Statement of Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers on the Public Release of the Department’s Findings with Respect to the 29 FISA Applications that Were the Subject of the March 2020 OIG Preliminary Report

Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers stated:

“The Department of Justice has completed its review of the 29 FISA applications that were the subject of preliminary findings by the DOJ Inspector General (OIG) in March 2020. We are pleased that our review of these applications concluded that all contained sufficient basis for probable cause and uncovered only two material errors, neither of which invalidated the authorizations granted by the FISA Court. These findings, together with the more than 40 corrective actions undertaken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Division, should instill confidence in the FBI’s use of FISA authorities. We would like to express our appreciation to the OIG for their focus on the Department’s use of its national security authority. We remain committed to improving the FISA process to ensure that we use these tools consistent with the law and our obligations to the FISA Court. The ability to surveil and to investigate using FISA authorities remains critical to confronting current national security threats, including election interference, Chinese espionage and terrorism.”

Background

In March 2020, the OIG issued a Memorandum regarding the preliminary findings from its audit of 29 historical FISA applications. The audit was designed to determine whether the contents of the FBI’s Woods files supported the factual statements in these applications. The OIG found deficient documentation in these accuracy (i.e., Woods) files and potential errors. Specifically, the OIG found that FBI was unable to produce the Woods files for 4 of the 29 applications, and the OIG identified numerous apparent errors or inadequately supported facts in all 25 of the 29 applications for which Woods files could be produced.

The OIG did not determine whether any factual assertions in the applications were inaccurate, materially or otherwise. In addition, when the OIG found a fact unsupported by a document in the Woods file, the OIG did not give the FBI the opportunity to locate a supporting document for the fact outside the file.

The Department has reviewed the OIG’s preliminary findings for each application. Each of these applications was also subject to an independent accuracy review. The Department was able to resolve many of the potential issues identified by the OIG. The FBI was also able to compile Woods files for the 4 applications where an original Woods file could not be located, and the FBI was able in many instances to locate documentation to support a factual assertion either elsewhere in the Woods file or in other files available to the FBI. Based on the Department’s findings, of the hundreds of pages of facts contained in the 29 applications audited by the OIG, the Department has identified only one material misstatement and one material omission, neither of which we assess to have invalidated the authorizations granted by the FISC. These findings have been provided to the FISA Court and were posted publicly today.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-assistant-attorney-general-national-security-john-c-demers-public-release

The filing can be found here. 88 Pages

https://www.justice.gov/nsd/page/file/1300701/download

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CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS AREN'T GOING TO ARREST ANYONE

BARR is a BUSH HOLDOVER

ARE YOU LOVING YOUR SERVITUDE? (PART TWO)

Part 1 https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/08/01/are-you-loving-your-servitude/

In Part One of this article I laid out the argument Huxley’s dystopian vision of the future had played out over many decades, but now I observe Orwell’s darker vision in motion since the start of this century.

All the “solutions” being imposed by those in power don’t solve anything, because they aren’t designed to solve anything. These are nothing but short-term emergency sustaining maneuvers to keep the dying patient alive, while the criminals ransack his house, extracting whatever wealth he has saved. Throwing $1,200 bones and $600 a week bribes to what they consider the Main Street riff raff, while funneling trillions into the pockets of Too Big To Trust Wall Street banks, billionaire oligarchs, connected mega-corporations, and pliable corrupt politicians, is just what the doctor ordered for the ruling class.

Their weak-kneed toadies at the Federal Reserve have dutifully fulfilled their mandate of no banker or hedge fund left behind. While Main Street is beset with potholes, boarded up small business storefronts (if they haven’t been looted and burned), homeless drug addicts, and the unemployed lining up at local food banks, Wall Street is being paved in gold, with its inhabitants eating caviar, drinking champagne, and celebrating their brilliance in owning a central bank, guaranteed to enrich them.

The paths being chosen by those in power offer no exit or happy endings. Driving the annual deficit over $4 trillion, pushing the national debt to $26.5 trillion (don’t forget the $200 trillion of unfunded welfare liabilities), because you chose to shut the country down for a bad flu, has virtually guaranteed a multi-year economic contraction and eventual financial collapse. The Fed has propped up a zombie economy and horribly managed zombie corporations with zero interest rates and purchasing of their bad debt.

Free markets have been extinguished, price discovery has vanished, success is determined by who you know, and interest rates can never rise again, or the debt Ponzi collapses instantaneously. The $600 a week in unemployment produced an economic recovery mirage, as money that has no possibility of being repaid, was spent by millions on grocery deliveries, crap from Amazon, and buying bankrupt stocks on Robinhood by unemployed day traders.

The politicians who doled out this $600 per week to millions of people they purposely forced into unemployment are now trapped. Any politician who votes to not extend the payments will be scorned by the corporate media talking heads as heartless and uncaring. With elections just over three months away, it’s now just a matter of how big the newest debt financed debacle will be (somewhere between $1 and $3 trillion).

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/08/02/are-you-loving-your-servitude-part-two/

Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Insists on Radical Criminal-Justice 'Reform' in the Democrat Platform

Black Lives Matter co-founder and self-described Marxist Patrisse Cullors is making some absurd demands about criminal justice reform. She wants them included in the Democrat platform, and the elements are far more radical than what has already been articulated in the Biden-Sanders Unity platform.

Biden said he favors diverting some funding away from police departments during a recent interview. The Unity platform already calls for the elimination of private prisons and an end to immigration enforcement and some other pretty radical policies.

However, Cullors is calling for the inclusion of the Breathe Act into the platform. This legislation is about three steps to the left of the Unity platform. The crocodile tears during her plea to the DNC Platform Committee are really something else.

If you think that sounds nuts, you aren’t wrong. It is also rich to hear Cullors use the words of Representative John Lewis, who recently passed away. She does not subscribe to the peaceful philosophy of the civil rights movement that Lewis belonged to. Her self-described mentor is Eric Mann, a member of the Weather Underground. The director of 1000 Currents, the charity that currently processes the donations to Black Lives Matter, is convicted terrorist Susan Rosenberg.

Instead of advocating equality of opportunity, Black Lives Matter promotes equality of outcome. Rather than inclusion, Black Lives Matter supports separate political and community institutions based on race. Cullors and her allies want people defined by the color of their skin, where Lewis, working with Martin Luther King Jr., wanted people to be defined by their character.

Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) announced the Breathe Act during a virtual press conference on July 7. The event was hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, Cullors, and the mothers of Michael Brown and Erc Garner. The elements of the act dismantle the criminal justice system in significant ways.

The bill summary is as follows:

SECTION 1: Divesting Federal Resources from Incarceration and Policing & Ending Criminal-Legal System Harms

SECTION 2: Investing in New Approaches to Community Safety Utilizing Funding Incentives

SECTION 3: Allocating New Money to Build Healthy, Sustainable & Equitable Communities for All People

SECTION 4: Holding Officials Accountable & Enhancing Self-Determination of Black Communities

This summary may leave you scratching your head since it is not very specific. The bill explicitly calls for eliminating the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Until this is accomplished, the bill calls for ending all local cooperation with both of these agencies. Under specific programs, local jails may currently hold people for ICE detainers. This bill would end that practice.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2020/08/03/black-lives-matter-co-founder-insists-on-radical-criminal-justice-reform-in-the-democrat-platform-n745061

Trump calls for re-run of 'total disaster' NY congressional race amid mail-in ballot problems

President Trump on Monday urged New York to re-run its June 23 primary election in the 12th Congressional District, which still hasn't produced a winner as thousands of mail-in ballots have been tossed or remain uncounted.

Trump's comments marked a further escalation of his rhetoric against universal, nationwide mail-in balloting, which the president has warned could bring about “greatest election disaster in history."

"I think you probably have to take the Carolyn Maloney race and run it over again," Trump said, during a relatively subdued White House press conference Monday.

Thousands of mail-in ballots have been invalidated in the contest, and both Republicans and election experts have said the situation could be a harbinger of a disastrous nationwide mail-in vote in November.

"This is a small race, and it's all messed up," Trump said. "It's a mess. Nobody knows what's happening. … It's a total disaster."

He noted that the United States Postal Service (USPS) suffers from systemic mismanagement, and argued it's not "prepared" to responsibly handle a barrage of mail-in ballots.

"The post office loses money on every package it delivers, which is ridiculous," Trump remarked.

Trump also pointed to a series of other mail-in ballot problems nationwide, including the news that Thomas Cooper, a mail carrier in Pendleton County, admitted to election fraud.

Monday's remarks were a continuation of the president's previous comments on the topic. Last week, the president tweeted out a dramatic local news report highlighting missing ballots during a test of the USPS' ability to handle mail-in ballots. The president also held up a Wall Street Journal article titled "New York's Mail-Vote Disaster," as well as a CBS News article titled "Vote-by-mail experiment reveals potential problems within postal voting system ahead of November election." He cited a similar piece in The Washington Post.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-mail-in-ballot-rerun-ny-congressional-race

Biden 'Very Much' Looks Forward to Debating Trump, His Campaign Says

The campaign added that the former vice president has already agreed to participate in the three upcoming debates, while the US president has yet to do so.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is "very much looking forward to debating Donald Trump", his campaign deputy manager and communications director Kate Bedingfield said on Fox News on Monday.

The announcement came just after former Clinton White House press secretary Joe Lockhart urged Biden in an op-ed not to participate in debates with Trump. He called it a "fool's errand to enter the ring with someone who can't follow the rules or the truth", citing a Washington Post article alleging that the US president has made "more than 20,000 false or misleading claims".

Biden has previously said that he cannot wait to debate President Trump.

"I can hardly wait. I can hardly wait to deal with what he refers to himself as a 'stable genius', Biden told WBRE, apparently referring to a 2018 tweet in which Trump described himself as a 'stable genius'.

The first debate in the run-up to the November election is set to take place on 29 September in Cleveland, Ohio, the second debate will be on 15 October at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, while the third is scheduled for 22 October at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD).

https://sputniknews.com/us/202008031080050514-biden-very-much-looks-forward-to-debating-trump-his-campaign-says/

Worst headline about the rona, are they serious?