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he Sixth Amendment promises ‘an impartial jury of the state and district” as well as “to be confronted with the witnesses against him’ and “to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor.” Yet, Steve Bannon enjoyed none of those. His trial in the District of Columbia for “contempt” of a committee of Congress that formed in violations of its very authenticating, originating terms. Denied the right to challenge his accuser, as the very Speaker and committee members who claimed “contempt” never testified in the trial, dodging it instead. His subpoenas for them, and other essential witnesses, all refused and denied. Turns out it’s okay to ignore a subpoena, even a court-issued one in a criminal trial issued pursuant to a Constitutionally guaranteed right. Then adjudged guilty by a jury made up of the Swamp itself judging one of its harshest critics.

The Barnes Brief: Weekend of October 21, 2022

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[stgislander]

Wear it like a badge of honor Steve.

 

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Horowitz: One of the most powerful Republicans supports expanding funding for FBI J6 witch hunt



Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) is a top appropriator and is likely going to be the Rules Committee chairman of the next Congress. In other words, he will control the flow to the floor for every bill and has a big say in in the entire budget process. He is also a man who believes we are not spending enough money on Fourth Reich agenda items, including the persecution of Trump supporters on January 6 – and beyond.

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So what exactly would be funded by people like Tom Cole with an expanded investigation? Thanks to FBI Special Agent Steve Friend coming to Senator Grassley as a whistleblower, we know it won’t even be used for January 6. “ FBI domestic terrorism cases are being opened on innocent American citizens who were nowhere near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, based on anonymous tips to an FBI hotline or from Facebook spying on their messages,” reports the New York Post, based on Friend’s complaint. “These tips are turned into investigative tools called ‘guardians,’ after the FBI software that collates them.”

Thus, Cole and the other RINOs literally want to fund the dissolution of the foundation of democracy. And he will essentially be the next chairman of all the chairmen in the upcoming Congress.

Tom Cole exemplifies the GOP old bull leaders who will largely run the GOP-controlled House … into the ground. They accept all the premises of the Left on the major issues of our time – be it political persecution, COVID, or Ukraine. This is why they are in a rush to give Democrats everything they want in the omnibus bill before January rather than extending the stopgap bill into next year so that their own leaders will be able to write the budget and defund tyranny.

But then he turns around and uses broad bromides that the base wants to hear to project the image of a conservative.

 

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PELOSI COVER UP: Now we know why Democrats lied about Trump’s National Guard Offer​

Julie Kelly over at American Greatness has chronicled the lies by the US Capitol Police, none of which have been corrected, for historical record, by the committee. The list of lies, including Kamala Harris’ whereabouts, by the Department of Justice and security apparatus continues to grow month by month.

It was only this year that we learned there were “shoot-to-kill squads” embedded around protestors and within the Capitol. What else might we not know? What has the committee missed in its political pursuit to dig up criminal referrals against President Donald J. Trump and his top allies?

All of these facts begin to look like a clean-up job.

Even more curious, the committee has not investigated the one person tasked with maintaining (including security) the US Capitol grounds, Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Why hasn’t Nancy Pelosi testified under oath about preparations she took or didn’t take in preparation for the largest protest and lawful objections to the certification of some of the Electoral College votes?

The UCSP Chief says that Pelosi’s security boss didn’t like the “optics” of declaring an emergency, which would’ve been legally required to mobilize the guard, and it be made to appear that the Speaker had lost control.

Her dereliction of duty created no backstop for the protests to run into before parts of it became a riot.

Is this why Pelosi won’t release the 14,000 hours of video surveillance at the Capitol? This footage is immune to FOIA requests.

A day after the conflict, we learned that the Department of Defense offered the USCP the National Guard three days prior to the planned objections on January 6th.

This wasn’t a passive request either. According to testimony that predates the formation of the select committee from Chris Miller, the acting head of defense, the president actually inquired if the District’s mayor had requested the National Guard. He authorized him to “fill” any requests. This is a constitutional and legal distinction as the president cannot order the guard in without a request. He can only authorize.

For nearly two years, Trump has told the world that this was the case ping ponging between offers of 10,000 and 20,000 guardsmen.

