Lawfare lawyer Kenneth Wainstein, representing former CIA Director John Brennan, confirmed in a proactive litigation letter to Chief Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga, of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida, their client is a “target” of a grand jury investigation.
The word “target” is important here, because the letter specifically outlines how Brennan has received subpoenas for documents and information surrounding his construct of the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment.
The letter notes that prosecutors from the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jason Reding Quiñones, have advised Mr. Brennan that he is “a target” of a grand jury investigation.
[SOURCE]
The letter is by Mr. Kenneth Wainstein, a partner in Mayer/Brown law firm, Washington DC, who served in the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Joseph R. Biden Jr., and he describes a “concocted case” and “politically motivated and fact-free criminal investigation.”
Wainstein is seeking proactive intervention by Chief Judge Altonaga to block U.S. Attorney Quinones from seeking jurisdiction in the Fort Pierce Division, the court with jurisdiction over the Mar-a-Lago raid, led by Judge Aileen Cannon.
I strongly urge everyone interested to READ THE ENTIRE LETTER to understand why I shared prior warnings about the nonsense ramblings of perhaps well-intentioned voices who will create problems for this case against Brennan if it is to continue.
Pay attention to the footnotes being cited by Brennan’s lawyers, as they begin to pull in some of the commentary by voices who have publicly given opinion about the overall Trump targeting operation. Mike Davis’ name appears frequently in this letter, as the Brennan defense team begins to frame the conspiratorial nature of some claims against their client.
In essence, the Brennan legal team are attempting to refute the evidence, by pointing to the blanket of some crazy commentary that covers it. This is exactly what I have been cautioning about {SEE HERE}.
U.S Attorney Quinones already faces an uphill battle, because John Durham already reviewed the ICA origination as part of his investigation – but Durham never prosecuted anyone inside government.
This year, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a tranche of background information, [114 pages of information], showing how the Obama administration, intentionally and with great purpose, fabricated the Russia election interference story. DNI Tulsi Gabbard Press Release Here – Files Containing Evidence Here
What the evidence shows is a focused targeting operation intended to fabricate a false premise by the United States Intelligence Community, centered around a fraudulent CIA analysis (ICA) led by John Brennan, and organized through the Office of former DNI James Clapper. The op was green-lighted by Barack Obama, as a way to impede the agenda of incoming President Donald Trump. All three branches of government eventually collaborated on the scheme.
Lawyers for John Brennan are now seeking to proactively undermine the grand jury proceedings and influence the venue where any investigation and review might be taking place. [pdf, Page 9]
In addition to sending the letter to the Southern District of Florida, John Brennan also sent the letter to the New York Times to help him frame a media defense.
[…] Pursuing the case in Fort Pierce, Fla., would draw jurors from a more conservative area than the District of Columbia and put it under Judge Cannon, who showed Mr. Trump unusual favor during the documents investigation. In particular, Mike Davis, an influential former Republican Senate staff aide and friend of Mr. Reding Quiñones, has pushed the idea of a Fort Pierce grand jury, warning Mr. Trump’s adversaries to “lawyer up.” (read more)
Again, get familiar with this letter, because you will find me citing it quite a bit in the next few weeks.
Wainstein and Brennan have made a significant strategic mistake by detailing their defenses, specifically by framing the background context of prior investigative authorities in their positions. What they have inadvertently done, for Jason Quiñones, is to give a potential expanded witness list for a conspiracy review.
With information from a mountain of previous research, Quiñones can now call ancillary actors to testify as to the nature of their participation, based on the storyline of Brennan. Wainstein even cited the Robert Mueller investigation as part of his defense for his client.
Example, people like the SSCI chair Rubio, and/or Vice-Chair Warner, along with Feinstein’s lead staff Dan Jones, and/or the SSCI Security Director James Wolfe, can be called to answer questions within a grand jury proceeding based on the claims of Brennan’s defense team in this letter.
Former DNI James Clapper, former NSA Director Mike Rogers, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice and former counterintelligence officers could all be questioned based on Brennan’s defense.
All of the Brennan defense citations in the letter open up pathways for Quinones questioning.
By their words shall you know them.
’…..draw jurors from a more conservative area….’
Jurors who will do their duty and come to a judgement that reflects the merits of the case, not succumb to the leftist obsession with tribal loyalties, which demands an approved outcome that furthers their side’s ‘cause’.
‘….Judge Cannon, who showed Trump unusual favour during the documents investigation.’
In other words treated him like a normal citizen, as is his right by law, not as though he was the chief of the pariah tribe, where any means necessary can be used to remove him and destroy his followers.
All grand juries should be mixed from from around the country in a lottery, being transported from their regular domiciles, given per diem for food and housed in seclusion, away from media. Serving several months. Just like U.S. Reserve duty.
That is an interesting idea. Unfortunately, I think that the Sixth Amendment is counter to it, to wit: (emphasis mine)
“[…] by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, […]”
I would reasonably conclude that this was intended to apply to Grand juries, although the Fifth Amendment, which institutes the Grand Jury process, does not say either way.
having an independent “district” may have been clever and meaningful a couple hundred years ago when we had a legitimate, functioning republic (and control over the feds)… but now, it is completely anathema to whatever thread of self determination and accountability we are clinging to as a former republic.
it just sets them apart and unanswerable to us all. exactly the opposite of what is required if we’d like our nation back.
Can’t laws be changed as in a time of war?
Defining “mix” might also be a problem. Would you like one from LA, two from NYC, one from Boston, two more from DC…
I agree, maybe not the whole country but equally choices from red and blue states.
Their brazen hypocrisy is still shocking sometimes. What comes of this will be indeed interesting to follow.
Praise the Lord the Grand Jury wasn’t in the corrupt DC District Court, there would be no trial!!! The J6 hanging jurors conviction rate was 100%!! It didn’t matter that an elderly Grandmother invited in by DC Capitol Police walked in one door, looked around and a few minutes left? A simple trespassing and she got years in jail!!! Not one juror objected, there were no hung juries!!! Democrats and deep staters are not a jury of your peers, they are your superiors in our banana republic leftist, activist Judicial System!!! Every conviction was a violation of the Constitution!!! JMO
Can there be “trespassing” when the fences and notices were torn down, and the doors opened by authorized personnel?
“You can’t rape the willing ” while a bit on the harsh side it speaks the truth
Pointing out that the jurors are from a conservative area is irksome to me. While I consider myself a Prolife constitutional libertarian, I’m sure most people would consider me very conservative. I promise you I would I have no qualms about voting to convict anyone from any party who was abusing their power. And I would no longer categorize someone as conservative if they considered a defendant’s political leanings when voting whether or not to convict.
It’s also a window into their thoroughly corrupted view of life. They worry that a conservative jury will be as biased as a leftist ones, without even considering that the conservatives on it might, just might, put the law ahead of party politics.
Leftism is for people who put politics ahead of anything else, including their own lives, conservatism is for people whose lives include a political dimension. It’s this existential disparity that has allowed Leftism to dominate so many arenas of life, but President Trump’s words and actions are forcing conservatives to temporarily elevate the political dimension in their lives to counter the Left’s pivot to Socialism. Hence the hatred of the man and his movement, because when actively countered Leftism stumbles badly, revealing its true nature and the previously concealed institutional damage it wreaks.
This is our problem. Conservatives try to do the fair thing. Leftists will have none of it, always cheating to stack the deck. We are no longer a cohesive Republic as the left defies our federal laws.
Just by throwing those excuses at the wall to see if they would stick if ADMITTING that they are used to getting the benefit of the other side of the political divide in DC.
I actually find their appeal to the Chief Justice of the District Court to be extraordinarily weak. I see no compelling argument whatsoever as to why this letter is appropriate or merits any consideration. Mr Brennan finds himself at the very beginning of the process.
His counsel has presented no reason as to why the Chief should want to involve herself and undermine another judge before anything has even happened, unless the chief judge is a willing and active political participant in the ongoing judicial coup, alongside Boasberg and Beryl Howell. No charges have been returned, or even leaked yet. No mention in this letter of “conspiracy,” or the jurisdiction precedence deriving from (now known to be) knowingly illegal Mar-A-Lago raid, which immediately obviates the counter arguments on jurisdiction.
Judge Cannon isn’t their primary issue. The facts are, along with the actions of the illegitimate Biden government WH and DOJ, which created this exposure outside of their protected jurisdiction AND created an opening into the illegal activities extending back beyond the usual statute of limitations. Of course, Sundance is nearly always correct, I’ve tempered my hopes and expectations for any justice for these people like Brennan, and I’m sure he’s right that Mike Davis and others comments on the grand jury (as much as I enjoy hearing them) create vulnerabilities that could be exploited by the defense, as has been attempted here.
Just trying to slow the indictment until the statute of limitations expires.
No statue of limitations on treason.
MAGA
They won’t indict him on treason. They will say the statute of limitations is on Conspiracy.
RICO has no such limitations….
I feel that “statutes of limitations” should not apply when a legal process has been initiated before that time. If the date passes before the matter is legally (and “speedily”) settled, this should be of no consequence: the matter should carry forward to its “speedy” conclusion.
Question: Brennan has continued to this day in multiple media interviews about the lies about Trump. If he is still spouting the lies of Russiagate and affirming his participation would that extend the statute of limitations?
He never stopped doing it, and has probably in the background still engaging in plans with others to still take Trump out. In fact he has never stopped with the original plans!
seems like there is no state of limitations hit, based on his continuity of repeating the lies with many media discussions
Squealing, panicking hogs (no offense to hogs intended)
They are also trying to insinuate misbehavior on the part of Judge Cannon, when no finding or even accusation of such has ever been brought against her. Judge Cannon realized the importance of resisting “lawfare” moves, and she did so within the limits of her powers as presiding Judge.
Judge Cannon turned out to be correct in her evaluation of the Maralago raid.
This email to the Chief Judge seems like its purpose is to be amplified by the NYT, and read by the Grand Jury.
He strikes me as a man who keeps a .45 on the nightstand, maybe justice will serve itself.
In his case a mp-443 Grach.
If anything he will bite down on a cyanide capsule before he gets to trial, just like Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler. He probably has a few on hand, CIA-issue.
16 pages of lawyer speak and bullshit parsing.
We are treated to a never-ending font of theater to keep us preoccupied and distracted, the wrongdoing will never be resolved, and the sinking of the Republic continues outside of our view.
Thank you SD.
You just defined the corrupt Intelligence Community and all of DC.
Cynical yes, but true. Sad. Merry Christmas.
The Lawyers will attempt to stop the Grand Jury from indicting before the statute of limitations kicks in. They will find a crooked federal judge to do this.
If this is part of the conspiracy case involving the attempt by the Obama/Biden FBI and IC to undermine the Presidency of President Trump, is it true then that there is no statute of limitations.
Any statute of limitations begins after the last act in furtherance of the conspiracy has been committed.
Exactly, and this is an ONGOING Conspiracy Against Rights 18 USC §241 §242 going back 10 years. Ironically, this letter from Brennan’s lawyer should be considered “the last act in furtherance of the conspiracy”, hence the statute of limitations starts and continues from the date of the letter.
Every day they wake up is a furtherance.
If a case is started before the statute of limitations kicks in, doesn’t that mean it can go forward? I would think the govt. lawyers know all about the statutes and what the time line is. They must be prepared for this kind of delaying tactic.
Tampering with a grand jury? Delicious dynamite!
If you have initiated the process, timely, of “speedily” convening a Grand Jury, then I believe that no “statute of limitations” should block this. We must not quibble over dates on a calendar.
If outside commentary on issues existentially important to our republic can derail a judicial proceeding, we aren’t voting our way out of this.
Only if the judge is part of the problem.
Exactly right. Nothing that Mike Davis said or wrote was untrue or unwarranted. He has simply been the most publicly vocal enthusiast and backer of the case against Brennan and the other traitors. It is very likely that Davis’ suggestions as to venue, prosecutor, etc. were in actuality as meaningful as any other inputs to the scenario where Brennan is now *actually* facing a grand jury and prosecution.
Meanwhile, Big Tish James actually campaigned on the ‘I will get Trump’ message and then was no less able to prosecute him successfully using total BS predicate where in reality ZERO crimes were committed.
Some animals are more equal than others, we all know that truth. But, shushing the vocal patriots, like Davis, away from their pointed utterances vis a vis the Orwellian double standard of justice is NOT the way to argue that justice is more likely to done (in relative silence). It is not clear that justice will *actually* be done here ultimately, but none of that is the fault of Mike Davis (or his ilk screaming from the mountaintops about the crimes).
SD has obviously done [more than] his share of heavy lifting, and he is a genuine American hero for that. But, neither should Davis’ Article III Project be undervalued.
Anyway, the concept of federal civilian justice being done is unlikely. The military itself should be addressing this den of vipers who have committed treason by conspiracy. The Joint Chiefs should be discussing this situation front and center, and all of the 3 and 4 star generals as well. Were the war colleges even worth funding all these years?
That true, but Mike Davis is a Constitutional attorney and he would never talk about anything that could jeopardize a case, he’s extremely cautious on interviews with Bannon and others what he can say and what he can’t. I’ve watched his interviews for years, he’s very direct, funny and careful. So Mike would not slip and say the wrong thing. Also Mike is always in the WH and asked his opinion of new potential judges.
Durham’s ” Independent Counsel ” – read that as COVER-UP – investigation was part and parcel of the total conspiratorial dance . No ” process protections ” could arise from that, IMO. I’m returning to my Motel Six room now.
this needs to be exposed. The whole Bill Barr (big bud of Mitch McConnell), John Durham. Bondo and spray paint as Sundance says. Total frauds is what they are.
Bottom line – anybody that the McConnell wing of the GOP supports should be summarily dismissed as a saboteur.
Per AI:
To understand the limitations imposed on John Durham regarding investigating or indicting members of government, consider the following points:
1) Durham’s mandate was limited to investigating specific actions related to the origins of the Russia probe.
2) He faced restrictions on pursuing charges against current government officials without clear evidence of wrongdoing.
3) The Department of Justice guidelines require a high standard of proof for indicting government officials.
4) Political considerations often complicate the decision to indict members of government.
5) Durham’s investigations were subject to oversight and could be influenced by executive branch policies.
6) Any findings must be substantiated by credible evidence to proceed with charges against officials.
IANAL, but couldn’t prosecutors subpoena Durham and question him on why he never did investigate or indict any of the government employees he must have known were heavily involved in both the attempted coup and the cover-up? Wouldn’t any honest responses eliminate the Durham report as a defense?
Dear Mr. Wainstein, Boo hoo!
The letter goes on and on to make a case against Judge shopping and Judge Cannon. It fails, for some reason, to mention judge shopping and Judge Boasberg. Hmm.
“As such, were we in a normal time, we might hesitate to question the propriety of the government’s actions in the grand jury process. However, we are no longer in a normal time. We are now in a time when the Justice Department has surrendered much of its independence and the President is directly commanding his Attorney General and her leadership team to use their prosecutorial authorities against his perceived political adversaries.”
Brennan’s lawyers have that backwards. We are in normal constitutional time now. We were not before.
What he calls perceived political adversaries are really people that committed crimes under color of law. The whole letter is projection.
We are on testing ground. A seminal moment (as I see it) as we approach our 250th anniversary.
Either the Constitution is an anachronism or it is working as it was designed.
Gonna need some fundamental changes, like how to prevent Congress from becoming pigs (swine) at a trough.
Funny, Congress is seemingly, many times more corrupt than the Brennan types. I always got p_sided when the Republican’s said Mike Johnson and repeated he is a Godly man. They put him up there with Jesus.
I Still am irritated, his corruption to me is blatant and clear, I don’t know why others can’t see it.
Human nature being what it is through the ages, I’m doubtful it can be done.
Primarily because Congress is incapable of policing itself, and it is they who write the Club Rules.
Well, it’s not working as designed, sooo….
It is very hard to disagree.
Exactly. Their status as political adversaries is not a shield for criminal acts.
Note that Republicans that were so outraged about the false cases against Trump, promised to investigate and take the radical corrupt judge’s out, that were persecuting Trump, they were all very mad about Boasberg and others. It made great sound bites on Fox, but guess what They Never Have Gone After One Corrupt Judge to this day. They have not layed a hand on Boasberg or the other D.C. or country wide judges, including the other persecutions of Tish and other NY hoaxes and charges on Trump.
keep that in mind the Republicans didn’t even try to punish these judges going after Trump and still are going after him. Showing the republicans leadership would have been ok if Trump was charged and put in jail.
President Trump is restoring the Rule of Law to a returning Republic.
The Grand Mufti of Langley operated under the Law of Rule.
“What is law? Two lines of writing above my signature.”–B. Saddam Hussein
The Islammunist Twins–they may patriots, but not for this country.
It’s all about fight to restore Constitutional Republic absent since 1871…. we hope & pray we get there by July 4th 2026……
They just can’t stop gaslighting – presenting normal as abnormal and the abnormal as normal.
Thanks Sundance for laying out this piece of (another) foundation.
Just wanna say I find it quite ironic and snickery that Brennan and his lawfare pals are worried about leaks.
It must have seemed like such a good idea to raid Mar a Lago at the moment. So satisfying. So invasive. So illegal but what is anyone going to do about it?
Open a new jurisdiction.
The OOJ and CIA are without a doubt the two worst three letter agencies in our government. We cannot give enough credit to the Senatorial appointee approval process hamstringing a president from making effective appointments to legitimize these agencies. Vote them all out. Thune and Graham must go.
This looks like the early wake of Ed Martin’s strike force.
