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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1450 on: September 23, 2022, 08:59:00 AM »
couple of hundred proud boys
or few thousand at most

I wonder how many are actually Fay Wray plants......

BIGGEST THREAT TO DEMOCRACY , OUR REPUBLIC, FASCISTS , NAZIS !!! 
ARMAGEDDON !


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« Reply #1451 on: September 23, 2022, 09:40:35 AM »
couple of hundred proud boys
or few thousand at most

I wonder how many are actually Fay Wray plants......

BIGGEST THREAT TO DEMOCRACY , OUR REPUBLIC, FASCISTS , NAZIS !!! 
ARMAGEDDON !

Well, the Proud Boys shoot a lot of people in Chicago every weekend, right?

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« Reply #1452 on: September 23, 2022, 10:00:31 AM »
"Well, the Proud Boys shoot a lot of people in Chicago every weekend, right?"

 Just did search

could not find any reports of murder from Proud Boys
but tons of

they are violent and dangerous because they have on few occasions punched a few people
if they were killing people we would never hear the end of it..

the murderers are black and latino gangs

we all know this

yet media FBI DC deep state soros et al - all silent !!



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Two Minutes of Hate
« Reply #1453 on: September 23, 2022, 10:36:34 AM »
"Well, the Proud Boys shoot a lot of people in Chicago every weekend, right?"

 Just did search

could not find any reports of murder from Proud Boys
but tons of

they are violent and dangerous because they have on few occasions punched a few people
if they were killing people we would never hear the end of it..

the murderers are black and latino gangs

we all know this

yet media FBI DC deep state soros et al - all silent !!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XvGmOZ5T6_Y
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« Reply #1454 on: September 23, 2022, 07:53:18 PM »
Konrad Lorenz called it "Collective Militant Enthusiasm".

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« Reply #1458 on: September 26, 2022, 07:26:31 AM »
Whoa.

Super frustrating that this comes to us via a site of such , , , unserious appearance.  Hard to look credible sharing this forward , , ,

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« Reply #1459 on: September 26, 2022, 07:29:10 AM »
Whoa.

Super frustrating that this comes to us via a site of such , , , unserious appearance.  Hard to look credible sharing this forward , , ,

Just wait for the NRO/Deep State Andy article covering it.

Should be coming out any day now...

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« Reply #1460 on: September 26, 2022, 07:37:10 AM »
Whoa.

Super frustrating that this comes to us via a site of such , , , unserious appearance.  Hard to look credible sharing this forward , , ,

Just wait for the NRO/Deep State Andy article covering it.

Should be coming out any day now...

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/116/560/549/original/8886c1711dc07662.jpeg



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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1461 on: September 26, 2022, 09:47:05 AM »
Well duh, but not responsive to my point/question-- How to spread the info in these articles without losing credibility in the eyes of those whom we wish to inform?




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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1462 on: September 26, 2022, 10:23:20 AM »
Well duh, but not responsive to my point/question-- How to spread the info in these articles without losing credibility in the eyes of those whom we wish to inform?

Credible, like the MSM?

 :roll: :roll: :roll:

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« Reply #1463 on: September 26, 2022, 11:57:41 AM »
Non-responsive.

I'm not talking about persuading the MSM, I'm talking about persuading those whose impressions are fed in part, be it small or large, by the MSM.

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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1464 on: September 26, 2022, 10:29:12 PM »
Non-responsive.

I'm not talking about persuading the MSM, I'm talking about persuading those whose impressions are fed in part, be it small or large, by the MSM.

If they trust the MSM, they are too stupid/brainwashed to waste time on.

As a wise man once told me, "You can't reason a person out of a position they didn't reason their way into".

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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1465 on: September 27, 2022, 08:29:11 AM »
     

IMHO we need BOTH to continue outreach with proof that the "Emperor has no clothes" AND to be fully ready to defend our Constitutional Republic against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.



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Fay Wray diverting FBI resources to keep expanding "1/6 " investigations
« Reply #1468 on: September 27, 2022, 10:36:05 PM »
and fire the whistleblower who came out publicly  to decry this :

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/gop-fbi-whistleblower/2022/09/27/id/1089323/

its going on two yrs
got to keep it going past November ( or 2024/ due to Trump ).   :x


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Meanwhile, back at the DNC-Stasi
« Reply #1469 on: September 28, 2022, 08:28:34 AM »


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other presidents who took out records
« Reply #1471 on: October 01, 2022, 07:58:14 AM »

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Re: other presidents who took out records
« Reply #1472 on: October 01, 2022, 08:03:07 AM »
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/fbi-donaldtrump-hillaryclinton/2022/09/28/id/1089504/

though nothing mentioned if "classified"

Who has the ultimate authority over classification?

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« Reply #1473 on: October 01, 2022, 08:10:04 AM »
I am not sure I really buy the argument
that Trump could simply state he thought it and thus classified docs are unclassified .

zero evidence he de classified or attempted to de classify anything
except his words which we all know means zero

sounds like an fallacious argument made after the fact if you ask me.

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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1474 on: October 01, 2022, 08:13:57 AM »
I am not sure I really buy the argument
that Trump could simply state he thought it and thus classified docs are unclassified .

zero evidence he de classified or attempted to de classify anything
except his words which we all know means zero

sounds like an fallacious argument made after the fact if you ask me.

https://kogo.iheart.com/featured/the-clay-travis-and-buck-sexton-show/content/2022-08-15-clay-travis-and-buck-sexton-kash-patel-explains-how-trump-docs-were-declassified-and-handled/

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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1475 on: October 01, 2022, 08:26:57 AM »
I am not sure where in the dialogue between Kash and Buck
it discussed "classified " documents

and whether other Presidents also had them

or what evidence Trump de classified them .....

did I miss something

don't get me wrong
clearly two tiered justice system

    but I am just saying because Trump has ultimate authority to declassify does not mean he formally did

as far as I know

whether this was grounds to raid Mar a Lago
I would say in total context a FLAT NO

clearly a political hit.

many questions unanswered

what was in docs
why did trump take them
did he know what was in them
why did he simply not return classified ones
should he have?
did GHB or GWB or Clinton or Obama also hold classified docs?






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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1476 on: October 01, 2022, 10:12:52 AM »
I am not sure where in the dialogue between Kash and Buck
it discussed "classified " documents

and whether other Presidents also had them

or what evidence Trump de classified them .....

did I miss something

don't get me wrong
clearly two tiered justice system

    but I am just saying because Trump has ultimate authority to declassify does not mean he formally did

as far as I know

whether this was grounds to raid Mar a Lago
I would say in total context a FLAT NO

clearly a political hit.

many questions unanswered

what was in docs
why did trump take them
did he know what was in them
why did he simply not return classified ones
should he have?
did GHB or GWB or Clinton or Obama also hold classified docs?

“Now, in October of 2020, the president wrote a statement that’s now publicly available that said, I declassify every Russiagate document and every Hillary Clinton email investigation document. That’s it. That’s what it takes. And then out as he was leaving the presidency in December or January, he issued further sweeping declassification orders at the White House over a whole sets of documents.“

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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1477 on: October 01, 2022, 01:32:22 PM »
Kash states :

“Now, in October of 2020, the president wrote a statement that’s now publicly available that said, I declassify every Russiagate document and every Hillary Clinton email investigation document. That’s it. That’s what it takes. And then out as he was leaving the presidency in December or January, he issued further sweeping declassification orders at the White House over a whole sets of documents.“

Does he have the document or a copy?

Did anyone else hear Trump say this as he was walking out the front door?

or did he whisper this into Kash's ear?

Playing devil's advocate:

I like Kash but Trump has no real credibility with me.
That said neither does deep state.

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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1479 on: October 02, 2022, 08:27:50 AM »
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-declassification-certain-materials-related-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/

Kash states :

“Now, in October of 2020, the president wrote a statement that’s now publicly available that said, I declassify every Russiagate document and every Hillary Clinton email investigation document. That’s it. That’s what it takes. And then out as he was leaving the presidency in December or January, he issued further sweeping declassification orders at the White House over a whole sets of documents.“

Does he have the document or a copy?