This summer, Kash Patel, who was appointed Chief of Staff for Miller, released an “unclassified” memo detailing the steps the department took to offer security to the District and Congress. Patel, too, confirms that the president not only authorized his government to fulfill any requests but actually suggested it himself.






This ‘he said, she said’ fight appeared to come to a conclusion with October 13th’s hearing airing footage no one knew existed. This footage followed Members of Congress as they carried out their duties on January 6th.

The footage was shot by Pelosi’s filmmaker daughter, Alexandra Pelosi (and her team), who was apparently there for national security briefings at Fort McNair, filming calls with government officials, we learned things that had not previously been made public about the woman tasked with keeping the Capitol secure and safe for permitted protests.

Daughter Pelosi sold her film to HBO and teed up CNN, which is owned by the same parent company, with exclusive footage which aired extended scenes during primetime following the hearing. Yes, the January 6th Select Committee was used and coordinated to tease the trailer of a director’s preview for this Pelosi film and familial profit. Perfect “wrap up smear.”

On the film, Speaker Pelosi frantically called for guardsmen that she and her team had previously rejected. Both she and Chuck Schumer appeared to violate the separation of powers and attempt to direct cabinet secretaries and their security posture. They injected chaos into the various coordinating law enforcement agencies by calling governors, the mayor, and Trump’s cabinet officials. All to get troops down to the Capitol.

She was first to call it an “insurrection” and alleged on her calls with officials that the president had “instigated” the riot in stark contrast to his calls to walk down “peacefully and patriotically” down to the permitted protests after his speech at the Ellipse. We learned that she couldn’t plead ignorance because she watched the speech from her office.

Amidst the chaos—all captured on film—Pelosi realizes she failed in her duty as Speaker of the House. Permitted protests were to take place on the Capitol grounds and her team had rejected the National Guard that President Trump had offered which would’ve kept crowds well-directed and well-behaved.

 

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Emergency Broadcast: J-6 Political Prisoner Jake Lang Put in Isolation in Maximum Security Prison for Recording Audio for TGP – HAS NEVER BEEN CONVICTED OF A CRIME, HAS BEEN JAILED SINCE JAN 2021 – AUDIO​

American Political Prisoner Jake Lang has been in prison since January 16, 2021, almost 23 months now.

Jake Lang witnessed Roseann Boyland’s death on January 6th, something the media has almost completely ignored. Jake was on the ground with Rosanne when she died.

Jake Lang witnessed police viciously pushing Roseanne Boyland and the crowd. The police beat her, and doused her and others with pepper spray and tear gas. Jake saw Phillip Anderson, unconscious and crushed by the police and crowd, right next to Boyland. He lifted Anderson and dragged him out of the pile and, with others, Jake carried Phillip away from the scene, saving his life. This story has been confirmed by Anderson, who credits Jake Lang with rescuing him that day

 

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Informant Likely to Testify as Defense Witness in Oath Keepers Sedition Trial


A man who served as No. 2 to Stewart Rhodes, the group’s leader, is said to have secretly reported to the F.B.I. in the months leading up to the Jan. 6 attack.


The informant, Greg McWhirter, served as the Oath Keepers’ vice president but was secretly reporting to the F.B.I. about the group’s activities in the weeks and months leading up to the Capitol attack, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Despite their relationship with Mr. McWhirter, federal prosecutors decided not to call him as a government witness at the trial of Mr. Rhodes and his four co-defendants, which is now unfolding in Federal District Court in Washington. The prosecution rested its case last week without calling other key cooperating witnesses, including three members of the Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy charges.

Mr. McWhirter, 40 and a former sheriff’s deputy in Montana, was expected to appear at the trial on Tuesday as a witness for Mr. Rhodes — an unusual move that suggests Mr. Rhodes’s lawyers believe he has information that could help their case.

 

[GURPS]

Wait just a minute… Christopher Wray quietly retires top Jan 6 Fedsurrection henchman Steven D’Antuono…​

In a move that a former FBI official described to Revolver as “bizarre” and “unheard of,” Assistant Director in charge of the FBI Steven D’Antuono has announced his retirement from the Bureau.

