During a stunning interview last Sunday Devin Nunes called for the FISA court to be deconstructed. In my opinion it was that statement, not the IG report, that spurred FISC Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer to make a public order today.
Today, hours after Judge Collyer released her order, Devin Nunes responded to the review of the FISC by stating, accurately, Judge Collyer doth protest too much.
In this interview Devin Nunes outlines his February 2018 notification to the FISC about the specific fraud upon the court; and as a result of that (and a follow-up) notification, Nunes again takes the FISC to task for saying they were not aware. Collyer was aware because Nunes told her.
Accepting the totality of the FISC obfuscation, HPSCI ranking member Devin Nunes again calls for the dismantling of the FISA court process. WATCH:
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Despite the media ignoring the scale of Nunes prior statements, this is not some just some arbitrary representatives’ opinion. Nunes was Chairman of the HPSCI when he informed the court of the abuse; and he is currently the ranking member of the same committee.
It is not a signal flare from the ranking member of the HPSCI to call for a structural removal of FISC authority. This is a nuclear blast from the primary person who previously guided the FISA re-authorization that permits the court’s existence.
It is arbitrary and capricious for FISC Presiding Judge Collyer to say today she has concerns about fraud upon the court after being notified two years ago about the issue.
♦ In 2018 House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes held primary oversight authority over the aggregate Intelligence Community (IC). Chairman Nunes informed the court about flaws in the FISA application and requested the transcripts (if any) from the FISA Court during the DOJ/FBI Title-1 surveillance application over their target, U.S. person Carter Page.
♦In 2018 House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte held primary oversight authority over the Department of Justice -including the FISA court- and requested the actual FISA Title-1 application as submitted by the DOJ/FBI for surveillance of Carter Page.
Judge Collyer responded to both legislative branch chairmen from the position of “never previously receiving such requests.” Here was her response in 2018:
Earlier today President Trump and First Lady Melania welcomed Guatemala President Jimmy Morales and his wife to the White House. Prior to their bilateral meeting the two leaders held a press availability in the Oval Office. [Video and Transcript Below]
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[Transcript] – PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much. It’s a great honor to have President Jimmy Morales and Mrs. Morales —
MRS. MORALES: Thank you.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: — of Guatemala with us. We’ve had a tremendous relationship over the last two years, on the border. We’ve signed agreements with Guatemala that have been tremendous in terms of really both countries, but our country, with respect to illegals coming into our country. We just can’t have it. And it’s been very much slowed up. Guatemala has been terrific. Honduras, El Salvador, likewise, have been excellent.
And, as you know, we have 27,000 Mexican soldiers on our border right now protecting our border. So it’s been, really, very good. The results are very good.
The wall is being built. We’re building a very big wall. We’re up to almost 100 miles already. And we should have over 400 miles, hopefully by the end of next year, if everything keeps going on the same path, or shortly thereafter. But we should have pretty close to 400 miles — maybe more than that — up by the end of next year.
So we’re really doing a job in mostly immigration, I would say, with Guatemala, but we also do trade. They’re also buying some military equipment. And the relationship is very good. It’s a very important country from the standpoint of the border and trade. And we do a lot through Guatemala. A lot of things run through Guatemala.
Please.
Do you want to interpret? Yeah.
INTERPRETER: (Interprets the President’s remarks.)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Please.
PRESIDENT MORALES: (As interpreted.) For us, it’s an honor to be again in the USA, the main partner and ally of Guatemala, both in security and trade. We have achieved a lot of great success, and we have a great relationship. We have been able to work with migration, and we’re trying to make it legal, because by no means we can endanger minors or populations, who are vulnerable, to coming to the border illegally.
We have signed different agreements with the USA, including things related with trade and security. And we want to be able to negotiate temporary visas both for agriculture and construction sector.
And we are really honored to be right here at the White House. Thank you very much.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much.
One of the big things that’s happened with Guatemala — and Honduras, El Salvador, and some others — is that, in past administrations, they and others would not take people back. So if we had very dangerous people in our country and they came from Guatemala, or another country that we now have agreements with — we never had agreements with anybody — they just wouldn’t take them back. But now they have to take them back, and they take them back with open arms.
And by doing this, we’re getting rid of the most dangerous people. The people that are most dangerous, we’re getting them out of the United States because they don’t belong here. They didn’t come from here, and we’re getting them out. We’re taking them out by the thousands.
Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Q Mr. President, what do you say to Americans —
Q Are you going to watch — are you going to watch the House proceedings tomorrow?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I’m not watching. I have not — I have not seen it.
Look, it’s a hoax. The whole impeachment thing is a hoax. We look forward to getting on to the Senate. We’re not entitled to lawyers. We’re not entitled to witnesses. We’re not entitled to anything in the House. It’s a total sham when you have a guy like Shifty Schiff go out and make up a statement that I’ve made. He said, “This is what he said.” But I never said it. He totally made it up. In Guatemala, they handle things much more diff- — much tougher than that.
And because of immunity — he has House immunity — because of immunity, he can’t be prosecuted. He — he took a statement and totally made it up. It was a lie. It was a fraud. And you just can’t do those things. So, you know, look, this has been a total sham from the beginning. Everybody knows it.
I’ve never seen the Republican Party so united. We got — on our last vote, as you know, we got 100 percent of the vote. I believe the Senate is equally as well united. I watched Mitch McConnell this morning. I watched numerous people last night — senators — and I think we’re equally well united.
They know it’s a hoax. It’s a witch hunt. And it’s just a continuation. It’s been going on now for almost three years. And it probably started before I even won the election, based on what we’re finding out with the insurance policy quotes and other things. So it’s a disgrace.
Yes, Steve.
Q Are you going to let Senator McConnell decide on witnesses and all of that?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yeah. He can decide.
And we’ll also have to decide on when we’re taking the vote for the USMCA. A very big — a very important deal. A very, very important deal with Mexico, Canada, ourselves. We’re going to have to decide whether or not that comes first or second. To me, I’d let the Senate decide on that.
Q And, Mr. President, do you take any responsibility for the fact that you’re about to be impeached?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No. I don’t take any — zero, to put it mildly. They took a perfect phone call that I had with the President of Ukraine — an absolutely perfect call. You know it; they all know it. Nothing was said wrong on that call. To impeach the President of the United States for that is a disgrace and it’s a mark on our country.
And I’ll tell you what: Other Presidents, in the future — unless they do something about this, other Presidents are going to have to live with this. And every time they do something that’s a little bit unpopular or a little bit strong — even if they’re 100 percent right —
Because I’ve done a great job, when you look at the kind of jobs we’ve created, when you look at the economy that we’ve created, when you look at rebuilding the military, taking care of the vets. You just take a look at what we’ve done with Choice — Veterans Choice; with Accountability and the vets; with what we’ve done to protect our Second Amendment; and so many other things. Nobody has done as much as I’ve done in the first three years.
Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Q Mr. President, on Guatemala — on Guatemala, are you planning to withhold aid if the new President-elect of Guatemala does not implement your immigration agreement, Mr. President?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Guatemala is terrific.
Q But what if they — the President —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Guatemala has been terrific. Thank you.
To fully understand today’s response order (pdf here) from FISA Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer to the DOJ/FBI, a little background context is needed.
As we noted, last weekend HPSCI ranking member Devin Nunes dropped the gloves and essentially stated the DOJ/FBI were conspiring against U.S. citizens with the wilful participation of the FISA court. This was a stunning, albeit unreported, development.
Nunes change in posture is important because he outlined that without severe corrective action the FISC should be dismantled. Additionally, on the specific issues of fraudulent applications to the FISC, in February 2018 Devin Nunes and former Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte had prior communication to Judge Collyer with warnings. Very strongly worded warnings and concerns. So there’s a history on this exact issue.
In their prior communication Judge Collyer, representing the judicial branch, downplayed the warning of the legislative branch, and told Nunes and Goodlatte to work it out with the executive branch. The developments over the FISA fraud now stand against that context.
