[Swordmaker]

SWORDMAKER’S

LexiQon
May 13, 2018
2:55 PM PDT

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Today’s revisions and additions:

• BGA: (#1359) Bundesverband Großhandel, Außenhandel, a German trade association which tracks imports and exports of goods in and out of Germany.
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• Bribe: (#67) A bribe is the gift bestowed to influence the recipient's conduct. It may be money, goods, rights in action, property, preferment, privilege, emolument, objects of value, advantage, or merely a promise to induce or influence the action, vote, or influence of a person in an official or public capacity. Many types of payments or favors can constitute bribes: tip, gift, sop, perk, skim, favor, discount, waived fee/ticket, free food, free ad, free trip, free tickets, sweetheart deal, kickback/payback, funding, inflated sale of an object or property, lucrative contract, donation, campaign contribution, fundraiser, sponsorship/backing, higher paying job, stock options, secret commission, promotion (rise of position/rank), or later lucrative, influential, or prominent employment. (See BC, CF, Hillary Clinton, HRC, and Kickback).
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• Eagle: (#180, #1358)
  • Secret Service nickname for President Bill Clinton.
  • a network for the acquisition, identification and dissemination of grey literature called “European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation” or EAGLE, who became the producer of the SIGLE database. (See SIGLE)
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• Government Officials who have been fired (!), resigned (*), or who are not seeking re-election (**): (#1319, and others)
  • U.S. Senate:
    • Thad Cochran (R) * — Mississippi, Seven Term, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
    • Bob Corker (R) ** Tennessee, Two Term, Chairman of the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations
    • Jeff Flake (R) ** — Arizona, One Term.
    • Al Franken (D) * — Wisconsin — One Term.
    • Orrin Hatch (R) ** — Utah, Seven Term, President pro tempore of the Senate since 2015.
    • John McCain ** or death in office — Arizona, Five Term.
  • House of Representatives
    • Joe Barton (R) ** — Texas 6 — Seventeen Term.
    • Robert Brady (D) ** — Pennsylvania 1 — Fifteen Term, Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration.
    • Jim Bridenstine (R) * — Oklahoma 1 — Three Term, resigned April 23, 2018, to become the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
    • Jason Chaffetz (R) * — Utah 3 — Four Term.
    • John Conyers (D) * — Michigan 13 — Twenty-seven Term. 88 years old.
    • Ryan Costello (R) ** — Pennsylvania 6 — Two Term.
    • John Delaney (D) ** — Maryland 6 — Three Term, presidential candidate for 2020 election.
    • Charles W. Dent (R) ** — Pennsylvania 15 — Seven Term.
    • John J. Duncan, Jr. (R) ** — Tennessee 2 — Fifteen Term.
    • Elizabeth Esty (D) ** — Connecticut 5 — Three Term.
    • Blake Farenthold (R) * — Texas 27 — Four Term.
    • Trent Franks (R) * — Arizona 8 — Seven Term. Resigned 2017.
    • Rodney Frelinghuysen (R) ** — New Jersey 11 — Twelve Term, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
    • Bob Goodlatte (R) ** — Virginia 6 — Eleven Term, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
    • Trey Gowdy (R) ** — South Carolina 4 — Four Term, chairman of the House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, and Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
    • Gene Green (D) ** — Texas 29 — Thirteen Term.
    • Luis V. Gutierrez (D) ** — Illinois 4 — Thirteen Term. Member of the Progressive Caucus.
    • Gregg Harper (R) ** — Mississippi 3 — Five Term.
    • Jeb Hensarling (R) ** — Texas 5 — Eight Term, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
    • Darrell Issa (R) ** — California 49 — Nine Term, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
    • Lynn Jenkins (R) ** — Kansas 2 — Five Term, Vice-Chair of the Republican Conference.
    • Sam Johnson (R) ** — Texas 3 — Fourteen Term, chairs the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. Johnson spent nearly seven years as a Vietnam War POW, 42 months in solitary where he was repeatedly tortured. He was a member of the “Alcatraz Gang.” Johnson also was a member of the Thunderbirds precision flying team. He is 87 years old.
    • Ruben J. Kihuen (D) ** — Nevada 4 — One Term, Nancy Pelosi demanded Kihuen’s resignation due to allegations of sexual improprieties, he refused but announced he would not run again. Called the “first Dreamer elected to Congress.”
    • Frank LoBiondo (R) ** — New Jersey 2 — Twelve Term.
    • Sandy Levin (D) ** — Michigan 9 — Eighteen Term, 86 years old.
    • Patrick Meehan (R) * — Pennsylvania 7 — Four Term.
    • Tim Murphy (R) * — Pennsylvania 18 — Seven Term.
    • Rick Nolan (D) ** — Minnesota 8 — Three then lost, and now Three Term.
    • Ted Poe (R) ** — Texas 2 — Seven Term, Vice-Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
    • Dave Reichert (R) ** — Washington 8 — Seven Term.
    • Thomas Rooney (R) ** — Florida 17 — Five Term, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
    • Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) ** — Florida 27 — Fifteen Term.
    • Dennis Ross (R) ** — Florida 15 — Four Term.
    • Edward Royce (R) ** — California 39 — Thirteen Term, Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
    • Paul Ryan (R) ** — Wisconsin 1 — Ten Term, 54th Speaker of the House of Representatives, previously Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from January 3 to October 29, 2015, and, prior to that, Chairman of the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015. (See GZ, Ryan)
    • Carol Shea-Porter (D) ** — New Hampshire 1 — Two, then lost, and now One Term.
    • Bill Shuster (R) ** — Pennsylvania 9 — Nine Term.
    • Louise Slaughter (D) died March 2018 — New York 25 — Eleven Term.
    • Lamar Smith (R) ** — Texas 21 — Sixteen Term, Chairman of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
    • Patrick J. Tiberi (R) * — Ohio 12 — Nine Term.
    • David Trott (R) ** — Michigan 11 — Two Term.
    • Niki Tsongas (D) ** — Massachusetts 3 — Six Term. Inherited a safe Democrat seat when her husband was elected to the Senate.
  • Department of Justice
    • Preet Bharara * — United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
    • Rachel Brand ! — Associate Attorney General – No. 3 official behind Deputy AG Rosenstein. (See RR, Rachel Brand)
    • John Carlin ! — (#1316) Assistant Attorney General – Head of DOJ’s National Security Division (See John Carlin).
    • Alex Kozinski * — Federal Appeals Court Judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan, resigned amid the accusations from fifteen women he had sexually harassed them.
    • David Laufman ! — (#1316) Chief of Counterintelligence and Export Control Section. Involved in Hillary Clinton email investigation (See David Kaufman).
    • Mary McCord ! — Acting Assistant Attorney General – Acting Head of DOJ’s National Security Division. (See Mary McCord).
    • Sally Yates ! — (#1316) Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General. (See Sally Yates).
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
    • James Baker ! — General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (See James Baker, FBI).
    • Josh Campbell ! — Special Assistant to fired Director James Comey. (See Josh Campbell, JC, FBI).
    • Andrew McCabe ! — (#449) Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Assistant Director of the FBI. (See FBI)
    • Lisa Page ! — (#1288) FBI attorney with the FBI's Office of the General Counsel.
    • Jim Rybicki ! — FBI Chief of Staff and senior counselor. (See Jim Rybicki)
  • White House
    • Steve Bannon * — CEO of Trump's 2016 presidential bid, then Chief Strategist in the Trump administration. Resigned in March 2017.
    • Tom Bossart * — Homeland Security Advisor.
    • Richard Cordray * — Obama Appointee, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Resigned and attempted to name his own successor in violation of the Constitution. Now a 2018 Democrat candidate for Governor of Ohio.
    • Ty Cobb * — President Trump’s defense counsel in the Russia probe. Retired as of May 2018.
    • Gary Cohn * — Director of the National Economic Council. Resigned over Trump’s announcement of trade tariffs.
    • Mike Dubke * — Director of Communications.
    • Brenda Fitzgerald * — Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    • Michael Flynn ! — National Security Advisor, fired for ostensibly lying to V.P. Pence about what was discussed in phone call with Russian Ambassador. (See Gen. Flynn)
    • Sebastian Gorka * — Deputy Assistant to the President. Resigned stating he could be more effective from outside the White House
    • Hope Hicks * — Director of Communications.
    • Omarosa Manigault * — Director of Communications at the White House Office of Public Liaison.
    • John McEntee ! — General Presidential Aide, failed security clearance due to financial irregularities. Appointed immediately after firing to a paid position in the Trump 2020 Campaign.
    • K.T. McFarland * — Deputy National Security Advisor.
    • H.R. McMaster * — National Security Advisor.
    • Vivek Murthy, M.D. * — Surgeon General.
    • Jennifer Pena, M.D. * — V.P. Peace’s personal physician.
    • Rob Porter * — Staff Secretary.
    • Dina Powell * — Deputy National Security Advisor.
    • Sean Spicer * — Press Secretary
    • Tom Price * — Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Cabinet Level Position.
    • Reince Priebus ! — Chief of Staff.
    • Anthony Scaramucci ! — Director of Communications, after a brief but eventful 10-day stint.
    • Walter Shaub * — Director of the Office of Government Ethics. Resigned ending his five year term early.
    • Katie Walsh * — Deputy Chief of Staff.
    • Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer * — Senior Director for Global Health Security — Position eliminated.
  • Department of State:
    • Joyce A. Barr ! — Assistant Secretary of State for Administration and Chief Freedom of Information Act Officer.
    • Michelle Bond ! — Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.
    • Christine Ciccone * — Department of State Deputy Chief of Staff under Rex Tillerson.
    • Steve Goldstein ! — Under Secretary of State who made a press release contradicting the president’s statement of how Secretary of State was notified of his firing.
    • Patrick Kennedy ! — Under Secretary of State for Management. He was Director of the Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing and Innovation.
    • Bill A. Miller ! — Department of State acting assistant secretary for diplomatic security.
    • Margaret Peterlin * — State Department Chief of Staff under Rex Tillerson.
    • Gentry O. Smith ! — Department of State Director of the Office of Foreign Missions.
    • Rex Tillerson ! — Secretary of State, replaced by Mike Pompeo.
  • State Officials:
    • Raul Bocanegra (D) * — California Assemblyman — Sexual harassment.
    • Matt Dababneh (D) * — California Assemblyman — Sexual harassment, assault, rape.
    • Xavier Becerra (D) * — California State Attorney General
    • Tony Mendoza (D) * — California State Senator — Sexual harassment.
    • Stanley C. Rosenberg (D) * — Massachusetts Senate from the Hampshire, Franklin, Worcester district, President of the Massachusetts Senate from 2015 until resignation on May 3, 2018 — unethical conduct.
    • Conrad Rushing * — California state appellate court justice — Sexual harassment.
    • Eric Schneiderman (D) * — New York State Attorney General resigned May 8, 2018 due to accusations of sexual misconduct while prosecuting sexual misconduct against such people as Harvey Weinstein.
  . . .
  
