Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 15, 2020 by Sundance

Earlier today White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany held a press briefing with member os the White House Press Pool.  [Video Below – Transcript Will Follow]

Briefing starts at 08:35, prompted:

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 15, 2020 by Sundance

I have spent a great deal of time thinking about declassification since the media began their insufferable onslaught and “president-elect Biden” narrative.

The time has long past for President Trump to strongly demand his executive cabinet members declassify the evidence outlining intrusive government surveillance upon not only himself, but all Americans.

CTH has a rather unique perspective on the declassification angle. This conversation has traveled with me for over two years as I have talked to people inside and outside the DC machinery. Ultimately the discussion ends around something like this:

Is the DC political surveillance state, and all of the ramifications within that reality, so fundamentally corrupt and against our nation’s interests, that no entity dare expose the scope and depth of it? And ultimately… is it the preservation of institutions, despite their transparent corruption, that’s causing so many disconnected outcomes from evidence intentionally downplayed?

If we assume the scale of unconstitutional conduct has become systemic, that likely answers the questions. Personally, I believe this is the most likely scenario.

“Likely” meaning the entire apparatus, DOJ, FBI, Legislative Oversight and the Intelligence Community (IC), is now so enmeshed within this corrupt out-of-control state that no-one, even the good guys, is willing to expose it because the institutional collapse would be devastating.

This is what I would call the Biggest of the Big Ugly.

This catastrophic outcome, in combination with DC having made the system the primary source of their income, is what unites the Republicans and Democrats to stop anyone from exposing it. Once any elected official goes inside this system, they end up serving it.

All of that said, I have previously outlined a pre-election process for President Trump to declassify information that would lay the system naked to We The People. However, I don’t think post-election this will work, because the executive branch cabinet officers will refuse to support it. The enemies inside the gate will protect DC.

But there is one aspect to declassification that can be valuable in the today and the tomorrow: a full list of known documents and material We The People want to see.

Items might include: •the custody log for Huma Abedin’s laptop (where is it?); •the fully unredacted Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text messages; •emails between Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe; •the crowdstrike report given to the FBI after forensic analysis of the DNC servers; •investigative evidence behind the Seth Rich murder in Washington DC; •the full list of phone users within the Mueller investigation that had mysterious phone-wiping issues… or anything you might consider of value given the known material over the past four years.

What do you want to see declassified?

Here was the approach that might have worked before the election; however, I  doubt this approach could work now…. but you never know.

[OCTOBER 2020] Understanding the ordinary process of declassifying documents is a request and authorization to the executive officers and stakeholders of classified information; and understanding the current authorization is is not ordinary because the intelligence community stakeholders are adverse to the interests of the office of the president; here is a process to cut through the chaff and countermeasures.

The background here is that any unilateral declassification request, demand or authorization by President Trump puts him opposition to a variety of corrupt interests.

As a direct result the executive office of the president will be facing legal action, likely from unified democrats and republicans in the legislative branch. With that accepted, here is the most strategic approach.

In anticipation of litigation:

President Trump informs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, that he wishes to have a full intelligence briefing on the following documents (more may be added), all documents are to be presented without a single redaction:

• All versions of the Carter Page FISA applications (DOJ) (FBI) (ODNI).
• All of the Bruce Ohr 302’s filled out by the FBI. (FBI) (ODNI)
• All of Bruce Ohr’s emails (FBI) (DOJ) (CIA) (ODNI)
• All relevant documents pertaining to the supportive material within the FISA application. (FBI) (DOJ-NSD ) (DoS) (CIA) (DNI) (NSA) (ODNI);
• All supportive documents and material provided by Bruce Ohr to the FBI. (FBI)
• All intelligence documents that were presented to the Gang of Eight in 2016 that pertain to the FISA application used against U.S. person Carter Page; including all intelligence documents that may not have been presented to the FISA Court. (CIA) (FBI) (DOJ) (ODNI) (DoS) (NSA)
• All unredacted text messages and email content between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok on all devices. (FBI) (DOJ) (DOJ-NSD) (ODNI)
• The originating CIA “EC” or two-page electronic communication from former FBI Agent Peter Strzok: and all communication between former CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey that started Operation Crossfire Hurricane in July 2016. (CIA) (FBI) (ODNI)
• The full and unredacted April 2017 FISA court 99-page opinion written by Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer outlining the compliance audit conducted by the NSA in 2016. (NSA) (ODNI) (DOJ) (FBI) (DOJ-NSD)
• ADD TO THIS – Everything and Anything related to contracts, vendors, services and the intelligence apparatus connected to the 2020 United States election.

The President selects a date for this briefing and through direct orders to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, informs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, to advise and coordinate with all executive branch lead intelligence officials, who were/are stakeholders in the compartmented intelligence products as described above, of their request be present for the briefing.

The White House counsel’s office is not to be informed of the intent or purpose of the meeting; however the Presidents’ White House counsel is requested to attend. Further, all of the compartmented intelligence is to be collectively assembled by the ODNI (Ratcliffe) into one volume of a singular Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB). There are to be eighteen printed copies of the PDB assembled and secured for the briefing, post haste.

Additionally, the office of the president personally informs the ODNI (Ratcliffe) of the executives’ request to invite for the briefing each member of the legislative branch Intelligence Community oversight known as the Gang-of-Eight.

Immediately after the briefing by the executive level (cabinet) department officials, while remaining in a closed and classified session, the full and comprehensive content of this collective intelligence product will be discussed with the full assembly of the U.S. Legislative Branch Intelligence Oversight known as the Gang of Eight.

Therefore, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien is instructed to coordinate with the ODNI (Ratcliffe) for the attendance of the Gang of Eight: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff, HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, SSCI Chairman Richard Burr and SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner. [Topic “TBD”]

In order to facilitate the briefing. Each member of the participating group will be provided with one full printed copy of the material assembled by the ODNI during the briefing.

[Each of the participants carries the prerequisite clearances, legal and constitutional authority to engage with the classified document according to their position and status. Only the executive can assemble the product for Go8 review and feedback]

At the conclusion of the briefing; and after hearing from, and engagement with, each of the participating members of the executive intelligence offices and duly authorized legislative oversight representatives; and after listening to their opinion as to the subject material discussed; the president announces to the fully assembled leadership of both the Executive branch (cabinet) and Legislative branch (Go8), it is his opinion the National Interests of the United States can best be served with the American people having a full, transparent and honest review of the material assembled and discussed.

The President, no-one else, only the President, then collects the printed portfolios as they were distributed to the participants, exits the briefing, and walks directly into the James Brady press briefing room within the White House; handing each of the awaiting twelve members of the national media a copy of the briefing material to be published on behalf of the American people.

At exactly the same time as President Trump enters the briefing room, one copy of the assembled portfolio is hand delivered, by President Trump only, to White House communications director Alyssa Farah with instructions to scan and release the content to the public through the White House website.

Done.

The American people are aware…

The system will now turn immediately to destroy Donald J Trump….

…..while we show up en-masse to support him.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 15, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Our computer forecast that this would be a sharp rise in voter turnout. The turnout for this 2020 election shattered previous highs, including 2008 when Barack Obama defeated John McCain, 1960 when John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon, and 1908 when William Howard Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan reaching 66.2%. That came out to just over 155 million votes which was about 15 million more than what had been expected. We warned that you can clearly see that there is a Directional Change due in 2021 and that we should expect now a rising trend in political turnout into 2022 which will go with civil unrest. Some were projecting a turnout of 140 million with 80 million votings by mail.

With a Panic Cycle in voter turnout  in 2023 and 2027, this is highly unusual. This is also an indication that there is NO WAY this election will just pass and its back to normal. The lockdowns have destroyed permanently so many jobs that hatred and resentment will emerge.

The very strange issue with this election which gives the appearance that it was rigged, besides Biden winning more votes than Obama or Hillary only in the contested swing states, is the fact that he then pretended to be the president-elect simply because the media declared him to be so, which was a usurpation of power in and of itself. There was no “office of the president elect” and that was entirely propaganda to sell to the world that he won the election. There is no need to do that and nobody in history has EVER done such a thing. This is highly irregular and makes it appear to indeed be a cover-up.

The Electoral College has voted and Biden is now the President-Elect for real. Unless Trump invokes the Executive Order declaring that the election was interfered with and all voting machines should be seized, Biden will be president. It is most likely that Attorney General Bar5r has resigned because he is part of the Deep State and will not support Trump in any such claim.;

Had the Supreme Court ruled against Trump, then that would have settled the dispute and there would have been no need to even question invoking the Executive Order. But the Justices hid under the covers when the case presented was clearly between two states which the plain language of the Constitution mandated they hear the case.

The very purpose of the rule of law is to make a society “civilized,” whereby we settle disputes in a rational fashion. The duty of the king in ancient times was to preside over disputes like King Solomon presiding over which woman was the legal mother. The Supreme Court has a duty, but it avoided it. Historically, that leaves only violence be it a civil war or revolution. The court created the Civil War with its decision of Dread Scott. There was no other alternative but war.

On December 2nd, Trump laid the groundwork for invoking the Executive Order.

As President I have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the constitution of the United States. That is why I am determined to protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault and siege.

Millions of votes were cast illegally in the swing states alone, and if that’s the case, the results of the individual swing states must be overturned and overturned immediately.

We will know by next week if this is over or are we headed into more chaos.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 15, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Now that the Electoral College has voted for Biden, this is what makes him “president elect” not CNN. Unless Trump acts on the Executive Order where the agencies must submit a report stating that the election has been compromised. That would then allow Trump to freeze everything. But I see this as a long-shot. It would be historical. Attorney General Barr has resigned I believe because he was unwilling to provide such a recommendation. I have stated all along that I doubted that Barr was really on Trump’s side for he was protecting the Deep State. So he will leave this week raising more concerns about what has really been taking place.

The computer has been warning that we are headed into an economic recession into 2022 and it will strangely be the mid-term elections that will bring a lot to a climax. Biden has done the typical politician routine and promised the moon to the AOC left wing and to the right-wing in the Democrats they understand the game. Biden will turn more to his conservative wing and I doubt you will see him doing much for AOC and the squad. This may leave the BLM movement turning now against Biden when they see that what you hear is not what you get.

Nevertheless, we must be prepared for some real chaos into 2022. The secret deals cut with the Democrat governors from Pelosi has been that is they crush their economies to overthrow Trump, they will bail them out. Indeed, she tried to slip in a bailout package that would have covered all the state pension funds. Trump had that removed. She also pushed for digital currency, and Trump blocked that as well. With Trump gone, Biden would have no problem with those proposals so we may see the end of physical paper money on the table. However, digitizing the dollar will be a real serious issue because 70% of paper dollars circulate outside the country and have been used as hedges against their own governments.

So get your trading gloves on. We have interesting trends for the next two years that will require skills.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 15, 2020 by sundance

Faith – Family – Fellowship

Lt. General Michael Flynn sits down for an extensive interview with Jan Jekielek for American Thought Leaders. In this exclusive interview, the first of two parts, we hear from Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn about his experience these last four years. Mr. Flynn discusses what attracted him to then-candidate Donald Trump, why he believes he was targeted, and his thoughts on America’s current political moment.  Great Interview:

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 14, 2020 by sundance

It started with the Treasury Department notification of “a sophisticated hacking group backed by a foreign government stole information from the U.S. Treasury Department and a U.S. agency responsible for deciding policy around the internet & telecommunications.”

Within hours the origin of that massive data breach was identified by the federal Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) as a significant risk to government databases and private sector businesses.  The breach was attributed to computer intrusion through SolarWinds Orion:

WASHINGTON – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) tonight issued Emergency Directive 21-01, in response to a known compromise involving SolarWinds Orion products that are currently being exploited by malicious actors. This Emergency Directive calls on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately.

“The compromise of SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management Products poses unacceptable risks to the security of federal networks,” said CISA Acting Director Brandon Wales. “Tonight’s directive is intended to mitigate potential compromises within federal civilian networks, and we urge all our partners—in the public and private sectors—to assess their exposure to this compromise and to secure their networks against any exploitation.”  (read more)

The Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) also dispatched a warning, and further reporting on the issue pointed out the intrusion itself took place in May of 2020 and the malware was constructed to disguise itself within the SolarWinds’ system.

A cyber security firm, FireEye, found the intrusion door, identified the source code and tracked it to SolarWinds.  FireEye then notified law enforcement and federal agencies who then began reviewing the breach:

(Bloomberg) […] While the hack on FireEye was embarrassing for a cybersecurity firm, Carmakal argued that it may prove to be a crucial mistake for the hackers. “If this actor didn’t hit FireEye, there is a chance that this campaign could have gone on for much, much longer,” Carmakal said.

“One silver lining is that we learned so much about how this threat actor works and shared it with our law enforcement, intelligence community and security partners.” Carmakal said there is no evidence FireEye’s stolen hacking tools were used against U.S. government agencies.

