In 2017 US President Trump, after a historical speech at the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia aligned with Islamic Reformers. He cast terrorism as a fight of good against evil. The new alliance involves trade and technology in exchange for reformation and fighting radicals. In 2018 the CIA, the Muslim Brotherhood and Western liberals hit back against the reformer Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman accusing him of the murder of a opposition figure Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey.
I tried to piece together the motivations for why US media and pols on the Left would enthusiastically take part in a Qatari info op against Saudis.
As is often the case, things that look like conspiracies are just people acting on common interests.https://t.co/gevPyoXeGX
UPDATE: The Washington Post has caused itself a major scandal since it has come to light they and their martyred “reformer” Jamal Khashoggi were publishing anti-Saudi propaganda for Qatar. They tried to bury this in a pre-Christmas Saturday news dump, but that can’t stop the damage this will do to their reputation.
“Text messages between Khashoggi and an executive at Qatar Foundation International show that the executive, Maggie Mitchell Salem, at times shaped the columns he submitted to The Washington Post, proposing topics, drafting material and prodding him to take a harder line against the Saudi government,” the Post wrote December 21.
Donald Trump called Barack Obama the founder of ISIS and Hillary Clinton its co-founder, echoing the words of Gen. Michael Flynn that Obama made a willful decision to allow Islamic State to form as a weapon against Assad, known as Operation Timber Sycamore. It made the war in Syria a strategic mess. Geopolitically there's even more at stake after President Trump announced US withdrawal from Syria in December 2018.
JackPosobiec's broadcast: Debunked Navy SEAL story, Project Birmingham update https://t.co/QCbimapHfp
Jack Posobiec deals at length with Operation Timber Sycamore from the 22:00 minute mark. UPDATE: On Boxing Day President and Melania Trump emerged at the Al Asad Airbase in Iraq to thank the troops. We will dispense here with the role of the media in this as completely irrelevant. The matter at hand is the President's announced troop withdrawal from Syria, thereby reversing his predecessor's strategic mess to load the dice in the Middle East in favor of Iran.
Social media are under attack for their left-leaning bias and censoring politically incorrect users and content. Conservative activists are being suspended as a matter of corporate policy. And now the mainstream is finding out that the exploitation of personal data is at the core of the techies' business model! Ow noes! UPDATE:
Live stream: Google CEO testifies at a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
Macron is a construct of the globalist cabal presented as a moderate, centrist, independent unifier, but like the Manchurian candidate Obama coming out of thin air, with a minimal, token professional record. As the #MacronLeaks broke his skeletons tumbled out of the closet. When he decided to impose the promised carbon tax on the French people, the Yellow Vests revolt erupted.
UPDATE: As the fourth weekend of the Yellow Vests revolt erupted in France, the man who broke the hacking of Macron during his Presidential campaign, now working for One America News Network, is reminding us of what we learned at the time. The French popular uprising has spread to Belgium and The Netherlands. A Dutch newspaper reported this morning that the Macron Government not surprisingly has started an investigation into Russian involvement. (Source) Macron is addressing the nation tonight at 08:00pmCET.
The globalist elite feel they are in a new Cold War against Russia and Donald Trump is their agent. That delusion has culminated in the installation of a Special Counsel headed by former FBI director Robert Mueller. It has since transpired that Obama holdovers and shadow warriors in the deep state conspired to frame the elected Government of Donald Trump. Related: Steele Dossier, Uranium One, Hillary emails, House and Senate Russia investigations.
UPDATE: Fresh from a 2 weeks' jail sentence George Papadopoulos emerged over the weekend at a MAGA conference where he sustained an interview with Mark Cernovich. Watch on C-Span.
A personal relationship with the voters is an important component of Trumpism, directly through social media or through the hostile legacy and mainstream media. Here we collect President Trump's most important videos from a historical or of a political perspective.
RSBN live stream: President Donald Trump Holds MAGA Rally in Biloxi, MS. UPDATE: RSBN's Alyssa Ashe, Kevin Nguyen and James Willis will be on hand as President Donald J. Trump holds a campaign style rally at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, MS. President Trump is expected to speak at 9:00 PM ET. Donate to RSBN and help keep them on the air.
On Friday, allied leaders began remembrance events in a wide crescent of cemeteries and trench-rutted battlefields north of the Paris in commemoration of the centennial of the armistice that brought a close to World War I. It was supposed to be "the war to end all wars," but it ushered in Marxist revolutions, more tyrannical regimes, and an even bloodier global conflict two decades later. A century later history is still vastly misunderstood. More on Nationalism Versus Globalism Live Blog.
UPDATE: Taking the day off from Professor Ulrike's offensive to turn Europe into a Socialist Republic by 2032 as Nigel Farage gives his reaction in the European Parliament to Emmanuel Macron's and Angela Merkel's calls for the creation of a EU army. Nigel Farage:
The European project was set up to stop German domination, what we saw today from Angela Merkel was a naked takeover bid. Brexit can't come soon enough!" For his part NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has warned the European Union in no uncertain terms that this commitment “should never undermine the strength of the transatlantic bond.” (More)
UPDATE: As expected, after the midterm elections President Trump fired his AG Jeff Sessions and replaced him temporarily with the AG's Chief of Staff, Matt Whitaker. Whitaker is a man of opinions on the subject of Hillary Clinton and Special Counsel Mueller, reason for the loyal opposition now in charge of the House, to demand his recusal.
With the Democrat Party essentially going for open borders by calling for the abolition of ICE (US "border police"), and top Democrats openly encouraging the harassment of Trump officials and voters, the "Resist" movement hit a brick wall with the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. In the midterm elections on Nov. 6 the party hopes to take the House of Representatives. Or will the "blue wave" turn into a "red tsunami"?
Live stream: President Trump Hosts a Press Conference. UPDATE: In full benevolence towards the destroy Trump media and the loyal opposition, the President is calling for negotiated deals and bipartisanship with the Democrat House. Trump's harmony model is however dead on arrival. "CNN’s Tapper Compares Trump to Gangsters After Press Conference on Midterms" (FreeBeacon). Update: After the altercation with the President and his refusal to surrender the mic to the White House intern (thereby placing her into an embarrassing situation) Acosta's White House security pass was revoked (tweet).
President Trump honored his election promise to abandon the Paris Climate Agreement. The dogmatic claim that "the science is settled" proves that this isn't science (which is by definition never settled), but about ideology. After the demise of Socialism, climatism is cover for the global elites to exert control over money and the economy.
Oct. 21, 2018 Life, Liberty & Levin: Levin talks to Patrick J. Michaels on Climatology.
UPDATE: In his TV show on Fox News, Mark Levin last night talked to Patrick J. Michaels, the Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for 30 years. Michaels was a contributing author and is a reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials worldwide. He is the author or editor of six books on climate and its impact, and he was an author of the climate “paper of the year” awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He has appeared on most of the worldwide major media. (Cato)
President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh for a seat on the US Supreme Court. The 53 year old Catholic originalist Judge will tilt the balance of the Court for decades to come on the side of the Constitution as intended. On Sep. 27 the Senate Judiciary Committee held a public hearing with Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who claims the judge sexually assaulted her nearly four decades ago.
Live stream: Senate Voting on Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. UPDATE: The Senate is debating the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court with a vote expected at some time between 3:30 and 4pmET.
What is postmodernism, what is its history and why does it matter? This blog should answer most of these questions and explain what is the antidote to this particularly destructive school of thought. Check the Background section at the bottom of this page and the tab pages underneath the banner for more research and analyses.
If you have doubts about this enterpris - which makes sense since these fields of study do investigate very important topics, like race and gende- take a look at the papers they got published in leading journals. They are… quite something.
UPDATE: Three intrepid academics perpetrated a giant version of the Sokal Hoax once again revealing the utter nonsense of Postmodern "science" (Wiki). They published a number of fake papers in major academic journals. The result is hilarious and delightful. Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian set out to show that ideology reigns supreme in what they call "Grievance Studies": academic areas organized around victim groups,and often more motivated by a political agenda than a serious search for the truth.
Political correctness, nihilism, radical equality, Social Justice Warriors, identity politics, demonization, personal attacks, emotional appeals, tamper tantrums, triggerings and safe spaces, the Alt-Right and the Alt-Left...what does it all mean? It's part of a study everyone needs to get acquainted with: social psychology (or social pathology, if you wish).
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WOMEN MUST BE BELIEVED
WITH OR WITHOUT FACTS.
That's Not What I Believe.
That's What Unethical
FILTHY DEMOCRATS BELIEVE.
UPDATE: While sexual attacks on women are something every right minded person rejects, the philosophical abandon behind the MeToo movement is potentially devastating. Just how corrosive it is, has become apparent in the Left fighting to stave off the life-time appointment of the Catholic, originalist Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court. Two pillars of Western culture are thereby under a two pronged attack by the MeToos. First, the epistemological underpinning is under fire, that truth is universal and independent of the person speaking it. But in the MeToo universe, truth is associated with gender: women are basically right, while men are principally wrong. Which is ludicrous on its face and another demonstration of the postmodern war on basic axioms. But that is only the preliminary stage of the MeToo assault.
America First, means putting the rights of the people and their national interests before everyone else's. It is why we elect and pay our politicians. Globalists do the exact opposite by sacrificing their people's interests to a perceived 'higher cause' nebulously referred to as "world peace" or "cooperation". But trade means, the voluntary exchange of one value for another. There is reciprocity in free trade. President Trump understands the principle.
Live stream: Trump speaks on new trade deal with Canada, Mexico.
UPDATE: President Donald Trump addresses the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which is due to replace the current North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The U.S., Mexico, and Canada came to a late-hours agreement Sunday to create a trilateral trade deal to replace NAFTA.
Senior Trump administration officials briefed reporters late Sunday night on the new deal, just one hour before the deadline set to send a U.S.-Mexico deal to Congress.
The USMCA “includes ambitious new market access provisions for our farmers and ranchers,” according to the officials. It also includes provisions to make sure the deal does not get “stale and outdated”
Provisions address digital trade, establish groundbreaking intellectual property provisions, and combat currency manipulation.
“We think this is a fantastic agreement for the United States but also for Canada and Mexico,” one of the officials stated. (More)
Founded by James O’Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII the mission of Project Veritas @PVeritas_Action is to investigate and expose corruption, fraud, and other misconduct in public and private institutions. File on the violently insane. James O’Keefe has just completed a book entitled "American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News." Order.
Sep. 25, 2018 Thomas Sheehy and Jerry Semasek discussing the IRS’s discrimination against conservative non-profit groups. UPDATE: James O'Keefe just dropped the fourth installment in his series exposing the corruption and bias in the 'deep state'. This report features two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials who candidly discuss the IRS’s unfair treatment of conservative non-profit groups. The two officials in the report are Thomas Sheehy, an IRS tax examiner and member of the Austin Democratic Socialists of America in Texas, and Jerry Semasek, an IRS attorney in Washington, DC. (...) Sheehy boasts about and appears to justify former disgraced IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who was mired in scandal for losing tens of thousands of emails regarding the Lois Lerner controversy. The Lois Lerner controversy occurred in 2013 and involved revelations showing that the IRS unfairly scrutinized conservative groups. (More)
ObamaGate (renamed SpyGate) started with surveillance on the Trump campaign based on the unverified Steele dossier. The House Judicial Committee is conducting investigations into this abuse of power within the DoJ and FBI. (Senate probe). Chairman Nunes has demanded documentation from the DoJ, which so far they refused to hand over.Judicial Watch finally received heavily redacted documents under the Freedom of Information Act.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump says exposing ‘corrupt’ FBI probe could be ‘crowning achievement’ of presidency https://t.co/t9iXVaJdJt
UPDATE: Following President Trump's order to declassify a host of documents related to alleged FISA abuse by the DoJ and the FBI during the campaign of 2016, the House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes said that the FBI’s “insurance policy” that Peter Strzok and Lisa Page discussed over text message will be exposed along with other exculpatory evidence once the Carter Page FISA documents are made public.
“We think the American people need to understand that this is actually the insurance policy that was talked about in the Strzok-Page texts,” Nunes said. “A lot of people think the insurance policy was getting a FISA warrant on Carter Page–we actually believe it was more explicit than that. We believe it was actually–the insurance policy was specifically what they did that still is redacted,” Nunes continued. (More)
As the author Robert Spencer said, much of the vicious criticism against Tommy Robinson can be attributed to class bigotry. Many of the postmodern elites didn't have to grow up in inner city slums. Those who don't reach their level of white privilege, were often abused and displaced by a hostile, alien culture. The British police state has finally put Tommy behind bars while gagging the media to report about it.
Sep. 12, 2018 Tommy Robinson and Ezra Levant (the uncut extended interview).
UPDATE: Tommy Robinson is the last lion of the United Kingdom. What he tells us in this exclusive interview is heartbreaking, enraging, inspiring, desperate...But a little bit hopeful, too. Tommy has to go back to court — the Attorney General is insisting on a re-trial for contempt of court, for that same incident back in Leeds, in May. They actually want to convict him again, maybe to throw him back in prison again.
Just yesterday I received a new invoice from Tommy's law firm, Carson Kaye. They’re a good firm who won at the court of appeal. But now they have to prepare for his second trial. It will cost tens of thousands of pounds — and I’m sorry to ask you again, but if you are at all moved by Tommy’s case, please help us continue to crowdfund his legal defence, by going to SaveTommy.com. (Any surplus after the lawyers are paid will go to Tommy’s family to take care of them.)
You saw just now how grateful he is for your support.
We will be there at his next trial in London, and we’ll keep telling the truth about Tommy as long as the mainstream media keeps lying about him. (Source)
On September 11, 2012 the CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya was overrun by a mob of 60-80 Jihadists from Al Qaeda related to Ansar Al Sharia. Details on The Benghazi Scandal: A Simple 10 Point Explanation. The Obama administration has been covering it up with an absurd ruse involving a video.
1/ Six yrs after US consulate attack in Benghazi, I got NEW FOOTAGE.
In Benghazi I identified 17 extremists seen near/in consulate during attack.
6 out of 17 are in vid.
Witnesses say: Most of 17 killed/fled city. 1 lives in Berlin. 1 might be in Sweden pic.twitter.com/zHzJKTIBHV
UPDATE: With the commemorations of 911 under way and Barack Obama lashing out at President Trump calling Benghazi a "wild conspiracy theory", the spotlight has returned on the events of September 11, 2012 in Libya. Obama's bizarre spin caused a reaction in one of its heroes, Kris Paronto. (Article) In the meanwhile the reporters who investigated the Benghazi compound in October 2012 returned to Benghazi. Six years ago Jenan Moussa and Harald Doornbos found documents in the rubble of the US Consulate showing that the staff was worried about their safety prior to the attack. Here's that story in Foreign Policy. Earlier this month Doornbos and Moussa returned to Benghazi where they spent three weeks for further investigation. "Ansar al-Sharia, the terrorist group that attacked US consulate on 11 Sept. 2012 is now defeated by Libyan army". Read the report on Twitter or in the Threadreader below.
Every pretense of objectivity gone, the media are now openly hostile to anything right of center. The press is no longer the fourth estate. It is in open warfare with the democratically elected administration of President Trump. Not willing to take the media attacks lying down, every criticism offers a new opportunity of pursuing the war against the people.
This list of bungled @CNN reporting is longer than a CVS receipt, y'all.
UPDATE: After CNN refuses to withdraw a story that even the source (Lanny Davis) has said is false, time to update the list of CNN bungled reporting. (More)
The Far East is another powder keg created by the Obama power vacuum. Candidate Trump took a tough position on China trade and military expansion. Then came the Mar-a-Lago conclave. President Trump told Xi Jinping that if he wouldn't fix North Korea, the US would. After a virtual blockade and decades in a state of war President Trump offered Kim Jong-un a one time package deal he can hardly afford to turn down.
Aug. 12, 2018 Life Liberty & Levin: Michael Pillsbury Author of "The Hundred-Year Marathon".
UPDATE: Mark Levin had a "must see" episode last Sunday on his FoxNews program in which he talked about the Chinese long term policies with Mike Pillsbury @MikePillsbury, lnational security expert, director for Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute, and author of "The Hundred-Year Marathon" (transcript). In the meantime negotiations with North Korea are ongoing. Thomas Wictor has a special way of looking at the relation between President Trump and Kim Jong-Un.
Obama set out to go into history as the US President who made peace with Iran. To achieve his goal he was willing to sacrifice anything. The ideology of the Mullahs hasn't changed. The globalist leaders of the free world have capitulated and Iran knows it: the Mullahs continue their hostilities. President Trump is done with the regime.
E.U. Stands with Tehran, Boosts Iran Trade in Defiance of Renewed U.S. Ban?? WAR? OH YEA! THEY DON'T HAVE AN ARMY WE DEFEND THEM.https://t.co/GNuO6MEQj1
UPDATE: What civilized entity would align, protect and deal with the regime in Iran? Answer: North Korea, the European Union (and the United States under Obama). The EU announced in May that it is determined to preserve the Iran nuclear deal despite the US withdrawal. Nevertheless European enterprises will have to make a choice, which not hard with the bottom line in mind: trade with Iran, or trade with the US; you can't do both.
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Aug. 13, 2018
(VIDEO) THE STEELE DOSSIER AND ITS COVERT NETWORK
Aug. 12, 2018 Nunes talking to Maria Bartiromo on Ohr testifying to Congress on Aug. 28.
The roles of Bruce and Nellie Ohr are presently getting the exposure they deserve. Sunday on "Sunday Morning Futures" House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton’s colluded with nearly every top official in the Justice Department and FBI. Nunes said (...) he [Ohr] has been the go-between Christopher Steele, so once Christopher Steele was terminated as a source (...) Bruce Ohr, one of the top lawyers in the Department of Justice, kept continually meeting and providing information from Christopher Steele to who? The FBI.” (...) Bruce Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, who also will have to be interviewed soon, she also was working for Fusion GPS, working for the Clinton campaign. So here you have information flowing from the Clinton campaign from the Russians (...) fed into the top levels of the FBI and Department of Justice to open up a counter intelligence investigation into a political campaign that has now colluded with nearly every top official at the DOJ and FBI over the course of the last couple years.” (More) This thread lays out the Bruce Ohr-Glenn Simpson connection. The FBI knew they were fed garbage, but to stage a coup they ran with it anyway.
Hallo please find the unroll here: Thread by @RealMAGASteve: "1. The handwritten notes of Bruce Ohr do a lot more than expose what Fusion GPS told the DOJ about Trump. This is major […]" https://t.co/5Xe9XTWTTO Talk to you soon. 🤖
⏩ Confused? Here is in-depth primer on the Steele Dossier and the entire covert network working on it. It exposes the existence of so-called private PR and oppo research firms working behind the scenes and the extent to which these political criminals will go to influence world politics! These covert cabals of political operatives are posing as journalists, diplomats, spies, academics and other former Government officials privately for hire to further Globalist causes. They basically insert a certain narrative into the bloodstream of a country, a culture or a nation conveying the perception of a false reality, much as has here been done here with "Trump collusion with Russia to illegitimately steal the election". This particular conspiracy happens to have connections with Ukraine (Live Blog). This network of over 20 individuals have all known each other for decades, went to university or worked together and married each other. The question is, how many other of these networks are there? And what are they up to? It's a very lengthy expose, and extremely interesting. Take your time. "The Mechanics of Deception", by Yaacov Apelbaum (article).
“Seems like the Department of Justice (and FBI) had a program to keep Donald Trump from becoming President”. @DarrellIssa@foxandfriends If this had happened to the other side, everybody involved would be in jail. This is a Media coverup of the biggest story of our time.
⏩ More news breaking over the weekend in re of the Papadopoulos/Downer meeting:
Downer’s version of Papadopoulos meeting: “Russians might use material that they have on Hillary Clinton in the lead-up to the election”. Clinton emails were never mentioned. 6-20-16 Steele Memo contains same type of information.https://t.co/zzCT14ViWJ
New Twist to the Deep State Assault on Trump: Papadopoulos Told Aussie Spy Alexander Downer that Russians Had HILLARY DOSSIER not HILLARY EMAILS! https://t.co/pZAXQlNDAf via @gatewaypundit
(ANALYSES) INTEL COMMITTEE CALLS ASSANGE TO TESTIFY
BREAKING: US Senate Intelligence Committee calls editor @JulianAssange to testify. Letter delivered via US embassy in London. WikiLeaks' legal team say they are "considering the offer but testimony must conform to a high ethical standard". Also: https://t.co/pPf0GTjTlppic.twitter.com/TrDKkCKVBx
New emails and texts are being released on a daily basis. The most remarkable news is that the Senate Intelligence Committee has called on Julian Assange to testify about who really leaked the DNC emails prior to the 2016 election. Assange is seriously considering. Many are calling for President Trump to declassify all the documents. Of course he's not going to do that! The public exposure of the Obama deep state illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump (book) is the one leverage he's holding over their heads in case the Democrats would brazenly demand his impeachment. Thomas Lifson nevertheless holds "there is reason to believe that the American public is about to learn a lot of disturbing news about the Deep State before people go to the polls." (article) The President's lawyer, Rudolf Giuliani seems to agree: "This Case Isn't Going to Fizzle, It's Going to BLOW UP ON THEM! There's a LOT MORE to What They Did That Nobody Knows About Yet!" (More)
⏩ A few Must Reads from the hand of Sara Carter:
DC Court Orders DOJ to Preserve Comey Emails (article)
House Republicans Zeroing In On Dossier, Linked DOJ Official (article)
⏩ Tracy Beanz is doing a marvelous job going through John Solomon's recent articles and putting them into context. Read the thread ↓
Bonjour you can read it here: Thread by @tracybeanz: "1. THREAD: While John Solomon’s piece yesterday was absolutely stunning, I am seeing a very interesting thread in his wo […]" https://t.co/QsWEtanM3v
Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖
Strzok, Page, Ohr and Pientka meet. 12 days after Trumps election.
"No prosecution yet, pushing ahead on M case" Manafort.
"may go back to Steele"
Oh no, did the guy win that wasn't supposed to? That's no good huh? Cuz of the spying. Time to ramp it up, may go back to Steele pic.twitter.com/3ERk948uyQ
— ConcealedCarryStraw.357 (@SonofLiberty357) August 8, 2018
July 18, 2018
(VIDEO) TEXTS: OBAMA WHITE HOUSE INVOLVED IN SPYGATE
July 16, 2018 New text messages prove Obama was involved with Trump campaign spying.
Text messages from Lisa Page to fired DAG Andrew McCabe dating back to October 2016 have surfaced proving that the Obama White House was involved in the FBI probe on Russian collusion.
October 14, 2016 – Lisa Page to Andrew McCabe: “Just called. Apparently the DAG now wants to be there, and the WH wants DOJ to host. So we are setting that up now. We will very much need to get Cohen’s view before we meet with her. Better have him weigh in with her before the meeting. We need to speak with one voice if that is in fact the case.”
October 19, 2016 – Lisa Page to Andrew McCabe:“Hey can you give me a call when you get out? Meeting with WH counsel is finally set up and I want to talk about timing. Thanks.” (More)
In addition in the last few days information (and admittedly speculation) has surfaced about the cloak and dagger history of agent Strzok, himself as well as his father who preceded him as a secret agent (thread). Peter Strzok works for both the FBI and CIA, documents reveal. (More) In the meantime his former paramour, Lisa Page had two closed door hearings on Capitol Hill. She was the go between between McCabe and the rest of the Crossfire Hurricane team. Apparently she is cooperating and is receiving more acclaim than her former lover who made dog's breakfast of his Congressional hearings.
A Republican lawmaker says the testimony of former FBI attorney Lisa Page before House investigators differed greatly from her lover and bureau special agent Peter Strzok. https://t.co/BfvCYRqcel
Rep. John Ratcliffe reveals Lisa Page admitted her text messages with Peter Strzok “mean exactly what they say,” contrary to Strzok’s testimony pic.twitter.com/Ne21aWa8HJ
Breaking: Congressman Gohmert says the MSM is lying & that a foreign power not named Russia(China?) hacked/had all of Hillary’s emails. Continues to say he has proof that Strzok knew about it & buried it. How is this not the biggest news of year?pic.twitter.com/2X98BTp78o
BREAKING: Lisa Page Testifies That FBI Bosses Covered Up Evidence That China Hacked Hillary’s Top Secret Emails Page revealed that Comey, McCabe, Strzok & Bill Priestap concealed Intel that confirms Chinese assets hacked Hillary’s 33K emails, not Russia. https://t.co/35bdrVkVaW
Peter Strzok: "I can assure you, Mr. Chairman, at no time, in any of these texts, did those personal beliefs ever enter into the realm of any action I took."
‼️You & Comey are LIARS‼️#PeterStrzokHearingpic.twitter.com/U5G0MZ3q2a
The tumultuous 10+ hour session with Peter Strzok has yielded remarkable information and confirmed a number of points investigators had discovered from other sources. Body language and choice of words shed light on the character of the demoted FBI Assistent to the Deputy for Counter Intelligence. In contradiction to other reports the DOJ has said that Peter Strzok was given a limited security clearance in preparation for today’s hearing that ended when this was over. According to Paul Sperry @PaulSperry, Strzok and Page didn't just text, they also used iMessage (imsg), a built-in instant message service on Apple devices, to scheme during the Clinton and Trump probes. The real smoking guns are contained in these iMessages. The IG knew these messages work-related, yet Hoorowitz never obtained them. Oddly enough no one as yet commented on the fact that Strzok as FBI Assistent to the Deputy for Counter Intelligence exposed himself to blackmail by foreign agents:
Of course and intelligence agents are briefed on that during training. Washington DC is covered in foreign spies - they look for opportunities to gather information in U.S. - Strzok/Page were sending out info/ private valuable to foreign spy agencies on unsecured phone https://t.co/o4o7pTTNPZ — Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) July 12, 2018
Here's how the hearing went down:
Peter Strzok: "'We will stop it.' You need to understand that that was written late at night off the cuff and it was in response to a series of events that included then-candidate Trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero." pic.twitter.com/sF9fSDaKDt
Peter Strzok: •Lead FBI agent in Clinton, Russia probes •Ousted by Mueller for anti-Trump texts •6/15: Escorted from FBI HQ •6/27: Closed-door House hearing —IG Report— •Nearly 600 mentions •Texts indicate "biased state of mind" •Text: "We’ll stop" Trump from being elected https://t.co/FnMyxdE9vr
Strzok takes "great offense" that anyone might think that what he wrote was what he meant--that his bias against Trump was bias. Can't make this stuff up.
Strzok is admitting that, on the job, he is undisciplined, unprofessional and had a habit of engaging in hyperbole. And yet Comey put this guy in charge of two of the biggest investigations in history. And he's still technically employed by the FBI.
Saying he’s acting under FBI orders, Strzok stonewalls questions about when the FBI Trump-Russian investigation actually began. Democrats repeatedly interject frivolous points of order.
Horowitz brought the bias of Agent #PeterStrzok to Mueller's attention and that resulted in his firing by Special Counsel.#PeterStrzok angry assertion he wasn't fired for bias is a lie. @JusticeOIG referred Strzok for disciplinary action bc of it
⏩ Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy carved up Peter Strzok. He got him to admit that he conducted zero interviews before his famous impeachment text. So he had already concluded that Trump should be impeached before he even interviewed anyone. And they concluded Hillary was innocent before any interviews. Congressman Issa made Strzok recite his own texts:
.@TGowdySC to FBI Agent Peter Strzok: "I don't give a damn what you appreciate Agent Strzok. I don't appreciate having a FBI agent with an unprecedented level of animus working on two major investigations during 2016." pic.twitter.com/FSSFE7PdxY
Gowdy: "Do you remember how long it took for you to start talking about impeachment (of Trump) after Bob Mueller was appointed?" Strzok: "I don't.” Gowdy: "One day."
⏩ A remarkable disclosure from the hearing was when Strzok admitted that one of the three versions of the phony Steele dossier was funneled through the FBI by Nellie and Bruce Ohr. (More)
Peter Strzok admits that FBI got parts of Dossier from top DOJ official Bruce Ohr.
Ohr‘s wife Nellie worked for Fusion GPS, the firm hired by Hillary Clinton to produce the Dossier. https://t.co/M2AOKSD27R
Jim Jordan: Did you get documents from Bruce Ohr?
Peter Strzok: Yes. At some point we received material from Mr. Ohr...The FBI received documents and material from Mr. Ohr.
Remember, Bruce Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS. Did the FBI get the dossier from Bruce? pic.twitter.com/G0yI7t15ru
.@Jim_Jordan on Peter Strzok testimony: "Today in committee, I think for the first time, the FBI and the DOJ have admitted that they got the dossier, parts of the dossier from Bruce Ohr." #Dobbspic.twitter.com/kzb0a14baN
⏩ Another stunner occurred when Congressman Gohmert got the Democrats clutching their pearls, while disclosing that the Inspector General (ICIG) found an “anomaly on Hillary Clinton’s emails going through her private server, and when they had done the forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every single one except four, over 30,000, were going to an (...) unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia,” Gohmert added. (More)
GOHMERT: WATCHDOG FOUND CLINTON EMAILS WERE SENT TO ‘FOREIGN ENTITY’ https://t.co/vrAnJEI4Wt
FIREWORKS! REP. GOHMERT GOES THERE! -- Calls Out Cheater Strzok for Lying to His Wife About Lisa Page! (VIDEO) https://t.co/gtgpzDA1ou via @gatewaypundit
⏩ Pertaining to the Mueller probe, the following transpired:
"When Mueller found out Strzok was sending bias text messages, he didn't ask about a single one of them. He didn't ask how Strzok could hold these views about stopping Trump from being president or deemphasizing the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation." pic.twitter.com/hCIJt4A0aC
Peter Strzok’s testimony was a disgrace. It taints the entire Mueller witchunt. President Trump is being investigated by people who possess pathological hatred for him. All the results of the investigation are “fruit of the poison tree” and should be dismissed.
⏩ The Democrats made plain what side they are on; and it isn't the American people:
The Democrats applauding Peter Strzok a man who plotted with another FBI Agent to overthrow the President democratically elected by the American people. This is the Democrat Party. #StrzokHearingpic.twitter.com/EULbp1Ptox
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) July 12, 2018
90-minute takeway from Strzok hearing: Democrats have forged new strategy for shutting down oversight. Interrupt, call points of order, argue over points of order, demand recorded votes, eat up time, protect the witness. Hope Republicans are taking notes.
Democrats seem more interested in running interference for Strzok than in getting the truth about his conduct. One Democrat member even suggested that Strzok deserves a Purple Heart. How absurd!
The police-state Democrats showed their butts today. They used every absurd procedural trick in the book to stop a witness from telling the American people the truth about the #Spygate scandal.
⏩ Strzok was outed as the creep that he is. As we have argued for a long time, these deep state putchists are suffering from a god-complex. It's what you get when Government clerks believe they answer to no one and they recognize only themselves as the source of their power: autocracy! It's not Donald Trump who is the danger -- no one is more aware that the source of his power are the American people. It's unelected officials playing God.
Peter Strzok to Congress: How dare you doubt my respect for voters? Peter Strzok to his lover: "Trump supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated POS that think he will magically create jobs for them for doing nothing." Bit of a disconnect here.https://t.co/FpH2oUN6xt
(LIVE STREAM) PETER STRZOK PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE CONGRESS
Live stream: FBI Agent Peter Strzok's public hearing before Congress. It was just announced that Lisa Page will testify tomorrow behind closed doors after not showing up for her testimony yesterday morning.
BREAKING: Strzok was so angry & paranoid about agency leaks & criticism about how he was trying to bury the pile of new evidence on Weiner's laptop to save Hillary's presidential hopes that he actually weighed spying on & criminally investigating FORMER agents & FORMER executives — Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 11, 2018
Former FBI lawyer #LisaPage seems to think she's above the law. The Marshals had to go back to her house 3x to serve her. #Page did not appear for an interview Wednesday under subpoena! She can be held in contempt of Congress.#LockHerUppic.twitter.com/s72zvlEmTt
Contrary to what her attorneys are telling the media, we just learned Lisa Page actually DID review documents at the FBI yesterday. Her failure to appear before Congress this morning had little to do with 'preparation'--and everything to do with avoiding accountability.
This statement from Lisa Page's attorneys could've been better summed up in one short sentence: "We're choosing to ignore a Congressional subpoena" Indefensible https://t.co/Ku6vkIK21G
(VIDEO) CARTER PAGE COMPLAINT PRETEXT FOR FBI FISA ABUSE
July 6, 2018 Carter Page on Tucker Carlson: Pretext is outrageous!
Former (?) FBI agent Peter Strzok has been subpoenaed for a public Congress hearing next Tuesday July 10 at 10amET. It is unknown if Strzok will comply. (More) Aitan Goelman, an attorney for Strzok, said his client no longer wishes to testify publicly over fears that lawmakers are setting a “trap.” (More) In the meantime John Solomon reported yesterday that the FBI is now producing “damning” or “troubling” evidence to the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general and multiple Senate and House committees about Strzok's email exchanges with Pisa Page.
(...) The memos show Strzok, Lisa Page and others in counterintelligence monitored news articles in September 2016 that quoted a law enforcement source as saying the FBI was investigating Carter Page’s travel to Moscow. The FBI team pounced on what it saw as an opportunity as soon as Page wrote a letter to then-FBI Director James Comey complaining about the “completely false” leak. “At a minimum, the letter provides us a pretext to interview,” Strzok wrote to Lisa Page on Sept. 26, 2016. Within weeks, that “pretext” — often a synonym for an excuse — had been upsized to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court warrant, giving the FBI the ability to use some of its most awesome powers to monitor Carter Page and his activities. To date, the former Trump adviser has been accused of no wrongdoing despite being subjected to nearly a year of surveillance. (...) In one email exchange with the subject line “Crossfire FISA,” Strzok and Lisa Page discussed talking points to get then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to persuade a high-ranking DOJ official to sign off on the warrant. “Crossfire Hurricane” was one of the code names for four separate investigations the FBI conducted related to Russia matters in the 2016 election. “At a minimum, that keeps the hurry the F up pressure on him,” Strzok emailed Page on Oct. 14, 2016, less than four weeks before Election Day. Four days later the same team was emailing about rushing to get approval for another FISA warrant for another Russia-related investigation code-named “Dragon.” (More)
The father of Peter Strzok is Peter Strzok Sr. The brother of Peter Strzok Sr is Mark Strzok. The wife of Mark Strzok is Mariana Strzok. Mariana Strzok is the daughter of General James Cartwright. General James Cartwright, was pardoned by Barrack Obama on his last day of office. pic.twitter.com/63X2vGaRf0
— 🇺🇸'Super Elite Texan'🇺🇸 ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 (@starcrosswolf) July 6, 2018
Rep. Nunes referring 42 Obama admin officials, FBI agents and political activists to a House task force for an investigation how the Obama Justice Department targeted the Trump campaign...
Nunes: ‘We’re Not Going to Be Threatened By the Democrats — They’re the Ones That Have Blood on Their Hands’ https://t.co/bc9P18MixV via @BreitbartNews
Given that "Strzok is full of it and he kept hiding behind classified information excuse" it is now very unlikely Strzok will testify in a public hearing, or that it would lead to any useful result.
(...) the DOJ inspector general report revealed the hundreds of messages between Strzok and Page included one in which Strzok vowed to “stop” Trump from becoming president. But a spokeswoman for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said Strzok did not answer many questions he was asked Wednesday. “Today Peter Strzok appeared before our Committees to answer questions regarding his actions while leading the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
Unfortunately, FBI counsel ordered Mr. Strzok not to answer many of the legitimate questions he was asked,” Kathryn Rexrode said in a statement to Fox News Wednesday. “We intend to hold a public hearing soon. I hope he will be more forthcoming at that time.” “There are still a lot of unanswered questions on who knew what when,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., told reporters on the Hill during a break from the hearing Wednesday.
“And as it related to this particular investigation, what was the genesis of the Russia collusion investigation?” Meadows said that “new information has come out,” but did not share specifics. While it is unclear what specifically was learned in the confidential hearing, a GOP source told Fox News that most GOP members have focused on the Russia investigation and how Strzok relates to the beginning of that probe. (More)
Peter Strzok worked as the leader of the Rigged Witch Hunt for a long period of time - he got it started and was only fired because the gig was up. But remember, he took his orders from Comey and McCabe and they took their orders from you know who. Mueller/Comey best friends!
(VIDEO) SPYGATE: TRUMP CAMPAIGN RIDDLED WITH SPIES
WOW
3 intel sources have disclosed that Obama turned to British spies to get surveillance on Trumppic.twitter.com/SxqKnqIEgj
— Israel & USA forever (@IsraelUSAforevr) June 25, 2018
Judge Napolitano offered this opinion last year and was immediately suspended by Fox News. Weeks later he was reinstatedm but the subject was never brought up again. Then White House spokesman Sean Spicer on the subject (video). White House apoligizes to GCHQ (video). With hindsight, food for thought.
Before the FBI began investigating the Trump campaign in an operation code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” there were at least seven different instances when campaign advisers were approached with Russia-related offers. Most of those contacts -- including Donald Trump Jr.’s much-publicized meeting with a Russian lawyer and others in June 2016 — offered the prospect of information damaging to Donald Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
2 approaches were made by publicly identified informant Stefan Halper. Another by “a man who swore in court that he had worked as an FBI informant.” 2 others were made by figures associated w/Western intel. Another 2 included political operatives, one foreign, w/ties to Clintons.
President Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has asserted that dispatching Halper to follow the Trump campaign "protected" it from the Russians. But Mark Wauck, a former FBI agent with experience in such tactics, sees an effort at entrapment. It appears that neither the FBI nor the Clinton campaign’s paid operatives came up with anything of substance. The seven approaches to the Trump campaign, as far as is publicly known, generated no evidence of coordination with the Russians.
No evidence has emerged to change former FBI Director James B. Comey’s description of key parts of the Steele dossier as “salacious and unverified.” Nevertheless, the report of one person who reached out to a Trump adviser, Carter Page, was reportedly used to launch an official Department of Justice and FBI probe into the Trump campaign and the dossier was evidently a key piece of evidence used to secure a FISA surveillance warrant against Page. (More)
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said that President Trump is probably correct that there was surveillance on Trump Tower. Actually, far greater than would ever have been believed!
⏩ Bombshell upon bombshell! Last night we learned that Comey -- with the help of vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner (D-Va.) -- nixed an immunity deal with the very man who could testify to the truth of the alleged Russian involvement, Julian Assange.
June 25, 2018 James Comey Personally killed immunity deal with Julian Assange.
Jon Solomon discovers that the one person who knows where the Podesta emails came from, was in talks with DOJ to testify, but that James Comey nixed it. Why? And why hasn't Mueller talked to him either? That's what the entire premise is based on! Read the entire thread for insight: per Harold Finch
"There is one and only one explanation for why @MarkWarnerVA helped @Comey kill the Assange deal that would have protected the CIA from the Vault 7 disclosures: because both men were part of the coup against @realDonaldTrump and it could only stay hidden and continue if deal died." Assange also offered to prove that the DNC was NOT hacked by Russians. Comey was helped by Mark Warner."
Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey, fired FBI director. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr. Julian Assange, grand master of WikiLeaks. And American attorney Adam Waldman, who has a Forrest Gump-like penchant for showing up in major cases of intrigue. Each played a role in the early days of the Trump administration to try to get Assange to agree to “risk mitigation” — essentially, limiting some classified CIA information he might release in the future. (More)
John Solomon: Julian Assange Was Ready to Provide Technical Evidence on Podesta Emails - COMEY Turned it Down (VIDEO) https://t.co/yG4JyEY3Jw via @gatewaypundit
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) June 26, 2018
Why is Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), perhaps in a near drunken state, claiming he has information that only he and Bob Mueller, the leader of the 13 Angry Democrats on a Witch Hunt, knows? Isn’t this highly illegal. Is it being investigated?
⏩ There are also developments in the story of the Lynch tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton:
We called it! We called it two years ago. All this time Democrats have denied any wrongdoing on Lynch's part, but now a document has reportedly emerged that destroys their narrative and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the DOJ was rigging the… https://t.co/mPyDE2TPPI
— Conservative Tribune (@conserv_tribune) June 25, 2018
IG Horowitz NEVER interviewed head of Lynch's FBI security detail OR Bill Clinton's SS detail & just took Lynch's & Clinton's WORD that their 2016 tarmac meeting was "UNPLANNED"! WTF? SS wd never let ex-POTUS have chance tarmac meeting w/o doing ADVANCE security checks.
(25) Days after his plea, Rudy Contreras, the corrupt FISC judge and Eric Holder buddy who signed the warrants to spy on him and the Trump administration, and who impossibly presided on his case and approved the plea...had to recuse.
In fact, a # of other Strzok responses to Page likely missing. IG Horowitz now says he's no longer convinced the FBI was collecting all of Strzok's and Page's text messages EVEN OUTSIDE THE 5-MONTH BLACKOUT period when it archived none of the texts due to a technical "glitch." https://t.co/g7GsiSz41i
Under the Hatch Act, Strzok, Page and McCabe could be fined, stripped of their security clearances and BANNED from working in any federal government jobs for up to 5 years
Roger Stone reveals US gov agent posing as "Russian" was Obama/HRC SPY offering "dirt on HRC" for $ https://t.co/klWnERWOlW WaPo pumped "new Russia contact," but Stone & Caputo laughed off bumbling gov entrapment scheme. Greenberg wanted “big” money, Stone said, “waste of time.”
Last week evidence has come to light that Operation Crossfire Hurricane was set in motion, well before the official launch of the Russia investigation on July 31, 2016. Spies and agents provocateurs were all over the place; Obama officials got stand-down orders on real Russian intrusion, while Obama holdovers and saboteurs were ensconced deep in the State Dept. and the DoJ. Sounds like a great spy novel. But the evil part of this is, that arrogant deep state operatives were trying to thwart the democratic election of a President they did not like.
A Russian man that offered to sell damaging information on Hillary Clinton to the campaign of then-candidate Donald Trump revealed in earlier court documents that he had been a long-time FBI informant. The man, Henry Greenberg, offered to sell the unspecified information for $2 million in late May, 2016, but the Trump campaign associate refused. Greenberg, who also used the name Oknyansky, filed two dozen documents with a federal court in 2015, showing an FBI agent repeatedly brokered his entry into the United States on a special visa for people assisting law enforcement. “I cooperated with the FBI for 17 years, often put my life in danger,” he said in an Aug. 18, 2015, court declaration under oath. Nine months later, he came uninvited to a gallery opening in Florida organized by a public relations firm run by Michael Caputo, who was working for the Trump Campaign at the time. There, he approached Caputo’s business partner, Sergey Petrushin, and said he had information helpful to the Trump Campaign.
Second FBI Informant Tried To Entrap Trump Campaign With $2 Million Offer For Hillary Dirt: Roger Stone#FBIEntrapment
⏩ It has now been confirmed that Susan Rice gave the stand-down order on the Russian intrusion of cyber security.
Obama and Rice knew from the very beginning
there was no ‘Russia Meddling’ in the 2016 Election.
Former NSA Director Susan Rice gave the
Stand Down’ order:
Former Obama cyber chief confirms he was told to
‘stand down’ in response to Russian meddlingpic.twitter.com/HHkmuL0TG2
— Carrie is the Media 🇺🇸 (@carrieksada) June 21, 2018
The entire Russian Collusion story was a set up by the Obama regime. That has now been confirmed by Michael Daniel, the former Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator at the White House. For four and a half years, Daniel led the development of national and international cybersecurity strategy and policy for the United States and oversaw implementation of those policies. He said last week that Susan Rice gave him the stand-down order on Russian intrusion. In parallel we have Obama's Ambassador to Ukraine, Victoria Nuland who was directly involved in handling dossier at State, saying the British spy Chris Steele informed the State Dept. about his "dossier" and she merely passed it on to FBI; and that she knew all about Russian intrusion, charging President Trump does "nothing about it". How can she possibly know that? The woman is one of the most dangerous political hacks around, the instigator of the Ukrainian revolution that installed an EU puppet regime in Kiev.
Watch Susan Rice look the American people right in the eye and LIE HER *SS OFF !!
And now we find out she gave STAND DOWN ORDER ON RUSSIA MEDDLING
DURING 2016 ELECTION.
Fmr Amb Nuland offered a 5 point plan.
Again tell me ONE thing @realDonaldTrump has done to counter Russian Active Measures.
he’s done NOTHING.
Trump uses Russian Active Measures on us EVERY FORKING DAY.
HE REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE RUSSIA HELPED HIMhttps://t.co/pB0uqYFVCZpic.twitter.com/sutgbA2pDv
— james.rankine.phone@gmail.com (@PhoneRankine) June 20, 2018
BURR made the revelation in hearing with former State official Victoria Nuland, who was directly involved in handling dossier at State. She's claimed that State merely passed the dossier to FBI and wiped hands clean. A Steele briefing suggests otherwise. https://t.co/UJC56Mc1ZA
I thought Russian Interference in our Elections was a threat to our Democracy?...
Why then, did the Obama Administration give a “stand down” order to the Cyber Security Chief who was leading the investigation into known Russian Cyber Attacks trying 2 interfere with our Election?
There's no explanation for this failure. Not even a conspiracy theory would explain this-pure incompetence.
Obama's OWN cybersecurity czar testified that Obama's Nat'l Security Advisor Susan Rice ordered them to "stand down" from KNOWN Russian interference in 2016 election
⏩ And then we have the ongoing unmasking of political operatives in the State Dept. and the Dept. of Justice.
The unnamed FBI officials, Agent 1 & 5, Sally Moyer & Kevin Clinesmith, lovers. Who did Clinton name to co-chair her presidential transition team? Wait for it....Kevin Clinesmith. Who was the lead attorney on the Trump-Russia investigation? Drum roll please...Clinesmith. No bias. pic.twitter.com/aATejSULUk
— 🇺🇸'The Texan'🇺🇸 ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 (@starcrosswolf) June 23, 2018
#dtmaghttps://t.co/Q4BOjYnSEW "Rep. Bob Goodlatte Issues Peter Strzok Subpoena to Appear Before House Judiciary Committee Next Wednesday For Deposition"
(VIDEO) SPYGATE: SENATE RELEASES 500 PAGES OF TEXTS
2) Kevin Brock (FMR ASST DIR OF COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE FBI)
"If the FBI opened a Source or tasked a Source to gather information particulary from a US person, before opening a formal investigation, then that would be a violation of the guidelines."
The news is coming fast and furious. Once the IG Reports are coming out it will be a challenge to cover it all. In order to report as much as possible, for time constraints we will simply post the tweets without further comment. Particularly the threads posted by a number of self appointed Twitter sleuths are self-explanatory. Bear with us.
SENATE RELEASES 500 PAGES: Strzok/Page Texts Reveal Bombshell Info On FBI Spying and Set-Up Of Trump [Video]
The US Senate (...) released over 500 pages of information related to the Spygate scandal. Hidden in the information are unredacted Strzok – Page texts that show the FBI initiated actions to insert multiple spies in the Trump campaign in December 2015. Once again Internet sleuths unearthed damning evidence that the FBI was engaged in Spygate long before they let on. (...) The texts released today from corrupt FBI investigator Peter Strzok to corrupt FBI attorney Lisa Page state the following
– BOMBSHELL - From DECEMBER 2015–The word LURES is redacted by FBI but not OIG; OCONUS LURES; OCONUS= Outside Contiguous US LURES= In this context LURES = SPIES – multiple – Is this an admission that the FBI wanted to run a baited Sting Op using foreign agents against Trump?” (More)
Hallo please find the unroll here: https://t.co/oNwe3JC98p
Share this if you think it's interesting. 🤖
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) June 5, 2018
3) Here is the 500 page document of Strzok-Page text messages published by HSGAC. Some texts appear twice, some WITH redactions & some WITHOUT.
The "OCONUS LURES" redaction on p.31 was texted on December 28, 2015. The unredacted text is on p.159https://t.co/57EacegIdm
There is no doubt that members of the @realDonaldTrump campaign team in 2015/2016 were being "baited" by Halper and the @FBI - there's no other way to see the bright reality we now see before us... https://t.co/C3XKxAtfnf
Former FBI Deputy Directory Andrew McCabe has requested the Senate Judiciary Committee provide him with immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying at an upcoming hearing on the handling of the Clinton email probe. https://t.co/6geBkSgByJpic.twitter.com/butyxOH5AG
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) June 6, 2018
Meanwhile the FBI's Chief Spy Bill Priestap yesterday during an hours long testimony told the Senate Committee the role of love bird Peter Strzok was larger than first thougt:
May 25, 2018 The Ingraham Angle: Special Spygate Report with Jesse Watters.
