Federal Judge Mark T. Pittman from Texas, appointed by President Trump in 2019, was responsible for forcing Pfizer to release internal documents they wanted sealed for 75 years

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6 pic.twitter.com/FUMaf0QqxN

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This is Federal Judge Mark T. Pittman. 

MEARSHEIMER: Assange is a journalist. He did not break the law, as it is commonplace for journalists to publish classified information that is passed on to them by government Insiders.

"Journalists don't go to jail for publishing classified information in the United States." https://t.co/U4lkU2OK0l

— Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79) February 18, 2024

From John J. Mearsheimer. 

00:19. A determination will soon be made by the British High Court whether to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he has been indicted by the American government and will be put on trial.  I am asking the court not to extradite him and instead to set him free.  I believe this is a straightforward case.  Let me explain.  For starters, the case involves a wide variety of classified documents that Chelsea Manning, who was a government employee, leaked to Julian Assange, a journalist who ran WikiLeaks, a famous website that publishes classified and private documents that were not supposed to see the light of day.  Manning was caught and punished because she was a government employee and she broke the law by leaking materials that were classified to Assange.  But Assange is a journalist.  He did not break the law, as it is commonplace for journalists to publish classified information that is passed on to them by government Insiders.  If journalists in the United States were sent to jail for publishing classified materials, the jails would be filled with many of America's most famous reporters from newspapers like the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, but of course that hardly ever happens.  Simply put, newspapers publish classified material and hardly anybody ever goes to jail.  Why is this the case?  What is the reason for this situation?  Governments of every type, and this includes liberal democracies like the United States and Britain, sometimes go to great lengths to hide their actions or their policies from public view which makes it almost impossible for the public to evaluate and criticize their behavior.  Given that governments sometimes act foolishly, even recklessly, this is not a good situation.  Thus, a rich tradition has developed over time in the United States where insiders leak information about classified policies to journalists who publicize the information so that the public can evaluate it and push back hard against misguided policies.  The most famous case that illustrates this phenomenon involves the famous Pentagon Papers which were a multi-volume study of the American decision to enter the war in Vietnam in the 1964, 1965 period and then escalate it in subsequent years.  

3:32. Daniel Ellsberg, who was an Insider and had access to classified material, leaked the papers in 1971 to the New York Times which subsequently published them.  The story in those documents was starkly at odds with what the Johnson Administration had been telling the American people about U.S. policy in Vietnam.  By most accounts at the time and certainly since then, both Ellsberg and the New York Times performed an important public service.  They exposed a bankrupt policy that underpinned a war that the US could not win.  Ellsberg did not go to jail despite leaking classified information although it did appear at the time that he might be sent to jail.  Certainly, nobody at the New York Times went to jail because again journalists don't go to jail for publishing classified information in the United States.  It is very important to remember that in the case of Julian Assange, he is not the equivalent of Ellsberg because he was not an Insider who leaked the information.  Chelsea Manning was the insider; Assange was the equivalent of the New York Times and thus he should not be extradited so he can be put on trial in the United States. Unsurprisingly, government leaders do not like leaks unless they do the leaking which they frequently do.  Thus, they are powerfully inclined to punish those who do leak and they even try on occasion to punish the journalists who publish leaked material as is the case with Assange.  It is fair game for governments to go after leakers, but it is not acceptable for governments to go after journalists.  Indeed it would directly undermine freedom of the press which is essential for monitoring the governments and holding them accountable when they pursue misguided policies.  In fact, one of the main reasons that the U.S. government is so determined to put Assange behind bars is that he has exposed malfeasance by U.S. policymakers.  In my opinion, that is all for the good and essential for making liberal democracy, like the United States, work as efficiently and wisely as possible.  

6:35. Two final points.  First, it is important to emphasize that nobody was hurt because of the documents that Assange published.  Nobody's life was put in danger because of what he posted on WikiLeaks and certainly nobody was killed.  For sure, the misguided actions of many U.S. policymakers were exposed because of what Assange did, but that, in my opinion, was all for the good.  Second, Assange has already paid a huge price for his actions.  He has effectively been in prison for years.  Sending him to the United States where he is likely to be convicted and sentenced to a long jail term would be a case of cruel and unusual punishment.  For all these reasons, I respectfully ask the British High Court not to extradite Assange to the United States.  In my opinion, that would clearly be the right decision.  Thank you.  

Tucker Carlson radicalized by Russian standard of living

Tucker Carlson We've been told sanctions on Russia have had a devastating effect on its economy. We visited a grocery store in Moscow and found a very different situation. pic.twitter.com/oPF1WUE6Ec

— 1776 (@TheWakeninq) February 15, 2024

2000 Map of Church Bodies Across America

Even today, the tone and tenor of American regions is largely set by Christian denomination.

