FOIAs Reveal Progressive Money Fueling FBI, DOJ, Leftist Activist and Election Official Coordination

BY J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2022/06/30/foias-reveal-progressive-money-fueling-fbi-doj-leftist-activist-and-election-official-coordination-n1609558;

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A strange constellation has emerged through public records requests of coordination between progressive funders, federal authorities, corporations, state election officials, and leftist organizations.

Freedom of information requests have uncovered oddball and opaque relationships between some state election officials, federal officials, corporations, progressive activists, and those trying to influence the conduct of those same election officials. These relationships extend to junkets that include baseball games, travel, and even data exchanges between state officials and outside progressive groups.

The story begins with a series of freedom of information act requests aimed at a number of states to see if any election officials are tempted to apply for now-illegal money from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life. Such grants and the wild expenditures of these funds altered the course of the 2020 election. (Read The Real Kraken, What Really Happened to Donald Trump in the 2020 Election at PJ Media.)

The FOIAs were submitted by the Public Interest Legal Foundation—with which I am associated—and were aimed broadly at election officials across the United States.

While no election official in a state that now prohibits private funding of elections has applied for new funding, something stranger, and more dangerous has emerged from the public information requests.

In one email, we find that the Democracy Fund—a hyper-funded progressive money source—is organizing state officials and third parties to discuss election administration.

Participants in this Democracy Fund effort include:

Commissioner Ben Hovland on the United States Election Assistance Commission

United States Election Assistance Commission employee Tina Barton

Ebony West, a Democracy Fund employee tasked with “Voter-Centric Election Adminstration [sic], which focuses on equipping local election officials with the data, tools, and connections needed to ensure voters’ voices are heard.”

John Keller, a criminal prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice Public Integrity Section who has gone after Republicans like Maricopa County Sherriff Joe Arpaio

Matt Masterson, a former staffer for John Boehner and now “Director of Information Integrity” at Microsoft and leading their “Democracy Forward” team

Katherine Reisner a militant progressive working for the vote-fraud denier organization States United Democracy Center.

Craig Latimer, the Hillsborough Florida Supervisor of Elections who told us that his office refuses to make any election crimes referrals to county prosecutors

Kammi Foote, sometime wilderness photographer and United States Election Assistance Commission employee

Andrea Abbate of the ZuckBucks Mother Ship, the Center for Technology and Civic Life

Lindsay Capodilupo, the “Election Crimes Coordinator” at the FBI

Tasmin Swanson formerly of the GOTV Baltimore Votes and Peace Corp volunteer in China, but now with the Soros-funded Center for Civic Design, a progressive group dedicated to infiltrating election offices with graphic design “help.”

Federal Department of Homeland Security official David Kuennen

Liz Howard, from another vote-fraud denier outfit, the progressive Brennan Center.

No conservative or right-of-center groups are invited.

(Democracy Fund email screenshot)

This progressive courting of election officials evidenced in this email isn’t a one-off. I’ll have other products of our FOIA sweep that show a wide-ranging progressive push to establish working relationships between law enforcement, progressive philanthropy, election officials, corporations, progressive activists, and, ultimately, the people who run our elections.

Since Trump’s 2016 victory, this fluid consortium has built structures that match powerful funding—with fringe ideological activists, with government offices—in an effort to create a narrative that nothing was ever wrong with American elections. These structures also reorient the administration of elections in ways that benefit progressives, such as wide use of automatic mail voting.

Extraordinary efforts were made in 2020 to claim mail voting was problem-free despite the evidence and despite elections in New Jersey being overturned because of mail ballot fraud.

Note the invitations were sent to criminal prosecutors at both the FBI and Department of Justice.

If there was no voter fraud, as Brennan Center hacks claim, then why were the prosecutors invited to the party?

The Democracy Fund isn’t the only group creating a synergy with the leftists, government agencies, and state and local election officials, and our FOIA sweep is capturing a trove of documents showing more angles of progressive influence over election administration.

David Becker’s Center for Election Innovation & Research has emerged as the sidekick to the Electronic Research and Information Center (ERIC), a consortium of state election officials who use data exchanges with ERIC to clean voter rolls and register the unregistered to vote. (Read Care About Election Integrity, Let Me Introduce You to ERIC).

David Becker has emerged as the party planner for the strange mix of federal prosecutors, progressive activists, election officials, and ex-pats from the federal swamp who now work for corporate America.

(David Becker via LinkedIn)

Becker, the former California Bear drum major—including when the Cal band played Dixie—also matches progressive dollars, state and local election officials, and federal authorities at the United States Election Assistance Commission who have controlled the distribution of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.

These federal dollars move through the EAC and end up in states. How they are used, and which officials and vendors get them, is a top priority for the Center for Election Innovation and Research.

Becker, an unabashed progressive, is also skilled at organizing junkets for state election officials.

One such confab occurred in May of 2019 in Denver, according to documents obtained in the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s FOIA.

State election officials from Nevada, Arizona, Minnesota, Georgia, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Michigan, Rhode Island, Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania met for the CEIR Voter Registration Data Working group.

They also watched the Colorado Rockies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 11-10.  Becker played concierge for all the fun according to the emails obtained through public records requests:

“May 30 Baseball Game: For those attending the ballgame (there are 22 of us!) we’ll be meeting in the lobby of the Hotel Born to walk over to the ballpark…. If you cannot make it by 12:15 let me know and I’ll arrange to leave your ticket at will call. Your rooms will likely not be ready by that time, but you should be able to store your luggage.”

After the game? Becker had that covered:

“I’m guessing there will be a group of us going out. If you are not coming to the game and want to join us, please text me and we’ll make sure to include you.”

The next day, May 31, Becker’s state election official confab shifted to work:

“7:30 Breakfast. 8:00 am meeting begins, please be on time because we plan to end no later than 4pm. . . . There will also be two breaks, and as usual, the food will be excellent.”

The emails do not reveal what the previous “as usual” other dining experiences were.  Nor do they reveal who paid for the lodging at the Hotel Born,  with rates that routinely top $450 a night.

The emails do, however, reveal the agenda for the day:

 

“For those of you familiar with the meetings I’ve facilitated for ERIC, this will be similar. The general topic is centered around the structure of states’ voter registration databases, and the voter data within. We will spend most of the time at this meeting (which I expect will be the first of several) discussing the following: Voter Registration Databases, Structure, Interconnectivity With Other Databases Such as DMV…. Compatibility With Eric, Batch vs Real Time, Security and Privacy of Data.”

Again, no conservative election administration groups or conservatives were invited to the Colorado confab.

Some of the participants at the Colorado confab were from states that opposed President Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (on which I served) and refused to provide that commission information about the same database details they happily shared with David Becker’s progressive organization.

All of this is just a first taste at understanding the behind-the-curtain relationships developing between progressive deep pockets, leftist activists, vote fraud deniers, federal officials with prosecutorial power, and state and local election officials.

This effort started after the 2016 election, and notably focused on many of the bluish swing states that Donald Trump won in 2016 but lost in 2020. Whether that was the plan or just a side benefit of the Denver confab and Democracy Fund plans remains to be seen.

AG Merrick Garland officially launches a legal insurrection against America with unprecedented attacks on We the People

Image: AG Merrick Garland officially launches a legal insurrection against America with unprecedented attacks on We the People

BY J.D. HEYES

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-06-29-ag-merrick-garland-launches-legal-insurrection-against-america-unprecedented-attacks.html;

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(Natural News) Americans who were upset with Republicans when then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to advance then-President Barack Obama’s third Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016 because they knew he was a left-wing extremist owe the Kentucky Republican and the GOP, in general, a hearty thank you.

Since he was installed as the attorney general of the “Justice” Department, he has engaged in one war after another against perceived political opponents of the Democrat Party, including ordering the FBI to conduct investigations into parents who show up to school board meetings expressing anger and resentment at the adoption of divisive curricula like critical race theory and sexually inappropriate materials for young students.

