>>147583 (LB)

Because you didn't sauce it ...

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/108920093893777253

So, were all Paul Sperry posts removed? This was a dasting set covered next door....

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Posting this one outright....

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Conflicted DOJ officials briefed on the Mar-a-Lago raid:

NICHOLAS McQUAID: worked at same law firm with both Hunter Biden's criminal attorney and Michael Sussmann's criminal attorney

LISA MONACO: Obama aide implicated in Russiagate

MAGGIE Goodlander: wife of top Biden aide Jake Sullivan, implicated in Russiagate

In a review of conflicts of interest and political bias at the Department of Justice, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) explicitly listed Nicholas McQuaid as an official of concern.

Michael Sussmann, of course, was recently named by the Durham investigation as having allegedly misled the FBI about the infamous 'backdoor server' to Alfa Bank, which was a claim echoed by Hillary Clinton herself during the 2016 campaign. Sussman had approached the FBI's general counsel James Baker in a September 2016 meeting with a tip provided in a personal fashion, as opposed to explicitly on behalf of the Clinton campaign that he worked for. The Washington D.C. federal jury acquitted Sussmann in part because it was presumed that some FBI agents knew he was working with the Clinton campaign.

Lisa Monaco, who was President Obama's top homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, and former chief of staff for prior FBI director Robert Mueller, was deeply aware of the Russiagate operations during the 2016 campaign. She is implicated as one of the Justice Dept. officials to have given the go-ahead to carry out the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. It has not been independently corroborated what role Maggie Goodlander may have played in the Mar-a-Lago raid.

But more importantly, as reported earlier at Becker News, the direct involvement of Alan Kohler in the FBI investigation of Donald Trump is a red thread to the discredited Russiagate investigation.

The FBI's current deputy director for counterintelligence Alan Kohler is a Russian area specialist who is believed by some as having been involved in deploying foreign nationals to spy on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.

In May 2019, Mollie Hemingway of "The Federalist" tied Alan Kohler to a 2011 Cambridge conference with Stefan Halper, whom the New York Times reported was 'handpicked by a seasoned FBI counterintelligence agent out of the New York office.' Kohler's official FBI biography places him with the New York field office until he was transferred to London in 2012, where he acted as a liaison with British intelligence.

"Following months of angry claims by journalists and Democratic operatives that the Obama administration never spied on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, The New York Times admitted... that multiple overseas intelligence assets were deployed against associates of the Republican nominee," Hemingway writes. "It is not the first time the Times has revealed widespread spying operations against the campaign."

"The three agents publicly identified as speaking at that conference on the topic are George J. Ennis, Jr., Alan E. Kohler, Jr., and Stephen M. Somma. Ennis currently serves as the special agent in charge in the FBI's New York office, according to his LinkedIn profile, and worked closely with Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, a virulent anti-Trump activist whom the president fired in 2017," she continued.

"The public schedule for a 2014 conference led by Halper shows that Kohler also spoke to the same group about the same Russian case on May 9, 2014," she added.

"Alan Kohler the FBI representative at the United States Embassy in London will talk about the challenges of modern counter espionage: including the case of Anna Chapman and other Russian illegals," the schedule noted.

The RealClearInvestigations piece also notes the involvement of Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten in the politically charged investigation of Hunter Biden's laptop, despite his participation on a Crossfire Hurricane team that is the subject of Special Counsel John Durham's probe.

The FBI's Washington Field Office is again deeply implicated in a politically charged investigation of Donald Trump ahead of a national election. It is another black mark on a troubling track record of partisan investigation of the Democratic Party's political opponents. One way or another, it needs to come to a stop.

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Biden senior officials have family working for feds — despite president’s rule

June 8, 2021

A number of President Biden’s senior officials have relatives or spouses working for the administration — apparently not subject to Biden’s rule that “No one in our family and extended family is going to be involved in any government undertaking or foreign policy.”

Secretary of State Tony Blinken, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and White House press secretary Jen Psaki each have one direct family member working for the federal government.

In addition to them, top White House staffers such as senior adviser Anita Dunn, counselor Steve Richetti, deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed and Presidential Personnel Office director Cathy Russell each have at least one family member employed by the administration.

In Psaki’s case, her sister, Stephanie Psaki, serves as a senior adviser within the Department of Health and Human Services.

She took on her new role, where her official title is senior adviser on human rights and gender equity in the Office of Global Affairs, this March.

>>147612

Dang, hit post button accidentally

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The Psaki who works at HHS has a Ph.D. in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She previously worked at the Population Council, a nonprofit conducting research and building research capabilities in developing countries.

Blinken, the nation’s top diplomat, is married to Evan Ryan, who serves as White House cabinet secretary.

The cabinet secretary serves as the main point of contact between the White House and the other departments and agencies in the federal government. Unlike Blinken’s position, the job does not require Senate approval.

Ryan, like her husband, is an Obama administration alumna who served then-Vice President Biden. She worked not only for Obama and Biden, but also for the State Department as an assistant secretary for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

After leaving the Obama administration, she joined Axios as an executive vice president.

With regard to Sullivan, working in the administration appears to be a family affair. His wife, younger brother and sister-in-law are all employed by the Biden administration.

Maggie Goodlander, Sullivan’s better half, works in the Justice Department as counsel to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

She had previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, as well as Garland in his capacity as chief justice on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.

His brother, Tom Sullivan, is serving in the same position he held during the Obama years: deputy chief of staff for policy at the State Department.

Rose Baumann Sullivan — Tom Sullivan’s wife and the national security adviser’s sister-in-law — serves as acting assistant secretary for legislation at HHS. Previously, she served as a lobbyist for companies such as Verizon, CVS Health and Alphabet, the parent company of Google.

Close friends and family members of the powerful securing their own desirable positions is nothing new in Washington.

Former President Donald Trump appointed his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as senior advisers.

However, the first daughter and her husband did not take a salary during their time in the White House and saw their personal income drop more than 20 percent in the final years of the Trump presidency.

In addition to the Trump family, some notable members of the administration were married or related to others employed by the federal government.

Rep. Liz Cheney, then a private citizen, was appointed under President George W. Bush and her father, Vice President Dick Cheney, to serve as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/08/biden-senior-officials-have-family-working-for-federal-government/

>Reminder-Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, another swamp mill

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough have dropped a lawsuit on behalf of a Russian bank that sought information about efforts to tie the bank to the Trump Organization ahead of the 2016 election.

>>>/qresearch/15652022

Matt Hutchins joined Latham as an associate this year. Earlier he was an in-house lawyer at an entertainment company and practiced at Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, according to his LinkedIn profile.

"Our loss is enormous," Hutchins said on Twitter late Friday. Hutchins told news outlets earlier in the day that he had spoken with Baldwin and said the actor was supportive. He could not be immediately reached for comment. A Latham spokesperson declined to comment.

Halyna Hutchins was killed when Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set of his Western movie "Rust" in New Mexico.

>>>/qresearch/15642816

Goodlander left Washington to join the New England firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom drawn in part by its robust pro bono program, and stayed 11 months before being recruited as counsel for Trump's impeachment trial. Charged with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, the president was acquitted by the Senate last February.

An intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, where she is a lieutenant, she also serves on the board of directors of New Hampshire Legal Assistance and the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, a nonprofit fostering discussion and citizen involvement in world affairs.

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Two sources with knowledge of the probe told The New York Times that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, colloquially known simply as "Skadden," to furnish documents related to its work for deposed Ukrainian strongman Viktor Yanukovych.

additional

https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/17/obama-lawyer-ukraine-justice-department/

Greg Craig's allegedly false statements were revealed in a settlement announced Thursday by the Justice Department. The agency announced it was settling with Craig's former firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which worked with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on behalf of Ukraine beginning in 2012.

Skadden Arps agreed to register retroactively with the Justice Department as a foreign agent of Ukraine and to pay a $4.6 million fine, the same amount that the firm was paid for its consulting work.

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From: Bansal, Preeta D <PBANSAL@skadden.com>

Date: Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:01 PM

Subject: FW: Asian American Candidates, Muslim American Candidates

To: John Podesta <jpodesta@americanprogress.org>, Gayle Smith <

gaylesmithgayle@gmail.com>

FYI also.

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From: Bansal, Preeta D (NYC)

Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 11:01 PM

To: Froman, Michael B

Cc: 'Onek, Matthew'

Subject: Asian American Candidates, Muslim American Candidates

Here are the compiled lists of Asian American and Muslim American

candidates for top Administration jobs, sub-cabinet jobs, and outside

boards/agencies/policy committees. A couple things to note about the list

of Muslim American candidates:...

Preeta D. Bansal

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

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Skadden, which is absolutely full of fuckery

>Manafort

>Podesta Group

>Seth Rich

See this link for rundown on Skadden

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/222806860

>>147644

>all life is precious

What is our relationship to the energy of our pets? Is it an extension of ours?

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Over 50 Biden Administration Employees, 12 US Agencies Involved in Social Media Censorship Push: Documents

September 1, 2022

Over 50 officials in President Joe Biden’s administration across a dozen agencies have been involved with efforts to pressure Big Tech companies to crack down on alleged misinformation, according to documents released on Aug. 31.

Senior officials in the U.S. government, including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty, and onetime White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt, have been in touch with one or more major social media companies to try to get the companies to tighten rules on allegedly false and misleading information on COVID-19, and take action against users who violate the rules, the documents show.

In July 2021, for instance, after Biden said that Facebook was “killing people” by not combating misinformation effectively, an executive at Meta reached out to Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, a Biden appointee, to say that government and Meta teams met after the remarks “to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward.”

The same executive later wrote to Murthy saying, “I wanted to make sure you saw the steps we took just this past week to adjust policies on what we are removing with respect to misinformation, as well as steps taken to further address the ‘disinfo dozen,'” including removing pages linked to the group.

The White House publicly pressured social media companies to take action against a group officials dubbed the “disinformation dozen,” which a nonprofit claimed were producing the bulk of “anti-vaccine misinformation” on the platforms. Also in July 2021, Murthy said Facebook had not done enough to combat misinformation.

Rob Flaherty, director of digital strategy for the White House, told Slavitt and others in April 2021 that White House staff would be briefed by Twitter “on vaccine misinfo,” with the meeting including “ways the White House (and our COVID experts) can partner in product work,” according to one of the messages.

In another exchange that year, a Department of Treasury official working on “mis, dis, and mal-information” told Meta workers that the deputy treasury secretary wanted to talk about “potential influence operations.”

In a text in February 2021, meanwhile, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly, wrote to another agency official that she was “trying to get us in a place where Fed can work with platforms to better understand the mis/dis trends so relevant agencies can try to prebunk/debunk as useful.”

The documents were part of a preliminary production in a lawsuit levied against the government by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, later joined by experts maligned by federal officials.

“If there was ever any doubt the federal government was behind censorship of Americans who dared to dissent from official Covid messaging, that doubt has been erased,” Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is representing some of the plaintiffs in the case, said in a statement. “The shocking extent of the government’s involvement in silencing Americans, through coercing social-media companies, has now been revealed.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/over-50-biden-administration-employees-12-us-agencies-involved-in-social-media-censorship-push-documents_4704349.html

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Over 50 Biden Administration Employees, 12 US Agencies Involved in Social Media Censorship Push: Documents

September 1, 2022

‘Censorship Enterprise’

Plaintiffs said the massive pressure campaign amounted to a “Censorship Enterprise” because it involved so many officials and agencies.

Government lawyers only identified 45 officials at five agencies—the Department of Homeland Security, CISA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Murthy’s office—who communicated with social media companies on misinformation, but documents they produced showed others were involved, including officials at the Census Bureau and the Departments of Treasury and State.

Responses from the Big Tech companies also revealed more officials involved with the effort.

Meta has disclosed that at least 32 federal officials, including top officials at the White House and the Food and Drug Administration, were in communication with it about content moderation. Many of the officials were not identified in the response by the government.

YouTube disclosed 11 officials not disclosed by the government and Twitter identified nine, including senior officials at the State Department.

“The discovery provided so far demonstrates that this Censorship Enterprise is extremely broad,” plaintiffs said, adding later that “it rises to the highest levels of the U.S. Government, including numerous White House officials.”

Additionally, the FBI was not identified even though the agency recently said, after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the bureau reached out before the 2020 election, that it routinely issues communications to social media companies.

More discovery is needed to uncover the full breadth of the pressure campaign, plaintiffs told the judge overseeing the case.

“When the federal government colludes with Big Tech to censor speech, the American people become subjects rather than citizens,” Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican, said in a statement. “The [U.S. Department of Justice] must not be allowed to hide behind the veil of executive privilege, especially when there is already compelling evidence that the people’s government colluded with these social media companies to suppress their right of free speech.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/over-50-biden-administration-employees-12-us-agencies-involved-in-social-media-censorship-push-documents_4704349.html

>>147667

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is a curious choice of counsel for Musk.

>>147668

Sorry I should sauce that up. It makes me wonder if there is something else at play 🤔

Also, Twitter's "alotta" Vijaya Gadde. KEK

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Elon Musk adds new reason for termination of Twitter deal

August 30, 2022

The ongoing acquisition drama between Elon Musk and Twitter continues.

On Monday, Musk's counsel sent a letter to Twitter’s general counsel and head of legal, Vijay Gadde, citing "an additional notice of termination." Twitter responded on Tuesday by denying the allegations.

In July, Musk backed out of the $44 billion sale agreement he made with Twitter. He did so because he said Twitter provided "false and misleading representations" of multiple forms of user data including the quantity of "false or spam accounts" on the social media platform. Twitter is working to force the deal, which values the company at a share price that is roughly 25% above this week's value.

Now, Musk’s legal team has another reason for terminating the deal, this time involving information published in The Washington Post. The newspaper obtained a whistleblower complaint filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Peiter "Mudge" Zatko against Twitter

Zatko, a hacker and the former head of security for Twitter, alleges multiple forms of misconduct at the social media company. In Monday's letter, Musk’s counsel, law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, argued that if Zatko's allegations against Twitter are correct, "the Musk Parties [have] the right to terminate the Merger Agreement." The letter singles out aspects of Zatko's complaint including the allegations that Twitter is "uniquely vulnerable to systemic disruption" and that "the platform is built in significant part on the misappropriation and infringement of third party intellectual property."

In a statement released to the public, Zatko's lawyers said the security expert believes "Twitter has been, at all relevant times including today, in violation of numerous laws and regulations."

Twitter responded by both reaffirming its view that Zatko’s complaint is "riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies," and adding that Musk continues "to knowingly, intentionally, willfully, and materially breach the Agreement."

"I think that the Skadden letter was an interesting but maybe risky strategy,” David Bernstein, who specializes in mergers and acquisitions with Goodwin Procter LLP, told ABC News. "There is an underlying implication that there is a weakness in the original termination.".

Neither Musk's lawyers nor Twitter's legal counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz immediately responded to ABC News' requests for comment.

On Oct. 17, Twitter and Musk are set to face off in front of the Delaware Court of Chancery for a five-day trial. Twitter would like Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick to compel Musk to buy Twitter at the originally agreed-upon amount, whereas Musk is hoping to avoid the purchase.

Bernstein believes there is a chance that Monday's letter from Skadden hurts Musk’s case. Because this latest letter is not supplementing the original argument for termination but rather adding a totally separate reasoning, it could be perceived as an admission that the spam account argument is not as strong as Musk had hoped.

“I'm not saying that it totally abandons the first [notice of termination],” Bernstein explained. "I'm saying that it seems to me to indicate some doubt about the strength of the first termination.”

McCormick’s decision will likely be handed out before the end of 2022.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/elon-musk-adds-reason-termination-twitter-deal/story?id=89059081

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