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  • This Sure Looks Like Mitt Romney's Secret Twitter Account

    10/20/2019 5:28:44 PM PDT · by outofsalt · 27 replies
    Slate via MSN ^ | 10/20/2019 | Ashley Feinberg
    "The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins published a lengthy profile on Mitt Romney, apparently part of Romney’s effort to set himself up as the noble Republican foil to an out-of-control president." "About midway through, the usually guarded senator revealed that, just like fellow lone-voice-of reason-haver James Comey, he was the owner of a secret Twitter account."
  • Comey: America will survive Trump acquittal

    02/01/2020 11:12:53 AM PST · by Monrose72 · 54 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 02-01-20 | Caitlin Yilek
    Former FBI Director James Comey said America has weathered dark times in the past, which proves it can survive President Trump being acquitted by the Senate. “When I was a little kid, the United States seemed to be coming apart,” Comey, 59, wrote in an opinion piece for the Washington Post. Comey cited the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, as well as the protests against the Vietnam War and desegregation. “War and death and disorder dominated the news,” he wrote. “There is a natural human tendency to think we live...
  • Memorandum Opinion for The General Counsel Office of The Director National Iintelligence

    “Urgent Concern” Determination by the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community A complaint from an intelligence-community employee about statements made by the President during a telephone call with a foreign leader does not involve an “urgent concern,” as defined in 50 U.S.C. § 3033(k)(5)(G), because the alleged conduct does not relate to “the funding, administration, or operation of an intelligence activity” un- der the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. As a result, the statute does not require the Director to transmit the complaint to the congressional intelligence committees. September 24, 2019 MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE GENERAL COUNSEL OFFICE...
  • Carter Page Says FBI’s SpyGate Is ‘ Just The Tip Of The Iceberg’ Hints At Future Legal Action

    01/12/2020 1:35:31 PM PST · by blam · 25 replies
    Sara Carter.com ^ | 1-12-2020
    Was President Donald Trump’s short term campaign foreign policy volunteer Carter Page set up by an FBI informant or the informant’s handler at the FBI? On the The Sara Carter Show, Page discussed the recent revelations in Department of Justice’s Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report and his interview in The Federalist where questions surfaced regarding his first meeting with Stefan Halper, one of the FBI’s spies in the Trump campaign. Questions Linger Questions still loom regarding Halper’s and his FBI handler. It appears that Horowitz’s report raises more answers than questions, said Page, who was not given the opportunity to...
  • 'Duty as a citizen': Bruce Ohr concealed efforts to spread Steele dossier

    01/06/2020 7:38:32 AM PST · by RightGeek · 31 replies
    Washington Times ^ | 1/5/2020 | Rowan Scarborough
    Bruce Ohr, the highest-ranking Obama Justice Department official to involve himself in distributing the anti-Trump dossier, carried out his freelancing through numerous meetings, phone calls and emails as a link between the FBI and Hillary Clinton forces. He told a colleague that the Russia election scandal reached the top — Donald Trump. It was his “duty as a citizen” to spread the unverified allegations around town, he said. During all of Mr. Ohr’s maneuverings, from the summer of 2016 to Mr. Trump’s election to the fall of 2017, he hid the operation from his bosses. When Mr. Ohr’s name surfaced...
  • 'We should all be scared to death': Mike Lee would vote to repeal FISA

    01/04/2020 7:40:44 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 20 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | January 04, 2020 07:21 PM | Daniel Chaitin
    A Republican senator said he would vote to repeal the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act following a scathing report that found serious problems in how the FBI sought to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser. Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a longtime critic of the FISA program, told One America News Network on Saturday that the audit released last month by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz was a wake-up call to "stop allowing the American people to be subjected to this type of abuse and manipulation." "We should all be scared to death," Lee said. "We shouldn't rest until FISA is...
  • IG Report Reveals McCabe Blocked Request to Remove Peter Strzok from Russia Hoax Probe

    12/19/2019 5:17:54 AM PST · by tired&retired · 29 replies
    Breitbart ^ | December 19, 2019 | Aaron Klein
    The FBI’s top counterintelligence agent, Bill Priestap, originally wanted controversial FBI agent Peter Strzok removed from the team investigating unsubstantiated claims of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the recently released Justice Department’s Inspector General report revealed. Priestap’s request was overruled by former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who served under disgraced ex-FBI chief James Comey, the report further related. The report related that Steinbach was particularly concerned “about Strzok and [FBI attorney] Lisa Page working together because he was aware of instances where they bypassed the chain of command to advise McCabe about case related information that...
  • FARRELL: Obama Wanted To Know Everything His Trump Spies Were Doing, And It Looks Like He Did

