Congressman George Santos was indicted on thirteen counts of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and lying on financial disclosure forms during his short period in Congress. He was taken into custody Wednesday in New York [DETAILS].
By most accounts and even his own words, Santos is a generally sketchy person, and I doubt there will be too many defenders of his character or the issues at stake. However, all of that said, this Tweet from a staffer in his office is wild:
The casual nature of this is quite alarming. It was not that long ago when the EXECUTIVE branch, using confidential human sources to investigate the LEGISLATIVE branch, would have been a matter of incredible controversy reserved for only the most serious of criminal possibilities.
An FBI informant penetrating the congressional office to relay information back to the FBI is quite remarkable. However, it appears we are in an era of justice administration where anything is just flippantly asserted inside the mechanisms of government.
In the big picture, beyond the selfish issues of George Santos, when we consider the Fourth Branch of Government operating to protect itself against sunlight and scrutiny, this example of the FBI operating in the shadows of congress should start to make everyone uncomfortable. How can there be “checks” and balances, when the enforcement mechanisms can be deployed against any entity who threatens the system itself?
Extend this approach to legislative committee oversight, and you start to see how the system protects itself. A reminder below of what they are ultimately protecting.
Read this as many times as needed to contemplate the nature of our problem.
Former FBI Director James Comey openly admitted to Congress on March 20, 2017, how the FBI, FBI Counterintelligence Division, DOJ and DOJ-National Security Division, together with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA, had been conducting independent investigations of Donald Trump for over a year without informing Congress [the Gang of Eight]. When asked the question, Comey winced, then justified the lack of informing Go8 oversight by saying, “um, because of the sensitivity of the matter?”
Stupidly, Congress never pressed James Comey on that issue. The arrogance of Comey was astounding, and the acceptance by Congress was infuriating. However, that specific example highlighted just how politically corrupt the system had become. In essence, Team Obama usurped the entire design of congressional oversight…. and Congress just brushed it off.
This event, and everything in the background as outlined within the James Comey admission, factually happened. It is on the record, admitted and nothing about the reality of what took place is subject to conjecture or refute.
Yet somehow, we, specifically our Congress, just moved on as if what FBI Director James Comey outlined and admitted wasn’t a total usurpation of the U.S. Constitution and a collapse in the structure of our coequal branches of government.
We cannot fight our way through the issues until we first realize what lies at the root of the problem.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act. What Obama and Holder did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.
This point is where many people understandably get confused.
Elevator Speech:
(1) The Patriot Act turned the intel surveillance radar from foreign searches for terrorists to domestic searches for terrorists.
(2) Obama/Biden then redefined what is a “terrorist” to include their political opposition.
In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus, instructed by Vice President Dick Cheney, was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
After 9/11/01, the electronic surveillance system that was originally created to monitor threats from abroad was retooled to monitor threats inside our country. That is when all of our electronic ‘metadata’ came under federal surveillance.
That inflection point, and the process that followed, was exactly what Edward Snowden tried to point out.
What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their political opposition became the target of this new national security system.
The problems we face now as a country are directly an outcome of two very distinct points that were merged by Barack Obama. (1) The post 9/11 monitoring of electronic communication of American citizens; and (2) Obama’s team creating a fine-tuning knob that it focused on the politics of the targets. This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into this research outline.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. The Department of Homeland Security came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was formed.
When President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
The preexisting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dept of Justice (DOJ) were then repurposed to become two of the four pillars of the domestic national security apparatus – a domestic surveillance state. However, this new construct would have a targeting mechanism based on political ideology.
The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this new institution. Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government.
We were not sleeping when this happened, we were wide awake. However, we were stunningly distracted by the economic collapse that was taking place in 2006 and 2007 when the engineers behind Obama started to assemble the design. By the time Obama took office in 2009, we sensed something profound was shifting, but we can only see exactly what shifted in the aftermath. The four pillars were put into place, and a new Fourth Branch of Government was quietly created.
As time passed, and the system operators became familiar with their new tools, technology allowed the tentacles of the system to reach out and touch us. That is when we first started to notice that something very disconcerting was happening. Those four pillars are the root of it, and if we take the time to understand how the Fourth Branch originated, questions about this current state of perpetual angst will start to make sense.
If we take the modern construct, originating at the speed of technological change, we can also see how the oversight or “check/balance” in our system of government became functionally obsolescent.
After many years of granular research about the intelligence apparatus inside our government, in the summer of 2020 I visited Washington DC to ask specific questions. My goal was to go where the influence agents within government actually operate, and to discover the people deep inside the institutions no one elected, and few people pay attention to.
It was during this process when I discovered how information is purposefully put into containment silos; essentially a formal process to block the flow of information between agencies and between the original branches. While frustrating to discover, the silo effect was important because understanding the communication between networks leads to our ability to reconcile conflict between what we perceive and what’s actually taking place.
After days of research and meetings in DC during 2020, amid a town that was serendipitously shut down due to COVID-19, I found a letter slid under the door of my room in a nearly empty hotel with an introduction of sorts. The subsequent discussions were perhaps the most important. After many hours of specific questions and answers on specific examples, I realized why our nation is in this mess. That is when I discovered the fourth and superseding branch of government, the Intelligence Branch.
The Intelligence Branch is an independent functioning branch of government, it is no longer a subsidiary set of agencies within the Executive Branch as most would think. To understand the Intelligence Branch, we need to drop the elementary school civics class lessons about three coequal branches of government and replace that outlook with the modern system that created itself.
The Intelligence Branch functions much like the State Dept, through a unique set of public-private partnerships that support it. Big Tech industry collaboration with intelligence operatives [Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Meta, Instagram, Twitter, etc] is part of that functioning, almost like NGOs. However, the process is much more important than most think. In this problematic perspective of a corrupt system of government, the process is the flaw – not the outcome.
There are people making decisions inside this little known, unregulated and out-of-control branch of government that impact every facet of our lives.
None of the people operating deep inside the Intelligence Branch were elected; and our elected representative House members genuinely do not know how the system works. I assert this position affirmatively because I have talked to House and Senate staffers, including the chiefs of staff for multiple House & Senate committee seats. They are not malicious people; however, they are genuinely clueless of things that happen outside their silo. That is part of the purpose of me explaining it, with examples, in full detail with sunlight.
We begin….
In April of 2016, the FBI launched a counterintelligence operation against presidential candidate Donald Trump. The questioning about that operation is what New York Representative Elise Stefanik cites in March of 2017, approximately 11 months later (First Two Minutes).
Things to note:
♦ Notice how FBI Director James Comey just matter-of-factly explains no one outside the DOJ was informed about the FBI operation. Why? Because that’s just the way things are done. His justification for unilateral operations was “because of the sensitivity of the matter“, totally ignoring any constitutional or regulatory framework for oversight; because, well, quite simply, there isn’t any. The intelligence apparatus inside the DOJ/FBI can, and does, operate based on their own independent determinations of authority.
♦ Notice also how FBI Director Comey shares his perspective that informing the National Security Council (NSC) is the equivalent of notifying the White House. The FBI leadership expressly believe they bear no responsibility to brief the Chief Executive. As long as they tell some unknown, unelected, bureaucratic entity inside the NSC, their unwritten responsibility to inform the top of their institutional silo is complete. If the IC wants to carve out the Oval Office, they simply plant information inside the NSC and, from their perspective, their civic responsibility to follow checks-and-balances is complete. This is an intentional construct.
♦ Notice how Comey obfuscates notification to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), by avoiding the fact James Clapper was the DNI from outset of the counterintelligence operation throughout the remainder of Obama’s term. When I get deeper into the process, we will understand how the Intelligence Branch has intentionally used the creation of the DNI position (established post 9/11/01) as a method to avoid oversight, not enhance it. Keeping an oblivious doofus like James Clapper in position held strategic value [Doofus Reminder HERE].
That video of James Comey being questioned by Elise Stefanik was the first example given to me by someone who knew the background of everything that was taking place preceding that March 20, 2017, hearing. That FBI reference point is a key to understand how the Intelligence Branch operates with unilateral authority above Congress (legislative branch), above the White House (executive branch), and even above the court system (judicial branch).
Also, watch this short video of James Clapper, because it is likely many readers have forgotten, and likely even more readers have never seen it. Watch closely how then White House national security adviser John Brennan is responding in that video. This is before Brennan became CIA Director, this is when Brennan was helping Barack Obama put the pillars into place. WATCH:
[Sidebar: Every time I post this video it gets scrubbed from YouTube (example), so save it if you ever want to see it again.]
The video of James Clapper highlights how the ODNI position (created with good national security intention) ended up becoming the fulcrum for modern weaponization, and is now an office manipulated by agencies with a vested interest in retaining power. The Intelligence Branch holds power over the ODNI through their influence and partnership with the body that authorizes the power within it, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
Factually, the modern intelligence apparatus uses checks and balances in their favor. The checks create silos of proprietary information, classified information, vaults of information that work around oversight issues. The silos, which include the exploitation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court, or FISC) are part of the problem.
