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Major fail. Shuffling papers and applying for grants are core competencies for the grifter class. It is hard to get your beak wet when the money is not flowing.
[Fox News]He's toast.
The DOE announced last week that Jeff Marootian was appointed to be the principal deputy assistant secretary of the agency's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The appointment came days after the White House withdrew his name from consideration to lead EERE as the office's assistant secretary.
While Marootian's nomination failed after Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., opposed him over the Biden administration's crackdown on natural gas-powered stovetops, his appointment last week makes him the effective chief of the DOE's EERE office. Failing up
But probably not paid as well as the original job on offer.
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Whenever you have a title like "principal deputy assistant secretary of the agency's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy", you know there are way too many layers of bureaucracy.
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The Energy Department, an idea concocted to make us feel like we had a good plan to combat the oil embargo, is now coming for our electric can openers and gas powered hedge trimmers while Joe empties our strategic oil reserve into Chinese tankers. I guess the new strategy is capitulation and all it cost the CCP was a bribe for the Big Guy.
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/\ Yes Supe, "capitulation" to the CCP on some major issue or other, appears to take place on a weekly basis. This is one of the reasons I discount the endless MSM "war with China" rhetoric.
I’m told that back in the ‘60s the word was to assume that at every anti-Viet Nam war protest and meeting one should assume that there were FBI informants taking down every word.
[NYPost] The FBI had so many paid informants at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that they lost track of the number and had to perform a later audit to determine exactly how many "Confidential Human Sources" run by different FBI field offices were present that day, a former assistant director of the bureau has told lawmakers.
At least one informant was communicating with his FBI handler as he entered the Capitol, according to Steven D’Antuono, formerly in charge of the bureau’s Washington field office.
D’Antuono has testified behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee that his office was aware before the riot that some of their informants would attend a "Stop the Steal" rally thrown by former President Donald Trump but he only learned after the fact that informants run by other field offices also were present, along with others who had participated of their own accord.
The Washington field office had to ask FBI headquarters "to do a poll or put out something to people saying w[ere] any CHSs involved," he said, so they could get a handle on the scale of the FBI’s spying operations at the Capitol that day.
"We started getting responses back" from FBI headquarters, added D’Antuono, which helped identify which field offices had planted confidential informants in the crowd.
One paid informant from the Kansas City field office was at the Capitol as the crowd surged inside and allegedly was in communication with his FBI handler, "while they were in the crowd, I think, saying that they were going in," according to the former bureau brass.
"They were trying to stop some of the action happening and they left or whatnot."
Asked how many informants the audit discovered were in the crowd that day, D’Antuono would only say "a handful".
The FBI spends an average of $42 million each year in payments to its Confidential Human Sources, according to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General, which has raised concerns about the vetting process for these paid informants.
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray Tuesday, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), described D’Antuono’s testimony as "extremely concerning".
It suggests that "the FBI cannot adequately track the activities and operations of its informants, and that it lost control of its CHSs present at the Capitol on January 6," he wrote.
"These revelations reinforce existing concerns, identified by Special Counsel [John] Durham, about the FBI’s use of, and payment to, CHSs who have fabricated evidence and misrepresented information.
"The Justice Department Inspector General also identified critical problems in the FBI’s CHS program," Jordan added, "including the FBI’s failure to fully vet CHSs and the FBI’s willingness to ignore red flags that would call into question an informant’s reliability."
Jordan has asked Wray to provide a "substantive briefing" on how the FBI used paid informants on Jan. 6, 2021, and "any specific guidelines or admonishments that were provided to FBI CHSs prior to deploying".
Wray has also been asked to provide all debriefing documents received from Capitol riot informants.
Jordan also wants source reporting documentation relating to former British spy Christopher Steele, who was responsible for a now-notorious "dossier of false allegations about the Trump-Russia hoax."
Defense lawyers at the trial of five "Proud Boys" recently asserted that the FBI had as many as eight informants spying on the organization and that at least one was with them at the Capitol that day.
Former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund has said that, in addition to the paid informants, the FBI had at least 18 undercover agents in the crowd plus an estimated 20 from the Department of Homeland Security.
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I don’t have a problem with having undercover officers present. I want to know who paid Ray Epps to be there and who was paying scaffold guy and the other organizer facilitators who were not held accountable. Arguments that Ray Epps has now been charged with some misdemeanor that includes a fine and no jail is not going to cut it.
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[Breitbart] Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejando Mayorkas said Tuesday that he had named Russia collusion hoaxers and Hunter Biden laptop deniers John Brennan and James Clapper to an intelligence "experts" panel. 51 of them?
In a statement, Mayorkas announced "the establishment of the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group (Experts Group) ... comprised of private sector experts who will provide their unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise to DHS’s [Intelligence and Analysis] and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator."
The group will analyze "foreign nation-state adversaries" as well as "domestic violent extremists."
Brennan, a former CIA director, and Clapper, a former Director of National Intelligence, were key players in spreading the "Russia collusion" hoax to discredit the 2016 election, with Clapper telling CNN that it was possible there was evidence linking Russia to Trump, then admitting under oath that he knew of no evidence.
Brennan claimed that Trump’s protestations of innocence were "hogwash," though Special Counsel Robert Mueller later found that no American, including on the Trump campaign, had colluded with Russia in the 2016 election.
Later, as Breitbart News noted, Brennan and Clapper joined more than 50 national security and intelligence alumni in a letter claiming that stories during the 2020 race about Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian disinformation. In fact, the laptop was real, and the stories — published by the New York Post, Breitbart News, and others — were proven accurate. But the letter, arranged by Joe Biden’s campaign, served to deflect criticism from the candidate.
