside a private home… without a warrant.

The video shows agents were already in someone’s front yard trying to detain a man.

The homeowner comes out and tells them to leave, because they are on private property.

The man they’re trying to detain is saying the same thing… you’re on private property… get out.

Instead of backing off… an agent grabs him around the waist, trying to tackle the man.

The man breaks free, crawling to the door, and goes inside the house.

At that point, this should’ve been over.

Because under the Constitution, entering a home without a warrant is one of the clearest lines law enforcement are not allowed to cross.

But, they cross it anyway.

One agent grabs his foot as he’s going in… and then both agents follow him inside the home, while the homeowner is actively telling them to get out. Over and over.

This is exactly what the Supreme Court ruled against in Payton v. New York… law enforcement cannot enter a home to make an arrest without a warrant.

And in Lange v. California… they made it clear you don’t get to chase someone into their home, for a non-serious offense, and call it “hot pursuit.”

They were told to leave private property… and didn’t.

They attempted a detention without respecting that boundary.

And then forced their way into a home anyway.

All without a warrant.

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@McCainJack Burgled is under appreciated as a word.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

As a former U.S. Surgeon General who held an active medical license and practiced medicine while in the role (at Walter Reed and aboard the USS Comfort) it is incomprehensible that the Senate is even considering a nominee for this role who lacks any active license and has never practiced unsupervised. 🤯

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@seungminkim Like Castro long?

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@AkilahObviously Oh they are his friends in his tiny mind. Along with his invisible ones and his stuffies.

[greg. @mistergeezy]

The real question you should be asking is, where is Jill Stein? You voted for her.
Put on your big boy pants and tell her to do something.

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@pissybich @LeeMZeldin You can’t be this stupid in real life …

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@AmeshiaCross The key is your last sentence… Strat Comms , as too many “clients” think PR is the goal like you’re selling toothpaste and not a strategic outcome.

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

Completely agree. Regardless of the outcome, I despise the 3-3. It destroys the integrity of the game just as penalty kicks to end the game do in soccer. Play same game till you drop.

[Kevin Paul Dupont @GlobeKPD]

Canada played a stronger, more tenacious game much of the 60+. Far more top scoring chances. Celebrini a marvel. As is McDavid. But when you sign up for hockey, be it as fan or player, it means accepting outcomes can be as whimsical as the bounces of the puck itself. The joy/pain factor, while maddening, is essentially the game,

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@HowieRose @tuckahoetommy As someone who grew up Canadian and cheered hard for them today, you are 100% correct. Bennington let in a pretty soft goal and USA also dinged one off of TWO posts. It sucks but you’re right.

[Joel Franco @OfficialJoelF]

There’s a new live cam on @GreaterMiamiCVB website showing MIA runways 08L-26R and 08R-26L ✈️

https://t.co/ltxves3iCO

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@AdamKinzinger @LindseyGrahamSC It’s just brutal. He came twice to Shangri La Dialogue when I was in the job and he and McCain were leaders for America, even though my team had the WH. So so awful

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@McCainJack I really wish you could stomach politics. We need you.

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@MeghanMcCain 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@MarcNovicoff @jonathanchait And I mean this with respect, the only way Gavin Newsome is an overwhelming favorite is from the viewpoint of someone who knows nothing about who votes in a democratic primary. Michael Bloomberg and Wesley Clark thinking right here.

[Kirk Wagar @AmbWagar]

@FrankLuntz Frank you should do comedy, man. You have said some ridiculous shit over the past many years but this one right here …. Hilarious. Well done. Very funny stuff.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Moskowitz: These are the guys who created the weaponization committee so let’s talk about the present:

Under Investigation: Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Chris Christie, Jack Smith, Miles Taylor, Christopher Krebs

Indicted: James Comey, Letitia James, John Bolton.

Accused of crimes: Former President Joe Biden, Former President Barack Obama

Revoked or threatened with revocation of Secret Service protection: Kamala Harris, Hunter Biden, Ashley Biden, Mayorkas, Mike Pompeo, Brian Hook, General Mark Milley, John Bolton, Doctor Anthony Fauci

Security clearance revoked: Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissman, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, Miles Taylor

I can keep going

[Evan A. Feigenbaum @EvanFeigenbaum]

There is this thing I call "Trump strategic retrofitting." Much of what is happening in American foreign policy is happening for one reason only - it springs from the mind of the President of the United States. But a huge swath of people who, frankly, should know better then "retrofit" it - they twist themselves into pretzels imputing strategic logic or ascribing Bismarckian genius to his ideas. Spoiler alert: The President is not, in fact, Otto von Bismarck and it really should behoove people to call some of this madness out for what it is.

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

America is literally the most successful and prosperous country in the history of the world after leading 80 years of globalization but sure, let’s pretend that never happened and destroy that world order rather than update it. Superpower suicide.