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Wrong. The common thread is that all supported a 10-day audit of 2020 election result and planned to object to the counting of disputed electoral votes on Jan 6. Smith was establishing a basis to include some Senators in a sweeping seditious conspiracy case had Kamala won. https://t.co/K7HBq1WQ61
— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) October 21, 2025
Today it finally happened. Something I thought might never come, but I never quite gave up hope. The Mueller witch hunt has officially ended with the dismissal of the final indictment (setting aside the meaningless, for-show charges against a bunch of random Russians no one has ever heard of and no one will ever see anyway).
I’ve followed this case closely since 2018 because, even among all the injustices carried out by Mueller’s thugs, this one stood out as particularly grotesque. I’ll write more about it later, but in short: Mueller’s team went through General Flynn’s old client list and targeted one of his former clients on a matter that had nothing to do with Trump or Russia, purely to pressure him into saying something damaging about Flynn and by extension, Trump.
That client, @ekimalptekin, refused to lie. So Mueller’s team hit him with completely fabricated FARA charges. He couldn’t see his family or children for many years, fearing extradition to the United States. He spent millions on legal fees. His business, his life, everything was wrecked.
So I couldn’t be happier that Ekim’s long nightmare has finally ended. A huge thank you to everyone here who kept this injustice alive in the public eye all these years, especially my friend @FOOL_NELSON and everyone else in the Russiagate research community.
But most of all, thank you to Lindsey Halligan. What an absolute legend for getting this done in a matter of a few days after seven long years of despair. Having followed this case and the people involved extremely closely, I can say with absolute certainty that without Lindsey Halligan, this would not have happened. We all owe her a great debt of gratitude for finally, formally ending the Russiagate witch hunt.
John Bolton indicted by a federal grand jury on 18 counts under the Espionage Act.
The indictment in Greenbelt, Md., federal court alleges that Bolton transmitted classified national security documents through a personal AOL email account and knowingly sent secret materials to outside contacts while serving in the first Trump administration.
Prosecutors allege that Bolton, 76, used email and various messaging apps to send documents classified as high as “top secret” that revealed intelligence about future US attacks, foreign adversaries and international relations.
The former US ambassador to the United Nations also kept diary-like notes of his daily activities and assessments, more than 1,000 pages of which he shared with two relatives — believed to be his wife and daughter — who did not have security clearances and were not authorized to see the information Bolton shared. […]
Federal agents searched Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington, DC, office on Aug. 22 in connection with the long-running investigation, which FBI sources told The Post was mysteriously “shelved” during the administration of Trump’s predecessor, former President Joe Biden.
During those searches, investigators retrieved documents related to weapons of mass destruction, the US mission to the United Nations, strategic government communications and secret travel memos, according to court records.
Even if Bolton had no intention of releasing the information, he could be held liable if sensitive documents were left lying around where others could get to it — a legal provision that applies to his personal email account as well.
“They are very difficult cases to defend against because it is in essence a simple analysis! Is the document classified? It in your possession? Did you purposefully possess the document in question?”
You be the judge.
Sean Davis: John Bolton is in deep trouble.
National Post- How postal workers lost Canadians
Telegraph- One sixth of cash for key benefit handed to foreigners
Foreign nationals now receive one in every six pounds paid out as Britain’s main state benefit, official figures reveal.
It means that 16.5 per cent of the entire budget went to migrants.
Comey snuck in through the back door
pic.twitter.com/sHf0wxLwuh— Svetlana Lokhova (@RealSLokhova) October 8, 2025
In the matter of James Brien Comey Jr., how finds the court? I do not mean a court of law. I mean the tribunal of history.
Granted, we will be hearing from a Virginia court of law about JBC quite soon. On Thursday, Comey became the first former FBI director in history to be indicted by a grand jury for a felony. The charges? Lying to Congress and obstructing justice. (For the legal eagles among you, the statutes in question are USC 18 §1001 and USC 18 §1505.)
Call it karma, irony, or just good old-fashioned just desserts: whatever your literary preference, there is a delicious symmetry in the fact that USC 18 §1001—which prohibits making “any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement” to a government official—was the statute under which Comey tormented and bankrupted General Mike Flynn, Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor for a few weeks in 2017.
Blacklock’s- Won’t Disclose Gaza Funding
Foreign Minister Anita Anand will not tell Parliament what groups her department is financing in Gaza. Anand invoked “confidentiality” in refusing a request by one MP to detail who has received taxpayers’ aid under a little-known Canada Fund for Local Initiatives.
Blacklock’s- D.E.I. Spending Tops $1.04B
One agency, Prairies Economic Development Canada, said it spent $190.1 million related to diversity, equity and inclusion ventures but could not explain why. “PrairiesCan conducted a search in our grants and contributions management system using the keywords ‘equity,’ ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion,’” said the Inquiry. “Certain projects were included where diversity, equity and inclusion were referenced but may not be the main focus of the project.”
Global- PHAC to take over vaccine injury program after Global News investigation
Oxaro had received $50.6 million in taxpayer money; $33.7 million has been spent on administrative costs, while injured Canadians received $16.9 million. Updated Health Canada figures released last week show the company has now received $54.1 million and spent $36.3 million on administration costs, with just $18.1 million paid to injured Canadians
Very good explanation here.
Peter St Onge- Post Office Drops 80%
One Chinese seller estimated to give them a 30% cost advantage. In fact, until recently, you could literally ship from Shanghai to Chicago cheaper than you could ship from Milwaukee to Chicago.
National Post- Liberal ‘austerity’? Don’t make us laugh
On Wednesday, Carney told reporters that the upcoming fall budget will be “an austerity and investment budget at the same time,” noting that, “We need to rein in spending, we need to find efficiencies … that create the room for these big investments.” The following day, his finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, said, “We’re going to spend less so we can invest more.”
Dan Knight- Smoke, Mirrors, and Cabinet Retreats
François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s Finance Minister and longtime Trudeau loyalist, stood before reporters in Toronto this week and delivered what the Liberal Party is calling a message of “fiscal responsibility and ambition.” In reality, it was a carefully rehearsed exercise in political misdirection.
Andrew Coyne has completely lost it…
By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.
It is not here, quite – critics of the President remain at large, the courts are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and 2028 elections have not yet been determined – but the pieces are being put in place at astonishing speed.
To call what is happening a “slide” into authoritarianism, as if it were something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each new power serving as the means to acquire still more.
Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into the de jure.
…or maybe Andrew is bitter because Conservatives fired his father…
Victor Davis Hanson: What the Media Won’t Tell You About John Bolton FBI Raid
A few days old, but I was on the road and now just catching up.
According to investigative reporter Paul Sperry, in 2018, Bolton received that classified summary, detailing how Brennan manufactured the Putin-Trump intelligence out of thin air—but Bolton left it untouched, sealed from sight and scrutiny.
and here.
Blacklock’s- Tips On How To Talk To USA
The Canadian Embassy in Washington hired a US$2,000-an hour consultant for tips on how to talk to Americans, records show. It followed then-Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly’s boast that Canadian diplomats had expertise that “goes deep at different levels of American society.”
Signal Group Consulting LLC, a Washington contractor. was hired at US$6,000 plus expenses for three hours’ worth of advice on “interview preparation with a conservative slant,” “right wing message analysis of the Ambassador’s recent TV interviews” and an “explanation of right wing messaging.”
Kevin Klein- Air Canada strike shows cost of Ottawa’s protectionism
When one or two players dominate an industry, every disruption becomes a national crisis, and the government ends up refereeing instead of letting the market do its job. That’s the bigger problem. We’ve built a country where too many sectors are protected from competition, and Canadians pay the price for it.
