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	Uh so the FBI, we had questioned repeatedly in the Senate, for example.
	Uh Christopher Ray, you know, said discuss the actions he's taken in response to Michael Horowitz's report, uh, which by the way had specific recommendations and even referrals for people that he believed had broken the law and and director Ray did next to nothing.
	Uh here's what he said at the time.
	Could you tell me what some of those actions are?
	Have you taken the actions you referred to in response to Horowitz's uh report and his subsequent memo on the Woods file issues?
	Uh yes, Senator, I welcome the question.
	So so first off, as you may know, we accepted all of the findings and recommendations in the Inspector General's report.
	Uh I ordered uh at the time over 40 corrective actions uh to go above and beyond the recommendations of the inspector general's report, and those have been implemented.
	Those include uh everything from strengthening our procedures to ensure accuracy and completeness to make sure the court gets all the information it's supposed to changes in our protocols for uh CHS's confidential human sources, training changes.
	We we uh I created a new office of internal audit uh that's specifically focused on FISA auditing.
	Uh there's a whole number of things I'd be happy to walk through, but I I recognize that uh our time is limited.
	The Horror Witch report.
	Can you tell me how many people you have referred for prosecution at the FBI as a result of the Hartwoods report?
	Well uh for prosecution or for discipline?
	For prosecution first.
	Just give me numbers because I don't want to abuse my time.
	Well, I I you know the the prosecution issue related to anything to do with the horizon reporting in the hands are inspectors.
	I get it.
	How many of you fired?
	So all the people, all the current most of the people involved in Horace Report are former employees.
	Of the ones who are current, every single one of them, even if mentioned only in passing, uh, has been referred to our Office of Professional Responsibility, which is our disciplinary arm.
	Now that piece, and this is important, that piece of it, uh, because we're cooperating fully with Mr. Durham's investigation at his request, we had slowed that process down to allow his criminal investigation to proceed.
	So at the moment, uh that process is uh still underway in order to make sure that we're being appropriately sensitive to the criminal investigation.
	Now we have other developments as it relates to the FBI, not the least of which is here's the timeline.
	Go back to December of 2019.
	The FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop.
	Uh they either made no effort at all whatsoever to verify that in fact it was Hunter's laptop uh or they ignored their discovery because leading up to the presidential election in the summer of uh 2020 on a weekly basis,
	led by a fairly new special agent uh who had written a report or a thesis that actually said that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia as a way of getting elected in the way that the FBI prescribed.
	Uh the reason this is so important to what you played at the beginning of the segment is that you heard Chris Ray say, Listen, everything's under control.
	We sent it to the Office of Professional Responsibility, they always take care of things.
	They they get the bad guys, they do the punishment.
	Well, this was these are the ultimate suspension, losing a gun, assaulting someone, uh sleeping with uh an informant or sleeping with a uh prisoner or sleeping with a subordinate.
	Uh lots of offenses, but a lot of times not the sort of termination most Americans would expect, not the sort of bright line that most Americans would expect happens at the FBI at the premier law enforcement agency.
	So when Chris Ray says, trust us, we sent it to OPR, we now know what OPR does.
	Most times it doesn't fire an FBI agent for serious misconduct.
	Does uh is Christopher Ray in the loop once it's sent to OPR?
	In other words, okay, these instances are going to occur in in any organization, uh, but they're serious and they're more significant, especially if they involve weapons or drunk driving, uh, because these agents are armed, uh and and being involved with subordinates or witnesses and and things like this that could compromise these agents' ability to even do their job.
	Is Christopher Ray uh at all aware of these cases in terms of does he do any follow-up when these instances come up?
	It's a great question because here's the here's the dirty secret about this, and the reason that the Justin News was able to obtain these reports from an FBI whistleblower.
	Steve Friend provided them to us.
	Why?
	Every FBI agent from the director all the way down to the lab technician gets a quarterly email of all the wrongdoing that was committed by the Bureau and how it was adjudicated, how it was punished.
	So yes, Chris Ray and every other FBI executive, every FBI employee gets these every three months, but there doesn't seem to be much concern.
	I asked the FBI, hey, a lot of serious things here.
	You got drunk driving, you got lost weapons.
	Are you happy with the adjudication?
	Is this the right signal?
	And they're like, oh, we think this is greatly working.
	This is this shows the system's working.
