In this lengthy interview with John Ratcliffe and Maria Bartiromo, the former Director of National Intelligence, the man who has likely seen every document that may have eventually ended up in Mar-a-Lago, is challenging the nature of the classified status of those documents. Ratcliffe does not believe the Mar-a-Lago documents are true national security documents, but rather documents that outline fraudulent ‘sources and methods’ used by the DOJ/FBI in their Trump targeting operation.
Keep in mind that as the DNI during 2020, Ratcliffe saw the documents that eventually became the material President Trump declassified and left with the DOJ to release after the Durham investigation was complete. If Ratcliffe’s suspicions are correct, and there is more valid reason to support his suspicions than oppose them, then the entire construct of the DOJ-NSD operation to retrieve those documents from Mar-a-Lago is factually one big cover-up operation.
Ratcliffe suspects the documents are essentially the DOJ and FBI work products, including interviews with ‘sources’ like Igor Danchenko, from their fabricated case against President Trump. If accurate, the objective of the DOJ/FBI would be to avoid sunlight on their political targeting operation. This viewpoint makes sense when you consider the DOJ/FBI position that no one should ever be allowed to look at those documents, including the appointed Special Master in the case, Judge Raymond Dearie. WATCH:
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We have seen time and time again, over many decades, in many subject areas, if you pull enough threads that the facades will come tumbling down.
There are only a few thousand people behind the anti-Trump coup. As those people move on to other positions they lose their protectors and that is when they are vulnerable. Fortunately for us, they seem to have documented their schemes in emails, texts, and documents.
It takes a couple of Judges to let a few of the threads to be pulled. I suspect that by 2024 Trump will be on the offensive.
people try to poo-poo the concept of a large concerted effort in 2020 to seize control of the government citing a large number of persons being involved…….as SD so often states “Trillions are at stake”……Jovan Pulitizer at the AZ election integrity conference placed the number of required individuals to pull off the recent government resistance of the electorate wishes at 7,000 total…..giving an average payout of $1M/year per individual this is only $7B a year total which is peanuts compared to the amounts they are talking about……do you really think they want any part of their plan exposed to general public view?
Thank you for running the numbers. However, many actors are mostly moved by ideology, and while trillions ARE at stake, much of that has fixed destinations that cannot be left dry.
Those who make the money are exogenous to the trillions at stake. The battle for the planet is all about the money masters attaining absolute power.
The bottomless credit creation machine (aided immensely by its legal tender status) buys the loyalty and omerta that runs the whole system.
The billionaires are those at the top of the credit greased pole. This means they happen to own a lot more of nothing than we do. For the moment, that allows them to gather up more shiny things. But lets not confuse billions of credit slips with money.
We make money. They MAKE the money we make. Big difference.
At this point, the Democrats have their graft money, and there are no” trillions at stake.” That statement implies there is more money to be had. But, going back from TARP and Shovel Ready Projects to the present-day Inflation Reduction Act and Green New Deal, the appropriated money is spent, gone, and in the bank accounts of donors, unions, influencers, and Democrat politicians. The US Treasury is broke.
This is what i see, high places of power erected in the spiritual (pedos, homosexuals, abortions, human trafficking, lying, adultry, false religion, devil and satan worship) they are the sources of the power we see in our world today. Until those high towers can be torn down, we cannot stop the rest of these issues.
If we draw our power directly from God and Jesus (his word) these places are torn down.
That is exactly how a single soul is saved or a world of people. When the Bible states “we are the body of Christ” it is literal.
The Bible wanes between spiritual and physical, it’s why you cannot perceive it until you are reborn in your spirit. It’s called “quickened” or “made alive”. A code that cannot be understood without the Holy Spirit within.
The Bible addresses these issues, the reason we were given the Bible was because we have lost our direct connection to God and heaven. The Bible even addresses our atmosphere around us, full of principalities, powers, rulers of spiritual darkness. Everyday you choose righteousness is victory. This battle is not what we see but what we don’t see.
Well said, thank you.
Hammer & Scorecard.
Apparently, Dennis Montgomery watched the 2020 election rigging take place . . . and recorded it.
PDJT is already on the OFFENSIVE; where have you been?
As long as the elections rhis November are not stolen, I suspect that some Democrats and bureaucrats will have fled the country befor 2024.
I believe after all this that the steal will have to be so massive that the only way you can’t see it is because you can’t see. I also belive they are gonna try anyway.
It was that big in 2020 but no one wanted to believe the stolen election was true because that’s not supposed to happen in America and it means we are far worse off than the banana republics people joke about. The CRIME is that big and the DEMS who should be charged under RICO, are that ruthless. They are not playing the same game. They will stop at nothing to gain power and control. They are EVIL.
I disagree. The number is likely over 10,000 and another 100,000 who, though not involved directly, support the actions taken. And the number involved in the vote fraud is likely well over 50,000.
Just to pull off the fraud in Fulton county would have taken hundreds
Nearly all Africans on the ground…they are the foot soldiers full of hatred and willing to do whatever and protected by RAYCISSSS shield bs
I would say there are a total 250,000 globalists. 10K are the leaders and their minions are on the payroll and 240,000 lefties who are mentally ill, brainwashed sheep. They are at least 100 million patriots. Who do you think is going to win this war?