• Insurance Policy: (INFO) The backup plan to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump proposed in illicit emails between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his lover FBI staff attorney Lisa Page, in case candidate Donald Trump did the impossible and actually defeated Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton. (See Brennan, CIA, FBI, Halper, Page, Papadopoulos, Strzok).
  . . .
  
• Kickback: (#972) A kickback is a form of negotiated bribery in which a commission is paid to the bribe-taker in exchange for services rendered. Generally speaking, the remuneration (money, goods, or services handed over) is negotiated ahead of time. The kickback varies from other kinds of bribes in that there is implied collusion between agents of the two parties, rather than one party extorting the bribe from the other. The purpose of the kickback is usually to encourage the other party to cooperate in the illegal scheme. (See BC, Bribe, CF, Hillary Clinton, HRC).
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• SIG: (#1346)
  Defined in Q drop #1346 as “Special Interest Group.” (Thanks to FreeQ TXnMA). . . .
  
• SIGLE: (#1358) Spotted as an assumed misspelling in Q drop #1358 “We fight every sigle day on behalf of you, the people who put us here,” (emphasis added) it appears that Q’s admonition that spelling counts is true. SIGLE is the “System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe” which was established in 1980 to disseminate information to government agencies between the participating nations. Ostensibly SIGLE data is available to others as well. Although supposed Governmental funding of SIGLE ceased in 1985, a new network for the acquisition, identification and dissemination of grey literature was formed called “European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation” or “EAGLE,” which became the producer of the SIGLE database. Input to the database ended in 2005 when the EAGLE General Assembly decided to the liquidate the network. However, in 2007, together with the last EAGLE operating agent, FIZ Karlsruhe, integrated the SIGLE records into a new open access database called OpenSIGLE hosted by the French STI centre Institut de l'information scientifique et technique at the French National Center for Scientific Research (INIST-CNRS). Cataloguing rules and classification scheme were adopted from the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) database produced by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). (See Eagle).
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• Tero Varjoranta: (INFO) IAEA United Nation Nuclear Arms Chief of Inspections (Austrian) who suddenly quit when President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Iran Nuclear Arms non-agreement. (See Iran, President Trump, Obama, John Kerry).

[Swordmaker]

SWORDMAKER’S

LexiQon
May 14, 2018
12:40 AM PDT

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Link to List of Notable Resignations Q Says We Should Watch

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Today’s revisions and additions:

• BGA: (#1359) Bundesverband Großhandel, Außenhandel, a German trade association which tracks imports and exports of goods in and out of Germany.
  . . .
  
• Bribe: (#67) A bribe is the gift bestowed to influence the recipient's conduct. It may be money, goods, rights in action, property, preferment, privilege, emolument, objects of value, advantage, or merely a promise to induce or influence the action, vote, or influence of a person in an official or public capacity. Many types of payments or favors can constitute bribes: tip, gift, sop, perk, skim, favor, discount, waived fee/ticket, free food, free ad, free trip, free tickets, sweetheart deal, kickback/payback, funding, inflated sale of an object or property, lucrative contract, donation, campaign contribution, fundraiser, sponsorship/backing, higher paying job, stock options, secret commission, promotion (rise of position/rank), or later lucrative, influential, or prominent employment. (See BC, CF, Hillary Clinton, HRC, and Kickback).
  . . .
  
• Eagle: (#180, #1358)
  • Secret Service nickname for President Bill Clinton.
  • a network for the acquisition, identification and dissemination of grey literature called “European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation” or EAGLE, who became the producer of the SIGLE database. (See SIGLE)
  . . .
  
• Government Officials who have been fired (!), resigned (*), or who are not seeking re-election (**): (#1319, and others)
  • U.S. Senate:
    • Thad Cochran (R) * — Mississippi, Seven Term, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
    • Bob Corker (R) ** Tennessee, Two Term, Chairman of the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations
    • Jeff Flake (R) ** — Arizona, One Term.
    • Al Franken (D) * — Wisconsin — One Term.
    • Orrin Hatch (R) ** — Utah, Seven Term, President pro tempore of the Senate since 2015.
    • John McCain ** or death in office — Arizona, Five Term.
  • House of Representatives
    • Joe Barton (R) ** — Texas 6 — Seventeen Term.
    • Robert Brady (D) ** — Pennsylvania 1 — Fifteen Term, Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration.
    • Jim Bridenstine (R) * — Oklahoma 1 — Three Term, resigned April 23, 2018, to become the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
    • Jason Chaffetz (R) * — Utah 3 — Four Term.
    • John Conyers (D) * — Michigan 13 — Twenty-seven Term. 88 years old.
    • Ryan Costello (R) ** — Pennsylvania 6 — Two Term.
    • John Delaney (D) ** — Maryland 6 — Three Term, presidential candidate for 2020 election.
    • Charles W. Dent (R) ** — Pennsylvania 15 — Seven Term.
    • John J. Duncan, Jr. (R) ** — Tennessee 2 — Fifteen Term.
    • Elizabeth Esty (D) ** — Connecticut 5 — Three Term.
    • Blake Farenthold (R) * — Texas 27 — Four Term.
    • Trent Franks (R) * — Arizona 8 — Seven Term. Resigned 2017.
    • Rodney Frelinghuysen (R) ** — New Jersey 11 — Twelve Term, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
    • Bob Goodlatte (R) ** — Virginia 6 — Eleven Term, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
    • Trey Gowdy (R) ** — South Carolina 4 — Four Term, chairman of the House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, and Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
    • Gene Green (D) ** — Texas 29 — Thirteen Term.
    • Luis V. Gutierrez (D) ** — Illinois 4 — Thirteen Term. Member of the Progressive Caucus.
    • Gregg Harper (R) ** — Mississippi 3 — Five Term.
    • Jeb Hensarling (R) ** — Texas 5 — Eight Term, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
    • Darrell Issa (R) ** — California 49 — Nine Term, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
    • Lynn Jenkins (R) ** — Kansas 2 — Five Term, Vice-Chair of the Republican Conference.
    • Sam Johnson (R) ** — Texas 3 — Fourteen Term, chairs the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. Johnson spent nearly seven years as a Vietnam War POW, 42 months in solitary where he was repeatedly tortured. He was a member of the “Alcatraz Gang.” Johnson also was a member of the Thunderbirds precision flying team. He is 87 years old.
    • Ruben J. Kihuen (D) ** — Nevada 4 — One Term, Nancy Pelosi demanded Kihuen’s resignation due to allegations of sexual improprieties, he refused but announced he would not run again. Called the “first Dreamer elected to Congress.”
    • Frank LoBiondo (R) ** — New Jersey 2 — Twelve Term.
    • Sandy Levin (D) ** — Michigan 9 — Eighteen Term, 86 years old.
    • Patrick Meehan (R) * — Pennsylvania 7 — Four Term.
    • Tim Murphy (R) * — Pennsylvania 18 — Seven Term.
    • Rick Nolan (D) ** — Minnesota 8 — Three then lost, and now Three Term.
    • Ted Poe (R) ** — Texas 2 — Seven Term, Vice-Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
    • Dave Reichert (R) ** — Washington 8 — Seven Term.
    • Thomas Rooney (R) ** — Florida 17 — Five Term, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
    • Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) ** — Florida 27 — Fifteen Term.
    • Dennis Ross (R) ** — Florida 15 — Four Term.
    • Edward Royce (R) ** — California 39 — Thirteen Term, Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
    • Paul Ryan (R) ** — Wisconsin 1 — Ten Term, 54th Speaker of the House of Representatives, previously Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from January 3 to October 29, 2015, and, prior to that, Chairman of the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015. (See GZ, Ryan)
    • Carol Shea-Porter (D) ** — New Hampshire 1 — Two, then lost, and now One Term.
    • Bill Shuster (R) ** — Pennsylvania 9 — Nine Term.
    • Louise Slaughter (D) died March 2018 — New York 25 — Eleven Term.
    • Lamar Smith (R) ** — Texas 21 — Sixteen Term, Chairman of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
    • Patrick J. Tiberi (R) * — Ohio 12 — Nine Term.
    • David Trott (R) ** — Michigan 11 — Two Term.
    • Niki Tsongas (D) ** — Massachusetts 3 — Six Term. Inherited a safe Democrat seat when her husband was elected to the Senate.
  • Department of Justice
    • Preet Bharara * — United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
    • Rachel Brand ! — Associate Attorney General – No. 3 official behind Deputy AG Rosenstein. (See RR, Rachel Brand)
    • John Carlin ! — (#1316) Assistant Attorney General – Head of DOJ’s National Security Division (See John Carlin).
    • Alex Kozinski * — Federal Appeals Court Judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan, resigned amid the accusations from fifteen women he had sexually harassed them.
    • David Laufman ! — (#1316) Chief of Counterintelligence and Export Control Section. Involved in Hillary Clinton email investigation (See David Kaufman).
    • Mary McCord ! — Acting Assistant Attorney General – Acting Head of DOJ’s National Security Division. (See Mary McCord).
    • Sally Yates ! — (#1316) Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General. (See Sally Yates).
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
    • James Baker ! — General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (See James Baker, FBI).
    • Josh Campbell ! — Special Assistant to fired Director James Comey. (See Josh Campbell, JC, FBI).
    • Andrew McCabe ! — (#449) Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Assistant Director of the FBI. (See FBI)
    • Lisa Page ! — (#1288) FBI attorney with the FBI's Office of the General Counsel.
    • Jim Rybicki ! — FBI Chief of Staff and senior counselor. (See Jim Rybicki)
  • White House
    • Steve Bannon * — CEO of Trump's 2016 presidential bid, then Chief Strategist in the Trump administration. Resigned in March 2017.
    • Tom Bossart * — Homeland Security Advisor.
    • Richard Cordray * — Obama Appointee, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Resigned and attempted to name his own successor in violation of the Constitution. Now a 2018 Democrat candidate for Governor of Ohio.
    • Ty Cobb * — President Trump’s defense counsel in the Russia probe. Retired as of May 2018.
    • Gary Cohn * — Director of the National Economic Council. Resigned over Trump’s announcement of trade tariffs.
    • Mike Dubke * — Director of Communications.
    • Brenda Fitzgerald * — Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    • Michael Flynn ! — National Security Advisor, fired for ostensibly lying to V.P. Pence about what was discussed in phone call with Russian Ambassador. (See Gen. Flynn)
    • Sebastian Gorka * — Deputy Assistant to the President. Resigned stating he could be more effective from outside the White House
    • Hope Hicks * — Director of Communications.
    • Omarosa Manigault * — Director of Communications at the White House Office of Public Liaison.
    • John McEntee ! — General Presidential Aide, failed security clearance due to financial irregularities. Appointed immediately after firing to a paid position in the Trump 2020 Campaign.
    • K.T. McFarland * — Deputy National Security Advisor.
    • H.R. McMaster * — National Security Advisor.
    • Vivek Murthy, M.D. * — Surgeon General.
    • Jennifer Pena, M.D. * — V.P. Peace’s personal physician.
    • Rob Porter * — Staff Secretary.
    • Dina Powell * — Deputy National Security Advisor.
    • Sean Spicer * — Press Secretary
    • Tom Price * — Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Cabinet Level Position.
    • Reince Priebus ! — Chief of Staff.
    • Anthony Scaramucci ! — Director of Communications, after a brief but eventful 10-day stint.
    • Walter Shaub * — Director of the Office of Government Ethics. Resigned ending his five year term early.
    • Katie Walsh * — Deputy Chief of Staff.
    • Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer * — Senior Director for Global Health Security — Position eliminated.
  • Department of State:
    • Joyce A. Barr ! — Assistant Secretary of State for Administration and Chief Freedom of Information Act Officer.
    • Michelle Bond ! — Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.
    • Christine Ciccone * — Department of State Deputy Chief of Staff under Rex Tillerson.
    • Steve Goldstein ! — Under Secretary of State who made a press release contradicting the president’s statement of how Secretary of State was notified of his firing.
    • Patrick Kennedy ! — Under Secretary of State for Management. He was Director of the Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing and Innovation.
    • Bill A. Miller ! — Department of State acting assistant secretary for diplomatic security.
    • Margaret Peterlin * — State Department Chief of Staff under Rex Tillerson.
    • Gentry O. Smith ! — Department of State Director of the Office of Foreign Missions.
    • Rex Tillerson ! — Secretary of State, replaced by Mike Pompeo.
  • State Officials:
    • Raul Bocanegra (D) * — California Assemblyman — Sexual harassment.
    • Matt Dababneh (D) * — California Assemblyman — Sexual harassment, assault, rape.
    • Xavier Becerra (D) * — California State Attorney General
    • Tony Mendoza (D) * — California State Senator — Sexual harassment.
    • Stanley C. Rosenberg (D) * — Massachusetts Senate from the Hampshire, Franklin, Worcester district, President of the Massachusetts Senate from 2015 until resignation on May 3, 2018 — unethical conduct.
    • Conrad Rushing * — California state appellate court justice — Sexual harassment.
    • Eric Schneiderman (D) * — New York State Attorney General resigned May 8, 2018 due to accusations of sexual misconduct while prosecuting sexual misconduct against such people as Harvey Weinstein.
  . . .
  
