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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Congress. Republicans Send Criminal Referrals for Hillary, Comey, Lynch & McCabe


Intro to Kaylee McGhee Post on ‘… Criminal Referrals for Hillary, Comey, Lynch & McCabe’

Intro by John R. Houk, Editor
Posted 4/19/18

These Congressmen sent a letter of Criminal Referral to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI Director Christopher Wray and the District Attorney General John Huber (assigned by Sessions to work in tandem with Inspector General Michael Horowitz) investigating DOJ/FBI wrongdoing:


o   Andy Biggs

o   Dave Brat


o   Matt Gaetz

o   Paul A. Gosar, DDS

o   Andy Harris, MD

o   Jody Hice



o   Ted S. Yoho, DVM

Above are the signers. Below is a screenshot of the PDF Letter that has been cropped and edited down to the point of the villains the Congressman in the Letter:


Cropped Screenshot Photo of villains James Comey, Crooked Hillary, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and unnamed DOJ and FBI personnel connected to compiling documents pertaining to false accusations of Trump/Russia election collusion. (Open photo into another window to download and enlarge Paint for larger view)

JRH 4/19/18
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Congress. Republicans Send Criminal Referrals for Hillary, Comey, Lynch & McCabe

April 19, 2018

“Because we believe that those in positions of high authority should be treated the same as every other American…”

(Kaylee McGhee, Liberty Headlines) Several lawmakers are asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate former Obama officials, including former FBI Director James Comey, for alleged violations of federal statutes.


Published on Apr 18, 2018

Interview with Representative / Congressman on the House Judiciary Committee Ron DeSantis by Brian Kilmeade on the Fox News Fox and Friends program Wednesday April 18 2018 4/18/2018. [*** There is more interesting content in the description I will post after the McGhee cross post.]

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., along with 10 other congressmen, sent a letter to Sessions, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and U.S. Attorney John Huber, saying there is evidence that Obama-era officials partook in corruption and even treason.

“The investigations into the Hillary Clinton and the Presidential campaign revealed egregious levels of misconduct and mishandling of sensitive information,” Gosar said in a statement.

Comey’s deliberate refusal to investigate Clinton’s misuse of a personal email system “suggests improper investigative conduct, potentially motivated by a political agenda,” Gosar said in the letter.

Comey’s recently published memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” is also considered “questionable conduct” because of its detailed alleged conversations with President Trump, even confidential ones.

According to Gosar, this suggests Comey was responsible for sensitive leaks to the media, since he had already admitted to asking “a friend to share the content with the reporter.”

Such behavior is treasonous, the legislators said.

The lawmakers also want Hillary Clinton investigated, specifically her former presidential campaign’s connection to the Washington firm Fusion GPS, which led research into potential collusion between Russia and Trump, ultimately leading to the controversial Steele dossier.

Clinton disguised payments to Fusion GPS, violating the Federal Election Commission’s statutes.

The Steele dossier eventually led to an investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and Russia, which Gosar says is unfounded since the dossier was based on “false and unverified” information and funded by illegal means.

“The actions of these government officials outlined in our letter point to evidence of corruption and possible treason. It’s time these unelected bureaucrats stop hiding behind their titles and start being held to the same standards as every other American.”

Peter Strzok & Lisa Page/PHOTOS: Justice Dept. & Ohio State U.

Gosar said he wants everyone connected to the Steele dossier investigated, including FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Counsel Lisa Page, who frequently had conversations via text about how they could undermine Trump’s presidential campaign and secure a Clinton win.

Strzok and Page also allegedly assisted Clinton in hiding her misuse of her personal email server, in which it’s believed she compromised confidential communications.

The Wall Street Journal reported in January that, “the latest texts show the FBI also eliminated evidence that Mrs. Clinton compromised high-level communications.”

“Because we believe that those in positions of high authority should be treated the same as every other American, we want to be sure that these potential violations of law are vetted properly,” the Congress members’ letter stated.

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*** Interesting text from the above Youtube video description section:

Congressman / Rep on the House Judiciary Committee Ron DeSantis said all of the following:

Remember, he (Former F.B.I. Director James Comey) testified to the Congress that he did not make any decision regarding Secretary Clinton until after she was interviewed. He was asked that specifically by one of my colleagues. And, yet the evidence that's come out since then demonstrates that actually they made this determination months before not only interviewing Secretary Clinton but also interviewing a number of key witnesses. And, so the lack of candor with the Congress is something that needs to be investigated.

