This is more than a little interesting and aligns with my own research and discussions. House Speaker Mike Johnson was lobbied by former CIA Director Mike Pompeo and current officials from the CIA, DNI and Intelligence Community.
This effort, and his son starting at the Naval Academy, is what changed Johnson’s mind about allowing the U.S. intelligence community to have his full support in the IC war against the American people.
The story is shared by CNN, the official outlet for perspectives and viewpoints held by the U.S. State Dept (CIA), so keep the narrative origination in mind. Here are the key points as written in the article:
WASHINGTON – […] The speaker’s embrace of Ukraine aid represents a remarkable evolution for Johnson, who voted against funding for the country as a rank-and-file member. But almost immediately after securing the speaker’s gavel, sources say he began to hear directly from critical Republican national security voices – including Donald Trump’s former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, who impressed upon him the urgent need to approve assistance for Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion.
In March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lobbied the speaker directly. Within minutes of the House approving a new military aid package for Ukraine on Saturday, Zelensky offered his thanks to US lawmakers, and in particular to Johnson for his decision that “keeps history on the right track.”
And more recently, Johnson received a key intelligence briefing from CIA Director Bill Burns, who painted a picture of the dire situation on the battlefield in Ukraine and the global consequences of inaction, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. The briefing left a lasting impression, and Johnson became increasingly convinced the fate of Western democracy was on his shoulders, sources close to him said.
Another factor that sources say weighed heavily on his decision-making: Johnson’s oldest son was recently accepted into the Naval Academy.
“To put it bluntly, I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys. My son is going to begin in the Naval Academy this fall. This is a live-fire exercise for me as it is so many American families,” Johnson told reporters. (read more)
♦ The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is at the epicenter of all modern corrupt politics. Every element of weaponized government, each example of action taken, can be traced to an agency within the USIC.
Similar to every other person I have ever met in Congress, House Speaker Johnson was pressured by the USIC and accepted their position. Johnson then changed his mind on the priorities of the USIC, sided with them in everything they requested, and pushed all he knew about the corrupt and weaponized conduct of the USIC to the side.
Keep in mind, we know the core ideology of the USIC is political and corrupt. We also know the core motives of the USIC are weaponized against anything that would remove their power tentacles from control. We know this, because the former USIC Inspector General was an institutionally corrupt guy named Michael Atkinson.
Before becoming the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), Michael Atkinson was the chief legal counsel at the DOJ National Security Division. Atkinson was the office lawyer for the Deputy AG in charge of the DOJ-NSD. Essentially, Atkinson was the internal compliance officer within the DOJ-NSD responsible for making sure all the rules and regulations of the national security division were maintained and accurate.
Michael Atkinson was Acting DAG Mary McCord’s lawyer when she was head of the DOJ-NSD, and when she submitted the fraudulent Title-1 FISA warrant against Carter Page that was used as a surveillance tool against Donald Trump and his campaign.
Atkinson would know the granular details of the FISA application, because it was his job at the DOJ-NSD to audit every U.S. Attorney Office that submitted FISA applications – including Washington DC.
When Mary McCord left the DOJ-NSD, she went to work for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler on the joint House committee to investigate Donald Trump. When Michael Atkinson left the DOJ-NSD, he went to work as the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
It was Atkinson who changed the rules allowing an anonymous whistleblower in the CIA (Eric Ciaramella) to make accusations against the office of President Trump. Whistleblower Ciaramella previously worked for Joe Biden when the corrupt Burisma business venture with Hunter Biden in Ukraine was set up.
Atkinson set up the system for Ciaramella to make an accusation against Trump, while keeping Ciaramella’s name hidden. This previously not permitted secrecy stopped the general public and DC people from knowing the background political motives of the claim against Trump by hiding Ciaramella.
The combination of Michael Atkinson’s work in the DOJ-NSD (Page FISA warrant), and the work he then did to set up the fraudulent CIA claims against President Trump (with Eric Ciaramella), stands as irrefutable evidence of the corrupt and weaponized activity by the Intelligence Community Inspector General. This shows how the IC is corrupt/weaponized.
The cherry on the proverbial corruption cake happened when ICIG Michael Atkinson helped construct the fraud against Trump; he then turned over all the fake whistleblower evidence to the Shiff/Nadler committee. The head of that committee was Mary McCord, Atkinsons former DOJ-NSD cohort. In essence, Atkinson gave McCord another fraudulently constructed set of documents to attack Donald Trump.
The first time McCord and Atkinson worked together, it was to conduct surveillance of Donald Trump and then hide the evidence. The second time Atkinson and McCord worked together, it was to impeach Donald Trump and then hide the evidence.
I hope everyone can see how the embeds within the Intelligence Community are completely political and working diligently to retain and operate a weaponized system. The functionaries deeply inside the mechanisms of the intelligence apparatus are the ones doing this; it’s not just the heads of the executive agencies as appointed by the Obama/Biden administration.
♦ MAIN POINT – The Intelligence Community overall is corrupt – soup to nuts. If the IC was not comprehensively corrupt, someone like ICIG Michael Atkinson could never become inspector general.
Now…. think about everything that stems from the outcomes of the Intelligence Community!! Everything about everything the IC puts into the DC system; everything that creates policy and executive/legislative action is politically motivated and corrupt.
It’s not just about renewing FISA-702 surveillance on Americans, it’s everything.
THINK!
Think about wars, borders, national security, threats domestically, threats ignored/downplayed due to ideological makeup of the IC. Instructions given to politicians, briefings to the President, advice to policymakers, positions of military assets, foreign policy, election security, DHS mandates, border impacts, and so much more.
Meanwhile, the judicial branch defers to the IC on all matters of national security. Think about the ramifications.
It’s not hard to see how fully collapsed our system is once you realize how fully corrupt the intelligence apparatus has become.
And the problem is that now it is reported that Trump supports Johnson enough to ask Congress not to vacate him as speaker. I can understand not getting into the “vacate” thing but Trump needs to clarify where he stands on the 702 etc. issues.
BTW…my Nevada Congress person voted no so I sent him a thank you.
PDJT being a politician, even if a relunctant one, still has to follow some age old ‘rules’ of politics, even as a destructor.
You fight the battles you can win, for instance. Thats why he did not oppose Ronna at the last reelection, but DID later support her removal.
I understand this, respect what PDJT is doing, but as I am not in a cult, I don’t have to agree with everything he does or says.
“I understand this, respect what PDJT is doing, but as I am not in a cult, I don’t have to agree with everything he does or says.”
AMEN!! Could not agree more!
But he supported her removal too late
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/this-will-be-sleeper-issue-2024-democrat-election/
Doom and gloom everyday.
Lol, if we ever have a day without the nattering nabobs of negativity, THEN I will be worried, eh?
not to mention the pusillanimous pussyfooters!
