Oregon Prepares Its American Indian Students For Failure With Freebies

By: Bruce Gilley September 07, 2022part 1 of 2

When states likeOregon put equity over quality, students suffer, no matter how little tuition they pay.

The fall semester is getting underway and with it comes a de facto residential school system for Native American college students in Oregon with all the costs, none of the benefits, and many new harms.

In May, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced free college, including housing, for all students who claim American Indian ancestry in the state. Under the Oregon Tribal Student Grant program, the students will get free tuition, housing, books, and “other costs not covered by other grants” for both undergraduate and graduate studies at public and some private colleges and universities in the state.

Michigan and Montana already offer free tuition to Native American students, along with a handful of public universities, notably the University of California system. But Oregon is the first state to go all-in with wrap-around costs for housing and incidentals.

Oregon taxpayers are on the hook for $19 million for the program’s first year, or $27,000 per student for the expected 700 enrollees(450 have applied so far). Brown wants it to be a “model” for the whole country and has asked for two more years of funding.

Revisionist History of Indian Residential Schools

The changes are a response to the moral panic that gripped the American left in 2021 when false claims of “unmarked graves” at Canada’s former Indian residential schools were made. That prompted Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to launch a review of the 408 original Indian residential schools (including nine in Oregon) that existed in the U.S., most of which closed a century ago.

The resulting report charged that the schools inflicted “intergenerational trauma” on today’s Native Americans.

Democratically-controlled federal and state governments have been scrambling to assuage their guilt ever since. In the process, they are inflicting real harm on students who identify as Native American and are sticking taxpayers with wasteful open-ended entitlements.

For their time and place, the Indian residential schools in both Canada and the United States were appropriate interventions to bring American Indian youth out of tribal society and into the modern world. They were also enormously popular with their parents. Paying the full costs made sense back then to get the students into the educational system.

Today, the Department of the Interior still funds 183 residential and non-residential Indian schools at the K-12 level, mostly tribe-operated. The department indignantly maintains that “in sharp contrast to the policies of the past, these schools aim to provide a quality education to students from across Indian Country and to empower Indigenous youth to better themselves and their communities.”

The data suggest otherwise.The tribal schools are longhouses of failure. They cost 60 percent more per student than average public schools and are rife with miseducation, absenteeism, tribal rent-seeking, and anti-American indoctrination.

Failing Up

Nonetheless, Oregon is extending this K-12 failure into higher education. There are already 34 government-funded tribal colleges and universities in the nation that Native American students pay little or nothing to attend. Average graduation rates were an abysmal26 percent in 2019, according to Department of

Education data, a bracing achievement given that the institutions are pre-committed to graduating any student with a pulse.

Median earnings three years after graduation, meanwhile, are only $25,000, over a third lower than for American college graduates as a whole.

It is an old adage that anything that is free is not worth having. It’s particularly true in college education, where students must be highly motivated and internally directed to plan for, choose, excel in, and then make good use of their credentials.

Non-native college students should thank their lucky stars that Democrats are not trying to impose similar systems on them, even though a 2021 analysis in Oregon found embarrassingly that white students face the same challenges of paying for college as Indian students in the state. This makes a mockery of the state’s claim that such a race-based program is needed for “eliminating college affordability barriers” for Native American students…

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/07/oregon-prepares-native-american-students-for-failure/

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The Oregon program will no doubt boost the “output” metric of Native Americans showing up on campus. That might have been a reasonable assumption for the old Indian residential grade schools but not for higher education in modern society. Native American students should be ready to join other citizens in saving for, paying for, and rationally calculating the costs and benefits of their own college educations. This includes valuing it and putting efforts into it precisely because one is paying for it.

The $9,000 gap in annual income between white and Native American bachelor’s degree holders in Oregon 10 years after graduation — mainly driven by degree choices, academic performance, later job choices, and of course job performance but which Democrats reductively attribute to “racism” — is certain to widen under this program.

When Leftists Put Equity Over Quality

The universities, meanwhile, are promising to compound the harm by delivering to the Native American students not the latest cutting-edge knowledge presented in an atmosphere of vigorous debate, but degraded woke education tailored for native students who are presumably not smart or resilient enough to survive in modern society. Portland State University president Stephen Percy promised “to create a welcoming educational environment for Indigenous students” through “the emerging integration of Indigenous knowledge and focus across many of our programs.”

If the universities do not go far enough, native radicals will push them anyways. “We still have the heavy work of when you get inside the institution… because these institutions do not mirror our indigenous culture,” a tribal member who is a professor at Portland State University told local television in May. In this view, the students are “decolonizing” the public institutions that should by rights be controlled by them anyways since they sit on “stolen land”, a farcical claim that every Oregon public college and university now accepts with an official land acknowledgment.

Gov. Brown was surely correct in May when she promised that the new system would “profoundly impact the future of Oregon’s tribal students.” If she had bothered for a moment to take off her “equity lens” and put on instead an “individual responsibility and freedom” lens, she would realize how profoundly negative this impact will be.

Theprogram will create a victim mentality in American Indian residential schoolsystems whose inter-generational trauma will be sure to keep those students failing and resentful of their failure. This will generate sub-standard outcomes for those students, thus providing further “evidence” of marginalization, systemic racism, and the need for equity-based special needs programs. This is called a perpetual motion machine, which while impossible in physics is entirely possible in politics.

As the Oregon model spreads to other states, Americans of goodwill who actually care about better outcomes for Native American youth should work with their state representatives to ensure that such new residential dependency programs are defunded.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/07/oregon-prepares-native-american-students-for-failure/

The Trilateral Commission established in 1973 was to destroy independent countries, society, education, unions and financial independence so the NWO takes over.

The top three goals were stated by Brezinski, American youth have too much freedom of speech, we need to stop that, so they devised inflitrating unions, education and religions along with other sections of the country. Education was a major focus, so they have been working at this since 1973, it's going on 50 years that they infiltrated education to make children stupider. They with their radicals removed civics, creative outlets like music, art (severly downgraded if not remove), history of the US, and started the victim mentionality with emotional learning. Wokeness is killing our nation. It must be stopped.

Any doubt on the question of TC goals is answered by David Rockefeller himself, the founder of the TC, in his Memoirs (2003): “Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

https://www.technocracy.news/trilateral-commission-the-secret-circle-that-controls-governments/

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You might have meant to type in reddit website, I'm sure this place and the droids you are looking for are not here.

lurk more or not at all, ty for reading a fascinating article.

I'm sure states are not all red or blue so find a blue area in your own state. Good luck with your victim mentality.

Actually if you live in DC and work for an agency there, I'm sure you've found your perfect blue environment.

To Restore Americans’ Faith In Elections, Fix Sloppy Record-Keeping

By: John R. Lott, Jr and Steven M. Smith September 07, 2022

Unfortunately, election officials across the country are not keeping the most basic data to monitor election outcomes. Even when they say they do, the numbers do not come close to matching up.

It was a simple goal: match the number of voters with the number of ballots cast. After the last general election there were concerns that ballots were counted multiple times (so that there could be more ballots cast than voters who voted) and that ballots were destroyed (so that there could be more voters who voted than ballots cast). But, through our examination, we learned that it cannot be determined if these discrepancies exist, because most states and counties simply do not keep timestamped records of who voted as required by law.

The America First Policy Institute made public records requests based on state-specific laws for the top 100 most-populated counties in the traditional 14 swing states that typically determine presidential elections.Ninety-four of the 100 counties did not keep records of who voted in the 2020 election, and only two state-wide election officers had the records preserved. Equally disturbing, even in the six counties that did keep records, there was on average a 2.89 percent discrepancy between the number of people voting and the number of ballots cast.

In Miami-Dade, Florida, the discrepancy was about 1.6 percent — a difference of 16,617 votes. Ninety-two percent of the precincts had more recorded ballots cast than voters (for a total of 15,854), and the other 8 percent had more voters than ballots cast (763). Since 12 percent of precincts were missing records, we didn’t include those. That’s a discrepancy that can very well swing elections. For example, in 2018, Republican Rick Scott won Florida’s U.S. Senate seat by 10,033 votes.

Cobb County, Georgia, had a massive discrepancy of 34,893 votes, or 8.8 percent.All but one of the precincts had more ballots cast than voters. The gap was more than two and half times the 13,471 votes.

Bad Record-Keeping

The Federal Civil Rights Act of 1960 requires that “all records and papers… relating to any… act requisite to voting in such election [for federal office]” be kept for 22 months. But, within days after an election,we found that county election officials began updating their original digital voter list for when people move or die. Incredibly, they saved over the original computer file and did not retain a separate copy of the original file, thus making it impossible to match up the data. This could point to a need to educate election officials regarding the requirements under the law. What we know is that data storage is trivially inexpensive, and it would be easy to save a file time stamped on election day.

Montana as a Bad Example

Missoula, Montana’s entirely mail-in election shows why record-keeping is crucial. A January 4, 2021, recount of the 2020 election found 4,592 fewer envelopes than the County Election Office’s tally of 72,491 votes. That is a 6.33 percent difference in votes counted. A second March 28, 2022, recount found only 71 fewer envelopes than votes. During that recount, two more boxes of envelopes were discovered.

But it should be easy to alleviate people’s concerns about what happened. We should be able to simply watch the video of the envelope opening on election night and count the number of opened envelopes. Indeed, that is precisely why election officials make these videos. But there is a big problem. Missoula County erased the video shortly after the election.

New Effort to Preserve Records

After reviewing our findings regarding state and local officials not following the Civil Rights Act of 1960, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose of Ohio is now spearheading a national effort with the support of Secretary of State Mac Warner of West Virginia to ensure the preservation of election day files going forward. They are calling for states to pass legislation requiring the maintenance of digital, publicly accessible voter records.

Something needs to be done. Fifty percent of likely U.S. voters think it is likely that “widespread cheating will affect the outcome of this fall’s congressional elections,” including 35 percent of Democrats and 70 percent of Republicans.

If we can address and enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1960’s data retention requirements, we will be able to help restore confidence in our system. Americans could see a clear picture of who voted (not how they voted) in the general election, and any discrepancy could quickly and easily be addressed or investigated. Doing so will ensure it is easy to vote in America but harder to cheat.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/07/to-restore-americans-faith-in-elections-fix-sloppy-record-keeping/

Patrick Wood: Technocracy Rising Interview (Part 1 of 3)

Starting of the Trilateral Commission and their goals

Author Patrick Wood discusses his recent book "Technocracy Rising", in a 3-part interview. (Summary of parts, below) http://www.technocracyrising.com/

Patrick Wood is an author and lecturer who has studied elite globalization policies since the late 1970's, when he partnered with the late Antony C. Sutton to coauthorTrilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II. He remains a leading expert on the elitist Trilateral Commission, their policies and achievements in creating their self-proclaimed "New International Economic Order.”

An economist by education, a financial analyst and writer by profession and an American Constitutionalist by choice, Wood maintains a Biblical world view and has deep historical insights into the modern attacks on sovereignty, property rights and personal freedom. Such attacks are epitomized by the implementation of U.N. policies such as Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, Smart Growth and in education, the widespread adoption of Common Core.

Wood is a frequent speaker and guest on radio shows around the nation. His current research builds on Trilateral Commission hegemony, focusing on Transhumanism, Technocracy and scientism, and how these are co-opting economics, politics and religion around the world.

Part 1: Energy based Currency, Columbia University origins of Technocracy, Eugenics, Population Control, and Agenda 21, origins of Positivism and Scientism;

Part 2: Trilaterals, CFR, Rockefellers, U.N., 1992 Rio Conference, Agenda 21 and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP);

Part 3: Wood's work with Antony C. Sutton, the Origins of the Trilateral Commission, Trilaterals and Larry King, and how the Trilateral Commission influenced the U.S. Govt. since 1973 to present day. Thanks to Ernie & Donna Hancock at FreedomsPhoenix.com for the use of their studio, and to Rick Malchow for his assistance in bringing you this interview.

Good basis of starting to learn all TLC and NWO, WEF, etc. about why we are at right now, and how society is being torn apart, to steal our freedom and liberty from all.

‘Shadow President’: Former Trilateral Commission Member Susan Rice

Ric Grenell, who served as acting director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, is blasting Susan Rice and says she is acting as a “shadow president.”

His comments came during an interview on CPAC Now. An excerpt of the interview was posted on Twitter by the Conservative Political Action conference.

“Susan Rice has been appointed as domestic policy adviser,” he said. “ That’s a joke. She doesn’t know anything about domestic policy.

“So, she’s a foreign policy expert that’s been placed in the domestic policy role. And that is just a clear signal that all of our international issues, our foreign policies, are going to be treated like domestic policy.

“This is a problem for the Democratic Party. The foreign policy mess that they are creating is a mess because they are placating the far-left domestically. It’s part of that cancel culture.

“They’re beating up on Israel because it pleases the far-left. They are trying to reach out to Iran and pretend like the Iranian regime should be respected because it pleases the far progressive left. This is the upsidedown world of the Biden administration. President (Joe) Biden is too weak to stop the progressive left from taking over the domestic and foreign policy. (Vice President) Kamala (Harris) does not understand what’s going on…

“And Susan Rice is really happy that Biden is so weak. We have a shadow president in Susan Rice and no one is paying attention.”

Rice is the former national security adviser for President Barack Obama. At one point she had emerged as a serious contender for consideration for Biden’s running mate in 2020.

Rice has faced criticism over her role in the failed Benghazi response that left four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, dead.

She was also implicated in the unmasking of Americans in intelligence reports during the presidential transition. Some of those Americans turned out to be Donald Trump associates. Rice has denied any wrongdoing.

Grenell was interviewed for CPAC Now by Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, and by Mercedes Schlapp, his wife and former White House director of strategic communications for the Trump administration, Fox News noted.

The White House did not immediately respond to an email from Fox News. Grenell had previously predicted Rice would assume the role as “shadow president.”

“We got a vice president who needs to spend most of her time in the Senate because it’s a 50-50 type. So Susan Rice is extremely excited that vice president Harris is preoccupied in the Senate and the shadow presidency of Susan Rice is front and center,” he said shortly after Biden was sworn in.

https://www.technocracy.news/shadow-president-former-trilateral-commission-member-susan-rice/

Special Master Order Reveals Biden’s Direct Involvement In Trump Raid And Six Other Bombshells

By: Margot Cleveland September 06, 2022

1 of 3(Prof Cleveland always writes long but excellent articles)

The federal judge’s 24-page order further calls into question the DOJ’s targeting of Trump. A federal judge on Monday granted former President Donald Trump’s request for the appointment of a special master to review the documents seized by the FBI during a raid on his Mar-a-Lago home last month. Presiding Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, further held that the Department of Justice cannot review or use for criminal investigative purposes any material seized pending the review process.

Besides handing Trump a victory in his battle for some oversight of the Biden administration’s digging into his documents, Cannon highlighted several significant facts over the course of her 24-page order that further call into question the DOJ’s targeting of Trump.

Here are the seven top-line takeaways:

1. President Biden Was Directly Involved

In the order granting Trump’s request for the appointment of a special master, Cannon began by providing a summary of the backdrop that led to the search. Throughout 2021, Trump and the National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”), “engaged in conversations concerning records from [Trump’s] time in office,” the court noted. Those discussions resulted in Trump in January 2022 transferring 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago to NARA. NARA subsequently informed the Department of Justice that some items in the boxes contained markings of “classified national security information.”

Following the archive’s outreach to the Justice Department, NARA notified Trump on April 12, 2022, that it intended to provide the 15 boxes to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Trump’s attorneys sought a delay in the transfer to assess whether any documents contained privileged material. But then, as Cannon wrote, after obtaining a short delay, on May 10, 2022, NARA informed Trump it would proceed with “provid[ing] the FBI access to the records in question, as requested by the incumbent President, beginning as early as Thursday, May 12, 2022.”

In including this quote in her order, Cannon cited the letter the NARA’s acting archivist sent to Trump’s lawyer. That letter explained that Biden had decided to defer to the archivist’s “determination, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding whether or not [the archivist] should uphold the former President’s purported ‘protective assertion of executive privilege.’” Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall then explained in the letter that based on her consultation with the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, she had decided not to honor Trump’s claim of privilege.

While the media has previously highlighted those aspects of the letter, Monday’s order highlighted a key sentence in that same letter that went less noticed by the press: “NARA will provide the FBI access to the records in question, as requested by the incumbent President, beginning as early as Thursday, May 12, 2022” (emphasis added).

This language indicates that Biden did not merely defer to the NARA but asked the NARA to give the documents to the FBI. Of course, deferring to the NARA’s judgment equated to Biden authorizing the hand-off to the FBI, but this passage suggests a more direct connection between Biden and the investigation into

Trump.

2. Timeline of the Trump Targeting Is Suspect

A second significant detail revealed by Monday’s order concerns the timeline of events, which the court exposed by providing a clear chronology. On May 10, 2022, the archivist informed Trump’s lawyers that the “NARA will provide the FBI access to the records in question, as requested by the incumbent President, beginning as early as Thursday, May 12, 2022.” And on May 11, 2022, before the DOJ received possession of the 15 boxes from NARA, the DOJ “obtained a grand jury subpoena,” for “[a]ny and all documents or writings in the custody or control of Donald J. Trump and/or the Office of Donald J. Trump bearing classification markings.”

But why would the DOJ seek a grand jury subpoena for any and all documents in Trump’s possession bearing classification markings before reviewing the material provided by the NARA? And given that the DOJ obtained the subpoena the day after the NARA told Trump’s lawyer “the incumbent President” had requested the archive provide the documents to the FBI, one must ask: Did Biden direct the DOJ to obtain the grand jury subpoena?

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/06/special-master-order-reveals-bidens-direct-involvement-in-trump-raid-and-six-other-bombshells/

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3. Not So Fast Joe — Trump’s Executive Privilege Can’t Be So Quickly Sidestepped

Another important detail from Monday’s order concerned the court’s handling of Trump’s request for a review of the seized material to address issues of “executive privilege.” In opposing Trump’s request for a special master, the Biden administration argued that Trump lacked the right to assert “executive privilege” against the current executive branch. The court concluded that the Biden administration’s “position arguably overstates the law,” noting that the Supreme Court has not “rule[d] out the possibility of a former President overcoming an incumbent President on executive privilege matters.”

“Further, just this year,” Cannon continued, “the Supreme Court noted that, at least in connection with a congressional investigation, ‘[t]he questions whether and in what circumstances a former President may obtain a court order preventing disclosure of privileged records from his tenure in office, in the face of a determination by the incumbent President to waive the privilege, are unprecedented and raise serious and substantial concerns.’” To protect former President Trump’s ability to raise a question of executive privilege, then, a special master should review the documents and make an initial assessment, the court concluded.

This analysis tees up the possibility that Trump will later assert executive privilege, prompting a showdown with the Biden administration.

4. Members of the Investigative Team Saw Confidential Attorney-Client Documents

While the Biden administration had not reviewed the seized documents to assess any potential executive privilege concerns, a Privilege Review Team had screened the material to determine if it is protected by attorney-client privilege. Because it had already screened the material, the government objected to the appointment of a special master to conduct “another round of screening,” arguing in essence, that such screening would be “unnecessary.”

“The Court takes a different view on this record,” Cannon explained in rejecting the government’s argument. The court then stressed that the evidence suggests the Privilege Review Team’s initial screening for potentially privileged material was faulty.

“The Privilege Review Team’s Report references at least two instances in which members of the Investigative Team were exposed to material that was then delivered to the Privilege Review Team and, following another review, designated as potentially privileged material,” Cannon noted. “Those instances alone, even if entirely inadvertent, yield questions about the adequacy of the filter review process.”

The federal judge further expressed concern about the fact that “the Filter Review Team’s Report does not indicate that any steps were taken after these instances of exposure to wall off the two tainted members of the Investigation Team,” with the “tainted members” being the ones who had seen the material presumed protected by attorney-client privilege.

While a special master cannot address the issue of the “tainted members” on the investigative team, the court’s highlighting of the problem will likely push the DOJ to keep those agents away from any related part of the investigation. But what the special master can do is review the documents and determine if others were protected by attorney-client privilege. If so, the DOJ will have bigger problems.

5. DOJ Seized a Lot of Personal Material

Another revelation from Monday’s order concerned the amount of personal material the FBI seized. “The Government’s inventory reflects a seizure of approximately 11,000 documents and 1,800 other items from Plaintiff’s residence,” the court wrote. Of the material seized, the court said approximately 100 documents contained classification markings. But the FBI also seized some 500 pages of material potentially protected by attorney-client privilege, medical documents, correspondence related to taxes, and accounting information.

Further, as the court noted, “the Government also has acknowledged that it seized some “[p]ersonal effects without evidentiary value.” And “some of the seized items (e.g., articles of clothing)” were “readily identifiable as personal property.” The FBI had also seized three of Trump’s passports, but those items have already been returned to the former president.

That the FBI seized Trump’s passports, articles of clothing, medical records, and accounting and tax documents during the raid of Mar-a-Lago highlights both the breadth (and lack of particularity) of the search warrant and the potential for the Biden administration to use the search as a fishing expedition.

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6. FBI Suggested Trump Committed a Crime by Returning a Torn-Up Document to the NARA

The sixth revelation came not directly from the court’s opinion but from the government filings referenced in Monday’s order and specifically the DOJ’s response brief in opposition to Trump’s request for the appointment of a special master.

In its response brief, the government wrote that on February 9, 2022, the special agent in charge of NARA’s Office of the Inspector General made a referral of Trump to the DOJ.

The government further explained that “the NARA Referral was made on two bases: evidence that classified records had been stored at the Premises until mid-January 2022, and evidence that certain pages of Presidential records had been torn up. Related to the second concern, the NARA Referral included a citation to 18 U.S.C. § 2071.”

This passage proves intriguing for two reasons. First, it appears the special agent in charge made a criminal referral of the former president because documents Trump had returned to the archivist had been torn up at some point. This reference screams “witch hunt,” which leads to the second point: The unredacted portions of the search warrant affidavit omit any reference to the torn documents.

Rather, the unredacted portions of the search warrant affidavit speak of the government “conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records.” The affidavit continues by noting that “the investigation began as a result of a referral the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) sent to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) on February 9, 2022,” which “were reported by NARA to contain, among other things, highly classified documents intermingled with other records.”'

None of the unsealed portions of the affidavit reference the second basis for the referral — that Trump returned torn documents. Maybe such references were black-out, but if so, the DOJ lacked a solid reason for the redactions given they revealed the same facts in the briefing. Or maybe the DOJ realized that using torn documents as a pretext to search the home of a former president would paint the raid as political — because it sure does make the special agent in charge’s referral look political.

7. Leaks Look Bad Too

In granting Trump’s request for the appointment of a special master, Cannon stressed that the special master would help maintain institutional trust in a case heavily politicized. She further noted that a special master would serve to ensure “the integrity of an orderly process amidst swirling allegations of bias and media leaks.” Here, the court noted that “when asked about the dissemination to the media of information relative to the contents of the seized records, Government’s counsel stated that he had no knowledge of any leaks stemming from his team but candidly acknowledged the unfortunate existence of leaks to the press.”

Those “unfortunate” leaks provide further proof of the politicization of this entire affair: In three weeks’ time, Mar-a-Lago has sprung more leaks than have escaped from Special Counsel John Durham’s team over three years. And while the special master may not be able to silence the deep-state leakers, he or she will provide a check to the Biden administration.

But first, the parties must, as the court put it, “meaningfully confer” and then submit a joint filing to the court of a list of proposed special master candidates and a detailed proposal of the master’s duties, limitations, and ability to speak privately with Trump and the government, and other logistical information.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/06/special-master-order-reveals-bidens-direct-involvement-in-trump-raid-and-six-other-bombshells/

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WTF did they seize personal clothing? Magazine covers, pictures etc? Did they seize Melania's clothing since they were in her closet, what about Barron, that's just weird and sinister

>Further, as the court noted, “the Government also has acknowledged that it seized some “[p]ersonal effects without evidentiary value.” And “some of the seized items (e.g., articles of clothing)” were “readily identifiable as personal property.” The FBI had also seized three of Trump’s passports, but those items have already been returned to the former president.

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WTF did they seize personal clothing? Magazine covers, pictures etc? Did they seize Melania's clothing since they were in her closet, what about Barron, that's just weird and sinister

>>Further, as the court noted, “the Government also has acknowledged that it seized some “[p]ersonal effects without evidentiary value.” And “some of the seized items (e.g., articles of clothing)” were “readily identifiable as personal property.” The FBI had also seized three of Trump’s passports, but those items have already been returned to the former president.

>>This passage proves intriguing for two reasons. First, it appears the special agent in charge made a criminal referral ofthe former president because documents Trump had returned to the archivist had been torn up at some point. This reference screams “witch hunt,” which leads to the second point: The unredacted portions of the search warrant affidavit omit any reference to the torn documents".

This makes no sense, President Trump returned torn up papers, they were torn up, not destroyed and were returned. If he was going to hide them, or destroy them so NARA wouldn't get them, why return them? Who know how or when they were torn up?

Who tore them up, it doesn't matter because NARA got the documents back even though they were torn up.

Did the NARA rep tear them up just to implicate Trump? But it still doesn't implicate him, because even in torn up condition he returned them. What is the exact problem?

Has The Trump Raid Made Bill Barr Forget All About Deep-State Deceit?

By: Margot Cleveland September 07, 20221 of 2

Barr’s opinion rests on the assumed veracity of leaks, spin, and misleading narratives. Bill Barr is wrong about the Mar-a-Lago raid for the same reason Barr’s critics were wrong about his decision to investigate the Russia-collusion hoax.

Barrs opinion now and those of his adversaries when he served as Trump’s attorney general both rest on the assumed veracity of leaks, spin, and misleading narratives. The facts have since vindicated Barr’s decision to investigate the investigators who targeted Trump, and until the details surrounding the latest attack on Trump are proven, nothing said by the Biden administration or its partners in the press should be accepted as true.

On Friday and again on Tuesday, Barr appeared on Fox News to discuss the Mar-a-Lago raid and the Department of Justice’s investigation into former President Donald Trump. During both appearances, Barr repeated the storylines pushed by the D.C. media cartel since news first broke that the FBI had raided Trump’s Florida home.

