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While House and Senate oversight committees were investigating the Department of Justice and the FBI for their role in the Russia-collusion hoax, the DOJ subpoenaed the private phone and email logs of multiple congressional staffers, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed Tuesday reveals. The executive branch’s targeting of staffers assisting with congressional oversight of the DOJ and FBI represents a dangerous intrusion into the legislative branch’s functioning — and one that demands answers and an accounting.

On Tuesday, the Virginia-based whistleblower firm Empower Oversight dispatched a letter to the attorney general and a slew of other DOJ officials, including the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. That letter detailed how the organization’s founder, Jason Foster, learned last week from a notice provided by Google that the DOJ had subpoenaed records of his Google Voice telephone number. The subpoena issued to Google required the tech giant to provide all telephone connection records and text message logs for Foster’s private Google account from Dec. 1, 2016, to May 1, 2017.

In the “you can’t make this stuff up” department, the UK Daily Mail ran a story yesterday headlined, “Biden-appointed prosecutor ADMITS he declined to prosecute Hunter for tax crimes because he was 'short-staffed.”




Diverse U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada, a Joe Biden-appointed DOJ prosecutor, tendered a sworn statement to Congress this week wherein he testified he declined to prosecute Hunter Biden — Joe Biden’s son — for very serious crimes because, and this is 100% true and not made up, Estrada explained he was ‘short-staffed.’

In other words, Mr. Estrada was just too busy. What can I tell you? Crime fighting can get pretty hectic. There is a very technical and complicated interplay between DOJ assignments that ordinary Americans cannot fully appreciate: “Every attorney you assign to a case means you can't do another case,” Estrada sniffed, according to his October 24th House Judiciary transcript.

But … somehow, the DOJ has not been too busy to prosecute thousands of regular citizens for misdemeanor trespassing. US Attorneys also weren’t too busy to investigate homeschool moms for criticizing school board members. And they weren’t too busy to investigate abortion clinic protestors for civil rights violations. And they aren’t too busy to investigate Tesla for “exaggerating” the range of its battery-powered cars.

A car company exaggerating car features? That is way more important than stopping a president’s son from peddling influence to shady oligarchs all over the worst parts of the world. I mean, be serious.

“Biden-appointed prosecutor ADMITS he declined to prosecute Hunter for tax crimes because he was 'short-staffed.”

The first question is: should we have simply assumed it’d all turn out fine? No. Remember, Democrats spent much of 2020 screaming about abolishing the police. Then, with SBF suddenly they pivoted4 to “lol, can’t believe you didn’t trust the police!”

But we don’t trust the police. Because the SBF case didn’t happen in a vacuum. Faith has legitimately been lost in America’s once-admirable legal system.

After all, thanks to Soros prosecutors, crime is de facto legal in major American cities. Hard drugs are sold in public. Supermarkets and trains are looted in broad daylight. Car windows are smashed, and everything is grabbed. Mobs block roads and swarm passerby at BLM/Hamas meetups. And the police do nothing.

Meanwhile, as the prosecution of actual crimes winds down, the prosecution of political crimes ramps up. The Republican Douglas Mackey is spending almost as much time in jail for tweeting a joke as the Democrat Colinford Mattis is for firebombing a police car. We’re in the era of show trials, where the Russiagate charges are slowly admitted to be false and the Hunter Biden allegations are gradually acknowledged to be true — but only after the elections when it doesn’t matter anymore.

None of this is justice. So, no, we don’t trust the police. And the fact that the criminal justice system eventually, grudgingly got the right outcome after massive international public pressure on an obvious fraud who stole ten billion dollars in broad daylight is not something to brag about. It’s like the (NSFW) Chris Rock clip: this is the bare minimum of what the state is supposed to do! It doesn’t get a cookie.

Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Shreds NY AG Letitia James: ‘She’s Got Nothing But Her Soros Backing’

I told her, she did not flunk she passed a very important test, and I couldn't be more proud of her. It means you're not woke enough to work for the Federal government.

Then I told her, how the government and many enterprise organizations are woke and foster nothing but a culture of victimhood, whinners, while the producers are burdened with carrying everyone's work load, while being scrutinized and marginalized in meetings.

I also told her sometimes they hold interviews because they have to show good faith that they tried to hire local candidates. But no matter how good those candidates are, their minds are already made up to import HB1 Visa workers. So don't take any of it personally. And I for one couldn't be more proud that She is NOT Federal Government material.

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Trump Revenge?

As Joe Biden’s polls plunge, his public bewilderment becomes chronic, and his exposed corruption can no longer be defended, pundits are writing furiously about the specter of “Trump revenge”. What is that, and why is it coming up now?

The Republican primary polls alarm them, but the general election polls favoring Trump over Biden utterly terrify them.

They privately concede that the crude-sounding Trump nevertheless did not weaponize the FBI, CIA, or DOJ.

The Trump-hating Pentagon, retired generals, CIA and FBI directors, the Washington FBI hierarchy—all of them knew that the fiery and bombastic Trump nevertheless did not hound out his enemies and turn these agencies and institutions into West Wing political operatives, in the way that Biden has destroyed the reputations of the DOJ and FBI.

So why the new mantra of “Trump revenge”?

Most likely, the Left is afraid because they know that if they were Trump and had suffered such weaponized lawfare from their opponents and in-house apostates, and yet had finally regained power, then they would most certainly go after their enemies with mass firings, weaponized indictments, and fake news stories.

In other words, they are scared that Trump thinks and acts like they do, and thus would do what they most certainly would do if in his place.

But for all of Trump’s loud banter, invective, and over-the-top tweets, he never sicced the bureaucracies on his political and personal enemies, and in that regard was never quite like the Left.

Empire is a cruel business, especially as it unwinds. But the sore-beset people of this land may be tiring of alternate realities as the absurdities mount and the immense friction of official bad faith heats up to the point of ignition. For instance, the “news” leaked late Thursday that Special Counsel Robert Hur expects to not charge anyone in connection with the “Joe Biden” documents case. How come? Reasons. Whew, that was swift justice, compared to the Chinese fire drill instigated by that same DOJ against Mr. Trump in the Mar-a-Lago document case.

Every Person Who Flew to DC around Jan 6 Is Being Secretly Monitored by Feds, Air Marshals Union Chief Admits

The head of the U.S. Air Marshals union has just made an explosive admission regarding the lengths Democrat President Joe Biden’s federal government is going to target any American even loosely linked to the events in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021.

Union chief Sonya Labosco, the director of the Air Marshals National Council, has just admitted that the feds are secretly monitoring every single person who flew to the D.C. area on or around January 6, 2021.

Labosco said Air Marshals are no longer going after terrorists or the bad guys.

She revealed that agents are now focused on pursuing the Democrats’ anti-Trump Jan. 6 agenda instead.

Labosco admitted that agents are now busy stalking and following every single person who flew into the national capital, even if they did not go to the U.S. Capitol.

Jamaal Bowman Gets Off Scot-Free After House Vote Because the Federal Government Is Worthless

Rep. Jamaal Bowman may have gotten a sweetheart plea deal after he illegally pulled a fire alarm in the Capitol Building, but he'll face no punishment at all in the House of Representatives.

The House Ethics Committee voted on Wednesday and chose to not open an investigation into Bowman's conduct despite ample evidence existing that he did so to postpone a vote on the floor. That follows on the heels of the DOJ also deciding not to press the issue, with no charge for obstructing an official proceeding even being entertained.

The Ethics Committee is split evenly between the parties, with five Republican and five Democrat members. While the vote breakdown isn't known, a logical assumption would be that all the Democrats voted not to investigate Bowman, causing a tie vote. A majority is required to move forward.

I'd say I'm astonished by this outcome, but I'd be lying. It was completely predictable that Democrats would circle the wagons and not let this get any further. That's something Republicans would never do because they are too hopelessly splintered as a party.

Political calculations aside, though, the idea that Bowman doesn't deserve congressional scrutiny after he literally committed a crime (and pleaded guilty to it) is objectively crazy. Why does the Ethics Committee even exist if it can't be counted on to take action in that scenario? Keep in mind, this is the same committee that has had ample proof that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez broke campaign finance laws and lied about it, yet has done nothing to advance the issue, much less come to a conclusion.

Once again, the machinations of the federal government prove to be impotent and worthless. They will never hold their own accountable because there is no incentive to do so. In this case, you have a guy who allegedly committed a felony by obstructing a congressional proceeding, and Congress itself is just shrugging. At the very least, where's the vote to censure Bowman for his conduct?

Perhaps there's a lesson here, though. A federal government that is this worthless and corrupt makes the case for its own reduction. Why would anyone want to give more power to these people? Bowman getting off scot-free is just another example of why Washington as an entity should be neutered, with control given back to state and local authorities.

President Donald Trump has blasted the “very corrupt” Department of Justice (DOJ) over the federal agency’s “selective prosecution” agenda.

Many, including Trump, strongly believe that the indictments he faces are part of an unfair, political prosecution via the weaponization of the justice system.

That belief was enhanced last week after it was revealed that Democrat President Joe Biden will not be charged by the DOJ.

Trump, meanwhile, who faces a similar classified documents investigation, is being persecuted by the same DOJ.

House Ethics Committee Declines to Investigate Democrat Rep Bowman for Triggering Fire Alarm

i was surprised the atlantic published this