Jan6: The American Gulag

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Sun Jul 17 18:57:50 PDT 2022


1984 Democrats Military Takeover Force, Spies, Corrupt Regime
Agencies, Compliant Military


What Is Adam Schiff Hiding?

https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/14/what-is-adam-schiff-hiding/

https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-secret-commandos-shoot-kill-authority-were-capitol-1661330
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/Rosen%20Testimony.pdf
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1385
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1545097239135240193?s=20&t=84jMPjxzKJVdO1ibvG6-hA
https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/15/during-january-6-hearing-schiff-doctored-text-messages-between-mark-meadows-and-rep-jim-jordan/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schiff-apparently-pranked-by-russian-radio-hosts-who-promised-naked-trump-photos
https://law.stmarytx.edu/academics/faculty/jeffrey-addicott/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-leader-mccarthy-readies-staffers-for-post-midterm-investigations
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/R42659.pdf

Schiff tucked an amendment into the National Defense Authorization Act
that would prohibit any evidence collected in violation of the Posse
Comitatus Act from being used in investigations. Why?

Jeffrey Rosen had a secret on January 6, 2021.

The then-acting attorney general—Rosen was appointed on December 24,
2020 to replace departing Attorney General William Barr—had assembled
a team of elite and highly skilled government agents at Quantico, a
nexus point between the FBI and U.S. military, the weekend before
Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.
At the same time he was rejecting President Donald Trump’s last-minute
appeals to investigate election fraud, Rosen was managing a hush-hush
operation in advance of planned rallies and protests in Washington on
January 6.

    “Rosen made a unilateral decision to take the preparatory steps to
deploy Justice Department and so-called ‘national’ forces,” Newsweek
reporter William M. Arkin disclosed in a bombshell report earlier this
year. “There was no formal request from the U.S. Capitol Police, the
Secret Service, or the Metropolitan Police Department—in fact, no
external request from any agency. The leadership in Justice and the
FBI anticipated the worst and decided to act independently, the
special operations forces lurking behind the scenes.”

Those assets, according to Arkin, included “commandos” with
shoot-to-kill authority. And among them were members of the military.

    “The presence of these extraordinary forces under the control of
the Attorney General—and mostly operating under contingency plans that
Congress and the U.S. Capitol Police were not privy to—added an
additional layer of highly armed responders,” Arkin writes. “The role
that the military played in this highly classified operation is still
unknown, though FBI sources tell Newsweek that military operators
seconded to the FBI, and those on alert as part of the National
Mission Force, were present in the metropolitan area.”

Little else is known about Rosen’s secret mission. His testimony to
the House Oversight Committee in May 2021 was just as obscure. Rosen,
who publicly bragged to the January 6 select committee about his
attempts to deter Team Trump from pursuing vote fraud days before the
Capitol protest, said the FBI opened a multi-agency operation center,
which included the Department of Defense, at FBI headquarters on
January 5. “Each of these federal agencies supplied personnel to staff
the [center] 24/7 beginning on January 5 and 6, and continuing for a
period thereafter,” he said.

To avoid “interfering” in ongoing investigations, Rosen then declined
to answer any questions from lawmakers at the time.

But if the military engaged in any civilian law enforcement activity,
including surveillance or intelligence collection, before or during
January 6, it would represent an egregious violation of the military’s
code of conduct and federal law. Under the Posse Comitatus Act,
military personnel cannot be used as local cops or investigators:
“Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized
by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the
Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as
a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined
under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”
(Certain exclusions, such as the president’s invocation of the
Insurrection Act and any use of the National Guard, apply.)

The law is both vague and specific at the same time—which brings us to
Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Irrefutably the least
trustworthy member of Congress, Schiff tucked an amendment into the
massive National Defense Authorization Act that would prohibit any
evidence collected in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act from being
used in a number of proceedings, including criminal trials and
congressional investigations.

The amendment’s timing, like everything else related to the infamous
Russian collusion huckster, evidence forger, and nude photo seeker (to
name a few of Schiff’s special talents), is highly suspect. Why would
Schiff need to outlaw evidence collected unlawfully? Why is Schiff
relying on this relatively arcane statute passed during Reconstruction
that is rarely, if ever, enforced?

    “No one has ever been convicted of violating PCA to my knowledge,”
Dr. Jeffrey Addicott, a 20-year member of the Judge Advocate General’s
Corps and director of the Warrior Defense Project at St. Mary’s
College, told American Greatness last week.

What is Adam Schiff, on behalf of the Biden regime and Trump foes in
the U.S. military, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mark Milley, trying to hide?

It is not a coincidence that Schiff introduced the amendment just a
few months before a predicted Republican landslide in November, which
will give control of Congress back to the GOP. House Minority Leader
and presumptive Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is planning to
conduct multiple investigations into the Biden regime next year
including of the deadly and distrastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan;
the Daily Caller reported this week that Republican lawmakers are
“flooding the Biden administration with ‘hundreds of preservation
notices’ asking that relevant documents be preserved.”

But one can easily see how Schiff’s amendment could be used as
legislative cover to prevent production of any materials from Biden’s
Department of Defense. After all, according to a 2018 congressional
analysis of Posse Comitatus, “compliance [of the act] is ordinarily
the result of military self-restraint.” So, too, is enforcement: “The
act is a criminal statute under which there has been but a handful of
known prosecutions,” the same report explained.

This is the sort of vehicle that Democrats know how to use and exploit
for political advantage. If interpretation and enforcement is totally
arbitrary, who decides? Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin? The Justice
Department? Biden’s White House lawyers?

Imagine how Democrats could conceal the use of military personnel
related to the events of January 6. Congressional Republicans send a
request to Austin seeking all records, documents, and communications
pertaining to the military’s involvement before and during the Capitol
protest. Austin replies that he has determined the military—under
control of President Trump at the time, no less—violated Posse
Comitatus and therefore the requested materials cannot be produced
under authority of the Schiff amendment.

Republicans can howl and scream but they have no legal remedy. Austin
won’t investigate and Attorney General Merrick Garland won’t
prosecute.

This scenario could be repeated for every Republican inquiry into
Biden’s Defense Department. Does anyone really think this regime will
hand over information to GOP investigators and committees without
pulling every trick in the book, starting with Schiff’s amendment?

On Thursday afternoon, the House narrowly passed Schiff’s amendment by
a vote of 215-213; every Republican and two Democrats voted no. (House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi came to the floor to vote in a rare move.)
Passage in the Senate is uncertain.

If his amendment fails to advance, Schiff nonetheless has done
Republicans a tremendous favor; he’s tipped off the GOP that there’s
plenty of digging to be done at the Department of Defense, where a
trove of scandals awaits political sunshine.

Republicans would be wise to take his cue—and start with January 6.


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