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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
2h
Mad Dog Psycho Jack Smith,put there for only one reason by Biden, and the Weaponized Justice Department, should stop this Witch Hunt altogether or, at a minimum, should give Biden, Obama, and all of the others the same treatment!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/23/classified-documents-us-government-court-cases/11307487002/
Feb 26, 2023, 2:56 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109932799010592965
Classified documents show up in odd places, portraying sloppy system beyond Trump, Pence, Biden
Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Mike Pence each got grief for taking classified documents home. But court cases show how easy it was for workers to bring home sensitive records from the FBI, CIA and NSA.
Nhgia Pho aimed for a promotion at the National Security Agency in taking records home.
Asia Lavarello printed classified documents for her thesis at National Intelligence University.
Some workers jailed for taking home classified records argued high-profile violators got off easier.
WASHINGTON – Beyond the high-profile cases of classified documents found in the homes of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, federal court records portray a sloppy system for tracking the country's most important secrets.
Intelligence agency staffers and contractors were caught in recent years squirreling away enormous troves of documents. One contractor mailed home computer hard drives filled with secrets from Afghanistan to Texas.
Stashes of secret documents have been scattered through homes, sheds and cars. Staffers sometimes copied documents onto compact discs or even handwritten notes. It wasn’t always the documents that got workers caught. One path to thousands of pages of classified records was strewn with marijuana leaves.
They cost millions and last years:The U.S. now has 3 of them.
Despite the sloppy handling, the secrets at stake were among the country’s most important. The names of undercover intelligence agents. How the country gathers its information. But from the top to bottom, searches to recover the records often came years after the filching began.
Penalties for mishandling documents vary greatly. Biden, Trump and Pence face no charges. Retired Gen. David Petraeus, who led the war in Afghanistan and headed the CIA, was fined and not jailed for a misdemeanor for his infractions. But lower-level workers and contractors were sentenced to months or years in prison for felonies that lawyers argued were less egregious violations than Petraeus and others.
U.S. Secret Service agents are seen in front of Joe Biden's Rehoboth Beach, Del., home on Jan. 12, 2021. The FBI is conducting a planned search of President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware home as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of classified documents.
NSA contractor ‘two different people’ bringing secrets home
The hoard of classified documents FBI agents found in Harold Martin’s Cape Cod-style home, shed and car in Glen Burnie, Maryland, revealed what his lawyer called two sides of the same government contractor.
Martin was a Navy veteran with one of the highest security clearances, called top secret for sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI). He then became a contractor for government agencies including the National Security Agency from 1993 to 2016, according to court records.
But he was also an acknowledged binge drinker who owned 10 guns his wife didn’t know about, including a loaded handgun on the floor of his teal Chevy Caprice, an AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun, according to court records.
“You have someone who presents themselves as two different people,” public defender James Wyda told a judge in the case, with “some serious mental health issues going on here.”
Biden's Archivist pick to face senators:Senate committee schedules hearing for Biden's National Archivist nominee Colleen Shogan
The August 2016 search came while authorities scrambled to find who was offering stolen government property on a variety of social media sites. But Martin was never charged with passing along secrets.
Even so, FBI agents discovered Martin had brought home over the decades 50 terabytes of digital information and thousands of printed documents, much of it top secret, according to court records. The secrets included the names of U.S. intelligence officers working undercover overseas, putting them and their operations at risk.
U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett sentenced Martin to nine years in 2019, after he pleaded guilty to willful retention of national defense information.
The National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md., is seen June 6, 2013. Harold Thomas Martin III, a former contractor for the agency, pleaded guilty March 28, 2019, to willfully retaining national defense information.
NSA staffer takes secrets home in misplaced bid for promotion
Nghia Hoang Pho, who was 68 at the time of his sentencing for taking a trove classified documents home to Ellicott City Maryland, said he was just trying to earn a promotion.
Armed with a TS/SCI clearance, Pho developed software to help the National Security Agency collect intelligence from foreign networks. He also helped the Defense Department detect and prevent unauthorized access to its networks.
But as he neared retirement, the Vietnamese native who became a naturalized citizen brought home documents from 2010 to March 2015, to work toward a promotion on nights and weekends.
“I did not betray the USA,” Pho said at his sentencing. “I did not send the information to anyone. I did not make a profit.”
U.S. District Judge George Russell sentenced Pho to 66 months in prison in 2018, after he pleaded guilty to the willful retention of national defense information.
Biden, Trump, Pence aren't alone:Millions access sensitive documents, mishandling is common
Adm. Mike Rogers, then-director the National Security Agency, fourth from left, testifies May 11, 2017, with other intelligence officials at the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. In the case of an NSA worker bringing classified documents home, Rogers warned a federal judge of great economic and operational harm from possible revelations about the nation's most closely guarded secrets.
NSA director: Pho's action came at great cost to the NSA
Key documents are often kept sealed in criminal cases about classified records. But Nghia Pho's case struck a nerve.
Adm. Mike Rogers, then the director of NSA, wrote the judge a letter describing Pho's “very significant and long-lasting harm."
The agency provides “real-time to near-real-time insight to complex, evolving threat environments like terrorist actions, kidnappings, missile launches and military engagements,” Rogers said. But NSA had “no choice but to abandon certain important initiatives, at great economic and operational cost,” because of uncertainties about which secrets Pho might have revealed, he said.
“It’s like interrupting a team of surgeons in the middle of an operation to determine the sterility of a tool used in the procedure has been compromised,” Rogers added.
After Pence, Biden, Trump revelations:Archives asks ex-presidents to check for classified documents
The Federal Bureau of Investigation building headquarters is seen in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 13, 2022. The agency is among those whose workers have carried secret documents home from the office.
Kansas woman brought home 'astonishing' stash of documents, including some about terror groups
Kendra Kingsbury, 50, of Dodge City, Kansas, was another longtime hoarder of secrets. As an FBI intelligence analyst with a TS/SCI clearance, she took home sensitive emails, intelligence notes and internal correspondence from June 2004 to December 2017, according to court records.
One charge against her covered documents about counterterrorism and cyber threats, including people in sensitive investigations and intelligence gaps regarding hostile foreign intelligence services.
The other charge dealt with collecting intelligence about terrorist groups including Al Qaeda in Africa and a suspected associate of Osama bin Laden.
“The breadth and depth of classified national security information retained by the defendant for more than a decade is simply astonishing,” said Alan Kohler, assistant director of FBI’s counterintelligence division.
Kingsbury pleaded guilty in October to two counts of gathering defense information. U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough set her sentencing for March 16.
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Police in Fairborn, Ohio, searched the home of Izaak Kemp, who worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, because of suspicion he was growing marijuana in the house. In addition to the plants, authorities found 112 classified documents totaling 2,500 pages, according to court records.
Marijuana growing tipped off authorities to secret government records
The clues leading authorities to thousands of pages of classified documents in Fairborn, Ohio, were signs of a marijuana-growing operation at Izaak Kemp's house. City police got a search warrant after finding plants, a digital scale and empty King Palm wrappers in his trash, according to court records.
Kemp, who had a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Dayton, worked as a contractor at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base with a top secret clearance for the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center.
He had printed and brought home 112 secret documents totaling 2,500 pages from January 2018 until authorities found them in May 2019, according to court records.
Biden and Trump documents expose wider problem:Missing classified records not uncommon
Acting U.S. Attorney Vipal Patel argued Kemp exposed the classified records to greater risks of robbery because of the marijuana growing.
Kemp's lawyer, Ronald Keller, said at sentencing that he still had nightmares from the raid by five agencies including Fairborn police and the FBI, which featured 10 agents in tactical gear with an armored vehicle parked outside.
“He made no profit from these documents and he did not attempt to convey these documents to any entity with adverse interests to the United States of America,” Keller said.
U.S. District Judge Walter Rice sentenced Kemp to a year in prison in 2021, after he pleaded guilty to unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents.
Holiday packages make their way through the Bagram Air Base postal facility in Afghanistan. A military contractor was convicted of shipping home to Texas laptops and hard drives full of classified records before his arrest in 2017.
Mailing secrets home from Afghanistan
Weldon Marshall spent decades collecting secrets and bringing them home to Texas.
He served in the Navy from 1999 to 2004, where he had a top secret clearance and access to documents describing the U.S. nuclear command, control and communications, according to court records. He downloaded the information onto a compact disc labeled “My Secret TACAMO Stuff” and took it home with him when he left the service, according to court records.
After the Navy, Marshall worked for companies providing information technology services on military bases in Afghanistan until his arrest in 2017. From Bagram Air Base, he shipped home laptops and hard drives totaling eight terabytes of memory – with secrets about flight and ground operations in that war-torn country – to Liverpool, Texas, according to court records.
U.S. District Judge George Hanks sentenced Marshall to 41 months in prison in 2018, after he pleaded guilty to one count of retention of national defense information.
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Classified documents found at Biden, Trump and Pence's residences
Patraeus' notebooks with top secret information found at his Virginia home
A casual attitude toward protecting secrets spanned all levels of government.
Petraeus wrote notes during his tenure in command in Afghanistan documenting his meetings, conferences and briefings. The writing eventually filled eight black notebooks measuring five-by-eight inches that contained top secret information about the identities of covert officers, war strategy, intelligence capabilities, diplomatic discussions and deliberations at the National Security Council, according to court records.
Petraeus held onto the books after leaving the military, rather than transfer them with the rest of his classified papers to the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. He lent the books to his private biographer for a week in 2011 despite telling her they were “highly classified” and contained “code word” information.
FBI agents found the notebooks during a 2013 search in an unlocked desk drawer in the first-floor office of his home in Arlington, Virginia. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for sharing classified information and was fined $100,000.
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September 6, 2022: This image, contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice and redacted in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the search on Aug. 8, 2022, by the FBI of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Classified records are sometimes handwritten notes
As with Biden and Petraeus, lower level workers took handwritten notes of classified documents.
Reynaldo Regis, who worked for government contractors at the CIA for all but two years from August 2006 to November 2016, jotted secrets into dozens of notebooks authorities found at his home in Fort Washington, Maryland, according to court records.
Throughout his time at the CIA, Regis searched classified databases for highly sensitive reports and wrote in notebooks while sitting at his desk, according to court records. He memorialized “several hundred” pieces of classified information in about 60 notebooks authorities seized, according to court records.
Cary Citronberg, one of Regis’ lawyers, said after sentencing he “had no nefarious purpose. It was just a mistake.”
Judge Liam O’Grady sentenced him to 90 days in jail in 2018, after he pleaded guilty to unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents and making false statements to law enforcement officers.
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Former CIA Director and retired Army Gen. David Petraeus participates in a discussion Feb. 3, 3017 at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) in Washington. Petraeus pleaded guilty to unauthorized removal and retention of classified material.
Lawyers: Regis penalized more than Petraeus and Berger, who did worse
Regis' lawyers contrasted his case to Petraeus and Sandy Berger, the former national security adviser, who were fined rather than jailed. Berger was fined $50,000 for removing classified documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives and making false statements.
“As a convicted felon, Mr. Regis has already been more harshly punished than the various comparably situated defendants listed above,” said lawyer John Zwerling, listing Regis' loss of his security clearance, his job and his reputation after serving 25 years in the military.
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Dinner party with a side of secrets
March 20, 2020 was a busy day for Asia Janay Lavarello. The civilian Defense Department staffer with a TS/SCI clearance was working temporarily at the U.S. embassy in Manilla, Philippines. She was also a student at National Intelligence University.
She printed classified documents for her thesis at the embassy and brought them back to her hotel room, where she hosted a dinner party that evening with two foreign nationals. A co-worker noticed the stack of documents marked "secret" in her bedroom and a guest helped her secure the documents two days later in a safe at the embassy.
Lavarello's embassy assignment was terminated for mishandling documents. She moved back Honolulu, Hawaii, where she was an executive assistant at the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Joint Intelligence Operation Center.
Naval investigators searched her office June 27 and found a handwritten notebook with "confidential" and "secret" information from embassy meetings in her top desk drawer. Investigators also found the sensitive notes in an email she sent herself Jan. 16, 2020, from her Gmail account to her unclassified government account.
U.S. District Chief Judge Michael Seabright sentenced her to three months in prison and fined her $5,500 in 2022, after she pleaded guilty to unauthorized removal and retention of classified information.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/23/classified-documents-us-government-court-cases/11307487002/
>>18415931, >>18415933, >>18415934, >>18415935, >>18415937, >>18415939 Donald J. Trump:Mad Dog Psycho Jack Smith: Classified documents show up in odd places, portraying sloppy system beyond Trump, Pence, Biden
For the notables
correct, others hate that I can remember the finer details
mostly obscure that skill, until making a sharp point
yeah, or ask them for it in writing and watch how fast the back track or try and get rid of you
i dont get it
yeah, saw that
was wondering if she did anything untoward other than public words..
likely
YMKYMFOI #FA
@YMKYMFOI
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How much of a fake MAGA grifter is Jon Herold and his Badlands Crew?
His upcoming grift event features Firman as the lead sponsor. Firman touts itself as a USA company.
But Firman is owned by Sumec, a Chinese company! en.sumec.com/en/TransnationalO
From Sumec's website:
"SUMEC Co. Ltd… is a key state-owned enterprise directly managed by the central government. "
en.sumec.com/en/CompanyProfile
Badlands Media is LITERALLY sponsored by the CCP!
https://truthsocial.com/@YMKYMFOI/posts/109927220043852676
jealousy envy, i dont get it
poor character
dont care if she was in the military
she leaves a rotten feeling my guts
seedy
John Solomon
@jsolomonreports
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Energy Department concludes COVID likely came from lab leak: report | Just The News
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/energy-department-concludes-covid-likely-came-lab-leak-report
Department of energy houses a part of the NSA, where Q clearances are issued.
EYES OF THE DEVIL | A DOCUMENTARY FILM
This documentary talks about highly organized child brothels/ organ harvest clinics
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The child trafficker talks about extremely rich clients
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When we go about or regular days, this is happening to a child
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This documentary. 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩. 𝙄𝙎 𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙉𝙎𝙀. There’s nothing shown about the process, it’s a compilation of interviews from the mothers that sell their children to the child traffickers themselves.
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Patryk Vega shows us the underbelly surface of child trafficking.
https://rumble.com/v2b1ujq-eyes-of-the-devil-a-documentary-film.html
https://rumble.com/embed/v28gepo/?pub=4
First I heard of it, that is why I posted it.
You're a self centered asshole.
There are other people that live on the other side of the world, for your information.
TOP KEK comeback!
Stephen Miller
@StephenM
Now do ballot harvesting.
https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1629968201093201924
CNN
@CNN
The US Department of Energy assesses that Covid-19 likely resulted from a lab leak, furthering the US intel divide over the origins of the virus
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1629923732448837632
kek
Paul Sperry Retweeted
Feb 21
BREAKING: IRS-990 filings reveal the Bidens added ex-FBI chief Louis Freeh to the board of directors of the Beau Biden Foundation after Freeh pumped $100k into a trust fund for Joe Biden's grandkids. Freeh,who's Irish, referred to Biden as "Dad" in emails found on Hunter's laptop
Paul Sperry Retweeted
Feb 21
BREAKING: IRS records reveal donations/grants to Beau Biden Foundation mysteriously surged to $3.8 mil in 2020 as Biden ran for president, from $693k in 2019 & $535k in 2016. The 501(c)3 hides its donors. House Oversight is probing anonymous Chinese gifts to UPenn/Penn Biden Cntr
Paul Sperry Retweeted
Feb 24
BREAKING: House investigators have discovered that the hard drive copied from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop is missing dozens of gigabytes of data and does not include subfolders and deleted files, which means other potential smoking-guns have not been recovered from the device
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_
yeah, sauce it.
plausible… can see her doing that
she was bent out of shape and totally over reacted
You know what I like about Trump, he is nice about people even when he knows they are corrupt.
And when he is ready, he dons them appropriate verbiage like, Psycho Jack Smith
kek
ip hopping git
second
Seems to me that they are earned and rewarded, their names.*
notable
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
6m
Biden should have gone to Ohio!
Feb 26, 2023, 7:22 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109933846482955776
‘Off The Charts’: Over 178 Million Watched Trump’s Heart-Touching Visit To East Palestine, Ohio
Over 178 million people reportedly watched 45th President and leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump’s visit to East Palestine, Ohio, to help and meet with community members after a train derailment led to a significant release of toxic chemicals in the area.
On Thursday afternoon, Trump posted the impressive “Viewership Report” on his social media platform, Truth Social. The report reveals that Trump’s trip was seen by a whopping 144,037,338 people on social media and 34,015,076 people through traditional coverage.
The total number of people who saw Trump’s trip adds up to 178,052,414 people.
The report “searched for the term ‘East Palestine’ + ‘Trump.'”
“The word is still getting out there in a big way,” the report notes.
“Specifically, when the announcement was made last week, there was a bump of coverage reaching about 2 million on social channels and 10 million on other channels.”
Trump’s “numbers were off the charts with incredible reach, 144 million on social and 34 million in other channels,” the report adds.
Trump won people’s hearts across the country after news broke on Wednesday of his donating thousands of gallons of cleaning supplies and thirteen pallets of water during his trip to the people of East Palestine.
Trump delivered a message of hope to the people of East Palestine, as well, telling them they “are not forgotten.”
When Trump visited and helped Ohio, Biden, and his entire administration had yet to visit Ohio to help even once.
Biden instead, of course, attacked Russian President Vladimir Putin from a speech in Poland to support Ukraine rather than supporting the American people.
Biden’s administration initially turned down a request for federal disaster assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) told Ohio’s governor they’re not eligible for disaster assistance.
Once Trump announced his trip to Ohio last Friday, FEMA reversed its decision to reject a federal disaster request from Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH).
“Biden and FEMA said they would not be sending federal aid to East Palestine. As soon as I announced that I’m going, he announced a team will go. Hopefully, he will also be there. This is good news because we got them to ‘move,'” Trump wrote in a statement and a post on Truth Social.
The 50-car train derailment occurred on Feb. 3 on a Norfolk Southern Railroad carrying vinyl chloride.
https://dcenquirer.com/off-the-charts-over-178-million-watched-trumps-heart-touching-visit-to-east-palestine-ohio/
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
15m
He cheated on the Election(s). The whole system is RIGGED. Why isn’t he being prosecuted? The Democrats only know how to cheat. America isn’t going to take it much longer!
Zuckerberg-funded group violated Georgia law with $2M for elections board: watchdog
An election integrity group is calling on Georgia election officials to investigate a donation from a Zuckerberg-linked group that they believe violates state law.
Feb 26, 2023, 7:21 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109933841848226131
Zuckerberg-funded group violated Georgia law with $2M for elections board: watchdog
Two Georgia officials told Fox News Digital that investigation has been opened
A Georgia elections board may have violated state law when it accepted $2 million from a Mark Zuckerberg-linked group, a watchdog group claimed in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital.
The Honest Elections Project is calling for an investigation into the DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections for a "flagrant and egregious" violation of a state ban on private funding that was put in place after accusations that donors used money to push left-wing influence ahead of the 2020 elections.
The funding in question originated from the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, the project said in a letter last week calling for a probe by the state attorney general, secretary of state and state elections board.
"We’re now fairly well convinced this is an attempt to do two things," Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead told Fox News Digital. "To get around those bans on private funding by doing either what they did in DeKalb County, by looking for loopholes and end-a rounds, doing what they can to get money into these offices; or by doing what I think they feel is even more important work, which is to pump influence into these offices."
The letter outlines how in the lead-up to the 2020 election, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) received a $250 million donation from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan for programs to provide grants to local election boards across the country. That funding came with the stated goal of helping jurisdictions deal with the coronavirus pandemic by providing ballot drop boxes, voting equipment, additional manpower, protective gear for poll workers and public education campaigns on new voting methods, among other expenses.
"This massive influx of funding – which ultimately topped $400 million – was met with heavy criticism driven by post-election analysis that revealed the money was overwhelmingly funneled to Democrat-leaning jurisdictions," the letter stated. "Criticism that CTCL does not deny."
Georgia was one of dozens of states that sought to ban outside groups from funneling money to election boards and possibly peddling influence. Part of Georgia's 2021 reform law "banned election offices from receiving funding from outside groups."
"No superintendent shall take or accept any funding, grants, or gifts from any source other than from the governing authority of the county or municipality, the State of Georgia, or the federal government," the law states.
A spokesperson for Zuckerberg said in 2022 that the Facebook founder didn't have plans on injecting cash into future elections – calling the grant a "one-time donation given the unprecedented nature of the crisis."
"During the 2020 election, Mark and Priscilla made a one-time donation to help address the unprecedented challenge of ensuring Americans could safely vote during the height of the pandemic," Brian Baker, spokesman for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, told Fox News Digital this week. "They have not made, and are not planning to make, any additional donations, including any additional donations to the Center for Tech and Civic Life."
However, the Honest Elections Project released a report earlier this year that described the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, the CTCL coalition that funneled the money to DeKalb County, as "merely a continuation" of CTCL's so-called "Zuck Bucks scheme," a term critics use to describe the private funding of elections by left-wing donors in 2020.
"They are trying to gather data and reshape the way these offices function so that they essentially become left-wing outposts for progressive voting reform," Snead told Fox News Digital. "All of what they do is a ruse in order to get into these offices and accomplish that goal."
