(Ken Silva, Headline USA) It’s been about nine years since Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records about a CIA asset and FBI informant who helped fund the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as for records about a neo-Nazi bank-robbery gang also involved in the attack.
Tired of waiting, Trentaudue sued the FBI over the matter in February, demanding the bureau to produce the 69,375 pages of documents that it’s holding. But now, the FBI wants to take another nearly 12 years to fork over those documents to him, which means that it would take at least 20 years for the bureau to comply with his initial FOIA request.
Such a slow production rate is unacceptable, Trentadue said in a Tuesday court filing.
“The FBI proposes to process these records/documents for release to Plaintiff in monthly increments of 500 pages over a period of 11.5 years!” he said.
“If the Court accepts the FBI’s proposed snail-pace processing of these materials, Plaintiff will be close to 90-years of age when he finally receives all of them,” he said.
“He has already waited almost a decade for these documents/records, with the FBI having made no effort during the interim to produce them, and should not have to wait another 11.5 years to receive them.”
Trentadue has been suing the U.S. government for OKC bomb-related records for nearly 30 years, ever since his brother was murdered in a federal penitentiary. The complex story of how the death of Trentadue’s brother relates to the OKC bombing can be read in this Mother Jones article.
Trentadue’s latest lawsuit seeks records on FBI informant and CIA asset Roger Moore (not the James Bond actor), and the bank-robbery gang, the Aryan Republican Army, which he says was an FBI front group.
According to Trentadue’s lawsuit, Moore was an FBI informant as part of the bureau’s 1980s- and early 90s-era Operation Punchout, which was designed to identify and apprehend surplus dealers that bought and sold government property stolen from Department of Defense facilities in Utah.
Furthermore, Moore build patrol boats for use by the US Navy in the Vietnam War, as well as speedboats for the CIA, according to Aberration in the Heartland of the Real—historian Wendy Painting’s PhD thesis-turned-book about OKC bomber Tim McVeigh.
As for the Aryan Republican Army, Trentadue believes that was an FBI front group that also helped fund the bombing.
Trentadue’s Tuesday filing elaborated further on the ARA’s connection to McVeigh.
“During 1993, 1994 and 1995, a gang known as the Aryan Republican Army or “ARA” robbed banks and armored cars in the mid-west. Timothy McVeigh participated in some of those robberies and is reported to have used money obtained from these crimes to help fund the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995,” he said.
“According to Peter Langan, several members of the ARA assisted McVeigh in carrying out the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building.”
No hearings have been set yet in Trentadue’s lawsuit.
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Scientific American magazine urged the federal government to regulate homeschooling and suggested that parents of homeschooled children should “undergo a background check.”
The opinion was expressed in a June 17, 2024, newsletter, first citing the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) which shows that nearly three percent of American children — 1.5 million — were homeschooled in 2019, Breitbart News reported.
The leftists admitted in the newsletter that homeschooled children have excelled academically, using Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, who was homeschooled by his mother, as an example.
Nevertheless, they still think that homeschooling is bad for children.
“But most states don’t require the same assessment of homeschooled kids that are required for their public school peers. Parents are not required to have an education themselves to direct instruction,” the leftists said, adding that “in most states, no one checks to see that children are receiving an education at all” and that “in the worst cases, homeschooling can hide abuse.”
To solve the non-existent problem, the leftists who work at the magazine said that “homeschooling should be subject to some basic federal mandates” and that parents who homeschool their children “should be required to undergo a background check — the same as K-12 teachers.”
“Additionally, homeschool instructors could be required to submit documents every year to their local school district or to a state agency to show that their children are learning. Education is a basic right. We need to make sure kids have chances to investigate what makes them curious, study history and science and read,” the magazine’s editors stated.
However, data from NCES also showed that the reason why parents started to homeschool their children was because they wanted to combat toxic school environments and a lack of moral instruction.
It was reported that 80% of parents who homeschool their children said that they homeschool because they don’t want their children to be a part of a typical school environment, such as the lack of safety, drugs, negative peer pressure and other issues.
