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.
This SD headline says it ALL
and THE COUP is war gaming more criminality
RIGHT NOW
that seems obvious !
What a read…A metric ton of information. As usual, I push it out to all my contacts. However, it seems like fewer and fewer people are actually reading it….Too long…too difficult, or just don’t give a fraq. This is EXTREMELY frustrating. You can’t get involved unless you know what the score is. ‘And, here it is, for all to see. Lazy assed Americans don’t seem to give a $#$%…
They rather see bread and circus.
They need shorter bullet points that grab their attention:
Everyone in D.C. is corrupt
Congress is in it for the money, not us
The Supreme Court is corrupt
Even the people you think are on our side are NOT
Congress is not the least bit interested in our phone calls, letters, or what we think
There are two sides to this debacle – the traitors and the patriots – no in-between
Since no one in D.C. is on our side, we the people must take action
If we do not, our lives in the future will be like any other third-world country – miserable. They will see to it.
That is all.
I agree with the bullet points …
Thank you ☺
Need specific examples of why each bullet point is true. You get nowhere citing what appears to be opinions.
Proven, demonstrable examples. Irrefutable examples for those who are inclined to recognize truth. Examples that affect or may affect their lives or that speak to injustice and/or disdain for the worth and the freedom of every man and every woman.
I hope you are not asking for yourself after reading what Sundance wrote (maybe you did not read it?). If asking for other’s benefits, if they have not seen these points in action themselves, they never will.
Us longtime Treepers have read this dozens of times over. This is a synopsis of everything Sundance has been over.
Agree!
This article is actually a condensed version of all we have learned.
Been there, done that. Still do sometimes.
Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of hosts. – Prophecy of Zacharias
A Godless country will not receive His blessing or protection. Fewer and fewer people believe and go to church. Just sayin’- many “conservatives” are Godless.
Many of us (me, specifically) have not had good experiences at “church.” However, I am a believer and certainly not “Godless.”
Many churches are full of heretics including their pulpits. My father was not Godless either, but he gave up on church too. For him it was liberal politics from the pulpit. For his father it was more demands for giving when they had nothing to give. I understand what you say, but giving up on church is not the answer.Faith is typically passed on. “I am my own church” has led to D.E.I., the new God. A country cannot ignore the true God because it will eventually raise up a false one. My father and grandfather’s failure in respect to “giving up on church” has culminated in Godless children who grew up to become Godless. The seeds were sewn. “Be not as your fathers, to whom the prophets have cried” -the Prophecy of Zacharias.
Acknowledging that this entire event was initially manufactured for the sole purpose of removing our voice (President Trump) and If the Russia Hoax was going to successfully facilitate the coup of President Trump, I do not believe there ever would have been a covid19 pandemic. I believe the flagrant attacks on President Trump actually just made him even more popular. I believe everything the cabal threw at us just made the deep state cabals ability to succeed in fair elections impossible. The fake pandemic was the final solution to subvert the will of the people and this country will never be the same again as a result.
While listening to the approved Conservative talking points/heads, I am careful not to let the recent revelations of the Russia Hoax/Durham trick me into assuming this had anything to do with why Trump is currently in exile. Some are actually insinuating, if not directly implying this to be the case. I remind myself that this is what a failed coup attempt looks like and the visible lawlessness of it actually only helped Trump get elected in 2020.
Branden didnt win.
Notice how the twitter file investigation disappeared when Obamas involvement was the only thing left to contemplate? Elon Musks actions very suspicious. Notice how Taibbi didnt even make the connection out load. I was waiting for the pretending to materialize and of course it did. Already knew for certain at that point what to expect from Musk and the coffee shop.
180 million up votes !
Unless and until the kenyan himself is prosecuted, or PDT wipes out 90% of the corrupt DC trash dump, conservatives are just an element to be attacked and defeated. There’s no one coming to save us short of the rapture, or PDT
I do not believe there ever would have been a covid19 pandemic.
I suspect that covid19 was planned for Hilary Clinton’s term. Imagine her wielding that emergency power. The purpose would be to federalize US elections and begin the WEF reset.
They just had to make some tweaks after Trump was elected.
‘Imagine [Hillary] wielding that emergency power.’ – dd_sc
We’d still be masked, locked down, and wrestled to the ground at our front door to forcibly receive booster no. 6.
Oh, and nearly 300 Democrats would rule the House after the landslide 2022 midterm election – the historic ‘Hillary wave’ of grateful voters!
I can’t help but imagine the Fourth Branch has 2 thrones of blood. One for ex-POTUS Bill Clinton and the other for the current POTUS Hillary Clinton. They have been strangely silent since this fiasco first started in the campaign against Trump, but between them, they have numerous “strings” into the players at all levels. They all know these people will kill them if necessary. These are billionaires that toy around in political power games around the World. They also have much to keep hidden like Uranium Sales, ambassadors getting killed, rigged elections, etc.
MASSIVE FRAUD: Evidence shows that covid data is 100% false
EXPOSING GLOBAL COVID FRAUD
It is hard to believe that such a global deception could occur, yet the evidence is all here. Thousands of medical doctors, nurses, and patients around the world testify of completely false covid registrations. Funeral directors confirm countless false death certificates.
Check the evidence for yourself…
https://stopworldcontrol.com/fraud/
Why did these “thousands of medical doctors, nurses, and patients” wait until now to speak up?
