May he never be offered an intelligence consultant position again with any news organization or govt dept. Go away John, no one wants to hear your whining anymore.

Clinesmith wasn’t even raided, was he?

The mustache is not a nobody low level bureaucrat toady like Clinesmith. He’s a neocon Con Inc. player and regular cable TV grifter.

Good news. Shows they’re not afraid to breach the walls.

Maybe Sundance’s comments are what inspired the raid.

Watch for the stupidest of them to start celebrating that angle, until someone whispers something to them and they go “Oh. Wait. Yeah…”

No quandary at all. He is a card carrying member of the uniparty, the republicrats or democins, same/same.

That’s a bonus.

How cool would it be if FBI now has communications of classified info between Congressional war pigs and Bolton.

Bolton had his clearance revoked early on in President Trump’s term.

…or they might even do like Hillary; just burn inside the building, set off the sprinkler system, slip and injure yourself…and face Congressional inquiry the next day with a black eye…

Exactly

Correct amundo!

Do not be surprised to see Democrats step up and begin defending Bolton.

After all, the Democrats are currently defending illegal aliens who rape, murder and maim US citizens while others demand the utter destruction of anyone and anything having to do with Israel or Jewish individuals.

Democrats can’t help themselves.

Even now they are re-defining the word democracy to mean that anyone not of democrat political opinions should be gerrymandered out of having a voice in who their elected representatives should be.

and on and on.

It’s just a matter of time.

Look See…..Should be clinton Pelosi current occupants of the halls of congress.

Time will tell. Which fruit do you pick first?

Well, going after classified documents with Bolton does send a signal to all the other IC jerks.
I’m sure the communications from Comey, Clapper, Brennan and the rest are interesting after this.

Its USG Smoke and Mirrors Play Act 10,0001

funny you should say that

hmph please don’t do that again

I wonder if the raid was leaked to the wordle creator at the NYT?

I’ll bet she was something before electricity…..🤣🤣

Transcript from Wittes site Lawfare ( I found this by going to Bluesky to see what the enemy was saying about the Bolton raid this a.m.)

