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On Friday, as half of America now knows, two-dozen FBI agents stormed the home of pro-life activist Mark Houck and arrested him in front of his horrified wife and seven children. The charge against him was shoving a man in front of a Planned Parenthood abortion mill nearly a year ago. In the indictment handed down by the grand jury, the man allegedly assaulted is known simply as B.L. Although I know his name, and others have reported it, I will leave it at B.L. for now lest two-dozen FBI agents show up at my door. As it turns out,...

More evidence is coming to light showing that Joe Biden’s Justice Department clearly targeted a pro-life man his family with a shocking home raid as a matter of persecution. (snip) In June 2022, Thomas More Society attorneys notified the Biden Department of Justice that the FACE Act does not cover one-on-one altercations like the one involving Houck, which was initiated by the abortion proponent who was harassing Houck’s son. The Department of Justice was also advised that if the decision was made to bring a charge against Houck despite lack of legal foundation, Houck would appear voluntarily.“Rather than accepting Mark...

Americans once believed that the FBI was an incorruptible agency, untainted by local or, indeed any politics. From 1965-1975, The F.B.I. showed TV viewers a successful, honest FBI. Not only was the FBI never that good, today’s news stories signal that it’s completely awful. Here’s more information about the Philadelphia raid, along with other negative FBI news: 1. Jack Cashill wrote about the FBI’s over-the-top arrest of Mark Houck, a pro-life activist, who pushed an abortion activist last year because the man was aggressive around Houck’s 12-year-old son. The man filed a now-dismissed civil suit, but that wasn’t enough for...

The FBI and US Attorney’s Office misled a judge who issued a warrant for a controversial raid on a Beverly Hills safety deposit company that uncovered $86 million in cash and millions more other assets, according to a new report.A senior FBI agent recently testified that central to the plan, and not disclosed to the judge, was the permanent confiscation of the contents of every box that contained at least $5,000 in cash or goods, the Los Angeles Times reported.The alleged disclosure failure came out in FBI documents and agent depositions in a class-action lawsuit by box holders at U.S....

‘The government’s theory is that having cash makes you a presumptive criminal, and I think every American should be worried about that.’ There is no denying anymore that our federal agencies have weaponized their power against the political adversaries of the left. But if you think the feds’ abandonment of all standards only affects outspoken critics of the regime, think again. More allegations of FBI corruption and hubris are coming to light after a lawsuit last week revealed FBI agents misled a judge so they could illegally seize and withhold property from innocent American citizens. Agents took more than $86...

Senior leaders at the Secret Service reportedly confiscated the cellphones of 24 agents who were involved with the Jan. 6, 2021, response and delivered the phones to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) inspector general. A source familiar confirmed to The Hill that the phones were handed to Inspector General Joseph Cuffari’s office after a July 19 letter was sent to the agency from DHS investigators indicating he had begun a criminal probe. NBC News first reported the development.

In this episode of Try to Control Your Shock and Amazement…As we continue to learn more about the mistreatment of Jan. 6 defendants, many of whom have been held in violation of their constitutional rights — regardless of guilt or innocence — additional behind-the-scene accounts of just how badly their rights were infringed and continue to be disregarded have surfaced.As reported by John Solomon on his Just the News, a suspended FBI agent says he and other agents were listed “as affiants on search and arrest warrant affidavits for subjects” whom they “have never investigated or even interviewed.” The whistleblower...

Another day, another example of the FBI’s vast corruption. A new report based on unsealed documents has revealed that the bureau misled a judge over a warrant in order to seize tens of millions of dollars in valuables without cause.In total, $86 million in cash with more in gold, silver, and jewelry was taken by the federal government from over 1,400 safety deposit boxes under the guise of them being connected to crimes.FBI misled judge to sign off on warrant resulting in agents stealing more than $86 million in cash & other valuables from ordinary Americans’ safety deposit boxes https://t.co/fcPm49bmN9—...

The FBI was once the beau ideal of a law enforcement agency. Even though the Mob referred to them as “boy scouts” and “F***ing Bunch of Idiots,” the FBI racked up an impressive record fighting Prohibition gangsters, the Mafia, and communist spies. Over the last few years, the image of the FBI has been tarnished. For reasons known only to FBI Director James Comey, the FBI became embroiled in a scheme to torpedo the campaign of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. When he became president-elect, the campaign accelerated. The FBI repackaged allegations they knew to be false to enable the...

Friday mornings are usually the cheeriest time of the week, just hours away from the weekend. Alas for pro-life advocate Mark Houck and his family, last Friday was anything but joyous. At 7 A.M., the father of seven was awakened by a SWAT team of heavily armed FBI agents. Mark's wife, Ryan-Marie, said she pleaded with the FBI agents to be calm, owing to the presence of the couple's seven young children. The "kids were screaming. It was all just very scary and traumatic." Alas, those pleas fell on deaf ears. Ryan-Marie recounts the raid as follows:A "SWAT team of...

Letitia James lands the first big blow. Fani Willis will put him on the ropes. Merrick Garland will deliver the knockout punch. A great day for the Rule of Law.— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) September 21, 2022

Luke Phillip Robinson aka. “Ginger Gun” in Arizona. Luke Phillip Robinson was at the Jan 6 protests. He was the ONLY known protester that day out of a million Trump supporters filmed with a gun. Phillip Robinson was put on the FBI most wanted list as #343 after the protest. The FBI later removed Luke from their most-wanted list for some reason. Luke Robinson was one of three operatives taken off of the FBI most wanted list from January 6, along with Ray Epps and Megan Paradise. According to J6 defendant, Micajah Jackson, Luke Robinson was also wearing an earpiece...

The Justice Department has hit the Eagle Forum of Alabama with a voluminous subpoena that violates the organization’s First Amendment rights to speak freely, engage in the political process, and talk to their elected representatives. It’s an intimidation tactic, pure and simple, and shows just how partisan the department has become. This out-of-control behavior should scare every citizen and volunteer organization, no matter where they stand on the political or social spectrum. Eagle Forum is a very small non-profit in Alabama. It only has one full-time employee and a second, part-time employee. Virtually all of its work on issues of...

The White House is frustrated by Fox News’ Bill Melugin’s reporting on the border crisis, Politico reported Tuesday. Several White House and administration officials told West Wing Playbook they are increasingly frustrated with Melugin’s coverage on the border, “arguing that there is an alarmist quality to it, designed to feed political narratives rather than illuminate the actual issues feeding the migrant flow,” Politico reported. Melugin’s reporting then came under fire for using drones to cover migrants crossing the border, with Politico arguing “the technique gives the story a dramatic visual scale that Fox pundits use to bolster their arguments about...

The left is unwilling to accept the testimony of an FBI whistleblower, no matter what US Rep. Jim Jordan says about the information that has been collected to show that the FBI is acting on highly politicized cases over issues of national security. No matter what anyone says the left do not want to investigate any claim, they only want to blame Republicans. Nonetheless, Jordan appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson recently and laid out a chilling story: “Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that a whistleblower in the FBI had provided information...

Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master overseeing the seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lago, signaled on Tuesday to lawyers for former President Donald Trump that if they don't make a case that any of the documents were declassified, he would determine that they're classified. Out of court, Trump has pushed the claim he declassified all the documents, and his lawyers have raised that possibility in court papers, though they have never explicitly argued that anything was declassified. Federal prosecutors have argued for weeks that documents seized from Mar-a-Lago that contain classification markings -- like "top secret" -- should be treated as...

Bexar County's prosecution-minded sheriff is but a pawn in a much bigger leftist game to drive Gov. Ron DeSantis from higher office. Just yesterday, Texas sheriff Javier Salazar announced that he is investigating the legality of Gov. Ron DeSantis's flying of illegal migrants to Martha's Vineyard. Salazar is a Democrat, but, like all Democrats, he insists that his probe has nothing to do with his political affiliation. Salazar said the following: Somebody saw fit to come from another state, hunt them down, prey upon them, and then take advantage of their desperate situation just for the sake of political theater,...

Canada’s federal government will likely drop its COVID-19 vaccine requirement for people entering Canada at the end of the month, a government source said on Tuesday. The source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was “likely” to drop the vaccination requirement on Sept 30. The Globe and Mail newspaper reported the news earlier on Tuesday. Canada will also drop random coronavirus testing on the same day, and make it optional to use its ArriveCAN app, where travelers have been required to upload their proof of vaccination, the source said. Canadian airports faced...

Tuesday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticized the investigation and the media for how both were handling the Hunter Biden laptop saga. Graham called for the investigation to follow the standard for former President Donald Trump when he was accused of colluding with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. “I believe that you should have somebody looking at Hunter Biden other than a Delaware prosecutor,” he said. “We’re having a prosecutor in the guy’s home state. The prosecutor is a fine fellow, but can you imagine what the left would do if I suggested we...

It’s all just another campaign of deceit—with reliable assistance from the national news media—to get Trump. With one sentence, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon spoke for the majority of Americans who no longer have faith in the nation’s top law enforcement agency. “It is also true, of course, that even-handed procedure does not demand unquestioning trust in the determinations of the Department of Justice,” she wrote in her September 15 order denying the government’s request to prevent a third-party review of allegedly “classified” documents seized by the FBI during the raid of Mar-a-Lago last month. At issue is the...