"Moderate" Governor Hires Anti-Catholic FBI Agent to Reform Prisons

Virginia’s self-styled “moderate” governor, Abigail Spanberger, has made another bold statement about moderation. She has handed the co-chairmanship of her new Community Partnership Council on Corrections to Stanley Meador, the former FBI special agent in charge in Richmond who presided over the now-retracted 2023 memo that treated traditionalist Catholics as a fresh domestic-terrorism opportunity.

The council, Spanberger announced, will advance “safety reforms by hearing directly from [corrections] staff, incarcerated individuals, and communities across Virginia” on reentry, public accountability, and “conditions of confinement.” It will create “a permanent, structured forum for dialogue and action on the issues that matter most” so that the governor’s reforms “take root, and build a foundation for Virginia long after I am no longer in this office.”

Many things, she added, are “systemically wrong” with the state’s prisons. Meador is the man for the job. While he ran the Richmond field office, the FBI produced an internal document titled “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.” The memo proposed keeping an eye on Catholic churches in Virginia and drew its analytical horsepower from the Southern Poverty Law Center, an outfit now facing wire-fraud charges for its long practice of labeling conservative Christians as extremists.

The memo leaked. The FBI yanked it back.

Bishop Barry Knestout of Richmond called it a “threat to religious liberty.” Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee it was “appalling. It’s appalling. I’m in complete agreement with you.” FBI Director Christopher Wray told the House Judiciary Committee he had been “aghast” and ordered the thing withdrawn the moment he saw it.

The Justice Department inspector general later concluded the memo failed basic analytic standards and lacked sufficient evidence. Meador met with diocesan leaders and expressed regret for the “negative attention.” He did not, however, express regret for the memo itself. When one of his own subordinates apologized for having helped draft the document, Meador replied in an email: “No apology needed. I’m glad you are on the team and thankful for your commitment. Keep that head up, this too shall pass. Will make for a great chapter in your memoirs some day!”

That is the fellow Spanberger has now placed in a position to shape prison policy by listening to “incarcerated individuals.” The same administration that once worried traditional Catholics might radicalize has decided the urgent task is to give convicted criminals a structured forum in which to explain what is “systemically wrong” with their living arrangements.

Spanberger billed herself as a moderate on the campaign trail. Since taking office she has stocked her administration with a former Obama adviser who favored masking two-year-olds and mandatory COVID shots, a trans activist, and an advocate tied to a Soros-funded criminal-justice group. Appointing the man who ran the Richmond office during the Catholic memo was apparently just the next logical step in that program of moderation.Virginia’s prisons have recently featured MS-13 gang members, here illegally and already convicted of violent crimes including murder, stabbing three corrections officers.

At Red Onion State Prison, inmates set themselves on fire; the Department of Corrections said there was “no evidence” this was a protest and that the prisoners were simply trying to get moved.

Spanberger’s council will address these matters through dialogue, visitation-hour extensions, and a one-page code of ethics that instructs staff to “Do the Right Thing” and embrace a “People First” culture.The governor reports that her administration has already “immediately actioned” about 85 percent of the concerns raised by advocacy groups. She also cites a 56 percent drop in serious inmate-on-staff assaults and a 47 percent drop in confirmed overdoses. Other numbers, she notes, reflect how staff handle prisoners rather than any actual reduction in violence.

Meador was placed on leave and removed from the FBI in June 2025. CatholicVote national political director Logan Church observed that Spanberger’s decision to elevate him “tells every Catholic in America that violating our civil liberties isn’t a problem, it’s a pathway to advancement.” In the world of contemporary Democratic moderation, that is apparently high praise.

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Biden FBI spied on pro-life Catholics, calling them "violent extremists"

Joe Biden: Cafeteria Catholic and Fake President

Man, oh man, the Biden-era FBI really went all-in on playing Big Brother with Catholics, and the House Judiciary Committee just dropped a bombshell report on July 22 that lays it all out. We're talking way more federal law enforcement muscle thrown at surveilling Catholics than anyone thought, and the FBI didn't exactly come clean to Congress about it. Shocker, right?

The report, titled "Report: How the Biden-Wray FBI Manufactured a False Narrative of Catholic Americans as Violent Extremists," rips the lid off documents that flat-out contradict former FBI Director Christopher Wray's fantasy claim that the 2023 Richard memo was just a one-off oopsie. You remember that memo from the FBI’s Richmond Field Office, the one that slapped the label "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists" on "radical traditionalist Catholics." 

Yeah, that one. Apparently, it wasn't some rogue agent's bad day at the office.

According to a July 22 press release from the committee, new FBI Director Kash Patel handed over a whopping 1,300 pages of internal docs that spell out how the Biden administration's FBI went full Stasi on Catholics. We're talking surveillance operations that would make your skin crawl. 

Here is where it gets really gross: back in 2023, the Richmond office zeroed in on a Catholic priest from the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a group Rome calls "irregular canonical," just because he wouldn't snitch on a parishioner the feds were sniffing around. 

So, what did the FBI do? They opened an "investigative assessment" on him. They teamed up with the Louisville Field Office and even the London Office to track his every move, where he was, where he was going, even his credit card receipts.

They even tried to weasel around priest-penitent privilege, claiming it didn't count because the parishioner hadn't been baptized or finished catechism. The committee's press release called that excuse "faulty," and I'm being polite when I say that’s putting it mildly.

It gets worse. 

The FBI analysts who cooked up that Richard memo leaned on straight-up anti-Catholic garbage for their alleged "research." We're talking sources like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which, let’s be real, isn’t exactly a beacon of objectivity nor has anything to do with poverty. 

The FBI confessed to using eight open-source articles, with charming titles like "Catholics are leaders and even founders of the most dangerous neo-Nazi groups in existence," "White Nationalists Get Religion: On the Far-Right Fringe, Catholics and Racists Forge a Movement," and "Traditional Catholics and White Nationalist 'Gropers' Forge a New Far-Right Youth Movement."

Not very subtle. The committee's investigators weren't having it, pointing out these sources scream bias against Catholics who actually take their faith seriously.

And of course, there’s more. 

A separate FBI memo was already floating around, warning that the SSPX was out to "recruit and radicalize white supremacists." Plus, the term “radical traditionalist Catholic” pops up in FBI docs from 2009 all the way to 2023. This wasn't a one-time thing, it’s a pattern.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, (R-IA), already spilled some tea back in June, saying the Richard memo hit at least four field offices and reached over 1,000 FBI personnel. He also flagged 13 other documents and five attachments dripping with anti-Catholic rhetoric. 

The committee is still digging, and they're not letting up. With Patel promising to keep the books open, they're vowing to keep pushing for "legislative reforms to protect American’s religious liberties from government overreach." Good luck finding a bigger red flag than the Biden FBI treating Catholics like they're the next al-Qaeda.

And all along, Biden pretended to be a Catholic.

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BREAKING: Tim Walz investigated by House GOP over Communist China connections: Harris has good laugh over it

Vice Presidential Democrat nominee Tim Walz isn't just a stolen valor kind of guy who left the military and his men to avoid going to fight in Iraq. Walz is the kind of guy who is being investigated by the House Oversight Committee over his ties to Communist China and his "longstanding connections to Chinese Communist Party entities and officials."

The guy has "visited China 30 times, served as a fellow at a Chinese institution that maintains a devotion to the CCP, and spoke alongside the President of a Chinese organization the State Department exposed as a CCP effort to influence and co-opt local leaders."

He is also more than simply adept at using chopsticks, but that's neither here nor thither.

The committee posted on X, "Chairman James Comer has launched an investigation into Minnesota Governor Timothy Walz, Kamala Harris’s recently announced vice-presidential running mate, following reports detailing the Governor’s longstanding connections to Chinese Communist Party entities and officials."

"Mr. Walz has visited China 30 times, served as a fellow at a Chinese institution that maintains a devotion to the CCP, and spoke alongside the President of a Chinese organization the State Department exposed as a CCP effort to influence and co-opt local leaders," the committee added in the post, which was already mentioned.

"FBI briefers recently informed the Committee that the Bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force investigates CCP activity that is similar to China’s engagement with Governor Walz. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Chairman Comer is now requesting information, documents, and communications related to the CCP-connected entities and officials Governor Walz has engaged and partnered with."

In a letter addressed to FBI Director Wray, Oversight Committee Chairman Comer demanded that the FBI hand over documents concerning Walz’s communications with Chinese entities or officials associated with the CCP.

Comer provided a list of CCP-connected entities and officials that should be considered, including Confucius Institutes, the US China People’s Friendship Association, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States, among others.