So, here's the issue with Hillary Clinton: You notice, they (the Mueller Special Counsel) are supposedly going after (President Trump's Attorney) Michael Cohen for an FEC (Federal Election Commission) violation because of this non-disclosure payment (to Stormy Daniels). Now, that's not really a theory that's been tried before...I mean, it seems a little odd to me...but if that is potentially an offense...Well, is it (Hillary Clinton and her campaign) camouflaging these payments? What they (Hillary Clinton and her campaign) did was they paid from the Clinton campaign to a law firm Perkins Coie and then Perkins Coie paid Fusion GPS Christopher Steel and that's how the (phony Russian) Dossier was developed. So, they effectively disguised the fact that they were funding the Dossier. That's not the way the Federal Election laws are supposed to work...You're supposed to disclose your expenditures. So, if you (Mueller and his Special Counsel team) are going after (President Trump's attorney) Cohen, why isn't anybody also looking at how the Clintons handled this?

With regard to Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, we raise concerns regarding her decision to threaten with reprisal the former F.B.I. informant who tried to come forward in 2016 with insight into the Uranium One deal. He (the F.B.I. informant) testified in front of the Congress in the committees that he was threatened by Lynch's Justice Department. We think that's a serious issue and we think it deserves further investigation.

With regard to Former Acting Director of the F.B.I. Andrew McCabe, if they're going to go after people like (Lieutenant General) Michael Flynn for a false statement to the F.B.I. on really a tangential fact that wasn't material to any criminal offenses, but yet you have the deputy director (Andrew McCabe)...Remember, he initiated the investigation of Michael Flynn. You have the deputy director (Andrew McCabe) lying under oath...Is there going to be a similar case brought against him or do we have two different sets of rules for people?

With regard to top counterintelligence F.B.I. agent, Peter Strzok, and senior F.B.I. lawyer Lisa Page, if you look at those text messages, it raises a lot of alarming things, one of which is obstruction of a congressional investigation. He said, well we don't want to provide all the 302s (summaries of interviews of subjects of an investigation), that'll be explosive to Congress. So, they (Peter Strzok and Lisa Page) are going back and forth acknowledging that they're not fully complying with Congress. So, we need to look at that and obviously a host of other issues that came out of these text messages.

Former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Joe DiGenova and former Chief Counsel of the Senate Intelligence Committee Victoria Toensing on Obama Administration BRAZEN PLOT at the following Illuminating Videos Internet sites...Well worth watching as the second video reveals how President Trump became aware that he was being spied on by the Obama Administration



Sara Carter, Jason Chaffetz and Gregg Jarrett on the Investigations on Hannity March 28 2018 HD 720p at the following Internet site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsp8V6nn1ps

Interview with Former Assistant F.B.I. Director James Kallstrom on the Investigations at the following Internet site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI5QXTYI9wE  

The Clinton Crime Family, the Mueller Crime Family and the Comey Crime Family at the following Internet site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j8MO8EdWvM  

Other Informative Videos:








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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

FBI-DOJ Secret Society?

John R. Houk
© January 23, 2018


Ok, it’s time for more discussion on revealed information that FAKE NEWS loves to ignore or twist.

Married to other spouses love birds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page who are obvious conspirators against President Trump and attempted to everything in their power to insure a Crooked Hillary election victory in November 2016, have been caught with their pants down – so to speak.

Their FBI text messages before the 2016 election and afterwards by the love birds expose a Deep State collusion between the FBI and DOJ in anti-Trump motives and moves.

AND CHECK IT OUT! The revealed text messages are incriminating enough, BUT – shades of Lois Lerner50,000 text messages between the love birds have mysteriously disappeared from the most technological law enforcement agency in the world; i.e. the FBI! HMMM… Can you say COVER-UP!?

AND along with missing texts and – GASP! – five months of lost digital correspondence, Strzok-Page messaging has revealed their exists after Trump’s election a FBI-DOJ Secret Society.

Could this “Secret Society” be responsible for missing probably incriminating evidence of criminal FBI-DOJ messaging up to and including treason?

As the Dems undoubtedly will point out, without the evidence criminality can’t be proven. The Dems then would say something like, “Nothing to see here – just move on and forget about it.”