Now, Garland has expanded his war on the majority of America, according to Revolver News:

Ladies and gentlemen, we regret to inform you that Merrick Garland is at it again. His office just took two actions in two consecutive days that constitute a tacit legal insurrection against the United States of America.

Just yesterday, in an unprecedented move, our intrepid United States Attorney General’s office released a statement saying that the DOJ “disagrees” with the Court’s ruling securing Second Amendment concealed carry rights.

The statement comes in response to a massive 6-3 ruling against an overly restrictive law in Democrat-run New York denying citizens of the state their Second Amendment right to carry a concealed weapon for self-defense, requiring them to ‘show special need’ for having a gun (meanwhile, the uber-left privileged in the state get whatever they want).

“We respectfully disagree with the Court’s conclusion that the Second Amendment forbids New York’s reasonable requirement that individuals seeking to carry a concealed handgun must show that they need to do so for self-defense,”  the statement said on Thursday.

“The Department of Justice remains committed to saving innocent lives by enforcing and defending federal firearms laws, partnering with state, local, and tribal authorities, and using all legally available tools to tackle the epidemic of gun violence plaguing our communities,” the statement said.

Translation: Merrick’s Justice Department is disagreeing with a legitimate ruling on a fundamental constitutional right from the nation’s highest court, suggesting that the department will actually work with the deep-blue state to circumvent the ruling.

Then on Friday, Merrick’s agency issued yet another statement disapproving of the high court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade because there is no constitutional guarantee for abortions (or any medical procedure), sending the issue back to the states where it should have remained all along.

“Today, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and held that the right to abortion is no longer protected by the Constitution,” Garland said in the second statement.

“The Supreme Court has eliminated an established right that has been an essential component of women’s liberty for half a century – a right that has safeguarded women’s ability to participate fully and equally in society. And in renouncing this fundamental right, which it had repeatedly recognized and reaffirmed, the Court has upended the doctrine of stare decisis, a key pillar of the rule of law,” he continued.

“The Justice Department strongly disagrees with the Court’s decision. This decision deals a devastating blow to reproductive freedom in the United States. It will have an immediate and irreversible impact on the lives of people across the country. And it will be greatly disproportionate in its effect – with the greatest burdens felt by people of color and those of limited financial means,” he added.

Again, the high court did not take away a right; abortion was never a constitutional right, to begin with, and that’s what the ruling reflected.

While the DOJ has issued statements in the past on a number of occasions that the then-current AG is “disappointed” with rulings, never before has the department said it disagreed with a ruling, as if the AG even has a right to do so.

But it also suggests that the department also will refuse to enforce the ruling, which is de facto insurrection and, to paraphrase the Democrats, is “extremely dangerous to our democracy.”

“Keep your eye out for if the blue states ignore or refuse to implement the Supreme Court’s ruling on concealed carry weapons,” Revolver News reported.

The left is about to blow up what’s left of our institutions. Prepare accordingly.

Sources include:

Revolver.news

Abortions.news

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Friday, June 24, 2022

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on Supreme Court Ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today released the following statement following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization et al.:

“Today, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and held that the right to abortion is no longer protected by the Constitution.

“The Supreme Court has eliminated an established right that has been an essential component of women’s liberty for half a century – a right that has safeguarded women’s ability to participate fully and equally in society. And in renouncing this fundamental right, which it had repeatedly recognized and reaffirmed, the Court has upended the doctrine of stare decisis, a key pillar of the rule of law.

“The Justice Department strongly disagrees with the Court’s decision. This decision deals a devastating blow to reproductive freedom in the United States. It will have an immediate and irreversible impact on the lives of people across the country. And it will be greatly disproportionate in its effect – with the greatest burdens felt by people of color and those of limited financial means. 

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“But today’s decision does not eliminate the ability of states to keep abortion legal within their borders. And the Constitution continues to restrict states’ authority to ban reproductive services provided outside their borders.

“We recognize that traveling to obtain reproductive care may not be feasible in many circumstances. But under bedrock constitutional principles, women who reside in states that have banned access to comprehensive reproductive care must remain free to seek that care in states where it is legal. Moreover, under fundamental First Amendment principles, individuals must remain free to inform and counsel each other about the reproductive care that is available in other states.

“Advocates with different views on this issue have the right to, and will, voice their opinions. Peacefully expressing a view is protected by the First Amendment. But we must be clear that violence and threats of violence are not. The Justice Department will not tolerate such acts.

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“The Justice Department will work tirelessly to protect and advance reproductive freedom.

“Under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, the Department will continue to protect healthcare providers and individuals seeking reproductive health services in states where those services remain legal. This law prohibits anyone from obstructing access to reproductive health services through violence, threats of violence, or property damage. 

“The Department strongly supports efforts by Congress to codify Americans’ reproductive rights, which it retains the authority to do. We also support other legislative efforts to ensure access to comprehensive reproductive services.

“And we stand ready to work with other arms of the federal government that seek to use their lawful authorities to protect and preserve access to reproductive care. In particular, the FDA has approved the use of the medication Mifepristone. States may not ban Mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety and efficacy. 

“Furthermore, federal agencies may continue to provide reproductive health services to the extent authorized by federal law. And federal employees who carry out their duties by providing such services must be allowed to do so free from the threat of liability. It is the Department’s longstanding position that States generally may not impose criminal or civil liability on federal employees who perform their duties in a manner authorized by federal law. Additionally, the Department’s Office of Legal Counsel has determined that federal employees engaging in such conduct would not violate the Assimilative Crimes Act and could not be prosecuted by the federal government under that law. The Justice Department is prepared to assist agencies in resolving any questions about the scope of their authority to provide reproductive care.

***

“The ability to decide one’s own future is a fundamental American value, and few decisions are more significant and personal than the choice of whether and when to have children.

“Few rights are more central to individual freedom than the right to control one’s own body.

“The Justice Department will use every tool at our disposal to protect reproductive freedom. And we will not waver from this Department’s founding responsibility to protect the civil rights of all Americans.”

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Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Justice Department Statement on Supreme Court Ruling on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen

The Department of Justice today released the following statement from spokeswoman Dena Iverson following the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc., et al. v. Bruen, Superintendent of New York State Police, et al.:

“We respectfully disagree with the Court’s conclusion that the Second Amendment forbids New York’s reasonable requirement that individuals seeking to carry a concealed handgun must show that they need to do so for self-defense. The Department of Justice remains committed to saving innocent lives by enforcing and defending federal firearms laws, partnering with state, local and tribal authorities and using all legally available tools to tackle the epidemic of gun violence plaguing our communities.”

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22-659
Updated June 23, 2022

SELECTIVE PROSECUTION: DOJ throws book at conservatives while letting violent Leftists off the hook time and time again

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-06-21-doj-prosecuting-conservatives-letting-leftists-off-easy.html;

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(Natural News) The Biden regime’s Department of Justice (DoJ) is perhaps better described as the Department of Injustice, based on the selective way in which political cases are investigated and prosecuted.

Attorney General Merrick Garland just threw the book at the Proud Boys, a conservative movement, charging them with “sedition” for protesting in the capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Black Lives Matter (BLM) terrorists, meanwhile, were just let off easy with a plea agreement.

According to reports, two lawyers who took part in BLM domestic terrorism faced the possibility of 30 years in prison for their crimes. Instead, the Biden regime basically lets them off scot-free with a maximum of just a couple of years of jail time.

“These two defendants were participating in an effort that could have burned (police) officers alive as a form of protest,” tweeted Jonathan Turley about the two BLM domestic terrorists.

“They will now be given sentences closer to tax fraud than terrorism.”

Right as this all happened, the DoJ went for maximum blood against the Proud Boys, calling them “rioters” who deserve to be charged “on any level” for their involvement in the events of January 6.

The illegitimate Biden regime is an authoritarian dictatorship

The two BLM domestic terrorists threw a Molotov cocktail into a police vehicle in New York and ended up with only one count of possessing and making an explosive device, which in itself carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

“Now, however, they will be allowed to withdraw the earlier plea and instead plead guilty to conspiring to assemble the Molotov cocktail and damage the New York Police Department patrol car,” Turley explains.

