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Tons of stuff got broken. 11 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,200 All right, Welcome to the program one oh seven point 12 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,240 nine FMWBT, Charlotte's FM News Talk Pete Calendar here. 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for hanging out. I appreciate it. 14 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: The phone number is seven oh four five seven zero, 15 00:00:47,039 --> 00:00:50,240 one oh seven nine. That is also the WBT text 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,840 line driven by Liberty Buick gmc. 17 00:00:55,079 --> 00:00:56,439 Speaker 2: So. Uh what. 18 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:01,359 Speaker 1: Over the last forty eight hours, two communist dictators have 19 00:01:01,439 --> 00:01:06,760 been deposed, first Maduro and then Tim Walls from Minnesota. 20 00:01:08,239 --> 00:01:13,200 Run again, I kid, I kid, he's stepping down. He's 21 00:01:13,239 --> 00:01:17,519 not been arrested yet. He's not been arrested, but Maduro 22 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,200 has been and I have spent the last forty eight 23 00:01:20,239 --> 00:01:25,879 hours becoming an expert now in Venezuela. Okay, I am 24 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:33,280 now a self appointed, self credentialed, self identifying expert on Venezuela. 25 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:35,799 I'm actually not at all. I'm nor am I an 26 00:01:35,799 --> 00:01:39,239 expert on constitutional law and the War Powers Act and 27 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,359 all of that, Okay, But I do have some some 28 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,319 of the writings and reactions of people who are experts. 29 00:01:47,359 --> 00:01:52,920 If we are to believe the experts, and there are 30 00:01:52,959 --> 00:01:56,239 a couple of different angles here, I'm curious to know 31 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,799 how people are kind of interpreting this, how you how 32 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:07,319 you are thinking about what what occurred. This was Jonathan Turley, 33 00:02:07,799 --> 00:02:11,879 who is a constitutional law professor. Guy, uh, pick he's 34 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,599 up at uh Is it George Mason University or is 35 00:02:15,599 --> 00:02:19,840 it Georgetown? I forget where. Maybe it's I think it's 36 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,080 a college with George and the name, maybe George Washington University. 37 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 2: I forget. 38 00:02:24,439 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: But he has a blog that he writes on and 39 00:02:26,879 --> 00:02:32,560 it's Jonathanturley dot org, and he breaks down some of 40 00:02:32,599 --> 00:02:37,879 the the legalities of the you know, the mission to 41 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:44,199 go and capture Nicholas Maduro and his wife picked them 42 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:48,639 both up. I'm not sure if he's got another wardrobe 43 00:02:48,759 --> 00:02:51,639 change lined up. I've seen the guy in like six 44 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,039 different outfits so far. I don't know if they just 45 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,479 keep changing his clothes at every location. He gets to 46 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:04,560 like swapping out his jammys for the sweatsuit and then 47 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:09,919 swapping that out for another sweatshirt and sweatpants and then 48 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,680 swapping that out. So I'm not sure what that's all about, 49 00:03:14,719 --> 00:03:17,840 but I have noticed it. So, Jonathan Turley writes. In 50 00:03:17,879 --> 00:03:22,039 an Extraordinary military operation, the United States launched a large 51 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:26,039 scale operation in Caracas, Venezuela. 52 00:03:26,879 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 2: Caracas is the capital. 53 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: They use special forces, and they seized President Nicholas Maduro 54 00:03:34,159 --> 00:03:37,560 and his wife. The operation comes not long after the 55 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:42,639 thirty seventh anniversary of the capture of Manuel Noriega that 56 00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:48,360 was on December twentieth, nineteen eighty nine. Noriega was convicted 57 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,159 of drug and money laundering offenses and sentenced to forty 58 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:59,280 years in prison. This operation will be justified as executing 59 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,879 a criminal warrant and responding to an international drug cartel, 60 00:04:04,639 --> 00:04:08,800 which is a very similar legal framework to the one 61 00:04:08,879 --> 00:04:12,639 that was used against Noriega. So you've got two different 62 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:17,319 questions here, right, You've got the the US legality, and 63 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:22,240 then you have the quote international law. Right, you got, 64 00:04:22,439 --> 00:04:26,720 these are your two arguments that are playing out. He says, 65 00:04:26,759 --> 00:04:32,959 there is precedent supporting the earlier operation against Noriega, which 66 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,560 will now be used to defend the actions in Venezuela. Okay, 67 00:04:37,199 --> 00:04:38,839 And I also have a write up by a guy 68 00:04:38,879 --> 00:04:46,439 named Jack Goldsmith. So Turley says Trump does not need 69 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:53,040 congressional approval for this type of an operation. So this 70 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:58,439 is related to the US legality argument. Right, what does 71 00:04:58,439 --> 00:05:00,839 the constitution say? Is this a dec laration of war? 72 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,959 I mean, certainly one would think that, you know, flying 73 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,879 into a foreign country, you know, killing thirty two members 74 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,040 of the Cuban intelligence force that was acting as the 75 00:05:14,079 --> 00:05:19,800 security for Maduro, taking Maduro and his wife, and bringing 76 00:05:19,879 --> 00:05:24,319 him and her back to America to stand trial. You 77 00:05:24,399 --> 00:05:26,879 can argue that that is a law enforcement type of 78 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,560 an operation and that the military was needed to provide 79 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:36,839 protection for the law enforcement units. However, you could also 80 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:41,319 see it as, hey, we just implemented regime change. We 81 00:05:41,439 --> 00:05:45,079 just toppled a dictator, a commie thug dictator, narco terrorist. 82 00:05:45,959 --> 00:05:50,399 To be sure, but isn't that a kindest sort of 83 00:05:50,519 --> 00:05:53,360 declaration of war? Like if somebody did that to us, 84 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,160 we would take that as a declaration of war. 85 00:05:56,439 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 2: Right. 86 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:04,439 Speaker 1: So, so that's one question, and then there's the international law, 87 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,959 which I'll get to in a bit. So Turley is 88 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:13,360 making the argument that no, Trump did not need congressional approval. 89 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:16,399 He did not need to go to Congress and say, hey, 90 00:06:16,439 --> 00:06:19,160 we're going to take this, you know, kinetic military action, 91 00:06:19,319 --> 00:06:21,600 and Congress needs to vote on it. There needs to 92 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,319 be a declaration of war against Venezuela. He doesn't need 93 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,639 to do that. Presidents, including Democrat presidents, have launched lethal 94 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:34,680 attacks regularly against individuals. President Barack Obama, for example, killed 95 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:39,279 an American citizen under this kill list policy. And if 96 00:06:39,319 --> 00:06:43,399 Obama can vaporize an American citizen without even a criminal charge, 97 00:06:43,639 --> 00:06:47,439 Trump can capture a foreign citizen with a pending criminal 98 00:06:47,439 --> 00:06:53,560 indictment without prior congressional approval. This is a precedential argument. 99 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,680 In other words, there's a lot of precedent for these 100 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,759 types of actions that the Trump administration will point to 101 00:07:01,759 --> 00:07:04,560 to say these things were done before, not just with 102 00:07:04,639 --> 00:07:09,480 Obama and the overthrowing of Kadaffi and Libya or Bill 103 00:07:09,519 --> 00:07:15,079 Clinton and you know the war in Kosovo, Serbia. Right, 104 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:20,759 his actions there or George H. W. Bush and the 105 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:27,959 arrest of Norriega. Now, ordinarily, the Vienna Convention on Consular 106 00:07:28,279 --> 00:07:31,959 Relations and other international agreements require the United States to 107 00:07:32,079 --> 00:07:35,279 notify the embassy of a foreign national arrested and held 108 00:07:35,279 --> 00:07:39,920 in the United States. Which don't think that's really needed 109 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,600 at this point. I think everybody is pretty clear what happened. 110 00:07:44,199 --> 00:07:48,720 In his appeal, Manuel Noriega argued at trial that or 111 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:53,600 in his appeal, that his arrest violated international law under 112 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,000 what's known as. 113 00:07:54,839 --> 00:07:58,839 Speaker 2: The head of state immunity doctrine. 114 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:00,759 Speaker 1: So if you're the head of if you're the head 115 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,839 of a country, then you have immunity and we can't 116 00:08:04,879 --> 00:08:07,279 do this sort of thing against you. But the district 117 00:08:07,319 --> 00:08:12,720 court rejected Noriega's claim. They rejected this argument because the 118 00:08:12,839 --> 00:08:18,519 United States government, here's the key, never recognized Noriega as 119 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:23,680 Panama's legitimate ruler. And that is the same argument that 120 00:08:23,759 --> 00:08:28,680 will be made against Maduro. He is not recognized as 121 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,759 the winner of the last election at least and probably 122 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:35,159 not even the winner. 123 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 2: Of both of his elections that he ran. 124 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:42,039 Speaker 1: In the Noriega case offers ample support for the Trump administration, 125 00:08:42,519 --> 00:08:47,320 which has had an outstanding arrest warrant for over five years. 126 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,799 He's not viewed as the duly elected leader of Venezuela 127 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,279 and has been tied to a criminal drug cartel. The 128 00:08:54,399 --> 00:08:57,559 action will also have a major impact on foreign policy. 129 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,840 The Manro doctrine just became the Trump doctrine. 130 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:03,399 Speaker 2: I think. 131 00:09:03,799 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: I think Trump actually referred to it as the Donro doctrine. 132 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,879 This action not only confronted Venezuela but also Cuba, which 133 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:19,480 was supplying the security around Maduro. Presumably Cuban security may 134 00:09:19,519 --> 00:09:23,240 have been involved in the firefight, which Cuba now confirms 135 00:09:23,919 --> 00:09:29,519 they were. Thirty two members of the Cuban Intelligence agency 136 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,960 were killed by the Americans in this raid. 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He also mentions here 166 00:11:32,919 --> 00:11:37,600 at the end the impact on foreign policy, that this 167 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,919 is a warning shot to the Chinese, to the Iranians, 168 00:11:44,399 --> 00:11:45,840 to the Russians. 169 00:11:45,799 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 2: And Cuba. 170 00:11:48,879 --> 00:11:56,639 Speaker 1: Cuban security was providing security to Maduro, but also Venezuelan 171 00:11:56,759 --> 00:12:03,639 oil has been shipped into Cuba, and so this is 172 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:08,200 now a problem for Cuba. Although I did just see 173 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,440 this story moved on the Daily Caller. At least fifteen 174 00:12:13,159 --> 00:12:18,480 US sanctioned oil tankers have reportedly broken the blockade of 175 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:23,840 Venezuelan oil exports since the Saturday capture of Maduro. They 176 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:28,279 used so called dark mode tactics to evade capture. The 177 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,559 now departed ships had been docked in Venezuelan ports for weeks. 178 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,159 This according to The New York Times, tankers in the 179 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:41,519 group used techniques employed by the modern ghost fleet. The 180 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,720 ghost fleet or these sanctioned skirting ships, and some of 181 00:12:45,759 --> 00:12:52,320 the things they do. They paint names of decommissioned vessels 182 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:57,159 on the ship's hulls, so you see the name and 183 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,480 it's a decommissioned vessel. It's not the actual name of vessel. 184 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:06,279 They misrepresent their positions on the ocean they leave in 185 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:12,559 coordinated fashion to escape the blockade. Four tankers, now about 186 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,360 thirty miles off port, were tracked by satellites sailing east. 187 00:13:16,399 --> 00:13:18,720 According to the New York Times, these tankers did not 188 00:13:18,879 --> 00:13:22,639 secure authorization from the new interim government led by Maduro's 189 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:27,799 former vice president. The remaining ships have not been located 190 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:32,000 and are not broadcasting any signals. So we've got fifteen 191 00:13:32,039 --> 00:13:36,080 of these oil tankers that are on their way, presumably 192 00:13:36,159 --> 00:13:43,600 to Cuba. Legally, Turley says, Trump has the upper hand 193 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,519 in this case against Maduro. He'll probably replay the arguments 194 00:13:48,519 --> 00:13:52,919 from the Noriega case. But the precedent is already clear 195 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:58,879 there that the courts have not been. They're not open 196 00:13:58,919 --> 00:13:59,960 to this argument. 197 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:01,399 Speaker 2: This. 198 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:03,639 Speaker 1: I'm the head of state. I'm immune, so I can, 199 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:10,159 you know, run a cartel. Now, Maduro did appear in 200 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:15,879 federal court moments ago. He reportedly said, quote, I am 201 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,399 not guilty. I am a decent man. I am still 202 00:14:19,399 --> 00:14:23,799 the president of my country. So that's I think his 203 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:30,080 the first utterances, you know, for the I'm the head 204 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,159 of state, I get immunity for doing all sorts of 205 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:37,399 illegal crap argument, which probably not gonna work. But I 206 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:41,120 went back and pulled the press release from twenty twenty. 207 00:14:42,799 --> 00:14:46,320 This was March twenty sixth, twenty twenty, so almost six 208 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,480 years ago. This was the final year of Trump's first term, 209 00:14:50,919 --> 00:14:56,399 right the election coming up November twenty twenty, and the 210 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:01,519 press release that was put out named Nicholas Maduro Moros. 211 00:15:02,159 --> 00:15:02,679 Speaker 2: I don't know why. 212 00:15:02,679 --> 00:15:05,679 Speaker 1: I guess that's nobody ever refers to him as Maduro 213 00:15:05,759 --> 00:15:11,279 Moros or Moros. Maybe he along with fourteen current and 214 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:17,320 former Venezuelan officials charged with narco terrorism, corruption, drug trafficking, 215 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:26,120 and other criminal charges, along with members of Fuerzas Armadas 216 00:15:26,159 --> 00:15:31,039 Revolutionnarias dec Colombia or FARC FARC, which is a foreign 217 00:15:31,639 --> 00:15:36,960 terrorist organization designated as such by the US government for many, many, 218 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:43,039 many years, the US attorney I guess Attorney General, yeah sorry. 219 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:47,639 Attorney General Bill Barr is quoted in the press release 220 00:15:47,639 --> 00:15:50,440 saying for more than twenty years, Maduro and a number 221 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,679 of high ranking colleagues allegedly conspired with the FARC, causing 222 00:15:54,720 --> 00:16:00,279 tons of cocaine to enter and devastate American communities. Jorney 223 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:05,000 Jeff Berman said the scope and magnitude of the drug 224 00:16:05,039 --> 00:16:09,960 trafficking alleged was made possible only because Maduro and other 225 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,960 cor and others corrupted the institutions of Venezuela and provided 226 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:19,279 political and military protection for the rampant narco terrorism crimes 227 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:24,240 described in our charges. As alleged, Maduro and the other 228 00:16:24,279 --> 00:16:28,720 defendants expressly intended to flood the US with cocaine in 229 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,720 order to undermine the health and dwell being of our nation. 