Ironically, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created in the aftermath of 9/11/01 expressly to eliminate the silos of information which they felt led to a domestic terrorist attack that could have been prevented. The ODNI was created specifically upon the recommendation of the 9/11 commission.
The intent was to create a central hub of intelligence information, inside the Executive Branch, where the CIA, NSA, DoD, DoS, and DIA could deposit their unique intelligence products and a repository would be created so that domestic intelligence operations, like the DOJ and FBI could access them when needed to analyze threats to the U.S. This, they hoped, would ensure the obvious flags missed in the 9/11 attacks would not be missed again.
However, the creation of the DNI office also created an unconstitutional surveillance system of the American people. The DNI office became the tool to take massive amounts of data and use it to target specific Americans. Weaponizing the DNI office for political targeting is now the purpose of the DNI office as it exists.
The illegal and unlawful nature of the surveillance creates a need for careful protection amid the group who operate in the shadows of electronic information and domestic surveillance. You will see how it was critical to install a person uniquely skilled in being an idiot, James Clapper, into that willfully blind role while intelligence operatives worked around the office to assemble the Intelligence Branch of Government.
• The last federal budget that flowed through the traditional budgetary process was signed into law in September of 2007 for fiscal year 2008 by George W. Bush. Every budget since then has been a fragmented process of continuing resolutions and individual spending bills.
Why does this matter? Because many people think defunding the Intelligence Community is a solution; it is not…. at least, not yet. Worse yet, the corrupt divisions deep inside the U.S. intelligence system can now fund themselves from multinational private sector partnerships (banks, corporations and foreign entities).
• When Democrats took over the House of Representatives in January 2007, they took office with a plan. Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, and Democrats controlled the Senate where Harry Reid was Majority Leader. Barack Obama was a junior senator from Illinois.
Pelosi and Reid intentionally did not advance a budget in 2008 (for fiscal year 2009) because their plan included installing Barack Obama (and all that came with him) with an open checkbook made even more lucrative by a worsening financial crisis and a process called baseline budgeting. Baseline budgeting means the prior fiscal year budget is accepted as the starting point for the next year budget. All previous expenditures are baked into the cake within baseline budgeting.
Massive bailouts preceded Obama’s installation due to U.S. economic collapse, and massive bailouts continued after his installation. This is the ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ aspect. TARP (Troubled Asset Recovery Program), auto bailouts (GM), and the massive stimulus spending bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, ie. those shovel ready jobs) were all part of the non-budget spending. The federal reserve assisted with Quantitative Easing (QE1 and QE2) as congress passed various Porkulous spending bills further spending and replacing the formal budget process.
Note: There has never been a budget passed in the normal/traditional process since September of 2007.
• While Obama’s radical ‘transformation‘ was triggered across a broad range of government institutions, simultaneously spending on the U.S. military was cut, but spending on the intelligence apparatus expanded. We were all distracted by Obamacare, and the Republican Party wanted to keep us that way. However, in the background there was a process of transformation taking place that included very specific action by Eric Holder and targeted effort toward the newest executive agency the ODNI.
The people behind Obama, those same people now behind Joe Biden, knew from years of strategic planning that ‘radical transformation’ would require control over specific elements inside the U.S. government. Eric Holder played a key role in his position as U.S. Attorney General in the DOJ.
AG Holder recruited ideologically aligned political operatives who were aware of the larger institutional objectives. One of those objectives was weaponizing the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) a division inside the DOJ that had no inspector general oversight. For most people the DOJ-NSD weaponization surfaced with a hindsight awakening of the DOJ-NSD targeting candidate Donald Trump many years later. However, by then the Holder crew had executed almost eight full years of background work.
• The second larger Obama/Holder objective was control over the FBI. Why was that important? Because the FBI does the domestic investigative work on anyone who needs or holds a security clearance. The removal of security clearances could be used as a filter to further build the internal ideological army they were assembling. Additionally, with new power in the ODNI created as a downstream consequence of the Patriot Act, new protocols for U.S. security clearances were easy to justify.
Carefully selecting fellow ideological travelers was facilitated by this filtration within the security clearance process. How does that issue later manifest? Just look around at how politicized every intelligence agency has become, specifically including the FBI.
• At the exact same time this new background security clearance process was ongoing, again everyone distracted by the fight over Obamacare, inside the Department of State (Secretary Hillary Clinton) a political alignment making room for the next phase was being assembled. Names like Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton were familiar on television while Lisa Monaco worked as a legal liaison between the Obama White House and Clinton State Department.
Through the Dept of State (DoS) the intelligence apparatus began working on their first steps to align Big Tech with a larger domestic institutional objective. Those of you who remember the “Arab Spring”, some say “Islamist Spring”, will remember it was triggered by Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo – his first foreign trip. The State Department worked with grassroots organizers (mostly Muslim Brotherhood) in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Qatar and Libya. Obama leaned heavily on the organizational network of Turkish President Recep Erdogan for contacts and support.
Why does this aspect matter to us? Well, you might remember how much effort the Obama administration put into recruiting Facebook and Twitter as resources for the various mideast rebellions the White House and DoS supported. This was the point of modern merge between the U.S. intelligence community and Big Tech social media.
In many ways, the coordinated political outcomes in Libya and Egypt were the beta test for the coordinated domestic political outcomes we saw in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The U.S. intelligence community working with social media platforms and political operatives.
Overlaying all of that background activity was also a new alignment of the Obama-era intelligence apparatus with ideological federal “contractors“. Where does this contractor activity manifest? In the FISA Court opinion of Rosemary Collyer who cited the “interagency memorandum of understanding”, or MOU.
Hopefully, you can see a small part of how tentacled the system to organize/weaponize the intelligence apparatus was. None of this was accidental, all of this was by design, and the United States Senate was responsible for intentionally allowing most of this to take place. The tools the government used to monitor threats were now being used to monitor every American. WE THE PEOPLE were now the threat the national security system was monitoring.
That’s the 30,000/ft level backdrop history of what was happening as the modern IC was created. Next, we will go into how all these various intelligence networks began working in unison and how they currently control all of the other DC institutions under them; including how they can carve out the President from knowing their activity.
♦ When Barack Obama was installed in January 2009, the Democrats held a 60-seat majority in the U.S. Senate. As the people behind the Obama installation began executing their longer-term plan, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was a tool to create the Intelligence Branch; it was not an unintentional series of events.
When Obama was installed, Dianne Feinstein was the Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and Democrat operative Dan Jones was her lead staffer. Feinstein was completely controlled by those around her including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The CIA was in the process of turning over personnel following the Bush era, and as a result of a massive multi-year narrative of diminished credibility (Iraq WMD), a deep purge was underway. Obama/Holder were in the process of shifting intelligence alignment and the intensely political Democrat Leader Harry Reid was a key participant.
THE TRAP – Many people say that Congress is the solution to eliminating the Fourth and superseding Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. This is an exercise in futility because the Legislative Branch, specifically the SSCI, facilitated the creation of the Intelligence Branch. The SSCI cannot put the genie they created back in the bottle without admitting they too are corrupt; and the background story of their corruption is way too intense to be exposed now.
Every member of the SSCI is compromised in some controlling manner. Those Senators who disliked the control over them; specifically disliked because the risk of sunlight was tenuous and, well, possible; have either left completely or stepped down from the committee. None of the SSCI members past or present would ever contemplate saying openly what their tenure involved.
[Note: You might remember when Vice Chairman Mark Warner’s text messages surfaced, there was a controlled Republican SSCI member who came to his defense in February of 2018. It was not accidental that exact Senator later became the chair of the SSCI himself. That Republican Senator is Marco Rubio, now vice-chair since the Senate re-flipped back to the optics of Democrat control in 2021.]
All of President Obama’s 2009 intelligence appointments required confirmation from the Senate. The nominees had to first pass through the Democrat controlled SSCI, and then to a full Senate vote where Democrats held a 60-vote majority. Essentially, Obama got everyone he wanted in place easily. Rahm Emmanuel was Obama’s Chief of Staff, and Valerie Jarrett was Senior Advisor.
Tim Geithner was Treasury Secretary in 2010 when the joint DOJ/FBI and IRS operation to target the Tea Party took place after the midterm “shellacking” caused by the Obamacare backlash. Mitch McConnell was Minority Leader in the Senate but supported the targeting of the Tea Party as his Senate colleagues were getting primaried by an angry and effective grassroots campaign. McConnell’s friend, Senator Bob Bennett, getting beaten in Utah was the final straw.
Dirty Harry and Mitch McConnell saw the TEA Party through the same prism. The TEA Party took Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts (Scott Brown); Sharon Angle was about to take out Harry Reid in Nevada; Arlen Spector was taken down in Pennsylvania; Senator Robert Byrd died; Senator Lisa Murkowski lost her primary to Joe Miller in Alaska; McConnell’s nominee Mike Castle lost to Christine O’Donnell in Delaware; Rand Paul won in Kentucky. This is the background. The peasants were revolting…. and visibly angry Mitch McConnell desperately made a deal with the devil to protect himself.
In many ways, the TEA Party movement was/is very similar to the MAGA movement. The difference in 2010 was the absence of a head of the movement, in 2015 Donald Trump became that head figure who benefited from the TEA Party energy. Trump came into office in 2017 with the same congressional opposition as the successful TEA Party candidates in 2011.
Republicans took control of the Senate following the 2014 mid-terms. Republicans took control of the SSCI in January 2015. Senator Richard Burr became chairman of the SSCI, and Dianne Feinstein shifted to Vice-Chair. Dirty Harry Reid left the Senate, and Mitch McConnell took power again.
Republicans were in control of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2015 when the Intelligence Branch operation against candidate Donald Trump was underway. [Feinstein’s staffer, Dan Jones, left the SSCI so he could act as a liaison and political operative between private-sector efforts (Fusion GPS, Chris Steele) and the SSCI.] The SSCI was a participant in that Fusion GPS/Chris Steele operation, and as a direct consequence Republicans were inherently tied to the problem with President Trump taking office in January of 2017. Indiana Republican Senator Dan Coats was a member of the SSCI.
Bottom line…. When it came to the intelligence system targeting Donald Trump during the 2015/2016 primary, the GOP was just as much at risk as their Democrat counterparts.
When Trump unexpectedly won the 2016 election, the SSCI was shocked more than most. They knew countermeasures would need to be deployed to protect themselves from any exposure of their prior intelligence conduct. Immediately Senator Dianne Feinstein stepped down from the SSCI, and Senator Mark Warner was elevated to Vice Chairman.
Indiana’s own Mike Pence, now Vice President, recommended fellow Hoosier, SSCI Senator Dan Coats, to become President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). [Apply hindsight here]
• To give an idea of the Intelligence Branch power dynamic, remind yourself how House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Chairman Devin Nunes, tried to get access to the DOJ/FBI records of the FISA application used against the Trump campaign via Carter Page.
Remember, Devin Nunes only saw a portion of the FISA trail from his review of a Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) previously given to President Obama. Chairman Nunes had to review the PDB at the White House SCIF due to compartmented intelligence, another example of the silo benefit.
Remember the massive stonewalling and blocking of the DOJ/FBI toward Nunes? Remember the back-and-forth battle over declassification surrounding the Nunes memo?
Remember, after Nunes went directly to House Speaker Paul Ryan for help (didn’t get any), the DOJ only permitted two members from each party within the HPSCI to review the documents, and only at the DOJ offices of main justice?
Contrast that amount of House Intel Committee railroading by intelligence operatives in the DOJ, DOJ-NSD and FBI, with the simple request by Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner asking to see the Carter Page FISA application and immediately a copy being delivered to him on March 17th 2017.
Can you see which intelligence committee is aligned with the deepest part of the deep state?
Oh, how quickly we forget:
The contrast of ideological alignment between the House, Senate and Intelligence Branch is crystal clear when viewed through the prism of cooperation. You can see which legislative committee holds the power and support of the Intelligence Branch. The Senate Intel Committee facilitates the corrupt existence of the IC Branch, so the IC Branch only cooperates with the Senate Intel Committee. It really is that simple.
• The Intelligence Branch carefully selects its own members by controlling how security clearances are investigated and allowed (FBI). The Intelligence Branch also uses compartmentalization of intelligence as a way to keep each agency, and each downstream branch of government (executive, legislative and judicial), at arm’s length as a method to stop anyone from seeing the larger picture of their activity. I call this the “silo effect“, and it is done by design.
I have looked at stunned faces when I presented declassified silo product from one agency to the silo customers of another. You would be astonished at what they don’t know because it is not in their ‘silo’.
Through the advice and consent rules, the Intelligence Branch uses the SSCI to keep out people they consider dangerous to their ongoing operations. Any appointee to the intelligence community must first pass through the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, before they get a full Senate vote. If the SSCI rejects the candidate, they simply refuse to take up the nomination. The president is then blocked from that appointment. This is what happened with President Trump over and over again.
• Additionally, the Intelligence Branch protects itself, and its facilitating allies through the formal classification process. The Intelligence Branch gets to decide unilaterally what information will be released and what information will be kept secret. There is no entity outside the Intelligence Branch, and yes that includes the President of the United States, who can supersede the classification authority of the Intelligence Branch. {Go Deep} and {Go Deep} This is something 99.9% of the people on our side get totally and frustratingly wrong.
No one can declassify, or make public, anything the Intelligence Branch will not agree to. Doubt this? Ask Ric Grenell, John Ratcliffe, or even President Trump himself.
• The classification process is determined inside the Intelligence Branch, all by themselves. They get to choose what rank of classification exists on any work product they create; and they get to decide what the classification status is of any work product that is created by anyone else. The Intelligence Branch has full control over what is considered classified information and what is not. The Intelligence Branch defines what is a “national security interest” and what is not. A great technique for hiding fingerprints of corrupt and illegal activity.
[For familiar reference see the redactions to Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text messages. The Intelligence Branch does all redactions.]
• Similarly, the declassification process is a request by an agency, even a traditionally superior agency like the President of the United States, to the Intelligence Branch asking for them to release the information. The Intelligence Branch again holds full unilateral control.
If the head of the CIA refuses to comply with the declassification instruction of the President, what can the president do except fire him/her? {Again, GO DEEP} How does the President replace the non-compliant cabinet member? They have to go through the SSCI confirmation. See the problem?
Yes, there are ways to break up the Intelligence Branch, but they do not start with any congressional effort. As you can see above, the process is the flaw – not the solution. Most conservative pundits have their emphasis on the wrong syllable. Their cornerstone is false.
For their own self-preservation, the Intelligence Branch has been interfering in our elections for years. The way to tear this apart begins with STATE LEVEL election reform that blocks the Legislative Branch from coordinating with the Intelligence Branch.
The extreme federalism approach is critical and also explains why Joe Biden has instructed Attorney General Merrick Garland to use the full power of the DOJ to stop state level election reform efforts. The worry of successful state level election control is also why the Intelligence Branch now needs to support the federal takeover of elections.
Our elections have been usurped by the Intelligence Branch. Start with honest elections and we will see just how much Democrat AND Republican corruption is dependent on manipulated election results. Start at the state level. Start there…. everything else is downstream.
♦ COLLAPSED OVERSIGHT – The modern system to ‘check’ the Executive Branch was the creation of the legislative “Gang of Eight,” a legislative oversight mechanism intended to provide a bridge of oversight between the authority of the intelligence community within the Executive Branch.
The Go8 construct was designed to allow the President authority to carry out intelligence operations and provide the most sensitive notifications to a select group within Congress.
The Go8 oversight is directed to the position, not the person, and consists of: (1) The Speaker of the House; (2) The Minority Leader of the House; (3) The Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, HPSCI; (4) The Ranking Member (minority) of the HPSCI; (5) The Leader of the Senate; (6) The Minority Leader of the Senate; (7) The Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, SSCI; and finally (8) the Vice-Chair of the SSCI.
Example: When the Chief Executive (the President) initiates an intelligence operation on behalf of the United States, the President triggers a “finding memo.” In essence, the instruction to the intel agency or agencies to authorize a covert operation. When that process takes place, the Go8 are the first people notified. Depending on the sensitivity of the operation, sometimes the G08 are notified immediately after the operation is conducted. The notification can be a phone call or an in-person briefing.
Because of the sensitivity of their intelligence information, the Gang of Eight hold security clearances that permit them to receive and review all intelligence operations. The intelligence community are also responsible for briefing the Go8 with the same information they use to brief the President.
~ 2021 Gang of Eight ~
The Go8 design is intended to put intelligence oversight upon both political parties in Congress; it is designed that way by informing the minority leaders of both the House and Senate as well as the ranking minority members of the SSCI and HPSCI. Under the concept, the President cannot conduct an intelligence operation; and the intelligence community cannot carry out intelligence gathering operations without the majority and minority parties knowing about it.
The modern design of this oversight system was done to keep rogue and/or corrupt intelligence operations from happening. However, as we shared in the preview to this entire discussion, the process was usurped during the Obama era. {GO DEEP}
Former FBI Director James Comey openly admitted to Congress on March 20, 2017, that the FBI, FBI Counterintelligence Division, DOJ and DOJ-National Security Division, together with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA, had been conducting independent investigations of Donald Trump for over a year without informing the Go8. Comey justified the lack of informing Go8 oversight by saying, “because of the sensitivity of the matter.”
Stupidly, Congress never pressed James Comey on that issue. The arrogance was astounding, and the acceptance by Congress was infuriating. However, that specific example highlighted just how politically corrupt the system had become. In essence, Team Obama usurped the entire design of congressional oversight…. and Congress just brushed it off.
Keep in mind, Comey did not say the White House was unaware; in fact he said exactly the opposite, he said, “The White House was informed through the National Security Council,” (the NSC). The unavoidable implication and James Comey admission that everyone just brushed aside, was that President Obama’s National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, was informed of the intelligence operation(s) against Donald Trump. After all, the NSC reports to the National Security Advisor.
