'Patriot Act 2.0' — Lindsey Graham's DANGEROUS plan after Trump shooting



FBI whistleblower Steve Friend has a warning in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Trump — and it’s not for former President Trump.

“There was an exchange between deputy director Paul Abbate and Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, where to the layperson it seems reasonable the FBI wants to open up all avenues, remove the blindfold, have no blinders on, consider the fact that this could be assassination, this could be domestic terrorism,” Friend tells Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight.”

However, to the non-layperson — this could mean something more sinister.

“When you designate something as a domestic terrorist investigation, that enables you to make it classified, and when you have a classification code on there, you have to have a need to know in a security clearance,” Friend explains.

Because of that, the FBI can withhold information.

“The American people are not going to have the transparency that we ultimately need for this investigation,” he says.

While the FBI’s actions are concerning, that’s not Savage’s only concern.

“Lindsey Graham had a very concerning solution for the issues with the investigation,” Savage tells Friend.

“We have encrypted apps of an assassin, a murderer, and we can’t get into them all these days after,” Graham said. “That needs to be fixed folks. I’m all for privacy, but to a point.”

“What if, in the future, somebody’s using these apps to communicate with a foreign power. I think we need to know these things. We need to know them in real time,” he added.

Friend says that Graham’s suggestion would effectively render the Fourth Amendment a “dead letter, at that point.”

Graham’s use of the phrase “real time” is also concerning.

“Real time, which means continually monitoring it,” Friend explains.

“This is the government assuming that a tool will be used for ill, when it is just a tool. Because we don’t trust the government in this country. The job of law enforcement is not supposed to be easy. You’re supposed to have reasonable suspicion, probable cause, the burden is supposed to be there,” he adds.


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WATCH: FBI whistleblower exposes corruption at shady agency in NEW interview



It’s been over two weeks since Trump’s near assassination, and we still don’t know how a 20-year-old with no military or law enforcement background was able to weasel his way around the Secret Service.

According to Steve Friend, a former FBI agent who’s now come forth as a whistleblower, the FBI won't produce a result in its Trump Assassination Attempt Probe because that's not the goal of the bureau.

“The FBI loves to hide behind ‘we can't reveal sources and methods,’ ‘it's an ongoing investigation,’ ‘we're just going to drag this out as long as we possibly can until people either lose interest or there's something else that we can get our hooks into that's going to do better for us in the headlines,”’ he tells Jill Savage and the “Blaze News Tonight” panel.

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“I don't have any confidence in them to actually carry forward an honest and forthright investigation of any kind because they've demonstrated themselves to be just a politically partisan organization, particularly as it pertains to Donald Trump,” he continues.

“Director Wray's testimony yesterday ... appeared to be more forthright than he's been in any previous congressional hearings,” says investigative journalist and Blaze Media correspondent Steve Baker. “Did you get that impression, or do you see something else?”

Friend speculates that Wray’s increase in candor is likely due to the fact that the Secret Service is under fire this time rather than the FBI.

“I think there's a lot of attention really being thrown at the Secret Service at this point. I think he, at that point, gave a little bit of an exhale,” he explains. “By and large, Christopher Wray has just done the exact same thing all the time, and I think it's derivative of one, he's a politically partisan guy, but secondly, he's not an outcomes guy.”

The American people “want to see an effective investigation actually transpire, where we get all the answers. [Wray] doesn't see that as success; he's about the process — process itself is success.”

“How do you describe Christopher Wray?” asks Jill.

Wray “made $9.2 million a year before he was brought in as the FBI director, and he gave that up for a $200,000 a year job for a 10-year appointment where he'd have to live apart from his family,” Friend says. “That's what his sacrifice was for — ‘the cause’ — and the cause was bringing cultural Marxism to its full fruition within the FBI.”

“You can see it in the hiring standards. ... They're bringing in people, at this point, who are 50 pounds overweight describing themselves as woke, and then most recently, you had somebody hired by the Washington field office who is an actual heroin addict,” he explains.

“Do you think this is a lost cause at this point?” asks Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson.

“Well, the agency itself, I think, is a lost cause because the reforms that are necessary to bring it back from the brink are so drastic,” such as “[reducing] its footprint from a headquarter standpoint,” “[getting] rid of the intelligence branch entirely,” “[getting] back to actually doing criminal investigations” and “not [concerning] themselves with intelligence gathering on the American people,” says Friend.

But there’s one simple thing that the federal government could do to make the FBI effective again: “take the guns away.”

“The origin of the FBI was an unarmed investigative agency,” Friend explains. “It can return to that, and it can do what Christopher Wray says that it is always intending to do and that is aid local law enforcement.”

To hear more of the interview, watch the clip above.

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Alex Jones’ ‘eerily accurate’ prediction on Biden leaving the race — and what may happen next



President Joe Biden ended his campaign this week, and to no one's surprise, Alex Jones was right again.

“Your prediction was eerily accurate to the day on which he would step down,” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” tells Jones. “Who’s behind that? Who made him step down? I have a very hard time believing that it was him.”

