Five Florida judges were recently reprimanded for favoring one child welfare agency over another in a $500 million state contract, which is now before the Supreme Court. Our Kids Miami-Dade Monroe Inc. was the agency of choice, who has held the contract with the state since former Governor Jeb Bush doubled funding for privatized foster care. This tight knit group of “child advocates” spearheaded the efforts to airlift hundreds of Haitian children to Florida in the immediate aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

• The judge who penned the letter to DCF favoring Our Kids in a bid for a $500 million contract, also went to bat for them back in 2004.

• Foster children in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties have been moved as many as 10-20 times, and 25 children were moved to more than 80 foster homes.

• Just one week after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, then Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Family Services George Sheldon, initiated the plan to airlift nearly hundreds of  Haitian children over to Florida, ‘Our Kids’ and the Miami Archdiocese simultaneously got on board, Janet Napolitano lifted visas, Joe Biden visited the Miami Archdiocese, and Sheldon landed himself the position of Acting Assistant Secretary for Children & Families with HHS.

In May 2019, five South Florida judges of the 11^th Circuit Unified Children’s Court faced charges for favoring a company in a competitive bidding process for the Florida Department of Children and Families. The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission determined that they had violated Florida’s Code of Judicial Conduct and recommended a public reprimand by publication, but Florida Supreme Court has the final word of judicial discipline, which is still pending. They were favoring child welfare agency Our Kids Miami-Dade Monroe, Inc. over Citrus Health Network, Inc. in a 5-year $500 million contract with the Department of Child Services for foster care and adoption services. Our Kids had held the contract for over a decade.

Retired Judge Cindy Lederman had authored a letter addressed to the Florida Department of Children and Family Services (DCF), which four other judges signed. A fifth judge, Maria Sampedro-Iglesia had also signed it but was not part of the inquiry and has since retired. General Magistrate Steven Lieberman had also signed it, but was not part of the inquiry. A snippet from the letter clearly shows their bias.

This model must survive the ITN process ….. We have worked with Our Kids and we have complete faith only in the Our Kids model of leadership. When you select the agency please keep our voices in your mind.

Ultimately, in the end, Citrus Health received the contract. So why are these judges so invested in Our Kids? Let’s take a look at the history of the foster care system in Florida, Our Kids history and reputation, and several people connected to Our Kids, to glean what this favoritism may be all about. After reviewing the facts, perhaps this “hot mess” will become a bit clearer, as there are some very concerning connections dating back to the privatization, Haiti, and child tragedies.

Former Gov. Jeb Bush Doubled Down on Privatized Foster Care

Florida began an experiment with privatized child welfare services in 1996 when the State Department of Children and Families spent $27.5 million on five pilot programs between 1997-2000. Only one program in Sarasota Fla was successful. Despite this, and the lack of evidence to show that privatizing foster care would be beneficial for children, in 1998 the Florida legislature mandated that all foster care and related services be privatized between 2000 and 2002. This mandated that DCF contract with a single lead agency, referred to as Community-based Care (CBCs) that administer services in each area.

In 1999 Jeb Bush became governor of Florida and served two terms through 2007. By 2004, forty-two percent of Florida was operating under privatized foster care and adoption services, and Our Kid’s was in negotiations for managing the $500 million 5-year contract in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties – a contract that Judge Cindy Lederman was eager to see them get.

By 2011, reports came out indicating that privatized foster care and adoption services was costing millions more than it was when it was state run. The Sun Sentinel quoted former Gov. Jeb Bush, “We doubled the state funding, which was woefully underfunded, when I became governor,” Spending went up because much-needed services “weren’t being provided, and now they are,” Bush said.

As time went on, reports reflected that the foster care system got far worse, more tragedies occurred, and at one point they had no idea where 500 children were, under Jeb Bush’s watch. In 2018, the Tampa Bay Times did an investigation tracking the placement of over 280,000 foster children between 2000 and 2017 in Florida. They found that thousands of foster children were being moved numerous times with more than 7,500 moved an average of once a month. Others had been placed as many as six times in one month. One child was moved 50 times within one year, and another 43 times. Since 2013, there has been a 40 percent rise in the number of children in foster care homes or housed with relatives, in the state of Florida.

Our Kids Miami-Dade Monroe Inc. Red Flags

Our Kids is a non-profit that was founded in 2002, and manages foster care and adoption services for the entire southern tip of Florida, as well as the Keys. It’s neighbor ChildNet Inc. serves Broward and Palm Beach counties, and they’ve had their fair share of issues as well. In 2013 they paid$2.2 million to settle a case involving two young girls that were repeatedly sexually abused by their mother, after they had been warned by experts and judges.

By 2016, ChildNet had a major deficit, and the $67 million annual federal funding was no longer cutting it. A task force was created to review the situation, and found that there was a staggering increase in the number of at-risk children entering the system. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office Child Protective Investigators had removed nearly 1,400 children in 2015 alone, and were doing so at a rate of 7.8 per 100 children, compared to the statewide rate of 6.4. Why mention ChildNet when the focus is on Our Kids? Because there is a clear pattern of abuse and neglect happening in Florida and some of these individuals in this report cross into these boundaries as well.

Our Kids facebook and LinkedIn are both down. Their website is called “fostering our kids,” not making it the easiest site to find, considering they deal with foster homes, adoptions, and seek volunteers. In fact, their main business listing in google doesn’t even reflect their website link. Their homepage slogan states, “Be a hero. Foster, adopt, volunteer, give.” How are folks supposed to do that when they don’t even list their website? When you click on “About Our Kids” or “Privacy Policy” it takes you to a dead link of an older website of theirs that is now defunct. After several attempts at manually typing a url for their “About Our Kids” page, and repetitive 404 errors, it would seem that they do not have an “About” page. Gosh, for $100 million per year federal grant, one would think they would keep this info tip-top and fully accessible.

What’s curious, is that they seem to go out of their way to conceal who the founders really are. 2004 tax returns reflect Barbara Ibarra as the President, and an article in the Miami Herald refers to her as the founding President of Our Kids. Her husband, Charles D. Scurr serves as the Executive Director of the Citizen’s Independent Transportation Trust. He was the former City Manager of the City of South Miami, Florida, as well as the Executive Assistant for Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami. Additionally, he served with the Urban Mass Transportation Administration in Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA, and with the Miami-Dade Transportation Administration.

Another name mentioned as a “founder” is Berta Blecke, a Miami child advocate. She is also listed on tax returns as a Trustee of Our Kids. Blecke is very close friends with Janet Reno, who served as the Attorney General of the United States from 1993 – 2001, by former President Bill Clinton’s appointment. Blecke also serves on the Janet Reno Endowment Advisory Committee, as does Janet Napolitano, the former United States Secretary of Homeland Security. She was mentioned as a close friend and colleague, along with Eric Holder and others, in ‘The Making of Janet Reno: The People’s Lawyer.’ Blecke is also a founding board member of the Florida Foster Care Review. Berta’s husband James C. Blecke is listed as Judge Cindy Lederman’s attorney for the recent reprimand of her drafting the letter trying to sway the $500 million contract toward Our Kids.

Two individuals that played vital roles in facilitating Our Kids are George Sheldon, former Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Family Services, and former AG of Florida, Bob Butterworth – both of whom served on the board of Our Kids, were very close friends, and have extensive backgrounds as well as connections. These roles go back to the tragic days of airlifting children over from Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, as documented below in this report.

In reviewing their 2002 articles of incorporation, an H. William Walker Jr. is identified as the registered agent, and there are 22 initial trustees listed. Walker is a real estate lawyer, ordained priest of the Episcopal Church, was chairman of the board for United Way of Florida, founding trustee of Trinity Episcopal School, founding president and director of the Florida Foster Care Review Project, founding director of Kristi House, and of course vice chairman and trustee of Our Kids. Berta Blecke was a fulltime volunteer at Kristi House, a treatment center for children that specializes in sexual abuse, and as mentioned above, was also a founding board member of the Florida Foster Care Review. Barbara Ibarra was one of the trustees of the Kristi House, going by the name “Bobbie.” Another trustee was David Lawrence, who has a very extensive background in advocating for children, beginning in 1999 after having been the publisher of both the Miami Herald and the Detroit Free Press. He was also named by then Gov. Jeb Bush to the Florida Partnership for School Readiness, and served on the board twice.

In glancing over some of Our Kids Google reviews, there are some big red flags. One individual said that she wanted to be a foster parent, went through the classes, and the case worker never showed up. She tried for months and no one ever returned her calls. Another person went on quite a rant about how they lie and will do anything to get children adopted that end up back in the foster care system. They suggested that Our Kids would be sued for their wrongdoings, then turned up later to gloat about them losing their contract. A third woman claimed that the case workers never respond, nor do they respond to the kids. The ones that did leave four or five stars, had nothing to say, with the exception of a few that were “translated by Google,” two of which weren’t even in the context of reviews and made little sense.

Red Flags

On February 14, 2011 a tragedy occurred when a survivor and victim were found in a pest control truck along the side of I-95 in Palm Beach County. Their adoptive father, Jorge Barahona, owned the truck. The 11-year-old victim was dead and the survivor suffered severe injuries and was covered in chemicals. Sadly, these children had been terribly tortured and physically and sexually abused for years, likely since the Barahona’s gained custody in 2004.

The state had placed these children into the foster home of the Barahona’s, and later facilitated their adoption. The survivor and the victim’s estate sued DCF and two of its private contractors, Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe Inc., and the Center for Family and Child Enrichment, in parallel state and federal suits, and won a $500 million suit.

In 2012, children in a foster care group home that was a subcontractor of Our Kids, were being pimped out by child sex traffickers. Four South Florida men were arrested. One of the four charged was a 46-year-old DCF child abuse investigator.

In 2015, a criminal investigation ensued into the Family Resource Center, a subcontractor of Our Kids, for one of their employees raping a 17-year-old girl when tasked to transport her on an eight-hour drive to their center in Key West. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Maria Sampedro-Iglesia said that the actions of a private social service agency were borderline “reckless.” That’s putting it mildly. Perhaps it was put “mildly” because this is one of the judges who signed the letter authored by Judge Cindy Lederman stating that “the court will work only with Our Kids, Inc.” AFTER what happened to this poor girl. She resigned on April 28, 2019.

Between June 2013 and May 2014 there had been an 11 percent increase in children requiring out-of-home care, which apparently created a financial challenge for “certain” CBCs. Coincidentally, ChildNet and Our Kids were the two CBCs that received addition funding totaling over $10.5 million between the two.

In 2016, a Florida judge fired at the Children’s Home Society of Florida for forcing children to perform “cockfights” and brawls at one of the Miami group homes, which Our Kids runs for CHS.

In 2017, two men and one woman were charged for alleged sex trafficking of a Miami-Dade 16-year-old foster teen, forcing her into prostitution. That beat her, drugged her, and forced her to have sex with them as well as others. The teen had run away from her foster home claiming that she had been kicked out.

Also in 2017, three top administrators of Our Kids resigned after two adolescent foster care girls hanged themselves at foster homes overseen by Our Kids. 16-year-old Lauryn Martin-Everett hung herself at the Florida Keys Youth Shelter after being moved between 9 foster homes in two years. Thirty-eight days later, 14-year-old Naika Venant hung herself in the bathroom of a Miami Garden foster home. She had live-streamed it on Facebook, where it remained for several weeks, and it made national headlines.

In 2018, Bernard Perlmutter, Robert Latham and Stewart Cooke joined with Children’s Rights and Baker McKenzie law firm to file a suit against Florida DCF, specifically in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, to stop the mistreatment of foster care children in a broken system. They felt that so much harm has been done to foster care children, only a lawsuit could begin to fix the problems. They stated that DCF reports reflect the following:

Records show that hundreds of children have had more than 10, or even 20 or more, moves. More than over 25 kids have been moved more than 80 times. DCF’s own reports stated that numerous foster children have not even received appropriate mental health.

One has to ask, is the moving of 25 kids to 80 different foster homes a method of human trafficking that has been overlooked? Is it possible that some of these abusive homes are setup to “share” the children while collecting their stipend from the government? Or is this another means for shuffling funds?

It is well documented that the United States has a big human trafficking issue, and that human traffickers prey upon children in the foster care system. And, it is no secret that Florida is ranked No. 3 in the nation for the number of human trafficking cases reported.

The Contract, The Judge, and The Wages

In June, 2004 Our Kids was in negotiations with the state for a huge contract to service Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. They had been debating over the budget for months, and apparently got hung up over $1 million dollars of the $92 million they had already agreed upon. Berta Blecke, who was involved with the negotiations stated, “This is 1 percent of our budget that we’re arguing over. We should have ended it in May. Now we’re in June.”

Coincidentally, Miami-Dade Chief Juvenile Court Judge Cindy Lederman was also involved in helping them get this contract, stating, “we’re $1 million between disaster and excellence.” Lederman was part of the Miami-Dade Community Based Care Alliance, and in their Thursday meeting had referred to DCF as being ridiculous for bickering over a relatively small sum with Our Kids. This Alliance called for a special meeting to include former Gov. Jeb Bush and DCF Secretary Jerry Regier so as to push this along.

Lederman went so far as to tell representatives of Our Kids, “If we don’t resolve this by June 15, why would you even want to continue working under those circumstances?”

Of course, Our Kids locked in the contract, and proceeded to service those counties all the way up until this year, when the heated battle with Citrus Health broke out and the five judges were reprimanded.

During Our Kids service, questions were raised regarding the steep wages being paid to the executives, some of whom were making as much as six figures, which is twice as much as state employees were paid. Whereas, eyes were on several agencies, 2011 tax returns revealed that Our Kids was the highest-paid. CEO Frances Allegra was taking in a cool $200,000. That was well above was both the Governor and the secretary of DCF were being paid. In addition to Allegra, seven other executives also made six figures and the CIO made $221,000.

Their neighbor, ChildNet Inc. over in Broward County was also paying six figure salaries to four executives and their CEO Emilio Benitez earned $182,000. Benitez seemed to be under the illusion that it was justified due to “outperforming their predecessors, and they are doing so with virtually the same, or even less, money.” Even Jeb Bush admitted to doubling the amount paid to private agencies, which equated to the state paying out more on privatization than they had when foster care was run by the state.

After serving as the largest provider of child welfare services in the state of Florida for over a decade in southern Florida, Our Kids lost the intense battle with Citrus Health Network Inc. for another $500 million, five-year contract. Their contract ended June 30, 2019 followed by a massive layoff of more than 160 employees.

George Sheldon, Former Secretary of FL and IL Dept. of Children and Family Services, Former Assistant Secretary to Administration for Children & Families HHS, and Former CEO of Our Kids

George Sheldon had an extensive background in both politics and in child advocacy positions prior to his passing at age 71 last year, due to an accident on his home gym. Sheldon and Bob Butterworth had a very close friendship and working relationship. In 1999, Sheldon served as Deputy AG for Central Florida under AG Bob Butterworth. Then in 2008, he became the Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Family Services just after his friend Butterworth had served in that position.

Butterworth and Sheldon oversaw an experiment in child welfare financing that former Gov. Jeb Bush had initiated after securing a statewide waiver of Florida’s Title IV-E funds. This expanded funding beyond foster care and adoption placements, to include other family related services. Whereas they praised the state reducing its foster care rolls by 32 percent, they note that they moved more quickly to finalize adoptions for children whose parents had their rights terminated. Moving quickly on adoptions is disconcerting when considering the number of parents who have illegally had their parental rights removed.

In 2011, after Sheldon was instrumental in getting nearly 1,000 children airlifted from Haiti to Florida immediately following the earthquake, President Obama advanced him to the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Federal Administration for Children and Families in the US Department of Health and Human Services. He served in that position for two years. A reward, perhaps?

In  February 2015, Sheldon slid over to Chicago, Obama’s old stomping grounds, and was put in charge of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services there. However, after two years, Sheldon resigned following an ethics probe for DCFS contracts he was funneling to people in Florida that he had connections with, and in some cases, investments with.

For starters, upon his arrival to his new position, he hired a Florida technology firm called Five Points Technology Group. This group subcontracted with Christopher Pantaleon for a $30,000 job. Sheldon extended the contract for two years, resulting in a payout of $262,000. In addition, Pantaleon billed DCFS $17,774 for flights, hotels, and taxis, being as he was flying to Illinois from Florida. Pantaleon is a longtime Sheldon aide and co-owned a rental home in Florida with him.

He commissioned the Zachary Group, a Florida company that produces public service announcements, in a $35,000 no-bid contract.

Sheldon also appointed Florida based Eckerd Connects’ Chief External Relations Officer Jody Grutza to a senior DCFS position, paying $125,000. She was put in charge of overseeing the Five Points Technology contract. He also brought on other Florida connections into senior positions, and was awarding lucrative contracts to Florida firms rather than Illinois firms.

One of those firms was Eckerd Connects in partnership with Mindshare Technology, which mined electronic DCFS files and assigned a 1-100 score to children who were the victims of abuse via the agency hotline. This algorithm, known as the ‘Rapid Safety Feedback’ program, would rate the children’s risk of death or being severely injured during the following two years. This $366,000 “predictive analytics” contract and it’s accuracy came under fire when caseworkers testified that they were alarmed by the number of alerts whereby children were rated as needing urgent protection. More than 4,100 Illinois children were assigned a 90 percent or greater probability of death or injury.

Needless to say, this so-called predictive analytics didn’t seem to be giving them warning into two horrific deaths of children, nor did DCFS appear to take enough action in what they saw firsthand. After 10 DCFS abuse investigations, 17-month-old Semaj Crosby was found dead under a couch in Joliet township. And, after 8 DCFS investigations into the home of 22-month-old Itachi Boyle, she too was found dead.

The new DCFS Director Beverly Walker shut down the predictive analytics contract stating, “we are not doing the predictive analytics because it didn’t seem to be predicting much.” However,  she is still utilizing the case analysis training provided by Eckerd. Due to several no-bid deals that Sheldon was giving to his associates in Florida, among other ethics issues, the Office of Executive Inspector General and the DCFS Inspector General concluded that Sheldon and DCFS had classified the Eckerd/Mindshare deal as a grant instead of a no-bid contract. This allowed them to avoid the state bidding transparency requirements.

Despite all of this, Eckerd has numerous contracts with child welfare agencies in as many as 20 states. Eckered also has a $73 million Florida contract, running the child welfare program in Hillsborough County, where Sheldon and Eckered once worked together closely. In June, 2018 the state of Florida threatened to terminate Eckerd Connects $77 million contract if they didn’t come up with an action plan to fix the broken foster care system they were running.

In 2017, Sheldon became the CEO of Our Kids, back in his state of Florida.

George Sheldon, Our Kids & The Obama Administration: 2010 Airlift of Hundreds of Haitian Children

For years people have been asking, “what happened to the children that were brought over from Haiti? Where are they?” Rightfully so, being as they initiated this before the rubble had even settled, and after what happened with Laura Silsby smuggling 33 children out of Haiti without documentation. Whereas, one might assume that information on adopted children is generally kept hush hush, this was the biggest airlift mission since the “Pedro Pan” airlift of Cuban exile children in the 1960s.

January 12, 2010 – the tragic earthquake hit Haiti, taking hundreds of thousands of lives.

January 16^th  – former Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Little Haiti and met with the Miami Archdiocese to assure them of aid.

January 19^th – The New York Times was already reporting that there were 53 orphans in the “first wave” of 900 orphans that were matched with parents in the U.S. wanting to adopt. Former US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano had announced on the 18^th that they were waiving visa requirements for Haitian children that were already “in the pipeline for adoption” by American families.

January 19^th – Florida DCF began contacting foster care agencies in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties to get a handle on how many Haitian orphans could be placed. Our Kids alerted DCF to its interest in helping orphaned children – “we have shelter beds available, along with therapists and support services ready to provide aid,” executive director Frances Allegra wrote in an email. Federal agencies were focusing on the “Operation Vigilant Sentry” crisis plan that was created in 2003 in preparation for any mass migration from the Caribbean.

January 20^th – George Sheldon had been meeting with state, county and federal leaders to coordinate refugee resettlement, but stated his concerns for airlifting hundreds or thousands of orphans and uprooting them in a fragile state. Meanwhile, the Archdiocese of Miami, made an “offer” to the federal government and president that they were ready to help spearhead a Pedro Pan-like rescue effort and provide temporary housing. It’s important to note that the Archdiocese of Miami had seen dozens of suits filed against them over sexual abuse scandals. A church report from 2007 stated that 49 priests had been involved in sexual misconduct allegations and the archdiocese had paid out more than $21 million.

January 20^th – Reports were showing that 50 of the 900 children were already adopted to families in Colorado.

January 30^th – Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist announced that between 60 and 80 Haitian orphans had arrived at Miami International Airport.

February 1^st – The U.S. Air Force reported on more than 3,000 Haitian earthquake victims already having been processed through Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida. They stated that 900 of them were children including orphans. Red Cross, DCF, U.S. Customs and medical professionals were all on deck.

August 3^rd – The New York Times reported that the babylift went on for months, and that 1,150 Haitian children were swept up, which was more than what American families had adopted in the previous three years. Adoptions were expedited, improper screening took place, and children were released without legal documents showing they were orphans. Haiti orphanages were emptied out, and there was a lot of heated controversy over how this was all handled, and how children were removed before even determining if their family members or relatives were still alive.

In a DCF newsletter just after the earthquake, they reported that more than two weeks after the earthquake, DCF was already at around-the-clock operations at airports in Miami, Sanford, Homestead, and Fort Lauderdale, and they had already welcomed over 15,000 survivors. This coming shortly after Sheldon’s earlier announcement stating they were not going to move them out quickly in waves. Whereas they detail a handful of stories more specific to “reuniting families,” they don’t go into specifics regarding the number of Haitian orphans.

After Sheldon’s death in 2018, several articles praised Sheldon for his tremendous efforts in spearheading “round-the-clock shifts that lasted a month” for DCF staff. They met 1,056 flights of returning Haitian Americans, and sheltered and processed 720 Haitian orphans destined for adoptive families.” DCF also gave out $26 million in cash assistance.

That said, it seems most of the orphans arrived at Homestead base and/or in Miami-Dade County. Our Kids had already stated they were ready to help, and they were in fact the child welfare agency for that county. Former CEO Frances Allegra is seen in the above photo with George Sheldon and two Haitian children. Reports vary between 720 up to 1,150 children. According to the US Dept. of State adoption statistics, there were only 424 adoptions in 2010, and 398 in 2011 throughout the state of Florida. How many of these children circulated the foster care system? If someone really wants to get to the bottom of where all of these children ended up, Our Kids should be the first stop. The Miami Archdiocese would be a good second stop.

Sheldon also received praise from longtime friend and former CEO of Our Kids, Frances Allegra. Mark Riordan, Sheldon’s former spokesman, said, “George’s work to protect children orphaned by the earthquake was heroic. He mobilized a social services army.”

Shortly thereafter, in 2011, President Barack Obama appointed Sheldon to be Acting Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services, where he served through 2013.

Bob Butterworth, Former Mayor, Judge, AG, and Broward County Sheriff, and Trustee of Our Kids

Bob Butterworth was a county and circuit courts judge in Broward County, Fla from 1974 – 1978, prior to being appointed Sheriff from 1979 – 1982. He did a two-year stint as the director of Florida’s Department of Motor Vehicles, then became mayor of Sunrise in 1984 to clean up a mess after the head of a Miami Beach health center stole $7 million. He went on to serve as the Attorney General of Florida from 1987 – 2002.

Tragically, on the eve of his election in 1986, his ex-wife Saundra shot their 16-year-old son and herself, killing them both on a street in Miami.

In 2006, Butterworth was named Secretary of the Department of Children and Families (DCF), by Gov. Charlie Crist, who referred to Butterworth as “the kind of guy that gets things done. He’s a fixer.” He served until 2008 when George Sheldon took over.

In 2008, leaders of child welfare programs announced the ‘Bob Butterworth Endowment to Assist Youth Aging Out of Foster Care.’ Of course, then Secretary George Sheldon joined to make the announcement, and The Eckerd Family Foundation contributed $10,000 to launch the endowment.

Butterworth went back into law and has worked with Fowler White Boggs focusing on government relations. In 2016 he was appointed to the Florida Bar Foundation Board.

In 2012, Butterworth led a nonprofit mental health group called the Broward Behavioral Health Coalition (BBHC). They were in competition with another nonprofit, the Partnership for Community Health, for a bid to provide mental health services in a $45 million DCF contract. They lost the bid, filed a 22-page bid protest, and alleged that BBHC didn’t file required financial documents, and was allowed to see the partnership’s bid and underbid them, which proved true. They also alleged that BBHC was serving as a front for its partner organization, the for-profit Concordia, who was paying Butterworth as a lawyer and lobbyist. Butterworth didn’t dispute that they would be working with them, and issued an assurance that BBHC’s board is “a who’s who” of Broward community leaders, judges, doctors, and politicians. An appeals court threw the case out because the challenger failed to post a required “protest bond.”

Concordia was only 18-months old at that time, with little experience in the behavioral health industry. It was founded by CEO Carlos A. Saladrigas who has a background serving on the board of Duke Energy Corporation, CEO of Regis HR Group, Chairman of a Miami bank, independent director at Advance Auto Parts, and several other positions. All of which seem quite a bit off course from behavioral health.

This becomes more concerning when it was discovered that while this deal with DCF was in the works, Concordia shareholder Miguel B. Fernandez gave $125,000 to Let’s Get to Work, which was a fundraising organization setup with Gov. Rick Scott’s support. Fernandez also controlled a company called MBF Family Investments, who also contributed to Let’s Get to Work since September 2010. The grand total contributed came to $625,000.

All of this shows a typical pay-to-play political game everyone has seen over and over again. Meanwhile, who’s concerned about the real problem? The contract is about the mental and behavioral health of those in Broward County, yet another area of privatization in the state of Florida.

When considering that connected politicians and big money did the talking, it makes one reflect on the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting. Psychiatrists had recommended an involuntary admission of alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz, beginning in 2013. DCF investigated him in 2016 over snapchat posts where he had cut both of his arms and said he planned to buy a gun. In September 2016, a school resource officer along with two guidance counselors, suggested they Baker Act him, but two mental health professionals from Henderson Behavioral Health didn’t agree, and concluded he didn’t meet the criteria for an involuntary committal.

Guess who funds Henderson Behavioral Health? Butterworth’s Broward Behavioral Health Coalition (BBHC), ChildNet Inc., of course DCF, and several others. In fact, they are listed on BBHC’s website as one of their providers.

In 2017, Bob Butterworth became a trustee of Our Kids, as indicated in their 2018 tax returns.

Alarming Statistics on Florida’s Foster Care System and Human Trafficking

As of 2018, there were seven states with privatized foster care; Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Kansas was the first to implement the federally-funded program back in 1996. Coincidentally, five of the seven privatized states are ranked in the top ten for the highest level of hotline calls and reports on human trafficking. Florida is ranked 3^rd, behind California and Texas.

The 2019 ‘Trafficking in Persons’ report, produced by the U.S. Department of State, concludes:

In the United States, traffickers prey upon children in the foster care system. Recent reports have consistently indicated that a large number of victims of child sex trafficking were at one time in the foster care system.

This is a well-documented fact. So what measures has Florida’s well-funded, privatized agencies taken to combat this? Why is it that four of the seven states that happen to have privatized foster care, are among the highest ranked for human trafficking? And, why does the oversight of foster homes continue to lack, allowing for abusive situations?

Despite passing several different pieces of legislation dating back to 2012, and the creation of the statewide council on human trafficking, somehow the numbers continue to be high, maintaining Florida’s position in the top three.

It certainly doesn’t help when a DCF spokesman is charged for producing child pornography. In 2008, Al Zimmerman had taken nude photos of at least two teenage boys for distribution to overseas pornographers. DCF hasn’t even done a criminal background on him, so after his arrest they decided it might just be a good idea to run background checks on employees. They found that 1,300 employees had not had a background check done. These folks work around children – how was it no mandatory? Child predators prey on them in the foster care system, throughout schools, daycares, Boy Scouts, and everywhere else kids gather. Of all agencies to know this, it should be DCF.

In 2017 The Palm Beach Post did a report about the rise of human trafficking in Florida. They stated that there were nearly 1,900 reports of human trafficking statewide, which was a 54 percent increase from the previous year. Authorities say that South Florida’s high level of tourism and transient population make them a target.

Sadly, foster care is a big business, and according to a 2006 report by ABC, taxpayers were spending $22 billion a year on foster care programs. Now, there are so many different areas of federal funding for foster care, adoption services, and overall care for children, pinning down an annual amount gets a bit trickier.

In 2010, Florida received a statewide waiver of Title IV-E foster care funding, which allows for flexibility in funding. That same year, the Title IV-E wavier provided Florida with $478 million of the state’s total federal child welfare spending.

In 2017, more than 690,000 children spent time in U.S. foster care, with the average age being eight-years-old. One third of the foster care children were of color, and two thirds Caucasian. It has been significantly increasing over the past five years, and the highest it’s been since 2008.

Approximately 50,000 foster kids are adopted each year, and 29% of them will have spent at least three years in foster care prior to the adoption.

Billions of taxpayer dollars line the pockets of agencies, while many foster care children continue to suffer abuse, are recklessly removed from good homes, and some become targets of traffickers. When will the heat be removed from this cyclone?

The Bottom Line

Florida decided it would be best to privatize foster care and adoption services, despite indications that it would not save money or necessarily improve the lives of children. Gov. Jeb Bush decided to double down on the funding, while Berta Blecke and Judge Cindy Lederman went to bat for Our Kids Miami-Dade Inc. to get the $93 million contract back in 2004 – a contract that quickly evolved to a 5-year $500 million prize. Relationships among politicians, judges, and wealthy business owners grew stronger – so strong that most of them committed major ethics violations, pay-to-play schemes, and essentially contract fraud.

The politicians want foster care, adoption services, mental and behavioral health privatized. Why? Because it gives them the opportunity to own a slice of it, control it, and manipulate the system to bend in their favor. See how that works? None of this is for the benefit of children, for if it were, the abuse throughout foster care, number of children in the system, and human trafficking numbers would all be going down. Sadly, they are not. The cost of Florida’s privatized system has gone up by millions, and the abuse rate is so bad that law firms and child rights organizations are suing DCF. Florida is ranked number three in the country for human trafficking, and the foster care system is preying grounds for traffickers.

The executives at Our Kids, as well as other agencies in Florida are being paid steep wages, some at six figures, and some as much as double what state employees were being paid in the same positions before it was privatized. This is a money game. It’s always been a money game. But is it more than that as well? What about these 25 children who were moved 80 times? Or the thousands of others that were moved 10-20 times in one year? Is this a form of child trafficking out in the open while they collect their stipend from the government?

The rush into Haiti to “airlift” out hundreds of children without having documentation proving they were in fact orphans, and without attempting to locate their family members before the dust even settled, was a complete disgrace. Until this day, few know where all of those children went, and they clearly are not talking. But this gang of clowns above most certainly played a role in that shit show, while they continue to praise themselves.

Bottom line – South Florida, and likely many other parts of the state, is a giant Nest of politicians, judges, real estate agents, lawyers, and big-money clowns that are running the privatized agencies to allegedly better the system for the children. That hasn’t happened. It has only gotten worse. While the five judges await their Supreme Court ruling, it is likely they will settle on the simple reprimand suggested by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission. Two of the judges whose names were on the letter are now retired.

This shows how the money flows through the nest of high level players that are only looking out for themselves as opposed to the children. This nest can be seen all across the country in multiple states, with players pulling off the same operations, and not being held accountable. The question is – is it all about the money – or is it also about child trafficking? The bigger question is – when will these schemes come to an end? People observing these nests in their own hometowns need to speak up, need to do their own digging, and need to expose the corruption taking place. If they are willing to break all the rules to cover for one another, get big contracts, and funnel their buddies contracts – do you really believe they have children in their best interest? Look at their track record above, and look at Florida’s track record overall. It’s time to clean house!

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 104(a) of the National Quantum Initiative Act (Public Law 115-368) (Act), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in order to ensure continued American leadership in quantum information science and technology applications, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1.  Establishment.  The National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (Committee) is hereby established.  The Committee shall consist of the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy or the Director’s designee (Director) and not more than 22 members appointed by the Secretary of Energy (Secretary).  Committee members shall represent industry, universities, Federal laboratories, and other Federal Government agencies.  Committee members must be qualified to provide advice and information on quantum information science and technology research, development, demonstrations, standards, education, technology transfers, commercial application, and national security economic concerns.  The Director shall serve as a Co Chair of the Committee.  The Secretary shall designate at least one of the Committee members to serve as Co-Chair with the Director.

Sec. 2.  Functions.  (a)  The Committee shall advise the Secretary and the Subcommittee on Quantum Information Science of the National Science and Technology Council (Subcommittee) and make recommendations to the Secretary to consider when reviewing and revising the National Quantum Initiative Program (Program) established pursuant to section 101 of the Act.  The Committee shall also carry out all responsibilities set forth in section 104 of the Act.

(b)  The Committee shall meet at least twice a year and shall:

(i)    respond to requests from the Co-Chairs of the Committee for information, analysis, evaluation, or advice relating to quantum information science and technology applications;

(ii)   solicit information and ideas from a broad range of stakeholders on quantum information science in order to inform policy making.  Stakeholders include the research community, the private sector, universities, national laboratories, executive departments and agencies (agencies), State and local governments, foundations, and nonprofit organizations; and

(iii)  respond to requests from the Subcommittee.

Sec. 3.  Administration.  (a)  The heads of agencies shall, to the extent permitted by law, provide the Committee with information concerning quantum information science and supporting technologies and applications when requested by a Co Chair of the Committee.

(b)  In consultation with the Director, the Committee may create standing subcommittees and ad hoc groups, including technical advisory groups, to assist and provide preliminary information to the Committee.

(c)  The Director may request that members of the Committee, its standing subcommittees, or ad hoc groups who do not hold a current clearance for access to classified information, receive appropriate clearances and access determinations pursuant to Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009 (Classified National Security Information), as amended, or any successor order.

(d)  The Department of Energy shall provide such funding and administrative and technical support as the Committee may require.

(e)  Committee members shall serve without any compensation for their work on the Committee, but may receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in the Government service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707).

Sec. 4.  General Provisions.  (a)  Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.) (FACA), may apply to the Committee, any functions of the President under the FACA, except for those in section 6 of the FACA, shall be performed by the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Director, in accordance with the guidelines and procedures established by the Administrator of General Services.

(b)  Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i)   the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii)  the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(c)  This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(d)  This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 30, 2019.

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And Quote:
For unreasonable anger, and desires are the most existing evil.

For it is decreed by Fate that he that does any evil should suffer for it. ~Thoth

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3 parts to this video

Update on Christine Maxwell’s Chiliad software, and MORE!

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by Lianne Laurence, published on Life Site News, on September 6, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO, September 6, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The CEO of StemExpress essentially admitted in court Thursday that her biotech company supplies beating fetal hearts and intact fetal heads to medical researchers.

She also admitted at the preliminary hearing of David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress that the baby’s head could be procured attached to the baby’s body or “could be torn away.”

Watch this special report where LifeSite Managing Editor Patrick Craine speaks with reporter Lianne Laurence who is on the ground in San Francisco covering the criminal case against pro-life investigators David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt.

by Tyler Durden, published on Zero Hedge, on September 9, 2019

Update: During the post-conference Q&A, Paxton revealed that, though their investigation is still in its early days, the AGs have already issued subpoenas related to Google’s digital advertising business.

“If advertising costs are higher…who ends up paying that?” Paxton said.

Asked about coordination with the federal government, Paxton and AG Sean Reyes of Utah, intimated that they had reached out to the FTC but that their response was unsatisfactory.

Washington DC’s AG Karl Racine insisted that their probe wasn’t intended to send a message to Congress, but that the AG’s investigation is an independent action. Later, Paxton said the investigation would be a “very open process” with the states, with each state and the federal government allowed to offer input.

“We’re open to using talent from every office in this country.”

And with that, the AGs ended what was a rather brief Q&A that lasted roughly ten minutes.

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In the latest legal push that could ultimately result in the break-up of one of the world’s largest tech firms, a bipartisan group of more than 40 state attorneys general, led by Texas’s Ken Paxton, will unveil a sweeping anti-trust investigation against Google parent Alphabet Inc.

The anti-trust investigation, which was previewed late last week in a leak to the Wall Street Journal, aims to hold Alphabet accountable for the extreme concentration in the US technology industry. Specifically, the AG’s case will focus on Google’s influence in search and the digital advertising market, and whether the Silicon Valley giant’s overweening influence harms rivals and consumers.

Part of the message from Monday’s press conference will be asking Google employees who might have information about Google’s abuses in the online advertising market to come forward.

The investigation is being pursued alongside a flurry of federal lawsuits and investigations against the biggest tech firms being led by the DoJ (with the FTC assisting), as well as another investigation brought by state AGs against Facebook.

Nearly all of the states are participating in the investigation against Google, and/or a similar anti-trust investigation against Facebook. One notable exception: California isn’t participating in either suit (and Alabama will sit out the Google probe). The investigations come on the heels of a $5 billion settlement between Facebook and the FTC, which resolved some of the federal government’s claims over the company’s user-privacy violations.

The press conference kicking off the investigation will take place on the steps of the Supreme Court Monday afternoon.

According to Politico, eight attorneys general will make up what’s known as the “executive committee”. These states include: Texas, Arizona, Nebraska, Louisiana, North Carolina, Colorado, Iowa and Mississippi.

Watch the press conference live:

AGs will explore whether Google and its fellow tech behemoths are stifling start-ups, delivering worse service and siphoning off too much personal data to bolster their bottom-lines at the expense of consumers.

“The growth of these [tech] companies has outpaced our ability to regulate them in a way that enhances competition,” Keith Ellison, a Democratic attorney general from Minnesota who is signing on to the effort to probe Google, told the Washington Post.

“They need to be regulated,” he continued, “and my view is, it’s the state AGs job to do it, particularly when the federal government is not necessarily a reliable partner in the area.”

State AGs have been warned that Google will do everything in its power to “stonewall” these anti-trust investigations using formidable defensive tactics, despite the company’s promises of cooperation.

“The attorneys general have found they can actually rewrite the rules for entire sectors and individual companies through these cases,” said Rob McKenna, a former attorney general in Washington state and now a partner at the law firm Orrick. “The attorneys general have a lot of power here to achieve regulation by litigation.”

While Washington has typically taken the lead in investigating anti-trust matters dating back more than a century to the trust-busting days of the Gilded Age, state AGs are coming off a notably successful run, including their successful takedown of Purdue Pharma and other drug makers over their role in fostering the opioid crisis.

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The Admiralty Court Exists Because the U.S. is Under Martial law

published on Bibliotecapleyades.net

This Awareness* wishes briefly to remind entities that the admiralty court is the court in which the gold braid goes around the American Flag which indicates the court is under martial law, or under admiralty law, from the martial law since Abraham Lincoln’s executive order putting it under martial law, and in order to continue staying under martial law, the country has to have some kind of war every two years. Thus, the war on drugs, the war on poverty, et cetera, and the admiralty laws are used in the courts in such a way that they are not necessarily tied to the Constitution, although the Constitution is said to be the law of the land.

Did you know the U.S. has a Military and a Civil Flag?

This Awareness indicates that when Lincoln was assassinated, no one thought to put an end to this declaration of martial law because of the Civil War and because the martial law has continued up to this time, from the time of the Civil War, the nation can be directed by what is called Admiralty Law or martial law by simply a command of the President or the authority of the land or his agents.

It is not even required by Admiralty Law that Congress conduct proceedings to make laws. The Admiralty Law can provide statutes, which are called statutory laws, while the country is under Admiralty or martial law, but the Admiralty or martial law must come to an end eventually, in which it much either end or be reinstated. Thus, entities will find a new effort to create martial law in this country again. It may be martial law against what is termed a crime wave, even though crime has decreased two years in a row and has not increased much in the past several years.

“A country cannot be both ignorant and free…”
Thomas Jefferson

US Under Martial Law – War and The Emergency Powers

For example, they may find that a crisis lets them circumvent rules or laws that are protected by Constitutional principles so that they break the Constitution by following procedures in the activity of a disguise of helping out in a crisis. The emergency acts often set aside laws and once a law is set aside for an emergency, it may be left sitting aside.

For example, Abraham Lincoln declared martial law during the Civil War. Martial law has not been lifted yet from his declaration of martial law, over a hundred years ago. This Awareness indicates that any time entities in power want to do something that is illegal under the Constitution, they go simply ahead with it under the principle of the martial law declared by Lincoln. That is how the Executive Orders are presented. They are Executive Orders based on martial law that has not been lifted. This is also referred to as admiralty law.

Thus you have, in one period, a war on poverty. A few years later you have a war on drugs. And there are more and more of these wars occurring every two years. Otherwise, Martial Law would have to be canceled and you would be back under the Constitution, and your freedoms could be restored. You could then plead Constitutional Rights in courts of law. However, at present, the courts of law are following Admiralty Law, and therefore, if you plead Constitutional Rights in court, you are not likely to get anywhere.

Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, there are now in effect four presidentially-proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 16, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971.
http://www.rallye-pointe.com/em_powers.htm

Ooooops….and here comes for your entertainment “A Letter to the Sheeple”

Thus Constitutional Rights only count when you get up into the Supreme Court, for there is a tendency to continue to use the Constitutional law in the Supreme Court because they do not want the people to know that the Constitution has been superseded by Admiralty Law. This Awareness indicates that therefore, the Supreme Court will often rule if there is a constitutional discrepancy, so that the lower laws are supposed to follow the Constitution, and yet, entering into a court of law, arguing with the Constitution, seldom is beneficial to an entity because they will say the entity is in the wrong jurisdiction in this court.

They do not recognize your Constitutional Law in the jurisdiction of an Admiralty setting or court, and therefore, they will rule against you, This is the purpose of lawyers. They are clearly aware of their role in the Admiralty court, because you are not in the right jurisdiction for such.

American Patriot Friends Network:

• “The Law”!
• THE LAWYER’S SECRET OATH
• Secret Courts – Secret Law

The admiralty law, like any military law, has its own set of rules. This Awareness indicates it is also likened unto a corporation, which has its rules or laws, and when the laws of a corporation affect an entity in a way that is contrary to his or her Constitutional laws, then the entity can sue the corporation and rely on the Constitution, but this is often ignored by the corporations and most entities do not have the funds necessary to follow through to sue a corporation in order to have the Constitutional rights adjudicated.

The Federal Government in D.C. a Corporation from England

This Awareness indicates that likewise, the corporation that is the Federal government in Washington D.C., which was incorporated in the last century in London, England, which the Freeman have pointed out has its rules; these are the Federal statutes and so forth; and these too are designed for certain purposes but are required to follow the Constitution and if entities feel their Constitutional Rights have been violated by a Federal statute, they have the option of suing the Federal government and the statute for a constitutional ruling in the Supreme Court.

This Awareness indicates however, the ability to follow a case through the Supreme Court to test a Federal statute is not always easy, nor is it inexpensive. It is very costly, and very difficult and may take years. This Awareness indicates that for these reasons, the Federal statutes are extremely difficult for entities to overrun, and by carrying on the martial law in this country and using the Federal statutes as law, the Constitution becomes less and less effective, because it becomes more and more expensive to use, and therefore, gradually, over periods of time, more and more statutes and more and more corporate rules had their effect over the masses to the point where entities begin to feel that they do not have any rights, and whereby even judges in courts of law dismiss and refuse to allow constitutional points of law to occur in their courts.

The Judicial System is Really to Protect the D.C. Corporation

Why should they allow constitutional points of law in their courts when they are actually military courts? This Awareness indicates that most entities think the judicial system is there to protect the rights of entities according to the Constitution, the law of the land, the Bill of Rights and so forth, but they are really there to keep order in society and to protect those who have the power and the money and to assure that no one disturbs the infrastructure of the corporation being promoted from London or the state rules and those that are promoted by the courts as military organizations.

Courts Are Above The Constitution?

Queen Elizabeth controls and has amended U.S. Social Security

THE UNITED STATES IS STILL A BRITISH COLONY

The Press Works for those Who Promote the New World Order

This Awareness indicates the press of course works for the people who bring you the New World Order, who bring you the means by which this country will eventually be enslaved, and the press ins not going to promote clear and honest reporting on these kind of of issues. There are things from the Internet, that give some clear reporting. This Awareness indicates that in general, however, most people will only receive what the world planners want them to know, and therefore, they are not likely to get the full story.

A stroke of a Pen Could Create Martial Law
(Revelations of Awareness 94-5)

This Awareness indicates that this could occur at the stroke of a pen when the Constitution is discarded under martial law, which could occur any day that it is decided. This Awareness indicates that as soon as the people are disarmed, the martial law that has been in existence in this country since Lincoln will be publicly exposed and people will realize they no longer can use Constitutional claims, freedom, rights, and so forth, as a defense, and that they have no right to bear arms, they have no right to congregate, they have no freedom of speech, they have no rights in the courts of law to a fair trial by their peers.

They have no rights to prevent their homes from being searched. This Awareness indicates that the major block to martial law being announced is that there are some 70 million gun owners. Many of these entities being upright citizens and business people who do not consider it the business of government to enter in their homes, to take their weapons, and therefore, they are a danger to anyone who would violate the rights as given by the Constitution.

In other words the Federal government does not want the people to know yet they are under martial law, or that they are not protected by the Constitution for fear that if they were to discover this, it could start a civil war directed at the Federal government from this army of 70 million people, for there are only 3 million armed people in the military and police force in this country at this time.

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“Government” working for the Rothschilds

(Revelations of Awareness 94-8)

This Awareness indicates that in a country where freedom of speech and other freedoms are allowed, entities have been killed for expressing or pursuing those freedoms. It is because this country is out of control in terms of the type of government, and who the government really is working for, because this government has not been working for the people for some time.

It has been working for the Rothschilds and other international bankers in their effort to create a New World Government, run by the United Nations, which is a Rothschild organization, which is an international banking organization. It is basically owned by the international bankers, established by them, set up by them, and influenced and basically controlled by them..

On Timarchy and the Usurper’s Machineries

This Awareness indicates that it is time for the people to reclaim their inalienable rights that were given to them by the Divine, and handed to them through laws of the United States Constitution, the Magna Carta, and other documents from antiquity and historical situations wherein mankind fought, suffered, and died to win these freedoms.

Government’s “Crime Prevention”-
just another new way to confiscate the guns from U.S. citizens

This Awareness indicates in other words, the government has gotten into Crime prevention, by making the planning or the attempt to cause a crime a crime in itself. This Awareness indicates that this is also part of the reasoning behind the anti-gun movement, in which government sees that anyone having a gun, wherein the Constitution gives entities the right to bear arms, the government is saying:

“If we take away the guns, they cannot commit the crime, thus it is Crime Prevention. If we make it a crime to have the guns, then we make it a crime in a way that prevents crime from occurring.”

Thus, getting into Crime Prevention may go against the Constitution of the United states, but it would be to the benefit of the New World Order to be able to call any kind of potential violence a crime. They could even go further and restrict knives or bows and arrows, but this is not likely to occur. The ownership of bows and arrows however might eventually become a crime, because generally bows and arrows would be considered potentially violent in their use.

This Awareness indicates in other words, by creating a set of laws to prevent an entity from having the ability to commit a crime, is making it so that entities do not have to take responsibility for themselves. They only obey and are taken care of by the government and its laws. The Constitution put the burden on the individual to be a good citizen, whereas the New World Order is putting the burden on the individual to give up freedoms and to obey the government and its statutes and laws that do not guarantee freedoms.

This Awareness indicates the Constitution was concerned about the judgments and laws of King George and of government itself, and made it such that the people were in charge of the government. The Constitution was there to serve the people against an unruly tyrannical government to ensure that the government would never be able to set up a totalitarian control over the masses.

This has more or less neutralized, negated, and made obsolete, though they still pretend the Constitution has power. The agencies, particularly the Justice Branch of government and the executive Branch have total control over the people at this time. If a case is brought to a courthouse anywhere in the United States, and an entity attempts to use the Constitution as the arguments for protection, they will get nowhere in the effort, because the courts are not operating under the Constitution. They are operating under martial law, and as continued to the present.

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There Was A Decisive Choice To Terminate The Entire Collective Experience Without “playing out the rest”…

Email from Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf to Terran

HATJ:

lol <3

On Adam’s B-Day, 9-9, there was a happy, decisive choice to terminate the entire collective experience without “playing out the rest” and simultaneously jump into the “end/beginning result”…the feeeelings that would be experienced in “playing out the rest” have already been experienced and the fear from those at the prospect of “playing out the rest “was palpable …the inner shudders at the probable judgment, shaming, shunning, etc., and the lack of faith at the compassion, acceptance, and love, were visible, tangible, etc…..my “input” was that I would happily forgo anyone having to go through all of that, for i did not need the “playing out the rest”, and that all would jump into the “end/beginning result”…

On Eli’s B-Day, 9-10, I had the video visit with the family…joyous, beautiful, grateful…then the vid visit with You, Bev, Sammy was a wonderful bonus and we toned out the termination of “playing out the rest” and jumping right into the “end/beginning result” immediately…

On 9-11, there were many discussions done through all of Existence about all that each had not accomplished yet, almost like many “life reviews” going on all at once and a deeeeeeeeeeeep sadness was expressed and flowed through all that is, and all of me…the sadness was greater than any other sad flow previously programmed into “9-11″…and i still remember 9-11 from my own experience, standing at the palace’s market in Casablanca, Morocco…crazy stuff, emotions that took ya to the floor.

On 9-13, while celebrating my roommate’s birthday, a message arrived in response to the termination/jump being currently implemented…”Jeramiah 20:11″…that’s it…nothing else was written on the paper, and the piece of paper it was written on was shaped like a bear, really like the bear hug emoti from skype, lol…and of course, I had to go borrow a bible from another girl to look up the verse…and when i read it, i laughed, and laughed, and laughed, for there was a joyous, yet sheepish, sense of humor wrapped around that message…

For the next 24 hours we “re-wrote”/”re-programmed” the energetic flow, frequencies, and vibrations of said message and realigned its setting for “immediate” and “speed of heart” and “already done” with and within the flow…because i may not exist in a time continuum, but i am considerate of the fact that Universal’s have “shitty timing” and there are others in Existence that bear the brunt of that fact of “shitty timing” unnecessarily!

9-14, “All are with me as a mighty, awesome One. Therefore my persecutors did stumble and did not prevail. They are greatly ashamed, for they did not prosper. Their everlasting confusion is never forgotten.”, was duly entered, programmed, and immediately implemented…onward to the celebration of All, by All, with All!!!!!!!!!

my love to you, bev, sammy, and all there!

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The Fed Shocks Everyone With An Emergency Inter

TUCCI-JARRAF HEATHER ANN (86748007)

Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:35 PM

RE: The Fed Shocks Everyone With An Emergency Inter

Lol…no size of injection can save the corpse of the federal reserve, et al, nor the decayed financial system (global
and national) that died years ago…the fed is dead…by their own choices
All that moves forward is the original, in all its BEingness…no more fraudulent overlays of any kind, form, or
matter

Love you, lili <3

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From: HEATHER ANN TUCCI-JARRAF

To: Lisa Sannon

Date: 9/20/2019 2:08:10 PM

Subject: response to request for data ~ pt 1

Buon giorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrno a tutti!

Lisa, honey, per your request, you asked for my intuitive view on a few matters specifically overlighted last year by another during a remote viewing, recorded in 9 videos between July 18-25th, 2018…and all that was not seen of those moments… revealed in every detail of every moment of those “dates” and all that occurred in, around, through, and beyond the guise of Tennessee…All of what amounts to universal data clusters/universal nexus points of all of existence. I informed you that others were emailing/contacting/bringing forth and overlighting other data points within those same universal data clusters/universal nexus points of all of existence, and that I would share with you my knowing, and experiences, with said specific points you asked about from the remote viewings, which I have not seen as there is no internet, but did previously point out that in order to access said nexus points takes a purity of heart, complete love, compassion, and no judgment…and when that is the BEingness, all that is, is accessible during those moments of purity of heart, etc.

1. RE: RV ~ I have addressed this many times over the years, and my previous answers have not changed, they remain consistent, because the data, and the totality of the data regarding “Value” is consistent and has not changed. I refer you to those previous answers, with the knowledge that the expansion of consciousness now present may allow for data previously delivered but not seen to be shown and known now.

