In Break From Leadership, Several Democrats Back Border Wall

Several Senate Democrats are bucking leadership to support President Donald Trump’s proposal for a wall on the southern border. West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin told The Daily Caller on Jan. 24 that Senate Democrats agree on the need for a border wall and that House Republicans are the holdouts. “On the Senate side, we understand. I don’t think any Senators … said they don’t want any secured structure fence or wall or whatever you want to call it,” he said. Manchin made the comment after the Senate failed to pass a Republican measure that would fund the government and provide over $5 billion in funds for a border wall and a Democratic measure that would fund the government, but not the wall.

Trump and Democratic leaders are in a standoff over funding for a border wall which has triggered the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history. Several other Democratic senators expressed support for a border wall. “I know we’re going to have to add additional border security,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) told Fox News. “We’ve got about 700 miles of existing fencing. Where folks say we need additional barrier protections, I’m all for it.” “Everybody is for border security,” Maine Democratic Sen. Angus King told CNN on Jan. 7. “The question is, let’s do it in a rational, economic, sensible way. There are places where a wall makes sense.” “I am a huge advocate of border security. I think fencing makes sense in a lot of places. We have hundreds of miles of fencing, and in a lot of places, fences alongside roads make sense,” said Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.).

Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) has documented statements from a total of seven Democratic senators supporting the idea of a border wall. Despite the public statements, Manchin was the only Democratic senator to vote on Jan. 24 for the measure that would fund the border wall. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate and need seven Democrat votes to reach the 60-vote threshold to pass the border wall funding measure and end the shutdown. A number of Democrats in the House of Representatives are also defying leadership to back the border wall. Cassidy documented 10 House Democrats who have expressed support for a border structure. “Look, I think physical barriers are part of the solution. … If it’s protecting people, it’s moral. … So we’re for border security and I think we can get there,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Jan. 22. “He’s not talking about a wall from sea to shining sea. That is not what we are talking about. We are talking about physical barriers as recommended by experts,” said Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) on Jan. 23. “Give Trump the money,” said Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) on Jan. 22. “I’d give him the whole thing … and put strings on it so you make sure he puts the wall where it needs to be. Why are we fighting over this? We’re going to build that wall anyway, at some time.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-break-from-leadership-several-democrats-back-border-wall_2779224.html

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Why FBI Special Agent Joseph Pientka Is the DOJ’s Invisible Man

On Jan. 18, journalist Jeff Carlson broke an amazing story right here on the pages of The Epoch Times, in which he published explosive excerpts from former FBI General Counsel James Baker’s testimony to the U.S. Congress. In that transcript, an entire series of previously undisclosed information became public. Baker told the House Oversight Committee the following:

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [FISC] was not alerted to the fact that much of the information in the surveillance warrant on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page was being provided by paid political propagandists employed by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

To continue receiving Trump-Russia collusion propaganda from opposition research firm Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele—who had been hired by Fusion GPS on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC—the FBI established a backchannel through former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr at the Department of Justice. After every meeting with Steele, Ohr would sit down for an interview with FBI Special Agent Joseph Pientka, who would fill out official FD-302 interview forms to pass on the information within the FBI.

Why A Backchannel Was Necessary For this initial column, I’m going to deal with the stunning revelation that shortly before the 2016 election, the FBI decided to engage in the sham of disassociating itself from Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson only to quickly create a hidden backchannel in order to continue to receive information from them. While FBI personnel had been meeting directly with Steele and Simpson to receive their Trump-Russia allegations for months, it had all of the sudden become a problem. Why? It’s highly likely someone began asking questions shortly before the election as to why the FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign based on allegations coming straight from propagandists at Fusion GPS being paid by the Clinton campaign.

Did people connect the dots between the stories appearing in media outlets such as Mother Jones and Yahoo News with the sources the FBI was using for its Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign? Did someone approach the FBI with questions about this? It seems something spooked the SpyGate plotters into presenting an appearance of drawing back from Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS while still surreptitiously using that political propaganda shop as a source for their ongoing investigations. This backchannel allowed the FBI to hide Fusion GPS’s—and the Clinton campaign’s–role in providing much of the “evidence” being used to drive these politically-motivated investigations of Trump and his associates.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/why-fbi-special-agent-joseph-pientka-is-the-dojs-invisible-man_2776513.html

Why Is The FBI Muzzling The Only Person With Credibility Left in The Flynn Investigation: FBI SSA Joe Pientka III

https://saraacarter.com/why-is-the-fbi-muzzling-the-only-person-with-credibility-left-in-the-flynn-investigation-fbi-ssa-joe-pientka-iii/

Three Southwest Kansas Men Sentenced to Prison for Plotting to Bomb Somali Immigrants in Garden City

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-southwest-kansas-men-sentenced-prison-plotting-bomb-somali-immigrants-garden-city

Texas Man Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-man-arrested-attempting-provide-material-support-designated-foreign-terrorist

Michigan Residents Arrested for Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIS

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/michigan-residents-arrested-conspiracy-provide-material-support-isis

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President Trump will appoint

Special Council x 3= Three New Justices?