thelibertydaily--2020-05-13--John Brennan: The Traitor-in-Chief

John Brennan: The Traitor-in-Chief

His long track record of lies , deceit , and catastrophic judgment .
Brad Johnson , a retired 25-year veteran officer of the CIA , laments that in recent years he has seen our nation ’ s Intelligence Community “ turn away from its core responsibilities ” – i.e.
, promoting “ the safety and security of all Americans ” – and embrace “ a far more political agenda.
” He notes , for example , that the Intelligence Community ’ s 2017 quadrennial report about global trends “ overwhelmingly ” supports “ global government integration ” and the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as “ a hardcore leftist philosophy that is deeply political ” and antithetical to the concept of national sovereignty .
A particularly odious manifestation of this new globalist philosophy , says Johnson , was former CIA Director John Brennan ’ s so-called “ modernization ” plan , which “ systematically dismantled and destroyed the CIA ’ s operations division — the heart of the agency ’ s central mission of using people to steal vital secrets around the world.
” Brennan himself articulated this new mindset when he flatly told National Public Radio @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t steal secrets.
” “ The Brennan plan , ” says Johnson , “ instead called for other nations ’ intelligence services to provide the CIA with spies as intelligence collectors.
” This approach made it impossible for the U.S. to keep its intelligence-gathering operations clandestine , thereby forfeiting the type of secrecy that is “ fundamental to the credibility and reliability of the information ” collected .
In light of the recent highly disturbing revelations about Obamagate , and in light of the damage that John Brennan in particular has done @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , by extension , to its national security , a closer look at the former CIA Director 's long track record of deceit , lies , and bad judgment is most certainly in order .
When Brennan was just 21 years old and attending Fordham University in New York , he voted for Communist Party USA ( CPUSA ) presidential nominee Gus Hall in the 1976 U.S. presidential election .
As historian Ron Radosh points out , “ The CPUSA at that time was dedicated to gaining support for Soviet foreign policy , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ States in the Cold War… .
Moscow regularly gave Hall thousands of dollars to enable the Communists in America to carry on their work.
” In 1980 Brennan earned an M.A .
in government from the University of Texas .
In his graduate thesis , he denied the existence of “ absolute human rights ” and argued that “ since the press can play such an influential role in determining the perceptions of the masses , ” he was “ in favor of some degree of government censorship.
” Also in 1980 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ director , and in the ’ 90s he served a stint as a daily intelligence briefer for President Bill Clinton .
In 1998 he played a key role in preventing an American operation that would have killed or captured Osama bin Laden , and instead he advised the U.S. to let Saudi Arabia deal with the al Qaeda leader .
A few months later , bin Laden masterminded the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa ; three years after that , he carried out the 9/11 attacks against the World Trade @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2006 interview on C-SPAN , Brennan spoke of the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah as an entity that merited a seat at the negotiating table along with the representatives of national governments from across the globe : “ It would be nice to be able to put Hezbollah in a category of being totally evil , but Hezbollah as an organization is a very complex one that has a terrorist arm to it .
It has a social and political nature to it as well.
” In a paper he published in July 2008 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recent increase of political involvement by Hezbollah as a very positive development : “ Not coincidentally , the evolution of Hezbollah into a fully vested player in the Lebanese political system has been accompanied by a marked reduction in terrorist attacks carried out by the organization .
The best hope for maintaining this trend and for reducing the influence of violent extremists within the organization … is to increase Hezbollah ’ s stake in Lebanon ’ s struggling democratic processes.
” In August 2009 , Brennan said he was “ pleased to see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in fact renouncing … terrorism and violence and are trying to participate in the political process in a very legitimate fashion.
” “ Hamas , ” he added , had “ started out as a very focused social organization that was providing welfare to Palestinians , ” but eventually “ developed an extremist and terrorist element ” that “ unfortunately delegitimized it in the eyes of many ” and diminished the chances of the Palestinian people getting “ what they truly deserve , which is a Palestinian state side-by-side with Israel.
” When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s warrantless wiretapping initiative made headlines in late 2005 , Brennan defended the practice and maintained that the telecommunication companies participating in the program “ should be granted … immunity , because they were told to [ participate ] by the appropriate authorities that were operating in a legal context.
” Brennan also supported “ enhanced interrogation ” techniques , and he described “ extraordinary rendition ” as “ an absolutely vital tool ” that “ without a doubt has been very successful as far as producing intelligence that has saved lives.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ News , Brennan stated that waterboarding in particular was a highly useful practice that “ has saved lives.
” But Brennan subsequently departed from all of those positions when he served as a senior advisor to Barack Obama ‘ s 2008 presidential campaign .
In a letter to Obama , for example , Brennan called himself “ a strong opponent of many of the policies of the Bush administration , such as the preemptive war in Iraq and coercive interrogation tactics , to include waterboarding.
” In August 2009 , Brennan said that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with “ our ideals as a nation , ” but also “ undermine our national security ” because they “ are a recruitment bonanza for terrorists , increase the determination of our enemies , and decrease the willingness of other nations to cooperate with us.
” In 2009 as well , Brennan detailed for the first time the Obama administration ’ s decision to dispense with the term “ global war on terror.
” Emphasizing the need to target “ extremists ” rather than “ jihadists , ” Brennan explained that “ jihad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal.
” The use of that term , he elaborated , “ risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve .
Worse , it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself.
” On Christmas Day 2009 , Nigerian al Qaeda operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted , unsuccessfully , to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight ( from Amsterdam to Detroit ) in midair with a powerful chemical bomb .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explained that the Obama administration would treat it as a law-enforcement matter rather than as an act of war or terrorism ; that the perpetrator would be offered a plea agreement in exchange for information about al Qaeda operations in Yemen ; and that if such an agreement could not be worked out , Abdulmutallab would be tried in a federal civilian court rather than in a military tribunal .
Brennan sought to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a civilian court as well , stating , in a February 2010 speech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ University , that “ we need to bring him to justice in an American court ” —a goal the Obama administration eventually abandoned , due to the plan ’ s unpopularity with the U.S. public .
On March 17 , 2011 , forty-two Pakistanis -- mostly civilians -- were killed in a major CIA drone strike on the town of Datta Khel in North Waziristan .
The incident was widely reported by the media and was angrily denounced by Pakistan ’ s government .
An anonymous U.S. official later justified the attack as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group of heavily armed men , some of whom were clearly connected to Al Qaeda [ AQ ] and all of whom acted in a manner consistent with AQ-linked militants.
” But in fact , the gathering was eventually confirmed to have been a jirga , or tribal meeting , convened to address a local mining-related dispute .
The dead included dozens of tribal elders and local policemen , as well as a small number of Taliban .
But three months later , in a June 29 speech , Brennan claimed that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in even “ a single collateral death.
” In fact , he went even further : “ I can say that the types of operations… that the U.S. has been involved in , in the counter-terrorism realm , that nearly for the past year there hasn ’ t been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency , precision of the capabilities that we ’ ve been able to develop.
” Brennan 's claim was untrue , however , as noted in a report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism ( BIJ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was not the only time that civilians had died in the period referred to by Brennan .
Working with veteran Pakistani reporter Rahimullah Yusufzai and field researchers in the tribal areas , the Bureau identified and published details of 45 civilians known at the time to have been killed by CIA drones in ten strikes between August 2010 and June 2011 , the date of Brennan ’ s speech .
Many of those killed had died at Datta Khel.
” On October 19 , 2011 , Farhana Khera , president and executive director @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brennan a letter charging that the FBI was a bigoted agency which kept “ antiquated and offensive documents about Muslims and Islam ” on its intranet , and that some of the Bureau ’ s new recruits were being taught “ that Islam is a religion that 'transforms a country ’ s culture into 7th-century Arabian ways . '
” Within two weeks , Brennan capitulated to Khera ’ s demand that America ’ s intelligence agencies eliminate their “ offensive ” curriculum/training materials ; i.e.
, he called for a purge of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to “ jihad ” or “ radical Islam.
” Speaking in June 2011 about how the Obama administration would deal with terrorism following the recent death of Osama bin Laden , Brennan dismissed any notion that Islamic terrorists might attempt to build a caliphate in the Middle East .
“ Our strategy is shaped by a deeper understanding of al-Qaeda ’ s goals , strategy and tactics that we have gained over the last decade , ” said Brennan .
“ I ’ m not talking about al-Qaeda ’ s grandiose vision of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
That vision is absurd , and we are not going to organize our counter-terrorist polices against a feckless delusion that is never going to happen… .
We are not going to elevate these thugs and their murderous aspirations into something larger than they really are.
” Events over the ensuing three years , however , would prove Brennan wrong .
On June 29 , 2014 , ISIS announced the existence of what it called a new Islamic caliphate that would thenceforth go by the name “ Islamic State ” and would recognize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2014 , the organization controlled some 100,000 square kilometers of territory in the Middle East .
In September 2012 , Brennan was involved in crafting the false talking points that then-Secretary of State Susan Rice delivered during five separate television interviews regarding the 9/11/12 terrorist attack against a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi , Libya .
Specifically , Rice claimed that according to the “ best information at present , ” the deadly attack was not premeditated , but rather , was a “ spontaneous reaction ” to “ a hateful and offensive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disseminated throughout the Arab and Muslim world.
” In March 2014 , Senator Dianne Feinstein—the head of a Senate Intelligence Committee that was involved in a multi-year probe of the CIA ’ s use of harsh interrogation measures against suspected terrorists during the Bush Administration—went to the Senate floor and angrily accused the Agency of having hacked into the computers of her Committee staffers .
In response , Brennan expressed dismay that “ some members of the Senate ” were making “ spurious allegations about CIA actions that are wholly unsupported by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Andrea Mitchell : “ As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers , nothing could be further from the truth .
We wouldn ’ t do that .
I mean , that ’ s just beyond the , you know , the scope of reason in terms of what we do.
” Brennan likewise told the media that “ a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong.
” But according to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s report that was released on July 31 , 2014 , it was actually Brennan who was proved wrong .
The report indicated that five CIA employees—two attorneys and three computer specialists—indeed had surreptitiously and unlawfully searched files and emails on the computers of the aforementioned Senate investigators .
In response to the report , Brennan apologized to Senate Intelligence Committee leaders .
In a March 2015 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations , Brennan refused to refer to the Islamic State ( ISIS ) terror group as an “ Islamic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sic ] it as a Muslim terrorism or Islamic extremism , ” he said , “ I think it does really give them the type of Islamic legitimacy that they are so desperately seeking , but which they don ’ t deserve at all.
” In May 2017 , Brennan lied to Congress when he testified that : ( a ) he did not know who had commissioned the infamous Steele dossier which contained many false accusations against Donald Trump and his political allies , and ( b ) the CIA had not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any action that the Agency took .
In July 2018 , Brennan was outraged by President Donald Trump ’ s remarks at a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki .
At that event , Trump expressed doubt about a U.S. Intelligence Community assessment claiming that Russian operatives had interfered in America 's 2016 presidential election , and he suggested that he had at least as much faith in the Russian KGB as he had in the American CIA .
Later that day , Brennan described Trump 's comments as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ August 2018 , President Trump revoked Brennan 's security clearance , explaining that Brennan 's “ lying and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary ” was “ wholly inconsistent with access to the nation ’ s most closely held secrets and facilities , the very aim of our adversaries , which is to sow division and chaos.
” In response , Brennan told NBC 's Meet the Press that Trump 's move was “ treasonous.
” In a February 2020 interview on MSNBC , Brennan said that President Trump ’ s staunchest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of people.
” In light of John Brennan ’ s long history of undermining America ’ s national security by downplaying the extent of the threat posed by our nation ’ s most committed enemies , it is no wonder that he detests President Trump .
In virtually every way possible , Trump is the anti-Brennan .

Brad Johnson, a retired 25-year veteran officer of the CIA, laments that in recent years he has seen our nation’s Intelligence Community “turn away from its core responsibilities” – i.e., promoting “the safety and security of all Americans” – and embrace “a far more political agenda.” He notes, for example, that the Intelligence Community’s 2017 quadrennial report about global trends “overwhelmingly” supports “global government integration” and the “globalist movement,” which he describes as “a hardcore leftist philosophy that is deeply political” and antithetical to the concept of national sovereignty.
A particularly odious manifestation of this new globalist philosophy, says Johnson, was former CIA Director John Brennan’s so-called “modernization” plan, which “systematically dismantled and destroyed the CIA’s operations division — the heart of the agency’s central mission of using people to steal vital secrets around the world.” Brennan himself articulated this new mindset when he flatly told National Public Radio in an interview: “We don’t steal secrets.” “The Brennan plan,” says Johnson, “instead called for other nations’ intelligence services to provide the CIA with spies as intelligence collectors.” This approach made it impossible for the U.S. to keep its intelligence-gathering operations clandestine, thereby forfeiting the type of secrecy that is “fundamental to the credibility and reliability of the information” collected.
In light of the recent highly disturbing revelations about Obamagate, and in light of the damage that John Brennan in particular has done to America’s intelligence-gathering capacity and, by extension, to its national security, a closer look at the former CIA Director’s long track record of deceit, lies, and bad judgment is most certainly in order.
When Brennan was just 21 years old and attending Fordham University in New York, he voted for Communist Party USA (CPUSA) presidential nominee Gus Hall in the 1976 U.S. presidential election. As historian Ron Radosh points out, “The CPUSA at that time was dedicated to gaining support for Soviet foreign policy, with the intent of defeating the United States in the Cold War…. Moscow regularly gave Hall thousands of dollars to enable the Communists in America to carry on their work.”
In 1980 Brennan earned an M.A. in government from the University of Texas. In his graduate thesis, he denied the existence of “absolute human rights” and argued that “since the press can play such an influential role in determining the perceptions of the masses,” he was “in favor of some degree of government censorship.”
Also in 1980, Brennan joined the CIA as an intelligence director, and in the ’90s he served a stint as a daily intelligence briefer for President Bill Clinton. In 1998 he played a key role in preventing an American operation that would have killed or captured Osama bin Laden, and instead he advised the U.S. to let Saudi Arabia deal with the al Qaeda leader. A few months later, bin Laden masterminded the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa; three years after that, he carried out the 9/11 attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
In a 2006 interview on C-SPAN, Brennan spoke of the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah as an entity that merited a seat at the negotiating table along with the representatives of national governments from across the globe: “It would be nice to be able to put Hezbollah in a category of being totally evil, but Hezbollah as an organization is a very complex one that has a terrorist arm to it. It has a social and political nature to it as well.”
In a paper he published in July 2008, Brennan stated that he saw the recent increase of political involvement by Hezbollah as a very positive development: “Not coincidentally, the evolution of Hezbollah into a fully vested player in the Lebanese political system has been accompanied by a marked reduction in terrorist attacks carried out by the organization. The best hope for maintaining this trend and for reducing the influence of violent extremists within the organization … is to increase Hezbollah’s stake in Lebanon’s struggling democratic processes.”
In August 2009, Brennan said he was “pleased to see that a lot of Hezbollah individuals are in fact renouncing … terrorism and violence and are trying to participate in the political process in a very legitimate fashion.” “Hamas,” he added, had “started out as a very focused social organization that was providing welfare to Palestinians,” but eventually “developed an extremist and terrorist element” that “unfortunately delegitimized it in the eyes of many” and diminished the chances of the Palestinian people getting “what they truly deserve, which is a Palestinian state side-by-side with Israel.”
When news of the George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping initiative made headlines in late 2005, Brennan defended the practice and maintained that the telecommunication companies participating in the program “should be granted … immunity, because they were told to [participate] by the appropriate authorities that were operating in a legal context.” Brennan also supported “enhanced interrogation” techniques, and he described “extraordinary rendition” as “an absolutely vital tool” that “without a doubt has been very successful as far as producing intelligence that has saved lives.” In a 2007 interview with CBS News, Brennan stated that waterboarding in particular was a highly useful practice that “ has saved lives.”
But Brennan subsequently departed from all of those positions when he served as a senior advisor to Barack Obama‘s 2008 presidential campaign. In a letter to Obama, for example, Brennan called himself “a strong opponent of many of the policies of the Bush administration, such as the preemptive war in Iraq and coercive interrogation tactics, to include waterboarding.” In August 2009, Brennan said that tactics like waterboarding were not only inconsistent with “our ideals as a nation,” but also “undermine our national security” because they “are a recruitment bonanza for terrorists, increase the determination of our enemies, and decrease the willingness of other nations to cooperate with us.”
In 2009 as well, Brennan detailed for the first time the Obama administration’s decision to dispense with the term “global war on terror.” Emphasizing the need to target “extremists” rather than “jihadists,” Brennan explained that “jihad” means “to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal.” The use of that term, he elaborated, “risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve. Worse, it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself.”
On Christmas Day 2009, Nigerian al Qaeda operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted, unsuccessfully, to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight (from Amsterdam to Detroit) in midair with a powerful chemical bomb. In the aftermath of the incident, Brennan explained that the Obama administration would treat it as a law-enforcement matter rather than as an act of war or terrorism; that the perpetrator would be offered a plea agreement in exchange for information about al Qaeda operations in Yemen; and that if such an agreement could not be worked out, Abdulmutallab would be tried in a federal civilian court rather than in a military tribunal.
Brennan sought to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a civilian court as well, stating, in a February 2010 speech to Islamic law students at New York University, that “we need to bring him to justice in an American court”—a goal the Obama administration eventually abandoned, due to the plan’s unpopularity with the U.S. public.
On March 17, 2011, forty-two Pakistanis — mostly civilians — were killed in a major CIA drone strike on the town of Datta Khel in North Waziristan. The incident was widely reported by the media and was angrily denounced by Pakistan’s government. An anonymous U.S. official later justified the attack as one that had targeted “a large group of heavily armed men, some of whom were clearly connected to Al Qaeda [AQ] and all of whom acted in a manner consistent with AQ-linked militants.” But in fact, the gathering was eventually confirmed to have been a jirga, or tribal meeting, convened to address a local mining-related dispute. The dead included dozens of tribal elders and local policemen, as well as a small number of Taliban.
But three months later, in a June 29 speech, Brennan claimed that the March 17 drone attack had not resulted in even “a single collateral death.” In fact, he went even further: “I can say that the types of operations… that the U.S. has been involved in, in the counter-terrorism realm, that nearly for the past year there hasn’t been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities that we’ve been able to develop.”
Brennan’s claim was untrue, however, as noted in a report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ): “The Datta Khel attack was not the only time that civilians had died in the period referred to by Brennan. Working with veteran Pakistani reporter Rahimullah Yusufzai and field researchers in the tribal areas, the Bureau identified and published details of 45 civilians known at the time to have been killed by CIA drones in ten strikes between August 2010 and June 2011, the date of Brennan’s speech. Many of those killed had died at Datta Khel.”
On October 19, 2011, Farhana Khera, president and executive director of the organization Muslim Advocates, sent Brennan a letter charging that the FBI was a bigoted agency which kept “antiquated and offensive documents about Muslims and Islam” on its intranet, and that some of the Bureau’s new recruits were being taught “that Islam is a religion that ‘transforms a country’s culture into 7th-century Arabian ways.’” Within two weeks, Brennan capitulated to Khera’s demand that America’s intelligence agencies eliminate their “offensive” curriculum/training materials; i.e., he called for a purge of any and all materials that made reference to “jihad” or “radical Islam.”
Speaking in June 2011 about how the Obama administration would deal with terrorism following the recent death of Osama bin Laden, Brennan dismissed any notion that Islamic terrorists might attempt to build a caliphate in the Middle East. “Our strategy is shaped by a deeper understanding of al-Qaeda’s goals, strategy and tactics that we have gained over the last decade,” said Brennan. “I’m not talking about al-Qaeda’s grandiose vision of global domination through a violent Islamic caliphate. That vision is absurd, and we are not going to organize our counter-terrorist polices against a feckless delusion that is never going to happen…. We are not going to elevate these thugs and their murderous aspirations into something larger than they really are.”
Events over the ensuing three years, however, would prove Brennan wrong. On June 29, 2014, ISIS announced the existence of what it called a new Islamic caliphate that would thenceforth go by the name “Islamic State” and would recognize no existing national borders. By November 2014, the organization controlled some 100,000 square kilometers of territory in the Middle East.
In September 2012, Brennan was involved in crafting the false talking points that then-Secretary of State Susan Rice delivered during five separate television interviews regarding the 9/11/12 terrorist attack against a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Specifically, Rice claimed that according to the “best information at present,” the deadly attack was not premeditated, but rather, was a “spontaneous reaction” to “a hateful and offensive [anti-Islamic] video that was widely disseminated throughout the Arab and Muslim world.”
In March 2014, Senator Dianne Feinstein—the head of a Senate Intelligence Committee that was involved in a multi-year probe of the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation measures against suspected terrorists during the Bush Administration—went to the Senate floor and angrily accused the Agency of having hacked into the computers of her Committee staffers. In response, Brennan expressed dismay that “some members of the Senate” were making “spurious allegations about CIA actions that are wholly unsupported by the facts.” Moreover, he told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell: “As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.” Brennan likewise told the media that “a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong.”
But according to the findings of a CIA inspector general’s report that was released on July 31, 2014, it was actually Brennan who was proved wrong. The report indicated that five CIA employees—two attorneys and three computer specialists—indeed had surreptitiously and unlawfully searched files and emails on the computers of the aforementioned Senate investigators. In response to the report, Brennan apologized to Senate Intelligence Committee leaders.
In a March 2015 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, Brennan refused to refer to the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group as an “Islamic” entity. “By ascribing [sic] it as a Muslim terrorism or Islamic extremism,” he said, “I think it does really give them the type of Islamic legitimacy that they are so desperately seeking, but which they don’t deserve at all.”
In May 2017, Brennan lied to Congress when he testified that: (a) he did not know who had commissioned the infamous Steele dossier which contained many false accusations against Donald Trump and his political allies, and (b) the CIA had not relied on the dossier’s contents for any action that the Agency took.
In July 2018, Brennan was outraged by President Donald Trump’s remarks at a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. At that event, Trump expressed doubt about a U.S. Intelligence Community assessment claiming that Russian operatives had interfered in America’s 2016 presidential election, and he suggested that he had at least as much faith in the Russian KGB as he had in the American CIA. Later that day, Brennan described Trump’s comments as “nothing short of treasonous.”
In August 2018, President Trump revoked Brennan’s security clearance, explaining that Brennan’s “lying and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary” was “wholly inconsistent with access to the nation’s most closely held secrets and facilities, the very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos.” In response, Brennan told NBC’s Meet the Press that Trump’s move was “treasonous.”
In a February 2020 interview on MSNBC, Brennan said that President Trump’s staunchest supporters are a “very debased group of people.”
In light of John Brennan’s long history of undermining America’s national security by downplaying the extent of the threat posed by our nation’s most committed enemies, it is no wonder that he detests President Trump. In virtually every way possible, Trump is the anti-Brennan.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-14--YouTuber and Former Congressional Candidate Joey Salads Permanently Banned From Twitter