I’m not sure exactly what is happening, but I believe there is a search going on at the home of John Bolton. The street, as you’ll see, is sealed off by the Montgomery County Police, who have informed me that they are here in support of FBI activity. The FBI activity appears to be
directly in front of the house that I believe to be owned by John Bolton, the former national security advisor. This is consistent with the FBI’s normal practice of executing search warrants early in the morning. let me give you everything I know about this action. Number one, of course,
John Bolton was the national security advisor during the first Trump administration for a period of, I don’t know, 17, 18 months. It was tumultuous. And as you will recall, after his departure, he wrote a scathing book about Trump and has been a fierce Trump critic ever since. The book, and I’m doing this from memory,
so if some of the details are wrong, please forgive me. The book was submitted to pre-publication review, but it was submitted to pre-publication review by only after, um, uh, And then publication review dragged on forever and Bolton felt that they were trying to silence him and stifle criticism.
I believe it had to go through pre-pub twice once it was cleared and then the second time there was supposed classified material found out. He went ahead and published anyway, and the administration launched a criminal investigation. That criminal investigation ended, as far as I can tell, when the Biden administration came in. And
According to a very cursory survey, the statute of limitations for any charges related to that book, which was published in 2020, would be expiring very soon. So here is my very loose hypothesis as to what is going on here. And I can’t get any closer than this. As you can see, I’m standing at the police line.
There is no other press here. And so here is what I think is happening, which is that among the national security officials who Uh, Trump really has a bee in his bonnet to get. Most of them, as I have explained in my columns, have really zero criminal exposure.
And it really takes an act of paranoid fantasy to think you’re going to indict John Brennan. So you can see there a guy in an FBI jacket up there. I can’t zoom in any further, but this is definitely an FBI operation, not these cars would not withstanding a Montgomery County police operation.
Um, and so, uh, we’ve got at least three FBI vehicles there as well as there may be more. Um, um, so among the, among the, um, uh, officials who have, uh, I mean, both Bolton is really the only one I think with any significant exposure. Um, he’s got a, you know,
he did actually publish something after defying pre-pub review and, um, uh, And the government has contended, whether correctly or tendentiously, that there is classified material in there. The statute of limitations is about to run. I think they have nothing, as best as I’ve been able to discern, on anybody else.
And so you have a sudden situation where they very much want scalps. and a senior official scalp is really the gold standard. And so… You know, Mr. Bolton is a highly attractive figure. And by the way, doing it by search warrant is theatrical. It’s impossible for me to imagine that you couldn’t get anything you wanted from
John Bolton with a subpoena. But then if you do that, you don’t get a scene like this. Um, and so an early morning thing that the press will call a raid, um, and without, um, and, you know, um, assuming that this is a court authorized lawfully executed search warrant, um, uh, and not, you know, a raid, um,
you know, that’s a, um, uh that said uh doing it this way allows uh a lot of pictures um so we are joined now by uh tyler mcbryan our managing editor uh at lawfare um and um uh um tyler can you hear me okay sure can can you hear me yep i hear you just fine um
I don’t know how much there is to do here other than what we’ve already done, which is to alert people that this is happening, maybe to alert some of the rest of the press. And I have sent some pictures of this, what’s going on to friends at a media organization that will identify itself if it
so chooses and in a manner in which it chooses. But for those who are just joining us, the FBI appears to be conducting a A search warrant, I assume it is not an arrest, but there is FBI activity at a house that I believe to be John Bolton’s house in Bethesda. And this is a…
I assume it is related to the investigation of Bolton’s book and the classified information investigation that took place and I had thought was closed, although maybe it was reopened or maybe it was never closed. I know of no other reason why the FBI would be executing a search warrant at John Bolton’s house. Um, but, uh,
if they are going to move on this and actually charge him, they have a very limited window of time in which to do it. So what else can I tell you, Tyler?
Um, what else are you seeing? How many, uh, law enforcement officials are there?
So there are at least four Montgomery County police vehicles. But before I started live streaming, the MoCo officers told me they were here in support of the FBI. I have seen two or three cars I assume to be FBI. And I have seen one car that I and I’ve seen one person, some personnel,
at least one person wearing an FBI jacket. So this is definitely an FBI operation. I have visual confirmation of that, and I have confirmation of that from the Montgomery County Police.
So what happens now? What do you imagine is taking place inside the house, and where do you see this going?
Well, so, I mean… First of all, a search warrant is a long affair and I’m not going to stay to live stream the whole thing. Message to the rest of the press. I’m going to be here for about another 10 or 15 minutes and then I’m going to go
home and do dog shirt TV at eight o’clock as normally scheduled. And so, you know, if you want to follow this thing, CNN, CNN, New York Times, you know, get your asses out to the corner of Bradley Boulevard and Fernwood. I would feel better about leaving if somebody else were here, honestly.
But what’s going to happen is a search warrant is often an all-day affair. So what they have done is they’ve sealed off both ends of the street. They will have already, I’m sure, pounded on the door and announced their presence. And they will, I assume that
Bolton is calling his lawyer as we speak or has already done so. I wouldn’t be surprised if his lawyer, who I assume is Chuck Cooper, will show up at some time in the near future. And then they will go through the House looking for the things they have specified in the warrant.
I don’t know if that’s classified material that they’re or allegedly classified material that they’re seeking to recover or if it’s something else. Yeah. You know, I don’t know what the purported basis for the warrant is. And OK, so here is another unmarked car that is clearly, you know, a vehicle, a law enforcement vehicle of some kind.
I assume this is an FBI vehicle. And. So, you know, they have a list of things that they’re looking for, and they are under the terms of the warrant, assuming everything was done properly, entitled to go through the house and find the material that they’re looking for.
