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April 8, 2025 - Attorney Ty Clevenger files to hold FBI in contempt for defying court orders in Seth Rich case

This afternoon we asked the U.S. District Court in Sherman, Texas to hold the @FBI in contempt of court for systematically violating the court’s orders to produce records about Seth Rich. If there is nothing to hide, and Seth died in a “botched robbery,” then why has the FBI gone so far as to commit crimes in order to conceal the evidence? After all, the FBI already has admitted that there is a link between Seth’s work laptop and the 2016 “hack” of the DNC, purportedly by Russian intelligence agents.

If Mueller and Durham told us the whole story about the Russia hoax, then why is the FBI still fighting so hard to hide the facts? The URL below links to our motion. It speaks for itself.

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April 8, 2025 - Supreme Court begins dismantling federal judge “Temporary Restraining Orders” against constitutional executive branch action

Many pundits and apoplectic Lawfare leftists are noting a set of four recent Supreme Court rulings favorable to the Trump administration.

The most recent ruling [pdf here] said nonprofit groups lacked legal standing to bring lawsuits challenging the firings of probationary workers at the departments of Defense, Treasury, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs.  As a consequence, the accompanying Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) is defeated.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court also ruled -generally favorable- to the Trump administration [pdf here] on the issue of Venezuelans in the United States labeled by President Donald Trump as “alien enemies.”  The justices ruled (5-4) to vacate a lower judge’s order that imposed a block on all deportations under Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.

However, the court ruled to remove the TRO under auspices of the wrong venue for challenge; saying the deportees must challenge their status in the district court where jurisdiction of detainment takes place.

That split court ruling follows on the heels of Chief Justice John Roberts issuing an administrative order indefinitely lifting a lower court injunction [pdf here] that demanded the return of previously deported Abrego Garcia set by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis.

In short, the Supreme Court, at least a narrow majority therein, appears to be knocking down the process of federal judge shopping to issue nationwide restraining orders against the Trump administration.  Twitter account Unseen1 has a solid and brief outline of what the court appears to be doing:

“The big win for Trump in the scotus today was not the resumption of deportations under the AEA (alien enemies act) (but that was big also). The major win was the court narrowing the federal district judges’ jurisdiction They once again narrowed the ability of the APA (administrative procedure act) which is the main law the vast majority of these unconditional judicial rulings have been made under.

The left is using the APA like Macgyver used bubble gum to get them out of sticky situations. Without the APA, they can’t judge shop as much. They can’t make class action lawsuits that have national injunctions attached.

In short, the scotus with this order, along with the one last week, is narrowing the use of the APA to reign in the lower federal district courts. There are already judicial remedies for almost all of these cases that do not involve a hand-picked federal district court needing to issue a national injunction or TRO.

Grants and contracts should be brought in federal claims court.

Immigration issues should be brought as habeas cases, and most can be held in front of immigration judges.

Government firings should be brought in front of the merit systems protection board.

The left doesn’t want to follow proper procedures for a host of reasons, like added costs, unfriendly judges could set precedent, extra work, time, etc. So, they invented the APA macgyver option. Hence, about 50 TROs/injunctions later, the scotus is smacking this practice down and telling them that this effort will not result in favorable opinions for them.

In short, the scotus is telling the federal district courts not to draw outside the lines regardless of the merits of the case because they will be denied on jurisdiction grounds if they reach the high court.” [link]

However, as noted by The American Thinker: {…} “The real problem is that the Supreme Court emphasized that every person named as an “alien enemy” under the AEA is entitled to judicial review. This is insane because it means that the judiciary will, once again, take unto itself the power to control foreign policy.

While this standard currently applies to the 18-20 million ordinary illegals that Biden let in (something no legislator or judge ever contemplated when immigration laws were passed or reviewed), it cannot possibly apply to the AEA, which is a question of foreign policy solely under the executive’s purview. (Sadly, though, Bondi’s DOJ actually gave the Supremes this opening, so part of the responsibility for this ludicrous holding is on her.) (more)

(Conservative Treehouse, 4/8/2025)  (Archive)

April 9, 2025 - A former Meta official testifies they secretly aided China in undermining U.S. national security

Sarah Wynn-Williams (Credit: video clipping)

A former Meta executive turned whistleblower just dropped a political nuke that has rocked Capitol Hill and should terrify every American who values freedom, privacy, and national sovereignty.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, once Facebook’s director of global public policy (now Meta), appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Wednesday and leveled jaw-dropping allegations against her former employer.

That Meta knowingly briefed the Chinese Communist Party on advanced U.S. technologies, including artificial intelligence, beginning in 2015—just to get a seat at Beijing’s lucrative tech table.

“These briefings focused on critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence – explicit goal being to help China outcompete American companies,” said Wynn-Williams, who worked at the social media giant from 2011 to 2017, according to the New York Post.

“There’s a straight line you can draw from these briefings to the recent revelations that China is developing AI models for military use, relying on Meta’s Llama model,” she added. (Read more:  Gateway Pundit, 4/10/2025)  (Archive)

Full Hearing:

April 9, 2025 - Trump addresses risks associated with "Anonymous" sensationalist, Miles Taylor

RECLAIMING GOVERNMENT INTEGRITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum suspending any active security clearance held by Miles Taylor and his associates.

The Order directs the head of every federal agency to immediately suspend any active security clearance held by Taylor.

The Order also suspends any active security clearance held by individuals at entities associated with Taylor, including the University of Pennsylvania, pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the national interest.

Furthermore, the Order calls for a review of Taylor’s activities as a government employee to identify any instances where his conduct appears to have been contrary to suitability standards for federal employees or involved the unauthorized dissemination of classified information.

ERADICATING GOVERNMENT BETRAYAL: President Trump is committed to ending the weaponization of government and believes that those who engage in such conduct should not have access to our nation’s secrets.

Taylor is a bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his government position, prioritizing his own ambition, personal notoriety, and monetary gain over fidelity to his constitutional oath.

While serving as an administrative staff assistant at the Department of Homeland Security, Taylor stoked dissension by manufacturing sensationalist reports on the existence of a supposed “resistance” within the federal government that “vowed” to undermine and render effective a sitting President.

Taylor published a book under the pseudonym “Anonymous,” full of falsehoods and fabricated stories.

(Credit: You Tube video clipping)

Taylor disclosed sensitive information obtained through unauthorized methods and betrayed the confidence of those with whom he served.

Taylor relied upon various colleagues to facilitate his unethical laundering and release of sensitive government data to advance his false narratives.

DRAINING THE SWAMP: President Trump is delivering on his promise to drain the swamp by rooting out inefficiency, corruption, and disloyalty.

President Trump already suspended the security clearances held by numerous other individuals who have engaged in conduct detrimental to American interests.

He is ensuring taxpayer funds do not go to anti-American activists and is declassifying records related to alleged government misconduct, providing transparency to the public.

The Trump Administration is aggressively investigating Biden-era programs that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on inefficient and politically-driven projects, including canceling unnecessary government contracts and grants that do not serve the national interest.

President Trump is restoring trust in government by prioritizing loyalty to the Constitution and the American people over entrenched bureaucratic interests.

(The White House, 4/9/2025) (Archive)

April 9, 2025 - Trump revokes former CISA director Chris Krebs’s security clearance — Orders DOJ investigation into role in ‘stolen’ 2020 election

This afternoon, President Donald Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum that instructs the Department of Justice and “other aspects of [his] government” to investigate Chris Krebs and his acts as the former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).  At the signing, President Trump’s White House staff secretary Will Scharf stated:

“This is a man who weaponized his position against free speech in the election context and the context of COVID-19.  This is a similar Presidential Memorandum to the one you just signed.  It addresses his access to government existent clearances he might have and further instructs your Department of Justice, other aspects of your government, to investigate some of the malign acts he participated in while he was still head of CISA.”

Before signing the memorandum, President Trump rehashed the consequences of the stolen 2020 election, including the deaths from the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, the Russia-Ukraine war, and October 7th.

President Trump called it “a very corrupt election” and said “they used COVID to cheat.”  He called Krebs a “wise-guy” and referenced his absurd statement almost immediately following the 2020 Election, calling it the “most secure in U.S. history.” (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 4/9/2025)  (Archive)

April 9, 2025 - Boasberg lifts protective order on J6 discovery; Big win for accountability and transparency

BREAKING: MASSIVE J6 WIN for the sake of government accountability and transparency that will help generations of Americans understand what actually happened that fateful day!!

Court just granted our motion to lift the protective order that long shrouded most J6 discovery in a veil of secrecy. Now ALL discovery will be made public!!

Massive amount of data. Hundreds of terabytes. Everything @TheJusticeDept and defense lawyers had access to.

In addition, the granted motion demanded the government discovery databases TO BE MAINTAINED AND MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE RESEARCH AND TRANSPARENCY!!

Congress @SpeakerJohnson wouldn’t live up to their multiple promises to make all J6 information public, so we took a big first step for them. Great job @RogerRoots and @EmtheFishLady on this!!

April 10, 2025 - The Crossfire Hurricane documents have been declassified and released

Nearly 700 pages of declassified records from the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into now-discredited claims of the 2016 Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia were turned over to Congress by the FBI this week and obtained Thursday exclusively by Just the News.

You can read the declassified documents below, reorganized by subject for easy access and listed alphabetically:

2025.04.10 – Adm Rogers NSA interview.pdf
2025.04.10 – Bruce Ohr interviews.pdf
2025.04.10 – Christopher Steele Binder.pdf
2025.04.10 – Comey text messages.pdf
2025.04.10 – DJT Flynn Christie defensive briefing.pdf
2025.04.10 – FISA notes on Steele reports.pdf
2025.04.10 – Flynn interview.pdf
2025.04.10 – Halper files.pdf
2025.04.10 – HRC attorneys defensive briefing.pdf
2025.04.10 – McCabe memos.pdf
2025.04.10 – McCabe text messages.pdf
2025.04.10 – Mifsud interview.pdf
2025.04.10 – Page & Strzok Lync messages.pdf
2025.04.10 – Page text messages.pdf
2025.04.10 – Priestap text messages.pdf
2025.04.10 – State Dept Steele binder.pdf
2025.04.10 – Steele reports thru Simpson & McCain.pdf
2025.04.10 – Strzok text messages.pdf
2025.04.10 – Wolfe interview.pdf

 

(Just the News, 4/10/2025)  (Archive)

From Sean Davis at The Federalist:

Crossfire Hurricane Binder 1 by The Federalist

April 10, 2025 - Stefan Halper - Crossfire Hurricane Declassified Binder

Stefan Halper (Credit: Wikipedia)

A key FBI informant in the widely-debunked Russia collusion case was paid nearly $1.2 million over three decades, was motivated in part by “monetary compensation,” and continued snitching even after agents concluded he told them an inaccurate story about future Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, newly declassified documents show.

The nearly 700 pages of once-secret documents, obtained by Just the News, were recently turned over by FBI Director Kash Patel to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan after President Donald Trump ordered them declassified at the start of his second administration.

They provide the most extensive portrait yet of former FBI informant Stefan Halper, a Pentagon consultant and academic who, along with retired British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, was used by bureau agents to build the Crossfire Hurricane case against Trump and his advisers during the end of the 2016 election and the beginning of Trump’s first term in office.

The memos confirm Halper was the source of one of the most sensational bogus claims to land in the FBI’s probe in summer 2016: that Flynn had left a 2014 foreign meeting alone with Russia scholar Svetlana Lokhova when he was a three-star general leading the Defense Intelligence Agency.

FBI agents ultimately deemed Halper’s account to be “not plausible” and “not accurate”, but the bureau proceeded to investigate Flynn, kept paying Halper and continued to vouch for his veracity as a confidential human source codenamed “Mitch,” the memos show.

For instance, a March 2017 memo showed the FBI’s Validation Management Unit wrote that it “assesses it is likely HALPER is suitable for continued operation, based on his or her authenticity, reliability, and control.”

That memo makes no mention in its unredacted portions of the concerns about the account Halper gave about Flynn and Lokhova, which were confirmed in a memo from William Barnett, the FBI agent who handled the retired Flynn’s case in 2016 and 2017.

Paid more than $1 million

The new FBI records also show Halper was paid $70,000 by the FBI between August 2016 and the start of February 2017 — a time period spanning his activation as an informant targeting the Trump campaign and then the 2016 election and Trump’s inauguration. The FBI records also showed that the bureau had paid Halper “$1,181,064.44” from 1991 into early 2017.

You can read the FBI’s declassified records on Halper here:

Stefan Halper – Crossfire Hurricane Declassified Binder

Halper did not respond to a request for comment which Just the News made through his lawyer, Robert Luskin.

The “Crossfire Hurricane Redacted Binder” submitted to Congress and obtained by Just the News includes, among other things, slightly less-redacted versions of the tasking orders and debriefings of the two main confidential human sources, Halper and Steele. The new documents are certain to raise continued concerns in Congress about the FBI’s management and validation of informants, an issue that has been repeatedly flagged by the Justice Department’s watchdog.

FBI vouches for Halper after he fed false info on Flynn

The FBI’s Validation Management Unit (VMU) conducted a Human Source Validation Report (HSVR) on Halper in early 2017 — and although the declassified document remains heavily redacted, it reveals new information about the FBI’s continued expression of trust in Halper.

The VMU’s review from May 2013 to March 2017 and recommended that the FBI continue using Halper as a source despite FBI agents working the Flynn case determining that he had provided them incorrect information. It is not known whether Halper knew the information was bogus at the time.

“VMU recommends FBI New York continue to operate HALPER. VMU assesses it is likely HALPER will continue to contribute to the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program,” the FBI unit wrote. “While there have been serious handling issues noted in previous HSVRs, VMU did not locate similar issues during this period of review. VMU assesses HALPER has provided valuable information for FBI NY based on his or her unique access.”

The FBI document said Halper was primarily involved in reporting on “Counterintelligence” and secondarily involved in reporting on “Russia.”

“HALPER, code name MITCH, is being utilized to provide information on two initiatives dealing with Russia,” the FBI record states, although one of the initiatives remains entirely redacted.

The other initiative was that Halper “has also provided information pertaining to the U.S. election involving Donald Trump’s close associates and their potential ties to the Russian government.”

Vox parroted this explanation, saying the Trump administration told “a tale of politically motivated persecution of Trump. The argument rests on the distinction between an FBI counterintelligence investigation – an inquiry into a foreign power’s efforts to spy on the US government – and an FBI criminal investigation, which is an effort to investigate whether any federal laws were broken.”

The FBI unit said: “VMU assesses it is likely HALPER is suitable for continued operation, based on his or her authenticity, reliability, and control.” The sections of Halper’s alleged authenticity, reliability, and control remain heavily redacted.

The bureau unit also contended that “during the period of review, VMU found no derogatory issues regarding MITCH’s reliability.”

But the FBI unit also admitted: “VMU notes there is no corroboration concerning MITCH’s reporting. Due to the singular nature of his or her access, VMU was unable to locate corroboration concerning MITCH’s reporting.”

Sections on collection requirements, threat issues, and key intelligence questions related to Halper all remain blacked out from public view.

(Read much more: Just the News, 4/10/2025)  (Archive)

April 10, 2025 - Hillary Clinton fearmongers over the House passing SAVE Act that requires proof of citizenship to vote

Earlier on Thursday, as Jeff covered, the House passed the SAVE Act, which makes clear that only citizens can vote in our elections. The bill passed 220-208, with all Republicans supporting the voter integrity effort, along with four Democrats. Most of those four Democrats, Reps. Ed Case of Hawaii, Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, are running in competitive districts.

Despite the common sense nature of such a bill, not only did most House Democrats vote against it, but their party’s nominee for 2016 totally melted down in posts over X. Hillary Clinton posted a warning about the bill on Wednesday afternoon, and then on Thursday afternoon put out a quoted reposted with an “update,” with even more fearmongering about the bill.

The original post included a link to a far-left group known as Indivisible, and claimed “this is not a drill” as she urged married women who changed their name to call their representatives over a supposed need to protect their right to vote.

Clinton’s new post from Wednesday urged women to call their senators this time, as she once more lumped all married women who changed their name into the same category. “The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don’t match their birth certificates,” she claimed, urging these women to “Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.”

Although Clinton restricted replies, she was swiftly called out for such a bogus take, and on a very popular bill to do with a crucial issue. Wednesday’s post has been viewed over 1 million times, and includes 5,000 quoted reposts.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who sponsored the SAVE Act for this Congress and the previous one, not only put out a quoted repost of Clinton, he also reposted a clip of his appearance on “The Will Cain Show.”

The congressman addressed the concerns raised by Clinton directly, explaining, “when you get married, you have to go change that documentation anyway,” pointing out how newly married women have to get new IDs reflecting their name change. “And regardless, we’ve got mechanisms in the bill that allow states to be able to create processes for anyone who comes forward and says, ‘I need to vote.’ Right? Well, okay, are you already registered? Great, you’re good to go! If you’re going through a new registration process, and you’re married, well just present your new information and now you’re rergistering and it’s fine! If you got any issue, then we allow the states to come up with mechanism for doing that, and demonstrating” a process for that.

Roy also highlighted what people cannot do, “which is come in with a made up name” and expect to be trusted enough to be able to vote, a concept that the congressman called “pretty simple.”

(Read more: Townhall, 4/10/2025) (Archive)

April 10, 2025 - DOGE finds unemployment benefits fraud committed by babies, 115 yr olds, and a time traveler

An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:
– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits
– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits
– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits

In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.

Unreal. Billions in unemployment fraud—babies, 115-year-olds, even someone born in 2154 cashing checks. This isn’t bureaucratic error—it’s systematic looting.

The Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act (H.R. 1156) finally extends the statute of limitations to claw back stolen funds. But let’s be clear: this mess started under lax oversight in prior administrations. Now? The focus is accountability.

Every dime stolen from taxpayers should be hunted down—no expiry date on fraud. Time to jail the grifters and overhaul a system that handed out cash to literal toddlers.

April 10, 2025 - DNI Tulsi Gabbard reports we now have evidence on how electronic voting systems are manipulating votes in elections

Another angle, to see some of those at the table.

h/t WLT Report, 4/10/2025

April 10, 2025 - Trump strips benefits from thousands of aliens on terror watchlist

Migrants board a plane during the first deportation flight of undocumented Venezuelans from the United States to Venezuela, in Harlingen, Texas, on October 18, 2023. ((Credit: Veronica G. Cardenas/AFP via Getty Images)

The Trump administration is revoking the parole of thousands of immigrants who they have found to have criminal records or to be on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center watchlist, a senior White House official told the Daily Caller.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has identified 6,300 individuals who were paroled into the United States since 2023, during the Biden administration, but are on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center or have a criminal record, a senior White House official shared with the Caller. The source was granted anonymity to discuss the details not yet announced. Every individual CBP identified is having their parole, which gives them benefits such as work authorization, stripped immediately, the official told the Caller.

“Among the 6.3k paroled aliens with criminal or terrorist records, 905 were collecting Medicaid (including 4 on the terrorist watch list). $276,000 was paid out,” the official shared with the Caller, adding that all had Social Security numbers. “41 were collecting Unemployment Insurance, receiving $42,000 in benefits. 22 received federal student loans totaling $280,000.”