2. RE: Q and Anonymous seeming as if they were ” kind of battling it out” ~ Universally speaking, any and all tools that had potential to hyperaccelerate expansion of consciousness and presentation and experience of complete BEingness are considered and used as appropriate by all…however, the appearance, and presumption, of “sides” is an allusion and an illusion, often times leading to “de-lusion”, lol…no prejudice was utilized in determining the means to expanding BEingness so that not one part of BEingness operated secretly, covertly, etc, because ALL have been and continue to be focused on making the complete BEing of each and All visible and creating from that complete BEingness…and each facet of BEingness is treasured above all else…yes, the remote viewer intuited/saw the flow of all that is correctly in this regard…each individuality, each uniqueness of BEing is a gift beyond all measures, treasured, appreciated, revered, and protected with All Heartitude so that it may BE, in purity, with no prejudice…i am beyond grateful that he overlighted this universal nexus point, for it is the “heart” of the matter that drives heartitude <3

to be continued, lili…

“This fellow, Edward Riordan, did a remote viewing on Q in July 2018. I have not heard of him before. I saw him on a Sarah Westall video with 2 other remote viewers. There are about 6 or 7 videos covering the Q remote viewing session and I found his data extremely interesting The link below is to one of the videos and the rest can be found on his youtube page posted around September 2018  [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5aHPUSoMnY ] ”

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From: HEATHER ANN TUCCI-JARRAF

To: Lisa Sannon

Date: 9/20/2019 5:51:28 PM

Subject: pt 1 continued into pt 2

2. (CONTINUED) RE: Q ~ Q and all such tools of expansion are used to get all focused/unified beyond all separations …not uniqueness, mind you, for that is the beauty of all that is…but feeeeelings and perceptions of all being separate.

3. RE: “KEY PEOPLE” (remote viewer’s term, not mine or Universal’s)…remote viewer’s intuitive views, and descriptions Lisa provided, WERE spot on, as the so-called “KEY PEOPLE” saw it all, including those the so-called people “conditioned/trained” to see them as they deemed themselves worthy and operate on their behalf, i.e. “the old man”/”grandfather”, et al, Xi (offspring of so-called “KEY PEOPLE”), other offspring strategically placed within US TREASURY, FEDERAL RESERVE, FBI, CIA, NSA, positions within three branches of US Government, etc, Multi-National Corporations (or placed as the spouses of those at the top), ~~~ and all international equivalents thereof…the so-called “KEY PEOPLE” viewed/perceived everyone as less than and themselves as “all that”, all that and more, past tense, for they are no longer “all that”, lol, and they are no longer “affective” nor “effective” in all that is…the so-called “KEY PEOPLE”, are the ones I speak of/refer to/identify when I write “China”, “Russia”, “US/United States”, also referred to by me as “foreign actors”, etc…for the so-called “KEY PEOPLE” have known no boundaries here, because all boundaries are of their making and they have been “economic boundaries” stretched into physical boundaries…

…and I do overlight this, during July 17-25, 2018 (even including the moment of their reminder/containment of Varlan via Spencer) there was a lot of foot stomping, making Xi a “President of Perpetuity”, yet not arriving at being the “President of ‘The Perpetuity’”, LOL!…and as the remote viewer saw, incessant waving of a so-called patent or discovery…and they did feeeeeel that they were holding all the cards…now, they and all other parts of existence are aware that they weren’t, or at the very least, they were holding a loosing hand, lol <3 Compassion and complete love for those ones did successfully complete their shift out of exclusivity and into unity…it was tiresome, heartbreaking, and heart expanding all in one :)…and the former systems are imploding into heart.

Remote viewer’s intuitive feelings are spot on, specifically and particularly his statement: “…that this is waaay waaay bigger than just ‘deep states’ or ‘Trump is good guy and they are the bad guy’ and it is so far beyond that…that there is a real puppet master who is really keeping us distracted on the surface while there is a major major plan that is unfolding. If my stuff is right.”…Yes, correct…

To be continued, Lili …

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From: HEATHER ANN TUCCI-JARRAF

To: Lisa Sannon

Date: 9/20/2019 7:06:20 PM

Subject: Pt 3

Last mention of the remote viewer’s reference to the so-called “KEY PEOPLE” ~ there are those present on this Earth that balanced these BEings, i.e. those that can appear/expand/change in an instant in direct relation and direct action to that which requires balancing/stability, i have refered in the past to these beings as “Source Fource”, and various historical global militaries, administrations, secret societies, schools of thought, religions, etc., have had their own reference names for these beings…as consciousness and all that is have expanded, so has the “source fource” of all that is in its presence every “where”…all “countries” have been used, abused, etc., by the so-called “KEY PEOPLE” prior to their removal/transition/expansion last year…yes, they may be seen/perceived as resonating closest with China/Chinese/Asian, however, they tolerated such comparisons, assumptions, presumptions because it served their ultimate purposes of control, power, and wealth…what is being dissolved now is the “after-taste”, and that is hyperaccelerated by the creations now

…to sum up, the so-called “KEY PEOPLE’S”/et al’s wealth was sucked up and removed, and done using their own “rules” for humor, and in humor…they have no patent/ownership/discovery, etc., but they were given their opportunity to make their best presentation to all on Earth, if they chose to…the Universal Security Agreement, *the Perpetuity, may not have been, and may not be, comprehended by some here, but that is not, and was not, necessary to Universally implement and enforce and protect and expand all of Existence….All of Existence, Earth, humanity, individuality, uniqueness are more treasured and revered than any can comprehend in these moments.

…there is and has all ways always been uniqueness in unity…individuality in unity…all facets are brillant, brilliantly done, and doing brilliantly!!!!

4. RE: Nanotech, Artificial Intelligence, Implants, ChemTrails, etc. ~ All of it is negated by Consciousness…and cannot survive specifically and particularly with the ever-expanding consciousness of each individual and collective, jointly and separately considered and acting. Bance Hom and I used to have lovely conversations about all that <3

Did I answer your requests for data/response to your satisfaction, Lili? (That may be a trick question, lol!)

Hugs, love, gratitude, heartitude, and celebrations to you, Lisa, and All…for All, by All, with All

Read more here: on September 17, 2019 

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WASHINGTON—The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is putting out a call for whistleblowers and concerned citizens to come forward to discuss child sex trafficking in the foster care system.

“The National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children in Youth in the United States has discussed vulnerabilities of children and youth who have interacted with foster care systems and is working on recommendations for professionals in these settings. We encourage everyone with specific ideas or recommendations to submit them in writing for the members’ consideration: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/resource/nacpublic18,” the Committee exclusively told The Epoch Times on Friday, Oct. 4, the day the Committee held a public meeting on ways to combat child sex trafficking.

The United States and the United Kingdom entered into the world’s first ever CLOUD Act Agreement that will allow American and British law enforcement agencies, with appropriate authorization, to demand electronic data regarding serious crime, including terrorism, child sexual abuse, and cybercrime, directly from tech companies based in the other country, without legal barriers.

The current legal assistance process can take up to two years, but the Agreement will reduce this time period considerably, while protecting privacy and enhancing civil liberties.  The historic agreement was signed by U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr and UK Home Secretary Priti Patel at a ceremony at the British Ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C.

Attorney General William Barr said: “This agreement will enhance the ability of the United States and the United Kingdom to fight serious crime — including terrorism, transnational organized crime, and child exploitation — by allowing more efficient and effective access to data needed for quick-moving investigations.  Only by addressing the problem of timely access to electronic evidence of crime committed in one country that is stored in another, can we hope to keep pace with twenty-first century threats.  This agreement will make the citizens of both countries safer, while at the same time assuring robust protections for privacy and civil liberties.”

Home Secretary Priti Patel said: “Terrorists and paedophiles continue to exploit the internet to spread their messages of hate, plan attacks on our citizens and target the most vulnerable.  As Home Secretary I am determined to do everything in my power to stop them. This historic agreement will dramatically speed up investigations, allowing our law enforcement agencies to protect the public.  This is just one example of the enduring security partnership we have with the United States and I look forward to continuing to work with them and global partners to tackle these heinous crimes.”

Both governments agreed to terms which broadly lift restrictions for a broad class of investigations, not targeting residents of the other country, and assure providers that disclosures through the Agreement are compatible with data protection laws.  Each also committed to obtain permission from the other before using data gained through the agreement in prosecutions relating to a Party’s essential interest—specifically, death penalty prosecutions by the United States and UK cases implicating freedom of speech.

The novel US-UK Bilateral Data Access Agreement will dramatically speed up investigations by removing legal barriers to timely and effective collection of electronic evidence.  Under its terms, law enforcement, when armed with appropriate court authorization, may go directly to tech companies based in the other country to access electronic data, rather than going through governments, which can take years.  The current Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) request process, which sees requests for electronic data from law enforcement and other agencies submitted and approved by central governments, can often take many months.  Once in place, the Agreement will see the timeline obtaining evidence significantly reduced.

The Agreement will accelerate dozens of complex investigations into suspected terrorists and pedophiles, such as Matthew Falder who was convicted in 2018 in the UK of 137 offenses after an eight-year campaign of online child sexual abuse, blackmail, forced labor and sharing of indecent images, which highlighted the need to speed up these investigations.

The United States will have reciprocal access, under a U.S. court order, to data from UK communication service providers.  All requests for access to data will be subject to independent judicial authorization or oversight.

In March 2018, Congress passed the CLOUD Act, which authorizes the United States to enter into bilateral executive agreements with rights-respecting partners that lift each party’s legal barriers to the other party’s access to electronic data for certain criminal investigations.  The Agreement was facilitated by the UK’s Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act 2019, which received Royal Assent in February this year.  The Agreement will enter into force following a six-month Congressional review period mandated by the CLOUD Act, and the related review by UK’s Parliament.

We anticipate releasing a copy of the agreement in the near future following Congressional and Parliamentary notification.

For more information on the CLOUD Act, go to: https://www.justice.gov/dag/page/file/1153466/download and https://www.justice.gov/dag/cloudact.

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From: TUCCI-JARRAF, HEATHER ANN
Subject: RE: Man found with 13 tonnes of gold
Date: Oct 4, 2019 at 1:50 PM

Karl Langstein’s “buddy”, or at least his “top dog”, lol… I wonder if they found the purported 700 Million USD cash in Lance’s basement yet…or any of the other “cash stash” in the other million or so basements around China…oh my! <3

Forbes hasn’t nailed the so-called wealthiest people since its inception…but misdirection is Forbes, et al’s job, lol

complete love, compassion, gratitude, and heartitude as the termination/jump is completed <3

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Thirteen and a half tonnes of gold worth up to £520million is found in a corrupt Chinese official’s home and £30BILLION in suspected bribe money in his bank account

by Billie Thomson, for Daily Mail, published on October 2, 2019 

* Thirteen and a half tonnes of gold worth up to ??520million is found in a corrupt Chinese official’s home and ??30BILLION in suspected bribe money in his bank account

* Thousands of golden bars and bricks were discovered in a room during a raid?? Inspectors also discovered ??30 billion in suspected bribes on his account

* The 58-year-old official in Haikou has been sacked and is under investigation

* He would have been richer than China’s richest man if charges turn out to be true

A powerful Communist official in China is suspected to have received 13.5 tonnes of gold and????30 billion cash in bribes.

Thousands of??golden bars and bricks were discovered at the leader’s home during a raid by corruption inspectors earlier this month.

Their value could be worth up to ??520 million, according to international trading prices.

Thousands of golden bars and bricks were discovered by corruption inspectors at the man’s home in Hainan Province, China, earlier this month. The official is being investigated

Zhang Qi, 58, who was a top official in the province of Hainan has been sacked.??
In addition to the gold, inspectors discovered 268 billion yuan (??30 billion) in suspected bribes on the man’s account, according to reports.??

He was also thought to have received multiple luxurious villas as perks.??

If Mr Zhang’s alleged corruption turns out to be true, he would have been richer than Jack Ma, the wealthiest man in China worth??$37 billion??(??30 billion) according to Forbes.??

Mr Zhang (left) was the secretary of the Communist Party Committee of Haikou. Apart from gold, inspectors also discovered ??30 billion in suspected bribes on the man’s account

Mr Zhang was the secretary of the Communist Party Committee of Haikou, the provincial capital city of Hainan with a population around nine million people.??

He had equal power as the city’s mayor, according to the ranking of Chinese Communist party officials.??

He was also a member of the??Standing Committee of Hainan Province.

He has been stripped of both titles by the??Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Mr Zhang was a highly powerful man in Haikou (pictured), the provincial capital of Hainan

Footage circulating on Twitter shows one person counting lumps of gold in a room believed to be in Mr Zhang’s lavish home.??

The clip and related news have been censored in mainland China.??

In a statement on September 6, the country’s corruption watchdog said Mr Zhang was suspected to have seriously violated the law and??discipline.??

He is currently under inspection and investigation from the authority.??

Chinese President Xi??has launched a tough anti-corruption campaign since taking office. The Communist leader is seen??delivering a speech on the country’s National Day on October 1

Mr Zhang was born in eastern China’s Anhui Province and joined the Communist Party in 1983.??

Before ascending to power in Haikou, he served as the deputy mayor of Sanya city and the mayor of Danzhou. Both cities are in Hainan Province.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched a tough anti-corruption campaign since he took office in 2012.??

Statistics show at least 53 officials have been caught receiving more than 100 million yuan (??11 million) in bribes in the past seven years in the nation. ??

Mr Zhang is the 17th senior official to have been investigated for corruption in China since the beginning of the year, according to Chinese media.

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LAW & JUSTICE: October 9, 2019

REJECTING HOUSE DEMOCRATS’ UNCONSTITUTIONAL INQUIRY

• “Your unprecedented actions have left the President with no choice. In order to fulfill his duties to the American people, the Constitution, the Executive Branch, and all future occupants of the Office of the Presidency, President Trump and his Administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances.”

• “Given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections, the Executive Branch cannot be expected to participate in it.”

• “Consistent with the duties of the President of the United States, and in particular his obligation to preserve the rights of future occupants of his office, President Trump cannot permit his Administration to participate in this partisan inquiry under these circumstances.”

• “If the Committees wish to return to the regular order of oversight requests, we stand ready to engage in that process as we have in the past, in a manner consistent with well-established bipartisan constitutional protections and a respect for the separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution.”

• “We hope that, in light of the many deficiencies we have identified in your proceedings, you will abandon the current invalid efforts to pursue an impeachment inquiry and join the President in focusing on the many important goals that matter to the American people.”

THEIR ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS

• “President Trump and his Administration reject your baseless, unconstitutional efforts to overturn the democratic process.”

• “Put simply, you seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and deprive the American people of the President they have freely chosen.”

• “As one member of Congress explained, he is ‘concerned that if we don’t impeach the President, he will get reelected.’”

• “The effort to impeach President Trump…is a naked political strategy that began the day he was inaugurated, and perhaps even before.

• “In fact, yours transparent rush to judgment, lack of democratically accountable authorization, and violation of basic rights in the current proceedings make clear the illegitimate, partisan purpose of this purported ‘impeachment inquiry.’”

• “Precisely because it nullifies the outcome of the democratic process, impeachment of the President is fraught with the risk of deepening divisions in the country and creating long-lasting rifts in the body politic.”

UNPRECEDENTED, CONSTITUTIONALLY INVALID, IN VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS

• In the history of our Nation, the House of Representatives has never attempted to launch an impeachment inquiry against the President without a majority of the House taking political accountability for that decision by voting to authorize such a dramatic constitutional step.”

• “To comply with the Constitution’s demands, appropriate procedures would include – at a minimum – the right to see all evidence, to present evidence, to call witnesses, to have counsel present at all hearings, to cross-examine all witnesses, to make objections relating to the examination of witnesses or the admissibility of testimony and evidence, and to respond to evidence and testimony.”

• “[T]he Committees must provide for the disclosure of all evidence favorable to the President and all evidence bearing on the credibility of witnesses called to testify in the inquiry.”

• “In addition, the House has not provided the Committees’ Ranking Members with the authority to issue subpoenas.”

HOUSE DEMOCRATS’ OUTRAGEOUS ACTIONS

• “Perhaps the best evidence that there was no wrongdoing on the call is the fact that, after the actual record of the call was released, Chairman Schiff chose to concoct a false version of the call and to read his made-up transcript to the American people at a public hearing.”

• “The real problem, as we are now learning, is that Chairman Schiff’s office, and perhaps others – despite initial denials – were involved in advising the whistleblower before the complaint was filed.”

• “Anyone who was involved in the preparation or submission of the whistleblower’s complaint cannot possibly act as a fair and impartial judge in the same matter – particularly after misleading the American people about his involvement.”

HOUSE DEMOCRATS’ THREATS AND INTIMIDATION

• “Threats by the Committees against Executive Branch witnesses who assert common and longstanding rights destroy the integrity of the process and brazenly violate fundamental due process.”

• “In letters to State Department employees, the Committees have ominously threatened – without any legal basis and before the Committees even issued a subpoena – that ‘[a]ny failure to appear’ in response to a mere letter request for a deposition ‘shall constitute evidence of obstruction.’”

• “[T]he Committees have broadly threatened that if State Department officials attempt to insist upon the right for the Department to have an agency lawyer present at depositions to protect legitimate Executive Branch confidentiality interests – or apparently if they make any effort to protect those confidentiality interests at all – these officials will have their salaries withheld.”

• “The Committees’ assertions on these points amount to nothing more than strong-arm tactics designed to rush proceedings without any regard for due process and the rights of individuals and of the Executive Branch. Threats aimed at intimidating individuals who assert these basic rights are attacks on civil liberties that should profoundly concern all Americans.”

READ THE FULL LETTER

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POTUS signs Executive Orders on transparency in federal guidance and enforcement

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