They wouldn’t have crashed the economy under Hillary. They would have changed elections some other way. I don’t think they expected people to comply like they did. At first, they were tentative, and didn’t try claiming lockdowns would lower infections or save lives-just briefly keep hospitals from being overwhelmed. When they saw how people went along with it, they ramped it up.
The doctors trusted the medical journals. They don’t read or trust the same sources as the commoners. The perpetrators infiltrated the institution to infect the students(the doctors). The pharmaceuticals put pressure on the hospital administrations to keep any doubters in line. Too many companies are too big. When a source becomes “most trusted” it can become most dangerous.
Ah, Musk again!
Thanks, MP!
I think Covid was always the plan to bring in SBDC. Having a Dem in office when it was rolled out would have been much more effective. Realizing Trump was going to win 2020 unless something drastic happened, mail in voting, forced the cretins to roll it out when they did.
A Trump election is now deemed … an EMERGENCY!! by the Deep State. And what did we learn from the pandemic? That the President can simply declare “Emergency” … and suspend ALL our most vital Constitutional Rights … starting with the FIRST Amendment.
What “Emergency” will Bidinh’s puppeteers declare in 2024?
“7 ways from Sunday” Schumer.
CIA operatives.
Every way they tried failed. Except for the pandemic hoax. I dont see the pandemic hoax as a coup however. I see it more as crimes against humanity. Essentially doing whatever it takes without limits to stop MAGA. And people died as a result
“out loud”, perhaps.
Is this what they call a “limited hangout”?
Obviously this is a lot to read and no I haven’t studied it all yet. But just wanted to say Sundance has hit the nail on the head. The right question at this time is “what are the solutions?”
Durham did not provide any solutions. Probably wasn’t rightly his job. But it is our job to find solutions and communicate them far and wide.
Communicate them far and wide? How is that going to work? Smoke signals? Signal flags? Every comment on this site gets flagged. You want to tell somebody on the opposite coast to raise arms? Surprise! Knock knock. Oh lookie dear, the feds are here. You’ll never see one of these players at the gas station or grocery store. So what exactly are YOU gonna do to stop them or make them pay. We’re all pissed, and we don’t want to die in police custody. But waiting ‘for someone else to do it’ won’t work either. Going to be a long, hot Summer it seems.
SD’s elevator speech is an excellent conversation starter. The Patriot Act is the perfect prism through which to see the conflict.
It appears you’re being stupid intentionally. To deflect from what can be done?
Email this to your friends, get on the phone, engage in conversation with those you run in to.
Playing helpless will get you absolutely nowhere. Sounds like that’s what wd wants.
I reccomend ALL watch the Oliver Stone movie “Snowden” showing exactly what the capability is that they HAD, back when Snowden was working there, and how the technology kept evolving, and how flagrantly they ignored any safeguards, etc.
After watching that, my conclusion is the only way such a system could be ended, is by permanently shutting down the Internet, worldwide.
I just don’t see THAT happening, short of a cataclisym.
And, WITH that phenominal power in the hands of flawed humans who can exploit it for their own ends, institutional ends, etc. I am having serious doubts we can ever put in sufficient controls to prevent major, systemic abuse.
Just imagine what WE could do, with such power were we able to actually control it. THAT is probably what fueled their abject fear of PDJT; NOT that he and Flynn would learn what they were doing, and STOP it.
But that PDJT and Flynn would learn what they were doing, take control of it, and USE it.
We could expose all of their collusions, machinations, etc. and have the PROOF, IN THEIR OWN WORDS, as they conspired to set up Russia, Russia, and Covid vax, etc. with not just the names of “the actives” but with thise in power that gave them their marching orders.
Would we, having such power, refuse to use it because it violated the Constitutiinal rights of criminals guilty of such heinous crimes?
Of coarse not, because “we are doing it for the RIGHT reasons” which is EXACTLY what they told themselves.
The power is too great to resist, and yet it exists, other countries have it too, civilisation iis far too dependant on the I-net to shut it down, and so their seems to be no answer.
As a Special Council I believe it was “rightfully his job” to recommend solutions and indictments.
When the document was first released, some other members of this forum pointed out that Durham wrote and phrased his report as if he were an Inspector General not a Special Council.
I partly agree because Durham should have provided indictments as you said. But the solutions involve restructuring the government and that is much bigger than a special council’s job
Solution is to indict the perpetrators and recommend Congress repeal the Patriot Act.
With the lefty in control of many of the Courts, the DOJ, the Presidency and the Senate, just exactly how do you expect that to work?
Bagpipe Bill’s Job, and he not only ‘passed’… he facilitated this mess when he lied to PJTD… MORE THAN ONCE, IT APPEARS!
it is up to HUBER…to indict..is he do it ??? some ppl say yes……
An act of Congress is the solution.
Exactly! What is the solution to this nightmare? Is there one?
Now what?
You get more of what you tolerate. Until these traitorous bastards face the ultimate punishment nothing will ever change, period. They will not stop if there is no capital punishment, whether judicial or extra-judicial. Think Braveheart scene with the Morning Star!
For all those outraged Republicans, some of which are RINOs, in the House (I haven’t heard one peep from those in the Senate) who are showing their mad faces over the coup and its known instigators, provocateurs, and enablers escaping anything even close to justice…
I am sick unto death of seeing tweets of outrage from these spine-free leeches which start out with “We must…” or “We need to…”, who were elected and swore oaths to “protect and defend the (now shredded) Constitution.”
The ubiquitous “We” is you, Congressperson! Shut up and get to work doing what you are there to do.
