19 hours ago, Pat Speer said:

When I looked into the curtain rod story, I discovered that a number of documents had been altered.

I then realized that every version of the FBI's report, in all the available files, had an anomaly. The date 4-1-64 had been changed to 4-2-64 on all the reports.

 

Pat,

Look at the dates on the bottom left-hand corner of the first two Crime Scene Search Section documents you provided.

Steve Thomas

House panels: DHS officials interfered in effort to get lost Secret Service texts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/02/secret-service-texts-jan-6-dhs-interfered-house-committees

“Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general’s office interfered with efforts to recover erased Secret Service texts from the time of the US Capitol attack and attempted to cover up their actions, two House committees said in a letter on Monday.

Taken together, the new revelations appear to show that the chief watchdog for the Secret Service and the DHS took deliberate steps to stop the retrieval of texts it knew were missing, and then sought to hide the fact that it had decided not to pursue that evidence.

The inspector general’s office had initially sought to retrieve the lost texts from across the DHS – spanning both the Secret Service as well as the former DHS secretary Chad Wolf and his deputy, Ken Cuccinelli – as part of its internal review into January 6.

But six weeks after the inspector general’s office first requested Secret Service communications from the time of the Capitol attack, that effort was shut down by Thomas Kait, the deputy inspector general for inspections and evaluations, the House committees said.”

“The House committees also disclosed they had learned that Kait and other senior officials manipulated a memo, authored on 4 February 2022, that originally criticized the DHS for refusing to cooperate with its investigation and emphasized the need to review certain texts.

By the time that Kait and other senior officials had finished with the memo, the House committee said, mentions about the erased texts from the Secret Service or the DHS secretary had been removed and instead praised the agency for its response to the internal review.

The memo went from being a stinging rebuke that said “most DHS components have not provided the requested information” to saying “we received a timely and consolidated response from each component”, the House committees said.”

The cover-up always turns out to be worse than the crime.

Steve Thomas

Trump Endorses ‘Eric’ In U.S. Senate Race In Missouri. But There Are 2 Erics.

Both Republicans have claimed the former president's endorsement.

By  Nick Visser Aug 1, 2022

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-endorses-eric-missouri-senate_n_62e85c6ce4b07f8376723cb6

“I trust the Great People of Missouri, on this one, to make up their own minds, much as they did when they gave me landslides victories in the 2016 and 2020 Elections, and I am therefore proud to announce that ERIC has my Complete and Total Endorsement!”

The endorsement was so unclear that both Erics claimed Trump’s support moments after the email went out.

Now, nobody knows who to vote for.

Way to go Donny! Good job!

Steve Thomas

https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1554229150952603649

Bradley P. Moss

5:14 PM · Aug 1, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

Interesting juxtaposition. Or is it something more?

Steve Thomas

July 29. 2022

https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1553111693311594498?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

Steve Thomas

Lauren Boebert: Venezuela dog eating 'started because they do not have firearms'

by David Edwards

https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-dog-eating/

“Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said that a lack of firearms is to blame for the practice of eating dogs in Venezuela.

During an interview on Newsmax with host Sebastian Gorka, Boebert recalled how she had confronted Democratic politician Beto O'Rourke after he suggested that assault-style weapons should be banned.

"I was compelled to go to him because I saw that a disarmed populace -- if the citizenry in America is disarmed then we are no longer citizens, we are subjects," Boebert said. "You know here in America we have gourmet treats for puppies. We have these amazing groomers for dogs."

“In Venezuela, they eat the dogs and it started because they do not have firearms to protect themselves, to defend themselves against a tyrannical government,” she added.”

She knows all that stuff.

Steve Thomas

With the furor over the missing Secret Service text messages, I read that the SS used radio instead. So where are the Dispatcher Tapes?

We look at the Dallas Police Department's radio Dispatcher's tapes all the time, and we even have Air Force One's tapes from after JFK's assassination, so where are the Secret Service radio tapes from January 5 and 6?

Steve Thomas

3 hours ago, Kirk Gallaway said:

Here's a question that I've been stumped about.

What would have Trump done had he gone to the Capitol?

Kirk,

Intelligence Official, Malcom Nance, who has studied insurgencies and uprisings all over the world, said it is his belief that there would have been a massacre.

Steve Thomas

The Saudi Golf Tounament has turned into just one long campaign rally for Donald Trump,

4 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

Did anyone see news video of Trump golfing at his private club the other day,

 

Joe,

You will be happy to know that, according to the Wall St. Journal, tickets to his golf tournament were starting at $1.00 at StubHub.