Those following our reporting will recognize that D’Antuono led the Whitmer Kidnapping entrapment hoax, before being promoted to the coveted DC office where he went on to be the public face of the FBI’s notorious “pipe bomb investigation” as well as one of the key henchmen protecting the Fedsurrection narrative. Revolver’s FBI source described D’Antuono’s position as Assistant Director of the DC office as a “rocketship position… people vault from the Assistant Director position into the 7th Floor of Hoover… it is a position for climbers.” To take an example, the disgraced Andy McCabe of Russiagate fame used a similar position in the Washington Field Office as a stepping stone to top management.

The great Julie Kelly has the receipts regarding the D’Antuono retirement:

 

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I’m sure you are totally shocked by this news. Who could have possibly guessed that Christopher Wray’s FBI, which ran an entrapment scheme involving Gretchen Whitmer prior to the 2020 election, would end up having been intimately involved in the lead-up to January 6th?

You have to admire the framing by the Times, though, pondering how much “federal investigators were able to learn from them about the violent mob attack.” Yes, I’m sure that’s a real mystery. Conversely, the FBI agents likely knew exactly what was being discussed the whole time, which would mean one of two things.

One possibility is that the Proud Boys weren’t planning an insurrection and that conservatives who have called it a spontaneous event have been right all along. That would nuke all the deranged attempts to suggest that Republicans, including Donald Trump, somehow orchestrated the entry into the Capitol Building. The other possibility is that the FBI knew a riot was going to take place and did nothing to stop it, instead letting it play out for political reasons. Wouldn’t that be something? Yet, I wouldn’t even begin to put it past them.

In Completely Unforeseeable Twist, January 6th 'Conspiracy Theory' Turns out to Be True

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FBI Had 8 Spies Inside Proud Boys Before January 6 and It Raises Big Questions​

“The existence of the informants came to light over the past few days in a flurry of veiled court filings by defense lawyers for five members of the Proud Boys,” wrote The New York Times.

The revelation came during a closed hearing for five of the group’s members who go on trial next month on seditious conspiracy charges related to the J-6 breach.

Attorneys for the five Proud Boys members want full disclosure of informants’ communications with the FBI because they believe the official record would show there was no conspiracy to storm the Capitol that day and absolve Enrique Tarrio, Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola of the charges. Indeed, their attorneys asked for charges to be dropped against the defendants.

The New York Times reported that a previous informant infiltrating the Proud Boys in Kansas City reported there was no conspiracy to storm the Capitol, though “as a relatively low-level member of the group it is possible that he was simply not privy to the making of such plans.”

 

[GURPS]

Garland Moves To Transform J6 Inquisition Into A Permanent Prosecution​

All Americans want — and deserve — is an attorney general who cares about the law. Garland, however, is far from it. Look no further than his refusal to appoint a special prosecutor on Hunter Biden, whose father, serving as president, presents a legitimate conflict of interest worthy of an independent probe. Garland is a political activist with an axe to grind after his 2016 Supreme Court nomination was thwarted by the man he’s now pledged to prosecute to the ends of the Earth.

The appointment of a second special counsel to sic on Trump is the natural response of a Democrat to the ex-president’s pursuit of a second term. The Russia hoax failed. The impeachment over a fabricated scandal in Ukraine failed. Prosecution over the Emoluments Clause failed, and the Jan. 6 Committee failed to serve the long-sought indictment that’s become the top item on the Democrats’ policy agenda for six years.

Now that the Select Committee’s days are numbered with an incoming Republican majority, Garland’s move to bring a special counsel into the mix is a move to cement the Jan. 6 inquiry into a forever investigation. But while the panel admitted their investigation was all about last week’s midterms in March, Garland is pretending his department’s politized investigations are all about public integrity.

“Such an appointment underscores the Department’s commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters,” Garland said Friday. “It also allows prosecutors and agents to continue their work expeditiously and to make decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law.”