	I think a lot of Americans will say, wait a second, an FBI agent can't criminally drive drunk and and still keep a shield.
	We don't think that's the right way.
	Steve Friend, the agent who gave these to me, the uh now retired agent, he retired a few weeks ago after blowing the whistle on what he said were civil liberty abuses during the January 6th Capitol Riot investigation.
	He said he made these uh public because he believes in transparency, and one of the things he thinks you're seeing in the FBI is a trend line.
	There is a new generation of FBI agents that he says have a sense of entitlement, meaning the only reason they got into the agency was to get the gold badge and the gun, but they're not really adherent to what they learned in the uh Academy, what they learned in the the rule book, and there is sort of a cultural moret gap inside the FBI with the new generation of agents and leaders.
	He's really concerned about it.
	That's why he made these documents available to Justin News and we could publish them for the American public to see.
	And the FBI is uh is claiming as a result of your piece that they believe that the report that you put out, which is devastating to them, somehow validates them, vindicates them, shows that their disciplinary system is working uh even as they seek to improve the you know from the outside advice, including the Justice Department.
	Now, you know, all of this supposedly is being investigated by the House Judiciary Committee and Congressman Jim Jordan, but so far Christopher Ray's FBI and Merrick Orland's Department of Justice have steadfastly refused to cooperate with that investigation.
	Is that not true?
	Yeah, there's been a real resistance to turning over evidence.
	But the good news is even in the lack of compliance, and even in the lack of cooperation that Chris Ray has given these committees, there are more than two dozen.
	I think we're getting towards three dozen whistleblowers that are now come forward, and they've taken documents, they've taken records and video and audio and uh solid evidence, and they're giving it to the Congress separate of the Bureau, and that is allowing these committees to make some really significant advances.
	And earlier on you talked about the Washington Field Office and some of the concerns about politalization.
	I think in the next month we're going to learn some explosive new information about what pressure and powers and levers were being pulled to stop Hunter Biden from facing criminal charges.
	I think that's going to be the next big shoe to drop.
	I think there's an amazing story evolving from whistleblowers and internal documents, uh, maybe people in multiple agencies who are now coming forward saying, hey, the Hunter Biden case was not handled the way any other case should be.
	Political tampering, political interference.
	The reason the committees are getting this information is because whistleblowers are coming forward, in spite of the cover-up by their uh agency, they're coming forward to tell the American people we want to make a better FBI and we start with transparency.
	Here are the documents.
	I keep an eye on those developments over the next couple months.
	Quick break more with investigative reporter, editor in chief at just the news.com, John Solomon.
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	The other news of the day as well.
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	We continue with John Solomon, his explosive report at JustHenews.com about the FBI, how it's gone wild and internal memos chronicling years of bad behavior, uh, and of course their involvement in not one but now two presidential elections.
	In light of what we know about the FBI's involvement in 2016, in light of what we know that they used the dirty Clinton bought and paid for Russian dossier as the main focus, the main the bulk of information to obtain the FISA application warrant, and they used it four separate other times.
	And yet none of the information in that dossier not only could be verified, it was unverifiable because none of it was true.
	Nobody was really held accountable in that instance.
	So I would imagine that the FBI, you know, with their you know, disinformation unit meeting with big tech in the lead up to the 2020 election.
	They knew Hunter Biden's laptop was real.
	They also knew it was likely going to come out because Rudy Giuliani had a copy of it.
	And they knew he had a copy of it.
	And yet they were telling big tech companies uh be on the lookout for anything that looks like this information about Hunter Biden or or Joe Biden, and sure enough that day came, and when it came, see we told you so, and then they wouldn't publish it.
	Is that not putting their thumb on the scale of a of a presidential election yet again?
	Yeah, there's no doubt.
	Listen, we have five or six years of evidence now of the FBI interfering in the election process.
	Sometimes by giving uh instructions that a lot of people think are illegal to uh uh big tech companies saying, hey, censor this, block this, apply your terms of service to this.
	When the government makes that request, it takes it to a different level under the law.
	Overwhelming evidence of that occurred now.
	We get that from James Comer, we get that from the Twitter files.
	We also get it from the a very important lawsuit that the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys generals have filed that has brought forth some amazing evidence about the FBI's role in censorship.
	So they censored.
	They uh allowed a false investigation to proceed, knowing it was false.
