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Post by soonernvolved on May 10, 2018 4:13:30 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 10, 2018 4:16:27 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 10, 2018 4:20:26 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/05/09/russian-collusion-trial-robert-mueller-first-casualty/WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lawyers for Russian company Concord Management and Consulting, LLC, formally entered a “not guilty” plea in federal court Monday in a case Special Counsel Robert Mueller probably never thought would happen. Mueller, weathering significant criticism that his Russian collusion case was thin, unveiled a grandiose indictment Feb. 16 against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies. The 13 Russians in question were charged with waging “information warfare” in the United States, interfering with the 2016 presidential election, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Mueller generated headlines with the February indictment, safe in the knowledge the 13 Russians were beyond U.S. jurisdiction. Therefore, there would be no trial — only sensational Russian collusion accusations.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 10, 2018 7:32:31 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2018/05/10/mccain-defends-decision-to-give-steele-dossier-to-the-fbi/Senator John McCain wrote in his upcoming memoir that he does not regret providing the FBI with the Steele dossier. McCain said he gave the dossier to then FBI-head James Comey, back in late 2016. The Arizonian senator discusses and defends his decision to share the information in his new book, “The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations,” which is scheduled to come out May 22. According to The Guardian, who got an advanced copy of the book, McCain said, “I did what duty demanded I do. I discharged that obligation and I would do it again. Anyone who doesn’t like it can go to hell.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 10, 2018 7:33:50 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2018/05/10/pence-on-mueller-investigation/Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday morning he believes it’s time for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to end his long ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Pence told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he thinks Mueller has spent enough time on the investigation and reiterated that President Donald Trump’s administration has fully complied with Mueller’s requests, providing him with over 1 million documents. “What I think is that it’s been about a year since this investigation began,” Pence said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show. “Our administration has provided over a million documents, we’ve fully cooperated in it and in the interest of the country, I think it’s time to wrap it up.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 10, 2018 7:36:21 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/05/09/russian-collusion-trial-robert-mueller-first-casualty/WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lawyers for Russian company Concord Management and Consulting, LLC, formally entered a “not guilty” plea in federal court Monday in a case special counsel Robert Mueller probably never thought would happen. Mueller, weathering significant criticism that his Russian collusion case was thin, unveiled a grandiose indictment Feb. 16 against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies. The 13 Russians in question were charged with waging “information warfare” in the United States, interfering with the 2016 presidential election, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Mueller generated headlines with the February indictment, safe in the knowledge the 13 Russians were beyond U.S. jurisdiction. Therefore, there would be no trial — only sensational Russian collusion accusations. Mueller may now have to try the case, and Concord’s lawyers have put the special counsel on notice. The Russian company’s lawyers intend to invoke “discovery” to obtain U.S. intelligence about what they knew of Russian activities. “I guess Mueller thought it was a freebie, for sure,” former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy told The Daily Caller News Foundation after the court proceeding. “He thought it could make this association (of Russian collusion) and it would never be challenged in court,” McCarthy, also a National Review contributing editor, said. Concord retained the services of two attorneys at mega law firm Reed Smith, and the company is demanding a speedy trial. The lawyers indicated they were going to exercise Concord’s rights under discovery to examine all of Mueller’s “evidence” of the conspiracy.[/i]
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Post by redstripe on May 10, 2018 9:26:02 GMT -6
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stooptroup
Seeking Asylum
Trump Supporter Trying to do my part in making America great for all Americans especially my kids a
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Post by stooptroup on May 10, 2018 10:33:13 GMT -6
Comey seemed like a Career Guy just doing what he thought was best. Don't fit in with the POTUS? Oh well. We all know what Trump's Tag Line is and was for Comey.
Guy will bounce back. Maybe not at the FBI but in life.
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Post by trumped on May 10, 2018 11:49:23 GMT -6
LMFAO!!!