Whether they can progress any further with Todd Blanche anchoring them down is another issue.
Ed Martin was specifically tasked by POTUS with investigating the J6 incident and other government treachery and must have Trump’s ear or at least a way to get to him and disclose Blanche’s active obstruction. If he has already done so, why does Trump continue to express such confidence in Blanche – a totally misplaced sense of loyalty because he was a key defense attorney in the NY “hush money” trial? That turned out so well, non?
Especially since Blanche was a long time registered Demmunist in NY until that trial.
Why a GJ when nothing will happen to the man who is a communist and covertly converted to radical Islam decades ago and has his hands in the continuation of destruction of this country ?
It’s all show
To Rattle their cage is my guess.
Great information here, Sundance. Thank you.
It is very interesting how many of these random people pop-up and start providing over-the-top commentary about all this stuff. There are only a few that seem to do actual legitimate work.
Blow hards – this Mike Davis guy has been out there spewing threats, accusations, etc that seem to never materialize. He’s been telling various miscreants to “lawyer up” and whatnot. Nothing ever seems to come of anything he says. Ignore him and others like him.
Legitimate – real work, useful commentary – Lee Smith. Not sure about yet – Mike Benz (good stuff but just sort of appeared)
It took until page 13 for the attorneys to come up with three highly distinguishable cases in completely different procedural postures to support the ask, and the request itself is entirely outside the rules of criminal procedure.
The proper procedure would be a motion to quash the subpoenas (good luck with that) and later, a motion to change venue (a very well developed area of case law last highlighted by the Derek Chauvin case as he got anything but a fair trial).
All they’ve got is a vague appeal to “supervisory authority” – and the move they are asking for would involve a statement by the Chief Judge that a duly appointed, Senate confirmed District Court Judge is incapable of administering justice without fear, favor, or bias.
In normal times, this letter gets a “are you wet behind the ears?” scoff.
The letter cites exactly zero authority in the Rules or any legal precedent for a Chief Judge to unilaterally, without a pending motion, hearing, or any hint of due process, reach in and tinker with the judicial system.
Brennan and his lawyers are butt hurt they fell for the lure that set proper venue and jurisdiction in the Fort Pierce division by undertaking the Mar A Lago raid, and they know they screwed up by losing the protection of DC venue, or ED VA.
They have nothing.
And the judge shopping charge? That’s rich.
This is a political letter, that lays out talking points for the JournOlist.
Panic in DC.
Question how many constitutional lawyers are here, post and read Sundance? Seems like a lot of well trained Constitutional patriots here. Great reads when I have time. Thanks to Sundance and you all, very enlightening discussions
“All of the Brennan defense citations in the letter open up pathways for Quinones questioning.” -Sundance
How good is this U.S Attorney Quinones? I’ve never heard of him, but that doesn’t mean anything!
I hope Sundance reaches out to Quiñones and offers him access to his truthful files on the malfeasance on that loathsome, leftist, communist John Brennan!! Someday there will be a conviction of one of theses cretins and the boxes in the LE Evidence Room will be loaded with Sundance’s truthful posts and materials!!! JMO
Every judge, every jury, in every case swears under oath to be fair and impartial.
What this attorney is admitting is…
And…Brennan is about 70…so…will he spend his retirement paying lawyers and ‘defending’ himself?
Nah – he knows too much. Our historic half-white, half-Communist, half-radical Muslim former POTUS (and another 1,000+++ traitors) have way too much to lose if he blabs, so Brennan will get a cushy no-show position with a leftist NGO and his legal fees paid for through another one.
Unless Hillary has him Epsteined/Breitbarted/SethRiched first.
The “crazy” becomes evidence that can be used. Brennan was a principal participant in a conspiracy against rights under color of law.
Prosecutors should agree that there is a lot of reporting because dirty cops like Brennan create this kind of thing – it’s a feature not a bug – ask anyone who has had to deal with a dirty local cop. They’re going to argue that what Brennan was doing was completely legal. Color of law.
Why should the judge or anyone else be surprised that a bureaucratic coup d’etat to overthrow a Presidency – which featured countless fake news leaks from the conspirators – would continue to generate a lot of fake news?
Second, the conspirators were engaged in a political act: government overthrow. Any attempt to prosecute is political. That doesn’t make the prosecution wrong. In fact, that’s why it’s a color of law violation. Brennan et al are trying to give illegal acts the patina of legal authority, and set this up SPECIFICALLY to immunize themselves against later prosecution.
Will anyone go to jail? Don’t bet on it.
But from a legal POV, Brennan et al are admitting to conspiracy against rights under color of law. Because they left fingerprints on EVERYTHING, including….and especially….the media.
If Brennan is one of the only criminals that goes to a penitentiary for the rest of his life, that would be a massive win in so many ways. Clapper should go with him but he always seemed to have dementia by my guess.
truthfully Comey will f-up one day and be sent to prison is my unending prayer. I wonder if the Trump DoJ is researching how much money and property he owns in Foreign countries, and where he stole the money from.
I am not as troubled by the actions of Mike Davis. Without a clear Rule 6(e) violation proven with evidence, this is just news fodder to try and damage a pending indictment. Without a provable leak, it’s just talk, and courts don’t police talk.
What I get from this is that Brennan wouldn’t go public like this unless he believed the indictment risk had crossed a threshold. If he thought declination was likely, silence would be optimal for him. Brennan needs to pre-load his legitimacy arguments before an indictment.
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire appears to be the m/o, from a distance. I believe it is a brilliant plan; there are just too many fires, they cannot douse them all. Somebody big is going down. i goes, they all go.
Good target.
Hope we hit the mark!
We need one less villain walking among us.
“Kenneth Wainstein”
every
single
time
over and over and over and over and over again and again and again and again.
I’m pretty sure you are not complimenting this lawyer for trying to keep a guilty man from getting his neck stretched. I could be wrong.
What is it you think lawyers do?
So many questions; any lawyers reading here have opinions?
First question. Why is the USDA notifying before any indictment has been brought?
” the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jason Reding Quiñones, have advised Mr. Brennan that he is “a target” of a grand jury investigation.”
Second question: How can this be done? Requesting that the Chief Judge insert himself into a secret proceeding which he cannot legally “know” anything about before any indictment is issued?
DOJ manual:
9-11.150 – Subpoenaing Targets of the InvestigationA grand jury may properly subpoena a subject or a target of the investigation and question the target about his or her involvement in the crime under investigation. See United States v. Wong, 431 U.S. 174, 179 n. 8 (1977); United States v. Washington, 431 U.S. 181, 190 n. 6 (1977); United States v. Mandujano, 425 U.S. 564, 573-75 and 584 n. 9 (1976); United States v. Dionisio, 410 U.S. 1, 10 n. 8 (1973). However, in the context of particular cases such a subpoena may carry the appearance of unfairness. Because the potential for misunderstanding is great, before a known “target” (as defined in JM 9-11.151) is subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury about his or her involvement in the crime under investigation, an effort should be made to secure the target’s voluntary appearance. If a voluntary appearance cannot be obtained, the target should be subpoenaed only after the United States Attorney or the responsible Assistant Attorney General have approved the subpoena. In determining whether to approve a subpoena for a “target,” careful attention will be paid to the following considerations:
Chief Judge is Ceilia Altonaga: her parents escaped commie Cuba, she was born in Balt. MD, raised in greater Miami, attended FIU but earned her JD from Yale in the mid80’s … BUT – was appointed as a county court judge by then D governor Chiles and later elevated to circuit court judge in that district, 11th, by Governor Jeb! , then in 2003, Pres George W. Bush nominated her to be a US district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Hmmm …
YES! DON’T STOP Sundance.
I might need to have a bourbon and smoke a cigarette, even thought the day is young. Lol
So, the stage is set. John Brennan, like Comey,, is brought up with charges only to be set free by some judge, technicality, etc. Cross your fingers, toes and say a prayer that it ain’t so.
The first thing that came to my mind as I read this:
”All of the Brennan defense citations in the letter open up pathways for Quinones questioning.”
Did they do it on purpose?
…..if I’m going down I’m taking all of you with me…..
Back to coffee
I am thinking more along the lines of the power of a Trident missile launch, myself…
Subroc maybe. Mk48 probably. Trident is for boomers not real submariners (here it comes in 3..2..1. 😎)
I say that with the deepest respect. From the heart
The Durham cover-up is very sucky.
Hypocrisy knows no bounds. It’s OK for the defense to leak propaganda to the NY Times, but god forbid the original phony ICA is made public.
Do Brennan’s lawyers realize that they have indirectly insulted the Chief Judge with this letter?
“Hey judge! A heads up here. You haven’t been paying attention, but you’ve got biased judges and biased grand jurors in your district. Time to clean it up. You’ve been asleep on the watch.”
Yeah, that’ll do it.
True story.
