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The tip of the Lawfare spear consists of a small group of former DOJ attorneys and Main Justice leftists who helped AG Eric Holder create the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) when it was formed on behalf of President Obama.
Lawfare, writ large, are a tribe of leftists who strategically weaponize the justice systems within the DOJ. They are also the main guides, strategists and legal analysts who previously used Robert Mueller and currently use Jack Smith.
The tribe is led by a trio of fellow travelers: Mary McCord, Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissmann.
If you research the group, you will discover that Mary McCord sits at the center of every attack approach deployed against President Trump {CITATION}. The influence of McCord cannot be overstated, while gender fluid leftists like Eisen, Weissmann (and others), wax philosophically about which statutes can be twisted and interpreted to assist their Lawfare strategy du jour.
Everything we have watched unfold, from using “The Logan Act” against Michael Flynn, to using “Obstruction” against President Trump and the “Insurrection Act” against J-6 targets, comes from this small crew of effeminate leftists.
The similarity of the behavioral proclivities is an outcome of their tribal synchronicity. Much like the McClintock or Wellesley effect, when you isolate Lawfare individuals into a small tribe, their collective behaviors replicate. These travelers were incubated in the DOJ-NSD.
This crew of Brookings funded Lawfare ideologues was also described by Christine Blasey-Ford as her “Beach Friends.”
Since leaving official government positions, the main trio of Lawfare leadership congregate professionally on MSNBC and feed the leftists in media and politics from their primary cable outlet.
I noted, during a recent flight filled with DC bureaucrats and IC officials (United Airlines), how the drones all watched MSNBC on their seat monitors as if it was a religious service that needed to be attended. It really was a sight to see. Every bureaucrat, active or retired, seated with their laptop under the headrest monitor while typing, texting and DM’ing in unison like synchronized swimmers.
That experience was the first time I realized how the term “NPC’s” or non-Player Characters might have originated as a meme, but the label was eerily accurate.
FBI HQ left, Main Justice building right
The alarming aspect to the tribal Lawfare approach, is to realize how this essentially very small group of former DOJ-NSD lawyers commands such an oversized influence on our national politics.
In reality, this crew is likely less than 20 full-time characters with about a half-dozen lawyers used as spokespeople. Essentially, the public voice to keep the hardcore leftists on the optimal message. However, this group also writes the legal strategies for all of the attack approaches used in Atlanta, Georgia (Fani Willis), New York (Alvin Bragg) and DC/FL with Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Within Main Justice, it is Deputy AG Lisa Monaco who takes the Lawfare instructions from the outside group and funnels them back into actionable work within the DOJ (ie to Jack Smith). It’s a similar process as to how the inside and outside group coordinated and used Robert Mueller.
Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord and Norm Eisen (with occasional guests), can be seen daily watching very closely how their legal briefs, citations and structured legal motions are being used. Yes, it is their written words, their legal briefs, and their filings that are signed by the government officials and submitted into multiple judicial venues.
[NOTE: FOIA or subpoena the Lawfare communication pipeline, and you end up with 15 iPhones that mysteriously and identically have the wrong password entered 10 times, and that deletes all the content – just like the last time someone tried with the Lawfare group around Mueller {citation}.]
♦ Well, that’s who they are…. So, we cannot say we don’t know the exact names of the people at the epicenter of the operation, and you do not need to read the proverbial overuse of the word “they” without knowing exactly who they are.
With the Supreme Court ruling Monday on presidential immunity, the Lawfare group is absolutely apoplectic and fraught with anxiety about it.
Why?
Why this much extreme vitriol?
The answer is very simple. Andrew Weissmann speaks about the reason in this soundbite. Listen at the 01:37 point, when Weissmann says the ruling now puts the President in charge of the DOJ-NSD.
THAT reality is so far beyond alarming that Weissmann has a hard time retaining his composure about it. Remember, this is a small DOJ-NSD group who truly have lived in a Main Justice institutional silo where they were untouchable. WATCH:
What exactly is the background here?
This is where CTH readers are at least a year ahead of where the reality of this story will eventually end up.
Andrew Weissmann is very concerned today because the Supreme Court just put the DOJ-NSD back into a box where they are accountable within the Executive Branch. To the group who use the auspices of “national security” to shield themselves from oversight, putting the President back in charge of the executive branch is profoundly catastrophic.
