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Post by oilsooner on Aug 25, 2018 16:48:30 GMT -6
Campaign Finance related flashback from April this year: thefederalist.com/2018/04/24/bombshell-fec-records-indicate-hillary-campaign-illegally-laundered-84-million/Bombshell: FEC Records Indicate Hillary Campaign Illegally Laundered $84 Million The mainstream media took no notice of a federal court filing that exposes a $84 million money-laundering conspiracy Democrats executed during the 2016 presidential election. Margot Cleveland By Margot Cleveland APRIL 24, 2018 The press continues to feed the dying Russia collusion conspiracy theory, spending Friday’s news cycle regurgitating Democrat talking points from the just-filed Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit against the Trump campaign, WikiLeaks, and Russia. Yet the mainstream media took no notice of last week’s federal court filing that exposes an $84 million money-laundering conspiracy the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign executed during the 2016 presidential election in violation of federal campaign-finance law. Is today the day you finally get her? Lock her up, no one cares. Just like Trumps affairs and being extorted over them: no one cares. I’m sure people will start to care once they figure out those you trumpet for made up a lie to openly investigate a US citizen, violating basic civil liberties we all hold dear. When even folks like Coumo start talking about it, you wonder if the tides are beginning to turn. Regardless, the truth always rises to to surface, so we’ll get there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Post by Boots on Aug 26, 2018 6:13:05 GMT -6
Is today the day you finally get her? Lock her up, no one cares. Just like Trumps affairs and being extorted over them: no one cares. I’m sure people will start to care once they figure out those you trumpet for made up a lie to openly investigate a US citizen, violating basic civil liberties we all hold dear. When even folks like Coumo start talking about it, you wonder if the tides are beginning to turn. Regardless, the truth always rises to to surface, so we’ll get there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I have resigned myself to the position that so few care, we will never really find out. If the President of the United States can't put sunshine on that crap, no one can. You will note the ones implicated are very quiet |
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Post by oilsooner on Aug 26, 2018 7:48:32 GMT -6
Just like Trumps affairs and being extorted over them: no one cares. I’m sure people will start to care once they figure out those you trumpet for made up a lie to openly investigate a US citizen, violating basic civil liberties we all hold dear. When even folks like Coumo start talking about it, you wonder if the tides are beginning to turn. Regardless, the truth always rises to to surface, so we’ll get there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I have resigned myself to the position that so few care, we will never really find out. If the President of the United States can't put sunshine on that crap, no one can. You will note the ones implicated are very quiet Honestly, I may be getting there myself, and it’s bothering me. We’ll never get rid of the corruption because people are too easily biased/influenced, especially en mass. That’s bad for the country, and it’s bad for society in general. Is it getting worse, or has the Information Age amplified it? I don’t know. Makes me wanna just move out into the country, isolated from the crazy, and it truly makes me sad for the world I am raising my kid to live in. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Post by principledcon on Aug 26, 2018 7:59:57 GMT -6
Anyone in prison yet?
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Post by principledcon on Aug 26, 2018 8:09:05 GMT -6
I have resigned myself to the position that so few care, we will never really find out. If the President of the United States can't put sunshine on that crap, no one can. You will note the ones implicated are very quiet Honestly, I may be getting there myself, and it’s bothering me. We’ll never get rid of the corruption because people are too easily biased/influenced, especially en mass. That’s bad for the country, and it’s bad for society in general. Is it getting worse, or has the Information Age amplified it? I don’t know. Makes me wanna just move out into the country, isolated from the crazy, and it truly makes me sad for the world I am raising my kid to live in. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk That's why there is very little if any common ground with Dems and really several DC 'Pubs...everything that keeps their power has to be stopped...that's why I was so angry with Trump about not vetoing that last record spending bill...it has to happen every chance...believe me the rural country areas aren't really much better depending on where you live...the Farm Bill and associated programs have kept many in federal servitude and relying on these payments annually for decades because essentially its welfare and buying votes...heck even in Oklahoma you can't move anywhere with expectations that wind or oil and gas won't come in and disrupt/destroy your life...but land of the free and home of the brave and all that lol... |
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2018 12:19:20 GMT -6
Video at link: www.breitbart.com/video/2018/08/26/dershowitz-evidence-isnt-there-showing-trump-committed-impeachable-offenses/Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said evidence wasn’t there showing that President Donald Trump “committed crimes and impeachable offenses.” Dershowitz said, “I fully understand why so many people want, hope that President Trump has committed crimes and impeachable offenses, but the evidence isn’t there. The president or a candidate is entitled to contribute anything he wants to his own campaign. The only issue here is whether or not there was a failure to report the contribution. That was to the treasurer of the campaign and not to the president and conspiracy is a very big stretch.” He added, “It’s a stretch. It’s a stretch. Look the reporting — if it occurred, would have occurred after the election considering the chronology of everything, and so to stretch and make a reporting violation which so many campaigns have. President Obama’s campaign had to pay $300,000 for reporting violations. To make a conspiracy out of that when the law itself says the treasurer is responsible, not the candidate, is an example of precisely what we’re seeing, trying to stretch the law to fit somebody, who many Americans hope and want to see commit a crime or commit an impeachable offense.” |
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2018 12:21:42 GMT -6
Video at link: www.breitbart.com/video/2018/08/26/adam-schiff-impeachment-is-a-political-standard/Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called impeachment “a political standard.” Schiff said, “It’s not just, I think, that Democrats don’t want to talk about impeachment. I think as a matter of our Constitutional responsibility. We have to look candidly at what is the evidence and what does that mean and what does that say in terms of weather we’ve reached the point of high crimes and misdemeanors. But I don’t think we should be talking about it and embracing before we have seen the full body of evidence. As a former prosecutor, I like to know all the facts before I make a judgment.” He continued, “The reality is impeachment is a political standard. Impeachment is at any given time what half of the House and two-thirds of the Senate say it is. And given the dearth of people in the GOP who are willing to say anything about this president’s conduct, I think you’re going to need a really powerful case to entertain that kind of a sanction.” He added, “Look what happened after the president started attacking his own attorney general for not getting rid of Bob Mueller and prosecuting his political rivals. You had two prominent GOP senators say, ‘well, if he wants to get rid of the AG we will help him get a new one, but let’s wait until after the midterms.’ That is not something you would have ever heard John McCain say. I was proud to see Ben Sasse take issue with that. That was very John McCain-like. We need people like John McCain now more than ever.” |
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 26, 2018 15:05:26 GMT -6
Video at link: www.breitbart.com/video/2018/08/26/adam-schiff-impeachment-is-a-political-standard/Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called impeachment “a political standard.” Schiff said, “It’s not just, I think, that Democrats don’t want to talk about impeachment. I think as a matter of our Constitutional responsibility. We have to look candidly at what is the evidence and what does that mean and what does that say in terms of weather we’ve reached the point of high crimes and misdemeanors. But I don’t think we should be talking about it and embracing before we have seen the full body of evidence. As a former prosecutor, I like to know all the facts before I make a judgment.” He continued, “The reality is impeachment is a political standard. Impeachment is at any given time what half of the House and two-thirds of the Senate say it is. And given the dearth of people in the GOP who are willing to say anything about this president’s conduct, I think you’re going to need a really powerful case to entertain that kind of a sanction.” He added, “Look what happened after the president started attacking his own attorney general for not getting rid of Bob Mueller and prosecuting his political rivals. You had two prominent GOP senators say, ‘well, if he wants to get rid of the AG we will help him get a new one, but let’s wait until after the midterms.’ That is not something you would have ever heard John McCain say. I was proud to see Ben Sasse take issue with that. That was very John McCain-like. We need people like John McCain now more than ever.”That tells you everything you need to know about McCain. |
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2018 17:41:48 GMT -6
Interesting if proven true: JUST IN: Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein ordered Trump-appointed US attorney Geoffrey Berman to recuse himself from Michael Cohen case, letting Democrat holdovers of anti-Trump Preet Bharara pursue the case – NYP — Wired Sources (@wiredsources) August 26, 2018 ...... nypost.com/2018/08/25/how-trump-can-survive-the-onslaught-against-his-presidency/The US attorney Trump appointed for that outpost, Geoffrey Berman, reportedly was ordered to recuse himself by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, leaving the office staffed mostly by holdovers from Preet Bharara’s tenure. .... www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-23/trump-s-gravest-threat-yet-rose-from-manhattan-not-witch-huntKhuzami was put in charge of the Cohen investigation after the U.S. attorney who Trump appointed to lead the office, Geoffrey Berman, recused himself. It’s unclear why Berman did so, but he previously worked in the law firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP, which also employed Rudy Giuliani, a top Trump campaign supporter who’s now his personal lawyer. Berman was appointed by Trump after the president fired prosecutor Preet Bharara in March 2017. Bharara, who was appointed by President Barack Obama and won fame for prosecuting insider-trading cases, has become a scathing critic of Trump on social media and a podcast……And while New York prosecutors are required to notify the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section if they want to pursue election fraud cases, there haven’t been any signs of tension between the office and Justice Department headquarters with regard to the Cohen investigation, the person said. Rosenstein made the decision to give the Cohen case to SDNY following a referral from Mueller. That also ensured the investigation could continue even if Trump somehow managed to fire the special counsel, a politically dangerous move that many Republicans have warned the president to avoid. ..... One thing to remember, is that Rosenstein signed off on the Cohen raid, Berman did not: www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/04/10/rosenstein-personally-approved-fbi-raid-against-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-nyt.html |
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2018 18:38:42 GMT -6
Backtracking more comments. dailycaller.com/2018/08/26/lanny-davis-trump-hacking/Lanny Davis says he does not know whether President Donald Trump had advance knowledge of Russian hacks of Democrats. Earlier in August, Davis said his client, Michael Cohen, had information linking Trump to the hacks. Now he claims that he merely had an “instinct” about what Trump knew. Lanny Davis, an attorney for Michael Cohen, is backtracking from his stunning claim that President Donald Trump had advance knowledge of Russian hacking efforts. During interviews on Tuesday and Wednesday, Davis laid out a grave allegation against Trump, saying that Cohen had information that would be of interest to special counsel Robert Mueller, including about Russian hacking of Democrats’ emails. In an interview Tuesday with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Davis said Cohen, a former lawyer for Trump, has “knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr. Trump knew ahead of time about that crime and even cheered it on.” An in an interview Wednesday, Davis said his client “has information that would be of interest to Mr. Mueller in his probe of a conspiracy to corrupt American democracy, very similar to the indictment of the 12 Russians.” (RELATED: Lanny Davis Suggested That Trump Knew About Election-Related Hacking) Davis’s allegations, if accurate, would have had significant ramifications for the Mueller investigation, which is probing whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election. Trump has denied knowing about hacks of Democrats’ emails before they occurred. But Davis is now telling The Washington Post that his comments were merely based on “instinct” and not direct knowledge about what Cohen knows. Asked by WaPo on Saturday whether he was certain that Trump knew about computer hacks before they occurred, Davis told the newspaper: “I am not sure. There’s a possibility that is the case. But I am not sure.” (RELATED: Lanny Davis: Michael Cohen Did Not Go To Prague, As Dossier Claimed) “I was giving an instinct that [Cohen] might have something to say of interest to the special counsel.” Davis, a close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton, also went on the record with WaPo to reveal that he was an anonymous source for a story asserting that Cohen is willing to Mueller that he witnessed Trump approving the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a group of Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. (RELATED: Lanny Davis Obliterates CNN ‘Bombshell’ About Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower Claim) CNN reported July 27 that sources close to Cohen said he was present at a meeting where Donald Trump Jr. told his father about the Trump Tower meeting. Trump critics seized on the report, noting that Trump and Trump Jr. have both denied that the president knew about the meeting until it was reported in the press in July 2017. But Davis said Wednesday night that the reporting of the story got “mixed up” and that Cohen does not know whether Trump had prior knowledge of the meeting. “So Michael Cohen does not have information that President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians beforehand or even after?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Davis. “No, he does not,” Davis said. According to WaPo, Davis was an anonymous source for a story that the newspaper ran in July confirming the CNN report. WaPo cited “a person familiar with Cohen’s thinking” who said that Cohen was interested in talking about Trump’s advance knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting with Mueller. Though Davis spoke to WaPo for its initial story, the newspaper reported in that piece that “Davis declined to comment on the CNN report Thursday night.” He told WaPo on Saturday: “I should have been more clear — including with you — that I could not independently confirm what happened. I regret my error.” For its part, CNN has refused to address its faulty reporting. The network has not corrected its July 27 story, and its anchors have not addressed the flub on air. (RELATED: Brian Stelter Ignores CNN’s Bungled Trump Tower Story) Brian Stelter, the host of CNN’s media criticism show “Reliable Sources,” on Sunday interviewed Carl Bernstein, one of the reporters who wrote the article. The false story did not come up in their discussion. Instead, Stelter and Bernstein railed against Trump. CNN did not respond to numerous requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation. But a spokeswoman for the network told WaPo on Saturday: “We stand by our story, and are confident in our reporting of it.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/attorney-for-michael-cohen-backs-away-from-confidence-that-cohen-has-information-about-trumps-knowledge-on-russian-efforts/2018/08/26/09d7f26e-a876-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e63bf951e8a2 |
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2018 18:41:56 GMT -6
So since Lanny Davis got involved about ten days ago, we now know from his lips:
1) The dossier was flawed, Cohen was never in Prague coordinating with the Russians;
2) Trump had no prior knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting;
3) Trump had no prior knowledge of the hacking of the DNC.
Davis should have been named Special Council. Mueller is still examining the dust balls in under the credenza in Trump's office for clandestine information.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2018 18:47:08 GMT -6
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1. CNN reports Cohen has info on POTUS having advanced knowledge of Trump tower meeting.
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3. Cohen's lawyer confirms Swan's reporting.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2018 18:52:12 GMT -6
WikiLeaks WikiLeaks @wikileaks "On my honor I give you my word I will not mention to anyone my involvement. " -- Michael Cohen lawyer Lanny J Davis to Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta (link: wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/48775#efmADWAEhAEkAG-) wikileaks.org/podesta-emails…  8:30 AM · Aug 24, 2018 |
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Post by Boots on Aug 26, 2018 18:57:55 GMT -6
It is all coming out now.
Posted the significance of the referral to Southern district of New York...
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Post by trumped on Aug 26, 2018 19:09:29 GMT -6
Rich Noyes @richnoyes Last month, ABC CBS and NBC touted a "stunning" "bombshell" accusation from Michael Cohen, 28 MINUTES of coverage in one day. Now that it's fallen apart, NOT ONE SECOND for a correction. #TTT (link: bit.ly/2MQ7Qg2) bit.ly/2MQ7Qg2 James Hasson James Hasson @jameshasson20 · Aug 24 This is, by my count, the sixth anonymously-sourced Russia “bombshell” that was false. Others: —Flynn testifying re campaign collusion (ABC) —DJT Jr getting Wikileaks dump early (CNN) —Mooch/Russia meetings (CNN) —Cohen wiretap (NBC) —Trump/Deutsche Bank (WSJ/Bloomberg) |
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Post by trumped on Aug 26, 2018 19:29:27 GMT -6
WikiLeaks WikiLeaks @wikileaks "On my honor I give you my word I will not mention to anyone my involvement. " -- Michael Cohen lawyer Lanny J Davis to Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta (link: wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/48775#efmADWAEhAEkAG-) wikileaks.org/podesta-emails… 8:30 AM · Aug 24, 2018   |
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2018 20:14:55 GMT -6
I was surfing around & came across this Op-Ed by Lanny that takes irony to a new level: thehill.com/opinion/lanny-davis/228840-lanny-davis-misuse-of-courts-there-must-be-a-better-wayJanuary 07, 2015 - 07:02 PM EST Lanny Davis: Misuse of courts — there must be a better way ..... Under current U.S. legal precedent, parties filing suit and their attorneys have virtually absolute immunity for any false charges made in court filings. And making matters worse, once the public court filings have been made, the media have virtual immunity to report them as “allegations” — a word often ignored when the headline is explosive and scandalous. Once someone is subject to a headline — say, that he or she is a “child molester” or guilty of “sexual abuse” — the misinformation echo-chamber of Internet search engines can make the charges a lifelong perception, with tens of thousands of “hits” sometimes in minutes or hours, and too many people perceiving truth just because of multiple repetitions on the Internet. And attempts to correct or rebut are usually ineffective. Take a notorious example of the dangers of reckless and false charges aired in the courts — this one a criminal case. Some years ago, a physical education teacher in Northern Virginia was falsely accused by a young girl and her accomplice of molestation. He was labeled a child molester in headlines. But a jury acquitted him after just 47 minutes of deliberation. Jurors said they were outraged by the lack of evidence, with one weeping in sympathy during closing arguments. Yet his life will never be the same — he lost his job and had to move his family, and a Web search still associates his name with child molestation. A recent example of an apparent similar abuse of the court system, this time in a civil case, occurred in a court filing made on Dec. 30, 2014. |
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2018 20:21:46 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/26/battle-print-document-democrat-plans-crush-trump-gop-fail-hold-house/amp/A document detailing what Democrats intend to do to try to take out President Donald Trump should they take the House majority in November 2018 has emerged. Under the headline “Scoop: Republicans secretly study their coming hell,” Axios’s Jonathan Swan on Sunday evening revealed the existence of the document that lists exactly the line of attack the Democrats plan to pursue should they win control of the House in the midterm elections. The document specifically focuses on certain investigatory pathways and lines of inquiry they have already sought. The document, prepared by House GOP officials, walks through document and interview requests Democrats have already sent to the Trump administration, the president’s business The Trump Organization, and the president’s campaign in 2016. www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-republicans-preparation-investigations-180abf7b-0de8-4670-ae8a-2e6da123c584.htmlThe document, prepared by House GOP officials, walks through document and interview requests Democrats have already sent to the Trump administration, the president’s business The Trump Organization, and the president’s campaign in 2016. “Congressional Republicans are getting ready for hell. Axios has obtained a spreadsheet that’s circulated through Republican circles on and off Capitol Hill — including at least one leadership office — that meticulously previews the investigations Democrats will likely launch if they flip the House,” Swan writes. Swan then lists some of the more than 100 items contained in the lengthy GOP document. Here is a direct quote of the bullet point list from Swan’s piece in Axios: President Trump’s tax returns Trump family businesses — and whether they comply with the Constitution’s emoluments clause, including the Chinese trademark grant to the Trump Organization Trump’s dealings with Russia, including the president’s preparation for his meeting with Vladimir Putin The payment to Stephanie Clifford — a.k.a. Stormy Daniels James Comey’s firing Trump’s firing of U.S. attorneys Trump’s proposed transgender ban for the military Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s business dealings White House staff’s personal email use Cabinet secretary travel, office expenses, and other misused perks Discussion of classified information at Mar-a-Lago Jared Kushner’s ethics law compliance Dismissal of members of the EPA board of scientific counselors The travel ban Family separation policy Hurricane response in Puerto Rico Election security and hacking attempts White House security clearances “The spreadsheet — which I’m told originated in a senior House Republican office — catalogs more than 100 formal requests from House Democrats this Congress, spanning nearly every committee,” Swan wrote. This document only begins to demonstrate exactly what the Democrats will do to Trump if they take control of the lower chamber of Congress in the midterm elections. Another good example of what they will do happened this past week when Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted in federal court as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, and Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen pled guilty to a number of charges in a related case brought by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Expect hearings where the Democrats go off the rails with accusations against the president and his supporters and administration officials, and go all in to defend people they view as critical to undermining Trump. Case in point: Look back at what happened during the congressional hearing where disgraced now former FBI agent Peter Strzok testified about his role in what has become known as “SpyGate”:
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Post by Boots on Aug 26, 2018 20:35:04 GMT -6
I was surfing around & came across this Op-Ed by Lanny that takes irony to a new level: You are a bad ass. nvolved doesnt describe brutha |
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 26, 2018 22:36:48 GMT -6
I was surfing around & came across this Op-Ed by Lanny that takes irony to a new level: You are a bad ass. nvolved doesnt describe brutha Much appreciated Boots.👍 |
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Post by sooner98 on Aug 27, 2018 10:32:37 GMT -6
Sarah Sanders answers questions about Manafort, Cohen, and Mueller:
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 27, 2018 11:59:42 GMT -6
A “sleeper” case that could possibly derail Mueller & prevent him from releasing a final report to Congress : www.politico.com/story/2018/08/27/robert-mueller-special-counsel-report-sleeper-case-797373“It is a sleeper case,” Harvard Law professor Alex Whiting said. “If the D.C. Circuit were to accept the Department of Justice’s arguments…that would have potentially enormous implications for the future of the information from the Mueller investigation. That could close out a path by which that information becomes public.” The case at the appeals court was brought by attorney and author Stuart McKeever, who has spent decades investigating the disappearance of Jesus Galindez, a Columbia university professor and political activist who vanished in New York City in 1956. His body was never found, but there are indications that he was kidnapped and flown to the Dominican Republic, where he may have been killed. McKeever, 82, wants a judge to release secret testimony given to a DC-based grand jury that investigated Galindez’s disappearance. But the Justice Department argues that judges don’t have “inherent authority” to release such information unless it falls under exemptions approved by Congress, which don’t apply in the Galindez case — or in many others, including potentially Mueller’s investigation. “I’ve been on the journey almost 40 years to tell this story,” McKeever said Sunday in a phone interview from his South Carolina home. “The Justice Department does not want this case to break the dam.” The arguments in McKeever’s case next month will take place at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington — two floors above where Mueller’s grand jury meets. ..... Now, this also relates to the midterms as If the Democrats take the House in November, the House Judiciary could subpoena Mueller’s report as part of an impeachment probe because of a 1974 DC Circuit ruling, reported Politico. openjurist.org/501/f2d/714/haldeman-v-j-sirica-c-strachanIf Republicans keep the house, a subpoena is less likely therefore Mueller would have a problem given the federal court rule that ensures grand jury secrecy. ..... www.politico.com/story/2018/08/27/robert-mueller-special-counsel-report-sleeper-case-797373Adding to the political drama around the McKeever case: the judges drawn to decide it. The three-judge panel announced by the court last week leans Republican, which is unusual since most of the D.C. Circuit’s active judges are Democrats. In addition, the panel will include the appeals court’s only Trump appointee, Judge Greg Katsas. Also assigned to the case: Judge Douglas Ginsburg, a Reagan appointee, and Judge Sri Srinivasan, an Obama appointee. |
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Post by trumped on Aug 27, 2018 12:35:33 GMT -6
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- Bruce Ohr's wife, Nellie, worked for the firm hired by the Clinton campaign to write the dossier
- Bruce Ohr gave the dossier to the FBI
- The FBI then used the same dossier to spy on the Trump campaign
When he comes to Congress tomorrow, Bruce Ohr has explaining to do
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Post by trumped on Aug 27, 2018 13:08:01 GMT -6
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Robert Mueller and the left are trying to get Trump for FEC violation about a $130,000 expense, but FEC's own records show that Hillary Clinton illegally laundered a whopping 84 Million dollars during the campaign.
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Post by oilsooner on Aug 27, 2018 13:10:40 GMT -6
Stonewall Jackson @1776stonewall · 12h Robert Mueller and the left are trying to get Trump for FEC violation about a $130,000 expense, but FEC's own records show that Hillary Clinton illegally laundered a whopping 84 Million dollars during the campaign. I have no problem with them charging Trump under the law for this alleged violation, as long as they do the same for Hillary. I'm sure our friends on the left will agree, and we can all move forward... |
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Post by trumped on Aug 27, 2018 13:13:00 GMT -6
Stonewall Jackson @1776stonewall · 12h Robert Mueller and the left are trying to get Trump for FEC violation about a $130,000 expense, but FEC's own records show that Hillary Clinton illegally laundered a whopping 84 Million dollars during the campaign. I have no problem with them charging Trump under the law for this alleged violation, as long as they do the same for Hillary. I'm sure our friends on the left will agree, and we can all move forward... As long as they wait at least 4 years after he leaves office. So 2028 they can file. That keeps it even with Crooked Hillary |
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 28, 2018 4:43:08 GMT -6
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We've learned NEW information suggesting our suspicions are true: FBI/DOJ have previously leaked info to the press, and then used those same press stories as a separate source to justify FISA's
Unreal. Tomorrow's Bruce Ohr interview is even more critical. Did he ever do this?
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 28, 2018 5:00:43 GMT -6
Lanny Davis changes stories again, & this time it hits CNN: www.dailywire.com/news/35111/bombshell-lanny-davis-admits-he-lied-cnn-caught-ryan-saavedraMichael Cohen's lawyer admitted on Monday that he was the anonymous source for a widely-criticized CNN report that claimed Cohen was willing to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller that President Donald Trump knew in advance about the Trump Tower meeting in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton. Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, told CNN's Anderson Cooper last week that Cohen "does not" have any information that Trump knew about the meeting in advance, saying, "I think the reporting of the story got mixed up in the course of a criminal investigation. We were not the source of the story." www.dailywire.com/news/34947/cohens-lawyer-debunks-cnn-collusion-report-cnn-ryan-saavedraHowever, Davis told BuzzFeed News on Monday that he was the source for CNN's July 26 report — which directly contradicts what he told Cooper. www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump-june-2016-meeting-knowledge/index.htmlDavis insisted that he did not lie, but claimed that he "unintentionally misspoke," and that he "made a mistake." However, Davis admitting that he was the source for the report — which he has since stated was not true — was not the only development to come out of CNN's report. BuzzFeed News notes: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/lanny-davis-cnn-trump-tower-storyCNN used Davis as the anonymous source for their report and then claimed that they reached out to him for comment, stating that he "declined to comment." Talk about deception. "Things just went from bad to worse for CNN with this BuzzFeed News piece," NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck told The Daily Wire. "CNN's decision to have Davis serve as their source and then allow him to claim on the record that he was declining comment was not only deceptive but straight up lying to their readers and viewers. It's a textbook example of why anonymous sourcing runs into problems." CNN once again stood by their reporting, telling BuzzFeed News, "We stand by our story, and are confident in our reporting of it." "In addition to Davis’ backtracking, Michael Cohen testified twice to Congress that he personally did not know about the meeting in advance," The Daily Caller reported. "This contradicts CNN’s claim that Cohen was present when Trump learned the Trump Tower meeting was set to occur." This new CNN reporting scandal comes after the far-left network fired three journalists after they had to retract a report that falsely claimed that "Donald Trump associate Anthony Scaramucci was under investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee for alleged contact with a $10-billion Russian investment fund just days before Trump's inauguration." In December, CNN botched another "exclusive" report that falsely claimed that Donald Trump Jr. was given advanced notice by Wikileaks about documents that were stolen from the Democrats. |
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 28, 2018 5:08:38 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2018/08/27/source-fbi-congress-leaked-stories-spy-warrants/SOURCE: FBI AGENT TOLD CONGRESS THE BUREAU USED LEAKED STORIES TO OBTAIN SPY WARRANTS FBI Special Agent Jonathan Moffa told Congress on Friday that the FBI has used leaked stories to obtain FISA warrants Rep. Mark Meadows alluded to the information in a tweet on Monday Meadows’ tweet was referring to Moffa’s testimony, a source tells The Daily Caller News Foundation An FBI special agent told Congress earlier in August that the bureau has used leaked news stories as justifications to obtain surveillance warrants against American citizens, a source familiar with the testimony tells The Daily Caller News Foundation. During a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees on Friday, Special Agent Jonathan Moffa told congressional investigators that the FBI and Justice Department have leaked stories to the press and then used them to obtain warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). “He more or less admitted that the FBI/DOJ have previously leaked info to the press and then used stories from the press as justifications for FISA warrants,” a source who took part in Moffa’s interview told TheDCNF. North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows referred to Moffa’s comments in a tweet on Monday night. “We’ve learned NEW information suggesting our suspicions are true: FBI/DOJ have previously leaked info to the press, and then used those same press stories as a separate source to justify FISA’s Unreal,” wrote Meadows, a member of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee. “Tomorrow’s Bruce Ohr interview is even more critical. Did he ever do this?” he added. The FBI did not respond to a request for comment about Moffa’s congressional testimony. On Tuesday, the Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee will interview Ohr, a Justice Department official who was in close contact with dossier author Christopher Steele. Ohr’s wife also worked for the opposition research firm that hired Steele to produce the dossier. Ohr was also in contact with Glenn Simpson, the founder of the research firm, Fusion GPS. Moffa worked closely on the Clinton email investigation with Peter Strzok, the former deputy chief of FBI’s counterintelligence division who was recently fired for sending anti-Trump text messages. Strzok and Moffa took part in the July 2, 2016 interview with Clinton about her use of a private email server to exchange classified