Postal Service surveilled protesters with pro-gun, anti-Biden agendas

The U.S. Postal Service monitored protesters across the country, snooping on Americans focused on issues involving guns and President Biden’s election, according to records obtained by The Washington Times.

Postal inspectors tracked the actions of gun rights activists gathering in Richmond, Virginia; people preparing to demonstrate against police in Louisville, Kentucky, after an investigation into the police shooting of Breonna Taylor; and far-right groups headed to the District of Columbia after Mr. Biden’s election.

Cato Institute senior fellow Patrick Eddington obtained the heavily redacted records detailing the postal inspectors’ spying from September 2020 through April 2021, including through covert social media surveillance called the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP).

The records provide a rare glimpse into the breadth and depth of the Postal Service’s surveillance apparatus, which Mr. Eddington said was capable of reaching into every home and business in the country.

“The Postal Service cannot reliably deliver mail to my own home, yet they can find the money and people to effectively digitally spy at scale, including on Americans engaged in First Amendment-protected activities,” Mr. Eddington said.

A redacted situational awareness bulletin released in response to Mr. Eddington’s Freedom of Information Act request showed the U.S. Postal Inspection Service tracked “peaceful armed protests” by Virginians demonstrating at a Second Amendment rally for “Lobby Day” in Richmond on Jan. 18, 2021.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/sep/22/postal-service-surveilled-protesters-pro-guns-anti/

Trump Special Master Reveals New Plan After Appeals Court Ruling

The judge designated as the special master in former President Donald Trump’s records case has proposed that a government official swear that the government properly listed items taken from Trump’s home in August.

U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master, also left open the possibility of recommending the government be ordered to return some of the seized materials.

Dearie outlined the plan on Sept. 22, following an order that blocks him and Trump’s lawyers from accessing materials with classified markings that were taken from Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida.

Dearie, a George W. Bush appointee, was chosen by Trump attorneys and Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers and put into place by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee. Trump and the DOJ can object to components of the plan; Cannon would adjudicate any objections.

Declaration

Dearie’s case management plan starts with having a government official “with sufficient knowledge of the matter” submitting a declaration or affidavit regarding an inventory list DOJ officials have released.

The official would attest that the list “represents the full and accurate extent of the property seized from” from Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida residence.

f the plan is put into place, Trump would then respond with a list of any items listed by the government that were not seized from Mar-a-Lago.

Trump would also detail items that were seized but not included in the inventory.

“This submission shall be Plaintiff’s final opportunity to raise any factual dispute as to the completeness and accuracy of the Detailed Property Inventory,” Dearie said.

The government would then be allowed to respond to Trump.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22672328/dearie-case-management-plan.pdf

Seized Materials

Based on an appeals court order, Cannon earlier Tuesday blocked Dearie and Trump lawyers from viewing the roughly 100 materials that were marked classified and seized from Mar-a-Lago.

Dearie and the Trump attorneys are still poised to review each page of non-classified materials taken from the resort.

Dearie wants the government to list each document and say whether the government filter team identified the document as potentially covered by a form of privilege, such as attorney-client privilege. Trump’s team has already received an initial set of potentially privileged documents, according to Dearie. After Trump’s team reviews the materials, they would specify any privilege claims, including any claims for documents that were not deemed potentially privileged by the government. Dearie will resolve any disputes on privilege.

The final log of privilege designations is due to Dearie on or before Oct. 21.

Delay on Ruling

The special master will not decide whether Trump shall receive any of the seized materials back until after Cannon rules on any objections to his plan.

Trump has already motioned for the return of property.

Trump must submit a brief in support of the motion no less than seven days after Cannon finishes ruling on the case management plan and any objections. The government will then respond, and Trump can respond to the government’s response.

Either party can request an oral argument.

Dearie said that he will “promptly issue a report and recommendation after briefing and oral argument has been completed.” Cannon has the final say on the motion.

Request for Help

Dearie wants permission to bring on a retired judge for assistance.

Former U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein “has experience with complex case management, privilege review, warrant procedures, and other matters that may arise in the course of the Special Master’s duties,” Dearie wrote.

Magistrate judges are appointed by other judges.

Orenstein has worked with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court—Dearie served on that court for years—and holds top secret clearance.

Orenstein should be compensated at $500 an hour, Dearie said.

Trump is paying for all of the costs associated with the special master’s work.

https://www.ntd.com/trump-special-master-reveals-new-plan-after-appeals-court-ruling_845018.html

China’s Friend in the White House, Joe Biden, Cancelled Trump’s Program to Prevent Chinese Spying

Fox News recently reported that five months after a federal jury convicted him, a judge has thrown out three of the four convictions against a University of Kansas researcher, Feng Tao, who carried out work for Fuzhou University in China while he was employed at the University of Kansas and received research funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

Tao was convicted as part of the Department of Justice’s “China Initiative” started in 2018 by President Donald Trump to protect U.S. national security from Chinese spying on U.S. intellectual property and in academia.

Yet the Feng Tao case is far from an isolated incident.

Chinese scientists working in the U.S., even those who have become U.S. citizens or permanent residents, routinely receive funding from the Chinese government and collaborate with scientists in Communist China, including scientists from the People’s Liberation Army, all while receiving U.S. taxpayer-funded research grants from the National Institutes of Health and other federal government agencies.

The following is one of likely hundreds if not thousands of Chinese scientists working in the U.S. and collaborating with China, although it does not imply that there was criminal activity.

Shibo Jiang obtained his MS and MD degrees from the First and Fourth Medical University of the People’s Liberation Army.

Between 1997 and 2016, when Shibo Jiang worked in the U.S. and was a Principal Investigator on U.S. research grants amounting to more than $17 million, the vast majority coming from Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he also received support from the Chinese government and actively collaborated with Chinese research institutions including those of the People’s Liberation Army.

This is one such research project.

Note that Shibo Jiang associated himself with both the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute in New York and Fudan University in Shanghai.

The co-authors Yufei Wang, Wanbo Tai, Guangyu Zhao, Shihui Sun and Yusen Zhou are from the State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, which is part of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences of the People’s Liberation Army, where Wanbo Tai received his Ph.D. and has since worked in the U.S.

Also note that the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas is cited, a facility funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and which houses a Biosafety Level-4 high containment laboratory for research on dangerous viruses.

For that study, Shibo Jiang was funded by both the National Institutes of Health and the Chinese government, although no conflicts of interest were identified.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/chinas-friend-white-house-joe-biden-canceled-trumps-program-prevent-chinese-spying/

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