Saturday, January 22, 2022

LIMOUSINE CRASH: FBI Protecting the HUSSAIN Family ?

 ALBANY — New York Magazine has published an impressively detailed story on the Schoharie limousine crash that again invites a still-unanswered question: Does the FBI bear culpability for the tragedy that killed 20 people in 2018?

Prestige Limousine, after all, was owned by Shahed Hussain, a notorious and mysterious informant in several FBI terrorism stings that essentially entrapped people with no apparent ties to Islamic extremism, including, in one infamous case, the owner of an Albany pizza shop and an imam from a Central Avenue mosque.

After the crash, terrific reporting by Times Union reporter Larry Rulison revealed the extent of Hussain's troubling history, which includes a veritable laundry list of dubious business dealings and other eyebrow-raising interactions. But somehow, Hussain and his family always escaped consequences.

"As a rule," wrote Ben Ryder Howe, "people in power here will simply not discuss whether Hussain’s undercover work played any role in allowing his businesses to flout safety regulations. Take, for example, Democratic congressman Paul Tonko, a 'son of Amsterdam' who knew many of the victims. Last year, Tonko’s then–communications director, Matt Sonneborn, began an hour-long interview by specifying that neither he nor Tonko would have anything to say about the Hussains or the FBI."

https://www.timesunion.com/churchill/article/Churchill-Tonko-and-others-need-to-demand-16787770.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-state-package

Friday, January 21, 2022

JAN 6 - How it would work

 At the heart of the plan was an effort to empower Mr. Trump’s allies in Congress to hand him the election. 

Under the Constitution, if the Electoral College deadlocks or if no candidate receives a majority of its votes, the House of Representatives decides the victor. 

Each state delegation casts a single vote in these so-called “contingent elections.” Under that scenario, Mr. Trump would almost certainly have won.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/us/politics/jan-6-fake-trump-electors.html

JAN 6 - "Extreme Measures" Executive Order Disclosed

 

This week the January 6 Committee received more than 700 pages of documents from the Trump White House related to various attempts to challenge the election, including a draft of an executive order calling for extreme measures. 

The draft executive order called for the military to seize voting machines and deploy the National Guard, was the subject of heated debate inside the White House in December, as the pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn promoted wild conspiracies about voting machines. Others in the room, including the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, repeatedly and aggressively pushed back on the ideas being proposed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/us/politics/jan-6-fake-trump-electors.html

JAN 6 - Michigan AG FAKE ELECTORS Investigation Handed Over to Federal Prosecutors

 Attorney General Dana Nessel of Michigan said this week that she believed there was enough evidence to charge 16 Republicans in her state for submitting false certificates claiming Mr. Trump won her state’s electoral votes in 2020. 

She said she had handed over to federal prosecutors the results of a yearlong investigation into Republicans who signed documents in December 2020 falsely identifying themselves as Michigan’s electors. 

New Mexico’s attorney general, Hector Balderas Jr., referred similar allegations to federal law enforcement. And a local prosecutor in Wisconsin also recommended that state or federal prosecutors investigate fake electors in that state.  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/us/politics/jan-6-fake-trump-electors.html

NEWS TO USE...."Meta-verse"

 NEWS TO USE...."Meta-verse"

The metaverse — a vision of the internet becoming a kind of alternate 3D space that people move through via an avatar — became a hot trend last year. Facebook embraced the idea and changed its name to Meta.

Jan 6 - The SCHEME.....

 THE SCHEME.....a coordinated effort to convene fraudulent GOP electors in multiple states 

The Trump campaign played a role in directing several State GOP's to hold their own elector meetings, describing it at the time as a way to preserve the defeated president’s legal options as he fought doomed court battles to overturn the results.

The Trump campaign lined up supporters to fill elector slots, secured meeting rooms in statehouses for the fake electors to meet and circulated drafts of fake certificates.

Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts in December 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that Trump lost.   In five of those states — Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia — those electors then signed certificates claiming they were “duly elected and qualified” to represent their states. New Mexico and Pennsylvania also participated.

The evidence points toward a coordinated effort to convene GOP electors in multiple states Trump lost and have them declare themselves authentic electors for that state. The forms the electors used in different locations were nearly identical, from their wording to their fonts.

When those court battles failed, Vice President Mike Pence would introduce the unofficial pro-Trump electors to cast Biden’s victory into doubt the counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021.


JAN 6 - The Mystery of the RUDY GIULIANI & the FALSE ELECTORS

 Washington (CNN)  Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts in December 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that Trump lost, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the scheme. States - Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico.

.......members of former President Donald Trump's campaign team were far more involved than previously known in the plan, a core tenet of the broader plot to overturn President Joe Biden's victory when Congress counted the electoral votes on January 6.

POLITICO ...The false-electors to the ELECTORAL COLLEGE push was well-known at the time, but it’s drawn fresh scrutiny amid indications that the select committee has received documents from multiple states shedding new light on the efforts.

Michigan’s top prosecutor, Attorney General Dana Nessel, recently suggested she’s been investigating the submission of illegitimate GOP electors for a year.

CNN..The sources said Giuliani and his allies coordinated the nuts-and-bolts of the process on a state-by-state level, the sources told CNN. One source said there were multiple planning calls between Trump campaign officials and GOP state operatives, and that Giuliani participated in at least one call. The source also said the Trump campaign lined up supporters to fill elector slots, secured meeting rooms in statehouses for the fake electors to meet on December 14, 2020, and circulated drafts of fake certificates that were ultimately sent to the National Archives.

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Justice Neil Gorsuch has refused to wear a mask in court despite pleas from Chief Justice John Roberts

 Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch (right) has refused to wear a mask in court despite pleas from Chief Justice John Roberts, according to a report. Last fall, amid a decline in Covid-19 cases, the court resumed in-person arguments for the first time, and none chose to wear a mask except Justice Sonia Sotomayor , who is 67 and has diabetes. 

But earlier this month when the court returned to the bench following the Omicron surge over the holidays, Sotomayor made it clear she did not feel safe in close proximity with the others unless they were masked. 

Roberts then reportedly asked the other justices to mask up so that Sotomayor could return, but Gorsuch, who sits directly next to her, remained obstinate. 

Sotomayor has thus continued to join court business by phone and has not stepped back into the court (she is missing from a court sketch, inset).  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html