The FBI did not weaponize itself. The weaponization of the institution was done by people; the same people that John Durham did not indict for weaponizing it.
The same applies to the DHS, ODNI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD and SSCI. These institutions did not weaponize themselves; they were weaponized by the people within them.
This is the core reality behind the missing part of the John Durham report, no proposed change in policy or institutional systems. Why? Because the policies and systems are not the issue; it was the intent of the people within it – those who weaponized it. Here’s the kicker. Those people are still in place – that’s why the weaponization continues.
It doesn’t do us any good to rewrite the same articles repeatedly to emphasize the same point.
WE MUST GET THIS INFORMATION INTO THE BLOODSTREAM OF THE LARGER AMERICAN ELECTORATE.
Here’s the cited evidence.
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 rogue 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.
There are only two members of the Gang of Eight who have existed in place from January 2007 (the real beginning of Obama’s term, two years before he took office when the Congress flipped). Only two members of the G08 have been consistently in place from January of 2007 to right now, today. All the others came and went, but two members of the Gang of Eight have been part of that failed and collapsed oversight throughout the past 15 years, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell.
♦ TECHNOLOGY – On a global scale – the modern intelligence gathering networks are now dependent on data collection to execute their intelligence missions. In the digital age nations have been executing various methods to gather that data. Digital surveillance has replaced other methods of interception. Those surveillance efforts have resulted in a coalescing of regional data networks based on historic multi-national relationships.
We have a recent frame of reference for the “U.S. data collection network” within the NSA. Through the allied process the Five Eyes nations all rely on the NSA surveillance database (U.K, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and U.S.) The NSA database provides the digital baseline for intelligence operations in defense of our allies. The portals into the NSA database are essentially an assembly of allies in like-minded ideological connection to the United States.
Unfortunately, there have been some revelations about the NSA database being used to monitor our allies, like in the example of Germany and surveillance on Angela Merkel’s phone. As long as “the good guys” are operating honorably, allies of the United States can feel confident about having protection from the NSA surveillance of global digital data. We warn our friends if we detect something dangerous etc.
The U.S. has nodes on communication pipelines to intercept and extract data. We have also launched hundreds, perhaps thousands, of satellites to conduct surveillance and gather up data. All of this data is fed into the NSA database where it is monitored (presumably) as a national security mechanism, and in defense of our allies.
However, what about data collection or data networks that are outside the NSA database? What do our enemies do? The NSA database is just one intelligence operation of digital surveillance amid the entire world, and we do not allow access by adversaries we are monitoring. So what do they do? What do our allies do who might not trust the United States due to past inconsistencies, ie. the Middle East?
The answers to those questions highlight other data collection networks. So, a brief review of the major players is needed.
♦ CHINA – China operates their own database. They, like the NSA, scoop up data for their system. Like us, China launches satellites and deploys other electronic data collection methods to download into their database. This is why the issues of electronic devices manufactured in China becomes problematic. Part of the Chinese data collection system involves the use of spyware, hacking and extraction.
Issues with Chinese communication company Huawei take on an added dimension when you consider the goal of the Chinese government to conduct surveillance and assemble a network of data to compete with the United States via the NSA. Other Chinese methods of surveillance and data-collection are less subversive, as in the examples of TicTok and WeChat. These are Chinese social media companies that are scraping data just like the NSA scrapes data from Facebook, Twitter and other Silicon Valley tech companies. [ Remember, the Intelligence Branch is a public-private partnership. ]
♦ RUSSIA – It is very likely that Russia operates their own database. We know Russia launches satellites, just like China and the USA, for the same purposes. Russia is also very proficient at hacking into other databases and extracting information to store and utilize in their own network. The difference between the U.S., China and Russia is likely that Russia spends more time on the hacking aspect because they do not generate actual technology systems as rapidly as the U.S. and China.
The most recent database creation is an outcome of an ally having to take action because they cannot rely on the ideology of the United States remaining consistent, as the administrations ping-pong based on ideology.
♦ SAUDI ARABIA – Yes, in 2016 we discovered that Saudi Arabia was now operating their own intelligence data-gathering operation. It would make sense, given the nature of the Middle East and the constant fluctuations in political support from the United States. It is a lesson the allied Arab community and Gulf Cooperation Council learned quickly when President Obama went to Cairo in 2009 and launched the Islamist Spring (Arab Spring) upon them.
I have no doubt the creation of the Saudi intelligence network was specifically because the Obama administration started supporting radical Islamists within the Muslim Brotherhood and threw fuel on the fires of extremism all over the Arab world.
Think about it., What would you do if you were Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, Jordan, Oman or Yemen and you knew the United States could just trigger an internal uprising of al-Qaeda, ISIS and the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood to seek your destruction?
Without a doubt, those urgent lessons from 2009, 2010, 2011 triggered the formation of the Arab Intelligence Network as a network to defend itself with consistency. They assembled the network and activated it in 2017 as pictured above.
♦ Israel – Along a similar outlook to the Arab network, no doubt Israel operates an independent data collection system as a method of protecting itself from ever-changing U.S. politics amid a region that is extremely hostile to its very existence. Like the others, Israel launches proprietary satellites, and we can be sure they use covert methods to gather electronic data just like the U.S. and China.
As we have recently seen in the Pegasus story, Israel creates spyware programs that are able to track and monitor cell phone communications of targets. The spyware would not work unless Israel had access to some network where the phone meta-data was actually stored. So yeah, it makes sense for Israel to operate an independent intelligence database.
♦ Summary: As we understand the United States Intelligence Branch of government as the superseding entity that controls the internal politics of our nation, we also must consider that multiple nations have the same issue. There are major intelligence networks around the world beside the NSA “Five-Eyes” database. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Israel all operate proprietary databases deploying the same tools and techniques for assembly.
The geopolitical conflict that has always existed has now shifted into a digital battle-space. The Intelligence Agencies from these regions are now operating as the backbone of the government that uses them and has become dependent on them. [<- Reread that].
Once you accept the digital-era intelligence apparatus of China, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, The United States and Israel, are now the primary national security mechanisms for stabilization of government; then you accept the importance of those intelligence operations.
Once you understand how foundational those modern intelligence operations have become for the stability and continuity of those governments…… then you begin to understand just how the United States intelligence community became more important than the government that created it.
From that point it is then critical to understand that domestic intelligence operations are underway to monitor the electronic communication of American citizens inside our own country. YOU are under surveillance. The parents who confront school boards are under surveillance. The political operatives inside the FBI are monitoring everyone who comes onto the radar, that is why the National School Boards Association asked the White House, then the DOJ, to have the FBI start targeting parents. Are things making sense now?
♦ Public Private Partnership – The modern Fourth Branch of Government is only possible because of a Public-Private partnership with the intelligence apparatus. You do not have to take my word for it, the partnership is so brazened they have made public admissions.
The biggest names in Big Tech announced in June their partnership with the Five Eyes intelligence network, ultimately controlled by the NSA, to: (1) monitor all activity in their platforms; (2) identify extremist content; (3) look for expressions of Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE); and then, (4) put the content details into a database where the Five Eyes intelligence agencies (U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand) can access it.
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are all partnering with the intelligence apparatus. It might be difficult to fathom how openly they admit this, but they do. Look at this sentence in the press release (emphasis mine):
[…] “The Group will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.”
Think about that sentence structure very carefully. They are “adding to” the preexisting list…. admitting the group (aka Big Tech) already have access to the the intelligence-sharing database… and also admitting there is a preexisting list created by the Five Eyes consortium.
Obviously, who and what is defined as “extremist content” will be determined by the Big Tech insiders themselves. This provides a gateway, another plausible deniability aspect, to cover the Intelligence Branch from any oversight.
When the Intelligence Branch within government wants to conduct surveillance and monitor American citizens, they run up against problems due to the Constitution of the United States. They get around those legal limitations by sub-contracting the intelligence gathering, the actual data mining, and allowing outside parties (contractors) to have access to the central database.
The government cannot conduct electronic searches (4th amendment issue) without a warrant; however, private individuals can search and report back as long as they have access. What is being admitted is exactly that preexisting partnership. The difference is that Big Tech will flag the content from within their platforms, and now a secondary database filled with the extracted information will be provided openly for the Intelligence Branch to exploit.
The volume of metadata captured by the NSA has always been a problem because of the filters needed to make the targeting useful. There is a lot of noise in collecting all data that makes the parts you really want to identify more difficult to capture. This new admission puts a new massive filtration system in the metadata that circumvents any privacy protections for individuals.
Previously, the Intelligence Branch worked around the constitutional and unlawful search issue by using resources that were not in the United States. A domestic U.S. agency, working on behalf of the U.S. government, cannot listen on your calls without a warrant. However, if the U.S. agency sub-contracts to say a Canadian group, or foreign ally, the privacy invasion is no longer legally restricted by U.S. law.
What was announced in June 2021 is an alarming admission of a prior relationship along with open intent to define their domestic political opposition as extremists.
July 26 (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (read more)
The influence of the Intelligence Branch now reaches into our lives, our personal lives.
In the decades before 9/11/01 the intelligence apparatus intersected with government, influenced government, and undoubtedly controlled many institutions with it. The legislative oversight function was weak and growing weaker, but it still existed and could have been used to keep the IC in check. However, after the events of 9/11/01, the short-sighted legislative reactions opened the door to allow the surveillance state to weaponize against domestic enemies.
