Posted on 04/20/2019 10:17:48 AM PDT by ransomnote
I don’t recall ever seeing this Thomas Wictor thread on Flynn. It’s a must read.
https://quodverum.com/2018/12/340/general-michael-t-flynn.html
-SB
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3743950/posts?page=1
I posted the Brian Cates thread:
The modern day DC foreign bribery industry:(my title)
twitter ^ | 4/22/2019 | BRIAN CATES
should get a whole bunch of “who the hell is this guy” comments...
Not me! I read him daily. ;o)
> http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3743950/posts?page=1
I didn’t realize how deep Craig was buried. Wow. I knew about the 1984 Kennedy outreach to the Soviets but not the rest. It was enough to keep me up this late.
-SB
and John Solomon said last week that he would be soon giving info that ‘the investigation started long before July 2016’....
Q
Case 1:19-cv-01136-APM Document 1 Filed 04/22/19 Page 1 of 14
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DONALD J. TRUMP,
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20500,
THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION, INC.,
TRUMP ORGANIZATION LLC,
THE TRUMP CORPORATION,
DJT HOLDINGS LLC,
THE DONALD J. TRUMP REVOCABLE
TRUST,
725 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10022,
Civil Action No. _______________
TRUMP OLD POST OFFICE LLC,
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20004,
Plaintiffs,
v.
ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, in his official capacity
as Chairman of the House Committee on
Oversight and Reform,
PETER KENNY, in his official capacity as
Chief Investigative Counsel of the House
Committee on Oversight and Reform,
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515,
MAZARS USA LLP,
135 West 50th Street
New York, NY 10020,
Defendants.
COMPLAINT
Plaintiffs bring this action against Defendants for declaratory and injunctive relief and allege
as follows:
INTRODUCTION
1.
The Democrat Party, with its newfound control of the U.S.
House of Representatives,
has declared all-out political war against President Donald
J. Trump. Subpoenas are their weapon of choice.
2.
Democrats are using their new control of congressional
committees to investigate every aspect of President Trumps
personal finances, businesses, and even his family. Instead
of working with the President to pass bipartisan legislation
that would actually benefit Americans, House Democrats are
singularly obsessed with finding something they can use to
damage the President politically. They have issued more than
100 subpoenas and requests to anyone with even the most
tangential connection to the President.
3.
This case involves one of those subpoenas. Last week,
Defendant Elijah E. Cummings invoked his authority as
Chairman of the House Oversight Committee to subpoena
Mazars USA LLPthe longtime accountant for President Trump
and several Trump entities (all Plaintiffs here).
Chairman Cummings asked Mazars for financial statements,
supporting documents, and communications about Plaintiffs
over an eight-year periodmostly predating the Presidents
time in office.
4.
Chairman Cummings requested this information because Michael Cohena felon who has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress
told the House Oversight Committee that the President
had misrepresented his net worth while he was a private
citizen. The Committee, according to Chairman Cummings, now
needs to investigate whether the President may have engaged
in illegal conduct. The Chairman claims he can do so
because the Oversight Committee can supposedly investigate
any matter at any time.
5.
Chairman Cummings has ignored the constitutional limits on
Congress power to investigate.
Article I of the Constitution does not contain an
“Investigations Clause or an Oversight Clause.
It gives Congress the power to enact certain legislation.
Accordingly, investigations are legitimate only insofar as
they further some legitimate legislative purpose.
No investigation can be an end in itself.
And Congress cannot use investigations to exercise powers
that the Constitution assigns to the executive or judicial
branch.
6.
Chairman Cummings subpoena of Mazars lacks a legitimate
legislative purpose. There is no possible legislation at the
end of this tunnel; indeed, the Chairman does not claim
otherwise.
With this subpoena, the Oversight Committee is instead
assuming the powers of the Department of Justice,
investigating (dubious and partisan) allegations of illegal
conduct by private individuals outside of government.
Its goal is to expose Plaintiffs private financial
information for the sake of exposure, with the hope that it
will turn up something that Democrats can use as a political
tool against the President now and in the 2020 election.
7.
Because Chairman Cummings subpoena to Mazars threatens to
expose Plaintiffs confidential information and lacks a
legitimate legislative purpose, this Court has the power to
declare it invalid and to enjoin its enforcement.
Eastland v. U.S. Servicemens Fund, 421 U.S. 491, 501 n.14
(1975) (endorsing U.S. Servicemens Fund v. Eastland,
488 F.2d 1252, 1259-60 (D.C. Cir. 1973)).
Plaintiffs are entitled to that relief.
PARTIES
8.
Plaintiff Donald J. Trump is the 45th President of the United States. President Trump
brings this suit solely in his capacity as a private citizen.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The rest (11 more pages) can be found near the bottom of this link:
https://explainlife.com/president-trump-sues-democrats-for-abuse-of-power-14064
~Easy
Swalwell reminds me of he bully Biff in Back to the Future
Re: Swallwell vs Biff
Hard to tell who is dumber.
MANY images! The detail and quantity of analysis does make it seem that things are snowballing.
The Obama Use of FISA-702 as a Domestic Political Surveillance Program .
Now that we have significant research files on the 2015 and 2016 political surveillance program; which includes the trail evident within the Weissmann/Mueller report; in combination with the Obama-era DOJ secret research project (their words, not mine); we are able to overlay the entire objective and gain a full understanding of how political surveillance was conducted over a period of approximately four to six years.
Working with a timeline, but also referencing origination material in 2015/2016 CTH hopes to show how the program operated. This explains an evolution from The IRS Files in 2010 to the FISA Files in 2016.
The FISA-702 database extraction process, and utilization of the protections within the smaller intelligence community, was the primary process. We start by reviewing the established record from the 99-page FISC opinion rendered by Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer on April 26th, 2017; and explain the details within the FISC opinion.
I would strongly urge everyone to read the FISC report (full pdf below) because Judge Collyer outlines how the DOJ, which includes the FBI, had an institutional lack of candor in responses to the FISA court. In essence, they were continually lying to the court about their activity, and the rate of fourth amendment violations for illegal searches and seizures of U.S. persons private information for multiple years.
Unfortunately, due to intelligence terminology Judge Collyers brief and ruling is not an easy read for anyone unfamiliar with the FISA processes outlined. The complexity also helps the media avoid discussing, and as a result most Americans have no idea the scale and scope of the issues. So well try to break down the language.
For the sake of brevity and common understanding CTH will highlight the most pertinent segments showing just how systemic and troublesome the unlawful electronic surveillance was.
Early in 2016 NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers was alerted of a significant uptick in FISA-702(17) About queries using the FBI/NSA database that holds all metadata records on every form of electronic communication.
The NSA compliance officer alerted Admiral Mike Rogers who then initiated a full compliance audit on/around March 9th, 2016, for the period of November 1st, 2015, through May 1st, 2016.
While the audit was ongoing, due to the severity of the results that were identified, Admiral Mike Rogers stopped anyone from using the 702(17) about query option, and went to the extraordinary step of blocking all FBI contractor access to the database on April 18, 2016 (keep these dates in mind).
Here are some significant segments:
The key takeaway from these first paragraphs is how the search query results were exported from the NSA database to users who were not authorized to see the material. The FBI contractors were conducting searches and then removing, or exporting, the results. Later on, the FBI said all of the exported material was deleted.
Searching the highly classified NSA database is essentially a function of filling out search boxes to identify the user-initiated search parameter and get a return on the search result.
FISA-702(16) is a search of the system returning a U.S. person (702); and the 16 is a check box to initiate a search based on To and From. Example, if you put in a date and a phone number and check 16 as the search parameter the user will get the returns on everything To and From that identified phone number for the specific date. Calls, texts, contacts etc. Including results for the inbound and outbound contacts.
FISA-702(17) is a search of the system returning a U.S. person (702); and the 17 is a check box to initiate a search based on everything About the search qualifier. Example, if you put a date and a phone number and check 17 as the search parameter the user will get the returns of everything about that phone. Calls, texts, contacts, geolocation (or gps results), account information, user, service provider etc. As a result, 702(17) can actually be used to locate where the phone (and user) was located on a specific date or sequentially over a specific period of time which is simply a matter of changing the date parameters.
And thats just from a phone number.
Search an ip address about and read all data into that server; put in an email address and gain everything about that account. Or use the electronic address of a GPS enabled vehicle (about) and you can withdraw more electronic data and monitor in real time. Search a credit card number and get everything about the account including what was purchased, where, when, etc. Search a bank account number, get everything about transactions and electronic records etc. Just about anything and everything can be electronically searched; everything has an electronic identifier.
The search parameter is only limited by the originating field filled out. Names, places, numbers, addresses, etc. By using the About parameter there may be thousands or millions of returns. Imagine if you put @realdonaldtrump into the search parameter? You could extract all following accounts who interacted on Twitter, or Facebook etc. You are only limited by your imagination and the scale of the electronic connectivity.
