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Go Deep - Speaker Johnson Changed Mind
on FISA/Deep State after Lobbying from
Pompeo and Intelligence Community

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 4/23/2024 12:30:24 PM

This is more than a little interesting and aligns with my own research and discussions. House Speaker Mike Johnson was lobbied by former CIA Director Mike Pompeo and current officials from the CIA, DNI and Intelligence Community. This effort and his son starting at the Naval Academy is what changed Johnson’s mind about allowing the U.S. intelligence community to have his full support in the IC war against the American people. The speaker’s embrace of Ukraine aid represents a remarkable evolution for Johnson, who voted against funding for the country as a rank-and-file member. But almost immediately after securing the speaker’s gavel,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Mushroom 4/23/2024 12:46:41 PM (No. 1704626)
So, by 'lobbying' you mean blackmailing? Gosh, your boy is just getting into the Naval Academy, sure hate to see any career ending information come up !
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Reply 2 - Posted by: philsner 4/23/2024 1:05:12 PM (No. 1704633)
They made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: stablemoney 4/23/2024 1:28:53 PM (No. 1704642)
I changed my mind on Johnson, and cannot wait to see him out of the Speaker chair. Johnson voting with the Democrats to allow FISA communication intercepts between Americans and foreigners without a warrant, the same thing the IC used to listen in to every communication between Trump and Trump officials. I vote Republican only because there is no other choice, and prefer those described as unhinged by CNN.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Starboard_side 4/23/2024 1:38:31 PM (No. 1704653)
#1 has the likely scenario.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 4/23/2024 1:40:06 PM (No. 1704655)
They threatened him with the info that they got from 702s.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: hershey 4/23/2024 1:57:02 PM (No. 1704661)
They've got something on him..you can bet your last buck...but then, they are all crooked...remember they have a slush fund to pay off sexual complaints...probably and a lot of others as well....
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Reply 7 - Posted by: TXknitter 4/23/2024 2:41:54 PM (No. 1704674)
We are seeing more clearly now with what has been going on in House and Senate Republican leadership truly most of my life. Remember when SML Trent Lott did inexplicable things that helped Clinton? This excuse of why Johnson did what he did is no excuse at all for him. He took an oath. He has lied right on the podium reading off his little paper ever since he took the Speaker’s gavel.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Muguy 4/23/2024 9:49:14 PM (No. 1704903)
Mike Pompeo is also the responsible party who lobbied President Trump to defy the JFK Records act to keep "the Company" from being exposed for using some of its personnel and assets developed to remove JFK. The Vegetable also delayed it blaming Covid from declassifying the records, and then a year later allowed that same "company' to delay indefinitely the truth of what is still available that has not been purposed destroy to protect the guilty. Don't forget that before Pompeo was the head of "the company" he was a Congressman, and afterwards he was Secretary of State doing the bidding of the One World RiNO elites. Like AG Barr, he ended up doing a disservice to Mr. Trump and the American people who want to know the truth that has been withheld for over 60 years!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mifla 4/24/2024 6:37:24 AM (No. 1705054)
The crowning achievement of the House will be turning over control of it to the Dems prior to the 2024 election. The party of stupid excels at being stupid.
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