Several former intelligence officials who signed a letter suggesting that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely a “Russian information operation” are joining a federal “expert” board handling issues of national security, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Tuesday.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and former CIA Operations Officer Paul Kolbe, who will now serve on the board, all signed an October 2020 letter casting doubt on the legitimacy of the Hunter Biden laptop and suggesting its release was a Russian disinformation ploy. The group will advise DHS on intelligence and national security efforts regarding issues such as “terrorism, fentanyl, transborder issues, and emerging technology,” DHS announced.
The Hunter Biden laptop contents were authenticated by the Daily Caller News Foundation as well as The New York Times, Washington Post, CBS News and other media outlets. There is currently no evidence suggesting the laptop was a Russian disinformation operation.
Read the full article from the Daily Caller here. Read more Ray Epps, a January 6 instigator who many have believed is a federal informant, has been charged in connection with the events that occurred at the Capitol.
Epps is charged with one misdemeanor count, disorderly or disruptive conduct on restricted grounds. Epps is not charged with entering the Capitol; he is only known to have been on the grounds on Jan. 6. A virtual plea agreement hearing was set for Wednesday, Sept. 20 before Chief Judge James Boasberg.
The criminal information charges that Epps “did knowingly, and with intent to impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, engage in disorderly and disruptive conduct in and within such proximity to, a restricted building and grounds—that is, any posted, cordoned-off, and otherwise restricted area within the United States Capitol and its grounds, where the Vice President was and would be temporarily visiting—when and so that such conduct did in fact impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, and attempted and conspired to do so.”
It’s worth noting that Dominic Pezzola, a member of the Proud Boys who was sentenced to 10 years for his actions on Jan. 6, mentioned Epps’ name at trial.
Read the original article at NBC News. Read more Only two of 19 Republican Senators voted in favor of convicting for any article — a stark contrast to the more than 70% of House Republicans who impeached the attorney general in May.
The Texas Senate on Saturday acquitted Attorney General Ken Paxton of 16 articles of impeachment alleging corruption and bribery, his most artful escape in a career spent courting controversy and skirting consequences of scandal.
No article received more than 14 of the required 21 votes to convict. Only two of 19 Republican Senators, Bob Nichols of Jacksonville and Kelly Hancock of North Richland Hills, voted in favor of convicting for any article — a stark contrast to the more than 70% of House Republicans who impeached the attorney general in May.
Paxton, who attended just two days of the trial and was not present to witness his exoneration, was characteristically defiant.
“The sham impeachment coordinated by the Biden Administration with liberal House Speaker Dade Phelan and his kangaroo court has cost taxpayers millions of dollars, disrupted the work of the Office of Attorney General and left a dark and permanent stain on the Texas House,” Paxton said in a statement. “The weaponization of the impeachment process to settle political differences is not only wrong, it is immoral and corrupt.”
The dramatic votes capped a two-week trial where a parade of witnesses, including former senior officials under Paxton, testified that the attorney general had repeatedly abused his office by helping his friend, struggling Austin real estate investor Nate Paul, investigate and harass his enemies, delay foreclosure sales of his properties and obtain confidential records on the police investigating him. In return, House impeachment managers said Paul paid to renovate Paxton’s Austin home and helped him carry out and cover up an extramarital affair with a former Senate aide.
In the end, senators were unpersuaded.
“This should have never happened,” Sen. Bob Hall, R-Edgewood, told reporters outside the chamber. He criticized what he called a rushed and flawed investigation by the House.
But acquittal was not a foregone conclusion during the eight hours of deliberation, Sen. Royce West said. The Democrat from Dallas said some Republicans supported conviction but switched their votes when it became clear it did not have the required two-thirds support.
The not guilty verdicts immediately restored Paxton to office, lifting the automatic suspension triggered by the House vote in May to impeach him. The votes sealed the failure of a risky gambit by House Republicans who began in secret in the spring to investigate, and then purge, a leader of their own party.
And they came after sustained pressure on senators from grassroots groups, conservative activists and the leader of the state Republican Party who vowed retribution at the ballot box if Paxton was convicted.
Paxton’s wife, Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, was on hand to witness his acquittal. Required to attend but barred from deliberating and voting because of her relationship with the accused, she listened stone-faced during the trial as multiple witnesses testified about the attorney general’s infidelity, exposing as a lie his 2018 declaration to his wife and senior aides that the affair was permanently over.
After the acquittal, she hugged her husband’s lead lawyer, Tony Buzbee, and shook hands with the defense team.
The voting took more than an hour in the Senate chamber, which was mostly silent except for the chirping of crickets that have recently infested the Capitol. The House impeachment managers, with glum expressions, watched helplessly as each of the articles they had meticulously prepared were rejected — one by a 28-2 margin.
Rep. Jeff Leach of Plano, who risked his standing in the Republican Party by delivering an impassioned speech urging conviction on Friday, sat with his hands clasped in front of his face.
The Senate also voted 19-11 to dismiss the remaining four articles of impeachment that the chamber had agreed to set aside prior to the trial. Those articles dealt with Paxton’s long-running securities fraud case, which is expected to go to trial early next year.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, once his role as impartial judge was fulfilled, ripped into the House and its leadership for filing the case in the first place, which he said wasted millions of taxpayer dollars. He blasted the lower chamber for voting to impeach Paxton after only three days of consideration.
“With virtually no time for 150 members to study the articles, the Speaker and his team rammed through the first impeachment of a statewide official in over 100 years,” Patrick said.
Despite the victory, Paxton’s troubles are far from over. He faces trial on charges of securities fraud dating back to 2015.
More dangerous to Paxton is a federal investigation that began when the attorney general’s senior aides reported him to the FBI in 2020, alleging crimes that mirror the impeachment charges. That case has reached a grand jury in San Antonio. A new criminal indictment carries far higher stakes than impeachment. Campaigning to stay in office is one thing; fighting to remain out of prison is another entirely. Read more PANIC IN D.C. — Within the same 24-hour time frame of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden being charged with lying to the FBI on a background check form in order to purchase a firearm, Hunter’s legal team at Winston & Strawn LLP is allegedly suing Marco Polo founder and former Trump White House aide, Garrett Ziegler. While at the White House, Ziegler worked for Trump’s former trade advisor, Peter Navarro. It is worth noting that Navarro is currently on trial in Washington for defying a subpoena from the sham January 6 select committee. The targeting of Trump affiliates including Navarro, Ziegler, and War Room host Steve Bannon is widely seen as a continuation of the politically motivated “Witch Hunt” initiated during the Obama administration.
Hunter’s legal team is accusing Ziegler of illegally publishing private photos, emails and other materials that came from Hunter Biden’s hard drive.
The move comes just as House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, officially launched an impeachment probe against Hunter’s father, President Joe Biden. Ziegler has published highly detailed and factual findings on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which heavily exposes the criminal activity of the Biden family syndicate. Ziegler and unidentified researchers at Marco Polo have meticulously combed through receipts, emails, and paper trails that highlight Hunter Biden’s business dealings with the Ukrainian energy firm, Burisma, and Kazakhstanian oligarchs, among other activities.
In 1997, a fictional movie called, Wag the Dog was released, which detailed how Hollywood producers and government “fixers” work hand-in-hand to cover up scandals and crimes by creating colossal distractions and diversions. The term “wag the dog” has been widely used in political arenas to describe the theorized intentions behind potential distraction events. Considering the due diligence of Marco Polo founder Garrett Ziegler, it is no coincidence where the dots connect regarding the timeline of Hunter Biden’s legal pursuits against his exposers.
A subject matter expert in the Biden crime family, Ziegler has proven himself as a force to be reckoned with, bolstering a new wave of sleuths across the world in the collective effort to uncover the truth that is often concealed from the public eye. As a result of Marco Polo’s work, in the last few years, a variety of journalists and writers have emerged in the space to call into question the network surrounding the questionably elected president, both on the social platforms Telegram and X, formerly know as Twitter. The Marco Polo includes links to a range of photos, text messages, emails and other documents derived from the laptop believed to be owned by Hunter Biden.
CBS News reported that, “The 13-page lawsuit from Winston & Strawn LLP alleges that Ziegler and others violated federal and California privacy laws by “accessing, tampering with, manipulating, altering, copying and damaging computer data” from Hunter Biden’s purported laptop and iPhone cloud storage without consent.
The lawsuit details how Ziegler and unnamed defendants allegedly obtained sensitive materials by hacking into encrypted data on Hunter Biden’s devices and uploading them to Ziegler’s website, where it remains public. In the lawsuit, Hunter Biden’s lawyers assert that the defendants had refused requests to “cease their unlawful activity” and return private data belonging to the president’s son.”
Garrett commented, “I nor the nonprofit, Marco Polo, have been served with a lawsuit — but the one I read [on Wednesday] out of the Central District of California should embarrass Winston & Strawn LLP. It’s not worth the paper it’s written on” Ziegler told CBS News in a statement. “Apart from the numerous state and federal laws and regulations which protect authors like me and the publishing that Marco Polo does, it’s not lost on us that Joe’s son filed this SLAPP one day after a so-called Impeachment Inquiry into his father was announced. The president’s son is a disgrace to our great nation.”
The reference to a SLAPP suit (a strategic lawsuit against public participation) alludes to a California law providing penalties for filing a lawsuit intended to chill the exercise of the rights to petition and free speech.”
It should come as no surprise that, in addition to Winston & Strawn LLP allegedly suing Garrett Ziegler, Hunter Biden’s legal team also sued John Paul Mac Isaac, the Delaware-based computer repairman who turned in the Hunter Biden laptop, for “invasion of privacy for allegedly accessing and distributing Biden’s private computer data in 2019. Attorneys for Biden also requested that the Justice Department investigate Isaac, Ziegler and others for allegedly violating Delaware laws by distributing data from Biden’s personal device.”
According to John Paul Mac Isaac, he obtained the information from Biden’s laptop legally because Biden allegedly dropped it off in April 2019 and never returned. Mac Isaac waited 90 days and then considered the laptop to be abandoned.
In the most recent alleged suit against Garrett Ziegler, Hunter Biden’s legal team is seeking a jury trial, damages, an injunction that would prevent access or tampering with Biden’s data and the return of any materials obtained unlawfully.
Yesterday, former Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake released the first episode of her eponymous show, wherein she interviewed Ziegler on the “Laptop from Hell.” Read more Hunter Biden has been indited on gun charges in the state of Delaware. Read more On Tuesday, Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the launched of an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, officially sending Congress into an effort to remove the corruption-filled president following two impeachments of former President Donald Trump.
McCarthy’s move follows months of the GOP House Oversight Committee’s findings into the shady business dealings and power-peddling of the Biden crime family. Upcoming hearings from the House of Representatives could avenge Trump after what many consider to be the stolen Presidential election of 2020.
As the impeachment probe of Joe Biden was launched, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius wrote in a surprising piece that Biden should not run for reelection, insisting that the now-president should have stopped Hunter Biden from joining the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, while he was Vice President. Read more According to Libby Emmons of The Post Millennial, a report from SoundInvestigations.com reveals that Pornhub CEO Mike Farley found a loophole around the age verification process for explicit, pornographic content. Farley says when videos are uploaded to the porn site with faces blurred out, Pornhub does not verify the ages of those in the videos.
An undercover reported for Sound Investigations recorded Pornhub CEO Mike Farley over dinner, who revealed that Pornhub site executives are aware of this loophole, and human traffickers and rapists are allegedly using this loophole of bypassing age verification to “make a lot of money.”
The story was first reported by Sound Investigations journalist, Arden Young. Watch the undercover video here.
