[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The government’s former top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci, often maligned for supporting stringent Covid isolation measures, was given a whopping $15 million - worth of private security after retirement from Jan. 4, 2023, to Sept. 20, 2024.
Dr Fauci, who headed the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases until his retirement in December 2022, had a publicly funded chauffeur and a dedicated security team of US Marshals, according to Freedom of Information Act documents obtained by independent journalist Jordan Schachtel and Open The Books.
During this time, these same services also managed his personal protection while he was still a government official.
The former official has been subject to death threats since the start of the pandemic and frequent public criticism, which he and other officials argue merit heightened security.
When Dr Fauci retired, he was the highest-paid public servant on the books, with a record $480,654 salary. For comparison, the president’s salary is $400,000.
Since retiring, he has published a bestselling memoir about his career in public service, which spans from his work during the AIDS crisis in the 1990s to Covid starting in 2020. His book deal was secured for just under $5 million.
According to Open the Books: ‘Up until at least late September, this agreement between the two government agencies has left the American taxpayer on the hook for the costs attached to Dr. Fauci’s lifestyle, which included a publicly-funded chauffeur and a fully staffed U.S. Marshals security detail.’
Dr Fauci said last year that his security detail was necessary because ‘I am a big big target of the extreme radical right in this country.’
The doctor has had a target on his back since the onset of Covid in March 2020.
Open the Books added: ‘It is unclear how unusual the arrangement between Health and Human Services and the U.S. Marshals Service may be. We could find no other cases of a former federal employee receiving this level of protection.’
His early missteps, including discouraging the use of masks only to walk that back about a month later, and his advocacy for draconian lockdown measures that saw millions of children shift to virtual learning, have garnered widespread criticism and violent threats.
He added: ‘I get so many threats. Some of them are credible threats of violence … that I have to be walking around with federal marshals protecting me, which is completely crazy.’
Back then, the monthly cost of his security detail amounted to $1 million in taxpayer dollars.
According to a report obtained by CBS News's 60 Minutes, two former national security advisers from the Trump administration were given Secret Service protection after leaving the White House due to potential threats from Iran. The total cost to taxpayers for the security detail of both individuals exceeded $12 million.
#5 - The owner of the Los Angeles Times has fired his entire editorial board filled with far-left activists as he seeks to return the paper to its journalistic roots.
Posting on the X platform, the paper’s owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said he was proud to have posted a letter… pic.twitter.com/dt3dNB6o10
… Posting on the X platform, the paper’s owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said he was proud to have posted a letter opposing attacks on white women for voting for Donald Trump and that the paper would be undergoing some major changes moving forward.
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Seems like a lot of paperwork to achieve no result. It’s like going back to your office on the Titanic once the list reaches 30 degrees to balance the accounts for food and entertainment.
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[JustTheNews] The new revelations heighten the mystery—and scrutiny of the FBI—surrounding one of the most disturbing security failures on the day of the Capitol riot.
Cellular carriers have told Congress they possess intact phone usage data from the vicinity where two pipe bombs were planted during the Jan. 6 incident, directly disputing FBI testimony that agents couldn't identify a suspect because the phone data was corrupted, a key House chairman tells Just the News.
The revelations from Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee, adds new intrigue to a debate that has gripped Washington for nearly four years: Why can't the FBI with so much evidence and manpower identify the suspect who planted the explosive devices at the Democrat and Republican Party headquarters hours before the Capitol was breached.
“In the days and weeks following January 6, 2021, the FBI opened an investigation into the pipe bomber and attempted to identify the suspect by analyzing cell phone data linked to the area surrounding the RNC and DNC,” Loudermilk told Just the News.
“In June 2023, the former Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, Steve D’Antuono, who oversaw the pipe bomb investigation, said that the FBI received corrupted data from one of the cell carriers and that it most likely contained the identity of the pipe bomber. Given the significance of this information, my Subcommittee sent letters to the three major cell carriers, asking them to respond to Mr. D’Antuono’s claim of corrupted data,” he said.
“Every major cell carrier responded and confirmed that they did not provide the FBI corrupted data,” Loudermilk said.
“Additionally every major cell carrier confirmed they were never notified that the FBI had any issues accessing the data. This contradictory testimony raises some serious questions about the status of the investigation into the pipe bomber and about why the case remains unsolved nearly four years later,” he added.
Last year, D’Antuono told the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI did not a receive complete phone data from telephone carriers because some of it had been corrupted.
“We did a complete geofence. We have complete data. Not complete, because there's some data that was corrupted by one of the providers, not purposely by them, right. It just -- unusual circumstance that we have corrupt data from one of the providers,” D’Antuono testified in a transcribed interview.
“But for that day, which is awful because we don't have that information to search. So could it have been that provider? Yeah, with our luck, you know, with this investigation it probably was, right,” he said.
D’Antuono served as the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office until he stepped down in late 2022. A lawyer for the retired agent did not immediately return an email Wednesday seeking comment.
The concerns about the unsolved Jan. 6 pipe bombs have been heightened by evidence Loudermilk disclosed in the last year showing that then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was taken within 10 yards of one of the live bombs on the morning of Jan. 6 because the Secret Service did not do a thorough security sweep.
In addition, Loudermilk also provided security camera video footage and still photos of the suspect holding a device that lawmakers believe was a cell phone, further making the phone data a potential case-solving piece of evidence.
Loudermilk sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray this fall demanding to know whether D'Antuono's testimony was accurate and whether the bureau ever went back to the cell phone carriers to get a fresh set of uncorrupted data. Just the News obtained a copy of the letter.
"The Subcommittee requests that the FBI provide a response to Mr. D’Antuono’s claim that the FBI received corrupted data," loudermilk wrote Wray.
The letter specifically demands that the FBI chief answer whether the bureau ever "inform the cell carrier(s) that provided corrupted data that the data they provided was corrupted or otherwise unusable."
The bureau was able to obtain photographic and video evidence of the prime suspect, but have so far been unable to locate the individual, to the consternation of congressional investigators. A $500,000 reward for information about the suspect remains in effect, according to the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
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As the end of the Biden administration approaches, and accountability looms for years of misbehavior (or more), insurance policies/alibi's are revealed and "whistleblowers" try to get in front of things that they knew were wrong but didn't oppose openly, or prevent. The recess appointments strategium for DOD, DOJ, FBI, HHS, ODNI will ensure a full year of genuine reform and discovery by loyal lieutenants is brilliant.
Meanwhile, Elon and Vivek paralyze the resistance infestation and find money and fraud everywhere across the bureaucracy to sate the public appetite for reform.
I'm glad the Potomac was returned to healthy status before now, because it will see a lot of sewage as the Augean Stable that is Washington is flushed repeatedly!
A: Barack Obama and his CIA initiated the Russia Collusion Hoax and instructed the “5 eyes” (U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K. and New Zealand) to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign.
… John Brennan identified 26 Trump’s associates to “bump” or make contact with or manipulate.
B: The House Judiciary Committee CONFIRMS a whistleblower report that the FBI targeted Donald Trump soon after he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015, an off-the-books operation ordered by Obama’s deputy chief of staff FBI Director James B. Comey that predated the Crossfire Hurricane operation.
— two female FBI undercover agents infiltrated Trump’s 2016 campaign and were directed to act as “honeypots” while traveling with Trump and his campaign.
C: Reports also CONFIRMS Barack Obama has planted approximately 2500 personnel to overthrow the United States government a head of Donald Trump’s 2017 Presidential transition team, as so with Tump’s 2024 transition team.
D: In 2020, Barack Obama characterized the conspiracy as “absurd."
— In this clip, Obama directly refutes the spying claims — as so “absurd".
He then goes rambling about “foundations of democracy” being so sacred that you “do not allow the politicization of the criminal justice system, the intelligence system [or] the military."
E: Arrest them all. Prosecute them all. Incarcerate them all at once, for the crimes of fraud, racketeering, obstruction of justice, election interference, and conspiracy to overthrow the United States government. But first Barack Obama.
Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two sources said, in what would be an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon.
It will be interesting to see how many will choose to resign or retire ahead of the presidential swearing in, forestalling the necessity.
The planning for the firings is at an early stage after Trump's Nov. 5 election victory and could change as Trump's administration takes shape, said the sources, who are familiar with the Trump transition and requested anonymity to speak candidly about the plans.
One of the sources questioned the feasibility of a mass firing at the Pentagon.
It was also unclear if Trump himself would endorse the plan, although in the past, he has railed extensively against defense leaders who have criticized him. Trump has also spoken during the campaign of firing "woke" generals and those responsible for the troubled 2021 pullout from Afghanistan.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
#2
As you tossing out the DEI teams, install some Civics Teams that open the brave new world to many about those things called the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, given how they have sworn to the latter.
#4
Several points:
1. When I was in the Navy, I was told that EVERY officer serves at the pleasure of the President. So Trump should have no problem getting rid of anybody. These people are not civil servants.
2. Many years ago, I heard Rush Limbaugh say "The purpose of a military force is to kill people and break things." It is not a social welfare program, or anything like DEI. It should be based solely on merit, not meeting some artificial goals.
#5
Trump sent him so he wont have to fire the generals, they will quit. He was sent as an ethics lightning rod. The generals will have to either sign up to support him or not, driving Trump thanking them for their service and letting them go. This will be fun watch the 4 stars call him sir...
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"Clean out the Augean stables at the bloated, woke-addled Pentagon." Best of luck to you Pete. May you go with God.
The FBI seized Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan’s phone and electronics at his Soho home early Wednesday, just a week after Polymarket accurately predicted Trump’s election win.
Sources close to Coplan call it “political retribution,” alleging the raid is aimed at punishing Polymarket for outperforming traditional polls.
The government reportedly suspects market manipulation favoring Trump.
Polymarket, a transparent prediction market charging no fees, denies any wrongdoing.
#8
Waiting for them to raid Marist for election interference. Still waiting.
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Now we know why Nostradamus laid out his quatrain prophesies cryptically; government officials and other power authorities would have imprisoned or killed him.
Any soothsayer or predictor today gets 3 correct answers, the fourth will put him or her away!
That’s Rantburg’s own ryuge, being clever and insightful for all the world to see.
Seattle has finally started tossing people in jail for low-level crimes again after four years of letting shoplifters, vandals and other petty criminals walk free.
The change, which went into effect earlier this month, reverses pandemic-era restrictions by King County that kept Seattle police from booking all but the most serious misdemeanors into the slammer.
Officials in the Emerald City argued the policy hamstrung prosecutors and cops.
But now Seattle’s ne’re-do-wells will face a jail cell if they flaunt the law.
The move is a win for local law enforcement, which has long pushed for more tools to fight a four-year crime wave that has continued since the pandemic — despite crime in nearly every other major city declining, an analysis by the Seattle Times showed.
“We’ve had people tell us, ‘You can’t arrest me for that.’ Well, that was true but now we can. We’re hoping to get a little bit of accountability back,” the Times quoted Deputy Police Chief Eric Barden as saying.
The booking restrictions began in 2020, when King County Jail — which contracts with Seattle — slashed its capacity for social distancing reasons.
After that, the county cited staffing issues for the ongoing restrictions.
Meanwhile, Seattle officials, including City Attorney Ann Davison, said that the restrictions were a millstone around the necks of city law enforcement and municipal courts, causing many crimes to go entirely unpunished.
When the city began negotiating with a different jailhouse in the city of De Moines to hold its low-level thugs, a group of public defenders sent a letter to the city council whining about the long commute they would have to make to the new jail, according to the Urbanist.
