Your criticism is well taken in part. The results in California were as follows: Republicans will now hold 12 House seats from California next year, up one from their current 11 seats. California Democrats will hold 40 seats, down two from their current total. The state lost a seat in reapportionment following the 2020 census.
Five of the 12 California districts Republicans will hold next year would have backed now-President Joe Biden in 2020. They include the seat won by John Duarte, which Biden would have carried by 11 points.
There are at least three accounts of all this, all of which feature quotes of Kash Patel. The story was broken by Just The News:
DOJ snooped on House Intelligence Committee investigators during Russia probe, subpoenas show
Officials used grand jury to obtain Google email, phone data for at least two top investigators for panel's Republican chairman, Devin Nunes.
OK, for this to have happened there had to have been a full criminal investigation opened up on Patel and the other lawyer. Cooperation between the FBI and DoJ would have had to have occurred. The investigating agency (FBI) would need to put in writing the basis for a criminal investigation. The FBI would then go to DoJ (or the local USA office) to obtain subpoenas. A DoJ lawyer would confirm that there was indeed a basis for launching a criminal investigation and would present the matter to the grand jury, which would authorize issuance of subpoenas. In these circumstances—the subjects being staff for HPSCI—there is no possible way that Wray and Rosenstein did not approve this.
The documents authorizing all this exist—or, if they no longer exist, a crime has occurred (destruction of government property). Documents regarding the final disposition of this investigation also exist—a reason should be given for closing the investigation, if that’s what happened.
The FBI knew the laptop was real. They knew exactly what it meant. It meant that the son of the man running to be President was in direct contact with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It meant Hunter was up to his eyeballs in connections to known Chinese intelligence officers. It showed Hunter had taken vast sums of money from the CCP and that all of his contacts were predicated on him providing access to his father – then a candidate for the highest office in the land.
In short, the FBI knew, three years ago now, that we were looking at a national security threat of unprecedented scale. Not since the Russians stole the secrets of the atomic bomb from the Manhattan Project had we faced a threat so grave. If the worst were true, we were looking at a real live Manchurian candidate.
As Peter Schweizer, author of the book “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” explains, “In the case of the Bidens, these commercial ties really began when Joe Biden was vice president of the United States. [His son] Hunter Biden went to Beijing looking for financial deals and what we found is that the Bidens have received some $31 million from four Chinese businessmen…The story takes an even more dramatic turn when you realize that those four Chinese businessmen all have links to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence.”
And, the FBI not only did not blow the whistle on that story, but it actively intervened to prevent the American people from knowing about the danger we were in. Then, the FBI completely buried the laptop and its contents. To this day there is no indication that the FBI, our nation’s number one counterintelligence service, is making any effort to investigate the contents of the laptop.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation uncovered evidence suggesting strongly that the man running as the Democratic Party’s candidate for President was compromised by hostile foreign intelligence operatives. The FBI then acted to cover up this information, conceal it from the American people and do its level best to ensure that Joe Biden, a possible Chinese agent, won the election.
Fifty years ago we convened the Church Committee in the Senate to investigate allegations the CIA was acting outside the scope of its authority. Every allegation that committee reviewed pales in comparison to the magnitude of what we now face.
We need a new Church committee. We need an investigation. And, then we need to send people to jail.
Crime can be an election issue. Or it can be an election strategy (the crimes of vote fraud and illegal campaign money laundering through FTX being just two cases in point). In this case, probably more the latter than the former.
Why does William Otis write that Republicans gained four House seats in California? Their numbers went from 11 to 12.
Your criticism is well taken in part. The results in California were as follows: Republicans will now hold 12 House seats from California next year, up one from their current 11 seats. California Democrats will hold 40 seats, down two from their current total. The state lost a seat in reapportionment following the 2020 census.
Five of the 12 California districts Republicans will hold next year would have backed now-President Joe Biden in 2020. They include the seat won by John Duarte, which Biden would have carried by 11 points.
And here’s a retired FBI fella that has some comments about a pretty important crime: https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/full-scope-of-the-russia-hoax-coup
There are at least three accounts of all this, all of which feature quotes of Kash Patel. The story was broken by Just The News:
DOJ snooped on House Intelligence Committee investigators during Russia probe, subpoenas show
Officials used grand jury to obtain Google email, phone data for at least two top investigators for panel's Republican chairman, Devin Nunes.
OK, for this to have happened there had to have been a full criminal investigation opened up on Patel and the other lawyer. Cooperation between the FBI and DoJ would have had to have occurred. The investigating agency (FBI) would need to put in writing the basis for a criminal investigation. The FBI would then go to DoJ (or the local USA office) to obtain subpoenas. A DoJ lawyer would confirm that there was indeed a basis for launching a criminal investigation and would present the matter to the grand jury, which would authorize issuance of subpoenas. In these circumstances—the subjects being staff for HPSCI—there is no possible way that Wray and Rosenstein did not approve this.
The documents authorizing all this exist—or, if they no longer exist, a crime has occurred (destruction of government property). Documents regarding the final disposition of this investigation also exist—a reason should be given for closing the investigation, if that’s what happened.
It’s a real bummer that America is now a banana republic. This CIA seems to have found a crime that’s kind of important: https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/time-for-a-new-church-committee-time
The FBI knew the laptop was real. They knew exactly what it meant. It meant that the son of the man running to be President was in direct contact with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It meant Hunter was up to his eyeballs in connections to known Chinese intelligence officers. It showed Hunter had taken vast sums of money from the CCP and that all of his contacts were predicated on him providing access to his father – then a candidate for the highest office in the land.
In short, the FBI knew, three years ago now, that we were looking at a national security threat of unprecedented scale. Not since the Russians stole the secrets of the atomic bomb from the Manhattan Project had we faced a threat so grave. If the worst were true, we were looking at a real live Manchurian candidate.
As Peter Schweizer, author of the book “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” explains, “In the case of the Bidens, these commercial ties really began when Joe Biden was vice president of the United States. [His son] Hunter Biden went to Beijing looking for financial deals and what we found is that the Bidens have received some $31 million from four Chinese businessmen…The story takes an even more dramatic turn when you realize that those four Chinese businessmen all have links to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence.”
And, the FBI not only did not blow the whistle on that story, but it actively intervened to prevent the American people from knowing about the danger we were in. Then, the FBI completely buried the laptop and its contents. To this day there is no indication that the FBI, our nation’s number one counterintelligence service, is making any effort to investigate the contents of the laptop.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation uncovered evidence suggesting strongly that the man running as the Democratic Party’s candidate for President was compromised by hostile foreign intelligence operatives. The FBI then acted to cover up this information, conceal it from the American people and do its level best to ensure that Joe Biden, a possible Chinese agent, won the election.
Fifty years ago we convened the Church Committee in the Senate to investigate allegations the CIA was acting outside the scope of its authority. Every allegation that committee reviewed pales in comparison to the magnitude of what we now face.
We need a new Church committee. We need an investigation. And, then we need to send people to jail.
Crime can be an election issue. Or it can be an election strategy (the crimes of vote fraud and illegal campaign money laundering through FTX being just two cases in point). In this case, probably more the latter than the former.
The irony is that the crime issue didn't win in the black communities that are most impacted.
In Pa, Fetterman swept high crime Philadelphia despite running on a pro- criminal platform.
There is evidence that blacks are increasingly voting as democratic monolith.