thanks baker
By Sophie Mann
Updated: May 11, 2022 - 1:45pm
Establishment Republicans in Georgia are delivering one final push for incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp as he competes in his primary against Trump-backed former Sen. David Perdue.
Kemp was recently endorsed by the National Rifle Association, and will soon attend a fundraiser alongside former President George W. Bush. The Republican Governors Association has also been heavily backing Kemp for months, and spent an estimated $5 million on his reelection bid.
Kemp has consistently polled in front of Perdue throughout the primary ahead of Georgia's May 24 primary.
Despite the former president's best effort to oust Kemp, who he says was not cooperative in the aftermath of the 2020 election, the incumbent governor is up more than 20 points in the polls.
If Kemp wins more than 50% of the vote later this month, he will win the primary outright. Anything less will trigger a runoff. He is currently polling above 50%.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/republicans-turn-kemp-georgia-ahead-primary
$40 billion to Ukraine is outrageous.
https://twitter.com/bgmasters/status/1524437516085997571
An employee of the Justice Department Inspector General’s office “abruptly resigned” after getting busted leaking to the media a closely-held draft report on the Trump administration’s family separation policy according to numerous reports.
When employees were asked to submit sworn answers to a questionnaire regarding the unauthorized leak the employee abruptly resigned. A DOJ Office of the Inspector General’s investigative summary said:
“The independent investigation conducted by the other Office of Inspector General concluded that a then DOJ OIG employee was responsible for sensitive, non-public information from and about the then ongoing DOJ OIG review, including information from the draft DOJ OIG report, being provided on several occasions to various media outlets prior to completion and official public release of DOJ OIG’s final report, and that the employee did so without authorization from DOJ OIG.
“The independent investigation reviewed the DOJ OIG employee’s phone records and found that they reflected numerous and lengthy phone conversations between the then DOJ OIG employee and reporters at the media outlets during the time period in which articles were published about the then ongoing DOJ OIG review, as well as electronic evidence that demonstrated that the then DOJ OIG employee was privy to documents referenced in the various articles.
“The independent investigation further identified phone calls between the then DOJ OIG employee and reporters at the media outlets that, in multiple instances, occurred close in time both to the then DOJ OIG employee accessing or possessing specific sensitive, non-public documents, including the draft DOJ OIG report, relating to the then ongoing DOJ OIG review and to the publication of the news articles. The independent investigation found that the then DOJ OIG employee’s actions violated federal ethics regulations and DOJ OIG policy.”
According to Fox News:
Fox News later learned following a Freedom of Information Act request that the investigation the employee had discussed with the media had to do with the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” border crossing policy which led to mass detentions and separations of families until then-President Donald Trump called for an end to the practice.
Articles based on the draft report were published in the New York Times and NBC News.
That investigation included a review of the now-former DOJ Inspector General employee’s phone records, which “reflected numerous and lengthy phone conversations between the then DOJ OIG employee and reporters at the media outlets during the time period in which articles were published about the then ongoing DOJ OIG review.”
The DOJ statement continues:
“Upon reporting by a media outlet that it had reviewed a draft report of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the DOJ OIG referred for investigation to the Integrity Committee of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), as required by the Inspector General Act, the question of whether one or more DOJ OIG employees had disclosed the draft DOJ OIG report or other sensitive, non-public information about the then ongoing DOJ OIG review to the media without authorization.
“After considering the referral, CIGIE’s Integrity Committee declined to investigate the matter as there was no allegation or information suggesting that any person covered under the Integrity Committee’s jurisdiction disclosed sensitive, non-public information to the media without authorization.
“However, the Integrity Committee agreed, at DOJ OIG’s request, to identify another Office of Inspector General of the Integrity Committee’s choosing to conduct an independent investigation of the alleged unauthorized disclosure.
https://slaynews.com/news/doj-employee-accused-of-leaking-on-donald-trump-abruptly-resigns-as-ig-closes-in/
why not stick to the topic at hand, rather than trying to deflect?
i say 40 bil would have bought a lot of baby formula for desperate parents right here in the USA
yes, and the military industrial complex, a la eisenhower's speech, needs their free flow of easy cash
quite clear that brandon, zelensky, and others do not want to pursue any kind of negotiations or settlements