Did anyone else hear Trump say this as he was walking out the front door?

or did he whisper this into Kash's ear?

Playing devil's advocate:

I like Kash but Trump has no real credibility with me.
That said neither does deep state.


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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1482 on: October 03, 2022, 02:57:52 PM »
the deceit and dishonesty and misleading stuff coming from the Deep State is what logically leads to alternate theories

skepticism is a natural outcome that leads to

all THOSE  labelled "conspiracy theories"

as written off by the DNC MSM DC lawyer complex


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WT: If Reps win House
« Reply #1486 on: October 06, 2022, 06:57:01 AM »
Republican lawmakers ready to rein in FBI, DOJ

Judiciary committee has several plans ready

BY KERRY PICKET THE WASHINGTON TIMES

House Republicans, appalled by FBI misconduct and politicized investigations that have been detailed by a flood of whistleblowers, are weighing a range of probes and legislative fixes for the Department of Justice.

The lawmakers have begun revealing those plans that will spring into action if, as expected, the GOP wins a House majority in the Nov. 8 elections.

Judiciary Committee Republicans are kicking around various ideas for structuring investigations and drafting legislation to put a check on the FBI and the Justice Department. These plans include:

• Moving Justice Department supervision of the FBI out of Washington.


• Probing the FBI and DOJ with special committees such as ones modeled after Congress’ probes of U.S. intelligence agencies in the 1970s.


• Adding muscle to Congress’ referrals to the DOJ for criminal investigations.


• Requiring FBI, ATF and other federal law enforcement agents to wear body cams during raids.

The Justice Department and FBI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina told The Washington Times in an interview on “SiriusXM Patriot” that he is working on legislation that would decentralize the DOJ’s oversight power from Washington.

“The Department of Justice’s supervising of the FBI ought to be done out in the country by United States Attorney’s Offices, rather than having all key decisions focus where politics can Shanghai them here in Washington,” the congressman said.

Mr. Bishop said the more than two dozen FBI whistleblowers recently come forward to Congress because they think the agency’s mission was been distorted, often by politics.

“That sort of dynamic can happen when all power is essentially sucked up into one central decision-making vortex,” he said.

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee who will likely become chairman in a GOP-run House, said the committee will pursue robust investigations of the FBI and DOJ, but other types of investigatory committees could be in the works.

When recently pressed by Fox News host Mark Levin on whether Republicans would follow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s model of handpicking all members of the Jan. 6 committee, Mr. Jordan said he was looking for the “most effective” options. “Whether that is a select committee, whether that is a special subcommittee of Judiciary, whether that’s a Church-type committee,” he said. “We’re trying to figure out what is exactly the best way.”

The Church committee, named after Sen. Frank Church of Idaho, conducted a series of investigations in 1975 into the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, FBI and IRS.

Judiciary Committee Republicans have taken a particular interest in FBI whistleblower reports related to the FBI’s targeting of parents who protested at local school boards and conservative political activists, including those involved in the Jan. 6 demonstration that turned into a riot.

“How much is the FBI and the Department of Justice targeting citizens with respect to Jan. 6?” said Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican on the Judiciary Committee. He said the committee will find out more bout those who “exercised their First Amendment rights, and then suddenly, they’re being brought up on some sort of parading or trespassing charges and didn’t engage in any physical harm to anybody.”

Another Judiciary Committee Republican, Rep. Darrell Issa of California, told The Times that he is drafting legislation that will give Congress more muscle in making criminal referrals to the DOJ.

Mr. Issa has ample experience on that front. He led the Oversight and Reform Committee in 2012 when Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was held in contempt for not cooperating with the panel’s investigation of the Obama administration’s Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation, which went awry and put more than a thousand firearms in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

He also led Congress’ frustrated effort to hold IRS official Lois Lerner accountable for the IRS targeting of conservative groups.

“We referred Lois Lerner criminally. We referred Eric Holder criminally, and it was thwarted. You can’t have attorneys general … simply look at us and say, ‘Even though the law says you can do it, we’re not going to honor it,’” said Mr. Issa, who vowed to beef up that congressional power.

