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February 20, 2023 - Twitter Files – Matt Taibbi is sniffing around the Senate Intel Cmte connection to manipulation of social media; what else could he discover?
“Matt Taibbi [@mtaibbi] is a smart guy, he’ll get there. I’m not sure why my gut says to trust him, but it does – and I do. Recently he’s been getting hit by the leftists who are asking why Taibbi is not looking at the Trump administration pressure on social media to control and manipulate public information [Twitter Here].
Taibbi has been hitting back against his detractors by saying, there’s no evidence of Trump doing that; yet there is massive evidence of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) contacting Twitter to do exactly that.
This is interesting to me and CTH readers because we outlined in real time what the SSCI and HPSCI were doing in order to promote the Trump-Russia conspiracy before and after the 2016 election.
What’s fascinating about this… is that the same people who are attacking Taibbi right now, are the same people who received and promoted the propaganda from the SSCI (Burr and Warner) in addition to the HPSCI (Schiff and Swalwell).
In essence, the ancillary media attack hounds are attacking Taibbi because at the end of the research trail Taibbi is following he will find the same names of the ancillary media who are attacking him.
[SEE SHORT THREAD HERE]
In my opinion, Taibbi is on the right trail in following the SSCI and HPSCI manipulation of the social media platforms, specifically Twitter. In addition to the SSCI creating the structure that supports the intelligence weaponization by DHS and FBI, Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr and then Senate Intel Vice-Chair Mark Warner are at the epicenter of it.
I know I sound like a broken record on this, but it’s been true since the outset of my own research discoveries of the issue four years ago. The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative couldn’t exist without the SSCI participating in it. This is why I have talked and written so much about it.
Factually, and I say this with no compunction for attribution, if you want to tell the public the story of the larger issue, the absolute best starting point is how SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner told SSCI Security Director James Wolfe to leak the Carter Page FISA application to then Politico journalist Ali Watkins. It’s an easy story to outline because there is ample evidence to highlight it, including open admissions by the DOJ and FBI (in documented court records) that the leak event on March 17, 2017, took place.
That week in mid-March, 2017, when Mark Warner leaked the Page FISA application followed two days later by James Comey testifying to congress (March 20th), was/is the most openly documented evidence-based story that leads to everything that follows.
On March 17, 2017, Senator Mark Warner leaked the FISA in order to stimulate the media to support the demand for a Trump-Russia special counsel. On March 20, 2017, holding the exact same motive, FBI Director James Comey first made the public admission that President Donald Trump was under FBI investigation for the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy. Senator Warner and Director Comey held the exact same motive.
Everything done by the SSCI before and after that mid-March event, touches everything before and after the special counsel was appointed. It’s like a fulcrum point that creates massive tentacles into the entire apparatus of the effort by the legislative branch, the executive branch, the intelligence community and the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel to cover it up.
Expose that moment on March 17, 2017, and the entire house of cards built by Weissmann/Mueller and the DC media apparatus collapses.
There is not another single moment during the entire arc of the Trump-Russia madness, that creates the inflection point as well as the March 17, 2017, leak. EXAMPLE:
(Source)
Keep cheering on Matt Taibbi. Keep supporting him as he follows this trail. Yes, you know where it ends, but you are a select rare few who have followed this story. Taibbi can blow it wide open if he continues.
Additionally, remember and understand that the entirety of the media apparatus was in on this scheme.
Every single outlet promoted the narrative that was collectively pushed by Senator Mark Warner, Director James Comey, the corrupt intelligence apparatus and the Robert Mueller special counsel. They are all opposed to Taibbi following this trail.
(Conservative Treehouse, 2/20/2023) (Archive)
February 22, 2023 - Fighting Lawfare: Commission for Lawyer Discipline vs Sidney Powell - Final Summary Judgment
“On March 1, 2022, the Texas Bar filed suit against Sidney Powell in Texas state court, alleging six ethical violations arising from the election fraud suits she filed on behalf of electors following the 2020 presidential election.
Full discovery ensued with multiple depositions, Powell’s production of more than 55,000 pages of documents and a massive privilege log.
Yesterday the Texas Judge applied settled law and held that the Bar had no evidence as a matter of law that Powell violated any rule in her four election fraud cases.(Defending the Republic, 2/23/2023) (Archive) (Sidney Powell Final Summary Judgment)
February 22, 2023 - Biden "moneyman" to flip and provide House Oversight Cmte with documents proving money laundering and wire fraud
“Hunter Biden’s top financial lieutenant Eric Schwerin is expected to “soon” provide documents to the House Oversight Committee’s investigation of the Biden family for nine violations, including money laundering and wire fraud, a spokesperson for the committee told Breitbart News.
Schwerin, who shared bank accounts with President Joe Biden and dubbed the family’s “moneyman,” also maintained guest lists for White House functions and negotiated the settlement with Hunter’s first wife, Kathleen. Emails from Hunter’s laptop show Schwerin was deeply embedded in Hunter’s personal life and the Biden family networks for nearly two decades and is even pictured at campaign events with Joe Biden.
Schwerin was also the president of Rosemont Seneca Partners, a fund created by Hunter Biden and several associates that spawned business deals in Russia, Ukraine, China, and Romania. Many of those deals yielded the Biden family business millions over decades while Joe Biden was an elected official.
Joe Biden and his team have claimed at least seven times the president is not involved in the family’s international business deals, but more than 17 instances show that Joe Biden was involved in the business. In one example, Schwerin visited the White House and other official locations 27 times when Joe Biden was vice president.
A committee spokesperson told Breitbart News it has been in contact with “Schwerin’s attorney and expect him to start producing documents to the Oversight Committee soon.”
Wednesday was the deadline set by the committee for Schwerin, James, and Hunter to comply with demands to disclose a host of both classified and unclassified documents, records, and communications between business associates and family members, including Joe Biden.
While Hunter has refused to comply with the request, the committee told Breitbart News that James has received correspondence from his attorneys. It is unknown if James is complying with the requests.
“Oversight Committee staff will be in communication with them about Chairman Comer’s request,” the spokesperson said.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) has stated in February the “next step” to compel the relevant information from Hunter and James is to issue subpoenas to Hunter and James if they do not comply.
The revelations about Schwerin’s willingness to turn over documents to the committee comes as Republicans have been stonewalled by Hunter, the Treasury Department, and former FBI “point man” Timothy Thibault, who allegedly “improperly” “shut down” a probe into Hunter’s laptop that is likely unrelated to the ongoing criminal probe concerning reported tax fraud by the president’s son.
In January, the Treasury denied the Committee’s request to disclose 150 suspicious reports flagged by U.S. banks concerning Biden family business transactions, causing Comer to threaten a subpoena. (Read more: Breitbart, 2/22/2023) (Archive)
February 23, 2023 - Victoria Nuland: The Woman Behind the Wars
1/10 Let’s talk about @UnderSecStateP Viktoria Nuland and her role in US policy of #warmongering Because it’s look like she is just on her way under the bus! pic.twitter.com/jsfcUCyoWb
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 23, 2023
3/10 It all began at Brown, when Nuland developed an interest in Russia. She had read and loved Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and wondered how a culture could both have produced writers like those and also developed the brutal Communist system under which Russians were living. pic.twitter.com/V2BUGMqDAM
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 23, 2023
5/10 I’m personally believing that her engagement with #CIA happened during her latest years of Brown University. In 1984 Toria spend a six months on the Soviet Union fishing ship (big one) mastering her understanding of Russian sociology https://t.co/dIcMbbN3rK pic.twitter.com/NwSpMObrq9
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 23, 2023
7/10 Next big thing in Toria life as a warmonger was engineering of #IraqWar together with her husband, Robert Kagan – prominent neocon, and on that time Toria and MIC strike a deal – Producing tensions-Starting War-Profiting from Weapons sales – https://t.co/s9cMHoTjEs
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 23, 2023
9/10 We was covering Toria activities in #Ukraine in our film Ukraine on Fire You need to watch that movie to understand her leading role in that coup, film is available on #amazonprime and everywhere else https://t.co/JVJb3W4ile
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 23, 2023
11/10 I want to keep that thread open and invite everyone to add to our knowledge on subject
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 23, 2023
13/10 This is how exactly Viktoria Nuland acting in favor of @HillaryClinton was inserting Chris Steele dossier on Donald Trump into the @StateDept Excerpt from our documentary “Revealing Ukraine” @stranahan great analysis pic.twitter.com/H8bjm8bIpq
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 23, 2023
14/10 Bio-Labs After Maidan coup (2014) #Ukraine was a testing site not only of political technology of mass brainwashing, but as well a gathering of pathogen’s for creating a new kinds of biological warfare. Russia seized a lot of evidences and #ViktoriaNuland was worried pic.twitter.com/OBNMvwLQaS
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 24, 2023
15/10 Nordstream 2 pipeline destroying – This is hard to hold when you see how cynical #ViktoriaNuland when she is bragging about act of international state terror act – blowing Nordstream 2 pipeline
Great story by Seymour Hersh under that link+videohttps://t.co/iY47iwUIvl pic.twitter.com/8k0w9Gl3fo— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 24, 2023
And this is latest from @UnderSecStateP her self, now you will read that speech with very different perspectives. As an American journalist I believe that we need to educate our audience, enlighten audience, and let’s audience to decide! https://t.co/T7V9WG7doB
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 23, 2023
On her way to #Maidan in #Kiev in 2013 to deliver some “cookies” with Jeff Payat, her lieutenant and protégés (he was serving Deep State well before on position in IAEA trying hard to present Iranian atomic program in the bad light) pic.twitter.com/8zXplA7KPA
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 23, 2023
And more video of grilling pic.twitter.com/l0KKvyyceU
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 23, 2023
Famous F..k the EU phone call with ambassador Payat https://t.co/tOJ0MgAW8F
— Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) February 23, 2023
February 23, 2023 - Judge Amy Berman Jackson orders depositions of Trump, Wray in Strzok/Page lawsuit
“A federal judge has agreed to permit former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to take sworn testimony from former President Donald Trump for two hours as part of their long-running lawsuits related to Strzok’s firing in 2018 after Trump repeatedly and publicly pilloried the pair.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled on Thursday that Strzok and Page — whose text messages disparaging then-candidate Trump cast a pall over the FBI’s investigation of links between the Trump campaign and Russia — would also be allowed to depose FBI Director Christopher Wray for a similar two-hour period on a limited set of topics.
But there’s a twist: Their ability to ask Trump and Wray about these circumstances might come down to a decision from President Joe Biden. Jackson’s order gave the Justice Department a month to “inform the Court whether the current President will invoke … executive privilege” over any aspects of Trump’s testimony.
Jackson, an appointee of President Barack Obama, also stressed that she had not yet considered all potential objections to the demands for testimony from Trump and Wray. That could include arguments by Trump that he has the unilateral right as a former president to assert executive privilege.
Trump has spent years publicly assailing Strzok and Page for their disparaging private messages about him, claiming they proved that FBI bias fueled the Russia probe, despite independent reviews that failed to substantiate those claims. Strzok was fired amid the controversy, and Page resigned. Strzok is contesting his dismissal, and both are claiming invasion of their privacy over the manner in which the Justice Department released hundreds of their text messages.
In the suits, Strzok and Page contend that Trump and his Justice Department appointees were carrying out a political vendetta.” (Read more: Politico, 2/23/2023) (Archive)
February 23, 2023 - Billionaire Investor and friend of the Clintons, dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound
“Billionaire financier and investor Thomas H. Lee was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Manhattan office on Thursday morning, police sources said.
Cops responded to a 911 call at 767 Fifth Avenue — where Thomas H. Lee Capital, LLC is located on the sixth floor — at around 11:10 a.m., the sources said.
EMTs pronounced the 78-year-old businessman dead at the scene.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the official cause of death. (Read more: New York Post, 2/23/2023) (Archive)
(…) Lee was a good friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton and in June 2008, following Hillary’s unsuccessful presidential run, the couple reportedly stayed at his East Hampton home. (Read more: The Daily Mail, 2/23/2023) (Archive)
February 25, 2023 - Biden officials address pro-war rally led by Ukrainian Nazi supporters
USAID’s Samantha Power joined EU and US officials who rallied at the Lincoln Memorial at a pro-war demonstration organized by a clique of Ukrainian activists that have described themselves as “true Banderites” and “Right Sektor’s Washington DC branch.”
High-ranking Biden foreign policy officials including USAID Administrator, Samantha Power, and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Karen Donfried, observed the first anniversary of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. There, on February 25, 2023, they rallied alongside a band of Beltway-based Ukrainian activists dedicated to honoring and fundraising for ultra-nationalists and war criminals. The demonstrators demanded that the US send F-16 fighter jets to Kiev and “punish Russia” by any means necessary.
Power’s USAID promoted the event with a media advisory that redirected visitors to the rally’s principal organizer, an NGO called US Ukrainian Activists. This was one of two Ukrainian diaspora groups that organized the rally, and both have openly supported far-right elements in Ukraine since the US-backed Maidan coup in 2014.
US Ukrainian Activists was founded by Nadiya Shaporynska, an avowed supporter of neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist militias like the Azov Battalion, whom she has described “heroic defenders of Ukraine.” Shaporynska’s fundraising efforts for extremists groups that were at one point blacklisted by the US Department of Defense have been prolific and very public.
In a video tweeted by Power the day before the rally, Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, is seen giving the USAID Administrator a tour of a local Ukrainian government-funded cultural and business center in DC. Markarova points to a portrait of a woman on a wall and informs Power she is “Nadiya [Shaporynska], a tireless activist here in DC.”
Power and Sahporynska would become officially acquainted the following day, as pro-proxy war demonstrators descended on Washington DC’s National Mall.
The February 25 rally for Ukraine at the Lincoln Memorial featured prominent US officials on its speaker roster. Alongside Power was Karen Donfried, the Biden Administration’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Donfried spent close to 20 years working at the American and German government-funded German Marshall Fund think tank, leaving her role as its president to join the White House in 2021. Other notable speakers included Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova; District of Columbia Secretary of State Kimberly Bassett; Mark Ordan, chair of the Board of Directors at the US Chamber of Commerce; and the European Union’s Ambassador to the United States, Stavros Lambrinidis.
Also appearing on stage was Paul Grod, president of the Ukrainian World Congress. Grod has made a career out of defending the legacy of Nazi collaborators, and even once petitioned the Canadian government to officially recognize the genocidal Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, or OUN, as ‘designated resistance fighters.” This designation would have funneled Canadian tax dollars directly into the pension accounts of Nazi collaborators.
In 2010, Grod honored the legacy of the Waffen SS Galicia, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists as heroes who fought “for the freedom of their ancestral Ukrainian homeland.” These groups were driving forces behind the genocide in Eastern Europe during World War Two.
Grod’s Ukrainian World Congress hosted the February 25 pro-proxy war rally through its affiliate, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. His group has declared Stepan Bandera, the Nazi collaborator whose forces slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war, as “the undisputed symbol of Ukraine’s lengthy and tragic struggle for independence.”
The incredible Ukrainian spirit of bravery and resilience was palpable this weekend at the Lincoln Memorial where I had the chance to join Ambassador @OMarkarova, members of the Ukrainian American community and so many others to mark one year of the war in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/V5dYHXJJRP
— Samantha Power (@PowerUSAID) February 27, 2023
(Read more: The Grayzone, 3/04/2023) (Archive)
February 27, 2023 - A whistleblower claims he gave DOJ damning information on Biden family foreign business deals; is then arrested
“An Israeli think tank executive who served alongside Hunter Biden as an adviser to a Chinese energy conglomerate widely suspected of serving as a front for the Chinese Communist Party now says he provided the FBI with damning information about the Biden family’s foreign business dealings.
Gal Luft, the co-director of the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, says he provided information about Hunter Biden, his father, and his uncle, Jim Biden, to the Justice Department in March 2019. Luft served as an adviser to CEFC China Energy, a conglomerate that “aligned itself so closely with the Chinese government that it was often hard to distinguish between the two,” according to CNN. The group, which donated at least $350,000 to Luft’s think tank, paid Hunter Biden at least $6 million in 2017 to procure energy investment deals in the United States.
