Rep. Jordan: Ex-CIA Chief Confirmed ‘Spies Who Lie’ Conspiracy in Closed Testimony

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Rep. Jordan: Ex-CIA Chief Confirmed ‘Spies Who Lie’ Conspiracy in Closed Testimony

(Headline USA) Former CIA Director John Brennan confirmed during a closed-door congressional hearing this week that a letter signed by 51 current and former intelligence officials dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation” was “all political,” according to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

“[Brennan] sat for a four-hour interview and he further confirmed that this thing was all political,” Jordan told Fox News on Thursday.

Jordan cited an email proving intelligence officials hoped to use the letter to give then-candidate Joe Biden a “talking point” against former President Donald Trump.

“And he presented it as if it was all organic — just shazam! It just happened out of the goodness of all these individuals’ hearts. They wanted to do this as if there was no political motivation whatsoever, and we know that was not accurate,” Jordan explained.

An email between Brennan and former CIA acting director Mike Morrell uncovered this month shows Morrell asking Brennan for his signature.

“Can I add your name to this list? Will be adding Leon, Sue Gordon, Jeh Johnson, George, Lisa Monaco , and Mike Rogers today. And working on adding Dan Coats, Mike Rogers (HPSCI), and Tom Bossert … Trying to give the campaign, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to push back on Trump on this issue,” Morrell wrote.

House Republicans have also uncovered evidence that allegedly links the CIA to the infamous letter. In a report, titled “The Hunter Biden Statement: How Senior Intelligence Community Officials and the Biden Campaign Worked to Mislead American Voters,” Republicans alleged that multiple sitting government officials “inserted themselves into the thick of the [2020] presidential campaign” by soliciting signatures for the letter.

The committees have “evidence that an employee affiliated with the CIA may have assisted in obtaining signatories for the statement,” the report stated.

One of the letter’s signatories, former CIA analyst David Cariens, allegedly disclosed to Congress “that a CIA employee affiliated with the agency’s Prepublication Classification Review Board (“PCRB”) informed him of the existence of the statement and asked if he would sign it,” the report said.

Pa. Agrees to Purge 178K Ineligible Voters from Dirty Records after Lawsuit

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Pa. Agrees to Purge 178K Ineligible Voters from Dirty Records after Lawsuit

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Judicial Watch announced that it had settled an election integrity lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania, with the state agreeing to clean up 178,258 ineligible registrations from its voter roll.

The number is more than double the 81,660 votes that Democrat Joe Biden purportedly bested then-President Donald Trump by in 2020 to secure the state’s 20 electoral votes after Democrat officials flagrantly violated the state legislature’s prohibitions on mass mail-in voting. It is unclear how many of the ineligible voters were active at the time.

As part of the settlement agreement, Pennsylvania and five of its counties—Luzerne, Cumberland, Washington, Indiana and Carbon—were ordered to pay Judicial Watch $15,000 to cover its legal costs and fees.

The conservative watchdog organization had initially filed a complaint in November 2021 in its lawsuit regarding the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which mandates under section 8 that states maintain clean voter rolls.

Pennsylvania also agreed to publish the total number of registered voters in the five counties on its website for the next five years, including information regarding unresponsive addresses and the total number of voters removed from rolls.

“Pennsylvania’s election rolls are cleaner—and will remail cleaner—thanks to Judicial Watch,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This federal lawsuit settlement is good news for voters in Pennsylvania who want to ensure that only eligible voters are on voter rolls.”

Fitton added that the organization has achieved larger success in numerous states over the past three years, including but not limited to: Hawaii, California, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Colorado, Maryland and now Pennsylvania.

“Judicial Watch’s remarkable run of litigation successes resulted in well over 2 million ineligible registrations being removed from voter rolls across the nation in the last two years,” he said.

Sub-Par SCOTUS Justice KBJ Dominated Speaking Time Last Session

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Sub-Par SCOTUS Justice KBJ Dominated Speaking Time Last Session

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke more than any other Supreme Court justice this term by a wide margin, with the new justice blabbering away throughout her first term on the high court’s bench.

Jackson spoke over 78,800 words in her first term, setting her apart as an excessive talker, especially for a freshman justice, the Washington Times reported.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan rounded out the top three, meaning that left-wing women talk more during the high court’s oral arguments than any other group. According to a Supreme Court scholar Adam Feldman, the high court’s leftists probably just cannot resist expressing their views at great length.

“There is the liberal justices argument … where they pretty much know they will be on the losing side of any ideologically-laden case, so at least they can air out their positions at oral argument,” Feldman said.

Speaking at length in oral arguments can also help one derail arguments, prevent other justices from asking questions or debunk the points of other justices.

Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, noted his surprise at the first-term justice’s outspoken approach.

“It’s surprising for a rookie justice to speak a lot, let alone more than anyone else,” Shaprio said.

“Justice Jackson clearly came out of the gate loaded for bear, to mix metaphors,” he continued, noting that she at least knows the ins-and-outs of each case. “She speechifies at times, but it’s clear that she’s done the work to ask about the minutiae of various cases.”

Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law, said that Jackson may figure out how to talk less in due time.

“Maybe Jackson will also sort of find her place among the other justices with respect to timing,” he said. “There might be value in spreading that time around.”

Aside from her excessive talking, Jackson has also revealed astounding incompetence at times, trashing conservative justices at every opportunity.

WTF?: Calif. ‘Reparations’ Panel Demands Repeal of Racial Discrimination Ban

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WTF?: Calif. ‘Reparations’ Panel Demands Repeal of Racial Discrimination Ban

(Headline USA) The California Reparations Task Force unveiled its list of policy proposals this month, and among them is a demand that the state legislature repeal a constitutional amendment banning racial discrimination.

The amendment in question is Proposition 209, which California voters approved in 1996. The measure amended the state Constitution to note that, “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”

The reparations task force urged the state legislature to repeal this measure, claiming it created more racial discrimination.

“Since its passage, Proposition 209 has had far-reaching impact on efforts to remediate entrenched systemic anti-Black bias and discrimination,” the task force wrote. “In recognition of the systemic discrimination faced by the African American community and the barriers to justice and repair imposed by Proposition 209, the task force recommends that the legislature take steps within its authority to seek the repeal [of] Proposition 209. This effort must continue until California’s constitution has been cleansed of this or any other measure rooted in racism.”

It is unclear how repealing a measure that bans racial discrimination would decrease racial discrimination.

Some of the task force’s other proposals include massive cash payments to every black resident in the state, including payments of up to $1.2 million.

The task force also demanded a formal apology from the state legislature for the “censure of the gravest barbarities carried out on behalf of the state by its representative officers, governing bodies, and the people,” highlighting several examples in a “non-exhaustive list.”

California never allowed slavery in its history.

Gov. Gavin Newsom refused to commit to any one of the task force’s proposals this week, arguing that reparations is about “more than cash payments.”

“This has been an important process, and we should continue to work as a nation to reconcile our original sin of slavery and understand how that history has shaped our country,” Newsom said in a statement.

DeSantis: States Should be Able to Deport Illegals

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DeSantis: States Should be Able to Deport Illegals

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) At a press conference Wednesday, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said states should be empowered to send illegal immigrants back to the country from which they immigrated, rather than relying on politicized federal authorities, according to Breitbart.

“States are limited in terms of what they do,” he said. “I think a good reform federally would be deputized states to enforce immigration law.”

The potential GOP presidential candidate has repeatedly filled in for the federal government by removing illegal immigrants from his state, and transporting them to sanctuary states and sanctuary cities.

DeSantis was so successful at this task that the Florida Legislature granted permanent status and funding to his Unauthorized Alien Transport Program.

At the signing ceremony Wednesday for SB 1718, which bans the funding and use of non-citizen driver’s licenses as a legal form of state identification De Santis lambasted the Biden administration for its failure to deal with the immigration crisis.

