[Breitbart] Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) used her first vote in the United States Senate to expose the ESG agenda of President Joe Biden’s nominee to be Assistant Secretary for Energy, Installations and Environment in the Defense Department.
Britt voted “no” in her first vote as a senator on Monday night to oppose Brendan Owens’s nomination to serve as Assistant Secretary for Energy, Installations and Environment in the Defense Department due to his support from the radical environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policy movement.
“The Biden Administration has consistently prioritized their reckless leftwing political agenda to the detriment of our military readiness,” Britt said in a statement following her vote in opposition to Biden’s push for radical policies in the Pentagon.
On Monday, Daily Signal’s Samantha Aschieris revealed some of Owens’s former “environment” work history. Some of his previous work experience has involved being “focused on the places where systems in the built environment intersect and interact” and “delivering equity, health and decarbonization.” That's some Kamala-level gobbledygook and word salad
“This nominee would simply be the tip of the spear in continuing President Biden’s radical ‘Green New Deal’ priorities at the Department of Defense,” she continued. The Defense Department “should be focused on ensuring our incredible men and women in uniform are the best equipped, resourced, and trained in the world.”
The Daily Signal’s report also noted his LinkedIn bio describes him as “working for equity, human health and climate” and his “About” page indicates that he is “passionate about green buildings, market transformation and programs that enable people and companies to decarbonize and create an equitable and healthy world.”
“We achieve peace through strength, not wokeness. The last thing we need is a DOD appointee from the ESG movement,” Britt added.
Biden nominated Owens almost a year ago on March 11. Despite Britt’s “no” vote, Owens was confirmed with a 60 to 35 margin.
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Military background? From 1997 to 2002, Owens worked as an engineer for SpecPro Inc., an engineering firm based in San Antonio. From 2002 to 2019, he was the vice president of the U.S. Green Building Council for LEED technical development. Since 2019, he has worked as the chief of innovation for ecountabl, a technology company. He is also a principal at Black Vest Strategy, a consulting firm.
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Military background? Update: The U.S. Senate confirmed Brendan Owens --Owens received 60 “yea” and 35 “nay” votes.
The following Republicans voted to confirm Owens: Sens. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, John Cornyn of Texas, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Mitt Romney of Utah, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and Todd Young of Indiana.
From 1997 to 2002, Owens worked as an engineer for SpecPro Inc., an engineering firm based in San Antonio. From 2002 to 2019, he was the vice president of the U.S. Green Building Council for LEED technical development. Since 2019, he has worked as the chief of innovation for ecountabl, a technology company. He is also a principal at Black Vest Strategy, a consulting firm.
[Hot Air] By this point, the troves of classified documents turning up at multiple locations where Joe Biden lived or worked has reached the point where even MSNBC feels obligated to cover it. (Albeit while continually shrieking that the Bad Orange Man is still far worse.) Some of his top aides are bailing out like rats leaving a sinking ship. And having the FBI show up at his home in Delaware and discover even more documents after Biden’s own lawyers supposedly scrubbed the place should have been the coup de grâce, right? Who would rush in at this point to rescue Biden’s battered reputation?
Never fear! The Associated Press rides to the rescue this week, declaring that the FBI search was actually a brilliant part of Biden’s "strategy" to put this all behind him. They’re describing it as "a legal and political calculation" that will "pay off in the long run."
President Joe Biden’s decision allowing the FBI to search his home in Delaware last week is laying him open to fresh negative attention and embarrassment following the earlier discoveries of classified documents at that home and a former office. But it’s a legal and political calculation that aides hope will pay off in the long run as he prepares to seek reelection.
The remarkable, nearly 13-hour search by FBI agents of the sitting president’s Wilmington home is the latest political black eye for Biden, who promised to restore propriety to the office after the tumultuous tenure of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
There are a couple more notable revelations in this report. First, a White House spokesperson confirmed this week that "Biden’s own attorneys invited the FBI to conduct the search." So it was never a "raid" to begin with. Biden’s team "invited" the FBI to come and search the house. Without that invitation, the Bureau would never have shown up, to say nothing of kicking down the doors as they did at Mar-A-Lago.
