The actual letter was only three and a half pages. The rest of it was doctored photos.
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Doctored?
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2 pages of photos of.... something........then 8 pages of state-by-state bullshit.
You haven't missed a thing.
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Cool, thanks!sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 6:35 pm2 pages of photos of.... something........then 8 pages of state-by-state bullshit.
You haven't missed a thing.
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(original USA Today)As FBI probed Jan. 6, many agents sympathized with insurrection, according to newly released email
Will Carless, USA TODAY
Sat, October 15, 2022 at 11:01 AM·
A "sizable percentage" of FBI employees felt sympathy towards the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, and considered the riot at the U.S. Capitol "no different than the BLM protests," according to a warning email sent to a top FBI official by someone with apparent connections to the bureau.
In the email, which is included in a trove of documents released by the bureau this week, the sender's name is redacted. The documents indicate the message came from an email address outside the bureau, though the subject line is "Internal concerns."
The email was sent to Paul Abbate, now the second highest official at the FBI, who responded an hour later, thanking the sender for the message.
USA TODAY investigation: FBI agents monitor social media. As domestic threats rise, the question is who they're watching
The Jan. 13, 2021, email contained a stark warning about attitudes toward the insurrection within the bureau:
“I literally had to explain to an agent from a ‘blue state’ office the difference between opportunists burning and looting during protests that stemmed legitimate grievance to police brutality vs. an insurgent mob whose purpose was to prevent the execution of democratic processes at the behest of a sitting president,” the email states. “One is a smattering of criminals, the other is an organized group of domestic terrorists.”
And it relayed concerns from agents within the bureau:
"I've spoken to multiple African American agents who have turned down asks to join SWAT because they do not trust that every member of their office's SWAT team would protect them in an armed conflict."
More: Police were warned about right-wing extremism as far back as 2009
Michael German, a former FBI special agent and a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program at New York University and an outspoken critic of the bureau, said the email didn't surprise him.
"It didn't tell me anything I didn't expect already, but I think it's important to substantiate the suspicions me and many other people had," German said. "They clearly are on notice about a much more serious problem within the FBI."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-probed-j ... 54385.html
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10/14/22
Trump Sends January 6th Committee a Note from His Podiatrist
By Andy Borowitz
Trump Sends January 6th Committee a Note from His Podiatrist
By Andy Borowitz
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowit ... podiatristWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Minutes after the congressional committee investigating the January 6th insurrection voted unanimously to subpoena the former President, Donald J. Trump responded by submitting a note from his podiatrist.
The foot specialist, Dr. Harland Dorrinson, indicated in the note that Trump’s chronic bone-spur issues, which had been asymptomatic in recent years, had suddenly “been acting up again.”
“This afternoon, Mr. Trump began experiencing unbearable pain consistent with bone-spur inflammation,” the podiatrist wrote. “For this reason, I cannot in good conscience give him permission to testify.”
The podiatrist’s note did not appear to discourage one committee member, Representative Liz Cheney, who volunteered to hoist Trump onto a luggage trolley and wheel him into the hearing room.
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I thought that was a real story until I saw the link. I yearn for the days that we could recognize satire just from reading the words. None of this is outside the scope for TFG and the Trumplicans.
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I think the recording was mentioned earlier
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney wrote: A three-judge panel has put a brief hold on Jan. 6 committee subpoena for Kelli Ward’s phone records while it considers her injunction request. The judges:
Silverman (Clinton)
Ikuta (George W. Bush)
Miller (Trump)
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The Jan 6 Committee will be getting more documents thanks to the crime-fraud exception.
Tim Walz’ Golden Rule: Mind your own damn business!
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So, in other words, those emails were between Trump and his attorney(s), but they are not attorney-client privileged, because Trump and his attorney(s) were conspiring to commit a crime.
I just want to be sure I understand this myself.
And the crime they were trying to commit was using false allegations to wrongfully overturn the results of the presidential election in Georgia.
And I can't help but think about all the incredible resources available to the President of the United States of America, how much awesome power he wields, and how many people are available to work his will ... but with Trump, of course, he was too stupid and lazy and incompetent and just such a loser that even with all that power and a team of dirty rats including the attorneys in question, in the end he was just plain flat unable to commit the crime.
