Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 15, 2021 by Sundance

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham released 11 transcripts of interviews conducted during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s inquiry into the origins and aftermath of the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.  (press release)

1. Handling Agent 1: Interviewed on Tuesday, March 3, 2020 (Transcript)
2. Michael B. Steinbach: Interviewed on Friday, June 12, 2020 (Transcript)
3. Stephen C. Laycock: Interviewed on Monday, June 15, 2020 (Transcript)
4. Dana J. Boente: Interviewed on Monday, June 22, 2020 (Transcript)
5. Bruce Ohr: Interviewed on Tuesday, June 30, 2020 (Transcript)
6. Stuart Evans: Interviewed on Friday, July 31, 2020 (Transcript)
7. Supervisory Special Agent 1: [Joseph Pientka, the name no-one is allowed to repeat] Thursday, August 27, 2020 (Transcript)
8. Jonathan Moffa: Interviewed on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 (Transcript)
9. Deputy Chief, Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, Justice Department: Interviewed on Friday, September 18, 2020 (Transcript)
10. Case Agent 1: Interviewed on Friday, September 25, 2020 (Transcript)
11. Supervisory Intelligence Analyst: Interviewed on Thursday, October 29, 2020 (Transcript)

“The bottom line is that going forward we must have more checks and balances when it comes to political investigations. We must have more meaningful sign-offs on warrant applications, and we need to restore the trust to the American people in this system.”  – Press Release

Lots of reading to do… I shall be starting with #4 Dana Boente, the FBI legal counsel hired by FBI Director Chris Wray who was removed from his position by AG Bill Barr.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 15, 2021 by Sundance

The transparency of timing is brutally obvious.  Yes, the far-left was willing to put millions of American’s through economic pain and hardship in order to advance their interests.

Last week New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the economy had suddenly become more important than the threat presented by COVID-19. Too much economic damage was inflicted upon his state and now wants to re-open.

Yesterday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the economic damage to the service industry was so severe it was now greater than the COVID risk…. and will reopen bars and restaurants.   Today, a new study shows no benefit to the lockdowns.

The motives here are exactly as outlined for the past year.  The fear of COVID was weaponized to damage the global economy and in doing so damage the reelection guarantee of Donald Trump. Now that mission is accomplished, the walk-back begins:

[Newsweek] A new study evaluating COVID-19 responses around the world found that mandatory lockdown orders early in the pandemic did not provide significantly more benefits to slowing the spread of the disease than other voluntary measures, such as social distancing or travel reduction.

The peer reviewed study, which was conducted by a group of Stanford researchers and published in the Wiley Online Library on January 5, analyzed coronavirus case growth in 10 countries in early 2020.

The study compared cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the U.S. – all countries that implemented mandatory lockdown orders and business closures – to South Korea and Sweden, which implemented less severe, voluntary responses. It aimed to analyze the effect that less restrictive or more restrictive measures had on changing individual behavior and curbing the transmission of the virus. (more)

COVID fear was a narrative cover-story to create crisis and also hide the lack of support for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Part of that cover-story is needed because the MAGA community was showing up in overwhelming numbers at Biden-Harris events, and the false illusion of support -propping up the Potemkin village- was being exposed.  All of these machinations are part of a remarkable attempt at psychological operations in this election. [SEE HERE]

Everything you are witnessing right now is about psychological control to create the false illusion of reality within your own mind.  Essentially, professional media gaslighting with an agenda and purpose.  This is not a conspiracy theory, those who are coordinating the effort have admitted exactly what they are doing:

♦ Google executives are on camera, outlining what their organization is doing.  HERE and HERE and HERE.   Google has admitted to using algorithms and their control over the internet search engine to influence the election.  Again, stop and think about that.

♦ General Stanley McCrystal was working with a SuperPAC to use psychological warfare against the American electorate.   Even the Washington Post admitted:

[…] The group, Defeat Disinfo, will use artificial intelligence and network analysis to map discussion of the president’s claims on social media. It will seek to intervene by identifying the most popular counter-narratives and boosting them through a network of more than 3.4 million influencers across the country — in some cases paying users with large followings to take sides against the president. (source)

♦ The national U.S. media has been caught numerous times constructing a false reality, lying about events and attempting to manipulate the election.  As you read this you have the concrete example of all national media hiding the explosive issues around Hunter and Joe Biden.   Again, these are not conspiracy theories, these are demonstrable facts.

So what were all of these aligned interests trying to do with the media polling examples they push and promote so heavily?  Answer: they were trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy; same with the COVID-19 fear narrative.

However, the actual facts on the ground… the stuff you can see around you, with your own eyes and ears,… is entirely different from the false reality they created in the internet and false reality of television.  Thus, why the same media and tech entities are now banning any speech that would outline their big lie.

Posted originally on the Conservative tree house on January 15, 2021 by Sundance

An interesting development as Big Tech decides to go into full totalitarian surveillance and targeting mode.  Encrypted communication apps are now exploding with new users.

This outcome will not come as a surprise to CTH readers because the ‘Rebel Alliance’ has been using encrypted communication like Signal App for several years and planning to deal with the mass targeting currently underway.  This is why CTH has/is so closely guarded the privacy of CTH readers.

(LINK)

(Via NYT) – The encrypted messaging services have become the world’s hottest apps over the last week, driven by growing anxiety over the power of the biggest tech companies and privacy concerns.

Neeraj Agrawal, a spokesman for a cryptocurrency think tank, has typically used the encrypted messaging app Signal to chat with privacy-minded colleagues and peers. So he was surprised on Monday when the app alerted him to two new users: Mom and Dad.

“Signal still had a subversive shine to it,” said Mr. Agrawal, 32. “Now my parents are on it.”

[…] Their sudden jump in popularity was spurred by a series of events last week that stoked growing anxiety over some of the big tech companies and their communication apps, like WhatsApp, which Facebook owns. Tech companies including Facebook and Twitter removed thousands of far-right accounts — including President Trump’s — after the storming of the Capitol. Amazon, Apple and Google also cut off support for Parler, a social network popular with Mr. Trump’s fans. In response, conservatives sought out new apps where they could communicate.

At the same time, privacy worries rose over WhatsApp, which last week reminded users in a pop-up notification that it shares some of their data with its parent company. The notification set off a wave of anxiety, fueled by viral chain messages that falsely claimed that Facebook could read WhatsApp messages.

The result was a mass migration that, if it lasts, could weaken the power of Facebook and other big tech companies.” (read more)

Inherently people want freedom, liberty and privacy.  The more Big Tech shows they are ideologically totalitarian, and simultaneously supportive of the big surveillance state, the more the free market will provide options to get away from their reach.

What CTH 2.0 undertook two months ago, is exactly the same proactive process many other voices are now shifting toward.  As noted, the rebel alliance is growing.

There are more of us than them….  They just control (for now) the communication mechanisms allowing us to see the scale of our assembly.   The same outlook and control motive is why Big Tech cannot allow voices to assemble and discuss the 2020 election outcome… They are selling a big lie.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 15, 2021 by Sundance

John Solomon is reporting that President Trump is likely to declassify a trove of Russia Collusion/Conspiracy documents prior to departure from the White House.

John Solomon – “President Trump is declassifying a massive trove of FBI documents showing the Russia collusion story was leaked in the final weeks of the 2016 election in an effort to counteract Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

The memos to be released as early as Friday include FBI interviews and human source evaluation reports for two of the main informants in the Russia case, former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and academic Stefan Halper.” (read more)

[John Solomon Audio Podcast Here]

In June of 2019 CTH noticed a little-known media report from the U.K.  The DNC-contracted author of the infamously sketchy dossier on Trump, Christopher Steele, was willing to cooperate with U.S. authorities.  This was a reversal of prior position.

Steele was hired by Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson as an outcome of a contract between the Clinton campaign and Fusion-GPS. Steele was hired by Fusion to work with Nellie Ohr (wife of DOJ official Bruce Ohr), generate political opposition research, and write a dossier targeting candidate Donald Trump.

According to the London Financial Times, the former MI6 intelligence operative was  willing to talk to U.S. investigators regarding his contact with corrupt DOJ and FBI officials during the 2016 campaign and seditious aftermath.  It appears a key part of the declassification “trove” will be records from these Steele statements to Durham investigators.

Daily Caller) Former British spy Christopher Steele has agreed to meet in London with U.S. officials regarding the dossier, The Times of London is reporting.