Today, Judge Rosemary Collyer responds to the DOJ and FBI about the inspector general investigation and subsequent findings. [pdf here – and full embed below] Having read her writings, and understanding that everything FISC is classified, it is possible to see between the lines she writes.
Collyer outlines in her order how the DOJ-NSD and FBI reported issues to the FISC in October and November prior to the IG report release. Essentially, Collyer implies the DOJ informed the court that additional FISA applications should now be considered unreliable as a result of the FBI Office of General Counsel compromise (Kevin Clinesmith):
The Oct/November DOJ notification led to a December 5th order by Judge Collyer.
On December 9th, when the IG report was made public, the FISC was given a declassified version of the report and was able to review for the first time. It was from that IG review that Collyer was able to establish the full context of the fraud upon the court. The court was given no advanced notification as to the totality of fraud upon the FISC other than a preliminary ‘head’s up’ on the OGC Clinesmith compromise.
As a result of the IG report, Collyer is now telling the DOJ to declassify her response of December 5th, because she is going to make it public. Judge Collyer is not asking the ODNI (ostensibly now AG Bill Barr), to declassify her response – she is telling him to declassify it.
The bottom line is without actual legal accountability for the fraud, everything is just a matter of words without consequence. Judge Collyer is angry, but so what… is she going to hold anyone accountable? Thus the frustration outlined by Devin Nunes last weekend.
Judicial opinions, strongly worded letters, court orders, insufferable justifications, and government promises of corrective actions are meaningless when real Americans are harmed by gross abuses of power.
Devin Nunes had it right on Sunday…. shut down the FISA court!
President Donald Trump sends a seven-page letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi outlining the executive concerns with the bastardization of a legislative impeachment process that will forever change the landscape of our constitutional republic.
…”You are turning a policy disagreement between two branches into an impeachable offense – it is no more legitimate than the executive branch charging members of congress with crimes for the lawful exercise of legislative power”…
Great interview with United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer as he described the goals, objectives and outcomes of the USMCA and U.S-China Phase One agreements.
While answering a question about Wall St. journal criticism of the USMCA, Lighthizer discussed the dynamic of Wall Street -vs- Main Street as part of the bigger picture objective in the revised deal. He avoids the words “globalism” -vs- “nationalism” but the sentiment as described is there.
On China Lighthizer emphasizes the “phase one” deal is really a test to see if it is even possible to have an enforceable trade agreement between a communist state-run economy (China) and a free-market economy (U.S).
The House Rules Committee is constructing the rules that will govern the House of Representatives’ vote on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump tomorrow. The House Rules Committee is led by Democrat Rep. Jim McGovern.
The rules and procedures debate is following along party lines.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has a plan to confiscate guns in his state. He uses the usual friendly catchwords such as “common sense” gun control and “gun safety” and the “enough is enough” argument.
In order to ‘help’ people, the authoritarians insist on trampling on our Constitution, which they consider an antique standing in the way of their power. They bypass our Bill of Rights by enacting their own laws. Laws limiting free speech. Laws that steal your hard-earned money. Laws that take away your ability to defend yourself and your family. Laws that prevent you from resisting government tyranny.
In order to take away freedom, the Virginia governor and his Democrat-controlled legislature plan on banning on ‘assault’ weapons as well as limiting handgun purchases.
This should come as no surprise—especially considering that Northam is aligned with the billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
For decade the left have conducted gun control in seemingly small and ‘reasonable’ steps. This kind of incrementalism will lead to a total gun ban and an end to our Second Amendment. This is what the globalists, the UN, and Democrats want. Once we’re disarmed, it will be over and our slavery will become complete.
It is the duty of all citizens to defend our rights. When tyrants want to trample on our rights with their ‘laws’ (that cannot usurp our Constitution) then it’s our duty to speak out loudly against such laws and actively disobey them. I commend the patriots in Virginia who are declaring their counties to be ‘sanctuaries’ for the Second Amendment.
