[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a House hearing Wednesday he did not know whether there were government informants present at the Capitol on January 6 – after a former top FBI official testified there were informants there and the feds had to scramble to determine how many.
Garland repeated his answer when getting grilled by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
Massie asked the AG how many government agents or assets were present on or around January 6, also referencing his own earlier inquiry about people 'agitating in the crowd.'
'I don't know the answer to that question,' Garland replied.
'You don't know how many there were, or there were none,' Massie pressed.
'I don't know the answer to either of those questions. If there were any, I don't know how many. I don't know whether there are any,' Garland said.
'I think you may have just perjured your self,' said Massie, who is the subject of a documentary about the Kentucky farm where he lives off the grid.
'You want to say that again, that you don't know that there were any?'
'I have no personal knowledge on this matter,' Garland proceeded.
Then, Massie brought up a conspiracy theory about Ray Epps, who sued Fox News for defamation over claims he was a government agent.
Massie then brought up Epps' indictment on a misdemeanor charge, calling it a 'joke' at a time when he said Garland and the DOJ are 'sending grandmas to prison.'
He then went on to complain about some of the sentences handed down for people convicted of taking part in the riot at the Capitol when lawmakers gathered to count the electoral votes.
He also referenced the 22-year sentence of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was arrested before January 6 for burning a church Black Lives Matter banner, and who wasn't at the Capitol.
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Donald Trump loyalist who may force a vote to try to take down Speaker Kevin McCarthy, also hammered Garland on January 6 – but did so after a clash over China, and didn't end up getting an answer.
#8
Likely that every time the numbers came up in a meeting, Garland said 'don't tell me'.
Seems possible that everyone not charged was a ringer. Possibly some who were. Look at Epps.
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Blue on blue, possibly with sense erupting.
[FoxNews] Sacramento district attorney brings lawsuit over city's 'descent into decay,' as homelessness exploded by over 250%.
A Democratic district attorney in California is suing the Democrat-led city of Sacramento for allowing homeless conditions to devolve into squalor akin to a "Third World country."
At a press conference Tuesday, Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho announced that his office had filed a civil lawsuit alleging that the city of Sacramento violated California civic code, specifically that it "allowed, created and enabled a public safety crisis regarding our unhoused."
"In the last 7 years, Sacramento’s unhoused population has exploded by over 250%," the lawsuit says. "There are more homeless people in Sacramento than San Francisco. Our community is at a breaking point. We have an unhoused population living in conditions typical of Third World countries. And we have the rest of the community stuck between compassion and chaos."
"How did we get here? We are stuck in this never-ending Groundhog’s Day loop where nothing gets better and nothing improves," Ho said at the press conference. "Enough is enough."
The lawsuit says both Judge Michael Bowman and District Attorney Ho wrote letters to the city of Sacramento in late June sounding the alarm to how the growing homeless encampment and tents within a three-block radius of the courthouse encroach on the community’s access to justice.
Daily incidents include physical and verbal assault, public sex acts, open fires, nudity, urinating and defecating on walkways, the complaint claims; all of which, Ho says, threaten the safety of jurors, victims and witnesses during ongoing trials, as homeless people engage in "erratic and violent behavior."
In response, Mayor Darrell Steinberg assured he was working with the city manager to open up the "Miller Park Safe Camping" within two weeks, yet the situation has continued to deteriorate, the lawsuit says.
"That was almost 3 months ago, and since then things have only worsened," the lawsuit says. "A court reporter was assaulted, another DA employee was threatened, and a woman was sexually harassed and forced to hide in the bathroom of a G Street Café."
Ho said his office sent out a survey in July asking the community to describe how 16 major homeless encampments in the city of Sacramento impacted quality of life.
"The responses were heart-wrenching," Ho said, of the nearly 3,000 responses. "I ask the city to extend the same protections they give to themselves to the rest of us."
Residents reported they had been assaulted at gunpoint by homeless individuals, a girl’s soccer game was postponed due to hypodermic needles, and a homeowner was diagnosed with PTSD due to constant harassment and break-ins by homeless people from the encampment across the street.
Survey respondents reported children having to walk through human feces to get to school and some residents claimed that their calls to City Hall for help were either unanswered or met with "comments from elected leaders chastising them for seeking help and directing them to be ‘thankful’ for being housed," the suit says.
The complaint says the Sacramento Police Department is not issuing citations for unlawful camping storage, sidewalk obstruction or any other code violations to laws already on the books regarding homeless encampment, meaning the city’s enforcement is not just inconsistent, but "non-existent." Ho questioned if there was a mandate from City Hall to stop law enforcement from enforcing the law or if "there are procedures and policies that City Hall puts in place to inhibit and obstruct the police."
"Seven years into this descent into decay, seven years into this collapse into chaos, we have an erosion into everyday life. An erosion into everyday life where we forget what it feels like to be safe," he said. "It’s not compassionate to let someone sire in the sweltering summer sun or freeze to death in the cold winter night."
Among the city’s chronically homeless population, meaning individuals who have been homeless for more than a year, nine out of 10 women have been victims of sexual assault, while eight out of 10 of the chronically homeless suffer from mental health disorders or drug addictions, the lawsuit says. The complaint stresses that the city has been planning an audit of the millions of dollars spent on the homeless crisis for an accounting of which programs have been successful with so far little to nothing to show.
Ho had threatened in August to file charges against city officials if they didn’t implement changes within 30 days. In a letter to the city, Ho demanded that Sacramento implement a daytime camping ban where homeless people have to put their belongings in storage between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m., among other rules.
In response to the lawsuit Tuesday, City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood said in a statement, "It sadly appears the DA would rather point fingers and cast blame than partner to achieve meaningful solutions for our community," according to The Associated Press.
Steinberg condemned Ho’s "performative distraction," adding that people’s frustrations about the crisis were still "absolutely justified."
The mayor said the city has added 1,200 emergency shelter beds, passed ordinances to protect sidewalks and schools and has created more affordable housing while trying to avoid "the futile trap of just moving people endlessly from one block to the next."
"The city needs real partnership from the region’s leaders, not politics and lawsuits," he said.
#3
A partnership of stupid people is unlikely to resolve any issue in a constructive manner. I agree with the mayor that suing ignorant and corrupt mayors is equally unlikely to resolve a situation that they are too stupid to solve in the first place. Next time elect a mayor that has an IQ above moron level and some leadership. You can’t turn a bagel into a donut with a law suit.
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#5
Democrats will never solve the homeless problem because there is too much money to be made from it. You have the "housing first" scams, the "homeless outreach" programs and now Newsom's latest ruse the "Care court" funded by the state's $15.3 billion budget for "tackling the homeless problem". The hell of it is that they're taking all this money from taxpayers like me.
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#8
If you ask AI to give a recommendation to reduce the homeless based on successful strategies throughout world history, you’re going to get work camps, forced organ harvesting or arming gangs with gasoline and lighters. Hopefully, they don’t implement any of the AI solutions after the current plan being promulgated in the UN makes us all homeless.
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#9
There is an unwillingness on both sides of the political spectrum to grasp that there are people who prefer not to deal with high rents or mortgages and to be generally disconnected from the society around them. Minimal participation with minimal input in. They'll be more than happy to take what you give free but they will not work for it. They want no responsibility, sort of like politicians. At least unlike politicians they usually don't use 'taxes' to rob us.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Stanford doctor silenced for challenging Biden administration lockdown policies said the government infringed on his first amendment rights.
A federal court ruled earlier this month that the Biden Administration coerced social media sites to censor him and other dissenters who wrote a controversial petition that criticized government efforts to shut down the economy, including schools.
Dr Jay Bhattacharya, an epidemiologist and health policy researcher said the ruling was ‘akin to the second Enlightenment’.
He was named in a lawsuit as one of the Covid-19 epidemiologists whose Twitter and Facebook accounts were scrubbed and removed from Google results during the pandemic.
The Louisiana appeals court that heard the case determined that the Biden administration wrongfully pressured social media companies to silence critics, though it was narrowed from an earlier lower court ruling by Trump-appointed judge Terry Doughty, who banned the administration from contacting social media companies.
Drs Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University were the main authors of the Great Barrington Declaration.
[Breitbart] On Monday, Cruz discussed the possibility that Biden will not be the nominee for the Democrat Party in the upcoming election on his podcast, "Verdict with Ted Cruz," noting that the odds of such a scenario have "risen significantly" given that Democrats are now "nervous." Nahhhhh. It'd be too much like work for Big Mike
I wonder if the real hang up here is Barry wanting to remain rather anonymous in his lifestyle and business, and the kiddos..put delicately as they are still young...have been enjoying the good life?
#6
That might have worked in 2016. Nowdays people are much more divided, pissed off and tired of being lectured too. Michelle is such a rude and condescending bitch that she would still lose to Trump.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
