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House Republicans are launching an investigation into Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s response to the train derailment disaster in East Palestine, Ohio.
The Committee on Oversight and Accountability sent a letter to Buttigieg on Friday detailing their concerns and demanding an explanation for the Department of Transportation’s “leadership’s apathy in the face of this emergency.”
“The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the ongoing crisis that began on February 3, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio,” the letter began. “A Norfolk Southern freight train’s derailment and the ensuing response released highly toxic chemical materials into the air, water, and soil—forcing residents of East Palestine to evacuate.”
Buttigieg did not visit East Palestine until 20 days after the derailment. Joe Biden has not announced any plans or intention to visit.
“This incident is an environmental and public health emergency that now threatens Americans across state lines,” the letter continued. “Despite the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) responsibility to ensure safe and reliable transport in the United States, you ignored the catastrophe for over a week. The American people deserve answers as to what caused the derailment, and DOT needs to provide an explanation for its leadership’s apathy in the face of this emergency. We request documents and information regarding DOT’s response to the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment and ensuing environmental and public health emergency.”
The lawmakers noted that the fallout from the hazardous materials being leaked and burned “continues to develop” and that “the infrastructure failure that caused the derailment has led to an environmental disaster.”
“After the derailment, crews held a controlled release and burn of the toxic chemicals—including the explosive and carcinogenic vinyl chloride —carried in the railcars,” the letter read. “The controlled burn created a massive smoke plume above East Palestine for several hours. Alarmingly, some of these chemicals may still be present in the area, with residents reporting dead animals, strong odors, burning sensations, rashes, and watery eyes. One hazardous materials specialist explained, ‘We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open.’”
The letter explained that as Secretary of Transportation, Buttigieg must provide the American people with transparency.  Instead, the lawmakers asserted, he has attempted to blame others for infrastructure issues that are DOT’s responsibility.
“Under your leadership, DOT supported President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill, which included billions of dollars devoted to revamping America’s railways in an effort to make them safer and more efficient,” the letter says. “Yet America now faces one of transportation’s largest failures, even while DOT seems to not lack available funding. In America, over 1,000 trains derail every year.”
“The Committee is deeply concerned by DOT’s slow pace in resolving this matter,” they wrote.
The committee then requested a slew of documents and materials related to his response, which they require to be turned in by March 10.
The letter was signed by 21 Republicans who are on the committee.
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George Alan Kelly
The illegal alien shot dead by an elderly Arizona rancher was likely a cartel drug smuggler, according to a former Border Patrol chief.
George Alan Kelly, 73, was arrested for killing Gabriel Cuen-Butimea, on his Arizona ranch in Kino Springs just outside of Nogales, Mexico on January 30.
Kelly was being held at the Santa Cruz County jail on $1 million bond, but he posted bail and was released from custody on Wednesday.
According to reports, Gabriel Cuen-Butimea has a history of illegally crossing into the United States and multiple deportations.
Authorities found a Mexican voter registration card on the decedent.
According to the defense lawyers, Mr. Kelly fired warning shots after he saw a group of men dressed in camouflaged clothing point an AK-47 right at him.
George Alan Kelly was careful to shoot above their heads, the lawyers said.
The rancher later discovered the deceased man after he went to check on his horse.
A former Border Patrol chief on Friday told NewsNation that the illegal alien shot dead by George Kelly was likely a drug smuggler or a scout for the cartel based on what was found on his body.
The deceased migrant had a radio and was wearing tactical boots which led former Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott to believe he was working for the cartel as a ‘front-man.’
“Everything that I have seen, my professional experience would tell me that that guy was either a scout or an actual guide for a group,” Rodney Scott told NewsNation.
“With the radio — much more likely he was probably scouting out in advance, or the front-man if you will, but that type of activity and behavior doesn’t take place out there unless it’s part of the cartel,” he said.
George Kelly also had a reputation for firing at illegal alien smugglers on his property because his Kino Springs ranch sits on a major narcotics route.
WATCH:

The Arizona rancher accused of killing a migrant on his property is out on bail.#BorderPatrol sources tell @AliBradleyTV the rancher has a reputation among smugglers as someone who fires at undocumented people on his property.
Watch #MorninginAmerica: https://t.co/SqKO3sGrDe pic.twitter.com/iEHZv6A0PB
— NewsNation (@NewsNation) February 24, 2023

George Kelly’s first-degree murder charge was downgraded to second-degree murder during an evidentiary hearing in court on Friday.
“That’s a significant change in the charge,” Judge Emilio Velasquez said. “Second-degree murder is, frankly, a more complicated theory of the case for both the state and the defense.”
Kelly’s attorney entered a ‘not guilty’ plea during the hearing on Friday.
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“Hannah” Tubbs, the 26-year-old transgender (bio male) child molester who pleaded guilty last January to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl back in 2014 was sentenced to 2 years in a juvenile facility thanks to Soros-backed Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón.
In 2014, 17-year-old James Tubbs grabbed a 10-year-old girl by the throat at a Denny’s in Palmdale, California and sexually assaulted her in a bathroom stall.
Since the sexual assault in 2014, James Tubbs ‘transitioned’ to Hannah Tubbs and is now 26 years old.
Gascón didn’t want to send Tubbs to jail because he feared he would be victimized and assaulted over his gender identity.
Tubbs even bragged about working the system and not having to register as a sex offender to his father in jailhouse phone calls via Fox News.
Tubbs was also charged with first-degree murder after authorities charged him in connection with a 2019 robbery in Kern County.
Tubbs was charged with premeditated murder of Michael Clark in Kern County – the body was found in the Kern River in August 2019.
Now this…
Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón suspended the lead prosecutor who handled Tubbs’ case for misgendering the accused murderer and child molester by referring to him as a male.
The lead attorney, Shea Sanna, was suspended for five days without pay.
“I was suspended for speaking out against the Gascón Administration,” he wrote in a tweet on Friday. “Misgendering Tubbs while informing them that they were being played is just their excuse for the suspension.”

I was suspended for speaking out against the Gascón Administration. Misgendering Tubbs while informing them that they were being played is just their excuse for the suspension.https://t.co/MNMDrHoWn7
— Shea Sanna (@sanna_shea) February 24, 2023

Fox News reported:
Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon has suspended the attorney who prosecuted a 26-year-old trans child molester who was accused of identifying as a woman only after DNA evidence linked her to a cold case crime, according to law enforcement sources.
Shea Sanna, who had been the lead prosecutor for part of the case, is accused of misgendering and “deadnaming” the convicted child molester Hannah Tubbs, who is now accused of beating a man to death in the woods with a rock in Kern County.
Sanna has argued in the past that jailhouse phone calls show Tubbs, now 27, was attempting to use gender identity to game the justice system – an argument that sources say made others in Gascon’s office uncomfortable and led to the suspension.
But a month later, Sanna said, after he sent a critical tweet about former Gascon adviser Alisa Blair’s handling of another case, he found himself the subject of a complaint filed on her behalf.
“So it wasn’t when I first ‘misgendered’ Tubbs,” he told Fox News Digital. “She did it in retaliation. Part of it, the reason why I suspended, is because I called out Tubbs to the administration and said I have recordings of him making up the name, gaming the system, joking about it and the date that it was made up. And I had reports where he’s referring to himself as a ‘grown ass man.’”

NEW: Sources in the LA DA’s office tell me the @GeorgeGascon admin has suspended the lead prosecutor who handled transgender child molester James “Hannah” Tubbs’ case for 5 days without pay for “misgendering” & “deadnaming” Tubbs by referring to him as a https://t.co/GSDQ1U10J3… https://t.co/9ArNu09w82
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) February 24, 2023

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No wonder he’s depressed. When Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was recently hospitalized for clinical depression, his wife Gisele did not rush to be at his side in his hour of need. Instead she fled the country for Canada, taking the couple’s children on a road trip to Niagara Falls where they zip-lined. The proud illegal alien from Brazil noted that passports come in handy when trying to legally enter a country.

