PS so based on the disgusting Vindman smear campaign - I can’t WAIT for LTC Vindman & Dr Hill’s Depo Transcripts to be eminently released.
It hasn’t been released but here’s an open DC secret...procedurally the Chairs upload to this repository (sometimes before) it’s uploaded to the HPSCI website docs.house.gov/Committee/Comm…
Save the Date Next week will be Super interesting
pub typically a witness’ statements are uploaded 24 hours in advance of the hearing.
But we kind of know what to expect BUT do not underestimate the value of live in-person testimony
LTC Vindman “crib sheet” aka highlights of his depo
am unaware of any factual basis for the accusations against Ambassador Yovanovitch...unaware of any authoritative basis for Ukrainian interference in 2016 elections, based on my knowledge”
Pgs 4+ bonkers intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
Dr Hill’s Depo crib sheet
Mulvaney Sondland & Volker are All FUBAR like forked
Sondland “blurted out” that “we have an agreement with the Chief of Staff for a meeting if these investigations in the energy sector start.” (Page 65, 67-68)
MOTHER FUCKERS intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
So @RudyGiuliani you still holding on the that promise of a pardon?
ProTip you traitor-tot-trash-panda 1) accepting a pardon mean you’re guilty 2) a PARDON CAN’T BE USED TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE
you are a POS - seriously i have zero sympathy for you & your ilk
@RudyGiuliani This is IMPORTANT 👇🏻
Ltc Vindman re $400M+ in aid: “..amounts to about 10% of their [current] military budget ...GDP because the Ukrainians spent 5-6% their GDP...fighting an active conflict against the Russians...”
That PUTS THE AID into much BETTER CONTEXT
@RudyGiuliani I could be wrong - I believe Ltc Vindman is the only witness that addresses the totality and magnitude of Trump/Mulvaney/Sondland/Volker/Giuliani vile decision to freeze the aide
OUR AID represented 10% of UKRAINE’s Military Budget
I AM
SHIVERING
WITH
RAGE
@RudyGiuliani Of this wasn’t so serious to our Country’s Global Standing, our current Alliances and to our Nat Sec - I would laugh
-ps Congress needs to ask @USAmbEU
At WHO’S DIRECTION did you convey the “deliverable”?
How many Ex Parte meetings (sans NSC) did you have with Mulvaney?
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU Mr “Order of Ineptitude” Kash Patel helped to cut Vindman OUT or Ukraine matters
BOOM 👉🏻Dr Hill alerted others that KASH PATEL was FALSLY representing to other NCS members that he was the Dir of Ukraine Matters
Pgs 169,170 & 222 -224
cc @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch Flashback in the Summer of 2017 “Kash” Patel & Doug Presley BOTH Nunes staffers traveled to the UK to “stalk” Chris Steele
See 2017 HPSCI Foreign Travel Report
FFW to 2019 Patel misrepresented himself to cut Vindman out
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch Mother of GOD... Dr Hill’s Depo re Kash Patel - bad
“I did warn my office to be very careful about communications with Kash Patel until we figured out why it was that he was sending..clearly materials on Ukraine over ...[to the White House]...”
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch Hey @SenRonJohnson you have some serious explaining to do.
Quick question did Kash Patel send you documents?
More precisely did Mr Patel or Nunes send you classified documents?
Oh and are you currently a member of the Gang of Eight?
Page 311 asshole
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson So @DevinNunes @SenRonJohnson
Did YOU ever send/receive classified info from Kash Patel re Ukraine
“..it's a red flag when somebody who you barely know is involved...one of your policy issues..providing...materials outside of the line that we don't even know what those materials”
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes I’ll ask again @DevinNunes @SenRonJohnson did EITHER of YOU act as a conduit for Kash Patel who in turn gave Trump “out of scope materials concerning Ukraine”?
Ltc Vindman & Dr Hill lit your asses up.