“We’re going to have to strengthen it,” he said.

Another measure several Republicans on the committee want is requiring federal law enforcement agents to wear body cameras during raids and digitally record all interviews.

“I prosecuted with the FBI for 15 years as a federal prosecutor, and it always came up because even when they were interviewing in custody, they wouldn’t have a camera in the room,” said Rep. Ken Buck, Colorado Republican. “Every time there was a crossexamination of an FBI agent, [the defense attorney] would ask, ‘Well, why didn’t you record this? Why did you just take notes and then destroy the notes?’ And so I think it is time.”


“That sort of dynamic can happen when all the power is essentially sucked up into one central decisionmaking vortex,” said Rep. Dan Bishop (left) on “SiriusXM Patriot.” The North Carolina lawmaker is kicking around ideas with fellow Republicans on how to put a check on the FBI and the Department of Justice. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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« Reply #1487 on: October 06, 2022, 06:58:51 AM »
Right after they defund Obamacare!

 :roll:


Republican lawmakers ready to rein in FBI, DOJ

Judiciary committee has several plans ready

BY KERRY PICKET THE WASHINGTON TIMES

House Republicans, appalled by FBI misconduct and politicized investigations that have been detailed by a flood of whistleblowers, are weighing a range of probes and legislative fixes for the Department of Justice.

The lawmakers have begun revealing those plans that will spring into action if, as expected, the GOP wins a House majority in the Nov. 8 elections.

Judiciary Committee Republicans are kicking around various ideas for structuring investigations and drafting legislation to put a check on the FBI and the Justice Department. These plans include:

• Moving Justice Department supervision of the FBI out of Washington.


• Probing the FBI and DOJ with special committees such as ones modeled after Congress’ probes of U.S. intelligence agencies in the 1970s.


• Adding muscle to Congress’ referrals to the DOJ for criminal investigations.


• Requiring FBI, ATF and other federal law enforcement agents to wear body cams during raids.

The Justice Department and FBI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina told The Washington Times in an interview on “SiriusXM Patriot” that he is working on legislation that would decentralize the DOJ’s oversight power from Washington.

“The Department of Justice’s supervising of the FBI ought to be done out in the country by United States Attorney’s Offices, rather than having all key decisions focus where politics can Shanghai them here in Washington,” the congressman said.

Mr. Bishop said the more than two dozen FBI whistleblowers recently come forward to Congress because they think the agency’s mission was been distorted, often by politics.

“That sort of dynamic can happen when all power is essentially sucked up into one central decision-making vortex,” he said.

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee who will likely become chairman in a GOP-run House, said the committee will pursue robust investigations of the FBI and DOJ, but other types of investigatory committees could be in the works.

When recently pressed by Fox News host Mark Levin on whether Republicans would follow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s model of handpicking all members of the Jan. 6 committee, Mr. Jordan said he was looking for the “most effective” options. “Whether that is a select committee, whether that is a special subcommittee of Judiciary, whether that’s a Church-type committee,” he said. “We’re trying to figure out what is exactly the best way.”

The Church committee, named after Sen. Frank Church of Idaho, conducted a series of investigations in 1975 into the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, FBI and IRS.

Judiciary Committee Republicans have taken a particular interest in FBI whistleblower reports related to the FBI’s targeting of parents who protested at local school boards and conservative political activists, including those involved in the Jan. 6 demonstration that turned into a riot.

“How much is the FBI and the Department of Justice targeting citizens with respect to Jan. 6?” said Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican on the Judiciary Committee. He said the committee will find out more bout those who “exercised their First Amendment rights, and then suddenly, they’re being brought up on some sort of parading or trespassing charges and didn’t engage in any physical harm to anybody.”

Another Judiciary Committee Republican, Rep. Darrell Issa of California, told The Times that he is drafting legislation that will give Congress more muscle in making criminal referrals to the DOJ.

Mr. Issa has ample experience on that front. He led the Oversight and Reform Committee in 2012 when Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was held in contempt for not cooperating with the panel’s investigation of the Obama administration’s Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation, which went awry and put more than a thousand firearms in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

He also led Congress’ frustrated effort to hold IRS official Lois Lerner accountable for the IRS targeting of conservative groups.

“We referred Lois Lerner criminally. We referred Eric Holder criminally, and it was thwarted. You can’t have attorneys general … simply look at us and say, ‘Even though the law says you can do it, we’re not going to honor it,’” said Mr. Issa, who vowed to beef up that congressional power.

“We’re going to have to strengthen it,” he said.

Another measure several Republicans on the committee want is requiring federal law enforcement agents to wear body cameras during raids and digitally record all interviews.

“I prosecuted with the FBI for 15 years as a federal prosecutor, and it always came up because even when they were interviewing in custody, they wouldn’t have a camera in the room,” said Rep. Ken Buck, Colorado Republican. “Every time there was a crossexamination of an FBI agent, [the defense attorney] would ask, ‘Well, why didn’t you record this? Why did you just take notes and then destroy the notes?’ And so I think it is time.”


“That sort of dynamic can happen when all the power is essentially sucked up into one central decisionmaking vortex,” said Rep. Dan Bishop (left) on “SiriusXM Patriot.” The North Carolina lawmaker is kicking around ideas with fellow Republicans on how to put a check on the FBI and the Department of Justice. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Re: WT: If Reps win House
« Reply #1488 on: October 06, 2022, 07:17:08 AM »
Right after they defund Obamacare!

 :roll:

John McCain has left the building. 

Did you send money to Blake Masters today?
https://secure.winred.com/blake-masters/donate?amount=1000

Murkowski is still there.
https://secure.winred.com/kelly-for-alaska/website-donate?recurring=true

Want action?  Elect better people.  An R by the name is not enough.

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FBI hatchet man Steven Dantuono
« Reply #1489 on: October 07, 2022, 10:42:25 AM »
Masters was one of my big recipients.   Donated to Kelly too.
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Andrew McCarthy agrees with me
« Reply #1490 on: October 07, 2022, 12:47:32 PM »
Andrew McCarthy agrees with me!



https://nypost.com/.../hunter-bidens-end-game-its-about.../

Hunter Biden’s end game: It’s about far more than him
By Andrew C. McCarthy
October 6, 2022 8:33pm  Updated

The report discussed Biden's tax fraud.

Federal agents investigating Hunter Biden believe they have for months had enough evidence to charge the first son with tax crimes.

How does the Hunter Biden probe end? That question is stirring now that anonymous people connected to the case are leaking to the Washington Post — leaks of investigative information and prosecutorial deliberations that are about as surprising as the fact that the Washington Post somehow manages to make its report as much about Donald Trump as about the story’s putative subject, the incumbent president’s ne’er-do-well son.

It’s not a new question because it’s not a new story. Indeed, the reporting is only “new” in the sense that people supposedly in the know are talking about things that have been known for years — certainly known to readers of the New York Post.

Indeed, the mildly hilarious aspect of the report is that the Washington Post wants you to know that, in March 2022, it reported that a couple of “computer security experts” reviewed the thousands of emails “purportedly” from Hunter’s infamous laptop and “found they were authentic communications.”

Unmentioned, natch, is that in October 2020, when the New York Post reported on the laptop’s patently authentic communications in final weeks of the presidential election campaign, the Washington Post joined the FBI, the intelligence community, and the rest of the media-Democrat complex in suppressing the laptop data on the risible, evidence-free claim that it was “Russian disinformation.”

So how does the Hunter Biden investigation end? I’m going to tell you what I’ve told people for years. First, the fact that you’re thinking of it as the “Hunter Biden investigation” means it already has ended in the salient sense. In point of fact, Hunter is the least consequential Biden implicated, and what he gingerly called his “tax matter” when he was induced — only after the 2020 election, of course — to concede that he was under criminal investigation is the least consequential aspect of it.

