Trump supporters behaving like the bags of ass that they are
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Chickenshits. They're not about that action.
The interesting backstory of the show was that lead actor Andy Griffith was a big open supporter of the Civil Rights Movement and supported MLK.
He wanted to have a Black doctor on the show to be the town doctor and be married to a educated Black woman (pre-Cosby Show). He also wanted the Black doctor to have a son the same age as Opie and they were to be best friends on the show.
As expected, Hollywood executives said Fuck No so it never happened.
I recalled him revealing the backstory back in the 1990s. I need to find it.
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'You Mexicans are gonna learn your lesson': Racist Karen calls cops on man for recording her, dubs him 'illegal'
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Bags of ass 
Bags of ass
Yo, all you need is this thread and the Herman Cain awards thread and you're all set!!!!
In context, he's speicifically saying that he came up with the concept of calling the news fake, or the phrase "fake news". And I'm not saying that to make him seem any more intelligent. He's actually a much bigger asshole for deliberately demonizing an entire group of journalists just because he didn't like them reporting the actual things he's said and done.
1. I've devoted much of my career to understanding authoritarianism and the breakdown of democracy. And I'm growing increasingly pessimistic about the prospects for American democracy, because of one simple question: what could slow down the GOP march toward authoritarianism?
2. I've thought a lot about this and I can come up with hundreds of reasons why the increasing authoritarian extremism in the Republican party/base is not just self-sustaining, but likely to accelerate. Let's start with just a few key reasons for this ratcheting extremism here:
3. Primaries: Republicans who try to govern by consensus, compromise, or democratic principles rather than relentlessly kowtowing to autocratic Trumpian dogma now end up with primary challengers. Everyone knows this in the GOP, so even moderates become more extreme over time.
4. Gerrymandering: this is bad and getting worse. Most districts are uncompetitive, leading to electoral landslides, so the only way for a Republican to lose is to provoke a primary challenger. That means that the rational strategy is to pander to the authoritarian extremists.
5. (Social) Media breakout power. Two/three decades ago, someone like MTG would have been expelled from the GOP immediately. Now, she's a Republican breakout star on TV and on social media even though she's a first term Congresswoman. Authoritarianism now comes with star power.
6. The point is this: there are huge pressures pushing Republicans toward embracing authoritarian extremism. And here's the problem: there are no countervailing forces. There's nothing that rewards being a sober moderate who believes in democracy and tries to govern by consensus.
7. In fact, the people who try to defend democracy within the GOP become pariahs. Their careers die. So what happens? Even the moderates at heart start acting like zealots because it's the only way to maintain power and stay in good stead in the Republican party.
8. Many thought Jan. 6 would be the breaking point. But it wasn't. In fact, the authoritarian attempts to overturn the election have, if anything, become more mainstream, more of a litmus test for future GOP candidates. "Do you believe Trump won?" is an authoritarian loyalty test
9. Here's the bottom line: nobody has come up with a convincing explanation for how this authoritarian trend reverses itself. That's why, as someone who studies these dynamics for a living, I'm worried that the GOP is becoming irreversibly authoritarian. (Sorry to be depressing)
It's about to get wild out here
How is Trump not on notice for at least an indictment yet
I think when Attorney Genetic Merritt Garland got in, he may have thought it would be a slam dunk taking Trump and his goons down.
I suspect AG Garland got into the DOJ and discovered a crap load of shit Trump and his goons did for the 4 years in office, that it will make the shit we know seem insignificant.
Top former President Trump aides subpoenaed by Capitol riot committee
A select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol has subpoenaed four of former President Donald Trump's aides. Information has been requested from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former deputy chief of staff Daniel Scavino Junior, former adviser Stephen Bannon and former Pentagon chief of staff Kash Patel. The committee demands that the four men produce documentation by October 7 and appear at depositions the following week, AP and New York Times report.