(that's one dollar).

Steve Thomas

Acting Director of Homeland Security, Chad Wolff and Acting Deputy Director of Homeland Security, Ken Cuccinelli have announced that their texts from around the January 6th time frame have also been deleted.

Homeland Security is the one who monitors militias, domestic terrorists, the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, the 3 Percenters and other hate groups.

What did they know, and when did they know it?

I predict this is going to get very big. Every bit as big as Nixon's missing 18 minutes of tape recordings.

The Head of the Secret Service, Jim Murray has also announced that he is not going to retire at the end of July after all.

If he retires, he can't control the flow of information.

Steve Thomas

Lawrence O'Donnell had an interesting take on things tonight.

If Trump is convicted and sent to jail, it would never work, because he is entitled to round the clock Secret Service protection. That would mean condemning them to prison too.

If Trump is sentenced to home confinement with an ankle bracelet, and the lawsuits against him by the Capitol Police and Congressmen succeed, he could lose hundreds of millions of dollars and wind up penniless and have to sell his mansions.

Where would he be living? In somebody's basement?

It was an interesting take.

Steve Thomas

5 minutes ago, Joe Bauer said:

 

So frightening they will run and hide from them.

Joe,

Or God forbid, greet them with hostility and violence.

I just hope some jarhead doesn't start shooting at them.

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said:

Steve,

     To be fair, Trump is defending an important precedent here-- the right of future Presidents to incite violent mob attacks on Congress in the event that they lose an election.  🤥

W.,

It looks like Steve Bannon's conviction has opened the floodgates.

Stevw Mnuchin, Mick Mulvanery, Mike Pompeo and John Ratcliff are all lined up to testify to the Jan 6th Committee.

Maybe it's only about the 25th Amendment, but who knows?

Finally.

Steve Thomas

Donald Trump appeals decision that he can be held civily liable for his actions and speech on January 6th. Declares he has absolute immunity because he was acting in his official capacity as President.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22122307-document-1-28

Steve Thomas

7 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

    

    But is there sufficient evidence that Trump conspired to obstruct Congress on January 6th?

    

W.,

Yes. It lies in the speech he gave at the Ellipse on the morning of the 6th.

He was urged several times beforehand not to include language about going to the Capitol.

The original draft of the speech did not include this language. Trump adlibbed.and inserted it himself. 

The White House Counsel, Pat Cippelone, told Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutcinson to make sure that they didn't go, because if they did, they would open themselves to being charged with "every crime imaginable".

The original permit for the rally was only for the Ellipse.

Steve Thomas

If Freedom of Speech is so important, why are people attacking libraries?

As Maeve Higgins, columnist for The Guardian put it, "Libraries help us to think. That is why they are powerful, and that is why they are under attack. That is also why we must protect them."

Fascists don't want you to think. As Marjorie Taylor Greene put it, they want you to conform.

Steve Thomas

Who are the little green men working "security" at Trump's events? (not so little)

Does Trump have his own brownshirts now?

Exclusive: Hired 'goons' assaulted SEIU conference attendees at the same hotel as Trump's speech

by Sarah K. Burris 7/26/22

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-security-america-first-confernece/

Footage sent to Raw Story by 26-year-old Mackenzie N. @Kenzington96, who works at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) showed a group of protesters being attacked by a group of men. The protesters were shouting "No Trump! No KKK! No fascist-USA!" and unfurled a banner reading "Indict Trump" on it.

"At least two white men in green shirts, beards and man-buns grabbed the "Indict Trump" banner and stormed off while hotel security also ran toward the scene. The videos sent by Mackenzie showed a third man in the Army green shirt with a quasi-military-looking insignia on the left breast of his shirt and an American flag on the left arm.

Mackenzie described the men as "hired goons" of Trump's, but SEIU was able to confirm from the hotel that the "security" were actually hired by the America First nonprofit group to run "security" for their event."

"The group has been seen previously at Trump events working as "security."

Steve Thomas

5 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

The problem I have had with Garland is the same problem that other attorneys have had:  you do not have to conduct a conspiracy inquiry solely from the bottom up and stay there for months.

Jim,

On several occasions during Garland's interview with Lester Holt, he said that the focus of the DOJ investigation is the "interference with the peaceful transfer of power".

That sort of wraps everything up together in one package - the fake electors, the mob, etc.

I look for that to be the charge.in any criminal indictment.