    12/16/2019 9:02:49 PM PST · by zeestephen · 32 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 13 December 2019 | Chris Farrell
    The [new IG Report] reveals that Comey told Obama and other officials at a White House Situation Room meeting...that "the FBI was trying to determine whether any U.S. person had worked with the Russians" and that they were looking into "four individuals with some association or connection to the Trump campaign." Others present at the meeting [were Rice, Clapper, and Brennan], none of whom were interviewed for [the new IG Report]. Incredibly, Comey claimed that no one at the meeting "responded or followed up with any questions" (p. 110).
  • AG Bill Barr Chooses to Protect Rosenstein Over Full Disclosure in Flynn Case…

    12/16/2019 4:21:29 PM PST · by bitt · 66 replies
    CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 12/16/2019 | SUNDANCE
    Regardless of whether you would support or not support the vigorous defense of Michael Flynn, I would hope we would all agree a fulsome discovery of all relevant background material is a cornerstone of justice appropriately applied. With that in mind it is concerning how Attorney General Bill Barr would prefer to keep DOJ conduct against Flynn hidden from public review. Consider… ♦Would it be valuable for Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan to know the FBI was discussing how to “lock in” charges against [Flynn] in a “formal chargeable way”? Would it be valuable for Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan to consider...
  • Donald Trump Demands Apology After James Comey Admits ‘I Was Wrong’

    President Donald Trump again challenged James Comey on Sunday, demanding an apology from the former FBI Director after he admitted he “was wrong” to defend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant for the surveillance of former Trump foreign-policy adviser Carter Page. So now Comey’s admitting he was wrong. Wow, but he’s only doing so because he got caught red handed. He was actually caught a long time ago. So what are the consequences for his unlawful conduct. Could it be years in jail? Where are the apologies to me and others, Jim? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15,...
  • Fox's Chris Wallace spars with Comey over Horowitz report

    12/15/2019 8:23:36 AM PST · by bitt · 97 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/15/2019 | REGINA ZILBERMINTS
    Former FBI Director James Comey sparred with Fox News's Chris Wallace on Sunday over the Justice Department inspector general's (IG) report on the bureau's investigation into President Trump's campaign and whether the probe cleared the FBI of wrongdoing. Wallace pressed Comey on "Fox News Sunday" on whether the "victory lap" he said the former FBI director had taken since the report's release was justified. While Comey has claimed the report by Justice Department IG Michael Horowitz vindicated the FBI, Horowitz in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week said that "the activities we found don’t vindicate anybody who touched...
  • The Carter Page/Ukraine Lie That Kept On Lying for Mueller and the FBI

    12/12/2019 8:19:12 PM PST · by bitt · 23 replies
    Realclear investigations.com ^ | 12/12/2019 | Paul Sperry
    The FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller repeatedly kept alive a damning narrative that investigators knew to be false: namely, that a junior Trump campaign aide as a favor to the Kremlin had “gutted” an anti-Russia and pro-Ukraine plank in the Republican Party platform at the GOP’s 2016 convention. Federal authorities used this claim to help secure spy warrants on the aide in question, Carter Page, suggesting to the court that he was “an agent of Russia” – even though investigators knew that Page was working for U.S., not Russian, intelligence, and that they had learned from witnesses, emails and...
  • IG report is a big, big problem for CNN, others – They are exposed as liars and know-nothings

    12/12/2019 11:00:21 PM PST · by knighthawk · 11 replies
    Fox News ^ | December 12 2019 | Tucker Carlson
    Thanks to the Department of Justice IG report -- the one released on Monday -- we now know for certain what was, for those paying attention, fairly obvious for a long time -- in fact, from the beginning. We now know the Steele dossier played a central role in the genesis of the beginning of the Russia hoax. The dossier was used to justify extensive spying on an innocent American citizen; that would be former naval officer and Annapolis graduate, Carter Page. The top two leaders at the FBI were closely involved in the decision to do this. Other powerful...
  • When FBI Learned Carter Page Had Been Working With CIA It Ignored That Info To Get Another FISA Warrant

    12/12/2019 12:23:44 PM PST · by Red Badger · 57 replies
    www.dailywire.com ^ | December 12th, 2019 | By Ashe Schow
    One section of the Justice Department’s Inspector General (IG) report that hasn’t gotten as much attention highlights how the FBI not only altered evidence against one-time Trump campaign aide Carter Page, but also ignored exculpatory evidence to continue obtaining FISA warrants against him. The FBI had believed Page was a foreign agent working with the Russians to help Donald Trump steal the 2016 election. In reality, Page had previously worked with an unnamed U.S. intelligence agency dealing with Russians for years at the beginning of the Obama administration. After the FBI started surveilling Page, he made several public statements about...
  • 'Open-ended criteria:' Dershowitz says next Democratic president will be impeached

