Comments on: Open thread 7/30/2025

By: Mark A. Olinger

Mark A. Olinger — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 03:16:43 +0000

I just love these You Tube videos you post. Such a refreshing interlude…

By: Selfy

Selfy — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 04:44:08 +0000

Sundance’s take on the Durham Annex burn bag files includes:

The discovered Durham annex is now being declassified by the CIA and others and transferred to Senator Chuck Grassley’s staff who will release it to the public momentarily. WATCH the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) response to these revelations, Chairman Tom Cotton, the guardian of the Intelligence Community, will likely demand special counsels be triggered in order to create the “ongoing investigation” defensive shield needed for his benefactors.

That’s how the silo system in DC rolls.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/30/fbi-leadership-found-classified-durham-annex-inside-burn-bag-in-secret-room-at-fbi-hq/#more-274518

He also links to some Russiagate/Obamagate rabbit holes at https://www.sleuth.news/

By: sdferr

sdferr — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 02:21:33 +0000

Oh, hello! They’re getting around to removables left for later. It’s later now. (Two of Lois Lerner’s anti-TeaParty IRS minions were cut loose too.) Weeding is good for the government garden.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-hating-russia-hoax-investigator-fired-as-top-nsa-lawyer

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:47:23 +0000

Sorry, bad link.
This should work…(also for non-silent movie buffs).

“MoMA’s ‘Silent Movie Week’ Offers the Chance To Catch a Gem of the Genre, Walter Ruttmann’s ‘Berlin: Symphony of a Great City’;
“Trained as a painter, Ruttmann brought the heady innovations of early Modernism into his cinematic efforts, including the scurried momentum of Futurist painting and the spooky sonorities of Surrealism”—
https://www.nysun.com/article/momas-silent-movie-week-offers-the-chance-to-catch-a-gem-of-the-genre-walter-ruttmanns-berlin-symphony-of-a-great-city

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:37:57 +0000

For silent movie buffs….

https://trk.email.nysun.com/c/7/eyJhaSI6N

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:21:01 +0000

This “find” was actually reported in something like last May, after Patel’s confirmation. Evidently they’ve gone through it and are now preparing to declassify and turn it over to Chuck Grassley in the Senate.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:57:39 +0000

I don’t know.

It could be as simple as a case of the old saw — “if you want a job done right, do it yourself” — dismissed as inapplicable to those so grand as to oversee a conspiracy as vast as all this, with no need to potentially dirty their hands with actual soot!

Or, too much evidence to be disposed of such that they simply ran out of time to accomplish their tasks.

Still dunno. Hope maybe someone diligent gets to the bottom of the story before it’s all been put aside as not worth the candle.

By: miguel cervantes,

miguel cervantes, — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:48:40 +0000

they didn’t think anyone would get to that backroom

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:24:48 +0000

Gosh, not burning them sounds like a terrible blunder on the part of the (usually reliable) usual suspects.

So what happened?
A “chain-of-command” issue?
A Fed with a conscience (or whistleblower wannabe)?

Or…just maybe…they didn’t burn them because of the EPA Act….

By: sdferr

sdferr — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:07:50 +0000

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/patel-found-thousands-sensitive-trump-russia-probe-docs-inside-burn-bags-secret-room-fbi

Peculiar story, no?

FBI Director Kash Patel found a trove of sensitive documents related to the origins of the Trump–Russia probe buried in multiple “burn bags” in a secret room inside the bureau, sources told Fox News Digital.

Sources told Fox News Digital that the “burn bag” system is used to destroy documents designated as classified or higher.

Sources told Fox News Digital that multiple burn bags were found and filled with thousands of documents.