[It's about time.]

Mueller probe cut corners, broke rules to ‘get Trump,’ whistleblower claims

Mar 16 2026 (excerpt)

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Among the most damning allegations:

There was “no authority” for the Special Counsel’s Office to open a case on Tom Barrack, a billionaire friend of Trump’s and chairman of his 2017 inaugural committee, over false claims that he was an unregistered agent of the United Arab Emirates. The FBI’s Washington Field Office already had declined to open an investigation into the now-78-year-old but the Mueller team nevertheless arrested Barrack, held him in jail, and charged him with being an agent of a foreign government. After a lengthy and expensive legal battle, Barrack was acquitted by a jury in 2022. He now serves as US ambassador to Turkey.

The Mueller team chronically abused federal surveillance, or FISA, warrants that govern secret monitoring of suspected foreign agents to target Trump campaign advisers, even renewing them over the objections of FBI agents. In one case, the agent claimed, “the target of the investigation [was] cooperating and the [surveillance warrant] would not give us anything more and there was nothing in the past FISA that aided the investigation other than to prove the Target was being honest with the investigators … there were no corroborating facts that tied [the target] to certain facts that we thought were originally true.” When investigators decided to apply for a fourth warrant against the aide, the agent pointed out a series of needed corrections. In response to the proposed revisions, FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith told him: “We can’t send this.” The DOJ subsequently decided the corrections weren’t needed. Clinesmith later pleaded guilty to doctoring an email that underpinned a FISA warrant application for another blameless Trump adviser, Carter Page. He was sentenced to 12 months’ probation and kept his law license after a short suspension.

Mueller prosecutor Zainad Ahmad, a protege of former Barack Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch, repeatedly violated security protocols: “For example, she brought classified documents to a meeting at WFO [Washington Field Office] without adherence to FBI security policy by bringing her classified notebook to the meeting without a proper carrying bag. What was worse, she came to WFO from her residence, meaning she kept her notebook at the residence.”

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe “referred to President Trump in a derogatory manner” in an official interview record — and DOJ prosecutors later tried to pressure FBI agent Michelle Taylor to “change the tone of the [document] to reflect that McCabe spoke about [Trump] without the negative connotation.”

Taylor refused and left the FBI shortly after her secondment to the Mueller team ended, the agent said.

A “general atmosphere … of bias [in the office was] led by one young prosecutor, Aaron Zelinsky … There were caricatures and cartoons that were anti-Trump.” Zelinsky, who handled the zealous investigations into Trump advisers Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos and Michael Caputo, resigned from the DOJ in January 2025.

Mueller’s investigation ran until March 2019, at a cost to taxpayers of more than $30 million, but found no evidence of Russia collusion.

In May 2023, another special counsel, John Durham, released a report describing the Trump-Russia probe as “seriously flawed” and finding that the FBI “discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.”

Grassley has asked Bondi and Patel to produce all emails, files and personnel records relevant to the agent’s allegations by March 29.

https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/mueller-probe-cut-corners-broke-rules-to-get-trump-whistleblower-claims/

[This is odd.]

Top Gabbard aide resigns over Iran war

Mar 17 2026

A top aide to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has resigned in protest of the Trump administration’s war in Iran.

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, posted on social media platform X that he was resigning effective Tuesday. He appears to be the first major Trump administration official to resign over the war.

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent wrote.

Kent shared a letter addressed to President Trump stating that while he supports “the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020” and 2024, he disagreed with the president’s decision to launch the operation against Iran.

The Hill has reached out to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and National Counterterrorism Center for further comment.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5787478-trump-aide-joe-kent-resigns-iran-war/

>>24391657

[This is somewhat clarifying regarding Kent's resignation. Looks like there might be a dispute about Israel and the war.]

Joe Kent is a dangerous extremist and must be rejected by the Senate

Feb 2025

Today, Democratic Majority for Israel President & CEO Mark Mellman released the following statement on the nomination of Joe Kent to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Center:

“Joe Kent is a zealot whose blind devotion to an extremist ideology concerns us deeply. For the good of the nation, the Senate should reject his appointment to the critical post of Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. No one who joins a podcast hosted by a Nazi sympathizer, lifts talking points from pro-Russian Telegram channels, and says government-controlled agents were part of the January 6th attacks should be in charge of counterterrorism – period.

“We cannot entrust counterterrorism to someone who believes that Putin had legitimate concerns when he launched his unprovoked attack on Ukraine, who believes that President Zelenskyy was installed by the United States, or called Zelenskyy a ‘thug.’ His attacks on pro-Israel Americans are similarly unacceptable.

“Joe Kent’s appointment is beyond politics; it’s about rejecting someone who, in the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, repeatedly dismissed glaring evidence of Russian intent that Western intelligence agencies produced, instead driving his own warped worldview. We can’t have someone handling national security and counterterrorism who gives Putin the benefit of the doubt.

“This is a very dangerous appointment, and senators of all political parties should carefully examine Kent’s record, reject him in a bipartisan way, and allow the President to nominate a qualified candidate.”

https://demmajorityforisrael.org/media/press-release/joe-kent-is-a-dangerous-extremist-and-must-be-rejected-by-the-senate/

>>24391705

Will we be able to see the lizards without the illusion?

>>24391715

At least the Save America Act will have a definitive conclusion (assuming it fails in the Senate) - and POTUS can then act to actually save America.

The "other options" have been spoken about on various podcasts.

Juan O Savin 107

@JuanOSavin107

This is the order which I requested and supervised the creation and execution of…17 page document available in link below.

Pro-Trump attorneys push EO that would give Trump wide power over elections: Sources

Feb 26 2026

A group of pro-Trump attorneys and supporters is circulating a draft of a presidential executive order that uses alleged Chinese interference in the 2020 election of which there is no evidence to justify a national emergency declaration that they claim would give President Donald Trump sweeping power over voting, multiple sources told ABC News.

The 17-page draft order, which sources say Trump has reviewed, would mandate the use of voter ID and hand-counted ballots, and ban mail-in ballots ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

The attorneys pushing the draft order said they anticipate it would be incorporated into a planned executive order, which they expect to be issued soon.

ICE not being deployed to polling places for midterms, state election officials told: Sources

It is not clear if Trump is considering or will ultimately issue the order.

"At this point, it's got to be ASAP, because we got primaries," said Florida attorney Peter Ticktin, who told ABC News on Thursday that he has been in contact with the White House about the draft order.

Ticktin, who also represents former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters, who was imprisoned for breaking into voting equipment, said the emergency declaration would empower Trump to ban electronic voting machines and mail-in ballots because they could be tools used for foreign interference.

"The most important provision, if you ask me, is the hand counting," Ticktin said. "Get rid of the machines. That's what we need to do right away."

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When asked about Article I of the Constitution assigning power to regulate elections to state legislatures and Congress, Ticktin acknowledged state legislatures' authority, but said the claims of foreign election interference justify action.

"The Constitution basically gives the power to the state legislators, not the governors, not any judges, not anything in the federal government, but just the state legislatures, the power to determine how that state is going to conduct its elections. So the President doesn't have any power to change that … But we really do have an election emergency right now," he said.

The Washington Post was first to report on the draft order.

Sources said President Trump has reviewed versions of the draft order and has had discussions with those involved with the effort. Ticktin told ABC News that during the drafting of the order, he has been in contact with a number of MAGA figures including Michael Flynn, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, and Patrick Byrne, all who played roles in the aftermath of the 2020 election and worked to attempt to overturn the results.

A social media post made by Trump on Feb. 13 appeared to tease an upcoming executive order on the issue.

https://www.aol.com/articles/pro-trump-attorneys-push-eo-215201036.html