[RedState] The Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives had an interesting announcement on Wednesday about Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) being served with a subpoena in a criminal case in California.
Unfortunately, what the Clerk didn't explain was what the case actually is—and Pelosi's office isn't revealing that either, or even when they were contacted. The world wonders.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
11/02/2023 07:44 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Does it have anything to Captain underpants and the hammer of rage?
[PM] On Wednesday, Washington, DC mayor Muriel Bowser announced that residents in certain areas of the city will be eligible to receive free "digital tracking tags" in an attempt to address rampant auto theft. And for those ladies who've been raped, Morning After pills.
The Apple AirTags will become another tool in the Metropolitan Police Department's arsenal, allegedly allowing officers to trace and recover stolen vehicles. For those gents who've been murdered, a nice assortment of laying out suits...
"Last week, we introduced legislation to address recent crime trends; this week, we are equipping residents with technology that will allow MPD to address these crimes, recover vehicles, and hold people accountable," Bowser said. I love D.C. It's the next best thing to Nigeria for entertainment value.
"We have had success with similar programs where we make it easier for the community and MPD to work together — from our Private Security Camera Incentive Program to the wheel lock distribution program — and we will continue to use all the tools we have, and add new tools, to keep our city safe." True story: One of my sons managed to get my wife's car impounded several thousand years ago, during one of the Barry administrations -- I think it was the post-penitentiary one.
Residents of Police Service Areas 106, 501, 502, 603, 605, and 606 can pick up their free AirTags at distribution events scheduled for November 7, 8, and 9. I drove him to the impound lot, where we waited with a dozen or so unsavory characters to pay the car's ransom.
The program was praised by Acting Chief of Police Pamela Smith, who said the goal was "not just to prevent carjackings and motor vehicle thefts, but also to ensure swift law enforcement action when these incidents occur." As we were strolling merrily (but broke) to pick up the car, one car broke out in flames. If I remember correctly, and keep in mind this was many years ago, I think somebody was using a cutting torch on it or around it.
"These tracking devices allow our officers and detectives to be better positioned to quickly locate stolen vehicles, recover property, and gather vital evidence for investigations," she added. Anyway, I can recall the guy taking to his heels and the car burst into flames when the gas tank went up. Then the ones on either side of it went up. Then the ones on either side of them, until the entire row of a couple dozen cars had been consumed. My wife's car was a couple rows removed, so we could all discuss it with admiration for Nigerian D.C.city service.
This is not the first tool the city has equipped residents with to combat carjackings. It comes on the heels of a wheel-lock distribution program, a partnership with Hyundai to upgrade over 1,100 vehicles with new anti-theft software, and a dash cam distribution program for local rideshare and delivery drivers. The very same son later married a lovely girl who owned a condo in Northeast D.C. which was in a nice neighborhood. She came out to go to work one morning and found the front of her car drenched with blood. Somebody had been shot at the convenience store on the corner and bled out on it. D.C. police don't clean up after themselves. Also a true story.
#2
And when they call the cops and no cops show up people will try and get their cars back by themselves. Probably not a good plan in a city with tight gun controls on law abiding citizens.
#3
Well, Air-Tags ARE cheaper than hiring actual cops, and also allows Her Honor to show she is doing something. Allows her to keep her phoney-baloney job. Not that the brain dead residents would do any critical thinking at election-stealing time. They would vote for a bent sh!tcan if it had a D next to it on the ballot.
#4
Saw some pretty effective clandestine "tagging" of sensors in the Stans. Fun to watch them migrate to nearby villages and hidey holes. Any old sensor would do, as long as it had a fresh battery.
[Breitbart] The Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained private communications and other personal records of multiple Republican House and Senate staffers who were investigating the department’s role in the origins of the Russia collusion hoax, according to former senior Trump administration official Kash Patel.
A recently-revealed subpoena shows that the DOJ sought the records for not only Patel when he was an investigator for then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), but also those of Jason Foster, who was at the time chief investigative counsel to then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (I-IA) and was also looking into the DOJ’s role in the hoax.
According to multiple subpoenas revealed so far, the DOJ had subpoenaed Google, Apple, and other companies to obtain private records in what Patel believes was an unlawful attempt to dig up dirt on them in retaliation for investigating the Democrat-pushed hoax that Donald Trump’s campaign had colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential election.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Patel called it an abuse of power.
“You can get anything with a grand jury subpoena and this is what we know about. Did they surveil us with FBI agents? We don’t know,” Patel said, adding, “If you get a grand jury subpoena, you’re not just requesting Google [records]. You’re going to ask for everything that individual ever touched. Apple, Google, AT&T, Comcast, Xfinity, whatever, it’s all coming in. You’re not just going after one item. They have the ability to use the FBI databases to cull for information. And we know that Chris Wray’s FBI just last year was caught illegally querying the FISA database for American citizens 250,000 times. Each one of those instances is illegal. So, it’s not hard to believe that they would abuse their power again.”
Patel and Foster only learned about the DOJ’s subpoenas for their private records when they were notified by Google and other firms after court seals keeping the subpoenas secret expired.
Google notified Foster earlier this month that in 2017, the DOJ obtained records for his Google Voice telephone number between December 1, 2016, and May 1, 2017 — the exact time he was investigating the Russia hoax. Foster told DailyMail.com that the DOJ also went after his wife’s phone records and also possibly one of his work phones he used for Senate business.
“This was just a fishing expedition to gather intel on their overseers in Congress,” Foster told the outlet. “We were their primary oversight committee. And we were asking them very pointed and difficult questions that they didn’t want to answer.”
The DOJ official who signed the subpoena was Tejpal Chawla, a federal prosecutor who has donated to Democrats, DailyMail.com reported last week.
Chawla, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Washington, DC, U.S. Attorney’s office, has donated a total of $2,851 to political campaigns since 1999, including to Democrat PAC ActBlue, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and Democrat senators and House members, according to the report.
#1
The RINOs in the GOP did not care when the DOJ and Deep State went after Trump illegally but now it seems the GOP cares about illegal spying. Hmmm. I expect nothing will come of this already assumed indiscretion.
#6
I think the answer is to break DoJ up into narrowly focused units with very explicitly set responsibilities and limitations.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
11/02/2023 11:25 Comments ||
Top||
#7
/\ DoJ 'break up' along with a number of other federal agencies. Let the States handle justice, education, agriculture, as was originally intended by the Founders.
#8
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same...
Is this part of the oath of office still current or is it passe among the creatures from the lagoon.
#9
^^^^
that part of the oath is still very much in efffect, it's just that the current DoJ has a very precise definition of who constitutes a "domestic enemy", and it ain't them!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[RedState] The Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives had an interesting announcement on Wednesday about Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) being served with a subpoena in a criminal case in California. 
[PM] On Wednesday, Washington, DC mayor 
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
