In a two-week period right after the 2024 election, the most energy expended by the transition team putting a cabinet together was toward Main Justice or the Dept of Justice. As a consequence, those around Lutnick and Wiles spent an incredible amount of time thinking about the Attorney General pick.
Following an insider discussion, I spoke with several people about positions and appointments, focused on pointing out that the transition’s priorities were misplaced. The AG needed to be someone with exceptional moral character, capable of gathering information and presenting it for public consumption, with the option of supporting criminal referrals if necessary.
The Attorney General wasn’t going to be the tip of the spear in any operation to confront the Deep State, because if Main Justice wanted to confront Lawfare they needed to confront the Intelligence Community first. The IC controls all of the activity within the Dept of Justice.
Read that again for emphasis. For the issues of greatest importance, the Intelligence Community controls all of the activity within Main Justice. The IC is in control of the source material. The IC is above the DOJ. If you don’t strategize a confrontation with the IC first, it doesn’t matter what you do with the Dept of Justice.
The best example I could reference at the time was the Mar-a-Lago documents case and Judge Aileen Cannon. In that example the Executive branch was targeting Trump through the DOJ/FBI, and representing the Judicial branch Judge Cannon was the firewall ensuring the appropriate administration of justice.
Trump’s defense, through Cannon, pushed back against the DOJ (Jack Smith) while Smith leveraged all his Lawfare tools back against Cannon. You might remember the “classified document” issue went to the 11th CCA.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the government position that any documents defined as “classified” by the executive branch that claimed, “national security,” should not be disclosed to the defendant, Trump. The 11th CCA said when it comes to matters of national security, the judicial branch must defer to the determinations of the executive.
Basically, if the intelligence community decides certain information is tied to national security and labels it as classified for the DOJ, that decision can’t be challenged. The U.S. Supreme Court has backed this view. As a result, when it comes to national security issues, the judicial branch has to defer to the executive, giving the IC significant control over the DOJ.
If you drag former CIA Director John Brennan into court and Brennan’s lawyers argue ‘national security’ as a defense against indictment, inquiry or questioning, it’s not the DOJ (Attorney General) who matters – it’s the ‘national security’ determination of the Intelligence Community (Tulsi Gabbard) who controls the outcome.
Over and over, I kept emphasizing this point. If you want to hold the Spygate/Russiagate folks accountable, it’s not going to be the DOJ who matter; not directly. It is the Intelligence Community that matters.
If you seek accountability, and if you want to stop Lawfare from exploiting the silo defenses, it’s the IC that matters; not the Dept of Justice. The transition team was putting emphasis on the wrong syllable. Remember, my emphasis was on the need for institutional accountability on Spygate and Russiagate, and the DOJ is a tool toward the goal but not the ultimate weapon.
♦ Secondly, and specifically because of this issue, if you don’t confront the IC bad actors directly, if you don’t disassemble their power structures, you are going to end up with Main Justice in a constant position of defense, because the DOJ is downstream from the determinations of the Intelligence Community.
Yes, it’s a screwed-up system. Yes, it’s entirely part of the built-out silo defenses. But also yes, if you don’t approach it by beginning with the end in mind, then you get into a battle with Lawfare without the correct strategy. All of these accountability issues touch on ‘national security,’ and that national security will be weaponized as a defense.
Frustrated with my inability to convince, I wrote something in real time that I am going to repost below. Perhaps a revisit now will stimulate a new perspective.
The Attorney General and Main Justice are very important to the establishment of successful domestic policy, deportation objectives, immigration enforcement, criminal investigations, drug trafficking and human smuggling interdictions, election reform, law enforcement, civil order and constitutional protection. But for the sake of accountability, it is the ODNI and CIA Director who really matters.
Nov 11, 2024 – Yes, folks in the transition, I get it.
I totally understand why you approach the weaponization of government as a cancer treatment, and the Dept of Justice is the silo of focus for you to target with the harshest Stage-4 metastatic chemo.
I completely understand why, during this phase, all of your efforts have to be on aggressive treatment. Main Justice carries the badges, and it is only Main Justice that can prosecute corruption. I get it. I understand. However, the cancerous lesion, that first moment when the compromised cells began to die and replicate, will not lead to an origination in the DOJ.
So far, every pathologist who has reviewed the diagnostic biopsy has called this a ‘cancer of unknown primary origin’ or abbreviated a CUP. Having backlight this cell structure for many years, I call tell you with confidence the accurate origin is the United States Intelligence Community.
Please, begin all Term-2 treatment options with this diagnosis in mind.
Please pay attention to the silo structure.
Notice in this first short video how Mary McCord positions the power structure of the DOJ-NSD silo in deference to the Intelligence Community (IC).
This is a critical path within the next step to American’s “great awakening.” In the past we have outlined how the DOJ-NSD weaponizes their Lawfare by using “National Security Information,” or what the insiders call “NSI.”
As an outcome of the way our checks and balances have been modified against our interests, the judicial branch has repeatedly deferred to the DOJ around the issue of “national security.” In fact, if the DOJ labels any Lawfare approach as a national security matter the subsequent evidence therein, the NSI (even when not seen) is accepted by the judicial branch without question. The judicial branch defers to the executive on all matters defined by the executive as “national security.”
This is the area of exploit being discussed by Mary McCord in this segment below. However, PLEASE NOTICE there is an apparatus that can supersede the DOJ-NSD’s ability to weaponize Nat Sec Information, that’s the power of the intelligence apparatus. WATCH:
Lawfare coordinator Mary McCord admits that she and another lawfare coordinator, Andrew Weissmann, worked with the DOJ and intelligence losers on what bogus charges to bring against Trump. pic.twitter.com/4jqgetvURZ
— The Researcher (@listen_2learn) October 4, 2024
Do not brush off this important reveal by the foremost voice in exploiting the targeting systems granted by the Intelligence Community.
Mary McCord is telling us the IC is in charge of “the information” that is then weaponized in the lawfare approach.
McCord notes how she and Andrew Weissmann navigate through the process of using National Security Information (NSI) as they move toward their target; the most common reference is their political opposition, Donald J Trump.
The DOJ has to ask the IC for permission to engage.
The IC gives the DOJ-NSD the targeting system; without it, nothing happens.
If you remove Main Justice as a weapon, you are treating a symptom – not the disease itself. You still have not removed the origin of the cancer, the Intelligence Community.
McCord background:
If there is one Lawfare operative who has escaped scrutiny for her corrupt endeavors, it would be Mary McCord. More than any other Lawfare operative within Main Justice, Mary McCord sits at the center of every table in the manufacturing of cases against Donald Trump. {GO DEEP} Mary McCord’s husband is Sheldon Snook; he was the right hand to the legal counsel of Chief Justice John Roberts when the Dobbs decision was leaked.
When the Carter Page FISA application was originally assembled by the FBI and DOJ, there was initial hesitancy from within the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) about submitting the application, because it did not have enough citations in evidence (the infamous ‘Woods File’). That’s why the Steele Dossier ultimately became important. It was the Steele Dossier that provided the push, the legal cover needed for the DOJ-NSD to submit the application for a Title-1 surveillance warrant against the campaign of Donald J. Trump.
When the application was finally assembled for submission to the FISA court, the head of the DOJ-NSD was John Carlin. Carlin quit working for the DOJ-NSD in late September 2016 just before the final application was submitted (October 21,2016). John Carlin was replaced by Deputy Asst. Attorney General, Mary McCord.
♦ When the FISA application was finally submitted (approved by Sally Yates and James Comey), it was Mary McCord who did the actual process of filing the application and gaining the Title-1 surveillance warrant.
A few months later, February 2017, with Donald Trump now in office as President, it was Mary McCord who went with Deputy AG Sally Yates to the White House to confront White House legal counsel Don McGahn over the Michael Flynn interview with FBI agents. The surveillance of Flynn’s calls was presumably done under the auspices and legal authority of the FISA application Mary McCord previously was in charge of submitting.
♦ At the time the Carter Page application was filed (October 21, 2016), Mary McCord’s chief legal counsel inside the office was a DOJ-NSD lawyer named Michael Atkinson. In his role as the legal counsel for the DOJ-NSD, it was Atkinson’s job to review and audit all FISA applications submitted from inside the DOJ. Essentially, Atkinson was the DOJ internal compliance officer in charge of making sure all FISA applications were correctly assembled and documented.
♦ When the anonymous CIA whistleblower complaint was filed against President Trump for the issues of the Ukraine call with President Zelensky, the Intelligence Community Inspector General had to change the rules for the complaint to allow an anonymous submission. Prior to this change, all intelligence whistleblowers had to put their name on the complaint. It was this 2019 IGIC who changed the rules. Who was the Intelligence Community Inspector General? Michael Atkinson.
When ICIG Michael Atkinson turned over the newly authorized anonymous whistleblower complaint to the joint House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee (Schiff and Nadler chairs), who did Michael Atkinson give the complaint to? Mary McCord.
Yes, after she left main justice, Mary McCord took the job of working for Chairman Jerry Nadler and Chairman Adam Schiff as the chief legal advisor inside the investigation that led to the construction of articles of impeachment. As a consequence, Mary McCord received the newly permitted anonymous whistleblower complaint from her old office colleague Michael Atkinson.
♦ During his investigation of the Carter Page application, Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered an intentional lie inside the Carter Page FISA application (directly related to the ‘Woods File’), which his team eventually tracked to FBI counterintelligence division lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith. Eventually Clinesmith was criminally charged with fabricating evidence (changed wording on an email) in order to intentionally falsify the underlying evidence in the FISA submission.
When John Durham took the Clinesmith indictment to court, the judge in the case was James Boasberg.
♦ In addition to being a DC criminal judge, James Boasberg is also a FISA court judge who signed-off on one of the renewals for the FISA application that was submitted using fraudulent evidence fabricated by Kevin Clinesmith. In essence, now the presiding judge over the FISA court, Boasberg was the FISC judge who was tricked by Clinesmith, and now the criminal court judge in charge of determining Clinesmith’s legal outcome. Judge Boasberg eventually sentenced Clinesmith to 6 months probation.
As an outcome of continued FISA application fraud and wrongdoing by the FBI, in their exploitation of searches of the NSA database, Presiding FISC Judge James Boasberg appointed an amici curiae advisor to the court who would monitor the DOJ-NSD submissions and ongoing FBI activities.
Who did James Boasberg select as a FISA court amicus? Mary McCord.
♦ SUMMARY: Mary McCord submitted the original false FISA application to the court using the demonstrably false Dossier. Mary McCord participated in the framing of Michael Flynn. Mary McCord worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to create a fraudulent whistleblower complaint against President Trump; and Mary McCord used that manipulated complaint to assemble articles of impeachment on behalf of the joint House Intel and Judiciary Committee. Mary McCord then took up a defensive position inside the FISA court to protect the DOJ and FBI from sunlight upon all the aforementioned corrupt activity.
You can clearly see how Mary McCord would be a person of interest if anyone was going to start digging into corruption internally within the FBI, DOJ or DOJ-NSD.
What happened next….
November 3, 2021 – In Washington DC – “Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and the House Jan. 6 Select Committee has tapped Mary McCord, who once ran the Justice Department’s National Security Division, for representation in its fight to obtain former President Donald Trump’s White House records. (read more)
That’s the context; now I want to go back a little.
First, when did Mary McCord become “amicus” to the FISA court? ANSWER: When the court (Boasberg) discovered IG Michael Horowitz was investigating the fraudulent FISA application. In essence, the FISA Court appointed the person who submitted the fraudulent filing, to advise on any ramifications from the fraudulent filing. See how that works?
Now, let’s go deeper….