It is unclear how Brennan will advise the Department of Homeland Security, given that President Trump revoked his security clearance in 2018, in reaction to Brennan’s increasingly unhinged political attacks on the president.
[Gateway] On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security led by the failed Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced a new "group": the "Homeland Intelligence Experts Group." The "Experts Group" will operate under the Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Ken Waintstein, as well as Counterterrorism Coordinator Nicholas Rasmussen (a Biden Laptop letter signee), to "provide advice and perspectives on intelligence and national security efforts to the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the Office of Counterterrorism Coordinator to support DHS’ vital work to protect our country."
According to a press release, the group will be comprised of "private sector experts who will provide their unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise to DHS’s I&A and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator."
Today, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) Ken Wainstein, and Counterterrorism Coordinator Nicholas Rasmussen announced the establishment of the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group (Experts Group). The group is comprised of private sector experts who will provide their unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise to DHS’s I&A and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator.
"The security of the American people depends on our capacity to collect, generate, and disseminate actionable intelligence to our federal, state, local, territorial, tribal, campus, and private sector partners," said Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas. "I express my deep gratitude to these distinguished individuals for dedicating their exceptional expertise, experience, and vision to our critical mission."
"The Homeland Intelligence Experts Group is being formed at a time of unprecedented challenge, with the U.S. intelligence enterprise facing threats from a range of malign actors, to include foreign nation-state adversaries, domestic violent extremists, cyber criminals, drug-trafficking cartels and other transnational criminal organizations," said Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Ken Wainstein."The Experts Group will be an invaluable asset as we navigate through this evolving threat and operating environment and continue to strengthen our efforts to protect the Homeland."
"The homeland threat environment is more diverse, dynamic, and challenging than at any point in our post 9/11 history, with threats tied to an array of different terrorist and violent extremist ideologies and narratives," said Counterterrorism Coordinator Nicholas Rasmussen. "The experience, expertise, and perspective offered by Experts Group members will undoubtedly put the Department in a strong position to confront this threat landscape, and we are grateful for the willingness of the Experts Group members to serve in this important capacity."
The "Experts Group" will consist of some controversial individuals including Hunter Biden Laptop "Spies Who Lie", "Russia, Russia, Russia" promulgators and others discredited in recent investigations including:
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The Experts Group members are the following:
John Bellinger, Partner, Arnold & Porter (Former Legal Advisor, Dept of State and National Security Council) -- John Brennan, Distinguished Fellow, Fordham U. School of Law and U. of Texas at Austin (Former Dir, CIA) -- James Clapper, CNN National Security Analyst (Former Director of National Intelligence) -- Rajesh De, Partner, Mayer Brown (Former Principal Deputy Asst Attorney General for Legal Policy and NSA General Counsel) -- Thomas Galati, Senior VP, East Coast Security Operations, NBC Universal (Former NY Police Department, Chief, Intelligence and Counterterrorism) -- Tashina Gauhar, Senior Director, Compliance, Strategy and Policy, Boeing Company (Former Associate Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, Department of Justice) -- Asha M. George, Executive Director, Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense (Former Subcommittee Staff Director, House Committee on Homeland Security) -- Karen Greenberg, Director, Center on National Security, Fordham U. School of Law -- Emily Harding, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Int Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Former Deputy Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) --Paul Kolbe, Sr Fellow and former Director the Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center (Former Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency) -- David Kris, Co-Founder, Culper Partners LLC (Former Assistant Attorney General, Nat.Security Division, Department of Justice)== Michael Leiter, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center) == Elisa Massimino, Executive Director, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown Law -- Gregory Nojeim, Senior Counsel and Director, Security and Surveillance Project, Center for Democracy & Technology -- Francis Taylor, Principal, Cambridge Global Advisors (Former Under Scry for Intel and Analysis, DHS) -- Caryn Wagner, Former Under Secy for Intelligence and Analysis, DHS -- Benjamin Wittes, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief, Lawfare.
The Experts Group will meet four times annually and leverage the expertise of each member to provide input on I&A’s most complex problems and challenges, including terrorism, fentanyl, transborder issues, and emerging technology.
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The Junta's Counterterrorism CC, and we've been assigned the role of terrorist.
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Someday there will be a round up of traitors. In this case, they have voluntarily self-identified. Every once in a while the cops run a sting where they round up criminals with a fake television giveaway. This panel format would work great for that.
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I&A’s most complex problems and challenges, including terrorism, fentanyl, transborder issues, and emerging technology.
for example how to set up more domestic terrorist events, how to import more fentanyl, how to open up the border and new technology that can be used against Americans...
Varda has a sat that manufactured some extremely pure drugs in space that big pharma can't make on earth. Video goes into detail and suggest political corruption/lobbying by big pharma to keep these drugs from landing. That would explain FAA pulling existing landing permit.
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Do it like they did film.
Launch a roll to a recovery vessel.
I'm not saying don't; I'm saying we need a comedy-horror in the Evil Dead theme that large monster animals are created and begin destroying cities.
The hook will be that they are rather dumb, easily defeated monsters but because all weapons were used up in Ukraine. Have a set scene when our characters are trying to escape but have to wait on their EV to charge. After holding out for some two hours they break for their vehicle only to find that five minutes earlier The Governor ordered the reverse flow and EV batteries were drained for emergency powers. Cut to Governor's Mansion where a trip rave is in full effect.
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[Breitbart] Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejando Mayorkas said Tuesday that he had named Russia collusion hoaxers and Hunter Biden laptop deniers John Brennan and James Clapper to an intelligence "experts" panel.