BUT Conservatives and the non-Establishment GOP must dig in their heels and toss aside obstructionists in government (law enforcement and elected officials) by any legal means necessary. Executive Branch obstructionists need to be fired – forget about the Dem lies of cover-up. It is obvious the largest cover-up is among Dems and their stealth bureaucracy in the Executive Branch held over from treasonous Obama. Also, legal investigative procedures against Obstructionist Dems and Establishment Republicans.

Well, those are my thoughts. Below is a number of sources that inspired my lack of faith in a government hampered by Deep State/Secret Society unconstitutional activity against a duly elected President of the United States – Donald J. Trump.

JRH 1/23/18
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FBI's Strzok and Page spoke of 'secret society' after Trump election, lawmakers say

January 23, 2018

Two top FBI officials under fire for exchanging anti-Trump text messages during the 2016 election spoke of a “secret society” the day after President Trump's victory, according to two lawmakers with knowledge of the messages.

Peter Strzok -- a top counterintelligence official involved in both the Hillary Clinton email probe and FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe -- exchanged more than 50,000 messages with senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was romantically involved.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, said Monday that among the messages the pair exchanged are references to a “secret society” within the Department of Justice and the FBI.

“We learned today about information that in the immediate aftermath of [Trump’s] election, that there may have been a secret society of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI -- to include Page and Strzok -- that would be working against him,” Ratcliffe said Monday on Fox News' “The Story with Martha MacCallum.”

“I’m not saying that actually happened, but when folks speak in those terms, they need to come forward to explain the context with which they used those terms,” he added.

Gowdy said the “secret society” reference occurred the day after Trump won the presidential election in November 2016. 

“There’s a text exchange between these two FBI agents, these two supposed to be objective fact-centric FBI agents, saying that perhaps this is the first meeting of the ‘secret society,'” Gowdy said.

“So of course I’m going to want to know what secret society you’re talking about because you’re supposed to be investigating objectively the person who just won the Electoral College; so yeah I’m going to want to know," he said.


It isn’t the first time the messages have raised questions about what may have been going on at the FBI. In one previously released message, Strzok appeared to make reference to an “insurance policy” against a Trump win.

'So of course I’m going to want to know what secret society you’re talking about because you’re supposed to be investigating objectively the person who just won the Electoral College, so yeah I’m going to want to know.' - Rep. Trey Gowdy

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40…” he wrote.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Strzok claims the message was addressing a colleague who felt the FBI could take its time with allegations of Trump/Russia collusion because Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was thought certain to win. 

"Andy," meanwhile, may have been a reference to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who is at the center of new tensions with the Trump administration. 

Axios reported late Monday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, urged by President Trump, has been pressuring FBI Director Christopher Wray to fire McCabe. 

The outlet reported that Wray threatened to resign if McCabe was fired. White House Counsel Don McGahn reportedly told Sessions that McCabe wasn’t worth losing the FBI director over and risking another media firestorm like when Trump axed former director James Comey last year.

The developments come as the DOJ announced that the FBI “failed to preserve” five months of texts between Strzok and Page. 

“We will leave no stone unturned to confirm with certainty why these text messages are not now available to be produced and will use every technology available to determine whether the missing messages are recoverable from another source,” Sessions said in a statement provided to Fox News. “If we are successful, we will update the congressional committees immediately.”

The missing messages from Strzok and Page span a crucial window, between the presidential transition and the launch of Mueller’s Russia probe. Strzok was removed from the probe by Mueller after he learned of the messages.

On Tuesday, President Trump described the missing messages as "one of the biggest stories in a long time."

Fox News’ Brooke Singman and Jake Gibson contributed to this report.

Adam Shaw is a Politics Reporter and occasional Opinion writer for FoxNews.com. He can be reached here or on Twitter: @AdamShawNY.
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Posted by Fox News
Published on Jan 22, 2018

Congressman sounds off on 'The Story.'

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BREAKING: New Texts From Anti-Trump FBI Agents Mention A 'SECRET SOCIETY'
"What 'secret society' are you talking about?"

January 22, 2018

New text messages from anti-Trump FBI agents reviewed by investigators reportedly make reference to a "secret society," in what could be the nail in the coffin for special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

Investigators have reviewed 50,000 text messages on FBI servers looking for all exchanges between anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page during the 2016 election, Fox News reported. The revelation comes as investigators are seeking the whereabouts of approximately five months' worth of text messages between Page and Strzok.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy told Fox News on Monday that one of the newly-revealed text messages spoke of a "secret society."

"The day after the election, the day after what they really, really didn't want to have happen, there's a text exchange between [Strzok and Page] ... saying, 'Perhaps this is the first meeting of the secret society,'" Gowdy said. "So, of course I'm going to want to know: What 'secret society' are you talking about?"



Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Department of Justice is doing everything in its power to retrieve the missing text messages and to get to the bottom of what happened.

"We will leave no stone unturned to confirm with certainty why these text messages are not now available to be produced and will use every technology available to determine whether the missing messages are recoverable from another source," Sessions told Fox News. "If we are successful, we will update the congressional committees immediately."

"After reviewing the voluminous records on the FBI’s servers, which included over 50,000 texts, the Inspector General discovered the FBI’s system failed to retain text messages for approximately 5 months between December 14, 2017 to May 17, 2017," Sessions continued. Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in the Russia investigation on May 17.

Former Chief Asst. U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy noted that Sessions was not clear on whether the 50,000 text messages were all between Strozk [sic] and Page.


  
One of the most shocking text messages revealed thus far was from Strzok to Page and mentioned an "insurance policy" in case Trump won:

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in [deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe’s] office that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40…”

Regarding the "insurance policy" text message, The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro wrote: "This looks an awful lot like motivation for launching an investigation into Trump in order to sink Trump as a hedge against Trump’s victory. The FBI’s investigation into Russian governmental interference in the election began in July 2016, just weeks before Strzok’s text message. And that means that there is now more of a smoking gun of FBI corruption against Trump than there is of Trump colluding with Russia."
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Posted by News for You 2
Published on Jan 22, 2018
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Posted by james hoft
Published on Jan 22, 2018
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GOP lawmakers raise concerns over 'secret society' in FBI agents' texts

By OLIVIA BEAVERS
01/22/18 10:57 PM EST

House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Monday raised concerns that the two FBI agents who privately exchanged text messages disparaging President Trump mentioned a "secret society" shortly after the Republican candidate won the election.

Gowdy joins a chorus of Republicans who are upset over texts between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with some claiming they serve as proof of the bureau's bias against Trump in the probes into Russian election meddling, as well as into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of State.

Strzok, who spoke in openly derisive terms about Trump, served on both investigations before being removed from the Russia probe by special counsel Robert Mueller.

"The day after the election ... there is a text exchange between these two FBI agents, these supposed to be fact-centric FBI agents saying, 'Perhaps this is the first meeting of the secret society,'" Gowdy said on Fox News's "The Story with Martha MacCallum." 

"So I'm going to want to know what secret society you are talking about, because you're supposed to be investigating objectively the person who just won the Electoral College," he continued.

Gowdy also pointing to his concern about their mention of an "insurance policy" in their back-and-forth during the spring of 2016, a remark that has captured Republicans' attention.

Mueller removed the agents from his team after news of their critical messages surfaced, but Republicans continue to argue the agents reveal a prejudice against Trump within the FBI. 

Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), a House Judiciary Committee member, also indicated that the existence of a secret society within the government raises red flags that top officials were working against Trump.

"We learned today about information that in the immediate aftermath of his election, there may have been a 'secret society' of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI, to include Page and Strzok, working against him. I'm not saying that actually happened, but when folks speak in those terms, they need to come forward to explain the context," Ratcliffe said on Fox with Gowdy by his side.

The Texas lawmaker said he is not bothered that Strzok and Page had an "intense anti-Trump bias," as long as they put their personal feelings aside and performed properly and fairly in their job.

The FBI told lawmakers in a letter over the weekend that the bureau did not have a record of messages exchanged over a roughly five-month period between Strzok and Page, citing problems with the bureau's issued mobile phones.

The announcement further fueled the scrutiny of Republicans, who are calling for efforts to track down the missing messages.

Ratcliffe indicated that their disappearance appears suspicious.

"It is possible these text messages that are missing, perhaps they really were lost. Perhaps it is another strange coincidence," Ratcliffe said, adding that it "is harder and harder for us to explain one strange coincidence after another."

