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Post by 1tc on Aug 16, 2018 21:11:32 GMT -6
www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/opinion/john-brennan-trump-russia-collusion-security-clearance.htmlJohn Brennan: President Trump’s Claims of No Collusion Are Hogwash That’s why the president revoked my security clearance: to try to silence anyone who would dare challenge him. By John O. Brennan Mr. Brennan was director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2013 to 2017. Aug. 16, 2018 When Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s internal security service, told me during an early August 2016 phone call that Russia wasn’t interfering in our presidential election, I knew he was lying. Over the previous several years I had grown weary of Mr. Bortnikov’s denials of Russia’s perfidy — about its mistreatment of American diplomats and citizens in Moscow, its repeated failure to adhere to cease-fire agreements in Syria and its paramilitary intervention in eastern Ukraine, to name just a few issues. When I warned Mr. Bortnikov that Russian interference in our election was intolerable and would roil United States-Russia relations for many years, he denied Russian involvement in any election, in America or elsewhere, with a feigned sincerity that I had heard many times before. President Vladimir Putin of Russia reiterated those denials numerous times over the past two years, often to Donald Trump’s seeming approval. Russian denials are, in a word, hogwash. This is one of the major talking points that both the MSM puppets and those involved are really pushing. I've yet to see how losing a clearance keeps someone from speaking freely. Because low information voters vote D. Even otherwise bright people are still Never Trumpers because of collusion. The left keep just throwing false accusations against the TV hoping something will stick. It really hasn’t worked to do anything but turn people against the likes of CNN.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 17, 2018 4:07:48 GMT -6
www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/opinion/john-brennan-trump-russia-collusion-security-clearance.htmlJohn Brennan: President Trump’s Claims of No Collusion Are Hogwash That’s why the president revoked my security clearance: to try to silence anyone who would dare challenge him. By John O. Brennan Mr. Brennan was director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2013 to 2017. Aug. 16, 2018 When Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s internal security service, told me during an early August 2016 phone call that Russia wasn’t interfering in our presidential election, I knew he was lying. Over the previous several years I had grown weary of Mr. Bortnikov’s denials of Russia’s perfidy — about its mistreatment of American diplomats and citizens in Moscow, its repeated failure to adhere to cease-fire agreements in Syria and its paramilitary intervention in eastern Ukraine, to name just a few issues. When I warned Mr. Bortnikov that Russian interference in our election was intolerable and would roil United States-Russia relations for many years, he denied Russian involvement in any election, in America or elsewhere, with a feigned sincerity that I had heard many times before. President Vladimir Putin of Russia reiterated those denials numerous times over the past two years, often to Donald Trump’s seeming approval. Russian denials are, in a word, hogwash. This is one of the major talking points that both the MSM puppets and those involved are really pushing. I've yet to see how losing a clearance keeps someone from speaking freely. As we both know, it doesn’t prevent him from continuing to speak out against this administration. All this does is do to him what happens with us “normal “ folks. Basically, you leave your job & you lose all your access rights with that company. It’s just those who dislike this administration who are trying to spin it into a negative.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 17, 2018 4:10:07 GMT -6
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/15/adam-lovinger-pentagon-analyst-lost-security-clear/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetworkA Trump-supporting Pentagon analyst was stripped of his security clearance by Obama-appointed officials after he complained of questionable government contracts to Stefan Halper, the FBI informant who spied on the Trump presidential campaign. Adam Lovinger, a 12-year strategist in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, complained to his bosses about Halper contracts in the fall of 2016, his attorney, Sean M. Bigley, told The Washington Times. On May 1, 2017, his superiors yanked his security clearance and relegated him to clerical chores. Mr. Bigley filed a complaint July 18 with the Pentagon’s senior ethics official, charging that Mr. Lovinger’s superiors misused the security clearance process to punish him. He said his client complained about excessive “sweetheart” deals for Mr. Halper and for a “best friend” of Chelsea Clinton. “As it turns out, one of the two contractors Mr. Lovinger explicitly warned his ONA superiors about misusing in 2016 was none other than Mr. Halper,” Mr. Bigley wrote in his ethics complaint, which called the contracts “cronyism and corruption.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 17, 2018 5:50:19 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/08/16/stefan-halper-pentagon-outrageous/A Pentagon whistleblower complained in October 2016 about “outrageous” contracts that were provided to Stefan Halper, the FBI informant who spied on the Trump campaign. The whistleblower, Adam Lovinger, was stripped of his security clearance after complaining about Halper’s contracts. Lovinger’s lawyer says Halper’s work for the Pentagon could have provided him the cover he needed to contact the Trump campaign. Over a year before Stefan Halper was revealed as an FBI informant who spied on the Trump campaign, a Pentagon analyst complained to his bosses about “astronomically outrageous” contracts given to Halper, a former University of Cambridge professor. That analyst, Adam Lovinger, has since been stripped of his security clearance; he says because he blew the whistle on the Pentagon contracts with Halper and Long Term Strategic Group (LTSG), a firm owned by a childhood friend of Chelsea Clinton’s named Jacqueline Newmyer Deal. Lovinger flagged the contracts in 2016 to his boss James Baker, the director of the Office of Net Assessment (ONA), a small Defense Department unit known as the Pentagon’s think tank. Shortly after joining the National Security Council, Lovinger’s security clearance was revoked on May 1, 2017. Baker, an Obama appointee, made four specific allegations against Lovinger. He claims that Lovinger made an unauthorized trip to Israel, that he took home unclassified academic papers, that he read classified documents on an airplane and that he had unauthorized contacts with the Indian government. Lovinger has disputed the claims. He filed a whistleblower retaliation complaint in May with the Pentagon’s inspector general. On July 18, he filed an ethics complaint about Baker with the Pentagon’s senior ethics official. The Washington Times first reported on Lovinger’s complaints about Halper’s contracts with ONA. The Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported on Lovinger’s claims about an $11.2-million contract that ONA struck with LTSG. (RELATED: DOD’s Inspector General Opens Probe Into Alleged Retaliation By Obama Holdover) Halper’s work for ONA consisted of writing policy papers on geopolitical hotspots like China, Russia and India. Government records show that Washington Headquarters Services, a subdivision of ONA, paid Halper a total of $1,058,161 for four contracts that lasted from May 30, 2012, to March 29, 2018.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 17, 2018 7:13:47 GMT -6
Techno Fog @techno_Fog Transcript: Defense closing arguments in the Paul Manafort trial. Strong closing, putting into question the bank fraud and tax charges, the testimony of Rick Gates.. and the motives of the Special Counsel. [Thread] 10:53 PM - Aug 15, 2018 1,532 1,124 people are talking about this ...... Techno Fog @techno_Fog First main argument: If Manafort were undertaking this huge fraud conspiracy, why wasn't he secretive? pic.twitter.com/ept1JN2Kfp 10:56 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ........ Techno Fog @techno_Fog Starting on the bank fraud charges... By the end of 2016, Manafort had a net worth of $21.3 million. "So why does the gov't come and try to put witnesses on to say he didn't have any money?" Why is there no evidence the loans supported his lifestyle? pic.twitter.com/YOLUeVdwMt 11:00 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ........ Techno Fog @techno_Fog The gov't claimed the bank relied upon a false 2016 profit and loss statement. The defense points out the bank officer testified that the bank knew Manafort didn't have 2016 income because he was a volunteer on Trump's campaign. A bank memo exhibit showed losses of $638K pic.twitter.com/3me2rv4cIr 11:04 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ....... Techno Fog @techno_Fog The defense gets to the point of the Special Counsel: "This is basically a group that has come along and looked at every financial angle, poured through the documents, and tried to find any place that something doesn't match up." True. pic.twitter.com/37SnvbPTwb 11:07 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ...... Techno Fog @techno_Fog How concerned were the banks about the "fraud"? "Nobody came forward and said, 'We're concerned about what we're seeing here,' not until the Special Counsel showed up." pic.twitter.com/aqOstVmxqJ 11:11 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ...... Techno Fog @techno_Fog In fact, Manafort's $9.5 million property loan was examined by regulators, and "the Office of Comptroller of the Currency did not cite the underlying problems with the loan." pic.twitter.com/DEmiQktzUu 11:15 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ...... Techno Fog @techno_Fog Why were the bank fraud charges added to suggest "some elaborate fraud scheme"? "To give you (the jury) a sense that everything is so overwhelming that there's only one conclusion." pic.twitter.com/gMENnOhXD4 11:22 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ...... Techno Fog @techno_Fog As to the conspiracy charges: If Manafort conspired to commit bank fraud with Rick Gates... then why wasn't Gates required "to plead guilty to any bank fraud charges"? pic.twitter.com/iZULlch7Ct 11:26 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ...... Techno Fog @techno_Fog There was some issue as to whether Manafort disclosed material facts to the banks. They give two examples of a bank official thanking Manafort for clearing up the status of the properties. pic.twitter.com/LpNCCQdiTC 11:29 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ...... Techno Fog @techno_Fog Another issue was whether Manafort disclosed a home (in NY, I believe) would be a residence or rental Here we have evidence of the bank's knowledge that it is a rental, and that Manafort's primary residence was in Florida. pic.twitter.com/pN2pb8ftVb 11:32 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ...... Techno Fog @techno_Fog More on the Special Counsel: "People do not get prosecuted by typical Justice Department prosecutors when what they have done is had some issue about whether their property is being rented or personally owned and it changes." 100% true pic.twitter.com/cjSOnnp9lx 11:36 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ...... Techno Fog @techno_Fog As to another big loan.. Was there fraud? No fraud because the bank secured itself "by having collateral that was millions of dollars over the debt" pic.twitter.com/Ig6ZR0Kl62 11:39 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ...... Techno Fog @techno_Fog The Special Counsel called these "buddy loans," but the numbers don't add up. The numbers were 60% loan to collateral value, and 70% loan to collateral value. The bank made hundreds of thousands of dollars... Manafort was being charged 7.25% interest. pic.twitter.com/49OJzbz9Gz 11:42 PM - Aug 15, 2018 ....... Techno Fog @techno_Fog Now they start hitting Rick Gates. "On the first question out of the box, he fell apart and showed himself to be the liar that he is." pic.twitter.com/gVUjSjrMHo 11:45 PM - Aug 15, 2018
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Post by okirishfan on Aug 17, 2018 7:43:05 GMT -6
Mueller has 3 times the amount of evidence (documents) for upcoming trial than the current trial.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has triple the amount to evidence to present in the next criminal trial of President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Prosecutors have nearly three times the number of exhibits to present in the upcoming Washington, D.C., trial compared to the Virginia trial that is still in jury deliberations, according to a Thursday court filing obtained by CNN.