But if that’s the case, how did the FBI manage to find six more classified documents after Biden’s lawyers combed through the place for days? Are they really that bad at conducting a search or were those documents left there for a reason? And if it’s the latter, was the reason to help Biden or to try to usher him out the door more quickly?
Getting back to Biden’s brilliant "strategy," the AP goes on to say that Uncle Joe "is aiming to show that, unlike Trump, he never intended to retain classified materials." This is supposedly going to be "a key distinction that experts say diminishes the risks of criminal liability."
Okay. So the President never intended to retain classified materials at his home or office. So how did the documents get there? Did they stick to the seat of his pants as he was leaving for the day, only to conveniently be blown free by the wind and land in some boxes next to his Corvette? Or does he plan to claim that someone else on his staff removed the documents and he had no idea it was being done? If so, that’s potentially even worse because the "somebody else" in question very likely didn’t have anywhere near the clearance level required to look at the documents, to say nothing of taking them out of the building and sticking them in his garage.
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It’s a demonstration of total incompetence. When you have months to clean up a crime scene and they still find documents, you suck at corruption. I could understand if the feds were sweeping for DNA and something got missed especially in Hunter’s case, but they are looking for paper documents. They are not even seizing computers, lap tops or phones. The documents they should have found were stamped with their classification levels. As we can tell from Hunter’s laptop, we are not dealing with criminal masterminds.
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Like in Pulp Fiction, calling The Wolf?
Exactly. You want somebody you can trust to clean up the mess.
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[Redstate] Tucker Carlson and New York Post columnist Miranda Devine are raising new questions in the wake of now five different tranches of classified documents being found in Joe Biden’s home and at the Penn-Biden Center.
Part of the problem is what’s in those documents — if those documents pertain to Ukraine and things that involved Joe Biden’s family, that could be a big problem if he was taking documents to cover up things related to his family. We do know that some of the documents found at the Penn Biden Center were documents related to Ukraine, dated between 2013 and 2016 at the time Hunter Biden was most active in Burisma and Joe Biden was the point man on Ukraine.
Tucker Carlson highlighted a new email that had been found by Miranda Devine on the infamous laptop which they both believed was an indication of the use of classified information.
As Carlson notes, it reads like it’s written by someone from the State Department with what the U.S. position would be laid out, for example, predicting an escalation of Russia’s “destabilization campaign, which could lead to a full-scale takeover of the eastern region, most critically Donetsk.”
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Little wonder the FBI sat on the 'smoking gun' laptop for over two years, denying it's existence.
* Did the FBI courier the classified documents to the Delaware residence? Did some other gov't agency (OGA) conduct the courier duties ?
* Had classified documents been downloaded to the laptop? Had classified documents or classified information been forwarded on the laptop.
* Did Hunter transmit email from the Delaware residence? Did he use a USG account or web service provider, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. ?
* Were topical or 'drop site' or 'personal meet (PM)' instructions found on the laptop?
* Were banking transactions or monetary transfers conducted on the laptop? Were narcotics transactions, banking and or accounting data, or other potential criminal activity conducted on the laptop?
* Were email messages to or from foreign contacts and overseas internet providers found on the laptop?
* Was the 'big guy' info copied (CC or BCC) on any email from the laptop?
* If the laptop contained foreign contacts, was the 'big guy' info-copied?
Was anyone else (foreign or US Person) info-copied (CC or BCC) ?
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In a court of law the email is not proof. In a court of reality the email and all of the accompanying circumstances mean that the Bidens are guilty. The probability that Joe was/is not engaged in trading on his office in general and leveraging classified information in particular is infinitesimally small. It approaches zero and/or the value of the odds that Nancy Pelosi is not using Congressional info for stock trading.
