Once you take a nuclear action on something corrupt, there is no return. The Obama-era weaponization of the intelligence apparatus for political purposes was one such nuclear action. That weaponization was an escalation of action that forever sealed the need to hide it.
The intelligence apparatus, including the DOJ/FBI and aligned agencies, in addition to the DOJ officials within the Mueller probe, previously exploited their surveillance access to records and communication of Donald Trump and his administration. Those intelligence operatives then spun and leaked parts of those records in order to build a fictitious Trump-Russia narrative and simultaneously distract from the prior unlawful surveillance.
Today the AP is reporting that Attorney General Merrick Garland is barring any DOJ office from seizing the communication of any journalists. In essence Garland is providing cover for the prior and ongoing coordination of Intelligence Community leaks to media allies. Remember, the Intelligence Branch operates as a public-private partnership; part of that purpose requires an alignment with corrupt U.S. media.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday formally prohibited federal prosecutors from seizing the records of journalists in leak investigations, with limited exceptions, reversing years of department policy.
The new policy largely codifies the commitment Garland made in June, when he said the Justice Department would abandon the practice of seizing reporters’ records in leak investigations.
[…] Garland was moved to act following an outcry over revelations that the department during the Trump administration had obtained records belonging to journalists at The Washington Post, CNN and The New York Times as part of investigations into who had disclosed government secrets related to the Russia investigation and other national security matters.
Others whose records were obtained were members of Congress and their staffers and former White House counsel Don McGahn.
Garland’s announcement came after President Joe Biden said he would not allow the Justice Department to seize journalists’ phone records and emails, calling the practice “wrong.” (read more)
The fourth estate (media) has collapsed under the weight of the Fourth Branch of government, the Intelligence Branch…
All Communists Are Bastards
So private contractors working under DOJ NSD laundering dirty intel cannot be chased down by the DOJ. Makes perfect sense.
They can just give “journolists” direct access to intel, so there will be no way they can ever be investigated.
Now we understand the choreographed move of The Guardian’s recent article on surveillance, NSO and Pegasus: it was meant to elicit sympathy for victimized journalists in order to blunt what should today be extreme outrage at DOJ’s policy shift.
We must always remember that leftist news outlets never, ever publish anything out of regard for the truth or due to any sense of rectitude. It is always a calculated maneuver with hidden agendas and in coordination with other actors. ALWAYS! Thus never fall into the trap that “they came to their senses!” If it seems that way to you, you haven’t figured out their angle!
The same applies to every single Dem officeholder!
(cont.)
All Republican officials beware! Today’s announcement is the official start of ‘open season’ on all ‘non-conforming’ members of Congress who are not down with Communism and choose not to vote for outrageous and insulting expenditures. Media recipients of classified information will no doubt add additional office space adjacent to FBI field offices to facilitate the communication of dirt on any member of Congress who resists what has to be considered the most pernicious of any previous administration in United States history.
Nice going, Joe!! Talk about F…kng up when you had your big chance!!
Traitors??Assauge or Snowden or u.s. intel community??!!
looks like u.s. intell community led by corrupted and dirty traitor garland and the dems and rino’s.
Too many leaks coming out even though garland tries to sit on them –
It’s the temptation of the surveillance tree of knowing all THAT tempted our political parties to create interagency memorandums and understandings with foreign friends that want to play.
You must accept that the people who have touched the “prescious” will never let it go.
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You have one solution that has no blood of us in it:
The States Sue for 4th amendment violations, and they reaffirm the definition of Effects in that amendment. They they seize all towers and equipment to auction off for local use.
Effects. Effects. Effects. Your electronic devices, your car, etc.
O B A M A is behind it all
He never stopped
How any liberal can look at the level of corruption in their party/movement and still not care is beyond me. Mamet principle in action I guess.
You really begin to understand how deranged Libtards. Just thank God you are not one. Imagine how “ugly” the World they see everyday?
Who is re porting on their corruption? Certainly the main stream media is not reporting any of their corruption. They watch the evening news and believe everything they hear is fact or anything they don’t hear must be a conspiracy theory.