Mueller's team reportedly has over 1,000 pieces of evidence to present in Manafort’s D.C. federal case over foreign lobbying and money laundering charges.
Prosecutor Greg Andres said in the Virginia court Wednesday that 388 documents were submitted into evidence in the case currently under jury deliberation.
The judge in the D.C. criminal case told prosecutors to “review” their collection "with an eye towards streamlining the presentation of its case,” according to CNN.
Manafort’s defense attorneys asked a D.C. judge on Thursday to push their filing deadline back because they have not been given enough time to make plans for the September trial, CNN reported.
The judge granted them a four day extension.
Most of the evidence in the two criminal cases will not overlap, CNN reported.
Both cases pertain to Manafort’s time as a political consultant to Ukraine. He is accused of illegal lobbying as well as alleged bank and tax fraud.
Manafort's indictment resulted from Mueller’s team during its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including whether Moscow colluded with members of the Trump campaign.
The charges against Manafort are not tied to his work on the Trump campaign, and some of the alleged crimes predate the election by several years.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 17, 2018 7:50:02 GMT -6
This pretty much sums it all up. In one sentence.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 17, 2018 8:23:50 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-17/deeply-troubling-wall-street-journal-implores-what-was-bruce-ohr-doingThe Wall Street Journal continues to counter the liberal mainstream media's Trump Derangement Syndrome, dropping uncomfortable truth-bombs and refusing to back off its intense pressure to get to the truth and hold those responsible, accountable (in a forum that is hard for the establishment to shrug off as 'Alt-Right' or 'Nazi' or be 'punished' by search- and social-media-giants). And once again Kimberley Strassel - who by now has become the focus of social media attacks for her truth-seeking reporting - does it again this morning, as she points out - hours after former CIA Director Brennan threw a tantrum over having his security clearance removed - that while Justice has released some damning documents - particularly on what Bruce Ohr was doing - much of the truth is still classified. www.wsj.com/articles/what-was-bruce-ohr-doing-1534462447Via The Wall Street Journal, What Was Bruce Ohr Doing? The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department have continued to insist they did nothing wrong in their Trump-Russia investigation. This week should finally bring an end to that claim, given the clear evidence of malfeasance via the use of Bruce Ohr. Mr. Ohr was until last year associate deputy attorney general. He began feeding information to the FBI from dossier author Christopher Steele in late 2016 - after the FBI had terminated Mr. Steele as a confidential informant for violating the bureau’s rules. He also collected dirt from Glenn Simpson, cofounder of Fusion GPS, the opposition-research firm that worked for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and employed Mr. Steele. Altogether, the FBI pumped Mr. Ohr for information at least a dozen times, debriefs that remain in classified 302 forms. All the while, Mr. Ohr failed to disclose on financial forms that his wife, Nellie, worked alongside Mr. Steele in 2016, getting paid by Mr. Simpson for anti-Trump research. The Justice Department has now turned over Ohr documents to Congress that show how deeply tied up he was with the Clinton crew - with dozens of emails, calls, meetings and notes that describe his interactions and what he collected. Mr. Ohr’s conduct is itself deeply troubling. He was acting as a witness (via FBI interviews) in a case being overseen by a Justice Department in which he held a very senior position. He appears to have concealed this role from at least some superiors, since Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified that he’d been unaware of Mr. Ohr’s intermediary status. Lawyers meanwhile note that it is a crime for a federal official to participate in any government matter in which he has a financial interest. Fusion’s bank records presumably show Nellie Ohr, and by extension her husband, benefiting from the Trump opposition research that Mr. Ohr continued to pass to the FBI. The Justice Department declined to comment. But for all Mr. Ohr’s misdeeds, the worse misconduct is by the FBI and Justice Department. It’s bad enough that the bureau relied on a dossier crafted by a man in the employ of the rival presidential campaign. Bad enough that it never informed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of that dossier’s provenance. And bad enough that the FBI didn’t fire Mr. Steele as a confidential human source in September 2016 when it should have been obvious he was leaking FBI details to the press to harm Donald Trump’s electoral chances. It terminated him only when it was absolutely forced to, after Mr. Steele gave an on-the-record interview on Oct. 31, 2016. But now we discover the FBI continued to go to this discredited informant in its investigation after the firing—by funneling his information via a Justice Department cutout. The FBI has an entire manual governing the use of confidential sources, with elaborate rules on validations, standards and documentation. Mr. Steele failed these standards. The FBI then evaded its own program to get at his info anyway.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 17, 2018 8:29:13 GMT -6
Mueller has 3 times the amount of evidence (documents) for upcoming trial than the current trial. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has triple the amount to evidence to present in the next criminal trial of President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Prosecutors have nearly three times the number of exhibits to present in the upcoming Washington, D.C., trial compared to the Virginia trial that is still in jury deliberations, according to a Thursday court filing obtained by CNN. Mueller's team reportedly has over 1,000 pieces of evidence to present in Manafort’s D.C. federal case over foreign lobbying and money laundering charges. Prosecutor Greg Andres said in the Virginia court Wednesday that 388 documents were submitted into evidence in the case currently under jury deliberation. The judge in the D.C. criminal case told prosecutors to “review” their collection "with an eye towards streamlining the presentation of its case,” according to CNN. Manafort’s defense attorneys asked a D.C. judge on Thursday to push their filing deadline back because they have not been given enough time to make plans for the September trial, CNN reported. The judge granted them a four day extension. Most of the evidence in the two criminal cases will not overlap, CNN reported. Both cases pertain to Manafort’s time as a political consultant to Ukraine. He is accused of illegal lobbying as well as alleged bank and tax fraud. Manafort's indictment resulted from Mueller’s team during its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including whether Moscow colluded with members of the Trump campaign. The charges against Manafort are not tied to his work on the Trump campaign, and some of the alleged crimes predate the election by several years. Good that he has more evidence, however if,(big IF), Manafort is either judged to be innocent or the result is a hung jury, there is not enough cologne in the world to wash away the stink of that choke job of a “slam dunk” case. Even the loyalist media would have a difficult time trying to spin that fecal matter.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 17, 2018 8:31:19 GMT -6
This pretty much sums it all up. In one sentence. As I’ve said before, this is Mueller getting back at Manafort for him getting away with similar back when Mueller was head of the FBI.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 17, 2018 10:08:23 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/08/17/christopher-steele-bruce-ohr-exposed-comey-firing/Dossier author Christopher Steele told Justice Department official Bruce Ohr after James Comey’s firing last year that he was “afraid they will be exposed.” What exactly Steele was concerned about having exposed after Comey’s May 9, 2017 firing is not made clear in Ohr’s notes, which were reported by Fox News. The text message is part of a trove of emails, text messages and handwritten notes that the Justice Department has provided to Congress as part of an investigation into the government’s handling of the Steele dossier. Steele told Ohr in a May 10, 2017 phone call that he was “very concerned abt Comey’s firing — afraid they will be exposed,” according to Fox. www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/17/dojs-bruce-ohr-wrote-christopher-steele-was-very-concerned-about-comeys-firing-afraid-will-be-exposed.htmlSteele’s interactions with Ohr have been a focal point for congressional Republicans in their investigation into the government’s possible abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The dossier, which Steele wrote on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC, was used to obtain FISA warrants on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Republicans say that the dossier was not verified when the FBI used it to obtain the spy warrants. Page, an energy consultant who joined the Trump team in March 2016, has vehemently denied the dossier’s allegations about him. In the 35-page report, Steele alleges that Page was the Trump campaign’s main contact to the Kremlin. Justice Department documents given to Congress show that Steele and Ohr were in contact all throughout 2016 and 2017, though Ohr’s involvement was not revealed until December. Following a report from Fox News on Ohr’s contacts with Steele and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, he was demoted as assistant deputy attorney general at the Justice Department.
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Post by sooner98 on Aug 17, 2018 13:22:06 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 17, 2018 14:31:57 GMT -6
Adding to this: Brandi Buchman @bbuchman_CNS Judge T.S. Ellis III has declined a motion by WaPo, CNN and BuzzFeed to unseal jurors names. Nor will he release sealed transcripts from bench conferences. He has said he will order them released after the #ManafortTrial concludes. 2:13 PM - Aug 17, 2018 368 195 people are talking about this Brandi Buchman @bbuchman_CNS On the media request, Judge Ellis said he didn't wish to reveal jurors names/addresses out of an abundance of caution. Judge Ellis has received threats, he told the courtroom. (1/3) 2:21 PM - Aug 17, 2018 139 100 people are talking about this Brandi Buchman @bbuchman_CNS “I won’t reveal to you any of the threats and I have no reason to believe that if [the jurors] had their names revealed, they wouldn’t be threatened. I don’t feel it’s right if I release their names.” (2/3) 2:21 PM - Aug 17, 2018
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Brandi Buchman @bbuchman_CNS “I have the marshal’s protection. I don’t even go to the hotel alone. I won’t even reveal the name of the hotel.” (3/3) 2:21 PM - Aug 17, 2018
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 17, 2018 14:33:55 GMT -6
Brandi Buchman @bbuchman_CNS NOW: The note passed from jurors to the court was merely a request to end at 5PM because a juror has plans this evening. 2:55 PM - Aug 17, 2018
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Brandi Buchman @bbuchman_CNS It does not appear that jurors have reached a verdict today in the #ManafortTrial. The judge has said later today he will ask jurors if they wish to reconvene at 11AM or 1PM Monday. 2:59 PM - Aug 17, 2018
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 17, 2018 14:52:24 GMT -6
Mueller has 3 times the amount of evidence (documents) for upcoming trial than the current trial. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has triple the amount to evidence to present in the next criminal trial of President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Prosecutors have nearly three times the number of exhibits to present in the upcoming Washington, D.C., trial compared to the Virginia trial that is still in jury deliberations, according to a Thursday court filing obtained by CNN. Mueller's team reportedly has over 1,000 pieces of evidence to present in Manafort’s D.C. federal case over foreign lobbying and money laundering charges. Prosecutor Greg Andres said in the Virginia court Wednesday that 388 documents were submitted into evidence in the case currently under jury deliberation. The judge in the D.C. criminal case told prosecutors to “review” their collection "with an eye towards streamlining the presentation of its case,” according to CNN. Manafort’s defense attorneys asked a D.C. judge on Thursday to push their filing deadline back because they have not been given enough time to make plans for the September trial, CNN reported. The judge granted them a four day extension. Most of the evidence in the two criminal cases will not overlap, CNN reported. Both cases pertain to Manafort’s time as a political consultant to Ukraine. He is accused of illegal lobbying as well as alleged bank and tax fraud. Manafort's indictment resulted from Mueller’s team during its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including whether Moscow colluded with members of the Trump campaign. The charges against Manafort are not tied to his work on the Trump campaign, and some of the alleged crimes predate the election by several years. I heard an interview with a man that has written a book on people using their positions to make money. He was talking about Comey and Mueller. Seems while one is in government they send business to the one that is not. One particular interesting tidbit was that when mueller was in the private sector two of his clients were Facebook, Inc., and Apple, Inc. The same Apple that refused to unlock the terrorists phone in San Bernardino but had no problem handing over the contents of Manafort's iCloud.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2018 4:13:34 GMT -6
saraacarter.com/breaking-bruce-ohr-texts-emails-reveal-steeles-deep-ties-to-obama-doj-fbi/In June 2017, Steele tells Ohr, “We are frustrated with how long this reengagement with the Bureau and Mueller is taking. Anything you can do to accelerate the process would be much appreciated. There are some new, perishable, operational opportunities which we do not want to miss out on.” In October 2017, Steele notes that he is concerned about the stories in the media about the bureau delivering information to Congress “about my work and relationship with them. Very concerned about this. People’s lives may be endangered.” And in November 2017, Steele, who is trying to engage with Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel, writes to Ohr saying, “we were wondering if there was any response to the questions I raised last week.” Ohr responds by saying, “I have passed on the questions (apparently to the special counsel) but haven’t gotten an answer yet.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2018 4:16:59 GMT -6
www.foxnews.com/shows/hannity.htmlGregg Jarrett: The Department of Justice is run by a feckless Attorney General named Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, who is obstructing Congress I believe to coverup his own participation and wrongdoing. Rep. Matt Gaetz: I want to make a point about what Gregg just said. Rod Rosenstein won’t tell us when he first learned that Nellie Ohr was working for Fusion GPS. So I want to know from Bruce Ohr, when did he tell his colleagues at the Department of Justice that in violation of law that required him to disclose his wife’s occupation his sources of income. He did not do that. So when did all of the other people at the Department of Justice find this out because Rod Rosenstein, I’ve asked him twice in open hearing and he will not give an answer. I think there’s a real smoking gun there.
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Post by Boots on Aug 18, 2018 6:54:49 GMT -6
www.foxnews.com/shows/hannity.htmlGregg Jarrett: The Department of Justice is run by a feckless Attorney General named Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, who is obstructing Congress I believe to coverup his own participation and wrongdoing. Rep. Matt Gaetz: I want to make a point about what Gregg just said. Rod Rosenstein won’t tell us when he first learned that Nellie Ohr was working for Fusion GPS. So I want to know from Bruce Ohr, when did he tell his colleagues at the Department of Justice that in violation of law that required him to disclose his wife’s occupation his sources of income. He did not do that. So when did all of the other people at the Department of Justice find this out because Rod Rosenstein, I’ve asked him twice in open hearing and he will not give an answer. I think there’s a real smoking gun there. Yea this is a problem. Rosenstein is the one started this crap and Comey was pushing for it before that. This will engulf them all
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2018 9:12:40 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/08/18/mueller-george-papadopoulos-jail/Special Counsel Robert Mueller is recommending that former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos be sentenced to up to six months in jail for lying to the FBI. Mueller claims that Papadopoulos’s lies to the FBI hindered the Russia investigation. Papadopoulos’s wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, describes Mueller’s sentencing document as “fluff” and says her husband did not collude with Russia. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is asking a federal judge to sentence George Papadopoulos to up to six months in jail and is accusing the former Trump campaign adviser of impeding the government’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election by lying to the FBI during an interview in early 2017. “The defendant’s crime was serious and caused damage to the government’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election,” Mueller wrote in a court filing submitted late Friday to a judge in Washington, D.C. “The government respectfully submits that a sentence of incarceration, within the applicable Guidelines range of 0 to 6 months’ imprisonment, and a $9,500 fine are warranted and appropriate,” the document reads. Papadopoulos, 30, pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2017 to lying to the FBI about the timing and extent of his contacts with a Maltese professor and two Russian nationals while he worked on the Trump campaign. According to Mueller, Papadopoulos lied more than a dozen times about the contacts with the professor, Joseph Mifsud. Papadopoulos told FBI agents during a Jan. 27, 2017 interview that Mifsud claimed during an April 27, 2016 meeting in London that Russian government officials had relayed to him that they had “dirt” on then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands” of her emails. Papadopoulos learned in early March 2016 that he would join the Trump campaign. He first met Mifsud in Italy on March 14, 2016, and the pair remained in contact over the next several months. But Papadopoulos told FBI agents that the encounters were a “coincidence” and occurred before he joined the Trump team. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Papadopoulos’s Wife Says He Should Scrap Plea Deal With Mueller’s Office) Mueller contends that Papadopoulos’s statements “substantially hindered” investigators’ ability to “effectively question” Mifsud when he traveled to Washington, D.C., two weeks after the first Papadopoulos interview, Friday’s filing said. Papadopoulos, an energy consultant based in Chicago, was arrested on July 27, 2017 at the Washington Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. He will be sentenced on Sept. 7. While Trump critics are likely to jump on the new Mueller filing, the document does not assert that Papadopoulos attempted to obtain Clinton dirt on behalf of the Trump campaign. He is not accused of conspiracy and a charge of lying to federal investigators is the lightest charge in the federal criminal code. The FBI at one point thought that Papadopoulos held the keys to the collusion conspiracy between the campaign and Kremlin. The Russia investigation, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane, was opened on July 31, 2016, after the FBI received information about Papadopoulos that originated with Alexander Downer, who then served as the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. (RELATED: A Meeting In London Aroused George Papadopoulos’s Suspicions) Downer and an assistant met with Papadopoulos in London on May 10, 2016, just two weeks after Papadopoulos met with Mifsud. Downer claims that Papadopoulos brought up Russians having negative information on Clinton. The claim slowly made its way through the Department of State and to the FBI.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2018 9:39:56 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2018/08/17/federal-judge-denies-cnn-request-dox-jurors-manafort-trial/Federal Judge Denies CNN Request To Dox Jurors In Manafort Trial AUGUST 17, 2018 By Bre Payton U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis has denied a motion members of the media filed to reveal the identities and home addresses of the members of the jury on the trial involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. “I don’t feel right if I release their names,” he said, adding that he has also faced threats for his role in the trial, according to The Hill. Ellis also denied the media’s request to make sealed sidebar transcripts public, although he added that much of those transcripts will be made public after the trial. Ellis explained that one aspect of the transcripts will remain sealed so as not to interfere with Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into whether Trump campaign officials colluded with Russian officials to steal the presidency from Hillary Clinton. The Federalist reported that CNN, along with a conglomerate of other media outlets, filed a motion Friday morning to publicly reveal the names and home addresses of those serving on the jury in the trial after jurors asked the judge questions that legal experts interpreted as favorable for Manafort’s defense attorneys and unfavorable for the prosecution. CNN has a history of going after private individuals who do things that offend the network’s political sensibilities, like that time one of their reporters threatened to dox a Reddit user unless he (or she) was nicer to the news network. CNN also sent a correspondent earlier this year to an elderly woman’s front lawn to demand she explain herself after reportedly sharing pro-Trump memes on Facebook that were created by a Russian bot factory. On Friday afternoon, the jury broke for the weekend without a verdict in the trial. Jury deliberations are set to resume Monday morning.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 18, 2018 10:54:44 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/08/18/mueller-george-papadopoulos-jail/Special Counsel Robert Mueller is recommending that former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos be sentenced to up to six months in jail for lying to the FBI. Mueller claims that Papadopoulos’s lies to the FBI hindered the Russia investigation. Papadopoulos’s wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, describes Mueller’s sentencing document as “fluff” and says her husband did not collude with Russia. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is asking a federal judge to sentence George Papadopoulos to up to six months in jail and is accusing the former Trump campaign adviser of impeding the government’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election by lying to the FBI during an interview in early 2017. “The defendant’s crime was serious and caused damage to the government’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election,” Mueller wrote in a court filing submitted late Friday to a judge in Washington, D.C. “The government respectfully submits that a sentence of incarceration, within the applicable Guidelines range of 0 to 6 months’ imprisonment, and a $9,500 fine are warranted and appropriate,” the document reads. Papadopoulos, 30, pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2017 to lying to the FBI about the timing and extent of his contacts with a Maltese professor and two Russian nationals while he worked on the Trump campaign. According to Mueller, Papadopoulos lied more than a dozen times about the contacts with the professor, Joseph Mifsud. Papadopoulos told FBI agents during a Jan. 27, 2017 interview that Mifsud claimed during an April 27, 2016 meeting in London that Russian government officials had relayed to him that they had “dirt” on then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands” of her emails. Papadopoulos learned in early March 2016 that he would join the Trump campaign. He first met Mifsud in Italy on March 14, 2016, and the pair remained in contact over the next several months. But Papadopoulos told FBI agents that the encounters were a “coincidence” and occurred before he joined the Trump team. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Papadopoulos’s Wife Says He Should Scrap Plea Deal With Mueller’s Office) Mueller contends that Papadopoulos’s statements “substantially hindered” investigators’ ability to “effectively question” Mifsud when he traveled to Washington, D.C., two weeks after the first Papadopoulos interview, Friday’s filing said. Papadopoulos, an energy consultant based in Chicago, was arrested on July 27, 2017 at the Washington Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. He will be sentenced on Sept. 7. While Trump critics are likely to jump on the new Mueller filing, the document does not assert that Papadopoulos attempted to obtain Clinton dirt on behalf of the Trump campaign. He is not accused of conspiracy and a charge of lying to federal investigators is the lightest charge in the federal criminal code. The FBI at one point thought that Papadopoulos held the keys to the collusion conspiracy between the campaign and Kremlin. The Russia investigation, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane, was opened on July 31, 2016, after the FBI received information about Papadopoulos that originated with Alexander Downer, who then served as the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. (RELATED: A Meeting In London Aroused George Papadopoulos’s Suspicions) Downer and an assistant met with Papadopoulos in London on May 10, 2016, just two weeks after Papadopoulos met with Mifsud. Downer claims that Papadopoulos brought up Russians having negative information on Clinton. The claim slowly made its way through the Department of State and to the FBI. Does Mueller also mention it was all a set up? The only thing hurt by all of this is the truth.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 18, 2018 10:55:30 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2018 11:52:07 GMT -6
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Post by Boots on Aug 18, 2018 12:54:41 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/08/18/mueller-george-papadopoulos-jail/Special Counsel Robert Mueller is recommending that former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos be sentenced to up to six months in jail for lying to the FBI. Mueller claims that Papadopoulos’s lies to the FBI hindered the Russia investigation. The FBI at one point thought that Papadopoulos held the keys to the collusion conspiracy between the campaign and Kremlin. The Russia investigation, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane, was opened on July 31, 2016, after the FBI received information about Papadopoulos that originated with Alexander Downer, who then served as the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. (RELATED: A Meeting In London Aroused George Papadopoulos’s Suspicions) Downer and an assistant met with Papadopoulos in London on May 10, 2016, just two weeks after Papadopoulos met with Mifsud. Downer claims that Papadopoulos brought up Russians having negative information on Clinton. The claim slowly made its way through the Department of State and to the FBI. So, the first arrest and supposed star witness and centerpiece of the collusion investigation provided such little value information that he doesn't even qualify for 5k consideration. 6 months maximum sentence according to the guidelines (5 years max by statute) but the prosecution wants high end of the guidelines. [INSERT NOTHINGBURGER PIC]
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Post by okirishfan on Aug 18, 2018 13:41:53 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/08/18/mueller-george-papadopoulos-jail/Special Counsel Robert Mueller is recommending that former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos be sentenced to up to six months in jail for lying to the FBI. Mueller claims that Papadopoulos’s lies to the FBI hindered the Russia investigation. Papadopoulos’s wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, describes Mueller’s sentencing document as “fluff” and says her husband did not collude with Russia. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is asking a federal judge to sentence George Papadopoulos to up to six months in jail and is accusing the former Trump campaign adviser of impeding the government’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election by lying to the FBI during an interview in early 2017. “The defendant’s crime was serious and caused damage to the government’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election,” Mueller wrote in a court filing submitted late Friday to a judge in Washington, D.C. “The government respectfully submits that a sentence of incarceration, within the applicable Guidelines range of 0 to 6 months’ imprisonment, and a $9,500 fine are warranted and appropriate,” the document reads. Papadopoulos, 30, pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2017 to lying to the FBI about the timing and extent of his contacts with a Maltese professor and two Russian nationals while he worked on the Trump campaign. According to Mueller, Papadopoulos lied more than a dozen times about the contacts with the professor, Joseph Mifsud. Papadopoulos told FBI agents during a Jan. 27, 2017 interview that Mifsud claimed during an April 27, 2016 meeting in London that Russian government officials had relayed to him that they had “dirt” on then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands” of her emails. Papadopoulos learned in early March 2016 that he would join the Trump campaign. He first met Mifsud in Italy on March 14, 2016, and the pair remained in contact over the next several months. But Papadopoulos told FBI agents that the encounters were a “coincidence” and occurred before he joined the Trump team. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Papadopoulos’s Wife Says He Should Scrap Plea Deal With Mueller’s Office) Mueller contends that Papadopoulos’s statements “substantially hindered” investigators’ ability to “effectively question” Mifsud when he traveled to Washington, D.C., two weeks after the first Papadopoulos interview, Friday’s filing said. Papadopoulos, an energy consultant based in Chicago, was arrested on July 27, 2017 at the Washington Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. He will be sentenced on Sept. 7. While Trump critics are likely to jump on the new Mueller filing, the document does not assert that Papadopoulos attempted to obtain Clinton dirt on behalf of the Trump campaign. He is not accused of conspiracy and a charge of lying to federal investigators is the lightest charge in the federal criminal code. The FBI at one point thought that Papadopoulos held the keys to the collusion conspiracy between the campaign and Kremlin. The Russia investigation, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane, was opened on July 31, 2016, after the FBI received information about Papadopoulos that originated with Alexander Downer, who then served as the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. (RELATED: A Meeting In London Aroused George Papadopoulos’s Suspicions) Downer and an assistant met with Papadopoulos in London on May 10, 2016, just two weeks after Papadopoulos met with Mifsud. Downer claims that Papadopoulos brought up Russians having negative information on Clinton. The claim slowly made its way through the Department of State and to the FBI. Looks like another one caught up in a "perjury trap". Those darn pejury traps. Weird how they just seem to happen to people who want to lie about stuff. Good "teaching moment' for him. Hopefully he's learned the lesson.
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Post by okirishfan on Aug 18, 2018 13:45:37 GMT -6
That would be shocking....not. That being said, no one forced them to take the bait (personal responsiblity)....and then lie repeatedly about the meeting, it's purpose and who was involved in writing the letter.
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Post by sheepdog on Aug 18, 2018 13:51:02 GMT -6
That would be shocking....not. That being said, no one forced them to take the bait (personal responsiblity)....and then lie repeatedly about the meeting, it's purpose and who was involved in writing the letter. Then both hands are dirty. The thing is the left hand raised hell over what the right hand was doing.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2018 13:53:23 GMT -6
apnews.com/fbb5249a489a4b3b9e6146a45064500c/AP-Interview:-Top-Republican-says-Russia-probe-difficultFor much of the last two years, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr has been the Russia investigator who is seen but rarely heard on Capitol Hill. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, the North Carolina Republican opened up about the investigation that has now consumed 19 months of his life. He says it has been “frustrating as hell” and much more difficult than he originally envisioned. But he says the integrity of the investigation — and its importance to the institution of the Senate — is something he has labored to protect. ...... “Burr said there is “no factual evidence today that we’ve received” on collusion or conspiracy between Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign. But he said he’s still open on the issue and hasn’t personally come to any final conclusions, since the investigation isn’t finished.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 18, 2018 13:59:40 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/08/18/mueller-george-papadopoulos-jail/Special Counsel Robert Mueller is recommending that former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos be sentenced to up to six months in jail for lying to the FBI. Mueller claims that Papadopoulos’s lies to the FBI hindered the Russia investigation. Papadopoulos’s wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, describes Mueller’s sentencing document as “fluff” and says her husband did not collude with Russia. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is asking a federal judge to sentence George Papadopoulos to up to six months in jail and is accusing the former Trump campaign adviser of impeding the government’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election by lying to the FBI during an interview in early 2017. “The defendant’s crime was serious and caused damage to the government’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election,” Mueller wrote in a court filing submitted late Friday to a judge in Washington, D.C. “The government respectfully submits that a sentence of incarceration, within the applicable Guidelines range of 0 to 6 months’ imprisonment, and a $9,500 fine are warranted and appropriate,” the document reads. Papadopoulos, 30, pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2017 to lying to the FBI about the timing and extent of his contacts with a Maltese professor and two Russian nationals while he worked on the Trump campaign. According to Mueller, Papadopoulos lied more than a dozen times about the contacts with the professor, Joseph Mifsud. Papadopoulos told FBI agents during a Jan. 27, 2017 interview that Mifsud claimed during an April 27, 2016 meeting in London that Russian government officials had relayed to him that they had “dirt” on then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands” of her emails. Papadopoulos learned in early March 2016 that he would join the Trump campaign. He first met Mifsud in Italy on March 14, 2016, and the pair remained in contact over the next several months. But Papadopoulos told FBI agents that the encounters were a “coincidence” and occurred before he joined the Trump team. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Papadopoulos’s Wife Says He Should Scrap Plea Deal With Mueller’s Office) Mueller contends that Papadopoulos’s statements “substantially hindered” investigators’ ability to “effectively question” Mifsud when he traveled to Washington, D.C., two weeks after the first Papadopoulos interview, Friday’s filing said. Papadopoulos, an energy consultant based in Chicago, was arrested on July 27, 2017 at the Washington Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. He will be sentenced on Sept. 7. While Trump critics are likely to jump on the new Mueller filing, the document does not assert that Papadopoulos attempted to obtain Clinton dirt on behalf of the Trump campaign. He is not accused of conspiracy and a charge of lying to federal investigators is the lightest charge in the federal criminal code. The FBI at one point thought that Papadopoulos held the keys to the collusion conspiracy between the campaign and Kremlin. The Russia investigation, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane, was opened on July 31, 2016, after the FBI received information about Papadopoulos that originated with Alexander Downer, who then served as the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. (RELATED: A Meeting In London Aroused George Papadopoulos’s Suspicions) Downer and an assistant met with Papadopoulos in London on May 10, 2016, just two weeks after Papadopoulos met with Mifsud. Downer claims that Papadopoulos brought up Russians having negative information on Clinton. The claim slowly made its way through the Department of State and to the FBI. Looks like another one caught up in a "perjury trap". Those darn pejury traps. Weird how they just seem to happen to people who want to lie about stuff. Good "teaching moment' for him. Hopefully he's learned the lesson. Almost as humorous as one who is upset because a certain President who they can not stand due to differences politically, etc has refused to fall for the same partisan trap that ensnared former President Clinton who refused to check his ego for a moment & that momentary mental lapse got him caught & was used to validate a separate partisan witch hunt.
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Post by sooner98 on Aug 18, 2018 14:03:45 GMT -6
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