When Mary McCord went to the White House with Sally Yates to talk to white house counsel Don McGhan about the Flynn call with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, and the subsequent CBS interview with VP Pence, where Pence’s denial of any wrongdoing took place, the background narrative in the attack against Flynn was the Logan Act.
The construct of the Logan Act narrative was pure Lawfare, and DAG Sally Yates with Acting NSD AAG Mary McCord were the architects.
Why was the DOJ National Security Division concerned with a conflict between what Pence said on CBS and what Flynn said about his conversations with Kislyak?
This is where a big mental reset is needed. Flynn did nothing wrong. The incoming National Security Advisor can say anything he wants with the Russian ambassador, short of giving away classified details of any national security issue. In December of 2016, if Michael Flynn wanted to say Obama was an a**hole, and the Trump administration disagreed with everything he ever did, the incoming NSA was free to do so. There was simply nothing wrong with that conversation – regardless of content.
So, why were McCord and Yates so determined to make an issue in media and in confrontation with the White House? Why did the DOJ-NSD even care? This is the part that people overlooked when the media narrative was driving the news cycle. People got too stuck in the weeds and didn’t ask the right questions.
Some entity, we discover later was the FBI counterintelligence division, was monitoring Flynn’s calls. They transcribed a copy of the call between Flynn and Kislyak, and that became known as the “Flynn Cuts” as described within internal documents, and later statements.
After the Flynn/Kislyak conversation was leaked to the media, Obama asked ODNI Clapper how that call got leaked. Clapper went to the FBI on 1/4/17 and asked FBI Director James Comey. Comey gave Clapper a copy of the Flynn Cuts which Clapper then took back to the White House to explain to Obama.
Obama’s White House counsel went bananas, because Clapper had just walked directly into the Oval Office with proof the Obama administration was monitoring the incoming National Security Advisor.
Obama’s plausible deniability of the Trump surveillance was lost as soon as Clapper walked in with the written transcript.
That was the motive for the 1/5/17 Susan Rice memo, and the reason for Obama to emphasize “buy the book” three times.
It wasn’t that Obama didn’t know already; the problem was that a document trail now existed (likely a CYA from Comey) that took away Obama’s plausible deniability of knowledge.
The January 5th meeting documented by Susan Rice was quickly organized to mitigate this issue.
Knowing the Flynn Cuts were created simultaneously with the phone call, and knowing how it was quickly decided to use the Logan Act as a narrative against Flynn and Trump, we can be very sure both McCord and Yates had read that transcript before they went to the White House. [Again, this is the entire purpose of them going to the White House to confront McGhan with their manufactured concerns.]
So, when it comes to ‘who leaked’ the reality of the Flynn/Kislyak call to the media, the entire predicate for the Logan Act violation – in hindsight – I would bet a donut it was Mary McCord.
But wait, there’s more….
Now we go back to McCord’s husband, Sheldon Snook.
Sheldon was working for the counsel to John Roberts. The counsel to the Chief Justice has one job, to review the legal implications of issues before the court and advise Justice John Roberts. The counsel to the Chief Justice knows everything happening in the court and is the sounding board for any legal issues impacting the Supreme Court.
In his position as the right hand of the counsel to the chief justice, Sheldon Snook would know everything happening inside the court.
At the time, there was nothing bigger inside the court than the Alito opinion known as the Dobb’s Decision – the returning of abortion law to the states. Without any doubt, the counsel to Chief Justice Roberts would have that decision at the forefront of his advice and counsel. By extension, this puts the actual written Alito opinion in the orbit of Sheldon Snook.
After the Supreme Court launched a heavily publicized internal investigation into the leaking of the Dobbs decision (Alito opinion), something interesting happened. Sheldon Snook left his position. If you look at the timing of the leak, the investigation and the Sheldon Snook exit, the circumstantial evidence looms large.
Of course, given the extremely high stakes, the institutional crisis with the public discovering the office of the legal counsel to the Chief Justice likely leaked the decision, such an outcome would be catastrophic for the institutional credibility. In essence, it would be Robert’s office who leaked the opinion to the media.
If you were Chief Justice John Roberts and desperately needed to protect the integrity of the court, making sure such a thermonuclear discovery was never identified would be paramount. Under the auspices of motive, Sheldon Snook would exit quietly. Which is exactly what happened.
The timeline holds the key.
Remember the stories of the J6 investigative staff all going to work for Jack Smith on the investigation of Donald Trump? Well, Mary McCord was a member of that team [citation]; all indications are that her background efforts continue today as a quiet member of the Special Counsel team that is still attacking Donald Trump.
To give you an idea of the scope of influence of Mary McCord as a key functionary, consider what we can document.
♦ McCord submitted the fraudulent FISA application to spy on Trump campaign.
♦ McCord created the “Logan Act” claim used against Michael Flynn and then went with Sally Yates to confront the White House.
♦ McCord then left the DOJ and went to work for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler.
♦ McCord organized the CIA rule changes with Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson.
♦ McCord led and organized the impeachment effort, in the background, using the evidence she helped create.
♦ McCord joined the FISA Court to protect against DOJ IG Michael Horowitz newly gained NSD oversight and FISA review.
♦ McCord joined the J6 Committee helping to create all the lawfare angles they deployed.
♦ McCord then coordinated with DA Fani Willis in Georgia.
♦ McCord is working with Special Counsel Jack Smith to prosecute Trump.
In short, Mary McCord is the lawfare string that winds through every legal ‘stop Trump’ effort, and her primary partner in this endeavor is Andrew Weissmann. In this next video segment, notice what the “how to use that” quote is referencing.
Lawfare coordinator and Russia collusion criminal Andrew Weissmann admits that he and Mary McCord were in on the internal debates on which laws to use for the bogus Trump documents case.
It’s funny that they always screech about Trump weaponizing the government when these… pic.twitter.com/uJuF70hHtc
— The Researcher (@listen_2learn) October 4, 2024
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Mary McCord is telling us who orchestrates their efforts.
It’s not Jack Smith, any more than it was Robert Mueller.
Mary McCord, Jack Smith, Andrew Weissman, Robert Mueller, etc. are/were simply the front men.
♦ Who assembled the 2016 “Russian Malicious Cyber Activity – Joint Analysis Report”? […] “The US intelligence community has concluded that a hack-and-release of Democratic Party and Clinton staff emails was designed to put Trump — a political neophyte who has praised Putin — into the Oval Office.”
♦ Who were the heads of the 17 intelligence agencies who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016?
♦ Who were the 51 names from the IC who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation in 2020?
♦ Who are the 60 IC professionals who said Kamala Harris was stronger for National Security?
There’s the backlight picture provided by an accurate pathological diagnosis.
I hope President Donald Trump uses the absolute power of his office to appoint key people who will carry his constitutional, plenary and absolute authority.
The National Security Advisor doesn’t need confirmation for a reason. Use the NatSec Advisor to target the origin of the cancer. Use the DNI to deconstruct the Intelligence Community silo system.
You did not make Tom Homan DHS Secretary because you knew in that role, he would have been weaker on securing the border and carrying out deportations. Great call. Now apply that same level of thinking to the National Security Advisor and ODNI.
Have the NatSec Advisor and Director of National Intelligence secure the Intelligence Community with the same level of ferocity you expect Homan to carry out on the border. Have the NatSec Advisor and ODNI carry the same deportation expectation inwardly, into every silo that makes up the 17 intelligence agencies and purge them just like the criminal aliens. The “Six Ways from Sunday” cartel are far more dangerous.
Destroy the lies. Get rid of the liars.
Get rid of the system control agents who isolate the Office of the President.
Make the Office of the President Great Again.
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“For the issues of greatest importance, the Intelligence Community controls all of the activity within Main Justice. The IC is in control of the source material. The IC is above the DOJ. If you don’t strategize a confrontation with the IC first, it doesn’t matter what you do with the Dept of Justice.”
Yeah – makes a lot of sense.
Of course, outside of CTH, how many people know that?
How many people outside of CTH know about Mary Mc Cord? Saw her name mentioned in the comment section of Gateway Pundit..Slowly at first.
IMO – Most, if not all, of the MM mentions on GP are from CTH readers.
Of all the institutions marched over, the DOJ and the IC are at the top. ( DOJ as well) Bondi did get two idicmements and look what happened. You have a better chance of Orcs convicting Sauron then getting a DC conviction.
I’m reading that Blanche is worse than Bondi – he’s the reason so many investigations went nowhere.
I think Sundance is saying that the IC is the reason why so many investigations went nowhere.
Bruce Gordon, how about this:
I find it very hard to follow all these loose threads of agencies/silos/people…the one feeling I received in reading this…to sum it up in a very simple manner…and am really only guessing…
The AG is playing a game of “Mother May I?” with IC being “Mother”….?
The deputy AG would be an automatic. Can’t help that.
Hopefully not for long but new AG has to be confirmed.
The Rinos will not approve a threat to the deep state.
RINO;s haver marginalized themselves, nearly into oblivion.
Strategized not marginalized.
a substack article by Alexander Muse on Deputy AG Blanche:
https://newsletter.amuseonx.com/p/what-deputy-ag-todd-blanche-built
Bessie, thanks for posting this.
Sundance’s view of DOJ seems different than Muse’s. I actually see the two perspectives as compatible.
Perhaps a viable strategy is to rebuild trust in equality under the law, impartial enforcement of the law, and then expose the IC malicious intent within DOJ. Create conditions in the public perception so that “we” accept the reality of the root cause of two-tiered justice. (Communism vs Constitutional governance)
I wonder why and when the IC decided to use DOJ…pleased to have seen in Sundance’s previous post that Tulsi has an angel on her shoulder.
I always thought Bondi was going to be 3d window dressing, while those hired under her, no confirmations, would do the heavy lifting. Thanks for that substack link!
Go back and please re-read the article and rethink your premise. It is good explanation why taking on Blondi is wasted energy. How did you miss the point of this article?
Are you reading The Daily Mail or Politico? I ask, because this article has a completely different outlook on the point you’re trying to make, supported by actual facts rather than hearsay and innuendos.
https://open.substack.com/pub/amuseonx/p/what-deputy-ag-todd-blanche-built?
The Trump people cut a deal with the Sea Island Governor’s. Part of the deal (DeSantis) was to put Pam Bondi in the Cabinet to ‘keep tabs on Trump’.
The terms of the deal have been met and Bondi was expelled from the Cabinet to be replaced by an individual of Trump’s choosing.
Huh??
What crock pot cooked that up?🤣
It was a full moon.
Ah…
Might have been down wind of Granny Clampett’s Rheumatis medicine.
It happens..
Tom Clancy Jr
Bondi is a Morgan&&Morgan person.
I submit John Morgan has little respect for her. Watch his interview with Patrick Bet David. You can tell by the story he tells about her alcoholic boyfriend lying drunk in the street and she calls HIM for help/advice.
AND…every now and then, DeSantis pops up, as if to remind us he is still around.
I remember reading that someone (Eric Holder?) was put in Obama’s cabinet to protect Hillary’s interests in exchange for her withdrawing from the race and supporting Obama. She got SofS to do her grifting and a promise of getting the nomination in 2016.
I have always suspected Bondi/Wiles was a similar type of insurance (Sea Island? Tech?)
Hillary had/has a lot of dirt on people – and in DC there is a lot of dirt for everyone – so I think that’s why she’s been protected.
OK, so this explains Trump International 😉
/s
Ron! He’s our guy(bootlifts)!
I will never wear this one out.
I continue to pray for the safety of Tulsi Gabbard.
Increasingly, it appears that Tulsi Gabbard is the key member of the Cabinet to battle the IC.
Tulsi has an axe to grind…..