230 00:16:32,519 --> 00:16:36,840 Maduro very deliberately deployed cocaine as a weapon. While Maduro 231 00:16:36,879 --> 00:16:40,799 and other cartel members held lofty titles in Venezuela's political 232 00:16:40,799 --> 00:16:45,279 and military leadership, the conduct described in the indictment was 233 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:50,080 not state craft or service to the Venezuelan people. As alleged. 234 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:55,080 The defendants betrayed the Venezuelan people and corrupted Venezuelan institutions 235 00:16:55,320 --> 00:17:01,840 to line their pockets with drug money. Attorney Ariano Fajardo 236 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:06,400 or Shan said, far too often these corrupt officials and 237 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,960 their co conspirators have used South Florida banks and real 238 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:14,799 estate to conceal and perpetuate their illegal activity. As the 239 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:18,640 recent charges show, Venezuelan corruption and money laundering in South 240 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:23,359 Florida extends to even the highest levels of Venezuela's judicial system. 241 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,839 In the last couple of years, the US Attorney's Office 242 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:30,319 in South Florida and its federal law enforcement partners have 243 00:17:30,559 --> 00:17:34,000 united to bring dozens of criminal charges against high level 244 00:17:34,039 --> 00:17:38,680 regime officials and co conspirators, resulting in seizures of approximately 245 00:17:38,759 --> 00:17:42,960 four hundred and fifty million dollars. Again, this was six 246 00:17:43,039 --> 00:17:48,839 years ago, you'll recall. Also, they put a bounty on 247 00:17:49,799 --> 00:17:54,640 Maduro fifteen million dollars for information leading to the arrest 248 00:17:54,680 --> 00:18:00,039 and or conviction of Maduro, believe the Biden administration, and 249 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:06,880 then increased that to twenty five million dollars. Since at 250 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:15,880 least nineteen ninety nine, Meduro Cabello, Rondon, Carvajal Barrios, and 251 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:22,119 Alcala Cordonas acted as leaders and managers of the Cartel 252 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:28,240 de los Soles or Cartel of the Suns. Not like 253 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:33,720 daughters and sons, but like moons and sons Suns. That 254 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:39,599 name refers to the Sun logo, the insignia that is 255 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:45,599 on the uniforms of high ranking Venezuelan military officials. So 256 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:51,400 there is your nexus. Okay, they're using the state apparatus 257 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:59,359 as a cartel. They go on to say, leaders of 258 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,039 the FAO the farc A Beginning approximately in nineteen ninety nine, 259 00:19:03,519 --> 00:19:06,839 while the FARC was purporting to negotiate toward peace with 260 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:12,000 the Colombian government, FARC leaders agreed with leaders of the 261 00:19:12,039 --> 00:19:15,799 Cartel de la Souris to relocate some of the FARC's 262 00:19:15,839 --> 00:19:22,480 operations to Venezuela under the protection of the cartel. Thereafter, 263 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:28,480 the FARC and the cartel dispatched processed cocaine from Venezuela 264 00:19:28,559 --> 00:19:32,400 to the US via transshipment points in the Caribbean and 265 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:38,279 Central America such as Honduras sorry Honduras by approximately two 266 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:41,799 thousand and four, so within five years, the US Department 267 00:19:41,839 --> 00:19:46,079 of State estimated that two hundred and fifty plus tons 268 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:51,759 of coke were transiting Venezuela every year. The maritime shipments 269 00:19:51,799 --> 00:19:55,799 were shipped north from Venezuela's coastline using go fast vessels, 270 00:19:56,279 --> 00:20:01,599 fishing boats, and container ships. Airship were often dispatched from 271 00:20:01,599 --> 00:20:05,599 clandestine air strips, typically made of dirt or grass, concentrated 272 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:10,319 in the Apuree State. According to the US Department of State, 273 00:20:10,759 --> 00:20:16,200 approximately seventy five unauthorized flights suspected of drug trafficking activities 274 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,960 entered Honduran airspace in twenty ten alone using what is 275 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:27,960 known as the air Bridge Cocaine route between Venezuela and Honduras. Maduro, 276 00:20:28,599 --> 00:20:33,759 as leader of the cartel, negotiated multi ton shipments of 277 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:39,359 FARC produced cocaine, directed that the cartel provide military grade 278 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,759 weapons to the FARC, coordinated foreign affairs with Honduras and 279 00:20:43,799 --> 00:20:49,039 other countries to facilitate large scale drug trafficking, and solicited 280 00:20:49,079 --> 00:20:54,119 assistance from FARC leadership in training an unsanctioned militia group 281 00:20:54,319 --> 00:20:58,640 that functioned in essence as an armed forces unit for 282 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,839 the cartel. That's the nature of the relationship that is 283 00:21:03,319 --> 00:21:09,160 basically textbook narco state behavior. Here's a great idea. How 284 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,279 about making an escape to a really special and secluded 285 00:21:12,319 --> 00:21:15,160 getaway in western North Carolina. 