Republicans have also sought to draw attention to the text messages as a sign that the investigation is politically motivated against the president, while Democrats accuse their colleagues of attempting to undermine the Russia probe, which is looking into possible ties between Trump campaign aides and Russia.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday announced the Justice Department will investigate the missing text messages, a decision that comes after he faced pressure from the White House and GOP lawmakers to look into the matter.

“We will leave no stone unturned to confirm with certainty why these text messages are not now available to be produced and will use every technology available to determine whether the missing messages are recoverable from another source," Sessions said in a statement.

The president and his allies have described Mueller's Russia investigation as a "witch hunt."
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Further titles of interest:

o   Full List of DOJ and FBI Corruptors and Criminals Who Destroy the US from Within! [This is actually a link to an about 12-minute video with an annoying computer-generated voice. The video links to:]



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FBI-DOJ Secret Society?
John R. Houk
© January 23, 2018
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FBI's Strzok and Page spoke of 'secret society' after Trump election, lawmakers say

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Dem & Establishment Criminality Emerging?


John R. Houk
October 25, 2017

Ever since Donald Trump won a smashing Electoral College victory over Crooked Hillary Clinton in November 2016, the Dems wept in hysterical despair.


This kind of Leftist hysterical breakdown is behind the Dems to do every nefarious act possible to remove the duly Constitutionally elected President Donald Trump from Office. This attempted removal is faking a Trump/Russia collusion story when it is becoming more evidentially tangible that Crooked Hillary (and family), the Dem Party and probably even President Obama and his Administration comrades were colluding with Russia to undermine America and the election.

Briefly here is a list of criminal activities of Dems in general, Clinton Crime Syndicate and the Obama Administration:

Ø Massively, more undisclosed classified emails on Huma Abedin’s ex-husband Anthony Weiner’s laptop surround the culprits Crooked Hillary, Abedin and sex-offender Weiner.

Ø Former Crooked Hillary Campaign Manager John Podesta’s brother Tony Podesta is under investigation for Russia/Ukraine collusion by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. (I’m not sure what will come of this because Mueller may be connected to an FBI cover-up.)

Ø The FBI gathered a multitude of documents, secret recordings, intercepted emails, financial records, and eyewitnesses accounts showing that Russian nuclear officials directed millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Clinton. It is not unreasonable to conclude that Mueller, Rosenstein and Comey may have covered up potential crimes involving Clinton and Russia.


Ø An FBI Informant is being hindered to provide public disclosure of nefarious Uranium One activities during the Obama Administration.

Ø An Offended America investigation has revealed that Robert Mueller’s holdings in a fund of funds expose him to Russian investments and to hedge funds tied to George Soros. Mueller’s exclusive hedge funds were not open to the general public, but rather wealthy private accredited investors. The minimum investment in several of the funds is $10 Million.

Ø Speculative Guess Work but worthy of mentioning about Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Jeff Sessions recused himself from all things Russian because of election campaign conflicts, but perhaps he recused himself to be insulated from having to divulge what he knew about Uranium One and the people who at the very least knew about the deal, some who approved the deal, including past and present members of the FBI, the DOJ, and Special Counsel Robert Miller’s team. Is Jeff Sessions part of the Uranium One cover-up? If not, then he needs to explain why he is thus far is refusing Sen. Chuck Grassley’s request to lift the gag order imposed by the Obama administration. 

Ø AND TALKING ABOUT MANIPULATING November 2016 election: Documentation is emerging connecting the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Crooked Hillary Campaign to the Fusion GPS fake document trying to taint Donald Trump with a fake sexcapade scandal in Russia. Can you say Russian collusion?


Friends this is huge! If Donald Trump truly acts to drain the swamp, this is his opportunity. There is a enough criminal dirt here to not only toss Crooked Hillary in the slammer, but also to disembowel the entire Leftist complex of the Democratic Party. Which return the Dems – hopefully – to former years of yore to such leaders as Senator Henry Jackson. Those Democrats of yore would cringe to how much the current Democratic Party has really transformed into a Communist-Democratic Party. What a deceptive oxymoron that has become!

In the coming days I’m going to attempt to cross post the sources for these points which should be indictments for prosecution. However, the Dem House of Cards is falling so rapidly to exposure, I will probably move off-point to deliver more relevant updated info.

JRH 10/25/17
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Monday, September 4, 2017

A Freedom Outpost Bundy Update


Intro by John R. Houk
Intro © September 4, 2017

Whenever I run into some info about the government persecution of ranchers that stood with the Bundy family against Federal government (largely the Bureau of Land Management – BLM) intrusion to enforce bureaucratic rules that act as laws that benefit Eco-Marxists desires over private property and private business.

Here is a brief synopsis of the reasons that Cliven Bundy decided to withstand the Law created by the BLM and not Congress from my last post on this situation – “Supporting Bundys in Trials & Tribulations”:

A few facts about the Cliven Bundy and the BLM incident

For some time, the Bundy’s have owned cattle that have grazed in the Bunkerville, NV area.  Since his cattle grazed on federal land, he paid grazing fees to the federal government. In 1993, the local grazing rules changed when a number of things came together; the Desert tortoise became protected under the species act, and the Fish and Wildlife Service determined that this was one of the areas critical to their long-term survival. Grazing rules were also changed in order to accommodate restoration needed from years of overgrazing and recent fires. These new rules would include Bundy having to reduce his number of cattle. Refusing to comply, he decided to “fire” the BLM, and stop paying grazing fees, while continuing to use federal lands for his cattle to graze. Not only did he not reduce his cattle count, but actually increased them over time.


In this latest update that I have discovered, the Freedom Outpost reports the 1/3 of Idaho State Senators and Representatives are urging Attorney General Jeff Sessions to stop the DOJ led persecution – er I mean – prosecution of the Bundy Ranch Standoff largely due to a fair amount of the defendants are experiencing second and third retrials after hung juries.

The judicial persecution is happening in the Bundy family’s home State of Nevada. Apparently these Idaho legislators are making views known to AG Sessions is because of the defendants are from Idaho.

Here is the Freedom Outpost update.

JRH 9/4/17
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1/3 of Idaho Reps Call on AG Sessions to Back Off Bundy Ranch Case: This Is "Disrespect for the Rule of Law & the Jury System"

By TIM BROWN 
SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Last Friday, following a meeting of Tier 1 and Tier 3 Bundy Ranch defendants in court with Judge Gloria Navarro, a trial date was set for October 10.  That trial will include Eric Parker and Stephen Drexler, who have already been tried twice with hung juries and non-guilty verdicts.  Now, at least a third of Idaho representatives are calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to put an end to the badgering of these men with trial after trial, a clear violation of the Fifth Amendment's protections against Double Jeopardy (and yes, I know the "legaleze" about mistrials, but the fact of the matter is that under that thinking, one could try someone indefinitely).

Deb Jordan, co-host of the Pete Santilli Show, shared the story of what the outcome of the meeting was with me on Friday's Sons of Liberty Radio Show.  Eric and his wife Andrea also joined us for the show.  You can download that episode by clicking here.

Since then, one-third of the representatives of Idaho, the state in which Parker and Drexler live, penned a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking for him relax the pursuit by Nevada prosecutors against four Idahoans who are charged or have been convicted in the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada.

The letter was authored by State Rep. Dorothy Moon (R-Stanley) and signed by 24 Idaho representatives from the House and Senate last Tuesday stating, "We believe that the decision by the current U.S. attorney to Nevada to prosecute these men a third time represents disrespect for the rule of law and the jury system."

The four men these representatives are standing up for are Ammon Bundy, of Emmett; Eric Parker, of Hailey; Scott Drexler, of Challis; and Todd Engel, of Boundary County.

"We are tasked with the responsibility to protect our citizens' constitutional rights," the letter stated, noting the Idaho Legislatures has a "high respect for the rule of law."

"We believe that the right to a speedy trial and the presumption of innocence are essential pillars to law, order, and a Republican form of government," the letter continues.  "We also believe that a trial by a jury of one's peers is the highest form of justice as set forth by our founders.  Ensuring government stays within the bounds of its proper constitutional role empowers the people through a jury's verdict to give clear guidance as to their will."

They then spoke out about the innocence of the defendants who have already been tried and found not guilty.

"We the undersigned believe that in the case of 'The Bunkerville Stand Off' trials in the State of Nevada in which Eric Parker and O. Scott Drexler of the State of Idaho were charged with 40 criminal counts in connection with the above case having been found not guilty speaks volumes to the public of their innocence," the letter states.  "U. S. Attorneys have been unsuccessful obtaining guilty verdicts not once, but twice, establishing criteria for dismissal of charges against them according to our standards of justice.  Further expolitation [sic] of these citizens would be an affront to justice and notice to the public of prosecutorial harassment."

