Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says that she has revoked the security clearance of 51 former senior intelligence officials who signed a letter declaring that the Hunter Biden laptop was a “Russian information operation” along with many powerful people. They include:

• Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken
• Former U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
• Former deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco
• Lawyer Mark Zaid who represented the whistleblower who leaked President Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Zelensky, which led to his impeachment;
• Lawyer Norman Eisen who represented the House Judiciary Committee during the above referenced impeachment trial;
• New York Attorney General Letitia James, who continues to prosecute President Trump over his organization for alleged fraud
• New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg who brought the Stormy Danie’s hush money case to trial
• Lawyer Andrew Weissma who was one of the lead investigators of the Mueller investigation.

Director Gabbard also directed that the “President’s Daily Brief is no longer being provided to former President Biden.”

Many of these people have done odious things, to be sure, but many odious people still have security clearance.

In Edward Snowden’s book, Permanent Record, he writes about the “security clearance economy” that drives Washington D.C. He says that “having a security clearance is practically a prerequisite for getting a job—any job, not just in intelligence or defense.” He describes it as a “golden ticket” to work in Washington, not just in government and intel work. Everyone from security guards to IT support need this.

Is this just punishment for lying to the American people or is it political retaliation? Many of them are lawyers so they may in fact sue.

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President Trump may be losing patience with the budget resolution. On Monday, he threatened to primary Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie for opposing the GOP budget.

Representative Massie and Senator Rand Paul both say that they will vote against the GOP budget because it does not cut spending. Their point is: Why cut all of this government waste, only to bring on more?

Representative Massie said this about it: “The argument for [continuing resolution] in September 2024 was to fight in December 2024 after the election. The argument for CR in December 2024 was to fight in March 2025 after the inauguration. The argument for CR in March 2025 is to fight in September 2025 because… we’re not ready yet ?!?!”

Representative Massie is not a Republican loyalist who President Trump can pick on without consequences. He is Peanut the Squirrel to the independents who brought the Republicans the White House and the majority. It is not a fight the Trump administration should even consider.

If the House budget does not pass, the government faces a shut down by Friday.

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What evidence is there that Mahmoud Khalil has committed crimes? He is the Palestinian man who was arrested by ICE and targeted by the State Department to have his green card revoked.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that he was “presented with evidence” that was used to determine that he was a “national security threat” but the public hasn’t. This leaves us worried that he is being labeled as a “Hamas supporter” for criticizing Israel, both of which are protected beliefs in a free society. Secretary Rubio says that he was “actively engaging in supporting Hamas.”

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said that “Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas.” Notice no one is saying he had ties to Hamas. He may have only had overlapping beliefs, which is why the public should demand answers. If he committed crimes, he should be prosecuted for those crimes. If not, we do not have thought crime in the United States.

Free speech organization FIRE sent a letter to many government organizations demanding answers. They say this: “To be clear, demonstrations on Columbia’s campus since Oct. 7, 2023, have included both constitutionally protected speech and unlawful conduct. But the government has not clarified the factual or legal basis for Mr. Khalil’s arrest.”

A judge has temporarily blocked his deportation after he filed a petition with the court alleging that he was illegally detained.

It is shocking to many people that green card holders have Constitutional rights but they do!

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Elon Musk says that X and Tesla were both targeted with a major cyberattack on Monday, causing massive outages.

Musk said this to Fox Business: “Well… we’re not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the ecosystem with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.”

Could people in Ukraine act alone with such powerful resources? That is hard to believe. It is easier to believe that the same CIA resources that brought Ukraine its 2014 coup may be working against Elon Musk’s efforts to undo the regime change that the CIA so masterfully enacted. That is conjecture on our part, to be clear.

Meanwhile, US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, said that Ukrainian President Zelensky has apologized to President Trump in a letter, indicating that diplomacy to secure a peace deal with Russia may resume.

