ADMIN: My window work is about to begin, so posting could be very light for a while. Tucker Carlson has done a remarkable interview with the lawyer, Tristan Levitt, for an FBI whistleblower. Basically, what happened is that this FBI agent was present on J6 in the vicinity of the Capitol—never went in, never engaged in violence, self reported having been in the vicinity. For that he had his security clearance yanked—and he wasn’t the only one. It appears now that the FBI subsequently went on an internal witchhunt for people who supported the former POTUS, Donald Trump, who supported the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution, and who had displayed “hesitancy” with regard to being injected with experimental gene therapy medications, i.e., the Covid “vaccines”. Huh? you ask? That’s right. That wasn’t put into black and white in the letters of suspension/revocation issued to the employees involved, but internal docs have shown that those issues were definitely part of the inquiry. They were looking for anyone not in lockstep with the New Woke Order.
Before I retired as a federal employee, I read that the government was developing tracking mechanisms, likely a database, for "anti-vaxxers" such as myself. If memory serves, my grade, job title, religion and the fact that I requested a religious vaccine were all going to be fair game.
I can think of no other legitimate reason for this except to provide a means to blackball certain employees.
I'm retired almost 22 months and I can't say I miss Uncle Sam and his dysfunctional, sadistic and meanspirited ways.
Like a few other cities, St. Louis has an earnings tax, imposed on residents and non-residents who work in the city. When the pandemic came in 2020, the city changed its rules to exclude a taxpayer, like me, from not paying the tax on days when I worked from home, which, in my case, is outside the city. They all but admitted the change was due to the havoc that telework exemptions would wreak on the city's budget.
Like many, I objected to this arbitrary change. We're supposed to adhere to the rule of law, not the rule of whim. When it came time to do my taxes for 2021, part of the earnings tax refund requires the employee to write a letter on company stationery detailing the number of days worked outside the city. The employee's supervisor then signs it as proof of the days worked outside the city.
My supervisor is liberal-leaning, didn't want to rock the boat, and most importantly, if the city government stated the rule had changed, then it had changed. My argument that this was between the city and me held no sway. He wisely suggested I see the office of general counsel. I t talked to them, they told me to email the paperwork for them to look over and to cc my supervisor. They stated that since the city said telework didn't count as a day outside the city, then that is the policy and advised that he shouldn't sign. He emailed them back and basically called me a liar as I didn't abide by the city's decree. So much for the rule of law.
Unrelated to the earnings tax, I filed an EEO complaint against my agency and Lloyd Austin over the testing requirement for 'unvaccinated' employees. My supervisor was required to respond to my allegations as I named his as a witness. One thing that made me laugh out loud and also furious is when he denied that I was disadvantaged by the testing policy. After all, he stated, I could work from home on days when my test didn't come back in time for the government's weekly deadline. He stated words to the effect, "I'm no expert on duty stations, but it appears to me that his home served as a duty station." I excoriated him on his logic. I stated, "So, when it's inconvenient to the city to refund my earnings tax, my home does not count as a duty station. When it's convenient to NGA for my home to serve as duty station, my home does count as a duty station. Which is it"?
My supervisor also added totally irrelevant material to his EEO statement. He said that I stated, "Being LGBT is wrong." I corrected his statement with what I actually said, "The practice of LGBT behaviors is wrong." He stated that I voluntarily told him that I was unvaccinated. I rebutted that I told him at our one-on-one meeting when he informed me the deadline for vaccine attestation was due. I responded by saying, "You're going to find this out sooner or later. I'm not vaccinated" and that I informed him under duress.
One more point. The city has so far lost at the circuit court and Missouri Court of Appeals level. If they appeal and lose at the Missouri Supreme Court and/or the US Supreme Court, it's over and the city lost.
One last follow-on to the city earnings tax and it goes to the heart of character. We had to take lifestyle polygraphs every three or five years. (I'm sure Mr. Wauck is familiar with them. In fact, Mr. Wauck probably had to take the more stringent counter-intelligence poly).
I hated the poly as I am scrupulous when it comes to personal conduct. Despite the polygraph examiner trying to define between mortal and venial infractions, I lump them together as a failure on my part. Because of this, a polygraph that took others 45 minutes took me two to four hours. The examiner at one point told me to relax and that I was taking it too seriously and later scolded me that I wasn’t taking it seriously.
To get to my point, I have trouble taking a poly because I stick to what I know to be the truth. So, here NGA and the city are telling me to lie and to pretend that a day of telework is a day that I worked in the city. But they want to be truthful in a polygraph so they can determine if I'm trustworthy. It’s all arbitrary and capricious. What’s the point of a polygraph if the government defines truth the way they think truth is, not to what God says.
Actually, I'm not familiar with the polygraph, never having taken one. The polygraph became mandatory at the FBI after the Hanssen case. At that time I told all my friends, including a polygrapher, that the FBI would never, ever, polygraph me. The reason being that they wouldn't want to confirm that I had told them the truth about Hanssen. Sure enough, everybody else was polygraphed but not me. I should add that I'm not a polygraph believer. The point is the management couldn't risk me passing it.
I understand. I'm not a polygraph believer, either. They aren't admissible in court. If memory serves, I could decline the polygraph, but only at the risk of my clearance being yanked, which, noted in your recent articles about the FBI whistleblower, would be a death sentence to my career.
In my limited experience, a polygraph is largely dependent on the skill and compassion of the examiner. My first polygraph didn't indicate if I was truthful, or not. The examiner was a gung ho retired Marine.
The second examiner put me at ease. When we were done, he told me, "You are definitely an honest man." That made me feel good.
A lot of those guys come out of training as true believers. Experience hopefully tempers their delusions. It's basically--and professional polygraphers have told me this--a means for eliciting confessions. Meaning, someone with a guilty conscience can hopefully be induced to confess if he registers "indicators of deception" (as the phrase goes). OTOH, scrupulous or otherwise nervous people who are innocent may also exhibit similar indicators.
Interesting. Thinking about your comments rings true. The government spends a lot of money on this stuff. Some of these examiners, in my opinion, have their own personality complexes.
It kind of takes the starch out of their shirts when men like Deutch steal classified documents, get caught after the fact and get a sweetheart deal. They have no moral superiority over the rest of us.
I have to say I'm very disillusioned with our government and our countrymen, which is a good thing, because now I don't expect much and I'm not disappointed. It's not a good thing that things are so bad, just a good thing that my expectations now match reality.
I hope Trump wins, but even if he does, I'm not expecting much out of him.
These normal people purges started in Obama admin so Orange man bad wasnt impetus it just accelerated it. Remember when Obama early retired over 100 generals? The ones I looked into seemed realist/conservative. The democrats want total control of state. For what ends I dont know maybe they just hate conservatives and don't like being around them - simple as that. America has become very divided/tribal sadly. I worked for DOE and nobody cared about politics but then noticed a marketable change in atmospherics around Obama timeframe too so it's not just the law enforcement arms of government.
When you mentioned "window work" the first thing I thought of was defenestration. Either I am evil at heart or I have been reading too much about Macron and Scholz lately. Probably both.
How in the world Trump ever bought into the idea that Chris Wray was a good choice to run the FBI just beats the hell out of me!!
The FBI, DOJ and the courts are just an abysmal mess at this point, makes it seem an almost impossible task to fix anything without firing everybody and starting over.
But we all know that ain’t gonna happen.
Boggles the mind to even try and wrap your head around how big of a mess this country is in right now.
Are you sure that he did? There are certain posts that must be confirmed by the Senate. If, between openly authoritarian gov't loving team blue and the despicable GOPe there was no way for Trump to get anyone good confirmed maybe he just looked at his options and decided Wray was terrible but not worse than the other choices that could be confirmed.
Jerking your security clearances has been a cheap shot tactic for the feds for ever. When they can’t find a legitimate job-performance related reason to fire someone with a “bad attitude” or “not being a team player” they pull your security clearance and say it’s out of their hands. You have several options to challenge a wrongful termination based on job performance evaluations, but zero recourse if they pull your security certification. Because national security of course.
Yes. Which is why this lawyer's is imprtant. Revealing what's going on. Showing how to fight the purge and establishing a precedent. They actually got one agent's (Marcus Allen) clearance reinstated.
The frequent citing of McCarthyism seems to play a role in the witch hunt to root out conservatives, Republicans, and patriots as discussed above. Let's recall who were the frequent targets of the McCarthyism, that's correct Central/Eastern European communists immigrants residing in the USA and many were living well and prominent members of the CPUSA. Many of these became the Penthouse Bolsheviks who hell bent on destroying this country for the world-wide revolution they have been agitating for since the Russian revolution. Is this not another example of revenge playing out in real time?
I would say it’s not McCarthyism it’s more like Stalinism, inform on your friends and colleagues, create an atmosphere of distrust, cynicism hysteria in fear
Stephen, thanks for your comment and you are right about Stalinism, but I think both are in play. The McCartyism I refer to has to do with a witch hunt for conservatives and MAGA people much like the hunt for communists in the 50's. These people must be named and silenced. The Stalinism you refer to has been in play since Obama, but was kicked into high gear during Covid when the Bidenobama regime urged their people to inform on the unvaxxed, those who used the wrong pronouns, those who felt the election was stolen and on and on. Both are in play and tell tale signs of an emerging totalitarian state.
This was the headline in our local paper about Garland being grilled by the House. "Garland slams attacks on the Justice Department, telling lawmakers: 'I will not be intimidated'"
I then posted this comment.
"A more accurate headline would read, 'Garland slams accountably over the abuses committed by the Justice Department, telling lawmakers: 'I will not be intimidated', thinks to self, 'I'll do the intimidating.'"
Rice remains there, I believe, 'advising' Joe the Cadaver. My own take is that various factions are running this so-called administration. no doubt some at odds with others, but our media will never never never investigate the power plays and tensions behind the scenes.
Before I retired as a federal employee, I read that the government was developing tracking mechanisms, likely a database, for "anti-vaxxers" such as myself. If memory serves, my grade, job title, religion and the fact that I requested a religious vaccine were all going to be fair game.
I can think of no other legitimate reason for this except to provide a means to blackball certain employees.
I'm retired almost 22 months and I can't say I miss Uncle Sam and his dysfunctional, sadistic and meanspirited ways.
Like a few other cities, St. Louis has an earnings tax, imposed on residents and non-residents who work in the city. When the pandemic came in 2020, the city changed its rules to exclude a taxpayer, like me, from not paying the tax on days when I worked from home, which, in my case, is outside the city. They all but admitted the change was due to the havoc that telework exemptions would wreak on the city's budget.
Like many, I objected to this arbitrary change. We're supposed to adhere to the rule of law, not the rule of whim. When it came time to do my taxes for 2021, part of the earnings tax refund requires the employee to write a letter on company stationery detailing the number of days worked outside the city. The employee's supervisor then signs it as proof of the days worked outside the city.
My supervisor is liberal-leaning, didn't want to rock the boat, and most importantly, if the city government stated the rule had changed, then it had changed. My argument that this was between the city and me held no sway. He wisely suggested I see the office of general counsel. I t talked to them, they told me to email the paperwork for them to look over and to cc my supervisor. They stated that since the city said telework didn't count as a day outside the city, then that is the policy and advised that he shouldn't sign. He emailed them back and basically called me a liar as I didn't abide by the city's decree. So much for the rule of law.
Unrelated to the earnings tax, I filed an EEO complaint against my agency and Lloyd Austin over the testing requirement for 'unvaccinated' employees. My supervisor was required to respond to my allegations as I named his as a witness. One thing that made me laugh out loud and also furious is when he denied that I was disadvantaged by the testing policy. After all, he stated, I could work from home on days when my test didn't come back in time for the government's weekly deadline. He stated words to the effect, "I'm no expert on duty stations, but it appears to me that his home served as a duty station." I excoriated him on his logic. I stated, "So, when it's inconvenient to the city to refund my earnings tax, my home does not count as a duty station. When it's convenient to NGA for my home to serve as duty station, my home does count as a duty station. Which is it"?
My supervisor also added totally irrelevant material to his EEO statement. He said that I stated, "Being LGBT is wrong." I corrected his statement with what I actually said, "The practice of LGBT behaviors is wrong." He stated that I voluntarily told him that I was unvaccinated. I rebutted that I told him at our one-on-one meeting when he informed me the deadline for vaccine attestation was due. I responded by saying, "You're going to find this out sooner or later. I'm not vaccinated" and that I informed him under duress.
One more point. The city has so far lost at the circuit court and Missouri Court of Appeals level. If they appeal and lose at the Missouri Supreme Court and/or the US Supreme Court, it's over and the city lost.
One last follow-on to the city earnings tax and it goes to the heart of character. We had to take lifestyle polygraphs every three or five years. (I'm sure Mr. Wauck is familiar with them. In fact, Mr. Wauck probably had to take the more stringent counter-intelligence poly).
I hated the poly as I am scrupulous when it comes to personal conduct. Despite the polygraph examiner trying to define between mortal and venial infractions, I lump them together as a failure on my part. Because of this, a polygraph that took others 45 minutes took me two to four hours. The examiner at one point told me to relax and that I was taking it too seriously and later scolded me that I wasn’t taking it seriously.
To get to my point, I have trouble taking a poly because I stick to what I know to be the truth. So, here NGA and the city are telling me to lie and to pretend that a day of telework is a day that I worked in the city. But they want to be truthful in a polygraph so they can determine if I'm trustworthy. It’s all arbitrary and capricious. What’s the point of a polygraph if the government defines truth the way they think truth is, not to what God says.
Actually, I'm not familiar with the polygraph, never having taken one. The polygraph became mandatory at the FBI after the Hanssen case. At that time I told all my friends, including a polygrapher, that the FBI would never, ever, polygraph me. The reason being that they wouldn't want to confirm that I had told them the truth about Hanssen. Sure enough, everybody else was polygraphed but not me. I should add that I'm not a polygraph believer. The point is the management couldn't risk me passing it.
I understand. I'm not a polygraph believer, either. They aren't admissible in court. If memory serves, I could decline the polygraph, but only at the risk of my clearance being yanked, which, noted in your recent articles about the FBI whistleblower, would be a death sentence to my career.
In my limited experience, a polygraph is largely dependent on the skill and compassion of the examiner. My first polygraph didn't indicate if I was truthful, or not. The examiner was a gung ho retired Marine.
The second examiner put me at ease. When we were done, he told me, "You are definitely an honest man." That made me feel good.
A lot of those guys come out of training as true believers. Experience hopefully tempers their delusions. It's basically--and professional polygraphers have told me this--a means for eliciting confessions. Meaning, someone with a guilty conscience can hopefully be induced to confess if he registers "indicators of deception" (as the phrase goes). OTOH, scrupulous or otherwise nervous people who are innocent may also exhibit similar indicators.
Interesting. Thinking about your comments rings true. The government spends a lot of money on this stuff. Some of these examiners, in my opinion, have their own personality complexes.
It kind of takes the starch out of their shirts when men like Deutch steal classified documents, get caught after the fact and get a sweetheart deal. They have no moral superiority over the rest of us.
I have to say I'm very disillusioned with our government and our countrymen, which is a good thing, because now I don't expect much and I'm not disappointed. It's not a good thing that things are so bad, just a good thing that my expectations now match reality.
I hope Trump wins, but even if he does, I'm not expecting much out of him.
