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Poor Blondi Is Out

First Donny got his panties in a twist with Noem and now he has dropped the ax on another woman in his cabinet, AG Blondi.

Reports that Attorney General Pam Bondi was on thin ice with President Trump turned out to be correct. Trump announced Thursday that Bondi’s time as AG has come to an end and that Deputy AG Todd Blanche will serve as her replacement. “Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900,” Trump added. “We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General”.

Sources tell NBC News that Trump had become “more and more” frustrated with Bondi in recent days, feeling she hadn’t “executed on his vision” in the way he wanted. According to Fox News‘ sources, Trump informed Bondi that her time was up on Wednesday in a meeting before his speech on Iran. She is the second Cabinet-level official to be fired in Trump’s second administration. Kristi Noem was fired as Homeland Security secretary early last month.

An excuse?

Since she took office seems she did everything Donny wanted and then some…..so why the ax?

President Trump said Thursday that Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general, ending the contentious tenure of a loyalist who upended the Justice Department’s culture of independence from the White House, oversaw large-scale firings of career employees, and moved aggressively to investigate the president’s perceived enemies.

  • The announcement follows months of scrutiny over the Justice Department’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation that made Bondi the target of angry conservatives despite her close relationship with Trump, the AP reports. She also struggled to satisfy Trump’s demands to prosecute his political rivals, with multiple investigations rejected by judges or grand juries or yet to produce charges.
  • Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, came into office last year pledging that she would not play politics with the Justice Department, but she quickly started investigations of Trump foes, sparking an outcry that the law enforcement agency was being wielded as a tool of revenge to advance the president’s political and personal agenda.
  • She ushered in a period of intense turmoil at the department that included the firings of career prosecutors deemed insufficiently loyal to Trump and the resignations of hundreds of other employees.
  • Bondi rejected accusations that she politicized the Justice Department and said her mission was to restore the institution’s credibility after overreach by Joe Biden’s administration with two federal criminal cases against Trump. Bondi’s public embrace of the president, however, marked a sharp departure from her predecessors, who generally took pains to maintain an arm’s-length distance from the White House to protect the impartiality of investigations and prosecutions. Bondi positioned herself as Trump’s chief supporter and protector, praising and defending him in congressional hearings and placing a banner with his face on the exterior of Justice Department headquarters.
  • You’ve turned the People’s Department of Justice into Trump’s instrument of revenge,” Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said at a February hearing. At the same hearing, Bondi responded to a question about Epstein’s accomplices by talking about the stock market, saying, “The Dow is up over 50,000 right now.”
  • Bondi struggled to overcome early stumbles over the Epstein files that angered conservatives eager for government bombshells about the case. She stoked conspiracy theories with a suggestion in a 2025 Fox News Channel interview that Epstein’s “client list” was sitting on her desk for review. The department later acknowledged that no such document exists.
  • Bondi was ridiculed over a move to hand out binders of Epstein files to conservative influencers at the White House, only for it to be later revealed that the documents included no new revelations. And despite promises that more files were going to become public, the Justice Department in July said no more would be released, prompting Congress to pass a bill to force the agency to do so.
  • Even Republicans began to challenge her, with the Republican-led House Oversight Committee last month issuing a subpoena to her to appear for a closed-door interview about the Epstein files.
  • Despite her loyalty, insiders say Trump had become increasingly frustrated with Bondi. A former White House official tells NBC News that failing to secure indictments “is a problem for job security with the president. No one is more anxious than Trump to get everything done immediately. He’s at a stage in life where he realizes that time goes fast. He wants action.”
  • “Good riddance. Pam Bondi was the wrong choice from the start,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on X. “But the rot at the Department of Justice begins and ends with Donald Trump. As long as his focus is on using DOJ as a tool for revenge and not law enforcement, the cover up of the Epstein files, along with the countless other problems at DOJ, will continue.”
  • Trump named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer as the acting attorney general, though sources tell the AP he has privately discussed Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, as a permanent pick. On X, Blanche praised Bondi for leading the Justice Department “with strength and conviction.” “Thank you to President Trump for the trust and the opportunity to serve as Acting Attorney General,” he said. “We will continue backing the blue, enforcing the law, and doing everything in our power to keep America safe.”

Did it all come back to the Epstein file?

Seems everything is being linked to that ‘file’.

Thoughts?

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Too Pathetic For Words

First you know how some politicians have sign language presenters when they have a statement to be made….well Uncle Donny wants them gone….

The White House is fighting against calls to restore live American Sign Language interpretation at press briefings, arguing in court that such a requirement would interfere with President Donald Trump’s authority to manage how he appears to the public.

That position is laid out in filings from Justice Department lawyers responding to a lawsuit that seeks to compel the administration to provide real-time ASL interpretation for official events. While the government has not spelled out exactly how interpreters would undermine the president’s public presentation, the argument arises as the second Trump administration continues to dismantle policies associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion, a campaign that began in the president’s first days back in office.

The White House is fighting against calls to restore live American Sign Language interpretation at press briefings, arguing in court that such a requirement would interfere with President Donald Trump’s authority to manage how he appears to the public.

That position is laid out in filings from Justice Department lawyers responding to a lawsuit that seeks to compel the administration to provide real-time ASL interpretation for official events. While the government has not spelled out exactly how interpreters would undermine the president’s public presentation, the argument arises as the second Trump administration continues to dismantle policies associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion, a campaign that began in the president’s first days back in office.

(face2face.com)

Typical of a dictator wannabe…all eyes must be on him….no wiggle room.

Then there is the AG, Blondi, that wants to put bounties on ‘domestic terrorists’….

A new Justice Department memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi instructs the FBI to create a “cash reward system” to incentivize providing information against domestic terrorists. However, it also makes it clear that the targets of such domestic terrorist investigations will be “Antifa-aligned extremists,” including those promoting “radical gender ideology.”

“The FBI shall establish a cash reward system for information that leads to the successful identification and arrest of individuals in the leadership of domestic terrorist organizations,” the memo reads. The memo, dated December 5, was leaked.

Bondi’s memo cites multiple laws that might be used to target domestic terrorism, but also lays out a clear vision for the priorities of the FBI in targeting suspected terrorists. Primary examples given are not the mass shootings and white supremacist actions that have plagued the nation; rather, the document names the “doxing of law enforcement” or the “violent efforts to shut down immigration enforcement.”

While it raises the specter of extreme viewpoints, they are not the ones that previous studies have linked most domestic terrorism to. Bondi’s memo suggests that the perpetrators are “certain Antifa-aligned extremists” and that their “animating principle is adherence to the types of extreme viewpoints on immigration, radical gender ideology, and anti-American sentiment.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/pam-bondi-wants-the-government-to-create-cash-bounties-for-turning-in-trans-equality-activists/

These people get more disgusting by the day….they are creating the American version of the Stasi (East German Security Forces)….this is most vile and insulting.

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Make Room For Bondi

Gaetz had the good sense (questionable) to withdraw his name from the list of Trump nominees….and now the AG spot will mostly go to Pam Bondi….

Just what is known about this nominee….besides she is a Trump boot licker and a fake blonde…..and if confirmed will be the first female attorney general…but there is more….

Matt Gaetz is out and Pam Bondi is in as the new nominee for attorney general. Here are some highlights from the slew of biographical pieces now moving about her:

  • A first: The big fact about the 59-year-old Bondi is that she served as the first female attorney general of Florida from 2011-2019, notes the AP. Before that, she was a prosecutor in Hillsborough County for nearly 20 years. She thus has far more experience for the post than Gaetz, as well as less political baggage. The Hill sees her as a “more palatable choice” for Senate Republicans.
  • As attorney general: The Tallahassee Democrathits key moments of her AG tenure, including how she led an unsuccessful multistate lawsuit to overturn ObamaCare. Bondi also “led a statewide effort to eliminate ‘pill mills,’ pulled the state into a lawsuit against Obama’s immigration policy, defended Florida’s same-sex marriage ban (although she has said she was simply upholding the constitution), co-authored a presidential report on the opioid crisis and worked with multiple agencies and legislators for programs and laws to fight fentanyl trafficking.”
  • Trump’s circle: Bondi was a Democrat until 2000 before switching parties. In more recent years, she has become “one of Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters,” per Politico. She worked on his first presidential transition team, assisted in his first impeachment fight, and played a public role in his effort to overturn the 2020 election. She is also close to Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump and is a partner at Ballard Partners, the lobbying firm previously run by incoming Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles.
  • Conservative bona fides: Bondi has leadership roles with the Center for Litigation and the Center for Law and Justice at the America First Policy Institute, per the Washington Post, which adds: “Her selection for a Cabinet role reinforces the right-wing think tank’s status as a leading source of political appointees for Trump’s second term.”
  • Controversies: In 2013, Bondi apologized for getting the execution of a prisoner delayed in Florida because it conflicted with a political fundraiser for her. Bondi was accused of improperly accepting a $25,000 donation from Trump in 2013 as she weighed joining a case against Trump University. She eventually opted not to join the litigation, per the New York Times. Politico also notes an odd controversy involving a dog she adopted in 2005 after it became separated from its owners during Hurricane Katrina. She ended up returning the animal after a 16-month legal fight.

She is a scary person and the nation should brace themselves for her rule…..and her control over the law enforcement mechanism.

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Stop Calling For Unity!

For decades the magic term in DC has been bi-partisanship or more comically called ‘compromise’…..and to this day there are some mindless dweebs that are still calling for and believing in this ‘unity’.

Trump’s possible candidate for AG has made it clear what will not happen after this past election.  (I know Gaetz is gone Bondi is in….I wrote this draft before he withdrew)

Mike Davis, a Republican lawyer and former Senate aide whose name has repeatedly come up as a potential attorney general in the next Trump administration, seems bent on revenge against Democrats even after the former president’s big win Tuesday night.

“Here’s my current mood,” Davis wrote on X Wednesday morning. “I want to drag their dead political bodies through the streets, burn them, and throw them off the wall. (Legally, politically, and financially, of course.)“

In the past, Davis has said he wants to imprison journalists in “gulags,” though the line between what Davis calls “trolling” and his earnest dialogue sometimes isn’t easily discernible, as a Politico profile from September noted.

In any event, Davis‘ string of posts following Trump’s win made no mention of taking the “high road,” so to speak.

“F— unity. We have the votes. And they tried to kill Trump,” he wrote in another post minutes earlier, making an overly broad reference to “they.”

His statements pretty much sums up the hatred that is ruling over the government and its cogs.

Now for the Democrats….for decades they have embraced the stupidity the bi-partisanship was the way to govern…..now how has that worked out?

This last election their base went the way of the dodo….

One of the focal points of Harris’ campaign was her outreach to women voters. She made this election about freedom for women to make decisions about their own bodies and reproductive health.

And while this message did resonate with many women – in particular younger women – it didn’t with others. According to exit polls by the Associated Press, 47% of women over the age of 45 voted for Trump, as well as 43% of women aged 18-44. More than half of white women overall also voted for Trump (53%).

Exit polls by CNN also found that while Harris did better than Hillary Clinton in 2016 with white women with college degrees, white women without degrees overwhelmingly supported Trump.

This says a lot about the decisions that some women made in the election. It seems possible that what Trump was able to do was give these women enough wiggle room to reconcile what might seem to be otherwise irreconcilable. For instance, they could perhaps believe that Trump wouldn’t actually implement a national abortion ban, simply because he has said he would not. Or they may simply believe that Trump’s policies wouldn’t necessarily apply to them.

https://theconversation.com/why-did-white-women-and-the-democratic-base-abandon-kamala-harris-my-view-from-the-campaign-trail-243136

Democrats need a new plan…this centrist BS has gotten them nowhere and has done little for the people that voted for them.

They whisper and shout a lot about the wealth inequality during campaigns and have little plan after they lose….

America has gone through many ups and downs since the civil rights era, but one thing has remained remarkably constant: In 1970, 12.6 percent of Americans were considered poor; in 2023, that number was 11.1 percent — or 36.8 million people. “To graph the share of Americans living in poverty over the past half-century amounts to drawing a line that resembles gently rolling hills,” the sociologist Matthew Desmond wrote last year.

