Last week, Grassley laconically announced judiciary.senate.gov/press/r… the release of FBI emails (pdf grassley.senate.gov/imo/medi…). These emails have attracted little attention except for Margot Cleveland's article here thefederalist.com/2026/09/21…, But there are some important points that are easily overlooked by anyone unfamiliar with details of Crossfire Hurricane and the Russia collusion hoax. NONE of the names are redacted in this most recent release. NONE. This proves that it's possible to release documents on FBI operations in 2017 without redacting the names that are essential to understanding the narrative. In this particular case, because names of individual FBI agents are finally unredacted, the newly released (Sep 2026) emails show that FBI agents notorious from Jack Smith era (Timothy Thibault, David Geist, Kevin Gounaud, Walter Giardina - all of whom play important roles in subsequent lawfare) were already circling around the Crossfire Hurricane investigation in first months of 2017 - the very period in which the Crossfire metastasis took place. On the FBI side, McEachern and his case agent Jeffrey Pfeiffer, who have been mostly invisible in discussions of the early Crossfire period, are shown as having carriage of the Manafort investigation. (Presumably their names are redacted in available documents from that period.) Pfeiffer, of course, appears as deponent in the earliest Manafort search warrants in April-May 2017). This anomalous interest of lawfare FBI agents as early as January 2017 sheds new light. If this release had been redacted, no one would have known. Perhaps the easiest way for Grassley to contribute to understanding of the Russia collusion hoax would be to go back and unredact every Russia collusion hoax document released to date. And for Patel to do the same for other FBI documents related to the Russia collusion hoax. This very early interest of lawfare FBI agents in cannibalizing into the Russia collusion investigation also clarified for me an important theme in the overall narrative of the investigation that had previously been obscure. Giardina, Thibault et al weren't the only lawfare officials seeking to cannibalize into the Russia collusion investigation in early 2017: as we know from Horowitz (but, as usual, not followed up by Durham), Andrew Weissman, Bruce Swartz and Zainab Ahmad were trying to cannibalize into the Russia collusion investigation as early as December 2016. From Horowitz, we know that they persisted in that effort in February 2017, but Horowitz leaves out the subsequent narrative. Margot Cleveland observed that the attempts of Giardina and Thibault to cannibalize into the Russia collusion investigation in early 2017 were unsuccessful. (As were the similar efforts of Weissmann and Ahmad.) But all of that changed with the appointment of Mueller. And the difference sheds light on both phases of the narrative. One need only mention Weissmann's name to show the difference. Jeannie Rhee as well obviously. Representation of experienced counterintelligence - and especially experienced Russian counterintelligence - is surprisingly sparse to absent in Mueller leadership, despite Russian counterintelligence ostensibly being the predicate for the entire investigation. It's quite odd, but, once observed, hard not to wonder at. In this connection, there is an original sin that has almost totally diverted attention away from the takeover by the lawfare faction of the Russia collusion investigation (and the groundwork for that takeover): it was the singling out of the Carter Page FISA application as a uniquely important event in the Russia collusion hoax. This focused attention away from the "lawfare" agents and onto the original counterintelligence agents, most of whom had become skeptical long before the Mueller appointment.
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turns out that the Nazis had a plan for Warsaw Ghetto which was similar to Trump's plan for Gaza: a new residential and recreational district
The liquidator of the Warsaw Ghetto describes what was to replace it: “The former ghetto area was designated as a residential and recreation district. Villas, gardens, red roof tiles, green shutters, roses, swimming pools, tree-lined avenues, parks and gardens.” Remind you of anything? share.google/iwrBlJJOUEnaDEh…
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Aside from prosecutions, Trump administration continues to conceal and redact nearly all key documents pertaining to Russia collusion hoax. Total joke.
Donald Trump: ‘Russiagate was a very dangerous hoax that could have caused a war.’ So why has Donald Trump made no serious effort to hold those who perpetuated accountable? Yet another broken promise.
