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[VorlonFrog]

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Crossfire Typhoon’: Here Is A 171-Page Transcript Of Ex-Trump Aide’s Secret Conversation With An FBI Informant

Weeks before the 2016 presidential election, the FBI relied on a friend of George Papadopoulos to secretly record the then-Trump campaign aide during a conversation over lunch and a visit to a casino, according to a 171-page transcript of the secretly recorded conversation obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The transcript shows that Papadopoulos repeatedly denied that the Trump campaign was working with Russia to hack and release emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign.

He also dismissed allegations circulating at the time that the Russian government was behind the hacks.

“That’s all bullshit,” Papadopoulos told the source after he brought up the topic of Russia’s possible interests in helping the Trump campaign.

The FBI had for three months before the interaction been investigating whether the Trump campaign was conspiring with the Russian government to influence the election. The bureau opened “Crossfire Hurricane,” the code name for the probe, on July 31, 2016 after receiving a tip from the Australian government related to Papadopoulos.

Papadopoulos is referred to as “Crossfire Typhoon” in the FBI transcript, which was declassified on April 1.

(story continues at the link below)
https:/dailycaller.com/2020/04/09/crossfire-typhoon-papadopoulos-fbi-informant/


FBI, Verbatim Transcript, Crossfire Typhoon and FBI Confidential Human Source (undated, declassified May 5, 2020)

FBI, Verbatim Transcript, Crossfire Typhoon and FBI Confidential Human Source (undated, declassified May 5, 2020)

repository.library.georgetown.edu

 

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[Oceanslider]

"Musk, who purchased Twitter last month...."

Musk has not yet purchased Twitter. More professional media incompetence.

Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk - Wikipedia

"Twitter's board of directors unanimously accepted Musk's buyout offer of $44 billion, with the company set to be privatized. As of May 2022, the acquisition is pending approval from regulators and shareholders. "

 

[Parley]

Trump-Backed Alex Mooney Defeats ‘RINO’ David McKinley in West Virginia Republican Primary

The Trump-endorsed Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) defeated Rep. David McKinley in the contentious battle for West Virginia’s second congressional district.

The West Virginia primary tested the political will of the Republican Party base. After the 2020 census, the state lost one congressional district, forcing a primary battle between McKinely from the first congressional district and Mooney from the second congressional district.

Trump-Backed Alex Mooney Wins West Virginia Republican Primary (breitbart.com)

 

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The attorneys general of 20 states have threatened legal action against the US government unless they disband the newly formed Disinformation Governance Board.

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In a letter addressed to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Attorney General of Virginia, Jason Miyares, spoke for the AGs of 19 other states and shared his concerns about the overreach.
The letter was acquired by ReclaimtheNet.org.

As the chief legal officers of our respective States, we, the undersigned Attorneys General, are tasked not just with enforcing the laws but with protecting the constitutional rights of all our citizens. Today we write you to insist that you immediately cease taking action that appears designed exclusively for the purpose of suppressing the exercise of constitutional rights.
Every American knows that the Constitution forbids the government to “abridg[e] the freedom of speech.” US Const. Amend. I. As Justice Robert Jackson wrote nearly eighty years ago, “f there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.” West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette, 319 US 624, 642 (1943).
Your recent testimony before the US House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, however, indicated that the Department of Homeland Security, under your leadership, is doing exactly that: prescribing orthodoxy by slapping a federal-government label of “disinformation” or “misinformation” on speech that government bureaucrats, operating behind closed doors, decree to be improper. This is an unacceptable and downright alarming encroachment on every citizen’s right to express his or her opinions, engage in political debate, and disagree with the government. The Biden Administration’s latest effort to decide what speech is “acceptable” and “orthodox” combines McCarthyite speech policing with the secrecy of the English Star Chamber.
In short, you seem to have misunderstood George Orwell: the “Ministry of Truth” described in 1984 was intended as a warning against the dangers of socialism, not as a model government agency. “MiniTru” and its thuggish apparatchiks are the villains in that story, not the heroes. For the sake of our democracy, you must immediately disband the “Disinformation Governance Board” and cease all efforts to police Americans’ protected speech. The existence of the Disinformation Governance Board will inevitably have a chilling effect on free speech. Americans will hesitate before they voice their constitutionally protected opinions, knowing that the government’s censors may be watching, and some will decide it is safer to keep their opinions to themselves.
The resulting damage to our political system and our culture will be incalculable: as a democracy, our political debates and decisions are supposed to take place in the public square, where every citizen can participate, rather than in government office buildings where hand-picked and unaccountable partisan committees are insulated from public supervision and criticism.
(Read the rest of the letter here.)

 

[mat200]

Offered as FYI, you decide. No endorsement or agreement on my part. Just found this interesting.

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So the clock is ticking ... Putin's age takes him, or USA, EU abandon support of Ukraine .. which will come first??

 

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[SJGUSMC21]

I wouldn't even have thought this possible 2 years ago.....

 

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[VorlonFrog]

https:/freebeacon.com/democrats/the-decline-and-fall-of-a-democratic-superlawyer/

Navigate past the adverts and enjoy the story.

 

[David L]

Wow, her head and eyes are bouncing around so much it is making her eye lashes go crazy, LOL
What a Weirdo...

 

[bigredfish]

LOL... I Dare you to move ahead with this farce...

Biden Disinformation Czar Demands Power To Edit Other People's Tweets
Biden Disinformation Czar Demands Power To Edit Other People's Tweets | ZeroHedge

In a newly released video clip, Biden disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz demands that “trustworthy verified people” like her be given the power to edit other people’s tweets, making Twitter more like Wikipedia.


Yes, really.
Asserting that she was “eligible for it because I’m verified,” Jankowicz then bemoaned the fact there are people on Twitter with different opinions to her who also have the blue tick but “shouldn’t be verified” because they’re “not trustworthy.”
“So verified people can essentially start to edit Twitter the same sort of way that Wikipedia is so they can add context to certain tweets,” said Jankowicz.

She then provided the example, which she claimed was non-political, of President Trump tweeting about voter fraud.

NEW - Biden's new "disinformation" czar wants "trustworthy verified people" like her to be able to "add context" to other people's tweets.pic.twitter.com/V4mLNsB5HV
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) May 10, 2022

“Someone could add context from one of the 60 lawsuits that went through the court or something that an election official in one of the states said, perhaps your own Secretary of State and his news conferences, something like that,” said Jankowicz.
“Adding context so that people have a fuller picture rather than just an individual claim on a tweet,” she added.

Of course, Twitter already slaps warning labels on such tweets, but now Jankowicz wants approved regime propagandists to be empowered to insert their narrative on an individual basis.

Also note how two of the other participants in the conversation were wearing face masks, despite it being a remote Zoom call.

As we previously highlighted, Jankowicz was handed the role of overseeing Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ despite revealing that free speech makes her “shudder” while also promoting the lie that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.
Jankowicz also ludicrously cited Christopher Steele as an expert on disinformation. Steele was the author of the infamous Clinton campaign-funded Trump ‘peegate’ dossier’ that turned out to be an actual product of disinformation.

But yeah, a person with a proven track record of pushing disinformation and hyper-partisanship should totally be given the power to edit tweets she disagrees with.



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Biden is such a f*****g joke.

 

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Also note how two of the other participants in the conversation were wearing face masks, despite it being a remote Zoom call.

But how else would you protect yourself from computer viruses?

Jankowicz also ludicrously cited Christopher Steele as an expert on disinformation.

Of course he is! Isn't that like all of the ex-burglars that help homeowners on how not to get burgled?

 

[VorlonFrog]

MAY 11, 2022
To read and think about


Dear Patriots,

In the middle of the week, we share with you a few things to read and think about.

1- Moms for Liberty is an organization actively helping save our kids.

Learn more about them at their website and find a chapter near you full of like-minded people. Even if you do not have children or grandchildren, this might be the perfect way for you to get involved to help save the country.
Sharyl Attkisson

(WATCH) Moms for Liberty

QUOTE: There's been an upheaval in education during the past two years of the Covid pandemic. Part of the change has pressed parents into increased involvement, even activism. From protests to disrupted school board meetings, many parents angry and increasingly willing to speak out.

