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Thursday, September 15, 2022

Capitol Police whistleblower memo lays out Jan. 6 'intelligence failures' on Pelosi watch

Three days after the Jan. 6 riot, a Capitol Police intelligence analyst sent a blistering email to supervisors, blowing the whistle on a failure to heed clear intelligence that right-wing rioters planned to storm the Capitol.

Just three days after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, one of the Capitol Police's top intelligence analysts sent a blistering email to supervisors, blowing the whistle on what he said was a failure to heed clear intelligence warning that right-wing rioters planned to storm the Capitol.

"We analysts have been reporting for weeks that Patriot groups are commenting on social media their intentions to storm the U.S. Capitol with overwhelming numbers," Eric Hoar wrote in the Jan. 9, 2021 email to his bosses. "I don't know what was occurring behind the scenes, but I hope that information was briefed with the veracity it deserved, and not just a one-time Event Assessment."

Hoar wrote he feared political considerations had overtaken security needs in the lead-up to the riot.

"The notion that valid intelligence is trumped by optics or political decisions is unacceptable and puts lives in danger," he said. "This is a concept I've understood for a long time, and I know you are aware of this as well, and I hope its meaning is now OBVIOUS to ALL Officials, Commanders, and Stakeholders."

You can read his full memo here:
File: EricHoarIntelligenceFailuresMemo1-9-21RedactedAddresses.pdf

The mention of "optics" appears to be a reference to the language used when House Democratic leadership rejected an offer days before Jan. 6 from the Trump Pentagon to send National Guard troops to assist Capitol Police.

After facing retaliation following the riot, Hoar left the Capitol Police's intelligence unit and landed at the Homeland Security Department, where he is now assigned to train numerous agencies — including the Capitol Police — on how to avoid future failures like the one he decried in his memo.

Contacted at his home Tuesday night, Hoar declined comment.

Hoar worked in the U.S. military overseas and then as a uniformed officer for the Capitol Police before a serious car accident left him confined to a wheelchair. He then moved to the intelligence unit, his friends and fellow officers told Just the News.

Republicans on the House Administration Committee led by ranking member Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) have taken testimony in private from several whistleblowers like Hoar but did not have a copy of his post-event intelligence failures memo. That was provided to Just the News by a senior Capitol Police source.

As Democrats wrap up their Jan. 6 probe, House Republicans are planning to soon release a wealth of evidence they have gathered showing intelligence and planning failures by the police and the first evidence of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's contacts with the security apparatus leading up to...

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SWAT Team Raids Innocent Elderly Couple, Destroys Their Home Because Their Power Bill Was Too Low

“The deputies believed the defendants were stealing power to grow marijuana because their power consumption was low."

Riverside County, CA — Even in states with legal marijuana, law enforcement's addiction to the drug war still lingers like a dark cloud over over the land of the ostensibly free. Even in California, who has paved the way in legalization of cannabis, police officers still violently, and with extreme prejudice, lay waste to the rights of innocent people who dare grow, use, or sell this most beneficial plant.

Because of their addiction to the war on drugs, cops in Riverside County have just cost the taxpayers of their town $136,000. The money was paid to Chen-Chen Hwang, 67, and her husband, Jiun-Tsong Wu, 75, to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging that their two homes were broken into by armed agents of the state and ransacked as officers looked for non-existent marijuana plants.

According to Alex Coolman, the attorney who filed the suit on behalf of the elderly couple, police were monitoring power bills of town residents and used the low amount of the couple's bill as reason to believe they were growing marijuana.

“This was a very strange and frightening incident,” Hwang said in a release from Coolman's office. “We did nothing to deserve this, and it made us feel unsafe in our own homes.”

The raid unfolded on August 5, 2021 and caused thousands in damage to the couple's home.

Apparently police in Riverside County monitor power consumption and when they see low power usage, they automatically assume that people are stealing power to grow marijuana.

“The deputies believed the defendants were stealing power to grow marijuana because their power consumption was low, and they said as much,” Coolman told the Press-Enterprise.

But the couple was not growing marijuana and their power consumption was low because they used solar power and were "thrifty," according to Coolman.

According to the lawsuit, on on August 5, 2021, a SWAT team, using a battering ram, broke down the door to the couple's home in their quiet subdivision. Nobody was home and for several hours, deputies ransacked the home, destroying their property in the futile search for a plant — which they never found.

After not finding anything at this house, deputies then turned their attention to the couple's second home — which couldn't have possibly used power from their other address but was targeted nonetheless — and raided it too. According to the lawsuit, however, they had no warrant for the second and also entirely...

Joe Biden’s CIA Director William Burns previously led an elite Washington, D.C. think tank that had undisclosed Chinese Communist Party-linked employees, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) on Monday. The report prompted Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) to demand Burns address his alleged “strong ties” to China.

DCNF revealed in August that the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had at least 20 undisclosed members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) working for the organization under Burns’ leadership between February 2015 and November 2021. In a letter shared with DCNF, Gooden expressed concerns over Burns’ ability to lead the CIA after heading the CCP-influenced think tank.

“The vast influence the CCP had at Carnegie during your tenure as president and the continued influence they have today — despite claims you made at your confirmation hearing that you had ended the CCP’s influence — presents a significant lapse in judgment and brings into question your ability to identify and mitigate national security risks,” Gooden’s letter stated.

Gooden called on Burns to address when he realized the CCP was targeting Carnegie, the number of CCP-linked employees that worked at Carnegie, and if he believes CCP members should be permitted to work on federal grants.

This isn’t the first time Burns has come under fire for his connections to the Chinese Communist Party. During his CIA confirmation hearing in Feb. 2021, Burns told Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) that shortly after he became president of Carnegie, he ended the group’s relationship with the CCP-backed China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF).

“This is a relationship that I inherited when I became president of Carnegie, and that I ended not long after I became president, precisely for the concerns that you just described, because we were increasingly worried about the expansion of Chinese influence operations,” Burns testified.

However, CUSEF continued to provide Carnegie with hundreds of thousands of dollars while Burns was president, DCNF discovered.

“The evidence would suggest Director Burns lied under oath during his confirmation hearing or was...