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Bongino’s FBI U-Turn: Proof The Bureau Is Back In The Fight
John Nantz | Mar 26, 2025
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During recent remarks at DOJ, FBI Director Kash Patel said, “We have a new FBI.” However, critics suggest that Patel’s statement is far too premature. How can an agency that many deemed irredeemable a few months ago be transformed so quickly? Shouldn’t the reformation of such a broken enterprise take years? Or decades, if at all?
Either Patel is sorely misinformed, or perhaps the FBI wasn’t so irredeemably corrupt. Many FBI hecklers have asked why FBI agents didn’t protest en masse during the implementation of Biden-Garland policies of politicized investigations and the weaponization of FBI resources against J6 protestors and Donald Trump.
The short answer is that smart people play the long game and don’t sacrifice the power of influence without considering complex factors.
On the Jocko Podcast, Jocko Willink references Oskar Schindler when asked a similar question, “head-on conflict is generally not the best way to solve problems. Most of the time, it is much smarter to maneuver and build allegiance and alliance with people so you can influence them and move them in the right direction.” He asks the question, how many people would Schindler have saved if he’d directly confronted the Nazis? Answer: none.
Willink goes on to cite another powerful example of influence. Major Richard Winters, most famously known by his depiction in the film Band of Brothers knew the value in preserving his power and his sphere of influence. “If you’re telling me, hey Jocko, go do the mission this way. And I’m like, I’m not doing it. And, you go, OK, you’re fired, and now you put some yes-man in my place…did I really help?” Willink goes on to say that even after influence fails, a leader still has the opportunity to mitigate risk. And that’s Major Winters’ example. When the war was over, for all intents and purposes, Winters was ordered to take his men out on an unnecessary mission and risk their lives. Instead, Winters allowed his soldiers to simply run out the clock and drink wine in a cellar. He mitigated the risk to his men. Had he not been there, they likely would not have survived.
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New Report Uncovers Shocking Incompetence In SBA's Pandemic Fraud Detection Process
Sarah Arnold | March 25, 2025 10:00 PM
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A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has exposed shocking levels of incompetence by the Small Business Administration (SBA) in its investigation of pandemic fraud. According to SBA officials, the agency's four-step process for managing fraud risks in its pandemic loan programs—specifically the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans (COVID-19 EIDL)—was supposed to follow a thorough system. Yet, the GAO found significant failures in oversight, leaving taxpayers vulnerable and millions of dollars in fraudulent loans unaccounted for. This failure highlights the SBA's inability to protect taxpayer funds and demonstrates the risks inherent in poorly managed government programs.
According to the GAO report, the Small Business Administration (SBA) demonstrated a staggering incompetence in investigating pandemic fraud. The SBA used a four-step process to manage fraud risks in the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (COVID-EIDL) program, which involved screening, data analytics, human-led reviews, and Office of SBA Inspector General (OIG) referrals. Despite overseeing over $1 trillion in loans and grants to over 10 million small businesses during the pandemic, this fraud prevention process wasn't fully implemented until more than half of the PPP and COVID-EIDL funds had already been approved.
For the COVID-EIDL, more than $210 billion of an eventual $385 billion, 55 percent, had already been disbursed before the complete process was implemented. Over $525 billion of an eventual $800 billion, 66 percent, had already been approved for the PPP.
More from the report:
The four-step process as applied to COVID-19 EIDL and the PPP had weaknesses, as several audit entities, including GAO, SBA's OIG, and SBA's independent financial statement auditor, have previously reported. For example, as part of its screening step, SBA compared loan applications against the Treasury's various Do Not Pay (DNP) databases and public records. A June 2024 SBA OIG report found, however, that SBA awarded and disbursed funds to potentially ineligible entities listed in DNP without sufficient evidence to support the loan decision. In response to this report, SBA agreed, among other things, to review and address those loans and grants with an alert in the file that was not previously addressed. According to SBA's OIG, the proposed action did not fully meet OIG's recommendation to review all loans identified as potentially ineligible.
In its work, GAO identified a weakness in SBA's process for referring cases of likely fraud to its OIG—that is, step four of its four-step process. As part of its referral step for COVID-EIDL, SBA submitted almost 3 million referrals to its OIG. SBA OIG officials told GAO that of these referrals, about 2 million were not actionable because they did not contain enough data elements to allow for further investigation or had quality issues, such as duplicates or incorrect information. Without an effective referral process, the SBA OIG is not able to fully investigate instances of likely fraud and make follow-on referrals to, for example, the Department of Justice for prosecution, as necessary.
