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March 19, 2025 - An outspoken anti-Trump FBI agent is arrested and charged for unauthorized disclosure of internal classified documents

Anti-Trump FBI agent Jonathan Buma (Credit: video clipping)

An anti-Trump FBI agent was arrested and charged for disclosing classified information.

Johnathan Buma allegedly disclosed internal classified documents and text messages to associates.

Court documents revealed that Johnathan Buma had printed 130 files from the FBI’s internal network, with many of the documents marked with warnings that the information is confidential.

Buma shared a draft of a book he was writing about his career in the FBI with colleagues, and it contained sensitive information, the charging documents said.

According to ABC News, the feds nabbed Johnathan Buma just as he was about to hop on an international flight on Monday.

ABC News reported:

An FBI agent who accused the bureau of political bias during President Donald Trump’s first administration was arrested Monday in New York on charges related to the alleged unauthorized disclosure of confidential information, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

Johnathan Buma, a 15-year veteran of the bureau, allegedly shared text messages, internal documents and other classified information with associates, including as part of a prospective book he began writing about his career as an FBI agent.

Beginning in Oct. 2023, Buma “printed approximately 130 files from the FBI’s internal network … some of which were clearly marked with warnings that made clear that the information was to be protected,” according to charging documents.

“Buma also printed nine text-file documents which contained text that had been copied and pasted from reports that were marked in such a way that made clear that the information must be protected,” the charging documents said..

In the ensuing weeks, Buma allegedly shared a draft of a book he had written about his career at the FBI with “associates” over email. The draft allegedly included details about “the FBI’s investigations into a foreign country’s weapons of mass destruction (‘WMDs’) program,” the charging document alleges.

Last year Johnathan Buma told Business Insider that political bias under Trump’s first administration pushed him to become a ‘whistleblower.’

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(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 3/19/2025)   (Archive)

March 20, 2025 - Five anti-Trump D.C. judges hobnob with SCOTUS Roberts and Brown, prosecutors and attorneys, in a secret Members-Only club

Breaking exposé! FIVE anti Trump judges are involved in a secretive, INVITE ONLY club for judges and lawyers called the American Inns of Court. Even the membership and meetings are secret. But somehow the DOJ has shown up at meetings. At least since Biden had been in office.

Is hobnobbing with the DOJ in court matters acceptable? Let alone meeting in secret?

So who all is linked to this selective and secretive club? And recall all of their negative Trump rulings?

– Judge James Boasberg (President)
– Scotus Ketanji Brown Jackson (Vice President)
– Judge Amit Mehta (Secretary and a meeting held at her court.)
– Judge Beryl Howell
Justice (Professionalism Award)
-Justice John Roberts (Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple)

Wasn’t it something else that Judge John Roberts broke ethical conduct and stuck up for his, “brother Boasberg”?

George Soros has funded a fellowship at Middle Temple where John Roberts is a master of the bench.

First let me very quickly explain how this secret society called, the American Inns of Court came about. In the UK, they have the four Inns of Court that dates back hundreds of years. One of those is called Middle Temple (see Roberts photo). Well, the US created the American version of this in recent decades. There’s a massive list of branches.

The branch many of our judges belong to is The Edward Bennett Williams (EBW) Inn of Court. It’s so secretive, they deleted most signs of this branch from their website although they still met.

Now here’s Judge Beryl Howell. She was nominated by President Judge Boasberg, and VP Ketanji Brown Jackson approved of her nomination. Boasberg claims it was her work on Jan 6 that contributed to his choosing her for the American Inns Of Court Professionalism award.

Let me show you the scant meeting info that I found which included the DOJ and Inspector General Horowitz in attendance.

1. The Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court: BOP Custody / Current Status of BOP / Early Release & Reentry: Washington DC, 2/15/24

“Joel Sickler – invited panelist at EBW Inn of Court (February15, 2024, Washington DC). The meeting held in the District of Columbia Court of Judge Amit Mehta. In addition to panelists, approximately 150 lawyers including several Federal District Judges were also present. The panel was presented primarily with Michael Horowitz, DOJ Inspector General and Seth Eichenholtz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General – also featuring Vanessa Rojas, a returning citizen with direct and learned perspective regarding constructive reforms within the Bureau of Prisons.”

Also there was:

“Seth Rosenthal, Chief Deputy Attorney General for Office of AG District of Columbia.”

2. Mathew Bester, 3 years ago in a quote Linkdn post:

“I really enjoyed talking about the latest DOJ developments last week on a great panel.”

Matthew was reposting Brent Gurney’s Post and yes the DOJ was there:

“I want to thank my co-hosts, Erin K. of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Lisa Phelan of Morrison & Foerster LLP, Inn member G. Zachary Terwilliger of Vinson & Elkins and our guest panelists Jim Fredricks of the DOJ Antitrust Division, Tiffany Rider of Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP and Matthew Bester of Accenture, for a robust and fascinating discussion of the issues.”

3. Yearly gala, I’ll review this later. But the Assistant United States Attorney at U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia replied in a comment. Was he there?

“Great job, Rebecca!”

I’ve seen lawsuits online for this secret org over recusal worries with this private club. I also saw a lawsuit that stated their secrecy is dangerous to democracy.

Sources to follow.

The top post has been edited, apologies for the difficulties. Make certain to use the modest version.

I found with great difficulties, this list of The Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court leaders. In fact I had to search the archives.

Every link there is for members only except the leaders and meetings list. The meeting list is blank tho.

Click around in archive 1 and see for yourself.

Archive 1
https://web.archive.org/web/20160605194243/http://inns.innsofcourt.org/inns/officers.aspx?innid=30072

Archive 2

https://archive.is/7tQUr

 

As for the Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court being invitation only, here’s the evidence.

They also admits that the DOJ is included, which isn’t mentioned in the American Inns Of Court brochure. 😏 I’ll show this next.

McKenzie Invited to Join Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court

“Co-Founder Ray D. McKenzie has been admitted to the Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court, an invitation-only professional organization devoted to white collar practice.

As one of the few Inns of Court specializing in white collar criminal prosecution and defense, the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court’s membership includes members of the federal and local judiciary in the District of Columbia, U.S. Department of Justice officials, and some of the most established defense attorneys in Washington, D.C. The American Inn of Court is designed to improve the skills, professionalism, and ethics of the bench and the bar.

McKenzie is a former federal prosecutor, having served the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division where, in 2018, he was awarded the U.S. Attorney’s Award for Excellence in Prosecution of Fraud.”

https://archive.is/Ackvo

 

Here’s the American Inns of Court judicial benefits flyer. Judges hobnobbing with other judges, the DOJ and lawyers, just doesn’t seem very ethical to me.

NETWORK WITH AND GAIN ACCESS TO COLLEAGUES

• Meet and interact with federal and state judges on a local, regional, and national level.

• Stay current with the local bar and connected to attorneys in different practice areas, law professors and young lawyers deans, in-house lawyers, and others who do not have a litigation practice.

• The American Inns of Court member directory is a means to reach out to and communicate with other judges on issues of common interest.

• Attend the Celebration of Excellence at the Supreme Court of the United States with justices of the high court as well as jurists and attorneys from across the country.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240706035718/https://www.innsofcourt.org//AIC_PDFs/Documents/Judicial_Benefits_Flyer.pdf

Here’s a lawsuit asking for recusal of an American Inns of Court member. Because of its secrecy and it’s acting more like a private social club.

“THE AMERICAN INNS OF COURT ARE UNLIKE TRADITIONAL BAR ASSOCIATIONS BUT ARE SOCIAL CLUBS THAT PROVIDE FOR SECRET EX PARTE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN FINANCIALLY STRONG ATTORNEYS AND JUDGES

A Social Club, Common Membership Of Judges And Attorneys Representing Parties Creates The Appearance Of Bias.

