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Even After LA Mayor Terminated Top Fire Lesbian, City Still Places DEI Above Competence

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass fired Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley — one of the city’s “top fire lesbians” who pushed DEI across the department — Feb. 21, citing “public safety” and blaming her for the disastrous response to the massive Palisades and Eaton fires that consumed parts of the city last month.

But the city’s priorities are still misplaced, according to documents a whistleblower provided to The Federalist. LAFD EMTs are required to take training to meet the requirements for renewing certification, some of which still advances radical gender ideology. And Crowley is still with the department, just in a lower rank. So perhaps Bass’ lip service to “public safety” is less about accountability for the deadly fires, and more about escaping it. . .

A member of the LAFD provided screenshots from the internal training to The Federalist, but chose to remain unnamed to avoid retribution. The training — “EMS Patients With Special Challenges” — counts for one hour of credit toward the total certification renewal requirement that EMTs must meet every two years. It instructs EMTs on how to deal with “transgender patients.”

The training discusses “medical advances” in the “gender reassignment process,” including “puberty suppression,” “hormone therapy,” and “medically indicated surgery.” It also instructs EMTs on transgender “accommodations”: they must “ask the patient what they prefer to be called,” “try to use inclusive terms, such as ‘they,’” and “try to avoid gender-specific pronouns” like he or she, or titles like sir or ma’am.

The training also made EMTs guess which statement was true about treating transgenders: “transgender patients always behave erratically,” “transgender patients usually abuse alcohol or drugs,” “transgender patients are prone to the same physical conditions as any other patient,” or “you should ask your partner to care for the patient if you disagree with their lifestyle.” (Read more from “Even After LA Mayor Terminated Top Fire Lesbian, City Still Places DEI Above Competence” HERE)

Fmr Secret Service Agent Says Agency Whistleblowers Are ‘Raising the Alarms’ After Alleged Petition Circulates

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Former Secret Service Agent Tim Miller stated Thursday on Fox News that agency whistleblowers are “raising alarms” after an alleged petition has circulated flagging concerns within the organization.

Miller appeared on “Jesse Watters Primetime” to discuss the recent claims from Bloomberg News senior White House reporter Jessica Jacobs, who tweeted Thursday morning the alleged petition circulating within the U.S. Secret Service agency has “a number of recent Secret Service incidents indicative of inadequate training” and “potential insider threats.” Fox host asked Miller about his thoughts regarding the issue, to which Miller raised concerns of a potential issue.

“So Jesse, the defund the police boat has taken on water,” Miller said. “I think if you look, first it was the IRS then it’s the FBI. Now you have internal Secret Service agents that are raising the alarm and if you think about it, it’s pretty simple. They are concerned that our mission as the Secret Service agent is compromised.”

“That should cause everybody to go, ‘Well wait a minute, this is the premier protection agency in the world,’” he added. “I’ve been a Marine, I’ve been a police officer and when I went through that training it was challenging. Quite frankly if the internal agents are rising up and saying, ‘we have a problem’ — Houston, we have a problem.”

Watters continued to press Miller on a recent report of a Secret Service agent for Vice President Kamala Harris suffering an alleged medical incident, in which the agent allegedly fought with other detail agents. (Read more from “Fmr Secret Service Agent Says Agency Whistleblowers Are ‘Raising the Alarms’ After Alleged Petition Circulates” HERE)

Whistleblower’s Attorney Boasted of Getting Security Clearance for ‘Guys Who Had Child Porn Issues’; Impeachment Witness Undercut Steele Dossier in Bombshell Testimony

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By The Blaze. Mark Zaid — a lawyer representing the whistleblower whose complaint catapulted House Democrats’ impeachment probe against President Donald Trump — is under fire for boasting on Twitter last year that he successfully helped “guys who had child porn issues” gain security clearances from the U.S. government.

In reaction to a Slate article questioning how an alleged domestic abuser was granted clearance, Zaid bragged, “I’ve gotten clearances for guys who had child porn issues.” . . .

The Daily Caller reached out to Zaid regarding the comment ,and the attorney elaborated: “I have represented numerous individuals who have all sorts of issues involving their security clearances, including allegations of child porn, which turn out to be rarely true,” he explained. “Every time I prevail in a case, the USGOVTP determines it is in the national security interests of our country to grant these individuals access to classified information.”

This is the second time in a week Zaid has faced scrutiny for resurfaced Twitter comments, as they trickle in amid the lawyer’s high-profile representation of the anonymous whistleblower at the heart of the House Democrats’ impeachment of the president.

