(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) After a string of narrative-busting setbacks from recent mass-shooting attacks involving left-wing extremists and illegal immigrants, the Biden administration’s politicized intelligence community got a much-needed “win” on Saturday.
The woke authorities were gifted with what appeared to be a clear-cut case of right-wing extremism in an Allen, Texas, mall attack that left at least eight innocent victims dead (including three children) and seven others critically injured.
Nonetheless, inconsistencies in the reported evidence have led skeptics to question the hastily reached conclusions that killer Mauricio Garcia was, as leftist pundits and officials promptly declared, a Latino “white supremacist.”
“[T]his has been the craziest media push after a mass shooting in a long while, and at this time this editor can honestly not say what is and isn’t the truth which is a sad reflection of what our mainstream media have become,” wrote Twitchy’s Sam Janney.
Like the media, the intel community has squandered its credibility in such matters, meaning any conflicting evidence that might once have been dismissed in good faith must now be given the benefit of the doubt.
However, while the killer’s exact motives remain inconclusive, the motives of a desperate deep state, increasingly threatened by Republican-led calls to rein in its excesses and abuses, can no longer be discounted.
Among other things, the intel community’s repeated and flagrant abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, authorizing it the limited ability to spy on domestic citizens with special court approval, has resulted in bipartisan outrage that could cast future FISA authorization into doubt.
Some now suspect that their desire to validate their own existence and confirm spurious, politically driven narratives about the threat of “domestic violent extremism” and “Russian disinformation” might compel agencies like the FBI to cherry-pick information that advances their own interests.
Then again, others wonder what’s to stop them from coordinating the plot themselves.
This appears to be a giant psyop with several purposes:
1. Get Tim Pool off air
2. Declare Twitter as national security threat
3. Get LibsOfTikTok banned from Twitter
4. Push AR-Ban
5. Bring white supremacy back to forefront
6. Distract from migrant invasion— JD Sharp (@imjdsharp) May 8, 2023
A CRY FOR HELP?
A 1997 quotation from Oprah Winfrey (during a discussion with her friend Maya Angelou) has become popular on Twitter describing inadvertent moments of candor from figures on both side of the political spectrum.
It goes: “When people show you who they are, believe them.”
I, for one, do not believe that human nature is immutable or that individuals are incapable of changing and evolving in their views, as the two suggest.
Yet, there is some truth to the recognition that what we often dismiss as flukes, anomalies, accidents and coincidences are, in fact, the true nature of an individual or entity, flailing and screaming to reveal itself.
If the behavior is validated or even tolerated once with impunity, then the same pattern is that much more likely to repeat itself, and the window for accountability and/or behavior modification will narrow with every passing attempt thereafter.
This holds true not only for the deadbeat men whom Winfrey claimed to have encountered in her dating life, but also for the nation’s intelligence apparati—which are, at their very core, designed to sow dishonesty and disinformation for the purpose of mass manipulation in support of the institutional State.
From the 1963 JFK assassination, to the 1993 Branch–Davidian assault, to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorism attacks and the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, suspicions have lingered for decades that government agencies tasked with investigating unthinkable tragedies have been busy instead covering their own tracks.
Only recently, though, have corrupt intelligence officials openly shown us who they really are.
‘SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY’
Throughout the Trump presidency, the deep state faced a difficult choice:
- Cede control over the swampy shadow-government they had become so accustomed to operating from within Washington, D.C.’s unelected administrative bureaucracy.
- Come out from the shadows to challenge the president, while also confirming/exposing their own seditious playbook.
So great was their Trump Derangement Syndrome that many invariably chose the latter option. And when they succeeded in avoiding consequences for the original Russia-collusion hoax, they simply kept going.
The same bad actors who perpetrated that perversion of justice have their handprints on the stolen 2020 election, the Hunter Biden laptop coverup—and all-around efforts to run interference on the Biden family’s well-documented crime spree—as well as the two-tiered justice system targeting both former President Donald Trump and his supporters in a growing array of brazen, politically motivated prosecutions.
But still, they have managed to dodge accountability for their actions—undoubtedly because any effort to do so on the part of elected lawmakers risks mutually assured destruction.
Chuck Schumer on Trump in 2017: “Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you” pic.twitter.com/gVUbUKTt0x
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 27, 2019
RED FLAGS ABOUND
Although details on stories like the recent transgender attack on a Christian school in Nashville that left dead three adults and three children have been buried under a sea of red tape, some were astonished by the speed with which select journalists were able to confirm allegations that the Texas mall shooter had neo-Nazi sympathies by accessing his obscure social-media accounts.
Among those leading the way were the New York Times and the British outlet Bellingcat, which, as noted by the Gateway Pundit, “is the notorious go-to website for the British intelligence agencies.”
It also receives funding from far-left oligarch George Soros.
Bellingcat is recieves funding from @GeorgeSoros & the National Endowment for Democracy
So anti-american pic.twitter.com/2Ul1qGHZbn
— Clinton Rarey (@ClintonRarey) May 9, 2023
The Gateway Pundit further pointed out that the information provided by a Bellingcat reporter named Aric Toler included sensitive data that had, in some cases, been redacted.