Other immigrants granted parole under the Biden administration have also had their benefits stripped by the Trump White House. In March, termination notices started being delivered to hundreds of thousands of migrants who entered the United States through a fraud-ridden parole program launched by the Biden administration. The program, CHNV, was terminated by the Trump administration last month.

Under the initiative, half-a-million migrants were flown in from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela over the past several years.

“They allowed more than half a million loosely vetted aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate family members to enter the United States through these disastrous parole programs; granted them opportunities to compete for American jobs and undercut American workers; forced career civil servants to promote the programs even when fraud was identified; and then blamed Republicans in Congress for the chaos that ensued and the crime that followed,” a senior DHS official previously said of the announcement. (The Daily Caller, 4/10/2025)  (Archive)

April 11, 2025 - Kash Patel’s FBI suspends and removes deep state operative Brian Auten

Brian Auten (Credit: Radaris)

After years of stonewalling, spin, and subversion of truth, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the leadership of Director Kash Patel, has finally placed Deep State operative Brian Auten on administrative leave.

Sources familiar with the matter told the New York Times that Auten was placed on administrative leave last week.

Auten’s suspension comes after years of public outcry over his corrupt misconduct inside the Bureau, which turned the FBI into an arm of the Democrat Party.

He was a key player in Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s scandalous counterintelligence investigation based on the now-discredited Steele Dossier.

According to the DOJ Inspector General, Auten failed to alert FBI leadership about gaping holes and fabrications in the dossier, yet still aggressively pushed for illegal FISA warrants on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Let’s be clear: this was the FBI spying on a presidential campaign based on false evidence — and Brian Auten was in the thick of it.

But Auten didn’t stop at attacking Trump. In 2020, just weeks before the election, whistleblowers allege that Auten authored an internal FBI report that falsely labeled damning information about Hunter Biden as “Russian disinformation.”

That report effectively shut down the FBI’s investigation into the Biden family’s foreign business dealings — conveniently just in time to protect Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

Auten’s fingerprints were reportedly all over both cases — despite being under internal investigation for misconduct related to the FISA abuse during the Russia probe. Instead of being removed or disciplined, he was allowed to continue shaping politically explosive investigations under dirty FBI Director Chris Wray.

Auten’s fingerprints are also on the FBI’s unprecedented raid on President Trump’s home, another blatant abuse of power targeting the Biden administration’s chief political opponent. (Read more: Gateway Pundit. 4/12/2025) (Archive)

April 11, 2025 - The Crossfire Hurricane declassified binder reveals Admiral Rogers informed the FBI in June 2017 the Trump Russia collusion story was not true

Admiral Michael Rogers appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 5, 2016. (Credit: CSpan3)

The Washington Post and New York Times won Pulitzer Prizes for their numerous stories on false claims of Trump-Russia collusion. Declassified interview notes from Crossfire Hurricane now show Admiral Mike Rogers shot down one of those stories behind closed doors.

Former National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers told FBI agents that the crux of a Pulitzer Prize award-winning Washington Post story on the Russian collusion hoax was “wrong,” according to newly declassified documents obtained by Just the News.

Admiral Rogers, who retired in 2018 after four years as National Security Agency chief and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, spoke with FBI agents and a key member of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in June 2017, where he threw cold water on a May 2017 story by the Post titled, “Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence.”

It is not yet known whether the Post had been told prior to the May 2017 publishing of their story that Rogers was denying their characterization of his talk with Trump, but it is now known that Rogers was telling federal investigators in June 2017 that the story was bogus.

The Post story — now known to have been directly refuted by one of its main subjects the month after it published — would go on to be among the Russiagate stories published by the outlet to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2018. Trump is currently suing the Pulitzer Board for defamation for continuing to defend the awards it gave to this collusion-related story and numerous others. A Florida circuit court judge denied the Pulitzer Board’s motion to delay President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against them on presidential immunity grounds.

The newly-released Rogers interview with the Mueller team shows that the then-NSA director was read a quote from The Washington Post article — that “President Trump urged [Rogers] to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of collusion during the 2016 election” — with the FBI notes stating that “Rogers responded that the media characterization was wrong, and the President had asked about the existence of SIGINT [signals intelligence] evidence only.” (Read more: Just the News, 4/11/2025)  (Archive)

April 11, 2025 - Crossfire Hurricane declassified: Admiral Mike Rogers and the Steele Dossier

John Brennan (l), James Clapper (c) and Admiral Mike Rogers testify at House hearing on world wide cyber threats in September 2015. (Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Admiral Mike Rogers and the Steele Dossier

Admiral Mike Rogers, who retired in 2018 after four years as National Security Agency chief and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, previously expressed a certain level of skepticism about the U.S. intelligence community’s 2017 assessment of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election — and a newly declassified interview Rogers gave to the FBI later in 2017 shines light on the dim view Rogers had of British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier.

“ADM Rogers decided that he would make the final analytic call on the NSA’s input to the ICA as he knew there would be a lot of pressure and attention on the final draft and he felt strongly his career analysts shouldn’t have to be responsible for something under such political pressure. In one draft of the ICA, ADM Rogers noted the contents of the ‘Steele dossier’ in the body of the product, which he did not recall seeing in previous drafts,” FBI notes dated June 17, 2017 state.

