There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
Kash Patel sent a letter to subordinates at the FBI prior to being sworn in as FBI Director on Friday afternoon.
He stated that among his top priorities is to “rebuild the American people’s trust in the FBI.”
“I am honored to have been nominated and confirmed as your new Director,” the letter obtained by Fox reads.
“While I’m new to the Bureau’s ranks, I’ve spent my career in government service and the past decade in national security, working shoulder to shoulder with the FBI and many of its partners throughout the law enforcement and intelligence communities. My commitment has always been — and always will be — to pursuing justice and upholding the rule of law, and I look forward to continuing that commitment alongside all of you.”
Patel reportedly described keeping Americans safe as a “no-fail mission.”
“As I take on this new role, my priorities for our organization are twofold. First is to provide you with the tools and resources you need to keep our communities safe. This will include streamlining our operations at Headquarters while bolstering the presence of field agents across the nation and collaborating even more closely with our essential partners in state and local law enforcement,” he told FBI employees.
“Second is to ensure we rebuild the American people’s trust in the FBI. We’ll do that by committing ourselves to full transparency with the people’s representatives in Congress and by upholding the highest standards in all that we do, ensuring rigorous obedience to the Constitution and a single standard of justice for all.”
“I know that you, the dedicated men and women of the FBI, are courageous warriors of justice,” he continued.
“I will always have your backs, because you have the backs of the American people. I look forward to serving with you in the years to come.”
This will be a huge step up from Biden’s highly politicized FBI and FBI Director Chris Wray’s targeting of innocent Trump supporters, pro-lifers, Christians, and concerned parents at school board meetings. This is perhaps President Trump’s most consequential nomination to be confirmed by the Senate.
Patel made similar remarks during his swearing-in ceremony on Friday.
WATCH:
Patel: To the Senators and the men and women of the United States House of Representatives, you placed an enormous trust in me, an enormous leap of faith, one that I didn’t know that I could possibly earn back, but I’m going to spend every single day on this job doing so. The fact that you placed the confidence you did in me has inspired me to reach new heights at this job. I promise you the following: There will be accountability within the FBI and outside of the FBI, and we will do it through rigorous constitutional oversight starting this weekend.
I know the media’s in here, and if you have a target, that target’s right here. It’s not the men and women at the FBI. You’ve written everything you possibly can about me that’s fake, malicious, slanderous, and defamatory. Keep it coming, bring it on, but leave the men and women at the FBI out of it. They deserve better.
And for those of you who think that there’s going to be a two-tiered system of justice, not with Attorney General Bondi. There’s a singular system of justice for all Americans, and there will be accountability. And the reason that this mission is so important is simply the following: 100,000 people last year raped, 100,000 people died of CCP fentanyl overdose and heroine, 17,000 homicides. Violent crime is out of control. We cannot have a United States of America where that is acceptable, where someone dies every 30 minutes or someone OD’s every seven, or someone’s raped every six. That cannot be allowed to continue, and it will not be allowed to continue.
Our national security mission is equally as important. Anyone that wishes to do harm to our way of life and our citizens here or abroad will face the full wrath of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And if you seek to hide in any corner of this country or any corner of this planet, we will put on the world’s largest manhunt, and we will find you, and we will decide your end state, not you. We will uphold the Constitution. We will uphold ourselves to the Constitution. The men and women at the FBI, I have your back because you have the backs of the American people.
You will be held to the same high standard. Any deviation from that standard will not be tolerated at this Federal Bureau of Investigation.The men and women at the FBI who make us safe deserve better, and they are going to get it with our leadership and your support. God bless America, and God bless every single one of you. I love this country.
“Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.” —Thomas Jefferson (1817)
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Vile Hamas dogs celebrate dead babies: The awfulness coming out of Gaza concerning the treatment of a young mother and her two baby boys by the murdering dogs of Hamas has become unspeakable. First, we saw with our own eyes the crowds of Hamas militants and their twisted supporters celebrating and shouting “Victory!” in Arabic over the caskets of four deceased Israeli citizens, including (ostensibly) Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two sons, four-year-old Ariel and nine-month-old Kfir. First, we were told by the terrorists that these innocents died in an Israeli airstrike, but now we learn through the Israel Defense Forces that the terrorists murdered the two baby boys in cold blood, by hand, and then tried to cover it up. Furthermore, the body supposedly belonging to Shiri is not hers but that of an unidentified victim. Some cultures are demonstrably inferior, and we shouldn’t be afraid to say so.
McConnell won’t run for reelection in 2026: It came as welcome news yesterday to reform-minded Republicans when, on the day of his 83rd birthday, longtime former GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he won’t seek reelection in 2026. Hallelujah. Even just a month into Donald Trump’s 2.0 term, McConnell has proven his willingness to stand athwart the people’s mandate by opposing Trump at critical moments, even voting to the left of the party’s two most conspicuous Senate RINOs, Maine’s Susan Collins and Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski. McConnell has antagonized the good people of solidly red Kentucky, which went for Trump by nearly 31 points over Kamala Harris. Still, there’s potential trouble on the horizon if Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a centrist Democrat, decides to vie for McConnell’s vacant seat. Beshear says he has no interest in running for the Senate, but politicians have been known to change their minds.
A breathless nation awaits Pothole Pete’s “huge” decision: Having skedaddled from deep-red Indiana and relocated to deep-purple Michigan, former small-town mayor and transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg has a decision to make: Should he try to carpetbag his way to a U.S. Senate seat soon to be vacated by Michigan Democrat Gary Peters, or should he instead seek the Donkey Party’s nomination for president in 2028? An AP puff piece puts it this way: “Some believe the Democratic Party’s next savior is living here, huddled with family, in the relative obscurity of a small city on the shores of Lake Michigan. Pete Buttigieg has yet to decide if that’s a responsibility he wants.” That the despondent Democrats might actually turn their lonely eyes toward the accomplishment-free Buttigieg shows just how bereft of talent is that sorry party’s bench.
Stephen Miller schools the White House press corps: Rarely in the history of White House press briefings have a man and a moment come together as splendidly as they did yesterday when one of Donald Trump’s great communicators, senior adviser Stephen Miller, delivered an Article II civics lesson to the assembled media. Miller chastised their failure to report on Joe Biden’s mental incompetence, then shifted to their inability to understand how our constitutional system works. He explained the American president’s Article II powers under the Constitution’s Vesting Clause, whereby “the executive power shall be vested in a president, singular,” who then “appoints staff to then impose that democratic will onto the government.” He added, “The existential threat to democracy is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime-tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who [believe] they can set their own agenda no matter what Americans vote for.” Boom.
Judge declines to stop Trump’s fed worker firings: U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper on Thursday rejected demands from labor unions led by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) that the court stop Donald Trump’s firing of recent federal worker hires. In his decision, Cooper noted that the unions currently lacked standing and must first go through the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) before bringing their case. In short, Cooper directed the unions to follow the established process. The Trump administration has targeted federal workers who have been on the job less than two years due in part to their probationary status, making firing them easier.
Cartels given terrorist designation: Eight Central and South American cartels were officially designated as foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) by the Trump administration on Wednesday. The list includes Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and El Salvador’s MS-13. The six other cartels are based in Mexico. Furthermore, these cartels were formally designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT). Both the FTO and SDGT designations expand the Trump administration’s ability to crack down on these criminal organizations, including laying the groundwork for using armed drones to target and kill cartel leaders and destroy illicit cartel sites. Due to Trump’s aggressive border enforcement, Border Czar Tom Homan anticipates increasing violence from cartels, observing, “We’re taking money out of their pocket.”
Christians martyred in Congo: A horrific story much of the mainstream media has ignored comes out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where 70 Christians were brutally murdered by members of the rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has ties to the Islamic State. According to Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern, a persecution watchdog, “This recent massacre … is not an isolated incident but part of a grim tapestry of violence that has claimed over 6 million lives in the DRC over two decades of on-and-off war.” He noted, “The vast majority of the DRC’s residents are Christian, so this is a religious genocide carried out by radical Islamic terrorists.”
WaPo’s big science lie: The Washington Post recently made a fool of itself with an article objecting to Donald Trump’s executive order officially recognizing only “two sexes.” The Post asserted that according to “experts and a significant body of academic research, the definitions [Trump] used are oversimplified and inaccurate.” The article quotes a few “experts” who reject the binary designation of human biological sex because of the existence of sexual-based birth defects or nonfunctioning sex organs, which supposedly debunk the science. Meanwhile, what’s really behind this nonsensical embrace of ideology against scientific reality is a radical agenda that has long attacked natural human sexuality. The Rainbow Mafia’s impact has been sizable, as a recent Gallup poll found that 9.3% of American adults now identify as LGBTQ. That’s a massive jump from 2012, when 3.5% of adults identified as members of the gender cult.
Headlines
Senate border budget triumphs after all-night session while Trump-backed House bill lags (Fox News)
DHS to remove legal status of half a million immigrants (Newsweek)
Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from Maine over defiance of trans athlete order (National Review)
PepsiCo announces end to DEI policies (Daily Wire)
Three buses explode near Tel Aviv in suspected strategically planned terror attack (Times of Israel)
Humor: 10 things Kash Patel’s FBI will be investigating first (Babylon Bee)
All you need to know about Kash Patel is that he was confirmed as the newest director of the FBI by a Senate vote of 51-49 — and that after Democrats dragged their heels for weeks — while his predecessors enjoyed nearly unanimous support. Why, it’s almost like he’s a Swamp drainer rather than a card-carrying member.