Criminal procedure professor asks class, what do you do when you encounter a judge who is biased and constantly ruling against you?
Raises hand.
“Move to ask the judge to recuse himself.”
Laughter and ridicule ensues.
Same same.
But if the lawyer did not ask that question…
Would that be grounds for a “mistrial”?
“Ineffective counsel?”
No. It is very difficult to prove bias. One almost needs to point to outrageous statements by the judge in the record. Just consistently ruling against a party won’t do it, because the district court judge is allowed a great deal of discretion.
Biased judges are not necessarily stupid judges (although some are both). They can usually find a slender reed of legal authority for what they do, and if the injured party takes an appeal, well, so what. Most lower court judges get reversed at one time or another.
Given his role as one of the chief instigators of a coup against a duly elected U.S. president, he should be grateful that he is not a target of the gaolers. In more Constitutional times, the whole cabal would have been hung for treason.
But isn’t their crying about weaponization and judge shopping just too ironic, coming from that ilk? They literally wrote the book on such tactics and now try to win sympathy because they feel victimized themselves. There is no shame on the Left because there is no conscience. Which is why there is no peace with the Left. If we are to have a functioning Republic, the Left must be destroyed politically as a national force.
J
BINGO!!!
I’m still not convinced that these proceedings mean anything because nobody can state what the desired end state is.
This is lawfare, plain and simple. Punish Brennan et al with the process, but the end result is inevitable – they walk scot-free. A little poorer, but otherwise unpunished.
I get it, PDJT47 is rightfully angry, but this is a dry hole. All the resources being wasted on Brennan and RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! need to be focused on stripping the fraud out of our electoral system or the last decade has been wasted.
POTUS wouldn’t have moved to Mar A Lago and then lured them down there with the 11 inch binder if he didn’t intend to take the king in the end and win the match.
Viewed across ten year timeframe, he has the Brennan crew exactly where he wants them.
Apparently there is a gambit in chess that involves drawing your opponent to his doom by retreating and a appearing to be losing, until the final moves.
Boom, boom, boom.
I’m not a chess player, so I’ll take your word for it. Still, what does brilliant chess strategery have to do with drilling dry wells? What “king” do you think he’s going to take? Where exactly does he have the Brennan crew? Why should they care? All they have to do is lawyer up with legal assistance helpfully provided by dark leftist donors and wait it out – with a completely corrupted electoral system, the socialists will capture the house and senate in ’26.
“Getting Brennan” will be a pyrrhic victory at best.
Precious time and resources are being wasted fiddling while Rome is burning
Guess we’re just doomed, then.
/s
It’s long overdue for this 👿 to be a 🎯.
How does it feel — you traitorous piece of 💩?
My lofty goal is for the IC to be exposed, shrink and lose power.
🙏🎄🎁
Brennan is a Sociopath
… and Bingo was his name-o.
I think we can all agree on that.
Sundance, yesterday you published an article titled in part “WHY THEIR WILL NEVER BE INDICTMENTS AGAINST GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FOR RUSSIAGATE…….”. Today you note the ongoing grand jury investigation into John Brennan and his role in crafting the fake ICA report on Russia Interference into the 2016 election and the multitude of ways that the Brennan legal counsel has handed the US Attorney to pursue evidence and questioning of witnesses. Forgive me if I am failing to make the connection, but why would you write with certitude that no government official will ever be indicted for RUSSIAGATE on one day and the next day lay out the possibility that an indictment may occur given the recent work of the DNI? Or maybe I am making a connection that doesn’t exist. Respectfully, Hawkeye1964.
Sundance may have different thoughts, but my view is that this whole process involving Brennan is a charade.
Much pretending will be done so that it appears as if the pursuit of an indictment is sincere. All participants on both sides will play their part, including the crooked judge who ultimately blocks the indictment.
The UniParty D’s will rejoice and the UniParty R’s will give stern speeches and ask their donors for more money.
It will be play acting from start to finish, and there will be no indictment.
What a downer. There’s nothing about this that’s a charade.
I never understood why some commentator’s words, opinions, conspiracy theories would matter in a judicial case. Same with articles from newspapers. It’s just some “journalist” with a medium IQ writing his opinion, fake or straight. None of this should have recourse in a trial.
If some guy’s opinion on a podcast or newspaper article carries weight above and beyond presented evidence, then this isn’t Justice. And maybe it never was.
Whoa!
Did the defense make a mistake?…they have intentionally…potentionally…dragged in big players. Won’t they now assist the defense in making this go away?
