John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© August 20, 2022
Two posts that Americans should read:
o
The Revolution
(by Ray DiLorenzo at CFP)
o
Think
The FBI Deserves The Benefit Of The Doubt? This Laundry List Of Corruption
Should Make You Think Again (by TRISTAN JUSTICE at The
Federalist)
“The Revolution” DiLorenzo is writing about IS NOT a
violent Patriot uprising in response to the Dem-Marxist thought-to-be
untouchable tyranny now being shoved down the throats of Americans who want
nothing to do with Woke-Globalist-Marxist transformation. The Dem-Marxists are
fully aware they control the government (Banana Republic) backed firepower to
squash a citizen-Patriot uprising in order to complete their unconstitutional
tyrannical dictatorship. Rather, “The Revolution” post marks down how
Dem-Marxists have managed the system to exact a transformation revolution on
Americans’ lives whether liked or not liked.
A time might arise for an armed civil war – 1776 style
– but an unorganized/disorganized peoples’ uprising without elements of the
Military and Police (local, State and hopefully Federal) that still
claim loyalty to their oath to the Constitution, will result in the slaughter/euthanizing
of American Patriots.
The next post is a dirty laundry list of reasons to NOT
trust the law enforcement practices and agenda of the FBI. If the Dem-Marxists
are ever successfully booted from power, the FBI is one of many bureaucratic
agencies (e.g., IRS, DOJ, CDC, NIH and etc.) that needs to be disbanded
and reconstituted under a different managing mandate.
Let us pray the power of the vote overcomes corruption to
toss the scoundrels out in a peaceful transition so a 1776 reprise is
unnecessary at best or delayed at worst.
PS: Nothing to do with the train of thought of this
post, but I discovered Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s Children’s Health Defense has be
been deplatformed by Facebook and Instagram. Details under the title, “Facebook
and Instagram Simultaneously Deplatform Children’s Health Defense Accounts
Denying More Than Half a Million Followers Access to Truthful Information.”
My guess is lying Facebook fact checkers were having too difficult a time
twisting factual information which was based on documentation so the decision
was made to dump truth rather than refute truth. Here is a 2:14 minute video
from CHD using Pfizer documentation sharing an aspect of mRNA Jab danger that
makes my point:
Rumble VIDEO: WARNING:
Protect Your Children - Self Spreading Shots!
Posted by childrenshealthdefense
Published August 19, 2022
‘If you look at the research
guidelines for the Pfizer injection, they mentioned on page 67 and 68 in those
guidelines, that there is something that is released from the skin and breath
of recently vaccinated people that could somehow effect pregnant or breastfeeding
women.’ - Dr. Charles Hoffe
Canadian doctors warn parents to
protect the health of their unvaccinated children until their immune systems
are fully developed.
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The Revolution
We pray this revolution can be put away, settled, once
and for all, at the ballot box in an honest election. God help us if we cannot
August 19, 2022
“We cannot continue to rely on
our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set.
We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful,
just as strong, just as well-funded.”—Barack Obama, 2008 Campaign
Preface:
Barack Obama,
the underhanded insurrectionist that he is, called for a loyal army that could go
against the civilian population…a Civilian National Security Force. Did the
Democrats just fund it?...87,000 new armed IRS agents? It doubles the personnel
at the IRS to around 180,000. It’s equal to 12 Army divisions (13 divisions if
you include the number of FBI special agents, Biden’s personal army). It would
be larger than the army of Germany, Italy, or even Israel. Hitler’s Gestapo
(secret state police) had only 32,000 at its height. Additionally, the IRS is
infamous for ignoring basic due process rights, harassment without cause, and
accidental gun discharges.
The Inflation Reduction Act has almost nothing to do with
inflation
The Inflation
Reduction Act has almost nothing to do with inflation. It was a marketing ploy,
a lie! If these agents just audited those with incomes over $400,000, they
would have plenty of spare time on their hands. If they decided to audit EVERY
single family with that income, each agent would only have 15 cases. But, we
know that will not be the reality.
And now the rest of the story:
There is a
revolution going on in America and around the world. It’s been simmering for
decades and now with the heat turned up, it seems to be near the point of a
boil-over. Unlike the proverbial lobster, millions of us have taken notice. It’s
three-pronged - political, social and technological.
It is not a populist revolution by any means. It is not a
nationalist movement like Make America Great Again. In fact, it’s not any
revolution the vast majority of Americans would approve.
It started with a movement, a revolution within the ranks of
the political establishment, predominately Democrat, divorced from any vast
citizen participation, except of course, their ‘soldiers’ in the media,
education, and the street. Its followers are anti-Christian, anti-Semitic,
anti-American, anti-freedom, Marxist, totalitarian scum. Much of them are the
establishment state, the Deep State, if you will. They revel in taxpayer cash
for every stupid project they think justifies their existence.
It is definitely a ‘like it or not, here we come, our way or
the highway’ (to the re-education camp) operation. There will be no vote on it.
Trump is a threat to this establishment state
Trump is a
threat to this establishment state. President Trump was correct. They are not
after him, they are after us. He is just in the way. So, they must take him out
by any means. The Left knows full well that if Trump should return to the White
House, the establishment that covers itself in corruption will be in danger.
The social movement has been ongoing for decades. The
termination of Judeo-Christian morality in favor of the man-centered ethic, the
‘superiority of mankind.’ This superiority-of-mankind crap has created a
depression, inflation, a pandemic, a vaccine that has killed as many as the
disease, and is about to get us into another war. To top it off, we now have a
massive crime wave we have never seen before. Cities are in literal chaos. Why?
It’s to break down our society, make us desperate for their New World Order,
driving us to hopelessness and compliance, probably starting with martial law,
and ending in slavery.
To illustrate how far Democrats have fallen…in a recent
poll, 89% of Democrats say it is not necessary to believe in God to be moral. ”...apart
from Me, you can do nothing.” John 15:5
The technological aspect is centered around the 4th
Industrial Revolution, the post-digital age. That is, the embedding of
technology within societies, without limits, added to a ‘new morality’, detached
from God. They find their ethos to be a superior morality, a new
religion…technology.. They are not limited by biological, genetic,
religious barriers or even natural law, the basis of our Constitution. You can
begin to see it in the high-tech industry. It’s not just laptops they’re
talking about, it’s changing genders at will, altering the planet’s climate,
mass involuntary euthanasia, and wholesale depravity, even among children. How
many millions of lost their lives from the ‘experimental’ vaccine? Soon they
will sell ‘living forever’ for the elites in a robotic body having downloaded
the essence of your being to an SSD, all 2.5 million gigabytes of data, inside
the robot’s head. Man becoming god.
It’s child mutilation, the worst kind of child abuse
The medical
profession in California and Massachusetts are advertising sex change, full or
partial. In reality, it’s child mutilation, the worst kind of child abuse. What
child knows their mind to make a decision like that? It’s criminal, eventually
pushing many children into anguish and suicide. Between this and the screwed up
pandemic, it’s no wonder so many people have lost their confidence in the
medical profession. This is Big Tech meeting social collapse.
It is bound with the degenerate globalist movement within
the elite cabal in Davos. It has taken many strange turns, now closely allied
alongside a political party with a long history of racism, xenophobia, and
misogyny.
Anyone who finds that last statement odd does not know the
history of the Democrat Party…the racism, the white supremacy, the misogyny in
the struggle to keep women from voting. You know, everything they falsely
accuse Republicans of doing. A long and successful distraction tactic. Anyway,
Republicans could never have done all that they are accused of. They’re just
not that well organized.
Of course, with all this new technology, especially in
industry, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has determined that we will not need
anywhere near the amount of people we now have. As they said just recently,
“The vast majority of the population is obsolete, useless, and redundant.”
This Revolution is a revolution of death. They are not
even hiding it.
The Revolution does not care about the history of the
Democrat Party. It was not important. They probably find it more conducive to
what they have in mind anyway. Any group that would lynch more than 6,000 Black
men, women, and children was probably just what they needed.
From the late 40s to the early 60s Democrats began to turn a
corner. Kennedy saw their future as continuing the desegregation policies of
Truman and Eisenhower. The New Left just took it and ran off the cliff with it.
The intention of The Revolution is to do away with Western
culture, toss it into the garbage bin of history…and join the secular
Commu/Fascist New World Order. In the meantime, they must win any elections
that will keep them in power until elections are eliminated. They are
diligently working to that end now.
We need strong Godly men and women like we never have before
in our history.
We pray this revolution can be put away, settled, once and
for all, at the ballot box in an honest election. God help us if we cannot.
Ray DiLorenzo
is a career pilot having retired after 22 years as a contract fire pilot with
the California Department of Forestry (Cal-Fire). He is presently affiliated
with Stand Up America US Foundation founded by Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely (Ret).
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A look at the FBI’s last six years shows a pattern of
irredeemable corruption.
Can the FBI be
trusted? A Federalist analysis of agency lies over the last decade is an
unequivocal no.
FISA Warrants
In the summer of 2016, FBI bureaucrats launched a deep-state
operation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, to thwart then-candidate Trump’s
presidential ambitions. It began by targeting Trump campaign foreign policy
adviser George Papadopoulos and quickly branched out as bureaucrats expanded
their surveillance. The spy agency used the Foreign Agents Registration Act
(FARA) as a legal pretext to investigate and spy on Papadopoulos, in addition
to former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump
campaign manager Paul Manafort, and former Trump adviser Carter Page. Several
were interviewed by undercover FBI informant Stefan Halper, whose own investigation would prove
a bust.
According to a declassified transcript between Papadopoulos
and a Crossfire Hurricane confidential human source (CHS), Papadopoulos
repeatedly denied the Trump campaign was working with Russian-backed entities
to capture the 2016 election. The FBI, however, wrote off Papadopoulos’s
recorded answers as rehearsed and omitted his denials of campaign collusion
with overseas actors in FISA court warrant applications and renewals. These
were two of the 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” identified in the
Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general’s blockbuster report on the
investigation in December 2019.
Papadopoulos, who pled guilty to making a false statement to
the FBI in a perjury trap, was far from the only individual to
face political persecution from the federal government’s dystopian
investigation.
Not one of the four FISA warrants obtained by the FBI was
legally justified, according to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s
report. In fact, at least two of the warrant applications to spy on Page
were declared illegal by a federal judge. Following
Horowitz’s blistering report outlining FBI misconduct throughout the entire
operation, another federal judge declared that agency malfeasance “calls into
question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable.”
Subsequent reporting revealed gross abuses of power within
the FBI to prosecute political opponents. According to Horowitz, the FBI’s FISA warrants
“relied entirely” on DNC-funded opposition research compiled by former British
intelligence official Christopher Steele known as the “Steele dossier.” The
dossier, which outlined supposed Trump-Russia collusion and has since been
thoroughly debunked, included salacious allegations such as supposed “pee
tapes” featuring Trump engaging in golden showers with Russian prostitutes at a
Moscow hotel.
The FBI knew the
dossier lacked credibility as early as January 2017 and knew Steele’s material itself contained
Russian disinformation. Desperate to continue their deep-state operation,
however, officials lied to the FISA court about Steele’s
credibility and hid incriminating info related to the former
British intelligence official who was later fired over leaks to the press. An 18th omission, overlooked by the inspector
general’s report but documented by Federalist Senior Legal Correspondent Margot
Cleveland, was that Steele’s sources did not include the ones he developed as a
British official.
Even after Steele’s termination as a reliable source, DOJ
attorney Bruce Ohr continued to feed information from Steele to the FBI over
the course of its investigation. Steele met with Ohr 12 times after the
former’s tenure ended as a confidential human source for the bureau, according to the inspector general. Ohr
also promoted his wife’s opposition research to FBI
investigators and did not disclose she was paid by Fusion GPS,
the DNC-contracted firm that commissioned the Steele dossier.
The FBI never told the FISA court that the Trump
dossier written by a source who was fired for lying, did not undergo
independent verification, and was funded by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
Despite the overt abuse of the nation’s surveillance
apparatus to spy on political opponents, only one FBI official has faced
criminal conviction for his role in the probe. In January last year, former FBI
attorney Kevin Clinesmith was sentenced to just 12 months probation
after pleading guilty to fabricating evidence to obtain a FISA warrant. By
December, Clinesmith was re-admitted to the D.C. Bar Association in
good standing.
Steele’s primary sub-source, Igor Danchenko, was indicted in November on five counts of making
false statements to the FBI. In May, a D.C. jury acquitted former Clinton campaign attorney
Michael Sussmann on charges of lying to the FBI when submitting supposed
evidence of Trump-Russian collusion to federal investigators.
Misleading Congress
Following the collapse of the grand Russia-collusion hoax,
lawmakers on Capitol Hill began demanding answers about FBI misconduct. Former
FBI Director James Comey lied to Congress, claiming the bureau was just
investigating four individuals, not the Trump campaign, in a dubious spin.
“Late July of 2016, the FBI did, in fact, open a
counterintelligence investigation into, is it fair to say the Trump campaign or
Donald Trump himself?” asked then-Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., in a 2018 hearing.
“It’s not fair to say either of those things, in my
recollection,” Comey said. “We opened investigations on four Americans to see
if there was any connection between those four Americans and the Russian
interference efforts. And those four Americans did not include the candidate.”
