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DOJ Responds to Comey Motion to Dismiss – Provides Attachments of Extensive use of Daniel Richman to Leak and Shape Media

November 3, 2025 | Sundance

USAO Lindsey Halligan has responded to James Comey’s motion to dismiss the charges against him in a lengthy response and multiple attachment filing [Full COURT FILE HERE] – [Response MOTION HERE].

In addition to refuting the effort by Comey’s lawyers to challenge the appointment of USAO Halligan [See Response Here], the USAO office also provides evidence of James Comey’s extensive use of Daniel Richman to act as a cut out for leaks and communications with the media [Attachments HERE].

Beginning on January 2, 2015, James Comey hired Daniel Richman to be his conduit to the media for all things around the Clinton investigation.  Exhibit #3 highlights Richman emails to Office of Legal Counsel, Patrick Findlay, to begin the process of officially working for Comey as a special government employee. [Attachment #3 HERE].

There are multiple exhibits highlighting emails between James Comey (aka Reinhold Niebuhr7) and Daniel Richman [HERE-4 and HERE-5 and HERE-6 and HERE-7] proving the former FBI director did intentionally direct Daniel Richman to contact media persons on his behalf and leak investigative background information, or instruct them on information, James Comey provided. The evidence on this issue is overwhelming.

Daniel Richman, working directly on the instructions of James Comey, worked closely with New York Times journalist Mike Schmidt, husband of MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace, to publish material [ex. Exhibit #8].  Richman then coordinated the FBI director’s message with dozens of national journalists, writing the scripts for them to publish on behalf of James Comey [ex Exhibit #9].   Again, the evidence on this collaborative endeavor is overwhelming.

Interestingly, [Govt Exhibit #12] is the criminal complaint stemming from the FBI investigation which began on July 21, 2025.   The investigative summary notes the purposeful use of Room #9582 at FBI headquarters, intended to destroy classified evidence concealed in five burn bags.

I’m still reviewing the information.

More to come…

DOJ and FBI Whistleblowers Continue Providing Evidence of Arctic Frost Targeting Operation

October 31, 2025 | Sundance

Senator Ron Johnson underlines a key point being missed by many.  All of the revelations about the FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation against President Trump and his supporters, are being provided by evidence carried to congress by DOJ/FBI “whistleblowers.”

Pause and reflect on that observation for a few moments.  The public awareness of political targeting by the DOJ/FBI is coming from ‘whistleblowers’ to Senator Chuck Grassley.  It is not Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel bringing forward the information about the weaponized use of their institutions.

If Pam Bondi and Kash Patel were in control of the root systems within their agencies, they would be the ones bringing forth the information; they are not. Bondi and Patel are not in control.  Instead, the sunlight is coming from a few people within the organizations who are pushing the evidence out. Senator Johnson is providing a very deliberate point here:

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One of the ongoing frustrations within the current dynamic is Pam Bondi and Kash Patel continuing to talk publicly about the honor, integrity and fidelity of the institutions they lead; without a public admission and statement about their agencies being comprehensively corrupted by the operation that Barack Obama and Eric Holder carried out.

Operation “Arctic Frost” did not originate organically in response to the J6 protests or the Jack Smith investigation.  Arctic Frost was simply an extension of all former targeting operations that were carried out over the past ten years.

• The targeting operation using the IRS. 
• The targeting operation using the NSA database.
• The targeting operation using Crossfire Hurricane. 
• The targeting operation using Robert Mueller. 
• The targeting operation using the CIA impeachment effort (Schiff/Nadler). 
• The targeting operation using J6 effort (Thompson). 
• The targeting operation using Jack Smith. 
• The Arctic Frost targeting operation. 

These are all designated and evidenced identifiers of a continuum of government targeting operations that has its origin in Barack Obama and Eric Holder.

Two simultaneous realities need to be accepted if this mess is to get to the point of accountability.

• First, the primary function of the FBI is to protect the interests of Washington, DC. 

Within the body politic everyone knows what the purpose and agenda is for the FBI mission; there is no one in Washington DC who does not know this.  As a collective body they pretend not to know, because the ramifications of admitting knowledge are far greater than the actual corruption they pretend not to know exists.

• Secondly, plausible deniability must be maintained by everyone in Washington DC as it pertains to their pretending. 

The FBI operates to defend the pretending by targeting any entity who would appear with the evidence of the underlying corruption.  The FBI will attack any entity who brings forth the sunlight, because the sunlight itself destroys the illusions that all pretending is reliant upon.

To maintain the pretenses in Washington DC, the FBI must target anyone who brings evidence of corruption or unlawful activity.  This is the primary operating mission of the FBI and the Lawfare agents within the DOJ who are vicious in their alignment to keep powerful people protected.

If you think it’s bad, it’s actually worse.

Last point from my own personal experience in this Machiavellian network.

If we accept the outlook that Washington DC politics is essentially a UniParty when it comes to retention of the status quo for both affluence (money) and influence (power); then we must begin to accept the same dynamic also exists within DC media.

There are no allies for the American people within the construct of a Right/Left Washington, DC media perspective.  It simply does not exist.  The same way the FBI will attack any truthteller, the “conservative” DC media will do the same to isolate, ridicule and marginalize any voice who brings evidence of the corruption they must pretend not to know about.

The DC protectorate promote outrage as a distraction.

It takes skill to see the trees while standing in the forest.

In the example above, Ron Johnson is highlighting the obvious nature of the trees.

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Riley Gaines Sports Bio

Career Notes:

• 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier
• 2020*, 2021, 2022 NCAA qualifier
• 2022 SEC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• SEC meet and conference record holder in 200 fly (1:51.51, 2022)
• 2022 All-America in 200 free; All-America Honorable Mention in 200 fly, 400 medley relay, 800 free relay
• 2021 All-America in 200 free, 800 free relay; All-America Honorable Mention in 400 medley relay
• ^2020 All-America in 200 free, 200 fly, 800 free relay
• 2019 All-America Honorable Mention in 400 medley relay, 400 free relay
• 2021 NCAA silver medalist in 800 free relay
• 2022 SEC champion in 200 free, 200 fly; silver medalist in 800 free relay; bronze medalist in 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay
• 2021 SEC champion in 200 free, 800 free relay; bronze medalist in 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay
• 2020 SEC silver medalist in 800 free relay
• 2019 SEC bronze medalist in 800 free relay
• 2021, 2022 All-SEC First Team
• 2019, 2020 All-SEC Second Team
• 2019 SEC All-Freshman Team
• 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team
• 2020, 2021, 2022 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll
• 2019 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
• 2021-22 CoSIDA Academic All-District Women’s At-Large Team
• 2022 Frank G. Ham Society of Character inductee
• 2022 Sullivan Award recipient
• 2022 SEC Brad Davis Community Service Award winner
• 2022 SEC Brad Davis Community Service Leader of the Year

In the Record Book:

• No. 1 in 100 free (2022), 200 free (2022), 200 fly (2022), 200 medley relay (2021), 400 medley relay (2022), 400 free relay (2019), 800 free relay (2019)
• No. 4 in 50 free (2021)

2021-22 (Senior): Ended her Wildcat career as one of the most decorated swimmers in program history … Named to the All-SEC First Team … Broke the SEC meet and conference record in the 200 fly (1:51.51) at the SEC Championships en route to earning gold … Successfully defended her gold medal in the 200 free (1:42.62) and also took fourth in the 100 free (47.88) … All three of her individual events at SECs were school records … Earned silver in the 800 free relay with a split of 1:41.92, the fastest in the field … Split 21.67 on the free leg and 51.31 on the fly leg of the bronze-medal 200 and 400 medley relays at SECs … Tied for fifth at the NCAA Championships in the 200 free (1:43.40), also taking 13th in the 200 fly (1:53.67) … Split 41.39 on the third leg of the 13th-place 400 medley relay that broke the school record and 1:42.18 on the ninth-place 800 free relay at NCAAs … Won the 200 free (1:43.81) and 200 fly (1:54.84) at the midseason Ohio State Invitational, also taking second in the 100 free (48.43) … Had 20 individual top-3 finishes during the dual meet season, including 15 wins … Broke the Louisville pool record in the 200 free (1:43.93) during the UK-UofL dual meet … Swept the 50 free (23.06) and 100 free (49.77) in the season-opening tri-meet with Indiana and Indiana State … Won four events in the tri-meet with Auburn and NC State … Took first in the 100 free (49.83) and 200 free (1:46.60) against Tennessee … Named SEC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year … Named SEC Female Co-Swimmer of the Week on Jan. 18 … Concluded the season ranked No. 5 in the 200 fly (1:51.51) and No. 9 in the 200 free (1:42.62) nationally … Owns the 16th-fastest 200 fly time in U.S. history … Named team co-captain for the second year in a row … Won the prestigious Sullivan Award, UK’s highest honor for humanitarian efforts … Kentucky’s female winner for the SEC Brad Davis Community Service Award … Went on to be named the SEC Brad Davis Female Community Service Leader of the Year … Won the Captain’s Award and the Wildcat of the Year Award at the program’s annual award banquet … Named Miss Wildcat at the 2022 CATSPY Awards, also earning an Elite Performance Award for winning two events at SECs … Selected to the 2021-22 CoSIDA Academic All-District Women’s At-Large Team.

2020-21 (Junior): Named to the All-SEC First Team … Won the 200 free in 1:42.70 en route to lowering her own school record at the SEC Championships while also placing fourth in the 200 fly (1:55.10) and sixth in the 100 free (48.21) … Split 1:42.44 on the winning 800 freestyle relay that won UK’s first-ever SEC relay title, anchored the third-place 200 medley relay in 21.58 and the 400 medley relay in 47.30, and split 21.70 on the 200 free relay that took seventh as UK won their first team title in program history … Placed seventh in the 200 free at the NCAA Championships in 1:44.67 and also competed in the 100 free and 200 fly … Split 1:42.81 on the 800 free relay that was the national runner-up at NCAAs, also anchoring the 10th-place 400 medley relay in 48.09 and the 17th-place 200 medley relay in 21.88 … Won the 100 free (48.46), 200 free (1:43.68), and 200 fly (1:56.10) at the Missouri Invitational … Placed first in nine different events throughout the dual meet season, including three wins against Louisville and two versus Tennessee … Earned the Wildcat of the Year of the Award and the Captain’s Award at the program’s annual awards banquet … Named SEC Swimmer of the Week on January 26 … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll … Named to the CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team.

2019-20 (Sophomore): Named to the All-SEC Second Team … Responsible for 44 individual points at the 2020 SEC Championships … Finished in 10th place in the 200 butterfly in 1:55.53, a career best, at the SEC Championships … Finished in 11th place in the 200 freestyle in 1:44.76, a career best, at the SEC Championships … Finished in 16th place in the 100 freestyle in 49.11 at the SEC Championships, after earning a career-best 49.07 in preliminaries … She also helped the 800 freestyle relay to a silver finish and NCAA “A” cut, swimming the anchor leg in 1:43.47 … She also set a career best while swimming the lead leg in the 200 freestyle relay, touching the wall in 22.87 … Qualified for the 2020 NCAA Championships in the 200 freestyle and the 200 butterfly … Earned the Most Improved Swimmer award at the program’s annual awards banquet … Named to the 2020 CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team … Named to the 2020 SEC Academic Honor Roll.
 

2018-19 (Freshman): Named to the All-SEC Second Team and SEC All-Freshman Team … Earned a bronze medal in the 800 free relay at the SEC Championships on a time of 6:56.23 … Helped score points in the 200 free relay at the SEC Championships (11th, 1:30.81), swimming the lead leg on a split time of 23.12 … Joined the NCAA Championships team as a relay alternate … Became a two-time All-America Honorable Mention in the 400 medley relay (15th, 3:32.24) and the 400 free relay (15th, 3:14.59) … Received the Freshman Award at the end of year banquet … Named to CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team … Named to SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.

Prior to UK: No. 98 recruit in the class of 2018 … No. 2 recruit out of Tennessee … Seven-time Tennessee State Champion, including a four-year sweep of the 100-yard fly and three titles in the 100 free … 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier in the 100 free … All-American and Scholastic All-American … Also swam for Excel Aquatics Club Team … Played softball and won the Little League World Series.

Personal: Parents are Brad and Telisha Gaines … Mother played softball at Austin Peay and father played football at Vanderbilt … Has three siblings – Taylor, Bradford and Neely.

*The NCAA Championships were canceled because of the COVID-19 public-health threat.
^The CSCAA board adjusted the All-America selection criteria to recognize a group of individuals who would have had the opportunity to compete for All-America status at the canceled 2020 NCAA Championships.

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According to the Voorheeses, the White House must first do the following:

• Provide final plans to the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC);
• consult with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) to assure the plans are not violating the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA);
• meet with the D.C. State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) “to mitigate any adverse effects;”
• and consult with the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA),

“which reviews and advises on the design and aesthetics of the exterior modifications to the White House and its grounds,” according to the filing.

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President Trump Terminates “All Trade Negotiations” With Canada

October 24, 2025 | Sundance 

President Trump makes a statement from his Truth Social account that all trade negotiations with Canada are immediately terminated following the Canadian government purchasing ads to lie to the American people about tariffs.

PRESIDENT TRUMP – “The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” President DJT

At first review this might seem like an angered response to a fabrication by the Canadian government of Prime Minister Mark Carney. However, there is much more to this background story as CTH readers are well aware.

First, rather than make any substantive policy changes, Canada is organizing a new trade relationship with China as an offset to the trade conflict with President Trump. {GO DEEP} This will make Canada a dumping ground for cheap Chinese goods, which then becomes a problem for the U.S.