YOU…CAN’T…MAKE…THIS…UP!!! UGH!
There are a lot of us that gave up on the DNC years ago, but that left us with….what? Some of us knew the whole thing was a sham so we gave up on voting. That’s tens of millions of people. After this last “election” make that 100-200 million of us.
They know they just gave away the whole sham. As it becomes more obvious they’ll become more desperate. But theres more of the them, and we have nothing left to lose and everything to gain.
I would say we outnumber them . . .
thus, the desperate moves that only serve to illuminate and underscore their deep anxiety
The only thing which count for voices being heard are “votes”. However, when our “votes” are counted by a rigged vote counting machine, then our vote becomes totally worthless.
They know this and it is what got them to the point they are. Ask yourself, Why would they want to change the way votes are counted? It is why they fight the audits.
Nope. Ask why we need governance.
It seems most of the left cannot see beyond their narrative and appear to be greatly disinterested in what happens beyond their next latte and social media conservative beat-down.
Because they are Winning. You never question anything until you are targeted. Hence the majority of people waking up are white or have children, or believe in family and God
Some still think in terms of “us vs them” but many others are absolutely waking up.
When Trump returns, we will never see such approval by all.
Nice people that are nice out of cowardness, are being led by vocal insurgents.
They attacked the gov to evade the Vietnam war, and they believe they did the right thing. Their next step was to invade the government and take it over. It evolved. Power corrupts, and with this Digital Cage, you have never seen an easier time to:
1) frame someone by planting evidence from their digital twin ( email, gps, message , search history)
2) dope them with scopalamine, and use directional audio spotlighting to make the target hear what others don’t
3) edit live feeds to put your voice over modulation to present the words you want from any face ( Biden, Trump, etc)
4) lockdown so people can’t compare the matrix to the grid
WATERSHIP Down. Decide.
Trump will never return. They stole our voice they’ll do it again.
pfffft
81,000,000
81M votes? Whatever the correct figure was, the President should stress that, in garnering his 74M votes, that count is: THE GREATEST, SINGLE, VERIFIED VOTE TOTAL BY ANY CANDIDATE IN US HISTORY .
Nobody at this point doubts the authenticity of this vote count since Biden cronies counted it. However, Biden’s count has merely been alleged by his partisan Democrat operatives that own the vote counting process and have proven that they screwed up big time. The Occupant thus does not want third-party scrutiny, which is absolutely necessary to verify his fairytale totals. President Trump, never afraid of the truth, has already welcomed this scrutiny.
I doubt the PDJT vote count as it is massively UNDERCOUNTED
I used to think it was willful ignorance as Mamet proposes, but now, IMO, it is that they like corruption if it benefits them and puts/keeps them in power.
Same way I used to wonder why Dems would throw their reputation away by lying so frequently when most of the country recognized it as lies. They just don’t value the things we consider prime values like honesty and integrity. In their eyes, those are just weaknesses of ours to be exploited.
Yes, the other side isn’t the other side out of ignorance. Inside of them they want you dead because you are not human anymore.
To live: spend a lot of time making yourself human to lefties, because one day we may need them to say ” stop don’t take him/her, I know them”
I can’t believe you just wrote that.
And worse, I can’t believe I know it to be true.
that is the endpoint for the system unchecked.
It’s hard for people who still value integrity, to finally ‘get it.’ Being civilized is like that…
Are you kidding me? The left loves this… They support whatever it takes to win, and destroy us… Until we accept that premise we will ALWAYS be a step behind…
The very definition of American Leftism is “The Constitution means nothing as we can interpret it any ole way we want. We can do this with justices that think as we do or we can do it by force, which is how we treated it this last summer. We extort businesses and people in important positions of power or we pick on powerful people who, we know, wish to be in the ‘in-crowd’ and you’d be amazed by the number of people in low places and in high places who can’t stand the thought of being considered uncool and the very definition of ‘uncool’ is to be conservative”
The liberal base has no fixed basis in objective reality. But if you meet enough high IQ liberals, you will find one thing consistent among them: an unparalleled capacity to rewrite reality (literally gaslight themselves, and you) to fit their contemporary emotions.
That’s it, you’ve got it 100% correct…
It’s beyond Mamet principle and into the cult zealotry zone.
By the way where is the Durham report. What if any effect would this have on it.
Durham is just sitting around getting well paid to do nothing.
Durham does far less damage “paid to do nothing” than than those being paid and doing something.
…YOU WILL BE SURPRISE…..
Durham’s job is to emerge at some point in the future to say that the probe into Trump was justified.
You would be closest to the correct retail price on the “Price is Right”.
That report would then be “Durham’s Bull?”
Who is Durham? /sarc
he is that guy in that movie that Susan Sarandon did
If the AG, i.e., Merrick Garland (as I understand) would have to sign off on the Durham report or any referrals for prosecution, what good does it do to be concerned about what or when Durham does anything that would get to the truth?
Golly…., WHAT if the report got leaked to, say, CTH ?
~One can dream
This further solidifies the media as the propaganda wing of the administration.
You are correct. The Marxist justice Department is protecting all their tools in the tool box. That of course don’t include conservative patriotic ones.
So far as I can see, as long as this corrupt regime was/is in power and as long as the bureaucrats are kept in check by their stupid allegiances, we weren’t getting justice for leaks anyway, right?
The only way we open eyes is to pull back as many curtains as possible on the 2020 election.
When a cabal of interests will do what they did in that election, they will do anything, and I do mean anything and even some ordinary Dems who voted Biden because they didn’t like Trump’s personality will see the rot.
That is why Bannon is doing what he is doing. Nov 3, getting to the roots of it, means everything.
PRAVDA
Does the fine print has an exception *
Conservative speech is hate and not covered under the 1st amendment.
Conservative media is hate and not covered under the DOJ ban.
An Iron Curtain of Evil is descending over America,
I say, tear down that iron curtain of evil . . .
it is NOT a given . . .
smoke and mirrors to create the aura of inevitability and “so what are ya gonna do about it” hopelessness
The MSM just purchased their Fang Fang journalist catalogue from China Inc. Every China Inc. and foreign agent will now become a “journalist” employee of an MSM outlet. No cover story even required as both parts of the job can be called investigative reporting and follow-up.
Just be sure to skirt the exception and give a good “job” … no problems will occur.
Think of Garland’s “few exceptions” in terms of Sock Puppet Joe telling Putin which 16 things he was not allowed to hack.
I am wondering if this may be connected to the pegasus story,?
could it be that wapost and other news and media groups scouring through the lists of targets compromised and see their own people compromised by..
wait for it…
the DOJ-FBI-CIA-DOD?
and have quickly phoned home and alerted their state contact handlers that this could spiral way out of control?
I think if there is a connection, we have heaed. the last of pegasus…poof.
round filed.
and everybody back to the Potomac 2 step ho down.
yep…dollars to donuts…connected these two…bing… bang…boom
It is.
Why doesn’t the DOJ just hire the journalists? It would save time in getting their message out, and avoid leaks altogether. /sarc
They thought about that, but are now negotiating to get Satan under contract instead. Eliminate the middle man and all that.
This announcement is essential stating there will be no more illegal leaks.
Problem solved.
only legal leaks
Yes, all leaks are legal.
Except for Julian Assange
and Snowden
~and Seth
Since CNN and LSMFT empties the crappers for the DOJ, they already work for them
The FBI is likely funding them anyway, therefore effectively hiding the collusion.
they already DO…there is a revolving door on the Dimm/commie side between “journalism” and government jobs…also you see many pairings of one partner in MSM and the other in government
Maybe Rudy Giuliani can “self identify” as a journalist.
so… this could mean that other prosecution of Assange is dropped…he IS a journalist/publisher no?
or is the “in most cases” we apply just us…?
and how about national security leaks…the type that involves doj and state of actors who leaked classified documents and records?
yeah, complete shit show.
but predictable
what is also very predictable is violent reactions towards DOJ officials, present and past.
the levy is doomed…the river is king.
God Bless America
Lies over lies. No lie they use to help them will ever apply to you or us.
Stop reading their fine print and start WATERSHIP downing.
Make yourself able to survive when you privledges to access food, electricity, and water are pulled. You just need to live past their plan of forcing you to COMPLY for assistance.
Injection for bread.
Swamp rats being swamp rats. It’s Monday.
…unless, of course, it’s a conservative journalist being investigated.
What would the difference be if Russian KGB officers replaced the current trash that makes up The DOJ and intelligence community?
Would we even notice?
Other than they speak Russian, no difference.
Notice what?
“Garland was moved to act following an outcry over revelations that the department during the Trump administration had obtained records belonging to journalists “
If their corrupt actions aren’t infuriating enough, the fascists virtue signal by associating their corruption with the Trump administration and ignoring the same under Obamboozler. Hanging isn’t good enough.
This is bigger than we know.
A Benghazi investigation finds a private server that communicates with another private server of barrack Obama ( later reported and edited as a ” senior government official”).
They know of the Digital Cage they are WATERSHIP DOWN’ing around us. So they are communicating ‘ OUTSIDE of it.
Hillary and Obama’s servers. NELLIE’S HAM radio, Elon musk’s private satellite launching platform (Falcon).
Why should the Department Of Injustice investigate their state run media when the media takes direction from them ?
The DOJ only cares about certain journalists who don’t agree with the Deep Corporate Fascists State’s objectives and narratives, whether those journalists are working for the MSM (state run media) or alternative media.
However this move by Garland is intended to PROTECT those journalists within the state run media from being outed by whistleblowers within any of the federal LEAs when those journalists illegally expose (leak) communications that were illegally captured from pro-MAGA / Trump people.
Keep it quiet now. Don’t want to wake the Republicans. Not that it would matter. Unless you actually like Kabuki.
“Merrick Garland is barring any DOJ office from seizing the communication of any journalists.”
Any, or in practice would that mean just fake news jouralists.
This Garland clown is turning out to be a real creep. So essentially DOJ cant go after journalistas and therefore we have to rely on the FIB and NSA policing themselves…ain’t that grand?
Of course you know the way this is being played in the mass media: the evil Trump Regime was violating freedom of the press by seeking records from “reporters” who were leaking information vital to “our democracy.”
So now the Bidenistas can play the good guys while protecting their press puppets who can leak all they want with complete abandon.
This is correct, Sir.
Infiltration! Foreign and domestic. Now that they are in, at all levels, how to get them out. If you really think about it they are trying to destroy us using our own Bill of Rights, ie., diabolically using our liberty and freedoms to destroy liberty and freedom.
While this might make everyone here laugh, could Durham be getting closer to working his investigation to it’s eventual close? Is the Flynn leak part of his report? Is Garlands move connected to this also? Could Garland be protecting media operatives from exposure due to Durham’s probing?
Wish think sells a lot of cars, boats, and time shares
Sorry, I had to throw it out there…
It’s All Good , Charles .
If we Don’t Ever Ask Questions How Will We Learn ..
My 2 cents
I guess I’m being a stickler but IMO “leaks” doesn’t quite seem to be an accurate term for what often happens in these exchanges between the IC and MSM. That is, the IC often feeds the MSM outright lies to spread around. This was the case with Russiagate and details of the Steele Dossier. There are many instances where falsehoods have been fabricated and fed to the willing, partisan MSM so they could broadcast them as though they were factual. IC propaganda rather than leaks seems more apt. Whatever though…
I don’t think the entire story was feed to them…I think a seed was given to them and they made it up citing “anonymous sources”
Why does a prima facie illegal order from the AG supersede established constitutional based law?
Why wouldn’t assistant AGs ignore his order and refuse to resign en mass?
Laws are selectively enforced or ignored. Always in one direction. Where is leadership ?
It doesn’t.
This is a race between waking up, and their ability to generate illusions to induce voluntary submission and self removal of the right under the Law of this Land.
The entire Constitution was written to lecture a pervasive government
Sorry, to warn an infestive government
When the Attorney General helps to cover up corruption it most certainly does not bode well for honest and decent Americans.
I stated it a little while ago:
It makes you wonder the motives of a man who was in a lifetime appointment on the DC Appeals Court to take a political appointment.
When you are a traitor, you only have one role: to do what your handler says.
The first traitor act is your last act as a citizen of the nation
Our CIA should be hunting these dogs down. Seeing suicides everywhere. The sun coming up, grass growing, kids playing.
Any agency that doesn’t help this country , better defeat this country.
I am pretty sure the CIA was compromised from day 1.
Consider how many were recruited from the former OSS of WW2. An organization later found to have been heavily infiltrated by communists.
Another interesting point not taught in school (since we thought all painful history must be taught)
Paperclip.
True, not enough is said about that one.
Former Nazi scientists and the like.
Imagine the ones who did some good like Wernher von Braun. One of the key architects of advancing rocketry like with the Saturn V for the Apollo program.
As for the rest of them? I would think that plenty of them did not readily give up on the ideas of Marxism so easily.
That is really profound… We should all remember it!
You can Garland is furious he never got the SCOTUS gig. This is his revenge.
AG Garland is simply continuing the “coverup & protect” policies of former AG Bill Barr.
How sweet! Now leakers like James Wolfe and Ali Watkins can get away with their crimes!
Merkin Muffley: They already did get away with their crimes.
Correct. Barr made sure of that.
Emperor Xi strikes again. His little caucasian monkeys all dance to his flute happily selling out thire own countryman.
When you are unmasked (illegally) and this info is supplied to a journalist (illegally) and he/she publishes it (illegally) what actions can the victim take?
In this case Garland basically tells the world in matters of US National Security, we will not go after journalists records.
Unless of course, you are Assange.
Pretty clear to me what is going on here. Garland just announced, clearly and publicly, with a big screaming billboard and sirens and flashing lights, so that no one will be able to say they didn’t get the message when he fires them:
HANDS OFF TUCKER CARLSON
There is no hands off for them. They are coming for your children’s necks, your mother’s neck. They are true killers , a not just talkers. They are marching all over us flexing what they will do ( summer riots) as we deny it.
WATERSHIP Down. Time to decide if you want their digital cage, or if you can weaken their digital cage through starving it
I do not disagree with you. But they will do it from the shadows. And when they do show themselves, they wear masks. Looking at it from their perspective inside the shadow, there would be no point antagonizing the number one person in cable news by trying to search out who tipped him to their surveillance. So the message is “drop it. Drop it now.” They have nothing to gain by starting a private war with Tucker Carlson. Oh, they’re still coming for YOU. But there’s just no point tipping their hand any more than they have to.
Oh, and the 1/6 defendants? Watch for the Leamas. The whole damn thing could very well have been an elaborate set up just for cover. Trust no one. Well, maybe Sundance, but I’d feel better if he was family.
I trust Sundance more than my family. This is not sarcasm.
Actually, I don’t trust my family members at all.
American PATRIOTS know what must be done !
Yeah, hire people who know how to fight dirty if you won’t fight dirty yourselves. Otherwise, you are doomed to lose.
My God, taxation w/out representation was nothing compared to what we are experiencing now.
We haven’t been actually represented by elected reps in DC for decades. OUr money goes to scammers and those in league with the “reps.”
Garland is just another corrupt lawyer. That surprises no one.
More than that hes upset about the SCOTUS gig. You can see the petulant child in his actions.
With limited exceptions. Anyone want to guess what the exceptions will be.
According to U S news, Iraq is considered the most corrupt country in the world. This administration makes Iraq seem upstanding by comparison. From the fake president on down, everyone is absolute septic tank debris. Frankly calling this administration corrupt, is too nice a word.
Garland reminds me of the nerdy, snot nosed brat who hid behind the teacher talking ?. Obviously, there was not enough bullying going on when he went through school
I doubt the little piss ant, ever had the balls to talk ? , even if he was by himself.
As a society we absolutely cannot go any lower. If we weren’t heading for a cataclysmic ending already we sure are now.
I think the pain to get there just got enlarged.
As a society we absolutely cannot go any lower.
Give it time.