Horowitz also contradicted the FBI in a December 2019
hearing on the release of his report documenting FISA abuses. In September
2017, the FBI told Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that the bureau gave the Trump
campaign a defensive briefing about Russian interference in the 2016 race.
“In August of 2016 the FBI provided a counterintelligence
defensive briefing to then candidate Donald Trump and other senior campaign
officials,” wrote FBI Assistant Director of Congressional Affairs Gregory
Brower in response to a letter from Grassley. “This defensive briefing was
conducted by an experienced FBI counterintelligence agent and focused on the
broad range of threats posed by foreign intelligence entities.”
Horowitz testified before the Senate Judiciary
Committee that there was no briefing given.
Misleading DOJ Leaders
Not only was Congress led astray as FBI officials conducted
a rogue operation to defend the incumbent regime, but so was senior leadership
in President Trump’s DOJ.
Handwritten notes revealed in the Sussmann
trial exposed how FBI agents sought to cover up malicious misconduct, wherein
DOJ leaders tasked with FBI oversight were misled about the investigation’s
progress. The notes show FBI agent Peter Strzok wrongly told DOJ supervisors
the surveillance warrant on Page had been “fruitful.” Strzok also concealed
knowledge that Steele’s sources were not credible and claimed instead that the
dossier was “CROWN reporting” from MI6, the CIA’s British counterpart. The FBI
said the dossier was being used to examine the RNC and Trump campaign’s effort
to soften the GOP platform on NATO and Crimea for Russian energy stocks, but
the document made no mention of NATO or Crimea.
Strzok also said Trump’s 2016 joke about Russia uncovering
Clinton’s 30,000 deleted emails triggered Crossfire Hurricane, with an
Australian diplomat tipping off the government about Papadopoulos at the
American embassy in London. The tip that Papadopoulos was coordinating collusion
between the Trump campaign and Russia, however, came before Trump made the
joke.
Strzok is the same agent whose text messages show he
conspired with his mistress and FBI colleague, attorney Lisa Page. Strzok, a
lead investigator for Crossfire Hurricane, assured Page of a mysterious “insurance policy” in place if Trump were to be
elected, likely in reference to the agency’s inside operations. Page, according to
the DOJ inspector general’s 2019 report, told colleagues to go easy on
investigating Clinton because “she might be our next president.”
When Page fretted that Trump might actually win the 2016
contest, Strzok assured his romantic partner, “we’ll stop it.”
Misleading Trump
Comey thought the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was
important enough to brief outgoing President Barack Obama on the probe but kept
Trump in the dark. In fact, Comey later confirmed that he told Trump three times the
president was not being investigated and refused to tell him Clinton funded the
dossier.
Michael Flynn
In June 2020, a federal judge ordered that
all charges be dropped against Flynn, whom Trump subsequently pardoned in the
waning days of his administration. Prior to his exoneration, Flynn was facing
heavy fines and prison time for making false statements to federal officials in
another perjury trap orchestrated by Comey, who bragged about
the setup in the first week of the Trump White House.
According to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Flynn lied to a
pair of FBI agents about conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak
as the incoming national security adviser. Flynn, prosecutors claimed, spoke
with Kislyak about financial sanctions against Russian individuals after the
2016 election and then lied about it during an interview with Comey’s agents.
Sending a pair of agents to question a senior White House official in the
Situation Room, Comey said at a 2018 conference, was “something I probably
wouldn’t have done or even gotten away with in a more organized investigation,
a more organized administration.”
“We placed a call to Flynn and said, ‘Hey, we’re sending a
couple guys over, hope you’ll talk to them.’ He said ‘sure,'” Comey explained
at the 92nd Street Y conference. “Nobody else was there, they interviewed him
in a conference room at the White House situation room, and he lied to them.”
Flynn initially pled guilty to making false statements to
the FBI before firing his attorneys and hiring new representation to withdraw
his guilty plea. His reversal followed the release of declassified transcripts,
which revealed Flynn never spoke with Kislyak about sanctions. The two only
discussed expulsions of Russian individuals under a different process.
Handwritten notes from
the FBI agents also revealed the sole purpose of their questioning was “to get
him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired.” A bizarre 2017
inauguration day email by Susan Rice to herself also revealed Comey
knew there was no legitimate reason to question Flynn.
Andrew McCabe
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired from
his top role at the bureau for lying to the agency inspector general four times
over multiple abuses during his tenure in senior leadership. Those abuses included efforts to set up former White
House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus for obstruction charges, the sabotage of an
investigation into Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop before the 2016
election, and failure to report conflicts of interest. While running for a
Virginia state Senate seat in 2015, McCabe’s wife accepted a
political donation from a close Clinton ally as her husband was tasked with
investigating the former secretary of state.
A 2018 DOJ inspector general report blasted
McCabe as a serial
leaker who lied about it. That same year, a letter from
Grassley shined a spotlight on McCabe’s purchase of a $70,000 table on
taxpayers’ dime that the agency sought to cover
up.
Clinton Emails
The FBI repeatedly told journalists there was no evidence that a
foreign power had reviewed Clinton’s emails that she improperly handled on a
private server. According to an inspector general report in
2018, however, texts show they almost certainly did, “at least one of them
classified,” as Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi wrote.
“It is more accurate to say,” read a text from Strzok, “that
we know foreign actors obtained access to some of her emails (including at
least one Secret one) via compromises of the private email accounts of some of
her staffers.”
Weiner Laptop
In 2018, Comey told lawmakers
over the course of the investigation into Clinton’s emails that agency
officials thoroughly reviewed the laptop belonging to Clinton aide Huma Abedin
and her now ex-husband Anthony Weiner. The FBI was able to accomplish such a
feat within a short timeframe “thanks to the wizardry of our technology”
enabling agents who worked “night after night after night” to comb through the
remaining material before the 2016 election.
“But virtually none of his account was true,” explained
RealClearInvestigations’ Paul Sperry.
In fact, a technical glitch
prevented FBI technicians from accurately comparing the new emails with the old
emails. Only 3,077 of the 694,000 emails were directly reviewed for classified
or incriminating information. Three FBI officials completed that work in a
single 12-hour spurt the day before Comey again cleared Clinton of criminal
charges.
Roger Stone
In 2019, former Trump associate Roger Stone was raided by
the FBI after being indicted by Mueller. A CNN camera crew happened to be the
only network present at Stone’s Fort Lauderdale home before the sunrise raid,
suggesting the friendly press had been tipped off in advance. The FBI,
however, refused to
comply with a Federalist open records request for any and all emails to or from
CNN on the day of the raid.
Jan. 6 Capitol Riot
The Jan. 6 saga has become the sequel in Democrats’ efforts
to indict Trump, before FBI agents hatched a plot to go after the former
president over supposed espionage.
In October, the bureau refused to offer House Republicans conducting
their own independent investigation of the Capitol riot the same material given
to congressional Democrats. The FBI’s refusal, the agency claimed, was because
officials were already working with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Select
Committee on Jan. 6. Pelosi’s committee, however, was established in violation
of House rules. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., the minority appointment as ranking
member, is entitled to the documents presented to
Democrats.
Senior FBI officials have also refused lawmakers’ questions about how many
informants were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and stonewalled inquiries
surrounding Ray Epps, the mysterious figure who disappeared from the
most-wanted list after he encouraged rioters to swarm the Capitol.
At an Aug. 4 Senate hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray sought to
downplay agency negligence, claiming “we did not have any credible intelligence
that pointed to thousands of people breaching the Capitol.” But according to Newsweek, the agency deployed
commandos with “shoot to kill authority,” and even Capitol Hill parking
attendants knew there were going to be mass protests. The
FBI has also been less
than forthcoming about a pair of pipe bombs planted at the RNC
and DNC headquarters.
At the same time, the FBI has embarked on a nationwide
manhunt, to incarcerating demonstrators who have been declared such a threat to
the republic over trespassing that they’ve been denied a fair and speedy trial
and held in detention for more than 18 months.
Julian Khater, one of two accused of assaulting a Capitol
Police officer with pepper spray and whose case has been documented by Julie Kelly at American
Greatness, appears to have been outright coerced into making an
unconstitutional confession. Khater was detained in March 2021 and has remained
in federal custody ever since after intense interrogation without an attorney
present.
Kamala Harris on Jan. 6
The presence of Vice President Mike Pence and then-Sen.
Kamala Harris at the U.S. Capitol has been the basis for nearly 800 people
being charged with at least one count of violating 18 U.S. Code, section
1752, according to
Kelly, which indicates that any building or complex hosting the vice president
is a restricted area and therefore closed to the public.
“But the Justice Department recently was forced to admit
that Harris was not in the building for most of the day on
January 6,” Kelly reported, highlighting that Harris, at the time, remained a
U.S. senator, not vice president. In the late morning, Harris was moved to the
DNC headquarters where a pipe bomb had supposedly been planted.