Across racial, social, and economic lines, a common thread unites these parents. Though spread across the nation, they are part of an organization called Moms for Liberty that's taking the lead in parent activism over what, if anything, children should be taught in schools beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Tina Descovitch and Tiffany Justice lead the movement that, in just under a year and a half, has grown to 80,000 members in 34 states.

The following is a transcript of a report from "Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson." Watch the video by clicking the link at the end of the page linked above.

2-The wins in Texas over the weekend, were due in part to the work by Moms For Liberty.
RED STATE

Conservative Parents Sweep Texas School Board Elections on a Theme of Transparency, No Masks, and No CRT in the Classroom

QUOTE: Last Saturday, school board elections were held for four suburban Fort Worth, Texas, school districts. Candidates backed by a conservative parents' organization won all 10 seats they contested and unseated at least three incumbents.
Usually, school board elections are low-key affairs that draw scant interest. But ever since COVID, Critical Race Theory (CRT), and mainstreaming of sexual grooming in our classrooms brought the stupidity and cruelty of many school board members to public view, they have become a battleground. Once sane people saw the horror show that was the Loudoun County, Virginia, school board, they started paying attention.
This election, like the one last year, teaches several lessons. First, if normal parents organize, they are a formidable force. Too often, we parents are too caught up in our lives to pay much attention to school board candidates. If you care about your kids and the country, pay attention.
Second, the GOP has let the label of "nonpartisan" that is attached to school board elections prevent it from endorsing candidate slates. The cretins the left slips into school board slots can only do so because they aren't exposed.
Lastly, school board elections are critical if we are to preserve our republic.

3- We think that Dinesh D'Souza is right on target in his movie "2000 Mules".
If you still watch Fox News,(we do not), you may be surprised to learn that NO ONE ON FOX has interviewed Dinesh about the movie.
Here is some background from Emerald Robinson.
Emerald Robinson on Substack

Fox News Is Headed For Disaster

QUOTE: Fox News has been on a collision course with its own audience since the stolen 2020 election — and you can almost feel the impact coming. The network has made so many dumb bets lately that it's like watching a busload of trailer park residents get offloaded to play the nickel slots in Reno. All you can do is shake your head as you think: I know they're all going bankrupt, and they're already bankrupt. It's been perfectly obvious for years now that Rupert Murdoch and his feckless sons turned against President Trump and actually helped Joe Biden — which is not just unforgivable. It's unsustainable.

Case in point: Dinesh D'Souza dropped several bombshells on Twitter recently that illustrate that Fox News has nowhere left to hide. Listen to the D'Souza podcast here.

This sort of thing would be unthinkable just a few years ago. D'Souza's tweet virtually guarantees that he will never appear on any Fox News program again. He will be black-listed — a common practice at Fox (just ask Rudy Giuliani and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Peter Navarro). Dinesh knew all of this and did it anyway — and that should tell you something. (He even tagged a Fox producer on Tucker's team to name and shame him.) Fox has lost its monopoly power on the Right, and it's no longer immune from criticism by the conservative community.

That hasn't stopped Fox News from trying to cut D'Souza out of his own documentary in order to present the work as its own.

The real reason that "2000 Mules" is being ignored by the conservative corporate media and the liberal corporate media is because it's true. The stolen 2020 election was the largest political interference operation ever conducted in America. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's charity spent more than $400 million to create a private election system in swing states — and he was hardly alone. It took massive coordination from both political parties and the corporate media and federal law enforcement and left-wing NGO's to thwart the will of the American people in 2020.

QUOTE: Fox News is the voice of the uniparty regime in Washington.

That regime doesn't have any GOP voters left. Look at McConnell's poll numbers. Look at Pence's poll numbers. Trump just endorsed a bunch of primary candidates and they just swept through the GOP establishment's pickslike Hunter Biden at a strip club. The GOP establishment has the voting machines, but it doesn't have any voters.

Fox News is not on the side of the GOP voters — but they do rely on them. So they're caught, and everybody knows it.
That's why Fox wants to strong-arm conservative influencers like D'Souza into letting it appropriate his content on voter fraud — they need to pretend to care for the sake of the audience. Just watch D'Souza's podcast video again, and listen to what he tells you:
Fox News knows that they "can crucify him" and so he has to "stay on the reservation" or he will be banned. Tucker's executive producer (D'Souza claims) responded to D'Souza's declining their strong-arm "offer" by telling D'Souza that "he was finished" and that Fox would "teach him a lesson."

That's a threat that had teeth before 2020. Now it just sounds like hollow threats from gutless people. The world has changed. The people who are going to get taught a lesson in the next few years are at Fox News.

4- We have known this truth for two years now. Leftist Democrats do not care about people, they only care about their power, control and money.
Issues & Insights

COVID Proves It: Democrats Couldn't Care Less About Minorities Or The Poor

QUOTE: New research reveals the enormous harm that pandemic school shutdowns had on students, and that minorities and the poor suffered the most, especially in places run by Democrats.

To understand the impact of school shutdowns on learning, Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research compiled testing data on 2.1 million students in 49 states to see how school closures and the use of remote "learning" affected academic achievement.

The findings are deeply troubling. Closing schools "had profound consequences for student achievement." Worse, it widened economic and racial education gaps. The researchers found that "high-poverty schools were more likely to go remote and the consequences for student achievement were more negative when they did so."

One of the study's authors, Thomas Kane, told the New York Times that "this will probably be the largest increase in educational inequity in a generation."

The study also revealed a wide gulf between states based on how long they shuttered their schools – ranging from a handful of weeks to 20 weeks or more.

What the authors didn't point out, but which is the inescapable conclusion to be drawn, is that states and cities run by Democrats kept their schools closed far longer than those run by Republicans.

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even smaller footprint ..

because of these shoes ..

 

[Gargoile]

I know you have to pay to see this, but play this documentary on the Fox News Channel and you will get million more views. Plus when millions of people see this it will ( I hope) will force people to force their representatives to take action on this. Just the data alone is compelling.

 

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Garland Perjury? FBI Whistleblowers Say Parents Investigated With Counterterrorism "Threat Tag"

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An FBI whistleblower has revealed that 'dozens' of investigations into parents voicing their opposition to topics ranging from Critical Race Theory to mask mandates were investigated using a "threat tag" created by the agency's counterterrorism division- directly contradicting Attorney General Merrick Garland's 2021 testimony denying that the Department of Justice had been weaponized.

According to a letter from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mike Johnson (R-LA), "We now have evidence that contrary to your testimony, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has labeled at least dozens of investigations into parents with a threat tag created by the FBI's Counterterrorism Division to assess and track investigations related to school boards.

The letter cites an October 4th memo issued by Garland announcing a concentrated effort to target any threats of violence, intimidation, and harassment by parents toward school personnel.

"We have learned from brave whistleblowers that the FBI has opened investigations with the EDUOFFICIALS threat tag in almost every region of the country," adding "The information we have received shows how, as a direct result of your directive, federal law enforcement is using counterterrorism resources to investigate protected First Amendment activity."
Three examples were provided, including at least one member of "Moms for Liberty," a nonprofit dedicated to helping parents fight for conservative values in the classroom.

"This whistleblower information is startling," the letter continues. "You have subjected these moms and dads to the opening of an FBI investigation about them, the establishment of an FBI case file that includes their political views, and the application of a "threat tag" to their names as a direct result of their fundamental constitutional right to speak and advocate for their children."

"This information is evidence of how the Biden Administration is using federal law enforcement, including counterterrorism resources, to investigate concerned parents for protected First Amendment activity."

Reactions to the whistleblower revelations has been harsh:






The letter is similar to a November, 2001 memo from Jordan to Garland
A 'protected disclosure':
In mid-November, House Judiciary Committee Republicans sent a letter to Garland after an FBI whistleblower came forward with "a protected disclosure" - claiming that "the FBI's Counterterrorism Division had been compiling and categorizing threat assessments related to parents, including a document directing FBI personnel to use a specific "threat tag" to track potential investigations."

"This disclosure provides specific evidence that federal law enforcement operationalized counterterrorism tools at the behest of a left-wing special interest group against concerned parents," the letter continues.