In a two-week period right after the 2024 election, the most energy expended by the transition team putting a cabinet together was toward Main Justice or the Dept of Justice. As a consequence, those around Lutnick and Wiles spent an incredible amount of time thinking about the Attorney General pick.
Following an insider discussion, I spoke with several people about positions and appointments, focused on pointing out that the transition’s priorities were misplaced. The AG needed to be someone with exceptional moral character, capable of gathering information and presenting it for public consumption, with the option of supporting criminal referrals if necessary.
The Attorney General wasn’t going to be the tip of the spear in any operation to confront the Deep State, because if Main Justice wanted to confront Lawfare they needed to confront the Intelligence Community first. The IC controls all of the activity within the Dept of Justice.
Read that again for emphasis. For the issues of greatest importance, the Intelligence Community controls all of the activity within Main Justice. The IC is in control of the source material. The IC is above the DOJ. If you don’t strategize a confrontation with the IC first, it doesn’t matter what you do with the Dept of Justice.
The best example I could reference at the time was the Mar-a-Lago documents case and Judge Aileen Cannon. In that example the Executive branch was targeting Trump through the DOJ/FBI, and representing the Judicial branch Judge Cannon was the firewall ensuring the appropriate administration of justice.
Trump’s defense, through Cannon, pushed back against the DOJ (Jack Smith) while Smith leveraged all his Lawfare tools back against Cannon. You might remember the “classified document” issue went to the 11th CCA.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the government position that any documents defined as “classified” by the executive branch that claimed, “national security,” should not be disclosed to the defendant, Trump. The 11th CCA said when it comes to matters of national security, the judicial branch must defer to the determinations of the executive.
Basically, if the intelligence community decides certain information is tied to national security and labels it as classified for the DOJ, that decision can’t be challenged. The U.S. Supreme Court has backed this view. As a result, when it comes to national security issues, the judicial branch has to defer to the executive, giving the IC significant control over the DOJ.
If you drag former CIA Director John Brennan into court and Brennan’s lawyers argue ‘national security’ as a defense against indictment, inquiry or questioning, it’s not the DOJ (Attorney General) who matters – it’s the ‘national security’ determination of the Intelligence Community (Tulsi Gabbard) who controls the outcome.
Over and over, I kept emphasizing this point. If you want to hold the Spygate/Russiagate folks accountable, it’s not going to be the DOJ who matter; not directly. It is the Intelligence Community that matters.
If you seek accountability, and if you want to stop Lawfare from exploiting the silo defenses, it’s the IC that matters; not the Dept of Justice. The transition team was putting emphasis on the wrong syllable. Remember, my emphasis was on the need for institutional accountability on Spygate and Russiagate, and the DOJ is a tool toward the goal but not the ultimate weapon.
♦ Secondly, and specifically because of this issue, if you don’t confront the IC bad actors directly, if you don’t disassemble their power structures, you are going to end up with Main Justice in a constant position of defense, because the DOJ is downstream from the determinations of the Intelligence Community.
Yes, it’s a screwed-up system. Yes, it’s entirely part of the built-out silo defenses. But also yes, if you don’t approach it by beginning with the end in mind, then you get into a battle with Lawfare without the correct strategy. All of these accountability issues touch on ‘national security,’ and that national security will be weaponized as a defense.
Frustrated with my inability to convince, I wrote something in real time that I am going to repost below. Perhaps a revisit now will stimulate a new perspective.
The Attorney General and Main Justice are very important to the establishment of successful domestic policy, deportation objectives, immigration enforcement, criminal investigations, drug trafficking and human smuggling interdictions, election reform, law enforcement, civil order and constitutional protection. But for the sake of accountability, it is the ODNI and CIA Director who really matters.
Nov 11, 2024 – Yes, folks in the transition, I get it.
I totally understand why you approach the weaponization of government as a cancer treatment, and the Dept of Justice is the silo of focus for you to target with the harshest Stage-4 metastatic chemo.
I completely understand why, during this phase, all of your efforts have to be on aggressive treatment. Main Justice carries the badges, and it is only Main Justice that can prosecute corruption. I get it. I understand. However, the cancerous lesion, that first moment when the compromised cells began to die and replicate, will not lead to an origination in the DOJ.
So far, every pathologist who has reviewed the diagnostic biopsy has called this a ‘cancer of unknown primary origin’ or abbreviated a CUP. Having backlight this cell structure for many years, I call tell you with confidence the accurate origin is the United States Intelligence Community.
Please, begin all Term-2 treatment options with this diagnosis in mind.
Please pay attention to the silo structure.
Notice in this first short video how Mary McCord positions the power structure of the DOJ-NSD silo in deference to the Intelligence Community (IC).
This is a critical path within the next step to American’s “great awakening.” In the past we have outlined how the DOJ-NSD weaponizes their Lawfare by using “National Security Information,” or what the insiders call “NSI.”
