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Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump
09/11/2022 18:00:04
This is an incredible article—must be read by everyone!
“The DoJ Argues that the Intelligence Community Overrides the Judiciary”
https://qaggregator.news/?q=%23%23TT1700
Worse for the DoJ and FBI, I believe their actions amount to a claim that under no circumstances does the judiciary have a right to question anything the Intelligence committee does as long as it makes a claim of “national security.” Such a claim is scary and should be -- and I think will be -- denied.
14 / What is 'State Secrets' and how upheld in the SC?
1944 / Define 'State Secrets'.
1945 / Define 'State Secrets'.
https://qaggregator.news/?q=%23%2314%2C1944%2C1945
https://qaggregator.news/?q=state+secret
The state secrets privilege is an evidentiary rule created by United States legal precedent. Application of the privilege results in exclusion of evidence from a legal case based solely on affidavits submitted by the government stating that court proceedings might disclose sensitive information which might endanger national security.[1][2][3][4][5][6] United States v. Reynolds,[7] which involved alleged military secrets, was the first case that saw formal recognition of the privilege.
Following a claim of "state secrets privilege", the court rarely conducts an in camera examination of the evidence to evaluate whether there is sufficient cause to support the use of this doctrine. This results in court rulings in which even the judge has not verified the veracity of the assertion.[1] The privileged material is completely removed from the litigation, and the court must determine how the unavailability of the privileged information affects the case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_secrets_privilege
The privilege was first officially recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States in United States v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1 (1953). A military airplane, a B-29 Super Fortress bomber, crashed. The widows of three civilian crew members sought accident reports on the crash but were told that to release such details would threaten national security by revealing the bomber's top-secret mission.[1][2][3][4][5][6][10][11] The court held that only the government can claim or waive the privilege, but that it “is not to be lightly invoked” and that there “must be a formal claim of privilege, lodged by the head of the department which has control over the matter, after actual personal consideration by that officer.”[1] The court stressed that the decision to withhold evidence is to be made by the presiding judge and not the executive.[1]
In 2000, the accident reports were declassified and released, and it was found that the assertion that they contained secret information was fraudulent. The reports did, however, contain information about the poor condition of the aircraft itself, which would have been very compromising to the Air Force's case. Many commentators have alleged government misuse of secrecy in this landmark case.[12]
Despite this ruling, a case might still be subject to judicial review since the privilege was intended to prevent certain, but not all, information to be precluded.[
United States v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1 (1953), is a landmark legal case in 1953 that saw the formal recognition[1] of the state secrets privilege, a judicially recognized extension of presidential power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Reynolds
"Dec. 3, 1627"
"It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has done what he has done."
"RICHELIEU"
"In fact," said Aramis, "it is an absolution according to rule."
"That paper must be torn to pieces," said d'Artagnan, who fancied he read in it his sentence of death.
The Three Musketeers / Chapter 47 / Alexandre Dumas /
The government and "states secret privilege" has a long history. Here is Ricky Jay explaining in "The History Lesson"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtgUSUHnzLI&t=2933s (timestamp)
1944
1945
Interesting years, eh?
I don't remember our framers creating 3 co-equal branches of government and then putting the intel community in a branch above them. In fact, I don't recall ever seeing the IC mentioned anywhere in the Constitution.
"Aye, there's the rub."
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56965/speech-to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question
In Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, "ay, there's the rub" is the tormented prince's acknowledgement that death may not end his difficulties because the dead may perhaps still be troubled by dreams. (Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)
(The original rub predates Shakespeare. On the smooth grassy greens used in lawn bowling, a rub was a bump or uneven area that could send balls off course.)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/top-10-phrases-from-shakespeare/theres-the-rub
"I don't remember our framers creating 3 co-equal branches of government and then putting the intel community in a branch above them. In fact, I don't recall ever seeing the IC mentioned anywhere in the Constitution."
"I don't remember... I don't recall..."
Unfortunately, there is no app for that.
Remember who get to write the history books.
This scene, from The Patriot...
https://youtu.be/LA7cYG13wZk?t=98
is more aptly consigned to this man...
Conrad Alexandre Gérard de Rayneval (12 December 1729 – 16 April 1790), was a French diplomat, born at Masevaux in upper Alsace (now Haut-Rhin). He is best known as the first French diplomatic representative to the United States.
Conrad Alexandre Gérard served as secretary of the French legation to the Elector Palatine at Mannheim from 1753 to 1759, and secretary of the French Embassy to Austria at Vienna from 1761 to 1766. In July 1766 he was recalled to Paris to become secretary of the Council of State and chief clerk in the Bureau of Foreign Affairs. In 1779, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[1]
Early in 1778, under instructions from Vergennes, he conducted the negotiations with the American representatives, Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and Arthur Lee, which resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States on February 6, 1778. In March, 1778, he travelled to America, as the first accredited Minister from France to the United States. He sailed in company with Silas Deane aboard the comte d'Estaing's flagship of the seventeen-ship battle fleet transporting four thousand French troops. Congress welcomed Gerard on July 14, one day before it opened investigations into charges against Deane.[2]
This post he held until superseded by the Chevalier de la Luzerne, in September, 1779. His activity in America consisted chiefly in subsidizing writers — of whom Thomas Paine was the best known — to create a sentiment favorable to a closer French alliance, and in somewhat questionable relations with various members of Congress, who were the recipients of "gifts" from him. His communications to Congress were, for the most part, oral addresses delivered at their secret sessions. During his residence in America he received the degree of LL.D. from Yale, and on his return to France was made a Councilor of State.
He was also enrolled as a member of the Society of the Cincinnati
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Alexandre_G%C3%A9rard_de_Rayneval
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (French pronunciation: [vɛʁ.ʒɛn]; 29 December 1719 – 13 February 1787) was a French statesman and diplomat. He served as Foreign Minister from 1774 during the reign of Louis XVI, notably during the American War of Independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gravier,_comte_de_Vergennes
Vergennes' rivalry with the British, and his desire to avenge the disasters of the Seven Years' War, led to his support of the Thirteen Colonies in the American War of Independence. Historians believe that, because of financial strains for France, this commitment contributed to the French Revolution of 1789. As early as 1765, Vergennes predicted that the loss of the French threat in North America would lead to the Americans "striking off their chains".[25] In 1775 the first fighting broke out, and in July 1776, the colonists declared independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gravier,_comte_de_Vergennes
Long before France's open entry into the war, Vergennes approved of Pierre Beaumarchais's plan for secret French assistance. From early 1776, the French gave supplies, arms, ammunition and volunteers to the American rebels. The weakness of the British naval blockade off the American coast allowed large amounts of goods to reach the continent. In 1777, Vergennes informed the Americans' commissioners that France acknowledged the United States, and was willing to form an offensive and defensive alliance with the new state.[26] In the wake of the Battle of Saratoga, a defeat for the British, Vergennes feared that the British and colonists might reconcile. He hastened to create an alliance with the Americans from fear that they might jointly attack France with the British.
Although Vergennes had long planned for France to enter the war jointly with Spain, Charles III was more interested in mediating the dispute, as he did not want to encourage colonial revolts. Vergennes pressed ahead with his alliance, in agreement with the American envoy Benjamin Franklin, which would almost certainly lead to war with Britain. In the wake of the Franco-American agreement, the Americans rejected British peace offers made by the Carlisle Peace Commission.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gravier,_comte_de_Vergennes#American_War_of_Independence
Pierre Beaumarchais's Plan for secret French assistance:
An early French supporter of American independence, Beaumarchais lobbied the French government on behalf of the American rebels during the American War of Independence. Beaumarchais oversaw covert aid from the French and Spanish governments to supply arms and financial assistance to the rebels in the years before France's formal entry into the war in 1778. He later struggled to recover money he had personally invested in the scheme. Beaumarchais was also a participant in the early stages of the 1789 French Revolution.
Beaumarchais is probably best known for his theatrical works, especially the three Figaro plays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Beaumarchais
Before France officially entered the war in 1778, Beaumarchais played a major role in delivering French munitions, money and supplies to the American army.[27] In order to secretly funnel aid to the rebels, he helped set up a fictitious business called Roderigue Hortalez and Company.
To restore his civil rights, Beaumarchais pledged his services to Louis XV. He traveled to London, Amsterdam and Vienna on various secret missions. His first mission was to travel to London to destroy a pamphlet, Les mémoires secrets d'une femme publique, which Louis XV considered a libel of one of his mistresses, Madame du Barry. Beaumarchais was sent to London to persuade the French spy Chevalier d'Éon to return home, but while there he began gathering information on British politics and society. Britain's colonial situation was deteriorating and in 1775 fighting broke out between British troops and American rebels. Beaumarchais became a major source of information about the rebellion for the French government and sent a regular stream of reports with exaggerated rumours of the size of the success of the rebel forces blockading Boston.[28]
Once back in France, Beaumarchais began work on a new operation. Louis XVI, who did not want to break openly with Britain,[29] allowed Beaumarchais to found a commercial enterprise, Roderigue Hortalez and Company,[23] supported by the French and Spanish crowns, that supplied the American rebels with weapons, munitions, clothes and provisions, all of which would never be paid for. This policy came to fruition in 1777 when John Burgoyne's army capitulated at Saratoga to a rebel force largely clothed and armed by the supplies Beaumarchais had been sending; it marked a personal triumph for him. Beaumarchais was injured in a carriage accident while racing into Paris with news of Saratoga.[30] In April 1777, Beaumarchais purchased the old 50-gun ship of the line Hippopotame, and used her, renamed to Fier Rodrigue, to ferry arms to the insurgents.[31]
Beaumarchais had dealt with Silas Deane, an acting member of the Committee of Secret Correspondence in the Second Continental Congress. For these services, the French Parliament reinstated Beaumarchais's civil rights in 1776. In 1778, Beaumarchais' hopes were fulfilled when the French government agreed to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance. France officially entered the American War of Independence soon after, followed by Spain in 1779 and the Dutch Republic in 1780.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Beaumarchais#American_Revolution
Roderigue Hortalez and Company
Roderigue Hortalez and Company was a corporation created[1] by Luis de Unzaga as coordinator of interests of Spain and France in May[2] of 1775[3] in order to provide arms and financial assistance to American Revolutionaries in anticipation of the American Revolutionary War against Britain.[4] The ruse was organized by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, a French playwright, watch-maker, inventor, musician, politician, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms-dealer, and revolutionary. Weapons and materials were procured to help the Americans fight the British, enemies of France at the time, through the corporation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderigue_Hortalez_and_Company
Alas, unlike Colonel William Tavington's character in the The Patriot film, who simply did not live to see the promise of "Ohio", Conrad Alexandre Gérard de Rayneval did not get his promise of land (in exchange for for services as representative of the French Crown (inter alia Charles Gravier, Compte de Vergennes) in writing and when Gerard's heirs came to claim what had been promised, after several days of looking, the representatives of The United States of America asked to see the heirs copy of the agreement Gerard had made with "certain" members of the Continental Congress who were alleged to have made the agreement.
The absolute wonder of it all, deep state international intrigue, corruption at the highest levels of government, arms smuggling, shell companies, inciting revolution and war, secret committee's using cut out agents to coordinate criminal activities... all in the 1700's... and no internet. Amazing!!!
"Your posts should be stickied more than many others."
https://youtu.be/wY57Vn0qTiU?t=11 (7 seconds)
https://patriots.win/
https://greatawakening.win/new
https://youtu.be/CWaxF8jlnm0?t=11 (18 seconds)
https://youtu.be/0VDgc3_Ci-w?t=76 (timestamp)
https://youtu.be/-ahBSHUE-yc?t=19 (timestamp)
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Warren Report: Fact or Fiction?