In the letter, Comer mentioned that the committee had been "conducting a government-wide investigation into the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare operations against America." He noted that the FBI briefed the Oversight Committee on April 22 and July 17 regarding CCP influence activities in the US. These briefings were intended to inform Congress as part of the broader investigation.

Comer also mentioned that the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force "investigates precisely the kind of activity that has since come to light about Governor Walz."

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FBI's Jihad against Catholics

Christopher bin Wray

Judicial Watch, a conservative government watchdog, recently released about 100 pages of FBI documents that show how the agency kind of lied about their targeting of Catholic churches.

 In a press release posted Friday by Judicial Watch it said, "FBI Director Christopher Wray had told congressmen that the memo was ‘a single product by a single field office,’ but the records uncovered by Judicial Watch show that it was "Reviewed by: OGC/CDC [Office of General Counsel/Chief Deputy Counsel].'"

Judicial Watch obtained the documents through a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request related to an internal FBI memo leaked earlier this year. The document sounded as if it came from the Crusades and was written by Islamic Jihad. It revealed that the FBI had efforts underway to identify and treat Catholics as "potential terrorists."

"The records also indicate coordination with officials from Portland and Milwaukee," the press release said.

The FBI Richmond internal memo, titled "Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities," was leaked in January and drew instant criticism from the GOP.

Holy crucifixes Batman!

It identified "radical-traditionalist Catholic[s]" as potential "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists" and said that "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) in radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development."

FBI Director Christopher bin Wray and the agency have previously claimed the memo was related to only one FBI field office in Richmond, VA.

Following the memo leak, the FBI told Fox News Digital "headquarters quickly began taking action to remove the document from FBI systems and conduct a review of the basis for the document."

Conduct a review? Maybe they also have a bridge to sell.

"While our standard practice is to not comment on specific intelligence products, this particular field office product — disseminated only within the FBI — regarding racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI," the statement said.

Their standard practice is to constantly cover their collective butt. 

The agency spoke to Fox News Digital earlier in the year claiming "any characterization that the FBI is targeting Catholics is false." [Adding: 'does this butt cover make me look guilty?']

However, Judicial Watch suggests these new documents show that is not the case and the issue was broader than the FBI let on.

"These documents disprove the FBI’s narrative that the spy operation against Catholics and churches was limited to one field office. In fact, the operation seems to have been approved by top lawyers in the FBI," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton wrote.

"These documents should trigger a criminal inquiry into this Biden FBI scandal."

The Judicial Watch documents show that FBI officials from various field offices discussed the FBI Crusades against the Church. In fact,  General Counsel Jason Jones in an email says, "[Assistant Director] Dunham asked that we circulate the attached draft ‘Complicated Questions’ document for the Director’s upcoming testimony for your review.

"As you will see, the draft reflects feedback received from various divisions/stakeholders to date, and certain topics continue to evolve."

Conservatives knew all along that the FBI was lying and had been targeting Catholics on a much larger scale than they claimed. Republicans earlier this year uncovered similar documents they said showed several field offices were involved in the attacks on Catholics.

Yes, your butt-cover does make you look guilty, Director Wray.

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McCarthy threatens FBI Director with contempt for hiding Biden bribe tip

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (D-CA) on Tuesday said he will do all he an to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress, just like they did with Eric Holder who basically flipped them off and went on his way. That's because Congress holding people in contempt is like a butterfly attacking  worm. The worm is indifferent and could care less.

Wray refuses to share an informant file that accuses President Biden and the Biden crime family of a $5 million bribery scheme while he was vice president, in spite of GOP bluster. 

“Let me tell Director Christopher Wray right here, right now: If he misses the deadline today, I’m prepared to move contempt charges in Congress against him,” McCarthy said on 'Fox & Friends.' “I personally called Director Wray and told him he needs to send that document. Today is the deadline,” he added.

“We have jurisdiction over this. He can send us that document. We have the right to look at that —Republicans and Democrats alike in that committee. And if he does not follow through with the law, we will move contempt charges against Christopher Wray and the FBI. They are not above the law,” he said. McCarthy said that he will lead an effort to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress if he refuses to share an informant file about President Biden, and that won't look good on his resume.

McCarthy called Wray on May 19 and said afterward he believed the FBI would comply with the Oversight Committee subpoena.

Clockwise: Wray, Comer, Biden Crime Family

Comer, meanwhile, is scheduled for a Wednesday call with Wray  now that the deadline passed.

“I see sensitive documents all the time. I told him he could redact certain parts of that — names and others, so we wouldn’t know methods,” McCarthy said, in an attempt to take away any arguments Wray might pose against releasing them.

“But we have a right to see it. He does not have the right to choose what he can and cannot show us. We oversee the FBI and if he thinks differently, he will soon see a contempt charge in Congress against the director,” he continued.

“There’s enough problems in the FBI and I will not sit back and allow him to ignore this. We will get this document. … He knows that there’s a document and we have a responsibility to see it.”

Meanwhile, if Wray refuses to release the hounds, he will receive kudos from the administration.

A contempt of Congress vote can carry criminal penalties but serves primarily to shame the officeholder and Wray already has enough reasons to be ashamed of his existence as anyone in the Biden administration.

Other tools available to enforce subpoenas include litigation, withholding of funding, or impeachment. You have a better chance of seeing Haley's Comet three times from Herald Square.

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FBI Director Wray: classified info supports pandemic originating in China lab

Well, well, well, it looks like the left are the real purveyors of misinformation as it is becoming increasingly clear that the "China virus" came from a China laboratory, not a wet market serving up bat stew, as they originally insisted upon. 

FBI Director Christopher Wray let the bat out of the bag in an interview Tuesday admitting that the FBI assesses that a Wuhan, China lab was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic that killed over 7 million people. Wray said that there is classified information that confirms the bureau's analysis.

Wray's admission comes after the Department of Energy came to the same conclusion, as the Wall Street Journal reported.

Fox News anchor Brett Baier asked Wray about the bureau's assessment to which he replied,  “the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”

No kidding, Sherlock.

“The FBI has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc., who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses, like COVID, and the concerns that in the wrong hands, some bad guys, a hostile nation-state, a terrorist, a criminal,” Wray continued. “The threats that those could pose.”

“So here you’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans. And that’s precisely what that capability was designed for,” the feckless added. “I should add that our work related to this continues, and there are not a whole lot of details I can share that aren’t classified. I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here. The work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody.”

The big question is, why is the Department of Energy involved with things not in their purview?

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DOJ actually does its job: charges over a dozen alleged enemy spies

Attorney General Merrick "Judy" Garland made an announcement Monday that the DOJ is charging 13 people for allegedly spying for the Chinese in the United States. This is the first time since assuming the position of AG that Garland has done something good for the country.

Garland made the charges public at a news conference at the Justice Department and described the situation as a "significant national security" investigation. Thus far, only two of the alleged spies have been arrested while the other eleven remain at large.

The charges involve three separate criminal cases, two of which are being prosecuted in the DOJ’s Eastern District of New York and the third filed in the District of New Jersey where you are not permitted to pump gas for yourself.

One set of charges came from information obtained from a double agent. The DOJ said the person works for the FBI, but agents of the People's Republic of China believed his allegiances were with the forever smiling Xi Jinping.

The double agent met with suspected Chinese intelligence officers who allegedly sought insider information on a criminal probe into a Chinese-controlled telecommunications company.

In a different case, alleged Chinese spies are accused of harassing a Chinese-born American resident with the intent of bullying the person into returning to China. The agents even appeared at the target’s New York home and threatened him with multiple Chinese finger traps.

The home visits amounted to “harassment and attempted repatriation by force” of the victim, according to the DOJ.

Seven defendants face charges in connection to the home visits. Of these, two have pleaded not guilty and five remain at large in China, according to  NBC News.

The remaining set of charges involve four Chinese nationals who allegedly tried to recruit American academics and federal law enforcement individuals to work as Chinese state spies. This is almost as bad as having a spy working as a Democratic Senator's driver, or a spy sleeping with a Democratic Congressman from California, or having the President's family tied to the CCP via their bank records.

These Chinese spy recruiters have allegedly been attempting to ensnare Americans into working for China from 2008 to 2018, according to the DOJ.

FBI Director Christopher Wray pointed to the indictments as evidence that the United States government is finally working against the potent threat of Chinese espionage.

“Beijing may think our adherence to the rule of law is a weakness, but they’re wrong,” Wray said. “We’re disrupting Chinese government criminality and aggression not just while adhering to our values, but by adhering to our values.