“Prosecutors have begun amending language in court filings
to reflect the fact Harris was not inside the Capitol despite making the
assertion in thousands of charging documents,” Kelly wrote.
March 4, 2021
The FBI released a joint memo with the Department of
Homeland Security warning that
“domestic extremists” were preparing to launch an insurrection by overwhelming
the Capitol and removing Democratic lawmakers “on or about the 4th of March.”
Nothing happened.
Hunter Biden Suppression
In July, Grassley’s office published a blockbuster whistleblower report wherein senior agency officials alleged
that the bureau is actively trying to sabotage Trump and provide cover for
President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.
“Multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior
positions,” Grassley’s office wrote in a press release, “are raising the alarm
about tampering by senior FBI and Justice Department officials in politically
sensitive investigations ranging from election and campaign finance probes
across multiple election cycles.”
Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge
Timothy Thibault and Director of Election Crimes Branch Richard Pilger, the
whistleblowers alleged, coordinated to amplify defamatory information against
Trump while giving cover to Hunter Biden, dismissing Biden intelligence as
disinformation.
The agency reportedly knew of Hunter Biden’s abandoned
laptop full of incriminating information on the first family as early as 2019,
and Grassley’s whistleblower report highlights how officials may have undermined DOJ investigations into Hunter
Biden’s finances in Delaware and Pittsburgh. In March, FBI Assistant Director
of the Cyber Division Bryan Vorndran told lawmakers
he did not know the whereabouts of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Gretchen Whitmer Plot
In October 2020, the FBI revealed that a plot to kidnap
Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had been heroically foiled by federal
law enforcement. A group of far-right militiamen, the story goes, conspired to
kidnap the governor and try her as a “tyrant” in Wisconsin. In July last year,
however, BuzzFeed revealed that at
least 12 people involved were FBI informants orchestrating another
entrapment.
“The problem with the case is that it appears the FBI,
through informants and undercover agents, hatched
the kidnapping plot, served
in the key leadership positions of the militia group, trained
the militia members in military tactics, actively recruited
participants, and
funded much of the militia’s activities,” reported former
CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer Max Morton. “Then, when various members of
the Watchman militia became uncomfortable with the kidnapping plot, with
several quitting, the FBI’s
primary informant pushed the plot along, eventually becoming the
militia group’s leader.”
In April, a jury refused to
convict four of the 14 defendants charged. Two were found not guilty, another
two concluded the trial with no verdict, and another two took plea deals.
Ralph Northam Plot
Dan Chappel, the primary informant in the Whitmer kidnapping
conspiracy, targeted a senior disabled veteran named Frank Butler using the
same formula to go after then-Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, another Democrat.
“Just as in the Whitmer plot, Chappel lured Frank Butler
into attempting to build an explosive device,” Kelly explained in American Greatness. “Chappel also
invited Butler to a field training exercise in Wisconsin during the last
weekend in October, an excursion attended by some defendants in the Whitmer
caper.”
Unlike the FBI’s victims in the Whitmer plot, however,
Butler did not participate and has not been charged with any crime.
Sen. Ted Stevens’ Conviction
Former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, became the victim of FBI
corruption in 2008 when forced to defend himself on charges of false statements
to federal officials. Stevens lost his seat as the scandal played out, only to
be later exonerated when a judge conducting an
independent investigation concluded that prosecutors inappropriately hid
evidence.
Prosecutors indicted Stevens on charges that he had
concealed that he did not pay full value for renovations on an Alaskan cabin
less than 100 days out from the 2008 election.
“In fact, Ted Stevens and his wife had paid more than
$160,000 for renovations that independent appraisers valued at less than
$125,000 at the time,” Roll Call reported.
Prosecutors, however, secured a conviction by hiding
evidence that incriminated their own witnesses, one of whom came up with
testimony right before trial, with inconsistent statements concealed from the
defense, according to the D.C. paper.
Likewise, the government
concealed evidence that its star witness had suborned perjury from an underage
prostitute with whom the star witness had an illegal sexual relationship. And
the government concealed evidence that another witness — whom the government
flew back to Alaska away from the Washington, D.C., trial after their mock
cross-examination of him went poorly — had told the senator that the bills he
received and promptly paid included all of the work that was done. Government
prosecutors mocked Stevens when he explained that on the stand — all the while
knowing that they had a witness who would have supported him, but whom they had
removed from the trial.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s Conviction
Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., was sentenced to two
years of probation with a $25,000 fine and 320 hours of community service in
March after a Los Angeles jury convicted him of lying to the federal government
after he was entrapped by
the FBI.
