I'm a little more optimistic. Can we at least root for a rollback of the Patriot Act? It's an insult to the Bill of Rights of ever there was one.
I can understand how Trump and the Congressional Republicans might now be tempted use its extraordinary power to turn the tables on the deep state dirtbags who have tormented him (and anyone who dared question them) for the last decade. But there probably aren't enough Trump loyalists in FBI and DOJ to make that happen. Any moves to investigate and/or prosecute the worst of them have been immediately leaked to their attorneys and the media.
Inspirational leader? Yeah Patel aint the guy. But that's not what you need You need an Army of dedicated auditors. Kinda like the Twitter files. There's an idea!!!
That was the role DOGE was supposed to play. But doesn't seem like there is commitment and follow through to that policy/process. The administration needs to recommit to "drain the swamp" as a key policy priority. Too much going on these days, as Matt points out, to see that clearly, but that needs to happen.
DOGE disappeared from the limelight, but most likely its cadre of young techies are still secretly working in the bowels of some obscure agency. Armed with the exponential force multiplier of artificial intelligence, DOGE's sleuths might well have uncovered and gathered enough evidence to charge some of the thieves, and maybe even claw back some of the trillions of dollars stolen from taxpayers during the last couple of decades. At the very least, hope they can develop a plan to stop the leakage.
Exactly. Every industry needs the Blue Team & Red Team concept. I didn't realize this when I got into electronics. When I went to work for Intel Corp. I was placed on Red Team. Blue Team are engineers who design circuits. Red Team validates their work. The reason: is the delay between engineers designing a circuit and a customer holding parts can be years. Validation gives the green light to manufacturing, but only after the better part of a year of doing all manner of: discovering design flaws, tweaking BIOS settings, and completing robustness testing.
Democrats will do their best to obstruct and deny the importance of these revelations. Same with establishment Republicans. They thrive and profit from this system since it destroys any opposition.
Trump was ready for that on day one, and stymied them. But they seem to have recovered -- if what we read in the government/corporate media is to be believed.
If Patel isn’t the guy then Trump needs to get that guy. Patel though, after all the surveillance and shit that’s been done to him SHOULD be that guy. You’d think he would want to set the record straight. I hope this blows it all up.
I think that Patel is trying to get to the bottom of these issues. It is just a huge job. People also complain and moan about AG Bondi. But the workload that she has before her is mind boggling. She and Patel do need an army to help them.
The Left sues the administration daily, it seems. And they have judges block every move that the administration makes. Overwhelming!
Indeed. Anyone pretending that uncovering decades of malfeasance is going to be easy or should just be immediate - within an agency and government hell bent on hiding their criminality - is fooling themselves.
As far as I can see, we have the only team in memory willing to take risks to deliver change of this magnitude, at great risk to themselves.
Patel and Bondi are being unfairly blamed as they have only a handful of Trump loyalists in these agencies whose employees number in the thousands, and are overwhelmingly never-Trumpers who will never cooperate, and are hard to fire. Word has it that they are resigning in droves (many because they're guilty and rightly afraid of reprisals), which is encouraging. But that only leaves them badly understaffed.
If this is true we no longer have a Democratic Republic, We are ruled by a bunch unelected DC Swamp creatures who can lie at will and do whatever they want without regards to who the President is. If the President attempts to assert any control he ends up like JFK did.
A rather bleak assessment. If that is true, why is there any access( even if incomplete) becoming public at all? The fact that the group of whistle blowers and some congress members/ administration officials are releasing any of this information gives hope. Cracks in the wall of secrecy have a way of inexorably expanding.
"There is no incentive for constraint and there is no delineation in complicity."
That's the best line right there.
I don't mind so much that there's a big bad DC swamp monster. I'm distraught as hell there's a WEF-Globalist monster dominating the DC swamps. Their goal if you've not been listening: is the little people, those useless people will live in 15 minute cities, eat bug protein, buy less than three articles of clothing per year, fly once every three years, own nothing and be happy.
Matt, thank you for not giving in to the hysteria in the world at the moment and continuing to focus on these important stories. It’s easy to lose sight of other important events in these crazy times, keep up the great work.
William Colby was the CIA Director during the "family jewels" episode. There were rumors his death was strange. A solo canoe trip in the spring, when water levels were high, and water was cold. Anyway, good luck to any FBI Director on this one!
Why do I get the feeling that the release of these files will change nothing. Hmmm...could it be that no one is ever prosecuted or that the releasees will be vague. I suspect that these files are just sacrificial tidbits, released in the hope of quieting the public.