CTCL Executive Director Tiana Epps-Johnson told Fox News Digital that "election administration that meets today’s voters' needs requires investment."
"Dekalb’s grant funding is consistent with Georgia law, and must be used for the nonpartisan public purpose of planning and operationalizing safe and secure election administration infrastructure over a two-year period," Epps-Johnson added.
DeKalb County officials and supporters of the funding argue that the money was accepted by the county government as opposed to the elections board.
When criticized earlier this month by former Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler's group, Greater Georgia, a state election official responded by saying that "partisan accusations do not reflect an accurate reading of state law and undermine the work of already overburdened, underpaid public servants."
"The DeKalb County Finance Department applied for the grant in accordance with state law, and our county attorneys conducted a diligent review to ensure the grant award met the letter of the law," DeKalb Elections Board Chairwoman Dele Lowman Smith, a Democrat, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Lowman Smith did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital regarding the Honest Elections Project letter.
A complaint was filed earlier this month by the nonprofit group Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections who said the county "used a scheme to skirt state law."
"Clearly, what the Georgia legislature did when they passed the law that we're talking about was an attempt to restrict counties from getting involved with private funders of elections and here we've got one that was clearly doing that," Snead said.
The DeKalb County Finance Office made the application to join the U.S. Election Alliance "early last year," Snead said. This showed that "even before the alliance was online" the county had "already figured out" that if there was going to be an opportunity to continue receiving funds from progressive groups, they already knew how to "get around the law."
"This is what we think we need investigations for," Snead said.
"As the Election Board has recognized, ‘fair, legal, and orderly elections’ are the touchstone to America’s democratic process," the letter from Honest Elections Project concludes. "Those responsible for administering elections should zealously guard these principles. That is what makes DeKalb County’s brazen disregard for Georgia’s election laws so troubling.
"As the Election Board has recognized, ‘fair, legal, and orderly elections’ are the touchstone to America’s democratic process," the letter from Honest Elections Project concludes. "Those responsible for administering elections should zealously guard these principles. That is what makes DeKalb County’s brazen disregard for Georgia’s election laws so troubling.
"The Election Board has a duty to investigate and correct these actions and demonstrate its commitment to preserving ‘the highest standards of integrity’ in 'all matters related to the election process.'"
The Georgia Attorney General's Office told Fox News Digital that it does not have the authority to investigate alleged violations of Georgia’s elections code and that the Georgia Secretary of State or the Georgia Bureau of Investigations handle those matters.
A bill, S.B. 222, was introduced in the Georgia General Assembly earlier this week aimed at closing any loopholes that could be exploiting gaps in the Georgia law.
"What's happening right now in Georgia is crystal clear: ideological groups and certain counties are testing our resolve to enforce state law, while attempting to influence local elections," Loeffler said in a statement.
"Thankfully, Lt. Governor Burt Jones and our lawmakers have taken swift action to fortify existing laws that ban outside funding for local boards of election through SB 202, which will ensure that our elections are never bought and paid for by special or partisan interests," the statement said.
"Greater Georgia is proud to endorse the legislation, and calls for its urgent passage by members of the Georgia General Assembly."
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement to Fox News Digital that he has asked the legislature to close the loophole and suggested S.B. 202 would do just that.
"It was the will of the General Assembly that if outside organizations wanted to help supply funding for counties, it would actually be channeled through the state election board so that it could then disburse the funds on an equitable basis," Raffensperger said. "It would be a legislative remedy. We are in session now, so it is something they can address pretty quickly."
A spokesperson for Raffensperger's office also told Fox News Digital on Thursday afternoon that there is "an active investigation at the direction of the State Elections Board."
The Georgia State Election Board also confirmed that an investigator has been assigned to two different complaints but could not comment further since the investigation is pending.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/zuckerberg-funded-group-violated-georgia-law-with-2m-for-elections-board-watchdog
>>18416483, >>18416484, >>18416485 Donald J. Trump: Zuckerberg-funded group cheated on the Election(s). The whole system is RIGGED. Why isn’t he being prosecuted?
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Baker, please change to…
>>18416445 Donald J. Trump: Biden should have gone to Ohio! Over 178 Million Watched Trump
very close to 180 million
A descriptive and inclusive line, of the information Donald Trump just posted is more appropriate.
Baker please change to
>>18416445 Donald J. Trump: Biden should have gone to Ohio! Over 178 Million Watched Trump OFF THE CHARTS
you are going to miss me, when I'm gone