After several days of research interviews in a locked down and closed Washington DC, in the spring of 2020 I sat alone in a hotel room and pondered how to boil down the essence of the most critical information into one question.
Multiple days of questions and contacts accompanied three years of background research and 600+ pages of retrieved open-source citations sat on the table in front of me. The exact same material was organized into two assemblies.
•The first set was organized in the timeline for when the documents were released or became public. •The second set was the result of taking the documents and putting them into the chronological order of when the events took place. As I stared at it, the answer became obvious…
Ask people a simple question, “what was the purpose of former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s two-year probe?”
Returning to those same discussions and going back into the individual silos, that new question was asked, “what was the purpose of Mueller?”
The responses showed the reality.
Every single person in Washington DC, across the broad spectrum of institutions from all branches – including media, would speak plainly that Mueller’s team objective (from May 2017 to April 2019) was to use the authority of his appointment to block any review of the preceding events he was presumably investigating.
Yes, in private conversation everyone stated a similar core truth, Mueller was the tool for DC to protect itself against accountability.
That reality was a bitter pill to swallow, because accepting that common response in private stood in contrast to those same voices talking publicly about the honor and respect of Robert Mueller. The charade was clear.
Publicly everyone stated Robert Mueller and his team were embarked upon a valid enterprise. However, privately everyone acknowledged Robert Mueller and his team were operating to cover-up the prior corrupt activity of the DOJ, specifically the DOJ National Security Division, and FBI – specifically the FBI counterintelligence operation.
Despite my having researched, discovered and assembled irrefutable evidence of the depth of corruption; it was challenging to accept that no one would openly confront it. I was, like most at the time, naive to just how systemic and entrenched the problems had become during the Obama era.
Thankfully, there was a protection around me, and I was directly warned not to take anything to the FBI. I think the last three years have provided multiple citations for what would happen to anyone who would confront main justice corruption by reaching out to the FBI. Approximately 8 months after my own experience I delivered that same warning message forward. Two years later the recipient of my 2020 warning has become a target, exactly as feared.
The way DC officials, politicians and the bureaucrats who oil the machinery, created this modern system of usurpation is outlined in the construct of The Fourth Branch of Government.
Four modern pillars of national security maintain the superseding branch that stands above the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches. They are: (1) The DOJ-NSD; (2) The Dept of Homeland Security; (3) The Office of the Director of National Security, and (4) the FISA court. Each of these institutions uses the shield of national security to protect themselves from oversight.
You can clearly see how the Fourth Branch operates when you look at the recent judicial branch deferment to the DOJ-NSD on the issue of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents and the classification argument.
The courts defer everything under the auspices of “national security,” thereby making their judicial ability to check the executive ineffective. The congress also defers their oversight role under the auspices of “national security” by refusing to conduct legislative oversight. This ‘national security’ dynamic is an outcome of how the post 9-11 Patriot Act was put into place. The DHS and ODNI were created in this process, and later came the DOJ-NSD as created by Attorney General Eric Holder.
Taking the new surveillance state apart would require removing the pillars that hold the Fourth Branch of Government in place. No one is discussing such a necessary deconstruction effort; instead, everyone is pretending the anti-democracy issue is not critical and weakening the constitutional republic ever day it exists.
Back to Mueller…. When the entire town knows the true motive for Mueller’s investigation to exist, yet no single person will state it publicly, you look at the people claiming the virtue of Mueller with new eyes. It wasn’t just democrats, there were/are abundant republicans proclaiming the virtue of Robert Mueller et al.
Every time I watched former AG Bill Barr talking about Special Counsel Robert Mueller, it was crystal clear Bill Barr was the application of Bondo over the corrupt and rusted DC justice system. As a result, the appointment of John Durham needed to be accepted through the same prism of intent.
Bill Barr was the Bondo work, and John Durham would apply the shiny coat of paint.
The corrupt and useless shell of Main Justice would be covered up and the polished image sold to the public. However, depending on where you stand, fortunately or unfortunately the public isn’t buying it. As each day passes more people are aware of the problem. DC denial runs rampant against the reality of We The People seeing the fraud.
1 person. Louie Gohmert.
He alone brought forth Mueller’s record of malfeasance. Nobody would listen.
A Texas Judge who knows evidence….