As an outcome of the way our checks and balances have been modified against our interests, the judicial branch has repeatedly deferred to the DOJ around the issue of “national security.” In fact, if the DOJ labels any Lawfare approach as a national security matter the subsequent evidence therein, the NSI (even when not seen) is accepted by the judicial branch without question. The judicial branch defers to the executive on all matters defined by the executive as “national security.”
This is the area of exploit being discussed by Mary McCord in this segment below. However, PLEASE NOTICE there is an apparatus that can supersede the DOJ-NSD’s ability to weaponize Nat Sec Information, that’s the power of the intelligence apparatus. WATCH:
Lawfare coordinator Mary McCord admits that she and another lawfare coordinator, Andrew Weissmann, worked with the DOJ and intelligence losers on what bogus charges to bring against Trump. pic.twitter.com/4jqgetvURZ
— The Researcher (@listen_2learn) October 4, 2024
Do not brush off this important reveal by the foremost voice in exploiting the targeting systems granted by the Intelligence Community.
Mary McCord is telling us the IC is in charge of “the information” that is then weaponized in the lawfare approach.
McCord notes how she and Andrew Weissmann navigate through the process of using National Security Information (NSI) as they move toward their target; the most common reference is their political opposition, Donald J Trump.
The DOJ has to ask the IC for permission to engage.
The IC gives the DOJ-NSD the targeting system; without it, nothing happens.
If you remove Main Justice as a weapon, you are treating a symptom – not the disease itself. You still have not removed the origin of the cancer, the Intelligence Community.
McCord background:
If there is one Lawfare operative who has escaped scrutiny for her corrupt endeavors, it would be Mary McCord. More than any other Lawfare operative within Main Justice, Mary McCord sits at the center of every table in the manufacturing of cases against Donald Trump. {GO DEEP} Mary McCord’s husband is Sheldon Snook; he was the right hand to the legal counsel of Chief Justice John Roberts when the Dobbs decision was leaked.
When the Carter Page FISA application was originally assembled by the FBI and DOJ, there was initial hesitancy from within the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) about submitting the application, because it did not have enough citations in evidence (the infamous ‘Woods File’). That’s why the Steele Dossier ultimately became important. It was the Steele Dossier that provided the push, the legal cover needed for the DOJ-NSD to submit the application for a Title-1 surveillance warrant against the campaign of Donald J. Trump.
When the application was finally assembled for submission to the FISA court, the head of the DOJ-NSD was John Carlin. Carlin quit working for the DOJ-NSD in late September 2016 just before the final application was submitted (October 21,2016). John Carlin was replaced by Deputy Asst. Attorney General, Mary McCord.
♦ When the FISA application was finally submitted (approved by Sally Yates and James Comey), it was Mary McCord who did the actual process of filing the application and gaining the Title-1 surveillance warrant.
A few months later, February 2017, with Donald Trump now in office as President, it was Mary McCord who went with Deputy AG Sally Yates to the White House to confront White House legal counsel Don McGahn over the Michael Flynn interview with FBI agents. The surveillance of Flynn’s calls was presumably done under the auspices and legal authority of the FISA application Mary McCord previously was in charge of submitting.
♦ At the time the Carter Page application was filed (October 21, 2016), Mary McCord’s chief legal counsel inside the office was a DOJ-NSD lawyer named Michael Atkinson. In his role as the legal counsel for the DOJ-NSD, it was Atkinson’s job to review and audit all FISA applications submitted from inside the DOJ. Essentially, Atkinson was the DOJ internal compliance officer in charge of making sure all FISA applications were correctly assembled and documented.
♦ When the anonymous CIA whistleblower complaint was filed against President Trump for the issues of the Ukraine call with President Zelensky, the Intelligence Community Inspector General had to change the rules for the complaint to allow an anonymous submission. Prior to this change, all intelligence whistleblowers had to put their name on the complaint. It was this 2019 IGIC who changed the rules. Who was the Intelligence Community Inspector General? Michael Atkinson.
When ICIG Michael Atkinson turned over the newly authorized anonymous whistleblower complaint to the joint House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee (Schiff and Nadler chairs), who did Michael Atkinson give the complaint to? Mary McCord.
Yes, after she left main justice, Mary McCord took the job of working for Chairman Jerry Nadler and Chairman Adam Schiff as the chief legal advisor inside the investigation that led to the construction of articles of impeachment. As a consequence, Mary McCord received the newly permitted anonymous whistleblower complaint from her old office colleague Michael Atkinson.
♦ During his investigation of the Carter Page application, Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered an intentional lie inside the Carter Page FISA application (directly related to the ‘Woods File’), which his team eventually tracked to FBI counterintelligence division lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith. Eventually Clinesmith was criminally charged with fabricating evidence (changed wording on an email) in order to intentionally falsify the underlying evidence in the FISA submission.
When John Durham took the Clinesmith indictment to court, the judge in the case was James Boasberg.