A source close to Steele told the newspaper he plans to meet with American authorities within the next several weeks, but only about his interactions with the FBI and only with the approval of the British government. (more)

Steele’s testimony could be a key issue to expose corruption within the FBI that was previously identified by Senator Chuck Grassley.  The FBI said Christopher Steele never told them he was shopping his dossier to the media; however, Christopher Steele told a British court the FBI was fully aware of all his media contacts, and they used the dossier anyway.

Christopher Steele had no motive to lie to the FBI about his media contacts; the FBI had tons of motive to lie about their knowing Steele talked to the media. It’s just common sense.

Christopher Steele wasn’t meeting in secret with the media, it was well known.  He was traveling around to meet them in August and September 2016.  Why would he lie to the FBI about such transparently well known action in October?  Answer: He wouldn’t.

Back in April 2019 Margot Cleveland presented an interesting article in The Federalist outlining how the DOJ (Mueller) investigation of Christopher Steele was dropped [READ HERE].

Essentially the Cleveland article outlines how Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley sent a criminal referral of Chris Steele to Rosenstein/Mueller in January 2018; however the case was used as a shield to ward-off FOIA inquiry, but the case was never actually pursued – and eventually dropped.

At the time of the 2018 referral CTH noted the Grassley/Graham referral was not what it appeared [See Here].  Additionally, with hindsight and a greater understanding of the Weissmann-Mueller team corruption, we can see how that specific referral hits the center of the FBI intent around their Russia collusion-conspiracy.

The issue surrounds the October 2016 Carter Page FISA application and how the Steele Dossier was used therein.  When the stories first broke about the Steele Dossier being the majority of the FBI evidence (December 2017), the FBI investigators were claiming they were never aware of Chris Steele shopping his dossier to the media.  However, at the same time Glenn Simpson was testifying to congress the FBI fully knew Chris Steele was shopping the dossier.

SIDE NOTE: The need for everyone to see what Fusion-GPS (Glenn Simpson) was saying is the reason why Dianne Feinstein “accidentally” released the Simpson transcript (remember, she had a cold).  Feinstein released the Simpson transcript five days after the Graham/Grassley referral.  Democrats knew everyone in the FBI needed to be on the same page and reading from the same manuscript; she needed to tip-off corrupt DOJ and FBI officials about the testimony of Glenn Simpson.  I hope everyone can clearly see this now.

Remember, Robert Mueller took over the counterintelligence investigation; so the FBI investigators from Crossfire Hurricane (2016) were now the same “40 FBI investigators” on Mueller’s team in 2017.

In late 2017 and early 2018 those FBI investigators were saying they were not aware of Steele shopping the dossier to the media; AND they were also claiming that Chris Steele never told them.  However, Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS), and later Chris Steele himself, were telling a completely different story.  According to Simpson and Steele the FBI was fully aware of Steele shopping the dossier.

Enter Senator Graham and Senator Grassley.

Senators Graham and Grassley suspected, likely knew, the FBI/DOJ was the group lying about this ‘Steele/Dossier/Media’ angle in an effort to support the validity of the Dossier used in the FISA application.  In order to prove the DOJ and FBI were lying, Grassley and Graham sent a criminal referral to Rod Rosenstein:

Essentially Graham and Grassley were saying:  ‘if the FBI is being truthful, then Chris Steele lied to the FBI’… so go prosecute him.

Remember, these FBI agents are on Mueller’s team and the criminal referral was sent to Rosenstein; but due to the scope of Mueller’s investigation the referral was -in effect- being sent to Robert Mueller.

It is the FBI who lied to the FISA Court in the application. It is the FBI who were claiming in their FISA application the dossier was not ‘shopped’. It was the FBI attempting to enhance the dossier credibility by making statements/claims about what Chris Steele presented to them. It is NOT Christopher Steele making these claims. Christopher Steele knew the ‘dossier’ was presented to media. Heck, Christopher Steele briefed media.

It was Robert Mueller’s FBI investigators who were lying; and the referral was sent to Robert Mueller because the special counsel held all jurisdiction on the Russian collusion investigation; and at the heart of that investigation was the Steele Dossier and FISA application.  Mueller’s 2017, 2018 and 2019 FBI team were essentially investigating the claims within the Steele Dossier they helped create in 2016.