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Trump signs order cracking down on voter fraud, noncitizen voting
President Donald Trump gestures as he departs a reception celebrating Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) more >
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, March 25, 2025
President Trump moved to crack down on noncitizen voting in federal elections with a new executive order Tuesday requiring people who register to vote to use a federal form to provide proof of citizenship.
The order also directed the Department of Homeland Security to make its databases available, free of charge, to states and local officials who want to use the information to scour their own voter rolls for noncitizens who are registered.
Mr. Trump ordered Homeland Security and his own Department of Government Efficiency to review states’ voter lists, and he ordered the Justice Department to more strenuously pursue cases of noncitizen voting and other voter fraud.
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President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order declaring that only the attorney general or the president, instead of federal regulators or bureaucrats, can speak for the U.S. when interpreting the meaning of laws carried out by the executive branch.
The order was among three executive actions carried out by Mr. Trump. He also signed an executive order expanding access to in vitro fertilization and a memorandum requiring federal agencies to report waste, fraud and abuse that’s uncovered and to detail programs that are eliminated.
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Trump declassifies files on FBI’s secret spy operation on his first White House campaign
Former FBI Director James Comey speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill Washington, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, after a second closed-door interview with two Republican-led committees investigating what they say was bias at the Justice Department before the 2016 presidential election. … more >
By Susan Ferrechio and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times - Tuesday, March 25, 2025
President Trump on Tuesday signed an order declassifying all FBI files on Crossfire Hurricane, the government’s secret probe that searched fruitlessly for evidence that Mr. Trump colluded with the Russians to win the White House in 2016.
Mr. Trump’s legal team called the FBI’s probe of his campaign, which continued into his first term in the White House, an example of the weaponization of law enforcement and prosecutions against the president and something that must be exposed.
“We believe that it’s long past time for the American people to have a full and complete understanding of exactly what is in those files,” Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary, said as he handed Mr. Trump the memorandum to sign.
The order was among several actions taken by Mr. Trump on Tuesday aimed at exposing and ending the weaponization of government, which was one of his top campaign promises.
Mr. Trump signed an executive order targeting a law firm that once employed Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor who served as a top deputy to Robert Mueller, who conducted a two-year-long investigation into accusations Mr. Trump colluded with Russia.
The order targets the law firm Jenner & Block, which hired Mr. Weissmann after Mr. Mueller concluded his investigation into ties between Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia without finding any proof of what Democratic politicians had publicly insisted was true for years.
Mr. Scharf said the firm engaged in the “weaponization of the legal system against American principles and values.”
Mr. Trump called Mr. Weissmann, a staunch public critic of the president, “a bad guy.”
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Trump Admin Invokes ‘State Secrets Privilege’ to Block Release of Deportation Information
By invoking the privilege, the administration can avoid releasing information about its deportations of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.
Salvadoran police escort alleged members of the Tren de Aragua, in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador. Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via Reuters
By Emel Akan
3/24/2025
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3/24/2025
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration on March 24 invoked the “state secrets privilege,” a move that could lead to the dismissal of the case against the government regarding the deportation of Venezuelan illegal immigrants to El Salvador.
The “state secrets privilege” is a legal doctrine developed by the Supreme Court to protect sensitive national security information from disclosure in civil litigation. Key cases, such as Totten v. United States (1876) and Reynolds v. United States (1953), established its application, allowing the government to withhold information in litigation if its disclosure would pose a national security risk.
By using this privilege, the Trump administration won’t have to provide information about deportees. Hence, the case against the government might be dismissed.
The government’s court filing stated, “The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court’s March 18, 2025, Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege and the concurrently filed declarations of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security.”
While courts must review claims of privilege, they avoid excessive scrutiny to prevent revealing classified information. Recent cases such as United States v. Zubaydah (2021) and Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga (2021) have further defined the scope of this privilege.
The government has used the privilege in a variety of cases, including those involving surveillance, government contracts, and national security threats.
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Scott Turner to Newsmax: HUD for Americans Only
By Mark Swanson | Monday, 24 March 2025 10:36 PM EDT
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner told Newsmax that the Trump administration took steps Monday to put an end to HUD-funded housing benefiting illegal migrants.
Turner, along with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, signed the "American Housing Programs for American Citizens" Memorandum of Understanding to end the wasteful misappropriation of taxpayer dollars to benefit illegals instead of American citizens, according to a release.
"Secretary Noem and I partnered to sign an MOU to ensure that American taxpayer dollars, in particular when it comes to HUD-funded housing, goes to the American people," Turner said in an appearance on "Greg Kelly Reports."
"The Biden administration had terrible immigration policies, border secure policies. And so because of that, they were prioritizing illegal aliens over the American people. And so today,, we put a stop to that to make sure that the American people are first, our first and only priority, and that illegal aliens will not be funded to live in HUD-funded housing," he added.
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