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Over the weekend, a Palestinian man on a student visa had his green card revoked after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrested him at his home. Mahmoud Khalil was one of the lead organizers of the sit-in at Columbia University. His wife is an American citizen and she was threatened by ICE too, according to reports.

What did he do? Did he incite violence or simply support the same cause as Hamas, which is a two-state solution? So far, Redacted has not seen proof that he incited violence or broke laws. If he has, he should be prosecuted on those grounds, not for support of an idea.

Free speech organization FIRE says this about it: “Anyone facing arrest and detention must be afforded due process. Just as students and other demonstrators are obliged to abide by lawful rules of conduct, our government must abide by the First Amendment. The government must be clear and transparent about the basis for its actions to avoid chilling protected speech.”

This comes on the heels of the Trump administration declaring that it will defund Columbia University and investigate “the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”

Axios reports that the State Department is launching “an AI-fueled ‘Catch and Revoke’ effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups.”

“Support Hamas” is code for “critic of Israel.” So the State Department will scan social media of foreign nationals and punish them if they don’t like what they see, even if it involves protected speech?

Free speech organization FIRE says this about it: “AI tools are emerging technologies, not trusted experts on the limits of protected speech under the First Amendment. They cannot be relied on to parse the nuances of expression about complex and contested matters like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Using AI to scour student visa holders’ social media for “pro-Hamas” speech and report that speech to an administration that threatens to deport international students for protected expression will undoubtedly encourage self-censorship on our nation’s campuses. America’s national strength is our commitment to free expression — let’s keep it that way.”

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President Trump says that he would like to have diplomatic discussions with Iran. He claimed to have sent a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader.

He said this to Fox Business: “I hope you’re going to negotiate because it’s going to be a lot better for Iran and I think they want to get that letter. The other alternative is we have to do something because you can’t let [Iran] have a nuclear weapon. I’ve written them a letter, saying I hope you’re going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily it’s going to be a terrible thing for them. You can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.”

The Ayatollah is reportedly not interested, calling Trump’s offer a “bully” tactic.

How does President Trump know that Iran is making a nuclear weapon? Iran has said MANY times that it is enriching uranium for nuclear power plants and has worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to prove that.

Tucker Carlson called out Fox News for its “wall to wall [coverage] with dead-eyed politicians telling you that Iran is a dangerous ‘sponsor of terror.'” He said that this is “softening up the base for a war.” But why is Iran the biggest threat, he asks? “Here’s one measure: over the past twenty years, how many Americans have been killed by Iran on American soil? Try to find that number, and then compare it to the number of Americans killed by drug ODs. Or suicide. Or illegal aliens. Or carjackings, diabetes and the Covid vax. Still think Iran is the greatest threat? How about we focus on our own country for a minute.”

Clearly it is Isreal that leads the U.S. war drum against Iran. No studied person would come to any other conclusion. Carlson is taking the heat on this – as he often does – particularly by Zionist allies, which tells us how these positions are drawn.

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Canada’s new Prime Minister is Mark Carney of the Liberal Party. He won the job in a vote within the party against Chrystia Freeland, former Deputy Prime Minister to Justin Trudeau. He was not elected by the people of Canada in a general election.

The people of Canada are supposed to get a chance to vote for a new Prime Minister this fall if all goes according to plan but again. His most staunch competitor will be the Conservative Party’s Pierre Poilievre. He also faces Maxime Bernier of the People’s Party.

Carney is only the second Prime Minister to jump into the job without first holding a parliamentary seat. He bills himself as a political newcomer with a background with big banks but his opponents say that he is a “disconnected member of the globalist elite.” Well, he has never explained why he was associated with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Carney has a lot of perplexing ideas, such as a commitment to net zero. He also holds British and Irish citizenship but says he is in the process of renouncing them in order to be the Prime Minister.

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The United States and European Union are acting surprised that the Syrian regime has allowed killing people in Syria. Even though the people who run Syria after the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad are terrorists known to the State Department as such.