Suejeanne,
I had to look that first “P-word” up in a search, even though I have a pretty decent vocabulary.
I like the adjective, “cowardly” instead, as it is easily understood.
Nice one though~!
Sue was going for the impact of alliteration……
HAha. Yep. Saw that.
Yep. Everyday.
Justaminute. Was that actually a mission statement?
I mean, a Black Knight is supposed to be defined as doom and gloom, isn’t he?
It is clear that Mike Johnson is the DS’s and Dems….uh…”significant other”.
Oh, you mean Mike “Churchill” Johnson? You have such a way with words, Bets. Why, “Bless his little heart!”
I prefer POLLY POCKETS…….
Bannon eh?
If you get deep into biographies of Churchill, one finds he was against the lower and middle class before he was for them…(never mind that his mum could not manage money)….
Johnson has the courage of John Roberts and Bowe Bergdahl. Johnson’s words have the same depth as Pencil Neck’s. Johnson’s heart is as pure as Pence’s. The UniParty could not have picked a finer speaker.
Well said.
So sad that you are spot on. Sigh.
Prayers up for PDJT and his family, staff. It all depends on all of us getting out and working for PDJT.
Sing along with the Wizard of Oz!
“If I only had a brain…a heart…the noive”
PDJT is the only person that may change the system. He cannot change it until he is reelected. Getting elected is the only thing to focus upon. All the rest is chatter. We are getting abused now just like we have for the last 70 years. The only thing that has changed is PDJT and Sundance have opened our eyes so that we can see it and understand it. And President Trump is standing between us and them; he is taking huge abuse doing so. I just hope it is steeling him to be UNMERCIFUL. The next guy can sort the bodies out.
Trump has already stated that he does not agree with the FISA deal at all. They used it to spy on him and probably still are spying on him. Yes if they vacate NOT SO MAGA Mike there is a good chance ” Republicans ” lose control of the house which opens the door for the Demonrats to pass laws to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot. So we are stuck with NOT SO MAGA Mike until at least November. After November I fully expect to see NOT MAGA Mike kicked to the curb and hopefully ran out of DC on a rail , tarred and feathered would be OUTSTANDING as well.
JUST because SCOTUS said that a STATE can not remove a candidates name from a ballot for Federal office, (for 14A) only Congress can, does not give Congress a green light.
First they would have had to Constitutionally Impeach and convict PDJT of Insurrection; they tried and failed.
THEN, and ONLY THEN could he be tried and convicted in a criminal court OF INSURRECTION.
He has not even been CHARGED, let alone convicted.
Hence, SHOULD the House go from Uniparty-R to Uniparty-D control (which would require several R’s to vote with the D’s to install Hakeem) they still could NOT legally remove PDJT from the ballot, it would be more lawfare as Election interference, more consession they can not beat him in an election, and ultimately would be unsuccessful, and only make him stronger.
Doesn’t mean they wouldn’t try..
What you say is right, but right seems not to happen a lot these days.
Agree… Get rid of Johnson. His next betrayal will be Warners bill.
I don’t think SCOTUS would rule that way. A democrat-controlled Congress can set up whatever criteria they want. SCOTUS’ decision opened the door instead of staying within the confines of the Constitution. First, the qualifications for being President are clearly stated within the Constitution. Second, the 14th Amendment specifically fails to change those criteria by its naming only certain Federal positions but not President or Vice President.
I hope you are correct but I thought there was no way they would bring the criminal and civil cases against him either, but they found a way. I remember laughing when first hearing about the Carroll case thinking there is no way anyone will believe this unhinged nut about allegations from 25 years ago and surely the statute of limitations had run out long ago. Well they found a judge and jury dumb enough to believe her and they changed the law in New York state so she could sue him in the civil case.
The AG James case was the same way, I laughed for days after hearing that one thinking any sane judge with a shred of common sense that knows anything about real estate would not allow it to go through but AG James found the perfect judge.
Also the same with all the ” criminal ” so called cases fabricated out of thin air. I remember thinking there is no way any of these allegations will make it past day one in a court of law, boy was I wrong.
With that being said I do not trust the Dems with house majority. It is untelling what they might try next. I am hearing rumblings of mass amnesty for all illegals and they already have a bill started to pull Trump’s SS detail.
Again I hope you are correct but its like we are living in the damn Twilight Zone
I do think that not so MAGA Mike’s betrayal will make some people give up on the party and think “what’s the use of voting?” if Congress does nothing to try and remove him.
Trump vocally showing support for Johnson has done damage. Johnson’s actions have demoralized a lot of voters. They also question whether Trump has learned that you can’t support snakes and coddle them thinking that if you show support for them they will be on your side later. It did not work before and it will not work now.
I can’t get that image out of my head of the Ukraine flags flying as we were openly betrayed.
The snake will bite and destroy you.
I am voting for Trump but this is not a good thing.
How did they know to bring the flags? After they bought them, distributed them and hid them under cover when they carried them into the House. How did Democrats know the Speakers decision before the vote? And why was the Republican-public uninformed by the Speaker and the Democrats?
Battered House wife. Take out your flags and rejoice.
deb, you sound like a fed. You may not be; heck, you probably are not, but you sound just like one.
Think about what creates that.
Was about to post essentially this.
Or a poli sci student?
I am a 72 year old grandma. Hardly a fed. I remember Trump telling us the story of the “The Snake”. Do you remember that? I see Johnson as The Snake. If you take him in now he will bite you.
Just look at Pompeo and Bill Barr trying to schmooze their way back into the MAGA fold. Snakes.
Trump is a very nice person. He is trusting and honest. He was betrayed by quite a few in his first term and they are still hurting him.
I do understand why he doesn’t want another speaker fight before the election but I don’t usually have much trust for people who say one thing and do another.
I don’t know what I said that make me sound like a fed. i will say that have talked to people around me and read comments from many who felt hurt and disgusted to the core over all the republican capitulation to the democrats.
I want Trump to win and I want Trump to be successful.
Looks like 18 others understood where I am coming from. I have never posted anything on this site that would lead anyone to accuse me of being a Fed. I certainly don’t deserve to be ganged up on.
easy with this, grandma!
this will raise your blood pressure.
SD said you sound like a fed. that’s it.
get over it.
I am over it and I am also over you. Adios!
Deb, I don’t understand why Sundance said that either.
And Sundance, with the risk you have taken on, the superhuman effort you make, the depth of your reporting, and the knives at your back…we are all of us behind you 1000% of the way. Such honor cannot be measured.
Done damage? The demoralising kind? Please elaborate.
Quoting you re. Johnson’s actions “have demoralized a lot of voters (past tense). Can you validate your claim?
“They” (who/how many “they” do you know of?) also question whether Trump has learned. Who says any of PDJT’s negotiating unifying actions has to do with coddling? What did PDJT do on the world stage that no other president could or has done without any “coddling”? In this regard, by your estimation, coddling will put them on his (PDJT’s) side?