Think I’m exaggerating? Check out the confirmation votes of every previous FBI director:
Christopher Wray (2017): 92-5 James Comey (2013): 93-1 Robert Mueller (2001): 98-0 William Sessions (1987): 90-0 Clarence Kelley (1973): 96-0
William Webster (1978) and Louis Freeh (1993) were confirmed with no roll call vote at all. Freeh went on to lead the FBI through Waco and Ruby Ridge. And that’s to say nothing of J. Edgar Hoover, the original deep state politicizer of the FBI. He was the bureau’s first director and did not need Senate confirmation, though he held his post for nearly half a century.
But Kash Patel is the problem!
Give me a break.
Patel served in multiple national security roles during Donald Trump’s first administration. Though he did not rise through the FBI ranks, he played a key role in uncovering the deep state coup attempt via the Russia collusion hoax. Our Douglas Andrews analyzed his nomination back in December, and I’ll quote a critical chunk of it:
Patel is not only highly competent, as his public service career to date suggests; he’s also a disruptor and a reformer. And if any agency under the American sun is in desperate need of reform, it’s the Trump-hating, two-tiered-justice-distributing FBI. Indeed, former agents have called for the dismantling of the bureau.
This, after all, is the same FBI that in recent years concocted and carried out the Russia collusion hoax; that lied on a FISA warrant application so it could spy on Donald Trump and his entire campaign team; that entrapped a bunch of “pro-Trump” rabble in a phony kidnapping plot against Michigan’s Democrat governor less than a month before the 2020 election; that sat on Hunter Biden’s laptop for nearly a year before the 2020 election; that colluded with Facebook and pre-Musk Twitter to censor the New York Post’s laptop bombshell two weeks before the election; that helped push the Gang of 51’s “Russian disinformation” letter even though it had already authenticated the laptop; that targeted parents who attended school board meetings because they were concerned about CRT and other hard-left ideologies being taught in their children’s schools; that targeted “radical-traditionalist Catholics” in their churches; that repeatedly targeted peaceful pro-life activists; that unlawfully seized the cellphone of a Trump-allied congressman and retired brigadier general; that gave two Republican senators a phony “defensive briefing” about Russian disinformation when they were investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings with Ukraine and other countries; that placed numerous agents provocateur at the January 6 protest-turned-riot and continues to stonewall Congress about it; that conducted an armed raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and rifled through the first lady’s underwear drawer because of a documents dispute with the National Archives; that intentionally screened out conservatives and Trump supporters in its hiring practices; and that cracked down on pro-Trump agents and patriotic whistleblowers within the bureau.
In short, if the FBI is to survive as any semblance of a legitimate law enforcement agency, changes must be made. The thousands of good and competent agents and employees deserve no less. “I’ve overwhelmingly said multiple times that 98% of the FBI is courageous, apolitical warriors of justice,” Patel told the senators considering his nomination. Those warriors certainly must be angered by all the political shenanigans of a relative few bad apples.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said, “Change is coming to the seventh floor of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, and that is a good thing.” Yes, it is.
During his confirmation hearing, Patel said, “There will be no politicization at the FBI.” That would be the biggest change of all for a bureau that has nearly always been politicized. “The erosion of trust is evident,” he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed one day ahead of confirmation hearings. “Only 40% of Americans hold a favorable view of the FBI.”
After his confirmation yesterday, he posted on X, “The American people deserve an FBI that is transparent, accountable, and committed to justice. The politicalization of our justice system has eroded public trust — but that ends today.” He added, “My mission as Director is clear: let good cops be cops — and rebuild trust in the FBI.”
In other words, he understands the problem.
It’s no wonder Democrats can’t stand him. “I cannot imagine a worse choice,” huffed Senator Dick Durbin. “Patel will be a political and national security disaster,” he added. “What is at stake is the future of the FBI.” Good.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, who famously lied about serving in Vietnam, warned Republicans, “This vote will haunt anyone who votes for him. They will rue the day they did it.”
“This is someone we cannot trust,” added Senator Adam Schiff, who practically wrote the book on being someone we cannot trust. His lies about the Russia collusion hoax and Trump’s impeachments are too numerous to count.
I’d say the opposition of those particular Democrats serves as a ringing endorsement. The same goes for the only Republicans to oppose him — drumroll, please — Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.
I’ll conclude with Patel’s own conclusion: “Mission First. America Always. Let’s get to work.”
Douglas Andrews: What the Elbridge Colby Fight Means — The behind-the-scenes battle over a secondary defense pick reveals the difference between Trump’s national defense philosophy and his predecessors’.
‘Shame on You’ — Megyn Kelly has branded Tom Hanks a “snob” for his participation in a controversial SNL skit.
How Activists Hijacked Our Institutions — Bari and Matti talk about the toll of the Hamas war, why returning the hostages is so fundamentally important to the future of Israel, and the rise of anti-Jewish hate.
Pete Hegseth’s Military — Americans are going to get a better “bang for their buck” under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership, argues Victor Davis Hanson.
PopCon #84: USAID Is NOT About Aid — Elon Musk has released his DOGE analysis program into the ledgers of federal agencies, and his findings are every bit as shocking as one might expect.
SHORT CUTS
Swampthink
“Of course there’s some wasteful spending, but you don’t use a meat axe and cut everything.” —Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer
Projection
“This is about the government telling the public and press what words to use and retaliating if they do not follow government orders.” —the Associated Press in reference to the White House restricting AP access
Fearmongering
“I want to tell you about Trump’s agenda for our kids: shut down the Dept of Education; micromanage teachers from the White House; sell off our schools to the billionaires.” —Senator Chris Murphy
Shot/Chaser I
“Is it [DEI] making people sit through a training that looks like something out of Portlandia? Which I have also experienced. It is how Trump Republicans are made if that comes to your workplace.” —former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
“Mayor Pete is the same man who called highways racist and proposed 1 billion dollars be spent on ‘racial equity in roads’. Nothing about his perspective changed except he’s running for Senate in a swing state.” —Meghan McCain
Shot/Chaser II
“Trump says there are ‘two sexes.’ Experts and science say it’s not binary.” —Washington Post headline
“If a scientist says to you, ‘I have a degree in botany; there is no such thing as trees,’ the proper response is to doubt the scientist and not doubt whether trees exist.” —Frank J. Fleming
Straight From the Horses Mouth
“We’re really proud that we’ve eliminated the required college degree in more than 90% of our jobs. It’s plain and simple: Equity is the motive.” —Delta Air Lines Chief DEI Officer Keyra Johnson
Friendly Fire
“We got to talk to people like real human beings. We’ve sanitized different language so significantly that, you know, people don’t feel like we’re talking to them.” —Kentucky Democrat Governor Andy Beshear
Belly Laugh of the Day
“Trump claimed the sky is blue — not so fast, experts say.” —Kyle Mann
For the Record
“Germany’s entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer. There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany today. Do you think that the American taxpayer is gonna stand for that if you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet?” —JD Vance
Upright
“We’ve got to persuade our fellow citizens that unborn life is worthy of protecting. It is sacred in the eyes of God, and it should be sacred in the eyes of man too.” —JD Vance
And Last…
“Mitch McConnell just announced he’s leaving the Senate at the end of his term. Democrats are asking for privacy during this difficult time.” —Jimmy Failla
America suffered a couple of terrorist attacks recently. And it caused me to wonder whether the Biden administration FBI can be trusted to protect the people who pay their salaries from real threats. The FBI has been focusing on dangerous church-attending Presbyterians and dangerous parents of school children. But are these groups the real threats to liberty and peace?
Here’s an article from Jordan Boyd up at The Federalist entitled “An FBI That Targets Political Opponents Instead Of Terrorists Doesn’t Deserve To Lead New Orleans Investigation” and it says:
The FBI claims protecting the nation from terrorist attacks is its “number one priority.” Yet the agency spent recent years redirecting its attention and resources from top issues like violent criminal acts that lead to mass casualties and child sex abuse cases to arresting meemaws for walking around the U.S. Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021 and praying at abortion facilities.
The FBI’s laundry list of corruption extends far beyond smearing Catholics, concerned parents, and Trump voters as domestic terrorists, manufacturing scandals like the Russia collusion hoax, killing the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell, raiding the home of a former and future president even if it required “deadly force,” and interfering in elections. Yet, the DEI-plagued agency, despite its discrediting track record, is routinely accepted as the lead on investigations into real terrorism.
The FBI wholly disqualified itself from being the lead on the New Orleans investigation when it deemed anyone questioning the regime guilty of wrongthink at the same time it allowed, entrapped, and even groomed true threats. How can an entity that openly hyper-fixated its best efforts on “white supremacy” accurately and adequately evaluate a threat as serious and as widespread as Islamic terrorism? It can’t.
Here’s an article from Brianna Lyman up at The Federalist entitled “Here’s Who Biden’s FBI Decided To Persecute Rather Than Hunt Down Real Terrorists”, and it says:
Early Wednesday morning, a radical Islamic terrorist drove his truck through a crowd of people celebrating the start of the New Year in New Orleans. Fifteen people were murdered and more than 35 injured. But maybe this tragedy could have been avoided if the FBI spent less time targeting parents, Catholics, and countless other dissidents and instead focused its resources on catching actual terrorists.
The list of weaponizations from Jordan’s article was pretty long, but Brianna found a new one:
Unfortunately under the leadership of then FBI Director Christopher Wray, the FBI was too busy doing things like helping to orchestrate a kidnapping plot targeting Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to catch a terrorist.
And it might be worth expanding on the “concerned parents” one – here’s what the FBI really thinks about the people who ar taxed to pay their salaries, and the children who will be taxed to pay for their benefits when they retire:
[…]The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a memo in October of 2021 instructing the FBI to label activist parents at school board meetings with “threat tags.” The guidance came just days after the Biden White House approved a recommendation from the National School Board Association that called for counterterrorism measures to be used against parents who spoke up at school board meetings.
Attorney General Merrick Garland “encouraged the use of an FBI tip line for individuals to flag parents for surveillance,” as my colleague Tristan Justice reported.
Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, told The Federalist of a mother who was reported to the FBI for simply being “quite upset” at a school board meeting when speaking about the adverse effects of quarantines and school closures.
Maybe expanding a little more on the FBI’s leading bogeyman – people who reject the Democrat party position on abortion:
During the Biden administration, the FBI targeted 55 pro-lifers for “praying, singing, and evangelizing at abortion facilities across the U.S.,” as Boyd reported. Under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, the Biden administration targeted pro-lifers instead of targeting terrorists or the at least 90 instances of “abortion-fueled firebombing, vandalism, and other attacks on lifesaving pregnancy centers, pro-life organizations, and churches …”
In fact, 75-year-old Paulette Harlow was charged and found guilty for violating the FACE Act after she prayed at a Washington, D.C., abortion facility. Harlow was sentenced to two years in jail.
The FBI has long smeared pro-lifers as threats, with former FBI-special-agent-turned-whistleblower Steve Friend revealing in an interview with the Tennessee Informer that the FBI showed agents a video produced by the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center that, according to Friend, “ranked people who oppose abortion, pro-life activists, as a greater threat than Islamists.”
That last paragraph is key: the FBI ranks people who oppose abortion as a GREATER threat than Islamic terrorists. That’s why we are in the situation they are in. The pro-lifers pay their salaries, not the Islamic terrorists, but the FBI is more concerned about the threat posed by their customers. This is an important point.
So, what should we do with the taxpayer-funded FBI?
Maybe we should fire them all, and let them sink or swim in the competitive private sector? Without their pensions and benefits, of course. Then they might learn something about professionalism, and finally be able to demonstrate “fidelity” to their job descriptions (and oaths). Not the leaders of the FBI of course, they need to be criminally prosecuted for what they’ve done.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a formal statement, the FBI has called on Internet sleuths, particularly X users, to please stop solving crimes before they have a chance to do so.
The statement comes just hours after X users discovered all suspects and motives related to the recent terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
The statement reads in part:
“It is in the public interest that all X users stop solving crimes immediately. Solving crime is the responsibility of the federal government and local law enforcement. If we do not solve crimes first, we cannot control the narrative, and that’s important for national security reasons we cannot discuss at this time.”
“You’re going to put us all out of a job,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray, commenting on the public statement. “We’re supposed to be the ones solving crimes. Please stop demonstrating how useless we are.”
As an incentive, the FBI is promising not to raid anyone who complies. “All you have to do is not report on suspects, observe obvious connections to other crimes, or complain when we prosecute parents of school-aged children,” a spokesman for the bureau explained. “You scratch our back, we leave your back alone. Get it?”
At publishing time, the FBI had prosecuted an X user for interfering with a cover-up.
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Kash Patel has promised that, if he becomes head of the FBI, he will reveal the secrets it’s unlawfully hidden, call to account the FBI employees (from the top down) who have violated the law, and end illegal FBI activities.
Deep State operatives and their friends in the media and academia call this a form of impermissible loyalty to Donald Trump. Americans, however, call this laudable loyalty to the American people and the rule of law. It’s to be hoped that Republicans in the Senate listen to the American people and not to the siren song of the Swamp.
One of the Deep Staters who seems very worried that the FBI will be forced onto the straight and narrow is William Webster, one of the deepest of the Deep Staters.
Webster started working for the federal government in the early 1950s and retired only 70 years later, in 2020. Over the course of his career, this centenarian has been a US Attorney in Missouri, a district court judge in Missouri, an appellate judge in Missouri, the director of the FBI, the director of the CIA, and the chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. I do not consider this a glowing resume. I consider it a terrifying one and wouldn’t trust Webster as far as I could throw him.
A former head of the FBI and CIA is raising objections over whether Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to be directors of the FBI and national intelligence, respectively, are qualified to serve in the Cabinet.
In a letter to senators on Thursday, William Webster, the only person to lead both the FBI and CIA, wrote that neither nominee meets the demands of top intelligence jobs.
Webster, who is 100 years old, praised Patel’s patriotism but wrote that his allegiance to Trump was concerning.
“His record of executing the president’s directives suggest a loyalty to individuals rather than the rule of law – a dangerous precedent for an agency tasked with impartial enforcement of justice,” he said.
Now, maybe I missed it, but I don’t recall a squeak from Webster about the FBI’s heinous abuses under Obama or Biden, or when they were ostensibly reporting to Trump while trying to destroy.
As best as I can tell, Webster was silent when Obama spied on congresspeople and journalists.
He then maintained that silence about the Russia Hoax, the Ukraine hoax, the framing of the half-witted “Whitmer kidnapping” defendants, the attacks on parents speaking out at school board meetings, the spying on traditional Catholics, the all-out war against the January 6ers (something that stands in complete contrast to the pass that the FBI routinely gave leftist protestors), the way the FBI consistently protected Biden and his whole family, and the vicious persecution of pro-life activists…just to name a few examples of blatant FBI partisanship.
Webster’s photos show a nice-looking old man, but when I imagine this government insider terrified of a clean broom coming into the FBI and forcing it to abide by the law, my mind’s eye summons up a very different image.
The panic about a new broom at the FBI also showed up in ludicrous fashion at The New Yorker, which chose to publish an academic’s essay putting J. Edgar Hoover up on a pedestal as a model of virtuous non-partisanship compared to Patel. I’m not exaggerating. This is how Beverly Gage’s essay opens:
Since President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention of appointing his political loyalist Kash Patel as the director of the F.B.I., critics have warned that we’re heading back to the bad old days of J. Edgar Hoover. The F.B.I. should be so lucky.
Hoover, for all his many faults and abuses of power, was nevertheless an institution builder; he believed in the F.B.I.’s nonpartisan independence.
The essay goes on from there, a perfect hagiography of a virtuous man who cross-dressed, hid his homosexual relationships, and tried to destroy Civil Rights activists.
What’s so funny about this is that, as I vividly recall from my youth, the left despised Hoover because they believed that he was the ultimate partisan, using his vast, mostly self-acquired power to destroy communists and anyone else he didn’t like.
Gage’s claim to write with such authority about the wonders of Hoover’s FBI tenure is that she is a Yale professor who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography about Hoover. (Nowadays, the Pulitzer Prize is like a rattlesnake warning that a book or article is a leftist wet dream.) What’s so fascinating about her love affair with Hoover is how it differs from a two-year-old interview that Gage did with The Jacobin. There, she explains how the left rightly despised Hoover because of his blatant, noxious, dangerous partisanship.
Mary McCarthy famously said of the communist Lillian Hellman that “everything she says is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’”
That could be written on the tombstones of America’s media, political insiders, and academics.
As I said at the start of this essay, unless the Senators have nasty secrets that only the FBI knows, they will serve the American people best if they affirm the Kash Patel nomination.
U.S. — FBI Director Christopher Wray sought to reassure Americans that the drones being spotted over New Jersey were simply from the United States government spying on its own citizens.
While theories mounted that the drones could be Iranian or even extra-terrestrial in origin, Wray assured the nation that they represented nothing more nefarious than the FBI secretly watching and recording American citizens.
“There is no cause for alarm,” said Wray. “These are nothing but harmless cameras and microphones hovering in the sky, recording everything you do and transmitting it to the FBI and CIA. Please, do not attempt to shoot them down. Also, if everyone could leave their curtains and blinds open, that would be super helpful.”
Residents of New Jersey welcomed the news, grateful to know they were merely having all of their movements tracked by their own government. “What a relief,” said local woman Abigail Montero. “We were starting to really worry what was happening. Now, I can calm my kids down by telling them that all the bright lights hovering in the sky are just government spy drones watching them sleep.”
At publishing time, Wray had assured Americans that any drones seen landing in neighborhoods were only directing FBI teams as to where to arrest people for thought crimes.
Kamala Harris is out of a job, but luckily we’ve got ten great career options just for her.
December 5, 2024 ; Victor Davis Hanson; American Greatness
Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees.
Many of Trump’s picks are well outside the usual Washington, DC/New York political, media, and corporate nexus.
But that is precisely the point—to insert reformers into a bloated, incompetent, and weaponized government who are not part of it.
Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, is already drawing severe criticism.
His furious enemies cannot go after his resume, since he has spent a lifetime in private, congressional, and executive billets, both in investigations and intelligence.
Instead, they claim he is too vindictive and does not reflect the ethos of the FBI.
But what will Patel not do as the new director?
He will not serially lie under oath to federal investigators as did interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a current Patel critic.
He will not forge an FBI court affidavit, as did convicted felon and agency lawyer Kevin Clinesmith.
He will not claim amnesia 245 times under congressional oath to evade embarrassing admissions as did former Director James Comey.
He will not partner with a foreign national to collect dirt and subvert a presidential campaign as the FBI did with Christopher Steele in 2016.
He will not use the FBI to draft social media to suppress news unfavorable to a presidential candidate on the eve of an election.
He would not have suppressed FBI knowledge that Hunter Biden’s laptop was genuine—to allow the lie to spread that it was “Russian disinformation” on the eve of the 2020 election.
He will not raid the home of an ex-president with SWAT teams, surveil Catholics, monitor parents at school board meetings, or go after pro-life peaceful protestors.
Decorated combat veteran Pete Hegseth is another controversial nominee for secretary of defense.
What will Hegseth likely not do?
Go AWOL without notifying the president of a serious medical procedure as did current Secretary Lloyd Austin?
Install race and gender criteria for promotion and mandate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training?
Insinuate falsely that cabals of white supremacists had infiltrated the military—only to alienate that entire demographic and thus ensure the Pentagon came up 40,000 recruits short?
Oversee the scramble from Kabul that saw $50 billion in U.S. military equipment abandoned to Taliban terrorists?
Watch passively as a Chinese spy balloon traversed the continental United States for a week?
Allow the chairman of the Joint Chiefs to promise his Chinese communist counterpart that the People’s Liberation Army would first be informed if the President of the United States was felt to issue a dangerous order?
Rotate into the Pentagon from a defense contractor boardship and then leave office to rotate back there to leverage procurement decisions?
Oversee the Pentagon’s serial flunking of fiscal audits?
Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is certainly a maverick. He may earn the most Democratic hits, given his former liberal credentials.
But what will RFK also not do as HHS secretary?
Oversee his agencies circumventing U.S. law by transferring money to communist China to help it produce lethal gain-of-function viruses of the COVID-19 sort—in the manner of Dr. Fauci?
Organize scientists to go after critics of mandatory masking and defame them?
Give pharmaceutical companies near-lifetime exemptions from legal jeopardy for rushing into production mRNA vaccines not traditionally vetted and tested?
Leave office to monetize his HHS expertise and thus make millions from the pharmaceutical companies?
Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, former congressional representative and military veteran Tulsi Gabbard, will soon be defamed in congressional hearings.
But what has Gabbard not done?
Joined “51 former intelligence authorities” to lie on the eve of the 2020 election that the Hunter Biden laptop “had all the hallmarks” of a Russian information/disinformation operation”—in an effort to swing the election to incumbent Joe Biden?
Lied under congressional oath like former DNI James Clapper, who claimed he only gave the “least untruthful answer” in congressional testimony?
Encourage the FBI to monitor a presidential campaign in efforts to discredit it—in the manner of former CIA Director John Brennan, who lied not once but twice under oath?
Fail to foresee the American meltdown in Kabul, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, or the Houthis takeover of the Red Sea?
We are going to hear some outrageous things in the upcoming congressional confirmation hearings.
But one thing we will not hear about are the crimes, deceptions, and utter incompetence of prior and current government grandees.
The current crew, not their proposed Trump replacements, prompted the sick and tired American people to demand different people.
Voters want novel approaches to reform a government that they not only no longer trust but also now deeply fear.
Although the news and our leaders denied it for years, a recent DOJ IG report revealed that the FBI was present in the crowd on Jan. 6.
From Fox News. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said there were more than two dozen confidential human sources (CHSs) in the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but only three were assigned by the FBI to be present for the event, while stressing that none of the sources was authorized or directed by the bureau to “break the law” or “encourage others to commit illegal acts,” Fox News has learned.
Horowitz on Thursday released his highly anticipated report on the FBI’s Handling of its Confidential Human Sources and Intelligence Collection Efforts in the Lead Up to the Jan. 6, 2021 Electoral Certification.
“Today’s report also details our findings regarding FBI CHSs who were in Washington, D.C., on January 6,” the report states. “Our review determined that none of these FBI CHSs was authorized by the FBI to enter the Capitol or a restricted area or to otherwise break the law on January 6, nor was any CHS directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal acts on January 6.”…
According to the report, there were a total of 26 confidential human sources in the crowd that day, but only three of them were assigned by the bureau to be there.
One of the three confidential human sources tasked by the FBI to attend the rally entered the Capitol building, while the other two entered the restricted area around the Capitol. …
“One FBI field office tasked a CHS to travel to DC to report on the activities of a predicated domestic terrorism subject who was separately planning to travel to DC for the January 6 Electoral Certification; a second FBI field office tasked a CHS to travel to DC to potentially report on two domestic terrorism (DT) subjects from another FBI field office who were planning to travel to DC for the events of January 6; and a third CHS, who had informed their handling agent that they intended to travel to DC on their own initiative for the events of January 6, was similarly tasked by their field office to potentially report on two DT subjects from other FBI field offices who were planning to travel to DC for the events of January 6,” the report states. …
Twenty-three of the confidential human sources present on Jan. 6 came to Washington, D.C., to the Capitol on their own. Of that group, three entered the Capitol during the riot, and an additional 11 sources entered the restricted area around the Capitol.
But Horowitz said that investigators “found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6.” …
“This report confirms what we suspected,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital. “The FBI had encouraged and tasked confidential human sources to be at the capitol that day. There were 26 total present. Four entered the Capitol and weren’t charged, which is not the same treatment that other Americans received.” …
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“The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!” —Alexander Hamilton (1794)
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Government & Politics
Did West Point try to smear Hegseth? The United States Military Academy at West Point is chalking up a false claim that Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Defense Department, was never accepted into West Point as simply an “administrative error.” This controversy arose after Hegseth’s team learned of a hit piece being prepared by Leftmedia outlet ProPublica alleging that he had lied about being accepted into the USMA. ProPublica said it was told by two different representatives from West Point’s public affairs office that Hegseth had neither applied for nor been accepted to the USMA. Hegseth responded on X by posting an image of his 1999 USMA acceptance letter, signed by West Point Superintendent Lieutenant General Daniel Christman. Only then did West Point reverse its false claim, stating, “An incorrect statement involving Mr. Hegseth’s admission to the U.S. Military Academy was released by an employee on Dec. 10, 2024. Upon further review of an [archived] database, employees realized this statement was in error.” No word on whether anyone at West Point will face any discipline over this “error.”
GOP must reform UOCAVA ASAP: Complacency often comes with electoral success, so it’ll be interesting to see whether congressional Republicans prioritize voting integrity in the next two years. Democrats have their eye on exploiting the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, and if Republicans don’t do something about it, some of them will likely be voted out of a job. “UOCAVA … has numerous problems,” The Federalist reports, “including a poor track record for verifying the identity and eligibility of the voters it admits to the system. This observation might help to explain in part why the Democrat Party has recently taken a particular interest in UOCAVA voting. In August, the DNC announced that it would begin attempting to register up to 9 million voters through the system, despite the federal government’s own acknowledgment that only 2.8 million eligible voters are actually overseas.” The UOCAVA was originally meant for active-duty military and federal employees stationed overseas, though it now serves mostly non-military Americans living abroad. To fight potential fraud, reform of this system should include strict voter ID measures and ballot verification, a ban on overseas electronic voting, and elimination of automatic registration for future elections.
Donald Trump’s favorability rating is positive for first time (Newsweek)
Xi Jinping rejects Trump’s inauguration invitation (Newsweek)
Culture
UHC CEO murder suspect was never a UHC customer: Suspected assassin Luigi Mangione was never a client of UnitedHealthcare, and yet in his “manifesto,” he specifically targeted the company’s CEO, Brian Thompson. As NBC reports, “New York Police Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Mangione’s social media and writings indicate he suffered … a life-altering back injury” and “may have targeted Thompson because of the size of UnitedHealthcare.” Added Kenny: “We have no indication that he was ever a client of United Healthcare, but he does make mention that it is the fifth-largest corporation in America, which would make it the largest health care organization in America.” As to whether Mangione’s bad back figured into his anger and radicalization, there are conflicting reports. CBS News reports that Mangione’s Reddit posts indicate his back pain “had been persistent for several years,” while Fox News reported this morning that those who knew him in Hawaii, his last known address before disappearing months ago, say he had multiple gym memberships and worked out regularly. Mangione’s mother filed a missing persons report with the San Francisco Police Department on November 18, telling investigators that she hadn’t heard from him since July.
Satire: Mangione takes lead in 2028 Democrat primary polls (Babylon Bee)
AOC doesn’t know what the word “violence” actually means: Leftists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez evidently believe that words can be twisted to mean whatever they want them to mean. The New York Democrat recently claimed that “people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them.” Her comments come in the wake of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder. A number of leftists — including prominent Democrats — have sympathized with the murderer’s assumed motive as an act of vengeance against the greedy health insurance industry. While claiming to object to the actual violence perpetrated against Thompson, AOC muddied the water with false equivalency. No matter how unjust the denial of health insurance coverage to an individual may be, that denial can never be classified as “violence.” As The American Heritage Dictionary defines it, violence is “behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury.” Falsely equating the denial of health insurance claims to violence is a tacit justification for violent behavior.
Duke lacrosse rape accuser finally confesses: It’s 18 years too late, but Crystal Mangum, the black stripper who wrecked the lives of a group of white Duke lacrosse players by filing a false rape allegation, has finally admitted it was all a rotten lie. “I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn’t, and that was wrong,” said Mangum yesterday on the “Let’s Talk with Kat” podcast. Mangum is now 46 and in prison for having murdered her boyfriend, and her story reminds us of the danger of blindly believing such allegations. She doesn’t seem to have come fully to grips with all the damage she did. Three innocent young men were suspended from school, the Duke lacrosse season was canceled, and the school’s lacrosse coach resigned. A measure of justice came a year later when the students were exonerated, and the dirty Durham district attorney, Mike Nifong, was disbarred for having withheld exculpatory evidence. “I don’t have any regrets,” said Mangum.
DEI backlash reaches Nasdaq as court strikes down diversity rules (Yahoo)
UCLA student sues medical providers, alleging they rushed her into transgender surgery (Washington Examiner)
Security
Biden sabotages the border wall: On a day when we’re reminded of the awful human costs of an open border, we learn that Joe Biden’s handlers still don’t get it. Either that or they simply don’t care. Or worse, they’re actively trying to undermine the agenda of the incoming administration. As The Daily Wire reports, “The Biden administration is using its final weeks to haul a massive amount of border wall materials away from the southern border to be sold off in a government auction.” The Wire adds that videos “show unused sections of the wall being hauled away on the back of flatbed trucks from a section of the border just south of Tucson, a hotspot for illegal crossings during the Biden administration.” We first reported on the Biden administration’s diabolical fire sale some 16 months ago, but although border security was a driving issue in last month’s presidential election, they still don’t seem to get it. A whistleblowing agent estimates that “up to half a mile per day of unused border wall is being moved” and that the Biden administration’s goal “is to move all of it off the border before Christmas.”
DA to seek death penalty against illegal immigrants accused in Nungaray murder case (Fox News)
Churches will no longer provide sanctuary for migrants under Trump (Newsweek)
About those “drones” over NJ: Public concern and consternation over unidentified drones in the night sky over New Jersey has grown due in large part to no one apparently knowing who was operating them. Well, the drone mystery may have been resolved. Both Homeland Security and the FBI stated on Thursday, “We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.” The agencies added, “Upon review of available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft, operating lawfully. There are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted air space.” In other words, people have purportedly been mistaking airplanes flying in the night sky for drones. Meanwhile, in California, a Chinese citizen has been arrested after he was caught illegally flying a drone and taking pictures near Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.
Good News
A historic first Nativity scene: For the first time in the history of our nation, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, a Nativity scene was on display. It happened this past Tuesday, and the event included the singing of Christmas carols, prayer, and the reading of Scripture’s account of the birth of Jesus. This event came as a result of a court ruling this past May in which Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, successfully won a 13-year fight against the federal government for the right to engage his First Amendment freedoms to freely and peacefully express his religious views in front of the Capitol, or the “People’s House.” Many falsely assume that separation of church and state means any religious displays on or near the halls of government are prohibited.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray announced his pending resignation on Wednesday. A day later, four-year-old news dropped that 26 FBI informants were on the ground at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Washington, DC, is a strange place.
Before I get to the report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General, I want to caution conservatives everywhere: This information will be used to discredit and censor anyone who says anything remotely close to “the FBI incited the riot.” Only Donald Trump “incited an insurrection,” you silly MAGA person. Don’t think for a minute that anyone else had anything to do with it.
Some of that is tongue in cheek, but there are some on the Right already using the new report to accuse the FBI of orchestrating the whole riot — or even just participating in it. Because reality is more nuanced, they will be censored by Big Tech and invite more Leftmedia stories about the boatload of “misinformation” coming out of right-wing fever swamps.
NBC News provides one example: “The report also includes details that will almost certainly fuel the ‘fedsurrection’ narrative that has been growing on the right and among Donald Trump supporters: the false notion that the federal government was responsible for instigating the attack.”
ABC News likewise headlined, “Probe finds no evidence feds were involved in inciting Jan. 6 attack.”
Note the precise wording in both stories.
For years, Wray has repeatedly refused to divulge how many FBI personnel or informants were there that day. Other FBI officials followed suit, stonewalling congressional inquiries. In July, Wray told Congress, “If you’re asking if the violence at the Capitol was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources or agents, the answer is no!”
Again, that’s a very specific denial.
Yesterday, the DOJ IG issued a long-awaited report with a doozy: 26 FBI informants, or confidential human sources (CHS), “were in DC on January 6 in connection with the events planned for January 6.”
However, the IG report assures us, “We found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6.” That detail — no “undercover employees” — is key to the Left’s efforts to discredit the Right.
Indeed, here’s how the leading newspaper in our nation’s capital headlined the IG report: “FBI did not have undercover agents at Jan. 6 riots, watchdog says.”
The report is about 26 FBI informants at the Capitol on January 6, but the Post strategically chose to highlight something else.
Furthermore, according to the IG, only three of the 26 informants were given instructions regarding observation efforts. The other 23 reportedly decided on their own to go to the Capitol. That, too, will be used against anyone who asserts FBI participation.
Either way, the report added, “None of these FBI CHSs were authorized to enter the Capitol or a restricted area, or to otherwise break the law on January 6, nor was any CHS directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal acts on January 6.”
Except most of them did commit illegal acts. “[Four] entered the Capitol during the riot; an additional 13 entered the restricted area around the Capitol, which was a security perimeter established in preparation for the January 6 Electoral Certification; and 9 neither entered a restricted area nor entered the Capitol or otherwise engaged in illegal activity.”
Here’s the report’s kicker: “None of the CHSs who entered the Capitol or a restricted area has been prosecuted to date.”
More than 1,500 people have been charged for various crimes committed that day. Tellingly, none of them were charged with insurrection, the basis for impeaching Trump the second time, but scores were charged with battling police. Most were charged with nonviolent offenses like trespassing or obstructing an official proceeding.
The 17 lawbreaking informants were not among those 1,500.
Finally, the report offered just one recommendation: The FBI should “ensure that its processes and procedures set forth with clarity the division of responsibilities” and “clearly define a mechanism for making a formal determination whether and what kind of a nationwide intelligence and CHS canvass is necessary and appropriate under FBI policies.”
As for a comment on the report, the FBI grumbled about continued disagreement “with certain of the factual assertions” but concluded, “The FBI nonetheless accepts the OIG’s recommendation regarding potential process improvements for future events.” What a relief.
Understandably, Trump supporters don’t believe the FBI or this report or anything at all that comes from a Leftmedia outlet — especially pertaining to January 6. None of these organizations has any remaining credibility after foisting multiple hoaxes on us to interfere with the last three presidential elections. There’s also the fact that in virtually no circumstance beyond J6 have Trump supporters gotten violent, before or after J6. The violence almost always comes from the Left. Thus, it’s hard to believe J6 was the fault of Trump supporters.
Yet, since 1996, our motto has been Veritas vos Liberabit — “the truth will set you free.” Telling the truth includes being precise, even when a more significant point needs to be made. There are clearly still unanswered questions about January 6, including about the FBI. This report about informants isn’t the last word.
Douglas Andrews: The Growing Contagion of Leftist Violence — From talkingheads to senators, a slew of leftists couldn’t help but justify the murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Emmy Griffin: Revenge of the Moderate Senators — Manchin and Sinema vote with Republicans against Biden’s NLRB nominee, making it now Trump’s pick.
Brian Mark Weber: Presidential Pardon Power Grab — The clock is ticking for Joe Biden to cover up the crimes of his cronies.
Ron Helle: The Mixed Multitude — The “mixed multitude” will follow the people of God and often give the impression of following God Himself, but their heart is not set on God.
Is DEI Coming to Its End? — With major employers scaling back their DEI programs, even outlets like the NY Times and MSNBC are rethinking the wisdom of identity-based hiring and training.
“Even the U.S. government’s most pessimistic assessments did not anticipate that the Afghan government and security forces would collapse so rapidly in the face of Taliban advances.” —Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who’s either lying or revealing how pathetic government “assessments” were
The BIG Lie
“Our alliances, our partnerships, are stronger today than they have been in a generation.” —Antony Blinken
Braying Jenny
“This is not to say that an act of violence is justified, but I think for anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that ppl interpret and feel & experience denied claims as an act of violence.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the murder of Brian Thompson
For the Record
“Your premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket maximums went up while your coverage got worse. Obama’s signature legislation created a healthcare system that enriched executives like [UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian] Thompson while leaving ordinary Americans strapped with skyrocketing costs and limited options. While [Luigi] Mangione’s crime is inexcusable, it’s impossible to ignore that he is a symptom of a societal failure rooted in the flawed foundation of Obamacare.” —Matt Margolis
“If we get nothing else out of this poor man’s murder, can we all finally admit that Obamacare is an unmitigated disaster and everything Democrats said about it was a big fat lie? Putting a bullet in an insurance executive won’t do anything to change that. Only putting a bullet in Obamacare and regulating health insurance like we regulate pet insurance will work.” —Ann Coulter
“The inevitable trajectory of universal health care is shortages and rationing. The inevitable trajectory of legalized assisted suicide is widespread death. The two in tandem present a dystopian future. … Leftists like [Taylor] Lorenz are celebrating the killing of [Brian] Thompson because the company he ran did not, in their opinion, pay for enough of their fellow citizens’ health care. But if she and others get their wish, there will be much more killing — this time, of their fellow citizens in the name of ‘health care.’” —Laura Hollis
“The answer to flawed policy is better policy. But if you wish to see the American system torn down from within, you’re better off advocating bloodlust and murder. And unfortunately, there are an awful lot of Americans who seem willing to tear down the American system itself rather than attempting to discuss rational solutions to intransigent problems.” —Ben Shapiro
“If murder of individuals is justified by dissatisfaction with the system, we no longer live in a republic.” —Ben Shapiro
Sad, but True
“[Daniel] Penny was attacked by a maniacal DA, Alvin Bragg, for one reason: he was a white man. The useful idiots of BLM never care about black lives unless they can be leveraged for the leftist agenda…they did not give a damn about Jordan Neely until he became a vehicle for their insanity.” —Allen West
“If Penny were black, there would have been no charges. If Neely were white, there would have been no charges. If both were black, or both were white, there would have been no charges.” —Larry Elder
And Last…
“Trump has invited Xi Jinping to his inauguration, which is only fair considering the guy ran our country the past 4 years.” —Jimmy Failla
FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told subordinates to hide the identities of dozens of January 6 government informants. He said it would be too embarrassing for the agency if the information was leaked out.
According to a 2023 whistleblower, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told subordinates at the agency to hide the identities of dozens of January 6 government informants. He said it would be too embarrassing for the agency if the information was leaked out. So they hid this from the American public.
An FBI agent told the House Judiciary Committee that Deputy Director Paul Abbate suggested that at least 25 FBI confidential human sources, or informants, involved in reporting to the bureau from the Jan. 6, 2021, protest should not be publicly acknowledged.
Many FBI whistleblowers have come forward with their concerns about the bureau as Director Christopher A. Wray is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
They are making allegations of politically motivated investigations, politically biased leadership and misconduct by senior officials at America’s premier law enforcement agency.
According to the whistleblower disclosure sent to the committee, Mr. Abbate notified one or more of his subordinates that the more than 25 informants were too problematic or embarrassing for the FBI to have their existence made known to the public and that the existence, activities and identities of these FBI confidential human sources should not be released.
Police fire off an exploding grenade into the pro-Trump crowd without warning on January 6, 2021.
As reported on Thursday, DOJ Inspector General David Horowitz released his much-anticipated January 6 report yesterday.
Here is the full report released by Biden’s DOJ on the Confidential Human Sources who were working the crowd on January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington DC.
It has been widely reported that the violence would not have taken place or reached the fever pitch that it did if Nancy Pelosi had brought in the National Guard as President Trump requested days before the planned protests and rallies.
In the IG report released Thursday, the DOJ admits to 26 “confidential human sources” (page 77) working that day inside the Trump protest at the US Capitol. The IG Report ignored how man “undercover employees” were also at the US Capitol that day.
According to the report – the DOJ admitted that 4 entered the US Capitol and 13 entered the “restricted area.” This is very likely inaccurate since much of the US Capitol, and its surroundings were later listed as “restricted ground” despite the permits obtained by several pro-Trump groups for smaller events that day near the US Capitol.
The Gateway Pundit has reported for years now on numerous confirmed intelligence operatives and “cutouts” who had infiltrated the Trump crowd on January 6, 2021.
When the DOJ admits to 26 undercover operatives working inside the crowd that day, they do not include the many dozens or hundreds of “cutouts” who were operating inside the enormous crowd that day. This number does not include the operatives from several government agencies who were inside the crowd on January 6.
It’s safe to say January 6 was the largest organized government operation targeting a specific political party in US history.
FBI agents infiltrating the crowd of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021. The FBI later admitted they lost track of how many operatives they had embedded in the crowds that day.
“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.” —Benjamin Franklin (1774)
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Government & Politics
Trump is TIME’s Person of the Year: He was the obvious choice, and everyone knew it. Donald Trump was named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year yesterday, the second time he’s been so honored. “I think I like it better this time, actually,” he said this morning before ringing the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange. “We did a good job. We had a great first term despite a lot of turmoil caused unnecessarily. But the media has tamed down a little bit. They’re liking us much better now, I think.” Indeed, Trump didn’t sound like a president poised to once again do battle with the same “fake news” media that savaged him throughout his first term. These honeymoons don’t last, though, unless your name is Barack Obama. Nevertheless, Trump still had kind words for the newsweekly, which last featured him in a well-balanced campaign-season piece seven months ago. “I do want to thank Time magazine,” he said, calling it “an honor” and thanking “the whole group at Time,” whom he called “really very professional people.” It’ll be interesting to remember this spirit of goodwill and revisit it in around 18 months.
Biden’s big clemency: Joe Biden made history today, as the White House announced that he has commuted the sentences of some 1,500 individuals and pardoned 39 others who were convicted of nonviolent crimes. This total represents the biggest single-day act of clemency by any American president in modern history. The commutations apply to individuals who were released from prison and placed under home confinement during the COVID pandemic. Biden defended his decision, stating, “America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances.” After pardoning his son Hunter, which he had pledged earlier this year he would not do, speculation has run rampant that Biden will preemptively issue pardons for individuals who have not been charged with any crimes over concerns that Donald Trump may target them for political payback. Yet, thus far, Biden has taken no such action. Meanwhile, Trump has hinted at issuing pardons to J6 individuals on day one of his presidency.
Defense bill passes House: When the opposition party controls both the Senate and the White House, it’s a badge of honor to be named the do-nothingest of do-nothing Congresses. Yet the GOP-led House did its job yesterday when it passed an $895 billion bill that authorizes a 1% increase in defense spending for this fiscal year and includes a double-digit pay raise for about half of our nation’s enlisted service personnel. That raise might seem exorbitant — until one considers that many military families rely on government food banks and often live in woefully substandard housing. So far, so good, then, right? Well, as the Associated Press reports, it wasn’t all seashells and balloons: “The bill is traditionally strongly bipartisan, but some Democratic lawmakers opposed the inclusion of a ban on transgender medical treatments for children of military members if such treatment could result in sterilization. The bill passed the House by a vote of 281-140 and will next move to the Senate, where lawmakers had sought a bigger boost in defense spending than the current measure allows.”
Xi invited to Trump inauguration: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. That’s what seems to be at play here as Donald Trump has surprisingly invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to his inauguration on January 20. Trump spokesman Karoline Leavitt explained that the president-elect was “creating an open dialogue with leaders of countries that are not just our allies but our adversaries and our competitors too.” Beijing has yet to announce whether Xi has accepted the invitation, but if he does attend, it will mark the first time in American history that a foreign leader has attended the inauguration of a U.S. president.
Out with the old for House Dems: More than a month has passed since the American people repudiated the Democrat Party and its awful policies, and the recriminations are continuing apace. Hakeem Jeffries is still safely ensconced in his position as House minority leader, but as The Daily Caller reports, “The knives have come out at the committee level, with a slew of Democratic representatives launching bids against more senior panel members for top committee posts.” For example, 61-year-old Jamie Raskin ran 77-year-old ranking member Jerry Nadler out of his chair on the House Judiciary Committee. Elsewhere, 74-year-old Gerry Connolly, the heir apparent to fill the now-vacant leadership chair of Raskin on the House Oversight Committee, is being challenged by 35-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Apparently, it wasn’t the rotten policies of the soft-on-crime, open-borders, pro-taxpayer-funded-sex-change-operations-for-illegal-aliens Democrats that caused the American people to so resoundingly reject them at the ballot box last month. No, it was their septuagenarian committee chairs.
Manchin and Sinema help block Dems from shaping Trump-era majority in labor agency (Daily Wire)
Fetterman becomes the first Dem lawmaker to join Trump’s Truth Social (Hot Air)
Government funneled unprecedented amount of money to criminal gangs through COVID relief (Daily Caller)
Food stamps accepted at thousands of liquor and tobacco stores, contributing to healthcare fiasco (Daily Wire)
Schadenfreude
CNN gets eaten by Food Network: These are depressing times over at CNN, a leftist propaganda network masquerading as news. Viewership there has been hemorrhaging for many years now, and yet it still hasn’t hit rock bottom. (Or make that the bottom of the oven.) Last week, the Food Network attracted more viewers than CNN, whose primetime lineup averaged a paltry 367,000 people. Also besting CNN was HGTV, among others. In other words, more people would rather watch wannabe chefs butcher their culinary creations or contractors remodel grossly overpriced homes than suffer through pundits gaslighting the world around them. Whatever changes CNN pledged to implement have evidently fallen flat with the average Joe.
Security
Blinken defends Afghan exits as not that bad: On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he testified that the U.S. military’s disastrous exit from Afghanistan in 2021 wasn’t that bad. Blinken claimed that “our alliances, our partnerships, are stronger today than they have been in a generation.” He expressed regret “that we did not do more and could not do more to protect” the 13 U.S. troops who were killed by a suicide bomber at the Kabul airport, even apologizing to the families of the deceased who were in attendance. Republican House members welcomed Blinken’s apology but found his claims about the exit absurd. Michael McCaul (R-TX) called the “catastrophic” exit “the beginning of a failed foreign policy that lit the world on fire.” Warren Davidson (R-OH) said Blinken’s sympathy is “appalling” because he has “never acknowledged the failures or owned the consequences.” Blinken only continued to offer the false excuse that the Biden administration was following through on the deal that Donald Trump had negotiated with the Taliban, adding, “There was no consensus view that the government, the Afghan forces, were going to collapse.”
Pentagon denies New Jersey drones are coming from Iran or any other “foreign entity or adversary” (NY Post) | Satire: Drones revealed to be Iranian after closer inspection (Babylon Bee)
Culture
Warren lectures about a murder: It would seem to go without saying: Yes, your health insurance premiums are too high, but that doesn’t mean you send a message by assassinating one of the industry’s CEOs. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren doesn’t seem to have this fundamental human decency within her. Get a load of her equivocation: “What happens when you turn this into the ‘billionaires run it all’ is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny. And look, we’ll say it over and over: Violence is never the answer. This guy gets a trial who’s allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth[care]. But you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands.” Sure, Warren did denounce this act of premeditated murder, but she couldn’t leave it at that. She couldn’t resist expressing her deep-seated hostility to American business. “It wasn’t a slip of the tongue,” reports The Washington Times. “Warren made similar comments in an interview posted the same day by the Huffington Post, calling the shooting a ‘warning.’” Warren weakly walked that one back: “I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder.”