♦ In addition to being a DC criminal judge, James Boasberg is also a FISA court judge who signed-off on one of the renewals for the FISA application that was submitted using fraudulent evidence fabricated by Kevin Clinesmith. In essence, now the presiding judge over the FISA court, Boasberg was the FISC judge who was tricked by Clinesmith, and now the criminal court judge in charge of determining Clinesmith’s legal outcome. Judge Boasberg eventually sentenced Clinesmith to 6 months probation.
As an outcome of continued FISA application fraud and wrongdoing by the FBI, in their exploitation of searches of the NSA database, Presiding FISC Judge James Boasberg appointed an amici curiae advisor to the court who would monitor the DOJ-NSD submissions and ongoing FBI activities.
Who did James Boasberg select as a FISA court amicus? Mary McCord.
♦ SUMMARY: Mary McCord submitted the original false FISA application to the court using the demonstrably false Dossier. Mary McCord participated in the framing of Michael Flynn. Mary McCord worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to create a fraudulent whistleblower complaint against President Trump; and Mary McCord used that manipulated complaint to assemble articles of impeachment on behalf of the joint House Intel and Judiciary Committee. Mary McCord then took up a defensive position inside the FISA court to protect the DOJ and FBI from sunlight upon all the aforementioned corrupt activity.
You can clearly see how Mary McCord would be a person of interest if anyone was going to start digging into corruption internally within the FBI, DOJ or DOJ-NSD.
What happened next….
November 3, 2021 – In Washington DC – “Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and the House Jan. 6 Select Committee has tapped Mary McCord, who once ran the Justice Department’s National Security Division, for representation in its fight to obtain former President Donald Trump’s White House records. (read more)
That’s the context; now I want to go back a little.
First, when did Mary McCord become “amicus” to the FISA court? ANSWER: When the court (Boasberg) discovered IG Michael Horowitz was investigating the fraudulent FISA application. In essence, the FISA Court appointed the person who submitted the fraudulent filing, to advise on any ramifications from the fraudulent filing. See how that works?
Now, let’s go deeper….
When Mary McCord went to the White House with Sally Yates to talk to white house counsel Don McGhan about the Flynn call with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, and the subsequent CBS interview with VP Pence, where Pence’s denial of any wrongdoing took place, the background narrative in the attack against Flynn was the Logan Act.
The construct of the Logan Act narrative was pure Lawfare, and DAG Sally Yates with Acting NSD AAG Mary McCord were the architects.
Why was the DOJ National Security Division concerned with a conflict between what Pence said on CBS and what Flynn said about his conversations with Kislyak?
This is where a big mental reset is needed. Flynn did nothing wrong. The incoming National Security Advisor can say anything he wants with the Russian ambassador, short of giving away classified details of any national security issue. In December of 2016, if Michael Flynn wanted to say Obama was an a**hole, and the Trump administration disagreed with everything he ever did, the incoming NSA was free to do so. There was simply nothing wrong with that conversation – regardless of content.
So, why were McCord and Yates so determined to make an issue in media and in confrontation with the White House? Why did the DOJ-NSD even care? This is the part that people overlooked when the media narrative was driving the news cycle. People got too stuck in the weeds and didn’t ask the right questions.
Some entity, we discover later was the FBI counterintelligence division, was monitoring Flynn’s calls. They transcribed a copy of the call between Flynn and Kislyak, and that became known as the “Flynn Cuts” as described within internal documents, and later statements.
After the Flynn/Kislyak conversation was leaked to the media, Obama asked ODNI Clapper how that call got leaked. Clapper went to the FBI on 1/4/17 and asked FBI Director James Comey. Comey gave Clapper a copy of the Flynn Cuts which Clapper then took back to the White House to explain to Obama.
Obama’s White House counsel went bananas, because Clapper had just walked directly into the Oval Office with proof the Obama administration was monitoring the incoming National Security Advisor.
Obama’s plausible deniability of the Trump surveillance was lost as soon as Clapper walked in with the written transcript.
That was the motive for the 1/5/17 Susan Rice memo, and the reason for Obama to emphasize “buy the book” three times.
It wasn’t that Obama didn’t know already; the problem was that a document trail now existed (likely a CYA from Comey) that took away Obama’s plausible deniability of knowledge.
The January 5th meeting documented by Susan Rice was quickly organized to mitigate this issue.
Knowing the Flynn Cuts were created simultaneously with the phone call, and knowing how it was quickly decided to use the Logan Act as a narrative against Flynn and Trump, we can be very sure both McCord and Yates had read that transcript before they went to the White House. [Again, this is the entire purpose of them going to the White House to confront McGhan with their manufactured concerns.]
So, when it comes to ‘who leaked’ the reality of the Flynn/Kislyak call to the media, the entire predicate for the Logan Act violation – in hindsight – I would bet a donut it was Mary McCord.
But wait, there’s more….
Now we go back to McCord’s husband, Sheldon Snook.
