“Conservative pundit Sean Hannity claimed without evidence on Thursday that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter have “hired” Special Weapons and Tactics units to hunt down and destroy their political detractors.”
When did British Intelligence understand it was VERY WRONG for our Attorney General to be involved in FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE? Did they, and other agencies, understand the President of the United States CREATED his personal Spy Unit out of our Justice Department – with the Attorney General of the United States – as it’s head?
BARR…Bureau of Angry Right-wing Republicans
How many foreign agencies read this article published in 2019 about the President giving Barr carte blanche to LOOK AT ALL FOREIGN INTELLIGNCE? How alarmed were they about their TOP SECRETS being employed to DESTROY DEMOCRATS – especially the Former First Lady, and, Secretary of State – Hillary Clinton.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/trump-intel-agencies/index.html
The Fox Fiction Network is already putting out LIES that the Democrats had Special Hit and Spy teams to counter the Barr-Durham report. The Justice Department and FBI need to RAID BARR’S HOME and look for Top Secret document!. Is it possible Trump and Barr contrived a Special Rule on handling our Nation’s Top Secret material, where they did not have to follow traditional procedure? Thus, there was NO RECORD of what was taken out of THE LOCKED BOX – and returned? Did Barr and Trump look at Top Secret material pertaining to Dutch and British Intelligence? This order lays the groundwork for a COUP, does it not? This is how Hitler rose to power – with the help of the SS. Sean Hannity is suggesting the Democrats have their own SS. This is very – JAMES BONDISH!
With Rep. Adam Schiff out of the way, the BARR propaganda campaign will construct more lies, leading up to the BARR LIE FEST. In my fictional approach, I have my British Spy, Victoria Rosemond Bond, looking at the construction of The Locked Box. Getting Top Secret Docs – out of the archives – is one matter. But – what about getting them – BACK IN THE BOX without detection?
One has to look at the real possibility Trump and BARR – had no intention of returning the docs – because they expected to find very damaging information on Top Democrat’s, and therefore declare Martial Law, and, declare the two party system – DEAD! Therefore, for the sake of the Nation, Trump will have to be our – DICTATOR. Did Barr understand this was the Master Plan, and, in affect he would be the head of the Powerful United States Gestapo? Consider the coup attempt in Brazil. Was British Intel looking there?
I will post on the Pelosi attack next. The attacker was trying to be a hero by ending ALL doubt who the bad guys are, and prove….THE DEMOCRATS STOLT THE ELECTION…..by torturing the Speaker of the House. I have to bring up the amazing truth, Democrats – WHO ARE THE REAL VICTIMS – have not been violent towards Republican Leaders. The attacker, and Sean Hannity – are provoking violence by the Democrats. Fox News News – needs to be sued for involving all American Citizens in mind-bending espionage games – that often lead violence. Sean Hannity – putting a FRESH target on the backs of the Pelosi family!
Never pull away from someone swinging something at you. You will not get away if you are old. Embrace the attacker and use you weight to take you both to the ground. Stay close.
The Republican’s tried to steal the elections. They are the party guilty of this!
The Republican’s tried to steal the elections. They are the party guilty of this!
The Republican’s tried to steal the elections. They are the party guilty of this!
John Presco
“Conservative pundit Sean Hannity claimed without evidence on Thursday that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter have “hired” Special Weapons and Tactics units to hunt down and destroy their political detractors.”
FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams are specialized part-time police tactical units (SWAT) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI maintains SWAT teams at each of its 56 field offices throughout the United States.[6] Each team is composed of a varying number of certified SWAT operators, dependent on office size and funding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Special_Weapons_and_Tactics_Teams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law
Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions or suspension of civil law by a government, especially in response to an emergency where civil forces are overwhelmed, or in an occupied territory.[1][2]
President Donald Trump has ordered all major US intelligence agencies to assist Attorney General William Barr in his review of surveillance issues surrounding Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, delegating significant authority to Barr to declassify sensitive intelligence materials as the attorney general sees fit.
Bogus Intel. In an unbelievably ironic twist, Durham allegedly used dubious intel from the Dutch and sidestepped a federal judge’s objections to obtain emails from a U.S. citizen who worked at a pro-democracy organization founded by George Soros. Later the Trump administration would infuriate the Dutch by publicly revealing the intel.
Durham Investigated Trump?!? The most explosive revelation in the NYT piece is that Barr allegedly directed Durham to dramatically expand his brief beyond “investigating the investigators” by opening a financial crimes investigation in the fall of 2019 of President Donald Trump based on a tantalizing tip from Italian authorities. It’s unclear how and to what extent Durham investigated the tip. No charges ever resulted. While it’s unclear what exactly Durham did with the tip, the strong impression left by the story is that the Trump investigation was buried.
One key question for federal or congressional investigators is how highly classified information ended up in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago boxes.
One person familiar with the scramble to pack up Trump’s belongings suggested some of the documents Trump piled up in the White House residence may have inadvertently ended up at Mar-a-Lago. But multiple people close to the former president told the Post that “Trump was very secretive about the packing of boxes that were retrieved from Mar-a-Lago last month, and did not let other aides — including some of his most senior advisers — look at them.”
And “Trump has been loath to return the boxes of documents he took from the White House, despite repeated efforts by the National Archives to obtain them,” starting last summer, when archivists noticed some high-profile records were missing, The New York Times reports. Eventually, “officials at the National Archives threatened to send a letter to Congress or the Department of Justice if he continued to withhold the boxes,” and Trump started going through the files in December.
Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich told the Post that “a normal and routine process is being weaponized by anonymous, politically motivated government sources to peddle Fake News,” and the National Archives could “credibly dispute this false reporting” but isn’t.
The “top secret” document report comes atop other new revelations about Trump’s habitual mishandling of presidential records, including frequently tearing up documents, possibly trying to flush printed paper down the toilet, and using personal cellphones that avoided White House call logs.
Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law expert who literally wrote the book on the U.S. Constitution, calls the Times’ report “jaw-dropping.”
“When Durham unexpectedly found evidence of crimes committed BY rather than AGAINST Trump, he and Barr deliberately deceived the nation into thinking the opposite! This deep dive by the NYT is as jaw-dropping as anything I’ve read in the past decade,” Tribe says.
Law professor and former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Sherrilyn Ifill, one of TIME’s 2021 most influential people in the world, accused Barr of “gaslighting” the public.
“Every line of this article must be read,” Ifill implored. “Horrifying breaches of professional ethics, misuse of DOJ investigative resources, and deliberate lies to, and gaslighting of the public. A grotesque perversion of the appropriate role of Attorney General.”
Conservative pundit Sean Hannity claimed without evidence on Thursday that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter have “hired” Special Weapons and Tactics units to hunt down and destroy their political detractors.
First, Hannity and his guest alleged that the Bidens conducted nefarious business with China. They agreed that there were secret recordings of the two men kanoodling with foreign nationals, and determined that the Bidens acted illegally based on what was left “unsaid” in the supposed clandestine phone calls.
Next, Hannity stated in a fake Russian accent that Libya may have “real compromising materials” about Hunter. He then transitioned into the Biden-SWAT conspiracy theory.
Trump claimed that nuclear threats are being made by other countries “because they have no respect for our leadership,” appearing to reference Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies making threats about using nuclear weapons.
“World War III would be a catastrophe unlike any other. This would make World War I and World War II like very small battles,” Trump said.
To address this potential threat, Trump said he would “build a state of the art next generation missile defense shield, just as Israel is now protected by the Iron Dome.”
Israel’s Iron Dome was designed to intercept incoming missiles and is one of the most advanced defense systems in the world.
“America must have an impenetrable dome to protect our people,” Trump said.
“On one of Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham’s trips to Europe,” The Times reveals, “according to people familiar with the matter, Italian officials — while denying any role in setting off the Russia investigation — unexpectedly offered a potentially explosive tip linking Mr. Trump to certain suspected financial crimes.”
The Times adds that “Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham never disclosed that their inquiry expanded in the fall of 2019, based on a tip from Italian officials, to include a criminal investigation into suspicious financial dealings related to Mr. Trump.”
“Mr. Durham never filed charges, and it remains unclear what level of an investigation it was, what steps he took, what he learned and whether anyone at the White House ever found out. The extraordinary fact that Mr. Durham opened a criminal investigation that included scrutinizing Mr. Trump has remained secret.”
Until now.
Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law expert who literally wrote the book on the U.S. Constitution, calls the Times’ report “jaw-dropping.”
“When Durham unexpectedly found evidence of crimes committed BY rather than AGAINST Trump, he and Barr deliberately deceived the nation into thinking the opposite! This deep dive by the NYT is as jaw-dropping as anything I’ve read in the past decade,” Tribe says.
Law professor and former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Sherrilyn Ifill, one of TIME’s 2021 most influential people in the world, accused Barr of “gaslighting” the public.
“Every line of this article must be read,” Ifill implored. “Horrifying breaches of professional ethics, misuse of DOJ investigative resources, and deliberate lies to, and gaslighting of the public. A grotesque perversion of the appropriate role of Attorney General.”
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Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, the well-known MSNBC legal contributor and professor of law, also calls it “jaw dropping.”
“Jaw dropping reporting. Lots here including an explanation of why Durham’s colleague resigned: under pressure from Barr to release an ‘interim’ report damaging Clinton & the FBI as the election drew near, Durham had a draft prepared that wasn’t factual,” she says.
Andrew Weissman, the former General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who spent 20 years at DOJ, including working under Special Counsel Robert Mueller, calls Barr “corrupt.”
“Can anyone really be surprised by this?” he asks. “Barr was just so corrupt and so corrupted the DOJ.”
MSNBC legal analyst Jill Wine-Banks, a former Watergate prosecutor and the first woman to serve as US General Counsel of the Army was troubled by the picture The Times painted of how close Barr and Durham were, when special counsels are supposed to have great autonomy and not be shaded by any Attorney General interference.
“Even more troubling than Barr and Durham frequently having drinks and discussing the investigation is the fact that the only crime they discovered on their foreign trip was Italian intel about crimes by Trump,” she says via Twitter. “I want to know the status of that investigation!”
Some legal experts lament that despite the bombshells in The Times’ report, it appears nothing will come of it – certainly nothing from the House Republicans.
Former Associate White House Counsel Ian Bassin sardonically asks, “Surely McCarthy and Jim Jordan’s new Select Committee on ‘the Weaponization of the Federal Government’ will focus on this story and the actions of Bill Barr, John Durham and Donald Trump. Surely, right? Right?”
Wine-Banks also points to House Republicans’ new committee investigating what they claim is “weaponization” of the federal government.
“Barr’s relationship with Durham, his pressure on him to reach a certain result and their failure to follow up on Trump’s crime revealed during the investigation is what weaponization of the DOJ looks like — not what Republicans want to investigate now.”
Pete Strzok, who spent 26 years at the FBI including as Deputy Assistant Director of the Bureau’s Counterintelligence Division, and led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States election, speaks from experience.
“I can see Barr allowing the stunning amount of craziness (a gentle choice of word) described in this article,” he writes. “But does anyone in the current OAG or ODAG care about this? Durham has reported to AG Garland for twenty two (22) months now.”
“This,” Weissman adds separately, pointing to The Times article, “is all about the Trump weaponization of the DOJ – but we know that the House Rs won’t give a damn about it.”
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President Donald Trump has ordered all major US intelligence agencies to assist Attorney General William Barr in his review of surveillance issues surrounding Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, delegating significant authority to Barr to declassify sensitive intelligence materials as the attorney general sees fit.
The formal memorandum released by the White House late Thursday evening directs the heads of each agency to “promptly provide” information as Barr requests.
The move represents a new step in expanding Barr’s powers as he embarks on a controversial review of the early counterintelligence work that kicked off the Russia investigation, which has loomed large over Trump’s first term in office. But the move could also serve as a prelude to a larger declassification effort Trump has floated since last fall as he’s battled his own intelligence agencies and accused former officials, without evidence, of conspiring against him.
“Today’s action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
Trump on Friday insisted Barr’s review is being done in the name of transparency and said his decision to grant Barr substantial power is not about political payback, even as the President continued to call the investigation into him and his campaign an “attempted take down.”
“It’s not payback, I don’t care about payback,” Trump said. “This is about finding out what happened … We’re exposing everything.”
Trump defended his decision to grant Barr declassification authority, praising him as a “highly-respected man.”
READ: Trump orders intel agencies to assist Barr with review of Russia probe
In a statement Friday, the director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, said he is confident Barr will “protect highly-sensitive classified information that, if publicly released, would put our national security at risk.” The statement refers to “Russian interference” efforts in the 2016 election but does not mention alleged wrongdoing by US authorities.
While Trump had previously lamented the lack of investigation into the origins of how those associated with his presidential campaign came under investigation, Barr has taken up the President’s call to action.
As CNN has previously reported, Barr is working closely with the heads of the CIA, the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to review surveillance activities surrounding the 2016 presidential campaign. Barr is leading the review with US Attorney John Durham, a career federal prosecutor in Connecticut.
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is separately investigating how the FBI obtained surveillance orders to monitor former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Thursday’s move by Trump to delegate declassification authority to Barr may set the stage for him to make certain documents related to Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s work publicly available that would otherwise stay under wraps.
Barr has not provided any details on Horowitz’s conclusions, but he suggested during a congressional hearing last month that “spying did occur” – touching off a firestorm over his language and criticism for generally declining to further elaborate on such incendiary claims.
“We should be worried about whether government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale,” Barr told Fox News last week, adding that his questions haven’t been adequately answered thus far. “And so I’m not saying that happened, but I’m saying that we have to look at that.”
US officials say that while many interpreted Barr’s initial spying comments to be directed at the FBI, in reality, the core of his concern is the activities of other intelligence agencies at the start of the Russia probe.
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