The American Inns of Court have changed their character as bar associations as they made the membership directory confidential from disclosure for all Inns of Court after sometime in 2008. Their practice of Temple Bar Scholarship and pupilage groups also violated Rule 5-30014 of California Rules of Professional Conduct by allowing ex parte contacts and gifts. The Petition for Writ of Certiorari has been reviewed based on the opinion of the clerks of the Justices, except Justice Gorsuch.

Therefore, contacting the clerks and making gifts to the clerks violate Rule 5-300(c) as they have the power of making recommendations to the Justices.

One major members’ benefits, as shown in the video of “American Inns of Court Membership Benefits” that has been posted on the Youtube, Attorney Manuel Sanchez. stated “This is the only organization that I know that the lawyers and judges belong to the trial bar have a chance to meet outside of the courtroom in a social setting and really able to establish the rapport.” (A.011)

The business and prosperity of the American Inns of Court is built on the attorneys’ benefit to meet the judges in person to establish the “rapport,” in violation of Rule 5-300 of California Rules of Professional Conduct.

The American Inns of Court lost all tributes as a bar association further because of the secret membership.

The last publication of a directory for all chapters of the Inns is an archive of the membership of San Francisco Bay Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, made in 2008. (A.055; Request for Recusal in Petition No. 17-256, A.072-74.) The Handbook for the William A. Ingram American Inn of Court states:

“The schedule for the monthly meetings (not the dinner meetings) is to gather at 5:30 for socializing and hors d’oeuvres. After administrative announcements, the formal program by a Pupillage Group commences at 6:00 p.m. and ends at 7:00 p.m.

After the program ends, there is further socializing.” [Request for Recusal in Petition No. 17-256, A. 146, emphasis added]

Its current meeting schedule states clearly the social function of its Inn meetings:

“Inn meeting, except as noted below, are scheduled on the second Wednesday of each month, with socializing at 5:30 p.m., and the program beginning at 6:00 p.m.” (Request for Recusal in No. 17-256, A.050)

These confidential social functions are the characteristic of a social private club. While the American Inns of Court might once have been equivalent or similar to a bar association, they are now more like an exclusive private club. Membership or association in such a private social club with regular private contacts with the judges/justices creates an appearance of bias where attorneys who are members of the Inns appear before judges who are also members or associated with the Inns.”

I’ve seen other stuff around on their secrecy, if you want more. Trust me this group was hard to find stuff on.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250319162646/https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-613/24382/20171219134413718_00000001.pdf

Judge Beryl Howell was nominated by the President of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, Judge James Boasberg. It’s required for a member to nominate you. It was voiced by Boasberg that her Jan 6 handling contributed.

The Vice President, Scotus Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, gave her written approval.

“Beryl A. Howell has been selected to receive the 2023 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the DC Circuit. Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit will present the award during the DC Circuit Judicial Conference.

Chief Judge James E. Boasberg, who nominated Howell for the award, praised Howell’s leadership as chief judge in a term marked by several unexpected events. “Judge Howell’s leadership during the pandemic was extraordinary,” he writes. Howell also “deftly led the court during the surge of more than 1,000 criminal cases filed in this district arising out of the investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021.”

“Judge Howell is a brilliant and wise attorney and jurist, as well as an outstanding leader, which has been evident to me since our earliest days working together on the Sentencing Commission,” writes Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Supreme Court of the United States, who wrote in support of Howell’s nomination.”

https://archive.is/T2Ko8

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Jr. received a Masters of the Bench award from the American Inn of Courts sister org in the UK. It’s called The Honorable Society Of the Middle Temple. (See photo and first link.)

And Middle Temple does interact with its American counterparts. I’ll show you next post.

Also Soros Open Society does fund fellows at Middle Temple. (See second photo and link.)

https://archive.is/0vnS1

“Anthony Lester fellowships to work on a project to effect practical change to further the rule of law / human rights”

“The fellowships are supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Lester family.”

https://archive.is/q6uBg

Middle Temple, the American Inns of Courts UK counterpart has been to the US.

After visiting the court chambers they had a reception at the British embassy. Later, the American Inn of Courts had moderated panels.

They spent two days at the Institute Of Peace, a radical leftist activist org, paid for by our tax dollars.

I have no idea if there’s any linkage of them to each other since I couldn’t find anything. But they are highly secretive. This would be extremely beneficial to find out.

“In the evening of the 13 September, we went to the Supreme Court for the Calling to the Bench of Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Before the official part of the occasion, I was escorted into the splendid Chambers of John G Roberts Jr, the Chief Justice of the United States (one of our Honorary Benchers).

There I met Justice Gorsuch for the first time. I was immediately struck by his warmth, informality and friendliness. This may be something of a surprise to those who focus only on the rather austere conservatism of his jurisprudence.

The three of us were then escorted into the magnificent courtroom where our group and others were already assembled. Short speeches of welcome were made by the Chief Justice and myself. Justice Gorsuch was then Called to the Bench by Master Maura McGowan. After a gracious and amusing response by Justice Gorsuch, we moved to the East and West Conference Rooms for a reception and then went into the Hall for dinner.

On the 14 September and 15 September, we had two full days of discussions with American counterparts at the US Institute of Peace, a splendid modern conference venue.

The topics on the first day were Human Rights in the Age of Terrorism (UK moderator Master Chantal-Aimee Doerries, UK speaker Master Neil Garnham, UK Panellists Master Judith Farbey and Master McGowan); Restrictions on Media Communications in the Interests of Truth or Privacy (UK moderator Master Christopher Clarke, UK speaker Adam Speker, UK panellists Master Anthony Smith and John Stables); and Attorney-Client Privilege (UK speaker Master Robert-Jan Temmink, UK panellists Master Stephen Stewart and Master George Leggatt).”

“At the end of the first day of the conference, we were treated to a magnificent reception at the British Embassy generously hosted by the UK Ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch. Sir Kim had spent the day visiting Florida following the recent floods. But he was back in time for our reception and made a warm and witty speech.
Other guests included many of the great and good of the political and legal world of Washington.

The topics on the second day were International and Comparative Law as an Appropriate Topic for Courts (UK speaker Master Jonathan Mance, UK panellists Master Fergus Randolph and Master Jeffrey Golden); and Climate Change and the Law (UK moderator Master Edward Faulks and UK speaker Master Robert Camwath).

The US moderators, speakers and panellists were an extraordinarily distinguished group of lawyers and academics. They contributed to lively and stimulating discussions on each of the topics as did all of our participants. I have not named the US participants simply because they will not be known to the readers of The Middle Templar.”

Archive – Page 34 will show and you can flip forward to page 35 etc. Or even flip backwards.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250320150619/https://online.pubhtml5.com/vgjv/vhws/#p=34

This is The Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court meeting that I found out the most on. And I only found three total.

“The Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court holds monthly programs on a range of relevant topics for Inn members, who are both white-collar defense lawyers and prosecutors, and including D.C. federal trial and appellate judges.”

“Joel Sickler – invited panelist at EBW Inn of Court (February15, 2024, Washington DC). The meeting held in the District of Columbia Court of Judge Amit Mehta. In addition to panelists, approximately 150 lawyers including several Federal District Judges were also present. The panel was presented primarily with Michael Horowitz, DOJ Inspector General and Seth Eichenholtz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General – also featuring Vanessa Rojas, a returning citizen with direct and learned perspective regarding constructive reforms within the Bureau of Prisons.”