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FBI's Chris Wray responds with a 'flip-off' to left's complaints about Kavanaugh investigation

FBI Director Christopher Wray stood up to the Democrat's claims that the his agency's investigation of  Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was not sufficiently thorough and perhaps even partisan.

Of course the left always makes claims attacking anyone who disagrees with their agenda. It wasn't long ago Democrats praised the FBI when they went forward in the Russian collusion investigation having to do with the 2016 presidential election.

Wray appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at a hearing. The hearing was to discuss terrorism threats [Antifa not included] and he was asked by Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) about the Kavanaugh investigation. Harris, you may recall, is an obnoxious leftist who immediately and rudely interrupted the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) when the hearing first began. She has presidential aspirations in 2020 and for that, was a leader of the destroy Kavanaugh bloc on the committee.

Harris was San Francisco District Attorney from 2003 to 2010. She became Attorney General in 2010.

According to San Francisco Weekly reporter Matt Smith, Harris "rebuffed reporters' efforts for five years to view her office's files on Catholic clergy sex abuse under the state Public Records Act, despite statements by former San Francisco DA Terence Hallinan saying they should be released."

The files they referenced involve the San Francisco Archdiocese files on clergy sexual abuse and contain details of how the church handled the allegations internally. The charges involved: pederast, homosexuality, and pedophilia by priests going back as far as 80 years.

Apparently, Kamala Harris covered up the allegations by not releasing the truth. And she was "point" on the Kavanaugh sexual misconduct attack that was alleged to have taken place when he was 17-years-old, which was 36 years ago.

So Harris asked Director Wray if the FBI had latitude "to investigate whatever your agency thought was appropriate to figure out what happened," The Hill reported.

"Our investigation here, our supplemental update to the previous background investigation, was limited in scope and that is consistent with the standard process for such investigations going back quite a long ways," Wray responded.

"As was standard, the investigation was very specific in scope and limited in scope and that is the usual process and that my folks have assured me that the usual process was followed."

Wray explained that the investigation was termed a "supplemental background investigation." He said such investigations are very different from criminal investigations.

"Our only authority is as requested by the adjudicating (entity), in this case the White House," Wray said.

He added, "I've spoken with our background investigation specialists and they have assured me this was handled in a way consistent with their experience and the standard process."

Democrats hoped the investigation would last into the midterm elections in November and if they won the House, they would move to impeach Kavanaugh and Trump and Pence and maybe Collins, who cast the deciding vote to confirm Kavanaugh. The Democrats claimed the investigation should have unlimited time to investigate all sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh starting from his high school and college years, and including "Belchy Voice" Christine Blasey Ford, who made accusations, produced witnesses, and not one of them, including a lifelong close friend, corroborated her story.

Last week, Harris attacked the FBI probe, claiming it was "not a search for the truth, this was not an investigation, this was an abdication of responsibility and duty."

Harris is full of bull crap.

Ford and Kavanaugh were not interviewed by the FBI because they were already interviewed by the Committee and if their story changed, they would have committed perjury. And the FBI is not going to waste their time going over the same story.

It's time for two things to happen: one, the Democrats need to let this go and figure out a real platform for their party; and two, Kamala Harris needs to buy a mirror and look in it.


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IG says Comey under investigation over memo handling

How!

Department of Justice's Inspector General Michael Horowitz has confirmed Monday that his office is investigating James "Lordy" Comey for his handling of classified information in dealing with the memos he shared with his buddy who he had leak them to the press.

I pray they lock his butt up, but I suspect, like with Hillary Clinton et al, nothing will come of it.

Horowitz's comments confirmed reports in April that the former FBI director (who was fired by President Trump in May 2017) was under a microscope amid the uncovering of at least two memos that he shared with his friend, Columbia University Professor Daniel Richman,  contained classified information.

Ironically, this is the same situation that happened to the person Comey let off the hook: Hillary Clinton. Wouldn't it be wonderful if they convicted him of espionage? [That's a rhetorical question--of course it would be wonderful.]

The confirmation of the investigation came Monday at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where Horowitz and current FBI Director Christopher Wray testified on the IG report's findings regarding the [mis]handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe.

Comey, you may recall, just two weeks prior to the presidential election, let Clinton off the hook for using an illegal private server for State Department classified emails that were likely hacked.

