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CONTENTS
President Trump: 'We Caught Them' - Senate Memo Drops The Biggest Bombshells While All Eyes
Were On The House Memo xxx
WOW! Trey Gowdy Strongly Implies Sidney Blumenthal Was A Source For Steele’s Anti-Trump Dossier xxx
Sean Hannity Warns Comey And Christopher Steele:Call Your Lawyers Immediately “TICK TOCK” xxx
DEVELOPING=> Sen. Grassley Releases ‘MUCH-LESS REDACTED’ Version Of ‘Memo 2.0’ xxx
Nets Spend 2x More Airtime On Dow Drop Than Market Rebound xxx
“Somebody’s Going To Have To Go To Prison”: Ex-U.S. Attny Says Memo 2.0 Confirms Obama State
Dept. Official Helped Feed FBI False Info xxx
COMEY IN HOT WATER=> FBI Misled FISA Court By Omitting Christopher Steele LIED About His
Contact With Media Outlets (VIDEO) xxx
Chairman Nunes Reveals JOHN KERRY Was Briefed On ‘Second Dossier’ (VIDEO) xxx
Bozell & Graham Column: Treason? A Common Liberal AccusationTREY GOWDY: Rod
Rosenstein Is The Mastermind Behind Giving Mueller Broad Jurisdiction In Russia Witch Hunt (VIDEO) xxx
Survey: Most Americans REJECT ‘Mainstream’ Media Propaganda On Economy; Give TRUMP Proper
Credit For Our Boom xxx
CNN's Jim Acosta Complains About 'Wildly Offensive' Slam on Lazy 'Dreamers' xxx
Flashback: Obama Plays ‘LIAR In Chief’ With FOX News’ Chris Wallace Over Claim He Doesn’t
Talk With FBI Directors Regarding Investigations (Unless It’s Hillary) (Video) xxx
Alec Baldwin To Michael Wolff: ‘Are You Sick Of Trump?’ xxx
CNN’s Don Lemon Wonders Of Trump Will Bring Nukes To D.C. For Military Parade xxx
TRUMP WAS RIGHT=> Obama Was Spying On Trump Tower And NOW THERE IS PROOF xxx
Tsunami Of New Information Released - Will This Deluge Of Damaging Documentation Make It
Impossible For The Traitors To Stop What Is Coming? xxx
Grassley/Graham Criminal Referral Memo xxx
The Clinton Email Scandal & The FBI’s Investigation Of It xxx
FBI, DOJ And State Dept. Refuse More Than 30 Requests To Turn Over Documents To Senate Committee
Since 2015 xxx
GOP Rep. On New Strzok-Page Texts: Obama Wanted To Know What FBI Was Doing To ‘STOP
TRUMP’ (VIDEO) xxx
Inspector General Sent Lost Strzok-Page Text Messages BACK TO DOJ – After They Were
Recovered (VIDEO) xxx
Memo To Dan Rather: Shut Up About Memos xxx
NEW TEXT From Deep State Lovers Strzok And Page: “I Bought All The President’s Men Figure I Need
To Brush Up On Watergate” xxx
WATCH: TGP’s Jim Hoft Calls For Others To Speak “Truth To Power” Against Silicon Valley At The
Social Media Neutrality Panel xxx
Potus Trump: “New FBI Texts Are Bombshells!” xxx
FLASHBACK=> Obama Claims “I DO NOT Talk To FBI Directors About Pending Investigations” (VIDEO) xxx
Newly Released FBI Text Suggests Strzok-Page Used Untraceable Phones When ‘Talking About Hillary’ xxx
Tom Fitton UNLEASHES On Obama Amid FBI Text Message Firestorm “FISA Wasn’t The Only Way
Obama Gang Spied On Trump” xxx
Newly Released FBI Texts Show Strzok-Page Bashing “Turtle” Mitch McConnell, Trey Gowdy & Paul Ryan xxx
All Three Nets Ignore New FBI Texts, Senate Report Showing Obama Involvement In Clinton Email Probe xxx
Author Of Yahoo News Article Used To Obtain FISA Warrant On Trump Campaign Was Secretly Working
With DNC xxx
EVIDENCE MOUNTS: Carter Page – The Linchpin To Deep State Spying On Trump – Worked As An
FBI Spy xxx
Chairman Nunes Continues To Troll CNN Reporter Over FISA Memo xxx
Carl Bernstein Compares Trump TO McCarthy, Calls Him 'Authoritarian Demagogue' xxx
Anthony Weiner’s Address Book Leaked Online: Includes The Wife Of Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson xxx
FBI Text Messages Show Strzok-Page Bashing Various Nationalities In “Bigoted Terms” xxx
BREAKING: Carter Page – The Linchpin To Deep State Spying On Trump – Was Member Of Clinton
Transition Team xxx
Crazy Adam Schiff Fires Off Unhinged Tweet xxx
Russian Comedians Prank Adam Schiff With Fake Investigation Material xxx
“DOJ Was Very Concerned”: Inspector General Discovered FBI Failed To Flag Clinton
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Emails MARKED CLASSIFIED xxx
FBI Changed Hillary’s Exoneration Letter – Switched “President” To “Senior Government Official”
To Protect Obama xxx
Developing: Rep. Nunes May Go To Supreme Court Chief Justice To Get Answers On FISA Court System xxx
GOP Rep: Benghazi, Fast And Furious Connected To Obama FBI & DOJ Exposed In FISA Memo (AUDIO) xxx
Breaking: GOP Lawmaker Calls For Adam Schiff To Resign From Intel Committee After Ukrainian
Pranksters Call (VIDEO) xxx
SARA CARTER: FBI Informant On Uranium One Breaks His Silence In Explosive Testimony
To Congressional Committees xxx
FBI Informant On Uranium One Breaks Silence Testified To Three Committees On Capitol Hill xxx
“Largest Scandal Ever” — Former US Attorney: We Are Going To See Several Criminal Charges
Against A Number Of DOJ-FBI Officials xxx
POP: Trump’s Approval Rating Better Than OBAMA’s At Same Period In Presidency xxx
FBI Informant Was Told Barack Obama Was Briefed Twice On Uranium One Scandal – Did Nothing
(VIDEO) xxx
New FBI Texts Reveal Strzok And Page Slammed Agents Who Complained About Irregularities
And Special Treatment In Hillary’s Investigation xxx
CNN’s Burnett Spits Bile As She Tries To Discredit Sen Johnson's Review xxx
Matthews Disparages Johnson, Nunes As ‘Munchkins’ Colluding With WH On Memos, Texts xxx
The Memo: Nunes ‘Bombshell’ Fails To Move Debate xxx
Digenova Doubles Down: ‘Heading For Very SAD ENDING For Several FBI, DOJ Officials’ Over FISA,
Team Trump Abuses (Video) xxx
Top Justice Department Official Who Helped Oversee Clinton Email Probe RESIGNS xxx
Informant: Obama Briefed TWICE On Dirty Uranium One Deal, Did NOTHING (Video) xxx
Lovebirds Strzok And Page On March For Life: “F*Cking Marchers Making Traffic Problems”
“I Truly Hate These People” xxx
Clinton Hatchet Man Schearer Peddled TRUMP DIRT Sooner Than Thought; Info Found Its Way
To DOSSIER Author Steele xxx
Emotional Omarosa Breaks Silence On White House Stint, Trashes POTUS Trump On ‘Celebrity
Big Brother’ (VIDEO) xxx
Rob Reiner Says Fighting Trump Is ‘Last Battle Of The Civil War’ xxx
Pillow Talk: Lovebirds Strzok And Page Trash Trump And Texas: “I Hate Trump” – “B*Ttf*Ck Texas” xxx
FBI Withheld Notes From Their Interviews With Christopher Steele From Senate Judiciary Committee xxx
Judge Pirro Goes Off On Comey, McCabe: ‘We’re On The Brink Of Indictments’ Over FBI Corruption xxx
Media In Tug Of War Over Scope Of Obama's Sept. 2016 Interest In 'Everything' xxx
CNN Calls Fox News 'Spin Machine', Argues Trump Lives In 'Parallel Universe' xxx
New Evidence Suggests Peter Strzok’s Cell Phone Use Violated Rules Protecting Classified Information xxx
Really? MSNBC Turns to Fmr. Bill Clinton Staffer to Lecture Trump White House on Scandal xxx
BREAKING: Another Longtime Aide To James Comey OUT At FBI xxx
McCarthy: Lisa Page’s Text PROVES That Mueller CANNOT Plausibly Charge Trump With
‘OBSTRUCTION’ xxx
Green Billionaire, Trump-Hater And ‘Need To Impeach’ Founder Tom Steyer Hires 50 Staffers For Possible
2020 Run xxx
Poll: 50% Think Federal Officials Broke The Law To Block Trump Presidency xxx
Judicial Watch Sues FBI For Documents On Comey Book Deal, Coordination Before Senate Intel Testimony xxx
Trump UNLOADS On DEM Sen. Warner For ‘EXTENSIVE CONTACT’ With ‘Russian Oligarch’
— Tied To ‘Crooked Hillary’ xxx
100 Far Left Activists Sign Up To Lie Down In Front Of Tanks In Trump’s Military Parade xxx
Comey Memoir Release Date Moved Up Because FBI Is Under “Intense Scrutiny” xxx
Bannon: ‘Why Are McConnell, Ryan Letting DEMS Investigate TRUMP?’ xxx
BREAKING: Top Democrat Mark Warner Tried To Organize ‘Private Mtg’ With Dossier Author
Through Lobbyist Of Russian Oligarch (VIDEO) xxx
CNN Warns Of Russian Collusion...At The National Prayer Breakfast?! xxx
SHOCK VIDEO=> DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison Sits And Applauds As Linda Sarsour Calls
America Racist, Hateful Country Founded On Murder xxx
Peter Strzok Savages Chelsea Clinton In Newly Released FBI Text Messages xxx
PAUL RYAN Promises Democrats To Pass Amnesty – Will Get To It Next (VIDEO) xxx
Trump Maligned As Mad ‘Dictator’ By Estrella TV xxx
ABC Blames Trump Tax Cuts For Dow Plunging Twice In One Week xxx
Hypocrisy: Matthews Rebuffs Trump-O.J. Simpson Comparison, Used It Himself Last Year xxx
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Marco Rubio Defends Dem Senator Who Tried To Organize Private Meeting With Christopher
Steele – Twitter Responds xxx
POTUS Trump Unleashes On Sneaky Mark Warner For Trying To Organize Secret London
Meeting With Christopher Steele xxx
Joe Concha: Media’s Trump Anger Mostly ‘Performance Art At This Point’ xxx
Love Trumps Hate: Bette Midler Wishes Violence Upon Senator Rand Paul Over Shutdown xxx
Criminal Clinton Cabal Crumbles – The Real Russian Hoax Exposed As Democrats Ironically Caught
Colluding With Russia xxx
President Trump’s Debt Increase Is A Third Of Obama’s Debt Increase And The President Is Decreasing
The Debt To GDP Ratio xxx
Bombshell Testimony Of FBI Informant Implicates Many For Treason xxx
HUGE: Comey Was FORCED To Tell Congress About Weiner Emails Only Because George Toscas At
DOJ Found Out About Them! xxx
Hannity: Evidence Is Coming That Will Rock DC’s Foundation xxx
CONFIRMED: Cash From Obama’s $1.7 Billion Ransom Payment To Iran Traced To Terrorist Groups
(VIDEO) xxx
Why ‘Russian Meddling’ Is A Trojan Horse xxx
BREAKING: “Rather Not Have A Paper Trail” Top Dem Texted Russian Oligarch Lobbyist With
App That DELETES ALL MESSAGES xxx
Peter Strzok Suggested Mystery FISA Application Contained ‘Material Misrepresentations’ xxx
Rachel Maddow Bows and Scrapes Before Potential President Eric Holder xxx
Dem Senator Mark Warner Responds To Backlash Over His Attempt To Secretly Meet With Steele –
Thanks Little Marco! xxx
Daily Caller Exposes CNN’s Shady Hiring Of Former Comey Aide To Provide FBI Spin xxx
CNN’s Van Jones To Conan O’Brien: President Trump ‘Is A Joke’GOP Lawmaker: POTUS Expected
To Release Dem Spin Memo Today (VIDEO) xxx
Kasie Hunt Accidentally Admits Dems To Blame For January Government Shutdown xxx
Joy Behar, Meghan McCain Clash On ‘View’ In Fiery Fight Over Republicans xxx
REPORT: President Trump Proposing ‘Biggest Civil Service Change’ In A Generation xxx
‘Some Are Ready To Talk’: FBI Officials In Clinton Email Probe May Have Mishandled ‘Extremely
Sensitive & Classified’ Intel xxx
HANNITY WARNS: Evidence Is Coming That Will “Rock The Foundation Of Washington, D.C.” (VIDEO) xxx
Sick Hillary Coughs A Lung Out As She Vows To ‘Never Give Up’ (VIDEO) xxx
Mainstream Media’s Viral Video Of The Day Is President Trump’s Hair Blowing In Wind …And They
Wonder Why We Don’t Trust Them? xxx
Trump Attorney GOES OFF On Sneaky Dem Senator Mark Warner And Crooked Senate Intel
Committee In Epic Rant (VIDEO) xxx
Top Senate Democrat Calls On Treasury Dept. To Investigate Trump’s Palm Beach Estate Sale 10
YEARS AGO – Because Russia, Russia, Russia… xxx
Is The Steele Dossier Full Of ‘Russian Dirt’ – Or British? xxx
“This Is A Very Big Deal”: Meet The Trump Appointees Who Could Replace Outgoing DOJ Official
Rachel Brand – **UPDATED** xxx
Breaking: Peter Strzok KNEW Hillary Camp Used Bleachbit To Delete Emails – The Week They Were
Deleted xxx
WOW! U.S. Spies Paid $100,000 To ‘Shadowy’ Russian Promising Damning ‘Kompromat’ On Trump xxx
BREAKING: President Trump WILL NOT Release Adam Schiff’s Seriously Flawed Democrat Spin
Memo …Update: FBI Refused Release xxx
Adam Schiff Blows A Gasket After POTUS Trump Refuses To Release His Junk Memo xxx
HANNITY: This Is Just A Sliver Of The Deep State Corruption That Is Coming Out (VIDEO) xxx
‘Cryin’ Chuck’ Schumer Is Blocking Vote For Trump German Ambassador Pick Richard Grenell – So
That CIA In Berlin Can Blow Cash On Bogus Naked Trump Shots xxx
GOP Lawmakers Release BLISTERING VIDEO=> DNC And Deep State Hacks LIED TO FISA COURT
To Spy On Trump Campaign! #Lockthemup xxx
Former DOJ Inspector General Was Targeted And Pushed Out By Deep State After Exposing Hillary
Email Crimes (VIDEO) xxx
Very, Very Bad News For Mainstream Media - 31% Of Democrats, 55% Of Independents Paying Close
Attention To FISA Abuse Issue Know The MSM Is Lying To Them xxx
Trump DESTROYS Adam Schiff, Tells Him: Redo Your Crap Response Memo And “Send Back In
Proper Form” xxx
Democrat Tim Canova: FBI Would Rather Chase ‘Russian Phantoms’ Than Wasserman Schultz’ Stolen
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Congressional Election xxx
More Bad News For #Fakenews Mainstream Media: Americans Overwhelmingly Believe Obama Spied On
Trump xxx
Former Federal Prosecutor Joseph Digenova Reveals Unfolding Unknown Events And Facts About The
FISA-Russian-Clinton-FBI-Trump Mess xxx
SAME DEEP STATE TEAM That Cleared Hillary And Spied On Trump Transition Team Is Now
Working With Mueller And Destroying Evidence xxx
Boom! GOP House Intel Member Drops Bomb On Judge Jeanine: You’re Going To Hear A Lot More
About Bill Priestap (VIDEO) xxx
PBS Analyst Compares Trump White House To Communist East Berlin xxx
Former Secret Service Agent: Democrats Are “Covering Up the Biggest Scandal in Modern Political History” xxx
(VIDEO)
We Were Right=> Rep. Devin Nunes: Carter Page Worked For FBI As Informant – Cooperated With
FBI In 2013 (VIDEO) xxx
DIRTY DEEP STATE: Mueller And Rosenstein Tried To Get Manafort’s Case Thrown Out – They Know
It Will End Corrupt Special Counsel xxx
Rep. Devin Nunes: Why Does Deep State Refuse To Prosecute Christopher Steele? This Is A
Slam-Dunk Case! (Where’s Jeff Sessions?) xxx
BOOM! Rep. Devin Nunes: WE KNOW AG Lynch And Secretary Of State Kerry Were Aware Of Crap
Dossier Used To Spy On Trump (Video) xxx
Freedom Caucus Chair Busts Adam Schiff And Democrats In Major Lie On Secret Memo xxx
House Freedom Caucus Chair Meadows BLASTS Adam Schiff, Dems Over Their Bogus Counter-Memo xxx
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President Trump: 'We Caught Them'
- Senate Memo Drops The Biggest Bombshells
While All Eyes Were On The House Memo
- The Brilliant And Ultimate Bait And Switch
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
February 6, 2018
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Furthermore, one of the things not redacted in the criminal him not being president.' This clear
referral memo is that in late September 2016, Steele claims evidence of Steele's bias was recorded by
that at the behest of Fusion GPS, who was paid by the Ohr at the time and subsequently in the
Clinton campaign and the DNC, Steele was shopping this official FBI files-but not reflected in any of
information obtained by Clinton allies, from foreign sub- the Page FISA applications."
sources, given to Steele by Obama State Department
officials, to the New York Times, Washington Post, Yahoo In other words, while liberals and the media are making a
News, The New Yorker and CNN. big deal about the fact that the FISA application did
mention "opposition" funding for the Steele dossier, they
Via Page 4-5 of the Senate Judiciary Committee's did not mention it was the Clinton campaign and the DNC
declassified criminal referral against Steele, states the specifically that funded it, nor did they tell the FISA judge
following: that the man that created the dossier had an extreme bias
against Donald Trump, which they knew and had noted in
(U) In Steele's sworn court filings in litigation in their files, nor that it was Clinton political activists that
London, he admitted that he "gave off the record passed information from foreign sub-sources to an Obama
briefings to a small number of journalists about State Department, which gave it to Steele.
the pre-election memoranda [i.e., the dossier] in
late summer/autumn 2016." In another sworn filing in In Cincinnati, President Trump addressed the new
that case, Mr. Steele further stated that journalists information from the memos, saying
from "the New York Times, the Washington Post,
Yahoo News, the New Yorker, and CNN" were "Oh, but did we catch them in the act or
"briefed at the end of September 2016 by [Steele] what? You know what I’m talking about.
and Fusion at Fusion's instruction." The filing Oh, did we catch them in the act? They are
further states that Mr. Steele subsequently very embarrassed.They never thought
participated in further meetings at Fusion's they’d get caught. We caught them. We
instruction with Fusion and the New York Times, caught them. It’s so much fun. We’re like
the Washington Post, and Yahoo News, which the great sleuth."
took place mid-October 2016. According to these
court filings "[t]he briefings involved the disclosure of
limited intelligence regarding indications of Russian
interference in the U.S. election process and the
possible coordination of members of Trump's
campaign team and Russian government officials." In
his interview with the Committee, Glenn Simpson of
Fusion GPS confirmed this account by Mr. Steele and
his company as filed in British court."
Brilliantly done.
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WOW! Trey Gowdy Strongly Implies Sidney Blumenthal
Was A Source For Steele’s Anti-Trump Dossier
By Joshua Caplan
February 6, 2018, 7:32 Pm
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Sean Hannity Warns Comey And Christopher Steele:
Call Your Lawyers Immediately “TICK TOCK”
By Cristina Laila
February 6, 2018, 7:39 Pm
Sean Hannity is speaking with investigative reporter Sara The batch of letters were sent to former DNC chairwoman
Carter Tuesday evening. She may have some bombshell Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former interim DNC
news about the dossier and future memos. chairwoman Donna Brazile, current DNC chair, Tom
Perez, former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta
and former Clinton campaign chief strategist Joel
Hannity tweeted Tuesday evening, Benenson.
“Christopher Steele and @Comey, my advice is It is being reported that several memos will be released
to call your lawyers immediately. Full report on and the worst is yet to come.
Hannity in 32 minutes. Tick tock tick tock ….”
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DEVELOPING=> Sen. Grassley Releases
‘MUCH-LESS REDACTED’ Version Of ‘Memo 2.0’
By Joshua Caplan
February 6, 2018, 8:27 Pm
On Tuesday, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Page three of the report reveals,
released a “much-less redacted,” version of
“”The FBI stated to the FISC that “based on
this week’s criminal referral — also known
[Steele’s] previous history with the FBI, whereby
as memo 2.0 — of former British intelligence
[Steele] provided reliable information to the FBI,
officer Christopher Steele.
the FBI believe [Steele’s] reporting to be
credible.””
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Independent researcher Brian Cates summed up the less-
redacted memo in a series of tweets.
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Nets Spend 2x More Airtime
On Dow Drop Than Market Rebound
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 6, 2018 8:50 PM EST
On Monday, all three of the liberal networks covered the The networks’ hyper-focus on the Dow’s market
drop as their lead story with none of them giving it less correction but not the rebound was a part of their trend of
than three minutes. ABC’s World News Tonight had a largely ignoring how well stocks and investments were
solid three minutes; CBS Evening News with three minutes doing in general. According to the Media Research
and five seconds; NBC Nightly News devoted the most Center study by Julia A. Seymour, the networks have
with a panicked three minutes, 40 seconds. The combined censored 75 percent of the Dow’s record-breaking since
total was nine minutes and 45 seconds. the start of 2017.
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“Somebody’s Going To Have To Go To Prison”:
Ex-U.S. Attny Says Memo 2.0 Confirms Obama State Dept.
Official Helped Feed FBI False Info
By Joshua Caplan
February 6, 2018, 9:43 Pm
In an interview with Laura Ingraham DiGenova:
Tuesday evening, former U.S. Attorney Joe
DiGenova said he believes the Grassley- The Grassley-Graham memo establishes
Graham letter — memo 2.0 — confirms beyond any doubt that the FBI knowingly
Obama State Department officials helped deceived the FISA court about the information it
feed the FBI false information through was presenting to them, lied to them about the
dossier author Christopher Steele. fact that it was verified information, which it was
not — which the law requires. And now we
Such information was then used by the FBI know that additional Clinton allies, including
to obtain FISA warrants to surveil the Trump Sidney Blumenthal, were involved in the
campaign. transmission of false information, unverified
information to the FBI through State
Department officials. Somebody’s going to have
to go to prison.”
Carter reports:
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Steele, whose prior work with British Blumenthal, was a source for Christopher Steele’s anti-
intelligence gave him access to U.S. Trump dossier.
intelligence and State Department officials, also
appeared to be in contact with Jonathan Winer,
a current State Department official who also
worked under then-Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton. Winer is the “State Department’s
Special Envoy for Libya and Senior Advisor for
MEK resettlement,” according to the State
Department website.
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COMEY IN HOT WATER=> FBI Misled FISA Court By
Omitting Christopher Steele LIED About His Contact With
Media Outlets (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 6, 2018, 9:56 Pm
On Tuesday, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) It is a crime to lie to the FBI. (unless you’re Hillary
released a “much-less redacted,” version of Clinton).
the Senate Judiciary Committee’s criminal
Ed Henry of Fox News reported:
referral of dossier author Christopher
Steele. “The Grassley memo tonight now goes on to
say that in fact the FBI then went back after
Comey is in hot water. The unredacted memo reveals the learning that Christopher Steele misrepresented
FBI misled the FISA court about Christopher Steele’s things and did talk to the media–the FBI never
contacts with the media outlets. disclosed that to the FISA court and kept going
back for renewals of the surveillance warrant
On September 23rd 2016, Michael Isikoff of Yahoo and didn’t say to the court look things have
News ran a story about Trump’s campaign advisor Carter changed, we no longer think he’s reliable–he
Page and his possible ‘secret channels’ to Russia. Not only lied to us and spoke to the media.
did this Yahoo article come from Christopher Steele, it VIDEO:
was used in the FISA application to obtain a FISA warrant.
The FBI misled the FISA court yet again about their
rockstar dossier author Christopher Steele.
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Chairman Nunes Reveals JOHN KERRY
Was Briefed On ‘Second Dossier’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 6, 2018, 10:41 Pm
Chairman Nunes (R-CA) spoke with Fox News host Laura DiGenova:
Ingraham Tuesday evening after Grassley released a less
redacted version of the Senate Judiciary memo on The Grassley-Graham memo establishes
Christopher Steele. beyond any doubt that the FBI knowingly
deceived the FISA court about the information it
Nunes said the first phase of the House Intel investigation was presenting to them, lied to them about the
was the FISA abuse and the next phase is looking at the fact that it was verified information, which it was
irregularities at Obama’s State Department. not — which the law requires. And now we
know that additional Clinton allies, including
Sidney Blumenthal, were involved in the
Chairman Nunes revealed John Kerry had been briefed on
transmission of false information, unverified
the ‘second dossier’. information to the FBI through State
Department officials. Somebody’s going to have
” There were comments over the weekend from to go to prison.”
people from within the State Department that
said John Kerry had been briefed on the In a letter released Monday, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-
dossier–the new dossier whatever this new IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) revealed Steele complied
dossier is and that they also provided it to the an anti-Trump memo based on information given to him
FBI,” Nunes said. by a Hillary Clinton contact and Obama State Department
official.
VIDEO:
The fish rots from the head down. The corruption leads all
the way up to Obama’s desk.
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Bozell & Graham Column: Treason?
A Common Liberal Accusation
By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
February 6, 2018 10:57 PM EST
“Somebody said, treasonous,” he mused. “I – March 2, 2017: CNN contributor Maria Cardona, on
mean, yeah, I guess, why not?” Attorney General Jeff Sessions: “He knows he is smack in
the middle of this investigation having to do with perhaps
Meltdown. treasonous activities by the Trump campaign.”
The media outrage was summarized by CNN analyst – March 28, 2017: MSNBC anchor Kate Snow brought on
Jeffrey Toobin: liberal historian Douglas Brinkley, promoting his quote:
“You told the Washington Post last week that, quote,
‘There’s a smell of treason in the air,’ when it comes to
“It is so grotesque! It is so appalling...I just
this [Russia] investigation.”
wonder what the cost is, in terms of the
future of our civic discourse!”
– May 11, 2017, On ABC’s “The View,” co-host Joy
Behar screeched about the press being barred from a
At this point we should just start laughing at the press.
Trump meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei
These self-appointed watchdogs of the “civic discourse”
Lavrov: “This is treason to me! This is un-American!”
weren’t a bit outraged when liberals tossed that T-word
like a Frisbee at anyone criticizing President Obama. Here
are just a few examples. – June 25, 2017: Hollywood director Rob Reiner
uncorked treason as a Twitter hashtag. “When Fox says
that DT colluding with the enemy is not a crime, the fight
– June 11, 2014: CNN anchor Carol Costello brought on
to save Democracy is now an all out war. US-Stay strong.
leftist Cliff Schecter to promote his article suggesting
#Treason”
leaders of the National Rifle Association were “treasonous
and murderous.” Costello could only add: “Um, I don’t
know. That’s really strong.” – July 18, 2017: Former MSNBC star Keith Olbermann
tweeted in reply to the president asserting most people in
politics would have met a foreign official to get negative
– July 9, 2014: MSNBC host Michael Eric Dyson went
information on their opponent: “Sure! Benedict Arnold
ballistic over Sarah Palin’s suggestion that Obama be
would have. And Aaron Burr. And Charles Lindbergh.
impeached: "The President's push towards positive and
And Quisling. And Marshal Petain. That's politics!
crucial change was met with treasonous accusations."
Annnnnd treason!”
– June 27, 2015: The Daily Beast posted an article on
dissenters in the Supreme Court’s gay-marriage decision:
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Speaking of “grotesque” and “appalling” overstatements, would greedily reach out to the Russian government for
let’s consult the accuser himself, Jeffrey Toobin, dirt on their opponent, as Donald Trump Jr. and company
responding on CNN on January 3, 2018 to Steve Bannon did, does feel treasonous in a sort of colloquial sense.”
suggesting Donald Trump Jr was treasonous: “The idea
that people involved in an American presidential campaign Liberals are the worst hypocrites on “civic discourse.”
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TREY GOWDY: Rod Rosenstein Is The Mastermind
Behind Giving Mueller Broad Jurisdiction In
Russia Witch Hunt (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 6, 2018, 11:06 Pm
On Tuesday, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) sat The dirty dossier was used to obtain a spy warrant to spy
down with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum for on Donald Trump’s political campaign. Without the phony
his first interview since he announced his dossier we wouldn’t have a Mueller witch hunt.
retirement from public service.
VIDEO:
When asked why Special Counsel Mueller was given such
a broad jurisdiction to basically investigate whatever he
wants under the guise of the ‘Russia investigation’, Gowdy
confirmed it was Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
who was the mastermind behind the language giving
Mueller broad jurisdiction to go on a fishing excursion.
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Survey: Most Americans REJECT ‘Mainstream’
Media Propaganda On Economy; Give TRUMP
Proper Credit For Our Boom
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 7, 2018
Obama never experienced a 3-percent quarterly growth in The survey comes amid conflicting reports
gross domestic product (GDP) his entire eight-year in so-called “mainstream” and alternative
presidency media as to whose policies — Trump’s or
Obama’s — should get the credit.
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CNN's Jim Acosta Complains About
'Wildly Offensive' Slam on Lazy 'Dreamers'
By Tim Graham
February 7, 2018 11:38 AM EST
Soopermexican at The Right Scoop arrived first at the SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: Look, the only person
latest example of Jim Acosta banging a can against Team that's actually offered a solution is this administration. The
Trump on Tuesday night for describing some "Dreamers" president's been a championed of giving 1.8 million DACA
as too lazy to apply for DACA status to prevent them from recipients and DACA eligible people a pathway to
deportation. Chief of staff John Kelly told The Washington citizenship, and he's laid a plan and a solution that actually
Post some were "too lazy to get off their asses." This addresses both Republicans and Democrats' concerns. I
sounds designed to get Acosta's goat, and he unloaded on think it's hard to argue with that statement.
Anderson Cooper 360:
ACOSTA: On the surface of that, isn't it just an offensive
comment, though, isn't it, just on its surface?
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Flashback: Obama Plays ‘LIAR In Chief’ With FOX News’
Chris Wallace Over Claim He Doesn’t Talk With FBI
Directors Regarding Investigations (Unless
It’s Hillary) (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 7, 2018
“I do not talk to FBI directors about pending comes to the Justice Department because
investigations” nobody is above the law,” he added.
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Alec Baldwin To Michael Wolff:
‘Are You Sick Of Trump?’
By Corinne Weaver
February 7, 2018 11:58 AM EST
It’s ironic that the people that have made money from
Trump’s presidency are complaining that they don’t like Wolff considers his decision to write the book (fact-
their newfound source of wealth. checked by the liberal Politifact and found wanting)
almost like a religious mission.
According to Deadline Hollywood, Alec Baldwin and
Michael Wolff made an appearance at New York’s Town “Sometimes, one is called,” he told
Hall to whine about “acute Trump fatigue.” The actor, who Baldwin.
plays President Trump on Saturday Night Live, “confessed
to sometimes looking at the orange Trump wig in the SNL The author continued,
dressing room and feeling drained,” according to Dade
Hayes. Baldwin stated: “I didn’t feel myself looking at this from a
big lens. It was very much up close...I’m
“I do have this fatigue. I do sit there and not thinking about the country. What I felt
say ‘I don’t want to be this motherfucker most of all that everybody there was tainted
again.’” by this, felt tainted by this and believed that
they would not come out ahead, that this
was a net loss.”
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CNN’s Don Lemon Wonders Of Trump
Will Bring Nukes To D.C. For Military Parade
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 7, 2018 12:47 AM EST
Lemon kicked off the first hour of his show with the
denouement of the parade and he seemed almost
bewildered by the idea.
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DACA. But he sounded hopeful that the plan would fall LEMON: Admiral Kirby, you first. You're strongly against this
through: idea. Why is that?
It would be really interesting to see how the military JOHN KIRBY: For a few reasons. One, I can’t get past the fact,
handles this tasking now, Don, and whether they can walk Don, this is probably more about his ego more than anything
any of this back. I mean, we're talking like they're already else. I mean, who’s the rocket man now? And number two, the
looking at dates. I think they're actually much earlier in United States military does not need to show off its hardware to
this process. And they hopefully will be able to either not show its strength. This is not the way a superpower behaves. I
do it or do it in a way that's a lot more tasteful than what I think it's frankly a little bit beneath us. And if you want to show
think the President has in mind. support for the troops or showcase our important our military is,
then get them a budget. Do what Secretary Mattis did today
The anti-Trump commentary got particularly out of hand when he was on Capitol Hill, arguing strenuously to get a budget.
when presidential historian Douglas Brinkley claimed that
President Troop didn’t want to be around the troops in (…)
anyway:
LEMON: So Douglas, presidents don't normally do this, which I
You know, the part that bothers me, Don, is Donald Trump guess shouldn't surprise us. What's your perspective?
is yet to visit our 15,000 troops in Afghanistan. We have
6,000 troops in Syria and Iraq. He's never gone to even see DOUGLAS BRINKLEY: That Donald Trump is a showman. You
them. You know, Barack Obama was president three know, he likes the kind of bling and blang, casino kind of bells
months and he went to Iraq. George W. Bush went four ringing, thinks this parade will be a great idea. You know, the part
times to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan. The big gap here is that bothers me, Don, is Donald Trump is yet to visit our 15,000
a president that doesn't want to go meet our troops. He troops in Afghanistan. We have 6,000 troops in Syria and Iraq.
goes to Mar-a-Lago instead. He's never gone to even see them.
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JAMES MARKS: No, I -- I find it a bit difficult to even talk about (…)
the details of what this parade would look like, because I –
KIRBY: It would be really interesting to see how the military
LEMON: It felt silly asking you. handles this tasking now, Don, and whether they can walk any of
this back. I mean, we're talking like they're already looking at
[Crosstalk] dates. I think they're actually much earlier in this process. And
they hopefully will be able to either not do it or do it in a way
that's a lot more tasteful than what I think the President has in
MARKS: It wouldn't look like a parade we see in Pyongyang,
mind.
certainly. It wouldn't look like a parade we used to see when the
Soviet Union would roll their massive military across Red Square.
It would look like a bunch of great Americans who were probably (…)
feeling a bit embarrassed that they were required to do this,
marching down Pennsylvania Avenue.
.
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TRUMP WAS RIGHT=> Obama Was Spying On Trump
Tower And NOW THERE IS PROOF
By Jim Hoft
February 7, 2018, 7:28 Am
Back in March 2017 President Trump Newly revealed text messages between FBI paramours
tweeted about Barack Obama’s illegal Peter Strzok and Lisa Page include an exchange about
spying on the Trump campaign in 2016. preparing talking points for then-FBI Director James
Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted “to know
POTUS Trump tweeted this in March. everything we’re doing.”
Now this…
Trump was right.
Obama WAS spying on candidate
Trump!
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Tsunami Of New Information Released - Will This Deluge
Of Damaging Documentation Make It Impossible For The
Traitors To Stop What Is Coming?
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
February 7, 2018
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DOC. 1) GRASSLEY/GRAHAM MEMO, with Mr. Steele and whether the FBI relied on his dossier
REDACTIONS REMOVED, CONFIRMS work," they find that after evaluating those classified
HOUSE FISA ABUSE MEMO CLAIMS documents, in light of sworn statements made by Mr.
Steele in British litigation, Steele lied to the FBI or the
After the House Intelligence Committee's FISA abuse British court, or that classified documents reviewed by
memo was released to the public, the Senate Judiciary their committee "contained materially false statements."
Committee requested the FBI conduct an expedited full
declassification review since information contained with On Page 4, the memo explains the committee's chairman,
the criminal referral memo was based on the same ranking member and subcommittee chairman had the
underlying documentation as was the House's FISA abuse opportunity to review a total of four FISA applications,
memo. The FBI complied and by February 6, 2018, had which relied on the Steele dossier to seek surveillance of a
declassified the majority of what had previously been Trump campaign team member, Carter Page.
blacked out (redacted) originally in the criminal referral
against Steele, leaving a more comprehensive and detailed On Page 5 of the Grassley/Graham criminal referral memo,
account of what led the Senate Judiciary Committee to it states that the FBI noted the "vaguely limited extent
refer Steele to the DOJ for criminal charges. origins of the dossier," before stating "The application
failed to disclose" to the FISA court "the identities of Mr.
The 10-page declassified Grassley document, which is Simpson's ultimate clients were the Clinton campaign and
embedded, explains on Page 3 that after looking at the DNC." Simpson runs Fusion GPS, which paid Steele.
"classified documents relevant to the FBI's relationship
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DOC. 2 AND 3) THE CLINTON EMAIL SCANDAL sense and concern there’s no big there there.” The
AND THE FBI’S INVESTIGATION OF IT - messages strongly underscore the need to obtain still-
INTERIM REPORT missing text messages and other information regarding
the FBI’s actions and investigations into the Clinton
The next two documents embedded are a 25 page, Senate email scandal and Russian involvement in the
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee November 2016 election.
interim report, titled "The Clinton Email Scandal And The
FBI’s Investigation Of It," where the the chairman, U.S. Senior FBI officials—likely including Deputy Director
Sen. Ron Johnson, released their majority staff report, Andrew McCabe— knew about newly discovered
along with a 502 page document detailing the damning text emails on a laptop belonging to former U.S. Rep.
messages between senior FBI official Peter Strzok, who Anthony Weiner for almost a month before Director
played key roles in both the Clinton investigation and the Comey notified Congress.
initiating of the Russia probe, and his lover FBI laywer
Lisa Page. In the executive summary of the 25 page interim report, it
states clearly"
"The report details the congressional
investigation of former Secretary of State The FBI is the nation’s premier law
Hillary Clinton’s private email server and enforcement agency, and it is crucial that
the oversight of the Federal Bureau of the public has full faith and confidence in its
Investigation’s involvement with their integrity and impartiality. Unfortunately, a
investigation of Secretary Clinton’s private number of actions taken by high-level
server." FBI officials have legitimately called
both into question."
Some of the key findings contained within the interim
report, and the text messages themselves, are described on What jumped out at me in reading through the report, from
the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs website, the same executive summary, on Page 2, was their specific
in their press release: mention that the
The report outlines how information available to the "Office of Special Counsel ultimately
committee at this time raises serious questions about how initiated a Hatch Act investigation into FBI
the FBI applied the rule of law in its investigation. The Director James Comey’s public statements
majority staff report found that: about the Clinton investigation," along with
the "Justice Department Office of Inspector
The FBI did not use a grand jury to compel testimony General (DOJ OIG) also initiated an
and obtain the vast majority of evidence, choosing investigation into Director Comey’s
instead to offer immunity deals and allow fact actions."
witnesses to join key interviews.
We knew of the OIG year-long investigation as much of
There were substantial edits to former FBI Director the documentation discussed to date, specifically the text
James Comey’s public statement that served to messages between Strzok and Page, were uncovered and
downplay the severity of Secretary Clinton’s actions, reported by the OIG, but it has not been widely reported
and that the first draft of the memo was distributed for that Comey himself had been under investigation for
editing two months before key witnesses were potentially violating the Hatch Act.
interviewed.
Both documents are embedded below, first the 25 page
Director Comey stated that he had not consulted with interim report and then the 502 page report of the text
the Justice Department or White House, when text messages, including the most recently published.
messages among FBI agents involved in the
investigation suggest otherwise. Two key investigators 2018-02-07
discuss an “insurance policy” against the “risk” of a
Trump presidency, and “OUR task.” Interim Report_The Clinton Email
Scandal and the FBI's Investigation of It
Messages discuss “unfinished business,” “an by Scott Johnson
investigation leading to impeachment,” and “my gut
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As to the 502 page document below [see in separate book [ Strzok-Page email texts by Chuck Ross are in a separate
#24a], please note that it starts with emails/texts sent not book Trump Presidency #24a - Appendix and is 502
only between Strzok and Page, but those that included pages ]
them in a chain of emails/texts, and what immediately
catches the eye is the date, May 2016, listed at the top of BOTTOM LINE
the document, where different team members weigh in on
a rough draft of former FBI Director James Comey's public Information has been coming out fast and furiously, with
statement saying he would not recommend charges be the Grassley/Graham, after removing the majority of the
brought against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private earlier redactions coming out on February 6, 2018, and
email server and her handling of classified information. both the Interim report and the latest dump of Strzok/Page
texts released on February 7, 2018, capping off a number
The fact that these discussions and the rough draft of revelations over the past few weeks, showing that after
exonerating her include dates from early May 2016, and in months upon months of investigations, evidence clearly
June 2016, when Comey's public statement did not occur shows considerable wrong-doing, to the point of
until July 5, 2016, and the FBI's interview of Hillary criminality within a number of intelligence agencies at the
Clinton herself was not until July 2, 2016, it is clear that highest levels of their senior officials.
Comey lied through his teeth back in September 2017,
when he told Congress that no decision had been made to Note- Congressional committees can and are investigating,
exonerate Hillary Clinton before her July 2, 2016 but they do not have the power to bring criminal charges,
interview. that comes from referring matters for criminal
investigation to the DOJ, while providing them with the
Comey then stated at approximated the 2:40 minute mark documentation that prompted those referrals. Also while
in the video below, over 1.2 million documents have been handed over to
congress from the year-long DOJ Office of Inspector
"If colleagues of ours believe I am lying General into FBI/DOJ misconduct, the full OIG
about when I made this decision, please investigation is still not complete, nor has the IG's full
urge them to contact me privately so we report on his findings been released.
can have a conversation about this. All I
can do is tell you again, the decision was As the headline states, it is too late for the deep state
made after that because I didn't know what members, implicated in attempting to meddle and
was going to happen in that interview." influence the 2016 presidential election, then actively
plotting to overthrow a duly elected president, to change
the course of events or stop the flow which has become a
tsunami of information from reaching the public.
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FBI, DOJ And State Dept. Refuse More Than 30 Requests
To Turn Over Documents To Senate Committee Since 2015
By Jim Hoft
February 7, 2018, 8:00 Am
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FBI’s basis for assessing that Secretary Clinton was Office of the Director of National Intelligence
“extremely careless” but not “grossly negligent.” (July 5,
2016 request). ODNI’s efforts to mitigate the damage caused by
FBI’s basis for reviewing additional emails recovered classified information on Secretary Clinton’s
that relate to Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email private email server. (September 16, 2015
server. (October 28, 2016 request). request).
FBI’s timeline for identifying and reporting newly ODNI resources and costs relating to Secretary
discovered emails recovered that relate to Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email server and related
Clinton’s use of a private email server. (November 7, investigations. (July 11, 2016 request).
2016 request).
FBI’s consent for the FBI to release unredacted copies Other
of the Office of Special Counsel’s Hatch Act
investigation of Director Comey. (December 13, 2017
request). Interview request with Bryan Pagliano. (September 4,
FBI’s evidence for changing Director Comey’s 2015 request).
statement that Secretary Clinton was “grossly Interview request with Justin Cooper. (December 7,
negligent” to “extremely careless.” (December 14, 2017 2015 request).
request). Interview request with John Bentel. (March 4, 2016
A complete list of all FBI employees involved in the request).
FBI’s investigation of classified information on Interview request with Marcel Lazar (April 27, 2016
Secretary Clinton’s private email server. (December 14, request).
2017 request). Records about Clinton Executive Services Corp.
FBI’s basis for changing Director Comey’s statement to (September 18, 2015 request).
remove a reference to the Intelligence Community.
(December 14, 2017 request). It’s time to start arresting some
FBI’s basis for editing Director Comey’s statement to criminals. If they won’t provide the
downgrade the assessment that it was “reasonably documents requested, throw them in jail
likely” that hostile actors gained access to Secretary until they do!
Clinton’s private email server to merely that it was
“possible.” (December 14, 2017 request).
FBI records destroyed connected to the FBI’s
investigation of classified information on Secretary
Clinton’s private server. (January 20, 2018 request).
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GOP Rep. On New Strzok-Page Texts: Obama Wanted To
Know What FBI Was Doing To ‘STOP TRUMP’ (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 7, 2018, 8:02 Am
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Inspector General Sent Lost Strzok-Page Text Messages
BACK TO DOJ – After They Were Recovered (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 7, 2018, 8:32 Am
Inspector General Sent Lost Strzok- Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson told FOX and
Page Text Messages Back to DOJ After Friends on Wednesday that the Inspector General
They Were Recovered– recovered the missing text messages and turned them over
to the Department of Justice.
Social media was set ablaze in late January after new
Strzok-Page text messages were released to the public. And, once again, Attorney General Jeff
Sean Hannity told his audience MULTIPLE SOURCES Sessions is AWOL.
confirmed the Inspector General was retrieving the missing
messages between deep state lovebirds Peter Strzok and
Lisa Page.
As TGP’s Cristina Laila reported at the time…
The timeline of the ‘missing’ text messages is highly
suspicious.
They begin on December 14, 2016 and
go through May 17, 2017 which is the
same day Robert Mueller was appointed as
Special Counsel.
Imagine what the ‘missing’ text messages say about the
Sharyl Attkisson:
Trump transition period, Russia dossier, “secret society”
and moments leading up to Mueller’s appointment? It makes me wonder what is in the five
months of text messages we don’t have
that by the way the Department of Justice
Inspector General has recovered and yet
has not turned over to Congress. For some
reason, he is sending those messages
back to the Department of Justice and said
to Congress you can get those messages
through DOJ.
Via FOX and Friends:
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Memo To Dan Rather:
Shut Up About Memos
By Michelle Malkin
February 7, 2018 10:02 AM EST
Old liberal media liars never fade away. They just rage, He lambasted "cherry-picking" and taking
rage against the dying of their dinosaur industry's light. things "out of context." And, Rather fretted,
"what will be the endgame if a big segment
I'm looking at you, Dan Rather. of the public confuses what they hope to be
true with what turns out to be true?"
This "disgraced former journalist"
fraudster's got more gall than a bladder
bank.
Consider Gunga Dan's comments on the House The evidence of bias was overwhelming — forcing CBS to
Intelligence Committee's release of the four-page Nunes appoint an independent review panel that concluded that
memo alleging domestic surveillance abuses by politicized the network "failed to follow basic journalistic principles
FBI brass working with Democratic operatives. in the preparation and reporting of the piece," was "rigid
and blind" in its defense, and demonstrated "myopic zeal"
"Most respectable analysts," Rather in its manufacturing of the Bush/National Guard fraud.
asserted, "have determined that the After the report was issued, Mapes and three executives
contents of the memo are thin." were fired and the editorial practices at CBS were
revamped.
Who determined that these unnamed analysts are
"respectable"? Dan Rather. Why are they "respectable"? The New York Times infamously coined the phrase "fake
Because they confirm Dan Rather's opinions. Why are Dan but accurate" to describe the left's stubborn defense of the
Rather's opinions more valid than others? Because he's four manufactured memos attributed to Texas Army
Dan Rather, the veteran teleprompter reader America must National Guard commander Lt. Col. Jerry Killian. Less
trust. remembered are the scathing conclusions of the
independent panel who identified these worst defects of
"With the release of the memo," Rather Rather's work in 2004:
railed, "the goal of the White House and its
willing enablers is to make what is really "1. The failure to obtain clear authentication of any of the
the truth into a forgettable sidebar." Killian documents from any document examiner;
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"2. The false statement in the September 8 Segment that "7. The failure to interview a range of former National
an expert had authenticated the Killian documents when Guardsmen who served with Lieutenant Colonel Killian
all he had done was authenticate one signature from one and who had different perspectives about the documents;
document used in the Segment;
"8. The misleading impression conveyed in the Segment
"3. The failure of 60 Minutes Wednesday management to that Lieutenant Strong had authenticated the content of
scrutinize the publicly available, and at times the documents when he did not have the personal
controversial, background of the source of the documents, knowledge to do so;
retired Texas Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel Bill
Burkett; "9. The failure to have a vetting process capable of
dealing effectively with the production speed, significance
"4. The failure to find and interview the individual who was and sensitivity of the Segment; and
understood at the outset to be Lieutenant Colonel
Burkett's source of the Killian documents, and thus to "10. The telephone call prior to the Segment's airing by
establish the chain of custody; the producer of the Segment to a senior campaign official
of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry — a
"5. The failure to establish a basis for the statement in the clear conflict of interest — that created the appearance of
Segment that the documents "were taken from Colonel a political bias."
Killian's personal files";
Fourteen years later, after courts laughed his $70 million
"6. The failure to develop adequate corroboration to lawsuit against CBS out of court, the blog-blaming fake
support the statements in the Killian documents and to news forefather has the audacity to hold forth on truth,
carefully compare the Killian documents to official trust, accountability.
TexANG records, which would have identified, at a
minimum, notable inconsistencies in content and format; Sit down, Dan Rather. Be humble.
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NEW TEXT From Deep State Lovers Strzok And Page:
“I Bought All The President’s Men Figure I
Need To Brush Up On Watergate”
By Jim Hoft
February 7, 2018, 10:16 Am
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“All the President’s Men” is a movie about the
Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein’s investigation of the Watergate scandal that led
to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
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WATCH: TGP’s Jim Hoft Calls For Others To Speak
“Truth To Power” Against Silicon Valley At The
Social Media Neutrality Panel
By Lucian Wintrich
February 7, 2018, 10:23 Am
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Potus Trump:
“New FBI Texts Are Bombshells!”
By Joshua Caplan
February 7, 2018, 10:31 Am
“NEW FBI TEXTS ARE BOMBSHELLS!” “know everything we’re doing,” means, the
tweeted the President. Texas lawmaker replied, “it means the
President wants to know what they are
doing to try to stop Trump.”
“That’s clearly, from all the other text
messages, that’s what they were working
on. That’s what they cared about,” added
Gohmert.
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FLASHBACK=> Obama Claims “I DO NOT Talk To FBI
Directors About Pending Investigations” (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 7, 2018, 10:46 Am
Newly released text messages between OBAMA: “I can guarantee. I can guarantee
FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that not because I give Attorney General
reveal President Obama wanted updates [Loretta] Lynch a directive, that is
on the bureau’s Hillary Clinton email institutionally how we have always
investigation. During an April 2016 operated. I do not talk to the Attorney
interview with Fox News, Obama General about pending investigations. I do
affirmed to host Chris Wallace that he not talk to FBI directors about pending
was staying out of the probe. investigations. We have a strict line and
always have maintained it. I guarantee it. I
guarantee that there is no political influence
in any investigation conducted by the
Justice Department or the FBI, not just in
this case but in any case. Period. Nobody
gets treated differently when it comes to
the Justice Department because nobody is
above the law.”
WALLACE: “Even if she ends up as the
Democratic nominee?”
OBAMA: “How many times do I have to say
it, Chris? Guaranteed.”
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Newly Released FBI Text Suggests Strzok-Page Used
Untraceable Phones When ‘Talking About Hillary’
By Joshua Caplan
February 7, 2018, 11:00 Am
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Tom Fitton UNLEASHES On Obama Amid FBI Text
Message Firestorm “FISA Wasn’t The Only Way
Obama Gang Spied On Trump”
By Cristina Laila
February 7, 2018, 12:56 Pm
Fitton:
90
way Obama gang spied on
@realDonaldTrump.”
Fitton:
The fish rots from the head down. Of course Obama knew
what the FBI, DOJ and FISC were doing with Hillary’s
“Was the Clinton/DNC anti-
phony Russia dossier.
@realDonaldTrump Dossier used to
justify Obama gang unmaskings of
@realDonaldTrump team, such as Trump, The whole point of Hillary becoming president was to
Flynn, Sessions, etc? FISA wasn’t the only prevent Donald Trump from exposing Obama’s 8 year
crime spree, including the scandal of all scandals–
Uranium One.
.
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Newly Released FBI Texts Show Strzok-Page Bashing
“Turtle” Mitch McConnell, Trey Gowdy & Paul Ryan
By Joshua Caplan
February 7, 2018, 1:12 Pm
Newly released FBI text messages show really starting to piss me off,” she
agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page previously noted.
bashing Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and As The Gateway Pundit’s Joe Hoft reported, FOX News
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). released Wednesday morning an explosive
report implicating President Obama in the Russia –
Obamagate scandal.
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All Three Nets Ignore New FBI Texts, Senate Report
Showing Obama Involvement In Clinton Email Probe
By Kristine Marsh
February 7, 2018 1:22 PM EST
ABC, NBC and CBS all ignored a bombshell report “because POTUS wants to know
released overnight by Senator Ron Johnson (R- everything we’re doing.”
Wis.), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security
Committee, which revealed more critical evidence
This text clearly suggests that Obama was involved in
concerning how the FBI handled the Hillary Clinton e-mail
some form into the FBI email probe, which is shocking
probe. The Committee also released more damning text
news, if true.
messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
which showed an intention by the agents to find evidence
to impeach President Trump as well as the news that Especially considering how President Obama has
President Obama wanted to be involved in the Clinton e- adamantly denied ever being involved in FBI
mail investigation. investigations, and specifically the Clinton probe, multiple
times, calling it a “sensational” claim in the press
conference below:
Though none of the networks covered the shocking new
report or texts February 7, Fox News reported on its
contents to open the first hour of Fox and Friends this
morning.
But that’s not all. Several texts between the pair suggest
they were using their positions at the FBI to find a way to
impeach Trump.
According to Fox, Page wrote to Strzok on Sept. 2, 2016,
about prepping then-FBI Director James Comey for a A text exchange on August 15, 2016 talked about having
meeting with President Obama about their investigation an “insurance policy” in place in case Trump was elected.
into the Clinton e-mails.
The pair gushed on election day that it was
“F***ing terrifying” and “depressing” that
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Trump won the election. Just a week later, Texts from Strzok to Page talk about being able to “smell
Page wrote, "I bought all the president's Trump voters” in a Southern Virginia Walmart, and in one
men [sic]. Figure I need to brush up on on November 4, 2015,
watergate [sic]."
Strzok called Virginians “ignorant
The next day, she again wrote to Strzok, hillbillies” for rejecting Democrat Jill
McCabe for state office,
“God, being here makes me angry. Lots of
high fallutin’ national security talk. (the same McCabe who is wife to the former acting
Meanwhile we have OUR task ahead of director for the FBI, Andrew McCabe.)
us.”
The Senate report also found texts talking If all of that wasn’t enough, the accompanying Senate
about the “risk” of a Trump presidency, report also found that the FBI sat on information regarding
“unfinished business,” and “an the Clinton e-mails. One text from Strzok in September of
investigation leading to impeachment.” 2016 mentions the FBI having access to thousands of e-
mails from Huma Abedin, found on Anthony Weiner’s
Perhaps less surprising, the report also revealed more computer, a full month before Director Comey announced
hateful text messages between the agents about he wanted to re-open the Clinton e-mail investigation.
conservative voters.
.
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Author Of Yahoo News Article Used
To Obtain FISA Warrant On Trump Campaign Was
Secretly Working With DNC
By Cassandra Fairbanks
February 7, 2018, 2:15 Pm
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Zero Hedge reports that Isakoff also claimed that the FISA 2004 to 2016, according to Federal Election Commission
application “incorrectly assesses” that Steele was not a records.
source for his story, adding that he met with the dossier
author at a Washington hotel in September 2016. “Ali Chalupa naturally was interested on
behalf of the DNC to paint Mr. Manafort in
“My story is about the FBI’s own the most negative light possible,” Ukraine
investigation,” he continued. “So it seems a expert Adrian Karatnycky of the Atlantic
little odd that they would be citing the Council told Fox News.
Yahoo! News story about the matter that “There was a financial ledger book under
they are investigating themselves based on
investigation by the Ukrainians,”
the same material that had been separately Karatnycky said. “Shedding light on that
presented to the FBI before I was ever would have been in Chalupa’s playbook.
briefed by Christopher Steele.”
She was pointing media where there was
smoke in the middle of a campaign. And
Isakoff claimed that he was aware that Simpson and Steele indeed there was a media firestorm that led
were working for Democrats, though he did not know it to Manafort’s resignation in the middle of
was the campaign and DNC. the campaign.”
According to a report from Fox News last year, Chalupa, a Also, according to the Senate Judiciary memo released in
Ukrainian-American activist, had worked in the White unredacted form on Tuesday evening, Grassley reveals the
House Office of Public Liaison during the Clinton FBI KNEW Steele lied about his contact with media
Administration and was paid $412,000 by the DNC from outlets, yet they DID NOT disclose this very pertinent
information to the FISA court.
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EVIDENCE MOUNTS: Carter Page – The Linchpin
To Deep State Spying On Trump – Worked As An FBI Spy
By Jim Hoft
February 7, 2018, 2:30 Pm
There has been much written about In 2013 the U.S. Department of Justice, Southern
Carter Page, the so-called Russian District of New York, announced an indictment against
expert and volunteer on the Trump a Russian Operative Evgeny Buryakov. In March of
campaign. 2016 Buryakov pleaded GUILTY.
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It is transparently clear that Carter Page The question is: Was Carter Page
was the Under-Cover Employee (UCE) of planted inside the Trump campaign to
the FBI in the 2013 case. allow the FBI to spy on Trump?
Carter Page was working for the FBI.
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Chairman Nunes Continues To
Troll CNN Reporter Over FISA Memo
By Cristina Laila
February 7, 2018, 2:52 Pm
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Carl Bernstein Compares Trump
TO McCarthy, Calls Him 'Authoritarian Demagogue'
By Ryan Foley
February 7, 2018 3:06 Pm Est
On CNN’s New Day Wednesday morning, Carl Bernstein workers, Leftists and yes, American Communists, who
repeatedly compared President Trump to the late Sen. fought for principles that we now take for granted.”
Joseph McCarthy and also referred to him as an
It comes as quite a strange coincidence that leftists like
“authoritarian demagogue.” Bernstein now view Russia as the United States’ biggest
national security threat when they spent the entire Cold
According to Bernstein, War downplaying, if not sympathizing with the
Communist Soviet Union. Even as late as 2012, Democrats
minimized the Russian threat. When GOP presidential
“Donald Trump mimics, reembodies to a
candidate Mitt Romney suggested that Russia posed the
large extent the tactics, techniques and
greatest national security threat, President Obama
methodology of Joe McCarthy. The
responded by saying
constant smearing of immigrants, of
Mexicans, of those he opposes, the
belittling of them, little this, little him. Go “the 1980s are now calling to ask for their
look at the clips of Joe McCarthy.” foreign policy back.”
New Day
02/07/18
08:34 AM
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Anthony Weiner’s Address Book Leaked Online:
Includes The Wife Of Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson
By Jim Hoft
February 7, 2018, 3:11 Pm
Earlier this week “hackers” leaked the contents of jailed need to boast on Facebook about how ‘Russiagate,’ would
Democrat Anthony Weiner’s address book online. not exist if it weren’t for her husband.
In December Josh Caplan at The Mary Jacoby is also listed on the Obama
Gateway Pundit reported that Mary White House visitors’ log.
Jacoby bragged on Facebook that her
husband was behind “Russiagate.” It’s a small world between far left
reporters and Democrat politicians.
The wife of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, Mary
Jacoby, is proud of her husband’s work that led to mass
Trump-Russia hysteria. Jacoby is so proud that she felt the
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FBI Text Messages Show Strzok-Page
Bashing Various Nationalities In “Bigoted Terms”
By Joshua Caplan
February 7, 2018, 3:36 Pm
Newly released FBI text messages show The FBI officials investigating Hillary
agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page Clinton’s email server wrote that House
discussing Romanians, Russians and Speaker Paul Ryan is a “jerk,” that Senate
Italians in “casually bigoted terms.” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell looks like
a turtle, that Oversight Committee
chairman Trey Gowdy is a “dick,” and that
newscaster Chris Wallace is a “turd.” […]
There has been much written about The FBI sought FISA warrants FOUR TIMES to spy on
Carter Page, the so-called Russian Carter Page.
expert and volunteer on the Trump
campaign. The warrants on Page then gave the Deep State access to
spy on all of the Trump campaign officials.
Carter Page sat on a campaign committee that met only
once during the campaign. According to reports from 2016 Carter
Page was previously working as an
And yet the FBI relied on Page to undercover informant for the FBI.
continue to spy on Donald Trump, his
And now this…
campaign members, his family and then
his Transition Team and administration.
Carter Page was a member of the
Clinton administration Transition Team.
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Crazy Adam Schiff Fires Off Unhinged Tweet
About His Dem Spin Memo – Forgets His Hashtag
By Cristina Laila
February 7, 2018, 4:19 Pm
Adam Schiff fired off one of his most unhinged tweets yet.
Schiff tweeted: Have you seen the new GOP hashtag? It’s
quite a doozy:
ReleaseTheMemoNoNotThatMemoInTheIn
terestofFullTransparencyNotThatMuchTran
sparencyWhatDoWeDoLetsHaveAParade
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Russian Comedians Prank
Adam Schiff With Fake Investigation Material
By P.J. Gladnick
February 7, 2018 4:43 PM EST
So just how desperate is the ranking Democrat of the Sobchak talking about the kompromat
House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, to find any while the two were visiting Ukraine. He told
materials proving collusion between President Donald Schiff, “We are ready to provide [those
Trump and Russia? Apparently desperate enough to buy materials] to FBI.”
into a wild prank pulled off by a pair of Russian comedians
to the extent that he spent eight minutes with them on the Alana Goodman at the London Daily Mail reported
phone in an attempt to finally realize his dream of proving Tuesday that Schiff claims he wasn't fooled despite
collusion. To get an idea of how desperate Schiff was, try spending all that time on the phone with the comedians:
getting your own congressman on the phone for any length
of time. Unless you are a major major campaign
Schiff's office said the congressman
contributor you are pretty much out of luck.
suspected the call was 'bogus' from the
beginning and reported it to authorities
The prank pulled off by the comedians happened on April afterward.
10, 2017 and was first reported by the Atlantic magazine in
their January/February issue. The pranksters posed as But in a recording of the eight minute
Andriy Parubiy, the speaker of the Ukraininan parliament: conversation, Schiff appeared to take the
call seriously – or at least played along
convincingly -- and emails from the
“In November 2013, Mr. Trump visited Democrat's staff to the fake politician
Moscow, he visited competition Miss afterwards said he had found it 'productive'.
Universe, and there he met with Russian
journalist and celebrity Ksenia Sobchak,”
he said in his heavily accented, awkward You can listen to an audio recording of the call here and
English. He explained that in addition to judge for yourself just how seriously Schiff took it since it
having ties to Putin, Sobchak is “also seems like he was taking notes from the information the
known as a person who provides girls for Russian comedians were feeding him.
escort for oligarchs. And she met with
Trump and she brought him one Russian You can read for yourself at the Daily Mail the followup
girl, celebrity Olga Buzova.” Schiff soberly emails sent between Schiff's office and the Russian
asked for clarification, and Parubiy pranksters which gives a lot of credibility to the idea of
answered directly: Sobchak, he said, is a how seriously the material promised by the comedians was
“special agent of Russian secret service.” taken. Here is just one of those emails sent by Schiff aide
Rheanne Wirkkala:
Buzova “got compromising materials on Trump after their
short relations,” Parubiy said. "I understand Mr. Schiff had a productive
call with Mr. Parubiy, and that Mr. Parubiy
“There were pictures of naked Trump.” would like to make some material available
to Mr. Schiff through your embassy."
Schiff betrayed no emotion. “And so
Putin was made aware of the availability Exit question:
of the compromising material?” he
asked.
Did comedians Vladimir Kuznetsov and
“Yes, of course,” Parubiy said. Putin Alexey Stolyarov serve as the Russian
wanted it communicated to Trump that “all sources Christopher Steele paid to get
those compromising materials will never be information for his dossier?
released if Trump will cancel all Russian
sanctions.” The biggest bombshell: He had
obtained a recording of Buzova and
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“DOJ Was Very Concerned”:
Inspector General Discovered FBI Failed To Flag Clinton
Emails MARKED CLASSIFIED
By Joshua Caplan
February 7, 2018, 5:29 Pm
Newly released text messages between “Remind me to tell you to flag for Andy
agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page show [redacted] emails we (actually ICIG) found
the FBI failed to “flag,” various emails that have portion marks (C) on a couple of
marked classified with a (C) on Hillary paras. DoJ was Very Concerned about
Clinton’s private server. this,” he wrote.
“Found on the 30k [emails] provided to
State originally. No one noticed. It cuts
against ‘I never sent or received anything
marked classified,’” he wrote, referring to
statements by Clinton downplaying the
danger of her email practices.
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FBI Changed Hillary’s Exoneration Letter –
Switched “President” To “Senior Government
Official” To Protect Obama
By Cristina Laila
February 7, 2018, 6:46 Pm
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As previously reported, Comey’s original draft stated, Another very shocking revelation was that “hostile actors”
“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the likely gained access to Hillary Clinton’s private email
statute proscribing gross negligence in the handling of which of course contained classified information.
classified information and of the statute proscribing
misdemeanor mishandling, my judgment is that no Early Wednesday morning a new text message from
reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” corrupt FBI lovers and former Mueller investigators
implicated former President Barack Obama as being
It was then edited to remove “gross negligence” and involved in the Obamagate scandal.
“misdemeanor mishandling” to “potential violations of the
statutes.” [ Comey’s exoneration letter on next page ]
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Developing: Rep. Nunes May Go To Supreme Court
Chief Justice To Get Answers On FISA Court System
Pm By Jim Hoft
February 7, 2018, 6:57
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) the Chairman Justice John Roberts of investigation of
of the House Intelligence Committee Obama officials lying to the FISA Court
told conservative radio host Hugh to spy on Donald Trump.
Hewitt on Wednesday the committee
has grappled with calling in Chief
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Nunes joined Hugh Hewitt this morning. Justice John Roberts to “testify” before Congress as part of
his investigation into political malfeasance at the
Department of Justice.
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GOP Rep: Benghazi, Fast And Furious Connected To
Obama FBI & DOJ Exposed In FISA Memo (AUDIO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 7, 2018, 7:34 Pm
In an explosive interview with Breitbart about, that this was the weaponization of
Radio Wednesday, firebrand our Justice Department not only to cover
conservative Congressman Paul Gosar up for the previous administration and the
(R-AZ) said Justice Department and FBI wrongdoing and ills of them and those
corruption, outlined in the FISA abuse associated with them, but also to attack a
memo, is connected to Obama-era sitting president—actually a candidate at
scandals, such as Benghazi and Fast the time, then president-elect and then a
and Furious. current, sitting president you know of an
opposition party.”
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Breaking: GOP Lawmaker Calls For Adam Schiff To
Resign From Intel Committee After Ukrainian
Pranksters Call (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 7, 2018, 7:48 Pm
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SARA CARTER: FBI Informant On
Uranium One Breaks His Silence In Explosive Testimony
To Congressional Committees
By Cristina Laila
February 7, 2018, 8:03 Pm
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response I got from an agent when I asked bribery case threatened by the Obama
how it was possible CFIUS would approve administration, he was blocked by the
the Uranium One sale when the FBI could DOJ under then-AG Loretta Lynch from
prove Rosatom was engaged in criminal testifying to Congress.
conduct. His answer: “Ask your politics.”
The FBI informant started providing information in 2009.
Campbell also said in a statement that Putin wanted to It wasn’t until the 2016 presidential election that Obama’s
dominate the world’s Uranium supply: DOJ threatened him with prosecution.
“Putin wanted Russia to dominate the All Russian roads lead to Hillary Clinton.
world’s uranium supply, a goal of crucial
interest to the U.S. government. At the Nine shareholders in Uranium One just happened to
same time, the Russian companies – provide more than $145 million in donations to the Clinton
Rosatom and Tenex – were engaged in Foundation in the run-up to State Department approval.
racketeering,” his testimony stated.
From and October report by John Solomon, we also found
Also, attorney Victoria Toensing said her client William out that the investigation was supervised by then-U.S.
Campbell recounted NUMEROUS times the Russians Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who is now President Trump’s
bragged the Clintons’ influence would push the Uranium Deputy Attorney General, and then-Assistant FBI Director
One deal through: Andrew McCabe, who is now the deputy FBI director
under Trump.
He recounted numerous times that the
Russians bragged that the Clintons’ Rod Rosenstein is now in charge of dirty cop Mueller’s
influence in the Obama administration witch hunt against President Trump. Unbelievable.
would insure CIFIUS approval for Uranium
One. And he was right.”
[Read Sara Carter’s full report starting on next page].
As previously reported, not only was the
FBI informant working on the Russian
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FBI Informant On Uranium One Breaks
Silence Testified To Three Committees On Capitol Hill
Sara Carter
February 7, 2018
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In an April 16, 2010, summary brief provided to his former approving his transfer of bribery money to the Russians.
FBI handlers and obtained by this reporter, he stressed his Those transfers, which were made in bulk $50,000 sums
deep concerns about Tenex, a wholly owned subsidiary of and at times delivered in cash, occurred between senior
the Russian state nuclear arm Rosatom and its ongoing executives of the American transportation company and
work to provide Iran with the technology needed for its the Russian executives connected to Rosatom. He had
nuclear reactor program. given the FBI irrefutable evidence showing how contracts
obtained from the same Russian energy company Tenex,
At the time, Rosatom was seeking the approval to purchase were based on contract bribery and other nefarious actions,
the Canadian mining company Uranium One. he said.
“TENEX continues to supply Iran with fuel Senior members of the FBI, Department of Treasury,
through their Russian company TVEL,” Department of Energy and Department of Justice were also
stated Campbell in a 2010 brief provided to briefed on Campbell’s information and were apprised of
the FBI. TVEL is a Russian nuclear fuel the various facets pertaining to Russia’s acquisition of the
cycle company headquartered in Moscow. Canadian company. In fact, Campbell had been told by his
“They (TVEL) continue to assist with FBI handlers that his work had made it at least twice into
construction consult and fabricated President Obama’s classified presidential daily briefings.
assemblies to supply the reactor.
Fabricated assemblies require “The Russians expressed a sense of
sophisticated engineering and are arranged urgency to secure new U.S. uranium
inside the reactor with the help and consult business because they knew that the two-
of TVEL.” decades-old “Megatons to Megawatts”
program would cease in 2013,” Campbell
Campbell informed the FBI of the close relationship said. “Then Russia would no longer be
between TVEL and TENEX, both a part of the Rosatom guaranteed a market to sell recycled
group. He stated in his brief that while spending time with nuclear warhead materials as peaceful
the Russian executives from both Rosatom and Tenex, that reactor fuel in the United States. I gathered
any mention of evidence for the FBI by moving closer and
closer to the Russians’ key nuclear industry
players, including those inside the United
“TVEL is a subject that is serious to all
when mentioned. I do not even raise the States and high-ranking Russian officials
subject of TVEL to our friends, but who would visit.”
occasionally they speak of it and always in
a guarded manner.” Despite the insurmountable evidence collected by
Campbell, the Obama administration’s Committee on
In the briefs, he informed the FBI that Foreign Investment in the United States approved Russia’s
purchase of Uranium One in the fall of 2010.
“occasionally someone will mention having
That approval by the Obama administration gave Moscow
been in Iran but usually it is long after the
fact.” extensive rights to buy and sell more atomic fuels.
“His response was a smile and shoulder “I was speechless and angry in October
shrug” 2010 when CFIUS approved the Uranium
One sale to Rosatom. I was deeply worried
that TLI continued to transport sensitive
And when he asked the Russians about these connections, uranium despite the fact that it had been
he stated that they compromised by the bribery scheme,”
stated Campbell in his testimony to
“occasionally speak of the relationship, i.e. lawmakers. “I expressed these concerns
equipment, consulting. I asked Vadim repeatedly to my FBI handlers. The
(Mikerin) if they felt there was a serious response I got was that “politics” was
problem, and would they adhere to somehow involved. I remember one
sanctions and western opinion. His response I got from an agent when I asked
response was a smile and shoulder shrug.” how it was possible CFIUS would approve
the Uranium One sale when the FBI could
But Campbell had provided the FBI with evidence of the prove Rosatom was engaged in criminal
criminal network and delivered the information to the FBI. conduct. His answer: “Ask your politics.”
which was monitoring his work as an informant and
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It wasn’t until years later in 2015 that American In the 1990’s Campbell traveled to Kazakhstan and Russia
businessman Daren Condrey, whose company developing relationships in their nuclear energy industries.
Transportation Logistics International, plead guilty to It was at that point that the Campbell also gave began
conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act providing information to the FBI’s counterintelligence
(FCPA) and conspiring to commit wire fraud, according to agents.
the DOJ.
“Through my energy consulting, I began to
Russian national Vadim Mikerin, who was a top official of make inroads into the Russian nuclear
the Russian nuclear arms subsidiary Tenex and would later industry, first in Kazakhstan through Swiss
become president of Tenam the American subsidiary of contacts and then in Russia,” Campbell’s
Rosatom, was also sentenced in December 2015. Mikerin, statement said. “My FBI assignments
who only plead guilty to money laundering, was arrested included providing information about
for a racketeering scheme that dated back to 2004. He was Russian efforts to secure large swaths of
sentenced to 48 months in prison. Kazakh uranium in the 1990’s and again
around the time former President Bill
Boris Rubizhevsky, another Russian national from New Clinton visited the region as a private
Jersey, who was president of the security firm NEXGEN citizen in 2005, accompanied by a donor to
Security, was also involved in the conspiracy and plead his Foundation, Frank Giustra.”
guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in 2015.
He served as a consultant to Tenam and to Mikerin. He was reimbursed for his expenses and at times receive a
Rubizhevsky was sentenced to prison last year along with modest compensation for his work with the FBI, he
three years of supervised release and a $26,500 fine, testified.
according to a recent Reuters report.
“By far the largest and most significant
And Mark Lambert, 54, a co-owner of Transportation payment I received was in January 2016,”
Logistics International, was charged this month on an “11- he noted. “The FBI presented me a
count indictment with one count of conspiracy to violate $50,000-plus check thanking and
the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to commit commending me for my work from 2009 to
wire fraud, seven counts of violating the FCPA, two counts 2014 in the investigation of the Russian
of wire fraud and one count of international promotion nuclear energy industry.”
money laundering,” as stated in the DOJ press release. “Putin wanted Russia to dominate the
Lambert’s charges stem from an alleged scheme to bribe world’s uranium supply, a goal of crucial
Mikerin in order to secure contracts with TENEX, interest to the U.S. government. At the
according to the DOJ release. same time, the Russian companies –
Rosatom and Tenex – were engaged in
Lambert is fighting the charges, according to a Reuters racketeering,” his testimony stated.
report.
Campbell, who was using the money paid
to him by the FBI for his work and
The Informant expressed his frustration to the FBI over
their failure to reimburse him approximately
Campbell, whose from the South Eastern United States, $500,000 he had spent on payments to
founded a company in 1981 early in his career that focused facilitate the undercover case, Toensing
on agriculture and energy consulting for foreign added.
companies.
In January 2016 the FBI invited him to a dinner in Crystal
He was the Chief Operating Officer, and “led the City, Virginia, where they presented him with a check for
company’s expansion into Europe and the Middle East,” just over $50,000 and thanked him for his work, said
stated Toensing. Toensing. A copy of the check has been obtained by this
reporter.
During his time working in the Middle East in the 1980s
he came into possession of information he thought would In 2016, Campbell filed a lawsuit in Maryland federal
be of interest to the U.S. government and “contacted the court against the Russian nuclear entities asking for the
local FBI office and presented the plans to an agent,” he return of the money he had to launder out of his own
relayed to congressional members. paychecks. His lawyers were advised by the DOJ a few
days of filing the lawsuit that prosecutors in the Fraud
That was the beginning of Campbell’s informant with the Section of the Justice Department under then-Attorney
FBI. General Loretta Lynch, demanded the withdrawal the
lawsuit. According to a letter, obtained by this reporter, the
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DOJ threatened to destroy Campbell’s reputation and detailed report for the Russian nuclear company, as
prosecute him for violating a non-disclosure agreement he previously reported.
had signed with the FBI.
The document Moss Herman wrote as a consultant in 2010
was for TENAM/Tenex, according to the consulting
Late last year, the Department of Justice under Attorney memorandum she provided to the Russian subsidiary.
General Jeff Sessions lifted Campbell’s NDA agreement TENAM is a fully-owned U.S. subsidiary of Tenex, which
so he could speak to Congress about his case and is 100 percent owned by the Russian state-controlled
involvement in the investigation. nuclear Rosatom, according to public documentation.
Campbell’s Briefs and Reports Titled “Policy/Legislative Issues Affecting the Business
Climate in the U.S. for TENAM/Tenex,” the
memorandum discussed the Department of Energy’s
The Russians were working to secure their global uranium regulations. She is now employed at the DOE’s
expansion of the energy market and according to his Office Nuclear Energy where she? develops sustainable
briefings to the FBI on August 2011, that fuel cycles.
The Moss October 7, 2010, report discusses the
“the Russians are going to do what they
congressional atmosphere regarding uranium, specifically
need to do to secure their influence,
states that “some Republicans truly fear the entry of Russia
whether it’s in Europe, Iran or any other
into the U.S. market, as demonstrated by the fact that they
part of the world…they know that nobody’s
are taking steps to block the purchase of Uranium One ….”
in a position to stop them… not even
us…unless we want to run a huge risk of Her memo outlined methods for the Obama administration
massive confrontation.” to loosen U.S. restrictions on Rosatom to not only export
nuclear materials but also secure billions of dollars in new
More importantly noted Campbell, the uranium sales to American utilities, according to the
report.
“fuel fabricators to Iran are being flown by In late 2010, the Russians succeeded at doing both, while
Russian air transport due to the sensitive at the same time their companies were engaged in a
nature of the equipment. Taking them criminal racketeering enterprise on U.S. soil.
overland or by sea makes no sense when
they can have them inside Iran in a matter Moss Herman’s 2010 memorandum outlined
of hours.” “the current status, including background
information, and discussion on a few key
But by 2010, the Russian government was working issues that could affect the business
diligently to get approval from the Obama administration climate for TENAM/Tenex’s directly and
to purchase Uranium One. They wanted to downplay their also introduces a number of other issues
relationship with Iran and were afraid that Republicans, that could also have an impact on the
who were against the proposed deal, would find a way to nuclear business climate in the United
stop the approval process. States.”
“Some Republicans truly fear the entry of
They hired lobbying firms and sought the counsel of Russia into the U.S. market, as
American experts in the energy market. demonstrated by the fact that they are
taking steps to block the purchase of
Uranium One by Atomredmetzoloto,” she
stated.
Atomredmetzoloto, known as ARMZ, is the mining arm of
Rosatom. On June 8, 2010, Uranium One announced it had
signed an agreement that would give “not less than 51%”
of the company to JSC Atomredmetzoloto, or ARMZ.
According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Uranium One has two licensed mining operations in
Wyoming that amount to about
Department of Energy
“20 percent of the currently licensed
Cherly Moss Herman, currently with the United States uranium in-situ recovery production
Department of Energy but who worked as private energy capacity in the U.S.”
consultant on environmental issues at the time, produced a
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“Largest Scandal Ever” — Former US Attorney: We Are
Going To See Several Criminal Charges Against A
Number Of DOJ-FBI Officials
By Jim Hoft
February 7, 2018, 8:54 Pm
Via Hannity:
Joe diGenova:
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POP: Trump’s Approval Rating Better
Than OBAMA’s At Same Period In Presidency
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 8, 2018
Trump is weathering the most vicious frontal assault by the consistently had Trump ahead of his rival, Hillary
Washington Establishment ever launched against any Clinton), has Trump polling at 48 percent — four points
president higher than his predecessor at the same time in his term.
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FBI Informant Was Told Barack Obama Was Briefed
Twice On Uranium One Scandal – Did Nothing (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 7, 2018, 10:00 Pm
Victoria Toensing:
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New FBI Texts Reveal Strzok And Page Slammed Agents
Who Complained About Irregularities And Special
Treatment In Hillary’s Investigation
By Cristina Laila
February 7, 2018, 10:38 Pm
FBI lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa year which refers to Hillary’s probe]…now
Page thought the Bureau would be I’m really angry.”
better off without the agents who were
ready to revolt due to Comey’s cozy Strzok then said
Hillary Clinton email investigation.
“There are a bunch of really ignorant
people out there blinded by their politics”.
Page responded,
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The New York Post article Strzok was referring to was
written by Paul Sperry.
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CNN’s Burnett Spits Bile As She
Tries To Discredit Sen Johnson's Review
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 7, 2018 10:55 PM EST
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course, for a political purpose pretty (…)
clearly in this case.”
BURNETT: Okay. There is though a big problem with this
The indignant shot came after she conflated a Strzok/Page conspiracy theory. It is a very big problem. Because it just isn't
text message made in jest about an FBI “secret society” clear that the text was talking about the Clinton e-mail
and Johnson’s claim that a whistleblower had come investigation. Here's why, because facts and dates matter.
forward to confirm the existence of one. Okay. The text is dated September 2, 2016. That's the text, right,
about POTUS wants to know what we’re working on. (…)
Former FBI Special Agent James Gagliano was also
brought on to give his analysis of the situation. Let's just remember that Senator Johnson is the same man who
used a text between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa page to allege
“I'm confident that the Office of the publically that there was a mass conspiracy at the FBI against
Inspector General, which has the case, Trump. A so-called secret society.
it’s not bi-partisan, it's nonpartisan. I
trust they'll get to the bottom of this,” he (…)
praised. “And that’s, of course, where an
investigation should be not in the BURNETT: That was based on this text from Lisa Page to Peter
partisan sphere where Senator Johnson Strzok, again, quote: “Are you going to give out your calendar?
and others are trying to put it,” Burnett Seems depressing, maybe it should just be the first meeting of
sneered. the secret society.” The text exchange, you may recall, was
referencing a private joke between the two. And only after the
Again, Burnett proved just how dishonest CNN was when idea was debunked did Johnson back down.
it came to who they chose to trust for information. She
smeared Johnson for trying to make things political but her
network hangs on every word Democratic Congressman
Adam Schiff (Calif.) leaks to them to damage President
Trump. The twisting of Johnson's interim report had since
become a narrative for CNN.
CNN
Erin Burnett Out Front
February 7, 2018
700:47 PM Eastern (…)
ERIN BURNETT: And good evening I'm Erin Burnett. OutFront BURNETT: Lesson here is before you take on the FBI or a
tonight, conspiracy craze. Republicans are at it again. The former president, both of whom are fair targets right, but
conspiracy de jour is that President Obama had quote, “personal make sure you have your facts straight. Evan Perez is out
involvement” in the Clinton e-mail scandal. front tonight. And Evan, I've laid out the timeline you though have
talked to a source who knows the context of the text about
So there’s a 25-page report that is out now by the Republican President Obama being brief.
Senator Ron Johnson and in it, he cites a text message between
two FBI officials. Yes, we’re talking about Peter Strzok and Lisa EVAN PEREZ: That's right Erin. A source with knowledge of the
Page again here. According to Johnson's report, Page texted text told us that the text message was actually related to
Strzok about preparing talking points for them FBI-Director Jim preparations for President Obama to be briefed on the Russian
Comey because, this is the operative line, quote: “POTUS, interference in the 2016 election. (…) So it appears that this is
[President Obama] wants to know everything we are doing.” yet another one of these text messages that is being
misinterpreted, Erin.
Okay. That one phrase was enough for Senator Johnson to make
the connection between President Obama and the Clinton email BURNETT: Misinterpreted, of course, for a political purpose
investigation. And the current president of the United States did pretty clearly in this case.
not wait for the facts, the context or the details before tweeting
about Johnson's report to his 47.5 million followers in all caps,
(…)
“new FBI texts are bombshells.”
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JOHN DEAN: They’re certainly not bombshells. In fact, I read (…)
the report before coming on the air. And the whole thing is
based on really a recycling of old news. An effort to make BURNETT: The politicization here, right? James is saying they’re
more out of these exchanges and texts than really exist there. looking into what happened, these should be looked at, at the
And it's pretty pathetic when you dig a little deeper as you all Inspector General. But instead, we have a memo from Devin
have done and show what the timelines are so amiss and how Nunes, we have a memo from Ron Johnson. It is clearly put,
Trump can just fire off a bombshell tweet shows how careless he solidly, within partisan politics, which is the President is first one
really is. to exploit without knowing the facts himself!
(…) (…)
JAMES GAGLIANO: There were a number of other ones [texts] BURNETT: Senator Johnson, of course, jumping from
that were unsettling. I'm confident that the Office of the conspiracy theory to conspiracy theory even when he
Inspector General, which has the case, it’s not bi-partisan, himself was forced to admit that the secret society was
it's nonpartisan. I trust they'll get to the bottom of this. probably a joke.
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Matthews Disparages Johnson, Nunes As
‘Munchkins’ Colluding With WH On Memos, Texts
By Curtis Houck
February 7, 2018 11:19 PM EST
In the A-Block of Wednesday’s Hardball, MSNBC host “smell[s] a lot of staff people, a whole
Chris Matthews lost his cool in denouncing Republicans bunch of them — not a big bunch but a
like Congressman Devin Nunes (Calif.) and Senator Ron small bunch of them all ganging around,
Johnson (Wisc.) as part of a “group of munchkins” being trying to get big jobs with the Trump
“pushed around and led around” by their staffs and the administration at NSC and places like
White House in publishing the controversial intelligence that — all around the Eisenhower
memos and FBI texts. Executive Building.”
Alluding to Johnson and Nunes, he
“I don't think this guy Johnson looks declared that they’re not elected officials or
like he’s that serious a person. I don't even aides but “operatives working for
think Nunes is that serious a person. I the Trump crowd” and thus don’t
look at these guys being pushed around resemble “the regular Republican Party,
and led around by their staff all looking Evan.”
for jobs at the White House. There's
something screwy about these guys,” The MSNBC pundit then dropped the juvenile insult:
stated Matthews at the 7:07 p.m. Eastern
mark.
I don't see a Republican Party. I hate to
say it. They are quiet on the sidelines.
Republicans are behaving like sideliners
whereas this little group of people, the
same group of munchkin running around
back and forth with the EOB with paper
saying I've got something. I've got this
thing. This has been going on for two or
three months now[.]
Matthews added that Johnson and Nunes seem incapable To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s Hardball on
of answering questions but instead February 7, click “expand.”
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these memos and seems so intellectual, how come when you MAYA HARRIS: Well, I mean, it’s been — you are right, Chris. I
interview them on television, there's not much sort of a brain wish like you that we actually had a serious investigation going
power there. I don't get it. Somebody's pushing this thing for the on into what happened with Russia interfering in our elections.
White House. They're working together. It's fascinating to watch. I
don't like it, but it’s going on. What do you see here, Maya? (....)
What’s going on here in terms of changing the focus of the public
away from this investigation of the President and the Russians
MATTHEWS: But I smell a lot of staff people, a whole bunch of
into this other space?
them — not a big bunch but a small bunch of them all ganging
around, trying to get big jobs with the Trump administration at
NSC and places like that — all around the Eisenhower Executive
Building. They bring this guy down — Nunes — down there, give
him material, send him back the next day to the West Wing,
they’re using him like an operative. These congressmen and
senators are acting — they're not even staffer and they're
operatives working for the Trump crowd. This is not the regular
Republican Party, Evan. I don't see a Republican Party. I hate to
say it. They are quiet on the sidelines. Republicans are behaving
like sideliners whereas this little group of people, the same group
of munchkin running around back and forth with the EOB with
paper saying I've got something. I've got this thing. This has been
going on for two or three months now.
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The Memo: Nunes ‘Bombshell’
Fails To Move Debate
By Niall Stanage
02/08/18 06:00 AM EST
The memo “helps the FBI and the DOJ rather than advance
the conspiracy theory that is being advanced by Nunes,”
said Jimmy Gurulé, a former assistant attorney general
who served in senior law enforcement positions under
Republican and Democratic presidents.
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Trump has previously said he is willing to be interviewed Nunes has promised further revelations probing the
by Mueller. As recently as late January, he told reporters at behavior of other arms of government, including the State
the White House, “I’m looking forward to it, actually.” But Department. And some loyalists for the president continue
The New York Times reported earlier this week that his to insist that the Mueller probe is
legal team had advised him against agreeing to such an
encounter. “intractably infected with bias,” as Rep.
Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told The Hill earlier this
At Tuesday’s media briefing, Sanders refused to be drawn week.
on whether Trump would ultimately agree to provide
testimony to Mueller. The one significant poll taken since the memo’s release
made uncomfortable reading for Trump supporters.
Trump critics argue that his hesitancy will only further fuel
suspicions. The Quinnipiac University poll, released on Tuesday,
found that 53 percent of voters believe that Trump has
“I think there are a lot of independent attempted to “derail or obstruct” the Russia probe, as just
voters who are a little exhausted in some 41 percent say he had not. The margin among independent
ways by this whole thing,” said Republican voters was even wider, at 56 percent to 37 percent.
consultant and Trump critic Rick Wilson.
“They don’t love this being the centerpiece “The ‘earth-shattering’ memo has failed to
every single day. shatter the earth,” Wilson said.
“But I don’t think Donald Trump gets a
whole lot of benefit of the doubt about The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage,
whether he’s obstructing justice because primarily focused on Donald Trump’s presidency.
the more he talks, the more it seems odd.
‘Why are you so angry? Why did you want
to get rid of Bob Mueller?’ ”
.
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Digenova Doubles Down: ‘Heading For Very
SAD ENDING For Several FBI, DOJ Officials’ Over FISA,
Team Trump Abuses (Video)
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Posted On February 8, 2018
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Top Justice Department Official
Who Helped Oversee Clinton Email Probe RESIGNS
By Joshua Caplan
February 8, 2018, 10:06 Am
A top Justice Department official who In a New York Times op-ed, Campbell wrote,
helped oversee the Hillary Clinton email
““To be effective, the F.B.I. must be
investigation resigned Wednesday,
believed and must maintain the support of
reports the Washington Post.
the public it serves. … These political
attacks on the bureau must stop.”
“If those critics of the agency persuade the
public that the F.B.I. cannot be trusted,
they will also have succeeded in making
our nation less safe,” Campbell added.
In what was a significant shake up at the FBI, Deputy
Director Andrew McCabe stepped down January 29th.
“McCabe, who served a brief stint as acting
director of the bureau, was already
expected to leave. He will stay on “terminal
A Justice Department official who helped oversee the leave” until he is eligible to retire with
controversial probes of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private benefits in March,” reported CNBC.
email server and Russian interference in the 2016 election According to the Washington Post, McCabe intended to
stepped down this week. resign from the FBI once he was eligible for full pension
benefits in March.
David Laufman, an experienced federal prosecutor who in
2014 became chief of the National Security Division’s In late January, James Rybicki, a top FBI official who was
Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, said once chief of staff to James Comey and current Bureau
farewell to colleagues Wednesday. He cited personal Director Christopher Wray, resigned as well.
reasons. […]
“It’s tough to leave a mission this
compelling and an institution as exceptional
as the Department of Justice,” said
Laufman, 59. “But I know that prosecutors
and agents will continue to bring to their
work precisely what the American people
should expect: a fierce and relentless
commitment to protect the national security
of the United States.” […]
Critics noted that Laufman had donated to Barack
Obama’s presidential campaigns, referring to him as a
“holdover.”
Laufman joins a growing list of key officials leaving the
Justice Department/FBI cabal amid Inspector General
Michael Horowitz’s probe into the bureau’s Clinton email
investigation.
Former FBI special agent Josh Campbell recently quit the
bureau to join CNN, citing increasing levels of criticism
directed at the agency.
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Informant: Obama Briefed TWICE
On Dirty Uranium One Deal, Did NOTHING (Video)
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 8, 2018
Mr. Campbell testified for over four hours until he to have video evidence showing Russian
answered every question from three Congressional agents with briefcases full of bribe money
committees; the Senate Judiciary, House Oversight and in relation to the Uranium One scandal.
House Intelligence committees
Having been deeply embedded in the Russian nuclear
industry, Campbell was able to gather incriminating
evidence of bribery and kickbacks to and by U.S. and
Russian actors involved in getting the Uranium One deal
approved by the Obama administration.
And yet a series of U.S. officials including former In addition, Bill Clinton received hefty, outsized payments
Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee of $500,000 each for a series of speeches he gave in
Hillary Clinton allowed the deal to go through. Moscow.
