Email/Dossier/Govt Corruption Investigations

December 1, 2024 – Joe Biden pardons Hunter Biden

Jesse Watters gives an excellent review of the event:

December 3, 2024 – Judge orders Fani Willis to release all communications with Jack Smith and J6 Committee

A judge ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to release all communications with Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee.

Earlier this year conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch asked the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, for a default judgement against Fani Willis refusing to answer its open records request.

“Defendant has not filed an answer and no answer has been served upon [Judicial Watch].… Defendant’s answer was due 30 days after service, or on April 10, 2024. Pursuant to [Georgia law] the case automatically became in default when an answer was not filed by the due date. Further pursuant to that Code section, Defendant was permitted as a matter of right to open the default within 15 days of the day of default, or by April 25, 2024.” Judicial Watch wrote in its motion earlier this year.

“I think this is the first time in Judicial Watch’s 30 years that a government official failed to answer an open records lawsuit in court,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “This further shows Ms. Willis has something to hide about her collusion with the Biden administration and Nancy Pelosi’s Congress on her unprecedented and compromised ‘get-Trump’ prosecution.”

The Court ordered Fani Willis to release the records in five days and declared that she violated Georgia law.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 12/3/2024) (Archive)

December 4, 2024 – North Carolina residents are left stranded as FEMA fails to deliver aid after Hurricane Helene

In the wake of Hurricane Helene, thousands of North Carolina residents found themselves stranded in the wreckage, waiting for help that never came. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is tasked with providing disaster relief, has failed to meet its promises to those devastated by the storm, leaving many families with nowhere to turn.

O’Keefe Media Group traveled to Swannanoa, North Carolina, to investigate the government’s delayed response to the disaster. Despite FEMA’s claims that assistance would be promptly delivered, residents like Daily Dow are left struggling with no immediate relief in sight.

James O’Keefe speaks with Daily Dow.

“They [FEMA] haven’t helped me yet,” said Dow, whose home was destroyed by the storm. Dow explained that although FEMA has provided temporary housing at a hotel, she and her children are soon to be relocated to a tent, leaving them vulnerable to the harsh conditions. “It’s been two months, and I can’t wait in the cold anymore,” she said, emphasizing the growing sense of despair.

“This area was completely devastated,” one Hurricane Helene victim in Western North Carolina shared, describing the extent of the flooding during the storm. “You can see, I mean, the river’s quite far away, but the water came all the way up here. Everything inside has to come out.”

In the wake of the disaster, @OKeefeMedia Group traveled to North Carolina to investigate the government’s failure to provide timely assistance, despite promises of aid. “They [FEMA] haven’t helped me yet,” Swannanoa, North Carolina resident Daily Dow said. Many residents who have lost everything are left to fend for themselves while FEMA’s support remains absent. Dow added, “FEMA has helped me with a hotel. They paid for my hotel,” sharing she has one more day at the hotel before she and her children will move into “a tent with a stove, a wood stove in it.”

“It’s been two months, and I can’t wait in the cold anymore,” Dow said, emphasizing the growing despair. Despite FEMA’s promises of up to $47,000 for rebuilding, their inaction has left Dow feeling abandoned: “I’m eligible to get up to $47,000 to replace my house. But they haven’t come through.”

In the face of government inaction, volunteers with Spokes of Hope, Savage Freedom, All Hands and Hearts, and other local communities are stepping in to support each other. “Churches have been really helpful,” a volunteer shared. “Samaritan’s Purse is doing a good job… Savage Freedom that’s been coming out.” Even with the outpouring of volunteer efforts, the lack of official aid continues to be a harsh reality for many.

Stay tuned for PART 2 of our four-part series, where OMG takes hidden cameras behind the scenes to confront federal FEMA officials… @SamaritansPurse @AllHandsHearts

December 4, 2024 – Houston FBI agent is convicted of robbing people during home raids

Former FBI agent Nicholas Anthony Williams (Credit: Revolver News)

How much lower can the FBI sink? Just when you think this disgraceful agency has hit rock bottom, they manage to dig even deeper. This time, it’s yet another DEI hire making a total mockery of the badge. Agent Nicholas Anthony Williams has been arrested and convicted for robbing people blind during home invasion raids—and yes, at least one of those raids targeted a January 6th political prisoner.

As if it wasn’t bad enough that the regime weaponized the FBI to go after non-violent Americans, now we find out that during those raids, Agent Williams was lurking around like a common thief, helping himself to their belongings.

Honestly, this is what the DEI agenda does: it takes our once-esteemed agencies and institutions and turns them into a colossal joke. And sadly, it’s still going strong, as this shameful story proves.

Liberty News:

A former FBI agent, Nicholas Anthony Williams, has been convicted of stealing cash, valuables, and other property while executing search warrants, including items taken from the home of a non-violent January 6 defendant. The conviction, tied to a series of thefts spanning years, has further fueled scrutiny of federal law enforcement practices.

Williams, 36, worked in the FBI’s Houston field office since 2019. He was indicted in January 2023 in the Southern District of Texas on charges of theft, fraud, and making false statements. According to court documents, Williams exploited his role as a federal agent to steal money and property during searches, which he then converted for personal use.

The stolen items included cash, silver bars, cell phones, and government-issued property. Williams also made false claims about fraudulent charges on his FBI-issued credit card, alleging they were legitimate case-related expenses. His actions culminated in a September guilty plea, in which he confessed to five thefts committed between 2020 and 2023.

As we mentioned earlier, among the victims that Agent Williams targeted was a Trump supporter, who was raided after he attended the J6 event. Agent Williams ransacked this poor man’s room. The Liberty News piece goes on:

One of Williams’ theft victims was Alexander Fan, a Houston college student who had been sentenced to 12 months of probation for peacefully protesting inside the Capitol during the January 6 riot. Fan was charged with non-violent trespassing misdemeanors, and his home was searched by the FBI in June 2023.

Alexander Fan (Credit: public domain)

According to court filings, Fan reported several missing items from his bedroom, including $1,500 in cash and silver bars. These items were not listed among those seized under the search warrant. Fan’s attorney, Mark Thering, expressed hope for the eventual return of his client’s stolen property.

(Read more: Revolver News, 12/5/2024)  (Archive)

December 4, 2024 – EPA advisor admits ‘insurance policy’ against Trump is funneling billions to climate organizations – “We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic”

BREAKING: @EPA Advisor Admits ‘Insurance Policy’ Against Trump is Funneling Billions to Climate Organizations, “We’re Throwing Gold Bars off the Titanic” “It was an insurance policy against Trump winning.” “Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump Administration] come in … it’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge.”

December 5, 2024 – Obama warns of Republicans rigging elections and weaponizing the DoJ

Former President Barack Obama on Thursday claimed the moral high ground by cautioning  “one side” of politics is going to “stack the deck” by stealing elections and politicize the U.S. government.

He declined to name which specific party should be attributed with those anti-democratic principles but added they should be opposed.

In a speech at the third annual Obama Foundation Democracy Forum in Chicago, Illinois, the 63-year-old called for a renewed commitment to pluralist ethics and said the consequences of failing to do so are barely worth considering.

He said:

There are going to be times, potentially, when one side tries to stack the deck and lock in a [long pause] permanent grip on power—either by actively suppressing votes, or politicizing the armed forces, or using the judiciary and the criminal justice system to go after opponents.

In those circumstances, pluralism does not call for us to just stand back and say, ‘Well, I’m not sure that’s okay.’

In those circumstances, a line has been crossed, and we have to stand firm.

Critics were quick to point out Obama had only one party in mind when he made the claim.

(Read more: Breitbart News, 12/6/2024)  (Archive)

December 6, 2024 – Federal judge mandates the FDA release all of the Emergency Use Authorization file for the Pfizer Covid vaccine by June 2025

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman (Credit: public domain)

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a high-profile case brought by the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT).

The decision mandates the FDA to release the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) file for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine no later than June 30, 2025.

The case stemmed from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the PHMPT, which sought comprehensive data related to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

The FDA initially claimed it would need up to 75 years to process and release the requested documents. However, the Court, presided over by Judge Mark Pittman, rejected this argument, citing the importance of government accountability.

In late 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faced significant public scrutiny after proposing a timeline that would extend the full release of documents related to the approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine over several decades.

This proposal emerged following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT), a group of scientists and public health professionals seeking comprehensive data on the vaccine’s approval process.

The FDA initially suggested releasing 500 pages per month from a collection exceeding 300,000 pages, effectively delaying complete disclosure until around 2097. The agency cited limited staffing and the extensive volume of documents as reasons for this prolonged timeline.

In response to the backlash, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas, issued a ruling in January 2022 that significantly shortened the FDA’s proposed timeline.

Judge Pittman ordered the agency to release 55,000 pages per month, ensuring that all documents would be made public by the end of September 2022.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman mandated the FDA to expedite the release of documents related to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

According to his conclusion reviewed by The Gateway Pundit:

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” Jonathan Elliot, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, as Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, at 169–70 (ed. 1881) (statement of Patrick Henry). The Covid-19 pandemic is long passed and so has any legitimate reason for concealing from the American people the information relied upon by the government in approving the Pfizer Vaccine.”

In his ruling, Judge Pittman ordered the FDA to produce the “emergency use authorization” file, underscoring that with the pandemic’s conclusion, there is no longer a valid reason to withhold the information.

The FDA has already produced over a million pages of documents in response to the lawsuit. However, the plaintiffs argue that the agency continues to withhold critical information. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 12/6/2024)  (Archive)

December 6, 2024 – House Weaponization report details over 14,000 federal employees accessed sensitive financial data of Trump supporters

The Biden administration worked with banks to ‘spy’ on Americans without a warrant, a stunning new congressional report charges.

The House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released its damning findings that banks targeted Americans supportive of President-elect Donald Trump.

‘The federal government is spying on your bank account,’ the Republican-led panel posted in a video on X summarizing its 47-page report.

‘The federal government has conditioned financial institutions to work for them,’ another alarming slide on the video reads.

What the video seeks to explain is the complex and convoluted process in which major financial firms, like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase and more have all handed over their customer’s data to the government for free.

‘The next time you swipe your [bank or credit] card know that someone may be watching,’ the subcommittee video eerily adds.

This data can include the location, date and description of transactions, making it easy for the government to compile an understanding of where people go, what they buy and what activities they spend their time on.

After receiving this data, the FBI created an internal portal, where employees could search these typically private transactions and profiles could then be made on individual citizens of concern, like those who have shopped at Cabela’s or purchased a Bible, the panel claims.

Over 14,000 federal employees accessed that sensitive financial data in 2023 during which the subcommittee claims 3.3 million ‘warrantless searches’ were made. (Read more: Daily Mail, 12/6/2024)  (Archive)

The link to the report released by House Judiciary is not working. A working link was added above.

December 8, 2024 – Trump attorney claims to have the recordings of zoom calls setting up J6, months ahead of time

•Great interview from my brother @RedPill78 of 45’s longtime friend and attorney Peter Ticktin, where he states…

“They have the recordings of the zoom calls setting up J6, MONTHS ahead of time.”

•We have seen similar videos where these govt employees along with NGO’s were plotting riots in the event of a Trump win.

They have it all. 👊 ✌️
Ht Debbie Rausch
Full interview link

December 9, 2024 – FBI Director Wray and Deputy Director Abatte prepare to resign before Trump inauguration

Christopher Wray and Paul Abbate (Credit: public domain)

FBI Director Christopher Wray is preparing to resign as President Trump moves forward with nominee Kash Patel.

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (IA) sent Christopher Wray a blistering letter on Monday and told him and his deputy Paul Abbate to step down for the good of the country.

“For the good of the country, it’s time for you and your deputy to move on to the next chapter in your lives,” Mr. Grassley wrote in the letter to Wray, according to The Washington Times. “I therefore must express my vote of no confidence in your continued leadership of the FBI.”

According to The Times, Christopher Wray is going to be gone by Inauguration Day because he doesn’t want to get fired by President Trump.

Kerry Picket of The Washington Times reported:

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray plans to resign on or before Inauguration Day, The Washington Times has learned.

Mr. Wray is calling it quits because he doesn’t want to get fired by President-elect Donald Trump, according to sources inside the bureau who are familiar with the director’s thinking.

“He’s going to be gone at the inauguration. On or before the inauguration,” a source said.

Following Mr. Wray’s departure, Deputy Director Paul Abbate will become acting director and appoint an acting deputy director. Mr. Abbate’s original plan was to stay until May or June so he could help with the transition to a new FBI director.

Mr. Wray knew his days were numbered at the FBI.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who will become chairman of the Judiciary Committee next month, sent a scathing letter Monday to Mr. Wray saying he should be ousted before his 10-year term as FBI director is up — and he said Mr. Abbate should go, too.

Mr. Grassley’s letter changed Mr. Abbate’s plans, and he is now looking for an alternate acting deputy director to appoint.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 12/9/2024)  (Archive)

December 10, 2024 – DOJ IG report: In 2017, the Justice Department secretly surveilled lawmakers, congressional staffers, and reporters

(Credit: DoJ OIG Report)

Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday found that the Justice Department in 2017 secretly surveilled lawmakers, congressional staffers, and reporters.

CNN reported that the Justice Department, in 2017, during Trump’s first term in office, secretly obtained records of Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Patel – who was at the time a Republican staffer for the House Intelligence Committee – as well as 21 Democrat congressional staffers, 20 Republican staffers (including Patel,) two nonpartisan congressional staffers, and eight reporters.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Patel to serve as the FBI Director.

Career prosecutors at the Justice Department sought records, including emails from journalists at CNN, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.

Horowitz wrote that seeking these communications based on “the close proximity in time between access to classified information and subsequent publication of the information… risks chilling Congress’s ability to conduct oversight of the executive branch.” He added, saying that such a move:

…exposes congressional officials to having their records reviewed by the Department solely for conducting Congress’ constitutional authorized oversight duties and creating, at a minimum, the appearance of inappropriate interference by the executive branch in legitimate oversight activity by the legislative branch.

Horowitz did not find retaliatory motivation by the career prosecutors who issued the compulsory process of the lawmakers, staffers, and reporters, nor was the motivation based on party affiliation. He did not recommend charges again anyone in their review.

The IG report found that the Justice Department did not disclose that the NDOs focused on lawmakers and congressional staffers, although Justice Department policy at the time did not require that.

The Inspector General’s report recommended the Justice Department:

  • Evaluate when advance notification to a senior Department, such as the Deputy Attorney General or Attorney General, should be required before compulsory process is issued to consider raising constitutional separation of issues
  • Consider the circumstances in which NDOs should identify for the reviewing judge that the records covered by a proposed NDO are records of lawmakers or congressional staffers
  • Consider whether there are circumstances in which an exhaustion requirement should be a requisite for issuing compulsory process to obtain records of members of Congress and congressional staffers

(Read more: Breitbart, 12/10/2024)  (Archive)

December 11, 2024 – Bill Clinton says he hopes Joe Biden doesn’t pardon Hillary

Former president Bill Clinton writes about his links to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein in his memoir, Citizen.. (Credit: Getty Images)

Former president Bill Clinton said he hopes Joe Biden doesn’t issue preemptive pardons for his wife or others as Trump prepares to take office.

Clinton made the remarks during an appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Wednesday.

“Mr. President, Trump will be returning to the White House…. with an alleged enemies list we are hearing. Do you think it would be wise of President Biden to preemptively pardon any potential targets? What about your wife, Hillary Clinton?” The View’s Sunny Hostin asked Clinton. “She apparently is on Kash Patel’s list.”

Bill Clinton argued his wife Hillary doesn’t need to be pardoned because she hasn’t committed any crimes.

“Well, they’ve got a problem with [Hillary] because first, she didn’t do anything wrong,” Clinton replied. “Second, she followed the rules exactly as they were written. Third, Trump’s state department, Trump’s state department, found… they, remember how the emails was such a big issue in 20216? Trump’s state department found that Hillary sent and received exactly 0 classified emails on her personal device,” Bill Clinton said.

Clinton continued, “It was a made up, phony story, so you know, I guess if Kash Patel is determined to make one up, he could do it. But, I think if President Biden wanted to talk to me about that, I would talk to him about it. But, I don’t think I should be giving public advice on the pardon power. I think it’s too … it’s a very personal thing. But I hope he won’t do that. Most of us get out of this world ahead of where we would get if all we got was simple justice and so, it’s normally a fool’s errand to spend a lot of time trying to get even.”

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 12/11/2024)  (Archive)

December 12, 2024 – Biden commutes the sentence of a Chinese national with 47,000 child pornography images and videos

A North Texas doctoral student whose family is connected to China’s Communist Party was sentenced Thursday to eight years in federal prison for accessing thousands of child pornography images and videos including some depicting the sexual assault of infants and toddlers, court records said.

Shanlin Jin (Credit: Collin County Jail)

Shanlin Jin, 24, who lived in Allen, had more than 47,000 images and videos on his computer, police have said.

U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant in Sherman also ordered Jin to pay restitution to seven victims who requested it.

Jin, a Chinese national, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in December [2022] and faced up to a decade in prison under the sentencing guidelines. He will probably be deported after he serves his sentence, court records show.

(…) Born in Beijing, Jin was scheduled to obtain a bachelor’s degree from the “Special Class for the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China” just before his 19th birthday, according to court records.

He moved to the U.S. in 2016 to pursue academic studies, first obtaining a master’s degree in economics from Temple University in Philadelphia. He then moved to North Texas to begin a PhD program in economics at Southern Methodist University, according to court records.

The criminal investigation began at the end of 2020 when undercover officers downloaded child pornography from a user they eventually identified as Jin, records show.

The Collin County Sheriff’s Office searched the Allen home he was renting in January 2021. Afterward, an investigator questioned him in a police vehicle outside the house and he admitted viewing child pornography images, authorities said.

When Jin’s attorneys tried to have his statements to police suppressed, prosecutors responded that he wasn’t in custody at the time and called him a “highly intelligent, educated man” who was fluent in English and understood what was happening. The judge did not throw out his statements.

An FBI agent said during a detention hearing in the case that Jin told officers he knew that child pornography was “very bad stuff.” (Read more: Dallas Morning News. 7/14/2022)  (Archive)

December 13, 2024 – Hiding The Truth: Horowitz’s Modified Jan 6 ‘Limited Hangout’

From The New York Times:

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz (Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Do you detect the conspicuous lack of conviction in DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the Jan 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol building, which has been the central device for defeating the populist revolt against the treasonous DC blob? And did you notice that it took him four years to report on the event? Weird, a little bit, ya think?

I’ll tell you why: because when investigators genuinely interested in the truth come on the scene, soon to happen, a very different story will be revealed. The Horowitz report is a last ditch attempt, at the very last moment, to get ahead of that true story — which is that the FBI and its parent, the DOJ, have been lawlessly and in bad faith acting against their oaths to defend constitutional government.

For eight years — including the four when Mr. Trump was president — the FBI and DOJ worked tirelessly to run him out of office and make sure he could never return. The effort was prodigious and, astoundingly, it failed. It was launched initially to conceal the crimes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, especially their moneygrubbing in Russia around the Skolkovo project — Russia’s Silicon Valley — and the Uranium One scandal — which involved the sale of US nuclear assets to Russia’s state-owned Rosatom company. The Clintons’ problems became especially acute in the summer of 2016 when Hillary’s private (outside government) email server came to light with its thousands of potentially incriminating memos. Looked like trouble.

The cure for that was to accuse candidate Trump of conniving with Russia, a sort of political homeopathy. It began as a mere Hillary campaign prank — the Steele Dossier — but CIA Director John Brennan and Barack Obama dumped it in FBI Director James Comey’s lap, and asked him to run with it. Mr. Comey stupidly complied, and before long he marshaled the executive officers of the FBI into the massive hoax that became RussiaGate.

The Mueller Investigation was intended to convert all that into a prosecutable Trump crime while covering up the FBI’s own crimes, but it proved a fiasco when the Mueller report issued in March, 2019, came up empty — to the horror of the Trump-deranged public.

Inspector General Horowitz’s report on these FBI shenanigans came out in December of that year, finding little amiss besides some “errors” in FISA applications and FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith’s forgery of an email as to whether one Carter Page was ever a CIA asset. The big news media let it all slide. Mr. Trump somehow survived, to the blob’s horror, and prepared to run for re-election.

The 2020 election was a fantastic trip laid on the American public. Covid-19 allowed for drastic changes in voting rules. The Democratic Party managed in plain sight to maneuver the obviously senile Joe Biden to head their ticket, and an array of very conspicuous late-night frauds got him elected. On Jan 6, 2021, Republican legislators were poised to contest the results out of several swing states where the frauds occurred in the requisite Congressional certification ceremony. The law plainly allowed for such challenges. It could not be allowed to happen. (Read more: James Howard Kunstler, 12/13/2024)  (Archive)

From Revolver News, 12/12/2024:

DOJ Finally Releases Suppressed IG Report on Jan 6: Here’s What They’re Still Covering Up

For all of the damning vindication of its admissions, the DOJ IG report is still more damning in terms of its omissions. There is not a single word about the most damning smoking gun of all of January 6—the January 6 pipe bombs. And this is despite absolutely scandalous revelations indicating near certainty of Capitol Police, ATF, and Secret Service involvement in the cover-up of the pipe bomb scandal. As we focus on the FBI here, it is incidentally important to keep in mind that we have definitively shown that the aforementioned agencies (Capitol Police, ATF, Secret Service) and probably many more are deeply involved in the Fedsurrection scandal. Most notably in relation to the FBI, we recently learned that the head of the Washington Field Office of the FBI lied about the Bureau’s inability to receive geofencing data that would have positively identified the pipe bomber. For that matter, we also learned that as early as mid-2022, the FBI had deleted all surveillance footage of the pipe bomb location on January 6th. None of these damning questions is so much as addressed at all in this report.