Sheldon was working for the counsel to John Roberts. The counsel to the Chief Justice has one job, to review the legal implications of issues before the court and advise Justice John Roberts. The counsel to the Chief Justice knows everything happening in the court and is the sounding board for any legal issues impacting the Supreme Court.
In his position as the right hand of the counsel to the chief justice, Sheldon Snook would know everything happening inside the court.
At the time, there was nothing bigger inside the court than the Alito opinion known as the Dobb’s Decision – the returning of abortion law to the states. Without any doubt, the counsel to Chief Justice Roberts would have that decision at the forefront of his advice and counsel. By extension, this puts the actual written Alito opinion in the orbit of Sheldon Snook.
After the Supreme Court launched a heavily publicized internal investigation into the leaking of the Dobbs decision (Alito opinion), something interesting happened. Sheldon Snook left his position. If you look at the timing of the leak, the investigation and the Sheldon Snook exit, the circumstantial evidence looms large.
Of course, given the extremely high stakes, the institutional crisis with the public discovering the office of the legal counsel to the Chief Justice likely leaked the decision, such an outcome would be catastrophic for the institutional credibility. In essence, it would be Robert’s office who leaked the opinion to the media.
If you were Chief Justice John Roberts and desperately needed to protect the integrity of the court, making sure such a thermonuclear discovery was never identified would be paramount. Under the auspices of motive, Sheldon Snook would exit quietly. Which is exactly what happened.
The timeline holds the key.
Remember the stories of the J6 investigative staff all going to work for Jack Smith on the investigation of Donald Trump? Well, Mary McCord was a member of that team [citation]; all indications are that her background efforts continue today as a quiet member of the Special Counsel team that is still attacking Donald Trump.
To give you an idea of the scope of influence of Mary McCord as a key functionary, consider what we can document.
♦ McCord submitted the fraudulent FISA application to spy on Trump campaign.
♦ McCord created the “Logan Act” claim used against Michael Flynn and then went with Sally Yates to confront the White House.
♦ McCord then left the DOJ and went to work for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler.
♦ McCord organized the CIA rule changes with Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson.
♦ McCord led and organized the impeachment effort, in the background, using the evidence she helped create.
♦ McCord joined the FISA Court to protect against DOJ IG Michael Horowitz newly gained NSD oversight and FISA review.
♦ McCord joined the J6 Committee helping to create all the lawfare angles they deployed.
♦ McCord then coordinated with DA Fani Willis in Georgia.
♦ McCord is working with Special Counsel Jack Smith to prosecute Trump.
In short, Mary McCord is the lawfare string that winds through every legal ‘stop Trump’ effort, and her primary partner in this endeavor is Andrew Weissmann. In this next video segment, notice what the “how to use that” quote is referencing.
Lawfare coordinator and Russia collusion criminal Andrew Weissmann admits that he and Mary McCord were in on the internal debates on which laws to use for the bogus Trump documents case.
It’s funny that they always screech about Trump weaponizing the government when these… pic.twitter.com/uJuF70hHtc
— The Researcher (@listen_2learn) October 4, 2024
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Mary McCord is telling us who orchestrates their efforts.
It’s not Jack Smith, any more than it was Robert Mueller.
Mary McCord, Jack Smith, Andrew Weissman, Robert Mueller, etc. are/were simply the front men.
♦ Who assembled the 2016 “Russian Malicious Cyber Activity – Joint Analysis Report”? […] “The US intelligence community has concluded that a hack-and-release of Democratic Party and Clinton staff emails was designed to put Trump — a political neophyte who has praised Putin — into the Oval Office.”
♦ Who were the heads of the 17 intelligence agencies who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016?
♦ Who were the 51 names from the IC who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation in 2020?
♦ Who are the 60 IC professionals who said Kamala Harris was stronger for National Security?
There’s the backlight picture provided by an accurate pathological diagnosis.
I hope President Donald Trump uses the absolute power of his office to appoint key people who will carry his constitutional, plenary and absolute authority.
The National Security Advisor doesn’t need confirmation for a reason. Use the NatSec Advisor to target the origin of the cancer. Use the DNI to deconstruct the Intelligence Community silo system.
You did not make Tom Homan DHS Secretary because you knew in that role, he would have been weaker on securing the border and carrying out deportations. Great call. Now apply that same level of thinking to the National Security Advisor and ODNI.
Have the NatSec Advisor and Director of National Intelligence secure the Intelligence Community with the same level of ferocity you expect Homan to carry out on the border. Have the NatSec Advisor and ODNI carry the same deportation expectation inwardly, into every silo that makes up the 17 intelligence agencies and purge them just like the criminal aliens. The “Six Ways from Sunday” cartel are far more dangerous.
Destroy the lies. Get rid of the liars.
Get rid of the system control agents who isolate the Office of the President.
Make the Office of the President Great Again.
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Don’t despair. Many of us got it. Not enough yet, but keep drilling this in your clear concise manner .It is aggregating into a critical mass, because it resonates with the gut check. The loose ends come together.