Toler was the same reporter who first “discovered” that the recent Pentagon files undermining the Ukrainian war effort had been leaked via Discord—suggesting that he, himself, may have been the recipient of privileged information selectively leaked via the investigating federal agencies.
“It is clear,” the Gateway Pundit noted, that the leftist outlets “… are getting near real-time access to highly sensitive details about an active murder investigation and were provided raw crime scene alleged evidence for the purpose of narrative engineering.”
A leftist journo magically manages to find the shooters alleged social media posts & goes on to spread it all over Twitter & elsewhere in order to promote the approved narrative. In the meantime, officials are refusing to release the manifesto of the Covenant School Shooter. 🤔
— Jessica Hyde (@Mashugana_Kat) May 9, 2023
THE MYSTERY GROWS
The question—or rather, the likelihood—of intelligence leaks notwithstanding, some went even farther in noting inconsistencies in the Texas shooting that pointed to a possible false-flag operation or disinformation campaign by the agencies themselves.
These questions are worth asking of the Allen, Texas shooter and the recent revelations about him. This is not a comprehensive list of questions, or points.
– Why was the shooter misidentified several times?
– The shooter wasn't white.
– How were his neo-Nazi affiliations…— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 8, 2023
That included details such as the fact that the supposed smoking-gun evidence used to link the killer to far-right extremism—the Nazi tattoos on his body—appeared to be fresh, and that photos of his body with the tattoos did not show his head.
Moreover, a Russian account traced back to Mauricio Garcia—as well as his engagement with U.S. conservative media figures like podcaster Tim Pool and Libs of TikTok—appeared to have been established relatively recently while showing few followers or interactions.
Posts are also recent, from last 3 weeks. Photos come from a 5 year old Reddit group mocking Mexican Hitler supporters. He had no friends on the social media site. No engagement at all. Posts have ridiculous write ups like "My sort of man" under a pic of Hitler, or "this post was…
— Veneration (@depthhidden) May 8, 2023
Additionally, Garcia—whose recent posts were rife with misspellings and grammatical errors—had previously written a highly articulate and coherent defense of the transgender Nashville shooter.
Some also pointed to gang tattoos that suggested Garcia might be affiliated with Mexican drug cartels.
Valluco 956 RGV (RioGrandeValley) part of the Tango Blast from the Valley. pic.twitter.com/hT6Z4qneYi
— Blue Canaries 🇧 (@CanariesBlue) May 8, 2023
And, in what seemed to be a given in any possible scenario, Garcia’s fragile mental health presented another alternative that further diminished the case for ideological extremism being the prime culprit.
A DEFENSIVE STRATEGY
Although Toler did acknowledge his failure to confirm Garcia’s identity in one of the alleged photos he offered as evidence, those driving the media narrative seemed determined to forge ahead on their questionable conclusion that the killer was a Russia-linked domestic violent extremist who just happened to be a Latino with a troubled history that long predated his sudden interest in conservative politics.
But their certitude raises more questions than answers.
In particular, it comes as the FBI and other federal agencies fret that they could lose their spying powers under FISA Section 702 when the act next comes up for renewal.
“One thing that societies cannot sustain is when they feel they cannot trust their own law enforcement, their own intelligence agencies,” said Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, in a recent article by the Associated Press about allowing the provisions to sunset. “We have to implement reforms to regain some of that trust.”
While members of Congress may be reluctant to back drastic reform, the politicization of the intel community has led many conservative critics to question whether agencies like the FBI have lost sight of their core mission: protecting the interests of U.S. citizens.
“The notion that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is supposed to be the premier law enforcement agency in the country, has the time and the wherewithal and the bandwidth to be the flagging social media posts of American citizens as misinformation, … and collaborating to control speech in this country, is unfathomable,” said Gene Hamilton, vice president and general counsel of the America First Legal Foundation in a recent panel discussion at the Heritage Foundation’s Conservative Leadership Summit.
Among the other prominent panelists was Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., the chair of the House Judiciary’s Weaponization Subcommittee.
Bishop has voiced his support for decentralizing the intel community—despite Congress’s recent appropriation of funds for a new FBI facility close to the nation’s capital that would be twice the size of the Pentagon.
“Most of the skulduggery has its roots in the Washington nerve center,” Bishop said in an exclusive, in-person interview with Headline USA, a day after the FBI’s controversial Aug. 8, 2022 raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
He noted the catch-22 for lawmakers, who did not want to “decimate” the agencies so as to handicap their ability to perform their legitimate job functions.
Nonetheless, Bishop said, “It’s spiraling to where the only thing you can do to get their attention is something as reprehensible as they’ve been doing.”
Locked in a death spiral and amid such calls for action, it is not hard to imagine that an intelligence community that has shown its willingness to bring down multiple U.S. presidents would resort to even more desperate measures—including possible false-flag operations against American citizens—to prove its own worth.
For Bishop and us lowly pawns alike, that could mean only one thing: Checkmate.
Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.