A gaunt-looking Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) at the State of the Union address, February 7, 2023, a day before he was hospitalized for lightheadedness, screen image.
CNN reported earlier this week that Fetterman was not able to take care of himself, not eating or drinking which caused him to lose weight and become lightheaded. The lightheadedness prompted his first trip to the hospital this month (excerpt):
“In someone who has pre-existing depression, it is possible that they may be more treatment resistant and have a history of failing medications. So as a result, they may require more aggressive treatment that can take several weeks and even into several months, depending on how they present,” said Dr. Daniel Bober, a psychiatrist in Hollywood, Florida.
“In someone who’s already had depression even before their stroke, this puts him at much greater risk and requires much more aggressive treatment,” Bober said.
Fetterman’s symptoms for depression included weight loss and loss of appetite, a source familiar with the matter said. He was not suicidal, the source said. His lack of eating and drinking water contributed to lightheadedness. He was hospitalized earlier this month in Washington, DC, after feeling lightheaded. His office said he had not had another stroke.
“Generally, the reason that someone presents to a hospital for a psychiatric condition like depression is because either they are acutely suicidal or they have been deemed unable to take care of themselves. And when I say unable to take care of themselves, I mean, their basic needs – food, hydration, hygiene – are all things that they’re required to do on a daily basis, and they are unable to do this due to the severity of their depression,” Bober said.
Gisele tweeted about her adventure on Friday. Her location was turned on, indicating she was finally seeing her husband at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in North Bethesda, Maryland:
“I am not really sure how to navigate this journey but am figuring it out slowly. 1 week ago today when the news dropped, the kids were off from school and media trucks circled our home. I did the first thing I could think of … pack them in the car and drive…We drove straight into … Canada (and lovely Buffalo NY) (Pro Tip: always have passports ready just in case you have to run away ) We talked about lots of hard things and how we will all have to face hard things. About the need to be gentle … with all and with ourselves…We did some scary things but we did them together. We ziplined over Niagara Falls and August got stuck . We talked about flexibility and the need to always have an open heart and an open mind…We also talked about how joy and fun can and must still exist, even when someone we love is in pain. And tomorrow? Who knows. Will try all over again. ”

We drove straight into … Canada (and lovely Buffalo NY) (Pro Tip: always have passports ready just in case you have to run away 😅) We talked about lots of hard things and how we will all have to face hard things. About the need to be gentle … with all and with ourselves. pic.twitter.com/0PWQXHrbqT
— Gisele Barreto Fetterman (@giselefetterman) February 24, 2023

We also talked about how joy and fun can and must still exist, even when someone we love is in pain. And tomorrow? Who knows. Will try all over again. ❤️
— Gisele Barreto Fetterman (@giselefetterman) February 24, 2023

This tweet from Thursday was also posted from Walter Reed:

Day by day ❤️ pic.twitter.com/qgHTvqS7l0
— Gisele Barreto Fetterman (@giselefetterman) February 24, 2023

John and Gisele Fetterman have lied about and downplayed John’s health troubles before and after his debilitating stroke last May. They did not disclose his diseased heart condition or his history of depression before his stroke. Afterward they lied about how devastating the stroke actually was. The goal was to get him elected no matter the cost to his health and sanity. Now he is paying the price, as are Gisele and their children.
John Fetterman is on his second hospital stay since being sworn in as a Senator on January 3rd. It has been reported he will be at Walter Reed for several weeks to over a month while doctors experiment on medications and doses.
Before he was hospitalized, Fetterman’s condition was so bad it made it difficult for his staff to deal with him, NBC’s Dasha Burns reported on Twitter last Friday:
“NEW: A senior aide to Senator Fetterman tells me he will likely be in inpatient care for clinical depression for “a few weeks.”…A senior aide says it’s been difficult to distinguish the stroke from the depression – saying it’s hard to tell at times if Fetterman is “not hearing you, or is he sort of crippled by his depression and social anxiety.”…A senior aide tells me both the staff and Fetterman himself were taken by surprise by the severe onset of depression. The aide also says this hasn’t compromised his ability to do the job going forward, and he will be back to work once he has taken care of his mental health.””

For context, it’s not unprecedented: Just last year Sen Ben Ray Lujan was out for a few months following a stroke, Sen Chris Van Hollen out for a few weeks.
Before that – Sen Tim Johnson in 2007 was out for 8 months. Sen Mark Kirk in 2012 was out for a year following a stroke.
— Dasha Burns (@DashaBurns) February 17, 2023

A senior aide tells me both the staff and Fetterman himself were taken by surprise by the severe onset of depression.
The aide also says this hasn’t compromised his ability to do the job going forward, and he will be back to work once he has taken care of his mental health.
— Dasha Burns (@DashaBurns) February 17, 2023

Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Seigel does not believe Fetterman will not be up to the job of being a Senator “in the immediate future”(excerpt):
Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News Contributor and Professor Of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, recently shared his thoughts on Fetterman continuing to serve as Senator in his current medical state and that he most likely “can’t go back to work anytime in the immediate future.”
“It’s both biochemical and psychological and sociological, and a lot of pressure on him trying to perform up to the level of a US senator, whatever that means these days,” he said in a statement after Fetterman checked himself in for care.
Siegel said he is “not his doctor” and doesn’t “know exactly what prompted this,” but stated that if Fetterman “feels that he needs to be in a hospital, then I would conclude or infer that the level of depression is significant enough so that he really can’t go back to work anytime in the immediate future.”
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Ben Harnwell highlighted this corruption report earlier today on The War Room.
For some reason, the story did not make many headlines last year when the story first broke.

Anastasia Kotvitska, the wife of Ukrainian MP Igor Kotvitsky, was caught at the border crossing into Hungary with a suitcase full of $28 million US dollars and 1.3 million euros.
Kotvitska was traveling with her mother when she was stopped at the border.

In January news broke that Ukrainian officials blew millions of US taxpayer dollars in sports cars, mansions and luxury vacations.
Your Tax Dollars at Work: Ukrainian Officials Blew Millions in the US Taxpayer Dollars on Sports Cars, Mansions, Luxury Vacations, etc.

There has never been an audit on the over $110 billion in US taxpayer dollars sent to Ukraine, one of the most corrupt nations on earth.
The National File reported:
The wife of former Ukrainian MP Igor Kotvitsky was caught bringing $28 million packed in suitcases at the Hungarian border on March 14, Ukrainian media has reported.
Anastasia Kotvitska was at a checkpoint in Vylok, according to Obozrevatel, when Hungarian customs discovered the bags with cash in American dollars and euros in a minivan. As well as $28 million, the suitcases were also reportedly filled with €1.3 million.
Kotvitska had been travelling with two Hungarian citizens as well as her mother Galina Kucher, sources told Obozrevatel.
A criminal case has now been opened by the State Bureau of Investigation accusing Kotvitska of not declaring the money, according to Ukrainian Pravda.
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The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has issued a statement about mysterious white dust that snowed down in the Eastern Panhandle of the state, as well as parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
The agency said that while they still do not know what it is, they are not issuing a shelter in place advisory.
Hundreds of people took to social media on Thursday night to post photos and videos of the dust in the air and covering their vehicles.
“West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) is working with state and local agencies to investigate large amounts of dust across multiple counties in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle,” the agency said in a statement.

#BREAKING Multiple reports of unknown White dust / Particles falling out of the sky ⁰⁰#WestVirginia | #Maryland ⁰⁰Currently Multiple people across West Virginia into Maryland area are reporting a (unknown white dust/film descending from the sky. Some local fire… https://t.co/k8MRFgtHXf pic.twitter.com/BBwIX5W80t
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 24, 2023

#BREAKING
“white dust” falling out of the sky event in Maryland and West Virginia.
Residents described it as a “fine ash feel
Reports from Allegany County, Maryland, WV and Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/YMwxpfU3C2
— Mekal Shan (@mekalshan) February 24, 2023

Reports of a “small plane dropping white powder so thick we couldn’t see our neighbors house.” in the #WestVirginia #Maryland area. Multiple reports with pictures of cars coated in white dust particles. https://t.co/kzFkeRUnaO #chemtrails #conspiracy #conspiracytheory pic.twitter.com/WdccLSvUJg
— modern_shaman (@m0dernshaman) February 24, 2023

From someone a town over pic.twitter.com/8Pr0HcP4VG
— Cassandra MacDonald (@CassandraRules) February 24, 2023

From someone in Middleway WV pic.twitter.com/iygboUrCxi
— Cassandra MacDonald (@CassandraRules) February 24, 2023

“The WVDEP received reports late Thursday night about the dust and mobilized inspectors to the area to collect samples and identify potential sources. No obvious sources have been identified at this time,” the agency continued.
The agency continued, “no shelter in place advisories have been issued for this area.”
“We have staff on site who are coordinating with our state and local partners to identify the material and any potential causes,” said WVDEP Division of Air Quality Director Laura Crowder.
The WVDEP said that they are working with the Berkeley County Office of Emergency Services and the state Department of Agriculture to collect additional samples and have them analyzed.
“Samples will also be taken to the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey in Morgantown to determine if the cause of the dust is related to recent dust storms in the Midwest,” the statement continued. “The West Virginia Department of Agriculture, West Virginia Division of Emergency Management Division (WVEMD) and the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office are also investigating the situation.”
A Facebook page that tracks emergencies in the Panhandle, Eastern Panhandle Working Fires, was early to post about the dust.
“Call 911!! Per The WV Dept of Environmental Protection, they have requested that anybody experiencing these issues call 911 immediately and have their local fire department respond. They also advise to shut doors and windows and avoid outdoors at this time as a common sense approach until it can be identified,” a post on the page read.

Dozens of people posted photos and videos in the comments.

In a later post, the page stated, “EPWF is an informational venue. While we may not agree with the DEPs assessment to call 911 to have local FDs respond; it is, in fact, the requested action by the governing agency responsible. We are just passing that information on. If you believe WV DEP response was inadequate or overkill, please contact them directly.”

Jefferson County, WV Homeland Security, and Emergency Management posted that “our office has been following the reports of the dust seen throughout the Eastern Panhandle of WV. The attached post from one of the meteorologists connected with a TV station in WV seems to be able to provide some knowledgeable insight into the observations. We will be following up with further information from the State as it becomes available.”
They pointed to another local meteorologist, Spencer Adkins, who wrote, “clearly ‘stuff in the air’ is a concern anywhere in the entire region after East Palestine but satellite scientists pointed the dust plume out early Thursday because it was pretty evident. Think how we often see smoke from fires even farther west in summer.”

Dozens of people in the area posted photos and videos of the dust raining down from the sky like snow, despite it being warm outside.

#BREAKING Multiple reports of unknown White dust / Particles falling out of the sky ⁰⁰#WestVirginia | #Maryland ⁰⁰Currently Multiple people across West Virginia into Maryland area are reporting a (unknown white dust/film descending from the sky. Some local fire… https://t.co/k8MRFgtHXf pic.twitter.com/BBwIX5W80t
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 24, 2023

Seeing lots of reports in inwood, Middleway, Kearneysville WV and lots of other areas too
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 24, 2023

Some people in the Panhandle reported seeing a small plane before the dust, others speculated it was pine pollen, and some insisted it was a dust storm from New Mexico.

#UPDATE: We think this was from yesterdays dust storm that was in the parts of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma as weather satellite shows large plumes of dust blowing across the states and making its way to the east coast pic.twitter.com/oMx3fOXWJ6
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 24, 2023

Local meteorologist Justin Berk posted, “WHAT IS FALLING FROM THE CLEAR SKY? I’ve just been informed from West Virginia to Carroll County MD there seems to be White ASH falling and coating. Michael Triplett sent me a pic of the ‘stuff’ on his truck in Westminster. If you have any additional pics/videos, please share and let us know where. The WV Dept of Environmental Protection has been asking for this as well. I want to help figure this out with you.”

The Hampshire County 911 Center posted “We are aware of recent reports of an unknown dust-like substance accumulating on cars and surfaces outside. This is reportedly occurring across the tri-state region. We are aware of some other social media sites that have advised you to contact 911 if you witness this situation. Although you are more than welcome to contact our 911 center, we ask you to use the non-emergency number for this. (304-822-6000). Be prepared to give your name, address and contact information, so that we may log the information for environmental agencies if needed.”

“If you are experiencing this heavy dust substance at your residence, per the office of emergency management, remain inside and turn off any devices that introduce outside air into your residence,” the post continued. “Responders will not be responding for sightings of this substance, unless a medical emergency or another type of emergency is present.”
Some of the people who went outside reported that their throat was burning and that their skin was itchy.

Similar dust fell in Connecticut last week — and it reportedly smelled like chlorine.
“Some have speculated that it could be chemicals from the train derailment in Ohio earlier this month. NBC Connecticut meteorologists aren’t sure that could be the case since the fire and chemical release from that derailment happened two weeks ago,” NBC Connecticut reported.

“NBC Connecticut Chief Meteorologist says it’s possible the residue is from dust kicked up from a dust storm in the Plains a few days ago. He says he smelled a chlorine-like odor in West Hartford Friday morning, but he doesn’t have an explanation for that.”
The Gateway Pundit will update this story when more informat
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A Chinese fighter jet came within 500 feet of a Navy plane with CNN and NBC News crew aboard on Friday amid escalating tensions.
The US Navy surveillance plane was flying over the South China Sea in international airspace when a warning came over the radio.
“No approaching any more or you will pay full responsibility,” said a voice from a ground station belonging to China’s air force, NBC News reported.
The NBC News reporter aboard said the Chinese fighter jet got close enough to where she could see the pilots.
More from NBC News:
The U.S. Navy plane had been in the air over the South China Sea for a few hours when a warning came crackling over the radio.
Soon after, a Chinese J-11 fighter jet appeared about 500 feet off the left wing, flying beside the American P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft for well over an hour as it passed over mostly uninhabited islands that are claimed by both China and its neighbors.
U.S. officials said encounters like the one witnessed by NBC News on Friday, though professional, are becoming more frequent as Beijing and Washington step up their campaigns for influence in the Pacific. The strategically important South China Sea is an increasingly prominent stage for the spiraling tensions between the world’s two largest economies, which have clashed over everything from Taiwan to the war in Ukraine.
Inside the plane, U.S. Navy officers sat at about half-dozen computer stations, analyzing radar images from powerful specialized cameras affixed to the outside of the aircraft as it made way around the Paracel Islands across the South China Sea, before returning to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.
WATCH:

Recall, a Chinese fighter jet came within 20 feet of American Military Aircraft in December.
According to a statement by US officials, the Chinese fighter pilot “performed an unsafe maneuver” while flying close to an Air Force plane.
The American pilot was lawfully flying over the South China Sea when a Chinese fighter pilot came too close and buzzed the American military aircraft, according to a statement by US Indo-Pacific Command Public Affairs.

Chinese fighter jet buzzes American military aircraft on December 21, 2022
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The Marc Turi Criminal Indictment Exposed the Obama Administration’s Illegal, Covert Gun-Running Operation to Libya
 Guest post by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.
This article is the second of a series of articles explaining why President Obama enlisted the federal government’s national security and justice agencies to make sure Lt. General Michael Flynn never served as President Trump’s national security advisor.  In September 2011, Flynn was promoted to Lieutenant General and assigned as assistant director of national intelligence in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).  On April 17, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Flynn to be the 18th director of DIA.  On April 30, 2014, President Obama forced Flynn to retire because Flynn had collected sufficient intelligence on Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to charge Obama and Clinton with high crimes and misdemeanors.  The premise of this article series is that as Trump’s national security director in the White House, Flynn would have pursued President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” over their illegal, clandestine supplying of weapons to terrorists in Libya.  This series of articles draws on reporting Jerome Corsi previously published in World Net Daily [WND.com] from 2011-2015 when he worked at WND.com as a senior staff reporter.
(Here is a link to the first article in this series.)
Why did Barack Obama turn against Muammar Gaddafi?
The answer may be deceptively simple: The moment that Gaddafi became inconvenient to al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, Gaddafi became inconvenient to Obama. 
In 2011, Gaddafi stood in the way of the al-Qaeda splinter group militia and the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan in Libya to advance the Arab Spring in North Africa by removing Muammar Qaddafi from power.  The first article explained that President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton engineered an illegal, covert operation to run weapons to the al-Qaeda splinter militia groups and the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya.  So, Obama and Clinton succeeded in converting Libya into a Sharia Law-driven Islamic terrorist state.  After Qaddafi was deposed, Stevens was appointed U.S. ambassador to Libya.  As U.S. ambassador, Stevens’s job shifted from overseeing the Obama-Clinton covert gun-running to Libya to supervising the shipment of arms from Libya to Syria to arm the rebels fighting Assad, some of whom ultimately become al-Nusra in Syria and some become ISIS.  This second article examines the Marc Turi indictment.  This case leaves no doubt Hillary Clinton was the chief architect of the Obama administration’s illegal, covert gun-running operation to Libya and subsequently to Syria.
As Trump’s national security advisor, General Flynn could have accessed the classified documentary evidence required to charge Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton with having engaged in “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” over their covert gun-running to al-Qaeda splinter militia groups and the Muslim Brother in Libya, as well as their clandestine gun-running to ISIS in Syria.
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Part 2
On Dec. 5, 2012, New York Times reporters James Risen, Mark Mazetti, and Michael Schmidt published an article entitled “U.S.-Approved Arms for Libya Rebels Fell into Jihadis’ Hands.”  The article stated: “The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and foreign diplomats.”  This New York Times article implicated Marc Turi as the arms dealer who architected the 2011-2012 weapons shipments to Libya:
The case of Marc Turi, the American arms merchant who had sought to provide weapons to Libya, demonstrates other challenges the United States faced in dealing with Libya.  A dealer who lives in both Arizona and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Mr. Turi sells small arms to buyers in the Middle East and Africa, relying primarily on suppliers of Russian-designated weapons in Eastern Europe.
In March 2011, just as the Libyan civil war was intensifying, Mr. Turi realized that Libya could be a lucrative new market, and applied to the State Department for a license to provide weapons to the rebels there, according to emails and other documents he has provided. (American citizens are required to obtain United States approval for any international arms sales.)
The New York Times article explained that Turi emailed Christopher Stevens, “then the special representative to the Libyan rebel alliance.”  The newspaper reported that Stevens said he would “share” Turi’s proposal with colleagues in Washington, according to emails Turi provided.  Turi’s application for a license was rejected in late March 2011.  Undeterred, Turi applied again, this time for a shipment of arms worth more than $200 million to Qatar.  Two months later, the Department of Homeland Security raided Turi’s home near Phoenix.
In 2014, the Department of Justice indicted Turi on four felony counts: two of arms dealing in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and two of lying to the State Department in official applications.  Pre-trial court filings by Turi’s defense counsel, Jean-Jacques Cabou of the law firm Perkins Coie LLP, made clear Turi intended to plead not guilty.  Cabou felt he could prove that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton entrapped Turi in her 2011 covert, illegal plan to ship weapons to al-Qaeda-affiliated militia groups in Libya. The DOJ prosecution of Turi was unusual in that DOJ did not allege in its indictment that Turi ever actually sent any weapons to the Libyan “rebels.”  Instead, DOJ charged Turi with lying on an export-license application, alleging he hid his intent to ship weapons and ammunition to Libya in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 170.
Count 1 of the DOJ indictment against Turi, filed in U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, on February 11, 2014, read:
On or about March 29, 2011, in the District of Arizona and elsewhere, Marc Turi and Turi Defense Group, in an application for a license to broker weapons, did willfully and knowingly make and cause to be made an untrue material statement and omitted a material fact required to be stated therein by listing the Government of Qatar as the end user of certain USML [United States Munitions List} items, when, in fact, Marc Turi and Turi Defense Group knew then that the actual intended end user of the listed USML items were individuals in Libya.
The USML included defense- and space-related items and technology, including weapons that fell under the import/export jurisdiction of the State Department under the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 [22 U.S.C. 2778 and 2797(4)]
In a defense brief filed with the district court on Aug. 11, 2014, Cabou noted: “The central allegation here is that Defendants made false statements in an attempt to transship arms through Qatar and/or the United Arab Emirates to Libya.  The government does not contend otherwise.”  In the following sentence, written in bold type, Cabou telegraphed a key defense argument, “But, public documents reveal that arms were in fact transshipped though Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to Libya, and that the U.S. Government may have provided support for those transactions.”
Cabou continued:
This information comes from such reputable sources as the United Nations Security Council, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, and Senator [John] McCain’s own mouth. Given that the then-Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee [McCain] has publicly stated that the United States assisted in shipping arms to Libya, Defendants are certainly reasonable in believing the same. And if the United States did take such actions, any documents or other evidence relating to those actions are surely relevant to Defendants’ defense that they reasonably believed they had U.S. Government authority to broker nearly identical transactions.  Defendants do not know what evidence does or does not exist on this front, but they are entitled to know.
The Marc Turi trial record established that DOJ utilized the Classified Information Procedures Act [CIFA, 18 U.S.C. App. 3 § 2] in an attempt to restrict releasing of various documents to the defense, effectively limiting the scope of defense discovery regarding the involvement of the Clinton State Department and Obama White House in arms shipments to Libya.  The discovery reached an impasse when the government refused to produce any information requested by the defense in the CIFA conference held on Sept. 3, 2014. The government argued that the information requested by the defense regarding the Clinton State Department and the White House’s involvement in shipping arms to Libya was “not related to the conduct alleged in the indictment.”
In a motion to compel discovery filed with the district court on Sept. 22, 2014, defense counsel Cabou argued the government documents requested at the CIFA conference were central to the defense.  Cabou wrote:
At its core, the Indictment alleges that Defendants, a State Department licensed arms dealer and its president [of Turi Defense Group] who have previously worked for the U.S. government through the Central Intelligence Agency, lied in an effort to arrange for the eventual transport of $267 million worth of weapons into Libya in 2011.  It alleges that they intended to transport this extraordinary quantity of weapons with the assistance of foreign governments.  It alleges that they intended to transport the weapons on dozens of airplanes into NATO-restricted airspace without NATO approval or detection.  It alleges that they did so unilaterally.  In other words, it alleges that they did so without any knowledge or involvement of the United States Government.  Nonsense.
Cabou asserted the government’s “story defies common sense and ignores basic realities and the facts.”  In the next paragraph, Cabou made clear the defense at trial would expose Hillary Clinton’s role in the Obama White House decision to transport weapons to the al-Qaida-affiliated militia in Libya in 2011 via a third-party country like Qatar.  Clinton’s goal was to disguise the reality the weapons shipment was U.S. organized and delivered, in open defiance of United Nations Resolution 170 and a NATO-imposed arms embargo in effect at the time.
Cabou wrote:
In particular, Defendants intend to vigorously pursue a public authority defense, already noticed in this case, and premised on certain facts including, but not limited to, that: (1) Defendants had previously worked with the U.S. Government, including the CIA, on covert weapons transactions, (2) those transactions bore substantial similarities to the ones here, (3) Defendants either actually had public authority for the actions at issue here or reasonably believed that they had authority based on that prior relationship, (4) the United States did in fact covertly arm the Libyan rebels using a plan remarkably similar to the one at issue here, (5) the United States frequently assists in the covert transportation of arms, and (6) the manner and means by which the United States typically conducts such operations are identical to what actually happened in this case.
On Sept. 22, 2014, the District Court issued an order granting the defendant’s motion to compel the government to release the long list of internal government documents the defense requested.   The documents to be released included other evidence “relating to instances in which the United States assisted or considered assisting in the covert transportation, provision, acquisition, transfer, or transport of Defense Articles to or from any person, entity, group of people, quasi-governmental entity, or government within the territory of Qatar and/or the United Arab Emirates within the timeframe of 2010 to the date of this request.”
On October 20, 2015, John Solomon and Jeffrey Scott Shapiro reported in the Washington Times on newly disclosed memos recovered in the burned-out compound in Benghazi in the aftermath of the attack that killed Ambassador Stevens on Sept. 11, 2011.  The memos proved diplomats at the Benghazi compound were tracking several covert State Department-authorized weapons shipments.  The State Department intended one of these secret weapons shipments to be for the Transitional National Council, the Libyan movement seeking to oust Gadhafi.  The Washington Times reported that an end-use certificate from the State Department’s office of trade defense controls proved Dolarian Capital Inc. of Fresno, California, had been licensed to ship a weapons cache to Libya.  The weapons cache included rocket launchers, grenade launchers, 7,000 machine guns, and 8 million rounds of ammunition.  The newspaper reported that Dolarian Capital was a U.S. arms merchant working with U.S. intelligence.  In 2011, the State Department approved Dolarian Capital to ship weapons to Libya via Kuwait, only to have the State Department inexplicably revoke the license before Dolarian Capital had sent the weapons.
On June 29, 2015, Catherine Herridge and Pamela Brown reported on Fox Business an interview they had conducted with Turi.  “In the spring of 2011, Turi says his high-level contacts, both inside and outside of the US government, encouraged him to explore options to arm the Libyan opposition as they tried to overthrow the Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi,” Herridge and Browne reported.  “Turi said, ‘That’s where I came up with this “zero footprint’ Arab supply chain whereby our foreign ally supplies another Arab country,’” Herridge and Browne continued.   “In this case, the US would supply conventional weapons to a US ally—Qatar, who would, in turn, supply them to Libya, as a kind of workaround.”  Herridge and Brown quoted Turi saying: “‘If you want to limit the exposure to the US government, you simply outsource it to your allies. The partners-—the Qataris and the Emiratis —did exactly what they were contracted to do.” Herridge and Brown concluded the article by noting that Turi told Fox Business that he never supplied any weapons to Qatar.  He said the covert U.S. government program covertly running guns to the Libyan rebels was in the hands of the U.S. government and the State Department’s Bureau of Political and Military Affairs.  Andrew Shapiro, a key Clinton aide, managed the State Department’s Bureau of Political and Military Affairs and was responsible for overseeing the export control process at the State Department.
On October 3, 2016, DOJ attorneys filed a motion in federal court in Phoenix to drop the case against Marc Turi.  On October 4, 2016, Kenneth Pl Vogel and Josh Gerstein filed a story in Politico.com that asserted the following about the DOJ decision to dismiss the Turi indictment:
The deal averts a trial that threatened to cast additional scrutiny on Hillary Clinton’s private emails as Secretary of State, and to expose reported Central Intelligence Agency attempts to arm rebels fighting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
In his first interview after the DOJ dropped the indictment against him, Marc Turi told Fox News that DOJ abruptly dropped the case to avoid public disclosure of the weapons program that was designed to force the ouster of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi during the 2011 Arab Spring.  “I would say, 100 percent, I was victimized … to somehow discredit me, to throw me under the bus, to do whatever it took to protect their next presidential candidate,” Turi told then-Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge.
Roger Aronoff, a founding member of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi [CCB] and the Editor of Accuracy in Media, reported on July 31, 2014, on the Turi indictment.  Aronoff argued that Clare Lopez, a CCB member who served as a career operations officer with the CIA and yet today serves as vice president for research at the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, might be right.  Lopez claimed that in 2011, Hillary Clinton’s State Department was orchestrating its own gun-running operation to supply the Libyan rebels.  She also claimed that arms dealer Marc Turi was set up to take the fall for these illicit arms deals. “We have ample evidence the Libyan gun-running operation was a White House operation and that the State Department under Hillary Clinton ran the show,” Lopez told WND.
“The key point is that Marc Turi, despite receiving written approval from the U.S. government to broker weapons to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, never actually went through any weapons purchases or shipments to Qatar, to the UAE, or Libya,” Lopez stressed.  But what is clear is that the guns were shipped.  We concluded in the Citizens’ Commission Interim Report in April 2014 that Hillary Clinton’s State Department was shipping the guns to Libya,” she continued.  “Marc Turi was set up and framed for something he didn’t do, while others, who actually did collaborate with Qatar and the UAE to deliver the weapons under U.S. and NATO protection and supervision, are not only not prosecuted like Marc Turi, they’re not even mentioned.”
In March 2011, as the U.S. and European bombing of Libya began, the Obama administration rejected an offer by Muammar Qadhafi to engage in negotiations to abdicate as president of Libya.  On March 21, 2011, in the early stages of the Libyan Islamic rebellion, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Chuck Kubic began to email and telephone contact between Tripoli and AFRICOM in Stuttgart, Germany, to broker an offer by Gadhafi to engage in talks with the United States under a white flag of truce, according to testimony Kubic provided the Citizens Commission on Benghazi.  “Muammar Qaddafi expressed his willingness to abdicate shortly after the beginning of the 2011 Libyan revolt, but the U.S. ignored his calls for a truce, which led to extensive loss of life (including four Americans), chaos, and detrimental outcomes for U.S. national security objectives across the region,” the Interim Report of the Citizens Commission on Benghazi concluded.  “He even pulled his forces back from several Libyan cities as a sign of good faith.”
The Interim Report detailed the precise chain of communications with the U.S. government involved in pursuing the possibility Gadhafi might abdicate, obviating the need for the U.S. to join with NATO to back the Al Qaeda-affiliated militia seeking to depose Gadhafi in an armed rebellion.  “Rear Admiral Kubic telephoned LTC Brian Linvill, the U.S. AFRICOM point of contact for all military matters regarding the Libyan situation, to advise him of Qaddafi’s desire to enter into military-to-military discussions,” the Interim Report continued. “General Carter Ham was advised immediately on 21 March 2011 of these communications and conveyed them up his chain of command to the Pentagon.” The Obama administration, however, expressed no apparent interest in pursuing the possibility Gaddafi might step down from power in Libya. “After two days of back-and-forth with the Libyans, however, General Ham had received no positive affirmation of consent from Washington, D.C. to pursue Qaddafi’s offer,” the Interim Report continued.
Kubic explained:
I don’t know if the decision came from the White House or Hillary Clinton at the State Department.  But the advice AFRICOM gave me was to leave everything alone and stand down.  An authoritative source told me in the U.S. government that an intelligence memorandum on the negotiations went to President Obama in its raw form.   This memorandum was the document that gave the actual intelligence on the al-Qaida elements that were part of the Libyan revolution.  All these negotiations happened from March 19-22, 2011.  The intelligence document given to the president was dated March 24, 2011.  On March 29, 2011, President Obama signed the intelligence finding, authorizing the United States to arm the rebels.
Confirming Admiral Kubic’s timeline, Reuters reported on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, that President Obama “has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday.”  Reuters further reported that the “presidential finding” signed by Obama was “a principal form of presidential directive used to authorize secret operations by the Central Intelligence Agency,” noting the signing of the presidential finding was a “necessary legal step” before the CIA could proceed.
“One of the most astounding parts of this whole thing is that Gadhafi had destroyed his stash of Weapons of Mass Destruction [WMDs] and was providing us with a steady stream of intelligence on al-Qaida movements in Libya,” Kevin Shipp told the author when reporting for WND.com. Kevin Shipp, a member of the Citizens Commission on Benghazi and a former CIA agent who spent 17 years with the CIA counterintelligence, counterterrorism, human intelligence operations, and internal security, as well as a program manager of the Department of State, Diplomatic Security, Anti-Terrorism Assistance global police training program. “Gadhafi was collaborating with us as an ally, so for the Obama administration, the White House national security team, and the State Department to break off contact with Gadhafi was amazing, especially when he was asking to step down and seek asylum.”
Shipp expressed his continued amazement that the Obama administration stood by while Libyan rebel forces aligned with al-Qaida not only toppled Gaddafi but also killed him.  “It amounted to a de facto, third-party assassination committed ultimately by the United States, if you ask my opinion,” he concluded. “Why would we destabilize Libya when the leader tried to be our ally?  This question is huge, and it suggests a pattern of Obama and his national security advisors to support Islamic rebel movements, including supporting the Free Syrian Army, over what could be a more stable solution.”  Shipp speculated on why the Obama administration began covering up the truth about Benghazi. “The Obama administration was terrified that the American public would learn the CIA and Hillary Clinton’s State Department were running guns secretly into Libya before Gadhafi was deposed.  Obama and Clinton did not want the American public to know that weapons bound for Libya wound up in the hands of al-Qaida in Syria,” he said.  “Obama’s covert gun-running activity in Libya and Syria would be traitorous, in my opinion, if the facts ever came out to the American public.”
“Barack Obama supported the Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab Spring that eventually turned into supporting al-Qaida,” Lt. Col. Dennis Haney, USAF (Ret.), told the author when reporting for WND.com.  Haney was also a member of the Citizens Commission on Benghazi.  He had served as a U.S. Air Force jet fighter aircraft combat-experienced Electronic Warfare Officer with 22 years of experience as an Electronic Combat technical expert, attached for three years to the 52nd Tactical Fighter Wing Staff in Spangdahlem AB, Germany.
On the Citizens Commission on Benghazi, Haney played a crucial role in coordinating with the Global Response Staff [GRS] contractors that were present defending the CIA Annex at Benghazi during the terrorist attack that took the life of Christopher Stevens.  “President Obama is a Muslim sympathizer,” Haney continued.  “He wanted the Arab Spring to break forth across northern Africa, even if it meant destabilizing countries like Egypt and Libya by deposing Mubarak in Egypt and Gadhafi in Libya.  Gadhafi had given up trying to fight America and was willing to open up his munitions inventory to U.S. inspection.”
Returning to the central theme, Obama and his coup d’état co-conspirators could not afford to risk allowing Lieutenant General Flynn to serve as President Trump’s national security advisor in the White House.  As a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in the Obama administration, Flynn would have been able to gather the internal classified documents that could prove to the American people the Obama administration’s treasonous gun-running operations in Libya and Syria.
In 2020, Jerome Corsi published Coup d’État: Exposing Deep State Treason, from which much of this article was drawn.  In 2019, he published Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s “Witch Hunt,” explaining how the Mueller prosecutors confronted Dr. Corsi for over two months for hours at a time in a closed conference room with no windows.  Dr. Corsi effectively ended the Mueller “Russian Collusion” investigation when he refused to take the Mueller prosecutors’ plea deal, alleging he had lied to the FBI.  The FBI never indicted Dr. Corsi—further proof the Mueller prosecutors were the ones telling the lies.
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Kim Gardner may be the most radical Soros-funded Circuit Attorney in the nation today.  That’s saying a lot!
George Soros is one of her largest funders in both of her elections.
Kim Gardner is so intolerable that two dozen attorneys and more than one-third of the trial lawyers left the office when she took over the office in 2017. And this is a Democrat-dominated office!
Recently Kim Gardner refused to put the man charged with hitting high school student and volleyball player Janae Edmondson back in jail even though he violated the conditions of his bond more than 50 times.
The repeat offender, Daniel Riley, went on to hit a Tennessee teenage volleyball player walking in St. Louis City last weekend  — and the young girl lost her legs after she was pinned to another vehicle. The driver NEVER should have been on the street.  He was supposed to be under house arrest with an ankle monitor. Missourians are furious!
Here is a photo of the young woman who lost both legs because another criminal was running the streets thanks to Kim Gardner.

On Thursday at noon Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a petition to remove Kim Gardner from office after she refused to resign.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner later held her own press conference on Thursday. Her supporters were in the audience and cheered her work as Circuit Attorney.  It was a totally staged production for Gardner.
St. Louis has one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
Kim Gardner blamed the judges for not revoking Riley’s bond on three separate occasions in December 2021, August 2022, and as recently as January 2023.  She blamed the judge in the case who she claims either ignored or denied her requests.
And then she played the race card like she always does.
A local FOX reporter confronted Gardner on her questionable claims that she contacted the courts about Riley.
FOX 2 reporter Chris Hayes asked Gardner why there is no record of her office filing a motion to revoke Riley’s bond. Gardner responded by saying motions to revoke a bond can be made orally or in writing. Her office made numerous oral requests to revoke Riley’s bond.
However, according to the Missouri Courts Municipal Clerk Manual, a judge would make note of such a request on the docket sheet.
Gardner has a record of lying to the public and even lying under oath.
Gardner lied about Governor Eric Greitens case, committed over 60 acts of misconduct in the case, and she got away with it.
Kim Gardner is a danger to society.  Pray the state removes her from office before more people are killed and lives are ruined.
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Jacquelin Breger
The Arizona Senate and House Elections Committees yesterday heard testimony and presentations from multiple individuals regarding election anomalies and potential fraud in Arizona’s elections over many years.
During the meeting, legislators considered a presentation by Jacqueline Breger, which, if true, exposed absolutely bombshell information regarding massive corruption and collusion between American politicians, appointed government officials, and the Sinaloa Cartels. The money laundering and racketeering scheme allegedly uses fraudulent mortgages, real estate transactions, and insurance claims in Maricopa County to hide money made through cartel human trafficking, drug trafficking, and bribery of elected officials, and to rig elections, intimidate, or murder those who threaten the operation.
The scheme allegedly creates identities, credentials, and professional licenses for “non-existent individuals,” which if true, could be used for fake voter registrations. The Maricopa County computer database is also used for the alleged “removal of genuine documents from the county system.”
Breger identifies herself as a longtime Arizona resident and a forensic investigator with the Harris/Thaler Law Corporation, investigating multi-state racketeering and corruption. She states that she holds a masters degree in marketing and honors degrees in Finance, Financial Accounting, Business, statistics, economics, and business strategy.
Breger claims that attorney John Thaler investigated money laundering and racketeering in Maricopa County and reviewed over 120,000 documents which include “fake notarizations, fake deeds of trust, fraudulent buyers and or sellers of the real property transactions, as well as other companies used in real estate transactions, such as real estate brokers, mortgage companies Title and Escrow companies, real estate inspection companies, service companies.”
The “about” section on Thaler’s LinkedIn page states, “Specializing in forensic investigations including document and data review using proprietary algorithms to solve mysteries and to develop appropriate litigation strategy. This is where the needle is discovered in that haystack.”
“Our primary findings were first reported to Governor Ducey in 2022,” states Breger.
“These documents have definitely evidenced multiple racketeering enterprises, which include narcotic sales, money laundering, tax evasion, payroll, theft, bankruptcy fraud, life insurance fraud, auto insurance fraud, bribing of elected and appointed officials, creating and modifying public record, falsifying professional licenses and related credentials, swatting individuals who pose a threat to these enterprises, and last but not least, election fraud.”
The Gateway Pundit reported on the joint Senate and House investigation hearing on Thursday.
The full meeting and Breger’s presentation can be found here:
WATCH LIVE: MORE Election Evidence To Be Presented in AZ Senate and House Special Joint Elections Meeting at 9 AM MST

The Gateway Pundit is unable to verify the information at this time. We are awaiting the receipt of documents provided to the Legislature and referenced in this presentation. The Gateway Pundit feels that it is important to cover what was said in the presentation which is now on record with the Arizona Legislature.
Breger levels serious accusations against named individuals in government positions. This includes two citizens of Mesa named Dawna Rae Chavez and her daughter, Brittany Rae Chavez, who are described by Breger as “principal preparers of the documents necessary to affect the racketeering enterprise.”
A Twitter page under the name John Thaler also claimed that Brittany and Dawna Chavez are involved in this scheme in a November 7, 2022 tweet.

Nov 9 filing in Maricopa County Superior Court will state that Katie Hobbs and other elected/appointed officials in AZ have been taking bribes through a fake trust deed scheme operated by Brittany Rae Chavez and Dawna Rae Chavez.
— John Thaler (@Thaleresq) November 7, 2022

It appears that John Thaler and Brittany Chavez, formerly Brittany Thaler, were once married and Brittany is listed as a defendant in a lawsuit by Plaintiff John Thaler. In June 2022, John Thaler alleged that Brittany Thaler “has engaged in an array of criminal enterprises across multiple states, including money laundering and tax evasion, allegedly accomplished via real estate transactions and non-profit organizations; insurance fraud, allegedly accomplished via phony personal injury claims made on behalf of non-existent persons; skimming money from state-run aid programs; narcotics trafficking; hacking into state databases and fabricating public records; bribing public officials, including judges, police officers, judicial assistants, inspectors, assessors, and accountants; bribing private professionals, such as real estate agents and brokers; bankruptcy fraud; election fraud, allegedly accomplished by creating fake ballots and manipulating others in order to influence, among other races, the 2020 election for Maricopa County Recorder; extortion via “crypto-viruses”; the creation of fake employees on payroll systems in order to collect paychecks and benefits; and murder.” Dawna Rae Chavez is also named as a defendant.
According to Breger, “six attempts have been made on Thaler’s life” including one attempt to slash his tires in an undetectable manner and cause death. Breger relates this to election integrity warrior Kari Lake, stating, “A similar attempt was made on the life of Kari Lake’s daughter during her campaign.”
Kari Lake has mentioned on the campaign trail her own tires were slashed or penetrated with nails on numerous occasions. However, regarding her daughter, Lake has only said that she was followed by suspicious individuals in another car. It appears that Bregger unintentionally conflated the incidents and misspoke. Still, Kari Lake has been targeted with attempts on her life for speaking out against the election fraud regime and the dangerous Mexican drug cartels in Arizona.
The Gateway Pundit is still investigating other claims made by Jacquelin Breger.
Near the end of the presentation, Senate Elections Vice-Chairman Ken Bennett strongly interjected, stating that “this is not the appropriate place” for Breger’s allegations.
During Breger’s presentation, titled “Preliminary Findings of Activities Impacting Arizona’s Election Integrity” (with specific focus on the 2020 & 2022 General Elections), she made explosive allegations.
Again, this has not been verified yet. The following is stated in Jacquline Breger’s own words:
Breger: In 2006, the US Attorney’s Office in Illinois, Idaho, and Indiana investigated the laundering of drug cartel monies through a complex series of single-family home purchases in those particular states. By 2009, numerous real estate agents, escrow companies, and title insurers had been indicted, charged, and convicted of racketeering. And in 2014, our office was asked to review the case file. The reason for this was we were asked to determine whether the monies from the sale of the properties had filtered to properties purchased in Arizona, specifically in Maricopa and Pima County. We concluded that several real estate agents convicted in Iowa had set up laundering systems in Arizona, and thereafter, had transferred the proceeds of sales to Panamanian corporations.
In 2018, Mr. Thaler discovered, incidental to a completely independent matter, a series of trust deeds evidencing that cash laundered through single-family residences in Arizona was pervasive and ongoing. With that, a new investigation began with the focus being on money laundered and related racketeering activities in Maricopa County, as well as in several other Arizona counties… Over 120,000 documents have been reviewed to date.
These documents have definitely evidenced multiple racketeering enterprises, which include narcotic sales, money laundering, tax evasion, payroll, theft, bankruptcy fraud, life insurance fraud, auto insurance fraud, bribing of elected and appointed officials, creating and modifying public record, falsifying professional licenses and related credentials, swatting individuals who pose a threat to these enterprises, and last but not least, election fraud.
Beginning in Illinois, Idaho, and Iowa in the early 80s, cash earned or otherwise collected in the sale of illegal narcotics and human trafficking activities, conducted by the Sinaloa Cartel, have been laundered through the purchase of single-family residences. Laundering of this cartel money in Arizona through purchase and sale of the single-family residence began in about 1994 and focused on new construction, particularly in San Tan Valley, Litchfield Park, Goodyear, and Avondale.
In addition to purchases and sales of single-family residences, cash is laundered through inflated and falsified construction invoices, falsified charitable donations, tuitions paid on fake students allegedly attending private trade schools, and falsified bankruptcies. Wells Fargo Bankers in Arizona and in multiple additional states have engaged in opening checking and direct deposit accounts for phantom people. resources, including city government officials and agencies in Mesa, Arizona have also been integral in the laundering activities.
In Arizona, laundered cash is used in part to bribe elected and appointed public officials and their support staff. The principal preparers of the documents necessary to affect the racketeering enterprise are Dawna Rae Chavez, a resident of Mesa, and her daughter Brittany Rae Chavez.
To date, more than 10,000 falsified documents have been recorded with the Maricopa County Recorders Office. We estimate that more than 35,000 warranty deeds and trust deeds evidencing fraudulent transactions exist in the database. The number of falsified notarizations exceeds over 15,000.
The city of Mesa is a racketeering organization, as that term is defined in 18 USC Section 1961. To protect the enterprise civil rights are systematically violated to preserve racketeering activities. fines and outrageous cash bonds are used to collect monies which are then skimmed and redirected into the racketeering enterprises. The city of Mesa Police Department; it’s a private police department that is used to support and protect racketeering enterprises.
Officers participating in this force are compensated with monies paid through phony mortgage schemes and other related schemes. Officers operating within this private force systemically violate our Fourth Amendment rights by breaking and entering into private properties, wiretapping, computer hacking, cell phone hacking, and by using related surveillance techniques without a warrant. Officers also plant evidence and hide exculpatory evidence.
Multiple state agency databases have been infiltrated or hacked, thus allowing falsified documents to be uploaded into them and allowing legitimate documents to be removed. For example, the database for the University of Arizona, Arizona State [University], and Northern Arizona have been infiltrated and hacked. It permits individuals to be given degrees, who never attended or graduated from the schools, and allows phantom individuals to be awarded degrees thus lending legitimacy to their existence. Further, state licensing databases have been infiltrated and hacked to permit individuals with fake degrees, to permit phantom individuals to have state licenses issued. The Maricopa County database for the Recorder’s Office and for the Superior Court were designed in 2014. They were set up for outside infiltration, so that falsified documents could be uploaded or legitimate documents removed since 2015, hundreds upon hundreds of falsified court documents have been loaded into the database. These documents include falsified default judgments, criminal restitution orders, child support orders, all of these used in swatting activities against individuals posing a threat to the racketeering activities.
Since 2004, elections within Pima County and Maricopa County have been manipulated through the infiltration of the county databases, resulting from bribes paid to executives at election service providers, including but not limited to principals at Runbeck Election Services.
Bribes and infiltration were used to affect the outcome of the races during the November 3, 2020 Election, including the outcome of the race for Maricopa County Recorder. And the outcome of the November 8, 2022 election race for Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General.
Public officials who have received bribes include multi-state office holders, State House and State Senate, local office holders, county supervisors, judges in the Maricopa [Superior] Court, judges of some city courts, including two presiding judges, judges assistants, prosecutors within certain cities within Maricopa County, prosecutors for Maricopa County, peripheral legal specialists including attorneys, approved mental health care providers, as in court-appointed advisors and related specialists. In the Superior Court of Maricopa County and Pinal County and Pima County, at least 25% of the active judges have accepted bribes in exchange for protecting the racketeering activities. Bribe payments generally begin before the individual is even appointed to the bench.
Maricopa County Recorders Office has at least five appointments made by Adrian Fontes, our county recorder from 2017 to 2021, who are phantoms, non-existent individuals. These phantom individuals hold positions related to election services. Further, during the same period, the office has at least 15 individuals whose appointments were falsified, and thereafter, kept hidden from the public during the 2020 election cycle. The appointment documents for all of the above individuals have forged signatures, falsified clerical signatures, which means that the tracings from are from a signature stamp, and fake dates.
In October 2020, shortly before the November 3 election, Thaler was provided certain information. First was evidence that the Maricopa County computer database had been designed with various backdoors allowing us or outsiders to infiltrate it and to change the data. Second, was the identities of bribed recipients, which included elected officials. And third, on October 26, 2020, Thaler’s team discovered approximately 25,000 falsified ballots being held and with a significant sum of cash in a private residence in Mesa, rented to Dawna Chavez. I do have a declaration in your packet that you’ve been provided, detailing that.
The investigation into election fraud is not limited to the state of Arizona. However, where Arizona is concerned, a plethora of individuals are implicated in the fraud, including elected and appointed officials, and as I’ve already mentioned, Runbeck Election Services, a service provider to Maricopa County. the Maricopa County database has absolutely no integrity whatsoever.
When our investigation leads to a name of a particular individual that we suspect to be involved in these racketeering activities, we research their deeds of trust, which are recorded with the Maricopa County Recorders Office and publicly available. If there is an unusual amount of deeds of trust for that individual, and if there are deeds of trust for the same or similar named individual, or with multiple varying middle initials, we dig further. In the case of Kathleen Hobbs (please look at page 17 through 50 In your packet), I have shared with you 11 deeds of trust in the name of Kathleen M Hobbs and Patrick T Goodman. However, when we looked at the deeds in your packet on page 51 to 64, these have similar names, but we’ve discovered that they too were compromised. In some cases, we review deeds of trust filed under a spouse or a child or parent or business partner just depending on the specific circumstances. When the writings match that of Brittany and Dawna, and when we can determine that the notarization is fraudulent, and or the buyer, and or the seller’s signatures are fake, we know the deed is fraudulent. If you look at the deeds for Kathleen M Hobbs and Patrick D Goodman, I have provided you with the first signed pages of the deeds, and on page 65 is a comparison of just the signatures… for the buyers of each deed. This page will speak for itself. There’s obviously some inconsistencies with the signatures for Kathleen and for Patrick. This is apparent to anyone with any naked eye. But we have verified all our findings with a qualified forensic document expert who represents the state of California. Now, let’s look at the notaries who signed these deeds. Again, I provided you with a page of all the notary signatures on page 66. Next to this, I provided you with references to pages from our reports that we have from our qualified forensic document expert where similar writings have been verified as either being that of Brittany or Dawna. The only other option is in some situations they are graphics or traces of other signatures where we can verify that an imposter has attempted to copy an original signature.
