I am writing this outline because we have many new readers and also to keep everyone on the same page, so to speak.
There is a reason why information held within an administrative agency, within a silo, is called an “equity.” The information has ownership exclusive to the originating agency or silo. A known equity of a specific silo.
EXAMPLE of an “FBI equity” and how it is handled below:
An “equity” is information with ownership belonging to a specific agency or silo. Only the agency head can declassify information within their silo. Ex. The head of the FBI cannot declassify or release the “equity” of the CIA. The head of the CIA can declassify an equity of the CIA, and the FBI head can declassify the equity of the FBI.
Only the President and the Director of National Intelligence (Tulsi Gabbard) can reach into any agency (silo), retrieve information then declassify it. The President and the DNI can work together to release information from any silo.
This process is what we are seeing with the releases of information, FBI equities, from FBI Director Kash Patel. These are exclusive equities of the FBI, and can be released (with approval) from the head of the executive, the President.
Then the issue of distribution surfaces. Once an equity is declassified, Patel then has to determine how to make the information public. He could: (a) release it directly from the FBI to the public; (b) release it to the legislative branch for distribution to the public (Grassley or similar): or (c) release it to a media outlet (Solomon), who in turn releases it to the public.
The White House may not want the FBI to release it directly to the public due to the appearance of politics. The legislative option may not want to be the distribution hub due to the appearance of politics. The media outlet may or may not want to release it for their own reasons.
The office of the President may not want the FBI to release the information directly because it can create a problem for the Executive if the material is framed politically. The FBI is a subsidiary of the Executive. The information can look very political if a political appointee is releasing information that is politically explosive in nature.
In the first set of FBI declassification releases, the White House obviously approved of the release and the office of Senator Chuck Grassley was working with Kash Patel to distribute the declassified information, because it pertained to research and investigations they were conducting. The “equity” was beneficial to their interests.
In the current FBI releases by Kash Patel, the exclusive FBI equities are being released to John Solomon for distribution. This approach is because of a pre-existing relationship.
At the same time Director Patel is releasing information from within the specific FBI silo, DNI Tulsi Gabbard is declassifying and releasing information from both her silo (DNI) and other silos (CIA). In the CIA releases, Gabbard is coordinating with the declassification approval of CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
When you understand the silo system and how information is considered an equity of each silo, you start to realize how certain silos cannot operate without the approval of another.
The DOJ cannot use a CIA equity unless the CIA approves. The DOJ cannot use an NSA equity unless the NSA approves. Regardless of how the information is identified, each silo must approve of their equities being released. If they do not approve the only option is for the President to override the silo head and declassify the information himself.
As an outcome of the way our checks and balances have been modified against our interests, the judicial branch has repeatedly deferred to the DOJ around the issue of “national security.” In fact, if the DOJ labels any Lawfare approach as a national security matter the subsequent evidence therein, the NSI (even when not seen) is accepted by the judicial branch without question. The judicial branch defers to the executive on all matters defined by the executive as “national security.”
This is the area of exploit being discussed by Mary McCord in this segment. However, notice there is one apparatus that can supercede the DOJ-NSD’s ability to weaponize Nat Sec Information, that’s the power of the intelligence apparatus. WATCH:
Lawfare coordinator Mary McCord admits that she and another lawfare coordinator, Andrew Weissmann, worked with the DOJ and intelligence losers on what bogus charges to bring against Trump. pic.twitter.com/4jqgetvURZ
— The Researcher (@listen_2learn) October 4, 2024
McCord notes how she and Andrew Weissmann navigate through the process of using National Security Information (NSI) as they move toward their target; the most common reference is their political opposition, Donald J Trump.
This silo process is also how the DC system protects itself from sunlight.
A whistleblower from the CIA cannot go to the FBI with evidence of corrupt activity and expect the FBI to take action on that evidence without the approval of the CIA. If the CIA whistleblower takes the equity evidence to the FBI and the CIA does not permit the equity evidence to be used, the FBI cannot use it.
Similarly, if a non-silo member of the public connects the dots using information/evidence from multiple silos, the DOJ cannot use that evidence without first requesting approval from each of the silo heads.
Silos only know their own information. Silos do not know the information in other agencies. This was the entire premise of creating the DNI, a super-silo that can cross reference each silos’ equities. Using this power is what I have been outlining for the past several years, and this is what Tulsi Gabbard has been doing for the first time since the DNI office was created.
Alternatively, Kash Patel has selected John Solomon for the release of information exclusive to Kash Patel’s silo. Because the equities do not involve any other silo, this is possible. Solomon doesn’t care if the information release is defined as political, and most of the information is expired old news being repackaged for public consumption.
Throughout this process, the MSM regards all declassified information against their interests to be political constructs, easily ignored. Trump as head of the executive is framed as releasing information against his political opposition.
Also understand, each legislative committee or sub-committee within congress (legislative branch) is its own independent silo. The HPSCI doesn’t know what the SSCI is doing, and vice-versa. Additionally, each agency within the executive branch is its own independent silo. There are also silos within the judicial branch, and within each federal court within the judicial branch – including the FISA Court.
Each silo is its own compartment of information holding exclusive equities.
This DC system has been weaponized over time to create the complicated mess that currently exists.
Keep all of this in mind, as you look at the information outflow and distribution network.
Warmest best,
~ Sundance
It’s taken generations, but the unproductive leeches among us have managed to start off as “regulators” or “managers,” and now they have this giant colony of full-grown bureaucrats, draining as much money out of the productive classes as they can.
Look! More illegals! More muzzies! More jews! Get mad at the man on the street, and don’t look at what your tax code has become. Don’t look at what your state & federal laws have become. Don’t look at how your stolen tax money is circulated around and eventually disappears in a million secretive little agencies.
I like to take a swim just about every day sometimes it’s more of a chore and not really worth it. If the conditions aren’t right and the location is particularly polluted I have to look around for a suitable spot. However I do know where the water is likely the cleanest and the current the most favorable. To be honest with the circumstances is key. I can’t let myself be fooled by temperature or changing conditions. When I perceive and understand the purpose of getting wet I am able to safely experience the benefit of my swim.
Which is to renew myself to instruction, wisdom and peace.
Luke 8:11
Thanks and blessings SD this is an awesome place to swim. Pray the Father through the Son to expose the works of the adversary and may those who have fallen to his seduction come to a knowledge of the Truth. Amen
<When I perceive and understand the purpose of getting wet
I am able to safely experience the benefit of my swim.>
So you don’t swim alone…
You swim with a porpoise 🙂
Only in New York or Jersey.
But beware, lest you swim with parasites.
I agree with your prayer in the name of Jesus
With regard to how the evidence of seditious conspiracy and treason in 2015 -2017 is being dripped out in large, fat drops of truth in order to plant the seeds in the public mind of “yes it is both possible and appropriate to file criminal charges against these people”, today’s discussion on Coffee and Covid is well worth the read.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sledge-hammer-thursday-august-14
On a side note, Jeff Childers totally nails it with his description of that picture of the European leaders at the white table with the stickers. I knew something was really weird about that image, but he captures the message – they are all just kids in a kindergarten.
The humiliation rituals continue. Ha.
Alex I thoroughly enjoyed this article this morning at ZH that lays out a good dose of history, and then describes what we’re seeing today as a modern version of that historical pattern clearly emerging.
It was a very interesting read..
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stirrings-rebellion-unhappy-britain#comment-stream
Stirrings Of Rebellion In Unhappy Britain
From the article:
I read it right, the first time.
An ‘elite police division’ has been assembled by the Home Office to monitor remarks made by social media users on immigration, at a time when the provision of over two hundred hotels for illegal migrants is causing rising tension in communities.
Of course, the Daily Mail article meant specially-skilled officers, but it is also true that the ‘elite’ is being protected.
For Britain is not being run for the good of the ordinary people, but for a predatory class that is solidifying its power in an emerging global technocracy.
Is it too late for citizens to resist?
Much depends on a minority of dissidents, while the majority of the populace appears docile and blissfully ignorant of the prison being built around them.
When did you last post on Facebook?”