It was a classic Washington episode: Meetings were held, no action was taken- but an investigation was conducted. This was an investigation which, like the meetings of officials not in the Intelligence Community not dealing with Iraq, went nowhere.
We will learn about FBI corruption and its psychological operations, which will make them less effective at brainwashing the public. What was once conspiracy theory will become a mainstream topic. That's something.
Even with whistleblowers and uncovering family jewels and discovering prohibited access files, It would be preposterous to think the CIA and FBI wrote down every last thing they did. Because you can be sure the most sensitive stuff probably never got put into writing.
Which means we will never know about it. Which means the only effective, permanent solution to living in a panopticon state is abolition of the FBI.
If you’d like to read an article about one particular 9/11 “conspiracy” check out my profile and look at my article about “9/11 and the ‘Dancing Israelis.’
I promise I don’t waste your time with nonsense or made up stuff, it’s all out of the FBI report on the situation by the NJ Newark field office.
If you haven’t heard this story before or don’t believe in its significance, I urge you to read it. It’s very long but I wanted to be thorough and careful to explain it well.
Basically, foreign Israelis who worked Urban Moving Systems, a company owned by another Israeli and which the FBI reportedly determined to be a front for Mossad, were caught celebrating and documenting 9/11 by multiple witnesses.
I use radio archives to provide timestamps as well as some other stuff to prove beyond a doubt that they were pre-staged waiting for the attack from a position they shouldn’t have been. They had foreknowledge and the FBI got an order to release them from FBI HQ less than TWO WEEKS after the 9/11 attacks.
This is despite the NJ Newark field office telling FBI HQ just before that got the order that the Israelis stories didn’t line up and had increasing discrepancies and that they were still investigating many open leads.
I have been following everything Grassley says and releases. No one is picking it up except you all and Just the News. I knew someone had a good story coming out because of the stupid NYT hit piece wannabe this week. All those words to repeat the same stuff from the same losers. Glad it was Racket. I hate to say it. I really do, but I don't think Kash is the guy for this. He wants to be liked and respected too much. We need someone who has enough of their own self-respect all on their own. This has to stop.
When we set up a central power, knowing human nature is self serving (survival instinct), that power will grow and grow until we find ourselves in an utterly corrupt system.
One way out is to listen to the advice of wise founders like Robert Yates (aka Brutus) and acknowledge the problem of creating this huge central power so we can figure out how to dismantle it. Problem is, the history books vaporized his voice so hardly anyone has heard of him.
When a congressional committee requests documents from a federal agency then those documents should be provided to the committee completely unredacted.
Progressives are too busy screeching about how a gang of morons, herded by the FBI, almost ruined their Democracy™ by rioting in the Capitol. These types are typically perfectly ignorant about what happened, despite repeating incessantly that they saw it live on CNN.
I feel like any sane person can see the real threat is criminality in Congress and among the FBI and CIA, because they get away with their crimes, if we are even lucky enough to find out about them.
So a DC jury filled with these types of Progressives will convict all the J6ers of Document Destruction, without any evidence or even any mention of documents, but will let Kevin Klinesmith off the hook for entirely made up reasons due to partisanship.
All Progressives and most Democrats are committed statists at this point and are incapable of even cursory circumspection or vigilance with respect to the government. I suspect because they know it is run by Progressives.
“The public almost never wins in these situations…”
Wow! you said a mouthful right there. Thank you once again, Matt, for your (often thankless) work.
funny of course what made it a scandal was when they investigated someone too far up the chain. Spying on the small fry NBD.
Yep. Congress doesn't care until it happens to them, and then it's, ' How dare they spy on us? '
I'm a little more optimistic. Can we at least root for a rollback of the Patriot Act? It's an insult to the Bill of Rights of ever there was one.
I can understand how Trump and the Congressional Republicans might now be tempted use its extraordinary power to turn the tables on the deep state dirtbags who have tormented him (and anyone who dared question them) for the last decade. But there probably aren't enough Trump loyalists in FBI and DOJ to make that happen. Any moves to investigate and/or prosecute the worst of them have been immediately leaked to their attorneys and the media.
Inspirational leader? Yeah Patel aint the guy. But that's not what you need You need an Army of dedicated auditors. Kinda like the Twitter files. There's an idea!!!
That was the role DOGE was supposed to play. But doesn't seem like there is commitment and follow through to that policy/process. The administration needs to recommit to "drain the swamp" as a key policy priority. Too much going on these days, as Matt points out, to see that clearly, but that needs to happen.
DOGE disappeared from the limelight, but most likely its cadre of young techies are still secretly working in the bowels of some obscure agency. Armed with the exponential force multiplier of artificial intelligence, DOGE's sleuths might well have uncovered and gathered enough evidence to charge some of the thieves, and maybe even claw back some of the trillions of dollars stolen from taxpayers during the last couple of decades. At the very least, hope they can develop a plan to stop the leakage.
Exactly. Every industry needs the Blue Team & Red Team concept. I didn't realize this when I got into electronics. When I went to work for Intel Corp. I was placed on Red Team. Blue Team are engineers who design circuits. Red Team validates their work. The reason: is the delay between engineers designing a circuit and a customer holding parts can be years. Validation gives the green light to manufacturing, but only after the better part of a year of doing all manner of: discovering design flaws, tweaking BIOS settings, and completing robustness testing.
Democrats will do their best to obstruct and deny the importance of these revelations. Same with establishment Republicans. They thrive and profit from this system since it destroys any opposition.
It was used against Trump and I bet you the Trump admin used it themselves.
There is no incentive for constraint and there is no delineation in complicity. To put a spin on one of George Carlin’s best lines -
“It’s one big corrupt regime and you ain’t in it.”
Trump may try. But the personnel are aligned with the Dems and establishment Reps. They will sabotage most of Trumps efforts to use the system.
Trump was ready for that on day one, and stymied them. But they seem to have recovered -- if what we read in the government/corporate media is to be believed.
If Patel isn’t the guy then Trump needs to get that guy. Patel though, after all the surveillance and shit that’s been done to him SHOULD be that guy. You’d think he would want to set the record straight. I hope this blows it all up.
I think that Patel is trying to get to the bottom of these issues. It is just a huge job. People also complain and moan about AG Bondi. But the workload that she has before her is mind boggling. She and Patel do need an army to help them.
The Left sues the administration daily, it seems. And they have judges block every move that the administration makes. Overwhelming!
On Bondi, Bill Shipley at shipwreckedcrew on Substack had a great piece regarding her successes.
Indeed. Anyone pretending that uncovering decades of malfeasance is going to be easy or should just be immediate - within an agency and government hell bent on hiding their criminality - is fooling themselves.
As far as I can see, we have the only team in memory willing to take risks to deliver change of this magnitude, at great risk to themselves.
I thought they were holding that back for an October Surprise.
That would be a Trumpian thing to do. But then so would using that dirt as a bargaining chip to get necessary legislation through Congress.
Patel and Bondi are being unfairly blamed as they have only a handful of Trump loyalists in these agencies whose employees number in the thousands, and are overwhelmingly never-Trumpers who will never cooperate, and are hard to fire. Word has it that they are resigning in droves (many because they're guilty and rightly afraid of reprisals), which is encouraging. But that only leaves them badly understaffed.
It was used against Trump and I bet you the Trump admin used it themselves.
There is no incentive for constraint and there is no delineation in complicity. To put a spin on one of George Carlin’s best lines -
“It’s one big corrupt regime and you ain’t in it.”
If this is true we no longer have a Democratic Republic, We are ruled by a bunch unelected DC Swamp creatures who can lie at will and do whatever they want without regards to who the President is. If the President attempts to assert any control he ends up like JFK did.
A rather bleak assessment. If that is true, why is there any access( even if incomplete) becoming public at all? The fact that the group of whistle blowers and some congress members/ administration officials are releasing any of this information gives hope. Cracks in the wall of secrecy have a way of inexorably expanding.
Spot on.
It was used against Trump and I bet you the Trump admin used it themselves.
There is no incentive for constraint and there is no delineation in complicity. To put a spin on one of George Carlin’s best lines -
“It’s one big corrupt regime and you ain’t in it.”
"There is no incentive for constraint and there is no delineation in complicity."
That's the best line right there.
I don't mind so much that there's a big bad DC swamp monster. I'm distraught as hell there's a WEF-Globalist monster dominating the DC swamps. Their goal if you've not been listening: is the little people, those useless people will live in 15 minute cities, eat bug protein, buy less than three articles of clothing per year, fly once every three years, own nothing and be happy.
Substacker wrote an enlightening article the subject of governmental stupidity.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/towards-a-theory-of-political-stupidity
Matt, thank you for not giving in to the hysteria in the world at the moment and continuing to focus on these important stories. It’s easy to lose sight of other important events in these crazy times, keep up the great work.
So many important stories lately. I can understand why he's hiring investigative journalists to expand Racket News.
William Colby was the CIA Director during the "family jewels" episode. There were rumors his death was strange. A solo canoe trip in the spring, when water levels were high, and water was cold. Anyway, good luck to any FBI Director on this one!
Should be top comment
Why do I get the feeling that the release of these files will change nothing. Hmmm...could it be that no one is ever prosecuted or that the releasees will be vague. I suspect that these files are just sacrificial tidbits, released in the hope of quieting the public.
Shhh! You're supposed to pretend that's not how things work.
LOL! Lord I know, but let's be honest, whoever said "the truth will set you free" was surely a liar.
It may set you free, but it comes with a 5- to 20-year sentence.
It was a classic Washington episode: Meetings were held, no action was taken- but an investigation was conducted. This was an investigation which, like the meetings of officials not in the Intelligence Community not dealing with Iraq, went nowhere.
-- Select Committee on Intelligence, US Senate
http://intelligence.senate.gov/080605/phase2a.pdf
What you describe is a tactic called a Limited Hangout.
We will learn about FBI corruption and its psychological operations, which will make them less effective at brainwashing the public. What was once conspiracy theory will become a mainstream topic. That's something.
Thank goodness for Senator Grassley. He's older than I am, but he continually works to expose problems like this.
Even with whistleblowers and uncovering family jewels and discovering prohibited access files, It would be preposterous to think the CIA and FBI wrote down every last thing they did. Because you can be sure the most sensitive stuff probably never got put into writing.
Which means we will never know about it. Which means the only effective, permanent solution to living in a panopticon state is abolition of the FBI.
Imagine how much they destroyed about the full truth of 9/11.
I used to think that the "truthers" were crazy. No more.
If you’d like to read an article about one particular 9/11 “conspiracy” check out my profile and look at my article about “9/11 and the ‘Dancing Israelis.’
I promise I don’t waste your time with nonsense or made up stuff, it’s all out of the FBI report on the situation by the NJ Newark field office.
If you haven’t heard this story before or don’t believe in its significance, I urge you to read it. It’s very long but I wanted to be thorough and careful to explain it well.
Basically, foreign Israelis who worked Urban Moving Systems, a company owned by another Israeli and which the FBI reportedly determined to be a front for Mossad, were caught celebrating and documenting 9/11 by multiple witnesses.
I use radio archives to provide timestamps as well as some other stuff to prove beyond a doubt that they were pre-staged waiting for the attack from a position they shouldn’t have been. They had foreknowledge and the FBI got an order to release them from FBI HQ less than TWO WEEKS after the 9/11 attacks.
This is despite the NJ Newark field office telling FBI HQ just before that got the order that the Israelis stories didn’t line up and had increasing discrepancies and that they were still investigating many open leads.
Matt, you really should announce publicly that you're not suicidal. Not that it seems to be any protection.
He is reporting public information. At least so far.
I have been following everything Grassley says and releases. No one is picking it up except you all and Just the News. I knew someone had a good story coming out because of the stupid NYT hit piece wannabe this week. All those words to repeat the same stuff from the same losers. Glad it was Racket. I hate to say it. I really do, but I don't think Kash is the guy for this. He wants to be liked and respected too much. We need someone who has enough of their own self-respect all on their own. This has to stop.
All this is good stuff, Matt. But maybe the biggest surprise is that they would put the "off the books" stuff in writing to begin with.
Yes. Which always leads me to ask what wasn’t written down or destroyed decades ago.
After Ed Snowden's revelations, I'm inclined to believe that someone at NSA can find a copy of anything.
Yes. Like, what other “oral traditions” among these alphabet soup agencies are floating around that Joe and Jane Public will never hear of?
When we set up a central power, knowing human nature is self serving (survival instinct), that power will grow and grow until we find ourselves in an utterly corrupt system.
One way out is to listen to the advice of wise founders like Robert Yates (aka Brutus) and acknowledge the problem of creating this huge central power so we can figure out how to dismantle it. Problem is, the history books vaporized his voice so hardly anyone has heard of him.
Brutus predicted everything we see today: https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/brutus-was-right-about-everything?utm_source=direct&r=76q58&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
When a congressional committee requests documents from a federal agency then those documents should be provided to the committee completely unredacted.
Progressives are too busy screeching about how a gang of morons, herded by the FBI, almost ruined their Democracy™ by rioting in the Capitol. These types are typically perfectly ignorant about what happened, despite repeating incessantly that they saw it live on CNN.
I feel like any sane person can see the real threat is criminality in Congress and among the FBI and CIA, because they get away with their crimes, if we are even lucky enough to find out about them.
So a DC jury filled with these types of Progressives will convict all the J6ers of Document Destruction, without any evidence or even any mention of documents, but will let Kevin Klinesmith off the hook for entirely made up reasons due to partisanship.
All Progressives and most Democrats are committed statists at this point and are incapable of even cursory circumspection or vigilance with respect to the government. I suspect because they know it is run by Progressives.