    12/08/2019 6:39:57 PM PST · by caww · 63 replies
    washingtonexaminer ^ | 12/08/2019 | Dominick Mastrangelo
    Law scholar Alan Dershowitz predicted the next Democrat elected president of the United States will be impeached as a result of the same "open-ended" criteria the party is currently using to impeach President Trump. "They have created open-ended criteria which bear no relationship to the word of the Constitution itself," Dershowitz said Sunday on Fox News. "If President Trump is impeached, it will set a terrible precedent, which will weaponize impeachment, and the next Democrat who gets elected will be impeached." How many foreign policy decisions have been made by presidents over the years in order to help them get...
  • Media Hypes Fusion GPS Founders as Victims

    11/29/2019 8:53:11 AM PST · by raptor22 · 9 replies
    American Thinker ^ | November 29, 2019 | Daniel John Sobieski
    It’s a little like the proverbial child killing its parents and throwing itself on the mercy of the court because he's now an orphan, but, with the wheels of Barr-Durham-Horowitz justice inexorably turning on them, there are Fusion GPS founders, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, on a media book tour claiming they are the victims of right-wing vengeance for their role in orchestrating a criminal fraud upon the FISA court and a coup against a sitting president of the United States. Holy Michael Avenatti!
  • Strzok-Page Texts Were Not Unearthed by .. FBI - Strzok’s Angry and Scorned Wife Turned Him

    11/29/2019 8:27:11 AM PST · by george76 · 68 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | November 29, 2019 | Joe Hoft
    HUGE: Strzok-Page Texts Were Not Unearthed by Sharp FBI Investigative Work – Strzok’s Angry and Scorned Wife Turned Him In After Finding Texts on His Phone! ... the reason corrupt FBI agent Peter Strzok was caught texting his lover in the FBI, Lisa Page, was not due to incredible investigative work. The reason was the oldest explanation in the book – his jealous and scorned wife! We are only now finding out how Peter Strzok got caught texting his mistress Lisa Page at the FBI. He was outed by his wife – ... Sidney Powell summed it up – “There...
  • A couple of things you might not know about the FBI conspiracy against Trump

    06/27/2018 3:47:52 PM PDT · by Starman417 · 16 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 06-26-18 | DrJohn
    The single most damning text between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reads like this: “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page texted Strzok. “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it,” Strzok responded. If that doesn't scream bias and conspiracy, nothing does. But you probably know these two. There are a few more you might not know. There might be a few more things you might not know.  The Trump Russia investigation was basically a seamless continuation of the Hillary email investigation. Among the people who worked on the Clinton email investigation, er, "matter" were Agent 2 and...
  • WIKILEAKS BOMBSHELL: Whistleblower’s Attorney Zaid Worked With CIA to Imprison Client

    11/07/2019 3:16:06 PM PST · by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget · 43 replies
    True Pundit ^ | November 7, 2019 | True Pundit
    This is getting very very interesting. Now surfaces an Intel gem from Julian Assange’s Wikileaks alleging that the lawyer for Adam Schiff’s anti-Trump and Ukraine whistleblower was called out by Wikileaks and Assange for selling out a legal client to the CIA. And the client ended up in prison, according to Wikileaks. Wikileaks previouly hurled a brutal and damning Tweet at attorney Mark Zaid accusing him of selling out a client and working with the CIA to get that client locked up. Sounds familiar. Mark S. Zaid ✔ @MarkSZaidEsq · Nov 23, 2018 Replying to @NaomiPitcairn and 6 others Lol,...
  • Deep State: Lisa Page, Peter Strzok Conducted FBI’s Review to Classify Comey’s Memos

    09/01/2019 6:22:17 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 29 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 1 Sep 2019 | Aaron Klein
    NEW YORK — Former FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, the once romantically-linked duo infamous for their anti-Trump text messages, conducted the initial agency review of disgraced ex-FBI chief James Comey’s memos to determine whether the documents contained any potentially classified information. Working on the initial classification review with Page and Strzok was another member of Comey’s inner circle, James A. Baker, the former FBI general counsel. Those details were contained inside the report released last Thursday by the Justice Department’s inspector-general.The IG report related that Strzok characterized himself, Page, Baker, and the Unit Chief of the FBI’s Counterintelligence...