Our reporting completely changed the national conversation on January 6th. We were viciously punished for it—Congress even banned our email lists from reaching their servers. One FBI agent who sympathized with our reporting had his security clearance revoked for sharing one of our January 6 articles. The mainstream media and regime cracked down on our exposure of the Fedsurrection lie with a vigor that had rarely been seen even from the criminals in the Biden regime. The DOJ’s suppressed IG report is a start, but it is far from the end. Anything that does not assist us in finalizing our exposure of the pipe bomb scandal is fake and inadequate. The pipe bomb issue implicates the FBI, Secret Service, ATF, Capitol Police, and very possibly even Kamala Harris herself. It is the most dangerous issue, and therefore it is the most important issue. It is the issue that we have put our blood and sweat into at Revolver News, and we will not rest until the full and damning truth is out no matter how ugly.

When it comes to the truth about January 6, we cannot be cheap dates. Stay tuned. There are more reports to come out.

December 16, 2024 – Federal Judge grants Derek Chauvin’s request to examine George Floyd heart tissue and fluids to contest cause of death

Derek Chauvin was convicted in state court in the murder of George Floyd. For reasons I explained in great detail at the time, Chauvin did not get a fair trial. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison. His appeals from that verdict failed in the state courts and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case.

Chauvin also pled guilty to federal charges and received a roughly similar sentence. Chauvin is contesting his federal guilty plea, asserting in a pro se motion to vacate sentence, among other things, ineffective assistance from his counsel Eric Nelson, for failure to engage with a supposed expert who reached out with a theory that Floyd died because of heart failure not Chauvin’s actions.

Counsel appointed for Chauvin after Nelson withdrew from the case then filed a Motion for Discovery:

The opinion of Dr. Schaetzel is that Mr. Floyd died due to a catecholamine crisis when his paraganglioma secreted excessive levels of catecholamines. Dr. Schaetzel urges that samples preserved from Mr. Floyd be tested for catecholamines and their metabolites, and that tissue sections of Mr. Floyd’s heart be examined. These tests and examinations would support Dr. Schaetzel’s opinion about what caused Mr. Floyd to die if high levels of catecholamines or their metabolites were discovered, or if the heart tissue showed evidence of Takotsubo’s myocarditis. (Takotsubo’s myocarditis is an acute heart failure (i.e., a heart attack), that is caused by a catecholamine crisis.) So Dr. Schaetzel’s opinion is that the catecholamine crisis led to Takotsubo’s myocarditis, resulting in pulmonary edema and death. Because these tests and examinations would support Dr. Schaetzel’s opinion depending on their results, there is good cause to conduct the tests.

***

In sum, Chauvin requests the following discovery:

• Any and all histology slides of Floyd’s heart, tissue samples of Floyd’s heart, tissue blocks containing heart tissue from Floyd, recut sections of all autopsy tissue histology slides relating to Floyd’s heart, related to the criminal case against Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd possessed by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office (HCMEO), and any entity that the HCMEO contracted with that has these materials.
• Photos taken of George Floyd’s heart.
• Any and all vitreous fluid/aqueous humor, postmortem blood, antemortem blood, and urine from Floyd possessed by the HCMEO, any entity that the HCMEO contracted with that has these materials, HHC (autopsy report notes that antemortem blood was taken at HHC), and NMS Labs (NMS Labs conducted the toxicology testing and produced the toxicology report, and thus they may still have samples of the blood and urine that they tested (DE 544-1 at 25-26)). Chauvin requests quantities of these fluids sufficient to test the concentration of fractionated catecholamines and metanephrine levels present.

The Court granted the motion for discovery in an Order on December 16, 2024:

U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson (Credit: Scott Takushi / Pioneer Press)

Mr. Chauvin filed a § 2255 motion challenging his federal conviction. In the briefing on this motion, he argued that his motion should be granted because he was denied the effective assistance of counsel in two fundamental ways. First, his attorney, Eric Nelson, failed to inform Mr. Chauvin that a Doctor William Schaetzel had contacted Mr. Nelson and opined that Mr. Chauvin did not cause Mr. Floyd’s death. Dr. Schaetzel’s opinion is that Mr. Floyd died due to a catecholamine crisis when his paraganglioma secreted excessive levels of catecholamines. These excessive levels of catecholamines led to Takotsubo’s myocarditis (a type of acute heart failure, or heart attack), resulting in pulmonary edema and death. Dr. Schaetzel contacted Mr. Nelson in April 2021, before Mr. Chauvin was indicted federally. So Mr. Chauvin’s first ground is a claim that Nelson provided ineffective assistance of counsel to Mr. Chauvin by failing to consult with him on this issue.

The second way Mr. Chauvin claims that Mr. Nelson was ineffective is related, though independent. Dr. Schaetzel urged that samples preserved from Mr. Floyd be tested for catecholamines and their metabolites, and that tissue sections of Mr. Floyd’s heart be examined. These tests and examinations would support Dr. Schaetzel’s opinion about what caused Mr. Floyd to die if high levels of catecholamines or their metabolites were discovered, or if the heart tissue showed evidence of Takotsubo’s myocarditis. Mr. Nelson never requested these tests. Mr. Chauvin’s second claim is thus not a failure-to-consult claim, but a failure-to-test claim.