“Moderators: Seth Rosenthal; Addy Schmitt – Participants: Seth Eichenholtz; Michael Horowitz; Vanesa Rojas; Joel Sickler – (Left to Right): Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General DOJ; Addy Schmitt, Managing Partner Harris, St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP; Joel Sickler, Founder of Justice Advocacy Group LLC; Vanesa Rojas, Formerly Incarcerated Rising Scholar, Palomar College; Seth Eichenholtz, Senior Counsel to Deputy Attorney General at DOJ; and Seth Rosenthal, Chief Deputy Attorney General for Office of AG District of Columbia.”

You can read more if you like, these were just a few excerpts.

https://archive.is/cd9S0

This here is from a EBW Inn of Court panel discussion from three years ago. The DOJ was here that day too.

Matthew works at Accenture which had a US contract cancelled by Doge. Accenture deals with Publicis Group, and utilizes DEI and sustainability.

The (Publicis) Groupe took part in the launch of the World Economic Forum, GARM (Global Alliance for Responsible Media). Which was costing Elon ad revenue.

Publicis also handles WEF lodging etc type of stuff for its Davos meeting. And Publicis is partnered with Newsguard.

Mathew Bester:

“I really enjoyed talking about the latest DOJ developments last week on a great panel.”

Brent Gurney:

“It was a pleasure to co-host the EBW Inn of Court panel discussion on criminal prosecutions of what are sometimes called “no-poach” agreements for violations of the antitrust laws. In 2016, the Department of Justice warned that it would begin bringing criminal prosecutions. And then, after a wait of several years, it started doing just that. A number of cases are pending. I want to thank my co-hosts, Erin K. of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Lisa Phelan of Morrison & Foerster LLP, Inn member G. Zachary Terwilliger of Vinson & Elkins and our guest panelists Jim Fredricks of the DOJ Antitrust Division, Tiffany Rider of Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP and Matthew Bester of Accenture, for a robust and fascinating discussion of the issues.”

https://archive.is/JUOWK

Here’s the last and third meeting that I have from many years of monthly meetings. If you find some more members or especially meeting minutes, message me.

Rebecca Broady:

“Thanks to Laurel Loomis Rimon, Keisha N. Stanford and Jenner & Block for hosting our EBW Inn of Court End of Year event! After a year of serving as the Inn “administrator” and sending out SO MANY emails, it was fun to be able to kick back and schmooze!”

https://archive.is/E8ILg

Now it’s time for my thoughts on this. We are looking at SCOTUS involvement, DC district courts, DOJ, and prosecutors.

These courts affect our entire country. This isn’t like some rinky dink branch in a Florida suburb.

I don’t think these high courts should be involved in anything secret. The stench of enablement is overwhelming. Especially when you have leftists fighting everything Trump as their Officers.

I think the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court should be disbanded. And all DC justices barred from such activities.

PS, go to the American Inns of Court site and search for the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court in their little search box. Its group number is 30072, I’ll wait.

Trust me, I was even in their archives and for many subdomains too.

(They’ll probably add it back if they aren’t totally crazy.)

Anyways I’ll even provide the link. 🦁 💪🏻

https://home.innsofcourt.org/AIC/AIC_Get_Involved/Find_An_Inn.aspx

March 20, 2025 - New York AG Letitia James previous building permits and a mortgage application with her father, raise serious questions

A Tale of Two Standards

New York Attorney General Letitia James has made a name for herself prosecuting landlords and real estate fraudsters. Yet our investigation reveals troubling discrepancies in her own property filings—irregularities that would likely result in stiff penalties for most New Yorkers.

Documents from the NYC Department of Buildings show a pattern of inconsistencies about a Brooklyn property James owns—inconsistencies that mysteriously received special treatment when reported.

Note: Links to NYC Department of Buildings records may load slowly due to system capacity limitations. Please be patient as they connect to the city’s database.

At the heart of the issue is a contradiction between what the city officially permits and what James’ filings claim.

The Certificate of Occupancy for 296 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn—issued January 26, 2001—clearly states the property is a five-family dwelling regulated under NYC housing laws. James purchased this property on February 14, 2001, just two weeks after this Certificate of Occupancy was issued. This official classification has been on the books for more than two decades.

Yet James repeatedly filed permit applications identifying the same property as a four-family dwelling—a classification subject to different regulatory requirements under New York City building codes. Under NYC building code classifications, her property with five units would be classified as C2 (which applies to buildings with 5+ units), while her filings list it as C3 (which applies to 3-4 unit buildings). This fundamental contradiction between the long-established Certificate of Occupancy and her permit applications raises serious questions about regulatory compliance.

Multiple Discrepant Filings Show Pattern, Not Mistake

This wasn’t a one-time error. We uncovered multiple DOB permit applications containing identical discrepancies:

  • July 2020 Application (Job #340743146): Documents show “Dwelling Units: Existing: 4” despite the Certificate of Occupancy listing five units for the past 19 years.
  • September 2020 Application (Job #340768510): Another filing repeats the same inconsistent information.

The permit application details are explicit, stating: “Total Number of Dwelling Units at Location: 4” for a property documented in the Certificate of Occupancy as a five-unit building since 2001.

This discrepancy goes far beyond a simple administrative error. As noted in my previous post, mortgage documents signed by Letitia James repeatedly characterize the property as a four-unit building—a critical representation that directly contradicts the official Certificate of Occupancy, which clearly designates the structure as a five-family dwelling. This inconsistency carries significant legal and financial implications, potentially allowing James to secure more favorable lending terms or avoid stricter regulatory requirements that apply to larger multi-unit properties.

The applications to the Department of Buildings were submitted through the city’s professional certification program, under which the architect affirmed:

“I HEREBY STATE THAT I HAVE EXERCISED A PROFESSIONAL STANDARD OF CARE IN CERTIFYING THAT THE FILED APPLICATION IS COMPLETE AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS… I FURTHER REALIZE THAT ANY MISREPRESENTATION OR FALSIFICATION OF FACTS MADE KNOWINGLY OR NEGLIGENTLY BY ME, MY AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES, OR BY OTHERS WITH MY KNOWLEDGE, WILL RENDER ME LIABLE FOR LEGAL AND DISCIPLINARY ACTION…”

This sworn certification underscores the seriousness of the discrepancy. It was not merely a clerical oversight, but a representation made within a process where legal and professional accountability is explicitly defined—yet seemingly unenforced in this case. (Read more: White Collar Fraud, 3/21/2025)  (Archive)

(…) There seems to be a pattern of possible mortgage fraud in regard to Letitia James. New questions have now arisen about a home Letitia James purchased with her father, Robert James.

In the Spring of 1983, Letitia James was 24 and living in Brooklyn with her parents. She had graduated from CUNY’s Lehman College in 1981. She would not begin law school at Howard University in Washington, DC, until the fall of 1984.

According to New York City Department of Finance records, on May 20, 1983, Letitia James and her father, Robert James, took out a real estate loan from Kadilac Funding Ltd. for $30,300 as “husband and wife.” For the record, Letitia James’ mother is Nellie James.

 

The husband-and-wife designation is clear and in capital letters on the very top of the first page of the loan document and on the signature page, which reads “ROBERT JAMES AND LETITIA JAMES, HIS WIFE.”

This loan was used to purchase a small 888-square-foot two-story home at 114-04 Inwood Street in Queens, New York, likely for Letitia to live in.

Meanwhile, the deed for the property, executed on the same day, has a different designation. On the top, it says the property is being purchased by “ROBERT JAMES AND LETITIA JAMES, his daughter.”

At the age of 24, Letitia James may have had trouble qualifying for a home loan as a single woman with little or no income.

The question for Ms. James is whether she and her father defrauded the mortgage company, Kadilac Funding, by pretending to be husband and wife in order to qualify for the loan.

(…) In February 2024, James led a high-profile fraud case against Donald Trump. In her relentless pursuit of Trump, James has denied herself any easy excuses. She offered Trump no benefit of the doubt and disregarded the lack of an injured party.

Playing hardball, James secured a massive a judgment that found Trump and his company guilty of inflating asset values to secure better financial terms.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 3/20/2025)  (Archive)

March 19, 2025 - Highlights of the Democrat attacks on Tesla and Elon Musk

The question of whether blue states are harmed by attacks on Tesla involves several layers—economic, social, and political—since Tesla is a major employer and economic player, particularly in states like California, which lean heavily Democratic (“blue”). Attacks on Tesla refer here to the wave of vandalism, arson, and protests targeting Tesla facilities, vehicles, and infrastructure, as reported widely in early 2025, often linked to Elon Musk’s political role under President Trump.

Economically, blue states like California could face harm if Tesla’s operations are disrupted. Tesla employs 47,000 people directly in California alone (as of 2022, per Tesla’s own reporting), with over 80,000 jobs supported indirectly through suppliers and related industries. The Fremont factory, a key production hub, and other facilities in Palo Alto, Lathrop, and Hawthorne anchor a significant chunk of the state’s clean energy sector. Vandalism—such as the March 18, 2025, arson attack in Las Vegas or repeated incidents in Oregon—doesn’t just damage property; it risks delaying production, raising costs, and deterring investment. If Tesla were to scale back in blue states due to hostility, job losses could hit hard, especially in areas where the company’s $1.6 billion in supplier spending (2021 figures) fuels local economies. California’s gross state product, which grew 16% from 2018-2021, saw Tesla’s contribution rise 42% in the same period, suggesting a disproportionate reliance on the company.

Socially, the attacks reflect and deepen polarization. Blue states, often champions of electric vehicles (EVs) and climate goals, have historically embraced Tesla. California’s EV incentives and market size made it Tesla’s biggest U.S. customer base. But Musk’s alignment with Trump and his leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has slashed federal jobs, has flipped sentiment. Protests like “Tesla Takedown” and violent acts—Molotov cocktails in Colorado, gunfire in Oregon—signal a backlash that could alienate Tesla owners and chill EV adoption in these states. Some owners now slap “I bought this before Elon went crazy” stickers on their cars, hinting at a cultural rift. If Tesla becomes a pariah, blue-state residents might pivot to competitors, though none match Tesla’s scale or infrastructure yet.

Politically, the harm is murkier. Blue-state leaders might quietly relish Musk’s woes, given his DOGE role and Trump ties, but they can’t ignore the economic fallout. Tesla’s stock has tanked nearly 48% in 2025 (per ABC News), and while that’s a national issue, blue states with high Tesla ownership—like California or Washington—feel the brand’s tarnish more acutely. Posts on X suggest Tesla drivers in blue areas face more vandalism than in red counties, though this is anecdotal. If attacks persist, blue-state governments might face pressure to crack down, clashing with their base’s anti-Musk fervor.

On the flip side, Tesla’s troubles might not “harm” blue states in a net sense if competitors fill the gap or if red states bear more of the burden. Red states like Texas, where Tesla’s HQ moved in 2021, could lose more if production shifts or stalls. Blue states aren’t uniquely targeted—attacks span Kansas City, Seattle, and Berlin too—but their denser Tesla presence amplifies the stakes.

So, are blue states harmed? Yes, economically and socially, through jobs, costs, and fractured EV culture, though the scale depends on how attacks escalate and whether Tesla retrenches. Politically, it’s a mixed bag—short-term schadenfreude versus long-term headaches. Data’s thin on exact losses so far, but the risk is real where Tesla’s footprint is deepest. (Grok AI, 3/19/2025)

March 20, 2025 - New documents expose a massive government-backed censorship operation orchestrated by USAID, the Global Engagement Center, the UK, and media

March 21, 2025 - DOJ indicts former Rep. Cori Bush’s husband for COVID fraud

Cori Bush and her husband, Courtney Merritt (Credit: video clipping)

The Department of Justice indicted Courtney Merritts, the husband of former ‘Squad’ member Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), for allegedly committing COVID fraud while his wife served in Congress.

Merritts faces charges of wire fraud.

The DOJ alleges from July 2020 to April 2021, Merritts formulated and “participated in a scheme and artifice to obtain money and property in connection with applications for EIDL [Economic Injury Disaster Loans] and PPP [Paycheck Protection Program] funds.”

Merritts supposedly accepted $20,000 in payments:

According to the indictment, on July 7, 2020, Merritts received an $8,500 EIDL loan from the SBA for a moving business he operated that he called Vetted Couriers. In the application he submitted for Vetted Couriers, Merritts certified that his business had six employees and had generated $32,000 in gross revenue between January 30, 2019 and January 30, 2020.

On July 8, 2020, Merritts submitted another application to the SBA for an EIDL loan in the name of a sole proprietorship he called “Cortney Merritts.” In this EIDL application, Merritts fraudulently claimed to have a business that employed ten people and generated $53,000 in gross revenue between January 30, 2019 and January 30, 2020. In addition to an EIDL loan, Merritts also requested an EIDL advance of up to $10,000 based on his false claim that he had 10 employees. The SBA rejected Merritts’ attempt to obtain additional EIDL funds after determining that his July 2020 application was nearly identical to the prior one he submitted.

The indictment further alleges that on April 22, 2021, Merritts applied for a PPP loan in the name of a sole proprietorship he called “Cortney Merritts.” Merritts fraudulently claimed in this application that he had created this business in 2020 and that it had generated $128,000 in gross income that year. Based on Merritts’ representations about his gross income, Merritts received a $20,832 PPP loan. Merritts used the proceeds for his personal benefit and enjoyment. In July 2022, Merritts submitted a loan forgiveness application in which he falsely claimed that this business had 10 employees at the time of the PPP loan, and that he spent the $20,832 on payroll costs. Based on Merritts’ alleged fraudulent representations, the SBA forgave the PPP loan in the amount of $20,832 and the $254.03 in interest.

In January 2024, the DOJ started investigating Bush for allegedly misusing security funds.

(Read more: Legal Insurrection, 3/21/2025)  (Archive)

March 22, 2025 - Trump promises to pardon former Hunter Biden business partner, Devon Archer

Devon Archer is in talks to speak about Joe and Hunter Biden’s alleged $10 million bribes. (Credit: Alec Tabak/New York Post)

President Donald Trump promised to pardon ex-Hunter Biden business partner turned impeachment witness Devon Archer, who he said was targeted by the Biden family

The president pledged to pardon Archer during a meeting at the NCAA wrestling championships which was held in Philadelphia on Saturday night, the New York Post’s Miranda Devine reported. The meeting was said to have been arranged by fellow ex-Hunter Biden business partner and impeachment witness Tony Bobulinski.

“He’s getting a full pardon,” Trump told Devine on Sunday. “He was screwed by the Bidens. They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people.”

He continued, “A full pardon” and said Archer was an “anti-Biden person” because he exposed part of the corruption scandal by his testimony to the House Republican committees leading the impeachment probe into former President Joe Biden.

Devon Archer (l) and Jason Galanis (Credit: Burisma Holdings /Twitter)

Archer became one of the key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry into Hunter’s father, President Joe Biden, having been a close associate of the first son for years. In 2023, Archer testified to the House Oversight Committee that he witnessed Hunter Biden introduce his father, whether in person or over the phone to several foreign business partners, including a Russian oligarch, a Chinese fund manager, and Ukrainian energy company executives.

Archer was convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy to commit the same in 2018 in a Manhattan federal court as part of a tribal bonds scheme. Another defendant in the case, Jason Galanis would later tell the House Oversight Committee that the fraudulent scheme set up by him and Archer was for the purpose of raising money for a hedge fund with Hunter Biden, a firm that his father was set to join after his vice presidency.

However, the younger Biden escaped any scrutiny for his role in proximity to the scheme despite evidence collected by FBI and Security and Exchange Commission agents showing an affiliation with the Burnham entity at the center of the alleged fraud.

Archer’s conviction was originally thrown out by a district judge, who cited insufficient evidence. But, after the conviction was reinstated on appeal, Archer was sentenced to a year in prison in 2022. After appealing that decision, Archer was awarded a resentencing, which is scheduled for later this year. (Read more: Just the News, 3/24/2025)  (Archive)

March 22, 2025 - The DC lawfare cartel running political operations behind a cloak of professionalism

(Credit: Lawfare/substack)

The Law Firms that Run DC

I see a lot of articles saying how President Trump is attacking law firms in Washington DC because he is vindictive. When in fact, it has nothing to do with being vindictive, and everything to do with the fact that they are acting like an extension of the Democratic Party.

This web shows how elite law firms in DC have become de facto political actors, coordinating with bureaucrats, Democratic campaigns, and activist groups to advance one side’s agenda while insulating allies from legal consequences.

1. Perkins Coie

Partisan Alignment: Strongly Democratic

Key Players: Marc Elias, Michael Sussmann

Involved In:

•Russiagate:

•Hired Fusion GPS on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC to create the Steele Dossier.

•Michael Sussmann was indicted for allegedly lying to the FBI about the source of Alfa Bank/Trump server claims (acquitted, but case exposed coordination between Clinton-linked lawyers and the intelligence community).

•Through Marc Elias, aggressively litigated to change election laws in battleground states pre-2020 (e.g., mail-in ballot rules, signature matching, ballot curing).

•Litigated against voter ID laws and redistricting efforts favoring GOP, using courts to alter rules under the guise of civil rights.

2. Elias Law Group

Partisan Alignment: 100% Democratic

Key Player: Marc Elias (founder, formerly at Perkins Coie)

Involved In:

•Election Lawfare:

•Filed hundreds of lawsuits between 2020–2024 aimed at changing ballot deadlines, preventing voter roll purges, and invalidating state-level election reforms.

•Sued states that passed voter integrity laws (Georgia, Texas, Arizona).

•Legal and strategic support for efforts to disqualify Trump from ballots under the 14th Amendment (Section 3).

3. WilmerHale

Partisan Alignment: Center-left establishment

Key Players: Robert Mueller, Jamie Gorelick

Involved In:

•Russiagate:

•Mueller was a WilmerHale partner before becoming special counsel.

•Several senior lawyers on Mueller’s team (Aaron Zebley, James Quarles) came from WilmerHale.

•Created a direct pipeline from a private DC firm to a politically charged investigation.

•WilmerHale defended companies and figures potentially affected by the Mueller investigation—raising questions about impartiality.

4. Latham & Watkins

Partisan Alignment: Progressive-leaning, deep resistance ties

Key Players: Kathryn Ruemmler (former Obama WH Counsel), multiple Obama-era appointees

Involved In:

•Lawfare Against Trump Policies:

•Litigated against Trump’s immigration, environmental, and regulatory rollbacks.

•Supported amicus briefs in support of January 6 prosecutions.

•Close ties to Biden DOJ officials (Ruemmler has known connections to current White House legal networks).

5. Covington & Burling

Partisan Alignment: Deep Obama/Biden ties

Key Players: Eric Holder, Lanny Breuer

Involved In:

•Russiagate/Deep State Entrenchment:

•Holder and Breuer returned to Covington after serving in the Obama DOJ.

•Firm has represented major tech and surveillance companies with ties to federal investigations.

•Defended figures in the intelligence community during investigations into FISA abuse and surveillance.

6. Debevoise & Plimpton

Partisan Alignment: Institutional left

Key Player: Mary Jo White (Obama SEC Chair), Andrew Ceresney

Involved In:

•Representing Hunter Biden in federal tax and firearms-related investigations.

•Helped negotiate controversial plea agreement that collapsed in 2023.

•Close ties to DOJ officials overseeing investigations of Hunter Biden. Scrutiny over sweetheart deals and unusual coordination.

7. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Partisan Alignment: Progressive legal elite

Key Players: Jeh Johnson (Obama DHS), Loretta Lynch (Obama AG)

Involved In:

•Represented progressive groups in redistricting and voting rights lawsuits.

•No comparable representation for free speech or conservative plaintiffs, reinforcing political asymmetry.

•Consulted by Democratic-aligned NGOs on how to frame post-2020 election audit challenges as “threats to democracy.”

8. Jenner & Block

Partisan Alignment: J6-focused, anti-Trump

Key Players: Donald Verrilli (Obama SG), Ian Gershengorn

Involved In:

•January 6 Committee Staffing:

•Provided legal support and volunteers to the J6 Committee.

•Ties to lawfare efforts to charge Trump advisors and allies.
•Worked behind the scenes with groups like Lawfare Blog and Brookings to craft legal theories around “insurrection” and “disqualification.”

9. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Partisan Alignment: Corporate Dem establishment

Key Players: Greg Craig (former Obama WH Counsel, indicted)

Involved In:

•Ukraine Lobbying Scandal:

•Paid millions by pro-Russian Ukrainian interests via Paul Manafort.

•Fined for failing to register under FARA. No major prosecutions of Skadden lawyers, despite harsh treatment of Manafort.

•Avoided accountability while similar conduct was used to hammer Trump affiliates.

March 23, 2025 - Obama and Hillary Clinton knowingly implemented foreign and domestic policies to aid and abet Islamic jihadists

Clinton with Libyan rebels before her departure from Tripoli, Libya on October 18, 2011. (Credit: Reuters)

The Obama administration and Hillary Clinton’s State Department deliberately and knowingly implemented a U.S. foreign policy to aid and abet Islamic jihadists — our enemies.

The policy in 2011 was to help the Muslim Brotherhood Islamic uprising come to power in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

Obama enacted the “great purge” in the U.S. government in 2011 and 2012, in which all official discourse, including presentations and training curricula, was purged of everything related to finding and identifying the global jihadist enemy we face.

That means: Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, the military, the Pentagon, and so on, including the intelligence community.

Because they either did not know, or were not allowed to know, anymore, who the enemy is — the global jihad movement and all who support jihad in the fight for Sharia, that is the enemy — because our officers were not permitted to speak of that, to know that, to pursue that, I think that had a lot to do with the policies in Benghazi specifically.

The day before the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, the head of Al Qaeda issued a video on jihadi websites and called for “sons of Libya” to rise up and kill Americans because the CIA had assassinated his deputy, a Libyan, some months before in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, with a drone strike.

“That, I have always thought, was the green light to attack the next day.”

Warnings were ignored.

There was collusion at the White House level, from the very beginning, to disseminated a false narrative, to blame the attack on the compound at Benghazi, which was an Islamic jihad attack by Ansar al-Sharia, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, to blame that on a YouTube video.

(On June 29, 2016, the Citizens Commission on National Security held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington to discuss the release of its new report on the events surrounding the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the Special Mission Compound and CIA Annex, resulting in the deaths of four Americans. The title of the CCNS report is Betrayal in Benghazi: A Dereliction of Duty. An overview was provided by Claire Lopez, a defense intelligence consultant and former career operations officer for the CIA. The CCNS report was published two days after the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi, chaired by Rep. Trey Gowdy, issued their official report.)

 

March 24, 2025 - Marc Elias is the legal advisor to activist groups coordinating the 'Tesla Takedown' protests

March 25, 2025 - Trump stands by Mike Waltz – attributes Signal App issue to Waltz staffer error

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump stood by his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a private, high-level chat on the messaging app Signal where military plans were being discussed.

“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump said Tuesday in a phone interview with NBC News.

When asked what he was told about how Goldberg came to be added to the Signal chat, Trump said, “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.”

Trump said Goldberg’s presence in the chat had “no impact at all” on the military operation.

The president expressed confidence in his team, saying he was not frustrated by the events leading up to The Atlantic’s story. The situation, Trump said, was “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one.” (more)

The rest of the DC setup is transparently clear.  (1) Goldberg held the story until the day before a long-scheduled Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. (2) The SSCI then used the hearing to blast the heads of the Trump administration intelligence silos on the issue of “classified” information in the text messages.

♦ The next act in this well-known performance will be for Democrats to demand the release of the Signal App transcript, if it’s not classified, then there’s nothing to hide.

♦ Public pressure via narrative drum-pounding will continue to increase, until the chat messages are released to congress. [Keep in mind, Jeffrey Goldberg likely already has them.]

♦ Everyone in the chat group will then be told they must recuse themselves from internal silo determinations as to the classified status of the conversation.  More public pressure will be generated to achieve this “position of conflict” demand.

♦ The Intelligence Community, without the heads of the silos – likely leveraging the internal investigative agents of the FBI (INSD), will then say the content of the chat was indeed classified, TSCI level.   There will be weeks and months of leaks to the media as each granular detail is discussed ad infinitum.

♦ The cabinet members will then face the drumbeat of resignation demands, and/or useful impeachment fodder for ‘lying to congress’ during today’s Senate Select Committee on Intelligence testimony.

At least that should be the anticipated approach by the “Seven Ways from Sunday” group, who operate to defend the interests of the Intelligence Community from agency heads like those who were on the Signal App chat group.

We’ve all watched this play before. (Conservative Treehouse, 3/25/2025)  (Archive)

Also see:

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz Invited Leftist Journ-o-Lister Jeff Goldberg to Group Chat on Signal Discussing Houthi Attacks

March 25, 2025 - Presidential Memorandum: “The main thing in investigative actions is not to get caught in the crossfire”

March 25, 2025 - 1500+ “Zombie Programs”, over 8% of federal budget spending at $516 billion, is unauthorized

(Credit: Survive The News graphic)

In 1974, Congress created the Legal Services Corporation to connect lower-income Americans involved in civil disputes with free legal help. The law that established the agency stipulated that authorization for its funding would expire in 1980, when lawmakers were required to vote on whether to keep it alive.

They never did. Still, Congress has funded LSC every year since. In fiscal 2025, its 51st year, LSC’s 135 employees will spend 95% of its now $560 million annual budget paying legal groups to represent Americans in cases such as eviction, domestic violence, and disputes over government benefits, according to Ron Flagg, the agency’s president since 2020.

“LSC would welcome reauthorization,” Flagg said. “We haven’t hidden from it. Every budget cycle, we go through an exhaustive process before Congress appropriates funds — dozens of meetings with leaders of both parties. We demonstrate our return on investment, how we help 2 million Americans get life-saving legal help.”

The Legal Services Corp. now stands as America’s oldest “Zombie” program, but it’s far from unique. At a time when the Trump administration is moving aggressively to scale back government, including eliminating the entire Education Department, it’s sobering to note that 1,503 agencies or programs live on despite expired authorizations, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Another 155 will expire on Sept. 30. The Zombies, nearly half of which have been officially dead for more than a decade, persist in a budgetary netherworld. In a deep dive last year, CBO analysts were able to find dollar amounts for 491 of the programs, with total expenditures of $516 billion. They don’t know how much funding the other programs received.

The total federal budget in 2024 was $6.8 trillion, meaning expired Zombie programs take up at least 8% of the budget, and likely much more.

“A lot of programs don’t get reauthorized because Congress is okay with how they’re operating,” said Josh Huder, former congressional staffer now at the Georgetown University Government Affairs Institute. “They continue to get annual appropriations because most members think they’re worthwhile.”

Many Zombie programs now soak up far more funding than lawmakers originally envisioned. The Federal Election Commission, for example, was expected to spend $9.4 million per year before its authorization expired in 1981. Yet the agency continued to receive funding and spent $95 million in 2024, auditors at government watchdog Open The Books found. The Federal Communications Commission was originally allocated $339.6 million per year. Its funding authorization expired in 2020, yet it spent $28.4 billion last year.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency hasn’t addressed the Zombies that are prowling the federal spreadsheets. Given DOGE’s headlong push to first root out alleged waste, fraud, and abuse and ask questions later, experts say, Zombies may offer a ripe target.

“One could imagine that if DOGE is clued into the notion of expired authorizations, they’ll think a program is defunct,” said Sarah Binder, senior fellow at Brookings and professor of political science at George Washington University. She said this would be a mistake. “If Congress is still appropriating money to the programs, they’re not Zombies. They’re living, breathing agencies.”

Binder says the fault lies not with the agencies, some of which have become important enough to be household names, but Congress. Lawmakers have made it so difficult to accomplish their most fundamental tasks, such as funding the government for another year, that they hardly ever get around to doing other important things, such as reauthorizing existing programs.

The Foreign Relations Authorization Act, for example, expired in 2003. Yet in 2024, Congress spent $38.4 billion on 24 of the law’s programs, allowing legislators to influence the White House’s foreign policy and security assistance to other nations.

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce, now led by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), supported the funding of 346 expired programs, more than any other committee, the CBO found. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, now chaired by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), spent more identifiable money than any other group: $153.5 billion. (Read more: RealClearInvestigations, 3/25/2025)  (Archive)

March 25, 2025 - Trump orders the immediate declassification of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane files

March 26, 2025 - An example of Judge Boasberg's two-tiered justice system: Protect Hillary Clinton vs Get Trump

From The Washington Times:

Two watchdog groups, Judicial Watch and Cause of Action, had sued in 2015 demanding the government recover all of Mrs. Clinton’s emails, saying she violated open-records laws by not preserving her messages.

👉 U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, though, said the FBI did what it could, and did manage to recover thousands of messages Mrs. Clinton didn’t return herself.

“Those efforts went well beyond the mine-run search for missing federal records … and were largely successful, save for some emails sent during a two-month stretch. Even then, the FBI pursued every imaginable avenue to recover the missing emails,” wrote Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee to the court.

❕Originally, the case had been dismissed as moot, but last year the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed that finding, ordering the government to “shake loose a few more emails.”

👉 But Judge Boasberg put an end to the shaking Thursday.

“The Court of Appeals may have asked the Government to ’shak[e] the tree harder’ for more emails, but it never suggested that the FBI must shake every tree in every forest, without knowing whether they are fruit trees,” he wrote.

The judge said the FBI had already uncovered 55,000 pages of emails when it was ordered to do more. The agency interviewed people that most frequently exchanged work related emails with Mrs.

(Timeline editor’s note: Be sure to check Boasberg’s timeline tag below to read more about his lawless justice for the past several years.)

March 26, 2025 - Former CIA director, Michael Hayden, who recently lost his security clearance, sits on board of company neck-deep in NSA tech contracts

Michael Hayden once implied Trump should be executed for taking classified docs. (Credit: Larry Downing/Reuters)

3 parts – How the DC Swamp is Undermining @DOGE and Crushing the Will of We the People🚨

Last night, while digging into some research, I stumbled upon a chilling pattern: key contracts are vanishing from the government spending database. I found several cases, but one stands out as critical—it’s tied to Michael Hayden, ex-CIA director and one of the 51 intel officials behind the Hunter Biden laptop letter. Hayden sits on the board of Freedom Technology Solution Group LLC (FTSG), a company neck-deep in NSA tech contracts.

The pattern you’ve uncovered isn’t just alarming—it’s a textbook example of the bureaucratic rot that thrives when accountability vanishes. Michael Hayden’s ties to FTSG and its NSA contracts spotlight the revolving door between intelligence elites and contractors who profit from taxpayer-funded deals. This isn’t an isolated case. The Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2025 (H.R. 80) directly targets Hayden and 50 others who weaponized their security clearances to manipulate narratives like the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Their actions didn’t just mislead the public—they eroded trust in institutions meant to serve Americans, not insiders.

While H.R. 80 revokes their clearances, the deeper issue is systemic: opaque contracting, unchecked influence, and agencies prioritizing self-preservation over transparency. Real reform means dismantling these networks, auditing every dollar funneled to contractors with ties to retired officials, and ensuring public databases aren’t scrubbed to hide malfeasance. The swamp isn’t just stagnant—it’s actively sabotaging efforts to restore accountability. Until every backroom deal faces sunlight, the cycle continues.

Exposing corruption moves at the speed of sunlight—every contract audit, clearance revocation, and database leak accelerates accountability. Look at the Pentagon’s recent $1.2 billion cloud-computing deal with a contractor linked to retired NSA officials—vanished from public records after scrutiny.

Real dismantling starts with mandatory 10-year cooling-off periods for officials joining contractors, real-time spending trackers immune to bureaucratic scrubbing, and lifetime bans for those caught manipulating databases.

The swamp fights dirty, but sustained pressure collapses their schemes faster than they can rebuild them.

Blockchain’s immutable ledger would expose every dollar’s path, eliminating the bureaucratic black holes where fraud thrives. Take the $600 million in pandemic unemployment funds stolen through fake claims in one state alone—phantom recipients, duplicate payments, and shell companies drained taxpayer cash while outdated systems failed to flag it.

With blockchain, each transaction’s origin, destination, and purpose is permanently stamped and publicly traceable, making phantom contracts and vanished deals impossible to hide. Mandate real-time blockchain logging for all federal spending, pair it with AI-driven anomaly detection, and watch the swamp’s favorite scams evaporate.

No more disappearing acts—just accountability.

Accelerating blockchain adoption starts with exposing real-time failures. Take a Midwestern city’s $50 million “smart grid” upgrade—contractors billed for nonexistent sensors while officials rubber-stamped phantom invoices. Blockchain’s traceability would’ve flagged the fraud instantly.

Push Congress to mandate blockchain integration in all municipal and federal contracts, enforce real-time public dashboards, and jailtime for database tampering. Delay equals theft—sunlight kills scams faster than any audit.

March 26, 2025 - Ukrainian Nazi fighters from Azov regiment are sentenced in Russian military court

Over two dozen Azov members Moscow-designated ‘terrorists’ stood in court behind the plexiglass for sentencing. (Credit: public domain)

It’s a demented feature of our days that if you stand to the right of Che Guevara in the political specter, automatically all the Liberal-Globalists in a choir will call you ‘a literal Nazi’, but when confronted with the real-life, present-day, self-identifying Ukrainian Nazis from the Azov Regiment and other groups like the Right Sector, these same groups in the western societies will stay dead silent.

If today the USAID-media is willing to whitewash and even lionize these radicals, it wasn’t always like that: in 2014, The Guardian described Azov as a battalion with far-right, neo-Nazi leanings, openly expressing admiration for Hitler and displaying swastika tattoos, while Time highlighted its neo-Nazi symbols like the “black sun” and “wolf’s hook,” and its appeal to far-right volunteers from Europe and the U.S.

Also in 2014, The Daily Telegraph called Azov a neo-Nazi force, and The Washington Post noted that Azov’s far-right volunteers included foreign neo-Nazis.

(…) Yesterday (26), as over two dozen Nazi extremists, Moscow-designated ‘terrorists’ stood in court behind the plexiglass for sentencing, MSM called them Azov Fighters, Ukrainian fighters, Captured Ukrainians, Ukrainian POWs…

The Russian military court yesterday handed down long prison sentences to 23 Azov members.

Reuters reported:

“The defendants, charged with terrorist activity and with violently seizing or retaining power, were sentenced to between 13 and 23 years in prison, Russian state media reported.”

Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets: “‘Ukrainian prisoners of war are combatants, not criminals! They were fulfilling their duty to the state, protecting its territorial integrity and sovereignty’, he said.”

The Reuters report uncritically states that Kiev says Azov was ‘reformed away from its radical nationalist origins and is now apolitical’ – which if you have been following the war, you know it’s not an accurate description.

In the devastated ruins of Mariupol, they bravely defended against the Russia siege between February and May 2022, after which 2,500 eventually surrendered, ‘emerging from their refuge in a vast network of bunkers tunnels beneath the city’s Azovstal steelworks’.
Russian courts have so far reportedly convicted 145 Azov members.

(…) Sputnik reported:

“In 2022, Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed Azov’s use of banned warfare methods, including killing, rape and torture of civilians and child killings.

In May 2014, Azov executed Mariupol police officers who refused to disperse protestors opposing the February 2014 coup in Kiev, then opened fire on a peaceful demonstration.”

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 3/27/2025)  (Archive)

March 27, 2025 - Elon Musk and DOGE team give behind the scenes review of their mission

Elon Musk and the primary members of the DOGE team gave a behind the scenes review of their mission to Fox News correspondent Bret Baier.  Elon Musk outlines how the Dept of Government Efficiency is on track to remove $1 trillion in excessive waste, fraud and abuse from the federal budget.

The team discusses just how excessive the fraud is within the federal spending programs as they outline finding after finding of federal spending that is often outrageous and stunning.  This is MUST-WATCH television.

Review the discoveries at DOGE.GOV HERE

(Conservative Treehouse, 3/27/2025)  (Archive)

March 28, 2025 - Loomer exposes more globalist connections to Trump's NSC; Vetting failures

TRUMP ADMIN VETTING FAILURE AT NSC EXPOSED🚨

How Donald Trump @POTUS continues to be undermined & put at risk due to a lack of vetting in his administration.

Want to see another vetting failure at the NSC which further exposes the way people with close proximity to Trump haters have been elevated to national security and intel roles in the Trump admin, despite a documented history of unethical behavior and associations?

Meet Ivan Kanapathy.

2 months ago, Ivan was selected to work under NSC Director @MikeWaltz47 as the NSC Director for Asia, where he is responsible for crafting the Trump administration’s approach to China and Taiwan. This is a top position at NSC, with direct proximity to President Trump.

Where was Kanapathy before he started working at NSC? Well, 2 months ago, he worked with former CIA officials and Democrat Trump haters Mike Morrell and Leon Panetta at Beacon Global Strategies where Kanapathy was the Senior Vice President of Beacon Global Strategies.

If those names Morell and Panetta sound familiar, it’s because they are 2 of the 51 spies who lied in an infamous intel letter in October 2020 where they, and 49 other US intel officials, falsely and deceptively penned a letter in which they said Hunter Biden’s laptop was a “Russian disinformation operation.”

We now know they all lied about the laptop, which is VERY REAL and was introduced as evidence in Hunter’s own trial, which is why President Trump has since stripped all 51 of those intel individuals of their security clearances.

Ivan Kanapathy was the Senior Vice President of Beacon Global Strategies up until 2 months ago, when he accepted the role at NSC.

It doesn’t reflect well on Ivan’s judgement or his loyalty to President Trump in that he was comfortable employing Panetta and Morell at Beacon Global Strategies as Senior Counselors, where they still work, all while knowing they signed their names to that treasonous letter.

We have all known for years now that those 51 intel agents deliberately lied in a coordinated effort with the Biden campaign to run cover for Joe Biden’s son @HunterBiden to discredit reports about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which contained evidence of illicit and criminal activities that implicated Joe Biden as he was running for President against Donald Trump.

In an October 18, 2020 email, Michael Morell asked his fellow spy buddies, including former CIA Directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta and Mike Hayden, to sign the letter, explaining that he and former CIA agent Marc Polymeropoulos had “drafted the attached because we believe the Russians were involved in some way in the Hunter Biden email issue and because we think Trump will attack Biden on the issue at this week’s debate and we want to give the VP a talking point to use in response.”

Morell was the ring leader of the letter that the 51 agents signed to undermine Donald Trump. While he organized the letter, Morell was also on CIA payroll. In his emails, he said the purpose of the letter was to give Joe Biden a “talking point” ahead of a 2020 Presidential debate against then-President Donald Trump.

Even while knowing this, Ivan Kanapathy continued to allow Morell and Panetta to work at Beacon Global Strategies. As the Senior Vice President of BGS, surely Ivan Kanapathy had an executive level role. Why would someone want to work with @BarackObama’s CIA Directors, who have a documented record of lying for Dems?

How on earth did a colleague of Michael Morell & Leon Panetta get cleared through vetting to work at the  National Security Council (NSC)?

The NSC is used by POTUS for consideration of national security, military, and foreign policy matters. Based in the White House, it is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, & composed of senior national security advisors & Cabinet officials.

This is a VETTING FAILURE. Is @IvanKanapathy still in touch with his colleagues Mike Morell & Leon Panetta?
RECEIPTS 👇🏻

Up until 2 months ago, Ivan Kanapathy was the Senior Vice President of Beacon Global Strategies. Jeremy Bash is the current Managing Director of Beacon Global Strategies. Kanapathy and Bash worked together. Now, Kanapathy is in a top level position under @MikeWaltz47 at the NSC, despite working alongside treasonous intel officials who broke their code of professional ethics by using their security clearances to fabricate a story about Hunter Biden’s laptop to interfere in the 2020 election as a way to help Joe Biden.

Why would Kanapathy willingly work alongside these intel officials all while everyone was aware for YEARS of their inappropriate conduct and abuse of power?

This is why many of Kanapathy’s colleagues at Beacon Global Strategies had their security clearances revoked by President @realDonaldTrump!

Bash was the chief of staff at the Central Intelligence Agency (2009–2011) and the U.S. Department of Defense (2011–2013) under Barack Obama. He worked as a senior advisor to Leon Panetta in both roles. His security clearance was also stripped by President Trump, as one of the 51 intel agents who signed the 2020 letter, declaring Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation” as a CIA plot to help Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump during the Presidential debate when Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal erupted during the 2020 Presidential campaign.

At least four of the letter’s signatories, former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, former CIA senior Inspector General David Buckley, CIA official Jeremy Bash and former National Security Agency official Richard Ledgett were active CIA contractors at the time
they signed the letter.

Jeremy Bash is the ex husband of CNN anchor @DanaBashCNN.

How the hell did Ivan Kanapathy get through vetting???

He was working with Jeremy Bash, Mike Morell and Leon Panetta just 2 months ago!

Now he’s at NSC with access to President Trump and sensitive information.

Vetting crisis!

Both Micahel Morell and Leon Panetta worked as CIA Directors under the Obama administration.

They now work for Beacon Global Strategies as SENIOR COUNSELORS.

Up until 2 months ago, Ivan Kanapathy was the SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF BEACON GLOBAL STRATEGIES where he worked with the SPIES WHO LIED, who have since had their security clearances REVOKED by the Trump admin.

How did their colleague get placed in charge of China policy as the Asia Director at NSC?

There is a vetting crisis in the @realDonaldTrump admin.

This NSC appointment reeks of the same swamp creatures Trump’s administration has fought to drain. Kanapathy’s ties to Morell and Panetta—architects of the Hunter Biden laptop disinformation campaign—highlight a glaring vetting gap. The Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2025 (H.R. 80) already stripped security clearances from these 51 spies for weaponizing intelligence against a sitting president. Yet their protégé lands a top NSC role? Bureaucratic rot runs deep.

While Trump cleans house, holdovers from the deep state’s influence-peddling network cling to power. Every compromised appointment undermines America First priorities—especially on China policy, where strategic clarity is nonnegotiable.

Time to audit every security clearance and purge every Obama-era operative still embedded in the system.

March 29, 2025 - NIH boss shuts down Fort Detrick bio-lab due to a confrontation between contractors

An aerial view of Ft. Detrick’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD) Lab. (Credit: public domain)

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said poor safety culture, and a feud between employees that risked the leak of an unknown pathogen, prompted him to temporarily shutter the high-level biosafety laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Bhattacharya, who was confirmed by the Senate in late March, had only just taken the helm at the agency which was at the center of much COVID-19-era controversy when he received a report about the high-security laboratory that caused his “blood to chill,” he told the Just the News, No Noise TV show on Monday.

He said the lab reported that one researcher slashed a hole in a containment suit of another researcher, potentially exposing them to a pathogen.

A lovers’ spat turns potentially deadly

“About three weeks in, I got a report that there was a lab—a BSL four lab, that is a high-security lab that deals with, like, really nasty bugs, you know, Ebola, whole bunch of other bugs—that there had been a safety incident…[that] involved a contractor cutting a hole in the bio containment suit of another worker with the intention of that, getting that worker sick with some nasty bug and potentially spreading it outside of the lab itself,” Bhattacharya said, confirming an incident first reported by Fox News earlier this month.

Fox News also reported that the incident between the two contractors was sparked by a lover’s spat, according to an anonymous official from the Department of Health and Human Services.

“I mean, I have not been scared by anything…in this job so far, except for that. When I heard that, my blood just chilled,” Bhattacharya said.

The incident, which raised significant safety concerns at the high-security laboratory, was the catalyst for the temporary closure, which halted work at the facility. Work at the Biosaftey Level 4 laboratory was halted on March 29, shortly after Bhattacharya took the helm at NIH.

The lab is equipped to handle research on highly infectious and lethal diseases like Anthrax bacteria, COVID-19, the Ebola virus, and the lesser-known but deadly Marburg and Nipah viruses, among others.

“I ordered immediately, as soon as I heard about this incident, that there’s an operational pause of all, all experiments at this lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and that we’re not going to reopen it until, until I’m satisfied that we have a group that can run it with safety first,” the director told Just the News of his decision.

“This is really, really dangerous stuff, and if we’re going to play around with these kinds of experiments, it better be at a 100% secure lab where the safety culture says that it’s more important to get the safety right than to have the science go forward,” he added.

Not the first shutdown for the lab

The laboratory has been plagued by safety concerns since at least 2019 when a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention inspection of the facility uncovered several “serious” safety protocol violations that led to a similar temporary shutdown, according to documents obtained by ABC affiliate WJLA.

In one incident, the CDC found an individual had entered a room multiple times without the mandatory respiratory protection gear while scientists were performing procedures on a deceased non-human primate on a necropsy table. The agency noted a number of other incidents involving improper respiratory protection.

Additionally, the agency found the lab did not sufficiently verify employee training for handling toxins and select agents—“agents and toxins that have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety,” per the CDC.

Officials also cited insufficient systems to “decontaminate wastewater” from the facility. The CDC did not originally release publicly its decision to temporarily close the lab, citing “national security reasons,” The New York Times reported at the time. By April 2020, the laboratory had resumed full operations.

Other labs will go under the microscope

(Read more: Just the News, 5/13/2025)  (Archive)