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Post by trumped on May 10, 2018 16:29:10 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 10, 2018 18:28:31 GMT -6
www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-04-04/judge-gives-preliminary-ok-to-35m-settlement-of-irs-caseA federal judge Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a $3.5 million settlement of a lawsuit against the IRS over alleged targeting of tea party groups and other conservative organizations. U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett set a July 10 hearing in Cincinnati on making the settlement final, and scheduled deadlines for claims and objections. The Justice Department had announced last year that the case had been settled, pending approval of terms. The lead plaintiff was the California-based Norcal Tea Party Patriots. The case swelled into a class-action suit by hundreds of groups. The court will decide how much each gets after legal costs.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 11, 2018 4:32:33 GMT -6
Possible that the FBI has placed a spy inside the Trump campaign: www.wsj.com/articles/about-that-fbi-source-1525992611?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1Thanks to the Washington Post’s unnamed law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr. Nunes’s request deals with a “top secret intelligence source” of the FBI and CIA, who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved in the Russia collusion probe. When government agencies refer to sources, they mean people who appear to be average citizens but use their profession or contacts to spy for the agency. Ergo, we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign. This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting. It would also be a major escalation from the electronic surveillance we already knew about, which was bad enough. Obama political appointees rampantly “unmasked” Trump campaign officials to monitor their conversations, while the FBI played dirty with its surveillance warrant against Carter Page, failing to tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that its supporting information came from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Now we find it may have also been rolling out human intelligence, John Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump campaign. Which would lead to another big question for the FBI: When? The bureau has been doggedly sticking with its story that a tip in July 2016 about the drunken ramblings of George Papadopoulos launched its counterintelligence probe. Still, the players in this affair—the FBI, former Director Jim Comey, the Steele dossier authors—have been suspiciously vague on the key moments leading up to that launch date. When precisely was the Steele dossier delivered to the FBI? When precisely did the Papadopoulos information come in? And to the point, when precisely was this human source operating? Because if it was prior to that infamous Papadopoulos tip, then the FBI isn’t being straight. It would mean the bureau was spying on the Trump campaign prior to that moment. And that in turn would mean that the FBI had been spurred to act on the basis of something other than a junior campaign aide’s loose lips. We also know that among the Justice Department’s stated reasons for not complying with the Nunes subpoena was its worry that to do so might damage international relationships. This suggests the “source” may be overseas, have ties to foreign intelligence, or both. ...... |
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Post by trumped on May 11, 2018 6:22:51 GMT -6
2 years
0 Russia collusion
Tons of dirty Dems
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Post by soonernvolved on May 11, 2018 6:59:19 GMT -6
2 years 0 Russia collusion Tons of dirty Dems What makes it better is they also wire tapped his phones, planted a spy in his campaign, etc & still have no proof of collusion. |
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Post by trumped on May 11, 2018 9:15:08 GMT -6
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Post by trumped on May 11, 2018 9:22:13 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 11, 2018 12:21:39 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 11, 2018 15:54:47 GMT -6
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Friday stating Comey testified the FBI didn’t think General Flynn lied. Grassley is demanding the FBI and DOJ produce the transcript of Flynn’s intercepted calls with Russian Ambassador Kislyak and the 302’s by May 25th. 302’s are reports FBI agents take to summarize an interview with a subject. www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-05-11%20CEG%20to%20DOJ%20FBI%20(Flynn%20Transcript).pdfDear Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and Director Wray: On February 15, 2017, this Committee requested on a bipartisan basis a copy of the transcript of the widely reported call between Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and the Russian ambassador and the FBI report summarizing the intercepted calls. The Justice Department declined to provide any of that information, and instead then-FBI Director Comey provided a wide-ranging briefing to us on March 15, 2017 that touched on the Flynn issues. Like the Flynn interview itself, that briefing was not transcribed. Also like the Flynn interview, there are notes taken by a career, non-partisan law enforcement officer who was present. The agent was on detail to the Committee staff at the time. According to that agent’s contemporaneous notes, Director Comey specifically told us during that briefing that the FBI agents who interviewed Lt. General Michael Flynn, “saw nothing that led them to believe [he was] lying.” Our own Committee staff’s notes indicate that Mr. Comey said the “agents saw no change in his demeanor or tone that would say he was being untruthful.” Contrary to his public statements during his current book tour denying any memory of those comments, then-Director Comey led us to believe during that briefing that the agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe he intentionally lied about his conversation with the Ambassador and that the Justice Department was unlikely to prosecute him for false statements made in that interview. In the months since then, the Special Counsel obtained a guilty plea from Lt. General Flynn for that precise alleged conduct. The Department has withheld the Flynn-related documents since our initial bipartisan request last year, citing an ongoing criminal investigation. With Flynn’s plea, the investigation appears concluded. Additionally, while we are aware that the Special Counsel’s office has moved to delay Lt. General Flynn’s sentencing on several occasions, we presume that all related records already have been provided to the defense pursuant to Judge Sullivan’s February 16, 2018 order requiring production of all potentially exculpatory material. Thus, although the case is not yet adjudicated, the Committee’s oversight interest in the underlying documents requested more than a year ago now outweighs any legitimate executive branch interest in withholding it. So too does the Committee’s interest in learning the FBI agents’ actual assessments of their interview of Lt. Gen. Flynn, particularly given the apparent contradiction between what thenDirectory Comey told us in March 2017 and what he now claims. |
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Post by trumped on May 11, 2018 21:48:27 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 12, 2018 4:17:08 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 12, 2018 4:19:23 GMT -6
Dan Bongino: A human intelligence asset may have been inserted in your political rivals campaign? How this isn’t front page news on every newspaper across the globe is stunning. But Tucker that’s not it though. Keep in mind, just a couple weeks ago Devin Nunes on this network in an interview with Maria Bartiromo had another bombshell. That there was no official foreign intelligence, through official channels passed into the United States… I have my suspicions about who this asset is as do many others by the way. This is going to be explosive though when this name comes out. Because the list of suspects is very short. And there are some very suspicious people who are connected to people within our intelligence community now… I believe there is more than one source for the FBI.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 12, 2018 4:21:42 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2018/05/11/mueller-trump-inauguration/Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating foreign donations to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, according to a new report. Mueller’s investigators have questioned several witnesses about millions of dollars in contributions from donors with links to Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Russia, according to ABC News. One of the people interviewed is Thomas Barrack, a longtime Trump friend who handled financing for the president’s inaugural committee. Barrack, a billionaire real estate investor, pulled in more than $100 million for the inauguration, ABC News reported. That was more than double what was raised for former President Obama’s inauguration in 2009. Witnesses have been asked about Andrew Intrater, the chairman of Columbus Nova, the company revealed on May 8 to have paid longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen nearly $500,000 in the months after Trump’s inauguration.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 12, 2018 6:50:31 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 12, 2018 6:57:49 GMT -6
Beginning of the end? If this turns around & I were Flynn, I’d sue Mueller, etc,(has happened in the past and those people walked away with millions). www.dailywire.com/news/30547/senate-judiciary-demands-doj-fbi-turn-over-flynn-ryan-saavedraSenate Judiciary Demands DOJ & FBI Turn Over Flynn 302 Forms Due To Comey's Contradictory Statements ....... On Friday, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to Department of Justice Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding that they produce documents related to the FBI's assessments of their interview of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn due to recent contradictory statements made by fired FBI Director James Comey. "On February 15, 2017, this Committee requested on a bipartisan basis a copy of the transcript of the widely reported call between Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and the Russian ambassador and the FBI report summarizing the intercepted calls," Grassley wrote. "The Justice Department declined to provide any of that information, and instead then-FBI Director Comey provided a wide-ranging briefing to us on March 15, 2017 that touched on the Flynn issues. " "According to that agent’s contemporaneous notes, Director Comey specifically told us during that briefing that the FBI agents who interviewed Lt. General Michael Flynn, 'saw nothing that led them to believe [he was] lying,'" Grassley's letter continues. "Our own Committee staff’s notes indicate that Mr. Comey said the 'agents saw no change in his demeanor or tone that would say he was being untruthful.' "Contrary to his public statements during his current book tour denying any memory of those comments, then-Director Comey led us to believe during that briefing that the agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe he intentionally lied..." Grassley wrote, before listing off demands to Rosenstein and Wray. |