 

[GURPS]

The ‘Insurrection!’ House of Cards Is Collapsing​

During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday, Representative Clay Higgins (R-La.) angrily demanded to know more details about the use of FBI informants related to the Capitol protest. Higgins twice asked Wray whether FBI informants disguised as Trump supporters were planted inside the building even before protesters gained entry.

When Wray offered his usual obfuscating tap dance about protecting sources and methods—“the suggestion that the FBI’s confidential human sources or FBI employees in some way instigated or orchestrated January 6th, that’s categorically false,” he indignantly insisted—Higgins called his bluff. “It should be a no!” he yelled when Wray wouldn’t give a straight answer.

Ironically, Wray was saved from directly responding by none other than Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-La.), the chairman of the January 6 select committee. One would assume the lawmaker in charge of the 18-month congressional investigation into the events of January 6 would force Wray to respond. Thompson should have been shocked at the suggestion the FBI stationed assets dressed as Trump supporters inside the Capitol prior to the breach.

Further, given reporting by friendly regime news organizations such as the New York Times confirming the existence of FBI informants months before January 6, Thompson and his fellow Democrats should have blasted Wray for either inept sources or a complete failure to collect accurate intelligence from those informants. Where’s the outrage that Wray concealed this information from the public and various congressional inquiries?

Wray has misled Congress for nearly two years by insisting his agency was caught off guard by what happened that afternoon—so why didn’t Thompson and committee Democrats condemn Wray instead of rescuing him from a legitimate question?

It was a telling moment.




Defund the Directors Office

 

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Florida Court Finds Jeremy Brown Innocent on 4 of 10 Charges​

Jeremy was approached to work as an operative for the FBI in December 2020 at the January 6 protests in Washington DC. He refused the FBI and spoke out about their proposal. So, seven months later the FBI arrested Jeremy at his home in Florida.

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The attorney for Jeremy Brown, Mr. Roger Futerman, alleged on Wednesday that the FBI “planted” evidence in this case during his opening statements.

As The Gateway Pundit reporter Brian Lupo earlier reported — The accusation is understandable when the chain of custody and documentation of evidence presented at the trial was so atrocious.

The military-grade M67 grenades found in Brown’s RV during the raid can only be tracked by lot number and where they’ve been, not the dates that they were there.

They also found human hair, dog hair, and textile fibers stuck to the tape on the grenades that had allegedly been in Brown’s possession for months, since Jan. 6, 2021, but none of the hairs or fibers matched Brown, Brown’s dog, or the carpet samples taken from his RV nor his girlfriend’s home.

The DNA found on the tape of one of the grenades was of two males but neither of the samples belonged to Jeremy Brown.

Brown maintains that the two illegal firearms are, in fact, his (more on that Friday) but the plate carrier (body armor) and grenades were planted.

On Monday the Tampa jury found Jeremy Brown guilty of six of the ten counts.

 

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Surprise, surprise: the J6 Committee found exactly what it wanted​

It comes as no surprise, then, that the January 6 Committee found exactly what it sought to find. The ribbon on that package came with its criminal referral of Trump to the Department of Justice. That four-count referral may be politically meaningful, but it is legally meaningless. It matters politically because the committee informed the public, in detail, how the president failed to quell the Capitol riots and delayed sending any message to his supporters, telling them to stop their violence and leave the building.

Still, the criminal referral is legally meaningless for three reasons. First, the DoJ, and only the DoJ, is charged with investigating federal crimes. Congress has no role. The testimony given to the committee will be forwarded to DoJ, but it adds very little to the Department’s own investigation. The DoJ, its newly-appointed Special Counsel and the FBI have ample resources to conduct their own investigations without help from Nancy Pelosi’s committee.

Second, because the referral comes from such a politically-charged body, it actually complicates the DoJ’s task of charging Trump or his aides with crimes regarding January 6 or election interference. Why? Because the legitimacy of any criminal charges hinges on the public’s belief that they represent the even-handed, apolitical application of the law. Although the DoJ will pay no attention to the Committee’s referrals, Congress’s decision to involve itself directly in the criminal investigation inevitably taints the public perception that the laws are being applied apolitically, as they should be.

Third, the committee offered only weak evidence that Trump’s conduct on January 6 was actually criminal. The clearest demonstration of that weakness came in Cheney’s peroration, which focused on Trump’s inaction during the Capitol riots. His failure to act was reprehensible, but not all reprehensible acts are criminal. Nor does it help, at least in criminal terms, to call Trump’s behavior a “dereliction of duty” or “failure to faithfully execute the laws.” Those are ultimately political concepts — vague ones at that. The place to consider them is in impeachment proceedings, not criminal court. Nor did the committee help itself by adding charges against Trump that the DoJ declined to bring against any of the defendants arrested in the Capitol.

 

[herb749]

What's that word , nothingburger . The democrats need Trump to run again. If he bows out they have to start all over again smearing the next person.

 

[SamSpade]

I kind of got the impression that the Jan 6 committee was going to :

1. Conclude with exactly the result they originally intended - charges against Trump no matter where their investigation led and
2. Pretty much nothing with any substance behind it. Congressional investigations my entire life have generally been long winded sessions where lots of nothing is said, and if anyone gets punished, it's some flunky they got on a process crime. Think Scooter. It's one reason I'm not entirely behind yet MORE investigations once the House is run by Republicans, because it's just more dog and pony.

 

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Pelosi's Jan. 6 story unravels as evidence mounts that Capitol breach was preventable​

The Republican report — which also included the work of Reps. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) and Kelly Armstrong — provided a meticulous, fact-based recounting of how Pelosi's staff began meeting and communicating with security planners in the House Sergeant at Arms office in early December 2020, continuing all the way through the final 48 hours before the attacks.

Those communications were occurring as Capitol Police began receiving detailed intelligence that extremist groups were discussing storming the Capitol, attacking lawmakers, targeting the tunnels beneath the complex and blocking the planned certification of the 2020 election results.

Capitol Police whistleblowers told the congressmen there were ample and detailed warnings that violence would occur on Jan. 6, but the leadership of the Capitol Police failed to adjust the security plan to address the threat while the political leadership in Congress repeatedly refused to provide resources to secure the building.

One officer discussed how he went to the Capitol unaware of the threat assessment with only a police cap as his equipment. Others revealed that congressional security leaders turned down resources like armed officers or National Guard troops ahead of the tragedy because of concerns about the political optics.

 

[spr1975wshs]

^Another Reichstag burning.

 

[herb749]

I kind of got the impression that the Jan 6 committee was going to :

1. Conclude with exactly the result they originally intended - charges against Trump no matter where their investigation led and
2. Pretty much nothing with any substance behind it. Congressional investigations my entire life have generally been long winded sessions where lots of nothing is said, and if anyone gets punished, it's some flunky they got on a process crime. Think Scooter. It's one reason I'm not entirely behind yet MORE investigations once the House is run by Republicans, because it's just more dog and pony.

But lots of free breakfast, lunch & dinners on the taxpayers dime .

 

[SamSpade]

But lots of free breakfast, lunch & dinners on the taxpayers dime .

Most of the time - and I mean, like better than 99% of the time - I see them as utterly pointless. Like a neighborhood forming a committee to solve a local problem and after a year, they still haven't made a plan yet. What gets me is, I do believe they think it does good. That it is a real effort to address the situation. As an aside, I can recall a job I was at, where a co-worker measured his contributions to how full his schedule was - with meetings. A full day - of meetings. I'd ask whimsically, when do you have time to DO the things they decide? Usually answered with silence. They weren't "working". They just talked endlessly ABOUT work.

(I have to admit, our weekly meeting IS effective, because its existence is almost exclusively to determine if and when work is or will be completed).

Congressional investigations are like those boycotts you hear about, or protests held each year on the Mall. Oh this year you got a million people? Wow. What's changed? Oh, you got a bill passed. How has that worked out? You can talk about belling the cat all you want, it means nothing until someone DOES it.

Oh - boycotts. Look them up. There are groups boycotting Google, Apple, Starbucks and so on. It has NO effect except it makes the boycotter feel good that they are "contributing". As I often ask, do you want to make a point, or make a difference?