Top Election Operative, Ryan Macias, Who Dems Quietly Inserted into the Maricopa Audit, Is Member of Clandestine ‘National Task Force on Election Crisis’

More on Ryan Macias – the character in Maricopa County invited by the Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs?

Three individuals were seen walking around the election floor and whispering to each other. ABC15 reports that Hobbs now has three people working as monitors inside, “an election machine expert and two election auditing professionals.”

ABC15 reports that the observers are “Ryan Macias [who is] the former acting director of certification and testing for the U.S. election assistance commission. Macias certified Arizona’s voting machines. The two other observers are Jennifer Morell, an election consultant with Protect Democracy, and Liz Howard, an attorney with the Brennan Center for Justice. Until Thursday, Secretary of State Hobbs was denied access to monitor the audit; a judge later ordered her office be allowed. Senate President Karen Fann, who is orchestrating the recount, and Hobbs worked out an arrangement before a noon deadline.”

Macias apparently has the skill set to break into systems, this causes concerns, and based on this, he should be monitored heavily if he appears to be looking for areas where he could hack into the audit and damage or destroy it:

At a meeting of the EAC Commissioners on May 20, 2019, around the time Ryan Macias has resigned his position with the EAC, one of the Commissioners, Thomas Hicks, asked Dr. Hall, (Joseph Lorenzo Hall, a current member of the Verified Voting board of advisors), “what he meant by ‘trained security experts,’ and Dr. Hall explained that those are people who are hired to break into people’s systems to find vulnerabilities.”

There were suspicions that Ryan was paid to be there:

Macias denied any payment and claimed according to a reporter that he was not let in:

However, ‘pro bono’ refers to free or ‘no charge’ services provided by an attorney, usually for an issue in the public interest. We see no evidence whatsoever that he is an attorney and anyway what does “pro bono” have to do with anything whatsoever in this scenario?!

But the most shocking thing we have found out about Macias is that he is a member of the National Task Force on Election Crises.

Ryan Macias is likely not an attorney. He is likely not working for free. He is in Phoenix for a reason. Until he provides more information on the reason he is there, he should not be allowed near the audit. Look at the characters he hangs with, he is likely not there to ensure the audit’s security is sound, more likely he is there for the opposite.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/top-election-operative-ryan-macias-dems-quietly-inserted-maricopa-audit-member-clandestine-national-task-force-election-crisis/

Attorney General Garland: Biden DOJ Budget Includes $85M Increase to Probe Domestic Terrorism Cases

Attorney General Merrick Garland told House lawmakers Tuesday that the Biden Administration’s 2022 budget request for the Department of Justice (DOJ) would seek an $85 million increase from last year’s budget for domestic terrorism investigations and cases.

“Our budget supports my commitment to protecting our national security, including addressing both international and domestic terrorism while respecting civil liberties.” Garland testified to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science. “It includes increases of $45 million for the FBI domestic terrorism investigations and $40 million for the U.S. attorneys to manage increasing domestic terrorism caseloads.”

The increase from last year’s budget for domestic terrorism cases comes as Democrats have sought to label Trump supporters who protested on January 6 at the Capitol as domestic terrorists, domestic violent extremists, and white supremacists. Committee Chairman Matt Cartwright (D-PA) said at the hearing the “attack on the Capitol” was an “unprecedented” threat from domestic violent extremism.

Garland testified during his confirmation hearing that his first priority as attorney general would be the investigation into January 6. So far, the DOJ has charged more than 400 people as part of that investigation.

Garland also said at Tuesday’s hearing the threat of domestic violent extremism and domestic terrorism keeps him up at night.

“My oath is to protect the Constitution and Americans from all enemies, both foreign and domestic,” he said. “And so both forms of terrorism are extraordinary concern to me. We never want to take our eyes off of what happened on 9/11 and that the risks that the country continues to face from foreign terrorist attacks on the homeland.”

“Likewise, we have a growing fear of domestic violent extremism and domestic terrorism and both of those keep me up at night…virtually every morning, I get a briefing from the FBI in one of the other or both areas,” he told the committee.

Committee Ranking Member Robert Aderholt (R-AL) pressed Garland on why the FBI classified the 2017 congressional baseball game shooting that targeted Republican members of Congress as a case of “suicide by cop” instead of domestic terrorism, despite the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence doing so, as previously reported by Breitbart News.

The attorney general said he had not yet had a chance to speak to the FBI about it and promised he would do so.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/04/attorney-general-garland-biden-doj-budget-includes-85m-increase-to-probe-domestic-terrorism-cases/

White House: Joe Biden Will Announce ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Strategy Within Weeks

The White House confirmed Tuesday that President Joe Biden would announce a strategy to tackle “domestic terrorism” within weeks.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed intelligence agencies had answered Biden’s call to develop a “comprehensive threat assessment” into the actions of political extremists within the United States and that the administration was working on their strategy to combat the threat.

“The stage we are in now is that we are taking a look at what occurred during that review, lessons that we’ve learned, and ensuring that the policy responses that we’ve been discussing and developing are the right ones,” she said.

Psaki said Biden would announce his new strategy to tackle domestic terrorism within “weeks not months.”

“We want to develop a strategy that will convey to the American people a sense of how we will take on domestic terrorism, something the president has talked about as one of the greatest threats we face,” she said.

During his inauguration speech, Biden warned of “a rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.”

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence lead the review in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

The White House announced the review in January, citing the threat posed to the United States after former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed Capitol Hill on January 6.

“The rise of domestic violent extremism is a serious and growing national security threat,” Psaki said at the time. “The Biden administration will confront this threat with the necessary resources and resolve.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/04/white-house-joe-biden-will-announce-domestic-terrorism-strategy-within-weeks/