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Putin FIRES Pacific fleet admiral in sign that Vladimir was furious military drills intended to send message to the West were a flop
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Top Homeland Security Official Escorted From Building and Office Marked as Crime Scene: Read the Guys Bio, Something Very Odd About This
[RedState] Shortly after 4 p.m. Monday, three carloads of federal agents raided an office in Washington, DC. They weren’t after money launderers or January 6 participants. The agents were from the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service, the agency charged with providing security to federal government facilities. Their quarry was a senior civil servant named Brian Sulc, executive director of the Transnational Organized Crime Mission Center at DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis in Washington.
Guess he made some remarks about Hunter.
This office was established by Joe Biden in December 2021 and, along with parallel organizations in State, Treasury, Defense, Justice, and the DNI, with the charge of ” integrated intelligence to counter transnational organized crime (TOC) networks and facilitators. We focus primarily on major drug smuggling organizations, transnational gangs, human smuggling, weapon trafficking, child exploitation, illicit trade, and the movement of illicit proceeds on behalf of these criminal enterprises.”

Sulc was taken into custody, escorted from the building, and bundled into a police car to take him to another location for “questioning.” His office was sealed as a crime scene.

The office has been sealed shut with crime tape, and evidence seals were placed around the door and across the keyhole so no one can enter.

Reportedly he has been placed on administrative leave.

Sulc is a former Marine officer and a self-identified single dad of four children. He is two levels down from legendary liar Alejandro Mayorkas in the DHS hierarchy. Based on his LinkedIn profile, this is his Facebook page.

Here’s where the story gets sketchy. According to Rolling Stone:

Sulc is in charge of the office that produces intelligence assessments on border security, the opioid epidemic, and other high-stakes policy issues. Those assessments include intelligence on how fentanyl is crossing into the United States, as well as attempts to identify cartel members and human-trafficking operatives on both sides of the border. They’re used to inform policy decisions at the highest levels of DHS and elsewhere in the Biden administration.

The problem that got him arrested and evicted from the building was “for an alleged security violation, bringing a personal electronic device inside the secure office, where phones and electronic devices are prohibited.”

As they say where I come from, “I may have been born at night, but I wasn’t born last night.” A Senior Executive Service doesn’t get arrested and publicly humiliated over something that everyone in Hillary Clinton’s State Department did all day, every day. By taking him out of the building in custody, they’ve destroyed his credibility and usefulness. The next step will be his retirement or removal from the Civil Service if he’s not retirement eligible (looking at his LinkedIn profile, he hasn’t met the minimum time requirement to retire). If his gravest sin had been to take a cell phone into a secure office or even a SCIF, this would’ve been handled much differently.

No, something bigger is going on. Given Sulc’s portfolio, it could be all manner of malfeasance or criminality. It could also be related to the whistleblowers who are beginning to line up outside Congressional offices with stories of lies and deception by Mayorkas and his inner clique to mislead Congress. This story isn’t going away anytime soon.

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/21/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Alright mainstream media, cue the next Canned event. No need to alarm the "normies" with facts.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/21/2023 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  "transnational organized crime (TOC) networks and facilitators"

AKA the Bidens' competition....
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/21/2023 5:09 Comments || Top||

#3  I suspect that he attended a Latin Mass.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/21/2023 9:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Not willing to pencil whip the numbers, eh?
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/21/2023 10:02 Comments || Top||

#5  M guess is a whistleblower in data collection process or already sharing information with someone outside the administration. This is intimidation 101 withing DHS to freeze others from revealing just how catastrophic the Puppet Show illegal alien importation program has become.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/21/2023 11:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe this is the way the plomo is delivered in DC.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/21/2023 12:57 Comments || Top||

#7  This story isn’t going away anytime soon.

Can't have that. Put it down the Memory Hole.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/21/2023 12:59 Comments || Top||

#8  #7 Much in the way of the case of the guy with the large, sophisticated RV bomb.
Posted by: Cesare || 04/21/2023 14:34 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
WATCH: Rep. Rosa DeLauro praises Transportation Sec. Buttigieg for the development of 'female crash test dummies'
[Breaking 911 (Twitter)] "This will start to fight the gender inequity among vehicle safety and crash victims."
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/21/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  about twice as many males as females die in traffic crashes

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db400-H.pdf
Posted by: lord garth || 04/21/2023 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  To make it more realistic they'll put the "female" test dummies in the driver's seat.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/21/2023 1:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Anatomic correctness is next to Godliness.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Sholugum453 || 04/21/2023 1:20 Comments || Top||

#4  So, would a 'man-dummy', transitioning, be considered a 'woman-dummy' driver?

I'm so confused.
Looks like Rep. DeLauro is too.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/21/2023 6:05 Comments || Top||

#5  So will they place the female dummies in the passenger seat so they can 'side-seat-drive' to be more realistic??
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 04/21/2023 7:08 Comments || Top||

#6  They need trans dummies in the interest of fairness equity
Posted by: Fred || 04/21/2023 8:51 Comments || Top||

#7  I have not read the article, but based on the headline and picture it looks like the current plan is to dress Cliff Richards in drag and use him as a crash test dummy.

As a lower cost solution, you could declare about half of the dead women to be dead guys or whatever is necessary until we have death equity. Be sure not to consult the families about the gender changes because their beliefs matter as little as biology in our new DEI mindset that ignores the fact that, all other things being equal, a man’s physiology stands up better to high speed impact unless it involves James Harden punching us in the nuts.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/21/2023 9:04 Comments || Top||

#8  They've been using female (and child) crash test dummies for like 50 years.
So how can you tell if it's a female crash test dummy, or a male one that identifies as female?
The next step is to paint them different colors, because, you know, inclusivity.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/21/2023 9:58 Comments || Top||

#9  Lemmiwinks is my..my precious..

Gollum! Gollum!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/21/2023 10:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Lookit her being all cutting edge and stuff in the video clip, with her streak of primary coloured hair, cartoon glasses frames, and dramatically eclectic rings. What in the old days was described as mutton dressed as 80 year old lamb. Still, no doubt it amuses her grandchildren.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/21/2023 10:52 Comments || Top||

#11  Pols like her are not the problem.

The people who vote for pols like her are the problem.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/21/2023 10:56 Comments || Top||

#12  NHTSA’s Crash Test Dummies

Posted by: Skidmark || 04/21/2023 11:16 Comments || Top||

#13  Murcek I have to disagree. They are exactly the problem and in this day and time who really knows ,besides the SHIT that resides in Washington, if she really got any votes?
Posted by: Chris || 04/21/2023 12:00 Comments || Top||

#14  Why? AOC wasn't available?
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/21/2023 13:55 Comments || Top||

#15  His clan's turn to dip $20million $18million from the Infrastructure Bill's kitty.

Tits on a doll is infrastructure. Love how she's dressed like a chinese firework. The 3-D glasses from the box of Cocoa Puffs if just chef's kiss.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/21/2023 15:35 Comments || Top||

#16  Why? AOC wasn't available?

You gonna sell tits on a doll for $20million you go A-List.

Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/21/2023 17:23 Comments || Top||

#17 
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/21/2023 19:52 Comments || Top||

#18  Is Rosa DeLauro volunteering to be a crash test dummy?
She certainly qualifies as a dummy
Posted by: Jan || 04/21/2023 21:23 Comments || Top||

#19  She is a crossbow short of being a Land of the Lost extra.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/21/2023 21:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
We here at FOX would certainly like to assist your 2024 election effort, would $787.m help ?
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election.
Della, what if we brought a defamation suit, but......
The stunning settlement emerged just as opening statements were supposed to begin, abruptly ending a case that had embarrassed Fox News over several months and raised the possibility that network founder Rupert Murdoch and stars such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity would have to testify publicly.

"The truth matters. Lies have consequences," Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson told reporters outside a Delaware courthouse after Superior Court Judge Eric Davis announced the deal.

Outside of the $787.5 million promised to Colorado-based Dominion, it was unclear what other consequences Fox would face. Fox acknowledged in a statement "the court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false," but no apology was offered.