Many of those same critics have often wondered where Fast-forward to this week. On Wednesday Campbell broke
was the president of the United States — Barack Obama his silence again after receiving marathon cancer
— during the deal-making process which, reports have treatments to inform three congressional committees,
since noted, was fraught with corruption? according to investigative reporter and Fox News
contributor Sara A. Carter, who obtained his testimony:
According to an FBI informant in the case, Obama was
briefed at least twice but failed to stop the deal. “For several years my relationship with the
CIA consisted of being debriefed after
foreign travel,” Campbell noted in his
In October the informant, identified as Bill Campbell,
testimony, which was obtained by this
came forward with details of a story of backroom dealing
reporter. “Gradually, the relationship
and quid-pro-quo arrangements involving several Obama
evolved into the CIA tasking me to travel to
administration figures along with Bill and Hillary Clinton.
specific countries to obtain specific
information. In the 1990’s I developed a
As The National Sentinel reported: working relationship with Kazakhstan and
Russia in their nuclear energy industries.
An undercover informant for the FBI who When I told the CIA of this development, I
worked in the Russian nuclear industry and was turned over to FBI counterintelligence
was made to sign an “illegal” non- agents.”
disclosure agreement (NDA) by Obama
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is claiming
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The informant’s attorney, Victoria Toensing Robert Mueller’s FBI had been
partner at the firm DiGenova & Toensing, investigating the scheme since at least
said the following: 2008 – with retiring Deputy FBI Director
Andrew McCabe assigned to the ongoing
“Mr. Campbell testified for over four hours
investigation which was hidden from the
until he answered every question from
Committee on Foreign Investments in the
three Congressional committees; the
Senate Judiciary, House Oversight and United States (CFIUS). Had they known,
the committee never would have approved
House Intelligence committees.
the Uranium One deal with TENEX’s parent
He recounted numerous times that the company, Rosatom.
Russians bragged that the Clintons’
Four individuals were eventually
influence in the Obama administration
would ensure CIFIUS approval for Uranium prosecuted and given plea
agreements after the Uranium One deal
One. And he was right.”
was approved. The prosecuting DOJ
attorneys? Deputy Attorney General Rod
In an interview Wednesday night with Fox News host Sean Rosenstein and top Mueller investigator in
Hannity, Toensing — a former Reagan administration the Trump-Russia probe, Andrew
official — noted that Campbell testified that he was told Weissman – who praised former acting
Obama was briefed at least twice on the deal as it Attorney General Sally Yates for defying
progressed. Trump.
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Lovebirds Strzok And Page On March For Life:
“F*Cking Marchers Making Traffic Problems”
“I Truly Hate These People”
By Jim Hoft
February 8, 2018, 10:38 Am
March for Life – Washignton DC. Lovebirds Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa page were not
fond of the pro-life movement.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee released thousands of text messages on The hated “f*cking” pro-lifers and
Wednesday between lovebirds Peter Strzok titled texted, “I hate these people.”
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Clinton Hatchet Man Schearer Peddled
TRUMP DIRT Sooner Than Thought; Info Found
Its Way To DOSSIER Author Steele
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 8, 2018
That was about the time the FBI was attempting for a
second time to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court warrant against Trump campaign official Carter
Page. The bureau had initially sought a warrant over the
summer of 2016 but that application was rejected.
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Steele provided the FBI with a handwritten The basic information contained in Schearer’s memo was
memo based upon information from that Russia’s spy agency, the FSB, had video footage of
Shearer, according to The Atlantic. The Trump engaging in sex acts with prostitutes in a Moscow
note also reportedly referenced Shearer’s hotel room.
association with Blumenthal and disclosed
that the information was unverified. Steele and Schearer run in similar circles of friends but
The Shearer memo and the Steele dossier Steele, a former spy with connections to the FBI and CIA,
contain some of the same unverified has a better reputation. That’s likely why the FBI did not
allegations. vet his dossier before using it to obtain a FISC warrant
against Page — a violation of rules.
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Emotional Omarosa Breaks Silence On White House Stint,
Trashes POTUS Trump On ‘Celebrity
Big Brother’ (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 8, 2018, 11:24 Am
“Should we be worried?”
“Yes,” nodded an emotional Omarosa.
“I need you to say it’s going to be okay,”
pleaded Ross.
“No, it’s not going to be okay, it’s not,”
Omarosa replied.
“So bad,” the former White House staffer
Asked what drove her to join the White House added.
ranks, Omarosa said,
The former reality TV star stepped down as Director of
“I felt like it was, like, a call to duty. I felt like Communications for the Office of Public Liaison on
I was serving my country, not serving him January 20th, 2018.
.
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Rob Reiner Says Fighting Trump
Is ‘Last Battle Of The Civil War’
By Corinne Weaver
February 8, 2018 10:34 AM EST
You really have to credit liberal celebrities for their been dragged back and we’re going to win
attempts to dial back the vitriol and heal the differences because if we don’t win the promise of
between us. If only we could find some of those celebs. what this country started as, which is we
are all one, we are all created equal, that
Instead, we get director Rob Reiner who, in an acceptance promise will not be realized unless we can
speech for his Social Justice Award at the African overcome what has happened in this last
American Film Critics Association Awards, referred to his election. And I know we will.”
issues with the current administration as the
Using the Civil War as a reference for the current
“last battle of the Civil War.” administration has been a favorite strategy of the left in the
media. ABC’s Chief Political Analyst Matthew Dowd said,
on the morning of Donald Trump’s inauguration, that the
United States was “as divided now as we were then,” in
the Civil War.
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Pillow Talk: Lovebirds Strzok And Page Trash Trump And
Texas: “I Hate Trump” – “B*Ttf*Ck Texas”
By Jim Hoft
February 8, 2018, 11:50 Am
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 17: U.S. President Donald Lovebirds Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page hated
Trump wears a Stetson cowboy hat given to him by Dustin the pro-life movement.
Noblitt (L) while touring a Made in America product
showcase in the East Room of the White House July 17, Strzok and Page also HATED Candidate
2017 in Washington, DC. American manufacturers Trump and b*ttfuck Texas.
representing each of the 50 states participated in the
showcase, including Bully Tools, Cheerwine, Stetson, They also love illegal aliens.
Simms and RMA Armament, Charles Machine Works,
Honckley Yachts, Altec Inc., Caterpiller, Pierce Via Scribd:
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FBI Withheld Notes From Their Interviews With
Christopher Steele From Senate Judiciary Committee
By Cristina Laila
February 8, 2018, 1:07 Pm
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This raises many more questions about the FBI and their
role in seeking and obtaining a FISA warrant to spy on
Trump’s camp.
.
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Judge Pirro Goes Off On Comey, McCabe:
‘We’re On The Brink Of Indictments’
Over FBI Corruption
By Cristina Laila
February 8, 2018, 2:04 Pm
Judge Jeanine Pirro told Fox News’ She said that the storyline surrounding the unverified
Sean Hannity Wednesday night she Trump-Russia dossier, the series of Congressional memos
believes we are on the brink of and texts between two “FBI lovebirds” reads like a
“Hollywood” screenplay.
“indictments” over FBI misconduct.
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Media In Tug Of War Over
Scope Of Obama's Sept. 2016 Interest In 'Everything'
By Tom Blumer
February 8, 2018 2:11 PM EST
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CNN Calls Fox News 'Spin Machine',
Argues Trump Lives In 'Parallel Universe'
By Ryan Foley
February 8, 2018 3:04 PM EST
Towards the end of Thursday morning’s edition of CNN’s “midwife by folks in the conservative
Inside Politics, the panel criticized President Trump's media...who want to believe the absolute
routine of watching Fox News in the morning and argued worst.” On the other hand, the liberal media
that he lives in a "parallel universe." want to dismiss the whole text message
scandal as a “nothing burger.”
The panel had discussed the fact that President Trump used
the phrase “bombshell” to describe the latest batch of text Members of the panel then gave their two cents on a clip
messages between anti-Trump FBI employees Peter Stzrok of Kellyanne Conway reacting to one of the text messages,
and Lisa Page, after the morning news program Fox & where Page tells Stzrok that
Friends used the same term. President Trump has
repeatedly praised Fox & Friends on his Twitter account “POTUS wants to know everything we’re
and has had a rocky relationship with CNN. CNN White doing.”
House Reporter Abby Phillip said that
President Obama had previously told Fox
“It’s also fascinating to watch the President News Sunday host Chris Wallace that he
mimic back what he’s watching on
television that morning.” She went on to “did not have any involvement in ongoing
say FBI investigations.” King said that “this
“He’s not going to the source of this parallel universe thing is just not healthy”,
information, he’s getting it chewed through
this sort of spin machine.” reinforcing the media narrative that the President and his
inner circle are out of touch with reality.
Inside Politics
02/08/18
12:47 PM
Host John King, perhaps a little jealous of the President’s
admiration for Fox News, said ABBY PHILLIP: It’s also fascinating to just watch the President
mimic back what he’s watching on television that morning. He
used exactly the same language. He called it a bombshell, which
“Forgive me, but he watches in the is the language that was being used in that segment on Fox. And
morning, this is the President of the United that’s what’s happening day in and day out with President Trump.
States, who has access to every bit of He’s not going to the source of this information, he’s getting it
information in the world that U.S. sort of chewed through this spin machine, and then he is
intelligence can gather and that’s where he repeating it on social media to his 45 million followers.
chooses to get his information.”
JOHN KING: Right. Forgive me, but he watches in the morning,
The Weekly Standard’s Michael Warren dismissed the this is the President of the United States who has access to
emphasis of the Stzrok-Page text messages as every bit of information in the world that U.S. intelligence can
gather and that’s where he chooses to get his information. Good
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luck. Senator Johnson, just a few moments ago, asked about this KING: I’ll say the same thing I said about the Nunes memo. That
and didn’t back down. if you have actual evidence of bias in law enforcement agencies,
dear God, put it out. But put it out in a bipartisan way so the
people can believe it as opposed to this little cherry-picking stuff.
To the point where Kellyanne Conway, again paid by you, the
American taxpayer, says this and says, wow.
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New Evidence Suggests Peter Strzok’s Cell Phone Use
Violated Rules Protecting Classified Information
By Joshua Caplan
February 8, 2018, 3:10 Pm
Former FBI counterintelligence agent “Can you and [redacted woman] come up
Peter Strzok may have violated rules and see me when you are done? Is
protecting classified information by [redacted woman] with you? Can you
using his cell phone in a Secure please come up here?” […]
Compartmented Information Facility “We’re in Jims SCIF,” Strzok texted five
(SCIF) on August 11th, 2016, newly
minutes later. JB/Jim may refer to Jim
released FBI text messages reveal.
Baker, then the FBI’s general counsel and
a close ally of then-FBI Director Jim
Comey.
This isn’t the first time Strzok and Page’s cell phone use
has raised eyebrows. Text messages released Wednesday
by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham
(R-SC) suggest the disgraced FBI agents used untraceable
phones to communicate about Hillary Clinton.
SCIF stands for Secure Compartmented Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter previously
Information Facility, and it is where the reported text messages exchanged between Strzok and
most sensitive classified material is kept Page revealed discussions about purchasing Apple iPhones
and story. SCIFs strictly bar all electronic to bypass “government collection,” systems. During one of
equipment and require all people place their exchanges, Strzok told Page, “If I want to copy/take
their phones in lockers before entering. classified, I’m sure as hell not going to do it on this
The lead up to Strzok’s visit to “Jims SCIF” phone.”
took place around meetings at the
Department of Justice. Strzok said he had Strzok and Page’s usage of unsecured phones has raised
meetings at “DoJ at 4 then Baker 430.” concerns that their messages may have been hacked by
“foreign actors.” Fox News contributor Sara Carter has
Hours later, Page responds, raised the prospect that countries such as Russia and China
could have used the captured exchanges to blackmail both
the disgraced FBI agents.
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Really? MSNBC Turns to Fmr. Bill Clinton
Staffer to Lecture Trump White House on Scandal
By Kyle Drennen
February 8, 2018 3:20 PM EST
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is pretty normal, but talk us through this going on inside the White going away. And even when the pictures come out and it’s
House. irrefutable, he’s defending the perpetrator, the wife beater, not
the victims. And so, I’m not surprised that Hope Hicks, the young
MALONEY: Look, I think under normal circumstances, you know, and rather inexperienced communications director, is writing a
you wouldn’t be shocked that people who work long hours statement when she has a clear conflict of interest. It’s a normal
together meet and sometimes have a relationship. The issue day down at the Trump White House. But other Republicans and
here is what the conflicts are when Hope Hicks, as the people who care about our national security need to speak up.
communications director, needs to write a statement about this Enough of this stuff.
very serious issue. She should be no where near it. Common
sense would tell you that you let someone else do it or recuse RUHLE: I want to know what family values means these days.
yourself because you have a personal conflict. Because it’s certainly strange to me. At the very least, she’s got
to break up with the guy. Hey, Congressman, thank you so much
But in this White House, all the norms seem to be out the for joining me this morning, I really appreciate it.
window. The chief of staff is told about wife beating, doesn’t care.
He’s told a guy can’t get a national security clearance, they keep MALONEY: Thanks, Stephanie.
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BREAKING: Another Longtime
Aide To James Comey OUT At FBI
By Joshua Caplan
February 8, 2018, 3:32 Pm
Michael Kortan, the FBI’s Head of Public especially in July 2016 — coordinating
Affairs and longtime aide to former media coverage and handing out copies of
bureau chief James Comey, is leaving Comey’s public statement recommending
his post. against criminal charges in the
investigation into mishandling of classified
information.
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McCarthy: Lisa Page’s Text PROVES
That Mueller CANNOT Plausibly Charge
Trump With ‘OBSTRUCTION’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 8, 2018
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mission,” McCarthy explained. “Indeed, the The point here is not to sort out the
information derived from motivations and intentions of officials,
counterintelligence operations is often which ran the spectrum from a proper
included in the president’s daily intelligence desire to protect the country to a politicized
briefing.” loss of objectivity that induced them blindly
to accept Steele’s sensational claims as
McCarthy referenced the Sept. 16, 2016, text sent from fact. The point is to understand formally
Page to Strzok, in which the pair were discussing “talking what was going on.
points” being provided for then-FBI Director James Formally, the FBI was doing a
Comey so he could brief President Obama, because counterintelligence investigation of Russian
threats to the United States that happened
“potus wants to know everything we are to involve the Kremlin’s potential coopting
doing.” of the Republican presidential candidate.
That was something the FBI was supposed
“It appears obvious that the two are
to keep the president of the United States
referring to ‘everything we are doing in
informed about. Informing the president
what was then their most important
about foreign threats is the FBI’s
counterintelligence initiative: the probe of
counterintelligence mission. If the FBI
possible connections between Donald
credited the information involved and
Trump, then the Republican nominee for
Director Comey had nevertheless failed to
president, and the Kremlin,” McCarthy
brief President Obama on it, he would have
wrote.
been guilty of an indefensible dereliction of
duty.
The former national security prosecutor noted that Strzok
and Page were working off information provided to the
McCarthy notes that indeed, Obama’s April 2016
bureau and the Justice Department received via the
statement to Fox News‘ Chris Matthews that he never
infamous “Trump dossier” gathered by Christopher Steele,
interfered in Justice Department investigations was
a former British spy who had provided the FBI with
comically false as he ran the most politicized DOJ in
reliable information in the past.
modern history. He even signaled during the interview that
he did not believe she did anything wrong — at least
Though it appears as though the FBI failed to verify the intentionally so — which was a sign to prosecutors and the
contents of the dossier, the bureau was nevertheless FBI the president wanted her cleared.
obligated to brief Obama because, again, it was
counterintelligence. Obama’s and the campaign of Hillary
And she was.
Clinton’s motives for creating the dossier aside, it cannot
be argued that the document was not considered as
evidence in a counterintelligence investigation. “Yet it is frivolous to claim that Obama’s “no
interference” assertion in April was a lie
because he got briefed by Comey in
More:
September about the Trump-Russia caper,”
McCarthy writes, because in that April
Put aside what you think about all this interview, Obama was talking
politically as we sit here in February 2018. about criminal investigations.
The question is what people were thinking
in September 2016. I have no doubt that
The following September, as indicated by the Page-Strzok
the Obama administration, including the
text, Obama was being briefed on counterintelligence
upper echelons of the Obama-era Justice
operations, by comparison.
Department and FBI, believed Donald
Trump was unfit to be president and that he
was at least vulnerable to blackmail by the “A president cannot ‘interfere’ with a
Putin regime, if not in cahoots with the counterintelligence investigation because
Putin regime. I also have no doubt that they keeping the president informed is the
were politically aligned with Hillary Clinton, reason we have counterintelligence
whom Obama was ardently supporting and investigations.
a criminal investigation against whom the “Consequently, what this episode ought to
FBI and Justice Department had dropped, focus the commentariat on is the
despite substantial evidence of guilt, after obstruction angle of the Mueller
Obama had signaled that he did not want investigation. It is cockamamie,” writes
Mrs. Clinton charged. McCarthy.
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He notes: “But let’s set that aside,” McCarthy
continued:
The theory behind this aspect of the special According to Director Comey, Trump was
counsel’s work is that President Trump not a criminal suspect. Asking Comey to go
obstructed the Russia probe by, principally, easy on Flynn — who was under criminal
(a) leaning on Comey to drop the investigation for lying to the FBI — cannot
investigation of Michael Flynn, (b) firing legitimately have turned Trump into a
Comey, and (c) “threatening” to fire suspect. As we’ve covered at length, the
Mueller. Here is the problem: The Russia president is authorized to exercise
investigation is principally a prosecutorial discretion (an executive
counterintelligence investigation into power) by weighing in on the merits of
Russia’s interference in the 2016 prosecuting a person; Trump did not direct
investigation. The president cannot Comey to drop the investigation, though he
interfere in a counterintelligence could have; Trump could have pardoned
investigation. Trump can no more obstruct Flynn, which would have ended the
the Russia investigation by taking actions investigation; and the investigation
that could conceivably affect it than Obama proceeded apace — ultimately leading to
could obstruct the Russia investigation by Flynn’s guilty plea.
being briefed on it and giving the FBI
directions on it. Counterintelligence As for firing Comey and purportedly
investigations are conducted for the threatening to fire Mueller (in fact, Trump
president. has not taken any serious step in the
direction of removing the special counsel),
these are imagined by Trump detractors
The point of them is to provide the president with all
into obstruction episodes because they
relevant information he needs to make decisions about show Trump interfering in the Russia
protecting the country and advancing American interests.
investigation. But the Russia investigation
That’s also the point of the ‘Russia’ investigation. is a counterintelligence investigation.
Trump gets to “interfere” in it if he chooses
Democrats and others obsessed with ‘getting Trump’ fail to. Though he grouses about it, he does
to make the distinction that counterintelligence operations not seem to have much inclination to
are conducted to inform the president, McCarthy notes; if interfere in it.
Mueller is conducting a criminal probe, then the Justice
Department was required to make that point clear when it If there is no criminal investigation of Trump — and there
appointed him. is no indication there is — then it is not constitutionally
possible for him to “obstruct” a counterintelligence probe
The DOJ did no such thing. In fact, Deputy Attorney since they are conducted for the president McCarthy
General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller without concluded.
alleging that Trump or members of his campaign team
even committed any violations of law.
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Green Billionaire, Trump-Hater
And ‘Need To Impeach’ Founder Tom Steyer Hires 50
Staffers For Possible 2020 Run
By Jim Hoft
February 8, 2018, 3:48 Pm
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Based on a LinkedIn search of people who
identify “Need to Impeach” as their
employer, it appears that Steyer could be
laying the groundwork for a 2020
presidential campaign.
Staffers include people with experience
with political research, a speechwriter and
a senior communications strategist.
Steyer previously announced that he would
not be running for office in 2018, despite
rumors that he is considering running for
Steyer claims he has 4.6 million supporters backing his
governor of California. By hiring 50 political
“Need to Impeach” movement.
operatives, it seems that Steyer might have
his eyes set on the White House.
They want Trump impeached because he’s mean and
tweets mean things. Good luck in 2020 Tom.
NTK reported:
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Poll: 50% Think Federal Officials Broke
The Law To Block Trump Presidency
By Mike LaChance
Posted on February 8, 2018
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Judicial Watch Sues FBI For Documents On Comey Book
Deal, Coordination Before Senate Intel Testimony
By Joshua Caplan
February 8, 2018, 4:00 Pm
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Trump UNLOADS On DEM Sen. Warner For
‘EXTENSIVE CONTACT’ With ‘Russian Oligarch’ —
Tied To ‘Crooked Hillary’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 9, 2018
“I’m in,” Waldman, whose firm has ties to Steele has not agreed to an interview with
Hillary Clinton, texted back to Warner… the committee.
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to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of “Wow! -Senator Mark Warner got caught
controversial Russian billionaire Oleg V. having extensive contact with a lobbyist for
Deripaska. Deripraska had his visa revoked a Russian oligarch. Warner did not want a
by the State Department in 2006 because ‘paper trail’ on a ‘private’ meeting (in
of charges, which he has denied, that he London) he requested with Steele of
has organized crime ties. fraudulent Dossier fame. All tied into
Crooked Hillary,” said the president.
The revelations stirred President Trump to address
Warner’s back-channel dealing on Twitter. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., defended Warner, claiming he
disclosed this information to the committee months ago.
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100 Far Left Activists Sign Up To Lie Down In Front Of
Tanks In Trump’s Military Parade
By Jim Hoft
February 8, 2018, 4:06 Pm
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Comey Memoir Release Date Moved
Up Because FBI Is Under “Intense Scrutiny”
By Cristina Laila
February 8, 2018, 4:57 Pm
The publisher says the release date was moved up because The reason why the FBI is under intense scrutiny is
the FBI is under “intense scrutiny”. because of James Comey’s failed leadership. Comey is
responsible for corrupting the top brass of the FBI.
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Bannon: ‘Why Are McConnell,
Ryan Letting DEMS Investigate TRUMP?’
By Usafeaturesmedia
Posted On February 9, 2018
“Not only do you have a special prosecutor “Not only do you have a special prosecutor
and the Justice Department and a couple and the Justice Department and a couple
of grand juries…” of grand juries. You have on Capitol Hill …
with Republican leadership, you have three
separate committees.
“You have, I think, two in the Senate and
one in the House,” Bannon said in
reference to the Senate Judiciary and
Intelligence Committees and the House
Intelligence Committee. “And they are
investigating him and sending out
subpoenas, and they’ve had some big
breaks already.”
(National Sentinel) Swamp: Former White House chief
strategist Steve Bannon believes that Republican leaders in As noted by The Daily Caller:
Congress are helping Democrats nullify President Donald
J. Trump’s victory by allowing what he believes are
The House Intelligence Committee has
politically motivated investigations against him to
received a cache of documents from the
continue.
Trump Organization, the Senate Judiciary
Committee has questioned Donald Trump
“The nullification of this election, I don’t Jr, and former Trump campaign chairman
think is coming from the Left,” Bannon told Paul Manafort has testified before the
Charlie Rose in an interview that was Senate Intelligence Committee.
released in full Tuesday night.
“Principally the Republican leadership has
allowed three committees to go and
Portions of the interview aired on “60 Minutes” on
principally be run by Democrats,” Bannon
Sunday, which included Bannon saying he does not think
said.
that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of
Kentucky and House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconson “I think [California Democratic Rep. Adam
want the president’s “populist, economic nationalist Schiff] is running the House committee …
agenda to be implemented.” looks like [Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark
Warner] is running the Senate committee
In the full interview, Bannon said, and not [Republican North Carolina Sen.
Richard Burr].”
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BREAKING: Top Democrat Mark Warner Tried To
Organize ‘Private Mtg’ With Dossier Author Through
Lobbyist Of Russian Oligarch (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 8, 2018, 6:50 Pm
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CNN Warns Of Russian Collusion...
At The National Prayer Breakfast?!
By Tim Graham
February 8, 2018 7:31 PM EST
The C in CNN must stand for Collusion (with Russia), professionals -- millennial doctors, lawyers
since positively everything presidential magnetically and business leaders in their 20s and 30s -
acquires an obsessed-with-Russia angle. This one is a - invited out of a context of relationship and
standout: they infiltrated the National Prayer Breakfast! faith."
CNN.com reported "Big Russian Delegation Anticipated
For Prayer Breakfast In Washington." It's not really But before this discouraging math that Russians were
about prayer and breakfast, it's a about 1.5 percent of attendees emerged, CNN played up
the Russian influence-peddling sure to unfold:
"prime networking opportunity for Beltway
insiders. But this year's event is also an
opportunity for dozens of Russians."
Added Zharkov,
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CNN's reporters also conceded many of the Russians But CNN is all about the politics.
attending the breakfast this year are senior religious
figures. Konstantin Bendas, a bishop of the Russian Union But CNN clearly prodded him to cast doubt on the other
of Christians of the Evangelical Faith, said he felt the need Russians:
to go this year because the US-Russian relationship had
deteriorated so much.
"I suppose the majority of members of the
(Russian) delegation don't want to pray;
"It's the right time for believers -- Christian they want to mingle," he said. And many
people -- to unite for at least a day, bend might be attending to "try to solve their own
the knee and pray for peace and unity problems, that is -- their name possibly
without politics," Bendas told CNN. appearing in future sanctions lists."
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SHOCK VIDEO=> DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison Sits
And Applauds As Linda Sarsour Calls America Racist,
Hateful Country Founded On Murder
By Jim Hoft
February 8, 2018, 7:43 Pm
This is today’s Democrat Party— I’m talking to Chuck Schumer who’s also
from Brooklyn. I’m tired of hearing a white
DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison, a man negotiating on the backs of people of
representative from Minnesota, was color and communities like ours. But I also
caught on camera listening and remember that I live in a country that was
founded on the extermination of indigenous
applauding as far left activist Linda
people. You have a fascist in the highest
Sarsour called America a racist, hateful office of this land who is running ICE which
country founded on murder. has always been a rogue agency but now
** Linda Sarsour famously called for they’re acting like a gestapo going and
jihad against Donald Trump last year. picking up people in the middle of the
night…
Sarsour spoke at a protest called “A Day of Action
Against Trump’s White Supremacy” on Wednesday. At the end of her speech the entire crowd started chanting.
Keith Ellison spoke and sat on stage during the rally. They all loved it.
Linda Sarsour:
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Senator “Fake Indian” Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren. Let’s see your DNA test, Liz!
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Peter Strzok Savages Chelsea Clinton
In Newly Released FBI Text Messages
By Cristina Laila
February 8, 2018, 8:02 Pm
FBI lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa “I like Chelsea fine. Why not?”
Page are in hot water after their text
Strzok responded by saying,
messages were blasted out to the
public. “Self entitled. Feels she deserves
something she hasn’t earned.” OUCH!
The two were caught disparaging Trump, Gowdy,
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
‘hillbilly’ Virginians and many other people.
Strzok also savaged Chelsea Clinton leading up to the
DNC convention in late July of 2016 and then again during
the convention.
Screenshots of the text messages between FBI lovebirds
below. [Inbox] is Peter Strzok and [Outbox] is Lisa Page.
Leading up to Chelsea’s speech at the DNC convention,
Peter Strzok sent a text message to his mistress Lisa Page
saying,
“I don’t like Chelsea! Her husband even
less…”
Lisa Page replies,
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Chelsea Clinton gave a speech at the DNC convention on close sharing. Didn’t come across as
July 29th, 2016 and Strzok savaged her again. genuine. Plus she has a HORRIBLE billy
goat speech tic”.
Peter Strzok sent his mistress Lisa Page a text saying,
OUCH AGAIN!
“Watched Hillary is all. She was ok.
Chelsea was awful. Tried to do Bill’s up
This text exchange was from a new document dump the two lovebirds. The Department of Justice has
Wednesday. reportedly recovered a portion of the ‘missing’ text
messages.
We are still awaiting the release of ‘missing’ text messages
dated December 14th, 2016- May 17th 2017 sent between
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PAUL RYAN Promises Democrats To
Pass Amnesty – Will Get To It Next (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 8, 2018, 8:10 Pm
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Trump Maligned As Mad ‘Dictator’ By Estrella TV
By Kathleen Krumhansl and Ken Oliver
February 8, 2018 8:27 PM EST
President Trump’s desire to celebrate a massive national “the President is simply exploring different
event, comparable to the annual French Bastille Day ways that he can highlight and show the
military parade, to showcase and honor the Armed Forces pride that we have in the military, the
of the United States has been pounced upon by the liberal people that have served and sacrificed to
media as a perfect opportunity to portray Trump as a allow us all of the freedoms that we have.”
budding tyrant.
Sosa entirely omitted from his report that Trump’s idea for
Instead of straightforward reporting on Trump the parade was born out of his experience as guest of honor
administration - and critics’ - views of the proposed at last year’s Bastille Day Military Parade The President
parade, media like Spanish-language Estrella TV have himself was quoted, after watching the impressive, united
rushed to frame the news around the developing event in display of French military forces, that it was a
the worst possible way.
“tremendous thing for France and for the
“Dictator style” is how Estrella TV spirit of France.”
presented the proposed parade on screen
Below is the transcript of the above-referenced report,
to its viewers, with anchor Adriana Yañez
which aired during the February 7, 2018 edition of
characterizing Trump’s patriotic initiative as
Noticiero Estrella TV.
an "act of madness” and the Los Angeles-
based network’s reporter, Oscar Sosa, ADRIANA YAÑEZ, ANCHOR, ESTRELLA
judging the Bastille Day-based concept to TV: And Donald Trump doesn’t stop
be “in the exact style of Kim Jon Un or surprising Americans with his acts of
Vladimir Putin.” madness. Now, he’s asked for a military
parade to intimidate his enemies. Oscar
Sosa has more.
OSCAR SOSA, REPORTER, ESTRELLA
TV: In the exact style of Kim Jon Un or
Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump has asked
for a military parade to show off American
power and emphasize his role as the
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
The White House and the Pentagon confirmed the
President´s request and insisted that they were already
evaluating how the parade could be organized, but did not
ADRIANA YAÑEZ, ANCHOR, ESTRELLA give a date for the event.
TV: And Donald Trump doesn’t stop The government´s Press Secretary, Sarah Sanders, said that
surprising Americans with his acts of the idea of the President is to recognize the heroic work of
madness. Now, he’s asked for a military U.S. military men and women, who risk their lives to keep
parade to intimidate his enemies. Oscar the peace of the country and the entire world.
Sosa has more.
As expected, the President´s proposal unleashed all kinds
OSCAR SOSA, REPORTER, ESTRELLA of criticism from Democrats. One of them was from
TV: In the exact style of Kim Jon Un or Congressman Jim McGovern, who described the request as
Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump has asked an absurd idea to waste Americans’ money.
for a military parade to show off American
power and emphasize his role as the The United States has not organized a large scale military
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. parade since June 1991, after winning the first Gulf War.
On that occasion, almost 9000 soldiers marched through
Only later in the report did Sosa make passing reference to downtown Washington, attracting some 200,000 thousand
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders statement on spectators.
the subject, in which she explained that
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ABC Blames Trump Tax Cuts For
Dow Plunging Twice In One Week
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 8, 2018 8:54 PM EST
“Tonight, some economists also say the And according to Janis, the reason the market was volatile
President's tax cuts could actually be was that the economy was doing too good.
adding to all of this, by stimulating an
already improving economy,” claimed “Tonight, investors tell ABC News the
ABC reporter Linzie Janis. “And the fast and furious selloff is actually about
question, who pays for those cuts later anxiety the economy is doing too well
on?” too quickly. And fears the federal
reserve may have to hike rates more
Their questions over who was going to pay for it wasn’t a aggressively this year in order to keep
sentiment shared during their report on the inflation under control,” she explained.
absolutely massive spending bill before the Senate to ward
off against another possible government shutdown. The But according to others, the volatility was driven by
only thing they seemed to care about was why a deal on computer algorithms over analyzing the market.
DACA and for the Dreamers wasn’t included in the
proposal. Janis also seemed dismissive of President Trump's
grievance with the swings:
On top of their smears of the tax cuts, sensationalist anchor
David Muir loaded up his introduction to the segment with “The President tweeting after Monday's
hyperbole and fearful language. losses: ‘In the old days, when good news
was reported, the stock market would go
“And as the White House was riding out up. Today, when good news is reported,
this latest storm, traders on Wall Street the stock market goes down. Big mistake.’”
were riding out the latest plunge on the
As a Media Research Center study found
Dow. The stock market, once again, in a
earlier this week, the liberal networks
freefall today,” he declared. “And what
mostly ignored the Dow’s history rise to
does it mean for your retirement, your
above 26,000 and all the records it left
401(k)?”
busted in its wake.
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But now that the market was undergoing an anticipated LINZIE JANIS: The look on their faces says it all. Anxious traders
correction, they were on top of it. And where they were on Wall Street as the Dow closed more than 1,000 points lower.
hesitant to credit Trump with the success, they were quick Coming on top of Monday's massive selloff, the largest one-day
to burden him with the perceived failure. drop in history. The Dow is now down 10 percent from its high in
January. That's considered an official correction.
The relevant portions of the transcript are below:
Tonight, investors tell ABC News the fast and furious selloff is
ABC actually about anxiety the economy is doing too well too quickly.
World News Tonight And fears the federal reserve may have to hike rates more
February 8, 2018 aggressively this year in order to keep inflation under control.
6:36:35 PM Eastern
(…)
DAVID MUIR: And as the White House was riding out this latest
storm, traders on Wall Street were riding out the latest plunge on JANIS: The President tweeting after Monday's losses: "In the old
the Dow. The stock market, once again, in a freefall today. The days, when good news was reported, the stock market would go
Dow losing more than 1,000 points today, sinking below 24,000, up. Today, when good news is reported, the stock market goes
down 10 percent in two weeks that's what's considered an official down. Big mistake."
correction now. But with unemployment low and a strong
economy, what's really behind this? And what does it mean for Tonight, some economists also say the President's tax cuts could
your retirement, your 401(k)? ABC's Linzie Janis tonight at the actually be adding to all of this, by stimulating an already
New York stock exchange. improving economy. And the question, who pays for those cuts
later on? Still, if you put $1,000 in a 401(k) one year ago, the
[Cuts to video] average investor would still be up about 12 percent, meaning that
would now be worth about $1,125.
(…)
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Hypocrisy: Matthews Rebuffs
Trump-O.J. Simpson Comparison,
Used It Himself Last Year
By Curtis Houck
February 8, 2018 9:01 PM EST
On Thursday’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews took issue especially in the black community out
with guest and former Obama Justice Department official there for unfairness.”
Neal Katyal when he compared President Trump’s
“So, he played into a reality. It wasn't
behavior during the Russia probe to O.J. Simpson trying to
like he created this image of the LAPD.
discredit the LAPD during his murder.
They had it,” Matthews opined, which
Katyal conceded since Trump employing
Now, why mention this? While Matthews quibbling with a this strategy is “worse” because he’s
point raised by a guest is nothing new, it’s noteworthy supposed to be “standing up for the law
because the pundit seemed to have suffered some amnesia enforcement and for the justice
since he made a similar Trump-Simpson comparison system.”
less than a year ago.
As for Matthews’s hypocrisy, he ended his July 20, 2017
show by noting the significance of Trump stating in a New
York Times interview that Special Counsel Robert
Mueller should not cross hiss red line by examining the
First Family’s finances.
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his people coming up with all these memos and midnight rides MATTHEWS: Just to be fair about that, the metaphor there, you
and anything to confuse the game? know, Johnny Cochran knew that the LAPD had a bad
reputation, especially in the black community out there for
NEAL KATYAL: Yeah. You're absolutely right, Chris. Every time unfairness. So, he played into a reality. It wasn't like he created
that Mueller or the other people on his team find something out, —
the President throws up some sort of chaff or dust and says look
over here, look over there or something like that. And at this KATYAL: Right.
point, Donald Trump is not acting like the President. He's acting
really like O.J. I mean, we defense lawyers know that when you MATTHEWS: — this image of the LAPD. They had it.
have a client who’s guilty, you've got one good card to play and
that is attack law enforcement, attack the prosecutor, call them
KATYAL: Absolutely. 100 percent, Chris and that's what makes
biased. And that's what the President's strategy has been and it's
this worse. The FBI is the pride of the world in terms of law
a lot worse here than what an ordinary private citizen like O.J.,
enforcement and the President should be, like every other
O.J. is a private citizen. He’s has no duties to law enforcement or
president, standing up for the law enforcement and for the justice
anything, but the President is, of course, oath bound to stand up
system and saying look, I'll cooperate. I trust you. We have the
for law enforcement and the other thing is that O.J. or —
American justice system which is the envy of the world. Instead,
this President goes and attacks them in a way no president has
done and it's a lot worse than a private citizen. Remember all the
weapons Donald Trump has at his disposal. He's already fired
the chief investigator Jim Comey. He's got an army of taxpayer-
funded lawyers to defend him unlike private citizens and of
course, he's got his own guy, Rod Rosenstein supervising his
investigation, the investigation of him. So that's unlike any private
citizen and the idea that he then goes and denigrates law
enforcement, boy, that is just a horrible thing.
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Marco Rubio Defends Dem Senator Who Tried To
Organize Private Meeting With Christopher
Steele – Twitter Responds
By Cristina Laila
February 8, 2018, 9:13 Pm
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POTUS Trump Unleashes On Sneaky Mark Warner For
Trying To Organize Secret London Meeting
With Christopher Steele
By Cristina Laila
February 8, 2018, 10:00 Pm
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) immediately came to Senator President Trump went scorched earth on Senator Warner
Warner’s defense. Thursday night and called out Crooked Hillary!
Trump tweeted,
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Joe Concha: Media’s Trump Anger
Mostly ‘Performance Art At This Point’
By Nicholas Fondacaro
February 9, 2018 12:27 AM EST
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Fox News Channel Look, I always love to play a game in these situations. Take out
Tucker Carlson Tonight the name “Trump” proposes military parade and put in a name
February 8, 2018 like Biden. And let's say Joe Biden said: “You know what would
8:47:34 PM Eastern be a great idea? To honor the folks in our military July 4th, in
Washington, D.C.” Would you see one snip of a reaction? I don't
TUCKER CARLSON: It’s a bit bad if the President likes think so.
something the press will hate it. It’s like a physics principle
opposite reaction thing. Reaching new extremes on that though, CARLSON: Can I ask you sort of a meta question here? If Trump
this week it emerged that after visiting France the president is a dangerous authoritarian dictator, why does it seem like left-
became enthusiastic about a military parade and thought why wing federal judges are making all the key decisions?
should have one here like the one after World War II or Desert
Storm. So, of course, he was labeled a tyrant almost CONCHA: That's a very good point. I mean, as far as press
immediately. freedoms, I can at least speak to that. We had a daily briefing
today. We’ve had daily briefings almost every day. And reporters
(…) are still on Air Force One. It seems the freedom of the press in
terms of the opinions and the ability to report hasn't been
CARLSON: Who let all the dumb people on TV? It’s impeded in any way. So, the totalitarianism argument doesn't
unbelievable. Joe Concha covers the media for The Hill he joins seem to really apply here.
us tonight. So, Joe, my favorite. By the way, I'm totally agnostic. I
just don't have any strong feelings one way or the other, but I do (…)
love the guy—I think he was a Green Party candidate for
something, who said he was going to stand in front of the tanks CARLSON: So, very quickly, I know you are not a physician and
like tank man in Tiananmen Square in '89. Would he be joined by I'm not either. But, do you think it's healthy to be as angry as a lot
reporters, do you think? of these cable figures seem to be all the time every day?
JOE CONCHA: It’s sounding like it based on that montage, CONCHA: Oh, I think we’re seeing a lot more performance art at
Tucker. Look, I'm in New Jersey. Background kind of gives that this point, Tucker. I think we have talked about this. They are
away. And in New York, I go to a couple parades that go on there playing to a crowd. They know that their audience primarily is
per year. In fact, there are actually more than 20 parades per anti-Trump on some other networks. And they are just playing
year basically almost every week during the summer in New into their emotions. I don't even think they are angry about half
York. I mean, you have the Coney Island mermaid parade, you this stuff. They say, “Okay, what can we do to rile up our
have the Pulaski parade which honors a Polish American hero audience today?”
from the American revolutionary war. Then you have the big ones
like Macy's and the Saint Patrick's day parade which I may or
CARLSON: Good. I hope not because I'm starting to worry about
may not have been too. The details are sketchy. The point is we
Jim Acosta. Is he going to be okay? But that's reassuring. Joe,
have a lot of parades in this country and even outside this
thank you very much.
country, South Korea, where the Winter Olympics are starting
tomorrow they had military parades. France you mentioned that
before, it’s where the President got his idea.
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Love Trumps Hate: Bette Midler Wishes
Violence Upon Senator Rand Paul Over Shutdown
By Cassandra Fairbanks
February 9, 2018, 12:53 Am
After Senator Rand Paul caused what is expected to be a “I guess some people think felony
brief government shutdown over wasteful spending on assault, six broken ribs and other
Thursday evening, Bette Midler took to Twitter to wish internal injuries are funny. That makes
violence upon him. them pretty disturbed,” Senator Paul’s
Chief Strategist Doug Stafford told the
“Where’s Rand Paul’s neighbor when we Gateway Pundit in response to Midler’s
need him?” the washed up singer asked. tweet.
Needless to say, her tweet did not receive the laughter she
expected.
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Unfortunately, Midler wasn’t alone with her vile
sentiments. As of early Friday morning, Midler’s Twitter account
remains active and verified. We have reached out to
Twitter to find out if her tweet violates their new
guidelines for account suspension or removal, but given
her firm stance on the left, it’s safe to assume that it
doesn’t.
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Criminal Clinton Cabal Crumbles –
The Real Russian Hoax Exposed As Democrats Ironically
Caught Colluding With Russia
-Deep State, Democrats And Media In Panic Mode
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
February 9, 2018
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CRIMINAL CLINTON CABAL CRUMBLES From one of my long time (but now retired)
AUSA pals: “David Laufman resignation is
The real Russia Hoax wasn't that Russia attempted to sow a big deal.
discord through social media, ad buys, troll farms or even
hacks into the DNC and the Clinton campaign, if they were As Dep. Assist. AG for National Security
behind those, which we truly cannot be sure if since the Division, he was the Primary Supervisor
very same intelligence communities that made that claim, over Counter-Intelligence work in Nat Sec.
were full of senior members that we now know were part He would have had a hand in the approval
of the true Russia Hoax, which was accusations against the of the FISA application on Page.
Trump campaign about "colluding" with Russia.
He likely had a role in the decision making
on the Clinton email investigation since his
section handled cases involving leaks of
classified information. The decisions on
granting immunity, and allowing conditions
to be attached to the examination of
computers, would have come from his
office. I do not think those were conditions
that the FBI would have wanted. On the
immunity issue, FBI wouldn't have the
authority -- that could only come from the
prosecutors in Nat Sec.
Considering the cornucopia of information that has been The press reporting is that he offered his
revealed since we first learned of senior FBI official Peter resignation yesterday, effective
Strzok and his lover FBI lawyer Lisa Page's text messages, IMMEDIATELY.
showing not only anti-Trump bias ran rampant at the top
levels of both the FBI and the DOJ, where they actively That's what happens when you are told
plotted a "path" to clear Hillary Clinton of wrong-doing in that your are the subject of an OPR or OIG
regards to her private email server and classified email investigation.
scandal, but they also arranged an "insurance policy,"
which we later discovered was the whole "Russia colluded He was in the post since 2014 -- under
with Trump" hoax, it has become apparent that there was Carlin, Yates, and Lynch in the chain of
huge conspiracy to frame Donald Trump on bogus charges, command.” This source isn’t perfect. None
that included a whole host of top level Obama officials. are. But very very accurate over many
years.
New Information:
This week we also found out from the Grassley/Graham
We now find out that two more people Senate Judiciary Committee memo, that information
referenced by Strzok and Page in their text obtained from a foreign source by a Clinton confidant, was
messages, have announced they are fed to a State Department official, then handed over to
leaving their positions. They include the Christopher Steele who was hired by Fusion GPS, paid by
FBI's media chief, Mike Kortan, and the the Clinton campaign and the DNC, to help compile the
head of the Justice Department's anti- much-talked about Kremlin sourced Steele dossier, which
espionage section, David Laufman. These was then used, without verification, by FBI and DOJ
departures follow "FBI Director James officials under Obama, to obtain multiple FISA warrants
Comey, who was fired by Trump; former on a Trump advisor Carter Page.
Deputy Director Andrew McCabe; Comey’s
chief of staff, James Rybicki; FBI General New Information:
Counsel James Baker; as well as Strzok,
who was booted off the special counsel We now the names of the Clinton
investigation and sent to a job in the FBI’s associate, and the State Department
personnel division," as reported by Politico. official and how the "media and law
enforcement echo chamber of Russia
According to conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, collusion," as it is described by Clinical
Laufman's resignation is a "big deal." In a series of social Professor of Law and Director of the
media statements, Hewitt shared the following: Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law
School, William A. Jacobson, al began and
continued to feed the Great Russia Hoax of
collusion.
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The Clinton associate was Sidney Blumenthal, known as occassions as they played their part in
"Vicious Sid," and the State department employee manufacturing the Great Russia Hoax."
was Jonathan M. Winer, former U.S. deputy assistant
secretary of state for John Kerry during the Obama Fox News reported Winer's connection and Representative
administration, who admits he had a long-standing Trey Gowdy confirmed Blumenthal's connection at the end
information sharing relations with both Christopher Steele of the interview video clip below.
and Sidney Blumenthal.
In late September, I spoke with an old "Hillary’s campaign and the DNC paid
friend, Sidney Blumenthal, whom I met 30 for the Steele dossier. Other Clinton
years ago when I was investigating the operatives, such as Sidney Blumenthal
Iran-contra affair for then-Sen. Kerry and and Cody Shearer, were spreading
Blumenthal was a reporter at The Post. At similar accusations and sharing
the time, Russian hacking was at the front information with Steele. Steele was also
and center in the 2016 presidential feeding accusations to the media.
campaign. The emails of Blumenthal, who Employees of the FBI and possibly
had a long association with Bill and Hillary other agencies who hated Trump used
Clinton, had been hacked in 2013 through that information both before and after
a Russian server. the election."
While talking about that hacking, TWO DEMOCRATS REALLY DID TRY TO
Blumenthal and I discussed Steele’s COLLUDE WITH RUSSIA
reports. He showed me notes gathered by
a journalist I did not know, Cody Shearer, New Information:
that alleged the Russians had
compromising information on Trump of a We also learned this week that two of the
sexual and financial nature. loudest Democrats in Congress screaming
Russia collusion against President Trump
Why would a lawyer, that understands one has the right to and his campaign members, ironically
remain silent in order to not self-incriminate, admit to this claiming that the Trump campaign colluded
little circle jerk of sharing Kremlin sourced information? with Russia against Hillary Clinton, both
Because House intelligence Committee chairman Devin attempted to colluded with Russia or Steele
Nunes already knew about it and is targeting Winer in to obtain Russian sourced information
"phase two" of their investigation, which already produced against President Trump.
the much talked about four-page FISA abuse memo, and
Winer is trying to get the media spinning in his favor I kid you not.
beforehand, and used the Washington Post to try to control
the narrative. One of the most vocal Democratic House members, and
leaker, Rep. Adam Schiff was pranked by Russian
Note- It is no surprise that Wapo is helping hoaxsters that claimed to have nude images of Donald
"spin" the narrative, as we know that Wapo
met personally with Steele on at least two
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Trump, and he aggressively tried to obtain the non-existent "rather not have a paper trail" of his
photos to give to the FBI. messages.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on The extreme irony and hypocrisy of Democrats accusing
the House Intelligence Committee, was the Trump campaign of "colluding" with Russia against
pranked last year by Russian comedians Hillary Clinton with absolutely no proof of said collusion,
who offered nude photos of President claiming it is a crime, while at the same time they were
Trump. "colluding" with Russia to obtain information against
Donald Trump.... cannot be overstated.
Schiff thought he had been speaking with
Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy, who Related: Steele Dossier’s ‘Coincidences’ Keep Piling Up
offered potentially explosive information
about Trump’s visit to Russia during the
Miss Universe pageant in 2013, The
Atlantic reported.
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Generally we either embed portions of interviews and
clips, or even an opening statement which lays out the
evidence documented to date, but below is the entire Sean
Hannity show from February 8, 2018, where his initial
monologue breaks down what is known at this point, and
then he is joined by a number of experts.
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President Trump’s Debt Increase Is A Third Of Obama’s
Debt Increase And The President Is Decreasing
The Debt To GDP Ratio
By Jim Hoft
February 9, 2018, 7:40 Am
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If the Federal Reserve was officially decreased the Debt to GDP
political and wanted to prevent ratio by 1.2% in the President’s first year
Republican Presidents from in office.
successful economic growth
and debt decreases, then the In contrast, President Obama increased
Fed would increase the Fed the US Debt to GDP ratio his first year in
Funds rates during Republican office by 14.5%. Obama increased the
Presidents’ terms while same ratio a total of 37% over his 8
decreasing the Fed Funds rates years in office.
under Democratic Presidents’
terms. This appears to be The US GDP has increased each quarter in 2017 with the
exactly what the Fed is doing 4th Quarter GDP increasing to $19.739 trillion – the
and the market is reacting highest GDP for any country in world history.
negatively this past week
because of it.. Also President Trump has curtailed US spending.
Increases in the Fed Funds Rate increase the cost of The result is that the US Debt to GDP
borrowing and the largest borrower in the world is the US ratio decreased in 2017 from 105% to
government. With $20 trillion in debt, a 1% increase in 104%.
interest payments equals $200 billion in annual interest
No President in more than 50 years has
payment increases.
decreased the Debt to GDP ratio in his
first year in office by more than 1%.
President Obama benefited from the lowest possible
interest rates possible for most of his eight years and in The last President to do so was Nixon in
spite of this, nearly doubled the US Debt from $10 trillion 1969. Presidents Reagan and George W.
to nearly $20 trillion. Bush decreased the Debt to GDP ratio in
their first years in office but by less than
1%.
Another impressive economic indicator
for President Trump is related to the Don’t be fooled, President Trump has
debt to GDP ratio. The higher a increased the US debt by a fraction of
country’s debt to GDP ratio, the less that of Obama and the debt to GDP
healthy the country’s economy. With the ratio is decreasing. As a result America
GDP numbers released at the end of is moving in the right direction for the
2017, President Trump’s policies have first time in at least a decade.
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Bombshell Testimony Of FBI
Informant Implicates Many For Treason
By Greg Hunter
February 9, 2018
William Campbell was undercover for the FBI and CIA for Join Greg Hunter as he looks at the many aspects of this
six years gathering evidence of a grand Russian scheme to story and more in the Weekly News Wrap-Up.
“dominate” the uranium industry. There are charges of
espionage, bribery and extortion (just to name a name a
few) coming from Russian agents trying to take control of
U.S. uranium interests. Who knew? It’s clear the FBI and
CIA knew, along with the Department of Justice, the State
Department and, most likely, the IRS because, after all, the
Clinton Foundation was a global charity fraud. Campbell
documents real Russian collusion and treason in the
Obama Administration, which has connections right up to
President Obama. This story is just getting started. I
predict many will be charged with multiple crimes,
including treason, before this is all finished. Sometime in
March, the DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, will
release his report on the FBI/DOJ handling of the Clinton
private email server where Clinton was exonerated behind After the Wrap-Up:
the scenes months before the FBI investigation was
finished. Tsunamis of truth waves are coming, and then Renowned financial and geopolitical cycle expert Charles
arrests and prosecutions. Nenner will be the guest for the Early Sunday Release. He
will give you his take on what is coming in 2018 and
beyond, and it will be earth shaking.
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HUGE: Comey Was FORCED To Tell Congress About
Weiner Emails Only Because George Toscas
At DOJ Found Out About Them!
By Jim Hoft
February 9, 2018, 8:33 Am
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In 2016, George Zeno Toscas was a General Attorney at “As the meeting broke up, George Z.
the Offices, Boards and Divisions in Washington, District Toscas, a national security prosecutor,
Of Columbia. ribbed Mr. Comey.
“I guess you’re the Federal Bureau of
Toscas was the guy that gave Comey Matters now,” Mr. Toscas said, according
shit for calling the Hillary Investigation a to two people who were there.”
“matter”!
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Hannity: Evidence Is Coming
That Will Rock DC’s Foundation
By Staff Writer -
February 9, 2018, @9:01 Am EST
some of these criminals who have salted their way into key
positions of the U.S. government.
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CONFIRMED: Cash From Obama’s $1.7 Billion Ransom
Payment To Iran Traced To Terrorist Groups (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 9, 2018, 9:13 Am
On January 17, 2016, a cargo plane with $99,999,999.99 , each with an independent MICR, totaling
$400 million in foreign currencies was $1,299,999,999.87.
secretly sent to Iran in the dead of night.
Now this…
This was the same day the Iranian regime released four
American hostages held in Tehran. Cash from Obama’s ransom payment to
Iran is being traced to terrorist groups
in the region.
Two days after Obama sent Iran the ransom cash the US
government wired 13 individual payments for
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Why ‘Russian Meddling’ Is A Trojan Horse
By Rob Urie
February 9, 2018
Prior to the 2016 presidential election, if one were to ask congress just voted to give Mr. Trump expanded spying
what single act could seal a new Cold War with Russia, powers with fewer restraints. Congressional Democrats are
align liberals and progressives with the operational core of certainly behaving as if they believe Mr. Trump was duly
the American military-industrial-surveillance complex, elected. And more to the point, they are supporting his
expose the preponderance of left-activism as an offshoot of program.
Democratic Party operations and consign most of what
remained to personal invective against an empirically The choice of Russia would seem bizarre if not for the
dangerous leader, consensus would likely have it that history. Residual propaganda from the first Cold War—
doing so wouldn’t be easy. itself largely a business enterprise that provided
ideological cover for American imperial incursions, had it
The decision to blame Russian meddling for Hillary that substantive grievances against the American
Clinton’s electoral loss was made in the immediate government, in the form of protests, were universally the
aftermath of the election by her senior campaign staff. product of ‘external’ enemies intent on sowing discord to
Within days the received wisdom amongst Clinton promote their own interests. This slander was used against
supporters was that the election had been stolen and that the Civil Rights movement, organized labor, anti-war
Donald Trump was set to enter the White House as a pawn protesters and the counterculture of the 1960s.
of the Russian political leadership. Left out was the history
of U.S. – Russian relations; that the largest voting bloc in Therefore, the choice by the Clintonites to invoke a new
the 2016 election was eligible voters who didn’t vote and Cold War by bringing Russia into the American electoral
that domestic business interests substantially control the mix is not without a past. Students of history may recall
American electoral process. that in the early 1990s Mikhail Gorbachev was given
assurances by senior members of George H.W. Bush’s
administration that NATO would not be expanded to
Russia’s border in exchange for Russia’s help re-
integrating East and West Germany. It was Bill Clinton
who unilaterally abrogated these assurances and moved
nuclear-armed NATO to Russia’s border.
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move to ‘upgrade’ the U.S. nuclear arsenal toward evidentiary challenges to the rationales given for the war
‘tactical’ use. against Iraq, Clintonites believe what they believe because
they believe it. For those with an interest and some
This is to suggest that it certainly makes sense that the knowledge of empirical research, read the myriad articles
Russian political leadership would want to keep American touting ‘proof’ of Russian meddling and find a single
militarists, a/k/a the Clintons and their neocon ‘crazies,’ instance where such proof is provided. Or with an eye
out of White House. But as of now, the evidence is that the toward not being the half of Republicans who still believe
Russians changed no votes in the 2016 election. As far as that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, bring the proof forward
inciting dissent— the charge that protests were organized if it exists.
by Russian ‘interests,’ not only does this reek of prior
misdirection by the FBI and CIA, but there is no evidence Here is the disclaimer taken from the National Intelligence
that any such protests had an impact on the outcome of the Estimate.
2016 election.
The National Intelligence Estimate, initially claimed to be
Given Mr. Trump’s belligerent (unhinged) rhetoric toward based on input from 17 intelligence agencies, later reduced
North Korea, if enhancing geopolitical stability was the to selected representatives from three of the agencies
Russians’ goal, Mr. Trump must be a disappointment. (NSA, CIA and FBI), provides no proof for claims of
Unfortunately for Mr. Trump’s critics (among whom I Russian meddling and states quite openly that it is
count myself), there is a lot of ‘theory’ from American conjecture. Amongst these agencies, one (NSA) is known
think tanks that supports crazy as a strategy. And it was for illegally spying on Americans and lying about it to
after Mr. Trump’s provocative posture toward North congress, the second (CIA) provided fraudulent ‘evidence’
Korea became widely known that senior Democrats voted to drag the U.S. into a calamitous war against Iraq where it
to give him additional NSA powers with fewer restrictions. ran illegal torture camps and the third (FBI) has such a
checkered history that is was called ‘Gestapo’ by former
The most cynically brilliant outcome of the ‘blame Russia’ U.S. president Harry Truman.
campaign has been to neuter left activism by focusing the
attack on Donald Trump rather than the interests he Here is James Clapper, the former Director of National
represents. As evidence, the proportion of Goldman Sachs Intelligence, lying to congress about NSA spying. Here is
alumni in Mr. Trump’s administration approximates that in Trevor Timm in the Columbia (University) Journalism
Mr. Obama’s and what was expected for Mrs. Clinton’s. If Review explaining the many ways former head of the NSA
the problem is Donald Trump, then the solution is ‘not and CIA Michael Hayden has lied to congress and the
Trump.’ However, if the problem is that the rich American people. Here is a brief history of
substantially control American political outcomes, how COINTELPRO and FBI attempts to disrupt and discredit
would electing ‘not Trump’ bring about resolution? the Civil Rights movement. At the time that FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover was accusing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As it is, within days of the 2016 election Mr. Trump, his of being a communist (link above), the term approximated
supporters plus the political opponents of Mrs. Clinton being an agent of Russia.
were recast as stooges of the Kremlin. George W. Bush
and Dick Cheney had required loyalty oaths from their (Here is a compendium of links related to claims made in
stalwarts. But even a loyalty oath wouldn’t prove that one this piece: Promise by U.S. that NATO wouldn’t expand to
isn’t a stooge of the Kremlin. And the larger problem with surround Russia. Bill Clinton expands NATO to Eastern
the theory (of Russian meddling) is that the U.S. electoral Bloc to surround Russia. Barack Obama admits U.S. role
system was already thoroughly corrupted by economic in Ukraine coup. James Clapper committing perjury.
power. Victoria Nuland discusses overthrowing the democratically
elected government of Ukraine and installing U.S. puppets.
As students of the scientific method know, you can’t Backstory of CIA and Robert Sheer that supports argument
‘prove’ a negative. Condoleezza Rice used this knowledge Propornot is government operation with ties to Ukrainian
in 2003 to sell the George W. Bush administration’s fascists.)
calamitous war against Iraq through the charge that the
proof that Saddam Hussein had an ongoing WMD program There is circumstantial evidence that the first list of
is that he hadn’t handed over his WMDs. As history has it, ‘Russian-linked’ websites published by the ‘credible’
Mr. Hussein couldn’t hand over his WMDs because he media, that of Propornot published in the Washington Post
didn’t have any to hand over. How then would critics of (in their ‘Business’ section) to which a disclaimer was
Mrs. Clinton ‘prove’ they weren’t / aren’t acting on behalf subsequently added, was the work of Ukrainians with links
of foreign interests? to the CIA. The Propornot website (link above) is worth
visiting to get a sense of how implausible the whole
The answer lies with Democratic Party loyalists. Much as enterprise is. On it former Assistant Secretary of the
Bush – Cheney supporters were impervious to logical and Treasury for Ronald Reagan, Paul Craig Roberts, is listed
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prominently as a puppet of the Kremlin. And deep- Likely not considered when the Russian meddling
research political website Washington’s Blog made the hypothesis was originally put forward is what happens
honor roll as well. next? The initial charge that America’s ‘sacred democratic
tradition’ was soiled when the Russian political leadership
More recently, the New York Times cited the German hacked the election has run up against the apparent fact
Marshall Fund as an authority on Russian meddling. The that no votes have been found to have been changed. The
German Marshall fund (U.S.) is headed by Karen charge that AstroTurf protests organized by the Russians
Donfried, a former Obama Administration official and led to dissent smells a lot like the last half-century of FBI /
operative for the National Intelligence Council. The CIA lies against / about the Left. And the charge that
National Intelligence Council supports the Director of narcissistic plutocrat Trump has been ‘compromised’
National Intelligence. Here (again) is James Clapper, the misses that he was already compromised by the
former Director of National Intelligence, lying to congress circumstances of his birth and upbringing. This is the
about NSA spying. Derek Chollet, Executive Vice problem.
President of the fund, is the former Assistant Secretary of
Defense for the Obama administration and a senior The Democrats, in their wisdom, have given a gift to the
member of Hillary Clinton’s Policy Planning Staff. U.S. intelligence ‘community’ that provides political cover
for closing down inconvenient commentary and disrupting
The question for the Left is why liberals and progressives inconvenient political organizations. A political Left with a
would align themselves with Hayden, Clapper, the FBI, brain would be busy thinking through strategy for when
CIA and NSA, and suspect organizations like Propornot the internet becomes completely unusable for organizing
and the German Marshall Fund when most have spent their and communication. The unifying factor in the initial ‘fake
entire existences trying to undermine and shut down the news’ purge was criticism of Hillary Clinton. Print media,
Left? The (near-term) cynical brilliance of the Democrats’ a once viable alternative, has been all but destroyed by the
strategy is through revival of the Cold War frame of move to the internet. This capability needs to be rebuilt.
national interests that was always a cover for imperial
business schemes. As the Intercept articles (links above) Bourgeois incredulity that Donald Trump still has
have well- uncovered, this is all just business for the supporters could be seen by an inquisitive Left through a
Democrats anyway. Can you say class warfare? lens of class struggle. Yes, his effective supporters are
rich, just as the national Democrats’ are— the term for this
Assuming for a moment that not everyone is playing the is plutocracy. But back in the realm of human beings,
Democrats’ one-dimensional checkers, if the Russian rising deaths of despair tie in theory and fact to the
political leadership really intended to ‘undermine the U.S.- wholesale abandonment of the American people by the
led liberal democratic order,’ as the NIE puts it, it is doing political class. An inquisitive Left would be talking to
Mrs. Clinton a disservice to suggest that she wasn’t up to these people, not at them. The Russian meddling story is a
the job. From the Clintons’ 1994 Crime Bill to sideshow with a political purpose. But class struggle
deregulating Wall Street to support for George W. Bush’s remains the relevant story.
calamitous war against Iraq to the U.S. / NATO
destruction of Libya, Mrs. Clinton has ‘undermine(d) the
U.S.-led liberal democratic order’ just fine.
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BREAKING: “Rather Not Have A Paper Trail” Top Dem
Texted Russian Oligarch Lobbyist With App That
DELETES ALL MESSAGES
By Lucian Wintrich
February 9, 2018, 9:36 Am
TEXTS: Mark Warner texted with Russian oligarch lobbyist in effort to contact Christopher Steele by Fox
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Full story via Fox News: “Hey just tried u again gotta give a speech
but really want to finish our talk,” Warner
Throughout the text exchanges, Warner texted.
seemed particularly intent on connecting
directly with Steele without anyone else on Waldman, at one point, texted back that Steele really
the Senate Intelligence Committee being in wanted a bi-partisan letter requesting his testimony first.
the loop — at least initially. In one text to He added that Steele was concerned about word leaking to
the lobbyist, Warner wrote that he would the media that they were talking.
“rather not have a paper trail” of his
messages. In one text, Warner suggested he did not want Burr or any
An aide to Warner confirmed to Fox News other senator included in the discussions: “Ok but I wud
that the text messages are authentic. The (sic) like to do prelim call u me and him no one else before
messages, which were obtained from a letter just so we have to trail to start want to discuss scope
Republican source, are all marked first before letter no leaks.”
“CONFIDENTIAL” and are not classified.
They were turned over to the Senate panel Waldman noted repeatedly that Steele was concerned
by Waldman last September. about leaks and was “spooked” by all of the attention he
had received around the world. Steele, he said, was skittish
Waldman, who did not return calls seeking comments, about talking to Warner.
runs the Endeavor Group in Washington.
Warner texted back on March 30:
Waldman is best known for signing a $40,000 monthly
retainer in 2009 and 2010 to lobby the U.S. government on “We want to do this right private in London
behalf of controversial Russian billionaire Oleg V. don’t want to send letter yet cuz if we can’t
Deripaska. Deripraska had his visa revoked by the State get agreement wud rather not have paper
Department in 2006 because of charges, which he has trail.”
denied, that he has organized crime ties.
On April 5, Warner texted, “Any word on
Steele.”
An aide to Burr, the Republican chairman, told Fox News
that Burr was aware of the “contact” Warner made with “Yes seems to have cold feet from the
Steele’s representative but added, leaks. Said he wanted a bipartisan letter
followed by written questions,” texted
Waldman, adding that the Wall Street
“I don’t believe he was aware of the
Journal had contacted him asking if he was
content of the text messages” initially. […]
an intermediary between the panel and
Steele.
The two men appear to have finally connected about Steele
by phone on March 22, according to the records. In the text messages, Warner also discussed the possibility
of a trip to see Steele.
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Peter Strzok Suggested Mystery FISA Application
Contained ‘Material Misrepresentations’
By Joshua Caplan
February 9, 2018, 10:10 Am
Newly released FBI text messages show This week, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey
agent Peter Strzok suggested to his Graham (R-SC) released a “much-less redacted,” version
lover, Lisa Page, that ‘material of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s criminal referral of
misrepresentations,’ were made for a dossier author Christopher Steele.
FISA application.
According to Fox News’ Ed Henry, the memo suggests
Steele misrepresented his findings to the FBI.
In the text, which was sent to FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Strzok
appears to be criticizing another government official who
he claimed bungled an investigation.
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s criminal referral of
The official, whose name is redacted, reopened an Steele states the former British intelligence agent misled
investigation, which lead to a discussion within the Justice the bureau about his connections to Yahoo News and
Department’s Office of Intelligence about whether Mother Jones, despite initially claiming he had no contact
“material misrepresentations” were made in a FISA with the media.
application.
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Rachel Maddow Bows and Scrapes
Before Potential President Eric Holder
By Tim Graham
February 9, 2018 11:28 AM EST
Liberal media critics harshly criticize the Fox News HOLDER:...I will make a decision at the
Channel for being overly polite and asking softball end of this year about what I want to do
questions to Republican officials. But liberals never seem with regard to a higher office.
to look at how Democrats get gushy, cozy interviews on
CNN and MSNBC. Rachel Maddow's Wednesday-night MADDOW: Eric Holder, former attorney
bow-and-scrape with Eric Holder is just the latest example. general during the Obama administration,
now the chairman of the National
After asking a few unchallenging set-ups about how Democratic Redistricting Committee,
Holder and Obama are working to bend redistricting into thanks for being with us tonight. I know
helping Democrats, she went to the ad break: you're super busy, sir. I really appreciate
your time.
"I would be remiss if I did not ask you
something about what's going on right now The "sirs" make you wonder if Maddow should wear a tux
between the FBI and Justice Department like a parking valet. Here is the please-attack-Trump
and the White House. I also would be fired section on the FBI, with a typical speech/question pleading
if I didn't ask you if you're running for for poor Andrew McCabe, without mentioning any of the
president. So, can I ask you to stay right sketchy specifics on McCabe slow-walking the Hillary e-
there and I will ask you both of those things mail probe and McCabe's wife getting hundreds of
when we come back?" thousands in donations from Gov. Terry McAuliffe. She
has the audacity to discuss the "independence" of people
like James Comey and McCabe:
After that powdery pretty-please, and her please-attack-
Trump questions, she asked:
. MADDOW: We are in some uncharted
territory in terms of the relationship
between the president and the justice
system. In the last few months, we have
watched the president and some of his
supporters in Congress really try to work to
discredit the FBI around the investigations
into the president and his campaign but
also sort of in general. In several cases,
they have called out in concerted efforts --
they've called out by names specific FBI
officials.
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HOLDER: That is the exact role an attorney heat? What else -- what are our other
general has. You are supposed to shield options as a country?
your people from political pressure. And the
HOLDER: Well, you know, our institutions
thing -- one of the things that disturbs me
are strong. Our norms are being tested, but
the most is the fact that this attorney
they are also strong....The president going
general has for whatever reason been
after named career people. The president
relatively silent…. saying things about the integrity of those
MADDOW: If the attorney general fails at two institutions, the Justice Department,
that, is there a Plan B in terms of doing the the FBI. No other president has ever said
most to uphold the rule of law, to uphold those kinds of things, conducted himself in
the independence of law enforcement that way. [Hillary Clinton and her campaign
when an attorney general doesn't take that attacked Comey...but she didn't come
president.]
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Dem Senator Mark Warner Responds To Backlash Over
His Attempt To Secretly Meet With Steele
– Thanks Little Marco!
By Cristina Laila
February 9, 2018, 12:04 Pm
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Warner tweeted,
“Grateful to @MarcoRubio,
@SenatorBurr and other Republican
colleagues who are focused on getting to
the truth, not cable news attacks trying to
make a scandal out of our bipartisan
investigation.”
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Daily Caller Exposes CNN’s Shady Hiring
Of Former Comey Aide To Provide FBI Spin
By Curtis Houck
February 9, 2018 12:33 PM EST
The fact that Campbell only worked at the FBI for 10 years
calls into question whether he possessed any true
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Enjeti and Simonson added before summarizing his two CNN has not disclosed Campbell’s
columns that somehow were published despite his previous history with Comey, nor did it
relatively short tenure. respond to several requests for comment
from TheDCNF.
They continued: (....)
As TheDCNF reported earlier this week,
Given Campbell’s inexperience at the FBI CNN has repeatedly relied on anonymous
and relatively young age of 34, a DCNF sourcing within the FBI for its stories.
source with close ties to the FBI alleges
that Comey had a direct hand in securing The former agents who spoke to TheDCNF
his new CNN position in return for an expressed bewilderment that an active
exclusive interview. A Fox News report agent would so nakedly share his
published Wednesday alleges a similar relationship with a news outlet, with the
type of deal between the parties. most conspicuous example being his party
flyer showing him sitting in a CNN studio.
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CNN’s Van Jones To Conan O’Brien:
President Trump ‘Is A Joke’
By Corinne Weaver
February 9, 2018 12:51 PM EST
It’s odd that a CNN anchor would consider a Trump tweet “Oprah tweets about it. And then Trump
about him as his biggest achievement. tweets about it. And you’re like I should
have voted for this guy. Because now it’s
But CNN’s Van Jones, host of The Van Jones Show, has like we have literally a billion impressions
reached that paradoxical position in life where not only is on Twitter. Because once Trump tweets
President Trump about you, a lot of people have to put
him in his place. And it’s wonderful.”
“a joke … who has found a way to insult,
offend, and demean every kind of
American,”
but also having the POTUS tweet about him is “the biggest
moment in my career.” In an interview with Conan
O’Brien on February 7, Jones took pride in both bashing
Trump and meriting a Trump tweet.
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GOP Lawmaker: POTUS Expected
To Release Dem Spin Memo Today (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 9, 2018, 12:53 Pm
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Kasie Hunt Accidentally Admits Dems
To Blame For January Government Shutdown
By Bill D'Agostino
February 9, 2018 1:11 PM EST
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Joy Behar, Meghan McCain Clash
On ‘View’ In Fiery Fight Over Republicans
By Kristine Marsh
February 9, 2018 1:44 PM EST
“Kelly says that he was shocked, Trying to get the conservative host on the Trump-admin-
shocked I tell you!” Behar quipped bashing-bandwagon, she wondered if McCain would be
sarcastically with a grin on her face. upset to learn that no one told Hope Hicks, whom Porter is
“Why is Kelly so shocked, shocked I tell allegedly dating, about his past of domestic violence, even
you?” though her ignorance on the matter is pure speculation.
Behar said again, smiling with her fists in the air, as the "I don't think this should be political. I don’t think this
audience chuckled. McCain wasn’t having Behar’s should be about Democrats and Republicans,” McCain
sarcasm over the serious issue. responded.
“We shouldn’t make levy [sic] of this. We’re talking about She went on to say that no one should be working in the
the abuse of a woman. I mean look at that photo,” McCain White House without security clearance and so some of
said as the pair talked over each other. this scandal was self-inflicted. Still irritated by Behar’s
earlier outburst, McCain sniped at Behar,
“We’re talking about Kelly, we’re not
talking about abuse right now. Don’t say “You're offended by Republicans. So all
something like that!” Behar angrily shot Republicans, probably everywhere,
back. offended by me sitting here because I'm
Republican.”
But the pair weren’t done fighting. “We’re laughing and
this is serious,” McCain responded. But Behar denied she
was making light of the situation. “We are laughing at him
being shocked,” she quipped back.
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“looking forward” to talking civilly with people she
disagreed with politically and
She continued,
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REPORT: President Trump Proposing
‘Biggest Civil Service Change’ In A Generation
By Joshua Caplan
February 9, 2018, 1:55 Pm
For decades, Donald Trump has said the Under the current system, federal employees get a review
U.S. government should be operated like a every one to three years. Employees whose performance is
business. “fully successful” — as 99.7% are — get a within-grade
“step” increase in addition to annual cost-of-living
Now President Trump is seeking to increases.
implement the ‘biggest civil service change,’
in a generation. Trump’s plan would stretch out the amount of time it takes
to go from step 1 to step 10 from 18 years to 27 years,
saving $10 billion over the next decade, officials said. That
money would then go to high-performing employees either
as merit raises or one-time bonuses.
USA Today reports: Last month, Robert Shea, a former White House Office of
Management and Budget official hinted to Bloomberg Law
President Trump will seek to “hire the best and that,
fire the worst” federal government
employees under the most ambitious proposal “A pretty substantial reorganization”, may occur
to overhaul the civil service in 40 years, officials in the near future.
said. […]
Another source told the publication that,
Trump is using the VA Accountability Act, which gave the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs greater authority to fire and
“OPM may be ready for a big shakeup.”
discipline workers, as a model. The White House says that
law has resulted in the dismissal of 1,470 employees, the
suspension of 443, demotions for 83 others last year.
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‘Some Are Ready To Talk’:
FBI Officials In Clinton Email Probe May Have
Mishandled ‘Extremely Sensitive & Classified’ Intel
By Joshua Caplan
February 9, 2018, 2:18 Pm
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino told his over SCIF stands for Secure Compartmented
300,000 Twitter followers Friday that FBI officials Information Facility, and it is where the most
involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation may sensitive classified material is kept and story.
have mishandled ‘extremely sensitive and classified SCIFs strictly bar all electronic equipment and
information over.’ require all people place their phones in lockers
before entering.
This isn’t the first time Strzok and Page’s cell phone use
has raised eyebrows. Text messages released Wednesday
by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham
(R-SC) suggest the disgraced FBI agents used untraceable
phones to communicate about Hillary Clinton.
Daily Caller reports: “If I want to copy/take classified, I’m sure as hell
not going to do it on this phone.”
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Strzok and Page’s usage of unsecured phones has raised
concerns that their messages may have been hacked by
“foreign actors.” Fox News contributor Sara Carter
has raised the prospect that countries such as Russia and
China could have used the captured exchanges to
blackmail both the disgraced FBI agents.
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HANNITY WARNS: Evidence Is Coming That
Will “Rock The Foundation Of Washington, D.C.”
(VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 9, 2018, 3:07 Pm
In an explosive Thursday night monologue, In a Fox News op-ed Tuesday, media icon Sean Hannity
Fox News host Sean Hannity warned expanded on his Monday night monologue, warning the
viewers that evidence is coming that will Senate Judiciary Committee’s ‘second memo exposing
‘rock the foundation of Washington, D.C.’ Deep State corruption,’ should ‘scare,’ the American
people.
Hannity wrote:
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According to Fox News’ Ed Henry, the memo
suggests Steele misrepresented his findings to the FBI.
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Sick Hillary Coughs A Lung Out
As She Vows To ‘Never Give Up’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 9, 2018, 3:16 Pm
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Mainstream Media’s Viral Video Of The Day Is President
Trump’s Hair Blowing In Wind …And They Wonder Why
We Don’t Trust Them?
By Jim Hoft
February 9, 2018, 3:30 Pm
Do you remember when the mainstream The liberal media HATES TRUMP and no
media always made fun of Barack Obama’s longer even tries to hide it.
looks?
And they’re outraged that you don’t trust
Yeah. That never happened. them.
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Trump Attorney GOES OFF On Sneaky Dem Senator
Mark Warner And Crooked Senate Intel Committee In
Epic Rant (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 9, 2018, 4:55 Pm
The only people ‘colluding with the Russians’ are the dirty
Democrats.
Sekulow gave a good run down of just how corrupt
Senator Warner and the House Intel Committee are on his
radio show Jay Live Friday.
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Top Senate Democrat Calls On Treasury Dept. To
Investigate Trump’s Palm Beach Estate Sale 10 YEARS
AGO – Because Russia, Russia, Russia…
By Jim Hoft
February 9, 2018, 5:06 Pm
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Is The Steele Dossier Full Of
‘Russian Dirt’ – Or British?
James George JATRAS
09.02.2018
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‘Steele has not returned to Russia after Stanford and a onetime assistant professor at Vassar,
leaving his post there in the early 1990s. and thus, it must have seemed, an ideal collaborator
Since then, the main Russian intelligence for Steele.)’
agency, the FSB, has undergone many
personnel and other changes, especially after The reference to “people personally close to Hillary
2000, and especially in or near Putin’s Clinton and who shared their ‘findings’ with Steele”
Kremlin. Did Steele really have such dovetails with another intriguing suggestion from former
“connections” so many years later? [JGJ: Is it Clinton insider Dick Morris, who knows the modus
credible that the head of MI6’s Russian operandi of the Clinton lie generator better than anyone
branch is on a first-name basis with top else. On the Fox News “Ingraham Angle” show, Morris
Kremlin insiders? Turn the identities around suggested to host Laura Ingraham that the bulk of the
and ask whether the chiefs of the US section dossier was invented by veteran political dirty tricksters
of Russian or Chinese intelligence are on and Clinton-machine hatchet men Sid Blumenthal and
intimate speaking terms with the US Cody Shearer, who then engaged “former” spook Steele,
president’s top advisers or with the because of the Brit’s known relationship with the FBI, as
leadership of the CIA or FBI. Hardly.] their conduit to give their garbage credibility. (Never
‘Even if he did, would these purported underestimate the residual “colonial” mentality of Yanks
Russian insiders really have collaborated to find any sort of gibberish convincing if delivered with a
with this “former” British intelligence agent British accent, as confirmed by the ubiquity of posh Brit
under what is so widely said to be the ever- voices in American advertising.)
vigilant eye of the ruthless “former KGB
agent” Vladimir Putin, thereby risking their Andrew Wood is not Russian
positions, income, perhaps freedom, as well
as the well-being of their families?
But Steele isn’t the only limey link to #Dossiergate. In late
‘Originally it was said that his Russian
2016, after Trump’s election victory, Andrew Wood, a
sources were highly paid by Steele.
former British ambassador to Russia, told US Senator John
Arguably, this might have warranted the risk.
McCain about the existence of compromising material on
But subsequently Steele’s employer and
Donald Trump, according to Wood’s account
head of Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, wrote
to BBC4. Wood then set up a meeting between Steele and
in The New York Times that “Steele’s
David Kramer, an associate of McCain’s. It’s unclear
sources in Russia…were not paid.” If the
whether McCain already knew about the dossier at that
Putin Kremlin’s purpose was to put Trump in
point or whether Wood alerted the Senator to its existence.
the White House, why then would these
“Kremlin-connected” sources have
contributed to Steele’s anti-Trump project For what it is worth – not much –
without financial or political gain – only with Wood states that McCain had obtained the documents
considerable risk? from the Senator’s own sources.
‘There is the also the telling matter of factual
mistakes in the dossier that Kremlin “insiders” “I told him I was aware of what was in the
were unlikely to have made, but this is the report but I had not read it myself, that it
subject for a separate analysis. might be true, it might be untrue. I had no
means of judging really,”
‘And indeed we now know that Steele had at least
three other “sources” for the dossier, ones not and that he served only to inform McCain about the
previously mentioned by him or his employer. There dossier contents:
was the information from foreign intelligence agencies
provided by Brennan to Steele or to the FBI, which we “My mission was essentially to be a go-
also now know was collaborating with Steele. There between and a messenger, to tell the
was … a “second Trump-Russia dossier” prepared by Senator and assistants that such a
people personally close to Hillary Clinton and who dossier existed,” Wood told Fox News.
shared their “findings” with Steele. And most
intriguingly, there was the “research” provided by Nellie Wood elsewhere relates that McCain was “visibly
Ohr, wife of a top Department of Justice official, Bruce shocked” at his description and expressed interest in
Ohr, who, according to the Republican memo, “was reading the full report. That doesn’t sound as though
employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of McCain had already obtained the dossier from his “own
opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the sources” but, rather, that Wood was the instigator.
FBI with all of his wife’s opposition research.” Most
likely, it found its way into Steele’s dossier. (Mrs. Ohr
was a trained Russian Studies scholar with a PhD from So which is it? Did McCain already know about the
dossier, and if so how did it “happen” to get raised with a
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British diplomat? Conversely, was the initiative from against Trump Tower during the campaign conducted by
Woods to induce the Senator – known to be a strong any part of the national intelligence community...
Trump critic as well as for his hostility to Russia – to pass including the FBI,” thus begging the question of whether
the dossier on in Washington? Keep in mind that the Trump was spied on not by a US “national” agency but by
dossier had already been used to secure a Foreign one of the Anglosphere “Five Eyes” agencies – most likely
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to monitor GCHQ – which then passed the information back to their
Carter Page, a peripheral asteroid in the Trump orbit, and American colleagues. With Steele’s and Wood’s
that Trump had already been elected. By this time the involvement, and given the virtual control of America’s
conspiracy’s purpose had shifted from preventing Trump’s manifestly corrupted agencies of their counterparts in
victory to tying down his incoming administration, satellite countries like the United Kingdom, involvement
especially with respect to blocking any opening to by GCHQ and perhaps other “friendly” foreign agencies
Moscow as Trump said he intended to do. What better way cannot be dismissed out of hand.
to set the cat among the pigeons than for a supposedly
totally non-political British diplomat (certainly no Madame Prime Minister is not Russian
intelligence officer, he!) to quietly peddle the material
from Steele (whom Wood called a “very competent
To be sure, in 2016 the majority opinion in Russia was that
professional operator … I do not think he would make
Donald Trump’s election would be preferable to Hillary
things up.”) to the right man in Washington?
Clinton’s for the simple reason that the former openly
advocated better relations with Moscow while the latter
GCHQ is not Russian was a notorious warmonger. But there was also a strong
minority view, especially among more pro-Western
Finally, while it’s clear the dossier served to get a FISA elements of the Russian establishment, that Hillary – “the
warrant for American services to spy on the Trump devil you know” – was preferable to rolling the dice on an
campaign and later the transition team, US agencies’ might unpredictable and unknown quantity. Plus, Hillary was
not have been the only eyes and ears monitoring them. delightfully corrupt, with the Clinton Foundation an open
Amid all the hubbub over Michael Wolff’s slash-and- invitation for many foreign powers to buy influence.
burn Fire and Fury, little mention (other than a heated
denial on the floor of the House of Commons, from There was no ambiguity in the position of the British
the notoriously truth-challenged former prime minister government, however. In 2016 Prime Minister Theresa
Tony Blair, and from the relevant British agency itself!) May, like her German counterpart, made little effort to
has been made of the suggestion that the hide her disdain for the “just plain wrong” Trump and
UK’s Government Communications Headquarters her preference for Hillary Clinton, whom she expected to
(GCHQ) – Britain’s version of the NSA – was spying on win (as did most other observers). Why should anyone be
Trump and providing their sister agencies in the US with surprised that her MI6 and GCHQ minions would share the
additional data. Keep in mind the carefully worded same views and perhaps acted on them to provide some
deflection last year from James Clapper, former Director helping “hands across the water” to their US counterparts
of National Intelligence (DNI), that “there was no wiretap whose anti-constitutional conspiracy now stands exposed?
.
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“This Is A Very Big Deal”:
Meet The Trump Appointees Who Could Replace Outgoing
DOJ Official Rachel Brand – **UPDATED**
By Joshua Caplan
February 9, 2018, 5:28 Pm
The third-highest ranking Justice Robert J. Higdon, Jr. was nominated to be the United
Department official, Rachel Brand, is leaving States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina
her post, reports the New York Times. by President Donald Trump on August 2, 2017. He was
confirmed by the United States Senate on September 28,
2017. As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Higdon is the top-ranking
federal law enforcement official in the Eastern District of
North Carolina, which includes the 44 eastern most
counties of North Carolina. He oversees a staff of 108
employees, including 51 attorneys and 57 non-attorney
support personnel. The office also partners with some 20
Special Assistant United States Attorneys from branches of
the United States military, local District Attorneys offices
and federal and state regulatory agencies.
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Noel John Francisco was sworn in as the 48th Solicitor
General of the United States on September 19, 2017.
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Breaking: Peter Strzok KNEW Hillary Camp Used
Bleachbit To Delete Emails – The Week They Were Deleted
By Jim Hoft
February 9, 2018, 5:47 Pm
In March 2016 Hillary Clinton’s staff deleted thousands of On Wednesday the Senate Homeland Security and
emails on her personal server with Bleachbit. Governmental Affairs Committee released a majority staff
This was AFTER Congress issued a subpoena for the report titled “The Clinton Email Scandal And The FBI’s
emails on March 4, 2016. Investigation Of It.”
Now this…
March 4, 2015 – Hillary receives subpoena
from House Select Committee on Benghazi Peter Strzok and the FBI knew Hillary
instructing her to preserve and deliver all emails Clinton used Bleachbit to delete her emails
from her personal servers on March 29, 2016.
March 25 – 31, 2015 – Undisclosed PRN Staff Trey Gowdy announced this news in August 2016 –
Member has “oh shit” moment and realizes he months later.
forgot to wipe Hillary’s email archive from the
PRN server back in December…which he
They hid it instead.
promptly does using BleachBit despite later
admitting he “was aware of the existence of the
preservation request and the fact that it meant
he should not disturb Clinton’s e-mail data on Via The Donald Reddit:
the PRN server.”
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WOW! U.S. Spies Paid $100,000 To ‘Shadowy’ Russian
Promising Damning ‘Kompromat’ On Trump
By Joshua Caplan
February 9, 2018, 6:27 Pm
A new report by the New York Times reveals In April of last year, the “shadowy,” Russian met with
U.S. spies paid $100,000 to a “shadowy,” U.S. spies in Berlin, handing over a thumb drive he
Russian promising dirt on President Trump, claimed was filled with stolen cyber tools.
along with stolen cyber tools from the CIA
and NSA. After analyzing the thumb drive, U.S. intelligence officers
concluded the tools they were given were already made
After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian publicly available by a hacking group known as the
bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising Shadow Brokers.
to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons
in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising The CIA was after unpublished secrets, not tools that were
material on President Trump, according to American and readily available with a click of a button.
European intelligence officials. The cash, delivered in a
suitcase to a Berlin hotel room in September, was intended
as the first installment of a $1 million payout, according to After months of back and fourth since what the CIA
American officials, the Russian and communications believed was a failed drop, U.S. spies met with the Russian
reviewed by The New York Times. The theft of the secret last month, demanding he deliver the stolen tools or the
hacking tools had been devastating to the N.S.A., and the deal was officially off.
agency was struggling to get a full inventory of what was
missing. […] He claimed the information would link the The shadowy figure claimed senior Russian intelligence
president and his associates to Russia. But instead of officials demanded he hold out on delivering the goods.
providing the hacking tools, the Russian produced U.S. intelligence agents weren’t impressed, instead, they
unverified and possibly fabricated information involving told him to “[s]tart working for them and provide the
Mr. Trump and others, including bank records, emails and names of everyone in his network — or go back to Russia
purported Russian intelligence data. and do not return.”
But his apparent eagerness to sell the Trump “kompromat” The Russian simply replied, “Thank you,” and left the
— a Russian term for information used to gain leverage meeting.
over someone — to American spies raised suspicions
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BREAKING: President Trump WILL NOT Release Adam
Schiff’s Seriously Flawed Democrat Spin Memo …
Update: FBI Refused Release
By Jim Hoft
February 9, 2018, 6:59 Pm
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Adam Schiff Blows A Gasket After POTUS
Trump Refuses To Release His Junk Memo
By Jim Hoft
February 9, 2018, 8:07 Pm
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According to investigative reporter Sara Carter
Schiff purposely put “sources and methods” in
his spin memo to force President Trump to
make redactions.
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HANNITY: This Is Just A Sliver Of The Deep State
Corruption That Is Coming Out (VIDEO)
Pm By Jim Hoft
February 9, 2018, 9:59
Sean Hannity:
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‘Cryin’ Chuck’ Schumer Is Blocking Vote For Trump
German Ambassador Pick Richard Grenell – So That CIA
In Berlin Can Blow Cash On Bogus Naked Trump Shots
By Jim Hoft
February 10, 2018, 8:12 Am
Yesterday TGP’s Joshua Caplan shared the report from “It is simply unconscionable that
The New York Times related to Russia: @RichardGrenell hasn’t been brought up for a
vote in the United States Senate to confirm him
as our country’s Ambassador to Germany,”
After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian declared the Log Cabin Republicans in a post
bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising on Twitter, before encouraging people to call
to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-
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KY) and complain. “It’s time to #ConfirmGrenell Conservative pundit Arthur Schwartz suggested on Friday
NOW!” that the reason Grenell’s ambassadorship vote is being
delayed is because Grenell could stop the horribly
According to Breitbart, embarrassing and controversial Russia witch hunt by the
CIA in Germany, if he were in place.
Grenell will be the highest-ranking openly
gay government official in U.S. history, The CIA station chief in Berlin reports to the
reporting directly to the Secretary of State. US Ambassador. But there is no
ambassador there now. So the station chief
But for some reason Crying Chuck currently gets to do what he wants, without
oversight from Grenell.
Schumer, the Democrat leader in the Senate,
is doing all he can to prevent the Grenell
appointment from coming up for a vote in
the Senate.
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GOP Lawmakers Release BLISTERING VIDEO=> DNC
And Deep State Hacks LIED TO FISA COURT To Spy On
Trump Campaign! #Lockthemup
By Jim Hoft
February 10, 2018, 8:44 Am
DNC AND DEEP STATE HACKS LIED TO Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy posted this
FISA COURT TO SPY ON TRUMP video on Thursday.
CAMPAIGN!
This needs to go viral.
LOCK THEM UP NOW!
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Former DOJ Inspector General Was Targeted And Pushed
Out By Deep State After Exposing Hillary Email Crimes
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 10, 2018, 9:27 Am
Charles McCollough III is the former Intelligence Charles McCollough believes Hillary Clinton’s emails
Community Inspector. endangered national security.
He was threatened in 2016 after he exposed Hillary But the deep state didn’t care and pushed him out for being
Clinton for having classified documents on her unsecured honest and doing his job.
home-brew server.
He wasn’t a team player in a department of crooks.
“I was told that we would be the first two to be
fired with her administration… That, that was Catherine Herridge interviewed McCollough in November
definitely going to happen.” 2017.
McCollough’s sin was that he was honest – Via The Donald Reddit:
and he was serving in the Obama deep
state, a band of crooks and criminals.
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Very, Very Bad News For Mainstream Media - 31% Of
Democrats, 55% Of Independents Paying Close Attention
To FISA Abuse Issue Know The MSM Is Lying To Them
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
February 10, 2018
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counsel appointed. But even 44% of dissect the wiretap story he was cut off by
Democrats thought it would be a good Camerota.
idea.
“That is about the memo and the rebuttal.
Read the entire breakdown at IBD: Most Think Obama That is the heart of this,” she said
White House Spied On Trump Campaign, Want Special
Counsel: IBD/TIPP Poll
CNN (#2),
Fox News & NBC news (tied for #3),
New York Times (#5),
MSNBC (#6 tied with the NFL as polarizing),
ABC News (#8),
CBS News (#9), and
Washington Post (#10).
BOTTOM LINE
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Trump DESTROYS Adam Schiff, Tells Him: Redo Your
Crap Response Memo And “Send Back In Proper Form”
By Jim Hoft
February 10, 2018, 11:29 Am
The president told Congress they need to The Democrats sent a very political and long
make changes before it is released. response memo which they knew, because of
sources and methods (and more), would have
to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would
blame the White House for lack of
transparency. Told them to re-do and send back
in proper form!
