#christopher wray

This is Sidney Katherine Powell, who filed four lawsuits against the overthrow of the United States government on Nov. 3, 2020.

VINDICATED!

FBI Director Kash Patel has turned over to Congress an intelligence report confirming that the Chinese Communist Party produced “a large amount” of fraudulent U.S. driver’s licenses and fraudulent ballots—using data collected from millions of TikTok accounts—that allowed “tens of thousands of Chinese students, illegal aliens and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for an incapacitated vegetable despite not being eligible to vote in the United States,” effectively overthrowing the United States government.

Information about the plot was circulated in a Sept. 25, 2020, FBI Intelligence Information Report (IIR) – one day after Christopher Wray testified to Congress that the bureau was unaware of any “coordinated national voter fraud effort” – and recalled minutes after it was issued.

“Based on conversations with key individuals involved, it was conveyed that the recall of the IIR was abnormal,” FBI Assistant Director Marshall Yates wrote in a June 27 letter to Grassley.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley:

“Ahead of a high-stakes election happening amid an unprecedented global pandemic, the FBI turned its back on its national security mission.

Chris Wray’s FBI wasn’t looking out for the American people – it was looking to save its own image.”

We know that there were hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots imported into the country from China. We have video of them coming across the border from Mexico.

Additionally, ballots were shipped from New York to Pennsylvania. Counterfeit ballots were stashed in certain states and shipped wherever they were needed to ‘backfill.’

“You’d have to be a damn fool—and abjectly stupid—not to see what happened here.”

Sidney Katherine Powell was an Assistant United States Attorney in three judicial districts under 9 United States Attorneys from both political parties. She represented the United States in 350 criminal appeals, and represented private parties in another 150, all resulting in more than 180 published decisions. She was the youngest Assistant U.S. Attorney when she began practicing. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and the past president of the Bar Association for the Fifth Federal Circuit and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.

Exposing corruption within one of the most powerful and corrupt law enforcement agencies on the planet—the U.S. Department of Justice.

Quit Game

Ron Filipkowski at MediasPlus:

MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump are seeking to rewrite the history of what we saw with our own eyes on J6, and the evidence that was presented in courtrooms in hundreds of criminal cases. This is a project they have been at virtually since the day it happened, but now they are weaponizing DOJ’s final report on the insurrection while legacy media and Democrats largely ignore them. Again. DOJ’s Inspector General report was released last week. The Biden Administration, AG Merrick Garland, and FBI Director Chris Wray all realized that this report auditing the response and involvement of federal and other law enforcement agencies had to be released before the incoming Trump Administration took office, since they would seek to either kill the report or seriously alter it to omit key facts and truths. Republican conspiracy theorists and propagandists have seized upon one small section of the report that addresses their long-standing contention, with no evidence to back it up, that the FBI inserted their agents into the crowd that day specifically to incite a riot in order to thwart the plans of representatives and Senators to challenge the results of the election on the floor during the joint session of Congress.

The IG reported stated a few simple relevant facts: 1. There were NO FBI Agents in the crowd that day. 2. There were 26 people who had served or were serving in some capacity as FBI informants in matters unrelated to J6 who were present in DC at a variety of events including the Trump rally, but none of them were instructed by the FBI to be there or do anything. 3. Some of these informants committed crimes that day. 4. The FBI had 4 informants in the crowd that later reported information to them, but only one was there specifically to monitor the situation while the others were there on their own initiative. 5. All 4 were specifically instructed not to go inside the police perimeter or the Capitol building but 3 of them did anyway. 6. None of those 4 actively participated in any violence and each was told specifically not to do anything or get involved in any way.

MAGA Republicans were quick to pounce on this as “proof” that their conspiracy theory was right all along - that the FBI instigated the insurrection to frame Trump supporters. They cited the testimony of FBI Director Christopher Wray, who was repeatedly asked at congressional hearings whether the FBI was involved in instigating J6. But Wray never lied - he testified that no FBI Agents were in the crowd. When asked about informants, he testified that it has been FBI policy never to comment on the use of non-testifying confidential informants in any pending matter. There was nothing that Wray ever testified to that was proven to be false in the IG report.