Sundance explains the tactical error made by Brennan’s legal team, which opens more “discovery doors” if the grand jury hearing even occurs.
OK fine … but let’s see if any of those doors are actually opened … better yet if anything behind those doors even appears.
I agree with Sundance’s article from a day ago and said the same for a long time … not single one of the pre-2025 bad actors is even going to be worried by legal issues … as in worried like a rat in an Earth Dog Test … i.e. a West Highland White or Cairn Terrier is released into an underground rodent burrow and timed on how long it takes to “worry” a caged rat in the burrow.
Although … Florida is Bondi’s home turf and if she has any aspiration for Political Office in Florida (Senator, Governor, etc.) this could be interesting.
Do they normally tell someone they are under a grand jury investigation? I thought grand juries were “secret.”
They may if the target is being called to testify; he may be entitled to notice so he he doesn’t waive his Fifth Amendment rights.
However, if the prosecutor is investigating someone by questioning other people, and looking at other evidence, the Fifth Amendment rights are not jeopardized. The evidence is out there; the prosecutor is just collecting it.
I don’t care much about the legal wranglings of either side.
I don’t understand it much either.
What I do enjoy is Brennan squirming.
IMO, he’s getting a good taste of his own medicine, and that is a joy to behold.
I find it very amusing that he is using the word: “target.” The purpose of a Grand Jury is to determine if there is probable cause that you committed a crime, and that a court case is to be brought and tried. Contrary to the apparent belief of certain government officials and former government officials, who simply consider themselves “above the law.”
One of the most important objectives for the DOJ must be to bring these cases forward, so that anyone in Government will be taught that you can be tried and perhaps convicted for criminal behavior while in office. Right now, these people simply don’t believe that. They think that they just need to “lawyer up.” And then, skate away like they’ve always done (until now).
If you really did commit a crime, then it is not “targeting” to bring you to justice. It’s simply something that you do not expect, because you think that you’re somehow immune. It’s time to teach people otherwise. Else, “the law means nothing.”
Thank you
As a president who has been impeached, prosecuted, convicted, arrested, shot, raided, defamed.
I’d save the American people their money. But he is still too nice to these demonic bags of dirt. They are treasonous and rightly dispatched should be their lot. Again, he was shot. God does not condone tolerance when it comes to evil. You get an opportunity to repent and you pay your bill. There is no grace to evil.
I read this letter yesterday.
Claiming Mike Davis putting together the legal reasoning is inappropriate is interesting. I don’t see the problem. As a recent example. Look at the Comey docket you’ll see many parties laying out the legal reasoning why Comey shouldn’t be prosecuted. The court(s) accepted dozens of briefs. From judges, attorneys, and past government employees. What’s the difference? Party affiliation. Then the usually lawfare. Attack the judge and the prosecutor.
“All three branches of government eventually collaborated on the scheme.” No way in hell can this go anywhere.
Sundance you’ve made my Christmas knowing a FILTHY LIBERAL -Constipationface is finally getting his smackdown….he speaks prison language already….
I just want to clarify, Sundance said no one will be convicted for Russiagate. I took it as his point that Spygate was the actual crime and no one is actually prosecuting Spygate. Russiagate was the coverup and his view is it won’t be prosecuted successfully.
“would draw jurors from a more conservative area than the District of Columbia and put it under Judge Cannon, who showed Mr. Trump unusual favor during the documents investigation”
Sooooo, the “justice” process is political and apparently not twisting and bending interpretation of law to go along with the goals of the prosecutor is “showing favor”.
I had posted a video of Naomi Brockwell (privacy advocate YouTuber) interviewing a guy who created a non-custodial (the entity doesn’t take custody of your crypto, you hold it) wallet for crypto that prevent people from tracing your spending on the blockchain. The SDNY indicted him for “financial” crimes including conspiracy to launder money despite the regulatory agency telling the FBI his company was not a financial institution— that didn’t stop them!!
After a 5:00 am
FBI SWAT raid to execute the arrest warrant, his case eventually got assigned to a different judge who used to be head of the criminal division at DOJ — you know, a judge who wouldn’t show favor to the defendant. The FBI/DOJ failed to produce all Brady evidence, sound familiar??
There are a lot of dirty cops and prosecutors who “know”’people are guilty and will do anything to get to that outcome.
I encourage everyone to listen to this guys story, it parallels the get Trump prosecutions and the reverse is true for holding the bad apples accountable: the system does everything to exclude incriminating evidence where when the government wants to get you the systems does everything to hide exculpatory evidence.