Washington Deep Cesspool Politburo. A long, long way away from the seeds of the American Revolution. And the termites that have undermined a once proud and decent nation.
Exactly
Don’t forget why Durham was chosen by the bagpiper to do this cover up. Durham was also chosen by Eric Holder to cover up the CIA prisoner abuse scandal in the Obama years. Durham is who you choose to kill an investigation and protect the government.
durham and bar need be charged with obstruction of justices…
Did I also just read somewhere that there are emails between Adam Schiff and Epstein? Like 200 something?
Speaking of Epstein.
No way a guy with that much leverage via blackmail kills himself rather than stand trial.
They would let him walk free rather than them take the chance he testifies to the truth about his pedophile network of wealthy elites in court.
Maybe he did, and his death was a cover-up of that fact itself.
Barr allowed him to be killed or released.
Clearly the lesson for anyone in possession of compelling evidence, implicating powerful individuals in compromising, or criminal activity, is to release it all. Do it promptly, spread it far, and wide.
Do not wait until you are cornered or incarcerated, believing you will use your material as leverage from prison, in the future.
Compare Snowdens life, to Assange, Rich, Epstein, etc.
he would have gotten bail, paid it and gotten the heck out of dodge.
So yeah, he didn’t kill himself.
Captain obvious says hello
Yep, and then ponder that his sidekick, G Max, gets 20 for pimping minors but there are no johns charged.
Worse than that the FBI has a list of the johns but refuse to name them so they can use them it for future leverage .
Should know by now what to expect from the (Obama/Holder) Dept. of JustUs.
Despicable and disgusting is what the swamp rats are, no worry God will sort them out.
Not only the FIB….Durham and barr hid their findings on the CIA and Brennan re: missed interviews
More yrs protecting a cracking image of FBI and all other intel agencies. Simply too many facts in the public domain now.
Was thinking today about the unlikely potential of PDT ever being again allowed into his rightful place as President. These evil pieces of human garbage that are spread throughout both political parties, the MSM, Big Tech, China, the WEF and the rest of the globalists will likely bring about Armageddon before ever allowing PDT to disrupt their hold on power. Should a miracle happen and PDT does again occupy the WH, does anyone think McTurle and the rest of the criminally corrupt DC power players will allow people like Cash Patel to be confirmed by the Senate? I’m guessing not a chance the trash on the Gang of Eight will allow the 4th branch of government to be torn a part
Maybe a con con would work ?
Well their days are number, not because someone will come along and do anything about this corruption, no.
The economy will kill them off. No money to sustain the corruption and they will probably be running for their lives, because they will be the only one with anything of value, plus retribution for their corruption at the expense of everyone else will be terrible thing to see.
Smile all you want to Fat Boys, you helped ruin the country.
Plenty has been laundered thru Ukraine to sustain them for decades.
You have to admit Durham has a sweet job (if laziness is your thing).
How many people can say that they did nothing for years and years and got paid a big salary to do it.
All government employees!
IDK, it’s a lot of work feeding government secrets to a grand jury. Doing so, is an important job.
Because evidence presented to a grand jury can NEVER be released publicly.
I’ve been literally LOL about that for 2+ years now.
Most Presidents of any University, public or private, do very little and have huge salaries. We have a very corrupt education system all the way down to preschool.
Are we going to be able to see the report?
Bwahahahaah!
Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.
Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.
Sure feels that way, bro.
So what happens now? Everyone better buckle up. We have lost our country. The world is likely moving into extremely dangerous One World Government with massive controls using their digital currency and social credit scores. PayPal probably just jumped the gun a bit and showed their hand. But it had to begin with the systemic destruction of our Constitutional Republic which is what Sundance witnessed. We had all suspected, but that was the wake up call.
Yep. I saw this tweet thread today, and am putting here to remind everyone. They all – republicans included showed their authoritarian nature during covid. They all want the power.
They all sold us out –
I have but three needs from my government:
On every one of these, the Republican party has failed nearly 100%. This is not a coincidence. The Republicans are WEF all the way. You can vote for them to slow down the Democrats’ mission to destroy us, but nothing will change other than the speed at which it happens.
The judicial system from our local idiots all the way to DOJ in DC is useless. I think there are only two Scotus justices who value the county over their jobs–Thomas and Alito.
I just want to go back to before the 2018 midterms when I said you could tell the intent and outcome of the OIG investigations by where they held grand juries. If held in DC it was because he wanted things covered up and few convictions. If he wanted convictions he would hold his grand juries in Utah (where the giant Intel database that they spied upon is located.)
I AM A STRANGER IN MY FORMER COUNTRY
It’s funny when blm burned Washington I was horrified. Now I want it burn. It is totally and irredeemably corrupt. The only possibleboutcome is totalitarianism.
I think we will see an EMP over DC.
Taht will lead to burning it down.
I believe DC has its infrastructure hardened in anticipation of such an attack. They believe they are ordained by God to control us no matter what happens..
If we are attacked most here will blame the feral government for sticking their nose in other countries business just for the chance to grift , The punishment we will dal out on them will be barbaric and rightfully so !
We have to find a way to make it clear to all judges that “national security” is not an excuse we are any longer going to accept.
No press is left to hold any of these people’s feet to the fire. They don’t even fear for their reputations any more.
Disappointing how Bagpipes Barr turned out to be just an overrated hack, unable and not wanting to defend the Constitution. And he was supposed to be one of the ‘better ones’. It’s total, in your face corruption now by the UniParty.
His letter in “defense” of Trump was a massive smoke screen. No real pushback on his confirmation (smart on Schumer’s part since he was likely prodded by Pelosi to let Barr in), which should have told us something. Durham has always been a question mark (emphasis on the curved, crooked part).
Obama said he wanted to fundamentally transform America. We thought his intent was through DACA, bringing race to the forefront on every issue, using Alinsky tactics, etc. We knew Holder was evil, as were Koskinen, Lerner, Rice, Brennan, Comey, and most of the upper echelon of his administration but we didn’t truly realize the extent to which that evil permeated the entire government. Like Clinton, Obama & Co. rid the government of loyal Americans and replaced them with Communists and Schwabbies. One of his last orders was the protection of the SES that he had put in place.
Trump was a businessman. Sure he greased a few palms along the way to have his buildings completed on time or early but he wasn’t versed in the evil entwined in the government bureaucracy. He chose too many “good old boys” for his most necessary posts (think Sessions) that ultimately cost him the ability to do the work he was sent to DC to do. In another term, Trump will have to have ferocious warriors on his team. Exterminators who can seek out the vermin and rid the government of them. That will be a massive undertaking since government is so completely bloated with criminals and immoral buffoons.
DeSantis pushed for Sasse at UF. His pushing a never Trumper simply means that the CRT, LGBTQ+ agendas will be brought to UF and to the good people of Florida. Obama pushed hard on college for everyone knowing that the colleges were not about educating students rather about indoctrinating them. That one thing may be Obama’s greatest legacy–the destruction of the American education system and the dumbing down of America into submission.
Obama was selected to go to Chicago and help Bill Ayers finish Ayers’ work to destroy Education in the US. 1968 Chicago Democrat Convention riot was significant.
Always remember, he was being pushed for the office by former President Bush.
A-hem … Remember it was George Bush that recommended Barr to DJT. DJT made many poor choices regarding personnel. For me a George Bush recommendation would be a NO GO.
And Barr has been rewarded financially so he can continue to gain more and more money until he dies or becomes a computer that lives forever./sarc
It’s been a coverup and a coverup of the coverup and it continues still. President Trump is the only one left that has the goods on them and can expose their corruption. The fourth branch is still trying to pull the national security protection scam. The question is will the USSC complete the coverup of the coverup by allowing the DOJ/FBI to manufacture evidence and not be required to display and defend it based on a bogus claim of national security. It happened to General Flynn. It will indeed be a travesty if a former POTUS is indicted and convicted of a fabricated crime in an attempt to coverup their criminal corruption. It should be a no brainer for the USSC but the odds are probably closer to 50/50.
Barrett and Kavanaugh are so scared of being marginalized that they will switch from “conservative” to flaming radical progressives making Sotamayor and Kagan look like Alito and Thomas!
People by now, we should realize, nobody in the govt will ever send another person in another branch of the government to jail. WOULD YOU SEND your friends or relatives to jail? SO WE NEED TO CREATE AN OUTSIDE AGENCY, FAR AWAY FROM DC WITH THE POWER TO USE OVERSIGHT, NOT LIKE CONGRESS DOES, BUT HOW A REAL INVESTIGATIVE AGENCY (PRIVATE) DOES, AND HOLD TRIALS AWAY FROM DC, AND INDICTMENTS AWAY FROM DC, AND REALLY PUT PEOPLE IN JAIL. FORGET WISHING, OR EVEN THINKING POLITICIANS, DC lawyers, or anyone else in DC DOING ANYTHING REMOTELY LEGAL. TIMES UP FOR THEM. ITS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSARY
In reading about high profile pedophilia cases, from Epstein to Boys Town way back when, a loose pattern of how they bury the cases emerged. — If the FBI + DOJ + Big Time MSM will collude to high those crimes, there is no limit…
In Dec 2019, when news out of Wuhan heated up + some suppressed experts said it was man-made + the Wuhan Lab was jointly run by the US, I looked around, and I knew – Trump was going to lose in the most massive fraud in US Election history — because out core institutions were – corrupt to the marrow of their bones…
People did not want to hear it.
I did not want to think or know it — but the world is as it is…
During the Civil War, some young men who were too young to fight would write the # 18 (or 16, I forget which) on a small piece of paper to stick in their shoe.
Then, when asked at the recruitment office how old they were, they would say, “I’m over 18.”
It was a deception = to a lie — but — the culture of that day — valued the Truth that much. Lying was not easy for most overall.
Now, males can get pregnant….
On Steve Bannon’s or someone’s show, I heard someone talk about Yuri Bezemenov’s 2 excellent long lectures from decades ago you can watch that talk about how a long-term regime change operation works.
He noted — when the Soviets or Bezmenov talk about Demoralization – they are not talking about – Morale. They mean — getting rid of a society’s Morals.
— It made me think about a few tidbits I’d filed away over the decades —
—- tidbits of people claiming to have been approached by or knew — Insiders — people connected to the highest levels of the known secret societies (like the Bilderbergs as well as Free Masons) or the more joked about ones like the Illuminati….
….anyway —- the individuals reported that the insiders told them — It’s too late. No matter what you try to do – no matter how much you try to alert people – the civilization had passed a point of no return. That what we know of as The Great Reset today would be unstoppable.
That never made sense to me. It sounded like nothing more than chest-thumping…
But, I remember – Yuri Bezmenov basically said the same thing in a way when he said, once you have a nation Demoralized, nothing will get thru to it. You would have to start over with a new generation + train them on Patriotism + Human Rights + Morals + it would take about 25 years…
—- Then today I thought about — what the Bible of the Christians + Jews teaches about — the Restraining Hand of the Holy Spirit….
……which is basically a similar message: That a person/community/nation can move so far away from God’s Will, He withdraws the Hand of the Holy Spirit that both —- restrains the Supernatural Forces of Evil that can influence us + restrains us from devolving into our worse selves.
And when that hand is withdrawn, things deteriorate exponentially — until — there is a return to a recognition of — our weak, sinful natures + a need for repentance + a need to seek to know the will of God…
—- I wonder if that is what those “insiders” were talking about…?
That by the late-1960s to early-70s, Western Civilization had already passed what they believed was a point of no return in terms of destruction of morals + the rest of the march toward The Great Reset would be easy or at least a foregone conclusion….
I think people should read the FBI Vault files on The Finders Case if they have any doubts about how corrupt things have been for a very long time. It was among the most heinous crimes people won’t let themselves imagine: child trafficking, pedophilia, child pornography, Occult ritualistic abuse, and more.
If it were not for 1 dedicated Customs Agent willing to risk his career – we’d have never known for sure there was a cover up. He blew the whistle – sort of – by putting in the file a document outlining the chronology of events + the cover up.
To cut this short – 2 vital documents disappeared from the files which to me proves the claims of the Customs Agent:
Lastly, when the files for the FBI Vault were released decades later — they still redacted vital sections – like the initial report by Tallahassee PD that stated an initial health check on the children found signs indicating sexual abuse on 2 of them. — But after the initial press blitz — after the FBI + DOJ + MSM Big Shots had moved in — all claims that there was evidence of sexual abuse were officially denied…
That case happened in 1987. The review of it was in 1993. The release of the files was in the 2000s. — + they still cover it up….
Whatever framework Obama set up or augmented, this corruption has run bone-marrow deep for a long, long time….
You can read the extensive files for yourself.
FBI Records: The Vault — The Finders
Many conservatives were bashed when the beloved Republicans put the Patriot Act into play. The obvious result was just too uncomfortable, (actual) conservatives needed to shut up! We had to get’em Muzzieum traitors hiding under ever rock in the US.
The idiots at the time called us unpatriotic… That hasn’t aged so well!
Even today Republican supporters can’t bring themselves to admit what they brought upon us… Instead it’s Obama and Holder.
Well… Clutch my pearls! Black Jesus and the Fast man done it!?!
Eh, they had the support of the newly elected Tea Party candidates running the gang of 8… Ya can’t make this up!
I guess most people missed Ruby Ridge and Barr? IDK I thought that was obvious as most of Trump’s other picks.
Even Trump, (the man that gave us Barr, the great restorer of Republican justice /sarc) signed the re-authorization of 702.
You’d THINK that wouldn’t be possible…
As someone that lived through that government abuse long before calling the government unconstitutional was popular… You’d have to shoot me before I’d sign that re-authorization!!!
Awkward uncomfortable truths that can’t be explained away.
Personally, I think it’s a controlled opposition game being played on US Patriots by both the IC and Trump.. As long as you believe someone has your side you’ll just keep voting and do little else besides elect more government.
And Americans are absolute suckers for a underdog.
Devil has roasting spits ready for all these traitorous scumbags.
If the Fourth Branch now controls and determines the outcomes of US elections, as we’ve witnessed to our horror, then voting our way out of this Orwellian nightmare is no longer an option, is it?
I think an agreed upon slogan can be: Voting alone won’t save us.
We’ve been converting all dollars to physical assets ever since the Big Lie of 2020, though clearly the big steal started with the 2018 midterms and the Russia Russia Russia hoax. It was clear to me that the WEF’ers (and that’s where I place the blame for all of this, ever since uncle Klaus outed them as having ‘infiltrated 50% of world governments) had no intention of losing. But I and many others around me have no intention of joining their collective drone hive nor fading away on their drugs and playing video games. I find it very useful that they let us know in advance what is coming – as difficult as it may be, you just need to listen to them. Of course, my pile of brass isn’t going to stand up to their nukes but, I only half believe the nuclear threat because of the ‘what’s the use’ effect that kind of propaganda has on people. We shall see, unfortunately. *Sigh*.
Telling us what is coming…
I’ve just got guesses on that + ones in areas the Average Person doesn’t like to entertain, I think… Related to Spirituality or the Occult… Like 1 thing I need to search on after just hearing a brief description of it — Meme Magic – creating Memes + the more viral they go, the more the maker gains some “power” – whatever that is. — But that seems to have been the idea behind a few of the Super Bowl Half Time shows in the recent past.
I’ve heard some call something similar — Lesser Magic.
It doesn’t matter whether you or I believe in it. It matters if they do…
I think it was on Steve Bannon’s shows that someone today got me thinking about this. He pointed out the 2 EXCELLENT long lectures from the 1980s or early-90s by —- Yuri Bezmenov about —- what I’d today rename – the build up to The Great Reset —- how to run a long-term regime change operation.
He noted — when the Soviets + Bezmenov talks about Demoralization — he is not taking about Morale. They are talking about getting rid of a society’s Morals…. That once you have broken them past a certain point — it’s all over. It can’t be reversed unless you start fresh training a new generation + that takes about 25 years….
My better half came home from work today and glanced at some headlines and said “we’re in serious trouble”. Sadly, she doesn’t know the half of it. I really wish Alex Jones would stop being right.
I can’t imagine how many times I’ve said or thought how happy I’ll be if I’m wrong since Dec 2019… and that was way before the Russian invasion of Ukraine…
I still can’t believe mine is the only summer garden in my neighborhood – which is where I grew up + in the 70s most homes had one……….
I’m glad people aren’t hoarding Fertilizer + related items — so I can pick some up weekly instead of spending too much right away…
Parents + more going to school boards to demand to know what is going on with their kids once they drop them off is a more positive sign to me than polls or Elections in the Kabuki Theatre. We need to see it spread to the local Universities + local + state newsrooms.
Taxpayer money spent wastefully to exonerate institutional inbred corrupt officials financed by the public’s coffers in the first place is nothing less than a series of gut punches to those wage earners who support this outrage. Turn off the flow of income; the system collapses.
#DemonICRATS are further exposed along with the top echelon of the FBI. The FBI needs to be disbanded in its current structure and rebuilt from the bottom up. The American People deserve better.
Like I wrote 3 years ago,
But I didn’t know until this day that it was Barr-zini all along.
Although it sickens me that Durham is proving to be exactly what Sundance described – the spray paint over Bill Barr’s Bondo, covering up the rot and corruption of DOJ and FBI rather than cleaning it up – I will take pleasure in watching the trusty planners hopes dashed as yet again their absurd Q proves wrong in yet another prediction. The poor saps are thinking this is finally it, Durham is about to roll up the entire Deep State.
Yes, the “trusty planners” are still out there but there is a surprising number of intelligent lawyers, and non-lawyers, who until recently still believed that justice would be obtained through the “system”.
Each one of us on this site knew that nothing would come of this windmill tilting. Alas, we are doomed and a bad moon is rising on America.
Sundance long braced us for the futility of what Durham would produce. But after all these years hanging out in the Treehouse the end result feels like a lot of time wasted ingesting pointless information..
I guess it depends if you find it beneficial to be in the relatively small group of people that has knowledge of the depths of corruption of our government and its false narratives or rather be in the “ignorance is bliss” group happily living in a false “reality”.
As Darth Vadar would say, your journey to the DARK SIDE IS COMPLETE! The Washington District of CORRUPTION has performed to specification…no one is in jail for the WORST POLITICAL CRIME in American history. The Bush-Cheney, Clinton, Obama and FJB families have DESTROYED America. If America keeps putting incompetent and corrupt people into office America does not stand a chance.
I believe the author of this article gave testimony to the special counsel represented by one FBI-agent from Connecticut. At the time this commenter alerted the comment section to the fact that this FBI-agent earned the nickname “Sloppy Sniper” after the alleged Sandy Hook school shooting.
The question then became: “Would Sloppy Sniper save America?”
The result is in.
Hey Sundance! God bless you and your team. Question: We all know the 4th Branch is not a democracy. Certainly not Obama or any public figure. Have you figured this out? I suspect a consortium. I think a face to all this might weaken their position.
I blame the whole Mueller fiasco on Sessions. If he does the right thing he doesn’t recuse.
Rosenstein…… swampiest of them all perhaps?
Nobody has yet to provide a good reason why Sessions decided to make Rosenstein his Deputy Attorney General despite Rosenstein having no great relationship with the state of Alabama.
Our representatives are not going to do anything about this corruption. That means it is up to the We the People.
I suggest that we form groups to put together Amendments to the Constitution that would be palatable to all Americans to wrestle back control.
IMO the Convention of States organization could make itself useful by spearheading this since a COS is unlikely due to the time it has taken and will still take to get the necessary buy-ins from enough states. (Maybe that is a good thing since so much has been revealed in the last 16 years.) Personally I no longer support a COS because the corruption has multiplied its power exponentially.
Pity all of those fools who thought Bill Barr & Durham would save us from the swampy Deep State cabal. When I saw those pictures of Barr yucking it up with Rat Face Rosenstein at his retirement party I knew it was all a coverup.
The terms DEEP STATE, ESTABLISHMENT, SWAMP, POLITBURO, and OLIGARCHY come immediately to mind …
Yes, We the People recognize that we have an omnipotent, imperial Fed Bureaucracy. It is allowed to operate without oversight or any type of control whatsoever. They must be laughing themselves silly. All we have to do is say the magic words “national security” and villagers scatter and hide – like a Monty Python movie.
If they hold the trials anywhere near the DC area, 96% Democratic, they will get off like Sussman. So if there is no change of venue there is no point.
THIS is why Special Councils, IG’s, and AG’s are totally useless scum!
So Obama has checkmated America and I sincerely doubt anyone in Congress has the intelligence or balls to come forward to fix this. I’ve often wondered why there were serious calls to repeal or at least fix the Patriot Act up until Obama was elected- then absolute silence since.
I am sickened by this revelation but it explains everything I’ve been questioning.