We’re waiting…
Waiting with you Betsy🇺🇸👍…
🇺🇸💪😀👍
Pull up a chair and sit beside me, Jim…I’ve brought provisions. It will be like waiting for Godot.😎
Yes, Betsy you have obviously taken Sundances “Stop pretending” to heart, as have we all I think.
“Did they support Ronna, for a 5th term?
Did they recieve massive donations from the R Congressional campaign committees and the RNC in their last election?
Doesn’t THAT tell us far more than any words of FEIGNED outrage, as if we stop pretending we KNOW that the RNC and R Congressional leadership were and are the center of the opposition to PDJT and MAGA, because THEY are the ones most immediately threatened BY PDJT and MAGA.
Lets stop pretending
All of the above, dutch.
I watched Cruz grilling (pontificating) someone. And there sat right next to him was the other Texas-grifter, bought and paid for Senator from my state, Cornyn, playing on his phone. A useless seat warmer, an open borders advocate for the Chamber of Commerce.
We have all their numbers. Parodies of Senators and Congresspersons. A tragicomedy of poseurs and parasites.
But in the end, we know they are in many ways complicit with the poisonous and corrupt DOJ/FBI/Deep State/Clinton/Obama/McConnell cabal.
They were all in on it, these scurrilous elected traitors. They knew. And others know they knew.
Blackmail is a nasty weapon. But I’m betting there’s plenty of damning info on them all to make sure nobody pays the price for destroying this country….
…except us….we’re paying. It has cost us everything.
There will be no reparations for us.
“They were all in on it….”
And that is the PROBLEM!
The Repugs are more detestable than the Demoncrats. At least the latter executes a plan they believe in.
When a jackboot is placed on our necks, it doesn’t matter if it is the left one or the right. And that’s exactly what has happened.
My own hate list includes the couch conservatives who think quoting passages from the Constitution will defeat the whirlwind of history.
The Constitution has always been, and remains, an aspirational document.
All flavors of leftism are dedicated to ending America and returning to feudalism/fascism (same thing). A few rich and well-meaning leftists like Obama and Hillary should rule us all. And your leftist neighbors tacitly accept this.
They think they’ll be eaten last…or not all. More fool them.
My hero Mark Steyn had great sport with Jim Jordan for insisting there was nothing to worry about in America’s egregious defeat in Afghanistan.
And knucklehead Jim is widely regarded by conservatives as the best of ’em.
One by one, raptors, those I thought honourable and diligent have lines drawn through their names. The list, once short, is lengthening daily. I think my double columned tally is on page two, back and front.
You know I am an unflinching admirer of Mark’s and have been since his time as a columnist on the once great paper The Telegraph in the UK when it was under the auspices of Lord Black, another victim of Obama’s Reign of Error.
I wish I had heard Mark. I’m so glad he is back to good health. He is indispensable.
How was America defeated? America should never have been there!
They were certainly defeated, and they should have withdrawn long ago.
You should maybe reevaluate your hero.
I am on your train too, Betsy
“WE MUST GET THIS INFORMATION INTO THE BLOODSTREAM OF THE LARGER AMERICAN ELECTORATE.”
Well, I recall this being brought up before, but stands to be brought up again.
Certain people have certain sensibilities, worldviews, red lines of propriety, etc. Consider if things were presented up and down on the website with hard lines as far as professionalism, elimination of profanity (which used to be a sort of understood thing but appears to be trampled on an ongoing basis), ridiculous memes posted everywhere like the devil horn caricature picture that just keeps getting posted over and over, etc.
Having things in a more readily acceptable form for wide dissemination could make a difference. Those sites, substacks etc. that stick to factual presentations and don’t let the comments stray into much of the above seem to have less reasons for people to dismiss them out of hand, let alone have search engines and the other gatekeepers also torpedo them before they get from point A to point B. And just sending one article in that form doesn’t make the difference, since people wondering about the sources may well look at everything connected.
It’s not a matter that people need to understand the culture of the website or whatever. If that’s going to be the major tone of the responses to this, then stay in the silo and set aside answering the questions being asked about getting the information out. If you want to get the information out, the entire ecosystem needs to avoid unprofessional off ramps such as those that have seemed to increasingly pepper the website, including content such as crass and / or inappropriate pictures and language (not just in comments, but in threads themselves) that have been questionable on that end. It’s just the way it is.
Right! Now you just go and do that. The information of this site is free and you don’t even need to give credit to the source. Write as elegant as you want and with as much professionalism as you are capable of. The more the merrier!
Retired Magistrate here: I know some people will criticize me for this, but the only way the United States of America, as founded, will be saved is if GOD chooses to do so. So many people in this country have turned away from HIM and are doing what is right in their own eyes rather than giving glory to GOD for all the blessings that HE has bestowed on this country.
I have no idea what the future holds for this country; however, I do know that if we cry out to HIM for mercy and turn back to HIM, HE may decide to restore this country back to its founding principles; or not. HE is in control, we aren’t.
I agree. The federal government is much too powerful for any mere human to take it down and that includes President Trump. We need divine intervention. Has there ever been a time in history where evil has had so much power coupled with modern technology? The power these people have is mind boggling. Washington DC must be dismantled. It cannot be reformed just as one could not reform the nazi government or Mao’s or Stalin’s government. These are modern day reincarnations of these hideous odious people except they speak English and have nice university degrees and dress in nice suits. Rip off the well groomed exterior and they are the same people. Call them nazis , communists,socialists whatever. They are all the same pile of garbage. We need divine intervention to defeat them. These satanic people laugh at all the silly people who still think we can vote our way out of this.