“Tulsi has an axe to grind…..”
Fine. Then CTH and we, its band of participants, shall be her whetstone.
Yes, in this Trump-arranged marriage between Tulsi and th IC we really need Tulsi to become a battle-axe.
As well as we all should.
Immediately following the announcement of Bondi’s firing, “news” stories began appearing , as if on cue, that President Trump intends to fire her next…say “insiders with knowledge”.
At this moment the target on her back is bigger than the one on his. And getting larger.
Yes, badger…continuous prayers for her safety and for President Trump’s discernment are imperative 🙏🏻
The IC/DS must be getting very nervous. And that makes them even more dangerous than they already are.
Bingo
“Immediately following the announcement of Bondi’s firing,”
Something about a lie traveling half way ’round the world before truth gets its boots on…………………….?
Democrat election yerr theater – depends on spreading the divide and conquer lies. It is what they do. Crushing their lies is what we do.
Tulsi– 🙏💕🇺🇸
Tulsi was the only Democrat to meet with PDJT back in 2016. Showed me something. Combat vet also.
Sundance, if you have any channel for getting this perspective to President Trump, it might be crucial to do it now. Reports are saying he is thinking of firing Tulsi Gabbard, which would be a mistake of monumental proportions. She is the one confronting and dismantling the Deep State. If you can, please do.
As noted, Director Gabbard has an angel on her shoulders. Her position as DNI is safe.
I pray that is true….
We had all better pray that it is true.
Is Marco Rubio that angel?
I’m sure President Trump is aware of the games being played.
I would not count on that. Suzie Wiles is still chief of the White House staff.
I do NOT wish Ms. Wiles ill but perhaps her treatment for/recovery from breast cancer would be better managed at home, without the stress of being Chief of Staff to POTUS. Now that Ric Grenell has stepped down from the Kennedy Center, he could fill the COS position in Susie’s absence?
I’d be surprised if Ric would take position of COS.
Or Grennel takes on Press Secretary.
Why? I see no reason to replace Karoline. She’s solid.
For now… it’s getting interesting.
The one thing I am very sure about…President Donald J. Trump fully understands the concepts of “targets”. and related “games”.
If there are at least 81 million MAGA supporters in this country, and and even more disproportionated number of patriots in the military, law enforcement — then you can be sure that PDJT has more allies in the networks controlling this country and more spies than General Washington ever had.
Why did you want to believe this false flag story. Who was behind it?
Just the IC/DS/media stirring 💩 again.
It would behoove one to not forget that the knives were deployed against Tulsi Gabbard as DNI since day one and have not ceased being constant threats since.
A likewise effective NatSec advisor will face similar opposition.
When the team is assembled, things will get interesting.
We ALL knew she was a horrible pick. And, a precious year has been squandered hoping she would live up to the task.
Prayers for someone who can get the job done. 🙏🙏🙏
Re-read the article Bama. Then tell us why you missed the point. Thanks.
I didn’t “miss the point”.
I just don’t agree with the premise that it makes little difference who’s AG.
If that were the case, she’d still have her job.
I agree. Also, if a rightous AG called upon Tulsi to remove a felonious NSI claim in a particular prosecution, I’m sure it would happen.
Played a game when young. It was called Red Rover. Joining hands it was attempted to stop a person from running through. Perhaps this can be applied to the IC. As long as the man bodies are in DC in a close relationship, they can have steadfast power but put them in every state with only a small fraction in DC, the line will be easier to break. That and congress actually standing up rather than refusing to bring them into control.
Red Rover brings back memories. We were a tough group pf children. The adults of today could learn a lot from this simple game.
I mentioned the game “Mother May I” and “Mother” being IC…
Yeah, Red Rover was fun!
I was a skinny, tiny girl with skinny, tiny arms — they always picked me to run through! My arms are still skinny and tiny, but they survived the game!
Yes, played Red Rover.
Now as long as Congress does not play KICK THE CAN or
HIDE AND SEAK.
🙂
We support Tulsi and pray for her.
Well, there is “Dodge Ball”…or worse…we played a variation in the old Zone, called “Battle Ball”…”Battle Ball” used many different sizes of those red rubber balls…where our version of Dodge Ball, only used one…
We all know when Trump compliments you in the press conference you’d best call your local Kelly Girl agent.
I would not hold my breath on congress doing any actual standing for anything
Yes, they help themselves, but nothing beneficial to the taxpayer…bill
Red Rover, Red Rover let Tulsi come over!
1-2-3 Ring-a-levio could be a variation…
I was a mere pip-squeak as a child but my brother was huge, and tough as nails…he knew they would always go for me as the weak link and so would position himself right next to me, as if to dare the bullies to even try! Fifty years later, I still remember the absolute feeling of security, knowing that someone had my back, ALWAYS!!
That’s awesome. I’ve got your back, always, VM.
“C’mon, man!” We can’t even get a CongressMAN to stand up when he’s peeing, much less standing up to bring the IC under control. But I get your drift, drip, drip. I just couldn’t pass up getting a dig into our feckless compromised congress.
“The Attorney General and Main Justice are very important to the establishment of successful domestic policy, deportation objectives, immigration enforcement, criminal investigations, drug trafficking and human smuggling interdictions, election reform, law enforcement, civil order and constitutional protection. But for the sake of accountability, it is the ODNI and CIA Director who really matters.”
This ^^
For the love of all things holy I wish more people understood this situation as presented. These things you point out are areas that impact our daily lives far far more than “so and so committed treason and no one went to jail” IC actors. Important yes, but you are once again hitting the nail squarely on its head with what is Truth.
Agree with you. President Trump has been doing the big picture critical things that are getting the country back on track.
But prosecuting those who committed treason would dissuade others from doing the same. It would also just feel so completely right as a wonderful 250-year birthday present. After the democrat years we need a “national feel good ” boost. The around the moon trip is great, but prosecuting the criminals would go a long way to giving people joy and showing wannabes what could happen to them.
If we could remove the corrupt from the IC, that to me would be plenty.
If we are prioritizing, I’d actually pick deportations and ending the immigrant grift.
Thank you for highlighting this
YW.
“For the love of all things holy I wish more people understood this situation as presented.”
Not sure that most of the comments reflect that they did.
ANY justice for these traitors would be great, but quite frankly, i have very little faith in any of it.
the right that matters the most right now is 2A – we’ve already largely failed to keep 1A and voting alive. just about ANYTHING the next AG can do on that front, however temporary it might be, would be a great thing for our future prospects.
gut the ATF. force the ATF to destroy their illegal lists. gut the NFA. stop the brace bans. end the form fill out for suppressors and SBRs. stop the import bans. force the cases to the SCOTUS so they can close out some of the BS once and for all. give the gun shop people their freedom and licenses back. go after the states like CO and CA, aggresively, like flood the zone with massive lawfare and subsidy denials that they have to fight one at a time. the DOJ could enjoin cases on the right side of the Constitution for a change.
just do SOMETHING so my kids have a friggin chance.
“the right that matters the most right now is 2A”
The DOJ could bring civil rights violations lawsuits against every state with laws interfering with the 2nd Amendment.
\Private attorneys CANNOT do that.
A lawyer belonging to the 1791 Society* (a NYS PAC) said it would take about 2 lawyers about 3-4 hours.
(*) – on Facebook, no website
That means you don’t expect President Trump to stop the USA’s march towards totalitarian government by the Left and that armed resistance will inevitably be required.
That’s a bleak outlook but one must observe that a well-armed nation of citizens has always been a deterrent to violent coup and an unencumbered 2A has been the continuous target of the Left for reasons they’ve always lied about.
And so we the people can get our country back and have something to feel good about for our birthday.
Each silo master has to clean out their silo.
Bondi didn’t. Kash won’t. Don’t see cleaning at the CIA either.
Congress and Court cleaning are beyond the control of a President. But when the IC cleaners need DOJ assistance, the DOJ needs cleaning first.
Then my question becomes, have Tulsi, Radcliffe, etc done enough to put some teeth into the DOJ and make the AG matter (needing someone willing to go on the offensive being the main requirement)?
Bailey would be a good pick, or just keep Blanche and replace Kash with Bailey. Fire Kash anyway.
Was Sheldon Snook there to keep an eye on Roberts or was he a plant?
I wish Patel or Tulsi could find the ‘rot’ that controls Mary McCord. Who put her there?
The rot, at least in part, is that she and her ilk think they’re better than you and you should have little to no say in how the country is run.
They also think they are superior to the Founding Fathers, The Constitution, and the Republican form of government.
Alli: “Was Sheldon Snook there to keep an eye on Roberts or was he a plant? I wish Patel or Tulsi could find the ‘rot’ that controls Mary McCord. Who put her there?”
Who put her there? Going back ten years, back to the time when the IC first realized that Donald Trump was a serious threat to the status quo of the DC Swamp, she was likely the consensus choice of the various senior managers inside the IC who were, and still are, determined to maintain their power and control over the US Government and its citizenry.
Mary McCord was chosen because she was the right person for the job based on her past performance in IC operations, her credentials as an experienced intelligence operative, her deep knowledge of how the government operates in national security matters in ways that can support lawfare tools and techniques in the weaponization of the government against the people — and last but not least, her dedication to the job of defeating Donald Trump and the America First movement.
Knowledge is power. It is quite possible that she herself now wields some bit of power over the IC simply for the fact that she knows in great detail where all the skeletons are buried; and more than that, how and why all those skeletons came to be buried.
Putting names to identify who these people are inside IC would make a difference.
Thanks for the refresher course Sundance prayers up for you and yours God Bless and be well my friend
Sundance “frustrated with the inability to convince”, do you see any progress on dismantling of the 17 silos of evil?
If there is a single paragraph in Sundance’s lengthy and brilliant piece on the excruciating unraveling process within the corrupt Catch-22 Gordian Knot of the “National Security Information” conundrum, it is this:
“If you drag former CIA Director John Brennan into court and Brennan’s lawyers argue ‘national security’ as a defense against indictment, inquiry or questioning, it’s not the DOJ (Attorney General) who matters – it’s the ‘national security’ determination of the Intelligence Community (Tulsi Gabbard) who controls the outcome.”
Let that paragraph sink in and we begin to fathom why the IC-controlled legacy media is floating a flotilla of “anonymous sources tell us” rumors that Trump is about to fire Gabbard.
THAT is the IC’s “consummation devoutly to be wished” and they would murder the entire cast of Hamlet to see to it that Tulsi becomes Ophelia.
President Trump must not let that happen…and I don’t believe he will!
Exactly right!
I have read this and assume the answer to:
“”Mary McCord, Jack Smith, Andrew Weissman, Robert Mueller, etc. are/were simply the front men.””
Is ‘by the book’ 44?
Who can fire Mary McCord?
Let me the Spanish inqusitor, I choose Mary McCord for my first person on the water board!
water board my behind.
i say we see if the witches can float.
So how many in the IC are pulling the strings? 10? 100? 1000? 10,000? Does anyone have a clue?
Sundance gave a good clue about where to start.
How many? We will never know…that is related to “National Security”….
Remember, an integral part of the IC is the FBI — which is structurally embedded within the DOJ.
“Use the NatSec Advisor to target the origin of the cancer. Use the DNI to deconstruct the Intelligence Community silo system.”
Well, so far those individuals have done spectacularly in what they have taken on.
Pray they continue and also do as SD suggests. And pray for an AG who will make good use of their work.
Sundance, you really need to write a book on all this.
Yes please.
Of all the many Sundance articles I’ve read on CTH since 2018, this one is the most important of them all.
Yes, it’s like, having read the complete history that went before this, we now have the ultimate ending in sight. Hope it will be good for our country.