(…) Luft’s threat to “name names” comes after his arrest in Cyprus on Feb. 16 on charges that he illegally sold weapons to Libya and China. Luft asserts that the United States is seeking his extradition as part of a “politically motivated” payback for his exposure of the Bidens.
“DOJ is trying to bury me to protect Joe, Jim & Hunter Biden,” Luft said. An Israeli lawyer for Luft claims his client provided information about Hunter Biden to the FBI in 2019.
While Luft’s claims might otherwise be easily dismissed as a bluff, his connection to CEFC China Energy suggests he may know something about the Bidens. And an American lawyer for Luft has signaled he will provide information to Congress about Luft’s case.
“Dr. Luft is a whistleblower,” Luft attorney Robert Henoch told the Washington Free Beacon. He asserts that prosecutors decided against pursuing Luft’s information “and are instead targeting him with trumped-up and false charges.”
“This unfortunately appears to be part of an attempt to discredit a witness with critical information about an ongoing congressional and DOJ investigation.” (Read more: Washington Free Beacon, 2/27/2023) (Archive)
March 3, 2023 - Tracy Beanz breaks down General Flynn's lawsuit against the DOJ and FBI
🚨THREAD: General Michael Flynn (RET) filed a lawsuit against the United States for malicious prosecution and abuse of process. (@GenFlynn)
If you never fully understood what happened or didn’t know, this thread is for you. https://t.co/VnQPXNZtYY
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
Here is where the government is going to have an issue. Because the documents are already available BEFORE discovery, they can’t argue against this without discrediting themselves.
This is a very rare case where the Plaintiff already has a mountain of evidence before the case… https://t.co/DW6BRHqNvq pic.twitter.com/pfCaiJajj7
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
As the trolls come to pile on this thread with pictures of Flynn sitting with Putin (that will be addressed and boy will their heads spin) remember that for almost 5 years EVERYONE in the establishment media and the corrupt uniparty LIED TO YOU about Russia and the Trump… https://t.co/rIlKNusGqL
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
High-ranking members of the FBI knew what the FBI and DOJ were doing was wrong.
Bill Priestap, who was Assistant Deputy Director wrote in his notes the day Comey sent CI agents to interview Flynn: “Is the goal to get to the truth, or to get Flynn to lie so we can prosecute him… https://t.co/FcoFvqlk72 pic.twitter.com/bqF3RCTyd0
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
Understand we have the above-handwritten notes. There is no question that this is what Priestap wrote. There is no question that they knew it was wrong to entrap General Flynn. There is no question that Comey knew exactly what he was doing during the ambush interview. We have the… https://t.co/TeZ8l3Pu4c
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
They go through a list of the “wrongdoers” in the government. Included are the DIJ, the FBI, the Special Counsels’ Office (Mueller,) the Executive Office of the President, and more whom they include more details about.
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
Comey verified under penalty of perjury 2 false FISA warrant affidavits, participated in and approved the initiation and continuation of the investigation into General Flynn, and the decision to send agents to interview him without notice to WH Counsel, and assisted in the… https://t.co/RxAHHjqTzT pic.twitter.com/WkKieGB9NW
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
Andrew McCabe is also a known liar and leaker. There could be a book written about it all. I may have written enough to fill one already. Some light reading for you, and you may also want to check out the next post for some truly stunning info that I broke https://t.co/0jFfdT07Z6… https://t.co/78tGIgACTG
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
Here… Take a look through this.. https://t.co/VDa12V3RNx
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
Also included are Lisa Page, Joe Pientka (the agent who interviewed Flynn with Strzok and a whole bunch more) Mueller and Brandon Van Grack, the US Attorney who oversaw the case.
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
There won’t be a successful jurisdiction argument. USG will try, but I don’t foresee that succeeding. The Plaintiff lives in this judicial district, and the entire government is being sued. pic.twitter.com/ecN3VOw5JW
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
General Flynn served as DIA Director until he stepped down in August of 2014, and then returned from the Army on September 30, 2014. Admiral Rogers, director of the NSA, praised General Flynn as the “best intelligence officer of the past 20 years”
He then started a successful… https://t.co/tViWU94m4r pic.twitter.com/lwpfzxmFuG
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
7/31/16: The FBI under Comey, McCabe, Priestap and Strzok open the CI investigation named “Crossfire Hurricane” assumed to concern FARA to determine whether “individuals associated with the Trump campaign are sitting of and/or coordinating activities with the Government of… https://t.co/h3y8SAhVSp pic.twitter.com/JwpLQfVa3j
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
One of the only real qualms I had about this filing is that they say that the emails that Wikileaks released from the DNC were hacked. I beg to differ.
However, the FBI opened one of the most corrupt investigations in its history based on hearsay that someone heard at a bar. pic.twitter.com/7Oti1oyOOg
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
On 8/16/16, the FBI opened their investigation into General Flynn as a sub-part of the CH investigation. They called it “Crossfire Razor” and it was intended to determine if General Flynn knowingly or unknowingly was “involved in activity on behalf of the https://t.co/mJ2AMqVf0r… https://t.co/5XMiv6ZKro pic.twitter.com/4bIxVct2zN
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
Well, what do you do when you don’t have probable cause?! YOU INVENT SOME.
Enter one, Christopher Steele. In September 2016, the FBI and DOJ received info from Steele. When the info came in, the FBI KNEW that he had been paid by the DNC and the Clinton campaign to perform oppo… https://t.co/ApWd5auUGh pic.twitter.com/vBNyZkgjRE
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
The FBI didn’t tell the FISC that the evidence it has obtained was tainted oppo research that wasn’t true. Instead, the FBI lied to the FISC to get the most intrusive warrant known to man to spy on the campaign.
The FBI didn’t tell the FISC that the primary sub-source for the… https://t.co/BoBo00RYC6 pic.twitter.com/WwR62YSrd9
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
If you are the government trying to defend against this in court, your argument has to be “the OIG doesn’t know what he’s doing. This is a lie.”
Good luck with that.
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
Here are the predicates the FBI used to open the investigation into General Flynn:
1. His position as an advisor to Presidential candidate Trump.
2. “Open source” reporting on his ties to “various state-affiliated entities of the Russian Federation.”
3. The fact that he traveled… https://t.co/z0hNXoh2yJ pic.twitter.com/pOsqDSj7Fz— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
They can’t investigate him just because he is an advisor to a presidential candidate. That isn’t a proper justification to investigate him as a Russian spy. He was one of the nation’s greatest intelligence officers – this is patently ridiculous- AND THEY KNEW IT. pic.twitter.com/cfXOk9lpk5
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
Here is where the heads explode. The FBI was fully aware – General Flynn briefed the USG both BEFORE and AFTER the RT trip. He acted as an information gathering agent FOR the US when he made it. Not AGAINST.
Next time someone sends you that damn picture and calls him a traitor,… https://t.co/qflTJyxSBg pic.twitter.com/ni8OFPNZDj
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
This is great. “It would require the FBI to fantasize that a three-star general had betrayed his country on the basis of a few thousand dollars in speaking fees, bare fraction of what generals make on the speaking circuit..” pic.twitter.com/K8RKCTQXBB
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
Let’s put all reality aside and pretend the FBI did nothing wrong in opening the investigation. They still wrongfully and maliciously kept it going after it had been completed and General Flynn was CLEARED.
It was supposed to be closed in 12/2016 because they found NOTHING.… https://t.co/V6lS4vj9mJ pic.twitter.com/nh6R0tMlfk
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
Knowing that the CI investigation was slated to be closed, they started considering opening a new criminal investigation based on the Logan Act. DOJ poo pooed the idea, and instead decided to keep the CI investigation open based solely on the calls to Kislyak, pic.twitter.com/H72ypAsPe8
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
The FBI knew that General Flynn did NOT discuss sanctions on the call with Kislyak. They had the transcripts. The transcripts were later released.
No matter what you say, no matter how people try to spin that call, etc – the transcript of the calls proves that General Flynn DID… https://t.co/ODUe31DJ8J
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
They all knew that General Flynn would be able to piece apart and destroy their attempt at taking President Trump out using the Intelligence Apparatus– so for this and other reasons, they needed him gone. pic.twitter.com/DRmAbAptZ3
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
They planned a perjury trap for General Flynn. We know they planned a perjury trap for a few reasons. We have the documents, and JAMES COMEY TOLD US. pic.twitter.com/ziQC4AVp2E
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
And it wasn’t without debate- According to documents, Yates and other DOJ officials wanted the transcripts shared. So did DAG, DNI, and CIA…. But Comey went it alone.
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
They went there intending to get General Flynn to lie – and they left writing down that he didn’t lie about anything.
Not included in the suit is how Pientka used a briefing to get a “baseline” for Flynn…
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
And no one can ever forget the way James Comey gloated about what he did.. pic.twitter.com/ZenjXw4pkv
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
This was their entire goal. After the meeting was finished, even they were forced to admit that General Flynn had not lied during the interview.
He told the truth. THEY wrote it down. pic.twitter.com/rppk4eSKlV
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
This was a large part of the DOJ having to dismiss this case against General Flynn– and if you thought it was bad so far, I have more coming for the
“BUT HE PLED GUILTY” crew. This case is a TRAVESTY. pic.twitter.com/gBANJApwFQ
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
And then, in comes the Special Counsel. pic.twitter.com/XE6zl18UHT
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
When they filed, Van Grack (US Attorney for SCO) knew it was a lie. They had notes taken at the WH meeting that his conversations with Kislyak were “legitimate.”
They knew there could be no materiality. They filed anyway. pic.twitter.com/iWtOGueHRb
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
The SCO WILLFULLY failed to disclose exculpatory information to General Flynn. They didn’t provide the notes from Stzrok and Pientka showing that the FBI believed he didn’t lie, they did;t share the notes from the oval, and much more.
The government didn’t follow its Brady… https://t.co/l3ZvjnLhsV pic.twitter.com/PRk5zZxSpS
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
The DOJ ultimately determined that continuing the prosecution of General Flynn would not serve the interests of justice because he didn’t commit any crime, and the DOJ/FBI knew it the entire time. This isn’t an assumption; there are REAMS of documents proving it. pic.twitter.com/P2guaZw2jO
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
After 3 long years in court- after withdrawing his guilty plea and retaining new counsel, the DOJ dismissed the prosecution of General Flynn…
And everyone lived happily ever after… WRONG.— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
READ EVERY WORD. The judge’s “friend of the court” ended up being a wildly partisan hack who had not even weeks before penned an op-ed about the special counsel which bled his contempt for anyone or anything in Trump world. This was the most back asswards thing that I have ever… https://t.co/fKKVNEcMGY pic.twitter.com/6y2WkIM5H6
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
President Trump pardoned an innocent man – who the facts have shown was completely innocent and targeted by a government he pledged his life to serve – to ensure that he wasn’t a target of a rogue administration should he not win the Presidency.
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
General Flynn was not a Russian Agent. General Flynn never lied. General Flynn pled guilty because they threatened his family and withheld information that proved his innocence in contravention of the law. pic.twitter.com/K8tXb9t3d5
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
What happened to General Flynn is an absolute travesty of justice that can never happen again, but unfortunately happens all too often. Our “justice” system is irreparably broken. To help with legal fees for this case: https://t.co/38Pbxthh05
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
ADDENDUM: A good friend sent me the video I was talking about with Mike Rogers. pic.twitter.com/CTR0bgZtyT
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
You know that photo of @GenFlynn with Putin that the left likes to throw around to claim he’s some traitor?? 👇👇 https://t.co/h716Snczob
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) March 5, 2023
March 6, 2023 - The Intel Community is laying the groundwork for FISA 702 renewal
“Ugh, it makes me sick to see these schemes as they are constructed and yet feel helpless to stop them from organizing. Remember which media outlets push the PR campaigns of the U.S. Govt. (1) CNN drives Dept of State; (2) Washington Post drives CIA; and (3) NYT/Politico advance the interests of the domestic intelligence apparatus.
With that in mind, here comes the Intelligence Community laying the groundwork for reauthorization of the FISA-702 surveillance system on American citizens.
They are so damned transparent in their agenda, the stenographers have even dropped “FISA,” the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as the term within the construct. Now they are just calling it “702 reauthorization.”
(VIA POLITICO) – The intelligence community has a critical congressional ally in its bid to reauthorize a sweeping warrantless surveillance program. However, even he thinks its officials aren’t making a convincing enough case.
“One of the things the community’s got to do a better job of is explaining, in practical non-classified terms, how valuable this tool is,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) said in a recent brief interview. “And they’ve not done that as well as they should.”
Warner sits at the heart of what will be a months-long, knockout debate about whether to reauthorize the warrantless surveillance program, known as Section 702, by the end-of-year deadline. The program is designed to gather the electronic communications of foreigners abroad, but has the potential to sweep up those of Americans.
The Virginian, who argues continuing the program in some form is essential but is open to changes, will have his work cut out for him. Influential and newly emboldened House Republicans have made it clear they won’t let Section 702 stay alive without significant changes — if they support reauthorization at all — amid an all-time-low relationship with the Justice Department and the FBI.
And the intelligence community can also count Section 702 critics among House Democrats and senators in both parties, many of whom believe this is their best chance to force more limits on the program. (read more)
As most people are now aware, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) sits at the epicenter of how the surveillance state is weaponized against American citizens. It is the SSCI who helped create the surveillance network, and it is the SSCI who now seek to defend the unconstitutional system they have created.
Pretenses are being dropped, and you will note how in this reauthorization schedule they are dropping “foreign” communication with American citizens, as a limitation on the authority they have already usurped. Yes, it is factually true the ‘foreign’ aspect was always a ruse, a false premise, that granted the Dept of Justice, National Security Division (DOJ-NSD), and FBI legal authority to conduct intrusive Title-1 surveillance on any American citizen.
Well beyond the “cell phone metadata,” in the era of your portable transponder having internet and social media connection, just about everyone has metadata connected to a foreign person or entity. Use the Twitter app on your phone, you are connected to foreign entities. Use Instagram or Facebook, WhatsApp or Telegram, same/same/same/same.
TicTok? Fughetaboudit. The auspices of only looking at U.S. persons engaged in foreign contacts is totally moot.
The “702 authorities,” which is an innocuous term for a “U.S. Person“, permit DHS, DOJ, FBI and any national security apparatchik to open up your data and check you out. This is the reality of the modern era. This total surveillance reauthorization is what the SSCI wants to permit. It must be stopped completely. It cannot be “reformed.”
4th Amendment – “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” the United States Constitution, or you are not.
Either you are secure from federal search of your “private papers,” as outlined in–
There is no aspect of this “702” nonsense, where a secret court grants a secret authorization, to engage in secret surveillance, by some secret entity of government – which might be a contractor, just to “see if” you might be doing something suspicious, or against the interests of the federal government. The premise behind “702” reauthorization is unconstitutional. (Read more: Conservative Treehouse, 3/6/2023) (Archive)
March 8, 2023 - FBI agent Nicole Miller lies under oath and conceals evidence in Proud Boys trial
BREAKING: Drama in the Proud Boys trial yesterday after FBI agent caught lying on the stand and concealing evidence from defense attorneys.
Motion filed this morning from Nick Smith, attorney representing Ethan Nordean.
This is what happens when a rogue, corrupt FBI… pic.twitter.com/iNVnIIgPLn
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 9, 2023
What messages did FBI conceal from defense?
A request by an FBI informant to alter an official CHS (confidential human source) report.
“EDIT OUT I WAS PRESENT.” pic.twitter.com/jHbyGP1H3f
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 9, 2023
Even more egregious (maybe?)–FBI accessed emails between one defendant and his attorney and discussed its contents. This agent apparently knew one defendant planned to go to trial.
The judge excused the jury as soon as this info was revealed in court yesterday. Hearing shortly pic.twitter.com/69kztDTEEd
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 9, 2023
Correction: Jail conversation
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 9, 2023
MORE breaking news in Proud Boys trial.
Defense attys file to dismiss case based on revelations in Tucker tapes AND FBI concealing, doctoring evidence.
🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/fGhhArQ6e3
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 9, 2023
More confirmation here about FBI agent who lied on the stand yesterday and concealed evidence.
“Admitted fabricating evidence and following orders to destroy hundreds of items of evidence.”
Lack of criminal accountability for FISAgate lives… pic.twitter.com/c8DuqKwv2D
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 9, 2023
Concealing evidence. Doctoring evidence. Destroying evidence. Violating attorney-client privilege.
What’s sad is this will be ignored even by conservative media and Congress simply bc they are members of the Proud Boys.
That’s not a crime no matter how many times Wray says it. pic.twitter.com/IeXGj4gV7t
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 9, 2023
March 9, 2023 - Twitter Files: Matt Taibbi Statement to Congress-The Censorship-Industrial Complex
1. TWITTER FILES:
Statement to Congress
THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX pic.twitter.com/JLryjnINXS— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
3. But Twitter was more like a partner to government.
With other tech firms it held a regular “industry meeting” with FBI and DHS, and developed a formal system for receiving thousands of content reports from every corner of government: HHS, Treasury, NSA, even local police: pic.twitter.com/DgI954lge7
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
5. Many were obvious “misinformation,” like accounts urging people to vote the day after an election.
But other official “disinfo” reports had shakier reasoning. The highlighted Twitter analysis here disagrees with the FBI about accounts deemed a “proxy of Russian actors”: pic.twitter.com/9AZ7jZFfWi
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
7. In some cases, state reports didn’t even assert misinformation. Here, a list of YouTube videos is flagged for “anti-Ukraine narratives”: pic.twitter.com/dAWYp8Ht5j
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
9. Asked if Twitter’s marketing department could say the company detects “misinfo” with help of “outside experts,” a Twitter executive replied: pic.twitter.com/oYjKUqE96I
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
11. Who’s in the Censorship-Industrial Complex? Twitter in 2020 helpfully compiled a list for a working group set up in 2020.
The National Endowment for Democracy, the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab, and Hamilton 68’s creator, the Alliance for Securing Democracy, are key: pic.twitter.com/7lLlL2tcjN
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
13. NGOs ideally serve as a check on corporations and the government. Not long ago, most of these institutions viewed themselves that way. Now, intel officials, “researchers,” and executives at firms like Twitter are effectively one team – or Signal group, as it were: pic.twitter.com/AIQsdavacQ
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
15. The report was co-authored by Katie Couric and Chris Krebs, the founder of the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Yoel Roth of Twitter and Nathaniel Gleicher of Facebook were technical advisors. Prince Harry joined Couric as a Commissioner. pic.twitter.com/lV8coy43Hn
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
17. Note Aspen recommended the power to mandate data disclosure be given to the FTC, which this committee just caught in a clear abuse of office, demanding information from Twitter about communications with (and identities of) #TwitterFiles reporters. https://t.co/IfbfYmj0ev pic.twitter.com/M9vO024AQI
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
19. The same agencies (FBI, DHS/CISA, GEC) invite the same “experts” (Thomas Rid, Alex Stamos), funded by the same foundations (Newmark, Omidyar, Knight) trailed by the same reporters (Margaret Sullivan, Molly McKew, Brandy Zadrozny) seemingly to every conference, every panel. pic.twitter.com/6rS6L7Lxds
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
21.While Twitter sometimes pushed back on technical analyses from NGOs about who is and isn’t a “bot,” on subject matter questions like vaccines or elections they instantly defer to sites like Politifact, funded by the same names that fund the NGOs: Koch, Newmark, Knight. pic.twitter.com/8zaTndVOJ3
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
23. Well, you say, so what? Why shouldn’t civil society organizations and reporters work together to boycott “misinformation”? Isn’t that not just an exercise of free speech, but a particularly enlightened form of it?
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
25. Some NGOs, like the GEC-funded Global Disinformation Index or the DOD-funded Newsguard, not only seek content moderation but apply subjective “risk” or “reliability” scores to media outlets, which can result in reduction in revenue. Do we want government in this role? pic.twitter.com/s9tobM9rf8
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
27. After public uproar “paused” the Orwellian “Disinformation Governance Board” of the DHS in early 2020, Stanford created the EIP to “fill the gaps” legally, as director Alex Stamos explains here (h/t Foundation for Freedom Online). https://t.co/G7xLxecbMk
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
29. According to the EIP’s own data, it succeeded in getting nearly 22 million tweets labeled in the runup to the 2020 vote. pic.twitter.com/kuA7crjD80
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
31. After the 2020 election, when EIP was renamed the Virality Project, the Stanford lab was on-boarded to Twitter’s JIRA ticketing system, absorbing this government proxy into Twitter infrastructure – with a capability of taking in an incredible 50 million tweets a day. pic.twitter.com/iPxtRT0QSR
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
33. This is the Censorship-Industrial Complex at its essence: a bureaucracy willing to sacrifice factual truth in service of broader narrative objectives. It’s the opposite of what a free press does.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
35. DiResta has become the public face of the Censorship-Industrial Complex, a name promoted everywhere as an unquestioned authority on truth, fact, and Internet hygiene, even though her former firm, New Knowledge, has been embroiled in two major disinformation scandals. pic.twitter.com/nFg5JS2vkH
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
37. DiResta’s New Knowledge helped design the Hamilton 68 project exposed in the #TwitterFiles.
Although it claimed to track “Russian influence,” Hamilton really followed Americans like “Ultra Maga Dog Mom,” “Right2Liberty,” even a British rugby player named Rod Bishop: pic.twitter.com/yXoC3YTDGM
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
39. As a result of Hamilton’s efforts, all sorts of people were falsely tied in press stories to “Russian bots”: former House Intel chief Devin Nunes, #WalkAway founder @BrandonStraka, supporters of the #FireMcMaster hashtag, even people who used the term “deep state”: pic.twitter.com/YJe5TV4emq
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
41. The far worse scandal was “Project Birmingham,” in which thousands of fake Russian Twitter accounts were created to follow Alabama Republican Roy Moore in his 2017 race for US Senate.
Newspapers reported Russia seemed to take an interest in the race, favoring Moore. pic.twitter.com/n46IDLlNFN
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
43. Internally, Twitter correctly assessed the Moore story as far back as fall of 2017, saying it had no way if knowing if the Moore campaign purchased the bots, or if “an adversary purchased them… in an attempt to discredit them.” pic.twitter.com/o7hvAAssmd
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
45. Roth added, “We shouldn’t comment.” Repeatedly in the #TwitterFiles, when Twitter learned the truth about scandals like Project Birmingham, they said nothing, like banks that were silent about mortgage fraud.
Reporters also kept quiet, protecting fellow “stakeholders.”
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
47. “I know there were people who believed the Democrats needed to fight fire with fire,” she told the New York Times.
“It was absolutely chatter going around the party.” pic.twitter.com/QMxNUX5wNC
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
49. By way of proof, no major press organization has re-examined the bold claims DiResta/New Knowledge made to the Senate – e.g. that Russian ads “reached 126 million people” in 2016 – while covering up the Hamilton and Alabama frauds. If the CIC deems it, lies stay hidden.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
51. Thanks to @ShellenbergerMD and reporters/researchers @Techno_Fog, @neffects, @bergerbell, @SchmidtSue1, @tw6384, and others for help in preparing this testimony. The Twitter Files searches are performed by a third party, so material may have been left out.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
March 12, 2023 - FBI's concealed evidence is deemed classified by Proud Boys trial judge and "claws back" the exculpatory material from their defense team
I explained scandal here. After Kelly once again let DOJ do what it wanted, DOJ removed dozens of messages. Defense wasn’t allowed to use spreadsheet—defense lawyer asked last week for privilege log re deleted chats. Kelly said he’ll get around to it https://t.co/uFU3K9shxF
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 2, 2023
The document was written by a former (current?) intel asset. He told Tarrio’s friend to email to Tarrio https://t.co/SLWvn1aigi
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 2, 2023
March 12, 2023 - The Parliamentary Motive Behind the J6 Fedsurrection
Much has been made of the events of January 6, 2021, and with the latest broadcast of CCTV video from inside the Capitol Hill complex, more questions have been raised.
