Next post later today will be Devin Nunes and (I think) Papadopoulis.
Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo 12-15-19 _ Breaking Fox News December 15th
Partial transcript of video begins around 10:30 min/sec. (Bartiromo's interview with John Ratcliff).
Maria Bartiromo interviews Representative John Ratcliffe (TX) and Michael MuKasey (former Attorney General) about the testimony and report provided by IG Horowitz about how the FBI conducted its investigation into the 2016 election. My summary of Ratcliffe's video comments are provided below.
John Ratcliffe video segment:
IG Horowitz Report is an indictment of what Adam Schiff was saying, an indictment of Jim Comey's leadership
Impeachment II
Adam Schiff met with the person who walked out of his office and became the whistleblower
Impeachment I
Adam Schiff lied about the FBI's actions (misbehavior), attacked the president for a few years re "definite collusion"
What was learned from report by IG Horowitz?
* Schiff put out a report saying there was no FISA abuse by the FbI [FALSE]
* Schiff said the FBI didn't fail to turn over exculpatory evidence [False]
* Schiff said that the dossier was not a central part of the FISA applications against Carter Page [False]
Key take away, even if you concede (and Ratcliffe says he does not) that there was a predicate to start the investigation (Trump Russia collusion), there was no predicate to continue a counterintelligence investigation of the President of the United States. They had to do it by making those false representations to the FISA court.
Devin Nunes provided a report (the 'Devin Nunes Memo') in 2017 documenting all the wrongdoing that had been going on. Schiff responded with his own 'Correcting the Record' memo which has since been proven wrong.
According to IG Horowitz's report, an FBI lawyer altered a document.
Horowitz found 'errors and omissions': false statements, misrepresentations, destruction or alteration of documentary evidence.
FBI lawyers literally changed evidence to make false representations to the court to continue the counterintelligence investigation against the President.
Ratcliffe notes everyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence, although Democrats never want to give one to Donald Trump. However, what the Inspector General's report outlines is criminal activity.
* FBI lawyers were depriving people (e.g., Carter Page) of their civil rights under color of law.
* Tampering with evidence: Taking documents and making them say the opposite of what they really represent, and certifying that to the court.
The IG report is an indictment of Jim Comey's leadership of the FBI, along with the things Democrats said to continue the counterterrorism investigation against the sitting President of the United States, when there was no probable cause.
They started the investigation by making 7 'errors and omissions' that were misrepresentations, alterations of evidence. Then they committed 10 more 'errors and omissions' to continue that investigation along the way
Ratcliffe says he doesn't think the American public can appreciate how much damage was done to the FBI as a result of Jim Comey's leadership.
Ratcliff confirms for Bartiromo that crimes were committed against Carter Page and a sitting President.
* According to the IG report, Carter Page's civil rights
* Individual people at the FBI undertook actions to continue a counterintelligence investigation against a presidential candidate's campaign, against a sitting President, against his Presidency.
Ratcliffe says that, based on the findings of the Horowitz IG report, he expects John Durham to look at them from a criminal standpoint. He said he's not making allegations that anyone should be convicted. Everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence.
However, Ratcliff things the IG's report details activities which should be investigated and prosecuted.
Bartiromo asks, "Could people go to jail over this?"
Ratcliffe replies, "Abolutely." He what an agressive prosecutor would do if the defendant were George Papadopoulis or Michael Flynn.
The findings of fact in IG Horowitz's report detail criminal activity which would send people away for a long time.
Bartiromo says her next interview is with George Papadopoulis about conversations he had, which we now know are exculpatory evidence which was not given to the FISA court.
She is also looking at when the investigation actually started because the FBI claims the counterintelligence investigation of Trump began in July of 2016, but there were informants, running into campaign people as early as March 2016. So her interview will include Michael MuKasey (former Attorney General).
Judge Michael MuKasey (former Attorney General) video segment:
Bartiromo notes that IG Horowitz laid out evidence of legitimate concern regarding the but he also said he found no evidence that political bias sparked the probe.
She says AG Barr and John Durham contradicted the IG's report. They say the IG's report makes it clear that political bias was behind the decision to launched an intrusive counterintelligence investigation of Donald Trump's US Presidential campaign on the 'thinnest of suspicions' that were insufficient to justify the steps taken.
She asks MuKasey where political bias was in the investigation. Was that among the reasons they investigated Donald Trump?
MuKasey points to evidence that was not discussed in the IG's report, or the IG's prior report on the various investigations on the various investigations that the FBI did.
When Ted Cruz withdrew from the race (primaries), Donald Trump became the only candidate and presumptive candidate. Lisa Page texted Strzok saying, "I can't believe he's going to be the nominee. Strzok reacted with hostility to the idea of Trump becoming President and says, "Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE..."
[ransomnote: Information introduced by mistake or just out of sequence in video graphics re the Clinton email investigation, Lisa Page texted Peter Strzok saying it was going to be a Clinton v Trump campaign and that they shouldn't go in 'loaded for bear' because she might be the next president.]
MuKasey says MYE stood for (Hillary's) Mid Year Exam; it was the code word for the Hillary Clinton Email investigation.
Mukasey asks (rhetorical question) how it is that the elevation of Trump to the Republican nominee for the 2016 race would create pressure to finish the Hillary Clinton email investigation unless you want to curtail the damage to Hillary Clinton and assure that Donald Trump doesn't win. For what reason would the Trump nomination effect the course of the Hillary Clinton email investigation? The fact that Strzok said that is evidence that Trump's nominee status would have that effect.
This exchange between Strzok and Page was never mentioned in the IG's report, or Horowitz's earlier report. He basically took everybody's word for it (i.e., there was no bias) because he doesn't have subpoena power. John Durham has subpoena power, and he is going to be conducting a criminal investigation which we've yet to hear about.
Bartiromo notes John Durham's investigation will be looking at what happened before July of 2016. The FBI continues to assert that they started the counterintelligence investigation in July of 2016 because of a tip they heard in a conversation in a bar between George Papadopoulis and an informant. However we now know informants ran into George Papadopoulis and Carter page as early as March 2016.
Mukasey adds that Jim Comey was talking about Carter Page, briefing on Carter Page, in June of 2016, well before any report of the conversation reached the FBI. We don't know why.
Bartiromo asks about last week. Adam Schiff had the phone records of Rudy Guiliani, President Trump's personal lawyer; of John Solomon, a journalist; of Devin Nunes. Not only did Schiff get those phone records, but then he let the public know he had those phone records and this triggered speculation among the public (ransomnote: public began to question why Guiliani would call this person, why John Solomon would call that other person). She notes you're allowed to make a phone call.
Mukasey: It's a stunner - it's not just that he had them; it's where he got them. Schiff got the phone records from the phone company that was providing the service. There are criminal code statutes that restrict the ability of anybody to get phone records. THe Statutes list who can obtain phone records, and under what circumstances they can be obtained; that doesn't include Congress.
The statutes give law enforcement access for law enforcment purposes, or if the company wants to provide them to save someone's life, or prevent serious injury. Those are the only circumstances in which phone records can be obtained.
Congress has no authority to subpoena that information. That's a statute in the Criminal Code (Title 18).
Bartiromo notes Devin Nunes expects to have a legal strategy in January (2020). She asks if Nunes has strong standing.
Mukasey confirms Nunes has strong standing. He believes questions/answers are needed to explain why Schiff issued subpoena's to the provider, not to the person who sent/received calls. He asks (paraphrising) if that means when a person becomes a candidate, the Senate can go look at his phone records? We need to stop that.
Bartiromo notes AT&T rolled over and supplied the phone records.
Mukasey notes, that Congress regulates the phone service providers.
ENDING my notes on the video at 23:31 minutes/seconds into the video.
George Soros had a hand pressing down on the scales of US Presidential elections since Reagan. Soros directed Barack Obama to start the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Obama's investigation of candidate Trump included (Soros controlled) Clinton Foundation/DNC to create the dossier used to obtain FISA's and spy on President Trump).
Soros controlled the DNC leadership (and some Rhinos). Out of curiousity, I looked for historical signs of Soros taking control of the DNC. When Mondale lost to Reagan (first term), Mondale spearheaded the creation of Democrat party 'superdelegates', awarding them extra influence in the selection of the DNC nominee (their votes 'count' more). I speculate that was when Soros took full control of the DNC, although an AI is not aware of Mondale ever meeting Soros.
