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Tulsi Gabbard related?
The real reason Eagle Ed Martin is being shown the door is failing to prosecute Schiff and James, but the reason given the press is that he shared grand jury materials with unauthorized (*cough, Bill Pulte*) people
Can't even do weaponization right, maybe Ed Martin can recommend himself for a pardon going out the door
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/polit...led-grand-juryA Justice Department review found that Ed Martin improperly handled grand jury materials that were part of an investigation targeting Donald Trump’s political enemies, at least two sources familiar with the review told CNN. It was at least part of the reason Martin was pushed out of DOJ headquarters early this year.
The review, which was overseen by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, focused on whether grand jury material gathered in the department’s mortgage fraud inquiries into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Le ia James had been illegally shared with people not authorized to possess that information, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.
The department found that Martin had shared the secret grand jury material in the Schiff case, one of the sources said. The person said Martin initially denied sharing the material with unauthorized people when asked by department leaders, but emails soon surfaced showing that Martin had in fact shared the grand jury material.
A second person told CNN a finding of misconduct gave the deputy attorney general a reason to further ostracize Martin. Martin was removed as the head of the so-called Weaponization Working Group on the first day of 2026 and he was relocated out of department headquarters to a building across town that houses the pardon attorney — Martin’s one remaining role.
Tulsi Gabbard related?
from Axis of Resistance progressive lib to MAGA DNI, what a career arc
Rubio steps down as US Archives director, illegally names his preplacement
Impeachable per se, the attempts to avoid Senate confirmation are by now systematic
As Federal News Network first reported today, Secretary of State and acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio is no longer serving as acting Archivist of the United States. Citing a National Archives and Records Administration spokesperson, FNN reported that Rubio’s time in the post ended after having served for the statutory limit for acting agency heads under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.
However, that limit—which was 300 days, since the vacancy occurred within the first 60 days after the inauguration, and President Trump has nominated no one as permanent Archivist—was up on December 13, 2025. Had Rubio been serving as acting Archivist past that time, any non-delegable actions he took may have been null from the beginning, and have no force and effect.
Rubio’s name, le, and photograph were removed from NARA’s leadership page sometime late last week, as David Sewell first noted on Bluesky.
FNR also reported NARA said that before he left, Rubio named political appointee James Byron “to serve and perform the functions of archivist.”
Rubio did not have the legal authority to name anyone to serve in that role or to perform such functions, nor does anyone other than the President.1 And even if he had such authority, naming anyone after he no longer lawfully exercised the authority of the office would make it invalid.
The Archivist position has been vacant since Trump fired Archivist Colleen Shogan last year—only the second time in NARA history that a President removed an Archivist. To date, the White House has not named a nominee, nor seriously floated any possible names.
Byron, who has been “Senior Advisor to the Archivist” since pushing out Deputy Archivist William “Jay” Bosanko almost one year ago, forcing him to resign or be fired, is the CEO of the private Richard Nixon Foundation, “on leave” while running NARA day to day in an unprecedented appointment.
According to his biography on the foundation’s website, Byron has no education, credentials, or experience that would qualify him to serve in any senior leadership position in any federal agency, much less run a complex, distributed organization such as the National Archives.https://lastcampaign.substack.com/p/...llegally-namesIn the case of a vacancy, the Deputy Archivist automatically becomes, by law, the acting Archivist. In the case of vacancies in both positions, the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, at 5 U.S. Code § 3345(a), authorizes “the President (and only the President)” to name someone to serve as acting Archivist “to perform the functions and duties of the vacant office temporarily.”
The person the President names may only be someone who already is serving in a position requiring a presidential nomination and Senate confirmation,3 or someone who has served in a senior position in the agency for not less than 90 days during the 365-day period prior to the vacancy beginning. Trump fired Shogan on February 7, 2025; so that period would be 90 days between February 8, 2024, and February 6, 2025.
Byron meets neither requirement. He is, therefore, not eligibleto serve as Archivist or acting Archivist, nor to “serve and perform the functions of archivist.”4
Warsh is a hawk, except when Trump is appointing a new Fed chair
not sure whether this is theadworthy, there so much chaos and lies nowTulsi Gabbard related?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-whistleblowerLast spring, the National Security Agency (NSA) detected evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump,according to a whistleblower’s attorney briefed on the existence of the call.
The highly sensitive communique, which has roiled Washington over the past week, was brought to the attention of the director of national intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard – but rather than allowing NSA officials to distribute the information further, she took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to the president’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, the attorney, Andrew Bakaj, said.
One day after meeting Wiles, Gabbard told the NSA not to publish the intelligence report. Instead, she instructed NSA officials to transmit the highly classified details directly to her office.
Tulsi Gabbard running solo 2020 election inquiry separate from FBI investigation
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Details of this exchange between Gabbard and the NSA were shared directly with the Guardian andhave not been previously reported. Nor has Wiles receipt of the intelligence report.