Well, if you ask me, that began when they sought to try the men a second time after failing to prove their case.  After all, the burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove guilt, not on those charged to prove their innocence.

"We believe that the decision by the current U. S. Attorney of Nevada to prosecute these men a third time represents disrespect for the rule of law and the Jury system," the representatives wrote.  "A third trial would show blatant disregard for tax funds collected from hard working law abiding citizens who are represented by these juries who have found them innocent of 34 of the 40 charges and hung by the very slimmest margins in those where the jury stood deadlocked.  The decisions of 10-2 to acquit in the first trial and 11-1 to acquit in the second trial highlights the narrow margin by which the prosecution hopes to continue their attack."

They then called on Sessions, the court and the prosecutor to consider Todd Engel's time served as punishment for the minor charges for which he was found guilty.  He is scheduled to be sentenced on September 28.

"Ammon Bundy, an Idaho resident, remains in custody awaiting trial directly after the final outcome of the pending prosecution's decision with Parker and Drexler," the letter adds.  "Ammon has been in custody since January of 2016 without benefit of bail or the comfort of home and familiy [sic] in spite of being found not guilty of all counts in the Oregon trial.  Ammon has been stripped of normal due process for a prosecution that now seems flimsy as we discover evidence exposed during these previous hung trials of others for similar offenses."

The representatives then added, "This prosecution sends a chilling message to the public who are concerned about federal overreach in their daily lives that is inharmonious to well-established constitutional guarantees.  The percentages of jurors causing the hung verdicts in these trials should send a clear signal to the government prosecutors of the jury's reticence to further prosecute these defendants as has clearly been received by the public."

The representatives then call on Sessions to "have those in charge of this case end this long enduring action and set Eric Parker and Scott Drexler free, set reasonable bail for Ammon Bundy and allow Todd Engel to use his time served as total sentencing.

Among signing the letter include House Majority Leader Mike Moyle; Assistant Majority Leader Brent Crane; Treasure Valley Sens. Clifford Bayer and Lori Den Hartog; and Treasure Valley Reps. Judy Boyle, Christy Perry, Brandon Hixon, Greg Chaney, Joe Palmer, James Holtzclaw, Steve Harris and Jason Monks.

“I think it is a complete injustice and a waste of taxpayer money and time to continue to go after these guys after two mistrials,” said Rep. Boyle, from Midvale.

“Let it go. We are not talking about murders, robberies, druggies, rapists. It is continuing to waste the court’s time and federal taxpayers’ money. I know the federal government wants to make a point, but get over it.

Things do not have to go to a third trial in order for this to be considered exploitation and prosecutorial harassment.  That has and is currently taking place by the prosecution and by Judge Gloria Navarro.

I have said since the end of the first trial, if the prosecution had any sense about them, they would drop the charges against the remaining defendants and spare them and taxpayers any further grief and burden by simply admitting the central government was wrong.

I'm hoping once things settle that we will see each one of these men come together to sue the pants off the prosecution and the judge in the case, as well as Bureau of Land Management goon Daniel P. Love for their reckless and lawless behavior in this entire process.

Seeing that a new trial date has been set, it appears AG Sessions doesn't care that the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are being violated concerning Drexler and Parker and that other rights are being violated concerning the remaining defendants in the case.  I'm not surprised.  After all, Sessions has demonstrated he doesn't care about the Fifth Amendments protections of lifeliberty and property when it comes to asset forfeiture.
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A Freedom Outpost Bundy Update
Intro by John R. Houk
Intro © September 4, 2017
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1/3 of Idaho Reps Call on AG Sessions to Back Off Bundy Ranch Case: This Is "Disrespect for the Rule of Law & the Jury System"

Tim Brown is an author and Editor at FreedomOutpost.com, SonsOfLibertyMedia.com, GunsInTheNews.com and TheWashingtonStandard.com. He is husband to his "more precious than rubies" wife, father of 10 "mighty arrows", jack of all trades, Christian and lover of liberty. He resides in the U.S. occupied Great State of South Carolina. Tim is also an affiliate for the Joshua Mark 5 AR/AK hybrid semi-automatic rifle. Follow Tim on Twitter.