Our Fourth Amendment is already gone. They want to limit our free speech with their damnable ‘hate speech’ laws. They want control over our health with their damnable mandatory vaccination laws. They want our guns. Our weapons are our last defense against a capriciously insane government that tramples on our freedom.
The gun grab in Virginia is a trial balloon, a test of America’s resolve to protect our second amendment.
My concern about this vaccine movement is straight-forward – NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW! Why do Pharmaceutical Companies need absolute immunity if the vaccines they are forcing on children are safe? There should be testing of the children who have died to determine what combination of vaccines and in what order they might become lethal weapons to certain children.
When you go to a doctor, they ask you right away are you allergic to any medicine or anything in particular. They do NOT do that with children starting to vaccinate them at birth. There is a lower safety standard when it comes to vaccines and children. You should not find out if your child is allergic to something because it killed them.
Vaccines should not be mandated. Kids come home from school and are always bringing various colds they then share with the parents. Vaccines do not create a perfect world. End the absolute immunity and then perhaps the Pharmaceutical Companies just might actually do what they are supposed to do – ensure their vaccines are safe. Why pay for that research if they can never be sued?
Most states do allow families to claim religious exemptions to mandated vaccinations, but that is changing and the Pharmaceutical Companies have been bribing politicians around the country to end even the freedom of religious exemptions. New Jersey would have joined New York, California, Maine, Mississippi, and West Virginia as states requiring that all children enrolled in school be vaccinated unless they have a valid medical reason. These are the states that demonstrate how corrupt governments are within those states. Three of the most tax abusive states are included; California, New York, and New Jersey. If you have small children, and you will NEVER be able to retire in these states, it is time to starting looking for alternatives.
The New Jersey Legislature, at the last minute, postponed the vote on what would be one of the strictest vaccine laws in the nation. New Jersey postponed a final vote on a bill that would have ended religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for students enrolled in any school or college, public or private.
California, which claims it is liberal, is actually very authoritarian. It is one of only a few states that does not allow parents to opt-out of vaccines due to their religious beliefs. California actually rejects the First Amendment and the freedom of religion. This is really strange for a state that protects illegal aliens and is anti-Trump but not children. If we follow the money from Pharmaceutical Companies, it demonstrates that California will flip if you pay-off the politicians.
Interestingly enough, I had not really paid much attention to the Church of Scientology. I knew it began in Southern California. One night I went to a high-end steak restaurant in Tampa named Berns, which is rather famous. I discovered that even Tom Cruise moved from California to Clearwater, Florida a few miles from where I live. I had found out only because we had the same sports car and people thought I was Cruise when I pulled into a restaurant (the disappointment on their faces when I got out was overwhelming). Nonetheless, Scientology’s largest headquarters and religious retreat was created in Clearwater, Florida which is the largest Church of Scientology in the world. They escaped the vaccines and the taxes of California, which I found interesting.
Besides chasing out a lot of famous people, California has also set a new record. As of the end of June the school year, there were 6,741 home-schooled kindergartners without their vaccine shots in California, compared with 1,880 in the 2016-17 school year, according to state data. The loop-hole people are moving toward is home-schooling.
It just seems like the first step with the Pharmaceutical Companies is to REPEAL their absolute immunity and REPEAL absolute vaccine requirements. The standard vaccines that have been around for decades are one thing. As I said, I was vaccinated as were my children. But there were no way 70+ vaccines back then. Perhaps less is better. They should provide the statistics on each vaccine and let the parent decide. Major life-threatening diseases are one thing. All of these other vaccines may be just too much.
COMMENT #1: Thank you so much for your blog on “Pharmaceutical Companies & Buying Immunity”. We are dealing with the same laws trying to be passed in Oregon. There is so much hatred towards those that don’t fully vaccinate in our society. My brother-in-law (who is a MD) and his family will not visit us anymore because we have administered either none or very few vaccines on our three kids. It really feels like we are the Jewish people during WWII.
