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#19006035 at 2023-06-14 14:20:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23336: Happy Birthday D5 Edition

>>19005941
>>19005909
>MSM psychological op against the people... started 2016

1 of 2

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-domestic-propaganda-officially-aired-2013-7

US Government-Funded Domestic Propaganda Has Officially Hit The Airwaves

Michael B Kelley Jul 16, 2013, 9:54 AM EDT

The U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm has begun the "unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption," John Hudson of Foreign Policy reported on Sunday.

The content arrives with the enactment of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R- Texas) and Rep. Adam Smith (D- Wash.), which was inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The reform effectively nullifies the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which was amended in 1985 specifically to prohibit U.S. organizations from using information "to influence public opinion in the United States."

The new law enables U.S. government programming such as Voice of America (VoA) - an outlet created in 1942 to promote a positive understanding of the U.S. abroad - t0 broadcast directly to domestic audiences for the first time.

VoA and other programs are now produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which shares a "strategic communications budget" with the State Department and has an annual budget of more than $700 million.

Nevertheless, BBG spokeswoman Lynne Weil insisted to FP that the BBG is not a propaganda outlet, and stressed to Business Insider that the BBG is separate from Pentagon Information Operations (IO).

[UPDATE 6:33 p.m.] Here's what Weil told Business Insider:

"The professional journalists around the world who are supported by the BBG are tasked with presenting accurate and objective news and information for audiences in many countries where it is difficult or impossible to receive locally-produced, uncensored or unbiased programs. They provide responsible discussion and open debate in places where this is rare in the media. To call these efforts 'propaganda' is a misuse of the term and an affront to our journalists, many of whom put themselves at great risk for this work."

A former U.S. government source explained that the BBG can now reach local radio stations in the U.S., meaning that the programming can target expat communities such as the significant Somali population in St. Paul, Minnesota.

"Those people can get Al-Shabaab, they can get Russia Today, but they couldn't get access to their taxpayer-funded news sources like VoA Somalia*," the source told FP. "It was silly."

An alternative function was detailed last year by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a highly-respected officer who released a critical report regarding the distortion of truth by senior military officials in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Davis stated that the effective repeal of the Smith-Mundt Act is a strategic move in influencing U.S. public perception in regards to the Global War on Terror (GWOT).

He cites Colonel Richard B. Leap, who recommends that lawmakers "specifically address all prior legislation beginning with the Smith-Mundt Act that is limiting the effectiveness of Information organizations in the GWOT environment."

From Lt. Col. Davis:

#18331411 at 2023-02-12 14:07:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22468: Memes FTW Edition

>>18331278

Politics
Americans Finally Have Access to American Propaganda

A law went into effect this month that ends the ban on U.S. government-made propaganda from being broadcast to Americans. In a remarkably creative spin, the supporters of this law say that allowing Americans to see American propaganda is actually a victory for transparency.
By Elspeth Reeve
July 15, 2013

A law went into effect this month that ends the ban on U.S. government-made propaganda from being broadcast to Americans. In a remarkably creative spin, the supporters of this law say that allowing Americans to see American propaganda is actually a victory for transparency.

As Foreign Policy's John Hudson explains, the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 went into effect July 2, and allows government-made news - which includes products like Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks - to reach Americans. In the 1970s Sen. William Fulbright said these outlets "should be given the opportunity to take their rightful place in the graveyard of Cold War relics" because, as he and his allies argued, U.S. taxpayers should not have to pay for propaganda directed at them. But now these agencies say that's actually unfair to taxpayers. Broadcasting Board of Governors spokeswoman Lynne Weil told FP it's actually best for taxpayers to be able to see the propaganda, so they can serve as a check on it. "Now Americans will be able to know more about what they are paying for with their tax dollars–greater transparency is a win-win for all involved," she said. Likewise, a former government official said:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/americans-finally-have-access-american-propaganda/313305/

H.R.5736 - Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 112th Congress (2011-2012)
BillHide Overview
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13](Introduced 05/10/2012)
Committees: House - Foreign Affairs
Latest Action: House - 05/10/2012 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (All Actions)
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Representative Mac Thornberry (1958 - ) In Congress 1995 - 2021

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Introduced in House (05/10/2012)

Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide for the preparation and dissemination of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, including about its people, its history, and the federal government's policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers and instructors. (Under current law such authority is restricted to information disseminated abroad, with a limited domestic exception.)

Authorizes the Secretary and the Board to make available in the United States motion pictures, films, video, audio, and other materials prepared for dissemination abroad or disseminated abroad pursuant to such Act, the United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, or the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act.

Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 to prohibit funds for the Department of State or the Board from being used to influence public opinion or propagandizing in the United States. (Under current law such provision applies to the United States Information Agency [USIA].)

Applies such prohibition only to programs carried out pursuant to the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, the United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, and the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act.

States that such provision shall: (1) not prohibit the Department or the Board from providing information about its operations, policies, programs, or program material, or making such information available to members of the media, public, or Congress; (2) not be construed to prohibit the Department from engaging in any medium of information on a presumption that a U.S. domestic audience may be exposed to program material; and (3) apply only to the Department and the Board and to no other federal department or agency.

#17986912 at 2022-12-20 16:06:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22036: Morning Frens Edition

>>17986815
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-domestic-propaganda-officially-aired-2013-7

Part 1 of 2

US Government-Funded Domestic Propaganda Has Officially Hit The Airwaves

Michael B Kelley Jul 16, 2013, 9:54 AM

The U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm has begun the "unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption," John Hudson of Foreign Policy reported on Sunday.

The content arrives with the enactment of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R- Texas) and Rep. Adam Smith (D- Wash.), which was inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The reform effectively nullifies the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which was amended in 1985 specifically to prohibit U.S. organizations from using information "to influence public opinion in the United States."

The new law enables U.S. government programming such as Voice of America (VoA) - an outlet created in 1942 to promote a positive understanding of the U.S. abroad - t0 broadcast directly to domestic audiences for the first time.

VoA and other programs are now produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which shares a "strategic communications budget" with the State Department and has an annual budget of more than $700 million.

Nevertheless, BBG spokeswoman Lynne Weil insisted to FP that the BBG is not a propaganda outlet, and stressed to Business Insider that the BBG is separate from Pentagon Information Operations (IO).

[UPDATE 6:33 p.m.] Here's what Weil told Business Insider:

"The professional journalists around the world who are supported by the BBG are tasked with presenting accurate and objective news and information for audiences in many countries where it is difficult or impossible to receive locally-produced, uncensored or unbiased programs. They provide responsible discussion and open debate in places where this is rare in the media. To call these efforts 'propaganda' is a misuse of the term and an affront to our journalists, many of whom put themselves at great risk for this work."

#17488303 at 2022-09-03 13:23:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21437: FJB Season Begins Edition

TX, wtf is up with this fucking piece-0-shit RINO?

Representative Mac Thornberry, FUCK YOU!

#16270826 at 2022-05-14 02:22:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20582: Who Funded the Mules? Edition

Facts About Smith-Mundt Modernization

The U.S. Agency for Global Media and the media organizations that it supports can now make their content available in broadcast quality upon request within the United States. This is due to a law that went into effect on July 2, 2013, amending the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, known as the Smith-Mundt Act. Amending Smith-Mundt for this purpose was part of the strategic plan adopted in 2011 by the governing board overseeing the then BBG.

Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) and Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-TX), co-sponsored the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, which was introduced in 2010 and made part of a larger piece of legislation in 2012.

The new law will let people across America see and hear the valuable news reported by the Agency's accomplished journalists. It takes into account modern content platforms that are not restricted by national boundaries, such as the Internet, mobile delivery and satellite broadcasting.

The modernization of Smith-Mundt will facilitate global connectivity and audience engagement and will provide greater transparency into publicly-funded broadcasting.

Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about the new law.

Can USAGM focus its broadcasting on the United States?
So what does the new law allow that wasn't allowed before?
How can these materials be requested?
Wasn't this content already available in the United States via the Internet or other means, and isn't it still available without having to be requested?
Do you intend to target your programming to ?migr? communities in this country?
Is this an attempt to influence or propagandize US citizens?
But won't the Defense Department now be at liberty to spread propaganda in the United States thanks to this new legislation?
What guarantees that USAGM content is balanced and accurate?

Q. Can the USAGM focus its broadcasting on the United States?

A. No. There has been no change to the Agency's enabling statute, the U.S. International Broadcasting Act of 1994, which authorizes the agency to create programs for foreign audiences. The Agency is not authorized to begin broadcasting or to create programming for audiences in the United States. We do not seek to change that. USAGM continues to focus on overseas audiences.

https://www.usagm.gov/who-we-are/oversight/legislation/smith-mundt-faqs/

#16146843 at 2022-04-25 00:11:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20423: Macron got installed as President Majority knows he's Corrupt Edition

>>16146784
Representative Mac Thornberry

So this is why Texas cares so much about my port city?

#15791757 at 2022-03-05 20:53:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19968: Putin Shuts Down LGBT Youth Propaganda To Protect Children Edition

>>15791502
>You are watching a movie…
DJT & Team never got rid of this, as far as I know. So, I ask why?
The best answer I can come up with is that the propaganda as fateful as it is, is a necessary component of the Plan to wake as many sheeple up as possible - by showing them the horror/shit show.

OTHERWISE, #2450 is really dark and evil at a level this anon can not comprehend, b/c it would mean all the white hat characters were in on it (think the actual story of A BRAVE NEW WORLD).

I just don't buy that - evil (analogous to the Universe) doesn't coalesce or coordinate that well -Gooddoes, however.

US Government-Funded Domestic Propaganda Has Officially Hit The Airwaves

Michael B Kelley Jul 16, 2013, 9:54 AM

The U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm has begun the "unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption," John Hudson of Foreign Policy reported on Sunday.

The content arrives with the enactment of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R- Texas) and Rep. Adam Smith (D- Wash.), which was inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The reform effectively nullifies the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which was amended in 1985 specifically to prohibit U.S. organizations from using information "to influence public opinion in the United States."

The new law enables U.S. government programming such as Voice of America (VoA) - an outlet created in 1942 to promote a positive understanding of the U.S. abroad - t0 broadcast directly to domestic audiences for the first time.

VoA and other programs are now produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which shares a "strategic communications budget" with the State Department and has an annual budget of more than $700 million.

Nevertheless, BBG spokeswoman Lynne Weil insisted to FP that the BBG is not a propaganda outlet, and stressed to Business Insider that the BBG is separate from Pentagon Information Operations (IO).

[UPDATE 6:33 p.m.] Here's what Weil told Business Insider:

"The professional journalists around the world who are supported by the BBG are tasked with presenting accurate and objective news and information for audiences in many countries where it is difficult or impossible to receive locally-produced, uncensored or unbiased programs. They provide responsible discussion and open debate in places where this is rare in the media. To call these efforts 'propaganda' is a misuse of the term and an affront to our journalists, many of whom put themselves at great risk for this work."

A former U.S. government source explained that the BBG can now reach local radio stations in the U.S., meaning that the programming can target expat communities such as the significant Somali population in St. Paul, Minnesota.

"Those people can get Al-Shabaab, they can get Russia Today, but they couldn't get access to their taxpayer-funded news sources like VoA Somalia*," the source told FP. "It was silly."

An alternative function was detailed last year by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a highly-respected officer who released a critical report regarding the distortion of truth by senior military officials in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Davis stated that the effective repeal of the Smith-Mundt Act is a strategic move in influencing U.S. public perception in regards to the Global War on Terror (GWOT).

greater transparency into publicly-funded broadcasting."

part 1 of 2 for the story

#15421756 at 2022-01-20 15:33:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19506: Filibuster Follies Fail Edition

>>15421666
People who know the difference between QAnon and Q , Q research?
Getting rid of worms?
>>15421410
>>15421409
>>15421429
"On January 2, 2013 Barack Obama signed and enacted into "law" HR 4310, also known as Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A large majority of concerned Americans were focused on the?indefinite detention of US Citizens without trial clause contained in the NDAA, and missed HR 4310 which received little to no attention.
From Business Insider:
The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public
The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon?- would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which?explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion."

https://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/2016/11/21/propaganda-on-the-us-public/
>>15421707

#15338497 at 2022-01-09 19:18:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19401: EBAKE Papi Trumpo's 17 Oranges edition

>>15337824

Where do you get your "news"?

Operation Mockingbird. (Propaganda news)

The days of the illusions of "real news" being reported by the agents of the CIA's operation mockingbird are finally over.

Now former director of the CIA, John Brennan works for CNN and reports the "news" to us directly.
Not concerned?

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when EVERYTHING the US public believes is false."
CIA Director, William J Casey 1981

https://newspunch.com/cia-disinfo-program-is-complete-they-actually-said-this/

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."
- William Blum, State Dept.

The National Defense authorization act (NDAA 2012)
created the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) which is an independent agency of the United States government.
According to its website, its mission is to "inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy."

Hillary Clinton was on this board at the time of Sandy Hook, while she was Secretary of State.

"On January 2, 2013 Barack Obama signed and enacted into "law" HR 4310, also known as Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A large majority of concerned Americans were focused on the?indefinite detention of US Citizens without trial clause contained in the NDAA, and missed HR 4310 which received little to no attention.
From Business Insider:
The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public
The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon?- would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which?explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion."

https://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/2016/11/21/propaganda-on-the-us-public/

"With the NDAA 2012 in its current form,?the State Department and Pentagon can go beyond manipulating mainstream media outlets and directly disseminate campaigns of?misinformation to the U.S. public.??Successful wars require domestic acceptance."

https://www.occupycorporatism.com/2013/07/22/how-the-ndaa-allows-us-gov-to-use-propaganda-against-americans/

"…Through the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act the US government has the legal regulation to use propaganda against foreign audiences and American citizens. The intention is to sway public opinion by using television, radio, newspapers, and social media targeting American and foreign targets in controlled psy-ops or perception management…"

Continued:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=29475

The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon?- would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which?explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5

"Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cia-used-infiltrate-media-now-cia-media

"The corporate mainstream media are stenographers for the national security state's ongoing psychological operations aimed at the American people, just as they have done the same for an international audience."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/opening-cias-can-worms

The BIG UGLY

"If we assume the scale of unconstitutional conduct has become systemic, that likely answers the questions. Personally, I believe this is the most likely scenario.
"Likely" meaning the entire apparatus, DOJ, FBI, Legislative Oversight and the Intelligence Community (IC), is now so enmeshed within this corrupt out-of-control state that no-one, even the good guys, is willing to expose it because the institutional collapse would be devastating.
This is what I would call the Biggest of the Big Ugly."

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/theerant/zero-hedge-donald-trump-jr-declassify-everything-t107563.html

#15043497 at 2021-11-20 16:24:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19032: Wake and Bake Edition

>>15043363
>https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/

The Cable
The Cable goes inside the foreign policy Machine, from Foggy Bottom to Turtle Bay, the White House to Embassy Row.
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans
'For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences.

July 14, 2013, 7:06 PM

For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened?

Until this month, a vast ocean of U.S. programming produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks could only be viewed or listened to at broadcast quality in foreign countries. The programming varies in tone and quality, but its breadth is vast: It's viewed in more than 100 countries in 61 languages. The topics covered include human rights abuses in Iran, self-immolation in Tibet, human trafficking across Asia, and on-the-ground reporting in Egypt and Iraq.

The restriction of these broadcasts was due to the Smith-Mundt Act, a long-standing piece of legislation that has been amended numerous times over the years, perhaps most consequentially by Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. In the 1970s, Fulbright was no friend of VOA and Radio Free Europe, and moved to restrict them from domestic distribution, saying they "should be given the opportunity to take their rightful place in the graveyard of Cold War relics." Fulbright's amendment to Smith-Mundt was bolstered in 1985 by Nebraska Senator Edward Zorinsky, who argued that such "propaganda" should be kept out of America as to distinguish the U.S. "from the Soviet Union where domestic propaganda is a principal government activity."

Zorinsky and Fulbright sold their amendments on sensible rhetoric: American taxpayers shouldn't be funding propaganda for American audiences. So did Congress just tear down the American public's last defense against domestic propaganda?

…
But for BBG officials, the references to Pentagon propaganda efforts are nauseating, particularly because the Smith-Mundt Act never had anything to do with regulating the Pentagon, a fact that was misunderstood in media reports in the run-up to the passage of new Smith-Mundt reforms in January.

One example includeda report by the late BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hastings, who suggested that the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act would open the door to Pentagon propaganda of U.S. audiences. In fact, as amended in 1987, the act only covers portions of the State Department engaged in public diploMacy abroad (i.e. the public diploMacy section of the "R" bureau, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors.)

But the news circulated regardless, much to the displeasure of Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), a sponsor of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. "To me, it's a fascinating case study in how one blogger was pretty sloppy, not understanding the issue and then it got picked up by Politico's Playbook, and you had one level of sloppiness on top of another," Thornberry told The Cable last May. "And once something sensational gets out there, it just spreads like wildfire."

That of course doesn't leave the BBG off the hook if its content sMacks of agitprop. But now that its materials are allowed to be broadcast by local radio stations and TV networks, they won't be a complete mystery to Americans. "Previously, the legislation had the effect of clouding and hiding this stuff," the former U.S. official told The Cable. "Now we'll have a better sense: Gee some of this stuff is really good. Or gee some of this stuff is really bad. At least we'll know now."

#14134300 at 2021-07-16 05:04:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17882: The 'Getting It Right' Edition

>>14134287

The truth is they LIE about everything that matters…

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."
- William Blum, State Dept.

The National Defense authorization act (NDAA 2012)
created the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) which is an independent agency of the United States government.
According to its website, its mission is to "inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy."

Hillary Clinton was on this board at the time of Sandy Hook, while she was Secretary of State.

"On January 2, 2013 Barack Obama signed and enacted into "law" HR 4310, also known as Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A large majority of concerned Americans were focused on the indefinite detention of US Citizens without trial clause contained in the NDAA, and missed HR 4310 which received little to no attention.
From Business Insider:
The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public
The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon - would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion."

https://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/2016/11/21/propaganda-on-the-us-public/

"With the NDAA 2012 in its current form, the State Department and Pentagon can go beyond manipulating mainstream media outlets and directly disseminate campaigns of misinformation to the U.S. public. Successful wars require domestic acceptance."

https://www.occupycorporatism.com/2013/07/22/how-the-ndaa-allows-us-gov-to-use-propaganda-against-americans/

"…Through the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act the US government has the legal regulation to use propaganda against foreign audiences and American citizens. The intention is to sway public opinion by using television, radio, newspapers, and social media targeting American and foreign targets in controlled psy-ops or perception management…"

Continued:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=29475

The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon - would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5

"Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cia-used-infiltrate-media-now-cia-media

"The corporate mainstream media are stenographers for the national security state's ongoing psychological operations aimed at the American people, just as they have done the same for an international audience."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/opening-cias-can-worms

The BIG UGLY

"If we assume the scale of unconstitutional conduct has become systemic, that likely answers the questions. Personally, I believe this is the most likely scenario.
"Likely" meaning the entire apparatus, DOJ, FBI, Legislative Oversight and the Intelligence Community (IC), is now so enmeshed within this corrupt out-of-control state that no-one, even the good guys, is willing to expose it because the institutional collapse would be devastating.
This is what I would call the Biggest of the Big Ugly."

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/theerant/zero-hedge-donald-trump-jr-declassify-everything-t107563.html

#13904171 at 2021-06-14 22:51:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17600: Frm Beyond The Grave Ebake Edition

>>13904138
>>13903537

Where do you get your "news"?

Operation Mockingbird. (Propaganda news)

The days of the illusions of "real news" being reported by the agents of the CIA's operation mockingbird are finally over.

Now former director of the CIA, John Brennan works for CNN and reports the "news" to us directly.
Not concerned?

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when EVERYTHING the US public believes is false."
CIA Director, William J Casey 1981

https://newspunch.com/cia-disinfo-program-is-complete-they-actually-said-this/

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."
- William Blum, State Dept.

The National Defense authorization act (NDAA 2012)
created the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) which is an independent agency of the United States government.
According to its website, its mission is to "inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy."

Hillary Clinton was on this board at the time of Sandy Hook, while she was Secretary of State.

"On January 2, 2013 Barack Obama signed and enacted into "law" HR 4310, also known as Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A large majority of concerned Americans were focused on the indefinite detention of US Citizens without trial clause contained in the NDAA, and missed HR 4310 which received little to no attention.
From Business Insider:
The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public
The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon - would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion."

https://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/2016/11/21/propaganda-on-the-us-public/

"With the NDAA 2012 in its current form, the State Department and Pentagon can go beyond manipulating mainstream media outlets and directly disseminate campaigns of misinformation to the U.S. public. Successful wars require domestic acceptance."

https://www.occupycorporatism.com/2013/07/22/how-the-ndaa-allows-us-gov-to-use-propaganda-against-americans/

"…Through the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act the US government has the legal regulation to use propaganda against foreign audiences and American citizens. The intention is to sway public opinion by using television, radio, newspapers, and social media targeting American and foreign targets in controlled psy-ops or perception management…"

Continued:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=29475

The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon - would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5

"Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cia-used-infiltrate-media-now-cia-media

"The corporate mainstream media are stenographers for the national security state's ongoing psychological operations aimed at the American people, just as they have done the same for an international audience."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/opening-cias-can-worms

#13847677 at 2021-06-07 04:39:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17530: Unrest in Minneapolis. . . . Again. Edition

>>13847665

Operation Mockingbird. (Propaganda news)

The days of the illusions of "real news" being reported by the agents of the CIA's operation mockingbird are finally over.

Now former director of the CIA, John Brennan works for CNN and reports the "news" to us directly.
Not concerned?

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when EVERYTHING the US public believes is false."
CIA Director, William J Casey 1981

https://newspunch.com/cia-disinfo-program-is-complete-they-actually-said-this/

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."
- William Blum, State Dept.

"On January 2, 2013 Barack Obama signed and enacted into "law" HR 4310, also known as Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A large majority of concerned Americans were focused on the indefinite detention of US Citizens without trial clause contained in the NDAA, and missed HR 4310 which received little to no attention.
From Business Insider:
The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public
The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon - would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion."

https://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/2016/11/21/propaganda-on-the-us-public/

"With the NDAA 2012 in its current form, the State Department and Pentagon can go beyond manipulating mainstream media outlets and directly disseminate campaigns of misinformation to the U.S. public. Successful wars require domestic acceptance."

https://www.occupycorporatism.com/2013/07/22/how-the-ndaa-allows-us-gov-to-use-propaganda-against-americans/

"…Through the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act the US government has the legal regulation to use propaganda against foreign audiences and American citizens. The intention is to sway public opinion by using television, radio, newspapers, and social media targeting American and foreign targets in controlled psy-ops or perception management…"

Continued:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=29475

The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon - would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5

"Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cia-used-infiltrate-media-now-cia-media

"The corporate mainstream media are stenographers for the national security state's ongoing psychological operations aimed at the American people, just as they have done the same for an international audience."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/opening-cias-can-worms

The BIG UGLY

"If we assume the scale of unconstitutional conduct has become systemic, that likely answers the questions. Personally, I believe this is the most likely scenario.
"Likely" meaning the entire apparatus, DOJ, FBI, Legislative Oversight and the Intelligence Community (IC), is now so enmeshed within this corrupt out-of-control state that no-one, even the good guys, is willing to expose it because the institutional collapse would be devastating.
This is what I would call the Biggest of the Big Ugly."

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/theerant/zero-hedge-donald-trump-jr-declassify-everything-t107563.html

#13840653 at 2021-06-06 04:36:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17521: Justice Strikes The Heart Of Darkness Edition

>>13840644

Operation Mockingbird. (Propaganda news)

The days of the illusions of "real news" being reported by the agents of the CIA's operation mockingbird are finally over.

Now former director of the CIA, John Brennan works for CNN and reports the "news" to us directly.
Not concerned?

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when EVERYTHING the US public believes is false."
CIA Director, William J Casey 1981

https://newspunch.com/cia-disinfo-program-is-complete-they-actually-said-this/

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."
- William Blum, State Dept.

"On January 2, 2013 Barack Obama signed and enacted into "law" HR 4310, also known as Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A large majority of concerned Americans were focused on the indefinite detention of US Citizens without trial clause contained in the NDAA, and missed HR 4310 which received little to no attention.
From Business Insider:
The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public
The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon - would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion."

https://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/2016/11/21/propaganda-on-the-us-public/

"With the NDAA 2012 in its current form, the State Department and Pentagon can go beyond manipulating mainstream media outlets and directly disseminate campaigns of misinformation to the U.S. public. Successful wars require domestic acceptance."

https://www.occupycorporatism.com/2013/07/22/how-the-ndaa-allows-us-gov-to-use-propaganda-against-americans/

"…Through the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act the US government has the legal regulation to use propaganda against foreign audiences and American citizens. The intention is to sway public opinion by using television, radio, newspapers, and social media targeting American and foreign targets in controlled psy-ops or perception management…"

Continued:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=29475

The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon - would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5

"Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cia-used-infiltrate-media-now-cia-media

"The corporate mainstream media are stenographers for the national security state's ongoing psychological operations aimed at the American people, just as they have done the same for an international audience."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/opening-cias-can-worms

The BIG UGLY

"If we assume the scale of unconstitutional conduct has become systemic, that likely answers the questions. Personally, I believe this is the most likely scenario.
"Likely" meaning the entire apparatus, DOJ, FBI, Legislative Oversight and the Intelligence Community (IC), is now so enmeshed within this corrupt out-of-control state that no-one, even the good guys, is willing to expose it because the institutional collapse would be devastating.
This is what I would call the Biggest of the Big Ugly."

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/theerant/zero-hedge-donald-trump-jr-declassify-everything-t107563.html

#13783893 at 2021-05-29 16:51:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17449: Like A Thief In The Night - A Bolt In The Blue Edition

Tony Podesta ex-wife

DOD Alum Mikula Joins Invariant
Fri., May 28, 2021
https://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/16244/2021-05-28/dod-alum-mikula-joins-invariant.html

Nick Mikula
Nick Mikula, who was special assistant to the under secretary of defense for intelligence in the Trump administration, has joined Invariant government relations/PR shop.

He will counsel clients on defense, intelligence and national security matters.

At the DOD, Mikula handled interagency coordination and support to the intelligence committee and managed more than $20 million in research and development innovation.

Earlier, Mikula was deputy communications director for the House Armed Services Committee, where he developed policy recommendations, messaging and press strategy for former chairman William "Mac" Thornberry (R-TX).

Heather Podesta, founder/CEO of Invariant
said her firm works with "mission-driven technology companies looking to apply next-generation solutions to national security challenges."

Mikula has a "deep understanding of current and future intelligence programs and the political acumen to guide Invariant's clients as they introduce new solutions to sensitive and complex problems," she added.

#13764278 at 2021-05-27 07:47:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17426: National Military Intervention Scheduled For Corrupt Officials Edition

>>13764244

Where do you get your "news"?

Operation Mockingbird. (Propaganda news)

The National Defense authorization act (NDAA 2012)
created the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) which is an independent agency of the United States government.
According to its website, its mission is to "inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy."

Hillary Clinton was on this board at the time of Sandy Hook, while she was Secretary of State.

The days of the illusions of "real news" being reported by the agents of the CIA's operation mockingbird are finally over.

Now former director of the CIA, John Brennan reports the "news" to us directly at CNN.
Not concerned?

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when EVERYTHING the US public believes is false."
CIA Director, William J Casey 1981

https://newspunch.com/cia-disinfo-program-is-complete-they-actually-said-this/

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."
- William Blum, State Dept.

George Stephanopoulos was one of President Bill Clinton's most trusted aides during his first term. He later became an "unbiased" journalist at ABC

"On January 2, 2013 Barack Obama signed and enacted into "law" HR 4310, also known as Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A large majority of concerned Americans were focused on the indefinite detention of US Citizens without trial clause contained in the NDAA, and missed HR 4310 which received little to no attention.
From Business Insider:
The NDAA Legalizes The Use Of Propaganda On The US Public
The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on the American public, reports Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed.
The amendment - proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon - would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which explicitly forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion."

https://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/2016/11/21/propaganda-on-the-us-public/

"Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cia-used-infiltrate-media-now-cia-media

"With the NDAA 2012 in its current form, the State Department and Pentagon can go beyond manipulating mainstream media outlets and directly disseminate campaigns of misinformation to the U.S. public. Successful wars require domestic acceptance."

https://www.occupycorporatism.com/2013/07/22/how-the-ndaa-allows-us-gov-to-use-propaganda-against-americans/

"…Through the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act the US government has the legal regulation to use propaganda against foreign audiences and American citizens. The intention is to sway public opinion by using television, radio, newspapers, and social media targeting American and foreign targets in controlled psy-ops or perception management…"

Continued:

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=29475

"The corporate mainstream media are stenographers for the national security state's ongoing psychological operations aimed at the American people, just as they have done the same for an international audience."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/opening-cias-can-worms

The BIG UGLY

"If we assume the scale of unconstitutional conduct has become systemic, that likely answers the questions. Personally, I believe this is the most likely scenario.
"Likely" meaning the entire apparatus, DOJ, FBI, Legislative Oversight and the Intelligence Community (IC), is now so enmeshed within this corrupt out-of-control state that no-one, even the good guys, is willing to expose it because the institutional collapse would be devastating.
This is what I would call the Biggest of the Big Ugly."

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/theerant/zero-hedge-donald-trump-jr-declassify-everything-t107563.html

#12240209 at 2020-12-30 19:55:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15628: Georgia Senate Will Audit Fulton County Absentee Ballots Edition

Congressman-elect Ronny Jackson plans to challenge Joe Biden's Electoral College victory

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KFDX/KJTL) - Before taking the oath of office on Sunday, Ronny Jackson, congressman-elect for Texas' 13th District, has made a pledge to object to the Electoral College results on January 6 when Congress meets to tally the votes. "Overwhelmingly the constituents in this district, and myself, believe that there was an extensive amount of fraud in this election that essentially disenfranchised us, as Trump supporters and as Texas voters here," Jackson said. "So I think it's my constitutional duty, it's my duty as a representative from the 13th congressional district to go forward on the 6th of January and to contest these electoral votes that are coming in from these intended states, and I fully intend to do that." Jackson, who will be replacing long-time Republican Representative Mac Thornberry, said on Facebook he will vote to challenge the Electoral College, which decisively confirmed Joe Biden as the nation's next president. Jackson said the American people deserve a free and fair election. "The FRAUD that DID take place on Election Day can't be allowed to stand!" Jackson said on Facebook.

President Donald Trump has claimed voter fraud since Election Day causing a series of legal battles in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada. In December, The Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit by Texas that had asked the court to throw out the election results in four battleground states that the president lost in November. Attorney General William Barr has also said that there was no evidence of fraud that would overturn the outcome of the election. The presidential electors gave Biden a solid majority of 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232, the same margin that Trump bragged was a landslide when he won the White House four years ago. The results will be sent to Washington and tallied in a joint session of Congress over which Vice President Mike Pence will preside. In a recent interview with Fox and Friends, Rep. Mo Brooks (R., Ala.) said that "dozens" of House Republicans may object to the results. However, House members need support from at least one senator for the objection to be heard and debated. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has recognized Biden's victory. has privately urged Senate Republicans to not object, according to sources.
https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local-news/congressman-elect-ronny-jackson-plans-to-challenge-joe-bidens-electoral-college-victory/

#12124080 at 2020-12-22 01:54:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15479: EBake Edition

>>12124074
MISSOURI
02 Ann Wagner 636-779-5449
03 Blain Luetkemeyer 573-635-7232
04 Vicky Hartzler 573-442-9311
06 Sam Graves 816-792-3976

07 Billy Long 417-889-1800
08 Jason Smith 573-364-2455

MONTANA
01 Greg Gianforte 406-969-1736

NEBRASKA
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02 Don Bacon 402-938-0300
03 Adrian Smith 308-384-3900

NEVADA
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NEW JERSEY
02 Jefferson Van Drew 609-625-5008
04 Chris Smith 732-780-3035

NEW YORK
01 Lee Zeldin 631-209-4235
02 Pete King 516-541-4225
21 Elise Stefanik 518-743-0964
23 Tom Reed 607-654-7566
24 John Katko 315-253-4068
27 Chris Jacobs 716-634-2324

NORTH CAROLINA
02 George Holding 919-782-4400
03 Gregory Francis Murphy 252-368-8866
05 Virginia Foxx 828-265-0240
06 Mark Walker 336-626-3060
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09 Dan Bishop 910-671-3000
10 Patrick McHenry 828-327-6100
13 Ted Budd 336-858-5013

NORTH DAKOTA
01 Kelly Armstrong 701-354-6700

OHIO
01 Steve Chabot 513-684-2723
02 Brad Wenstrup 513-474-7777
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06 Bill Johnson 740-376-0868
07 Bob Gibbs 419-207-0650
08 Warren Davidson 937-339-1524
10 Michael Turner 937-225-2843
12 Troy Balderson 614-523-2555
14 Dave Joyce 440-352-3939
15 Steve Stivers 614-771-4968
16 Anthony Gonzalez 330-599-7037

OKLAHOMA
01 Kevin Hern 918-935-3222
02 Markwayne Mullin 918-423-5951
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04 Tom Cole 580-436-5375

OREGON
02 Greg Walden 541-776-4646

PENNSYLVANIA
01 Brian Fitzpatrick 215-579-8102
09 Daniel Meuser717-473-5375
10 Scott Perry 717-635-9504
11 Lloyd Smucker 717-969-6132
12 Fred Keller 570-374-9469
13 John Joyce 717-753-6344
14 Guy Reschenthaler 724-219-4200
15 Glenn Thompson 814-353-0215
16 Mike Kelly 724-282-2557

SOUTH CAROLINA
02 Joe Wilson 803-642-6416
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05 Ralph Norman 803-327-1114
07 Tom Rice 843-445-6459

SOUTH DAKOTA
01 Dusty Johnson 605-275-2868

TENNESSEE
01 Phil Roe 423-247-8161
02 Tim Burchett 865-523-3772
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TEXAS
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08 Kevin Brady 936-441-5700
10 Michael McCaul 512-473-2357
11 Michael K. Conaway 325-247-2826
12 Kay Granger 817-338-0909
13 Mac Thornberry 806-371-8844
14 Randy Weber 409-835-0108
17 Bill Flores 254-732-0748
19 Jodey Arrington 806-763-1611
21 Chip Roy 512-871-5959
22 Pete Olson 281-485-4855
23 Will Hurd 210-921-3130
24 Kenny Marchant 972-556-0162
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UTAH
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VIRGINIA
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WASHINGTON
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WEST VIRGINIA
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WISCONSIN
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WYOMING
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2 DEMOCRATS
Senator Joe Manchin 304-342-5855
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard 808-541-1986

#11938907 at 2020-12-07 21:06:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15241: Dough from 15237 Bread Edition

Top Republican on Armed Services: House will try to override a Trump veto of defense bill

"Other than a couple senators running for president, which we all need to take with a grain of salt, I don't know anybody who is saying, 'yeah, this is the time and the way to deal with liability of social media companies,'"Thornberry says

House Armed Services ranking member Mac Thornberry said Monday that President Trump is "serious" about vetoing the defense authorization bill if it doesn't include elimination of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

The Texas Republican also told reporters that the House would attempt to override a veto from the president.

"I think the president really believes it. He is very upset at social media companies, in particular, and the results of the election have poured fuel on the flames. So I don't believe that it's empty. I know he's serious about it," said Thornberry, who is serving his last term in the House, during a press briefing.

"But I also believe that most of my colleagues think this is not the place or the way to address that issue. I mentioned before you've got Republicans and Democrats, House, Senate who think it should be addressed," he added. "But an airdrop, you know, in the last week or two of the session is not the way."

Section 230 of the law protects social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from liability when posting third-party content. However, such platforms continue to exert control of the content by censuring some of it.

Trump has also said that he would veto the bill if it includes a plan to rename military bases named after generals in the Confederacy.

The final version of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 comes in at more than 4,500 pages and totals $740.5 billion.

It is expected to be voted on in the House and Senate this week. It does not include elimination of Section 230 and requires the secretary of Defense to implement a plan submitted by a commission to "remove all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederate States of America."

Thornberry said he reached out to the "committees of jurisdiction" to see if there is something that could be done that everybody agrees on regarding Section 230.

"Man, opinions are all over the board about what needs to happen. It is a complex subject with lots of consequences," he said. "So I don't think it's empty, but I'm hopeful that a strong vote can persuade the White House that there's a better approach to deal with that issue, so that you're not punishing the troops for something that is totally unrelated."

Thornberry said the House vote on the bill is expected on Tuesday.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/top-republican-house-armed-services-committee-trump-serious-about-veto-threat

#11938834 at 2020-12-07 20:59:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15239 Indignant KNETLESS Edition

#11910011 at 2020-12-05 04:51:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15203: Joe Biden's one way ticket to GITMO please Edition

>>11909794
Trump announced "offensive cyber operations" just one week after signing his Sep 12, 2018 Executive Order
As you ponder all the implications of that, note carefully that just 8 days after President Trump signed his September 12, 2018 executive order, the Trump administration announced the launch of "offensive cyber operations" against foreign enemies. This was reported by the Washington Post, which explained, "The strategy incorporates a new classified presidential directive that replaced one from the Obama administration... It allows the military and other agencies to undertake cyber operations intended to protect their systems and the nation's critical networks." What would be considered "offensive cyber operations?" Kraken, of course. The 305th military intelligence battalion. Of course, just 8 days earlier, President Trump had designated elections infrastructure as "critical infrastructure." So now the pieces fit. The circle is complete. The election theft was cyber warfare against critical U.S. infrastructure. This authorizes all kinds of national security activities, such as using U.S. Army Special Forces units to raid the CIA server farm in Frankfurt, which took place shortly after the election. Also in 2018, President Trump had authorized the National Security Presidential Memoranda (NSPM) #13, covering "offensive cyber operations." Here's a list of all the NSPMs, but notably, "offensive cyber operations" is a secret and is not publicly shown. In fact, the Trump administration fought to keep this document hidden from Congress, given that in 2018, the House was run by Pelosi and other treasonous actors who had just pulled off the 2018 cyber attack on the U.S. elections infrastructure, stealing dozens of House seats in order to "win" a majority in the House, from which Adam Schiff could launch his impeachment scheme to try to remove Trump from power. Trump was able to prevent the House from reading NSPM #13 for 17 months, according to Fifth Domain, which reported: "On a bipartisan basis some of us sent a letter to the Trump administration demanding that they share with, at least some of the leadership on the Armed Services Committees, the rules of engagement for certain cyber contingencies," Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said at the time. "The Obama folks did give us that information, the Trump people changed it, but then they were reluctant to show us." What we now know is that Trump was planning the 2020 election sting / cyber warfare "trap" in 2018, and that these cyber warfare response protocols were intentionally kept from Congress for as long as possible while plans were put in place to catch the Democrats stealing the next election (the 2020 election). I will discuss this in greater detail in tomorrow's Situation Update (Dec. 4th), which will be posted at the HRR channel on Brighteon.com: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/hrreport Rest assured, what we now know with absolute certainty is that Trump, Miller, Cohen-Watnick and other key players put the cyber warfare infrastructure in place in 2018 that would allow them to unleash a domestic military response to arrest, detain and prosecute all those who were complicit in the attack on America. The patriots, in other words, really are in charge. And they planned all this since 2018, putting in place the framework to trigger the appropriate national security resources once the Democrats took the bait and tried to steal the 2020 election. GITMO must be getting close to full capacity at this point, with lots more detainees on their way. The mass arrests are coming. Trump is in charge, and the Dems who know what's really happening are beyond terrified. They know they've been caught. Some will be charged with treason. Many will face military tribunals. A few will likely be executed after found guilty of treason. Finally, lock and load, patriots, because Trump may still need a million armed patriots to show up in D.C. as the critical moments of all this are publicly announced. Stand by for further instructions from your Commander-In-Chief.

#11896268 at 2020-12-04 02:55:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15185: Did the Devil Get an Office in the Georgia State Capital? Edition

>>11896261
Trump announced "offensive cyber operations" just one week after signing his Sep 12, 2018 Executive Order

As you ponder all the implications of that, note carefully that just 8 days after President Trump signed his September 12, 2018 executive order, the Trump administration announced the launch of "offensive cyber operations" against foreign enemies. This was reported by the Washington Post, which explained, "The strategy incorporates a new classified presidential directive that replaced one from the Obama administration… It allows the military and other agencies to undertake cyber operations intended to protect their systems and the nation's critical networks." What would be considered "offensive cyber operations?" Kraken, of course. The 305th military intelligence battalion.

Of course, just 8 days earlier, President Trump had designated elections infrastructure as "critical infrastructure." So now the pieces fit. The circle is complete. The election theft was cyber warfare against critical U.S. infrastructure. This authorizes all kinds of national security activities, such as using U.S. Army Special Forces units to raid the CIA server farm in Frankfurt, which took place shortly after the election. Also in 2018, President Trump had authorized the National Security Presidential Memoranda (NSPM) #13, covering "offensive cyber operations." Here's a list of all the NSPMs, but notably, "offensive cyber operations" is a secret and is not publicly shown. In fact, the Trump administration fought to keep this document hidden from Congress, given that in 2018, the House was run by Pelosi and other treasonous actors who had just pulled off the 2018 cyber attack on the U.S. elections infrastructure, stealing dozens of House seats in order to "win" a majority in the House, from which Adam Schiff could launch his impeachment scheme to try to remove Trump from power. Trump was able to prevent the House from reading NSPM #13 for 17 months, according to Fifth Domain, which reported: "On a bipartisan basis some of us sent a letter to the Trump administration demanding that they share with, at least some of the leadership on the Armed Services Committees, the rules of engagement for certain cyber contingencies," Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said at the time. "The Obama folks did give us that information, the Trump people changed it, but then they were reluctant to show us."