“In early January, the four principals met and ADM Rogers told the group he was unclear why the ICA needed to focus on the dossier as it was considered largely uncorroborated. Comey responded that the information was relevant and ADM Rogers suggested the information be included in an annex or appendix rather than prominently in the nearly one-page summary he had seen.”

Rogers and Comey, along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan, briefed President-elect Trump about their election meddling findings at Trump Tower in January 2017. Comey stayed behind to tell Trump about some of the dossier’s more salacious allegations.

Steele told the FBI in October 2017 that he was “frustrated” by his dossier’s inclusion in an annex to the ICA. The FBI agent who recounted the interview with Steele wrote, “They brought up the inclusion of their material in the ICA annex multiple times – almost to the point that it felt like fishing for information about how the ICA was constructed. In the end, I made the point that I wasn’t going to get into how the ICA was put together, how the annex came about, etc.”

The Steele dossier annexed to the ICA was largely declassified in 2020, and it relayed some of Steele’s baseless collusion claims: “The most politically-sensitive claims by the FBI source [Steele] alleged a close relationship between the President-elect and the Kremlin. The source also claimed that the President-elect and his top campaign advisers knowingly worked with Russian officials to bolster his chances of beating Secretary Clinton; were fully knowledgeable of Russia’s direction of leaked Democratic emails; and were offered financial compensation from Moscow.”

Varying assessments from intelligence services

The 2017 intelligence assessment concluded with “high confidence” that Russia worked to “undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate former Secretary of State Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency” and “developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.” The NSA diverged on one aspect, expressing only “moderate confidence” that Putin actively tried to help Trump’s election chances and harm those of Clinton.

“I wouldn’t call it a discrepancy. I’d call it an honest difference of opinion between three different organizations,” Rogers told the Senate in 2017. “It didn’t have the same level of sourcing and the same level of multiple sources.”

A 2018 report from the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee concluded that “the majority of the Intelligence Community Assessment judgments on Russia’s election activities employed proper analytic tradecraft” but found the “judgments on Putin’s strategic intentions did not.”

unmasking saga

The newly-declassified FBI records also show Rogers attempted to distance himself from the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

“ADM Rogers has not been specifically briefed on the FBI investigation into the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and the nature of links between those efforts and the Trump campaign,” the notes read.” However, ADM Rogers was aware the NSA has received Letterhead Memoranda from the FBI requesting information mostly on specific interactions with U.S. Persons. ADM Rogers was aware the FBI was ‘following specific individuals’ but was not certain if it was because of the ongoing work on the ICA or for another reason.”

The FBI notes also say that “Rogers was surprised when Comey told the committee in open session on March 20, 2017 that the FBI was investigating potential links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian interference… Comey did not tell him in advance about the ongoing set of investigations.”

A host of top Obama officials received information in response to “unmasking” requests targeting retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in the final weeks of the Obama administration, according to a memo declassified in 2020.

Republicans have alleged since 2017 that Obama-era officials improperly unmasked associates of then-candidate Trump’s presidential campaign during the Russia collusion investigation, while Democrats have defended the intelligence-gathering process, arguing that the collection of identifying information is inevitable.

John Durham said Rogers cast doubt on collusion claims during an interview with the special counsel team.

“Admiral Mike Rogers served as the Director of NSA during the relevant time period,” the 2023 report said. “When asked about any awareness he had of any evidence of collusion as asserted in the Steele Reports, he stated that he did not recall any intelligence that supported the collusion assertions in that reporting, nor did he have any discussions during the Summer of 2016 with his counterparts in the intelligence community about collusion between the Russians and any Republicans.

(Read more: Just the News, 4/12/2025)  (Archive)

April 11, 2025 - Crossfire Hurricane declassified: FBI internal messages reveal their efforts to get Trump and his team on fabricated rumors

UPDATE: Crossfire Hurricane — Holeee Shizzles‼️

Internal FBI Messages from January 2017 reveal Shady Structuring to Frame Trump and his team with fabricated Rumors

• Agents like Peter Strzok debated creating a “Trump Unit” to target the incoming administration, focusing on @GenFlynn for his talks with Russian ambassador Kislyak, which they tried to spin as espionage or Logan Act violations—charges that were found baseless.

• They even FLOATED RUMORS, like Putin using Trump Tower’s roof, showing they were grasping at straws desperately trying to build a case because they didn’t have one. THIS IS HUGE!

• Flynn’s early targeting—before Trump’s inauguration—suggests a PREMEDITATED effort to sabotage the administration by taking down a key ally in a conspiracy to undermine Trump with a manufactured Russia narrative.

“I’m worried Flynn will blab himself into a legit 65”

These files lend credence to the fact that the investigation was a completely politically motivated setup from the start and they were looking to frame an incoming president of the United States.

TREASON!!

