Cernovich

An admixture of mindset and media

You are here: Home / Archives for Culture

Culture

FISA Court Appoints Obama-era Lawyer and Lawfare Blogger to Oversee FBI’s FISA Reform

By 9 Comments

In 2018, Obama-era lawyer David Kris wrote that Devin Nunes “falsely accused the FBI of deceiving the FISA Court.”

In 2019, a comprehensive Inspector General Report concluded that the FBI deceived the FISA court in several material ways, and that one FBI agent fabricated evidence in a FISA warrant application.

In 2020, the FISA Court appointed David Kris to oversee the FBI’s compliance with FISA reform.

The FISA Court has endorsed the FBI’s FISA abuse by appointing a biased, hyper-partisan lawyer to oversee the FBI’s compliance with FISA.

David Kris’ past writings reveal an apologist for the FBI’s abuse of the FISA Court.

David Kris spent years at an anti-Trump blog Lawfare running interference for the FBI’s abuse of FISA. In one comprehensive article, Kris made the following assertions:

  • “The central irony of the memo prepared by House intelligence chairman Devin Nunes, we now know, is that it tried to deceive the American people in precisely the same way that it falsely accused the FBI of deceiving the FISA Court.”
  • “The Nunes memo was dishonest. And if it is allowed to stand, we risk significant collateral damage to essential elements of our democracy.”
  • “The Nunes memo’s fundamental claim was that the FBI misled the court about Christopher Steele, the former British agent who was a source of information in the FISA applications on Carter Page…. Today we know that it was not true.”

Kris’ claims in his 2018 blog post have all be repudiated by Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on FISA. Congressman Devin Nunes did not falsely accuse the FBI of deceiving the FISA Court. Several FBI agents did in fact deceive the FISA Court.

Kris also made what we now know is a false claim in his 2018 article on the Nunes memo: “It’s even more disturbing that a purported oversight memo would withhold key facts from the American people in accusing the government of withholding key facts from the court. Had the FBI done in its FISA applications what Nunes did in his memo, heads would have rolled on Pennsylvania Avenue.”

The IG Report established that the FBI and DOJ withheld key facts from the FISA Court.

Reality is contrary to Kris’ claim that “heads would have rolled” if the FBI had withheld material facts from the FISA Court. One FBI lawyer who fabricated evidence, Kevin Clinesmith, has been referred for criminal investigation. He has not been indicted.

FBI Director Chris Wray has not fired any of the agents who withheld material information from the FISA Court. According to Wray’s most recent filing, he did email the entire FBI a video telling agents to stop lying.

David Kris is a hyper-partisan. Since much of the FISA abuse was potentially politically motivated, the FISA Court cannot appoint someone with a clear political agenda.

David Kris, along with many others, claimed that the IG Report stated that the “FBI errors weren’t political.”

Kris wrote the following:

Inspector General Michael Horowitz, in his testimony before the Senate on December 18, 2019, rejected Kris’ assertion that the FBI errors weren’t political.

An exchange between IG Horowitz and Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri reveals that there remain substantial questions about political bias within the FBI:

Sen. Hawley: “Was it your conclusion that political bias did not affect any part of the Page investigation, any part of Crossfire Hurricane?”

IG Horowitz: “We did not reach that conclusion.”

Sen. Hawley: “Because I could have sworn, in fact, I know for a fact that I’ve heard that today from this committee. That’s not your conclusion?”

IG Horowitz: “We have been very careful in the connection with the FISA’s for the reasons you mentioned to not reach that conclusion in part – as we’ve talked about earlier – the alteration of the email, the text messages associated with the individual who did that, and our inability to explain or understand, to get good explanations so that we could understand why this all happened.”

Watch IG Horowitz’s testimony here:

 

David Kris defended the FBI from claims of FISA abuse on Maddow in 2018. Kris in a regular guest on Maddow, in fact, and his position is always hyper-partisan.

In a recent court argument in defense of a defamation lawsuit brought against Rachel Maddow, a lawyer for Maddow claimed that Maddow engages in “rhetorical hyperbole, incapable of being proved true or false.” Alex Jones has used a similar defense in defamation cases brought against him.

Kris also believed, falsely, that Mueller would indict Donald Trump for “Russiagate” related crimes.

The FISA Court’s decision to appoint a hyper-partisan who had made repeated false claims about the FBI’s FISA Abuse reveals an attempt by the FISA Court to cover-up the FBI’s crimes.

FISA Warrant applications are made under oath.

FBI agents didn’t let a few typos accidentally slip into their applications.

They lied about material facts.

They lied when they claimed they did not withhold any material evidence from the FISA Court.

These lies are crimes.

How we can Stop the FISA Court from Covering Up the FBI’s Crimes

The FISA Court intends to let the FBI get away with their crimes by appointed a hyper-partisan to oversee the FBI.

Send this article to Senator Josh Hawley by clicking here.

I kept this article very clean and well-sourced.

There is no speculation.

The information speaks for itself.

Even if a person for some reason doesn’t “like me,” they can repurpose this article by using the sources contained in the above article.

We must not let the FISA Court get away with committing fraud on the American people.

The FISA Court must appoint someone non-partisan to oversee the FBI.

Plane Crash – Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau calls the bombing of a Ukrainian private passenger plane over Iran a “plane crash.”

By 12 Comments

Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau calls the bombing of a Ukrainian private passenger plane over Iran a “plane crash.”

In fact the Iranian military shot down the plane.

The far left will cover up for terrorists, they will defend terrorism, they are deranged.

Read more about the author of this piece here, Mike Cernovich.

Who is Mike Cernovich?

New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman Claims Hackers Planted Child P-rn on his IP Address?

By 10 Comments

New York Time columunist Paul Krugman has posted what one can only consider a highly unusual Tweet:

  • Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography. I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me. It’s an ugly world out there.

 

I’ve seen a lot in my life – stuff I hope others don’t.

Rarely am I in AWE….. and BEWILDERED

This tweet….. I can’t stop looking at it.

It makes absolutely no sense to make something like this public.

It is of course possible that someone hacked his computer and used it as a server for illegal conduct. That does happen. But man oh man, why post something like that at this phase?

Utterly incomprehensible.

Update: “The Times is now on the case.”

 

 

Reactions to Paul Krugman’s Tweet

 

 

 

 

The Nick Sandmann Covington Hoax is Everything Wrong with the Media

By 3 Comments

CNN settled a lawsuit for its Nick Sandmann hoax, but the hoax itself shows everything that’s wrong with modern media.

First, CNN smeared an innocent teenage boy. That’s a fact. Nick Sandmann was with his friends when a group called the Black Hebrew Israelites called them “f-ggots.” Nathaniel Phillips was friends with members of the Black Hebrew Israelites.

A member of the Black Hebrew Israelites went on an anti-Semitic killing spree. What Are Black Hebrew Israelites, the Group Jersey City Shooters Were Linked To?”

Second, even if Sandmann had started drama, where’s the story? Who cares? In what world is “High School Student is a Jerk” worthy of saturation media coverage in outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and others?

Third, where are the disinformation reporters? The Covington hoax was massive. Yet there haven’t been any attempt to ask, Where did the media go wrong, and How can the media improve?

Fourth, without social media, the CNN/WAPO/NYT hoax would never have been busted.

Mike Cernovich was the first person to expose the hoax, as the Washington Post reported:

  • “As is typical in such breaking-news situations, initial news accounts — which drew howls from partisans on both sides — were unable to provide all the context and facts. It took close to 48 hours for reporters, and a divided America, to fully grasp what had occurred, and to whom.”
  • “Like many viral outrage stories, the narrative became more complicated as more facts emerged, and more people stepped forward to talk about what they saw and experienced in that moment.”
  • “Now, a new viral outrage emerged. This time the villain of the story was the news media. That outrage came from a parallel universe online, one that has been waiting for a moment like this. The pro-Trump Internet has, for years, worked to create a media environment that is designed to destroy the traditional news media and replace it. Mike Cernovich, a popular figure in this world….”
  • “Cernovich has since rebranded himself as an anti-mainstream media source of real news — one who on some days tries to tie mass shootings to anti-fascist activists without credible evidence and on other days manages to get a Hollywood director fired from a major movie by using his popular Twitter account to amplify old, offensive tweets from the director about children and sexual misconduct.”
  • “The Covington story is the sort of thing the pro-Trump Internet and figures like Cernovich are made for. As videos emerged, showing Phillips slowly approaching the teens during an altercation with a third group nearby, they went to work.”

As mainstream media outlets push to have people banned from social media for “disinformation,” they themselves use their massive power and legacy prestige to smear innocent teenagers.

Today’s lawsuit settlement might give the next would-be hoaxer pause.

P.S. You can support my journalism here.