New York Times’ hit piece on Justice Alito fails; only reveals NYT needs a history lesson



When Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s wife flew an upside-down American flag over their home, the New York Times was not happy.

Now, the New York Times is upset with the justice again — this time because he flew an "Appeal to Heaven" pine tree flag outside his New Jersey beach home. The Times is claiming this is a popular symbol among January 6 “insurrectionists.”

While the New York Times clearly has no idea what they’re talking about, they’re in luck. Because Glenn Beck does know what he’s talking about, and he’s here to give them a much needed history lesson.

“That was the symbol of New England since the 16th century. Why? Because New England had big pine trees. Why was that important? Because they could build ships and build them for England or whoever and ship giant masts, which were hard to find because nobody had the giant pine trees that New England had,” Glenn explains.

The flag is also symbolic of “the Great Peacemaker,” who was with the Iroquois Indians. The peacemaker had convinced warring nations to bury their weapons under a pine tree.

“So, it is also the symbol of the tree of peace,” Glenn says. “It was also on the coinage produced by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and it became the symbol of the colonial iron resistance as well as a multi-tribal support for independence now,” he adds.

The phrase “Appeal to Heaven” is also an expression of the right to revolution, which Glenn jokes comes from the “outrageous killer John Locke.”

“Let me just boil this down,” he explains. “This flag is first a sign of the pine tree as trade, okay? It is also a sign of peace among the Indians. It is then added to that ‘the appeal to heaven’ comes from John Locke and what he wrote in 1690. It was a refute of the theory of the divine right of kings.”

Glenn has his own interpretation of the flag, and it’s not a symbol of insurrection.

“I always interpreted that flag as an appeal to heaven for common sense and for help. Please Lord, help us, and it would go right along with an upside-down flag,” he explains, adding, “We’re in distress. Can we please look to God and beg for his mercy and guidance. How unbelievably controversial is that.”


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NY Times prints leaked names contacted by FBI after DOJ urged Mar-a-Lago raid affidavit be kept secret to protect identities



On August 16, the New York Times published an article by Maggie Haberman naming three individuals contacted by FBI investigators looking into former President Donald Trump's handling of classified material. The Department of Justice argued one day earlier in favor of keeping the affidavit justifying the August 8 raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago sealed to protect just such information.

Citing "three people familiar with the matter," Haberman — part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for advancing the narrative that the former president colluded with Russia — alleged that Trump's White House counsel Pat Cipollone and deputy Patrick Philbin were interviewed by the FBI in connection with boxes of sensitive documents stored at Trump's Florida residence after leaving office.

Both men were originally dispatched to the National Archives as the former president's representatives.

Philbin is said to have been questioned in the spring about how 15 boxes of material ended up at Mar-a-Lago. National Archives officials allegedly contacted Philbin, indicating they wanted his help in acquiring certain documents said to have been in Trump's possession. Philbin reportedly made an effort to return the documents but failed.

Trump's correspondence with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and a letter to Trump from former President Barack Obama (written on Obama's way out of office) were among the items reportedly sought by the National Archives that ended up at Mar-a-Lago.

Investigators sought out Philbin and Cipollone after the National Archives referred the matter to the DOJ.

Haberman noted that Philbin is among eight people who worked for Trump who have been contacted by the FBI since a grand jury was formed this year. She also named former White House staff secretary Derek Lyons as another person interviewed as part of the ongoing investigation.

One day prior to the New York Times' publication of this article naming persons contacted by investigators, the DOJ suggested that the affidavit that accompanied the warrant permitting federal agents to raid Mar-a-Lago must remain sealed, otherwise names and information about those involved in the investigation might come out.

According to the DOJ's August 15 omnibus response to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, "Disclosure at this juncture of the affidavit supporting probable cause would ... cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation."

The filing, written by U.S. Attorney Juan Gonzalez and chief at the DOJ's counterintelligence and export control section Jay Bratt, noted that the affidavit contains "highly sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government."

Owing to information about witnesses being "particularly sensitive given the high-profile nature of this matter and the risk that the revelation of witness identities would impact their willingness to cooperate with the investigation," Gonzalez and Bratt urged U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart not to disclose the affidavit or its contents.

Notwithstanding the DOJ's concerns, Reinhart will hear arguments on Thursday on whether or not to publicize the affidavit used to justify the raid.