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It’s pretty clear that Natalie Malonis was behind last Friday’s leak of the CASA report (actually filed by the Jeffs’ guardian ad litem) that allegedly discloses Jeffs’ personal diary entries and photos reporting on her “marriage” to Ray Jessop. Malonis, after (apparently) approving of the leak to serve her own political objectives, suddenly moved Monday to “seal” the leaked CASA report. Deseret News reports this morning (July 22):

On Monday [July 21], Malonis filed papers seeking to have the report prepared by the Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) sealed, saying, “The report and attachments contain sensitive information pertaining to allegations of sex abuse of a minor.”

Malonis acknowledged that the timing was a little late but said she was trying to protect her client. “It would prevent any further dissemination, at least from the court,” she [said] Monday night.

“Trying to protect her client”? A “little late”? “Further dissemination at least from the court?” What’s really going on here?

It’s all part of a cynical, illegal plan, coordinated by the State of Texas, aided and abetted by a nationwide crime syndicate that Georgia State Senator Nancy Schaefer calls an Empire Built on Taking Children. Their immediate objectives? Salvage the power of Texas CPS, defend the child-snatching industry, get rid of pesky Jeffs’ defense attorney Alan Futrell, and run the FLDS out of the State by inflaming the public with sensationalistic slices of data no matter how unreliable. This has been the CPS pattern from the beginning.

But why, if you want the public to see all this stuff, would you move to seal it after first revealing it? Because, arguably, the leak was illegal and violated Malonis’ duties to represent the best interests of Teresa Jeffs. By moving belatedly to seal it, Malonis gives the CPS-collaborator Texas courts an excuse to let Malonis off her own legal hook. More on the hook, below. [Read more →]

As practically everyone in America knows, the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires police to obtain a warrant signed by a judge before they enter private property to look for evidence of a crime or to apprehend a suspect.* A judge — before signing a warrant — must find “probable cause” to support the government’s forced entry onto private property.

But mystery surrounds the circumstances that led, eventually, to Judge Barbara Walther signing the warrant that authorized Texas Rangers, Sheriff Doran, and Texas CPS to enter FLDS homes on the YFZ Ranch at the beginning of April. One of the mysteries is suggested by this story first broken, on May 22, 2008, by ABCNews: [Read more →]

I have previously pointed to a trail of contracts and invoices obtained through an Open Records Act request that — together with other sources like this April 10 Texas Lawyer article — shows that the Texas Supreme Court, with Justice Harriet O’Neill in the lead, collaborated with Texas CPS and lower courts, on April 11-12, to rig the outcome of the FLDS case by “training” attorneys ad litem (AALs) representing only the children in preparation for what was supposed to be a “full adversary hearing” on April 17-18.

Further review — detailed below — shows that O’Neill and the Court went way beyond mere training (which would have been bad enough on its own) to indoctrinating the kids’ AALs and poisoning their view of the FLDS religion. This indoctrination would cause the AALs to lean toward the CPS view and, therefore, more readily agree with pro-CPS courtroom and negotiating moves.

Later, the Supreme Court, including Harriet O’Neill, sat in judgment over the FLDS case, reviewing the very CPS and lower court work product that O’Neill and the Court helped to create.  The majority opinion in the case, while rejecting Walther’s statutory violations (and holding that the evidence was insufficient to authorize the original CPS raid and child removal) was strangely muted, effectively opening the doors of the FLDS homes for further CPS and lower court harassment.  Not surprisingly, O’Neill wrote a dissenting opinion that provided additional political and legal cover for CPS and Judge Barbara Walther.

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Can you say “cover-up”? Somebody’s lying in West Texas — in addition to the usual pathological CPS propaganda muppets.

Several weeks ago, I passed along a May 22, 2008 report from ABCNEWs quoting a “statement” by Texas Ranger Leslie Brooks Long. According to the statement, before Judge Walther signed the infamous fraudulent search warrant authorizing entry into the YFZ Ranch, a different Schleicher County judge “refused” to sign it. The ABCNews story remains on the website. Here’s the verbiage as of July 1, 2008, at about 5 pm EDT: [Read more →]

The man on the left is former NBA referee Tim Donaghy. On the right, is current Texas Supreme Court Justice and Kiddy Kommission Chair Harriet O’Neill. What do they have in common? Read on, then you be the judge. Let’s just say I know one reason why O’Neill wouldn’t take questions from the public at yesterday’s “public” Kommission hearing in Austin.

I’m still absorbing what I have here. These Documents (a series of invoices for training services, 3.1MB) if authentic — and I have very good reason to believe they are — appear to show that the Supreme Court of Texas attempted to “fix” the outcome of the April 17-18 “adversary hearing” in which the FLDS parents were supposed to be able to fairly contest the removal of their children from their homes 14 days earlier. [Read more →]

The Texas CPS child kleptocracy includes an elaborate web of vendors, not all of which are funded equally. Our research department — kbp — is curious about a Janel Voss who appears on the current list of Texas DFPS vendors with “active service contracts” exceeding $100K. Does Janel have any connection to Chief CPS investigator Angie Voss, up to her neck in the FLDS mess? We’d be delighted to hear from anyone who knows more about Janel, including Janel herself. (See update on Janel, below.)

Also newsworthy is that Baptist Child and Family Services — Johnny-at-the-YFZ-Ranch with an armada of official Baptist buses, back on that fateful night in April — has no less than eleven (11) such $100K+ contracts. In an earlier version of the list, BCFS was showing only eight. Rewards of loyalty? Any wonder that they were so quick to respond to CPS’s call to spirit off those “abused” FLDS kids? Money, power, religion and CPS. It’s a killer combination for Texas families.

Prairie Fire Journal documents the extensive “command and control” involvement of BCFS in the FLDS affair and poses pointed questions: [Read more →]

This morning I spoke by phone with an attorney ad litem (AAL) who represents several FLDS children in their ongoing dispute with Texas CPS. I’ll call her Millie — not because she’s unwilling to go on the record but because I think it’s good for the country to keep CPS guessing. Millie, an attorney with considerable experience in child protection cases, read my op-ed in last Thursday’s San Angelo Standard-Times and contacted me to say “thanks.” A lengthy conversation ensued.

Millie, by the way, is one of many individuals who have graciously contacted me with additional information about the community and the case. I’m building a file and may write a book. Whatever y’all can add to the story — the nationwide or Texas CPS story — is most welcome! (The photo, above, is of Teresa Jeffs in front of the San Angelo courthouse today. Boy, does she ever look abused! - ht: Brooke Adams)

While she was careful to guard client confidentiality, Millie offered valuable insights. Here are a few:

1.a. The FLDS mothers, as a group, may be the best mothers in America (all due respect, ladies) with the exception of my wife who — really, truly — deserves a big chunk of Mt. Rushmore. The routine while the FLDS kids were still being kept from their mothers — except for brief weekly, closely supervised visitations — was that the AAL and a “courtesy” CASA (more on that later) would observe the mothers, children and caseworkers through a two-way mirror equipped with audio. They could see and hear everything going on in the room. [Read more →]

Funny vid of Bill Clinton showing what Dems really think of MLK:

When ABC asked today why she hasn’t disclosed her income tax returns, Hillary responded:

“Sen. Obama has some questions to answer about his dealings with one of his largest contributors Exelon, a big nuclear power company; apparently he cut some deals behind closed doors to protect them from full disclosure of the nuclear industry,” she said.

There you have it.  Hill hasn’t disclosed her return because Obama has some questions to answer about . . . Huh?  Go figure.  We’ve seen Hillary’s tax returns before.  What’s the big deal this time around?  White Water?  White House? Or Wite-Out?

It’s clear that John McCain worked hard to obstruct a 1992 Senate investigation into the existence of American POWs left behind in Vietnam. What isn’t so clear is why he did it. Watch the video and judge for yourself: