Liz Cheney contacted controversial J6 witness on encrypted app behind lawyer’s back, messages show
While vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former Rep. Liz Cheney used an encrypted phone app to directly and indirectly communicate around defense counsel –and possibly ethical rules — with a witness who would later change her testimony in shocking fashion, according to evidence obtained by congressional investigators and Just the News.
Cheney’s Signal communications with witness Cassidy Hutchinson on June 6, 2022 and her friend, Alyssa Farah Griffin, were recently obtained by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee that has identified significant problems with the original Democrat-run inquiry into the Jan. 6 incident.
The communications are now raising fresh concerns about the ethical conduct of that Democrat-run investigation. At the time of the communication, Hutchinson was represented by attorney Stefan Passantino, who told Just the News he did not authorize the contacts with Cheney and was not aware of them until contacted by Just the News.
Cheney is a licensed lawyer in Washington D.C. where the DC Bar rules state unequivocally that “a lawyer shall not communicate or cause another to communicate about the subject of the representation with a person known to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the prior consent of the lawyer representing such other person or is authorized by law or a court order to do so.”
Loudermilk told Just the News that the communications indicate that Cheney defied her ethical responsibilities and may have influenced a witness outside of her lawyer’s presence, eventually causing Hutchinson to switch lawyers.
“Our investigation has uncovered unethical back-channel communications between former Rep. Liz Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson just before Hutchinson changed her sworn testimony,” Loudermilk said. “Not only is communicating with a witness without their attorney present unethical, it undermines the integrity of an investigation.
“As a licensed attorney , Liz Cheney would have known the ethical and legal issues with this communication,” he added. “Clearly, Cheney did not want Stefan Passantino representing Hutchinson; as shortly after Cheney and Hutchinson began communicating, Cheney convinced Hutchinson to fire Passantino, and arranged for a new attorney to represent Hutchinson pro-bono. “
Heightening his concerns, Loudermilk’s investigators obtained communications between Griffin and Hutchinson suggesting Cheney was aware her contact with a potential witness represented by counsel might be problematic as early as April 2022, months before it occurred,…
Listeria alert: BrucePac recalls ready-to-eat meat and poultry
BrucePac, a Durant, Okla. establishment, is recalling approximately 9,986,245 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The ready-to-eat meat and poultry items were produced from June 19, 2024, to October 8, 2024. These products were shipped to other establishments and distributors nationwide then distributed to restaurants and institutions. Information regarding product labels and the list of products will be provided when available.
The products subject to recall bear establishment numbers “51205 or P-51205” inside or under the USDA mark of inspection.
The problem was discovered after FSIS performed routine product testing of finished product containing RTE poultry products produced by BrucePac and confirmed those products positive for Listeria monocytogenes. Subsequent FSIS investigation identified BrucePac RTE chicken as the source of the Listeria monocytogenes….
Antidepressants linked to violent behaviors and deadly outcomes
Critics warn that certain antidepressants, including Prozac and Zoloft, may increase the risk of violent behavior, including murder.
These drugs, prescribed to treat depression and anxiety, have been linked to dangerous side effects that can cause a disconnect from reality. Individuals taking these medications have reported uncharacteristic aggressive impulses, sometimes with deadly results.
Dr. David Healy, an expert in psychopharmacology and the effects of antidepressants, has been vocal about the serious risks these drugs pose.
During his “Mad in America” webinar, Healy presented a series of tragic cases involving individuals who led stable lives before being prescribed antidepressants, which led them to exhibit aggressive or homicidal behavior.
One case involved 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, who started exhibiting violent behavior shortly after taking Zoloft.
Less than a month into the prescription, he claimed to hear a voice telling him to kill his grandparents, which he did before setting their house on fire….
Single mother identified as New Jersey train operator killed in crash with tree
Its operator, 41-year-old Jessica Haley of Levittown, Pennsylvania, died while nearly two dozen passengers were injured.
Haley had worked for Alstom, the contractor for NJ Transit, for 20 years.
In a statement shared with Nexstar’s WPHL, Kila Baldwin, the attorney for the family of Jessica Haley, said that “while the family is in the process of formally raising the estate, we have served the notice of our intent to file a tort claims act on the State of NJ, New Jersey Transit, New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, Southern JJ Rail Group, Alstom, Burlington County Board of Commissioners, and Township of Mansfield.”
“It is the duty of all companies who operate trains to ensure the tracks are clear for the safety of everyone on those trains, including the operators of the trains, like Ms. Haley,” Baldwin added, saying Haley “lost her life due to the failure of the responsible parties to inspect these tracks and keep them clear.”
“This never should have happened, and we will be investigating the case carefully to hold all responsible parties accountable. The family is understandably devastated and intends to pursue this matter to the fullest extent of the law to prevent anyone from ever suffering the same fate as Jessica.”
According to Baldwin, Haley’s sister, Rebecca Haley, also worked for Alstom as a train conductor on the New Jersey River Line. She alleges “the trees along this section of the New Jersey River Line were troublesome for years and other trains had hit downed trees in recent years.”….
Georgia breaks early voting record
Georgia, one of America’s tightest swing states has opened its early voting window to a horde of people who have broken a record, according to a state official.
“This 1st day of early voting is a blowout,” Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, posted on X.
Sterling said as of 2:30 p.m., 204,793 people had voted. On the first day in 2020, a total of 136,000 people voted early….
‘Unimaginable’: Woman ‘casting spells’ accused of dismembering her mother, cooking her remains in a pot
AKentucky woman is accused of murdering her own mother, dismembering her body, then cooking the remains in a pot until they were “charred,” according to authorities.
Kentucky State Police arrested 32-year-old Torilena May Fields, of Mount Olivet, on Oct. 10.
Fields initially was charged with obstructing governmental operations, tampering with physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse. However, a grand jury added charges of murder and animal torture Monday.
Fields is accused of “decapitating, dismembering, eviscerating her mother’s corpse, and placing her head, feet, and forearms in a pot in the oven and heating them until they were charred,” the indictment reads, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
The victim reportedly hired men to do work on her property, but nobody answered when they knocked on the front door.
The contractors then walked around the property in an effort to find the owner, but instead they stumbled upon a gruesome crime scene, according to court documents….
Satanic Temple opens abortion clinic in Virginia for its ‘destruction ritual’
After helping kill over 100 unborn babies in New Mexico at an average cost of $91 per head, the Satanic Temple has expanded its abortion enterprise to Virginia.
The anti-Christian group, based in Massachusetts, announced on Saturday that it is now offering expectant mothers in the Old Dominion telehealth abortion services and possible travel assistance, noting that patients need only cover the cost of the abortifacient from its California-based partner pharmacy.
While co-founder Lucien Greaves and other proponents of the radical group deny actually worshipping demonic forces — indicating that theirs is effectively an atheistic leftist organization wearing the skin of a satanic cult that just happens to erect statues of Baphomet around Christmastime — the Virginia death dispensary, like the Temple’s “Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic” in New Mexico, blurs the lines between role-play and the real thing.
For women seeking to snuff out the life growing inside them, the Satanic Temple offers an “abortion ritual,” which it describes as a “destructive ritual that serves as a protective rite.”
The stated purpose of this death ritual is to “cast off notions of guilt, shame and mental discomfort” associated with the extermination of innocent life and to altogether affirm the choice….
Sheriff’s office reveals precisely how illegal aliens accused of preying upon a child stole into the US
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office published details of how three men from Honduras were apparently able to illegally enter the United States and eventually allegedly sexually assault a minor.
According to the PBSO, Selvin Lopez Lopez, Erick Lopez Lopez, and Jesersson Lopez Lopez were “arrested for numerous counts of lewd lascivious behavior (capital sexual battery) on a minor under 12 years of age.” The sheriff’s office believes the abuse took place between August of this year and the time they were arrested.
The PBSO said in the course of its investigation, deputies found Selvin and Erick had illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021 and handed themselves over to U.S. Border Patrol. Upon their release from custody, they were told to call for a court date, but they apparently never did.
Jesersson reportedly illegally crossed the border in 2023 and was given a court date for 2028 when he was released.
“Three absolute MONSTERS charged with sexual battery on a 12 year old child. All three of them were let into our country by Kamala Harris,” the Trump campaign said in response to the PBSO’s post.
Back in March, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said he was frustrated seeing illegal immigrants commit horrific crimes against women and children. He made his comments after three such cases occurred within a few months’ time…
Hemingway: CBS Is A Joke And Joe Rogan Is The New ‘Mainstream Media’
“Unless she [Harris] is in a completely protected environment with people who have actually endorsed her, she doesn’t actually do even remotely well in her interviews.
Being able to sustain answers over a long period of time, this might be a tremendous challenge for her. Unlike what we have seen in the Donald Trump videos regionally.”
Mystery drones flew over US military bases for 17 days
Chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin provides details on confirmed reports of unidentified drones flying over U.S. military bases in December 2023.
Israel vows to strike Hezbollah mercilessly; Iran claims it’s ready for war TV7 Israel News 15.10.24
1) Iran proclaims that it is read for war – while Israel prepares for a powerful retaliatory attack against the Islamic Republic.
2) The European Union and Britain announce fresh sanctions on Iran – in response to the Islamic Republic’s transfer of ballistic missiles and drones to Russia for its war against Ukraine.
3) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserts Israel’s resolve to strike Hezbollah without mercy everywhere in Lebanon.
North Korea destroys inter-Korean border roads | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
North Korea blew up its side of roads connected to South Korea on Tuesday, the South Korean military said, after Pyongyang vowed to cut cross-border transport links amid disputes over drones that the North says have flown over its capital.
Feds Admit: Child Sex Trafficking Reports Triple under Harris and Biden
TheFreePress.com described some of the harms inflicted on youth migrants under the lax policies set by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas’ tenure:
Sex-trafficking victims often suffer horrific abuse, as I discovered when I spoke to Landon Dickeson, the 36-year-old executive director for Bob’s House of Hope in Denton, Texas, the only shelter for male sex-trafficking victims ages 18 and up in the country. Dickeson says they’ve seen teens from Central and South America who have been so tortured by their traffickers they can barely function.
Dickeson described caring for teens who have brain damage from being so heavily drugged—teens who have had their fingernails pulled out, and lemon juice poured on wounds. When I asked to interview one of their migrant residents, Dickeson said they simply weren’t in any condition to speak to anyone, much less a reporter. “We think the cartels and gangs use torture as a control method for the males,” said Dickeson. “They’re not going to fight back if they chain their victims to a radiator, beat them up frequently, or drug them.”
The abuse and prostitution may be forced on young migrants who are indebted to smugglers and their affiliated trafficking gangs in the United States. If they cannot pay their debts, their families can lose farms and homes to the banks that hold the loans.
The rising number of youth sex-trafficking cases were posted at the Department of Health and Human Services when TheFreePress demanded the data under the Freedom of Information Act. The agency is responsible for checking and issuing Certification and Eligibility Letters to the children and youths who first request aid after escaping sex traffickers.
Under President Donald Trump, the number of letters averaged 562 per year — or just one-third of the record reached under the guidance of pro-migration progressives.
The number of child cases under Biden and Mayorkas is three times their adult caseload, according to the agency data…
Report: Transgender Student Brutally Attacks Girl on Bus — ‘Growling,’ ‘Chewing on Her Eye’
A male student, who identifies as transgender and recently started taking estrogen injections, assaulted a female classmate earlier this month at Mount Desert Island High School in Bar Harbor, Maine, according to a report by Maine Wire.
The male transgender-identifying student was the subject of a previous incident at Ellsworth High School in Ellsworth, Maine, citing a where he was allowed to use the girls’ restrooms, the outlet noted, citing a February report by the Ellsworth American.
Earlier this year, about 20 Ellsworth High School students reportedly protested the male student, claiming he peered at girls through the restroom stalls.
As for the recent incident at Mount Desert Island High School, the victim’s mother told Maine Wire the attacker bit her daughter and began “chewing on her eye” and “was growling.”
“He’s grabbing handfuls of hair and smashing her head off the pavement. All the while the teachers, the principal is crouched down next to them,” she said. “The whole time, she’s just screaming for help, crying and screaming, ‘somebody help.’ And nobody helped her. The principal sat there and screamed at them instead of helping.”…
Basketball team slammed over tribute to dead player who slashed cop
Shocking police body camera footage showed the 6ft 6in Sydney Wilson, 33, charging at Officer Peter Liu armed with a knife while he was attempting to perform a welfare check on Wilson.
The commercial estate manager slashed the officer multiple times in his face before the cop fired his gun. Liu retreated down the hallway before firing off another three shots killing Wilson.
A row has now broken out involving Wilson’s old basketball team at Georgetown University after they paid tribute to her on X.
The statement from the team read: ‘Georgetown women’s basketball mourns the tragic loss of Sydney Wilson (C’13). Forever a Hoya.’
The row comes after Fairfax County Police in Virginia released a body cam video showing the incident in detail.
It shows Officer Liu arriving at Wilson’s apartment in Reston, Virginia, at 10am on September 16 to perform a welfare check.
Officer Liu – who had 14 years of experience in crisis intervention – knocked on the door and Wilson opened….