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Okay, you had 314 00:22:58,559 --> 00:23:04,119 the Minister of Defense of Venezuela, who was a general 315 00:23:04,599 --> 00:23:08,480 in the armed forces. You had the chief Justice of 316 00:23:08,519 --> 00:23:13,359 the Venezuelan Supreme Court. He was charged with conspiracy to 317 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,519 commit money laundering and then taking tens of millions of 318 00:23:17,519 --> 00:23:23,559 dollars in bribes to illegally fix dozens of civil and 319 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:28,640 criminal cases in Venezuela. For example, the defendant authorized a 320 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,720 seizure and sale of a General Motors car plant with 321 00:23:32,799 --> 00:23:35,480 an estimated value of one hundred million dollars in exchange 322 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,559 for a personal percentage of the proceeds. 323 00:23:39,039 --> 00:23:39,839 Speaker 2: Right, this is what. 324 00:23:40,279 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 1: Communists and Marxists and democratic socialists. This is what they 325 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,720 mean when they talk about, you know, seizing properties. This 326 00:23:47,799 --> 00:23:50,799 is what they're talking about, collective control. This is what 327 00:23:50,839 --> 00:23:55,400 they're talking about. And this kind of corruption always is 328 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:56,160 part of the deal. 329 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 2: Always. 330 00:23:59,039 --> 00:24:00,759 Speaker 1: Who else here we've got But I'm not going to 331 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:04,079 read all of their names, but Venezuela's Vice President for 332 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:11,640 the Economy, Venezuela's Superintendent of Cryptocurrency, the former Minister of Energy, 333 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:18,319 the general, former director general of their Office Nacional Anti Drogas, 334 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:23,920 which I think means anti narcotics. Also former commander of 335 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:30,519 Venezuela's National Guard, former sub director of the Anti Narcotics Office, 336 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:35,880 a former captain in the Venezuelan Guardia Nacional the National Guard, 337 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,640 I assume, former officer in the Venezuelan National Guard, former 338 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,640 Vice Minister of Energy, former Venezuelan Air Force officer. All 339 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:48,039 of these people were indicted again six years ago. Okay, 340 00:24:48,599 --> 00:24:55,559 Now talking about the legality. Jack Goldsmith, he writes at 341 00:24:55,920 --> 00:25:01,880 Executive Functions Execfunctions dot org. He's a senior fellow at 342 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:06,160 the American Enterprise Institute. He's a former Assistant Attorney General, 343 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,319 Office of Legal Counsel from three to four, special counsel 344 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:14,000 to the Department of Defense for a year or two prior. 345 00:25:14,839 --> 00:25:19,519 Speaker 2: So. This guy's out of the bush administration. Okay. 346 00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: He says, here's the reality when it comes to this. 347 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:28,000 You know, the War Powers Act and whatnot. Congress has 348 00:25:28,039 --> 00:25:33,599 given the president a gargantuan global military force with few 349 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:38,359 constraints and is a wall in overseeing what the president does. 350 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,839 With it, Courts won't get involved in reviewing unilateral presidential 351 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,640 uses of force, and no country plausibly could stop the 352 00:25:46,759 --> 00:25:52,079 US action in Venezuela. That means that, in practice, the 353 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,839 only normative legal framework for presidential war powers that matters 354 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:03,480 derives from executive branch press as well as legal opinions. 355 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,720 The Justice Department, if asked, could easily have drafted an 356 00:26:08,759 --> 00:26:13,880 opinion based on precedents and opinions to justify the invasion 357 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:22,079 of Venezuela. Notably, as I mentioned the invasion of Panama, 358 00:26:22,839 --> 00:26:27,559 that was precedent right, and it's going to matter to 359 00:26:27,799 --> 00:26:31,480 the Venezuela attack due to an opinion that was written 360 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:36,000 in nineteen eighty nine by the then Assistant Attorney General, 361 00:26:36,599 --> 00:26:41,240 Bill Barr wrote this up six months before the invasion, 362 00:26:42,319 --> 00:26:47,000 and the opinion justified FBI arrests in foreign countries under 363 00:26:47,079 --> 00:26:53,759 domestic law, even if doing so violated international law. Right 364 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:59,920 therein lies the key, and that's why the DOJ went 365 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:05,319 with the military. They were there, they took Maduro into custody, 366 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,279 they read him his rights, they brought him back for trial. Right, 367 00:27:08,279 --> 00:27:12,839 they're treating this as a law enforcement operation. The military 368 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:19,200 is there to provide the security to the law enforcement officers. 