"The subpoenas come as the committee has demanded detailed records about Mr. Trump’s every movement and meeting on the day of the assault, in a series of requests to federal agencies that suggested it was focusing on any involvement the former president may have had in the attack’s planning or execution." — The New York Times
"The subpoenas are a significant escalation for the panel, which is now launching the interview phase of the investigation after sorting through thousands of pages of documents the committee requested from federal agencies and social media companies. The goal is to provide a complete accounting of what went wrong when the Trump loyalists quickly overwhelmed police and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory — and to prevent anything like it from ever happening again." — AP
A select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol has subpoenaed four of former President Donald Trump's aides. Information has been requested from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former deputy chief of staff Daniel Scavino Junior, former adviser Stephen Bannon and former Pentagon chief of staff Kash Patel. The committee demands that the four men produce documentation by October 7 and appear at depositions the following week, AP and New York Times report.
"The subpoenas come as the committee has demanded detailed records about Mr. Trump’s every movement and meeting on the day of the assault, in a series of requests to federal agencies that suggested it was focusing on any involvement the former president may have had in the attack’s planning or execution." — The New York Times
"The subpoenas are a significant escalation for the panel, which is now launching the interview phase of the investigation after sorting through thousands of pages of documents the committee requested from federal agencies and social media companies. The goal is to provide a complete accounting of what went wrong when the Trump loyalists quickly overwhelmed police and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory — and to prevent anything like it from ever happening again." — AP
So what happens to them if they don't comply with the subpoenas? I suspect there won't be any real consequences.
So what happens to them if they don't comply with the subpoenas? I suspect there won't be any real consequences.
The DOJ will issue out warrants for their arrest the same way if you ignore a subpoena.
The reason why warrants did not go out during Trumps impeachment’s was that the DOJ was headed by his goon Attorney General William Barr.
How is Trump not on notice for at least an indictment yet
They still building the case on the state and Federal level.
Both Trumps sons have sat down with NY State AG to answer questions. Trumps CFO has been brought in. Trumps former lawyer was brought in along with a long list of subordinates who work, worked for The Trump Organization and under him as POTUS.
They working from the bottom up. Similar to how you have to work to bring down a Mafia Boss.
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Covert Postal Service unit probed Jan. 6 social media
In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, an obscure arm of the U.S. Postal Service did some serious internet sleuthing.
On Jan. 11, the United States Postal Inspection Service’s Internet Covert Operations Program — better known as iCOP — sent bulletins to law enforcement agencies around the country on how to view social media posts that had been deleted. It also described its scrutiny of posts on the fringe social media network Wimkin.
Few Americans are aware that the same organization that delivers their mail also runs a robust surveillance operation rooted in an agency that dates back to the 18th century. And iCOP’s involvement raises questions about how broad the mandate of the Postal Service’s policing arm has grown from its stated mission of keeping mail deliverers safe.
The documents also point to potential gaps in the Jan. 6 select committee’s investigation by revealing concerns about a company it is not known to be scrutinizing. And those documents point to a new challenge for law enforcement in the post-Jan. 6 era: how to track extremist organizing across a host of low-profile platforms.
Two more previously unpublished government documents reviewed by POLITICO — one of which was reported on by ABC News — reveal more about the increasingly complex work of tracking extremism, and the concerns those efforts generate among civil liberties advocates. Property of the People, a watchdog group focused on national security, obtained the documents through open records requests as part of its investigation of the Jan. 6 attack. The group has also obtained records showing that hundreds of law enforcement officers planned ahead in case Jan. 6 became a mass casualty event, and that an FBI bomb analyst warned her coworkers that #StopTheSteal could turn violent.
Both iCOP bulletins are dated Jan. 11. They circulated through law enforcement circles, including to intelligence-sharing hubs called fusion centers that connect federal agencies with their state and local partners. One of the reports highlights tweets from two users about Jan. 6.
One of the tweets, from Czech Republic-based company Intelligence X, announced the creation of a system for people to share pictures and videos from the Capitol attack. Another tweet, from an account called “@donk_enby,” says it includes a link to every Parler post made during the riot.
Accessing those Parler posts was a focus for law enforcement, since the Jan. 6 attackers had extensive discussions on the platform before the attack about engaging in violence that day. But — as the iCOP bulletin noted — major tech companies stopped providing services to Parler in the wake of the attack because of violent content. As a result, the social network went offline.
The iCOP bulletin implied that the disappearance of all those posts could create a hurdle for law enforcement efforts to prevent future violence — and that the archive created by “@donk_enby” could be a useful resource.
“Although Parler is currently inactive and inaccessible, efforts fronted by ‘@donk_enby’, Intelligence X, and public contributions of data can assist law enforcement in the analysis and identification of parties involved in the US Capitol Protests,” the bulletin says. “The archived information can assist in the possible mitigation of future violent protests.”
Peter Kleissner, the CEO of Intelligence X, said he wasn’t aware the Postal Service had circulated information about his archive.
“Our intention behind the archive is to make sure that these important pictures and videos of this event aren’t lost and evidence is preserved,” he emailed. “This archive is not just important for the short-term use to hold rioters accountable, but also for the long-term for future generations.”
The second iCOP bulletin is titled “Nationwide coordination of Militia Groups and Threat to Nancy Pelosi.” It homed in on a website called givemebass.com and said a post “directly associated to the site founder [sic]” threatened House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The bulletin included an image saying “DEMAND PELOSI BE EXECUTED SHE TRIED TO COME BETWEEN OUR POTUS THE NUCLEAR CODES [sic].”
The Postal Service bulletin raised concerns that someone was using givemebass.com to coordinate national militias.
“The Wimkin account ‘Vik Freeman’ has been promoting the website ‘givemebass[.]com’ as a portal for communication and coordination which has been posted to multiple militia pages on Wimkin,” the bulletin reads.
The bulletin added that iCOP analysts were “actively monitoring the website and Wimkin account” for new posts. It included information about who it believed had registered givemebass.com and when, along with details about its reach across other Wimkin pages. Wimkin bills itself as “The World’s Only Free Speech Social Media Platform,” but its terms of service say posts on the platform cannot contain “nudity, pornographic materials including cartoons, and cannot be threatening nor criminally harassing in any way shape or form.”
Chip Gibbons, the policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent, said the document points to the growing overlap between intelligence-gathering and law enforcement work — especially since the connection between the Jan. 6 attacks and the postal service appears to be tenuous at best.
“Law enforcement-intelligence apparatuses raise serious Constitutional questions, serious questions for our democracy,” he said. “It is outside their jurisdiction as I understand it.”
“The FBI has jurisdiction over domestic terrorism, whereas the Post Office — I don’t even know how they’re involved in this,” he added.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said the agency reviews public social media posts as part of “a comprehensive security and threat analysis.”
“News report and social media listening activity helps protect the 644,000 men and women who work for the Postal Service by ensuring they are able to avoid potentially volatile situations while working to process and deliver the nation’s mail every day,” the spokesperson said.
The USPS’s covert operations program drew attention in April when Yahoo! reported on a bulletin it sent out in March about anti-lockdown and anti-5G protests. That bulletin, which cited social media posts, generated concerns on Capitol Hill. Members of the House Oversight Committee called on the Postal Service’s inspector general to probe the program and see if analysts there engaged in illegal surveillance, as Yahoo! also reported.
These new materials, along with two other documents, highlight the growing complexity of that work. A March 29 report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis said militia violent extremists are “actively disguising their online social media outreach” to promote violence, find fellow violent extremists and share tactics.
“In 2020, MVEs used or expressed interest in using a variety of more secure and often encrypted messaging applications — including Zello, Telegram, Signal, and Threema — to discuss operational activity, according to FBI and open source reporting,” the DHS report reads.
The report also said that social media companies focus on “overt threats of violence” when removing content. It added that if U.S. government officials worked with the private sector to develop indicators of “operational planning and recruitment,” it would help those companies understand how militia extremists skirted their terms of service. The report also said such engagement could help U.S. officials detect and disrupt extremists’ efforts.
The DHS report also references FBI reporting about posts that militia extremists made on social media in the months before the Jan. 6 attack. It specifically notes FBI reporting about posts that went up in July, August and October of 2020. After the Jan. 6 attack, FBI Director Chris Wray fielded multiple questions at congressional hearings about the FBI’s social media monitoring, as Lawfare has detailed. He and others have signaled that the FBI’s internal rules about monitoring social media contributed to their failure to predict the violence.