It might seem as though the persistence of poverty in the United States says something about how intractable the problem is. This is, after all, the richest country in the world. If America can’t rid itself of poverty, then who can? But it’s not that America can’t do it; it’s that it chooses not to.

That said, there isn’t a single answer to why so many Americans continue to be stuck in poverty. It is true, for example, that the American welfare system is broken, consistently undermined, and, in some cases, set up to fail. Studies have shown that programs like work requirements don’t work, and states have been caught hoarding billions of dollars worth of welfare funds instead of distributing them among the people they’re intended for.

https://www.vox.com/policy/374488/ending-poverty-america-policy-choice

Dems need a new plan….but that would mean going against the hand that feeds them, special interests, and if history since 1992 has taught anything is that they will not go against the powers that control the party.

So they will continue to offer platitudes and the GOP will continue winning elections.

We need a new party, a progressive party, that has the best interests in the people of this country and not the profits of the corporations.

This may be wishful thinking and as long as stupidity reigns there will be no change.

The party will not move forward without change.

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Gaetz For AG

The DC rumor mill is all a buzz with news that Trump may tap Rep. Matt Gaetz for the Attorney General spot on his cabinet…..

President-elect Trump has made his pick for attorney general and will nominate Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz. Trump makes the case for Gaetz in a lengthy Truth Social post that reads in part:

“Matt is a deeply gifted and tenacious attorney, trained at the William & Mary College of Law, who has distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice. Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan Weaponization of our Justice System. Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department. On the House Judiciary Committee, which performs oversight of DOJ, Matt played a key role in defeating the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, and exposing alarming and systemic Government Corruption and Weaponization. He is a Champion for the Constitution and the Rule of Law. Matt will root out the systemic corruption at DOJ, and return the Department to its true mission of fighting Crime, and upholding our Democracy and Constitution.”

On X, Gaetz replied, “It will be an honor to serve as President Trump’s Attorney General!”

I disagree with Donald….Gaetz not gifted just a major distraction….but my opinion does not matter for there is more news….

It is a Trump show and as always there has got to be a twist here and there….

Matt Gaetz resigned from the House of Representatives Wednesday shortly after President-elect Donald Trump announced his nomination of Gaetz for attorney general. The Florida Republican thus seems to have squashed the House Ethics Committee probe into allegations of sex trafficking, sexual misconduct, and drug use, though reports on the status of that are unclear. Per Politico, the committee was set to release its report on the investigation within days, and with Gaetz’s resignation, it is unlikely to be formally released (though it could still be leaked). The Hill, however, reports that the probe was in its final stages, but will go no further because Congress no longer has any jurisdiction to investigate Gaetz.

“He issued his resignation letter effective immediately from Congress. That caught us by surprise a little bit,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters during a Wednesday night press conference. Johnson said Gaetz resigned so that his seat could be filled more quickly, but Politico’s sources speculate he actually made his abrupt exit in order to end the ethics investigation. Among other things, Gaetz is accused of having sex with a minor. Politico’s sources also say Gaetz’s fellow Republicans cheered his departure due to bad blood after his role in the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

What trickery is this?

He has rubbed many the wrong way will he be confirmed?

I am not the only person questioning this selection….this disbelief comes from fellow Republicans.

Reaction was swift and intense following President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that Matt Gaetz (who quickly resigned from the House of Representatives) is his pick for attorney general. Outlets including the Guardian, the New York Times, Newsweek, Axios, NBC News, ABC News, NPR, Mediaite, the New Republic, CNN, and even the conservative Washington Examiner were using words like “stunned” to describe the reaction of Gaetz’s fellow Republicans to the announcement that the embattled former lawmaker, who was recently investigated by the Department of Justice for alleged sexual misconduct, would be considered to lead that same department. (The Times went with “alarm and dismay,” while Axios went with “shocked and appalled.”)

Multiple sources reported there was an “audible gasp” among House Republicans who were meeting when Trump’s announcement was made. A reporter said she saw one House Republican laughing so hard he started crying, and a Republican senator reportedly “snorted” when hearing the news. Some quotes from others in the GOP:

  • “I was shocked at the nomination,” Sen. Susan Collins said. “This is why the Senate’s advise and consent process is so important. I’m sure that there will be many, many questions raised at Mr. Gaetz’s hearing.”
  • “I don’t think it’s a serious nomination for the attorney general,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski. “We need to have a serious attorney general. And I’m looking forward to the opportunity to consider somebody that is serious. This one was not on my bingo card.”
  • “Gaetz has a better shot at having dinner with Queen Elizabeth II than being confirmed by the Senate,” Rep. Max Miller said, calling the appointment “silly” and saying he thinks even Trump knows Gaetz will never be confirmed.
  • Rep. Don Bacon put it bluntly when asked for a comment: “I’ve got no good comment.” Rep. Mike Simpson was similarly blunt when asked if Gaetz has the character to be AG: “Are you sh—ing me?” From Sen. Tommy Tuberville: “Holy cow.” From Sen. Joe Manchin: “No one could believe it” when news broke on the floor of the Senate.
  • Lawmakers who spoke anonymously got even more blunt. “We wanted him out of the House … this isn’t what we were thinking,” said one.
  • Others, however, expressed at least tentative acceptance of Gaetz as AG, with a few suggesting they’d support whomever Trump picks for any role. “I’m not surprised that the president picked somebody that is going to shake it up, particularly at the Department of Justice,” said Sen. Shelley Capito, who added that Gaetz “still has to go through the process, he still has to be vetted by the Judiciary Committee, and I think that is going to be the biggest indication as to whether he meets the standards of an attorney general.”
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham, who said he’s “inclined to support” whomever Trump chooses, echoed those remarks. “Confirmation hearings will be important. [Gaetz] will have some tough questions to answer.” On the subject of confirmation hearings, Sen. Joni Ernst said—while chuckling—”He’s got his work really cut out for him.”
  • Sen. Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick for secretary of state, was one of the people taking the president-elect’s side. “I like Matt a lot. I know him very well, and I’m confident that if the Senate confirms him, he would do a good job,” Rubio said. “And again, the presidents are entitled to have the people that they want in these key positions to carry out the mandate that’s been delivered to him by the voters of the United States.”
  • One person who’s unequivocally happy for Gaetz is his longtime ally Lauren Boebert. “So proud of my friend and America’s next Attorney General, @mattgaetz!” she posted on X. “We’ve stood together. We’ve fought together. We’ve won together.”

It’s gonna be a long four years.

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Closing Thought–11May21

Finally Trump’s lawyer at the DOJ, AG Bill Barr has been called out by a couple of judges for his part in the obfuscating of the investigation conducted by Mueller…..

A federal judge has ordered the release of a legal memorandum the Trump-era Justice Department prepared for then-Attorney General William Barr before he announced his conclusion that then-President Trump had not obstructed justice during the Russia investigation, the AP reports. The Justice Department had refused to give the March 24, 2019, memorandum to a government transparency group that requested it under the Freedom of Information Act, saying the document represented the private advice of lawyers and was produced before any formal decision had been made and was therefore exempt from disclosure under public records law. But US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, in a sharp rebuke of Barr, said the Justice Department had obscured “the true purpose of the memorandum” when it withheld the document.

She said the memo from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel contained “strategic, as opposed to legal advice” and that both the writers and the recipients already understood that Trump would not be prosecuted. Though government agencies may withhold from disclosure documents that reflect internal deliberations before a decision is made, that protection does not apply in this case since a conclusion had already been reached, the judge wrote. “In other words, the review of the document reveals that the Attorney General was not then engaged in making a decision about whether the President should be charged with obstruction of justice; the fact that he would not be prosecuted was a given,” Jackson said in an order dated Monday. The judge said the Justice Department has until May 17 to file any motion to stay the order.

Will this sycophant that covered Trump’s ass for years finally be exposed for the dullard he truly is and made to be accountable for the lies and misinformation that was the hallmark of Trump and his administration.

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Closing Thought–15Dec20

Barr leaves the admin for better days?

Trump’s Pit Bull has decided he has had enough or was it Trump that it was time for him to go spend time with his family?

Minutes after California’s Electoral College votes made President-elect Joe Biden’s victory official, President Trump made a big announcement—but it wasn’t a concession. Trump said Attorney General William Barr has resigned and will be leaving his administration as of Dec. 23, reports Reuters. “Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House,” Trump tweeted. “Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job!” Trump said Barr “will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family” and Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen will become acting attorney general.

Sources tell the AP that Trump spent most of Monday watching Electoral College results and calling allies, but broke away to meet Barr. In a resignation letter shared by Trump, Barr said he had updated the president on his “review of voter fraud allegations in the 2020 election and how these allegations will continue to be pursued.” Barr told Trump he was “proud to have played a role in the many successes and unprecedented achievements you have delivered for the American people.” The resignation follows tension between Trump and Barr over the president’s election fraud claims and Barr’s refusal to disclose investigations of Hunter Biden’s finances during the campaign

Who believes that excuse?

Those that do please contact me for I have a bridge I would like to sell them.

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A “Gestapo” Coming Soon

Looks like that fascist police dud AG Barr has a new idea to make all protests illegal…..

Attorney General William Barr is reportedly forming a task force to address “anti-government extremists.”

Barr outlined the group in a memo obtained by The Washington Post.

“Although these extremists profess a variety of ideologies, they are united in their opposition to the core constitutional values of a democratic society governed by law,” Barr reportedly wrote in the memo. “Some pretend to profess a message of freedom and progress, but they are in fact forces of anarchy, destruction, and coercion.”

Barr’s efforts come amid weeks of nationwide protests sparked by the May 25 death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police that extremists groups have used to create chaos – including violence and the destruction of property

The report about the task force also came on the same day that President Trump signed an executive order that bolsters existing law and that could send those who destroy federal statues to a maximum 10 years in prison.

Trump has said “anarchists” and “extremists” are among those committing such acts.

Barr said Friday on Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s podcast that the already existing, federal Joint Terrorism Task Force has 500 active investigations into acts of violence during recent protests.

(justthenews.com)

As an old radical….I see shades of COINTELPRO……

HUH?

COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was the official name of the programmatic project conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under state-sponsored terrorist J. Edgar Hoover. It’s stated aim was the spying on, infiltrating, discrediting, disrupting and destruction of domestic organizations and individuals it considered “subversive”. According to the FBI, “intensified attention under this program should be afforded to the activities of such groups as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Revolutionary Action Movement, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, Congress of Racial Equality, and the Nation of Islam.“

On March 8, 1971, a group of anonymous activists broke into the small, two-man office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Media, Pa., and stole more than 1,000 FBI documents that revealed years of systematic wiretapping, infiltration and media manipulation designed to suppress dissent.  The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, as the group called itself, forced its way in at night with a crowbar while much of the country was watching the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight. When agents arrived for work the next morning, they found the file cabinets virtually emptied.

Within a few weeks, the documents began to show up — mailed anonymously in manila envelopes with no return address — in the newsrooms of major American newspapers.

COINTELPRO tactics included discrediting targets through psychological warfare, planting false reports in the media, smearing through forged letters, harassment, wrongful imprisonment, extralegal violence and assassination. Covert operations under COINTELPRO took place between 1956 and 1971, however the U.S. Government has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception and continues to this day.

FBI COINTELPRO: The U.S. Government’s War Against Dissent

Somethings never change……a conserv that wants to end all dissent….never mind the right we have to dissent…..

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You Have A Friend At DOJ

Soon to be a song recorded by pedophile Ted Nugent……(snark)

If you are in the pocket of Donald the Orange then you have a free ticket to act and do as he sees fit….with that traitor Barr at DOJ Trump sycophants can literally get away with murder on 5th Avenue (I heard that somewhere before)…..

Another criminal is about to get away with his crimes simply because he is a Trump worshiper…..this d/bag has pleaded guilty but he has the Orange dolt on his side…..

Who?

