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Post by trumped on May 20, 2018 18:34:58 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 20, 2018 18:36:23 GMT -6
Rats are scurrying One rat rat issuing a threat. One has to to wonder why he is so scared? |
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Post by imthedude on May 20, 2018 18:55:51 GMT -6
Brennan needs to hang.
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Post by trumped on May 20, 2018 19:44:07 GMT -6
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Post by trumped on May 20, 2018 19:48:01 GMT -6
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Post by trumped on May 20, 2018 20:13:30 GMT -6
FYI, Its a joke lol
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Post by trumped on May 20, 2018 21:10:08 GMT -6
From 2014
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Post by trumped on May 20, 2018 21:53:42 GMT -6
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Post by trumped on May 20, 2018 22:44:03 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 4:08:59 GMT -6
Freedom Caucus Chairman:
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 4:12:12 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2018/05/20/stefan-halper-carter-page/Cambridge professor Stefan Halper expressed skepticism of the alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign in communications with Carter Page. It was recently revealed Halper was the alleged FBI informant who spied on Page and George Papadopoulos, another Trump campaign aide. Halper and Page’s 14 months of contact ended in September 2017, the same month the last FISA warrant against the former Trump campaign aide expired. Last July, Cambridge professor Stefan Halper contacted Carter Page with something resembling support for the Trump campaign aide, who has faced allegations that he is a Russian agent and a conduit for collusion between the Kremlin and the campaign. “It seems attention has shifted a bit from the ‘collusion’ investigation to the ‘contretempts’ [sic] within the White House,” Halper wrote in a July 28, 2017 email to Page. “I must assume this gives you some relief,” he continued, signing off with “be in touch when you have the time. Would be great to catch up.” The email provides some insight into how Halper might have gained Page’s trust. And it was that trust that the 73-year-old Halper seemingly used while working as an FBI informant to keep tabs on Page. That email was not the only time Halper, a foreign policy expert with links to the CIA and MI6, offered apparent skepticism at the collusion allegations against Page, a Naval Academy graduate and energy consultant. Page told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Halper rolled his eyes during an encounter in late Summer 2016 when a letter that then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid sent to then-FBI Director James Comey was brought up in conversation. Reid accused Page in the letter of possibly being a Russian agent. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Cambridge Prof With CIA, MI6 Ties Met With Carter Page During Campaign, Beyond) But Halper was all but identified on Friday as an FBI informant who spied on Page and George Papadopoulos, another Trump campaign adviser. Halper also made contact in August 2016 with Sam Clovis, the campaign’s national co-chairman. In news articles published Friday, The Washington Post and The New York Times described an informant who met several times with Page and Papadopoulos. The newspapers did not name the informant, but the details matched up exactly with two DCNF reports, one published in March and the other on May 17. The Times and WaPo said they were not printing the informant’s names upon the request of the intelligence community. The FBI, the Department of Justice and the CIA have all declined TheDCNF’s request for guidance or comment about Halper.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 6:53:41 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 7:08:05 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2018/05/21/trump-blasts-john-brennan/President Donald Trump unloaded on former CIA director John Brennan Monday, quoting analysis blaming him for low levels of faith in the U.S. intelligence community. Trump quoted former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino’s blasting of Brennan, who has become an outspoken critic of the former CIA director. Bongino highlighted Brennan’s role in distributing the now-infamous Steele Dossier to Congress and pushing for a counterintelligence investigation
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Post by oilsooner on May 21, 2018 8:01:51 GMT -6
I simply can not believe they put a mole in his campaign. It absolutely blows my mind. But, it pales in comparison to the justifications and rationalizations for it being put forth by liberals and anti-Trumpers on places like Reddit, and trumpeted in the MSM. If you want a glimpse in to how close we are to dissolving as a country, take a look at your fellow Americans rationalizing a story we know little about, whose prime issue is inserting a counter intelligence official into a presidential campaign. These individuals first inclination is to state that it is justifiable almost entirely based on their hatred of Donald Trump and his ideology. We are in a very dangerous place. Seriously. I mean, I knew it was bad, but this is next level. Politics subreddit on RedditThen, there are outright lies like this. The only way this isnt widely panned and immediately laughed off the internet is because this country is in a bad, bad way, and people have been conned beyond belief. Honestly, we might already be lost. WaPost - The FBI didn’t use an informant to go after Trump. They used one to protect him. (Don't be afraid to look up Asha Rangappa, and why she might write a piece like this. I question more so why people actually believe it.) |
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 8:45:42 GMT -6
If this happened, I’d honestly laugh my @$$ off.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 8:49:08 GMT -6
Stormy related:
Somewhere, Tom Clancy is kicking himself for not having a book/game as interesting as this.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 9:19:09 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2018/05/21/public-evidence-crossfire-hurricane-demands-full-investigation-stat/The Public Evidence About Crossfire Hurricane Demands A Full Investigation, Stat Rather than vindicate the FBI, this raises the specter that the FBI extensively targeted Trump campaign officials before its official launch of Crossfire Hurricane. By Margot Cleveland What we know about federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ spying on the Donald Trump campaign likely represents but a sliver of their covert activities. But it’s about time we do, and President Trump is right to demand an investigation. Here’s what we know so far. In the run-up to the presidential election, on July 31, 2016, the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) opened a “counterintelligence investigation” to probe whether the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to influence the election. Over the last two weeks, in a series of articles, The New York Times and Washington Post revealed that the investigation, dubbed operation Crossfire Hurricane, involved a government informant connected to the Trump campaign. On Friday, the Washington Post reported more details of the informant’s “months-long pattern of seeking out and meeting three different Trump campaign officials.” The presumed informant, a professor with contacts with both the Central Intelligence Agency and MI6, first met with Carter Page, then a foreign policy advisor for Trump’s campaign, at a conference in Cambridge in July 2016. He met Page several more times before the election. According to the Washington Post, the informant also met in the late summer “with Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis,” offering “to provide foreign-policy expertise to the Trump effort.” Then in September, the informant “reached out to George Papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign-policy adviser for the campaign, inviting him to London to work on a research paper.” The Investigation’s Timing Is Under Scrutiny The timing of the informant’s initial encounter with Page proves significant because that meeting occurred before the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane. That detail proves the raison d’être for the Washington Post’s Friday article because, with reporters already cracking the identity of the informant from the Post’s earlier articles, it would not be long before someone highlighted that early July meeting. For the last several weeks, the few members of the press bothering to report on the Obama administration’s targeting of the Trump campaign have questioned the FBI’s contention that it first launched its investigation into the Trump campaign in late July 2017. The Washington Post gives cover to the revelation that the sting began earlier: “The FBI commonly uses sources and informants to gather evidence and its regulations allow for use of informants even before a formal investigation has been opened. In many law enforcement investigations, the use of sources and informants precedes more invasive techniques such as electronic surveillance.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 9:46:54 GMT -6
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Post by imthedude on May 21, 2018 10:28:28 GMT -6
They’re scared shitless and in complete spin/damage control. |
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 11:00:51 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2018/05/21/fbi-informant-george-papadopoulos/The month of August 2016 is emerging as especially crucial to the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. The investigation, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” was opened on July 31, 2016 based on a claim from an Australian diplomat that Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos made comments more than two months earlier about Hillary Clinton’s emails and Russians. At some point over the ensuing month, the FBI seemingly decided to activate an FBI informant to make contact with Papadopoulos, who had joined the Trump team in March 2016. Stefan Halper, a Cambridge professor with longstanding CIA and MI6 ties, made contact with Papadopoulos on Sept. 2, 2016. They met in London later that month. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: A London Meeting Before The Election Aroused George Papadopoulos’s Suspicions) The decision to choose tactics resembling a John le Carré novel was made in lieu of a more direct alternative: contacting Papadopoulos to ask him what he knew about the Clinton emails. The bureau did not interview Papadopoulos until Jan. 27, 2017, nearly six months after Crossfire Hurricane started. That delay in interviewing Papadopoulos and in other steps taken during the investigation was addressed in a New York Times article published last Wednesday. Top FBI and DOJ officials faced a dilemma, according to the Times article, which relies heavily on sources from both agencies. The fear, according to their telling, was that conducting an aggressive investigation would tip their hand to anyone involved in a possible collusion scheme. According to The Times, officials discussed approaching campaign officials to ask about their Russian contacts. But that idea was tabled because of the fear that interviewing witnesses and issuing subpoenas ran the risk of publicizing the investigation — a scenario FBI officials hoped to avoid down the final stretch of the presidential campaign. But as The Times notes, the FBI “ultimately interviewed Mr. Papadopoulos in January 2017 and managed to keep it a secret, suggesting they could have done so much earlier.” Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to the special counsel’s office for lying to the FBI during that interview. As part of his plea deal, Papadopoulos admitted he lied about the timing of his interactions with two Russian nationals and a Maltese professor named Joseph Mifsud. Papadopoulos initially told FBI agents that the contacts occurred prior to joining the Trump campaign when, in fact, they occurred after he learned that he would be joining the Trump campaign in March 2016. FBI defenders could point to Papadopoulos’ deception in the January 2017 interview to argue that he would have lied had he been questioned earlier in Crossfire Hurricane. But that argument is undercut by what else Papadopoulos said in his FBI interview. According to a statement of offense Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed, Papadopoulos told FBI agents that Mifsud mentioned the stolen Clinton emails. And sources familiar with Papadopoulos’s version of the FBI interview say he claims that he, and not the FBI agents, first mentioned Mifsud during the interview, which was conducted in Chicago without lawyers present.
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Post by trumped on May 21, 2018 11:35:20 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 11:40:26 GMT -6
www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2018/05/21/mueller-virginia-case-special-assistant-us-attorneys-600777An obscure special status obtained by several of special counsel Robert Mueller’s attorneys could prevent a judge from ousting Mueller’s lawyers from their role in the prosecution of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in federal court in Virginia. Several court filings indicate that when lawyers from Mueller’s office appeared in federal court in Alexandria earlier this year, they did so not only as representative of Mueller’s office but as special assistant United States attorneys (SAUSAs) attached to the United States attorney’s office there. That designation gives the Mueller prosecutors a kind of dual status that could complicate any attempt by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III to try to shift the case to federal prosecutors based in Alexandria–a possibility the judge mentioned on a couple of occasions during a contentious hearing earlier this month. ..... “As special assistant U.S. attorneys, they are not confined to the scope the special counsel is acting under,” said Haley White, a North Carolina attorney who wrote a 2015 law review article on the SAUSA phenomenon. “They can potentially have the ability to go outside that scope….They have all the powers and abilities that just a regular U.S. attorney would have.” At least four of Mueller’s prosecutors have submitted court pleadings indicating they have SAUSA status: Andrew Weissmann, Greg Andres, Kyle Freeny and Scott Meisler. scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1407&context=crsj....... However, some scholars have warned of dangers in the SAUSA phenomenon, with U.S. attorneys’ offices blurring lines of responsibility with other entities and sometimes giving local prosecutors an option to avoid the urban jury pools of their local courts. U.S. attorneys seem to make uneven use of the SAUSA arrangement, with some offices rarely, if ever, relying on it and one office reporting more than 50 SAUSAs on its rolls. www.templelawreview.org/lawreview/assets/uploads/2011/07/Killion.pdfwww.justice.gov/usao-edpa/about
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Post by trumped on May 21, 2018 11:54:23 GMT -6
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Post by oilsooner on May 21, 2018 12:00:02 GMT -6
They’re scared shitless and in complete spin/damage control. Heres the way I see it: With how out of control things are, if there was incontrovertible proof that Trump colluded with the Russians, you release that information yesterday, then continue the investigation. Why? Because the country is splitting apart. And, that evidence would initially cause some shock, yes, but it would bring the country together around the proof. Show me incontrovertible proof that Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election, and I am a Trump supporter no more. Period. But, Mueller, Brennan, etc. all know that. So, the only reason I can think of that they have not released this evidence is that they don't have it. Because it doesn't exist. Now, Brennan is threatening Ryan and McConnell (and when you're putting your hopes in those two cucks, you're clearly in a world of hurt), which tells us Brennan either thinks they know something (why else would they act against Trump at Brennan's behest), or he is saying he has something on them, to threaten them into acting. Washington DC is not a town where evidence of this nature...Trump colluding with the Russians...could ever be kept secret. Too many people gain immediate and immense power by knowing it, in a town full of power hungry sociopaths. If there is evidence, we need it now. If there isn't, and we are investigating side crimes and misdemeanors, Mueller is hurting the country by continuing this charade. Whats worse is that I think he knows that. And continues anyway. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know who Mueller would side with...Trump or Brennan?? |
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 12:37:10 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 12:38:52 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 12:39:38 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 12:42:06 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2018/05/21/bartiromo-doj-fbi-irs-cia-all-involved-in-trying-to-take-down-trump/Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo said Monday that she believes the DOJ, FBI, IRS and CIA under the Obama administration were all involved in trying to derail President Donald Trump. Bartiromo and Judge Andrew Napolitano discussed the idea that the Department of Justice had an informant spying on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election and suggested it could be part of a larger anti-Trump conspiracy. “We may be on the precipice of exposing a very very extraordinary political use of intelligence and law enforcement by the Obama administration,” Judge Napolitano said. “The government can’t just investigate anybody it wants. “This is a major presidential election,” Bartiromo interjected. “President Obama, basically what it appears to me, politicizing all of his agencies.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 14:21:37 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2018 14:23:59 GMT -6
Humorous considering this:
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