What we now know is that Trump was planning the 2020 election sting / cyber warfare "trap" in 2018, and that these cyber warfare response protocols were intentionally kept from Congress for as long as possible while plans were put in place to catch the Democrats stealing the next election (the 2020 election). I will discuss this in greater detail in tomorrow's Situation Update (Dec. 4th), which will be posted at the HRR channel on Brighteon.com: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/hrreport Rest assured, what we now know with absolute certainty is that Trump, Miller, Cohen-Watnick and other key players put the cyber warfare infrastructure in place in 2018 that would allow them to unleash a domestic military response to arrest, detain and prosecute all those who were complicit in the attack on America. The patriots, in other words, really are in charge. And they planned all this since 2018, putting in place the framework to trigger the appropriate national security resources once the Democrats took the bait and tried to steal the 2020 election. GITMO must be getting close to full capacity at this point, with lots more detainees on their way. The mass arrests are coming. Trump is in charge, and the Dems who know what's really happening are beyond terrified. They know they've been caught. Some will be charged with treason. Many will face military tribunals. A few will likely be executed after found guilty of treason. Finally, lock and load, patriots, because Trump may still need a million armed patriots to show up in D.C. as the critical moments of all this are publicly announced. Stand by for further instructions from your Commander-In-Chief.

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#11807192 at 2020-11-27 15:21:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15071: When Gilgamesh Did Bilderberg WIth Stacy Abrams In 2019 Edition

Schmidt and Defense Innovation Board…Did Schmidt bug the electronic vote? Pt2

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/01/bokhari-the-defense-innovation-board-may-just-be-a-google-lobbying-operation/

"Google stands to benefit" from the new strategy, said a former FCC official who spoke to Breitbart News. "As the ultimate tech giant with an army of lobbyists at their disposal, they are uniquely situated to make a sweetheart deal with the DoD, and then turn around and control the network."

In 2015, the Wall Street Journal wrote about Google's attempt to open up military spectrum.

The article noted that "The idea originated with a 2012 report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Among the more than two-dozen authors were Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and [Preston] Marshall, a former DARPA researcher now employed by Google. Mr. Medin."

It further noted. "Since early 2013, more than any other company, Google has lobbied the Federal Communications Commission" to open up the spectrum. Now using Medin and Schmidt in key positions, Google is closer than ever to getting its wishes.

Schmidt and Medin have used the threat of China as a tool to lobby for the 5G strategy overhaul, despite their own company's checkered track record on China. In 2017, Google opened an artificial intelligence laboratory in China, saying "science has no borders." In 2018, it entered into a partnership with Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, now subject to U.S. sanctions over security concerns.

Schmidt and Medin were also able to retain their positions on the Defense Advisory Board, despite their own company's refusal to work with the U.S. military in Project Maven, a program to develop AI for use in military drones.'

In 2019, Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, appointed Schmidt to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). Following this, Defense Secretary James Mattis also appointed Google Cloud AI head Andrew Moore to the commission.

And Schmidt retained his influential advisory post under the Trump administration, despite the fact that Schmidt worked overtime to elect Hillary Clinton in 2016 (even attending her election night party in New York City wearing a
"staff" badge), and the fact that Google is censoring pro-Trump media ahead of the 2020 election.

"Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel believes Google should be investigated for treason. He accuses Google of working with the Chinese Government." @foxandfriends A great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone! The Trump Administration will take a look!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2019

Last year, Trump tweeted "Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel believes Google should be investigated for treason. He accuses Google of working with the Chinese Government."@foxandfriends A great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone! The Trump Administration will take a look!"

Yet even as the President raised these concerns, Swamp creatures like Gen. Mattis and so-called Republicans like Rep. Thornberry were putting Google executives in key policy advisory positions. Much like the internet itself, Google's influence in the D.C. swamp seems impossible to escape.

Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. His new book, #DELETED: Big Tech's Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election, which contains exclusive interviews with sources inside Google, Facebook, and other tech companies, is currently available for purchase.

#11806252 at 2020-11-27 13:04:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15070: Mourning Son Brings Heat Edition

REBELLION DEFENSE - ERIC SCHMIDT Pentagon, Special Operations, Kissinger PT2

https://reportglobalnews.com/2020/05/i-could-solve-most-of-your-problems-eric-schmidts-pentagon-offensive/

'I Could Solve Most of Your Problems': Eric Schmidt's Pentagon Offensive

That has led to allegations that Mr. Schmidt is putting Google's financial interests ahead of other considerations in his defense work. Late last year, a federal court ordered a congressional advisory committee he leads to turn over records that could shed light on whether Mr. Schmidt had advocated his business interests while heading the group.

Mr. Schmidt said he had followed rules to avoid conflicts. "Everybody is rule-bound at the Pentagon, and we are too," he said.

Google and the Defense Department declined to comment on Mr. Schmidt's work.

Even without those complications, shifting the military's path is no simple task. While Mr. Schmidt has helped generate reports and recommendations about technology for the Pentagon, few have been adopted.

"I'm sure he'll be frustrated," said Representative Mac Thornberry, a Republican of Texas who nominated Mr. Schmidt in 2018 to an advisory committee on A.I. "Unlike the private sector, you can't just snap your fingers and make it happen."

Mr. Schmidt acknowledged that progress was slow. "I am bizarrely told by my military friends that they have moved incredibly fast, showing you the difference of time frames between the world I live in and the world they live in," he said.

But he said he had little intention of backing down. "The way to understand the military is that the soldiers spend a great deal of time looking at screens. And human vision is not as good as computer vision," he said. "It's insane that you have people going to service academies, and we spend an enormous amount of training, training these people, and we put them in essentially monotonous work."

#11687927 at 2020-11-18 02:30:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14922: Sidney Powell calls CIA HEAD to resign HAMMER and SCORECARD Edition

>>11687858
>HELP chairmain, Lamar obviously comped

Rob Woodall Republican Party Republican Georgia's 7th February 7, 2019
Jose Serrano Democratic Party Democratic New York's 15th March 25, 2019
Dave Loebsack Democratic Party Democratic Iowa's 2nd April 12, 2019
Susan Brooks Republican Party Republican Indiana's 5th June 14, 2019
Paul Mitchell Republican Party Republican Michigan's 10th July 24, 2019
Pete Olson Republican Party Republican Texas' 22nd July 25, 2019
Martha Roby Republican Party Republican Alabama's 2nd July 26, 2019
Mike Conaway Republican Party Republican Texas' 11th July 30, 2019
Will Hurd Republican Party Republican Texas' 23rd August 1, 2019
Kenny Marchant Republican Party Republican Texas' 24th August 5, 2019
John Shimkus Republican Party Republican Illinois' 15th August 30, 2019
Bill Flores Republican Party Republican Texas' 17th September 4, 2019
Susan Davis Democratic Party Democratic California's 53rd September 4, 2019
Jim Sensenbrenner Republican Party Republican Wisconsin's 5th September 4, 2019
Mac Thornberry Republican Party Republican Texas' 13th September 30, 2019
Nita Lowey Democratic Party Democratic New York's 17th October 10, 2019
Francis Rooney Republican Party Republican Florida's 19th October 19, 2019
Greg Walden Republican Party Republican Oregon's 2nd October 28, 2019
Peter Visclosky Democratic Party Democratic Indiana's 1st November 6, 2019
Peter King Republican Party Republican New York's 2nd November 11, 2019
George Holding Ends.png Republican North Carolina's 2nd December 6, 2019
Ted Yoho Ends.png Republican Florida's 3rd December 10, 2019
Mark Walker Ends.png Republican North Carolina's 6th December 16, 2019
Phil Roe Ends.png Republican Tennessee's 1st January 3, 2020
Ralph Abraham Ends.png Republican Louisiana's 5th February 26, 2020
Justin Amash Specialsession.png Libertarian Michigan's 3rd July 16, 2020

https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S._Congress_incumbents_who_did_not_run_for_re-election_in_2020

#11450852 at 2020-11-04 08:46:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14625: Patriots Guard The Nightwatch Edition

Former White House Doctor Ronny Jackson Wins Texas House Seat

Former White House doctor Ronny Jackson (R) is projected to win his race to represent Texas' 13th congressional district, NBC projects.
BREAKING: Ronny Jackson wins U.S. House seat in Texas's 13th congressional district, NBC News projects. https://t.co/fEsJLIM23y pic.twitter.com/QaoBrMt3qv
- NBC News (@NBCNews) November 4, 2020
Jackson has declared victory on social media, writing on Twitter: "I'm honored to be elected as the next representative for Texas' 13th Congressional District. I'll NEVER back down to the liberal mobs, and I'll be the strong conservative leader that you DESERVE. I promise I'll make you proud! Thank you #TX13!"
I'm honored to be elected as the next representative for Texas' 13th Congressional District. I'll NEVER back down to the liberal mobs, and I'll be the strong conservative leader that you DESERVE. I promise I'll make you proud! Thank you #TX13!
- Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJackson4TX) November 4, 2020
Jackson defeated Democrat rival Gus Trujillo and Libertarian contender Jack Westbrook to win the seat, which is being vacated by Rep. Mac Thornberry (TX-R), who held the seat for 26 years.
Jackson, who retired as a U.S. Navy rear admiral in 2019, was endorsed by President Donald Trump.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/11/03/former-white-house-doctor-ronny-jackson-wins-texas-house-seat/

#11440421 at 2020-11-04 02:03:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14611: FLORIDA IS OURS Edition

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/523412-ex-trump-white-house-doctor-ronny-jackson-wins-texas-house-race

Ronny Jackson, President Trump's former White House doctor, is projected to win his race to represent Texas's 13th Congressional District, according to calls by NBC News and CNN.

Jackson is projected to defeat Democratic nominee Gus Trujillo and Libertarian candidate Jack Westbrook to win the seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Mac Thornberry (Texas), the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.

With the district considered among the reddest in the nation, Jackson was seen as a lock to win the race after defeating Josh Winegarner, who had earned GOP establishment endorsements, in the party's primary runoff in July.

#10887822 at 2020-10-02 18:01:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13935: Round #2? Edition

'Lipstick on a Pig:' Plan to Pull US Troops from Germany Under Fire on Capitol Hill

The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee this week expressed strong distaste for the Pentagon's plan to withdraw thousands of U.S. troops from Germany in keeping with the president's order.

Committee ranking member Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, who is retiring this year, made the charge during a Wednesday hearing at which Pentagon officials were unable to give details on where many of the 11,900 troops to be withdrawn would go, how it would affect military families and how much it would cost.

Thornberry said that acting Pentagon policy chief James Anderson and Air Force Lt. Gen. David Allvin, director of strategy and plans for the Pentagon's Joint Staff, were put in the difficult position of defending an ill-considered withdrawal order from Trump in June.

The president was likely sold on the Germany withdrawal by "a couple of staffers in the White House [who] clearly hadn't thought through the consequences," Thornberry said.

The result is that Defense Secretary Mark Esper "and the folks at the Pentagon are trying to put lipstick on the pig or make lemons out of lemonade," he added.

Other committee members were equally critical in assessing the withdrawal plan and its potential impact on the NATO alliance and the National Defense Strategy.

"From a layperson's point of view, it looks like we've reduced our troop presence in Europe at a time that Russia is actually becoming more of a threat," Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-Ala., told Anderson and Allvin. "It looks like we're pulling back, and I think that bothers a lot of us."

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the committee's chairman, said he is frustrated by what he called the witnesses' inability to answer basic questions on the implementation of the plan.

"The level of detail that we're getting here is just not acceptable," he said. "What the hell is going on, so we can exercise our oversight?"

Smith and others on the panel said the withdrawal plan appears to have been put in place without consulting NATO alliance partners.

The failure to consult "plays right into Russia's hands," Smith said. "They want to see us divided. We should not play into their hands."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/10/02/lipstick-pig-plan-pull-us-troops-germany-under-fire-capitol-hill.html

#10468271 at 2020-08-30 03:17:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13397: Benghazi Ain't Forgotten By Night Shift Edition

Retiring Texas GOP Congressman Won't Say if He'll Vote for Trump

I guess his retirement was not voluntary. KEK

A retiring Republican congressman from Texas is unsure whether he will vote for President Trump in the November election.

Rep. Mac Thornberry, who currently represents the 13th district - which covers Amarillo, Wichata Falls, and the panhandle - told KFDX he would not commit to voting for the President's re-election.

"I hear it all the time. President Trump is very popular in our area, but a lot of folks are uncomfortable with some of the tweets and the way he talks and so forth. And my suspicion is that a lot of those Republicans have similar concerns," Thornberry said.

"Thornberry did not say whether he plans to vote for President Trump in November, but he said he has voted for Democrats in the past though, saying he, like many voters, look for the best person for the job," the news station reported.

Thornberry attempted to pick his successor and endorsed Josh Winegarner in the July primary.

Winegarner was defeated by former White House Physician Dr. Ronny Jackson, a staunch Trump supporter, 56 percent to 44 percent.

Texas-13 is a strong Republican district. Thornberry won re-election in 2018 with 81.5 percent of the vote, according to Ballotpedia.

Jackson will face Democrat opponent Gus Trujillo in November.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/29/retiring-texas-gop-congressman-wont-say-if-hell-vote-for-trump/

#10426398 at 2020-08-26 16:06:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13343: Who's the Guy With The Fancy Tie? Edition

2020 Draining the Swamp Part 2

List of U.S. Congress incumbents who are not running for re-election in 2020

As of August 24, 2020, 37 representatives said they will not seek re-election to their U.S. House seats.

Democratic Party 9 Democratic members of the U.S. House
Republican Party 27 Republican members of the U.S. House
Libertarian Party 1 Libertarian member of the U.S. House
The chart below shows the number of representatives who announced they will not seek re-election by party beginning in January 2019. It is updated weekly on Mondays.

Retiring from public office, 2020
Name Party Seat Date announced
Rob Bishop Republican Party Republican Utah's 1st August 25, 2017
Rob Woodall Republican Party Republican Georgia's 7th February 7, 2019
Jose Serrano Democratic Party Democratic New York's 15th March 25, 2019
Dave Loebsack Democratic Party Democratic Iowa's 2nd April 12, 2019
Susan Brooks Republican Party Republican Indiana's 5th June 14, 2019
Paul Mitchell Republican Party Republican Michigan's 10th July 24, 2019
Pete Olson Republican Party Republican Texas' 22nd July 25, 2019
Martha Roby Republican Party Republican Alabama's 2nd July 26, 2019
Mike Conaway Republican Party Republican Texas' 11th July 30, 2019
Will Hurd Republican Party Republican Texas' 23rd August 1, 2019
Kenny Marchant Republican Party Republican Texas' 24th August 5, 2019
John Shimkus Republican Party Republican Illinois' 15th August 30, 2019
Bill Flores Republican Party Republican Texas' 17th September 4, 2019
Susan Davis Democratic Party Democratic California's 53rd September 4, 2019
Jim Sensenbrenner Republican Party Republican Wisconsin's 5th September 4, 2019
Mac Thornberry Republican Party Republican Texas' 13th September 30, 2019
Nita Lowey Democratic Party Democratic New York's 17th October 10, 2019
Francis Rooney Republican Party Republican Florida's 19th October 19, 2019
Greg Walden Republican Party Republican Oregon's 2nd October 28, 2019
Peter Visclosky Democratic Party Democratic Indiana's 1st November 6, 2019
Peter King Republican Party Republican New York's 2nd November 11, 2019
Tom Graves Ends.png Republican Georgia's 14th December 5, 2019
George Holding Ends.png Republican North Carolina's 2nd December 6, 2019
Ted Yoho Ends.png Republican Florida's 3rd December 10, 2019
Mark Walker Ends.png Republican North Carolina's 6th December 16, 2019
Phil Roe Ends.png Republican Tennessee's 1st January 3, 2020
Ralph Abraham Ends.png Republican Louisiana's 5th February 26, 2020
Justin Amash Specialsession.png Libertarian Michigan's 3rd July 16, 2020

https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S._Congress_incumbents_who_are_not_running_for_re-election_in_2020

#10084411 at 2020-07-26 19:46:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12906: Minding our 'act of violence' frame-ups Edition

Sneaky Congress Hides Red Flag in National Defense Authorization Act

Congress is hiding a red flag law in the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the Fiscal Year 2021 (H.R. 6395).

The NDAA authorizes the military to "red flag" anyone subject to the Uniform Code of Military Conduct. According to the NDAA, a friend or relative could report the service member as "abusive." An ex parte "court" will hear the claims of the friend or relative and decided whether to take firearms away from the accused. The gun owner doesn't have a chance to defend themselves or even know that someone is accusing them of abuse.

In the civilian world, law enforcement and the courts refer to red flag laws as Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO). The NDAA refers to these red flag laws as Military Court Gun Confiscation Orders (GCOs). Even though the names of the rules are different, both laws work primarily the same way. Like ERPOs, GCOs lack due process. The court would assume the military member is guilty of abuse until they could prove their innocence as a later date.

According to gun rights advocates, the same service members that swear an oath to the Constitution will lose their Constitutionally guaranteed rights under the new NDAA. Military police or SWAT teams would carry out a raid of the gun owner's house in the middle of the night to strip them of their gun rights.

The service member would then have to prove their innocence to get their firearms back from the same government that they are protecting.

The NDAA leaves a lot of gray areas in the GCO provision that would be filled in by the future White House administration. If an anti-gun politician becomes President, like Democrat Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, then the amount of evidence needed to strip the rights of the service member decrease or the amount of evidence to get the guns back would increase significantly. Anti-gun politicians seem to have this flexibility built into the NDAA intentionally.

Politicians have slipped in this Constitutionally questionable provision into the NDAA under cover of darkness. Politicians on both sides on the aisle have been quiet over the inclusion of the GCO provision. It is unknown why there is silence from self-proclaimed pro-gun Republicans on the issue of GCOs in the NDAA. Some gun rights advocates theorize that they do not know that the provision is in the NDAA. Others feel the Republicans are compromising with anti-gun Democrats to get the NDAA passed through the House of Representatives.

Certain "pro-gun" Republicans are open to Red Flag laws. Dan Crenshaw purports to be pro-gun, but he has called for Red Flag laws in the past.

Gun Owners of America is asking all their members to email their representatives and asking them to oppose H.R. 6395. The gun-rights group is also asking their members to call their representatives at 202-225-3121 to ask them to protect the rights of those that protect us.

Gun Owners of America created an easy to use form at gunowners.org/na07212020/

About John Crump

John is a NRA instructor and a constitutional activist. He is the former CEO of Veritas Firearms, LLC and is the co-host of The Patriot News Podcast which can be found at www.blogtalkradio.com/patriotnews. John has written extensively on the patriot movement including 3%'ers, Oath Keepers, and Militias. In addition to the Patriot movement, John has written about firearms, interviewed people of all walks of life, and on the Constitution. John lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and sons and is currently working on a book on leftist deplatforming methods and can be followed on Twitter at @crumpyss, on Facebook at realjohncrump, or at www.crumpy.com.

https://www.ammoland.com/2020/07/sneaky-congress-hides-red-flag-in-national-defense-authorization-act/

#10033901 at 2020-07-21 18:00:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12841: Voter ID To Keep It Real, Citizens Speak Out and Be Counted Edition

Up for vote today:

H.R.6395 - William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6395

#10001076 at 2020-07-18 17:56:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12798: [F] The Great [D]eceivers Edition

Trump's former doctor, retired Navy Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, wins Texas primary

The former White House physician under President Donald Trump as well as three other Republicans are likely heading to Congress next year after winning primary runoffs in ruby-red districts Tuesday.

The GOP contests were the main events in two districts in Texas and two in Alabama, where Republican retirements opened up House seats that are likely to remain in the GOP column.

The retiring lawmakers in all four districts picked their preferred candidates, but only one of the four was successful. Two familiar faces, former White House physician Ronny Jackson and former GOP Rep. Pete Sessions, won their primary runoffs in Texas. In Alabama, the anti-tax Club for Growth got one of its preferred candidates in one race and lost in a second.

Familiar Texans GOP Rep. Mac Thornberry did not get his preferred successor Tuesday, with Jackson defeating lobbyist Josh Winegarner in the runoff for the 13th District in the Texas Panhandle. President Donald Trump endorsed Jackson, which likely boosted his campaign. Winegarner had support from Thornberry and a number of other state and local elected officials.

Jackson led with 56% of the vote to Winegarner's 44% when The Associated Press called the race with an estimated 90% of precincts reporting.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/07/trumps-former-doctor-retired-navy-rear-admiral-ronny-jackson-wins-texas-primary/

#9886155 at 2020-07-07 19:13:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12652: We Got A Flag For the Haters to Burn...... Edition

>9885695 lb

Pelosi, Schiff and lone R went to Afghanistan and set up latest Russian Hoax
WH Conducting Leak Investigation Into Who Told NY Times About Russia-Taliban Bounty Intel - Narrowed Down to 10 Possible People

>According to Intelligence sources who spoke to The Federalist, Adam Schiff's top aides were briefed on the Russia-Taliban bounty intel back in February during a CODEL trip to Afghanistan.

Nancy Pelosi's weekend visit to Afghanistan included Adam Schiff and a Republican you never heard of

Nancy Pelosi's weekend visit to Afghanistan included Adam Schiff and a Republican you never heard of
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/21/1893990/-Nancy-Pelosi-s-weekend-visit-to-Afghanistan-included-Adam-Schiff-and-a-Republican-you-never-heard-of

lone Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee who has announced he won't seek reelection.

#9886124 at 2020-07-07 19:08:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12651: WWG1WGA Edition

>>9886113
>>9886113
> Republican you never heard of
lone Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee who has announced he won't seek reelection.

#9832706 at 2020-07-03 00:33:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12585: Trust Dan Edition

THE U.S. MILITARY HAS BEEN fighting in Afghanistan for almost nineteen years. House Democrats, working in tandem with key pro-war GOP lawmakers such as Rep. Liz Cheney, are ensuring that continues.
Last night, the House Armed Services Committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of an amendment - jointly sponsored by Democratic Congressman Jason Crow of Colorado and Congresswoman Cheney of Wyoming - prohibiting the expenditure of monies to reduce the number of U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan below 8,000 without a series of conditions first being met.
The imposed conditions are by no means trivial: for these troop reductions from Afghanistan to be allowed, the Defense Department must be able to certify, among other things, that leaving Afghanistan "will not increase the risk for the expansion of existing or formation of new terrorist safe havens inside Afghanistan" and "will not compromise or otherwise negatively affect the ongoing United States counter terrorism mission against the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and associated forces."
The Crow/Cheney amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last night passed by a vote of 45-11. The NDAA was then unanimously approved by the Committee by a vote of 56-0. It authorizes $740.5 billion in military spending - roughly three times more than the world's second-highest spender, China.
President Trump throughout the year has insisted that the Pentagon present plans for withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan prior to the end of 2020. Last week, reports indicated that "the Trump administration is close to finalizing a decision to withdraw more than 4,000 troops from Afghanistan by the fall." Trump's plan "would reduce the number of troops from 8,600 to 4,500 and would be the lowest number since the very earliest days of the war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001." In February, Trump announced an agreement with the Taliban to end the war completely.
Shortly after those White House withdrawal plans were reported, anonymous intelligence officials leaked a series of claims to the New York Times regarding "bounties" allegedly being paid by Russia to Taliban fighters to kill U.S. troops. Those leaks emboldened opposition to troop withdrawal from Afghanistan on the ground that it would be capitulating to Russian treachery. It was that New York Times leak that Liz Cheney, along with GOP Congressman Mac Thornberry, cited in a joint statement on Monday to suggest troop withdrawal would be precipitous:
"After today's briefing with senior White House officials, we remain concerned about Russian activity in Afghanistan, including reports that they have targeted U.S. forces. It has been clear for some time that Russia does not wish us well in Afghanistan. We believe it is important to vigorously pursue any information related to Russia or any other country targeting our forces. Congress has no more important obligation than providing for the security of our nation and ensuring our forces have the resources they need. We anticipate further briefings on this issue in the coming days."

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/02/house-democrats-working-with-liz-cheney-restrict-trumps-planned-withdrawal-of-troops-from-afghanistan-and-germany/

#9829006 at 2020-07-02 19:51:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12580: Maxwell Spied before Mossad Formed, Digg Deeper Edition

House Democrats, Working With Liz Cheney, Restrict Trump's Planned Withdrawal of Troops From Afghanistan and Germany

The U.S. military has been fighting in Afghanistan for almost nineteen years. House Democrats, working in tandem with key pro-war GOP lawmakers such as Rep. Liz Cheney, are ensuring that continues.

Last night, the House Armed Services Committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of an amendment - jointly sponsored by Democratic Congressman Jason Crow of Colorado and Congresswoman Cheney of Wyoming - prohibiting the expenditure of monies to reduce the number of U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan below 8,000 without a series of conditions first being met.

The imposed conditions are by no means trivial: for these troop reductions from Afghanistan to be allowed, the Defense Department must be able to certify, among other things, that leaving Afghanistan "will not increase the risk for the expansion of existing or formation of new terrorist safe havens inside Afghanistan" and "will not compromise or otherwise negatively affect the ongoing United States counter terrorism mission against the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and associated forces."

The Crow/Cheney amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last night passed by a vote of 45-11. The NDAA was then unanimously approved by the Committee by a vote of 56-0. It authorizes $740.5 billion in military spending - roughly three times more than the world's second-highest spender, China.

President Trump throughout the year has insisted that the Pentagon present plans for withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan prior to the end of 2020. Last week, reports indicated that "the Trump administration is close to finalizing a decision to withdraw more than 4,000 troops from Afghanistan by the fall." Trump's plan "would reduce the number of troops from 8,600 to 4,500 and would be the lowest number since the very earliest days of the war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001." In February, Trump announced an agreement with the Taliban to end the war completely.

Shortly after those White House withdrawal plans were reported, anonymous intelligence officials leaked a series of claims to the New York Times regarding "bounties" allegedly being paid by Russia to Taliban fighters to kill U.S. troops. Those leaks emboldened opposition to troop withdrawal from Afghanistan on the ground that it would be capitulating to Russian treachery. It was that New York Times leak that Liz Cheney, along with GOP Congressman Mac Thornberry, cited in a joint statement on Monday to suggest troop withdrawal would be precipitous:

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/02/house-democrats-working-with-liz-cheney-restrict-trumps-planned-withdrawal-of-troops-from-afghanistan-and-germany/

#9624733 at 2020-06-15 21:24:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12319: Law And Order In The House Edition

Trump: US Will Reduce Troop Presence in Germany by Half Until Berlin Covers NATO Bill

Citing Berlin's alleged delinquency "in their payments to NATO," US President Donald Trump declared on Monday that Washington will reduce its military presence in Germany by more than half.

Following a roundtable on "Fighting for America's Seniors," the US president announced that the US troop deployment in Germany would decrease to 25,000 troops, according to Reuters.

"Germany as you know is…delinquent in their payments to NATO," Trump argued on June 15, claiming Germany owes NATO billions of dollars. "Why should we be doing what we're doing if they don't pay?"

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale noted that the so-called debt refers to the NATO target which urges every member to spend "2% of [its] GDP on defense."

Furthermore, the NATO target agreement has a 2024 deadline.

German Ambassador to the US Emily Haber confirmed on Monday that the Pentagon has received orders to carry out the planned reduction of US troops in Germany, according to Reuters.

This followed the issuance of a letter to Trump from 22 Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee who opposed such a move.

"The threats posed by Russia have not lessened, and we believe that signs of a weakened U.S. commitment to NATO will encourage further Russian aggression and opportunism," Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) said in the lawmakers' open letter to the US president.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202006151079623679-trump-germany-needs-to-pay-to-stop-us-troop-removal/

#9031028 at 2020-05-05 00:05:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11559: Your COLLECTIVE INFLUENCE Edition

Top House Republicans Announce Probe Into Chinese Efforts to Infiltrate U.S. Colleges
May 4, 2020
Press Release

Today, the top Republicans from seven different House committees - led by Oversight Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) - sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos asking for information about the Chinese Communist Party's investment in American colleges and universities to further its strategic and propaganda goals.

What the letter says:

"China has strategically invested in U.S. academia to attempt to steal confidential information and technology from U.S. companies, and even the U.S. government. Besides China peddling money for influence in U.S. institutions of higher education (IHE), China is restricting any research regarding the origins of COVID-19 that does not comport with CCP propaganda. To nations battling peak pandemic outbreaks, the CCP's Machinations undoubtably hamper the global response to the pandemic."

"For some time, we have been concerned about the potential for the Chinese government to use its strategic investments to turn American college campuses into indoctrination platforms for American students. For example, a 2018 Hoover Institution report notes the presence of some 110 'Confucius Institutes' on college campuses as well as over 500 "Confucius Classrooms" in secondary schools. While the stated mission of such institutes and classrooms is to teach Chinese language and culture, the report notes, 'faculty and other watchdogs have warned that they may present risks to intellectual freedom by using American universities as vehicles through which to advance Chinese Communist Party propaganda.'"

"These actions all bring into question whether U.S. IHEs receiving federal taxpayer dollars should be allowed to accept funds from China, the CCP, or other affiliated organizations. The interests of the two nations appear to have diverged."

Read the full text of the letter here.

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan was joined on the letter by the following top House Committee Republicans:

Virginia Foxx, ranking member of the House Committee on Education and Labor

Mac Thornberry, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee

Mike Rogers, ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security

Frank Lucas, ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

Devin Nunes, ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Michael McCaul, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee

What the signers are saying:

Ranking Member Jim Jordan: "We cannot allow a dangerous communist regime to buy access to our institutions of higher education, plain and simple. The Chinese Communist Party's coverup of the early outbreak of the coronavirus immeasurably worsened this disease's impact on the United States and the world. We owe it to the American people to hold China accountable and to prevent them from doing further harm to our country."

Ranking member Virginia Foxx: "China's lack of transparency and accountability for the global spread of the novel coronavirus has devastated communities, businesses, and schools across the world, including our institutions of higher education. Unsurprisingly, China is now attempting to suppress academic research into the origins of the pandemic. This is unacceptable. These strategic and disreputable acts from the Chinese Communist Party have proven to be commonplace and it is time for institutions of higher education to acknowledge how much money they accept from foreign actors. We must work together to protect our national interests by significantly reducing our universities' reliance on investments from adversarial foreign entities."

Ranking Member Mac Thornberry: "China's strategic investment in our institutions of higher learning has long been a concern. This is especially true where China appears to be targeting institutions doing research with the Department of Defense in an effort to obtain sensitive information."

Ranking Member Mike Rogers: "I'm grateful for the leadership of Ranking Member Jordan on this issue," Rogers said. "It's imperative we get a complete understanding of the depth of foreign influence in our higher education institutions. China has shown they will stop at nothing to push their narratives and silence those who speak out against them. They are not good faith partners with the U.S., and we cannot allow them to influence or have access to our higher education."

more sauce
https://republicans-science.house.gov/news/press-releases/top-house-republicans-announce-probe-chinese-efforts-infiltrate-us-colleges

#8920420 at 2020-04-25 19:02:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11418: Covid19-84 Edition

Congress Threatens to Reverse Military Opposed FCC 5G Ruling

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ignored 5G warnings and opposition from EVERYBODY including the Department of Defense (see 1, 2, 3, 4). Now Congress is finally stepping in.

From Just The News:

Bipartisan leaders of two powerful congressional committees told the Federal Communications Commission to reverse a ruling allowing a Virginia company to activate a 5G network that could disrupt military and other GPS signals.

The leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees wrote in an appeal Wednesday that they would force the issue through legislation if the FCC does not overturn its own decision to allow Ligado Networks to implement a network on the L-band spectrum.

Ligado's plan to use the L-band would risk interfering with signals that are important to national security, wrote Sens. Jim Inhofe and Jack Reed, along with Reps. Adam Smith and Mac Thornberry, who are the chairmen and ranking members of the two committees.

The four leaders noted that the country's current most pressing concern is the coronavirus pandemic.

"But the Federal Communications Commission has used the crisis, under the cover of darkness, to approve a long-stalled application by Ligado Networks - a proposal that threatens to undermine our global positioning system (GPS) capabilities, and with it, our national security," the leaders wrote.

The proposal from Ligado is opposed by multiple U.S. agencies, the leaders also reminded the FCC.

"The departments of Defense, Commerce, Interior, Justice, Homeland Security, Energy, and Transportation - as well as NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Coast Guard and the Federal Aviation Administration - all strongly object to Ligado's plan."

The committee leaders asked those FCC to cancel the Ligado ruling.

"If they do not, and unless President Trump intervenes to stop this from moving forward," they wrote, "it will be up to Congress to clean up this mess."

The FCC was considered a "Captured Agency" since before Trump was elected and they have become much worse (see 1. 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9. 10). Despite warnings and opposition, commissioners are using the pandemic as an excuse to speed up 5G installation (see 1, 2. 3, 4, 5). This includes launching tens of thousands of satellites with millions of antennas to blast 5G and WiFi from space (see 1, 2, 3). Lawsuits have been filed against the agency for NOT protecting Americans from unsafe levels of radiation (see 1, 2) and 5G (see 1. 2, 3).

5G opposition in the U.S. and worldwide continues to grow because of risks to biological health (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), cybersecurity (see 1, 2), environmental health (see 1, 2, 3, 4), privacy (see 1, 2), and more. Many cities and countries have taken action including banning it, issuing moratoriums, and passing ordinances (see 1, 2).

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/04/congress-threatens-to-reverse-military-opposed-fcc-5g-ruling.html

#8899987 at 2020-04-23 20:33:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11391: Planefags Got Our Six Edition

Congress tells FCC to reverse ruling that allows 5G, threatens to disrupt military - or it will

Bipartisan leaders of two powerful congressional committees told the Federal Communications Commission to reverse a ruling allowing a Virginia company to activate a 5G network that could disrupt military and other GPS signals.

The leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees wrote in an appeal Wednesday that they would force the issue through legislation if the FCC does not overturn its own decision to allow Ligado Networks to implement a network on the L-band spectrum.

Ligado's plan to use the L-band would risk interfering with signals that are important to national security, wrote Sens. Jim Inhofe and Jack Reed, along with Reps. Adam Smith and Mac Thornberry, who are the chairmen and ranking members of the two committees…

https://justthenews.com/government/security/armed-service-committee-leaders-threaten-legislation-reverse-fcc-ruling-5g

#8273845 at 2020-02-28 14:22:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10592: Blessed Are the Note Takers Edition

Legislators from both parties warn Pentagon not to move money to fund President Trump's border wall

https://www.kcra.com/article/legislators-from-both-parties-warn-pentagon-not-to-move-money-to-fund-president-trumps-border-wall/31116296

WASHINGTON -
Lawmakers from both parties told Pentagon leaders Wednesday that the Defense Department is undermining its own efforts to get military money by diverting billions of dollars for the construction of President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the committee's top Republican warned Defense Secretary Mark Esper that overturning congressional funding decisions to shift money for the wall is an enormous problem that will have consequences.

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The plan to shift money has triggered rare Republican opposition to one of Trump's priorities.
Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said the result may be that Congress will place greater restrictions on the Pentagon's ability to move money around to meet military needs. The chairman, Democratic Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, said the money transfer is "very, very damaging to the Pentagon."
"The message it sends is the Pentagon has plenty of money," said Smith, adding that it "undercuts any arguments for any need for resources."
The Pentagon announced this month that it was slashing billions of dollars in funding for Navy and Air Force aircraft and other military programs to free up money for the construction of the wall.
Esper approved the $3.8 billion border wall request from the Department of Homeland Security, and the Pentagon acknowledged that more cuts could be coming to provide additional dollars for the wall. Trump has repeatedly claimed that Mexico is paying for his promised "big beautiful wall," but that has never happened.

#8240003 at 2020-02-25 03:16:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10549 The "Listen Carefully" Edition

Trump To Personally Sign Capitulation To Taliban

US President Donald Trump said that he would personally sign the peace deal with the Taliban group if it were to happen.

"Time to come home," he said. "They want to stop. You know, they've been fighting a long time. They're tough people. We're tough people. But after 19 years, that's a long time."

The US and the Taliban announced the truce earlier in February.

It all depends on a 7-day reduction in violence, that started on midnight February 22nd against 23rd, Afghanistan time.

If the truce proves a success, it will be followed by the signing of the peace accord on February 29th.

"We think they want to make a deal. We want to make a deal. I think it's going to work out. We'll see," Trump said.

Trump expressed cautious optimism about reaching a peace deal.

"You know we have a certain period of nonviolence. It's been holding up, it's a day and a half so we'll see what happens. But people want to make a deal, and I think the Taliban wants to make a deal too, they're tired of fighting."

There is hope of reaching a peace deal.

"In general, we do see (a reduction in violence)," acting Afghan interior minister Masood Andrabi told AFP.

It should be noted that the "reduction in violence" is not a "ceasefire." The United States, the Taliban and Afghan government forces are expected to largely end all offensive operations throughout the country.

No details have been released to measure the success of the reduction in violence period, though a senior administration official told reporters in Germany this month that the terms were "very specific."

For the Taliban, that reportedly includes ending roadside bombings, suicide attacks and rocket strikes.

U.S. and Afghan forces, meanwhile, are expected to continue carrying out counterterrorism operations against ISIS and al Qaeda.

At a Pentagon briefing this past week, Rear Adm. William Byrne Jr. of the Joint Staff said Gen. Scott Miller, who leads U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, will oversee a "continual evaluative process" on whether the reduction in violence is holding.

The Pentagon hasn't said whether the United States agreed to withdraw all troops, but officials have talked about keeping a counterterrorism force there for the time being.

Some US Senators are skeptical of the deal, such as Lindsey Graham.

He said said he was "willing to give" the Trump administration's plan "a try." But he also ticked off a list of conditions he would consider an "honorable resolution," including a deal that protects human rights and women's rights and allows the United States to continue to "protect the American homeland from international terrorists."

Mac Thornberry, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, questioned how the United States would verify whether intra-Afghan talks are "real" or "a fig leaf."

Lawmakers also noted the Trump administration was previously close to signing a deal with the Taliban before it fell apart at the last minute.

Furthermore, regardless of what the US calls it, and claims that the Taliban want it more than ever, the fact is that Washington is admitting that it lost the war, after nearly two decades of the intervention. The US has essentially said that it couldn't deal with the Taliban group.

Trump will not only sign the US capitulation against the Taliban, he also boasts with it.

https://southfront.org/trump-says-he-will-personally-sign-peace-deal-with-taliban/

#7862573 at 2020-01-20 22:35:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10063: Patriots Have No Color and Take A Bow on this, MLK, Jr. Day! Edition

"The House Armed Services Committee's top Democrat and Republican joined a growing chorus of lawmakers warning Defense Secretary Mark Esper to reconsider plans to reduce military forces in Africa.
In a letter to Esper obtained by Defense News, HASC Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., and ranking member Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, urged the secretary to "carefully consider the adverse implications of reducing our force posture in Africa," cautioning that "the threat of violent extremism and terrorism persists" in the region overseen by U.S. Africa Command."

defensenews.com/congress/2020/01/17/smith-Thornberry-join-congressional-pushback-on-espers-africa-troop-drawdown-plan/

#7773579 at 2020-01-10 18:24:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9949: Keep Your Stick on the Ice Edition

Retiring House Republicans:

Will Hurd, Tex. 23rd (Partisan Voter Index, via Cook Political Report: R+1)
Tom Marino, Penn. 12th (R+17)
Jim Sensenbrenner, Wisc. 5th (R+13)
Susan Brooks, Ind. 5th (R+9)
Martha Roby, Ala. 2nd (R+16)
Sean Duffy, Wis. 7th (R+8)
John Shimkus, Ill. 15th (R+21)
Bill Flores, Tex. 17th (R+12)
Rob Woodall, Ga. 7th (R+9)
Paul Mitchell, Mich. 10th (R+13)
Pete Olson, Tex. 22nd (R+10)
Kenny Marchant, Tex. 24th (R+9)
Mike Conaway, Tex. 11th (R+32)
Rob Bishop, Utah 1st (R+26)
Mac Thornberry, Tex. 13th (R+33)
Chris Collins, N.Y. 27th (R+11)
Francis Rooney, Fla. 19th (R+13)
Greg Walden, Ore. 2nd (R+11)
Pete King, N.Y. 2nd (R+3)
Tom Graves, Ga. 14th (R+27)
George Holding, N.C. 2nd (R+7; before redrawn boundaries)
Ted Yoho, Fla. 3rd (R+9)
Mark Walker, N.C. 6th (R+9; before redrawn boundaries)
Mark Meadows, N.C. 11th (R+14; before redrawn boundaries)
Phil Roe, Tenn. 1st (R+28)
Duncan Hunter, Calif. 50th (R+11)
Retiring House Democrats:

José Serrano, N.Y. 15th (D+44)
Dave Loebsack, Iowa 2nd (D+1)
Susan Davis, Calif. 53rd (D+14)
Pete Visclosky, Ind. 1st (D+8)
Denny Heck, Wash. 10th (D+5)
House Republicans quitting to run for higher office:

Bradley Byrne, Ala. 1st (R+15) (Running for Senate)
Greg Gianforte, Mont. at-large (R+11) (Running for Montana governor)
Paul Cook, Calif. 8th (R+9) (Running for San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors)
Roger Marshall, Kan. 1st (R+24) (Running for Senate)
House Democrats quitting to run for higher office:

Ben Ray Luján, N.M. 3rd (D+8) (Running for Senate)
Retiring Senate Republicans:

Lamar Alexander, Tenn. (2020 Senate Race Rating, via Cook Political Report: Likely R)
Mike Enzi, Wyo. (Solid R)
Johnny Isakson, Ga. (Likely R)
Pat Roberts, Kan. (Likely R)
Retiring Senate Democrats:

Tom Udall, N.M. (Likely D)

https://www.axios.com/congress-republicans-democrats-retire-2020-8149a7a1-1878-47fc-b44d-b3970c858f47.html

#7759981 at 2020-01-09 06:37:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9931: It's Always Nightshift. Even During They Day. Edition

>>7746102 (pb)(pb)
>>7746552 (pb)
>>7746956 (pb)

Nancy Pelousie

>Who else besides the King did she meet with when she went to Jordan in October?
Majesty King Abdullah II
Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II
Prince Feisal bin Al Hussein
Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi
And other officials…???
>Was Soolamani in neighboring Syria at the time?
(((Digging)))
>How many degrees of separation between him & anyone she met with?
(((Digging)))
>Did she receive any notes at her hotel?
She did "compare notes with Mark Esper" in Afghanistan. At the hotel I believe. ( Mark Esper US Defense secretary who happened to be touring Jordan / Afghanistan and other locations)

Anyone…Anyone… have any thoughts or info making the one degree of separation connection with Pelousie and Soolnohandi? I know there is something here but just haven't found the key player …yet!

