'Bombshell': Israeli Spyware Used to Hack iPhones of US State Department Officials
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Source: The Federalist
GOP's Fortenberry Targeted In Yet Another Questionable And Politicized Case From Troubled Department Of Justice
No major reforms have taken place at the Department of Justice or FBI even as its politicized bungling of prosecutions and investigations has made major news.
By Mollie Hemingway | December 7, 2021
Jeff Fortenberry is not the person you'd expect to be charged with any crime, much less the crime of lying to the FBI. Painfully earnest, the Nebraska Republican congressman is a devout Roman Catholic who has a perfect pro-life voting record. He served on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, and has developed a reputation for activism on behalf of persecuted religious minorities in Iraq. It was that last focus that ended up getting him in the crosshairs of the Department of Justice.
Not even the FBI is accusing Fortenberry of knowingly accepting illegal contributions from a Nigerian billionaire who shared his concern about religious persecution in the Middle East, but those illegal contributions were where things started.
In 2016, a group of Lebanese Americans held a series of events in Los Angeles for Fortenberry, including a fundraiser. At one event, he was inducted into the Order of St. Gregory, which is a knighthood established by Pope Gregory XVI in 1831, for his service to persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Unbeknownst to the congressman, some attendees had been given money through a conduit to give him.
In 2018, the FBI ordered an informant to briefly call Fortenberry to tell him the contributions were probably illegal. A year later, two men claiming to be FBI agents knocked on his door in Nebraska and asked to speak to him. Fortenberry and his wife Celeste invited them into the house, although, according to an email they sent supporters, they were so suspicious about the men's changing story about the nature of their visit that they asked local police to come over as well.
Referencing the obscene signs, nasty political messages, and emailed threats of violence that Fortenberry had received, Celeste said, "I had no way of knowing if these men were who they said they were."
Still, assured that he was helping the FBI with a legitimate investigation, Fortenberry spoke to them and didn’t think to have an attorney present. The men were in fact FBI agents, and Fortenberry told them he was unaware of the illegal contributions and that they had been publicly disclosed.
Something didn't set right with Fortenberry, according to the email sent supporters, so the congressman called his friend Trey Gowdy, a former prosecutor and former U.S. congressman from South Carolina, for advice and legal representation. After getting assurance from the U.S. attorney on the case that Fortenberry was not a target of the investigation, Gowdy encouraged him to go back to the FBI and speak to them again.
According to new filings, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mack Jenkins told Gowdy that Congressman Fortenberry was not a target of the investigation, but merely a subject of it, and "trending toward" being just a witness in the investigation.
But when Fortenberry and Gowdy went to speak to the FBI, the questioning turned hostile. Gowdy asked Jenkins "whether the interview was, as it had begun to sound, a set-up for a 'bullshit 1001,'" referring to the section of U.S. code that criminalizes false statements. "Jenkins assured Mr. Gowdy that it was not a setup for a 'bullshit 1001' charge. Again, relying on AUSA Jenkins' assurance, Congressman Fortenberry continued with his interview," according to recently filed documents in the case.
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Makes us think Israel has a spying apparatus inside the US Department of Justice and if they discover any opposition to Israel send in the "FBI" to harass, intimidate and set congressional and senate members up for "bullshit 1001" charges:
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Google depends on Israel for some of its R&D and Google is being used by Israel to advance the Zionist colonization of Palestine. How is this figured into any Israel-Palestine peace programs being financed by the US?
That is some peace building going on with Israel and Syria all financed by the nodding approval of the US senate and congress:
This is going to destroy any chances of peace as the US continues to dump billions into Israel:
If all this money is being dumped on Israel-Palestine peace building, who is giving the go ahead on these extrajudicial executions?
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