“Where’s this president’s energy? Where’s his vigor? Where’s his commitment to the cause?” he asked. “He’s just sitting around doing nothing of importance or nothing of note while the American people suffer.”

DeSantis accused Biden of violating his Oath of Office by ignoring—and oftentimes encouraging the lack of border security.

“[It is a] huge, huge dereliction of duty to ignore the security and the borders of your own country,” he said.

DeSantis went on to say that deportation ought to be a part of the state’s authority to arrest and detain illegal aliens.

“Texas should be able to send them back to Mexico or back to these other countries,” he reasoned. “You shouldn’t have to turn them over to Border Patrol, and then Biden orders them released back into our own country.”

He said he knew his actions as Florida’s governor were insufficient to solve the crisis, but that he had reached the “limit of what states can do.”

House Homeland Security Chair Says He Has Evidence of Mayorkas’s ‘Potential Fraud’

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House Homeland Security Chair Says He Has Evidence of Mayorkas’s ‘Potential Fraud’

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green revealed that he has evidence of “potential fraud” committed by embattled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Daily Caller reported. 

Although Green, R-Tenn., did not disclose further details, he explained that confidential sources shared information with him that showed Mayorkas may have committed fraud that could be grounds for impeachment. Green said that several House Republicans, including Pat Fallon of Texas and Andy Biggs of Arizona have already filed articles of impeachment against Mayorkas.

Mayorkas was criticized for his handling of the border crisis and for not enforcing immigration laws on the books. This new accusation of potential fraud only adds to the scrutiny surrounding Mayorkas and the DHS.

The current situation at the southern border of the United States has reached a fever pitch, with the lifting of Title 42 – the Trump-era expulsion order. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have already encountered more than 1.2 million migrants at the southern border in the current fiscal year 2023.

“He doesn’t get to make the laws, we do,” Green told the news outlet regarding Mayorkas. “And if he can’t enforce and live by the Constitution of the United States, why is he a cabinet secretary?”

In a recent statement to the Daily Caller, a DHS spokesperson defended the department against Green’s threats and said it will continue to implement laws, secure the border and noted that Congress should “work with the department and pass legislation to fix our broken immigration system, which has not been updated in over 40 years.”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had yet to take action against Mayorkas, despite growing concerns about his leadership and actions.

“I’m quite alright owning that responsibility and doing it,” he said, adding “my gut tells me it’s gonna be enough for him to not be in the job.”

Elon Musk Receives Backlash for Hiring WEF Globalist as New Twitter CEO

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Elon Musk Receives Backlash for Hiring WEF Globalist as New Twitter CEO

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Elon Musk confirmed Friday that the new CEO for Twitter will be NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino, sparking backlash among free-speech advocates who worry about Yaccarino’s pro-censorship views and her ties to the globalist World Economic Forum.

“I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk wrote in a Friday tweet. He added that Yaccarino “will focus primarily on business operations” while Musk will stay closely connected to product design and new technology.

Before that announcement, NBCUniversal said Friday that Yaccarino would step down immediately as chairwoman for global advertising and partnerships.

Musk, who bought Twitter last fall and has been running it since, has long insisted that he would step down as top executive at the company, which is now called X Corp.

As noted recently by the Discern Report, Yaccarino’s globalist ties run deep.

“In her LinkedIn profile, Yaccarino notes that she’s been a WEF Executive Chair since January 2019. Currently, she’s the Chairman of the WEF’s Taskforce on Future of Work. She also sits on the WEF’s Media, Entertainment, and Culture Industry Governors Steering Committee. Additionally, she is highly engaged with the WEF’s Value in Media initiative,” the Discern Report noted Friday.

“Yaccarino has spoken at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting about shaping the future of media, entertainment, and culture.”

Yaccarino’s pro-censorship views were made clear during an interview she conducted with Musk at an advertising conference last month.

“[Advertisers] need to feel that there is an opportunity for them to influence what you’re building … moderation—that’s what the influence is,” she said.