Vegan singer Bryan Adams has caved and apologized after blaming “ greedy bat-eating bastards ” for the coronavirus outbreak .
Adams had posted to Instagram about his cancelled concerts and took aim at the culture of wet markets that were once criticized by leftists for the rampant animal cruelty .
“ Tonight was supposed to be the beginning of a tenancy of gigs at the @ royalalberthall , ” he wrote in a caption to introduce a video performance .
“ But thanks to some fucking bat eating , wet market animal selling , virus making greedy bastards , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not to mention the thousands that have suffered or died from this virus.
” Adams , an animal rights activist , included a suggestion that maybe the people of Wuhan should consider a similar diet .
“ To all the people missing out on our shows , I wish I could be there more than you know .
It ’ s been great hanging out in isolation with my children and family , but I miss my other family , my band , my crew and my fans .
Take care of yourselves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the road again soon .
I ’ ll be performing a snippet from each album we were supposed to perform for the next few days , ” Adams ’ post concluded with the hashtags # BanWetMarkets and # GoVegan .
Stopping animal cruelty was once a high priority on the left , but has taken a backseat to fighting any perceived racism and pressures to support cultural relativism .
So of course people took to social media to slam the artist for his pro-vegan message .
The Nation contributor tweeted that Adams @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ stupid opinions.
” Queen guitarist Brian May , another vegan , has also blamed the pandemic on those eating animals .
“ If you want to get deep into it , I think we should be looking again at whether we should be eating animals , ” May said .
“ That ’ s a central issue here , this pandemic seemed to come from people eating animals and it ’ s becoming more well known that eating animals is not the greatest thing for our health.
” Still , ultimately the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and he gave in and apologized in another Instragam post .
“ No excuse , I just wanted to have a rant about the horrible animal cruelty in these wet-markets being the possible source of the virus , and promote veganism .
I have love for all people and my thoughts are with everyone dealing with this pandemic around the world , ” he wrote .

Right-wing YouTuber Joey Saladino, better known as “Joey Salads” has been banned from Twitter for allegedly violating the platform’s “spam policies.”
People had been reporting Salads content calling the coronavirus a “hoax,” but had been informed by Twitter that his tweets didn’t violate their rules.
“For the last four months my reply plug tweets have been getting reported. Every time, Twitter says that I did not violate the Terms of Service,” Salads told the District Herald. “I was banned for breaking Terms of Service that they specifically told me that I was not breaking.”
A “reply plug,” Salads explained, is when you reply to yourself on popular tweets asking people to follow him and subscribe to his podcast.
“I had been doing it for six months, maybe more,” Salads said. “Maybe they thought I was using a bot like the Krassensteins.”
The Krassenstein brothers, prominent leftist activists, were banned from Twitter in May of last year.
“The Twitter Rules apply to everyone,” a Twitter rep said in a statement to Variety about their ban. “Operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions are strictly prohibited. Engaging in these behaviors will result in permanent suspension from the service.”
After this article was published, Brian Krassenstein reached out to the District Herald saying “we weren’t banned for using bots. Twitter never gave an official reason for our banning, instead supplying the media with a rule, but not specifying that we broke it. They did the same for Salads. We were banned, but we never used bots, manipulated their service or bought any sort of engagement. We did have multiple accounts for various reasons, but Twitter’s TOS does not have a rule against such use.”
In an email to Salads, Twitter said that “you may not use Twitter’s services in a manner intended to artificially amplify or suppress information or engage in behavior that manipulates or disrupts people’s experience on Twitter.”
Twitter said that his ban is permanent and that they will also ban any account he attempts to make in the future.
Salads gained a massive following on social media for his comedic YouTube videos running pranks on unsuspecting strangers.
Saladino was the first prominent YouTuber to run for office in the United States. He has nearly 2.5 million followers on YouTube and Facebook, as well as nearly 300,000 followers on Twitter. His work gets over one billion views on social media per year.


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thelibertydaily--2020-05-14--TREASON: Former Emory Professor Pleads Guilty to Hiding Role in Communist Chinese Program Deemed a ‘

TREASON: Former Emory Professor Pleads Guilty to Hiding Role in Communist Chinese Program Deemed a ‘Threat to National Security’

Support for former Vice President Joe Biden ’ s 2020 campaign is plummeting with women following Tara Reade ’ s accusations that he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s .
Reade alleges that in 1993 , while she was working for then-Senator Biden , he cornered her in a hallway and inserted his fingers inside her against her will .
Biden ’ s favorability among women fell more than 6 points since mid-April , with only 44 % viewing him favorably and 46 % viewing him positively .
The Morning Consult survey found that Biden ’ s favorability dropped roughly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their last poll , which was conducted a week before he acknowledged the allegations .
Reade ’ s claim has been corroborated by multiple people she told about the assault back when it happened , as well as her mother calling into Larry King Live to ask for guidance on what she should do about it — though she did not name the presumptive Democrat nominee in the call .
Reade has also said that she is willing to testify about the incident under oath , in a sit down interview with Megyn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and disbelief from Democrats who have been accused of major hypocrisy on the issue .
Democrat New Hampshire Representative Richard Komi , who had been campaigning for Biden , sparked outrage across the political spectrum when he tweeted that women can ’ t be penetrated against their will to defend the candidate .
“ Judging by the position of the female vagina , it will not be easy for anyone to just put their finger into the vagina unless their is some Cooperation from the female herself , ” Komi tweeted Friday at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been deleted .
“ That is why I believe Tara Reade ’ s allegations are false .
She is looking for attention.
” Komi resigned from office the following day .
Stacey Abrams , a former champion of the # MeToo movement has also said that she doesn ’ t believe Reade , despite previously pushing the “ believe women ” line and being outspoken about the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh .
“ I believe that women deserve to be heard , and I believe that they need to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ But I also believe that those allegations have to be investigated by credible sources .
The New York Times did a deep investigation .
And they found that the accusation was not credible .
I believe Joe Biden .
I believe that he is a person who has demonstrated that his love of family , his love of our community , has been made perfectly clear through his work as a congressional leader and as an American leader.
” The vice presidential hopeful added , “ I think that he is telling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happen.
” Likewise , Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has proven herself to be a major hypocrite on the issue .
When asked about the allegations during a phone call with members of the press , Gillibrand said “ I stand by Vice President Joe Biden.
” “ So when we say believe women , it ’ s for this explicit intention of making sure there ’ s space for all women to come forward to speak their truth , to be heard , ” Gillibrand said during the conference call .
“ And in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Reade has done .
She has come forward , she has spoken , and they have done an investigation in several outlets .
Those investigations , Vice President Biden has called for himself .
Vice President Biden has vehemently denied these allegations and I support Vice President Biden.
” Gillibrand delivered a scathing speech about the sexual-assault allegations against Kavanaugh during his nomination process , despite there being far less evidence in that case .

The publisher of the Virginia News-Gazette emailed Republican Delaware Senate candidate Lauren Witzke and mistakenly sent along an conversation in which the editor called her a “dimwit.”
Witzke is an ‘America First’ conservative who is running on similar policies to what President Donald Trump campaigned on. She is also promising to fight for a full 10 year moratorium on all immigration and restoration of the American nuclear family.
I am running on an #AmericaFirst platform for U.S. Senate. America First means : ➡A full 10 year moratorium on all immigration (Net Zero).
➡Restoring the American Nuclear family.
➡Putting American workers FIRST
➡Pro-Life
➡Ending Drug Addictionhttps://t.co/Kj4wlxhxJY pic.twitter.com/3FmkuhK0Jv — Lauren Witzke for U.S. Senate (@WitzkeforDE) March 31, 2020
Some how, the editor of the News-Gazette accidentally ended up on Witzke’s donor email list by mistake. After sending out a campaign email opposing the Delaware governor’s lock down orders, the Witzke campaign received an email from Matt Paxton, publisher of The News-Gazette.
It appears that the editor had forwarded the email to Paxton, adding “I’m not sure how we got on this dimwit’s mailing list.” When tried to email the Witzke campaign asking to be removed from the list, he replied to all, which forwarded along the chain where the editor called her a dimwit.
Witzke responded to the email, saying “thanks for letting us know. Are you aware that you forwarded the original message from your editor along with this thread? Not a great look for the ‘non-partisan’ media.”
Paxton responded by claiming that it was sent on purpose.
“I am aware. and sending unwanted, inapplicable emails willy-nilly to every little media outlet within hundreds of miles, not even in a contiguous state, meets the definition in my mind, and I’d say that whether this came from a candidate of the Democrat, Republican, Whig, Prohibition, Green, Libertarian or Socialist Worker Party,” Paxton responded. “We get enough spam as it is. I am not ‘non-partisan’ when it comes to spam.”
The District Herald called Paxton to ask whether or not the paper is indeed meant to be non-partisan. He claimed that they are and that he had never even heard of Witzke prior to the email being sent to him. He also claimed, contrary to his response to Witzke, that the email was sent by mistake.
“Umm… I think that was an internal email, a forwarded email, that inadvertently was sent,” Paxton responded.
When asked again if the paper is considered to be non-partisan, Paxton asserted that “I don’t even know who this person is. This Lauren Witzke.”
“She sent an email to us, we’re three states away,” Paxton added, seemingly frustrated.
The District Herald again asked if the paper is considered to be Democrat-leaning or if it is non-partisan.
“We’re non-partisan. We’re a community newspaper. We really don’t cover anything that is doesn’t happen in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
Witzke, for her part, told the District Herald that the paper should be ashamed of itself.
“As if it wasn’t obvious enough, the far-left news media once again tipped its partisan hand. The staff at The News-Gazette, which lost any credibility it had left with one single email today, ought to be ashamed of itself,” Witzke said. “The paper’s management should be immediately fired and replaced with those who will report the news honestly.”
She added that it is “little surprise that a Democrat paper in Virginia owned by people from Illinois is as sexist as Ralph Northam is racist, or that this level of frothing hate seems to be the norm in the small town that kicked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family out of a chicken dinner restaurant for being associated with the Trump campaign.”
In 2018, Sanders was kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington for working at the White House. The owner of the restaurant, Stephanie Wilkinson, said that she was taking a stand against a person who defends “inhumane and unethical” presidential policies.
The incident caught the attention of President Donald Trump himself, and the restaurant claimed they had to close for two weeks because of all the negative attention. Still, the media largely defended their actions, even continuing to write glowing portraits of the incident a year later.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-14--Calif. Town to Waste Police Resources to Enforce Nanny Regulations on Tesla

City of Fremont relents , allows factory to reopen… ( Liberty Headlines ) It appears the dispute between Tesla and San Francisco Bay Area authorities over the reopening of a factory in the face of shutdown orders is coming to an end .
The Alameda County Public Health Department announced on Twitter early Wednesday that the Fremont , California , plant will be able to go beyond basic operations this week and start making vehicles this coming Monday — as long as it delivers on the worker safety precautions that it agreed to .
It wasn ’ t clear from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any punishment for reopening Monday in defiance of county orders .
Messages were left early Wednesday seeking comment from health officials and Tesla .
The release said Fremont police would verify whether Tesla was holding up its part of the agreement .
The release says that public health indicators have to remain stable or improve for the factory to stay open .
“ We will be working with the Fremont PD to verify Tesla is adhering to physical distancing and that agreed upon health and safety measures are in place for the safety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ full production , ” the release said .
Tesla ’ s factory reopened Monday with CEO Elon Musk practically daring local authorities to arrest him and operations apparently continued into Tuesday .
The company met a Monday deadline to submit a site-specific plan to protect worker safety .
But the reopening defied orders from the health department , which has deemed the factory a nonessential business that can ’ t fully open under restrictions intended to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus .
The Health Department said Monday it warned the company @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health order , and hoped Tesla will “ comply without further enforcement measures ” until the county approves a site-specific plan required by the state .
State law allows a fine of up to $ 1,000 a day or up to 90 days in jail for operating in violation of health orders .
The plant in Fremont , a city of more than 230,000 people south of San Francisco , had been closed since March 23 .
It employs about 10,000 workers .
Public health experts have credited the stay-home orders with slowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospitals handle an influx of cases .
The coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people .
But it has killed more than 80,000 people in the U.S. , with the death toll rising .
Alameda County was among six San Francisco Bay Area counties that were the first in the nation to impose stay-at-home orders in mid-March .
Gov .
Gavin Newsom has repeatedly said that counties can impose restrictions that are more stringent than state orders .
The order in the Bay Area has been extended until the end of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to allow some limited business and manufacturing starting May 18 .
Musk , whose company has sued Alameda County seeking to overturn its order , threatened to move Tesla ’ s manufacturing operations and headquarters from the state .
Tesla contends in the lawsuit that Alameda County can ’ t be more restrictive than orders from Newsom .
The lawsuit says the governor ’ s coronavirus restrictions refer to federal guidelines classifying vehicle manufacturing as essential businesses that are allowed to continue operating .
Tesla released a plan to maintain worker safety , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , installing barriers between workers and maintaining social distancing .
Haggerty said the company initially pushed back on checking employee temperatures before boarding a company bus to get to work .
But Tesla relented , he said , and agreed to check workers .
Adapted from reporting by Associated Press .

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thelibertydaily--2020-05-14--Police and School District Ignored Complaints From Parents About Pedophile Principal Arrested By FBI

Police and School District Ignored Complaints From Parents About Pedophile Principal Arrested By FBI: He Asked the Girls to Call Him “Daddy”

An elementary school principal from Alaska was arrested by the FBI ’ s Child Exploitation Task Force and charged with possession of child pornography , attempted coercion of a child and sexual abuse of a minor in 2019 .
The school claims there were no warning signs , but parents of students at Gladys Jung Elementary had went to the police about Principal Christopher Carmichael , 55 , at least twice over the last four years .
An investigation by the Anchorage Daily News and local station KYUK also found that in 2016 , Carmichael admitted behavior to his supervisors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ educators , could have cost him his teaching certificate .
Instead , the Lower Kuskokwim School District allowed him to remain at school and did not fire him until after his arrest in December .
Parents in the district became alarmed about his behavior when the principal began giving expensive gifts to young girls and sending them late night messages on Facebook .
In early 2018 , an 11-year-old child told her mother that Carmichael “ looked down at her breasts and then touched her breasts with his hand.
” Carmichael claimed in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s mother , which was recorded by police , that he “ was probably joking around and wrestling the kids.
” Another victim , referred to as “ Victim C ” in the charges , said that he would grope her in offices and school closets where he could avoid security cameras .
“ Bethel police learned of the new victim in June 2019 , around the same time the state board of education renewed Carmichael ’ s certificate to work as a school principal for another five years , ” ADN reports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the afternoon after the teachers and staff had gone home , ” according to the state felony charges against Carmichael .
He asked the girl to call him “ daddy.
” The girl claims that he had “ befriended ” her when she was in third grade and stayed in touch after elementary school .
“ The parents of two girls who allege the principal molested them have filed a lawsuit against the district in state court in Bethel .
In a legal response to the suit , the school district wrote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Carmichael occurred , ” the report explains .
The principal was not arrested until the FBI obtained explicit texts to a phone number that he believed belonged to a 13-year-old girl , asking the girl to masturbate , send him photos and call him “ daddy.
” Following his arrest , Lower Kuskokwim School District Superintendent Dan Walker said that he was not aware of any concerns about Carmichael .
He maintains his shock , saying in a statement just last week that “ twice LKSD reviewed the facts and saw nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Not only did I not see it coming , I do not believe that the people who worked directly with Carmichael saw it coming either.
” Walter continued to praise the man who has been charged with sexual abuse of a minor and is accused of molesting multiple students , saying in a statement to the outlets investigating that “ Carmichael had been an incredibly popular principal with students , staff and parents and had a solid reputation as a principal.
” “ He was the kind of person who had the reputation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Carmichael was well-respected by students , staff and parents , ” the statement continued .
Carmichael has pleaded not guilty to all charges .

An elementary school principal from Alaska was arrested by the FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force and charged with possession of child pornography, attempted coercion of a child and sexual abuse of a minor in 2019.
The school claims there were no warning signs, but parents of students at Gladys Jung Elementary had went to the police about Principal Christopher Carmichael, 55, at least twice over the last four years.
An investigation by the Anchorage Daily News and local station KYUK also found that in 2016, Carmichael admitted behavior to his supervisors that, under Alaska ethics laws for educators, could have cost him his teaching certificate. Instead, the Lower Kuskokwim School District allowed him to remain at school and did not fire him until after his arrest in December.
“I’d like to know why the hell he wasn’t fired,” Susan Murphy, who served as school board president in 2016 when state troopers first investigated Carmichael, told the Anchorage Daily News.
Parents in the district became alarmed about his behavior when the principal began giving expensive gifts to young girls and sending them late night messages on Facebook.
In early 2018, an 11-year-old child told her mother that Carmichael “looked down at her breasts and then touched her breasts with his hand.” Carmichael claimed in a phone call with the girl’s mother, which was recorded by police, that he “was probably joking around and wrestling the kids.”
Another victim, referred to as “Victim C” in the charges, said that he would grope her in offices and school closets where he could avoid security cameras. “Bethel police learned of the new victim in June 2019, around the same time the state board of education renewed Carmichael’s certificate to work as a school principal for another five years,” ADN reports.
“This touching usually occurred later in the afternoon after the teachers and staff had gone home,” according to the state felony charges against Carmichael. He asked the girl to call him “daddy.”
The girl claims that he had “befriended” her when she was in third grade and stayed in touch after elementary school.
“The parents of two girls who allege the principal molested them have filed a lawsuit against the district in state court in Bethel. In a legal response to the suit, the school district wrote that no sexual abuse of the girls by Carmichael occurred,” the report explains.
The principal was not arrested until the FBI obtained explicit texts to a phone number that he believed belonged to a 13-year-old girl, asking the girl to masturbate, send him photos and call him “daddy.”
Following his arrest, Lower Kuskokwim School District Superintendent Dan Walker said that he was not aware of any concerns about Carmichael. He maintains his shock, saying in a statement just last week that “twice LKSD reviewed the facts and saw nothing that put a child at risk. Not only did I not see it coming, I do not believe that the people who worked directly with Carmichael saw it coming either.”
Walter continued to praise the man who has been charged with sexual abuse of a minor and is accused of molesting multiple students, saying in a statement to the outlets investigating that “Carmichael had been an incredibly popular principal with students, staff and parents and had a solid reputation as a principal.”
“He was the kind of person who had the reputation of bending over backwards to help people. Carmichael was well-respected by students, staff and parents,” the statement continued.
Carmichael has pleaded not guilty to all charges.


thelibertydaily--2020-05-14--VICTORY! Wisconsin Supreme Court Shoots Down Democrat Governor Tony Evers Tyrannical “Safer-at-Home”

VICTORY! Wisconsin Supreme Court Shoots Down Democrat Governor Tony Evers Tyrannical “Safer-at-Home” Dictate

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has finally ruled on the state ’ s lockdown order , in a case argued a week ago .
For background on the case and issues , see these prior posts : • Wisconsin Sup .
Ct .
Schedules Argument In Legislature ’ s Lockdown Lawsuit Against Governor • VIDEO – Wisconsin Sup .
Ct. Justice : Isn ’ t state ’ s lockdown order “ the very definition of tyranny ?
” This statement by Justice Rebecca Bradley during oral argument gained a lot of attention : While a decision was pending , the lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gov .
Tony Evers on Monday allowed nearly all nonessential retail stores to reopen as long as they serve no more than five customers at a time , partially lifting the restriction that has kept them closed for weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus .
The latest order , which took effect immediately , addresses criticism from smaller stores and Republican lawmakers that it was unfair to allow essential businesses such as grocery stores to remain open while nonessential ones such as flower shops had to close under Evers ’ “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ latest order applies to all standalone stores and those in strip malls that have entrances to the outside , but not to stores in large indoor shopping malls .
Allowing the smaller retail stores to open will revive about 90,000 jobs in 14,000 businesses , said Missy Hughes , secretary of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation .
More than half a million people have filed for unemployment benefits in Wisconsin since mid-March .
There is a second lawsuit challenging the lockdown that also has been filed : The second case , filed May @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could still have sweeping consequences depending on what the court decides .
It was brought by two private citizens , Waukesha County resident Jere Fabick and Walworth County resident Larry Chapman , who argue the order unconstitutionally restricted their rights as individuals .
Fabick is a policy advisor and board member for The Heartland Institute , the national conservative think tank .
At the heart of their case is the argument that while the stay-at-home order permits some activities without limitations , like shopping at hardware and grocery stores , it restricts activities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Those include the state constitution ’ s guarantee that the “ right of every person to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of conscience shall never be infringed.
” And a third lawsuit by a hairdresser .
The Wisconsin Supreme Court just issued an Opinion ( pdf . )
striking down the ‘ Better-at-home ’ order : ¶3 We conclude that Emergency Order 28 is a rule under the controlling precedent of this court , Citizens for Sensible Zoning , Inc. v. DNR , 90 Wis. 2d 804 , 280 N.W.2d @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is subject to statutory emergency rulemaking procedures established by the Legislature .
Emergency Order 28 is a general order of general application within the meaning of Wis. Stat .
§ 227.01 ( 13 ) , which defines “ Rule.
” Accordingly , the rulemaking procedures of Wis. Stat .
§ 227.24 were required to be followed during the promulgation of Order 28 .
Because they were not , Emergency Order 28 is unenforceable.6 Furthermore , Wis. Stat .
§ 252.25 required that Emergency Order 28 be promulgated using the procedures established by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to follow , as we explain fully below .
Because Palm did not follow the law in creating Order 28 , there can be no criminal penalties for violations of her order .
The procedural requirements of Wis. Stat .
ch .
227 must be followed because they safeguard all people .
¶4 We do not conclude that Palm was without any power to act in the face of this pandemic .
However , Palm must follow the law that is applicable to state-wide emergencies .
We further conclude that Palm ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , forbidding travel and closing businesses exceeded the statutory authority of Wis. Stat .
§ 252.02 upon which Palm claims to rely.7 ¶58 We conclude that Emergency Order 28 is a rule under the controlling precedent of this court , Citizens for Sensible Zoning , Inc. v. DNR , 90 Wis. 2d 804 , 280 N.W.2d 702 ( 1979 ) , and therefore is subject to statutory emergency rulemaking procedures established by the Legislature .
Emergency Order 28 is a general order of general application within the meaning of Wis. Stat .
§ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rule.
” Accordingly , the rulemaking procedures of Wis. Stat .
§ 227.24 were required to be followed during the promulgation of Order 28 .
Because they were not , Emergency Order 28 is unenforceable.21 Furthermore , Wis. Stat .
§ 252.25 required that Emergency Order 28 be promulgated using the procedures established by the Legislature for rulemaking if criminal penalties were to follow .
Because Palm did not follow the law in creating Order 28 , there can be no criminal penalties for violations of her order .
The procedural requirements of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be followed because they safeguard all people .
¶59 We further conclude that Palm ’ s order confining all people to their homes , forbidding travel and closing businesses exceeded the statutory authority of Wis. Stat .
§ 252.02 , upon which Palm claims to rely .
By the Court.—Palm ’ s Emergency Order 28 is declared unlawful , invalid , and unenforceable .
Four “ conservative ” Justices signed onto the decision , Chief Justice Patience Roggensack , Justices Rebecca Bradley , Daniel Kelly and Annette Ziegler .
“ Conservative ” Justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liberals Ann Walsh Bradley and Rebecca Dallet .

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has finally ruled on the state’s lockdown order, in a case argued a week ago.
For background on the case and issues, see these prior posts:
This statement by Justice Rebecca Bradley during oral argument gained a lot of attention:
While a decision was pending, the lockdown was eased somewhat for retail stores:
Gov. Tony Evers on Monday allowed nearly all nonessential retail stores to reopen as long as they serve no more than five customers at a time, partially lifting the restriction that has kept them closed for weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The latest order, which took effect immediately, addresses criticism from smaller stores and Republican lawmakers that it was unfair to allow essential businesses such as grocery stores to remain open while nonessential ones such as flower shops had to close under Evers’ “safer at home” order. The latest order applies to all standalone stores and those in strip malls that have entrances to the outside, but not to stores in large indoor shopping malls. Allowing the smaller retail stores to open will revive about 90,000 jobs in 14,000 businesses, said Missy Hughes, secretary of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. More than half a million people have filed for unemployment benefits in Wisconsin since mid-March.
There is a second lawsuit challenging the lockdown that also has been filed:
The second case, filed May 4, is narrower, but it could still have sweeping consequences depending on what the court decides. It was brought by two private citizens, Waukesha County resident Jere Fabick and Walworth County resident Larry Chapman, who argue the order unconstitutionally restricted their rights as individuals. Fabick is a policy advisor and board member for The Heartland Institute, the national conservative think tank. At the heart of their case is the argument that while the stay-at-home order permits some activities without limitations, like shopping at hardware and grocery stores, it restricts activities that are protected under the Wisconsin Constitution. Those include the state constitution’s guarantee that the “right of every person to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of conscience shall never be infringed.”
And a third lawsuit by a hairdresser.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court just issued an Opinion (pdf.) striking down the ‘Better-at-home’ order:
¶3 We conclude that Emergency Order 28 is a rule under the controlling precedent of this court, Citizens for Sensible Zoning, Inc. v. DNR, 90 Wis. 2d 804, 280 N.W.2d 702 (1979), and therefore is subject to statutory emergency rulemaking procedures established by the Legislature. Emergency Order 28 is a general order of general application within the meaning of Wis. Stat. § 227.01(13), which defines “Rule.” Accordingly, the rulemaking procedures of Wis. Stat. § 227.24 were required to be followed during the promulgation of Order 28. Because they were not, Emergency Order 28 is unenforceable.6 Furthermore, Wis. Stat. § 252.25 required that Emergency Order 28 be promulgated using the procedures established by the Legislature for rulemaking if criminal penalties were to follow, as we explain fully below. Because Palm did not follow the law in creating Order 28, there can be no criminal penalties for violations of her order. The procedural requirements of Wis. Stat. ch. 227 must be followed because they safeguard all people. ¶4 We do not conclude that Palm was without any power to act in the face of this pandemic. However, Palm must follow the law that is applicable to state-wide emergencies. We further conclude that Palm’s order confining all people to their homes, forbidding travel and closing businesses exceeded the statutory authority of Wis. Stat. § 252.02 upon which Palm claims to rely.7 * * * ¶58 We conclude that Emergency Order 28 is a rule under the controlling precedent of this court, Citizens for Sensible Zoning, Inc. v. DNR, 90 Wis. 2d 804, 280 N.W.2d 702 (1979), and therefore is subject to statutory emergency rulemaking procedures established by the Legislature. Emergency Order 28 is a general order of general application within the meaning of Wis. Stat. § 227.01(13) which defines “Rule.” Accordingly, the rulemaking procedures of Wis. Stat. § 227.24 were required to be followed during the promulgation of Order 28. Because they were not, Emergency Order 28 is unenforceable.21 Furthermore, Wis. Stat. § 252.25 required that Emergency Order 28 be promulgated using the procedures established by the Legislature for rulemaking if criminal penalties were to follow. Because Palm did not follow the law in creating Order 28, there can be no criminal penalties for violations of her order. The procedural requirements of Wis. Stat. ch. 227 must be followed because they safeguard all people. ¶59 We further conclude that Palm’s order confining all people to their homes, forbidding travel and closing businesses exceeded the statutory authority of Wis. Stat. § 252.02, upon which Palm claims to rely. By the Court.—Palm’s Emergency Order 28 is declared unlawful, invalid, and unenforceable.
Four “conservative” Justices signed onto the decision, Chief Justice Patience Roggensack, Justices Rebecca Bradley, Daniel Kelly and Annette Ziegler. “Conservative” Justice Brian Hagedorn, wrote a dissent joined liberals Ann Walsh Bradley and Rebecca Dallet.
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thelibertydaily--2020-05-14--Liberal Constitutional Scholar Alan Dershowitz: Judge Emmet Sullivan Should Dismiss Case Against Lt.

Liberal Constitutional Scholar Alan Dershowitz: Judge Emmet Sullivan Should Dismiss Case Against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn or be IMPEACHED

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan should dismiss the case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn or face impeachment , contends Harvard Law emeritus professor Alan Dershowitz .
The Justice Department filed a motion last week to dismiss the case , but Sullivan has refused to sign off on the order .
Instead , he has invited third parties to submit friend-of-the-court briefs in the case .
The DOJ moved to dismiss at the recommendation of a U.S. attorney assigned to review the case and after the unsealing of documents that confirmed Flynn 's claim that he was framed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has the gall to not throw this out , he ought to be impeached .
Remember that judges only have jurisdiction for cases and controversies , '' Dershowitz said .
`` There ’ s no controversy here .
Both sides agree this case should be dismissed .
This judge has no power to do anything else .
And if he asserts that power , he has violated the Constitution . ''
In a motion to the court , Flynn 's attorney , Sidney Powell , argued there is no provision in federal criminal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proposed amicus brief has no place in this court … it is no accident that amicus briefs are excluded in criminal cases , '' she wrote .
`` This court , on 24 specific occasions has rejected all prior attempts … to intervene . ''
Powell said no `` further delay should be tolerated or any further expense caused to him and his defense . ''
Evidence released last week shows the investigation against Flynn was to be closed due to lack of evidence before lead investigator Peter Strzok ordered it remain open @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discussed trying to get Flynn to lie so they could prosecute him .
The interview of Flynn , which led to his guilty plea , had no legal foundation because the FBI already had a transcript of the telephone call at issue with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak , critics argue .
A group calling itself `` Watergate Prosecutors '' requested permission from Sullivan to file a brief opposing dismissal of the case , even though the DOJ will not continue its prosecution .
`` Judge Sullivan , who has been so unhinged on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a treason case , decided this was just a peachy idea so now he ’ s inviting basically an anti-Trump group therapy session , '' McCarthy said .
`` All the lawyers out there who want to file amicus briefs are invited to do that .
It will make no difference in the end but it will just drag the process out . ''