To summarize our findings with regards to Governor Katie Hobbs, taking into account just those documents in her name, are as follows: There are nine deeds of trust in the name of Kathleen M Hobbs and Patrick T. Goodman, husband and wife from 1997 to 2021, which essentially means that they either purchased or refinance a home every two to three years which is statistically not likely… But even more so, when six of the nine deeds of trust were recorded within the 10-year period between 97 and 2007. The concentration of which between 2001 and 2005 which was during Miss Hobbs’s tenure at Emerge Arizona. When researching the documents filed with the Corporation Commission for Emerge Arizona, we found that these documents evidence hand signing and hand printing that belongs to Brittany and or Dawna. If one were to guess, and this is just a guess on our part, emerge Arizona seems to have been formed as a medium to attract women interested in politics and bribe them through the proper scheme to adopt positions of power and to further the goals and objectives of the cartel. Most of these deeds have been fraudulently notarized, meaning that one or multiple parties’ names in the transaction are either not present or do not exist at all.
In some, if not all cases, it’s evident by page 65 in your packet, Miss Hobbs and Mr. Goodman’s signatures are clearly inconsistent, indicating that the majority of the deeds were created by a different individual who are attempting to copy Hobbs and Goodman’s signatures, particularly on the deeds where the notarizations have been found to be fake. We then research the title companies and the mortgage companies on these deeds of trust. Some of these do not or have never existed. Some do not even exist in Arizona.
What can we conclude by these discoveries? The purpose of having a fake deed of trust is to move cash without it being traceable. A phony mortgage company provides a phony mortgage as the one primary method by which cash is moved invisibly. There are basically only three reasons to create a fake deed of trust. If the buyer does not exist, then the mortgage serves as a means of laundering the money. If the buyer does exist, then the mortgage is used to provide the owner of the deed money that is untraceable. And when the person resides in the location of the deed, then that’s even more further proof that money has been provided that is untraceable. I can take you through example after example. But in the interest of time, since at least 2004 ballot counts have been tampered with. Our County’s current computer database, which was built between 2014 and ’15, has been and continues to be infiltrated and hacked. Its architects specifically designed the system with multiple backdoor entry points. These points permit the uploading of falsified documents and the removal of genuine documents from the county system. We have seen Brittany access the database and have an eyewitness just to testify for that. Over the past 15 years, Brittany has used her access to load falsified judgments and so on.
Beginning in 2017 the access points have been used to change voter totals, and there on, election results. Illegal transfers have been made and provided to Runbeck and Jeff Ellison. The phony deeds used in the scheme to move money to candidates are created by Brittany. For-profit and nonprofit PACs are also created by Brittany and used to move money for candidates. During the ’22 election, ballot scanners, and printers at 70 precincts suffered changes to their printer settings, despite being tested the night before the election. The changes in those settings were made through computer infiltration, not manually or by some never before seen error. The uncontrollable ballots were placed in box three and allegedly driven to Runbeck. Witness information provided on October [20, 2022] confirms that more than 100,000 filled-in ballots and more than $13 million were identified by some of our investigators in two unmarked rental cars. These vans were loaded with the ballots and cash at a private residence in Mesa and driven to Runbeck’s office. The Runbeck company, as you know, is operated by Robert Runbeck. We have found deeds for Runbeck and Ellison.
We have heard the statistical improbabilities of an improbable outcome with respect to the November 2020 election. Let’s look at [Adrian] Fontes and Steven Richer for the Maricopa County Recorder. Richer’s win was statistically impossible. Fontes is a Democrat and was the incumbent, percentages for Biden, Sinema, and Kelly ran up at approximately a 2.5% margin in the county against all their opponents. Richer won by approximately 6000 votes. This means that 50,000 individuals who voted for the Democratic ticket across the board had to choose the Republican candidate for recorder against an incumbent who had never suffered in scandal; never happened. This was a planned loss. Hobbs would receive the Democratic nomination for governor and Fontes would run for Secretary of State to replace Hobbs. The strategy appears to have been planned. I have shown you that both Hobbs and Fontes have what we call Brittany deeds, evidencing a strong likelihood that they are bribe recipients.
Now, it may seem obvious, but I do feel that it’s necessary to explain nonetheless. Given that Arizona is a border state and that drug smuggling and human trafficking is a billion-dollar business, it would appear that having our elected and appointed officials ensure that the cartel enterprise remains open for business would be paramount. The cartel invests substantially to ensure that the right people are in key positions so as to further their objectives. The fix for 2020 and for 2022 started in 2017 with appointment to election positions of individuals being bribed through the mortgage scheme and through monies being laundered by the appointment of phantom individuals. The problems with these documents are many. If you look at your pages 71 and 76, the recorded appointments from Fontes, which were notarized by a Jessica York, first, the handwriting and hand printing of Jessica York have been identified as belonging to Brittany by our forensic document expert. Secondly, the York signatures are the same handwriting, but not the same style. And that change of style exists even when the documents were allegedly signed on the same day. You can see the June 4 documents. The December 9 date and the clerk’s handwriting matches Dawna’s. The signature of the clerk at the bottom is actually a tracing of a signature stamp. The time between the signature and the notarization and alleged execution of the clerk, and thereafter, the recorded date evidence forgery. Normally it’s a two to three turnaround time. These took multiple months and all were allegedly clerk executed and recorded after the election certification. I have example after example, where things do not add up. In addition to state representatives, there are three of the five Maricopa county supervisors have also recorded documents evidencing the acceptance of bribes. Further, we’ve investigated PACs relating to state office holders and dark money transactions relating to said PACs from late 2018 to ’22. A significant number of questionable real estate transactions were facilitated by several law firms, including partners at Perkins Coie. Mr. Thaler would be himself presenting this information, but there have been multiple attempts on his life.
Thaler was driving from Arizona to California when suddenly, he lost control of his vehicle. Upon investigation, it was discovered that his tire was purposefully slashed by a straight-edge knife about 4-6 inches. The cut was made at such a location on the other side of the tire, where the tire would not lose air, but instead would degrade to a point, causing catastrophic failure, most likely at high speed. Again, the declaration is included in your packet. The reason I mention this, and the only reason I mention this is because a similar attempt was made on the life of Kari Lake’s daughter during her campaign. To date, six attempts have been made on Thaler’s life.
In Arizona, public officials accepting bribes include members of the legislature, the executive branches of the state government, more than two dozen judges on the Maricopa County Superior Court, at least two judges in the city of Mesa Court, at least one judge in the town of Gilbert, the Mayor of Mesa, five members of Mesa City Council several police officers…
Senator Ken Bennett: Point of order. This is not the appropriate place to be alleging, um…
Rep. Alex Kolodin: We do have a rule in this chamber that we cannot impugn the motives of other members, as explosive as that testimony was, but that is our rule.
Senator Wendy Rogers: Okay, so what we’re going to do is this, I need you to wrap up in terms of impact to the election. Thank you.
Breger: Even though our investigation covers mouth multiple states, Thaler and our team have interviewed over 30 Witnesses in Arizona, and several individuals in the public officials list have cooperated with the investigation. The team has collected and reviewed more than 120,000 documents as I’ve said. The immense data that we have collected will assist enforcement agencies investigating election fraud. Further the data we have collected and the connections we have found and the vast details of this entire investigation will lead enforcement agencies to those participating in the fraud and will help you restore election integrity within our beautiful state. Thank you.
Rogers: To whom have you given this data other than to us today?
Breger: As we said, the report was given to Governor Ducey in May of 2022. So he has been made aware as has, as I’ve mentioned in my in my presentation, the FBI, some of the other Attorneys General, especially in New Mexico and California.
Bennett: How was this given to Mr. Ducey by you personally?
Breger: No, it was not given by me personally. It was given by one of our team members.
Senator Sonny Borrelli: Did you give this to the Arizona Attorney General
Breger: We have not yet presented this to the Arizona Attorney General. We do know that Governor Ducey did share this with the attorney general at the time.
Bennett: How do you know that?
Breger: He shared that information with Mr. Thaler, directly. But I personally have not given it to our Arizona. Attorney General, yet.
Bennett: Was Mr. Thaler the one that gave this to the governor?
Breger: No. Not directly because Mr. Thaler is not in Arizona.
Bennett: So how would Mr. Thaler know that Governor Ducey shared this with the Attorney General’s office?
Breger: Because Governor Ducey and Mr. Thaler were in contact.
Rep. Rachel Jones: How this is in my opinion related to the election is what you’re stating is potentially many people elected officials here have potentially been bribed or blackmailed to get certain election results, and I think the people have the right to hear that because the people in Arizona right now crave truth. Am I understanding clearly?
Breger: Absolutely, yes, you are. Absolutely. And that is exactly why I’m here today. I think that we’ve gone round and round and round in the concept of election integrity, but nobody is willing to actually speak the truth of how did our election get compromised, as in nuts and bolts. You know, what happened to actually compromise our elections and compromise the integrity of our state?
Rep. Liz Harris: may I ask what political party are you?
Breger: I am unaffiliated.
Rep. Liz Harris: how long has it taken for this information to be compiled and how many people worked on this team?
Breger: Madam Chair, this information was compiled over approximately three and a half, four years. And we have had approximately five to ten people at any given time because it hasn’t always been consistent working on this investigation.
Bennett: When did you say this was presented to Governor Ducey?
Breger: May 2022.
Bennett: How is it that you were invited to address the committee today, by whom?
Breger: I was invited by Representative Harris.
Oddly, the election fraud-denial media has not picked up on this massive story. One might think they would be all over this news, labeling Breger and Arizona Republicans as “conspiracy theorists” or “election deniers.”
We found one story by ABC15 Arizona, which hardly mentions Breger’s testimony and claims legislators asked for no proof, despite the documents that were provided to the legislators. ABC reports,
Another witness was Jacqueline Breger, who accused election workers by name along with Mesa Mayor John Giles and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer of accepting bribes to alter the outcomes of elections.
Breger offered no proof of claims and none of the lawmakers asked for any. Finally, State Senator Ken Bennett of Prescott District 1 told Breger to stop talking, ending her testimony.
AZ Mirror also published a story, attempting to discredit this testimony after speaking to Senator Ken Bennett. “Bennett told the Arizona Mirror that he felt the people that Breger accused of committing crimes should have gotten a chance to defend themselves, instead of being called out during a public meeting,” reports the far-left dark money source
Why are they mostly ignoring this story?
If this is true, where are the County Sheriffs? Are they involved too?
Watch Breger’s full presentation here.
The Gateway Pundit will provide updates on this breaking story and the legitimacy of Breger’s testimony.
 
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