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We have had many questionable heads of the CIA, Allen Dulles being among the worst till along comes Brennan and he tops the pile.

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Ex-CIA chief John Brennan speaks to House on Hunter Biden laptop letter
By Victor Nava

Former CIA Director John Brennan, one of 51 intelligence officials who falsely suggested Hunter Biden’s laptop could be Russian disinformation, spoke to a House subcommittee Thursday as the panel investigates the origin of the “spies who lie” missive.

Brennan’s transcribed interview with the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government lasted more than four hours, according to Fox News.

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), a member of the panel, told the outlet on Thursday that while the subcommittee is still in the “fact-finding phase” of its investigation, what is already known about the letter and its origin points to federal agencies being weaponized to help Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

“These depositions, they can be lengthy and there’s a ton of discovery to sift through,” Cammack told host Martha MacCallum.

“But what we’re really getting at is painting an irrefutable picture that the intelligence community — along with the law enforcement agencies, the DOJ and others, at the highest levels — have been working to weaponize their agencies against the American people and certainly for political gain.”

In October of 2020, Brennan signed the now-discredited letter that claimed to report on the now-first son’s overseas business affairs had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

Brennan was one of the 51 intelligence officials who claimed that Hunter Biden’s laptop could be Russian disinformation.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who also leads the weaponization subcommittee, revealed last month that former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell testified that he drafted the letter and that Secretary of State Antony Blinken – then a Biden campaign adviser – was the “impetus” behind the attempt to discredit The Post’s exclusive (and later verified) reporting.

“What we saw was at the behest of the Biden administration, then [Biden campaign adviser] Blinken, now Secretary of State Blinken, was coordinating with Brennan and [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper and others to get signatories on this letter through the pre-publication classification review board, actually soliciting members of the [intelligence community] to say, ‘Oh, we deem this to be Russia misinformation,’” Cammack said.

“To me, that is absolutely crazy. If that’s not weaponization of our federal government, I don’t know what is,” she added.

An Oct. 19, 2020, email from Morell to Brennan shows that Morell was attempting to give Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign “a talking point” to “push back on Trump” during the second and final presidential debate as he urged Brennan to sign on to the disinformation letter.

Brennan was seemingly eager to add his name, responding: “Ok, Michael, add my name to the list. Good initiative. Thanks for asking me to sign on.”

That same day, Morell told the CIA’s Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB) that he needed the letter approved as an unusual “rush job,” and a CIA employee working for the board solicited a signature for Morell’s letter from former CIA analyst David Cariens, according to a written statement by Cariens to the weaponization panel.

The PCRB approved the letter in 5.5 hours, adding a disclaimer stating that its clearance did not amount to CIA verification of its claims.

Morell did not include the disclaimer in the letter, which was published by Politico later that day.

At the time Morell was drafting the letter and seeking approval from the CIA, he was widely considered to be a front-runner to lead the agency if Biden were elected.

Biden, however, picked William Burns to lead the agency.

Clapper, along with former CIA directors Michael Hayden and Leon Panetta, are among the other intelligence community heavyweights who signed on to Morell’s letter.

Clapper will sit before the weaponization panel for a transcribed interview on May 17, a source familiar with the plans told The Post last week.

Will The FBI and Te JD allow the other shoe to fall notonly because that is the right thing but beause it will help restoreublc faith in ourgovernment.

And:

In less than 4 months members of the GOP have uncovered material from various agencies Biden and his family have been involved in scheming and creating a web of money laundering funds from foreign governments and the FBI is thwarting their investigation of various investigative agencies.

The FBI has taken over 3 years of pursuing what they knew over 2 years ago and withheld so Biden would have an edge in the 2020- election.

If The FBI and the JD are honest they will, at the very least, allow the GOP investigators to learn, in closed session, whether the whistleblower's information is reliable or not and where it ultimately leads.

This is their moral obligation both to America as well as the whistleblower. We already know various intelligence officers (51 to be exact) in a signed false letter colluded to give Biden a political advantage in the same 2020 election based on testimony from former CIA Director Brennan.

Finally, It is their obligation to let the other shoe fall where it may and, in doing so, begin the process of creating the process of restoring faith in our government.

If The FBI and JD continue to stone wall the whistleblower's revelations this would be a tragic event.

Or have they?

Republicans Bring Biden's FBI To Justice

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False Leftist Attacks On Justice Thomas Are Part Of Pressure Campaign To Undermine Supreme Court

by John Yoo via Fox News

Justice Thomas has too much moral integrity to be harmed by manufactured leftist attacks.

