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Maxine Waters Accused of Abusing 'Numerous Government Resources Inappropriately' in Ethics Complaint

An ethics complaint filed against Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California claims she misused government resources during her controversial trip to Minnesota while the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was ongoing.
Waters is accusing of misusing her ability to request protection from federal air marshals on an April 17 flight to Minneapolis, according to Fox News.
That was the same date that WatersFox Newscensure Watersthe congresswomanJudicial Watch.

The Transportation Security Administration said that protecting lawmakers as they travel became paramount after the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion

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Maxine Waters Accused of Abusing 'Numerous Government Resources Inappropriately' in Ethics Complaint

An ethics complaint filed against Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California claims she misused government resources during her controversial trip to Minnesota while the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was ongoing.
Waters is accusing of misusing her ability to request protection from federal air marshals on an April 17 flight to Minneapolis, according to Fox News.
That was the same date that Waters appeared at a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, protest and said demonstrations need to be stepped up if Chauvin was not convicted of the charges against him — which he later was.

“We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” she said then, according to Fox News.
That comment was later cited by the judge of the Chauvin trial as grounds for Chauvin’s defense to claim a mistrial on appeal. The comment also sparked an attempt by House Republicans to censure Waters, which failed when House Democrats closed ranks to defeat the motion.

That day, Waters traveled with two armed Capitol Police officers and two U.S. Secret Service agents but wanted more, asking for two air marshals and two more federal marshals to escort her through the airport, according to Fox.
“Congresswoman Maxine Waters utilized numerous government resources inappropriately,” a complaint filed with the House Ethics Committees reads.

“Federal Air Marshals were removed from a ‘High Risk’ flight to cover Ms. Waters flight to Minnesota. The High Risk flight took off with no armed law enforcement on board leaving a gap in National Security,” the complaint said.
“Air marshals can only be assigned to high-risk flights. That means flights that have been deemed through our vetted process that have a security risk,” Sonya Hightower LoBasco, the executive director of the Air Marshal National Council, said.

“When these processes are violated and they’re taken advantage of and they are just tossed to the side now as if they don’t matter, we’re really looking into creating a major problem for ourselves in the aviation domain.”
She said having air marshals accompany the congresswoman left a hole elsewhere.
“Air marshals for Miss Waters trip were assigned high risk missions, they were removed from those missions and assigned to Miss Waters mission on top of her already armed security detail from the Capitol Police,” she said.

“That was not an official business trip. We still don’t have any justification as to why government resources were utilized to fly Miss Waters out to Minnesota.”
“How do you go out and promote defunding the police then call for more police protection,” LaBosco added, according to Judicial Watch.

The Transportation Security Administration said that protecting lawmakers as they travel became paramount after the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion.
“Following the events of January 6th at the U.S. Capitol, the Transportation Security Administration enhanced security and law enforcement presence throughout the transportation system to include airports and aboard aircraft to protect the traveling public, including Members of Congress,” TSA said in a statement, Fox reported.

But there is a limit, according to David Londo — the president of the Air Marshal National Council.
“Placing [federal air marshals] on aircraft simply because a member of Congress requests it is an egregious misuse of government resources,” he said in an April 20 complaint to the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General.
“The FAMs are now taking agents off of regularly scheduled ‘high risk’ flights to put them on flights with members of Congress, that in most cases have their own armed federal security details onboard already. It has become akin to a type of extremely expensive concierge service for Congressional members.”

Big deal a complaint was filed
Another NOTHING Burger
and YOU keep posting in the WRONG thread

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FBI admits GOP baseball shooting was domestic terrorism after previously deeming it 'suicide by cop'

Yes it was, committed by a crazed left wing Bernie supporter.


The FBI has "quietly" admitted that the 2017 shooting by a far-left radical who tried to murder several GOP members of Congress at a baseball field was, indeed, domestic terrorism, The Washington Examiner reported.
Last month, current FBI chief Christopher Wray was confronted by Republican lawmakers over the agency classifying the shooting as "suicide by cop" under a previous director.
What are the details?

The Examiner found in an FBI-DHS report released Friday detailing 85 "FBI-Designated Significant Domestic Terrorism Incidents in the United States from 2015 through 2019" classified the shooting at an Alexandria, Va., baseball field by a supporter of former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as "domestic violent extremism."
The description of the event reads:

An individual with a personal violent ideology targeted and shot Republican members of Congress at a baseball field and wounded five people. The subject died as a result of engagement with law enforcement.

The shooting carried out by Illinois man James Hodgkinson left House GOP Minority Whip Steve Scalise (La.) fighting for his life after Hodgkinson shot him in the hip. The crazed Hodgkinson also shot lobbyist Matt Mika in the chest, and struck U.S. Capitol Police Officers Crystal Griner and David Bailey.
In April, GOP Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), who was present at the shooting, revealed during a House Intelligence Committee hearing that the FBI classified the case as "suicide by cop" in 2017. Wenstrup took issue with the classification, and said Republican lawmakers were dismayed by it.

"Director, you want suicide by cop, you just pull a gun on a cop," Wenstrup told Wray. "It doesn't take 136 rounds. It takes one bullet. Both the DHS and the [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] published products labeling this attack as a domestic violent extremism event, specifically targeting Republican members of Congress. The FBI did not."
Earlier this week, Wenstrup, Scalise, and several other GOP members signed a letter

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Posting in the Wrong thread again Phil

More Right Wing News BS

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Bet your bishop has something to say about that NanNan, after all he puts the wafer on your tongue or in your hand.


Catholic News AgencyThe document would reportedly leave decisions on withholding Communion up to each bishop.


On May 1, Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco from where Pelosi hails, issued a statement

On May 7, Luis Cardinal Ladaria, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican, wroteEWTN

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,... the whole thing was sketchy filled with statues that the ex President selected. The project was never funded and the land was never purchased. In other words, an expensive, unnecessary pipe dream from a man of dubious moral qualities.

... if the ex President wants to pursue his vision he is more than free to purchase the land and build the statues WITH HIS OWN MONEY.

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,... the whole thing was sketchy filled with statues that the ex President selected. The project was never funded and the land was never purchased. In other words, an expensive, unnecessary pipe dream from a man of dubious moral qualities.

... if the ex President wants to pursue his vision he is more than free to purchase the land and build the statues WITH HIS OWN MONEY.

I already posted this yesterday His internet is REALLY REALLY SLOWWWWWWWWWWW

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Armed Forces Day, which celebrates the men and women serving in the U.S. Coast Guard, Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy, is May 15.

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BIDEN Infrastructure Bill

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