Category: Drain The Swamp

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Do not pass slough…

Trenton-area farmer Brian Crews was taking down trees, working what he still believes is a woodlot, to expand his crops, when the notice from the Lower Trent Conservation Authority arrived at the farmgate. He was ordered to stop work immediately. Two CA officers had responded to a complaint and, looking over from a neighbouring property, noted that the woodlot was a wetland.
 
It was the first time Crews learned that part of his land was considered wetland and he’s not happy about it. He’s also not alone. Many landowners are finding out their land is a wetland while developing it. What’s worse is that this problem has been going on for at least a decade.
 
On Sept. 29, Waterloo Region rural landowner Jason Geil was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $30,000, after using a dump truck and bulldozer to fill an area on his own property. It was the first time a landowner in Ontario was sent to jail for flouting the wetland designation.

h/t Jamie

US Navy Corruption and the Gallagher Case

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Sean Gallagher, Navy Times;

In this partisan environment, people were quick to judge President Donald J. Trump’s reinstatement of anchors to my brother, Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher.
 
Out of the woodwork came former military attorneys, indignant Pentagon officials and your typical Washington establishment types.
 
Their views were mainly the same. The president’s actions were a moral hazard! What message will it send our troops? What of good order and discipline?
 
I have one question for these people: Where in the hell were you the past year and a half?

Related: US Navy Secretary Richard Spencer fired over Seal case

More: Complaint letter to the Inspector General. (pdf)


Related: Lead investigator in Green Beret murder case pleads guilty to stolen valor charges

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More at Conservative Treehouse;

This would appear to be one of the few positive indicators that AG Bill Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham are indeed doing more than bondo.

And now just breaking:

At American Greatness;

In a scorching court filing Wednesday, Gen. Michael Flynn’s legal team accused Department of Justice prosecutors of stonewalling and suppressing exonerating evidence the defense itself uncovered.
 
Lead counsel Sidney Powell also accused “certain elements in the government” of targeting Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, for destruction because he had “publicly expressed intent to audit the intelligence agencies where billions of dollars are unaccounted for.”

“We’re in a permanent coup”

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Matt Taibbi;

My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump. Many Americans don’t see this because they’re not used to waking up in a country where you’re not sure who the president will be by nightfall. They don’t understand that this predicament is worse than having a bad president.

“When is enough enough?”

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Eddie Maurice is being sued for more than $100,000. An intruder hit by the ricocheting bullet of a warning shot is doing the suing.
 
But that’s only the beginning.
 
Eddie was also going to be sued by the Government of Alberta until Monday afternoon, when that bureaucratic stupidity got put to bed right quick.
 
[…]
 
Doug Schweitzer, [Alberta’s] top lawman, says the whole thing is ridiculous.
 
The ridiculous part includes his own department joining the lawsuit for damages and the cost of health services for Ryan Watson, the individual now suing who was rummaging around on Eddie’s property.
 
When Schweitzer heard that news, he squashed the province’s end of the lawsuit like a bug in less time than you could tell some paper shuffler: What the hell do you think you’re doing?

h/t mjt

When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

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Finally?

Several news outlets are now reporting that U.S. Attorney for DC, Jessie Liu, will likely indict former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for lying to FBI investigators.
 
The reporting is based on leaked email communications from the lawyers representing Andrew McCabe, where McCabe’s legal appeals to Main Justice and current DOJ Deputy Attorney General James Rosen were rejected.

When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

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A Story of 2 Probes and the FBI

The documents, quietly released as part of the FBI’s case files for the “Midyear Exam,” its code name for the Clinton email investigation, revive a lingering mystery from Clinton’s tenure as the nation’s chief diplomat: Why did Sidney Blumenthal, the former journalist and Bill Clinton White House aide, send her a series of detailed memos and reports about Libya beginning in 2011?
 
The documents offer an answer. They allege that Blumenthal sent the emails as a “quid pro quo” to free up classified State Department financial intelligence to help Libya recover as much as $66 billion spirited offshore by slain strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
 
Out of that, Blumenthal and associates stood to gain a brokers’ cut of perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars.
 
The private Libya inquiry leaves important issues unsettled. The documents do not include emails or other original source material to support the allegations within. While claiming to possess evidence that Blumenthal and his associates had contracts and offshore accounts to repatriate the money, the documents say “no concrete evidence” was found suggesting Clinton acted to support the effort.
 
Yet if verified, the files might shed light on why Clinton kept her emails, tens of thousands of which have gone missing, out of normal government communication channels.

It’s long, grab a coffee.

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Keep in mind, as you review SSCI Mark Warner attempting covert contact, for the expressed political purpose of conducting a ‘soft coup’….. the Vice-Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Mark Warner, is also a member of a very specific group known as the oversight “Gang-of-Eight”; and has contact with the most sensitive and secret covert government operations.
 
When you realize that senate members of the Gang-of-Eight in 2016 (Feinstein and Reid) were participating in the targeting…. and that continued into 2017 (Warner, Schumer, Burr, Ryan) with the soft coup effort against a sitting President; you begin to realize the scale of this.
 
The effort extends outside the Intelligence Apparatus into the halls of the most powerful politicians in DC. That’s where SSCI Security Director James Wolfe comes in; and is directly the reason why corrupt DOJ officials dropped charges against Wolfe in 2018 to control damage and mitigate risk. The truth of Wolfe leaking classified documents at the behest of Senators Warner and Burr was just too devastating.
 
A branch of the United States government (legislative) was attempting a coup against the elected leader of another branch of government (executive); by using planted and designated corrupt agents within the cabinet.
 
In 2015 and 2016 the dossier is connected to political opposition research laundered into weaponized intelligence to target a political campaign. However, after the election of November 2016, that DOJ/FBI, State Department and Senate effort then became an actual coup-plot against a sitting president.

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