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Democrat Tim Canova: FBI Would Rather Chase ‘Russian
Phantoms’ Than Wasserman Schultz’
Stolen Congressional Election
By Cassandra Fairbanks
February 10, 2018, 2:20 Pm
The election supervisor in Broward County likely broke Snipes, a Democrat, had her office destroy the ballots in
the law when they destroyed paper ballots in the midst of a September, months after the lawsuit was filed. The office
lawsuit filed by Tim Canova, who challenged Rep. Debbie claimed that they did not commit a felony by destroying
Wasserman Schultz in 2016. the ballots because they kept digital scans. Canova, who is
a a Nova Southeastern University law professor, contends
that they still broke the law because electronic copies can
be tampered with. His belief has backed up by multiple
experts on election laws.
Though many experts agree that the ballot destruction was The office of Governor Rick Scott has stated that the
a felony, Canova believes that the FBI is too busy chasing destruction is “unacceptable.”
“Russian phantoms” to investigate election meddling right
here at home. “The bottom line is it appears her office
destroyed ballots — which is unacceptable. We
Canova was seeking to have the optical-scan ballots will continue to push for answers,” McKinley
inspected following the primary race and filed a lawsuit Lewis, deputy communications director for the
last June against Broward County Elections Supervisor Republican governor, said in a statement to
Brenda Snipes. Politico in January.
“We have a civil lawsuit against the Broward Canova is now attempting to have an investigation opened
Supervisor of Elections which we should win which could potentially nullify the election that he believes
and the court should award us attorneys fees. was stolen.
At that point the governor should fire the
Supervisor and hopefully replace with someone “We’re trying to get the FBI to investigate
who has integrity and presumably not part of but they seem uninterested at this point
the Wasserman Schultz machine,” Canova told even through the ballot destruction violated
the Gateway Pundit. federal law punishable by prison. I guess
they’d rather chase Russian phantoms,”
According to federal law, the congressional race ballots Canova told GWP. “Congress could
were not supposed to be destroyed for 22 months, and state investigate and the House could possibly
law declares that ballots which are evidence in a court case nullify the stolen election, but I would not
should not be destroyed without a judge’s order, Politico hold my breath waiting for that to happen.”
reported in December.
Meanwhile, Canova is challenging Wasserman-Schultz
again, though he admits it is a difficult task to take on a
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creature of the swamp with his grassroots campaign and During the primary, he had gained support from Senator
small donors. Bernie Sanders and his populist supporters.
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More Bad News For #Fakenews Mainstream Media:
Americans Overwhelmingly Believe Obama
Spied On Trump
By Jim Hoft
February 10, 2018, 3:19 Pm
POTUS Trump posted this in March. This is bad news for Democrats and their
dishonest mainstream media.
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Former Federal Prosecutor Joseph Digenova Reveals
Unfolding Unknown Events And Facts About The FISA-
Russian-Clinton-FBI-Trump Mess
By Catherine J. Frompovich
February 10, 2018
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https://youtu.be/aa95jLxZfc4?t=752 Why did former President Bill Clinton surrender his
license to practice law? Ortel’s work and the exhibits with
In the October 2016 interview below, Attorney diGenova information taken from public records
discusses the multiple crimes Hillary Clinton committed
and also calls “document an escalating pattern of
lawlessness and suggest that trustees of
James Comey a “dirty cop.” entities in the Clinton Charity Network
exhibited gross negligence and reckless
It’s a stunning exposé of what happened within the FBI disregard in performance of their solemn
duties.”
regarding Hillary Clinton;
Chicago Tribune
“everything the Clintons touch, they corrupt FBI revives investigation into donations
and turns to foul smelling molten lead”; the made to Clinton Foundation (Jan. 5,
quid quo pros were so bad in State 2018)
Department and very obvious to everyone
in that Department; the single most corrupt http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nation
Department of State under Hillary Clinton in world/politics/ct-fbi-clinton-foundation-
the history of the country; Bill Clinton’s 20180105-story.html
$750,000 speech; the Clinton Foundation Investor’s Business Daily
wasn’t following the rules and laws of
Clinton Foundation Scandal
states and countries they operated in; Haiti
is the best example of misspent money; https://www.investors.com/politics/clinton-
Comey and Loretta Lynch discussed. foundation-scandal/
Former U.S. Attorney for the District of
Columbia, Joseph E. diGenova The outrageously “almost political coup” orchestrated by
the Democrat Party, Hillary Clinton and alleged co-
conspirators—
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SAME DEEP STATE TEAM That Cleared Hillary And
Spied On Trump Transition Team Is Now Working With
Mueller And Destroying Evidence
By Jim Hoft
February 10, 2018, 5:50 Pm
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In October we at the TGP suspected that the Mueller team
was destroying evidence and the bogus crime on President
Trump that is not a crime in an investigation that is not
constitutional, was just a front for the ability to destroy
evidence.
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Boom! GOP House Intel Member Drops Bomb On Judge
Jeanine: You’re Going To Hear A Lot More About Bill
Priestap (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 10, 2018, 11:29 Pm
Rep. Chris Stewart joined Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday heard from Priestap tells me he’s cooperating with
night to discuss the latest developments from the someone or what?
Congressional deep state investigation.
Chris Stewart: Well, look I’m going to be
Stewart sits on the House Intelligence Committee and told careful on this because I’m not sure what we
Judge Jeanine he did not want to make any headlines. can say on this and believe me I don’t want to
Then he dropped this bomb. be the headline…
Judge Jeanine: No, I want to go back to Priestap but you But so far we have heard nothing about Bill Priestap.
go back first… But I want to go back to Priestap. And I Conservative Treehouse has more on Priestap:
want my audience to remember this name. I’ll tell you why
I’m asking. I don’t like that I haven’t heard of him. We’ve Everyone around Bill Priestap, above and below, were
heard of the whole hierarchy, everybody on that seventh caught inside the investigative net.
floor. And there’s one guy we don’t hear about and that’s
Priestap. Comey threw him under the bus and said that this
Above him: James Comey, Andrew McCabe and James
guy who was Strzok’s boss told Comey not to advise
Baker. Below him: Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Jim Rybicki,
Congress of certain things. And the fact that we haven’t
Trisha Beth Anderson and Mike Kortan. Parallel to
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Priestap in main justice his peer John P Carlin resigned,
Sally Yates fired, Mary McCord quit, Bruce Ohr was
busted twice, and most recently Dave Laufman resigned.
All of them caught in the investigative net…. Only Bill
Priestap remained, quietly invisible – still in position.
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PBS Analyst Compares Trump
White House To Communist East Berlin
By Tim Graham
February 11, 2018 7:24 AM EST
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Former Secret Service Agent: Democrats Are “Covering
Up the Biggest Scandal in Modern Political History”
(VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft
February 11, 2018, 8:47 am
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We Were Right=> Rep. Devin Nunes: Carter Page Worked
For FBI As Informant – Cooperated With FBI In 2013
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 11, 2018, 9:28 Am
On Sunday Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) confirmed that to build a case against “Evgeny Buryakov”. In
Carter Page worked as an FBI informant in 2013. March 2016 Carter Page remained their
informant pre-trial. [Note – Pay attention to the
As TGP reported earlier…. names in the following citations]
There has been much written about Carter Sources: ♦ In 2013 the U.S. Department of
Page, the so-called Russian expert and Justice, Southern District of New York,
volunteer on the Trump campaign. announced an indictment against a Russian
Operative Evgeny Buryakov. LINK
Carter Page sat on a campaign committee that met only HERE In March of 2016 Buryakov
pleaded GUILTY.
once during the campaign.
…
And yet the FBI relied on Page to continue
to spy on Donald Trump, his campaign
members, his family and then his Transition ♦ In 2016 Reuters published an article, based
Team and administration. on the ongoing court case, going into detail
about court records. LINK HERE
The warrants on Page then gave the Deep State access to […] According to prosecutors, in April 2012,
spy on all of the Trump campaign officials. Sporyshev met an undercover FBI
employee posing as an analyst at a New York
According to reports from 2016 Carter Page energy firm at an oil and gas industry
was previously working as an undercover conference.
informant for the FBI.
…
Via Conservative Treehouse broke this story a couple days
ago: ♦ In April 2017, writing a story about Carter
Page, and trying to enhance/affirm the Russian
In 2013 Carter Page was working as an under- narrative, they outlined Page’s connections to
cover employee (UCE) of the FBI, helping them the Trump campaign, the New York Times
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referenced Page’s prior connection to the They all need to go to jail.
operation. [Notice how the story is shaped]
Via Sunday Morning Futures:
On Sunday Rep. Devin Nunes told Maria
Bariromo that Carter Page was indeed an
informant for the FBI in 2013.
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DIRTY DEEP STATE: Mueller And Rosenstein Tried To
Get Manafort’s Case Thrown Out – They Know It Will
End Corrupt Special Counsel
By Jim Hoft
February 11, 2018, 9:32 Am
We have reported for months on the many criminal and FOX News Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett stated in an article
corrupt actions taken by numerous parties related to the a couple of months ago the fact that the entire Mueller
Mueller investigation. Mueller never should have taken on investigation is lawless. Jarrett argued that –
the job in the first place due to numerous conflicts. He is
best friends with fired leaker and former FBI Director Shortly after the indictments[against Papadopoulos and
James Comey. He met with Comey shortly before Comey Manafort] were unsealed, the media’s spirits were
testified with Congress and for this alone he should have suddenly boosted when the special counsel revealed that a
recused himself. The team Mueller built to attack President former adviser to Trump pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI
Trump and have him removed is all Deep State attorneys about his contacts with a Russian national during his time
and crooks. Mueller’s record in the past is scattered with on the Trump campaign. Surely this was evidence of
actions that let the Clintons off Scott free on numerous illegal “collusion,” right?
occasions when they should have been put in jail.
Wrong. George Papadopoulos pled guilty to a single
We now know that the FBI had an charge of making a false statement to the FBI. He was not
investigation into the Clintons and moneys charged with so-called “collusion” because no such crime
they received from Russia in return for exists in American statutory law, except in anti-trust
giving Russia 20% of all US uranium. matters. It has no application to elections and political
campaigns.
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It is not a crime to talk to a Russian. Not that the media that. The two defendants will be able to argue before a
would ever understand that. They have never managed to judge that Mueller’s appointment by Acting Attorney
point to a single statute that makes “colluding” with a General Rod Rosenstein violated the special counsel law.
foreign government in a political campaign a crime, likely
because it does not exist in the criminal codes. As I pointed out in a column last May, the law (28 CFR
600) grants legal authority to appoint a special counsel to
Jarrett then turned his attention to Corrupt Hillary – investigate crimes. Only crimes. He has limited
jurisdiction. Yet, in his order appointing Mueller as special
It is against the law for the Clinton campaign counsel (Order No. 3915-2017), Rosenstein directed him
and the Democratic National Committee to to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the
funnel millions of dollars to a British spy Russian government and individuals associated with the
and to Russian sources in order to obtain campaign of President Donald Trump.” It fails to identify
the infamous and discredited Trump any specific crimes, likely because none are applicable.
“dossier.”
To put it plainly, Mueller is tasked with
The Federal Election Campaign Act (52 USC 30101) finding a crime that does not exist in the
prohibits foreign nationals and governments from giving or law. It is a legal impossibility. He is being
receiving money in U.S. campaigns. It also prohibits the asked to do something that is manifestly
filing of false or misleading campaign reports to hide the unattainable. Manafort sued the DOJ,
true purpose of the money (52 USC 30121). This is what Mueller and Rosenstein because what they
Clinton and the DNC appear to have done. are doing is not supported by US Law. This
is the biggest story of the day! Manafort is
Most often the penalty for violating this law is a fine, but suing to have the Mueller investigation shut
in egregious cases, like this one, criminal prosecutions down!
have been sought and convictions obtained. In this sense, it
could be said that Hillary Clinton is the one who was Manafort’s case argues in paragraph 33 that the special
conspiring with the Russians by breaking campaign counsel put in place by crooked Rosenstein gave crooked
finance laws with impunity. and criminal Mueller powers that are not permitted by law
–
But that’s not all.
1. But paragraph (b)(ii) of the Appointment Order purports
to grant Mr. Mueller further authority to investigate and
Damning new evidence appears to show
prosecute “any matters that arose or may arise
that Clinton used her office as Secretary of
directly from the investigation.” That grant of authority
State to confer benefits to Russia in
is not authorized by DOJ’s special counsel regulations.
exchange for millions of dollars in donations
It is not a “specific factual statement of the matter to be
to her foundation and cash to her husband.
investigated.” Nor is it an ancillary power to address
efforts to impede or obstruct investigation under 28
Secret recordings, intercepted emails, financial records, C.F.R. § 600.4(a).
and eyewitness accounts allegedly show that Russian
nuclear officials enriched the Clintons at the very time
On February 3rd, 2018, Mueller quietly petitioned the court
Hillary presided over a governing body which
to throw out Manafort’s case. Corrupt Rod Rosenstein
unanimously approved the sale of one-fifth of America’s
(noted recently as one individual who signed off on the
uranium supply to Russia.
FISA memos to spy on President Trump) came to corrupt
bad cop Mueller’s aid –
If this proves to be a corrupt “pay-to-play” scheme, it
would constitute a myriad of crimes, including bribery (18
In his civil lawsuit, Manafort’s lawyers claim that Mueller
USC 201-b), mail fraud (18 USC 1341), and wire fraud
overstepped his mandate to pursue “any matters that arose
(18 USC 1343). It might also qualify for racketeering
or may arise directly from the investigation” into Russian
charges (18 USC 1961-1968), if her foundation is
meddling in the 2016 election. Manafort claimed that
determined to have been used as a criminal enterprise.
Mueller’s team improperly interpreted their authority as
giving them “carte blanche” to pursue crimes beyond
The US statutory law is clear and Jarrett points it out. He Russian collusion.
concluded with the following –
But in the filing on Friday, prosecutors cited the Dec. 13
Until now, no one had legal “standing” to argue in court congressional testimony of Deputy Attorney General Rod
that the appointment of Mueller was illegal. The criminal Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller’s work because
charges [against Manafort and Papadopoulos] change all Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself.
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“I’m properly exercising my oversight depends on corrupt Mueller’s
responsibilities, and so I can assure you that investigation to be shut down and
the special counsel is conducting himself Mueller and his deep state cronies
consistently with our understanding about the thrown in jail.
scope of his investigation,” Rosenstein testified.
Mueller’s prosecutors attached a transcript of
Rosenstein’s testimony to the House Judiciary If Manafort wins this case – which it appears
Committee. according to the law he will – the entire
Mueller investigation would be deemed
illegal – which it is! It would have to be shut
What an absolute crock from the down – which it should be. The President’s
two most corrupt members of the team should petition to move Manafort’s
deep state! Manafort’s case case up to get this mess overwith so we can
shouldn’t be thrown out, it should begin using all our efforts to bring Mueller
be moved up! The country’s destiny and the deep state to justice and to jail!
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Rep. Devin Nunes: Why Does Deep State Refuse To
Prosecute Christopher Steele? This Is A Slam-Dunk Case!
(Where’s Jeff Sessions?)
By Jim Hoft
February 11, 2018, 10:03 Am
Rep. Devin Nunes joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday when you have the House who said this guy
Morning Futures to discuss the latest developments in the lied to the FBI, and you have the senate who
largest political scandal in US history – The Obama Deep said this guy lied to the FBI, Christopher
State war against Donald Trump. Steele, what is the Justice Department
doing?
Rep. Nunes says there are multiple crimes uncovered so
far and yet the Deep State refuses to prosecute DOJ and Where is the prosecution of Christopher Steele. This is a
FBI crooks. slam dunk case that they have all the documents. And this
is what makes people really wonder and have confidence
that the DOJ and FBI are playing this straight up.
Nunes is right.
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BOOM! Rep. Devin Nunes: WE KNOW AG Lynch And
Secretary Of State Kerry Were Aware Of Crap Dossier
Used To Spy On Trump (Video)
By Jim Hoft
February 11, 2018, 10:44 Am
Maria Bariromo:
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Freedom Caucus Chair Busts Adam Schiff And Democrats
In Major Lie On Secret Memo
By Jim Hoft
February 11, 2018, 11:44 Am
The president told Congress and Democrats they needed to
On Friday the White House announced clean it up and make changes before it is released to the
President Trump would not approve the public.
release of Democrat Adam Schiff’s House
spin memo. The FBI also weighed in and said Democrats had to clean
up their highly partisan memo.
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According to investigative reporter Sara Carter Rep. Perhaps even they know: this memo was written in panic
Adama Schiff purposely put “sources and methods” in his as a misdirection from the disturbing information we
spin memo to force President Trump to make redactions. already know.
Mark Meadows:
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House Freedom Caucus Chair Meadows BLASTS Adam
Schiff, Dems Over Their Bogus Counter-Memo
Posted On February 11, 2018
(National Sentinel) Late last week House Intelligence disturbing information we already know,” he
Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., sent a tweeted.
memo to the White House for declassification and release
approval that allegedly refuted much of what was Last week, investigative journalist and Fox News
contained in the GOP-drafted “FISA Memo” released the correspondent Sara A. Carter reported that Schiff
week prior. purposely added sources and intelligence collection
methods to his memo so that it would be rejected and give
Schiff told various media outlets all week that his memo him talking points with the media and supporters regarding
was important because its release would set the record the president’s supposed partisanship.
straight and correct a number of factual errors he claimed
were misrepresented in the original memo or were omitted “Just look at what’s been happening from
altogether. the beginning- my sources say yes. But
really it’s up to @RepAdamSchiff to
But when Schiff sent his counter-memo to President answer that question,” she tweeted.
Donald J. Trump last week it was rejected because the
White House said it contained classified information
regarding individuals and methods that would be
compromised upon release.
But House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Fox News‘ John Roberts tweeted the same thing, quoting
Meadows, R-N.C., hit back at Schiff noting that its alleged some of his sources.
importance is not spurring confidence among most
Democrats.
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HERE THEY ARE=> The Dirty Dozen Deep State
Operatives Who Have Been Demoted Or Left
The DOJ-FBI Since Election
By Jim Hoft
February 11, 2018, 12:58 Pm
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314
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Rep. Devin Nunes: Carter Page Worked For FBI As
Informant – Cooperated With FBI In 2013 (VIDEO)
By Admin
February 11, 2018
Via Conservative Treehouse broke this story a couple days On Sunday Rep. Devin Nunes told Maria
ago: Bariromo that Carter Page was indeed
an informant for the FBI in 2013.
In 2013 Carter Page was working as an under-cover
employee (UCE) of the FBI, helping them to build a case
against “Evgeny Buryakov”. In March 2016 Carter Page
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Then the FBI spied on Carter Page and They all need to go to jail.
everyone he came in contact with in
2016 and 2017. Via Sunday Morning Futures:
And they knew the warrant was a lie The post Rep. Devin Nunes:
based on DNC oppo research that was
complete trash.
Carter Page Worked for FBI as Informant –
Cooperated with FBI in 2013 (VIDEO)
The Deep State didn’t care and the liars appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
and crooks spied on the entire Trump
administration.
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Bad News For Democrats=> Beautiful
Melania Trump Scrubs White House Of Demonic Residue
By Jim Hoft
February 11, 2018, 1:13 Pm
Now this…
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive
for a Mother’s Day event for military spouses in the East Room of the Melania Trump had the White House
White House in Washington, DC, May 12, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / scrubbed of demons before she would move
SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty
Images)
her family into the Washington DC residence
in 2017.
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive Melania Trump reportedly said,
for a Mother’s Day event for military spouses in the East Room of the
White House in Washington, DC, May 12, 2017. / AFP PHOTO /
SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty “I’m not going to go into that White House
Images) unless it has been completely exorcised,”
according to Pastor Begley. One thing was left,
Beautiful Melania Trump stunned a Florida a cross on the wall. “They cleansed the White
crowd in 2017 when she led off the February House,” he said. “They had people in there
rally with the Lord’s Prayer. anointing it with oil and praying everywhere.”
The crowd roared its delight after the First This will make Democrats furious – and you
Lady’s prayer. must ask yourself, “Why?”
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Dem Rep Nadler: Trump Impeachment
Would Have To Be Bipartisan
By Jeff Poor
11 Feb 2018
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Adam Schiff Denies He Improperly Drafted Seriously
Flawed Dem Memo – Attacks POTUS Trump AGAIN
(VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 11, 2018, 2:34 Pm
First the Intelligence Committee will have to clean it up. The best thing for the House Intel Committee to do then
would be to declassify all FISA applications related to the
Schiff continued to spread lies about his junk memo AND dossier. Rep. DeSantis and others have already called for
Nunes’ memo on Sunday. this.
VIDEO:
Schiff admitted the FBI will have to take another look and
redact sensitive information in the Minority memo.
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Trump Maintains Confidence In
Chief Of Staff John Kelly Despite Porter Flap
Administration Officials Used The Sunday Talk Shows To Reaffirm
President's Trust In Top Aide And Slam Reports Of Imminent Firing
By Kathryn Blackhurst
Updated 11 Feb 2018 At 3:23 PM
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Even Jeh Johnson, who served as Homeland Security in the job of chief of staff," Johnson said
secretary under former President Barack Obama, doubted Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
Kelly's impending removal.
"That might be a minority view among my
Democratic friends, but that is my view,"
"As long as Donald Trump is president, our Johnson added. "I encourage John to
government is best served if John Kelly is hunker down and do his job."
.
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Ex-Obama State Dept. Spokesperson Once Claimed Steele
Dossier Was NOT Used To Obtain FISA Warrant (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 11, 2018, 8:02 Pm
In statements that aged badly, this is up the Republican side to use this dossier and
their with some of the greats. Former Obama some of these conspiracy theories.
State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf
HEMINGWAY: In fact, this dossier was used by
claimed on Fox News in July 2017 that the
the FBI to secure a FISA warrant against an
Steele Dossier was not used to obtain a
American citizen. It was also used by Obama
FISA warrant.
officials and intelligence agencies to really get
this whole Russian conspiracy going.
HARF: That’s not true, Mollie. I was in the
administration. That’s absolutely not true. We
thought this was a funny, salacious thing. The
Russian investigations started because a bunch
of other issues not related.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the dossier
was used to apply for a spy warrant on Trump campaign
advisor Carter Page:
The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the intial
and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter
Page.
Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would
have been sought from the FISA Court without the
Steele dossier information.
The political origins of the Steele dossier were known
to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the
FISA applications.
Transcript via Breitbart News: In a stunning admission to CNN‘s Jake Tapper last
HARF, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, I’m Wednesday, former Director of National Intelligence
very impressed with Mollie’s ability to spin a James Clapper admitted the Steele dossier was used for an
conspiracy theory out of this. There is no extension of FISA surveillance.
evidence to support what she’s putting forward. “As I understand it, this was simply an
Look, I think it’s interesting. It was certainly extension of the original FISA request. Meaning
salacious when it came out. But I would that, or implying, that apparently, there was
disagree with something she just said, this information that was considered valuable that
dossier, while it may have got a lot of attention, was being obtained, via the initial FISA
isn’t actually what the Russian investigations request,” Clapper told Tapper.
are about right now. They’re about all these
meetings that Trump officials had with the
Russians that they were not honest about.
They’re about possible ties. And nothing may
come from those investigations. But let’s be
very clear, they’re not based on that dossier. I
have no idea who paid for it. I have no idea
where any of this came from. But I suspect
there’s some attempt in Congress right now on
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Forbes FBI/DOJ Corruption Article
Mysteriously Vanishes - Did The Deep State Disappear
Definitive Timeline Off Established MSM Website
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
February 11, 2018
http://www.PoliticalVanguard.com .
PLS Share."
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It truly is a must-read for all the information, laid out via a your stories will be harder to find with
timeline, showing the insidious corruption within the Google. ...
Obama administration, the Clinton campaign and senior
members of the FBI/DOJ, so it is highly recommended to Google never challenged the accuracy of
read the entire piece, but the question here, is why did the reporting. Instead, a Google
Forbes delete a piece that was garnering so much public spokesperson told me that I needed to
attention, that was well sourced, providing their audience unpublish the story because the meeting
with a facts the liberal mainstream media will not report had been confidential, and the information
on? discussed there had been subject to a non-
disclosure agreement between Google and
Forbes. (I had signed no such agreement,
hadn’t been told the meeting was
confidential, and had identified myself as a
journalist.)
The conclusions offered after the outstanding timeline are Del Beccaro's bottom line conclusions after detailing the
the writer's opinion of the events he documented, but the timeline of events that occurred from 2015 up until after
very definition of an op-ed is "opinion editorial," so the the 2016 presidential election, clearly shows why certain
Forbes disclaimer reflects those opinions are those of the entities did not want this article to remain up, as he
writer, so we have to wonder who forced Forbes to remove explains what the timeline of events indicates to him about
the article, one that was highly praised by a number of how the Hillary Clinton investigation was rigged, how
people, readers and professional writers and commentators senior members of the FBI created the "insurance policy"
alike? to damage an incoming president with the "Russian
collusion" storyline, and how those and other top level
Previous examples of Forbes deleting articles show intelligence community officials used unverified
conclusively that Forbes does allow the publication to be information to obtain FISA warrants, where Del Beccaro
intimidated by other entities, such as Google, as shown in ends his conclusions with the following statements:
a September 2017 article at Boing Boing, titled "Forbes
removed article critical of Google after it asked nastily." Watergate did not involve the DOJ and the
FBI – two institutions which must be non-
After the meeting, I approached Google’s partisans for this Republic of ours.
public relations team ...The press office
confirmed it, though they preferred to say This case does involve the FBI and DOJ. It
the Plus button “influences the ranking.” also is foolish not to assume that Loretta
They didn’t deny what their sales people Lynch and President Obama were ignorant
told me: If you don’t feature the +1 button, of the goings on – if not involved in them.
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Finally, the dishonest investigation of article, when generally it was Google's video platform
Hillary who committed actual crimes should YouTube that deleted the video to begin with.
not be acceptable. Nor should FBI or DOJ
officials be allowed to alter events and Those are the games big tech play to force compliance
Court proceedings for political purposes. when a smaller website refuses to toe the "official
narrative" line and goes against Google's ideology, but
If we let this go, and people are not Forbes has been around since 1917, it is an established
brought to justice, we will have forever household name, so removing such an important article
damaged our Republic and the World’s about ongoing events within our own intelligence
view of us as a nation of laws. communities, showing corruption within the highest level
of the U.S. government, with absolutely no explanation, is
That ladies and gentlemen is the problem, the deep state unacceptable.
can't have an established member of the liberal media,
demanding justice for the corruption during the Obama
administration and the crooked members of the deep state
itself within the intelligence community, because then they
cannot label the Independent Media as "conspiracy
theorists" for highlighting and demanding the same thing.
BOTTOM LINE
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TOM FITTON: There Are AT LEAST FOUR
Anti-Trump Dossiers By Obama-Clinton Cabal (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 11, 2018, 8:55 Pm
In a video posted to Twitter Sunday, Judicial goes way back, he’s a longtime Clinton
Watch president Tom Fitton said there are at operative-henchman. So now that’s two
least four different anti-Trump dossiers dossiers. And guess what, we just found a third
stemming from Obama-Clinton inc. dossier. This one created by the Obama State
Department.
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Judicial Watch’s Fitton: ‘There Are At
Least FOUR Anti-Trump Dossiers’ (Video)
Posted On February 12, 2018
(National Sentinel) Dirt: The head of one of Washington’s So they were vacuuming classified
most vigorous government watchdog organizations said information, creating a special dossier on
Sunday that his organization has uncovered at least four Russia and sending classified information
anti-Trump “dossiers” that were generated by elements to, according to reports at the time, with the
within the Obama administration and the 2016 Democratic express purpose of not allowing the Trump
campaign of Hillary Clinton. administration to assert its prerogative on
the handling of this classified information
“.@JudicialWatch lawsuit uncovered and its relations with Russia. The abuses
ANOTHER Russia Dossier used to don’t stop with the Obama FBI and DOJ,
undermine @RealDonaldTrump–this one they continued into this Obama State
created by Obama State Department. By Department and we want to know how this
my count, there are now at least 4 classified information was gathered, who
Obama/Clinton “get Trump” dossiers,” ordered it, how it was disseminated and
tweeted Judicial Watch president Tom who else has it…They are in cover-up
Fitton. mode!
In a video posted with the tweet, Fitton said the documents Fitton also said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should
not only implicate a sitting Democratic U.S. senator as “unrecuse himself” from the Justice Department’s ongoing
well — Ben Cardin of Maryland — but also serve to help “Russian collusion” probe and put a stop to special counsel
undermine any Trump administration effort to improve Robert Mueller’s probe because it has all been based on a
relations with a nuclear-armed Russia. fabrication.
“There was no basis for a legitimate Sessions needs to “clean house” at Justice, Fitton added.
investigation into alleged collusion between Watch:
Donald Trump and the Russians. The only
basis was a smear job created by Hillary
Clinton’s political operatives,” Fitton said.
“In fact, there came out another Clinton
dossier, this one created by Cody Shearer,
who also got it to the FBI supposedly
through Fusion GPS. Cody Shearer goes
way back, he’s a longtime Clinton
operative-henchman. So now that’s two
dossiers. And guess what, we just found a
third dossier. This one created by the
Obama State Department,” he added.
Continuing, he said:
We received the documents, we just
released them this week. So what happens
is, shortly before President Trump came
into office, the Obama State Department
gathered intelligence, classified material on
Russian activities on elections and public
policy, fights abroad especially in Europe
[….] They sent them to their buddy Ben
Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland.
.
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Chairman Nunes To Investigate Ex-CIA Director John
Brennan For His Role In Promoting Hillary’s Phony
Dossier ‘Brennan May Have Perjured Himself’
By Cristina Laila
February 11, 2018, 9:08 Pm
Chairman of the House Intel Committee, Chairman Nunes released the first of several memos last
Devin Nunes plans to investigate former CIA week detailing the FISA abuses carried out by Obama’s
Director John Brennan and other Obama FBI and DOJ.
officials for their role in promoting Hillary’s
phony dossier. Hillary’s phony Russia dossier compiled by former British
spy Christopher Steele was used to obtain a FISA warrant
According to investigative reporter, Paul Sperry, Chairman to spy on Trump’s camp.
Nunes is also investigating whether Brennan perjured
himself in a public testimony about the dossier. Nunes then revealed the next phase of the House Intel
Committee’s investigation will focus on Obama’s State
Department and their role in disseminating the Steele
dossier.
[…]
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After Trump won the election, sources say, the behavior I am now seeing from Nunes and
CIA director sought to “weaponize” the dossier’s House Republicans. Absence of moral and
wild accusations against the president-elect. ethical leadership in WH is fueling this
government crisis.”
In early January, just weeks before Trump was
inaugurated, investigators say Brennan saw to it I had many fights with Congressional Dems
that the contents from the dossier were over the years on national security matters. But
attached to an official daily intelligence briefing I never witnessed the type of reckless partisan
for Obama. The special classified briefing was behavior I am now seeing from Nunes and
then leaked to the major Washington media, House Republicans. Absence of moral and
allowing them to use the presidential briefing to ethical leadership in WH is fueling this
justify the publication of claims they had up to government crisis. https://t.co/KEUrsgtqhp
that point not been able to substantiate and had
been reluctant to run. — John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) February
1, 2018
Christopher Steele and Hillary Clinton were desperate to
get the dossier published and blasted out to the public. Read Paul Sperry’s exclusive report on
Outlets refused to publish the unverified document; John Brennan and James Clapper here.
Buzzfeed finally published the full dossier on January 10th
2017. Several defamation and libel lawsuits have been
BREAKING: House Intel Chair Nunes next
filed as a result of the dossier.
plans to investigate role Brennan & other
Obama intel officials played in promoting the
Sperry also reported that Brennan is aware Nunes is salacious & unverified Steele dossier on Donald
targeting him for investigation. Trump — including whether Brennan perjured
himself in public testimony about
John Brennan lashed out at Nunes and House Republicans ithttps://t.co/wCR1nQZp4X
over the FISA memo last week.
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) February 12,
Brennan tweeted,
2018
“I had many fights with Congressional Dems
over the years on national security matters. But
I never witnessed the type of reckless partisan
.
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GOP Rep Nunes: Dems Preventing Release
Of Schiff Memo By Packing It Full Of Sources, Methods
By Jeff Poor
11 Feb 2018
On this weekend’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s from that point, we’ve heard nothing but
“Sunday Morning Futures,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), crickets. The Democrats have been on TV
the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, offered all weekend long. Their memo is sitting at
an explanation as to why the Trump administration was not the House Intelligence Committee down at
allowing the release of a memo authored by committee the bottom of the capital waiting to be
ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). redacted.
If they really wanted to get it out, they’d be
Nunes told host Maria Bartiromo that the Democrat memo down there all day yesterday redacting it,
contained sensitive information, and it was done so getting it back over to the White House so
intentionally. that the public can know what’s in it
BARTIROMO: So —
Partial transcript as follows:
NUNES: So this is — this is nothing but
BARTIROMO: So let me — let me kick it off politics.
with that and the fact that the White House BARTIROMO: And within the Democratic
has denied the request to release Adam memo, there was no rejection of the point
Schiff’s memo. What can you tell us about of your memo, which was, bottom line, the
that memo? You’ve seen it. What do we FBI used government resources to spy on
need to understand about this? a political enemy.
NUNES: Well first off, this was not a NUNES: Well, right. We actually want the
surprise. So this was after they had Democratic memo out. We think it’s
accused the Republicans of putting ridiculous on the face of it. We think it’s
sources and methods into our memo, we very political how about they attack myself,
actually did not, we just put in what the they attack Chairman Gowdy, they turn
thought the American people needed to Carter Page into some super-secret
know. It was clear from the development of Russian spy, they talk about how
the Democratic memo from the very Christopher Steele is a really, really good
beginning that they packed it full of sources source when we know that he lied to the
and methods. FBI. So we want this out. We don’t know
Now, for the viewers out there, what are why they’re not in this weekend redacting it
sources and methods? We don’t want to so that we can get it back to the White
give up the way that our intelligence House so the president can declassify it.
committee recruits sources, the methods BARTIROMO: Right. And but they did not
that they may use to recruit (ph) sources. deny the omission of information that has
So these are things that don’t need to be taken place here. Basically, the FBI goes to
made public. However, the Democrats the FISA court and presents this so-called
knew this, they — they packed their memo dossier of unverified information about
full of sources and methods. Now, on Donald Trump during an election, and they
Friday night, we received a letter back from do not tell the FISA court that the dossier
the White House. was actually paid for by Hillary Clinton.
The White House did not deny the — the NUNES: Yes. And not only that — I mean
release of the Democrat memo — the that’s the — the — the crux of our
Democrats’ memo. What they did is they argument, the (ph) why are we going
said look, you need to make some through all this. Well, phase one of our
redactions and some technical corrections investigation was to look at the FISA
here and we will get it out right away. Now, abuse. So we very simply said look, the —
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the court didn’t know that the Democrats think somehow, someone somewhere would say hey, we
paid for this. Now, remember, this is an — better go tell the FISA court this. They — they didn’t do it
an investigation into the other campaign. I the first time, they didn’t do it the second time, they didn’t
would think a judge would need to know do it the third time, in fact, they didn’t even do it the fourth
that. time.
They also omitted the fact — after they discovered that So a full year they were spying on an American citizen
Christopher Steele went and talked to multiple media who was affiliated with the Trump campaign, and the court
outlets and that they had used some of those media outlets, didn’t know any of that for four times in a row.
some of the stories to corroborate the dossier, you would
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Ignored By Media=> Cancer Survivor Travels To White
House To Thank President Trump For Saving His Life
(Video)
By Jim Hoft
February 11, 2018, 11:31 Pm
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Grassley Hammers Adam Schiff For Claiming Steele
Criminal Referral Undermines Mueller Witch Hunt
By Cristina Laila
February 12, 2018, 12:03 Am
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We know sneaky Adam Schiff put sources and methods in Mueller’s wheels are falling off because the
his junk memo on purpose so it wouldn’t be released investigation was a sham from the
ultimately trying to make Trump look like an beginning; the truth is finally bubbling up to
obstructionist. the surface which is causing Deep State
operatives live Schiff to panic.
According to investigative reporter Sara Carter Schiff
purposely put “sources and methods” in his spin memo to
force President Trump to make redactions.
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Weiner Kept Laptops Open
Around Sex Worker He Was Seeing Regularly
For Nearly Two Years
By Cassandra Fairban
February 12, 2018, 6:30 Am
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The woman stated that Weiner was often hostile about his
wife’s Muslim religion, because it meant that he could not
keep booze in their house.
“For someone who claims to be
tolerant, he sure talked a lot of sh-t
about Huma and Muslims… and how
she wouldn’t let him have liquor in the
house,” the woman recalled.
She also provided the Gateway Pundit with screenshots of
emails that confirm his poor relationship with the Abedin
family.
The blue-eyed knockout said that she had not went public
with her story in the past because she did not want to
become the target of a media smear campaign over her
chosen profession.
“I wasn’t interested in putting my name out
in public, especially when I knew that
mainstream outlets would’ve likely tried to
smear me by calling me a lying whore who
only wants attention/settlements/etc. Sex
workers never get a fair shake in the public
forum and I preferred to avoid the
headache that would’ve came with me.
Plus, Anthony’s lies have attracted karma
in a big way and he’s paying dearly in
When asked if he had also provided her with inappropriate prison,” the woman explained.
photos, the woman confirmed that he did, but that they
were sent in private conversations over Twitter and were
lost when he deactivated his account.
“I wasn’t smart enough to save them
beforehand. I just assumed that if he ever
deleted his page, the convos would still be
there for me to read through,” she said.
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Additionally, there was some shame about admitting that
she had a physical affair with someone who
“f-cks like a mechanical robot (poorly) and
has the worst O face in history,” she said.
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Who Controls The GOP Senate?
Many Say It’s Democrat Chuck Schumer
Minority Leader’s Success In Budget Negotiations With Mitch Mcconnell
Has Conservatives Worried As Congress Turns To Immigration
By Brendan Kirby
Updated 12 Feb 2018 At 6:59 AM
It is not apparent what Schumer had to concede in return, "We've been asking that question for
other than additional military spending. And that does not years," he said. NumbersUSA advocates
seem to be much of a concession; after all, Democratic tougher immigration policies and controls.
members of Congress like to build weapons in their
districts, too. Christopher Devine, a political science professor at the
University of Dayton in Ohio, said the Senate's arcane
The one thing Schumer did not get in the budget was a rules give a great deal of leverage to the minority party.
“fix” for the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Most measures require 60 votes, which in the current
Arrivals (DACA) program, created by former President Senate, means Republicans have to win at least nine
Barack Obama via executive order in an action widely Democratic votes if the GOP senators stick together.
viewed as unconstitutional.
Schumer "got a pretty good deal."
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As a result, Devine said, the minority leader can block the Republicans divided on DACA.
majority party's agenda in many cases and negotiate huge
concessions. But he was hard-pressed to think of another Mehlman said the danger for groups like his that favor
minority leader in recent history who has been as lower levels of legal immigration and stricter enforcement
successful as Schumer in advancing his agenda rather than of current immigration restrictions is that an open process
simply blocking the majority party. could take advantage of Republican divisions.
"They seem to wield more power than you "The Democrats have a unified position —
would expect for a minority party," he said. they want a clean DREAM Act," he said.
"I think it is fair to say he got a pretty good "The Republicans are all over the place."
deal for his interests."
Chmielenski of NumbersUSA said a backroom deal by
The way the budget battle played out has opponents of McConnell and Schumer probably could result in
mass immigration worried about how the immigration legislation that would pass the chamber. But if it is truly an
debate might go. The Senate will start an open debate on open process that allows for unlimited amendments, he
immigration Monday, and McConnell has promised every said, the prospects for the final bill are dicier.
senator will have a chance to offer amendments that will
receive up-or-down votes.
"If that's the way it goes, I don't think
anything will pass," he said.
"I don't work in Vegas. It's hard to put odds Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has promised not to bring
on something," said Ira Mehlman, a immigration legislation to the floor unless a majority of
spokesman for the Federation for American Republicans in the House support it and Trump would sign
Immigration Reform (FAIR). "What we it. That would doom the effort — unless Trump swung his
should have started from was the support behind it. The president's oscillation on DACA has
president's original position … I'd like to troubled immigration hard-liners.
play cards with these guys."
"Trump is the wild card," Chmielenski said.
Mehlman was referring to a long list of principles that "We don't know."
President Donald Trump laid down shortly after
announcing in September 2017 that he would end DACA But if Trump holds firm on his demands, Chmielenski
by March 5. It included a long list of border security said, Ryan would face a "revolt" in his caucus if he tried to
measures and reform of the existing legal immigration muscle through a bill with mostly Democratic votes.
system.
Devine, the Dayton political science professor, said the
Since then, Trump has widened the population that would fact that conservatives felt betrayed by the budget debate
benefit — from about 690,000 DACA enrollees to 1.8 could make an immigration deal harder, as Republicans in
million young illegal immigrants — and narrowed his Congress grow weary of bucking their base so soon on
demands to full funding of a border wall and other security another high-profile issue.
measures, including a gradual end to the ability of citizens
to sponsor extended family members for immigration and
Devine added that the budget deal came together because
the elimination of the diversity visa lottery, which awards
defense hawks in the GOP and Democrats decided to
about 50,000 green cards each year to applicants chosen
achieve their goals by spending money on everyone's
randomly from around the world.
priorities. Immigration defies that kind of compromise, he
said.
Supporters of the Development, Relief and Education for
Alien Minors (DREAM) Act hope the process will lead to
"DACA, or immigration, is not a problem
something close to what they have proposed — legal status
you can solve by spending more money,"
and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants whose
he said.
parents brought them to the country. And they don't want
the law to include a border wall or an end to so-called
chain migration.
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Evidence Suggests Former FBI Head Of Counter
Intelligence, Bill Priestap, Is Obamagate’s ‘Deep Throat’!
By Jim Hoft
February 12, 2018, 7:00 Am
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‘deep throat’ as was insinuated in the
This is getting good. The deep state Watergate scandal. Is Priestap deep
criminal network is slowly being throat in the Obamagate scandal? Lock
exposed. Maybe there is a mole or Them All Up!
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Nunes Pledges To Investigate Former CIA Chief John
Brennan; ‘He May Have Perjured Himself’
Posted On February 12, 2018
Writing in Real Clear Investigations, Sperry reported: Sperry says Nunes’ probe includes additional senior
Obama officials throughout the Executive Branch who
In his May 2017 testimony before the may have played a role in the spying scandal. He reported
intelligence panel, Brennan emphatically further:
denied the dossier factored into the
intelligence community’s publicly released Nunes plans to soon release a separate
conclusion last year that Russia meddled in report detailing the Obama State
the 2016 election “to help Trump’s chances Department’s role in creating and
of victory.” disseminating the dossier — which has
Brennan also swore that he did not know emerged as the foundation of the
who commissioned the anti-Trump Obama administration’s Russia “collusion”
research document (excerpt here), even investigation. Among other things, the
though senior national security and report will identify Obama-appointed
counterintelligence officials at the Justice diplomats who worked with partisan
Department and FBI knew the previous operatives close to Hillary Clinton to
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help ex-British spy Christopher Steele “Trump campaign lawyer Michael Cohen,
compile the dossier, sources say. whom the dossier accused of conspiring
with the Kremlin to pay Russian hackers to
“Those are the first two phases” of Nunes’
steal Clinton campaign emails. It’s one of
multipart inquiry, a senior investigator told
several libel and defamation lawsuits tied to
Sperry. “In phase three, the involvement of
the dossier,” Sperry noted.
the intelligence community will come into
sharper focus.”
Russian tech firms named in the dossier have also filed
The investigator said that Nunes will focus suit.
on Brennan’s role, but also examine any
possible involvement by “Obama’s first CIA
Former CIA field operations officer Gene Coyle, a 30-year
director, Leon Panetta, along with
the former president’s intelligence czar, agency veteran who served under Brennan, said he was
James Clapper, and national security
adviser, Susan Rice, and security adviser- “known as the greatest sycophant in the
turned U.N. ambassador Samantha Power, history of the CIA, and a supporter of
among other intelligence officials.” Hillary Clinton before the election.”
“John Brennan did more than anyone to “I find it hard to put any real credence in
promulgate the dirty dossier,” the anything that the man says,” he added.
investigator said. “He politicized and
effectively weaponized what was Brennan, now a CNN analyst, has been openly critical of
false intelligence against Trump.” Nunes and Republican House Intel members, as well as
Trump.
Sperry added:
None of the traditional “mainstream” media outlets were On Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Brennan
interested, however, because the contents of the dossier tore into Nunes for releasing the FISA
could not be verified. However, finally, Buzzfeed memo, claiming the head of the intelligence
published the entire 35-page document in January 2017, panel has “abused the office of the
shortly before Trump took office. The news site has since chairmanship.”
been sued by “It really underscores just how partisan Mr.
Nunes has been,” Brennan said.
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Former Secret Service Agent: Adam Schiff Is A Snake!
He’s The Biggest Fraud On Capitol Hill (Video)
By Jim Hoft
February 12, 2018, 7:47 Am
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino joined FOX and “Oh, I didn’t know who commissioned the
Friends on Monday morning to discuss the latest in the dossier. Which is amazing! Because the
Obamagate Trump spying scandal. CIA has a central role in the verification of
foreign assets and information we get from
Bongino told the morning hosts that former CIA Director foreign assets. It is not plausibly deniable
John Brennan is “in a world of trouble” for lying under that John Brennan did not know who
oath to Congress about the Russia dossier. commissioned that dossier. He’s in a world
of trouble because he raised his right hand
and he said the exact opposite… Jim
Dan Bongino then clubbed hyper-partisan hack Adam
Clapper is knee deep in this as well…
Schiff,
Steve Doocy:
“A snake. He’s the biggest fraud on
Capitol Hill right now!”
So Dan ultimately people like Adam Schiff,
the Democrat from California, is he doing
his best to keep all this from coming out or
is he just playing the loyal opposition.
Dan Bongino:
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NBC News Hires War Criminal John Brennan
By Stephen Lendman - Stephenlendman.Org
2-12-2018
Brennan is a deplorable figure, a longtime imperial spear president, the way banana republics operate, rogue state
carrier, most recently serving as Bush/Cheney’s America worse than any around.
counterintelligence director, then Obama’s homeland
security advisor and CIA director. Brennan reflects the worst of imperial lawlessness, a war
criminal, a Russophobic/Islamophobic rogue actor,
He was involved in torture and abuse at Guantanamo and involved in cooking up phony accusations of Russian US
other US torture prisons. election meddling, a serial liar, a threat to world peace -
splendid credentials for an NBC News talking head
He was Obama’s Murder, Inc. administrator, chairing a contributor.
panel of National Security Council officials, along with
others from the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, and State He earlier lied to NBC about CIA attempts to muzzle a
Department, waging US war OF terror at home and Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the
abroad, deciding who lives or dies, chosen victims a agency’s use of torture on his watch.
closely held secret, Trump continuing the same dirty
scheme. Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press in his new capacity,
he slammed Devin Nunes, accusing him of bias to protect
Anyone can be targeted anywhere in the world. Ordinary Trump for preparing his memo detailing Russiagate FISA
people, distinguished ones, or officials are fair game. Their abuses - information Brennan wants suppressed.
crime is opposing US imperialism.
US cable and broadcast news organizations employ a
Drone wars are prioritized. Human lives don’t matter. rogue’s gallery of former government officials and
Rule of law principles are spurned. Summary judgment Pentagon commanders - hired to deceive, not inform
overrides them. viewers, reporting the official narrative, suppressing hard
truths important for everyone to know.
Obama usurped diktat authority. He appointed himself
judge, jury and executioner. He and Brennan met NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, CNN, and MSNBC employ an army
regularly, plotting to assassinate US enemies. of paid liars - their own reporters, along with former
government, military and imperial think tank
Names went on a kill list called America’s “disposition commentators to keep the public uninformed about high
matrix,” Brennan in charge of global assassinations, crimes of state.
making him an ideal CIA director choice.
The only way to stay informed is by following reliable
Russiagate is a cooked up Brennan scheme, complicit alternative sources of news and information - featuring
with Obama and Hillary to delegitimize Trump, trying to what media scoundrels suppress.
prevent his election, aiming to remove him from office .
once in power, plotting a coup d’etat against a sitting
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Immigration Expert Kris Kobach:
If President Gets His Four Requirements He Should Feel
Comfortable Signing Bill (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 12, 2018, 8:23 Am
Mitch McConnell and Republican that is very good based on what they’re
senators will introduce bill this week for talking about right now. Look, the president
a path to citizenship for 1.8 million set down a very clear marker saying, ‘If you
Dreamers Monday. want this amnesty for DACA recipients, you
have to give the American people the wall.
President Trump announced his You have to get rid of the visa lottery, you
requirements for the immigration bill have to get rid of chain migration.” And I
this morning. would add one more thing that’s in the
Goodlatte bill on the House side, you have
to give us E-verify.
If that’s the term of the deal then the
president should feel comfortable
signing it.
Kris Kobach:
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Health Ranger: If Hillary Is Arrested,
The Left Will VIOLENTLY Revolt!
Mac Slavo
February 12th, 2018
Adams admits that this may take months, if not a few years
before all of the information comes out. “Fact-finding” is
slow in Washington, as to be expected with never-ending
bureaucratic red tape in the way, but the wheels are
Mike Adams, commonly known as the Health Ranger, has grinding. But what happens when Hillary Clinton gets
sounded the alarm that we should prepare for violent civil indicted?
unrest. Should Hillary Clinton ever be arrested for her
crimes against the United States, Adams says the left will This is where the riots and uprisings
launch a violent uprising. come into play. At that point, the left
goes nuts! Because you’ve got to
Adams has been at the forefront of the political scandal remember these brainwashed left-wing
surrounding democrats for some time. He’s been decently feminists, mostly,
accurate when predicting which moves the left will make
next. Now he wants everyone to be aware of what he says they love Hillary Clinton. They think she’s an angel. Oh,
will happen in the event of Hillary Clinton’s arrest. A my god, they think she is the most honest, upstanding,
couple of months ago, Adams reported on contractors ethical person. They have no idea she’s a murderer – that
being told to brace for a domestic deployment. He now they ordered executions of people like Vince Foster-when
believes he understands why these people were put on I say they, I mean Bill and Hillary Clinton. These
alert. sycophants have no idea what Hillary Clinton really is in
terms of a mafia boss, and committing felony crimes and
lying and covering thing up and having people killed at
Benghazi.
And then they all parroted the Democrat talking points that
the information was “cherry-picked.”
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An Open Letter To
Robert De Niro From A Conservative Fan
'I Was So Disappointed To Hear About Your Most Recent Comments
About President Donald Trump ... Moral Preening Doesn't Suit You'
By Lee Habeeb
Updated 12 Feb 2018 At 10:02 AM
That scene in the hotel room where you are talking to yourself in
front of a mirror was captivating. Watching you playing a
character trying to become a character in his own real-life drama
Dear Mr. De Niro, was something I’d never seen on the screen.
I’ve been a fan since I first saw you in “Mean Streets.” It was It was odd. It was ominous. You in your Marine Corp regalia, a
clear you were destined for greatness. You were not like any contraption strapped to your arm to prepare for a showdown or
actor I’d ever seen before. You had movie-star looks. But it was duel. Talking to the poor imaginary person about to get shot. And
your intelligence that drew us in. And your ability to make then you arrived out of nowhere in that Mohawk. That’s when we
unlikable — and sometimes tortured — characters more fully knew something bad was about to happen. It did.
human. It was your depth and range of emotion that stood out …
your ability to make complex alpha-male characters fully human. The arc of your performance was a thing to behold. You showed
us something human in Travis. The darkness and anger. But a
You had remarkable empathetic powers. And empathy is what more vulnerable side, too. Especially in the scenes where you
acting is all about. Actors don’t judge the characters they play. protected a young prostitute — played by Jodie Foster — from
They become them. her brutal pimp. She was broken. She was vulnerable. But you
never took advantage of her.
And what characters you became: Bruce Pearson in “Bang the
Drum Slowly,” Vito Corleone in “The Godfather,” Jimmy Doyle in You won your first Oscar nomination for that performance. And
“New York, New York,” Father Spellacy in “True Confessions,” you won your first Oscar four years later in 1981 for your work in
Rodrigo Mendoza in “The Mission,” Al Capone in “The “Raging Bull.” The physical nature of the part was astounding.
Untouchables,” Rupert Pupkin in “King of Comedy,” Jimmy How you got your body to do what it did — morphing from a
Conway in “Goodfellas,” Leonard Lowe in “Awakenings,” Neal muscular athlete with a dancer’s agility and a linebacker’s power
McCauley in “Heat,” Jack Tiberius Byrnes in “Meet the Parents” to an overweight, over-the-hill stand-up comic — may be the
— and my favorite, Lorenzo Anello in “A Bronx Tale.” greatest physical feat ever performed in movies.
You played mobsters, a catatonic patient, a retired CIA agent, a It was matched by an equally powerful emotional performance.
comedian, a corrupt priest, a boxer, a thief, a soldier, an intern, a Your alpha male Italian-American prizefighter goes from a
bounty hunter, a baseball player, a saxophone player, a bus damaged young man filled with rage, to a tragic old man filled
driver, and a taxi driver. with regret. You were angry and sad, uncontrollable and out of
control, a lonely soul who couldn’t understand himself, let alone
The flaws in your characters were never burnished, because you trust another human being. You harbored deep and contradictory
know all of us have flaws, and they can’t be separated from our convictions about women: You saw them as divine until they
virtues. There is, in every character you played, a part of come into contact with real life, at which point they became
yourself. A part of us all. sullied, no better than a prostitute. We watched you grow older,
but not wiser. Watched you lose everything, ending up in jail for
consorting with underaged women. We watched your struggle
In what is arguably your best performance, you brought Travis with sin. With your own demons. You never seemed quite able to
Bickle to life in “Taxi Driver.” You somehow knew his story and conquer them.
lived it. He was a Marine Corps veteran who had trouble
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In the movie’s powerful final scene, there you were in a white What you failed to appreciate was this about the millions of fans
tuxedo, rehearsing the “I Could Have Been a Contender” speech you insulted with your rants: They may not have liked Donald
from “on The Waterfront” in front a mirror, all alone. You were Trump, but they voted for him anyway. Because sometimes,
psyching yourself up, but this time not in preparation for a fight, people we don't like — people who offend our sensibilities — are
but for your tragic stand-up act. very good at their jobs. Like the character the actress you were
honoring in New York, Meryl Streep, so capably brought to life a
Then came the title cards as the scene faded to black: few years ago.
So for the second time, [the Pharisees] summoned the man who It was Amanda Priestly in "The Devil Wears Prada," and Streep
had been blind and said: “Speak the truth before God. We know knocked it out of the park. Could that character have become a
this fellow is a sinner.” force in her industry by being anyone but the tough — even cruel
— person she was? That's what made Streep's performance
great. She didn't judge Amanda. She played her.
“Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know,” the man replied.
“All I know is this: Once I was blind and now I can see.”
Could it be that Donald Trump has similar strengths and flaws?
And might he end up being an effective leader, too? And could it
I’ll never forget sitting in the theater as the credits rolled. I
be that the people who voted for him saw what you just couldn't
couldn’t move. I was in tears. Though I was a much younger,
see? And they aren't "backward" at all?
much different man than LaMotta, you made me feel his pain.
And my own pain, too.
Your rant also lacked courage. You didn't challenge your peers:
They didn't boo or hiss you. We know why. They all agree with
That’s the thing about art. It challenges us. It surprises us. And it
you. That's not courage, what you said. It's moral preening. And
reveals the contradictions and convulsions within us all. It may be
preening doesn't suit you.
your crowning achievement that so many of your performances
did those things.
I expected more from you. Especially from the guy who played
Mike Vronsky in "The Deer Hunter," a movie that was as much
That’s why I was so disappointed to hear your comments about
about character as it was about place. And not just any place, but
President Donald Trump this past month. Disappointed because
a small working-class steel town on the Monongahela River
your comments were rude. And lacked your characteristic
south of Pittsburgh.
courage. The courage to surprise us. And yourself.
They may not have cared for Trump's egotism or his style. But
they voted for him because he promised to fight for them. And
Trump, like him or not, has done that.
Let's start with why the comments were rude. In what may have been the best movie of the past two years,
"Hell or High Water," Jeff Bridges plays an old Texas Ranger
"This f***ing idiot is the president," you told the crowd at the who teases his fellow Texas Ranger incessantly about his half-
National Board of Review's 2018 awards at the swank midtown Comanche, half-Mexican heritage. It would be easy to write the
Manhattan restaurant Cipriani. The crowd roared in approval. But Bridges character off as a racist or bigot. But in the end, we learn
you weren't finished. "It's The Emperor's New Clothes. The guy is that he loved his partner, and was willing to die for him.
a f***ing fool. Come on." You then went on to call the president
— America's president — the "jerk-off in chief." That's what art does. It surprises us. Inspires us. Even heals us.
Then you did it again this past weekend, this time at a World That's why your rants were so disappointing. They were rude.
Government Summit in Dubai, where you had this to say about They lacked courage. And they weren't edgy. They were obvious.
not only our president, but the nation: I'd expect such crude rants from Rosie O'Donnell or Kathy Griffin
— but you?
I am talking about my own country, the United States of America.
We don't like to say we are a 'backward' country, so let's just say
we are suffering from a case of temporary insanity.
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Worst of all, the empathetic powers you so generously deploy You still hold a special place in my heart. Which is why I'll give
with the fictional characters you play was not extended to millions you a pass for now. Because I believe in art's power to reveal the
of real-life Americans, President Trump included, who see life things not that divide us, but that bring us together.
differently than you. That Trump is a complicated alpha male —
your calling card and specialty — only makes your caricature of From a fan for life, no matter what your political views,
the man, and your commentary, that much more disappointing.
Lee Habeeb
You failed your own standards as an actor. And this is one case
where you can't blame the writer. This letter has been sent to DeNiro's agent. The author
anxiously awaits a response. He isn't holding his breath.
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AWFUL. NBC Political Analyst: ‘Trump Has Become The
Commander In Chief Of American Rape Culture’
(VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 12, 2018, 9:29 Am
On Sunday, NBC political analyst Anand Leftie hack Anand Giridharadas accused President Trump
Giridharadas appeared on “AM Joy” of being Commmander in Chief of a rape culture.
with Joy Reid to discuss the recent
White House shakeups. This is today’s Democrat Party.
Last week White House staff secretary Rob Porter stepped These are the same people who defended Bill Clinton –
down after his former wife alleged he was abusive during who actually was accused of rape and was forced to pay
their marriage. And White House speechwriter David thousands to at least one woman he sexually abused.
Sorensen also resigned after a former wife alleged he was
abusive during their marriage. Both men denied the
Via IJR:
charges.
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Democrat: Trump Should
Resign Or Congress Should Take Action
Mac Slavo
February 12th, 2018
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BOOM! Judicial Watch President:
CIA Laundered Clinton-DNC Dossier Into White House
Intel Briefing – It’s Time To Question Obama
By Jim Hoft
February 12, 2018, 10:39 Am
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Eric Holder Lashes Out At Trump Administration Over
Election Hacking Hoax – Twitter Responds
By Cristina Laila
February 12, 2018, 12:10 Pm
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BREAKING: Suspicious Letter With White Powdery
Substance Sent To NYC Apartment Of Don Jr’s Wife –
VANESSA TRUMP HOSPITALIZED
By Cristina Laila
February 12, 2018, 12:28 Pm
NBC New York reported: After the letter was opened, three people at the residence
were taken to New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell
Medical Center strictly as a precaution, the New York City
A letter containing an unidentified Fire Department said.
substance addressed to Donald Trump Jr.
was sent to a Manhattan apartment
building unit that belongs to Trump Jr.’s There is no indication anyone suffered any injuries and no
wife, Vanessa, the president’s daughter-in- sign that the substance was a hazardous material or a
law, multiple senior law enforcement biological agent.
officials and city officials tell News 4 and
NBC News. Story developing…
The letter mailed to the East 54th Street
apartment was opened Monday morning
and contained some sort of substance,
.
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Evil Liberals Mock Vanessa Trump For Being Hospitalized
After Letter With Powdery Substance Sent
To Her NYC Apartment
By Cristina Laila
February 12, 2018, 1:11 Pm
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Featured photo via NBC News.
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Former Chief Asst. U.S. Attorney: Entire Media Missing
Most Important Point About Steele Dossier (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 12, 2018, 1:37 Pm
Former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney because it certainly appears that the
and National Review columnist Andrew Justice Department and the FBI concealed
C. McCarthy joined “Fox & Friends,” major courts of his bias. Simply the fact
Monday morning and explained why the that he was working for the opposition
media is missing the most important campaign is something that clearly should
point about the Steele dossier. have been disclosed. But, that’s not the
principle problem with his work product.
The principle problem with the dossier is
that courts don’t care what the investigative
agent’s credibility is. What they want to
know is the sources of the factual
information that you are asking me the
judge to grant a warrant based on to say
there’s probable cause on. I need to know
that those sources are believable. You
gotta give me something that tells me why I
should credit them. The real problem with
the dossier is that the sources are these
Credit: Maureen Dowling anonymous Russians who are often 3-4-
5 steps removed in terms of hearsay
Listen closely to the exchange between Fox News from the things that they claim to have
host Steve Doocy and McCarthy. seen […] Steele himself has been to
Russia in 20-years.”
Doocy:
McCarthy’s comments should come as concerning as
Steele told a UK court that the dossier contains “limited
“Ultimately what the Graham-Grassley
intelligence.”
criminal referral memo, what it does, is it
verifies much of what was in Devin Nunes’
memo that was released about ten days Steele also admitted part of “his final December memo,”
ago, Andy. But then you look at the was unvetted.
Christopher Steele dossier, ultimately the
Nunes memo has been verified a thousand “Such intelligence was not actively sought;
times you write in National Review Online – it was merely received,” Steele added.
a thousand times more than the Steele
dossier.” The dossier contains explosive, but unverified, opposition
research that alleges intel ties between Russia and Trump
McCarthy: and also claims Russia holds blackmail material over
Trump.
“Yeah, see this is the big problem. We
spend a lot of time talking about Steele’s
credibility and it’s certainly worth doing that
.
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President Trump Releases $1.5 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
Alongside “Partners At The State, Local,
Tribal, And Private Level”
By Lucian Wintrich
February 12, 2018, 2:01 Pm
o This empowers States and localities to o Create two new pilot programs to test
make more infrastructure investment new ways to improve the environmental
decisions and prioritize projects based on review process.
the needs of their communities
INVEST IN OUR COUNTRY’S MOST IMPORTANT
· The plan will expand processes that ASSET – ITS PEOPLE: The President is proposing
allow environmental review and permitting reforms so Americans secure good-paying jobs and meet
decisions to be delegated to States. the needs of our industries.
· The plan will also allow Federal
agencies to divest assets that can be better The President’s plan would reform Federal education and
managed by State or local governments or workforce development programs to better prepare Americans to
the private sector. perform the in-demand jobs of today and the future. This
includes:
ELIMINATE REGULATORY BARRIERS: The
President’s plan would eliminate barriers that prevent o Making high-quality, short-term
virtually all infrastructure projects from being efficiently programs that provide students with a
developed and managed. certification or credential in an in-demand
field eligible for Pell Grants.
· The President’s plan will: o Reforming the Perkins Career and
o Provide more flexibility to transportation Technical Education Program to ensure
projects that have minimal Federal funding more students have access to high-quality
but are currently required to seek Federal technical education to develop the skills
review and approval. required in today’s economy.
o Incentivize the efficient development o Better targeting Federal Work-Study
and management of water infrastructure, in funds to help more students obtain
part, by providing more flexibility to the U.S. important workplace experience, including
Army Corps of Engineers and its partners. through apprenticeships.
.
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Ex-Secret Service Agent Reveals John Brennan
‘In A World Of Trouble’ Over Dossier Testimony
By Joshua Caplan
February 12, 2018, 2:33 Pm
Former Secret Service agent Dan “The CIA has a central role in the
Bongino joined “Fox & Friends,” verification of foreign assets and
Monday morning, warning former CIA information we get from foreign assets,”
Director John Brennan is in a “world of Bongino said. “It is not plausibly deniable
trouble right now,” over his testimony that John Brennan did not know who
on the dubious Steele dossier. commissioned that dossier he is in a world
of trouble because he raised his right hand
and he said the exact opposite.”
Newsmax reports:
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DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison Said He Never Met With
Louis Farrakhan – THEN THIS VIDEO WAS
RELEASED!
By Jim Hoft
February 12, 2018, 2:35 Pm
Here are a few of his best hits from the past year, via the
RNC:
Rep. Ellison and fellow Democrat Gregory Meeks had (The video has been up for years but only has 224 views.)
dinner with Louis Farrakhan and Iranian leader Hassan
Rouhani in 2013.
Neither option is good. Ellison truly is the face of the new DNC.
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REVEALED: ANOTHER Top Mueller Investigator
OUTED As Diehard Liberal & Democrat Donor
By Joshua Caplan
February 12, 2018, 3:17 Pm
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Breaking: Grassley Uncovers Bizarre Email
Susan Rice Sent Herself On Trump’s Inauguration Day
By Cristina Laila
February 12, 2018, 3:31 Pm
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck “It strikes us as odd that, among your
Grassley uncovered an unusual email activities in the final moments on the final
former NatSec Advisor to Barack day of the Obama administration, you
Obama, Susan Rice sent herself on would feel the need to send yourself such
January 20th 2017–Donald Trump’s an unusual email purporting to document a
inauguration day. conversation involving President Obama
and his interactions with the FBI regarding
the Trump/Russia investigation. In
addition, despite your claim that President
Obama repeatedly told Mr. Comey to
proceed ‘by the book,’ substantial
questions have arisen about whether
officials at the FBI, as well as at the Justice
Department and the State Department,
actually did proceed ‘by the book.’”
Ambassador Rice appears to have used 2. When did you first become aware of the FBI’s
this email to document a January 5, 2017 investigation into allegations of collusion between Mr.
Oval Office meeting between President Trump’s associates and Russia?
Obama, former FBI Director James Comey
and former Deputy Attorney General Sally 3. When did you become aware of any surveillance
Yates regarding Russian interference in the activities, including FISA applications, undertaken by
2016 Presidential election. the FBI in conducting that investigation? At the time
you wrote this email to yourself, were you aware of
In particular, Ambassador Rice wrote: either the October 2016 FISA application for
surveillance of Carter Page or the January 2017
“President Obama began the conversation renewal?
by stressing his continued commitment to
ensuring that every aspect of this issue is 4. Did anyone instruct, request, suggest, or imply that you
handled by the Intelligence and law should send yourself the aforementioned Inauguration
enforcement communities ‘by the book’. Day email memorializing President Obama’s meeting
The President stressed that he is not with Mr. Comey about the Trump/Russia investigation?
asking about, initiating or instructing If so, who and why?
anything from a law enforcement
perspective. He reiterated that our law 5. Is the account of the January 5, 2017 meeting
enforcement team needs to proceed as it presented in your email accurate? Did you omit any
normally would by the book.” other portions of the conversation?
Grassley said in a letter to Susan Rice: 6. Other than that email, did you document the January 5,
2017 meeting in any way, such as contemporaneous
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notes or a formal memo? To the best of your a law enforcement perspective.” Did President Obama
knowledge, did anyone else at that meeting take notes ask about, initiate, or instruct anything from any other
or otherwise memorialize the meeting? perspective relating to the FBI’s investigation?
7. During the meeting, did Mr. Comey or Ms. Yates 12. Did President Obama have any other meetings with Mr.
mention potential press coverage of the Steele Comey, Ms. Yates, or other government officials about
dossier? If so, what did they say? the FBI’s investigation of allegations of collusion
between Trump associates and Russia? If so, when
8. During the meeting, did Mr. Comey describe the status did these occur, who participated, and what was
of the FBI’s relationship with Mr. Steele, or the basis for discussed?
that status?
10. When and how did you first become aware that the
Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National
Committee funded Mr. Steele’s efforts?
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Donald Trump Jr. Breaks Silence After Wife Hospitalized
Over Suspicious Letter Mailed To Apartment
By Joshua Caplan
February 12, 2018, 3:34 Pm
378
Mysterious Insider Could Hold The Key That Brings The
Whole Russian House Of Cards Down On Obama &
Clinton Minions In The Intelligence Community
By Susan Duclos - All News Pipeline
February 12, 2018
A White House Memo article on Monday This puts Brennan right in the crosshairs for perjury, as in
about President Trump’s deflections and May 2017, he specifically testified under oath to Congress
denials about Russia referred incorrectly that he did not know who commissioned the Steele dossier
to the source of an intelligence assessment (Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC), and that he had
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"no awareness," of the FBI relying on the Steele dossier What a coincidence that all three agencies that concluded
for any court filings or applications (the FISA warrants to based on their "assessment" that Russia carried out a media
surveil Carter Page). Brennan also claimed the CIA did not campaign to favor Donald Trump, then began the
rely on the dossier and that it was not used in the investigation into Trump colluding with Russia, have all
Intelligence Community Assessment. now been engulfed in their own Russia scandals.
ANOTHER COINCIDENCE!
BOTTOM LINE
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Susan Rice Memo Implicates Obama, The DOJ And FBI In
Spying On Opposition Candidate Trump – Using Dirty
FISA Warrants
By Jim Hoft
February 12, 2018, 4:21 Pm
The Obama administration used dirty FISA warrants based Via After the Bell:
on DNC opposition research to spy on the Republican
candidate and his entire team during the 2016 election and
transition period.
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Ex-Prosecutor Reveals REAL REASON Schiff Memo
Blocked: People At FBI & DOJ Are Under
“CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION”
By Joshua Caplan
February 12, 2018, 4:53 Pm
The Trump administration announced they could not agree to the publication of
last week that they would not release the Schiff memo because it contained
the Schiff memo unless national national security and law enforcement
security and law enforcement concerns concerns. It was actually the FBI and the
were met. Department of Justice says no [to releasing
the memo]. The most important part of that
letter is when it says… law enforcement
concerns. What does that mean?
It means, that there is a criminal
investigation underway and release of
some of the information in the memo by
Mr. Schiff will affect that criminal
investigation. I wonder who they are
investigating? And the answer is pretty
clear. They are investigating the people at
the FBI and the DOJ who provided false
information to the FISA court over a
number of years, including, involving Carter
“Trump will not approve of releasing Dem memo, per
Page.”
person with knowledge. Instead, he will tell legislators that
memo needs changes before it could be released,” reported
the Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey.
DIGENOVA:
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Here’s How Democrats Are Undermining
Our National Security Just To ‘Get Trump’
By J. D. Heyes, Editor-In-Chief
Posted On February 12, 2018
But on Saturday the Times published one of the most The paper also noted this very early in the story:
balanced reports involving the president and the subject of
Russian espionage that I’ve seen in quite some time. And Several American intelligence officials said
in doing so, the paper made it clear that the Democrats’ they made clear that they did not want the
never-ending narrative that Trump “colluded with Russia” Trump material from the Russian, who was
to “steal the election” from Hillary Clinton is not only suspected of having murky ties to Russian
undermining his presidency putting our national security at intelligence and to Eastern European
risk. cybercriminals. He claimed the information
would link the president and his associates
The Times reported that U.S. intelligence agents spent to Russia. Instead of providing the hacking
several months last year cultivating a Russian source who tools, the Russian produced unverified and
claimed he had in his possession stolen cyberweapons possibly fabricated information involving
developed by the National Security Agency for use in Mr. Trump and others, including bank
penetrating Russian, Chinese, Iranian, North Korean and records, emails and purported Russian
other countries’ strategic computer systems. Following a intelligence data.
15-month investigation, NSA officials said they believe
that Russia was behind the theft.
Fair enough. But then, in the very next paragraph, the
After some months, U.S. spies were essentially bilked out Times reported:
of $100,000 by the shadowy Russian figure who not only
promised the stolen NSA cyber weapons but The United States intelligence officials said
they cut off the deal because they were
“also…compromising material on President wary of being entangled in a Russian
Trump, according to American and operation to create discord inside the
European intelligence officials.” American government. They were also
fearful of political fallout in Washington
(Related: Russian operative CASHED IN with US spy if they were seen to be buying scurrilous
agencies; $100K payday after promises to deliver information on the president.
cyberweapons and TRUMP DIRT.)
There’s more. Later in the story the Times detailed some of
At this point, I was tempted to stop reading the story the alleged “evidence” the Russian operative said he had,
because I thought, noting each time that a) U.S. intelligence officials did not
believe it to be valid; and b) that they were highly
suspicious of the “evidence” in the first place, based in no
“Here we go again; the same ‘trumped’ up
small part on the fact that nothing could be verified and
‘Russian collusion’ charges but with a new
they were more interested by far in retrieving the stolen
twist.” But I was in for a surprise.
cyber weapons.
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But here’s where it gets interesting. The Times then In other words, Russian intelligence agencies are using the
reported: Democrats’ false ‘collusion’ narrative to further inflame
partisan tensions that lead to a distrust of our political
American intelligence agencies believe that system and institutions, which resolutely is a threat to
Russia’s spy services see the deep social stability and, as a result, our national security.
political divisions in the United States
as a fresh opportunity to inflame Democrats are doing this, not
partisan tensions. Russian hackers are Republicans.
targeting American voting databases ahead
of the midterm election this year, they said, And the Russians are using the Democrats’ fake narrative
and using bot armies to promote partisan to weaken our social and political trust.
causes on social media. The Russians are
also particularly eager to cast doubt on
the federal and congressional That’s why Robert Mueller’s “collusion”
investigations into the Russian investigation has to end, and why the
meddling, American intelligence officials various congressional committees
said. investigating the same thing must
publicly announce they’ve completed
Part of that effort, the officials said, their probes and no such collusion
appears to be trying to spread evidence has been found (because it
information that hews closely to never existed).
unsubstantiated reports about Mr.
Trump’s dealings in Russia.
.
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LEAK: Loretta Lynch, James Comey & Andrew McCabe
In HOT SEAT As IG Investigation Nears End
By Joshua Caplan
February 12, 2018, 5:43 Pm
Fox News contributor Sara Carter “I have been told tonight by a number of
reports Justice Department Inspector sources … that McCabe may have asked
General Michael Horowitz will wrap up FBI agents to actually change their
his investigation into the handling of the 302s,” Carter told host Sean Hannity.
FBI’s Hillary Clinton email investigation
next month. The 302 form contains information from the notes an FBI
Carter reveals the probe includes agent takes during an interview of a subject. It is used by
interviews with former top and current FBI agents to
FBI and Justice Department officials.
“report or summarize the interviews that
they conduct.”
“So basically every time an FBI agent
interviews a witness, they have to go
back and file a report,”Carter explained.
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Is Rosenstein’s Firing Imminent?
Number 3 At DOJ Quit Over Fear She May Be Asked To
Oversee Russia Witch Hunt
By Cristina Laila
February 12, 2018, 6:05 Pm
390
Mueller Hired Yet ANOTHER Democrat
Lawyer And Former Writer For Alt-Left HUFFPO
Posted On February 12, 2018
391
REPORT: Dirty Cop Comey Told Lawmakers General
Michael Flynn DID NOT Lie Under Oath
By Jim Hoft
February 12, 2018, 6:20 Pm
392
Ex-Secret Service Agent Drops Cryptic Tweet About
Hillary Clinton ‘Gatekeeper’ Philippe Reines
By Joshua Caplan
February 12, 2018, 7:05 Pm
Did former Secret Service agent Dan Hillary Clinton’s longtime gatekeeper
Bongino just drop a clue about who is Philippe Reines is no longer just a
next to be implicated in the Steele freelancing critic of the Trump
dossier saga? administration: he has quit his day job to
devote himself full-time to excoriating the
president and his top aides.
POLITICO reported:
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Outgoing Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) In a letter released earlier this month, Senators Chuck
strongly implied to Fox News host Martha MacCallum that Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested
Clinton confidant, Blumenthal, was a source for Clinton contacts fed information to former British spy and
Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier. dossier author Christopher Steele. “Another connection to
the second dossier, according to several sources who spoke
to this reporter, is close friend and advisor to Hillary
Clinton, Sidney Blumenthal,” reported Sara Carter.
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Trump BOOM: Americans Expecting Biggest Pay Raise In
Years As Govt. Runs SURPLUS In
First Month Of Tax Cuts
Posted On February 13, 2018
As reported by Bloomberg Businessweek, Americans are Six of the 10 components that make up the
expressing more optimism about wage growth than they small-business optimism index increased in
have in years. Consumers expect earnings to jump some January, producing one of the strongest
2.73 percent in 2018, the most since data collection began readings in the 45-year history of the
in 2013, according to a New York Fed survey released survey. The figures show sustained, sturdy
Monday and conducting in January. business sentiment since the November
2016 election. A measure of plans to boost
Last month was just the third in the survey’s 56-month capital spending in coming months
history in which wage-growth expectations surpassed increased by 2 points to 29 percent,
consumer price inflation, which fell slightly to 2.71 consistent with other data indicating robust
percent. outlays for equipment. One in five small
companies said they plan to boost hiring,
unchanged from the prior month, as finding
Meanwhile, the tax cuts are also having another not- qualified workers remains problematic and
wholly-unexpected impact: The federal government ran a underscores a tight job market.
surplus in January, having collected more in taxes than it
spent.
Tighter job markets tend to translate into higher wages as
employers compete for quality workers.
.
395
Sarah Sanders TORCHES Liberal Press Pool ‘Look
Around This Room, You’re The Ones Who Publish
Classified Information’ (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 12, 2018, 7:29 Pm
Fearless warrior Sarah Huckabee “Are high level aides allowed to work with
Sanders torched the liberal press pool classified information without permanent
on Monday after they showed faux security clearances?” a reporter asked.
outrage over which White House aides
have security clearance. Sarah Sanders explained to the reporter the FBI and
Intelligence community determine who gets a security
All of a sudden the liberal media is concerned about White clearance; the White House doesn’t decide.
House leaks?
The liberal reporter pushed back asking Sarah Sanders if
she could guarantee the White House is protecting
classified information from someone like Rob Porter, who
doesn’t have a permanent security clearance.
396
What’s Next Now That The FISC 99-Page
Document Is Getting More Attention?
By Catherine J. Frompovich
February 12, 2018
397
Judge Napolitano: Susan Rice Email Likely Sent To Cover-
Up Obama Role In Plot To Sabotage Trump (VIDEO)
By Joshua Caplan
February 12, 2018, 7:49 Pm
Judge Napolitano joined Fox News In a letter published Monday, Senate Judiciary Chairman
host Martha MacCallum Monday night, Charles Grassley (R-IA) says he uncovered an bizarre
suggesting the bizarre email Obama email that Rice sent herself on January 20th 2017, the
National Security Advisor Susan Rice same day President Trump was Inaugurated.
sent to herself was done in an effort to
cover-up her former boss’s role in the
plot to sabotage President Trump.
398
Fitton: Obama Was Given The ‘Russian Dossier;’ — ‘What
Did HE Know And When Did He Know It?’ (Video)
Posted On February 13, 2018
399
PAPER: Former FBI Agent & Obama Cybersecurity
Official On ‘Secret Mission’ To Verify Junk Steele Dossier
By Joshua Caplan
February 12, 2018, 8:44 Pm
A year after BuzzFeed published the Forensic Technologies International (FTI) consulting
now discredited Steele dossier, the reports Foreign Policy.
news outlet that got its start churning
out zany listicles, is on a ‘secret At FTI, Ferrante launched what’s now been a months-long
mission,’ to verify it. stealth effort chasing down documents and conducting
interviews on the ground in various countries around the
world.
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renewals of the surveillance warrant and The Senate Judiciary Committee’s criminal referral of
didn’t say to the court look things have Steele states the former British intelligence agent misled
changed, we no longer think he’s reliable– the bureau about his connections to Yahoo News and
he lied to us and spoke to the media,” Mother Jones, despite initially claiming he had no contact
reported Henry. with the media.
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Washington Post, CNN, NPR, PBS All
Praise Murderous North Korea And
Its Slave State Leaders
By Mike Adams
Monday, February 12, 2018
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millions, and is in reality a massive prison camp Driven by the statist impulses that animate too many
disguised as a country. on the political left, and their own seething hatred for
everyone on the political right, our media has always
Oh, and North Korea kills Americans … slowly … they been willing to idealize and homogenize the enemy of
die soon after they are returned home. their enemy (conservatives) — even if that enemy
engages in mass-slaughter and refuses even basic
humans rights to billions.
No one should have to explain to anyone with
anything approaching moral literacy why there is no
difference between North Korea and the Nazis — What you will see below is 100 percent real. Because
except for the tragic fact that communist North Korea this stuff is so shocking and amoral, we double-
has existed about 50 years longer than the socialist checked to ensure no forgeries slipped through. Oddly
Third Reich. enough, there are plenty of forgeries flying around on
social media, but none of that satire could top the
grotesquerie of our media’s actual propaganda in
More than anything else, though, in order to sustain
favor of North Korea.
their statist terror, what these murderous regimes
count on is propaganda, and not just internal
propaganda, but the complicity of western media As you will also see below, much of the media’s
outlets to put a shiny, happy face on their gangsterism collusion with North Korean is driven by this disgraced
— to normalize, even glamorize them. institution’s uncontrollable hatred of President Trump,
his daughter Ivanka, Vice President Pence, and
America itself.
Throughout our own history, the American media have
all-too often done exactly that. Monstrous tyrants such
as Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Mao Finally, keep in mind that King Jong Un’s sister runs
Tse-tung, Yasser Arafat, and Ho Chi Minh, have all concentrations camp, that those North Korean
enjoyed rock star coverage from our media. cheerleaders are all slaves, and that this is exactly the
kind of coverage this evil regime was hoping for…
403
Hannity: Russia Is Currently Working To Shop Out At
Least Four More Anti-Trump Reports To Deep State
Operatives (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 12, 2018, 8:59 Pm
404
The Next Shoe To Drop?… Ex-Secret Service Agent Hints
Andrew McCabe Was Caught Mishandling
Classified Information
By Joshua Caplan
February 12, 2018, 9:10 Pm
Former Secret Service agent Dan “report or summarize the interviews that
Bongino hinted to his nearly 320,000- they conduct.”
strong Twitter followers that the next
“So basically every time an FBI agent
bombshell to drop could involve former interviews a witness, they have to go
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s
back and file a report,”Carter explained.
mishandling of classified information.
Hannity pointed out that, if true, it would constitute a case
of obstruction of justice, and Carter agreed. She said the
matter was being investigated by FBI Inspector General
Michael Horowitz.
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Here’s Proof That The Democrats Are HELPING Russia
Undermine Our Political System And National Security
Just To “Get Trump”
By JD Heyes
Monday, February 12, 2018
After some months, U.S. spies were essentially bilked out Fair enough. But then, in the very next paragraph, the
of $100,000 by the shadowy Russian figure who not only Times reported:
promised the stolen NSA cyber weapons but
The United States intelligence officials said
they cut off the deal because they were
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wary of being entangled in a Russian also particularly eager to cast doubt on
operation to create discord inside the the federal and congressional
American government. They were also investigations into the Russian
fearful of political fallout in Washington meddling, American intelligence officials
if they were seen to be buying scurrilous said.
information on the president.
Part of that effort, the officials said,
appears to be trying to spread
There’s more. Later in the story the Times detailed some of information that hews closely to
the alleged “evidence” the Russian operative said he had, unsubstantiated reports about Mr.
noting each time that a) U.S. intelligence officials did not Trump’s dealings in Russia.
believe it to be valid; and b) that they were highly
suspicious of the “evidence” in the first place, based in no In other words, Russian intelligence agencies are using the
small part on the fact that nothing could be verified and Democrats’ false ‘collusion’ narrative to further inflame
they were more interested by far in retrieving the stolen partisan tensions that lead to a distrust of our political
cyber weapons. system and institutions, which resolutely is a threat to
social stability and, as a result, our national security.
But here’s where it gets interesting. The Times then
reported: Democrats are doing this, not Republicans. And the
Russians are using the Democrats’ fake narrative to
American intelligence agencies believe that weaken our social and political trust.
Russia’s spy services see the deep
political divisions in the United States That’s why Robert Mueller’s “collusion”
as a fresh opportunity to inflame investigation has to end, and why the
partisan tensions. Russian hackers are various congressional committees
targeting American voting databases ahead investigating the same thing must publicly
of the midterm election this year, they said, announce they’ve completed their probes
and using bot armies to promote partisan and no such collusion evidence has
causes on social media. The Russians are been found (because it never existed).
.
408
Michael Flynn Jr Reacts To Bombshell Report Comey Told
Congress General Flynn DID NOT Lie Under Oath
By Cristina Laila
February 12, 2018, 9:20 Pm
James Comey reportedly told Michael Flynn Jr. responded to Mike Cernovich saying,
lawmakers last year that FBI agents who
“No comment…yet”
interviewed General Michael Flynn did
not believe that Flynn had lied to them.
General Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr. reacted to Byron
York’s bombshell report on Monday.
Independent jour
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#Russiagate: The Second Time As Farce... Or Tragedy?
By Roger L Simon
February 12, 2018
The more we learn about #Russiagate, or what we might President Vladimir Putin. In a text dated
now call #Dossiergate, the more the whole affair comes to Mar. 16, 2017, Waldman texted Warner,
resemble a Ken Kesey novel.
“Chris Steele asked me to call you.”
Indeed, the more one considers all the players in this
unbelievably bizarre saga, including Sid "Vicious" In 2009, Waldman filed papers with the
Blumenthal, Cody "The Hatchet" Shearer, James Department of Justice under the Foreign
"Reinhold Niebuhr" Comey, text-messaging "Pyramus" Agents Registration Act (FARA) registering
Peter Strzok and "Thisbe" Lisa Page, Andrew "The himself as an agent for Deripaska in order
Vanisher" McCabe, Mark "Big Leaks" Warner, to provide “legal advice on issues involving
Christopher "Get Smart" Steele, Adam "Mendacity" his U.S. visa as well as commercial
Schiff, and Bruce and Nellie "Ratched" Ohr, not to transactions” at a retainer of $40,000 a
mention the half-dozen or so other nameless people who month. In 2010, Waldman additionally
mysteriously disappeared from the DOJ in recent days, the registered as an agent for Russian foreign
more it seems the only sane person in the entire demented minister Sergei Lavrov, “gathering
charade -- taking the Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack information and providing advice and
Nicholson) role in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" -- analysis as it relates to the U.S. policy
is Devin Nunes. towards the visa status of Oleg Deripaska,”
including meetings with U.S.
Want to know why there are so many redactions in all policymakers. Based on the information in
those FBI/DOJ documents, the ones whose contents you his FARA filings, Waldman has received at
can't make heads or tails of while the indelible ink spills least $2.36 million for his work with
off the pages and stains your best flokati rug black Deripaska.
forever? It's only 1% security but 99% humiliation.
Forget "sources and methods." They are so ashamed of As the man said,
themselves they don't dare tell the truth. They should put a
shroud over the Hoover Building and do penance until the "When they say it's not about the money,
next millennium. It's that embarrassing. (And maybe they it's about the money." But that's not all we
should change the name of the building while they're at it. know of Waldman. He also has close ties
No more Robert E. Lee? No more J. Edgar Hoover. Fair's to, wait for it, Cher. And his wife, a former
fair.) girlfriend of George Hamilton's before she
left him for Waldman, is in the "blood as
Consider the latest entry in this ship of fools. We learn makeup" business. (I know -- it sounds like
today from Lee Smith -- who is actually doing some a joke but it isn't.) From the New York Post
journalistic work, as opposed to the NYT, WaPo, and all Nov. 15, 2016 - "The hottest new beauty
the networks squared -- of a fellow named Adam trend is your blood":
Waldman.
Still, the results are enough to keep Sturm’s [Mrs.
A release last week of texts showed that Waldman's] global clients, who include Hollywood
Christopher Steele, the former British spy producers, models and actors, flying to Germany to have
whose memos regarding the Trump their blood drawn, as well as for more traditional facials
campaign’s possible ties to Russia are and injections.
referred to as the Steele dossier, reached
out to Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking “They come [to Europe] and combine it with
Democratic member of the Senate a bike tour through France or a boat in
Intelligence Committee, through a Russian- Capri,” Sturm says. “Lots of celebrities are
linked Washington, D.C., lobbyist named posting about it.”
Adam Waldman. Among Waldman’s clients
is Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum Cher, for instance, is a close personal friend — Sturm and
magnate with close ties to Russian her husband were married at the singer’s house — and a
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massive fan of the MC1 cream and Sturm’s pricey line of And now it seems that Michael Flynn, the one supposed
additional products. Huntington-Whiteley and fiancé "admitted" liar actually in the Trump administration, may
Statham use the cream, as well as Sturm’s entire line of have been hung out to dry by Mueller. After all this time,
products, which includes anti-inflammatory, anti-aging, we're learning maybe Flynn didn't lie after all. How much
blood-free products such as serums ($350) and face creams more creepy can it get?
($215). Huntington-Whiteley regularly Instagrams and
Snapchats her routine. We are closer than we have been in our country to an all-
out cultural civil war. In fact, we're already living in one.
Sturm’s Hollywood prevalence is partly thanks to her Let's pray it doesn't escalate even more. The entire
husband, Adam Waldman, a lawyer who counts Brad Pitt nauseating, disingenuous Russia investigation, instigated
and Angelina Jolie as clients, and who has turned his from the start by sleazy hypocrites who had been
contacts into Sturm customers. “All of them” are fans of appeasing the Soviet Union and then Russia itself for
the cream and the line, he tells The Post. decades, is one of the great disgraces of American history.
It is partisanship at the level of mental illness and has
Yes, this seems like a live version of Marx's famous nothing whatsoever to do with what it purports to be about.
remark about history repeating itself "the second time as Russia has been up to mischief since the czars' Okhrana
farce." But the problem is it's on the edge of reverting to and anyone with an IQ in the proverbial triple digits knows
tragedy. It's the Eighteenth Brumaire in reverse. So many that. This investigation was about hate and vengeance
people are on the brink of being humiliated -- the against fellow Americans, smearing your opponent by any
Democratic Party, the Department of Justice, the FBI and, means necessary, not Russkies, and it has created more
most of all, the mainstream media -- that they will not take divisiveness than anything since the actual Civil War. But
it even close to lying down and certainly not with a laugh. in this instance, I am more skeptical that it can be repaired.
Not a single one of them appears to have anything close to
the self-knowledge required or the faintest sense of humor.
They're going to fight to the bitter end -- all of ours.
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TOM FITTON: Obama Was Given The Russian Dossier –
“What Did He Know And Why Hasn’t He Been
Questioned About It?” (Video)
By Jim Hoft
February 12, 2018, 9:33 Pm
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Left-Wing Media Refuses To Cover FBI / FISA Corruption
Scandal; Instead Tries To Recycle Nearly Year-Old “Russia
Collusion” Story As “Breaking News”
By Jayson Veley
Monday, February 12, 2018
The problem here isn’t that the report is false, because it’s
not – we’ve known for quite some time now that the
Russians did interfere in the 2016 election, even though
there is still no evidence of collusion. Rather, the problem
is that NBC News, which prides itself on being a
professional and up-to-the-minute news organization,
recycled a news story that is almost a year old just so they
could take a shot at Donald Trump. Even though the
headline itself didn’t specifically mention the president by
The second that President Trump won the election, name, it’s obvious that NBC News revived this story to
conservatives across the country knew that the liberals imply that Trump and his team worked closely with the
were going to do whatever they could to take him down. Russian regime to defeat Hillary Clinton last November.
This was to be expected, because that’s just how liberals
are – if they don’t get their way, then they whine and But in the case of the liberal media, it’s not just what they
complain until they do. What we didn’t expect, though, is do report on that’s the problem; it’s also what they don’t.
how repetitive and downright pathetic the liberals would For example, while NBC News was busy covering this
be in their resistance movement. “bombshell story” that most Americans first heard eight
months ago, the media refuses to give any attention to the
Earlier this month, NBC News interviewed Obama era ongoing FBI scandal, which some are considering to be the
Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity chief biggest scandal in modern American history.
