But first, we're still on the case of Tucker, and the mysterious NSA attempt to run him off the air. From Mary Chastain at LI, Tucker Carlson Slams NSA’s Vague Denial It’s Spying on Him,“We can do anything. And there’s literally nothing you can do about any of it. We’re in charge, and you’re not.” Scott Johnson at Power Line, NSA vs. Tucker: An update [updated!]
Techno Fog gives it a close reading and concludes:
Those who look closely will see something else: that the NSA, while stating that Tucker “has never been an intelligence target,” does not categorically deny having his electronic communications.
Something is up.
It may be that the agency is reluctant to say definitively that it doesn’t have his communications because they very well might and aren’t sure. They cast an enormous net abroad and drag back lots of international texts, emails, and phone calls from Americans. If they flatly deny that they have anything from Tucker and then discover later that something of his did end up in the net, what do they do? Cover it up? Disclose it and then be accused of having lied earlier? To put that another way, if you or I accused the NSA of harvesting our communications, would their denial look any different from their denial regarding Carlson? I.e. “we have nothing in our databases related to you” versus “you’ve never been an intelligence target”? Or would it read the same cautious way since they might not be sure at a given moment what they do and don’t have, such is the incredible volume of data they’re collecting?
Scott McKay at Am Spec, Tucker and the NSA: Why Are You Surprised? "Carlson’s revelations about being spied on by the Biden administration are part of a well-established pattern of government abuse." and at Breitbart, Microsoft VP: Federal Targeting of Americans’ Texts, Emails, Data ‘Routine’
Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.30.21, The Geller Report reminds us NYC’s Mayoral Vote Voided After 135,000 Ballot “Discrepancy”. Sundance at CTH, New York City Mayoral Race Becomes a Hot Mess of Electronic Errors, Wrong
Votes, Tabulation Mistakes and Uncertain Results. Town Hall's Matt Vespa attempts to explain why Why NYC's Mayoral Election Has Been Consumed by Total Mayhem. Because it's run by Democrats? Bryan Preston at PJ Media, Liberals Didn't Pounce on Eric Adams Just for Questioning New York's
Election. They Had...Another Reason. Althouse, reading the NYT so you don't have to, finds "Surrogates for Mr. Adams have suggested without evidence that an apparent
ranked-choice alliance between Ms. Garcia and another rival, Andrew Yang,
could amount to an attempt to suppress the votes of Black and Latino New
Yorkers."
Gleen Grenwalt,
This is really amazing. Countless smug liberals -- @HeerJeet,@chrislhayes, Vox's @imillhiser -- spent hours maligning and sneering at Eric Adams as a Trumpian fraud for questioning the NYC election results. When those questions were completely vindicated, they slinked away.
Jordan Davidson at Da Fed, It’s Suddenly OK To Question Election Integrity After Fake Votes Totally Botched NYC’s Democratic Mayoral Primary. Breitbart cites Donald Trump: Flawed New York City Election Proves ‘Our Elections Are a Mess’ At Newsbusters, Nets BLASTED Georgia’s Elections Law, But Bury New York Debacle.
AllahPundit reports House votes to approve January 6 select committee, with only two Republicans voting yes. No need to guess who, but trust Sundance to take the mystery out of it, House Votes to Approve January 6th Select Committee 222-190, Cheney and Kinzinger Vote With Pelosi and 19 Republicans Did Not Vote. Even WaPoo in House votes to create select committee for investigating Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol admits "Select committees are frequently relied upon to address pressing matters, but the high-profile ones also have a reputation for turning into forums for partisan mudslinging."
Althouse reports The NYT has produced a 40-minute documentary about the January 6th incident: "Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol." I think you can guess their slant. At Revolver, Federal Protection of “Oath Keepers” Kingpin Stewart Rhodes Breaks The Entire Capitol “Insurrection” Lie Wide Open
Stewart Rhodes is the founder, boss and kingpin of the Oath Keepers.
The Oath Keepers, we are told, are America’s largest militia, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, and the preeminent right-wing domestic extremist insider threat to the entire U.S. military.
Whatever the truth of these hyperbolic claims, the fact remains: the Oath Keepers are the most extensively prosecuted paramilitary group alleged to be involved in 1/6. Indeed, it was the alleged “pre-planned assault” on the Capitol by Stewart Rhodes’s alleged Oath Keepers lieutenants that was used as the key talking point to try to convert the day’s events from a protest into an “insurrection.”
. . .
The Justice Department argues that Stewart Rhodes both substantially organized and activated an imputed plan to use violence, on 1/6, in real-time, through a series of encrypted Signal messages beginning at 1:38 p.m., as Trump concluded his rally speech on the National Mall, and 62 minutes before Oath Keepers lieutenants allegedly formed a “military stack” to rush the Capitol doors.
These facts alone, as alleged, are more than legally sufficient to secure an indictment of Stewart Rhodes. We will walk you through the mountains of direct and circumstantial evidence built on top of these allegations, but readers must understand this: the only reason Stewart Rhodes is not in jail *right now* is because of a deliberate decision by the Justice Department to protect him.
Indeed, it is unclear whether the FBI has even sought to search Stewart Rhodes’s residence, personal belongings, or electronic devices, other than a single iPhone allegedly seized on the streets from agents in unmarked FBI vehicles in late April (since returned). For reasons discussed below, there is good reason to suspect the FBI will pursue a tightly controlled and very limited scope of investigation into Stewart Rhodes,. Beyond that narrow scope, they may not want the information they are likely to find.
Why doesn’t anyone at the FBI or DOJ want him?
If 1/6 was an “insurrection,” why protect the one man who, more than any other individual referenced in the charging documents of the 530+ open criminal cases, comes closest to the media’s ravenous description of a “lead insurrectionist?”
Is it possible that the Oath Keepers, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, has been run, in effect, by the United States government itself — and nobody has mentioned it until now?
Kevin Downey at PJ Media, Are False-Flag Events Real, and When Is the Next One?.
From WaEx, Arizona Senate president lashes out after Maricopa County ditches subpoenaed machines, in effect, admitting they can be, and thus, might have been, rigged.
Maricopa County should “never have approved” the election machines that were subpoenaed in the audit of the county's 2020 election if such an audit review found the machines couldn’t be reused, Arizona Senate President Karen Fann said Tuesday.
Fann cited the county's previous audit efforts to push against the county’s decision on Monday that election machines subpoenaed as part of a Republican-led state Senate audit will not be reused in future elections over concerns expressed by officials, including Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, that their security has been compromised.
“Maricopa County hired firms to perform audits after the 2020 election and relied on their Logic & Accuracy tests (L & A) to declare equipment safe to use and tamper free,” Fann said in the statement. “The County can now use those same L & A tests after the Senate audit. If it can’t, their L & A tests are invalid. And if their machines can’t undergo a forensic audit to verify what happened in an election, then it never should have approved those machines to be used in an election in the first place.”
Human Events, BREAKING: PA Democrat Governor Vetoes Election Reform Bill that Mandated Voter ID, because it makes it hard to cheat. In PA, Philadelphia has an enormous blue sway in an otherwise reddish state, and cheating there is known to be rampant. Could cheating have put the governor in place?
Da Caller, Rep. Tenney, House Republicans To Introduce ‘End Zuckerbucks Act’ Prohibiting Non-Profits From Donating To Election Organizations. Horse, meet barn door.
John O'Connor at Am Think thinks Giuliani's Suspension: Questionable Statements, But Not by Him. It's clearly illegal payback for his supporting Trump.
What was bizarre about this ruling, especially to any experienced lawyer, is that Giuliani was suspended before it was even determined preliminarily that an investigation of him should be opened. The court disqualified Giuliani on an emergency ad hoc basis, implicating Trump's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and Giuliani's First Amendment right to free speech. The court's ruling also does not find problematic the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, requiring a due process hearing before any deprivation of a right, privilege, or property interest.
So what justified this pre-hearing, pre-investigation suspension, based on conduct not even remotely involving the State of New York? The court was concerned that Giuliani might cast doubt on the legitimacy of the duly elected president, Joseph R. Biden, a claimed legitimacy the court repeated to distraction. The ruling claims that Giuliani's "false statements intended to foment a loss of confidence in our elections and resulting loss of confidence in government generally." Moreover, Giuliani "tarnishes the reputation of the entire legal profession" besides "the falsehoods themselves caus[ing] harm." After all, we would not want the trusting public to think some lawyers are sleazy; that our government would lie; or, horrors, that a local urban government would be incompetent.
Linked at The Daley Gator in the weekly Weekend Links.
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