A big win for President Trump: The Justice Department said Thursday it is dropping the criminal case against Michael Flynn, per the AP. The case involving Trump’s first national security adviser had become a rallying cry for the president and his supporters in attacking the FBI’s Russia investigation. The move is a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. It comes even though prosecutors for the last three years had maintained that Flynn had lied to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in a January 2017 interview. Flynn himself admitted as much, and became a key cooperator for Mueller as he investigated ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.

In court documents being filed Thursday, the Justice Department said it is dropping the case “after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information.” The Justice Department said it had concluded that Flynn’s interview by the FBI was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn” and that the interview on January 24, 2017, was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.” The US attorney reviewing the Flynn case, Jeff Jensen, recommended the move to Attorney General William Barr last week and formalized the recommendation in a document this week. The decision is certain to be embraced by Trump, but it will likely add to Democratic concerns that Attorney General William Barr is excessively loyal to the president.

This illustrates that if you kneel before the god of idiocy enough you can get away with any crime you choose.

Don’t try this at your next court appearance….this is a one off for Trump’s “piss boys” (you need to watch “History of the World Part One” to understand that)……

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When Did AG Become The Head Fascist?

AG Barr has always been a goon that will do whatever he is told even when he is committing a crime…..(but that has been covered before)……our Orange president has thumped his chest about re-opening the country consequences be damn……and now like a good little lap dog Barr has threatened states that Trump is pissed with…..

Among those not happy with the strict stay-home orders in place across much of America: William Barr. The attorney general said Tuesday that the orders, which he called “disturbingly close to house arrest,” did their job—but their time is now passing. “There are very, very burdensome impingements on liberty,” he told radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, per NBC News and NPR. “And we adopted them for the limited purpose of slowing down the spread. We didn’t adopt them as the comprehensive way of dealing with this disease. We are now seeing that these are bending the curve, and we have to come up with more targeted approaches.”

He acknowledged that many of the restrictions imposed by various governors are within the powers granted to states to protect public health, but said some of them may interfere with interstate commerce, which is under the jurisdiction of the federal government. In cases where governors go “too far,” he said, “we’ll have to address that.” He noted that one course of action might involve the federal government joining lawsuits fighting the restrictions. “I’m not saying [ordering people to stay home] wasn’t justified. I’m not saying in some places it might still be justified,” Barr added. “But it’s very onerous, as is shutting down your livelihood.”

Then there is Trump’s “lovefest” with the Saudis…….Trump promised that he would help families of the dead get to the bottom of their suspicions…..Barr has reneged on that promise (which means Trump has for Barr does not take a poop without Trump’s permission)….

The move comes after President Donald Trump promised to help families, who accuse Saudi Arabia of complicity in the attacks. Barr says he cannot even explain why the material must stay secret without putting national security at risk.

Months after President Donald Trump promised to open FBI files to help families of the 9/11 victims in a civil lawsuit against the Saudi government, the Justice Department has doubled down on its claim that the information is a state secret.

In a series of filings just before a midnight court deadline on Monday, the attorney general, William Barr; the acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell; and other senior officials insisted to a federal judge in the civil case that further disclosures about Saudi connections to the 9/11 plot would imperil national security.

https://www.propublica.org/article/attorney-general-barr-refuses-to-release-9-11-documents-to-families-of-the-victims

Barr is helping the Saudis with their PR campaign that is trying to smooth over their numerous human rights abuses….

the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has faced a new round of negative publicity over its partnership with MiSK, the private foundation of Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman (MbS). In the latest headlines, UNESCO sought to distance itself from alleged Saudi spy Ali Alzabarah, a MiSK official who faces trial in absentia in the United States for allegedly spying for Saudi officials while employed by Twitter.

The recent news offers insights into MbS’s ongoing strategies to build power. Through MiSK and other efforts, MbS is attempting to build an aura of legitimacy in the public arena while continuing his tactics of repression at home and abroad. Sometimes, MbS is even employing the same people to do both.

How we can expose the Saudi dictatorship and blunt its public relations campaigns

AG Barr is a spineless sycophant and the sooner we dump his ass the sooner some dignity will return to the DOJ.

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