I was inside the system for 20 years. No matter which system, on finds the players and the goals are the all same. A sinister self-protection at any cost. Yet they are only government employee players. That makes them both shallow and powerful, in way they could never achieve in the private sector.
Maybe the six ways to Sunday changes in style in different inside settings, but not in substance. It is the unelected government bureaucrats who still call the shots. And the hardest to fire.
Onwards, sunshine is working. They got very sloppy. And remain oblivious most of us now get our facts and analysis from “alternate media” they callously dismiss. Even though we still need to run all of this through our own gut checks. Truth will out. Thank you for all the work you do.
Yes, we get it. keep nailing it to the wall.
Clarity is difficult in this civil war, thankfully not open militarily. I see some good Bondi did. “Bondi’s DOJ has overseen and supervised (again, no lawyer but just what it appears) the most successful series of legal defenses of an administration in American history. By my count, she/DoJ has won 32-33 appeals on various aspects of Trump’s agenda. She has facilitated and supported the removal of 3.5 million illegal invaders. She has, via Harmeet Dhillon, brought universities to their knees over DEI (still a couple of guerilla holdouts). She had a role in the largest violent crime reduction in history. In short, if you omit the “big name arrests,” Bondi’s DoJ is simply the most effective and successful in history. And, oh yeah, did I mention that there have been FIVE major human trafficking busts in 18 mo. Now, again, impossible to prove, but where did the leads for those busts—that have freed thousands of children—come from?
That said, getting a conviction in DC is like trying to get Orcs to convict Sauron in Mordor. Of all the institutions marched through, the DOJ and the IC were the most complete. This is just one perspective and are we still assuming Trump does not know the depth of the deep state, or is it possible we do not have a complex grasp on the difficult intrinsic evil of Mordor on the Potomac?
“concise manner”…have you been here before?
What a fascinating article. Thank you for it. Thanks also to the commenters.
Most importantly, thank You Lord Jesus that Trump is our President, and that there remains an army of competent patriots dedicated to helping him restore this great nation which we inherited.
It is time to rein in the CIA, and other agency’s within the intelligence bureaucracy that interfere, and have influence over the DOJ; cut their budget to almost nothing until they until they no longer stop the DOJ from doing their constitutional duties.
I love when Sundance breaks out into another rendition of The Twelve Days Of Mary McCord!
Director of OMB knows the extent of the deep state since he writes their paychecks and knows their job titles. One more briliiant Trump team pick, who still exists in the shadows but knows everything that goes on inside our entire “government” Assume he is connecting the lines of authority that match where the paychecks are going. He might not know the content, but he knows ALL the players.No one can hide.
I can only hope that some of these criminals have to pay a price. Every time I read a synopsis of what they tried to do to Trump. I get angry all over again.
They may not pay in their lifetime, but they might well pay in the next life.
That will depend on their personal relationship with Jesus, or not.
That said, I do hope some (all) of them pay in this lifetime.
It appears Ms McCord is holding all, or most, of the cards for now.
Who in the Trump organization should be leading that charge?
The question is, are they up to the task? Are they willing to take it on? If not, why not?
They will not pay any price. They never do. Until you see heads on a platter, the corruption will continue unabated.
What they did to the American people and the people’s government.
Great write-up Sundance, this said…
How the is accountability ever achieved? Meaning, it would appear that all of McCords actions, along with everyone else’s, occurred in the DofC. If they could (unlikely) be indicted in the DC then wouldn’t they just end up facing the “randomly selected” Boasberg as their jurist? This bodes the same for Comey et Al?
Until someone of consequence actually faces significant criminal prosecution, conviction & punishment, nothing will ever change. How does all this insider IC guidance get us to change the paradigm for the foreseeable future?
Ironic that the Founder’s driving principle was knowing “government was going to be crooked”, so what system would attempt to make it the least crooked.
Their theory of there separate branches woking within checks and balances, remains elegant in concept. But it still falls on we the people as voters , over the past 250 years, to ensure this also happens in practice .
Introduction of the massive, unionized government employee work force, only in 1962, was not on the table when the idealized concept of self-governing was first established. They knew, they knew this needed a shared system of values. That is what we have now lost, because “diversity ” is not our strength.
Now that this has been inflicted on us, we need to get serious about repairing this intentional corruption. We need to establish and ecumenical system of values now, and can no longer expect The Great Replacement will ever adhere to shared Judeo-Christian values ever again.
When the fire ‘neath the corrupt frog’s pot gets warm enough the frogs will jump the pot, squeal and point froggy fingers. When President Trump is satisfied he has re-aligned the world and destroyed Klaus Schwab’s “you will own nothing” NWO, he will begin deconstructing D.C. and there will be sweaty arm-pits and gnashing of teeth. Count on it and join the struggle; after all, it is our country.
You are presenting half the picture.
Pam Bondi did not prosecute anything or anyone related to COVID, Fauci still walks free, no one was held accountable for the cocaine found at the White House, all the fraud found by DOGE led to not even one indictment, there was no accountability for anything related to the Jan 6 farce, and most importantly, no one at DoJ was fired for any of it.