Jeanette Manfra, and then proceeded to publish a
“BREAKING” news story on something that was already As Sean Hannity explained in an article published on Fox
covered eight months ago. To make matters worse, not News earlier this week,
only was this “breaking news” already covered, but it was
and continues to be rather insignificant. “Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey
Graham have released a heavily redacted,
“We saw a targeting of 21 states and an yet very revealing copy of their criminal
exceptionally small number of them were referral against ex-British spy Christopher
actually successfully penetrated,” explained Steele,”
Manfra to NBC’s Cynthia McFadden,
adding that she had “no doubt” that the who of course is the author of the phony anti-Trump
Russian government interfered. NBC News dossier that was released just weeks before the election.
came up with a headline to go along with (Related: Following the release of the FISA memo, John
this “shocking” and “groundbreaking” news McCain claims that “we are helping Putin.”)
– “Russians Penetrated U.S. Voter
Systems, Says Top U.C. Official” – and
then tweeted the following: Hannity went on to explain that, according to Grassley and
Graham,
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“Steele was being fed information directly (Related: A new bombshell report reveals a massive deep
from the Obama State Department and state conspiracy to keep Donald Trump out of the White
from Clinton allies as well as his usual, House.)
sketchy Russian sources”
Perhaps NBC News should take a page or two from Fox
while working on a second dossier for Fusion GPS, News’ playbook, and while they’re at it, stop acting like
Clinton’s opposition research firm. Essentially, this means radical, anti-Trump activists instead of journalists for a
that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and their allies were well-established news organization. Read more news
working with a foreign spy, Christopher Steele, to discredit coverage of the deliberate disinfo peddled by the legacy
and ultimately take down then-candidate Donald Trump. media at Disinfo.news.
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Tucker Carlson DESTROYS Unhinged Communist In
Insane Debate On North Korean Police State (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 12, 2018, 10:33 Pm
In November 2017 a 24-year-old North Korean soldier
was filmed fleeing the regime across the demilitarized
zone.
Now this…
Washington Post, CNN, NPR, PBS all praise murderous “The people of North Korea are very aware
North Korea and its slave state leader– of what’s going on in the world…They are
people who want to get out from
underneath the threat of war that the U.S.
has posed ever since it invaded their
country.
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Breaking: The Memo-Related DOJ
Rats Are Beginning To Jump Ship To Avoid Prosecution
By Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show
February 13, 2018
We already know that Rosenstein is overseeing Robert Before all the DOJ rats jump off the ship because they
Mueller’s investigation of the Russian-Collusion-Delusion know they are facing Congressional scrutiny and possible
with regard to President Trump’s alleged participation of indictments over the release of the memos associated with
Russian interference in the 2016 election. President Trump the FISA memos, we need to consider how these potential
has, from the beginning of the investigation, had referred criminals will attempt to escape justice.
to the investigation a “witch hunt” and has considered
terminating Rosenstein. from his DOJ position. At the
DOJ, Brand directly reported to Rosenstein and Attorney The central question that needs to be asked is if federal
General Jeff Sessions who had previously recused himself employees can invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-
for mysterious reasons which have never been made clear. incrimination while under a federal investigation? To
This is one of the reasons I have demanded the Sessions answer that question, is both yes and no. But we first need
step down because he is an impediment to any to revisit a couple of past Obama-related controversies
investigation into DOJ personnel wrongdoing. regarding federal investigations into federal employees for
alleged malfeasance of office and criminal wrongdoing
before drawing the correct conclusions.
As the third ranking member of the DOJ, and someone
who reported directly to Rosenstein and Sessions, Brand
was responsible for gathering so-called “evidence” against The first case involved the Internal Revenue Service’s
Trump for his meddling with Russians in the 2016 former head, Lois Lerner who was accused of using her
election. Now, for the bombshell. Brand had been assisting position with the IRS to target members associated with
in an extension of the National Security Agency’s various Tea Party groups with prejudical IRS scrutiny
warrantless surveillance program, this would be FISA, as allegedly performed because of the Tea Party members
in the exposed FISA surveillance program launched by political activities which ran in opposition to the Obama
Obama against the Trump campaign. This action was administration. Lois Lerner was subpoened to testify in
highly criminal and Bland has her hands dirty. front a congressional review and Lois Lerner refused to
answer relevant questions related to the charge. Lois
Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to remain
As contextual background, the memo’s contents and
significance can be reviewed at the following:
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silent before an abbreviated hearing of the House A very similar case, involving former Attorney General
Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Eric Holder over the Fast and Furious allegations that
Holder directed the sales of American arms to Mexican
Did Lerner, back in 2013, as a federal employee, have a drug cartels in an effort to impugn the Second
right to invoke her Fifth Amendment rights while under Amendment. These transactions resulted in Holder being
Congressional investigation? The answer, again, is both given a Contempt of Congress citation, just like
yes and no. John Mahoney, who served as a partner in Lerner. Unfortunately, no criminal charges were ever filed
Tully Rinckey PLLC who stated, in either case because of the reasons listed above. But had
either case happened under a Republican controlled
Congress and with an Attorney General worth his/her salt,
“…If a crime likely occurred and Ms.
both parties would have gone to prison.
Lerner has any potential criminal
exposure, then she has every right to
exercise her Fifth Amendment rights to Connecting the Dots
remain silent, unless she is granted
what is called ‘use immunity’ from such There are a number of items that jump off the pages which
prosecution by Justice based on her are highly volatile to say the least. The continued criminal
testimony. enterprise known as the Obama administration is on full
display in this article and I did not even bring up Beghazi
In other words, if Lerner committed a crime, was an would have been the third leg in this investigation.
accessory to a crime, or engaged in obstruction of justice,
she could be offered immunity for her testimony. This It is abundantly clear, that President Trump’s anticipated
testimony would no doubt be used to reel in a bigger fish second Special Prosecutor is going to be launching a
(ie criminal) and this is the classic example of turning criminal probe into the DOJ. At the hub of this
state’s evidence. In this case, Lerner would not have been investigation would be Sessions, Rosenstein and Bland, the
allowed to invoke her right to avoid self-incrimination. three top dogs in the DOJ. We now can safely assume that
the reason that Sessions recused himself is because he
Representative Issa tried to compel Lerner’s testimony, feared this impending investigation would come and this
possibly in exchange for a grant of immunity, but his would give him plausible deniability to any wrongdoing,
efforts fell short. From all indications, Lerner was guilty as or more to the point, his participation in any obstruction of
sin in the abuse of power that she was accused of. Lerner justice charges.
refused to cooperate. Congress had the goods on her,
however, the DOJ was under the control of the hard line Rosenstein is the central link to Special Prosecutor, Robert
Democrats and then Attorney General, Loretta Lynch. The Mueller, in the now-proven phony Russian-Collusion-
probability of a criminal conviction forcing a plea deal in Delusion investigation. All the evidence from the “memo”
this time frame, were slim and none and slim had already had to flow through Rosenstein to get to Mueller. One
left town. Therefore, Lerner was within her right to invoke could resonably assume that Rosenstein is guilty of
the right against self-incrimination. obstruction. If he even suspected the fabricated evidence
against Trump was not true, he had a fiduciary duty to
The Washington Post reported the following resolution to report this to Sessions. Sessions, because he recused
this case: himself from this case, would have referred this to his
supervisor, the President of the United States. Sessions
The House of Representatives voted successfully insulated himself from prosecution because he
Wednesday to hold a former Internal had the sense to see where this was potentially headed
Revenue Service official in contempt of when he recused himself. Rosenstein is holding the bag
Congress for refusing to cooperate with an and is in very big trouble. As as aside message to Attorney
ongoing investigation into the agency’s General Jeff Sessions who called and screamed at former
special targeting of groups with “tea party” Clinton operative, Larry Nichols, and falsely accused him
or “patriot” in their names that were seeking of leaking sensitive information about himself to me, I
tax-exempt status. answer that is not true. Mr. Nichols did not provide me
with any relevant information in this case. However, Mr.
On a 231 to 187 vote, the House Sessions, there were those who did speak to me off the
approved a contempt citation against Lois record and pointed me in key directions which yielded
G. Lerner, whose admission last year that information in this case. Larry Nichols was not one of
the tax-enforcement agency had targeted these sources. Regardless, Mr. Attorney General, your
conservative groups infuriated lawmakers days are numbered as the AG, as all of these facts are
in both parties, led to an overhaul of the going to be exposed.
IRS and Lerner’s eventual retirement from
government service.
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Either Former FBI Director Comey Or Former NatSec
Advisor Susan Rice Is Lying Based On Yesterday’s Email
Released By Senator Grassley
By Jim Hoft
February 13, 2018, 7:27 Am
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Donald Trump Urges Congress
To ‘Solve The DACA Puzzle’
By Charlie Spiering
13 Feb 2018
“put your big boy and big girl pants on, and
put your ideas on the floor for a vote.”
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Newt Gingrich: In Any Reasonable System Of Law,
Hillary Would Already Be In Jail (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 13, 2018, 7:36 Am
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FBI Scandal Unraveling:
Susan Rice Email From Inauguration Day
Is ‘Disturbing’
Mac Slavo
February 13th, 2018
As if rational-minded humans needed any other evidence Rice’s email, which she sent to herself on January 20,
that the “Russian collusion” narrative was fabricated, a 2017, seemed to document a January 5, 2017, meeting in
disturbing email from Susan Rice has surfaced, adding fuel the Oval Office with Obama, then-Vice President Joe
to that fire. Rice was Barack Obama’s ambassador to the Biden, former FBI Director James Comey, then-Deputy
United Nations and is most known for her lying in the Attorney General Sally Yates, and herself.
aftermath of the Benghazi scandal.
In writing to Rice, Grassley and Graham said,
Rice has been neck deep in several scandals, including the
“unmasking” ordeal that unfolded shortly after Donald “It strikes us odd that, among your activities
Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Senator in the final moments on the final day of the
Lindsey Graham has now described one of Rice’s newly Obama administration, you would feel the
discovered emails as “disturbing,” flinging her head first need to send yourself such an unusual
into the invented Russian collusion scandal. email purporting to document a
conversation involving President Obama
The recently revealed Inauguration Day and his interactions with the FBI regarding
email from Susan Rice detailed former the Trump/Russia investigation.” The two
President Barack Obama’s guidance at a senators also noted that while Rice said
high-level meeting about how law that Obama instructed Comey to proceed
enforcement should investigate Russian ‘by the book,’ the Republicans claim that
interference in the 2016 election. ‘substantial questions have arisen about
whether officials at the FBI, as well as the
According to Fox News, the email first surfaced Monday, Justice Department and the State
when Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Department, actually did proceed “by the
Grassley, R-Iowa, and Graham, R-S.C., sent the Obama book.”‘
national security adviser a letter, pressing for answers
about the email by next week. This major scandal and subsequent mainstream media
coverup is slowly unraveling, and it seems there are few
“She’s sending herself an email talking high-powered Democrats that aren’t caught up in the
about a conversation on January 5 with corruption.
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Judge Napoloitano: Only One Person Could Have Told
Susan Rice To Write Memo… Obama (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 13, 2018, 8:08 Am
On Monday Judge Napolitano joined Fox News host Only one person could have told her to
Martha MacCallum. write the email and she keeps falling on her
sword for him. Remember when she went
During their discussion Judge Napolitano suggested the all over the networks with the crazy
bizarre email Obama National Security Advisor Susan narrative on Benghazi was caused by a
Rice sent to herself on Obama’s last day in office was done video? We know that’s not true.
in an effort to cover-up her former boss’s role in the plot to
sabotage President Trump. Via FOX and Friends:
Judge Napolitano:
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Nolte: New York Times Celebrates
Homophobe Joy Reid As Anti-Trump ‘Heroine’
By John Nolte
13 Feb 2018
Joy Reid, MSNBC’s weekend morning “The Florida governor didn’t get tapped by
anchor, won a glowing profile in John McCain (get your mind out of the
Sunday’s New York Times. The 2,000- gutter! I meant tapped to be his veep…)
word hagiography portrays the rabidly and he married a rich lady anyway?”
divisive and far-left partisan as a
“heroine” of the anti-Trump resistance Waaaaay at the bottom of its love letter, the far-left Times
but mentions only in passing the 49- finally brings the subject up, but only to mention that Crist
year-old Reid’s indefensible history of accepted her apology and that Reid now considers Crist to
homophobia. be a “lovely guy.” Sure, now that he is a Democrat.
While writing for her own site a decade ago, Reid went on Without question, Reid’s despicable anti-
a two-year, anti-gay rampage against then-Florida Gov. gay attacks on Crist, her attempt to use
Charlie Crist, who was not only a Republican at the time, homosexuality as a weapon to disqualify
but seen as a likely presidential contender. On at least 11 and dehumanize him, are the worst
occasions over two years, Reid attempted to defame and examples of homophobia we have ever
shame Crist (who is straight) as a closeted homosexual seen from a person currently working at a
pretending to be straight. major media outlet; this includes Alec
Baldwin.
In furtherance of her totally fabricated conspiracy theory,
Reid repeatedly referred to Crist as “Miss Charlie,” But, just as the New York Times and the mainstream media
portrayed his new marriage (to a woman) as a sham, and are willing to cuddle up to North Korea’s Hitler because he
basically used homosexuality and homophobia as a club to is anti-Trump, so, too, can Reid be pardoned for
humiliate and denigrate the man who would later come out unpardonable behavior.
as a … Democrat.
After all, she is the enemy of the Times’ enemy: Trump.
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Sekulow: Susan Rice Wrote Memo Because They Knew
‘Someone’ Saw Their Meeting Take Place (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 13, 2018, 8:34 Am
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FBI Director Chris Wray Just Dropped A BOMB On The
White House’s Rob Porter Timeline
By Greg P.
Posted At 11:32 Am On February 13, 2018
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Related:
Wray was also asked about this tweet from the president
suggesting the reputations of the FBI is in “tatters”:
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Michael Isikoff Emerges As A Key
Media Propaganda Operative For The Deep State’s
TREASON Against The United States Of America
By Jayson Veley
02/13/2018
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BOOMAGE: Sharyl Attkisson CALLS Susan Rice OUT
Over Memo Suggesting Obama Withheld Intel
By Sam J.
Posted At 11:49 Am On February 13, 2018
For months the Left has ‘joked’ that the Trump presidency Were they afraid that they gambled badly on Hillary
felt like a reality tv-show and we’re finally starting to winning and were trying to cover their asses knowing they
agree with them, but not for a reason they’ll like or agree were going to get busted for spying on Trump during the
with. election?
Is it just us or does this Susan Rice memo story about the Could be.
Obama administration possibly withholding intel from the
incoming Trump team read like a John Grisham novel? We’re just guessing.
Unprecedented indeed.
*popcorn*
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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Crazily Cites
Harry Potter To Mock Ron Johnson
Nick Givas - Media And Politics Reporter
12:20 PM 02/13/2018
He then assumed a high pitched voice and continued the Brzezinski looked uncomfortable and began to cough and
rant. fidget, but Scarborough kept on pushing.
“Hello, Harry! What is that — no, seriously, “The guy that’s supposed to coordinate
what is that?” Scarborough said. with the FBI and the CIA and intel agencies
to try to figure out when the next attacks
“He’s a mess,” co-host Mika
are coming, that guy is going around
Brzezinski replied.
talking about secret societies,”
Scarborough said.
WATCH:
“He’s kookoonamuno,” Brzezinski said.
“I don’t know what the means,”
Scarborough replied.
“Just trying to get you to stop,” she said.
.
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View's Behar, Hostin Mock Pence
As ‘Dangerous’ Christian With ‘Mental Illness’
By Kristine Marsh
February 13, 2018 12:29 PM EST
HOSTIN: That’s not a very great assumption. [smirks] HOSTIN: Exactly. That's different. [applause]
MCCAIN: There's very few things you have said on this show BEHAR: That's called mental illness, if I'm not correct.
that show me-- I apologize, you're conservative, I guess. I'm not Hearing voices.
in this fight today.
SHERRI SHEPHERD: You know Joy, as a Christian, that's just
After Whoopi reined in the conversation, she simply asked the par for the course. You talk to Jesus. Jesus talks back. What
panel if they would prefer Mike Pence or Donald Trump as concerns me is how long is the conversation with Jesus.
president. The entire panel agreed that for different reasons they
would prefer Pence as president, even Joy Behar and Sunny HOSTIN: But Jesus is telling him to say things.
Hostin, who have previously complained on the show that Pence
was “incompetent” and “misogynistic.” Whoopi didn’t give an SHEPHERD: I ask Jesus for a parking spot.
opinion but has crazily claimed that Pence was like a member of
the KKK who wanted to hang her on a tree, on a previous
BEHAR: My question is, can he talk to Mary Magdalene without
episode.
his wife in the room? [laughter]
MCCAIN: Can I finish? I just think that she’s trying to get a new BEHAR: The nuns said that?
job someplace. She’s trying to be accepted back in mainstream
media after working in the Trump White House. I don't think what WHOOPI: Yes, the nuns said that. It's made up of lots of
she's saying is that interesting. religions. We all get to believe how we wish to believe. So the
president should not be concerned that you know, these people
SUNNY HOSTIN: I think what’s is interesting is she says that are saying this because we know it's not so.
Jesus tells Mike Pence things to say.
HOSTIN: But the other thing is, how is Mike Pence-- how is the
MCCAIN: When was she around Mike Pence though? Trump administration a values-driven administration?
HOSTIN: Well obviously she was around him because she MCCAIN: He’s talking about values in a lot of times, reference to
knows a lot more than I think we all know about Mike Pence. being pro-life. I assume you said you were at one point in time on
What I do know about Mike Pence, is I went to law school in this show--
Indiana. He's a hated figure there, actually. He's not very popular
at all. When you have a Mike Pence who now puts this
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HOSTIN: I don't see the values in the administration with Rob [cross-talk]
Porter beating the --
MCCAIN: I have respect for Mike Pence. You should be very
MCCAIN: The political term of what it means is being-- valuing careful about what you say about Trump because that man could
life. That is a -- it's an old term used in politics. be president. I think that's what's important about what Omarosa
was saying.
HOSTIN: No, no, Meghan. That's not true. Values driven means
not only being pro-life, but means being pro-marriage. It means BEHAR: Well that’s what Omarosa was saying. She’s sorry if
being pro- having good values. Pro-compassion. Pro empathy. Trump gets kicked out because you’re going to be stuck with
So many things. It's not only about pro-life. And the bottom line Pence.
is, this administration is not a values-driven administration. You
have people beating each other's wives. SHEPHERD: Also Meghan, we're looking at Omarosa on this
thing. You know she's trying to get a book. Every confession,
MCCAIN: I don't know how to say this in a way that doesn't every tear, she cut her teeth doing reality TV show. Everything
sound disrespectful. But I understand, if you're a liberal, she's saying is, this a chapter in her book. So how seriously
obviously you have certain problems with Mike Pence. you're going to take that?
Obviously. We see the world through very different veneers.
MCCAIN: We turned it into a discussion about the criticism of
HOSTIN: Why am I a liberal? value voters in this country. A criticism of Mike Pence and his
faith. Jesus speaking to him. You saying that. I think Jesus
MCCAIN: I just assumed you were because-- speaks to me everything morning.
HOSTIN: That’s not a very great assumption. [smirks] SHEPHERD: But here's the beauty about Jesus. We don’t have
to get mad about it because Jesus defends himself.
MCCAIN: There's very few things you have said on this show
that show me-- I apologize, you're conservative, I guess. I'm not WHOOPI: Here's the thing. [ Applause ] I'm going to shut this
in this fight today. down. I think the conversation was really about opinions. That's
what the show is. And we have three comics on. And funny stuff
and weird stuff is going to happen in most people sort of get it.
BEHAR: She’s a misfit. Sunny is a misfit.
We get that Omarosa is trying to make a book, let’s move on.
SHEPHERD: It's too early.
.
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'QAnon' Hints That 'Big Pharma Mafia'
Carried Out 'White Powder Attack' Upon The
Trump Family And Promises: 'Response Forthcoming'
- FLASHBACK! After 2001 Anthrax Attacks, Two US Lawmakers Called
For Investigations Into How The FBI And DOJ Handled The Case
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
February 13, 2018
While the lead story over at NBC News that the Drudge powder' attacks with what we now know about our FBI
Report linked to on Monday screamed out that a and DOJ being 'politically weaponized' under the Clinton
'suspicious letter' and 'white powder' event has caused administration?
President Trump's daughter-in-law Vanessa to be
hospitalized as a precaution after she opened a letter
addressed to her husband Donald Trump Jr., Susan Duclos
quickly pointed out to me that this was the 2nd time that
such a 'white powder event' has happened to the Trump
family as back in March of 2016, President Trump's
son Eric received a suspicious piece of mail containing
white powder and a threatening note demanding that his
father drop out of the presidential race.
With those events killing 5 people and infecting 17 more, “Most of the letters contain a powder
should we be looking more into those previous 'white substance with a threatening
communication,” he said. No harmful
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substances have yet been identified but Was this 'white powder event' at the home of Donald
more tests are being conducted at Trump Jr. a 'deep state' message to President Trump to
regional laboratories, he said. U.S. back away?
authorities are always on the alert for
such letters after incidents in 2001 in With the 'Clinton crime family' obviously at the head of
which envelopes laced with anthrax the deep state corruption we've been witnessing being
were sent to media outlets and U.S. exposed as 'the top' of the FBI and DOJ sold their souls
lawmakers, killing five people and away in a failed attempt to get 'satan Hillary' elected, we
further rattling a nation shaken by the also hear in the first video below from Jerome Corsi that
September 11 attacks. Asked if the bank several Russian business executives who were involved in
letters were sent by a single mailer, the Uranium One deal were recently killed in the tragic
Kolko said, “there’s certainly a common Russian plane crash. More names to be added to the still-
thread.” growing 'Clinton body count'?
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millions of dollars off of the deaths of Americans who
they've poisoned with their opioides. And as the Daily
Mail reported today, big pharma is thriving as Americans
are dying from the flu, allegedly in pandemic numbers.
Did big pharma create it?
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CNN Contributor: ‘Trump
Should Be Charged With Manslaughter!’
By Corinne Weaver
February 13, 2018 1:06 PM EST
The far left is ready to say anything in order to villainize “Trump May Be the Most Anti-Women US
the current administration. President Ever,” “SNL Is Wrong -- Trump
Is Far Worse Than Bush,” “Trump Owes Us
After President Donald Trump tweeted his support for Sue Money,” and “SNL is Right -- Trump’s
Kruczek, a mother who lost her son to the opioid epidemic, Chaos is Part of A Plan.” Whatever
who appeared on Fox and Friends on February 12, happened to “Facts First,” CNN?
someone wasn’t happy. Dean Obeidallah, a columnist for
CNN and the Daily Beast and a radio host on SiriusXM,
replied to Trump’s tweet with a story from Politico about
Kellyanne Conway and an angry statement blaming Trump
for the death of Sue Kruczek’s son.
Obeidallah said,
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Is John Brennan The Mastermind
Behind Russiagate?
Mike Whitney
February 13, 2018
The Intelligence Community Analysis or ICA was (largely Despite the denials of former-CIA Director John
or partially) based on information from a report that was Brennan, the dossier may have been used in
paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign. (more the ICA.
on this below)
In the last two weeks, documents have been released that
The information that was leaked to the media alleging have exposed the weak underpinnings of the Russia
Russia hacking or collusion can be traced back to claims investigation while at the same time revealing serious
that were made in a report that was paid for by the DNC abuses by senior-level officials at the DOJ and FBI. The so
and Hillary Clinton campaign. called Nunes memo was the first to point out these abuses,
but it was the 8-page “criminal referral” authored by
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
The entire Russia-gate investigation rests on the and Senator Lindsey Graham that gave credence to the
“unverified and salacious” information from a dossier that claims. Here’s a blurb from the document:
was paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton Campaign.
Here’s how Stephen Cohen sums it up in a recent article at
The Nation: “It appears the FBI relied on admittedly
uncorroborated information, funded by and
obtained for Secretary Clinton’s presidential
“Steele’s dossier… was the foundational campaign, in order to conduct surveillance of an
document of the Russiagate narrative…from the
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associate of the opposing presidential make up the dossier. We don’t even know if Steele’s
candidate. It did so based on Mr. Steele’s alleged contacts or intermediaries in Russia actually exist
personal credibility and presumably having faith or not. Some analysts think the whole thing is a fabrication
in his process of obtaining the information. But based on the fact that he hasn’t worked the Russia-scene
there is substantial evidence suggesting that since the FSB (The Russian state-security organization that
Mr. Steele materially misled the FBI about a key replaced the KGB) was completely overhauled. Besides, it
aspect of his dossier efforts, one which bears would be extremely dangerous for a Russian to provide an
on his credibility.” M16 agent with sensitive intelligence. And what would the
contact get in return? According to most accounts, Steele’s
There it is. The FBI made a “concerted effort to conceal sources weren’t even paid, so there was little incentive for
information from the court” in order to get a warrant to spy them to put themselves at risk? All of this casts more doubt
on a member of a rival political campaign. So –at the very on the contents of the dossier.
least– there was an effort, on the part of the FBI and high-
ranking officials at the Department of Justice, to What is known about Steele is that he has a very active
improperly spy on members of the Trump team. And imagination and knows how to command a six-figure
there’s more. The FBI failed to mention that the dossier payoff for his unique services. We also know that the FBI
was paid for by the Hillary campaign and the DNC, or that continued to use him long after they knew he couldn’t be
the dossier’s author Christopher Steele had seeded articles trusted which suggests that he served some other purpose,
in the media that were being used to support the dossier’s like providing the agency with plausible deniability, a ‘get
credibility (before the FISA court), or that, according to out of jail free’ card if they ever got caught surveilling US
the FBI’s own analysts, the dossier was “only minimally citizens without probable cause.
corroborated”, or that Steele was a ferocious partisan who
harbored a strong animus towards Trump. All of these But that brings us to the strange case of Carter Page, a bit-
were omitted in the FISA application which is why the FBI player whose role in the Trump campaign was trivial at
was able to deceive the judge. It’s worth noting that best. Page was what most people would call a “small fish”,
intentionally deceiving a federal judge is a felony. an insignificant foreign policy advisor who had minimal
impact on the campaign. Congressional investigators, like
Most disturbing is the fact that Steele reportedly received Nunes, must be wondering why the FBI and DOJ devoted
information from friends of Hillary Clinton. (supposedly, so much attention to someone like Page instead of going
Sidney Blumenthal and others) Here’s one suggestive after the “big fish” like Bannon, Flynn, Kushner, Ivanka
tidbit that appeared in the Graham-Grassley” referral: and Trump Jr., all of whom might have been able to
provide damaging information on the real target, Donald
“…Mr. Steele’s memorandum states that his Trump. Wasn’t that the idea? So why waste time on Page?
company “received this report from REDACTED It doesn’t make any sense, unless, of course, the others
US State Department,” that the report was the were already being surveilled by other agencies? Is that it,
second in a series, and that the report was did the NSA and the CIA have a hand in the surveillance
information that came from a foreign sub-source too?
who “is in touch with REDACTED, a contact of
REDACTED, a friend of the Clintons, who It’s a moot point, isn’t it? Because now that there’s
passed it to REDACTED.” evidence that senior-level officials at the DOJ and the FBI
were involved in improperly obtaining warrants to spy on
It is troubling enough that the Clinton campaign funded members of the opposite party, the investigation is going
Mr. Steele’s work, but that these Clinton associates were to go wherever it goes. Whatever restrictions existed
contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele allegations raises before, will now be lifted. For example, this popped up in
additional concerns about his credibility.” (Lifted from Saturday’s The Hill:
The Federalist)
“House Intelligence Committee lawmakers are
What are we to make of this? Was Steele shaping the in the dark about an investigation into
dossier’s narrative to the specifications of his employers? wrongdoing at the State Department announced
Was he being coached by members of the Hillary team? by Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) on Friday.
How did that impact the contents of the dossier and the …Nunes told Fox News on Friday that, “we are
subsequent Russia investigation? in the middle of what I call phase two of our
investigation. That investigation is ongoing and
These are just a few of the questions Steele will we continue work toward finding answers and
undoubtedly be asked if he ever faces prosecution for lying asking the right questions to try to get to the
to the FBI. But, so far, we know very little about man bottom of what exactly the State Department
except that he was a former M16 agent who was paid was up to in terms of this Russia
$160,000 for composing the dubious set of reports that investigation.”…
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Since then, GOP lawmakers have been quietly buzzing Brennan. Just as the CIA launched its disinformation
about allegations that an Obama-era State Department campaigns against Saddam Hussein and Muammar
official passed along information from allies of former Gadhafi, so too, Russia has emerged as Washington’s
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that may have been used foremost rival requiring a massive propaganda campaign
by the FBI to launch an investigation into whether the to persuade the public that America faces a serious
Trump campaign had improper contacts with Russia. external threat. In any event, the demonizing of Russia had
already begun by the time Hillary and Co. decided to hop
“I’m pretty troubled by what I read in the on the bandwagon by blaming Moscow for hacking John
documents with respect to the role the State Podesta’s emails. The allegations were never persuasive,
Department played in the fall of 2016, including but they did provide Brennan with some cover for the
information that was used in a court proceeding. massive Information Operation (IO) that began with him.
I am troubled by it,” Gowdy told Fox News on
Tuesday.” (“Lawmakers in dark about ‘phase According to the Washington Times:
two’ of Nunes investigation”, The Hill)
“It was then-CIA Director John O. Brennan, a
So the State Department is next in line followed by the close confidant of Mr. Obama’s, who provided
NSA and, finally, the Russia-gate point of origin, John the information — what he termed the “basis” —
Brennan’s CIA. Here’s more background on that from for the FBI to start the counterintelligence
Stephen Cohen’s illuminating article at The Nation: investigation last summer….Mr. Brennan told
the House Intelligence Committee on May 23
“….when, and by whom, was this Intel operation that the intelligence community was picking up
against Trump started? tidbits on Trump associates making contacts
with Russians.”
In testimony to the House Intelligence Committee in May
2017, John Brennan, formerly Obama’s head of the CIA, It all started with Brennan. After Putin blocked Brennan’s
strongly suggested that he and his agency were the first, as operations in both Ukraine and Syria, Brennan had every
The Washington Post put it at the time, “in triggering an reason to retaliate and to use the tools at his disposal to
FBI probe.” Certainly both the Post and The New York demonize Putin and try to isolate Russia. The “election
Times interpreted his remarks in this way. Equally certain, meddling” charges (promoted by the Hillary people) fit
Brennan played a central role in promoting the Russiagate perfectly with Brennan’s overall strategy to manipulate
narrative thereafter, briefing members of Congress perceptions and prepare the country for an eventual
privately and giving President Obama himself a top-secret confrontation. It provided him the opportunity to kill two
envelope in early August 2016 that almost certainly birds with one stone, to deliver a withering blow to Putin
contained Steele’s dossier. Early on, Brennan presumably and Trump at the very same time. The temptation must
would have shared his “suspicions” and initiatives with have been irresistible.
James Clapper, director of national intelligence. FBI
Director Comey… may have joined them actively But now the plan has backfired and the investigations are
somewhat later…. gaining pace. Trump’s allies in the House smell the blood
in the water and they want answers. Did the CIA surveil
When did Brennan begin his “investigation” of members of the Trump campaign on the basis of
Trump? His House testimony leaves this information they gathered in the dossier? Who saw the
somewhat unclear, but, according to a information? Was the information passed along to
subsequent Guardian article, by late 2015 or members of the press and other government agencies? Was
early 2016 he was receiving, or soliciting, the White House involved? What role did Obama play?
reports from foreign intelligence agencies What about the Intelligence Community Assessment? Was
regarding “suspicious ‘interactions’ between it based on the contents of the Steele report? Will the
figures connected to Trump and known or “hand-picked” analysts who worked on the report vouch
suspected Russian agents.” for its conclusions in or were they coached about what to
write? How did Brennan persuade the reluctant Comey
In short, if these reports and Brennan’s own into opening a counterintelligence investigation on
testimony are to be believed, he, not the FBI, members in the Trump campaign when he knew it would
was the instigator and godfather of Russiagate.” be perceived as a partisan attempt to sabotage the elections
by giving Hillary an edge?
(“Russiagate or Intelgate?”, Stephen Cohen, The Nation)
Soon the investigative crosshairs will settle on Brennan.
He’d better have the right answers.
Regular readers of this column know that we have always
believed that the Russiagate psyops originated with
.
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Ed Asner Jokes About
Trump's Sons Being Mauled By Lion
By Gabriel Hays
February 13, 2018 2:18 PM EST
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TRUMP ATTORNEY: Susan Rice Secret Meeting With
Comey, Obama Took Place ONE DAY Before Comey
Briefed Trump On Dossier (VIDEO)
February 13, 2018, 3:05 Pm By Cristina Laila
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Former Defense Minister:
‘You Have A Secret Cabal That’s Actually
Running The World!’
Mac Slavo
February 13th, 2018
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“You take a look at Albert Pike, you take a
look at Helena Blavatsky…they were all
professed Luciferians,” says Joseph. Some
will say that Satan equals Lucifer, and
some will say Lucifer is not Satan. “I think
they are all in the ballpark…I’ll put it that
way.”
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Actor-Comedian Bill Murray Praises Trump Tax Cuts,
Attacks Democrats For Divisive Politics (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 13, 2018, 4:05 Pm
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Media Bash Trump’s ‘Hollow’
Tax Cuts ‘Backfiring On Wall Street’
By Julia A. Seymour
February 13, 2018 5:13 PM EST
The confusing claim repeated by the liberal media was that “it’s hard, bordering on impossible, to
the economy “is doing too well too quickly.” Rather than pinpoint why markets rise or fall abruptly,”
point out the solid “fundamentals” of the overall economy, Newman of Yahoo Finance claimed that
the focus was on “fundamentals to fear,” as one New York were “plenty of clues” and the Trump tax
Times blog put it. That blog said there were worries “that cuts “are one of the suspects.”
the already strong economy may overheat” driving up
inflation and leading to aggressive interest rate hikes.
But not all economists viewed stronger growth or interest
rates hikes as a bad thing. Brian Wesbury of First Trust
Similar complaints about the tax bill were made by ABC Advisors wrote about the stock market “correction,” on
World News Tonight as well as the Los Angeles Times, and Feb. 9.
Washington Post between Feb. 2, when the Dow dropped
by 665 points and the tumultuous week that followed.
“Corrections scare the snot out of people.
For many, who thought markets only go up,
Following a Dow drop off more than 1,000 points on Feb. they feel like the end of the world. This is
8, ABC World News Tonight correspondent Linzie Janis especially true when pundits start trying to
connected the market woes to the Trump tax cuts. explain the drop in stock prices by arguing
that there are fundamental problems with
“Tonight, some economists also say the the economy. This time is no different. But,
president’s tax cuts could actually be in our opinion, this is an emotional
adding to all of this, by stimulating an correction, not a fundamental one. The US
already improving economy,” said said. is not entering a recession, and higher
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interest rates over the next few years do But views like that weren’t so prevalent in the liberal
not spell doom for the economy or media which was also against the tax cuts even before they
markets,” Wesbury wrote. were passed. For example, the broadcast networks mostly
ignored company announcements of bonuses and wage
In his view, the economy is going to grow
hikes after the passage of the tax bill, but they also made
“because of better policy,” and “This is a
many more explicitly negative statements about tax reform
good thing!”
as the legislation was being crafted and debated in late
2017 than explicitly positive ones.
.
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Susan Rice Email Suggests Comey 'Seriously Misled'
Senate Regarding Meeting With Obama
By Debra Heine
February 13, 2018
"On January 5, following a briefing by IC During the White house meeting, then-President Obama,
leadership on Russian hacking during the according to Rice, suggested that they withhold
2016 presidential election, President information from the incoming Trump team -- which is
Obama had a brief follow-on conversation also legally sketchy.
with FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy
Attorney General Sally Yates in the Oval "President Obama said he wants to be sure
Office. Vice President Biden and I were that, as we engage with the incoming team,
also present." we are mindful to ascertain if there is any
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reason that we cannot share info fully as it Just two days earlier, on January 3, 2017,
relates to Russia."
Rice also said in her memo that Obama "outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch
secretly signed an order directing the
"stressed" his "continued commitment" to
the Russia issue being handled by the National Security Agency -- America's
intelligence and law enforcement 60,000-person-strong domestic spying
communities "by the book." apparatus -- to make available raw spying
data to all other federal intelligence
agencies, which then can pass it on to their
counterparts in foreign countries and in the
50 states upon request."
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CNN Touts Author of Boston Globe Column:
'What the Hell Happened to John Kelly?'
By Ryan Foley
February 13, 2018 5:15 PM EST
During Tuesday afternoon’s edition of CNN Newsroom, outlets he doesn’t like, puts him in the
host Brooke Baldwin interviewed Boston Globe columnist category of tinpot dictators.”
Kevin Cullen, who recently published a column titled
“What the Hell Happened to John Kelly?” In the Maybe Cullen forgot that President Obama repeatedly
column, Cullen explained that he initially supported the criticized Fox News during his tenure. Does that make him
appointment of General John Kelly as White House Chief a “crazy tinpot dictator?”
of Staff, making him the odd man out among his fellow
columnists, but lost a lot of respect for him as a result of Cullen also criticized Kelly’s comments suggesting the
his tenure as Chief of Staff.
group of illegal immigrants known as “dreamers” were
“too lazy to get off their asses” and apply for protection
Cullen seemed to argue that Kelly’s association with under President Obama’s Executive Action known as
President Trump tarnished his reputation, saying DACA. Cullen resorted to the race card, saying
“a lot of what made John Kelly a very good “Last week, Kelly sounded like any number
military man does not work in the political of vaguely racist callers to any number of
arena, particularly when you align yourself radio talk shows, dismissing immigrants as
with somebody like Mr. Trump, who is not lazy. Kelly is the chief of staff, not Rush
presidential.” Limbaugh.”
CNN Newsroom
02/13/18
03:49 PM
Cullen’s CNN appearance was mild compared to his BROOKE BALDWIN: Sure. I mean, I’ve got you for two more
Boston Globe column. In the column, he referred to the minutes and, you know, here, you pose this big question and,
President as “a mean-spirited ingrate” who “degrades the and you wrote toward the end, we all grow up terrified of
integrity of the office of the Presidency with every tweet, becoming our parents. What has happened to John Kelly is far
with every embrace of racists and racist thought, with worse. He has become his boss. What happened?
every slight and insult of allies, with every defense of men KEVIN CULLEN: No question. I mean, I think, what I was driving
who abuse women.” While these comments might seem at Brooke, is that a lot of what made John Kelly a very good
extreme, it’s par for the course in the ultra-liberal military man does not work in the political arena, particularly
Massachusetts. when you align yourself with somebody like Mr. Trump, who is
not presidential and the idea that he will somehow be presidential
Cullen went on to add; and the idea that Mr. Kelly, as his Chief of Staff, can whip him
into shape, I just don’t think it’s the same thing. I think once he
“Trump’s obsession with degrading and entered this, this political arena and hitched his trailer to Mr.
dismissing a free press, and openly Trump, I think it was inevitable that Mr. Kelly would end up where
fantasizing about shutting down media he is. The moral company that guided, the moral compass that
guided John Kelly the military man has given way to the
situational expediency of a political man. And I find that tragic.
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Whistleblower: Stock Market
‘Fear Gauge’ Is Being Manipulated
By Jim Hoft
February 13, 2018, 6:02 Pm
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Watch noted that the market dropped effectively taken away from institutional and retail
due to unethical market manipulation! investors and cashed in by unethical electronic option
market makers.
Market Watch reported:
The whistleblower’s claims are consistent with those
documented by John Griffin, professor of finance at the
One of the most popular measures of volatility is being
University of Texas and Ph.D. candidate Amin Shams in
manipulated, charges one individual who submitted a letter
May 2017 in research that says the cost of manipulating
anonymously to the Securities and Exchange Commission
less-liquid SPX options would be more than paid for by a
and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
successful bet on the direction of the VIX. The paper is
consistent with the whistleblower’s conclusion—that
The letter makes the claim to regulators that fake quotes manipulators are moving prices of the SPX options by
for the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.27% are skewing levels of spoofing at settlement—entering quotes for trades that are
the Cboe Volatility Index VIX, -0.82% which reflects never executed—to “paint the tape” and, therefore,
bearish and bullish options bets 30-days in the future on influence the value of expiring VIX derivatives.
the S&P 500 to gauge implied stock-market volatility (see
excerpt from the letter below).
This is a bit heavy, but the main thought
is that the market was unethically
The flaw allows trading firms with sophisticated
algorithms to move the VIX up or down by simply posting manipulated which impacted millions of
quotes on S&P options and without needing to physically Americans in their 401k’s. Let’s hope
engage in any trading or deploying any capital. This this gets addressed quick.
market manipulation has led to multiple billions in profits
.
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BUSTED: Team Trump Campaign Members Most Likely
Surveilled By Obama Admin Spying On Carter Page
Posted On February 13, 2018
He said of the letter that it was the “main thing I do “Just how many people were surveilled and
remember contacting them about” after he left the to what extent?” Fox News’ Tucker Carlson
campaign. said last week on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“How much did President Obama know
“So that should’ve all been picked up with about it? We still don’t have the answers to
the illegal hacking operation that began in those questions, though we definitely have
Washington about a week prior,” Page said the right to them.”
in an email to Fox News.
.
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Top Dem Senator Continues To Push Russian Election
Hacking Hoax – Investigators Still HAVE NOT
Inspected DNC Servers (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 13, 2018, 6:13 Pm
On Tuesday, Senator Mark Warner (D- The Russians always try to undermine
VA) continued to push the Russian our elections. This is nothing new.
election hacking hoax at a Senate
Neither the FBI nor any other federal
Intelligence Committee hearing on
investigators have inspected the DNC’s
worldwide threats, yet investigators still
servers to confirm the Russians hacked
have not inspected the DNC servers to
Hillary’s emails.
confirm Russia hacked Hillary Clinton’s
campaign emails. Why not? How do we have a Special Counsel investigating
‘Russian hacking’ yet no one has inspected the very
Senator Warner is the Vice Chairman of the Senate Intel servers that were supposedly hacked.
Committee. The only cybersecurity experts to
inspect the DNC servers was
Why doesn’t he want to take a look at the DNC’s servers? Crowdstrike, a private company hired by
Hillary’s campaign.
Also, none of the investigators have reached out to
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has stated many
times on record that Russia did not give him the Podesta
emails.
This is more proof the entire Russia
investigation is a complete sham.
VIDEO:
"Russian trolls and bots continue to push Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Robert
divisive content, both in the United States, Ashley agreed:
and against all our allies in Europe -- not
only the UK, but, as we've talked before, "It is not going to change, nor is it going to
France, Germany, Netherlands. And we've stop."
also heard recent indications of Russian
activities in Mexico," Vice Chairman Mark Coats noted that
Warner (D-Va.) said at the broad hearing
on worldwide threats. "The IC needs to stay
"throughout the entire community, we have
on top of this issue, and I'm worried that we
not seen any evidence of any significant
don't have a clear line of assignment."
change from last year."
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats -- who, in the
Asked who is in charge of addressing the threat posed by
wake of the House Intelligence Committee GOP staff
operations of foreign nations on social media, Coats said
memo alleging FISA abuses, began by thanking
that responsibility is spread among
lawmakers for renewing Section 702 surveillance
authorities that the IC considers the
"several agencies throughout the federal
government that have equities in this, and
"most important collection issue against
we are working together to try to integrate
foreign terrorists and threats to America" --
that process."
said that Russia continues to deploy their
influence efforts "because it's relatively "It clearly is something that needs to be
cheap, it's low-risk, it offers what they addressed, and addressed as quickly as
perceive as plausible deniability and it's possible... we are keen on moving forward
proven to be effective at sowing division." in terms of not only identification, but
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relative response and things that we can do "Yes, and I think this would be a good topic
to prevent this from happening," the DNI to get into greater detail [in closed
added. "We are gaining more, I think, session]."
support -- I guess is the right word -- from
the private sector, who are beginning to Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) noted that voting begins next
recognize ever more the issues that are month, and
faced with the material that comes through
their processes. We cannot, as a
"if we're going to have any impact on
government, direct them what to do. But we
securing that voting system itself, it would
certainly are spending every effort we can
seem to me that we need to be acting
to work with them to provide some answers
quickly."
to this question."
"I think a great part of the strength of the
Coats said the nations of NATO are also concerned about system is the diversity of the system --
Russian campaign influence ops. different not only from state to state, but
from election jurisdictions within those
states," he added.
"I returned, not that long ago, from a
meeting in Brussels with the intelligence
arm of NATO. All 29 nations -- the topic Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) declared he was
was addressed, primarily on Russian
meddling in elections and trying to "sick and tired of going to these hearings,
undermine democratic values," he told which I've been going to for five years,
senators. "At the end of that, the new where everybody talks about cyber attacks,
director of that organization asked for a and our country still does not have a policy
show of hands of or any verbal response or a doctrine or a strategy for dealing with
from any representatives of the 29 nations, them."
if they thought that Russia had not
interfered with their processes and King said that was not specifically a criticism of the
particularly their elections, or had the current administration, as the previous one dropped the
potential to do so. Not one person raised ball as well.
their hand."
"I think that sends a very strong signal that Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), an ex-officio member of the
any elections that are coming up need to committee, asked the IC leaders,
be -- we need to assume that there might
be interference with that, particularly from "Has the president directed you and your
the Russians, and maybe from some other agency to take specific actions to confront
malign actors," Coats warned. "And steps and blunt Russian influence activities that
should need to be taken to work with state are ongoing?"
and local officials, because many of these
"Not as specifically directed by the
elections in off-year will be state and local,
president, no," Wray replied.
governorships, even members of certain
houses of representation within the states
themselves. So it clearly is an issue that is Pompeo said he thought President Trump has been
whole-of-government."
"very clear that he want -- has asked our
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) asked CIA Director agency to cooperate with each of the
Mike Pompeo if he has investigations that's ongoing and do
everything we can to ensure that we
thoroughly understand this potential threat."
"seen Russian activity in the lead-up to the
2018 election cycle." "For us, I can't say that I've been explicitly
directed to 'blunt' or actively stop [Russia],"
"Yes, we have seen Russian activity and
Rogers said. "On the other hand, it's very
intentions to have an impact on the next
clear -- generate knowledge and insight,
election cycle here," Pompeo replied.
help us understand this so we can
generate better policy. That clearly -- that
Coats agreed. Rogers added, direction has been very explicit, in
fairness."