“That is a nosebleed of a drop in the severity and punishment for this violent attack.”

Beyond that, one of the two attorneys was caught on video throwing a firebomb before fleeing the scene. The other supposedly had a store of firebombs in his vehicle that he was handing out to other rioters to maximize the violent impact.

The one who threw the firebomb later stated unapologetically that “the only way they hear us is through violence,” suggesting that if given the chance he would do the same thing all over again.

“That does not seem the type of the suspects who would ordinarily garner deep sympathy from prosecutors,” Turley further writes.

“Yet, the Biden Administration walked back the charges, unraveled the earlier plea to a lesser offense, and told that court that the earlier charges would have resulted in ‘excessive sentencing’ for the attorneys. Instead, they are supporting a maximum sentence of five years with a recommendation of between 18 to 24 months imprisonment.”

Conversely, the Proud Boys have been charged with “seditious conspiracy,” which carries with it a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. One of them was not even in Washington, D.C., on the day of the “insurrection,” and yet he, too, is being pursued for maximum punishment (Related: This so-called “insurrection” was actually just an FBI false flag plot).

One Proud Boys member committed suicide after pleading guilty to a host of charges because he believed that he would not be given a fair trial by the Biden regime. Others were tortured in prison or locked in solitary confinement.

“This is naked political persecution,” writes Chris Menahan for Information Liberation. “It can’t get any more transparent.”

“The GOP establishment should be screaming bloody murder about this vindictive political persecution, but instead they’re busy working with Democrats on new gun control proposals to disarm their own constituents.”

More related news about the Biden regime can be found at Corruption.news.

Sources include:

InformationLiberation.com

NaturalNews.com

Domestic Terrorism Prevention Bill would shield jihad terrorists from federal scrutiny

FRC - Washington Watch with Tony Perkins - Mary Beth Waddell, Dan Bishop, John Lott, Josiah...

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://robertspencer.org/2022/05/domestic-terrorism-prevention-bill-would-shield-jihad-terrorists-from-federal-scrutiny;

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And it could easily be used to persecute ordinary, law-abiding Americans who dissent from the establishment agenda.

“Connecticut’s Blumenthal and Murphy Urge Passage of Bill That Some Say Would Shield Islamists from Anti-Terrorism Efforts,” by Bradley Vasoli, Connecticut Star, :

Connecticut’s two U.S. senators, both Democrats, are urging passage of a bill that they say will help prevent incidents similar to the recent Buffalo mass shooting, though it actually narrows rather than expands federal anti-terrorism concerns.

At a press conference on Friday, senior Sen. Richard Blumenthal called the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022 a “chance to take a stand and an opportunity to send a message to the hate mongers that enough is enough.”… 

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives first proposed the legislation in January 2021. In so doing, they purported to aim for heightened focus on the threat of white supremacism to Americans’ safety. But the measure actually addresses “domestic terrorism” in a way that critics worry would shield Islamist terrorists and other violent extremists from proper federal scrutiny. 

The current legal definition of domestic terrorism refers to actions that endanger human life, violate U.S. criminal laws and are apparently meant to either “intimidate or coerce a civilian population,” “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion” or “affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.” Such activities must “occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.” 

No exceptions, ideological or otherwise, apply regarding this definition. The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, however, focuses exclusively on “the domestic terrorism threat posed by White supremacists and neo-Nazis…” and neglects anti-police organizations like Antifa as well as violent Islamists. 

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), a moderate Republican and erstwhile sponsor of the bill, said he cannot support its current version because it would give the Justice Department “too much leeway in picking and choosing what it considers to constitute domestic terrorism.”…

Another of the bill’s Republican cosponsors, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), said in a statement that he reversed his original support because the current version of the legislation would authorize “use of funds from the National Intelligence Program to ‘monitor’ and surveil American citizens, including our police, servicemembers, and parents.” He said “literally hundreds of constituents” told him they believe the Biden administration would misuse the bill to surveil Americans who are not members of violent organizations. 

Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder says DOJ should indict Trump over Capitol riot

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://robertspencer.org/2022/05/obama-era-ag-eric-holder-says-doj-should-indict-trump-over-capitol-riot;

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If Obama-era attorney general Eric Holder is any indicator, the knives on the Left are being sharpened again in preparation for another full-out attack on Donald Trump. It’s a reminder just how vicious they’re prepared to be, with the mid-term elections in the offing. Holder says that the DOJ should indict Trump over the Capitol riot. Never-mind the Black Lives Matter hooliganism that destroyed American cities, saw people injured and killed, terrorized the streets, and caused so much hardship to many minority businesses, the very people they claim to support. 

According to New York Post:

At least two known Antifa members were spotted among the throngs of pro-Trump protesters at the Capitol ……a law enforcement source told The Post. The Antifa members disguised themselves with pro-Trump clothing to join in the DC rioting, said the sources, who spotted the infiltrators while monitoring video coverage from the Capitol.

But Holder et al are not focused on truth. They’re obsessively focused on beating up Trump for wanting to make America great again. Trump threatens the corrupt globalist, anti-American cabal.  

America has never been weaker than it is now under the Biden-Harris Democrats, who have had ample time to showcase their full incompetence and radical socialist agenda. Thanks to their efforts, America is now an international joke.

“Obama attorney general Eric Holder says the DOJ should indict Trump over the Capitol riot says,” by Tom Porter, Business Insider, May 9, 2022:

Former Attorney General Eric Holder said that former President Donald Trump should be indicted over his role in instigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

Holder, who served as President Barack Obama’s attorney general, discussed the Justice Department’s investigation of the Capitol riot in an appearance Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

“At some point, people at the Justice Department, perhaps that prosecutor in Atlanta, are going to have to make a determination about whether or not they want to indict Donald Trump,” Holder said.

Holder was referencing an investigation into Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election being conducted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

“Would you do it?” host Margaret Brennan asked of a decision to indict Trump.

“Well, I think there’s going to be sufficient factual information,” Holder said. “And I think that there’s going to be sufficient proof of intent. And then the question becomes, what’s the impact of such an indictment?”…

Two Federal Agencies DOJ & FTC Investigating Musk’s Purchase of Twitter Shares~MUSK PUTS ABRUPT HOLD ON PURCHASE

UPDATE:

Elon Musk drops Twitter deal bombshell; PUTS HOLD ON PURCHASE

Two Federal Agencies Investigating Musk’s Purchase of Twitter Shares

BY BOB ADELMANN

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/two-federal-agencies-investigating-musks-purchase-of-twitter-shares/;

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Just when he thought he might escape a federal investigation into his purchase of shares of Twitter, Elon Musk now has two government agencies looking into his initial purchase of shares of the social-media company back in March.

Open Markets Institute (OMI), a George Soros-backed liberal think tank, released a statement in April asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to look into Musk’s takeover of Twitter. OMI said “it believes the deal poses a number of immediate and direct threats to American democracy and free speech. Open Markets believes the deal violates existing law, and that the [FCC], the [DOJ], and the [FTC] have ample authority to block it.”

FCC commissioner Brendan Carr rejected the request:

The FCC has no authority to block Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, and to suggest otherwise is absurd.… We will not entertain these types of frivolous argument[s].

In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Carr supported Musk’s purchase:

I’m hopeful that Elon Musk is going to bend Twitter’s content moderation toward a greater embrace of free speech.

No such support was forthcoming from the other two agencies. Instead, the FTC and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) each have launched their own investigations into Musk’s initial purchases of shares that were later followed by his offer to buy the entire company.

 

According to the Wall Street Journal, Musk violated an SEC rule requiring timely disclosure of more than five percent of the company’s outstanding shares. He had until March 24 to file that disclosure.

 

He didn’t file it until April 4.

Daniel Taylor, an accounting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, thinks the SEC has a strong case against Musk but doubts that they will pursue it:

The case is easy. It’s straightforward.