In addition to that, 75% of parents said they want to provide moral instruction to their kids. Another 75% said they want to emphasize family life together. Fifty-nine percent of parents said they want to provide religious instruction.
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A newly drafted resolution in House of Representatives would declare former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked Jan. 6 Committee illegitimate and invalidate the contempt of Congress charges that the J6 committee filed against four top advisers—one of whom has spent the past three months in prison, with another expected to report to jail at the end of June.
However, it also faces at least one powerful skeptic: Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
In an exclusive interview with Headline USA on June 7, Jordan said that even though he supported the principle of it, he didn’t see it being constructive from a practical standpoint, including helping ex-Trump adviser and well-known right-wing pundit Steve Bannon avoid his sentence.
“I think both of those contempt [charges] were ridiculous,” Jordan said, in reference to Bannon and Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, during a June 7 fundraiser for congressional candidate Mark Harris in Monroe, N.C.
“I opposed them on the House floor when they happened—both Navarro and Bannon—I spoke against them, as well as when they did it to our friend and North Carolina former representative Mark Meadows, when they did to him, spoke against all that,” Jordan added. “But I don’t think that would change—you could have that vote, but I don’t think it’ll change anything relative to what the courts have said and what happens to Bannon. … Even if we pass it, I don’t think it would have an impact.”
The proposal first picked up steam earlier this month after Massie raised it to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. and found many prominent supporters in the Twittersphere.
“This course of action is not only justified but necessary to restore fairness and balance in our government,” wrote blogger and influencer Alexander Muse.
“Rescinding these subpoenas and repudiating the January 6th Committee would send a clear message that politically motivated persecutions have no place in our Republic,” he added. “It would also be a significant step towards protecting the integrity of executive privilege and ensuring that partisan politics do not undermine our democratic institutions.”
Massie, through his communications director, declined to comment, citing the libertarian lawmaker’s a busy schedule.
It’s possible, however, that Jordan, a longtime friend and ally of Meadows, sees the prospect of unintended consequences arising from efforts to right the past grievance legislatively, now that Washington, D.C., courts have already ruled on the matter.
It is highly likely, for example, that Democrats might use a similar tactic in the future to invalidate other committees whose work is legitimate.
Moreover, giving Bannon a get-out-of-jail-free card would have troubling implications for Meadows—who opted to cooperate with the J6 committee—and Navarro, whose four month sentence will soon be completed.
The resolution might also derail plans that Jordan and Johnson already have in mind for holding Attorney General Merrick Garland accountable—either legally or otherwise—after he gave himself a free pass last week for the exact same alleged crime: refusing a congressional subpoena on the basis of executive privilege.
Following Garland’s defiance, Johnson announced that he would be certifying the contempt report with U.S. Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves and asking a federal court to enforce it.
The House disagrees with the assertions in the letter from the Department of Justice, and as Speaker, I will be certifying the contempt reports to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. We will also move to enforce the subpoena of Attorney General Garland in federal… https://t.co/YOzqzlKWtE
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) June 14, 2024
While Graves is unlikely to act, the move may help to extend its shelf life in the hopes that a future Trump administration could pursue it.
“It is sadly predictable that the Biden Administration’s Justice Department will not prosecute Garland for defying congressional subpoenas even though the department aggressively prosecuted Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro for the same thing,” Johnson said in a statement. “This is yet another example of the two-tiered system of justice brought to us by the Biden Administration.”
It is also the latest procedural effort, however, for a GOP majority that often has been derided for its ham-fisted toothlessness relative to Pelosi’s iron-fisted ruthlessness in undermining the prior Trump administration.
Despite having a laptop teeming with incontrovertible evidence that has now been acknowledged by the FBI as authentic in a court of law, Republicans have been unable to press their impeachment case in any impactful way—and, to some extent, the presence of a two-tiered justice system is a problem of their own making.
In a fiery speech ahead of last Wednesday’s contempt vote for Garland, Jordan offered a sharp rebuke of President Joe Biden’s top wingman and attack dog in the Justice Department.
“It’s simple—Attorney General Garland holds information vital to the committee’s legislative oversight and the House impeachment’s inquiry. … The department has a legal obligation to turn over the requested material,” Jordan said.
“Attorney General Garland’s willful refusal consitutes contempt of Congress,” he continued. ” … Our oversight and and impeachment responsibilities are too important to allow the attorney general to willfully disregard this.”
The contempt charge came following Garland’s refusal to turn over the audio recording of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur in the classified documents probe, which Hur cited as evidence that Biden was too senile to stand trial and that no reasonable jury would convict him due to his failing memory and lack of lucidity.
The public release of the tapes would likely show that Biden either perjured himself by putting on a bogus act for a probe that has already determined to let him off the hook—or, perhaps more damningly, that the heavily scripted and choreographed Biden presented to the public conceals a commander-in-chief who is genuinely non compos mentis, despite seeking another four-year term.
In addition to the House committees undertaking an impeachment inquiry, several mainstream media outlets have sued to obtain the recordings under the Freedom of Information Act.
Yet, the contempt vote against Garland resonated for Republicans on another level after Garland’s overtly political decision to follow through on prosecuting Bannon and Navarro.
The true objective of the Jan. 6 committee—to push a false, one-sided narrative onto the public that pinned all the blame on President Donald Trump and his supporters—has become ever more apparent as additional information begins to surface.
Indeed, it amassed several terrabytes worth of data from its Star Chamber proceedings, which it then refused to hand over to Republicans upon ceding power and even attempted illegally to delete.
Following bombshell footage last week that showed Pelosi admitting responsibility for the security failures at the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., denounced the committee as “biased,” according to Just the News.
Rep. Loudermilk: History should not accept original Jan. 6 committee’s report as factual account https://t.co/XkJh7bJqFC
“[I]t was a political hack job, and the American people and the history books should not take this as any factual account of what happened that day,” he said in an appearance on Real America’s Voice.
Because they had no direct role in anything related to the Jan. 6 uprising at the Capitol, Bannon and Navarro, along with Meadows and Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, suspected a fishing expedition was afoot to gather testimony that the committee could then use selectively for its own ulterior objectives.
But despite citing “executive privilege” as their reason for refusing the subpoenas—arguing that their private conversations with Trump were exempt from oversight—Garland’s DOJ pushed House Democrats’ contempt charges via corrupt, anti-Trump D.C. district judges such as Tanya Chutkan, who declared that Trump had no constitutional right to shield himself from bloodthirsty Democrats’ congressional tribunal.
Pending a Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity that is expected to drop Thursday morning, Chutkan is now overseeing another case against Trump—special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution charging Trump with efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
That case was likely based heavily on the criminal referral supplied by the Jan. 6 committee, emblematic of the sort of mini-ecosystem through which congressional Democrats, corrupt DOJ prosecutors and D.C. federal judges have colluded in order to leapfrog from one political attack on Trump and his allies to the next by agreeing to validate each other.
“Everyone knows it’s wrong, everyone knows this lawfare has gotten out of control,” Jordan noted in his interview with Headline USA.
He pointed to efforts that the House was undertaking to derail those efforts, such as a measure to defund any special counsel not approved by the Senate. (Smith is the only one who has not been.)
Nonetheless, thoze efforts seemed to be mostly symbolic, an exercise in performative outrage.
Only time may tell if Burlinson’s resolution can succeed in breaking that cycle.
NEW: Per multiple federal sources, ICE’s non-detained docket has exploded to 7.4 million cases, more than doubling the Trump years, and it’s on pace to hit 8 million by end of year. Each ICE officer now has to manage an average of 7,000 cases each, an impossible task given the… pic.twitter.com/GAtAm3z6zB
Joe Biden has more than doubled ICE’s non-detained docket compared to when Donald Trump was in office. The docket includes illegals living in American towns and cities whom ICE has not detained but who are awaiting deportation from the country.
“Per multiple federal sources, ICE’s non-detained docket has exploded to 7.4 million cases, more than doubling the Trump years, and it’s on pace to hit 8 million by [the] end of the year,” Melugin wrote.
It was also reported that the number of illegals living throughout the country while awaiting deportation hearings is larger than two years of American births.
“Since day one, President Biden has failed to detain illegal aliens in accordance with the law, instead acting upon the wishes of ‘Abolish ICE’ groups who not only oppose custodial detention but call any tracking of their whereabouts a ‘digital prison,’” National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE) President RJ Hauman informed Breitbart News.
The ICE non-detained docket is now larger than the population of 35 U.S. states. https://t.co/BSnj47lVMB
— National Immigration Center for Enforcement (@NICEnforcement) June 17, 2024
There were 2.6 million migrants on ICE’s non-detained docket during Trump’s first full fiscal year as president. In January 2021, when Trump left the White House, the docket had only increased by about 600,000 cases.
On the other hand, Biden’s administration has boosted ICE’s non-detained docket through its expansive catch-and-release network at the U.S.-Mexico border by 4.2 million cases as of June 18, 2024. ICE agents expect that there will be more than eight million illegals on the docket by the end of this year.
“Thousands of ICE detention beds remain unfilled, and the use of GPS monitoring has decreased significantly while the non-detained docket approaches eight million. Biden’s goal is to dismantle detention entirely and instead turn it into social services paid by the American taxpayer while allowing illegal aliens to roam free and await an amnesty,” Hauman said.
Melugin’s report also stated that Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is adding about 172,000 illegals to ICE’s non-detained docket every month, which means that, at this rate, there could be about 8.6 million illegals on the docket by the end of December.
“We are thrilled to bring inclusive flag football to Buffalo with the support of the Buffalo Bills,” bragged NGFFL Commissioner Joel Horton in a press statement.
“This exciting addition joins 27 other cities, and over 4,000 players, including straight allies, in the National Gay Flag Football League,” he added.
EQUITY: The Buffalo Bills have just announced that they’re helping to launch the National Gay Football League. h/t @rawsalertspic.twitter.com/95RpZkxlhe
Joining a lineup that includes other NFL teams like the Giants, Patriots, Jets, Dolphins, Cardinals, Bears, Commanders, and Seahawks, the Bills are pushing the ultimate boundaries in the realm of inclusion: flag football for gays only.
“Our mission is to unite the community through the spirit of competition while celebrating our diversity,” Horton remarked.
“By fostering an environment where everyone is welcome, we aim to build a stronger, more inclusive Buffalo,” he continued.
The NGFFL hosts events such as the annual Gay Bowl, Sin City Classic, Pride Cup and Pride Bowl.
Established in 2002, the NGFFL aims to use flag football “as a means to educate, change attitudes, promote self-discovery, and build esteem within the LGBTQ+ community, and in the communities in which LGBTQ+ people work, live, and play.”
Participants in NGFFL activities must “adhere to and support the NGFFL vision and nondiscrimination policy. All member organizations are expected to serve, first and foremost, the LGBTQ+ community.”
The Buffalo Bills have just announced they’re helping to launch the National Gay Football League.
According to the description of the six-episode “docuseries,” Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial intends to dig into “Hitler and the Nazis’ rise, rule and reckoning from pre-WWII to the Holocaust to the Nuremberg trials,” the Daily Wire reported.
Comedian filmmaker and documentarian Eric Abbenante posted the clip from the propaganda series on social media.
“It’s sort of like Hitler’s Mar-a-Lago if you will. A kind of retreat in the Bavarian Alps that has a closeness to nature, the spectacular mountain panorama that gave Hitler the sense that he was on top of the world without having to deal with the messiness of everyday politics,” she said in the clip.
As expected, Berg is a leftist who got her PhD from the University of Michigan and “studies the histories of waste and recycling, film and cities, racism and genocide.”
“Yes, because Trump’s government used the Nazi term ‘The Big Lie’, created ‘domestic terrorism’ organizations that encouraged citizens to snitch on each other, and jailed political dissidents, just like Hitler. Oh wait, that was the Biden administration,” Abbenante wrote in his post.
Netflix's WW2 documentary 'Evil on Trial' describes Hitler's holiday residence (The Berghof) as 'Hitler's Mar-a-Lago': "It's sort of like Hitler's Mar-a-Lago, if you will. Gave Hitler the sense that he was on top of the world without having to deal with the messiness of… pic.twitter.com/2QHKsmL5dd
In response, Abbenante stated that this was not the only example of the intentional comparisons between the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s and Trump supporters in the United States.
“There is a constant refrain of ‘Make Germany Great Again’ trying to draw parallels to the MAGA movement,” he said.
There is a constant refrain of 'Make Germany Great Again' trying to draw parallels to the MAGA movement.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden administration is grappling with another humiliating setback as the infamous $230 million pier built in Gaza for humanitarian aid is set to be dismantled less than a month after its completion.
Even more concerning, the pier has been operational for only 10 days due to ongoing repairs, damages and heightened security risks, according to the leftist New York Times on Tuesday.
The pier was intended to serve as a temporary channel for foreign countries to deliver aid to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, currently embroiled in conflict with Israel after recent hostilities initiated by Hamas on Oct. 7.
Initially slated to remain operational until September to avoid rising sea levels, the federal government is now warning that the pier may need removal as early as July, the Times reported.
The latest setback occurred when bad weather caused the pier to drift, prompting the Pentagon to suspend food deliveries.
The poor guy trying to take a💩in one of those Porta Potties is pretty much as good a metaphor for the entire Biden presidency as you could find anywhere. @amusehttps://t.co/lzb7bOmzN3
“When we are able to re-anchor the pier back in, you’ll be able to see that aid flow off in a pretty steady stream,” Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh claimed in May. As of last Friday, the Biden administration ceased aid deliveries again due to anticipated high seas, as confirmed by U.S. Central Command on Twitter.
“Today, due to expected high seas, the temporary pier will be removed from its anchored position in Gaza and towed back to Ashdod, Israel,” Central Command announced. “The safety of our service members is a top priority and temporarily relocating the pier will prevent structural damage caused by the heightened sea state.”
The military agency also alleged that the U.S. has facilitated the delivery of 7.7 million pounds of aid through the pier to date.
U.S. Central Command moves pier ahead of high seas
Today, due to expected high seas, the temporary pier will be removed from its anchored position in Gaza and towed back to Ashdod, Israel. The safety of our service members is a top priority and temporarily relocating the pier… pic.twitter.com/gvL2BYYYac
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A former fundraiser for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign has officially renounced her membership in the Democratic Party and declared her intent to vote for former President Donald Trump in 2024.
Allison Huynh, who raised millions for Obama and spent over $1 million to purchase the Shepard Fairey media company behind Obama’s “Hope” posters, is now condemning President Joe Biden’s tenure.
“I think Biden has been out of touch,” she said in a Sunday interview with the New York Post. “He’s asleep at the wheel.”
As reported by the Post, Huynh has helped launch 180 political e-commerce websites and led fundraising dinners with prices reportedly ranging from $50,000 to $100,000.
Amid rising violent crime and drug abuse under the Biden administration, she is backing Trump for president and even traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet the Republican candidate.
“I was surprised when I met Donald Trump,” Huynh recalled. “He was light and funny and intelligent. The people there were down-to-earth. “I was happy with how knowledgeable Trump is about what is going on with the country and the economy.”
She added, “He had the information. He is all there with the things that matter: education — his kids are well-educated -— fighting crime, immigration and business.”
In her interview with the Post, she noted, “Many people are coming to Trump for his good policies. Look at his 2016 Jobs Act. It encourages investment, which helps to sustain this country.”
In response to what many Americans describe as Biden’s disastrous tenure, Huynh is cleaning house, selling her Obama “Hope” artwork and a chair of Democrat President John F. Kennedy she bought in 2005 for 100,000.
“I am cleaning house,” Huynh asserted. “I was a lifelong liberal and Democrat but when things don’t serve us in this moment, it is best to move on and let other people enjoy the items. They don’t have much meaning for me right now.”
Emphasizing the need for law and order, she continued: “[We need elected officials] with policies that make our cities safer. We need police to support those laws.”
Armed robbers surrounded the agent on Saturday at around 9:30 p.m., according to local authorities. The agent was able to fire his weapon at the armed robbers, but they made off with a bag belonging to him.
The Secret Service confirmed the police report in a statement this week.
“A member of the U.S. Secret Service was the victim of an armed robbery in Tustin, California late Saturday when returning from a work assignment,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
“The employee discharged their service weapon during the incident but unknown if the assailants were struck,” he continued. “We are thankful that the employee did not sustain any injuries.”
Local authorities have not yet identified any suspects but are looking for a 2004-2006 silver Infiniti FX35 SUV that was spotted leaving the scene of the crime.
Biden was in the Los Angeles area last week for a fundraiser and arrived just about 40 minutes before the robbery, according to his schedule. Among those attending the fundraiser were Hollywood A-listers George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand.
The event took an awkward turn when Biden appeared to freeze on stage, forcing former President Barack Obama to escort him off stage.
Joe Biden appears to freeze at his LA fundraiser. Has to be led off stage by Obama. pic.twitter.com/iUKALvdqPD
The viral moment came at the conclusion of the pair’s 45-minute interview with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. After waving to the crowd, a smiling Biden appeared to stand still for more than five seconds until Obama took his wrist, patted him on the back, and led him away from the event.
Just a few days prior, Biden had to be similarly led back to a meeting with G7 leaders in Italy after appearing to wander away on his own.
(Headline USA) The odds of Vice President Kamala Harris suffering an unfortunate mishap may have increased dramatically this week amid growing chatter that the time is drawing nigh to boot President Joe Biden from the ballot—and that she is not up to the task of replacing him.
Since the indictment of his son Hunter on three felony charges, Biden, 81, has appeared to take a turn for the worse in what was already an alarming cognitive decline.
He has suffered several recent episodes in which he has seemed lost or frozen during public appearances, and at least one in which he is suspected of having defecated himself.
Nonetheless, some fear Biden, who has already secured the pledged electoral delegates needed to be the Democratic candidate, may not be willing to step aside.
Instead, to ease concerns about his age, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker argued in a column this week that Biden could kick Harris off his reelection ticket and replace her with failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Parker admitted that Biden has suffered a “steady decline the past few years,” made apparent by his “stumbles, his search for words, his occasional blank stare,” all of which are now “impossible to ignore.”
However, Biden’s situation is made worse by the fact that his running mate, Harris, who is the next in line to replace him should anything befall the president, is not popular.
Replacing Harris could be “risky” given that it may “jeopardize black votes,” Parker noted, but if “Democrats … want to win elections” then they may have to make that sacrifice.
She suggested that Harris could at least keep a spot in the Biden administration and be named attorney general for agreeing to leave the ticket.
Democrat activists have desperately been trying to force several of the elder Supreme Court justices—including conservatives Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, as well as leftist Sonia Sotomayor—to retire.
By doing so, they might open up a spot that would take care of the “Kamala” problem, enabling party leaders to bribe the former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general with a lifetime appointment to the high court.
Parker claimed that Clinton could help extricate American politics from its “old-White-men dilemma,” despite the fact that she tried and failed to do so back in 2016.
And she could provide Biden’s ticket with “confidence” that she would be able to “keep the country on track” if something were to happen to Biden, Parker said.
“No one has mentioned her as a possible running mate for Biden far as I know, but why not replace Harris with Clinton?” the columnist wrote. “At 76, she might want no part of it, but it’s hard to retire when you feel your job isn’t done.”
She added that Clinton has already been “inserting herself” into the 2024 election cycle by endorsing specific candidates.
“It’s just a thought, but worse ideas have met with regrettable success,” she added.
