🚨NEW: The House released former AG Bill Barr's deposition on Epstein today. I read through it as quickly as I could. Here are the highlights, in order of significance imo -- starting with Barr admitting that Epstein's 2008 plea deal was unlike anything he's ever seen before!

🧵 When asked whether he discussed the Epstein/Maxwell case, Barr said it was largely handled by the SDNY. However, one time he discussed it was when she disappeared! I remember public reports about her disappearing, but this is the 1st time I've seen that gov't couldn't find her.

While I'm less sympathetic to entrapment claims when the target is enlisted in the military, this case is pretty egregious.
On Dec. 13, the 2 undercover agents convinced Said to record an ISIS propaganda video. Said actually suspected them of being feds, so he put AirTags in their car. The undercover agents then confronted him about it and asked if he was getting "cold feet."
They then bought Said a ticket to Turkey, but he never showed up!
Two months later, they finally convinced him to attack the military base. It looks like one of the undercover FBI agents was a female who seduced this guy. He told "him/her" that he loved "him/her" right before he went to carry out the plan.
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Look at how Said and UCE-2 talk to each other. UCE-2 surely was a female, right?

Palm Beach County Sheriffs arrested someone who was in touch with Rupnow for years. Seems likely that this was the "boyfriend" who provided a journalist with Rupnow's manifesto.
The two were so close that police think they had a "conspiracy" to commit mass shootings.

This is a wild one

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Allen purportedly came onto the FBI's radar after Rupnow's shooting, when agents found her phone. Agents found videos of Allen posing as a police officer. Allen was apparently so convincing that the FBI thought he really WAS a cop!
Allen had all the authentic gear, including an apparent police laptop. Law enforcement still doesn't know how he got their authentic uniform.

According to local reports, Allen also had "an FBI uniform, an Army Ranger outfit, Marine Corps dress blues, a ballistic vest, helmets, and fake federal and military ID badges."

I nearly forgot! It's time for my Top 10 stories of the year --- and what a year!
I've been working almost solely on the Trump shooting in the second half of 2024, but nothing tops my interview with former FBI informant David Gletty, who talked about infiltrating right-wing groups for the FBI

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BREAKING: The DOJ-IG has found that the FBI systematically mishandled TROVES of classified information.
Pictured below is an FBI storage facility. The camera above the door doesn't work, and the doors were kept open at all hours -- allowing non-authorized personnel access to potentially Secret info.
STORY BELOW STORY HERE

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Trump shooter Matthew Crooks reportedly had an account on the popular gamer chat app, Discord.

HERE'S WHY THAT MATTERS!

🧵 As referenced in the above image, the FBI has been ramping up its efforts to infiltrate gamer chatrooms.
According to a GAO report from February, last year "the FBI worked to increase engagement with gaming and gaming-adjacent companies"

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🚨BREAKING🚨 The FBI's controversial memo targeting Catholics was inspired by an investigation into a schizophrenic man

I've got the records to prove it

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headlineusa.com/scoop-schizoph… 1. A DOJ-IG report revealed last week that the FBI's memo was inspired by an investigation into a 'fascist' Catholic that the feds had been monitoring since 2019.

The FBI infiltrated a church w/ at least one informant as part of that investigation, according to the IG

Interesting that the doc shows footage of the NSM while discussing O9A. I'm not aware of any explicit NSM-O9A link, but NSM was co-founded by an FBI informant and the husband of an avowed, LaVey-style Satanist.
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https://twitter.com/WilliamRamseyIn/status/1759237492270928122

Bill White, the main source of my Fed Files series, said he left the NSM due to Satanic infiltration, making startling allegations. When I asked NSM co-founder Cliff Herrington (who must be in his 80s by now) about this, he surprisingly confirmed his wife’s Satanic connections

In light of today's monumental ruling that exonerates three Whitmer kidnap defendants, let's look at the key points of the case.
The Null brothers and Eric Molitor had quite an uphill battle, starting with the AG's office spreading lies about them during pretrial proceedings.
🧵 1. A judge presiding over the case bungled basic facts by issuing a ruling that declared @brandon_caserta and Daniel Harris as kidnap conspirators -- despite the fact that they were found innocent last year.

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Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock had reportedly told people around him he was a “government experiment,” and would often lie in bed “moaning and screaming” in mental anguish.
This week, the FBI released records related to those claims.
headlineusa.com/las-vegas-shoo… An FBI agent apparently asked a hospital worker about rumors that Paddock had been on a “psychiatric hold”—when a patient is being mentally evaluated, often involuntarily.
“[Redacted] told [REDACTED] that Paddock had been at Mesa View on a psychiatric hold and that [REDACTED]."

In August 2020, an FBI undercover agent code-named “Red” unsuccessfully tried to foment a plot to assassinate Colorado’s AG. The next month, an FBI undercover agent with the same code-name and physical description appeared in the Whitmer plot...
headlineusa.com/exclusive-fbi-… After reviewing audio recordings and other information, three people involved in the Whitmer case have concluded that the “Red” in Colorado is the same person as Michigan “Red,” whose real name is special agent Timothy Bates.