SCOOP: House Oversight Committee launches investigation into Transition Integrity Project housed at Georgetown Law ahead of 2024 election
The House Oversight Committee has officially opened an investigation into the Transition Integrity Project at Georgetown University. In a letter to Rosa Brooks, who is the founder and facilitator of that group, Rep. Pete Sessions spoke about the "intensely partisan exercise" which he states is "intended to sew dissension and subversion regarding the American election system and the institution of the president of the United States."
In so doing, he cites an op-ed written by Brooks in the Washington Post in advance of the 2020 election, called "What’s the worst that could happen? The election will likely spark violence — and a constitutional crisis."
It was here that she explained the work of the Transition Integrity Project, explaining that her team had "built a series of war games, sought out some of the most accomplished Republicans, Democrats, civil servants, media experts, pollsters and strategists around, and asked them to imagine what they’d do in a range of election and transition scenarios."
They determined that "The concept of 'election night,' is no longer accurate and indeed is dangerous," that "A determined campaign has opportunity to contest the election into January 2021, and that "The administrative transition process itself may be highly disrupted."
Sessions told Brooks in the letter that he has been "particularly concerned by the activities of TIP in 2020, and any similar endeavor in advance of the 2024 election, because this exercise seems to have been administered adjacent to the Georgetown University Law Center."
That law center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that, as Sessions pointed out, "receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding every year."
"It would be highly inappropriate," Sessions said, "for a university that relies on federal funding to conduct partisan political activity intended to undermine a lawfully conducted election."
As such, Sessions demanded accountability from Brooks and the Transition Integrity Project. He demanded "a comprehensive understanding of your 2020 war-gaming project, its work, and its conclusions."
Sessions asked for the names of all the participants, of which he said there were over 100, though only 15 of those names have been published. Transcripts, audio, video, Zoom, digital, and all other records were requested by Sessions, along with locations and venues of all meetings held by the group to engage in their work.
Major General (Ret.) Paul D. Eaton was one of the identified participants in the group, who along with two other retired flag officers, Sessions said, wrote op-eds "in which they stated that a similar wargaming exercise to TIP should be replicated with regard to the military and making sure that is under control." He wants to know who else at the Department of Defense, retired or active, was involved with or contacted by TIP.
More at: https://thepostmillennial.com/scoop-house-oversight-committee-launches-investigation-into-transition-integrity-project-housed-at-georgetown-law-ahead-of-2024-election
Also: https://t.me/Jack_Posobiec/41876
In an effort to stem a flood of requests by J6ers serving time for 1512c2, the obstruction count pending before SCOTUS, DOJ and DC US Atty Matthew Graves now warn if it’s reversed and those convicted seek reduced or vacated prison sentence, the govt will ask for MORE time:
This is why exuberance over recent appellate court ruling overturning a sentencing enhancement for 1512c2 was unwarranted. DOJ and judges have plenty of options to extend prison time—either based on offense or “upward departures.”
Make no mistake—this is Graves’ way of threatening J6ers sentenced for DOJ unlawful use of 1512c2: if you ask for release or reduced sentence based on SCOTUS’ likely reversal of obstruction count, we’ll figure out a way to make you serve MORE time.
And most DC judges will be only too happy to comply:
The judge in this cited case—former chief judge Beryl Howell, the source of the rot in DC legal/judicial system—recently acknowledged the forthcoming tsunami of court motions if 1512c2 is reversed this summer.
She suggested the new enhancements also cited in the screenshot above. They will not accept defeat on 1512c2—in fact, they will instead punish those seeking justified relief.
Shut down this court and US Atty office.
So to recap: if a J6er is in prison now on 1512c2 and other offenses (mostly misdemeanors) and asks for release, DOJ will respond with request for consecutive (not concurrent) sentences and enhancements where applicable on other offenses.
For now, those seeking release under Brock (the appellate order reversing one enhancement), DOJ will respond with a request for other enhancements.
Sources: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1770436175334920400.html
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1770436175334920400
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1770437498197430376
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1770441162140098626
Biden DOJ Warns Jan. 6 Defendants May Still Face Heightened Sentences Despite SCOTUS Case Challenging Key Charge
The Department of Justice (DOJ) warned a Jan. 6 defendant Tuesday that his sentence would not be reduced, regardless of the Supreme Court’s decision in a coming case related to a statute he was charged under.
Jan. 6 defendant Anthony Williams asked the court in February to grant him bond pending his appeal in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to take up Fischer v. United States, which challenges the scope of an obstruction statute used to charge him, along with hundreds of other Jan. 6 defendants. The DOJ warned in a court filing Tuesday that in spite of the pending case — and an appeals court ruling finding it wrongly lengthened Jan. 6 sentences by applying an enhancement for interfering with the “administration of justice” — it would increase its sentencing recommendation on the remaining counts to maintain the current sentence length.
“[T]he government respectfully submits that Williams nevertheless cannot show that there is any likelihood that the outcome in Fischer will result in a reduced sentence to a term of imprisonment less than the total of the time already served plus the expected duration of the appeal process,” the DOJ wrote.
The DOJ said that “the government’s sentencing recommendation likely would be different in the absence of a conviction for obstruction of an official proceeding in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and could include a request for consecutive sentences to account for both the severity of Williams’s conduct on January 6 and for the aspects of his conduct and history that the Court originally found warranted a sixty (60) month sentence.”
More at: https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2024/03/20/biden-doj-warns-jan-6-defendants-may-still-face-heightened-sentences-despite-scotus-case-challenging-key-charge/