“Johnson’s actions have demoralized a lot of voters.”
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Johnson has converted more fence sitters into the Trump camp in two months than any other House rep has in two years.
I don’t think Mike Johnson had a thing to do with that. It was all Trump who brought people in to the America First fold.
Johnson deserves no credit.
And I maintain a MAJOR part of their election strategy IS to suppress MAGA votes, and you do that thru discouragement and dispondency.
So yes, we will get HAMMERED with variations on “you can not vote your way out of this” and “oh whats the use?” etc. and yes the Uniparty-Rs in Congress will do everything they can to suppress MAGA voters from voting.
THEY, individually really don’t care if they win, and collectively have no desire to be in the majority.
Retired Magistrate here: Too many people have died or have suffered life changing injuries to protect the right to vote.
So the least I can do is get my 77 year old patootie out to vote in person. I am sick of people complaining about the state of our Union and then I ask them if they voted; often the answer is “no, why bother.” So we all need to quit listening to all the negativity and get out and vote.
Hear! Hear!
🎯
👍 👍
Straight to the point: no excuses, vote!
That was my second thought after the bill’s passage. Sounding the death knell of the entire party.
I wonder if President Trump has considered that aspect. If so, he should address it because he needs some , even if only moderately conservative, republicans in order to make his policies work.
The Republicans lost seven House seats right after Matt Gaetz torpedoed Speaker McCarthy. What do you think will happen this time? I am not saying it should not have been done, but right now is not a good time.
The RINO Republican Uniparty lost seven House seats, which switched to Democrat Uniparty seats.
So, seven seats went from Uniparty to Uniparty, and MAGA lost nothing, because MAGA does not have ONE seat in the House or Senate.
So, big deal why do I care?
Amen, brother.
I ain’t voting for that Rodgers snake either. Michigan can vote for a Uniparty stooge for Senate, but I won’t. I’m done with that. Trump has to politick, but I think he needs us to be more militant. We must break the Uniparty.
Why?
If you think Mike Johnson is status-quo mediocre –
consider how actively civilization-destroying a “Speaker Hakeem Jeffries” would be.
Which district/CongressCritter “represents” you? (Mine seems to be a CommielockstepMarxistDem)
My district in Texas will pick up a MAGA rep in November.
The son in law of Dinesh D’Souza who, in a double digit primary R field, won outright, no run off will win on our solidly red district.
Yes, he will be my representative also. So thankful he won.
Burgess was a silent Rep. Accomplished nothing as far as I can tell.
Watch the video of Johnson and President Trump and pay very close attention to President Trump’s facial expressions. Especially the eyes.
It was not a full throated endorsement.
When John Fredericks asked President Trump yesterday about the Mike Johnson possible vacating the chair,
President said “we have a majority of ONE”
I HAVE to trust President Trump…
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112245329328818599
I think Trump knows he’s going to sit in the Oval Office again. Most of the money is designated to be used to replace and rebuild the MIC, anyway. And Trump will be in control of those funds–if he wins.
Why are evil people so ugly?
Perhaps the answer is that evil is an ugly thing so therefore…
Evil first steals the soul.
And once it has that, it works from the inside until the “book’s cover” is an exact image of the inner man or woman. I always look first at the eyes because they are the windows which reflect what is inside the rest of the house.
(See Victoria Nuland.)
So well said Betsy…it is true. Look at any politician who’s been in office for a long time. Or anyone in “power” for that matter.
Apparently it is true, newtreeper, that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
The irony for Johnson is that he truly believes he has it.
When in fact is only the errand boy.
Yes, errand boy is the perfect moniker – except I think he is also running scared – Fraidy Mike.
It does make you wonder, Corny.
The errand boy himself.
Besty: Reminds of the old “Shake ‘n Bake” commercials.
LOL!!!!
“Errant” boy
Potato/Potahto
It’s in the “countenance”, so to speak. Genesis 4:6-7.
Evil always shows itself to those who can and want to perceive it.
Yes I see the problem but my feeble old mind doesn’t see a fix and that’s the real big problem! JMO. Godspeed Sundance! God help us! Hosanna!
It appears it will come fro outside the system.
And for years the State Department’s intelligence unit, Intelligence and Research, has flown under the radar. In the old days it served as a counterweight to the militarized intelligence services (CIA, NSA, DIA, NSA, etc.). Once led by honorable people one can only assume that it too has been compromised.
In effect an un-elected irresponsible fascist military junta equivalent.
By that I mean the question begs itself, if the politicians are influenced by the ISEE then what about the military?
An evolving junta?
Same, it would appear. At least at the upper echelons where it matters.
Think Milley.
Hard to view it any other way.
Lots of UNELECTED, UNDER THE RADAR, nameless or unknowns making decisions with dire effects for The People. favoring only the wealthy and powerful. There needs to be full sweep of most ALL CAREER CROOKS (“bad actors” as we hear so much these days.) No more climbing the ranks of political ladders. Money and power corrupts, ALWAYS!!!
Do your duty serving your country for A term, then walk away with you lifetime of wealth and allow another TRUE AMERICAN CITIZEN the chance to do the same!!! as it was meant to be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sundance
I think there is an error. Pompeo was an USMA grad (West Point), served in infantry.
I think you got him mixed up with someone else.
Aside from CIA……Harvard/lawyer/oil probably Bushy
He and his West Point buddies all moved to Kansas and procured several aero space companies with financing from the Koch Brothers.
Was part of Class of 85 that reputedly had a group that swore an oath to each other to swear allegiance to each other to collectively take over the government some day.
Wasn’t BANNON Naval intel?
I believe so
Yes!!!! 👀
But in the case of SD, I think he has Pompeo semi-conflated with that POS Richard Armitage, who has had his fingIntel. everything IC since Vietnam, but works on the “outside” now. USNA grad, intel.
Never Director of CIA, but a real piece of work. Bush family do boy.
Outted Plame, singed that infamous 51 letter, etc etc.
Fingers, not “fingIntel”
Oh, we knew THAT, lol.
Its gotten to where I can automatically decypher auto-correct and fatfinger mistypes,…I figure its good practice for when we all have to use an AI proof code, lol.
However, Bannon is a good guy
What’s going on with his Obstruction of Congress case? 👀
Kind of disappeared for now.
Roger Stone is in jail!
Just sayin.
Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison, on appeal for the moment.
His charge of fraud in the “We Build the Wall” goes to trial next month, in May.
I am not aware that Roger Stone is in jail. He has a radio show on WABC as of yesterday. Stone was sentenced to prison but was pardoned by President Trump.
However, I believe you are referring to Peter Navarro, President Trump’s top trade advisor, who claimed executive privilege while defying a subpoena to testify before the unconstitutional sham J6 committee.