But whether they’re going to pick that battle with Elon is another question.

Musk got sideways with the SEC earlier when he Tweeted that he had arranged enough financing to take Tesla private. The SEC fined him $20 million and requires him not to Tweet about Tesla without first getting his attorney’s approval. Musk says the SEC pressured him into pleading guilty, threatening to bombard him and his company with endless lawsuits unless he complied.

Jill Fisch, a securities and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Law School, said that it’s unlikely the SEC would attempt to derail the agreement at this late date. The board has already endorsed and approved the purchase, and the SEC lacks the power to stop such “take-private” transactions, according to Fisch.

Aron Solomon, the chief legal analyst for Esquire Digital, a lead-generating company for attorneys, agrees: “There is no way that the SEC, the DOJ, or any other similarly-situated body will even consider laying a finger on this deal.” It is simply “too big to fail,” said Solomon, adding that intervention “at this point would [hurt] the existing shareholders whose shares Musk is acquiring.”

The Federal Trade Commission is also investigating Musk for failing to file certain reports to various anti-trust agencies that he was taking a substantial stake in Twitter. Those rules don’t apply to passive investors, but when Musk filed that he was seeking to take over the company, the rules kicked in.

Related article:

Who’s Afraid of Elon Musk?

ANCA Calls for Justice Department Investigation into Dr. Oz’s Turkey Ties~Raises Potential Violation of U.S. Foreign Agent Registration Act

RINOs Are PANICKING As PATRIOTS Taking Over GOP!!!

The ANCA's principled (and hard-hitting) opposition to Dr. Mehmet Oz - as a threat to the integrity of the U.S. Senate - is garnering national media attention - particularly among publications popular among Pennsylvania Republican primary voters.

SEE: https://anca.org/press-release/anca-calls-for-justice-department-investigation-into-dr-ozs-turkey-ties/;

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AND: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/07/exclusive-aram-hamparian-mehmet-ozs-turkish-ties-put-him-at-odds-with-america-first-agenda/

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May 11, 2022

WASHINGTON, DCThe Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) has called for a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz, amid growing alarm over Oz’s links to Turkey’s dictator Recep Erdogan, his dual Turkey – U.S. citizenship, and open association with Armenian Genocide deniers. With the hotly contested May 17 Republican primary just days away, the ANC of Pennsylvania is expanding its grassroots campaign to ensure voters make informed choices at the ballot box.

In a May 3 letter to the Department of Justice, ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian expressed concern that Oz may be in violation of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) of 1938 for his endorsement agreement with Istanbul-based Turkish Airlines, through which Oz provides “consulting services, certain media, and in-flight film appearances.” FARA requires the registration of, and disclosures by, an “agent of a foreign principal” who, either directly or through another person, within the United States, (1) engages in “political activities” on behalf of a foreign principal; (2) acts as a foreign principal’s public relations counsel, publicity agent, information-service employee, or political consultant; (3) solicits, collects, disburses, or dispenses contributions, loans, money, or other things of value for or in the interest of a foreign principal; or (4) represents the interests of the foreign principal before any agency or official of the U.S. government. In addition, FARA requires agents to conspicuously label “informational materials” transmitted in the United States for or in the interest of a foreign principal.”

A “foreign principal” can be a foreign government, a foreign political party, any person outside the United States (except U.S. citizens who are domiciled within the United States), and any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country or having its principal place of business in a foreign country. “Turkish Airlines is 49.13% owned by the Turkish Government. FARA filings show that Turkish Airlines has been a foreign principal since at least 1975 and as recently as 2015,” asserted Hamparian.

Former U.S. Justice Department FARA unit official David Laufman told The New York Post that an investigation into the matter is warranted. “I think it would be appropriate for [the Justice Department] to undertake logical, analytical, and investigative steps to determine whether Dr. Oz acted as a public relations counsel or publicity agent in the United States on behalf of Turkish Airlines,” Laufman explained. “If he did, he likely would have an obligation to register unless he qualified for an exemption.”

Hamparian outlined the full range of broader national security and Armenian American community concerns in an op/ed in The Washington Times. “For Americans of Armenian heritage – having spent the better part of the past century working, successfully, to end U.S. cover-ups of Turkey’s genocidal crimes – it would represent a betrayal of the worst kind, a shameful rollback of America’s commitment to human rights, to send to the U.S. Senate an ally of Erdogan, the world’s foremost Armenian Genocide denier,” explained Hamparian.

He cited American Enterprise Institute’s Michael Rubin, who has argued that “Oz’s dual citizenship – and his reluctance to renounce Turkish citizenship – will keep the FBI and security managers up at night,” adding that it’s “fair game to question Oz’s judgment embracing the most reactionary elements in Turkish society.”

In an interview with Breitbart News, Hamparian argued “that Mehmet Oz’s ties to Turkey put him “at odds” with putting the interests of Pennsylvanians and Americans first.”

ANC of Pennsylvania Runs Grassroots Voter Awareness Campaign

With the Pennsylvania Senate Republican primary just days away on May 17th, the latest polling shows Mehmet Oz is running neck and neck against Kathy Barnette and David McCormick in the tight seven-candidate race. The ANC of Pennsylvania has ramped up its statewide grassroots campaign to ensure voters know the truth about Oz’s ties to the Turkish government and Erdogan-aligned stakeholders and are able to make informed choices at the ballot box.

“The ANC of Pennsylvania has expressed its concerns over Oz’s candidacy from the very beginning. Deeper ties to the Turkish government and its interests are uncovered every day. Pennsylvanians deserve a Senator who will represent our interests – not those of dictator Recep Erdogan,” explained ANC of Pennsylvania Co-Chair Nora Kzirian.

Last month, fellow ANC Pennsylvania Co-Chair Karine Shamlian told NBC News, “We have Armenians that are Republicans, Armenians that are Democrats, but when it comes down to things that affect the Armenian community and the Armenian diaspora, we rally regardless of the political party. We feel that this Senate seat is in jeopardy of being controlled by a foreign government, quite honestly.”

For Immediate Release

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BROOKLYN JIHADIST SUBWAY SHOOTER BEING TRACKED; 23 TO 28 PEOPLE INJURED; POOLS OF BLOOD; 33 CARTRIDGES, SMOKE GRENADES, GASOLINE CONTAINERS, LARGE FIREWORKS, 9MM PISTOL FOUND ON SITE

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Brooklyn shooter Frank James (AKA FRANK WHITAKER) posted Nation of Islam founder ‘Messenger of Allah’ image on social media

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://robertspencer.org/2022/04/brooklyn-shooter-frank-james-posted-nation-of-islam-founder-messenger-of-allah-image-on-social-media;

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According to Heavy, Frank James, who is being sought in connection with the Brooklyn subway shooting, went by the name Frank Whitaker on social media. Back in 2014, he posted this:

Does that make him a jihadi? No, not in itself. But it suggests at least an affinity for the Nation of Islam, which has never rejected the violence aspects of orthodox Islam. It’s an interesting aspect of the case, although the clueless and compromised feds are virtually certain to ignore it.

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SEE ALSO:

https://robertspencer.org/2022/04/nyc-shooter-was-on-fbis-terrorist-radar-until-2019-when-he-was-cleared-after-interviews

https://robertspencer.org/2022/04/brooklyn-number-of-those-shot-now-10-gas-cans-found-whole-car-smelled-of-gasoline

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ANALYSIS: Embedded “good guys” are turning against the cabal… It’s ALL coming out… and the awakening cannot be halted

BY MIKE ADAMS

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03-28-embedded-good-guys-are-turning-against-the-cabal-its-all-coming-out.html;

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(Natural News) We have received a batch of new intel from US military sources. Although it’s always difficult to sort out fact from fiction, this is a credible source, and previous intel from this source has proven mostly accurate.

According to the information received by this source and then filtered for us (to remove any OPSEC details), there are some bombshell developments underway right now inside the deep layers of the Pentagon and the Biden regime. First, inside the Pentagon and even the intelligence community, there is growing consensus that the Biden regime is rapidly putting America on a path of economic destruction and that it must be stopped from within. Thus, the number of people inside the CIA, FBI, DHS, DoD, etc. who are now switching hats — from “black hat” to “white hat” — is rapidly expanding.

What I’m told is that many of these people are of course corrupt, greedy bastards, but there are limits to what they will tolerate. They are opposed to the pedophiles running the Biden regime, for example, and they are fully aware of the child trafficking allegations/evidence found on the Hunter Biden “laptop from Hell.”

In addition, they have a pretty good racket going and they don’t want the racket to collapse. This means they need to stop Biden from completely destroying the US dollar and America’s economic system. In other words, even those who voted for Biden and who are part of the corrupt bureaucracy are realizing that if they don’t stop this madness, they will all be destroyed as America falls. Thus, out of a sense of self-preservation (and in some cases, human decency), they are turning against the cabal and hoping to preserve their positions of power in the process.

I’m told that indictment papers for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Hunter Biden, and Joe Biden are already circulating within the intelligence community. All the players are fully aware of the serious crimes of official corruption that have been committed by these people, spanning several decades. The intelligence community influencers are attempting to prepare a way to remove Joe Biden from power, publicly expose the Biden crime family and still maintain some degree of credibility for Democrats in the mid-term elections. If this seems like an impossible task to you, most of the deep state experts also agree. There is no way to expose all this without ripping the credibility of the Democrats (and the controlled media) to shreds, and that’s the main reason why there is internal pushback against this strategy.

That’s also why there is a contingent within the deep state that seeks to remove Joe Biden using another method — such as a false flag operation — so that he can be “taken out” and given a hero’s funeral, much like the official funeral of traitor John McCain, who was part of the Russia collusion coup attempt against Trump.

Biden’s funding of Iran is feared to unleash a wave of radicalized suicide bombers across Western Europe and the United States

There’s another factor in all this that’s weighing heavily on the FBI, CIA, DHS, DoD, and other security agencies, we’ve learned. Biden’s new deal with Iran is going to flood Iran with billions of dollars in fresh cash that will enable Iran to fully fund a wave of radicalized suicide bombers who will be unleashed onto Western Europe by pretending to be Ukrainian refugees seeking protection in the West. Some of these operatives will also sneak into the USA across the open southern border, most likely pretending to be South American. Once in the USA, they can easily acquire the weapons and explosives they need to carry out their murderous tasks of causing chaos and fear across America.

Effectively, Joe Biden is now the world’s No. 1 funding source for radical terrorism in the Middle East. And high-level officials inside the intelligence community are fully aware that Biden’s actions are going to place themselves and their families in danger, given that some of the terrorism targets in the USA are almost certain to include radical Islamic extremists targeting government installations of some kind. (The Pentagon was specifically mentioned in all this, although it’s not clear how any terrorist could threaten the Pentagon building or grounds, given how high the security is around that installation.)

In my own assessment, I tend to believe that terrorists will prefer “soft” targets such as nightclubs and heavily attended sporting events, etc., where they believe they can accrue very high casualties due to the density of people in a small space. Think Las Vegas shooting, or the Orlando gay nightclub shooting from a few years back.

Whatever form it takes, it is verified that the US intelligence community believes Biden’s actions in funding Iran will unleash a new wave of actual terrorism in Western Europe and America. We’re not talking about the fake, staged FBI events like the theatrical kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Whitmer. That was pure theater run by the FBI. What we’re talking about now is actual unbounded violence carried out by well-funded terrorist groups funded by the government of Iran which is effectively funneling Biden’s US money into his terrorism operations.

They are rushing to remove Biden to try to salvage the mid-term election outcome for Democrats

For these reasons (and others), the decision has been made within the intelligence ecosystem to get rid of Joe Biden. It is only a matter of what means will be used to achieve that goal. It seems likely that the timetable for this would be accelerated by the deep state itself, given how Biden’s disastrous polling numbers are dragging down Democrats’ chances in November like an anchor and chains wrapped around some poor guy’s ankles. Unless something radical changes, the Democrats will lose their House majority, and with it they will lose House investigatory subpoena power which they have used to threaten and intimidate their political enemies since early 2019. (Adam Schiff, anyone?)

The Biden loyalists, of course, are desperately trying to stay in power despite the internal war being structured against them by the intelligence community. Their desired strategy is to escalate the Ukraine conflict into a world war with Russia, declare a wartime emergency, cancel the mid-term elections and rule with a totalitarian police state while arresting anyone who dissents by labeling them, “Russian agents of disinformation.” This strategy now looks likely to fail, but there is still a risk that things could escalate quickly in Ukraine and alter the odds.

In truth, there are Russian agents embedded in the Biden White House right now. One of them is a frontwoman for the media, it turns out. Another prominent figure is the actual architect of Ukraine’s corrupt politics, whose family came from Russia two generations ago. (Do your homework on Nuland, if you dare…)

The SECRET civil war is already underway

There is a better-than-even chance that Joe Biden will be arrested and removed from power before he can pull the trigger on global thermonuclear war. But there’s also a real chance that he will destroy America before there is enough internal consensus to move against him. What’s clear in all this is that the regime’s war against the American people has shifted focus; now they’re at war with other factions inside the government itself, not merely pro-Trump patriots. They are in effect fighting a two-front war in America.

In effect, we are watching an internal, “secret” civil war unfolding by the day. You can expect all sorts of fireworks from this action, as various factions of the deep state and intelligence community will wage false flags, assassinations, blackmail, and staged child trafficking stings against each other. These are some of the most vicious, immoral people on the planet, and they are now unleashing their worst weapons against each other. As a small sample of the kind of thing that goes on, consider this story based on Rep. Madison Cawthorn who reveals what goes on in D.C. in an effort to gather blackmail on officials and elected reps:

Rep. Madison Cawthorn revealed last week that since moving to Washington, D.C., he has been invited to orgies with politicians and saw powerful people do “key bumps” of cocaine in front of him, all while the media collected scandalous stories to blackmail people.

Speaking to John Lovell on the Warrior Poet Society podcast, Cawthorn was asked if House of Cards, the show starring Kevin Spacey as the Democratic chief whip and his “secret life of corruption and power and money and perversion,” was anything too close to the reality of what goes on in Washington DC.

Cawthorn said he was astonished at the levels of “sexual perversion” that happen in the nation’s capital.

He told Lovell that as a young guy who’s always paid attention to politics, he was shocked that some he “looked up to” throughout his life have now invited him to attend “sexual get-togethers,” which he said were actually orgies.

The House representative from North Carolina added that cocaine and drug use was rife among DC insiders.

We are on a knife’s edge, and the future of America is in real jeopardy

The end result is impossible to predict from the outside, looking in. There’s a chance the good guys pull this off and the Bidens, Clintons, and Obamas end up indicted or imprisoned. There’s also a chance that all the people who have a conscience are purged from the system and we end up in a draconian, totalitarian regime ruled by psychopaths and mass murderers.

So interpret this in whatever way suits you best, but do not think the patriots have this in the bag. They don’t. Not yet anyway. Nevertheless, the momentum is on their side, and the more damage Biden does to America’s economy, culture, and currency, the more rapidly the “white hats” are gaining friends and allies at every level.

Expect mega-fireworks long before July 4th.

Get full details in today’s Situation Update podcast:

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Kansas Schoolteacher Joins ISIS, Plots Jihad Massacres in U.S., Leads All-Female Terrorist Battalion

Accused of leading ISIS battalion, Osage County woman facing federal charge of supporting terror organization

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/01/30/kansas-schoolteacher-joins-isis-plots-jihad-massacres-in-u-s-leads-all-female-terrorist-battalion-n1554436;

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Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, a schoolteacher from Overbook, Kan., has been accused of organizing and leading an all-female battalion of jihadis for the Islamic State (ISIS). The Department of Justice announced Friday that Fluke-Ekren has been charged with “providing and conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization.” She was caught in Syria and was scheduled to appear Monday at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va.

It’s not your average career trajectory for a Kansas schoolteacher, but Fluke-Ekren, who also went by “Allison Elizabeth Brooks,” “Allison Ekren,” “Umm Mohammed al-Amriki” (that is, the mother of Muhammad the American), “Umm Mohammed,” and “Umm Jabril,” seems to have been a true believer. She “traveled to Syria several years ago for the purpose of committing or supporting terrorism.” While she was in Syria, Fluke-Ekren kept herself busy by putting together a battalion of female ISIS jihadis, known as the Khatiba Nusaybah. This wasn’t exactly a knitting circle: the women trained to fire AK-47s as well as use hand grenades and even suicide belts. In her spare time, Fluke-Ekren trained children in all this as well.

Nor were her jihad terror activities limited to Syria alone: Fluke-Ekren is also accused of plotting jihad massacres at a college campus and a shopping mall inside the United States. According to Heavy, for the campus plot, she and her accomplices would dress “like infidels (non-believers) and drop off a backpack with explosives.” The shopping mall plot was similar; Fluke-Ekren “allegedly explained that she could go to a shopping mall in the United States, park a vehicle full of explosives in the basement or parking garage level of the structure, and detonate the explosives in the vehicle with a cell phone triggering device.” She wanted this to be a mass casualty attack. “Fluke-Ekren allegedly considered any attack that did not kill a large number of individuals to be a waste of resources. As alleged by the same witness, Fluke-Ekren would hear about external attacks taking place in countries outside the United States and would comment that she wished the attack occurred on United States soil instead.”

Before all this, Fluke-Ekren was a teacher for New Vision International School in Overbrook. She “had more than one son, who was 5 or 6 years old at the time and one was observed holding a machine gun. She was also raising a child whose parents had participated in a suicide bombing together in Syria on behalf of ISIS.” One person who knew Fluke-Ekren said she was an “11 or 12” on a 1 to 10 scale of radicalization.

The government case against Fluke-Ekren doesn’t explain how a schoolteacher from Overbrook got the idea to join ISIS and plot the mass murder of her fellow Americans. Family photos show an older daughter in a hijab, but no other sign that the Fluke-Ekren family is anything but an ordinary American family. The sheer oddity of her story should not distract investigators from studying how and where she converted to Islam, and how she got the idea that her new religion, which non-Muslim authorities all over the Western world assure us is completely peaceful and tolerant, commanded her to try to murder as many non-Muslims as possible.

Related: Florida Teen Converts to Islam, Murders 13-Year-Old Boy

These questions are never asked, much less answered, despite the fact that converts to Islam turning to jihad violence is a distressingly common phenomenon. American intelligence and law enforcement officials don’t want to do anything to give the impression that they don’t accept the dogma that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. The fact that converts to Islam such as Allison Fluke-Ekren, Damon JosephCorey Johnson, and so many others have somehow gotten exactly the opposite idea doesn’t arouse in them any curiosity.

All that willful ignorance accomplishes nothing other than to ensure that there will be many more Allison Fluke-Ekrens, as improbable as her story is. The Biden administration’s all-consuming focus on a fictional “white supremacist” terror threat only ensures that those who converted and taught Allison Fluke-Ekren and others like her will have a freer hand than ever to recruit and train new jihadis. In this case, as in so many others, Biden’s handlers’ willful ignorance and politicization of counterterror activity come at a high human cost.

Founder of Oath Keepers arrested by FBI, expected to be charged with sedition

Fox News' David Spunt reports on the charges against Stewart Rhodes for his involvement in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

2011: Stewart Rhodes (OathKeepers.org)

DOJ to Form New Domestic Terrorism Unit Specializing in “Home Grown Terror Threats”

DOJ to Form New Domestic Terrorism Unit Specializing in “Home Grown Terror Threats”

Tulsi Gabbard at CPAC, 2022: Words they'll call you when you don't "shut up, fall in line"

BY JAMES MURPHY

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/doj-to-form-new-domestic-terrorism-unit-specializing-in-home-grown-terror-threats/;

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On Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will be forming a new unit that will focus specifically on domestic terror threats. Matthew Olsen, the assistant attorney general for national security, made the announcement in his opening remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

According to Olsen, the number of domestic terrorism cases that the FBI is currently investigating has more than doubled since March of 2020.

“The threat posed by domestic terrorism is on the rise,” Olsen noted, bringing up the 2015 mass shooting at a Charleston, South Carolina, church; the 2017 shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise (R-La.) and four others in Alexandria, Virginia; the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting; and the 2019 shooting at an El Paso Walmart.

Olsen then signaled the true reason that he and the DOJ believe a new domestic terrorism unit is necessary.

“Last week we marked the one-year anniversary of the attack on the Capitol on January 6. In the wake of that attack, the Department of Justice has undertaken an effort unprecedented in scope and complexity, to hold accountable all of those who engaged in criminal acts,” Olsen said.

“The attacks in recent years underscore the threat that domestic terrorism continues to pose to our citizens, to law enforcement officers, to public officials, and to our democratic institutions.”

Despite already having a group of attorneys specializing in both domestic and international terrorism, Olsen apparently decided unilaterally to create a new unit specializing in only domestic threats.

“I decided to establish a domestic terrorism unit to augment our existing approach,” Olsen said. “This group of dedicated attorneys will focus on the domestic terrorism threat, helping to ensure that these cases are handled properly and effectively coordinated across the Department of Justice and across the country.”

In his opening remarks, Olsen completely left out the anarchical summer of 2020 when neo-Marxist groups led by Antifa and Black Lives Matter took over a portion of the city of Seattle and literally burned parts of Minneapolis, Kenosha, and other cities to vent their left-wing, anti-police rage.

Also testifying before the Judiciary Committee was FBI National Security Branch Executive Assistant Director Jill Sanborn, who warned of the danger of small groups or lone-wolf terrorists.

“The greatest terrorism threat facing the United States today remains that posed by lone actors or small cells, who are typically radicalized online and look to use easily accessible weapons to attack soft targets,” Sanborn said.

The beginning of the hearing was marked by a battle of two videos, with committee chairman Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) showing a video of the January 6 unrest at the Capitol. Durbin attacked Republicans saying, “They are normalizing the use of violence to achieve political goals.”

The committee’s top Republican, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, countered with a video showing segments of the nearly 600 violent riots in the summer of 2020, complete with out-of-control fires, the attacking of police officers, and the use of explosive devices.

“These anti-police riots rocked our nation for seven full months, just like the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol rocked the nation,” Grassley said.

“Rocked the nation” even more than January 6 did, one might point out.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) angrily denounced both Olsen and Sanborn for their unwillingness to answer whether any of the misdeeds of January 6 were actually fomented or even caused by FBI agents acting undercover.

“Your answer to every damn question is ‘I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know,’” Cruz complained to Olsen.

Cruz asked Sanborn directly about the federal government’s possible involvement in the events of January 6.

“Ms. Sanborn, a lot of Americans are concerned that the federal government deliberately encouraged illegal violent conduct on Jan. 6,” Cruz said, before asking if those allegations were true.

“Not to my knowledge, sir,” Sanborn answered.

Olsen’s omission of the onerous deeds of Black Lives Matter and Antifa in his rundown of recent instances of domestic terrorism is troublesome. It signals that “domestic terrorism” to him is a matter of opinion instead of an objective fact. If those instances of burning, looting, and pillaging don’t qualify as politically motivated domestic terrorism to Olsen, he shouldn’t be in charge of such investigations.

Half of U.S. States Push Back Against National School Board Letter Suggesting Parents Are Terrorists

BY RICK MORAN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/12/05/half-of-u-s-states-push-back-against-national-school-board-letter-suggesting-parents-are-terrorists-n1538995;

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The fallout from the letter sent by the president of the National School Board Association to President Biden, asking the Justice Department to investigate parents who threaten school board members, is still swirling more than two months after the letter became public.

