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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/18
« Last post by SVPete on April 20, 2026, 03:43:38 PM »
An update:

FBI Director Kash Patel Files $250 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against The Atlantic

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/fbi-director-kash-patel-files-250-million-defamation-lawsuit-against-the-atlantic-6014458?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport&src_src=partner&src_cmp=BonginoReport

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FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and its staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick over an article, alleging its claims were false.

In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Patel stated the magazine and Fitzpatrick “published the Article with actual malice, despite being expressly warned, hours before publication, that the central allegations were categorically false,” also “despite having abundant publicly available information contradicting those allegations,” and “despite obvious and fatal defects in their own sourcing.”

The Atlantic article by Fitzpatrick, which cited anonymous sources, claimed Patel allegedly drank in excess and that his colleagues were concerned. At one point, Fitzpatrick wrote that “multiple current officials” and “former officials who have stayed close to him” were concerned about the alleged drinking, also claiming that President Donald Trump is seeking to replace him following the ouster of former Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Since The Atlantic was informed that the claims were false, ignoring that could be claimed to be evidence of malice.
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The DUmpster / Re: I don't know it for a fact, I just know that it is true...
« Last post by SVPete on April 20, 2026, 01:38:43 PM »
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... the old, half-torn down, White House ...

Evidently kt is so ignorant that he does not know that the East Wing was not part of the White House but a separate building built in 1942 by FDR and connected to the WH by a hallway/corridor.

If kt's runt-rant has context, I'm guessing it's Trump's attempts to negotiate with Iran. If so, it would seem that what he considers "berserk" is Trump trying to get Iran's leaders to agree to and carry out actions that would benefit most of the world (plus or minus Russia and China), including Iran, instead of bombing Iran back to the 7th Century (or worse).
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The DUmpster / Re: Another ICE outrage:
« Last post by SVPete on April 20, 2026, 01:27:57 PM »
It's amazing what you learn when you do a simple DDG search of "Meenu Batra" (an amazingly sophisticated search phrase):

Longtime courtroom interpreter detained by ICE says she worked in U.S. legally for decades...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/courtroom-interpreter-detained-by-ice-meenu-batra/

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Meenu Batra, a single mother of four adult U.S. citizens, was arrested March 17 by federal immigration officers at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, while on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on a work trip.
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"They told me you're here illegally," Batra told CBS News of her arrest in an exclusive interview Wednesday from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's El Valle Detention Facility in Raymondville, Texas, located near the U.S.-Mexico border. "And I said, 'No, sir, I have my documents with me, in my bag right now.'"

Batra was born in India. When she was a teenager, her parents were killed because of their Sikh religion. She fled to the U.S. roughly 35 years ago and applied for asylum.

In 2000, she was granted an immigration status known as "withholding of removal," which differs from asylum.

Unlike asylum, withholding of removal recipients cannot apply for permanent U.S. residency. It also does not protect them from being deported to a third-party country.
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In a statement provided to CBS News, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security called Batra an "illegal alien," adding that "employment authorization does not confer any type of legal status."

My emphasis. In sum: she entered illegally; she was granted "withholding of removal" status rather than asylum; she was given permission to work, but not any form of legal resident status. Why nothing was done with her from 2000 until a month ago, :shrug: . Deporting illegals was not at all a very high priority for Clinton, GWB, OhBummer!, or LIEden.
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The DUmpster / Re: I"ll just drop this here without comment
« Last post by ADsOutburst on April 20, 2026, 01:00:23 PM »
So I guess this was supposed to be some big mic drop moment for DU, but instead, the mic hit the DU poster in the foot, and they tripped over the amplifier cord trying to catch it. :tongue:
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The DUmpster / Re: I don't know it for a fact, I just know that it is true...
« Last post by ADsOutburst on April 20, 2026, 12:53:36 PM »
Go berserk? That sounds like something Hillary Clinton or Amy Klobuchar (among other Democrats) would do.

I don't know it for a fact, I just know that it is true...
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The DUmpster / Re: I don't know it for a fact, I just know that it is true...
« Last post by Old n Grumpy on April 20, 2026, 12:16:24 PM »
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I don't know it for a fact, I just know that it is true...

That’s some twisted logic, but I guess everybody at the dump has a twisted brain :thatsright: :mental: :loser:
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The DUmpster / Re: Another ICE outrage:
« Last post by Old n Grumpy on April 20, 2026, 12:15:00 PM »
Bottom line, she was super illegally and had a deportation order so out she goes :thatsright:
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/20
« Last post by SVPete on April 20, 2026, 12:04:28 PM »
The DOJ Has Found HOW MANY Dead People on Voter Rolls?

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/20/the-doj-has-found-how-many-dead-people-on-voter-rolls-n4951972

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The Department of Justice has been quietly building what could become one of the most consequential voter integrity efforts in American history — and the woman running it says the results are already alarming.

Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, sat down with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures on Sunday morning and laid out exactly what her office has been finding as it works through voter rolls state by state.
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Dhillon came on to discuss a range of issues — from the slow grind of accountability for the Russia collusion hoax to the CIA's role in manufacturing the fake Hunter Biden laptop narrative. But when the conversation eventually turned to elections, that's where things got genuinely jaw-dropping.
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"We have to interview a lot of witnesses. We don't wanna do what the other side did, which is just jump to conclusions, and so we're building strong cases." She acknowledged the frustration — years of documented abuse, and still no perp walks — but pushed back on the idea that nothing is happening behind the scenes. "I can assure you that the whole Department of Justice is very committed to this," she said, adding that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is continuing the work that Pam Bondi started.

She also took a moment to call out what she framed as judicial resistance to the Trump DOJ's legitimate work. Judges, she said — particularly recently appointed ones — have been "doing their own form of lawfare by simply denying the Trump administration's valid cases in court." That obstruction, she made clear, extends to her office's efforts on voting integrity.
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Part of her job, she explained, has involved housecleaning — rooting out career DOJ staff who weren't exactly on the team. "People have been burrowed in there for decades doing political partisanship," she said, "and that's just not what we're supposed to be doing at the DOJ."

Then came the voter rolls.

Dhillon said she's requested voter roll data from every state and the District of Columbia. About a third have cooperated voluntarily or reached settlements. The rest? She's suing 29 states and D.C. for refusing to hand over records the attorney general is legally entitled to under the Civil Rights Act of 1960. "States are not in compliance," she said, "even those ones who want to."

Regarding the records she's already been able to run, 60 million of them, the findings are stunning. Her office found at least 350,000 dead people currently listed on voter rolls across those jurisdictions as active voters. That’s an alarming number, especially when you consider the fact that the 2020 election was decided on fewer than 50,000 votes across the battleground states. This is why Democrats in Congress oppose the SAVE America Act, even though an overwhelming majority of Americans support it.

Keep in mind, that 350,000 dead people on the voter rolls id just from 21 states! Among the states that are "resisting" voter roll scrutiny are populous Dem-run states like California, Illinois, and New York. IOW, it would be utterly unsurprising, IMO, if the number of dead on voter rolls topped 1 million.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/20
« Last post by SVPete on April 20, 2026, 12:03:08 PM »
'60 Minutes' accused of using left-leaning Cardinals to bait Trump into feud with Vatican

https://www.foxnews.com/media/60-minutes-accused-using-left-leaning-cardinals-bait-trump-feud-vatican

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Some conservative commentators accused CBS’s "60 Minutes" of airing a segment featuring three "left-wing" cardinals who criticized the Trump administration’s immigration and Iran policies.

Father Gerald Murray and author Robert Royal joined Raymond Arroyo on "The Prayerful Posse" to discuss whether the situation was meant to spark a conflict between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV.

"The three of them are billed as so-called influential, but none of them hold offices in the U.S. Bishops' Conference, and they have never been elected," Royal said.

He compared the group to "The Squad" in U.S. politics, calling them "a very definite and pretty left-wing group of just three."
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Arroyo suggested the media framed the conflict to bait the White House into a dispute with the Vatican, which he labeled "pope-a-doping."

"They were trying to get Trump to overreact, and he did," Arroyo said.

After the "60 Minutes" episode aired, Trump and the pope publicly criticized each other.

Hmmmm ... Cardinal Joseph Tobin is Archbishop of Newark ... Cardinal Robert McElroy is Archbishop of Washington, DC ... not named in the article, Cardinal Blase Cupich is Archbishop of Chicago. To this outsider, these seem to be pretty influential positions. Maybe there's something way "inside baseball" I'm not aware of, but it seems more accurate to have said that SeeBS Skews cherrypicked the most left-leaning, anti-Trump high-level Catholic leaders to fit the story they wanted to craft.

FWIW, Raymond Arroyo is the sort of faithful and observant Catholic that LIEden's FBI might have been surveiling.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/20
« Last post by SVPete on April 20, 2026, 11:58:45 AM »
U.S. Forces Disable Vessel Attempting to Enter Iranian Port, Violate Blockade

https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2045969284690788615

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TAMPA, Fla. – U.S. forces operating in the Arabian Sea enforced naval blockade measures against an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel attempting to sail toward an Iranian port, April 19.

Guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) intercepted M/V Touska as it transited the north Arabian Sea at 17 knots enroute to Bandar Abbas, Iran. American forces issued multiple warnings and informed the Iranian-flagged vessel it was in violation of the U.S. blockade.

After Touska’s crew failed to comply with repeated warnings over a six-hour period, Spruance directed the vessel to evacuate its engine room. Spruance disabled Touska’s propulsion by firing several rounds from the destroyer’s 5-inch MK 45 Gun into Touska’s engine room. U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit later boarded the non-compliant vessel, which remains in U.S. custody.

The Spruance's 5"/62 gun is pretty BA. The max range is 20 nautical miles, and it can fire up to 20 shells a minute (fully automatic). The Touska is a ~66,400 ton container ship, so if it was fairly loaded rooting through its cargo will take some time.
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