• Insurance Policy: (INFO) The backup plan to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump proposed in illicit emails between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his lover FBI staff attorney Lisa Page, in case candidate Donald Trump did the impossible and actually defeated Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton. (See Brennan, CIA, FBI, Halper, Page, Papadopoulos, Strzok).
  . . .
  
• Kickback: (#972) A kickback is a form of negotiated bribery in which a commission is paid to the bribe-taker in exchange for services rendered. Generally speaking, the remuneration (money, goods, or services handed over) is negotiated ahead of time. The kickback varies from other kinds of bribes in that there is implied collusion between agents of the two parties, rather than one party extorting the bribe from the other. The purpose of the kickback is usually to encourage the other party to cooperate in the illegal scheme. (See BC, Bribe, CF, Hillary Clinton, HRC).
  . . .
  
• Pickle: (#1359) Several possible meaning:
  • The secondary Dictionary definition is: “. . . a difficult or messy situation with no obvious solution.”
  • In Baseball, a pickle most likely derives from the second dictionary definition of "pickle" in that it refers to a runner stuck between bases while two opposing team players are tossing the ball back and forth so that he can never safely reach a base. I.e. he’s in a pickle. (Thanks to FreeQ pocketdoor)
  • Military command of "PICKLE!" is used mostly by fighter and bomber aircrew when all the firing and aiming parameters are met for releasing a bomb or firing a rocket/missile and the weapons release point is optimal, the verbal command "PICKLE!" is issues, meaning release/fire ordnance RIGHT NOW! (Thanks to FreeQ Gritty).
  . . .
  
• SIG: (#1346)
  Defined in Q drop #1346 as “Special Interest Group.” (Thanks to FreeQ TXnMA). . . .
  
• SIGLE: (#1358) Spotted as an assumed misspelling in Q drop #1358 “We fight every sigle day on behalf of you, the people who put us here,” (emphasis added) it appears that Q’s admonition that spelling counts is true. SIGLE is the “System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe” which was established in 1980 to disseminate information to government agencies between the participating nations. Ostensibly SIGLE data is available to others as well. Although supposed Governmental funding of SIGLE ceased in 1985, a new network for the acquisition, identification and dissemination of grey literature was formed called “European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation” or “EAGLE,” which became the producer of the SIGLE database. Input to the database ended in 2005 when the EAGLE General Assembly decided to the liquidate the network. However, in 2007, together with the last EAGLE operating agent, FIZ Karlsruhe, integrated the SIGLE records into a new open access database called OpenSIGLE hosted by the French STI centre Institut de l'information scientifique et technique at the French National Center for Scientific Research (INIST-CNRS). Cataloguing rules and classification scheme were adopted from the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) database produced by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). (See Eagle).
  . . .
  
• Tero Varjoranta: (INFO) IAEA United Nation Nuclear Arms Chief of Inspections (Austrian) who suddenly quit when President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Iran Nuclear Arms non-agreement. (See Iran, President Trump, Obama, John Kerry).

[Swordmaker]

SWORDMAKER’S

LexiQon
May 14, 2018
1:30 AM PDT

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Link to List of Notable Resignations Q Says We Should Watch

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Today’s revisions and additions:

• BGA: (#1359) Bundesverband Großhandel, Außenhandel, a German trade association which tracks imports and exports of goods in and out of Germany.
  . . .
  
• Bribe: (#67) A bribe is the gift bestowed to influence the recipient's conduct. It may be money, goods, rights in action, property, preferment, privilege, emolument, objects of value, advantage, or merely a promise to induce or influence the action, vote, or influence of a person in an official or public capacity. Many types of payments or favors can constitute bribes: tip, gift, sop, perk, skim, favor, discount, waived fee/ticket, free food, free ad, free trip, free tickets, sweetheart deal, kickback/payback, funding, inflated sale of an object or property, lucrative contract, donation, campaign contribution, fundraiser, sponsorship/backing, higher paying job, stock options, secret commission, promotion (rise of position/rank), or later lucrative, influential, or prominent employment. (See BC, CF, Hillary Clinton, HRC, and Kickback).
  . . .
  
