These people truly are the enemy

"The Biden administration’s since-disbanded “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group” planned an insidious influence operation to persuade mothers and teachers to inform on dissident parents and students suspected of “domestic extremism,” internal documents obtained by The Post show.
...
In notes from a September 2023 meeting, the Brennan-Clapper group discussed ways for DHS to increase efforts to collect intelligence on Americans across the country, and “get into local communities in a non-threatening way.” Members noted that “Americans have an ambivalent feeling of telling on each other,” citing the failure of the post-9/11 “See Something, Say Something” campaign."

And, a big one,
"One solution proposed at the meeting was to reclassify political dissent as a “public health” crisis to encourage Americans to report family members or neighbors to the federal government if they displayed “concerning” behavior."
These bastards desperately want to become the American Stasi.  And should be treated as such.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/20/us-news/how-biden-dhs-intel-experts-group-plotted-to-get-mothers-and-teachers-to-report-dissent/

Had Glenn Beck on for background noise, and he had some 'former Republican head of whatever' on Updated

who kept insisting that reauthorizing 702 of FISA was necessary for national security and 'the reforms in the bill, if the right people are in charge, will protect Americans from abuses.'

Bullshit.

First, nobody trusts the FBI or CIA or anyone else anymore because they don't just violate the laws and their own damn regulations, they seem to take it as a perk of the job to do so.  For instance, the FBI Directors and Deputy Directors and ranking Very Special Agents caught breaking laws- think of Comey lying under oath, part of falsifying evidence TO THE BLOODY FISA COURT, on and on, and they all seem to get away with it.  Hell, Comey's gotten rich giving his 'My Greater Obligation required I lie and break the laws(including my oath to the Constitution!' in speeches.  And remember the FBI senior lawyer who actually was fired, and lost his law license, and then- less than a year later as I recall- got his job back, with back pay and benefits, and his law license back?

Second: when none of the agencies you're asking us to trust give a damn about the law, and most of Congress seems willing to trash parts of the Constitution because 'It's necessary for Safety!', who the HELL ARE THE 'RIGHT PEOPLE' SUPPOSED TO BE?

Screw this.  I'll repeat, don't just let that section die, drive a stake through the heart.

I will refrain from suggesting proper punishments for those officials, appointed and elected, who're such vile oathbreakers, because I'm too damn mad right now.


Update:
Yes, they caved and passed it, with two provisos:
It's a two-year extension.
"...Johnson agreed to change the FISA reauthorization from five years to two years, keep a vote on the warrant requirement amendment and hold a vote in the near future on a separate data privacy bill, which was enough to get the hard-liners to agree to open the legislation up for debate."
And they have to have a final vote next week.

People have been talking about this for years, but when Wray comes out and talks about it,

a crapload of people act like they'd never heard of the idea of terrorists sneaking across the border...

It'll happen.  It'll be bloody and awful, and unless we're luckier than I can believe REALLY bloody and awful.

And the Usual Suspects will scream and whine that it's not their fault(it'll be Trump's fault, of course) at the same time they're trying to control everything we do and say about it.  And, without doubt insisting on honest people surrendering the arms that, in some states, will be the main thing used to fight the bastards.

And the people really responsible for it will get away with it.*  Maybe some people forced from office, but I have doubts; the ones most responsible are in blue states where they'd have to be caught with a live boy, a dead girl, and literally bloody handed for a lot of the idiots who vote for them to actually want to do anything about them.

I can't argue with Schlichter: carry.  Spare mags and all.  Because most of the .gov won't be of much help.  Hell, they'll be the ones who made it possible.


*Especially Wray and every other EffingBI clown who was too busy going after traditionally religious people, and home schoolers and such rather than actually chase down illegal aliens and terrorists.

Announced over the weekend is the latest "Screw civil rights and due process,

someone said you're a risk so we're here to take your guns" work by Pres. Gropey & Veep Kneepads:
Known as the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center, this latest office will put the DOJ's $2 million allotment to use under its Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program. The ERPO center was established with the help of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. A simplified website guides prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service providers, social service providers, and household members on how to file protection orders against gun owners they deem at risk.
'At risk' often meaning "Someone decides they're pissed at you and want to screw with you, so they can do it anonymously and pay no penalty for doing so".  Isn't it just wonderful?

For what it may be worth, this is a time to yell at the Congresscritters.  Loudly.

Yes, I know that they just, among other things gave the EffingBI many millions for a new headquarters as a reward for breaking laws, violating civil rights, and otherwise being Stasi-type assholes, but it can't hurt to yell at the senators and reps.  Again.

