On March 20, 2017, New York Rep Elise Stefanik questioned then FBI Director James Comey about why he opened a counterintelligence operation against the leading GOP candidate in July 2016 and did not inform congress until early March – just before the hearing.
In an effort to avoid scrutiny James Comey replied, “because of the sensitivity of the matter.” Comey obfuscated the informal requirement in a blatant attempt to dodge specific inquires the FBI’s motives and intentions with the targeting of Donald Trump.
Elise Stefanik is attempting to formalize a legal requirement for congressional notification so that any candidate for federal office cannot be investigated by the FBI without informing the ‘Gang of Eight’ about what is going on. Stefanik wants to include the requirement in the National Defense Reauthorization Act and Intelligence Authorization Act.
While the effort itself is simple, require the FBI to inform congress, as we saw in 2016 the FBI throw the bag of National Security over the issue, and the congressional notification is moot – particularly when congress is in agreement with the targeting of the FBI.
After James Comey made that admission in 2017, not a single member of congress or the House Intelligence Committee pressed him on the issue. Instead of immediately notifying James Comey that his admission was potentially a violation of law and launching an immediate investigation into the conduct of the FBI, congress simply ignored it.
STEFANIK – Great news!
After a productive discussion I had last night with President Trump and Speaker Johnson, the provision requiring Congressional disclosure when the FBI opens counterintelligence investigations into presidential and federal candidates seeking office will be included in the IAA/NDAA bill on the floor.
This is a significant legislative win delivered against the illegal weaponization of the deep state.
And, of course, while this is an important step, there is so much more work to do.” (link)
VIA POLITICO – Rep. Elise Stefanik declared victory over Speaker Mike Johnson Wednesday, saying she had secured the inclusion of a key provision she wanted attached to the annual Pentagon policy bill after a remarkable public spat with the speaker a day earlier.
Others involved credited President Donald Trump for playing mediator after the New York Republican threatened to “tank” the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act as part of her public targeting of Johnson. The three spoke by phone Tuesday night about her threats, according to two people granted anonymity to describe the private call. [link]
{GO DEEP} – Former FBI Director James Comey openly admitted to Congress on March 20, 2017, how the FBI, FBI Counterintelligence Division, DOJ and DOJ-National Security Division, together with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA, had been conducting independent investigations of Donald Trump for over a year without informing Congress [the Gang of Eight]. When asked the question, Comey winced, then justified the lack of informing Go8 oversight by saying, “um, because of the sensitivity of the matter?”
Stupidly, Congress never pressed James Comey on that issue. The arrogance of Comey was astounding, and the acceptance by Congress was infuriating. However, that specific example highlighted just how politically corrupt the system had become. In essence, Team Obama usurped the entire design of congressional oversight…. and Congress just brushed it off.
This event, and everything in the background as outlined within the James Comey admission, factually happened. It is on the record, admitted and nothing about the reality of what took place is subject to conjecture or refute.
Yet somehow, we, specifically our Congress, just moved on as if what FBI Director James Comey outlined and admitted wasn’t a total usurpation of the U.S. Constitution and a collapse in the structure of our coequal branches of government.
We cannot fight our way through the issues until we first realize what lies at the root of the problem.
(1) The Patriot Act turned the intel surveillance radar from foreign searches for terrorists to domestic searches for terrorists.
(2) Obama/Biden then redefined what is a “terrorist” to include their political opposition.
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‘Bout time, Mr. President.
Bring in Johnson and whoop his ass.
Johnson is hopeless, no better than any of his GOPe predecessors, namely Ryan, McCarthy, Boehner, et al.
Who can ever forget that video of Comey and his bloodhound expression.
Would it be that “disingenuous” Johnson in this particular case, feigning ignorance, in personal interactions, negotiations, or legal contexts to gain an advantage or evade accountability? Or all of it? Under whose influence and why?
Deep State.
Head/Heads of DS – name/s?
Members of Influence on Johnson – names?
Somebody or something guides these RINO’s, I believe republicans wouldn’t want a super-majority on both houses because they don’t have the stones to live up to the expectations of that authority.
We should examine how it was Johnson became the candidate for Speaker, who was behind him, especially over Jordan.
Gym Jordan would be no better and likely worse.
Agreed, loud dog, no bite.
The RINOs don’t even have the stones to get rid of the filibuster and live up to the minimal expectations of the American people, so there’s zero chance they want a super-majority. Perish the thought!
Their timidity will bite them on the backside as soon as the socialists are back in power, because the filibuster will disappear. Election laws will be rigged to ensure the socialists have 70%+ power, with enough “republicans” in office to speechify and pretend to oppose what’s happening, even as they are consumed by the system that they allowed to rise.
The republiCONS are not timid. They want Trump gone by any means possible. I hope and pray Trump has a plan.
H…, no, is my reply. They are being paid handsomely (Ukraine/Venezuela/plus-NGOs, plus-) and warned that if they step off the reservation, relative poverty, like the rest of we middle-class Americans, won’t be the only outcome for them and their families.
Right now they are living like the royalty they imagine themselves to be as they give their souls working to end the first-ever in history — American Constitutional Republic.
I am afraid the Republic cannot survive when one of it’s two political parties is populated by sleaze and the other with hangers on. God help us.
Johnson is pure corrupt Uniparty trash, a worthless faker. He is an anti-MAGA fraud. He is Pence.
Totally agree. Why can’t the people who count see this? And do something about it.
Seem to recall Johnson being on board with MAGA shortly after he took the helm. Memory is a little sketchy, but shortly thereafter he was…debriefed….. by the thugs and slugs from Langley. His attitude changed…
Anyone from his district in Louisiana have a comment about how his performance in the House is perceived at home?
Yup, doing his best to run out the Trump clock. Zero legislative initiatives.
Notice Speaker Johnson doesn’t walk around the halls of the House with a Bible under his arm anymore, it was a prop.
After President Trump leaves office, and the Democrats regain the House and the Senate (probably in that order as the mass nationwide “big beautiful bill” removal of poor working Republicans [and their families] who become ill and lose their jobs because of it or become ill between jobs from Medicaid and the ACA isn’t scheduled to start until 01/01/2027), the fun begins again like before. Enjoy this wonderful MAGA intermission because the USS GOP is going to sink when President Trump leaves office and poor Republicans stop voting for a party that’s left them to twist in the wind when they get sick and lose their job.
Stefanik with another protect-the-politician scheme.
What?
THIS is what I keep saying President Trump needs to do! Call out the recalcitrant RINOs publicly! These people are directly sabotaging his entire agenda and the time to play nice and try to cut deals is OVER! Thune and Johnson are simply the 2025 version of McConnell and Ryan – they are backstabbers who want to be back in the minority because it is more profitable for them when they can SELL votes instead of having to try to buy them!! And if they drag their feet long enough, and throw enough monkey wrenches into the MAGA proposals, then they will hand the House back to the Democrats in the midterms and then go back to fundraising on what they will do “if only” they can get the majority again!
Rinse. Repeat.
HOW to CONTROL ” NO Johnson Johnson ”
THREATEN TO DIS-INVITE HIM From the BOYS NIGHT OUT
https://news.sky.com/video/trump-makes-surprise-appearance-at-ufc-championship-fight-with-cabinet-picks-13255548
I read somewhere that dozens of President Trumps nominations for embassadors for example are still not ratified.
Is this still the case I wonder.
Yes this is still the case. But Thune is going to present another en bloc motion for voting on quite a few of the 100 nominations on the Executive Calendar all in one vote. The Vote for cloture will be today (Thursday) and the vote to confirm will be sometime next week.
We’ll find out who and how many when he presents the ‘en bloc’ cloture motion today.
It’s been nearly a year since President Trump took office.
Thune is waaaaaaaaaay late getting Trump’s picks confirmed.
Republicans allow democrat picks to go through and pat themselves on the back for “bipartisanship”.
Democrats block republicans for a year because they vote in lockstep even in the minority……..and republicans try to be “bipartisan” and “work with” democrats.
Yeah, they “work with” democrats alright…..they work with democrats to block Trump or any other genuine conservative from succeeding and benefitting the USA.
Democrats are well on their way to communism. But republicans wanna play pattycakes with them and “work with” them.
Hogwash.
I’m sick of this. And I’m FAR from alone.
Thune is McConnell-light… totally controlled by McConnell. That explains so much since McConnell hates DJT.
I agree with you.
Then I am reminded that the Republican Corporation will throw the 2028 election just to score the Impeachment hat trick and remove him from office.
It sux.
NEXT: THUNE.
SOMEBODY, anybody??????
Can someone (probably as lady) cause all the old men have NO reason NOR any toughness about them to call Thune out?
Anyone in the Senate want to be a HERO and CALL OUT Thune?
Is this like Congress putting the FBI on Double Secret probation?
Yes it is.
This legislative “victory” from Stefanik is worthless because,
1. The FBI will ignore it.
2. Congress won’t punish the FBI for ignoring it.
3. It applies only to UniParty Congress Critters and not “We The People.”
We have a Bill of Rights, written and ratified over 200 years ago, that includes the 4th Amendment. How about enforcing that?
Stefanik and her UniParty co-conspirators continue The Great Pretending. They make me sick.
The gang of eight. – nope, no collusion there at all.
All criminals.
There’s no haystack.
Speaking of investigations ( 😱)
Vladimir Soloviev
@VRSoloviev
Dec 2
“Macron, you miserable, worthless scum, you cannot forgive us for expelling you from Africa.
Nor can you forgive your people for despising you so much that it’s laughable to talk about your popularity.
Kiev stole money from your taxpayers, and you got some too.
If not, sue me.”
FIRST PLACE – Zelenskyy RAN TO !
Macron
Macron lusts for ownership of Odessa.
Another old, pathological French obsession.
I’d “vacate the chair” and suffer whatever consequences there may be.
Its not worth it to keep these backstabber-rino-GOPe people around.
Stefanik was used to deliver a message to Comey.
It was also a test for Stefanik. Deliver the message, don’t make a scene, walk away.
She passed and rapidly rose in power.
I am saying the point was to make it clear that Comey sees they are on to him without telling the whole country.
I agree that it us all very despicable. But the leaders knew. And they were not going to derail the effort to take down President Trump.
One way or another these m’effers, who ever they are, will and are going to be in our rear view mirrors. I’ve been for no reason I can understand, replaying a CD from Seal that I’ve been unable to turn off.
Look for “I’m alive”. Good night Treepers.
I’m perplexed by these actions. I don’t find Stefanik clever enough to be pulling a fast one, yet Johnson seemed very opposed to this inclusion. I can’t wrap my head around the motivations for each of their positions & what there is to be gained as I see “Tigers lurking in the tall grass” on both sides of this.
Anybody with a solid take on this?
🎯
Always remember how we ended up with Johnson…Remember after we threw McCarthy out we wanted Donalds, Jordan, Gaetz, etc and finally settled on Johnson and it took, what, like 15 tries to get him through?? Enough RINO’s to say we’ll go with him because we can control him along with the other DS’ers.
Now looking forward to the analysis of the report slamming Kash Patel and Dan Bongino and where this is all going……
I agree w Stefanik’s assessment of johnson in her post on dailycaller: https://dailycaller.com/2025/12/03/elise-stefanik-mike-johnson-donald-trump-phone-call-national-defense-authorization-act-ndaa-pentagon-powers/
I have such disdain for fake christians like johnson, who claims he “knew nothing about it.” Every republican house speaker has been a gutless coward of the uniparty (except maybe newt), johnson is no exception. We republican women voters out here in the rocky mtn west sent johnson a clear message that we’ll withhold our votes in the midterms unless he starts to truly support and pass The President’s agenda. And why is he threatened by empowered, courageous, patriotic women like stefanik and other female republican leaders in the house?
He’s nothing more than the uniparty’s water boy taking orders to quietly undermine The President’s agenda and lose the 2026 midterm elections…
WHATEVER IT TAKES… stronger sunlight
She fought for investigations into political candidates to be released to the gang of 8? Huge win if the gang of 8 weren’t Hotel California. What a joke. Johnson isn’t great, but Stefanik is starting to make daily headlines like Massie ang MTG.
I’m sorry but we really can’t go on as a nation like this. Nobody is serious about doing what is necessary to bring truth and justice to we the people. I guess if one can manage to corner Trump somewhere and get him to listen to you (as Elise did) he might help you out (he obviously does not see how these things can affect him). I fantasize about dropping a bomb on the House of Lords. Wouldn’t that be so sweet? He doesn’t seem to realize how serious the immigration problem is and will become much more problematic if it is not dealt with in the most radical way. Not just your normal every-day deportations but drastic, drastic cuts in the number of, and the quality of, people STILL coming into our country. Really, there should not be another soul let into our country for at least another year and then only with the tightest vetting. There has to be URGENCY with this matter or else our country will be ruined by the HB1 visa people, the Afghans already here, the Chinese infiltrating our universities who will eventually be spies to take us down, etc. etc. etc. THEY ALL NEED TO BE DEPORTED BACK TO THEIR OWN COUNTRIES. AND NOBODY AND I DO MEAN NOBODY ELSE COMES IN. PERIOD!
I agree joan. We are not a nation any longer. It is beginning to break apart. We cannot walk the streets safely. We cannot drive safely. The Democrat/Communists have overwhelmed and corrupted the whole of government. They are on the side of illegals and criminals. The RINOs want to save the corrupt institutions. The final phase of disintegration is coming.
If the Democrats think they take the house next year, there will be rioting and looting and killing. If the Democrats do not think they will take the house next year, there will be massive rioting and looting and killing. We are at the stage it is going to get way worse.
No “thumbs up” for Terry’s comment? Not sure why not inasmuch as it does ring so true; that is if one is not pretending, of course.
Yet while so many bitch, moan, and fret over everyday political maneuvering it has become apparent that “the system” is completely broken and no longer works (Comey’s interaction with non-acting Congress is a prime example). Band-aids are no longer applicable when open heart surgery is the required fix. But, be it “human nature” or just plain old apathetic behavior, we ignore the difficult part and continue to slap band-aid after band-aid on a gaping wound which is surely killing us as “One nation under God.”
The Communists are here! Well, entrenched DEEP into our fabric. And until We the People quit playing “nice” and being “polite,” etc., etc. they WILL take away ALL of our freedoms before we know what hit us and it’s too late to stop it. Think about how quickly the Biden Administration crushed your rights during the “Covid Crisis” and overnight your ability to speak out was dismantled with “misinformation” allegations. Millions were forced to literally inject poison into their body in order to keep their job and to wear a useless mask, denied to visit with loved ones in a hospital or even attend church. Remember?
Long rant, sorry! My point? I suppose, look at your loved ones and PREPARE – and don’t expect a broken government to do it for you. President Trump is awesome and is trying hard to save the “Titanic.” But it’s a huge job, and even WITH help & support from the communists, er, democrats (which he obviously doesn’t have) it would be nigh impossible.
Freedom & Liberty – don’t take either for granted! God Bless!
That is a surprise – finding one uncorrupted Congress person.
Well done Mrs Stefanik
Is there going to be something to stop the notification of the gang of eight members to be given in separate installments, such as the agency telling some of the members what’s going on in one setting while telling other members (i.e. those of the opposite political party) something else in a separate setting?
If not, nothing really changes.
Politicians, gotta love ’em, always trying to get the optics right without having real teeth behind things.
The FBI has dirt on our congresscritters so of course they will say nothing.
Stefanik is running for governor of NY.
This is the kickoff to her campaign.
Lots and lots of soundbites will come out of this phony concocted “dispute” with Johnson.
She is a corrupt, paid for CrapWeasel just like all the rest.
I don’t know about corruption, but the odds of her defeating the Dem incumbent Hochel in NY are long even though Hochel was recently named one of the three worst governors in the U.S. My hunch is that Stefanik is striking for a VP spot on the 2028 national ticket.
CrapWeasels don’t run to win. They run to earn money, or to plow paths for others to win.
Regardless, the point of her useless addition to the NDAA was a nod to her benefactors, not anything to actually curtail deepstate spying.
She is OK with the Patriot Act and within, FISA 702.
Would you like to cite and example of that last sentence for us?
No. That info is readily available. Most recently in Sundance’s post you didn’t bother to read.
Hush, Wink and Nod, that will fix them!
I’d like to see the provision and how it is actually worded. Is it just for the FBI or does it include all 18 “Intelligence Agencies” and Five Eyes”? Does it also include all Federal appointments and nominations, or just congressional and presidential candidates?
Does it include all the candidates’ staff or just the candidates?
Johnson had Grindr app on his phone, that means he is an active homosexual engaging in aberrant sexual, deviant behavior.
But he’s a married man, right? Perfect blackmail for …..
Our greatest ally.
Pelosi is more of a man than Johnson. Sheesh
I never heard that. How do you know?
Yes, how do you know?
Maybe Comey didn’t inform the gang of 8 on what he did because he presumed they already knew (they were in on it).
Johnson is no friend of MAGA. He is a little squirt in an empty suit without a moral compass. We can’t get to where we need to be with him in the way. Never forget how he partnered with the democrat socialists when he didn’t have to before Trump returned to office.
Nothing is ever going of change, the elephant in the ROOM is not “Oversight” or “Corruption” in government, both are non existent in the mind of most Treepers. The FISCAL issues we face are far greater, and a lot CLOSER than most realize, the continued Kabuki Theater around “We caught them All” and there is gonna be “Hell to Pay” is all an illusion. The INSOLVENCY of our Republic is at hand, adding a TRILLION to the DEBT every 45 days? Ms Stefanik, with all due respect, STFU……….
CONGRESS has brushed of their oversight responsibilities unless it suits a political purpose. That’s why they fought so hard against DOGE, and why the actions of PDJT47’s cabinet and administration are so earth-shattering.
A prime example of “congressional oversight” is the House Select Committee for Intelligence traveling to Honduras to observe their recent election. What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports does the HSCI have to do with Honduran elections, unless US intelligence had a role to play there? And yet they proudly did a photo op and announced their trip via social media, and NOBODY CALLED THEM ON IT.
I am sick and tired of all the psyops
I’ve previously concluded that Speaker Mike Johnson is a slimy double talking corrupt liar who is fooling many people who aren’t perceptive but not fooling anyone who has been paying attention. I think PDJT treats him as a necessary evil until he can be replaced by a pro-MAGA loyalist.
Blood boiling
How about a rule to let the citizens know when fbi is investigating anything. You know for by and of people
And every single one of the 8 GOPrick RINOrats getting the vapors over being targeted and devices tapped will vote for the reauthorization.
Or more likely, they will just remove congress from any wire taps.
ONLY b/c she did not BACK DOWN and outed him on social media and CONTINUED to do so. She didn’t take the typical BS and rancor that ALL other pols do, bluster and talk tough and big and DO NOTHING.
STefanik is action lady.
I bet ole Johnson is unhappy with her. She isn’t taking his weak, worthless leadership and the cram down from him.
Not sure this is a good thing considering, in my opinion, congress is as corrupt as the ic community and willingly enabled if not assisted them in their illegal endeavors.
The “Patriot Act” needs to be obliterated. But there is no will or motivation in Congress to do any such thing. Slim majority, too many RINO traitors, and they’re probably already plotting to lose the house and or senate in the midterms. Then the whole “impeach Trump farce will gear up again to stymie the remainder if his term.
It is absolutely sickening!
Good grief! Must Trump do EVERYTHING himself?! It’s Trump in a sea of clowns and cowards. We have elected the worst of humanity into positions of power and control. We have elected the parasites and leeches of humanity whose only purpose is to suck the life out of our society and feed off our apathy.
ENOUGH!!
So basically the FBI can open an investigation against any republican candidate. Inform congress. Then as SOP Dem pols leak it to the media with no details due to the sensitive nature? So basically codifying the current system.
People have written above (e.g. Luis Benitez) that it seems like President TRUMP must do everything himself, even stand against people who should be supporting him, but who sabotage him either passively or actively.
Our situation constantly reminds me of the Roman general Aëtius in the A.D. 400’s, who spent most of his career leading armies against barbarian invaders in the Western Roman Empire, while the Emperor Valentinian III was under the regency of his mother and then later during Valentinian’s adulthood.
Aëtius, by A.D. 454, had conquered assorted Germanic tribes, and was the only one to have defeated Attila the Hun and his hordes.
Valentinian III and his mother and his sycophantic court were more worried about Aëtius possibly wanting to usurp the throne than the barbarians at will rampaging through the western provinces.
After the defeat of the Huns, who retreated across the Danube to the northeast, Aëtius turned his attention to the last piece to put Humpty-Dumpty together again: the Vandals in North Africa.
At a conference about mustering forces to re-take North Africa, Valentinian – who had never left Italy nor led troops in battle – pulled out a knife and literally stabbed Aëtius in the back, joined by several of his sycophants.
A shocked senator at the conference is said to have exclaimed: “Sire! What have you done, but cut off your right hand with your left?!”
I fear every day that President TRUMP is our Aëtius, whom too many people in his own government are willing to stab in the back…metaphorically and literally!
I bet Stefanik wishes she had taken her questioning one step further when she had Comey under oath. “Aren’t you breaking the law by not notifying Congress of your actions>”
She is good and she had him dead to rights.
“The sensitivity if the matter” was Comey breaking the law and had nothing to do with Trump.
Perhaps, most in Kongress DID know exactly what was going on inside the FBI and quietly approved.
We should all have those protections.
I ❤️ Elise Stefanik! She is one tough cookie and Mike Johnson continues to confirm himself to be a deep state hack.
It is not apparent to me why Nunes is included in the Rogues gallery.
I have always wondered why she followed that line of questions – had she discussed it with someone beforehand? During the questioning Gowdy was sitting next to her and looking intently at her. She did not follow up very aggressively – this all from memory, am not with good wifi at the moment.
It was the right line of questions. She did not follow far enough.