[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Interim US attorney for Washington, DC Edward R. Martin Jr. has requested that two top prosecutors in his office conduct an internal review of the department's handling of Capitol riot cases.
A Monday email to staff, obtained by the Washington Post, stated that Martin had appointed Chief of the Criminal Division Denise Cheung, and Chief of the Fraud, Public Corruption and Civil Rights section Denise Cheung to lead a "special project" investigating the over 250 cases in which the office had charged over 250 people with obstructing an official proceeding of Congress. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the statute was too broadly applied to the cases.
Martin wrote in the email, "Obviously, the use was a great failure of our office — and we need to get to the bottom of it." Martin expects a preliminary report by Friday. "Please deliver to Jonathan and/or Denise
…clearly one of the two times Ms Cheung is named was meant to be Jonathan [something]…
all information you have related to the use of 1512 charges including all files, documents, notes, emails and other information." The 1512 number refers to the obstruction statute's section number in the federal code, the outlet reported.
Martin was temporarily appointed to the post on January 20 for 120 days, but told employees at an introductory staff meeting that he expects to serve in the role permanently, a person in attendance and others briefed on the meeting told the Post. Before his time in the role, Martin was a defense attorney for three January 6 defendants.
Martin has closed the office's Capitol breach prosecution unit and removed its chief Gregg Rosen.
Another Trump promise kept.
On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order titled "Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government," under which he ordered the Attorney General, in consultation with other department and agency heads, "take appropriate action to review the activities of all departments and agencies exercising civil or criminal enforcement authority of the United States" over the last four years and "identify any instances where a department's or agency's conduct appears to have been contrary to the purposes and policies of this order."
Also on his first day in office, Trump signed pardons for around 1,500 January 6 defendants. Speaking at Capital One Arena ahead of the signing, Trump told the crowd, "we're going to release our great hostages" that "didn't do stuff wrong."
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Notorious never-Trump "journalist" Jim Acosta is leaving CNN, according to a new report.
Oliver Darcy's Status News was the first to report the news:
"The anchor, I'm told, signaled to associates in private conversations over the weekend that he intends to depart the network after its chief executive, Mark Thompson, booted him from the morning programming lineup — a move that conspicuously coincided with Donald Trump's return to power.
"CNN brass, as we first reported earlier this month, decided to strip Acosta of his 10am show, which he has anchored to great ratings success over the last 11 months, at times even seeing higher viewership than programs in the channel's prime time bloc. Acosta was instead offered the less-than-desirable option of anchoring a show from midnight until 2am ET. CNN pitched the gig to Acosta as anchoring during prime time on the West Coast and said he could move to Los Angeles to host the program. But the reality is the program would have aired at a time in which cable news viewership is at its lowest levels."
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Remember!!!
The Clinton News Network hired him, directed him, and approved his journalism for broadcast.
Likely, the only reason he is being cut is, CNN is looking at drastically dropping viewer #'s across the board. Plus, they can hire some Biden oddity a lot cheaper.
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strip Acosta of his 10am show, which he has anchored to great ratings success over the last 11 months, at times even seeing higher viewership than programs in the channel's prime time bloc
A very low bar to clear. Like being the tallest midget
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[Federalist] The Department of Justice is still pursuing charges against a Texas doctor who exposed transgender operations on kids. He told The Federalist he could face jail time in just days and pled with President Donald Trump to stop the lawfare.
"This case needs to be dropped with prejudice because this illegal application of HIPAA will destroy the medical profession," the whistleblower, Eithan Haim, told The Federalist. "Not only that but the prosecutors and FBI agents involved need to be investigated for potential criminal abuse of power."
Haim, a Dallas-area doctor, exposed Texas Children’s Hospital in May 2023 for performing transgender procedures on children as young as 11. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had classified the operations as "child abuse," and TCH lied about no longer providing them. But Haim exposed TCH to conservative activist Christopher Rufo for continuing these procedures. The next day, the Texas state Senate voted to ban the practice, and Paxton launched multiple investigations into the hospital.
Starting last year, President Joe Biden’s DOJ pressed charges against Haim. Though President Donald Trump has taken office and ordered an end to federal "weaponization," the DOJ is continuing to persecute the doctor for exposing the secret child mutilation.
A judge has placed a de-facto gag order on the doctor and said if he violates it, he could be held in jail until trial. Haim told The Federalist he could "possibly" face jail time in a matter of days for alleged "contempt."
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From the BBC: After being struck with a huge laser-beam in his battle with the Toymaker, David Tennant's 14th Doctor bi-regenerated, splitting in two. The new 15th version of the Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa begins his first full adventure in time and space, taking on baby-eating goblins, on Christmas Day 2023. Gatwa is the first black actor to play the Doctor for a full series and is the fourth Scottish actor in the role.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] In Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented... 's last days in the White House, he issued another round of commutations for prisoners, totaling nearly 2,500 people. Among the list of those whose sentences were commuted was that of Adrian Peeler, a man who was convicted in the 1999 murder of an 8-year-old boy and his mother.
Peeler was included on a list of inmates whose prison sentences will now expire on July 16, 2025, with $10,000 being taken off their fine or restitution amounts, if applicable.
According to the Hartford Courant, Peeler was convicted for the January 1999 shooting death of 8-year-old Leroy "B.J." Brown and his mother Karen Clarke. He reportedly conducted the killings on orders from his older brother Russell Peeler, who was a partner in their Bridgeport narco gang. Prosecutors said at the time that Russell was about to be tried for killing Clarke's boyfriend, Rudolf Snead, who was a rival drug pusher in the Connecticut city, and the brothers wanted to eliminate B.J. as a witness against Russell. The 8-year-old had told police that he and another boy were sitting in Snead's car and saw Russell Peeler shoot Snead in a 1997 drive-by-attack, of which he survived.
Adrian Peeler was sentenced to 25 years on state charges of conspiring to murder Clarke and her son and 35 years on federal drug trafficking charges, which were ordered to be serviced concurrently. Peeler completed the state murder conspiracy sentence in December 2021 and was transferred to federal custody. Peeler's federal sentence was reduced to 15 years. Peeler, without the commutation, would have been released in October 2033.
The Peeler case led to the creation of the LeRoy Brown, Jr. and Karen Clarke Witness Protection Program. Then-Deputy Chief State's Attorney Christopher Morano, who developed the program, said, "Wow — are you — kidding me? Biden did that? Where's the prosecutor screaming and yelling about this?"
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who served as the state's Attorney General at the time of the case, said in a statement, "It seems to me that someone dropped the ball here to let his person get released. This was a really vicious murder that changed our laws. It also highlights how we need to take a look at the pardon system to see how it can be improved," according to the CT Mirror.
Connecticut House Republican Leader Vincent Candelora said, "Former President Biden's clemency for Adrian Peeler is a disgusting miscarriage of justice. Peeler's conviction tied to brutal murders that prompted the creation of Connecticut's witness protection program makes any leniency — federal or otherwise — utterly indefensible. This reckless act by Joe Biden dismisses the pain of the victims' families and erodes public trust in the principles of justice. Such a careless decision at the close of his term should generate outrage here and throughout the nation."
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That's the real investigation - who was who in the White House putting these things before the non compos mentis man. The nation deserves the names.
"It's kind of funny because many of the Democrats actually voted against the Laken Riley Act when it was in Congress last session, but now they're supporting it because they see electorally that it's beneficial to them."
[FoxNews] Hamadeh, 33, represents Arizona's 8th Congressional District
GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh is praising President Trump’s swift actions on illegal immigration in the first days of his presidency and told Fox News Digital that the president has "learned a lot from 2017" and that he expects more of the same in the future.
"President Trump campaigned on this and he's delivering it for the American people," the freshman congressman told Fox News Digital in an interview. "If you look at the polling, even Democrats are in favor of deportations of illegal immigrants. So right now, he's deporting the most dangerous illegal immigrants and you're starting to see the raids and it’s quite a sight to see because for too long, the Biden administration, they prioritized illegal immigrants over American citizens."
"They treated American citizens as second-class citizens and President Trump is about America first. So these deportation raids, it's happened so fast and that's
exactly his style of leadership. He knows he has no time to waste and delivering the results for the American people as they already voted for these policies back on November 5th. So far, so good."
Hamadeh told Fox News Digital that Trump "learned a lot from 2017" and this time around knows "exactly what to do" to get his agenda accomplished.
Republicans recently successfully pushed the Laken Riley Act through Congress, with 48 Democrat votes, which Hamadeh told Fox News Digital should have been a unanimous vote and doesn’t necessarily mean Democrats are embracing Trump’s agenda.
"It's kind of funny because many of the Democrats actually voted against the Laken Riley Act when it was in Congress last session, but now they're supporting it because they see electorally that it's beneficial to them."
"So no we always have to be cognizant of that. A lot of these Democrats don't have any principles that they're standing on. They just saw that they got shellacked in the end in the election, November 5th. So they're trying to moderate themselves or appear to be moderate. But honestly it should have gotten unanimous support."
We don’t need to have only noble souls in office. We need to ensure the ignoble have really strong reasons to act noble despite their darker drives.
[WND] 'They knew this was going to happen. They had the studies decades ago, suppressed them & obstructed policy changes to transition away from fossil fuels & toward clean energy'
Two California Democrats unveiled a bill Monday that they said would allow insurers and policyholders affected by the Los Angeles fires to sue major oil corporations for their alleged role in the disaster. That didn't take long.
Democratic California State Sen. Scott Wiener and a host of other Democrats rolled out Senate Bill 222 on Monday, characterizing it as a means to make oil companies atone for the fires and stabilize California's faltering insurance market. This, as residents pick up the pieces from the devastation. Weiner and Pérez say that oil companies bear responsibility for the fires because of their supposed role in climate change. This, even though critics say a litany of policy decisions and failures appear to have much more directly fanned the flames, as evidenced by things like malfunctioning fire hydrants.
"Californians shouldn't be the only ones to pay the costs of devastating climate disasters. From last year's floods to the fires in LA, we know that the fossil fuel industry bears ultimate responsibility for fueling these disasters," Wiener said in a post to X, addressing the new legislation. "The fossil fuel companies knew this was going to happen. They had the studies decades ago, suppressed them & obstructed policy changes to transition away from fossil fuels & toward clean energy."
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Just like Democrats to blame somebody else for the problems they create.
Let's suppose, just for argument's sake, that climate change is not some green commie fantasy. Even so, there are all kinds of things people like Newsom and Bass could have done to mitigate the impact. Things like hiring more firefighters and giving them the equipment they need to do their jobs, cutting fire brakes, clearing dead brush and planting green belts with ice plant, making sure the reservoirs are full so the fire hydrants don't run dry, actually checking the fire hydrants at regular intervals and making sure they don't get stolen (which has been happening), letting insurance companies set realistic premiums so they don't go broke paying claims for fires in fire prone areas. On and on it goes. It's not my job to know all the things that could be done. It's theirs and they didn't do it. So now they wanna blame the oil companies? Wait for it; the oil companies will leave California just like the insurance companies. Who will Newsom blame then?
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[DM] Donald Trump's Justice Department is firing more than a dozen officials who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's cases against him.
Smith charged Trump in two separate prosecutions with trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and mishandling of classified documents.
The officials, who were on Smith's team, were fired after Acting Attorney General James McHenry said they could not now be trusted to pursue the president's policies in good faith, Fox News reported.
A Justice Department official told the network: 'Today, McHenry terminated the employment of a number of officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump.
'In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President's agenda.'
Smith, who resigned before Trump took office, concluded in a report released earlier this month that the president engaged in an 'unprecedented criminal effort' to hold on to power after losing the 2020 election.
He was ultimately thwarted in bringing the cases to trial due to Trump's election victory.
Trump's lawyers have called Smith's actions politically motivated.
The president denies any wrongdoing in the cases, which Smith dropped shortly after Trump was elected.
In a separate development, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that a Trump-appointed prosecutor had opened an internal review of the Justice Department's decision to charge hundreds of January 6 defendants with felony obstruction offenses in connection with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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N.B. "Acting AG". Till the Senate approves a Department head, he gets to choose the Acting head. He knows who is who. The scythe is out without waiting.
There is an old saying - if you strike at the king, you must kill the king.
[FoxNews] VA also working to cancel $6M worth of contracts for DEI-related training, materials, consulting services.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has placed nearly 60 employees on leave who focused on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and had a combined salary of more than $8 million.
The VA said in a press release Monday that it completed its implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order to end DEI in the federal government.
Part of the VA’s abolishment of DEI within the agency meant placing on paid administrative leave about 60 employees who were solely focused on DEI activities.
The VA said the combined salary of the employees – including base pay, locality pay and additional earnings – exceeds $8 million, with the average pay being about $136,000 per year, per employee.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] President Trump's border czar Tom Homan demanded an apology from Illinois governor JB Pritzker and reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Public School CEO Pedro Martinez, after they made false claims that ICE agents showed up at a school to detain undocumented Democrat children.
After Martinez made the false claim about the ICE agents, Governor Pritzker posted to X: ''After a week of Republicans sowing fear and chaos, the first reports of raids in Chicago are at an elementary school. Targeting children and separating families is cruel and un-American.''
The claimed ICE agents, however, were members of US Secret Service who were there to investigate an unrelated matter involving threats made on TikTok. ICE agents were never at the school.
In response, Homan demanded an apology from Pritzker and said that Martinez lied about the incident: ''Pedro Martinez lied. He lied to the city of Chicago. He knew they were secret service agents, because I talked to people involved. They left their credentials. He knew exactly who was there. So he lied. Again, sowing fear in the immigrant community.
''Governor Pritzker, rather than calling ICE and asking 'did this happen,' he goes on social media and terrifies elementary schools [saying] ICE agents are walking in there. He accuses me of terrifying the community—no, he terrified the community, he terrified the children,'' Homan continued.
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Even if he doesn’t get an apology, illeagle, the mainstream media have reported, with frissons of shock at the undignified lack of diplomacy, that he demanded it for the lie.
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.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Notorious never-Trump "journalist" 
...46th president of the U.S. 
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