Within the questions: the FBI and government apparatus had advanced knowledge of the scale of the J6 mall assembly yet doing nothing? Why were the Capitol Hill police never informed of the FBI concerns? Why didn’t House Speaker Nancy Pelosi secure the Capitol Hill complex, and why did she deny the request by President Trump to call up the national guard for security support? Why did the FBI have agent provocateurs in the crowd, seemingly stimulating rage within a peaceful crowd to enter the Capitol building? There have always been these nagging questions around ‘why’?
Long time CTH reader “Regitiger” has spent a great deal of time reviewing the entire process, looking at the granular timeline and then overlaying the bigger picture of the constitutional and parliamentary process itself. What follows below is a brilliant analysis of the federal government motive to create a J6 crisis that permitted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to trigger an emergency session and avoid the 2020 election certification challenges.
Those congressional floor challenges, known and anticipated well in advance of the morning of January 6, 2021, would have formed a legal and constitutional basis for ‘standing’ in judicial challenges that would have eventually reached the Supreme Court. The certification during “emergency session” eliminated the problem for Washington DC.
Regitiger explains below, only edited by me for clarity and context:
I think most, not all, but a large number of people, are totally missing what happened; and why this happened on Jan 6th. I am going to try my best to outline the events that day, blast past the commonly held assumptions and get right down to the core corruption.
I will present this as a series of questions and answers.
♦ Q1: How do you prevent congress from delaying the certification of state electoral votes?
A: It requires a crisis. A crisis that creates an “emergency” …An “emergency” that invokes special house rules.
FACTS: Remember carefully, focus please. Just moments, literally 3 minutes before two representatives issued a vote for motions to suspend the certification, the House members were “informed” by capitol police and other “agents” that a protest was about to breach the chambers. It was at this time that key people: Pence, Pelosi, Schumer, Mcconnell can be seen being walked out and escorted from the chamber. This effectively halted the Entire Chamber Process.
♦ Q2: Why was it necessary to halt the chamber process?
A: The crisis was created to eliminate the motion challenges to halt the certification and to begin voting to look into voting irregularities and fraud
FACTS: The two motions were completely legal and constitutional under at least two constitutionally recognized procedures… procedures that would REQUIRE the house to pause the certification and then vote to determine whether the motions of suspend could move forward.
♦ Q3: What was so important to refuse this motion and the subsequent votes to suspend the electoral certification?
A: It was important to remove that process entirely and continue the fraud and certify the fraud with no detractors on record. This effectively gives no standing for a SCOTUS ruling appeal! Understand this. If those two motions, even just one had successfully been voted EVEN IF THE MOTIONS were DENIED IN VOTE, this gives those who presented them with STANDING FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL ARGUMENT BEFORE SCOTUS.
♦ Q4: Could this have been done some other way other than creating a crisis/protest?
A: Unlikely. In order to prevent those two motions, requires that speaker of the house, minority leaders, and the president of the congress (vice president of the United States: Pence), to NOT BE PRESENT IN THE CHAMBERS.
Once the capitol police and other “law enforcements agents” informed the speaker and these three other individuals, Pelosi UNILATERALLY UNDER EMERGENCY RULES, suspended the business of the congress. This protest was necessary. The crisis was created because there is no other way to suspend the business of certification UNILATERALLY. By creating a crisis invokes emergency procedures. No other circumstances other than war or mass simultaneous explosive diarrhea can create such unilateral speaker delivered suspension of the certification.
♦ Q5: Why did the motions, once that the speaker RECONVENED congress, move forward back again to the floor for votes? Why were members disallowed to even consider putting forward ANY motions to the floor in when the chamber business was reopened?
A: The Speaker initiated the NEW sessions under special emergency rules. These rules abandon and make it clear that the ONLY purpose of the new session was to EXPEDITE the certification and dismiss all prior regular session procedural rules. This is why those two motions to table votes to consider a debate and pause to the certifications of state vote electors never happened later that evening when the house business was reconvened!
♦ Q6: Other than new rules, emergency rules, what other peculiar things occurred when the speaker reconvened?
A: Members were allowed to “vote” in proxy, remotely, not being present. You can use your imagination about what conditions were placed on ALL members during this time to prevent anyone from “getting out of line”.
Also clearly, it was at THIS NEW SESSION that VP Pence, President of Congress, would also have no ability to even consider pausing the electoral certification, because there were no motions of disagreements on the matter. So, in a technical legal claim, he is correct that he had no constitutional authority to address any issues of fraud or doubts about electoral irregularities. But this completely dismisses the FACT that congress created rules in this crisis/emergency that never allowed them to be floored!
Understand what happened in Jan 6, 2021. Don’t get hung up on Viking impostors, stolen Pelosi computers, podium heists, and complicit capitol police. Understand the process and what happened and what WAS NOT ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.
This was a coup….it was a very organized and carefully planned coup. VP Pence without a doubt as well as most members of the house were quite aware of how the certification was going to be MANAGED. It would require new rules to prevent the debate clause from occurring! New rules that ONLY AN EMERGENCY CRISIS COULD CREATE! So, they created an emergency.
•NOTED: I understand why many people have great interest in debunking the j6 event. I get that. I think it is important to dissect and examine the events of that day but please, step back and understand WHY these things happened. Examine the chain of events in congress. Why those two motions that would have at least paused the certification THAT WOULD GIVE VP PENCE THE CONSTITUTIONALLY RECOGNIZED POWER TO MOVE TO SUSPEND THE ELECTORAL CERTIFICATION AND THEN EXAMINE THE IRREGULARITIES AND CLAIMS OF FRAUD!
At the very center of this coup stands Mike Pence, the same individual who also spoiled President Trump’s first opportunities in the earlies hours of his Presidency just 4 years prior, when he created and facilitated the removal of Lt General Michael Flynn. I will not spend much time on this thread explaining why Lt Gen Flynn was so important to President Trump and why the IC was so afraid he would have advisory power to the President. That I will leave for another day, another time. But understand this clearly: MIKE PENCE WAS AND IS WORKING FOR THE MOST CORRUPT CRIMINAL TREASONOUS PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT.
•PRO TIP: If you really want to get a true understanding of this matter videos of protesters walking in the capitol is not going to address them. Actual video and timeline records of events and the specific actions taken by the speaker just moments before TWO MAJOR ELECTORAL ALTERING MOTIONS WERE ABOUT TO BE FLOORED.
This crisis was developed just in time with a precise coordination to prevent those two motions to be entered into the chamber record. The two motions do not exist. The emergency powers established in the new session made sure they never could be entered. The emergency powers could never happen without a crisis.
God Bless America!”
Note from Author: “I started this effort years ago. To date, no one and I mean no one has replied. It’s as if everyone that can expose it that has a larger platform is either disinterested or suspiciously withdrawn from the issue. I made several comments about this over the years right here at CTH, on article threads that are relevant to the topic.
I was watching the certification live that day. I recorded it ALL on every channel. I was doing this because no matter what happened that day, I KNEW IT WOULD BE A PROFOUND AND SIGNIFICANT EVENT TO REMEMBER. I never in my wildest imagination (and I have a pretty vivid imagination, always have), expected to see the unmistakable perfectly timed “coincidences” that occurred.
One member raises a motion (with another in waiting for his turn) those two motions were well known and advertised. These were motions to vote for a pause in the certification to examine electoral vote fraud and irregularities. I can’t speak to the veracity and substance of those motions. They were never allowed to even be floored. it was at that exact moment that the house chambers were suspended and 4 of the key members, Pence, Pelosi, Schumer and McConnell were escorted OUT right after initiating the end of the session.
Effectively, this resulted in that motion never being floored at all. Then, when reconvened under special emergency rules, inexplicably those two motions (and perhaps more – we will never know – or will we?) were not even attempted to be motioned. That was not just peculiar to me.
It all started to make more sense when I did some study on constitutional law AND THE HISTORY of specific special authorities given to president of the congress, Pence in this case. Not only did he have the authority and power to suspend the certification, but the duty to address the motion in the same sense that it becomes vital to the debate clause. (Read more: Conservative Treehouse/Regitiger, 3/12/2023) (Archive)
March 14, 2023 - The corporate media admits the U.S. was funding gain-of-function (bioweapon) research at Wuhan Lab, and they were double-billed
🚨Corporate Media finally forced to ADMIT US likely funded gain-of-function research at Wuhan Lab pic.twitter.com/xSYIjQQB9Q
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 14, 2023
March 15, 2023 - Feds' foreign-corruption double standard: Protecting the Bidens as they bore down on Trumpworld
(…) A federal database shows the Bidens failed to register as foreign agents while engaged in activities on behalf of CEFC, a state-owned entity suspected of being a front for Chinese intelligence. Federal anti-spying laws require anyone acting as a lobbyist for a foreign power to register with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
The DOJ did not prosecute either Biden family member for potential violations of FARA for representing the interests of the Chinese.
This stands in stark contrast to the DOJ’s aggressive pursuit of alleged FARA violations involving no fewer than six Trump campaign officials. In August of 2016, shortly after receiving a tip that a low-level Trump campaign volunteer, George Papadopoulos, had allegedly been told that the Russians might have dirt on Hillary Clinton, the bureau opened FARA investigations into Papadopoulos and three other Trump associates with no clear ties to Papadopoulos: national security adviser Michael Flynn; campaign manager Paul Manafort; and campaign adviser Carter Page. The FBI subsequently investigated Manafort’s deputy Rick Gates; and Trump’s Mideast adviser Walid Phares under the same statute.
As RCI has previously reported, the FBI used FARA as the basis for a wide-ranging probe that included tailing them, staking out their homes, digging through their trash, and using confidential sources to secretly record them. Only one of the six was convicted for FARA-related violations, and none was charged with any espionage or conspiracy crimes involving Russia.
Only one of the six was convicted for FARA-related violations, and none was charged with any espionage or conspiracy crimes involving Russia.
“It’s 100% a double standard, and it’s absolutely corrupt to the core,” former assistant FBI director Chris Swecker told RCI. “And meanwhile, [current FBI Director] Chris Wray fiddles.”
Other veterans of the bureau say the Obama and Biden administrations have politicized and weaponized FARA.
“Starting in 2016, the Obama-Biden administration used FARA and the criminal justice system as tools to attack and eliminate the opposition,” said 27-year FBI veteran Michael Biasello, adding that many of the same officials are “back in charge and making sure those tools won’t be turned on themselves.”
An FBI spokeswoman said the agency had no comment on why it did not apply the foreign lobbying law equally. The Justice Department did not return requests for comment.
Ho and Hunter: A Lucrative Relationship
Court records and other documents show that Hunter Biden met with Ho’s boss Ye Jianming in February 2017 in Miami, where the CEFC chief offered him up to $30 million for “introductions alone,” according to emails. Ye – who had connections to both China’s Communist Party in China and its armed forces, the People’s Liberation Army – sealed the deal with a lucrative gift to Hunter: a 3.16-carat diamond worth an estimated $80,000. (Hunter never returned the large gem.)
Not long after their private dinner, CEFC began wiring millions of dollars from China to pass-through companies set up by Hunter Biden. Over the next 14 months, Hunter and Jimmy Biden (as the latter is known to family and friends) ultimately received almost $6 million from CEFC entities, according to congressional investigators, including $1 million from Ho. At the time, the FBI was tracking Ho’s and CEFC’s “bank and wire transfer records,” according to DOJ records, which indicates agents were aware of the China-based payments to the Bidens.
(Read more: RealClearInvestigations, 3/15/2023) (Archive)
March 15, 2023 - NewsGuard is a recipient of $750k pentagon contract, denies it is ‘government funded’
NewsGuard, the establishment “news-rating” project that presents itself to the public as an impartial authority on the trustworthiness of news publishers, is telling reporters that it is not “government funded” — despite receiving a $750,000 contract from the Department of Defense to track “misinformation.”
The claim was made in an email to Matt Taibbi, a Twitter Files reporter who testified at a landmark House Judiciary Committee hearing on the topic of government-backed censorship last week.
In the email, NewsGuard co-founder and CEO Gordon Crovitz said the organization was a “business with many licensees” that pay for access to it and that the Pentagon is just one of those licensees.
Via Twitter:
Matt:
I noticed with interest and surprise how you referred to NewsGuard in your congressional testimony on Thursday. There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding about NewsGuard and our work.
During the hearing, NewsGuard was inaccurately described as “U.S. government funded.” Unlike other entities mentioned during the hearing, we are not a non-profit funded by government grants. We are a business with many licensees paying to access our proprietary data, including government entities that pay to license our data. These licenses are only for access to our data and are entirely unrelated to our rating of news publishers.
For example, as is public, our work for the Pentagon’s Cyber Command is focused on the identification and analysis of information operations targeting the U.S. and its allies conducted by hostiles governments, including Russia and China. Our analysts alert officials in the U.S. and in other democracies, including Ukraine, about new false narratives targeting America and its allies, and we provide an understanding of how this disinformation spreads online. We are proud of our work countering Russian and Chinese disinformation on behalf of Western democracies.
NEW: In a lengthy email to @mtaibbi on Friday morning, Newsguard’s CEO Gordon Crovitz refuted that the purported disinformation tracker is “U.S. government funded.”
In 2021, the Department of Defense awarded $749,387 to Newsguard. pic.twitter.com/WlDr7UcbbO
— Gabe Kaminsky (@gekaminsky) March 10, 2023
As Breitbart News previously reported, the $750,000 Pentagon contract was for NewsGuard’s “misinformation fingerprints” project, described by the organization as “a catalogue of known hoaxes, falsehoods and misinformation narratives that are spreading online.”
In 2022, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, told the Pentagon to preserve its documents related to NewsGuard, expressing concern at the organization’s “extreme partisan bias.” (Read more: Breitbart, 3/15/2023) (Archive)
March 17, 2023 - House Oversight releases bank records that show Hallie Biden, now verified as the "unknown Biden," is recipient of money from Chinese energy company
BREAKING: @GOPoversight releases bank records showing that Biden family associate Rob Walker, used his company to transfer money from a Chinese energy company to Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie Biden, and a fourth “unknown Biden.” pic.twitter.com/Bu6bFCs8IR
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) March 16, 2023
“President Biden’s daughter-in-law Hallie is the mysterious “new” Biden family member who got paid Chinese cash in 2017, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed exclusively to The Post Thursday.
Comer said the payments to first son Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law-turned-former lover were revealed in subpoenaed bank records.
The records show Hallie Biden received $35,000 over two transfers in 2017 from Biden family associate Rob Walker, who got $3 million on March 1, 2017, from State Energy HK Limited, a firm affiliated with CEFC China Energy.
President Biden, who allegedly was the “big guy” mentioned in communications about the same Chinese venture, dined at Hallie Biden’s residence last Friday during his regular weekend trip home to Delaware. It’s unclear if they discussed the looming bombshell, which Comer (R-Ky.) publicly teased Monday night on Fox News’ “Hannity.”