We all here have known the criminality of the OSatan cabal since 2015-16. The problem isn’t with us knowing or the proof being revealed.
The problem is the media that would spread the information is part of the cabal.
And the federal beauracracy that would administer justice is part of the cabal too.
Far too many people have been gaslighted by the OSatan cabal I fear the path ahead.
It ridiculous that no one besides the DOJ/FBI can view these documents. We are supposed to believe that employees of the government can never be corrupt ?
I think most of us believe they are always corrupt.
They need to prove us wrong,
Reasonable, when their typical policy towards citizens is presumption of guilt unless proven innocent.
Exactly
especially since constitutionally POTUS has the highest achievable clearance possible…….this means he is able to review documents that the DoJ/F-B-I should NOT be able to access
They don’t expect US to believe it, but their talking heads will pretend to, and that is all they need…they rhink.
And enough people will buy the BS. Why? Because they are too ignorant and too lazy to know any better.
And some are too scared to accept it.
But wait! I thought it was all by the book. At least that’s what Susan Rice said.
The book is called “Rules for Radicals.”
Well played!
These government communists execute Alinsky 101 tactics every minute of every day.
All of the moves by the doj/fbi to hide their corruption is only part of their motives. These government bureaucrats don’t do anything on their own. Their whole world is based on a cya mindset. Seriously? This is all an effort to protect the crown of the criminally corrupt kenyan
kenyan is just anothe zalenski; the people with real power eschew the limelight; they don’t need it, or fame, adulation or even mansions.
Even money, the just view as a transferable form of POWER.
Ever seen Mitchs House?
It is NOT a masion, like Pelosi, Biden or “the Kenyan” have, fairly ‘modest’, actually.
Congress long ago made the POTUS a figurehead position, beholden TO Congress; and lets look, hard and objectively ar the Gang of 8; Pelosi’s specialty is carving up the pie, and making sure she gets her cut, and the rest is divvied up.
She’s a greedy alcoholic.
Schumers a career hack.
McCarthy, like Ryan before is subservient to Mitch.
Mitch is the center of Power, the rest are just proxies, chess pieces he moves as he pleases.
Pelosi is getting all her free trips before she is kicked out of her “Speaker of the House” position.
She’s headed for Italy to be us ambassador there.
You are right, but only to a point. Mitch is the perceived center of corrupt republican power. I suspect he has accumulated enormous political baggage and plenty of skeletons in his closets. So there has to be a way to dispense or remove him from his leadership role, especially with how he is withholding funds from MAGA candidates and sending Lindsay Graham out there to throw the election on a ridiculous federal abortion ban bill.
Of course.
The other stuff they took was just padding to hide their true target, which was the stuff that incriminated them.
They’re pretending it’s still classified. It’s not.
And that is why the FBI is frantic to keep control of those documents and make sure they never see the light of day. Also the reason for the Mara Lago raid.
The cover up of the cover up.
Can’t wait for the cover up of the cover up of the cover up.
The IC is our government now.
The next iteration of the good ol USA will have to address it in their Constitution. I wonder when that will be?
Only when the New World Order IC says so. Better approach is to recover the supreme law of the land.
You forget the SARC/ tag.
Indeed, wasn’t it Lenin who said we will lead the revolution against us
Interesting that he mentions that January 17 date that you have made clear when the FBI knew that Danchenko was lying, but the FBI not only used the Steele dossier despite knowing, but also they hired a known liar and paid him for almost 4 years.
But I cannot comment on this interview without pointing out that Ratcliff is lying about Russia. He says that Biden “failed to stop Russian aggression”. Biden’s handlers pushed and pushed and pushed aggression by Ukraine which had been shelling Ukraine for 8 years and had lined up thousands of troops on the border of the Donbas which certainly could be viewed as an intent to invade. Biden’s handlers also pushed the idea of Ukrainian NATO in public and Zelensky threated February 19 to rearm Ukraine with nuclear weapons. All of that was certainly goading Russia. The defense contractors won huge amounts of taxpayer dollars – a reward for their Democrat allegiance.
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was a goad to China. The US definitely seems to be trying to cause angry reactions. Building secret bases in Syria. And Pelosi’s current visit to Armenia is certainly not a help in that region.
The US foreign policy of US hegemony at all costs to the taxpayers of this country and the people of other countries so we retain total world power and economic control and destroy everyone else who might challenge the US. I am disgusted.
well, Turkey is already aligning itself with the BRICS……they bought the S-400 system from Russia 2 years ago and just joined a Chinese-led economic organization as the first EU/NATO nation to do so……their designs in Syria and N Iraq do not bode well for their continued membership in NATO
Location, location, location.
Turkey has location. Disconnecting from Turkey could be easier said than done.
Also just this week the Biden cartel has taken Cypress off the arms embargo list, which is making Turkey even angrier.
BRICS++ will comes as the winner in all this mess minus the petro dollar. The American patriots take their Republic back, join BRICS, rebuild America and live in peace with the biggest nations in the world.