Republicans seeking to rewrite the history of J6 are conflating the use of informants with the use of agents. An agent is a sworn law enforcement officer who has a badge and works full-time for the FBI as their career. Informants typically either have pending charges that they are trying to mitigate or are being paid by the FBI based on the value of information they provide. They are private citizens who often operate as freelancers (essentially independent contractors) who are rarely under the direct daily supervision of an agent. They typically contact an agent when they have something to report that they have seen or heard, which sometimes initiates further investigation. It has been disheartening to watch legacy media and Democrats briefly cover or address the initial IG report, then move on as Republicans distort it and lie about it to reset the narrative. People like Ron Johnson in Senate hearings and Clay Higgins in the House have suggested that the FBI brought in hundreds of agents specifically to insert them into the crowd to incite a riot. Higgins claimed that 200 FBI agents were brought into DC in secret “ghost buses” to hide the operation from the public. There are dozens of other members of Congress who have advanced this narrative.

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First, Democrats didn’t lie. The assertion is that Chris Wray lied. Chris Wray is a Republican appointed by Trump. Second, Wray didn’t lie. He told the truth that no agents were involved and explained that he cannot comment publicly on informants because the FBI never comments on informants for many very good reasons. Third, even if you believe he was deceptive in his responses, there is still zero evidence to suggest that anyone associated with the FBI planned to send people into the crowd to incite a riot, which is the main point of this entire exercise.

Legacy media has a responsibility not only to put out an accurate story about it when a report like this is published, but also to follow up and address disinformation and lies generated by the right-wing media echo system and elected officials. But they consistently drop the ball on this while they move to the next story. Democratic elected officials also have a responsibility to continue to push the truth and take the lies on forcefully. Since they don’t seem interested much in doing any of those things, we will continue to along with other smaller independent media outlets, a handful of politicians who care enough, some dedicated legacy media reporters, and a few TV commentators like Adam Kinzinger. We continue to tell the truth about what happened, over and over and over again, and we pay attention to each and every lie so we can be vigilant about rebutting right-wing propaganda.

Nov 8th Update: Jack Smith requests a stay

@CollinRugg JUST IN: The Department of Justice and Jack Smith immediately end their cases against Donald Trump. The DOJ cited their policy that presidents can't be prosecuted however it was assumed they would work up until the "last day." "What's interesting here is that the DOJ is moving to end them even before he takes office, citing the longstanding DOJ policy that sitting presidents can't be prosecuted." "And there were some thought that maybe special counsel Jack Smith was going to sprint through the finish line, was going to work up until the last day, force Trump to fire him, wait till a new Attorney General was appointed." "But that does not appear to be the thinking inside the department.

Prison for Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, Matthew Colangelo...

“The idea that I’m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me, given my own personal background.”

--Christopher Wray, FBI Director

"Good for [FBI Director Christopher Wray]. But here’s what’s especially insane, absurd and ludicrous: No matter how many refutations Wray and others provide, Republicans are persuading people to believe their lies — and they are proud of the deception."

--Dana Milbank, opinion columnist for The Washington Post

Dana Milbank knocks it out of the ballpark in describing how House Republicans are convincing many people that the FBI is targeting "conservatives," despite refutations by people like lifelong Republican FBI Director Christopher Wray. This is an important summary of all the conspiracy theories that the GOP flung at Wray during their "inquisition" of him. Consequently, the above link is a gift link 🎁so you can read the entire column, even if you do not subscribe to The Washington Post.

After looking at the Wray interrogation, Milbank also discusses the GOP clown show that was a hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. 

In addition, Milbank goes on to talk about how Gal Luft, the "star 'whistleblower' behind the allegations of corruption against President Biden and his family, was indicted on a charge of acting as an illegal arms broker and an unregistered agent for China."

Finally, Milbank talks about all the conspiratorially based amendments the GOP have added to the National Defense Authorization Act.

Below are some excerpts from his column: