BREAKING: Election Interference Complaint Filed Against Jack Smith with Inspector General

By Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL):

Inspector General Horowitz: 

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Trump v. Anderson, No 23-719.  In her concurrence in the unanimous per curium decision, Justice Amy Coney Barrett noted explicitly what is readily apparent to all Americans, and legally relevant to your Department: already, we are in the “volatile season of a Presidential election.”  On May 25, 2022, Attorney General Garland issued his “Memorandum for All Department Employees,” again noting that by that time, “the 2022 election season is upon us.”

             That memo, attached, is quite clear, citing the Department’s Justice Manual, section 9-85.500, which Special Counsel regulations oblige Smith to follow: “Law enforcement officers and prosecutors may never select the timing of public statements (attributed or not), investigative steps, criminal charges, or any other action in any matter or case for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party. Such a purpose, or the appearance of such a purpose, is inconsistent with the Department's mission and with the Principles of Federal Prosecution.”

 

            Quite apart from any innuendo or conjecture (and it is wildly clear to the American public that no legitimate purpose exists for Smith’s investigation), a brief of the Special Counsel, before the Supreme Court of the United States, itself tacitly concedes a violation of Departmental rules. (Brief of Jack L. Smith, Special Counsel, in Trump v. United States, No. , Dec. 2023, available at https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-624/292946/20231211144948077_U.S.%20v.%20Donald%20J.%20Trump%20--%20final%20final.pdf ).  Specifically, that reply brief repeatedly urges “rapid” review of the federal prosecution of Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump, and the incredible “public importance” of the case, without once explicitly stating why the rapidity is warranted, or what the public importance is.  Were there a legitimate, non-election related purpose for this request, these attorneys, who have filed in appeals courts many times, would have listed such.  Since charges have been filed and the defendant himself is taking a legal position on timing and lodging various appeals, that justification cannot, for example, be the rights of the defendant under the Constitution or Speedy Trial Act. 

 

So, there can be only one conclusion: Special Counsel Jack Smith sees it as of paramount importance to hold a trial before the November 2024 election, but he is unable to explicitly say so, as such a justification is in violation of Departmental policy and law.

EXCLUSIVE: Report on Cellphone Usage Reveals #WuhanVirus May Have Shuttered China's Bioweapons Lab in October

A report first disclosed by NBC News appears to confirm that a "hazardous event" occurred in October at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. You know, while Adam Schiff, Nancy ("San Fran Fascist") Pelosi, and Democrats writ large were using the House Intelligence Committee to laser-focus on important topics like Ukraine "collusion".

The report analyzes cellphone tower records in Wuhan during the third and fourth quarters of 2019. Records seem to show that -- from October 7 through October 24 -- a high-security portion of the Wuhan bio-weapons lab went nearly silent.

If confirmed, it would solidify reports that the Communist China Party (CCP) tried to cover up the impact of the virus, leading directly to a global pandemic. Excerpts of the report are below:

China's Saber Rattling Continues: Ruh Roh

 
Ten months ago, China shot a satellite out of orbit for the first time. Now The Daily Mail reports:

When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.

At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders.

That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory.

American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.

By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.

According to senior NATO officials the incident caused consternation in the U.S. Navy... The Americans had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication, or that it posed such a threat.

One NATO figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik" - a reference to the Soviet Union's first orbiting satellite in 1957 which marked the start of the space age... The incident, which took place in the ocean between southern Japan and Taiwan, is a major embarrassment for the Pentagon.

The lone Chinese vessel slipped past at least a dozen other American warships which were supposed to protect the carrier from hostile aircraft or submarines... And the rest of the costly defensive screen, which usually includes at least two U.S. submarines, was also apparently unable to detect it.

...Analysts believe Beijing was sending a message to America and the West demonstrating its rapidly-growing military capability to threaten foreign powers which try to interfere in its "backyard"... Commodore Stephen Saunders, editor of Jane's Fighting Ships... said the U.S. had paid relatively little attention to this form of warfare since the end of the Cold War: "...It would tie in with what we see the Chinese trying to do, which appears to be to deter the Americans from interfering or operating in their backyard, particularly in relation to Taiwan."

Update: Reliapundit points us to this Hot Air thread, which questions the date and significance of this incident.

Hat tip: Blue Crab Boulevard