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118th US Congress Rules & Investigations The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 2/11/23 by WALTER784; 39869 views.
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From: WALTER784
3/2/23
Probe Launched Into State Department Censorship of Conservatives
Katie Pavlich
February 23, 2023 3:00 PM
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced an investigation into the State Department after it was revealed by the Washington Examiner the federal bureaucracy spent hundreds-of-millions in taxpayer dollars on censorship of conservative news outlets.
“The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating reports that federal funds administered by the Department of State were used to suppress lawful speech and defund disfavored news outlets under the guise of combatting disinformation. The Committee is disturbed by recent reporting that taxpayer money ended up in the hands of a foreign organization running an advertising blacklist of organizations accused of hosting disinformation on their websites, including several conservative-leaning news organizations. The Committee seeks documents and a staff-level briefing to understand the scope of the Department’s use of federal funds for a taxpayer-funded censorship campaign,” Comer wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken Thursday.
"We continue to be concerned by efforts across the federal government to censor the lawful speech of Americans and discredit legitimate criticism as mis-, dis-, or mal- information, whether through the creation of a ‘Disinformation Governance Board,’ or labeling dissenting opinions as threats to critical infrastructure," the letter continues. "The federal government should not be censoring free speech nor policing what news outlets Americans choose to consume. And taxpayer funds should never be given to third parties with the intent that they be used to censor lawful speech or abridge the freedom of the press."
Comer is asking for a number of State Department documents to be provided and for a briefing from Blinken to Committee staff by March 3. He's asking documents be provided to "enable oversight of the Department’s administration of funds flowing to organizations working to censor lawful speech and suppress press freedoms."
1. All documents and communications regarding any grant or other funding administered by the Department or organizations funded by the Department used to suppress so-called mis-, dis-, or mal- information of individuals or news organizations within the United States from January 20, 2021 to the present;
2. All documents and communications regarding any grant or other funding administered by the Department or organizations funded by the Department issued to the Global Disinformation Index;
3. All documents and communications between any Department employee, contractor, grantee, and any other individual, whether within or outside the federal government, referring or relating to any efforts to suppress so-called mis-, dis-, or mal- information uttered or hosted by any individual or organization within the United States;
4. All documents and communications sufficient to show the identities of any Department employees, contractors, or grantees whose duties included, at any point, encouraging a third party to take action against any individual or organization within the United States uttering or hosting content considered mis-, dis-, or mal-information by the Department or organizations funded by the Department.
Probe Launched Into State Department Censorship of Conservatives (townhall.com)
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From: WALTER784
3/2/23
This is only the beginning. I'm waiting for the firework finale... after the investigation ends.
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From: WALTER784
3/2/23
No game at all... it's multiple investigations into the wrongdoings of the Democrat party that will finally pin the tail on the donkeys!!!
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From: Showtalk
3/2/23
No, the Republicans are exposing what happened and the Democrats are already pointing fingers.
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From: WALTER784
3/3/23
Showtalk said...
the Republicans are exposing what happened and the Democrats are already pointing fingers.
My father taught me about pointing fingers back when I was 8 years old... that was 57 years ago, but I still remember it vividly.
When you point a finger at somebody, you always have 3 of your other fingers pointing back at you! (* GRIN *)
Pointing fingers doesn't shift the blame... they just mistakenly think it does.
Remember when they pointed the finger at Trump for colluding with Russia? It's a failed tactic that they continue to use in hopes of expecting different results! (* CHUCKLE *)
The guilty party is guilty not because of finger pointing, but because of evidence showing who the real guilty part is... and pointing fingers won't change anything... except for what the liberal news media posts.
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From: WALTER784
3/3/23
JUST IN: Ted Cruz And Merrick Garland Have Fiery Clash In Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
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From: WALTER784
3/3/23
CONFIRMED: As We Suspected All Along, New Video Proves Capitol Police on January 6 Started Firing on the Innocent Crowd Without Warning and Against the Law, Injuring Numerous Individuals (SHOCKING VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Feb. 23, 2023 8:00 am
As we have reported all along, on January 6, 2021 the Capitol Hill Police began firing rubber bullets, gas canisters, flash grenades on the Trump supporters gathered around the US Capitol without warning.
In the hundreds of conversations we have had with January 6 attendees, political prisoners, and police abuse victims, they all say the same thing. Innocent people were attacked by police without warning.
This was an attack on the American people.
While FBI-Deep State operatives, like Ray Epps, were breaking through barriers and leading Trump supporters to the Capitol, police were readying to fire on them indiscriminately without warning.
Four Trump supporters died that day in the violence. Dozens more were injured. Two Trump supporters, Kevin Greeson and Benjamin Phillips, died immediately when police started firing on the crowd – without warning.
We have proof today that there were dozens if not hundreds of government operatives leading the crowd that day to the US Capitol in what can only be described as a planned attack.
Here is the police brutality evidence thread released by InvestigateJ6 earlier this week.
What led to the storming of the US Capitol on January 6th? #FollowTheTimeline
POLICE BRUTALITY evidence thread.
On January 6th at 1:13pm: Officer Thau and the DC Metropolitan Police arrived on the Capitol’s West Plaza.
Upon arrival, Thau frantically requests Capitol Police provide him with “blast munitions” to start throwing at the mostly peaceful crowd.
Thau repeatedly requests “blast munitions” from different supervisors on the ground for the next 10 minutes.
At 1:17pm, Thau orders Capitol PD ‘snipers nest’ to continue firing indiscriminately into the crowd.
He screams “let’s go, fucking shoot them!” “Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!”
At 1:22pm, Thau grabs a DC officer’s taser. He then rushes to the front line and proceeds to tase a random protestor who can be heard screaming in pain.
The crowd responds angrily to Thau’s offensive use of the weapon, yelling “what the fuck is wrong with you guys?!”
Blast and incendiary munitions arrive at 1:25pm.
From approx 1:25pm until 2:25pm, Capitol and DC police incite the crowd with an unrelenting barrage of grenades and mortars.
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Protestor Kevin Greeson drops dead at 1:28pm. Witnesses allege he was killed by one of these grenades.
On January 6th at 2:02pm, protestor Derrick Vargo is pushed from a ledge on the NW staircase by a Capitol PD officer as he attempts to hang a Trump flag.
At 2:03pm, DC police first use their LRAD system (long range acoustic device), in violation of established protocol.
DC law requires police to give 3 separate warnings with the LRAD and an opportunity to disperse before using violence or munitions to clear a protest crowd.
The text images included here are from Jon Turley’s testimony on the clearing of the Pershing Park BLM protests outside the White House in 2020.
The attempted clearing of the West Plaza protest was evidently illegal according to case law highlighted in Turley’s 6/29/20 testimony. Oddly, Judge Emmet Sullivan, who wrote these rules, has not addressed this fact in his January 6th rulings and convictions.
The entirety of Turley’s remarkably relevant testimony can be found at
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From: WALTER784
3/3/23
Leaked FBI Memo Reportedly Shows Bureau, DOJ Targeting Catholics as ‘Violent Extremists’
BY RUSTY WEISS
FEBRUARY 13, 2023 AT 9:34AM
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) have come under increased scrutiny after a leaked memo reportedly shows the bureau warning that “radical traditionalist” Catholics pose an extremist threat.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares was joined by 19 other attorneys general in sending a letter to the DOJ condemning an anti-Catholic internal memorandum that became public last week.
The memo, according to those AGs, “identifies ‘radical-traditionalist Catholic[s]’ as potential ‘racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.’”
Kyle Seraphin, a former FBI special agent and federal whistleblower, obtained the document from a field office in Richmond, Virginia, and published it on the UncoveredDC website.
The memorandum attempts to discern between acceptable and unacceptable Catholic beliefs and practices while suggesting there are “radical traditionalists” who have the potential of being “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.”
FBI Labeling Catholics as Potential Violent Extremists?
Miyares condemned the memo as something one “would expect from Communist Cuba.”
“Anti-Catholic bigotry appears to be festering in the FBI, and the Bureau is treating Catholics as potential terrorists because of their beliefs,” the AGs wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
They accuse the bureau of deploying “alarmingly detailed theological distinctions to distinguish between the Catholics whom the FBI deems acceptable and those it does not.”
The AGs also suggest the FBI is embedding agents into Catholic churches, something seen prevalently in the so-called war on terror which resulted in numerous claims of entrapment for practicing Muslims.
“The FBI has been down this road before, having infiltrated countless mosques throughout the country in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,” they write.
“The FBI disavowed this ignominious practice in 2008, and revised its internal guidelines in 2010 and 2013 to prevent its operatives from callously disregarding the religious liberty of American citizens.”
They state that revelations in the memo make it “very concerning indeed if the FBI had revived this practice against American Catholics.”
This is Becoming a Pattern
Following the publication of the leaked memo showing the targeting of Catholics as potential extremists, the FBI has been furiously trying to clean up the mess.
The bureau has since removed the document from its systems because it does not meet the “exacting standards of the FBI” and claims, according to Fox News, they are “no longer infiltrating the Catholic community.”
A) What standards? B) ‘No longer infiltrating’ suggests admission that it was previous practice. C) Not sure we’re buying it.
The Chicago Thinker managing editor Evita Duffy believes the memo is another example of the Biden administration targeting political enemies.
“This whole investigation is a pretext to persecute the political enemies of the left, and it’s a testimony to just how corrupt the FBI has become,” Duffy told Fox News.
This isn’t exactly an anomaly under this administration.
The White House and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s DOJ, you may recall, worked in tandem with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) to treat parents concerned about their children’s education like domestic terrorists.
A letter sent by the NSBA and coordinated with the White House and DOJ requested an investigation into whether or not confrontations from outraged parents regarding mask mandates or Critical Race Theory (CRT) curricula amounted to a violation of the Patriot Act.
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