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-Lurid Crime Tales-
More Seth Rich Case Details, With Timeline That Offers Breadcrumbs Leading To The Nexus Of The Whole Russiagate Fiasco?
[AmericanThinker]
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  He was alive when they found him. What did he tell the coppers about the Clinton assassin?
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/04/2022 5:51 Comments || Top||

#2  You know, if you leave a solid-state disk drive without power for a couple of years, it kind of erases itself.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/04/2022 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ I had not even imagined that as an explanation, but now it seems obvious.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/04/2022 14:14 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Lawfare: Trump files $475m defamation suit against CNN over coverage since 2020 election
[IsraelTimes] Former US president suggests he may act against Congressional committee investigating January 6 attack on capitol by Trump supporters

Former US president Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
sued CNN
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Go for it. One of the few GOPers with any balls whatsoever.

We looked for Lindy Grahamcrackers for comment. His office replied, "Lindy and Billy Barr are under his desk and will not come out until later this week".
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/04/2022 5:57 Comments || Top||

#2  The damage to the country was a hell of a lot more than $475M. Multiply by 10 and it is somewhere in the ballpark parking lot.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/04/2022 6:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Need a legal vehicle to overturn the current SCOTUS ruling on libel. The 14th says we have equal standing before the law, their ruling is in direct contradiction to that making public and private persons different categories which the media destroys by making anyone they malign 'public'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/04/2022 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4 

When any Social Media and/or the MSM deliberately falsely accuses, censors, edits to cast a different from meant statement, slanders a person to protect a political or cultural agenda. They are NO LONGER the People's Press. They are engaged in a conspiracy to violate a person rights and reputation.

All of which cause harm and financial loses and lost of future income opportunities.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/04/2022 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Trump elevates Mar-a-Lago raid legal battle to Supreme Court
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/04/2022 22:56 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Trump staffers not returning White House records: National Archives
How dare they expect the same treatment as if they were Democrats!
[Dawn] Former President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
’s administration has not turned over all presidential records and the National Archives will consult with the Justice Department on whether to move to get them back, the agency has told Congress.
If at first you don’t succeed...
A congressional panel on Sept 13 sought an urgent review by the National Archives and Records Administration after agency staff members acknowledged that they did not know if all presidential records from Trump’s White House had been turned over.

"While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should," acting Archivist Debra Wall said in a letter Friday to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

The Archives knows some White House staffers conducted official business on personal electronic messaging accounts that were that were not copied or forwarded to their official accounts, in violation of the Presidential Records Act, Wall said.

"NARA has been able to obtain such records from a number of former officials and will continue to pursue the return of similar types of presidential records from former officials," Wall said in the letter, first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

She said the Archives, the federal agency charged with preserving government records, would consult with the Department of Justice on "whether to initiate an action for the recovery of records unlawfully removed." The Oversight Committee shared a copy of the letter with Rooters but has not issued a statement on it yet.

Representatives for Trump did not immediately return a request for comment on the matter.

Trump is facing a criminal investigation by the Justice Department for retaining government records — some marked as highly classified, including "top secret" — at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving office in January 2021. The FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
seized more than 11,000 records, including about 100 documents marked as classified, in a court-approved Aug 8 search at Mar-a-Lago.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remember this crap?

"National Archives’ Racism Task Force Labels Own Rotunda Example of ‘Structural Racism’"

The National Archives' task force on racism claimed in a little-noticed report to the U.S.’s top librarian that the Archives' own Rotunda – which houses the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights – is an example of "structural racism" and that the Founding Fathers and other White, historically impactful Americans are portrayed too positively.

National Archivist David Ferriero commissioned the task force in response to George Floyd's death last year, the report notes. Ferriero has served in the position since 2009, after he was nominated by former President Obama and confirmed by the Senate. The position has an indefinite term length.

NARA did not respond to Fox News' request for comment.

Posted by: Woodrow || 10/04/2022 5:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Now this freak is in charge

Debra Steidel Wall is an American archivist serving as the acting archivist of the United States, the head of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Debra Steidel Wall, NARA's acting archivist, told staff members that in the wake of actions taken by the agency in seeking Trump's presidential records, NARA has received messages from the public accusing the National Archives of being anti-Trump or congratulating the agency for "bringing him down," and that "neither is accurate or welcome.” The email was reportedly sent by Wall on Aug. 24 and first obtained by the Washington Post.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/04/2022 5:49 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Just actions should require no defense. They should be well obvious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/04/2022 7:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Did they check Sandy Berger’s skivvies?
Posted by: Fleting Thud8013 || 10/04/2022 8:01 Comments || Top||

#5  "neither is accurate or welcome.”
Perhaps the archives needs new leadership if they can't see the blatantly partisanship in the decision.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/04/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Bombshell Texts Show Milwaukee Mayor Colluding With Democrats To Rig 2022 Election
[Federalist] Texts between city officials and leftist nonprofit workers indicate that the city of Milwaukee is working to "fortify" the 2022 midterms.

We now know that Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson and his staff are coordinating with Democratic Party operatives in a sweeping get-out-the-vote campaign. Why? Because they tell us in private text messages.

As Empower Wisconsin first reported on Wednesday, communications obtained in an open records request to the city by state Rep. Janel Brandtjen (R-Menomonee Falls) show longtime Democratic Party operative Sachin Chheda telling Johnson and his staff what to say about the Wisconsin Votes 2022 get-out-the-vote campaign. The effort is being funded by a left-wing activist group with close ties to the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), a leftist nonprofit funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

While city officials, under the direction of Chheda, have said Milwaukee is not receiving any private funding for the effort, two things are clear: The mayor’s office is taking orders from Democratic Party operatives, and the city of Milwaukee is coordinating with left-wing groups in what looks like an expensive effort to influence the outcome of November’s election.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 || 10/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Paging bill barr.....?

Fat bag of treason.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/04/2022 5:52 Comments || Top||

#2  It's a very small community, Washington. Barr knew. They all knew. As far as that UNIPARTY is concerned, Trump was and remains the ultimate scab, the ultimate strike breaker.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/04/2022 7:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Johnson has been 'Acting Mayor' (he was formerly Milwaukee Common Council President) since former mayor Tom Barrett was given the cushy job as ambassadorship to Luxembourg in recognition for his years of keeping Milwaukee resoundingly Blue (by hook or by crook).

Mr. Johnson was just carrying on the tradition, but wasn't wise enough to cover all his tracks.

Of course nothing bad will happen to any of the players from this bit of interplay anyway.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/04/2022 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Hang 'em all
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/04/2022 11:10 Comments || Top||


Inspector General: $46 Billion In ‘Covid' Unemployment Subsidies Probably Went To Fraudsters
[Federalist] The Labor Department inspector general noted the Biden administration keeps slow-walking efforts to help fight fraud.

Haley Joel Osment sees dead people. Government officials give them welfare benefits.

That conclusion comes from a report recently released by the Labor Department’s inspector general, providing an update on its investigations of pandemic-related unemployment fraud. Unfortunately, the document provides only the tip of the proverbial iceberg, both in identifying the scope of the problem and holding fraudsters to account.

$46 BILLION DOWN THE DRAIN
The inspector general report updated earlier documents quantifying the scope of potentially fraudulent unemployment insurance payments made during the pandemic. Specifically, the office examined four types of potential fraud: claims 1) filed in multiple states; 2) made in the name of deceased individuals; 3) using suspicious email accounts; or 4) filed by federal prisoners.

strong>LITTLE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR FRAUDSTERS
A press release accompanying the report hinted at the massive nature of the fraud. A few sentences discussed efforts to hold scammers to account:

With less than 140 criminal investigators, the [inspector general] leveraged data analytics to direct its limited resources to those matters that pose the greatest risk to the [unemployment insurance] program. The [inspector general] is focusing on large-scale identity theft schemes involving multiple victims and organized criminal groups, including street gangs.

In other words, if someone doesn’t belong to a gang, or “only” submitted fraudulent claims for a few thousand dollars (or even tens of thousands of dollars), he’s not going to get prosecuted.

The press release attempted to praise prosecutors for charging 1,000 individuals, and obtaining convictions that “have resulted in more than 7,000 months” — about 583 years — “of incarceration.” But given that investigators identified nearly $46 billion in fraud, the amount of accountability seems massively outweighed by the scale of the original crimes.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Not to be confused with the cycle of funding by Congress to entities that then drop monies into reelection campaigns.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/04/2022 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Most of this was from funds made available by the CARES Act of 2020 under the Trump Administration.

The guidance given with that act stressed the importance of expediting the payments of subsidies.

Whoever did that (I supposed OMB) massively overestimated the ability of States to administer the funds both correctly without risk.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/04/2022 16:07 Comments || Top||

#3  keeps slow-walking efforts to help fight fraud.

Can you say Hunter Biden boys and girls? I bet you can.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/04/2022 16:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Wonder how many fraudsters are distantly connected to folks in Washington. How many kick back a bit of the fraud to the big guy, that sort of thing.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/04/2022 20:51 Comments || Top||




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