	And here's one of the most amazing things uh there are still disciplinary cases open, meaning they're not been adjudicated.
	the punishment has not been meted out from people who did things wrong in the Russia collusion case going back to 2016.
	The FBI's wheel of justice not only turns slowly, it hardly ever gets to some of the more controversial.
	What does that mean?
	Someone can get another three, four, five, six years of their retirement, and then they'll just quit before the punishment comes down and keep their retirement, like we've seen with some of the senior executives that were fingered in the in the for wrongdoing in the Russia collision case.
	The FBI has a system that always seems to benefit the bad actors from escaping the most severe punishment.
	I think today's story only accentuates that.
	A lot of people have reacted to it.
	Former FBI executives saying, hey, this is not good.
	This isn't the way it used to be in the bureau.
	We got to clean this up.
	Chris Ray's not taking it seriously.
	So at the end of the day, is Chris Ray going to be held accountable for the fact that this all happened on his watch?
	Well, that listen, that's going to be in the hands of Jim Jordan, right?
	He's got the most one of the most powerful committees for this sort of issue.
	He's off to a big investigative start.
	The question is, what can he do?
	Can Republicans do something in the budget process that says, hey, Chris Ray, if you don't do X, Y, and Z, you don't get your budget next year.
	You lose part of your budget.
	Or you're not going to get that jet anymore.
	We're going to ground that jet.
	Those are some of the things that the Republicans are going to have to make hard choices on.
	It's one thing to highlight the problems.
	It's another thing to impose punishment.
	We haven't seen the punishment part of it yet.
	Next week we're going to see some important legislation coming out of James Comer in Scott Perry, two congressmen.
	They're going to put the first legislation to a vote that will actually prohibit government agencies in the future from contacting big tech and saying we'd like you to censor content.
	That will be the first litmus test of just how far Republicans are willing to go to start to rein in these issues that we're all concerned about.
	All right, just the news.com editor in chief, investigative reporter John Solomon.
	Thank you, sir.
	We'll follow the story.
	Uh it's amazing how the rest of the media ignores it.
	Unbelievable corruption.
	Uh, I think you have to start all over again, and they need a top-to-bottom clean out of the FBI.
	That's the only way we're ever gonna have equal justice in application of our laws uh in the future.
	I don't know if that's gonna happen, but we'll see.
	Uh, thank you, sir.
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	What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word.
	One that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
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	All right, so uh your buddy Mayor Pete Pothole Pete finally made his way to uh Palestine Ohio earlier today, look rather silly, he's there in his hard hat.
	Um I don't know what shoes he was wearing.
	They didn't exactly look like the boots I'd be wearing if I was there back in my construction days.
	It was pretty funny to watch.
	Uh, but it's not funny for the people of East Palestine that are scared to death about what the long-term impact of not only the train derailment is going to cause their their town and city, uh, but the impact on the the con quote controlled chemical uh burn that they had uh that has resulted in dead wildlife and dead fish and and people uh also uh telling stories about not feeling well themselves.
	Uh but anyway, Buddha judge visits East Palestine 20 days after this derailment, and uh a day after Donald Trump was there himself.
	Uh is he offering anything of substance?
	Not really, particularly from my perspective.
	Anyway, uh Nino Parada is a former special agent in charge of the US EPA Protective Services Detail and official of the criminal enforcement and compliance.
	Uh, you Nino, you would have a better idea than I would what the responsibility would be from the government when something like this happens.
	I don't blame the people at all, at least Palestine that are concerned about drinking the water and breathing the air and going back into their homes, uh, even though the government is saying, oh, everything is safe, I'm not particularly confident in their assessment.
	Uh Sean, first of all, I want to say thank you for having me on your show.
	Uh honor and pleased to be here.
	Getting to the issue of um the the Secretary of Uh Transportation.
	Um, number one, the pointing fingers back to um who did this, what president was uh not engaged or lack of attention to these types of details.
	Let's be clear on something that's very important.
	With regards to the incident in East Palestine, that rail system, uh, Norfolk Suffolk has a system called a it's called hot bearing detection systems.
	That system, it gave three warnings to the rail conductors that there was a tremendous amount of heat uh occurring on that rail car.
	And at some point after the third, it was at a point of critical uh detection because the heat was so hot.
	So let's slow down here so everybody can understand what you're saying.