369 00:27:20,279 --> 00:27:24,880 The arrest was the primary justification for the action, so 370 00:27:25,599 --> 00:27:29,000 the opinion written by Bill barr Low those many years 371 00:27:29,039 --> 00:27:33,680 ago will likely be presented as the main domestic legal 372 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:39,079 foundation for this action. There is another line of precedent 373 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:44,799 that justifies unilateral uses of presidential force when it's deemed 374 00:27:44,799 --> 00:27:49,920 to be in the national interest. Recognized national interests include 375 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,759 the protection of US persons and property, promotion of regional stability, 376 00:27:55,480 --> 00:28:00,559 humanitarian concerns, and all three of those could concedevably be 377 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:05,359 invoked in this case. The DOJ opinion could also cite 378 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,839 dozens of specific instances of past unilateral presidential uses of force, 379 00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:18,799 stretching back at least to Jefferson Thomas Jefferson and his 380 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:24,839 authorization to attack the Barbary pirates the Muslims. 381 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 2: That's that. 382 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 1: So that was about our first war was against that 383 00:28:30,759 --> 00:28:34,559 was against Muslims. They were well because so what was 384 00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:37,559 happening back then was after like when we were part 385 00:28:38,039 --> 00:28:42,839 of the British Empire, the Brits were paying off the 386 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,359 Barbary pirates, the jizya they were They would just pay 387 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,440 the tax basically right, they would pay the pirates. So 388 00:28:50,759 --> 00:28:53,880 this way under Islam, I'm paying you this tax as 389 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,000 a non believer, I'm paying you the jizia. And therefore 390 00:28:57,319 --> 00:29:00,000 you give us safe passage. You don't take our sailors 391 00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:03,599 into your custody and murder them, rape them, put them 392 00:29:03,599 --> 00:29:06,400 to work on your boats and whatnot. Well, when we 393 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,519 broke away from the Brits, now we are not part 394 00:29:10,599 --> 00:29:15,279 of the British protection where they're not paying the jisia 395 00:29:15,359 --> 00:29:15,799 for us. 396 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,079 Speaker 2: And so when. 397 00:29:18,759 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: Jefferson is, you know, meeting with these leaders and it's like, hey, 398 00:29:24,279 --> 00:29:26,559 what's going on here. We've done nothing to you, Like 399 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,119 we're brand new country, we got nothing against you. 400 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,039 Speaker 2: Guys, Why are. 401 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: You impressing our sailors? And they said, well, because you're infidels, 402 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,240 and that was it. Like like our religion commands that 403 00:29:40,279 --> 00:29:43,160 we do this to you. That's what he said to Jefferson. 404 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,480 And he was like, okay, send the Marines. 405 00:29:46,279 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 2: That was it. 406 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,839 Speaker 1: That's how they got the term leatherneck, by the way, 407 00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:51,960 because they would wear leather on their necks. They would 408 00:29:52,039 --> 00:29:55,799 put neck bands. The Marines would Why you may have 409 00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:00,599 heard there's a certain aptitude for next severing among some 410 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,599 people over there, all right, If you're listening to this show, 411 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,200 you know I try to keep up with all sorts 412 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,240 of current events, and I know you do too, And 413 00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:10,759 you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. 414 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,519 Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which 415 00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:17,440 is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's 416 00:30:17,559 --> 00:30:21,000 an app and it's a website, and it combines news 417 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,960 from around the world in one place, so you can 418 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,319 compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out 419 00:30:26,359 --> 00:30:31,000 at check dot ground, dot news, slash pete. 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I use 428 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,359 the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. 429 00:30:59,519 --> 00:31:02,359 You're description then not only helps my podcast, but it 430 00:31:02,359 --> 00:31:05,519 also supports ground News as they make the media landscape 431 00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:12,279 more transparent. Okay, all right, I'm just seeing this. I'm 432 00:31:12,319 --> 00:31:16,759 just seeing this breaking news. At first it was Nicholas Maduro, 433 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,640 then Tim Walls not going to run for reelection as governor, 434 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:32,599 and now State Representative Carla Cunningham from Charlotte is one 435 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:37,960 of multiple parties in a petition that seeks to remove 436 00:31:38,759 --> 00:31:42,119 Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary not my fault, mcfan and. 437 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's happening. 438 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: It's actually happening for attempted extortion, what attempted extortion and corruption? 