One transfer to Hallie from Robinson Walker LLC was for $25,000 on March 20, 2017, Comer’s staff wrote in a Thursday morning memo to committee members. Another $10,000 was transferred on Feb. 13 — raising “many questions” according to a committee aide because it came shortly before, rather than after, the $3 million haul.” (Read more: New York Post, 3/17/2023) (Archive)
March 17, 2023 - Twitter Files: The great Covid lie machine; Stanford U; the Virality Project; Censorship of “true stories”
1.TWITTER FILES #19
The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine
Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories” pic.twitter.com/v41dyC26ZR— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
3.“Reports of vaccinated individuals contracting Covid-19 anyway”; “natural immunity”; suggesting Covid-19 “leaked from a lab”; even “worrisome jokes”: pic.twitter.com/CM5THKGYRu
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
5.Just before @ShellenbergerMD and I testified in the House last week, Virality Project emails were found in the #TwitterFiles describing “stories of true vaccine side effects” as actionable content. pic.twitter.com/dKxTnxDc3a
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
7.Though the Virality Project reviewed content on a mass scale for Twitter, Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram, Medium, TikTok, and Pinterest, it knowingly targeted true material and legitimate political opinion, while often being factually wrong itself. pic.twitter.com/Xakyj2PMye
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
9.Two, it accelerated the evolution of digital censorship, moving it from judging truth/untruth to a new, scarier model, openly focused on political narrative at the expense of fact.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
11. February 22, 2021: Stanford welcomed Twitter veterans like Yoel Roth and Brian Clarke, instructing them on how to join the group JIRA system. You can watch the friendly welcome video here: https://t.co/E2KfN87GlI
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
13.Through July of 2020, Twitter’s internal guidance on Covid-19 required a story be “demonstrably false” or contain an “assertion of fact” to be actioned. But the Virality Project, in partnership with the CDC, pushed different standards. pic.twitter.com/K23SpK9SgJ
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
15. In one email to Twitter, VP addressed what it called the “vaccine passport narrative,” saying “concerns” over such programs “have driven a larger anti-vaccination narrative about the loss of rights and freedoms.”
This was framed as a “misinformation” event. pic.twitter.com/ZdbKE1tFac— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
https://t.co/LnGrUXgDN9 March of 2021, Twitter personnel were aping VP language, describing “campaigns against vaccine passports,” “fear of mandatory immunizations,” and “misuse of official reporting tools” as “potential violations.” pic.twitter.com/AeUdbGIoBa
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
19.That same GEC report found in the #TwitterFiles identified former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, and former Italian Democratic Party Secretary Nicola Zingaretti (who’s been compared to Bernie Sanders) as “highly connective” accounts in a “Russia-linked” network. pic.twitter.com/be1RvAVFrk
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
21.VP warned against people “just asking questions,” implying it was a tactic “commonly used by spreaders of misinformation.” It also described a “Worldwide Rally for Freedom planned over Telegram” as a disinformation event. pic.twitter.com/VgOJpTN2Ey
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
23.VP was repeatedly, extravagantly wrong. In one email to Twitter on “misinformation,” it spoke of wanting to “hone in” on an “increasingly popular narrative about natural immunity.” pic.twitter.com/KQGM42CAcl
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
25.Later, when “the CDC changed its methodology for counting Covid-19 cases among vaccinated people,” only counting those resulting in hospitalization or death, VP complained that “anti-vaccine” accounts RFK Jr. and “WhatsHerFace” retweeted the story to suggest “hypocrisy.” pic.twitter.com/7Y3NnkkP2d
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
https://t.co/ZJFh45HlyD a chilling irony, the VP ran searches for the term “surveillance state.” As an unaccountable state-partnered bureaucracy secretly searched it out, the idea that “vaccines are part of a surveillance state” won its own thoughtcrime bucket: “conspiracy.” pic.twitter.com/KTJpzIBspx
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
29. The next day, April 27, 2022, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced in a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing that a “Disinformation Governance Board” had been created, to be headed by the singing censor, Nina Jankowitz. https://t.co/OwWF7PW1Ct
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
31.The Virality Project was specifically not based on “assertions of fact,” but public submission to authority, acceptance of narrative, and pronouncements by figures like Anthony Fauci. The project’s central/animating concept was, “You can’t handle the truth.”
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
33. “This continual process of seeding doubt and uncertainty in authoritative voices,” Graphika wrote, in a report sent to Twitter, “leads to a society that finds it too challenging to identify what’s true or false.” pic.twitter.com/gb826OHEEH
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
35.A Cleveland Clinic study showed previous infection offered the “same immunity” as the vaccine, but VP said discovery was susbservient to narrative: “Whether or not… scientific consensus is changing, ‘natural immunity’ is a key narrative… among anti-vaccine activists.” pic.twitter.com/wmdiynJG4y
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
37.From the start, Stanford explained the Virality Project would essentially continue the work of its 2020 Election Integrity Partnership. “The same JIRA system from the EIP is up and running,” they wrote. pic.twitter.com/kTgFYKGQuI
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
39.We also showed video in which Stamos introduced EIP Research Director Renee DiResta as having “worked for the CIA.” DiResta in 2021-2022 would be listed as a “Stanford scholar,” “leading” the Virality Project. https://t.co/gJWFyVXzwu pic.twitter.com/7jh15ZPmBZ
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
41.“We talk way too much about foreign…it’s sexy, and it’s fun, and it’s a little bit cold warry,” Stamos said, adding the “vast majority” of problems were now domestic. “We have like an 80-20 breakdown… I think that needs to be flipped.” https://t.co/QBXplySWtx
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
43.VP would later say it partnered with “several government agencies,” including the Office of the Surgeon General and the CDC. It reportedly also worked with DHS’s CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and GEC, among others. pic.twitter.com/WUlrkFk7JX
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
https://t.co/6whUaYR1ja recap: America’s information mission went from counterterrorism abroad, to stopping “foreign interference” from reaching domestic audiences, to 80% domestic content, much of it true. The “Disinformation Governance Board” is out; but truth-policing is not.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 17, 2023
UPDATE:
While @mtaibbi & I were testifying before Congress on the weaponization of the federal government, an IRS agent showed up at his house. What an amazing coincidence https://t.co/gRGSIa3HRr
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) March 28, 2023
March 20, 2023 - New docs from National Archives directly link Joe Biden to Hunter’s profiteering in Ukraine
THREAD — America First Legal sued the National Archives to obtain the Burisma records from Biden’s time as VP.
As a result of that litigation, we obtained a trove of new docs from the archives directly linking Joe Biden to Hunter’s profiteering in Ukraine.
Follow along ⤵️
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 20, 2023
/3 Eric D. Schwerin, Hunter’s associate at Rosemont Seneca Advisors, LLC, corrected typos in Vice President Biden’s official statement. pic.twitter.com/YQaq6S7p63
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 20, 2023
/5 Wall Street Journal journalist Paul Sonne reached out to the office of the Vice President regarding whether Hunter’s involvement with Zlochevsky at Burisma would undermine the Vice President’s message on Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/3iOeZ6874k
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 20, 2023
/7 According to @ChuckGrassley and @RonJohnsonWI committees’ staff report, then-U.S. Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein raised concerns with VP Biden and Hunter that Hunter’s position on Burisma’s board enabled Russian disinformation… pic.twitter.com/2kfO2SADxA
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 20, 2023
/9 Jim Risen, New York Times journalist, was also working on a story related to Vice President Biden’s trip to Ukraine and Hunter Biden’s role with Burisma Holdings and reached out to the Office of the Vice President. pic.twitter.com/o5HFGhaaIa
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 20, 2023
/11 Instead of answering the question from the New York Times regarding whether Hunter had ever traveled with Vice President Biden to Ukraine, the Office of the Vice President urged the New York Times not to publish embarrassing details from Hunter’s record. pic.twitter.com/tLfms5TGWo
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 20, 2023
/13 Eric D. Schwerin, Hunter’s associate at Rosemont Seneca Advisors, LLC, fielded press inquiries on behalf of both Hunter and former President Kwasniewski, who were board members of Burisma, and coordinated with the Office of the Vice President. pic.twitter.com/Vi29AcI1yk
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 20, 2023
/15 The records include an email from then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie L. Yovanovitch to, among others, Victoria Nuland (currently the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs) at the Department of State, Anna Makanju in VP Biden’s Office, and Eric Ciaramella – the…
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 20, 2023
/17 Given the evidence that the VP Biden was signing off on statements concerning his son’s involvement with Burisma and that Obama officials were aware of Burisma’s alleged activities, it appears that former President Trump’s concerns about Biden family corruption were shared.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 20, 2023
/19 These documents also take on heightened significance given escalating military conflict in Ukraine.
America First Legal will continue to release more documents as they are obtained as a result of our litigation.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 20, 2023
For highlights from our previous release of Biden documents, check out this thread: https://t.co/0OHtAwmAut
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 20, 2023