The saga began in 2019 when a pair of FBI agents showed up
at Fortenberry’s Nebraska home ostensibly over a national security issue, not a
criminal investigation. Prosecutors ultimately convicted Fortenberry for
scheming to conceal material facts to federal officials and two false
statements to the FBI.
One false statement was attributed to Fortenberry not
recognizing a person whose 10-year-old picture was presented to him by agents
on their trip to his Nebraska residence. In July 2019, the FBI lied to
Fortenberry and his attorney, Gowdy, claiming Fortenberry was not under federal
investigation when he was. Fortenberry resigned from the House during his ninth
term following conviction.
Pulse Nightclub Shooting
In June 2016, a 29-year-old gunman named Omar Mateen stormed
the gay Orlando nightclub Pulse, killing 49 and injuring 53 more in the name of
Islamic terrorists killed in Iraq and Syria. Mateen’s father, Seddique, was an
FBI informant, whom documents published by The Intercept suggest convinced
the bureau to stop investigating his son.
The bureau turned instead to charging Mateen’s widow, Noor
Salman, with material support and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors sought to
conceal the father’s status as an FBI informant, according to the Intercept, in
pursuit of Salman’s conviction.
“Seddique Mateen has not faced criminal charges despite a
tip to the FBI that he raised money for terrorism in Pakistan, and an ongoing
investigation into money transfers he allegedly made to Turkey and
Afghanistan,” the Intercept reported. “Omar Mateen was researching flights to
Turkey at the same time that his father was sending payments there, according
to defense lawyers’ summary of FBI evidence.” Salmon was apparently unaware of
their possible plans to travel to either country.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reported on Salmon’s 2018 trial:
Testimony from an F.B.I. agent
revealed that prosecutors knew early on, but did not reveal, that one of their
crucial initial pieces of evidence — that Ms. Salman had admitted driving by
the nightclub with her husband in the days before the attack — most likely did
not happen.
Salmon was ultimately acquitted after a 12-hour jury
deliberation.
Texas Synagogue Attack
On Jan. 15, 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram took hostages in
a Texas synagogue near Dallas and demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a
Pakistani national also known as “Lady Al Qaeda” serving an
86-year sentence for assault and attempted murder of federal agents and
military personnel.
Matthew J. DeSarno, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the
Dallas field office, said the attack on a synagogue had nothing to do with
targeting Jews.
“We do believe from our engagement with this subject that he
was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the
Jewish community,” DeSarno said at a press conference.
But as Chuck DeVore of the Texas Public Policy
Foundation reported,
Akram “was heard to say via the live stream that operated from the synagogue
for much of the incident that he chose it because he thought it was the closest
assemblage of Jews to the federal facility holding Siddiqui.”
“There are about 1,000 churches in the Fort Worth area
within a half-hour drive of Siddiqui’s place of incarceration, compared to
seven Jewish centers of worship,” DeVore wrote. “But sure, Special Agent
DeSarno, the terrorism was ‘not specifically threatening to the Jewish
community.'”
Congressional Baseball Shooter
The FBI designated the death of a shooter who attempted to
gun down Republican lawmakers at a 2017 congressional baseball practice as
motivated by a desire to commit “suicide by cop.” Last year, the bureau doubled
down on the designation.
“It’s fair to say the shooter was motivated by a desire to
commit an attack on members of Congress and then knowing by doing so he would
likely be killed in the process,” Jill Sanborn, the executive assistant
director of the FBI, told the House Appropriations subcommittee.
“The FBI still doesn’t know exactly what the shooter was up
to,” McCabe, now a CNN contributor, said last summer. “They never really uncovered
the sort of detailed evidence that laid out a specific plot or an objective.”
On the contrary, the 66-year-old shooter who almost killed
House GOP Whip Steve Scalise left behind a long record of extremist social
media posts dripping with contempt for Republicans, even branding them as the “Taliban of the USA” on
Facebook. The FBI also found a list of six congressmen in a rented Virginia
storage locker but refused to call it a “hit list.”
Inflating Extremism Cases
Whistleblowers claim the FBI is inflating the number of
“domestic violent extremism” cases to fit President Biden’s overarching
narrative that home-grown extremism is the nation’s worst national security
threat.
“From recent protected disclosures, we have learned that FBI
officials are pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violent
extremism’ even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a
classification,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote in July, detailing whistleblower allegations in a
letter to Wray. “Given the narrative pushed by the Biden Administration that
domestic violent extremism is the ‘greatest threat’ facing our country, the
revelation that the FBI may be artificially padding domestic terrorism data is
scandalous.”
Ignoring Larry Nassar Abuse
The FBI turned a blind eye as former USA gymnastics
doctor Larry Nassar abused dozens of young female athletes. According to the
DOJ inspector general last year, “senior officials in the FBI Indianapolis
Field Office failed to respond to allegations of sexual abuse of athletes by
former USA Gymnastics physician Lawrence Gerard Nassar with the urgency that
the allegations required.”
“We also found that the FBI Indianapolis Field Office made
fundamental errors when it did respond to the allegations, failed to notify the
appropriate FBI field office (the Lansing Resident Agency) or state or local
authorities of the allegations, and failed to take other steps to mitigate the
ongoing threat posed by Nassar,” the inspector general added.
Kyle Rittenhouse
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of politicized charges
brought against him last summer when he shot three men in self-defense. Two
died, and contrary to the media’s racialized coverage of the trial, all three
were white.
During the proceedings, wherein an 18-year-old Rittenhouse
(now 19) faced life in prison, prosecutors used aerial footage from FBI surveillance in
their effort to convict Rittenhouse. When the defense tried to access “the
rest” of the FBI footage from the night in question, however, the bureau
claimed it no longer existed.
Demonizing James Rosen
In 2010, the Obama administration began aggressive
surveillance of journalist James Rosen who was working for Fox News at the
time. The Justice Department tracked Rosen by falsely claiming the reporter was a potential
terrorist collaborator and accused him of violating the Espionage Act.
The Obama administration tracked Rosen’s movements
and, according to
Fox News, even seized the phone records of his parents.
Deadly Wrongful Conviction
A 2007 ruling against the government cost the FBI $102
million after agency misconduct resulted in the deaths of two men. In order to
protect a mob informant, the FBI was caught deliberately
withholding evidence in a case that led to the wrongful convictions of four
men, three of which were sentenced to death, two of whom died before true
justice was served.
Martha Stewart
Most Americans today believe Martha Stewart was convicted 20
years ago on charges of “insider trading.” Her actual conviction that sent her
to federal prison was conspiracy to lie about the crime for which she was never
charged over a trade that had already taken place.
Stewart’s quarter-million-dollar sale of ImClone stock
served as the pretext for which federal prosecutors, led by
none other than Comey, went after the media mogul. Comey’s case, however, was
so weak that prosecutors pursued a novel legal theory to secure a conviction.
According to the theory they
pursued, Stewart engaged in “securities fraud” when she declared that she was
innocent, which prosecutors said was designed to prop up the value of her
company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. In other words, Stewart’s proclamation
of innocence was declared a crime by federal law enforcement, and she spent six
months incarcerated.
Mar-a-Lago Raid
The Department of Justice appears to be following the same
playbook agency officials have used for years in the Democrats’ series of manufactured
scandals to bring down Trump.
Last week, the FBI executed an unprecedented raid of the
former president’s Florida residence ostensibly conducted to enforce the
Presidential Records Act. Federal officials confiscated more than a dozen boxes
from the 128-room mansion pursuant to the rarely prosecuted law, claiming Trump
harbored classified information related to the nation’s nuclear secrets. Leaked
claims to the Washington Post that Trump possessed sensitive nuclear records,
which came hours after Attorney General Merrick Garland professed the agency’s
professionalism, however, showcase the sensationalism crafted by officials
desperate to justify the raid, which included more than 30 agents.
At a press conference last week, Garland admitted to personally
signing off on the raid he called “narrowly scope[d].” An examination of the
warrant, however, reveals that it authorized FBI agents to seize any and every
document Trump came into contact with as president. Furthermore, none of the
three criminal statutes the DOJ cited in the warrant required the material to
be classified, according to Cleveland.
The FBI also attempted to dispel claims that federal
officials stripped the president of his passports, telling CBS News that the agency was not in
possession of the documents after Trump blasted that they had been confiscated.
An email made public by Trump spokesman Taylor
Budowich, however, exposed the FBI’s lie. The email from Jay Bratt, the chief
of the counterintelligence and export control section in the DOJ’s National
Security Division, confirms that “the filter agents seized three passports
belonging to President Trump, two expired and one being his active diplomatic
passport.”
Tristan Justice is the western
correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington
Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear
Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University
where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on
Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.
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