Mr. Chauvin’s discovery motion seeks to have the tests performed that could support Dr. Schaetzel’s opinion of how Mr. Floyd died… (Read more: Legal Insurrection, 12/17/2024)  (Archive)

December 17, 2024 – Biden Admin pays Reuters $300 million in government contracts to 11 agencies targeting Elon Musk businesses; Reuters wins Pulitzer for the hit pieces

The Biden Admin paid Reuters over $300 million in government contracts. 11 different Biden government agencies targeted Elon’s businesses. All 11 agencies paid millions to Reuters. Reuters then won the Pulitzer Prize for “their work on Elon Musk and misconduct at his businesses”

December 17, 2024 – J6 Report bombshell: Trump didn’t just offer military to protect Capitol, he ordered It but was disobeyed

Mark Milley with acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller at Arlington National Cemetery on November 11, 2020. (Credit: public domain)

On the eve of former President Donald Trump’s return to power, a new report is turning the story of the 2021 Capitol incursion on its head.

For four years, a Democratic-run “select” committee on Jan. 6, anti-Trump Republicans, and the establishment media have blamed Trump for the violence in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, but the report released Tuesday accused Trump’s acting defense secretary at the time, Christopher Miller, of defying Trump’s specific orders.

It’s the very first finding of the report, and it paints a scathing picture of Nancy Pelosi’s “select” committee — and former Rep. Liz Cheney’s role in the whole affair.

The report, “On the Failures and Politicization of the January 6 Select Committee,” cited transcripts from interviews conducted by the Department of Defense Inspector General into the events surrounding the incursion.

In an interview with the IG, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, a now-retired Army general, described Trump’s words at a Jan. 3, 2021 meeting to prepare for the meeting of Congress to certify the results of the still-disputed 2020 election.

Milley summed up Trump’s statement as:

“Hey, I don’t care if you use Guard, or soldiers, active-duty soldiers, do whatever you have to do. Just make sure it’s safe.”

To most Americans, that would sound like an order from a commander in chief to his subordinate, but Miller told Nancy Pelosi’s rigged Jan. 6 Committee that he chose to consider it “banter,” the report noted on page 69.

In fact, he told the IG interviewers, according to page 68 of the report: “There was absolutely — there is absolutely no way I was putting U.S. Military forces at the Capitol.”

In addition, Miller told the Jan. 6 committee that he was influenced by a commentary piece published by The Washington Post on Jan. 3, 2021, signed by all 10 living former defense secretaries, calling on Miller by name to “refrain from any political actions that undermine the results of the election or hinder the success of the new team.”

That piece, though, was “orchestrated” by Cheney, according to the report. Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who also served as a defense secretary, was a co-author of the piece.

(Liz Cheney’s role in organizing the op-ed was first revealed in a May 2021 interview the liberal magazine the New Yorker conducted with Eric Edelman, a Cheney family friend and former national security adviser to Dick Cheney. Not even the left-wing “fact-checking” site Snopes has disputed it.)

The report released Tuesday also showed Miller feared being called a “Trump crony” and was sensitive to criticism on social media.

That apparently mattered more to him than carrying out the orders of the president, the report stated. (Read more: Western Journal, 12/18/2024)  (Archive)

December 17, 2024 – Liz Cheney is referred for criminal investigation for witness tampering related to J6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson

Cassidy Hutchinson and Liz Cheney (Credit: public domain)

The Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released a second report on the events surrounding January 6 as well his investigation into the weaponized J6 Committee on Tuesday.

“This interim report reveals that there was not just one single cause for what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6; but it was a series of intelligence, security, and leadership failures at several levels and numerous entities,” Loudermilk said.

Loudermilk’s report outlined criminal recommendations against J6 Committee co-chair Liz Cheney for witness tampering based on her communication with J6 ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson.

The Committee’s Top Findings:

1. Former Representative Liz Cheney colluded with “star witness” Cassidy Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge.

2. Former Representative Liz Cheney should be investigated for potential criminal witness tampering based on the new information about her communication.

3. Cassidy Hutchinson’s most outrageous claims lacked any evidence, and the Select Committee had knowledge that her claims were false when they publicly promoted her.

  • President Trump did not attack his Secret Service Detail at any time on January 6.
  • President Trump did not have intelligence indicating violence on the morning of January 6.
  • Cassidy Hutchinson falsely claimed to have drafted a handwritten note for President Trump on January 6.
  • Representative Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson baselessly attempted to disbar Hutchinson’s former attorney.

4. Former Representative Liz Cheney used the January 6 Select Committee as a tool to attack President Trump, at the cost of investigative integrity and Capitol security.

5. The January 6 Select Committee was improperly constituted and lacked authority.

6. The January 6 Select Committee neglected or withheld evidence from its Final Report and deleted voluminous records it should have preserved.

7. The Department of Defense scapegoated the Washington D.C. National Guard to distract blame from senior leadership.

As previously reported, Loudermilk obtained January 6 ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson’s Signal messages which revealed she was directly communicating with J6 Vice Chair Liz Cheney in 2022.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 12/17/2024)  (Archive)

December 17, 2024 – World’s smallest violin plays as “depressed” Biden bureaucrats can’t find new jobs

Depressed Bureaucrats

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Politico is reporting that Biden Administration bureaucrats are depressed because they can’t find new jobs, and members of Biden’s “national security team” are “frantically” scrambling to find new careers before Trump dismantles the deep state.

