This is not yet in the House Judiciary Committee website [SEE HERE]; however, according to a press release [SEE HERE], House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has made appointments to the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government [pdf here].
Including the subcommittee Chairman, Jim Jordan (which is a surprise), it looks like the committee will contain a total of 12 republican representatives.
Darrell ISSA (CA), Thomas Massie (KY), Chris Stewart (UT), Elise Stefanik (NY), Mike Johnson (LA), Chip Roy (TX), Kelly Armstrong (ND), Greg Steube (FL), Dan Bishop (NC), Kat Cammack (FL) and Harriet Hageman (WY). Overall, a pretty solid group with good legal outlooks.
[Source, House Speaker website]
I am surprised that McCarthy is making Judiciary Chairman, Jim Jordan, also the subcommittee chairman. However, against the backdrop of McCarthy worrying the subcommittee is going to face massive scrutiny, having Jordan at the helm of it does make sense. Also, with the Chair of the Judiciary able to trigger subpoenas, having Jordan as Chair of the subcommittee makes the subpoena aspect more expeditious. Oh, and hi guys.
There are likely to be five Democrats also assigned [per prior subcommittee authorization rules].
Dan Bishop and Mike Johnson are both strong judicial and courtroom litigators. Chris Stewart a little less so, more formal, but on contracts etc, still good. Darryl Issa knows the narrow curves of the swamp from his former role as House Oversight Committee Chair, so that could be helpful. Thomas Massie, a contrarian constitutionalist, and Elise Stefanik a solid strategist. Chip Roy, Kelly Armstrong and Greg Steube are good street fighters. Harriet Hageman and Kat Cammack, newer but strong in their own right. This is a pretty solid team.
There is also going to be a Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic response.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Speaker McCarthy announced the members who will serve on the Select Subcommittees on the Weaponization of the Federal Government and the Coronavirus Pandemic.
“The government has a responsibility to serve the American people, not go after them. Unfortunately, throughout Democrats’ one-party rule in Washington we saw a dangerous pattern of the government being used to target political opponents while they neglected their most basic responsibilities. The 118th Congress marks a new beginning for this institution. Republicans’ governing agenda will be based on transparency, accountability, and solutions. The Members selected to serve on these subcommittees will work to stop the weaponization of the federal government and will also finally get answers to the Covid origins and the federal government’s gain of function research that contributed to the pandemic,” said Speaker McCarthy. (Link)
I think we have outlined the challenges and best hopes we have for the assembly on federal weaponization.
It’s good to see the principals have made the decisions on seat organization, now they need to prepare to fight like hell.
The defensive apparatus of the DC political system will likely do everything in their power, individually and with collective assistance, to ensure this committee fails. The stakes are quite high. As readers here can well attest, DC politics is an institutional system of purposefully created compartmentalized silos.
The compartmented information silos permit plausible deniability, and this collection of weaponized institutions contains career bureaucrats who view their opposition as the American people.
Example – The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and every Republican member therein, including SSCI Vice-Chairman Marco Rubio, will make it their willfully blind priority to obstruct any investigation that touches on how the intelligence apparatus of the United States Government is weaponized against the people.
The SSCI is the institution that facilitated the creation of the National Security State. Any effort to investigate the outcome of that system will make the House investigators adversarial to their colleagues in the Senate.
Additionally, every executive branch intelligence institution, including the DOJ-NSD, FBI, DHS, ODNI, CIA, DoD, DIA, NSC and every sub-agency within their authorities, will do anything and everything to block a subcommittee looking into their domestic activity.
A lot of bad decisions have led to really bad things. DC does not want those bad things discussed.
Every national security justification that exists, and some that have yet to be created by the DOJ National Security Division solely for the expressed interest of blocking this subcommittee, will be deployed.
Every member of the subcommittee and their staff will be under constant surveillance. Phones will be tapped and tracked, electronic devices monitored, cars and offices bugged, physical surveillance deployed, and top tier officials at every subsidiary agency of the U.S. government will assign investigative groups and contract agents to monitor the activity of the subcommittee and provide weekly updates on their findings.