This is where Margot Cleveland’s article comes in.  The FBI used the Grassley/Graham criminal referral, the existence of an ongoing criminal investigation, to argue against public disclosure (and enforce redactions) within the James Comey’s memos on May 4, 2018.  However, in December of 2018 those reasons for redaction were dropped because the criminal investigation was no longer ongoing.  Heck, it was never opened.

The FBI used the referral as a shield and never investigated the underlying claim because the referral would have actually proved FBI lying, not Chris Steele lying.

♦ The key takeaway is to point out the scale of corruption amid the forty FBI investigators participating in the Mueller Probe.  [BACKSTORY HERE]

They honestly did not think we could see them.  They acted like the Wizard of Oz after the curtain was pulled back & they are still shouting into the microphone. It was quite amazing.

After Glenn Simpson delivered his testimony, Grassley knew the FBI was lying about the dossier.  In an early 2018 speech on the Senate Floor Grassley outlined the problem.

…”If those [FBI] documents are not true, and there are serious discrepancies that are no fault of Mr. Steele, then we have another problem—an arguably more serious one”…

This is likely why Steele was eventually willing to talk to investigators.  The aspect of the FBI lying about knowledge of Steele talking to media speaks to their motives in using the dossier for the FISA warrant.  A motive to use the dossier regardless of the false content.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 14, 2021 by Sundance

John Sullivan is a left-wing agent provocateur within the larger Antifa movement.  On the day of the Capitol Hill riots Sullivan embedded himself with the MAGA movement and recorded his activity.

Today, John Sullivan was indicted for his action.

[Full pdf Here]

Sullivan operated several social media accounts under the username “JaydenX.”

Sullivan traveled to Washington DC to participate in agitating the crowd toward violence.

On the day of the January 6th riot operation Sullivan admitted publicly, via social media, his intent to infiltrate the large crowd by posing as a supporter of President Trump.

The FBI interviewed Sullivan and subsequently issued a warrant for his arrest.  The affidavit supporting the arrest is [HERE] and below.

[…] “In the video, once SULLIVAN reaches the Speaker’s Lobby, where Victim 1 was eventually shot, SULLIVAN can be heard telling one of the law enforcement officers guarding the doors, as seen in the screenshot below, “We want you to go home. I’m recording and there’s so many people and they’re going to push their way up here. Bro, I’ve seen people out there get hurt. I don’t want to see you get hurt.”

Full Affidavit HERE – and embed below:

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 14, 2021 by Sundance

White House Senior Trade Policy and Advisor Peter Navarro releases his third report highlighting statistical anomalies in the 2020 U.S. election.  [pdf HERE]

[From The Report] … “74 million Americans who voted for President Donald J. Trump have the right to a full investigation and bipartisan search for truth. If, however, the Democrat Party, RINO elements of the Republican Party, the anti-Trump mainstream media, and the out-of-control censoring social media oligarchs do not cease and desist from their efforts to suppress the search for truth about the 2020 election, history will judge all of these people, corporations, and institutions in the harshest possible manner.”

[LINK to pdf]

Embed report below showcasing evidence of gross ballot manipulation in the 2020 election in six key states and seven key counties all controlled by Democrat operatives.

Re-posted from GrrrGraphics.com JAN 14, 2021 AT 10:00 AM

Nazi Pelosi’s House Impeaches Donald Trump…..AGAIN

Pelosi’s rushed and hateful push to impeach President Trump only underlines the fact that Democrats will stop at nothing to destroy their enemies. Pelosi has abused her power in her Stalin-like quest to completely erase Trump from history. This is what socialists do—they memory hole any political figure they revile.

The first casualty of the communist coup in America has been the free speech of Trump supporters. Not only are we getting banned everywhere, we are being vilified on the floor of Congress as ‘white supremacists’ and ‘violent insurrectionists.’  It all seems silly, but we should take their accusations very seriously. It’s a prelude of sorts for the Bolsheviks. The first thing communists do is end free speech and round up their enemies. Once Biden is sworn in we can also count on them to go after our guns. We’ll probably see false flags involving Trump supporters and deadly shootings. They will be used as an excuse to confiscate guns.

These aren’t conspiracy theories. We’re getting stripped of our remaining liberties and it’s happening in plain sight for all to see.

There is no doubt that  communist China has aided and abetted the Democrats in their takedown of Trump and the American economy. We can no longer depend on hopeful slogans such as ‘Patriots are in charge.’ As it’s turning out, we’re the patriots and we must resist, push back, and disobey the socialists.