Judge Emmet G. Sullivan should dismiss the case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn or face impeachment, contends Harvard Law emeritus professor Alan Dershowitz.
The Justice Department filed a motion last week to dismiss the case, but Sullivan has refused to sign off on the order. Instead, he has invited third parties to submit friend-of-the-court briefs in the case.
The DOJ moved to dismiss at the recommendation of a U.S. attorney assigned to review the case and after the unsealing of documents that confirmed Flynn's claim that he was framed by the FBI.
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"If this judge has the gall to not throw this out, he ought to be impeached. Remember that judges only have jurisdiction for cases and controversies," Dershowitz said. "There’s no controversy here. Both sides agree this case should be dismissed. This judge has no power to do anything else. And if he asserts that power, he has violated the Constitution."
In a motion to the court, Flynn's attorney, Sidney Powell, argued there is no provision in federal criminal cases for such briefs.
The "proposed amicus brief has no place in this court … it is no accident that amicus briefs are excluded in criminal cases," she wrote. "This court, on 24 specific occasions has rejected all prior attempts … to intervene."
Powell said no "further delay should be tolerated or any further expense caused to him and his defense."
Evidence released last week shows the investigation against Flynn was to be closed due to lack of evidence before lead investigator Peter Strzok ordered it remain open. A memo shows FBI agents then discussed trying to get Flynn to lie so they could prosecute him.
The interview of Flynn, which led to his guilty plea, had no legal foundation because the FBI already had a transcript of the telephone call at issue with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, critics argue.
A group calling itself "Watergate Prosecutors" requested permission from Sullivan to file a brief opposing dismissal of the case, even though the DOJ will not continue its prosecution.
Former assistant U.S. attorney Andrew McCarthy called Sullivan's actions "unhinged," Fox News reported.
"Judge Sullivan, who has been so unhinged on this case that he originally characterized it as a treason case, decided this was just a peachy idea so now he’s inviting basically an anti-Trump group therapy session," McCarthy said. "All the lawyers out there who want to file amicus briefs are invited to do that. It will make no difference in the end but it will just drag the process out."


thelibertydaily--2020-05-13--Media Lies: Democrat Governors Doing Great Jobs Despite Higher Wuhan Death Rates

What ’ s a Republican governor have to do to earn respect from the mainstream media ?
I ’ m asking because saving a lot of lives without totally trashing their state ’ s economy doesn ’ t seem to do the trick .
Meanwhile , certain Democrat governors are portrayed as quietly competent heroes while having the worst infection and death rates in the nation .
Florida began its reopening process on Governor Ron DeSantis ’ orders over a week ago , smartly putting retiree-heavy South Florida on a later , longer schedule .
DeSantis also closed Florida much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media howls .
Nevertheless , even though Florida has two million more people than New York does , and its population skews older than New York ’ s , New York has about eight times more COVID-19 cases than Florida has suffered .
Remember the Democrat attack ad from 2012 , showing a Paul Ryan lookalike rolling a wheelchair-bound granny off a cliff ?
All Ryan had done was propose Medicare reforms .
Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo got thousands of grannies and grandpas killed with his March 25 directive ordering nursing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even forbade nursing homes “ from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.
” The result was thousands of needlessly dead .
In a sane world with a nonpartisan media , DeSantis should be enjoying improved poll numbers , while New Yorkers ought to be gathered in front of the governor ’ s mansion with torches and pitchforks .
And yet , Cuomo ’ s approval rating has shot up to 72 % according to the latest from Quinnipiac .
DeSantis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seen his once-strong approval ratings decline over the last few weeks .
Despite Florida ’ s impressive COVID-19 numbers , compared to New York or New Jersey ’ s , the Washington Post felt the need to ask two days ago , “ Does Florida Gov .
Ron DeSantis know what he ’ s doing ?
“ .
If the New York Times gave a damn about its own city , they ’ d be demanding the heads of Gov .
Cuomo and Mayor Bill DeBlasio .
Instead , they ’ re running @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ ‘ Found Unresponsive at Home ’ : Grim Records Recount Lonely Deaths.
” And Yahoo News felt the need to explain “ How the coronavirus undid Florida Gov .
Ron DeSantis.
” The Wuhan Flu didn ’ t undo DeSantis ; the mainstream media did .
Cuomo has recieved almost nothing but fawning press coverage , particularly from the Orange Man Bad crowd .
Eddie Scarry wrote on Tuesday for the Washington Examiner : So how are the media ’ s COVID-19 governor heroes doing ?
Daily press briefings by New York @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , are run top to bottom live on cable news outlets , and his performances are cherished by the press .
The New York Times last month called Cuomo ’ s delivery “ articulate , consistent and often tinged with empathy.
” The paper also likened the briefings to a “ tender embrace.
” That soft hug , however , is currently accompanied by the shockingly high death rate of 139 per 100,000 people , a number that was boosted in part by Cuomo ’ s appalling decision to force nursing homes to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infected with the virus .
This directly exposed many high-risk people to the coronavirus and has probably resulted in many deaths .
Maryland Gov .
Larry Hogan is a Republican , but he gets a lot of love from the press because he ’ s always ready to attack President Trump .
His state isn ’ t doing so hot , either , with a rate of 28 deaths per 100,000 .
That means Maryland has a death rate more than twice that of Georgia .
New Jersey — where Democrat Phil Murphy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much less than Georgia ’ s , yet has four times as many COVID-19 cases .
I was unable to find a single negative MSM headline about Murphy in a week ’ s worth of stories from the mainstream media .
The Republican governor of Georgia , Brian Kemp , has been given the same treatment as DeSantis , portrayed as a cross between a bumbler and a murderer .
Kemp has been accused of “ deadly ignorance , ” and begged not to “ risk virus ’ resurgence here.
” He even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Definitive Ranking of the Worst U.S. Government Responses to the Coronavirus.
” But would you rather be a retiree with existing medical conditions in Kemp ’ s Georgia , or in Phil Murphy ’ s New Jersey ?
Would you feel safer on a Florida beach , or in a New York nursing home ?

What’s a Republican governor have to do to earn respect from the mainstream media? I’m asking because saving a lot of lives without totally trashing their state’s economy doesn’t seem to do the trick. Meanwhile, certain Democrat governors are portrayed as quietly competent heroes while having the worst infection and death rates in the nation.
AG Hamilton noted on Twitter earlier this morning:
Florida began its reopening process on Governor Ron DeSantis’ orders over a week ago, smartly putting retiree-heavy South Florida on a later, longer schedule. DeSantis also closed Florida much later than other states did — to media howls. Nevertheless, even though Florida has two million more people than New York does, and its population skews older than New York’s, New York has about eight times more COVID-19 cases than Florida has suffered.
Remember the Democrat attack ad from 2012, showing a Paul Ryan lookalike rolling a wheelchair-bound granny off a cliff? All Ryan had done was propose Medicare reforms. Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo got thousands of grannies and grandpas killed with his March 25 directive ordering nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients. Cuomo even forbade nursing homes “from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.” The result was thousands needlessly dead.
In a sane world with a nonpartisan media, DeSantis should be enjoying improved poll numbers, while New Yorkers ought to be gathered in front of the governor’s mansion with torches and pitchforks. And yet, Cuomo’s approval rating has shot up to 72% according to the latest from Quinnipiac. DeSantis, on the other hand, has seen his once-strong approval ratings decline over the last few weeks.
Despite Florida’s impressive COVID-19 numbers, compared to New York or New Jersey’s, the Washington Post felt the need to ask two days ago, “Does Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis know what he’s doing?” If the New York Times gave a damn about its own city, they’d be demanding the heads of Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bill DeBlasio. Instead, they’re running scare pieces on Florida with headlines like “‘Found Unresponsive at Home’: Grim Records Recount Lonely Deaths.” And Yahoo News felt the need to explain “How the coronavirus undid Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.” The Wuhan Flu didn’t undo DeSantis; the mainstream media did.
Cuomo has received almost nothing but fawning press coverage, particularly from the Orange Man Bad crowd. Eddie Scarry wrote on Tuesday for the Washington Examiner:
So how are the media’s COVID-19 governor heroes doing? Daily press briefings by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, are run top to bottom live on cable news outlets, and his performances are cherished by the press. The New York Times last month called Cuomo’s delivery “articulate, consistent and often tinged with empathy.” The paper also likened the briefings to a “tender embrace.” That soft hug, however, is currently accompanied by the shockingly high death rate of 139 per 100,000 people, a number that was boosted in part by Cuomo’s appalling decision to force nursing homes to accept any elderly person who had been infected with the virus. This directly exposed many high-risk people to the coronavirus and has probably resulted in many deaths. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is a Republican, but he gets a lot of love from the press because he’s always ready to attack President Trump. His state isn’t doing so hot, either, with a rate of 28 deaths per 100,000. That means Maryland has a death rate more than twice that of Georgia.
New Jersey — where Democrat Phil Murphy is governor — has a population not much less than Georgia’s, yet has four times as many COVID-19 cases. I was unable to find a single negative MSM headline about Murphy in a week’s worth of stories from the mainstream media. The Republican governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, has been given the same treatment as DeSantis, portrayed as a cross between a bumbler and a murderer. Kemp has been accused of “deadly ignorance,” and begged not to “risk virus’ resurgence here.” He was even placed on a list of “The Definitive Ranking of the Worst U.S. Government Responses to the Coronavirus.”
But would you rather be a retiree with existing medical conditions in Kemp’s Georgia, or in Phil Murphy’s New Jersey? Would you feel safer on a Florida beach, or in a New York nursing home?