Posted by: Besoeker || 04/21/2023 07:21 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fox's Bongino and Dobbs? Oh, they've moved on. Thanks for inquiring.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/21/2023 7:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Why Fox News canceled Lou Dobbs (Feb 2021)
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/21/2023 8:33 Comments || Top||


#4  Fox News Parts Ways With Dan Bongino: ‘It’s A Sad Day’
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/21/2023 8:39 Comments || Top||

#5  I still don't get why corporations such as Dominion are allowed to do business at law, other than the fact that they have bought & paid for legislatures at both state and federal levels. A drastic change in legislation supporting corporate actions has been overdue for more than a century now. Corporations are not people. Some corporations should be put to death.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 04/21/2023 12:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Ken Paxton seems to be the only one willing to bring suit from within government. The Fox suit was an opportunity for discovery, but Fox is part of the system.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/21/2023 12:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Cripes, looks like Hannity has been living that Covid-Lifestyle.

IIRC he was also a supporter of The Result. I mean, I guess Defense could put him up, "But here is a host who slobbers all over your one-arm bandit machines." Could be this was the actual goal of the whole exercise from the beginning.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/21/2023 16:34 Comments || Top||

#8  You can always tune in the con-servative treehouse for the "nobody but Trump, evah!" drool-a-thon.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/21/2023 16:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Since we have the topic of Dominion and 2024 prospects both on the table, I want to bring up a point nobody seems to want to talk about.

Was 2020 queerer than a $3 Transportation Secretary? Yes, yes it was. I have gone so far as to consider the 2018 results as a successful test run.

That said, Trump lost 2020 if for any other reason and rhyme, he is not sitting as President at this moment.

If it were to be Trump/Biden, and even if it took 95 million 'votes' for a Biden 'win', a Trump 'loss' to Biden already has precedent.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/21/2023 18:10 Comments || Top||

#10  From what I understand there was one guy who floated some crap stories about how Dominion machines were easily hacked and everyone sued was one that believed that and ran with it. All of this distracted from other issues that occurred during the election.

It still surprises me that Fox News settled as a combination of discover and proof of malicious intent (or whatever the legal word is) would have played to Fox's hands.

Then again Fox News is owned by the left leaning spawn of Murdoch so they were probably happy to pay.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/21/2023 20:11 Comments || Top||

#11  Whelp... that is enough to pay off 100 politicians. As Iran stated, "We aren't surprised we can pay off politicians. We are surprised they are so cheap."
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/21/2023 20:26 Comments || Top||


Ex-acting CIA director reveals he had 50 spies sign a letter saying Hunter Biden laptop scandal was Russian disinformation to HELP Joe 'win the presidential election'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Mike Morell was the former acting CIA director, serving for two months in 2011 and four months from 2013-13: he retired from the CIA in September 2013

  • Morell was asked by Antony Blinken, then a senior campaign official, to help rally former intel chiefs to say Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation

  • Morell recently testified before the House Judiciary Committee and said he coordinated a letter because he wanted to help Joe Biden's electoral chances
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/21/2023 06:14 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:



#3  #SovietAmerica
Posted by: mossomo || 04/21/2023 13:44 Comments || Top||

#4  It worked, didn’t it?
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/21/2023 16:59 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Harry Reid Approved™
Posted by: Frank G || 04/21/2023 20:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Republican forces Alejandro Mayorkas to confront family of granddaughter killed by human smuggler in hearing calling him a 'liar' who is complicit in the border crisis and fentanyl deaths of '100,000 Americans'
  • Rep. August Pfluger asked Mayorkas to apologize to the Tambunga family

  • Maria and Emilia Tambunga were killed when a human smuggler ran a red light

  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also called Mayorkas a liar

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas offered his condolences Wednesday to the family of a grandmother and seven-year-old granddaughter who died in a car crash caused by a people smuggler fleeing arrest about 100 miles from the southern border.

The moment came during a heated hearing, as Mayorkas testified before the House Homeland Security Committee.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/21/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


#2  If they are seeking to change his mind, they are wasting everyone’s time. If they are building a case so that he is forced into resigning, maybe surveilling him by the luggage carousel. That has been the only success so far. Shaming him is not possible.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/21/2023 12:17 Comments || Top||


#4  How many children have to die so democrats can be free to use drugs?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/21/2023 12:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Re #4. Remember the unborn.
Posted by: Zenobia Clereper8635 || 04/21/2023 13:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Exactly.

How many children have to die so democrats can have free sex?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/21/2023 14:58 Comments || Top||



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