So, you know, that’s they will be here as long as they can. And of course, they have to itemize everything that they seize and present a list of it to Mr. Bolton.
And Ben, can you remind us if if we’ll see that list of items, if this warrant will be unsealed? And if so, if it’s possible, how long that typically takes.
Well, you know, they always eventually get unsealed if something is charged. You know, if something’s not charged, then it gets a little bit muddier. But generally speaking, if you do a… You know, when you do a warrant like this, you’re going to get a… in a high profile case, unless there’s some significant national security reason,
you’re going to eventually see it unsealed. You know, look, I don’t know what they are purporting to recover, what they’re looking for. And I don’t know what the basis of the search warrant is, right? Is it, hello, Tim Miller?
Hello, Ben Wittes. How are things in Bethesda this morning?
Well, it’s a lovely morning in Bethesda. I’ve had pleasant interactions with these two Montgomery County police officers who came to check on me earlier and another one down the block. a plainclothes officer, and they informed me that they’re here in support of the FBI, which is they did not confirm, but they did not…
object to my characterization of it as conducting a search warrant at the home of John Bolton. They certainly didn’t contradict that. And when they asked me what lawfare was, and I told them our interest in this, which is we’re a national security publication. John Bolton was the national security advisor.
We were very interested in his book and we followed the investigation of his book. I was told, wow, you seem to know a lot about this case. Might you be of assistance to the investigation? And they seemed to be a little bit puzzled as to why I was here or how I…
how I knew to be here, which I’m certainly not.
Maybe they’re recruiting you. There’s a big ICE recruitment effort right now.
Yeah, exactly.
Potentially there’s an FBI recruitment effort as well.
So I have had no contact with the Bureau, only with Montgomery County police officers, who I want to say were totally professional. I saw them under weird circumstances, which is that I was sitting outside John Bolton’s house, And they thought I was trespassing and asked me to move. And they asked me what I was doing there.
And I said, I’m expecting police action. And a little while later, they turned out, realized I was not a crazy person.
Well, I don’t know about that. You might be both a crazy person in there for good reason. So is the entire block there…
The entire street is sealed off from. So this runs from Bradley Boulevard down to a street called Green Tree down there. And I assume they have sealed it off at both ends.
Hmm. Um, and, and what’s the extent, I mean, right now we can just kind of see the Montgomery County police,
like what is there is, there are three, probably more at least, uh, black vehicles up there that are FBI. And I did see one person get out wearing a FBI jacket. It was not cash Patel. Um, uh, and, um, Yeah. So, I mean, honestly, this is going to sound like a weird thing to say,
but my main concern right now is for John, whom I don’t know well, and have deep political differences with, but I think is… You know, I can’t imagine under what circumstances an FBI early morning raid on his house rather than, say, a subpoena is the appropriate way to get documents from him.
Yeah. Ben, what about press? Have any news vans showed up yet?
There are no press here, and I am still the only one, and I will not be here for much longer because I have dog shirt TV at 8 o’clock.
Can dog shirt TV not be streamed from Bethesda?
Well, don’t your TV requires, you know, we have a guest today. And and so, you know, I think like, you know, I’m happy to get up at four in the morning to be out here, but I’m not going to stay here all day. So, yeah.
And it’s worth noting that they, you know, that I think one of Trump’s first actions when he went into office was to, you know, get rid of John Bolton’s clearance and then eventually stripped security from John Bolton altogether. He had federal protection because the Iranian plot against him. So, you know, and this is not coming from nowhere.
He was also in Kash Patel’s book. His list on the members of the executive branch, Deep State.
So you can now see, I don’t know if anybody can see this, but I can see it. There are a number of law enforcement personnel there, some of whom are wearing FBI jackets on the other side of that black car. If I had a problem.
Hard to see.
Yeah, I’m not sure if it’s visible, but it’s definitely there.
Ben Wittes’ eyes better than the iPhone camera.
Well, the iPhone camera is zoomed out, and I don’t think I can zoom it in. Yeah, it doesn’t zoom, really. So, look, I mean, my assumption is… that this is an effort to beat the clock. This was a loose end from the previous Trump administration.
And this is an effort to beat the clock on, um, uh, on, um, you know, on a fast-running statute.
Hey, Ben, we actually do. They’ve leaked this news to their preferred outlet, the New York Post. So let’s see. New York Post has this. FBI agents raided John Bolton’s D.C. area home Friday morning in a, quote, high-profile national security probe. The Post can exclusively reveal.
I guess the Post is not monitoring the Dog Shirt Daily Substack livestream, but there you go. Um, they, they describe it this way. Federal agents busted into Bolton’s house at 7am investigation ordered by the FBI. Um, and, uh, they’ve got pictures of Bolton leaving the house here. The New York post does.
So I guess they were along for the ride along.
Yeah. They may have gotten a ride along. I wasn’t offered a ride along. Um, uh, but if, uh, if anybody, uh, you know, um, uh, is asking like, You know, how did the New York Post find out about this? You know, the answer is… you know, loose lips sink ships,
but they also do a world of good for publicity and right-wing media. And we know which is the preferred, you know, which is the higher priority for these people. Yeah. I don’t know that there’s much else for me to tell you guys from here. It’s, I don’t think the view is going to change very much.
I can try to walk around to where I may be able to get a different view of it, but I’m not sure. Let me, let me see if I can do that. Um, I’m not optimistic about getting a frontal view of the House.
We have a tweet from Kash Patel. No one is above the law, all caps, no one, FBI agents on a mission.
Yeah, well… I would like to point out that it is not the normal practice of the FBI to announce, uh, uh, search warrant executions midstream by tweet. Um, and, um, uh, it, that is an absolutely outrageous thing for Kash Patel to do. We are now, uh, getting a few, uh, other people here with us.
But I think I am going to sign off pretty soon because my job is done, which was to make sure that this news became available through somebody more responsible than the New York Post faster.
I agree. Thanks so much for your work out there, Ben. And everybody else, we’ll probably pop on the bulwark with some folks here in, I don’t know, maybe in a half an hour or so with additional stuff. And you can watch Ben on Dog Shirt Daily. We’ll be talking to you all soon.
Take care.
Thanks, Ben.