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Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) wrapped up the end of eight hours, they couldn't tell
the hearing with an update on his panel's investigation into who was a Democrat who was a
2016 Russian campaign interference ops. The Senate Republican. So the effort to be bipartisan
investigation has remained bipartisan while comity has has not just been public; it is private, as
broken down in the once-bipartisan House Intelligence well, and permeates all the way down
Committee. through our staff."
"We intend to have an overview of our Coats told senators that the intelligence community
findings that will be public," Burr said. "We "obviously" knows measures need to be take to protect this
intend to have an open hearing on election election cycle.
security. And it's the committee's intent to
make recommendations that will enhance "But we need to inform the American public
the likelihood that the security of our that this is real, that this is going to happen,
election process is in place." and the resilience needed for us to stand
up and say we're not going to allow some
In what may have been an allusion to the staff who Russian to tell us how to vote, how we
prepared House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin ought to run our country," the director of
Nunes' (R-Calif.) memo, Burr added, national intelligence added. "And I think
there needs to be a national cry for that."
"The remarks of every individual who has
come in before us -- has commented on
their professionalism and the fact that, at
.
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BOOM! Sen. Tom Cotton Asks FBI Director Wray If
Dossier Author Was Employed By Putin-Linked Oligarch –
WRAY WON’T ANSWER! (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 13, 2018, 7:50 Pm
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Wray: Well I’ll leave that characterization to others and certainly Cotton: Thank you.
not in this setting.
Video by Nick Short:
Cotton: Chuck Grassley the chairman of the Judiciary
Committee last week sent a letter to a London based lawyer who
represents Derispaska and asked if Mr Steele was employed
either directly or indirectly by Oleg Derispaska at the time he was
running the Steele dossier. Do you know if Christopher Steele
worked for Oleg Derispaska?
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Why Do The Democrats
Take Trump’s Trolling Lying Down?
By Ted Rall
February 13, 2018
This is advice for the Democrats. Democrats never take Leader Mitch) McConnell and (House
my advice. So why do I keep giving it to them? Speaker Paul) Ryan to meet this
afternoon.”
These “what Democrats ought to do” columns aren’t really
for the Democratic Party leadership. They’re for you, dear Morons!
left-of-center reader. I’m explaining what the Dems should
be doing and comparing it to what they’re actually doing. Schumer and Pelosi were right to cancel — but not
That gap between what makes sense and what is going on, because of Trump’s stated pessimism about arriving at an
I hope you’ll conclude, is so big that we should declare the agreement. They should have canceled because Trump
Democratic Party dead and gone. Giving up on the Dems insulted them.
is important.
“Chuck and Nancy”? Really?
The Left will never roll up its sleeves and start building a
genuine alternative to the current system until it stops As Frederick Douglass said, people naturally have
trying, somehow, to take over or sway the Distracticats. contempt for a person who won’t stand up for himself.
Schumer and Pelosi should have fought back. They should
This week, I’d like to showcase the stunning ineptitude of have refused to let Trump big-dog them.
the Democrats’ communications strategy.
They could have taken the high road:
There are many examples to choose from, but lately I have
been marveling at Democratic leaders’ wimpiness in the
“Until the President learns to address us
face of the president’s Twitter-trolling.
politely, like an adult, using our proper titles
and names — Senator Schumer,
On November 28, 2017, Trump tweeted: Representative Pelosi, Leader Schumer,
Leader Pelosi — we Democrats will have
“Meeting with ‘Chuck and Nancy’ today no communications with him whatsoever.”
about keeping government open and
working. Problem is they want illegal Or they could have gone the Ted Rall route:
immigrants flooding into our Country
unchecked, are weak on Crime and want to “We’re sorry, silly fat Orange Donald, that
substantially RAISE Taxes. I don’t see a your mother didn’t raise you properly. Until
deal!” you delete your Twitter account, apologize
on TV and sign a contract agreeing to
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House never darken social media again — oh, and
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi canceled their scheduled no pussy grabbing either — you can go f—
meeting with Trump. yourself.
“Given that the President doesn’t see a Either way, they’d have to mean it. That would mean no
deal between Democrats and the White more meetings, no more tolerating the president’s wanton
House, we believe the best path forward is rudeness. Total obstruction.
to continue negotiating with our Republican
counterparts in Congress instead,” Pelosi I know. It ain’t gonna happen. Democratic leaders
and Schumer said in a joint statement. obviously believe that they risk debasing themselves if
“Rather than going to the White House for they lower themselves to Trump’s rhetorical level. What
a show meeting that won’t result in an
agreement, we’ve asked (Senate Majority
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they don’t get is that Trump is a bully. The only way to “DACA has been made increasingly difficult
deal with a bully is with shock-and-awe brutality. by the fact that Cryin’ Chuck Schumer took
such a beating over the shutdown that he is
The debasement follows the insult. Your decision not to unable to act on immigration!” Trump
climb into the gutter with the bullying idiot may seem tweeted.
admirable — “when they go low, we go high,” Michelle
Obama said — but it allows your tormentor to cast you as Imagine you were Chuck Schumer. You’re a U.S. senator.
a coward. When you allow the bully to insult you over and He’s been in Congress since 1974, when Trump was still
over and over, as Trump does to his enemies, you tacitly making his name refusing to rent apartments to black
endorse their insults. Why, otherwise, do you tolerate people. Why, you might ask yourself, should I put with
disrespect? this patak who dares to give me a ridiculous nickname?
Or, to look at it another way, consider why Trump’s fans Four days later, here was Schumer, calling
love him. They love him because he “says it like it is,” him “President Trump” and “the President.”
doesn’t take prisoners, doesn’t mince words. One person’s WTF?
lack of impulse control is another’s courage. Imagine, if a
progressive were as rude and aggressive as Trump, how Schumer and Democrats won’t even defend themselves.
exciting that would be? Do you seriously think they’ll lift a finger for you and me?
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Buzzfeed Slams DNC With Lawsuit For Refusing To
Release Information On “Hacked” Servers
By Cristina Laila
February 13, 2018, 8:03 Pm
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UH-OH! Internal Dem Polling
Shows Trump’s Popularity On The Rise
Alex Roarty - McClatchy Washington Bureau
Posted On February 13, 2018
WASHINGTON—A leading Democratic group— the absence of fiscal criticism of Trump has allowed him
Priorities USA—is warning party leaders they could to one-sidedly extol the benefits of a growing economy.
squander a strong political climate in 2018 if they don't
start to emphasize pocketbook issues over loose and "There's no question that Trump benefits
unfocused critiques of Donald Trump. when a critique of his tax and health care
policies is not front and center — especially
According to internal polling by the super PAC, President when voters are hearing Trump's side of
Donald Trump's approval rating climbed to 44 percent in the story on the economy," the memo said.
the first week of February, compared to 53 percent who
disapprove. That mirrors Trump's improving position in Priorities is one of a litany of Democratic leaders or
public polls. organizations making the case the party must focus on the
economy to best take advantage of the midterm election
In November, the same survey found his approval rating at climate, especially as it tries to both win back working-
40 percent, with 54 percent disapproving. class white voters who backed Trump in droves and
energize its own base, including black and Latino voters.
The group's survey also showed the Democratic Party's
generic ballot advantage had shrunk, with 46 percent The memo was compiled by Priorities in conjunction with
preferring Democrats to 42 percent for Republicans. Global Strategy Group and GarinHartYang Research
Group, two of the Democratic Party's leading political
The memo says that a broad range of metrics show the consultancies. It surveyed 1,001 voters from Feb. 2
political climate is still favorable for Democrats. But it through Feb. 7 and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage
also makes an unambiguous diagnosis for Trump's recent points.
rise: Democrats this year have stopped focusing on
economic and health care issues, topics that demonstrably The poll included voters who cast a ballot in the 2012 or
hurt his approval during his first year in office. 2016 presidential race.
Priorities' polling found that while people in November Despite its admonishment of the party, Democrats have
readily mentioned Trump's health care and tax reform reason to still be upbeat about the 2018 midterm election,
measures, by February they were instead more cognizant the memo argues. Although its generic ballot edge was just
of his tweets. four points, Priorities found that just 35 percent of
undecided voters approved of Trump — compared to 60
Democrats, the memo said, must "not allow themselves to percent who disapproved. (Data on undecided voters in a
be sidetracked and distracted by Trump's latest tweets." generic ballot test is rarely provided in other polls.)
"While still on track for a successful And 51 percent of voters said they want
November, the extent of Democratic gains more Democrats elected to Congress this
will be blunted if Democrats do not re- year to be a "check and balance on
engage more aggressively in speaking to Trump," compared to 39 percent who want
the economic and health care priorities of to elect more Republicans to help "Trump
voters," it said. pass his policies and programs."
The memo comes amid a rancorous debate on Capitol Hill The polling also found increased level of enthusiasm for
over immigration, in which Democrats in January 2018 among Democrats while Trump was underwater in
temporarily pushed to shut down the federal government nearly all measures of his performance. The president,
because of the absence of a DACA agreement. The however, did have a plurality of support for his tax and
Priorities missive does not say the party should avoid a economic policies, while views of his health care policies
debate over immigration, but says time and time again that have improved significantly since November.
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The memo also shows that most voters think the GOP's tax tax bill, Democrats have won," it says.
reform plan favors the rich and large corporations at the "Unfortunately, that debate has been
expense of the middle class. relatively one-sided recently and voters
have not heard nearly as much from
"When voters have heard messages from Democrats."
both Democrats and Republicans on the
.
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WATCH: CNN Stunned By What
Iowa Voters Think About Russia Investigation
"... Political Witch Hunt From The Get-Go ..."
Byryan Saavedra - @Realsaavedra
February 13, 2018
WATCH:
CNN's Martin Savidge interviewed a group of voters from
Iowa on Monday who all expressed serious doubts about
special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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WTH?… Trump Lawyer Admits He Paid Porn Star
Stormy Daniels $130,000 Hush Money
Out Of His Own Pocket
By Cristina Laila
February 13, 2018, 10:14 Pm
A lawyer for the Trump Organization, Stephanie Clifford’s stage name is Stormy
Michael D. Cohen admitted in a Daniels.
statement to the New York Times he
“The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful,
paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 and was not a campaign contribution or a
in hush money out of his own pocket in
campaign expenditure by anyone.”
2016.
Mr. Cohen said that he had given a similar statement to the
It has been alleged Donald Trump had an affair with Federal Election Commission in response to a complaint
Stephanie Clifford AKA Stormy Daniels in 2006.
filed by the government watchdog group Common Cause,
which filed a complaint saying that the payment, which
President Trump has denied the affair. was made through a limited liability company that Mr.
Cohen established, was an in-kind contribution to the
Trump campaign.
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Fox & Friends Exposes AP's Two-Faced
Tweets On Trump Vs. Obama Budgets
By Tim Graham
February 14, 2018 8:03 AM EST
On Tuesday's Fox & Friends, the hosts and CBN political deficits, like President Trump. What's going
correspondent David Brody discussed how the Associated on?
Press took dramatically different takes on Twitter on the
DAVID BRODY: A couple of things. Well,
budget proposals of Obama and Trump. On Monday
first, the anti-Trump filter in clear force, for
morning,
sure, for the Associated Press. Look, last
year, they did the same thing. Last year
AP tweeted "President Trump sends they talked about how the Republican
Congress $4.4 trillion spending plan budget was going to gut -- that was the
that features soaring deficits.” word gut -- science and the environment.
That was their factual analysis, and then
But that's not how AP tweeted Obama's budget proposals. came the opinion afterwards, I like to call it
In 2015, they tweeted the shot and the chaser. And their opinion
was what Republicans are against in
"Obama sends $4 trillion spending plan regards to mainstream climate [science]
to Congress, pledging help for middle and all of that. They were giving opinion,
class." In 2016, they tweeted "Obama not just fact, and it's ridiculous.
sends record $4.1 trillion spending plan DOOCY: You know, I remember when I
to Congress to combat terror threats, was in journalism school. Everybody
global warming.” regarded the Associated Press as a fair
broker. Are you telling me they are now
Amber Athey of the Daily Caller reported the contrast was political?
exposed on Twitter by Fox News contributor Stephen BRODY: Yeah, it's starting to become that
Miller (@redsteeze). Fox showed the tweets on screen: way, and if there's one thing Donald Trump
has done if nothing else, and he's done a
lot, he has exposed this media bias like we
have never seen before. We knew it
existed before, but he has literally, we are
talking about CNN, quote, "the most trusted
name in news," -- look, they have gone off
the rails to the point where some of what
are supposed to be their regular main
anchor hosts are now giving opinion
commentary at the end of their programs.
It's just fascinating to watch.
The rise of Trump has definitely pushed all the liberal
networks to turn the volume up on passionate
STEVE DOOCY: There you've got them
editorializing, as they accuse Fox of being "state-run TV."
touting President Obama. He spent nearly
They need to read their own tweets and stories about
the same amount, but he combatted terror
Obama to remember just how helpfully they acted as
threats and global warming, and pledged
docile Obama publicists. AP's tweets surely demonstrate
assistance for the middle class, even
the pattern, and the contrast with today.
though those budgets also featured soaring
.
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Adam Schiff On Democratic Memo:
“We’re Not Going To Make Revisions To It”
…They Know It’s Crap!
By Jim Hoft
February 14, 2018, 8:23 Am
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) spoke with reporters on Schiff told CNN on Tuesday that Democrats would not
Tuesday about the controversial Democratic memo on the revise the memo.
Russiagate scandal.
“We’re not going to make any revisions
Schiff told reporters Democrats would to it. The only question is what
not make any revisions to their junk redactions will be made, and obviously
memo. we’d like to keep those to a minimum.”
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Rep. Gohmert: “Somebody HAS To Go To Jail”
Over FISA Abuse Targeting Trump Campaign
By JD Heyes
02/14/2018
Republicans in Congress noted that FBI officials seeking Pirro pressed Gohmert further and asked if anyone actually
the FISA warrant misrepresented the dossier as would go to jail.
intelligence; it’s not clear if the judge granting the warrant
knew the dossier was unsubstantiated opposition research.
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“Somebody has to go to jail or our system Pirro has also called for people to be “walked out” of the
is over,” he insisted. FBI and Justice Department “in handcuffs” for their
alleged roles in inappropriately spying on the Trump
Watch: campaign, something many believe (as I do) to be the
biggest political scandal in our country’s history.
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MSNBC ‘Disappointed’ In Trump:
Infrastructure Bill Doesn’t Go Far Enough
By Scott Whitlock
February 14, 2018 9:02 AM EST
The rest is a hodgepodge of, like, funds of a rural slush fund and
tax breaks to private infrastructure that were already going to
Considering how much trashing MSNBC has done of happen anyway. And so, they're saying it's going to elicit all of
Trump, it’s hard to imagine he wouldn’t want to seek the this money coming from other people because they want to
approval of the liberals at the network. Vox expressed his spend it so badly that it goes up to 1.5 trillion. That isn't how this
“disappointment.” works. I do not understand why they didn't go big on an
infrastructure bill. It would have been good politics and clearly it’s
The fact that he's decided to make no unusual deals, no what Donald Trump actually believes. But they didn't and this is
creative deals that isn’t baked into this. That's him not not what they promised in the campaign and it wouldn't do what
having the interest or intention to dig in on the details of they're saying and hoping it would do.
governance, push his vision to an agenda and push those
who are recalcitrant in his party behind that agenda. LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: One political reason is that the people
There's a very deep lack of leadership. who actually write this stuff, the congressional Republicans, are
opposed to this kind of spending. They've been opposed to it for
He only does what's easy to do with some time. So trying to get them to take money and apply it this
Republicans, not what was meant to be way was an unlikely prospect from the start. So they've come up
a disruptive force about his campaign with this thing that Chuck Schumer is calling a mirage. I mean,
and his presidency. And it’s one of the it's possibly that none of those mayors and governors will take
real disappointments of his any of this 20 percent funded money.
administration.
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... party behind that agenda. There's a very deep lack of leadership.
He only does what's easy to do with Republicans, not what was
KLEIN: The fact that he's decided to make no unusual deals, no meant to be a disruptive force about his campaign and his
creative deals that isn’t baked into this. That's him not having the presidency. And it’s one of the real disappointments of his
interest or intention to dig in on the details of governance, push administration.
his vision to an agenda and push those who are recalcitrant in his
.
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Trump Lays Down The LAW On DEM Immigration
Demands; Any DACA Reform MUST Include
These Core Reforms
Posted On February 14, 2018
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RUSH LIMBAUGH: Gen. Flynn Indictment Part Of ‘One
Of The Most GIGANTIC Political SCANDALS
Of Our LIFETIME’
By Joshua Caplan
February 14, 2018, 11:52 Am
Partial transcript via rushlimbaugh.com. STONE: “Lawyers for General Mike Flynn
will shortly file a motion to dismiss all the
RUSH: After hearing from Comey, these charges filed against him, based on reports
members of Congress “came away with the now confirmed by The Hill, Circa News and
impression that Flynn would not be Infowars, that Assistant FBI Director
charged with a crime pertaining to the Andrew McCabe told a teleconference of
January 24 interview” with the FBI. “Nine law enforcement officials, “first we f*ck
months later, with Comey gone and special Flynn, then we f*ck Trump.”
counsel Robert Mueller in charge of the
Trump-Russia investigation, Flynn pleaded Last month, special counsel Robert Mueller requested the
guilty to one count of making false postponement of Flynn’s sentencing.
statements to the FBI in that January 24
questioning. What happened? […]
“Due to the status of the Special Counsel’s
As I pointed out, even “the Washington investigation, the parties do not believe that
Post reported” more than a year ago “that this matter is ready to be scheduled for a
the FBI had reviewed the” transcripts of sentencing hearing at this time,” the special
those phone calls and found Flynn did counsel asked the court.
nothing illegal. So what happened here?
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The court filing stated the special counsel could not
determine a sentencing date for Flynn and requested a 90- On December 1st, 2017, Flynn plead guilty to lying to FBI
day extension. agents about making contact with Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition period.
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MSNBC: Trump 'Doesn't Give A Damn'
About The Poor
By Bill D'Agostino
February 14, 2018 11:56 AM EST
Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude argued that the proposed Glaude suspected he had the answer:
changes to SNAP were motivated by assumptions of fraud,
which is likely true to some extent. “Because this is a testimony to what
their priorities are.” This proposal, he
He then concluded that such a policy was reminded the panel, had come from a
“all out war on the poor.” President who had run on a platform of
“representing working people.”
The candidate that claimed he was
going to be representing working
people, left behind white working class
folks, really doesn’t give a damn about
them. He really doesn’t care at all.
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Two Months After Trump Tax Cuts
Republicans Now Top Democrats In
Generic Congressional Polling
By Jim Hoft
February 14, 2018, 12:03 Pm
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Tucker Carlson: Obama Viewed
Trump ‘As A Traitor And A Russian Spy’
By Jeff Poor
14 Feb 2018
According to Carlson, Rice’s email To this day, the dossier is the only publicly available
revealed former President Barack Obama’s document that details alleged collusion with Russia.
perception of his successor, which was a Now, of course, we have talked a lot about the dossier
“traitor” and a “Russian spy.” on this program. But relatively little about what is in it.
Partial transcript as follows: What does the dossier actually claim? Is any of it
true? After more than a year of probing by politicians
and intelligence agencies and journalists, here’s the
Tonight, we have more on the ongoing
sum total of what we actually know about the
saga of the Trump dossier.
document that started all of this.
Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey
Graham have launched a probe into former We know the dossier was compiled by
National Security Advisor Susan Rice. In Christopher Steele, acting as a contractor of
the very final minutes of the Obama Fusion GPS with funds supplied by the Hillary
administration, just afternoon on Clinton campaign and the DNC.
inauguration day 2017, Rice sent herself an
email on the White House computer
The dossier was a form of opposition research
system.
designed to be used against Trump in the presidential
In it, she described a meeting she had campaign. It was not an intelligence document. It was
attended just two weeks before on January oppo.
5. At that meeting were President Obama,
Vice President Joe Biden, FBI Director Jim The dossier claims that Russian authorities didn’t
Comey, Deputy AG Sally Yates and Susan simply collude with Trump during a 2016 election, the
Rice herself. charge you hear a lot about, it also claims that
Russian intelligence cultivated Donald Trump as a
According to Rice in this email, Obama instructed the kind of asset, a kind of one-man sleeper cell for more
officials in the room to consider withholding national than five years. Needless to say, there’s no
intelligence from the incoming Trump administration in evidence of that.
case they were compromised by Russia.
The dossier also claims the Kremlin fed the Trump
In other words, almost two months after the presidential team intel reports on Hillary Clinton and other political
election, Barack Obama viewed Trump not as his opponents for years. There’s no proof of that either.
democratically elected successor, but as a traitor and a
Russian spy. It claims Trump was favored by Moscow with lucrative
Russian real estate deals as part of his cultivation as a
Obama viewed himself as someone who somehow political asset. That’s sleeper cell. No proof there
had the right to withhold government documents either.
from an elected president. That’s not the behavior
of someone who believes in democracy.
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According to the dossier, Trump and Russia were At the same time, he was firing people on “The
exchanging intelligence with each other for at least Apprentice”, Donald Trump was working with
eight years. No proof of that. Vladimir Putin to subvert America? It’s hard even to
say that with a straight face. It’s that stupid.
The dossier goes on to describe a clandestine
meeting in Prague between Trump lawyer Michael And yet, keep in mind and never forget,
Cohen and representatives supposedly that took place this is the document the FBI used to
in August of 2016. This is one of the very few claims in justify spying on American citizens.
the dossier that has been conclusively checked and These are the claims that Democrats in
it’s false. Cohen wasn’t even outside the US at the
Congress repeatedly cited as the
time the meeting supposedly took place.
reason to stop the normal functioning
of government in order to investigate
In sum, the Steele dossier is absurd.
the administration.
The closer you read it, the more absurd
it is. Take 10 minutes to do so yourself.
This is the famous dossier that even today
It’s online. And as you read it, ask
progressives in the media are spending millions in
yourself who would believe something an attempt to corroborate.
like this? It’s so transparently partisan
and unlikely and stupid and flimsy, it And it’s all a stupid joke.
reads like a parody of a badly written
spy novel. Amazingly, a lot of people in power fell for it.
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ADAM SCHIFF UNHINGED – Claims
He Has ‘More Non-Public Evidence’ Of Trump-Russia
Collusion, Obstruction (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila
February 14, 2018, 12:12 Pm
Ranking member of the House Intel “We have not been able to adequately
Committee and suspected leaker, Adam follow the money,” Schiff said completely
Schiff (D-CA) continued to spread the ignoring the fact that Hillary Clinton’s entire
big lie that he has ‘more evidence’ of campaign was a money laundering
Trump-Russia collusion and scheme.
obstruction.
Schiff also compared the Trump-Russia witch hunt to
The DNC servers have yet to be inspected by federal Watergate.
investigators and the FBI has not questioned WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange. Let that sink in. In reality, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is the one who spied
on their political opponent by illegally obtaining a FISA
warrant based on ‘Russian intelligence’ collected by a
former British spy.
VIDEO:
After rattling off his usual talking points of Russian Adam Schiff has been in overdrive since the FISA memo
collusion ‘evidence’ which is already public knowledge, was released by the House Intel Committee.
Schiff pivoted to the issue of ‘obstruction’.
Schiff and the House Minority concocted a junk counter-
“There is certainly an abundance of non- memo purposely full of sources and methods so Trump
public info that we have gathered in the wouldn’t release the document.
investigation and I think that some of that
non-public evidence is evidence on the Schiff told reporters Tuesday the Democrats would not
issue of collusion. Some of that non-public make any revisions to their junk memo.
evidence is evidence on the issue of
obstruction,” Schiff said.
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Economy Outlook Very Positive
As Trump Administration Works To Roll Back
Obama-Era Regulations
By Jayson Veley
02/14/2018
“the economy is doing better by some Specifically, most of the economists said that President
measures,” data released by the Trump was “somewhat” or “strongly” positive for job
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creation, GDP growth and the rising stock market, and that Above all else, President Trump is proving to the entire
Trump’s decision to cut regulations and taxes were a major country that if job creation is the goal, then embracing the
factor. Additionally, they said that Obama was “neutral-to- free market system is the only way to go about achieving
negative” for long-term economic growth, while Trump is it. Allowing the people to keep most of what they earn and
“neutral to positive for long-term gains.” (Related: Parents creating a healthy business environment is exactly how
rejoice as Donald Trump’s economic plan makes childcare you revive an economy that has been ripped apart by
expenses tax-deductible while eliminating the death tax.) liberal policies for almost a decade.
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CAUGHT IN CORRUPTION: Yahoo
Needs To Fire Michael Isikoff Or Perish
Guest Op-Ed By Jacob Engels
February 14, 2018, 12:30 Pm
The Obama-Clinton partisans infecting the FBI and DOJ A lot more coming down the pipe. I spoke to a delegation of 68
used evidence they knew was fabricated, as the legal basis investigative journalists from Ukraine last Wednesday at the
for warrants to spy on the Republican candidate for Library of Congress – the Open World Society’s forum – they put
president. me on the program to speak specifically about Paul Manafort and
I invited Michael Isikoff whom I’ve been working with for the past
few weeks and connected him to the Ukrainians. More offline
When it comes to abuse of power, this makes Watergate
tomorrow since there is a big Trump component you and Lauren
look like small potatoes.
need to be aware of that will hit in next few weeks and something
I’m working on you should be aware of. Since I started digging
To prop up their false narrative, the FBI into Manafort these messages have been a daily occurrence on
fed the phony dossier to Yahoo reporter my yahoo account despite changing my password often:
Mike Isikoff, and then used the article he
wrote as further evidence before the
This proves beyond a reasonable doubt
court. Thus Isikoff exposed himself for
that Isikoff not only colluded with
what he is; not a journalist… but a
foreign Ukrainian assets working on
stooge for the Deep State.
behalf of the DNC, but that he also has
close connections to Soros, an
This raises a very serious question about the integrity of unrepentant Nazi collaborator who
Yahoo News’ investigative reporting division, which
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called his time in the Hitler Youth the Furthermore, Isikoff should be held to account for his part
“best time of his life.” in securing an illegal wiretap, and the Trump justice
department should consider charging him as an accessory
Yahoo News’ credibility as a news organization and the to the Obama administrations seditious activities against
integrity of their investigative team is irreparably damaged the Republican nominee for president.
as a result, unless they clean house and send a message to
the American people and their readers. If Yahoo does not terminate Isikoff, no
decent person should return his media
Anything short of removing Isikoff for his collusion with inquiries and he should be shunned by
foreign Ukrainian assets and unrepentant Nazi collaborator decent people everywhere because the
George Soros will continue to harm their ability to be man is a fraud.
taken seriously, or compete adequately with the rise of the
alternative media. When his upcoming book publishes, we will be at any
book signing he may hold to confront him about his
Otherwise, they will join the likes of establishment print, actions, and discourage anyone from buying the garage he
television, radio, and online media as just another puts out in book form.
embarrassing sideshow of biased and dishonest coverage
marked by a constant flow mentally deranged anti-Trump
spasms.
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Democrats Announce Plan To Protect US Elections:
Does Not Include Voter ID, But Includes Move
To Soros-Linked Voting Machines
By Jim Hoft
February 14, 2018, 2:00 Pm
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board of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. He
The Democrat voter plan also insists was formerly the vice-chairman of Soros’s Investment
states must move away from paper Funds and even the deputy secretary-general of the United
ballots. Nations when he worked as chief of staff to Kofi Annan.
They pretend to be upset with Russian interference but According to Wikileaks documents Smartmatic machines
want to make the system more computerized? were used to rig the 2004 Venezuela elections in favor of
Marxist candidate Hugo Chavez.
Soros-linked Smartmatic machines are now used in 16
states.
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CNN's Cuomo Dismisses GOP Doubts About FBI:
'It Just Reeks Of False Equivalency To
Offset The Russia Probe'
By Ryan Foley
February 14, 2018 2:24 PM EST
CNN’s Chris Cuomo closed an interview with Rep. Jim them off as lovers who are just bandying about B.S., your,
Jordan (R-OH) by dismissing his doubts about the FBI’s your story doesn’t stand up so well.” On the other hand,
handling of the Russia investigation as a “false the media downplays the idea of foul play in the Russia
equivalency” designed to “offset the Russia probe.” probe because that doesn’t suit their narrative.
On New Day Wednesday morning, Cuomo accused Jordan Later, Jordan brought up the “insurance policy” discussed
and Congressional Republicans of having an “insatiable in one of the text messages, suggesting that the FBI wanted
appetite to paint the FBI as dirty and trying to manipulate to undermine a potential Trump administration.Cuomo
the election to help Trump.” Cuomo obviously meant to said “you don’t know what he meant by an insurance
say either “hurt Trump” or “help Clinton” rather than “help policy and it’s just as out of context as the secret society
Trump.” and all of the stupid other things that you guys...”
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It Begins: CNN Analyst Demands ‘Discussion
About Guns’ With Scant Details On FL Shooting
By Curtis Houck
February 14, 2018 4:08 PM EST
Here we go again, America. Another act of evil committed “I know” and citing a seven-year-old from
at a school and another case of liberals immediately South Carolina that she recently had
demanding discussions of gun control. Moments into on CNN Newsroom: “She wrote a letter to
CNN’s live coverage, former Obama administration the President and I couldn't have put it
official and national security analyst Juliette Kayyem and better. You know, the seven-year-old
host Brooke Baldwin demanded a “discussion about said Mr. President, how are you going to
guns” despite having minimal details about what keep children safe in this country? But I
transpired. want to stay on what we know.”
At 3:16 p.m. Eastern, Kayyem first laid out the procedure Kayyem wasn’t alone as a mother who had a student at
for evacuating students from the building when the shooter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School joined Baldwin
may still be at large and how the school’s large size could later in the hour and repeatedly emphasized the need for
aid in the response due to probably being “viewed as gun control in this country that, in her mind, would prevent
critical infrastructure” by local, state, and federal law school shootings from happening.
enforcement.
What’s so tasteless about the politics of this is liberals
immediately demand gun control of some kind following
mass shootings even if their proposals wouldn’t have
stopped certain shootings from happening again.
Baldwin didn’t refute a single word that Kayyem said, JULIETTE KAYYEM: So, good news is, I guess if there
fretting is some, is a high school of this size would be viewed as
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critical infrastructure. They’ve done trainings. They’ve has this kind of violence and presumably gun violence,
probably have done lockdown trainings and so you’re obviously, in particular focused on our children. It is just
going to have chaos but in some ways also you’re going to ridiculous. My daughter is coming home from an urban
have at least adults as well as law enforcement personnel high school in the next 20 minutes. It's — it’s like no other
who know what to do to protect as many children as country lives or allows themselves to live and here we are,
possible and so this becomes, you know, sort of part of another time, having a discussion about guns as being a
what Homeland Security tries to do with state, local and, security issue for our children.
of course, with the FBI and federal law enforcement
because the shooter has not been detained and we're BROOKE BALDWIN: I know. I was just talking to a
assuming it's one, that also is going to add essentially seven-year-old on my show this week who lost her six-
identification needs in this process. In other words, who year-old friend at a school shooting in South Carolina. She
are you? Are you a student and are you unarmed? That's wrote a letter to the President and I couldn't have put it
going to slow up any evacuation process at this stage. It's better. You know, the seven-year-old said Mr. President,
just necessary to do and then finally, Brooke, I mean, you how are you going to keep children safe in this country?
said it. Yet again, you cannot have these conversations But I want to stay on what we know.
with at least saying every time we are the only nation that
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Bizarre: ABC Links Florida Shooting
To Trump In ‘Turmoil’ Over Rob Porter Scandal
By Scott Whitlock
February 14, 2018 4:12 PM EST
During live coverage of a school shooting in Broward A transcript of the brief exchange is below:
County, Florida, ABC reporter Cecilia Vega on
Wednesday couldn’t resist taking a bizarre and totally
unconnected shot at Donald Trump. After explaining that
the President has been updated on the breaking news, Vega
blurted,
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Ouch! Senator Chuck Grassley
BLASTS Failed Attorney General Jeff Sessions
By Jim Hoft
February 14, 2018, 6:26 Pm
Now this…
Jeff Sessions is meddling with the US Senate.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is working with senators
on criminal justice reforms.
Attorney General Sessions is trying to
meddle in the senate process.
Grassley hit Sessions hard today:
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Liberal Senator Chris Murphy On Senate Floor:
Epidemic Of Mass Slaughter Because Of
“Inaction” By Congress (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
February 14, 2018, 9:09 Pm
Liberal Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) “As we speak, there is a horrific scene
took to the senate floor today to playing out at a high school in south
address the mass shooting at at Marjory Florida. Turn on your television right now,
Stoneman Douglas High School in you’re going to see scenes of children
Parkland, Florida. running for their lives, what looks to be the
19th school shooting in this country, and
Senator Murphy blamed inaction by
Congress for the assault. we have not even hit March. I’m coming to
the floor to talk about something else, but
let me just note, once again for my
Senator Murphy started out his speech quoting a colleagues, that this happens nowhere
misleading claim of 18 school shootings so far this year. else, other than the United States of
(That’s a lie.) America. This epidemic of mass slaughter,
this scourge of school shooting after school
Then Senator Murphy went on to blame shooting. It only happens here, not
Congress for the attack. because of coincidence, not because of
bad luck, but as a consequence of our
inaction.
Via Breitbart:
Senator Murphy:
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Traitors In Congress Put President Trump's Base
In Their Crosshairs - Are Globalists Hoping To 'Round Up'
Peaceful, Patriotic Americans By Lumping Us In With
Violent Extremists In New 'Domestic
Terrorism Bill' In Congress?
The Evil We See From 'Congress Critters' With
A 20% Approval Rating Knows No Bounds
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
February 14, 2018
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And that demonization isn’t just far-right, alt-right To close, from this important story by Matt Agorist over at
groups, and white supremacist groups. It’s the Free Thought Project:
veterans. Libertarians. People who support the
Constitution as the governing document of our The bottom line is that there are undoubtedly
nation. It’s Christians and people with crazy people out there who are willing to kill for
conservative beliefs. Basically, it’s anyone who some cause they think they believe in. There have
questions the extreme left. been horrific incidents of people snapping and
killing citizens and police alike. However, it is not
Most of the people in this group are decent people the millions of other people who identify as
who don’t hate everyone of other races. We don’t patriots nor the tens of thousands of militia
intend to start militias to take out the Muslims in groups that are doing this. Yes, there are hate
our neighborhoods. We want to get along and be groups who attack others and the government
free to believe as we believe. We aren’t rabidly should prevent that, but lumping everyone in with
frothing at the mouth in our bunkers, just waiting these groups is not only dangerous but Orwellian.
to light up the next SWAT team that happens by
with a homemade RPG while wearing kitchen tile It is important to note that most people who
body armor. question the state do so out of a desire to prevent
death, not foster it. People who questioned the
But, as journalist Matt Agorist, an honorably narrative of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
discharged veteran of the USMC and former did so because they wanted to prevent a war in
intelligence operator, points out, it’s becoming which many would die. However, they were
positively Orwellian. labeled as kooks and conspiracy theorists by the
establishment—despite being proven right years
later.
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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Official Bruce Ohr Hid Wife’s
Fusion GPS Payments From Ethics Officials
Luke Rosiak - Investigative Reporter
9:12 PM 02/14/2018
The omission may explain why Ohr was demoted from his
post as associate deputy attorney general after the
relationship between Fusion GPS and his wife emerged
and Fusion founder Glenn Simpson acknowledged meeting
with Ohr. Willfully falsifying government ethics forms can
carry a penalty of jail time, if convicted.
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Paul Kamenar, a Washington, D.C., public policy lawyer under the disclosure law and possibly up to
experienced in executive branch ethics and disclosure five years in prison under 18 USC 1001,”
laws, said, he said. “Since he lists her income type as
‘salary’ as opposed to line 1 where he
“Based on my reading of the regulations describes her other income as ‘consulting
and disclosure guide accompanying the fees’ as an ‘independent contractor’ it’s
form, he failed to disclose the source of his clear that she was employed by a company
wife’s income on line 4 by not including the that should have been identified by name.”
‘name of the employer.'” “And even with respect to her ‘independent
“The law provides that whoever ‘knowingly contractor’ listing, it appears incomplete by
and willfully’ fails to file information required not describing what kind of services were
to be filed on this report faces civil provided. Both these omissions do not give
penalties up to $50,000 and possible the reviewing official sufficient information
criminal penalties up to one year in prison to determine whether there is a conflict,”
Kamenar added.
Ohr also did not get a conflict of interest waiver from his The form says,
supervisors, suggesting that he may not have explained to
anyone the true source of the income and how it “[F]alsification of information required to be
intersected with his official involvement in the case, nor filed by section 102 of the [Ethics in
did he have approval. Government Act of 1978] may also subject
you to criminal prosecution” as well as “civil
If a potential conflict is disclosed and explained to monetary penalty and to disciplinary action
supervisors, a government agency can grant a conflict of by your employing agency.”
interest waiver, known as a 208(b) waiver. In response to a
records request, officials told TheDCNF, The lack of disclosure is the latest of several examples of
people apparently trying to conceal the financial
“There are no … waivers for this filer.” relationship that Fusion GPS, which was funded by the
DNC, had with the family of the DOJ official.
Scott Amey, general counsel of the Project on Government
Oversight, said In Fusion GPS founder Simpson’s November House
interview, he conspicuously omitted his relationship with
“he couldn’t get a waiver for that. That Nellie Ohr, painting Bruce Ohr as someone who he was
would have required outright recusal.” connected to independently. Investigators said,
Making it potentially even worse than failing to recuse, “You’ve never heard from anyone in the
Ohr’s pressing the Trump case appears to be something he U.S. Government in relation to those
decided to do on his own, rather than something assigned matters, either the FBI or the Department
to him. of Justice?”
“I was asked to provide some information
Bruce Ohr was demoted from his DOJ position shortly … by a prosecutor named Bruce Ohr,” he
after the company’s founder acknowledged in a Nov. 14, said.
2017, interview with the House Intelligence Committee Investigators said, “Did Mr. Ohr reach out
that he had met with him. Fox News reported in December to you?”
that Ohr had concealed his meetings with the firm from his
supervisors. “It was someone that Chris Steele knows
… and I met Bruce too through organized
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crime conferences or something like that … “This document ought to trigger an
Chris told me that he had been talking to immediate criminal investigation if one isn’t
Bruce … and that Bruce wanted more already ongoing.”
information, and suggested that I speak
with Bruce,” Simpson said. Kathleen Clark, an ethics expert and law professor at
Washington University in St. Louis, said beyond the
Simpson also said his firm was not affiliated with any disclosure issue, as far as the legal definition of conflict of
Russian speakers, even though Nellie Ohr appears to speak interest requiring a recusal, it could depend on whether
the language. Ohr’s actions would have had a “direct and predictable”
effect on his wife’s income from Fusion GPS.
In addition to meeting with Simpson, Ohr also met with
Steele before the election. Kamenar said what is known as the frequently used “catch-
all” provision clearly applies, saying “Circumstances…
In an earlier Aug. 22, 2017, interview with the Senate would cause a reasonable person with knowledge of the
Judiciary Committee, Simpson didn’t mention either of the facts to question an employee’s impartiality” require
Ohrs by name. He said he had not met with any FBI recusal.
officials about the matter, without noting his contact with
the DOJ official. Amey said,
Simpson suggested in court records on Dec. 12, 2017, that “As a lawyer and a top Justice official, Ohr
the only way government investigators could have found should know that he can’t participate in
out about Nellie Ohr’s relationship with the company was anything related to his wife’s work … Ohr
through its bank records. should have been upfront about his wife’s
employment and not touched anything
“Bank records reflect that Fusion related to Steele, the dossier, and Fusion
contracted with Nellie Ohr, a former GPS.”
government official expert in Russian
matters, to help our company with its The DOJ’s judgment is only as good as the information
research and analysis of Mr. Trump. I am volunteered to them by Ohr, he said, and because he didn’t
not aware of any other sources from which list the name of his wife’s employer, they likely had no
the committee or the media could have reason to suspect it might have impacted his work.
learned of this information,” he said.
Walter Schaub, a former government ethics czar who is an
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative expert on the forms and resigned after offering sharp
legal group that has been critical of the department’s criticisms of Trump, declined repeated requests to weigh in
handling of the Trump investigation, said, on Ohr.
Bruce Ohr did not return a request for comment, nor did
the DOJ.
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BUSTED: DOJ Official Bruce Ohr
Caught Hiding Wife’s Payments From Fusion GPS
By Joshua Caplan
February 14, 2018, 9:26 Pm
Did Fusion GPS use Justice Department “Payments from Fusion GPS to Bruce
official Bruce Ohr’s wife, who was hired Ohr’s family, funded by the DNC, have the
to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald appearance of a ‘government for hire,’ i.e.
Trump, to influence top government bribing a DOJ official to push the
officials? If the answer is “no,” then case,” says the Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak.
why did the recently demoted Ohr hide
his wife’s Fusion GPS compensation Daily Caller has more:
from ethics officials?
“The money sweetened the pot for the
Ohrs, and it certainly made it easier for
Fusion to get the dossier to be used before
the court if they made that payment to
Bruce Ohr’s wife,” former judge and Texas
GOP Rep.
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“It’s with the Clinton campaign, the DNC,
the FBI, the Justice Department,” said
Fitton before asking, “how did they use this
dossier?”
“How did they use this dossier? Was
Mueller using this dossier? Was it used to
justify to a court to get warrants to spy on
Trump and his team?”
“That’s the collusion,” added Fitton.
“Bruce Ohr is the first indication that we
have that the Justice Department was
involved in this dossier that’s been so Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson
controversial.” recently admitted in a court document that his firm hired
Nellie Ohr, the wife of Bruce Ohr to investigate then-
Video credit: Judicial Watch candidate Donald Trump.
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Year Two: Fake Russian Collusion Allegations,
Charges Of Mental Instability And Non-Stop Trump
Hatred Fail To Take Down The Donald
By JD Heyes
02/14/2018
Trump could cure all cancers tomorrow, end hunger and Trump also seems to be winning the political battles as
poverty and find a permanent solution to endless war — well. He managed to pass major tax reform, and recently,
and still the unhinged Left and Washington establishment after he refused to cave to Democrats’ demands for a
would wake up each day trying to find a new way to get “clean” bill to provide citizenship to nearly two million
rid of him. (Related: Here’s proof that the Democrats are people in the U.S. illegally, they allowed the government
to shut down for three days recently. Most Americans (and
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even most “mainstream media” outlets) blamed them, not Trump’s not perfect, we all know that, but no one is. Yet
Trump and Republicans, for the shutdown. it’s clear he’s patriotic, he’s trying to do what’s best for all
Americans, and he’s succeeding in making America great
Also, Trump’s polling numbers have been quietly rising again, by any measure.
for weeks. I say quietly, because you’ll never read about
that in the Trump-hating Washington press; 48 percent of Trump enters year two of his presidency in good shape,
likely U.S. voters approve of Trump’s job performance same as the country.
(not the “38 percent” you’re always hearing about from the
same media that wrongly predicted a Hillary victory).
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Sharyl Attkisson Explains The Origins
Of The 2016 'Fake News' Narrative In Tedx Talk
By Debra Heine
February 14, 2018
In a Tedx Talk at the University of Nevada a couple of Attkisson, who has studied the manipulative moneyed
weeks ago (watch the video below) investigative journalist interests behind the media industry, said that "few themes
Sharyl Attkisson revealed the origins of the "fake news" arise in our environment organically." She noted that she
narrative that was aggressively pushed by the liberal media always found it helpful to "follow the money."
and Democrat politicians during the 2016 election, and
how it was later flipped by President Donald Trump. "What if the whole anti-fake news
campaign was an effort on somebody's part
Attkisson pointed out that "fake news" in the form of to keep us from seeing or believing certain
tabloid journalism and false media narratives has always websites and stories by controversializing
been around under different names. them or labeling them as fake news?"
Attkisson posited.
But she noticed that in 2016, there seemed to be a Digging deeper, she discovered that
concerted effort by the MSM to focus America's attention Google was one of the big donors
on the idea of "fake news" in conservative media. behind First Draft's "fake news" messaging.
Google's parent company, Alphabet, was
That looked like a propaganda effort to run by Eric Schmidt, who happened to be a
Attkisson, so she did a little digging and huge Hillary Clinton supporter.
traced the new spin to a little non-profit
called "First Draft," which, she said, Schmidt
"appears to be the about the first to use
'fake news' in its modern context." "offered himself up as a campaign adviser
"On September 13, 2016, First Draft and became a top multi-million donor to it.
announced a partnership to tackle His company funded First Draft around the
malicious hoaxes and fake news reports," start of the election cycle," Attkisson said.
Attkisson explained. "The goal was "Not surprisingly, Hillary was soon to jump
supposedly to separate wheat from chaff, aboard the anti-fake news train and her
to prevent unproven conspiracy talk from surrogate David Brock of Media Matters
figuring prominently in internet searches. privately told donors he was the one who
To relegate today's version of the alien convinced Facebook to join the effort."
baby story to a special internet oblivion."
Attkisson declared that
She noted that a month later, then-President Obama
chimed in. "the whole thing smacked of the roll-out of
a propaganda campaign." Attkisson added,
"He insisted in a speech that he too thought "But something happened that nobody
somebody needed to step in and curate expected. The anti-fake news campaign
information of this wild, wild West media backfired. Each time advocates cried fake
environment," she said, pointing out that news, Donald Trump called them 'fake
"nobody in the public had been clamoring news' until he'd co-opted the term so
for any such thing." completely that even those who [were]
originally promoting it started running from
Yet suddenly the subject of fake news was dominating it -- including the Washington Post," which
headlines all over America as if the media had received she noted later backed away from using
"its marching orders," she recounted. "Fake news, they the term.
insisted, was an imminent threat to American democracy."
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Attkisson called Trump's accomplishment a "hostile What's more, they're developing websites and partnering
takeover" of the term and cautioned people to always be with universities. She warned that these people have their
aware of "powerful interests might be trying to own agendas and want to tell you what to believe.
manipulate" their opinions.
"When interests are working this hard to
She described two warning signs to look out for. shape your opinion, their true goal might
just be to add another layer between you
1. When the media tries to shape or censor facts and and the truth," Attkisson concluded.
opinions rather than report them.
2. When so many in the media are reporting the same
stories, promulgating the same narratives, relying on
the same sources -- even using the same phrases.
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