Fallout from the massive intelligence leak continues; Republicans are up to their old "destroying the social safety net" tricks.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA

- Clarence Thomas sycophant Scott Douglas Gerber ([link removed]) defending his #1 guy receiving millions of dollars in gifts from a Republican mega-donor with a "what, a guy can't have friends anymore?" line of defense.

As fallout continues from a historic leak of top-secret American national security documents, intelligence and defense agencies are scrambling to cauterize the damage.

* Hundreds of documents that leaked and appeared on the online messaging platform Discord, representing one of the most significant intelligence breaches in modern U.S. history, have offered a bleak assessment from American officials of Ukraine’s planned counteroffensive after the past few months of Russian advances surrounding the city of Bakhmut.

* Documents labeled “top secret” warn of significant, sustained Ukrainian “shortfalls” and that the counteroffensive operation will most likely only result in “modest territorial gains.” The tone of these reports come in marked contrast to the Biden administration’s public statements about the strength of Ukraine’s military ([link removed]) . It’s difficult to overstate how devastating the effects of this leak could be, as it provides reports from American officials about critical weaknesses in Ukraine’s air defenses and ammunition supply chains: potentially deadly information in Russian hands.

* Russian forces have continued to assail cities in eastern Ukraine with air strikes and artillery attacks, pressing on with their offensive in the Donetsk region according to Ukraine’s general staff. Ukrainian forces have been able to beat back several attacks as Moscow continues its effort to take control of Bakhmut, but a top Ukrainian commander has accused the Russian military of “switch[ing] to so-called scorched earth tactics from Syria,” ([link removed]) including “destroying buildings and positions with air strikes and artillery fire.”

National security experts and U.S. officials have opined that the leaker may be American and/or someone with pro-Russian interests, but the intelligence communities have not signaled that the field of suspects has narrowed.

* As the Justice Department and Pentagon (where the documents appear to have originated) continue to investigate the leak, more sensitive details have emerged. The documents point to a surprising discovery that under the leadership of President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, Egypt, which not only receives significant amounts of U.S. aid but is one of America’s closest allies in the Middle East, has been planning to covertly supply Russia with up to 40,000 rockets ([link removed]) .


* This disclosure has emerged as Russia continues to shell Ukraine more than a year after its invasion, and both countries are in need of more munitions. In response to questions about the document’s revelations, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, “Egypt’s position from the beginning is based on noninvolvement in the crisis and committing to maintain equal distance with both sides…” Okay pal, well, it doesn’t sound like it. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, said that if these revelations are true, the United States needs “to have a serious reckoning about the state of our relationship [with Egypt].”

Little is yet known about how some of the most tightly-guarded American secrets ended up on a Discord server and then pushed out for the entire internet to see, but if there were ever a come-to-Jesus moment for the Pentagon, it’s now. The leak appears to all the world like the U.S.’s first big blunder since Russia invaded Ukraine, and potentially threatens the pursuit of peace around the world.

Yep, these fucking ghouls are at it again. House Republicans are rubbing their hands together as they aim to impose new work requirements on millions of low-income Americans ([link removed]) who receive financial assistance from the federal government. It’s all part of a decades-long mission to end welfare in America—for the poor and working class, that is; corporate welfare is just fine according to them!—poorly disguised as fake concern about federal deficits. Led by House Speaker and clumsily evil noodle of a man, Kevin McCarthy, the GOP has focused specifically on taking two major anti-poverty programs hostage—Medicaid and food stamps. A perfect distillation of the inhumane and factually incorrect Republican argument comes from walking cocaine nose bleed Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who said: “I don’t think hard-working Americans should be paying for all the social services for people who could make a broader contribution and
instead are couch potatoes.” It’s the “Welfare Queen” debate of the 1990’s all over again, rife with the same false rhetoric. The reality is, the majority of Medicaid recipients are already working or are in working households ([link removed]) , and of those who are not, virtually all are either chronically disabled, ill, caring for a parent, or are in school full-time. Taking food and health care away from people in this country who need it most will only serve to ensure more people die and have worse health outcomes overall in a country where health outcomes are already shameful.

President Biden signed a GOP-led resolution on Monday formally ending the coronavirus national emergency ([link removed]) first enacted by Donald Trump in March 2020. House Dems voted overwhelmingly against the measure.


Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has sued Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for his “brazen and unconstitutional attack,” ([link removed]) and attempts to interfere with and intimidate those seeking to hold disgraced former president Donald Trump accountable. He’s asked a federal judge to block Jordan from using subpoena power to pry information from his investigation out of his office and former colleagues.


The governors and top health officials in California, Massachusetts, and Washington state have struck deals to stockpile abortion pills ([link removed]) in the event that corrupt right-wing judges force an end to production of the medication.e.


Chicago will host the 2024 Democratic National Convention ([link removed]) . Prayers up to Joe Biden, who will undoubtedly have to eat so many hot dogs and deep dish-slices that week.


The so-called “Gang of Eight”—the eight leaders from each party and the chair and vice chair of the House and Senate intelligence committees—now have access to the classified documents found at the homes of Donald Trump, president Biden, and former president Mike Pence ([link removed]) .


The Senate will consider a resolution next week condemning disgraced former president Donald Trump’s call to “defund” the Justice Department and the FBI ([link removed]) .


A federal judge denied disgraced Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes’s latest appeal to stay out of prison ([link removed]) and ruled that she must begin serving her 11-plus year sentence on April 27. Nice try, blood fraud lady.


Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) announced that she has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease ([link removed]) .


The judge overseeing Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News has granted the network’s request to bar Dominion from mentioning the January 6 insurrection ([link removed]) during the trial. How convenient!


A new investigation from the Washington Post and The Trace found that the P320, one of the nation’s most popular handguns, has a repeated history of firing without anyone pulling the trigger ([link removed]) . So much for the old “guns don’t kill people,” line.


New details from the bank shooting in Louisville, KY, show that the shooter purchased an AR-15 legally and targeted his former coworkers at the bank ([link removed]) . The death toll from the shooting has risen to five people.

Wealthy Americans are fueling the water crisis using inordinate amounts of limited water resources on things like private swimming pools ([link removed]) and irrigation systems for vast properties. The super wealthy? Hoarding and abusing scarce resources? That doesn’t sound like them.

As a comprehensive six-week abortion ban makes its way through the Florida state legislature, it has teed up a host of horrifying new problems. An existing law in the state allows parents to surrender newborns to firefighters and hospital workers without providing their names or identification, which is common in many states. But a new bill, supported by an Indiana-based “charity” called “Safe Haven Baby Boxes” ([link removed]) would give fire stations and hospitals the options to install the group’s “ventilated and climate-controlled” boxes so that parents could surrender their babies without interacting with first responders. Apart from how batshit insane “just put the baby in this unattended box” sounds, it’s also potentially dangerous for all parties involved. But that of course didn’t stop the measure from passing unanimously in the Florida House. Such box
es are already allowed in nine GOP-led states. Every new anti-choice measure and “solution” seems to be intent on maximizing trauma experienced by the person forced into pregnancy. It’s almost like that’s the point.
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Tennessee Democrats will push to reinstate state-Rep. Justin Pearson (D-TN) ([link removed]) who was expelled for leading a protest on gun policy after a school shooting.


Fellow-expelled state-Rep Justin Jones (D-TN) returned to the Legislature after being unanimously reinstated ([link removed]) by the Nashville Metropolitan Council.

The Biden administration announced its plans to launch a $5 billion program to accelerate the development of new COVID vaccines and treatments ([link removed]) .
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