• Eagle: (#180, #1358)
  • Secret Service nickname for President Bill Clinton.
  • a network for the acquisition, identification and dissemination of grey literature called “European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation” or EAGLE, who became the producer of the SIGLE database. (See SIGLE)
  . . .
  
• Government Officials who have been fired (!), resigned (*), or who are not seeking re-election (**): (#1319, and others)
  • U.S. Senate:
    • Thad Cochran (R) * — Mississippi, Seven Term, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
    • Bob Corker (R) ** Tennessee, Two Term, Chairman of the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations
    • Jeff Flake (R) ** — Arizona, One Term.
    • Al Franken (D) * — Wisconsin — One Term.
    • Orrin Hatch (R) ** — Utah, Seven Term, President pro tempore of the Senate since 2015.
    • John McCain ** or death in office — Arizona, Five Term.
  • House of Representatives
    • Joe Barton (R) ** — Texas 6 — Seventeen Term.
    • Robert Brady (D) ** — Pennsylvania 1 — Fifteen Term, Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration.
    • Jim Bridenstine (R) * — Oklahoma 1 — Three Term, resigned April 23, 2018, to become the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
    • Jason Chaffetz (R) * — Utah 3 — Four Term.
    • John Conyers (D) * — Michigan 13 — Twenty-seven Term. 88 years old.
    • Ryan Costello (R) ** — Pennsylvania 6 — Two Term.
    • John Delaney (D) ** — Maryland 6 — Three Term, presidential candidate for 2020 election.
    • Charles W. Dent (R) ** — Pennsylvania 15 — Seven Term.
    • John J. Duncan, Jr. (R) ** — Tennessee 2 — Fifteen Term.
    • Elizabeth Esty (D) ** — Connecticut 5 — Three Term.
    • Blake Farenthold (R) * — Texas 27 — Four Term.
    • Trent Franks (R) * — Arizona 8 — Seven Term. Resigned 2017.
    • Rodney Frelinghuysen (R) ** — New Jersey 11 — Twelve Term, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
    • Bob Goodlatte (R) ** — Virginia 6 — Eleven Term, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
    • Trey Gowdy (R) ** — South Carolina 4 — Four Term, chairman of the House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, and Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
    • Gene Green (D) ** — Texas 29 — Thirteen Term.
    • Luis V. Gutierrez (D) ** — Illinois 4 — Thirteen Term. Member of the Progressive Caucus.
    • Gregg Harper (R) ** — Mississippi 3 — Five Term.
    • Jeb Hensarling (R) ** — Texas 5 — Eight Term, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
    • Darrell Issa (R) ** — California 49 — Nine Term, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
    • Lynn Jenkins (R) ** — Kansas 2 — Five Term, Vice-Chair of the Republican Conference.
    • Sam Johnson (R) ** — Texas 3 — Fourteen Term, chairs the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. Johnson spent nearly seven years as a Vietnam War POW, 42 months in solitary where he was repeatedly tortured. He was a member of the “Alcatraz Gang.” Johnson also was a member of the Thunderbirds precision flying team. He is 87 years old.
    • Ruben J. Kihuen (D) ** — Nevada 4 — One Term, Nancy Pelosi demanded Kihuen’s resignation due to allegations of sexual improprieties, he refused but announced he would not run again. Called the “first Dreamer elected to Congress.”
    • Frank LoBiondo (R) ** — New Jersey 2 — Twelve Term.
    • Sandy Levin (D) ** — Michigan 9 — Eighteen Term, 86 years old.
    • Patrick Meehan (R) * — Pennsylvania 7 — Four Term.
    • Tim Murphy (R) * — Pennsylvania 18 — Seven Term.
    • Rick Nolan (D) ** — Minnesota 8 — Three then lost, and now Three Term.
    • Ted Poe (R) ** — Texas 2 — Seven Term, Vice-Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
    • Dave Reichert (R) ** — Washington 8 — Seven Term.
    • Thomas Rooney (R) ** — Florida 17 — Five Term, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
    • Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) ** — Florida 27 — Fifteen Term.
    • Dennis Ross (R) ** — Florida 15 — Four Term.
    • Edward Royce (R) ** — California 39 — Thirteen Term, Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
    • Paul Ryan (R) ** — Wisconsin 1 — Ten Term, 54th Speaker of the House of Representatives, previously Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from January 3 to October 29, 2015, and, prior to that, Chairman of the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015. (See GZ, Ryan)
    • Carol Shea-Porter (D) ** — New Hampshire 1 — Two, then lost, and now One Term.
    • Bill Shuster (R) ** — Pennsylvania 9 — Nine Term.
    • Louise Slaughter (D) died March 2018 — New York 25 — Eleven Term.
    • Lamar Smith (R) ** — Texas 21 — Sixteen Term, Chairman of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
    • Patrick J. Tiberi (R) * — Ohio 12 — Nine Term.
    • David Trott (R) ** — Michigan 11 — Two Term.
    • Niki Tsongas (D) ** — Massachusetts 3 — Six Term. Inherited a safe Democrat seat when her husband was elected to the Senate.
  • Department of Justice
    • Preet Bharara * — United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
    • Rachel Brand ! — Associate Attorney General – No. 3 official behind Deputy AG Rosenstein. (See RR, Rachel Brand)
    • John Carlin ! — (#1316) Assistant Attorney General – Head of DOJ’s National Security Division (See John Carlin).
    • Alex Kozinski * — Federal Appeals Court Judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan, resigned amid the accusations from fifteen women he had sexually harassed them.
    • David Laufman ! — (#1316) Chief of Counterintelligence and Export Control Section. Involved in Hillary Clinton email investigation (See David Kaufman).
    • Mary McCord ! — Acting Assistant Attorney General – Acting Head of DOJ’s National Security Division. (See Mary McCord).
    • Sally Yates ! — (#1316) Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General. (See Sally Yates).
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
    • James Baker ! — General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (See James Baker, FBI).
    • Josh Campbell ! — Special Assistant to fired Director James Comey. (See Josh Campbell, JC, FBI).
    • Andrew McCabe ! — (#449) Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Assistant Director of the FBI. (See FBI)
    • Lisa Page ! — (#1288) FBI attorney with the FBI's Office of the General Counsel.
    • Jim Rybicki ! — FBI Chief of Staff and senior counselor. (See Jim Rybicki)
  • White House
    • Steve Bannon * — CEO of Trump's 2016 presidential bid, then Chief Strategist in the Trump administration. Resigned in March 2017.
    • Tom Bossart * — Homeland Security Advisor.
    • Richard Cordray * — Obama Appointee, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Resigned and attempted to name his own successor in violation of the Constitution. Now a 2018 Democrat candidate for Governor of Ohio.
    • Ty Cobb * — President Trump’s defense counsel in the Russia probe. Retired as of May 2018.
    • Gary Cohn * — Director of the National Economic Council. Resigned over Trump’s announcement of trade tariffs.
    • Mike Dubke * — Director of Communications.
    • Brenda Fitzgerald * — Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    • Michael Flynn ! — National Security Advisor, fired for ostensibly lying to V.P. Pence about what was discussed in phone call with Russian Ambassador. (See Gen. Flynn)
    • Sebastian Gorka * — Deputy Assistant to the President. Resigned stating he could be more effective from outside the White House
    • Hope Hicks * — Director of Communications.
    • Omarosa Manigault * — Director of Communications at the White House Office of Public Liaison.
    • John McEntee ! — General Presidential Aide, failed security clearance due to financial irregularities. Appointed immediately after firing to a paid position in the Trump 2020 Campaign.
    • K.T. McFarland * — Deputy National Security Advisor.
    • H.R. McMaster * — National Security Advisor.
    • Vivek Murthy, M.D. * — Surgeon General.
    • Jennifer Pena, M.D. * — V.P. Peace’s personal physician.
    • Rob Porter * — Staff Secretary.
    • Dina Powell * — Deputy National Security Advisor.
    • Sean Spicer * — Press Secretary
    • Tom Price * — Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Cabinet Level Position.
    • Reince Priebus ! — Chief of Staff.
    • Anthony Scaramucci ! — Director of Communications, after a brief but eventful 10-day stint.
    • Walter Shaub * — Director of the Office of Government Ethics. Resigned ending his five year term early.
    • Katie Walsh * — Deputy Chief of Staff.
    • Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer * — Senior Director for Global Health Security — Position eliminated.
  • Department of State:
    • Joyce A. Barr ! — Assistant Secretary of State for Administration and Chief Freedom of Information Act Officer.
    • Michelle Bond ! — Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.
    • Christine Ciccone * — Department of State Deputy Chief of Staff under Rex Tillerson.
    • Steve Goldstein ! — Under Secretary of State who made a press release contradicting the president’s statement of how Secretary of State was notified of his firing.
    • Patrick Kennedy ! — Under Secretary of State for Management. He was Director of the Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing and Innovation.
    • Bill A. Miller ! — Department of State acting assistant secretary for diplomatic security.
    • Margaret Peterlin * — State Department Chief of Staff under Rex Tillerson.
    • Gentry O. Smith ! — Department of State Director of the Office of Foreign Missions.
    • Rex Tillerson ! — Secretary of State, replaced by Mike Pompeo.
  • State Officials:
    • Raul Bocanegra (D) * — California Assemblyman — Sexual harassment.
    • Matt Dababneh (D) * — California Assemblyman — Sexual harassment, assault, rape.
    • Xavier Becerra (D) * — California State Attorney General
    • Tony Mendoza (D) * — California State Senator — Sexual harassment.
    • Stanley C. Rosenberg (D) * — Massachusetts Senate from the Hampshire, Franklin, Worcester district, President of the Massachusetts Senate from 2015 until resignation on May 3, 2018 — unethical conduct.
    • Conrad Rushing * — California state appellate court justice — Sexual harassment.
    • Eric Schneiderman (D) * — New York State Attorney General resigned May 8, 2018 due to accusations of sexual misconduct while prosecuting sexual misconduct against such people as Harvey Weinstein.
  . . .
  
