have

Inside the backchannel communications keeping Donald Trump in the loop on Republican investigations

March 29, 2023 Ogghy Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Judicial Watch

From CNN:

“We can’t have two years of hearings and then a report,” President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton told CNN, referring to the pressure his group has placed on Congress to act immediately on the abuses of power that he sees happening, including “censoring Americans and trying to jail those who are perceived as political opponents.”

Fitton said he has appreciated how House Republicans have updated the public on an “ongoing basis as opposed to just sitting on material” and added “if they don’t seem to be going in the right direction, there will be some pushback.”

1.2 million inactive voters removed from Los Angeles voter rolls, more than half haven’t voted in 10 years

March 10, 2023 Ogghy Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Judicial Watch

From The Blaze:

Over 1 million inactive voters have been removed from the voter rolls in Los Angeles County, California, stemming from a lawsuit filed in 2017.

In an effort to clean up voter rolls and prevent possible voter fraud, Judicial Watch, a conservative organization that promotes government transparency, sued Los Angeles County on behalf of legally registered voters.

In 2019, a settlement required “Los Angeles County [to send] almost 1.6 million address confirmation notices in 2019 to voters listed as ‘inactive’ on its voter rolls,” which resulted in nearly 1.5 million inactive registered names to be removed from the rolls.

Judicial Watch announced that the number of removals for 2022 stands at 1,207,613 and that over 634,000 of the inactive voters have not voted in at least 10 years.

“This long overdue voter roll clean-up of 1.2 million registrations in Los Angeles County is a historic victory and means California elections are less at risk for fraud,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

Watchdog: 1.2 Million Inactive Voters Removed from Los Angeles Voter Rolls

February 28, 2023 Ogghy Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Judicial Watch

From Breitbart:

More than 1.2 million registrants have been removed from the voter rolls in Los Angeles County, California, since 2022 as part of a settlement agreement with Judicial Watch, according to the watchdog group.

In 2019, as Breitbart News reported at the time, Judicial Watch signed a settlement agreement with Los Angeles County officials after suing them for allegedly failing to maintain the county’s voter rolls under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

Judicial Watch: Decorated Veteran and FBI Analyst Sues FBI after Being Falsely Accused of Disloyalty to the United States

December 15, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Judicial Watch

‘Multiple whistleblowers have called it a “purge” of FBI employees holding conservative views’ – Rep. Jim Jordan

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit on behalf of FBI analyst Marcus Allen in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina against FBI Director Christopher Wray for violating Allen’s constitutional rights by falsely accusing him of holding “conspiratorial views,” stripping his security clearance, and suspending him from duty without pay (Marcos O. Allen v Christopher Wray). The FBI revoked his security clearance because apparently the FBI believes that any views contrary to its own regarding what occurred on January 6 constitutes disloyalty to the United States.

The new lawsuit details Allen’s outstanding military and FBI service:

Because of his outstanding military service, [Allen] was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. In 2004, [Allen] was designated the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity Runner-Up for Intelligence NCO of the year.

***

In 2015, [Allen] joined the FBI as a staff operations specialist. Among other tasks, he has provided ad hoc all-source analytical support to the FBI Charlotte Field Office Joint Terrorism Task Force. He has consistently been rated “Exceeds Fully Successful” on his FBI performance evaluations. He received the FBI Charlotte Field Office Employee of the Year Award in 2019.

[Allen] first received a Top Secret security clearance in early 2001.

Despite Allen’s exemplary service, in a January 10, 2022, letter the FBI asserted:

The Security Division has learned you have espoused conspiratorial views both orally and in writing and promoted unreliable information which indicates support for the events of January 6th. These allegations raise sufficient concerns about your allegiance to the United States and your judgment to warrant a suspension of your clearance pending further investigation.

In a February 17, 2022, letter the FBI further notified Allen that he was being placed on administrative leave without pay due to the suspension of his security clearance.

The lawsuit states:

[Allen’s] allegiance is to the United States, as he has demonstrated during his years of exemplary military and law enforcement service to his country.

[Allen] was not involved in the events of January 6 and did not support them in any material way. The FBI has made no allegation or offered any evidence to the contrary.