"We received a referral on that from the FBI," Horowitz said, in answer to questioning from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). "We are handling that referral and we will issue a report when the matter is complete and consistent with the law and rules."

Translation: we will make a big show of our concern and the minute a bigger news cycle hits, we will let it go.

In April, Comey told Fox News' Bret Baier that the IG's office interviewed him about the memos, but he downplayed the question about classified information as "frivolous," instead saying the real issue was whether he complied with internal policies.

However, Grassley told Horowitz on Monday, "I don't happen to think this is frivolous."

Remember, Comey testified before Congress last year that he shared the memos with Richman with the intention of leaking them to the press and spurring the appointment of a special counsel.

Of the seven memos Comey handed over to Congress in April, eight of the fifteen pages had redactions under classified exceptions.

Comey, who plays God in his home videos, denied that sharing memos with his legal team constituted a leak of classified information. He compared the process to keeping "a diary."

"I didn't consider it part of an FBI file," the tall drink of water said. "It was my personal aide-memoire . . . I always thought of it as mine."

Just like Hillary thought of her private email server.

Dear Diary,

I saw my good friend Danny Richman today. He looked nice, lordy, he looked very nice. I told him how much I admired his tweed jacket and asked him for a tiny favor--to please hand over a bunch of memos I wrote about Donald Trump to a favorable newspaper like the New York Times or Washington Post. I'm hoping my words of wisdom will inspire some young buck of a journalist to take it upon him- or herself to print them and hopefully I can save the nation against the scourge that is Trump! I know I have it in me because I have God on my side! Oh look at me . . . I'm using exclamation marks just like Trump. I need to stop this immediately!

Yours truly,
Jimmy



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House Republicans prepare contempt actions v FBI, DOJ

Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

The U.S. House of Representatives said Saturday that they will draft a contempt of Congress resolution against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray. The claim is that they stonewalled in producing material in the Russia-Trump probes and other matters.

It is believed that Rosenstein has an old photo of Hillary Clinton on the ceiling above his bed, according to my investigative reporter Vinny Boombots, and corroborated by ABC's Brian Ross.

"Unless all our outstanding demands are fully met by close of business on Monday, December 4, 2017, the committee will have the opportunity to move this resolution before the end of the month," said Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, in a statement.

This action has been under consideration by Nunes along with other Intelligence Committee Republicans for several weeks, but Democrats want to see Rosenstein and Wray get away with the stonewalling, much like Jose Garcia Zarate got away with the murder of Kate Steinle. 

Dems say "You wouldn't understand . . . it's a liberal thing."

The action is moving forward after press reports Saturday revealed why a top FBI official was removed from the Special Counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller. 

Specifically, it was Peter Strzok who was the FBI agent taken off the investigation after it was discovered he exchanged anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton text messages with his mistress, Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer working for Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

Thus far, Nunes said the FBI and DOJ have failed to sufficiently comply with the August 24th committee subpoena by specifically refusing repeated demands "for an explanation of Peter Strzok's dismissal from the Mueller probe."

Strzok was also involved in the Clinton illegal private server investigation, so the relationship of both cases is very sketchy and smells like an old Democratic congressman in heat.

"In light of today's press reports, we now know why Strzok was dismissed, why the FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this explanation, and at least one reason why they previously refused to make Deputy Director McCabe available to the Committee for an interview," Nunes said.

Nunes continued: "By hiding from Congress, and from the American people, documented political bias by a key FBI head investigator for both the Russia collusion probe and the Clinton email investigation, the FBI and DOJ engaged in a willful attempt to thwart Congress' constitutional oversight responsibility."

Nunes said that this has been part of "a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI of stonewalling and obstructing this Committee's oversight work," and also withholding subpoenaed information about their use of an opposition research dossier targeting President Trump in the 2016 election. 

The dossier was paid for by both the DNC and Clinton through a law firm. Nunes and Speaker Ryan want to investigate to see whether the DOJ and FBI improperly relied on the dossier to begin their federal surveillance on Trump and his associates without independently confirming the information they received in the dossier to justify such spying.

"The DOJ has now expressed--on Saturday, just hours after the press reports on Strzok's dismissal appeared--sudden willingness to comply with some of the Committee's long-standing demands," Nunes said. "This attempted 11th-hour accommodation is neither credible nor believable, and in fact is yet another example of the DOJ's disingenuousness and obstruction." He then added that those agencies "should be investigating themselves."


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