Earlier in the week, Fox News published a series of tweets from Zaid made soon after the president took office, where the lawyer called for a “coup” and “rebellion” against the commander in chief. (Read more from “Whistleblower’s Attorney Boasted of Getting Security Clearance for ‘Guys Who Had Child Porn Issues'” HERE)

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Impeachment Witness Undercut Steele Dossier in Bombshell Testimony

By Daily Caller. A former White House official who Democrats consider a key witness in their impeachment inquiry told lawmakers in October that she believed Russians likely planted disinformation about President Donald Trump with dossier author Christopher Steele.

Fiona Hill, who served as the White House’s top adviser on Russia affairs until July, told lawmakers she was “shocked” to find out that Steele, a former MI6 officer, was the author of the dossier. That’s in large part because when she had met with Steele in the years leading up to his dossier work, he was “constantly try to drum up business.”

Hill, who was deposed in the impeachment inquiry on Oct. 14, said Steele’s eagerness to obtain work made him vulnerable to Russian disinformation.

“Because if you also think about it, the Russians would have an ax to grind against him given the job that he had previously. And if he started going back through his old contacts and asking about, that would be a perfect opportunity for people to feed some kind of misinformation,” said Hill, who was a scholar at the Brookings Institution until she joined the Trump administration.

Hill said she was not aware of the dossier until a colleague showed it to her day before BuzzFeed published it on Jan. 10, 2017. (Read more from “Impeachment Witness Undercut Steele Dossier in Bombshell Testimony” HERE)

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They’re Trying to Take out Your President, and They Don’t Want You to Know Who the Whistleblower Is

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Attorneys for the federal employee whose whistleblower complaint has been the basis for the House’s ongoing impeachment proceedings say that their client’s identity is irrelevant and should remain secret from members of Congress and the American public.

In a Friday op-ed at the Washington Post, Andrew P. Bakaj and Mark S. Zaid — both attorneys representing the federal employee — make the case that because the public already knows more than what was in the employee’s complaint, the employee should remain anonymous to the public.

“Much of what has been disclosed since the release of our client’s complaint actually exceeds the whistleblower’s knowledge of what transpired at the time the complaint was submitted. Because our client has no additional information about the president’s call, there is no justification for exposing their identity and all the risks that would follow.”

The lawyers also took issue with calls for their client testify publicly as “nothing more than a diversionary tactic,” explaining that they that they “have notified both the House and Senate intelligence committees in a bipartisan manner that the whistleblower is willing to respond to any questions in writing and under oath.”

While Bakaj has said that his client is “entitled to anonymity” under “law and policy,” Republicans have cast the identity question as a transparency and credibility matter.

Earlier this week, ranking Republican members on the three House committees said that the employee — as well as the sources used for the complaint — should be brought in for testimony because “the Committees ought to fully assess the sources and credibility of the employee.” The trio pointed to “inconsistencies between facts as alleged by the employee and information obtained during the so-called impeachment inquiry” as the reason such an assessment is needed.

“Why don’t we know who the person is who started this whole charade that Adam Schiff is now doing in the bunker of the basement of the Capitol?” House Oversight Committee top Republican Jim Jordan asked at a Wednesday press conference. “More importantly, why don’t the American people know?”

So far, it has only been reported that the employees is a male CIA officer who used to work with former Vice President Joe Biden during the last administration and is a registered Democrat. (For more from the author of “They’re Trying to Take out Your President, and They Don’t Want You to Know Who the Whistleblower Is” please click HERE)

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Greenwald Details Day Snowden Revealed Himself as NSA Whistleblower

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Photo Credit: The Guardian

Photo Credit: The Guardian

Nearly a year after Edward Snowden revealed himself as the National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower, Glenn Greenwald — the former Guardian journalist who helped unveil Snowden as the source of the leaks — is sharing more behind-the-scenes details of the events in Hong Kong in the hours before Snowden’s announcement.

A few days before the Guardian revealed him as the source, Snowden told Greenwald that “an Internet-connected security device at the home he shared with his longtime girlfriend in Hawaii had detected that two people from the NSA” had come looking for him, Greenwald writes in an excerpt from an upcoming book, “No Place to Hide,” published by the Guardian on Sunday.

Greenwald was skeptical that the visit meant the NSA suspected Snowden was behind the leaks, but he knew that he and filmmaker Laura Poitras had to hustle.

“We were determined that the world would first hear about Snowden, his actions and his motives, from Snowden himself,” Greenwald writes, “not through a [demonization] campaign spread by the US government while he was in hiding or in custody and unable to speak for himself.”

After taping a second video interview with Snowden, Greenwald writes, the reality of disclosing Snowden’s identity set in.

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Did Secret CIA Whistle-Blower Leak to the Senate?

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Does the Central Intelligence Agency have a secret whistle-blower who has been trying to help the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigate his or her own agency? That’s a possibility that panel chairman Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) of California mentioned Tuesday on the Senate floor in her angry speech alleging that the CIA has illegally spied on committee computers.

At issue is how Intelligence Committee staffers obtained portions of a sensitive internal CIA study named the “Panetta report,” after former agency chief Leon Panetta.

Senator Feinstein in essence said that the Panetta report fell from the sky into the committee’s lap. Staffers flipping through millions of pages of digitized CIA documents, about Bush-era harsh interrogations of terror suspects, simply found the report via a CIA-provided search tool, according to the committee head.

“We have no way to determine who made the internal Panetta review documents available to the committee…. Further, we don’t know whether the documents were provided intentionally by the CIA, unintentionally by the CIA, or intentionally by a whistle-blower,” Feinstein said.

Why is the Panetta report such a big deal? That requires a bit of explanation.

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CIA Whistleblower: Hollywood Megastar Asked Government For $50K Of Cocaine To Act As Secret Agent

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Photo Credit: Amazon

Hollywood double agents might want to watch their backs.

In an utterly unprecedented move, 34-year CIA employee John Rizzo is breaking the organization’s code of silence to expose the government organization’s darkest secrets for the very first time.

Chief among his bombshell revelations is the suggestion that Hollywood and Washington are much closer than anyone has previously thought: exchanging money, information — and in one staggering case — a request for $50,000 of cocaine!

In his new book, Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA, whistleblower Rizzo, who served as the acting general counsel for the entire CIA, admits, “the CIA has long had a special relationship with the entertainment industry, devoting considerable attention to fostering relationships with Hollywood movers and shakers: studio executives, producers, directors and big-name actors.”

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ATF Tries to Block Whistleblowing Agent’s ‘Fast and Furious’ Book

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Photo Credit: APThe Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is blocking the main whistleblower in the Fast and Furious case from publishing a book for pay, claiming his retelling of the Mexico “gun-walking” scandal will hurt morale inside the embattled law enforcement agency, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times.

ATF’s dispute with Special Agent John Dodson is setting up a First Amendment showdown that is poised to bring together liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and conservatives in Congress who have championed Mr. Dodson’s protection as a whistleblower.

The ACLU is slated to become involved in the case Monday, informing ATF it is representing Mr. Dodson and filing a formal protest to the decision to reject his request to publish the already written book, sources told The Times, speaking only on the condition of anonymity.

The battle also could have repercussions on Capitol Hill, where the two lead investigators who helped uncover the Fast and Furious scandal, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, Calif. Republican, had written a foreword to the book, the sources said.

ATF officials declined Sunday night to discuss Mr. Dodson’s specific matter, citing personnel privacy. But the officials said it was possible for an agent to be rejected for publishing a book for pay but get permission to publish it for free. No manuscript for any Fast and Furious book has received approval for unpaid publication, however, the officials said.

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Part Three: FMCS Executives Forced Whistleblower to Retract Fraud Complaint

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Photo Credit: Thinkstock

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service employees’ use of purchase cards amounted to rampant violation of federal procurement law, specialists say, and when an employee wrote to the General Services Administration to ask for a compliance review, the agency director and another top official forced her to send a “retraction,” according to documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

The FMCS is a small agency whose sole purpose is to mediate labor-management conflicts.

When accountant Carol Booth became concerned about luxury goods being delivered to employees’ homes, spending on unnecessary services and indifference to federal regulations, she sought help from the GSA, which oversees federal purchase cards, writing that “it has come to my attention that we, the FMCS, have violated several rules, regulations and/or laws concerning the government-issued purchase card program.”

That infuriated FMCS director George H. Cohen and chief financial officer Frances L. Leonard, who together sought to evade outside scrutiny by helping compose a retraction to which Booth would sign her name…

Part three of a five-part Washington Examiner series, “Just Sign Here: Federal Workers Max Out at Taxpayer Expense.” See the entire series — and FMCS workers’ salaries — at this link.

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Video: Benghazi Whistleblower: I’ve Been ‘Punished’ for Speaking Out

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punishedGregory Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission in Libya who testified before Congress about the 9/11 attacks on an American diplomatic facility earlier this year, believes he has been “punished” for speaking out about the Obama administration’s response the night of the attack. He said he believes at least two of the Americans lost that night could have been saved if the United States had responded in time.

“I don’t know why I was punished,” Hicks said in an interview with ABC’s This Week. “I don’t know why I was shunted aside, put in a closet if you will.”

Read more from this story HERE.