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On Friday morning, 26-year-old Devon Portillo went before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Alpine, Texas, and pleaded guilty to one charge of lying to federal investigators as part of a plea agreement. Portillo remains free on bond pending a sentencing hearing. The case began over the summer of 2020 when Portillo ran as a Republican to unseat Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson. Portillo’s bid was unsuccessful. According to prosecutors, the charge stems from Portillo lying to FBI agents during an investigation into a racist social media message published to the candidate’s account. Once the old posts came to light, Portillo...

Christopher Wray will spearhead Dems’ offensive against Trump supporters in the wake of January 6. “We have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribed to Antifa in connection with the sixth. That doesn’t mean we’re not looking, and we’ll continue to look, but at the moment we have not seen that.” That was FBI boss Christopher Wray testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Wray claimed the FBI doesn’t care about ideology, but he left more than a reasonable doubt about how hard the FBI had been looking. According to a January 13...

Senator Mike Lee questions FBI Director Chris Wray about the FBI using tenuous legal authorities to identify people who attended the DC protest rally on January 6, 2021. Senator Lee specifically asks FBI Director Wray if they are using cell phone geolocation and under what legal authority this is being done: National Security Letters? FISA Court? Search warrants based on probable cause? Wray’s respons is disingenuous… WATCH: (video at link) Additionally, according to a segment aired February 4th on Tucker Carlson television show, Bank of America sent customer purchasing history to federal agencies to assist in their investigation of persons...

<p>FBI DIRECTOR Chris Wray yesterday accused supporters of Donald Trump, who carried out a deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol, of domestic terrorism. He has vowed to hold them accountable.</p><p>It was Mr Wray’s first testimony in Congress since the attack – a failed bid to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s November election victory – was carried out by supporters of then-president Trump who, in a speech near the White House, encouraged them to march to the Capitol in protest.</p>

Dr. Simone Gold led a team of doctors called America’s Frontline Doctors, a group that challenged COVID prevention strategy in America, back in July in Washington DC. The Frontline doctors from across met in Washington DC to dispel the misinformation and myths surrounding the coronavirus. The group was concerned with the disinformation campaign being played out in the far-left American media today. The group also promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine as a life-saving medication in treating the coronavirus. The American left trashed the doctors and the tech giants blocked their content from the internet. The American left hates to be...

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that the bureau has no evidence that far-left violent extremists were involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “We have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribed to antifa in connection with the sixth,” Wray told lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, using a term to refer to the left-wing anti-fascism movement. “That doesn't mean we're not looking, and we'll continue to look, but at the moment we have not seen that.”The idea that "antifa," an umbrella term for far-left leaning groups, was responsible for...

Disgraced FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the US Senate on Tuesday in his first testimony since the US Capitol riot on January 6th.Wray said there is no evidence of “fake Trump supporters” at the US Capitol.Director Wray also said there is no evidence left-wing groups or Antifa played a role in the Capitol riot under questioning by Democrat Senator Leahy.To date, Wray has barely acknowledged the existence of Antifa and he struggled to utter the “A” word during his hearing on Tuesday.Wray tells Leahy that there’s no evidence antifa played a role in the January 6 insurrection pic.twitter.com/CozZigYhGh— Aaron...

On Tuesday, March 2nd, Sen. Chuck Grassley asked FBI Director Wray if there had been a determination as to the cause of Sicknick’s death.Wray didn’t just shockingly obfuscate, but actually refused to say if they even have a determination of the cause of death yet.

So what’s the matter with gun registration?(This is part of “Dear Mr. Security Agent,” written in 2013, and it is now part of “The Bracken Collection: Essays and Short Fiction, 2010 to 2019.”) To say that Turkey did not enjoy a smooth transition from being the seat of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, through World War I and into the modernist Ataturk era, would be a massive understatement. In those turbulent times, ethnic Turks, who were Muslims composing the vast majority of the population, considered their Christian minorities, especially the Armenians, to be disloyal and treacherous. In 1911, a national gun...

The American people, regardless of political affiliation, should be bellowing a primal scream of outrage in light of the new evidence–overwhelming evidence at that–of the FBI’s corruption. If you have not read John Solomon’s latest revelations about the contents of formerly classified FBI documents that were declassified one week before Donald Trump left Washington, DC, then you need to take the time. You can read it here. Permit me to point out some background you need to appreciate the appalling gravity of these documents. In theory the FBI is not supposed to be a Secret Police (i.e., a GESTAPO). No...

Lady Gaga's stolen dogs were turned in unharmed Friday night, the Los Angeles Police Department said...The French bulldogs were taken in a violent robbery in Hollywood Wednesday night, in which the singer's 30-year-old dog walker was shot and the French bulldogs were taken...On Friday, Gaga repeated that she was offering a $500,000 reward for the safe return of the dogs.

INVESTIGATORS are probing whether the kidnapping of Lady Gaga's bulldogs was politically motivated because she sang at President Joe Biden's inauguration. FBI officials specialized in kidnapping and ransom cases are working with Los Angeles Police Department detectives, The Sun learned on Thursday. Lady Gaga is offering a $500,000 reward for the return of her bulldogs. The FBI is reportedly looking into whether Lady Gaga's bulldog kidnappings were politically motivated because she sang at President Joe Biden's inauguration "Lady Gaga is high profile of course but she sang at President Biden's inauguration which takes this case to another level," one source...

Oklahoma legislators are working to pass another bill, HB 2273. It's a companion bill to SB 6 which is working it's way through the state senate. Both bills would make it illegal to photograph or video law enforcement and publish it on an online site, forum or social media platform. There's been a lot of confusion and concern with the two bills as you can imagine. So what exactly will the new law do and what are the penalties for violating the law? Also, if this does become law when will it take effect?

The FBI is reportedly investigating whether the dognapping of Lady Gaga's bulldogs was politically motivated because she sang at President Joe Biden's inauguration last month. According to The Sun, FBI agents who specialize in kidnapping and ransom cases are working with the Los Angeles Police Department to find out 'exactly what motivated this incident'. A source familiar with the incident told the news outlet: 'Lady Gaga is high profile of course but she sang at President Biden's inauguration which takes this case to another level.'

A U.S. intelligence report for the first time links China’s largest telecommunications company to Beijing’s KGB-like intelligence service and says the company recently received nearly a quarter-billion dollars from the Chinese government. The disclosures are a setback for Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s efforts to break into the U.S. telecommunications market. The company has been blocked from doing so three times by the U.S. government because of concerns about its links to the Chinese government. The report by the CIA-based Open Source Center states that Huawei’s chairwoman, Sun Yafang, worked for the Ministry of State Security (MSS) Communications Department before joining...

/begin my translationDrug Sold Domestically For Kim Jong-il's Fund [Japanese Expert Analysis-Part II] S. Korean Government Agency Report On "Rising Drug Use of N. Koreans" [ 2005-04-12 18:38 ] N. Korean drug seized by Australian Special Units in 2003 A recent report prepared by a S. Korean government agency has the following headline:"Recently, the use of METH is suddenly rising at N. Korean border area. N. Korean authorities as well as Chinese is raising their concern." The report accurately analyzes why N. Korean drug market has gotten so big. Intense Competition Between State Security and Security Command There are two...

Saudi police hunted for suspects Thursday after militants bombed two state security headquarters in Riyadh, setting off violence that killed at least 10 people and injured more than 90.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in northwest China have made a rare apology to a man they surprised at home and dragged to jail for watching pornographic videos with his wife, state newspapers said Friday. The case, reported widely by newspapers, prompted intense debate among Chinese about privacy in a country struggling to balance traditional morality and personal freedom. "We are very guilty for the pain we have caused. We are apologizing to you now," the Beijing Youth Daily quoted a police official in the city of Yan'an as saying, adding authorities would reprimand the officers responsible. Four officers burst into...