As if this administration cares if their appointees are competent

and/or honest.
Dettelbach never mentioned that the manufacturers of the pistol brace, which was originally designed for disabled veterans, received determination letters from his ATF that said the brace was not subject to NFA. He never told Brennan that if 40 million pistol braces were suddenly classified as Short Barrel Rifles by ATF, their owners could have faced federal felonies if they didn’t immediately register their weapons as SBRs. He never disclosed how ATF’s zeal to write and enforce its own laws began in earnest under the Biden-Harris administration, or how the ATF – under his leadership – is getting its butt kicked in court as a result.
Etc.

Long as they hate the peasants holding to their rights and have sufficient contempt for the Constitution, Pres. Gropey & Co. are find with them.

Omar makes it a bit more blunt, but

since she and the rest of the Squat have made it plain they don't like this country, why would this surprise anyone?
During a recent speech, of which clips are now going viral, Omar left nothing to the imagination. She proclaimed to the crowd that Somalis control the U.S. government and that it exists to "safeguard the interests of Somalia." She also stated that she is Somalian first and Muslim second. There was no mention of any allegiance to the United States despite her serving in its Congress.

Of course not, she has no allegiance to this country.

Every one of the agents involved knew they were exceeding the warrant,

and violating that Constitution they swore to uphold, and did it anyway.  The Very Special agent in charge PLANNED to do that.  And none of them will pay any personal or professional price for doing it, I'll bet.  So why would you trust any of them?
At oral argument in December, one of the three judges on the 9th Circuit panel called the FBI’s search of each safe deposit box without probable cause “egregious” and “outrageous.” Another likened the FBI’s actions to the maligned “general warrants” and “writs of assistance” issued in colonial times, which authorized British officials to search colonists’ homes indiscriminately for smuggled tea and other items.

The 9th Circuit’s opinion repeated these concerns. The court found it “particularly troubling” that the government “failed to explain” why its arguments “would not open the door to the kinds of ‘writs of assistance’ the British authorities used prior to the Founding to conduct limitless searches of an individual’s personal belongings.”

“It was those very abuses of power, after all, that led to adoption of the Fourth Amendment in the first place,” the court ruled.

What was the .gov's attempt to prevent this ruling?
The government did not, however, concede that the FBI’s raid was flawed. Instead, the government told the 9th Circuit that it wanted “to avoid a published judicial opinion impugning the actions or good faith motivations of law enforcement in this highly unusual case, in which a company was aiding criminality and protecting criminals by operating a vault of anonymous safe-deposit boxes.”
Translation: "We want you to drop the case so we can keep doing this.  Don't you see, we had to break the law!"
Every damned one of them, fired, and the lawyers involved disbarred.

When some .gov operative says "Tell me something other than part of the Constitution that allows you

to question what I do!", they're saying that they've flushed their oath to uphold said document, and their word isn't worth shit.
They’ll describe concerns about the First Amendment as conspiracy theories, but then we learn about people like Stanford’s Renée DiResta making notes about “very real 1st amendment questions” in a presentation about the EIP, or a lawyer for former CISA director Chris Krebs snapping at congressional investigators to cite a legal authority “other than the First Amendment” to justify questioning. “Researchers” will declare unequivocally that CISA did not “found, fund, or control” their program, but then it will come out the superficially private structure of the EIP was necessary because “DHS cannot openly endorse the portal,” while a “behind-the-scenes” arrangement was fine. And so on.

Bastards.  Lying  control-freak bastards.  And far too much of our Professional Media are helping them along, because they apparently don't care much about that 1st Amendment that protects their right to talk and write.

A challenge to Grisham's idiot order is moving

in New Mexico, which is good.  That she proved the control freaks want to use 'public health emergency' as a justification for, well, anything is bad.  Very bad.

It appears Gov. Grisham is getting open support from her national socialist and racist brethren,

but as they say, I bet she doesn't appreciate it.

It does appear that the idea of 'catching criminals and putting them in prison' is not an emergency measure she wants to do, because that would hurt her standing with the criminals and enablers(who are far more important to her than the honest peasants).

The Governor of New Mexico is an oathbreaking bastard, and her word isn't worth

the breath used to speak it.

Her 'public health emergency' is caused by not enforcing the damned laws and putting bad guys in jail.  But doing those things would make her leftist supporters unhappy, so "I'm going to illegally ban carrying firearms by honest people!"

Slimy bitch will do this, she'll play 'suspend the Constitution' on anything else she chooses.

Yes, I'm pissed.

Is there any federal agency remaining that cares about the law, or

that Constitution thing they swear to uphold?

Throw in the fact that almost none of the oathbreakers and lawbreakers who do this ever pay any real price...

A bunch of people in the 'Justice' Department seem to think the 1st Amendment only applies

when they approve of something.

Add this bullshit:

Apparently that swearing to 'protect and uphold' the Constitution means "When I feel like it or have orders to" to a bunch of these bastards.

Yes, Musk started the information dump,

and it's interesting, with more to come.  

'Interesting' includes
36.Twitter files continued: "THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE”
Szabo’s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democratic lawmakers’ attitudes. They want “more” moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights, it's "not absolute"

Going to be real interesting, especially as leftists try really hard to say "This doesn't mean anything!"

This is friggin' HUGE in two ways

The first needs no explanation:
Sam Faddis, a retired CIA Operations Officer who served in the Near East and South Asia, disclosed on Sunday that “the ongoing analysis of the hard drive of Hunter Biden’s laptop” revealed the Defense Department encryption keys, and this was not an insignificant find: “These keys allow access to DOD email accounts and databases.” As is characteristic of Hunter Biden from what we know of him already, he didn’t just dabble; he went all in. “The exact number of these keys is still unknown. There may be dozens.”

But why did Hunter Biden, who is not now and has never been a Defense Department employee, have any of these encryption keys at all? Since Hunter Biden has so many relatives, friends, and associates at the highest levels of government, we will probably never get the full answer to that question. But this is no innocuous oversight. Faddis explains that “the keys are known more formally as ‘root encryption certificates.’ Some of them appear to have unusually long expiration dates with many lasting twenty years or more. Such keys should not be present on a personal laptop of any kind, and there is no known reason that Hunter Biden would be in possession of them at all.” No known reason. But Hunter Biden is a man with connections.
...
...Faddis noted that “the keys were discovered only recently by Jack Maxey’s technical team working in Switzerland. Shortly after the discovery of the keys Maxey contacted the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland and reported that he had information that might compromise American national security and would like to talk to someone in the Regional Security Office to report what he had learned. His contact information was taken by the person with whom he spoke, but no one has ever called back to obtain the information in his possession.”

The second is that the Gods-cursed EffingBI and Do'J' have had all this for how long?  And, far as we know, have done NOTHING.  This is further proof of just what politically-compromised collections of oathbreaking assholes the two organizations are, and that trusting them is stupid.  On anything.

Also note that if our equally Gods-damned Professional Journalists weren't mostly Democrat operatives with bylines, this would've come out a long time ago.

This oathbreaking, perjuring bastard is getting paid to lecture about 'protecting democracy'

while getting away with his crimes because our Do'J' wiped his record.

Wonder how much tuition money the University of Chicago paid this garbage?

How effed-up is the EffingBI?

This effed-up.

And in case i didn't post this earlier about the EffingBI and Jan. 6, read this.

Trusting much of the military command right now is as stupid as trusting the EffingBI

Four military officers who describe themselves as “researchers” at the Army’s highly respected Cyber Institute have published an article that adds to the growing concern about the ongoing politicization of the military. Published by the military’s National Defense University (NDU), their article purports to analyze the dangers of misinformation and disinformation and to advise the Biden administration about how to counter it.

The article’s authors all are military officers and at least two are professors at West Point. They say their article “is written in response to the Capitol insurrection.”
Can you say 'loaded language' and "Here are our politics"?

Then we have this:
The article suffers from a number of flaws. One of the most notable – and dangerous – is that the authors wade deeper into the political wars by advocating more government control over speech that they regard as outside the mainstream or, as they put it, contrary to a desired “shared reality.”
Military officers wanting to trash part of the Constitution they swore to uphold.  In the name of 'shared reality'.

These clowns need to go.  Along with every other officer who agrees with them.

This piece of shit, along with helping screw up the Afgan situation most amazingly,

had done this.

If you read the piece Ace links to, it's full of "Trump is/was insane, action had to be taken, screw the law and Constitution" cheering for this bastard.  

This... if no action is taken against Milley for this, then there are no reins on the assholes as long as 'I thought it was necessary in order to protect the process and world order'.


Added: be it noted that a bunch of people are pointing out that Woodward has shown himself to be a dishonest bastard before, and some people are saying they were misquoted or flatly "I didn't say that".  So it's possible that some of this is inaccurate.  Problem is, if I had not said/done this stuff, and Woodward or anyone else put in print that I had, I'd go off like Vesuvius on a bad day; so far, I haven't heard anyone quote Milley denying it.  We'll see.