Biden-Harris Economy: Walgreens to Shutter 1,200 Stores to Help Stem Losses
Its shares jumped 5.4 percent to $9.50 in premarket trading on the back of the news, Reuters reports.
“At first blush, (the forecast) looks better than worst-case scenario,” said Leerink Partners analyst Michael Cherny, adding Walgreens continues to be buffeted by macro challenges that did not abate in the quarter.
As a result of recent headwinds, Walgreens’ stock is trading near 30-year lows and down 65 percent this year, making it the worst performer on the S&P 500 index.
New CEO Tim Wentworth has unveiled a series of changes since taking on the top job last year, including the removal of multiple mid-level executives and a $1 billion cost-cutting program.
“This turnaround will take time, but we are confident it will yield significant financial and consumer benefits over the long term,” said Wentworth in a statement….
Georgia judge rules election officials must certify vote counts, even if they suspect fraud
Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney of Fulton County, Georgia, ruled that “no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.”
The officials do have the right to investigate their concerns about the vote count and to review related documents, McBurney wrote, but “any delay in receiving such information is not a basis for refusing to certify the election results or abstaining from doing so.”
Election results must be certified by Georgia’s individual counties by 5 p.m. the Monday or Tuesday after the race.
The ruling was handed down the same day Peach State residents head to the polls for early in-person voting, which runs from Oct. 15 through Nov. 1.
The suit was filed by Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections member Julie Adams and backed by America First Policy Institute, a conservative group aligned with former President Donald Trump.
Adams had voted against certifying the presidential primary results in May. She then sued the Fulton County elections board, arguing she was not able to fulfill her duties as a superintendent after a documents request was denied, and that she was within her rights to not certify the results.
In his ruling, McBurney wrote that nothing in Georgia law gives county election officials the authority to determine that fraud has occurred or what should be done about it.
Instead, he wrote, the law says a county election official’s “concerns about fraud or systemic error are to be noted and shared with the appropriate authorities but they are not a basis for a superintendent to decline to certify.”…
Iran terror proxies amass on Israel’s borders in ‘Ring of Fire’
In Iraq, the Popular Mobilization Forces consist of approximately 25 to 30 Shiite militias that emerged in response to ISIS. These groups have served as Iran’s boots on the ground, reinforcing its foothold in both Iraq and Syria.
Professor Uzi Rabi, director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University, explains, “The ones benefiting from ISIS’s defeat are the pro-Iranian militias. Iraqi militias number around 60,000 to 70,000 individuals, making them a formidable force. This contingent is supported by the Shiite regime in Iraq and is woven into the fabric of the state, possessing military capabilities that extend beyond being mere militias; like Hezbollah in Lebanon, they are more than just a faction.”
Rabi pointed out another concerning development. “There is a process of rapprochement between the Houthis in Yemen and the militias in Iraq; the Houthis have opened a liaison office in Baghdad and are training there.
“There are reports that the Houthis have already sent a forward unit to southern Syria, consisting of experts in operating missiles and rockets, to assist in training the militias in southern Syria to operate these systems. The Houthis are recruiting many people and training various militias, which could lead to their presence in Iraq or southern Syria, from where they might attack Israel and American forces in the region, either physically or through missiles.”
“Iran is deploying forces, and it is possible that the pro-Iranian militias in Iraq and Syria will join in targeting Israel,” Rabi elaborated, “However, I believe that the Iraqi arena serves more as a facilitator; its function is to create an Iranian corridor from one side of the region to the other, facilitating logistical capabilities and weaponry to the focal point, which is Hezbollah.”…
New Migrant Caravan Headed North Trying to Beat the Possible Arrival of a Trump Administration
The caravan began early Sunday morning in Tapachula, Chiapas, and has been officially named “God is Guiding Us.”
The caravan comprises approximately 1,000 migrants from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Haiti, Panamá, and Costa Rica, as well as some migrants from Afghanistan and Nepal. The group plans to make its way to Mexico City, with its ultimate goal being the U.S. border.
The migrants who make up the caravan have received legal status in Mexico and were in the process of waiting in Chiapas for an appointment for the Biden-Harris administration’s CBP One application.
However, the group’s organizers got tired of the long wait times.
According to Jonathan Rojas, the group fears the rhetoric former U.S. President Donald J. Trump voiced that he would close the current immigration pathway. Rojas claimed that he was traveling due to economic reasons due to a lack of opportunities in his native Colombia….
