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The Biden Effect: Al Qaeda Is Back

Almost three years after Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, a report to Congress from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) warns that al Qaeda has reestablished itself in the country.

The analysis from SIGAR states that al Qaeda maintains “a safe haven in Afghanistan,” including for “around a dozen senior al Qaeda leaders.”

The report further warns that there are now “up to eight new al Qaeda training camps, one stockpile weapons base, and five madrassas this quarter with help from al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.”

In August 2021, Biden vowed to “reorganize” US assets to prevent a “re-emergence of terrorists” in Afghanistan.

In stark contrast, he actually left a power vacuum in Afghanistan aa well as untold amounts of weapons and tactical military equipment. 

That is the exact scenario that led directly to the rise of Osama Bin Laden, 9/11 and the catastrophic two decade long ‘war on terror’.

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What Are They Up To? Biden Handlers Have List Of Demands Ahead Of Debates

The Biden campaign issued a list of conditions before making public his cringe “make my day, pal” video Wednesday and finally agreeing to debate Donald Trump.

As we highlighted, Biden claimed that Trump “hasn’t shown up for any” debates, despite the fact that Trump has been asking to get them started for months.

He also couldn’t manage to make a 14 second video without 5 or 6 edits in it, prompting many to ask how on Earth he expects to be coherent throughout a two hour debate.

Now it has emerged that Biden’s campaign has issued strict conditions for the debate.

The campaign says there must be no live audience and Trump’s mic must be muted when Biden is talking. 

They also stipulated that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cannot take part, and that the moderators have to be from CBS, ABC, CNN or Telemundo ONLY.

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Biden Moves to Block House GOP From Getting Interview Tapes With Special Counsel

President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over the tapes of his two-day interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in his probe of the president’s alleged mishandling of classified information.

The tapes are at the center of a dispute between House Republicans and Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has defied a subpoena for them and today faces contempt proceedings.

Mr. Garland, in a May 15 letter to the president, said that the “committee’s needs are plainly insufficient to outweigh the deleterious effects that the production of the recordings would have on the integrity and effectiveness of similar law enforcement investigations in the future.”

Assistant Attorney General Carlos Felipe Uriarte asked Republican leaders not to continue with the contempt proceedings.

“It is the longstanding position of the executive branch held by administrations of both parties that an official who asserts the president’s claim of executive privilege cannot be held in contempt of Congress,” Mr. Uriarte wrote to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in a May 16 letter.

President Biden’s counsel accused House Republicans of wanting the tapes for political purposes.

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Biden REPEATS Whopping LIE About Inflation Being 9% When He Took Office

They say that if you repeat a lie, no matter how big, loud and often then people will eventually believe it, and it seems Joe Biden is doing just that.

On Tuesday Biden repeated the outright lie that inflation was at 9 percent when he took office in January 2021.

Biden was already raked over the coals for this claim last week. There’s no way that he or his handlers don’t know it’s false.

In reality, after Biden took office inflation surged to rates unseen since the early 1980s, peaking at an annual rate of 9.1 percent in June 2022, a full 17 months after he became president.

Yet, he is claiming it was ALREADY at 9 percent.

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New Biden Rule Aims To Entrench The Deep State Forever

If you think firing poorly performing federal employees is too hard, you are not alone. Most federal employees agree. Now President Biden has made this problem worse. New regulations will make dismissals of poor-performing and subversive employees even more difficult. The rule reinforces removal restrictions and prohibits the reclassification of federal bureaucrats. This broad regulatory change was built specifically to block the reinstatement of Trump-era reforms. The deep state will soon become even less accountable.

The federal employee dismissal process is broken. Agencies take six months to a year to remove poor performers, followed by lengthy appeals that often result in reinstatement with back pay. If the employee wins, agencies must typically cover their attorney fees — at rates of $400 to $1,000 per hour. This makes removing employees for even the worst offenses expensive and uncertain.

For example, the Department of Justice suspended two prosecutors who withheld exculpatory evidence from a U.S. senator’s defense team. The federal judge overseeing the case said he had “never seen such mishandling or misconduct.” Nonetheless, the prosecutors appealed and got the suspensions overturned on a technicality. The government restored two months of back wages and paid out $643,000 in attorney fees.

This dysfunction is all too common. Removing problematic employees is difficult in every federal agency. Just one-half of 1 percent of tenured federal employees were fired in 2023 for poor performance or misconduct.

Surveys show that federal employees themselves object to this system. Half report chronic poor performance in their unit, and most don’t believe their agency effectively addresses poor performers. Fewer than half of federal career supervisors feel confident they could dismiss an employee for serious misconduct. Just a quarter believe they could remove a poor performer. Federal employees recognize the system is broken.

Unfortunately, this dysfunction empowers bad actors, and it is not uncommon for career employees to inject partisanship into their official duties.

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Jen Psaki Claims Biden Never Looked At Watch, Suggests Gold Star Parents Lied

You know it’s bad when Axios is calling out Jen Psaki for lying about President Biden checking his watch during a ceremony for soldiers killed during the botched 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal.

In her new book, “Say More,” the former White House press secretary claims that Biden looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended, contradicting fact-checks (even Snopes) and on-the-record statements from Gold Star families who were there.

Psaki says Biden critics were engaged in “misinformation” and used the image to make “him appear insensitive, concerned only about how much time had passed.”

The Associated Press photographer on the tarmac snapped two photos of Biden looking at his watch twice and 10 minutes apart, as fact-checkers at USA Today and Snopes noted soon afterward. –Axios

Psaki also ‘mistakenly cited’ a passage from the Washington Post to reinforce her lie – when what she quoted was actually from USA Today‘s fact check article, not the post. The fact check noted that Biden looked at his watch at the end of the ceremony, but also concluded that “photos and video show [Biden] also checked his watch during the ceremony.”

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House Takes Steps to Hold Attorney General in Contempt

Two top lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on May 13 took steps to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, recommended the lower chamber hold Mr. Garland, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, in contempt for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), meanwhile, scheduled a hearing this week to advance a resolution to hold Mr. Garland in contempt.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) did not respond to a request for comment.

The actions come after the DOJ, Mr. Garland’s department, declined to provide the House with audio tapes of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur, despite subpoenas being issued for the tapes. The department also refused to hand over recordings of President Biden’s ghostwriter speaking with Mr. Hur, who was appointed by Mr. Garland.

Mr. Hur said in his report that President Biden intentionally kept and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency ended. President Biden repeatedly consulted the documents after leaving office for a book, one of the “strong motivations” to not comply with rules governing retention of materials marked classified, according to the report.

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Biden Cybersecurity Plan Vows To Support Development of a “Digital Identity Ecosystem”

The Biden White House has come up with an updated version of the US National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (NCSIP), that, unlike the first, addresses the issue and commits to “supporting development of a digital ID ecosystem.”

We obtained a copy of the report for you here.

That initiative is included in the document as one of the strategic objectives, the stated goal being to advance research and guidance “that supports innovation in the digital identity ecosystem through public and private collaboration.”

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been entrusted with doing that work. Listed as contributing entities are the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the General Services Administration (GSA).

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IRS Threatens to Target Biden’s Critics, Those Who Question Washington’s ‘Ability to Govern’

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is threatening to come after individuals or organizations who question Joe Biden or the federal government’s “ability to govern,” it has confirmed.

According to a report from independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, the IRS is planning to expand its investigative interests to those who threaten the federal government’s “ability to govern” or present a “threat to the public safety or national security interests of the United States.”

He wrote in his Substack:

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is positioned to do much more than just collect your taxes as it turns its attention to individuals who threaten the U.S. government’s “ability to govern,” a vague new criteria for criminal investigations, according to its own operating manual.

Buried in the fine print is the revelation that the IRS is pivoting away from its post-9/11 focus on financing of foreign terror groups like al Qaeda and criminal money laundering to a much broader and ill-defined “national security” threat. The shift, revealed in the latest versions of the voluminous Internal Revenue Manual, applies to IRS participation in dozens of federal government “national security” investigative task forces, which were previously referred to as “narcotics and terrorism” task forces until late last year.

Klippenstein goes on to make the case that such criteria is not typically within the investigative remit of a tax collecting agency:

Protecting stock markets and critical infrastructure, protecting the “ability to govern” — that is, the workings of United States officialdom– is hardly a mission historically associated with America’s tax collectors. Their inclusion as criteria to involve IRS special agents in federal investigations opens the door for overreach and abuse.

At a time when the IRS is subject to partisan political attack (the FY 2024 final budget reduced the $80 billion earmarked to the IRS by $20 billion), broadening the IRS mission does little to achieve what the agency says is its goal, which is forcing millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share.

Earlier this month, the IRS demanded a further $20 billion from Congress to further expand its operations.

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Ashley Biden Confirms Diary Is Real in Letter to Judge

Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley has confirmed the authenticity of her diary in a letter to the judge presiding over the case of the woman accused of stealing it, which wrapped up last week.

In the letter, obtained by The New York Times, Ashley Biden makes clear that the diary was hers, referring to it as her “personal private journal.” She expresses her distress at the theft, and asks for the defendant, Aimee Harris, to be sentenced harshly.

“I write to ask Your Honor to sentence the defendant to time in prison,” Ashley Biden writes.

“The defendant’s actions constitute one of the most heinous forms of bullying, not to mention a complete violation of my privacy and personal dignity. After being the victim of a crime in my early twenties, I developed PTSD. The journal that was stolen was part of my efforts to heal.”

Ashley Biden attacks the motivation and character of Aimee Harris at length, as well as those who have tried to “distort” its contents.

She is referring, in particular, to passages that detail her father’s apparent sexual perversions.

At one point in the diary, Ashley Biden describes how she was “hyper-sexualized @ a young age.” “What is this due to?” she asks. “Was I molested? I think so.”

She goes on to describe taking “showers with my dad,” adding in parentheses “(probably not appropriate).”

In her letter to Judge Swain, Ashley Biden says that the point of the theft was “to be able to peddle grotesque lies by distorting my stream-of-consciousness thought,” and that the diary is being used to “lob false accusations that defame my character and those of the people I love.”

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