After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. Simultaneously the mission of the intelligence community now encompassed monitoring domestic threats as defined by the people who operate the surveillance system.
The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the network of President Barack Obama did.
The Obama network took pre-assembled intelligence weapons (we should never have allowed to be created) and turned those weapons into political tools for his radical and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation.
Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective the fundamental change was successful.
This is the scale of corrupt political compromise on both sides of the DC dynamic that we are up against. Preserving this system is also what removing Donald Trump is all about…. The targeting of President Trump in order to preserve the system, the system that was weaponized during the Obama administration, is what the actions of the DOJ and FBI are all about.
What would powerful people in DC do to stop the American people from finding this out?
…. Including an FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Honey, you just did what everybody else is doing—talk it to death, and meanwhile nothing changes. If Bush & Cheney have not been executed yet for war crimes, genocide & murder, why did anybody expect anything to happen now over this? I said it long ago in my circle. Catturd has said it since 2016. Nobody pays. I see a big bank just had to pay a big fine connected to something with Epstein. But hey, that’s how you save your sorry behind, let the corporation take the hit, the people involved get off scot free & just keep on breaking the law and being evil. What the hell is wrong with Americans? We never deal with our enemies, and now look what we have come to.
What have you done?
And what would you have us do?
Something IS being done !!!
Notice the way The LORD Himself conducts Judgment;
He exposes the Lies, and, Reveals the Truth !!!
“Do not fall into the trap of despair.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/19/you-are-not-alone-2/
I can’t get past the fact that from 1/17 to 1/21, Donald Trump was in charge, and he and his appointees did NOTHING to stop the corrupt CIA, FBI, and DOJ. NOTHING!! Trump appointed the elfin eunuch Jeff Sessions as AG. That was stupid. Then he appointed Cristopher Wray to head the FBI. THAT was stupid. Then he appointed Bill Barr. Was that stupid, too? I’m losing track. Trump knew before he was sworn in that the deep state was after him during the election. Why did he appoint an AG that was bound by law to recuse himself in any election related investigations?
Well… I also struggle to understand many, most of Trump’s appointments. I don’t understand Rosenstein a replacement for Sessions either. Rosenstein is a Dem. Why?
One of the few appts. I did think was great was Barr only to be shocked, confused and disappointed by him too.
There is NO ONE we can trust to do the right thing? No one? I thought DeSantis was great too but now I do realize he is “owned” too. He will not clean-up these dangerous intel agencies and bureaucrats b/c he cannot do it and b/c he is young and has young children. The POTUS job IS a very dangerous job now b/c of the unbridled power of … sociopaths controlling our govt and the American People…. AND… they are bankrupting the nation… deliberately.
J. Edgar Hoover prioritized digging up dirt on congressmen to keep congress neutered.
With all due respect, your comment illustrates a serious and significant lack of understanding of the limited authorities available to POTUS, in part due to the significant restraints on the presidency as defined by the Constitution. Calling President Trump “stupid” shows an incredible absence of knowledge on your own part.
Just because you think Biden is acting unilaterally on many serious issues (he is absolutely not), you think Trump could have single-handedly resolved all the problems you list in your comment. He absolutely could not have, lacking Congressional support AND having a significant number of district and appellate courts staffed with leftwing judges. You saw the tremendous opposition raised against his EO’s, several significant ones of which were stymied and blocked by leftwing courts.
Trump had ZERO support from the GOP Senate for ANY of his MAGA policies except tax reduction. He attempted to issue Executive Orders to fix issues for which the GOP-controlled Congress refused to support him (and the voters). History shows that, excluding taxes, the Uniparty’s anti-MAGA majority vehemently OPPOSED PDJT on illegal immigration, foreign trade, government spending, DOJ and I.C. reform, and every other issue you can name.
The Deep State dominated and controlled the GOP members of the Senate SSCI (Intelligence Committee), as well as most of the members on the HPSCI (House Intel Committee). Because the Senate was (still is) thoroughly corrupt, they refused to permit Pres. Trump to appoint ANYONE who might try to clean out the corruption from the FBI, DOJ, CIA, State Department. PDJT was only able to submit nominees for high positions who had been approved by the Deep State. Throughout all of it, President Trump rarely complained and tried to put a positive spin on every appointment, despite likely suspecting that the appointee would not support his MAGA policies..
the comment you are replying too… -> a thinking like that is not genuine, or is one that is to far back to catch in time.
Trump, if elected, knows it will be difficult to appoint AG and/or FBI Director.
I look for him to appoint Special Prosecutors (yes, plural).
Only way to right the ship.
Open your eyes Bruce! Trump as POTUS was told by Mitch the Bitch who would get voted on and who wouldn’t. Were you under the illusion Trump could wave a magic wand and decades and decades of corruption get fixed? The 3 Mc’s are the problem (McConnel, McCarty, and McDaniels).Trump exposed the problems and we the people are to correct the problems! Trump’s hands were tied in the first go round, now he sees a helluva lot more! Biden just exposed the Left’s ways! Now you can better understand why almost all politicians are against Trump! Trump’s motto should be: Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! On the “high iron”, that Highballing it!
Jeff sessions recused himself because you have to recuse yourself ( I don’t know if it is law or not), but Merrick Garland never did. Why? Because Republicans never demanded with the same fury as democrats did. Even some members of Republican Party also wanted Jeff sessions to recuse himself. It is uniparty. Some people in both parties retain the power along with intelligence agencies.
Jeff Sessions was appointed as supervisor of the foreign policy issue during the 2016 campaign, even though he was the shadow Attorney General for the Trump Campaign, not the Shadow Secretary of State. This made Sessions responsible for the actions of the “foreign policy advisors” of the Trump Campaign, two of whom were CARTER PAGE and GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS. Carter Page and George Papadopoulos were both on the “List of Trump Foreign Policy Advisors that Trump was forced to produce by a collection of unidentified Big Shots in the Republican Party. Trump had to come up with that list, or he could not be nominated at convention.
In 2017, the FBI leaked the predicate for their Trump-Russia investigation being CARTER PAGE because of his trip to Moscow in early 2016, and several mentions of Page in the STEELE DOSSIER. The leak appeared in an April 2017 story in the NEW YORK TIMES, a favorite leak target of JAMES COMEY.
As 2017 moved on into October 2017, the media found out that HILLARY CLINTON HAD PAID FOR THE STEELE DOSSIER, and Carter Page and his trip to Moscow was all over the STEELE DOSSIER, which meant THE FBI’S TRUMP-RUSSIA PREDICATE RELIED ON HILLARY CLINTON’S INFORMATION. This would never do once the public fully grasped what happened. The solution was to BLAME IT ALL ON GEORGE PAPADOPOULOUS and his meeting with Australian diplomat, Downer. The same NEW YORK TIMES reporters who published the Carter Page Predicate in April 2017 published the “New” Predicate in December 2017.
Sessions had to recuse himself as he would have been a witness to some of the things Page and Papadopoulos did.
We would still be living in a controlled state of ignorance were it not for people like Sundance arduously tracking and reporting in incredible depth the nature of this Fourth Branch of government. Neither you or I know the extent to which Sundance has paid a price for his revelations but those of us who have been here before yesterday know that Sundance has done far more than just talk about it.
Sundance recently inquired, “what should I (he) do”?
I couldn’t answer. I have no right to task him to do anything.
The real question I need to answer is “What AM I TO DO?”
Yah… true EXCEPT few Americans read CTH.
CTH is actually on a Dem media LIST of “dissinformation” sites and dems are told not to read any sites on the list and they actually obey. 🤷♀️
Few Americans actually know what we know.
Tucker was starting to reveal a lot… but he was swiftly shut down and fired.
I tell everyone I know. Who do you tell?
This article was mentioned on Glenn Greenwald’s Rumble podcast.
Do you know who Greenwald is and his contribution to this knowledge base?
Hint, he brought us Snowden, at great risk to his life and the life of his friends.
Are you aware of any of the risks Sundance exposes him/herself (lol) to by publishing this website?
Again I ask, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
It’s one of our jobs to share the information. Just because there aren’t many takers just means we need to keep putting in the effort. Every person we reach has a circle of influence. Waiting for someone else to do things is not a good strategy.
AMEN
And information gathering continues as they now have a swipe machine you put your drivers license into and swipe in order to vote. This is all well and good but they only had my name and address to determine whether I was at the right precinct and registered before. NOW they have everything including when my license expires, color of hair, eyes, etc. More machines. And yes, if you complain about ‘the machines’ they have even the old people scowling at you. I cannot get my State Legislature rep to even acknowledge I wrote him let alone answer a question. I am sure I would be arrested if I went to his home locally. Or maybe he no longer even has a home locally. He is probably now ensconced at the State Capitol in just a marvelous house.
“Durham Report, Notice What He Doesn’t Do? Recommend Any Solutions!”
No, we noticed …
When is Andrew McCarthy coming out with his next book telling us how he figured everything out now that the Durham report has been released.
I don’t buy any of those books any more. Judge Jeanine is coming out with a new book…..won’t be on my shelf. They’re all spewing what we already know. And nothing is being done. They’re just capitalizing on the misery that is now and is going to happen.
Nothing changes until something changes. Any nothing changes as long as the Uniparty retains power in Congress and a Democrat is in the White House. There would need to be a MAGA majority in both chambers of Congress with them going scorched earth to disassemble the FBI and Intelligence agencies, and, to use the left’s term, “build them back better”. Trump back in the White House and appointing only heads of the Executive Branch that will support the constitutional limitations of their own agencies.
Hard to get there with the elections rigged with mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting, wide open voter rolls and ballot counting that goes on for days and weeks. Thus states need to claw back tighter control of their elections. Any interference from the DOJ, tell them to pound sand and stay out of the state.
Make an appeal to those in the cities who are having illegal migrants housed in their schools, and the suburbanites who are having them shipped to their hotels and motels. Maybe they will have had enough of the liberal agenda and decide to vote for meaningful change.
Low expectations, high hopes, never give up.
Exactly! Action, Action, Action
DeSantis lasts comments don’t acknowledge Trump as a candidate
Vivek Ramaswamy hardly acknowledges the existence of Trump for Presidential candidate
Main Stream Media hardly acknowledges him as a candidate except to bash him
I predict that as election time comes, the filters on everything will silence everything Trump. Which means they will silence the voice of We the People. They will withhold information we need as We the People. They will seek to demoralize us. They will up the ante — seeking to make us afraid of being Conservative Terrorists.?
Remember when, close to the election and afterwards, you could not find the Conservative Treehouse on Google?
We can only go so far on this web site safely. We already had to switch platforms once.
Lol….that was some article but “The same applies to the DHS, ODNI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD and SSCI. These institutions did not weaponize themselves; they were weaponized by the people within them.” So, what makes any of us think they will allow Trump to be President again let alone even be in a position to run again?
Just thought I would ask the question after all, when you can do all of that plus do what they’ve done in 2020 and 2022 elections do you really think the will allow him to take office again?
like the boss said you have just given all the reasons why we can’t do it.
Now…give me five reasons that WE CAN DO IT?
see how this works.
you can doom and gloom…you can acquiesce the the perils of paralysis…you can demotivate yourself to the point where you just stop trying.
or…you can do something different…
here is what I am doing for instance…in this order:
and the boss said…Great…this is all I ask for…if you come into my office and make a list of problems, I expect you to have at least five reasons WHY IT MATTERS, and at least one solution for me to consider.
God Bless America
Vote by mail as early as possible as an antidote remains to be seen.
If your registrar of voters is corrupt, I don’t see that making a difference. Just saying.
I agree with you as I have been active politically since I was 14 – 49 years ago. My point wasn’t to deflate our efforts or our cause but to admit the significant headwinds that are right in front of us as we all know the Lawfare nuclear bombs that we will face in the August/September timeframe which is the primary reason many other so-called Republicans are about to enter into the race for the presidency if Trump can’t weather that fallout.
It has always been my belief that no matter who the 2016 Republican nominee was we would be where we are today with the exception of the other Republican candidates or if they had won in 2016 like Trump did they would have never weathered the Lawfare storm and would have resigned.
Trump is a target-rich environment because he stands valiantly between us and them!
I gently politely recommend, that you think about what are the solutions. what is your plan …what do you recommend.
you do realize that we ALL KNOW THE HEADWINDS WE ALL FACE GOING INTO 2024 right?
think about this…pray about it. I am dead serious…
the least effective thing a person can do is
WORRY.
God Bless America
I know you’ve been here a long time, thanks for your contributions.
All politics are local.
I spent a good deal of time helping a coalition of truly conservative city council candidates form a 4 person block and worked to get that slate elected, calling out the splitters and turned a 6-1 Libtard council into a 4-3 MAGA majority.
We will be doing the same next election and electing a 3 man slate to solidify a long term majority.
This council, with the backing of our conservative city are suing Newscum over their idiotic housing mandates.
By working our local elections we elect conservative city councils, assembly people, state senators and CongressWeasels.
If everyone puts their shoulder to the wheel locally, we can turn this around nationally
I respectfully submit that doubtful any other R would have face the lawfare. One thing that became glaringly obvious to me is that there hasn’t been an R on our side in the WH since Reagan (and sometimes I wonder about him). The single most critical thing President Trump did is expose the corruption to a wider swath of citizens. I know he did that for me. I had lots of questions but no answers as to why things were like they were and now I know at least in part.
I believe this is part of the “precinct strategy program.”
Not a chance and I’m shocked that some people don’t realize this .
I think they will allow him to win in the end. They will pretend to do it unwillingly kicking and screaming to not allow him to win. But once President Trump wins again, he will basically be a lame duck president because it will be his last term, and also the Uni Party will just do to him again what they did during his first term by placing road blocks and not supporting his agenda and not approving his people for security clearance or for cabinet positions, and they will use the media to say Trump is racist, or he created another virus, or that there is too much chaos in his administration or they will find another Colonel Vindaman to sabotage all of Trump’s policies and agenda. They will also probably try to impeach him again. And this time they might just win the impeachment to send a message to all future leaders who want to fight the system that this is what happened to Trump will happen to you. Basically they will make your life a living hell just like they did to Trump.
Interesting hypothesis.
What we need is a news media who will report on these things honestly instead of covering for the federal leftist thugs. Until that happens, I’m not sure we have a chance to save this country because too many people believe what their TV tells them.
That’s never going to happen .
Not happening anytime soon, but hear, hear!
Actually, it’s taken a LONG time but there is change in small places. In murderapolis there is a volunteer outfit “crimewatch minneapolis” Probably input as one word. They’ve been reporting the true crime in the city for a long time, and calling out the fake news for not reporting.
Until now the fake news has been able to bury the truth. But the endless daily exposure of truth in the crimewatch feed has exposed the corrupt media to the point that just this evening a local station again had to cover a story that had been buried and supposed to stay that way.
Bongino said the other day, and I agree with him, that in ten years there won’t be a significant number of One Button folks and the MSM will become irrelevant.
Sundance, I suggest we get Durham on here and interview him.
Obama and company had help, namely Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell gumming up the Republican Investigations!!! Kash Patel has gone on countless broadcasts telling the whole story of what he and Nunes were fighting against!!! 🤔
Barr + Durham = McConnell + Graham
I see the collapse of the U.S. financial system as the catalyst.
The stock market crash of 1929 caused many on Wall Street to leap to their deaths from tall buildings.
A complete collapse of the U.S. financial system could well trigger government employees jumping out of the windows of tall buildings.
The system has become so bad, it will take a complete collapse for reality to set in hard enough to cause a massive upheaval.
We need hard times…times so hard, survival is day to day. There is no “easing” into what is coming. It’s a freight train without brakes coming down the mountain.
Such a brutal reality will instantly wash away all the woke bullshit in one giant enema.
Unfortunately, I think that crash has to be incredibly hard for many to take notice.
There are far too many who are eating without producing. The left will support that for far too long making the crash much more worse for everyone.
It’s not a swamp. It’s an occupying force.
Worth reading.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker
“In essence, Team Obama usurped the entire design of congressional oversight…. and Congress just brushed it off.”
Hands down, this has become the worst outcome of this entire mess. Congressional representatives sent there by the voters to represent the people, particularly in reigning them in when they exceed their authority.
And now we have a federal bureaucracy who thumbs their nose at Congress, violates any oath they may have taken and stomps on our Constitutional rights whenever they please.
It used to be the power of the purse kept them in check, but with bastards like McConnell removing that power in favor of his own enrichment, and gutless RINO’s who refuse to use their authority, we no longer have any semblance of a representative government.
That was the problem from the beginning, statists abrogating their power to executive departments. Look at the EPA and DOE for example.
Unfortunately, that was by design to give these slimy creatures wiggle room at election time.
OPEN Letter to President TRUMP
Dear President Donald J. Trump,
https://newswithviews.com/open-letter-to-the-president/
https://twitter.com/robertbaudot/status/1659640849402146816/photo/1
#SeeTheStrings once you recognize how to see the strings you can’t unsee them !!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fwg6jguXoAEj-dR?format=jpg&name=medium
You think it is all Soros? or all WEF? What is the relationship between Soros and WEF?
None of the democrats, no one in WEF acknowledges Soros publicly. You can’t find someone who is Pro Soros. When Soros is mentioned is is in a negative light.
How does Soros “control or appoint people”. If he is the evil that conservative patriots say he is, and those, who by their actions who are our enemies will not mention his name — then we must have sunlight on the means by which Soros controls..
We must have sunlight on the nature of the relationship and conversations between Obama and Soros, Pelosi and Soros, Schumer and Soros, McConnel and Soros.
Where is McConnel? He has disappeared literally for a while and is still invisible functionally (He has become like Soros)
Deep analysis, as always!
However, the legislative actions following 9/11 were not short-sighted. They were part of the Project for A New American Century planned meticulously in advance of 9/11, and they were weaponized against Americans day-one, and by design.
The Patriot Act, mass surveillance, disintegration of civil liberties, blatant disregard for constitutional rights, and endless wars that have bled our country could only be sold to the American People under the guise of The War on Terror.
The truth that millions of people have awakened to is that 9/11 was orchestrated by malevolent elements within our own government.
They engineer terrorism (9/11), pandemics (COVID-19), collusion (“Russia”), elections (2020, etc.), fake environmental crises (“Climate Change”), fake food supply shortages (“Eat Ze Bugs”) – you name it. All borderless in scope, and backed by the full weight of the media industrial complex.
The common denominator is globalism and a New World Order in which humanity is subdued.
They want you to trade freedom for “safety”. The endgame is enslavement.
The Good News? Jesus Christ is the Way, Truth, and Life. Pray daily. Pray the Rosary. They may weaponize the system, man against man, but let God be your shield. In the final analysis, they’re engineering their eternal destiny.
Preparing as best we can for the near and long term is really the most important thing anyone can and should be doing.
There is far more that has been set in motion a long time ago that really is beyond any one persons control.
This is a high tech world of new control mechanisms being setup.
How are you going to navigate it.
fOR EXAMPLE: Fact is that “Retail Therapy” will not cure anyone of what ailes us.
I see people out in stores shopping for everything that has nothing to do with SURVIVAL.
If I ask some stranger if they want to know the TRUTH and offer them a document with links to websites for honest answers most often they will say no.
It truely is mind boggling
God’s Blessings To All !
There are no “terror” groups worse than the media and F$$$book.
I removed my F-book page many years ago as someone had assumed my F-book identity and was harassing female church friends of mine.
Weird muddercluckers, those in big tech. May their days be few, in Jesus name.
Don’t look to any part of the govt. to follow the law.
The Durham report is a charging document. What Durham fails to do is charge anyone. He let everyone get away with it. Durham is a clown and a failure. We know the solution, you know what the solution is, charge everyone, put them all in jail and treat them like J6 prisoners, collect evidence until their trials in Idaho, WY, ND and SD, then seize all their and their familys assets.
I’d forgotten about the envelope shoved under the door to Sundance’s hotel room. I think many would have cowed down and shrunk, thanks to Sundance to continuing to educate and bring focus on the crimes that have been committed by so many.
Was that a positive or a negative letter? Encouragement or threat? No matter how one looks at it, Sundance has em the size of coconuts!
Someone wrote “The Durham Report. Nothingburger.” I tend to disagree.
Anyone who is named inside the durhamreport.pdf, at the very minimum,
will have to take some sleep medication subscription. Why ? Because its
a official report.
The FBI has become a filthy outfit for lowlifes with shady connections.
So far the only three letter agency who could get away with this dodgy
stuff was the CIA, because of its foreign connections.
In other news : Planned ParentHood calls for court packing and term
limits for Supreme Court Justices. Why would it have to be a bio-outfit
called Planned ParentHood who is signaling such things ? Are we
watching `The Merchant of Venice’ 2.0, with expanded back room dealing
of baby parts to the courts ? The Justice department and Justices seem
now subjected to some very shady influences.
It’s time for a very rough and rigid cleanup inside the FBI and DOJ and
its affiliates and field offices in Blue Cities. At the very minimum.
When Trump gets back into the White House, all bets are off.
Faites vos Jeux 😉
You’ve got it right! The posters her can call durham whatever they want. HE exposed it ALL!
In that sense it’s official record, unfortunately it doesn’t do much to protect our natural rights. Just ask any J6er languishing in prison still and being wrongfully convicted.
It’s just sos much simpler to report ‘an iceberg’ did it….
It’s the IG’s responsibility to recommend solutions, not Durham.
Of course, they would be just band-aid recommendations and likely no criminal referrals.
…except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain…
vigilence is spiritual over and above physical. both are crucial
This posting should be taught in every high school POD class with a goal of trying to wake up our young men and women before they get completely indoctrinated in college.
The problem is that teachers are almost all Lefty thinking robots.
What about the idea of a We the People class action lawsuit based on the Dufham Report? Would something like that be a reasonable possibility?
Just remember that trial lawyers are among the Democrats biggest donors.
Somebody please send this article to VA Rep (D) Gerry Connolly, who doesn’t have a clue what the Deep State is.
Sundance’s article clearly shows what and who the Deep State is.
Now comes the report that the Deep State is still abusing the FISA/FISC process. We’re supposed to be reassured that the FBI is nonpolitical because they also illegally investigated protesters after the George Floyd incident. However, the reports mention the timing of the violations, not the identity of the protesters they investigated. They could just as well have been, most likely were, surveilling counterprotesters, not BLM or antifa. Don’t be fooled (again).
I humbly thank you for the fourth branch/intelligience report that is effectively, informative and relentless pursuit of the truth. I do believe you walk the path of Divine guidance. I’m new to CTH, God Bless, You Sundance.
Below is the text I sent to my senator. Not that it will do anything but at least…..
Dear Senator,
Please do yourself a favor and by inclusion, the nation!
I doubt you’ve made much effort in the past 5-6 years to be even marginally cognizant of the events documented in the article I’m including as a link in this note because of: 1) your handlers would not want for you to have any grasp of what is included in the article, and 2) it isn’t about you or football. However, be that as it may, you are now in a position to (possibly) make a difference in whether this country survives or falls.
It could be hazardous to you personally, and I guarantee it will be hazardous to your personal political future IF you choose to pursue it with any vigor. While I doubt you will, given you never chose to serve in any capacity that could prove potentially hazardous to yourself, i.e., never wore the uniform of your country, I’m hopeful that you possess the intellect and more importantly the integrity to at least look into the information which is contained within the link.
The future of this country depends upon stemming the corruption which is succinctly outlined therein.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/19/durham-report-notice-what-he-doesnt-do-recommend-any-solutions/
Thanks,
former USN fighter pilot and forever patriot
You’re onto something, former USN fighter pilot and forever patriot!
Perhaps al those who have scrolled down to see your letter to your senator will use it as a template for a letter to their Senator or a member of Congress. I will do as you have even though my representatives are mostly Blue, especially in the Senate, and some are utterly corrupt.
Thanks,
a first generation American and patriot.
Do you think Hiliary is feeling shame for being officially found out that she’s the initiator of a 4-5 year political hoax/fraud upon President Trump and We the People? Prob not. She most likely would stand in court and blame the originator of the idea. However, We the People, along with President Trump, experienced great duress due to this fraudulant pretend idea perpetrated upon us. And she did it with legal acceptance and assistance from the Executive branch of our government; those who were briefed with President Obama in the Oval Office setting, no less. HiliaryClassAction lawsuits started yet? Clapper? Comey? Obama? Biden? A separate one in every state?
“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.”
The upcoming ruling on Lake Vs Hobbs could be the shot heard around the world. Exposing the mail in voting scam must start at the State level. Without fair and honest elections all this insanity will continue unabated and nothing can or will be changed. “everything else is downstream”.
Get involved in your local elections.
All politics is local.
Change your school board you change your children, and when you change your children, you change the course of the country
My belief is Durham did not prosecute because of Garland/Biden.
I am also suspicious of the timing here. Something big is coming which will put this on the back pages. The timing again coordinated by Garland/Biden.
What Durham has provided is evidence. Evidence which can be utilized in the future if the right conditions are elected.
The truth is even Durham, with his experience and record, knew the evidence he would be allowed to provide (due to national security concerns, informant disclosure, etc) was limited.
Durham provided a ton of evidence. Where is the bondo and spray paint? He perhaps didn’t recommend prosecution because he knew what would happen. Now we wait for Trump to get elected to do the prosecution. I think he ,Durham,is owed, by many, here and elsewhere, an apology. Durham covered up nothing.
Im linking CTH, and this must read, on Twitter.
Every single day. On every political Tweet. We have to make this go viral, and spread it far and wide.
Sundance nailed this entire corrupt bunch of POS, over the last few years, and people need to understand it all!
So damned fed up with this insanity, as we ALL ARE!
If you have social media fellow Treepers, link this , all day, everyday, until it gets the attention it deserves! No one is coming to save us, and we are the ones who have the ability to speak truth and facts, to our fellow citizens, all over the world.
Enough is enough! Lets get off our asses and make this happen!
Im on a mission tonight!
SD, I’ve tagged your page, with many whom I follow. Brandon Strakas followers are picking up on this article. As well as many other Conservatives with large numbers of followers. We need to make this one viral!
instead of the belt…..they get a lecture.
I’m reminded of a great line in the remake of The Magnificent Seven where Denzel Washington says to the beleaguered town folk under the siege of a powerful gold mining criminal: “If you want your town back you’re gonna have to fight for it.”
And he wasn’t talking about election reform.
Outright leftist criminals have taken over every aspect of our society from the schools to the justice system to government. They can’t be voted out because most judges will not hear election fraud cases. Their weapon against Trump is Lawfare. But they are backed up by the FBI, our version of the Stasi.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has just resigned, finally, for not doing her job. The Governor booted her.
They all must be thrown out BAMN.
History has shown that extended corruption like this ends up in revolution. It takes time, but it always gets to that. The American Revolution didn’t just spontaneously happen. It took over a decade to start.
This process has been repeated multiple times in multiple nations over the course of history. The only difference is the US populace is the most well armed standing army in the history of mankind. It will not go the way the elite think it will.
“If you want your country back you’re gonna have to fight for it.”
Durham is further proof that our government is comprised of cowards, fools, traitors, and sociopaths and our Republic is in serious trouble of falling for good. 2024 is the last chance!!