Second, President Trump has stated his intention to dissolve the North American USMCA trade deal in favor of two separate bilateral trade agreements between the U.S and Mexico and the U.S. and Canada. Again, without the U.S. economy as a subsidy for their policy, a disconnect will make Canada very vulnerable to China and Europe. {GO DEEP}

EU Is Going to Have Their NATO War Against Russia – With or Without President Trump – And It Gets Worse

October 22, 2025 | Sundance 

Let’s put the events of the last 72 hours into context.

On Monday and Tuesday, Russian oil refineries in NATO countries Hungary and Romania suddenly, and simultaneously, have mysterious explosions and catastrophic fires {citation}. On Wednesday, NATO head Mark Rutte comes to visit President Trump in the White House, and at the end of the day, the same Russian company, Lukoil, whose refinery exploded in Romania, suddenly becomes sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury {citation}. These events are not disconnected.

President Trump then disputes a Wall Street Journal report {citation}, further saying he did not give approval, nor does he know where NATO long-range missiles are coming from that were launched from Ukraine into Russia {citation}.

Alarmingly, both the Wall Street Journal and President Trump are seemingly correct.

President Trump did not give authorization; however, he did cede authority to NATO to make independent decisions about long-range missiles. The U.K. provided the British storm shadow missiles, and Ukraine launched them with NATO support for targeting deep into Russia.

President Trump saying, “wherever they may come from,” is alarming in itself.  We all know that British PM Starmer, French President Macron, German Chancellor Merz and NATO Secretary Mark Rutte are all in alignment to push NATO into a direct conflict with Russia using the non-NATO state of Ukraine to do it.

The frustrating part is not the obtuse deflection by President Trump – perhaps he really doesn’t know – but rather the alarming issue of questioning whether President Trump is getting accurate information from the U.S. intelligence apparatus to make sound decisions.  President Trump has abdicated the conflict decision-making to the NATO “coalition of the willing”, while the USA remains in NATO as a sideline observer.

The European members of NATO want war with Russia.  President Trump does not want war with Russia, yet remains tied to NATO as they push toward war with Russia.  This is not going to end well.

The U.S. Treasury sanctions against Russian energy companies is not going to cause Russian President Vladimir Putin to change his mind on his strategic objective of taking the Donbas region in Ukraine as a buffer zone against NATO encroachment.

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is imposing further sanctions as a result of Russia’s lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine. Today’s actions increase pressure on Russia’s energy sector and degrade the Kremlin’s ability to raise revenue for its war machine and support its weakened economy. The United States will continue to advocate for a peaceful resolution to the war, and a permanent peace depends entirely on Russia’s willingness to negotiate in good faith. Treasury will continue to use its authorities in support of a peace process.

“Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “Given President Putin’s refusal to end this senseless war, Treasury is sanctioning Russia’s two largest oil companies that fund the Kremlin’s war machine. Treasury is prepared to take further action if necessary to support President Trump’s effort to end yet another war. We encourage our allies to join us in and adhere to these sanctions.”

Today’s action targets Russia’s two largest oil companies, Open Joint Stock Company Rosneft Oil Company (Rosneft) and Lukoil OAO (Lukoil), which are now designated. Rosneft is a vertically integrated energy company specializing in the exploration, extraction, production, refining, transport, and sale of petroleum, natural gas, and petroleum products. Lukoil engages in the exploration, production, refining, marketing, and distribution of oil and gas in Russia and internationally.

Rosneft and Lukoil are being designated pursuant to E.O. 14024 for operating or having operated in the energy sector of the Russian Federation economy.

Additionally, OFAC is designating a number of Russia-based Rosneft and Lukoil subsidiaries, a list of which is available in Annex 1 below. All entities owned 50 percent or more, directly or indirectly, by Rosneft and Lukoil are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14024, even if not designated by OFAC. (read more)

It was Lukoil’s operation in Romania that exploded on Monday, and it was Rosneft oil that was being processed at the refinery in Hungary where the explosion took place on Monday night into Tuesday.  Then, suddenly on Wednesday, President Trump, NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent trigger sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil.

President Vladimir Putin is not a pretending man.

The Russian Federation President can clearly see what NATO (sans Trump) is trying to do, even if the advisors around President Trump are not being fulsome with their information about what NATO is trying to do.

Fubar.  All of it.

[…] – The unannounced U.S. move to enable Kyiv to use the missile in Russia comes after authority for supporting such attacks was recently transferred from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon to the top U.S. general in Europe, Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, who also serves as NATO commander. (more)

The CIA is calling the shots in Ukraine..

He’s the creation of Peter Thiel.

However, as Dr. Frankenstein discovered, sometimes creations evolve beyond their creator's control.