TYB
Did not know that Ty, but did know of his service. Grew up watching him and the Captn.
https://raisedrightfarmstead.com/
wish they still made guys like this.
here we go
The new Syrian rebel leader green shirt man just demanded the West give him weapons and money.
😂 Same playbook.
same happened with 911, many joined up after that one.
KP
WATCH LIVE: Mystery drones over New Jersey — House holds hearing LIVE Streaming.
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House Homeland Subcommittee holds hearing on Safeguarding the Homeland from Unmanned Aerial Systems
IG finds Justice Department spied on Patel and other congressional staffer without telling courts
As a result of the probe, the department obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staff members, including President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, Kash Patel.
The Justice Department spied on two House members and several congressional staffers in a leak investigation without telling the courts, the agency's inspector general found in a sweeping investigation released Tuesday.
As a result, the department obtained phone records from the two members of Congress and 43 staff members including President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, who worked as a staffer on the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee at the time.
The department initiated the probe to investigate leaks to the media of FBI classified information as part of the now-discredited Trump-Russia probe which had recently been shared with Congress.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that the Justice Department, in filings with the court, did not reference “the fact that they related to requests for records of Members of Congress or congressional staffers," despite implicating constitutional separation of powers between two government branches.
You can read the report below:
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IG report on leak investigation.pdf
Patel, who is poised to become the new director of the FBI if confirmed, previously sued former Trump Justice Department officials and FBI Director Christopher Wray, accusing them of violating his Fourth Amendment right to protection from unreasonable searches and seizures when they tried to obtain Patel's personal records, Just the News previously reported.
Patel said he was completely unaware of the subpoena until December 2022, when Google notified him about it.
Another former staffer, Jason Foster, previously told Just the News that he confirmed that the government successfully asked a federal court to hide its spying on Congress for five consecutive years.
Foster is now the head of the Empower Oversight whistleblower center. In 2017 at the time of the secret surveillance, he was the chief investigative counsel for Sen. Chuck Grassley on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The seizure of his personal data occurred in 2017 while he worked for the Senate, and ordinarily under the original court order, Foster would have been notified a year later. But because the DOJ sought court approval ex parte to keep its surveillance secret, he wasn’t alerted until earlier this fall, six years after the initial subpoena.
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https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/ig-finds-justice-department-spied-congressional-staff-leak-probe-without
Obama did the the same thing by subsidising rents to move them to white areas. Totally ruined the moslty upscale white city I grew up in. crime is off the charts where very little was before.
True story, I moved out years ago.
Trump shooting task force says DHS, Secret Service haven't produced docs on golf course incident
The House Task Force investigating the assassination attempts on President-elect Trump's life has released its final report on Tuesday, detailing "preexisting conditions and leadership failures" that led to the deadly campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July.
While the bipartisan panel was given ample information on that shooting, the report suggested requests for documents on the second attempt on Trump's life – this one at his Palm Beach golf course in September – were seemingly stonewalled.
"The Task Force notes that as of the date of publication of this report, [the Department of Homeland Security], [U.S. Secret Service], FBI, and [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] have not produced any documents responsive to the Task Force’s requests regarding the preparation for, events of, and response to the second assassination attempt that occurred on September 15," the report said.
Lawmakers found "critical vulnerabilities" in the security of that site. The report said Secret Service agents identified the golf course's outer perimeter as "a favorable position for potential snipers."
he report also called on the Secret Service to review its protocols for golf courses – which would be a significant policy overhaul, given Trump and past presidents' historic penchant for golfing.
Other recommendations in the 180-page report include calling on Congress to consider taking the Secret Service out from under the purview of DHS.
"The current structure potentially weakens USSS, a small but critically important agency, in advocating for its budget and other priorities inside a much larger entity," the report said.
"The failure in [Butler, Pennsylvania] was far from the first significant USSS failure in recent history, and it is fair to question whether USSS should continue to be housed within DHS."
he Secret Service was under the Treasury Department until 2003, when it was moved to the newly formed DHS, but the task force advocated for it to be its own structure entirely.
"A fresh look at whether USSS might benefit from the status of an independent agency, with more freedom to make budget requests and advocate for itself, would be a healthy discussion for former USSS leaders to have with Congress," the report said.
PDF at sauce
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-shooting-task-force-says-dhs-secret-service-havent-produced-docs-golf-course-incident
State Department Scrambles To Scuttle $100M Censorship Network Before Trump Takes Office
Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024 - 10:05 AM
The State Department revealed in a Monday filing that they are "substantially likely" to shut down their $100M Global Engagement Center (GEC), which was revealed in early 2023 to have been funding a "disinformation" tracking group which worked to pressure advertisers to demonetize outlets it accuses of spreading "disinformation."
Except, they're really just "realigning" the "Center's staff and funding to other Department offices and bureaus for foreign information manipulation."
Clears throat: https://t.co/CVf6rouMEH pic.twitter.com/5ZYNqdOdCl
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) December 10, 2024
The move comes amid a lawsuit from Texas AG Ken Paxton and several conservative media outlets listed a GEC-funded "dynamic exclusion list" of websites it doesn't like, which it would then distribute to ad tech companies - such as Microsoft's Xandr - in order to try and "defund and downrank these worst offenders," and deprive said sites of ad revenue.
🚨Mike Benz explains how the State Department used ISIS as an excuse to implement full surveillance through social media companies:
"In 2014-16 the State Department created this thing called the Global Engagement Center, which was the first censorship capacity of the USG. This… pic.twitter.com/N0gh6HrymP
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) December 3, 2024
h/t Autism Capital
As Headline News' Ken Silva notes further; it’s unclear how the GEC’s closure will affect the lawsuit. Monday’s court filing said lawyers for all parties are still discussing the implications.
[Elon] Musk put the GEC on the map in March 2023, when he deemed it to be the “worst offender in U.S. government” when it comes to censorship and media manipulation.
According to revelations from the “Twitter Files”—a trove of internal records about the censorship decisiosn made within the social media company—the GEC funded groups such as the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which in turn compiled blacklists of Twitter accounts that were supposedly tied to foreign disinformation campaigns. The Digital Forensic Research Lab sent those blacklists to Twitter so that the company could deactivate the accounts listed.
Federalist senior legal correspondent Margot Cleveland further revealed in April 2023 that the GEC marketed anti-conservative censorship products to private-sector tech firms. Cleveland also noted that the GEC apparently worked with infamous FBI Agent Elvis Chan, who was revealed in the Twitter Files to be in constant touch with the social media firm about censorship issues.
The US State Dept is shuttering GEC–the Global Engagement Center that was censoring Americans.
Goodbye, GEC. Our Constitution appreciates your exit. pic.twitter.com/B8sLtXRFky
— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) December 10, 2024
Despite those scandals, Democrats had been pushing to renew the GEC’s $100 million budget before it expires at the end of the year.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who drafted the original legislation in 2016 that led to the GEC, argued last year that the censorship network was crucial to counter foreign disinformation.
“There’s no way to combat Russian and Chinese misinformation without the GEC,” Murphy insisted.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/state-department-scrambles-scuttle-100m-censorship-network-trump-takes-office
I have seen that place in person in passing by from a boat. it nice for sure
why is it needed?
I agree. Truly believe it was supposed to be that way before man put himself in charge of time.
Read once where a city high in crime made it mandatory for every home to have a firearm. It got the same results.
I would say its about bringing companies back to the US that fled to other countries for production of goods. I like it.
its full i hear