Every day comes with new revelations and theories on Spygate, known in the deep state as Operation "Crossfire Hurricane". The Federalist explains what's in a name? (article). Does the name Operation "Crossfire Hurricane" reflect its British origins? Why has the narrative on the origin shifted (yet is still rooted in London)? Clapper and Brennan, while initially admitting spying "to help Trump, not to frame him" are now resorting to semantics about the definition of the word "spy". As former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy says: when the narrative keeps shifting, you're usually not getting the truth. Hiding behind semantics is the symptom of a losing argument.
#Spygate
The jujitsu that Dems are playing on Spygate is #Hilarious:
There was no spying on Trump camp, even if there was, it was a good thing, not that we did. No one should release the name of any spy, & blow their cover, there was no spy by the way, we don't like the name spy pic.twitter.com/T5CxIJwNTT
— Roya (#MAGA) رویا (@ZibaLady1) May 25, 2018
The narrative is now that it was an "informant". An informant is a spy who is informing the enemy of what is going on within a country or an organization. But that was not the role of either Mifsud or Halper. Mifsud was planting information, while Halper was an agent provocateur. The generic term for what both men were doing, is called "spying".
Joseph Mifsud, a Professor w/ Russian Connections, contacts Papadopoulos in MAR16, 1 week after he’s hired by Trump.
Month later, Mifsud meets Papa. Tells him Russians have Hillary’s Emails hoping he spreads it.
Report: FBI 'Spy' Stefan Halper Spread 'False' Claims About Michael Flynn, Russian 'Honey Pot'
Breaking News: Now it turns out Halper also informed on Gen. Flynn, so add Flynn to the list of his Trump targets, along with Page, Papadoupolos and Clovis.https://t.co/MheJNAVICT
— MAGAPatriot🇺🇸Steve (@RealMAGASteve) May 24, 2018
Sharyl Atkisson: Surveillance was conducted on no fewer than 7 Trump associates. Stephen Bannon; Michael Cohen; Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn; Jared Kushner; Paul Manafort; Carter Page & George Papadopoulos. Well, that takes care of their "we were spying ONLY on Russians" talking point. pic.twitter.com/kAayiWmSkZ
— 🇺🇸'Proud Texan'🇺🇸 ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 (@starcrosswolf) May 25, 2018
⏩ Here's the rest of the news for our armchair sleuths:
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) May 25, 2018
The Democrats are now alluding to the the concept that having an Informant placed in an opposing party’s campaign is different than having a Spy, as illegal as that may be. But what about an “Informant” who is paid a fortune and who “sets up” way earlier than the Russian Hoax?
“Spygate,”with its echoes of Watergate, is too strong a term based on what we know now. But that informant was spying. Why else was he there? https://t.co/oDWWAqQXyw
No, @brithume - what you know is not complete. The basis authorization and process was illegal based on EO 12333 - and there's only one place that could have given wavers to that order - that place was the Obama WH National Security Counsel - all roads lead to the @BarackObama WH https://t.co/JS4m6VHZtJ
BREAKING=> Presidential Attorney Rudy Giuliani: Trump Legal Team Wants Briefing on FBI Spies in Trump Campaign https://t.co/10o015j5Qy via @gatewaypundit
New text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reveal that the entire Spy Gate conspiracy to derail the Trump Campaign was run from the White House.
This is a must read
We all knew it now we got Proof #DeepStateCorruptionhttps://t.co/PbtoVxwEL9
So, it turns out that PETER STRZOK (who is probably flipped and cooperating with @JusticeOIG HOROWITZ), was running the "Crossfire Hurricane" counterintel investigation across "divisions", "multiple agencies" *and* with "foreign governments" in Dec 2016
Yup, and for lying about the date he met Halper. Mueller corrected the record on all of it. He met Halper on March 14, 2016 which establishes that the Trump Campaign was spied on far before the FBI opened the investigation.
People are now starting to remember things, that with hindsight get a new meaning. Some of it is throwing light on the origins of the operation Crossfire Hurricane. McCarthy has this:
The Trump-Russia investigation did not originate with Carter Page or George Papadopoulos. It originated with the Obama administration. Exactly when is the “late Spring”? Of all the questions that have been asked about what we’ve called the “Origination Story” of the Trump-Russia investigation, that may be the most important one. (...) First, they told us it was an early July 2016 trip to Moscow by Carter Page, an obscure Trump-campaign adviser. As we’ve observed, that story became untenable once a connection emerged between the Bureau’s concerns about Page and the Steele dossier. (...) With the Page origination story cratering, Team Obama tried to save the day with Origination Story 2.0: Papadopoulos did it. (...) But this rickety tale had the signs of an after-the-fact rationalization, an effort to downplay the dossier and the role of Obama officials in the genesis of the probe. (...)
The real origination story begins in the early spring of 2016 — long before Page went to Russia and long before the U.S. government was notified about Papadopoulos’s boozy conversation with Downer. Last week, as controversy stirred over the possibility that the Obama administration had used a spy against the Trump campaign, the eagle eye of the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel caught a couple of key passages from the House Intelligence Committee’s recent report on Russian interference in the election — largely overlooked passages on page 54. It turns out that, in “late spring” 2016, the FBI’s then-director James Comey briefed the principals of the National Security Council on “the Page information.” As the Washington Examiner’s Byron York observes in a perceptive column today, NSC principals are an administration’s highest-ranking national-security officials. (More)
⏩ Zerohedge has this story to contribute:
As Trump won primary after primary in 2016, a rattled John Brennan started claiming to colleagues at the CIA that Estonia’s intelligence agency had alerted him to an intercepted phone call suggesting Putin was pouring money into the Trump campaign. The tip was bogus, but Brennan bit on it with opportunistic relish. Out of Brennan’s alarmist chatter about the bogus tip came an extraordinary leak to the BBC: that Brennan had used it, along with later half-baked tips from British intelligence, as the justification to form a multi-agency spy operation (given the Orwellian designation of an “inter-agency taskforce”) on the Trump campaign, which he was running right out of CIA headquarters. The CIA was furious about the leak, but never denied the BBC’s story. To Congress earlier this year, Brennan acknowledged the existence of the group, but cast his role in it as the mere conduit of tips about Trump-Russia collusion (More)
⏩ Early campaign aide San Clovis has come forward with a bombshell on the timeline:
May 22, 2018 Sam Clovis full one-on-one interview with Tucker Carlson.
⏩ Former CIA agent John Kiriakou was destroyed by Brennan:
May 22, 2018 John Kiriakou full one-on-one interview with Tucker Carlson.
The Wall Street Journal asks, “WHERE IN THE WORLD WAS BARACK OBAMA?” A very good question!
...Follow the money! The spy was there early in the campaign and yet never reported Collusion with Russia, because there was no Collusion. He was only there to spy for political reasons and to help Crooked Hillary win - just like they did to Bernie Sanders, who got duped!
— Unlikely, but possible Russian Bot ┌П┐(•_•) (@exposeliberals) May 23, 2018
May 22, 2018
(VIDEO) THE TIMELINE OF CROSSFIRE HURRICANE
Michael Caputo on FBI informant: "Let me tell you something that I know for a fact, this informant, this person they tried to plant into the campaign … he’s not the only person who came into the campaign. And the FBI is not the only Obama agency who came into the campaign." pic.twitter.com/k1BFAYNCuP
As members of the Freedom Caucus are tabling a resolution for a second Special Counsel, new developments of what occurred in the Trump campaign are coming in fast and furious. We will leave the tweets here for your own consideration. Of special interest is Sharyl Attkisson's timeline. As we are going into the weeds of Crossfire Hurricane it is important to watch the chronology. When did Trump-Russia probe begin? Byron York sheds light on the mystery months. A key date in Trump-Russia investigation, earlier than most events being discussed: March 21, 2016. In a radio interview (audio) early campaign aide Sam Clovis is claiming he met Halper in front of Pentagon Bldg (DoubleTree Hotel) for an hour on either Aug 31 or Sept 1, 2016. They had email exchanges prior to meeting and afterwards... Claims meeting was academic-like but didn't take notes ...
So if the FBI informant was working the Trump campaign *before* the FBI investigation formally began, then when did the FBI investigation really begin? You have to go back a ways... https://t.co/Qn6FJsdtRs
BIG: former Trump campaign advisor Michael Caputo says a SECOND SPY approached him
Caputo was only on the Trump campaign Nov 2015 to June 2016, all BEFORE the FBI says the counterintelligence investigation even began👇 https://t.co/zPy96pvjnI
So it looks like Obama gang began spy operation against @RealDonaldTrump, now being run by Mueller, months earlier than previously known. https://t.co/L3hHBg3Vg3
What a coincidence: “The fourth and final spy warrant against Page expired in Sept. 2017, the same month Page and Halper fell out of contact.” https://t.co/dZiBdXacLk
Thread by @_VachelLindsay_: "1. The first weeks of August, 2016 were busy ones for the crooks in America's greatest ever scandal. It brings a lot of the main players together, scheming as their criminal plot to rig the 2016 Presidential electio […]" #MAGAhttps://t.co/Q3pV9j53i0
— WHERE WE GO ONE WE GO ALL (@SpringsRaff) May 19, 2018
THE DEEP STATE-MEDIA NEXUS
Well, well, well...
Look at who wrote this Washington Post #FakeNews article...
— Saving America 🔴 (@SavingAmerica4U) May 19, 2018
Scroll back for a moment to May 19 ridiculous WaPo article written by Asha Rangappa dropping the narrative that the FBI wasn't spying, but 'protecting' the Trump campaign. Here she is in a photo dating back to 2002 in an FBI ceremony with Mr Mueller himself. The media meanwhile are adopting the classic liberal tactic of dealing with a subject they have no good defense for: blaming messengers. CNN's Brian Stelter has already started taking that line. But there's more.
NEW FBI EMAILS REVEAL the "Sensitive Matter Team" inside the FBI that dealt with anti-Trump "dossier" and tracked the media's expected reporting on it. https://t.co/CW1XAvPNll
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 22, 2018
⏩ Obama's AG, Loretta Lynch would have signed off on the spy business. Or did Rosenstein improperly grant Mueller spy powers ?
HUGE!... Judge Jeanine: Former AG Loretta Lynch Had to Approve the FBI Informant Spying on the Trump Campaign (VIDEO) https://t.co/Uv39gWSCXf via @gatewaypundit
A new letter from Grassley to Roseinstein seems to have a number of bombshells in it. For starters: did Rosenstein secretly (and improperly) grant to Mueller wide-ranging spy powers that belong only to the Attorney General? https://t.co/GlrvpckMSwpic.twitter.com/xAZcdlmqIT
And now that Halper's identity is known, shouldn't we know the answers to these two questions: 1) why was he trying to embed himself in the Trump campaign & pass information to the FBI before an FBI investigation was opened?; 2) what were those large 2016 DoD payments to him for?
The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to provide congressional investigators confidential records on a failed gun-trafficking operation during the Obama administration known as “Fast and Furious”
Hello please find the unroll here: Thread by @Barnes_Law: "THREAD. Why the key Obama appointees chose to run the spy-and-smear campaign on Trump as a "national security" inquiry. […]" #Obama#Muellerhttps://t.co/Qsk2HUV0tk
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Someone in a meeting told Strzok, the head of counter intelligence, that the investigation was being run by the White House - that means Obama directed the FBI/DOJ/CIA to conduct the spying operation on Trump campaign. #ObamaGate
What ever happened to the Server, at the center of so much Corruption, that the Democratic National Committee REFUSED to hand over to the hard charging (except in the case of Democrats) FBI? They broke into homes & offices early in the morning, but were afraid to take the Server?
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE: PRESIDENT TRUMP DEMANDS PROBE
I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!
President Trump tweeted Sunday that he will officially demand that the Justice Department investigate whether federal agents infiltrated or surveilled his 2016 presidential campaign for political purposes and whether the preceding Obama administration was behind such action. Since it is the DoJ itself (AG Sessions?) that has been leaking details last week about a spy or even spies infiltrating the Trump campaign to insinuate stories about "the Russians hacking Hillary Clinton" so as to justify the Mueller investigation, it looks like President Trump and his AG have been biding their time to come out in the open until the Inspector General's first report on the Clinton Emails case is ready. That report is due any moment. Update: Rudy Giuliani has said today that the President may sit down with Mueller some time in July for a wrap up of the Special Counsel by Sept. 1. The list of questions has meanwhile been narrowed to 20. Update: On Sunday evening, the Justice Department asked Inspector General Horowitz to investigate whether there was “impropriety or political motivation” into the FBI’s infiltration of Trump’s campaign. This came just hours after President Trump demanded a review of whether Obama’s Deep State FBI did indeed spy on his campaign. (More)
"The Deputy Attorney General issued the following statement: “If anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action.”
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May 20, 2018
— American Thinker (@AmericanThinker) May 20, 2018
🚨WTF⁉️New York Times in 1983: Stephen Halpert Suspected of Conducting a Spying Campaign on Jimmy Carter's Presidential Campaign. Halpert's Father-In-Law (a CIA Operative at the Time) Called the Accusations "Romantic Fallacy" #LockHalpertUp#LockThemUphttps://t.co/oXraW4kGem
A couple of new details on Stefan Halper's contact w/ Carter Page and George Papadpoulos. Halper's female assistant attempted to meet with Papadopoulos in Chicago. Halper & Page had a convo in Summer 2016 about Harry Reid's letter about Page. https://t.co/6fC0Fh9rrp@dailycaller
It seems like some officials should be at least as worked up about the prospect of govt Intel efforts used for political spying and destruction… As they are about damaging info about the operation being reported. If they aren’t —wonder why?
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) May 20, 2018
Things are really getting ridiculous. The Failing and Crooked (but not as Crooked as Hillary Clinton) @nytimes has done a long & boring story indicating that the World’s most expensive Witch Hunt has found nothing on Russia & me so now they are looking at the rest of the World!
....At what point does this soon to be $20,000,000 Witch Hunt, composed of 13 Angry and Heavily Conflicted Democrats and two people who have worked for Obama for 8 years, STOP! They have found no Collussion with Russia, No Obstruction, but they aren’t looking at the corruption...
...in the Hillary Clinton Campaign where she deleted 33,000 Emails, got $145,000,000 while Secretary of State, paid McCabes wife $700,000 (and got off the FBI hook along with Terry M) and so much more. Republicans and real Americans should start getting tough on this Scam.
Now that the Witch Hunt has given up on Russia and is looking at the rest of the World, they should easily be able to take it into the Mid-Term Elections where they can put some hurt on the Republican Party. Don’t worry about Dems FISA Abuse, missing Emails or Fraudulent Dossier!
What ever happened to the Server, at the center of so much Corruption, that the Democratic National Committee REFUSED to hand over to the hard charging (except in the case of Democrats) FBI? They broke into homes & offices early in the morning, but were afraid to take the Server?
Whereas some in the liberal media are still considering operation Crossfire Hurricane a right-wing conspiracy theory, NYT (source) and WaPo have already started spinning the story. NYT having published their puff piece about the heroic IC, the frame of the follow-up item is ridiculous on its face (like they weren’t wiretapping Trump, just electronically surveilling him). Vachel Lindsay is refuting the idea:
Easy to miss subtle changes. (...) See, the 'new' narrative is that the FBI were actually trying to help Trump. Logic dictates that if true (it's total BS, of course) the FBI saw Trump as the VICTIM of a Russian sting. Which is a total contradiction of everything they've been saying for nearly 2 years. if the intention was to HELP Trump, then wouldn't they just go direct to him and let him know? (...) if Trump was colluding with Putin, Putin wouldn't need to 'infiltrate' Trump's campaign team, would he? (More)
Much more detail here about FBI spying operation against Trump campaign (with tons of false claims & NYT gaslighting that it’s not spying). Breathtaking scandal. https://t.co/h00wCWnMJD
.@realdonaldtrump, Ever heard of Operation Mockingbird? This was the #CIA brainchild that hijacked American journalism and placed spies in the media to write #FakeNews. Fake News wasn't birthed with .@potus but rather exposed BY Donald J Trump. https://t.co/nCYyek1jKd
— Deplorable Trump Pilot Cosmonaut 🔥 (@joyreaper) May 19, 2018
"It's clear that the White House is running a fog machine -- trying to confuse things. ... Obviously, it's the vigilance of the FBI. They are doing exactly what they should have done" - Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean https://t.co/G4SVwQV0g8https://t.co/ZDB9U2PN3H
⏩ The President brings up an important point. We need to keep the chronology in mind:
Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a “hot” Fake News story. If true - all time biggest political scandal!
The name of informant is not important right now, Forget this part. NYTimes is establishing cover for FBI CIA DOJ by concocting a story that Page/Papado wete already suspected of spying. This needs to be immediately refuted strongly before it sets in
⏩ Clapper, while first denying the operation, is now lending yet another twist to the story. "It’s a good thing" FBI was spying on the Trump campaign! So he's now admitting there were spies on the Trump campaign. That's huge! Liberals have been denying it for nearly two years. But the former director of National Intelligence should know..
⏩ Simultaneously liberals are going on the attack about the outing of the identity of the informant, which is by now an open secret. NYT all but spelled it out:
First we had “We only spied on Trump to protect him” and then minutes later we got “Actually congressional oversight is illegal.” What a night. And it’s still early! https://t.co/82Tu2MFfAb
"Halper’s role looks simple: make the low-level Trump campaign aides appear dirty… the CIA would relay that info to the FBI; & the FBI counterintel unit...would take it from there."https://t.co/j98YBVAsNrpic.twitter.com/Gtk0mxcK51
Deep State via WaPo: 😭 Trump and his media are endangering the life of our secret spy! (While the deep state leaks continue.) #CrossfireHurricanehttps://t.co/Fv99GLyFxP
FoxNews: .AndrewCMcCarthy: "There's probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign." pic.twitter.com/BKL5BmjWzS
— Peter Boykin 🇺🇸 Candidate NC House District 58 (@peterboykin) May 17, 2018
With GI Horowitz's first draft report almost ready for publication, the operatives have anticipated on the inevitable public outrage by publishing a puff piece in the NY Times on their machinations that are code named Crossfire Hurricane (yes, really!). Which is probably a good move on their part. Kim Strassel, Mark Levin, Andrew McCarthy and Molly Hemingway are among the best names that have picked the item apart for us. Spies and wiretapping the Trump campaign -- till recently only uttered by 'conspiracy theorists' -- is now in the mainstream.
Bonjour please find the unroll here: Thread by @KimStrassel: "1. So a few important points on that new NYT "Hurricane Crossfire" piece. A story that, BTW, all of us following this kn […]" https://t.co/OoL5OcBqzG
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More on last night's radio show, unraveling the NY TImes article on the FBI cabal against Trump https://t.co/OxLnHjJvfd
— 🇬🇧Renton🔱➕#ClearFlynnNow🇺🇸🐸✝️🐇🔴🔫🥓⚡☺️ (@rentonMagaUK) May 18, 2018
🔴BOMBSHELL: FBI Used Secret Program To Gather Information On Trump Campaign, No Judge Needed
"The F.B.I. obtained phone records and other documents using national security letters — a secret type of subpoena" https://t.co/c5aqBLyHgl
— Saving America 🔴 (@SavingAmerica4U) May 17, 2018
Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI “SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT.” Andrew McCarthy says, “There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.” If so, this is bigger than Watergate!
AUDIO: Suspected Obama Spy in Trump Campaign Held Interview with BBC Radio 4 on May 17, 2017 -- The Launch of Mueller Special Counsel https://t.co/0zINaS5swk via @gatewaypundit
BREAKING: New leaks reveal that Jim Comey sent Peter Strzok to London 90 days before the election, under the mission codename "Crossfire Hurricane" to try to frame Trump — Then Comey LIED about it to Congress and DOJ
Rudy Giuliani on Russia investigation: "I wanted to ask for @HillaryClinton treatment. I wanted the report two weeks in advance clearing my client. Then I wanted no oath, then I wanted just an interview, questions in advance." @IngrahamAnglepic.twitter.com/AmzfjCZzSX
John Brennan’s ‘Exceptionally Sensitive’ Issue - a great article outlining the massive abuse of power by @JohnBrennan and how is political hackery degraded CIA's mission:https://t.co/kWjtCJq0gb
Report: John Brennan Worked 'Pee Dossier' into Obama’s Daily Briefing & Called Steele A ‘Credible Source'
John Brennan included claims from the Steele dossier into Obama’s Presidential Daily Brief — without disclosing the source of the allegations.https://t.co/JBJlBuvh6u
— MAGAPatriot🇺🇸Steve (@RealMAGASteve) May 16, 2018
He talks about the insurance files on Weiner’s laptop – and how it’s not just illegal photos/videos. It’s classified intel, it’s pay-for-play, it’s selling SAPs, it’s damning e-mails. He talks about how both Bill and Hillary have been to Epstein’s island.https://t.co/fyS7wmPeWD
BREAKING: Comey & Yates Targeted General Flynn With Counterintel Investigation ONE YEAR Before His Phone Call to Russian Ambassador in 2016 https://t.co/kESLnL0WHx via @gatewaypundit
In another example James Comey has a habit of lying, he told people he played college basketball at William & Mary. He did not. He was never even on the team. Or any college team. He just made it up,telling the whopper repeatedly over years even to people who actually played ball
Sally Yates keeps reappearing in the political espionage scandal. Now we know her aide Matthew Axelrod called FBI HQ to demand NY agents back off Clinton Foundation probe during 2016 campaign. Yates also signed a FISA spy warrant on Page & got Flynn fired:https://t.co/lULpNHujIt
Robert Mueller Subpoenas Roger Stone's 'Twitter Specialist' https://t.co/a7MRVkwtZR ...A FOOLS DESPERATION...THIS IS ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS WHAT AN IMBECIL...SHUT THIS IDIOT DOWN!
May 15, 2018 Joe DiGenova, Sidney Powell: John Brennan Was Behind the Set Up on Trump.
Two important events today: the Senate Intel chairman Grassley has released 2.500 pages related to Trump meeting of Don Jr. with the Russian agent Veselnitskaya; the committee has a closed-door hearing today with the Obama heads of the IC, Brennan, Clapper and white hat Admiral Rogers. Lying James Comey is not attending on account of "a previous engagement".
Since Comey is contradicting himself in various interviews on his book tour with abandon, Sidney Powell (video above) is suggesting he may have obtained immunity from his buddy, Bob Mueller on the Special Counsel. The notion is shared by Congressman Rokita. Comey may be a cooperating witness, not a target.
⏩ Brennan is now emerging as the ring leader of the coup against Trump. Joe DiGenova told Laura Ingraham that former CIA Chief John Brennan was the head of the group of people who were creating the fake counter intelligence investigation of Donald Trump. That may explain John Brennan’s continued threats against this president. On Monday Brennan blamed President Trump for Hamas terror operations. (More) Brennan's credibility is sinking fast.
Former CIA Director John Brennan’s insistence that the salacious and unverified Steele dossier was not part of the official Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election is being contradicted by two top former officials. (More)
Brennan Was Feeding Obama Unverified Info From Steele Dossier, Contradicting 2017 Testimony | Zero Hedge https://t.co/Zag9zarivK
— Joe FreedomLover🇺🇸 (@JoeFreedomLove) May 16, 2018
In other related news:
Earlier today, I sent the @CIA a letter inquiring about Ms. Haspel’s involvement or coordination in possible surveillance of then-candidate @realDonaldTrump. I await a response. pic.twitter.com/BncHW1KJvY
Seeing Manafort's Trump Tower notes with my own eyes it's all the more embarrassing that NBC News got the story so badly wrong back in August. https://t.co/ZF0MtjIdPzhttps://t.co/KSHxkRFeSD
Can you believe that with all of the made up, unsourced stories I get from the Fake News Media, together with the $10,000,000 Russian Witch Hunt (there is no Collusion), I now have my best Poll Numbers in a year. Much of the Media may be corrupt, but the People truly get it!
May 14, 2018 John Solomon on Ingraham: Robert Mueller may have a conflict of interest.
More Obama appeasement in order not to endanger his precious Iran Nuke Deal. As Obama refused the rescue of FBI agent David Levinson from Iran, the FBI under Robert Mueller solicited the help of the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to finance the rescue. As the plane stood on the tarmac, Hillary nixed the deal. The FBI also tried to enlist Deripaska to verify the collusion conspiracy. He laughed in their face.
In September 2016, FBI agents approached Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to ask about allegations President Donald Trump’s campaign was colluding with the Russian government to influence the election, according to a new report. Deripaska, who was at his apartment in New York City for the interview, waived the three agents off of the collusion theory, saying there was no coordination between the Trump team and Kremlin, The Hill reported Monday. The agents, one of whom Deripaska knew from a previous FBI case, said they believed former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was involved in the conspiracy, an allegation made in the infamous Steele dossier. “Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious,” Adam Waldman, a former lawyer for Deripaska, told The Hill. “So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false.” “You are trying to create something out of nothing,” Deripaska told the agents, according to Waldman. The dossier, former British spy Christopher Steele wrote and Democrats funded, alleges Manafort used Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser, to coordinate with Russian operatives to help influence the election. (More)
More evidence of Mueller working with the Russians. First it was him hand delivering uranium to Russia, now this. He solicited 25 million from Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. This was for a rescue operation for a agent in Iran which Hillary declined. https://t.co/Isfo3HbfX3
⏩ Hillary Clinton stopped the rescue of Bob Levinson in Iran. The Iranians wanted a statement that they didn't keep him captive. With a plane waiting for him, she nixed the deal and left him in Iran.
In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. Yes, that’s the same Deripaska who has surfaced in Mueller’s current investigation and who was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration. The Levinson mission is confirmed by more than a dozen participants inside and outside the FBI, including Deripaska, his lawyer, the Levinson family and a retired agent who supervised the case. Mueller was kept apprised of the operation, officials told me. Some aspects of Deripaska’s help were chronicled in a 2016 book by reporter Barry Meier, but sources provide extensive new information about his role. Deripaska’s lawyer said the Russian ultimately spent $25 million assembling a private search and rescue team that worked with Iranian contacts under the FBI’s watchful eye. Photos and videos indicating Levinson was alive were uncovered. Then in fall 2010, the operation secured an offer to free Levinson. The deal was scuttled, however, when the State Department become uncomfortable with Iran’s terms, according to Deripaska’s lawyer and the Levinson family. FBI officials confirmed State hampered their efforts. (More)
Hillary is a big scum bucket. To save an American was too hard. Think Benghazi.
Russian Oligarch Helped FBI to Rescue American in Iran - But HILLARY Nixed The Entire Mission - Today Robert Levinson Rots in Secret Iranian Prison https://t.co/YKWrMWTtSu via @gatewaypundit
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LEAKED TEXT MESSAGES show that Senator Mark Warner set up meeting to collude with infamous Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripraska pic.twitter.com/L06fVOaaKH
(VIDEO) AG SESSIONS BUYS TIME FROM CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS
Copy of appendix of Nunes subpoena reviewed by @LauraAJarrett says he wants "all documents" involving an individual described as intel source. Conaway told me DOJ is "overplaying" its hands and he's "not convinced" disclosure could lead to loss of lives. https://t.co/Uitv0vqHS3
Messrs Gowdy and Nunes had a "fruitful" meeting with the DOJ on Thursday regarding their subpoena of the documents Congressional committees have been demanding for months.
Department of Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions has bought himself time from a threat of contempt of Congress for failing to produce classified information lawmakers requested after the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and a colleague attended a closed-door meeting Thursday afternoon with members of the DOJ and intelligence community. Chairman Devin Nunes, R-CA, and House Intelligence Committee member Congressman Trey Gowdy, R-SC, met with representatives from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, FBI and DOJ in an effort to obtain or view the classified information requested several weeks ago on a particular individual related to the Special Counsel’s probe on alleged collusion between President Trump’s campaign and Russia. (...) It is not certain how many days the committee has given the DOJ to turn over the requested information or what details they are negotiating as committee officials did not discuss anything beyond the press release. (More)
⏩ In the meantine Senator Grassley is demanding the 302s:
🔴BOOM: New Sen. Grassley Letter Demands The FBI Hand Over 302's
Sen. Grassley's letter states Comey testified, the FBI "saw nothing that lead them to believe [Flynn] was lying."
Sen. Grassley: Oversight "outweighs any legitimate executive branch interests in withholding it." pic.twitter.com/zxKJEvfneA
— Saving America 🔴 (@SavingAmerica4U) May 11, 2018
⏩ At the interrogation of Flynn another FBI agent besides Strzok was present. He said Flynn hadn't lied. Any official documents revealing the name of Joe Pientka were withheld to protect this whistleblower. The fact that Grassley has now gotten the go ahead to publicly reveal this FBI agent's name is very significant:
It's been known for MONTHS there was another agent besides Peter Strzok at the Flynn interview, his name *NEVER leaked*. In over a YEAR. Then Grassley reveals this other agent's name today just before the IG report drops.
This is correct- I am aware of the identity of the second agent and he confirmed that there was no false statement by @GenFlynn - this needs to be fixed and those who set Mike up need to go to jail... https://t.co/dUV1Qcc4Ov
⏩ Sara Carter is tweeting a report by WaPo that, based on the evidence IG Horowitz had to send his findings to the Attorney General to consider criminal charges against McCabe.
⏩ In the meantime pundits are wondering why the President does not simply put an end to the kabuki theater and de-classifies and exposes the entire Obamagate. First, his legal advisers may be against it, as it could easily be construed as obstruction (even though that would be a contradiction). Secondly, there's value for Trump being seen as a target of the deep state. But most of all, he may well be biding his time to reveal the plot against him to maximum effect. And he may be holding this power over them as a leverage against more plots and Mueller overstepping the mark. Think about it. With the experience that Schneiderman was running a taxpayer-funded shakedown of Trump back in 2013 (more) (more), it entirely makes sense.
⏩ In other related news:
Comey criticizes judge who slammed the Mueller probe: “I don’t know how a federal judge could possibly know enough about an investigation … to offer a view like that” https://t.co/XQ0rjlEsLrpic.twitter.com/IUKSwQDeGu
My God I feel for this man & others in his position. You ppl need to take a good long listen to Michael Caputo who was back in DC testifying again today. pic.twitter.com/bOQQXGyt2H
In parallel to Rudy Giuliani's appearance on Hannity, early Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo unleashed a truth bomb on the nation that impressed many. Caputo nails it exactly! This coup is a punitive smear campaign on outsiders by the political cartel establishment and the deep state. That'll teach 'em who's running this world! What we are watching played out before our eyes is the question if Government of, for and by the people will survive, or die at the hands of the elites.
Michael Caputo, just interviewed by Bob Mueller’s team, told me: “It’s clear they are still really focused on Russia collusion. ... They know more about the Trump campaign than anyone who ever worked there.” He didn’t want to discuss specifics
Please take a stand for justice & Trump's most loyal allies: Michael Caputo.
This GoFundMe account will help Michael Caputo and his family pay these unfair and inescapable legal bills spawned by the endless and pointless “Trump/Russia collusion” probes.https://t.co/NAcNJs7Ho3
"SESSIONS IS ABSOLUTELY HELPING THE COUP HERE IS PROOF"
Trump threatens to declassify FBI and Justice Department files on surveillance 'abuse' and Clinton email probe because of slow release to Congress.
“It’s hard to imagine anything worse for a democracy than journalists coordinating with political operatives and spies who are paid by the press to leak information about American citizens. But that’s where we are. We have hit rock-bottom.” https://t.co/qAzLiSpGbL
The Justice Department isn’t independent. It is part of the Executive Branch, and the entire Executive power is vested in the President. https://t.co/phMtouey3u
With DAG Rosenstein comparing the articles of impeachment drafted against his abuse of authority by members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus to an extortion attempt, tells us all we need to know. It has become clear that Comey acted as an autocrat. With a corrupt and incompetent AG as boss, he developed a veritable god complex. But with Rosenstein equally in subordination in denying Congress oversight, the DAG is on the same path. These top cops are in open rebellion: not just against the President and the Republican Congress, but also against the Constitution they swore to uphold. (More)
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on @freedomcaucus members considering his impeachment: "They can't even resist leaking their own drafts." He also says, "The Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.”
Stunning! Rosenstein Says Congress Has No Authority Over the DoJ [VIDEO] https://t.co/BKLh7rpgm2 There are only 3 branches of the Federal Government and the DOJ is not one of them. Reassign Rosenstein to Pencil Sharpener Maintenance.
If he believes being asked to do his job is ‘extortion,’ then Rod Rosenstein should step aside and allow us to find a new Deputy Attorney General—preferably one who is interested in transparency
⏩ A lengthy list of questions for President Trump from special counsel Robert Mueller was leaked to The New York Times, marking the latest in a string of apparently deliberate disclosures relating to the ongoing probe into Russian involvement in the U.S. presidential election. Fox News has since obtained the questions, which cover Trump's interactions with key figures like former FBI Director James Comey, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn. (...) The questions cover Trump's motivations for firing Comey a year ago, as well as his reaction to Sessions' recusal from the Russia investigation. Trump blasted the leak on Tuesday morning, calling it "disgraceful" that the questions made it out to the media. (More)
⏩ In a tense meeting in early March with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, President Trump’s lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. But Mueller responded that he had another option if Trump declined: He could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury, according to four people familiar with the encounter. Mueller’s warning — the first time he is known to have mentioned a possible subpoena to Trump’s legal team — spurred a sharp retort from John Dowd, then the president’s lead lawyer. “This isn’t some game,” Dowd said, according to two people with knowledge of his comments. “You are screwing with the work of the president of the United States.” (More)
⏩ In other related news:
Well I guess we just add this to the list. This whole situation is ridiculous, if you still support this investigation I'm ashamed for you.
Very interesting: Michael Caputo told senators that Daniel Jones (Penn Quarter Group, former Dianne Feinstein aide who's still working on the dirty dossier) was a source for the unconfirmed McClatchy report that Michael Cohen lied about not visiting Prague https://t.co/kJOX0EBStL
Yeah, it's clear that the FBI, House and Senate Intelligence all know it was Daniel Jones and Team Clinton that conducted the real collusion - but no one seems to care and the lives of regular people keep getting harmed by the deep state...this has to end... https://t.co/lYj9LDMfKS
NEW- @RepGoodlatte has sent a letter today to Jeff Sessions calling for the DOJ to investigate allegations that senior officials at the Obama DOJ sought to hamper the FBI's investigation into the Clinton Foundation & to hold any wrongdoers accountable https://t.co/vRzuSvlutvpic.twitter.com/jXZRoxZRml
"With the election of Donald J. Trump to President, the political rulebook has been shredded, burned, buried, and then Donald Trump jumped up and down on it. It's gone." - @SebGorka.https://t.co/u1htjFiI9G
Rep. Mark Meadows in a Washington Examiner article says that James Comey probably misled Congress. James Comey has recently embarked on a media blitz to “tell his story” and sell his new book. Perhaps, instead of cashing in, it is time for the former FBI director to come before Congress and clarify some of his previous troubling comments that don’t seem to square with the evidence. Here are five questions Comey needs to answer (more)
It sure looks like James Comey misled Congress and the American people--at times under oath. Here are 5 questions Director Comey needs to answer. My op-ed--https://t.co/yy85zNqydF
Question 1: Did Comey and his FBI improperly coordinate with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the Department of Justice during the height of the Clinton email investigation? He denied any coordination under oath. Evidence suggests this is not true.
Question 2: Why did Comey leave out pertinent facts when he briefed then-President-elect Trump on the Russian dossier? He told President-elect Trump nothing of Christopher Steele's credibility issues or of the dossier's origin as a Democrat paid-for campaign document.
Question 3: Did Comey and James Clapper coordinate to give the Russian dossier credibility and leak its contents to the media? The timeline suggests they held the dossier briefing with the President-elect for the purpose of giving the media what they wanted — a “news hook”.
Question 4: Why did Comey fail to mention he had secretly hired his friend, law professor Daniel Richman, as a “special employee” of the FBI? (Professor Richman is the same friend Comey leaked government documents to).
Question 5: Did Comey give his memo(s) to anyone else?
That's not all!
James @Comey knows the exact length and shade of the drapes in the Oval Office but not that @HumaAbedin was married to Anthony Weiner AND was the *Vice Chair of Hilary for America* https://t.co/DjPHq3sbDQ
Hi! you can read it here: Thread by @JohnWHuber: "An article the @FBI really doesn't want you to read, that also shows how laughably wrong the top @washingtonpost reporte […]" https://t.co/1ILhfAogJO
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ofccadjust RT 1776Stonewall: So Comey has now hired 3 people to be his lawyers and all 3 of them, David Kelly being the most recent, are the people he leaked his memo to. He is doing this to hide behind Attorney/Client privilege, and so none of those 3 can be used as witnesses.
— MOM OF 2VETS; SON/DAUGHTER(RIP)NAT'L ANTHEM SINGER (@GoldStarMomTX55) April 28, 2018
Obama CIA Chief John Brenna, who is fiercely anti-Trump, made a secret visit to Moscow in March 2016.
Weeks later in June Steele with Fusion GPS, who was hired through Hillary Clinton, produced his first anti-Trump memo.#DrainTheDeepStatehttps://t.co/UDEHSZYp7G
Apr 26, 2018 Former FBI Director James Comey talks to Fox News' Bret Baier.
Former FBI Director James Comey showed up twenty minutes late for a scheduled live interview with Fox News Bret Baier thereby limiting the amount of time available for questions. In the first segment James Comey showcases his legal defense strategy. "Comey outlines that he was kept in the dark, and did not know, about almost all of the central elements within the actions taken by those under his leadership. It is impossible to believe that FBI #2 Counterintelligence Official Peter Strzok was meeting with Christopher Steele in 2016 and not informing his leadership as to the content therein", per @TheLastRefuge2 Morally there's something very off with Comey. The root may be that he's unanswerable to anyone, which means in effect he's the Master of his Universe. Comey has no moral standard; he IS the moral standard!
Catherine Herridge Nails James Comey!!
“The Amazing exchange is when James Comey admitted to you that he shared(leaked) those memos/conversations w/ the President to 3 OTHER PEOPLE...He can call it whatever he wants but that’s a CLASSIFIED SPILL OF INFORMATION...”
Ooh. So in the 5 minute mark here, @BretBaier and @Comey are discussing Loretta Lynch telling him to call the Clinton email investigation a "matter." https://t.co/hg9BHwes2M and at the end, @BretBaier notes that the details of this meeting were leaked to NYT 1/
.@TGowdySC on @Comey interview: "Dir. Comey's recollection is flawed if he does not remember telling Congress that his agents told him they didn't think Flynn was lying, then he needs to get his lawyers to go back and look at the transcript. We did not mishear." #Tuckerpic.twitter.com/fTRAJYI2UY
Is everybody believing what is going on. James Comey can’t define what a leak is. He illegally leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION but doesn’t understand what he did or how serious it is. He lied all over the place to cover it up. He’s either very sick or very dumb. Remember sailor!
Comey Says He STILL Doesn’t Know If Hillary’s Camp Funded the Dossier… He Signed THREE FISA Applications to Authorize Wiretaps Anyway https://t.co/ZXm8TCS8Tv
Comey’s claims to @BretBaier that A: he didn’t leak and B: he doesn’t know to this day that the HRC campaign and DNC financed the dossier simply are not credible. He even claimed the GOP started the funding of the dossier. That was debunked many months ago.
Around the 17:00 minute mark, Comey tells Bret that "apparently" after he was fired the FBI decided that "some of the words" in the memos he'd leaked were classified. This made me laugh. Unless the memos also had pictures, words would be what were classified, yes.
FBI opened up a counterintelligence investigation on Papadopoulos in the summer of 2016 but got a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page months later & didn’t even interview Papadopoulos until January of 2017. Why? #SpecialReporthttps://t.co/KIUvTez6ta
So Comey spoke with the President as FBI Director while he was “on the clock”, typed up his memos on FBI computers and then claims they were personal and did not belong to the FBI? So he was writing his diary on the job? Yeah..ok #SpecialReport
Hi you can read it here: Thread by @NameRedacted7: "1. I'm taking my time reading the McCabe report from @JusticeOIG and so far I'm floored. This is a 30+ page report on mi […]" https://t.co/bav2AsBBb2
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The Inspector General's report on McCabe (not to be confused with the "big" IG's reports) offer new insights and a few bomb shells. And there's this. the Dossier based FISA warrant was renewed 4 times, even after Steele was rejected by the FBI as an unrealible twat. Let that sink in.. Ron Rosenstein signed off on it.
I’m dissecting the OIG report. Long process but boy is there some amazing stuff hiding in plain sight. I’ve been working this since yesterday. It’s coming, along with a more detailed Cohen piece, and an objective “black hat/white hat” Mueller vid where I make case for both.
BreaKing on @JudgeJeanine J Christian Adams former DOJ official said the IG’s report said: a top political DOJ official called the FBI & told them to shut down the Clinton Foundation investigation. DAMN! PRISON FOR ALL!
DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!
Wow. Cannot explain why, but look for information in next few weeks about a new investigation into these *contractors*. At least one of them has been definitively identified as controlled by foreign (likely Russian) actors/agents. pic.twitter.com/Nleb9p1Kjc
The term “lacked candor” emerges in the IG report on McCabe as an FBI/DOJ euphemism. When read in context, the meaning seems clear: he lied. Since lying to the FBI is a crime, one wonders if anything more will come of the findings.
‼️👀IG Horowitz tells Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman @ChuckGrassley the IG report on the 2016 Presidential Election, DoJ, and FBI will be released in May 2018.
There now THREE separate OIG investigations - (1) the McCabe probe (released today) (2) the 'election review' (the big Kahuna) (scheduled for a May release) and (3) the FISC review (release date unknown). https://t.co/R9tSEV2rcs
A tweet from the fired acting AG Sally Yates illustrates the mindset by which the deep state justifies colluding against the will of the people, otherwise known as 'a coup' or treason. They thought that thwarting the will of the people was justified because they had convinced themselves that Trump was an evil dictator, even though a child can certify that he isn't. Echoing France's absolute king who triggered the French Revolution: the law that's us!
Make no mistake about what’s at stake here: firing Rosenstein would be the same unconscionable assault on the rule of law as firing Mueller. He controls scope of the Mueller investigation and what becomes public. Both D’s and R’s should reject sham excuses to fire Rosenstein.1/2
Let me get this straight.... The top brass of the DOJ and The FBI tried to HAND PICK THEIR President of the United States of America... There by taking away OUR rights as offered to us by the U.S. Constitution! Let that sink in!
New texts show that in March 2017 Democrat Senator Mark Warner, who is leading the investigation into the #TrumpRussiaCollusion, tried to arrange a private, confidential meeting with Christopher Steele without anyone finding out! Warner exchanged text messages with a lobbyist of a Russian oligarch to set up a secret meeting on London, without leaving a paper trail. He eventually informed the Senate Intel Ctee who may not have comprehended the full extent of Warner's actions. The swamp at its worst. Even today Marco Rubio is defending Warner (source).
Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee who has been leading a congressional investigation into President Trump's alleged ties to Russia, had extensive contact last year with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch who was offering Warner access to former British spy and dossier author Christopher Steele, according to text messages obtained exclusively by Fox News. (...) Secrecy seemed very important to Warner as the conversation with Waldman heated up March 29, when the lobbyist revealed that Steele wanted a bipartisan letter from Warner and the committee’s chairman, North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr, inviting him to talk to the Senate intelligence panel. (...) Waldman is best known for signing a $40,000 monthly retainer in 2009 and 2010 to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of controversial Russian billionaire Oleg V. Deripaska. Deripraska had his visa revoked by the State Department in 2006 because of charges, which he has denied, that he has organized crime ties. An aide to Burr, the Republican chairman, told Fox News that Burr was aware of the "contact" Warner made with Steele's representative but added, "I don't believe he was aware of the content of the text messages" initially. (More)
Wow! -Senator Mark Warner got caught having extensive contact with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch. Warner did not want a “paper trail” on a “private” meeting (in London) he requested with Steele of fraudulent Dossier fame. All tied into Crooked Hillary.
FLASHBACK: Sen. Mark Warner on Don Trump jr. meeting with Russian lawyer: "I don't know anybody, Democrat or Republican, that would take that kind of meeting". pic.twitter.com/FnuzZdl72I
Feb 6, 2018 Trey Gowdy in "The Story" with Martha McCallum, outting Sid Blumenthal as Steele's domestic source.
The less redacted Grassley/Graham memo from the Senate side of the Congress probe (PDF) confirms the findings of the House Nunes/Gowdy memo, and more. The Grassley/Graham criminal referral for the author of the dirty dossier -- British spy Christopher Steele -- filed on Jan. 4 has been declassified and released. This document states that Hillary Clinton and the DNC funded the dirty dossier. The dossier is fraudulent, inaccurate and unverified. Steele made false statements to the FBI. Even after the FBI knew Steele was the source of the media stories, they lied to the FISA Court about this and still proffered the Isikoff article to the Court.
(...) the FBI sought a FISA application based on the Steele Dossier on October 21st, 2016. From those UK court records at least two briefings with reporters, containing five outlets, took place prior to the FBI using the Clinton-Steele dossier in their FISA application. The “late September” briefings with the New York Times, Washington Post, Yahoo News, New Yorker and CNN took place prior to Christopher Steele meeting with FBI officials early October. The implication therein is that the FBI had to know prior to their October 21st, 2016, court application that the information they were presenting to the FISA court was being heavily shopped to media outlets. This would be immediately disqualifying. (More)
Newly unredacted Grassley memo just posted an hour ago CONFIRMS: the Steele dossier was indeed the core and main justification for the FISA warrant and the FBI lied to the court. https://t.co/G7lLXAbQv7
FBI takes "salacious and unverified" dossier to secret court to get secret warrant to spy on a fellow American.
FBI fires dossier author Christopher Steele, but CONTINUED USING the Steele dossier for secret FISA warrants long after they fired its creator. #NunesMemo#MemoDaypic.twitter.com/qG7CCGIiKp
#GrassleyMemo CONFIRMS that Comey and the FBI had an extended relationship with Steele and relied heavily on him and his dossier "Mr. Steele himself was considered reliable due to his past work for the Bureau" (page 2)https://t.co/Nkw7FxC7wjpic.twitter.com/yU6IfpM0sC
Holy moly. Steele was mad that Comey reopened Clinton email investigation so he "independent and against FBI admonishment released the reporting" against Carter Page. Still a nothingburger? https://t.co/FZFcDsq2Ai
#GrassleyMemo fun fact: The FBI is claiming they did not believe Steele provided Issikoff classified details for the yahoo news article. This, sworn on a FISA court application, months AFTER Steele already admitted in a British court to doing exactly that. #WorseThanWatergate
Yes, think about that. Every media outlet in town had the dossier before the election and almost none did anything with it, because it was that weak. DNC goal appeared to be laundering it through FBI and then using Bureau's imprimatur to finally get coverage. https://t.co/7hjOFcqcYx
The case of the Russian Dossier got stranger w/ a new report from The Guardian about a “second Trump-Russia dossier” turned over to the FBI that was compiled by Cody Shearer — a close associate of Sid Blumenthal (who was himself a close Clinton confidant).https://t.co/EMs23Vm0bq
Grassley & Graham's criminal referral of former British spy Chris Steele [who FBI investigators treated as a well-trusted peer] was viewed by some British lawmakers & longtime intelligence officials as an affront to US & Britain's special bond.#Maddowhttps://t.co/zWEAQZd4pOpic.twitter.com/KXp6TpAsV5
Feb. 5, 2018 Senate memo: Clinton associates, Obama administration coordinated with Steele.
UPDATE: Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham issued a heavily redacted memo on Monday claiming to have “substantial evidence” suggesting that former British spy Christopher Steele misled the FBI about “a key aspect” of the infamous dossier. Grassley: “It is troubling enough that the Clinton Campaign funded Mr. Steele’s work, but that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility” (More)
⏩ GOP lawmakers are privately looking into two longtime Clinton confidants, Sidney Blumenthal & Cody Shearer, likely sources for the dirty dossier, which they believe reached Steele through his contact at the Obama State Department, Jonathan Winer. A second dossier is said to have been compiled by Shearer. So the Democrats/Hillary campaign commissioned UK spy Steele to write dirty dossiers while they and Russian agents fed him with made up stories (more).
⏩ Last Friday Senator Chuck Grassley sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray (Scribd) (PDF) formally demanding a Mandatory Declassification Review of the classified criminal referral Chairman Lindsey Graham and Chairman Grassley sent to the FBI and Justice Department regarding Christopher Steele’s potential violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1001. The response date is (...) February 6th, 2018. (More)
⏩ South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy was on CBS’ Face the Nation (...) when he revealed that there are about five FBI employees under investigation (source, includes video).
JW found evidence showing Obama State Dept under John Kerry gathered & sent its own "dossier" of classified info on Russia to a Democratic Senator in order to undermine Trump, and we're seeking answers on who authorized the release of this classified info. https://t.co/R7ySXBO8pz
Letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) & Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to John Podesta, Donna Brazile and Debbie Wasserman Schultz seeking details of any contacts they had with Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, and several government officials regarding the infamous Trump dossier. pic.twitter.com/qW9XpHLpMW
GOP Congressional investigators have written six letters to individuals or entities involved or thought to be involved in the funding, creation or distribution of the salacious and unverified "Trump-Russia dossier" believed to have been inappropriately used by the FBI, DOJ and Obama Administration in an effort to undermine Donald Trump as both a candidate and President of the United States. (PDF). Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SCS) wrote six Judiciary Committee letters requesting information from: John Podesta, Donna Brazille, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Robbie Mook, the DNC, and Hillary For America Chief Strategist Joel Benenson. (More)
Whoa. Senator @ChuckGrassley sent a letter today to DNC Chair Tom Perez, Donna Brazile, Robby Mook, John Podesta & Debbie Wasserman Schultz & several other DNC top people.
Of course, January 2017 was when the #SteeleDossier was finally made public, at the same time a plot was put into action to place @GenFlynn under suspicion of Russian collusion.
Weekly Update: A miracle! JW files a federal lawsuit & then DOJ finds the “missing” #Strzok#Page text messages! As we said all along, they were never missing & it's shameful the FBI & DOJ are playing shell games with these smoking gun text messages. (1/2)https://t.co/9ZvFOl85A6
@chiIIum@kevinh07 I love seeing Victoria Nulands name on this. Atlantic Council(MANY TIES), Ukraine (chalups🌮) but most importantly, State Dept. Wonder if this is who that article Byron York was referencing. Ya know, State Dept involvement in dossier, etc. 😜 https://t.co/iRd4Gq7loU
4. What FBI Agent Peter Strzok is admitting in that September 10th, 2016, text message to Lisa Page, is that he and Bill Priestap intentionally withheld the most damaging information from the FBI release of September 2nd, 2016. pic.twitter.com/dYFOYoktiw
BREAKING: In addition to Strzok and Page's texts, IG Horowitz has obtained hundreds of other high-level text messages from the FBI-issued mobile devices of other FBI as well DOJ officials involved in pre-election investigations. May explain recent resignations and reassignments.
Newly released text messages between controversial anti-Trump FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reveal several leaks of confidential information to Wall St. Journal reporter, Devlin Barrett, who is now with the Washington Post. Following the release of the timestamped texts by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Conservative Treehouse compared the timing of the messages between the agents and tied them to several instances of Barrett breaking news or confirming rumors based on "sources" within the government. (More)
The texts reveal WaPo was pushing FBI talking points directly from Page and Strzok where they were the “anonymous sources” in stories about themselves!
The writers and editors of these stories have to be fired if WaPo wants to maintain any shred of integrity
The most important aspect of discovering Page & Strzok were sources for @DevlinBarrett is realizing THEY were the sources used for a Dec.2017 WaPo story he wrote specifically about THEM, defending them. https://t.co/WCkJlPXQde
New text messages show dirty FBI agent Peter Strzok complaining about my October 2016 New York Post column quoting one veteran FBI agent saying, ”This outcome was by design,” and another saying, “Clearly there was a different standard applied to Clinton.”https://t.co/vQNUauGJpb
Fox News’ Sean Hannity said Wednesday night on “Hannity” that the Justice Department has started recovering some of the missing texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, citing DOJ sources. Federal law enforcement officials had notified congressional committees that a technical glitch affected thousands of FBI cellphones between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017. This meant that 5 months’ worth of texts would be missing from Strzok and Page, both of whom are under scrutiny after it was revealed that the former members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team exchanged anti-Trump texts during the 2016 presidential campaign. Hannity said sources at the DOJ told him they have begun to recover some of the texts from that time period. Specific content from those texts has not been released. (More)
Peter Schweizer: Strzok-Page Texts Show Apparent Desire to ‘Proactively Damage an Elected President’ They Knew Was Innocent of ‘Collusion’ https://t.co/oCxyWwRx9k
The most underrated fact about the drama surrounding the FBI agents' text messages is that they were discovered in an inspector general investigation launched at the behest of *Democrats* in Congress who thought the FBI was biased against Clinton
FBI STRZOK: SPECIAL COUNSEL, PROBE FOR IMPEACHMENT
Jan. 23, 2018 Sean Hannity update.
In a new revelation by the Washington Examiner‘s Sarah Westwood, Peter Strzok writes to Lisa Page he had “a sense of unfinished business” that was “unleashed” by the Clinton email case. “Now I need to fix it” Strzok says. Later, expressing the preconceived goal of the Special Counsel -- impeachment, despite of being no "big there there" -- he calls the Russia probe “an investigation leading to impeachment”. Before he joined Mueller’s team two weeks later, Strzok worked on the FBI "Russian collusion" team, so he should know!
Strzok wrote to Page: “You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there’s no big there there.” (More)
⏩ A friend of former FBI director James Comey who leaked sensitive FBI memos to The New York Times in the wake of Comey’s firing in 2017 now claims to be Comey’s personal attorney. Daniel Richman, a law professor at Columbia University, told The Federalist via phone on Tuesday afternoon that he was now personally representing Comey. The revelation comes in the wake of news that Comey was interviewed by the special counsel’s office last year. (More)
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Strzok's Lawyer Donated $416,000 to Hillary Clinton in 2016 https://t.co/6NtpRvpPNA
Comey Claims Leaker Friend Is Actually His Personal Attorney. So he is claiming attorney-client privilege after leaking “stolen documents,” to "friend" Daniel Richman, who he now says is his lawyer. A title he didn't reveal Richman had during his sworn testimony before the Senate pic.twitter.com/mTONn75Nf3
⏩ Confused? Mark Meadows explains it all in a self explanatory thread:
THREAD--explaining the context around the Peter Strzok/Lisa Page text messages, and why they're connected to both the Hillary investigation and this so-called "Russian-collusion" investigation
⏩ Just in case anyone brings up intent, Gowdy said today he saw Strzok and Page discussing getting rid of texts in a printout of the messages.
On the sudden departure of Jim Rybicki from the FBI, I would disregard the chatter and listen to Sundance, who has no stake in this and no reason to spin the story.)https://t.co/rNjfNVQaQ7
Sen Johnson writes to Justice Dept inspector general. Wants answers about this letter, from 12/13/17, that seemed to say IG had *all* Strzok-Page texts. https://t.co/Zyc2miiMtJpic.twitter.com/Us9W19j0OX
⏩ Here are the latest developments on the Schrzok-Page texts saga. The couple exchanged a total of 50,000 messages of which 5 crucial months from Dec. 16, 2016 to May 15, 2017 have been missing for months. The period includes events as the publication of the "dossier" by Buzzfeed, the interrogation of General Flynn by Strzok, the firing of FBI director Comey, the tarmac meeting of AG Lynch and Bill Clinton and the May 17 appointment of Mueller as Special Counsel. Congress was only now informed. It's probably incorrect, but how bad relations are, is evidenced by a source who told Fox News that relations with the DoJ and FBI will be severed.
⏩ On the texts front, a number of new revelations have come to the fore. Just how biased and personal the hatred against the President was: "I hope the Trump hotel fails" and talk of a "secret society" meeting off site (according to a whistleblower) just after President Trump was elected, and perhaps implicating former President Obama (at 3:30 of above video in which Gowdy states that Comey updated POTUS). Stunningly Schrzok expresses his hesitation to join the Mueller Spcial Counsel investigation, because his gut told told him there was "no big there" there.
AG Sessions releases statement on missing Strzok-Page texts. Looks like the inspector general never had them. pic.twitter.com/dV7ULy6gAh
4 days after Lynch met w/Bill on tarmac, Strzok texted Page: “Timing looks like hell. Will appear choreographed.” Page responds, “It's real profile in courage since she knows no charges will be brought.” Undercuts Comey claim that he acted alone when recommending against charges. pic.twitter.com/7ZNJlzkSQ7
Day after Trump elected, Peter Strzok texts his lover: "Perhaps this is the first meeting of the secret society".
5 mos. of texts went missing from Dec. 14, 2016 to May 17, 2017. Coincidentally, Mueller appointed special counsel May 17.#FireMuellerhttps://t.co/PJdZt0EbZd
We need to #ReleaseTheMemo & all relevant material sourced in the doc. We need to find out what happened to the 5 mths of Strzok and Page texts. We want to know how the Trump-Russia probe got started & how the Clinton probe ended! https://t.co/cYldglHcV0
🇺🇸A little bird 🐦 just told me that Peter Strzok hired David Boies ($700 hour law weasel) ~ read unrolled thread to recall all the connections (not forgetting that he ran Al Gore’s recount in Florida)!#SorosMoney ?
In one of the biggest stories in a long time, the FBI now says it is missing five months worth of lovers Strzok-Page texts, perhaps 50,000, and all in prime time. Wow!
⏩ Additional [483] text messages sent and received by disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok have been handed over to Congress, reports the Associated Press. In yet another twist to the Strzok saga, the FBI failed to hand over a block of the agent’s text messages between Dec. 14, 2016 [post election], and May 17, 2017 [appointment Special Counsel] because they have gone missing. Or did they go missing? (...) However, according to the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross, the FBI claimed it the reportedly missing text messages to Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz on August 10th, 2017. (More) [And doesn't the NSA have 'everything'?]
⏩ One of the newly discovered messages, lawmakers said, appeared to indicate that Peter Strzok and Lisa Page knew that charges would not be filed against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as a result of the investigation into her email server -- before Clinton was interviewed by the bureau. (...) One exchange between Strzok and Page, dated July 1, 2016, referenced then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch's decision to accept the FBI's conclusion in the Clinton investigation. Lynch's announcement came days after it was revealed that the attorney general and former President Bill Clinton had an impromptu meeting aboard her plane in Phoenix.
"Timing looks like hell," Strzok texted Page. "Yeah, that is awful timing," Page agreed. In a later message, she added: "It's a real profile in couragw [sic], since she knows no charges will be brought."
Four days later, then-FBI Director James Comey announced that no charges would be brought against Clinton, even though -- as he put it -- her actions in regard to the private server were "extremely careless." Another exchange from the day before referenced a change to Comey's statement closing out the investigation. (More)
Wait.. What? Loretta Lynch Already Knew Comey Would Let Hillary Go Free When Announcing She Would Accept FBI's Conclusion https://t.co/PA9e3mjs8j
Unreal. We've been asking for the remaining text messages between anti-Trump FBI agents (and former Mueller team members), Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The FBI now says the texts are "missing."
If it wasn't already clear we need a second special counsel, it's abundantly clear now https://t.co/nvpNY4s4QV
December 13th, 2017 Michael Horowitz letter to Johnson and Grassley. In it he tells us that he received two batches of text messages. One on July 20, 2017 and another on August 10th, 2017. (page 3)
Nixon only erased 18 minutes and look what happened to him. How things have changed. The FBI just got caught erasing 5 months of Emails needed in their scandal investigation, and this time Woodward and Bernstein will help cover it up. #FakeNews
Jan. 10, 2018 Rep. Gohmer's razor: "Ironic that the Russians played the Democrats when the Democrats thought they were playing the Republicans".
You could spend half the night trying to fathom why ever the Dems are near hysterical about Senator Feinstein's stunt to go rogue and release the August hearings with Glen Simpson of oppo research company Fusion GPS: now they really got Trump (@ECMcLaughlin thread reader),. Or so it seems. Or you could wait for Gohmert's razor to drop (video). The Russian playbook: they produce misinformation about adversary politicians which they then leak to the media. It is indeed ironic that in this case the Russians used the Democrats by way of Steele and Fusion GPS as a conduit to leak disinformation about Donald Trump.
Jan. 10, 2018 Rep. Gaetz: 'Outrageous' if FBI used the d\ossier as basis for Russia investigation.
Grassley Destroys Deep State Queen Feinstein for Kamikaze Tactics Used to Ruin Senate Russia Probe - https://t.co/msM3KxMltc
A source close to Fusion GPS tells me there was no walk-in source -- that was a mischaracterization by Simpson of the Australian diplomat tip about Papadopoulis.
As @AndrewCMcCarthy points out, Steele himself said his information was raw and unverified. FBI chief Comey said the same thing. So what did Obama officials and Dems do with it? Spread it around, leaked it & perhaps used it to get a warrant.https://t.co/U4Ak2dcE9A
One of the big takeaways from the Glenn Simpson transcript is that he has no idea whether Steele's reports are accurate. His confidence in the dossier is based on his confidence in Steele. https://t.co/axksvLyZzV
Grassley just told us that Feinstein release of transcript makes it harder to bring in Jared Kushner. Asked him if Kushner is off the hook: “No, not at all.”
The New York Times revealed yesterday, to little fanfare, that Fusion GPS is still being paid to run its anti-Trump Russia op. I'm curious who the new backer is. https://t.co/vCSKMaXUDi
Excellent - must read. Important to note that this was an intentional & organized criminal scheme, much like the illegal spying was. This will all lead back to Obama 👇 https://t.co/bHMKXtPJwc
UPDATE: Judicial Watch today released 79 pages of Justice Department documents concerning ethics issues related to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s involvement with his wife’s political campaign. The documents include an email showing Mrs. McCabe was recruited for a Virginia state senate race in February 2015 by then-Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam’s office. The news that Clinton used a private email server broke five days later, on March 2, 2015. Five days after that, former Clinton Foundation board member and Democrat party fundraiser, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, met with the McCabes. She announced her candidacy on March 12. Soon afterward, Clinton/McAuliffe-aligned political groups donated nearly $700,000 (40% of the campaign’s total funds) to McCabe’s wife for her campaign. Judicial Watch obtained the documents through a July 24, 2017, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Justice Department failed to respond to an October 24, 2016, FOIA request (More)
Fitton: "FBI is a Mess"&"There is a rule of law Crisis at the FBI" Plus, McCabe never recused himself from HRC investigation.
The FBI, DOJ & State Dept. is still protecting & defending Hillary Clinton to this day.
Now we know for certain there WAS collusion. FBI agent with anti-Trump posts who headed Hillary email investigation certainly colluded w/Andrew McCabe, overseeing FBI investigation, whose wife got $700,000 "donation" from Clinton bagman of 20 yrs McAullife to find her innocent.
Julian Assange at WikiLeaks tweeted a WikiLeaks released State Department cable documenting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered Mueller to deliver a sample of stolen Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) to Russia in 2009. Assange’s email signaled an investigation is needed into Mueller and his complex involvement with Russia and Uranium One, the company Bill Clinton promoted with Canadian entrepreneur Frank Giustra while Hillary Clinton served as Obama secretary of state in a criminal saga that ended up with Secretary Clinton voting to give the Russian State Atomic Nuclear Energy Agency, Rosatom, control of approximately 20 percent of all uranium holdings in the United States. Mueller’s involvement in the Clintons’ drive to profit from selling 20 percent of U.S. uranium to Vladimir Putin’s Russian government should properly make him the target of a Department of Justice grand jury convened to examine the Clintons’ involvement with Uranium One, thereby disqualifying him from serving as Special Counsel appointed to examine the “no evidence” Democratic meme that the Trump campaign “colluded” with Russia to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. (All about Uranium One)
There are still deep state operatives holding on to the collusion narrative. Let's be clear about them. They are partisans in opposition to the democratically elected Government of the USA. As such they they should be fired on the spot! This is not how politically neutral civil servants -- which they are -- are supposed to operate. In the meantime, more and more of the Obama holdover schemes are coming to light.
The Guardian published an article last week that included information confirming that ex-CIA director John Brennen was indeed the American forerunner of political espionage targeted at defeating President Donald Trump. (...) Brennan reportedly worked with British and Estonian spies in order to sabotage the 2016 election in favor of Clinton. Brennan utilized false intelligence as an excuse to set up a multi-agency investigation into Donald Trump. This led the FBI to conduct a search on a computer server connected to Trump Tower, giving Susan Rice and other Clinton supporters a shield in order to spy on Trump’s people. The CIA acting under John Brennan leaked to the press that this investigation would be happening. His hope was to cause as much political damage to Trump’s campaign as possible. (...) The story that the Guardian published was extremely biased, painting Brennan and his crew as extremely intelligent whistle-blowers. (...) The Guardian claims that the head of the British spies, Robert Hannigan “passed material in Summer 2016 to the CIA chief, John Brennan.” Brennan wanted to make sure that the questionable tips were leaked, so he circulated them on Capitol Hill. He gave briefings in September of 2016 to the “Gang of Eight” about the tips, which went on to make the front page of The New York Times. (More)
It Has Been CONFIRMED that OBAMA’S CIA CHIEF CONSPIRED With FOREIGN SPIES to TAKE OUT TRUMP –TREASON – #ma4thttps://t.co/srmZCNY4LX
The Senate Judiciary Committee sent out a subpoena to Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS (...) Initially, Simpson refused to testify, which is why the committee sent out the subpoena. But now he has stepped up to the plate. “However, since that time, Mr. Simpson, through his attorney, has agreed to provide a transcribed interview and requested that the subpoena compelling his attendance at Wednesday’s hearing be waived,” committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “We’ve reached an agreement on this request and have withdrawn the subpoena.” (More)
(Con) Fusion GPS: The Democrat-Media Political Assassination Lobby.
In a stunning op-ed in the Washington Post titled, “The Quest to Prove Collusion is Crumbling”, the writer actually admits that the whole Russian collusion narrative is ‘the story that never was’. Almost as stunning as the piece itself, the story was ignored by both the main stream media and independent media. Ed Rogers penned this piece following Jared Kushner’s testimony. Rogers said, instead of igniting the Russian collusion narrative, Jared Kusner’s testimony stifled it, causing the media to “quietly back out of the room unnoticed”. Excerpts from Rogers’ WaPo op-ed (More)
The so-called Trump Dossier appears to be something like the Rosetta Stone that will allow us to decipher the true story underlying the Trump/Russia “collusion” hysteria. The hysteria has been driven by the Democrats and their media adjunct to explain the shocking outcome of the 2016 election. Ishmael Jones argued the fraudulence of the Trump Dossier here on Power Line yesterday. The FBI apparently thought the Trump Dossier was the real deal. John Brennan and James Clapper disseminated it in briefings to Presidents Obama and Trump. Leaks to the media followed in due course. [A FISA warrant was issued based on "the dossier" - ed.]
The provenance of the Trump Dossier lies with GPS Fusion. GPS Fusion is the for-hire political outfit paid to dig up dirt on targets, as Kim Strassel put it in her Wall Street Journal Potomac Watch column yesterday. For whom was GPS Fusion working in the matter of the Trump Dossier? GPS Fusion isn’t saying. Strassel connects a few dots and offers a hypothesis or two:
We know that at the exact time Fusion was working with the Russians, the firm had also hired a former British spy, Christopher Steele, to dig up dirt on Mr. Trump. Mr. Steele compiled his material, according to his [Trump Dossier] memos, based on allegations from unnamed Kremlin insiders and other Russians. Many of the claims sound eerily similar to the sort of “oppo” [former Soviet counterintelligence officer] [Rinat] Akhmetshin peddled. [Akhmetshin attended the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner.]
We know that [GPS Fusion co-founder Glenn] Simpson is tight with Democrats. His current attorney, Joshua Levy, used to work in Congress as counsel to no less than Chuck Schumer. We know from a [Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck] Grassley letter that Fusion has in the past sheltered its clients’ true identities by filtering money through law firms or shell companies (Bean LLC and Kernel LLC). Word is Mr. Simpson has made clear he will appear for a voluntary committee interview only if he is not specifically asked who hired him to dig dirt on Mr. Trump. Democrats are going to the mat for him over that demand.
Those on the Judiciary Committee pointedly did not sign letters in which Mr. Grassley demanded that Fusion reveal who hired it. Here’s a thought: What if it was the Democratic National Committee or Hillary Clinton’s campaign? What if that money flowed from a political entity on the left, to a private law firm, to Fusion, to a British spook, and then to Russian sources? Moreover, what if those Kremlin-tied sources already knew about this dirt-digging, tipped off by Mr. Akhmetshin? What if they specifically made up claims to dupe Mr. Steele, to trick him into writing this dossier?
Lee Smith has much more background on GPS Fusion in his Tablet column here. Ken Dilanian has more on Simpson in his NBC News report here. Bill Browder did business in Russia through Hermitage Capital Management, of which he is the chief executive officer; Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian auditor/attorney who represented Hermitage Capital. Magnitsky was arrested as a result of his work for Hermitage Capital and murdered in prison. On Thursday Browder testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his close encounters with GPS Fusion (as did Thor Halvorssen (...) (More)
In other words, Russia was against Trump in the 2016 Election - and why not, I want strong military & low oil prices. Witch Hunt! https://t.co/mMSxj4Su5z
In the live stream William Browder is testifying on Russia and the oppo sleeze factory called Fusion GPS hired by both the Democrats and Russian lawyer Veselnitzkaya, who had the meeting with Jon Jr. under false pretenses. Both Browder and Thor Halversson revealed recently the methods used by Fusion GPS. The long and short of it is, the Russians were playing both sides against each other. Only yesterday Democrats blocked Browder's testimony. (More) Scroll down to THE CABAL BEHIND THE FAKE RUSSIA "DOSSIER" on June 28, 2017.
July 27, 2017 Live Stream: William Browder Testifies before Senate Judiciary Hearing.
Very good primer on the Magnitsky Act in advance of my testimony today at the Senate Judiciary Committee https://t.co/9smS650gJh
July 24, 2017 Live stream: Jared Kushner statement after closed Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing.
Jared Kushner's written statement to House and Senate Intel Committees (source). Tomorrow the President's son in law will answer questions of the House Ctee.
More than half of the memos created by former FBI Director James Comey of his private conversations with President Trump have been found to contain classified information, according to a new report. (Source) Four of seven memos Comey created had markings making clear they contained information classified at the “secret” or “confidential” level, officials directly familiar with the matter told The Hill. The revelation that four of the seven memos included some sort of classified information “opens a new door of inquiry into whether classified information was mishandled, improperly stored or improperly shared,” it said. "This revelation raises the possibility that Comey broke his own agency’s rules and ignored the same security protocol that he publicly criticized Hillary Clinton for in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election", it added. (More)
James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017
Report accuses material James Comey leaked to a friend contained top secret information pic.twitter.com/Hkg4cAb6o9
A Democratic Party-aligned opposition research firm is stonewalling Congressional investigators who are trying to ascertain exactly who financed the now-debunked “Russia dossier” – remember? The one that claimed germaphobe Trump enjoyed getting urinated on by Russian hookers? The New York Post’s Paul Sperry is out with another report about Fusion GPS (source), a “research and strategic intelligence firm” founded by “three former Wall Street Journal investigative reporters.” But congressional sources say it’s actually an opposition-research group for Democrats, and the founders, who are more political activists than journalists, have a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda." Fusion has refused to answer Senate investigators’ questions or provide records of communications that might help the panel identify who financed the error-ridden dossier.
Now, because of the firm's intransigence, it looks like the investigators might soon make good on their threats. “These weren’t mercenaries or hired guns,” a congressional source familiar with the dossier probe said. “These guys had a vested personal and ideological interest in smearing Trump and boosting Hillary’s chances of winning the White House.” The firm was founded by Glenn Simpson, Thomas Catan and Peter Fritsch. Two of whom, Fritsch and Catan, have ties to Mexico -- with Fritsch, a former Journal bureau chief in Mexico City, married to a Mexican woman who worked for Grupo Dina -- a beneficiary of NAFTA. Catan, formerly from Britain, once edited a Mexican business magazine. Simpson, pictured below, is reported to have shared dark views of both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump. Before joining Fusion GPS, Simpson did opposition research for a former Clinton White House operative. (More)
In separate news Sara Carter's latest revelation about the acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe suggests the FBI hunt on General Flynn may be rooted in a old gender discrimination case.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a central player in the Russia election case, is the focus of three separate federal administrative inquiries into allegations about his behavior as a senior bureau executive, according to documents and interviews. The allegations being reviewed range from sexual discrimination to improper political activity, the documents show. The inquiries remain open but so far there have not been any adverse findings against the senior FBI executive, who soared though the ranks the last few years to become deputy director and acting director since James Comey was fired. FBI officials and McCabe declined comment. Circa reported Monday that former supervisory special agent Robyn Gritz, a decorated counterterrorism agent, has filed a sexual discrimination and retaliation complaint that names McCabe and other top FBI officials. (More)
Michael Goodwin is looking back what leaks could can be attributed to Comey. There are at least three.