Pelousies delegation consisted of:

1.) Ranking Member Mac Thornberry, House Armed Services Committee
2.) Chairman Eliot Engel, House Foreign Affairs Committee
3.) Chairman Bennie Thompson, Homeland Security Committee
4.) Chairman Adam Schiff, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
5.) Congressman Ron Kind, House Ways and Means Committee
6.) Congresswoman Susan Davis, House Armed Services Committee
7.) Congressman Stephen Lynch, Chairman, House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on National Security
8.) Congresswoman Elaine Luria, House Armed Services Committee
8,) Fancy Nancy

#7662014 at 2019-12-30 14:34:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9804: Qanons Engaging in Critical Thinking Edition

>>7661961
Adam Smith Chair, D- WA, and Mac Thornberry, Ranking, R-Texas = hse armed services cmte
have to get woken up by CINC for ops that could start wars

#7579118 at 2019-12-21 07:09:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9696: Going Ham! Edition

Global Announcements
>>7528739, >>7528807 Request to BO for header correction
>>7501280 Codemonkey working on the timestamp bugs
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Notables
are not endorsements

#9695
>>7578998, >>7579008, >>7579015, >>7579057 F.B.I. Practices for Intercepted Emails Violated 4th Amendment, Judge Ruled
>>7578947 Today in history
>>7578937 GTMO842 otg @ NAS Norfolk
>>7578931 POTUS Signed all bunch moar Bills signed into law
>>7578804 Review Also in October 2016 the DOJ lawyers formatted the FBI information (Steele Dossier etc.) for the Trump FISA application
>>7578524 Trump Approves Russia-Europe Gas Pipeline Sanctions
>>7578766, >>7578912 Ham license bun Ham Radio Licenses for: Anthony Weiner, Eben Brofman, Khalid Awan, Mary Podesta
>>7578695 Our HERO Adm. Rogers Lays out the entire spying case. FISA abuse. Names all the players!
>>7578647 DOE announces another lightbulb efficiency rollback
>>7578629, >>7578657, >>7578771 George Soros under urgent investigation, allegedly funnelled millions To anti-Brexit activity
>>7578543 The Bee calls it! keksimus maximus
>>7578516 More than 100 Virginia cities, counties declare themselves gun sanctuaries as Dems prepare to take legislature
>>7578500, >>7578675 SAM778 Below 10k and on final Muni airport and SAM821 has started it's decent from 40k. Globemaster Still trailing both
>>7578468 Review 2018 Mike Rogers strays from fellow ex-intel officials over John Brennan's clearance>>7578409 PDJT The great Dem disgrace. But we are winning!
>>7578409, >>7578402 PDJT The great Dem disgrace. But we are winning!
>>7579064 #9695

#9694
>>7577647 DJT + Q 3612 'It's time'
>>7577666 new DJT = Vet mental health
>>7577716 New DJT - 'Widows Tax'
>>7577755 New DJT - 'Total Witch Hunt'
>>7577773 New DJT - proud of Jim Inhofe
>>7577797 Durham already has Mifsud's deposition (washington times)
>>7577835 New DJT - thank you Mac Thornberry
>>7577864, >>7577892 Soros - Investment Council of Ukraine 2016, behind 'Whistelblower Complaint'
>>7577695 List of Soros Politicians 'Bought and Paid For' Includes Republicans. good reminder.
>>7578026, >>7578044 Crowdstrike Collyer 702s
>>7578064 Soros - 2015 Hacked emails Bun
>>7577663, >>7577727 C material refers to Crown Material aka Steele Dossier
>>7578048 Maggie H changed her twitter photo. Picture includes stormy weather. Can't make out the word farthest to the left.
>>7578124 more on Alperovich notable from pb
>>7578130, >>7578302 planefag - GITMO842
>>7578148 New York Prosecutors Celebrate Unprecedented MS-13 Takedown
>>7578174 New DJT + vid -mashup of dem debate and potus grinning and winning
>>7578259 Ratcliffe says he has seen the documents that indicate that Comey and Brennan were running an op BEFORE the opening of Crossfire Hurricane
>>7578335 #9694

Previously Collected Notables
>>7576820 #9692, >>7577551 #9693
>>7573718 #9688, >>7574475 #9689, >>7575266 #9690, >>7576041 #9691
>>7570551 #9684, >>7571337 #9685, >>7572109 #9686, >>7572863 #9687
>>7567420 #9680, >>7568228 #9681, >>7568993 #9682, >>7569796 #9683
>>7564378 #9676, >>7565102 #9677, >>7565900 #9678, >>7566704 #9679
>>7561297 #9672, >>7562052 #9673, >>7562861 #9674, >>7563613 #9675

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#7578352 at 2019-12-21 04:43:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9695: It's time. For Some Late Friday Nightshift Edition

Global Announcements
>>7528739, >>7528807 Request to BO for header correction
>>7501280 Codemonkey working on the timestamp bugs
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Notables
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#9694
>>7577647 DJT + Q 3612 'It's time'
>>7577666 new DJT = Vet mental health
>>7577716 New DJT - 'Widows Tax'
>>7577755 New DJT - 'Total Witch Hunt'
>>7577773 New DJT - proud of Jim Inhofe
>>7577797 Durham already has Mifsud's deposition (washington times)
>>7577835 New DJT - thank you Mac Thornberry
>>7577864, >>7577892 Soros - Investment Council of Ukraine 2016, behind 'Whistelblower Complaint'
>>7577695 List of Soros Politicians 'Bought and Paid For' Includes Republicans. good reminder.
>>7578026, >>7578044 Crowdstrike Collyer 702s
>>7578064 Soros - 2015 Hacked emails Bun
>>7577663, >>7577727 C material refers to Crown Material aka Steele Dossier
>>7578048 Maggie H changed her twitter photo. Picture includes stormy weather. Can't make out the word farthest to the left.
>>7578124 more on Alperovich notable from pb
>>7578130, >>7578302 planefag - GITMO842
>>7578148 New York Prosecutors Celebrate Unprecedented MS-13 Takedown
>>7578174 New DJT + vid -mashup of dem debate and potus grinning and winning
>>7578259 Ratcliffe says he has seen the documents that indicate that Comey and Brennan were running an op BEFORE the opening of Crossfire Hurricane
>>7578335 #9694

#9693
>>7576901 An NGO co-funded by George Soros was spared prosecution in 2016 after the US urged Ukraine to drop a corruption probe targeting the group
>>7577317, >>7577264, >>7577386 some digs on ukraine NGos
>>7577428 Ukraine leads to George Soros
>>7576920, >>7576980, >>7577011 Dimitri Alperovich (Crowdstrike) held a special government employee status with Pentagon 2013-2014
>>7577017 POTUS Schedule for the Weekend of December 21st & 22nd, 2019
>>7577399, >>7577355 New DJT, letters from POTUS to federal workers and us mil
>>7577343 Former Alabama Youth Minister Sentenced to Over 1,000 Years for Sexually Abusing Multiple Teens
>>7577396, >>7577453 planefag watching some skies, two gulfs at 40k and c17 (escort?) same path going same place, tinles pf almonds
>>7577501 new DJT - time to put House Ds on trial
>>7577551 #9693

#9692
>>7576790, BJ, BB, and RG all going after GS
>>7576536, >>7576717 Ben Garrison (actually Tina) Corney cartoon
>>7576609 KNOWINGLY: Nancy knew full well
>>7576618 Boris Johnson wants Voter ID! (Independent)
>>7576639 Barr name drops SOROS
>>7576597 Rudy: Documents PROVE Hunter Biden, Burisma Corruption, names SOROS
>>7576543, >>7576493 GPapa: Lil Joey Mifsud is not sleeping with the fishes. More to come.
>>7576305 DJT rt @DeptofDefense: NDAA signing livestream (concluded)
>>7576258, >>7576262 Surveillance Court Orders Review of Actions by Ex-F.B.I. Lawyer (Failing NYT)
>>7576246 >BIG >D5 >Collyer >FISA fraud
>>7576207, >>7576226 Jay Raymond first Chief of Space Operations, United States Space Force
>>7576218 Alphabet grants CEO Pichai largest ever stock award, again (Reuters)
>>7576180, >>7576253, >>7576378 SPACE FORCE is official!
>>7576169, >>7576231 CA leads nation in no of residents 25 and older who never finished 9th Grade
>>7576163, >>7576311 5 earthquakes in less than a day rattle secretive Navy base in Mojave Desert, USGS says
>>7576125 Bolsonaro says journalist has a 'homosexual's face' (Fox)
>>7576820 #9692

Previously Collected Notables
>>7573718 #9688, >>7574475 #9689, >>7575266 #9690, >>7576041 #9691
>>7570551 #9684, >>7571337 #9685, >>7572109 #9686, >>7572863 #9687
>>7567420 #9680, >>7568228 #9681, >>7568993 #9682, >>7569796 #9683
>>7564378 #9676, >>7565102 #9677, >>7565900 #9678, >>7566704 #9679
>>7561297 #9672, >>7562052 #9673, >>7562861 #9674, >>7563613 #9675

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#7578335 at 2019-12-21 04:41:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9694: WITCH HUNT. No deals. Edition

#9694
>>7577647 DJT + Q 3612 'It's time'
>>7577666 new DJT = Vet mental health
>>7577716 New DJT - 'Widows Tax'
>>7577755 New DJT - 'Total Witch Hunt'
>>7577773 New DJT - proud of Jim Inhofe
>>7577797 Durham already has Mifsud's deposition (washington times)
>>7577835 New DJT - thank you Mac Thornberry
>>7577864, >>7577892 Soros - Investment Council of Ukraine 2016, behind 'Whistelblower Complaint'
>>7577695 List of Soros Politicians 'Bought and Paid For' Includes Republicans. good reminder.
>>7578026, >>7578044 Crowdstrike Collyer 702s
>>7578064 Soros - 2015 Hacked emails Bun
>>7577663, >>7577727 C material refers to Crown Material aka Steele Dossier
>>7578048 Maggie H changed her twitter photo. Picture includes stormy weather. Can't make out the word farthest to the left.
>>7578124 more on Alperovich notable from pb
>>7578130, >>7578302 planefag - GITMO842
>>7578148 New York Prosecutors Celebrate Unprecedented MS-13 Takedown
>>7578174 New DJT + vid -mashup of dem debate and potus grinning and winning
>>7578259 Ratcliffe says he has seen the documents that indicate that Comey and Brennan were running an op BEFORE the opening of Crossfire Hurricane

#9694
notables

#7578248 at 2019-12-21 04:31:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9694: WITCH HUNT. No deals. Edition

#9694
>>7577647 DJT + Q 3612 'It's time'
>>7577666 new DJT = Vet mental health
>>7577716 New DJT - 'Widows Tax'
>>7577755 New DJT - 'Total Witch Hunt'
>>7577773 New DJT - proud of Jim Inhofe
>>7577797 Durham already has Mifsud's deposition (washington times)
>>7577835 New DJT - thank you Mac Thornberry
>>7577864, >>7577892 Soros - Investment Council of Ukraine 2016, behind 'Whistelblower Complaint'
>>7577695 List of Soros Politicians 'Bought and Paid For' Includes Republicans. good reminder.
>>7578026, >>7578044 Crowdstrike Collyer 702s
>>7578064 Soros - 2015 Hacked emails Bun
>>7577663, >>7577727 C material refers to Crown Material aka Steele Dossier
>>7578048 Maggie H changed her twitter photo. Picture includes stormy weather. Can't make out the word farthest to the left.
>>7578124 more on Alperovich notable from pb
>>7578130 planefag - GITMO842
>>7578148 New York Prosecutors Celebrate Unprecedented MS-13 Takedown
>>7578174 New DJT + vid -mashup of dem debate and potus grinning and winning

#9694
notables

#7578136 at 2019-12-21 04:16:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9694: WITCH HUNT. No deals. Edition

#9694
>>7577647 DJT + Q 3612 'It's time'
>>7577666 new DJT = Vet mental health
>>7577716 New DJT - 'Widows Tax'
>>7577755 New DJT - 'Total Witch Hunt'
>>7577773 New DJT - proud of Jim Inhofe
>>7577797 Durham already has Mifsud's deposition (washington times)
>>7577835 New DJT - thank you Mac Thornberry
>>7577864, >>7577892 Soros - Investment Council of Ukraine 2016, behind 'Whistelblower Complaint'
>>7577695 List of Soros Politicians 'Bought and Paid For' Includes Republicans. good reminder.
>>7578026, >>7578044 Crowdstrike Collyer 702s
>>7578064 Soros - 2015 Hacked emails Bun
>>7577663, >>7577727 C material refers to Crown Material aka Steele Dossier
>>7578048 Maggie H changed her twitter photo. Picture includes stormy weather. Can't make out the word farthest to the left.

1 yay and 1 nay
>>7578048 Maggie H changed her twitter photo. Picture includes stormy weather. Can't make out the word farthest to the left.
let me know, yay makes a pretty good case, looks good

#9694
notables

>>7578111 - he tweeted Witch Hunt during this current bread name too

>>>7577695 List of Soros Politicians 'Bought and Paid For' Includes Republicans

>good reminder.
>Soros - 2015 Hacked emails Bun

#7497707 at 2019-12-13 17:39:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9590: Delta Farce? Allow us to counter! Edition

Republican Group Hits Donald Trump With Scathing New Billboard Campaign

A conservative group is targeting House Republicans with a digital billboard campaign that is heavily critical of President Donald Trump.
In the new ads, Republicans for the Rule of Law calls out Trump for prohibiting key witnesses in the Ukraine scandal from testifying in the House impeachment inquiry against him.
The ads show Trump with a finger over his mouth to indicate that he wants silence. He appears next to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in the images.
All apart from Trump have tape placed over their mouths to keep them from speaking.
"What Is Trump Hiding?" ask the ads, which will be placed in the congressional districts of House Republicans, including Reps. Greg Walden (Ore.), Mac Thornberry (Texas), Fred Upton (Mich.) Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) John Katko (N.Y.) and Martha Roby (Ala.).

House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment against Trump on Tuesday. Trump is accused of abuse of power in relation to his alleged pressuring of Ukraine's president to investigate potential 2020 Democratic rival Joe Biden, and obstruction of Congress, following his administration's stonewalling of the congressional probe into the initial allegation.
"The president doesn't own the government and he's not above the law," Republicans for the Rule of Law spokesperson Chris Truax said in a statement to HuffPost. "He's merely a caretaker acting on our behalf and when Congress demands an accounting, it's the President's duty to comply."
"President Trump has been given every opportunity to answer the charges against him," the statement continued. "He demands friendly witnesses, yet refuses to allow his most loyal supporters to testify. He complains the proceedings are unfair, yet refuses to allow his lawyers to participate in the hearings."
"If President Trump really could prove he is innocent of the impeachment charges against him, he would have made some effort to do so by now," Truax concluded. "If the President really does think the facts will exonerate him, why won't he let those facts come out?"
Last month, Republicans for the Rule of Law launched an ad campaign on Fox News in a bid to educate GOP voters on the facts of the Ukraine scandal.

http://www.tathasta.com/2019/12/republican-group-hits-donald-trump-with.html

#7473640 at 2019-12-10 18:30:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9559: What say it's RoundUp time!! Edition

Congress Has Released Its $738 Billion Defense Budget. Here's What's Inside

House and Senate negotiators have reached a deal on a defense policy bill aimed at avoiding a government shutdown, creating a Space Force, and getting rid of the so-called "widow's tax" that has been a main goal of military families for years.

A conference version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 2020, released late Monday evening, preserves a 3.1% pay raise for the military. The $738 billion bill, which includes an additional $5.3 billion earmarked for emergency disaster recovery, charts out a three-year "phased repeal" of the policy that requires VA payments to survivors of fallen troops to be deducted from Defense Department survivor payments.

It also lays the groundwork for the long-awaited creation of a sixth military service branch, U.S. Space Force. According to planning, the new service would fall under the U.S. Air Force and be populated by transferred Air Force personnel as it stands up. The plan also creates a new service chief position: Chief of Space Operations, reporting to the secretary of the Air Force and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

While the bill does not do away with the Feres Doctrine, which prohibits U.S. troops from suing the government due to injury, it does include a new provision that authorizes the secretary of defense to settle and pay administrative claims to amend for the death or injury of troops due to DoD medical malpractice, a change hailed as a step in the right direction.

In remarks over the weekend, both HASC Chairman Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., and ranking member Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said they expected a vote on NDAA in the full House could come Wednesday, with a Senate vote to follow.

The negotiators were working against a Dec. 21 deadline, when a continuing resolution on spending expires and could trigger a government shutdown unless compromise was reached on a range of issues.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/09/congress-has-released-its-738-billion-defense-budget-heres-whats-inside.html

#7441341 at 2019-12-06 20:43:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9517: Q Thinking Timing! Panic in DC! Edition

Here Are The Republicans In Congress Who Are Not Seeking Reelection In 2020

A large number of Republicans in Congress have decided they will not be seeking re-election in 2020, as the GOP is trying to take back control of the chamber.
There are currently eighteen GOP lawmakers in the 116th Congress to announce they would not seek re-election in 2020, according to a list put together by CNN. North Carolina Republican Rep. George Holding was the latest to make an announcement, saying Friday that he will not be seeking re-election.
Here is the list of Republican members of Congress who will not seek re-election in 2020:

Georgia Rep. Rob Woodall.
Indiana Rep. Susan Brooks.
Michigan Rep. Paul Mitchell.
Texas Rep. Pete Olson.
Alabama Rep. Martha Roby.
Utah Rep. Rob Bishop.
Texas Rep. Mike Conaway.
Texas Rep. Will Hurd.
Texas Rep. Kenny Marchant.
Illinois Rep. John Shimkus.
Texas Rep. Bill Flores.
Wisconsin Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner.
Texas Rep. Mac Thornberry.
Florida Rep. Francis Rooney.
Oregon Rep. Greg Walden.
New York Rep. Peter King.
Georgia Rep. Tom Graves.
North Carolina Rep. George Holding.

This comes as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she will be asking House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler to move forward with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/06/republicans-congress-not-seeking-reelection-2020/

#7203715 at 2019-07-26 19:18:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9216: Q drops NO NADS and puppets! KEK! Anons Know! Edition

Don't Turn On Your $2B Missile Defense System: Sen. Lindsey Graham's Unprecedented Suggestion To Turkish Foreign Minister

In an unprecedented development, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu with a proposition that could salvage the US-Turkey relationship.

Allegedly, Graham called Cavusoglu on behalf of US President Donald Trump and offered that Turkey could simply "not turn on" the Russian S-400 missile defense system, which it approximately $2 billion for.

Imagine the equivalent of buying a state-of-the-art oven, and then never using it once because your mother-in-law would prefer you to use her old oven, which you must first purchase, at a higher price, and if you don't - then you need to divorce her daughter.

That's actually what the situation appears to be - Turkey said the S-400 deal was over. The US offered Patriot at an unacceptable price and under unacceptable terms. Then, upset that Turkey said the S-400 was the best deal they could get and it was finalized, they sanctioned Turkey over it.

"I'm in the camp of, if they don't activate the S-400, the sanctions don't have to be applied. My hope is to persuade Turkey not to active the system because it's so disruptive to the relationship," Graham told Defense One. "My pitch to Turkey was, let's stand down on the S-400, let's start free trade agreement negotiations."

If Turkey turns on the advanced air defense system, Graham said, the U.S. relationship with NATO ally Turkey "takes a very dark turn."

Furthermore, according to Defense One some US Senators expressed willingness to implement quick sanctions on Turkey in relation to the purchase and the upcoming activation of the S-400.

But at a private meeting with Republican senators on July 23rd, Trump asked lawmakers for "flexibility" in responding to the purchase, NBC News reported.

After that meeting, Trump "told me to call Turkey," Graham said.

"I think there's space to do a free trade agreement if we don't activate the system," he said. "If the system gets activated, there are no options left, the [sanctions] law is clear."

The White House declined to comment.

This is an absurd turn of events, if it did really happen - why would the equivalent of a MP of a country call the Foreign Minister of another country to express the President's wishes?

And this isn't the first time it happens, on July 19th, Trump allegedly sent Senator Rand Paul to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, instead of possibly attending himself or sending US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

"Why Graham? Where's the secretaries of State and Defense? Isn't this their job?" said former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in an email.

As a result of the purchase and delivery of the components of the S-400 missile defense system, Turkey was booted out of the F-35 program, with all its pilots returning home from the US and it being removed from the supply chain.

Some Republicans argued that this was punishment enough and that sanctioning a NATO ally "is a harder question."

"Maybe you would look at certain sanctions, but I think it's important not to just go too far in a way that would make it hard for Turkey to reconcile back with the United States and NATO, post Erdo?an. It's a fine line," House Armed Services Ranking Member Mac Thornberry said. "Turkey is and continues to be a very important country, a very important NATO ally, we have lots of things that we do with them. You want to send a message, but you don't want to alienate them forever."

Defense One cited analyst Andrew Hunter, who was puzzled as to how exactly Graham/Trump's suggestion could possibly lead to anything.

"I guess I'm not seeing how - 'They buy it, but they don't turn it on' - I'm not sure what problem that's solving," said Andrew Hunter, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "If the message is, 'we won't sanction you until you turn it on,' it could be an effort to play for time" until the U.S. is able to persuade Ankara to return the system to Russia, he suggested - "but it seems like that's a bridge that's already been crossed."

"And of course," he noted, "it doesn't make a whole lot of sense from the Turkish perspective."

Separately, Russia isn't wasting any time and offered to sell Turkey Su-35 fighter jets after it was expelled from the F-35 joint strike fighter program.

https://southfront.org/dont-turn-on-your-2b-missile-defense-system-sen-lindsey-grahams-unprecedented-suggestion-to-turkish-foreign-minister/

#7093089 at 2019-07-19 04:30:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9076: Trump Cards! More Than We Knew! Edition

>>7093057

The group of four House Armed Services Committee lawmakers, including ranking member Rep. Mac Thornberry (Texas), argued it is a national security imperative to move forward with the contract, which is expected to be awarded later this summer.

The Republican lawmakers in the Thursday letter pointed out courts have sided with the DOD.
The signatories included Republican Reps. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.),
Michael Turner (Ohio) and
Rob Wittman (Va).

#6822280 at 2019-06-23 12:36:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8725: The Breaking Balls Edition

>>6821934

June 23rd, 2019

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Mont., 2020 presidential candidate. The panel includes fatass NeverTrumper Karl Rove, former White House Turd Blossom to George W. Bush; Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist; Buzzed media guy Howard Kurtz, host of "MediaBuzz"; and Mo Elleithee, executive Commissar of Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service (for Communism).

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): President Donald Trump. The panel will be Peter Baker of The New York Slimes; Lanhee Chen, research fellow, Hoover Institution, and director of Domestic Policy Studies, Stanford University; Peggy Noonan, shrill, dried-up and irrelevant Never Trumper of The Wall Street Journal; and Kristen Welker of NBC Spews.

FACE THE NATION (CBS):Vice President Mike Pence; Senator Burny Sanders, I(diot)-Vt. And NOPE*; Rep. Adam Smith, D(elusional)-Wash.; Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas. The panel will be Ed O'Keefe of CBS, Salena Zito of Washington Examiner; and Jamal Simmons of Hill.TV (pronounced Hell.TV).

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Booker, D(emented)-N.J. & NOPE*; Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas; Adm. Mike Mullen, U.S. Navy (Ret) and former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The panel will be ABC's Chief Propagandist Matthew Dowd, Republican Strategist Sara Fagen, Demented demoncrat Strategist Arshad Hasan and the soft-spoken communist Ayesha Rascoe, of the NPR.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Reps. Adam Schitt, D(eranged)-Calif., Pramila Jayapal, D(eranged)-Wash., and Michael Waltz, R-Fla. The panel will be Waltz; Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D(eranged, still)-Wash.; Bakari Sellers, former Deranged demoncrat South Carolina House member; and Amanda Carpenter, Never Trumper former communications director, Senator Ted Cruz.

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): Kevin McAleenan, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.; former Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.

*NOPE = "Never Obtain the Presidency, Ever"

#6799520 at 2019-06-20 17:58:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8697: Shills Can Go to Hell Edition

Top DoD Official Shank Resigns; SCO Moving To DARPA

https://breakingdefense.com/2019/06/top-dod-official-shank-resigns-sco-moving-to-darpa/

"Griffin has pushed hard for the transfer of the SCO but Rep. Mac Thornberry, top HASC Republican, added language calling for more study of the move in the HASC National Defense Authorization Act markup last Wednesday. The Senate Armed Services Committee added similar language. They are not alone in opposing the transfer of SCO, which has been seen as the lead Pentagon office for taking advanced technologies and getting them into the hands of troops quickly, within two to five years. DARPA is not designed to do that. Instead, the famous office - responsible for creating the Internet - traditionally focuses on testing very advanced capabilities that may or not make into the hands of troops any time soon"

#6568721 at 2019-05-23 20:00:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8399: Where are the Day-Shift Bakers Edition

SecDef Orders New Limits on Military Reporting to Congress

Pentagon says new limits actually increase transparency

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has issued a new memo imposing major new restrictions on the methods through which the Pentagon and defense officials are allowed to share information with Congressional offices or committees.

The policy imposes serious limits, telling officials to only give Congress official summaries instead of actual plans, and sets officials within the Pentagon who decide whether a Congressional request can be proven to be legitimate.

This is clearly intended to further limit information sharing at a time when many in Congress are complaining they're already not being kept sufficiently informed. Reps. Adam Smith (D-WA) and Mac Thornberry (R-TX) warned that the new policy is overstepping the Pentagon's authority, by "presuming to determine what warrants legislative oversight."

The Pentagon tried to spin this as the exact opposite, even though it clearly establishes several new limits to informing Congress. They argued that because no official limits existed before Shanahan's memo, any specific limits must necessarily provide a real guideline, and would actually increase transparency in the long run.

No one believes that, of course, but with the Trump Administration withholding more and more from Congress and the media, it is in keeping with the general direction of opacity.

https://news.antiwar.com/2019/05/22/secdef-orders-new-limits-on-military-reporting-to-congress/

#6559302 at 2019-05-22 17:36:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8387: Wednesday Winning Edition

Shanahan orders new restrictions on sharing of military operations with Congress: report

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has ordered new restrictions on how the Pentagon shares information about international military operations with Congress, according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.

The May 8 document lists criteria for when Defense Department officials are allowed to provide congressional offices or committees with information regarding operational plans and orders, according to the newspaper.

The memo comes amid criticism from Capitol Hill that the Trump administration is withholding information to impede a slate of oversight probes in the House. Some lawmakers have also expressed concerns that the Defense Department is becoming too involved in President Trump's immigration policy, according to the Post

"Congress oversees the Department of Defense; but with this new policy, the department is overstepping its authority by presuming to determine what warrants legislative oversight," Reps. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Mac Thornberry (R-Tex.), the chair and ranking Republican of the House Armed Services Committee, told the Post.

The Pentagon hit back at the criticism, saying the new policy is intended to increase transparency between the Pentagon and Congress.

"In establishing this policy, Secretary Shanahan seeks to increase transparency and information-sharing with Congress. Under his direction, the Department of Defense has been engaging with the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to develop a process for providing Congress with access to plans and operational orders, including Executive Orders. This policy establishes such a process. Previously, no such policy existed," Joe Buccino, a spokesman for Shanahan, said in a statement to The Hill.

The memo, which was reportedly shared widely within the Pentagon but was sent to key lawmakers after inquiries from The Post, lists six guidelines for information sharing with Capitol Hill.

The document orders military officials and political appointees to determine whether a congressional request "contains sufficient information to demonstrate a relationship to the legislative function" and urges officials to provide a summary briefing instead of the requested plan or order itself.

It also gives responsibility for evaluating congressional requests to the undersecretary of defense for policy, often a political appointee. Officials across the Pentagon previously responded to requests on an ad hoc basis.

The memo appears to arise from worries that lawmakers could leak military plans, calling on officials to evaluate "whether the degree of protection from unauthorized disclosure that Congress will afford to the plan is equivalent to that afforded" by the Pentagon, according to The Post.

The memo "seems to be another way in which they can claim that they don't need to respond to legitimate inquiry of Congress," Sen. Jack Reed, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the Post.

"From what I can glean from the memorandum basically they can use any factor they want to say no and they can make a determination what they think we need to do our job," he continued. "I think we're better positioned to determine what we need to do our job."

An anonymous Pentagon official told The Post that the agency's officials had been worried about potential congressional interference in the formulation of military plans, what the Defense Department considers to be an executive branch function. The official added that Congress had been most interested in Special Operations activities, which are highly sensitive and have produced significant public backlash in recent years.

Shanahan is due to appear in an upcoming confirmation hearing in front of the Senate after Trump nominated him to be Secretary of Defense, a position Shanahan has taken on an Acting basis after the resignation of James Mattis.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/445025-shanahan-orders-new-restrictions-on-sharing-of-military-information-with

#6535017 at 2019-05-19 12:38:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8356: Night Bread Will Be Fun They Said

May 19th, 2019

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D(elusional)-Minn.(NOPE*), and Pat Toomey, R-Pa. The discussion panel will include Ben Domenech, Co-founder & Publisher of The Federalist, Julie Pace, Washington Bureau Chief Propagandist, The Associated Pressitudes, Katie Pavlich, Townhall Editor/ Fox News Contributor and Mo Elleithee, Executive Commissar & Director of Georgetown University's Institute of "Leftwing" Politics and Public Service/Fox News Contributor

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Bernie Sanders, I(diot)-Vt. (NOPE). The discussion panel includes Rich Lowry, National Never-Trumper Review, Janet Napolitano, Premier of the University of California Politburo, Heidi Przybyla, Looney MSNBC Propagandist and Eugene Robinson, bizarre, mentally-challenged columnist and Chief Black Racist for the Amazon Bozos Post.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D(eranged)-N.Y. (NOPE); Rep. Adam Schitt, D(eranged)-Calif. The panel will be Peter Baker, White House Propagandist for the New York Slimes; Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, Washington Examiner; Jamelle Bouie, the New York Slimes (and Black Liberation Theologist) and Ed Wong, diplomatic and international propagandist for the New York Slimes. Better get some Brawny paper towels, it's sure gonna be slimey!

THIS WEEK (ABC): Reps. Tulsi Gabbard, D(illusional)-Hawaii (NOPE), and Seth Moulton, D(illusional)-Mass. (NOPE); former Gov. John Hickenlooper, D(illusional)-Colo. (NOPE). Three NOPEs! The panel includes Jonathan Karl, Chief White House Propagandist for ABC News Chris Christie, former Governor, R-N.J., Heidi Heitkamp, former D(illusional) senator (and loser) from North Dakota; Yvette Simpson, Democracy for America (a progressive political action committee).

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. Mitt McCain-Romney, R(INO)-Utah; Gov. Steve Bullock, D(emented)-Mont. (NOPE); Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D(emented)-Wash. The panel includes: Rick Santorum, former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania; Bakari Sellers, first vice chairman of the South Carolina Demonicrat Party; Mia Love, Former US Representative, NeverTrumpe(R)-Utah.

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): . Doug Collins, R-Ga.; Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., House minority leader; Rep. Debbie Dingell, D(umbass)-Mich.; Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas; former Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.

*NOPE = "Never Obtain the Presidency, Ever"

#6535006 at 2019-05-19 12:32:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8356: Night Bread Will Be Fun They Said

Sunday Morning Talk Shows - May 19, 2019

May 19th, 2019

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D(elusional)-Minn.(NOPE*), and Pat Toomey, R-Pa. The discussion panel will include Ben Domenech, Co-founder & Publisher of The Federalist, Julie Pace, Washington Bureau Chief Propagandist, The Associated Pressitudes, Katie Pavlich, Townhall Editor/ Fox News Contributor and Mo Elleithee, Executive Commissar & Director of Georgetown University's Institute of "Leftwing" Politics and Public Service/Fox News Contributor

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Bernie Sanders, I(diot)-Vt. (NOPE). The discussion panel includes Rich Lowry, National Never-Trumper Review, Janet Napolitano, Premier of the University of California Politburo, Heidi Przybyla, Looney MSNBC Propagandist and Eugene Robinson, bizarre, mentally-challenged columnist and Chief Black Racist for the Amazon Bozos Post.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D(eranged)-N.Y. (NOPE); Rep. Adam Schitt, D(eranged)-Calif. The panel will be Peter Baker, White House Propagandist for the New York Slimes; Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, Washington Examiner; Jamelle Bouie, the New York Slimes (and Black Liberation Theologist) and Ed Wong, diplomatic and international propagandist for the New York Slimes. Better get some Brawny paper towels, it's sure gonna be slimey!

THIS WEEK (ABC): Reps. Tulsi Gabbard, D(illusional)-Hawaii (NOPE), and Seth Moulton, D(illusional)-Mass. (NOPE); former Gov. John Hickenlooper, D(illusional)-Colo. (NOPE). Three NOPEs! The panel includes Jonathan Karl, Chief White House Propagandist for ABC News Chris Christie, former Governor, R-N.J., Heidi Heitkamp, former D(illusional) senator (and loser) from North Dakota; Yvette Simpson, Democracy for America (a progressive political action committee).

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. Mitt McCain-Romney, R(INO)-Utah; Gov. Steve Bullock, D(emented)-Mont. (NOPE); Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D(emented)-Wash. The panel includes: Rick Santorum, former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania; Bakari Sellers, first vice chairman of the South Carolina Demonicrat Party; Mia Love, Former US Representative, NeverTrumpe(R)-Utah.

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): . Doug Collins, R-Ga.; Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., House minority leader; Rep. Debbie Dingell, D(umbass)-Mich.; Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas; former Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.

#5924245 at 2019-03-27 18:42:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7579: Doubling Down on Loud Screaming Edition

House Armed Services chairman denies $1 billion transfer for Trump wall

The U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee on Tuesday denied the Pentagon's plan to shift $1 billion to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, a move that while largely symbolic, highlights the concern lawmakers have about using the defense budget to pay for the wall.
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan announced on Monday that the Department of Defense had shifted $1 billion from other military construction projects to build part of the barrier along the southern border.
Democratic Representative Adam Smith, the committee's chairman, said the panel did not approve the proposed use of Pentagon funds.
His stance could end up being symbolic, as the Pentagon insists it has the authority to shift the money. However, it could prompt Congress to change the law to prevent presidents from taking similar action in the future.
A court battle over the issue is also likely.
"The committee denies this request. The committee does not approve the proposed use of Department of Defense funds to construct additional physical barriers and roads or install lighting in the vicinity of the United States border," Smith said in a letter to the Department of Defense.
During a House Armed Services Committee hearing that was in progress when Smith released his statement, Shanahan acknowledged that the decision to move money could impact the Pentagon's ability to reprogram funds in the future.
"It was a very difficult discussion and we understand the significant downsides of losing what amounts to a privilege," Shanahan said.
Shanahan's move to shift military dollars to pay for the wall without consulting Congress could lead lawmakers to cut off the Pentagon's authority to reprogram funds, something Smith hinted at during the hearing.
Lawmakers from both political parties were critical of the decision to use military funds for the wall.
"Changing decades of reprogramming practice is going to have difficult consequences for the whole government, but especially for the Department of Defense," Representative Mac Thornberry said in the hearing.
The House failed on Tuesday to override President Donald Trump's first veto of the "national emergency" he declared last month to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall that Congress has not funded.
Smith told the hearing that Trump's proposed $750 billion defense budget would not pass as it was proposed. That budget included $100 billion in a "slush fund" meant to fund ongoing wars but which the Pentagon intends to use to boost the amount of money it has available to avoid budget caps.

http://www.cuzzblue.com/2019/03/house-armed-services-chairman-denies-1.html

#5285540 at 2019-02-20 17:55:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6754: Light And Heat Edition

>>5285398
Thanks to Obarry Hussein for allowing propaganda to be pushed to the US.

The law below passed January of 2013, effective July 2.
Here's part of an article where buzzfeed was reporting truth. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mhastings/congressmen-seek-to-lift-propaganda-ban

Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban
Propaganda that was supposed to target foreigners could now be aimed at Americans, reversing a longstanding policy. "Disconcerting and dangerous," says Shank.

An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned.

The amendment would "strike the current ban on domestic dissemination" of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the independent Broadcasting Board of Governors, according to the summary of the law at the House Rules Committee's official website.

The tweak to the bill would essentially neutralize two previous acts-the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987-that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government's misinformation campaigns.

The bi-partisan amendment is sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry from Texas and Rep. Adam Smith from Washington State.

In a little noticed press release earlier in the week - buried beneath the other high-profile issues in the $642 billion defense bill, including indefinite detention and a prohibition on gay marriage at military installations - Thornberry warned that in the Internet age, the current law "ties the hands of America's diplomatic officials, military, and others by inhibiting our ability to effectively communicate in a credible way."

The bill's supporters say the informational material used overseas to influence foreign audiences is too good to not use at home, and that new techniques are needed to help fight Al-Qaeda, a borderless enemy whose own propaganda reaches Americans online.

Critics of the bill say there are ways to keep America safe without turning the massive information operations apparatus within the federal government against American citizens….

#5274389 at 2019-02-20 01:34:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6740: Outpouring of Love Edition

>5274363

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/nancy-pelosi-sergey-kislyak-meeting-235653

But a file photo from Pelosi's 2010 meeting with Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev shows Kislyak at the table across from Pelosi - then House speaker - and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Medvedev had been in the country for a meeting with President Barack Obama a day earlier and stopped in on Capitol Hill to meet with congressional leaders as well.

Asked to square Pelosi's comments with the photo of the meeting, a spokesman said Pelosi simply meant she never had a solo meeting with Kislyak.

"Of course, that's what she meant," said the spokesman, Drew Hammill. "She has never had a private one-on-one with him."

After Trump needled Pelosi on Twitter about the matter, Pelosi hit back with her own tweet and another statement from her spokesman.

"Leader Pelosi's answer to the question today was clearly about private, one-on-one meetings, which she has never had with Ambassador Kislyak," Hammill said. "The Ambassador was incidental to the 2010 meeting between then-Russian President Medvedev and then-Speaker Pelosi. Clearly, one needs to remind Politico that Attorney General Sessions lied under oath about a secret meeting amidst Russia's hacking of our election, which he also didn't disclose in a written questionnaire."

Also visible in the picture is Texas Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry. And a Democratic source noted that alongside Pelosi - but obscured in the picture - is former House GOP leader Eric Cantor.

#5225854 at 2019-02-17 19:07:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6677: Dub Dubs and Zero Deltas Edition

It old hat, bit q has posted about the media…so a little refresh:

https://m.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/US-Government-Funded-Domestic-Propaganda-Has-4668001.php

The U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm has begun the "unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption," John Hudson of Foreign Policy reported on Sunday.

The content arrives with the enactment of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R- Texas) and Rep. Adam Smith (D- Wash.), which was inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The reform effectively nullifies the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which was amended in 1985 specifically to prohibit U.S. organizations from using information "to influence public opinion in the United States."

The new law enables U.S. government programming such as Voice of America (VoA) - an outlet created in 1942 to promote a positive understanding of the U.S. abroad - t0 broadcast directly to domestic audiences for the first time.

VoA and other programs are now produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which shares a "strategic communications budget" with the State Department and has an annual budget of more than $700 million.

Nevertheless, BBG spokeswoman Lynne Weil insisted to FP that the BBG presents "fair and accurate news" and is not a propaganda outlet.

#4975247 at 2019-01-31 13:35:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6352: Justify Censoring Social Media Edition

2013: The Ramp-Up In Fake News Begins Here

The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 forbids information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion.

National Defence Authorization Act passed in January 2013 contained an amendment that nullified the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948.
The amendment was sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry from Texas and Rep. Adam Smith from Washington State

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 lifted the ban on the domestic dissemination of U.S. government-produced propaganda.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112hr5736ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr5736ih.pdf

The State Department can skip efforts to manipulate mainstream media outlets and directly disseminate campaigns of misinformation to the U.S. public.
If your cover's blown while spreading gov propaganda disguised as journalism, then it won't be seen as illegal.

Media outlets face little accountability for disseminating demonstrably false news – provided the lies are in the service of U.S. interests.
Dissent or question the narrative's veracity and be classified as "conspiracy theory" and deplatformed

And so begins a more pronounced skew toward parroting the official government narrative.

MSM begin hiring former government officials, including former U.S. intelligence directors, in positions once reserved for journalists.

CNN:
Michael Hayden, director of CIA/NSA
John Kirby, State Dept spox, Pentagon press secretary
James Clapper, DNI
Lisa Monaco, homeland security advisor
Spider Marks, head of US Army Intelligence

NBC/MSNBC:
John Brennan, CIA director
Jeremy Bash, CIA and DoD Chief of Staff

The Alliance for Securing Democracy
https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/about-us/advisory-council/

Advisory Council
Michael Morell, fromer acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Mike Chertoff, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
William Kristol, former editor at The Weekly Standard
Rick Ledgett, former deputy director at the NSA
John Podesta, pedophile
Mike Rogers, former FBI

Broadcasting Board of Governors / United States Agency for Global Media
https://www.bbg.gov/who-we-are/our-leadership/board/

#4726567 at 2019-01-12 18:09:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6031: A Thing Called "Leverage" Edition

Congress is preparing a bipartisan challenge to any Trump national emergency

Donald Trump's threat to declare a national emergency at the US border with Mexico is being taken so seriously inside Congress that a powerful committee is preparing a bipartisan challenge to the move.

The Democrat-led House Armed Services Committee, which oversees funding and operations of the Defense Department, has been united across party lines in its opposition.

If Trump declares a national emergency, the first step is to see "how he writes it, and how he does it," said Donald Norcross, a New Jersey Democrat on the committee chaired by Adam Smith of Washington state. "I am very confident there will be a legal challenge" to any declaration, Norcross told Quartz. "There needs to be."

Mac Thornberry, the committee's top Republican, said this week that he opposes using an emergency declaration to fund the border wall Trump demands: "We ought to fund border security needs on their own and not be taking it from other accounts." A lawsuit is from the committee would challenge Trump's right to use defense funds on projects not yet authorized by Congress, given that the proposed wall-and the border situation more generally-has no real link to the military.

The Defense Department has no role to play in any decision, a Pentagon spokesman told Quartz: "The White House is responsible for any declaration of a national emergency."

Any declaration of emergency will "have to go to a court challenge," said Democratic representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington state, co-chair of the progressive caucus and a member of the budget and judiciary committees. Emergency powers have only been invoked in the past in cases that involve US interests in war-torn regions or to combat terrorism. To put the border issue on the same plane, Jayapal said, "does a real disservice to real emergency situations."

During his visit to McAllen, Texas yesterday (Jan. 10), Trump said that "if for any reason we don't get this going" -referring to the $5.7 billion he says he needs for the wall - "I will declare a national emergency."

His words were given extra clout after Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican senator, told Trump to "build the wall now."

https://qz.com/1518627/congress-making-bipartisan-plan-for-trumps-national-emergency/

#4643882 at 2019-01-07 14:12:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5925: Black Forest Creatures Edition

>>4643764

Yep - this is the part we're missing Anons. [AS] Adam Smith

Smith co-sponsored, with Republican congressman Mac Thornberry, an amendment to the fiscal 2013 defense spending bill reversing previous bans on disseminating Defense and State Department propaganda in the United States, reversing the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987, designed to protect U.S. audiences from government misinformation campaigns.[18]

He literally is the source of fake news.

#4440750 at 2018-12-23 19:09:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5662: "Chicken soup" for RBGEdition

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>>4440678
>>4440693
>>4440694

House Armed Services Committee waiver granted

https://armedservices.house.gov/news/press-releases/Thornberry-praises-committees-vote-support-waiver-mattis

Jan 12, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON–Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, made the following comments after the Committee passed the waiver to allow retired Gen. James Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defense:

"Extraordinary times call for extraordinary leaders. That is why the Committee approved the exception that allows General Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defense. Ensuring there is no gap in the office is important to the safety and security of the United States. I have no doubt that the nation stands to benefit, once again, from the service of this extraordinary leader, thinker, and public servant."

#4061004 at 2018-11-28 17:16:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5168: Expert Shitposting Edition

>>4031007

Q's latest post is solely a message to Soros and blackhats. They are being informed it doesn't matter if "50 votes for the wall act" doesn't pass, they can build the wall anyway by showing clear proof Mr.Soros was directly funding and coordinating these migrant caravans. By doing this, they can show these were no real migrants but rather foreign invaders paid by Soros. This now makes it a matter of national security which grants president Trump the right to start building the wall without going through the usual process.

"50 votes for the wall act" recommends $25 billion dollars for the wall and and Security Trust Fund starting from or after october 1st 2018. Now take a look at this:

"President Donald Trump signed the Department of Defense appropriations bill on Friday, providing $674 billion to fund military operations in Fiscal Year 2019, which begins Monday(article publised on friday, September 28, 2018 just barely before monday, october 1st deadline)

By signing the bill into law before the Oct. 1 start to the fiscal year, members of Congress noted this was the first time in a decade the military received funding on time.

"When I became Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, too many of our senior commanders and DOD officials had become resigned to the notion that inadequate budgets and inefficient continuing resolutions were going to be facts of life far into the future," Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said in a statement. "These same officials had begun to view degraded readiness and lost agility as risk factors they would have to accept when facing increasingly sophisticated adversaries. Today, President Trump's signature begins to turn that situation around. It is a monumental achievement. By funding our military in full and on time, we can begin to restore its strength, agility, and effectiveness."

So basically Trump approved $674 billion for the military for year 2019 and since 2019 fiscal year already started on october 1st 2018, the military already has that $674 billion budjet in use. Isn't it pretty interesting how the "50 votes for the wall" act just happened to have same october 1st 2018 as the date from which they suggested $25 billion dollars should be used for the wall and Security Trust Fund(the voting on this act will take place next month by the way) Still confused? To put it short: if "50 votes for the wall act" doesn't pass, they will simply allocate needed funds from the $674 billion military budjet.

https://news.usni.org/2018/09/28/36944
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/7073/

#4022011 at 2018-11-25 10:35:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5117: Consider The Vastness Of Space Edition

>>4021690

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans
For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs …

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/

decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened?

Until this month, a vast ocean of U.S. programming produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks could only be viewed or listened to at broadcast quality in foreign countries. The programming varies in tone and quality, but its breadth is vast: It's viewed in more than 100 countries in 61 languages. The topics covered include human rights abuses in Iran, self-immolation in Tibet, human trafficking across Asia, and on-the-ground reporting in Egypt and Iraq.

The restriction of these broadcasts was due to the Smith-Mundt Act, a long-standing piece of legislation that has been amended numerous times over the years, perhaps most consequentially by Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. In the 1970s, Fulbright was no friend of VOA and Radio Free Europe, and moved to restrict them from domestic distribution, saying they "should be given the opportunity to take their rightful place in the graveyard of Cold War relics." Fulbright's amendment to Smith-Mundt was bolstered in 1985 by Nebraska Senator Edward Zorinsky, who argued that such "propaganda" should be kept out of America as to distinguish the U.S. "from the Soviet Union where domestic propaganda is a principal government activity."

Zorinsky and Fulbright sold their amendments on sensible rhetoric: American taxpayers shouldn't be funding propaganda for American audiences. So did Congress just tear down the American public's last defense against domestic propaganda?

BBG spokeswoman Lynne Weil insists BBG is not a propaganda outlet, and its flagship services such as VOA "present fair and accurate news."

"They don't shy away from stories that don't shed the best light on the United States," she told The Cable. She pointed to the charters of VOA and RFE: "Our journalists provide what many people cannot get locally: uncensored news, responsible discussion, and open debate."

A former U.S. government source with knowledge of the BBG says the organization is no Pravda, by a Somali expat with readers opposing al-Shabab. "Today, the military is more focused on manipulating news and commentary on the Internet, especially social media, by posting material and images without necessarily claiming ownership," reported the Post.

But for BBG officials, the references to Pentagon propaganda efforts are nauseating, particularly because the Smith-Mundt Act never had anything to do with regulating the Pentagon, a fact that was misunderstood in media reports in the run-up to the passage of new Smith-Mundt reforms in January.

One example included a report by the late BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hastings, who suggested that the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act would open the door to Pentagon propaganda of U.S. audiences. In fact, as amended in 1987, the act only covers portions of the State Department engaged in public diploMacy abroad (i.e. the public diploMacy section of the "R" bureau, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors.)

But the news circulated regardless, much to the displeasure of Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), a sponsor of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. "To me, it's a fascinating case study in how one blogger was pretty sloppy, not understanding the issue and then it got picked up by Politico's Playbook, and you had one level of sloppiness on top of another," Thornberry told The Cable last May. "And once something sensational gets out there, it just spreads like wildfire."

#3962899 at 2018-11-19 20:32:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5041: Wall of Concertina Edition

Pentagon Fails First Audit, Neocons Demand More Spending!

The Pentagon has finally completed its first ever audit and the results are as many of us expected. After spending nearly a billion dollars to find out what has happened to trillions in unaccounted-for spending, the long look through the books has concluded that only ten percent of all Pentagon agencies pass muster. I am surprised any of them did.

Even the Pentagon is not surprised by the failure of the audit. "We failed the audit. But we never expected to pass it," said Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan. Can we imagine any large US company subject to the prying eyes of the IRS being so unfazed by the discovery that its books have been so mis-handled?

As with all government programs, but especially when it comes to military spending, the failure of a program never leads to calls for funding reductions. The Pentagon's failure to properly account for the trillions of taxpayer dollars shoveled in year after year only means, they say, that we need to send more money! Already they are claiming that with more resources - meaning money - they can fix some of the problems identified by the audit.

If you subsidize something you get much more of it, and in this case we are subsidizing Pentagon incompetence. Expect much more of it.

Outgoing chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Mac Thornberry, warned against concluding that this mis-handling trillions of dollars should make us hesitant to continue sending trillions more to the Pentagon.

The failed audit "should not be used as an excuse for arbitrary cuts that reverse the progress we have begun on rebuilding our strength and readiness," he said.

The neocons concur.

Writing in the Free Beacon, editor Matthew Continetti (who happens to be Bill Kristol's son-in-law) warns that now is "the wrong time to cut defense."

But I agree with the young neoconservative Continetti. I would never support cutting a penny of defense. However the Pentagon's lost trillions have nothing to do with defense. That is money propping up the high lifestyles of those connected to the military-industrial complex.

Continetti and the neocons love to throw out bogeymen like China and Russia as excuses for more military spending, but in fact they are hardly objective observers. Look at how much the military contractors spend funding the neocon publications and neocon think tanks telling us that we need more military spending! All this money is stolen from the productive economy and diverted to enrich neocon cheerleaders at our expense.

Of course the real problem with the Pentagon and military spending in general is not waste, fraud, and abuse. It is not ten thousand dollar toilet seats or coffee mugs. The problem with military spending is the philosophy that drives it. If the US strategy is to maintain a global military empire, there will never be enough spending. Because there is never enough to control every corner of the globe. But if we are to return to a well-defended republic, military spending could easily be reduced by 75 percent while keeping us completely safe. The choice is ours!

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-19/pentagon-fails-first-audit-neocons-demand-more-spending

#3960008 at 2018-11-19 14:43:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5037: Thanksgiving Week Edition

>>3959949
US Government-Funded Domestic Propaganda Has Officially Hit The Airwaves

The U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm has begun the "unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption," John Hudson of Foreign Policy reported on Sunday.

The content arrives with the enactment of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R- Texas) and Rep. Adam Smith (D- Wash.), which was inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The reform effectively nullifies the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which was amended in 1985 specifically to prohibit U.S. organizations from using information "to influence public opinion in the United States."

The new law enables U.S. government programming such as Voice of America (VoA) - an outlet created in 1942 to promote a positive understanding of the U.S. abroad - t0 broadcast directly to domestic audiences for the first time.

VoA and other programs are now produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which shares a "strategic communications budget" with the State Department and has an annual budget of more than $700 million.

https://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/US-Government-Funded-Domestic-Propaganda-Has-4668001.php

#3712239 at 2018-11-03 12:54:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4714 Sticks and Stones vs M1A1 Abrams Edition

>>3712155
Heres a little write up on that…less legalese:
https://m.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/US-Government-Funded-Domestic-Propaganda-Has-4668001.php

The U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm has begun the "unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption," John Hudson of Foreign Policy reported on Sunday.

The content arrives with the enactment of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R- Texas) and Rep. Adam Smith (D- Wash.), which was inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The reform effectively nullifies the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which was amended in 1985 specifically to prohibit U.S. organizations from using information "to influence public opinion in the United States."

The new law enables U.S. government programming such as Voice of America (VoA) - an outlet created in 1942 to promote a positive understanding of the U.S. abroad - t0 broadcast directly to domestic audiences for the first time.

VoA and other programs are now produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which shares a "strategic communications budget" with the State Department and has an annual budget of more than $700 million.

Nevertheless, BBG spokeswoman Lynne Weil insisted to FP that the BBG presents "fair and accurate news" and is not a propaganda outlet.

A former U.S. government source explained that the BBG can now reach local radio stations in the U.S., meaning that the programming can target expat communities such as the significant Somali population in St. Paul, Minnesota.

"Those people can get Al-Shabaab, they can get Russia Today, but they couldn't get access to their taxpayer-funded news sources like VoA Somalia," the source told FP. "It was silly."

An alternative function was detailed last year by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a highly-respected officer who released a critical report regarding the distortion of truth by senior military officials in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Davis stated that the effective repeal of the Smith-Mundt Act is a strategic move in influencing U.S. public perception in regards to the Global War on Terror (GWOT).

He cites Colonel Richard B. Leap, who recommends that lawmakers "specifically address all prior legislation beginning with the Smith-Mundt Act that is limiting the effectiveness of Information organizations in the GWOT environment."

From Lt. Col. Davis:

In context, Colonel Leap is implying we ought to change the law to enable Public Affairs officers to influence American public opinion when they deem it necessary to "protect a key friendly center of gravity, to wit US national will."

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 appears to serve this purpose by allowing for the American public to be a target audience of U.S. government-funded information campaigns.

Davis also quotes Brigadier General Ralph O. Baker - the Pentagon officer responsible for the Department of Defense's Joint Force Development - who defines Information Operations (IO) as activities undertaken to "shape the essential narrative of a conflict or situation and thus affect the attitudes and behaviors of the targeted audience."

Brig. Gen. Baker goes on to equate descriptions of combat operations with the standard marketing strategy of repeating something until it is accepted:

For years, commercial advertisers have based their advertisement strategies on the premise that there is a positive correlation between the number of times a consumer is exposed to product advertisement and that consumer's inclination to sample the new product. The very same principle applies to how we influence our target audiences when we conduct COIN.

And those "thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs" appear to serve Baker's strategy, which states: "Repetition is a key tenet of IO execution, and the failure to constantly drive home a consistent message dilutes the impact on the target audiences."

So it appears the new content stream is an outlet for "uncensored news, responsible discussion, and open debate," as Weil told FP, as well as a vehicle for U.S. Information Operations.

#3473695 at 2018-10-14 14:45:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4405: Dark to Light Edition

>>3473620
The Alabama Mafia Wants All Rocket Engines Built In Alabama Forever

"At the end of February, two US representatives, Mike Rogers of Alabama and Mac Thornberry of Texas, decided to push a little harder. On February 28, they sent a letter to Lisa Disbrow, the acting secretary of the US Air Force, and James MacStravic, who is performing the duties of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics. In addition to reiterating a desire that ULA continue to fly a second rocket, the Delta IV Heavy, the letter urges the Pentagon officials to be skeptical about the BE-4 engine. … Although both Rogers and Thornberry are members of the House Armed Services Committee, it is difficult to avoid ascribing at least some political motives to the letter. In January, Aerojet Rocketdyne said it would produce the AR1 rocket engine in Huntsville, Alabama, creating 100 new jobs near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Already, another Huntsville company, Dynetics, has become a subcontractor for the engine's main propulsion system. (A spokesman for Rogers didn't not reply to a request for comment)."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/blue-origins-new-engine-isnt-good-enough-for-some-congressmen/

#3455336 at 2018-10-12 22:02:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4381: Friday Night Rally Night Edition

Rep. Ryan completes final trip to Afghanistan

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - House Speaker Paul Ryan completed a two-day trip in Afghanistan today.

Alongside Rep. Mac Thornberry of Texas, Ryan met with American soldiers to thank them for their service.

The representatives also met with American and Afghani officials to discuss the 17-year-old war, according to a press release.

The diplomatic trip will be Ryan's last, he said, as his term ends in 2019 and he has stated he will not run for reelection.

"Fighting terrorism in this region remains in our nation's vital interest and it is clear the current momentum of our military campaign is underpinning our diplomatic efforts to set the conditions for reconciliation," Ryan said.

Ryan visited several U.S. bases near Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. His meetings included one with the President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani.

Ryan's visit comes after Congress passed a funding bill that will increase U.S. military operations in Afghanistan

https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Rep-Ryan-completes-final-trip-to-Afghanistan-497266131.html

#2819064 at 2018-08-31 18:17:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3562: Fake News, Fake Polls Edition

>>2818782
The tweak to the bill would essentially neutralize two previous acts-the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987-that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government's misinformation campaigns. The BI-PARTISAN amendment is sponsored by REP Mac Thornberry from Texas and REP ADAM SMITH from Washington State.

Err…. anon, Article written by MICHAEL HASTINGS who was writing an expose on John Brennan when his sports car accelerated out of control and fire-balled into a tree.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mhastings/congressmen-seek-to-lift-propaganda-ban

#2585874 at 2018-08-13 20:24:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3263: POTUS Did NOT Say His Name Edition

Trump Signs Massive Defense Bill: Biggest Pay Raise For Soldiers In Nine Years

On Monday, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a bill authorizing an increase of over 15,000 troops as well as a long-overdue pay raise for soldiers. The military spending package includes $717 billion for national defense in the next fiscal year, according to the White House.

The additional soldiers will be divvied up this way: 487,500 for the Army, 335,400 in the Navy, 186,100 in the Marine Corps, and 329,100 in the Air Force.

In addition, $7.6 billion will fund 77 F-35 fighter jets and $24.1 billion for the building of 12 new battle force ships.

The White House authorized 2.6% pay raise for soldiers, terming it "the largest pay raise in nine years."

President Trump, who signed the bill, during a visit to Fort Drum in upstate New York, stated, "After years of devastating cuts, we are rebuilding our military like we never have before. Our bases and vital equipment were allowed to fall into a state of disrepair, ...but those days are over."

Stars and Stripes noted, "Trump's signature marks the first on-time passage of the NDAA in 22 years with the start of the 2019 fiscal year on Oct. 1."

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said:

I appreciate President Trump's commitment to strengthening our military, as evidenced by his signing this bill. his action, and the large votes in both the House and Senate, confirm that overwhelming majorities of both parties can work together on behalf of the men and women who serve our nation in the Armed Forces and their families. This measure continues to rebuild and repair our military while making needed reforms in the Pentagon. It takes important steps to confront the aggressive behavior of Russia, China, and others. Most of all, it helps ensure that our troops get what they need to carry out the missions they are assigned.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/34440/trump-signs-massive-defense-bill-biggest-pay-raise-hank-berrien

#2307559 at 2018-07-27 06:44:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2907 Late Night Edition WWG1WGA Edition

Threats, conditions & loopholes: $716bn NDAA takes on Turkey, China and India

The US House of Representatives has approved the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), allocating $716 billion to the US military. Here are some of the massive bill's more interesting provisions.

The House Resolution 5515, also known as the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year 2019, passed on the House floor on Thursday, with 359 representatives in favor and 54 opposed, most of them Democrats. If the Senate approves it on schedule, it would be the first NDAA in almost 20 years to be passed ahead of the fiscal year start on October 1.

Much of the bill extends and recycles provisions from previous NDAAs, but the conference report submitted by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, contains some intriguing provisions.

Banning China from RIMPAC and telecoms

The Senate draft of the NDAA would have banned China's ZTE Corporation and any of its affiliates or subsidiaries from doing any business with US government or private sector companies, but the latter provision was dropped in the compromise bill.

Section 889 still bans government purchases of ZTE and Huawei equipment, for the purpose of "public safety, security of government facilities, physical security surveillance of critical infrastructure, and other national security purposes."

Hytera Communications Corporation, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company, and Dahua Technology Company are also listed in the ban.

Furthermore, Section 1259 bars the People's Liberation Army Navy from participating in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) multinational maritime exercises for at least four years.

Before allowing China to attend RIMPAC, the Pentagon will have to certify to congressional defense committees that Beijing has "ceased all land reclamation activities in the South China Sea; removed all weapons from its land reclamation sites; and established a consistent four-year track record of taking actions toward stabilizing the region."

No F-35s for you, Erdogan

Section 1282 would stop any deliveries of the F-35 fighter jet to Turkey until the Pentagon and the State Department produce a report on the status of US-Turkish relations.

It calls for the report to assess US "military and diplomatic presence" in Turkey and the possible consequences of removing Turkey from the F-35 program, in light of Ankara's determination to purchase Russian S-400 air defense systems.

Turkey is one of the partner nations in the F-35 program, and plans to buy at least 100 of the fifth-generation fighter jets. The Lockheed Martin design has been plagued by operational problems and cost overruns, with the lifetime cost estimated at over $1.5 trillion.

If the Turkish supply chain was disrupted today, it would result in an aircraft production break, delaying delivery of 50-75 F-35s, and would take approximately 18-24 months to re-source parts and recover," Defense Secretary James Mattis wrote to Congress on July 7, urging the lawmakers not to block Turkey's participation in the program.

Buy our weapons, or else

The Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), adopted last July, mandates penalties against countries that buy weapons from Russia - including a ban on selling them US weapons.

Section 1294 of the newly passed NDAA contains a loophole, engineered to avoid some of those penalties. Waivers can be issued if the US intelligence community confirms the buyer is not engaging in "significant transactions"with Russian intelligence and security agencies, and the government in question is taking steps to reduce the share of Russian military equipment in its inventory, as well as cooperating with the US government on "other security matters that are critical to United States strategic interests."

This is widely seen as leaving the door open for Washington to woo India, which also wants Russian S-400s and other weapons systems but is also flirting with the Pentagon. Seeking allies against China, the US has already reached out to New Delhi, going so far as to rename its presence in the Far East the "Indo-Pacific Command."

What about the Space Force?

Much is being made of the NDAA not funding the new US Space Force, whose creation President Donald Trump ordered in June. The key word, however, is "yet." Section 1607 requires the Pentagon to develop a "space warfighting policy" by the end of March 2019, and produce a report on US space capabilities.

Meanwhile, Section 1675 envisions deploying space sensors as part of the missile defense system. The Pentagon was also told to complete a federally funded feasibility study on boost-phase missile defense capability using drones and "kinetic interceptors" by December 2021.

https://www.rt.com/usa/434382-ndaa-2019-pentagon-funding/

#2302587 at 2018-07-26 23:28:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General Edition #2901 Anon's Locked and Loaded Edition

The US House of Representatives has approved the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), allocating $716 billion to the US military. Here are some of the massive bill's more interesting provisions.

The House Resolution 5515, also known as the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year 2019, passed on the House floor on Thursday, with 359 representatives in favor and 54 opposed, most of them Democrats. If the Senate approves it on schedule, it would be the first NDAA in almost 20 years to be passed ahead of the fiscal year start on October 1.