The White House, together with the National Security Council, will also backchannel to and from these agencies doing the surveillance.
The intelligence apparatus media will be deployed, and daily leaks from the various agencies to their contact lists in the New York Times, Politico, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC will be in constant two-way communication for narrative assembly and counterpropaganda efforts.
This is the context of opposition to begin thinking about before anything moves forward.
Additionally, the national security state will demand the House investigation take place on their terms. They will demand secrecy, national security classification and require House Subcommittee members to adhere to the Intelligence Community terms for review and discussion of anything.
Each agency will not voluntarily assist or participate in the investigation of any of their conduct. Every official within every agency will do the same; and they will require legal representation that will be provided to them by Lawfare, political operatives skilled in the use of “National Security” and “classified information”, as a justification for non-compliance and non-assistance. A protracted legal battle should be predicted.
Lastly, anticipate Special Counsel Jack Smith using his position to block the House Subcommittee from receiving evidence. The House should anticipate that congressional representatives are already under investigation as a result of the authorities granted to Jack Smith by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco {Go Deep}. The White House and all of the executive branch agencies will use the existing Special Counsel to block House investigation. Heck, that looks to be the primary purpose of the appointment.
As a result, expect the House Subcommittee members to be under constant threat from the DOJ, via the Special Counsel, specifically from DAG Lisa Monaco, with statements that House Subcommittee investigative efforts are “obstructing” a special counsel investigation. The aforementioned agencies and the Senate Intel Committee will work with the DOJ to use the Jack Smith special counsel as a shield to block participation with the House Subcommittee.
With all of that in mind, what is the successful path forward?
♦ First, everything has to be done in sunlight and maximum transparency, even the planning and organization of the committee construct, purpose and goals.
The committee can have no shadow operations, unknown guiding hands or secrets that can be discovered and then weaponized against the intent. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
I know DC has little concept of working like this, but you can train yourself to do it. You have nothing to hide; however, those who are being investigated have everything to hide. Do not provide them ammunition by retaining secrets that can be weaponized against you.
As Andrew Breitbart said, be open with your secrets.
Your second cousin Alice will be a source for the New York Times to write about the Thanksgiving dinner three years ago when she heard the “N” word or a tasteless joke about something outrageous. Every member of the committee and staff need to prepare for a dossier completed by the FBI about them and distributed to the government allies in mainstream media.
Security clearances will be leveraged and threatened as a tool of the national security state to stop the secrecy envelope from being opened publicly. This will happen; so just anticipate it. When the security clearance of [insert_name_here] is threatened, go to the microphones and tell the public who is doing the threatening, and why.
♦GOALS – The goal needs to be crystal clear to anyone and everyone who would contemplate assisting. Yes, there needs to be a legislative intent in order to legally formulate the committee; that’s a no-brainer. However, the ultimate goal should NOT BE accountability on those who may have perpetrated or supported weaponized activity against American Citizens. The ultimate goal SHOULD BE for maximum public information, transparency and sunlight about the weaponization as it is discovered.
Let us assume the goal is accepted. Before moving forward, the subcommittee needs a professional communication strategy in place before the rules, terms and member outlines are structured or made public.
A thoughtful communication strategy so that information can come from the committee to the public without the filtration of a corrupt system that will bend and skew the findings as a weapon against the committee itself.
♦COMMUNICATION PORTAL – Hire a communication staff, and set up a website for the sharing of information directly from the committee to the public. The daily activity of the committee should be shared publicly in granular detail. The witness names as scheduled, documents requested, everything that involves the committee activity should be known to the general public. This system should be updated at least DAILY, or as information is compiled.
This communication network should also contain a separate staff assigned to solicit, accept and distribute information provided by the public to the subcommittee. Yes, you read that correctly, the subcommittee website should be able to accept information provided by the public as it relates to the ongoing committee work.
Crowdsource We The People as research leverage against the much more effective Lawfare operations you will face in opposition. This means a portal where the ‘open source’ information can be delivered by researchers, many of those on the spectrum, who hold deep knowledge of the information and system processes in the silos.
