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Hillary Clinton was able to hide everything under “attorney client privilege.” Obama holed 30 million documents under “executive privilege.” The FBI didn’t press at all.
Donald Trump didn’t even commit a crime, and the FBI raided his home and stole his documents protected under attorney client and executive privilege.
The average person is seeing what’s going on and beginning to understand the war that we are in.
***** Hindsight allows us to understand that COVID19 was a globalist bioweapon used to implement mail-in voting for election fraud.
What are the oddsd that the virus was released from the same place that stored the servers and databases pertaining to US election fraud? - BioClandestine. ***** Steve Bannon on his show “War Room” indicated the FBI raid of Mar -a-lago was a trap set by the Trump team. There are suggestions that the Department of Justice and FBI will do a turnabout and try and cover up the release of the documents.
What’s in the documents?
***** The DNC now proudly and openly supports literal Nazi forces in Ukraine military. State mandated nonconsensual medical experimentation. State sponsored propaganda. State control of private enterprise. State control of student curriculum. State sponsored terrorism by BLM/ Antifa.
MSNBC contributor, ex-spy chief hint Trump deserves execution over classified records dispute
By Charlotte Hazard
Amid published reports that former President Trump is improperly holding classified papers, including nuclear documents, at his Florida compound, MSNBC contributor Michael Beschloss and former CIA Director Michael Hayden are intimating via social media that Trump should be executed.
The Washington Post has reported that the FBI raided Trump's Mar-aLago compound on Monday in order to retrieve "nuclear documents" they believed were improperly stored there.
Apparently equating the former president with the American spies convicted and executed for sharing U.S. nuclear weapons secrets with Joseph Stalin's Russia, Beschloss tweeted: "Rosenbergs were convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953."
Hayden retweeted Beschloss' ominous post, commenting: "Sounds about right."
Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy called out the former spy chief in his own tweet. "NBD just a former NSA & CIA Director (who also was among the dozens of ex-intel officials who signed the infamous October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop letter) out here suggesting that Trump should be executed," wrote Dunleavy.
The former president has denied keeping nuclear documents and suggested that the FBI planted the Washington Post story.
Trump dismissed allegations that he was holding such documents in a post on his social media app, Truth Social. "Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax, the Mueller investigation was a Hoax, and much more," he wrote.
"Same sleazy people involved," Trump added, referring to DOJ and FBI officials involved in the raid as well as in sustaining the debunked Russia collusion narrative. "Why wouldn't the FBI allow the inspection of areas at Mar-a-Lago with our lawyer's [sic], or others present. Made them wait outside in the heat, wouldn't let them get even close —said 'ABSOLUTELY NOT.'"
HHS secretary: Over 1 million monkeypox vaccines are 'in hand' with 'several more million' on way
By Nicholas Ballasy
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told Just the News that the U.S. has over 1 million monkeypox vaccines "in hand" with "several more million" on the way.
According to NBC News, the U.S. government didn't order additional monkeypox "vaccine doses to add to its stockpile until June, even though the virus started spreading in May." This resulted in a vaccine shortage as the monkeypox outbreak worsened.
During an interview at the White House on Wednesday, Becerra was asked for a status update on monkeypox vaccine distribution after President Biden declared it a national emergency.
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf "gave us the great news," Becerra said, "that safely and effectively we can take those doses of vaccine that we have, over a million in hand, and several million more on the way, and we can actually, working with our local health authority partners, increase that fivefold, for those vaccines."
"So that's great news for folks who are trying to get vaccinated," he continued, "great news for jurisdictions that are seeking more vaccines, and great news, quite honestly, for public health, because this is a great opportunity for us to make sure we stay ahead of monkeypox."
Becerra named "coordination" when asked what he sees as the top lesson learned during the COVID pandemic that should be applied to monkeypox as it continues to spread.
"When you have a patchwork of healthcare systems, public health systems, where every state controls their public health, you've got to work together to seamlessly bring together a response that gets to everybody," he said.
New twist in FBI raid: Trump had 'standing order' to declassify documents taken to residence
Former president's office describe previously undeclared process that led to sensitive documents landing in Mar-O-Lago.
By John Solomon
Donald Trump's office told Just the News on Friday that the classified materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate were declassified under a "standing order" while he was president that allowed him to take sensitive materials to the White House residence at night to keep working.
The official statement is likely to become the focus of the president's legal defense as the FBI and Biden Justice Department investigate whether he stole records covered under the Presidential Records Act or mishandled classified materials under the Espionage Act, allegations included in a search warrant released by a federal court in Florida on Friday.
The president's defense is rooted in the legal principal that the president and vice president are the ultimate declassifying authority of the U.S. government and through executive orders most recently issued in 2003 by George W. Bush and Barack Obama in 2009 that specifically exempt the president and vice president from having to follow the stringent declassification procedures every other federal agency and official must follow.
Trump has maintained for weeks that any documents still containing classified markings in his possession after he left office were previously declassified. On Friday night, the statement issued to Just the News explained exactly how that declassification occurred in his mind. classified," the former president's office stated. "As we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time. American presidents are no different. President Trump, in order to prepare for work the next day, often took documents including classified documents from the Oval Office to the residence.
"He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified," the statement added. "The power to classify and declassify documents rests solely with the President of the United States. The idea that some paper-pushing bureaucrat, with classification authority delegated BY THE PRESIDENT, needs to approve of declassification is absurd."
Two former senior aides who worked for Trump in the latter half of his term said they were aware that Trump routinely took documents to the residence rather than return them to the Staff Secretary or the intelligence official who provided them. Asked whether there was a standing order, one former official "I don't know anyone or anything that disputes that."
Ordinarily, documents declassified by a president are later retrieved and marked declassified, usually by crossing a line through the prior classification markings. But former top aides to prior presidents acknowledged the president's power to declassify was absolute and at times resulted in instant declassification decisions.
One prior administration official related an instance where his boss, while talking to a foreign leader, gave top-secret (Continued on page 14)
The Patriot Pony, August 8, 2022
By John Solomon and Natalia Mittelstadt
Stoic like a judge delivering a verdict from the bench, Attorney General Merrick Garland declared Thursday he was playing things by the book and wouldn't talk about the raid and ongoing investigation of former President Donald Trump.
"The Department of Justice will speak through its court filings and its work," he said, declining to answer any of the multitude of questions Americans have, except that he approved the Monday raid on the 45th president's home and doesn't object to releasing the search warrant.
Garland, however, was hardly as tight-lipped about the other major ongoing investigation that has consumed his department: the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
In testimony, speeches and news interviews he has talked expansively about the nature of the probe, the forced collections of evidence and who and how many are being investigated — even as many defendants have not yet had their day in court.
Usually, it is taboo for federal prosecutors to talk about anything related to grand juries. But in his one-year anniversary speech, Garland gave the total number of grand jury subpoenas and search warrants executed, the amount of video footage collected, and the number of electronic devices seized through warrants and subpoenas. It was a rare moment of transparency in an evidence collection process normally shrouded in the same secrecy as the raid on Trump's home and office.
"So far, we have issued over 5,000 subpoenas and search warrants, seized approximately 2,000 devices, pored through over 20,000 hours of video footage, and searched through an estimated 15 terabytes of data," he divulged during the Jan. 5, 2022 speech.
Ordinarily, prosecutors demur when facing questions about who could be charged in the future, refusing to address specific names then offering a generic answer about policy and procedure.
But last month in an interview with NBC's Lester Holt, Garland bit on the question of whether Trump could be charged in the Capitol riots case, failing to offer the traditional disclaimer that he wouldn't talk about specific future defendants.
"The indictment of a former president, and perhaps a candidate for president, would arguably tear the country apart," Holt said. "Is that your concern as you make your decision down the road here, do you have to think about things like that?"
Garland replied: "We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding Jan. 6, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable. That's what we do. We don't pay any attention to other issues with respect to that."
Holt followed up: What if Trump ran against Biden in 2024?
"I'll say again that we will hold accountable anyone who was criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer, legitimate, lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next," he answered.
The anecdotes aren't to suggest Garland did something illegal or improper. But they do show that DOJ officials have discretion beyond the courtroom to talk expansively about ongoing probes despite Garland's claim Thursday that he was constrained from sharing any information about the Trump raid. declining to answer questions about the investigation of Hunter Biden and the bureau's seizure of his laptop.
"Now you are asking about an ongoing investigation that I expect our folks to pursue aggressively, and I can't comment on it," he answered when questioned by Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn about pursuing Hunter Biden charges.
When she followed up and asked him to confirm the possession of the younger Biden's laptop, he demurred again, even though the laptop's seizure and the subpoena are now in public.
"Again I can't discuss that," he said, citing the ongoing investigation.
But a year earlier in a Senate hearing, Wray gave a more detailed answer just two months into the Jan. 6 probe when asked by Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar whether the Proud Boys groups had criminal culpability for the Jan. 6 riots. At the time, some Proud Boy members had been charged, and some were still under early investigation.
Wray acknowledged some parts of the attack "were planned and coordinated."
"Well, I just noted that just today, a report in The Washington Post, that on Monday, a complaint was filed against a member of the Proud Boys in Washington State, where federal prosecutors alleged that, in fact, there were plans made for many different entries into the Capitol, is that correct?" she asked.
In answering, Wray revealed there were going to be changes to indictments and more arrests related to the group, something that wasn't then public.
"Yes, there have been a growing number of charges as we continue to build out the investigation," Wray said, mentioning "either individuals who are now starting to get arrested ... or in some instances individuals who were charged with more simple offenses but now we're superseding as we build out more of an understanding of what people were involved."
Again, nothing illegal. But clear evidence that a Republican got a nonanswer from Wray about an ongoing probe, while a Democrat got more robust detail and responsiveness.
The performances of Wray and Garland have drawn indignation from some Republicans, who have dozens of oversight letters seeking answers that have gone unanswered.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R -Iowa), the top Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said this week the continued silence from the top of the DOJ and FBI risks ruining their trust with the American people, especially after the Trump raid and recent whistleblower allegations of political bias inside investigations.
"If the FBI isn't extraordinarily transparent about its justification for yesterday's actions and committed to rooting out political bias that has infected their most sensitive investigations, they will have sealed their own fate," the seven-term senator warned Tuesday.
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Gregg Phillips, an election intelligence specialist who has been closely involved in uncovering True the Vote’s evidence of ballot trafficking and fraud in the 2020 presidential election released “The Pit” over the weekend. Phillips stated that the information that would be presented during was “devastating.” RSBN link for The Pit.
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information to the leader, declassifying simply by sharing what he had seen in a top-secret marked document. Another official related an instance he witnessed in which a president, during a meeting, received a top secret document and one official got up to leave because his clearance was only at the secret level.
"The president instantly approved that staffer to stay and consume the top -secret intelligence because it benefited the president's work at that moment," the person told Just the News.
The president's detractors in Congress, the DOJ, and the intelligence community are likely to contest the president's arguments. But officials familiar with national security law said courts generally have held the president's power to declassify is far-reaching and that the process for how that happens can be more happenstance, something the Bush and Obama executive orders from 2003 and 2009 made clear.
Obama's executive order no. 13526, issued in 2009, laid out the stringent process all federal officials and agencies needed to follow for declassification, but explicitly exempted the sitting president and vice president from having to follow those procedures.
"Information originated by the incumbent President or the incumbent Vice President; the incumbent President’s White House Staff or the incumbent Vice President’s Staff; committees, commissions, or boards appointed by the incumbent President; or other entities within the Executive Office of the President that solely advise and assist the incumbent President is exempted from the provisions of paragraph (a) of this section," the Obama order stated.
Officials said it is likely the FBI will seek to find any officials or witnesses who knew or can confirm there was a "standing order" as described by the Trump statement. But in the end, officials said the president's declassification powers were sweeping and likely would be viewed as such by the courts.
By Natalia Mittelstadt
Amid spreading alarm about the Internal Revenue Service stockpiling ammunition and Senate Democrats' passge on Sunday of a spending bill that would fund the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents, the tax collection agency is listing a job opening for a Criminal Investigation Special Agent who must must "be willing to use deadly force, if necessary."
According to the IRS job listing, one of the "Key Requirements" for the job is: "Be legally allowed to carry a firearm."
"Major Duties" of the special agent include: "Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary." Other duties include:
"Maintain a level of fitness necessary to effectively respond to lifethreatening situations on the job." "Be willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments." Wayback Machine screenshots show that this job posting has included these requirements and duties since January of this year. However, the earliest screenshot of the webpage on Oct. 1, 2016, listed "use of firearms" as a duty for the position. That duty was on the webpage until at least April 2020, and was changed sometime between then and September that year, when the firearm duty was no longer listed.
