90 Miles From Tyranny

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Wray stonewalls Congress on ‘Warrantless Surveillance’ of Americans

FBI Director Christopher Wray has stonewalled members of the powerful House Judiciary Committee for more than a month after possible evidence emerged that the bureau was conducting warrantless surveillance of Americans. Wray’s refusal to answer numerous questions posed by Congressional members during a hearing on June 10, was met Monday with a letter from House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan demanding that the FBI respond to Congress.

Congressional members have raised serious concerns regarding the bureau’s apparent abuse of surveillance powers granted in section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Through Section 702 the FISA court allows for U.S. intelligence community (mainly the NSA) to monitor foreigners but that becomes a backdoor to monitor Americans who are in communication with foreigners.

I spoke with Jordan this afternoon regarding the letter and he told me the “premise here is simple, we want Director Wray to answer the questions that he came to the committee to testify about.” Jordan noted that these questions were not just posed from “Republicans, but Democrats, and we would like information from the questions we posed to at the hearing.”

He said holding the FBI accountable for answering those questions is not easy but “in the end the founders made it so congress controls the purse strings – we want to continue raising the issues and hopefully Wray will get us the answers.” Jordan also noted “that along with the problems with the FISA issue, there are questions about the southern border that are not being answered, as well there are numerous questions regarding journalists like Tucker Carlson, which it appears the NSA was spying on him. These must be answered.”

In the letter Jordan chided Wray for failing to answer numerous questions still plaguing the FBI’s now debunked investigation into President Donald Trump, as well as continued concern that the bureau is still utilizing its powerful intelligence to tools to spy on...

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4th Graders Required to Complete ‘Equity Survey,’ Told Not to Discuss with Parents

A fourth grade student in the Sartell-St. Stephen school district in Minnesota informed the school board students were required to complete an “equity survey,” and told not to “repeat any of the questions to our parents.”

“My teacher said that I could not skip any questions even when I didn’t understand them,” Haylee Yasgar, who attended Riverview Intermediate School, said at a recent school board meeting, reported Alphanews Minnesota.

“One question asked us what gender we identify with,” Haylee added. “I was very confused along with a lot of other classmates.”

Haylee said students were also told they were not permitted to “repeat any of the questions to our parents.”

“Being asked to hide this from my mom made me very uncomfortable, like I was doing something wrong,” Haylee told the school board.

Parents in the district are concerned about the push to teach concepts associated with Critical Race Theory (CRT), a Marxist ideology.

According to Alphanews, the school district hired Equity Alliance MN (EAM), a left-wing activist group, to conduct an $80,000 audit on “racial inequities” within the district.

EAM describes itself on its website as a group that has been “leading culturally relevant learning since 1995.”

“Equity Alliance MN is working to make the educational ecosystem across Minnesota equitable for every single student,” the group states, adding its mission is to be...

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Chinese professor on Trump and the US government – WOW

A Chinese professor at Renmin University has the workings of the United States government figured out, something many of us are only beginning to understand. He explains that the Deep State, mid- and senior-level government workers in various agencies, run the government.

According to him, they are the ones who are persisting in confronting and resisting Trump.

He sees the US as not united but a country of special interest groups.
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Hunter Biden Art Sham Gets Shadier As It's Revealed His Art Dealer Wanted to Be 'Lead Guy in China'

"Me Love You Long Time", Artist Hunter Biden circa 2021

You seriously can’t make this stuff up.

First son Hunter Biden’s incredibly suspicious art career couldn’t possibly get any more suspicious at this point, not if he were directly selling his artwork for billions of dollars to Iranian mullahs.

He’s not, as far as we know, but with the incredibly dubious means through which the Biden administration is vowing to establish ethics are preserved as he sells his mediocre work, there’s no telling who is buying it at this point.

This week, Fox News reported that Georges Bergès, the owner of the Manhattan art gallery where the problematic political son will be launching his new art career, declared in 2015 that he wanted to be the “lead guy” in China’s burgeoning art world (which is, apparently, a thing).

Not only is Bergès the proprietor of the establishment where Hunter’s paintings could be listed for as much as $500,000 — an astronomical sum for any artist, let alone an amateur — but he was also touted by the White House as the person they have trusted to make sure that there’s no potential for influence peddling as Hunter Biden, a man long accused of selling access to his powerful father and benefitting handsomely from his family name, sells the art he just started making five seconds ago for tens of thousands of dollars.

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See what I mean? I couldn’t possibly make up something this absurd to add to the menagerie of reasons why we should be incredibly concerned about Hunter Biden’s art career as a matter of...

Intelligence officials in France warned U.S. State Department officials in 2015 that communist China planned to cease its collaboration agreement at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to a former State Department COVID-19 investigator.

Former State Department official David Asher indicated to the Daily Caller that the U.S. government was given preliminary information regarding China’s move to stop working with France at the lab. In 2004, France and China launched the project, which continual evidence indicates could be the originating area of COVID-19.

Asher said France was formally “kicked out” of the lab in 2017, which resulted in foreign officials contacting the U.S. to let officials know. In January 2021, prior to the Biden administration assuming office, the State Department alleged that the lab had been used by China military research for classified research since at least 2017.

“The Chinese basically sucked State into its honey pot operation to gain access to U.S. technology, knowledge, and material support. Classic. Just as they have done in every sector,” the investigator said.

Still, the U.S. lent a major hand to the lab. According to The U.S. Agency for International Development, it funneled $1.1 million to EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S. non-profit, from October 2019 to May 2019 for a sub-agreement signed with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency was a subcontractor of the lab and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sent $600,000 in grants to the Wuhan lab from 2014 to 2019.

A 2018 State Department cable outlined how France determined the lab would be an accessible and transparent operation, but estimation does not coincide with China’s recent announcement it will not permit the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate the lab. The country also prohibited WHO from gaining access to documentation and records being held at the lab.

French officials were in support of working with China, and yet some French defense experts were skeptical, as reported by Le Figaro, a newspaper in France. France put aside a whopping $1 million euros every year for five years to give to the lab, then-French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said at a 2017 ceremony. Scientists in the country even trained Chinese workers.

While the plan was for France to supervise, Le Figaro reported that China took over the lab and stopped collaborating. However, French workers...