In the past several years, thousands of documents have been retrieved by FOIA and public records investigations. Hundreds of experts in the granular details of the DHS, FBI, DoD and DOJ-NSD systems have knowledge that can benefit the committee; you just need a way for them to transmit the evidence/information to you.
That ‘open source’ evidence should flow into the committee portal with address sourcing that allows the committee staff to review and locate it independently. This avoids the predictable counterargument, from the national security state, that Russia (or foreign actors) is feeding disinformation into the committee.
The documentary evidence will mostly be “open source,” extracted and then cross-referenced from within the multiple silo system the national security state uses as a shield. And the origination of the documents will be traceable and easy to duplicate, thereby providing secure provenance. The internal staff manager for this inbound portal is critical (think former HPSCI Nunes staff).
Documents found by the committee should then be uploaded to the same communication system (website), permitting the public -especially the autists- to review and then cross reference the committee material; ultimately channeling information back into the committee if important dots connect or puzzle pieces clarify. Think of this as a massive counter Lawfare operation with hundreds of Deep State subject matter experts assisting the committee.
Witness transcripts should be uploaded within 36 hours of testimony. Then let the public do the research, background review and dot connecting from the testimony. If you build it, they will come.
♦ Next, GO PUBLIC with everything. Do not use the terms and conditions of the secretive administrative state. Tell the public what you are finding as you are finding it. You can share information without violating “sources and methods.” Schedule a media appearance at the 8pm hour twice weekly with a high visibility broadcast media network to provide updates and answer questions.
These scheduled appearances should be in addition to random media press releases and press comments as pertinent information to the subcommittee arrives. What this means is that you do not wait to produce a 2,000-page final report before releasing the information. The final report should be an update and summary of all previous findings that have been released to the public along the way.
♦ At the outset, put no rules on media contacts with any subcommittee staff or member. Counter the darkness that fuels the intelligence community agenda with maximum sunlight and transparency. Use truth as a weapon against disinformation. That means no nondisclosure agreements at any part of the process.
Yes, this is radical change in approach, but this is also a radical enemy you are facing. Playing the secrecy game works in their favor, not yours. Transparency is your tool, not theirs – use it.
Use truth as a weapon.
Every member of the committee can say anything they want about any of the material or witness testimony they hear during the course of the investigation. Public hearing or closed-door sessions, it matters not. The same rule applies. Committee members are completely free to discuss any findings as the information is reviewed.
The goal should NOT BE accountability on those who may have perpetrated or supported weaponized activity against American Citizens. The goal SHOULD BE for maximum public information, transparency and sunlight about the weaponization as it is discovered. This approach makes We The People the accountability portion of the process. As a result, the next section is again rather groundbreaking….
♦ Every witness to the committee should be granted full legal immunity provided by the House and House Speaker for anything said during the testimony or admitted as being done as part of the evidence fact-finding. Again, the goal is transparency and openness, not prosecution and accountability. Use sunlight as a weapon to draw out the truth, then let the American people be the judges of what that truth means when contrasted against the constitution of our nation.
Let me repeat this… There should be ZERO legal liability for any conduct that happened as a part of any witness effort to weaponize the United States government against the American people. The immunity should cover everything *except* perjury from the witness to the committee itself (ex. Oliver North). If the witness lies, the immunity evaporates.
Why this approach? Because (a) it circumvents any issues that might impede testimony, removes hurdles; (b) immunity compels confession, honest sunlight and the urgency of the situation; (c) immunity makes the truth more likely; and finally, (d) you are not going to get legal convictions anyway. The truth has no agenda.
Another reason for the immunity is because the operation of the subcommittee should be heavily focused on witness testimony, not documents. The documents can come as part of the follow-up to the witness testimony, but it is the witness testimony needed; the publication of the transcripts then provides the public sunlight. This is key.
90% of the committee work should be focused on witnesses and questions therein. Only 10% of the committee work should be seeking documents. Avoiding the documents shortens the time needed for investigative disclosures and avoids protracted legal battles therein. If the people on the committee, those who are asking the questions, do not already know the details behind the questions and the locations of the supportive documents, then you have the wrong people on the committee.
Every response to a questioned witness should come with the following question: “How do you know this?” That is how you will discover the nature of the documents, communications, emails etc that support the fact-finding mission. “How do you know this” also leads to more witnesses. Work the issue from the bottom up. How do you know this; who told you this; why did you do this; what authority guided you; who authorized this approach? etc. etc. etc.
Use fully immunized witnesses to tell the story, then go look for the documents to corroborate the witness statements using the ‘under oath’ transcript as part of the impenetrable subpoena itself; but don’t wait, keep questioning witnesses.
♦DOCUMENTS – Once you identify the location of documents that would assist the sunlight objective, don’t only rely on the government side of the conversation as the targeted source for retrieval. If the document contains communication to external parties, ie public-private partnership, then move to gain the documents from the private side, thereby avoiding the roadblocks inside government.
Regardless of the status of the document search, and regardless of whether legal battles will be needed to retrieve those documents, keep moving forward with the witness testimony. Do not stop committee work just because internal silo opposition is being fought. Keep working the plan and bringing immunized witnesses, both inside government and outside government, forward for questioning. Leaders within organizations and agencies are important, but clerks, staff, and administrative aides in/around those same leaders could also provide important information.
This subcommittee approach, along with the people needed, will obviously take more time to assemble. However, once put together everything thereafter moves at a very rapid pace, which is also part of the strategy. Flood the information zone with maximum sunlight and keep the opposition off balance.
The goal is sunlight. Rip the Band-Aid off, call the baby ugly and start the process to fix this crap by exposing it. Restore the First and Fourth Amendments, and heal the injury.
From the Church Commission we got the secret FISA court and more tools for violations of our Fourth Amendment rights. From the 911 Commission we got The Patriot Act, DHS, TSA, DNI and many more violations of our rights and Fourth Amendment protections. We do not need any legislation as an outcome of the House “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.”
We do not need your legislative help. All prior legislative help only ended up making things worse.
What we need is a full, uncensored, brutally honest expose’ of how bad things have become and how that system can be dismantled. The existing constitution is the protection, just remove the stuff that is violating it.
I know this approach is rather different from the norm. However, if this roadmap seems reasonable, I am certain you will find support from within the silo system that is currently operating, and from people outside the government who will volunteer time and effort to assist.
Summarized: (1) Know the scale of opposition. (2) Formulate a communication strategy around it and build a website. (3) Communicate findings by telling the story to the American people as it is discovered. (4) Grant immunity to all witnesses. (5) Don’t wait until the end to generate another useless report that few will read. (6) Make sunlight the motive of the committee. (7) Consider success when the American people can see the problem. (8) Dissolve any weaponized systems. (9) Don’t create new ones.
If you tell us the truth, We The People will fix it ourselves.
This article goes well with a heaping stack of flapjacks!
Perfect!
Ask the hard questions , or go home !!!
Everything shall be in the Congressional Record , like The Secret Treaty Of Verona – 1916 , by Mr. Owen.
At least this way , citizens can learn the history of the treachery against The Republic .
The meme Sundance posts when the frustration sets in during hearings……
Ask the right f-ing questions!
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So far, McCarthy appears to be addressing the structure and membership necessary to start the investigate process. I’m encouraged, but not convinced of the outcome. There are strong headwinds facing these Committees, and there may need to be a lot of LAWFARE to get results. That is where a valid RNC could help, if they have a real leader. The grass roots needs to keep the pressure on McCarthy, and sek a replacement for mcconnell.
How can we write to Representatives on the Committees, and are outside our dustrict???
Terrence Williams makes an outstanding flapjack mix! Apple Cinnamon, Blueberry or Buttermilk. Some of the tastiest pancakes we have ever made. Giving a shout out to a fellow Patriot.
Hang on there – wait for Shrove Tuesday!
Very tasty.
Probably too early to jump for joy…but…this list is pretty good! Time will tell….
where’s Gaetz?
I forget which hearing it was, but I seen him bite down hard on a couple witnesses and shake ’em like a rat terrier
Chip Roy too
Am hoping to see both Boebert and Gaetz on appropriate committees. Both are fighters, both need to be utilized on committees that will showcase their great fighting skills.
Retired Magistrate here: This is a good start; we will see what happens.
The strstegy Sundance outlines, is not only one which gives the Committee SOME chance of actual success, it is alo the best DEFENCE the Committee has.
Now, lets see what they do with STAFFING, particularly the Communications director for the committee.
They will need a pro, like PDJT was blessed with, as his press secretary, to force feed their message to a hostile press.
Kari Lake would rock it.
there is lots of good posturing and political positioning going on — thank God the True Patriots held strong and forced Kevin-the-snake-McCarthy to at least take position(s) correctly. he’s got to keep going to the media when possible and tell the story, shape the narrative, attack; attack; attack. he’s got to act like it really matters; like it’s “life or death”, which it is becoming more true daily.
Now that the committee’s are getting lined up let’s pray they are ruthless as required. No more Trey Gowdy clones. No more Lindsey Graham speeches. Let them slip and slip on Hannity and bret the baer shows.
Here’s hoping!
I don’t really know any of these guys in any sort of personal way.
However, due to my geographics, I have been able to watch Mike Johnson (R-La.) over the last few years. Very impressed.
Seemingly, a true Constitutionalist and committed Believer, with a “traditional American” worldview.
Articulate, thoughtful, and measured.
What he, and the others, needs from us is prayers for wisdom and courage.
This is a long fight…. hopefully, without any shooting.
The (Amerikan) Commies have been eroding our foundations for over 60 years.
It will likely take us just as long to re-establish the vision of The Founders.
“Liberty”…. a founding concept that is hardly apprehended in our time.
I think I read it was 15 YEARS, from the shots at Concord, to the conclusion of the Civil war, and it was a year and a half, from the shots, to the Declaration.
2016- 2023, so we’re only 7 years in.
At7 years in, the Founders were getting their *sses kicked, AND their homes raided, whereas we are getting our homes raided, but have actually won a # of battles, and the tide is turning.
Hold Kev’s feet to the fire! Our Republic demands it.
It would be nice if somewhere along the line (in this context or some other) someone puts in writing a suggestion to:
Put soldiers on both the northern and southern borders.
Locate and identify every illegal alien in the United States, put them on a plane within 24 hours and fly them far, far away.
Ukraine needs volunteers.
Maybe send them to Russia? Not sure we should be sending a single dollar, tank, or human… to the Ukraine. How many bio labs do they have there and how many did Russia destroy? How many could they not destroy due to the sensitive material within the labs? Let’s not help Ukraine.
About a year after Trump took office, illegals were traveling back to Mexico.
Instead of putting them on a plane, invoke civil asset forfeiture. Declare if illegal they have 3-5 months to return to their country of origin or the US will confiscate their property, back accounts and investments.
You will see a mass exodus.
Let me tell you… it is probably impossible to “locate and identify every illegal alien” here. You are probably living next door to some, right now, and don’t know it.
I KNOW I live next door to a house full of them.
We should start.
Yes, something proactive — however, without the Senate or the presidency — how would that work? Unless those given the task to protect our borders currently get loud and get press this will not happen.
So maybe Republicans need to make part of their task to investigate the weaponization of the federal government to include this in particular (which might already be a part of it). Yes, get loud about this invasion on our Southern border being allowed (treason) by the current administration and the ignoring of it by the press a huge issue!
Good to see this happen, and the list of those seated.
I can’t really point to a swamp rat among them.
Also good to see a Covid committee seated. That needs as much attention as the other.
Now. Nail them fast and hard!
Stefanik made a good showing of herself defending Trump during the endless impeachments but I hope she’s not there as the uniparty mediator. Jordan will go for the jugular.
Stefanik staff called me last week several times and I finally picked up the phone on Sunday morning. I must admit that living a dozen miles up the road from Myrtle Beach I can’t imagine how I was targeted for a call. I took the opportunity to address the caller with my best Treehouse explanation. I was surprised that he stayed on the phone with me for 20 minutes or so. Never asked for cash and seemed to actually listen. Still not sure how this came about but the knowledge of 10 years at the treehouse payed off big time.
Stephanic stuck her neck out; SHE was the FIRST to cross Liz Chaney, when that was considered a very dangerous thing to do.
She IS ambitious, and I think, like a good politician she is aware of which direction things are going, and has “thrown in her lot” with MAGA.
“The intelligence apparatus media will be deployed, and daily leaks from the various agencies to their contact lists in the New York Times, Politico, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC will be in constant two-way communication for narrative assembly and counterpropaganda efforts.”
The plan detailed by Sundance has a chance because the corporate press has almost no remaining credibility. Even the normies are noticing.
One of the problems they will face from the media in addition to the leaks will be the claimed leaks and every other made up “news” about the committee.
It will not matter to any of the media whether there is any truth to their smears. Their intent will be to discredit them, turn it into a circus and try make them look silly at every turn.
Leftist politicians will happily join in, and likely even some RINO’s.
Ken Starr on steroids.
Which is WHY the key points of “the Sundance strategy” are ESSENTIAL.
Its good DEFENCE, as absolute transparency makes it hard for them to sustain the “unattributed” quotes from officials not authorised to speak on the record”.
LAY it ALL out, and let the chips fall where they may” is the ONLY way it can work.
It is fitting that Harriet Hageman replaced Liz Cheney.
One more thing; the Republicans need to hire a real prick of a lawyer to be the lead counsel and hammer. Much like Daniel Goldman was during the Trump impeachment. We want to make sure that every utterance that is emitted out of traitors be used to ‘hang them’ (metaphorically speaking). There shall be no mercy. One that note, I hope Goldman is on the committee. He can tap dance while his side gets destroyed (metaphorically speaking).
I like the idea of hanging them ( not metaphorically speaking)!
Robert Barnes!
That’s luscious. Eat your heart out, Lizzie.
Pretty sure Darrell Issa is a deep cover RINO. He’s been around for years and has never hit hard or brought about much change. I’m from Sun Diego, even voted for him, convince me I’m wrong please (I’d like to be wrong about this).
Sadly, I agree with you…Darrell has had NUMEROUS opportunities to actually make a difference but has always “gone Gowdy” rather than “going Galt” so I am not holding my breath that this time will be any different!
Reality is, there WILL be some from the RINO camp, just as there will be some from the Dems, and thats fine.
But they won’t be in CHARGE, and hopefully won’t be able to impede the investigation, or sabatogue the committees mission.
Perhaps Issa will work differently this time with McCarthy at the helm, and MAGA representation in broad daylight.
It’s starting to look like a different working atmosphere.
We will see what happens.
I’m giving all the benefit of the doubt for now.
Was going to write something similar. Does nothing but no one else runs against him. For years driving on 78 you’d see a building with his name on it. That’s as much as I’ve seen him do. I agree with you 100%
I don’t know all that much about Issa. Any examples of why you see him as a deep cover RINO?
I believe he was a WEF attendee last year.
Freshly back from his trip to Davos.
Bingo!
SD you are an american hero.
High lumens will be needed to pierce the cloud they hide behind.
I’m getting my pessimism out of the way.
As a matter of fact, I’m feeling more positive already.
Actually, I’m delighted that absolutely nothing will come of all this.
Call me skeptical and battered, but I wonder which member in each group has the sole responsibility of gumming up the works.
I am thrilled to see the redoubtable Harriet Hageman on this committee. Thrilled! I quickly scanned the members on this list, hoping to see her name.
I was so impressed by her speech at Mr Trump’s rally. I saw a look in her eyes which I liked very much.
With her, no stone will be unturned. Watch for her questioning of witnesses. They won’t know what hit them.
Boom!
Praying for Greg Steube after his terrible fall. He is apparently recovering. We want him to return to robust health and fighting fit for his assignment to this committee.
At the rally, she said she had lots of experience going after various DC entities and winning.
She might be a junior representative but she has barracuda experience under her belt.
Lets all hope the united states of titanic will not have sunk before the chairs on the deck are arranged again.
The ships crew plays slip slidden away as an sos is dispatched from a doomed ship in distress.
