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The January 6th Committee kindly asks you to ignore the FBI

By Congressman Andy Biggs TownHall.com

The FBI found no evidence President Trump, or his allies coordinated any part of the Capitol riots. The January 6thCommittee would like for you to ignore that.

Pelosi’s stacked commission has proven exceptionally effective with at least one thing: ignoring any piece of evidence that does not align itself with the committee’s predetermined outcome. Peddling emotion-filled accounts of January 6th, with undisguised partisan vitriol, is far more effective in furthering the left’s messaging strategy than conducting a balanced fact-finding investigation.

If you were to take a step away from the noise and examine the facts in an unbiased fashion, you would discover a wildly different version of events than what the unselect committee would have you believe.

Reports emerged in August of 2021 confirming the FBI did not have any sort of evidence connecting President Trump or his allies to an organized effort to enter the Capitol or overturn the 2020 election results. In fact, they could find no evidence of a plot to overturn the election at all. But key members of the committee have ignored that evidence, choosing instead to flock around television cameras and present a darker, inaccurate version of events. (Continued on page 16)

Many see Democrat double standard on political violence when it comes to Jan. 6, Kavanaugh threat

By Natalia Mittelstadt JustTheNews.com

During a tumultuous week, Democrats pressed hard during a prime time televised hearing to condemn the violence 18 months ago during the Jan. 6 riots while staying mostly muted on the arrest of an alleged assassin targeting conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh over abortion rights.

The performance has many critics seeing a hypocritical double standard.

Liberal Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said Democrats' Jan. 6 hearings have been staged to be so unfair and one-sided that it reminded him of the work of the late Sen. Joe McCarthy decades ago or a production of the Soviet-era Pravda network.

"This reminds me of my youth, when, at eight o'clock at night, we would watch the House Un-American Activities Committee, or the McCarthy committee, holding spectacle hearings in order to tell one side of the story, never having anybody to present the counter narrative," Dershowitz told the Just the News, Not Noise television show.

"But at least in those days, you had an almost equal number of people on the Democrat side," he added. "Here we have Nancy Pelosi fixing, rigging the committee, making sure that the only two nominal Republicans on the committee are anti-Trump Republicans so that nobody will present a counter narrative. It's just so Pravda."

Dershowitz said while Democrats have roundly criticized former President Donald Trump's speech on Jan. 6 as incitement --comments the law professor said were actually protected by the First Amendment --they were plenty of nonCOVID-19 uses for this data, stating, 'The mobility data obtained under this contract will be available for CDC agency-wide use and will support numerous CDC priorities,'" OpenTheBooks.com reported.

A controversial data broker, SafeGraph, sold the data to the CDC. Some researchers claim that while the information was aggregated location data, it can be "deanonymized and used to track specific people," the watchdog site reported.

The records obtained by Vice show the CDC foresees using the data for a wide variety of analytical purposes extending far beyond COVID tracking.

"CDC also plans to use mobility data and services acquired through this acquisition to support non-COVID-19 programmatic areas and public health priorities across the agency, including but not limited to travel to parks and green spaces, physical activity and mode of travel, and population migration before, during, and after natural disasters," Vice reported. "The mobility data obtained under this contract will be available for CDC agency-wide use and will support numerous CDC priorities."

The documents established 21 "potential CDC use cases for data," according to Vice.

"The CDC shouldn't use tax dollars to surveil U.S. citizens," wrote Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks.com.

have not condemned Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's threats to Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch that they "will pay the price" for their stances on abortion.

"I would expect Chuck Schumer who I've known for years and years, who I remember was a former student at the Harvard Law School, to retract and apologize for the statements he made in front of the Supreme Court threatening Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and having a dog whistle," Dershowitz said.

"I mean, unbalanced people, like people like the person who went to Kavanugh's house could easily have misinterpretedwhat Schumer said and saying that was a license for violence."

From columnists to TV pundits, there have been lots of efforts to compare and contrast Democrat rhetoric on the two cases of political violence.

During the televised Jan. 6 committee hearing on Thursday, Chairman Bennie Thompson (DMiss.) began with saying he was reminded of the "dark history" of the U.S. with regard to slavery and the Ku Klux Klan as he heard "voices today try and justify the actions of the insurrectionists on January 6th, 2021."

Thompson said that on the day of the riot, "it was domestic enemies of the Constitution who stormed the Capitol and occupied the Capitol, who sought to thwart the will of the people, to stop the transfer of power. And so, they did so at the encouragement of the president of the United States, the president of the United States trying to stop the transfer of power, a precedent that had stood for 220 years, even as our democracy had faced its most difficult test." 2020 and in the courts afterwards, Trump continued his conspiracy to overthrow the election.

"Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy,andultimatelyDonald Trump, the president of the United States, spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the Constitution to march down the Capitol and subvert American democracy," he continued.

Thompson added that legal jargon mentioned during the hearings, such as "seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter to put it shortly after January 6th, to overthrow the government. The violence was no accident. It represents seeing Trump's last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power."

Rep. Liz Cheney (RWyo.) also said during the hearing, "President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. You will also hear about plots to commit seditious conspiracy on January 6th, a crime defined in our laws as conspiring to overthrow, put down, or destroy by force the government of the United States or to oppose by force the authority thereof."

No one made at the hearing, however, made any mention of the plot to assassinate Kavanaugh just one day earlier.

Early Wednesday morning, Nicholas John Roske from California was carrying weapons near Kavanaugh's Maryland home before being arrested. He admitted to intending to break into the home and kill the justice before committing suicide.

CDC spends $420k on location data for monitoring beyond claimed COVID tracking: reports

By Mary Lou Lang JustTheNews.com

The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just The News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s.

This week's Golden Horseshoe is awarded to the Centers for Disease Control for spending $420,000 to buy location data for millions of Americans' phones. While the data was purportedly acquired for COVID-19 tracking, the agency is reportedly using it to support varied, agency-wide surveillance efforts far beyond pandemic monitoring, according to federal spending watchdog site OpenTheBooks.com.

While the CDC claimed it purchased the data to monitor Americans' adherence to lockdown curfews and visits to pharmacies for vaccine monitoring, the CDC envisages tracking people as they engage in physical activity and visit gyms, parks, weight management businesses —and even places of worship, according to public records obtained by Vice through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The documents "show that although the CDC used COVID-19 as a reason to buy access to the data more quickly, it intended to use it for more-general CDC purposes," Vice reported.

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upset about the leak of a recent Supreme Court draft decision regarding the right to an abortion as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas."

On the John Solomon Reports podcast Friday, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) also criticized Democrats for being reluctant to support the Supreme Court justices amidst violent threats.

"They don't support the judiciary unless the judiciary is doing the work of their ideology," Perry said. "That's very clear, there's a long history of it at this point. They have used the judiciary to get what they could not get legislatively and now they're being challenged on it with this court. And so they are, I hate to say it, but it sure appears that they are willing to at least accept violence if it will meet the ends that they wish."

He added that not only was Schumer "fomenting violence when he says Judge Kavanaugh, by name, 'you will reap the whirlwind,'" but that President Joe Biden also added fuel to the fire this week.

"You got Joe Biden … this is after the would-be assassin is arrested — goes on national TV, on late night TV, and says that if the Supreme Court finds in a way that they disagree with, it will start 'a mini revolution,'" Perry said.

Biden made the comment on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Wednesday night with regard to the Supreme Court's expected overturning of Roe v. Wade, following the leak of Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health.

Perry also criticized Attorney General Merrick Garland for not enforcing the law with regard to protestors outside the justices' homes.

"You got Merrick Garland, the attorney general of the United States, re-

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nology to further intrude on the private sector and we the people using the latest in technology to open up the government and hold them accountable," Andrzejewski told Just the News. "These unelected bureaucrats at the CDC are using taxpayer money to fund surveillance programs to track taxpayers. It's mass surveillance and uncharted territory.

"CDC opened the door to the mass surveillance fusing, refusing to enforce the law where you have protesters right out in front —it's on display for the whole world to see, it's on primetime TV, we see it in our living rooms —these protesters right in front of their, the justices', homes protesting, and that's against the law, it's intimidation. This is something from a third world," he said.

Perry mentioned that Speaker Pelosi postponed the vote on the Senate bill protecting Supreme Court justices' families, saying, "no one is in danger" just a day after Roske was arrested outside of Kavanaugh's home.

"I don't know how much danger she needs to witness before she considers someone to be in danger," Perry said.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy also responded to Pelosi's comment, saying in a press briefing, "I don't know how she can say that, knowing that you just captured a person who wanted to kill Kavanaugh and his family."

data purchase using the excuse of Covid. Of course, it was a bait-andswitch and now the agency will use the data for general operations."

The CDC did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

Congressman Andy Biggs

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Liz Cheney, undoubtedly screen-testing for her post-Congress surrogate gig on cable news, rebuffed the FBI’s reporting on MSNBC. She contradicts the Bureau’s findings, and cast aspersions on her fellow Americans about their intentions that day.

“We are determined to ensure we understand the entire effort to overthrow the election and overturn the rule of law,” she tweeted on the oneyear anniversary of January 6th. Her colleague, Adam Kinzinger, was more direct in his baseless accusations: “(Trump) upset me with his attempt to overthrow the Republic.” Cheney, Kinzinger, and other members of the committee must trot in front of the cameras and recite Democrat-written talking points because the legitimacy of their entire anti-Trump narrative is continually undermined by evidence emerging from law enforcement investigations. The committee is not getting their preferred results from the FBI, so they’re requesting that the American people ignore them. The bottom line is, you’re going to get a second opinion on January 6thfrom the committee, whether you wanted it or not.

The fundamental issue with ignoring key evidence and pursuing kangaroo court-style proceedings is that Congress is not a prosecutorial body. They are a partisan legislative body with limited investigative oversight. They January 6th Committee, however, wants to pretend as if they’re a grand jury indicting fellow members in their political crosshairs. The court of public opinion is their only

Foreign investment in U.S. farmland triples in last decade, raising national security fears

By Zeta Cross JustTheNews.com

Foreign investment in U.S. farmland has tripled in the past 10 years, reporters at a non-profit investigative journalism group found.

Investigate Midwest used U.S. Department of Agriculture data to call attention to this trend. Farmer Joe Maxwell, co-founder of the group Farm Action, told The Center Square that control of U.S. farmland by foreign investors is worrisome on a number of fronts.

“The real question is, who do the people of the United States want to be their farmer? Do they want Saudi Arabia, Canada,China,othercountries to be their farmer? Do they want Bayer or Cargill or other large corporations to be their farmer?” Maxwell asked.

The pandemic showed that reliance on multinational corporations for agricultural inputs is a failed system, Maxwell said.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has been trying to pass the bipartisan Food Security is National Security Act in Congress for several years. On his website, Grassley said deeppocketed investors are making it hard for young farmers to buy the land they need to get established.

Farm Action has been lobbying Congress to get states to monitor foreign investment, Maxwell said. The investors are not purchasing the farmland for the production value of the land, he said. Investors, corporations and hedge funds –many foreign-owned –buy U.S. farmland as a monetary investment rather than for the food and feed that the land produces, he said.

Maxwell calls it “a real crisis.” U.S. farmland should be used to produce food for people who live here, he said, and investors are driving up farmland prices so that the next generation of farmers cannot buy the land they need.

“The only way young farmers can get started is if the bank sees that they can make money off that land by producing food and feed,” Maxwell said. Hedge fund managers are buying farmland to balance out their portfolios, he said.

Federal law requires foreign persons and entities to disclose foreign ownership to the USDA, but there are no limits on the amount of land foreign investors can buy.

Maxwell said more information is needed on the extent of foreign ownership.

“Sen. Grassley and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (head of the Senate Agriculture Committee) have recognized that we just don’t have the records we need to make firm business or government decisions on the impact of foreign ownership,” Maxwell said.

Investigate Midwest found the owners of 3.1 million acres of U.S. agricultural land were not identified in public records.

In Illinois, foreign investors control 2.6% of agricultural land. The Illinois Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act requires a foreign person or corporation that buys agricultural land in Illinois to report the purchase to the Director of Agriculture within 90 days or pay a stiff fine.

As of 2019, more than 62% of all foreignowned agricultural land in the United States was owned by five countries: Canada (29%, mostly forestland), the Netherlands (14%), Italy (7%), the United Kingdom (6%), and Germany (6%).

chance of winning any sort of argument, which is undoubtedly why Nancy Pelosi chose to kick two fact-finding Republican warriors off the committee before their witch hunt even began.

Expect the committee’s upcoming public hearings to be rife with halftruths, partisan monologues, and maybe even fabricated evidence (which they’ve already been caught red-handed peddling) to prove their assertions. You will not see evidence defending the President because that would undermine the intent of the hearings. Playing audio of President Trump calling for marchers exercising their First Amendment right to free speech and protest by asking for rally attendees to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” puts a damper on CNN’s primetime audience. So does playing video of President Trump instructing the crowd to “go home,” and also condemning political violence.

The Senate has acquitted President Trump of inciting any sort of riot on January 6th. The FBI has no evidence that the events of January 6th were coordinated, that President Trump had any involvement, or that his allies had any sort of inclination that individuals would enter the Capitol. And they will find none.

In a matter of months, the committee will cease to exist. Many of its key players will no longer be members of the House, and its faux authority will be reduced to the ash heap of history. Its members are keenly aware of this reality, and they’d rather go down spouting vitriol and partisanship than go away quietly.

The committee is quite unhappy with the facts of January 6thas they exist today. Their upcoming public hearings will be a way for them to kindly ask that you sit back, relax, enjoy the show… …and please, “for the good of our Republic,” don’t do your own research.

U.S. Representative Andy Biggs represents Arizona’s 5th Congressional District and serves on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees.