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Joe Biden Names New Secret Service Director Amid Scrutiny Over Missing Jan. 6 Texts https://www.huffpost.com/entry/secret-service-new-director_n_63073bafe4b0f7df9bb6e9d0 WASHINGTON (AP) — "President Joe Biden on Wednesday named Kim Cheatle, a veteran Secret Service official, to be the agency’s next director as it faces controversy over missing text messages around the time thousands of supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol. Cheatle, who left the Secret Service in 2021 for a job as a security executive at PepsiCo, takes the reins as multiple congressional committees and the Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog are investigating the missing text messages, which the Secret Service has said were purged during a technology transition. Cheatle had served in the Secret Service for 27 years and was the first woman to be named assistant director of protective operations, the division that provides protection to the president and other dignitaries. Cheatle had served on Biden’s protective detail when he was vice president. During that time, Biden “came to trust” her judgment and counsel, he said in a statement." Maybe we'll gt some answers. Steve Thomas

Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot. Trump appears to concede he illegally retained official documents https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/23/trump-illegal-documents-fbi-mar-a-lago “Court motion submitted by ex-president’s lawyers argues some materials seized by FBI could be subject to executive privilege Donald Trump appeared to concede in his court filing over the seizure of materials from his Florida resort that he unlawfully retained official government documents, as the former president argued that some of the documents collected by the FBI could be subject to executive privilege. The motion submitted on Monday by the former president’s lawyers argued that a court should appoint a so-called special master to separate out and determine what materials the justice department can review as evidence due to privilege issues. “The documents seized at Mar-a-Lago … were created during his term as President. Accordingly, the documents are presumptively privileged until proven otherwise,” the filing said. “Only an evaluation by a neutral reviewer, a Special Master, can secure the sanctity of these privileged materials.” But the argument from Trump that the documents are subject to executive privilege protections suggests those documents are official records – which he is not authorized to keep and should have turned over to the National Archives at the end of the administration. The motion, in that regard, appeared to concede that Trump violated one of the criminal statutes listed on the warrant used by the FBI to search the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort – 18 USC 2071 – concerning the unlawful removal of government records.” Steve Thomas