Steve Thomas

Why the Jan. 6 commission matters

July 26, 2022 07:30 AM

By  Marc Polymeropoulos

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/why-the-jan-6-commission-matters

“Of note, it was not al Qaeda or Hezbollah or the Islamic State that attacked Americans in a far-off diplomatic post on Jan. 6. No, it was our fellow Americans who violently stormed the Capitol.

Think hard about that.

A spontaneous riot? A gathering that got out of hand? Please. These talking points are insulting to those who survived that day. I ran counterterrorism operations for the CIA for several decades. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this was a pre-planned domestic terrorist event. It included all elements of a terrorist operation, including training, surveillance, and then the execution of the attack. It was an attack that almost succeeded in killing the vice president of the United States, as well as members of Congress. It was an attack on our democratic system of government. I don't want to hear that this was just a protest that got out of hand. That's BS.”

Steve Thomas

Dem blasts 'insane' GOP bill that would authorize 'deadly force' to stop abortions in North Carolina

by Brad Reed July 25, 2022

https://www.rawstory.com/north-carolina-abortion-ban/

“A Democratic state senator from North Carolina this week shined a light on a bill proposed by his Republican colleagues that he described as "completely insane" because it would authorize using "deadly force" to stop people in the state from getting abortions.

In a video posted on his social media accounts, North Carolina State Sen. Jeff Jackson drew attention to North Carolina House Bill 158, a piece of legislation drafted last year that extends the rights of personhood to fetuses and says that "any person who willfully seeks to destroy the life of another person, by any means, at any stage of life, or succeeds in doing so, shall be held accountable for attempted murder or for first degree murder, respectively."

The bill goes on toe say that "any person has the right to defend his or her own life or the life of another person, even by the use of deadly force if necessary, from willful destruction by another person," which implies that any citizen would have the right to kill a doctor performing an abortion or a woman taking an abortion pill.

In his video, Jackson comments that the bill makes it legal to "kill a doctor or a nurse or anyone involved" in the process of terminating a pregnancy.”

Steve Thomas

15 hours ago, Mark Knight said:

 While the attack itself derailed and delayed the Congressional certification of the state-certified electoral vote totals, had the box been found and absconded with, the Congressional certification of electoral votes could NOT have continued.

 

Mark,

Copies are also sent to the National Archives for this very reason.. Wouldn't they just have used those?

That's why the National Archives is a party to the whole fake Elector scheme.

Steve Thomas

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Says GOP 'Should Be Christian Nationalists' Party

By  Nina Golgowski Jul 24, 2022

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-christian-nationalism-republican-party_n_62dd70bde4b081f3a9007344

“The Georgia congresswoman said the Republican Party should conform to Christianity to make it easier to identify with and sway Christian voters.

Greene, who is known for her vocal religious beliefs and for imposing them on others, said the Republican Party should conform to Christianity to make it easier to identify with and sway Christian voters.

“When Republicans learn to represent most of the people that vote for them, then we will be the party that continues to grow without having to chase down certain identities or chase down certain segments of people,” she said. “We just need to represent Americans and most Americans, no matter how they vote, really care about the same things and I want to see Republicans actually do their job.””

“The first clause in the Bill of Rights, the establishment clause, is widely seen as keeping religion and government separate as a means to prevent government officials from promoting any particular faith.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” it states.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), another conservative firebrand, advocated for abolishing that clause last month, saying “the church is supposed to direct the government” and that she’s “tired of this separation of church and state junk.””

Oh goody! Let’s all go back to being Puritans again!

“Conform”. That’s the operative word. For a group of people who scream about “freedom” so much, they sure do seem to love that conforming business.

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:

William:

 I mean what would have happened if Trump had arrived at the scene?

Jim,

My wife and I were talking about this very thing last night.

The President is not allowed to enter Congress unless he is invited.

At that point, he would have been a squatter. Who could have evicted him? The military?

The Armed Forces take their orders from him as the Commander-In-Chief.

The Sergeant-In-Arms? Not against a mob.

The Capitol Police? The Oath Keepers had stashed a cache of weapons outside of DC. There would have been a pitched battle. Would the Mayor of DC or any of the surrounding States activated the National Guards? Trump would probably have nationalized them.

Trump would have stayed until Congress re-convened and made him the President. What would have happened if the Democrats had refused to re-convene? Would they have lacked a quorum in a joint session of Congress?

Trump would have been in control of two branches of our Government. The third branch, the Supreme Court doesn't have any troops of their own.

It would have been a freakin mess.

Steve Thomas

15 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

     I see no evidence that Trump and his followers will cease repeating the lies,

W.,

I'm sorry, but I must correct your spelling mistake.

It's Trump and his wallowers.

Steve Thomas