Just in case there are others out there, like me, who are unfamiliar with what BRICS is I stopped reading just so that I could figure what the acronym stood for;
BRICS is an acronym coined to associate five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS members are known for their significant influence on world affairs. Since 2009, the governments of the BRICS states have met annually at formal summits. China hosted the most recent 14th BRICS summit on July 24, 2022 virtually. BRICS host New Development Bank, Contingent Reserve Arrangement, BRICS payment system, and BRICS basket reserve currency officially announced in 2022.
When did we stop being the good guys?
After WWII.
When our intelligence agencies were allowed to murder JFK, seal the Warren Report for 50 years during which they gutted it for any incriminating evidence.
Dulles got to write his own police report.
When the CIA was formed. Or even earlier, under Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson, an evil racist.
Like a few , you are dripping with hate and ignorant of History. ……. Ratcliff did not lie. ……. In 2014 , on Obama,s Watch , Russia invaded Ukraine in Crimea and Donbas. …… The minority of Russian speakers in Donbas were used as an excuse. …… Ukraine at the time could do nothing about Crimea where they would be officially fighting Russian Military , but the Russian mercenaries invading Donbas were not in Uniform and claimed to be locals. Ukraine has been fighting this invasion since 2014. ……. Note that Putin also took slices of a number of other countries. Putin ignored Obamas ” Lines in the Sand. ” ………. Then for four years for reasons you may be able to guess the Russian invasions stopped. …… When Biden got into Office there was no-one stopping Putin and he resumed his invasions. ……. President Trump had stopped Putin , Biden did not.
Crimea was Russian territory since Catherine the Great.
No hate here, just facts. There are a majority of Russian speakers in Crimea and the area voted 97% to join Russia in 2014 – with international observers present during the voting and vote counting.
There are also a majority of Russian speakers in Lugansk and Donetsk. They have no allegiance to Ukraine after the US overthrew of the elected leader of Ukraine in 2014 and in 2014 voted to be independent sections of Ukraine, wanting to retain the Russian language. The CIA was training Nazi Carpathian Sich, Right Sector, and Azov Regiment soldiers since 2014 and encouraging them to shell Donbas, killing 14,000 civilians over 8 years. The Ukrainians today killed another 16 civilians in Donetsk city.
I am commenting only because of the sheer hypocrisy of your comment to Belle. You call her ignorant of history and full of hate, while it is clearly you who should work towards a better, clearer understanding of not only history but current events. The US, in 2014, effected a coup in Ukraine- removing a duly elected president and placed their puppet in his place. (Sound familiar?)
Putin made no move while Trump was President because Trump, who is far and away superior in foreign relations than any President past or preset, understood how to maintain peace and he did not have the agenda of the globalists and neocons.
The west deliberately provoked a proxy war because they want regime change in Russia- not to mention they want to keep the money laundering gig going.
If you listen to the people closest to Ukraine & it’s neighboring nations, you would better understand the entire situation and the realization that the west, including the US, had a vested interest in not only starting that war, but keeping it going.
And maybe you won’t be so quick to call others names when you yourself are not as knowledgeable as you think you are. Good day.
Russia offered a non-aggression treaty with Ukraine, NATO, and U.S.
Ukraine, NATO, and U.S. said, “Nope”
I’ve always been wary and skeptical of anyone that is considered best friends with Trey Gowdy.
Back in the day when I would still occasionally watch Fox News I can vividly recall Trey Gowdy speaking glowingly of his good buddy “Johnny.”
I guess we need to look into Dearie and hope he’s not the next iteration of Barr and Durham.
I’ll be shocked if he actually sets justice back on course.
Dearie signed the THIRD FISA COURT RENEWAL to spy on the Trump Team.
Date of signature was June 2017. By that time, he knew (or should have known) that the Dossier was garbage and the FBI warrant application/renewals were political tools. Dearie was originally appointed by Reagan; which means Dearie was well-aware of the players running FBI and DOJ.
Dearie signed the FISA warrant against the Trump anyway.
And that was while President Trump was sitting in the oval office.
Don’t expect to see Dearie wearing a White Hat.
A couple of days ago I heard this interesting quote:
“The United States does not have any “real” allies. It just bullies some countries less than others.”
I think many may have that perspective.
Is this when the chickens come home to roost?
When the wheels of justice stop turning will it be the people that committed the crime/treason be in prison or will it be the victims?
A relevant and important question. Based on the last 20 years especially, and given the loss of “virtue” generally across America for those in government as well as the rest of us, I shall not hold my breath that ANYTHING, much less actual prison time, will be in the future of any of these traitorous and wholly corrupt “officials.”
John Ratcliffe has also said that as a US Attorney, there were cases with special masters. He said he never had a problem with a special master being assigned. Having a special master on a case is a way to prevent some objections and the appearance of bad faith or procedure. He said that lawyers with good solid cases have nothing to fear from a special master.
DoJ has already admitted they have documents and items they have no right to possess and yet object to someone making that determination on the entirety of their illegal haul from MAL
The risky mission to recover incriminating documents that strongly implicates DOJ in crimes had to also involve a sordid plan to once again frame Donald Trump.