To give you context, here’s a reminder of consequence from a prior ancillary case involving the Mar-a-Lago documents.
♦ “National Security” as a shield – Remember, Barack Obama and Eric Holder created the DOJ-NSD using the authorities granted to the administrative state by the bureaucracy following 9/11. Specifically, because the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) was created, and within that dynamic the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was established, DHS would now be the weaponized umbrella organization, and the power granted to the DNI would establish the need for the DOJ-NSD.
In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms, so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the new national security system. This is very important to understand as you dig deeper.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed.
When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
Eric Holder created the DOJ-National Security Division for exactly the purpose of weaponizing the DOJ to target their political opposition. This is what the DOJ-NSD does under the auspices of “National Security.” The FARA violation monitoring is one of the more well-known operations within the DOJ-NSD, and from that construct you find the original justification for the NSA database monitoring.
The surveillance of Americans shifted around the roles and responsibilities within Main Justice after the DOJ-NSD was created. The National Security Division took over Foreign Agent Registration Act monitoring as well as FISA. Both FARA and FISA required some form of downstream surveillance within the authority of the NSD.
The FBI counterintelligence division became the investigative offshoot to assist the NSD, and due to the tightrope of legal compliance issues, lawyers from the NSD were dispatched into the FBI to give legal assistance on the surveillance side. This is how NSD lawyers like Lisa Page, Tashina Guahar and Kevin Clinesmith end up encircling FBI officials like Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe.
Within this newly created DOJ-NSD, there was no inspector general oversight, so the internal officials were unaccountable, had no reason to worry about anyone looking at them, and they were generally running amok. In 2015 the Office of the DOJ Inspector General requested oversight, and it was Deputy AG Sally Yates who responded with a lengthy 58-page legal explanation saying, essentially, ‘nope – not allowed.’ (PDF HERE) All of the DOJ is subject to oversight, except the NSD.
We discover just how ridiculous and partisan the NSD became through the outcomes of the Hillary Clinton investigation. The Clinton investigation was operated by the FBI and the unaccountable DOJ-NSD.
Yesterday, in a stunning opinion that destabilized the Lawfare ideologues, the Supreme Court affirmed the Unitary Executive principle around the constitution.
The 6-3 opinion held that the President is “a person alone who comprises a branch of government.” This is important to understand. The Executive Branch is the President.
As noted by reader Alex1689: […] Read the SCOTUS opinion, not from a point of view of apprehension about President Trump (he’ll be fine), but from the point of view of what does this allow him to do in his second term, and what straightjackets does it remove that were a threat during his first term?
To start, the court wrote about powers that carry with them core, absolute immunity, the exercise of which cannot come under question in any forum. It specifically identified:
Pardons
Recognition of foreign governments
Removal of executive branch officials.
If it can’t be questioned . . . It also cannot be the grounds for impeachment, can it?
Let’s repeat: If it’s a core power, the exercise of the core power cannot be grounds for impeachment (*except if done in connection with taking a bribe).
In his first term, there was the threat that if President Trump fired . . .
Rosenstein
Barr
Fauci
That he would be prosecuted for obstruction of justice or impeached.
That threat is forever off the table now.
He can fire anyone he likes in the executive branch. The straightjacket is gone.
On that point, further, the majority opinion uses strong language consistent with the Unitary Executive theory of the Constitution. The President is “a person alone who comprises a branch of government.”
While there are areas of shared constitutional responsibility, the core powers of the Executive Branch, including personnel, are the President’s alone.
Boom.
While impeachment is a political process within the Legislative Branch, and the Supreme Court is extremely hesitant to overstep their role therein, the High Court did put this sentiment clearly into the opinion about immunity: …“The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution.”…
Congress may not criminalize the conduct of the President simply for carrying out his core executive branch duties.
Removal of Executive Branch officials is a core duty, an official act, carrying absolute immunity.
That newly affirmed reality is exactly why Andrew Weissmann and the Lawfare crowd are very alarmed.
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Something that strikes me as I read the comments (on this and many other things) is how many people talk about how angry they are.
Aside from being a blood-pressure problem, a person’s anger is a waste of energy and only bothers that person.
No doubt the anger is justified — that’s not the point.
When an electrical circuit has a bad connection or corrosion, this “bad spot” becomes hot. The electrical current is dissipated and wasted into space as heat and performs no useful function. It also can harm the components of the circuit. This is what anger does to us.
I understand people guard their chances to get angry with great effort because anger makes us feel like we’re doing something even though we are not. Bear in mind it is very easy to control an angry person — just keep making them mad and they become blind.
It would be much better to consider channelling your anger into “resolve.” Resolve is a calmer, deeper idea. Resolve is what makes people stand in the face of battle. Anger is what makes people flame out or get taken out early on.
Resolve is better.
“Cold anger” is close to resolve, and you could probably say cold anger leads to resolve. Resolve will be there in the morning. Anger will not.
Finally, I just don’t think it’s healthy to live filled with anger. It eats us alive. Resolve does not do this.
Consider if you were to suddenly face any number of these whiny, slimy guys. If you were angry, he would not care or even be alarmed. But if you were filled with resolve, and simply eyed him with a cold eye, consider what he’d be thinking.
“Liberty or death” is not anger. That is a statement of resolve, a statement of commitment.
Anger is a reaction.
To resolve to do something is a decision to do it. A decision is a conscious, positive action.
I can’t believe what a little bitch voice Andrew Weisman has
Weissman, as all of the Lawfare Tribe, is only successful in court when dealing in front of a Bolshevik judge like Boasberg, Chutkun or Merchan!
All 3 of these traitors ought to spend the rest of their lives in chains…..in gitmo. I do not have words to describe the utter hatred I feel for them. They are worse than garbage.
Actually as traitors they should be shot or hung, after a trial for same of course. But no one will ever bring charges because Obama, Jarrett, Brennan, Clapper, Holder etc. saw to it that the entire federal government was weaponized. Read J. Michael Waller’s, BIG INTEL. You won’t be able to put it down.
McCord, Weissman, and Eisen are the three “people”, currently at the DOJ, should be at the top of Trump’s legal hit list.
Weissman has been ruining people’s lives for decades beginning with the Arthur Anderson case. He almost ruined Trump’s presidency but essentially he had no case. BTW is Weissman gay? Sure sounds like it.
Eisen has been a Clintonite forever and now hides in the circle of the Biden administration’s lawfare clique.
McCord appears to run the lawfare show.
Bottom line…they aren’t very good at what they do. The lawfare scam has all but collapsed. So what will they do after Trump purges the DOJ. Easy, hire lawyers to defend themselves.
This Troika of bitter lawyers will hardly be remembered for their jurisprudence. They will be remembered as scam artists and for their incompetence.
What I want to know is who is giving the evil three amigos their marching orders? Someone is pulling the strings. Obama is another puppet. Someone is calling the shots.
It’s puppets all the way down.
Straight down to Hell itself.
My guess is it’s Garland.
It would be hard to argue that the activities in which they have engaged are in ANY way legitimate. What legitimate motivation could there be? We’ve heard their claims already and ALL debunked and yet they continue. They are factually STILL running the coup!
There will always be a coup attempt to get Trump. If he wins he needs to have a division in his DOJ specifically set up to go after the lawfare clowns.
It’s called retribution.
It’s called “law enforcement.” There are certainly enough federal laws that they can all be found guilty one or more of them.
Dream on. Trump won’t have the time.
Just get rid of the illegitimate division.
And salt the floor on the way out.
There will always be a coup attempt to get Trump. If he wins he needs to have a division in his DOJ specifically set up to go after the lawfare clowns.
It’s called retribution.
The lawfare scam collapsed only because they had to run it before gaining control of SCOTUS.
The first sentence of Article II is, “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Remember, three justices refused to acknowledge this plain statement in their dissent, repudiating their oaths of office. They should be impeached for having done so. If there’s “bad behavior” to be found in a judge, it’s perjury, false swearing, and a willingness to put a personally held ideology ahead of the supreme law of the land.
Well we will still have to wait for Maga Congress to do that. And then what? We’ll have to live through the era of Scotus justice impeachments. It would never end.
We America First voters can do something NOW.
We can complete the take over of the Republican party at the local and state levels in our own state.
Put one and only ONE A F candidate into the primary so the AF votes will not be split.The RINOs want this split so their hand picked RINO candidate can win the primary and win the general. We AF voters need to be smarter and have our AF candidate go to DC and help drain that Swamp.
The second thing we need to do is run for local office, an AF school board would help to slow down the brain washing of our future, the children.
Weissman and his Lawfare villains have no concept of American History and what they do know they dispise….
Brigadier General Armistead; Virginian Pickett’s Charge Speech – Gettysburg (1993)
“They know that today’s work will be desperate and deadly. They know that for many of them this will be their last charge.”
It was Richard Jordan’s “last charge”, as it were. He passed away in the summer of 1993 from a brain tumor.
Speaking of Eisen.. Reads like he’s providing clear direction to the prosecution. All this talk of targeting Trump ‘up until his inauguration’. They won’t be stopping till they are fired and prosecuted. Otherwise they will simply continue these operations.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/01/opinions/trump-immunity-ruling-evidentiary-hearing-eisen-perry-kolb/index.html
I still don’t see how this court opinion prevents CONgress from impeaching and removing the POTUS if they have enough votes. A president could be impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate long before the crooks in CONgress could be indicted and convicted by a real DOJ-AG for real crimes.
It doesn’t. Congress is another branch of government just as the judiciary and the executive are. impeachment and conviction are purely political. But their participation is also political so they are not entirely without risk.
No, the immunity from prosecution as a civilian would still remain. As a criminal matter, the president would still remain immune according to this SCOTUS ruling.
It doesn’t. Impeachment is a political action. If they have the votes and the political willpower, they could impeach the president for pretty much any
Something occurred to me while reading this.
Maybe the 2020 steal that interrupted President Trump’s
2nd term was a godsend. If he had won in 2020, things
wouldn’t have been much different than his first term.
Now with all these lawsuits attempting to stop his 2nd term
and this SC ruling, he will be able to get much more done in
many areas of clearing out the deep state, etc.
I agree 100%
One just needs to look at what has oozed up and out of the sewer.
🤮
If you followed the “X22 Report,” every day, over the last five (5) or six (6) years, you would know this (strategy) has all been planned out by President Trump and the Patriots.
I’m not tired of WINNING! 😁
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by Samuel Francis Smith in 1831
Founders never contemplated the massive growth of the Executive Office deep state and out of control administrative agencies that we have today.
There are zero protections in the US Constitution against them except for the elected POTUS plenary power to fire them all and reorganize the executive office functions.
No newly elected POTUS should be required to manage and control an out of control autonomous government bureaucracy inflicted upon him by no choice of his own..
You’re fired – deep state. You’re fired.
Music to all our ears. We cannot stand as nation when unelected and partisan forces daily mount insurrections against the elected will of the people.
I know there was an update to this but it would be helpful to highlight what the update was. Easier on us readers who read the original.
Reading CTH’s excellent coverage of the Scandals + the key players over the years makes putting together compilations like this so much easier…. (Hat tip to Gateway Pundit too…)
https://rumble.com/v558i6c-there-is-no-deep-state.html
“You’re FIRED!!!” will take on new meaning for “We the People!” on January 20th, 2025.
Still, Obama can do immeasurable damage with the little time left to his Reign of Terror
Outstanding job as usual SD!
Mary McCord, Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissmann.
Were they appointed by a President? I suspect they were appointed by someone who was appointed by someone who was appointed by a President.
That’s not good enough, especially when they claim to be above all scrutiny. Not even the CIA claims that, officially, anyway. They claim it unofficially through their Bribery/Blackmail Protocols.
They are sui generis Tyrants who have usurped the President’s National Security Authority and arrogated it unto themselves, completely untethered from the People’s Constitution.
”The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.”–Alexander Hamilton
I just finished reading the link below posted by Alex1689.
Thank you Sundance and Alex! It gives me hope and maybe I can start living my best life. It’s long and well worth the time. It’s already been posted once that I know of and probably more. This thread is 6 pages long so maybe some of you haven’t seen it yet.
https://burningbright.substack.com/p/agenda-47
Please continue drive this message home over and over and over again. Thank you
Get them all off the government teat first, getting rid of these pigs will drop that offices budget 10% alone.. We can call it budget cuts from the start… Deport all foreign nationals that “appeared” on our door step and entered this country illegally.. if they have children deport them too, they can select US citizenship at 19 with the denial of all other citizenship claims regardless of their birth records.. end chain migration and daylight savings time..
QUESTION, wasn’t the DOJ National Security Division formed under Bush? So, what more did Holder and Obama play in creating their new lawfare division of same?
“The National Security Division was created under Section 506 of the 2005 USA PATRIOT Act reauthorization, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on March 9, 2006.”