Thank you for speaking up!
DW
COMMENT #2: Hi Martin,
I was wondering if you could comment further on the topic of vaccines. I’m personally very concerned about the way Democrats seem to purposely conflate the anti-vaccination movement with people who are simply against giving the state the power to enforce mandatory vaccinations. I am not against vaccines, I’m just against the PERVERSE INCENTIVES that come along with government mandated mass vaccination programs. Do you think they consciously lie when they group anti-vaxxers and anti-government types together, or are they just so stupid or ideologically blind that they can’t even tell the difference anymore?
From my understand the scientific rationale for mandatory vaccination is the theory of “herd immunity”, which argues that as many people as possible need to be vaccinated in order to protect those who can not be vaccinated for medical reasons. I have read criticisms of this theory that argue long term herd immunity can not be artificially induced through vaccinations, but rather only through natural exposure to infectious diseases. I don’t know what to believe, but I do know that it is easy to be skeptical of the scientific justifications for government overreach these days, considering the absurdly transparent motives and biases behind the so-called “science” of anthropocentric climate catastrophism.
It seems to me that the relationship between human immune system and infectious diseases is just as much of a non-linear dynamic system as other aspects of nature, and that the theory of artificially induced herd immunity may be based on a simplistic linear model of that relationship.
Thanks Martin,
CG
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When the Democrats try to switch the debate and call these people anti-government, they are deliberately attacking the messenger because they do not want to address the crisis since all you have to do is follow the money. They are putting children at risk ONLY because the Pharmaceutical Companies have a huge lobby. The press will not defend the people. They should ask any politician who makes statements against the anti-vaccine movement if they accept money from any drug-related company or lobby.
The entire design of Socrates is based upon the realization that there are so many variables and combinations that attempting to reduce the economic prospects for the future to a single cause and effect is absolutely impossible. The same is true when you have this many vaccines. I was vaccinated and I had my children vaccinated. But I do not recall it being more than 10 basic shots like polio for example. There was no vaccine for the measles back then.
There are way too many combinations when you have 70+ vaccines and that creates a complete unknown that no drug company bothers to investigate. The drug companies have been relieved of ALL liability thanks to Congress. They can even deliberately kill people and never be charged or sued. That is UN-AMERICAN!!!!!
I drink probably 8 to 10 cups of coffee a day and will even have one by my bed at night. Caffeine has never had an effect on me but I have friends who get jitters on just a half-cup. We are all different and it is ABSURD to subject children to this without testing the combination of vaccines and what they may do to a particular child. Children have died and others have been seriously injured. Nobody is testing to see whether certain combinations of vaccines become lethal to some children.
If your brother-in-law is being such a brain dead person who refuses to listen, then don’t worry. You should not associate with that type of person anyhow. He obviously believes whatever the pharmaceutical companies tell him because he probably gets some sort of kick-back for making particular recommendations. There are plenty of economists who preach the standard nonsense and are never right.
It is very simple. If this was all nonsense, then there would be no need to run to Congress to get absolute immunity from lawsuits. That removes any responsibility for a product that does not apply to any other business. This like saying the bank can just take your money and you have no right to sue them. I doubt people would keep their money in a bank if that was the law
Decide for yourself why this was needed. On the eve of Trump’s impeachment the Trusty Planners join with the Tick Tockers on Fox News. We know Bill Barr will appear on Fox tomorrow to justify his lack of action. CTH has a pretty good grasp of what’s going on. Millions of battered conservatives still don’t see it. Codependent no more.
At a key point in the interview Ms. Bartiromo says:
…”the lies are real, people will be prosecuted, and you are looking at crimes; not only against Carter Page, but against a sitting president”…
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How incredibly tragic is it with all the documents and communications that Barr & Durham can see today, that they have not taken action BEFORE the House can brand President Trump with the words “Impeached President” for the rest of eternity.
Amid all the shameful conduct from Washington DC over decades, the purposeful inaction by a lying U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr will forever cement his place in history.
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