“Our side is just battling depression while we update our resumes,” one White House official stated, while another staffer declared that “Everyone is willing to take a demotion because there aren’t enough jobs.”

Boo hoo. Cry harder.

While the higher ups are all abandoning ship for Defence contractors, think tanks and consulting firms, the lower level dogsbody bureaucrats are whining that they face taking “unglamorous jobs” with pay cuts.

“There’s a lot of good career people here who went through the first Trump administration and are saying, ‘Can I really go through that again?’” said one Biden appointee at the State Department.

Oh my God, the hardship of having someone you don’t agree with running things.

“It’s going to be very saturated and crowded and so beggars can’t be choosers, I guess,” said another Biden State Department appointee, adding “The crazy thing is none of these jobs we’re desperate to get are particularly glamorous, unless you want to go lobby for some autocratic foreign governments.”

The world’s tiniest violin is playing for them.

Politico notes that “Wherever they land, a wave of Democratic national security and foreign policy staffers will continue the tradition of patiently treading water for four years until, just maybe, a Democrat can win the presidency again in 2028.”  (Read more: Zero Hedge, 12/17/2024)  (Archive)

December 17, 2024 – Antony Blinken briefed then VP Joe Biden about sensitive foreign policy matters through his private email account

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Former Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken attend the National Committee On American Foreign Policy 2017 Gala Awards Dinner on October 30, 2017  (Credit:
Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

New email records released by the National Archives show then-Vice President Joe Biden was briefed about sensitive foreign policy matters by then-advisor Antony Blinken on his private email account, including details about a failed North Korean missile launch.

Joe Biden, now president, first faced scrutiny about potential private accounts after emails contained on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop showed the then-vice president in the Obama administration was using an email address with a pseudonym to communicate about business and official matters with his son, other family members, and senior staff.

One new email, part of several batches released by the National Archives pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit shows that in the hours following a North Korean missile launch in April 2012, Blinken—who was then Biden’s national security advisor—sent a message to the vice president’s private email account “robinware456@gmail.com” with details about the sensitive national security matter.

“Just in case you missed it, the North Korean rocket failed somewhere between the first and second stages,” Blinken wrote. “Will take some time to determine why.” The future Secretary of State signed the email message, “tony.”

You can read the email below:

The launch marked a provocative escalation during a time of leadership transition in the communist dictatorship as Kim Jong Un was assuming powers from his father, who had died the preceding December. One day after the email, North Korea confirmed that the rocket launch had indeed failed.

82,000 pages

Blinken followed up on his first email two days later, presumably with more updates, but the contents of that communication were redacted by the National Archives under the “P5” exemption, which excludes information from FOIA requests that “would disclose confidential advice between the President and his advisors, or between such advisors,” under the Presidential Records Act.

The memos reviewed by Just the News are part of the several batches of communications released by the National Archives under pressure from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Southeastern Legal Foundation prompted by Just the News’ reporting three years ago that revealed Biden used at least three different pseudonym private email accounts when he was Barack Obama’s vice president. (Read more emails: Just the News, 12/17/2024)  (Archive)

December 19, 2024 – Bill Clinton’s new memoir attacks Peter Schweizer, tries to spin Hillary’s Russian Uranium One deal

Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in 2010. (Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

(…) Two weeks after the election of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton released a new book. Citizen: My Life After the White House, was not widely noticed at the time, but scattered across various chapters of the book are about 1,500 words attacking Peter Schweizer by name for his reporting all the way back in 2015.

Clinton’s book makes several inaccurate assertions about what Clinton Cash reported and the role of the New York Times, Washington Post, and ABC News in confirming what the book would reveal about how the Clintons used their charitable foundation to enrich themselves. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers respond to Clinton’s claims.

Bill Clinton writes that Schweizer’s 2015 book was “political propaganda designed to help elect far-right wolves in populist clothing.” This, Schweizer says, is completely untrue. The investigation for the book began in 2013, while Hillary Clinton was still Secretary of State under President Barack Obama and long before either she or Donald Trump announced their candidacies.

What piqued GAI’s interest at the time, Schweizer has said, was the Clintons’ own financial disclosure forms (required for high government officeholders) that showed enormous sums of cash coming to their foundation from corrupt countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine, all of which surged in 2009 after Hillary became secretary of state.

“The facts are simple. The Clinton Foundation took in $250 million in 2009,” Schweizer says. That level was sustained during the four years she was in office. Once she left office, contributions to the family foundation began to dwindle until, in 2020, it received just $16 million in contributions, a 93% decrease from its boom days.

Bill’s memoir also attempts to spin the revelations in Clinton Cash regarding Uranium One, an American mining company that was sold to Russia in a deal approved while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and a key member of the inter-agency group that had to approve any sale of a strategic asset to a foreign power. Schweizer’s book showed that several Clinton cronies and megadonors were enriched by the deal.

Clinton argues there was no scandal there because Hillary did not personally approve the deal. In fact, the approval was handled by a State Dept. staffer closely tied to John Podesta, a Clinton administration operative who would become Hillary’s campaign chairman in 2016. The Clinton “blur” here, as reported in Clinton Cash, was in distancing Hillary from the decision while her foundation reaped donation benefits from grateful investors in the deal, including Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra. “It’s a distinction without a difference,” Schweizer says.

Bill also claims Schweizer’s book “achieved its larger purpose when, amazingly, The New York Times and The Washington Post joined Fox in signing ‘exclusive’ agreements to use the book as a ‘resource’ for the campaigns, knowing full well whose payroll the author was on and his past work as a right-wing propagandist.”

While it’s certainly eye-popping to see the New York Times treated as part of a “right-wing” conspiracy, the truth is that Schweizer simply furnished them advance copies of some of the research. They produced their own stories that corroborated and even furthered the findings contained in the manuscript. Jo Becker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, produced a front-page exposé on the Uranium One story for the Times after confirming and supplementing what the book would reveal.

“We call out powerful people. And it’s satisfying to know that, nearly 10 years later, Bill is still mad and still won’t let go of it,” Schweizer tells Eggers.

Clinton’s book never disputes the facts, Schweizer says. They never denied their foundation took in nearly $150 million from investors in Uranium One, for example. A Russian bank with interests in the deal paid Bill $500,000 for a single speech in Moscow the same month the deal was under official review.

Schweizer recalls only one noteworthy figure who tried to push back on the revelations in Clinton Cash. That was a testy interview on ABC News with George Stephanopoulos, who did not refute the facts, nor did he reveal to his audience his own glaring conflict of interest – the fact that he was himself a major donor to the Clinton Foundation. “Where is the smoking gun?” Stephanopoulos asked Schweizer repeatedly in an audio clip of the interview. “You have no evidence of a crime.”

Schweizer replies: “It’s not up to an author to prove a crime, George.” (Read more: Breitbart, 12/19/2024)  (Archive)

December 19, 2024 – Fani Willis is disqualified from prosecuting Trump case

The Georgia Court Of Appeals (Credit: public domain)

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is disqualified from prosecuting the case against President-Elect Donald Trump, an appeals court held Thursday.

“After carefully considering the trial court’s findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her office,” the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled 2-1. “The remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring.

After a multi-day evidentiary hearing, Judge Scott McAfee concluded in March that Willis’ relationship with Nathan Wade, who she appointed special prosecutor on the case against Trump, created a “significant appearance of impropriety.” He allowed Willis to remain on the case if Wade stepped aside.

“While we recognize that an appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification, this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings,” the appeals court wrote Thursday.

While the appeals court disqualified Willis, it declined to dismiss the indictment in its entirety. (Read more: Daily Caller, 12/19/2024) (Archive)

December 10, 2024 – DOJ IG Report: A Democrat whistleblower identified Schiff, Swalwell as leakers

Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Ranking Member Rep. Devin Nunes listen to Gordon Sondland, the U.S ambassador to the European Union, testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill November 20, 2019. (Credit: Doug Mills/Getty Images)

Last week the Department of Justice’s inspector general released a report on some of the DOJ’s tracking of communications from media and congressional figures as part of its purported investigation into who was leaking classified information against President Donald Trump in 2017. Three significant bombshells about the Russia collusion hoax were hidden inside the dense and dry 100-page report.

Two Washington Post stories, a New York Times story, and a CNN story were all found to have included classified information. None of the four stories are specified in the report, but they all appeared in the first half of President Trump’s first year in office.

The first Washington Post story is likely the April 2017 story by Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett, and Adam Entous revealing that DOJ had gotten a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Carter Page, a Trump affiliate. The true story of that warrant would end up revealing the corruption of the DOJ, including how it falsified evidence in its application and relied on the laughable Steele dossier as the basis. But at the time of its publication, the FISA story suggested that an honorable DOJ had serious reason to suspect the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia to steal the election.

As outlandish and unhinged as the conspiracy theory was, it was fueled with daily drops of classified and deceptively packaged information designed to make it appear legitimate. The corporate media dutifully regurgitated, published, and aired the leaks as part of their campaign against the Republican president.

(…) One of the more surprising claims in the report was that a Democrat staffer on one of the congressional committees “voluntarily told the FBI” almost immediately after the investigation began in 2017 that he suspected two members of Congress and a number of Democrat staffers of being involved in the leaking of the classified information, leading to further investigation of those identified.

Eric Swalwell and Christine Fang (Credit: Facebook)

While the report doesn’t identify the whistleblower, his committee, or name the members of Congress, a 2021 New York Times story already identified then-Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell, both of California, as the two congressmen on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) who were under investigation.

The DOJ report further notes that only these two members of Congress were investigated. Schiff was the top Democrat on HPSCI at the time its Republican chair Devin Nunes was engaged in painstaking efforts to reveal the Russia collusion hoax and many of its participants.

Both Schiff and Swalwell were notorious for going on left-wing media outlets such as CNN and MSNBC to push the Russia conspiracy theory. Schiff, now California’s junior senator, lied publicly for years about the matter, falsely claiming to have secret evidence substantiating the hoax. Schiff was widely suspected of leaking information to his allies in the press, or otherwise misrepresenting information from the committee.

Swalwell, for his part, famously had an intimate relationship with Communist Chinese spy “Fang Fang,” who had targeted him and other Democrats as part of a honey-trap operation. Despite these serious problems, both men served on HPSCI until former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy removed them in early 2023.

The whistleblower told the FBI he “suspected that Member 1 had previously leaked classified information and that Member 2 wanted to influence public opinion via the release of classified information.” However, the FBI said the whistleblower didn’t offer enough “direct evidence” of the suspected leaking.

The DOJ itself would go on to stonewall Nunes and Senate colleagues who were attempting to investigate DOJ’s lead role in the Russia collusion scam. Many of the top leadership at the FBI, including former Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, were later unveiled as some of the worst leakers in government and leaders of the Russia collusion hoax. While they were removed from office, the Biden administration later paid some of them off. (Read more:  The Federalist, 12/17/2024)  (Archive)