“There will unfortunately be more victims that have to come forward in the coming weeks and months,” he said. While some have attributed the attack to a state-sponsored Russian group known as APT 29, or Cozy Bear, FireEye had not yet seen sufficient evidence to name the actor, he said. A Kremlin official denied that Russia had any involvement.

FireEye’s investigation revealed that the hack on itself was part of a global campaign by a highly sophisticated hacker that also targeted “government, consulting, technology, telecom and extractive entities in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East,” the company said in a blog post Sunday night. “We anticipate there are additional victims in other countries and verticals.” (more)

SolarWinds’ has a massive client list including all the sensitive government agencies and most of the top Fortune 500 companies.  There have been reports that executives at SolarWinds are being reviewed for making stock transactions prior to public notification of the cyber hack.

All of that said, let’s stand back and take a look at the relationship between the Dominion vote counting issues, and the cyber intrusion into SolarWinds’ Orion.

A backdoor into SolarWinds’ is essentially a backdoor breach into the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).  That same agency is in charge of operating all security networks connected to U.S. voting and election security systems, including the Dept. of Homeland Security.  In essence, and as a matter of emphatic emphasis, the breach into SolarWinds’ is a breach into the U.S. election security network.

Considering the hack itself, meaning the implant of the malware itself, has identified no actual extraction, or quantification of extracted, data… Then why else would the malware be implanted – except to coordinate some other activity connected to the doorway?

Perhaps this is the apt metaphor….

If you were going to rob a bank (currency = votes), and the robbery was going to include the deployment of electronic lockpicking (Dominion tabulation machines), you would want to see what countermeasures the alarm company (CISA) would/could deploy to identify your effort and/or stop your success.

In that metaphor the hack of SolarWinds is the way into the alarm company.

Is that what this cyber-intrusion was all about?

The Department of Commerce confirmed a breach in one of its bureaus, and Reuters reported that the Department of Homeland Security and the Treasury Department were also attacked. […] the hackers took advanced steps to conceal their actions.

“Their level of operational security is truly exceptional,” he said, adding that the hackers would operate from servers based in the same city as an employee they were pretending to be in order to evade detection.

The hackers were able to breach U.S. government entites by first attacking the SolarWinds IT provider. By compromising the software used by government entities and corporations to monitor their network, hackers were able to gain a foothold into their network and dig deeper all while appearing as legitimate traffic. (link)

Again, notice how no “harm” has been identified.  No exfiltration of data has been noted in any report…. ergo it was the bad actors inside the system that has been identified as the compromise and not necessarily any adverse outcome that has been quantified.

In essence, the bank (election) was presumably robbed and now the authorities have identified the open backdoor to the bank but nothing seemingly removed.

Was the hack itself simply a version of controlling the alarm company to conceal the operation within the Dominion network election activity?

There are trillions at stake.

Just a thought….

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 14, 2020 by sundance

President Trump announced via Twitter that following a meeting to discuss the current state of 2020 election fraud with Attorney General Bill Barr, the U.S. AG will be departing his position before Christmas:

“Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House. Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job! As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family…”

Attorney General Bill Barr provided the following resignation letter:

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While the topic of the meeting today is briefly mentioned within the resignation letter, that subject matter is conspicuously absent from the body of content.  As with the entire career of Bill Barr, this could be interpreted two ways.

♦ Either Bill Barr is unwilling to steer the DOJ during a time of election challenge and turmoil…

Or….

♦ By resigning Bill Barr just inoculated himself from criticism if he was to support the DOJ findings of election investigations from outside offices.

Given Bill Barr’s history of conduct in the DOJ approach to the Flynn case (cowardice), the former seems most likely.

It also does not seem coincidental this resignation decision was reached on the same day the Daily Mail published a highly critical article about Bill Barr’s decision-making during the 2020 election cycle.

DAILY MAIL – Attorney General Bill Barr used the force of his office to instruct prosecutors investigating Hunter Biden not to take any steps that might cause the probe to be publicly revealed in the run-up to the election.

The directive, reported in the Wall Street Journal, was in keeping with existing Justice Department policy against taking investigatory steps close to an election  that might interfere with it.

Barr and his team took steps to ‘insulate’ the investigations, according to the report, even as President Donald Trump repeatedly demanded a probe of his political rival’s son.

Those instructions were given orally in ‘conversations with prosecutors,’ according to the Journal, which would appear to suggest there is no paper trail for it. They included asking if staff members involved in the situation could be trusted.  (read more)

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