Thank you for the refresher Sundance.
A lot of posters here would do well to read and comprehend the points you continue to make.
This isn’t really quite right. Federal courts have a mechanism for in camera review of classified information without making it public. And they have a mechanism for issuing appropriate clearances to counsel. It is entirely possible to have lawsuits where most of the information is classified and litigated without public disclosure. It is not common, but it is possible. This is why some law firms have industrial security clearances. I used to work for one. The real issue is who is an Original Classification Authority (OCA). The Intelligence Community isn’t really a thing. Yes, you have an ODNI, but the heavy end of the IC is CIA and DoD. Add in DoJ, Treasury, DHS, State, and Energy. Each of those are OCAs. Each of them is supreme with respect to their own classification decisions. With the right department heads to back them, the most powerful way to disinfect this entire septic tank is through President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency. The PCIE is the collective Inspectors General of the Federal government. Put the right people in those jobs, and let the sunlight sanitize everything.
Having a mechanism and willingness to use a mechanism are 2 different things. Further, in the Mar Lago case in front of Judge Cannon the higher court ruled NO! You may not see! Because national security blah blah or the other favorite the lawefare commies and their ilk have weponized is “sources and methods”
May Director Gabbard continue to perform her mission with
Honor
Integrity
Honesty
and
Courage.
If understood correctly and based on the statement from the Article … the JUDICIAL (Branch) system essentially sides with the INTEL Community v/v the pecking order between DoJ (Main Justice) and INTEL Community.
So it is more than just the INTEL Community that controls the silos … the INTEL Community requires cover from the JUDICIAL Branch in the form of “court directed and ordered deferment” of DoJ to the INTEL Community.
Then the House and Senate INTEL Committees provide the political coverage as well as “manage” who sits in the key Cabinet Posts. these committees also have the job of providing the actual (Constitutional) “checks and balances” vs a President (Trump) who seeks to assert, to the fullest, extent the Article II Powers of presidential authority. [Hence Impeachments 1.0 and 2.0 as well as Special Counsels Mueller and Smith]
I agree that the INTEL Community is the “Quarterback” and keeper of the Silos … yet it is still a Team effort as the “Quarterbacking” INTEL Community could not operate without the cooperative cover provided by the other branches, Legislative and Judicial. Goes back to the theme that currently ALL 3-Branches of the US Government have been fully compromised Simultaneously.
Senate (controls the cabinet and judicial appointments)
Senate and House INTEL Committees (political cover and “constitutionally” check the President)
Judicial to give legal legitimacy
Uni-Party provides the Legislative Branch leadership decisions and manage the “checks and balances” push backs vs the President
2001-2008, 2009-2016 and again 2021-2024 … there were full blown sock puppets sitting in the White House.
Note: This is going to sound odd but 1992-2000 the Clintons were “democrat versions” of President Trump. They refused to wear the Puppet Strings. This is the reason Hillary Clinton was never going to be elected. The Clintons were not only uncontrollable but down right rotten even by deep state standards … it was preferred to battle President Donald Trump than do full blown Combat vs the Clintons … who have/had a few “allies” in the deep state.
1988-1991 Bush I was actually the deep state sitting in the White House.
So, the cancer of the deep state originates from the INTEL Community and metastasizes via the Senate SSCI and Control of the Senate Majority as well as Senate Rules Committee … and corresponding House Positions.
Neatly owned and directed by the Owners of the FED system banks.
The DC Swamp is full of alligators, and they all know what their respective roles are within the DC Swamp power & control ecosystem. It is therefore likely that there is no centralized alligator command and control system, as such, inside the DC Swamp.
All the alligators work together as they need to in order to keep control of the federal government and to ensure that no one can challenge their collective power.
It is probable the IC has the greater influence inside the DC Swamp power & control ecosystem in comparison with the other alligator communities, for the simple fact that knowledge is power, and the IC has access to all the knowledge needed to maintain the DC Swamp’s power and control over the federal government and over the nation’s citizenry.
Nah, I think the Clintons liked Money more than their party’s Ideology. Bill left our rocket technology go to the Chinese, when he wasn’t hanging out with interns. Hillary was busy cornering the Cattle Futures and setting up the Clinton Heath Initiative NGO. They weren’t into the whole communism thing unless it made them bucks.
@Sundance
Exactly when did the IC get this power?
“”Basically, if the intelligence community decides certain information is tied to national security and labels it as classified for the DOJ, that decision can’t be challenged. The U.S. Supreme Court has backed this view. As a result, when it comes to national security issues, the judicial branch has to defer to the executive, giving the IC significant control over the DOJ.””
November 22, 1963. just my guess.
And accelerated Sept. 11, 2001.
a very good guess i would say spot on
I ouuld go back to September 18, 1947.
Yes, I see your point.
An appropriate time to THANK YOU, SUNDANCE for all you have done to shine the light of truth on our governing powers.
May ODNI Gabbard continue to declassify it all. Strike a sharpie through the false cover of Nat’l Security.
The only items that should remain classified are matters related to imminent war operation and military design secrets. Otherwise, it’s OUR Govt and we have a right to know.
So, AG, FBI, Lawfare, corrupt judges, Senate intel, congressional intel, all just pimps of the IC. My near-sighted vision has been corrected. Thanks for this great explanation, SD.
“Frustrated with my inability to convince, I wrote something in real time that I am going to repost below. Perhaps a revisit now will stimulate a new perspective.”
Interesting interpretations to be made of this current post.
There’s the “Hope you listen to me this time” version, which the comments seem to accept and is entirely plausible.
But there’s also a “Here’s why I say Tulsi has an angel” version.
How so?
Because the appointing PsTB either did listen (at least as to the DNI position); or
Gabbard’s appointment was strictly serendipitous, but those PsTB are not unobservant.
I.e., Gabbard IS the advice validation–by performance. And the administration knows it.
So, advice 2.0 is understood: “Leave Tulsi alone and do better with the AG this time.”