UK bans puberty blockers: Even the leftist-controlled United Kingdom is reasonable enough to know that giving puberty blockers to children is a bad idea. The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care has issued an indefinite ban on giving puberty blockers to minors under the age of 18 who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Health Secretary Wes Streeting explained the need to “act with caution” and “follow the expert advice” in determining how to care for this “vulnerable group of young people.” The Cass Review found no evidence that administering puberty blockers to children helped them and indeed found just the opposite was the case. Referencing that review, Streeting noted, “Children’s healthcare must always be evidence-led. The independent expert Commission on Human Medicines found that the current prescribing and care pathway for gender dysphoria and incongruence presents an unacceptable safety risk for children and young people.” It would be great if a similar nationwide ban were to be implemented in the U.S. Doing so would save a lot of children from the gender-mutilation cult.
Google trashed for holiday shopping ad featuring man dressed like a woman (Daily Wire)
Satire: Caitlin Clark explains that white privilege feels weirdly like getting beat up by giant black lesbians (Babylon Bee)
It was only a matter of time. Or is that “spending time with his family”? FBI Director Christopher Wray announced that he will resign his post before Donald Trump takes the oath of office on January 20, 2025, and has a chance to fulfill his promise to fire Wray.
In fact, Trump has already named Kash Patel as his choice to lead the FBI.
“After weeks of careful thought, I’ve decided the right thing for the bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in January and then step down,” he told FBI employees in a town hall Wednesday. “My goal is to keep the focus on our mission — the indispensable work you’re doing on behalf of the American people every day. In my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work.”
The bit about “the fray” is correct, but the part about “values and principles” is the whole problem, isn’t it?
“The resignation of Christopher Wray is a great day for America as it will end the Weaponization of what has become known as the United States Department of Injustice,” Trump responded.
In an interview before the resignation, Trump explained his dissatisfaction with Wray in simple terms: “He invaded my home. I’m very unhappy with the things he’s done.”
The raid at Mar-a-Lago was part of the classified documents fiasco. The Leftmedia treats this as little more than a personal grievance on Trump’s part. It’s more than that. It’s about two-tiered justice and the politicization and weaponization of law enforcement against him particularly.
It wasn’t just him, of course. During the last four years, the FBI has, on several occasions, targeted innocent people essentially for what George Orwell called thoughtcrime.
Our Douglas Andrews outlined the FBI’s numerous offenses in recent years. As it pertains to Trump, that includes trying to help Hillary Clinton win the 2016 election and then persecuting Trump with the Russia collusion hoax. It proceeded with helping Joe Biden win the 2020 election by aiding in the cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop. Joe just pardoned his son for crimes revealed on the laptop that intelligence officials tried to get us to believe was Russian disinformation.
Wray wasn’t among the 51 officials who signed that letter, but he led the FBI that sat on the laptop for nearly a year and looked the other way as false reports about it spread.
He was Trump’s pick in 2017, and he may have started out with the right intent to clean things up after the disaster of James Comey. He succeeded in some respects. But let’s face it — Wray led an FBI that too often torpedoed its own credibility by making a mockery of the Rule of Law. In many instances, he obfuscated rather than owning up to problems. The Washington Examiner editorial board argued, “Wray has shown that neither his word nor his judgment can be trusted.” Even some of the rank and file called for his resignation back in 2022.
Of course, the FBI has had credibility problems for its entire existence. As Mark Alexander has noted, “The fusion of politics and law enforcement originates with the FBI’s longest-serving director, J. Edgar Hoover. He commanded the organization for nearly half a century through eight presidential administrations.” Alexander recounted a list of FBI offenses and failures going back decades.
That said, it’s important to clarify that the vast majority of the FBI’s 35,000 employees, including more than 13,000 special agents, are good people who are just trying to do their jobs well. In that sense, at least, it’s not “an FBI problem.”
The problem is, so to speak, primarily on the seventh floor of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The rot is at the top.
Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, for one, isn’t going to let Wray slink off into retirement peacefully. “Wray’s departure is an opportunity for a new era of transparency and accountability at the FBI,” Grassley said. He promises that when he takes over the Judiciary Committee, he will pursue answers and accountability for what he characterizes as Wray’s “obstruction.”
Emmy Griffin: Caitlin Clark Takes a Knee — This athlete has been relentlessly bullied by the press and fellow WNBA players, so is it really surprising that she’s starting an apology tour?
Douglas Andrews: What’s Next for Daniel Penny? — The NYC subway hero just might turn the lawfare tables on woke DA Alvin Bragg.
Thomas Gallatin: Milei Proving Capitalism Beats Socialism — A year into his presidency, the Argentine president’s radical government-cutting is seeing success in reversing his country’s economic death spiral.
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“Violence is never the answer. This guy gets a trial who’s allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth[care]. But you can only push people so far, and then, they start to take matters into their own hands.” —Senator Elizabeth Warren
“Good Catholic”
“I received Communion anyway. That’s his problem, not mine.” —Congresswoman Nancy “Pro-Abortion” Pelosi regarding San Francisco archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s eucharist proscription
The BIG Lies
“We got back to full employment, got inflation back down, managed a soft landing that many people thought was not likely to happen. Next month, my administration will end, and a new administration will begin. The new administration’s going to inherit a very strong economy, at least at the moment.” —Joe Biden
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“Just a few weeks ago, the United States voted for a second time to not elect its first woman president. Everywhere, women’s rights and women’s progress is under attack, overtly and subtlety. But I want you to know that I am and always will always be a proud feminist.” —Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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FBI Director Chris Wray may have read the writing on the wall in terms of his tenure but he has a scheme that could hamper President Trump and his FBI Director pick Kash Patel’s plans to overhaul the broken agency.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Wray announced his resignation on Wednesday after seven years in charge of the FBI. He will still serve until the end of Biden’s term in January.
This news of Wray’s departure comes after reports emerged this week he was preparing to step aside to avoid getting sacked by Trump.
Once Wray officially steps down, Deputy Director Paul Abbate will take over on an interim base until the Senate hopefully confirms Patel. But Wray has one last trick up his sleeve.
The Washington Times reported on Wednesday the disgraced FBI Director has launched a sinister plan to save his cronies from termination and handcuff both Trump and Patel in the process. Wray has not only started promoting his senior employees to “burrow” them within the department, but a plan is developing to delay Patel’s entry into the agency for months.
Sources within the bureau said Mr. Wray has begun promoting employees among the senior executive service, those who serve within the bureau’s leadership. These sources described this as an effort to burrow establishment figures deeper within the FBI.
Sources said a plan is being formulated to delay the new FBI director’s entry into the agency for three to four months.
The Washington Times notes that this despicable scheme has risks given Trump’s righteous hostility toward the FBI, but Wray remains undeterred. And Wray might get away with it.
If Wray succeeds, Patel will likely have trouble running the FBI effectively, as Wray’s deep state goons constantly leak and defy orders without repercussions. This would be great news for dangerous criminals and awful news for law-abiding Americans.
If Trump cannot stop Wray’s nefarious plan alone, the task will fall to Congress. Given how many RINOS currently hold office in the House and Senate, can we really trust our national legislators to stand up to Deep State shenanigans like this and ensure a disruptor like Patel can clean house?
U.S. — To the delight of millions, President-Elect Trump has announced that future FBI Director Kash Patel and DOGE co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy will celebrate the inauguration with an epic Bollywood ceremony.
“Vivek and Kash will crush the Deep State, but before that, they will perform the most special and incredible Indian dance the world has ever seen,” said Trump to cheering fans. “There will be eagles and tigers and elephants and dancing women, and they will even make that cool dance move where it looks like they’re trying to screw in a lightbulb. It will be almost as cool as my dance moves, but not quite, let’s be honest.”
Patel and Ramaswamy seemed caught off guard by the announcement. “I’m an American from Ohio,” said Ramaswamy. “I know the Electric Slide and Cotton Eye Joe. I’m not even that good at dancing. There must be some mistake.”
Sources within the administration say they will pull out all the stops to make this event one to remember. “We’re going to have them dance to the tune of such classic Bollywood hits as ‘Chaiyya Chaiyya’ and ‘Ae Dil Hai Muskil’ while elephants descend upon the National Mall under the rain of confetti fired from a thousand cannons,” said the source. “There will be so many explosions, and we’ll get to see Kash Patel break out the mesmerizing dance moves of his native land.”
“Seriously, guys, I’m from New York,” said Patel. “I can’t dance to save my life. Please don’t make me do this.”
Trump has confirmed the pair have set aside their duties as part of Trump’s transition team to devote all of their attention to what is sure to be the Bollywood ceremony to end all Bollywood ceremonies.
At publishing time, the Trump transition team had also recruited JD Vance’s wife for the performance.
There were actually two great picks that came out late last week. The FBI Director Kash Patel and the new NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. Both of these men are sorely needed to investigate corruption and weaponization of government in the FBI and NIH. In this post, let’s take a look at Kash Patel, and remember the corruption of his successor, Christopher Wray.
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Kash Patel to lead the FBI, closing one of the last remaining presidentially appointed positions available two months before taking office — and putting current bureau boss Christopher Wray’s tenure on the chopping block before his term expires.
[…]The New York native is known for his deep loyalty to Trump — which has made him a target of the left despite serving as a National Security Council official, senior adviser to the acting Director of National Intelligence, and later, chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defense.
Patel, who will have to earn Senate confirmation to become FBI director, was one of the leading Republicans who opposed the investigation into Trump and Russian interference in 2016, long opposing government overreach in how its federal agents surveil Republicans.
