California Hot Foot Dance


California is burning. Even San Francisco is filled with smoke.

If the widespread fires were intentionally set, then one is forced to wonder why. Knowing that many ‘conspiracy theories’ are in fact real conspiracies, I can think of three reasons.

1. The UN Agendas which mandate concentrating people into big cities and out of the countryside continue to be carried out. Last year we saw the town of Paradise completely and quickly burned and there were many indications that it was not natural. Was a special beam used to start the fires?

2. The far left loonies in charge of California (such as Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi) want the the federal government to send their state billions of dollars. Despite over-taxing its citizens, California is broke. Their politicians defied the law by allowing sanctuary cities, but they want the federal government to cover their costs. In other words, California’s Democrats are lawbreakers and treasonous, but they still want the dough. They can easily inflate the cost of the fire damage. Damage they may have caused themselves.

3. The fires were arranged to enhance an atmosphere of crisis, which in turn will be used to damage Trump’s reelection chances. Look for Gavin Newsom to blame it all on the president.

Or it could be the extreme environmentalism in California. Trees were not allowed to be logged and thinned. The buildup of ground detritus was not allowed to be cleared. That’s not a conspiracy theory, but it certainly can lead to rampant conflagration.

Regardless, Smokey Bear is not a happy camper in California and he will become more unhappy when they raise his taxes.

—BEN GARRISON 

Old Man Reads Bird Cage Liner- Shouts at Clouds


Joe Biden, when he can find his place on the teleprompter, is using the debunked Atlantic magazine story to attack Trump and his supporters.

The Fake News Goldberg story claims Trump hates our Veterans and called them losers and suckers. Goldberg (a known propagandist) cites his “anonymous sources” which usually means fake news.  There have been 21 people that came forward to debunk the lies about the President and not one of the sources for the so called story has come forward with evidence that is is true.

When and why did this story drop?

“The Atlantic” article dropped shortly after Biden received no bump from his convention while Trump did get a bump in the polls after his. Biden immediately amplified the Trump smear in the magazine, which was nothing but pure fabrication. Anytime a shift in the polls goes against the Democrats, they tend to drop huge bombshell lies such as saying Trump insulted veterans. John Bolton hates Trump but even he said the president would never say such a thing. Trump always expresses support and admiration for the troops. Anytime the lying mass media quotes ‘anonymous sources,’ it can be assured it’s a lie. The mainstream legacy media are part of the Democrat Party now. Cant’ be trusted. The lies told by Biden will become numerous and vocal as the election nears and the Democrats become more fearful and desperate. Biden is a shell of a man being used by the Deep State as a trojan horse in order to usher in their globalist policies and remove Trump from office.

We can’t let them win in November! This is all out war to save our nation! Vote in person!

Tina

 

A Democrat Coup That Depends on John Podesta Being Joe Biden


Election 2020 is, in surrealistic Democrat reality, Election 2016 Re-scheduled

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesSeptember 9, 2020

A Democrat Coup That Depends on John Podesta Being Joe Biden

To millions of still-trying-to-hang-in from- Covid-19-locked-down-Americans, November 3, 2020 is a bona fide general election.  To devious, power-crazed Democrats, it’s an out and out coup geared to defiantly deny the coming landslide re-election of President Donald Trump before going on to fundamentally transform America into a thorough Socialist State.

To pull it all off, the Democrats will need Hillary Clinton voodoo and a lot of the Mumbo Jumbo artifice they’re already putting into play.

While the Democrats and a compliant media work to kill off, not just America but the entire Western World, the people of the many lands they’re trying to cancel count on Providence and the Power of Prayer.

Scare mongering is where the Democrats excel

Scare mongering is where the Democrats excel, their latest scare tactic being people shouldn’t venture out from lock downs to vote in person because of the politicized pandemic, but should rely on the Michelle Obama-designed Mail-In Vote instead.

Smug and arrogant, the Democrat Elite are convinced they’ve finally got this one in the bag.

You won’t easily find what the Dems of the day are up to on Google—whose main stories claim it is Donald Trump staging the Election Coup— but you can on Duck Duck Go, just as Canada Free Press (CFP) found out this morning.

“If you think the Resistance to 2016 was unhinged, you haven’t seen anything yet. (Capstone Report, Aug. 2, 2020)

“Get ready for crazy if the Woke Mob doesn’t get its way. The New York Times provided a hint into how Leftists could respond to a Donald Trump victory this November. Buried at the end of a column on the media’s coverage of the election was a shocking tidbit floating a constitutional crisis.”

