"We Can't Send This To DOJ:" New Doc Alleges
More Deception From Russia Hoaxer Kevin Clinesmith
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 3/18/2026 9:23:03 PM
A newly released document from Sen. Chuck Grassley adds a significant and troubling dimension to what was previously known about the conduct of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, a central figure in the surveillance of Trump campaign associates in the Russia Collusion investigation. (snip) The new information shows that his misconduct was not limited to a single target, but (snip) extended to another investigation against Trump adviser Walid Phares. (snip) it had become obvious that (snip) there was no case against him. (snip) Despite this, Clinesmith (snip) prevented these conclusions from being sent to the DOJ officials responsible for (snip) FISA renewal applications.
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The Little Orange Rooster
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I should call today's newsletter Sophie's Choice. She (snip) likened our situation with NATO to that of the Little Red Hen. (snip) when it came time to eat the bread, each one volunteered to help. The Little Red Hen told them "No. You did not help (snip.) I will eat the bread myself." The other animals shrugged their shoulders, went to the store, took out their EBT cards, and ate lobster and steak. (snip) Which brings up America's Little Orange Rooster. (snip) Each nay-saying nation wants and needs that oil from the strait of Hormuz (snip.) the rest of the NATO countries believe they still have EBT cards.
Roughly 200,000 immigrant truck drivers in the United States are set to lose their commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) this week under a new Trump administration rule that went into effect Monday to keep illegal immigrants off the road. Under the rule, non-citizens, including asylum seekers, refugees, and recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), will no longer be eligible to obtain CDLs, even if they are legally authorized to work in the United States. Those who already hold licenses will not be able to renew them when they expire.
A Minnesota state senator recently took to social media to voice her concerns with her party's caucus and convention process, alleging "deeply troubling incidents" that "undermine the rules of the process." Republican Rep. Jim Nash suggested that DFL Sen. Pha's concerns about delegate residency requirements highlight the need for voter identification laws. (snip) Pha (snip) outlined complaints (snip) about this year's DFL caucus and convention process (snip) including the "recruitment of individuals from outside the district to serve as delegates and instances where (snip) people list addresses where they do not live in order to qualify as delegates."
"We Can't Send This To DOJ:" New Doc Alleges
More Deception From Russia Hoaxer Kevin Clinesmith 3 replies
More Deception From Russia Hoaxer Kevin Clinesmith 3 replies
A newly released document from Sen. Chuck Grassley adds a significant and troubling dimension to what was previously known about the conduct of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, a central figure in the surveillance of Trump campaign associates in the Russia Collusion investigation. (snip) The new information shows that his misconduct was not limited to a single target, but (snip) extended to another investigation against Trump adviser Walid Phares. (snip) it had become obvious that (snip) there was no case against him. (snip) Despite this, Clinesmith (snip) prevented these conclusions from being sent to the DOJ officials responsible for (snip) FISA renewal applications.
As I have reported for months, the Trump Department of Justice is having a hell of a time securing criminal indictments from D.C.-based grand juries. (snip) Which is why the issuance of two grand jury subpoenas in January related to the DOJ's investigation into the Federal Reserve represented a major score for Jeanine Pirro (snip.) According to a filing by Pirro's office, Powell's personal attorney (snip) suggested to (Pirro) that Chair Powell would step down from the board when his term as Chairman expires -- but only if the subpoenas were withdrawn and the chair was no longer under investigation (snip.) Did that suggestion rise to obstruction or even bribery?
US Intel Hid Chinese 2020 Election Meddling
From Trump Because They Opposed His Policies,
Memo Says 13 replies
From Trump Because They Opposed His Policies,
Memo Says 13 replies
Analysts inside the U.S. intelligence community sought to conceal evidence of Chinese influence efforts from President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, with analysts saying they didn't want their intel used by "that vulgarian in the Oval Office" to pursue policies toward China they personally disagreed with. The revelation is found within a January 2021 report written by (snip) analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf, who conducted a review of the spy community's handling of Russian versus Chinese meddling efforts during the 2020 election. Among his conclusions is that intelligence analysts downplayed China's actions (snip.)
Our New Ungracious Immigrants
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Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded ebay, Google, Nvidia, Space, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others. The Greek American Elia Kazan's 1963 film "America, America" is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director's uncle to immigrate to the United States from an impoverished and hostile Anatolia. The film summed up Americans' traditional view of immigrants: They had risked everything for the chance to reach America, and, once there, became hyperpatriotic in their gratitude for the magnanimity of their new hosts.
Multiple parents in Fairfax County, Virginia say a man groped their daughters in crowded school hallways. Now, the Department of Homeland Security is asking "Virginia Sanctuary Politicians" to not allow the alleged perpetrator, who is an illegal alien, back into the community. (snip) He is in the 11th grade at Fairfax High School (snip.) "This 19-year-old should not have been attending high school and allowed to prey on innocent teenage girls," DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. Florez-Ortiz now faces nine counts of assault and battery. (snip) DHS has logged a (snip) detainer for Ortiz
Britain Had Meltdown When China Hacked
Voter Files, But U.S. Intel Kept It Secret
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Voter Files, But U.S. Intel Kept It Secret
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The United States expressed outrage when Great Britain revealed two years ago that its voter registration databases were hacked by scandal in what became a global scandal. But it turns out the U.S. intelligence harbored its own secret (snip.) Last June, FBI Director Kash Patel turned over to Congress a (snip) raw and unverified intelligence report (snip) bluntly titled "Chinese Government Production and Export of Fraudulent US Driver's Licenses to Chinese Sympathizers in the United States, in Order to Create Tens of Thousands of Fraudulent Mail-in Votes for US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden" (snip.) CBP (snip) "seized a total of 19,888 counterfeit frivers licenses"
The Israeli defense minister said Tuesday that the Israeli military killed top Iranian security official Ari Larijani in an overnight strike. Israeli military also announced it killed Gen. Gholam Reza Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's all-volunteer Basij force. Iranian state media did not immediately confirm either death. (snip) The killings again strip away top leaders from the Iranian theocracy after the Feb. 2 strike that killed 6-year old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini.
The Minnesota Department of Human Services ( DHS) has failed to produce a report which documents the number of people who have been removed from Minnesota's taxpayer-funded healthcare programs. (snip) State law requires DHS to produce an annual report every Sept. 1 which documents how many people have been removed from the program as a result of periodic data matching. (snip) However, periodic data matching was suspended in March of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded. (snip) Periodic data matching would not resume until July of 2024. However, no new reports have been published (snip.)
Media, 29 Federal Judges Freak Out Over
Rude Words In Dissent Attacking Attacking
Trans Child Abuse 8 replies
Rude Words In Dissent Attacking Attacking
Trans Child Abuse 8 replies
Judge Lawrence VanDyke pre-emptively nuked corporate-media pearl-clutching in his recent dissent from a Ninth Circuit decision forcing a nude, female-only Korean spa frequented by minors to admit men in the name of "trans rights." "Squirm as we might, I think it only fair for our court to have a small taste of its own medicine," VanDyke wrote. "Sometimes 'dignified' words are employed to mask a legal abomination." (snip) Twenty-nine federal judges left the underlying decision untouched while complaining about VanDyke vividly attacking it. (snip) It's clear that they care neither about vulgar language nor about the horrifying reality that they're enabling the abuse of women and children.
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Arkansas GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday that she was asked to leave a restaurant in Little Rock last week because her presence made employees and customers feel "threatened."
Sanders previously served as White House press secretary during President Donald Trump's first term and has since been a supporter of the president's immigration policies.
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Later this month, protesters will gather across the U.S. for the third “No Kings” rally since President Donald Trump returned to office, and the Minnesota Capitol is set to host the largest rally. The national flagship rally at the Capitol in St. Paul is among more than 3,000 events planned on Saturday, March 28 as part of the national “No Kings” movement protesting Trump and his administration. Celebrity activists including Jane Fonda, Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers are slated to join Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, Attorney General Keith Ellison and other Minnesota officials for the big event. Dozens of other
Given Iran’s half century of cruel barbarism in the Middle East, it’s hard to understand why the Democrats seem to be rooting for them in the current war. I have two theories.
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Iran’s enemy, you see – or at least the Dems see – has a history of its own cruel barbarism going back to at least 1619. Iran’s enemy has engaged in genocide against native people. Iran’s enemy has wrongly oppressed workers of the world
California lawmakers said Thursday they planned to change the name of “César Chavez Day” to “Farmworkers Day” after sexual abuse allegations against the late civil rights leader arose earlier this week.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Chavez had groomed and sexually abused young girls within the labor rights movement while he served as leader of the United Farm Workers Union. One of those women was Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the union with Chavez in 1962.
Huerta came forward this week with allegations that she was victimized by Chavez in her 30s.
What’s So Great About Diversity?
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Diversity is our strength.’ One hears this, or myriad variants of the same idea, unrelentingly. Certainly I work in an Australian university where the extent of higher-ups pushing this notion does indeed qualify as unrelenting, even matching totalitarian state levels of propaganda. But even outside the hallowed halls of impartial, politically balanced academia (did I write that with a straight face?) the mantra or cliché that diversity somehow delivers a stronger balance sheet or a more cohesive society or just better outcomes is pervasive in today’s democracies that have committed themselves to multiculturalism and to the various neo-Marxist versions of feminism. Sure,
In 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom broke ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing (WAWC), a project featuring an overpass for animals atop ten lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California.
At the ceremony, Newsom boasted that the state had committed $54 million. He promised to “complete the job within another $10 million,” before seeming to hedge on whether that final sum would do the trick.
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The FBI is investigating former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent in connection with alleged leaks of classified information, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the matter tell CBS News.
The probe began before Kent resigned this week over the Trump administration's handling of the war with Iran, the sources said. The FBI's Criminal Division is handling the probe, which has been underway for some time, one source said.
The FBI declined to comment. Kent did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
JB Pritzker Promises to Weaponize Government
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There are few things worse than someone who has had everything handed to them who acts like they’ve somehow earned all of it. We say these people “were born on 3rd base and act like they hit a triple.” I don’t have a problem with inherited wealth, but that, coupled with a sense of entitlement, is too much form. I call it the “Lucky Sperm Syndrome” – the people whose greatest, and often only, accomplishment in life is that they were the sperm that cracked the egg. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker comes to mind.
For years, Americans turned off by Hollywood haughtiness, partisan taunting, and general wokeness have tuned out of celebrity awards shows. The 98th Academy Awards proved to be no exception. Sunday night’s Oscars only racked up 17.86 million viewers on ABC and Hulu combined.[snip] the first All-American Halftime Show, featuring artists such as Kid Rock and Lee Brice, garnered 25 million views across YouTube and Rumble. TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet noted shortly after the rival Super Bowl show wrapped that there were “a lot of large groups watching together, so the number of viewers is likely far higher.”
Useful idiots in California want to bend the knee to Islam, removing all doubt that this state can be saved.
KTXL reported on Sunday that Democratic State Assemblyman Matt Haney has introduced a bill that would officially recognize two Muslim holidays — Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha — as state holidays.
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Roughly 200,000 immigrant truck drivers in the United States are set to lose their commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) this week under a new Trump administration rule that went into effect Monday to keep illegal immigrants off the road. Under the rule, non-citizens, including asylum seekers, refugees, and recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), will no longer be eligible to obtain CDLs, even if they are legally authorized to work in the United States. Those who already hold licenses will not be able to renew them when they expire.
Now for something completely different ... a video! I've started a video podcast using my old "Smart Girl Politics" brand, and I am thrilled to be able to share it with RedState's wonderful readers. In this first episode, I go in-depth on a story currently rocking Northern Virginia – a 19-year-old illegal from El Salvador has been arrested for groping at least nine teen girls at a local high school. He's in custody .. for now. Democrats, of course, want him back on the streets and in the school hallways to assault more victims.
Let's chat about it. To walk through the facts, I bounced off the reporting
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Clinesmith was found guilty of forging a document supporting a FISA application to surveil Carter Page yet was sentenced to only a year's probation by Judge Boasberg and not disciplined at all by the DC Bar. Boasberg was a judge on the FISA court when Clinesmith submitted the forged document in support of renewed surveillance of Carter Page. As FISA surveillance powers are once again up for renewal, Judge Boasberg's actions in the Clinesmith case make it difficult to take the FISA Court's supposed role as a defender of civil liberties seriously.