U.S. air marshals reportedly plan to “mutiny” against an order from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> to leave their posts aboard commercial flights and take up posts at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. southern border</a>.
Dozens of marshals have promised to disobey the order in protest, Air Marshal National Council President David Londo told <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/us-air-marshals-plot-mutiny-against-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Examiner</a>. President Joe Biden has ordered U.S. air marshals to the southern border to make up for a lack of Border Patrol agents, a move expected to leave the marshals at one-eighth their normal coverage of U.S. flights.
“The rank and file air marshals are going to refuse to deploy and risk termination,” Londo said. “You’re almost going to have a mutiny of a federal agency, which is unheard of.”
“Morale is so destroyed from this,” he added. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) denied Londo’s claim. It is “entirely inaccurate and does not reflect the critical and professional law enforcement role these officers perform,” the TSA said in a statement.
The Federal Air Marshal Service asked marshals last year to volunteer to spend a 30-day stint at the southern border helping border agents process migrants. Last month, the Biden administration made the deployments mandatory.
In a letter obtained by the Examiner, Londo wrote to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, TSA Administrator David Pekoske, and Federal Air Marshal Service Director Tirrell Stevenson that the marshals had lost “confidence” in the officials’ ability to lead.
“As it stands today, we believe that many FAMs will refuse to deploy, believing the order is reckless and leaving our country vulnerable to attack,” Londo wrote. “On behalf of our membership, stop these dangerous and irresponsible deployments before our adversaries take advantage of the opportunity this policy has provided.”
The air marshals’ organization is drawing support from other outside law enforcement groups in its budding fight with the Biden administration. The National Association of Police Organizations issued a statement backing the air marshals’ protest, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/air-marshals-facing-mandatory-border-deployment-plan-mutiny-biden-admin-leaving-flights-unguarded-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
“The Federal Air Marshal Service is understaffed and covering the fewest number of flights since before September 11, 2001,” the association said. “We strongly question the decision by the Department of Homeland Security to divert much-needed aviation security to the southern border especially as we enter the busiest travel season of the year, particularly as a federal emergency has not been declared at the border.”
The Department of Homeland Security pushed back against Londo’s claims that the order sending air marshals to the southern border is leaving commercial flights unprotected.
“The suggestion that flights are being left unprotected is completely false,” the department said in a statement to Fox News. “TSA takes its responsibility to secure the skies for the traveling public very seriously. We will continue to protect commercial flights though [sic] our multi-layered security processes, including through the Federal Air Marshal Service which supports this critical mission on the ground and onboard aircrafts.”

American Airlines

U.S. Air Marshals Planning Rebellion After Biden Orders Them To Southern Border: Report

U.S. Air Marshals Planning Rebellion After Biden Orders Them To Souther Border: Report

Alejandro Mayorkas

Department of Homeland Security

Executive

Southern Border

U.S.

Washington D.C.

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington, D.C.</a>, jury convicted Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes of seditious conspiracy for his role in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6, 2021, riot</a> at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/us-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Capitol</a> on Tuesday.
The jury convicted Rhodes alongside Kelly Meggs, who headed the Oath Keepers Florida chapter, on sedition charges after three days of deliberation. Three other Oath Keepers — Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, and Thomas Caldwell — were convicted of related felony charges over January 6, according to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-oath-keepers-and-oath-keepers-member-found-guilty-seditious-conspiracy-and-other" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a>.
“As this case shows, breaking the law in an attempt to undermine the functioning of American democracy will not be tolerated,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. “The FBI will always uphold the rights of all citizens who peacefully engage in First Amendment protected activities, but we and our partners will continue to hold accountable those who engaged in illegal acts regarding the January 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol.”
Rhodes and Meggs’ cases are among over 900 that the Justice Department has brought against people accused of crimes related to the January 6 riot. Wray’s FBI has led the investigation into the hundreds of defendants.
The trial took about eight weeks. The seditious conspiracy cases against Rhodes and Meggs are the first to be successfully prosecuted since 1995 when a group of Islamic militants were found guilty of planning to set off a series of bombings across New York City, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/us/politics/oath-keepers-trial-verdict-jan-6.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
In addition to sedition, Rhodes was found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding and tampering with documents and proceedings. Meggs was also found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct and of obstructing an official proceeding, conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging duties, and tampering with documents or proceedings.
Rhodes, Meggs, Harrelson, and Watkins will remain in prison until sentencing. Caldwell will remain on release until sentencing, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/29/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-verdict-00071248" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>.
Rhodes’ attorney Ed Tarpley called the verdict a “mixed bag,” noting that the jury acquitted each defendant on at least one charge. Another defense attorney, Lee Bright, said that he thought the jury was fair, but believed the defendants would have had a better outcome had they been tried outside of Washington, D.C. Tarpley said he plans to appeal the jury’s decision.
Of the five defendants, Meggs faces the longest potential stint in prison with a max sentence of 86 years. Rhodes faces a maximum sentence of 60 years. Watkins, Harrelson, and Caldwell face a max sentence of 56 years, 46 years, and 40 years in prison, respectively.

Stewart Rhodes

Oath Keepers Founder Convicted Of Seditious Conspiracy Over Capitol Riot

Crime

Department of Justice

January 6

Politics

United States Capitol

GOP Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/liz-cheney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liz Cheney</a> has drawn the ire of House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 Committee</a> staffers over her influence on the final committee report expected out next month.
At least fifteen current and former members of the committee believe Cheney is manipulating the final report to place too much focus on former President Donald Trump while leaving other important information out, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/liz-cheney-jan-6-committee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. Cheney’s office says that the staffers are wrong and that the information the Wyoming congresswoman is cutting out was rife with “liberal bias.”
One former committee staffer said that Cheney’s changes to the report were done chiefly for political reasons. Cheney’s focus on Trump is potentially coming at the cost of other committee research on law enforcement, militia groups, and financing, staffers complained.
“We all came from prestigious jobs, dropping what we were doing because we were told this would be an important fact-finding investigation that would inform the public,” the former staffer told WaPo. “But when [the committee] became a Cheney 2024 campaign, many of us became discouraged.”
Cheney spokesman Jeremy Adler said that the congresswoman is trying to protect the integrity of the committee’s work by cutting out “liberal bias” and narrative that has infected the committee’s investigative work and draft report.
“Donald Trump is the first president in American history to attempt to overturn an election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power,” Adler told WaPo in a statement. “So, damn right Liz is ‘prioritizing’ understanding what he did and how he did it and ensuring it never happens again.”
“Some staff have submitted subpar material for the report that reflects long-held liberal biases about federal law enforcement, Republicans, and sociological issues outside the scope of the Select Committee’s work,” Adler continued. “She won’t sign onto any ‘narrative’ that suggests Republicans are inherently racist or smears men and women in law enforcement, or suggests every American who believes God has blessed America is a white supremacist.”
January 6 Committee spokesman Tim Mulvey sided with Cheney in a statement, saying the committee’s “historic, bipartisan fact-finding effort speaks for itself, and that won’t be changed by a handful of disgruntled staff who are uninformed about many parts of the committee’s ongoing work.”
Cheney lost her primary for reelection to the Trump-backed Harriet Hageman earlier this year. Hageman went on to win the election to Cheney’s Wyoming congressional seat with nearly 70% of the vote. Cheney is reportedly <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/20/cheney-2024-election-trump-legacy-00057599" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eyeing</a> a return to political office with a 2024 presidential run.
The final report on the January 6 Committee’s investigation into the riot at the U.S. Capitol is reportedly to span about 1,000 pages, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/11/24/cheney-trump-jan6-report-pages" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>. The committee’s publicized hearings, in which Trump was a major focus, took place over the course of the summer as the Republican and Democratic parties battled for control of Congress next year. Trump has <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/oct/14/trump-trashes-house-jan-6-committee-witch-hunt-14-/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> the committee’s investigation into him as a politically-driven “witch hunt of the highest level.”

Liz Cheney

‘Liberal Bias’ Or ‘Cheney 2024’? J6 Staffers, Liz Cheney Trade Blows Over Final Committee Report

Congress

Donald Trump

January 6 Committee

Chief Twit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-and-dinesh-dsouza-explain-why-leftists-arent-being-let-back-on-twitter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> is at war with Washington’s shiny new media property and seems to have it dead to rights.
Semafor, a news website started with great fanfare by former New York Times columnist and Buzzfeed News chief Ben Smith, accused Musk of funding his Twitter purchase with money from disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried. But it appears that just as Semafor pointed the proverbial finger at Musk, three fingers were pointing back at it.
“Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, and a secret text,” read the headline of <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/11/22/2022/sam-bankman-fried-elon-and-a-secret-text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article</a> this week by Semafor’s business and finance editor, Liz Hoffman. The story accused Musk of &#8220;gleefully&#8221; mocking the &#8220;downfall&#8221; of FTX, Bankman-Fried&#8217;s crypto exchange, which has been exposed as an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-investors-who-lost-millions-in-the-ftx-implosion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged Ponzi scheme</a> that stole billions from customers.
The article, written after Musk had claimed Bankman-Fried set off his “bulls*** meter” when he offered to invest in Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover, implied that Musk had taken SBF on as an investor. But Musk now claims that not only did he not take SBF’s money, but Semafor did. The outlet admits as much in its article, and Musk was quick to point that fact out.
The Tesla boss posted receipts on his social media platform, even as others noted the media startup’s softball coverage of SBF and FTX.
“Semafor is owned by SBF,” Musk charged in a tweet. “This is a massive conflict of interest in your reporting. Journalistic integrity is [trash can emoji).”
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Semafor is owned by SBF. This is a massive conflict of interest in your reporting. Journalistic integrity is 🗑️. <a href="https://t.co/1AB6KReJUj">pic.twitter.com/1AB6KReJUj</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595342985931411456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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It could be an overstatement to say Semafor is “owned” by SBF, but the onetime billionaire and former liberal media darling definitely bought himself a piece of it. Earlier this year, Semafor, which went live last month, giddily announced taking in $25 million in seed money from donors and investors, naming Bankman-Fried as one of its top benefactors. While the media startup couldn’t have known trouble was on the horizon for the Bahamas-based crypto exchange, its decision to go soft on SBF and hard on Musk took extreme moxie – or lack of self-awareness.
The Hoffman article appears to have been based on a May text message exchange between Musk and SBF that Semafor obtained. In it, SBF apologetically tells Musk he won’t be able to invest in his bid to take Twitter private but helpfully offers to “roll” $100 million of Twitter stock into the effort.
Musk’s reply is telling.
“Sorry, who is sending this message?” Musk asks.
After SBF identified himself, Musk told him that he, like others who held big blocs of Twitter stock, was welcome to turn it into basis points in the privately held entity. But Musk now claims SBF never took him up on the non-exclusive offer.
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Semafor, which has SBF as an investor, gets more of SBF&#39;s text messages with Elon Musk. <a href="https://t.co/qBhhh4Rc3x">https://t.co/qBhhh4Rc3x</a>
&mdash; Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1595522683550461952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“He may have owned shares in Twitter as a public company, but he certainly does not own shares in Twitter as a private company,” Musk divulged in a tweet.
It’s a vexing mystery who gave Semafor the text exchange between SBF and Musk, but if you’re keeping score, Semafor’s exposé on Musk was a dud, and Musk’s exposé on Semafor was devastating. Folks following along on Twitter are calling for Semafor to return whatever funds it took from Bankman-Fried.
Musk, who sends satellites into orbit, builds electric cars, and tunnels under cities, is nothing if not a quick study. In his latest project, he is getting a crash course on how the liberal media works. And he is reciprocating with a brutal lesson of his own.

Collage Maker-24-Nov-2022-08.32-AM

Musk Takes New Media Outlet To School After Failed Bankman-Fried Exposé

Business

Elon Musk

Media

Twitter

Military leaders’ embrace of woke diversity and transgender policies and ideology is corroding the effectiveness of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-military">U.S. military</a>, according to a new report by GOP lawmakers.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, both Republicans, put out a report on the impact of DEI and LGBT initiatives on the U.S. military on Monday. The 18-page <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/ee1d7a86-6d0c-4f08-bd15-24e5b28e54b7/3756824FA9C21B819BB97AAB16221530.woke-warfighters-report-3.pdf">report</a> takes shots at some of the top leaders in the U.S. military, such as Gen. Mark Milley, and says that poor leadership is distorting the military’s purpose.
“The United States military is the greatest fighting force in the world. It is also one of the most humble and sacrificial the world has ever known,” the report begins. “Unfortunately, President Joe Biden and his administration are weakening America’s warfighters through a sustained assault fueled by woke virtue signaling.”
“Our military’s singular purpose is to ‘provide for the common defense’ of our nation. It cannot be turned into a left-wing social experiment. It cannot be used as a cudgel against America itself. And it cannot be paralyzed by fear of offending the sensibilities of Ivy League faculty lounges or progressive pundits,” the report’s summary says.
The Department of Defense (DOD) stood by its policies in answer to the report.
“Diversity, inclusion, and equality at its core is about leveraging the strengths of all our people, advancing opportunity, addressing potential barriers or discrepancies, and – fundamentally – ensuring people are treated with dignity and respect. We always talk about weapons systems, yet every one of us will agree that our greatest weapons system are our people.  So that’s why our policies to better leverage our people and increase unit cohesion are important here,” a spokesman with the DOD told The Daily Wire in a statement.
The report singles out several top military officials for criticism: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Milley, who is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The report also notes the partisan pasts of two top Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) staffers: Bishop Garrison, senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Defense on Human Capital and DEI issues, and Kelisa Wing, the DEI head of the Department of Defense Education Activity.
Weeks into President Joe Biden’s term, Austin issued a one-day stand-down order to all service members and civilian employees. The purpose of the stand-down order was to “discuss extremism in the ranks with their personnel.” A follow-up report by the Senate Armed Services committee assessed that, because of the dearth of extremism among U.S. service members, further investment on countering extremism in the military would be an “inappropriate use of taxpayer funds.”
Milley <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/highest-ranking-u-s-military-official-defends-teaching-crt">supports</a> “teaching [Critical Race Theory] at U.S. Service Academies” and testified in front of Congress that he is interested in understanding “white rage,” according to the report.
“The Biden Administration is choosing to focus on and fund the study of racial extremism even when … it is a virtual non-issue in the military,” the report says.
DEI has become a top priority for the Biden administration across departments, not just in the Pentagon. The Department of Homeland Security has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/white-supremacy-dhs-draft-assessment/index.html">identified</a> white supremacy as one of the preeminent threats to the United States. In September, the Department of Energy <a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-releases-first-ever-plan-advance-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility">released</a> its first-ever “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan to underscore the Department’s commitment to creating a workplace that celebrates Americans of all backgrounds.”
The commitment to DEI has bled into the U.S. Special Forces. The United States Special Operations Command’s 2021 Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan states that “diversity and inclusion are operational imperatives.”
“The only goal of our Special Forces should be effectiveness. Every other consideration must be subordinate to and in service of that end,” the report says. “[F]orcing our military to engage in DEI trainings encourages supporting and advancing people on criteria other than competence and ability to carry out a mission.”
According to Rubio and Roy, the military has lowered its standards for health and fitness to allow transgender people and those diagnosed with gender dysphoria into the ranks of the military. The process began under former President Barack Obama, was reversed under former President Donald Trump, and reinstated under Biden.
“People cannot even enlist with Invisalign or braces until they are removed. And yet, today’s woke military is now proudly promoting and celebrating sex reassignment procedures, which can have months-long recovery periods, with complete recovery taking &#8216;up to one year&#8217; for some procedures,” the report says.
The highest levels of the U.S. military lack accountability for mistakes, the report says. One glaring example of this is the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, in which 13 U.S. service members were killed and hundreds of Afghans in a terror attack on Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. A retaliatory strike against a target believed to be a terrorist accidently killed 10 civilians, including seven children.
“The only service member who received a reprimand from the Afghanistan debacle was a lieutenant colonel who criticized the way the withdrawal was executed. What this officer did was concerning. Despite a gag order, while in uniform he used government property to harshly criticize superiors while there were still boots on the ground in Kabul. This is certainly improper behavior,” the report states.
“Nevertheless, the hypocrisy is glaring. It is outrageous that the woke Biden Administration held him to account while leaders whose decisions resulted in the deaths of service members and billions of dollars’ worth of equipment falling into enemies’ hands went unpunished,” it concludes.

Mark Milley

Woke Leadership Is Gutting U.S. Military Through DEI, Trans Policies, GOP Report Says

Chip Roy

Department of Defense

Lloyd Austin

Marco Rubio

Military

Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> named Jack Smith, a former war-crimes prosecutor, on Friday as special counsel over two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> (DOJ) investigations into former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
Garland tasked Smith with taking over parts of the DOJ’s investigation into the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, as well as the department’s classified and presidential records investigation into documents seized from Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago. The move by Garland comes days after Trump announced his 2024 bid for U.S. president.
“The department of Justice has long recognized that in certain, extraordinary cases, it is in the public interest to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation and prosecution,” Garland said in a Friday <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCA08EaSdXQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press briefing</a>. “Based on recent developments, including the former president’s announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election and the sitting president’s intention to be a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is in the public’s interest to appoint a special counsel.”
“Appointing a special counsel at this time is the right thing to do. The extraordinary circumstances presented here demand it. Mr. Smith is the right choice to complete these matters in an even handed and urgent manner,” he added.
Trump is facing potential criminal prosecution over two investigations from the DOJ. The investigation related to the events of January 6 is over whether Trump incited an insurrection or otherwise attempted to unlawfully interfere with the certification of the 2020 election. That investigation has produced hundreds of prosecutions against protesters who entered the U.S. capitol.
Trump is also being investigated over a trove of documents the FBI recovered in an August raid on Mar-a-Lago. Trump faces potential charges related to the holding of those documents as well as potential obstruction of a federal investigation, according to Garland.
As special counsel, Smith will decide whether Trump faces any charges related to either investigation.
A DOJ leak earlier this week revealed that FBI investigators working on the classified documents case reportedly believe that Trump moved White House records to Mar-a-Lago after his term as president largely because of his ego. The former president wanted to keep the records as mementos from his time in the Oval Office. FBI agents do not suspect, as some theories have suggested, that Trump sought to sell U.S. secrets to foreign powers or others, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/14/trump-motive-mar-a-lago-documents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.

Merrick Garland

Merrick Garland Names Special Counsel To Investigate Trump Over Classified Docs, J6

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> Director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christopher-wray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Wray</a> admitted Thursday that he left early a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> oversight hearing in August to go on vacation.
Wray appeared in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee on Thursday alongside Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid. The trio was brought before the committee to testify over national security threats to the U.S.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) grilled Wray over his reason for leaving an August hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee after only one round of questioning. Wray said he did not cut the hearing short; his early departure was agreed upon ahead of time with the committee chair, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL).
“The hearing was not cut short. From my experience, we had agreed upon the time and length of it, and I was very surprised to find that anyone on the committee was surprised,” Wray said when asked about his use of a private FBI jet to fly to the Adirondacks. The FBI director is required by law because of the sensitive nature of his job to use a private FBI jet anytime he flies.
Wray at first avoided a question about his reason for flying to the Adirondacks. When pressed by Hawley why Wray left a “statutorily required oversight hearing” before a second round of questioning, the FBI director admitted he left for a family vacation.
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Wray testified that he was “very surprised” that Republicans on the Judiciary Committee were unaware of his early departure from the hill. At the time, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IO) <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/07/fbi-director-christopher-wray-is-guiding-the-agency-the-wrong-way-fast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complained</a> about Wray’s early departure after hearing about the FBI director’s plans only after the hearing was underway.
“We just heard a half hour ago about you having to leave at 1:30,” Grassley said at the time. “We were going to have seven minutes [each] for first round [questions and] three-minute second rounds. I’ve got seven people on my side of the aisle want their additional three minutes. Is there any reason we couldn’t accommodate them for 21 minutes?”
Wray responded: “Senator, I had a flight that I’m supposed to be high-tailing it to outta here, and I had understood that we were going to be done at 1:30, so that’s how we ended up where we are.”
Grassley pointed out that Wray, as FBI director, has access to his own private jet that can depart at any time the director likes. “If it’s your business trip, you’ve got your own plane. Can’t it wait a while?” Grassley asked.
Wray demurred without offering to push his flight back. At the end of the hearing, Wray confirmed to Grassley that the director was leaving for “other business.”
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Under questioning from Hawley, Wray said that “the reference to ‘other business’ was not a reference to that day. It was a reference to the following week when Senator Grassley and I were going to see each other in Iowa.”
Hawley shot back: “You left an oversight hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee required by statute so you could vacation with your family. I find that absolutely unbelievable and, frankly, indefensible.”

Christopher Wray

‘Indefensible’: FBI Director Wray Grilled For Leaving Oversight Hearing Early For Vacation

Chuck Grassley

Josh Hawley

U.S. Senate

Senate Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mitch-mcconnell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mitch McConnell</a> won re-election to lead the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GOP</a> in the Senate on Wednesday, fending off a challenge from Florida Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rick-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rick Scott</a>.
A group of GOP senators <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/11/gop-senators-call-for-postponing-leadership-elections-00066532">called</a> to push off the leadership vote until after the Georgia runoff race between incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker, according to a Friday report from Politico.
McConnell responded to the senators on Tuesday, dismissing their arguments and pushing forward with the leadership vote.
“I think the outcome is pretty clear,” McConnell <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/rick-scott-challenges-mitch-mcconnell/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “I want to repeat again. I have the votes; I will be elected. The only issue is whether we do it sooner or later.”
McConnell, 80, is on track to <a href="https://www.senate.gov/senators/longest-serving-party-leaders.htm">becoming</a> the longest serving party leader in the Senate. First elected in 1985, McConnell has led Republicans in the Senate for 15 years since 2007. Former Democratic Sen. Michael Mansfield holds the record for longest serving party leader at 16 years from 1961-1977.
Scott, who headed the National Republican Senatorial Committee during midterms, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rick-scott-announces-bid-to-oust-mcconnell-as-senate-gop-leader">launched</a> his bid to unseat McConnell earlier this week. Scott ran the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm that is chiefly responsible for helping Republicans get elected to the Senate. The Florida senator oversaw an underwhelming performance in the 2022 midterm elections where the GOP lost a slate of close contests and failed to pick up any more seats.
“I’m writing to you today because I believe it’s time for the Senate Republican Conference to be far more bold and resolute than we have been in the past. We must start saying what we are for, not just what we are against,” Scott <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-re-elected-senate-gop-leader-defeating-challenge-rick-scott-rcna57487" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> fellow Republicans in a letter Tuesday. “I do not believe we can simply continue to say the Democrats are radical, which they are. Republican voters expect and deserve to know our plan to promote and advance conservative values.”
McConnell and Scott and their allies traded barbs in the wake of the 2022 midterm elections, pointing fingers and casting blame for the GOP falling short of expectations. Montana Sen. Steve Daines was elected Wednesday to take over the reins at the NRSC heading into 2024.
Scott and the NRSC face questions over their allocation of resources. During a three-hour GOP conference on Tuesday, Sens. Marsha Blackburn (TN) and Thom Tillis (NC) suggested auditing the NRSC’s expenditures during the campaign season in an effort to understand where Republicans may have gone wrong, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/16/rick-scott-nrsc-00067439">Politico</a>.
Scott appeared to respond to the push for an investigation in his Wednesday letter, emphasizing his push to reform the Senate GOP’s campaign arm. He took over the NRSC in November 2020 for the 2022 midterm cycle.
“When that’s your starting point, you work really hard to make sure there are transparent processes,” Scott said, “[W]e are more than happy to sit down with any member of the caucus to walk them through our spending.”

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FBI Director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christopher-wray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Wray</a> refused to say Tuesday whether <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> sources had dressed as Trump supporters and entered the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/us-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Capitol</a> ahead of protesters on January 6, 2021.
Wray testified in front of the House Homeland Security Committee alongside Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid. During the hearing, Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins (R) questioned Wray on the extent of the FBI’s involvement in the January 6 riot.
“Did the FBI have confidential human sources embedded within the January 6 protesters on January 6 2021?” the Louisiana congressman asked. Confidential human sources are not FBI agents; they are typically insiders in a group or well-connected individuals who have agreed to feed information to the FBI through handlers.
The FBI director said he has to be “very careful” about “when we do and do not and where we have and have not used confidential human sources.”
“To the extent that there’s a suggestion for example that the FBI’s confidential human sources or FBI employees in some way instigated or orchestrated Jan 6, that’s categorically false,” Wray said.
Higgins pressed Wray on if any FBI confidential human sources were dressed as supporters of former President Donald Trump and positioned in the U.S. Capitol “prior to the doors being open[ed].”
Wray began his response reiterating his previous answer when Higgins exploded: “It should be a no! Can you not tell the American people, no, we did not have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on January 6?”
Wray responded as Higgins time for questioning expired, saying, “You should not read anything into my decision to not to share information related to confidential human sources.”
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Prior to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, the FBI had as many as eight sources embedded within the Proud Boys, a right-wing paramilitary group that was represented in the Capitol riot. Five members of the group are scheduled to stand trial next month for their actions leading up to and on January 6. The defendants have been charged with seditious conspiracy for allegedly planning and coordinating the Capitol riot.
The revelation about the FBI informants in the Proud Boys organization came in a series of legal filings made over the past week by the defendants’ attorneys. The defense attorneys argued that prosecutors had improperly withheld information on the informants, and that the information appeared to be favorable to the defense, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/us/politics/fbi-informants-proud-boys-jan-6.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
The new revelation raises questions about what the FBI knew in the weeks and days leading up to the January 6 riot, and why the bureau wasn’t able to prevent the event using information given to it by the Proud Boys informants.
The FBI official leading the investigation into the January 6 riot, Steven D’Antuono, the assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office, is set to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-fbi-official-who-led-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-j6-investigations-to-retire-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retire</a> at the end of the month. The FBI announced D’Antuono planned departure in an internal memo last week.
Before taking his post in Washington, D.C., D’Antuono worked in the FBI field office in Detroit. As the special agent in charge, D’Antuono oversaw the bureau’s investigation into a group of militia men and busted a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
The Whitmer plot received national attention when it first broke into the news in October 2020, just weeks away from the presidential election between then-President Trump and then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The plot was immediately characterized in the media as one of the most important domestic terror cases in decades.
Questionable conduct by FBI agents and informants, which came to light in the ensuing trials, marred the bureau’s image and the plot’s investigation. Of the six men charged by the Department of Justice in the plot, two cut plea deals before heading to trial, two were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-whitmer-plot-jury-refuses-to-convict-on-conspiracy-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acquitted</a> at trial, and two were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jury-convicts-two-men-of-conspiring-to-kidnap-michigan-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> guilty of conspiracy in a second trial after the first jury hung on the charges.

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‘It Should Be A No!’: Congressman Explodes After Wray Refuses Question On FBI, January 6

Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/henry-cuellar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Henry Cuellar</a> (D-TX) reportedly rejected a request from allies of House Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) to join the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GOP</a> over the weekend.
McCarthy allies tried to recruit the moderate Democrat in multiple phone calls over the weekend, five people familiar with the outreach told <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/midterm-elections-congress-house-results/card/democrat-henry-cuellar-rejected-request-from-allies-of-gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-to-switch-parties-WDnp8Y1qVOcNAbNtcvAg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>. McCarthy could become the next speaker of the House if Republicans can secure at least 218 seats in the chamber and if he can fend off a potential bid for his leadership position.
The outcomes of over a dozen House races are still unknown. The GOP is favored to win a slight majority with 219 seats, according to NBC News’ <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-elections/house-results?icid=election_nav" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Decision Desk</a>.
Cuellar is a moderate Democrat from a district in southern Texas that runs along the U.S. border with Mexico. Cuellar’s district has been hit heavily with illegal immigration over the past two years, and the Texas congressman has been one of the most vocal critics of President Joe Biden from within the Democratic Party. Cuellar has made repeated appearances on Fox News to criticize Biden’s border policies.
A McCarthy spokesman told WSJ that the Republican leader did not request the calls.
“Anyone suggesting this is simply exercising in fan fiction,” McCarthy spokesman Mark Bednar said. “Leader McCarthy is going to be elected speaker by the current and newly-elected members of the House Republican Conference. Our efforts are exclusively focused on bringing our conference together and saving the country.”
The results of the 2022 midterms, underwhelming to many Republicans, have led many in the House GOP caucus to question McCarthy’s leadership heading into the new Congress. The GOP leader is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/midterm-elections-congress-house-results/card/conservative-andy-biggs-to-challenge-kevin-mccarthy-for-house-speaker-8YmJ9ptlkPVl5rlNdvbP" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facing</a> a potential challenge from his right from Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.
McCarthy oversaw a closed-door House Republican Conference meeting on Monday. Virginia Rep. Bob Good, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, reportedly told McCarthy that Republicans “got rolled” in midterms, according to <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/14/bob-good-republicans-rolled-midterms-kevin-mccarthy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Caller</a>. The meeting overall <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1592280764690972677" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> featured mostly muted frustration with McCarthy, however, and nobody spoke in direct challenge to McCarthy for the potential speaker’s gavel.
Florida Rep. Greg Steube, also a member of the Freedom Caucus, reportedly <a href="https://twitter.com/emrwilkins/status/1592303622117019648" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> the lack of opposition McCarthy faced at the meeting. “When you have such a slim majority, I think it&#8217;s gonna be difficult to find somebody else that could get to to 218,” he said, according to Bloomberg reporter Emily Wilkins.
Editor&#8217;s Note: A previous headline incorrectly stated that Kevin McCarthy attempted to recruit a Texas Democrat to join the Republican Party when, in fact, it was McCarthy&#8217;s allies.

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One of the top officials in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI’s</a> Washington Field Office, Steven D’Antuono, is reportedly retiring from the agency at the end of the month.
D’Antuono is the assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office. He was promoted in October 2020 from his previous position as special agent in charge of the Detroit Field Office where he over saw the FBI investigation into the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. He is expected to retire at the end of the month, according to a reportedly internal FBI <a href="https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1590721095639785472" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a>.
At his role in Washington, D.C., D’Antuono has been one of the chief FBI officials in charge of the bureau’s investigation into the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6. D’Antuono has <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/08/04/sen_ted_cruz_grills_fbi_director_how_is_agent_who_ran_entrapped_fake_whitmer_kidnappers_now_working_on_j-6_case.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> scrutiny and criticism from Republicans over his handling of both the kidnapping conspiracy and January 6 investigations.
D’Antuono’s departure comes as Republicans <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/days-midterm-elections-control-congress-still-limbo-rcna56507" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appear</a> to be on the verge of retaking control of the house with a slim majority. The transferal of power away from Democrats and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would give Republicans power to dictate House investigations, and the FBI could be a target after numerous whistleblower leaks revealed potential corruption and allegations of politicization at the bureau’s highest levels.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-brass-barred-agents-from-probing-hunters-laptop-whistleblowers-tell-lawmaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> earlier this year that his office alone has collected the statements of 14 FBI whistleblowers. In the Senate, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (IA) and Ron Johnson (WI) have collected whistleblower testimony as well.
Some of that whistleblower testimony has implicated D’Antuono’s work. The FBI field office assistant director is currently responsible for overseeing the bureau investigation into rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Department of Justice has brought hundreds of charges against alleged rioters as a result of the investigation.
Whistleblower accounts given to Republicans in Congress allege that the January 6 investigation is being manipulated to appear as if domestic extremism is a rising national phenomenon. According to Jordan’s office, one FBI whistleblower said that the FBI is manipulating its casefiles around the investigation to create “false and misleading crime statistics.”
“Instead of hundreds of investigations stemming from a single, black swan incident at the Capitol, FBI and DOJ officials point to significant increases in domestic violent extremism and terrorism around the United States,” the whistleblower <a href="https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/press-release/whistleblower-alleges-fbi-schemed-to-distort-january-6-cases-into-nationwide-domestic-violent-extremism-epidemic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged</a>.
D’Antuono’s work at his previous position in Michigan has also drawn scrutiny. The Department of Justice announced charges related to a conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer in October 2020, weeks before the election. The investigation and bust quickly became “one of the most important domestic terrorism investigations in a generation,” according to <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-kidnapping-gretchen-whitmer-fbi-informant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BuzzFeed</a>.
Later, doubts grew about the extent of the FBI’s role in the sting as defendants raised questions about the conduct of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whitmer-kidnapping-plot-fbi-informant-slept-in-the-same-room-smoked-weed-with-defendant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">human sources</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conspiracy-to-kidnap-a-governor-fbi-told-informant-to-brand-innocent-man-as-federal-agent-to-avoid-suspicion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI agents</a> involved in the investigation. Of the six men charged by the Department of Justice in the plot, two cut plea deals before heading to trial, two were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-whitmer-plot-jury-refuses-to-convict-on-conspiracy-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acquitted</a> at trial, and two were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jury-convicts-two-men-of-conspiring-to-kidnap-michigan-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> guilty of conspiracy in a second trial after the first jury hung on the charges.

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Republicans are hoping for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbc-panelist-says-republicans-have-all-the-winning-issues-including-biden-harris-they-dont-consume-a-room/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">red tsunami</a> Tuesday, as 11th-hour polling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/analyst-election-polls-underestimating-republican-margins-by-5/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed momentum surging</a> for the GOP ahead of the critical midterm elections.
With midterms historically going against the party in the White House, and President Joe Biden mired in dismal approval numbers, a takeover of the House of Representatives has long been seen as a given. But Republican candidates have surged in key U.S. Senate races in recent weeks, giving the GOP confidence it can end the 50-50 deadlock that Vice President Kamala Harris can break.
“It’s pretty clear that Republicans have the wind at their back,” <a href="https://thehill.com/people/jim-manley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Manley,</a> a former aide to the late Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3710042-the-memo-republicans-gain-momentum-in-midterms-final-stretch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Hill. “I thought a few weeks ago that we could keep the losses in the House to single digits. That’s no longer the case. And my big fear is what is going on with the Senate races.”
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There will be no red wave if you don’t actually vote. 
“I voted for X” means leaving your house, hitting the polls, and getting the sticker. 
It doesn’5 mean wanting X to win really bad and then complaining on Twitter when X loses. 
Vote, Republicans. Vote.
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Democrats hold a 220-212 majority in the House of Representatives, where there are currently three vacancies. Republicans are widely expected to capture anywhere from 25 to as many as 40 seats, giving them a powerful majority. Polls have shown several House seats thought to be safe for Democrats suddenly within the margin of error, forcing Democrats to play defense with their campaign funds.
A Republican House majority would be able to stop the Biden administration&#8217;s agenda in its tracks, and could also mount fresh investigations of a host of actions taken while Democrats had an iron grip on the Legislative and Executive branches.
“The first thing you’ll see is a bill to control the border first,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who is in line to be the next speaker, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/politics/kevin-mccarthy-interview-border-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN. “You’ve got to get control over the border. You’ve had almost 2 million people just this year alone coming across.”
McCarthy pledged not to use impeachment as a political weapon, as many Republicans believe Democrats did during former President Donald Trump’s administration. But he didn’t take the &#8220;I word&#8221; completely off the table.
“We will never use impeachment for political purposes,” McCarthy said. “That doesn’t mean if something rises to the occasion, it would not be used at any other time.”
The Senate majority rests on a handful of key races that final polls showed could go either way. There are 35 seats at stake on Election Day, including 21 held by Republicans and 14 held by Democrats.
There are at least four Senate seats Republicans stood a strong chance of flipping heading into Tuesday. In Arizona, political newcomer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-polls-show-republican-blake-masters-breaking-into-the-lead-against-democrat-mark-kelly-in-final-days-before-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blake Masters led incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly</a> by a razor-thin margin heading into Tuesday’s election. Former U.S. Army Brigadier General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-hampshire-could-see-general-election-as-bolduc-takes-lead-in-trafalgar-daily-wire-poll/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Bolduc led another incumbent Democrat, Maggie Hassan</a>, in New Hampshire’s Senate race; former NFL great Herschel Walker held a narrow lead over incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia; and Nevada Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-laxalt-leading-sen-cortez-masto-in-nevada-poll/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Laxalt held a strong lead over incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto</a>.
In a race that could turn a bad night into a debacle for Democrats, nurse-turned-Republican Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley was in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-senate-race-now-a-toss-up-as-two-polls-show-republican-tiffany-smiley-tied-with-democrat-patty-murray/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statistical tie</a> with five-term Democrat Sen. Patty Murray in the state of Washington.
Democrats were hoping to flip seats held by retiring Republicans in Ohio and Pennsylvania. But J.D. Vance holds a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-d-vance-takes-lead-in-ohio-senate-race-after-debates-poll/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commanding lead</a> over longtime Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan in the race to fill the Ohio seat being vacated by Rob Portman. In Pennsylvania, television star and retired surgeon <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/03/oz-pulls-ahead-of-fetterman-in-pa-senate-race-polls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Mehmet Oz (R) was in a dead heat with Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman (D)</a>, who sustained a stroke in May and struggled on the campaign trail and in their sole debate.
Democrats had also hoped to capture the seat held by Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, but despite early polls that showed Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes in a close race, more recent polls appeared to show Johnson with a comfortable lead.
“The energy on our side is unbelievable,&#8221; <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rick-scott-predicts-republicans-will-win-senate-majority-with-at-least-52-seats/ar-AA13Q4S1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sen. Rick Scott, R-FL, told Fox News</a>. “I&#8217;ve been traveling all around the country, whether it&#8217;s Don Bolduc up in New Hampshire, or Oz, Herschel Walker. We&#8217;ve got big turnouts all across the country.&#8221;
&#8220;If you look at the early voting, we&#8217;re headed in the right direction,” he added. &#8221; So I&#8217;m optimistic. I think we&#8217;re going to get 52 plus, and it could be a great night for the people that vote.&#8221;

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