PN>>19127405 If Alleged DOJ Misconduct Is True, A Judge Could Dismiss The Whole Case Against Trump

DOJ Misconduct Justifies The Dismissal Of Trump's Charges

Will Scharf

Lost in the breathless headlines over the indictment of President Trump for alleged violations of the Espionage Act is a story that deserves much more attention than it has received thus far: the =•allegation that a senior official at the Department of Justice attempted to shake down Trump’s co-defendant’s lawyer==. It is a scandal in the making that could result in the investigation of senior DOJ officials, which should lead to public congressional hearings, and that might even result in the entire case against Trump being dismissed.

Trump’s co-defendant is Waltine “Walt” Nauta, a Navy valet who served in Trump’s White House and who remained a personal aide to Trump after he left office. Several weeks ago, Nauta’s lawyer, a distinguished, highly-regarded Washington attorney named Stanley Woodward, leveled accusations against senior members of the Department of Justice, including DOJ Counterintelligence Chief Jay Bratt, who is now a part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team of prosecutors. According to news reports, Woodward claimed in a sealed letter to D.C. District Chief Judge James Boasberg that, in a meeting to discuss Nauta’s case, Bratt indicated that Woodward’s application to be a D.C. Superior Court judge could be impacted if he could not get Nauta to testify against Trump.

If true, and I see no reason why Woodward would make such a threat up — and especially no reason why Woodward would risk his career by making such a representation to a federal judge — Bratt’s alleged misconduct could result in heavy sanctions, and is a potential ground for dismissal of the entire case against Nauta and Trump. Depending on what exactly was said, Bratt could even face criminal prosecution himself.

In cases of flagrant prosecutorial misconduct, courts have the discretion to dismiss indictments altogether. If Woodward’s claims are proven, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon would be well within her rights to consider a dismissal here. The conduct claimed is perhaps unprecedented and certainly flagrant, amounting to nothing less than an effort by a high-ranking DOJ official to deprive a defendant of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel through inappropriate and potentially unlawful acts.

At the very least, Trump and Nauta deserve answers. Courts routinely allow discovery by the defense in cases of alleged prosecutorial misconduct — including depositions and requests for documents and communications — in order to determine the scope, breadth, and effects of any misconduct that occurred. The defense team in this case should seek testimony from Bratt to get to the bottom of what he said and why.

As importantly, defense counsel should also seek to subpoena any communications between Bratt and others in DOJ and the White House relating to Woodward’s judgeship application and Bratt’s approach to Woodward more generally. My assumption is that these communications will be eye-opening, and may reveal even more misconduct on the part of the DOJ, the special counsel’s team, and their political masters.

The legal teams defending Trump and Nauta surely know all of this, and I am confident that they will pursue this and other lines of defense aggressively. But the American people also deserve to know the full details of misconduct by senior officials at the Department of Justice.

Republicans in Congress should demand answers publicly and aggressively. The House Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction to investigate matters relating to the administration of justice in the federal court system. It has the power to subpoena Bratt, the other lawyers involved in the Trump prosecution, and senior Biden administration officials to get to the bottom of this.

Make no mistake, this is a huge deal. Bratt’s conduct may even fall within the ambit of federal criminal statutes. Depending on what exactly was said, Bratt’s conduct could constitute attempted witness tampering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1), attempted federal bribery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 201(b)(3), attempted extortion by a federal official in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 872, or attempted subornation of perjury in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1622.

If the Department of Justice is truly committed to the open and transparent treatment of this case, a special counsel should be empowered to investigate Bratt’s actions and any other alleged misconduct by Jack Smith’s team.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/05/if-alleged-doj-misconduct-is-true-a-district-judge-could-dismiss-the-whole-case-against-trump/

5 Jul, 2023 19:08

Newsweek reveals CIA role in Ukraine

The spy agency is leading US efforts to aid Kiev, but claims it can’t predict Zelensky’s actions

The Central Intelligence Agency has boots on the ground in Ukraine and operates aclandestine supply network to help the government in Kiev to fight Russia, Newsweek reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources within the US government.

“The CIA was central to the war even before it started,” claimed the article, written by William Arkin. Its director, William Burns, famously visited Moscow in January 2022 and, though he failed to persuade Russia not to “invade,”he got the Kremlin to accept US “rules” – at least according to Arkin and his sources.

Supposedly articulated by US President Joe Biden, the “rules” state that Washington and Kiev “will not undertake any actions that might threaten Russia itself or the survival of the Russian state.” In return, Moscow “won’t escalate the war beyond Ukraine or resort to the use of nuclear weapons.”

It “falls to the US to enforce those pledges,” a senior defense intelligence official told Newsweek on condition of anonymity. Arkin said he spoke with “over a dozen” officials and intelligence experts over the course of a three-month investigation.No named sources appear in the article.

Arkin’s sources admitted that the CIA is running a campaign of support for Ukraine based out of Poland, including a“gray fleet” of commercial aircraft shuttling weapons and other material through central and eastern Europe. CIA agents also “went into and out of Ukraine on secret missions, to assist with the operations of new weapons and systems,” but always tried to “avoid direct confrontation with Russian troops.”

“Is the CIA on the ground inside Ukraine?Yes, but it’s also not nefarious,” said another senior intelligence officer, who framed it as part of a Biden administration effort to “keep Americans out of harm’s way and reassure Russia that it doesn’t need to escalate.”(kek its not nefarious!)

The problem appears to be thatUkraine is not following Biden’s “rules,” however. Newsweek blames Kiev for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, the Kerch Bridge bombing, and the drone attacks on Russian air bases and the Kremlin. These attacks have “raised questions” as to whether the CIA knows enough about Ukrainian plans “to both influence them and to adhere to their secret agreement with Moscow.”

The agency is now “as uncertain about Vladimir Zelensky’s thinking and intentions as it is about [Russian President] Vladimir Putin’s,” the article claims.

“The CIA learned with the attack on the Crimean Bridge thatZelensky either didn’t have complete control over his own military ordidn’t want to know of certain actions,”according to the anonymous military intelligence official.

Meanwhile, Zelensky himself directly contradicted Arkin’s article two days before it was published. “We don’t have any secrets from the CIA,” he told CNN on Monday, commenting on a recent visit to Kiev by the agency’s director.

(When the SeeEyeAye tries to distance itself from a scandal-“supposedly”, something is really wrong)

https://www.rt.com/news/579253-cia-ukraine-newsweek-secret/

Failed Russian Coup Through a US Looking Glass

July 5, 2023

By M.K. Bhadrakumar

The former U.S. presidentDonald Trump’s remarks regarding the failed coup attempt in Russia by Yevgeniy Prigozhin stood out for their sheer subtletyamidst the crass new western narrative that the dramatic events on June 23-24 highlighted “cracks” within the Russian system.

No one cares to explain what these “cracks” are but the coinage conveys that Russia is heading for implosion. Per Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin may have been “somewhat weakened,” creating an opportunity for the U.S. to broker a peace settlement in Ukraine.

Trump focused on ending the conflict in Ukraine and suggested territorial concessions to Russia as part of a settlement, taking into account the facts on the ground. However, the Biden administration is unlikely to follow up.

In this context, the remarks on July 1 at a lecture at the Ditchley Foundation in Oxfordshire, a ceremonial county in South East England, by the C.I.A. Director William Burns are of much interest. Especially so, as the backdrop is the battlefields of Ukraine.

NATO’s Catastrophe

Kiev’s “counteroffensive”, much against its wishes and almost entirely due to pressure from Washington, is floundering and it underscores the catastrophic politico-military defeat that NATO faces.

Yet, Burns blithely claimed:

“Putin’s war has already been a strategic failure for Russia – its military weaknesses laid bare; its economy badly damaged for years to come; its future as a junior partner and economic colony of China being shaped by Putin’s mistakes; its revanchist ambitions blunted by a NATO which has only grown bigger and stronger.”

Each of Burns’ contentions is debatable. Again, he sees Prigozgin’s coup attempt as

“a scathing indictment of the Kremlin’s mendacious rationale for its invasion of Ukraine, and of the Russian military leadership’s conduct of the war… Disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the Russian leadership… That disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us at C.I.A., at our core a human intelligence service. We’re not letting it go to waste (boasting about a new C.I.A. drive to recruit Russian agents via internet.)”

Burns, while serving as counsellor in the Moscow embassy handled the bloody insurgency in Chechnya (fuelled by the C.I.A.). He should, therefore, have no quarrel with the historical truth that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recalled the other day,

“Russia has always emerged more resilient and stronger after any difficulties — and it is hard to call it (Prigozhin’s revolt) anything more than difficulties. Moreover, we already feel that the process has started.”

Those who manufacture false and self-serving narratives often run the risk of becoming their consumers. The unfinished business of the disbandment of Soviet Union revved up American diplomacy in the early 1990s to the project to encircle and stymie the Russian Federation.

Its flip side was the attempt to transform Ukraine incrementally as an anti-Russia state and the ill-conceived decision by the Clinton administration on NATO’s expansion into the territories of the Warsaw Pact alliance.

Creating an Adversary

Being a first-hand witness of these strategic blunders, Burns is well-placed to remind President Biden that the C.I.A. plot to foster secessionism in North Caucasus and undermine the unity and integrity of the fledgling Russian Federation, the U.S. interference in Ukraine and Georgia, the dismemberment of the former Yugoslavia, the NATO expansion — all these trampled upon Russia’s legitimate security interests, which ultimately created an adversary out ofRussia by the end of the 1990s.

ButBurns instead puts all the blame on Putin, who came to power in 2000.

So long as such patent intellectual and moral dishonesty permeates American thinking, how can there be a genuine U.S.-Russia dialogue with mutual respect?

Trump put the Wagner affair in proper perspective. Indeed, Putin may have become “somewhat weaker,” but that is largely because Prigozhin, an exceptionally gifted name caller and climber, cultivated a certain optics hinting at proximity with Putin and exploited it to amass great wealth and indulge in all sorts of nefarious activities.

Putin’s fault lies in his failure to clearly define inappropriate behaviour and that has “somewhat weakened” him.…

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/05/failed-russian-coup-through-a-us-looking-glass/

>>19128747

2/2

On the other hand, this phenomenon is endemic to all top-down political systems, including the U.S., where no one is in a position to cross-check the veracity of the name caller’s claims that he is wired into the fountainhead of decision-making.

In the final analysis, Putin is answerable to the people. Remember how he “backtracked” on pension reforms in 2018? Reportedly, the Kremlin has started preparing for the 2024 presidential campaign, therefore, Putin’s handling of Prigozhin’s treason will be closely watched in the months ahead.

The bottom line is thatPutin brilliantly succeeded in averting the massive bloodshed that the C.I.A. had reportedly predictedas imminent in its top secret briefings to the U.S. lawmakers in anticipation of Prigozhin’s coup attempt.

The Wall Street Journal carried an exhaustive report today titled Putin’s Corporate Takeover Of Wagner Has Begun, which shows that the Russian state is already holding a searchlight into the antecedents and labyrinthine activities of the vast business empire that Prigozhin created.

The Journal estimates that Prigozhin

“built one of the world’s most complicated and unaccountable corporate structures, a heavily-sanctioned spidergram of hundreds of companies in Russia and other jurisdictions that often paid their thousands of workers, mercenaries, line cooks, mining geologists, and social-media trolls in cash. Many of the deals Wagner-linked companies struck with African governments were informal, reliant on smuggling and illicit transfers and personally negotiated by Prigozhin himself… Prigozhin had transferred some of his holdings to employees in the weeks before the mutiny, potentially making them even more complicated for the government to requisition.”

How is Putin responsible for all this?President Biden refuses to be accountable even for his son’s shady business dealings. What Burns overlooks is that theRussian people are heads and shoulders above theAmerican public when it comes to political erudition— a legacy of the extraordinary heights of social formation in the Soviet era.

That is why the Orwellian media censorship that is happening in America today cannot work in the Russian society where people are literate enough to glean facts — unlike the gullible average American.

The Russian people have no love lost for oligarchs and will overwhelmingly endorse the Kremlin’s moves to bring Prigozhin to justice. Equally, there is no question that all sections of Russian society have rallied behind Putin who scattered the coup plotters without bloodshed. The western attempt to portray Prigozhin as some charismatic figure with mass base is all bunkum.

Defeat in Ukraine Shifts the Narrative

Such schadenfreude can only cloud rational thinking. Trump was not a career diplomat specialising on Russia but his intuitive cognition sensed that a window of opportunity has opened for the Biden Administration to take the Ukraine crisis to the negotiating table — meaning, the Russian state and Putin are here to stay and make an authentic interlocutor.

The only good part about Burns’ speech is that he refrained from bragging about defeating Russia. The proxy war turns out to be a flop and now the C.I.A. returns to the greener pastures of internal subversion of Russia. To that end, a new narrative replaces the discredited one of Russia’s military defeat. The Ukraine war has badly exposed the C.I.A.’s shallow understanding of Russia.

Burns caricatures Russia as “the combustible combination of grievance, ambition and insecurity that Putin embodies.” He says Russia “constantly reminds us that declining powers can be at least as disruptive as rising ones.”

Hello, where does that put the U.S. in the pecking order? Among the “rising ones?”

M.K. Bhadrakumar is a former diplomat.

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/05/failed-russian-coup-through-a-us-looking-glass/

>>19128746

The SS protect the pedo, trafficking coke and crackhead…they are only saying this to appease the masses or asses

>>19128739

Seriously isn’t his schedule public?If so they are quickly trying to erase that Joe and Jill were at a party with Hunter and children

>>19128738

It’s on both sides, we all know what perverts or captured politicians are. Reps will not fare well either.

I personally think Jordan was compromised a long time ago

>>19128703

It’s going to amazing how many traffickers and pedos are caught after “Sound of Freedom” was released.The public is aware now!

5:29 minutes

3 hours ago

Beattie: The French Welcomed Their Own Destruction, Elites Using Riots To Excuse Totalitarianism

Very interesting!

https://rumble.com/embed/v2vpbi0/?pub=4

>>19128825

This is a lesson and message to America, “if the French people wanted to stop the rioting, they could absolutely liquidate the rioters in a week”

Barr had no intention of liquidating the rioters to dethrone Trump. When the DS is in charge nothing will happen to terrorists, like the FBI did with 911

>>19128825

2nd video with Beattie

8:08 minutes

Federal Judge Rules Restraining Order Against Biden Officials Over Big Tech Censorship

https://rumble.com/embed/v2vpcvs/?pub=4

8:22 minutes

1 hour ago

Harnwell: No-one says “The Great Replacement” — but is it the underlying cause of the French riots?

Thucydides Trap

Thucydides Trap, or Thucydides' Trap, is a term popularized by American political scientist Graham T. Allison to describe an apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon. It was coined and is primarily used to describe a potential conflict between the United States and the People's Republic of China. The term is based on a quotation of ancient Athenian historian and military general Thucydides, in which he posited that the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta had been inevitable because of Spartan fears of the growth of Athenian power. Supporting the thesis, Allison led a study at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs which found that among 16 historical instances of an emerging power rivaling a ruling power, 12 ended in war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap

https://rumble.com/embed/v2vq3dc/?pub=4

>>19129023

These revolts are Deliberately designed for “the State in France” to be in total control! Macron wanted this, Notre Dam was the start. French are begging for more state control==

How does Macron host the Olympics which would only jeopardize the masses when insurrection is occurring; unless the Olympics are “too uniting” for the people. They willonly divide them for more power. So who’s gonna launder money to the Olympics?

Maybe this whole plan started with China hosting the hideous Olympics! Or the UK Olympics with death and hell as their call sign

7:04 minutes

4 hours ago

Dr. Navarro: How President Trump Stopped The Mass Invasion Fueled By The Global Elites

He gives the understanding that the elites want these low wage laborers in the ghettos, just like SA invasion

https://rumble.com/embed/v2vpb0w/?pub=4

>>19129067

Bannon always interrupts Navarro constantly. But Navarro has been fighting back!

>>19129067

Navarro says China never takes communist Chinese back to their country!

16:50 minutes

4 hours ago

Michael Yon: Migrants Handed Invasion Map Of U.S., Informing Who To Call And Where To Travel

The UN hands out the “rape kits” and a map of who, when and how to call help in the US

https://rumble.com/embed/v2vpaeq/?pub=4

>>19129094

Abbott is a shill for WEFand he is not blocking any illegals into the US. They are doing this all over the World.

>>19129094

2,000 people are coming through the Darrien gap through SA, of which are 200 CCP daily. China pays more money to treat them special and get their spies in daily.

Tell me how Bidan/Obama is blocking China?

This is so sickening, we cannot wait until 2025 to get some action.

Obi Wan Kenobi we need you now. If not now, make the illegals invade every news room in our nation

"Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope"

https://youtu.be/0MEXfBDISUA

>>19129094

Southcom military is comped along with DPS. Abbott lied and is ordering the National Guard along with other federal and state agencies are ordered to let them in.

Why is this not Treason?. No wonder he got rid of of AG Ken Paxton!

>>19129094

8:13 minutes

5 hours ago

Migrants Filmed Climbing OVER Border Wall | Ben Bergquam Gives Update On Overrun Southern Border

Numbers are not going down, they only changed their definition of what was legal. Invasion is not slowing down, DPS is ordering agents to cut the barbed wire fence

https://rumble.com/embed/v2vp6gm/?pub=4

2:10 minutes

Anyone interested in TransHumanism and AI, Joe Allen released his book

Pre-Order “Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity” Today | Learn What’s To Come

https://rumble.com/embed/v2vpdhy/?pub=4

>>19129325

Freaks! Keep them away from Children!