Episode 039, Recorded on December 1, 1966
https://youtu.be/-fPiKZBgXGg (48 min, 28 sec)
In 1979, Richard Helms, former Director of the CIA, testified under oath that Shaw had been a part-time contact of the Domestic Contact Service (DCS) of the CIA, where Shaw volunteered information from his travels abroad, mostly to Latin America.[31] Like Shaw, 150,000 Americans (businessmen, and journalists, etc.) had provided such information to the DCS by the mid-1970s "on a nonclandestine basis" and that "such acts of cooperation should not be confused with an actual Agency relationship"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shaw#Later_disclosures
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through Executive Order 11130 on November 29, 1963,[1] to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Commission
CIA Director McCone was "complicit" in a Central Intelligence Agency "benign cover-up" by withholding information from the Warren Commission, according to a report by the CIA Chief Historian David Robarge released to the public in 2014.[29] According to this report, CIA officers had been instructed to give only "passive, reactive, and selective" assistance to the commission, to keep the commission focused on "what the Agency believed at the time was the 'best truth' — that Lee Harvey Oswald, for as yet undetermined motives, had acted alone in killing John Kennedy." The CIA may have also covered up evidence of being in communication with Oswald before 1963, according to the 2014 report findings.[29]
Also withheld were earlier CIA plots, involving CIA links with the Mafia, to assassinate Cuban president Fidel Castro, which might have been considered to provide a motive to assassinate Kennedy. The report concluded, "In the long term, the decision of John McCone and Agency leaders in 1964 not to disclose information about CIA's anti-Castro schemes might have done more to undermine the credibility of the Commission than anything else that happened while it was conducting its investigation."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Commission#CIA_%22benign_cover-up%22
Three other U.S. government investigations have agreed with the Warren Commission's conclusion that two shots struck JFK from the rear: the 1968 panel set by Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the 1975 Rockefeller Commission, and the 1978-79 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), which reexamined the evidence with the help of the largest forensics panel. The HSCA involved Congressional hearings and ultimately concluded that Oswald assassinated Kennedy, probably as the result of a conspiracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Commission#Other_investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGdj7JarsT8&t=144s (timestamp)
Did you notice in the interview, Shaw touching his face, then immediately describing in detail, the very truth that he asserts wasn't true? 🤔
And thus, why the Jacobins were PISSED that neither Washington not Adams were willing to support their bloody "revolutions" against the French monarchy. Contrary to the bullshit lies spread by Jeffersonphiles over the centuries, the vast majority of Americans did not want to get the US into war against the British, on the side of the French. The people wanted neutrality. The Congress and the people overwhelmingly approved of both the Alien Act and the Sedition Act signed by John Adams. That wasn't what caused his failure to win reelection... it was actually political subversion of the Democratic-Republicans that resulted in a stolen election in 1800... Madison and Monroe were the big movers behind the scenes, with Jefferson completely aware but personally staying out of the limelight. GA certificate was not in the form required by the Constitution, yet Jefferson counted it. Shenanigans in SC also cost Adams/Pinckney big time... the push to winner-take-all and general ticket voting was the way for the Democratic-Republicans to stifle political minorities and essentially paved the way for all subsequent election fraud and tampering. One can only wonder how influential some Frogs might have been in funding Jefferson's campaign... would put the Louisiana Purchase in a whole new light... quid pro quo??
"Frogs might have been in funding Jefferson's campaign... would put the Louisiana Purchase in a whole new light... quid pro quo??"
Itaque illud Cassianum 'cui bono fuerit' in his personis valeat; etsi boni nullo emolumento impelluntur in fraudem, improbi saepe parvo.
Love the usage of Latin. But if I didn't have translate, I'd be stuck 😂
Lucius Cassius... Cui bono... "who benefits"...
Well, the French Jacobins would certainly have preferred Jefferson in office over Adams, as they wanted American support against the British. Thanks to Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, then eventually got it through various ways. The Louisiana Purchase was basically embezzlement. Couldn't get enough public support to convince Congress to literally fund the French Jacobins, but could get them to approve a land purchase... lots of money to Napoleon to finance war against British and virtually everyone else.
"Americans" benefit... at least those with money to buy land (kind of like the Yazoo scandal eh?) from the federal government. Political supporters get kickbacks via land/jobs in the territory. Indians get fucked. More land to expand slavery. More slave power in Congress and presidential Electoral apportionment. We know where that all led...
Bankers CERTAINLY benefit...
Speaking of Frenchies, interesting fellow here, especially with his convenient acquisition of the defunct 1st National Bank
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Girard
Also, there's that August Belmont character, technically was born in the French Empire. I remember discussion about him in the antebellum South.
Oh, a favorite of mine, which was pretty much a documentary...
https://youtu.be/X3b9t5IET5M
Also, just picked up on this now...
https://youtu.be/_ItWcGtaJro
Love how West's disguise is a Arabian dancer, who enchants the evil mastermind, distracting him from his mapped out plan... kind of fitting how it was around this time period that the European powers seemingly gave up on trying to "retake" the America that they lost, and looked to the Orient, the East, what would be the Middle East, to conquer and control... death of empires eh? Sometimes my mind wanders...