With the House GOP report out, I’ll note I was the sole writer of the first draft (turned in in early June). Today’s report hacked away at what I wrote & skewed/whitewashed key elements. More to come on that. But let me talk about one part of McCaul’s press conference today. 1/x
Big questions re: DOD & Afghanistan remain. McCaul approach to Milley-McKenzie (changing hearing title for them, previewing Qs to them, telling them they weren’t responsible) shows why — letting DOD off the hook isn’t best way to get answers from them! 2/x washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/313372…
As I detailed in my resignation letter from House Foreign Affairs, McCaul repeatedly failed to do the basics on getting answers about the withdrawal, NEO, & Abbey Gate — not going after key witnesses, key documents, etc. (with a specific desire to let military brass slide). 3/x
McCaul & House Foreign Affairs have now released the transcript for the interview with Jen Psaki, so I can now explain what a horrible wasted opportunity this was, how basic questions weren’t even asked, how key parts were botched, & how she was largely let off the hook. Thread…
Right off the bat, let’s talk about how the House Foreign Affairs press release has a *dead link* for the Psaki transcript, so it is *impossible* to read the transcript via the Committee website. Baffling, but okay. Luckily, FreeBeacon has the transcript.
I will note the Committee’s questioning eventually got Psaki to offer something of an apology to the Gold Star families for lying in her book that Biden didn’t check his watch during the dignified transfer at Dover, altho at first she repeatedly dodged apologizing (see below).
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure...
We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this...
I was recently among those who was shown the roughly 45 minutes of raw footage of the October 7th terrorist massacre committed by Hamas. This will be a long thread, but I believe worth reading.
The brutal and evil footage was compiled by the Israeli government and shown by the Israeli embassy on Capitol Hill this week. The videos and photos came from GoPro body cameras, cell phones, CCTV cameras, and social media posts. Some of the videos were recorded by Hamas terrorists, and some were recorded by the victims themselves, with many of the videos put together in a sequential order or from the POV of both terrorist and victim during the commission of a specific series of atrocities.
The Israeli government said the 45 minute compilation was pulled together from hundreds of hours of images & videos, and so the footage was just “a glimpse of what happened that day.” No cell phones or recording devices were allowed in the room as the footage played, but I took pages of disturbing notes (I am a recovering journalist after all).
Fr. Mychal Judge — “Victim 0001” — was an FDNY chaplain who responded on 9/11 & spent his last moments comforting firefighters & praying for those forced to jump from World Trade Center. The South Tower collapsed & he was killed, becoming 9/11’s first recorded death. #NeverForget
22 years ago today — 9/11/2001 — al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked planes & slammed them into the World Trade Center & Pentagon (and crashed into a field thanks to passengers on Flight 93), killing 3,000 innocent Americans & others. Honor the heroes who died that day & #NeverForget.
President George W. Bush’s famous Bullhorn Speech to Ground Zero rescue workers and first responders on September 14, 2001.
“I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”
Scoop: Some new details below on the Chinese spying sagas related to Eric Swalwell and Dianne Feinstein — and on the FBI’s handling of the allegations. The revelations raise serious concerns about how the FBI top brass may have politicized these two investigations by limiting the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
New Details on Swalwell & Fang Fang: Axios did a very good story on this in 2020, but much of the following is new. One thing that was actually not in the Axios story but which my source has confirmed — the FBI firmly believed based on the evidence they collected on Fang that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
New Details on Feinstein & Russell Lowe: Politico & other outlets wrote about Lowe starting in 2018, but again much of the following info is new. The Feinstein staffer was being looked at by the FBI for numerous years (since at least 2008), per the source, with a case opened… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…