Lawful subpoenas spread far and wide.
The power to issue subpoenas is an awesome power.
First Barr.
Then Durham.
Now this.
Sorry, I’m not holding my breath.
Hate to be negative. But, McCarthy has demonstrated on too many occasions where his loyalties lie and what he thinks of us.
Bam, he never had “The 20” holding him accountable before.
If he wants to keep his position, he has no choice but to follow the script laid out for him to even get to the speakership.
I’m afraid of him not liking “the script”. And, finding ways to undermine the committee through leaks to the various agencies.
Bam, the difference this time, is that McCarthy had to go against his long-held inclinations and agreed with the repub hold outs. He had to do this because it was the only way he’d get the Speaker gig. I am not a McCarthy fan, but must admit I’m liking what I’ve been seeing the last few weeks from him. (Yeah, he might be kicking and screaming the whole way, but he still is moving in the right direction. (“If you saw the intel reports that I’ve seen on swallwell, you wouldn’t want him on any committees, either.”)
My biggest fear is McCarthy leaking.
Not to the media, but to the agencies that are on the committee’s target list.
I really distrust him that much.
Not sure McCarthy or anyone else can really give the intel agencies any “inside scoop” that they wouldn’t already know or anticipate.
They KNOW the crimes they committed, where the bodies are buried, and so can anticipate exactly where the Committee will be going.
The Committee won’t “catch” the agencies thru *SURPRISE!*, they will ‘catch’ them, with SUNLIGHT, and perjury, its the only way.
Because of the 20 patriots McCarthy is on a shorter leash-
This time he either does his job or he is out!
Or you could say his dream of being speaker is over.
Courage is contagious!
Godspeed, Jim Jordan et al.
An example of “Weaponization of Gov”
Every single issue surrounding J6 needs to be a significant part of the investigation from this committee.
Call me a pessimist or a realist but I don’t have high hopes for anything meaningful coming from this.
They have already hinted at the fake frame-up smears they will throw at Jim Jordan if the committee gets anywhere close to any damaging sunlight.
When is the funding for the 87,000 IRS agents going to be cut? I predict that all of this will be swept away and never challenged!
Wake up, I think it already HAS.
Anything to get your mind off the calamari clot shots and the Convid hoax
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So Much This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Look – some misplaced ‘ classified ‘ documents ….. ( please ignore massive war buildup )
Yeah, and whatever you do, don’t read the Declaration of North America between Branden, Turdo, and that socialist wetback.
It’s. Cook Book
The moment these committees get pushback they need to hold up agency funding.
Ez Pz.
Steube is my Critter. I called his local and DC offices to tell him I was pissed when he wouldn’t join the 20 with Matt Gaetz. The jury is still out
The 20 WERE courageous, but they said at the time they had others WILLING to support them.
What use or benefit, to paint a bullseye on EVERYONES back, when 20 was enough to make the point, and accomplishthe task of putting Kevin in bondage?
About HALF of the R’s in the House, have been elected since 2016, and so are MAGA or MAGA-leaning.
Point being, its MORE than just “the 20” and after McCarthy’s fight for Speaker, HE knows the score, best of all.
Godspeed to these patriots…the Swamp will come after them!
The sense of structured Congressional committee processes must be continuous investigation and revelation at the speed of sunlight if the truth is to prevail. Yes indeed, except committees by nature function deliberately at a snail’s pace exposing their vulnerabilities.
And, there is always a counter offensive arguement against the committee imperative that must be anticipated and dealt a serious defeat from the onset of the proceedings. Yes indeed, except counter offenses by nature function best using guerrilla warfare tactics which are unanticipated and speedy.
It makes sense for Republican-led Congressional committees and subcommittees to use both deliberative and swift, shock and awe strategies to ferret out the truth.
Now that would make for exciting C-Span viewing!
I am cautiously optimistic. As Trump says, let’s see what happens.
Noticeably absent are Dan Crenshaw aka Eyepatch McCain and Michael McCaul, two of Texas’ finest Congresscritters, ha; speaks well of McCarthy that they are not on either of these important committees as their presence would have weakened either committee.