Gil, Over and above the rifle, I have been interested in the live round that was ejected from the rifle. By all accounts, the empty cartridges were found first over in the southeast corner of the sixth floor. They were dusted for fingerprints and bagged and tagged around 1:00 PM. (The time of 1:06 sticks in my mind for some reason). So now we have 6.5mm shells entered into evidence. The rifle was found later at 1:22 PM. You see, we have a dilemna. If the ammo that was found was 6.5mm, we can't have a gun that uses 7.65mm shells. WC testimony of Lieutenant, J.C. Day https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/day1.htm Mr. BELIN. Do you know what kind of a cartridge case that is? Mr. DAY. It is a 6.5. Mr. BELIN. Is that the same kind of a cartridge case that you saw when you first saw these cartridge cases? Mr. DAY. Yes. Mr. BELIN. Lieutenant Day, you took some two pictures of those shell casings. Let me first get you through all the pictures you took. Where did you next take pictures on the sixth floor after you took the pictures of the shell casing; what did you do then? Mr. DAY. I went, after these were taken--after your number. Mr. BELIN. 715 and 716. Mr. DAY. Were taken, I processed these three hulls for fingerprints, using a powder. Mr. Sims picked them up by the ends and handed them to me. I processed each of the three; did not find fingerprints. As I had finished that, Captain Fritz sent word for me to come to the northwest part of the building, the rifle had been found, and he wanted photographs. WC testimony of Detective, Robert L. Studebaker https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/studebak.htm Mr. BALL. We will Identify your Exhibit A as your No. 20 and your Exhibit B as your No. 19. Now, what other pictures did you take? Mr. STUDEBAKER. Of the rifle? 139 Mr. BALL. Yes. Mr. STUDEBAKER. Yes, sir; that's why, right after these were taken, they said they had found a rifle and to bring the cameras over to the northwest corner of the building where the rifle was found and I loaded everything up and carried it over there. After the Crime Lb people went over, they took some pictures of the rifle, in situ. Captain Fritz picked the rifle up by its sling, and as Carl Day was holding it, Fritz worked the bolt and a live round fell out. Mr. BELIN. What else did you do in connection with the rifle at that particular time? Mr. DAY. Captain Fritz was present. After we got the photographs I asked him if he was ready for me to pick it up, and he said, yes. I picked the gun up by the wooden stock. I noted that the stock was too rough apparently to take fingerprints, so I picked it up, and Captain Fritz opened the bolt as I held the gun. A live round fell to the floor. Mr. BELIN. Did you initial that live round at all? Mr. DAY. Yes, sir; my name is on it. Mr. BELIN. When did you place your name on this live round, if you remember? Mr. DAY. How? Mr. BELIN. When? Mr. DAY. At the time, that was marked at the scene. Mr. BELIN. Handing you Commission Exhibit No. 141, I will ask you to state if you know what this is. Mr. DAY. It has "Day" on it where I scratched it on the small end where the slug goes into the shell. Mr. BELIN. What is this, what is Exhibit 141? Mr. DAY. That is the live round that fell from the rifle when Captain Fritz opened the bolt. It's what happened after that that interests me. Mr. BELIN. What did you do with this after you put your name on it? Mr. DAY. Captain Fritz took possession of it. I retained possession of the rifle. Mr. BELIN. Did you process this live round at all for prints? Mr. DAY. Yes, sir; I did. I did not find any prints. Mr. BELIN. How did you try to process the live round for prints? Mr. DAY. With black fingerprint powder. Mr. DAY. "When bolt opened one live round was in the barrel. No prints are on the live round. Captain Fritz and Lieutenant Day opened the barrel. Captain Fritz has the live round. How can there not be any prints on an unfired round? WC testimony of Deputy Sheriff, Eugene Boone https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/boone.htm Mr. BALL - There is one question. Did you hear anybody refer to this rifle as a Mauser that day? Mr. BOONE - Yes, I did. And at first, not knowing what it was, I thought it was 7.65 Mauser. Mr. BALL - Who referred to it as a Mauser that day? Mr. BOONE - I believe Captain Fritz. He had knelt down there to look at it, and before he removed it, not knowing what it was, he said that is what it looks like. This is when Lieutenant Day, I believe his name is, the ID man was getting ready to photograph it. We were just discussing it beck and forth. And he said it looks like a 7.65 Mauser. WC testimony of Captain, Will Fritz https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/fritz1.htm Mr. BALL. What happened after that? Mr. FRITZ. A few minutes later some officer called me and said they had found the rifle over near the back stairway and I told them same thing, not to move it, not to touch it, not to move any of the boxes until we could get pictures, and as soon as Lieutenant Day could get over there he made pictures of that. Mr. BALL. After the pictures had been taken of the rifle what happened then? Mr. FRITZ. After the pictures had been made then I ejected a live shell, a live cartridge from the rifle. Mr. BALL. And who did you give that to? Mr. FRITZ. I believe that I kept that at that time myself. Later I gave it to the crime lab who, in turn, turned it over to the FBI. Mr. BALL. Did you put any marking of yours on the empty cartridge? Mr. FRITZ. On that loaded cartridge? Mr. BALL. On that loaded cartridge. Mr. FRITZ. I don't know, I am not sure, I don't think so. Mr. BALL. Was there any conversation you heard that this rifle was a Mauser? Mr. FRITZ. I heard all kinds of reports about that rifle. They called it most everything. Mr. BALL. Did you hear any conversation right there that day? Mr. FRITZ. Right at that time? Mr. BALL. Yes Mr. FRITZ. I just wouldn't be sure because there were so many people talking at the same time, I might have; I am not sure whether I did or not. Mr. BALL. Did you think it was a Mauser? Mr. FRITZ. No, sir; I knew--you can read on the rifle what it was and you could also see on the cartridge what caliber it was. Mr. BALL. Well, did you ever make any---did you ever say that it was a 7.65 Mauser? Mr. FRITZ. No, sir; I am sure I did not. Mr. BALL. Or did you think it was such a thing? Mr. FRITZ. No, sir; I did not. If I did, the Mauser part, I won't be too positive about Mauser because I am not too sure about Mauser rifles myself. But I am certainly sure that I never did give anyone any different caliber than the one that shows on the cartridges. Here's a picture of a 7.65 Mauser round: 750 rds. 7.65 Argentine FMJ Ammo - 86751, at Sportsman's Guide Why did Fritz keep that cartridge and put in his pocket instead of turning over to the Crime Lab immediately so it could be bagged and tagged? Steve Thomas

Oklahoma GOP candidate under fire for saying it is 'totally in the right' to execute gay people by Sky Palma August 22, 2022 https://www.rawstory.com/candidate-scott-esk/ “A GOP candidate in Oklahoma's Republican primary runoff election tomorrow is facing backlash after comments he made several years ago have emerged, LGBT Nation reports. Scott Esk, 56, who is running for a seat in the state's House, commented on a Facebook post back in 2013 where he quoted a bible verse and later added that "we would be totally in the right" to execute gay people. “What I will tell you right now is that that was done in the Old Testament under a law that came directly from God,” he said at the time. “And in that time, there was, it was, totally just came directly from God.” “Well, does that make me a homophobe? Maybe some people think it does,” he said. “But as far as I and many of the people, the voters of House District A7 are concerned, it simply makes me a Christian. Christians believe in biblical morality, kind of by definition, or they should.”” Does that mean we are going to go back to stoning people to death? Steve Thomas

The Republican guy running for Governor of Pennsylvania has personal armed bodyguards. His bodyguards are members of an Evangelical Christian Church. Of course they are. Steve Thomas

Georgia Republican Herschel Walker said the Biden administration’s sweeping new climate law represents unnecessary spending because it sets aside money to plant and protect trees. "“They try to fool you and make you think they are helping you out — they’re not. You know that some of this money is going into trees? We got enough trees — don’t we have enough trees around here?” Walker said Sunday in Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported." Yup, we don't need to be teaching silly things like science to schoolkids. Steve Thomas

Full text of National Archives letter to Trump on classified documents https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/full-text-national-archives-letter-trump-classified-documents "May 10, 2022 Evan Corcoran Silverman Thompson 400 East Pratt Street Suite 900 Baltimore, MD 21202 By Email Dear Mr. Corcoran: I write in response to your letters of April 29, 2022, and May 1, 2022, requesting that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) further delay the disclosure to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the records that were the subject of our April 12, 2022 notification to an authorized representative of former President Trump. As you are no doubt aware, NARA had ongoing communications with the former President’s representatives throughout 2021 about what appeared to be missing Presidential records, which resulted in the transfer of 15 boxes of records to NARA in January 2022. In its initial review of materials within those boxes, NARA identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret and including Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program materials. NARA informed the Department of Justice about that discovery, which prompted the Department to ask the President to request that NARA provide the FBI with access to the boxes at issue so that the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community could examine them. On April 11, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office—affirming a request from the Department of Justice supported by an FBI letterhead memorandum—formally transmitted a request that NARA provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes for its review within seven days, with the possibility that the FBI might request copies of specific documents following its review of the boxes. Although the Presidential Records Act (PRA) generally restricts access to Presidential records in NARA’s custody for several years after the conclusion of a President’s tenure in office, the statute further provides that, “subject to any rights, defenses, or privileges which the United States or any agency or person may invoke,” such records “shall be made available . . . to an incumbent President if such records contain information that is needed for the conduct of current business of the incumbent President’s office and that is not otherwise available.” 44 U.S.C. § 2205(2)(B). Those conditions are satisfied here. As the Department of Justice’s National Security Division explained to you on April 29, 2022: There are important national security interests in the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community getting access to these materials. According to NARA, among the materials in the boxes are over 100 documents with classification markings, comprising more than 700 pages. Some include the highest levels of classification, including Special Access Program (SAP) materials. Access to the materials is not only necessary for purposes of our ongoing criminal investigation, but the Executive Branch must also conduct an assessment of the potential damage resulting from the apparent manner in which these materials were stored and transported and take any necessary remedial steps. Accordingly, we are seeking immediate access to these materials so as to facilitate the necessary assessments that need to be conducted within the Executive Branch." Claiming Executive Privilege, Trump was denyng these materials to the Executive Branch itself. People were seen taking boxes out of and moving boxes into that basement storage room. Those documents could have been copied, digitized and are halfway around the world by now. Steve Thomas

According th Maggie Haberman's article, documents retrieved from Mar-a-Lago included documents from the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI. The NSA.? Yikes! That means SIGINT. That means satellites. According to the National Security Agency's website: https://www.nsa.gov/Signals-Intelligence/Overview/ "NSA is responsible for providing foreign signals intelligence (SIGINT) to our nation's policy-makers and military forces. SIGINT plays a vital role in our national security by providing America's leaders with critical information they need to defend our country, save lives, and advance U.S. goals and alliances globally. SIGINT is intelligence derived from electronic signals and systems used by foreign targets, such as communications systems, radars, and weapons systems that provides a vital window for our nation into foreign adversaries' capabilities, actions, and intentions. Our SIGINT mission is specifically limited to gathering information about international terrorists and foreign powers, organizations, or persons. NSA produces intelligence in response to formal requirements levied by those who have an official need for intelligence, including all departments of the Executive Branch of the United States Government. At NSA, we must keep pace with advances in the high-speed, multifunctional technologies of today's information age. The ever-increasing volume, velocity and variety of current signals make the production of relevant and timely intelligence for military commanders and national policy-makers more challenging and exciting than ever. Modern telecommunications technology poses significant challenges to the SIGINT mission, and many languages are used around the world that are of interest to our military and national leaders. Thus, NSA is required to maintain a wide variety of language capabilities as well. Successful SIGINT depends on the skills of language professionals, mathematicians, analysts, and engineers, to name just a few." Steve Thomas

North Carolina Republican: Children below 5th grade shouldn't be taught science or history in school. By Matthew Chapman August 22, 2022 https://www.rawstory.com/mark-robinson-2657896870/ "On Monday, WRAL reported that North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the highest-ranking Republican in the state, called for eliminating science and history classes from elementary schools." "He has become highly controversial for his past statements, including that gay people are "devil-worshipping child molesters," that transgender identity is a "mass delusion" designed "to turn God’s creation ... into a sickening image of rebellion to glorify Satan," that the Parkland school shooting activists are "silly little immature media prosti-tots," that Michelle Obama is secretly a man, that Muslims in America are "invaders," and that the film Black Panther is a Jewish plot to grift money off of Black people. While vehemently anti-abortion, he has also admitted that he once paid his wife to have one before they were married." "Robinson said he’d work to keep history, science and a number of other subjects out of first through fifth grade curricula and instead prioritize reading, writing and math," said the report. "'In those grades, we don’t need to be teaching social studies,' he writes. 'We don’t need to be teaching science. We surely don’t need to be talking about equity and social justice.' Robinson also reaffirms personal views on climate change that became a major issue in the 2020 election. 'Guess what? Most of the people of North Carolina know global warming is junk science,' he writes." Yup. Let's just teach them chillens ciphers and figgers. That's all they need. Steve Thomas

Gil, Colin Crow: http://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php?topic=11247.25;wap2 “OFSTEIN said this statement aroused his suspicions and he asked Sgt. TOM CRIGLER, who is employed with the U. S. Army Recruiting Station, Dallas, and is a resident of the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, regarding this. He said he told CRIGLER he had run into a fellow at work who had spent some time in Russia and he wondered if the FBI should run a security check on him inasmuch as he, OFSTEIN, did not want to jeopardize his own status for any possible future security clearances in the event he ever returned to the U. S. Army." The problem with the above is the fact that Sgt. Tom Crigler told the FBI that Ofstein contacted him in August, 1963. Five months AFTER Oswald had left Jaggars. Why would Ofstein suddenly want the FBI to run a check on Oswald in August, 1963 when he allegedly hadn't seen the guy in five months? Why would Ofstein be concerned about "future security clearances" a minimum of five months after Oswald had spoken to him about "microdots" and three months before the assassination? Why did Ofstein say it was the "microdot" conversation that pushed him into the Crigler meeting but fail to mention the meeting was in August? Ofstein also states that Oswald gave him the details of his P.O. Box address in Dallas and that he sent a letter to it after Oswald had left the company asking (AGAIN) if Oswald and his wife wanted to visit his house for dinner.” On December 6, 1963 Thomas Crigler was interviewed by the FBI. He said that he met Olfstein “accidentally” on the street. See FBI interview of Crigler December 6, 1963: CD 205 p. 478 https://maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10672#relPageId=481&tab=page Thomas H. Crigler, Jr., 1705 McAdams, advised he is currently a Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Security Agency, Field Representative, assigned to U.S. Army Recruiting Station, Dallas. He advised that he and Dennis Ofstein were assigned to the same U.S. Army branch in Europe and that he knew Ofstein from about June, 1960 to December, 1960 purely as another person attached to the same unit with him. He said that he had never become socially or well acquainted with Ofstein at that time. He said the caption of their group was the 507th USASA Group, Heilbron, West Germany.” (This is actually spelled Heilbronn) However, he said later in his FBI interview that about a week after meeting Ofstein in the street in August, Ofstein and his family came to Crigler's house, and that twice more he and his wife visited Ofstein at his (Ofstein's) house. See here for pictures of Heilbronn: http://www.usarmygermany.com/Sont.htm?http&&&www.usarmygermany.com/Usareur_City_Heilbronn.htm Ofstein was interviewed by FBI Agent, Kenneth Jackson on December 2, 1963. Jackson wrote up his Report on December 3, 1963. See CD 205 p. 472. https://maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10672#relPageId=475&tab=page Ofstein told the FBI of his having sought out Thomas Crigler because he was suspicious of Oswald when Oswald told him (Ofstein) that microdots could be “hidden under postage stamps and used in espionage operations”. They didn't meet on the street "accidentally" Robert Gemberling Report of 12/23/63. pp.472-477. Commission Document 205 - FBI Report of 23 Dec 1963 re: Oswald https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10672 Ofstein's interview was conducted by FBI SA Kenneth Jackson on December December 2nd and 3rd, 1963. During that interview, Ofstein tells of meeting with Thomas Crigler and asking Crigler about Oswald. He said that he told Crigler about Oswald because he didn't want to “jeapordize his own (Ofstein's) security status for any possible future security clearance in the event he ever returned to the U.S. Army.” Which is a little odd in itself since Ofstein married a German national and had a son in Stuttgart, Germany in July of 1960 and a daughter in Dallas in 1961. Why would a married man, and a father of two children be considering in 1963 a return to the Army? Three days later, Crigler is interviewed by the FBI. See FBI interview of Crigler December 6, 1963: CD 205 p. 478 https://www.maryferr...tml?docId=10672 Crigler said that about a week after meeting Ofstein in August, he (Ofstein) had visited Crigler in his home, and that twice more he (Crigler) had visited Ofstein in his (Ofstein's) house. Ofstein's WC testimony was taken at 2 p.m., on March 30, 1964. Mr. OFSTEIN. No, sir. After Oswald was released from employment, I did ask the recruiting sergeant for Army security here in town, who I was stationed with overseas, about the possibility of getting the FBI to run a routine check on him because of the fact that I have done security work, and the. fact that I also--this was just before I wrote the letter to Oswald inviting him and his wife over--due to the fact that I wanted to keep my record clean. Well, I didn't suspect him as being a spy or anything like that--I just wanted to make sure I was with the right company, and he told me that it was probably nothing. Mr. JENNER. You wanted to inquire not only with respect to him but also whether you were with the right company? Mr. OFSTEIN. Well, sir, I wouldn't jeopardize losing any chance of getting a security clearance at anytime I needed it. Mr. JENNER. And, Sergeant Crozier, did you say his name was--I believe it is Sergeant Geiger. Mr. OFSTEIN. His first name is Tom--I can't remember his last name now. Mr. JENNER. Or, is it Kriegler? Mr. OFSTEIN . Kriegler yes, sir. Mr. JENNER. He had been in the service with you, you had served together? Mr. OFSTEIN. Yes, sir. So, sometime between August, 1963 (and at least three more times when they had been in each others' homes) and a two-day FBI interview on December 2nd and 3rd, 1963, Ofstein forgot Crigler's last name by March, 1964. Seems a little odd. (Source: Email from John O'Neil) (served in 1960) https://www.usarmygermany.com/Sont.htm?https&&&www.usarmygermany.com/Units/ASA%20Europe/USAREUR_ASAE.htm My next duty station (after Vint Hill Farms) was with the 507th USASA Group (Field Army) at Heilbronn am Neckar. We had 4 -2½ ton trucks with expandable sides that held all our IBM equipment that ran off portable diesel generators (one per truck). Jim Campbell in his email said “(When I was in, no 206 had ever re-enlisted - IBM had a job ready for them when they got out.)” When I got out I went to the IBM office in San Francisco, showed them my diploma with TJ Watson’s signature and asked for a job, they asked me what I knew about computers, so I told them I’d seen one in Germany. I got the hint when they said ‘Goodbye, thanks for stopping in”. Late in 1962 was not the time to look for a job repairing the soon to be obsolete IBM punched card machines! It all turned out for the best. I worked as a tab operator while I taught myself computer programming and all that stuff and lived happily ever after. My wife, our three children and I moved to Australia 40 years ago. Hielbronn was where Dennis Ofstein of Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall fame and Thomas H. Crigler were stationed. Thomas Crigler worked as an Army recruiter. There was a recruiting office about one or two blocks from the Texas Theater and Brewer's Shoe store in Oak Cliff. Crigler lived at 1705 McAdams in Oak Cliff. Remember the IBM men in Brewer's Shoe Store? https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/ofstein.htm Dennis Ofstein, a "Monterey Mary", who studied Russian at the Monterey School of Languages for a year, who spent his military tour of duty with the 507th USASA Group, Heilbronn, West Germany; whose mission it was to intercept and translate Russian and East German military traffic, and who worked "side by side" with Oswald and taught him everything he knew about enlarging and reducing prints, opaqueing negatives, and making clean prints - exactly the skills Alwyn Cole, a questioned documents expert of the Department of the Treasury, told the WC you would need to forge documents, and who told the WC that's what was done with the Oswald SS card to turn it into the Hidell SS card. Steve Thomas

Gil, Policeman, Ray Hawkins Lee Harvey Oswald handcuffs valued at $250,000 http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/news/memorabilia/lee-harvey-oswald-handcuffs-valued-at-250-000/22042.page November 30, 2016 "The Dallas Police Department made its officers and detectives buy their own handcuffs, thus allowing Hawkins to retain his private property after the assassination." The lot is estimated to bring in $250,000 ahead of the December 3 close date. https://goldinauctions.com/Lee_Harvey_Oswald_Handcuffs_Used_to_Arrest_Oswald_-lot27299.aspx “Oswald was bundled into a patrol car and taken downtown. Hawkins followed and then went about fulfilling the routine written reports and pertinent interviews. The handcuffs, no longer needed once Oswald was secure in the Dallas Police holding cells, were returned to Officer Hawkins. These are the handcuffs that captured President Kennedy’s assassin. The Smith & Wesson cuffs were originally issued to Officer Hawkins when he joined the Dallas Police Department in 1953. Bearing the serial number “38468”, Hawkins used these rare and iconic cuffs throughout his entire career and retained them after he left the force. The Smith & Wesson handcuffs remain a silent reminder of that fateful day in Dallas when the Nation changed forever. The handcuffs are accompanied by a signed and notarized affidavit from Ray Hawkins describing his actions on November 22, 1963 and the role these handcuffs played the capture of Lee Harvey Oswald. It is also noteworthy to mention that this is one of the very few significant JFK-Oswald items that is not in the National Archives. The Dallas Police Department made its officers and detectives buy their own handcuffs, thus allowing Hawkins to retain his private property after the assassination. ,” Steve Thomas

Twitter ‘permanently suspends’ HD 20 candidate after he advocates shooting federal agents https://floridapolitics.com/archives/548917-miguel-tweet/ “A Republican candidate for the House from St. Augustine is banned from Twitter after advocating violence against the federal government. Republican Luis Miguel, running against incumbent Rep. Bobby Payne of Palatka in the redrawn House District 20, was suspended from Twitter after a tweet advocating that Floridians should be able to shoot federal agents on sight. “Under my plan, all Floridians will be able to shoot FBI, IRS, ATF, and all other federal troops on sight,” Miguel tweeted. “Let freedom ring.” Miguel told Florida Politics Friday the suspension, which is “permanent” per a message he got on his Twitter app, “doesn’t affect (him) at all.” He stands by the proposal, which he says is justified because the IRS has been “weaponized by dissident forces.”” “Miguel is still active on Instagram, where the post advocating shooting federal agents is still displayed,…” “He also is still on Facebook. The same messages recur there.” Oh... my... God. Steve Thomas

We have a looming Constitutional crisis ahead of us. Can Donald Trump run for president if charged and convicted of removing official records? By: Amy Sherman August 11, 2022 https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/can-donald-trump-run-for-president-if-charged-and-convicted-of-removing-official-records/ "Federal statute says it is a crime to willfully and intentionally remove official records and that such a crime would disqualify the defendant from “holding any office under the United States.” But some legal scholars say that statute can’t be used to bar Trump from a 2024 presidential bid. The Constitution’s list of criteria to run for president mentions only age, citizenship and residency — there is no mention of criminal charges or convictions. Federal statute 18 U.S. Code 2071 had long banned the removal, concealment or destruction of presidential records. It says “willfully and unlawfully” removing such records can result in a penalty of up to three years in prison and that the defendant “shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.” Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, said he doesn’t see a conviction for violating 18 U.S. Code 2071 preventing Trump from running for office. “That statute cannot trump the Constitution, which sets the exclusive qualifications for President,” Hasen wrote on his election law blog. “So this is not a path to making Trump legally ineligible to run for office.” The U.S. Constitution upholds the principle that voters decide who shall represent them. The Constitution says only natural born citizens or U.S. citizens who are at least 35 years old and have been a resident of the U.S. for 14 years can run for president. Previous Supreme Court rulings hold that a state cannot prohibit indicted or convicted felons from running for federal office, and Congress cannot add qualifications to the office of president, said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Iowa. Someone could use the records statute to attempt to challenge Trump’s potential run for office, and the courts would then rule on the constitutionality of his bid, said Georgetown law professor Victoria Nourse. Convicted felons have run for president and lost. Lyndon LaRouche was convicted in 1988 of tax and mail fraud conspiracy and ran for president multiple times between 1976 and 2004. Eugene Debs, convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 for an anti-war speech, was in a federal prison when he ran for president as a socialist in 1920. Debs’ supporters handed out campaign buttons for “Prisoner 9653.” While it’s legally possible to run for office behind bars, it would pose some political challenges in terms of limiting a candidate’s ability to fundraise or hold rallies.” Gird your loins. Rough seas are ahead. Steve Thomas