(...) By his actions, Comey reveals himself to be a fellow traveler with Never Trumpers. His firing brought him out of the shadows and into the open “resistance” to the president. In hindsight, their clash was inevitable. (...) He admitted to the Senate he leaked just one memo criticizing Trump over the Gen. Michael Flynn case, asking a friend to give it to the New York Times. In its May 16 story, the paper identified its sources only as “two people who read the memo.”
But that was not the first leak, for the Times had reported five days earlier on a separate, personal Comey memo attacking Trump for demanding “loyalty,” calling its anonymous sources “Mr. Comey’s associates.” Wait, that wasn’t the first leak, either.
On March 5, one day after Trump accused President Barack Obama of wiretapping him at Trump Tower, the Times reported that Comey was furious at the charge. Its unnamed sources were “senior American officials.”
All three stories carried the byline of Michael Schmidt, as did others describing intimate details of Comey’s dealings with Trump. Clearly, Schmidt had very, very good sources close to Comey. The Washington Post also had “Justice Department officials” as anonymous sources for a bombshell report saying attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions failed to disclose two meetings with the Russian ambassador. In calling Comey a “leaker,” Trump may have made the first understatement of his life. My bet is that Comey was a fountain of leaks, and didn’t show interest in prosecuting others because of his own guilt. (More)
The testimony of AG Jeff Sessions serves as a model for demoralized RINOs how to fight back against Democrat loonies and bullies. A new revelation by Circa references a document the existence of which has been in dispute for some time. If it exists is however immaterial. Comey believed it existed. Circa describes Loretta Lynch's reaction when Comey confronted her with the information.
Ex-FBI Director James Comey has privately told members of Congress that he had a frosty exchange with Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch last year when he confronted her about possible political interference in the Hillary Clinton email investigation after showing Lynch a sensitive document she was unaware the FBI possessed, according to sources who were directly briefed on the matter. (...) During the conversation, Comey told lawmakers he confronted Lynch with a highly sensitive piece of evidence, a communication between two political figures that suggested Lynch had agreed to put the kibosh on any prosecution of Clinton. (More)
A.G. Lynch made law enforcement decisions for political purposes...gave Hillary Clinton a free pass and protection. Totally illegal!
Not only has Comey possibly incriminated himself, it has been established that he's been leaked before. The moral sins of James Comey are almost too many to mention. John Nolte tried anyway. (More) And then there is the matter of the tapes. And the NYT reporting on Comey's memos before the FBI director's nightly epiphany; and Comey in essence claiming he leaked the memo in response to a tweet that wouldn't happen until a day later? All shall be revealed in the course of the next few months. Tuesday June 13 his former boss, AG Jeff Sessions is going to testify before the committee.
Jun 9, 2017 Joint Press Conference with the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis planned for 2:45PM ET.
Later today President Trump is holding a joint press conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in which he is expected to comment further on yesterday's testimony by former FBI director James Comey. The President is said to be lodging a formal complaint with the Department of Justice's Inspector General's Office and the Senate Judiciary Committee against Comey. (More)
(VIDEO) ANALYSIS OF COMEY'S TESTIMONY
Jun 8, 2017 Hannity and guests analyse Comey testifimony before the Senate Intel Ctee.
The former FBI's Director's subjective testimony, high on feelings and anxiety, caused a small earth quake. Not only was the President never the target of any FBI Russia investigation, Comey himself was outed as a weak, small minded bureaucrat who leaked to the media when he was sacked. He caved to Obama's AG Lynch when she corrupted the investigation against Hillary insisting he should call it instead "a matter". Comey exonerated Hillary in a prime time presser, but refused to state in public that President Trump was not the target of an investigation. That double standard is probably what John McCain tried to convey in an erratic questioning session. The President never stood in the way of the Russia investigation and in fact offered his full cooperation if one of his satellites turned out to be involved. Comey volunteered all that information without any embarrassment, proving he has no moral standard. Indeed, Comey was unashamed when he pretended to be stunned that the President 'hoped' he could let Flynn go, yet failed to report his shock upstairs.
Comey knew ahead that Trump's AG would recuse himself. But more astonishing he also calculated correctly that his leaked memo would trigger the installation of a Special Counsel! Calling the President a liar on the basis of a subjective qualification (the mess at the FBI) is proof of weak logic. No doubt, Comey is a prototype Peter Principle, a man in a position that is a few notches above his actual pay grade and Trump was justified in firing him. The Democrats on the committee were trying to build a case for obstruction of justice, setting up a quid pro quo in which Comey might keep his job in return for letting Flynn go. But nothing came of it.
The President never asked for Comey's loyalty. Like respect, you can't ask loyalty: you either have it, or you don't. In view of the leaks the president said he 'needed' loyalty; it was then for Comey to resign if he felt he could not meet that standard. In the meantime it is becoming clear that Comey's memos are considered work product and that FBI employee contracts prohibit leaking information. But perhaps the top brass is exempted. They often are.
The identity of Comey's friend in the Columbia Law School Professor, turns out to be Daniel C. Richman. He is a former federal prosecutor who served as chief appellate attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and has served as a consultant to the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury on federal criminal matters. He confirmed to @ZCohenCNN that he is the friend that provided excerpts of the Comey memo to reporters. (More)
What we know about Daniel Richan, the friend James Comey enlisted to leak contents of memo to the press pic.twitter.com/XBkNFlO0MT
(1) Well, that's that. Comey lied in his testimony. He says he shared memos of his conversations with Trump after he read this tweet. pic.twitter.com/bbYsXAISxh
Jun 8, 2017 Live Stream: James Comey, the former FBI director fired by President Trump will testify before a public session of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Former FBI Director James Comey will tell the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that President Donald Trump did not ask him to close the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Comey’s prepared statement (source) for the panel was made public early Wednesday afternoon. In the course of his statement, the former director recounts his recollection of a conversation he had with the president in the Oval Office on Feb. 14. Media accounts of this meeting have suggested that Trump asked him to close his probe of possible collaboration between campaign aides and elements of the Russian government. The former director disputes that characterization (More)
"We had that thing, you know," Trump said in call to Comey on April 11.
(LIVE STREAM) SENATE INTEL CTEE HEARING ON FISA SURVEILLANCE
June 7, 2017 Live Stream: Senate Intel Committee question Rod Rosenstein, Dan Coats and other Intel Chiefs.
Today Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, DNI Director Dan Coats, NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers, and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe testified at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Unmasking and 702 will certainly be a subject of testimony. The Democracts are at this stage almost desperate to nail the President. Earlier today, the Washington Post dropped a FakeNews story reporting that in March President Trump asked a top intelligence official if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, or so "officials" had told WaPo "associates". Both Coats and Rogers denied being or feeling pressured by the President in any way. They would have been obliged to report it.
May 11, 2017
ACTING FBI DIR. MCCABE AT SENATE INTEL CTEE HEARING
May 11, 2017 Live Stream: Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe Testifies Before Senate Intel Ctee instead fired Director James Comey on the subject of world wide threats.
Just hours after Trump dropped the hammer on James Comey, Federal prosecutors issued Grand Jury subpoenas to associates of Michael Flynn and others involved with the Trump campaign. Here’s the full story from The Hill: “Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas as part of the ongoing probe of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to a new report. The subpoenas to associates of former national security adviser Michael Flynn are seeking business records, CNN said Tuesday. CNN confirmed with people familiar with the matter that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alexandria, Va., issued the subpoenas in recent weeks. (...)
Sources told CNN that the subpoenas went to associates who worked with Flynn on contracts following his firing as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014. Investigators are reportedly examining possible wrongdoing with Flynn’s handling of payment disclosures from clients tied to foreign governments. Officials briefed on the matter told CNN that the overseas governments include Russia and Turkey. (More)
Targeted in widening investigations of his foreign entanglements, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, is at odds with his former Turkish client over two unusual payments totaling $80,000 that Flynn’s firm sent back last year to the client. The disagreement points to inconsistencies in Flynn’s accounts to the U.S. government about his work for foreign interests. (...)
The difference matters because Flynn’s foreign business relationships and the veracity of his disclosures are under scrutiny by congressional, military and intelligence inquiries. Congressional committees and the Pentagon’s inspector general are separately examining whether Flynn was fully forthcoming about his foreign contacts and earnings from organizations linked to the governments of Russia and Turkey.
His firm’s Turkish work occurred while he was a top Trump campaign adviser. On Monday, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told senators that Flynn’s misstatements about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. raised concerns that he could be targeted for blackmail. Yates also cited the possibility that Flynn could have broken federal law by operating as a paid foreign agent for the Turkish client without U.S. government permission. (More)
May 8, 2017 Live Stream: Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing.
Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are testifying before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee today, where they will discuss what she knows about the alleged collusion between Russian officials and President Trump‘s campaign team.
Senator Diane Feinstein shocked herself as well as Wolf Blitzer blurting out during a CNN interview that there is still no shred of evidence "at this time" of any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians in spite of various investigations over the course of many months! But like the blood hounds they are, they just haven't found it yet. In the meantime in a defamation lawsuit brought by Aleksej Gubarev, chief executive of the network solutions firm XBT there's this is on the infamous "dossier":
Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the infamous anti-Donald Trump dossier, acknowledges that a sensational charge his sources made about a tech company CEO and Democratic Party hacking is unverified. In a court filing, Mr. Steele also says his accusations against the president and his aides about a supposed Russian hacking conspiracy were never supposed to be made public, much less posted in full on a website for the world to see on Jan. 10. He defends himself by saying he was betrayed by his client and that he followed proper internal channels by giving the dossier to Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, to alert the U.S. government. Mr. Steele has not spoken publicly about his disputed opposition research project, but for the first time he is being forced to talk in a London court through his attorneys. Barristers for Mr. Steele and his Orbis Business Intelligence firm filed their first defense against. (More)
Grassley pressing FBI's McCabe in Trump-Russia dossier case McCabe is dirty & he'll be exposed under oathhttps://t.co/rooJGrmsgJ
— Deplorable Linda G. (@GartrellLinda) April 3, 2017
Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey demanding the story behind the FBI's reported plan to pay the author of a lurid and unsubstantiated dossier on candidate Donald Trump. In particular, Grassley appears to be zeroing in on the FBI's deputy director, Andrew McCabe, indicating Senate investigators want to learn more about McCabe's role in a key aspect of the Trump-Russia affair. Grassley began his investigation after the Washington Post reported on February 28 that the FBI, "a few weeks before the election," agreed to pay former British spy Christopher Steele to investigate Trump. Prior to that, supporters of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign had paid Steele to gather intelligence on Clinton's Republican rival. In the end, the FBI did not pay Steele, the Post reported, after the dossier "became the subject of news stories, congressional inquiries and presidential denials." (...)
But the most noteworthy thing about Grassley's letter is its focus on McCabe. Grassley noted that McCabe is already under investigation by the FBI's inspector general for playing a top role in the Hillary Clinton email investigation even though McCabe's wife accepted nearly $700,000 in political donations arranged by a close Clinton friend, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, for her run for state senate in Virginia. "While Mr. McCabe recused himself from public corruption cases in Virginia…he failed to recuse himself from the Clinton email investigation," Grassley wrote, "despite the appearance of a conflict created by his wife's campaign accepting $700,000 from a close Clinton associate during the investigation." Now, Grassley wrote, there could be a problem with McCabe's participation in the Trump-Russia probe. If McCabe had a conflict being too close to Clinton, how could he then investigate Trump? (More)
@POTUS FBI Comey has still not answered Sen Grassley's questions about Deputy Director Mcabe wife $700,000 deal they need to both resign!
While very interesting from a historical perspective, this probe by the Senate Intel Ctee is so obviously a propaganda exercise, it's hard to understand why any Republican would support it. But then, the party has a large (globalist) establishment base that historically distrusts anything Russian. It is therefore no surprise the hearing silently descends into an old fogeys club that sees reds under every bed as if time stopped in 1989 with the falling of the wall. And then there is the Neocon NeverTrump tribe that is politically invested in the "Russia Hacked the Elections" narrative. A Wikileaks tweet is reminding us that the Hillary campaign had been pursuing that line since April 2016, and probably even earlier than that. And then there is the Flynn connection.
The media are trying to suggest that "testimony for immunity" is somehow an admission of guilt. Let's remind ourselves that to date there is no thred of evidence, except of the fact that Flynn was illegally outed and leaked. Flynn is simply offering to tell his end of the story (with Trump's blessing), just like Carter Page (tweet), former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Trump council and son-in-law, Jared Kushner. It is doubtful that the committee will want to hear what they have to say.
Update on 1pm ET: Both the Senate and the House Intel Ctees are at this time deny having received the Flynn testimony statement.
March 30, 2017
(LIVE STREAM) SENATE INTEL CTEE STARTS RUSSIA HEARINGS
Mar 30, 2017 Live Stream: Senate Intelligence Committee on Russian intelligence activities.
This is evidently a globalist exercise. The globalist cabal is obviously clueless about technology. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Director of Russia & Eurasia program Eugene Rumer, Georgetown University Professor of Government Emeritus Roy Godson & Foreign Policy Research Institute Program on National Security Senior fellow Clint Watts testify. Do they know the Soviet Union stopped to exist some time ago?
My latest on CrowdStrike's attempts to save face after VOA (of all outlets) exposed the flaws in the cyber firm's report https://t.co/njzqBqdD48
Mar 29, 2017 US Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr: 20 individuals are to be questioned.
COMEY WANTED TO GO PUBLIC WITH THE RUSSIAN HACK
Obama nixed it: he needed Russia for the Iran appeasement operation; Hillary would win in any case.
FBI Director James Comey wanted to go public with information about alleged Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election but was blocked by the Obama administration, according to a report. Comey had floated the idea of writing an op-ed about the interference in June or July, Newsweek reported Wednesday, citing two unidentified sources. The U.S. intelligence community eventually did publicly state that Kremlin-backed actors attempted to influence the election toward President Trump’s victory by releasing emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee. Cybersecurity experts believed the hack stemmed from Russia soon after the emails were released in July, though the Obama administration did not formally accuse its former Cold War foe until early October. (More)
CLINTON CAMPAIGN MANAGER RUSSIA CONNECTION
Mar 28, 2017 Peter Schweizer: the former chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign manager John Podesta may have violated federal law.
On the day the Senate Intel Ctee starts hearing some 20 witnesses to argue that "Russia hacked the elections to elect Trump". In the meantime news is breaking of Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta's Russian relations.
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Breitbart editor at large Peter Schweizer, the author of “Clinton Cash,” detailed how the former chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign John Podesta may have violated federal law by failing to disclose stock shares he owned from a Kremlin-funded company. Schweizer said, “In 2011, John Podesta joins the board of this very small energy company called Joule Energy based out of Massachusetts. About two months after he joins the board of a Russian entity called Rusnano, puts a billion rubles which is about 35-million-dollar into John Podesta’s company. Now, what is Rusnano?
It’s not a private company, Steve. It is a fund directly funded by the Kremlin. In fact, the Russian science minister called Rusnano, Putin’s child. So you have the Russian government investing in one John Podesta’s businesses in 2011, while he is an advisor to Hillary Clinton at the State Department.” He continued, “So then in 2013, he goes to the White House, to be a special counselor to Barack Obama, and that requires that you, you know, have financial disclosures every year. In his financial disclosure form in 2013, he not only fails to disclose these 75,000 shares of stock that he has in Joule Energy which is funded in part by the Russian government. He also fails to disclose that he is on one of the three corporate board that this entity has. It’s got this very complex ownership structure.
He discloses he is on the company in Massachusetts, that is he on the board of a company in the Netherlands, but he fails to disclose that he is also on the executive order of the holding company. That’s a clear violation of the disclosure rules that needs to be looked at.” He added, “What makes the Podesta case clear is there was a transfer of money and there was a transfer of a lot of money that stood to make John Podesta a lot of money. That is unique and that’s extremely troubling because at the time that transfer is taking place he is advising Hillary Clinton at the State Department. We know that from the Podesta emails that he is helping her make personnel decisions, speech decisions, policy decisions. He is meeting with her monthly. It’s a transfer of money from a foreign government, at the time, that is he was advising America’s chief diplomat, Hillary Clinton.”
EXCLUSIVE: John Podesta May Have Violated Federal Law By Not Disclosing 75,000 Stock Shares https://t.co/nEDkJVYpG1
The Republicans allowed the Democrats to turn the House Intelligence Committee hearing into a political show trial reminiscent of the USSR. The Republicans are wholly unprepared to deal with these street fights against the Democrats. The Democrats have a two pronged duty: 1. divert attention away from the fact they owe Americans an explanation, why the disclosure of their emails by #Wikileaks was so damaging to them; and 2. to delegitimize Donald Trump's presidency. Trump should fire Comey. He hasn't even bothered to find out how many people in the FBI had access to the leaked classified information. According to National Security Agency head Michael Rogers on the NSA side of the equation there are no less than 20. FBI director Comey sprang the following on the hearing:
“Our practice is not to confirm the existence of ongoing investigations, especially those that include classified matters,” Comey said. “But, in unusual circumstances, it may be appropriate to do so. This is one of those circumstances. I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI is investigating the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. That includes any links between the Trump campaign and Russian government, and whether there was cooperation.” “This will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed,” he continued. “Because it’s classified, I can not say more about who we are investigating.” “This is a complex situation. There is no way for me to give you a timetable. I can promise you we will follow the facts — wherever they may lead.” (Source)
MAJOR: James Comey ADMITS FBI relied on @Crowdstrike - who created totally fake report -- and did NOT examine DNC servers themselves https://t.co/PKRrwEoCaD
Mar 14, 2017 Judge Napolitano on Fox and Friends: three Intel sources claim that Obama hired the Brits to spy on Donald Trump.
Fox News Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano claimed “three intelligence sources” say President Obama looked to British spy agency GCHQ to obtain transcripts of conversations involving President Donald Trump on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday. (Source)
Update March 17: After repeating the Judge's claim, the White House apologized to the Brits, who are vehemently denying any involvement. It is a fact that GCHQ has full access to the NSA meta data Dbase.
But wait, there's more...Comey has a week to answer these curious questions on the FBI hiring of Steele, a British former spy to create the Trump-Russian "dossier". It looks like the American Intel Community is outsourcing its national spying to the Brits.
Zero Days Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Stuxnet Virus Documentary (IMDb).
Considering 1. who are the members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intel and 2. an article on Breitbart, reporting that the technical witnesses on its hearings lists are from a company that cooperated closely with the Democrats to disseminate Trump's Russian collusion meme in the first place, proves why we need whistleblowers like Wikileaks. The film Zero Days (IMDb) shows the technical sophistication of the case material involved here. The cutting edge of cyber warfare is far beyond the pay grade of these committee members. In other words, the CIA and the NSA are dealing with a subject matter on which the average politician is incapable of doing oversight. If the wiretapping of Trump by the Obama regime is showing anything (whether true or false) it is that rogue agents or a rogue regime (even with the noblest patriotic intentions) is something no free country can afford. Until such time that the average politician has the basic understanding of what we're dealing with, we need the likes of Wikileaks to keep them on the straight and narrow. This is a danger the likes of which Gen. Hayden and other statists and globalists can't wrap their thick skulls around.
A list of witnesses scheduled to appear at a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Open Hearing on “Russian Active Measures” contains a glaring problem: the only technical experts scheduled to testify are from CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is a firm hired by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and has become the primary source of the narrative about “Russian hacking” of the 2016 election and has acted as a mouthpiece for the Democrats since last June. (More)
Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seeking an unclassified report assessing Russia’s interference in foreign elections (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:17-cv-00414)). The lawsuit follows on the heels of a separate Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit for documents about the Obama administration’s surveillance and related leaks of top Trump associate and former national security adviser Gen. Mike Flynn. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit for the report after the CIA failed to respond to a December 14, 2016, FOIA request. The agency’s response was due by January 24, 2017 at the latest.
(...) “The illegal secrecy on the Obama administration’s anti-Trump Russia ‘investigations’ must end,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This report about Russia’s influence operations in Europe must not be helpful to the Obama anti-Trump Russia narrative – otherwise we wouldn’t have to sue in federal court to get it.” (Source)
— Deplorable Linda G. (@GartrellLinda) March 8, 2017
BREAKING: Podesta emails prove that Hillary and Obama were planning to spread the "Trump is involved w/ Russia" lies since April! #Vault7pic.twitter.com/NhPFJKaih9
Feb 13, 2017 Charles Krauthammer: "This is a cover up without a crime."
With the resignation of National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn the Russian "dossier" has morphed into demands of an investigation into the deep state undermining the powers that be. Also Rex Tillerson needed to swipe the State Dept. (Source) Far from wrong doing on the part of Flynn, as Krauthammer explains he was the victim of criminal acts committed by the deep state against the Trump administration. Let's keep this in mind: Flynn's position became untenable because he embarrassed the VP, nothing more, nothing less.
(...) The resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Monday evening raises troubling questions about the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the intelligence services. Flyn (...) Whether Flynn deliberately concealed the contents of his conversation from Vice President Pence, or merely forgot what had been said, he was “caught” because the Department of Justice had been eavesdropping on the conversation. And one of the officials responsible for ordering the eavesdropping was none other than Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who forced President Trump to fire her when she defied her duty to enforce his executive order on immigration, however, controversial. Four possibilities emerge.
One, (...) Flynn really was a potential Russian plant, perhaps indicating much deeper Russian penetration of the campaign and administration. A second possibility is that things really are what they seem (...) The third explanation is that President Obama deliberately, and cleverly, used the bogus sanctions as a “blue dye” test to expose which strings Russia might try to pull to relieve them. (...)
The fourth and most worrying explanation is that the government was not merely monitoring the communications of Russian diplomats, but of the Trump transition team itself. The fact that the contents of Flynn’s phone conversation — highly sensitive intelligence — were leaked to the media suggests that someone with access to that information also has a political axe to grind. Democrats are clamoring for a deeper investigation of Russian ties to Trump.
But the more serious question is whether our nation’s intelligence services were involved in what amounts to political espionage against the newly-elected government. We know that there are hundreds and perhaps thousands of federal bureaucrats already using shadow communications systems. How far does that “shadow government” go? The FBI, CIA and other agencies ought to reassure Congress, or come clean. (Source)
On day one President Trump went to CIA Headquarters to talk to the now leaderless rank and file. Brennan is gone and the new director is pending confirmation. He said their new director Pompeo is a star of whom they will be very proud. The Generals Kelly (Homeland Security) and Mattis (Defense) have already been sworn in, but the Democrats are stalling the confirmation of Pompeo. Trump took the opportunity to explain that his feud with the CIA was a media construct based on leaks by the top brass of a "dossier" that veteran reporter Bob Woodward called "garbage". He went on to say that the CIA will be leading the charge in the war on radical Islamic terrorism. Critics in the media have severely criticized the president for holding that speech -- that briefly touched on the matter of crowd size at the Inaugural Ceremony -- in front of the stars for fallen CIA agents, which is hallowed ground. The media war is constantly reduced to the latest row, instead of the fact that the 4th estate has now lost all iOts credibility.
In Speech to the CIA, Trump Offers to Build Them a Room Without Columns: ‘Do You Understand That?’ https://t.co/u6kHqoN2OK via @zerohedge
Yesterday FoxNews aired an interview with outgoing CIA Chief John Brennan in which he 'advised' the President Elect against spontaneous tweeting saying Trump "doesn't fully understand the Russian threat". (More) Which is a bit of a chutzpah since it has been his job to inform the PE. Trump was quick in reacting. Apart of all the institutional hacks and intel disasters on his watch, Brennan himself got hacked by a teenager. (More) So how did he suddenly become an authority? Was Brennan perhaps the one who leaked "the dossier", asks The Hill. Senior journalist of Watergate fame Bob Woodward is coming to Trump's aid, calling the dossier a "garbage document". (More)
Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said late Friday that his committee will investigate possible contacts between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia (...) Burr and the intelligence panel’s top Democrat, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, said in a joint statement that the committee's probe would touch on "intelligence regarding links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns" as well as Russian cyberattacks and other election meddling outlined in an intelligence report released last week. The committee will use “subpoenas if necessary” to secure testimony from Obama administration officials as well as Trump’s team, Burr and Warner said. The bipartisan Senate announcement came hours after several House Democrats aired their frustrations with FBI Director James Comey following a classified briefing on Russian election disruption. The Democrats were livid that Comey refused to confirm whether he is conducting an inquiry (More)
One of the hackers of the DNC has surfaced. He assures us he has no relation to Russia and provides some technical information on how he hacked the DNC.
I really hope you’ve missed me a lot. Though I see they didn’t let you forget my name. The U.S. intelligence agencies have published several reports of late claiming I have ties with Russia. I’d like to make it clear enough that these accusations are unfounded. I have totally no relation to the Russian government. I’d like to tell you once again I was acting in accordance with my personal political views and beliefs. The technical evidence contained in the reports doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. This is a crude fake. Any IT professional can see that a malware sample mentioned in the Joint Analysis Report was taken from the web and was commonly available. A lot of hackers use it. I think it was inserted in the report to make it look a bit more plausible.
I already explained at The Future of Cyber Security Europe conference that took place in London in last September, I had used a different way to breach into the DNC network. I found a vulnerability in the NGP VAN software installed in the DNC system. It’s obvious that the intelligence agencies are deliberately falsifying evidence. In my opinion, they’re playing into the hands of the Democrats who are trying to blame foreign actors for their failure. The Obama administration has a week left in office and I believe we’ll see some more fakes during this period. I guess you have a lot of questions for me. So, feel free to send them via DM.
Jan. 12, 2017
#GOLDENSHOWERGATE: OBAMA'S REVENGE FOR TRUMP BIRTHERISM?
Slowly but surely we get to the bottom as to who's behind the unsubstantiated Fake News hoax. There were conflicting reports if the Intel Chiefs informed Trump or Obama about "the dossier" during the classified briefings last week. In yesterday's presser Trump blamed the "intel community" for the leak. Clapper called Trump today asserting that isn't the case. But there's a twist. Revenge is best served cold, but it is utter unsatisfactory if the subject doesn't know he has been punished. The avenger must come out into the open at some point, preferably covertly so that only the subject knows. Here's how Obama did it:
(...) Obama spokesman Josh Earnest said that’s the approach the White House took when confronted with false allegations that the president was not born in the U.S., charges advanced by Donald Trump himself. (...)
That's is far as the outing in concerned. But who commissioned the "dossier"? Remember Our Principles PAC, founded by Katie Packer, a veteran Republican strategist and Romney's deputy campaign manager? (More) Update: the NeverTrump Republican who commissioned the sleaze report turns out is Jeb Bush.
The opposition research firm that hired a former British spy to dig up dirt on Donald Trump is the same shady outfit that was hired by Planned Parenthood to put a positive spin on videos showing the sale of baby parts. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Washington D.C.-based Fusion GPS is the firm that hired Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the salacious but unsubstantiated 35-page Trump dossier that was published by BuzzFeed on Tuesday. Earlier on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal identified Steele, who runs a U.K.-based business intelligence firm called Orbis Business, as the author of the memo. (RELATED: Report Identifies British Spy Who Wrote Trump Dossier) Steele, a former spy for MI6, the British equivalent of the CIA, relied on contacts in Russia, where he has served, to provide information about Trump’s business dealings, his visits to Russia and his campaign’s alleged contacts with Russian agents. None of the allegations in the dossier have been verified, and BuzzFeed was hammered throughout the day for publishing the document. There have been conflicting reports about whether U.S. intelligence agencies informed Trump or President Obama about the dossier during classified briefings last week. After Steele was identified, the next mystery was the identity of his employer. The Times cleared that up by identifying Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm started by former Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson in 2010. According to The Times, Fusion GPS was hired to research Trump in Sept. 2015 by a wealthy GOP donor who was vehemently opposed to the real estate billionaire. But after Trump emerged as the GOP nominee, the unidentified Republican donor dropped the project. But Democrats who support Hillary Clinton had an interest in the information, according to The Times. The newspaper reported that Steele, who is reportedly highly regarded in spy circles, gave the information he had compiled to the British government. The dossier also ended up in the hands of FBI director James Comey last month. Arizona Sen. John McCain gave Comey the information last month. (More)
In a story that is getting more surreal by the minute, a post on 4Chan now claims that the infamous "golden showers" scene in the unverified 35-page dossier, allegedly compiled by a British intelligence officer, was a hoax and fabricated by a member of the chatboard as "fanfiction", then sent to Rick Wilson, who proceeded to send it to the CIA, which then put it in their official classified intelligence report on the election. Here is 4Chan's explanation of how the story came to light:
>/pol/acks mailed fanfiction to anti-trump pundit Rick Wilson about trump making people piss on a bed obama slept in
>he thought it was real and gave it to the CIA
>the central intelligence agency of the united states of america put this in their official classified intelligence report on russian involvement in the election
>donald trump and obama have both read this pol/acks fanfiction
>the cia has concluded that the russian plans to blackmail trump with this story we made up just let that sink in what we have become.
On january 10, Buzzfeed posted a story under the byline of Ken Bensinger, Mark Schoofs and Miriam elder titled “these reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia” and posted a link to a document alleging, among other things, that russia has been cultivating trump for 5+ years, that trump has been in constant contact with the kremlin for information on his opponents, and perhaps most inflammatory, that there are many recorded instances of blackmail of trump in sexual misconduct. A prominent claim is that trump rented the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in moscow, where he knew that the Obamas had slept in; he them hired a number of prostitutes to perform a 'golden shower' (pissplay) on the bed and in the room. https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russia?utm_term=.jdyKR56pj#.skw2lK8Nd
The remarkable thing? It's all fake. And not only fake; it's a prank perpetuated by 4chan, on Rick Wilson himself. A post on 4chan on october 26 stated “mfw managed to convince CTR and certain (((journalists))) on Twitter there'll be an October surprise on Trump this Friday” along with a picture of a smug face with a hash name. http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/94704894/#94705224
On november 1, a person without a picture but is assumed to be the same person posted “So they took what I told Rick Wilson and added a Russian spy angle to it. They still believe it. Guys, they're truly fucking desperate - there's no remaining Trump scandal that's credible.” https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/95568919/#95571329
On january 10, moments after the story broke and began to gain traction on social media, a person with the same smug grin face, and the same hash title for the picture, stated “I didn't think they'd take it so far.” http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/106514445#p106520376
This story has taken on something of a life of it's own. Going through Rick Wilson's twitter, you can find many different stories from the time that he had shown the story to a wide number of anti-trump news sources, trying to find a news organization that would actually publish the story. During that time period, he referred to it often as 'the thing', and often playing coy with followers on the content with the story with anybody who was not also a #Nevertrumper. Unconfirmed sources has people as high up as John McCain giving the story to FBI Director James Comey to attempt to verify the story. Given that Rick Wilson runs in Establishment circles, it is not an impossible scenario that long-serving senators are falling for what amounts to a 4chan troll trump supporter creating an ironic October Surprise out of wholecloth to punk a GOPe pundit who derogatorily referred to them as single men who masturbate to anime.
While this entire incident is laughable, and even more so if the 4Chan account is accurate, what makes it quite tragic, is that it is no longer possible to dismiss the "fake news" angle to an intelligence report. And if the CIA is compromised, what is left for "news outlets" like CNN and BuzzFeed, which were all too eager to run with the story without any attempt at verification? (Source)
Julian Assange yesterday answered questions from reporters who unduly emphasized the person of the source. This is typical for the Leftist world view. Man rather than an idea being responsible for actions, they go after the messenger rather than the message itself. Assange characterized the unclassified CIA publication with the ominous title of "Grizzly Steppe" as a press release rather than a report. We call it a propaganda pamphlet. Assange reminded us that Donna Brazil as well as Bill Clinton have tried the line that the content of the leak was forged. This is untrue. Other than those two, no one had disputed or even tried to clarify the content. Speaking of "meddling in elections"...
Jan 5, 2017 John McAfee on alleged Russian hack: the US Intel folks are either lying or extremely incompetent.
The Democrat propaganda machine is in full gear with the flimsy accusation that Russia is responsible for the DNC hack. An ex CIA analyst blasts the hacking claims. He has dismissed the report that claims Vladimir Putin personally led an elaborate cyber attack to install Donald Trump in the White House, saying the analysis is an attempt to smear the President Elect. 'Clinton is quite effective at discrediting herself'. (More) Reason for Wikileaks to counter the intel chiefs Russian fiction with a presser Monday at 9 AM ET.
ANNOUNCE: WikiLeaks press conf, Monday 9am ET streamed live responding to CIA report on WikiLeaks
It may be in the classified report, but basically nothing was added in the last version that was not already presented earlier by the Obama's politicized and MB infiltrated 'intelligence community' (3 out of 17 intel services, we might add). It's very much like the global warming creed: an argument from authority (consensus of 98% of scientists), followed by an subjective opinion. When the report goes on to explain that the cable television broadcaster, RT means Russia Today and is a Kremlin propaganda outfit, you don't know whether to laugh or cry. You might as well say that CNN is an American propaganda medium. Yes, of course, but no one in his right might doesn't allow for that scant.
(...) McAfee believes, the whole “Russian hacking” narrative is either “propaganda intended to incite the American people, to anger toward Russia for some reason, or our intelligence community is so ignorant and naïve that they should all be replaced.” (More)
According to the report itself, no evidence is provided: we are to believe them because of their 'moral authority'. It's all immaterial. The damage has already been done. The purpose was to make Trump look illegitimate in the eyes of the globalist Left and the world's low info people. They succeeded. As far as the actual hacks are concerned, the media and the Obama's intel chiefs are doing their utmost to confuse the issues, collating actual hacks by Russia and others with the meme that "Russians hacked the election for Trump". As long as they are playing this game, there's no reason to go along with it. This also appears to be the President Elect's line. REPORT FULL TEXT: Declassified US government combined report on alleged Russian involvement in the US election (PDF)
"We assess with high confidence" that GRU hacked DNC & passed the files to WikiLeaks says US intelligence community https://t.co/SZz4ZCGZWE
Every time IC repackages its same assertions in a new form, media acts like it's been proven, even though it - again - includes no evidence: https://t.co/C5yRsZsJbS
It's shocking how much this report was hyped and how literally no effort was made to include *any* evidence at all, even stuff like this: https://t.co/wvompG6Nyl
Trump is said to have had a constructive meeting with the 'íntelligence community'. He said he wants a plan to secure US cyber systems within 90 days. The proof of Russian involvement allegedly consists in a good old intercept of Russian officials expressing joy with Trump's election victory. Also -- and this is very convenient -- the officials discussing disparities in the levels of effort they devoted to penetrating Democratic and Republican campaign networks.
The same day that a classified 50-page intelligence report was delivered to President Obama on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, its findings were immediately leaked to the Washington Post by “U.S. officials” – probably senior Obama officials at the National Security Council. Making this worse, the leakers may have compromised sensitive intelligence sources and methods by revealing that the report was based on intercepted communications. According to the Post story, the classified intelligence report says senior officials in the Russian government celebrated Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton as a geopolitical win for Moscow.
So-called “actors” involved in providing Democratic emails to WikiLeaks reportedly are identified. The report also is said to discuss “disparities in the levels of effort Russian intelligence entities devoted to penetrating and exploiting sensitive information stored on Democratic and Republican campaign networks.” After the Washington Post story was posted online, a senior U.S. intelligence official discussed the classified report with NBC News. The intelligence official agreed to talk to NBC because he or she disagreed with the focus of the Post story and believes the Post overemphasized alleged Russian celebration of Trump’s win and did not focus on the thrust of the report.
Two other intelligence officials also leaked details of the classified report to NBC. According to the NBC story, “Two top intelligence officials with direct knowledge told NBC News that the report on Russian hacking also details Russian cyberattacks not just against the Democratic National Committee, but the White House, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the State Department and American corporations.” It’s no surprise that Obamas officials would immediately leak to the news media details about the intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election since they have a history of leaking highly classified intelligence to the press – including sensitive intelligence sources and methods – to advance their political agendas. (More)
TRUMP GOES AFTER INTEL LEAK
Breaking News: Donald Trump called the storm around Russian hacking before the election "a political witch hunt” https://t.co/mFJvXIPW4i
President-elect Donald J. Trump said in an interview Friday morning that the storm surrounding Russian hacking during the presidential campaign was a political witch hunt being carried out by his adversaries, who he said were embarrassed by their loss to him in the election last year. Mr. Trump spoke to The New York Times by telephone three hours before he was set to be briefed by the nation’s top intelligence and law enforcement officials about the Russian hacking of American political institutions. In the conversation, he repeatedly criticized the intense focus on Russia. “China, relatively recently, hacked 20 million government names,” he said, referring to the breach of computers at the Office of Personnel Management in late 2014 and early 2015. “How come nobody even talks about that? This is a political witch hunt.” (More) And that's not all! Trump is on the war path...
I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
President-elect Trump on the authorized #PseudoLeak by the Obama administration of TOP SECRET//COMINT claims to NBC https://t.co/ZHQvOB6Rf5
Jan 5, 2017 Hannity interview with Julian Assange in London. Part 3 (01:00, 33:00).
This was a lawyers' circus in DC. The objective was to create the perception that Assange is an unreliable witness, whereas the 'intelligence community' is the bedrock of the state. It didn't work. The voters aren't buying the Potemkin tricks anymore.
The United States' top intelligence official has said a suspected Russian cyberhacking campaign constituted unprecedented meddling in the American electoral process. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made the assertion on January 5 at an extraordinary hearing of a leading Senate committee focusing on the question of alleged Russian interference in the presidential election campaign. "I don't think we've ever encountered a more aggressive, a more direct effort to interfere in our elections processes than in this case," Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee. The hearing is the first of several congressional inquiries looking into the scope, intent, and purpose of what Washington says was a Russia-government-orchestrated intrusion into the computer servers and e-mail accounts of U.S. political organizations. (More)
At Senate hearing today they tried to paint Assange as a criminal to deflect the fact he was the only one who told us the Truth! pic.twitter.com/feHJxPByba
So the DC wonk set points to Flynn when in reality Trump's intel team is far more powerful than they could possibly know via Thiel. https://t.co/Nt7RDPbL2T
Jan 3, 2017 Hannity interview with Julian Assange in London. Part 2 (16:35, 35:50).
UPDATE: We are dealing here with misinformation: part truth, part confabulation. The Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians have been hacking numerous US institutions. And the US has been hacking them. This has nothing to do with the election. Then Guccifer2.0 and Anonymous hacked the DNC. This did not generate much information. The method used is to date unknown. Then Podesta was phished. Wikileaks published the PodestaEmails and the DNCLeaks, not hacks but printed material as Assange has explained. These leaks were a combination of rogue NSA agents, furious with Hillary disclosing classified material including sending emails to addresses in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and a Democrat insider -- perhaps the murdered staffer Seth Rich as Assange has suggested earlier, with or without the aid of the former British ambassador Craig Murray. The sequence of events is well documented in these pages (links on top of the page). The purpose of this Demoocrat led operation is to de-legitimize Trump's presidency. They are not dealing in facts or reality: somehow creating an impression in the minds of the people is enough. Therefore all these events and information is conflated and equivocated until no one can tell what is what. After a few months all people will remember is that Trump didn't get to be president in a fair way. And that is enough.
Everyone seems to have forgotten about Guccifer2.0 who was the only actual hacker into the DNC. But the information it yielded was small and quite unimportant relative to the 2016 campaign. Nevertheless, that is probably the hacker who left the cyrillic calling card, which suggests a false flag rather than sloppy Russian hackers.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will reveal in an interview tonight with Sean Hannity that Russia was not responsible for the hack of the Democratic National Committee emails. Assange makes his assertion "with a thousand percent confidence." Assange also will say that President Barack Obama is 'trying to delegitimize the Trump administration.' The media, accused of peddling "fake news" this election season, and various Democrat operatives have been reporting that the 2016 election was "hacked" by the Russians, leading many people to believe that actual election machines were corrupted by foreign forces.
In reality, Hillary Clinton honcho John Podesta was successfully phished and willingly gave up his password believing there was a problem with this email account. People are always getting emails phishing for their passwords; John Podesta is not a special case -- he was just successful tricked. Once the phishers got a hold of Podesta's email password, they accessed his emails and released them to the public. The Democratic National Committee also had its correspondence released to WikiLeaks either from a inside leak or a hack. (More)
CNN is now reporting the "evidence" Russia hacked the DNC is that they think a Cyrillic keyboard was used
Here are the first excerpts from Sean Hannity's interview with Julian Assange. "They’re trying to delegitimize the Trump administration..." pic.twitter.com/ZsYktJKHhL
While the report released yesterday by the DHS and the FBI on the DNC hacking by the Russians (called "Grizzly Steppe" for more agonizing effect), is supposed to have tipped the scale for Donald Trump, is critiqued by the experts, the Washington Post is actually breaking FakeNews that the "Vermont power grid has been hacked by the Russians". (More) But back to Grizzly Steppe: there's still no proof that "the Russians hacked the DNC" (or the DCCC, or Hillary's server, or John Podesta who was phished, but who also lost his phone on one occasion). So Obama constructs a baseless international incident, but the Democrats worry about Trump's temperament to be president! How's this for totally irresponsible behavior of a man who is supposed to be the most powerful person on the planet!
The US government's much-anticipated analysis of Russian-sponsored hacking operations provides almost none of the promised evidence linking them to breaches that the Obama administration claims were orchestrated in an attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. The 13-page report, which was jointly published Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, billed itself as an indictment of sorts that would finally lay out the intelligence community's case that Russian government operatives carried out hacks on the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Clinton Campaign Chief John Podesta and leaked much of the resulting material.
While security companies in the private sector have said for months the hacking campaign was the work of people working for the Russian government, anonymous people tied to the leaks have claimed they are lone wolves. Many independent security experts said there was little way to know the true origins of the attacks. Sadly, the JAR, as the Joint Analysis Report is called, does little to end the debate. Instead of providing smoking guns that the Russian government was behind specific hacks, it largely restates previous private-sector claims without providing any support for their validity. Even worse, it provides an effective bait and switch by promising newly declassified intelligence into Russian hackers' "tradecraft and techniques" and instead delivering generic methods carried out by just about all state-sponsored hacking groups.
"This ultimately seems like a very rushed report put together by multiple teams working different data sets and motivations," Robert M. Lee, CEO and Founder of the security company Dragos, wrote in a critique published Friday. (...) The sloppiness, Lee noted, included the report's conflation of Russian hacking groups APT28 and APT29—also known as CozyBear, Sandworm, Sednit, and Sofacy, among others—with malware names such as BlackEnergy and Havex, and even hacking capabilities such as "Powershell Backdoor." The mix up of such basic classifications does little to inspire confidence that the report was carefully or methodically prepared. And that only sows more reasons for President elect Donald Trump and his supporters to cast doubt on the intelligence community's analysis on a matter that, if true, poses a major national security threat. (More)
"Critiques of the DHS/FBI's GRIZZLY STEPPE Report" https://t.co/R01QJR19ui > My latest blog which critiques the report's intent vs. delivery
President Obama expels 35 🇷🇺 diplomats in Cold War deja vu. As everybody, incl 🇺🇸 people, will be glad to see the last of this hapless Adm. pic.twitter.com/mleqA16H8D
The Russian response to Barack Obama’s announcement that he was expelling 35 diplomats over the alleged cyber attack on the US election, was fast, and in some cases, rather amusing. As officials in Moscow said that US diplomats would be ordered to leave in a tit-for-tat response, the Russian Embassy used Twitter to make its point with little panache. Mr Obama on Thursday sanctioned Russian intelligence services and their top officials, kicked out 35 Russian officials and closed down two Russian-owned compounds in the U.S. (Source)
In the meantime Obama's hypocrisy is exposed. Why did Obama send Hillary emails over her substandard server in the toilet of a mum&pop shop? Why did he wait so long to tackle the problem of cyber warfare in which various countries are involved, not least of which the Norks and the Chicoms, as well as the mullahs in Iran. These are completely unrelated to the elections. The Obama regime is equivocating the issues with the express purpose of de-legitimizing the Trump presidency.
Putin's response is also in: Putin decides to take the high road and will not expel American diplomats over Obama's childish act. The President Elect for his part wants to move on, but is willing to look at the CIA's illusive evidence next week.
Jun 6, 2014 Jimmy Kimmel Live: The President was staying at a Marriott in Warsaw recently where someone secretly shot video of him working out in the hotel gym.
Dec. 16, 2016
ASSANGE DENIES RUSSIAN HACKING
Dec 15, 2016 FULL Interview Julian Assange On The Hannity Show: "Our Source Is Not the Russian Government". It has now become clear that "Russian hacking" can't be attributed to the DNC and PodestaLeaks that played such a prominent role during the election campaign. Assange did however say that he is unaware of the source of the Guccifer2.0 revelations, but its impact was relatively minor. It's now obvious where Obama and the Dems are going with this operation: it's to de-legitimize President Trump in the eyes of their followers. We are however in a dangerous situation. The Dems are like a wounded animal and can't accept defeat. But they still wielding considerable power. Obama: U.S. will "take action" on Russian hacking. (More) The intel community is divided. Brennan and Clapper and Obama's men.
Thursday on the Sean Hannity’s radio show, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks Julian Assange said that the Russian government was not his group’s source for emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. Assange said, “Our source is not the Russian government.” Hannity asked, “In other words, let me be clear, Russia did not give you the Podesta documents or anything from the DNC? Assange replied, “That’s correct.” “Our source is not the Russian government,” Assange told Hannity unequivocally.
“So in other words, let me be clear, Russia did not give you the Podesta documents or anything from the DNC [Democratic National Committee]?” “That’s correct,” Assange answered. Hannity asked if he’d ever received information involving the Republican National Committee. “We received about 3 pages of information to do with the RNC and Trump, but it was already public somewhere else,” the WikiLeaks founder said.
Hannity then asked whether it was fair to say that the sources for all the documents WikiLeaks released from both the DNC and former Clinton campaign chairman John Pedestal came from within the United States. Although Assange danced around a bit on this in an effort to protect his sources, he confirmed that the information did not come from any foreign government such as Russia.
He did, however, indicate that material released by others — such as Guccifer 2.0 — may have come from foreign sources. “Now, who is behind these, we don’t know,” he said. “These look very much like they’re from the Russians. But in some ways, they look very amateur, and almost look too much like the Russians.”
Assange neither confirmed nor denied a report that WikiLeaks confidant Craig Murray received DNC documents from someone with “legal access” to both the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta emails. He reportedly did so out of “disgust at the Clinton Foundation and the tilting of the [primary] election.” “Craig Murray is not authorized to talk on behalf of WikiLeaks,” Assange told Hannity. (Source)
💥💥 "I see it as some type of disinformation to discredit the incoming president-elect, and that's absolutely disgraceful." ~ @RepPeteKingpic.twitter.com/0TVX9U3v4F
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Wednesday that top intelligence directors declined the panel’s request to brief lawmakers on what he's called “conflicting assessments” of Russia’s apparent interference in the U.S. election. The California Republican said in a letter Monday to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that he was "dismayed that we did not learn earlier, from you directly, about … the CIA's reported revision of information previously conveyed to this committee." He said the CIA’s recent findings conflicted with briefings the panel received earlier in the year and asked for a briefing as soon as possible. Top intelligence officials, however, rejected the panel’s request to come in Thursday, according to Nunes.
“It is unacceptable that the Intelligence Community directors would not fulfill the House Intelligence Committee’s request to be briefed tomorrow on the cyber-attacks that occurred during the presidential campaign (...) The legislative branch is constitutionally vested with oversight responsibility of executive branch agencies, which are obligated to comply with our requests.” “The Committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes,”
Nunes said his panel had been “vigorously looking into reports of cyber-attacks during the election campaign.” He said they wanted to “clarify press reports that the CIA has a new assessment that it has not shared with us." Intelligence officials’ refusal to brief the panel, he continued, allows for speculation and for their findings to be distorted. President-elect Donald Trump, for example, has suggested the CIA’s findings are false and a ploy by Democrats to undercut his Election Day victory. (More)
Wikileaks emails handed over by 'disgusted' Democratic whistleblowers, NOT Russian hackers. https://t.co/KmWrws5466
The scapegoating of Russia is now so widespread, Dirty Wars author and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill took to The Intercept to call the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on its bluff. In the article, “Obama Must Declassify Evidence Of Russian Hacking,” Scahill and Jon Schwartz called out U.S. intelligence agencies for their record of deceit, asserting that the American people are not going to simply “take their word for it.” “U.S. intelligence agencies have repeatedly demonstrated that they regularly both lie and get things horribly wrong,” the article argues. But when it comes to the CIA’s case against Russia’s alleged interference with the latest U.S. presidential elections, it’s impossible to claim the hearsay is based on facts if evidence is not made available to support the agency’s claims. Nevertheless, Scahill and Schwartz argue, it’s possible that Russia may have pulled some strings. (...) assertions are not evidence, and major publications like the Washington Post have been basing their Russia-related reports using nothing but assumptions. Using an anonymous source, for instance, the WaPo reported that “[U.S. intelligence] agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others.” But Reuters has since reported that “[the] overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election.” This means the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) “has not endorsed [the CIA’s] assessment because of a lack of conclusive evidence.”
Caitlin Johnstone put it best in an article for Newslogue: “Believing something the CIA says is like trusting a meth addict with your car, and trusting the CIA when they’re working with the Washington Post is like trusting a meth addict with your car and leaving your kid in the back seat with the house keys and money for Taco Bell.”
Unless proof is produced either by the CIA or a whistleblower, partisan voices crying wolf in Washington and in the media will continue to run on empty, feeding their base with nothing but “fake news.” But wasn’t that what we were told to unite over so we could “fight” it effectively? Here’s your chance, Mr. President. (Source)
A former intelligence officer explains that investigations are rarely as conclusive as a "fingerprint" or a string of Cyrillic characters conveniently left behind.
If there’s one thing that’s certain in the intelligence business, it’s that there’s rarely any certainty. That’s pretty much the first thing they teach you at spy school. Back in the early days of my intelligence career, I had one instructor who explained it in a way that I’ll never forget. “If you present your analysis as if it’s fact, instead of conjecture, the person who’s relying on your intelligence could end up making a bad decision that gets people killed.” Intelligence is not about definitive conclusions. It’s about gathering data and coming up with plausible theories that connect the dots. Sadly, sometimes those theories are influenced by personal or political agendas. (More)
Dec. 13, 2016
THE PLAN TO STEAL THE ELECTION
Dec. 12, 2016 Judge Napolitano: NY Times/WaPo can't show proof election was altered, standing by the assertion he made in July naming the NSA as source. Judge Andrew Napolitano told many Americans the DNC was hacked by insiders, not the Russians back in July. Now he's doubling down on that and speaking about the NY Times/Washington Post who are trying their very best to delegitimatize Donald Trump winning the 2016 election. More on the Judge's comment. Btw, where was all the outrage when Hillary's substandard email server was exposed in the bathroom of the mom&pop shop? The True Pundit website is boasting an interview with a CIA Analyst who boldly has told them the Washington Post story about Russians hacking the US Presidential election is a lie. That’s cutting it down the middle with a straight carving knife leaving nothing to chance (scroll down to yesterday's posting).
With the recent Friday night disinformation surprise, the corporate media and elements of both the CIA and the White House are openly positioning to directly stop Donald Trump from becoming president. The late Friday news published by both the Washington Post and New York Times claims that a secret CIA assessment has confirmed that Russia not only meddled in the US election but directly did so in order to help Trump win the presidency. The reports, completely based on the claims of unnamed US officials and therefore almost impossible to confirm or debunk, have set off a firestorm in the corporate media and have led to a direct call by a left leaning CIA agent for a second election. Appearing on the openly anti-Trump cable news network CNN, “former” CIA agent Bob Baer called for a second Presidential election. His reasoning? The unproven claims by unnamed US officials that the CIA has concluded that the election was tampered with by Russia. (It’s important to note here that the FBI does not believe this to be the case.) (More)
The individual who would be overseeing an investigating into the CIA’s “Russian hack” accusation is National Intelligence Director James Clapper. And nearly four years ago, on March 17, 2013, Clapper committed perjury at a congressional hearing after he said that the National Security Agency (NSA) did not collect the data of millions of Americans. Shortly after that, whistleblower Edward Snowden showed up and proved him wrong in every single way, exposing the massive data collection program by the NSA. And what has the Obama administration done to hold this man — who committed a felony — accountable? Nothing. Now, this flagrant liar will be in charge of a complete and total investigation into the CIA’s claim that Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Russian allies not only destabilized the American election process, but that they willingly guided Trump to victory. It’s all fake news purported by the mainstream news outlets — there are no reports, no evidence, no facts suggesting that the Russians were involved in any way. It’s just another justice department that the Obama administration has politicized.(Source)
Retired Army intelligence officer Tony Shaffer alleged Monday that CIA Director John Brennan is playing political games via a secret CIA assessment stating Russia interfered with the election to support GOP President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking to WMAL radio Monday, Shaffer claimed that the secret CIA assessment, obtained by The Washington Post and described in an article last Friday, is a product of Brennan’s loyalty to President Barack Obama, The Washington Examiner reports. “This is purely political, and I believe that John Brennan is a political animal,” Shaffer said. He added he has been talking with former CIA officials about the report. “Everything they are telling me is Brennan is doing this out of loyalty to President Obama.” “It’s about undermining Trump, that’s what it is,” Shaffer said. “It“It’s called information operations, information warfare, and that’s what I believe is going on.” (Source)
"The Tainted Election"#Wikileaks: Hillary & Podesta were planning to spread the FAKE "Trump's working with Russia" LIES since April! pic.twitter.com/8hdmeIHCOV
Dec 11, 2016 CIA: Washington Post Report Linking Russian Government to Trump & Election Hacking Is “Outright Lie”. After the Republicans yesterday destroyed the basis of the claim that the Russians helped Trump to power (scroll down to Reince Priebus in Meet The Press), and the FBI challenged the CIA (source), the CIA itself is now openly denying there is anything conclusive behind the claim that the Russians did it. In other words, the entire claim is now moot. This was another construct of the Democrat Media Complex aimed at undermining the President Elect's legitimacy. As an aside the media yesterday aggressively attacked Trump and Trump surrogates Priebus and Kellyanne Conway for being unsupportive of the intelligence services. We must remember for who this is meant.
The primary goal of the exercise is not the Kremlin, although they are potentially risking war with the Russians. The primary goal is Donald Trump and the de-legitmization of the election process. The Russians aren't undermining public confidence in the system, the Democrats are! This won't stop until the base has fully internalized the message. At which point they are ready to sacrifice the country to the party. Make no mistake about it. They are laying the groundwork for major subversion. The Democrat party does not belong in a democratic system at this point. This is far more sinister than the Democrats just being sore losers.
The Central Intelligence Agency is declaring the Washington Post’s much-hyped story linking the Russian government to hacking the presidential election to help Donald Trump an “outright lie,” according to CIA personnel with direct knowledge of the case. The Washington Post, in a front-page splash on Friday, fingered the CIA for allegedly confirming the wild rumors of Russian hacking that were concocted and spread by Democratic lawmakers for months preceding the election and the weeks since the GOP win. The Washington Post’s story, however, contained no CIA sources and in fact, no credible U.S. intelligence agency sources whatsoever. Instead, it hinged on what unnamed lawmakers had supposedly been told by unidentified, supposed CIA-linked sources in “secret” briefings: That the CIA had developed proof the Russian state waged an orchestrated campaign to destabilize the U.S. election to benefit GOP-candidate Trump. “It’s an outright lie,” a CIA analyst divulged to True Pundit. “There’s nothing definitive like that. There are leads from activity originating in Finland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Britain, France, China and Russia.” Multiple CIA sources are now denouncing the Washington Post for knowingly reporting misleading national security intelligence. Intelligence insiders said no one in the Agency or in the FBI, who is running at least one parallel inquiry, has ruled out a possible internal leak within the Democratic National Committee from actor(s) inside the United States who funneled private DNC emails to Wikileaks. (More)
Kellyanne Conway says PEOTUS Trump characterizing CIA investigation as "laughing point" is "compatible" with his respect for intelligence pic.twitter.com/vO5h8tpPsj
The secondary claim that the objective of the Russians hacking the DNC was to bring about the Trump victory at the expense of Hillary rests on the assertion of the CIA that the Republican party was hacked as well, but was never exposed like the Democrats were. But the spokesman of the party is vehemently denying it was ever hacked (RNC Spokesman Slams WaPo, NYT Reports — The Russians Never Hacked Us). Of course it wasn't! Because neither was the DNC. As we saw in the previous posting, it wasn't a hacking but an inside job. Judge Napolitano in the video explains why. As for the Podesta Emails, the explanation may be even shockingly simpler than that.
RNC spokesman: "We offered the NY Times conclusive proof (Russian hack) didn’t happen. They ignored it." https://t.co/KXpJDFMosM
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) December 10, 2016
Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, who is a close associate of Assange, called the CIA claims “bullshit”, adding: “They are absolutely making it up.” He is stressing what the media and the Democrats are systematically ignoring because it doesn't suit their narrative: it wasn't an electronic hacking of the systems, but a leak. Someone printed the emails out, and handed them over physically to Wikileaks.
Former British ambassador Craig Murray told the Guardian the CIA’s claims that Russia interfered in the US election are “bullsh*t.” From The Guardian: “I know who leaked them,” Murray said. “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things. “If what the CIA are saying is true, and the CIA’s statement refers to people who are known to be linked to the Russian state, they would have arrested someone if it was someone inside the United States. (...)
Murray went into further detail on his website: I have watched incredulous as the CIA’s blatant lie has grown and grown as a media story – blatant because the CIA has made no attempt whatsoever to substantiate it. There is no Russian involvement in the leaks of emails showing Clinton’s corruption. Yes this rubbish has been the lead today in the Washington Post in the US and the Guardian here, and was the lead item on the BBC main news. I suspect it is leading the American broadcasts also. (...) As Julian Assange has made crystal clear, the leaks did not come from the Russians. (...) (More)
According to Posobiec this CIA/WaPo exercise is a soft coup against Trump. The information is directed at liberal blue pills to trigger resistance against the democratically elected President. We agree. Posobiec is convinced with Roger Stone that more specifically the target are the electors. But there's no chance they can flip enough of them to upend the election of the President Elect. Dec. 10, 2016
IT'S THEM PESKY RUSSIANS AGAIN
Dec 8, 2016 Media analyst Mark Dice: Hillary Clinton blames Fake News for losing the election.
In a rare public appearance since losing the election Hillary Clinton is employing the Clinton modus operandi of spreading maximum confusion by spreading mis and dis information. While speaking at Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's retirement ceremony, she said, “The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year — it’s now clear the so-called fake news can have real-world consequences," meaning her losing the elections. She urged for criminal penalties for the perpetrators.
Breaking: Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win the White House https://t.co/dfpFbqeRKF
On Friday Dec. 9 the Washington Post published a sequence to its article of Nov. 24 claiming that “Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread ‘Fake News’ During Election, Experts Say.” The claim was based on a long list of online news sites purported to be either working directly for Moscow or else “useful idiots” unwittingly spreading Russian propaganda. Scroll down to Dec. 8 for Fake News: the Shorter Version.
The articles in the Washington Post also made claims about Russian involvement in tempering with the Presidential campaign to get Donald Trump elected. But doesn't explain why the Russians had more or less free reign during the Obama's tenure and could expect continuing to do so with his heir, Hillary Clinton in office; whereas her rival Donald Trump has said he's going to rebuild the military and will put America's interests first.
These claims simply do not make any sense. While the actors remain -- as is the case of PropOrNot -- anonymous, the following piece contains some clues as to the mindset and world view of the people involved. It reads in part:
CIA report WAPO art National Security Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter. Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials.
Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton’s chances. “It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. “That’s the consensus view.” (...)
The Trump transition team dismissed the findings in a short statement issued Friday evening.
“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s now time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again,’ ” the statement read. Trump has consistently dismissed the intelligence community’s findings about Russian hacking.
“I don’t believe they interfered” in the election, he told Time magazine this week. The hacking, he said, “could be Russia. And it could be China. And it could be some guy in his home in New Jersey.”
The CIA shared its latest assessment with key senators in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill last week, in which agency officials cited a growing body of intelligence from multiple sources. (...) The CIA presentation to senators about Russia’s intentions fell short of a formal U.S. assessment produced by all 17 intelligence agencies. A senior U.S. official said there were minor disagreements among intelligence officials about the agency’s assessment, in part because some questions remain unanswered.
For example, intelligence agencies do not have specific intelligence showing officials in the Kremlin “directing” the identified individuals to pass the Democratic emails to WikiLeaks, a second senior U.S. official said. Those actors, according to the official, were “one step” removed from the Russian government, rather than government employees. (...) Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has said in a television interview that the “Russian government is not the source.”
The White House and CIA officials declined to comment. On Friday, the White House said President Obama had ordered a “full review” of Russian hacking during the election campaign, as pressure from Congress has grown for greater public understanding of exactly what Moscow did to influence the electoral process. (...) Obama wants the report before he leaves office Jan. 20, Monaco said. The review will be led by James Clapper, the outgoing director of national intelligence, officials said. (...)
Seven Democratic senators last week asked Obama to declassify details about the intrusions and why officials believe that the Kremlin was behind the operation. (...) This week, top Democratic lawmakers in the House also sent a letter to Obama, asking for briefings on Russian interference in the election. U.S. intelligence agencies have been cautious for months in characterizing Russia’s motivations (...)
In previous assessments, the CIA and other intelligence agencies told the White House and congressional leaders that they believed Moscow’s aim was to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system. The assessments stopped short of saying the goal was to help elect Trump.
On Oct. 7, the intelligence community officially accused Moscow of seeking to interfere in the election through the hacking of “political organizations.” Though the statement never specified which party, it was clear that officials were referring to cyber-intrusions into the computers of the DNC and other Democratic groups and individuals.
Some key Republican lawmakers have continued to question the quality of evidence supporting Russian involvement. “I’ll be the first one to come out and point at Russia if there’s clear evidence, but there is no clear evidence — even now,” said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a member of the Trump transition team. “There’s a lot of innuendo, lots of circumstantial evidence, that’s it.” (...)
The reluctance of the Obama White House to respond to the alleged Russian intrusions before Election Day upset Democrats on the Hill as well as members of the Clinton campaign. (...)
Obama dispatched Monaco, FBI Director James B. Comey and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to make the pitch for a “show of solidarity and bipartisan unity” against Russian interference in the election, according to a senior administration official. Specifically, the White House wanted congressional leaders to sign off on a bipartisan statement urging state and local officials to take federal help in protecting their voting-registration and balloting machines from Russian cyber-intrusions. (...)
In a secure room in the Capitol used for briefings involving classified information, administration officials broadly laid out the evidence U.S. spy agencies had collected, showing Russia’s role in cyber-intrusions in at least two states and in hacking the emails of the Democratic organizations and individuals. And they made a case for a united, bipartisan front in response to what one official described as “the threat posed by unprecedented meddling by a foreign power in our election process.” The Democratic leaders in the room unanimously agreed on the need to take the threat seriously.
Republicans, however, were divided, with at least two GOP lawmakers reluctant to accede to the White House requests. According to several officials, McConnell raised doubts about the underlying intelligence and made clear to the administration that he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.
Some of the Republicans in the briefing also seemed opposed to the idea of going public with such explosive allegations in the final stages of an election, a move that they argued would only rattle public confidence and play into Moscow’s hands. McConnell’s office did not respond to a request for comment. After the election, Trump chose McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, as his nominee for transportation secretary.
Some Clinton supporters saw the White House’s reluctance to act without bipartisan support as further evidence of an excessive caution in facing adversaries. “The lack of an administration response on the Russian hacking cannot be attributed to Congress,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who was at the September meeting.
“The administration has all the tools it needs to respond. They have the ability to impose sanctions. They have the ability to take clandestine means. The administration has decided not to utilize them in a way that would deter the Russians, and I think that’s a problem.”
We don't expect our enemies to think critically - they have agendas to fulfill. But discerning readers & unbiased media should try. pic.twitter.com/GT5AHqrOEz
As the Hillary Clinton campaign slogged toward victory against Sen. Bernie Sanders, word came from WikiLeaks that it had scored a trove of hacked emails to and from the Democratic National Committee. Among other things, they proved that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta had been working to skew the primaries in Clinton’s favor. (...)
The day before the party’s convention on July 24, Wasserman-Schultz resigned. The DNC and the intelligence establishment began claiming, with no hard evidence, that the source of WikiLeaks’ explosive emails was “the Russians.” This was denied by WikiLeaks. Mainstream news organizations adopt this “Russia did it” trope, which despite the lack of proof has only grown more widely accepted.
Then the Washington Post (11/24/16) published an explosive exposé claiming that, as its headline put it, “Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread ‘Fake News’ During Election, Experts Say,” based on a long list of online news sites purported to be either working directly for Moscow or else “useful idiots” unwittingly spreading Russian propaganda.
Incredibly, the list included respected sites like Polk Award-winner Robert Parry’s Consortium News, former LA journalist Robert Sheer’s Truthdig, the news aggregator site Truth-Out.org and the highly regarded financial news site Naked Capitalism [red. as well as mainstays of the alternative media like Wikileaks, Drudge Report, Lew Rockwell, PrisonPlanet, Infowars and ZeroHedge].
The aim of the conspiracy was reportedly to boost Trump’s chances of winning the the presidency, while undermining American support for democracy and creating “the appearance of international tensions” and “fear of looming hostilities with nuclear-armed Russia.”
Washington Post technology reporter Craig Timberg reported that a “nonpartisan” team of “experts” calling themselves PropOrNot used “sophisticated” but unexplained analytical tools and methodologies to identify “more than 200 websites as routine peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season, with audiences of at least 15 million Americans.” Timberg added, “On Facebook, PropOrNot estimates that stories planted or promoted by the disinformation campaign were viewed more than 213 million times.” (there are only 250 million adult Americans).
Timberg charged that many of the stories circulated by these sites were “fake,”. He explained how Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery amplified by right-wing sites across the internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal hiding potentially fatal health problems and preparing to hand control of the nation to a shadowy cabal of global financiers. The PropOrNot approach conflates well-grounded concerns with spurious stories of the sex-trafficking pizza parlor ilk to form a single disinformation juggernaut. (More on PizzaGate)
As the organization’s “executive director” told the Post: The way that this propaganda apparatus supported Trump was equivalent to some massive amount of a media buy…. It was like Russia was running a super PAC for Trump’s campaign…. It worked. “Executive director” here is in quotes because the Washington Post allowed PropOrNot’s entire staff to remain anonymous. Nor did Post editors require Timberg to afford any of the sites PropOrNot maligned as Russian propaganda tools a chance to respond—a basic requirement of responsible journalism.
Timberg wrote that this was to protect PropOrNot’s members from “being targeted by Russia’s legions of skilled hackers.” Efforts by FAIR to elicit comment from Timberg or his superiors, national editor Cameron Barr and editor Marty Baron, were unsuccessful. They referred questions to WPost VP for communications and events Kris Coratti, who would only email this justification for not giving the sites on the blacklist a chance to respond: “The Post did not name any of the sites on PropOrNot’s list of organizations.”
Almost two weeks after its article ran, the WPost ran a sort of correction, but the paper did not name any of the sites [on PropOrNot’s blacklist]. Since publication of the WPost’s story, PropOrNot has removed some of those sites from its list. Of course, the damage was already done. The paper didn’t have to run the list; anyone with a smartphone could do a Google search.
Editors of sites named on its McCarthyite hit list quickly found themselves deluged with venomous calls and emails. Timberg tried to lend his credulous article a sheen of credibility by including a second source of other “independent analysts” also making claims of an epic Russian propaganda conspiracy, but this was a study by the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), a hoary relic of the ’50s still mired in McCarthyite thinking and run by Russophobe veterans of the Reagan and Bush administrations.
At least FPRI’s funding, leadership and the study’s authors were identified. The WPost’s story was really all about PropOrNot’s list and, in contrast to FPRI, the organization remains fully opaque. What is PropOrNot trying to hide? One possibility: The Pentagon. The Defense Department is, after all, spending billions of dollars a year on information warfare, and has, under Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, been promoting the idea of Russia as an existential threat to the US.
One indication of Pentagon involvement is Joel Harding, whose own blog identifies him as a retired longtime military intelligence officer specializing in “information operations, strategic communication and cyberwarfare”—in other words, psychological warfare and propaganda. Harding, who denied (via an email conversation with me) any connection to the 30 or 40 “volunteers” alleged to be working at PropOrNot, is nonetheless the only named “analyst” whose work is cited as a rationale for listing any of the sites on PropOrNot’s list. (The other sites just feature links to the sites themselves.)
One of the sites Harding “analyzed” for PropOrNot and labeled as a major purveyor of Russian propaganda was an obscure site called YourNewsWire.com, which features some news about the US and Russia, as well as conspiracy theories about vaccine links to autism and proof of an afterlife. The other was a remarkably shoddy September 2 analysis of an article in CounterPunch, in which Harding mocked one the contributor whose self-identification as a socialist without mentioning or perhaps noticing that the author’s bio also mentioned he was a Canadian. When CounterPunch editor Joshua Frank wrote to PropOrNot complain about his site’s being labeled as Russian propaganda, PropOrNot said they would remove CounterPunch from their list.
What makes him appear to be more closely allied with or part of PropOrNot’s anonymous team than he admits, however, is a bylined article that appeared on his own site on November 18, six days before PropOrNot’s public debut in the Washington Post. Under the prescient headline “Russian Propaganda Sites: Is It Propaganda or Not?,” Harding offered a preview of the as yet unannounced PropOrNot.com’s “List,” itself dated November 9. This preview list contained 178 names, a bit shorter than the final list’s 200.
While claiming no connection to PropOrNot, Harding said that “some of its people may have been students of mine.” Harding said during this email conversation that he was on his way to the commissary at the US Army’s Ft. Belvoir, a suburban DC base that’s home to INSCOM, the Army’s “information operations” command, and ARCYBER, its cyber command post. Could PropOrNot possibly be linked to a US military psychological warfare program?
Adrian Chen, a staff writer at the New Yorker (12/1/16), offered interesting insight into the genesis of Timberg’s Washington Post article. He said he had received an anonymous email from “The PropOrNot team” in late October saying that as a “newly-formed independent team of computer scientists, statisticians, national security professionals, journalists and political activists, dedicated to identifying propaganda—particularly Russian propaganda targeting a US audience,” they had developed a list of 200 such news sites.
They said that they had brought it to the attention of Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who had recommended they contact Chen. Chen passed. The WPost’s Timberg, however, took the bait, and after his piece appeared, the Post promoted it aggressively. it spread virally to many other newsrooms and papers across the country, running as the lead story on November 25 in the Philadelphia Inquirer and prominently, too, at USA Today, and getting mentions on CBS, PBS, ABC and other news programs. alternative media were quick to fight back.
The Intercept (11/26/16) ran a blistering accusation of the WPost that accused the paper of promoting an organization that “embodies the toxic essence of Joseph McCarthy, but without the courage to attach individual names to the blacklist.” Matt Taibi, in Rolling Stone, condemned Timberg’s “astonishingly lazy report,” adding, of the WPost’s use of a shadowy group to malign 200 news sites without a single identified spokesperson, “Most high school papers wouldn’t touch sources like these.”
By November 30, PropOrNot, issued a press release announcing that it was “reviewing” its methodology. The group said that it would stop listing news sites that were open about who they were and that were running actual news. They also said they would stop using techies to evaluate whether news sites were propaganda organs or not.
The WPost, however, despite its “editor’s note” preface, is still standing by a tawdry story. So is Timberg, who on November 30 enthusiastically cited his earlier piece in reporting on a House/Senate conference working on the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, that approves $160 million to “identify propaganda and counter its effects.” Timberg wrote that the measure, originally produced last spring, had earlier focussed upon propaganda in foreign countries, but he says, enthusiastically linking to his own article of six days earlier:
“The context shifted in recent months as independent experts [those PropOrNot guys!] warned that Russia was carrying out an intensive propaganda campaign during the US election season.”
That should make the folks behind PropOrNot happy. On their own site, while claiming they aren’t trying to censor anybody, they call on the FBI and DOJ to open “formal investigations by the US government, because…we strongly suspect that some of the individuals involved have violated the Espionage Act, the Foreign Agent Registration Act and other related laws.” The irony is that in purporting to expose Russian propaganda manipulation of the media, the Washington Post has provided a graphic demonstration of how the whole propaganda thing works. (Source)
Hillary is the last person on the planet who should whine about #FakeNews, given the number of lies, some monstrous, she planted in the MSM. pic.twitter.com/rq3S2eHVml