He wasn't able to change the outcome in the Peach State, after he done got peached twice.
Him and his attorneys, conspiring to commit a crime, but they couldn't figure out how.
Cool story, broseph.
I just want to be sure I understand this myself.
And the crime they were trying to commit was using false allegations to wrongfully overturn the results of the presidential election in Georgia.
And I can't help but think about all the incredible resources available to the President of the United States of America, how much awesome power he wields, and how many people are available to work his will ... but with Trump, of course, he was too stupid and lazy and incompetent and just such a loser that even with all that power and a team of dirty rats including the attorneys in question, in the end he was just plain flat unable to commit the crime.
He wasn't able to change the outcome in the Peach State, after he done got peached twice.
Him and his attorneys, conspiring to commit a crime, but they couldn't figure out how.
Cool story, broseph.
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Truly a thing of beauty.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/pennsylvania ... 21752.html
(Reuters) - A U.S. grand jury has indicted a jailed Pennsylvania man for threatening to kill the chair of the congressional committee investigating the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Robert Vargo, 25, of Berwick, Pennsylvania, also threatened to kill the committee chair's family and President Joe Biden, prosecutors said.
He was charged with threatening the president of the United States, threat by interstate communications, and influencing a federal official by threat, the U.S. Attorney's office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said in a statement.
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Tim Walz’ Golden Rule: Mind your own damn business!
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Here ya go, Subpoena time. New dates to add to the calendar.
https://january6th.house.gov/sites/demo ... 0Trump.pdf
https://january6th.house.gov/sites/demo ... 0Trump.pdf
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
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Now we see the stall to come.
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Will Trump benefit from the example of Bannon?
Probably not.
Probably not.
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Someone is suspecting impotus to have forgotten to forward communications to the archive ?Volkonski wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 2:24 pm https://twitter.com/Brandi_Buchman/stat ... 4134040578Brandi Buchman@Brandi_Buchman
Replying to @Brandi_Buchman
The subpoena asks for quite a bit including: any records of calls, texts or comms he sent through the encrypted messaging app Signal, to members of Congress from Dec. 18, 2020, to Jan. 6, 2021.
The start date is a day before Trump sent out his tweet setting extremists in motion:
8:22 PM · Oct 21, 2022
Do they possibly have the copies from congressional recipients?
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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/2 ... d-00063039Court clears way for Jan. 6 probe to get Ward’s phone records
Ward argued that the subpoena violates her First Amendment rights by intruding on her activities as chairperson of the Arizona Republican Party.
A federal appeals court has turned down former Arizona GOP senate candidate Kelli Ward’s attempt to block a House committee subpoena for her phone records in connection with an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol building and other events related to the 2020 presidential election.
A divided panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals voted, 2-1, to deny Ward’s request for an order preventing telephone carrier T-Mobile from complying with the subpoena issued by the House select committee probing Jan. 6.
Ward argued that the subpoena violates her First Amendment rights by intruding on her activities as chairperson of the Arizona Republican Party, but the order issued Saturday by the appeals court panel’s majority said those concerns weren’t serious enough to keep the House from accessing details about her calls.
“The investigation, after all, is not about Ward’s politics; it is about her involvement in the events leading up to the January 6 attack, and it seeks to uncover those with whom she communicated in connection with those events. That some of the people with whom Ward communicated may be members of a political party does not establish that the subpoena is likely to reveal ‘sensitive information about [the party’s] members and supporters,’” wrote Judges Barry Silverman, appointed by President Bill Clinton, and Eric Miller, appointed by President Donald Trump.
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New: Hope Hicks, a former top Trump White House aide, is scheduled to sit for a transcribed interview with the House Jan. 6 committee today, per person familiar
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All these Rs with nothing to hide.
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Josh Gorestein @joshgerstein wrote: UPDATE: #SCOTUS Justice Kagan temporarily blocks House select committee subpoena for AZ GOP Chair Kelli Ward's phone records. House will weigh in by Friday. Via @kyledcheney @nicholaswu12
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