The nature of our problem.
Former FBI Director James Comey openly admitted to Congress on March 20, 2017, how the FBI, FBI Counterintelligence Division, Main Justice & 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 approximately a year without informing Congress [Gang of Eight]. When asked why, 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; 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.
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Some nice details added into this writing. How can it be published and get the attention of those that need it whether they know it or not. To right this ship will take a multi pronged effort. I think starting with the doj.
print it and mail it to everyone in your neighborhood.
Print, copy and distribute widely to anyone and everyone.
Get a list of GOP voters in your precinct from your county election office and broad cast this information – mail it or drop it off on their door steps. This is how we galvanize the grassroots and take back our country.
I am in agreement with bonny, sparky and jaye.
I think that is why SD reposts these type of researched reports again and again, sometimes updating and adding things.
All the work he puts in would be useless if it was one and done.
New readers see it and we who have been here awhile are reminded to share as far and wide as possible.
I like the ideas to print and distribute. Don’t forget your Senators and Congressman. They need reminded that we know and we aren’t stopping.
Sundance, You might want to break this article into two or three series, like a part 1, 2, 3 to keep people’s focus and attention!🤔
Excellent suggestion; I had a hard time reading it to the end. Too much material to process all at once.
chew it slowly
Don’t try to go against human nature, it won’t work out for you!!!
As a Native New Yorker, my bullshit detector went off immediately upon listening to Comey answer Elise Stefanik. Comey’s nickname within the Bureau was “the Cardinal” because of his swarmy, butt-kissing persona. I assume this is one big reason (of many) that Trump summarily fired him. Comey is without a doubt the biggest POS in this whole affair. There should be no measures left unattempted in getting revenge on that closeted weasel and that includes investigating his whole extended family. Dems opened that door with Trump.
Reserving the right to keep Obama at the top of the schiffhead list.
Osama is no better then Hunter and a thief to boot.
Crack teeth replaced and a fake marriage with rental children is the only difference between Osama and Hunter.
Next in line to the Pope himself.
Comey is the archetypal “Tallest Guy With The Best Hair.”
The hair is such a tell with these dudes.
Is there a word more damning that the word “loathing” that I can use to describe my hatred of the US Feral Gruberment?
Take that hatred and energize your own grassroots efforts to throw the bums out in 2024. Walk your precinct.
It seems it all boils down to this…
The citizens of this country have ZERO representation.
Governance is now a mythical creature.
This is an Augean stable so filthy it would be difficult, if not impossible, to know where to put the first shovel.
We are ruled by psychopathic, narcissistic evil…and that is now indisputable.
If God is with us, you can be against us? Naw, do not fear.
With an even moderately liberty interested MSM this could be ended in fairly short order.
MSM are union workers too – all for one and one for all. The union manifesto. Pay MSM no mind, they care more about their own paychecks than anything else.
ALL of the “problems” we face, economic, legal, cultural, foreign or domestic have been created BY the overeducated elites.
And, all can be resolved using, as PDJT says “common sense” IF we have a UNITY of will and detirmination.
Hence, anything we do which stimulates, nurtures or increases UNITY of Will and Detirmination furthers our cause.
I think of the Tower of Babel. They wanted to be as gods. And God put a stop to it.
I’m praying.
It would take an enormous, concerted, effort by many of our States to combat the Federal government. In the meantime, “we are on our own” together.
What can I say, BFAW?
No, that is not the case at all. It says laziness and expecting someone else to fix things is not the answer. If you can’t come up with grass roots efforts your self, why should anyone else do this for you?
It’s not always that way Jaye. Betsy works as hard as the rest of us trying to get this message out to her friends and neighbors and even many of those people she has never met on Facebook and etc.
Some states, as I’m sure you know, with Man it’s impossible to break through the generational slime. But what Betsy is saying is, with God, all things are possible.
We’re all glad you are doing your part to make an extra effort. Thank you. But without God, it would just be spitting into the ocean. He hates evil as much as we do, even more. But He’s laughing at them, and about ready to tear them down, just like He has done with every other evil empire since the beginning. In His time, He will once again.
Exactly, Gronimo….wherever we are headed God is already there. This we can count upon.
In His time, according to His plan.
If it is not in His time, nothing can make it happen.
If it is? Nothing can stop it.
Thank you. 😊B
Does anyone here, outraged or not, believe that we could produce a Washington Mall filled with people such as when MLK assembled the masses or such as most recent the protesters FOR Israel? At this point I shall not render a guess.
Don’t worry about where to put the first shovel. Just worry about getting the shovel and then using it vigorously until the stable is clean.
I confess I am not a “good Christian” as my first thought was that I know EXACTLY where to put the shovel, the only question is Who’s neck is first?
I will pray,…
I’d start with the Department of (In)Justice.
Free the Political Prisoners.
The Hyperlink to “Doofus Reminder HERE” has been Deleted, but it can be found on The Wayback Machine here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20101226060548/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTry_MiFA2Q
Thanks again for great expose. I was reminded GWB saying after 9/11 that DHS was formed because agencies were not able to communicate with each other and thats why the “terrorists” were able to work undetected and now they will and we will be able to catch all those “bad guys”. Holy crap.
I remember thinking why create a new huge govt. bureaucracy that will grow uncontrollably.
Until he and his administration were asked why these people, who crashed the aircraft, were doing in this country illegally, then the narrative changed; if you asked this you became pariah. Our history is replete with examples of usurpation.
Good ‘put, Lori!
I was reminded (again) of GWB saying after his 2000 election and before his 2001 inauguration that he wanted “a new tone in Washington DC” where all of the Clinton-creatures appointed from the previous 8 years could stay on, rather than the traditional, party-lines purge conducted whenever party control of the Executive Branch flipped. His comment immediately followed – and negated – his campaign promise to conservatives (and especially to the US military) that “help is on the way” from the predations of the Clintonistas.
Most of these same Clinton-creatures obviously stayed on, through the Obama, Trump and Biden years in what became a 30-year, revolving-door sinecure in the federal gubmint.
“Nuke the entire site from orbit – it’s the only way to be sure.” – – Capt. Ripley, ALIENS
I was working for the MIC ON 9/11. I was a security specialist in classified programs. I recall how drastically the security protocols changed after the Patriot Act was passed. It has only gotten worse over time. There are so many agencies, rules and regulations it’s impossible to keep up with. Especially small companies. The large defense contractors have the money to employ huge staffs that monitor this. The little guys don’t and that’s the plan.
If it took only 8 years to subvert the Republic then it was already standing on shaky ground.
It seems to me this is simply an observable cycle of history that seems to last 250 years or so.
In other words, we are living through momentous times, whichever side wins.
When the Roman Republic fell, it turned into the Roman Empire. It lasted another 250 years (roughly). We’re at that point in time. Will the American Republic turn into the American Empire?
Let me just say… the World will hate what comes next when the American Empire consolidates. Americans will adapt, but will the World?
PS. Democracy/the Republic was an unique experiment, a better one than the Roman Republic. What comes next (if it succeeds) will be a stronger American Empire. That means war, more wars, and even more wars. As before there are other Empires that oppose it (Russia, China), but I think these will be the “forever wars” to keep the populace in check, without any world-ending escalation. The Empire’s leaders know that. Small countries though? Will be taken over or become vassals to one of the Empires.
PS2. How do you know the American Empire -side won? When the gov’t turns on Antifa, BLM and the other outfits to consolidate power. These guys are the pawns, as always. And a lot of Americans will support the Empire when that happens. That’s when the consolidation ends.
PS3. There will still be a Senate and House to rubber stamp the Leader’s diktats the same as the old Roman Empire’s Senate did. The old American Symbols will return, and will be used to gain support by the Empire, the same way the Romans did. Free Speech will remain, as long as you don’t threaten the Empire. You will be a pawn of the Empire and will adapt. The rebels will disappear in the catacombs of the Empire to be done with as the Elites wish for their sick pleasures. Don’t be mistaken, slavery will return as a very large prison population that’s gonna be put to work. Your survival will depend on how you manage your relationship with your patron who can put a good word to get you out of jail or help with your business, for a cut. The patron is the Elite that’s ‘managing’ his turf and will answer to his own patron in turn.
That’s the future. It cycles. We’re just there to witness it.
If the Republic survives, that’ll lead to another timeline that will also be quite momentous to the history of mankind. But, that’s another long post…
Interesting perspective. It appears that we’ve already checked the box for Nero, Caligula and friends.
Indeed, we were federalized by Lincoln, taxed and banked by Wilson, and then turned socialist by FDR and Johnson. From ‘gradually to suddenly’ we lost the republic.
Who bells the cat?
How convenient 9/11 was for Bush and Cheney — almost too convenient…
“This is our current status. It is not deniable. The truth exists regardless of our comfort.” An almost perfect encapsulation of conservatism.
It did coincidentally manage to solve a few problems for TPTB.
Beautiful. This should never be memory holed.
Fellow treehouse readers- how do we amplify this? I want ideas. Should we petition Tucker?
Sundance has been periodically posting (basically) this same article, numerous times since his trip into the belly of the beast (D.C.) and some of itceven before, IIRC.
Its one of several he periodically re-posts, because its thru REPETITION that such messages sink in.
He similarly has an article explaining MAGANOMICS, and one on the Uniparty and Decepticons, and on how Legislation is actually written,..
Go thru the archives, PRINT selected articles, multiple copies, collate them and put in file folders and then reach out to others, strangers you talk to while standing in line at the grocery store, or while pumping gas.
When you find receptive audience, give them a copy of one of the articles, like a salesman giving out a “free sample”; once they get a taste of Sundances unvarnished truth, they will be “hooked” and will follow “the coordinates” to the treehouse.
The Dutchman is correct regarding the reposts, although they seem longer each time. My blood boils with each rereading. We were all focused on other events when the subterfuge and manipulations were occurring. This has led my inner ear to rise with each coincidence.
What do we do? Talk! Strike up a conversation regarding any topic. It can be a quick two minutes at the pump or checkout line and a full blown coffee chat. With all the new faces in town from the northern states, we have loads of people who remember why they left the Blue lands and are looking for a safe haven that the Treehouse affords all of us. Pick one or two highlights and suggest they read this article, the “Library” is full of them. Give them the web addresses of all your favorite writers. Lastly, make sure they have registered to vote and explain your choices.
Sundance, when you get the wrap up videos going, suggest one or two articles from the library for a refresher or introduce the newbies.
“…one or two articles from the library for a refresher or introduce the newbies…”
Hmmm…following that train of thought: This material could, maybe should be published in a format similar to the Hillsdale College online courses. I’d pay money for that (HINT).
I read the long and growing longer article on MAGANOMICS, that talks about the “exfiltration of wealth” and “lemons or widgets” every time Sundance posted it, and each time I got a LITTLE bit further, before my eyes glazed over, and mind turned to mush.
Until eventually, I “got it” and now feel like a graduate of MAGANOMICS 101, a Phd. level coarse.
If you HAVEN’T read it, this is one you should pull from the archives, print and read until you get it, and pass on.
Another is the “Benghazi Brief”: the final report.
How CONgress REALLY works, explaining that lobbyists WRITE the legislation.
The Travon story.
Sundances expansion of Regitigers expose on what was REALLY going on on J6.
The classic “Jacks Coffee Shop” and the expose on “Americas Governor of the Free State of Florida”.
A book of Sundances greatest hits is in the offing, and with selective editing, the comments section SHOULD be included, as I think the unique aptnosphere created by Sundance, and maintianed by the administrators and treepers, is every bit as Special as Sundances articles, is also a creation OF sundance, and needs to be included.
They get longer in each repost because he adds new details, analysis or comments as time and more data becomes available.
Going back to the Patriot Act and the creation of Homeland Security. I could see right away that the excuses they were making for how the 9/11 attack was allowed to happen (because the agencies didn’t talk to each other, not enough staff, etc.) and the proposed solution (another layer of bureaucracy) did not make sense.
Why? Because they didn’t have the manpower the funding etc. to monitor they people they needed to monitor, they did such a poor job, but they were now going to take on spying on every man, woman, and child in America?
The job was too big, so they made it bigger?
Who talked President Trump out of pardoning Snowden?
It was probably the 45 stuck into his ribs
What I still haven’t reconciled: The Patriot Act and related legislation was already written and mostly ready to go when 9/11 happened. At some point we might wonder what this means.
Was The Patriot Act a response to 9/11 or was 9/11 part of a plan to legislate what became The Patriot Act and fundamentally change the structure of the federal government in the manner so adroitly set forth by Sundance in the post above?
IF you keep your emotions in check, so that they don’t overwhelm your critical thinking, with EVERY ONE of these “sky is falling” false narratives, your critical thinking WILL do what its SUPPOSED to do, and call “Bullshit”.
“Hold it, I thought CO2 was PLANT FOOD?”
“Hold it, how is it the Patriot act was written and passed so fast?”
“Hold it, Russian collusion, compromised over a pee tape?”
“Hold it, a WET MARKET?”
“Hold it, Putin wants to take over Western Europe?”
“Hold it, Iran and CNN knew, but the Mossad and NSA were “caught by surprise”?
“Hold it,…How/where did these guys PRACTICE the paragliding, with no one noticing?”
Our critical thinking is an automatic function, BUT;
IF we feel STRONG emotional responce, our brain automatically shuts down our critical thinking, in order to “free up” more of our brain to be used for ‘feeling’ the emotion.
If we “fall for it” we don’t hear any “Hold it, whatabout,…” from our critical thinking.
Con artists, politicians, advertisers and the I/C all rely on this method to manipulate.
The only way to reset the system, is to defund it, and to elect a wrecking ball named Donald Trump. We The People need to use the Article V Convention of States to repeal the Federal Income tax; forbid money-creation; and force the Feds to beg funding from the States instead of confiscating taxes directly from our paychecks.
Disagree on Article V convention, guaranteed our enemy, who are masters at infiltration, organisation etc. would gain control and we would end up worse for it.
WE need to USE the tools our Founders GAVE us, that have lain neglected for so long.
The layer of Government closest to the people, is most responsive; those in DC are not as responsive as our local and State Governments, because they are 3000 miles away.
Specifically, we need STRONG STATE GOV. leaders, that will use the TENTH AMENDMENT to push back against Federal overrreach.
Right now, we do not have ONE State Governor, that is worth a crap.
Nor do WE have strong leadership in ONE State Legislature.
Nor do we have ONE Mayor or City Council.
Our work is cut out for us, ..
Agree on 10th. There was a reason why the founders created that Amendment.
^^^This
Be careful what you wish for…
An Article V could easily become the runaway train “they” are salivating for.
Also, kiss the 1st and 2nd goodbye as it’s all on the table once opened.
Heck, they don’t enforce what we have, which would be a great place for all the Article 5ers to start.
Where are all the lawsuits they could be filing as our 1st and 2nd are being infringed upon daily?
Which is exactly why the 10th, and NOT an article 5, is the way to go.
So Sundance, what can we do other than sending this link to DJT or massive mailing to all conservative news sites. It needs to be dealt with. We already have elections decided.
Thank you for your time and intelligent information
I appreciate you !
OK. I get it. And I am printing this to pass out to friends. However, it appears we are operating from fundamentally different historical perspectives. So, here we go.
America is corrupt and always has been. Eliot Ness’ crew was known as The Untouchables 90 years ago because they were the exception. The norm was corruption even then.