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Post by soonernvolved on May 12, 2018 7:03:52 GMT -6
I keep saying that if/when Sessions is replaced as AG, this man would be on my short list to replace him. www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/did-fbi-have-spy-in-trump-presidential-campaign/Did the FBI Have a Spy in the Trump Campaign? ...... The Steele-dossier author told Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson about a ‘human source.’ Something tells me Glenn Simpson did not make a mistake. Something tells me the co-founder of Fusion GPS was dead-on accurate when he testified that Christopher Steele told him the FBI had a “human source” — i.e., a spy — inside the Trump campaign as the 2016 presidential race headed into its stretch run. When he realized how explosive this revelation was, Simpson walked it back: He had, perhaps, “mischaracterized” what he’d been told by Steele, the former British spy and principal author of the anti-Trump dossier he and Simpson compiled for the Clinton campaign. Simpson gave his testimony about the FBI’s human source at a closed Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on August 22, 2017. He did not try to retract it until the uproar that followed the publication of his testimony on January 9, 2018. The latter date is significant for reasons we’ll come to. A Spy and a Stonewall Simpson’s testimony on this point is worth revisiting because of a pitched battle between the House Intelligence Committee and the Justice Department. Essential reporting on the controversy has been done by the Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel (see here and here). On Thursday, she related that, yet again, Congress had faced down a DOJ/FBI attempt to stonewall the committee’s probe of investigative irregularities during the 2016 election season — particularly, abuse of government surveillance powers, which the Obama-led agencies used to monitor the Trump campaign. Unable to get voluntary cooperation, committee chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) issued a subpoena demanding that the Justice Department disclose information about a top-secret intelligence source who is said to have assisted the Russia investigation. That investigation is now being run by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But more interesting is how it got started. –– ADVERTISEMENT –– On that question, officials have been suspiciously fuzzy in their explanations, and hilariously inconsistent in their leaks: initially settling on an origination story that hinged on the Steele dossier and a trip to Moscow by the obscure Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page; later pivoting to a tale of boozy blathering by an even more obscure Trump-campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, when the first story proved embarrassing — the dossier allegations having been unverified when the Justice Department included them in warrant applications to the FISA court. The Justice Department’s inability, or at least unwillingness, to reveal exactly how, when, and why the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation has fueled suspicions that a spy who worked for both the FBI and the CIA was deployed against the Trump campaign, probably in Britain — where Papadopoulos had met with suspected agents of the Kremlin, and where Steele compiled the dossier via reports from his unidentified sources. |
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Post by redstripe on May 12, 2018 7:20:35 GMT -6
Good stuff today soonernvolved
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Post by principledcon on May 12, 2018 8:15:52 GMT -6
I notice that all the establishment type folks mention left or right when describing something that has been done when it is usually the left that has actually done it...who is the right? thats like using the work conservative for Pubs when in all actuality there a very few real conservatives...most are establishment types or even liberal leaning... |
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Post by trumped on May 12, 2018 8:48:35 GMT -6
I notice that all the establishment type folks mention left or right when describing something that has been done when it is usually the left that has actually done it...who is the right? thats like using the work conservative for Pubs when in all actuality there a very few real conservatives...most are establishment types or even liberal leaning... Agree but you have Swampers like McCain involved. Its mostly left but there are some on right as dirty. And thank God for Nunes he is relentless! |
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Post by soonernvolved on May 12, 2018 9:07:01 GMT -6
Good stuff today soonernvolved Glad to be of assistance. |
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Post by soonernvolved on May 12, 2018 9:09:24 GMT -6
What was not yet available until last night was the transcript of the hearing. The reason the Concord Management attorneys called the case a ‘proverbial ham sandwich’ was because one of the entities indicted by the Mueller team, Concord Catering, was not in existence at the time the crimes were alleged to have taken place.
Seriously, how does this even happen when one is a Special Investigator?
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