After the socialists are done erasing Trump, they’ll move on to erasing everyone who supported him.  We must stand up to the socialists. If we sheepishly cave into them they’ll slaughter us anyway.

—Ben Garrison

Armstrong Economics Blog/Freedom of Speech Re-Posted Jan 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Twitter shut down more than 70,000 accounts. There are a lot of conspiracy theories from child pedophilia as initiation rituals on the extreme to “this is not a drill” claiming Trump signed the insurrection Act and will even arrest the VP Mike Pence. I have been against such nonsense, for I do not understand why people have to go that far. The problem that exists now is that is we are watching government move from socialism to authoritarianism – that is the real issue, not a conspiracy. To me, putting out scenarios that Trump will send in troops on the 20th only makes things far worse. This may even be disinformation deliberately put out to make some people seem like extremists. It may even be to get people to rally in order to put in more drastic Domestic Terrorist Act violations.

We live in strange times. Let’s just focus on the facts and not wild conspiracy theories that are not necessary. We are losing freedoms, and this is not a world you want to leave your children. We are moving through the progression from democracy to socialism, which collapses and off into authoritarianism becomes the only means to retain power — this is “THE” real threat. We do not need to make up wild stories that discredit the real issue. This is far more serious.

No insurrection act was signed. We do show panic cycles on the 20th, and I hope this is not involving pointless violence. Keep in mind that any violence is futile. It will not prevent Biden from taking power. Let’s be rational about this. Our political models show 2022 will be a panic cycle in politics, and this implies great upheaval. The only way to overthrow the Biden Administration will be a military coup and that is not likely right now. You have to create the pain before you get the cure. Right now, we are still just battling windmills.

The Democrats will push the New Green World Order on the United States, and this will destroy countless jobs. That is all that matters. It is IMPOSSIBLE to destroy the consumer base, retain peace, and “BUILD BACK BETTER.” It is just not going to happen that way. Nuclear weapons DO NOT create peace. As long as the US economy was the strongest and American consumers were the buyers, as were the Romans, then all roads led to the USA as they did with Rome and the Pax Romana was created by free trade – not authoritarianism. Rome allowed all states to keep their own gods. They did not try to change their culture. They absorb the best of each – they did not crush them into submission. Investment in Rome flowed to new provinces and they were the emerging markets. This is how Rome prospered and it is how peace was attained. Imposing sanctions on Russia were insane. That is not the way to build a global economy that everyone wants to participate in.

North Korea has just announced it will return to its nuclear weapons program. There is no way these people will impose their environmental dictatorship out of the United Nations that will be accepted worldwide. We even have the experimentation with hybrid human and pig species growing in labs.

I find it astonishing how little we have learned from history as a society. What Twitter has done is precisely what the Nazi agenda was all about. Silence all opposition and impose one side of every debate. These people have openly waged war upon free speech and the very essence of a Free Society. They are un-American and should be stripped of all licenses.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Forecasts Re-Posted Jan 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: How will the world reinstill confidence with China after the pandemic?
How can people in the West return to trust?

Thanks

ANSWER: We have entered a new Cold War which will eventually turn hot. The Politicians are using COVID to destroy the economy deliberately to usher in a new age of Authoritarianism. They will point the finger at China to try to blame then but it is our politicians with the lockdowns that have not produced any different results. It is our politicians following Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab who have caused the problem – not China. This is like blaming a company for manufacturing ammunition when someone else shot and killed someone.

We have Democrats demanding that even Ted Cruz should be barred from flying. Speech on the floor in Congress is “protected” speech and that includes the president. This is becoming selective prosecution. There is no way this is going to be an inclusive Biden Administration. This is starting on a foot of sheer vengeance and hatred.

The world is falling apart and every possible thing the Democrats are doing is leading to the Great Divide which will fracture the United States and fulfill what our model has been forecasting to my regret. They impeached Trump for a second time trying to simply ensure he will never run again in 2024 as he had said he would do.

I do not want to run an advertisement boasting I am the guy who forecasted the decline and fall of the West. This is not a forecast that gives me any pleasure. I simply interpret what the computer has done. There will be no returning to normal. We have passed the point of no return. Now we have to look at where to park money to survive the chaos ahead. The good news – the split is 50/50.