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Ex-Fed Prosecutor: ‘Unhinged’ Leftist Judge Emmet Sullivan in Shame Flynn Case Invites ‘Anti-Trump Group Therapy Sesson’

The decision Tuesday by D.C .
Circuit Judge Emmet Sullivan to delay a final decision in the case of President Donald Trump ’ s former national security advisor is just the latest twist in a case in a three-year-old case that should never have been brought in the first place , former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said Wednesday .
And it was a decision by a judge who ’ s been “ unhinged ” on the case from the get-go .
On Tuesday , Sullivan announced he would accept friend-of-the-court briefs , legally known as amicus briefs , before rendering a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The announcement disgusted conservatives who have long seen Flynn as a casualty of the war against the Trump administration that started even before Trump took the oath of office .
TRENDING : Rural Mayor and Sheriff Tell Michigan Governor To Take a Hike , Shut Whitmer Down with Orders of Their Own In an “ America ’ s Newsroom ” interview with Fox News ’ Ed Henry , McCarthy summed up Tuesday ’ s surprise announcement about the case against retired Gen. Michael Flynn in scornful terms .
“ What happened here , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of lawyers … who call themselves the Watergate prosecutors , and they figured if the Rolling Stones still go on tour , why shouldn ’ t they get the band back together ?
“ And they ’ ve been doing that since Trump came to office , trying to get him impeached .
“ And they thought it ’ d be a great idea to file an amicus brief to rant against Trump and against Flynn in connection with this case , even though it ’ s a criminal case where you typically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s the state or the government against the individual and the issues are very straightforward .
“ Judge Sullivan , who has been so unhinged on this case that he originally characterized it as a ‘ treason ’ case , decided this was just a peachy idea so now he ’ s inviting basically an anti-Trump group therapy session .
All the lawyers out there who want to file amicus briefs are invited to do that.
” Check out the interview here : RELATED : Biden 's Name on List in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Interview Look Even Worse Than It Was Even casual observers of the Flynn case know that it has been anything but straightforward , from the time Trump opponents claimed the career Army officer as their first scalp in the # Resistance war with Flynn ’ s resignation in February 2017 .
Flynn pleaded guilty that same year to a single count of lying to the FBI during an ambush interview at the White House in the first days of the Trump administration .
But after a series of sentencing delays , he eventually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new attorney , Sidney Powell , started taking the government ’ s case apart , both in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion .
Last week , the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr announced it was moving to dismiss the charge against Flynn , effectively ending the injustice once and for all .
And then Sullivan issued his call for amicus briefs , even though he had previously — and in no uncertain terms — ruled against accepting such briefs in the Flynn case .
As Powell noted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decision , the judge had rejected friend-of-the-court briefs 24 times , writing on one of the rejections on Dec. 20 , 2017 : “ The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure do not provide for intervention by third parties in criminal cases .
The Court recognizes that the movant sincerely believes that he has information to share that bears on this case , and that , understandably , he wishes to be heard .
Options exist for a private citizen to express his views about matters of public interest , but the Court ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” In Judge Sullivan ’ s courtroom , that was then , apparently .
And this is now .
Conservatives who have been watching the case were not happy .
For all the anger Sullivan has sparked , McCarthy appeared calm about the future prospects of the case .
Besides being a conservative commentator and author , he knows the justice system firsthand as a veteran prosecutor who , at the age of 36 , successfully handled the government ’ s case against the terrorists behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ for that back in 1995 ; it would be interesting to see how the Gray Lady would feel about it now . )
He doesn ’ t see Sullivan ’ s current delay affecting the ultimate outcome , though in a column published on National Review on Wednesday , he made his disgust with Sullivan ’ s “ travesty ” of a decision clear .
“ It will make no difference in the end , but it will just drag the process out , ” he told Henry .
Trump Derangement Syndrome has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ past three years as Democrats and their media allies have thrown up one roadblock , one ambush , one sneak attack after another at the president who , before the coronavirus crisis hit , had rejuvenated the American economy and world standing to levels Democrats couldn ’ t dream of .
It ’ s what makes Trump ’ s re-election in November so vital – a chance to finish what has been started , and put Trump Derangement Syndrome in its place .
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Call it Trump Derangement Syndrome – the Judicial Edition.
The decision Tuesday by D.C. Circuit Judge Emmet Sullivan to delay a final decision in the case of President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor is just the latest twist in a case in a three-year-old case that should never have been brought in the first place, former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said Wednesday.
And it was a decision by a judge who’s been “unhinged” on the case from the get-go.
On Tuesday, Sullivan announced he would accept friend-of-the-court briefs, legally known as amicus briefs, before rendering a decision on the Justice Department motion.
The announcement disgusted conservatives who have long seen Flynn as a casualty of the war against the Trump administration that started even before Trump took the oath of office.
More on the outrageous political antics of Clinton judge, Emmett Sullivanhttps://t.co/JAyoUVwdFy — Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) May 13, 2020
In an “America’s Newsroom” interview with Fox News’ Ed Henry, McCarthy summed up Tuesday’s surprise announcement about the case against retired Gen. Michael Flynn in scornful terms.
“What happened here, Ed, is there is a bunch of lawyers … who call themselves the Watergate prosecutors, and they figured if the Rolling Stones still go on tour, why shouldn’t they get the band back together?
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“And they’ve been doing that since Trump came to office, trying to get him impeached.
“And they thought it’d be a great idea to file an amicus brief to rant against Trump and against Flynn in connection with this case, even though it’s a criminal case where you typically don’t entertain amicus briefs because it’s the state or the government against the individual and the issues are very straightforward.
“Judge Sullivan, who has been so unhinged on this case that he originally characterized it as a ‘treason’ case, decided this was just a peachy idea so now he’s inviting basically an anti-Trump group therapy session. All the lawyers out there who want to file amicus briefs are invited to do that.”
Check out the interview here:
Even casual observers of the Flynn case know that it has been anything but straightforward, from the time Trump opponents claimed the career Army officer as their first scalp in the #Resistance war with Flynn’s resignation in February 2017.
Flynn pleaded guilty that same year to a single count of lying to the FBI during an ambush interview at the White House in the first days of the Trump administration. But after a series of sentencing delays, he eventually withdrew the plea in January when his new attorney, Sidney Powell, started taking the government’s case apart, both in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion.
Last week, the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr announced it was moving to dismiss the charge against Flynn, effectively ending the injustice once and for all.
And then Sullivan issued his call for amicus briefs, even though he had previously — and in no uncertain terms — ruled against accepting such briefs in the Flynn case.
As Powell noted in her filing opposing Sullivan’s decision, the judge had rejected friend-of-the-court briefs 24 times, writing on one of the rejections on Dec. 20, 2017:
“The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure do not provide for intervention by third parties in criminal cases. The Court recognizes that the movant sincerely believes that he has information to share that bears on this case, and that, understandably, he wishes to be heard. Options exist for a private citizen to express his views about matters of public interest, but the Court’s docket is not an available option.”
In Judge Sullivan’s courtroom, that was then, apparently. And this is now.
Conservatives who have been watching the case were not happy.
I think we have crossed the line where we can be“The United States of America”. The divide is so poisonous that we may need to regroup and reestablish new boundaries. These people who disregard the Constitution & are “left” are rotten to their souless center. — mywishko (@mywishko) May 13, 2020
Thank you, all of these bumps in Justice just keep revealing Deep State players, reminds me of wack-a-mole they just keep popping up. — timothy (@timothy32874635) May 13, 2020
We have many “shifting the goal posts” moments lately. This is the version where one team is so far down that they shift the goal posts just to get back into the game and steal a win. #StopShiftingTheGoalPosts — Leader of the Opposition – Michigan (@LeaderMichigan) May 13, 2020
For all the anger Sullivan has sparked, McCarthy appeared calm about the future prospects of the case.
Besides being a conservative commentator and author, he knows the justice system firsthand as a veteran prosecutor who, at the age of 36, successfully handled the government’s case against the terrorists behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. (The New York Times applauded him for that back in 1995; it would be interesting to see how the Gray Lady would feel about it now.)
He doesn’t see Sullivan’s current delay affecting the ultimate outcome, though in a column published on National Review on Wednesday, he made his disgust with Sullivan’s “travesty” of a decision clear.
“It will make no difference in the end, but it will just drag the process out,” he told Henry.
Trump Derangement Syndrome has been doing a lot of that the past three years as Democrats and their media allies have thrown up one roadblock, one ambush, one sneak attack after another at the president who, before the coronavirus crisis hit, had rejuvenated the American economy and world standing to levels Democrats couldn’t dream of.
It’s what makes Trump’s re-election in November so vital – a chance to finish what has been started, and put Trump Derangement Syndrome in its place.
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