Second, and wholly consistent with that, it’s going to end in politically choreographed theater in which the Biden administration tries to convince you that justice was done. And if they’ve already got you thinking of this drama as the “Hunter Biden investigation,” why shouldn’t they figure they can pull it off.

Stop perverting justice and charge Hunter Biden already

I’ll repeat the prediction I’ve been making for a couple of years: With great fanfare, Hunter Biden will be allowed to plead guilty to a tax charge, with minimal if any time in custody — even if a false-statement charge is thrown in for good measure.

Understand: In the scheme of things, this would be nothing. Hunter only acknowledged being under criminal investigation for tax offenses because everyone who was paying attention already knew that. There have been liens on his properties for years, and his ex-wife has been very public about his financial straits.

As for the false-statement charge, that would be in connection with a notorious firearms offense. Hunter, who was bounced from naval service in 2013 over drug abuse, obtained a gun after representing on the required federal form that he was not a user of illegal narcotics. Not only did he have a well-known problem; by his own account (in his book), he was abusing cocaine at the time. Here’s the only notable thing about that at this point: The false-statement offense appears to be a slam-dunk case.

Why is that notable? Because it happened four years ago. If you lied on a federal firearms form, managed to acquire a gun by doing so, then failed to safeguard the gun, then were so careless you lost the gun, do you think you’d still be walking around four years later without being charged?

How about four weeks? I doubt it.

Bobulinski has recounted that he had face-to-face meetings with Joe Biden.

Hunter was bounced from naval service in 2013 over drug abuse.
AP

So here is the theater I envision: The Justice Department will announce a guilty plea deal to trivial charges. Hunter will emote his deeply sincere contrition. President Biden will beat his chest and say, “See, I didn’t interfere in any way whatsoever” (I doubt he’ll add “just like I never discussed my son’s foreign business deals”). And the Justice Department will convene the victory-lap press conference at which it congratulates itself for its courage and independence in prosecuting the president’s son, without fear or favor.

And then they’ll hope the whole thing goes away. Case closed. The guilty plea settles all outstanding issues. Swept under the prosecutorial rug is any mention of the corruption and self-dealing in which the president himself is implicated.

I won’t go into chapter and verse — though I could, and Senators Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R., Wisc.) already have in lengthy reports about the goo-gobs of foreign money that have gone into the Biden family coffers. I’ll keep it to one transaction.

The Biden family — not merely Hunter, the Biden family — received approximately $6 million in a transaction with CEFC, an apparent arm of the Chinese Communist government. There is documentary corroboration from the laptop that Joe Biden was supposed to get a significant slice (10% for the “big guy”).

Grassley has called for an investigation into Biden.

Sen. Chuck Grassley has lengthy reports about the foreign money that have gone into the Biden family coffers.
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Putting aside that the records are clearly authentic, there is a corroborating witness: Tony Bobulinski, a former naval intelligence officer and entrepreneur brought in by the Biden family and its inner circle to build the business structure. Bobulinski has recounted that he had face-to-face meetings with Joe Biden about the deal, and that Joe was deeply involved in Hunter’s foreign business dealings. Of the $6 million haul, $1 million went to Hunter to act as a lawyer for Patrick Ho, who appears to have been under foreign counterintelligence surveillance, in addition to criminal investigation for foreign corrupt practices (he was ultimately convicted). Once Ho was exposed, the regime of Xi Jinping arrested the Bidens’ main CEFC partner, Ye Jianming. He has never been seen in public again.

What did the Chinese government believe they were getting by lavishing millions on the Bidens? Were any of the Bidens intercepted in the FBI’s national-security monitoring of CEFC? If Joe Biden weren’t president and had to apply for a security clearance like other executive branch officials, could he qualify? Do you suppose the Justice Department’s very aggressive I’m sure, no fear or favor investigation is going to answer those and other pertinent questions?

But let’s not worry our pretty little heads about such things. After all, it’s just Hunter’s “tax matter,” right?

Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor.

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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1491 on: October 07, 2022, 02:04:25 PM »
almost certainly this is the deal the shysters have worked out

 :x :x :x

"no one f**ks with a Biden"

just wait .....

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ET: FBI team involved in censoring Hunter laptop identified
« Reply #1492 on: October 08, 2022, 06:38:25 AM »
FBI Team Involved in Censorship of Hunter Biden Laptop Story Identified
By Zachary Stieber October 7, 2022 Updated: October 7, 2022biggersmaller Print



The FBI team that was in communication with Facebook before the social media company censored the original Hunter Biden laptop story has been identified, according to a new court filing.

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, identified the team as the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), according to an updated complaint entered late on Oct. 6.

Meta named the team after receiving a subpoena in a case alleging the federal government pressured Big Tech firms to censor users.

“Pursuant to the third-party subpoena, Meta has identified the FBI’s FITF, as supervised by Laura Dehmlow, and Elvis Chan as involved in the communications between the FBI and Meta that led to Facebook’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story,” the updated complaint states.

Mark Zuckberg, Meta’s CEO, said in August that Facebook reduced the reach of posts about Hunter Biden’s laptop in response to advice from the FBI.

“The background here is the FBI I think basically came to some folks on our team [and] were like, ‘Hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump similar to that, so just be vigilant,'” Zuckerberg said on Joe Rogan’s podcast. He made similar comments before the Senate in 2020.

“One of the threats that the FBI has alerted our company and the public to was the possibility of a hack and leak operation in the days or weeks leading up to this election,” Zuckerberg said then. Those alerts “suggested we be on high alert and sensitivity if a trove of documents appeared that we should view that with suspicion that it might be part of a foreign manipulation attempt,” he added.

The FBI did not respond to a request for comment on the updated lawsuit, which now names the FBI as a defendant. The bureau said previously that it is routinely in touch with U.S. companies but “cannot ask, or direct, companies to take action on information received.”

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The FITF was established by FBI Director Christopher Wray in 2017 “to identify and counteract malign foreign influence operations targeting the United States,” according to the bureau’s website. Such operations include covert actions by outside governments aimed at influencing the American political scene or discourse, the bureau has said.

Laura Dehmlow is a supervisor of FITF. She has been named as a defendant in the case along with Elvis Chan, a special agent who manages the cyber branch at the FBI’s San Francisco Field Office.

According to new documents produced by the government as part of discovery in the case, Dehmlow briefed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Cybersecurity Advisory Committee on March 1, 2022. Minutes of the meeting show Dehmlow telling members that the FITF actually started in 2016 and has since grown to 80 workers.

Asked about goals for approaching mal-, mis-, and disinformation, Dehmlow said that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable; we need to early educate the populace; and that today, critical thinking seems to be a problem currently,” according to the minutes.

Chan, meanwhile, bragged on a recent podcast that the San Francisco office “was very involved in helping to protect the US elections in 2020” by working with private companies and election officials. He also indicated he works closely with CISA Director Jen Easterly, who has been revealed to have taken part in pressuring Big Tech companies to crack down on alleged misinformation.

“We talked with all of these entities I mentioned regularly, at least on a monthly basis. And right before the election, probably on a weekly basis. If they were seeing anything unusual, if we were seeing anything unusual, sharing intelligence with technology companies, with social media companies, so that they could protect their own platforms. That’s where the FBI and the US government can actually help companies,” Chan said.

Plaintiffs in the case said that helping social media companies protect their platforms “includes censorship and suppression of speech at the FBI’s behest.”

Chan also organized meetings with LinkedIn from 2020 through the present, with agendas provided indicating the meetings included going over censoring election-related posts on social media. Chan organized similar meetings with other Big Tech firms, plaintiffs said.

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McCarthy : FBI framed Trump and covered up for Hunter
« Reply #1496 on: October 13, 2022, 05:40:15 AM »

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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1498 on: October 13, 2022, 08:19:54 AM »
And a pretty weak rejoinder  :-D

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Re: The war on the rule of law; the Deep State
« Reply #1499 on: October 13, 2022, 09:20:16 AM »
And a pretty weak rejoinder  :-D

DSA is “shocked” at the FBI’s blatant criminality?

Really?

I might have missed the part where DSA retracted his endorsement of Garland. Can you post a link to it?