Finally, the county used hiring bonuses and new overtime incentives to attract more correctional officers, and the city and county were able to strike a new deal that went into effect on Nov. 1, according to the Times.
Senator Tim Scott @SenatorTimScott is now the new Chair of the NRSC.
The NRSC is responsible for allocating funds to Senate races so Republicans can keep their Senate seats and gain more seats. pic.twitter.com/KAzgAldxHw
[YouTube] HOLY CRAP! Trump just made the BEST Decision of Presidency!
Senate tries BLOCKING Trump in Secret Election
Establishment republicans in the Senate are already trying to subvert Donald Trump's agenda. With Mitch McConnell announcing a secret surprise election for a new Senate Majority Leader, with only three choices. We break it all down, along with Tucker Carlson.
November 10th, so some of the thinking around subsequent decisions.
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Well, you can approve him, or DeSantis can put him in Rubio's senate seat. You decide.
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They will recess appoint Gaetz. He will act like a terminator shredding the DOJ ranks. Lindsey will drag on an aromatic sachet of lavender petals and try not to faint.
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Yes he will, or this will be his last tour.
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Gaetz resigned his seat before the ethics commitee report, so the findings get tossed.
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^ AND they can replace him before Jan 3rd, it's said
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They will recess appointment him. He will clean house and release the info that they are sitting on. He doesn’t have to be there long.
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Say it with me: Recess Appointment.
The Republican Party as you knew it is dead. Every RINO who stands against us will be primaried.
Gaetz is a promise made to us, MAGA. Matt is our guy, a MAGA Superstar, and a promise kept. Hell has no fury...
And if we wanted to be cute, DeSantis could always appoint Gaetz to Senate, filling Rubio's seat. But that is not Gaetz's mandate. His role will be our vengeance on Deep State Actors and it will be glorious.
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Anyone, during the Biden Admin that violated the rights of others, should have their day in court to explain and try to defend their actions.
With that said. As a MAGA voter, I expect the full restoration of the US Constitution rights. Plus a return to strict, unbiased application and adherence to the US Law.
So it is likely the LSD's will be treated far more fairly than their Regime treated MAGA.
#2
“When I am Weaker Than You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.” ― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
#4
The opposition has created a situation where the guy in power has zero loyalty to the system, zero concern for what the media says and zero reason to cooperate.
Yes, up front and open legal reckoning is decisive win. So expect even tying a shoe to be screeched as illegal, and try to run the clock with procedure.
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I think there is a percentage chance that Thune still lets Schumer call the shots. The GOP removed the organ grinder and replaced him with the monkey.
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Senate Majority In Name Only is a very real concern.
#13
Why should the Pubs/MAGA take it easy on them after all they have done. Schumer, what did you do to stop this weaponization of government? MALA = Make America Lawful Again.
[DailyCaller] Diesel motorhome sales are set to be halted in several states at the start of next year due to a new climate rule from California being enacted, according to RVtravel.
Motorhome sales are being prevented in California, Washington, Oregon, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey if the vehicles do not meet certain emission requirements based on regulations from the California Air Resources Board (CARB), according to RVtravel. CARB amended its Advanced Clean Truck regulations on Oct. 24, which require all vehicles over 8,500 pounds to produce zero emissions.
Motorhome owners in the six states will not be allowed to register a recreational vehicle (RV) that is not in compliance with the climate regulation, according to RVtravel.
#4
Such vehicles may not be registered in those states, but those states are unlikely to ban them from driving in from out of state. Homeless people can still use the unlicensed hulks to live in.
#6
My son bought an old pickup that couldn’t pass smog while we lived there. I asked him what he planned to do with it as the due date approached. He ended up selling it to “ a Mexican guy.” I asked my son why the guy would want it. My son explained to me that California rules don’t apply to people that speak Spanish.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[X] BREAKING: FBI SEIZES POLYMARKET CEO’S ELECTRONICS AFTER TRUMP ELECTION PREDICTION