As you can see below, on March 9th, 2016, internal auditors noted the FBI was sharing raw FISA information, including but not limited to Section 702-acquired information.
In plain English the raw search returns were being shared with unknown entities without any attempt to minimize or redact the results. The person(s) attached to the results were named and obvious. There was no effort to hide their identity or protect their 4th amendment rights of privacy:
But whats the scale here? This is where the story really lies.
Read this next excerpt carefully.
The operators were searching U.S Persons. The review of November 1, 2015, to May 1, 2016, showed eighty-five percent of those queries were unlawful or non compliant.
85% !! representing [redacted number].
We can tell from the space of the redaction the number of searches were between 1,000 and 9,999 [five digits]. If we take the middle number of 5,000 that means 4,250 unlawful searches out of 5,000.
The [five digit] amount (more than 1,000, less than 10,000), and 85% error rate, was captured in a six month period.
Also notice this very important quote: many of these non-compliant queries involved the use of the same identifiers over different date ranges. So they were searching the same phone number, email address, electronic identifier, or people, repeatedly over different dates. Specific people were being tracked/monitored.
Additionally, notice the last quote: while the government reports it is unable to provide a reliable estimate of these non lawful searches since 2012, there is no apparent reason to believe the November 2015 [to] April 2016 coincided with an unusually high error rate.
That means the 85% unlawful FISA-702(16)(17) database abuse has likely been happening since 2012. (Again, remember that date, 2012) Who was FBI Director? Who was his chief-of-staff? Who was CIA Director? ODNI? etc. Remember, the NSA is inside the Pentagon (Defense Dept) command structure. Who was Defense Secretary? And finally, who wrote and signed-off-on the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment?
Tens of thousands of searches over four years (since 2012), and 85% of them are illegal. The results were extracted for? . (I believe this is all political opposition use; and Ill explain why momentarily.)
OK, thats the stunning scale; but who was involved?
Private contractors with access to raw FISA information that went well beyond what was necessary to respond to FBIs requests:
And as noted, the contractor access was finally halted on April 18th, 2016.
[Coincidentally (or not), the wife of Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson, Mary Jacoby, goes to the White House the next day on April 19th, 2016.]
None of this is conspiracy theory.
All of this is laid out inside this 99-page opinion from FISC Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer who also noted that none of this FISA abuse was accidental in a footnote on page 87: deliberate decisionmaking:
Summary of this aspect: The FISA court identified and quantified tens-of-thousands of search queries of the NSA/FBI database using the FISA-702(16)(17) system. The database was repeatedly used by persons with contractor access who unlawfully searched and extracted the raw results without redacting the information and shared it with an unknown number of entities.
The outlined process certainly points toward a political spying and surveillance operation; and we are not the only one to think thats what this system is being used for.
Back in 2017 when House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes was working to reauthorize the FISA legislation, Nunes wrote a letter to ODNI Dan Coats about this specific issue:
SIDEBAR: To solve the issue, well, actually attempt to ensure it never happened again, NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers eventually took away the About query option permanently in 2017. NSA Director Rogers said the abuse was so inherent there was no way to stop it except to remove the process completely. [SEE HERE] Additionally, the NSA database operates as a function of the Pentagon, so the Trump administration went one step further. On his last day as NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers -together with ODNI Dan Coats- put U.S. cyber-command, the database steward, fully into the U.S. military as a full combatant command. [SEE HERE]
There is little doubt the FISA-702(16)(17) database system was used by Obama-era officials, from 2012 through April 2016, as a way to spy on their political opposition. Quite simply there is no other intellectually honest explanation for the scale and volume of database abuse that was taking place.
When we reconcile what was taking place and who was involved, then the actions of the exact same principle participants take on a jaw-dropping amount of clarity.
All of the action taken by CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, ODNI Clapper and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter make sense. Including their effort to get NSA Director Mike Rogers fired.
Everything after March 9th, 2016, was done to cover up the weaponization of the FISA database. [Explained Here] Spygate, Russia-Gate, the Steele Dossier, and even the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (drawn from the dossier and signed by the above) were needed to create a cover-story and protect themselves from discovery of this four year weaponization, political surveillance and unlawful spying. Even the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel makes sense; he was FBI Director when this began.
The beginning decision to use FISA(702) as a domestic surveillance and political spy mechanism appears to have started in/around 2012. Perhaps sometime shortly before the 2012 presidential election and before John Brennan left the White House and moved to CIA. However, there was an earlier version of data assembly that preceded this effort.