This is one scare mongering tactic that should be dismissed out of hand as pure bunk—resting as it does on a Parlor/War Game where former Hillary Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta plays the role of ‘President’ Joe Biden.

During the presidential campaign, Joe Biden sometimes doesn’t seem to know who he is.  John Podesta knows who he is—he’s Joe Biden!

Enter The Atlantic Magazine: Trump Hates The Troops

“According to Ben Smith in the New York Times: (NY Times, Aug. 2, 2020)

“A group of former top government officials called the Transition Integrity Project actually gamed four possible scenarios, including one that doesn’t look that different from 2016: a big popular win for Mr. Biden, and a narrow electoral defeat, presumably reached after weeks of counting the votes in Pennsylvania. For their war game, they cast John Podesta, who was Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, in the role of Mr. Biden. They expected him, when the votes came in, to concede, just as Mrs. Clinton had.“

“But Mr. Podesta, playing Mr. Biden, shocked the organizers by saying he felt his party wouldn’t let him concede. Alleging voter suppression, he persuaded the governors of Wisconsin and Michigan to send pro-Biden electors to the Electoral College.

“In that scenario, California, Oregon, and Washington then threatened to secede from the United States if Mr. Trump took office as planned. The House named Mr. Biden president; the Senate and White House stuck with Mr. Trump. At that point in the scenario, the nation stopped looking to the media for cues, and waited to see what the military would do.”

Enter The Atlantic Magazine, which quoting anonymous sources, reported last week that troop-loving Trump called dead soldiers “suckers” and “losers”.

Guess they didn’t want Podesta carrying the ball on his own.

Back to Capstone Report:

“Wow.

“However, hardly unexpected. Leftists spent the last four years crying about 2016. They’ve done everything possible to overturn that election verdict. If things don’t go their way in 2020, well, it won’t be pretty.

“Violence in the streets we expect. That’s how Democrats handle things as the riots showcased over the last few months.

Mainstream press hopelessly controlled by Leftists pushing the Democratic talking points

“…The mainstream press is getting you ready for abnormally long delays in vote counting.

“The long lecture about election delay is prepping the environment. They are prepping the environment for delays–delays that will be convenient for them.

“While the mainstream press will be hopelessly controlled by Leftists pushing the Democratic talking points, there is always social media. Right?

“Wrong.

“Don’t think you’ll be able to share the truth on social media. They’ve already got a plan for how to handle troublemakers, err, I mean conservatives.

“According to the NY Times column, “Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, told me in a brief interview on Saturday that he’s planning to brace his audience for the postelection period. He said the site planned a round of education aimed at ‘getting people ready for the fact that there’s a high likelihood that it takes days or weeks to count this — and there’s nothing wrong or illegitimate about that.’”

“Sure.

“Sounds totally trustworthy.

“In earlier eras, election results typically were known on election night. Which forces any of us to ask: What are Elites trying to do this time?

You can count on Democrats trying to steal the election

“Oh, and we better ask that question now because as the Times’ Ben Smith explains, social media companies will control the flow of news about the election.

“And he said that Facebook is considering new rules regarding premature claims of victory or other statements about the results. He added that the company’s election center will rely on wire services for definitive results.”

“New rules mean new ways to suppress conservatives.

“That’s what it always means in Silicon Valley.

“The New York Times is giving you a sneak peak into November. If the election is close, you can count on Democrats trying to steal the election. That’s what we face in America 2020.”

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Election 2020 is, in surrealistic Democrat reality, Election 2016 Re-scheduled

Resistance Leader Barack Obama Coup d'etat

“More than anything else, Election 2020 is the final coup d’etat in ‘The defamed and dramatized Russians-Stole-the-Election Series’;  the still alive and kicking Big Lie of the Democrats and the Media. (CFP, Aug. 6, 2020)

“When November 3 comes to pass,  it will be plain to see that there was no such thing as Election 2020—because Election 2020 is, in surrealistic Democrat reality, Election 2016 Re-scheduled.”

The reality is that John Podesta, no matter how hard he wishes it, is not Joe Biden, but is the failed campaign manager of Hillary Clinton’s humiliating defeat in 2016.

Even if Biden were to somehow win the 2020 presidency,  someone in his cognitive-challenged state can’t be counted on to mouth the words foisted upon him by the Democrat Elites.

Meanwhile, all the Dems really have for their Election Coup is their Mumbo Jumbo, while the little people getting ready to Vote In Person have the ever more powerful Power of Prayer.

 

To genuine black leaders: what works and what doesn’t work


Do you really think Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA have a clue, or care, about black economic prosperity?

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesSeptember 9, 2020

To genuine black leaders: what works and what doesn't work

There are some hard facts.

Your greatest victory would be ridding your inner city neighborhoods of major gangs.

They are holding back your communities from any hope of gaining a secure economic foothold in society.

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed)

To accomplish this awesome task, you need help.  Think about how the New York mafia stranglehold was broken.  It took the passage of a federal RICO law; and then the use of that law to prosecute and convict significant numbers of mafia members and leaders, for running “continuing criminal enterprises.”

If you want to stage meaningful efforts, there you have it.  You want RICO applied to major gangs in American cities.  And you want it now.

Of course, you’ll have to give up the strategy of blaming the police as an overall strategy for explaining your troubles.

Every ethnic and religious group in the history of the world has two common denominators.  A story about oppression, and a desire to gain a firm economic foothold in society.

Every oppression story contains truth, and it’s also embellished, in the sense that it’s sold long after its most violent period is past.  The story can be useful at times, but it doesn’t carry the necessary freight to accomplish economic goals. Far from it.  It can have negative blowback.  It can turn into widespread “blame the oppressor”1 as a device to force economic progress.  Which, at the root, is counter-productive.  It doesn’t work.

You have more pressing problems.  Gangs.  Drugs.  Black-on-black crime.  Absent fathers.  Too many people living on welfare—-which was designed as a palliative to pacify and hold down the population.  It has worked far too well.

Forget about tapping government money as a main source for boot-strapping your communities into long-term economic prosperity.  Ditto for charity doled out by the rich.  These sources don’t make a black economy succeed, long-term.  In the end, they drain money and resources away from that struggling economy.

Here’s a recent report you should be interested in.  During the COVID lockdowns, 440,000 black-owned American businesses have shut their doors, and most of them won’t come back.  That’s a missile attack aimed at the heart of progress.  Consider the blood, sweat, and tears the business owners have poured into keeping their enterprises alive for years and years.  And it’s all going up in smoke now.

On a related note, those black groups who are dead set on promoting socialism (or outright anarchy) as an economic solution are not your friends.  Find out where their funding is coming from.  Take a deep dive into the background and activity and agenda of George Soros.

Do you really think Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA have a clue, or care, about black economic prosperity?  They’re running your future into the ground.

If you don’t want widespread black economic prosperity—-via free enterprise—-you’re going against the history of how every ethnic and religious group has achieved stability.

Once an ethnic group gains a strong and permanent economic foothold, other benefits follow.  For example, relations with police automatically improve.  And where they don’t, you could exert the kind of effective pressure that deals from a position of strength.

Teaching the young to “stand up for their values” turns into an empty suit in about five minutes, unless there is a pathway to some kind of economic prosperity.  It becomes “blame the oppressor,” which is ultimately a dead end.

Where pro athletes are going with their protests will not be productive.  They kept their mouths shut when NBA relations with China suddenly wobbled.  They protected their shoe contracts, and turned a blind eye to what are euphemistically called “human rights abuses” in the People’s Republic.  And now, they want…what?  They know they collectively have the power to destroy their leagues, but is that an advantage?

If these athletes re-routed the money they give to “black community improvement,” and instead, with competent advice, and with major discipline, invested in black-business start-ups, and existing black businesses that have a chance of success, the whole framework of progress would be shifted.

Face it, the athletes are getting incompetent advice.  And, in the pomp and circumstance of “social justice,” they’re being enabled by white liberals, who don’t really care about authentic black progress at all.  Malcom X figured this out 60 years ago.  The forgetting that then set in was no accident.  The so-called liberal establishment is morally bankrupt.  The men behind the curtain who control the establishment are intent on using the black community to sow chaos and destruction across the landscape, and lead the nation into a new normal that no one in his right mind wants.  That is its own story for another time.

I will say this.  The current defamation campaign and assault against capitalism and free enterprise will have no greater negative impact anywhere than in the black community.  It will undermine every effort launched toward finding a better life.  So why are black groups leading that campaign?  Obviously, somebody wants destruction.

Meanwhile, if you have an open channel to LeBron James, ask him when he’s going to demand immediate RICO prosecution of inner-city gangs…

Once he recovers from the shock of the question, tell him a winning RICO case would earn him the championship ring of a lifetime.


  1. Instead of “blame the oppressor,” first engage in “find the most serious oppressions.”  Then find the oppressors, expose them, and demand change.  I’m talking, for starters, about environmental toxicity in black (and Latino) communities.  See, for example: Center for American Progress, “5 Things to Know About Communities of Color and Environmental Justice,” April 25, 2016.

Tucker: The COVID pandemic empowered mediocre politicians


Democrats are using the coronavirus crisis to their advantage. #FoxNews #Tucker Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been the most-watched television news channel for 18 consecutive years. According to a 2020 Brand Keys Consumer Loyalty Engagement Index report, FOX News is the top brand in the country for morning and evening news coverage. A 2019 Suffolk University poll named FOX News as the most trusted source for television news or commentary, while a 2019 Brand Keys Emotion Engagement Analysis survey found that FOX News was the most trusted cable news brand. A 2017 Gallup/Knight Foundation survey also found that among Americans who could name an objective news source, FOX News was the top-cited outlet. Owned by FOX Corporation, FNC is available in nearly 90 million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in the

Tucker: What to expect after the November election


A record number of Americans are expected to vote by mail in 2020; reaction from Vince Coglianese, radio host and editor at The Daily Caller. #FoxNews Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been the most-watched television news channel for 18 consecutive years. According to a 2020 Brand Keys Consumer Loyalty Engagement Index report, FOX News is the top brand in the country for morning and evening news coverage. A 2019 Suffolk University poll named FOX News as the most trusted source for television news or commentary, while a 2019 Brand Keys Emotion Engagement Analysis survey found that FOX News was the most trusted cable news brand. A 2017 Gallup/Knight Foundation survey also found that among Americans who could name an objective news source, FOX News was the top-cited outlet. Owned by FOX Corporation, FNC is available in nearly 90 million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in the genre.

“Lex Est Quod Dico” – San Francisco Government Gyms Open, Private Gyms Forced to Remain Closed…


“Lex Est Quod Dico” or the law is what I say it is…  Again, highlighting the arbitrary fiats of power hungry government officials, a recent discovery in San Francisco that private health gyms are forcibly closed – yet government gyms are allowed to be open.

CALIFORNIA – Gyms within government buildings in San Francisco have been open for months, despite privately owned establishments being ordered to close due to the coronavirus.

“It’s shocking, it’s infuriating,” Daniele Rabkin, of Crossfit Golden Gate, told a local NBC station. “Even though they’re getting exposed, there are no repercussions, no ramifications? It’s shocking.”

The gyms that have been open for government employees include those for police officers, judges, lawyers, bailiffs, and paralegals, according to the report. One such gym, the Hall of Justice gym, has been open since July 1.

“It just demonstrates that there seems to be some kind of a double standard between what city employees are allowed to do and what the residents of San Francisco are allowed to do,” Dave Karraker, owner of MX3 Fitness in the Castro, said. (read more)

Recalling EPA’s Gold King Mine disaster – Part 1


Five years after the infamous blowout, EPA finally settles with Utah over Gold King pollution

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesSeptember 6, 2020

Recalling EPA's Gold King Mine disaster

On the fifth anniversary of the notorious spill of 3 million gallons of heavily contaminated acid mine water from the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and State of Utah announced an agreement that ends the state’s lawsuit.

Neither the EPA nor the contractors involved at the Gold King spill site are entirely off the hook for their alleged missteps that resulted in downstream damages. Lawsuits filed by the Navajo Nation, the State of New Mexico, and a group of Navajo farmers and ranchers have been consolidated, and discovery is proceeding, with a projected trial date sometime in late 2021.

Pursuant to the agreement, Utah will dismiss its legal actions against the EPA and the United States; mining companies Kinross Gold Corporation, Kinross Gold U.S.A., Inc., Sunnyside Gold Corporation, and Gold King Mines Corporation; and EPA’s contractors: Environmental Restoration, LLC, Weston Solutions, Inc. and Harrison Western Corporation. EPA also agreed to strengthen Utah’s involvement in the EPA’s work to address contamination at the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund Site, which includes the Gold King Mine and other abandoned mines.

The agency further agreed to act on the Utah Department of Environmental Quality’s application for $3 million in Clean Water Act funds for various projects, including the development of water quality criteria for Utah Lake, septic density studies, nonpoint source pollution reduction projects, and nutrient management plans for agricultural sources.

The agency also agreed to initiate Superfund assessments by the end of 2021 at the Rico Argentine Mine Site, the Camp Bird Mining Site, the Carribeau (or Caribou) Mine Area, all located in Colorado, and possibly other sites that have the potential to impact downstream waters in Utah. Coupled with its work at the recently established Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund Site (which includes Gold King), the EPA expects to conduct and oversee more than $220 million in abandoned mining site work that will potentially improve Utah’s water quality by reducing the flow of heavy metals and other pollutants from old mines in the state’s waterways.

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler called the agreement “a win-win for EPA and Utah” that “will bring environmental benefits to Utah, avoid protracted litigation, and hopefully serve as a lesson for the future to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.” EPA General Counsel Matthew Leopold promised that the agency’s “partnership with Utah will be stronger as we continue to support the State in addressing its water quality needs.”

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said the state is “very pleased that millions of dollars can now be spent towards mitigation, remediation and assuring water quality in Utah, rather than years of more litigation, trials and appeals.” This, he added, “is what cooperative federalism looks like – a true federal and state partnership” that protects the people, public health and the environment.

The relationship between the EPA and Utah was not always so amicable. Within days after Cement Creek and the Animas River were turned yellow all the way from Colorado through New Mexico and Utah all the way to Lake Powell, Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert declared a state of emergency and added that he was “deeply disappointed by the actions of the Environmental Protection Agency. It was a preventable mistake, and they must be held accountable.”

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen described the incident this way: A contractor under EPA supervision used a backhoe to dig away tons of rock and debris that were blocking the entrance portal of the Gold King Mine, which had been mostly abandoned since 1923. Because of steady seepage, the EPA should have known that the water was highly acidic (pH 4.0-4.5) and laced with heavy metals. It could and should certainly have checked.

Eventually, the greatly weakened portal burst open, unleashing at least 3 million gallons of toxic water that contaminated the Animas and San Juan Rivers all the way to Lake Powell, which straddles the Utah-Arizona border on the Colorado River. The EPA waited an entire day before notifying downstream mayors, health officials, families, farmers, ranchers, fishermen and kayakers of the toxic spill.

Driessen lambasted the Obama Administration, other Democratic Party officials, and eco-activists for their initial response to the incident, which also caused major damage to Navajo Indian lands. But while EPA’s own internal report called the incident “likely inevitable,” an Interior Department review released in October 2015 found it was both “preventable: and also “emblematic” of the federal government’s “inconsistent and deeply flawed approaches to reopening shuttered mines.” Driessen and others agreed.

Specifically, the Interior Department said that contractors at the Gold King site chose not to bore a hole to physically check water levels and contamination inside the mine before digging – a protocol established in 2011 during a successful mine reopening. “Had it been done, the plan to open the mine would have been revised, and the blowout would not have occurred.” Before undertaking its incompetent cleanup, EPA had threatened Gold King property owner Todd Hennis with a $35,000 per day fine unless he granted them access to the property (which the agency and its contractors then turned into a disaster zone).

In a follow-up article, Driessen found the testimony of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell shocking, as she stated she was unaware of anyone being fired, fined or even demoted – and that federal investigations and reports refused to hold anyone responsible for the ensuing disaster. Even worse, while then-EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said she EPA “absolutely, deeply sorry,” she disavowed any personal or agency responsibility and sent the Navajo emergency water tanks contaminated with oil. Then FEMA denied the Navajo any disaster relief, which prompted nearly 300 affected farmers and ranchers to file a separate (now consolidated) lawsuit.

(Driessen’s in-depth September 2015 MasterResource.org articles (herehere and here) provide extensive details – and damning conclusions – about the scope of EPA and contractor incompetence, negligence, double standards, whitewashing … and refusal to accept responsibility, compensate victims, or even observe the very rules that EPA typically imposes with an iron fist on corporations, municipalities and citizens. (Most of the damning photographs of activities leading up to and after the blowout appear to have been scrubbed from the internet. However, quite a few can still be found here and elsewhere.)

In the early days of the Trump Administration (while Obama holdovers were still running the show), the EPA finally released an Inspector General’s report on the Gold King incident. Rob Gordon, longtime head of the National Wilderness Institute and currently an advisor to the director of the U.S. Geological Survey, said the IG’s report was yet another whitewash, more for its omissions than its inclusions.

Gordon noted, for example, that the IG’s report had omitted EPA’s critical, erroneous and indefensible assumption that the mine was only partially full of water, and failed to mention that the EPA crew reburied the natural plug after unearthing it. His final assessment was that there are “gaping holes in the EPA’s fiction” which, if allowed to stand, will send a message that “misleading, deceiving and lying works, and that bureaucrats need not follow the laws they enforce on others.”

Navajo and New Mexico officials were equally dissatisfied with the EPA’s initial response to their cries for just compensation for immediate and future losses of both revenue and their traditional use of land and water impacted by the spill. New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas lambasted the EPA for seeking to “impose weak testing standards in New Mexico.” That litigation is still ongoing.

(Part 2 of this article will report on the issues and progress of their now-combined lawsuit.)
Duggan Flanakin is director of policy research for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org)

2019 FISC Report and Opinion Released – Full pdf and links…


A rather odd situation all things considered.  A FISA Court opinion, based on 702 modifications and submissions to the court from the DOJ, dated December 6, 2019, has been released to the public (release date Sept. 4, 2020) [pdf link].

The opinion date is December 6, 2019, which was three days before the IG report was released on December 9, 2019…. which sets up an interesting situation. This report is based on the DOJ and intelligence equity holders (DOJ, FBI, NSA and NCTC) telling the FISA court what compliance modifications they had made to the FISA 702 process.

The “702” topic relates to the electronic communication of American citizens. “702” is literally the designation for a process that intersects with an American, at home or abroad,  who is protected from warrantless searches and seizures by the fourth amendment.  By now everyone is a little more familiar with the FISA-702 importance.

The primary issues involve intelligence gathering by DOJ, FBI and the National Counter-terrorism Center (NCTC), and exploitation of electronic metadata searches that capture the communication and private information of American citizens without a search warrant.   This 702 issue has been the subject of multiple efforts (albeit some rather obtuse refinements) by the U.S. intelligence apparatus to be in compliance with the legal restrictions and protections afforded by the fourth amendment.   So far, no process put into place has been effective at stopping the abuse.

 

In my opinion there is a way to stop the abuse through punishment for unlawful exploitation of the system by intelligence users; literally put legal consequences as the teeth within the compliance system and jail users who violate collection and minimization rules.  However, congress and the intelligence community, writ large, have refused to put legal accountability into the process.

While the 702 database search query issue is not directly attached to the fraudulent FISA application used against Carter Page, this December 6, 2019, FISC opinion is literally three days before IG Michael Horowitz told the FISA court about the wrongdoing and misconduct in the four Carter Page FISA application submissions.  Anyone who is concerned about the abuse of the fourth amendment should review these reports to gain a better understanding of the scale and scope of a Pandora’s box process.

I’m slowly going through the 2019 report/opinion because often prior reports (the redacted stuff) are reconciled in new releases.  Example: One previously held back component is this new admission about NCTC exploits:

One of the key elements and purposes of the FISA opinion can be captured on page #17 of the report:

Here’s the full report….  still making notes for a more comprehensive review:

 

Expanded or Targeted Investigative Review of Special Counsel?…


Red State has a good article expanding consideration of the Sara Carter exclusive this week surrounding a recent DOJ and FBI admission to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about the special counsel, Andrew Weissmann, “recreating” the original Woods File to support the June 29, 2017, Carter Page FISA application.

[Red State Here -AND- Sara Carter Here]

In essence the questions are: why would the special counsel need to re-create a file?  And if so what would be the purpose behind “losing” their original?

However, CTH would add an overlaying question: What investigative event would precipitate the DOJ approaching the FBI to inquire about investigative “files” secured and handled by the special counsel?…..  Such that the SSCI would need to be brought into the information pipeline recently.

Perhaps !

The 2018 timeline here is very specific.  Both the Wood’s File (for Horowitz review) and the investigative file of SSA Brian Dugan (for Jessie Liu review) would have to be handled within a very similar special counsel time-frame.   Questioning one could certainly lead to more sunlight upon the other. Perhaps time will tell.