Our First Amendment right to a free press doesn’t include being exempt from the law.
0bama actually offer this Garland buffoon up as a SCOTUS candidate because he was supposedly a “moderate”
Yes, I remember them pitching him as so moderate that the Republicans might well of picked him if they were in power at the time – What a joke!
Perhaps we can find a way to shut down the WaPo and the NYTimes, AP, PBS.
I found this in the “Chicago Tribune” from 1967 when current AG Merrick Garland was 15 years old . . . per the caption, he was among students participating in a seminar where they created a totalitarian state and devised a name for it (Mitto) and learned how to rule the world with the help of computers . . .
was young Merrick Garland being groomed to help in the later “fundamental transformation” of America or was this just something he participated in that would look good on his college applications?
Maybe he has actually been a mole inside the “fundamental transformation” architecture . . . could I hope for that?
How convenient, The DOJ cannot investigate an alleged crime or leak as long a s the leak advances the narrative. Draining the swamp is way too nice.
Its now incumbent upon the states to abolish the Federal Government, they are the ones that created it. Let er rip!
Meanwhile, back at the all shithat and no chicken DoJ poultry ranch, the seizing of private citizens themselves, much less the seizing of their records or communications or freedoms, shall continue full broiler ahead!
The 1st question out of any genuine journalists mouth after this should be…
Mr Garland, “Does that include Contractors employed by the Intelligence Community?”
“Let’s not get carried away.”
I guess this is good news for Assange?
Yes. So it’s bare knuckles time, folks. GET AFTER EVERY MEDIA PERSON AND EVERY GOVERNMENT PERSON YOU KNOW……….AND LET THEM KNOW………THAT WE KNOW WHAT CORRUPT CRIMINALS THEY ARE, AND TRAITORS.
MAKE SURE TO LET THEM KNOW THAT WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH AND WILL NOW TAKE STEPS TO END THEIR RULE OVER US.
USE THIS TOOL… make a list you can send emails to and other information to WITH ONE CLICK. Get everyone on that list to do the same. And so on…..SO…….using those lists and simple daily emailing we can light up the entire country via this little “electronic chain letter” trick any hour of the day….on any subject of importance. USE THIS TOOL THAT IS TRULY NOW RIGHT IN YOUR OWN HANDS.. FORGET COMMENTING ON ALL THESE CHAT BOARDS THAT ACCOMPLISH NOTHING. Go around all of that and communicate DIRECT to the entire country via all the “one-click email lists “–we create in this manner.
So he doesn’t mind that the DOJ leaks. Only that they would investigate who is being leaked to…
“pass it on”………keep on passing stuff on…..
So if we set up a news outlet and hire people who agree with us as journalists, the DOJ can’t investigate our communications good or bad. That should keep us safe.
Theres not a lot in that much vaunted “rank and file” that leak to right leaning news sources. Funny that.
You forget they have ALL our communications
BLACKMAIL/LEVERAGE
Why do you think Kavanaugh and Amy are toeing the line?
The Intel operations are not policeable.
This is drivel:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/dont-live-fraudulent-election-legal-scholar-john-eastman-says-state-legislature-authority-replace-electors-due-fraudulent-election/
Eastman is poorly informed. If a State ever does replace its electors, so what?
Eastman needs to tell us how we legally undo an Inauguration.
We can’t, another academic who’s about as informed as my pet lizard.
“Garland was moved to act following an outcry over revelations that the department during the Trump administration had obtained records belonging to journalists…”
They’re trying to blame President Trump for the crimes they committed against President Trump. Evil ********ers.
Burn it all down, hang all the players, including the front commie dumbo.
There are so many reverses and feints in this situation, that I am not certain if this is good news or bad news for patriots.
Classic DOJ. This is no different from their another dodge a.k.a. “ongoing investigation,” which is used to protect them from sunlight.
Since DOJ has always been leaking like a sieve, they don’t want anyone asking too many questions.
I have had this thought much of the day since reading the headline elsewhere.
Thanks Sundance for writing this!
Garland is actually my boss. I need a shower.
Durham just got gelded.