Ready for more?

I believe Hans Mahncke tweeted that yesterday was the last day to indict John Brennan for certain crimes.

DEI hlre.

I don’t know, but CNN had McCabe on for comment and he matter-of-fact explained that Trump can’t just raid someone to look around for documents, that a judge had to be presented evidence to establish probable cause, so they must have had (according to McCabe) good reason for the raid. Announcer seemed perplexed and cut away from McCabe without a follow-up question, went to another guest who talked about the fascism, retribution, etc.

Maybe no one in this administration tipped them off?

I am guessing that could be former President Barack Obama, being FED the information from those who were using him as well, to undermine President Trump in his first term.

It is my personal theory that President Barack Obama is becoming radioactive these days – following the imbroglio of the Joe Biden Telethon during the campaign and then George Clooney taking all the heat for his op-ed about Biden needing to step down –

this is unrelated but I think it shows something going on with President Barack Obama losing his pull and becoming isolated – watching what is happening with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle these days where they are going through an absolutely mortifying dragging, why aren’t the Obamas stepping forward to put in a good word for them, perhaps hosting a nice soiree for the couple at Martha’s Vineyard? Weren’t the Obamas integral to the story of the meeting of the two and fostering the relationship? Now, nothing, nada, zilch from the Obamas; I would think if they put in a good for her and gladly accepted a gift basket, it would help.

President! Duh! HIS call!

“Pride goeth before the fall.” If arrogance could be bottled, Bolton’s could stock a grocery store aisle.

Yes!

It’s not possible for a former president to “illegally” store classified documents. As a former president he can declassify anything he wants, so he can declare it all declassified before he left office, and Congress can go pound sand with their attempts to change that by statute. He’s the president. They’re not. Bolton wasn’t president. Reminids me of when W was accused of “hijacking” foreign policy from the State Department. President! Duh!

“The way Trump Biden should have”

George, the problem is PDJT is protected by the Office of the Presidency – he cannot, as a matter of law, unlawfully possess classified information. Anything he took with him was instantly declassified — it’s absurd to try and present a case saying he didn’t as all he has to do is say: “the documents are declassified”.

Biden from noon Jan 20, 2021 on, Clinton (William Jefferson, not Hillary), Bush the II, Obama and Trump are the only individuals on planet earth that have the Executive Privilege protection.

Everyone else is screwed if they mishandle classified information.

As far as I can tell, Clinton, Bush and Obama don’t get directly involved in the nitty gritty of “releasing” stuff in their post-presidency years – they all have too many people to do their bidding.

Now Joe, is probably at risk for pre-presidency issues but I’m sure PDJT will let him die in peace and I’m ok with that since I know Sundance has sound reasoning and evidence for his claims. The optics from the media aren’t worth being proven “correct” when there are soooo many others to be held accountable.

I’d like someone to bust that stinking shrimp in the face on camera. Conway, that is.

PDJT should have destroyed this guy’s wife,

this isnt a game,

Why the hell does anyone care about what Conway says. He knows NOTHING!

George Conrad the 3rd is such a dumb bell.

Personally, I am still mystified why Kellyanne Fitzpatrick ever had anything to do with him – like her or not, she
always seemed to be a very hardworking young woman, operating on very little sleep, to get as much as possible
done everyday – while he seems like the ultimate blobby slob.

Former president, so no.

Was kind of hoping for leg chains like the FBI/DOJ did to Peter Navarro.

Perhaps that honor will be for Comey or Haspel.

Mustache Clip!

It’s at least 2, maybe 3.

Andy McCarthy is already shouting about how Trump is practicing “Lawfare” just like was done to him.

McCarthy has a terminal case of TDS.

McCarthy refuses to note that Trump is not colluding with judges; fabricating evidence tor FISA warrants; lying about Russia collusion and then using those lies to spin up a Special Counsel investigation; etc etc etc.

McCarthy thinks Trump should just “let bygones by bygones” with respect to all of the seditious behavior that his enemies perpetrated on him for years….and are still doing.

McCarthy hates Trump. Thus ANYTHING Trump might do to bring JUSTICE to any of McCarthy’s corrupt pals is even worse that what was done to Trump.

hahahahahaha

🤣😇

Yeah, they’ve been suggesting all morning that his ties to other countries might be at the root of this.

I figure a guy who hasn’t had a steady job in a long time has to make his money from a variety of sources.

John Bolton’s and Mike Pompeo’s Arab Army. Has there ever been a regime that they don’t want to change?

https://gulfhouse.org/posts/3058/

:):):):)

WORDMAN TWO?

Agree

But then again, he could have thought he covered that and no one would suspect?

Ratcliffe was in Alaska last week. Maybe a little inside info got passed?

I’m sure they knocked first.

Lots of businesses open at 7 am.

Biden’s FBI conducted raids in the wee sma’ hours.

Sure. 10-a.m. to 2-p.m. would have been much more civilized.

Go ahead and give them a 2-hour lunch in the four hours.

Ask Roger Stone and Rudy G. What they think about 7-a.m.

This was at 7 am, not 3 am, so not quite as bad!

are you worry they disrupt his breakfast ????

“The satanic left wing media begin exposing such corruption.”

“Behold, I will put my words into the mouths of even the ladies on The View”

Kim Clement

(Not an exact quote).

Coercion, or AI. (Or the Power of God. ) Or all three.

Either way, you may see your dreams fulfilled.

If anyone needed evidence that Bolton mishandled classified data, all the FBI needed to raid was a bookstore.

Everyone in that town has known what Bolton did for years.

But it does make for entertaining Friday morning cable news.

Raid-in-a-Box. For quick emergency use. When the Boss wonders what you’ve been doing for the last six months.

Or scare him into making a bunch of phone calls.

Bolton is a prime candidate for a FISA warrant.

FISA goes both ways.

Qatar.

Malta.

ECB