Navarro was charged for “contempt of Congress”, convicted, and sentenced to four months in prison. He appealed this conviction and asked for the sentence to be delayed pending his appeal. That motion was denied by so called U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta along with a Federal District of Criminals appeals court. Then, (no suprise) Justice John “Bush” Roberts also denied a Supreme Court review. Navarro reported to prison on March 19, 2024 in Miami Fl.
Steve Bannon is in the exact same situation with one exception. US District Court judge Carl Nichols, stayed Bannon’s 4 month sentence for ‘Contempt of Congress” pending his appeal.
On my opinion side note; How many millions of people in this country has “Contempt of Congress” at this point?
I am not convinced of that.
He IS “former Naval intel” as was Carter Page I might add.
He had his posse act as a greek choir for every move made by Matt Gaetz (stage director) this session, both the “9 days to select a Speaker” installing “he’s a hoor but he’s our hoor” McCarthy, and only vacating him AFTER he gave away the store, and then the whole charade to install a second traitor with Johnson.
And, Bannon has had a series of his team turn out to be nevertrumpers, so horrible personelle picks, or something more?
Guess Bannon can be fooled and betrayed just like many of us.
People Can’t just sit back in the safety zone calling foul all day long. At some point we must stick our neck out.
JMO ….Gaetz brought some positive changes even though the speaker issue has been messy.
At least we know some of the Republicans can actually get into the race and not just sit on the sidelines. President Trump will be impotent unless the Republicans step up.
I fell over and hit my head when Rogan and Carlson said Woodward was Navel Intelligence serving in the NIXON WHITEHOUSE. Holy Cow.
😂😂😂
President Trump used to trust the guy.
I always wondered why Pompeo was able to be at the CIA and then turn it over to evil Gina and go be Secretary of State. He was easily confirmed for both.
Deep State plant?
Yes.
Specifically, CIA, imo.
Yup, and McConnells abuse of Advice and Consent “Heres who can get confirmed!” along with controlling those around PDJT (Meadows, Priebus for instance) riddled his admin with traitors, just like they did with Reagan, Nixon, etc.
Before the alt media and internet ….they got away with this in the dark. Now people are becoming aware.
Don’t forget must be Senate approved if I recall correctly. Was Pompeo really PT first pick?
That seems like a weak excuse – that his son has entered the Naval Academy. If you were planning in embarking on a military career, you would probably go to one of the military academies – or does he plan to become a dentist and doesn’t want to wind up in the Ukraine meat grinder? Why is Johnson’s son taking up a space there if he doesn’t want to be a part of carrying out the military side of these insane war pigs?
Instead of going along with the money for Ukraine, Johnson should have yanked his son out of there if he was truly against our further support of Ukraine.
When did his son apply to the military academy?
I’m sick of these people using their personal business as an excuse for circumventing the Constitution.
Maybe we DO need a return to “Neo-fuedalism”; The King led his army, composed of the elites, AND THEIR SONS, because only the elites could afford to stable a warhorse, and maintain the armor, etc.
And, for the most part the peasants were left out of the battles,…wouldn’t we all love to see these neocons and their kids on the front lines?
Talk about change of tune!
Shows Johnsons lack of what is really going on. Otherwise he would keep his son as far away as possible. Just the Woke crap, shot mandates, is enough.
The four years of President Trump will be something to behold.
Hence the fear of all that oppose him, in particular RINOs.
Cheers!
I reccomend an article in todays AmericanThinker
“Losers will lose everything” by Robert Avery.
Makes the case that for both ‘sides’ 2024 election is “for all the marbles” and neither ‘side’ can afford to lose.
Interesting comments, as well.
Cheers, Dekester!
👍
REVENGE
And Mike Pompeo is lobbying for position in next administration.
Hopefully Trump will tell him to kick rocks.
Can you effin believe that? The hubris.
So, he’s betting on Joe to win, then?
Or that Thune replacing McConnell, will continue his predecessors abusing Advice and consent to dictate to PDJT who his cabinet will be.
I believe the VSG has figured out how to finesse this, in his second term, and so he will NOT be having traitors like Pompeo foisted upon him.
Pompeo is a dirty bird. One he moved to the State Department, people hoped he would change the atmosphere there.
He didn’t. He is deep state to the last drop.
This argument keeping Johnson Speaker, is just a variation on the illogic that has kept us voting and supporting RINOS all of these years; ” Hold your noseand vote for the R, because the D is worse.”
Well, in 2012 after years of nearly fatal epistaxis (nosebleeds) from holding my nose, I experience major projectile vomiting at the mere THOUGHT of voting for Romney, and so for the first time since turning 18, I left the ballot for POTUS blank. Best vote I didn’t cast.
Since then I have vowed I will NOT vote for another RINO , so WHY would I oppose vacating Johnson, an obvious compromised RINO Speaker?
Right there with you…enough of the ‘lesser of 2 evils”. I also leave open spaces on the ballot…just can’t do it anymore.
Never missed any election ever: primaries, budget overrides, you name it.
Worst Mistake Ever – Mittens.
I dodged the McCain bullet by writing in Sarah Palin for president.
Please write in somebody who is sand in the gears. Say a Jill Stein or Miriam Williamson or Sheila Jackson Lee. We want this machine to grind to a halt.
I say this because boxes left unchecked for any candidate invalidates the ballot; it is cast out (!!) as incomplete. That’s why you can’t write in “none of the above”, but you can write in “Mickey Mouse”.
This comment is rich coming from finger-in-the-wind Thomas.
Ikr??? I thought he went along with them. Weird.
Thats another one; IIRC Bannon was leading the choir in singing the praises of Massie, in the beginning.
You will never get a 100 percenter….Not even Trump.
He’s a fraud regardless.
FUBAR!!
You can always determine absolute corruption when the corrupted folks talk in platitudes about ‘history’– Zelensky thanks Johnson for an action that “keeps history on the right track.”
As the actual Churchill wrote, “History is written by the victors.”
We must be sure we are victorious – beginning with stopping the cheat, already in progress.
Clearly, we are not allowed to vote the IC out and they are immune. Police State assembled.
I think this will take an ACT OF GOD to take the trash out.
I think God has a war and economic collapse in store.
Agreed that’s next up, but don’t insurance companies call things like tsunami, hurricanes, earthquakes and say a meteor hitting the earth an Act of God? Perhaps a massive Carrington event that wipes out all the surveillance tech? So many possibilities…
Just thinking about the fact that with God all things are possible, puts a spring in my step today.
I worked in insurance a long time before I realized how bad it was. They exclude rioting, nuclear fallout, acts of war, damage as a result of government action, and so much more. Just go to your exclusions page…
We need some of those brave souls on our side….that are willing to tip toe outside the rules. It is justifiable.
And perhaps something from the sky. See Our Lady of Akita (Japan).
Extreme federalism will help get that Act of God in motion, localities taking over their towns and counties, States taking back their constitutional rights and responsibilities, resulting in sending people to D.C. that actually represent the voices back home might be part of that God helps those who help themselves approach.
Intelligence Briefing = When they show you and your families own “Hoover File”.
Just an opinion, but when shown one’s own personal or family ‘Hoover File” is exactly what PDJT is showing us, beginning with the 2016 campaign that each time some new outrage attributed to Donald Trump popped up, it was said that ‘he owns the downside’
I think that’s why he is such a brilliant fighter, and is trying to teach each and everyone of us how to fight this battle of restoring our republic – so what if something embarrassing shows up, there’s not a human on this planet that hasn’t done stupid, own it, so move through it;
Speaker Johnson apparently hasn’t learned that aspect, acknowledge, accept accountability, and move on with the business at hand.
good points, Bessie2003.
there is a big difference between EMBARRASSING information on someone (i.e. they cheated on a term paper) versus ACTIONABLE evidence of wrongdoing (the kind that’s punishable by lengthly prison time).
thus i believe the latter is the more likely scenario, since the conversion of newly elected reps to the darkside so often happens as fast as you can turn off a light.
seems a rather drastic reaction if you were just caught appropriating your neighbor’s newspaper.
makes you wonder what’s in all those closets.
So the House of Representatives voted on several bills last weekend. The rule to vote on the bills passed by 77 percent of members in attendance voting in favor. Aid to Israel passed by 86 percent. Aid to Ukraine passed by 73 percent. Aid to Taiwan passed by 92 percent. Ban on TikTok and Iran sanctions passed by 86 percent.
When Congress votes by 3/4 majority to pass any bill, it is intellectually dishonest to say that the Speaker is a traitor for not blocking the vote. Further, each member is now on record for their votes, and that will be displayed to the voters in their districts, to whom they are accountable.
The Constitution does not mention political parties. But when partisan politics so handicaps the Congress, it can’t do its job checking and balancing the Executive. Instead it is just a rubber stamp passing continuing resolutions. Then we get what we have, which is verging on dictatorship of the Executive branch. And we don’t like that, do we?
Ever since Newt Gingrich was Speaker, I have listened to Republicans claiming to want straight up or down votes on bills before Congress, without the games of linking bills into containers. So finally we get someone who does it, and now he’s a traitor? No, there are hundreds of issues Congress has punted on, to the point Biden is governing by Executive Orders. Johnson is now jump-starting the House to get to work like the old days, and I support him.
Asa Hutchinson is in the Treehouse.
While I may disagree with what Asa Hutchinson says about voter fraud, Covid, and President Trump’s candidacy, I will defend to about suppertime his right to say it.
“Russians killed thousands of ISIS (CIA) terrorists in Syria. We killed hundreds of Russians in Syria” ~ psychopath Pompeo
Wiki/Color_Revolutions > CIA caused a dozen color coups in east Europe since 2002, in Ukraine in 2004 and 2014
This. A career in the Swamp is multi-generational. They will take care of you and your children with privileges, perks, admissions, and good jobs there if you ‘go along’.
By the second or third generation, they have been so insulated in that bubble, and know nothing else, they can’t even see the evil all around them.
What price thy soul?
The challenge to USIC primacy likely will come from the purse. Defunding the monster, and every other federal agency, is inevitable given the trajectory of the dollar and our rampaging debt. It doesn’t matter if you have all the cards in a building that is on fire. The USIC will fade into irrelevancy even as it attempts to control the misbegotten with lies and propaganda. Money that buys nothing trumps everything. We are rocketing to that rendezvous and nothing will stop it.
Make sure that they can’t fund themselves via drug smuggling or human and gun trafficking, too.
They are the Cartel of Cartels, the biggest one that makes the worst of them possible. The USIC is and has always been organized as a modern East India Company, privateers with a Crown charter.
Pompeo is a globalist
…and a back-stabber. Pompeo didn’t lift a pinky-finger to stop his State or CIA from the Ukraine Phone Call Impeachment.
Well, $onofabitch!
Trump Truth,
All respect, water is wet, and fire is hot.
Still, true is true, Pomps *is* a globalist.
As Sundance states, the US INTEL Community (Military and Civilian) is the epicenter of the enablers supporting the Puppet Masters who control the US Government in the NEW US Paradigm of the Inverted Fascist System (ruling the US). The US Government and ALL it’s facilities are their tools for exercising control. The same is true of the other G7 nations that compose the, the YELLOW Nations in Sundance’s map, also think 5-Eyes nations. [Note: the world is now upside down with the authoritarian nations of the Economic BRICS alliance more closely resembling the G7 of 40 years past, composed of currently independent nations with their own data control systems.]
The reason … the US INTEL Community (Military and Civilian) is the lead enabler, is that the INTEL Community is the PRIMARY Intersection of DATA and GLOBAL Executive Reach within the Government. Ever since the dawn of the Computer Age, the US INTEL Community has been at the forefront of modern data gathering, management and analysis. The INTEL Community also has had ACTIVE Reach via embedded operatives in EVERY Executive Agency and Organization within the Executive Branch of the US Government. It only took the nudge of 9/11 and Patriot Act to place them firmly in control of this Intersect Point and the 8-years of the Obama Administration to activate it.
[Interesting illustrative Historical Note: when the German 1 SS Panzer Division burst through the US Army Lines in the Lostheim Gap during the Battle of Bulge in 1944 … and drove for the US 1st Army “fuel depots” at Stavelot … the panic among the US Command and Government was not the major fuel depot … The COMPUTER PROCESSING CENTER for the US 1st Army was located at that location. In 1944, Computers were TOP Secrete assets.]
This fact is the nexus of the statement by Chuck Schumer in 2016 that “the INTEL Community has 6-way’s of Sunday to get even”.
Recall from ALL our previous discussions of the linkage between the INTEL Community and INTEL Branch of the FBI. Recall “the question” that Sundance cites from the Congressional Testimony of FBI Director Comey regarding crossfire Hurricane. in 2016 (i.e. it was the FBI director of the FBI INTEL Branch driving the investigation, that OFFICE within the FBI and NOT the person is a CIA Post).
This situation, of SINGLE NEXUS POINT, is also the reason why it is so easy for Foreign Actors to gain access and control. It is a single point of failure or 1-stop shopping center.
All the above is the foundational “physical” reason behind Sundance’s article.
Good golly. This is excellent, just excellent, thedocoo. Standing ovation!
I think you might have just found the head of the hydra…!!
So, I am not entirely clear. Did PDJT endorse Mike Johnson in passing this aid package? The two met last weekend, correct?
If this is the case, then this is really hard for me to accept.
President Trump suggested that the aid be a loan and that is what the aid package is, apparently.
From what I have heard its a loan and Ukraine has to pay it back if they win the war. They also have to push Russia out of the Donbas region to gain access to all the gas reserves so they can generate enough money to pay back the loan. UMMMM I am no fan of Russia but I don’t see any of that happening . So yea its another 61 billion US tax payer funds UP IN SMOKE.
So, for fans of LOTR, its easy to explain; the USIC is “Wormtoungue” whispering in our leaders in Congress, the WH and the Courts, and poisoning their minds…for their own agenda.
But, Wormtoungue was actually a “double agent” working for Saruman,…so who is the I/C working for,..and just as we can also see a variation of the Uniparty in all “western” countries, it sure seems like there is a Globullust single minded focus and direction of ALL the ‘western’ intel agencies, not JUST the USIC, all moving in directions contrary to the interests of individual nations, common goals drives and direction.
For instance, not ONE of western governments I/C’s has pointed out to its leaders that there is no way that Ukraine, regardless the amount of help from “western” countries, will EVER “prevail” against Russia?
Not one, got any inkling in advance, of the Oct. 7 hamas attack?
The list is long, of such examples where western intel agencies, and I include Israel in that, seem to be in lockstep on pushing their governments in Globullust directions, contrary to the nations and peoples interests.
So, WHO is Saruman? The WEF is a “policy think tank” but has no actual authority.
One Square mile,…?
All roads lead to Langley, but who/what directs Langley,..?
Let’s focus on Langley for the time being.
We can’t get to their controllers until we recapture our government from them.
One step at a time.
Dad was right.
ps; $3.5 Billion for Illegals, $6 Billion for Hamas
And, $800,000,000 for border security – in Ukraine.
For clarification…those amounts are embedded within the “Aid to Israel” bill.
What’s pedo joe to do?
He gets 10% of Ukraine welfare. (/s or maybe not, IDK)
Per Alexander Tytler: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
This quote, much abused and overused, is missing one salient fact:
“the voters” are RECEIVING NO LARGESSE…unless you count people who shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
It is actually an argument against expanding the franchise beyond the original 1791 limits. One should not allow competing interests power…
especially when equality, mercy, and fairness are only weapons to be used against the heritage majority by those competitors. Our mistake was to assume others would return our magnimity, and when they didn’t, they were not punished for their ingratitude.
This is why the third world is the third world. Other peoples will push and push until stopped, because they expect someone will try to stop them. Tyranny, external shame, and the threat of cruelty mark these other cultures; the European West was high-trust because internal guilt and individual latitude was our hallmark. Not anymore, I add, as we become a soviet system, where dark triad traits are selected for.
“Equality under the law” meant we allowed no aristocracy with inherited privileges. Our political system, now openly above the Law of the Constitution, has regressed to the historic third-world form: a Banana Republic. (“Banana Republic” refers to those tropical dictatorships with the all the trappings, and none of the justice, of the American Way.)
The very subject Sundance points to is a return to aristocracy.
They have the power to do to us what we cannot do to them; they cultivate “protected” and privileged classes with similar immunities…immunities, from fair treatment, from justice. Our rulers and their minions are unjust, they have forfeited their legitimacy and the authority we have granted them. They are an autonamous and increasingly hostile occupation.
The District, the Imperial Capitol, must be broken up and scattered amongst the states. It has formed its own ecosystem wherein they marry each other, school and live together, form their own tribes. It is separate from the formerly united states, operating in its own interest.
Number one on people who shouldn’t be allowed to vote: politicians and bureaucrats. As fiduciary agents of the people, they shouldn’t be allowed to vote their interests above ours. We should be the bosses, they the hired management.
If you work for the government, you can’t vote, or be politically active. That’s the tradeoff for comfortable security, since the only people to get fired, prosecuted, or worse are the whistleblowers. And no PACs or dark pools allowed, they will be prosecuted like the innocent Jan 6’ers as a threat to the sovereign interests of We, the People.
If he can’t / won’t be vacated from the Speaker position, then he needs to be primaried and vacated from Congress in November 2024.
Louisianna Patriots, are you up to the task?
“To put it bluntly, I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys. My son is going to begin in the Naval Academy this fall. This is a live-fire exercise for me as it is so many American families,” Johnson told reporters. “This is not a game, this is not a joke.”
This is what a logician would call the either/or fallacy. It’s set up so that there are only two options. It does not admit the possibility of other options, such as sending neither bullets nor soldiers.
And did the Johnson family actually consider what his son was committing to when he applied to the Academy? It was to go off and fight for the US, risking life and limb. Perhaps Johnson should have taken his son to Bethesda-Walter Reed or a VA hospital to see the consequences of military action.
He did the same stupid thing with the FISA warrants. It was hard to get a warrant (it isn’t, that’s a lie and he must have known that), so the only solution was to allow unConstitutional spying on Americans without a warrant.
Another thing, doesn’t Congress have a say in sending boys? So vote no.
This man is unfit for public office.
BTW, Thomas Massie says he was in the same meeting that Johnson claimed he learned classified information in, and he says nothing classified was discussed.
It was hard to get a warrant (it isn’t, that’s a lie and he must have known that), so the only solution was to allow unconstitutional spying on Americans without a warrant.
Indeed. Probable cause is usually enough for a warrant. If there is such a danger of terrorism, one would think that that established probable cause. What the IC wants is to spy on Americans without probable cause.
The IC would spy fake warrant or no warrant. IC would spy FISA or no FISA…..so what was the real reason for all the drama?…..We need not only to get rid of the Patriot Act but all the “mechanisms” that enabled data collection. On top of that destroying the facilities storing the data. Then make future attempts a felony. Of course if we are “lucky” there can still be one of those food plant, bridge, train, type accidents.
For what its worth and coming from Massie its not worth much but he also said NOT MAGA Mike probably got a “special briefing ” from the IC.
” I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys ” OK who is going to fire those bullets ? From what I hearing from some really good sources is that Ukraine is out of troops.
The more they prolong these wars the more likely it is that “American boys” will end up dieing in them.
I am old enough to recall the burning of draft cards. There will be bonfires on my farm if anyone is interested.
In a war with Russia we may all end up dying. Thats why I find it all beyond insane. I know there is no making sense of it but yet here I am trying.
NIV Matt. 10:16
“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.”
It’s not impossible to navigate this treacherous life because the Lord is in control. Remember who ultimately wins.
THE ANSWER –
Trump says “I want Mike Johnson to remain as speaker”!
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-support-mike-johnson/2024/04/23/id/1162046/
I believe Benjamin Franklin, when asked what kind of government we had been given said; “a democracy if you can keep it’.
MOST PROFOUNDLY TO OUR PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCE; in the 18th Century Alexander Tytler wrote:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
The last part of that reiterated quote, of the sequence sounds much like “Hard times make for hard men,..
Hard men make for easy times,…
Easy times make for easy men,…
Easy men make for hard times,…
Benjamin Franklin said “a republic if you can keep it” – big difference between the two types of government.
Thanks for clarifying that, Bessie2003. People need to pay more attention to wording.
As you stated, there’s a BIG difference just like we are a Constitutional Republic NOT a Democratic Republic.
The National Security State was birthed by Harry Truman in the National Security Act of 1947. Then Truman “beat” Dewey and we began our long series of foreign wars to benefit the military industrial complex.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This is Evil Personified.
What is the remedy?
It feels like we are so screwed.
The Administrative State appears to be in full control of all three branches of our national government.
Not sure how this gets rectified, am thinking start by repealing the 17th Amendment, shutting down the Federal Reserve, and disallowing union membership for all federal employees would be a nice, peaceful, start to remedying the machine’s grasping hands choking our republic’s neck.
Our only defense is local and county government. Put effort into the battles we can win (School boards, city councils, county commissioners, etc.). Local battles equals probable success. National battles are not. Successful local battles insulate us against all the federal and State abuse.
Our success depends on putting all our effort into winning the elections we can win.
One would not say they are in the process of taking down the deep state without a plan to deal with the Federal Reserve which is not Federal (it’s a private organization) and is not a reserve.
One can’t bring back rightful order without addressing the head of the snake.
Is there a reference to flipping over the money changer tables in our past?
Interesting business folks, interesting business.
Most definitely a complicated business is afoot. The fat lady isn’t anywhere near singing either.
Bessie2003: The Fat Lady is now taking Ozembic®.
No Jardiance? This one is singing…..
We knew something nefarious was afoot when Lindsey just happened to pop in to see Zelensky in March.
Lindsey looked dead tired.
I warned that somebody was influencing President Trump to turn around and support Ukraine aid.
Zelensky said he had been speaking to Trump directly, remember?
I am respectfully withholding any judgements on Speaker Johnson.
The reason is seeing how close he has been with President Trump. Lengthy discussions with President Trump according to Johnson, his visit and interview/discussion at Mar-A-Lago, etc.
Is there some sort of long term play going on that may just not seem immediately obvious?
We are not engaged in some low level congressional funding battle.
The world is at war. The good guys are in the process of taking down the deep state.
God help me for quoting Sleepy, but what’s going on “is a big F’ing deal!”
I was withholding any judgments on NOT MAGA Mike because he said there would be no funding Ukraine until the southern border was secure. He also stated there needs to be an attempt to cut government spending.
Needless to say he failed the test, he sold us out in the dead of night. He went from good Christian MAGA Mike to stripping off all his clothes, selling his soul to the devil and jumping in bed with the Demonrats in record time.
Tucker Carlson – Mike Pompeo is a Criminal
If the USIC can off a President – Kennedy
and remove the most popular President – Nixon (he knew too much)
and replace him with Ford, not elected as VP or President under/after Nixon
and arrange for Thatcher to be the PM of Great Britain (detailed in Spy Catcher by Peter Wright)
and organize numerous coups globally
is there anything they can’t or won’t do?
How difficult would it be to hack a computer/lap top/phone and add a few incriminating photographs?
Then there’s “the patch” to keep someone quite – of course that’s just fiction – LoL
The “Five Eyes” including USIC and GCHQ (UK) have been spying on us for a long time before FISA was ever a thing – remember the (intercept) clicks on the line during phone calls (old land lines)
The only solution is to dissolve the whole thing, which I don’t believe will happen under any leadership
I get intercept clicks on my I phone.
As an historian I have studied the origins of our current IC where it came from and how. The thread can be traced directly to Sir Francis Walsingham – Elizabeth I’s spy master in the late 15th century (b. 1532- d. 1590). All kings and despots had their spy masters since humans organized into communities. That said Walsingham was one of the first to apply scientific methods to data collection and black ops. MI5 and MI6 are direct progeny of his organization. The OSS under Wild Bill Donovan (later CIA) were originally set up by William Stephenson working for MI6 during WWII. Fast forward 80 years and we witness a global organization that encompasses all counties and corporations. The IC works directly for their masters (not the citizens who pay them). The IC is far more ruthless than the Sicilian Mafia we were all taught growing up were the real bad guys but the Cosa Nostra are choir boys in comparison. We should assume these guys can get to everybody including Trump. The crimes they (and their bosses) have committed are truly heinous and they will blow up the world before they give up their power. The choice is fight and die or be enslaved. My preference is the first option.
son of liberty: For the roots of the IC, I would go back in time even further, to the Missi Dominici (before that, Missus Dominicus) of the Merovingian (Charles Martel and Pepin) and Frankish kings (Charlamagne). I was taught about the Missi Dominici in high school, back in the ’70s, and have always remembered them. To me, the Missi Dominici were the original “Deep State” of the Western World.
So NOT MAGA Mike sold us out so his son could have a cushy job in the Navy ?
Massie was on with Charlie Kirk yesterday and eluded to the fact that NOT MAGA Mike got a special briefing from the IC, I guess we now know what the briefing was all about.
Thank you SD for mentioning Ciaramella , I spotted the same Real Clear Investigation article about the shampeachment ” whistleblower ” that Bongino has been talking about a few days ago. Seems this Ciaramella creep really gets around. He worked for Brennan at the Obama CIA , assisted Crooked Joe Biden when he was ” point man ” on Ukraine affairs, met with Victoria Nuland and others at the WH right after the alleged Russian hack of the DNC and he helped orchestrate the shampeachment of President Trump which we all know was used to cover up the Biden corruption in Ukraine.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/17/impeachment_whistleblower_was_in_the_loop_of_biden-ukraine_affairs_that_trump_wanted_probed_1024937.html
^^^^^^^^
As mentioned during the Q&A re Russia, if the IC was scared of the CTH (Sundance) before, this one or more like it should put them over the top. Hopefully there plans in place to keep the site from going dark.
The IC doesn’t care if we “know” about them…or if we talk about & deride them.
They’ll only react if they witness “organization” against them.
President Trump has been forced to make a deal with the devil. If he can keep the House Republican he has a small chance to get elected President in 2024. If Johnson goes and the House flips to Democrat, they pass a bill to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot. Pretty simple at this point that President Trump simply has no other choice.
No, it is anything but simple, or clear that the House CAN be flipped from Uniparty-R to Uniparty-D, or that if it did that it could “simply” pass legislation barring PDJT from being on the ballot,…
Nor is it clear that the majority of voters would accept the legitimacy of any election conducted, where they barred PDJT from winning.
IMHO, do not fall for, or amplify this chicken little false narrative; its doubtful they would pursue such a coarse, its just to protect Johnson.
And Pompeo is inserting himself everywhere that has a hint of Christianity. Sorry. Just like Putz, “you will know them by their fruits”.
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Mike Pompeo: blurted out that ‘we are in a live-exercise’ at one of the first Covid task force pressers;
Mike Pence: insisted on an emergency declaration shortly thereafter;
Lindsay Graham: just told Shannon Bream ‘we are at war’;
Mike Johnson: as reported above, worries about the ‘live-fire exercise’.
So, three Mikes have zero b@lls to say what one Lindsay is so fired up about:
We are at war, but no one wants to declare it ‘formally’ as that wrecks the whole IC agenda to keep looking for the ‘boogie man’s’.
I mean, if you know who you are at war with, then diverse groups could ally up instead of continue their grudge matches against each other . . .
Could he be saving Johnson for himself?
Think about the whole J6 set up. Yeah, the IC along with every other government institution is fully corrupt. And, like Watergate, they commit even bigger crimes when they then conspire to cover up their set-ups.
The formula for OBEDIENCE.
THIS:
Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent (2011)
The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to “white collar criminals,” state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.
Plus THIS:
I wonder if any / all of this funding has anything to do with U.S. sponsored biological weapons laboratories that could / could not be / sarc – located within Ukraine?
Sure seems like a “do everything at any cost” kind of thing that can easily flip “good” men to bad.
Or connections from politicians to children?
or a big pile of cash and a room at the nearest nuclear fall out shelter.
I still wonder what the 4th Branch has on Mike Johnson. I will not forgive his support of FISA nor his lack of spine regarding closing US borders against illegal “asylum seeking” aliens.
This article makes a lot of sense, so why doesn’t Trump know all this, and why doesn’t he bring this out into the open. The same thing happened during his administration, he never revealed what the IC was doing, and the depth of their corruption.
They hit the wrong place on 9/11 *****
If the house flips Trump will be “disqualified “ by the Democrat run house because he led “an insurrection “.
That the story they’re sticking to.
Should things work out so that this occurs I think a second civil action will happen.
Based upon? A pretend insurrection decision?
This is what an actual INSURRECTION looks like.
Did January 6th look anything remotely like this to you?
Its a”chicken little” false narrative, and much like “they will just cancel the elections” its NOT REAL.
Even with a D-Uniparty majority replacing the current R-Uniparty majority (which is a whole seperate challenge for “them” requiring some R’s to vote Dem or resign) they would needed to have successfully CONVICTED PDJT in their unsuccessful and frankly improperly conducted Imprachment attempt, FOR Insurrection, and THEN they woyld have had to successfully convict him in criminal court of Insurrection, and THEN, and only then MAYBE a Dem led House could pass leguslation barring PDJT from being on the ballot…IF they can some how provide proof PDJT was involved with the Confederacy 150+ years ago, lol.
And, even if THEY overcome all of these hurdles, the American people have to be willing to accept the election results as legitimate, and they would never accept this obvious attempt to exclude him from the ballot because they can’t win against him.
Sunday Talks – Senator Mark Warner Says SSCI Bill to Block All Presidents from Fourth Branch Classified Intelligence Close to Completion – 17 Sep 2023
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/17/sunday-talks-senator-mark-warner-says-ssci-bill-to-block-all-presidents-from-fourth-branch-classified-intelligence-close-to-completion/
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) created the systems that permit intelligence weaponization. The SSCI is the organizational institution that supports the Fourth Branch of Government, the intelligence branch. Keep in mind, the SSCI previously created a bipartisan “Restrict Act,” to deal with what they deemed dangerous information on the internet (under auspices of TikTok ban). SSCI Chairman Mark Warner is the current enabler of the continued weaponized intel operations.
In this video segment below, notice how Chairman Warner leads off his remarks. Two flares triggered. First, you can tell by his response, that President Trump’s “classified documents” were exactly what we thought they were; evidence against those who constructed the Trump-Russia claims from inside govt. Second, notice how Warner now wants to block any President from controlling intelligence as defined by the Fourth Branch. This stuff is getting brutally obvious.
So, the actual government doesn’t want the titular head called the POTUS to know what’s going on at all.
Got it.
While the SSCI itself doesn’t know what’s actually going on.
Got it.
There Is No Oversight: The NSA Withheld Documents From Intelligence Committee Heads
Mar 28th 2014
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140327/08140826708/there-is-no-oversight-nsa-withheld-documents-intelligence-committee-heads.shtml
There has never been effective oversight of the NSA’s bulk collections programs, or indeed, intelligence agencies in general. There’s been a lot of noise made about this vaunted oversight in defense of programs revealed by leaked documents, but this is nothing more than a talking point.
At The Big Picture, a clip of Sen. John D. Rockefeller (then Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) discussing how oversight actually works has been posted. It’s from an interview given in 2007, about the time the FISA Amendments Act was being put together to replace the expiring Protect America Act. The amendments act, among other things, extended the length of warrantless surveillance and gave telecoms retroactive immunity for their participation in the NSA’s bulk collections.
Here’s Sen. John D. Rockefeller explaining why, even back in 2007, intelligence agency oversight was a joke.
DAVIS: Reports quote administration officials as saying this is going on and it’s being done in a way to avoid oversight of the Intelligence Committee. Is there any way—
ROCKEFELLER: They’ll go to any lengths to do that, as we’ve seen in the last two days [during hearings on FISA].
DAVIS: Is there anything you could do in your position as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee to find answers about this, if it is in fact going on?
ROCKEFELLER: Don’t you understand the way Intelligence works? Do you think that because I’m Chairman of the Intelligence Committee that I just say I want it, and they give it to me? They control it. All of it. ALL of it. ALL THE TIME. I only get – and my committee only gets – what they WANT to give me.
Audio clip:
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The beauty of the pardon power is that it makes obtaining the needed information easier.
Decapitation will be another important element of Trump’s second term. Going deep into the IC and ripping out the #resistance communists root and branch.
Yes, x 1000
So this will be the next big betrayal by Johnson.
That’s a whole lot in a few paragraphs right there. Trump’s room full of classified docs, and the stuff that is far more deeply “classified” that likely NOBODY will ever see.
Maybe that August(?) visit by the FBI (just before they decided to go ballastic on him) was the one where they uncovered exactly what PDJT was holding – and felt hugely threatened by it.
No, they knew when the WH Councils office ran around collecting every copy of the 11″ thick binder, using the excuse it needed to be redacted to prevent personal info exposure (B.S.,) and realised they were “short” one, unredacted copy.
Bingo. And still are. 👀
Insurance policy , lets hope so.
Unconstitutional!
The President of the United States is Commander in Chief of the military and one of three branches of the federal government. It’s unconstitutional to exclude him from vital intelligence information!
If our SCOTUS wants to keep this a country, they’ll scrap any such idiocy as counter to our constitution.