It’s worth noting that PornHub’s parent company, MindGeek, is based out of Quebec, Canada. Sound Investigations asked Farley what would happen “if the government was to find out about this loophole. What would they do?”
“I don’t know,” Farley said, “They’re not going to do sh*t. They’ll do nothing.”
Farley says only the person who is uploading the videos to Pornhub has to provide an ID for age verification. Additionally, Farley told Sound Investigations that he, and his boss Ramsey Belmaaza, have brought up this concern to officers of the company, but that those officers do not want to hear about it.
Read Libby Emmons’ full story at The Post Millennial. Read more This morning, CNN reported that the White House sent a letter to top US news executives urging them to intensify their scrutiny of House Republicans after Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Spokesperson for the White House Counsels Office, Ian Sams, wrote, “It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies.” A White House official familiar with the matter says Biden’s administration sent the letter to organizations, including the CNN, the Associated Press, CBS News, Fox News, The New York Times, and others.
The White House insists that the impeachment inquiry has no supporting evidence, despite non-profit research group Marco Polo’s extensive reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop, among other findings.
In the last several months, investigations by the GOP House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have exposed the Biden crime family corruption through receipts, letters, and other sources. Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-R) and Rep. James Comer (KY-R) have led this charge. Read more Senator Mitt Romney (UT-R) has announced he will not be running for reelection in the U.S. Senate. On Wednesday, Senator Romney shared a video to his own profile on X.
He said, “I’ve spent my last 25 years in public service of one kind or another. At the end of another term, I’d be in my mid-eighties. Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders. They’re the one that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in.” Read more Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, 36, defeated Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev in the U.S. Open Men’s Final on Sunday night. With his 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 win over Daniil Medvedev, Djokovic won his fourth US Open trophy and his 24th Grand Slam title overall, per Yahoo Sports.
Djokovic has made waves by previously asking American authorities for special permission to enter the United States to play tennis tournaments in California and Florida earlier in 2023 despite being unvaccinated.
Speaking of his victory, The Guardian reported: “I don’t know where to start,” Djokovic says. “It obviously means the world to me. I’m kind of repeating myself but I have to say it every time: I’m really living my childhood dream to compete at the highest level in the sport that has given me and my family so much. Coming from very difficult circumstances and adversities, during the 90s, a couple of wars in our country, and being able to push through. Especially for my parents, giving a lot of sacrifice to support me to play. I love you so much.”
He continues: “To support me to play the sport, which is a very expensive sport. At that time, very expensive, not accessible, not affordable. But I fell in love with the tennis. No one has played tennis in my family before. It was quite a choice I must say. But incredible resilience, just belief from my parents and all the people around me. All these years, my wife, my kids, my team, everyone that is there. This is your trophy as much as it is mine. This is your success. I love you.”
Following his win, Djokovic paid tribute to his late friend, basketball legend Kobe Bryant: “Kobe was a close friend. … 24 is the jersey that he wore when he became a legend … so I thought it could be a nice symbolic thing to acknowledge him for all the things he’s done.” Read more IOWA — Donald J. Trump visited “the great state of Iowa” on Saturday to attend the Iowa State vs. Iowa football game. Crowds of supporters gathered around the former president as he made his way through Jack Trice Stadium in Ames.
Prior to the game, Trump enjoyed quality time with hundreds of members of Iowa State University fraternity house Alpha Gamma Rho, flipping hamburgers and throwing autographed footballs into the crowd.
Speaking to Right Side Broadcasting Network, the former president said “I guess the youth likes Trump.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also attended the rivalry game in Ames with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, who has not yet endorsed a candidate. Read more In a highly anticipated interview, last night Tucker Carlson interviewed Larry Sinclair, alleged gay lover of former president Barack Obama. During the interview, Sinclair details how he first met Obama in 1999 in Chicago by way of his limousine driver. Sinclair was visiting Chicago for his godson’s graduation, and was looking to “party and do drugs.”
As the interview progresses, Sinclair tells Tucker how he performed sexual acts on then-Illinois Senator Obama (IL-13) between the evening of November 6, 1999 in a limo and November 7, 1999 while staying at the Comfort Inn in Gurnee, Illinois. According to Sinclair, the pair was intimate while snorting and smoking crack cocaine together.
Sinclair claims he was unaware that Obama was a senator, and recalls the moment he saw the former president walk across the stage in 2004 to announce his presidential run. “I was in Mexico and hit the floor laughing [in disbelief].”
The full interview is available to watch on @TuckerCarlson account on “X”, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Carlson has a series of interviews he has shared to the public called “Tucker on X”. Former President Donald Trump and provocateur Andrew Tate are among the previous guests. Read more Newsweek journalist Ewan Palmer reported that the length of Fulton County Fani Willis’ election interference trial in Georgia may effect other trials involving Donald Trump, according to a legal expert. On Wednesday, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee will oversee a hearing on whether former Trump lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell can have their cases tried independently.
Willis intends to try all 19 defendants charged under her anti-racketeering investigation into alleged criminal attempts to overturn the 2020 election together, and has suggested her office is prepared to begin proceedings as soon as October 23, 2023.
Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman suggested in a series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis’ office will have a problem estimating how long it will take to present the state’s joint trial case of all 19 RICO trial defendants, as well as the number of witnesses and the size of the evidence likely to be introduced. Read more The question remains whether U.S. Attorney David Weiss, now a special counsel, will testify in three weeks before the House Judiciary Committee in connection to the Hunter Biden investigation. The Washington Examiner has reported that the Justice Department blocked other witnesses from complying with congressional subpoenas in House Republican probes into the Biden crime family.
Two days before Hunter Biden’s plea deal imploded at a court hearing, the Justice Department offered to make Weiss available for a public hearing before the House Judiciary Committee as soon as Sept. 27.
“While testimony at this early juncture must be appropriately limited to protect the ongoing matter and important confidentiality interests, the Department acknowledges your stated interest in addressing aspects of this matter in the near term,” Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte wrote to GOP committee chairmen on July 24.
Weiss’s appointment as special counsel was made after Hunter Biden’s unfortunate day in court on July 26, a moment that investigative reporter Sarah Bedford suggests may have also led to further cooperation between congressional investigators and the Justice Department.
DOJ officials told lawmakers last week that they would not allow two FBI agents who worked on the Hunter Biden investigation to comply with subpoenas for their testimony, citing the criminal proceedings and House Republicans’ push for the two agents to appear at depositions, in which DOJ lawyers could not accompany them. Read more After being booed out of his film screening, Woody Allen, 87, leaves Venice Film Festival in Italy alongside his wife Soon-Yi Previn, 52, who is his ex-girlfriend’s adopted daughter.
The Daily Mail reported that, “The couple’s relationship has been mired by controversy as Soon-Yi is the adopted daughter of Woody’s ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow.
Mia and Woody began dating in 1979, but 13 years later their relationship ended when Woody, then 55, and Soon-Yi, then 21, were caught having an affair.
Woody and his family were at Venice Film Festival for the premiere and first official screening of his film Coup De Chance.”
The festival was overshadowed by booing from opposition over allegations that he sexually assaulted his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, which he vehemently denies.
A group of protesters marched by Allen, chanting in Italian: ‘We are the loud and fierce shout of all the bodies that no longer have a voice.’
Allen’s film Coup De Chance will unlikely be screened in the US after Hollywood cut ties with him following his daughter’s allegations. Read more Republican officials in the House and Senate ripped into the Biden administration after it attempted to redefine what constitutes a recession while concerns mount about a significant decline in economic activity this year. Read more Former Vice President Al Gore likened on Sunday climate change deniers to law enforcement responding to the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Read more Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is facing backlash for assuring Americans that the southern border is “secure” amid record migrant encounters. Read more
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