“We know the answer to that,” Jones says confidently. “The question is: What are the specifics?”

“It’s a big deal,” he continues. “Biden’s been out of his mind for years, the perfect puppet, and now they know that one’s going to buy a new election steal if it’s him. So, they want Kamala or Newsom or Hillary or ‘Big Mike’ Michelle Obama or Kamala. Anybody but him.”

“That’s why I’ve been predicting they would remove Biden imminently. Which they did,” he adds.

While no one knows exactly what has happened to the president, there are theories swirling. And Jones has his own.

“The point is that Biden was refusing to step down, and I said last week, I said, ‘He will have a medical emergency,’” Jones says. “They just tried to kill Trump, that's failed. Biden’s refusing to step down. It’s the same Deep State that wants full control and people that follow their orders.”

Now that Biden’s out, Americans have been left wondering who the Democratic nominee will be. While it seems that Kamala Harris will step into Biden’s shoes, Jones isn’t so sure.

“It needs to be Kamala on paper under the law to get the 198 million as of yesterday — it’s probably up now,” he tells Wheeler.

“But the Democrats have said that they want to have kind of a weird snap primary where the delegates or the donors with the delegates decide who’s there to at least act like it’s Democratic,” he continues.

“I mean, the sky’s the limit. They already tried to kill Trump, in my view. They already tried to take Trump off the ballot. They’ve already done all this, so we’re really seeing the desperate coup of the Democrat-controlled Deep State out in the open right now,” he adds.


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Glenn Beck reacts: Secret Service director RESIGNS after DISASTROUS testimony



Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has finally resigned, 10 days after the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump.

It was not only the actions not taken on July 13 that cinched her resignation, but her testimony to the House Oversight Committee, as it was nothing short of disastrous.

“Can you answer why the Secret Service didn’t place a single agent on the roof?” Cheatle was asked by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) during the testimony.

“We are still looking into the advanced process and the decisions that were made,” she responded, to groans from those present at the hearing. As the questions continued, Cheatle continued to dodge them — not giving one good answer as to why there were no agents on the sloped rooftop.

While Americans across the country are relieved that Cheatle resigned, Glenn Beck believes “that should not close this case by any stretch of the imagination.”

“When the assassination [attempt] first happened, I looked her up, and I’m like, where did she come from? And I saw that she was head of security for Pepsi, and I’m like, you’ve got to be kidding me,” he adds.

Glenn has some questions for the former Pepsi employee turned Secret Service director that he believes need to be answered before her lack of action is memory-holed.

“What’s on her devices? Why was she using Signal when talking to the White House from her own personal phone? That’s against the law. Did the White House know that was happening? What were they talking about? That’s really important to find out,” he says.

“I think everybody on that Secret Service detail should be brought in front of Congress and have to answer themselves. You know, it’s one thing to be told ‘Shut up, sit down, shut up, don’t say anything.’ It’s another when you’re going to be blamed for it on national television,” he adds.


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Border patrol seizes 44 pounds of meth hidden inside Halloween pumpkins



U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized nearly 44 pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside Halloween decorations at the southwest border in Eagle Pass, Texas.

The alleged liquid methamphetamine was stored inside condoms hidden within pumpkins. The total value of the seized drugs was estimated to be more than $400,000, officials said.

“Our frontline CBP officers have seen just about everything and this Tuesday was no exception as they encountered liquid methamphetamine hidden within pumpkins,” acting Port Director Elizabeth Garduno said in a statement.

“They utilized their training, experience, interviewing skills and uncovered a rather novel narcotics smuggling method in the process,” she added.

\u201cToxic Halloween pumpkins: @CBP @DFOLaredo #CBP officers seize $402K in liquid methamphetamine hidden in condoms in pumpkins at Eagle Pass Port of Entry. Driver, passenger turned over to @Maverick_County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Read more here: https://t.co/TLgRZeWPSY\u201d
— CBP South Texas (@CBP South Texas) 1665614408

The drugs were discovered on Tuesday, Oct. 11, by CBP officers assigned to Eagle Pass Camino Real International Bridge, a point of entry into the United States. At the bridge, the officers encountered a 2012 Ford Escape arriving from Mexico, which they referred for further inspection.

After conducting a search of the vehicle, they seized what authorities said were nearly 44 pounds of liquid methamphetamine concealed within 136 condoms inside four pumpkins in the vehicle.

The driver and passenger were arrested and turned over to the custody of the Maverick County sheriff's office, officials said.

"Great work by our frontline officers and way to carve out those illegal narcotics," CBP Laredo Field Office Director Randy Howe said on Twitter.

\u201cHow do you mend a broken Jack-O\u2019-Lantern\ud83c\udf83? @CBP @DFOLaredo Eagle Pass Port of Entry intercepts 44 lbs. of Liquid Meth, concealed in pumpkins. Narcotics have an estimated street value of $402k. Great work by our frontline officers and way to carve out those illegal narcotics.\u201d
— Director, Field Operations, Randy Howe (@Director, Field Operations, Randy Howe) 1665612062

Methamphetamine is a stimulant that speeds up the body's system. It typically comes as a pill or powder that is smoked or snorted to produce a high, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Crystal meth resembles glass fragments or shiny blue-white rocks of various sizes. The drug is highly addictive, and overdose may result in death from heart attack, stroke, or multiple organ failure.

In an operational update for the month of August, CBP reported a 44% decrease in methamphetamine seizures, while cocaine and fentanyl seizures both increased. Overall drug seizures by weight including cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, and marijuana were up 1.4% in August compared to July.

An update for September has not yet been released.

In 2021, CBP officials seized 192,000 pounds of methamphetamine at the border. So far this fiscal year the agency has confiscated 161,000 pounds of the drug.

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Customs and Border Protection seizes $11.8 million worth of narcotics disguised as a shipment of baby wipes – ‘largest cocaine bust in 20 years’



On Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered a record-breaking amount of cocaine disguised as a shipment of baby wipes.

The seizure was made at the Laredo-Colombia Solidarity International Bridge, a bridge that runs over the Rio Grande river and connects Laredo, Texas, to Colombia, a community in Mexico.

In a news release, the department stated that the narcotics were believed to have a street value of $11.8 million.

An officer requested that a 2016 Stoughton trailer believed to be carrying baby wipes undergo a secondary inspection. The agency used a drug-sniffing canine and a non-intrusive inspection system examination to further investigate the shipment's contents.

Inside the trailer, Customs and Border Protection officials discovered 1,935 packages of suspected cocaine disguised as baby wipes.

"Officers assigned to CBP cargo facilities ensure effective border security by preventing and countering the flow of suspected narcotics entering the country," said Laredo Port of Entry Director Alberto Flores. "This seizure is a prime example of border security management and how it helps prevent dangerous narcotics from reaching our communities."

Director of field operations for the Customs and Border Protection's Laredo field office Randy Howe posted on Twitter on Monday that the seizure had resulted in the interception of more than 1,500 pounds of cocaine.

Howe wrote that it was a "record setting seizure" and the "largest cocaine bust in 20 years!"

\u201cColossal, record setting seizure. Largest Cocaine bust in 20 years! The Laredo Port of Entry seizes over 1,500 pounds of cocaine from Transnational Criminal Organizations! Extremely proud of our @CBP employees for keeping our communities safe.\u201d
— Director, Field Operations, Randy Howe (@Director, Field Operations, Randy Howe) 1661798009

Howe also tweeted a seven-day recap on August 22, highlighting narcotics and other illegal items seized by officers at the port of entry throughout the week. He stated that, during that period, Laredo officers had intercepted 98 pounds of fentanyl and 1,501 pounds of methamphetamines. Howe estimated the street value of the narcotics to be about $21 million.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's drug seizure stats, the Laredo field office and sector, from October 2021 through July 2022, seized over 49,000 pounds of narcotics. Most of those seizures have been methamphetamines, and approximately 6,600 pounds have been cocaine.

CBP foils smuggling attempt after finding live snakes and lizards in and under man's clothes as he seeks to enter US



U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered dozens of live reptiles stored in bags located in and under an individual's clothes last month, foiling an attempt to smuggle the creatures into the country, according to the agency.

The episode unfolded on Feb. 25 when authorities at the San Ysidro port of entry discovered a whopping 52 bags which contained 43 horned lizards and nine snakes, tucked away in the jacket, pants pockets, and groin region of a 30-year-old American citizen, according to a press release.

The release noted that the "reptiles will remain in quarantine due to some species being identified as endangered."

"Smugglers will try every possible way to try and get their product, or in this case live reptiles, across the border," CBP Director of Field Operations in San Diego Sidney Aki said in a statement. "In this occasion, the smuggler attempted to deceive CBP officers in order to bring these animals into the US., without taking care for the health and safety of the animals. CBP enforces hundreds of laws at the border for more than 40 different government agencies, in part to help stop smuggling attempts like these which can lead to trafficking of possibly endangered species."

This smuggler\u2019s attempt to slither in live reptiles was thwarted by #SanYsidro Port of Entry @CBP Officers. Thanks to the #vigilance of our officers, these reptiles will remain safe. Excellent work San Ysidro! To learn more about the interception go here: https://go.usa.gov/xzkn7\u00a0pic.twitter.com/j9zmZ5hMiW
— Director of Field Operations Sidney Aki (@Director of Field Operations Sidney Aki) 1646784283

Separately, CBP officers in Philadelphia found nine jars of blood-sucking leeches last month — the jars were spread across several shipments spanning a period between Feb. 19 and Feb. 25, and altogether about 300 leeches were seized.

CBP frequently reports catching previously convicted, previously deported criminals. Those types of apprehensions highlight the connection between border security and public safety.

For example, a press release last week highlighted the apprehension of a convicted sex offender and the apprehension of a convicted murderer.

Nearly Two Dozen Wildlife Conservation Groups Release Letter Opposing David Chipman’s ATF Nomination

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