Political spying 1.0 was actually the weaponization of the IRS. This is where the term Secret Research Project originated as a description from the Obama team. It involved the U.S. Department of Justice under Eric Holder and the FBI under Robert Mueller. It never made sense why Eric Holder requested over 1 million tax records via CD ROM, until overlaying the timeline of the FISA abuse:
The IRS sent the FBI 21 disks constituting a 1.1 million page database of information from 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The transaction occurred in October 2010 (link)
Why disks? Why send a stack of DISKS to the DOJ and FBI when theres a pre-existing financial crimes unit within the IRS. All of the evidence within this sketchy operation came directly to the surface in early spring 2012.
The IRS scandal was never really about the IRS, it was always about the DOJ asking the IRS for the database of information. That is why it was transparently a conflict when the same DOJ was tasked with investigating the DOJ/IRS scandal. Additionally, Obama sent his chief-of-staff Jack Lew to become Treasury Secretary; effectively placing an ally to oversee/cover-up any issues. As Treasury Secretary Lew did just that.
Lesson Learned It would appear the Obama administration learned a lesson from attempting to gather a large opposition research database operation inside a functioning organization large enough to have some good people that might blow the whistle.
The timeline reflects a few months after realizing the Secret Research Project was now worthless (June 2012), they focused more deliberately on a smaller network within the intelligence apparatus and began weaponizing the FBI/NSA database.
How this all comes together in 2019
Fusion GPS was not hired in April 2016 to research Donald Trump. As shown in the evidence provided by the FISC, the intelligence community was already doing surveillance and spy operations. The Obama administration already knew everything about the Trump campaign, and were monitoring everything by exploiting the FISA database.
However, after the NSA alerts in/around March 9th, 2016, and particularly after the April 18th shutdown of contractor access, the Obama intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to create a legal albeit ex post facto justification for the pre-existing surveillance and spy operations. Fusion GPS gave them that justification in the Steele Dossier.
Thats why the FBI small group, which later transitioned into the Mueller team, are so strongly committed to and defending the formation of the Steele Dossier and its dubious content. The Steele Dossier contains the cover-story and justification for the surveillance operation.
During a rather innocuous podcast discussion panel April 12th, 2019, one of President Trumps personal lawyers Jay Sekulow mentioned the FBI had three FISA applications denied by the FISA court in 2016. [Podcast Here Note comment at 25:05] The denials were always suspected; however, until now no-one in/around the administration has ever confirmed.
If Sekulow is accurate, this adds additional context to the actions of the FBI in the aftermath of Admiral Mike Rogers and an increased urgency in gaining legal justification for surveillance and spy operation unlawfully taking place. A valid FISA warrant would help the FBI cover-up the surveillance. The likely targets were Manafort, Flynn and Papadopoulos . but it appears the DOJ/FBI were rebuked.
These FISC denials would then initiate institutional panic dependent on the election outcome. An insurance policy would be needed. The Steele Dossier becomes the investigative virus the FBI wanted inside the system. To get the virus into official status, they used the FISA application as the delivery method and injected it into Carter Page. The FBI already knew Carter Page; essentially Carter Page was irrelevant, what they needed was the FISA warrant and the Dossier in the system {Go Deep}.
Fusion GPS was not hired to research Trump, the intelligence community was already doing surveillance and spy operations. The intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to give them a plausible justification for already existing surveillance and spy operations.
Fusion-GPS gave them the justification they needed for a FISA warrant with the Steele Dossier. Ultimately thats why the Steele Dossier is so important; without it, the DOJ and FBI are naked with their FISA-702 abuse as outlined by John Ratcliffe.
Prove the July 31st, 2016, Crossfire Hurricane operation originated from fraud by exposing the CIA operation that created the originating Electronic Communication memo. Declassify that two-page EC document that Brennan gave to Comey.
* document the investigative steps taken by the FBI as an outcome of the operation coordinated by CIA Director John Brennan in early 2016.
* Reveal the November 2015 through April 2016 FISA-702 search query abuse by declassifying the April 2017 court opinion written by FISC Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer. Show the FBI contractors behind the 85% fraudulent search queries. [Crowdstrike? Fusion-GPS? Nellie Ohr?]
* Subpoena former DOJ-NSD (National Security Division) head John Carlin, or haul him in front of a grand jury, and get his testimony about why he hid the abuse from the FISA court in October 2016; why the DOJ-NSD rushed the Carter Page application to beat NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers to the FISA court; and why Carlin quit immediately thereafter. Squeeze this bastards nuts in the proverbial legal vice.
* Prove the Carter Page FISA application (October 2016) was fraudulent and based on deceptions to the FISA Court. Declassify the entire document, and release the transcripts of those who signed the application(s); and/or depose those who have not yet testified.
* Release all of the Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text messages without redactions. Let sunlight pour in on the actual conversation(s) that were taking place when Crossfire Hurricane (July 16) and the FISA Application (Oct 16) were taking place.
* Release all of Bruce Ohr 302s, FBI notes from interviews and debriefing sessions, and other relevant documents associated with the interviews of Bruce Ohr and his internal communications. Including exculpatory evidence that Bruce Ohr may have shared with FBI Agent Joseph Pientka. [And get a deposition from this Pientka fella]
* Release the August 2nd, 2017, two-page scope memo provided by DAG Rod Rosenstein to special counsel Robert Mueller to advance the fraudulent Trump investigation, and initiate the more purposeful obstruction of justice investigation. Also Release the October 20th, 2017, second scope memo recently discovered.
Thanks, SB, for posting the Wictor article about Flynn. I hadn’t encountered that one either.
Based on several writings about Flynn from the usuals... Wictor, Cates, NEON, etc...I’ve felt for a long time that Flynn will be 100% exhonorated after all this is said and done, and now I’m asking myself why was Flynn in hot water to start with? It’s all so convoluted.
We are “supposed” to feel bad for Flynn about him losing his house in the process of defending himself against Mueller’s minions. I think that was a “in the course of doing business” cost for a man who swore an oath and is actually holding to it.
Flynn is a hardass’s hardass and hates the Obamites with a passion that goes beyond white hot. For someone like Flynn who appears to practice extreme jungle survival techniques twice a year (look at that jawline and those laser eyes), losing a house is not the end of the world. He’d probably offer to stick a foot into a limb chipper smiling all the way if he felt this would help take down the Cabal.
Flynn will be proven to be a hero multiple times over. He absolutely purposely threw himself onto a bed of coals to defend this country because...”How do you legally introduce evidence.”
Aaaaaaaannnddd...
#NoHomo
The HaMR probably started before mid 2015...
https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/exclusive-obamas-coup-d-etat-proves-illegal-surveillance-coverup-111054/
Obamas coup detat docs prove illegal surveillance coverup
written by Mary Fanning and Alan Jones Jan 2, 2019
...Strzok and Page first started exchanging text messages the same week that Montgomery turned over the 47 computer hard drives to the FBI.
Montgomery turned over the 47 hard drives to the FBIs Miami Field Office on August 19, 2015. The first Strzok-Page text message released by the FBI is date-stamped August 16, 2015.
FBI Special Agents Giardina and Barnett debriefed Montgomery on Brennan and Clappers illegal surveillance operation against Trump. This was before joining Special Counsel Muellers Russia Collusion investigation.
Over the course of three hours on December 21, 2015, Comeys right-hand men Special Agents Walter Giardina and William Barnett debriefed whistleblower Montgomery inside a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) at the FBIs Washington, DC Field Office.
It was a videotaped deposition, and I laid out these private domestic surveillance programs that were being run. I specifically named names. John Brennan and James Clapper.
WORTH WATCHING! John Radcliffe reveals important detail about FISA submissions...marked VERIFIED APPLICATION!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWsvZuiPyTI
My latest theory: Jeb and Lauras reaction to the letter at Poppys funeral was reaction to a PHOTO of ... John Hinckley.
Exhibit A:
https://whowhatwhy.org/2016/08/16/bush-angle-reagan-shooting-still-unresolved-hinckley-walks/
Spider web connections: Bushes, Oswald, MK Ultra, Hinckleys, Vanderbilt Oil, George de Mohrenschildt , World Vision, Mark David Chapman, and Church Committee.
Read it and weep.
I like that theory! One picture says it all.
-—very-— interesting article!!!
Did the author include it in a later edition of his book?
Melian wrote:
“My latest theory: Jeb and Lauras reaction to the letter at Poppys funeral was reaction to a PHOTO of ... John Hinckley.
Exhibit A:
https://whowhatwhy.org/2016/08/16/bush-angle-reagan-shooting-still-unresolved-hinckley-walks/
Spider web connections: Bushes, Oswald, MK Ultra, Hinckleys, Vanderbilt Oil, George de Mohrenschildt , World Vision, Mark David Chapman, and Church Committee.
Read it and weep.”
That is interesting. I had heard there were some connections between the families which was news to me.
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