	So when a railway or a rail line is carrying chemicals such as that which was carried in East Palestine, uh that you can measure the actual heat that is being created as the chemicals are in transport.
	Is that a fair assessment?
	That's right.
	And you can go to the initial report that was just put out by the National Transportation Safety Board that tells line by line for the layman person to read that that actually occurred.
	So pointing fingers to President Trump and saying that he uh did not do what he needed to do to help prevent these types of incidences to occur is really a very poor leadership approach, in my opinion.
	Look, I I've been asked a couple of times already.
	We are we have to stop talking about how we're going to improve things, how we need to improve things.
	We need to go back and reevaluate.
	There is so much bureaucracy already in place that if we just follow what we already have in place, I think we will be just fine.
	2012, November 30th, there was a similar issue that happened in Paulsboro, New Jersey, me being a New Yorker close to heart.
	Basically, one of the tankers fell, dropped 24,000 gallons of vinyl chloride into the Montauk Creek.
	Okay?
	Do you know what they spent to clean that up?
	$30 million.
	What are they handing out down in uh East Palestine?
	Thousand dollar checks?
	Are we joking?
	If we use the road, the the roadmap of what happened in the past, we can easily address the issues of today.
	There should have been a task force from day one, starting with EPA, OSHA, National Trans, NTSB, uh uh Department of Transportation, to name a few, needed to be there with state and local and lead from the front with federal or agency.
	Okay, so they didn't do that.
	Now the question is this.
	For the people in East Palestine, some are moving back, so everybody's being told that the water is safe.
	You have even have you know politicians making a big deal of the fact that they will drink the water in front of people and and act like everything's okay.
	Are you confident in any way that in fact the water is drinkable and clean?
	Are you confident that the air is clean?
	Uh do you believe that there is any risk for the people that live there because of the residual fallout from the controlled chemical burn after the derailment?
	Short answer is no.
	Let me give you a couple of pointers that are important.
	Vinyl chloride can affect you when inhaled, right?
	Vinyl chloride can be is a carcinogen and a mutagen.
	Okay?
	Rhinyl chloride can cause reproductive damage, okay?
	Uh if you go to OSHA's guideline, OSHA will tell you that there's a 12-month process that they want you to start immediately in in evaluation by medical professionals.
	How can we honestly answer that question with what they're telling us today is being factual when we know already that the experts have told us otherwise?
	That's my concern.
	And as a federal agent, my entire career, you know, putting the health and safety of the American people is first.
	And I just don't understand why we are not looking at it this way here in East Palestine.
	This is a serious issue.
	This is as if a an enemy of ours dropped a bomb on East Palestine and it was a chemical attack.
	Same thing.
	And we're doing what are we doing, the three monkeys, eyes closed, ears closed, mouth closed.
	So I mean, how will we know when it's safe for the people to move back there?
	Well, the way you the way to handle that is by having updates, daily updates on what's tested are being done, and to provide those tests through the unbiased experts so that those people can be engaging our leaders down on the ground in East Palestine.
	You this is a long, it's a short-term and long-term impact.
	So the answer to your question is How would you handle this if a dirty bomb was dropped there?
	I guarantee you the military would say evacuate the whole area and court it off.
	Right?
	So let's just use that argument.
	Bomb was dropped, it was a dirty bomb.
	Boom.
	What are you going to do now?
	You're going to clear the whole area and it's going to be uninhabitable.
	So the entire area is uh uh mediated.
	How do you remediate something that's dropped on your roof?
	Who's cleaning your roof?
	And when it rains, where does that go?
	I mean, this is insanity.
	And we took a light approach and thank God for the media and social media for highlighting the issues and bringing experts onto the forefront.
	Now everyone's everyone's talking about it, and now there's action.
	Is this not true, Sean?
	Is this not true?
	Well, everyone's talking about it, there's action, but the people are being told that it's safe to move back, and the people are being told that everything is safe.
	Look at the records that are uh that are before us.
	I'm not a uh a smart guy, I'm a very common sense kind of guy.
	Do the research, it's on social uh it's on the on the internet, look at the impacts of vinyl chloride, look at the short term and the long and the long term, and you will see that what is being told to us is not correct.
	So your recommendation if there are people listening in East Palestine right now, your advice, don't listen to the government, don't believe the water and air are clean and safe.
	That's right.
	And I would tell them that if they want to, they look at any hazardous substance uh documentation that talks about, especially OSHA, about the impacts, the short-term and long-term effects of vinyl chloride.
	And if they okay, so what's gonna happen?
	Because I would assume, like most people that live in paycheck to paycheck, because two-thirds of the country is right now, so they don't really have much of a choice if the government is telling them it's safe and they're not gonna provide any other alternative housing or living conditions or or place to be safe, uh, those people left on their own, aren't they?
	They're left on their own, and I think that the important thing is that uh that should have happened in in East Palestine is the and looking back at what has happened in the past is upload up front the expenses.
	If you have uh uh an issue like we had in East Palestine, and you use the uh the argument that I made, which is a dirty bomb attack, right?
	Maybe we should have moved everybody into hotels.
	The government should have gotten stepped in and said, Look, we're moving everybody out of there.
	You're evacuating everybody, right?
	By the way, Sean, just let's be clear here.
	This had several days of discussions and evaluation.
	This didn't happen uh w i instantly that you couldn't react.
	Remember, the issue started on the third, they went until the fifth, they started poking hop poking holes into these uh containers, which by the way are containers that were approved during uh the Obama administration, put into effect during the Trump administration.
	So those containers are all of regulated of regulation, high quality containers that hold such uh hazardous material.
	So you had all this time.
	Where's the leadership that could have made the right decision?
	Where's the leadership that says, you know what, let's put everybody out of here for one week?
	They wouldn't even issue an emergency declaration for the area.
	It was that bad.
	Uh we're just trying to make sure.
	I'm not an expert.
	I'm not an environmental expert, but I could tell you when you have a chemical burn like that and you see dead fish and dead wildlife and you hear about sick people, that's enough to put uh concern in my heart and mind that things are not uh up to speed and not safe and and what the long-term impact is, anybody's gonna know.
	But anyway, Nino uh Perata, thank you so much for being with us.
	Appreciate your expertise, sir.
	My pleasure, and thank you, Sean.
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	Let's hit our busy phones here.
	Denise is in Illinois.
	Hey Denise, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	And I really appreciate your consistent efforts raising awareness about corruption, because it's really impacted my family and I uh for the past ten years consecutively.
	We have not been free of corruption in the past ten years.
	Uh so I I want to thank you for taking my call.
	Well, thank you for calling.
	Uh, what's on your mind today?
	So I just want to talk a little bit about, you know, with the federal government and the role it plays.
	When you're in a state like mine, Illinois, which is really systemically corrupt, we've had interference by the federal government to actually, you know, bring forward prosecutions and obtain convictions of our corrupt elected officials because our state fails to really act.
	And there's this like fiefdom that that grows.
	And when you get brought into the court system in Illinois like we have, it's kind of like Trump when he said, you know, once you're brought in, there's just no way out.
	And here you have a guy who's a billionaire, president of the United States, and then you're talking about us, just a family.
	You know, there's just no way out, and we're watching our entire state being depleted by the millions, and there's no recourse.
	So the only hope that I have is if somehow some way we can get the federal government involved because the the court case that we're in in probate court county, it's so systemically corrupt that there's just we have no voice, no right.
	Uh you United States uh 14th Amendment rights to property interest.
	I mean, everything is just being legally robbed from us.
	So, you know, when it comes to talking about the the limited role of the federal government, for people like me in Illinois, it's really been the federal government to root out the corruption.
	And I just wish there was another way we could bring the federal government at the local level, like in a probate court case, where they've really set it up to just legally rob you and drag it out for years and years.
	It's it's just we have no end in sight that you know to end this uh litigation, this frivolous litigation.
	Look, I I don't know all the specifics of your case, but I can just tell you this.
	Uh and I know people that have wanted to, for legitimate reasons, take on local governments or state governments or the federal government.
	And either you're really, really wealthy and can hire the best attorneys and be in this for years and years and years and and have the financial resources to fight it, or you're not gonna win.
	And and that's the sad part because the people that make this country great, they don't have that kind of money that they could just throw around in a lawsuit to get justice.
	So justice comes at a very heavy price for a lot of people.
	And that's sad because I would love to encourage you, but I don't really have a lot of faith in the system.
	Uh and history is unfortunately is proven me right more often than not.
	Um, but I gotta run 800 nine four-one Sean is one number if you want to be a part of the program.
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