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Ukraine’s new deputy defense minister is the winner of one of the Kvartal 95 shows, where Zelenskyy sat on the jury. In the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense they say the 35 y.o. major will handle digitalization. It does not mention the comedy career. He later served, joined the 47th Brigade and worked on frontline digital systems. Fine. The pattern is older than that. As life keeps showing: when a comedian enters the palace, the palace becomes a circus. The comedian does not become a president.
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This is good point: if Canada provided similar public honors to Xi on a state visit to Canada, American officials would go catatonic and screech about Canada's subservience to China. But in each case, nothing more than suitable formality.
Wow. Imagine scenes like this in Ottawa during a Xi state visit. MAGA, and its Temu knockoff, Maple MAGA, would be in total meltdown by now, demanding Trump slap Canada with 1000% tariffs and annex Canada by dinner.
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Stephen McIntyre retweeted
Palantir and Anthropic targeted Minab school, aided by Pentagon stale data and Hegseth psychopathy stripping target review staff. And it was a triple tap, not a double tap. Children killed on first strike. Parents killed by second strike getting surviving children. Rescue workers killed by third strike rushing in after second strike. Unforgivable.
Bloomberg just dropped the most disturbing investigation I have read this year, and every AI builder should read it and take it seriously. On February 28, two Tomahawk missiles hit an elementary school in Minab, a small town in southern Iran. 156 people died. At least 123 were children. The Pentagon knew within hours that it had bombed a school. The school had its own website. It was labeled on Google Maps. You could see the soccer pitch from a satellite view. You could see the brightly painted walls. Any 12-year-old with a browser could tell what the building was. The AI system could not. Inside US Central Command, personnel were using Palantir's Maven Smart System. It is an AI targeting platform running on a $1.3 billion Pentagon contract, and embedded inside it is Anthropic's Claude. On day one of the war, more than 1,000 targets went through it in 24 hours. Work that used to take a team hours per target got compressed into minutes. The satellite imagery Maven was pulling from was seven years old. The site was still tagged in the database as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard facility. The system spat it out as a recommended day-one target. Humans signed off. The first missile flew. Then a second one landed minutes later to hit the people who came to help. Investigators later found that some Central Command staff had assumed Maven would flag stale intelligence for them. It did not. Nobody had told it to. Palantir told Bloomberg the government is responsible for the underlying data. The Pentagon's civilian harm mitigation team, the people whose actual job is to catch a target like this, had been cut back before the war started. This is not AI going rogue. This is the opposite. This is AI doing exactly what it was built to do at exactly the speed it was built to do it. And a school full of little girls got vaporized because the humans in the loop trusted the machine more than they trusted their own eyes. I keep thinking about the version of this story that comes next. What happens when the system is faster. When the target list is not 1,000 in a day but 10,000. When "review" becomes a button the operator has three seconds to hit before the next target loads. When there is no human left slow enough to notice that a soccer pitch is not a helipad. We are not talking about a spam filter mislabeling an email. We are talking about a system that turned a seven-year-old database entry into two cruise missiles landing on children in the middle of a morning class. A UN-backed panel has now called it a potential war crime. In terms of children killed, it is the deadliest American targeting error of the entire 21st century. And according to Bloomberg, some of Defense Secretary Hegseth's own advisors are worried that too much public scrutiny of Maven might slow down its adoption inside the Pentagon. Read that last line again. If you build this stuff, you own what it does. You do not get to hide behind "the government owns the data." The whole pitch of your product is that speed and integration save lives. When it takes them instead, that is also on you. I am not against AI in defense. I am against AI in a hurry. Speed is the entire mechanism that made Minab possible. Every guardrail we already know how to build takes time, and time is exactly what the system was designed to eliminate. So here is the question I have not been able to stop asking, and I genuinely want to know what you think. If a piece of software helped kill 123 children in a single morning while behaving exactly as designed, what does "responsible AI" even mean anymore?
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Hey, POTUS, when it comes to your beloved manufacturing sector, we do not have the Greatest Economy Ever. It's actually the SAME economy from 21 years ago! (bit.ly/3Uhh0Xb)
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I visited Cambodia before the Pol Pot regime. In summer 1968 while I was a university student and the Vietnam War was raging next door. Seems like madness in retrospect, but it wasn't a 24-hour news world back then. But I had a pretty unique visit to Angkor Wat - in total, there were only 5 or 6 foreign tourists at Angkor Wat when we went. I recall that there was a French couple. Now it's apparently like Disneyland.
The UK also kept supporting him for ten years after they were finally defeated in 1979 and whilst in exile. They wanted to counter Vietnamese influence in Cambodia.
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Stephen McIntyre retweeted
🚨SHOCK: TRUMP/BLANCHE DOJ IS RETRYING A DOCTOR ON A COVID CASE THAT WAS OVERTURNED DURING THE BIDEN ERA!!! Ron Elfenbein is a doctor who was charged by the Biden DOJ after going on television and pushing alternative treatments like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. He was convicted by a jury at the height of COVID panic, and his conviction was so ridiculous that the federal judge in his case wrote a 95 page response OVERTURNING HIS CONVICTION. An appellate court ruled that Elfenbein could be retried. THE TRUMP/BLANCHE DOJ IS MOVING FORWARD RETRYING THIS DOCTOR ON A COVID CASE THIS NOVEMBER!!! Why are @AGToddBlanche @HarmeetKDhillon @JudgeJeanine @USAttyPirro @TheJusticeDept allowing weaponization cases against Americans to continue?? Thank you, former DOJ employee, @Jon_Gross for fighting for Americans who are STILL the victims of DOJ weaponization.
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Nearly all 16 pages of of Andrew McCabe's August 17, 2017 FBI interview are still redacted more than nine years later. Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Not waiting for Godot.
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a few weeks after McCabe's August 17, 2017 FBI interview, FBI agents Walter Giardina (in the news recently) and William Barnett interviewed Hank Cox, the editor who worked on an article on Turkey for Flynn's group. The interview was reported on Sept 14, 2017 by CBS cbsnews.com/news/fbi-intervi…. A couple of months later, Politico reported politico.com/story/2017/11/1… that Giardina and Barnett had carried out the interview. The 302 for the interview was published in volume 8 of Mueller 302s. It was, needless to say, totally redacted other than the date of the interview and the location (Washington Field Office.) But through @walkafyre magic, this 302 can be firmly attributed as the Hank Cox 302. But what did Hank Cox actually say to the FBI about Flynn? I wonder if Flynn even knows. And, unfortunately, the Trump 47 administration under Kash Patel has perpetuated the concealment.
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How can such a decision be made by one man? I thought that the US prided itself on checks and balances within its government. If there are no checks and balances, how can such decisions be constitutional? And wouldn't that make such conduct impeachable?
"Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness for generations?" This is not how Americans prosecute a war. This is such a degradation of the flag.
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Here's another example of the sort of non-disclosure that Trump administration is perpetuating. Long ago, Clevenger submitted an FOI for documents on DNC hack. Here's a typical excerpt from 907 pages. As long as FBI and DOJ continue such total concealment, suspicion will obviously continue and be reasonable. It's crazy that Trump 47 perpetuates this concealment.
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Stephen McIntyre retweeted
Fred Kummerow told America in 1957 that the fat in margarine was turning up in the arteries of the dead. The government acted on it in 2015. He was 100. He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, and what he had done was simple and slightly grim. He got hold of tissue from people who had died of heart disease and looked at what their arteries were made of. They were full of trans fats, a kind of fat that barely exists in nature and came, in 1957, from one place: the hydrogenated vegetable shortening and margarine the country had just been told to eat in place of butter. He published it in Science. He was 43. What followed was a career spent being ignored by experts. The oil industry had friends on every committee. His funding grew thin. In 1968 he talked a panel of the American Heart Association into warning about trans fats, and the warning was pulped and reprinted without it after the shortening makers saw a draft. Kummerow kept working. He kept his laboratory into his nineties. And he kept eating, quite deliberately and in front of journalists, the diet he had been told would kill him. Eggs cooked in butter. Whole milk. Red meat. He had looked inside the arteries himself and he had not found breakfast in there. In 2009, aged 94, he filed a formal petition asking the Food and Drug Administration to ban artificial trans fats. The law gave the agency 180 days to answer. Four years later it had not, so in 2013, at 98, he sued the United States government. Three months after that the FDA announced it agreed with him. The ban was confirmed in 2015. The gap between his paper and the decision was 58 years, which is longer than most of the people who ate the margarine got. He died in 2017, at 102. And he spent those last years on a second warning, which has been received exactly as the first one was. The problem, he said, was never the cholesterol in the egg. It is the vegetable oil in the fryer, heated and reheated until it oxidises, and then eaten. On the record so far, that one is due to be acted upon in about 2070.
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Stephen McIntyre retweeted
One of the myths Zionists tell themselves about the 1948 Palestine war is that the Zionist community of Palestine faced a serious risk of annihilation. On May 24, 1948, just ten days after Israel declared itself a state, the country's leaders were so confident in their military prowess that Ben Gurion triumphantly declared he would take over large swaths of neighboring countries and bomb every single one of its neighbors and destroy their armies. Some things never change I guess. source: archive.org/details/ethniccl… p.144
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Exactly this: NATO is systematically conducting actual bombing strikes deep inside Russia via its Ukrainian proxy, all while it desperately tries to convince Western publics that it is Russia that is threatening Europe through “hybrid warfare” — which generally means attacks no one can see but are totally-100%-trust us happening. When Russia actually decides to retaliate, NATO will argue it is entirely unprovoked and use it as confirmation that they were right all along. An insanely dangerous game.
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Kevin Clinesmith, later convicted, was author/lead author of NSL (National Security Letter) warrants in February 2017 for various Michael Flynn communications. A summary in Flynn pleadings storage.courtlistener.com/re… stated that the predication was based on "reliable lead information received during the course of the investigation. Specifically, a senior foreign policy adviser for the Donald J. Trump campaign circa May 2016, made statements indicating he is knowledgeable that the Russians made a suggestion to the "Trump team" that they could assist the Trump campaign." Despite all the handwringing about the ultimately irrelevant Carter Page FISA, there has been more or less zero complaining about the scores of NSL, 2703(d) and other warrants based on false predicates. The information from Erika Thompson (Australian diplomat) wasn't "reliable lead information received during the course of the investigation". It wasn't reliable - Papadopoulos denied making such a statement and Thompson/Downer ultimately appear to have withdrawn the specific claim that Papadopoulos made such a statement. By February 2017, there was plenty of exculpatory information undermining the supposed predicate. Barnett was asked about these NSLs in his Sept 2020 interview. He had apparently asked Clinesmith whether the predicate was valid and was re-assured that it was. Needless to say, the hapless or hopeless Durham doesn't seem to have obtained evidence from Clinesmith on this or anything else.
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Rhule can be identified as the redactee in the Jan 10, 2017 text to DAD Jen Boone confirming that he had signed the Woods Form for the first Carter Page renewal. Horowitz (page 207) stated that SSA3 had signed the Woods Form on January 10, 2017. In Calibri font, jtrhule is shorter than jcboone, consistent with lengths of redaction. Pientka's last day as SSA-1 was on January 7, 2017. So SSA3 Rhule signed the Woods Form more or less on his first day on Crossfire Hurricane. He explained later that his approval was that there was a document supporting various assertions, rather than to the validity of the assertions. Again - the strange focus on predication of Carter Page FISA in Horowitz and Durham , rather than on the predication of the Russia collusion hoax - is always disconcerting.
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@Fool_Nelson long ago identified SSA Joe Nelson as one of SSA2 or SSA3. He can separately be firmly identified as SSA2 in Horowitz and as Supervisory Special Agent-2 in Durham. I'll post up the proof on another occasion.
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