emails. (RELATED: Abedin And Cheryl Mills Faced No Charges After Lying To FBI) Strzok would go on to oversee the FBI’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. Moffa did not work on the Trump-Russia probe. House Republicans have led an intense investigation into possible FISA abuse by the FBI. The FBI relied heavily on the Steele dossier to obtain four FISA warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Republicans have noted that the dossier was cited despite being unverified. Steele, a former MI6 officer, claimed in the dossier that Page met secretly with Kremlin insiders during a July 2016 trip to Moscow. Steele also accuses Page of being the Trump campaign’s conduit to the Russian government for purposes of collusion. Page has vehemently denied the allegations. In its applications for the FISA warrants on Page, the FBI cited an article published on Sept. 23, 2016 by Yahoo! News that relied heavily on Steele as a source. The FBI did not acknowledge that Steele was a source for the article, which was written by Michael Isikoff. (RELATED: DOJ Releases Carter Page FISA) There is no indication that the FBI provided information to Isikoff. The veteran reporter cited a congressional official as a source, as well as a “senior U.S. law enforcement official” who said that the allegations against Page were “on our radar screen.” The official said that Page’s contacts with Russians were “being looked at.” Steele revealed in a court filing in London in 2017 that he briefed several reporters prior to the campaign, including from Yahoo!, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and Mother Jones. The FBI said in its applications that investigators did not believe that Steele was a direct source for the Yahoo! report.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 28, 2018 5:14:17 GMT -6
China hacked Hillary’s email server? Interesting twist: dailycaller.com/2018/08/27/china-hacked-clinton-server/A Chinese-owned company penetrated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server, according to sources briefed on the matter. The company inserted code that forwarded copies of Clinton’s emails to the Chinese company in real time. The Intelligence Community Inspector General warned of the problem, but the FBI subsequently failed to act, Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert said during a July hearing. A Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington, D.C., area hacked Hillary Clinton’s private server throughout her term as secretary of state and obtained nearly all her emails, two sources briefed on the matter told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The Chinese firm obtained Clinton’s emails in real time as she sent and received communications and documents through her personal server, according to the sources, who said the hacking was conducted as part of an intelligence operation. The Chinese wrote code that was embedded in the server, which was kept in Clinton’s residence in upstate New York. The code generated an instant “courtesy copy” for nearly all of her emails and forwarded them to the Chinese company, according to the sources. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) found that virtually all of Clinton’s emails were sent to a “foreign entity,” Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, said at a July 12 House Committee on the Judiciary hearing. He did not reveal the entity’s identity, but said it was unrelated to Russia. (RELATED: Gohmert: Watchdog Found Clinton Emails Were Sent To ‘Foreign Entity’) Two officials with the ICIG, investigator Frank Rucker and attorney Janette McMillan, met repeatedly with FBI officials to warn them of the Chinese intrusion, according to a former intelligence officer with expertise in cybersecurity issues, who was briefed on the matter. He spoke anonymously, as he was not authorized to publicly address the Chinese’s role with Clinton’s server. Among those FBI officials was Peter Strzok, who was then the bureau’s top counterintelligence official. Strzok was fired this month following the discovery he sent anti-Trump texts to his mistress and co-worker, Lisa Page. Strzok didn’t act on the information the ICIG provided him, according to Gohmert. Gohmert mentioned in the Judiciary Committee hearing that ICIG officials told Strzok and three other top FBI officials that they found an “anomaly” on Clinton’s server. The former intelligence officer TheDCNF spoke with said the ICIG “discovered the anomaly pretty early in 2015.” “When [the ICIG] did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata — the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails — that a copy, a ‘courtesy copy,’ was being sent to a third party and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China,” the former intelligence officer told TheDCNF. “The [the ICIG] believe that there was some level of phishing. But once they got into the server something was embedded,” he said. “The Chinese are notorious for embedding little surprises like this.” The intelligence officer declined to name of the Chinese company. “We do know the name of the company. There are indications there are other ‘cutouts’ that were involved. I would be in a lot of trouble if I gave you the name,” he told TheDCNF. A government staff official who’s been briefed on the ICIG’s findings told TheDCNF that the Chinese state-owned firm linked to the hacking operates in Washington’s northern Virginia suburbs. The source was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter. The company that penetrated Clinton’s server was not a technology firm and it served as a “front group” for the Chinese government, the source told TheDCNF. |
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