We know corrupt DOJ wanted to indict and convict Trump in some fashion, if it could. So on what basis would it do so? It too was aware that the law favored former President Trump in all of the legal controversies that arose in his presidency. So what would be their legal angle now to recover, reclassify, and deep six sensitive damning documents that inculpated DOJ?
Well, without a special master, the DOJ could easily do what it always does, i.e., frame political adversaries. However, with a special master squatting right in the middle of this case, so nefarious a goal as this will be exceeding difficult to achieve because the outcome will likely be that President Trump was definitely within his rights to be holding said documents.
DOJ originally was hoping to obtain an indictment so that it could falsely claim that the President was illegally holding sensitive documents in order to hide his own guilt in various other DOJ cooked-up controversies. That would have been the frame-up. However, if the special master does indeed report that the President had a legal basis for retaining these documents, any subsequent criminal case brought against him in this matter would not be able to raise the issue of an illegal retention of documents as evidence of his own knowledge of guilt, and that would be huge!
Therefore, other than raising an illegal retention of documents as evidence of guilt, what other evidence could prove the President guilty of any of the cooked-up, fabricated wrongdoing? Well, there is none! And the DOJ won’t be able, thus, to recover and bury those sensitive documents that so completely implicate DOJ in crimes.
Such was the massive importance of Judge Cannon’s ruling to allow a special master!
DOJ now will need to confer with Lawfare jackals.
Can it claim there was a fire in their evidence storage room? Can it claim that those papers are now inexplicably lost? Can it claim that an innocent error allowed them to be destroyed by incompetent contractors? Can it blame a janitor for mistakenly taking the papers to a dump site? Or will it be able to obtain a stay on the order to return property to former president Donald Trump?
Some nasty variation of the foregoing is likely to occur if and when the judge orders the return of President Trump’s documents.
For some time we’ve been living in the evilest of worlds!
Mike Davis suggests Andrew Weissman’s hand (LawFare) is in this thing—evidenced by his ‘freaking out’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/andrew-weissmann-michael-avenatti-russia-collusion-hoax-also-behind-mar-lago-raid/
Judge Dearie Rubber Stamped the FISA. The questions are: Did he know he was used as the stamp or not? Will he be genuinely pissed or will he pretend to be pissed? Is he an honest judge….and let it rip on bringing the sunlight?
John OB –
There it is…the $64,000 question!
Is he MAGA or is he Globalist?
Dearie was originally appointed by Reagan.
Plenty of time for Dearie to know that FBI and DOJ are corrupt.
If he is a White Hat, he would not have signed off on the FISA warrant — Third Renewal, June 2017.
By June 2017, we ALL knew the Dossier was garbage.
Judge Dearie signed off on it anyway . . . to spy on a sitting President.
GLOBALIST
I don’t think so with this judge. Court sanctions or worse would likely follow, as it would be obvious what they did. They’d need to burn down the DOJ building to have any likelihood of credibility for any of those claims.
Just please tell me Trump had his own inventory of those boxes!
I’m sure Trump has at least triplicates of all documents containing evidence against the cabal stored in various places in the world.
In addition, Trump & Friends were watching the FBI raid in real time via security cameras.
Remember, FBI told staff to turn off the cameras . . .(staff didn’t turn the cameras off).
And then there’s the leaks they intended to use for the midterms.
Excellent points in a well worded commentary.
The rub here is Ratcliffe could have released the documents and taken one for team America, but chose not to. Same for anyone in the Intel community.
In the end how does the truth about conspiracy against Trump solve Biden’s administration assault on us?
For the moment I care less about Trump, DeSantis, or Lake for they cannot restore our republic. It’s up to us to use whatever means necessary.
Any one of us would have declassified most everything as promised and put it up on wh.gov. Controlled opposition.
Maybe Trump will yet, right before the 2024 election.
I don’t think the US will last another 6 months of continual chaos slammed on us by the globalists. It is up to the people to stop this evil swarm of communists.
Another talking head.
Trump 2024
Why are any documents related to Spygate still ‘redacted’ if they are false and untrue, can we see what’s blacked out? Gotta hand it to the DOJ, redacting lies and BS.
The redaction explanation that is required by law is SUPPOSED to be to remove any “personal identifying information”, for instance they weren’t supposed to leave Kash Patels name unredacted on the warrant, because of the obvious implication.
They abuse that, of coarse but thats one legally required type of redaction.
We all know the “sources and methods” is abused, no reason to think “privacy redaction” wouldn’t be, as well.
The “redaction” ruse/abuse is laughable. Remember McCabe’s desk purchase? Gotta hand it to’em they get away with it every time.
as if the documents would change the minds of all those who still believe in russian collusion… seriously. The FBI worried some history teacher is going to figure it out in 2040?
I am wondering if PDJT was working with John Solomon, to write a book, laying it all out?
What good would that do? A source of revenue to help offset legal bills? I suppose.
While John Ratcliffe continues to disappoint and speak in tongues, I am wondering what can be done to overcome the clear and obvious Republican party’s lack of support for Trump, put an end to this ongoing prosecutions mess and gain some ground.
I hope not. I’ve always thought that John Solomon is ‘willfully blind’ to many integral parts and pieces that make up the whole of many of his articles. Maybe ‘tunnel-vision’ is a better description of his research and articles.
The USA now has one of the most criminal governments on the planet.
I had to do a double – take there, I originally thought that the man on the right was Newt Gingrich. LOL
Pretty sure Maria said @0:38: “judge Deary has ordered LIARS…”
Whether intentional or not, probably not far off point.
Cracks me up, how Maria pronounces “lawyers” as “liars”.
The MAL raid, was to edtablish a new “ongoing investigation” in order to replace Durhams “ongoing investigation” which was to replace the Mueller investigation, ALL to have an excuse for preventing any other investigations, OR the releasing THIS info.
No indictment, just leaks implying espionage violation (“mishandling” classified info) or “obstruction”,..or still seperately working on “Conspiracy to commit election interference” i.e. the “insurrection narrative”.
It continues to be a “cover up” that has actually gotten so much worse than the original crime,…which was political spying, on American citisens.
And to cover that up, they committed TREASON, and so much more….
And now, it all comes apart for them.
And provides PDJT with the “mother of all” manufactured October surprises, manufactured by them.
Oh the irony!
By definition, I don’t view the MAL raid as a coverup operation. The Feds didn’t fabricate probable cause to secure a phony search warrant and order the raid to find out what’s in the boxes; they knew what documents Trump had.
It’s all about the midterms. The Democrats have nothing to run on, have internal polling data that projects huge losses, and have candidates who are avoiding Biden and his endorsement like it’s monkeypox.
The Democrats are desperate to retain power and prevent Trump from seeking the nomination in 2024. Seeking advice from others, they chose a preemptive political strike designed to to target Trump once again with endless lawfare and malicious persecution to tie him up in court battles, while they protect Obama and Clinton, taint and destroy Trump’s public image, disillusion his base and run attack ads on every single MAGA candidate Trump endorsed. Democrats like Weismann, Holder and Elias play aggressive offensive and for keeps.
The Democrats know they dead to nuts losers on the economy. They are going down a deliberate, intentional, political and unlawful blitzkrieg like path to interfere with the mid terms. They want to retain power no matter what the cost.
Judge Dearie might be our only hope to end the corrupt DOJ and the Administration’s endless wars on Trump right here, once and for all.
I believe the raid had several purposes. One was to find out what evidence Trump had on the rigged election. Why else would the FBI follow up the raid by confiscating phones from Lindell and Dr. Frank, etc.?
Don’t count on Judge Dearie being a White Hat (see my comments above to other posters.)
Here is the Resigned and disgraced FBI Special Agent Timothy Thibault talking about the FBI’s role in “protecting the right to vote” just one month before the 2020 election:
https://rumble.com/v1kluvn-fib.html
I can’t wait to find out what commentary Trump has declassified that documents what the FBI and DOJ actually think of the FISA court, and what other items may have been documented as intentionally misrepresented to Dearie and his colleagues on the court.
MAGA🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Saw that interview yesterday. Based partly on the scholarship Sundance has previously lain before everyone here, I came to that conclusion almost as soon as the raid was conducted. The exigency of “OMG National Security!” was flushed on how long it took the perpetrators to actually get it done. They’re simply trying to recover (“Oh$hit!”) some things that are in the wild and make sure they remain in a box or somewhere with Jimmy Hoffa.
It appears the FBI/DOJ do not trust the Judicial overview?
That statement alone requires some serious explanations.
Judging by what they tweet, Weismann and Holder act like they are running the DOJ.
They are.
Special Master, Dearie, has a deadline of Nov. 30.
The FBI / DOJ cannot weaponize their investigation against Trump prior to the mid-terms.
Of course, they have appealed Cannon’s decision.
Maybe the Mar-A-Lago raid was just the next “investigation” to serve as the rationale to conceal evidence of wrongdoing by FBI and other DS actors. So we transit from Crossfire Hurricane to Mueller to Durham and now MAL? One thing tying them all together is to control the evidence these politically subversive acts are all illegal and expose the criminals that are truly usurping our democracy. This theory would explain the hysterics to avoid review of the allegedly damaging evidence. I predict that if Judge Dearie is a man of integrity he will reveal that the documents show that the term “secret” is defined by the FBI/DOJ to mean anything that exposes their subversive and unlawful schemes.
Yeah… The Game continues… Meanwhile, 85 Patriots that walked through the Peoples House on Jan 6th – many veterans – have been sitting in a jail 23 hours/day without due process. Nothing against Ratcliffe, but everyone in DC above the ground level can simply fvck off.
People need to burn over this stuff or We simply no longer comply.
“If accurate, the objective of the DOJ/FBI would be to avoid sunlight on their political targeting operation.”
*****
Go Deeper. What would make additional sense is the documents are the dirt Trump has on Obama, Clinton, Comey, McCabe, Brennan and Clapper
My gut tells me Biden’s handlers approved that raid at the urging of Weismann and maybe Holder.
Here is the interview with Miranda Devine.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6312510380112#sp=show-clips
If POTUS Trump wins his attempt to enforce the declassification, then it seems former DNI Ratcliffe is a logical person to testify as to the authenticity and intent of the actors that the documents identify. While I think there’s a greater likelyhood of a candle staying lit in a hurricane than the DOJ and FBI being dismantled and rebuilt to secure the individual liberty of the people. We will see. The upcoming election has consequences that the average American can’t even fathom.
I agree; Ratcliffe can indeed serve as Trump’s star witness.
When 0bama said he wanted everything done by the book he meant the coup and the book was referencing the democrat playbook.
Ratcliffe would make one hell of an Attorney General.
No. He is too weak and polite. In the same fashion as Obama had Holder, Trump will need a balls-to-the-wall, tenacious, take no prisoners fighter.
Mike Davis?
Someone with Giuliani’s fortitude maybe ?
Whittaker
Sidney Powell
Old famous saying from a debate in 1775 England – “Patriotism is the last Refuge of a Scoundrel “ can update that to today- “ Protecting Sources and Methods is the first Refuge of the Deep State” Even a single ray of Sunlight on the process cannot be tolerated or allowed, their strident protests only make it more obviously suspicious.
It is my fervent prayer that Judge Dearie is astute enough, and has a team of sharp assistants such as the Judicial Watch and Article II Project teams, who can read between the lines and put the puzzle pieces together in such a way that Judge Dearie sees the true story, and ALL of the bad actors are exposed.
Everyone from Hillary Clinton, BHO, Valarie Jarret, Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice, James Comey (and his corrupt daughter at SDNY), John Brennan, et. al. corruptions are exposed and they are left naked for the world to see.
I pray there is no where for any of them to hide; that when they pull one thread of truth, other threads are exposed and there can be no denying, excusing or covering up the naked truth about the corruption in the Executive Office, the Judicial Branch, the Legislative Branch – all of it exposed.
I am sickened by the stench of the federal government and all the bureaucrats involved.
If Judge Dearie has spent most of his career in DC I don’t have high hopes for anything he does. He’s been playing along for years.
However, if he’s truly an outsider with a bent for blind truth and justice, then maybe.
We’ve all had our hopes crushed again and again.
Folks, every single player is blackmailed… EVERYONE! Think about the massive data collection Snowden exposed. If not the player himself, then surely his/her family member. It is via blackmail that these decisions are made.
The “100 documents” are their Watergate tapes. The DOJ/FBI are now trying to figure out how they can destroy the evidence now that they’ve admitting they have it.
Even if a court orders the docs returned, they’ll refuse.
The media generally knows these documents will destroy the DOJ and FBI. So the pattern of leaks and guilt by innuendo (“documents with classified markings” not “classified documents”) will continue.
It’ll be interesting, however, if the media’s rabid desire to “get Trump” overwhelms their desire to protect a bunch of hapless, corrupt, bureaucrats.
Ratcliffe is spot on. This explains Barr’s recent anti-Trump press junket, as these are the declassified documents Barr successfully pressured Trump not to release. The overused and abused cry of “sources and methods” is really tradecraft trickery.
“He has abdicated his responsibilities as commander in chief to protect the American people by protecting our intelligence sources and the rest,” she said of Trump. “”If the president uses this fake, horrible release of distorted intelligence as an excuse to fire [deputy attorney general Rod] Rosenstein or [special counsel Robert] Mueller, it could lead to a constitutional crisis.”
– Nancy Pelosi, while fighting to prevent declassification of the Nunes memo, and citing sources and methods.
The memo was declassified. It contained neither “sources” nor “methods”. Hell, it didn’t even contain anything classified.
It did contain evidence of criminal activity by FBI and DOJ officials.
Pelosi is a witch.
and a goblin too!
If anyone on Capitol Hill knows about generating constitutional crises, it is Nancy D’Alessandro.
It makes you really wonder -“ They” , it would seem, had a choice 1) Ignore and leave PDJT alone and hope his support naturally dilutes / weakens in time or 2) Go all in on Hoax 3.0 because a- it didn’t seem to be doing that, b-he was winning on his primary candidates , c- why not go on offensive and energize our TDS voters. , d- do recovery /clean up of “issues” .and e- with help of the leaking MSM it will be easy to frame a scary narrative , always worked well in the past . They choose to go with #2 as a win /win strategy and it had , it seems , the opposite effect -energizing his base and exposing the overt politicization of Deep State apparatus and its apparatchiks.
There is a great scene in the Hunger Games, when Donald Southerland (President Coriolanus) warns the first Hunger Games Master, Seneca Crane, about the dangers of HOPE.
Watch a single Trump Rally and think on this statement about HOPE.
… or for a more graphic image …. watch one of the very last scenes from the Movie “Cross of iron” when James Mason (Colonel Brandt) stands in front of his fleeing regiment … “you there halt and advance with me” … all the soldiers around him stop, turn and advance.
As we follow this entire saga keep in mind a couple of facts.
The INTEL Community, FBI-NSD and corresponding DoJ Offices had been delegated authority to classify-declassify as well as grant clearance, even before President Trump took office in 2017.