Over half of state school board organizations have either protested the letter or withdrawn their support from the national organization. According to NRO, “27 state school-board groups have openly dissented from the NSBA’s letter and 17 of those have discontinued membership with the headquarters.”

Incredibly, Attorney General Merrick Garland concurred with the NSBA letter and sicced the FBI on parents in his memo dated Oct. 4:

In response to the White House letter, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo authorizing the deployment of the FBI and federal law enforcement to probe and potentially prosecute parents found guilty of threatening school administrators. The letter provoked the outrage of many state school-board associations that felt the messaging was a gross mischaracterization of parents concerned about their children’s education. Many groups also rejected the NSBA’s intervention as an overstepping into local school affairs.

Internal communications obtained by PDE show many state-level chapter officials upset by the NSBA’s actions, with some suggesting that this kind of overreach had long been a pattern of the national organization. The majority of chapters revealed that the NSBA did not inform or consult them before it sent the letter to President Biden requesting federal involvement in school board confrontations.

While it’s heartening that so many state school boards have pushed back against the national organization’s stormtrooper tactics, what about the other 22 school boards? Where do they stand in this fight?

27 state school boards associations have distanced themselves from the National School Boards Association.

17 of those states (purple) have discontinued membership, participation, and/or dues because of the NSBA's actions. pic.twitter.com/YfyGwNKCpA

— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) December 3, 2021

Mr. DeAngelis believes the state school board organizations should be doing more.

Fox News:

“If you’re a state that still hasn’t distanced yourself, even after the [NSBA] has distanced themselves from their own letter, that doesn’t look very good for your state,” he said. “[T]he only meaningful pushback is actually pulling your dues or severing ties formally when it comes to membership or participation with the national organization.”

He added that parents have become a special interest group in K-12 education recent months whereas before, “the only special interest groups that had any real sway were teachers unions and superintendents.”

Parents and other activists shouldn’t expect the teacher’s unions and school board bullies to disappear, of course. The reaction has already begun, as some school boards have closed meetings or severely limited comments.

Related: Hallelujah—Conservatives Finally Discover School Board Elections

But DeAngelis thinks the “sleeping giant” has awakened and the tide is turning toward parental control.

“Teachers’ unions have finally overplayed their hand to a point where they’ve awakened a sleeping giant — these parents who want more say in their kids’ education,” he said. “And I’m especially optimistic because parents care about their kids more than anybody esle, and they’re going to be the special interest group in K-12 education from here on out.”

Parents have lives to lead — their own and their family’s. They aren’t paid for their activism. They don’t have a lot of extra time to devote to the battle. Teacher’s unions, on the other hand, have full-time lobbyists to fight for them. But it’s been heartening to see so many parents across the country stand up and be counted when it comes to the education of their children.

Biden, AG Merrick Garland weaponizing Justice Dept., FBI against “domestic terrorist” parents whose only “crime” is complaining to school boards

BY J. D. HEYES

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-10-08-biden-ag-merrick-garland-weaponizing-justice-dept-fbi-against-parents.html;

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(Natural News) For four years, leftists claimed that President Donald Trump was a tyrant and was taking away their rights, though not a single one of them could name any.

However, Joe Biden’s handlers are increasingly becoming tyrannical, as evidenced by an announcement made from Attorney General Merrick Garland this week.

In response to a hysterical letter sent to Biden from the National School Board Association claiming that ‘violent’ parents were making “threats” against local school board members and that the federal government should use “domestic terrorism” laws to go after them and shut them up, Garland was instructed to comply and so he has.

The American Wire provides some more detail:

The Justice Department on Monday announced an effort to combat alleged threats and violence against members of school boards as well as public school staff and officials just days after a national school board organization appealed to President Joe Biden for federal assistance.

According to the department, Garland directed U.S. attorneys’ offices and the FBI to meet within the next month with federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement officials “to discuss strategies for addressing” what the DoJ called “an increase in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools.”

“Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values,” said Garland in a statement. “Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety.”

“The Department takes these incidents seriously and is committed to using its authority and resources to discourage these threats, identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate,” Garland noted further in a memo. “In the coming days, the Department will announce a series of measures designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel.”

In their letter to Biden, association president Viola M. Garcia and interim executive director and CEO Chip Slaven claimed school board members and school officials all over the country are facing “threats of violence and acts of intimidation,” while going on to ask the administration to consider whether parents’ actions should be considered “domestic terrorism” under current statutes like the Patriot Act.

“While local and state law enforcement agencies are working with public school officials in several communities to prevent further disruptions to educational services and school district operations, law enforcement officials in some jurisdictions need assistance – including help with monitoring the threat levels,” they wrote.

“As these threats and acts of violence have become more prevalent … NSBA respectfully asks that a joint collaboration among federal law enforcement agencies, state and local law enforcement, and with public school officials be undertaken to focus on these threats,” the pair noted further.

They went on to write that the “acts of malice, violence, and threats” may constitute “a form of domestic terrorism.”

“As such,” they maintained, they asked Biden to direct the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to examine their complaints and deploy the FBI and “any other federal agency with relevant jurisdictional authority and oversight” to deal with parental “terrorists.”

Republicans were livid at the administration for considering parents in such a way — literally weaponizing the Justice Department and FBI against ordinary, powerless citizens.

“Practically every day brings new reports about this administration weaponizing the federal bureaucracy to go after political opponents; frankly I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like it in American history,” GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco during a Tuesday hearing.

“I mean for those of us who missed the McCarthy era, I guess this president is intent at bringing it to us but with new force and new power and new urgency unlike anything, we’ve ever seen,” he added.

Sources include:

BizPacReview.com

AmericanWire.com

Justice.gov

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Tipping Point: Nicole Neily on Concerned Parents Being Treated as Domestic Terrorists

Rumble — Nicole Neily on Concerned Parents Being Treated as Domestic Terrorists

EPIC: 427,000 Parents Respond to National School Board Association Labeling Them ‘Domestic Terrorists’

BY GWENDOLYN SIMS

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/gwendolynsims/2021/10/05/epic-427000-parents-respond-to-national-school-board-association-labeling-them-domestic-terrorists-n1521936;

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Last week, PJ Media covered the hysterical and threatening letter written by National School Boards Association (NSBA) president Viola Garcia. In the letter sent to none other than President Joe Biden, Garcia accused America’s concerned parents of threats, intimidation, and even “hate crimes” rising to the level of “domestic terrorism” for having the gall to speak up at their local school board meetings. The NSBA also requested “federal assistance to stop threats and acts of violence against school board members, school officials, and teachers.”

Related:  Concerned Parents Are ‘Immediate Threat’ Says National School Boards Association President—Some Are Even Domestic Terrorists!

This week, however, the leaders of almost two dozen parent organizations fired back with a scathing letter of their own—and it is epic. The letter, written on behalf of members of several parent organizations, made clear that the NSBA’s claims of  “hate” and “terrorism” were shameful:

NSBA cites a tiny number of minor incidents in order to insinuate that parents who are criticizing and protesting the decisions of school boards are engaging in, or may be engaging in, “domestic terrorism and hate crimes.” NSBA even invokes the PATRIOT Act. The association of legitimate protest with terrorism and violence reveals both your contempt for parents and your unwillingness to understand and hear the sincere cries of parents on behalf of their children. To equate parents with terrorists dishonors the thousands of victims of actual terrorism around the world. Have you no shame?

The parent organizations pointed out that the NSBA’s call for the federal government to use its power against parents was in itself a menacing and “thinly veiled threat, intended to intimidate into silence and submission the very constituents that [the NSBA] members ostensibly represent.” I mean, what else would you call asking the president to sic the Department of Justice, the FBI, Homeland Security, the Secret Service Assessment Center, and the Postal Service on America’s parents?

By contrast, America’s parent organizations “unequivocally oppose violence” and are made up of, not “domestic terrorists,” but “concerned citizens who care deeply about their community’s children – and who are concerned by the direction that America’s schools have taken.” It’s no secret many parents across the country are angry with what is happening (or not happening) in our taxpayer-funded schools:

Citizens are angry that school boards and school officials around the country are restricting access to public meetings, limiting public comment, and in some cases conducting business via text messages in violation of state open meetings laws.