439 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,079 Will full misconduct, and here it is. What have I 440 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,160 been This is the hook. I've been saying this for 441 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:06,039 what three years? Maladministration in office as well as wilful 442 00:32:06,079 --> 00:32:10,480 and habitual refusal to perform the duties of his office. 443 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,160 I've been saying, right, there is a way to remove 444 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,680 bad sheriffs, and this is the way. 445 00:32:18,519 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 2: Thank you. 446 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: Representative Carla Cunningham. Now she's gotten a bunch of challengers 447 00:32:25,039 --> 00:32:29,680 now in her primary. In fact, hang on a second, 448 00:32:30,559 --> 00:32:41,400 believe I saw Josh Stein came out and endorsed one 449 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:48,480 of her opponents. Yeah, Governor Josh Stein endorses Reverend Rodney Sadler, who, 450 00:32:48,559 --> 00:32:51,960 by the way, he's one of Reverend Barber's Moral Monday 451 00:32:52,079 --> 00:32:55,680 or guys, he's one of them. And so I pointed out, 452 00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:00,960 Stein is doing Roy Cooper right, Josh Stein is following 453 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,480 in the footsteps of what Roy Cooper did, which was 454 00:33:03,599 --> 00:33:08,039 to primary Democrats that did not fall in line one 455 00:33:08,119 --> 00:33:12,440 hundred percent of the time with him. And so if 456 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,359 you thought Stein was going to behave any better than Cooper, 457 00:33:16,559 --> 00:33:20,200 well this is your uh, this is your wake up call. 458 00:33:20,319 --> 00:33:21,519 Speaker 2: He is not. All right, let me go back to 459 00:33:21,519 --> 00:33:23,319 the email. My gosh, I have not even done reading 460 00:33:23,359 --> 00:33:24,839 the statement. Here. 461 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,319 Speaker 1: Among the allegations described is and I have not read 462 00:33:29,319 --> 00:33:30,119 the petition yet. 463 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,799 Speaker 2: Okay, I do have it. Let me see here, I 464 00:33:31,799 --> 00:33:33,960 have it open. I'm gonna have to read this. How 465 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:39,200 many pages of this thing? I don't know? Seems pretty lengthy. 466 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. All right, well I got to read 467 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,200 that during the break. All right, let me go back 468 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:47,240 to the press release. Among the allegations described as a 469 00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:51,440 threat made to Representative Cunningham in connection with her work 470 00:33:51,519 --> 00:33:57,160 as a legislator quote, no sheriff should ever suggest that 471 00:33:57,279 --> 00:34:01,680 a legislator's safety depends on how she votes. I was 472 00:34:01,759 --> 00:34:06,480 afraid and the intimidation affected me. This process exists for 473 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,639 serious situations involving public trust, and the people of Mecklenburg 474 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:15,920 County deserve transparency. Filing this complaint is part of rebuilding trust, 475 00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:21,159 trust in a fair process, trust in our institutions, and 476 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,519 trust that concerns will be handled through proper channels, such 477 00:34:24,519 --> 00:34:29,320 as dialogue and negotiation, rather than silencing and bullying. The 478 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:34,320 petition asks a judge to review the sworn allegations from 479 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:40,320 Cunningham and other individuals describing additional concerns about the operation 480 00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:44,840 of the Sheriff's office. Under state law, removal can only 481 00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:49,480 occur through a court process and only if the allegations 482 00:34:49,519 --> 00:34:55,039 are proven right. But this is how you initiate the process. Okay, 483 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,000 now I saw Also over the weekend, the Mecklenberg County 484 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:04,119 Sheriff's office put out a birthday post. Did you see this? 485 00:35:06,079 --> 00:35:10,159 It was a happy birthday post to Sheriff McFadden. Thank 486 00:35:10,199 --> 00:35:13,960 you for keeping style alive in Mecklenburg County and most 487 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,599 of all for leading mcso with pride. We're honored to 488 00:35:17,639 --> 00:35:19,760 call you our sheriff and be part of the best 489 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,679 under your leadership. And so it's a it's a birthday message. 490 00:35:23,679 --> 00:35:27,960 And then they had a little video montage of clips 491 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:33,599 of Gary not my fault McFadden styling, profiling and vibin 492 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:39,639 dancing in various outfits and showing off his fancy clothes 493 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:44,639 and his shoes and his watch. At one point is 494 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:51,199 New York Yankees ball cap? Right, So that was from 495 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:56,239 that's that's on the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's office Facebook page. 496 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:02,679 They probably instagrammed it too. Yeah, so a happy birthday 497 00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,239 from you know, your employees. We love you, boss. Here's 498 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,000 some pictures of you all dut it up in dancing. 