January 27, 2021

Exclusive: Proud Boys leader was 'prolific' informer for law enforcement

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.

In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.

Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. “I don’t know any of this,” he said, when asked about the transcript. “I don’t recall any of this.”

Tarrio, 36, is a high-profile figure who organizes and leads the right-wing Proud Boys in their confrontations with those they believe to be Antifa, short for “anti-fascism,” an amorphous and often violent leftist movement. The Proud Boys were involved in the deadly insurrection at the Capitol January 6.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-leader/exclusive-proud-boys-leader-was-prolific-informer-for-law-enforcement-idUSKBN29W1PE

January 25, 2021

THE PRESIDENT THREW US UNDER THE BUS": EMBEDDING WITH PENTAGON LEADERSHIP IN TRUMP'S CHAOTIC LAST WE

Throughout the final, frenzied days of the Trump administration, a reporter rode shotgun with the outgoing acting defense secretary, Christopher Miller, the man who, under the distracted eye of his commander in chief, became America’s de facto guardian.

BY ADAM CIRALSKY

JANUARY 22, 2021

In the hours before Donald Trump’s last flight aboard Air Force One—and Joe Biden’s inauguration on the steps of the reclaimed and restored Capitol—many Americans and TV anchors wondered what the hell the 45th president and his inner circle had been doing, or undoing, in his waning days. Until Biden took the oath of office, the country had held its collective breath. Trump, in those final weeks in office, hadn’t simply dented the guardrails of governance. He’d demolished them. In order to watch things up close, I sought and secured a front-row seat to what was happening inside the Department of Defense, the only institution with the reach and the tools—2.1 million troops and weapons of every shape and size—to counter any moves to forestall or reverse the democratic process. I came away both relieved and deeply concerned by what I witnessed.

On the evening of January 5—the night before a white supremacist mob stormed Capitol Hill in a siege that would leave five dead—the acting secretary of defense, Christopher Miller, was at the White House with his chief of staff, Kash Patel. They were meeting with President Trump on “an Iran issue,” Miller told me. But then the conversation switched gears. The president, Miller recalled, asked how many troops the Pentagon planned to turn out the following day. “We’re like, ‘We’re going to provide any National Guard support that the District requests,’” Miller responded. “And [Trump] goes, ‘You’re going to need 10,000 people.’ No, I’m not talking bullshit. He said that. And we’re like, ‘Maybe. But you know, someone’s going to have to ask for it.’” At that point Miller remembered the president telling him, “‘You do what you need to do. You do what you need to do.’ He said, ‘You’re going to need 10,000.’ That’s what he said. Swear to God.”

SNIP

Continuous, real-time access to a Trump cabinet member—especially during that tumultuous period—was rare. But on January 4, two days before the bloody assault on the U.S. Capitol, I made an overture to Pentagon officials. Could I spend the remaining days of the Trump administration embedded with Miller? I also requested face time with his two closest aides, who were known throughout Washington as staunch Trump loyalists, highly critical of the so-called deep state: Kashyap “Kash” Patel, Miller’s 40-year-old chief of staff, who’d been an aide to Congressman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), another Trump acolyte, and Ezra Cohen, 34, the under secretary of defense for intelligence (USDI), who came aboard on National Security Adviser Mike Flynn’s watch and was later fired by NSC chief H.R. McMaster


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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/embedding-with-pentagon-leadership-in-trumps-chaotic-last-week

January 22, 2021

It's so nice to have a press secretary who isn't painted up like a porn star

January 20, 2021

Its starting to snow

awwwww, I'm good with it.

It's very cleansing

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/washington/20006/weather-radar/327659

January 19, 2021

Question for Legal Lads and Ladies WTF does this even mean?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-ensuring-democratic-accountability-agency-rulemaking/

January 17, 2021

Wake up call for Republicans

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January 14, 2021

Silly question of the day

What's with the Magats adding "President Elect" to their social media names?

I have seen it n numerous places, my RWNJ sister, some random Parlor posts I saw on Parlertakes Twitter feed and now Curt Schilling.

WTF?

January 13, 2021

Tweet of the moment

https://twitter.com/johnpavlovitz/status/1349474381546868741?s=20

I could stand in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue and incite the murders of 5 people and only lose 10 House Republicans.”


- DJT, it turns out

January 6, 2021

They're playing Funeral for a Friend at the Trump rally right now

Irony is dead.

https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1346837098859540483?s=20

December 25, 2020

Merry 🎄 Christmas Baby