• Insurance Policy: (INFO) The backup plan to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump proposed in illicit emails between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his lover FBI staff attorney Lisa Page, in case candidate Donald Trump did the impossible and actually defeated Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton. (See Brennan, CIA, FBI, Halper, Page, Papadopoulos, Strzok).
  . . .
  
• Kickback: (#972) A kickback is a form of negotiated bribery in which a commission is paid to the bribe-taker in exchange for services rendered. Generally speaking, the remuneration (money, goods, or services handed over) is negotiated ahead of time. The kickback varies from other kinds of bribes in that there is implied collusion between agents of the two parties, rather than one party extorting the bribe from the other. The purpose of the kickback is usually to encourage the other party to cooperate in the illegal scheme. (See BC, Bribe, CF, Hillary Clinton, HRC).
  . . .
  
• Pickle: (#1359) Several possible meaning:
  • The secondary Dictionary definition is: “. . . a difficult or messy situation with no obvious solution.”
  • In Baseball, a pickle most likely derives from the second dictionary definition of "pickle" in that it refers to a runner stuck between bases while two opposing team players are tossing the ball back and forth so that he can never safely reach a base. I.e. he’s in a pickle. (Thanks to FreeQ pocketdoor)
  • Military command of "PICKLE!" is used mostly by fighter and bomber aircrew when all the firing and aiming parameters are met for releasing a bomb or firing a rocket/missile and the weapons release point is optimal, the verbal command "PICKLE!" is issues, meaning release/fire ordnance RIGHT NOW! (Thanks to FreeQ Gritty).
  • The CIA has been nicknamed the “Pickle Factory” since at least 1965, when that name was cited in print. The precise meaning of “Pickle Factory” is not known. The CIA’s intelligence briefings sent to the president were called “pickles,” but it’s not known if this term preceded the “Pickle Factory” nickname. (Thanks to FreeQ Steven W.).
  . . .
  
• SIG: (#1346)
  Defined in Q drop #1346 as “Special Interest Group.” (Thanks to FreeQ TXnMA). . . .
  
• SIGLE: (#1358) Spotted as an assumed misspelling in Q drop #1358 “We fight every sigle day on behalf of you, the people who put us here,” (emphasis added) it appears that Q’s admonition that spelling counts is true. SIGLE is the “System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe” which was established in 1980 to disseminate information to government agencies between the participating nations. Ostensibly SIGLE data is available to others as well. Although supposed Governmental funding of SIGLE ceased in 1985, a new network for the acquisition, identification and dissemination of grey literature was formed called “European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation” or “EAGLE,” which became the producer of the SIGLE database. Input to the database ended in 2005 when the EAGLE General Assembly decided to the liquidate the network. However, in 2007, together with the last EAGLE operating agent, FIZ Karlsruhe, integrated the SIGLE records into a new open access database called OpenSIGLE hosted by the French STI centre Institut de l'information scientifique et technique at the French National Center for Scientific Research (INIST-CNRS). Cataloguing rules and classification scheme were adopted from the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) database produced by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). (See Eagle).
  . . .
  
• Tero Varjoranta: (INFO) IAEA United Nation Nuclear Arms Chief of Inspections (Austrian) who suddenly quit when President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Iran Nuclear Arms non-agreement. (See Iran, President Trump, Obama, John Kerry).

[Swordmaker]

SWORDMAKER’S

LexiQon
May 14, 2018
2:00 AM PDT

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To explore the Qomplete up-to-date LexiQon, Qlick on the Q iQon above.

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Link to List of Notable Resignations Q Says We Should Watch

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Today’s revisions and additions:

• BGA: (#1359) Bundesverband Großhandel, Außenhandel, a German trade association which tracks imports and exports of goods in and out of Germany.
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• Bribe: (#67) A bribe is the gift bestowed to influence the recipient's conduct. It may be money, goods, rights in action, property, preferment, privilege, emolument, objects of value, advantage, or merely a promise to induce or influence the action, vote, or influence of a person in an official or public capacity. Many types of payments or favors can constitute bribes: tip, gift, sop, perk, skim, favor, discount, waived fee/ticket, free food, free ad, free trip, free tickets, sweetheart deal, kickback/payback, funding, inflated sale of an object or property, lucrative contract, donation, campaign contribution, fundraiser, sponsorship/backing, higher paying job, stock options, secret commission, promotion (rise of position/rank), or later lucrative, influential, or prominent employment. (See BC, CF, Hillary Clinton, HRC, and Kickback).
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• Eagle: (#180, #1358)
  • Secret Service nickname for President Bill Clinton.
  • a network for the acquisition, identification and dissemination of grey literature called “European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation” or EAGLE, who became the producer of the SIGLE database. (See SIGLE)
  . . .
  
• Government Officials who have been fired (!), resigned (*), or who are not seeking re-election (**): (#1319, and others)
  • U.S. Senate:
    • Thad Cochran (R) * — Mississippi, Seven Term, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
    • Bob Corker (R) ** Tennessee, Two Term, Chairman of the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations
    • Jeff Flake (R) ** — Arizona, One Term.
    • Al Franken (D) * — Wisconsin — One Term.
    • Orrin Hatch (R) ** — Utah, Seven Term, President pro tempore of the Senate since 2015.
    • John McCain ** or death in office — Arizona, Five Term.
  • House of Representatives
    • Joe Barton (R) ** — Texas 6 — Seventeen Term.
    • Robert Brady (D) ** — Pennsylvania 1 — Fifteen Term, Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration.
    • Jim Bridenstine (R) * — Oklahoma 1 — Three Term, resigned April 23, 2018, to become the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
    • Jason Chaffetz (R) * — Utah 3 — Four Term.
    • John Conyers (D) * — Michigan 13 — Twenty-seven Term. 88 years old.
    • Ryan Costello (R) ** — Pennsylvania 6 — Two Term.
    • John Delaney (D) ** — Maryland 6 — Three Term, presidential candidate for 2020 election.
    • Charles W. Dent (R) ** — Pennsylvania 15 — Seven Term.
    • John J. Duncan, Jr. (R) ** — Tennessee 2 — Fifteen Term.
    • Elizabeth Esty (D) ** — Connecticut 5 — Three Term.
    • Blake Farenthold (R) * — Texas 27 — Four Term.
    • Trent Franks (R) * — Arizona 8 — Seven Term. Resigned 2017.
    • Rodney Frelinghuysen (R) ** — New Jersey 11 — Twelve Term, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
    • Bob Goodlatte (R) ** — Virginia 6 — Eleven Term, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
    • Trey Gowdy (R) ** — South Carolina 4 — Four Term, chairman of the House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, and Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
    • Gene Green (D) ** — Texas 29 — Thirteen Term.
    • Luis V. Gutierrez (D) ** — Illinois 4 — Thirteen Term. Member of the Progressive Caucus.
    • Gregg Harper (R) ** — Mississippi 3 — Five Term.
    • Jeb Hensarling (R) ** — Texas 5 — Eight Term, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
    • Darrell Issa (R) ** — California 49 — Nine Term, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
    • Lynn Jenkins (R) ** — Kansas 2 — Five Term, Vice-Chair of the Republican Conference.
    • Sam Johnson (R) ** — Texas 3 — Fourteen Term, chairs the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. Johnson spent nearly seven years as a Vietnam War POW, 42 months in solitary where he was repeatedly tortured. He was a member of the “Alcatraz Gang.” Johnson also was a member of the Thunderbirds precision flying team. He is 87 years old.
    • Ruben J. Kihuen (D) ** — Nevada 4 — One Term, Nancy Pelosi demanded Kihuen’s resignation due to allegations of sexual improprieties, he refused but announced he would not run again. Called the “first Dreamer elected to Congress.”
    • Frank LoBiondo (R) ** — New Jersey 2 — Twelve Term.
    • Sandy Levin (D) ** — Michigan 9 — Eighteen Term, 86 years old.
    • Patrick Meehan (R) * — Pennsylvania 7 — Four Term.
    • Tim Murphy (R) * — Pennsylvania 18 — Seven Term.
    • Rick Nolan (D) ** — Minnesota 8 — Three then lost, and now Three Term.
    • Ted Poe (R) ** — Texas 2 — Seven Term, Vice-Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
    • Dave Reichert (R) ** — Washington 8 — Seven Term.
    • Thomas Rooney (R) ** — Florida 17 — Five Term, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
    • Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) ** — Florida 27 — Fifteen Term.
    • Dennis Ross (R) ** — Florida 15 — Four Term.
    • Edward Royce (R) ** — California 39 — Thirteen Term, Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
    • Paul Ryan (R) ** — Wisconsin 1 — Ten Term, 54th Speaker of the House of Representatives, previously Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from January 3 to October 29, 2015, and, prior to that, Chairman of the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015. (See GZ, Ryan)
    • Carol Shea-Porter (D) ** — New Hampshire 1 — Two, then lost, and now One Term.
    • Bill Shuster (R) ** — Pennsylvania 9 — Nine Term.
    • Louise Slaughter (D) died March 2018 — New York 25 — Eleven Term.
    • Lamar Smith (R) ** — Texas 21 — Sixteen Term, Chairman of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
    • Patrick J. Tiberi (R) * — Ohio 12 — Nine Term.
    • David Trott (R) ** — Michigan 11 — Two Term.
    • Niki Tsongas (D) ** — Massachusetts 3 — Six Term. Inherited a safe Democrat seat when her husband was elected to the Senate.
  • Department of Justice
    • Preet Bharara * — United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
    • Rachel Brand ! — Associate Attorney General – No. 3 official behind Deputy AG Rosenstein. (See RR, Rachel Brand)
    • John Carlin ! — (#1316) Assistant Attorney General – Head of DOJ’s National Security Division (See John Carlin).
    • Alex Kozinski * — Federal Appeals Court Judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan, resigned amid the accusations from fifteen women he had sexually harassed them.
    • David Laufman ! — (#1316) Chief of Counterintelligence and Export Control Section. Involved in Hillary Clinton email investigation (See David Kaufman).
    • Mary McCord ! — Acting Assistant Attorney General – Acting Head of DOJ’s National Security Division. (See Mary McCord).
    • Sally Yates ! — (#1316) Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General. (See Sally Yates).
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
    • James Baker ! — General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (See James Baker, FBI).
    • Josh Campbell ! — Special Assistant to fired Director James Comey. (See Josh Campbell, JC, FBI).
    • Andrew McCabe ! — (#449) Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Assistant Director of the FBI. (See FBI)
    • Lisa Page ! — (#1288) FBI attorney with the FBI's Office of the General Counsel.
    • Jim Rybicki ! — FBI Chief of Staff and senior counselor. (See Jim Rybicki)
  • White House
    • Steve Bannon * — CEO of Trump's 2016 presidential bid, then Chief Strategist in the Trump administration. Resigned in March 2017.
    • Tom Bossart * — Homeland Security Advisor.
    • Richard Cordray * — Obama Appointee, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Resigned and attempted to name his own successor in violation of the Constitution. Now a 2018 Democrat candidate for Governor of Ohio.
    • Ty Cobb * — President Trump’s defense counsel in the Russia probe. Retired as of May 2018.
    • Gary Cohn * — Director of the National Economic Council. Resigned over Trump’s announcement of trade tariffs.
    • Mike Dubke * — Director of Communications.
    • Brenda Fitzgerald * — Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    • Michael Flynn ! — National Security Advisor, fired for ostensibly lying to V.P. Pence about what was discussed in phone call with Russian Ambassador. (See Gen. Flynn)
    • Sebastian Gorka * — Deputy Assistant to the President. Resigned stating he could be more effective from outside the White House
    • Hope Hicks * — Director of Communications.
    • Omarosa Manigault * — Director of Communications at the White House Office of Public Liaison.
    • John McEntee ! — General Presidential Aide, failed security clearance due to financial irregularities. Appointed immediately after firing to a paid position in the Trump 2020 Campaign.
    • K.T. McFarland * — Deputy National Security Advisor.
    • H.R. McMaster * — National Security Advisor.
    • Vivek Murthy, M.D. * — Surgeon General.
    • Jennifer Pena, M.D. * — V.P. Peace’s personal physician.
    • Rob Porter * — Staff Secretary.
    • Dina Powell * — Deputy National Security Advisor.
    • Sean Spicer * — Press Secretary
    • Tom Price * — Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Cabinet Level Position.
    • Reince Priebus ! — Chief of Staff.
    • Anthony Scaramucci ! — Director of Communications, after a brief but eventful 10-day stint.
    • Walter Shaub * — Director of the Office of Government Ethics. Resigned ending his five year term early.
    • Katie Walsh * — Deputy Chief of Staff.
    • Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer * — Senior Director for Global Health Security — Position eliminated.
  • Department of State:
    • Joyce A. Barr ! — Assistant Secretary of State for Administration and Chief Freedom of Information Act Officer.
    • Michelle Bond ! — Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.
    • Christine Ciccone * — Department of State Deputy Chief of Staff under Rex Tillerson.
    • Steve Goldstein ! — Under Secretary of State who made a press release contradicting the president’s statement of how Secretary of State was notified of his firing.
    • Patrick Kennedy ! — Under Secretary of State for Management. He was Director of the Office of Management Policy, Rightsizing and Innovation.
    • Bill A. Miller ! — Department of State acting assistant secretary for diplomatic security.
    • Margaret Peterlin * — State Department Chief of Staff under Rex Tillerson.
    • Gentry O. Smith ! — Department of State Director of the Office of Foreign Missions.
    • Rex Tillerson ! — Secretary of State, replaced by Mike Pompeo.
  • State Officials:
    • Raul Bocanegra (D) * — California Assemblyman — Sexual harassment.
    • Matt Dababneh (D) * — California Assemblyman — Sexual harassment, assault, rape.
    • Xavier Becerra (D) * — California State Attorney General
    • Tony Mendoza (D) * — California State Senator — Sexual harassment.
    • Stanley C. Rosenberg (D) * — Massachusetts Senate from the Hampshire, Franklin, Worcester district, President of the Massachusetts Senate from 2015 until resignation on May 3, 2018 — unethical conduct.
    • Conrad Rushing * — California state appellate court justice — Sexual harassment.
    • Eric Schneiderman (D) * — New York State Attorney General resigned May 8, 2018 due to accusations of sexual misconduct while prosecuting sexual misconduct against such people as Harvey Weinstein.
  . . .
  
• Insurance Policy: (INFO) The backup plan to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump proposed in illicit emails between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his lover FBI staff attorney Lisa Page, in case candidate Donald Trump did the impossible and actually defeated Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton. (See Brennan, CIA, FBI, Halper, Page, Papadopoulos, Strzok).
  . . .
  
• Kickback: (#972) A kickback is a form of negotiated bribery in which a commission is paid to the bribe-taker in exchange for services rendered. Generally speaking, the remuneration (money, goods, or services handed over) is negotiated ahead of time. The kickback varies from other kinds of bribes in that there is implied collusion between agents of the two parties, rather than one party extorting the bribe from the other. The purpose of the kickback is usually to encourage the other party to cooperate in the illegal scheme. (See BC, Bribe, CF, Hillary Clinton, HRC).
  . . .
  
• Pickle: (#1359) Several possible meaning:
  • The secondary Dictionary definition is: “. . . a difficult or messy situation with no obvious solution.”
  • In Baseball, a pickle most likely derives from the second dictionary definition of "pickle" in that it refers to a runner stuck between bases while two opposing team players are tossing the ball back and forth so that he can never safely reach a base. I.e. he’s in a pickle. (Thanks to FreeQ pocketdoor)
  • Military command of "PICKLE!" is used mostly by fighter and bomber aircrew when all the firing and aiming parameters are met for releasing a bomb or firing a rocket/missile and the weapons release point is optimal, the verbal command "PICKLE!" is issues, meaning release/fire ordnance RIGHT NOW! (Thanks to FreeQ Gritty).
  • The CIA has been nicknamed the “Pickle Factory” since at least 1963, when that name was cited in print. The CIA’s intelligence briefings sent to the president were called “pickles,” derived from the acronym "PICL", which stood for "President's Intelligence Check List," (pronounced "pickle"), which was developed for President Kennedy in June 1961. Since these were prepared largely by the CIA, the joking appellation "The Pickle Factory" was soon coined for their source. In 1965, the PICL was replaced by the President’s Daily Briefing (PDB), a much duller acronym, but the "Pickle Factory" stuck for a few years in the press. (Thanks to FreeQ Steven W.). (See CIA).
  . . .
  
• SIG: (#1346)
  Defined in Q drop #1346 as “Special Interest Group.” (Thanks to FreeQ TXnMA). . . .
  
• SIGLE: (#1358) Spotted as an assumed misspelling in Q drop #1358 “We fight every sigle day on behalf of you, the people who put us here,” (emphasis added) it appears that Q’s admonition that spelling counts is true. SIGLE is the “System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe” which was established in 1980 to disseminate information to government agencies between the participating nations. Ostensibly SIGLE data is available to others as well. Although supposed Governmental funding of SIGLE ceased in 1985, a new network for the acquisition, identification and dissemination of grey literature was formed called “European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation” or “EAGLE,” which became the producer of the SIGLE database. Input to the database ended in 2005 when the EAGLE General Assembly decided to the liquidate the network. However, in 2007, together with the last EAGLE operating agent, FIZ Karlsruhe, integrated the SIGLE records into a new open access database called OpenSIGLE hosted by the French STI centre Institut de l'information scientifique et technique at the French National Center for Scientific Research (INIST-CNRS). Cataloguing rules and classification scheme were adopted from the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) database produced by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). (See Eagle).
  . . .
  
• Tero Varjoranta: (INFO) IAEA United Nation Nuclear Arms Chief of Inspections (Austrian) who suddenly quit when President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Iran Nuclear Arms non-agreement. (See Iran, President Trump, Obama, John Kerry).