The office of the director of national intelligence (ODNI) did not immediately respond to questions about the unusual call detected by the NSA, or Gabbard’s handling of the intelligence.
On 17 April, a whistleblower contacted the office of the inspector general alleging that Gabbard had blocked highly classified intelligence from routine dispatch, according toBakaj, who has been briefed on details surrounding the highly sensitive phone call flagged by the NSA. The whistleblower filed a formal complaint about Gabbard’s actions on 21 May, Bakaj said.
For eight months, the intelligence report has been kept under lock and key, even after the whistleblower pushed to disclose details to congressional intelligence committees.
Acting inspector general Tamara A Johnson dismissed the complaint at the end of a 14-day review period, writing in a 6 June letter addressed to the whistleblower that “the Inspector General could not determine if the allegations appear credible”.
The letter stipulated that the whistleblower could take their concerns to Congress, only after receiving DNI guidance on how to proceed, given the highly sensitive nature of the complaint.
The independence of the watchdog’s office may be compromised, lawmakers have said, ever since Gabbard assigned one of her top advisers, Dennis Kirk, to work there on 9 May, two weeks after the whistleblower first made contact with the inspector general’s hotline.
Gabbard’s office issued its first public acknowledgment of the highly sensitive complaint in a letter addressed to lawmakers on Tuesday, one day after the Wall Street Journal reported on the classified brief. It was posted to the ODNI’s X account, including claims that the inspector general had not informed Gabbard of her obligations to transmit the complaint to Congress.
Bakaj said that the ODNI’s office cited various reasons for the delay in intelligence sharing, including the complaints’ top secret classification, the fall government shutdown and the intelligence community inspector general’s failure to notify Gabbard of her reporting requirements.
Two attorneys and two former intelligence professionals who reviewed details of the incident and ensuing complaint shared with the Guardian have identified what they believe are a series of procedural anomalies that raise questions about Gabbard’s handling of national intelligence and the whistleblower disclosure, which was reported to the inspector general as a matter of “urgent concern”.
Members of the “gang of eight”, a group of Senate and House leaders privy to classified information from the executive branch, received a heavily redacted version for review on Tuesday night. They have disagreed about the legality of Gabbard’s conduct, as well as the credibility of the whistleblower complaint.
Two Republican lawmakers dismissed its credibility and backed Gabbard’s conduct, including the Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, who said in a statement on X that “the DNI took the necessary steps to ensure the material has handled and transmitted appropriately in accordance with law”.
But Democrats have raised questions about the delay. “The law is clear: when a whistleblower makes a complaint and wants to get it before Congress the agency has 21 days to relay it,” said the senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, in a Thursday press conference. “This whistleblower complaint was issued in May. We didn’t receive it until February.”
Warner said that the months-long delay reflected an effort to “bury the complaint”.
a security blanket?
Within DHS, Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him, according to people familiar with the matter. On at least one occasion, she asked aides to ensure she drew a bigger crowd at a conference than Homan, who was speaking on a different day, one of the people said.https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...bshare_permaliWithin DHS, Noem and Lewandowski have cut employees or put them on administrative leave. The pair have fired or demoted roughly 80% of the career ICE field leadership that was in place when they started.
In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.
The DHS spokeswoman didn’t address the episode but said the secretary has “made personnel decisions to deliver excellence.”
a security blanket?
Within DHS, Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him, according to people familiar with the matter. On at least one occasion, she asked aides to ensure she drew a bigger crowd at a conference than Homan, who was speaking on a different day, one of the people said.https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...bshare_permaliWithin DHS, Noem and Lewandowski have cut employees or put them on administrative leave. The pair have fired or demoted roughly 80% of the career ICE field leadership that was in place when they started.
In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.
The DHS spokeswoman didn’t address the episode but said the secretary has “made personnel decisions to deliver excellence.”
Homan and Scott clearly have knives out for Noem/Lewandowski
Corey Lewandowski running DHS without Senate confirmation ought to be the end of him and Noem both, but you know, there's zero accountability for Trump's special pets
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/arti...g-21352565.phpPam Bondi tried to steal a 4-year-old's dog
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The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a ‘walking skeleton’ and ‘dying from heartworms’ when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. ‘She lied,’ Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. ‘My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.’ The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.”
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I'm assuming the money shot is in the Patreon feed.
https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/2023860472026669400
I know it’s naïve to even suggest comparisons anymore, but can you imagine the FBI director in any other administration taking a luxury jet overseas to party at the Olympics while presumed assassins are being shot at the president’s house.
SERIOUS BUSINESS
Kash Patel delayed the FBI investigation of the Charlie Kirk murder by one day. Then he announced -- almost immediately and 100% erroneously -- that the suspect was in custody
The Trump administration is really bad at governing
https://bsky.app/profile/judiciaryde.../3mfmwt2mn4s2w
Kash Patel should resign, he's disgracing his office and his command
WE ARE IN THE GOLDEN AGE.
https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2027428889102880838
Tillis and Kennedy raked Noem with questions today
Knives out in the Republican caucus
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