*JMHO*
Someone help me out here. What does PsTB stand for?
Sorry. “Powers that Be”
Thanks. I figured it had to refer to someone in Trump’s inner circle, but my mind was wore out trying to figure out the abbreviation!
No, you were right. Shouldn’t have to guess at dumb abbreviations.
Seems as the rats are away with the Easter bunny there are shake ups at DOD.
Bring your own salt shaker..
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/army-chief-staff-ordered-retire-immediately-hegseth-continues-pentagon-shakeup
They both look gay and resemble a typical Biden appointee.
Interesting development…
…But isn’t it the DOW now?
Tulsi Gabbard was the only Democrat to reach across the aisle when President Trump won in 2016.
Tulsi Gabbard: Tulsi Gabbard recalls when she was told ‘how dare you meet Donald Trump’ in 2016 – Times of India
“”The reality is my former party and the mainstream media have spent years demonizing president Trump. I met with him first in 2016. I was a member of Congress on the foreign affairs and Armed services committees. Two weeks after he was elected, he hadn’t even sworn in, I was invited to speak to him about a new direction of foreign policy, trying to block the neocons, who were jockeying for position at that time,” Tulsi said.
“As soon as I walked out of the Trump Tower in New York City, my phone blew up with outrage and being excoriated by fellow Democrats at that time and here was their foremost complaint: How dare you meet with Donald Trump and humanize him? They have been dehumanizing him for years, turning him into this evil, Hitler-like caricature. So we should not be surprised to see their supporters take that seriously and take it upon themselves to try to take him out,” Ms Gabbard said.
Tulsi Gabbard is eyeing for a top position in foreign policy in a possible Trump administration. Tulsi Gabbard’s endorsement for Trump was a big boost for the Trump Campaign as Ms Gabbard said she believes that Trump would take America back from the brink of war.”
Bondi should have never been in a position in PDJT 47 to be fired, Hard Stop!
Mary McCord operates at the behest of….WHO or WHAT? Am I an idiot that just can’t put two and two together?
You are not, and it is a very valid question that I have been asking for sometime. I have a hard time believing that she is the true head of the snake. I have always hypothesized that Someone/something else lies beyond.
Who or what –
el diablo, the divider.
I trust Melania, who would she pick?
Maybe I’m missing something, but if Tulsi can block them from using the cover of NSI, which I assume she can, then where is the bottle neck?
My question may be being answered.
https://xcancel.com/HanneReports/status/2039688524270559669#m
Thank you for the clarification. It all makes perfect sense in the light of everything.
Are there really ANY good actors in the IC? Why not nuke the entire apparatus and bury it in the deepest ocean trench? It seems far to corrupt to unwind. I guess doing so could leave us vulnerable. But is it any worse than what we have already endured?
Medusa McCord needs a one-way helicopter ride… After a fair trial of course.
The Augusto Pinochet Helicopter Company, at your service. 😁
Daily Mail article is way more telling that it seems to the uninitiated. I smell desperation and panic.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15702033/tulsi-gabbard-pam-bondi-donald-trump.html
“The AG needed to be someone with exceptional moral character, capable of gathering information and presenting it for public consumption, with the option of supporting criminal referrals if necessary.”
I nominate Stephen Miller, but presume that the GOPee (establishment eunuchs) RINOs in the Treasonous Senate would not confirm him.
So we’ll get yet another “Failure Theater” performance. “Battered Conservative Syndrome:” It’s unreal and non-spectacular …
Sedition
I suspect that SD was clearly heard, but both his comprehensive understanding of the IC/DOJ interface and effective strategy for breaking the IC’s proven lawfare success using the gloved hammer of “national security” to control the release of highly meaningful evidence were not jointly comprehended by the transition strategists.
So, the status quo of IC dominance over the DOJ continues.
Perhaps SD is still not a member with standing of the DC conservative republican “club,” as was proven years ago when he traveled to DC with all the receipts and he was stiffed.
Sam Faddis on Tulsi
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/the-deep-state-comes-for-tulsi
So all of the 115.000 employees at the department of injustice actually work for the IC DS and are completely worthless ?
Targeted prosecution of mostly innocent individuals some tokens now and then while the actual criminals skip while holding hands knowing the whole judicial process and system does absolutely nothing.
It’s amazing how the SC can’t actually interpret the simplicity of the Constitution when it comes to illegals and something that does not exist in what people call birthright citizenship because the Constitution is so clear on this.
“ The AG needed to be someone with exceptional moral character”
Sorry, but Bondo Pam was shown to be deficient in that attribute during her -outright- lies in the “white hispanic” case against Zimmerman.
So long, not sad.
*cough*
Yes, it’s a screwed-up system. Yes, it’s entirely part of the built-out silo defenses. But also yes, if you don’t approach it by beginning with the end in mind, then you get into a battle with Lawfare without the correct strategy. All of these accountability issues touch on ‘national security,’ and that national security will be weaponized as a defense. – Sundance
Who can cut this Gordian Knot? It seems this is impossible?
I love and appreciate having the opportunity to read and study such things! ( but I also realize that many of these revelations aren’t because I need to see them). I pray they get into the hands that DO need them! Thanks Sundance!!!
“The Attorney General wasn’t going to be the tip of the spear in any operation to confront the Deep State, because if Main Justice wanted to confront Lawfare they needed to confront the Intelligence Community first. The IC controls all of the activity within the Dept of Justice.”
When contemplating who should get the nod to be the next AG, I read, and then reread that paragraph as written by Sundance, and keep coming to the same conclusion. When asking who should be AG, the first person’s opinion I need to hear most is that of Tulsi Gabbard.
Sometimes wonder if bondi was just a patsy pick to run cover for Tulsi to accomplish as much as possible while everyone ragged on bondi for being weak. Plan was to replace bondi from the start right at this important midterm time. I hope PDJT is playing his 4D chess. We’ll find out soon enough