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AntiFascist's JournalSo, what's happening with Jan 6 mastermind Phil Waldron?
The retired Psy Ops specialist who seems to tie everyone together...
https://www.americanoversight.org/election-denier-phil-waldrons-communications-with-arizona-senate-leaders
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Investigators also subpoenaed Waldrons phone records, prompting him to sue in an effort to block the select panel from obtaining them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/11/meet-the-key-players-in-the-next-jan-6-hearings-00044675
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/willard-trump-eastman-giuliani-bannon/2021/10/23/c45bd2d4-3281-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html
During the Afghan and Iraq wars, the careers of two military officers often intersected. Army General Michael Flynn and an Army Reserve colonel named Phil Waldron worked together on secret projects in both countries, Waldron said. When Flynn was appointed to run the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012, Waldron said he worked at the DIAs clandestine service. Flynn was an intel expert. Waldrons specialty was psychological operations, or PSYOPs targeting foreign adversaries, as an Army field manual describes, to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately, the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.
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But when those conspiracies contend that the current government of the United States is illegitimate, those primal fears of a standing army ready to turn its guns inward and topple our government are justifiably awakened. In short, these people are doing great harm to the legitimacy and efficacy of our military.
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[Early November]First he met with Sidney Powell, the lawyer for his old commander, Flynn. Waldron said he met Powell in a hotel conference room that functioned as her headquarters, briefing her in the early morning hours. A lawyer who worked with Powell, Howard Kleinhendler, confirms Waldron was part of the group. Powell declined to comment.
Then Waldron huddled with Giuliani. We were supposed to have a 10 minute briefing but it went 45 minutes, Waldron said. When Giuliani said he wanted to discuss voter fraud, Waldron said he pressed upon the former mayor that the fraud was on a larger, and global, scale. We kept going over it and going over it. He finally came aboard, he said.
Much more at this link:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/
Is Trump's Praetorian Guard flying under the radar?
The militia group 'First Amendment Praetorian' (1AP) is under investigation by the Jan 6 Committee. Made up largely of "Special Forces veterans and former intelligence officials" they helped to funnel data on purported election fraud to lawyers suing to overturn the vote count. The group's leader, Robert Patrick Lewis, was issued a subpoena by the House Select Committee and they have obtained numerous audio recordings of 1AP members.
With echoes of the Nazi Reichstag Fire, their goal was to demonstrate that Antifa was staging a massive "Tet Offensive" bent on destroying the global order, and their goal was also to safeguard free speech rights from tyrannical, Marxist subversive groups.
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None of 1APs top operatives have been arrested in connection with the Capitol riot, and it remains unclear how much influence they exerted or how seriously criminal investigators are focused on them. Still, the group had men on the ground outside the building on Jan. 6 and others at the Willard Hotel, near some of Mr. Trumps chief allies. And in the days leading up to the assault, 1APs Twitter account posted messages suggesting that the group knew violence was imminent.
There may be some young National Guard captains facing some very, very tough choices in the next 48 hours, read one message posted by the group on Jan. 4.
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In the interview, Mr. Rhodes described how the two groups worked together at the rally. He then urged Mr. Trump to wage war against traitors at home by imposing martial law. That was the same message that Ms. Powell, Mr. Flynn and others in their orbit were advising at the time.
Mr. Lewis says he played his own small part in the effort to persuade Mr. Trump to declare martial law. On Dec. 18, he said on a podcast last year, he drove Ms. Powell and Mr. Flynn to the White House to meet with Mr. Trump. It is not clear whether Mr. Lewis attended the meeting, where Ms. Powell and Mr. Flynn urged the president to declare a national emergency and demand a recount of key swing states on live TV, according to the business executive Patrick M. Byrne, who was also there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/us/politics/first-amendment-praetorian-trump-jan-6.html
Much more at the link.
Oathkeepers/Minutemen: The Same Old Seditious Conspiracy
When people hear about the "Minutemen" they may believe it is referencing the celebrated partisan militia formed during the American Revolutionary War, known for being ready at a minutes notice, providing a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that enabled the colonies to respond immediately to war threats by the British monarchy.
The more recent Minuteman Project refers to a self-described citizens Neighborhood Watch on our border, a group of private individuals who seek to extrajudicially monitor the United States-Mexico borders flow of illegal immigrants.
Few people may recall the Minutemen (anti-Communist organization) formed in the United States in the early 1960s by founder and head of the group: Robert DePugh from Norborne, Missouri. They believed that Communism would soon take over the United States and they would need to be prepared to violently suppress persons and groups they deemed un-American.
Members of the Minutemen in San Diego went on to work for the Secret Army Organization, which the ACLU claimed had FBI support. The White House was alleged to have maintained its own liaison to the SAO, Donald Segretti (under President Nixon). Segretti was quoted by the ACLU as having told the SAO that anyone causing trouble at the 1972 Republican convention would be "gotten rid of," apparently in reference to the so-called "Liddy plan" as described by the United States Senate Watergate Committee. The plan was named for G. Gordon Liddy, former counsel of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, and entailed the kidnapping of protestors and sending them to Mexico.
Fewer people still may be aware of the long suppressed European Best-Seller book entitled Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK, only relatively recently allowed to be published in the U.S. in 2002. The book claims to include the results of an investigation instigated by JFKS brother Robert Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, later to become U.S. Senator of New York. The book was intended to be published to help boost the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy. When Robert Kennedy was himself assassinated during his campaign, the plans to publish the book died with him and the material was handed to French Intelligence where it was ultimately published in French under the title America Burns.
While the book itself attempts to paint a broad-based conspiracy of right-wing entities against JFK (including theories that have long been debated ad nauseum), there is one very specific piece of information that seems to stand out towards the end, on page 322:
the upper spheres of the CIA were certainly not informed of the preparations of the assassination. The activities of the CIA are highly compartmentalized. The team that operated at Dallas included specialists who had worked for the CIAs DCA (Department of Covert Activity). Several of them belonged to the Minutemen, which was thus able to keep the upper hand in the situation. In the footnotes, the book goes on to list the various activities of the Minutemen surrounding the assassination.
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