UPDATE: Crossfire Hurricane

Victoria Nuland Identified being Directly involved in Handling Sensitive Information Potentially Related to the Steele Dossier

The mention of Victoria Nuland receiving investigative material from a U.S. firm tied to a former UK intelligence officer (likely Christopher Steele) is significant.

This suggests Nuland, a senior State Department official, was directly involved in handling sensitive information potentially related to the Steele dossier, which was a controversial element of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

Her intent to pass this to Trump, stinks to high Heaven.

• There’s also a reference to “DRAGON” as a key asset, possibly an informant??? or operation???, who is wary of Igor Sechin and advising on legal strategies. This is a new detail.

DRAGON’s role as a career-“defining asse” for an FBI official, with concerns about exposure, indicates a high-stakes operation taking place that hasn’t been discussed in prior public releases.

April 14, 2025 - Anti-Trump 'resistance' leader, Michelle Wu, received funds from Chinese Communist Party intelligence official

Boston mayor Michelle Wu and CCP intel official Gary Yu (Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images and LinkedIn)

Far-left Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) received hundreds of thousands of dollars to her 2021 campaign from a fundraiser who is a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence official, an investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) recently uncovered.

Wu’s mayoral campaign was the recipient of more than $300,000 fundraised by Gary Yu, the commissioner of the Asian American & Pacific Islanders Commission and president of the New England Chinese American Alliance, the DCNF reported.

Yu, whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang, is listed as an official in the United Front Work Department (UFWD) — the CCP’s intelligence- and influence-gathering agency that operates overseas, including in the U.S.

The DCNF also reported that Yu operates as a recruiter for the Chinese government, citing Chinese state media reports and civic associations led by Yu to back up these claims.

Wu, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan after her grandparents moved the family from mainland China, has recently made headlines for criticizing President Donald Trump for cracking down on illegal immigration in her sanctuary city.

Despite her public assertion that Boston “stand[s] with immigrants,” Trump border czar Tom Homan traveled to the city and personally oversaw hundreds of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests, including members of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua (TdA).

“The Communist Party’s UFWD never rests,” China expert Gordon Chang told the DCNF. “There is no ethnic Chinese official in America who is not targeted. It’s time for law enforcement to investigate the CCP’s ties to Gary Yu and Yu’s ties to Mayor Michelle Wu.”

The UFWD also has significant roots in Minnesota, with ties to failed Democrat vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz.

According to the news foundations’ research, Yu has done extensive recruitment for different factions of the Chinese government: (Read more: Breitbart News, 4/14/2025)  (Archive)

April 14, 2025 - Pete Marocco, mastermind behind dismantling of USAID projects, leaves State Department

Pete Marocco, the official who oversaw the dismantling of USAID, has now parted ways with the agency. (Kent Nishimura/Reuters)

Pete Marocco, the official who oversaw the dismantling of USAID, has now parted ways with the agency.

Marocco, who served in the Defense, State and Commerce departments, was known as a conservative firebrand with a deep skepticism of foreign aid. His tenure sparked fierce protests on Capitol Hill and drew sharp criticism from Democrats, who celebrated his exit but said questions remain about the future of U.S. foreign aid.

“Pete was brought to State with a big mission to conduct an exhaustive review of every dollar spent on foreign assistance,” a senior administration official said of the departure. “He conducted that historic task and exposed egregious abuses of taxpayer dollars. We all expect big things are in store for Pete on his next mission.”

After President Donald Trump merged USAID with the State Department, Secretary Marco Rubio named Marocco acting deputy administrator of the agency, and he went to work whittling down the $40-billion, 10,000-employee USAID office. (Read more: Fox News, 4/14/2025)  (Archive)

April 14, 2025 - The Golden Age of American Innovation - "Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space"

Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (Credit: Official White House Photo by Keegan Barber/Wikipedia)

THE DIRECTOR: Thank you for the kind introduction. It is a pleasure to speak to you all this evening, here in the early light of the new Golden Age of America.

President Trump has given all of us who serve in his administration a monumental task—the renewal of our nation.

I know, and I think you know, too, that such a renewal will require the reinvigoration of American science and industry. Over the last few decades, America has become complacent, forgetting old dreams of building a wondrous future.

But we know the American pioneer spirit still seeks the exploration of endless frontiers. Our technologies, and what we do with them, will be the tools with which we will make the destiny of our country manifest in this century.

Yet this American hope in the possibility of progress and the power of science and technology does not allow builders and innovators to retreat from politics. Indeed, quite the opposite, which is what brings me here today. A Golden Age is only possible if we choose it.

***

There is nothing predestined about technological progress and scientific discovery. They require the efforts and energies of men and women, the collective choice for order and truth over disorder and opinion.

The last century was called the American Century, as—despite wars and domestic conflict—the United States stood at the forefront of science and technology, building the future. With the strength of our industry and ingenuity, we created the largest middle class the world has ever seen. As President Trump said to me in his letter laying out the science and technology agenda of this administration, “The triumphs of the last century did not happen by chance.”

Ours was the Atomic Age. Ours the victory in the Space Race. And ours the invention of the Internet, collecting and connecting the multiplicity of human knowledge.

Today we fight to restore that inheritance. As the failure of the Biden administration’s “small yard, high fence” approach makes clear, it is not enough to seek to protect America’s technological lead. We also have a duty to promote American technological leadership.

***

A gap lies between our moment and the speed of transformation America experienced midcentury. Progress has slowed. Yes, large language models astonish us, rockets still turn our eyes upward, and satellites envelop the globe. But as we look forward to America’s 250th birthday celebration next year, our progress today pales in comparison to the huge leaps of the 20th century. Consider the country of fifty years ago.

As the nation approached its bicentennial, Americans looked forward to electricity too cheap to meter. By the end of 1972, 30 nuclear plants were operational, 55 were under construction, and more than 80 were planned or ordered. That same year, the Apollo 17 astronauts became the 11th and 12th men to walk on the moon. Five years before, the X-15 rocket plane had set a speed record for a crewed aircraft of Mach 6.7. America was flying higher, faster, and farther than ever before…

Today, however, energy prices still burden producers and consumers alike, and the grid remains precarious. Over the past 30 years only three commercial nuclear reactors have been built and 10 have been closed. Despite spending almost twice as much on healthcare as peer nations, we have the lowest life expectancy. Apollo 17’s steps on the lunar surface have proved mankind’s last. The X-15’s record still stands, and the Concorde was decommissioned more than two decades ago. Our passenger planes are slower than they used to be. Our trains crawl compared to those in other parts of the world. Our cars do not fly

Advances have not stopped, but something has gone wrong.

***

Stagnation was a choice. We have weighed down our builders and innovators. The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America’s ability to become a net-energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build. We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along.

But we are capable of so much more.

Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.

As Vice President Vance said in a recent speech, the tradition of American innovation has been one of increasing the capacities of America’s workers, of extending human ability so that more people can do more, and, more meaningful work. But unrestricted immigration, and reliance on cheap labor both domestically and offshore, has been a substitute for improving productivity with technology.

We can build in new ways that let us do more with less, or we can borrow from the future. We have chosen to borrow from the future again and again. Our choice as a civilization is technology or debt. And we have chosen debt.

Today we choose a better way. (Read more: WhiteHouse.gov, 4/14/2025)  (Archive)

April 15, 2025 - Detroit-based healthcare agency Henry Ford Health is still performing transgender butchery on minors and tainting care with DEI policies

Michigan’s second-largest health system has deleted webpages promoting childhood transgenderism and DEI in an attempt to scrub its far-left footprints from the internet after conservative group Consumers’ Research launched a campaign against it on Monday, Breitbart News has learned.

In one deleted article on “how to support a transgender teen,” Henry Ford Health staff directed parents to “get help” to allow their child to transition.

“When they’re not allowed to transition, they may suffer from depression, anxiety, and an increased risk of inflicting self-harm,” the article explained.

“We’ve latched on to this idea that gender is fixed, but we know in medicine that exploring your identity as it relates to gender is a normal part of growing up,” Henry Ford pediatrician Dr. Maureen Connolly claimed.

Henry Ford Health touts itself as one of the few health systems that treats “any transgender individual,” including minors. A webpage that still remains live says services available “for adolescents” include harmful “puberty blockers” and “gender affirming hormones.”

(Credit: website clipping)

 

Another now-deleted page on the health agency’s website detailed its DEI efforts, stating that “diversity, equity and inclusion are woven into the fabric of everything we do.”

Kimberlydawn Wisdom, the agency’s senior vice president of “Community Health & Equity” and the “Chief Wellness & Diversity Officer,” believes that DEI is just the beginning.

“Diversity, equity, and inclusion are simply not enough. Diversity, equity, and inclusion alone can only mitigate the damage of the past,” she wrote in 2021. “To prevent the mistakes of the past from burdening our communities in the future, our ultimate destination must be justice.”

As part of its massive campaign to expose Henry Ford Health’s far-left bias, Consumers’ Research put together a website, FordHealthExposed.com, and mobile billboards running outside its hospitals in Detroit and Macomb County.

Images shared with Breitbart News also show stenciled sidewalk chalk messages around the Detroit location, as well as another billboard in Lansing, near the State Capitol.

“Henry Ford Health is prioritizing politics over patients. Driven by gender ideology, Henry Ford has continued performing deeply harmful and irreversible sex-change treatments on children and must be stopped,” Consumers’ Research executive director Will Hild told Breitbart News.

“The hospital’s deliberate mutilation of confused children’s bodies is being done in direct defiance of President Trump’s orders to eliminate the vile practice for good. Henry Ford Health has also committed to embedding DEI into every facet of its operation, elevating a radical ideological agenda above its fundamental duty to provide excellent scientific-based care,” he added. (Read more: Breitbart News, 4/15/2025)  (Archive)