[Allen] has expressed no view that could be reasonably interpreted as personally expressing support or sympathy for any unlawful activity that occurred on January 6.

The FBI has not identified any specific statements or actions supporting its contention that Plaintiff has done otherwise.

Judicial Watch contends that the FBI did not give Allen a chance to clear himself, despite his repeated inquiries. In early May 2022, however, the FBI requested that Allen appear for an interview. He promptly complied. The interview request came only days after FBI Director Wray was confronted by members of Congress over concerns that the FBI was weaponizing the security clearance process to target politically conservative employees. Since that time, Allen has received no further word on the status of the FBI’s investigation.

On June 7, 2022, Rep. Jim Jordan, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Wray regarding the firing of FBI employees, noting that, “Multiple whistleblowers have called it a ‘purge’ of FBI employees holding conservative views.”

The lawsuit alleges several violations of Allen’s First and Fifth Amendment rights and asks that Allen’s security clearance and employment be restored.

“The FBI can’t purge employees based on political smears. Judicial Watch seeks to remind the FBI that it is not above the law with this civil rights lawsuit for Mr. Allen, a decorated Marine veteran and highly regarded FBI employee,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.”

Ruth C. Smith of the Elmore and Smith Law Firm in Asheville, N.C., is assisting with the suit. Allen is being represented in his administrative security clearance case by Sean Bigley and Jeffrey Billett of Bigley Ranish, LLP.

###

The post Judicial Watch: Decorated Veteran and FBI Analyst Sues FBI after Being Falsely Accused of Disloyalty to the United States appeared first on Judicial Watch.

It’s Time to Meet in Budapest

December 5, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Judicial Watch

From The European Conservative:

In recent days, we have seen news reports proclaiming the Ukrainian victory along the western bank of the Dnipro River in the city of Kherson. These news reports, however, have served to drown out critical facts and considerations about the ongoing consequences of Russia’s unlawful aggression against Ukraine.

Recent tactical advances by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) have fueled Western social media campaigns. However shocking to the Twitterverse, however, Vladimir Putin and his generals do not appear swayed by them. Well-intentioned as they may be, bravado-filled tweets will not drive the Russians to their knees. They also will not keep the electricity on in Kiev this winter.

Read more here…

The post It’s Time to Meet in Budapest appeared first on Judicial Watch.

With Drag Shows And ‘Genderfluid’ Internships, It’s No Wonder Military Recruiting Is Down

October 28, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Judicial Watch

From The Federalist:

Institutional groupthink and delusion have become endemic at the Pentagon. It started on Inauguration Day, 2021, when President Joe Biden directed all government agencies to devise and enforce diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandates.

“Diversity” and “nondiscrimination” are important, but percentage-based “equity” goals differ from “equality.” Additional Biden administration orders reversed President Donald Trump’s nuanced policy regarding transgender military personnel and erased Trump’s directive eliminating controversial critical race theory (CRT) instruction programs.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin quickly ordered worldwide “anti-extremist” standdown sessions, which featured divisive CRT themes and unresolvable accusations of “systemic racism” or “white supremacy.” The demoralizing sessions diverted 5.3 million man-hours from normal operations, but investigators found fewer than 100 extremists among 2 million servicemembers.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., and other lawmakers have received hundreds of messages and reports of “egregiously inappropriate” CRT training sessions. Judicial Watch obtained numerous documents confirming CRT indoctrination at West Point and is suing for more from the Naval Academy.

Record Amounts of Fentanyl Entering the U.S. Via Mexio, 323% Spike in one Border Region

September 7, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Judicial Watch

American federal agents have seized more than 10,500 pounds of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl along the Mexican border this fiscal year with one U.S. border region seeing an astounding 323% increase in the last three years. The most recent Customs and Border Protection (CBP) figures also show that more than 148,000 pounds of methamphetamine, 54,000 pounds of cocaine, and 1,500 pounds of heroin have also been seized this fiscal year which ends in September. At this rate fentanyl is set to surpass last year’s seizures of 11,203 pounds, a stark reminder that illegal immigration is hardly the only threat along the southwest border.

CBP’s Air and Marine Operations (AMO) already shattered last year’s fentanyl record, snatching 1,108 pounds compared to 786 in all of 2021. The CBP division has about 1,800 federal agents, 240 aircraft and 300 marine vessels. The maritime and aviation law enforcement branch has also confiscated more than 151,000 pounds of cocaine, 51,000 pounds of marijuana 7,300 pounds of methamphetamines and 373 pounds of heroin this year. The record loads of fentanyl smuggled into the U.S. by Mexican drug cartels are especially worrisome because the synthetic opioid is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 more potent than morphine, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the federal agency of around 10,000 charged with enforcing the nation’s controlled substances laws and regulations. “Fentanyl is the single deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said recently. “From large cities to rural America, no community is safe from the presence of fentanyl.”

The agency also warns that Mexican drug cartels are driving up addiction among kids and young adults with “rainbow fentanyl,” pills and powder that come in bright colors and shapes similar to candy and blocks that resemble sidewalk chalk. Just a few weeks ago, federal agents in the Nogales, Arizona port of entry seized more than 15,000 colored fentanyl pills “with the appearance of candy.” CBP Nogales Director Michael Humphries said the candy appearance is a trend that targets youth. Most of the nation’s 107,622 drug overdoses in 2021 involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl, according to the Centers of Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC). The DEA says the majority of fentanyl in the U.S. is supplied by Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

Border crossings in San Diego take the prize, earning the region the title of “national epicenter for fentanyl trafficking.” More deadly fentanyl is being confiscated by border agents in the area than at any of the nation’s more than 300 ports of entry, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). A few weeks ago the agency disclosed that in the first nine months of fiscal year 2022 (October through June), CBP seized 5,091 pounds of fentanyl, which at the time amounted to about 60% of the 8,425 pounds of fentanyl seized around the entire U.S. The seizures involved ports of entry in San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, Tecate Andrade, Calexico, Imperial Beach, Chula Vista Brown Field El Cajon, Campo, Boulevard, San Clemente and Murietta. The area’s top federal prosecutor said the “amount of fentanyl we are seizing at the border is staggering,” and that the number of fentanyl-related deaths in his district is unprecedented.

The U.S. government has long documented that Mexican drug cartels are the greatest criminal threat to the country. Federal authorities classify them as Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO) and not even a global pandemic could slow them down. Cartels found a way to adjust to restrictions imposed by COVID-19 to flood the country with illicit drugs. Huge loads still reached communities around the nation as deaths and seizures rose sharply and Mexican TCO’s increased drug availability, according to the DEA’s National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA). Nine Mexican TCOs have the greatest drug trafficking impact on the U.S., according to the DEA. Among them are the Sinaloa and Juárez cartels, Los Zetas, La Familia Michoacána, Los Rojos and Guerreros Unidos. The TCOs maintain drug distribution cells in cities across the U.S. that report to leaders in Mexico and dominate the nation’s drug market. In a Homeland Threat Assessment the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) explains that Mexican cartels pose the greatest threat to the U.S. because of their ability to control territory and co-opt parts of government, particularly at a state and local level. “They represent an acute and devastating threat to public health and safety in the Homeland and a significant threat to U.S. national security interests,” the DHS writes in the document.

The post Record Amounts of Fentanyl Entering the U.S. Via Mexio, 323% Spike in one Border Region appeared first on Judicial Watch.

Jarrett blasts ‘feeble and anemic’ DOJ filing in Trump special-master case

September 1, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Judicial Watch

From Fox News:

Critics have also pointed to a 2012 federal court case brought by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch in which Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled denied access to White House audiotapes President Clinton kept in his sock drawer. The court ruled the records then belonged to Clinton, and Berman Jackson denied the National Archives access to them.

Despite Record Pain at the Pump — Joe Biden Blocks Oil Drilling on Millions of Acres of US Land

April 26, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: Gateway Pundit, THE NEWS

Gas prices have doubled since Joe Biden was “elected” president in November 2020.

Gas on Tuesday reached $4.13 per gallon which is still over the previous record all-time high before Joe Biden became president.

Despite the record pain at the pump, Joe Biden blocked oil drilling on millions of acres of US land on Monday.

The Daily Caller reported:

The Biden administration reversed a Trump-era policy Monday that massively expanded the area available for fossil fuel leasing even as gasoline prices remained near an all-time high.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a record of decision, reducing the land available for energy leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) to its level set in 2013. In June 2020, former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt finalized a decision allowing 18.6 million acres, or 82%, of the NPR-A’s subsurface estate to be open for oil and gas leasing.

The average price of gasoline nationwide increased to $4.13 per gallon on Tuesday, remaining near its all-time high, according to AAA data. Pump prices have surged throughout President Joe Biden’s first 15 months in office.

“Today’s decision ensures the NPR-A will be managed consistent with the 2013 [Integrated Activity Plan], while including certain more protective lease stipulations and operating procedures for threatened and endangered species … confirmed through consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service,” the BLM said in its announcement Monday.

The post Despite Record Pain at the Pump — Joe Biden Blocks Oil Drilling on Millions of Acres of US Land appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Seriously? Leftists now complain Twitter could influence elections

April 26, 2022 Ogghy Filed Under: THE NEWS, WND

Leftists who have benefited for years from the suppression of conservative voices by social media – including Twitter – now are alarmed that social media could be used to suppress their chosen opinions.

The abrupt change has come about because of Tesla chief Elon Musk’s purchase of all of Twitter in a multi-billion dollar deal that will take months to finish.

But for years already social-media corporations like Twitter, Facebook, and others have been in the business of calling conservative opinion “disinformation” and suppressing it.

Social media, and specifically Twitter, did just that with the New York Post’s revelations of the Biden family’s international business scandals just days before the 2020 election.

A subsequent survey revealed that had that information, now widely regarded as true and very damaging to the Biden empire, been more widely distributed, Joe Biden would have lost the election.

But it wasn’t distributed. It was suppressed.

One of the leftists now experiencing a meltdown because Musk, who has stated his advocacy for free speech, might be in the mood to apply that standard to Twitter as he takes control, is Ari Melber on MSNBC.

He complained, “If you own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you, you don’t have to explain yourself, you don’t even have to be transparent, you could secretly ban one party’s candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees. Or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it til after the election.”

And that, more or less, brought a chuckle from constitutional expert, commentator and law professor Jonathan Turley.

Melber’s comments, he explained, “seemed almost a clinical (if not comical) example of transference. Melber warns that Elon Musk might actually use Twitter to ‘secretly ban’ or ‘turn down the reach’ of a political party or candidate.”

He continued, “That is apparently worse than Twitter openly banning candidates and suspending accounts of conservatives for years. Melber is warning the left that Twitter could be used against them . . . the way it has been used against their opponents.”

Turley pointed out such a “secret ban” on conservatives is “precisely what Twitter has been doing without a whimper of objection from most pundits on the left.”

Melber’s comments:

Turley added, “Melber actually warns that Musk might secretly ban political figures while warning that Donald Trump will have his ban lifted by Musk. While Trump said that he will not return to Twitter, Melber is worried that he could be allowed to tweet again.”

But he commented, “None of this was a threat to democracy when Twitter was suspending dozens of political figures and commentators, including the president of the United States. However, now it is dire as Musk threatens to restore free speech protections to the platform.”

When Melber complained that while there are regulations concerning the joint ownership of television or radio stations in a single market, there’s no rule against owning “ALL of Twitter,” Turley explained, “So media figures are calling for government regulation of media after the first major victory against corporate censorship. Musk may prove a fraud or he prove a champion of free speech. Yet, it is hard to see the downside given the massive censorship system now imposed across social media. There remain media figures who would prefer censorship to the outbreak of free speech.”

Content created by the WND News Center is available for re-publication without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact licensing@wndnewscenter.org.

SUPPORT TRUTHFUL JOURNALISM. MAKE A DONATION TO THE NONPROFIT WND NEWS CENTER. THANK YOU!

The post Seriously? Leftists now complain Twitter could influence elections appeared first on WND.