Your claim that going after the Russiagate and/or Spygate perpetrators is probably valid, such as it is, but do not try to claim that the selection of AG was in any way inconsequential. There was, and still is, plenty of lawlessness to go after that is not protected by national security implications.
You know the background of Pam Bondi, because of your reporting on Treyvon Martin. You know she was a monumentally bad pick for the office of AG, don’t try to make excuses for her. She failed, yes, but Trump is the one responsible for it, because he failed, AGAIN, to do his due diligence on personnel picks. We have 10 years of history to judge Trump by, now, and one of the over-arcing themes of his two administrations are a seemingly perfect inability to select staff that will advance the America First popular agenda.
Ahhh, you fail to understand congressional approval and how toxic the senate has become. Trump is not a king.
POTUS has enormous power over the confirmation IF he chooses to use it. He can get in Thune’s face in a private Oval meeting and in no uncertain terms show him what will happen to him if he doesn’t play ball. Personally, I would grab Thune’s tie and put him up against the wall and TELL him how it’s gonna be. He doesn’t comply, he gets indicted.
I was just going to write the same thing. That is why the late attorney generals have been a failure – on purpose by the senate.
And guess who does the security screening for those who must get approved. The FBI, that’s who.
They are the deep state gatekeepers.
The Senate reads the “advice and consent” clause of the COTUS as “dictate and control”.
It is our job to dump those senators then. Daddy cannot do this for us.
Perhaps, but perhaps not.
Trump is just as human as the next person. Everyone makes mistakes and poor decisions from time to time, and some people make mistakes and poor decisions regularly.
The point is, we all live in glass houses.
The next point concerns the weasels who work for the Federal government in every branch of the government.
I’m not defending anyone.
On balance, President Trump has been a very consequential President, and consequential as a businessman and a TV personality.
I can’t think of a President in my lifetime (70+ years) that has been as consequential as Trump, with the possible exception of Reagan.
I don’t think Sundance was making any excuses for her, man.
Criminally prosecuting COVID-related cases could’ve been embarrassing for Trump. Not that Trump was implicated, but all these people who took advantage of him would’ve pointed fingers at him and the MSM tried to portray him as inept. I doubt he’d have liked that very much. He probably views that as a bad trade-off, given the courts’ rulings on everything COVID.
That said, I think most COVID vaccine-related cases are civil liability matters, unless there’s clear evidence of conspiracy. Not omissions or stupidity, but real conspiracy. Besides, the courts would’ve applied an evidentiary standard or threshold that no one could meet.
Sorry- after the last time, re the A.G. pick…Trump could either go the same route and pick someone who would be his agenda’s (and his personal) adversary- or he could pick someone that would protect him and his agenda (for the good of the nation). She got fired because he started feeling a few arrows through his armor.
A brilliant analysis. There are a great many problems at the intersection of intelligence and the justice system. They were meant to be kept separate. Forcing them together invites all manner of abuses and Kafkaesque nightmares.
I am an adult but when it comes to Halloween I am a child all over again. I dress up as Mary McCord every year. One perceptive kid once asked me, “What witch are you dressed up as?” I said, “The witch Mary McCord. You are a very observant little boy.”
McCord – colorless, odorless – shaves eyebrows …
odorless? she has the look for sour BO. and that huge adams apple.
She has the stink of corruption and evil about her.
Tulsi and Rubio are my fav cabinet patriots. If Trump mistakenly fires Tulsi and claims it’s Joe Kent or some stupid excuse, this would further push me against Wiles as a Trojan horse. Tulsi and not Kash? Hoping Daily Caller sources are fake news, can’t imagine he would fire Tulsi.
I hope he is not delegating Tulsi to the kiddie table during Thanksgiving.
What we are living in is a corrupt system. The silos have been bastardized into a system of evil rather than good. Eliminate the silos and most of the people in them. But you say we will not be able to do our spying job. My response is that what we are living through proves most of those people are NOT protecting us they are SUBJECTING us. Get rid of the people and the money.
A lean organization will focus on the big problems. Spying on all of us costs a lot of money and takes a lot of people. Downsizing solves both of those issues.
If it was only that easy….Way too many levers of power working against us.
That is why the IC should have a force reduction…maybe to allow us to field a bigger fighting force.
The cia & fbi should have been eliminated on Day 1. Remember, there was a time in America when they didn’t exist. The fbi came along in the 20’s and what became the cia was invented during WW II. We don’t need them.
Yes, easier said than done, especially with the “National Security” shield that makes it near impossible to pierce their protective cocoon of lawlessness and unchecked evil and self-gratification.
Founders knew government in any form would be corrupt. It is we the people ourselves, who abdicated our roles as watchdogs, with both bark and bit.
Time to contemplate when and why that happened. And do the primary reasons. Start with prohibiting alls government employee unions. They are now the fifth column amongst us. Measure the truly toxic divisiveness amongst us from 1962 forwards.