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I woukd argue that outside of a DC Courtroom, the email matched up with the source classified document Would convince a jury of guilt. The Tucker presentation of the specific email was perfectly presented. The text style and form were so alien to everything else Hunter wrote, it was clear it was lifted from an analysis document from the government. For me, it is the smoking gun to use to rip this festering mess wide open, or demonstrate that there is only law for the plebs, especially the white, conservative ones!
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It will be in a DC court. He will be found innocent. They will argue that he may have sat in on a classified briefing with his dad because he planned to travel with the VP. The fact that the briefing would be illegal will not be brought up. Neither will the fact that transmitting the contents of a classified briefing to a Buddy via regular email would also be illegal. Joy Behar will declare victory. Legally Blonde will prove to be a closer approximation of real juris prudence as compared whatever DC court that hosts this debacle of justice.
In a real court of law the prosecutor’s investigators would search the database of classified documents and find the document that Hunter cribbed. There would be a plea deal. Joe would then pardon Hunter. The end state is pretty much the same.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] *snicker* Troll level 10.
The PELOSI Act would give members and their spouses six months after first assuming office to divest any holdings or put them in a blind trust
Any members found in violation of the bill would have to 'return their profits to American taxpayers'
Also on Tuesday Hawley announced he would introduce legislation likely to be less popular with the American public - a bill that would ban TikTok nationwide
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Don't ya love how the Republicans push forward legislation like this when it won't pass in the Senate or get signed into law? Makes ya wonder why they don't when they do have the power to pass them...
#6
I don't know what she is doing or if she knows something we don't but San Fran Nan has been selling stocks at a loss. Several millions of dollars. he former Speaker sold a total of 2,000 shares of Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) from two separate transactions, one dated Dec. 29 and the other Dec. 30. In the first transaction, Pelosi sold at a loss of $66,385 while losing $63,535 in the second. Pelosi dumped 5,000 shares of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) at an average share price of $140.38. The total loss came out to $511,197. As well, she targeted fellow blue-chip giant Disney (NYSE:DIS), exiting 10,000 shares at an average price of $87.58. This transaction resulted in a loss of $114,138. the former Speaker sold a total of 10,000 shares of PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) on two transactions: one dated Dec. 21 and the other dated Dec. 28. In total, the transactions featured a value range between $500,002 and $1 million. Pelosi lost $424,313 in the first transaction and $429,938 in the second.
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^ Prolly liquidating to have Paul's lover assailant plead guilty for $
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All politicians and family must devest themselves of all stocks during their term in office plus one decade and make it illegal for them to work as lobbyists for the same duration.
Pass that and watch the number of folks fighting for their seat at the Washington feeding trough dry up.
#9
What #s 1 and 3 said. This is political theater that will likely go nowhere. Perhaps it will wake up more to the corruption that goes on with their duly-elected [I use the term elected very loosely]. The name of the bill, The Pelosi Act is a slap in her face. Might as well add on to the bill a provision for term limits.
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Make them invest in something that mirrors the S&P so they can feel our pain in a painful manner that feels like real pain before we de-elect them.
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Make the Democrats vote on it and then use their "no" votes against them in the next election.
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@#3 - Hmmm, and funny how the Dems had control of Congress sometime over 49 years and never seemed to legislate any kind of abortion rights. A political football used buy both wings of that rapacious bird.
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This is not a repeat of what the Dems did. These clowns were removed for cause and because they were security risks. More of that should be done but the committees do need some members.
Did Pelosi end up with committee assignments? I imagine they would be good ones. Maybe speaker emeritus status is an opportunity to write your memoir.
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Like Tucker said, Swalwell was sleeping with a Chinese spy so he's compromised and has no business anywhere near the intel committee.
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Like Tucker said, Swalwell was sleeping with a Chinese spy so he's compromised and has no business anywhere near the intel committee.
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