12 Jan, 2023 12:20

Republicans see new reason to investigate Joe Biden

The US president may have mishandled classified documents, Senator Lindsey Graham has said

Republicans have urged US Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate the possible mishandling of government records by President Joe Biden. The appeal came after a number of classified files were found in Biden’s former office, which he used while serving as vice president between 2009 and 2017.

Lindsey Graham, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, argued that Garland should initiate a probe similar to the ongoing investigation of former President Donald Trump.

“I think if you believe a special counsel is necessary to assure the public about the handling of classified documents by Donald Trump, you should apply a special counsel to the mishandling of classified documents by President Biden when he was vice president,”the Republican senator told Fox News.

Senator Josh Hawley also called for investigating Biden. “It can’t be that we have two tiers of justice in this country. It can’t be that there’s one rule for Republicans and a different rule for Democrats,” he said while appearing on Fox News. “The Democrats say they’re all for equity. Well, what’s equitable here is that there be a special counsel.”

The White House acknowledged on Monday that “a small number” of classified documentswere discovered in Biden’s former office in Washington in November. According to US media, Garland appointed prosecutor John R. Lausch Jr. to conduct an initial inquiry into the matter.

A number of US news outlets cited sources on Wednesday as saying that Biden’s aides had discovered at least one additional batch of classified documents at a separate location related to the president.

Biden said on Tuesday thathe was “surprised”when learning about the discovery.

“I don’t know what’s in the documents,” the president told reporters during his trip to Mexico.

The incident immediately drew comparisons to the similar allegations against Trump. FBI agents raided the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida in August, retrieving troves of government records, which included classified materials. Garland eventually appointed prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate Trump in connection to the documents, as well as the 2021 US Capitol riot in Washington.

Outgoing presidents must return all presidential records to the government because they are considered the property of the American people. The official records of former presidents are stored in the National Archive.

Trump, however, denied mishandling classified documents. “When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House? These documents were definitely not declassified,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Monday.

https://www.rt.com/news/569744-gop-special-counsel-biden/

12 Jan, 2023 09:06

US lawmakers slam 'insane' Zelensky bust proposal

Republican congressmen claim the idea plays into the “worship” of the foreign leader

Conservative US lawmakers critical of the adulation of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky have rallied against a proposal to place a bust of the foreign leader in the Capitol building in Washington. US RepresentativeJoe Wilson has suggested making a Zelensky statue a permanent feature.

Wilson, a Republican from South Carolina, made a proposal on Monday to direct the Fine Arts Board to obtain a bust “for display in a suitable, permanent location in the House of Representatives wing of the United States Capitol.”

Some members of the GOP’s Freedom Caucus, which includes a conservative minority opposing unconditional support for Ukraine, expressed skepticism. Andy Biggs of Arizona, one of its leading members, asked whether Congress allocating over $100 billion in aid to Ukraine was “not enough.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said she was “absolutely not” approving the idea, adding that US lawmakers were serving “America not Ukraine.”

Popular conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson branded the idea “insane,” telling viewers that Zelensky is a “dictatorial” politician who banned opposition parties in his country and is currently cracking down on a Christian denomination. Having a bust of Zelensky at the Capitol would allow Americans to “worship him daily,” he joked.

Carlson lamented the fact that the proposal came from a Republican and called Wilson “a pretty nice guy.” The congressman is a vocal supporter of Kiev. He led a bipartisan House delegation on a visit to Kiev in December. He also sponsored a resolution urging the US government to suspend Russia from the UN Security Council, which it has no authority to do.

Zelensky received a hero’s welcome when he flew to Washington last month. Some officials, including then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, compared him to Winston Churchill, Britain’s leader during World War II.

Last year, the US Congress approved requests for over $100 billion in spending related to Ukraine, with a large portion of it going to weapons procurement. Zelensky’s visit happened as the Congress was debating a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, which included $45 billion for Ukraine assistance.

https://www.rt.com/news/569736-zelensky-bust-capitol-resolution/

12 Jan, 2023 08:10

German tank deliveries for Ukraine hinge on US – Politico

Berlin has been reluctant to supply Kiev with Leopard 2 panzers without allied support

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will follow US President Joe Biden’s lead on whether to support Kiev with Leopard 2 main battle tanks to help in its fight against Russia, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources.

The UK announced that it would provide Ukraine with main battle tanks, and Poland said it would transfer a company of Leopard 2 panzers to Kiev “as part of coalition building.” Berlin, however, has yet to greenlight Poland’s re-export of the hardware.

According to two unnamed German officials, Scholz’s position on the matter “depended heavily” on Biden. In a joint statement last week, both leaders announced that Washingtonwould donate Bradley infantry fighting vehicles to Kiev, and Berlin would send a batch of Marder IVFs and a Patriot air defense system.

Commenting on the UK’s initiative to supply Ukraine with tanks, the German government spokesman said that “there is no change in the situation now because of the step that the British government has announced.” He added that he was not aware of any requests from allies to send Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine.

In recent weeks, Germany has faced mounting pressure to provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks, but has been reluctant to do so, with Scholz arguing that no other NATO country has sent this type of tank to Ukraine, and Germany should not be the first. He added that such moves should be coordinated with allies.

https://www.rt.com/news/569727-germany-tanks-ukraine-biden-say/

Insanity continues

RevolverNews

18 hours ago

Beattie Goes Off The Reservation: The Truth about Lex Fridman

https://rumble.com/embed/v22bp3c/?pub=4

Chief Nerd

Are You Suffering From a Medical Coincidence?

Kek!

https://rumble.com/embed/v229p2k/?pub=4

Chief Nerd

15 hours ago

🚨 BOMBSHELL:New FOIA Documents Reveal the COVID Pandemic Was a DoD Operation Dating Back to Obama

"A bombshell new report shows the DoD, yes the Pentagon, controlled the COVID-19 program from the very beginning and everything we were told was political theater basically to cover it up right down to the FDA vaccine approval process."

Full Interview: https://youtu.be/ERvURcpg3JE

All the trials that were using subjects were props, the subjects, FDA, employees were kept in the dark.Under Obama under an act (2013) he signed“did not require informed consent”, and the subjects “do not to be notified of danger”. Emergency Use Vaccines do not need to be investigated and they don’t even need to do clinical trials.

The DOD ran this whole bullshit,they gave pharma full immunity. They are treating this an “act of war” so they can get away with everything.

Please listen to full video only 13 minutes.

DOD treated this under the secrecy of an “act of war”! They treated this vaccine as top secret and they never needed to tell anyone what they were doing. DOD told pharma cone out with a prototype, (not tested vaccines, no follow uo) and they never told the public!

None of them can be sued, but I suspect theres going to be serious repercussions

https://rumble.com/embed/v22co5u/?pub=4

Chief Nerd

1 day ago

🔥 RFK Jr Announces a COVID Censorship Lawsuit Against the “Trusted News Initiative”

“The ‘Trusted News Initiative’ was a secretive cartel that involved the big legacy media companies and also the social media platforms”

BBC coordinated this collaboration to strike independent media, stamp them out and choke them was their goal. The used “misinformation” as a euphemism for anything that did not comply with government propaganda, regardless if it was true or false!

https://rumble.com/embed/v2282om/?pub=4

Depopulation was the goal that why they focused on the young, and eliminating the old

https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1613314144643563522?s=20&t=U5sqFI0LJ6gkSxHqUnZs3w

Really long article, posting a portion

Sunlight Fellas, Sunlight! – Roadmap for 118th Congress Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

January 11, 2023 | Sundance | 312

As previously noted, the 118th Congress is expected to authorize a “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.” The subcommittee will fall under the jurisdiction of the House Judiciary Committee led by Chairman Jim Jordan. Additionally, Thomas Massie (R-KY) is being reported as a representative under consideration for the chairmanship the House subcommittee.

I have been asked to outline a roadmap for success in this noble endeavor. So, I will…. and bite my tongue.

Assuming Jim Jordan and Thomas Massie have some grasp of the scale and scope of the opposition they are about to face; and assuming they have a fully prepared staff to support them – willing to take on the most consequential investigation in our lifetimes; then we begin by first defining who will oppose any effort to investigate the “weaponization of government“. Which is to say everyone!

The entire apparatus of the DC political system will do everything in their power, individually and with collective assistance, to ensure this committee fails. The stakes are basically all the marbles. DC politics is an institutional system of compartmentalized silos. A collection of weaponized institutions that view their common enemy as the American people not within them.

Specifically, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and every Republican member therein, including SSCI Vice-Chairman Marco Rubio, will make it their priority mission to block any investigation…

Additionally, every executive branch intelligence institution including the DOJ-NSD, FBI, DHS, ODNI, CIA, DIA, NSC and every sub-agency within their authorities will do anything and everything to block a subcommittee looking into their domestic activity.

Every national security justification that exists, and some that have yet to be created by the DOJ National Security Division solely for the expressed interest of blocking this subcommittee, will be deployed.

Every member of the subcommittee and their staff will be under constant surveillance. Phones will be tapped and tracked, electronic devices monitored, cars and offices bugged, physical surveillance deployed, and top tier officials at every subsidiary agency of the U.S. government will assign investigative groups and contract agents to monitor the activity of the subcommittee and provide weekly updates on their findings.

The White House together with the National Security Council will also backchannel to..

The intelligence apparatus media will be deployed, and daily leaks from the various agencies to their contact lists in the New York Times, Politico, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC will be in constant two-way communication for narrative assembly and counterpropaganda efforts…

Each agency will not voluntarily assist or participate in the investigation of any of their conduct…

Lastly, anticipate Special Counsel Jack Smith using his position to block the House subcommittee from receiving evidence. The House should anticipate that congressional representatives are already under investigation as a result of the authorities granted to Jack Smith by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco {Go Deep}….

As a result, expect the House subcommittee members to be under constant threat from the DOJ, via the Special Counsel, specifically from DAG Lisa Monaco, with statements that House subcommittee investigative efforts are “obstructing” a special counsel investigation. The aforementioned agencies and the Senate intel committee will work with the DOJ to use the Jack Smith special counsel as a shield to block participation with the House subcommittee.

With all of that in mind, what is the successful path forward?…

Summarized: (1) Know the scale of opposition. (2) Formulate a communication strategy around it & build a website. (3) Communicate findings by telling the story to the American people as it is discovered. (4) Grant immunity to all witnesses. (5) Don’t wait until the end to generate another useless report that few will read. (6) Make sunlight the motive of the committee. (7) Consider success when the American people can see the problem. (8) Dissolve any weaponized systems. (9) Don’t create new ones.

If you tell us the truth, We The People will fix it ourselves.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/01/11/sunlight-fellas-sunlight-roadmap-for-118th-congress-select-subcommittee-on-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government/

https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1613559978081632257?s=20&t=hUJQDu1VqKlhRFP0E2jfcQ

Grassley, Johnson question White House's understanding of federal records laws after Biden docs fiasco

The senators question whether Biden properly followed the Presidential Records Act after two batches of classified info were found

January 12, 2023 9:25am EST

EXCLUSIVE: Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson are pressing the White House over its interpretation of federal records laws after the discovery of classified records from President Biden’s time as vice president at the Penn Biden Center and another undisclosed location.

According to a letter Wednesday to Richard Sauber, special counsel to Biden, first obtained by Fox News Digital, the senators question whether Biden properly followed the Presidential Records Act.

"The discovery of these documents raises questions about whether then-Vice President Joe Biden properly followed the Presidential Records Act and the possibility that other documents have not been properly archived," they wrote.

The senators state that in July 2021 and June 2022, they asked the White House about Biden's use of a non-government email for government business and communication with his son, Hunter.

Grassley and Johnson said the White House responded on June 28, 2022 stating, "I can say that the Biden/Harris Administration recognizes and understands the federal records laws."

"The Biden Administration may understand the federal records laws but it does not appear that they were properly followed by then-Vice President Biden," they wrote.

"In light of the recent news regarding the inappropriate storage of classified documents, the White House must immediately provide transparency relating to then-Vice President Biden’s archiving of records," they concluded, demanding all info by Jan. 25.

The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on the letter.

While at the North American Leaders' Summit in Mexico City on Tuesday, Biden addressed the documents recovered from the Penn Biden Center.

"Let me get rid of the easy one first," Biden said. "People know I take classified documents and classified information seriously."

While at the North American Leaders' Summit in Mexico City on Tuesday, President Biden addressed the documents recovered from the Penn Biden Center. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

"They did what they should have done. They immediately called the [National Archives]… turned them over to the Archives, and I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office," Biden added. "But I don't know what's in the documents. My lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grassley-johnson-question-white-houses-understanding-federal-records-laws-biden-docs-fiasco.amp

Drag it out, with lots and lots of leaks daily

https://twitter.com/Article3Project/status/1613351807710806016?s=20&t=hUJQDu1VqKlhRFP0E2jfcQ

Darren J. Beattie 🌐@DarrenJBeattie

Would you rather ask for permission or apologize later?

==The bold @Santos4Congress

nails this one!==

10:40 AM · Jan 12, 2023

Kek, true!

https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1613561462554779650