Nonetheless, there are hints of revolutionary spirit in the country, albeit misdirected into false saviours such as Nigel Farage’s Reform, futile rallies and petitions, or various media outlets that cynics regard as controlled opposition. Certainly, millions of people have lost faith in politicians, the BBC and the institutions of society, but we are a long way from the violent unrest predicted by David Betz of King’s College London,
I looked back to the time of the Civil War, to consider whether Britain is again at a tipping point.
My guide was The Blazing World: a New History of Revolutionary England (2023) by Jonathan Healey. It’s a work of thorough scholarship, although I came to realise that ‘new history’ means using modern language of identity politics (male householders are ‘patriarchs’) while the Barbary pirates who took hundreds of thousands of English coastal folk as slaves is overlooked (despite occurring in the period covered by the book).
Religious conflict was rife, and the Gunpowder Plot in 1604 was a failed attack by Guy Fawkes and colleagues on the Protestant establishment. The conspirators were hanged until almost dead; then they were castrated, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered, before a fervent crowd of Londoners. The authorities wanted everyone to know that the wages of rebellion were death – through exemplary punishment. Traitors’ heads were put on spikes on London Bridge.
Today there is no barbaric execution, but merely writers of social media posts may be subjected to inquisition for domestic terrorism.
Dead on: “Today there is no barbaric execution, but merely writers of social media posts may be subjected to inquisition for domestic terrorism.”
Thanks,
Great context and procedural information in the link.
A new defintion for DC Potempkin Village.
A martix of silos containing harvested intel silage that is not connected in any way.
Spoiled intel silage is fed to public for consumption when its needed.
🧐🤨😳
The public seems to like it…the spoiled silage.
Cattle absolutely LOVE fermented silage – the alcohol within the fermented silage makes the cattle feel comfortably numb.
Who knew?!
The cows know.
I have sort of always thought that the silo system must have been fully developed a long time ago because the Government has never been able to keep each of its Bureaucracies from attempting to play politics for more power than other Bureaucracies, both internally and internationally. A form of the silo system has always been used as a working get around by all Government Bureaucracies, even and especially by State and local Bureaucracies.
I don’t think the silo schemes will ever be eliminated, unless a better scheme is invented, because all of the power would end up in the silo which benefits the most from the use of silos. I believe a form of this has existed since the dawning of the idea of government by Bureaucrats. This is also why Communism is very popular among Bureaucrats everywhere. We are fighting a very old and very crafty monster whose basic instincts will carry on as long as Bureaucracy survives, I recon.
Our founding fathers found the key:
Balance of power.
You will always have corruption. At the tippy top, you get the people who are much smarter AND/or much better than others at the game. But sometimes they are smarter and better AND corrupt, which gives them an added advantage.
But if there are other branches of power that have their own fiefdoms to protect, the smarter and better players in that fiefdom will fight any other fiefdom attempting to illegally encroach on their turf.
The problem we have today is that those at the HEADS of the different branches of government started working TOGETHER for their own personal power/profit. To maintain their power, they can’t have a moral, free and educated populace that have access to fair elections and pitchforks.
So creating a balance of power between the agencies by limiting their ability to claim “National Security Interest ” will be the key to fixing this.
Get Sundance and other knowledgeable patriots in a room and find a way to balance the power of these IC agencies and identify and remove the corrupt.
Oh wait! Seems like they may have already done that. 🙂
I guess I forgot to mention that only the top echelon in each Bureaucracy is entitled to look into that Bureaucracy’s special silo. They are also the only people allowed to represent said Bureaucracy in communications with other Bureaus and any outside party. I like that you are not as pessimistic as I am. Thanks for your comments.
I remember reading somewhere that almost immediately after signing the legislation creating the CIA Harry Truman wanted his signature back. There was something that I recall about giving too much power to “intelligence” agencies in order for them to spy on whoever they wanted. I would say that the same can be said for the FISC. If covert information can be given to a judge or a court without the named person being completely in the dark and the IC is allowed to go to any means they want, that seems to be a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
What would be both ironic and hilarious would be if the FISC was used on the very ones who developed and used Crossfire Hurricane in order to remove President Trump when they KNEW ALL ALONG that the charges against every one spied on in Crossfire Hurricane were bogus, unfounded charges leading to a completely UNCONSTITUTIONAL witch hunt. Treasonous at best!
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The silo system (“fiefdoms”) also are rampant in big private corporations. The heads of departments see their worth as being maximized if/when they know stuff that others don’t.
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Yeppers. I used to work in such a Corporation. It is a great reason why I am enjoying my retirement. Fiefdom is a spot on description.
I now know why there are no snakes in Ireland.
They’re all in America’s “intelligence” agencies.
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It’s good to recap a whole lot now, now that we see there might actually be something going on- I can feel my eyes rolling though as I write this.
Many of us have been following all this for so damned long now that the details are back in the cobwebs of our minds.
I know I’ve been utilizing the search box here a lot lately to dig up stuff that I have vague memory of reading and yet only today see something going on with that.. so I want to brush up on the details.
Sheesh, what a job it is to be informed.. if it’s even that- ya have to wonder.
Enlightening.
Thank you Sundance!
The use of the word “equity” in this case is similar to the use of the word “stakeholder.” It’s a deception. The operators of the “silos” don’t own anything. We the People own it all. “Stakeholders” also do not own anything. They just get a piece of the action as a payoff for their votes.
Most, if not all, real conservatives know the game has been rigged for a very long time, as we have been censored, shadow-banned, and deleted everywhere we post. Democraps try to break us, but we will not fail! We will do more damage to the left than the left can do to us! A shit stain is still a shit stain regardless of what the criminals tell you.
Why don’t we get rid of all of the other intelligence agencies except for the DNI, it’s apparently the only one which can put all of the intelligence together.
This is a very self-preserving system for the coup ers.
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Who, then, is going to COLLECT the information from various places?
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Internet providers, Cellular providers, GPS providers, palintir and leidos
(all availlable for private purchase with zero illegality of it- the Contract and TOS signing loop hole)
The gov should be regulating those assholes from selling data veruss joining them
The job of the ODNI is to search all of the IC silos for information that will assist any of the groups that can benefit from additional knowledge from any investigation from other silos. This was supposedly to prevent another 9/11 disaster. Instead, until Gabbard was made head of the ODNI, the Director of the ODNI was always left out of the loop by the various colluding heads of heads of IC Departments who controlled a silo. The only thing Tulsi can do is expose this mess. She can only ask the DOJ to prosecute the perps. Since the DOJ was the coordinating gang that facilitated getting around the ODNI, I doubt that much will ever be done about all of the recent “discoveries” of the actual truths. Pam Bondi is way in over her head as is virtually all of the political class in the DC Swamp.
This is a ‘Rip the bandaid OFF’ piece from Sundance. Brutal truth with sources to back it up. It’s a rude awakening but clarifying.
Much appreciated. People need the real truth. Tnx
There are a few legit reasons why these equities exist. For example, let’s say the CIA has a foreign source that gives them specific information that is only available to a very small group of individuals. If the FBI wanted to use that information in a prosecution, it makes sense that the CIA would want to have a say in whether the FBI could use it or not, to protect their source. If the CIA says no but the FBI persists, the disagreement is kicked upstairs to the president to resolve.
Protecting sources and methods is legit sometimes. That said, it’s illegitimate to use equities as CYA.
I’m also adding this unrelated but good to know info for folks who don’t work with classified material. Per an existing executive order, information is only supposed to remain classified for 25 years, and each document should carry a declassification date. They get around that by using OADR, or Originating Authority Determination Required, in the declassification instructions. What that means is, if I have a 40-year-old classified document from a govt agency that has OADR on it, before I can consider it declassified, I have to go back to that agency and ask them to determine if the information has to remain classified. I can’t say for certain how many documents are actually declassified in this manner, but I would wager that the number is somewhere close to zero.
Silos are not just in government. I see them in the private sector as well. The biggest beneficiaries are middle management who control access to information in their silo, passing selectively filtered information up and down the hierarchy.
I’m thinking inequity is a better term?
“Equity” vs. “Equities.” You might very well be correct about the use of the term in the intelligence context, but that is not the way we used the term when I was in government. We referred to other agencies’ “equities” in documents, namely their institutional interests in certain documents. For example, correspondence between agencies would have equities for both agencies and both agencies would have to be consulted before release.
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Nice summary. I would add that to the extent we see Patel (rather than Gabbard) release stuff from the FBI (e.g. the halting of the Clinton email investigation), that it’s not merely old and repackaged (or newly documented old and repackaged) news, but also indicative of an avenue that is legally stale or otherwise not relevant to or being pursued by the current Russia Hoax etc. investigation.
I strongly suspect too, that the information drips of whatever kind are to keep the pundits happy (they aren’t actually being given much), to keep issues in the news so that if and when there are indictments they don’t seem to materialize out of nowhere as purely political, and to reassure “the base” that notwithstanding DOJ confidentiality rules, they are working on it.
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More silos.
https://www.ncpc.gov/news/item/54/7/
Look at that Balkanized map.
No other jurisdiction that I know of has law enforcement spot jurisdictions as small as a single park, plus territorial cut outs among a variety of different federal and local entities to this degree.
You know who wanted DC to be a State for all the non-gray areas?
That would be Mark Tushnet and Cass Sunstein. They were working on law review articles figuring out an end run around the Constitution on that point thirty years ago.
I wonder why?
Home rule was a very bad mistake. Repeal it. Amend the Constitution to allow the residents to vote in Maryland for purposes of federal elections. Taxation without representation is a fair critique, but if the income tax goes away, so does that argument. No one is guaranteed a local municipal government. Maybe if there were no local taxes and no local government, and no federal income tax, plus full federal control of law enforcement, DC would quickly become an attractive place to reside.
Sometimes, maps are your friends. But, only if the elected officials are willing to use
them to benefit the public. In the following instance, for safety.
There were laws on the books back in the 90s that drug sales within x distance of public
schools or parks could be deemed federal crimes. So, if convicted the penalties were more
severe.
Living in crackville at the time, I thought it would be interesting to get a map of our
quadrant of the city. It was an older neighborhood, platted out in 1910- 1930s. Had it’s own
city schools, a number of parks. When I looked over the map, the number of elementaries
(3), combined with 1 middle school, and city parks(4). Altogether, due to the close density
of the area (1/2 x 1/2) mile, and the combined number of schools and parks, I determined that,
had they wanted to, the city could charge drug dealers with federal crimes in almost every
area of the neighborhood. The longest stretches that were removed from schools or parks
were approximately 300-400 feet long.
“Had the city wanted to”. They were brain dead libs, so of course showing them my little map
did nothing.
Excellent. This is illuminating and clarifying.
Bravo.
BIG QUESTION:
HansMahncke@HansMahncke
“For those still clinging to the fantasy of Mike Rogers as some kind of hero, ask yourself why he stayed silent all these years while deep state operatives tried to depose Trump, trampled the rights of people like Gen. Flynn, and destroyed families? Why did he say nothing when the DNC hack hoax was used to sabotage the Helsinki summit and derail U.S.–Russian relations? Like it or not, he was part of the problem.”
I agree.
Rogers was professional.
but i will put this thought out. for a man thinking he might be harmed or ruined, he did the best non chalant assist for us ever.
tower warning of wiretapping, and saying NSA has moderate confidence is his way of giving the Enemy the tool to move forward but provide a point later that can demonstate he wasnt on board.
If I had a dime for every time I read about the myth of Mike Rodgers on CTH …
Make the case –
WHAT has the IC done for us LATELY?
The last 10 years then – WHAT HAVE THEY DONE FOR US?
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Which one?
Are you including here undercover law enforcement? DEA, e.g. gathering information on drug cartels? Military IC gathering information on extremist groups in Africa? CIA gathering information on Chinese military? FBI gathering information on domesic criminal operations? Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc…
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the political IC is the issue
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Who is that?
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appointees and SES
Political…or weaponized?
re: “DEA”
Dense today are we all?
BACK to the questions – WHAT has the IC done for us LATELY?
Over the last 10 years then – WHAT HAVE THEY DONE FOR US?
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Who are you referring to when you say “the IC”?
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Mary McCord –
“I was only following orders.”
Convince me otherise.
People like this have no conscience, are beholden ONLY to ideology, and the organization; forget the Constitution, rule of law, even basic principles of being a human among other humans …
I did not see that clip as her saying she was just following orders.
It seemed as if she was saying she was conspiring with Andy and others to impact the outcome by regulating the input.
She said she and Andy “worked together” to determine what information they could allow or withhold to to “pull the plug” on the intentions of others.
She also indicated they would cherry pick or withold evidence as “jurors would be more moved by some information over others.”
re: “I did not see that clip as her saying she was just following orders.”
Some ppl are just too d*mn literal …
Her allegiance is to ‘process and procedure’ (‘following orders’) and NOT to the principles espoused on the Declaration of Independence nor as embodied in the Constitution.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, … laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.
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[She has] combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation … .
a targeted impact would be an article specifcally on the conspiracy.
something like:
Clapper tried to fire Rogers in November for what…
Rogers is interviewing for the DNI at afterwards PDJT leaves his Tower that is reported to be bugged.
Clapper has his email saying its our story and stick with it is known.
Page says he wants to be interviewed by the FBI. Comey blocks this until March 2017
Warner request FISA the day after the SSCI jointly declared no evidence of wire tapping – <MArch 2, 2017 (a FISA is wire tapping)
Brennen and Comey brief PDJT on the Steele crap (keep in mind nobody questions why Obama would be in a Freaking Hotel in Russia – absolute idiots
The point of the brief is to allow CNN to report on PDJT being briefed and say piss piss piss hotel bed piss piss everywhere in the media
and the Warner’s operation has Buzzfeed leak the Steele crap the next day… narrative narrative.
Special Counsel that is mentally handicapped is approved by ROSENSTEIN – knowig Mueller is a vegetable.
every person next to PDJT is interrogated and pushed into legall expenses that result in its better to pleade guilty then fight it.
timeline a little off.
after the Brief of candidate trump the ICA is reported in the news (not the FISA)
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ICA report (brenen, clapper briefing Candidate Trump gave headlines of this, and following that a report published) was Part 1 of Mueller.
Part 2 of getting Mueller was the Comey Warner operation getting Buzzfeed leak on FISA –
Calls for Mueller begin
Rosenstein and EVERYONE NEAR Mueller knew he was a dumbasss mentally handicapped tool that went along with it.
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What day is this
what day is this
to feed the Steele report bullshit was tasking Nellie, Bruce (his pretend telling on himself bullshit after the impact is already made is laughable) Strzok and the Papadopoulous play — lure him out use it to collect collect and create theatre…
to this day I’m not convinced Papa and his wife were not complicit in this. I cant be convinced yet
Based on this and other threads, DNI is the place to go for whistleblowers as they do not need “permission” to release/declassify information.
It seems that is where a debriefing by Sundance to the DNI on this whole Russian-Collusion/FISA/Crossfire Hurricane etc. could advance their knowledge and awareness by months if not years. How could this be facilitated? The timeframe is short compared to the slow judicial process and a one term president.
Interesting tidbit that helps prove the Russia hoax was an attempted coup: declassified documents showing how Sally Yates and Andy McCabe killed the corruption investigation into Clinton.
It demonstrates that the AG and DAG’s can order investigations to be stoppped.
Which is why some of those same people involved in the coup, eg Boente, were involved in Jeff Sessions’ recusal as the Russia coup ramped up…
They were trying to overthrow the government, and needed Sessions out of the way.
I dug up one of Sundance’s old posts.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/05/recusal-and-conflicts/
The way the coup worked was careful elimination of key positions like AG and NSA (Flynn)…people in a position to expose the coup or block the fake investigations.
Each Silo “OWNS” information?
Pardon me, but taxpayer dollars enabled that information.
Therefore logic dictates that the Tax Payers own the information and therefore the prosecutor, paid by the Tax Payers, has been granted authority by them to access it.
This Silo System needs to disappear with a lot of people working in the IC
Yum yum.
This is what I think of as a meat and potatoes post.
For me, content like this is what makes CTH work so very well.
It’s like that 13 second flash from the lighthouse.