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IDF Waited Two Days to Hit Islamic Jihad Commander Because He Hid Behind Human Shields

By Tazpit News Agency

Former home of a former Islamic Jihad leader. May 11, 2023

Israel waited two days before striking at Islamic Jihad terrorist leader Ahmed Abu-Deka, who was killed in an airstrike conducted Thursday afternoon. The IDF said that it waited for a time when innocent civilians would not be harmed because Abu-Deka was protecting himself by using people as “human shields.”

Abu-Deka was a deputy to Ali Ghali, who commanded Islamic Jihad’s rocket squads in Gaza. Ghali was killed in an IDF airstrike on Thursday morning.

Head of the IDF Southern Command Major General Eliezer Toledano told the press, “We waited for him (Abu-Deka) to be separated from the family he used as a human shield.”

Toledano commended Israel’s intelligence services for its ability to know when it would be possible to hit Abu-Deka without harming innocents saying, “There is very impressive work here by our intelligence, with an emphasis on the Shin Bet, extraordinary work by the Air Force.”

"The important idea is to reach those people who make use of human shields to protect themselves from us, and conduct fighting from urban areas,” he added.

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DEI Brings Kafka to My Law School

Ohio Northern University is trying to banish me for lack of ‘collegiality’ but won’t say what I’ve done.

By Scott Gerber

PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

Ada, Ohio

Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested, prosecuted and killed by an inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. I’m Josef K.

Around 1 p.m. on Friday, April 14, Ohio Northern University campus security officers entered my classroom with my students present and escorted me to the dean’s office. Armed town police followed me down the hall. My students appeared shocked and frightened. I know I was. I was immediately barred from teaching, banished from campus, and told that if I didn’t sign a separation agreement and release of claims by April 21, ONU would commence dismissal proceedings against me. The grounds: “Collegiality.” The specifics: None.

Josef K. never learns what he’s alleged to have done wrong. The offenses I’ve allegedly committed haven’t been revealed to me, either. But I have an educated guess.

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Like many universities, ONU is aggressively pursuing “diversity, equity and inclusion” initiatives. I have objected publicly as vice chairman of the University Council, an elected faculty governance body, and in newspaper op-eds and on television, t

The same week I was led out of my classroom by police and campus security, I published an op-ed defending Justice Clarence Thomas’s right to have friends—even rich ones. The week before that, I gave a TV interview in which I criticized DEI programs that discriminate against white men in the name of “racial and social justice” and for being indifferent to the type of diversity higher education should value most: viewpoint diversity. The week prior, I published op-eds in a national newspaper and an Ohio one making the same points.

I requested during a University Council meeting earlier this semester that ONU’s DEI program address viewpoint diversity. The administration responded, brusquely, that viewpoint diversity is “not part of our diversity, belonging and inclusion plan.”

While my opinions obviously ruffled some feathers on campus, I wasn’t a pariah. My teaching evaluations are excellent, and my fall 2023 courses filled to capacity on the first day of registration this spring.

But this semester, for no apparent reason, ONU launched an “investigation” into me, without saying what it was about. My lawyers and I asked for specifics multiple times. ONU refused to provide them. Now, rather than level with me, ONU is demanding that I gamble the remainder of my career at a table where the administration holds all the cards. With my sudden free time, I rack my brain to think of rules I might have broken.

Perhaps decency is a sacrifice ONU is willing to make to grease the wheels of the DEI agenda. It looks like the law is, too. As my Academic Freedom Alliance-provided lawyer informed ONU, the attempt on April 14 to intimidate me into signing the release of claims with only a week’s notice is an unambiguous violation of federal age-discrimination law, which requires that workers over 40 be given a minimum of 21 days to consider such offers. I’m 62.

Moreover, insufficient “collegiality” isn’t listed as adequate cause in ONU’s faculty handbook for dismissing a tenured faculty member. The American Association of University Professors notified ONU in an April 19 letter, and again on May 2, that “an absence of collegiality ought never, by itself, constitute a basis for nonreappointment, denial of tenure, or dismissal for cause.” The university president informed AAUP that “ONU will not be providing a response.”

All of this is happening during the most successful year of my professional life. In addition to my teaching, which students appear to love—and, more than anything else, I love teaching—one of the world’s most prestigious university presses is publishing my 10th book this summer, and I was reappointed to the Ohio Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. But as I learned as I was marched out of my classroom by men in uniform, dissenting from DEI can turn anyone into Josef K.

Mr. Gerber is a law professor at Ohio Northern University

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As we get closer to when voters start focusing on the election, inflation, which should be lower, will be an important issue and second Biden's failure to address border issues will be the second.

China, unless it has moved their threat forward, will have lessened it's impact though, from a longer term standpoint, remains the greatest, threat.