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Jim Jordan/PHOTO: Gage Skidmore (CC) Republican Representative Jim Jordan (Ohio) today demanded the FBI explain why the federal agency investigated Concerned Women of America for financial crimes merely because an online rating service ranked the charity as “underperforming,” after a libertarian think tank released a redacted document regarding the investigation.
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray , Jordan said, “This document raises serious questions about the FBI’s targeting of domestic civil society organizations on the basis of a third-party opinion, and not any credible allegation of a crime.” Suspicionless FBI Snooping on Concerned Women of America – Cato Daily Podcast https://t.co/HuTZdq8oWc — Christopher Weible (@midwestguru) July 24, 2021 Previously, Wray had testified to Congress that the FBI doesn’t investigate “investigate First Amendment groups . . . [or] people for speech, association, for assembly, [or] for membership in domestic First Amendment groups,” said Jordan.
Jordan’s inquiry comes after the Cato Institute revealed it had obtained documents regarding the investigation via a Freedom of Information Request.
Cato called the investigation of CWA a “fishing expedition for the digital age” with the agents scouring internet databases to come up with reasons to target this domestic organization, a practice for which the courts have criticized the FBI.
In 2008, says Cato, the FBI under Republican Attorney General Michael Mukasey changed the rules governing investigations, allowing a kind of quasi-investigative state knows as an “assessment.”
Assessments are thinly edged wedge that allows the FBI to investigate domestic organizations under another name, free of oversight, in order to determine if they can get a reason to open a larger investigation.
The assessments can include the recruitment of informants and private surveillance of people.
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According to former FBI special agent Michael German, the FBI, two years after the new guidelines went into effect, did over 82,325 assessments, of which only 3,315 found information that warranted opening preliminary or full investigations.
“A 2010 Inspector General report found the FBI opened preliminary investigations on political advocacy organizations based on mere speculation that the subjects might commit a crime in the future,” said German , in May of 2017.He also warned that the FBI was […]
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker