Surprise, surprise! Whistleblower cites preferential treatment in Hunter case
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Starship
This morning, SpaceX held a test launch of its biggest rocket yet, the 400-foot-tall Starship. The launch was impressive, but not as much as the spectacular explosion when it blew up in mid-air moments later. Video at the link.
But the company made it clear that they look at the very expensive failure as a learning experience. SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted, "Congrats @SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship! Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months." And the company issued a statement reading, "With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary."
It's actually inspiring, in these times of ultrasensitive, easily-triggered snowflakes, to see someone be completely undaunted by failure and simply learn from it and move on. If someone can experience failure on that grand of a scale and learn from it, it gives me hope for the Biden Administration. Not much, though.
Cracks are appearing
President Biden is now well past the midpoint of his term, and despite all the efforts of the sycophantic media and the politicized leadership of federal agencies, cracks are starting to appear in the plaster covering the rot. Career federal employees who still have some integrity are turning whistleblower, the Republican takeover of the House has resulted in real investigations instead of Pelosi's January 6th Kangaroo Kommittee antics, and the massive incompetence, perfidy and in-your-face dishonesty of such officials as Alejandro Mayorkas and Merrick Garland are becoming obvious even to people who barely watch the news.
Yesterday, I wrote about a fed-up Rep. Jim Jordan confronting Mayorkas to his face with the horrific effects of his open border policies on migrant children. I write elsewhere today about the career IRS agent whistleblower who could no longer stand the cover up of the blatant special treatment of Hunter Biden. And now, I’m glad to report that Jordan has subpoenaed FBI Director Christopher Wray to appear before the House Judiciary Committee for lying about targeting Catholics as domestic terrorists.
https://www.westernjournal.com/letts-leak-fbi-memo-targeting-catholics-christopher-wray-needs-go/
This all started with a leaked internal memo suggesting that the FBI was going to start spying on Catholic Churches to keep tabs on “traditional Catholics” who might be “violent extremists.” Wray replied that the FBI never acted on that memo and would “never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity.” Except according to Jordan, they did act on it.
In a letter accompanying the subpoena, Jordan wrote, “Based on the limited information produced by the FBI to the Committee, we now know that the FBI relied on at least one undercover agent to produce its analysis, and that the FBI proposed that its agents engage in outreach to Catholic parishes to develop sources among the clergy and church leadership to inform on Americans practicing their faith.”
This appears to be the latest bald-faced lie to Congress by the FBI leadership, and the latest example of it targeting people for Constitutionally-protected behavior. It’s all the more fuel for the argument that the Bureau has so lost its way that it needs to be defunded, disbanded and completely restructured. It also needs leaders who can tell the difference between an actual domestic terrorist and someone who prefers his Masses in Latin.
Inspector General slams Biden Administration
While we’re on the subject of lies and incompetence finally coming to light, John Sopko, the special inspector general in charge of overseeing US taxpayer aid to Afghanistan, slammed the Biden Administration for an “unprecedented lack of cooperation” with his office.
Sopko is in charge of making sure that the $8 billion in US taxpayer aid to Afghanistan following Biden’s disastrous pullout actually goes to help the Afghan people. But he says the State Department is giving him nothing but “obfuscation and delays.” Meanwhile, he believes the Taliban is likely stealing funds that were meant for the people.
Sopko told the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (yes, there’s actually a committee on accountability; who knew?), "I would just say I haven't seen a starving Taliban fighter on TV. They all seem to be fat, dumb and happy. I see a lot of starving Afghan children on TV. So, I'm wondering where all this funding is going."
Also, security experts warned Congress Tuesday that under the Taliban, Afghanistan has once again become a safe haven for terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS-K, who are building up the capacity to launch strikes on Europe and the US in as little as six months.
As important as all this is, I hesitate even to call it “news” because anyone with two brain cells to rub together could have seen it coming from a mile away. Is anyone really surprised to learn that the Taliban has let terrorist groups back into Afghanistan? Or that shoveling money at a problem with no oversight just results in bad actors stealing it? Is there any example of large government expenditures, from foreign aid to the COVID money blowouts, where that was NOT the case? Did the Biden Administration seriously believe the Taliban were so trustworthy, they’d be different?
Oh, well, they probably need that money to pay for gas and repairs for all the military vehicles Biden left for them.
DHS drama
It’s not clear yet what happened Monday when three carloads of DHS agents descended on the DHS’s own Office of Intelligence and Analysis in Washington. They hauled away Brian Sulc, director of the DHS’s Transnational Organized Crime Mission Center, for questioning and covered the office in “Crime Scene” tape. Boy, there's a sight to inspire confidence in our government: the DHS covered in "Crime Scene" tape put there by the DHS.
Reports are that Sulc was under investigation for having a “personal electronic device” inside a secure office, but that seems like a paltry reason for all the dramatics, considering how little they cared about Hillary Clinton’s devices full of classified data. At the link, Redstate.com writer Streiff has questions about whether this was really much ado over a cell phone, or a serious security breach or crime we haven’t learned about yet, or just an attempt to destroy the reputation of another whistleblower before he could blow his whistle. Stay tuned…
“We’re From Washington, And We’re Here to Protect You!”
The Wall Street Journal reports that there’s been a massive data breach involving the confidential records of 256,000 consumers. It happened when the records were emailed to a personal email account by a staffer at…the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”