499 00:36:12,039 --> 00:36:12,559 Speaker 2: What else? 500 00:36:12,639 --> 00:36:14,880 Speaker 1: I feel like there was something else? Oh, that's right, 501 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:21,960 there was something else. Apparently the North Carolina House Oversight 502 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:26,599 Committee has summoned McFadden to appear before it on January 503 00:36:26,639 --> 00:36:35,320 twenty second. All of this is happening today, Like twenty 504 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,559 twenty six is fantastic. Already we're in the playoffs. I 505 00:36:38,559 --> 00:36:40,719 did have to be in Atlanta Falcons fan for a day, 506 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,039 but it's okay, Like we all have our crosses to bear, 507 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,400 but we're in the playoffs even though we totally don't 508 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:51,719 deserve it. And now we got three terrible leaders that 509 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,480 are hopefully like two of them like one's in jail, 510 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,920 one's not going to run for reelection and may end 511 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,519 up charged depending on how that investigation goes up in Minnesota. 512 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:07,920 And now you got Gary McFadden finally facing some of 513 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:13,280 the music. Oh my goodness, I can't. Okay, let me 514 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,840 see here. Uh, I'm ri let's say I'm reading. Okay, 515 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:22,440 So Carla Cunningham, Marcia Crenshaw Hill, Kevin Canty. 516 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 2: You know who that was. Kevin Canty. We had him 517 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:27,000 on the program. 518 00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:32,960 Speaker 1: He was the former chief deputy of Mecklamer County Sheriff's Office. Right, 519 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:37,519 this guy's got a long, decorated career in law enforcement 520 00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:40,079 in North Carolina. And he goes to work and then 521 00:37:40,119 --> 00:37:43,559 he leaves, like within a year, and he writes the 522 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:49,239 public letter describing the way McFadden runs the show and 523 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:54,280 calls him a narcissist and micromanaging tyrant and the like 524 00:37:55,199 --> 00:37:58,559 told him to, you know, engage in unethical behavior, use 525 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:03,559 the racial slurs against his command staff. Then there's Wan 526 00:38:03,679 --> 00:38:08,599 Delgado and Brian Adams. So these are the five. These 527 00:38:08,599 --> 00:38:12,639 are the five electors needed basically to file this petition. 528 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,239 Let me say here, okay, hang on, no close, I 529 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:18,719 don't want AI assistant. 530 00:38:19,199 --> 00:38:25,039 Speaker 2: Okay uh, I don't need you. This is a. 531 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,599 Speaker 1: Petition by qualified electors seeking to remove him. Since assuming 532 00:38:29,639 --> 00:38:32,840 the office of sheriff in December twenty eighteen, McFadden has 533 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,880 committed a wide range of misconduct in office that warrants 534 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:40,440 his removal. Misconduct related to conditions at the Mecklinberg County 535 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:46,239 Detention Center and jail administration, retaliation against crime victims and 536 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:55,400 good faith whistleblowers, retaliation against crime victims, misuse of official resources, 537 00:38:55,440 --> 00:39:01,079 including violations of the Hatch Act, Misconduct related to staffing 538 00:39:01,159 --> 00:39:06,199 and promotion practices, weaponizing the machinery of the Mecklemburg County 539 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:10,840 Sheriff's Office Internal Affairs Unit against perceived enemies while squelching 540 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:18,000 internal investigations into perceived allies, and threats against a state legislator, 541 00:39:18,079 --> 00:39:21,519 which amount to attempted extortion and bribery. 542 00:39:23,679 --> 00:39:25,079 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, my gods. 543 00:39:25,599 --> 00:39:29,159 Speaker 1: Okay, man, wait, thirty two pages. Okay, I'm not gonna 544 00:39:29,159 --> 00:39:31,000 be able to. I might just read this whole thing 545 00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:32,760 in the next hour. I just might read the whole 546 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,599 thing on there. This is, okay uh, misconduct related to 547 00:39:36,679 --> 00:39:38,880 jail conditions, all right, let me see if let me 548 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,480 all right, we know about the jail conditions and the problems 549 00:39:41,519 --> 00:39:43,679 that they've been having there for a long time. A 550 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:48,119 lot of people have been dying under his watch. Let 551 00:39:48,119 --> 00:39:51,119 me see here misuse of official resources, that's the part. 552 00:39:51,199 --> 00:39:56,519 Let me I'm scrolling to the extortion weaponization to do 553 00:39:56,559 --> 00:40:00,960 to do Kevin Canty's experience, Wan del God his experience, 554 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:08,800 Brian Adams, the musical artist. Here it is Cunningham to 555 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,360 previously taken opposite sides of a public controversy issue. This 556 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,440 was cooperation with Ice. She voted with the Republicans to 557 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:20,039 force McFadden to cooperate with Ice across the autovo for 558 00:40:20,079 --> 00:40:24,760 Republican sponsored bills. All right, House bill ten. Okay, I 559 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,320 got some reading to do. We got news next. I'll 560 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,679 be back with I'll be back with more intel. 561 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:33,559 Speaker 2: All right. That'll do it for this episode. 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