This was given to me by a friend. John Kelin was the original source for unearthing this. Shirley Martin interviewed Acquilla Clemmons in August, 1964: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wGFs59hXjeYFoZLuFff9U69d_5DS8cEd/view?usp=sharing I have no idea what the references to Oswald's wife being there are supposed to mean. Steve Thomas

Tom, 4) The handwriting experts commissioned by the HSCA were not asked to analyze the signature on the Hidell Selective Service card, or to compare the signature on the rifle order form with the signature on the DeMohrenschildt rifle photo. HSCA VOLUME VIII HANDWRITING ANALYSIS OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD p. 223 March, 1979 http://jfkassassination.net/parnell/hscahand.htm https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=961#relPageId=227&tab=page The HSCA submitted 63 samples from 50 documents items to handwriting experts JOSEPH P. MC NALLY and DAVID J. PURTELL and CHARLES C. SCOTT FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS OF CHARLES C. SCOTT (139) (Question. Although they purport to be the handwriting of one Hidell, were the postal money order (item 29) and the envelope addressed to Kleins (item 30) actually written by the person who wrote the signatures and other writings which purport to be Oswald's? (140) Opinion. The original of the money order (item 29) was examined and compared with the original writings purporting to be Oswald's. I am of the opinion that the fill-ins on the face of this money order are in the handwriting of the same person as the signatures and writings purporting to be Oswald's. (He used the term “fill ins”. He did not say signature.) The writing on the money order conforms with the writing purporting to be that of Oswald on the other documents in every material way, including writing movement and rhythm (L) as well as the pictorial aspects of form or design, proportions, alignment, slant, and connections. It is also significant that the writing on this money order shows no indication of being a mere copy or imitation of the writing purporting to be that of Oswald. This money order was submitted in the original, and hence it was possible to give it a complete microscopic examination and to study it under the infrared image converter. (141) What is not included in this batch however, is the Selective Service card in the name of Hidell. What was not done was to compare the signatures on the Hidell Selective Service card with the signature on the rifle's postal money order. To me, this is very odd, because the government's entire case rests on this. I wrote a piece on this back in 2018 called, "Did Marina order therifle? https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/24667-did-marina-order-the-rifle/#comment-370831 Steve Thomas

Now, this is hilarious. "Gaetz's primary opponent suggests he was the informant who sparked FBI's raid on Trump's resort. GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz's Republican primary opponent launched an ad accusing the Florida congressman of possibly being the informant who tipped off the FBI in their raid on Mar-a-Lago last week." The 30 second ad is entitled, "The Informant?" https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mar-a-lago-scandal/ The rest of us can sit back and watch the palace courtiers turn on each other. Steve Thomas

Gil. In all the studies I have looked at examining the BYP, I don't remember anyone looking at the revolver before. Good job. To my untrained eye, they don't look like the same gun. Look at the flaring at the end of the handle. Also, does the revolver peek out from the bottom of the holster? Steve Thomas

- Donald Trump - It’s not theirs, it’s mine’: Trump resisted advisers’ calls to return White House documents by John Bowden 08/16/22 https://news.yahoo.com/not-theirs-mine-trump-resisted-201350073.html Documents, pictures, statues, mementos... Makes me think of Jabba the Hutt. Steve Thomas

The passports issue intrigues me a little. We're the passports thrown in a box of classified documents? Two of the passports were expired. The only valid one was a Diplomatic one. Does a Diplomatic Passport convey Diplomatic immunity? Does Diplomatic immunity protect against your bags from being searched? Did Trump have a quick "go bag" where he could grab a bunch of documents and a passport at the same time? Questions. Questions. Steve Thomas

Derek, Acquilla is one of my heroes. FBI 105-82555 Oswald HQ File, Section 218 Memorandum to the Director of the FBI from the SAC Dallas: Page 4 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=60308#relPageId=69&search=Acquilla_Clemons Fair Play, Issue #34, May-June 2000 Current Section: A Legacy of Fear Page 9 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=217869#relPageId=9&search=Acquilla_Clemons A Record from Mary's Database https://www.maryferrell.org/php/marysdb.php?id=2433&search=Acquilla%20Clemons Record: CLEMONS, ACQUILLA Sources: Rush to Judgment, Lane (176, 190, 193-4, 200, 274, 280-1, 384); They've Killed the President, Anson (35, 57, 65-6, 351, 353); Coincidence or Conspiracy, Fensterwald (443, 559); Heritage of Stone, Garrison (37, 59); The Assassinations, Scott & Hoch (59); Conspiracy, Summers (120-1); Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy, Joesten (168); Citizens Dissent, Lane (53) Mary's Comments: In film, Rush to Judgment, she says she was a nurse for Smotherman Family. There was a John B. Smotherman, wife Cornelia, at 327 E. 10th St., Dallas, TX (214) 946-1898. She witnessed Tippit slaying. If the FBI was looking for a Clemmons (with two mm's) They might not have found anyone. Steve Thomas

Trump-loving Arizona secretary of state candidate posted about stockpiling ammo while keeping a 'treason watch list' by Brad Reed Ausust 16, 2022. https://www.rawstory.com/mark-finchem-2657869737/ “Mark Finchem, the Oath Keeper-allied Republican nominee to be Arizona's next secretary of state, made inflammatory social media posts about stockpiling ammunition and keeping a "Treason Watch List."” "On Twitter, he shared conspiracies that multiple ships docked at a Virginia naval station might be a target for a second Pearl Harbor-type attack," CNN reports. "He said Satan ruled the United States and said gun ownership should be mandatory. In one post, he called for the impeachment of Obama, who was then President, for letting his daughter go on vacation in Mexico." Another one of Trump's stable geniuses. Steve Thomas

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1559200445771517954 BREAKING: Arsonist Offers To Help Put Out Fire. In first interview since the search, Trump says: “The temperature has to be brought down in this country. If there is anything we can do to help, I and my people would be willing to do that.” https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/108828041518355960 Wow! In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else. This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country. Third World! Uh huh. Steve Thomas

If surveillance videos show boxes being moved in and out of the storage room in Mar-a-Lago, some material may have been moved to storage offsite. The FBI may still not have recovered everything Trump took. Steve Thomas

Disbelief as foreign press covers Trump’s classified documents scandal by Bob Brigham https://www.rawstory.com/trump-signals-intel-five-eyes/ “Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States together form "The Five Eyes" — which the UK Defense Journal describes as the "intelligence alliance of the Anglosphere." "The Five Eyes was formally founded in the aftermath of the Second World War, through the multilateral agreement for co-operation in signals intelligence (SIGINT), known as the UKUSA Agreement, on 5 March 1946," UK Defense Journal explained. "Initially, compromising only the UK and the United States, it expanded to also include Canada in 1948 and Australia and New Zealand in 1956, all of these last three English-speaking countries, members of the Commonwealth of Nations and with similar political systems when compared to Britain. Thereby, the ‘Five Eyes’ term was created from the lengthy ‘AUS/CAN/NZ/UK/ Eyes Only’ classification level that included the ‘eyes’ that could have access to high profile papers and information."” They are horrified at the way things were kept down there at Mar-a-Lago. "Hey Russia. Did you know that the British have a spy in the Kremlin? Give me a few bucks and I'll tell you who it is." Steve Thomas

Mar-a-lago surveillance tapes show people carrying boxes in and out of the locked storage room in which they were kept, even after Trump's lawyer signed a letter to the Justice Department in June that there were no classified documents there. I want to know who those people were. Also, Donald Trump is guarded by Secret Service agents. If people were delivering boxes to Trump, those boxes would have to be inspected by the Secret Service to make sure there were no bombs in them. Could one of the SS Agents be the mole that tipped off the FBI? Steve Thomas