He has written about the need to dismantle the Justice Department and do an overhaul of the intelligence agencies, including the FBI, by firing their “top ranks” and prosecuting “to the fullest extent of the law” anyone who “in any way abused their authority for political ends.”
“[T]he FBI has become so thoroughly compromised that it will remain a threat to the people unless drastic measures are taken,” Patel wrote in his book, “Government Gangsters,” which Trump lauded as a “blueprint” for his next term.
Former corrupt FBI Director Andrew McCabe doesn’t like the pick:
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe cautioned against Patel, claiming on CNN Thursday that “no part of the FBI’s mission is safe with Kash Patel in any position of leadership in the FBI.”
[…]McCabe butted heads with the 45th president over the FBI’s Trump-Russia collusion probe, pursued the debunked Steele dossier and was fired as acting director of the bureau for leaking sensitive case information to a journalist.
Patel will have a lot of work to do, as the FBI has basically become the equivalent of the East German Stasi under Biden-Harris. Using taxpayer money to suppress dissent from leftism and elect Democrat politicians.
My favorite source for conservative policy is Daily Signal, and here is what they said about his qualifications:
During the first Trump administration, Patel was the chief of staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.
Before that, Patel was the deputy assistant to the president and the senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council.
While at the NSC, he helped oversee Trump policies that included eliminating the Islamic State terrorist group, as well as Al Qaeda leadership such as al-Baghdadi and Qasem al-Rimi.
Patel also was the principal deputy to the former Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, who oversaw the operations of 17 intelligence community agencies.
Before going to the White House, Patel was senior counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, under then-Chairiman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and oversaw the investigation into the Russian active measures campaign to influence the 2016 presidential–election.
He also played a key role in the Nunes memo that showed the FBI relied on partisan “politically motivated or questionable sources” to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The two and a half year investigation into whether Trump conspired with the Russian government to win the 2016 election was prompted by information fed to the FBI from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and Democrat operatives. The House panel and later special counsel Robert Mueller concluded there was no evidence that Trump conspired with Russians.
Now, let’s have a quick review of why Trump needs Kash Patel to replace the current FBI Director, Christopher Wray.
FBI Director Christopher Wray may have lied under oath concerning the FBI Richmond office’s Jan. 23 memo citing the Southern Poverty Law Center in urging investigation of “radical traditional Catholic hate groups,” Rep. Jim Jordan suggested in a letter sent Wednesday.
The issue is that Wray tried to minimize the scope of the FBI’s investigation into Catholics:
On July 12, Wray testified to the House Judiciary Committee that the memo represented “a single product by a single field office, which, as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems.”
He says it was a “single field office”, but the memo reveals collaboration between multiple field offices.
I think all Christians and conservatives would be thrilled if they were allowed to be pro-life without having their doors battered down in the early morning by SWAT teams.
FBI agents reportedly raided the home of a pro-life activist in Pennsylvania on Friday and arrested him.
A group of between 25 and 30 FBI agents raided the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, home of pro-life activist Mark Houck early Friday morning, his family told LifeSite News. Houck is the leader of a nonprofit group that provides sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics in Philadelphia.
[…]“The kids were all just screaming,” Houck’s wife, Ryan-Marie, told LifeSite. “It was all just very scary and traumatic.”
Ryan-Marie Houck told the outlet that the group of agents in SWAT gear arrived in 15 vehicles outside the family home at around 7:05 a.m. Friday morning. The agents quickly surrounded the house and began pounding on the door, demanding they open up. Houck reportedly tried to get the agents to calm down, noting that his seven children were scared, but the agents kept shouting. “[T]hey had big, huge rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me and kind of pointed throughout the house,” his wife said.
What did he do to get his house raided by 25-30 armed FBI agents in 15 vehicles?
This:
According to his wife, Houck was providing sidewalk counseling at abortion centers in Philadelphia last year, and had taken his then 12-year-old son. On multiple occasions over weeks, a “pro-abortion protestor” allegedly shouted vulgarities and insults at the boy. Houck repeatedly told the protestor not to speak to his son, but the protestor continued to encroach on the boy’s personal space, still spewing vulgarities. Finally, Houck shoved the man away, causing him to fall down. The protestor was not injured, but tried to sue Houck. Though the case was thrown out this summer, it was somehow picked up by the DOJ, Ryan-Marie Houck said.
Many powerful secular leftists in this country are all terrified of Christiand and conservatives using government to coerce them. They are terrified, but they are the only ones who ever abuse power to punish their political enemies. We need to stop secular leftists from using government as a weapon against people they disagree with, to benefit the political party they favor.
President Donald Trump is planning for all political appointees to receive sweeping security clearances through private firms and only face FBI background checks after the incoming team takes over the FBI.
For the past eight years, the FBI, under James Comey and Chris Wray, illegally targeted President Trump, his family, his business, and his associates using a completely fraudulent document, the Russian dossier, as their reason to spy on the US president before and during his first administration.
Chris Wray later raided Trump’s home in Florida on flimsy, politicized reasons and shuffled through his wife’s underwear drawer.
FBI agents spread documents from Mar-a-Lago on the floor during their raid on President Trump’s home. They made it look like Trump did this.
There is absolutely no reason that Trump would trust the corrupt, politicized FBI today or EVER.
Wall Street Mav reported:
The FBI has lost so much credibility that Trump is not even using them for background investigations of his nominees.
Trump and his team are using private companies for background checks. He plans to override the usual process and grant security clearance his first day in office. Then once his own people are running the FBI, he will allow the FBI to do background checks.
The concern is that the current corrupted FBI, controlled by the deep state, will use their investigation process to nuke some of Trump’s nominees.
Until Trump has his own people in the FBI and can bring a stop to the political motivation to attack his nominees, Trump has cut the FBI out of the process.
Deep State panic intensifies as rumors swirl about President-elect Donald Trump’s potential choice for FBI Director
Tensions are mounting in Washington as rumors circulate that President-elect Donald Trump is considering appointing Kash Patel, a loyalist and former aide during his previous administration, as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Patel is rumored to be in consideration for the head of the FBI. GOP Sources have also independently confirmed this to The Gateway Pundit.
Kash Patel’s impressive qualifications include several high-ranking positions in the intelligence and defense communities under President Trump.
While running counter-terrorism for President Trump, the president oriented counter-terrorism efforts to wipe out ISIS senior leadership and other key operatives. He further oversaw the resuing of American hostages AND detainees being rescued and returned to the United States.
As a terrorism prosecutor, Kash Patel prosecuted ISIS, Al-Qa’ida, and other terrorist networks, and he was the lead prosecutor for the World Cup bombings in Uganda that killed an American and 76 people.
While Kash Patel was the Defense Department Chief of Staff, the DoD ended wars forever.
Last June, Patel told The Gateway Pundit they were trying to “bury” his book and prevent its release ”because the book exposes, by name and agency, every corrupt actor I encountered, puts them on blast, and tells the world how we remove them from power and restore our agencies to work for the American people.”
Now… Former FBI Special Agent Daniel Brunner sounded the alarm during a Sunday appearance on CNN, cautioning that Patel’s appointment would cause “massive damage” to the agency.
Brunner: It’s really important to understand that the person who’s leading the FBI, who is the director and then the deputy director, those are two very important positions.
You’re in charge of tens of thousands of employees, both special agents, analysts, everyone that is enforcing the federal law that is on the books and supporting the Constitution of the United States
. Putting someone like Kash Patel in the position of director of the FBI is, I believe, extremely, extremely dangerous because, as you just alluded to, his resume isn’t traditional. There is nothing on his resume other than three years as a line U.S. attorney at the DOJ.
He has no experience leading an organization, no less a Cub Scout pack, to put him in front of the lead law enforcement agency in the United States, and some consider the world, to have him in charge of so many employees.
He has clearly stated that he wants to exact revenge upon those that have investigated President Trump and those who investigated those that are around him.
He will conduct a massive amount of damage to the interior of the FBI, looking after employees who have put their names on certain documents because they were just working the case.
There will be hundreds of employees who will be unjustly fired or have their security clearances removed only because he feels that it is something he needs to do. So I think he would be very, very dangerous.
[…]
I still have a lot of good friends of mine that are serving in the FBI on the front lines, special agents. Necessarily, not all of them are supervisors. So I talk to a lot of them on the streets, and they’re concerned. They’re concerned, obviously, about the appointment of Matt Gaetz as a possible attorney general, and they’re, of course, concerned about Mr. Patel.
U.S. — All staffmember at the Federal Bureau of Investigation were granted a special “Grieving Day” on Friday so they could take time off to be with their families and mourn the results of the 2024 presidential election.
FBI Director Christopher Wray made the surprise announcement that agents and other staff nationwide would get a three-day weekend after he failed to come in to work himself.
“How could anyone be expected to work during such a tragic time?” Wray said. “This is not a time to vigilantly uphold the law and protect Americans from criminal activity. This is a time for mourning. We’re all going to be out of a job soon anyway. I’m just coasting at this point.”
Even agents currently in the middle of undercover drug operations were reportedly given leave for the day, potentially ruining cases that had been worked on for years.
Agents responded well to the surprise day off, with many taking the opportunity to stay home and cry because they “can’t even.” Some, however, were more optimistic. “There’s more to life than spying on American citizens,” mused Special Agent Richter Bells. “And thanks to all my time spying on citizens, I know all the best vacation spots. This weekend is going to be lit.”
At publishing time, FBI officials advised all staff to wear their government-issued federal agent sunglasses while in public to hide their tears.
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