“Eyepatch McCain”🤣…… Nice!
Sundance, I am awesomely impressed! Thank you!
The Committee should issue electronic bug detectors to the members so they can constantly check their surroundings. And publicize anything they find.
RE: documents – a tactic used successfully in the past was to threaten to withhold agency funding.
Go get ‘em Harriet. We are fed up!
Damn, that was awesome!!! SD rockin’ it!!!😁👍🏻🏆⭐️
I agree with SD.
That is a fairly strong lineup.
The top of the order: Jordan, Issa, Massie
can be dominant
There is a thick middle of the order too,
Stefanik, Roy, Armstrong, Steube
I am not disappointed, and we should at the very least get
some fiery, damning accusations and rhetoric out of this crew.
Should be a great show.
Darrell Issa is my Representative from CA and I consider him another swamp creature RINO. He just came back from attending the WEF.
Start asking….
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Fabulous and exciting. We have endured years of crap to even get to this point.
Issa is an empty suit. All show, no action.
What is the difference between no accountability and a pardon?
Answer: the tears from one mother wishing their child had not taken the vaccine multiplied by a million times.
No committee or sub-committee was created to investigate the obvious, organized election fraud in 2020 and 2022. That’s all you need to know guys. That’s all that matters. And no Republican in D.C. is willing to address the elephant in the room. Not a single one of them, none! That’s how serious they are about “Our Democracy.”
Remember, phantom voters will decide 2024 and the phantoms are not voting for Republicans.
Enjoy the show guys! It’s all bull…! All fake and performative. Garbage in, garbage out.
Without addressing the Big Lie first, all other fronts are just window dressings. Not a whole single vote is registered to the original voter. Fractional voting, guarantees the votes are manipulated.
There were election review committees already in place, there are videos of all Uniparty members bloviating about voter suppression.
They( 95%) don’t want to lose the dominion electronic voting system. It is their “Golden Ticket” for survival. Everything done from the beginning of Federal involvement in state elections, should be addressed as fraudulent.
Sundance, I am glad I am in the foxhole with this Family and True the Vote group. I utilize information here so that I can put in “Actions” with True the Vote. I have to feel, I am saving those few Starfish in my county world. Doing nothing in this world is unconscionable for me. Onward Christian Soldiers.
I vote for Sundance to head up the Communications Team for the Weaponization Committee.
I agree Harriet Hageman will do a good job. I have ZERO faith in Issa and LESS than ZERO in Commack.
I understand the concept of sunlight being hard to defend against. However, I would urge Jordan, et al, to occasionally use the concept of the “barium memo” to ferret out disloyal staff leaking to sow discord (which will happen). You can have sunlight all you want but there is nothing immoral about kicking a traitor to the curb. THEN you can go sunlight and say why.
Good luck, patriots. We are right behind you.
Yes, “right behind you” breathing down your necks, insisting you do your damn jobs!
This is Obama/Holder DOJ/FBI holdovers clearing the path for ????
Trump, Pence, Biden all being dinged while Obama et al are unaffected?
Remember, Obama had/ has thousands of documents in a warehouse and was asked to make them available. He said no and everyone moved on.
Obama is not done.
Remember he said on a hot mic to a Russian leader, “tell Vlad I will do more after the election”.
Crimea under Obama watch and now Ukraine and US currency/credit markets are being hammered.
So many deserve punishment and accountability it’s staggering to begin with. For their acts of treason against the will of the people punishment should be severe. However they will not be and cannot effectively be punished for the most part. In this case sunlight is the only disinfectant available and will act as thermite. Use it and use it quickly.
Odd how the democrats are not upset that Schiff or Swalwell are not on this committee.
I’ve always been an “eye for an eye” person, ALWAYS looking for consequences to be dealt when warranted…but after reading this column, I would love to see this play out exactly as outlined.
“Flood the information zone with maximum sunlight and keep the opposition off balance”
Exactly what is needed from the swamp.
Hagemann was the winning plaintiff’s lawyer in the lawsuit against the ATF re bump stocks. So that little piece of weaponization had better look out.