Juvenile illegal immigrant gang members behind robbery spree stay out of jail due to age
Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan prison gang whose name means Train of Aragua, is putting the loco in locomotive with a New York City robbery spree that sees its young members repeatedly stay out of jail.
Juvenile illegal immigrants in the gang have been attacking people in the Big Apple’s famed Times Square and other landmark locations but remain free due to the Empire State’s lenient laws on juvenile crime, according to the NYPD’s Detective Bureau Assistant Chief Jason Savino.
“It’s shocking to say the least, and we’ve seen a progression with this group,” Savino told “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning.
The suspects, some as young as 11, are being housed in the former Roosevelt Hotel, which the city converted into a migrant shelter after an influx of border crossings thousands of miles away, the New York Post reported earlier this week.
The Roosevelt Hotel closed its doors on 45h Street in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic before reopening as a migrant shelter. Nearby, the Row NYC hotel is in a similar state. Outside both, loitering migrants have been photographed taking drugs and alcohol as a migrant-fueled “crime wave” overtook the city…
Small Indiana Town Deluged by Thousands of Haitian Migrants
Logansport is truly in the middle of “nowhere” in the rural midwestern state of Indiana, but despite being hours away from any major metropolis, the small town has still been targeted by the Biden regime.
The town is in the center of northern Indiana more than two hours from Chicago, and an hour and a half north of the state’s biggest city, Indianapolis.
But despite is meager resources and its place hours from any major metropolis, Biden has dumped thousands of Haitians there as well as hundreds from a variety of other nations.
People from 28 countries now call the town of just 18,000 residents their home, as thousands of foreigners — perhaps as many as 5,000 — have streamed there over the last four years, according to WXIN-TV.
With the tidal wave of migrants — both quasi-legal, and illegal — the town is suffering as it races to adjust to the onslaught, which has pushed the area’s resources past the breaking point….
Report: 25,000 U.S.-Bound Migrants Crossed Darién Jungle in September
The surge recorded in September follows the launch of efforts led by the administration of President José Raúl Mulino to curb the flow of migrants passing through Panama’s territory en route to the United States after taking office in July.
While an overwhelming majority of the hundreds of thousands of migrants who have passed through the Darién Gap are Venezuelan nationals, migrants from other South American nations such as Colombia and Ecuador, and Asian nations such as China, continue to pass through the trail en route to the United States.
In 2023, Panama’s Migrant Authority documented 520,085 migrants crossing the Darién Gap.
According to the authority’s most recent statistics, 25,111 migrants passed through the Darién Gap in September, a 51.23-percent increase from the 16,603 recorded in August. Venezuelan nationals accounted for 78.83 percent of September’s total Darién crossings, totaling 19,800 registered encounters, up from the 11,733 logged in August.
Nearly eight million Venezuelans have fled their country over the past decade as a result of the collapse of socialism in their country. The Venezuelan migrant crisis, described as the worst migrant crisis in the Western Hemisphere, is only comparable in size to that of Syria and Ukraine, notable since Venezuela has not been in a state of war in recent history…
Destroyer USS Preble arrives in Japan armed with high-energy laser weapon
A guided-missile destroyer equipped with a high-energy laser joined the U.S. 7th Fleet over the weekend to begin testing the weapon’s effectiveness at sea.
The 60-kilowatt directed energy weapons system is designed to counter small watercraft or drones and collect long-range intelligence, according to manufacturer Lockheed Martin’s website. HELIOS can “dazzle,” or blind or impair sensors aboard surveillance drones, or punch a hole through drones, low-flying aircraft and, in some cases, missiles, according to Lockheed Martin executive Joe Ottaviano, quoted by National Defense magazine in February 2021.
HELIOS is currently in the at-sea testing phase, Task Force 70 spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Seth Koenig told Stars and Stripes by phone Tuesday. The typical overseas deployment for a destroyer is about a decade, but there is currently no defined time associated with the Preble’s assignment to Yokosuka, he said.
The Navy is actively pursuing systems like HELIOS to improve warships’ survivability against large numbers of drones and anti-ship missiles such as those employed by China, the report said.
HELIOS is primarily intended to defend the Preble itself, but it’s also shown some ability to defend other ships in its vicinity, according to the Congressional Research Service report…
Cancer Researcher Drops Ivermectin Bombshell | The Daily Dose
“The drug the media once mocked as ‘horse dewormer’ is now showing miraculous healing potential. So much so that those findings have now been published in a groundbreaking peer-reviewed study.
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