President Trump even made an public announcement of his delegation of authority to Bondo Barr.
There have been NO reports of President Trump withdrawing Authority and in fact both wings of the Uni-Party went nuts when President Trump tried to remove clearances from Ex-Obama INTEL Operatives working in the media.
That means despite anything said by Ratcliff or Grenell, ALL those people with delegated authority could classify a ham sandwhich if they needed. That is the reason all this stuff was classified and why President Trump’s declassification orders have upset the apple cart.
But, then, why didn’t Mark Meadows follow through with Trump’s executive order and make sure that specific order was executed as ordered?
Your question is irrelevant. All I am saying is people were authorized to classify stuff, period.
Nobody has seen anything to say which orders were and were not followed … that is the purpose of the Special Master. The spot light is on the veracity of the Special Master and the thoroughness of President Trump’s Team in following the regulations. Plus, nobody knows what authority Mark Meadows was given and more people than Mark Meadows may have disobeyed or failed the president based on authority they were given or delegated.
That’s where you are wrong. My question is relevant. There are numerous reports recently that say Meadows deliberately failed to implement Trump’s declassification order and both he and Barr ignored the order internally.
I am so disappointed with Mark Meadows. He was my Congressman and was great at that. He supposedly was a friend of Trump’s and promoted their friendly relationship. I don’t understand what happened to him. Such a disappointment.
What does that have to do with anything …. what are the sources of those reports??? It is is a fact that nobody knows anything about any orders or levels of authority until the Special Master gets started.
Your question remains irrelevant to the comment that authority to classify or declassify was liberally sprinkled about for a very long time since 2001.
Did you know that it is a Federal Crime to classify a document simply to conceal illicit or illegal or embarrassing information from the public? Ask anybody with a security clearance. It’s in all the annual training people with clearances are required to take.
Btw, reference 28 CFR 17.22
“(d) Information shall not be classified in order to conceal inefficiency, violations of law, or administrative error; to prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency; to restrain competition; or to prevent or delay release of information that does not require protection in the interest of national security. Information that has been declassified and released to the public under proper authority may not be reclassified.”
Which implements E.O. 12958:
“(b) Officers and employees of the United States Government, and its contractors, licensees, certificate holders, and grantees shall be subject to appropriate sanctions if they knowingly, willfully, or negligently: (1) disclose to unauthorized persons information properly classified under this order or predecessor orders; (2) classify or continue the classification of information in violation of this order or any implementing directive; (3) create or continue a special access program contrary to the requirements of this order; or (4) contravene any other provision of this order or its implementing directives. (c) Sanctions may include reprimand, suspension without pay, removal, termination of classification authority, loss or denial of access to classified information, or other sanctions in accordance with applicable law and agency regulation.”
That would, of course, include fraud which is what hiding illegal conduct behind security classification banners is. It is fraud.
The public cannot tell from the vague FBI inventory of items seized at Mar a Lago whether they are Crossfire Hurricane documents or othe topics. I suspect this was deliberate.
Within DoD, it was common practice to use an unclassified subject line whenever possible so that you could refer to classified documents in unclassified ones, like inventories.
The public also knows that Confidential Human Sources used in Crossfire Hurricane included Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, Christopher Steele and Igor Danchenko. There is no need for continued protection of their identities.
Everything they do is deliberate and with purpose , soon it will be some misplaced / misfiled items as the next go -to move in their repertoire, if legal machinations are unsuccessful.
Their problem is they cannot seem to shut up about what they stole. The leaks are killing them, which is a good thing. First, we get to learn that it’s really just a small fraction of what they took (100 documents vs. the tens of thousands they took). Then they faked a photograph of what they claim they seized (documents fanned out with classification cover sheets displayed proudly on top of them). Then they make laughable assertions about nuclear secrets. All of this gets done in front of a judge who isn’t putting up with that garbage.
She is, apparently, not Judge Emit Sullivan.
The FBI and DOJ hoped that by stealing everything they might be able to hide the few things they were after. Those 100 documents are like wearing cement shoes in a sinking boat sailing on deep lake miles from shore.
Robert Meuller destroyed the FBI ….
President GHW Bush, then (and future AG) Bill Barr, President Bill Clinton, AG Janet Reno destroyed the FBI when Bush and Barr started the process of forcing out FBI Director Sessions shortly after Sessions started an investigation into DOJ corruption (Justice Department officials illegally misled a federal judge in a bank fraud case involving loans to Iraq before the Persian Gulf War). Clinton appointing Louis Freeh (who allowed FBI files to be delivered to H. Clinton) started FBI down the current path.
I would like to bet the ranch Trump has all those documents on flash drives scattered in various secure places all over the world
Hence the subpoenas they sent out to 30-35 Trump associates. They’re trying to find the copies because it doesn’t sound like they found some or all of what they were looking for.
That is why Barr, Andy McCarthy, progressives and others in on the coup don’t want anyone outside their group to see the 100 docs them have insinuated contain the nuclear codes, weapons locations and worse.
I agree with Ratcliffe that probably 90% of them are classified because they deal with protecting wrongdoers in the IC and DOJ over the Russia Gate investigation.
If you look at Obama and Bush’s executive orders on classification and declassification besides giving PUTUS absolute power they provide that using classification to cover up wrong doing IS A VIOLATION of their executive orders.
Yep, the people who try to conceal illegal or embarrassing actions behind security classification markings can be prosecuted. It’s fraudulent and an abuse of national security protection systems.
In case you were wondering, here’s a little tidbit from the Obama Uncompleted Presidential Library web site….
“Following digitization, NARA will store and preserve the original records and the Obama administration artifacts in an existing NARA facility that meets NARA’s standards for archival storage. The dedicated staff at that location will be responsible for caring for the records and artifacts. Currently, the Obama administration materials are housed in a temporary facility in Hoffman Estates, IL, which is not open to the public.”
Finger’s crossed that Dearie is royally pissed about the previous FBI FISA warrant lying that he signed off on for Carter Page, etc., etc., etc. They lied to him and he now knows they lied.
Even if he’s not currently pissed, he might find out he should be. Which is what the FBI and DOJ are afraid of. Do you think the Trump lawyers would point out the unredacted, and illegal, Carter Page search warrant – signed by Dearie and other FISC judges – if that is included in the documents stolen from MAL? Or, how about the unredacted Page/Strzok text messages that DOJ refuses to hand over?
Or maybe the Rosenstein scope memo? I don’t think the name of the targets have ever been un-redacted, though I could be wrong. Lots of people think it was Flynn’s son:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2019/04/21/second-scope-memo-rosenstein-authorizes-mueller-to-target-michael-flynn-jr/
I cant get any videos??? I use to??? any help ???
You might need to do some updates on your browser. I checked the videos, and they are working.
I had such hope for Ratcliffe back then…same as I did for a number of people within the Trump administration. Each and every one, to a large extent, failed to deliver. Our President was tied up, duct taped and betrayed numerous times.
Now, I see all this and think…what can possibly expose the evil and lawlessness coming from the DOJunk and the FIB?
Nothing. Quite frankly the worst thing that can happen is a slight stub of their toes…which would be parsed away with a pithy fake phrase from the propaganda media. They will either get everything they seek, or face ZERO penalty for their hateful efforts.
RE- FBI over classifying
Anecdotal –
An FBI Special Agent asked me if had information on an individual who he suspected was smuggling drugs into our area and asked for copies of my reports.
I said yeah, I know him, I received information that the suspect had been throwing around a lot of money lately.
Suuure, I can provide you a copy of my report tomorrow if you provide me with your reports, which I knew he would not. FBI never, ever reciprocates. I only agreed to see his reaction.
The Special Agent said that he could not provide me with his reports because I did not have a security clearance. I advised him that my security clearance was the same as his. So he replied that he will share his reports after he verifies my clearance.
What I did not mention to him was my preliminary investigation indicated that the suspect had recently inherited a lot of money upon the death of his father. I closed the case as “unsubstantiated”
Classified “ For Law Enforcement Use Only”.
About a month later, he provided his report. I was shocked that he actually provided me his report,that is, until I took the report out of the envelope.
He had copied, Verbatim, my report and reclassified it as SECRET.
True story.
Resident Agent in Charge
Special Agent
ICE/HSI ( former U.S. Customs Service back then)
Retired
What is it going to take to get the FBI to turn over the seized documents they claim to be so dangerous, to Judge Dearie? An order from SCOTUS and 5000 US Marshalls? Has the FBI already torched, altered, or substituted docs? If they do turn anything over, how will we know that the FBI hasn’t substituted actual senstive docs for the ones they took from Trump? Won;t they try to turn over heavily redacted versions, then start the process of forcing them out all over again? Ses ridiulous, but should Trump’s attorneys petition the Judge for a “preservation order” requiring the FBI not to destroy or alter anything they seized? Because you know they will.
This is interesting . . . Biden was behind the raid at Mara Lago to get Trump’s papers. Yet, Biden STILL has not made his senate papers available to the public.
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“What is Biden hiding? Is there classified information in his Senate materials? Joe Biden has a secret deal to hide his Senate records with the University of Delaware — and a court wants more answers,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Of course, President Biden could help by simply releasing all his Senate records.”
“Initially, the university claimed the records would be made “available to the public two years after Biden’s last day in elected public office.” But just hours before Biden unveiled his presidential bid in April 2019, the university changed the agreement to note the records won’t be public until he “retires from public life.”
“In 2012, Biden donated over 1,850 boxes and 415 gigabytes of digital records from his 36-year senate career to the university. ” (Judicial Watch)
Clearly explains why they will fight to the death opposing a special master and WHY Andy McCarthy and William Barr (noted DOJ apologists) support their efforts besides that they simply hate Trump.
If you read the two Executive Orders by Obama and Bush there are a couple of things that are clear. One is POTUS has absolute power to classify and declassify. The next is POTUS is exempt from from the procedural formalities. Finally Brandon could have re-classified these documents but hasn’t and the only explanation for why he hasn’t is the prohibition in these two executive orders on classifying documents to hide wrong doing.