They are angry that schools are charging them thousands of dollars in public records requests to view curriculum and training materials that impact their children and that should be open to the public by default.

They are angry that pandemic-related learning losses have compounded the already-low reading, writing, and math proficiency rates in America’s schools.

Parents are ultimately angry that rather than working to improve student achievement so our children actually learn in our country’s schools, “large numbers of districts have chosen to fund, often with hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money, ‘social justice’ and ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion programs with finite resources.”

It is very revealing that instead of listening to and addressing the concerns of parents, the NSBA chose “to smear their constituents rather than engage with them in good faith.” The concerns of parents are, of course, due to the leftist policies embraced and implemented by the school boards that are supposedly accountable to the parents of their respective districts.

“It is appalling that [NSBA] would choose to threaten your fellow Americans for having the courage to hold you accountable for your failures,” said the parent organizations. “We will not be bullied. We will not have our speech chilled. We have a constitutional right to petition our elected officials, and we will continue to do so” in order to “address and improve the quality of America’s public education system for all children.”

Bravo to America’s “parents, grandparents, and concerned citizens” for not being intimidated by the NSBA’s shameful tactics and for putting America’s children first in the face of blatant leftist bullying.

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SEE ALSO: https://thenewamerican.com/when-left-wing-rioting-is-dissent-and-moms-dissent-is-terrorism

Federal Judge Denies DOJ Demand to Halt Texas’ Heartbeat Law

BY BOB ADELMANN

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/federal-judge-denies-doj-demand-to-halt-texass-heartbeat-law;

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Federal District Court Judge Robert Pitman on Thursday denied the federal government’s demand for a restraining order against Texas’s Heartbeat Law. He wrote that “this case presents complex, important questions of law that merit a full opportunity for the parties to present their positions to the court.”

Texas has until September 29 to present its case. The Department of Justice will have until October 1, two days later, to respond.

The demand from the DOJ was presented on Tuesday, claiming that the Texas law, which became effective on September 1, “prevent[s] women from exercising their constitutional rights,” and that the temporary injunction against that law is “necessary to protect the constitutional rights of women in Texas.”

Nothing was mentioned about the “constitutional rights” of the unborn and defenseless child whose life is at stake. The way the law stands now is untenable: 30 seconds before giving birth a mother may choose to have an abortionist kill her child. She will be deemed to be a hero, exercising her “constitutional rights.”

If she kills the child after birth, she is a murderer.

It’s not the life of the child that motivates the DOJ and the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland, but politics. He said:

This kind of scheme to nullify the Constitution of the United States is one that all Americans, whatever their politics or party, should fear.

If it prevails, if may become a model for action in other areas, by other states and with respect to other constitutional rights and judicial precedents.

That’s already happening. The Texas Heartbeat Law follows similar “heartbeat laws” passed by more than a dozen states. But it is the first one that liberal courts haven’t been able to quash.

By October 1 Texas’ Heartbeat Law will have been in effect for a month. That means it is already saving the lives of unborn children who otherwise would have been murdered in their mothers’ wombs. As the Texas Tribune noted, Texas abortion clinics “stopped offering abortions that were still allowed under the law for fear of being sued.”

However the judge rules, there is sure to be an appeal to the Supreme Court. As The New American noted, “Roe didn’t uncover a right of a woman to kill her unborn child. The court created the right out of whole cloth — and political ideology.”

That is the dirty little secret behind Roe v. Wade and its sister case decided years later, Planned Parenthood v. Casey: The emperor has no clothes. There is no such “right” anywhere in the Constitution. As one of abortion’s most liberal supporters, legal scholar Laurence Tribe, noted: “One of the most curious things about Roe is that, behind its own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which [the decision] rests is nowhere to be found.”

There is an increasing chance that the entire effort to quash the Texas law before it goes national will backfire. The high court could take the appeal under review, and decide that it made a horrendous error in Roe back in 1973, and compounded it in Casey in 1992. The high court has overturned previous decisions more than 300 times. Those who believe that life, a gift from God, begins at conception, would celebrate such a reversal. It would be one more step towards that joyful day when all courts, state and federal, rule that abortion, at any time, is murder.

Prior to 1973, abortion was murder. It still is.

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Biden Administration Sues Texas Over “Heartbeat Law”

NUREMBERG 2.0: Biden’s corrupt DOJ just declared experimental vaccine mandates LEGAL; forced experimental injections will now commence

Image: NUREMBERG 2.0: Biden’s corrupt DOJ just declared experimental vaccine mandates LEGAL… forced experimental injections will now commence

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-30-bidens-doj-vaccine-mandates-legal-force-employees.html;

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(Natural News) Fake “president” Joe Biden has decided that it is perfectly legal for the government and private businesses to force employees against their will to get injected with experimental gene modification chemicals for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19).

Biden’s Justice Department concluded in a new opinion that there is no federal law barring either the public or private sector from requiring people to get jabbed with the drugs, which currently hold “emergency use authorization” (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The decision came about after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the state of California, and New York City all decided to require that some of their workers either get “vaccinated” for Chinese Germs or agree to weekly testing for the rest of their lives.

Veterans Affairs, ironically enough, was the first federal agency to mandate the lethal injections, negating the brave efforts of actual veterans who fought overseas in years past – and some of them paid the ultimate price with their lives – to stop this type of medical fascism from ever encroaching on our borders.

The Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a letter stating that because access to Fauci Flu shots is now widespread, “numerous educational institutions, employers, and other entities across the United States” have chosen to mandate Chinese Virus shots as a condition of staying employed.

“For instance,” the letter reads, “certain schools will require vaccination in order for students to attend class in person, and certain employers will require vaccination as a condition of employment.”

Wuhan Flu shots shouldn’t even have EUA in the first place, but Biden’s Justice Department couldn’t care less

It is important to note that since other remedies for the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Virus already exist, there was never any legal precedent in the first place for the FDA to grant EUA to Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for their respective injections.

If the Justice Department was really devoted to pursuing justice, it would be shouting this fact from the rooftops and calling on the FDA to immediately revoke all EUAs for the Fauci Flu shot. Instead, the agency under China Joe says there is nothing to “prohibit public or private entities from imposing vaccine requirements, even when the only vaccines available are those authorized under EUAs.”

By giving this green light, the expectation is that other federal agencies will soon follow suit, along with at least some segments of the private sector. Institutions of “higher learning” all seem to be falling right in line as well, requiring their students to undergo experimental gene therapy in order to get an education this fall.

“Public sector entities need to move as quickly as possible,” shouted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who eagerly announced his own citywide mandate that all public sector workers will need to either get jabbed or submit to weekly testing with fraudulent PCR tests.

“This DOJ decision is important,” de Blasio added. “I think that will be helpful. We have got to put pressure on this situation.”

Up until this point, the federal government has limited its involvement with the plandemic to targeting travel and public transportation, both of which are still restricted to masked people only. De Blasio would seem to want that involvement to now extend to compulsory Fauci Flu injections.

“We need to rise up and say enough is enough,” wrote one frustrated commenter at The Epoch Times.

“What is it going to take to get Americans riled up enough to demand this communistic taking away of freedoms day-by-day to stop? It is shocking what we are tolerating.”

The latest news about Beijing Biden’s Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) tyranny can be found at ChemicalViolence.com.

Sources for this article include:

TheEpochTimes.com

PGurus.com

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U.S. political prisoners – DOJ’s political targeting of Jan. 6

Rumble — Advocacy groups claim nonviolent participants of the Jan. 6 Capitol protest continue to be held in solitary confinement and harsh conditions by the DOJ. One America’s Chief White House Correspondent Chanel Rion has more on this from Washington.

Jan. 6 detainees subjected to 'inhumane conditions'

Rumble — January 6 protesters are reportedly enduring merciless treatment while awaiting trial in federal prison. One America's Zach Petersen has more.

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