“We’re not allowed to ... just sit and monitor social media and look at one person’s posts … just in case,” he said in one hearing.
But the DHS report indicates that the FBI has collected information that militia extremists posted in the months leading up to the Jan. 6 attack. This is notable since militia extremists were among those who attacked the Capitol. The DHS report does not say if the FBI collected these months-old social media posts before or after Jan. 6, and it does not say how the posts came to the FBI’s attention.
Mike German, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and a former FBI agent focused on domestic terrorism, said he believes FBI counterterrorism efforts over-emphasize social media.
“A lot of people online say things that are really scary, and if law enforcement is using its resources to focus there, it might explain why so much of this violence that occurs on the streets is unpoliced, because they’re spending their resources searching out bad words online,” he said.
German said he thinks the FBI should focus more of its resources on investigating violent crimes committed by far-right extremists, rather than trying to predict which ones will turn violent based on their social media posts.
And those social media posts are still plentiful, despite the efforts by the biggest mainstream social media companies to purge extremist content. According to a Jan. 15 report from the Central Florida Intelligence Exchange, an intelligence-sharing hub, domestic extremists migrated to alternative platforms after Jan. 6.
“In an effort to avoid censorship and maintain their online presence, DVEs of varying ideologies began migrating to existing alternative platforms such as MeWe, Telegram, Gab, Clouthub, Minds, and TikTok,” the Florida report reads. “Popular message boards such as 4chan and 8kun also experienced an increase in users.”
The same report said people linked to the Boogaloo movement — a loosely organized movement of anti-government extremists who believe a civil war is near — “began migrating to alternative platforms, and can currently be found on Telegram, MeWe, Minds, and TikTok.” That migration came after social media networks began removing Boogaloo content in the wake of the arrests of multiple people linked to the movement. The report noted that the number of Boogaloo hashtags and accounts on Twitter was growing, and that Boogaloo-related accounts were still active on TikTok, though “more difficult to locate due to being shadowbanned.”
The report added detail on shadowbanning: “When a channel is shadowbanned, the content is blocked and a name and/or hashtag search will bring back no results,” it read. “The shadowbanning has no effect on subscribers of the channel. Additionally, new users are still able to locate and join these channels by clicking hashtags shared by other TikTok users they have subscribed to.”
A TikTok spokesperson said the platform removes Boogaloo accounts when it identifies them.
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In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, an obscure arm of the U.S. Postal Service did some serious internet sleuthing.
On Jan. 11, the United States Postal Inspection Service’s Internet Covert Operations Program — better known as iCOP — sent bulletins to law enforcement agencies around the country on how to view social media posts that had been deleted. It also described its scrutiny of posts on the fringe social media network Wimkin.
Few Americans are aware that the same organization that delivers their mail also runs a robust surveillance operation rooted in an agency that dates back to the 18th century. And iCOP’s involvement raises questions about how broad the mandate of the Postal Service’s policing arm has grown from its stated mission of keeping mail deliverers safe.
The documents also point to potential gaps in the Jan. 6 select committee’s investigation by revealing concerns about a company it is not known to be scrutinizing. And those documents point to a new challenge for law enforcement in the post-Jan. 6 era: how to track extremist organizing across a host of low-profile platforms.
Two more previously unpublished government documents reviewed by POLITICO — one of which was reported on by ABC News — reveal more about the increasingly complex work of tracking extremism, and the concerns those efforts generate among civil liberties advocates. Property of the People, a watchdog group focused on national security, obtained the documents through open records requests as part of its investigation of the Jan. 6 attack. The group has also obtained records showing that hundreds of law enforcement officers planned ahead in case Jan. 6 became a mass casualty event, and that an FBI bomb analyst warned her coworkers that #StopTheSteal could turn violent.
Both iCOP bulletins are dated Jan. 11. They circulated through law enforcement circles, including to intelligence-sharing hubs called fusion centers that connect federal agencies with their state and local partners. One of the reports highlights tweets from two users about Jan. 6.
One of the tweets, from Czech Republic-based company Intelligence X, announced the creation of a system for people to share pictures and videos from the Capitol attack. Another tweet, from an account called “@donk_enby,” says it includes a link to every Parler post made during the riot.
Accessing those Parler posts was a focus for law enforcement, since the Jan. 6 attackers had extensive discussions on the platform before the attack about engaging in violence that day. But — as the iCOP bulletin noted — major tech companies stopped providing services to Parler in the wake of the attack because of violent content. As a result, the social network went offline.
The iCOP bulletin implied that the disappearance of all those posts could create a hurdle for law enforcement efforts to prevent future violence — and that the archive created by “@donk_enby” could be a useful resource.
“Although Parler is currently inactive and inaccessible, efforts fronted by ‘@donk_enby’, Intelligence X, and public contributions of data can assist law enforcement in the analysis and identification of parties involved in the US Capitol Protests,” the bulletin says. “The archived information can assist in the possible mitigation of future violent protests.”
Peter Kleissner, the CEO of Intelligence X, said he wasn’t aware the Postal Service had circulated information about his archive.
“Our intention behind the archive is to make sure that these important pictures and videos of this event aren’t lost and evidence is preserved,” he emailed. “This archive is not just important for the short-term use to hold rioters accountable, but also for the long-term for future generations.”
The second iCOP bulletin is titled “Nationwide coordination of Militia Groups and Threat to Nancy Pelosi.” It homed in on a website called givemebass.com and said a post “directly associated to the site founder [sic]” threatened House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The bulletin included an image saying “DEMAND PELOSI BE EXECUTED SHE TRIED TO COME BETWEEN OUR POTUS THE NUCLEAR CODES [sic].”
The Postal Service bulletin raised concerns that someone was using givemebass.com to coordinate national militias.
“The Wimkin account ‘Vik Freeman’ has been promoting the website ‘givemebass[.]com’ as a portal for communication and coordination which has been posted to multiple militia pages on Wimkin,” the bulletin reads.
The bulletin added that iCOP analysts were “actively monitoring the website and Wimkin account” for new posts. It included information about who it believed had registered givemebass.com and when, along with details about its reach across other Wimkin pages. Wimkin bills itself as “The World’s Only Free Speech Social Media Platform,” but its terms of service say posts on the platform cannot contain “nudity, pornographic materials including cartoons, and cannot be threatening nor criminally harassing in any way shape or form.”
Chip Gibbons, the policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent, said the document points to the growing overlap between intelligence-gathering and law enforcement work — especially since the connection between the Jan. 6 attacks and the postal service appears to be tenuous at best.
“Law enforcement-intelligence apparatuses raise serious Constitutional questions, serious questions for our democracy,” he said. “It is outside their jurisdiction as I understand it.”
“The FBI has jurisdiction over domestic terrorism, whereas the Post Office — I don’t even know how they’re involved in this,” he added.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said the agency reviews public social media posts as part of “a comprehensive security and threat analysis.”
“News report and social media listening activity helps protect the 644,000 men and women who work for the Postal Service by ensuring they are able to avoid potentially volatile situations while working to process and deliver the nation’s mail every day,” the spokesperson said.
The USPS’s covert operations program drew attention in April when Yahoo! reported on a bulletin it sent out in March about anti-lockdown and anti-5G protests. That bulletin, which cited social media posts, generated concerns on Capitol Hill. Members of the House Oversight Committee called on the Postal Service’s inspector general to probe the program and see if analysts there engaged in illegal surveillance, as Yahoo! also reported.
These new materials, along with two other documents, highlight the growing complexity of that work. A March 29 report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis said militia violent extremists are “actively disguising their online social media outreach” to promote violence, find fellow violent extremists and share tactics.
“In 2020, MVEs used or expressed interest in using a variety of more secure and often encrypted messaging applications — including Zello, Telegram, Signal, and Threema — to discuss operational activity, according to FBI and open source reporting,” the DHS report reads.
The report also said that social media companies focus on “overt threats of violence” when removing content. It added that if U.S. government officials worked with the private sector to develop indicators of “operational planning and recruitment,” it would help those companies understand how militia extremists skirted their terms of service. The report also said such engagement could help U.S. officials detect and disrupt extremists’ efforts.
The DHS report also references FBI reporting about posts that militia extremists made on social media in the months before the Jan. 6 attack. It specifically notes FBI reporting about posts that went up in July, August and October of 2020. After the Jan. 6 attack, FBI Director Chris Wray fielded multiple questions at congressional hearings about the FBI’s social media monitoring, as Lawfare has detailed. He and others have signaled that the FBI’s internal rules about monitoring social media contributed to their failure to predict the violence.
“We’re not allowed to ... just sit and monitor social media and look at one person’s posts … just in case,” he said in one hearing.
But the DHS report indicates that the FBI has collected information that militia extremists posted in the months leading up to the Jan. 6 attack. This is notable since militia extremists were among those who attacked the Capitol. The DHS report does not say if the FBI collected these months-old social media posts before or after Jan. 6, and it does not say how the posts came to the FBI’s attention.
Mike German, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and a former FBI agent focused on domestic terrorism, said he believes FBI counterterrorism efforts over-emphasize social media.
“A lot of people online say things that are really scary, and if law enforcement is using its resources to focus there, it might explain why so much of this violence that occurs on the streets is unpoliced, because they’re spending their resources searching out bad words online,” he said.
German said he thinks the FBI should focus more of its resources on investigating violent crimes committed by far-right extremists, rather than trying to predict which ones will turn violent based on their social media posts.
And those social media posts are still plentiful, despite the efforts by the biggest mainstream social media companies to purge extremist content. According to a Jan. 15 report from the Central Florida Intelligence Exchange, an intelligence-sharing hub, domestic extremists migrated to alternative platforms after Jan. 6.
“In an effort to avoid censorship and maintain their online presence, DVEs of varying ideologies began migrating to existing alternative platforms such as MeWe, Telegram, Gab, Clouthub, Minds, and TikTok,” the Florida report reads. “Popular message boards such as 4chan and 8kun also experienced an increase in users.”
The same report said people linked to the Boogaloo movement — a loosely organized movement of anti-government extremists who believe a civil war is near — “began migrating to alternative platforms, and can currently be found on Telegram, MeWe, Minds, and TikTok.” That migration came after social media networks began removing Boogaloo content in the wake of the arrests of multiple people linked to the movement. The report noted that the number of Boogaloo hashtags and accounts on Twitter was growing, and that Boogaloo-related accounts were still active on TikTok, though “more difficult to locate due to being shadowbanned.”
The report added detail on shadowbanning: “When a channel is shadowbanned, the content is blocked and a name and/or hashtag search will bring back no results,” it read. “The shadowbanning has no effect on subscribers of the channel. Additionally, new users are still able to locate and join these channels by clicking hashtags shared by other TikTok users they have subscribed to.”
A TikTok spokesperson said the platform removes Boogaloo accounts when it identifies them.
U.S. House panel probing Jan. 6 Capitol riot issues 11 subpoenas
Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Mohammad Zargham
Reuters
September 29, 2021
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WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee has issued 11 subpoenas in its investigation of Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the panel said in a statement on Wednesday.
Former Trump campaign official Katrina Pierson was among the 11 subpoenaed for records and for testimony at depositions, the statement said.
Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Mohammad Zargham
Reuters
September 29, 2021
U.S. House panel probing Jan. 6 Capitol riot issues 11 subpoenas
The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee has issued 11 subpoenas in its investigation of Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the panel said in a statement on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee has issued 11 subpoenas in its investigation of Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the panel said in a statement on Wednesday.
Former Trump campaign official Katrina Pierson was among the 11 subpoenaed for records and for testimony at depositions, the statement said.
Bannon fires up 'shock troops' for next GOP White House
The former adviser to President Donald Trump spoke Wednesday night to a new association of Republican presidential appointees in Washington.
"If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately," Steve Bannon said.Sylvain Lefevre
Oct. 2, 2021, 4:30 AM EDT
By Jonathan Allen
WASHINGTON — Scores of former Trump political appointees gathered at a GOP social club Wednesday night to hear Steve Bannon detail how they could help the next Republican president reconfigure government.
"If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately," Bannon said in a telephone interview with NBC News. "I gave 'em fire and brimstone."
Bannon, who ran former President Donald Trump's first campaign and later worked as a top adviser in the White House, said that Trump's agenda was delayed by the challenges of quickly filling roughly 4,000 slots for presidential appointees at federal agencies and the steep learning curve for political officials who were new to Washington.
He is not alone in that view. His appearance at the Capitol Hill Club came at the invitation of a new organization called the Association of Republican Presidential Appointees, which was formed to create a resource for future GOP officials tapped to fill federal jobs.
"There are so many statutes and regulations as well as agency and departmental policies, it can be very overwhelming when you first come in," said Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a former Broadcasting Board of Governors official who is one of the organizers of the group. "This is an organization that has a very narrow, clear and much-needed purpose, and, once it is operational, I think it could do a lot of good not just for the Republican Party but for the country."
Trump often railed publicly about career civil servants and Obama administration political appointee holdovers whom he saw as obstacles to his agenda, referring to them collectively as the "deep state."
Bannon said he wants to see pre-trained teams ready to jump into federal agencies when the next Republican president takes office. For the most part, that means the tiers of presidential appointees whose postings don't require Senate confirmation.
"We’re going to have a sweeping victory in 2022, and that’s just the preamble to a sweeping victory in 2024, and this time we’re going to be ready — and have a MAGA perspective, MAGA policies, not the standard Republican policies," he said, referring to Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan and describing a 2024 electoral victory as a "second term."
The launch party Wednesday drew a crowd of roughly 200 former officials from multiple Republican administrations — though mostly Trump appointees — according to a person who attended and is not one of the organizers of the group.
Shapiro said organizers are still trying to determine who will lead the association, but he said the need for institutional memory is apparent.
"What we’re hoping to do is build a base of people that can be available as a support system for political appointees who are coming in for the first time," he said. "It’s easy, if you know the rules, to accomplish your objective."
The former adviser to President Donald Trump spoke Wednesday night to a new association of Republican presidential appointees in Washington.
"If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately," Steve Bannon said.Sylvain Lefevre
Oct. 2, 2021, 4:30 AM EDT
By Jonathan Allen
WASHINGTON — Scores of former Trump political appointees gathered at a GOP social club Wednesday night to hear Steve Bannon detail how they could help the next Republican president reconfigure government.
"If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately," Bannon said in a telephone interview with NBC News. "I gave 'em fire and brimstone."
Bannon, who ran former President Donald Trump's first campaign and later worked as a top adviser in the White House, said that Trump's agenda was delayed by the challenges of quickly filling roughly 4,000 slots for presidential appointees at federal agencies and the steep learning curve for political officials who were new to Washington.
He is not alone in that view. His appearance at the Capitol Hill Club came at the invitation of a new organization called the Association of Republican Presidential Appointees, which was formed to create a resource for future GOP officials tapped to fill federal jobs.
"There are so many statutes and regulations as well as agency and departmental policies, it can be very overwhelming when you first come in," said Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a former Broadcasting Board of Governors official who is one of the organizers of the group. "This is an organization that has a very narrow, clear and much-needed purpose, and, once it is operational, I think it could do a lot of good not just for the Republican Party but for the country."
Trump often railed publicly about career civil servants and Obama administration political appointee holdovers whom he saw as obstacles to his agenda, referring to them collectively as the "deep state."
Bannon said he wants to see pre-trained teams ready to jump into federal agencies when the next Republican president takes office. For the most part, that means the tiers of presidential appointees whose postings don't require Senate confirmation.
"We’re going to have a sweeping victory in 2022, and that’s just the preamble to a sweeping victory in 2024, and this time we’re going to be ready — and have a MAGA perspective, MAGA policies, not the standard Republican policies," he said, referring to Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan and describing a 2024 electoral victory as a "second term."
The launch party Wednesday drew a crowd of roughly 200 former officials from multiple Republican administrations — though mostly Trump appointees — according to a person who attended and is not one of the organizers of the group.
Shapiro said organizers are still trying to determine who will lead the association, but he said the need for institutional memory is apparent.
"What we’re hoping to do is build a base of people that can be available as a support system for political appointees who are coming in for the first time," he said. "It’s easy, if you know the rules, to accomplish your objective."