The State Department says that the U.S. “condemns the radical Islamist terrorists, including foreign jihadis, that murdered people in western Syria in recent days.  The United States stands with Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities, including its Christian, Druze, Alawite, and Kurdish communities, and offers its condolences to the victims and their families.  Syria’s interim authorities must hold the perpetrators of these massacres against Syria’s minority communities accountable.”

Except Syria’s “interim authorities” are the Al-Nusra faction called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which is a branch of Al-Qaeda. So, after warring with Al-Queda for years, the U.S. is now asking them to stop being terrorists and surprised that they are?

The President of Syria says that he will launch an investigation into this matter.

The videos of civilians being killed is horrifying but should not be shocking. David Sacks put it this way: “What did removing Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad get us? Chaos, civil war, genocide. The rule for regime change operations in the Middle East is that they don’t flip a country from bad-to-good. They flip a country from bad-to-worse.”

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has demanded an investigation into who was running the country while President Biden was in cognitive decline.

“It appears staffers and officers in the Biden administration may have exploited Biden’s incapacity so they could issue orders without an accountable President of sound mind approving them,” AG Bailey writes. “This would explain why the Biden administration’s orders were aggressivey much farther to the left than any previous President. If in fact Biden’s staffers were exploiting his mental decline, those orders are null and void.”

AG Bailey says that “it is black-letter law that a document is void, ab initio, when the person signing it lacks mental capacity.”

He is asking the Department of Justice to investigate “who has been running the country for the last four years.”

How do you think they would do that? Could they ask President Biden NOW why he did many things and to produce evidence of his understanding of those things? I doubt that would lead to very much. Could they ask for a document trail that led to executive actions? And would these Deep State actors be easy to identify?

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Russia has offered to broker talks between the U.S. and Iran.

These two countries are not at war but they are at loggerheads. The U.S. continually accuses Iran of having a nuclear weapon. Iran has worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to prove that it doesn’t but the U.S. keeps escalating accusations. Earlier in the week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a call on Monday with Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz and “both leaders agreed that Iran remains a threat to regional security and agreed to work together on this challenge.”

Iran offered diplomatic talks with the Biden administration but has not offered any with the Trump administration. Could Russia be the middle man to cool down this rhetoric?

“Russia believes that the United States and Iran should resolve all problems through negotiations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Bloomberg. Moscow “is ready to do everything in its power to achieve this,” he added.

Who cares who does it, as long as it gets done!?

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The Trump administration has paused weapons and intelligence sharing with Ukraine, according to the Wall Street Journal. What intelligence did the U.S. have? Apparently the U.S. helped Ukraine track Russian troops in order to fire HIMARS on them.

Without the weapons and intelligence, how will Ukraine keep its war going? Europe is digging through couch cushions to find the money. The plan is called the ReArm Europe Plan. It calls for the EU to spend more than €800 billion in defense spending but…they’ll have to borrow it. The rules allow each member state to increase their defense spending “without triggering the Excessive Deficit Procedure.”

In other words, they don’t have it. The EU is letting them borrow it. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that this is necessary because “We are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times.” Her goal is for the E.U. to have a military budget equivalent to the U.S. annual military budget, which is also based on debt. Why in the world would anyone want to emulate that failing model!?

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The U.S. is reportedly preparing to engage directly with Hamas to negotiate a peace deal with Israel. But if it is this kind of diplomacy, don’t hold your breathe.

President Trump wrote this on X and this on TruthSocial, threatening: “I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job, not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say… RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW, OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!”

He said that Hamas cannot keep any more dead bodies and continued, “Only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick and twisted!”

Israel also has dead bodies to exchange and had hostages long before October 7. Does he know that?

President Trump has repeatedly said that he cannot arrange a ceasefire in Ukraine without participation from both sides but has been called out for not engaging both sides of the conflict in Gaza. Well if this is his manner of engaging them, it is not to catch flies with honey.

Israel violated the terms of the ceasefire but the Trump administration sent a new round of shipments this week.

The Israeli government has cut aid to Gaza and reportedly has a “hell plan” that would “cut off electricity and water into Gaza to prepare for a full-scale resumption of the war.”

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The head of the New York FBI office has been ousted. He says that he was not given a reason for this but this internal memo from a few weeks ago may have something to do with it.

James Dennehy is a Marine Corps veteran. After President Trump took office, he sent a staff email calling the Trump administration “a battle of our own” and advising his staff to “dig in.”

Dennehy said that this: “Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did. I was not given a reason for this decision.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi is now saying that the New York field office had withheld evidence about Jeffrey Epstein. She claims that this office had “thousands of documents” that were withheld when she requested them but she has them now and that her office is going through them for forthcoming release.

That doesn’t quite explain the influencers with binders that happened last week. This narrative from the government has been hard to follow. They have over-promised and under-delivered. Could it really have been this one guy holding it up for the rest of us or is there something else to it?

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Protests broke out at the Israeli Knesset on Monday because guard personnel did not allow bereaved families of October 7 victims to attend a speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The families are demanding a probe into October 7. They want to know what the Israeli government knew in advance, how it responded with lethal force on civilians and why the Prime Minister has repeatedly failed to negotiate for hostage releases when Hamas demands all along have been “all for all.”

The Prime Minister says that anyone who wants an investigation like that is from the “deep state.” He said that an investigative committee would only be “a committee whose conclusions are already predetermined, and they have been written, all concentrated at one end of the political spectrum.”

He compared this to the political persecution of President Trump in the U.S.

“Most of the people see everything that is happening here, the cooperation between the bureaucracy, the deep state, [which] in the United States, did not succeed. And it will not succeed here either,” he said.

The Prime Minster warned Hamas of “consequences you can’t imagine” if the remaining prisoners are not exchanged. He spoke of a “hell plan” to stop all aid to Gaza while resuming military attacks. The U.S. is apparently on board because Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a call on Monday with Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz and they spoke of the two countries’ “unbreakable bond.”

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President Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico were not idle threats. They went into effect today.

The Trump administration wanted serious efforts from both countries to curb the flow of drugs over the border but, the White House says that t”hey have failed to adequately address the situation.”

So, game on.

The original plan was to put a 10% tariff on China but on Monday, the White House doubled it to 20%.

The President also announced a plan to put tariffs on “external” agricultural imports. He told farmers to “get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States.”

We are in unchartered waters now. The stock market faltered on the uncertainty of what tariffs will do to the economy.

The Atlanta Fed recently predicted a 2.8% drop in GDP in the first quarter of 2025. This may look bad but, as economist Peter St. Onge points out, “its not necessarily flagging distress. It’s flagging that the country is healing” from the over-spending of the Biden administration. I like the optimism. Let’s hope it’s on target for all of our sake!

China retaliated by announcing new tariffs on U.S. food and agriculture products, which will go into effect on March 10.

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President Trump has reportedly paused all military aid to Ukraine. This reportedly “applies to all US military equipment bound for Ukraine that’s not currently in the country, including weapons that are in transit on aircraft and ships or waiting in Poland to be delivered.”

The Pentagon said that the pause will be “until the country’s leadership demonstrates a good faith commitment to peace.”

The ultimatum gives me pause. This should be the end of the end, not because of President Zelensky’s behavior. It should end because it is the right thing to do.

Most Americans support ending the war in Ukraine and more than half of Ukrainians want the war to end too, only you wouldn’t know it if you only listen to Zelensky. He said this to the Associated Press on Monday:

“An agreement to end the war is still very, very far away, and no one has started all these steps yet. The peace that we foresee in the future must be just, honest, and most importantly, sustainable.”

President Trump took to Truth Social to blast that statement, writing: “This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for much longer! It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelenskyy, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the U.S. – Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia. What are they thinking?”

Is this really the end of aid to Ukraine or is President Trump just punishing Zelensky for now? The personalities of this are a shame. Innocent people are still dying.

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A new study shows what is a consistent trend: Gender transformation only makes mental health worse. We already knew that gender transformation increased the risk of suicide. A new study shows that surgical sex changes increases the risk of “depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders” than those who do not undergo surgery.

Well…who would have predicted that experimental procedures would make people so uncomfortable? Not do the procedures lead to sterilization and create life-long pharmaceutical patients, they are painful and increase a person’s focus on “passing” as another gender. No one should go around the world hyper focused on how others perceive them!

The study, surprisingly, does not suggest that these procedures stop because they are associated with harm. It only suggests that there is a need for “ongoing, gender-sensitive mental health support for transgender individuals’ post-surgery.”

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Israel turned the bombs back on after the first phase of the ceasefire ended without an agreement to extend to a second phase.

Over the weekend, Israeli forces struck northern Gaza. Israel blames Hamas for “not accepting a US-backed proposal for extending the truce.” They did not accept it because it did not have a commitment for Israel to end the war.

The U.S. plan, put forward by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, allowed the ceasefire to extend during Ramadan, which began on Saturday and ends on March 29. It would also extend through Passover, which is between April 12 through 19.

So what now that the second and third phases of the ceasefire are in limbo? Israel cut off aid flowing into Gaza while the U.S. stepped up weapons shipments to Israel. On Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he had expedited the shipment of $4 billion in military aid for Israel. So…don’t get excited about all that savings we may incur over stopping aid to Ukraine. Israeli Prime Minister thanked the U.S. for giving them the weapons to “finish the job.”

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The Pentagon is reportedly ending it’s cyberwar on Russia. This was reported by The Record and sort of validated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

I say “sort of” because he commented on Hillary Clinton sharing it by pointing out that she too has a history with Russia. Hegseth, according to reports, has ordered the U.S. to stop “offensive digital actions” on Russia. Which serves as a reminder that the U.S. launches cyber warfare on other countries and was the first to launch a cyber weapon.

Why would he do that? Because you can’t be attacking a country that you’re trying to make peace with clearly.

The U.S. is also seeking out energy and mineral deals with Russia, which Russian President Vladimir Putin says is on the table. The mineral-rich land of Eastern Ukraine is now in Russia’s control so that makes sense.

Now there are reports that the U.S. may want to invest in the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline. Yes THAT one, the one that the Biden administration sabotaged. It has never actually been activated but President Trump is ambitious about investment and energy so it very well could.

During his first term, President Trump said that he would kill the project but apparently he’s had a change of heart.

Ukrainian President Zelensky says that he is still willing to sign the minerals deal that did not get signed after a sour meeting at the White House. Will the U.S. still want it?

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European leaders rushed to stand with Ukrainian President Zelensky after he was thrown out of the White House for petulantly demanding that the U.S. abandon diplomacy with Russia. After President Trump and Vice President Vance called him out for this, European leaders acted in unison to signal that Europe can and will pick up the torch by posing for this War Lovers Family Photo. They are calling themselves the “coalition of the willing.”

European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen summarized the meeting thus: We want peace. We’ll do it with a “massive surge” of war.

The U.K. signed a 100-year agreement to support Ukraine, both militarily and financially. This was already in the works since January but it was widely reported over the weekend to symbolize Britain’s opposition to the U.S. position. This puts them on the hook for £3 billion per year until 2031. That’s only 6 years so who knows what the remaining 94 will entail but they do have a plan to establish military bases along the Sea of Azov, which Russia controls. That should go well.

Part of this plan is for “combating…propaganda.” So expect a lot of propaganda.

British Prime Minister Starmer also announced a £1.6 billion missile deal for Ukraine.

President Zelensky posted his summary of his weekend, reiterating that Europe is his new bestie because the U.S. refuses to play that role now.

Oh and Canada wants in on that action too. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scored himself an invitation to the summit and now says that “everything is on the table” for Canadian support to Ukraine, including troops on the ground.

Based on this political theater, there are increasing calls for the U.S. to leave NATO.

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