Does the January 20, 2017, Susan Rice memo look different now?
Again, no one saw the immediate issue. What Comey just described on that March Day in 2017 was the usurpation of the entire reason the Gang of Eight exists; to eliminate the potential for political weaponization of the Intelligence Community by the executive branch. The G08 notifications to the majority and minority are specifically designed to make sure what James Comey admitted to doing was never supposed to happen.
Team Obama carried out a political operation using the intelligence community and the checks-and-balances in the system were intentionally usurped. This is an indisputable fact.
Worse still, the entire legislative branch of Congress, which then specifically included the Republicans that now controlled the House and Senate, did nothing. They just ignored what was admitted. The usurpation was willfully ignored.
The mechanism of the G08 was bypassed without a twitch of condemnation or investigation…. because the common enemy was Donald Trump.
This example highlights the collapse of the system. Obama, the Executive Branch, collapsed the system by usurping the process; in essence the process became the bigger issue, and the lack of immediate Legislative Branch reaction became evidence of open acceptance. The outcomes of the usurpation played out over the next four years, Donald J. Trump was kneecapped and lost his presidency because of it. However, the bigger issue of the collapse still exists.
The downstream consequence of the Legislative Branch accepting the Executive Branch usurpation meant both intelligence committees were compromised. Additionally, the leadership of both the House and Senate were complicit. Think about this carefully. The Legislative Branch allowance of the intelligence usurpation meant the Legislative Branch was now subservient to the Intelligence Branch.
That’s where we are.
Right now.
That’s where we are.
Term-3 Obama is now back in the White House with Joe Biden.
NOTE: Former Obama National Security aide and counsel to the President, Lisa Monaco, is in her current position as Deputy Attorney General, specifically to make sure all of these revelations do not become a legal risk to Barack Obama and the people who created them. The SSCI confirmed Monaco for this purpose because the Senate is just as much at risk.
Term-1 and Term-2 Obama usurped the ‘check and balance‘ within the system and weaponized the intelligence apparatus. During Trump’s term that weaponization was covered up by a compliant congress, complicit senate intelligence committee, and not a single member of the oversight called it out. Now, Term-3 Obama steps back in to continue the cover up and continue the weaponization.
Hopefully, you can now see the scale of the problem that surrounds us with specific citation for what has taken place. What I just explained to you above is not conspiracy theory, it is admitted fact that anyone can look upon. Yet….
Have you seen this mentioned anywhere? Have you seen this called out by anyone in Congress? Have you seen anyone in media (ally or adversary) call this out? Have you seen any member of the Judicial Branch stand up and say wait, what is taking place is not okay? Have you seen a single candidate for elected office point this out? Have you seen anyone advising a candidate to point this out?
This is our current status. It is not deniable. The truth exists regardless of our comfort.
Not a single person in power will say openly what has taken place. They are scared of the Fourth Branch. The evidence of what has taken place is right there in front of our face. The words, actions and activities of those who participated in this process are not deniable, in fact most of it is on record.
Meanwhile, the Award brothers walked away scot-free, and the Congress-creatures that hired and protected them never faced any questions, much less consequences.
The Awan Brothers and Debby Blabbermouth Shulz all got off after committing acts of treason. But it’s okay because Democrats.
Yes, because they were necessary and part of an OP. You can break the law all you want so long as the FBI asked you, the DOJ will look the other way. Doesn’t matter what it is. Only question.. are you dirty enough to follow though? Anyone remember Seth Rich?
It’s a big, dirty, nasty club.. full of back stabbers and psychopaths’. And luckily we are not in it.
i wish we had someone in it smart enough to spill the beans but not end up dead
Indeed.. From your lips to Gods ear my friend.
Sundance: “What Obama and Holder did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.”
A breathless moment of synchronicity here
The Washing Times just reported the FBI will not comply with Comer’s request for the Biden whistleblower document.
‘’In a five-page letter, the FBI’s acting assistant director of the office of congressional affairs, Christopher Dunham, did not acknowledge the specific whistleblower report, known as an FD-1023 form. But he said the bureau must shield such documents in order to protect “confidential human sources and information.”
Just like when the FBI/DOJ take all the evidence and lock it away under a pending investigation that never goes anywhere. I still think some day they will claim the O’bidens were working for the FBI the whole time and that money was all part of a sting operation that obviously never held anyone accountable. I assume cuz it was so much more profitable for them to let it ride so long as they get their cut.. just call it taxes..
SpaceX is a 15 minute walk from the border with zero security. What do you think will happen? What will Musk do?
people that reduce fbi power are enemies. people that enhance it are not.
George Santos was installed by the CIA. He isn’t a republican. He is a decepticon.
How do YOU know? PROOF…..
Look up his campaign speeches, Dee. He was not very MAGA.
They wouldn’t have gone after Santos if he was one of them!
Nah. I’m not in the mood to be fact checked today. I don’t do proof without a paycheck.
Guidelines for Comments, Item 9. Citations. We are asked to provide citations in lieu of making blanket assertions.
It gets hard to remember, given the nastiness out there in the world when people bring up topics to assume that the one asking the question is really wanting to debate and prove the comment, actually the commenter, is wrong. That’s out in the world way of thinking.
For me, and just my opinion, relying on the guidelines for commenting, I’ve come to rely on how this refuge works, where people take to heart comments and when asking for a source really just want to have the source so that when they go out into their world to share the information, for when they get questioned, they can provide the source.
We need to provide the source otherwise we’re just bloviating (missing Rush Limbaugh right now!)
I’m not big on reading rules for speech either. Thanks.
I too think he might be a plan, but I can’t prove.
Remember: Thousands are watching us!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/guidelines-for-comments/
…more of a guideline than a rule!
Yes, but one the site admins or owner may enforce using their judgement.
Another tool provided by the site owner is a red flag widget that can be set to bring Admins’ attention to a possible problem comment / commenter.
So are you going to pull your widget?
Free speech didn’t use to be so complicated. I’ve never pulled my widget even once.
The owner of this exceptional blog has certain rules. They are in place for the dual purposes of elucidation and education, in the pursuit of truth.
If you don’t intend to do Sundance and his readers the courtesy of honoring the rules … GO AWAY.
What a rebel you are!
Your citation is posted below.
Now, having met your extra requirements for free speech, I will say this. The fact that 19 people would upvote your demands shows the sad state of America. Conservatives don’t need censorship to win in the arena of ideas.
I raise chickens. I know what I just witnessed. A queen hen just decided to publicly peck a lower chicken, and 19 underling hens all gave a peck to reinforce their place in the flock.
I’m not impressed. I’m a rooster. And this rooster believes in free speech. Have a nice day.
Thank you for the link.
Similar tactics were used shortly after the Tea Party made an appearance; for example, in Nevada, fearing he might lose his re-election bid Harry Reid managed to get a few of his circle of Democrat operatives to run in the State of Nevada as Tea Party aficionados causing enough disruption in the Republican primary that the winner was so weak there was no way he would lose his re-election.
The insults are an interesting twist; not quite sure how they help move a conversation forward, but, okay.
The premise of Santos being installed by the CIA is moot. Brandolini’s law applying to CIA operations should be understood by the readers, not resorting to a rulebook, or “…GO AWAY” mob mentality.
Seeing as this article is about abuse of power, “They are scared of the Fourth Branch.” i think replying to your post quite Apropos.
i defy anyone to substantiate what unwritten DS rules Santos broke to have so many charges brought, but the timing is unmistakable. Red State article backing up my assertion.
i agree about the paycheck, years of following Devin can not be summed up in a single post. sorry…
I like to include “takeaways” or summaries of articles in my comments. it’s the only place to find counterpoints to opinions presented.
not today.
instead i hope that anyone reading this far is not put off by another crisis exploiting a crisis to detract from a crisis.
chickens.
We lost any remaining semblance of a legitimate Justice Department quite some time ago.
Remember when the FBI handed over 1500 FBI files on top Republicans and got away with it? That was when it started.
And Craig Livingstone was only able to deliver those files because President GHW Bush and his AG William Barr started to the process to remove FBI Director William Sessions (no relation to Jeff) once Sessions started an investigation into DOJ corruption in a case that involved an Iraqi bank.
Clinton finally forced out Sessions and replaced him with Louis Freeh.
George Santos thingy is peculiar.
Prior to him being ‘elected’ anyone could have questioned his authenticity.
The republicans could have; the democrats could have; any ‘news reporter’ could have. No one did.
Then after he got ‘elected’ everyone is shocked by his lies. 🙄
What lies? Everyone says Santos lied but I haven’t seen any proof like:
A: Elizabeth Warren isn’t a Cherokee.
B: Richard Blumenthal isn’t a Vietnam Combat Veteran.
C: John Kerry was never Irish.
You mean like those lies?
Wow, you are going balls to the wall to defend a guy who is antiMAGA AT BEST.
CIA?
Leftwing activists had bragged about having two dozen ‘former’ intelligence community types running for office. They ALWAYS sheep dip a few as opposition party pretenders. Here is from the World Socialist Web Site Org.
Reinforcements for the CIA Democrats in the 2022 elections – World Socialist Web Site (wsws.org)
It’s fun to just make stuff up, isn’t it! Proof is for little people and the liquor industry.
What a punk. That said, I can’t say I’d be alarmed if a note like this came from a Schiff staffer…
Silly me. I thought everyone who works for the totally corrupt government is a government informant.
There is no ‘reforming’, repairing, or reconstruction of this. The only approach is that prescribed in the Declaration of Independence. This entire Federal Leviathan needs to be dissolved, by We The People, as is our right and civic duty. Where do we begin, how do we serve notice of dissolution from the People to the Federal Government?
The contract is irretrievably broken.
Can you believe the UK Green Party is on the rise. What on earth is wrong with people. Have they not observed the destruction of Europe under these people! If the UK puts them into power, they can kiss their lives goodbye!
The UK, sadly, is also lost beyond redemption. We are living thru the ritual suicide of Western Civilization.
We’re there. Probably passing them up right now.
With more than a touch of homicide, Jeff. Hate to up vote you, my friend. Regretfully…
They have no say either,
Propaganda is thick there, right. It comes in fatal daily doses from the government funded BBC (via a compulsory tax on television owners).
The lying started with Edward Heath and his cohorts deceiving the British public about what they were signing on to with the then European “Economic” Union, the bastard child and precursor to the political European Union, of which Heath was, unlike Thatcher, one of the traitorous architects.
Britain’s withdrawal from that totalitarian entity turns out to have been in name only, a short reprieve from the country’s execution.
Now, an unelected ex Goldman Saks, WEF affiliated billionaire sits in Downing Street. Their borders are open and ordinary Brits are untermenschen in their own country.
Green ideology and (hideous word) “wokeism” has been swallowed whole by millions, including the Royal Family. Worst is the complete capitulation by the Church of England to the same, and which supports unlimited immigration from places whose culture is antithetical to Britain’s…or was. A suicide note begun in the 60s, near completion at this moment. I won’t comment here on the Church’s apostasy.
Jeff is right. I wish he weren’t, but he is.
Your posts are truly insightful.
I was a youngster growing up back then, but I remember Heath,Callaghan and Wilson.
President Trump has truly opened the eyes of millions.
You are correct, since at least the sixties we have been duped.
Folks that knew me casually often described me as a cynic or worse.
I viewed it as a compliment, many of those same folks are the ones saying “ what happened”
Cheers and I sincerely believe God has this but of course we all must do our bit.
🏴🏴🏴
I love England, or what she once was, so very much. It sickens me to see what traitors there have done to her. We are soon to be untermenschen here, too, Bets.
I pray for all of us, around the world, to join together spiritually, in G-d’s name, to turn our faces and hearts back to Him. And pray He forgives us and sends our lion back to us to defeat the growing evil.
Agree, there can be no repairing this corrupt system. The entire thing needs to be dismantled. Back in the 2002-2005 time frame while this system was in the early stages of construction, personally had FBI contacts who were being purged. At the time, they mostly attributed the changes taking place inside the FBI as office politics. By 2005, nearly every strong independent agent was sent to some obscure posting well outside of the main DC structure. Most retired. Those who thrived and were promoted were generally company people who did very little independent thinking. This information came to me by 2 different senior agents who were forced to retire during that time period. In 2002-2003, their mindset was that the Department of Homeland Security and the centralized nature of the office of DNI would simply be a passing political fad. Not hard in retrospect to see why these senior agents didn’t survive.
At the present time our borders are wide open and we are being overrun by an invasion of illegal immigrants and our government is doing nothing but facilitating the process. My guess our government has stolen our government and we the citizens have become the enemy. The fall of the Roman Empire right before your very eyes.
Derek Myers just Tweeted himself out of future employment.
I suspect he has an FBI job lined up.
Maybe something in HR Dept. that pays ~250K/year.
Agreed. His tweet read to me like a veiled threat from the FBI, not about them.
Six ways to Sunday dontcha know…
Or to a Congress seat.
We have become more than a surveillance state. We now have family members informing on parents whose political beliefs differ to their own. Welcome to 1984
This was written in the Bible two thousand years ago.
Retired Magistrate here: Only GOD can fix this mess we are in. We have turned away from HIM and our pride has led this country to believe that we don’t need HIM; that we are in control. No, HE is in control, and I pray that HE shows us grace and gives us what we don’t deserve, our constitutional republic restored.
Well, the flood and Noah failed to get attention, as did Sodom and Gomorrah…
God is a back bencher responding with a here here.
The only thing fixing this is men with rifles.
You just proved Marcia’s point.
Nope. I’ve proven that God doesn’t dabble in men’s affairs. And for every evil in this world it was men who ended it.
Name me one event you’ve witness God doing for the betterment of mankind…it’s a long wait.
Marcia hopes something will happen. Others make things happen.
And what do you think animates the “others”?
I’d suggest God.
Retired Magistrate here: GOD does dabble in men’s affairs; specifically when HIS only begotten son, JESUS CHRIST, died on the cross for man’s past, present and future sins.
We are only on this earth for a short period of time and then comes eternity. JESUS died so we don’t have to be separated from GOD for eternity. So, I know something wonderful will happen. One day, only GOD knows when, JESUS will return and this earth will be renewed even more wonderful than the Garden of Eden.
In the meantime, GOD is in control. You might want to thank HIM for every breath you take and every beat of your heart. If you can see, hear, walk, talk, think, love another person and enjoy the beauty around you, then you also have witnessed what GOD has done for the betterment of mankind.
Amen.
Unbelief and arrogance like yours are what led this nation to this place it is in right now…
You claim God does not “dabble in men’s affairs” while the Founders signed their ” support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence”….. and then, and only then, “we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
If you really believe men with rifles can defeat or change the Will of God Almighty, as opposed to being a tool in His hands, then you have lost the entire plot…
And as a reminder, those Christian men who established this nation PRAYED and WAITED until it was legal to take action. They did not take up arms against GB as individuals, but as citizens of a new nation once their representatives established that new nation and new, independent government.
The original 13 colonies would never have become the once greatest country ever, the USA, without some of G-d’s dabbling.
And the tower of Babel.
Actually, they got ALOT of attention in their time…. by the survivors.
But unbelief, directed in fore AND hindsight, is an insurmountable obstacle when warning those who are on the path of destruction. May God have Mercy on their souls and open their eyes before it is too late for them, too.
Where are you located? Ben Armstrong from The New American said the same thing. Go to: http://www.thenewamerican.com
and look up Ben Armstrong podcasts. You will find it in earlier podcasts.
Sure, but while Paul prayed to have God save his ship from being shipwrecked in the storm on the way to Rome, he also had everyone else take action in lightening the load and start rowing for land.
God is never in France this time of year.
“Paranoia strikes deep into your soul it will creep. It starts when you’re always afraid.. “- Buffalo Springfield
This Congressional Clown Show has the feel of Animal Farm or Watershed Down all over it.
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely! The little twerp has set his legacy as a rat.
The media circus is following suit.
Top men…
This staffer Derek Myers … he sure can build trust going forward. smh
President Trump didn’t lose in 2020. The Election was voter frauded. Why are you saying he blanked?
Derek Myers 🏳️🌈
I live in NY and if I lived in his district I’d vote for George in a heartbeat.
Finally, a Republican who knows how to play the game.
Meanwhile, the Biden Crime Family is laughing all the way to the bank as they crap on Comer’s smoking gun.
Give me a break.
I’m thinking of Rep. Maxine Waters and her family being paid from campaign contributions, and the Omar lady paying her lover from campaign contributions – where’s the investigation into those lovely representatives?
Thank You Seneca!!!
Congress should defund any Executive branch bureaucracy that is stock pilling weapons and ammunition. It only a matter
of time before members of Congress are forced to do a bureaucrats bidding with a gun pointed in his/her face.
Hillary said they will all hang! The truth is out and so far nobody has hung! Systemic corruption in government.
But, wait! There’s more!
If this is true and a homosexual member of congress sexually harassed his staffer then he deserves everything coming his way. No one, and I mean no one should be sexuality harassed ever.
I think it may be true. George Santos seems to be sleazy.
He has a history of stealing in Brazil, as well.
I’ve read about that in a Brazilian site few months ago, but the Americans media was talking about too:
https://abc7ny.com/george-santos-fraud-brazil-deal/13005452/
So, what I think happened here, was that the FIB contacted him after he made the complaint.
The Santos case sounds, to me, like complete and utter bullshit. They are actually trying to charge the guy for lying in his COngressional campaign?? I mean, how could anyone propose that with a straight face?
They are just jumping on Santos because he is the lowest hanging fruit they see. But everyone at DOJ and the FBI and the Executive who was involved in spying on Congress needs to be arrested and put away for very, very, very long periods of time (at hard labor, in a just world).
This is a BS case and the dems are betting on the GOP slinking away from defending anything about Santos. Meanwhile, every single dem in Congress has lied even worse than Santos (about very serious issues) and has been skimming campaign funds to dole out to their friends, families, and bribers.
I think the timing of this filing is a direct result of that woman winning a monetary judgment against President Trump even though her claims of rape were never found to have happened, she still got awarded a big payday for making up lies and even though the ruling will be appealed, it’s still now in the mind of the grifters they can throw out all types of accusations and even if false, if against a “republican” still come out a winner.
How much of this is because Santos is a genuine sleazeball, and how much of this is because he ran for office with an “R” at the end of his name?
Is this a criminal case or is it a distraction , a shiny something, to keep the people at odds with one another in an us vs. them scenario? Wondering about the timing in all of this. In the midst of the corruption from the White House and the border invasion it just seems a little convenient to suddenly blast this story across the headlines.
And the response should be- ok, if he did it hold him accountable. But you better hold the 200 plus others in Congress who have done the same accountable too (pipe dream I know). Just saying, if he did, stupid on him. Next. Don’t let it be the tool they want it to be.
Days to indict Santos: 100
Days of no indictment for Hunter Biden: 1,825
Years to indict Comey, Weissman and Co: 6!
Your 2 point elevator speech is absolutely terrific.
Just like Sundance said, it was a oversight committee shot across the bow. Now all those big talking congressman are gonna sweep it all under the rug. To save their hides
If the Deep State/Dems can get 4 more Republicans in Democrat run states removed from office, the Dems will control the House!
If congressmen Santos sexually harassed his staffer he deserves everything coming his way.
You mean like Bill Clinton with Paula Jones, et al. You mean like Joe Biden with Tara Reade? It’s good to be a Democrat!
What George Santos did by the ounce, Joe Biden did by the
poundton.The FBI needs to be disbanded
I can’t remember the name of the Congressman whom the FBI confiscated his cell phone (and assume congressional communications) after the J6 event.
That said, he, and this Congressman George Santos, and other members of Congress, and the Senate, really should file a lawsuit to the Supreme Court against the FBI and DOJ as those are Executive Branch agencies now shown to be spying on members of the Legislative Branch – and finally get rid of that Patriot Act once and for all;
because if the FBI, DOJ and probably a slew of other Executive Branch agencies are intruding on a separate and equal branch of government surely the Justices on the Supreme Court are also targets of the Executive Branch agencies.
Lawfare but with tables finally turned.
Will the members of the Legislative Branch stand up for their own, even as sketchy as this one man, Rep. Santos? That old poem, ‘they came for so-and-so and we did nothing . . . they finally came for me and there was no one to look to for help’ comes to mind.
Congress members who read here – you really do only have on chance at fixing this mess your law (Patriot Act) put into motion.
Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
He showed them for what they are-liars-and they all want him gone. He just lied about different subjects and more brazenly than most. But he didn’t do anything different in substance from the rest of them.
George Santos Breaks Silence, Lashes Out At Biden Family, DOJ After Arrest
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/10/george-santos-biden-doj-fraud/
Trump-aligned outsiders get very aggressive (and probably illegal) FBI, media treatment along with targeted electioneering. That’s not to say that this guy Santos ain’t a liar, he apparently is. I just doubt there’s actually a federal case here, outside of the liberal world (network news, comedians, The View) demanding his arrest for something or other.
Exactly! It’s not illegal to take payments from a non-profit corporation. Hillary Clinton has taken millions from her charity including the Haiti Scam and a non-profit is not the same as a charity at all. Non-profit hospitals pay their administrators millions of dollars in salaries and perks. What the DOJ is doing is criminalization of non-crimes in targeting Republicans!
Volunteer to defend my country – against what enemy? What country?
And I bet you are “encouraged” to take on staffers who “know” DC, etc. instead of people you trust and have known all your life.
George Santos
@Santos4Congress
WITCH HUNT!
George Santos
@Santos4Congress
WHERE’S HUNTER? 🤔
“There is no entity outside the Intelligence Branch, and yes that includes the President of the United States, who can supersede the classification authority of the Intelligence Branch.”
As happened when amnesty swept away our civil rights as it took away our 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law, Americans lack the awareness or significance of our circumstances.
Same thing with the Patriot Act.
I very rarely encounter anyone, on line or in the real, who knows about the existence of fusion centers.
The level and prevalence of ignorance and apathy in America today are astounding.
Setting aside discussion of Congressman Santos’ Guilt or Innocence … as well as points mentioned by Sundance … There is a much much larger point to be made here that is the outright issue of this is an example of “SELECTIVE PROSECUTION” by the 4th branch of the Government and DoJ at the behest of the displeased Financial Puppet Masters who control the US Government.
Congressman Santos was investigated and indicted by the DoJ for the very same crimes many in Congress and Executive Branch have been committing for years in plain sight.
Congressman Santos’ sin was flaunting the fact in public that his behavior is and was no different than currently serving politicians as well as the US President and not “stepping down” when told to do so.
This pure and simple a public example being executed of the use of Congressman and staffers to spy on other members of congress who do not comply, to support a prosecution. It is a warning shot pure and simple to members of congress who are resisting at any level within congress.
This is exactly what the Communists did (and still do). How maany of these people milling around DC meeting with politicans and their staffs are actually working in some form or fashion for the Deep-State? I bet a shocking percentage.
Their role is to do what Epstein was doing for the Feds, gather information, put these people in very compromising situations personally and legally, and then use your leverage as-needed.
When you see all of these weaponized agencies get full-funding from a GOP House, you’ll know why. You don’t screw with the Deep-State. They will JFK you if needed.
BTW: Santos might be Sketchy, but does Swalwell or Schiff make anyone feel any better? Obviously two systems of measurement being employed here.
Our FBI, DOJ, and courts are now so politically partisan that there is no justice.
I keep saying very strange things are happening every day. I’ve never worked for the FBI and I’m not an attorney but I would bet that if you are a confidential informant for the FBI you sign documents pertaining to your duties as said CI. I bet that you can’t just let the world know you are an FBI CI like staffer Derek Myers just did.
I ask why did this just happen?
Just like the crazy with Grand Jury Foreperson from the Georgia case gave that crazy TV interview. I’m sure there were rules against that as well.
I ask why did that happen?
Strange things going on every day. Are they real? Are they manufactured?
And by the way has anybody seen James Comey lately or has his neck been stretched at Gitmo?
Good question
Lawfare has its greasy corrupt fingers on every single thing going on.
Even in prison, informers and snitches are seen as barely above child molesters and other sex offenders.
That says something about Derek Myers and his lack of character.
johnny maga
@_johnnymaga
George Santos is in federal custody 5 months after swearing in, while DC crime syndicates have been operating in plain sight for decades
They’re not even trying to hide it anymore
aidenpryde
@aidenpryde
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4h
The last time I saw something like this, was the Bob McDonnel case, or Ted Stevens. Both cases got thrown out of appeal, but their political careers were ruined.
I don’t have confidence in this DoJ to justly execute its duties.
No! The Democrats’ commitment to law, order, and fair play is just so off-the-charts stratospheric! /sarc
So… is there any coming back from this, or are we past the point of no return?
Kinda funny how the Santos indictments seem to be dominating the news cycle, while nothing about the Biden crime family seems to be making the news, maybe I just missed it.
I wonder if the the Santos indictments are a planned diversion.
Its all over Twitter though. Every person on the right team, is tweeting it. The Biden corruption is only unknown in leftist news.
Oh but this must of course be the one and only time the federal police have EVER put a CI into congress, or the rest of the executive branch, or the judicial branch.
It was a very high crisis emergency situation that the federal police had to handle. Nothing like this has ever happened before or will again.
Um er I wonder how many other congress offices are infiltrated and / or monitored?
Well probably a super-independent judge approved the whole thing.
How many operatives have infiltrated the judicial branch?
I bet this little factoid has all the rats nervous and wondering if they have FBI “confidential human resources ” working within their staff(s).
This all seems like an d33p / NY stat3 info op to enable the Democrats to say, “You think Democrats are bad? The worst person in Congress is a REPUBLICAN!” 0’Bama used to prosecute a Republican for vote fraud every election cycle for the same reason–it’s like a propaganda reflex with these commies.
anyone that makes it to congress, the executive, or juducial branch has a secret fbi file that is engaged by the agency as soon as you are identified as someone that may effect their funding, payroll, etc.
And it’s starting to get physical and nasty with the false imprisonment sentences of corrupt justice extreme lengths on essentially political opponents.
They’re pushing real hard.
so – for brevity’s sake:
FBI is running snitches within Congress
pls correct me if I’m off the mark
Hmmmmm.
Let’s engage some critical thinking to what Sundance has written. Critical thinking means asking relevant, penetrating questions.
Take this statement….
“Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act. What Obama and Holder did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.”
Ok. Obviously a well made argument with all that follows this statement.
.
But let’s dig into what was said. For example, let’s take this sentence….
“In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus, instructed by Vice President Dick Cheney, was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats.”
Well now. Some questions leap out at us here.
WHY WOULD 9/11 GENERATE ANY FEAR RE: “CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT”?
DIDN’T THE COLD WAR, SPECIFICALLY THE THREAT OF ALL-OUT NUCLEAR WAR, CAUSE THE US GOV’T TO HAVE WELL ESTABLISHED “CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT” LAWS, PLANS, POLICIES, AND PROCEDURES?
A: Yes, it did. Very well known (and some very secret), very carefully thought out plans, policies, and procedures.
Ok then.
Why would 9/11 (an event decidedly less catastrophic than all-out nuclear war), cause any fears re: “Continuity of Government”?
Hmm.
Hang on.
Let’s go back to that previous statement, and eliminate a key phrase…
“In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus, instructed by Vice President Dick Cheney, was constructed to p̶r̶e̶s̶e̶r̶v̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶t̶i̶n̶u̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶g̶o̶v̶e̶r̶n̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶i̶m̶u̶l̶t̶a̶n̶e̶o̶u̶s̶l̶y̶ view all Americans as potential threats.”
…or…
“In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus, instructed by Vice President Dick Cheney, was constructed to view all Americans as potential threats.”
Aha.
Well now. That is a bit more illuminating, isn’t it?
”….was constructed….”
??
.
Let’s further isolate some text from that sentence.
”….the DC national security apparatus, instructed by Vice President Dick Cheney…”
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”….instructed by Vice President Dick Cheney….”
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Who was Dick Cheney again?
Going by today’s knowledge and understandings, would his background and resumé suggest…perhaps strongly…that he is a “globalist”?
Where did he go to college?
Did he serve as a WH Chief of Staff, then as a Congressman, then as Secretary of Defense before becoming Vice President?
Did he serve as the CEO of a major, multi-national corporation? Which one?
Does that corporation number the US gov’t, and specific sectors inside the US gov’t, among it many clients?
Would a man like Dick Cheney typify a member of the DC “elite”?
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Hold those thoughts a moment.
Here is another key sentence from Sundance…..
”….we were stunningly distracted by the economic collapse that was taking place in 2006 and 2007…”
Interesting choice of words there….”distracted”.
Hmm. We were “distracted” by the sub-prime banking crisis.
Isn’t a favorite DC phrase “never let a crisis go to waste”?
If such people thought that way, wouldn’t a natural extension to this thought-process be “create the crisis you seek to exploit”??
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Let’s have some more Sundance….
“Pelosi and Reid intentionally did not advance a budget in 2008 (for fiscal year 2009) because their plan included installing Barack Obama…”
“Their plan”, or someone….something….else’s?
Included?
So installing Obama was only a part of “the plan”?
Lets go back and see more of the Sundance sentence….
“….we were stunningly distracted by the economic collapse that was taking place in 2006 and 2007 when the engineers behind Obama started to assemble the design.”
Isolate….
”….when the engineers behind Obama started to assemble the design.”
Who are the engineers behind Obama??
And the design of what, specifically?
What was “the plan”?
Sundance….
“The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this new institution. Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government.”
Aha.
Wait…..wasn’t the Patriot Act a key building block to enabling “the plan”?
More Sundance….
“After 9/11/01, the electronic surveillance system that was originally created to monitor threats from abroad was retooled to monitor threats inside our country. That is when all of our electronic ‘metadata’ came under federal surveillance.
That inflection point, and the process that followed, was exactly what Edward Snowden tried to point out.”
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Let’s have some a little more Sundance here….
“Read this as many times as needed to contemplate the nature of our problem.”
And I mean…..really chew on it, all the way down to the bone.
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Where we “distracted” by the sudden, emotional events of 9/11 when the gov’t enacted the Patriot Act?
Was the Patriot Act the genesis of all that has followed in the “construction” of the Fourth Branch of Government?
Hmmmm.
Yes, steadfast a good comment, for sure.
I realise and appreciate that Sundance never makes an assertion unless he HAS THE RECIEPTS, in order to maintain credibility, and avoid lawsuits.
I have long questioned one aspect of his recitation of how things happened after 9/11, done by Bush admin to protect from outside threats, and then all was conveniently in place for Obummer and Holder to TURN the already weoponised system inward.
Again, knowing whatcwe know now, lets look at WHO Bush appointed, and Senate confirmed.
MUELLER, as head of the FBI, and he instituted “7 and out” policy that enabled them to purge the FBI, and insure all agents were “vetted” by requiring them to spend time working at headquarters.
Weismann, yes THAT Wiseass, was appointed BY BUSH, to the 7th floor of the FBI.
And, the MOU signed by Mueller and CIA director was signed DURING the Bush admin.
It gave each what they had long wanted, and paved the way for what we see
today;
The FBI got access to the NSA database, and we know where THAT led.
And, IMHO the CIA got a “station” inside the U.S. in violation of their charterxand U.S. Law.
They just CALLED it something else (FBI-NSD or DOJ-NSD) and had agents working their “cross trained” as BOTH FBI and CIA agents.
And Peter Stroxz is an example of what that looks like.
In short, like you I believe Bush admin INTENTIONALLY paved the way for the weoponisation and turning against the American people of the “4th branch” of gov.
Sundance may well agree, but can’t PROVE it, and so doesn’t assert it?
If we stop viewing the R’s as opposed in any way to the D’s, and see them as one entity working together to achieve Globalist goal, then everything changes, including that Bush was anything but in lockstep with Obama and Clinton
Its all one continuum, moving in one direction.
Hi Dutchman! Thank you very much for your comment.
“Sundance may well agree, but can’t PROVE it, and so doesn’t assert it?”
A: I believe the answer to that is primarily found in the phrase “don’t bite off more than you can chew.” A corollary to that would be “don’t feed your audience more than it can chew”.
Sundance is not writing as much for folks like you and I (though we are definitely part of his audience) as he is for those who do not follow the granular details and can’t see the whole of the picture. I think this is true, in part because the granular details will almost certainly cause one to lose sleep and create anxiety, stress, and depression, which is why he constantly reminds us to stay firmly planted in our life’s joys, happiness, and relationships. Much is outside of our individual control, but these things are.
It reminds of scripture, of course…..servant of Christ that Sundance is…..
”You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.”
Matthew 24:6
“Its all one continuum, moving in one direction.”
Indeed it is.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom.
Revelation 13:16-18
I’ve heard that the mark in the right hand is they always have that hand out asking for more? Kind of fits in our political world today?
Exactly!
All these FBI Informants?
Proud boys, Jan 6 shepherders, Russia collusion, Whitmer, Antifa, BLM, Las Vegas shooter girlfriend, Congress??
Seems like they are all over.
Maybe some ex-politicians on the payroll too, no?
Something not right with this system and the lack of accountability. And the shield it provides for those who are engaging in illegal behavior (sometimes instigating as in Whitmer).
It’s time to reign the FBI in.
It’s too big, too powerful and refuses supervision/accountability and it’s people are empowered to continue to exploit the system.
I mean if you think about it, the Fouth Branch assassinated a sitting President. Or at the very least facilitated it. So it’s not hard to imagine that they would have 80% of the Legislative Branch by the short and curlies.
RFK Jr has publicly stated that the CIA murdered his uncle. Tucker Carlson exposed gov’t documents that suggest this very thing.
It was the gov’t talking heads who came up with the phrase “conspiracy theorists” to discredit those who questioned the conclusions of the Warren Commission report….which was the gov’t report to the people on all the who/what/whys of JFKs assassination.
That is was a “lone gunman”.
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”
Needs to be posted and reposted ad nauseam. He’s telling the entire world, “Hello! The United States is controlled by a Deep State!”
As an aside, why does it bother people if someone replies to himself/herself? It breaks things into smaller bites and maybe the person wants to emphasize the main point.
And they’ve used every one of them
Why did you reply to yourself? Why not just edit again? Hmmm
Were we distracted when Brandon bragged he wrote the Patriot Act after Oklahoma?
Hmmmm. Why do bees humm? Just kidding.
“Why did you reply to yourself? Why not just edit again? Hmmm.”
A: There is a time limit to the edit function. After a few minutes the feature is closed.
First they gave you 9/11, and then they gave you COVID. Next is the open border with terrorists and drugs flooding through.
I was there. The fear was a smuggled nuke.
They even made a movie.
The Sum of all Fears.
There was a better answer for that than the Patriot Act, friend.
The opening scenario of “Sicario-Day of the Soldado” has always been plausible to me. They can’t say it “couldn’t happen.” I’m surprised it hasn’t happened YET.
I think it can be argued that the 9/11 terrorist act led directly to the collapse of the American political system. Quite an endeavour!
And the abandonment of christian morality in the West led directly to a ” the end justifies the means” mindset.
The question is…..
Was 9/11 organic, or was it part of a deliberate corruption (usurpation) of gov’t?
The patriot act and the government restructuring of intelligence was planned long before 9/11. Think about that.
I have. And this seems likely with all we now know.
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
I now accept that the CIA/FBI’s 9/11 hijackers were sent precisely to enable the Patriot Act.
Just as their continual staged Mass Shootings are Gun Control Events.
They have declared War on us.
Psalm 68:
1-4 Up with God!
Down with his enemies!
Adversaries, run for the hills!
Gone like a puff of smoke,
like a blob of wax in the fire—
one look at God and the wicked vanish.
When the righteous see God in action
they’ll laugh, they’ll sing,
they’ll laugh and sing for joy.
Sing hymns to God;
all heaven, sing out;
clear the way for the coming of Cloud-Rider.
Enjoy God,
cheer when you see him!
Yes, Lord Jesus!
“Never let a crisis go to waste”?
Nicely done Steadfast.
While Sundance can readily stand among giants in his research, writing and intellect….a parsing or slight perspective shift -as you provided me-really helps one’s focus. Much appreciated.
Sundance says so much more in his posts than most realize.
And it’s not called “the uniparty” for lack of reason(s).
I could summarize what you wrote I think as – The CIA is an enemy of the people.
If only that were the case, my friend!
With all respect, that is far too shallow a summary. “It” is FAR more broad and deep than that. The “Deep State” is not confined to one three letter agency within the permanent bureaucracy.
Recall a favorite catch phrase “they” love to use these days…
“….a whole of government approach…”
Global Spy Union
The IC as a whole would be a more apt descriptor, within which the Company plays a leading role.. No other agency has more autonomy, more sources of untraceable funding, more compartmentalised intel sharing, and suffers from less oversight than any of the others.
Over classification, internal IGs, the SSCI, and FISA abuse, have made the IC an unaccountable branch of Government. And if anyone labours under the misapprehension that the Agencys mandate extends only to foreign operations, then let sharing within Five Eyes, and US intra-Agency operational cooperation within the IC quickly disabuse you of that notion.
We don’t currently have a Beria purge option, so “fundamental reform”/abolition are the only remedies available.
But change it must.
Let me slightly correct you – The Government is the enemy of the people
a Centralized One.
Sundance says we were “distracted” by the 2008-2009 Sub-Prime crisis.
Could there be others? What about the COVID pandemic?
We know it came from a lab and was man-made. This is beyond dispute.
How many “distractions” has the Deep State engineered to further it’s power and control?
What were they?
I now think ALL of the “pandemics”, ebola, bird flu, hiv, etc. were released from labs in Africa, and probably on purpose.
I seriously question that viruses “jump species”, and I think thats all a “cover story” to explain the emergence of these “new” diseases.
We SEE how much THEY can manipulate economics, and that the current economic crises is manufactured, definetly makes me question the narrative.
A promising line of inquiry, to question all of the experts’ narratives.
It’s telling that truth is their enemy.
I firmly believe that “dubstep” music was a deep state psyop.
Why would Dick Cheney “construct” the national security apparatus “to view all Americans as potential (terrorist) threats”??
For what purpose?
to eliminate competition – and create a Single Club guranteeing the movement of America – to wherever they wish
where you recruit a traitor to represent their State, but ultimately they are part of the Club.
To gain power, control, money…. The same reasons most criminals commit crimes.
Yes….but what were those distractions?
And from what?
“For what purpose?”
To tee the U.S. up for that “fundamental change”
that was coming. We’re living that nightmare now.
That was tough to understand. Not sure what I’m supposed to chew on with all the open punctuation and unnecessary paragraph breaks, but let’s give it shot…
Those don’t sound like penetrating questions, just passive aggressive condescension. If you critically think until the end, instead of looping around CoG and MIHOP, you could ask yourself what SD asks.
What does he ask? Hmmmm
I’m truly sorry that you had trouble with it. Other’s clearly did not.
The scale and scope of understanding this enormously complex, deep, and intricate subject is….on the whole….very difficult to get one’s mind wrapped around.
In truth, it takes years of study.
Some of us have been reading this blog for over a decade, so we are well versed and studied. Some of us also have the great benefit of advanced degrees (read: well honed critical thinking skills) as well as actual working experience within the totality of topics that Sundance discusses. The sad truth is, most don’t, which… I hasten to add…none of which is NOT a mark against those who do not.
I would be happy to do my best to try and answer any questions re: my post that you may have. But, that said, I am not interested in trying to defend against any criticisms of it.
As the good Book says….”Let the reader understand”. And many have.
it’s him not you
“The sad truth is, most don’t, which… I hasten to add…none of which is NOT a mark against those who do not.”
When patting yourself on the back you accidentally won the Kamela Harris Gibberish Award.
Ah. Yes.
Grammar snark.
Always amazes me when some people take the time and trouble with it. As if there aren’t bigger troubles in the world. LOL
I actually saw that, my unintentional use of a double-negative, but the edit window had closed before I could fix it. And you know, that is likely the case for 99% of the grammar errors one sees in other’s posts. Which is why it amazes me some people even bother with mentioning it.
Then again, that’s all some people have to offer. (shrug)
Yeah, that’s a good response. You know it’s a horrible sentence. We are beyond grammar here. Window closing is no excuse as you obviously know how to reply to yourself as most here do. What does your goofy sentence mean? Believe it or not, I was following along but you made that impossible. You wrote some comedy gold there and there will come a time in the future where you can pull that sentence out and make people laugh.
Anyone who reads my posts here knows that I have been ringing the alarm bells to repeal the Patriot Act.
Thank you, Calcon.
Consider….
The now gigantic agency, the TSA, was set up at airports across America in the wake of it’s passage.
Before that, it was assumed one was innocent until proven guilty. However, in the wake of the TSA’s establishment…and by newly constructed default….everyone is assumed guilty until proven innocent.
No one thinks of it that way, but that is the reality.
The truly insidious thing is, it mentally conditions the public to think of itself as “guilty until (and unless) proven innocent”.
This is psychological warfare, or PsyOp. And it is as intentional as it is manipulative.
I believe something along these lines was one of the many sad outcomes of the COVID scare — It conditioned people to look at everyone else, even close family members, as potential agents of death rather than as human beings, loved ones, etc.
Yes, don’t get me started on TSA. I remember travelling before that stupidity engulfed us all.
The entire problem was solved by strengthened cockpit doors and protocols for opening and closed said cockpit doors.
Now we all have to be aghast while granny gets groped in the name of safety and political correctness.
The minions of satan don’t care about logic, natural law, or God’s law, let alone the US Constitution.
We are in a spiritual battle.
A battle for souls, the only thing that matters in the end.
Very true, but our battle is also temporal, if only for the unborn generations yet to come! Young minds, and souls, must have a safe and free place to develop what you already know so well.
The IC created the tools and they installed puppets to operate the tools. Everything they do is by proxy so that people who can’t see simply attack disposable targets while the root of the evil laughs behind the curtains.
I’m still clear in my recall of Obama’s assertion that “Obamacare” couldn’t be done and that he didn’t have the power to do things under the constitution… and then he did all of the things.
I also recall Zuckerberg and Dorsey, in front of congress saying “we need to be regulated.” While conservative pundits kept saying “don’t fall for it! It’s a trap!” to a congressional “wall” which is incapable of listening, I saw cries for help! Declarations that they are doing things they don’t want to do… or rather, things are being done in their name which they cannot control.
Every ounce of this looks and smells like IC operations which are readily acknowledged when it is done to other countries. Running fake elections? Destabilizing the societies of other countries culturally?
How are we so arrogant that we can’t possibly believe this same IC responsible for toppling and controlling other countries isn’t doing the same in our own?
Yes. THAT is “the Great Awakening”, friend.
Tens of millions have awoken, with millions more doing so worldwide with each passing month.
This takes time.
But I believe a tide has been turned. Time is now on our side, not theirs. “They” are increasingly panicked, and are making forced errors. Death by a thousand cuts is as real for “them” as it is for us.
Stay strong.
I don’t believe the FBI would need confidential informants to nail Santos. I believe Santos is a psy-op. There’s something not right with him. How did he get to the election much less win it with all of those skeletons in his closet? I don’t think that would be possible. At a press conference he just called his prosecution, “a witch hunt” eerily similar to Trump constantly using that phrase.
I believe Obama is a fabricated construct, groomed to be president from an early age. The same for Pete Buttigieg. I also do not believe Obama had much to do with any of this. Without a teleprompter, Obama is a stuttering baffoon.
This is the first time I’ve ever seen the Republicans stand behind a politician (Santos) with this kind of baggage once it is made public.
And ref. the fourth estate there must be another set of players involved because if they are all powerful then who is keeping Trump alive and very much in the game?
Many Military Generals, several from the strategic command. They knew of the “Sixteen Year Plan To Destroy America”. It is still on the internet (not Google for obvious reasons.) They approached DJT to run.
Many attempts to take out our President. Do you remember he missile alert in Hawaii that drove citizens underground in fear which was supposedly shot from NK? It was intended for Air Force One on the way to meet with the Chinese It was launched off the Northern coast of the USA. Taken down by two of our military jet fighters. Thank God!
Our true President has Devine protection to aid the secret service Trust Romans 8:28 and put on the whole arm armor of God every day.
They never thought she would lose