[NYPOST] The Virginia city councilman who was set ablaze by a maniac in a ruthless personal attack faces a ''long, painful and uncertain recovery'' as he remains hospitalized with gruesome burns covering more than half his body.
Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler, 38, is currently in stable but critical condition at UNC Burn Clinic in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, according to a GoFundMe launched by the Republican politician's boss.
''His wife, Blair, and their children are by his side as he begins what will be a long, painful, and uncertain recovery,'' Andrew Brooks, publisher of Showcase Magazine, the monthly outlet where Vogler works as director of marketing, wrote on the online fundraising page.
''He faces multiple surgeries, an extended hospital stay, and months — if not years — of rehabilitation.''
Brooks said Danville's youngest-ever councilman will be out of work for the foreseeable future following the horrific Wednesday morning attack at the magazine's offices, which has left Vogler's two children deeply traumatized.
The four-term councilman suffered second- and third-degree burns covering up to 60% of his body, mostly on his torso, after alleged assailant Shotsie Michale Buck Hayes barged into Vogler's workplace, drenched him with a five-gallon jug of fuel, chased him outside and then torched him.
Vogler, who was elected to Danville's city council in May 2012 at age 24, identified his attacker at the scene — which the 29-year-old accused arsonist fled shortly after lighting the pol on fire.
Hayes, who was charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding, allegedly confessed to the sadistic attack, telling police ''it was his intention to kill'' Vogler, according to a criminal complaint obtained by ABC.
Police said the attack was not politically motivated, but was sparked by an undisclosed personal matter.
Reportedly Shotsie’s wife of only a few years recently filed for divorce. No word on if there is any connection to the councilman, but in photos dear Shotsie definitely has crazy eyes.
Vogler's distressed wife, Blair, said her ''fighter'' husband is facing his recovery with ''courage, determination, and an unbreakable spirit.''
''Our family is overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support we've received in just 24 hours,'' she said in a statement on the GoFundMe, which raised more than $50,000 to support Vogler's medical bills a day after it was created.
''We are deeply grateful for your prayers, messages, and generosity during this incredibly difficult time,'' she wrote. ''Knowing our community is standing with us means more than words can express, and it has given us strength when we need it most. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.''
#3
Still don’t understand the mechanism of the attack. I’ve been robbed at knifepoint but I would certainly fight back against someone dousing me from a 5 gallon Jerry can.
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Was in Danville recently. Locals who knew Vogler said he was a good guy. He had been seeing Hayes wife. Hayes was a Brit, not a local.
It seemed to me to be a crime of passion.
[Federalist] After declassified documents further exposed their roles in fomenting the baseless Trump-Russia collusion hoax, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are out with a new op-ed effectively trying to tell the public, "Don’t believe your lying eyes."
Published by The New York Times — a known co-conspirator in the hoax — the rambling screed from the former Obama intel chiefs represents a pathetic attempt to dismiss findings in recently disclosed records released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. In summary, the materials show there was no credible underlying intel demonstrating Russia wanted Donald Trump to win the 2016 election and that such falsehoods were forcibly shoehorned into the Obama team’s Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) at the behest of figures like Brennan.
Brennan and Clapper predictably use their op-ed to try and draw attention away from the bombshell findings. One way they attempt to do this is by citing a past Senate Intelligence Committee report on the drafting of the ICA, which claimed, "analysts were under no politically motivated pressure to reach specific conclusions." (That talking point was dismantled by The Federalist’s Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway in a recent episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour.")
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"NEW: CIA chief John Brennan had such tight control over his supersecret "fusion cell" task force he shut all but 3 of the 18 IC agencies out and forced its 15 members to convene in a SCIF inside CIA HQ & show special clearance tickets to see docs--and then made them all sign NDAs" https://x.com/paulsperry_/status/1951791917756518474
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They can plead the 5th on the stand, but their public statements are admissible. Strotz erased his public statements, but I doubt that they were uncaptured.
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Clean out the FBI and the Justice Department of those who did this, and nail the miscreants to the wall.
[FoxNews] Scavino, Patel, Clark claim FBI surveilled their Google accounts
Officials from the first Trump administration are alleging they received notices from Google shortly before they returned to office that they were being probed by the FBI under the Biden administration and the web giant was unable to tell them because of a court order.
Dan Scavino, who is now White House Deputy Chief of Staff and assistant to the president, described the matter as "Biden lawfare" kicking in after he "patriotically and proudly" served during Trump’s first term.
"Google received and responded to a legal process issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation compelling the release of information related to your Google account. A court order previously prohibited Google from notifying you of the legal process…" Scavino shared on X from an email he said he received from Google five weeks before Trump returned to the White House.
"I’ve never shared this — but this is a small taste of the INSANITY that many of us went through — right here in the United States of America. LAWFARE at its finest. A Complete and Total Disgrace!!!!!" he added.
Less than a half-hour after Scavino’s post, FBI Director Kash Patel responded to him saying "I got one of those too..."
Jeff Clark, the current acting administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, then chimed in Saturday morning, saying that he, too, received a similar message.
"Indeed, a whole Jack Smith team was assigned to go through my emails after there was a privilege review," Clark wrote on X in reference to the former special counsel.
"But that group of lawyers ignored my religious pastor privilege, marital privilege, and other privileges and basically shipped all they could to Jack Smith. But it still cost me tens of thousands to try to protect my communications," he added.
Smith was tapped by former Attorney General Merrick Garland to probe allegations that Trump sought to overturn the 2020 election results, and later investigated the handling of classified documents that were uncovered during a raid at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound.
"My medical records and other private communications had nothing to do with the 2020 election. They were no one’s business. But it didn’t matter to these thugs with law degrees and the willingness to abuse government power," Clark said Saturday.
"They were trying to bait me to go to court to get them to destroy their secret copies of the emails, so they could try to break even my lawyer-client privilege with President Trump. But my team and I didn’t fall for it," Clark also said. "Moreover, the whole thing was a blatant attempt to intimidate me. It didn’t work and I didn’t fold under the pressure."
The FBI did not immediately respond Saturday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
#1
Abolish the FBI as it currently stands. From a new investigative body & ensure no possible rogue FBI agent ever works for the USA again. For starters, anyway.
[FoxNews] The Oversight Project cited Wray's testimony in regard to the Richmond-FBI's anti-Catholic memo
A Washington-based government transparency watchdog has referred former FBI Director Christopher Wray to the Department of Justice and the FBI, urging a criminal investigation into allegations that he had made false statements to Congress
…is that legally the same a perjury, or something else, whether greater or lessor?
and obstructed proceedings in two high-profile cases.
Oversight Project President Mike Howell told Fox News Digital that the group is specifically asking officials to examine Wray's congressional testimony on the so-called Richmond memo from the FBI office in Virginia that exposed an anti-Catholic bias there, and his testimony about a Chinese plot to disseminate illicit driver’s licenses before the 2020 election.
In July 2023, Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the FBI-Richmond memo that had labeled Catholics as potential domestic threats.
"Well, what I can tell you is you’re referring to the Richmond product, which is a single product by a single field office, which as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems," Wray said.
The Oversight Project alleges that statement was ultimately misleading or false.
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., pressed Wray on the Richmond memo and so-called "Trump questionnaire," which was circulated at the FBI and asked about allegiance to the president and whether agents had attended any protests or rallies associated with the Jan. 6 Capitol Breach.
"We keep hearing about these ‘isolated examples’ whether it's Richmond Catholics, this [questionnaire] -- isn't it a pattern?" Tiffany asked.
The Oversight Project pointed to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles Grassley’s opening remarks from a June hearing on Biden-era "cover-ups," in which Grassley said the Richmond memo "used the shoddy research of the radical Southern Poverty Law Center to accuse traditional Catholics of being violent extremists."
"Based on records I released the other week, there wasn’t just one FBI document that used biased anti-Catholic sources, but over a dozen," Grassley said. The referral also notes that this remark by Grassley belies Wray’s testimony suggesting a one-off incident.
"And more FBI field offices were involved than we’d been led to believe," Grassley, R-Iowa, said.
A second Richmond memo similar to the first that went unreleased following the backlash was part of a partially redacted series of documents Grassley’s committee transmitted to FBI Director Kash Patel in June. It stated that the bureau "assesses RMVE (Racially Motivated Violent Extremism) interest in RTC (Radical Traditional Catholic) ideology is likely to increase … in the run-up to the [2024] general election cycle."
"Director Wray’s testimony was inaccurate not only because it failed to reveal the scope of the memo’s production and dissemination, but also because it failed to reveal the existence of a second, draft product on the same topic intended for external distribution to the whole FBI," the Oversight Project said in a separate statement. "That draft product was intended for distribution as a Strategic Perspective Executive Analytic Report ("SPEAR"). It was clearly a separate product."
The Oversight Project specifically alleged violations of obstruction of proceedings before Congress, perjury and false statements.
Fox News Digital reached out to Grassley, who also told Fox News’ Bill Hemmer in June that he had found 13 other documents similar to the Richmond memo. Grassley said the documents had gone out and that "at least 1,000 people had access to information that … was telling people that the Catholic Church needed to be watched because it could be considered a terrorist organization."
Fox News Digital reached out to a phone number connected to Wray but did not receive a response.
Patel cited the CCP influence case in a June statement, declaring that "former FBI leadership withheld the facts and misled the public on China’s 2020 election interference. And they did so for political gain. This FBI is exposing all of it and giving Americans the truth they deserve."
Patel claimed the FBI in 2020 "buried" evidence "for political convenience" and thanked Grassley for helping the current FBI brass bring the topic to light.
During September 2020 testimony, Wray told Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., that the FBI had "not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether by-mail or otherwise."
Wray added that the FBI had identified localized voter fraud and that his testimony was not intended to downplay the overarching threat.
Howell’s group argues those statements were belied by documents Patel gave to Congress in June that reportedly showed concerns in August 2020 that China had mass-produced such fake IDs to help former President Joe Biden.
The criminal referral against Wray also cites a related August 2020 seizure of 20,000 counterfeit licenses by Customs and Border Protection in Illinois. A Chicago port official told Fox News at the time that the proliferation "can lead to disastrous consequences."
It is unclear if any ballots were cast as part of the scheme.
During a 2020 address to the Hudson Institute, Wray did warn of the CCP threat to the upcoming election and beyond:
"China’s malign foreign influence campaign targets our policies, our positions, 24/7, 365 days-a-year. So it’s not an election‑specific threat. It’s really more of an all‑year, all‑the‑time threat. But certainly that has implications for elections, and they certainly have preferences that go along with that," he said.
The FBI and Department of Justice did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
#5
While I'd like to see him pay (for his smarminess, if nothing else), OTOH, if Congress lies to us all the time, what moral responsibility do we have to not lie to them?
#6
You misunderstand The Constitution. We made a contract that allows these punks to have limited and specific power over us. It’s not Congressional power, it’s ours. When this all washes out, I expect a significant number of Senators and Reps from both parties to receive criminal referrals. Anyone sitting on an Intel committee other than Nunes and Rubio ought to be examined. No need to examine the original J6 Committee members. All of them will go down with their staffers. Yes, their staffers that no one sees, but are a fundamental cog in the corruption machine.
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[GatewayPundit] Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard confirmed that the 2020 election was compromised, and the federal government knew about it.
Earlier this year, during a high-level Cabinet meeting with President Trump, she disclosed that the Intelligence Community has been investigating election interference and tampering with electronic voting systems, including signs of foreign and domestic actors manipulating vote totals.
“I’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best going after this, election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard said.
She continued, “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.”
Appearing on Benny Johnson’s show, Gabbard revealed that a whistleblower from CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) came forward with alarming evidence showing the government was aware of massive vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines ahead of the 2020 election, but deliberately chose to stay silent.
Transcript and a brief video at the link.
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I was surprised at how many Trump supporters were lukewarm about her inclusion in the administration.
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Given all the uncovered illegal deeds from 2019 to 2024+. It sure sounds like we had a group in DC actively involved in treason and subversion.
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Pretty sure the uncovered evil deeds started in 2016, but their purpose was to cover up evil deeds in 2008 or much before with respect to Fauci’s stuff.
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Computerized voting machines need to be outlawed all across the country. Legitimate concerns about election integrity will persist until every last one of these machines is scrapped and that's no way to run a democracy. You can tell there's something drastically wrong with these compromised computers just by listening to the Democrats squeal about even the possibility of them being outlawed.
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Abu nails it. Paper and pen were good for 250 years or so. Paper and pen will serve us well for another 250.
I also believe in points, condenser, cap and rotor. But that's just me.
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I became a poll worker which is different from a pole worker in 2018, because I had concerns about the election in 2020. I don’t have a problem with the machines in many cases. Here are my concerns with respect to election integrity:
1. Allowing ERIC, a leftist NGO, to control the voter rolls in any state is as suicidal as becoming a close confidant of Hillary Clinton.
2. There has to be a paper ballot saved that can be hand recounted without a machine. By hand count, I do not mean reloading the paper ballot into the same machine that may have scanned it wrong in the first case. By paper ballot, I mean piece of paper not a ballot image or QR code.
3. Ballot counting for absentee ballots cannot exceed 24 hours after the election. There needs to be a 4 hour time limit for all non-absentee precinct counts.
4. Undated absentee ballots cannot be counted.
5. All absentee counting needs to be done by two people, one from each party, approved by the local party.
6. Absentee ballots need to be restricted to the people that need them.
7. No ballots can be sent to voters who did not fill out a request for the ballot for that election.
8. Ballot harvesting can only occur by appointed teams of two people, one from each party. Those teams are mandatory for anyone over 70 that is voting absentee due to health reasons.
9. A yearly purge of inactive or dead voters from statewide voter rolls is mandatory once every two years.
10. No NGO can provide funds for stuff like ballot drop boxes.
11. Positions that count votes cannot be filled by vendors.
12. If ballot drop off boxes are used, they have to be monitored by video cameras that are more reliable than the state of NY uses in their prison system and nobody can drop off more than two votes total. By total I mean that’s it not per trip.
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I mean, we have sort of joked about Chicago and "vote early, vote often" and about dead people voting for years if not decades.
So like, what has the GOP done about it all this time? Are they in on it, too?
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I don’t think the GOP is in on it in Chicago, but I suspect there is a reason why a Republican governor and Secretary of State did nothing to investigate on video cheating in Fulton County. In other places GOP folks like McConnell and McCain control Republican apparatus down to the precinct level to prevent uppity America First folks from gaining a foothold.
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@#9 - Agreed about Chi-town. I was just speaking in general terms about, like the weather, everybody complaining about rigged elections but doing nothing about it.
Funny how these "two" parties operate. How long was abortion and Roe vs. Wade a political football? Even with each "party" having all of Congress at one time or another, funny that nothing was legislated. Oh well, just a thought.
[TOWNHALL] In a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... rebuke that underscores growing Republican frustration with Democrat obstruction, President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is NaN years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... (D-NY) to "Go to Hell" following the collapse of nominee deal negotiations. The blowup came after Schumer reportedly attempted to tie critical nominee votes to partisan funding demands, derailing efforts to confirm dozens of Trump's appointees.
On Saturday, efforts to reach a deal on confirming President Trump's nominees collapsed, with both Senate Republicans and Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... blaming each other for the breakdown. Rather than advancing up to 60 nominees—many of whom had already cleared committee with bipartisan backing—politicians rushed through votes on just seven before adjourning for the August recess. In the end, reports indicate it was Trump himself who pulled the plug on the agreement.
"This demand is egregious and unprecedented, and would be embarrassing to the Republican Party if it were accepted. It is political extortion, by any other name," Trump said. "Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL!"
"Do not accept the offer," the president added. "Go home and explain to your constituents what bad people the Democrats are, and what a great job the Republicans are doing, and have done, for our Country. Have a great RECESS and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) also criticized Schumer for overreaching, saying he crossed the line by escalating his list of demands and raising the overall cost.
"We've had three different deals since last night," he said. "And every time it's been, every time it's 'I want more,'" Mullin said. "You get to a realization that there was, it was never about making a deal. They want to go out and say the President's being unrealistic, and because he can't answer to his base to make a deal like we have in every other president in history."
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Fuck them. Just ram the appointments through. Lord knows the demoncrats would.
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Thune is blocking recess appointments. He is not on our side.
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Absolutely. I'd say, with the exception of a scant few, that the entire GOP is not on our side. I think this latest recess antic speaks volumes and just another thing that Trump is up against.
[NYPOST] Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle — under fire over the Pennsylvania liquidation attempt against President Trump — won't have her top-level security clearance renewed, The Post has learned.
The Secret Service decided not to extend Chealte's clearance after opposition from Republicans in Congress, namely Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
''Director [Sean] Curran has been modernizing the intelligence apparatus within the agency,'' a spokesperson told The Post. ''During that process, he has determined that not all former directors will have their clearances renewed.''
The decision to end Cheatle's security clearance came after RealClearPolitics inquired about Johnson's opposition to renewal, claimed the outlet, which was the first to report the change.
Johnson, who helms the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, had probed the Secret Service's failures leading up to the Trump liquidation attempt in Butler, Pa.
In which Her Honer da Mayor gets overexcited that the appeals court upheld a temporary order, which says nothing about how the US Supreme Court will rule on the temporary order or on the case itself when it finally wends it way to those lofty heights.
[FoxNews] Appeals court denies Trump admin's request to lift limits
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected the Trump administration's request for an emergency stay of a federal injunction restricting federal immigration agents from targeting migrants in Southern California based on characteristics such as ethnicity or language.
The three-judge panel issued a unanimous ruling that maintains the restraints on federal agents during immigration raids in the Los Angeles area.
The limitations include prohibiting targeting people based on their ethnicity, accent, language or location, including being at a Home Depot or a car wash.
The ruling requires federal agents to have more specific probable cause to make an arrest instead of generalized suspicion about a person's citizenship status.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass celebrated the court's decision as "a victory for the rule of law and for the City of Los Angeles."
"The Temporary Restraining Order that has been protecting our communities from immigration agents using racial profiling and other illegal tactics when conducting their cruel and aggressive enforcement raids and sweeps will remain in place for now," Bass said in a statement.
"We must still fight for justice," she continued. "Los Angeles will stand together against this Administration’s efforts to break up families who contribute every single day to the life, the culture and the economy of our great city. No matter what, I will continue to stand by you and fight for your rights, your dignity and your place in this city we all call home."
This comes after recent raids in the Los Angeles area targeted illegal immigrants working at local businesses, sparking weeks of unrest over immigration arrests and the administration's mass deportation efforts.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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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
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