Medal of Freedom (Credit: The White House)

“On Monday, President Donald J. Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Devin Nunes. This prestigious award is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, which is awarded by the President to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.

Devin grew up on a farm in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Since his election to Congress in 2002 at the age of 29, he has been a tireless fighter for the farmers of California, waging a long and successful battle to bring water to the Central Valley. In 2014, Devin was selected to chair the House Intelligence Committee. As Chairman, he confronted Russian aggression and opposed the Iran Nuclear Deal. Against fierce opposition, he led the effort to declassify documents seized in the bin Laden raid that showed Al Qaeda’s collaboration with Iran.

In 2017, Congressman Nunes launched an investigation into the Obama-Biden administration’s misconduct during the 2016 election – and began to unearth the crime of the century. As a result of his work, he discovered that the infamous Steele Dossier was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. He found that a senior Justice Department attorney was married to one of the architects of the document. He learned that the Obama-Biden administration had issued Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants to spy on President Trump’s campaign and illegitimately unmasked several innocent spying victims for political gain.

Devin Nunes’ courageous actions helped thwart a plot to take down a sitting United States president.  Devin’s efforts led to the firing, demotion, or resignation of over a dozen FBI and DOJ employees.  He also forced the disclosure of documents that proved that a corrupt senior FBI official pursued a vindictive persecution of General Michael Flynn — even after rank and file FBI agents found no evidence of wrongdoing.

Congressman Nunes pursued the Russia Hoax at great personal risk and never stopped standing up for the truth.  He had the fortitude to take on the media, the FBI, the Intelligence Community, the Democrat Party, foreign spies, and the full power of the Deep State. Devin paid a price for his courage. The media smeared him and liberal activists opened a frivolous and unjustified ethics investigation, dragging his name through the mud for eight long months. Two dozen members of his family received threatening phone calls – including his 98 year old grandmother.

Congressman Devin Nunes is a public servant of unmatched talent, unassailable integrity, and unwavering resolve. He uncovered the greatest scandal in American history.”

WhiteHouse.gov

Think back…

While Washington, D.C. was riveted on the events of Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, the FBI quietly released a trove of files ordered released by then President Trump from an “Urgent” — yet seemingly controlled — investigation 60 years ago into Nancy Pelosi’s father who was accused of multiple criminal activities (her brother too, with sex charges involving two girl cousins, one 11 and the other 13 years old, were presented by the grand jury against ten young men from Baltimore, including Nancy’s then 20 year old brother Franklin D. Roosevelt D’Alesandro) and being involved with Communist Party USA a soviet front group, according to the FBI.

Nancy Pelosi ABSOLUTELY HAD to keep control of the narrative of what happened on January 6th. That is why the ‘attack’ on the Capitol will now be investigated by a House select committee after party-line vote.

The truth is that Nancy Pelosi had numerous motivations for the January 6th ‘resurrection’. and she very well likely orchestrated it with the help of the FBI and Capitol Police leadership…

1. To create a smokescreen and distract the news cycle from the release that day of once classified FBI files ordered released by then President Trump on her communist-linked father.

Here are the files.

2. To smear President Trump allowing the House and Senate to impeach him, preventing him from ever holding public office again. This second impeachment failed, like the first one.

3. To create a narrative that conservatives are domestic terrorists and must have their weapons confiscated. All conservatives whether present in Washington, DC on January 6th or not. This is still in motion and they very well may get their domestic terrorism classification against conservatives.

FBI Vault – Thomas D’ Alesandro Jr. , pg 39

Think back…

While Washington, D.C. was riveted on the events of Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, the FBI quietly released a trove of files ordered released by then President Trump from an “Urgent” — yet seemingly controlled — investigation 60 years ago into Nancy Pelosi’s father who… pic.twitter.com/em6ZeXfCMn

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) November 16, 2023

UPDATE: “with the help of the FBI and Capitol Police leadership…” of course we now know that these two truth telling patriots were NOT part of Nancy Pelosi’s scheme and they have been targeted for not lying and following the ‘establishment’ narrative:

@ChiefSund
— a 30-year law enforcement veteran in Washington D.C., and former Chief of Police of the United States Capitol Police

@elleonCEOTK
— former Lieutenant with the U.S. Capitol Police

Please follow and support these heroes targeted by the corrupt, evil globalists in charge.