Very concerned that Blanche is left in charge at DOJ. Zeldin or Pirro better get ensconced quickly. Time is running out thanks to Bondi.
Mary McCord is the bureaucratic “single electron theory”
She’s everywhere, doing everything.
She writes a memo under one job title, then leaves that job and takes another where she is the titular recipient of her own memo.
It appears that McCord had/has the proverbial carte blanche!
In no way did my comment attempt to mean Todd Blanche has ever or had ever anything to do with Mary Mac the Knife McCord!! God forbid.
You could almost say the same about Judge Boasberg.
So in this case, the catcher is giving the umpire direction on calls of balls and strikes.
I was imperative that Mary McCord receive a Presidential Pardon in order to protect the IC and whoever her master was/is.
The IC creates the narrative of their choice, leaks to the media, buries the seeds under national security, then in turn sells it to the public. That is the playbook developed under the Obama administration by using the national security tools put in place by Bush under the PATRIOT Act, FISA 702 and the Espionage Act. The broad interpretations enable this, but in fact in order to use these tools in the unlawful ways they do, they have to break the laws and statutes in these laws and bury them under national security. This is where the Obama administration, the Mary McCords, the Norm Eisens come in handy. The only reason I have any insight into this is because I’m a victim that originated from the bowels of the Obama administration. I have come to know first hand that through the machinations of these evil minds a regular citizen can be stripped of and thus denied their civil rights. One is at the mercy of whatever cruel and unusual scheme these monsters cook up. No uncovering the seeds of truth, then no due process. One is denied due process from and inorganic and made up narrative in the first place. It is truly a secretive process and court. If Congress wants a clean renewal of 702 then all this criminal malfeasance and corruption has to be unburied and those responsible for using the system improperly must be held to account in a meaningful way. We are the closest to correcting the system than we’ve been, IMO, due to the shake-up of the Trump administration of the Uniparty hold. It needs to be shaken-up even more to clear out the criminals. We can’t stop fighting because they will never stop fighting, and they have the MSM on their side (who will also never stop fighting). This is an existential battle for democracy and the Republic. Two things to add that I’ve not had answered is the question of hops in FISA and FISA 702. Most people say there are 2 allowed. Judge Napolitano says that FISC has interpreted it as 6. Can an unconstitutional court (Sen Paul said FISC is NOT meant for Americans due to low bar of rights) interpret the statutes in FISC law? Can FISC even interpret anything legally because there are no defense attorneys or written transcripts? In addition how is a clean renewal of FISA 702 going to deal with the Jan 2025 decision of a federal court that deems backdoor searches unconstitutional?
Thank you for reposting the Mary McCord exposé.
I am shaking my head all over again and wonder how this magnificent country became “this”.
I might take it a step further and ask: Who has a control over the IC? Or even: who is the IC dependent upon?
Amazing article!! Fantastic and spot on!
Well done, Sundance!!
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Who’s we? Didnt the President say the US wasnt intersted in this?
Yes….”Get rid of the liars” I would add get rid of the Silos that they reside. Idle hands do the Devil’s Work. It is obvious the IC is WAY TOO BIG. Just do a force reduction centered on the rot. You do not need them.
It is a good lesson Roberts is worried about the institution when it has already rotted. And Roberts played a vital role in the SC’s destruction and law overall. Roberts allowed Lawfare to Flourish and added Judgefare to run rampant.
At the very beginning of this post, we read, “The AG needed to be someone with exceptional moral character…”
Excellent advice, and completely ignored by Suzie Wiles and Lutnick with Gaetz, who was obviously and maliciously used to clear the way for the second nominee, Pam Bondi.
My black pill side does not believe there is a lawyer in America with exceptional moral character who could ever be confirmed in the U.S. Senate.
Interesting fact the US AG does not have to have a law degree…..but knowledge of the law. Perhaps this should receive more consideration and open up wider range of possibilities. Especially sense most lawyers are shady and Dem to boot.
Senator Eric Schmidtt from Missouri is probably the best choice possible if we can backfill him with a solid MAGA R. He understands the deep state and fought it and won as AG of Missouri.
The DOJ has to ask the IC for permission to engage. That is very illuminating.
In essence, it would be Robert’s office who leaked the opinion to the media. Everyone knew it too. That is every one of us and those of us who are paying attention.
McCord then coordinated with DA Fani Willis in Georgia. That one got by me. I don’t think I knew that. That boils my blood.!!
Well, let’s see how it goes. Bondi did have some successes re: drug busts, and kidnapped/trafficked children. So I’m grateful for that, but Matt Gaetz likely would have gone in with an Axe – albeit as much as he could given the fact that IC controls information. But he would never have been confirmed. I can’t remember who Sundance picked back in 11/24 for AG.
Stands to reason if “they” are fired right off the bat, if necessary replace with a friendly , then it might limit weaponizing of national security, classified, status.
What order determines what may be known and what may be done?
Yes, we get it. The problem is not the deep state architecture, it’s how to best destroy it. My view is you cannot be successful chipping away at it. You must nuke it from space all at once using the US military. POTUS, NOT the IC decides what is classified. POTUS controls the information. POTUS can remove anyone he wants to at any time. So, the DCI won’t give Trump some info? He gets fired on the spot and Trump sends US Marshals in to take it by whatever force is necessary. THAT’S the way it must be done, like a boss. The best and most complete way would be to decalre a National Emergency, then invoke the insurrection Act and the Presidential Emergency Action Documents. That gives POTUS complete power over the entire US government. He can then use the military to round up the traitors, remove all the corrupt judges, all at once and send them overseas to some “black” prison somewhere to rot waiting for a Military tribunal. Realize that if you want to really save our country, the above is the level of action that is necessary to get it done. You won’t win by hopium or allowing the system to work. It hasn’t worked for decades. Trump can fix it…if he really wants to.
This is a top-tier analysis. Thank you. You outdid yourself, sir.
Sidenote: I don’t see why Clapper bringing transcripts of Mike Flynn’s call with the Russian Ambassador to the White House would’ve been considered so damning or even incriminating. Everyone assumes that calls of Russia’s top diplomat are monitored by the IC 24/7. It was White House Counsel who failed to mention that a designated NatSec. Advisor, Mike Flynn, was absolutely within his rights to talk to Ambassador Kislyak, and then show those ladies the door, along with a firm “don’t call us, we’ll call you.” He didn’t. That was either amateur hour or intent. Again, it’s a problem with Donald Trump’s personal decisions. He isn’t a great judge of character, and his Achilles’ heel is lawyers. He doesn’t really get legal stuff in principle and can’t guide them. And yes, lawyers need firm and constant guidance, like K-9s, because the system they operate in, and their legal training, are based on statism and institutional inertia. Another issue with lawyers is their constant conflict of interest. Can I confront a prosecutor aggressively or call him out while defending my client, knowing he may refuse a deal the next time I deal with him? Or can I antagonize a moronic judge who might hold it against me, either in this case or the next one he presides over? Nobody talks about this. Nobody warns us that this is the reality.
So Tulsi is the final call?…..Even so when she unclassified and sent to the DOJ …..Nothing happened.
Mary McCord is the lawfare string that winds through every legal ‘stop Trump’ effort, and her primary partner in this endeavor is Andrew Weissmann. Wouldn’t that be great to see her PERP WALKED into prosecution and JAIL as a TRAITOR. Hang her High!
Sundance thank you for your brilliant understanding and your literal 9+ years you’ve put into saving our country and protecting President Trump.
My question is, are you writing your book or books on all of this. I certainly hope so for history and understanding how to prevent this ever again.
I really wish people like McCord and Weissman would die in a horrible accident.
Of course they never will because evil people seem to live on and on, while good people pass away.
Maybe it’s the deal they made with the Father of Lies.
Kash, come out from under your desk. Your job is safe for now.
The beauty of our Constitution is the system of checks and balances that were built into its foundation. But just as in a dictatorship, or any other form of government, it still relies on the good will and good intentions of those put in a position of power. Given the current structure and dynamics of the executive branch and judiciary, it seems to me that the key pressure point is to get patriots elected to the senate to clear the road toward getting loyalists appointed to key positions in the executive branch and ultimately the judiciary. That is the only place we the people have a direct influence on Washington at this point.
“Mary?” McCord? That’s a man, baby!
That was the motive for the 1/5/17 Susan Rice memo, and the reason for Obama to emphasize “buy the book” three times.
We ain’t buying it Susan Rice. You and Mary MCcord should be the first 1-2 arrests made in this whole conspiracy to overthrow the sitting President of the US. Multiple charges are a means to more years in the slammer once convicted. Or go straight to the charge of Treason and receive the ultimate reckoning. Gods will be done! Amen
Thank you Sundance !
we can pray DJT reads your work
this is a revival of the Sundance I came to love as he rebuild what was really happening in the original deciphering of the Russian collusion hoax. Sometime ago I became convinced that Sundance had lost heart. And indeed he has long been to silent on the inner workings of the conspiracy against our country. I have not come here every day or even every week for some time because there was rarely interesting new information, and the atmosphere was one of despair. I could never participate in despair. I have seen causes far more unlikely succeed. In the college in the 1970s I was labeled “the patron saint of lost causes because I advocated for Ronald Reagan and for the “captive nations”.! the members at that time of the Warsaw Pact, ruled by Moscow, most of whose members are now in NATO. If you keep fighting you have not lost. It is wonderful to see revival of Sundance. It is though I was seeing Saint Michael once again pick up his sword. I had feared that when you went to Washington and reported here that you had heard pessimistic news from what you considered an excellent source, that you were lost forever. But remember that despair is a sin and we are destined to win, even if maybe not by our own efforts here on earth. But we must make the efforts.
Thank you.