Tuesday, January 3, 2023
House GOP locates emails, texts showing Pelosi office directly involved in failed Jan. 6 security
House Republicans gathered a trove of text and email messages showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office was directly involved in the creation and editing of the Capitol security plan that failed during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot and that security officials later declared they had been “denied again and again” the resources needed to protect one of the nation’s most important homes of democracy.
The internal communications were made public Wednesday in a report compiled by Republican Reps. Rodney Davis, Jim Banks, Troy Nehls, Jim Jordan and Kelly Armstrong that encompasses the results of months of investigation they did of evidence that had been ignored by the Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee. The lawmakers were authorized by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to do their own probe.
The report concludes the Capitol was left vulnerable on Jan. 6 as a result of failures by the Democratic leadership in the House and law enforcement leaders in the Capitol Police who allowed concerns about the “optics” of having armed officers and National Guardsmen visible to the public to override the need for enhanced security.
“Leadership and law enforcement failures within the U.S. Capitol left the complex vulnerable on January 6, 2021. The Democrat-led investigation in the House of Representatives, however, has disregarded those institutional failings that exposed the Capitol to violence that day,” it concluded.
It also corroborated prior reporting by Just the News that Capitol Police began receiving specific warnings in mid-December that there could be significant violence planned against the Capitol and lawmakers by protesters planning to attend the certification of the 2020 election results.
“Prior to that day, the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) had obtained sufficient information from an array of channels to anticipate and prepare for the violence that occurred,” the report noted.
You can read the full report here:
File: FINAL Report of Investigation.pdf
Banks said the GOP report helps counter a Democrat narrative that ignored security failures by police and...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #1252
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1952
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Monday, January 2, 2023
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Air Force quietly eliminates spy planes that are essential to tracking and taking fentanyl off the streets
Twin-engine RC-26 spy planes have been responsible for saving tens of thousands of American lives over the past few years as National Guard pilots have used them to track and apprehend fentanyl smugglers, taking hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills off the streets.
However, the Air Force has decided to destroy and scrap the planes used in border surveillance and drug enforcement.
The planes were supposed to continue flying missions until funding for the program ran out in 2023, but instead the Air Force abruptly ordered the spy planes be sent to the boneyard to be scrapped for parts this month.
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who flies the RC-26 as a pilot in the National Guard and has been fighting to keep the planes from being scrapped as they are essential in the fight against fentanyl said that the shift appears to be a move to destroy the planes in order to prevent plans to save them.
"That is the only reason I can see that they have decided to speed it up as quickly as they have," he said.
Kinzinger talked to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall about the planes' essential role but was told in no uncertain terms that drug enforcement was not part of the Department of Defense's priorities under this administration.
"He basically made clear that DoD business is not, in essence, domestic drug issues even though DoD is one of the primary people responsible," Kinzinger said about the meeting.
"We are the only capable border plane. We were pulled from the border under Biden, and they are now killing us," he added.
Law enforcement officials around the country have also made their cases for keeping the RC-26, but all to no avail.
One law enforcement official said that taking away the RC-26 would remove one of the biggest advantages they have in stopping traffickers from flooding the market with the fentanyl and killing...
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