Much of the bill extends and recycles provisions from previous NDAAs, but the conference report submitted by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, contains some intriguing provisions.

https://www.rt.com/usa/434382-ndaa-2019-pentagon-funding/

#2167288 at 2018-07-15 23:18:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2732: Watching The Waters Edition

>>2166278
That "Look here, Look There" part was brought up by me. It links back to Q drop #128.
Q !ITPb.qbhqo ID: Dx5TPc5d No.148779656
Nov 9 2017 23:07:15 (EST)
Trip added.
[C]oordinated effort to misdirect.
Guide to reading the crumbs necessary to cont[I]nue.
Attached gr[A]phic is correct.
Linked graphics are incorrect and false.
Graphic is necessary and vital.
Time stamp(s) and order [is] critical.
Re-review graphic (in full) each day post news release.
Learn to distinguish between relevant/non-relevant news.
Disinformation is real.
Disinformation is necessary.
Ex: US ML NG (1) False SA True
Why was this necessary?
What questions were asked re: SA prior to SA events?
Why is this relevant?
Think mirror.
Look there, or [here], or there, truth is behind you.
What is a map?
Why is a map useful?
What is a legend?
Why is a legend useful?
What is a sequence?
Why is this relevant?
When does a map become a guide?
What is a keystone?
Everything stated is relevant.
Everything.
Future provides past.
Map provides picture.
Picture provides 40,000ft. v.
40,000ft. v. is classified.
Why is a map useful?
Think direction.
Think full picture.
Who controls the narrative?
Why is this relevant?
What is a spell?
Who is asleep?
Dissemination.
Attention on deck.
There is an active war on your mind.
Be [p]repared.
Ope[r]ations underway.
Operators [a]ctive.
Graphic is essential.
Find the ke[y]stone.
Moves and countermoves.
They never thought she would lose.
Snow white.
Godfather III.
Iron Eagle.
Q

After finding the Qdrop, I ran some research on JFK and Iron Eagle.

Don't know if this was mentioned previously, but JFKs Air Force Chief of Staff was General Curtis LeMay. LeMay's nickname was Iron Eagle. He was known to butt heads with JFK, along with the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Carl Vinson.
You can read the article here. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/29/jfk-xb-70-lemay-constitutional-crisis-215203

Previously there had been discussion on the various names Qdropped: Iron Eagle, Geronimo, Snow White, Godfather III, +, ++, +++ etc. There was speculation on many tangents/levels as to their meaning: were these code names/Qteam members assisting Q?(THINK MIRROR. who would today's counterparts be? We know it's less than 10 and of those, 3 are Civilian); were they a specific reference to movies that have some bearing on how this is playing out in real life(Jason Bourne, Speed, Titanic, The Hunt for Red October, etc)? What exactly do these titles mean?

Think Mirror. Dark to Light

Gen. Curtis Lemay's present counterpart would be Airforce Chief of Staff David Goldfein.
Carl Vinson's present counterpart would be Mac Thornberry, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

Both of these men have exemplary service records. This information is not given to doxx Q or Qteam, but to give insight into who were the trouble makers for JFK back in the day(darkness), and who would be those counterparts today(Light). Gives some insight into who the cast of characters are, their background, experience, political stance on certain issues and how they hold their job/position within our government, and possibly in the Great Awakening. No coincidences, right?

#1555658 at 2018-05-27 11:02:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1955: Joey The Frog

The thought, and a good one, was to establish a barrier between government agencies and the media, and for 65 years the act stood unchallenged, given the role propaganda is generally reserved for in empowering dictatorial governments.

Fast forward to 2012. Under President Obama, the law was changed with the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, an act sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R- Texas) and Rep. Adam Smith (D- Wash.). The reform was quietly inserted into the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and effectively nullified the original 1948 act.

Let's be clear, the original law prohibited U.S. organizations from using state resources, including the intelligence community, to influence public opinion of United States citizens. Obama's reform to the Smith-Mundt Act allowed the American public to be a target audience of U.S. government-funded information campaigns.

https://ivn.us/2017/05/03/comey-accidentally-admits-plan-expand-propaganda-programs/

#1416146 at 2018-05-15 05:26:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1776: The Great Awakening Is The Second American Revolution

Anons, still digging on Iran payments. Found out that the documents outlining the payments are technically unclassified, but kept in a place where most (including many in Congress) cannot view them:
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-hiding-secret-hostage-docs-signed-iran-spymasters/

Personally, I think forgery. But it is encouraging that there are docs–POTUS can have them released at any time.

Details on the deal, esp. regarding where the planes left from, are sketchy. Supposedly the payments were made on Jan 22, 2016 and Feb 5th, with those two making up the $1.3 bn. in cash. Pompeo and Rubio were all over LL, trying to get info out of here–she pleaded the 5th, more or less, by having a flunky reply while she ignored them:
http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-10-07-Rubio-Pompeo-letter-to-AG-Lynch-on-Iran-ransom-payments.pdf

Finally, it is noteworthy that the final verdict is that the payments were a ransom; at least, that's how it was characterized in the DOJ's response letter:
http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-10-24-DOJ-response-to-Rubio-Pompeo-Iran-ransom.pdf

And here is Pompeo and Rubio's response:
http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/28OCT16-Letter-to-DoJ-re-Initial-Iran-Payment-Letter.pdf

This document gives the single greatest amount of info I've found on the whole affair:
https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hhrg-114-ba09-wstate-mdubowitz-20160908.pdf

There's a lot more to it than this. For instance, there was an American plane spotted in Tehran on 4-18-2014:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/world/middleeast/mystery-shrouds-american-plane-at-tehran-airport.html?src=twrhp

Still investigating. Also, trying to see how the deal evolved along with the message to sell it–specifically how the "Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012" might have allowed Ben Rhodes to use propaganda in order to sway public opinion. That act, btw, was passed by Republican Mac Thornberry–who recently spoke out about POTUS leaving the Iran deal. Pretty sure he's deepstate.

#1306999 at 2018-05-05 11:34:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1638: UNPRECEDENTED?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/defense-bill-would-authorize-trumps-military-parade/ar-AAwKFav?OCID=ansmsnnews11

House Republicans are supporting President Trump's planned military parade with a provision in the annual defense policy bill that would allow the event to go forward.

According to a summary of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released Friday, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) "agrees with President Trump that it is appropriate to honor and celebrate 100 years of patriotic sacrifice in a way that expresses appreciation and admiration for our men and women in uniform, including a parade in the nation's capital and a national celebration for that purpose."

#1112544 at 2018-04-20 06:16:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1390: Happy Birthday Hitler

>>1112501
U.S. Congressment Mac Thornberry

https:// Thornberry.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398311

#1112530 at 2018-04-20 06:14:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1390: Happy Birthday Hitler

>>1112501
Mac Thornberry

#906875 at 2018-04-05 16:17:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1126: The WAVE Edition

>>906800
Let's get to know U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas shall we….

#906800 at 2018-04-05 16:10:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1126: The WAVE Edition

Anons, here is why POTUS up all night. Q said 'pray. watch the news'. Another military jet down this morning. Tunderbird during training. This year 5 non-combat crashes, 9 dead. Last year 37 dead in non-cmbt crashes - 2X THE NUMBER OF 2016.

According to J Griffin of Fox, U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, WARNED in an interview Wed that he doesn't want to see the Trump administration ROB the Pentagon of critical readiness $$$ needed to fix military aircraft in order fund additional border security. These evil fucks really don't want a secure border do they?

http:// www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/05/thunderbirds-pilot-dies-in-f-16-crash-at-nellis-air-force-base-outside-las-vegas.html

#483245 at 2018-02-24 16:14:22 (UTC+1)
Q-Research #595: Holy Guacamole Edition: 649 pages & 27 Videos (CD Available), attached.

>>482722
The 2012/13 midnight Amendment to the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act basically legalized Project Mockingbird by removing the domestic ban on govmit dissemination of propaganda. Courtesy of two despicable members of Congress - Rep. Mac Thornberry from Texas and Rep. Adam Smith from Washington State. They introduced the Amendment, titled "The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012".

#65906 at 2018-01-16 16:51:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #78: The HA in Hawaii Edition

>>65057
Only 2 sponsors of the original bill-
Republican Mac Thornberry 13th District, Texas
govtrack.us/congress/members/Mac_Thornberry/400404
Democrat Adam Smith 9th District, Washington
govtrack.us/congress/members/adam_smith/400379
Anons in those jurisdictions and twitter anons could make contact to ask what were they thinking and what have they done to curb political abuse of propaganda in America since 2012.

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#181549 at 2024-02-01 23:38:09 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #977: We wanted left alone, (You) forced this, We Finish [IT] EDITION

>>181547

https://www.foxnews.com/us/string-of-us-military-aircraft-crashes-in-2018-continues-deadly-trend

String of US military aircraft crashes in 2018 continues deadly trend(Foxnews.com)

April 6, 2018 7:03am EDT
Deadly week: Crashes claim lives of 5 US service members

Senior U.S. general says mishaps do not represent a crisis; national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports from the Pentagon.

Three U.S. military aircraft crashes this week that killed five service members within two days have some on Capitol Hill worried the military's worn-out air fleet may not be getting the funding it needs.

At a press conference Thursday, the director of the Pentagon's Joint Staff refused to say the crashes marked a negative trend when a reporter asked if military aviation was in crisis.

"I would reject 'wave' and 'crisis,'" said Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. "We're are going to look at each one in turn. Each one is tragic. We regret each one. We will look at them carefully. I am certainly not prepared to say that it's a 'wave' of mishaps or some form of 'crisis.'"

But the crashes this week indicate a continuation of a disturbing pattern.

Air Force pilot killed in Nevada crashVideo
There have been five noncombat aviation crashes in 2018, killing nine service members - 37 were killed in aircraft crashes last year, nearly double the number killed in 2016.

Only 37 percent of Marine Corps CH-53E heavy-lift helicopters can fly right now, the head of Marine Corps aviation, Lt. Gen. Steven R. Rudder, told Congress in November.

"If you are flying a smaller number of airplanes, they break more frequently, and if you can't pay for the parts, you have a smaller number of airplanes, and so you're not getting the hours," Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert B. Neller told a Reagan National Defense Forum audience moderated by Fox News's Jennifer Griffin in December.

4 marines
The helicopter crash killed (left to right) Capt. Samuel A. Schultz, 1st Lt. Samuel D. Phillips, Gunnery Sgt. Derik R. Holley and Lance Cpl. Taylor J. Conrad. (US Marine Corps)
"Last year in aviation, we had a horrible safety year, probably the worst year in 10 years," Neller added.

"I think the high-op tempo and stress on the force over the past 17 years of continuous combat operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and elsewhere is catching up to the U.S. military," Todd Harrison, a defense expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Task & Purpose.

The Pentagon just received $700 billion in the massive spending bill signed by Trump last month - a sizable portion of that is supposed to help fix aircraft and improve pilot training.

Thunderbirds pilot killed in crash in NevadaVideo
A month after the Marine Corps transport plane crash killing 16, a Marine MV-22 Osprey crashed off the coast of Australia, while landing aboard a U.S. Navy warship. Three Marines drowned, 23 others were rescued.

Days later, Neller ordered all of his aircraft grounded for 24 hours.

Eight hours before the deadly Super Stallion crash in Southern California, a Marine Corps Harrier jet crashed shortly after takeoff in the East African nation of Djibouti.

The pilot ejected, and was released from the hospital later in the week, according to the Marines.

But just a day later, a Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion was forced to make an emergency landing on a beach in Djibouti causing minor damage. No marines were hurt.

But the two crashes in consecutive days were enough for the Djibouti government to ground all U.S. military flights Thursday, including Reaper drones from the largest American base in Africa - hindering counterterrorism operations in nearby Somalia and Yemen, where the U.S. military has launched dozens of airstrikes this year.

The U.S. military cut short a two-week training exercise, which had just started in Djibouti when the grounding was announced, potentially robbing American forces of vital training.

A year ago, the exercise was dubbed "preparation for real-world missions in the region - because we don't get 'do-overs' when it comes to crisis operations," said Navy Cmdr. Tom Sandoval, a deputy operations director at the time.

US military aircraft crashes on the riseVideo
House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, warned the White House in an interview earlier this week not to "rob" the military's readiness money to fund the National Guard at the border.

When President George W. Bush sent 6,000 troops to the border, it cost $415 million - money that was stripped from the Air Force and Navy's Operations and Maintenance (O&M) budgets.

When President Barack Obama did the same thing in 2010, sending 1,200 Guard troops to the border, it cost roughly $160 million.

The Pentagon's top spokeswoman assured reporters that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has not ignored the readiness problems of his forces.

"Border security is national security. We are leaning forward to support the president, and his intent and his goal," said chief Pentagon spokeswoman Dana W. White about Trump's move. "But readiness remains our top priority."

But when asked by a reporter if the Pentagon could rule out stripping critical operations and maintenance dollars to fund the National Guard deployment to the border, the Pentagon was mum.

"We haven't made those determinations," White said.

A new "support cell" to coordinate Defense Department and Department of Homeland Security efforts would examine the issue, White said.

Maj. Stephen Del Bagno of Valencia, Calif., the pilot of the F-16 fighter jet that crashed outside Las Vegas during a training flight Wednesday, flew for the elite Thunderbirds, the Air Force's premier flight demonstration team. He had accumulated more than 3,500 flying hours in 30 different air frames, and had been a civilian flight instructor before joining the Air Force.

The crash that killed Del Bagno this week marked the third time in less than two years a Thunderbirds jet had crashed.

Mattis believes victory in Afghanistan is still possibleVideo
Tuesday, a Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crashed in Southern California, killing four marines. The Super Stallion is the largest helicopter in the U.S. military, capable of carrying up to 55 marines with full combat load.

The Marine Corps identified the four killed late Thursday: Capt. Samuel A. Schultz, 28, of Huntington Valley, Pa., 1st Lt. Samuel D. Phillips, 27, of Pinehurst, N.C., Gunnery Sgt. Derik R. Holley, 33, of Dayton, Ohio, and Lance Cpl. Taylor J. Conrad, 24, of Baton Rouge, La.

The crash was the deadliest for the Marine Corps since a KC-130 crashed in the Mississippi Delta, killing 15 marines and a sailor in July.

#15601 at 2020-11-27 18:18:08 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #70: Aboard The Wandering Raider Edition

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#110725 at 2021-11-20 18:30:35 (UTC+1)
QRB General #735: The Late Late Post-KR Most Excellent Show Edition

Be not afraid
Biblical

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/

The Cable

The Cable goes inside the foreign policy Machine, from Foggy Bottom to Turtle Bay, the White House to Embassy Row.

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans

'For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences.

July 14, 2013, 7:06 PM

For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened?

Until this month, a vast ocean of U.S. programming produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks could only be viewed or listened to at broadcast quality in foreign countries. The programming varies in tone and quality, but its breadth is vast: It's viewed in more than 100 countries in 61 languages. The topics covered include human rights abuses in Iran, self-immolation in Tibet, human trafficking across Asia, and on-the-ground reporting in Egypt and Iraq.

The restriction of these broadcasts was due to the Smith-Mundt Act, a long-standing piece of legislation that has been amended numerous times over the years, perhaps most consequentially by Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. In the 1970s, Fulbright was no friend of VOA and Radio Free Europe, and moved to restrict them from domestic distribution, saying they "should be given the opportunity to take their rightful place in the graveyard of Cold War relics." Fulbright's amendment to Smith-Mundt was bolstered in 1985 by Nebraska Senator Edward Zorinsky, who argued that such "propaganda" should be kept out of America as to distinguish the U.S. "from the Soviet Union where domestic propaganda is a principal government activity."

Zorinsky and Fulbright sold their amendments on sensible rhetoric: American taxpayers shouldn't be funding propaganda for American audiences. So did Congress just tear down the American public's last defense against domestic propaganda?

...

But for BBG officials, the references to Pentagon propaganda efforts are nauseating, particularly because the Smith-Mundt Act never had anything to do with regulating the Pentagon, a fact that was misunderstood in media reports in the run-up to the passage of new Smith-Mundt reforms in January.

One example includeda report by the late BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hastings, who suggested that the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act would open the door to Pentagon propaganda of U.S. audiences. In fact, as amended in 1987, the act only covers portions of the State Department engaged in public diploMacy abroad (i.e. the public diploMacy section of the "R" bureau, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors.)

But the news circulated regardless, much to the displeasure of Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX), a sponsor of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. "To me, it's a fascinating case study in how one blogger was pretty sloppy, not understanding the issue and then it got picked up by Politico's Playbook, and you had one level of sloppiness on top of another," Thornberry told The Cable last May. "And once something sensational gets out there, it just spreads like wildfire."

That of course doesn't leave the BBG off the hook if its content sMacks of agitprop. But now that its materials are allowed to be broadcast by local radio stations and TV networks, they won't be a complete mystery to Americans. "Previously, the legislation had the effect of clouding and hiding this stuff," the former U.S. official told The Cable. "Now we'll have a better sense: Gee some of this stuff is really good. Or gee some of this stuff is really bad. At least we'll know now."

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#138442 at 2024-03-22 12:53:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #429: Bread & Circuses Edition

>>138440
>>138441
MARCH 22, 2017
Campaign 2018: Representative Nunes on Russian Election Interference
House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) briefed reporters on possible incidental communications of the Trump transition team during a legal surveillance operation at Trump Tower. The news came after a tweet by President Trump that he was wiretapped by President Obama during the presidential campaign.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?425829-1/representative-nunes-russian-election-interference

MARCH 22, 2018
House Speaker Weekly Briefing
During his weekly news conference, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) spoke about a $1.3 trillion spending package to fund the government for the remainder of the 2018 fiscal year. The speaker said the deal would preserve the priMacy of the military in the 21st century. House Armed Services Chair Mac Thornberry (R-TX) joined the speaker at the news conference.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?442931-1/house-speaker-weekly-briefing

March 22, 2024
UN World Water Day 2024: Leveraging Water for Peace
https://unece.org/environmental-policy/events/un-world-water-day-2024

March 22, 2024
ENLISTED EIGHT Sousa's March Mania - 32 Marches. 4 Weeks. 1 Champion. #SousasMarchMania
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA7no0L9zTk593hcV7VZZ2630zmNBQspB
https://www.marineband.marines.mil/Portals/175/Docs/March%20Mania/2024/2024_bracket%20printable.pdf
Voting starts each day at 9 a.m. (ET) and ends at 8 a.m. (ET) the next day. Scroll down to listen and vote for today's match:
https://www.marineband.marines.mil/Educational/Sousas-March-Mania/
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Entry of the Gladiators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0105ht0yoc&list=PLA7no0L9zTk593hcV7VZZ2630zmNBQspB&index=6
VS
The Thunderer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VrXanlKhtY&list=PLA7no0L9zTk593hcV7VZZ2630zmNBQspB&index=21

March 22, 2024
4:30 AM EDT
40th Meeting - 55th Regular Session of Human Rights Council: 55th regular session of the Human Rights Council (26 February - 05 April 2024)
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1y/k1y74x44tl

March 22, 2024
4:45 AM EDT
OCHA Press Conference: Syria humanitarian situation: As Syria enters the 14th year of conflict, the humanitarian outlook is bleak and funding historically low: a call for action.
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a/k1amhq521y

March 22, 2024
5:00 AM EDT
CND67: Regular Segment: Meeting 9: The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) conducts a mid-term review to assess implementation of all international drug policy commitments in 2024. A 2-day high-level segment (14-15 March 2024) for the midterm review is followed by the5-day regular session (18-22 March 2024).
United Nations
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k13/k13617f7e1

March 22, 2024
5:15 AM EDT
Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Tel Aviv, Israel
https://www.state.gov/public-schedule-march-22-2024/

March 22, 2024
6:00 AM EDT
Virtual Fitness - Yoga for Athletes
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
https://calendar.nih.gov/event/view/45275

March 22, 2024
6:10 AM EDT
Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with members of the Israeli War Cabinet in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Tel Aviv, Israel
https://www.state.gov/public-schedule-march-22-2024/

March 22, 2024
7:00 AM EDT
Washington Journal: Open Phones
Viewers commented on U.S. efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?534430-2/open-phones&playEvent

March 22, 2024
8:00 AM EDT
Washington Journal: Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR) Discusses Government Funding & U.S. Energy Policy
Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR), Chair of the Natural Resources Committee, discusses the pending government funding deadline plus energy related issues including the EPA's new guidance on tailpipe emissions.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?534430-3/rep-bruce-westerman-r-ar-discusses-government-funding-us-energy-policy&playEvent
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#55711 at 2022-10-17 17:01:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #163: Midterms Approaching PA is FLipped Call to Dig on Fetterman Edition

Secretary of Defense Welcomes Defense Innovation Board to the Pentagon
Oct. 17, 2022 |
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Department leaders will host the Defense Innovation Board for its inaugural board meeting on Monday, October 17th, 2022, reinforcing the Secretary's priority of defending the nation through innovation and modernization of the DoD. During today's meeting, the Secretary, alongside the Defense Innovation Board Chair, Michael R. Bloomberg, will welcome newly appointed members to the Board.
? Dr. Gilda Barabino, President at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
? Susan Gordon, Board of Directors at CACI International, Avantus Federal, MITRE, and BlackSky
? Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Co-Founder of Inflection AI, Partner at Greylock
? Admiral Michael Mullen, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff & Chief of Naval Operations
? Dr. William Roper, Jr., Distinguished Professor at Georgia Tech, Senior Advisor at McKinsey and Company, Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
? Ryan Swann, Chief Data Analytics Officer at Vanguard
? William "Mac" Thornberry, Former Chairman of the Armed Services Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and Member of Board of Directors at CAE
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3190277/secretary-of-defense-welcomes-defense-innovation-board-to-the-pentagon/