Musk pushed back during the interview, telling her that he’d “be warry” about giving advertisers the ability to influence content-moderation decisions at Twitter.

“It is not cool to try to say what Twitter will do,” Musk said. “And if that means losing advertising dollars, we lose it. But freedom of speech is paramount.”

However, Musk hiring Yaccarino have many worried that he’s backtracking on his promise of a free-speech platform.

Others still expect Musk to retain much of his decision-making power at Twitter.

“While he’s stepping back from the CEO title, Musk is far from likely to step back from calling the product shots,” said Mike Proulx, research director at Forrester Research.

Shares of Tesla rose about 2% Thursday after Musk made the announcement. Shareholders of the electric car company have been concerned about how much of his attention is being spent on Twitter.

Last November, Musk was questioned in court about how he splits his time among Tesla and his other companies, including SpaceX and Twitter. Musk had to testify in the trial in Delaware’s Court of Chancery over a shareholder’s challenge to his potentially $55 billion compensation plan as CEO of the electric car company.

Bantering with Twitter followers late last year, Musk expressed pessimism about the prospects for a new CEO, saying that person “must like pain a lot” to run a company that “has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy.”

“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor,” Musk tweeted at the time.

The Associated Press contributed to this story

‘This is Deliberate’: Sen. Ted Cruz Slams Callous Indifference to Border ‘Invasion’

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‘This is Deliberate’: Sen. Ted Cruz Slams Callous Indifference to Border ‘Invasion’

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) Sen. Ted Cruz blasted Democrats on Thursday as he visited the U.S.-Mexico border ahead of the expected illegal alien influx as Title 42 expires. 

“We are witnessing an absolute travesty unfolding on our southern border,” Cruz said to the media on Thursday evening, according to the Daily Wire. 

“On Monday, we apprehended over 10,000 people on the border, the highest level in history. On Tuesday, he noted that we apprehended over 10,000 people on the border, again, the highest level in history. “There are, right now where we’re standing, more than 22,000 people camped just south of the border, getting ready to come across just in this location. In less than a month, we’ve had over 35,000 Venezuelans cross illegally, just right here.”

The Senator added that those numbers were only in the area he visited. Hence, they do not represent other areas along the 2,000-mile border currently flooded by illegal aliens. 

“And I have to say I am angry because this is deliberate! This is a decision that was made by President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Congressional Democrats to open up the border to what is nothing less than an invasion,” Cruz said. “Ask yourself, ‘Why is President Biden not here? Why is Kamala Harris not here? Why is Elizabeth Warren not here? Why is AOC? She still owns the white pantsuit. Why is she not here with her head buried in her hands?’ Because they don’t give a damn about the dead bodies.”

The report noted that Cruz also blasted DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at the end of March about how many illegal immigrants lost their lives while trying to cross the border, which Mayorkas claimed he did not know. Moreso, Cruz grilled Mayorkas about the number of sexual assault victims recorded in the area, which he could also not answer. 

“We’re witnessing modern-day slavery. And maddeningly … the Biden administration has decided they want more. Title 42 is expiring today. And you know what happens tomorrow, those numbers go up,” Cruz said.

“This is an invasion, and they want the numbers to go up. Let me say to the men and women from the Border Patrol who are heroes. They are extraordinary heroes. And we’re down here to tell them thank you, to tell them we love you, to tell them we got your back even as your political superiors are making it impossible for you to do your job.”

Newsom Shells Out $8 Million in Tax Dollars for Abortion Facility Security

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Newsom Shells Out $8 Million in Tax Dollars for Abortion Facility Security

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom shelled out $8 million in funding to provide both physical and cyber security to 21 abortion clinics in his state.

A statement from his office claimed this move was to protect the clinics “as extreme politicians continue to attack access to essential reproductive health care.”

According to Breitbart, the money was provided to the clinics via a grant program called the Physical and Digital Infrastructure Security Grant Program, which operates under the governor’s Office of Emergency Services.

“All health care providers deserve to feel safe while offering resources and services to patients,” Newsom said in a statement. “As attacks on reproductive health care continue, we’re providing resources to help ensure patients and providers feel safe and secure while accessing or providing critical reproductive health care.”

The funds were specifically relegated to Planned Parenthood and other independent clinics that “may be the target of violence and vandalism.”

The statement did not reference any specific instances of either physical or cyber attacks on abortion clinics in the state.

“This funding represents a key part of our responsibility to protect Californians from violence,” Cal OES Director Nancy Ward said in a statement. “By providing security at vulnerable healthcare locations, we can help protect everyone involved, from providers, to patients, and the surrounding community.”

According to CatholicVote, at least 86 attacks pro-life groups and pregnancy centers took place since the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Since then, 154 different Catholic churches faced attacks, with the assaults ranging from graffiti to destruction of statues and a few thefts.

FBI director Christopher Wray admitted in a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing that 70% of the threats of violence concerning abortion since the overturn were against pro-life groups.

Pro-life pregnancy centers across the nation have faced increased vandalism, arson and other violent retaliation from activist groups such as Jane’s Revenge, who promote abortion as a right.

Despite many calls for investigations into the seemingly coordinated events, the FBI has done very little to find and prosecute the anti-life activists.

Former GOP Gov. Could Unseat Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren: Poll

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Former GOP Gov. Could Unseat Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren: Poll

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA)  Charlie Baker, the former GOP Massachusetts governor, apparently stands a good chance of defeating U.S. Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren should he decide to challenge her in Election 2024.

That is the findings of a new poll about a hypothetical U.S. Senate contest between the two-term governor and the two-term senator that was published on Thursday by the nonprofit Fiscal Alliance Foundation, whose declared mission is to promote “individual liberty and greater fiscal responsibility and transparency in government for a better New England.”

Based on a survey of 750 state voters (including 382 independents) contacted by landline and cell phone, Baker, who currently heads the NCAA, has 49% support as opposed to Democrat Warren’s lackluster 34% in the poll results.

Far-left Sen. Warren, 73, who former President Trump famously dubbed “Pocahontas” over her false claims of Native American heritage, has already announced her reelection bid.

A Baker advisor has insisted that the ex-gov has no plans to seek public office next year, which is consistent with what Baker himself has previously said.

There is, however, a long history of ambitious politicians across the country who deny interest in running for higher office right up to moment when they abruptly change their minds.

While in office, Baker’s COVID policies were practically indistinguishable from authoritarian Democrat governors.

Against this backdrop, he likely decided against seeking a third term in part because of anticipated difficulties in getting through a GOP primary in the blue state where he seemed to otherwise maintain popularity with voters unaffiliated with a political party.

Reacting to the polling data that suggests a 15-point lead for the ex-governor, a Fiscal Alliance Foundation spokesperson commented that “Senator Warren has significantly higher unfavorable numbers than her fellow Democrats statewide and that seems to be creating an opening for Baker, who always enjoyed large amounts of cross-party appeal,” the Boston Herald reported.

He added that “It’s interesting that Baker receives such solid support from Republicans, a group that he began having such trouble with during his second term. Senator Warren may be doing more to unite the state Republican party than anyone might realize.”

The spokesperson also noted that “Looking at the cross tabs, Republicans seem to coalesce behind Baker (79%) in a way that Democrats do not around Warren (56%), and Baker leads with independent/unenrolled voters 2-1 at 57-26%.”

As a potential U.S. Senator, Baker, 66, would presumably cast himself ideologically similar to another former Massachusetts governor, namely Mitt Romney, who now represents Utah in the upper congressional chamber.

Sen. Romney has disappointed conservatives with his RINO tendencies.

A rep for the Mass GOP, an organization that fielded a candidate in the 2022 governor’s race who lost in a landslide to Democrat Maura Healey, the state attorney general, told the Herald “that the polling demonstrates there is room in the state for a moderate Republican to position themselves against a vulnerable Democrat.”

The same candidate, Geoff Diehl, lost to Warren in 2018.

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