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https://www.facebook.com/DonPrattMuseum/posts/3878150252216238

https://warontherocks.com/2015/12/nuts-brig-gen-anthony-mcauliffes-1944-christmas-letter/

MERRY CHRISTMAS

HEADQUARTERS 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

Office of the Division Commander

24 December 1944

What’s Merry about all this, you ask? We’re fighting — it’s cold, we aren’t home. All true but what has the proud Eagle Division accomplished with its worthy comrades the 10th Armored Division, the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion and all the rest? Just this: We have stopped cold everything that has been thrown at us from the North, East, South and West. We have identifications from four German Panzer Divisions, two German Infantry Divisions and one German Parachute Division. These units, spearheading the last desperate German lunge, were headed straight west for key points when the Eagle Division was hurriedly ordered to stem the advance. How effectively this was done will be written in history; not alone in our Division’s glorious history but in World history. The Germans actually did surround us, their radios blared our doom. Their Commander demanded our surrender in the following imprudent arrogance:

December 22nd 1944

“To the U. S. A. Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne.

The fortune of war is changing. This time the U. S. A. forces in and near Bastogne have been encircled by strong German armored units. More German armored units have crossed the river Ourthe near Ortheuville, have taken Marche and reached St. Hubert by passing through Hompres-Sibret-Tillet. Libramont is in German hands.

There is only one possibility to save the encircled U. S. A. Troops from total annihilation: that is the honorable surrender of the encircled town. In order to think it over a term of two hours will be granted beginning with the presentation of this note.

If this proposal should be rejected the German Artillery Corps and six heavy A. A. Battalions are ready to annihilate the U. S. A. Troops in and near Bastogne. The order for firing will be given immediately after this two hour’s term.

All the serious civilian losses caused by this Artillery fire would not correspond with the well known American humanity.

The German Commander”

The German Commander received the following reply:

22 December 1944

“To the German Commander:

N U T S !

The American Commander”

Allied Troops are counterattacking in force. We continue to hold Bastogne. By holding Bastogne we assure the success of the Allied Armies. We know that our Division Commander, General Taylor, will say: “Well Done!”

We are giving our country and our loved ones at home a worthy Christmas present and being privileged to take part in this gallant feat of arms are truly making for ourselves a Merry Christmas.

/s/ A. C. McAULIFFE

/t/ McAULIFFE

Commanding.

>>12155467

https://www.vaildaily.com/news/mike-pence-reportedly-in-vail-valley-for-the-holidays/

Mike Pence in Vail Valley for the holidays

Vice President Mike Pence has chosen the Vail Valley as his holiday destination, according to multiple sources.

The vice president’s extensive security detail has checked in at various hotels across the valley, and Air Force 2 was expected to land sometime Wednesday evening at Eagle County Regional Airport.

A large police presence was observed late Wednesday afternoon by numerous visitors around the airport facility. A call to a White House spokesperson had not been returned as of 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

David O. Williams with RealVail.com was the first to report Pence’s visit.

Amber Barrett with the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that deputies were assisting the Secret Service with logistics.

“Secret Service will often request assistance from local law enforcement and the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office will often help when requested,” Barrett said. “The Secret Service won’t typically give us many details until time of.”

The Vail Police Department is also assisting, the Vail Daily has learned.

>>12155537

May 24 2020

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Fear not, all will be well right after the election.

Is this about the virus OR THE ELECTION?

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>>12155647

Pardongate

>>12155717

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_investigation)

On October 19, 2020, Barr appointed Durham to be a Special Counsel, elevating the form of the investigation, in this probe.[14][15]

Crossfire Hurricane was the code name for the counterintelligence investigation undertaken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from July 31, 2016 to May 17, 2017 into links between Trump associates and Russian officials and "whether individuals associated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign were coordinating, wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election".[1] Trump was not personally under investigation until May 2017, when his firing of FBI director James Comey raised suspicions of obstruction of justice.[2]

The investigation was officially opened on July 31, 2016, initially due to information on Trump campaign member George Papadopoulos's early assertions of Russians having damaging material on Donald Trump's rival candidate Hillary Clinton. From late July to November 2016, the joint effort between the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Security Agency (NSA) examined evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 United States presidential election. The FBI's team enjoyed a large degree of autonomy within the broader interagency probe.

On January 23, 2020, two of the four FISA warrants were declared invalid by the Department of Justice.[11] James E. Boasberg, a Washington D.C. federal judge, also said that surveillance collected against Page lacked a legal basis.[12]

>>12155733

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_investigation)

>>12155740

CARTER PAGE

ClA

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/474570-an-apology-to-carter-page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Page

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qmxDmKX8x-oJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ex-trump-campaign-aide-carter-page-notches-victory-after-inspector-general-hammers-fbi-for-surveillance-missteps/2019/12/14/6daac5f2-1dda-11ea-b4c1-fd0d91b60d9e_story.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

>>12155893

>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/474570-an-apology-to-carter-page

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/474570-an-apology-to-carter-page

Ultimately, special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion or conspiracy by Trump associates or the campaign with those Russians intervening in the election. However, Horowitz found that the FBI never had any real evidence against Page before beginning its investigation, codenamed Operation Crossfire Hurricane. Soon after the investigation was opened, it became clear that Page had been wrongly accused and was, in fact, working for the CIA, not the Russians. Page himself later said he was working with the CIA, yet the media not only dismissed his claim but was very openly dismissive while portraying him as a bumbling fool.

>>12155923

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4KnwjQV-WeoJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/while-were-talking-about-abuse-of-power-lets-look-at-the-fbi/2020/01/23/b6dfda80-3e25-11ea-baca-eb7ace0a3455_story.html+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

While we’re talking about abuse of power, let’s look at the FBI

On July 31, the bureau launched Crossfire Hurricane. An internal memo stated that “this investigation is being opened to determine whether individual(s) associated with the Trump campaign are witting of and/or coordinating activities with the Government of Russia.” The decisive voice was E.W. “Bill” Priestap, a career official then heading the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, who told Horowitz that the bureau was “obligated” to conduct the investigation.

So far, so good. Horowitz’s report concluded that the FBI’s decision to investigate the Trump team had an appropriate “authorized purpose.”

But the inquiry began to jump the tracks in October 2016, when the FBI sought authority for intrusive spying on Page. Horowitz found that bureau officials supplied incomplete or misleading information to support their request to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for the October warrant for Page and for three renewals that carried the targeting through September 2017.

One abuse was especially outrageous: As the FBI pressed for the Page FISA warrants, it overlooked an August 2016 CIA message that Page had been an occasional “operational contact” for the agency. That’s not the same as a vetted agent, but it should have made FBI officials wonder whether their assumptions about Page’s possible disloyalty and double-dealing were justified.

The CIA told the bureau that Page had been approved as a contact from 2008 to 2013 and that he had “candidly described his contact” with a Russian intelligence officer the bureau feared had recruited him. The FBI ignored this and other exculpatory information.

Worse still, a mid-level FBI official in the office of general counsel, after checking with the CIA in June 2017 about the agency’s past relationship with Page, inaccurately told a colleague that the CIA “confirmed explicitly he was never a source” and then inserted in a CIA email that Page was “not a source.”

The FBI official apparently lied because he wanted to avoid a “terrible footnote” in the latest FISA renewal, admitting the embarrassing fact that the bureau had overlooked the CIA’s relationship with Page in previous filings, according to Horowitz’s narrative. The official has been fired and is under criminal investigation.

Why didn’t the CIA speak up, as Page was being pilloried in public leaks? That’s another good question.

Some Republicans have seen a deep-state conspiracy in these actions. But to me, the Horowitz report suggests the opposite. The intelligence community was so sloppy and disorganized — and so disoriented by the Trump investigation — that it couldn’t coordinate simple tasks, let alone organize a plot.

The bureau failed in its simple duty to “make sure that the left hand knows what the right hand is doing,” as one FBI official put it to Horowitz. This is a tale of dazed, incompetent bureaucrats covering their backsides, not a coup.