No criticism from me. I have always appreciated your thoughtful input. I’m just not sure that God will come and intervene. I think we/us/ourselves must use the strengths that we are given and do it ourselves. We have the strength to know that what we are standing up for is right and ignore all the name-calling from the left. We are not racists, we are not fascists, we are not supremacists. Quite the contrary; we left alone those that wander off course for the most part, just leave us alone. The left has brought the battle of all those things to our faces. They attack our thoughts, they attack our way of life, they attack our parenting. they attack our goodness. They are trying to change us! We will not have it, it’s not God’s way.
Those that have turned away from Him have no such strengths so they try to win by deceit. We have the numbers, that’s what pisses them off the most. Pull on the armor and give no quarter.
Retired Magistrate here: Every morning I put on the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness and love, the shield of faith, gird my waist with the truth, the sword of the spirit and I shod my feet with the gospel of peace. I also ask GOD to empty me of myself, fill me with his HOLY SPIRIT and to do HIS will. Then I go forward to greet and meet the new day with whatever HE has chosen for me to do. Some days it is just little acts of kindness, other days an opportunity to share the gospel and at times just quiet times.
The pandemic isolated so many people and they have never recovered. A lot of individuals are still scared to go back to living again. Church attendance has dropped dramatically and many have turned away from the faith. My husband and I pray that there will be a great revival in this country. It has happened before and we pray that it happens again.
Certainly, it can’t be repeated often enough, to get right with God.
As for what happens and possibly how God achieves the SEEMINGLY impossible.
Next month, 81 countries representatives are meeting, to work out how to shift to gold back currencies as their reserve currency, in order to dump U.S. Treasuries.
THIS, truly is the “credit card companies” cutting up Congress’s credit cards.
The whole increasing the debt limit is a charade, equivalent to the credi card holder raising the limit on their card.
It makes raising the credit limit IRRELEVANT, and WILL force Congress to decide priorities, Ukraine or,….? (a long list of domestic policies) you can not do both.
In the short term, very painful and possibly fatal, however the British pound USED to be the reserve currency, and thats largely what financed their empire building; the sun no longer always sets on the british empire, because the pound is no longer the reserve currency.
If losing reserve currency status, ends the U.S. Govts hegemonic, worldwide bullying, and pushes us to concentrate on our core strengths, perhaps its a good thing?
And let us not forget the vote THIS MONTH for WHO to take over, and define, ALL healthcare.
Repent, turn, and trust the Trinity.
While waiting, go watch “Nefarious!”
Chuck Missler called it Abandonment Judgment.
I agree that it will only happen as God has planned. I have no hope that the masses will turn to Him to help His decision. But He might do it for a remnant among us that do love Him and turn to d His will.
“HE is in control, we aren’t.” Finally… someone brave enough to assign the blame for where we are now.
I hate to disagree with you on this, but imagine if colonists, chafing under the intolerable yoke of George III, had said to themselves “welp… maybe God will restore our freedoms. We’ll have independence if God chooses to grant it.”
I don’t know what the answer is. I don’t know where you draw the line between humility and passivity. Between faith and action.
It all comes back to ‘Intent’ – as in when Comey said he didn’t believe Hillary ‘intended’ to break the law, or now, any of these federal employees ‘did not intend’ to do bad things like trash the rights granted individuals by the Constitutionj.
It’s the left’s get out of jail free card – sorry officer, I didn’t intend to hit that person with my car when I ran the red light. But heaven help if that driver thinks the wrong thoughts or hangs out with the wrong people, intent is assigned automatically.
The additional information continues to make things clearer every day.
let’s be honest…the FBI was weaponized under J Edgar Hoover. they just felt the need to hide it back then.
Yep, just like they hid the deviancy of Hollywood, and anyone with money. They still do it today, but more is leaked out.
‘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.’ – Sundance
Obviously, the Constitution never conceived of a select group comprising 1.8 percent of Members of Congress, receiving secret briefings which cannot be shared with their colleagues.
Apparently the Gang of Eight started under the George W Bush administration, though Wikipedia offers no clues as to who originated it. Dick Cheney, perhaps? Chalk it off as yet another post-9/11 aberration, like the odious Patriot Act.
Probably no one other than the Attorney General has standing to challenge this intel-friendly Congressional kludge. But because every AG for the past century has been a bought-off partisan hack (Janet Reno and Merrick Beria Garland serving as appalling examples of the bottom of the barrel), no uniparty Attorney General is going to take on this potentially career-ending task.
To my horror, a young relative is being groomed by the ‘intel community.’ As this young person takes a fourth all-expenses-paid trip to DC soon, I will warn again that this seductive largesse is not free, and comes with life-altering consequences.
Tom Clancy talked about the “Gang of Eight” in his novels in the 1990s. I think it started well before Bush IIs administration.
Recall the “Nunes incident” where he views classified docs, in a WH scif, comes out and tells reporters he has seen clear evidence of Constitutional violations.
Firstly, I think its obvious he truly was shocked and horrified at what he saw.
Shows the “silo effect” where as Chairman of intel, and Gof8 member, he had no idea.
Recall Comey saying he didn’t brief “due to the sensitivity” and nobody challenged.
Secondly, when Nunes spoke to reporters aftet leaving the scif, he WAS violating the espionage act; revealing classified info he WAS privvy to, to those not authorised to recieve it.
I surmise he naively felt that blatant violations of the Constitution ‘trumped’ espionage act violations, and was soon schooled in how wrong that was; its EXACTLY the same rationale as Edward Snowden, and I think Nunes WAS intimidated by having this pointed out to him.
This gets to Sundances “4th branch of Govt”; Congress, the POTUS and the Courts have all been “gamed” by the IC., into irrelevance; none have any power or authority to reign in, restrict control or police the 4th branch.
An executive order created them, and an executive order can destroy them
AND THE CIA!!!!!!! From where all info flowed at the beginning.
I’m glad that you once again reposted the main subsequent body of this post as a REMINDER to everyone.
I forwarded the 4 previous Durham posts from this site to several various interested individuals. The only response so far has been ‘shock’ and these are people who align with us and are aware of this stuff basically. I believe these individuals will share with family, friends, acquaintances and coworkers to various degrees. It’s something.
I still believe the ‘real’ reason for the MAL raid was to seize evidence and/or lock up said evidence through litigation about the disputed classified status of said evidence to keep Trump from being able to use it in civil RICO lawsuits against a multitude of bad actors.
BK,
On your last point, I still am not sure of the reasoning for the MAL raid, and they may have had multiple reasons.
One, I THINK was the “lawfare” thing, where they aren’t focused on winning in the Courts, but are using the action (raid or indictments) simplybto put out a false narrative, to ‘try’ the case “in the Court of Public Opinion”.
In that regard, they are exploting the “a lie runs around the World, before the truth can lace up its shoes”.
And, both with the MAL raid and the Bragg indictments, I think its clear the Trump team HAVE developed an effective counter, basically having the Truth, with shoes laced up and in the starting blocks, ready to take off when the starting pistol sounds, or in the case of Bragg, even BEFORE the starter pistol.
And this responce IS largely making the lawfare inneffective.
I think you may well be right, that it was a strategy to address the RICO case, although doesn’t the Durham report pretty much make the case?
And then there is the whole stories leaking out of Bidens mishandling of classified docs; to what degree was the MAL raid a deflection of that AND Hunter having classified docs?
The swamp water is extremely murky, the air fetid, and with all of the twisted growth, etc. its difficult to see clearly for any distance, even above the water line!
The lawfare thing is exactly the ‘tool’ – keeping the contents silenced.
Durham outlines it but you have to have the ‘physical evidence’ (contents of the files) that are ‘tied up’ legally to make your case AND use to counter as rebuttal to sworn testimony in depositions or on the stand.
You have legal experience like me. Set aside the statutes and processes. Think strategically!!
Dutch
For the life of me I can’t remember the exact details nor have I taken the time to go back and confirm, but there were strong reports of preparing to file or had filed case(s) against HRC et al (in Florida I believe) and they had to suspend, withdraw or got dismissed (temporarily I hope) because of the result of the raid and the ‘classified’ BS.
Maybe SD has it on file and will consider addressing, at least as a possibility.
If memory is correct, even on a cursory level, that would sure as hell give motive for the raid.
Had that suit gone forth, it could have brought down the HOUSE!!
Found it. Suit filed in March. FBI defendants removed and responsibility put over to DOJ in June.
DOJ orders FBI against their concerns to raid MAL in August.
Judge dismiss case in September stating it is frivolous and ‘not plausible.’
Now we know that it was not only plausible, but that is exactly what happened.
The judge knew Trump wouldn’t have the receipts and rather just dismiss, defamed him in the dismissal.
The judge KNEW and waited until the pieces were in place to dismiss.
There ain’t no coincidences!!
They are ALL corrupt!
I’ve always said two things:
But there are some who intimately understand this to the core. Sundance is one, the folks at Epoch Times, and pockets of folks like Just The News, etc.
What Sundance lays out here is the first weeks background (opening statements) during impeachment of this entire cast of characters. I say impeach scores of them and run the trial concurrently in the Senate from now until November 2024. There is no more important business in the history of the Republic.
Thank you, Red Fox.
A succinct encapsulation of events.
Each iteration of this history lesson refocuses my COLD ANGER… there are many actors in this ongoing travesty that need-demand brutal punishment… TREASON has brutal punishment for one specific reason… no pruning of a poisonous plant can make it suitable for your dinner…
Well, I’ve got a solution – but Durham and his merry band of corrupt traitors will not like it ….
Do you all receive numerous emails every day from the likes of MTG, McCarthy, et. al. wanting us to do something? If so, have you tried to reply to these emails? It’s not possible, they come back undeliverable. So we the people are subjected to their constant requests for money and help but we can’t even send them a reply email? Also, a lot of them if not most will not accept emails on their “official” websites unless you are a constituent.
What happened to McCarthy releasing all the Jan 6 video to the public? He must have forgotten …. It is time for Marjorie Taylor Green and Matt Gatz to call for a vote on him – wasn’t that the threat they are supposedly holding over his head? What happened to that?
We can’t trust anybody in The People’s Republic of America.
They all have snail mail addresses. Periodically I spend sixty-three (63) US cents to send them a piece of paper saying what I really think.
Yes, I have concluded that whole week to elect a Speaker, was a ruse.
I wondered at the time, exactly WHAT is this terrible threat they are holding over Kevin?
ONE member can make a “motion to vacate” and instantly Kevin is not Speaker, and no other business can be conducted until they elect one.
And, they are right back where they were, before they voted Kevin in.
Dems all vote Hakeem, and come up short. Kevin votes also come up short without the 20/6, and they vote and vote until the 20/6 eventually “cave”; so WHAT?
Given that the only changes we have seen with Kevin have been symbolic and words not deeds, like not going to Ukraine, and changes in tone,..
And the J6 tape non release I am thinking EITHER the 20/6 got “played” or they “played” us.
How much $ did the R Congressional campaign committees, the RNC donate to the campaigns of the 20/6, and how much support did they get from their State R parties, for their election?
IMHO, THAT is probably the most accurate metric of where their loyalties lie, as their words are worthless as indicators, and even their kabuki theater actions can be decieving.
Durham wasn’t chosen to get answers, but he did present some excellent opportunities to push our (MAGA) agenda forward. What do you think, Klausy baby?
Short of completely dismantling the alphabet agencies, the several people involved in the weoponization and the coup must be indicted. Fired, not put on leave, and be tried, not in DC.
There’s certainly enough evidence to at least throw them out of any position in government for life, including any company that has dealings with government, law offices, lobbyists, contractors. Strip them of their security clearances and their law licenses, for life.
And private activist journalists must cover each of these people, all their subversive illegal deeds, and their political malfeasance, to their ends.
Ask the right questions of politicians. And if they fail to answer, call them out for it. Accuse them of knowing the plots against PDJT, that they’ve all been false, and then ask why they never lifted a finger to help PT, the country or its people. And record them as they try to squirm their way back to the sewer.
Then repeal that damn patriot act, and everything pandora let out of that evil box.
As for congress, we’re going to have to make some examples of RINOs at the ballot box to show them we’re serious. We’re angry and we’re not going to take it anymore.
What would powerful people in DC do to stop the American people from finding this out?
Whatever it takes…ANYTHING….Murder….Blackmail….A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G!!!!!!!! You can imagine.
What did Durham say about the Deep State leftist treachery? He said … Ohhhhhhhhh mommmamaaaaaa
The best beginning to solve of all this is to outlaw all government employees unions at every level. Government employees should not be allowed to unionize against We the People.
(Quoting Sundance) “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 problem. Comey, when giving Hillary a pass on prosecution for setting up illegal servers and deleting tens of thousands of e-mails, set up the riduculous “no intent” proposition, and, therefore, in Comey’s words, “…no reasonable prosecutor…”
You know the rest.
*My emphasis added.
(Edit…I noticed that Bessie2003 previously commented on the “intent” problem.)
Maybe someday take a deep dive into SES Senior Executive Services set up under the Carter Administration with Bloody George HW Bush CIA Head taking the lead.
We enshrined swamp rats in a protective bubble impervious to the voter. They were formed and act under the auspices of “Continuity of Government” when in truth they act as a Praetorian Guard to protect the Imperial Federal Government from Americans.
A permanent bureaucracy is not what the Founders intended.
And thank you for reiterating it was during the BUSH admin, supporting my contention that the Bush admin INTENTIONALLY put all of the pieces in place, SO THAT Obama could set up “phase two”.
No doubt about that Dutchman.
Two wings of the uniparty buzzard, like peas in a pod, and this represents “their” Continuity in Government which equals our demise.
Dislaimer: I voted for and defended both Bush’s will a moment of sanity when, my wife and I “proudly” voted for Perot in 1992…what if?
The solution is illustrated beautifully in the Virginia State Seal. A patriot standing on the body of a dead tyrant with the words, sic semper tyrannis.
Maybe it is time for you republican decepticons to stop banning the phrase. You aren’t just censoring SPEECH, you are attempting to control the very idea of REBELLION.
The censor is the enemy. Don’t be the enemy…
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Josey: Yes. For anyone wondering, the Latin phrase means, “Thus always to tyrants.”
Washington, DC country clubs are very special, very special for those members who congregate beyond the pleasures of golf. Business is always taking place at those country clubs, business the average American citizen never hears or sees, much less contemplates.
Summer homes, winter homes, special get away locations are another rendezvous location where deals are suggested, made and then implemented. Security is all around so that the outsiders know nothing of what takes place. Oh sure, serving staff always hears such deals but they know to enjoy the perks such jobs provide their mouths must be shut at all times. Leaks do occur, but then rarely do they get confirmed in time to avoid the deals consummated and implemented.
Durham is nothing more than a “flower boys” who spreads beauty all about, distracting those who come to learn.
His image, that tough guy facial hair is right out of central casting for a B movie.
Just what did you expect from these special people…the truth of the matter? Fools…time was bought, work was done, objectives accomplished while most just focused on the guy with the orange hair–the bad guy, the smeared guy, the only guy in the room who wanted to right the ship of state!
Here that guy comes again: How will our country club people stop him? Just how far are they willing to go? My guess is all the way…our guy needs more protection as does his immediate family. Gird your loins America!
AS expected.
Barr covered himself superficially until he was out.
It is now in the Historical Dustbin.
As explained here, we desperately need to form specialized TREASON COURTS that are independent of the DOJ, FBI, etc.:
https://tomwigand.substack.com/p/we-desperately-need-to-establish
If you know a FBI agent, ask them if they are ok with political targeting, weaponization of government against citizens they are supposed to work for and for the coup as staged – if they say no – challenge them to resign.
The authors of the patriot act were also mostly comprised of unelected officials. Our law makers have relegated themselves to sponsoring bills. Many parts of the act are totally unconstitutional. The judicial branch has apparently failed to recognize this for whatever reason. In regards to the Durham report and its lack of solutions could that be because Wray and Garland had already took necessary action. Which in a nutshell is don’t get caught at this again. The nation might have an inside chance of recovery if the congressional oversight and funding mechanisms worked. But they too are very inadequate and somewhat toothless.
Most of the commentary I’ve heard since the Durhan Report came out centers upon what happened, confirmation of previous speculation as to who did it and why no official talk about criminal accountability . I agree that the enormity of the coup demands answers and prosecutions and I am as outraged as others on this forum. But little is being said about the consequences of NOT bringing criminal charges against the perpetrators of the coup. If this is allowed to go unpunished it will, and has, continue to happen with impunity. At the risk of sounding like chicken little (or Sean Hannity), the next election will be the most consequential of our lifetimes. And Trump is the perfect candidate to follow forward. Given his persecution and courage he is motivated enough and strong enough to weed out the bad apples in the IC. This unconstitutional precedent must not be allowed to stand unchallenged.
FWIW,
I sent your recommendations to my Representative, Byron Donalds.
I also sent them to Little Marco with the following note:
Your buddy Mark Warner is a criminal. What are you going to do about it?
I’ve written many reports. What they contained was Processes that worked and didn’t work. I never took it upon my self to write in solutions, my opinion. Although after reports were submitted, I was asked for any solutions to whatever problems were stated.
This is where Congress must act. Citizens are asking/demanding solutions. It’s up to them. The ball is in their court.
Institutions aren’t the problem.
Procedures aren’t the problem.
Rules and regulations aren’t the problem.
Laws aren’t the problem.
PEOPLE are the PROBLEM.
The only Durham recommendation that would have any value is for one demanding ACCOUNTABILITY. And that requires the permanent removal of PEOPLE from power. Period. Indictments are completely called for, but I’d take mass firings at this point.
I miss Trump and firings. When it comes to the business of the Swamp, firings show order taking hold and a swamp being drained. No firings under Biden. He welcomes snakes – the swampier the better.
MAGA
Is the solution not explicit in the laws they broke?
relocated to appropriate thread
Let’s bring this home: when the investigation was assigned to John “Bull” Durham, we had a completely different picture of what was meant by the “bull” moniker. This tepid report, long on accusations but absent of any solutions, suggests the more earthy interpretation of the nickname to be closest to the mark.
The system is utterly, irredeemably, corrupt. Not because of a flawed inception but because it was made for a different kind of people, an honorable people, a godly people who understood the difference between a truth and a lie, who did not elevate to their highest office someone who quibbles about the meaning of “is”.
If Trump overcomes the gauntlet and they allow him to actually assume the office (pray for his protection), then expect that the next administration will be as much about demolition as reconstruction. There is no alternative, the rot is too deep. A radical, painful approach is unavoidable.
“If Trump overcomes the gauntlet” he will have to go full benevolent dictator with the military under his command.
Clear out the DC gulags of MAGA patriots and throw the traitors starting with Soros, Obamas, Garland, Holder, Schiff, Clintons, Budens,et al in their place.
No other way.
Thank you Sundance.
Massive effort and masterful command of the overview down to the minutia. It seems like you’ve edited it for better flow?
I will never, ever forget the foreboding of the election night 2006. Repeat, I will never ever forget the foreboding of election night 2006, it was a bone chilling moment for me. Everything on the national scene ever since that evening has reinforced the foreboding.
We had survived Clinton and GB I but were totally attention absorbed by 9/11 and the war on terror of GB II. When we all started waking up we were in the middle of cheering “our” guys for taking out evil leadership in the mideast. Still there was that nagging doubt which crystallized in true horror at the Grecian columns moment.
The velvet glove of a prod here or stressed info there is now quickly becoming an iron fist.
First a revival.
Thank you again Sundance. We were the few and we became the many and we will become a tsunami in part because of you.
To explain about 2006…voters (rigged even then?) flipped the congress and the evil Pelosi came into power. After 6 years of screaming that Bush II was the devil by the press. Some of could see even then they were sitting up this “nice young senator” for installation. It was when I first became aware that “the system” was not really working the way it should. You could not find a prominent GOP to defend Bush to the press….the suspicious cat would have had fur raised at that point.
The reaction from the Clinton years, the fake “hanging chad” and Gore just knowing the fix was in for Florida….you tell me if they haven’t been choosing the outcome since at least Reagan!
It’s all Obama. It’s always been Obama. Obama is the REAL “Big Guy.” Obama is the REAL criminal mastermind. Obama was the head of the snake. Obama was the John Gotti of the US government, overseeing a massive criminal conspiracy. Obama was the head of the “Obama Crime Family.” Holder did the dirty work @ DOJ..
Democrats and their strategists groomed enabled/installed Obama who hated America with a passion and the Republicans stood down.
Which strategists? Which Democrats?
Thank you
Who specifically installed Obama.
There’s reference to his installation being planned ~2 years in advance.
Who did that planning?
Thank you
And through all of this, through everything Sundance has gone way above and beyond to research and document, all we’ve pretty much had are articles of impeachment submitted by Marjorie Taylor Greene for Biden and a resolution to kick out Adam Schiff by Anna Luna Paulina. Everything else is absolutely worthless. Good thing the patriots from 274 or so years ago didn’t assume a fetal position when deciding to confront the most powerful nation on earth. Speaking of back then, I am certain beyond any reasonable doubt that if Sundance was alive then, he would have been one of them.
DOJ scrub job?
More reason to hall his old lazy azz infront of the American people answer questions.
In the old spy movies there was a mystical substance called sodium pentothal that could be injected into prisoners or captured spies, and they would become unfailingly candid, for a short time, until they passed out.
Also called alcohol at family gatherings (my joke), wouldn’t it splendid to inject sodium pentothal into the thousands of prominent Americans who claim to believe in Russian collusion? Starting with the Democrat Party House members (Pelosi is a foregone conclusion) and ending with the staff of MSNBC.
Whether or not you truly believe in the vague concept of Russian collusion is like challenging whether a father truly thinks his daughter is a beautiful girl. They do because they love and are devoted, and passionate Democrats would believe nearly anything to advance their Party. Our fascist descent into a one-Party State is surely not dependent on truth or fact.
I respectfully disagree with one foundational point of Sundances review of “how we got to where we are”;
As presented, after 9/11, and as a result of 9/11, the “Bush admin” weoponised the I/C, specifically to “fight islamic terrorism” and it was only later when the Obama admin came it, that they expoited this now pre-existing system.
The Bush admin. appointed Mueller, who instituted the “7 and out policy” which enabled the purging of experienced field agents, and the ideological vetting of all field agents, by requiring they spend time working at FBI headquarters in D.C.
Mueller signed the MOU with the CIA, which gave each agency something they desperately wanted.
The FBI got access to the NSA database, which they had previously been denied.
The CIA got what was effectively a CIA ‘station’ in D.C., in violation of Federal law and CIA charter.
They circumvented those prohibitions, by CALLING it “NSD-DOJ” and having FBI/CIA agents working there, i.e. agents “crosstrained” as both CIA and FBI agents.
The Bush admin. in appointing Mueller to head the FBI, knew Muellers history, as detailed succinctly in an op-ed written by Louis Ghomert.
So did Congressional Republicans that voted to confirm his appointment.
He promptly brought in Comey and Andrew Weisemann to the top levels of the FBI (7th floor).
Given “what we know now” about Bush, Mueller, Weiseman, and Comey, given that every “Conspiracy theory” seems to prove out as “true”, given that MANY believe 9/11 was a U.S. Govt op, given we KNOW they create a crises, usually using fear, in order to get public support for implementing new policy that will give them more power, given that 9/11 gave them the justification to pass the Patriot act into law, …given all that an alternative explanation is that BUSH was the “John the Baptist” (if I can use that analogy) that intentionally paved the way for the weoponisation that occurred under Obama.
I recognise we can dispute whether there is or isn’t irrefutable evidence to prove this alternate explanation, and hence without “the receipts” asserting this alternate explanation as fact would be reckless, and could damage credibility for anyone, like Sundance that has established a long track record of such credibility.
I, however am under no such restraints, as I post postulates that turn out to be wrong, …a lot lol.
You might be closer than you think
I remind you of the John Poindexter ‘Total Information Awareness’ program, which all seems to have been forgotten.
Look that up and see the picture.
Look up William “Robert Johnson” Barr, hired by CIA right out of high school (?) and reports of his activities in Arkansas.
Some but not all of the players on the not-so-merry-go round.
Peter Strozk is one of those cross-trainees.
“Law and Order are Everywhere, the Law and Order which protect the established heirachy”… Herbert Marcuse. Hope is Eternal, but….
“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.”
NOT TRUE. President Trump has, by fiat, unilateral control over declassification of anything. SCOTUS precedent on the matter of declassification of documents and materials states that if he is/was in possession of classified material after leaving, it is presumed they are declassified by his authority.
Now, the protocol of RELEASE of information is a protocol established by the originating agencies but if the POTUS ordered the release of the ordered declassified material, they are obliged to forego that release protocol.
When Trump declassified material, I do not see where it was ordered to be released. This is, however, where FOIA comes in. If one knows how to ask the right questions, they can issue a FOIA request to have it released unredacted because it is entirely declassified.
A more cynical opinion is that this report was written the day Bag Pipe Billie Barr closed down the Mueller Inquisition … on “this particular topic” as the trade was no prosecutions and continued pursuit of President Trump nor recommendations (on this topic) in return for closing down this particular operation with nobody in DHS (including the FBI) and congress being cited for the 2017-2020 effort to remove President Trump.
The 2020 and 2024 lawfare assaults are an entirely “new” operation and NOT covered under this deal.
I am happy that I’ve been MAGA all along. Tea party was the start of knowing it was even possible to stand up and expose DC rot.
I’ll say it again……Virtually all of the people mentioned and involved in this Corruption and Criminal behavior are Lawyers……and a Corrupt, complicit Judiciary that allows it all to continue unabated…..I’m not sure how you fix a totally corrupt, unethical Legal system…..
The time game is always in play, always running out, never enough, nothing moves fast in Government DC time were you always waiting on something new while time runs out on something old and unsettled, we are the puppets we see our leaders as.
WHAT
can
be done
to stop
this anti-American evil???
What can We The People do
individually and together?
There is nothing that can be done now. There were incremental changes that took place, like in the schools, and we collectively said, well, it’s not that important to fight that thing now. They will never completely take over. There are too many patriots that love America.
All wrong headed assumptions.
We were complacent, now it’s gone.
People are exhausted and bewildered.
Bombarded from all sides by everything from lock downs, finances, food shortages, lies, corruption, war etc
The one thing that sticks out to all is, WHY IS NO ONE being held accountable.
The Durham Report and coverup. Where is Professor Mifsud? – YouTube
I thought this was also interesting……I remember the discussions about the Professor…and Stephen Halper.