For a northeasterner, the Catholic-Mainline zone seems like "normal America." Some version of this goes all the way from Maine out to Kansas.

When you hit the Baptist world, you know… pic.twitter.com/XEneZKYTIh

— VB Knives (@Empty_America) February 17, 2024

TIMOTHY MCVEIGH: the execution went ahead on June 11th, 2001. In a highly unusual and secret agreement, no autopsy was performed. One witness said he was still breathing. The prison officials admitted his hearse was a decoy.

This is well documented information contradicting the patently false, official account of the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995 pic.twitter.com/vss2ZwXxps

— illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) February 17, 2024

On the morning of April 19th, 1995, a decorated Gulf War combat vet blew up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City using a truck bomb that he didn't build and a Ryder truck that he didn't rent with the help of a passenger who didn't exist.  Having just gotten away with the largest act of terrorism on U.S. soil to date, the Fort Bragg trained, Special Forces sheep drip dropout blended in with the crowd by making his getaway in a car without a license plate and was immediately pulled over. The ATF was the supposed a target of the attack, but luckily all of their agents were out of the office that morning.  Later that day, the President boldly declared "We will find the people who did this.  When we do, justice will be swift, certain, and severe," except for 

"John Doe #2, who according to the FBI, never existed.  In McVeigh's unprecedented three and a half week trial, the prosecution didn't show the CCTV footage of him, and John Doe #2 parking Ryder truck.  Didn't explain why 24 separate witnesses mass hallucinated the existence of John Doe #2, didn't explain why the government was testing truck bombs and the Army was storing Ryder trucks at Camp Gruber right before the bombing, and didn't talk to the FBI informants who blew the whistle on the plot.  But they did collaborate with the CIA and they did convict McVeigh as the lone wolf bomber and Terry Nichols as his bomb constructing accomplice.  Still, a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists, including 300 bombing victims, insist on talking about facts and evidence and refuse to simply believe what they're told a million times by people who tailored suits with well quaffed hair.  They quote the US Army Brigadier General and the FBI crime lab whistleblower and the inventor of the neutron bomb who point out the physical impossibility that the Ryder truck bomb did the damage to the Murrah Building, but that doesn't matter because if there were other bombs in the building that day we would have heard about them:  

"The second explosive was found and defused."  

"I think he said another bomb . . . ."

"The Justice Department is reporting a second explosive device has been found."

"They then found a third device which was also larger than the first."

"And I see another bomb truck going so apparently apparently they're going to try and get out that third bomb."

The FBI claims to have lost the footage showing McVeigh and John Doe #2 parking the truck in front of the Murrah building that morning, but that's understandable because the Bureau has a lot of important evidence to store.

2:15. Terry Nichols insists that the FBI was involved in the plot but thankfully a judge has saved us the trouble of listening to him by preventing lawyers from deposing him.

2:22. Bomb squad truck parked across the street 2 hours before the blast, but that just shows the authorities were prepared for anything.  

2:27. Of the documents obtained by 20/20 show that someone called the Executive Secretariat's Office at the Justice Department in Washington and said "The Murrah Building had been bombed," but this was 24 minutes before the blast." But that shows the public was unusually vigilant that morning.  

2:45. Also, apparently before the bombing, Governor Frank Keating's brother, Martin Keating, had been working on a novel [S.A.S.S.Y.: Based on a True Story that Hasn't Happened.  Yet., Martin Keating, 1996] about a terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City.  Stranger still, one of the characters in the novel was named Thomas McVeigh." 

But that's probably just a coincidence.

In politics, nothing happens by accident.  If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.  -- Franklin D Roosevelt 

McVeigh wrote a letter to his sister where he admitted to being a secret Special Forces Operative and he complained to his friends about the pain in the ass from an Army-implanted microchip.  But that's crazy because if he didn't actually leave the Army in 1991, there would be proof of that.  VIDEO shows McVeigh inside a tank at Camp Grafton in North Dakota in August 1993, two years after his supposed exit from the Army in 1991. 

3:15. McVeigh was not executed on May 16th, 2001 as scheduled because "the FBI had failed to turn over thousands of pages of evidence to McVeigh's defense attorneys."  But the execution went ahead on June 11th, 2001.  In a highly unusual and secret agreement, no autopsy was performed.  One witness said he was still breathing.  The prison officials admitted his hearse was a decoy.  Then the case was officially closed.  

If you question any part of the story you are a paranoid wingnut, birther, truther, 10ther, prepper, or conspiracy loon who'd bring up any of these points ever again.

Learn more on Timothy McVeigh from the Corbett Report. 

The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror https://t.co/BD3eBNmzdx via @amazon

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