WHO
GAVE
KASH PATEL
UKRAINE
DOCS & then gave to DJT.. x.com/File411/status…
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes This kind of BS Ltc Vindman endured pgs 78-81 of his Depo
@MarkMeadows tells @RepSwalwell to “SHUT UP”
@Jim_Jordan dog piles
Chairman @RepAdamSchiff unwavering
PPD-19, signed in 2012...protections against reprisal actions for making a complaint. IAA of 2014 CODIFIED protections
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff So as previously discussed there are numerous federal statutes that particularize various Whistleblower Protections. (those of us in DC understand it can be Agency specific)
The thread (below) might help you understand the various WBer protections.
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff SPECIFICALLY Re IC
So let’s start at the beginning
Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA) of 1998
Title VII of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 1999
P.L. 105-272 §§701-702
codified in 5 USC §8H, 50 USC §3033 & 50 USC §3517.
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff 🇺🇸10 USC §1034 10 U.S.C. 1034🇺🇸
Protected communications; prohibition of retaliatory personnel actions WBer “protections for members of the Armed Forces, including those..assigned to an element of the IC”
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff 🇺🇸PRESIDENTIAL POLICY DIRECTIVE (PPD) -19
Protecting Whistleblowers with Access to Classified Information.
Signed October 10, 2012.
Specifically protects some employees in the IC - prohibits actions taken in reprisal for making a lawful disclosure drive.google.com/file/d/1AqYVeB…
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff Title VI of Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA)
- codified provisions of PPD-19 (50 USC 3234)
- Sec 601 of Title VI protects IC WBer from personnel action made in retaliation for a lawful disclosure
Unmasking a WBer change in employment circumstances congress.gov/113/plaws/publ…
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff Intelligence Community Directive (ICD)-120
Est in 2014 but was amended (and codified) in 2016
“provision protecting against personnel actions made in retaliation for a lawful disclosure covers all elements of the IC with the specific exception of the FBI” drive.google.com/file/d/1Ci10oj…
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff H.Amdt. 894 to the DOD Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (H.R. 4870) appropriated $2M to establish:
the IC Whistleblower and Source Protection Directorate - which rolls up to the ICOIG
This WAS an amendment to the DDAA for Fiscal Year 2015 congress.gov/113/bills/hr48…
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff On the margins Meadow might be correct that anonymity of the Intelligence Community Whistleblower isn’t “codified” - sadly even I could make a decent argument that unmasking a WBEr would crate an untenable change in employment “status”.
That’s WHY DJT & Co want to out the WBers👇🏻
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff What kind of message do you think this sends to potentially FUTURE whistleblowers?
FFS even Dr Hill said she getting death threats via emails & calls and people have shown up at het door.
So sure keep acting like Trump & Co are totally fine.
THEY ARE WRONG & they are unAmerican
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff I rarely if ever AGREE with Tom but he’s 100% correct.
WH & NSC “serve at the pleasure of the POTUS” but the retaliation re Ltc Vindman started well before today’s news.
See upthread for the relevant statutes at play x.com/RadioFreeTom/s…
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff Seriously in Dr Hill & Ltc Vindman - respective depos
It’s pretty clear that Vindman was ice’d out of his job
And I swear to god if the House doesn’t subpoena Kash Patel - I might lose my shit
See the transcript excepts 👇🏻 x.com/File411/status…
@RudyGiuliani @USAmbEU @ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @LouiseMensch @SenRonJohnson @DevinNunes @MarkMeadows @RepSwalwell @Jim_Jordan @RepAdamSchiff I’m telling you now - NSC Employees “Work at the pleasure of the president”
But keep any eye on this 1) Trump is cleaning out the NSC 2) O’brien Is helping him 3) any further action by the DOD could & should be viewed as retaliation against Ltc Vindman x.com/TPMLiveWire/st…
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The report is largely reiterative of what’s been publicly known (especially considering the various docket entries
Notwithstanding I’ve previously suggested that you bookmark Special Counsel Smith’s main DOJ landing page (embedded below) justice.gov/sco-smith
Jan 14 2025 formal notice to AG Garland: justice.gov/storage/Garlan…
Jan 14 2025 Final Report Volume I justice.gov/storage/Report…
Again the report doesn’t have a shocking amount of new information
Below is an abbreviated list of a few new tidbits I found noteworthy.
For example :
-Smiths fully explained the election interference case and specifically describing it “ the national interest in ensuring legitimate presidential elections and peaceful transitions of power”
-Smith was very specific & noted aforesaid edicts issued by Trump were “command protection from Mr. Trump’s criminal design to subvert them…”
-Smith specifically brought charges a year in advance as to not infringe on the DOJ’s longstanding SAMs particularly those regarding prosecution of current lawmakers
-the footnotes are incredibly important, I’d strongly recommend you read those carefully
Source: justice.gov/storage/Report…
Additionally Smith & his investigative team found concrete evidence that Trump & his closest surrogates engaged in a coordinated pattern of harassment, bullying and “pressure” which caused grave concerns about the various witnesses
The Rep Perry footnote is very interesting largely because we all knew Perry was likely directed to delay turning over the records…
But these 4 pages really elucidated the corrupt coordination by Trump & his surrogates that resulted in increased police protection AND SC Smith sought an order regarding 3rd party statements that both doxed & harassed the government witnesses justice.gov/storage/Report…
What’s interesting is both Chief Justice Roberts & Justice Kavanaugh literally called BS on TikTok’s arguments with respect to Congress’ intent in the language and authority
Roberts:
“about what the foreign adversary is doing.”
I believe the precise moment TikTok lost Kavanaugh
” Does Congress have to go all or nothing on that? ”
Source (unofficial) transcript supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…
Here you can observe that Justice Kagan actually drills down on the TikTok creators unpersuasive arguments that the Ban would hamper creators first amendment right. We’ve previously discussed why the TikTok creators arguments are fraught with infirmities that have a significantly higher standard of scrutiny
But I genuinely recommend you read pages 30 thru 42 because this exchange really encapsulates SCOTUS’ skepticism
“incidental effect” <—that delineation & arguments surrounding said effect are absolutely fascinating
Source Transcript supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…
Things that make me Spicy curious to read an entire docket because there are some incredibly juicy nuggets in the various declarations
IRS Obtains Court Order Authorizing “John Doe” Summonses For Records Relating To U.S. Taxpayers Who May Have Used Network Of Offshore Service Providers To Hide Assets And Evade Taxes justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/i…
On Dec 17, 2024 the Government filed a Memorandum of Law (in support of said petition)
Corp Target: Trident Trust Group as elucidated in the Govt’s Memo
-the IRS identified multiple tax payers utilizing Trident services to evade taxes but this definitely raised my spicy meter
“U.S. taxpayers who, at any time during the years ended December 31, 2014, through December 31, 2023, used the services of the Trident Trust Group (“TT-Group”) to establish, maintain, operate, or control: any foreign financial account or other foreign asset; any foreign corporation, company, trust, foundation, or other legal entity; or any foreign or domestic financial account or other asset in the name of such foreign entity”
Source Doc No 3: ecf.nysd.uscourts.gov/doc1/127036665…
And while most will overlook some key facts, I’m not like most:
-original jurisdiction SDNY
-see page 3 which reads in part (this is important)
“Northern District of Georgia and the District of South Dakota, to serve John Doe summonses on the TT-Group entities based in those districts, seeking information regarding the same class of clients.”
But the footnote is equally as important because it provides you with a justification for SDNY but it also provides two separate entities
Nevis Services Limited is a New York corporation functioning as a liaison and marketing affiliate
of Morning Star Holdings Limited (later TT-Nevis).
Source to Doc #3 ecf.nysd.uscourts.gov/doc1/127036665…
Well it’s almost like someone said (about a month ago) that the TikTok Creators would likely have to file their own brief because TikTok opted to use these creators as a proxy for why SCOTUS shouldn’t uphold the lower courts rulings. But they lost me ENTIRELY with this paragraph
“First, it does not matter that TikTok has a foreign
owner. American creators have a First Amendment
right to speak to other Americans in the United States
with the assistance of a foreign publisher or other
collaborator”
The fact that these creators conveniently omitted that each of them make significant revenue that TikTok pays them. That should NOT be overlooked, at all
Source: supremecourt.gov
What I really find objectionable is the TikTok creator’s brief absurdity of cherry picking Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) and drawing a collary of their 1st Amendment Rights
“The Court found that the Act violated neither the Due Process nor the Equal Protection Clauses, and that freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment was not an absolute right.”
I mean FFS perhaps you can pull this kind of judicial dishonesty at a district court level but SCOTUS?
Nope they will literally take your misleading argument to the woodshed and then to the wood chipper. Come on this brief is drowning in truncated & cherry picked judicial findings.
Conclusory arguments are also not typically well received either but I digress
Summary: these TikTok creators are paid 10s to hundreds of thousands of dollars by TikTok
-the 1st Amendment isn’t as ubiquitous as many think it is
-a National Security threat usually trumps virality
-I genuinely find it distasteful that TikTok probably spent >$4M on an intense PR campaign which featured creators across multiple genres within TikTok
But seriously if you want the Chinese Government to have neat unfettered access to your data, meta data, purchases and web traffic (affiliated links etc) fine but don’t come crying when every single device in your home suddenly has malware & your locked out of your financial institution(s) because Chinese Hackers were given orders by their Government
Full SCOTUS TikTok Creators filing found here supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/2…
As someone who lives part time at the Ocean, I did not have this on my President Biden bingo card. And when I say this is a very BFD it is:
so ICYMI the ENTIRE East Coast of America from Maine to Florida
“FACT SHEET: President Biden Protects Atlantic and Pacific Coasts from Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling “
source: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Not yo belabor the significance of today‘s actions
-Biden has always been consistent about Climate Change
-the ENTIRE East Coast (ME to FL)
-the West Coast CA, OR & WA
-and the remaining portions of the Bering Sea
Source: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Lastly I would urge you to read President Biden’s official statement for today‘s action because it will help you understand both content & context which are NOT mutually exclusive
Statement from President Joe Biden on Protecting America’s Ocean and Coasts from Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling via @whitehousewhitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Son of a biscuit muncher. So here we can observe @mattgaetz pressuring his supplier on when his “care package” would arrive the care package are drugs, illegal drugs and it’s not pot it’s likely coke, crack or hash. This is just beyond
HE FUCKING USED THE @USPS to BUY DRUGS
Can someone please explain to me WHY @TheJusticeDept didn’t indict a CHILD RAPIST, drug user, drug trafficker, sex trafficker who broke federal law making under aged sex a fucking felony? or how about the fact he used drugs WHILE IN CONGRESS?
Source ethics.house.gov/press-releases…
Hey have ANY of you gotten to the DHS exhibit because WTF.
that acronym means: Treasury Enforcement Communications System, Note the disclosure because I’m SHOCKED the MSM has‘t talked about this
TECS was specifically set up (by Treasury) to blunt CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING like WTF MSM. The Bahama trip is where a witness testified that the luxury trip & 5 star hotel was payment to have sex with him while he was high as a fucking kite on ecstasy after snorting coke laced with ecstasy ethics.house.gov/press-releases…
I don’t gatekeep, the text messages where @mattgaetz nit only solicited illicit drugs (from his dealer) BUT they used the USPS
Anyone else indicted for using USPS to traffic drugs has a statutory minimum
YET a CHILD FUCKING RAPIST? Nope zero charges
Appendix B part 1 -VENMO payments ethics.house.gov/wp-content/upl…
Appendix B part 2 (USPS used to deliver drugs, pages 6 -16) ethics.house.gov/wp-content/upl…
Appendix B part 3 (TECS /DHS encounter pages 22 & 23) ethics.house.gov/wp-content/upl…