UPDATE: “with the help of the FBI and Capitol Police leadership…” of course we now know that these two truth telling patriots were NOT part of Nancy Pelosi’s scheme and they have been targeted for not lying and following the ‘establishment’ narrative:@ChiefSund — a 30-year…

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) November 16, 2023

On January 6th, 2021, “insurrectionists attacked the United States Capitol intent on preventing the certification of a democratic election and, apparently, inflicting violence upon elected officials… Several lives were lost, including at least one Capitol Police officer…” wrote Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), then-Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security to Transportation Security Administration Administrator David Pekoske on January 11th, 2021, in a previously unrevealed letter. This committee “focuses on legislation and oversight related to the security of the United States” with the goal of “[ensuring] that the American people were protected from terrorist attacks.”

Clipping from Thompson Letter

Chairman Thompson started his letter with unproven charges and false information in this salacious statement of fiction as he requested an Executive Branch agency ignore due process and deprive thousands of Americans of their Constitutionally protected rights to travel freely within the United States (a right recognized since at least 1870.) Rep. Thompson’s account of the events on January 6th, 2021, could have been lifted directly from a far-left opinion website like HuffPost or ProPublica. While Thompson does not source his wild allegations, he could have easily credited a ProPublica article that made identical claims: law enforcement agencies were “unprepared,” and “the attack was planned largely in open internet forums.” A subsequent article by the same author falsely claimed that “Officer Brian Sicknick died defending the Capitol.”

But Congressman Thompson’s concern was not about how to better protect the U.S. Capitol. His immediate concern, less than a week after the events of January 6th, was punishing those who came to Washington, DC, without trial or investigation. He said the “perpetrators have continued to enjoy freedom of movement throughout the country. Only a fraction of the insurrectionists have been arrested, and many of those arrested have been released pending a future court date. To our knowledge, the Federal government has not prevented a single insurrectionist from boarding an aircraft.” Perhaps the Chairman is less than familiar with the U.S. Constitution to which he was required to swear allegiance in his 15 terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, but the 5^th Amendment is quite clear on the following: “No person shall be… deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

Chairman Thompson continued with a statement he attributed to “growing online chatter,” which informed his belief that “many of the same groups that planned and carried out Wednesday’s attack intend to return to Washington, D.C., to cause further disruption and violence in the coming days, including at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.” Those of us who were working in law enforcement during the inauguration of Joe Biden marveled at the speed and efficiency of locking down Washington DC into a Police State scene out of the Cold War. The anti-scale fencing, which was nowhere to be found during the summer riots of 2020, was installed with an efficiency that shocked the government sensibilities in a place like Washington, DC. But at the bottom of his third paragraph, Rep. Bennie Thompson says the so-called quiet part out loud: “It appears little is being done to disrupt the travel of terrorists who just attacked the seat of the U.S. Government and wish to do so again.” Furthermore:

“Please provide a briefing not later than the end of this week on the following topics:

•       Current efforts to disrupt the travel of white supremacist and other domestic terrorist groups who may be planning further attacks against the U.S. Government and may be targeting the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden;
•       Options available for quickly denying air carrier service to individuals identified as posing a potential threat, including TSA’s authorities to prevent individuals from flying on a temporary or flight-by-flight basis;”

After this letter was received by the top official at the TSA, many Americans who had simply traveled to the National Capitol Region on or around January 6th, 2021, were welcomed to the “Quiet Skies.” These unsuspecting (and unconvicted) American citizens were added to a secretive program known as Quiet Skies—which the TSA claims identifies “international travelers who may require enhanced screening” by a “set of risk-based, intelligence-driven scenario rules.” It further claims that “these rules have strict oversight by the Department of Homeland Security, including the privacy, civil rights and liberties, and general counsel offices.” However, several Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) whistleblowers and retired supervisory FAM Sonya Labosco have blown the lid off some of the abuses of this program in numerous national interviews and a previous article published by UncoverDC. Additional coverage by UncoverDC’s Wendi Mahoney introduced those unfamiliar with Quiet Skies to the “Quad S” designation. (Read more: UncoverDC/FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin, 11/27/2023)  (Archive)

Samantha Power (Credit: The Associated Press)

“The Biden administration’s nomination of Samantha Power to head the United States Agency for International Development is facing congressional scrutiny amid allegations the former Obama administration’s United Nations ambassador personally lobbied to remove a terror-designated group from the U.S. sanctions list.

A series of redacted emails obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) as part of an investigation into a nonprofit group that granted U.S. taxpayer funds to the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), a terror-tied charity sanctioned by the American government, allegedly show that Power was “involved in efforts to delist ISRA from the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list” during her time as the U.N. ambassador, according to a letter Grassley sent last month after Power was nominated for the USAID job.

Jeremy Weinstein, Power’s then-deputy, petitioned top OFAC officials “to initiate a formal review” of the related terror designations “without a formal request” from the charity itself. Initiating a review in this manner is highly unusual, according to current legal statutes. Those familiar with the matter said that under normal circumstances the charity itself would have to petition the U.S. government to review its case.

Delisting ISRA would pave the way for it to again receive U.S. taxpayer dollars from USAID and other government agencies. It also would serve as a sign to the international donor community that it can resume sending ISRA money, despite outstanding concerns it is still working with designated terror organizations, as cited by the U.S government in its original designation.

Grassley demanded that Power provide him with further information about the 2015 emails regarding ISRA’s status and explain “why you would take an interest in advocating on behalf of a foreign sanctioned entity.” The senator asked for this information by March 4, but Power has yet to respond, according to sources familiar with the matter.” (Read more: The Washington Free Beacon, 3/08/2021) (Archive)

Though ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was never charged with conspiring with Russia, he did go to jail for, among other things, failing to register as a foreign agent for Ukraine. The Democratic National Committee operative who helped get him booted from the campaign should be investigated for the same violation, Republican Senators say.

Sen. Chuck Grassley: “At the center of the [Ukraine foreign influence] plan was Alexandra Chalupa.” Nick Rohlman/The Gazette via AP

Former DNC contractor and opposition researcher Alexandra “Ali” Chalupa not only worked closely with the Ukrainian Embassy and Clinton campaign, trading dirt on Manafort and Trump, but also Congress and the Obama White House, State Department and even the FBI. “At the center of the [Ukraine foreign influence] plan was Alexandra Chalupa,” GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee has asserted.

“Chalupa’s actions appear to show she was simultaneously working on behalf of a foreign government, Ukraine, and on behalf of the DNC and Clinton campaign, in an effort to influence not only the U.S. voting population but U.S. government officials,” Grassley said in a July 2017 letter to then-deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

“Chalupa’s actions implicate the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” he said. “It is imperative that the Justice Department explain why she has not been required to register under FARA.”

(Credit: Facebook)

Chalupa maintained Justice looked into the complaint and cleared her within four months, finding no FARA violations. (Rosenstein at the time had just appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to take over the Russiagate probe after reportedly considering invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.)

Chalupa is an important figure in the anti-Trump conspiracy plot Special Counsel John Durham is investigating, according to sources familiar with his probe. Though she is a material witness in his inquiry, it is not immediately known if she has been interviewed by his investigators. Questions sent to her attorney went unanswered.

Questions are also being raised about how the Federal Election Commission handled her case in an investigation the agency quietly conducted from 2017, when it first received a complaint about her, until it closed it in 2021.

In a little-noticed 2019 letter to Chalupa, the FEC stated that its attorneys “found reason to believe that you violated [the Federal Election Campaign Act] by soliciting, accepting or receiving contributions from foreign nationals,” noting that “the Ukrainian Embassy made in-kind contributions to the DNC by performing opposition research on the Trump campaign at no charge to the DNC.”

In a separate letter to the DNC, the commission found that the Democratic organization “does not directly deny that Chalupa obtained assistance from the Ukrainians nor that she passed on the Ukrainian Embassy’s research to DNC officials.” Further, it stated that DNC officials “may have authorized Chalupa to act as an intermediary [with the Embassy] to solicit and receive negative information about the Trump campaign.”

Ellen Weintraub, Democratic FEC commissioner: Dismissed the Ukraine-DNC collusion allegations as “Russian disinformation.” (Credit: fec.gov)

But on Jan. 13, 2021 – the day the House voted to impeach Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot – FEC attorneys suddenly reversed themselves and recommended the commission take no further action against Chalupa or the DNC. In a 4 to 2 vote, FEC commissioners closed the case. Voting with the majority, longtime Democratic commissioner Ellen Weintraub dismissed the Ukraine-DNC collusion allegations as “Russian disinformation.”

Defending the DNC in the case was Clinton attorney Marc Elias, then of Perkins Coie, which refused to comply with the commission’s subpoenas for DNC depositions and documents, including phone records.

“We attempted to interview several former DNC officials who interacted with Chalupa on the Manafort issue, but each denied our interview request,” acting FEC General Counsel Lisa Stevenson said in a case report.

She said investigators were forced to rely primarily on testimony and documents from Chalupa, even though Chalupa claimed she could not access critical text messages with DNC officials. Stevenson said investigators put more stock in Chalupa’s testimony than that of Andrii Telizhenko, the Ukrainian Embassy official who swore Chalupa coordinated with the Ukrainian government in an election interference plot. Chalupa told investigators she thought Telizhenko might be “a mole for the Russian Federation.” She also suggested he was “mentally unwell.”

Andrii Telizhenko, Ukrainian Embassy official: Swore Chalupa coordinated with the Ukrainian government in an election interference plot. (Credit: LinkedIn/Andrii Telizhenko)

Stevenson also decided not to investigate fresh evidence of potential wrongdoing that surfaced late in the case and cast doubt on Chalupa’s candor in her sworn 2019 statements.

“Chalupa apparently made two other requests of the embassy related to exposing Manafort, which she did not mention but which [senior Ukrainian Embassy official Oksana] Shulyar disclosed in June 2020,” Stevenson said. “Shulyar recalls that Chalupa separately asked for the embassy to talk with a journalist writing a story on Manafort and to approach a member of Congress (unidentified, but most likely [Democratic Rep. Marcy] Kaptur given Shulyar’s description) to initiate a congressional investigation into Manafort.”

Nevertheless, the top FEC attorney claimed investigators didn’t have time to explore the revelations and urged the FEC to button up the case.

“These requests [by Chalupa] could support finding additional violations of the [FEC] Act and commission regulations, but in light of the time remaining within the statute of limitations and the lack of further specific information regarding these requests — the existence of which was not revealed until late in the investigation — we do not recommend that the commission expend further resources in pursuing such a finding,” Stevenson said.

However, the federal statute of limitations on such matters runs five years, which means investigators had another six months to evaluate whether the new information constituted a violation.

Lisa Stevenson, FEC acting general counsel: “We attempted to interview several former DNC officials who interacted with Chalupa on the Manafort issue, but each denied our interview request.” (Credit: LinkedIn)

In addition to omitting critical information from her testimony, Chalupa appears to have made up a story about Telizhenko trying to bribe her friends to collect dirt on her. “Chalupa identified two individuals who she claimed were approached by Telizhenko and offered money in exchange for dirt on her,” Stevenson noted. “However, when we interviewed these individuals, both denied that Telizhenko had made any such overture to them.”

Perkins Coie is now a central target of Durham’s ongoing investigation. Former Perkins lawyer Michael Sussmann faces felony charges related to his work digging up anti-Trump dirt for the Clinton campaign in 2016. And Durham recently brought his former partner Elias before his grand jury to testify under subpoena. Durham also has obtained thousands of pages of subpoenaed documents from Perkins.

While it cannot be determined if Durham has subpoenaed DNC documents, he has received documents from “the Clinton campaign” under subpoena, according to a recent discovery filing in the Sussmann case. And he presumably has access to the cell phone Chalupa used to contact DNC officials in 2016 since the FBI imaged it after she claimed she’d been hacked by the Russians.

Chalupa has denied coordinating DNC opposition research with the Ukrainian Embassy in 2016 or breaking any laws, even though she admits discussing Manafort’s activities in Ukraine with embassy personnel and trying to get then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to issue anti-Manafort statements during the campaign.

The former Clinton White House aide and longtime DNC operative insists she acted out of a sense of patriotism, not politics – a common refrain among officials who fueled the Trump-Russian “collusion” hysteria.

The Ukrainian-American claims she wasn’t just trying to protect her ancestral homeland but also America.

“I was moved to warn Americans out of a sense of duty to our country,” Chalupa said in a statement to the FEC. “Not for a moment did I view that doing so was a partisan issue, but rather was purely out of national security interests. … Again, this was not a political issue, but rather a matter of U.S. national security.”

Kenneth Vogel, journalist: Chalupa speculated that he was used by Trump operatives who “planted” a “counternarrative” to distract attention from Russiagate. (Credit: MSNBC/Wikimedia)

She maintained that an explosive January 2017 Politico exposé by Kenneth Vogel and David Stern – “Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire” – that formed the basis for the FEC complaint against her and the DNC was “malicious” and filled with “false accusations” against her. She also speculated that Vogel was used by Trump operatives who “planted” the story with Politico to create a “counternarrative” to distract attention from the Russiagate narrative, which was raging at the time thanks to the January 2017 leaking of the Steele dossier.

“It is worth noting that in late 2017, I met with Ken Vogel for almost two hours and Vogel apologized to me for the Politico article and offered to write another one for the New York Times [where he now works] to clarify the truth,” Chalupa said. However, she said she no longer trusted the award-winning investigative reporter and declined the offer.

Vogel, who now reports for the New York Times, did not respond to requests for comment, but Politico has not retracted its story or appended any corrections to it. And Chalupa has not attempted to sue the news site for libel. That would be difficult since she doesn’t deny telling Vogel that Ukrainian Embassy officials were “helpful” to her crusade to raise the alarm about Manafort and Trump, or that they provided “guidance,” though she contends she was “sleep deprived” when he called and asked her about it. She also doesn’t deny telling Vogel she traded information and leads with the embassy.” (RealClearInvestigations, 3/10/2022)  (Archive)

Fiona Hill testifies to the House Intelligence Committee on November 21, 2019. (Credit: Chip Somodovilla/Getty Images)

“Delivering in his final days on one of his last unfulfilled promises, President Trump is declassifying a massive trove of FBI documents showing the Russia collusion story was leaked in the final weeks of the 2016 election in an effort to counteract Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

The memos to be released as early as Friday include FBI interviews and human source evaluation reports for two of the main informants in the Russia case, former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and academic Stefan Halper.

(…) The probes found the FBI wrongly continued to rely on the allegations of Russia collusion to target Trump campaign figures for investigation and failed to disclose major flaws in their investigations to the courts that had authorized surveillance warrants.

The investigation also found that Steele’s primary source of Russian intel later disowned or distanced himself from the claims attributed to him in the Steele dossier and that U.S. intelligence had concerns the source was tied to Russian intelligence.

The soon-to-be-released records also expose a tantalizing connection between Steele, his primary source, and one of the Democrats’ key impeachment witnesses in the Ukraine scandal, former Trump National Security Council Russia expert Fiona Hill.

Steele divulged to the FBI that he was introduced by Hill to his primary sub-source of information for his anti-Trump dossier and that he later told Hill that the source had provided information for his now infamous memos. (Read more: JusttheNews, 1/14/2021) (Archive)

Michael Gaeta in Rome. (Credit: public domain)

“The Senate Judiciary Committee interviewed Gaeta on March 3, 2020 as part of a GOP-led investigation into Crossfire Hurricane, the name of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign.

(…) Gaeta offered a harsh assessment of Steele in the interview, according to the transcript. Gaeta’s ire stemmed from Steele’s unauthorized contact with a journalist from the liberal magazine Mother Jones, which published details from the dossier in a story on Oct. 31, 2016.

Gaeta testified that he cut Steele off as an FBI confidential human source (CHS) in a conversation after the Mother Jones story was published.

“It told me that he was completely untrustworthy at that point as a source and could not be handled and would not be reliable,” Gaeta testified.” (Read more: The Daily Caller, 1/15/2021)

Page 33-35 of Gaeta’s testimony:

(Michael Gaeta Transcript, pg. 33-35, 3/03/2020)

(Senate Judiciary Committee, 1/15/2021) (Gaeta Transcript Archive)

The Senate has released Crossfire Hurricane transcripts.

Excerpt from discussion during Joe Pientka (SSA1) testimony:

The “original Woods file is missing” from the 1st Carter Page FISA application. pic.twitter.com/9nMuXvg2X8

— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) January 15, 2021

(Transcripts/Senate Judiciary Committee, 1/15/2021)

(August 27, 2020 – Joe Pientka testimony)

(Archived testimony)

Just so that we’re all clear here. The FBI knew without a doubt that Steele’s info was political in the summer of 2016!

Nevertheless, Mueller was appointed Special Counsel by Rod Rosenstein on May 17th, 2017 (almost a year later).

You want to see a coup? This was a coup. https://t.co/u6LNBth5Eb

— Murray 🇺🇸 (@Rothbard1776) January 15, 2021

(Transcripts/Senate Judiciary Cmte, 1/15/2021)

(Gaeta Transcript Archived)

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee finalizes a report [pdf available here] with evidence of Joe and Hunter Biden conducting financial deals with foreign governments.  The report outlines how the Biden family sold access to government policy for personal financial benefit.

(Embed pdf Below) Considering the scale of evidence showing massive conflicts of interest, it is quite astounding that Joe Biden is currently ‘president-elect’… (Conservative Treehouse, 1/16/2021)

Hsgac Finance Report Final by The Conservative Treehouse

“President Trump declassified a binder on January 19th, 2021 that contains hundreds of pages about the Crossfire Hurricane scandal. It contains damaging information about the corrupt actors involved with our government. Two different DOJ Attorney Generals have defied President Trump’s direct lawful order to publish the binder in the Federal Register. It’s been 19 months as the DOJ defies the order, and every FOIA request to make it public.

The DOJ had already made redactions to protect sources & methods and returned the binder back to the White House. But the corrupt FBI also wanted to hide names. So at the last minute, the DOJ demanded the binder comply with the 1974 Privacy Act. The Act requires any “agency” that releases records to hide personal or identifiable name information. The DOJ knew this Act didn’t apply to the White House, it was a stall tactic. The courts decided 22 years ago that the Privacy Act was based on FOIA requests, and the White House is not an agency.

Hours before Trump left office on January 20th, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows gave the binder back to the DOJ, along with this memo. He asked the DOJ to make any Privacy Act redactions “out of an abundance of caution.” In the memo, he asks they expeditiously release the binder when finished. Meadows foolishly expected this would take 3-4 days. It’s been 19 months and still not released. Just the News recently obtained the Meadows memo from the National Archives, who also denied having a copy of the declassified binder.

Meadows admits in interviews various agency’s often stalled or defied Trump’s orders. Meadows knew better than to rely on the DOJ to release this damaging binder after they left the White House. He should have released the binder to the public himself. But in doing so, there was a chance he would become a target of the DOJ and FBI. The memorandum below is what Mr. Meadows sent to the DOJ Attorney General on January 20^th, 2021.

The binder has intercept transcripts made by the FBI on various Trump staff. It has the tasking orders and debriefings of Christopher Steele and Stefan Halper, the FBI’s main human sources. There is a copy of the final FISA warrant approved by an intelligence court. It also contains details about Fiona Hill, who introduced Steele to the FBI, and much more There is tremendously important information in this binder that has never seen the light of day. Is it possible a copy of this binder was at Mar-a-Lago? (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 8/10/2022)  (Archive)

President Zelensky interview with Axios 1/23/2021

h/t Nikita @lafemme_bambina

Tony Blinken (Credit: Jose Luis Magana/The Associated Press)

“Tony Blinken, the Biden administration’s nominee for Secretary of State, managed a Joe Biden project that received millions of anonymous Chinese donor dollars. Blinken appeared a handful of times in emails found on Hunter Biden’s laptop agreeing to advise Hunter Biden when Hunter worked at the scandal-plagued firm Rosemont Seneca Partners. The Obama State Department set up a meeting between Hunter and Blinken which was postponed, and the two met two months later in 2015.

Hunter Biden coordinated introductions between Blinken and his associates and Blinken was named in an email in connection to a shady prospective deal involving the federal government and Amtrak, a company that previously had Hunter Biden on its board. National File, which obtained most of the contents of Hunter’s laptop, features the most relevant Tony Blinken-Hunter Biden emails below.

Will these issues complicate Blinken’s bid to become Joe Biden’s Secretary of State? Blinken sat for his confirmation hearing, where he counted neocon support including from Lindsey Graham. But Blinken has yet to be confirmed by the Senate. Blinken’s nomination heads to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Monday with a confirmation vote this week. Blinken’s link to Biden’s China dealings is especially concerning.

Hunter Biden Received An Email About An Amtrak Deal In 2017 That Named Blinken:

Blinken wrote to Hunter agreeing to a meeting with a Hunter associate, October 3, 2012:

November 2012, Hunter tried to set up a meeting for his associate with Blinken:

Meeting in May 2015: The Obama State Department actually SETS UP the meeting for Hunter with Blinken at the State Department. This meeting reportedly did not occur supposedly due to Beau Biden’s death, even though Beau died three days after the meeting was scheduled, but Hunter met with Blinken in July 2015.

May 2015, Hunter’s assistant at Rosemont Seneca discusses the scheduled Blinken meeting:

Hunter schedules a meeting in July 2015. This meeting did occur.

Naomi Biden Wanted to Go To China for a forum in 2019. Biden thought it was a “great opportunity” but Blinken said no:

July 2011, Hunter Tells An Acquaintance to Inform Blinken That They Are Friends:

(Read more: National File, 1/25/2020)  (Archive)

In addition, Gateway Pundit reports Blinken is connected to the Bidens in Ukraine:

Yaacov Aplebaum shared an email from the Hunter laptop that confirms this:

Even crazy Senator John McCain had problems with Blinken.

In 2014 McCain blocked Blinken’s appointment by Obama over Obama’s Iraq policy:

U.S. Senator John McCain said on Thursday he is blocking President Barack Obama’s nomination of Anthony Blinken as the country’s number two diplomat, citing sharp disagreement with the nominee’s past statements on Iraq. “He’s totally unqualified,” the Republican senator told Reuters, when asked why he was holding up Blinken’s nomination to be deputy Secretary of State. “He’s the guy who said we’re leaving behind the richest, safest Iraq in history. Look it up,” McCain said, referring to Blinken’s reassuring comments two years ago about the decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq.

Blinken’s friends, including Hunter, were appalled that McCain would call Blinken ‘unqualified’ per another email found on Hunter’s laptop:

(Gateway Pundit, 1/25/2021)

The Senate on January 26, 2021, easily confirmed Tony Blinken to be President Biden’s secretary of state.

Blinken won broad bipartisan support in the 78-22 vote. He previously was deputy secretary of state under former President Barack Obama. (New York Post, 1/26/2021)

Kevin Clinesmith (Credit: Facebook)

The former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to altering an email to help obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wiretap authorization against former Trump campaign associate Carter Page was sentenced to one year of probation and no prison time on Friday.

Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the Justice Department’s efforts seeking up to six months behind bars, instead giving Kevin Clinesmith probation, 400 hours of community service within a year, and a special assessment of $100 to the court but no fine.

Clinesmith, who worked on the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server and on the FBI’s Trump-Russia inquiry, as well as special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, admitted in August that he falsified a document during the bureau’s efforts to renew FISA surveillance authority against Page, who had been a foreign policy adviser to former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Clinesmith edited a CIA email in 2017 to state that Page was “not a source” for the CIA when it had told the bureau on multiple occasions that Page had been an “operational contact” for the agency.

“Mr. Clinesmith likely believed that what he said was true,” Boasberg concluded on Friday, saying, “I do not believe he was attempting to achieve an end he knew was wrong.” The judge added that “it is not clear to me that the fourth FISA warrant would not have been signed but for this error. … Even if Mr. Clinesmith had been accurate about Mr. Page’s relationship with the other government agency, the warrant may well have been signed and the surveillance authorized.”

U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was elevated to special counsel in October, and Clinesmith dueled in court over how long the lawyer should spend behind bars. Clinesmith’s team has argued for leniency, while the federal prosecutor from Connecticut asked the court to sentence Clinesmith to up to six months in prison.

“As a licensed attorney and an officer of the Court, the defendant took an oath, was bound by professional and ethical obligations, and should have been well-aware of this duty of candor. … His deceptive conduct … was antithetical to the duty of candor and eroded the FISC’s confidence in the accuracy of all previous FISA applications worked on by the defendant,” Durham wrote in December. “The defendant’s conduct also undermined the integrity of the FISA process and struck at the very core of what the FISC fundamentally relies on in reviewing FISA applications.”

Durham said Clinesmith’s deception “fueled public distrust of the FBI and of the entire FISA program itself.” (Read more: Washington Examiner, 1/29/2021)  (Archive)