In his appearance on “America Reports” on Friday, Barr told hosts Sandra Smith and John Roberts he personally thought that for the DOJ “to take things to the current point they probably have pretty good evidence.” Barr continued:

(Bullshit if they didn't do it to HRC that did destroy evidence and sell top secrets to foreign countries they did not search her home or arrest her, so this a lie out of his mouth and he knows it. imo)

Now let me just say I think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in Mar-a-Lago. People say this was also unprecedented but it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put it in a country club, OK. How long is the government going to try to get that? They jawbone for a year. They were deceived on the voluntary actions taken. They then went and got a subpoena. They were deceived on that, they feel. And the facts are starting to show they were being jerk around. And so how long do they wait?

Whilehe caveated his comments as “speculation,” and noted that until we see the evidence, “it’s hard to say,” Barr’s conclusions flow from the assumption that the details made public by the DOJ and the leaks to the media represent the truth — and the whole truth.

But those very same leaks should make Barr leery. Special Counsel John Durham’s team is leak free. Similarly, the other men Barr trusted to handle the sensitive investigations into the Clinton Foundation, the inappropriate prosecution of Michael Flynn, and the evidence of the Biden family corruption coming from Ukraine, ensured their teams kept the investigations confidential.

Conversely, the previous get-Trump plots all relied on media leaks to push falsehoods about the investigations, whether it was Crossfire Hurricane, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, or the impeachment efforts.

The evidence also indicates that the “driver” of the investigation was not the “loads of classified information sitting in Mar-a-Lago,” but Trump: He was the man; the government just needed a crime…

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/07/has-the-trump-raid-made-bill-barr-forget-all-about-deep-state-deceit/

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As I detailed soon after the raid, the trail to Mar-a-Lago began at the White House long before the discovery of classified material in boxes returned to the National Archives. The now-retired head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), David Ferriero, recalled “watching the Trumps leave the White House and getting off in the helicopter that day, and someone carrying a white banker box, and saying to myself, ‘What the hell’s in that box?’” According to Ferriero, “that began a whole process of trying to determine whether any records had not been turned over to the Archives.”

NARA then made a criminal referral to the DOJ based not merely on the presence of classified materials but also suggesting Trump violated 18 U.S.C. § 2071 because the former president returned a document that he had previously torn up. NARA’s interactions with Trump contrast sharply with its handling of former President Barack Obama’s presidential documents and how it handled Hillary Clinton’s violations of federal law, as I’ve detailed extensively here, exposing the referral as a political hit.

Not only has Barr accepted the false narrative that the “driver” of the investigationwas “loads of classified information sitting in Mar-a-Lago,” but during both yesterday and Friday’s interviews, the former attorney general repeated several of the story lines seeded by the leakers.

While Barr made clear that the outcome of any charging decision depended on what the evidence showed and how clear it was,he has clearly internalized the leakers’ version of events.

“If they clearly have the president moving stuff around and hiding stuff in his desk and telling people to dissemble,” Barr noted at one point, the DOJ is more likely to charge the former president. “They were deceived on the voluntary actions taken. They then went and got a subpoena. They were deceived on that, they feel,” Barr remarked. Then yesterday,Barr told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum that there is “evidence to suggest they were deceived.”

(This tells me he’s working with Garland and is a mouthpiece for the DOJ, how did he know they felt deceived? How can he say anything that has not been reported before?)

The evidence, though, consists of select documents released by the DOJ, including heavily redacted documents, and media leaks. In other words, it’s precisely what convinced half the country that Trump colluded with Russia.

While it is possible that Trump deceived the DOJ or that he defied the grand jury subpoena,the entire Mar-a-Lago episode tracks the Russia-collusion-hoax playbook too closely to give credence to any of the accusations levied against the former president. And Barr is wrong to trust them.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/07/has-the-trump-raid-made-bill-barr-forget-all-about-deep-state-deceit/

(I think Margo is giving Barr too much of the benefit of the doubt. No Pollyanna thinking here Margot, Barr knows exactly what he is doing. He just leaked to the Martha at Fox there is evidence to suggest they were deceived. So now Barr is leaking info that was not put out before)