These normal people purges started in Obama admin so Orange man bad wasnt impetus it just accelerated it. Remember when Obama early retired over 100 generals? The ones I looked into seemed realist/conservative. The democrats want total control of state. For what ends I dont know maybe they just hate conservatives and don't like being around them - simple as that. America has become very divided/tribal sadly. I worked for DOE and nobody cared about politics but then noticed a marketable change in atmospherics around Obama timeframe too so it's not just the law enforcement arms of government.
When you mentioned "window work" the first thing I thought of was defenestration. Either I am evil at heart or I have been reading too much about Macron and Scholz lately. Probably both.
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How in the world Trump ever bought into the idea that Chris Wray was a good choice to run the FBI just beats the hell out of me!!
The FBI, DOJ and the courts are just an abysmal mess at this point, makes it seem an almost impossible task to fix anything without firing everybody and starting over.
But we all know that ain’t gonna happen.
Boggles the mind to even try and wrap your head around how big of a mess this country is in right now.
Are you sure that he did? There are certain posts that must be confirmed by the Senate. If, between openly authoritarian gov't loving team blue and the despicable GOPe there was no way for Trump to get anyone good confirmed maybe he just looked at his options and decided Wray was terrible but not worse than the other choices that could be confirmed.
Jerking your security clearances has been a cheap shot tactic for the feds for ever. When they can’t find a legitimate job-performance related reason to fire someone with a “bad attitude” or “not being a team player” they pull your security clearance and say it’s out of their hands. You have several options to challenge a wrongful termination based on job performance evaluations, but zero recourse if they pull your security certification. Because national security of course.
Yes. Which is why this lawyer's is imprtant. Revealing what's going on. Showing how to fight the purge and establishing a precedent. They actually got one agent's (Marcus Allen) clearance reinstated.
The frequent citing of McCarthyism seems to play a role in the witch hunt to root out conservatives, Republicans, and patriots as discussed above. Let's recall who were the frequent targets of the McCarthyism, that's correct Central/Eastern European communists immigrants residing in the USA and many were living well and prominent members of the CPUSA. Many of these became the Penthouse Bolsheviks who hell bent on destroying this country for the world-wide revolution they have been agitating for since the Russian revolution. Is this not another example of revenge playing out in real time?
I would say it’s not McCarthyism it’s more like Stalinism, inform on your friends and colleagues, create an atmosphere of distrust, cynicism hysteria in fear
Stephen, thanks for your comment and you are right about Stalinism, but I think both are in play. The McCartyism I refer to has to do with a witch hunt for conservatives and MAGA people much like the hunt for communists in the 50's. These people must be named and silenced. The Stalinism you refer to has been in play since Obama, but was kicked into high gear during Covid when the Bidenobama regime urged their people to inform on the unvaxxed, those who used the wrong pronouns, those who felt the election was stolen and on and on. Both are in play and tell tale signs of an emerging totalitarian state.
Garland says the unfounded attacks on the Justice Department must end --- and if they don't, there will be mass arrests.
This was the headline in our local paper about Garland being grilled by the House. "Garland slams attacks on the Justice Department, telling lawmakers: 'I will not be intimidated'"
I then posted this comment.
"A more accurate headline would read, 'Garland slams accountably over the abuses committed by the Justice Department, telling lawmakers: 'I will not be intimidated', thinks to self, 'I'll do the intimidating.'"
And beatings will continue until morale improves.
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BREAKING: General Mark Milley reportedly in direct contact with Obama's former national Security adviser Susan Rice leading up to Jan 6th.
Paying attention?
8:51 PM · Jun 10, 2024
I liked this Milley better when she was Rob and Laura Petrie's wacky neighbor.
Rice remains there, I believe, 'advising' Joe the Cadaver. My own take is that various factions are running this so-called administration. no doubt some at odds with others, but our media will never never never investigate the power plays and tensions behind the scenes.
Journalists? No, activist zealots with pen and paper with a mandate to avoid the truth and not to dig to deep unless it’s for their own grave.