We live in Pottersville. We have always lived in Pottersville. Bedford Falls is the pleasant dream we wake up from, and when we awake we always find ourselves in Pottersville. There is no Bedford Falls. Silos, insulation, Deep State. So what do we do about it?
I say we hijack the Deep State. There is no getting around the EXISTENCE of any of it, at least not until Christ returns. So we must put our own people in place with the values and standards WE want to see, conduct a major purge of the corrupticrats, or as many as we can get to, and change the rules to hinder a re-corruption (starting with the complete repeal of the Patriot Act). Hijack the Deep State.
Oh, and by the way, the same applies to the Great Reset. Hijack the Great Reset and make it a MAGA Reset.
Close….very close.
WHAT truly terrifies our enemies, about “Trump”?
People always judge others, by their own standards.
THEY abuse the NSA database, 3 hop 702 about searches system, to spy on their enemies, without compunction.
Hence, they assume that IF PDJT put in people like Gen Flynn, and they got control of this phenominal tool for applying leverage to exert control, that He/They would USE it.
Think of it, you just KNOW those who conspired and coordinated muh Russia, the Covid plandemic and the 2020 steal, exchanged all sorts of incriminating texts, emails and phone conversations, …all of the evidence is RIGHT THERE.
All it would take is PDJT in office, purging those who control the system and replacing them with his own people (just like THEY did) and then exploiting the system just like THEY did.
From their point of view, why WOULDN’T he?
Very true but the republicucks have been in this position many times and have done none of it. They must fear Trump will be different.
The Republicucks are the enemy, looking to them to fix anything is putting the Foxes in charge of guarding the henhouse.
Just as we must look to the STATES, in terms of elected public officials, we must look to STATES, for elected PARTY officials.
Instead of focusing on Rhonna McDaniels, focus on your State R party, beginning at the precinct and working up.
Actually in almost every State, we have MAGA up to the District level, and in many to the COUNTY level, we need to drive out the RINOS in the State Party Executive committee, cause THATS where the real power is.
Only THEN can we get County Recorders and Election boards that will secure elections, SO THAT we can get MAGA State Governments that will USE 10A, to cut down the Federal Givernment from “the bottom up”.
During this time and after, while team Obama was destroying the checks and balances of US Government, Obama could claim 2+2 = 5 and you were considered racist and a someone who should crawl away if you disagreed.
None of us really want to be banished, it was and continues to be difficult times in the Empire of Lies where Truth is Treason.
Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle…. But so many are lost to the illusion of wealth/power/control.
If we are truly just walking eachother home, as we must be IME, then compassion for both (and all) sides is the only thing I’ve seen that halts the illusion of our time.
I am wondering if this would be a choice for a podcast. Or it could be a series. Maybe some type of summary/outline? Then direct people to this piece?
Joe Biden is still running cover for Obama spying on Trump in 2016.
Biden will do anything to keep Russia-Russia-Russia alive (aka endless support for “Ukraine”). That is the only way they can justify spying on Trump in 2016 – we could not be tooooo careful — Russia,Russia, Russia, ad nauseam.
Doesn’t this entire piece describe treason on a grand scale?
Yes it does ,matter of fact.
OUTSTANDING!! with one small caveat. HOW does the nation “fix” this problem? Sundance mentions, ancillary, that the budget isn’t a tool to control the agencies but he doesn’t take the next step in formulating a solution. Personally, I’m deeply divided on this subject. On one hand, I’m desperate to do something to preserve/restore the country which I proudly served but on the other, I’m fairly certain that these are the final days that God has ordained for the world and the events He foretold will play out exactly as He said. Isa. 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’ So does it even matter?
Sundance closes with a question: “What would powerful people in DC do to stop the American people from finding this out? My question is: What are the American people willing to personally do to stop them for continuing their actions?
We The People must defund this overgrown, arrogant, wasteful Federal government. The Article V Convention of States ID the only mechanism we have.
Please see Dutchman above. Then consider this:
The Constitution does not specify that a constitutional convention can be restricted to specific topics.
So, even if a constitutional convention were convened with a single and specific amendment in mind, once convened, delegates could pursue ANY array of amendments they desired. Say bye bye to the 1st and 2nd…
I went down this rabbit hole a few years back. IIRC, the state legislature is the one who oversees appointing the delegates. Do you trust them?
I certainly don’t!
Most don’t care one bit what their constituents want AT ALL.
Yes, WE need to get MAGA control of our State Legislatures as THEY are imbued with great power, like the State Governors.
With us controlling the State Legislatures, there is no NEED for article 5, and without we don’t want to go anywhere NEAR one.
Article 5, like succeeding from the Union is NOT the answer, it is a distraction at best, a rabbithole at worst.
In his article above, Sundance clearly articulated that the IC doesn’t need funding. They have their own under the table funding from the mega corporations and other nefarious sources.
No Article V Convention. Ever. You don’t think that they’ll hijack it??
for the record… I live on IFs….. what IF it is not armageddon… what IF everything truly is inverted and IF it is armageddon, what IF THEY leave the Earth and WE the good people of the Earth remain behind? I play both sides, what IF…..
There used to be a premise of being innocent until proven guilty.
Today the premise is everyone is a criminal and a terrorist and you better divulge all your private information to continuously show the holier than thou Government and Corporations that you are not a criminal. You need to CONFORM or else..
When the “free and the brave” become defacto “criminals”, then the USA becomes an open penitentiary / insane asylum and the Government is seeing itself as the warden.
Further, a ever more prominent “class justice system” rounds it off:
Meaning One rule for thee and One other rule (or no rules) for me. It doesn’t matter if a crime is committed when law enforcement pretends not to see it because the labels attributed to that person prohibit it.
This would result in a Selective police state with authoritarian tendencies. The sad news is that the US is not the worst country with these attributes, but they are getting closer to the top one day at a time.
This encapsulates much of it:
Now you’re cooking with gas. That is why SD says live your best life now……………this laughs at Satan on all levels really……do not fear! God says DO NOT FEAR! Let’s obey……..and pray….
The “republicans” brushed it off because it was targeted at Donald Trump. THAT makes it righteous. As long as “Trump” or anyone who dares to wear a red MAGA hat is the target then everything is justified. The constitution, equal protection under the law, none of that applies to “Trump” or his allies/supporters.
MAGA is the Tea Party. Trump just happen to be in the right spot at the right time. I does not go away if Trump is gone, it might get stronger with a new set of leaders that don’t need to take the slings and arrows that Trump has.
Yes. Exactly. Thank you.
These are the articles that I go back to repeatedly. You have to reread this stuff over and over again so you can explain the corruption succinctly. Go back to the beginning. Go back to Judge Rosemary Collier’s report. Go back to the bypassing of the House vote to start impeachment #1. Go back to this article on Comey. Go back to why Mueller refused to charge the one company that showed up in court to challenge the Russian collusion scam. Go back to why Pelosi did not file charges against anyone who did not comply with the “subpoenas”. Go back to the FBI never examining the DNC servers.
Never forget. Never surrender. Tell the honest and truthful story.
Sundance, as I said yesterday, I am happy to help in any way going forward.
I am not absolutely convinced.
I am not convinced that “siloing” totally explains the actions of our Government, while relieving it of any responsibility or accountability, any more that “unintended consequences” does.
For instance, YES Obama and Holder took the system established under Bush and built on that foundation, but was that all accidental/unintentional on the part of Bush?
Under Bush, Mueller was put in to head the FBI.
He promptly brought in WEISMANN and COMEY to the FBI 7th floor to assist him.
THEY put in the “7 and out” policy that enabled FBI admin to purge the agency and staff it with ideolougues.
MUELLER, under Bush, sighned the MOU with the CIA, that enabled/allowed the FBI to have “contractor access” to the NSA database, in exchange for enabling/allowing the CIA to circumvent its charter AND Federal law, and establish a CIA “Station” in the U.S., by CALLING it an “FBI-NSD” and having agents working it in “cross-trained” as both CIA and FBI agents.
Iam also NOT convinced that the “Insurance plan” as mansplained by Stroxz to Page, was developed by Comey; he just ain’t that smart.
I believe McConnell and Ryan initially laid out “the plan” to Comey and perhaps Brennan, initiating it in 2015.
There is no way the plan appears workable, or succesful in removing PDJT ,..UNLESS the House “flips” from R to D in the 2018 midterms, and in 2015 the only way those planning the whole ‘soft coup’ by ‘Watergating’ DJT “In the unlikely event he should win” is if they had the absolute assurance of ONE person, Paul Ryan, that he would make SURE the House majority went Dem, because the Republicans could not be seen doing what Nanzi did in initiating the Impeachment.
In addition, I am unconvinced that lifelong swamp creatures, adept at focusing on personal survival, like Comey, Rosey, Brennan, Stroxz, Page, etc. would consider going along with a plot to commit treason, without ironclad guarantees that they would be PROTECTED, should the plot be exposed.
Because they sat at the top of DOJ and FBI they knew they could prevent prosecutions, but they risked CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS unless they had guarantees from McConnell and Schumer (Senate) and Ryan Pelosi (House) that any Congressional investigations would be stonewalled.
And, WHAT do we see, behavior from Ryan and McConnell which is otherwise inexplicable; suppressing/stonewalling investigations of a conspiracy to set up/frame a Republican POTUS, AND Ryan actively encouraging 40 House R’S to retire, and announcing his retirement yet sitting on the Speakers position where he blocked Nunes, and instigated an ethics investigation against him.
Hence, Comey did not OFFICIALLY “inform” the Gang of 8, because they (or MOST of them) already KNEW what he was doing, since they had instructed him to do it.
McConnell, Ryan, Schumer and Pelosi were the architects of the Coup attempt, NOT Comey and NOT Hillary.
And, “W” admin. was intentionally “paving the way” for Obama, it wasn’t accidental or Obama just taking advantage of what W had ‘unintentionally’ left for him.
Can’t prove it, but occams razor says its so.
I like your Occam’s Razor thought process. Occam is usually correct.
And you can use the same argument that you just made to say that “all roads lead to Langley” since way back when, and it was the culmination of decades of planning, infiltrating, and seizing control.
And those 4 you named are not smart enough and/or have the cojones to have come up with that intricate long term plan and execute it without help from the same group.
You hit the nail on the head when you described the ‘domestic station’ at the NSD.
That’s when complete control was fulfilled.
Look how long those 4 have been in CONgress, long enough to have sheparded thru much to set it up, especially if instead of fighting each other over power, as intended by the founders, they realised they could gain far more power, individually and intitutionally, by working together.
And on institutions; its obvious there is a “line of succession” for both R’s and D’s, in both Senate and House.
McConnell has been mentoring Thune to be his replacement, just as McCarthy has Scalise, and as Ryan did McCarthy,…the people may change, but the Institution remains.
I truly don’t know whether the 4th branch is a subservient to Congress, or dominates Congress, or perhaps a little of both?
Pelosi, Schumer, McCarthy/Ryan yes they ARE stupid as a bag of rocks, although sneaky and immoral.
The Turtle, however is and always has been SMART.
Find videos of McConnell talking to Ryan, McCarthy, Pelosi or Schumer.
Watch the videos with the volume down so no distraction, and see if youcare watching two equals conversing, or a boss and a submissive.
McConnell was the very CENTER of the Trump Resistance, far more damaging and formidable than Pelosi or Schumer.
The IC started on this before the politicians got involved.
Go back to Sundance’s articles on IC in 2015.
Those politicians never thought he would become President, so he wasn’t even a second thought to them.
But the IC was spooked then. The IC used the politicians to do the dirty work afterwards to protect their own asses.
You are not incorrect, but you’re not thinking back long enough.
You’re thinking since Trump became Resident or slightly before. I’m thinking back decades.
Think about the Long March we’ve discussed. That ‘March’ started long before there was a Gang of Eight. The ‘communists’ (totalitarians / Satanists) think in centuries. Think Sun Tzu – know your enemy.
In order to know your enemy, you have to think like them. 😉 😉
Using your own words and thoughts from past comments and thoughts. – Kennedy, Nixon, attempt on Reagan, Bush I, Clinton (cocaine running payoff from Iran Contra), Bush II, Obama (construct).
It goes WAY BACK!
Trump f’d them up!
What a detailed explanation!
Question for Sundance:
“When Obama was installed” is /has been noted by you.
Exactly what does
“ installed”
mean?
I remember he was super delegate selected over Hillary, but was he “installed” as president; as in faux presidential election (election fraud like Biden) ?
I interpret it as the following:
Obama was selected by the Globalist to be the one to be the face of change- he is half black and went to a select school. He was untouchable- black and articulate. They can use the race card to defend him and he can smooth talk the idiots.
They chose him. The DNC hoisted him up. And unfortunately for Hillary he was a much better tool. So, the DNC backed him, the RNC chose crap candidates to run against him. Installed.
Now, they just pump ballots through to ensure their installed, I mean selected person gets installed. They miscalculated with Hillary thus mail in ballots have been pushed. Fixed their issue.
Yes, he was selected;indeed.
-But
was it a rigged election?
Cannot fathom SD to mean it was rigged
-without proof.
Good question- was it rigged? Maybe. More than likely. But to what extent? Who knows.
Unlike the 2020 election, where the cheating was so blatant and in the open, but ignored. I can’t say the 2008 and 2012 general election was rigged but if I was a betting man I would take the bet on the Democrat primaries being rigged.
There are many aspects to rigging elections.
Too much focus on ballot fraud, at the expence of the far more fundamental fraud of having a Uniparty create the illusion of choice.
LOOK who they (the R’s) put up to run opposite Obammy; McStain and then Romney/Ryan, basically in the exact same mold as the current crop of losers attending the R debates.
THAT is an easy way to RIG the elections.
Set it up so the “contest” is between Uniparty (D) or Uniparty (R), that way Uniparty always wins.
Does anyone REALLY think if mittens had one, that we would not have had Romneycare, exactly like Obamacare?
I keep this as a Favorite post whenever necessary. By Sundance, this will give you a better idea about his timeline of what actually occurred…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2013/01/10/john-brennan-the-cia-zibgnew-brezinski-columbia-university-and-obama/
This entire post has been posted numerous times before. I keep reading it thinking something new has been added but there isn’t. Why the repetition?
Repetition.
Otherwise, it fades from importance.
It cannot fade.
Maybe some people need the repetition. There are new Treepers also.
We are more than 3 years beyond the 2020 election, and still every single day, NEW evidence of fraud and corruption comes out, from nearly every single state. New York, Michigan, Hawaii, Georgia. You name it.
Why?
That’s because some people refused to give up pursuit. The people who committed this great evil wanted to see this slide into oblivion, and to be forgotten.
All of this has come to pass despite the constant griping and complaining that “nothing will happen.”
“Nothing will happen” is a self fulfilling prophecy. Action and persistence, like your coaches taught you when harping about never giving up pursuit of the ball, or running out the grounders, is the key to lasting success, and we are going to prevail in due time.
I stand by this statement – 10% of the people lead the way, and 90% are just along for the ride.
–Seth Keshel
Coach to underperforming player;
“Are you apethetic, or just STUPID?”
Player; “I don’t KNOW,…and I don’t CARE!”
They cloned those guys in the 50’s?
That’s Lewis Erskine at the keyboard; the FBI is so far gone, AI won’t even help it.
I wonder if the helpers ever reconsider, now that they are starting to realize that what they will ultimately win is to rule over ruins, if they even get that?
Useful idiots are the first to take the fall. Those they push into power have no use for them afterwards. And due to their treachery, they’re usually the first ones on the chopping block because they are trusted the least.
Have you seen a single candidate for elected office point this out? Have you seen anyone advising a candidate to point this out?
This becomes one of the hardest problems to solve. If a candidate for any office comes out forcefully and says out loud they will change this, the 4th branch will move to stop that candidate.
If a candidate says nothing about this and tries to avoid the scrutiny of the 4th branch, conservatives will call them a RINO and not vote for them.
So what is a candidate to do? They must get elected to change things but will be destroyed if they say out loud what they truly think. Trump can be honest to a point because he has more resources than anyone else but still incurs the operations to destroy him.
For us, how are we to vet a candidate? If they don’t state their plans, conservatives rebel, if they actually say they will fix this, their lives and family will be ruined. If we never get enough people in place that will bring down the hammer, it will never change. Can a stealth candidate make it? Do we need need some kind of coded language the left doesn’t understand but all conservatives do? This is the classic catch 22 that we need to resolve and frankly a big problem.
The left gets around this problem by voting for all D no matter what. The left doesn’t have DINO’s! The right will never vote full R so what do we do?
I believe I have seen a candidate point MUCH of this out, and yes they conducted a blatant, massive cheating operation to prevent her and her MAGA slate from being elected.
And, rather than withdraw from the field to nurse her wounds, she DOUBLED DOWN.
KARI LAKE; UNAFRAID
Just getting started.
Read it.
I’ve been a silent follower on this site since 2016. A gentleman from my church who I respect highly mentioned it one day. I read Breitbart, Just the News and some others out there but nothing like this Tree House. What are there if any other recommendations of in-depth coverage, understanding, and knowledge of where this country is headed that readers have come across or would be willing to share here?
“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.”
What’s missing is any meaningful JUDICIAL oversight mechanism.
If neither the legislative nor the executive branches can sufficiently check the Fourth Branch – the intelligence community -from carrying out illegal operations, isn’t an obvious solution to add a check by the existing third branch?
Perhaps the Attorneys General from each state should receive the same briefings as the Go8 and have authority to seek automatic de novo Supreme Court review of all proposed classified operations.
Comey is by far, the SLIMIEST actor in the government- he needs to be prosecuted…he seems to think he is above the law- and that he is the smartest guy i the room…he makes my skin crawl.
I’ve paused my reading momentarily at the follow point.
“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.”
This is action point were we can help. The question is HOW can we help?
Republicans have a bad habit of not voting as religiously as democrats. Rightly so in some cases, but until we have enough people in place to change anything, nothing will change.
Even if the wrong people are in place, as long as they have an R, the majority R might be able to investigate, steer legislation, and control budgets. If the majority is held by D’s, I don’t think there is any chance of change.
The key is not individuals, it is the majority in congress and the presidency and state legislatures. It may be time to get everyone to just vote R up and down the ticket no matter how you feel about any one candidate, it’s about holding the gavels and the bully pulpit. There is a slim chance then we’ll see change. There is NO chance with the D’s, so I will go with the slim chance rather than no chance. Maybe RINO’s can be trained.
At the this point in time R’s are better then D’s but there must be more we can do.
Time is not on our side.
We need a blueprint for local organizing. Something that addresses the natural tendency to stay safe in our cocoons.
I don’t mean that to denigrate your answer and thank you for that. I’m just kinda thinking out loud how to press it further given the gravity of the trap we’re in.
Well, I am a precinct chair in MN and it’s like pulling teeth to get people to respond or volunteer. We are trying the “precinct strategy” Steve Bannon promotes but conservatives don’t want to even answer the door when you door knock. The left does social media like crazy and the right simply does not respond to “get the herd together”.
You’ve seen the response for pro Hamas protestors. The left barely mentions it and all the crazies show up.
We as conservatives are more naturally NOT herd people. I think some kind of informational training, advice, sharing of skills, or business promotions/contacts, garden groups, woodworkers, tech geeks, financial info sharing, etc would reach more people. If there is value in the contacts, I think conservatives might respond. Maybe. We can’t use the same leftist tactics and expect them to work on NON-leftists.
“You’ve seen the response for pro Hamas protestors. The left barely mentions it and all the crazies show up.”
These people, Antifa and BLM/SEIU, on Obamaphones get PAID to show up…as do the ballot stuffers, and vote flippers.
Maybe the Republicans can figure out how to pay their recruits?
Sundance, this is a masterful essay by any standard, the prelude to a much-needed textbook for political science majors. Thank you.
The era of W, and Obama through Biden, will be studied by PhD candidates for fifty years. All bad.
Who promoted James Comey to Attorney General in 2016?
Towards the end of the 2016 campaign, Comey, speaking like he was the DeFacto Attorney General, publicly claimed no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute “Secretary of State” Hillary Clinton for maintaining a private server with Government classified information (and most likely un-spoken Clinton Global Initiative slush fund information).
Comey held the press conference after Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch were exposed having their secret meeting on the tarmac. Linch went into hiding because the optics where too much to overcome.
No one in congress or the MSM objected to self-appointed “Attorney General Comey’s” declaration even though it was blatantly obvious Hillary had committed egregious violations. The media, DOJ and Congress did not want it exposed. Why? Who in the current Government might have corresponded with Hillary on that server?
“…started to assemble the design. By the time Obama took office in 2009, we sensed something profound was shifting…”
I lived in rural, Upstate NY at the time, having chased a contract type job to NY, however it didn’t last quite as long as advertised; we bought a decent place in the NY countryside; my neighbor was a retired Italian-American union thug from NJ(the area had several retired Joiseyites); anyway, we were talking politics one day and he just came out and said something to the effect that, “you know, he(Obama) isn’t a real American…,” and my jaw hit the ground. I knew that, if this NJ democrat, would say something to that effect, the Country was in deep do-do. It was a total confirmation of my line of thought.
The raid on Mar-a-lago took place soon after Dan Scavino took a photo of the number ’45’ on the door where the documents were kept. And posted it on social media. Almost like , “Come and get it. We’re ready for you.” This gave me hope that Pres. Trump preserved the most important information because he knew they were coming.
No one on this site should own any apple product or an Android phone.
Purchase a Google pixel phone and pixel tablet and replace the operating system with Calyxos.
Apple computers actively scan your files. Windows 10 is not ideal but so far there are no reports of malicious scanning.
YOU are endangering yourself and others.
At the top of this extensive reporting are two photos of two men in each photo. They camouflage themselves in civilian clothing as Conservatives but only for your vote.
In the left photo are Dick Cheny, VP and George Bush, Pres.: two White men pretending to be Christians;
while using governmental powers to indifferently carry out slaughters of Americans, innocents, in the US and foreigners in multiple nations; in exchange for oil, land and money.
In the right photo are Eric Holder and Barack Obama: two Black Muslims pretending to be Americans;
while using all governmental powers to bash and destroy the Constitutional Foundation of America by deception of their alliances with radical Shite Muslims; in exchange for personal power, land and money.
Their goals are not the American Voters goals. Sadly we keep anticipating the next “election” to change America. The very description of a strong deception working well; of insanity. Or, “How’s that working for you?”
We are the problem.
We identify the people and the problem, we complain and warn expecting a different outcome. Decades later we can be identified by our warnings and complaining personalities. But not by our accomplishments of our stated goals and desires.
Yet our opposition steadfastly moves their oppression forward. According to their plan.
We have not formed a counter plan. Many are the Conservatives who complain.
In all the battles and wars God waned of under the Old Covenant (Testament) He told the 12 Tribes His Battle Plans.
The Tribes heard and followed the appointed Leaders and the Plan. They won. When they disobeyed they lost.
Today our abundances are taken away and given to our enemies:
Our Leaders were not placed in power by Voters.
Americans are not feared as Blessed by the Living God.
Our land is assaulted by people who don’t speak our language; they are unable to hear us.
People who cannot speak, read or write English cannot understand us nor we them.
Millions come for the money then have sent Billion of dollars back “home” to their allegiances; depleting America.
People arrive breaking American laws, insisting on rewards and freedoms they have not earned or have legal rights to.
We are insulted by persistent demands of non citizens dishonoring America.
Who has arrives to help us?
Our wealth as been scattered around the world, squandered.
There is little to show for our Debts.
We don’t have a plan.
Bringing to mind on flashback :
Comey on every alleged violation of the “Rule of Law” except his own during CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” interview
I specifically remember reading a lot of this previously from Sundance The reason I remember is that it was when I learned what the Gang of 8 was all about. Sundance has added to that previous info now in order to inform the many new treepers.
Is it possible to post a number of Sundance’s articles as a PDF? It would be much easier to share to our friends.
Damn Sundance, you sure you didn’t write ” The Plot Against The President ” Both on target
I will never forget, before they passed the Patriot Act, Judge Napolitano warning to not let them pass the act because “they” will surely turn it against the citizens of our country. I somehow knew what he was saying was the horrific truth.
And he was proven correct. I believe most people thought that could not happen in America….just only in communist countries that would happen. I have been amazed at the level of denial of the populace over the years, though I now think we have turned a corner and many more people are seeing the beast coming into view.
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The FBI found more than 20,000 images on CD’s, hard drives, and photos stored in closets & drawers, along with depositions, journals, e-mails, and flight-logs, when searching Jeffrey Epstein’s $17 million Manhattan home.
Imagine the damaging evidence they found in his OTHER 6 homes?
It’s ALL been sealed since 2019.
The FBI won’t investigate their OWN COVER-UP’S. They protect the GUILTY. Bill Clinton # 1 on the list…
When Sundance wrote:
“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.”
I think that he’s correct, but not completely correct.
I know that (to a degree, at least) it’s nitpicking – but I believe that it would be more correct to say that the
‘…so the weapons of government targeted anyone opposing the deep state’, and of course – their nominal political opposition’.
In short, anyone that might be a threat to their continued growth of power.
A snippet of our forthcoming pictorial directory of every agent, current and departed, from the FBI known to be—in any way—involved in the Biden “investigation.”
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Paul Dans (Heritage) was on Bannon’s Warroom today and referred to this agency within an agency as the 4th branch of government. Wonder if he’s been reading CTH!
CTH, for many years has bern the most viewed blog on the I-net, by far and many, many view but don’t comment.