Superdelegates in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) include all sitting Democratic governors, senators, and representatives, as well as distinguished party leaders such as current and former presidents and vice presidents, and members of the DNC itself. These individuals are automatically granted delegate status at the national convention.
Soros used Schumer to create mail-in voting for the purpose of improving control over election outcomes, to prevent Donald Trump from gaining a second term.
George Soros directed Barack Obama to start Crossfire Hurricane in order to remove candidate, and then President Trump. 3869
February 16, 2020, Alan Deshowitz said he had possession of the 302 form (standard FBI form used to memorialize witness statements) proving Barack Obama ordered the FBI to investigate someone on behalf of George Soros.Grok assembled a transcript of Dershowitz's comments from contemporaneous sources like Brietbart:
Alan Dershowitz: George Soros Asked Barack Obama to Investigate Undisclosed Person
TRANSCRIPT (ransomnote: I trimmed channel introduction etc. from the transcript Grok found on Breitbart. I made corrections to transcript errors and filled in comments missing from Breitbart's excerpt with additional video content in a Rumble video)
Dershowitz: "There was a
lot of Whitehouse control of the Justice
Department during the Kennedy
administration and I don't think we saw
very many liberal professors arguing
against that. I have some information as
well about the about the Obama
administration which will be disclosed
in a lawsuit at some point, but I'm not
prepared to disclose it now, about how
President Obama personally asked the FBI
to investigate somebody on behalf of
George Soros, who was a close ally
SNIPWe've seen this kind of White
House influence on the Justice
Department virtually in every Justice
Department. The difference is this
president (ransomnote: Trump) is much more overt about it. He
tweets about it.
President Obama whispered to the Justice
Department about it and and and I don't
think these thousand former Justice
Department officials would pass the shoe
on the other foot test. Maybe some of
them would but a good many of them
wouldn't, and let's be very clear about
the constitutionality. The president
could make a decision to really control
the Justice Department; he could decide
who to prosecute or not to prosecute. He
shouldn't do it; it hasn't been done
since Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson
did do it. We've seen this throughout our
history.
[ransomnote: The interviewer asks for confirmation that Dershowitz said that George Soros asked Barack Obama to have his FBI department investigates somebody]
Dershowitz: Where that's going to come out, is in the
lawsuit in the near future. Yeah that is
not unusual. People whisper to presidents
all the time.
Presidents whisper to Justice Department
all the time. It's very common. It's wrong
whoever does it, but it's common and we
shouldn't think that it's unique to any
particular president.
I have in my
possession the actual 302 form which
documents this issue and it will, at the
right time, come out but I'm not free to
disclose it now because it's a case
that's not yet been filed.
[ransomnote: the Brietbart commentator said Dershowitz reflected on his experience at the impeachment trial of President Trump. He said his argument had been so grotesquely distorted by CNN that he could, if he wanted, sue the CNN network.
@ 25 sec
(Tucker Carlson) Dershowitz said Obama personally launched a politically motivated investigation after George Soros, a close ally of his, demanded he do so. Dershowitz said he can prove it.@1:37 min/sec
The reporter says this comment occurred in the wake of AG Barr openly asking Trump to stop tweeting about ongoing Justice Department matters. Barr also said Trump never personally intervened in a Justice Department matter.@1:50 min/sec
A left wing group organized about 1000 former DOJ officials to issue a letter demanding Barr's resignation (ransomnote: *sigh* Doesn't this mean those thousand former DOJ officials were controlled by Soros too? Or is it just a montage of China, Soros and others in the Cabal 'running' the US?) The WAPO slammed Bill Barr for functioning as President Trump's 'wingman' even though Eric Holder publicly identified himself as Obama's 'wingman'.@2:44 min/sec
January 3, 2019, Dershowitz was introduced and mention is made of his book (i.e.,
@3:02 min/sec Dershowitz is asked what happened in Florida with the case against Jeffrey Epstein, noting that he was Epstein's attorney (ransomnote: She implied he's tarnished?)
@3:34 min/sec Dershowitz is asked about the accusations of his involvement with underage girls.
Dershowitz explains those accusations were totally made up. He said the first 'victim's' lawyer admitted in front of witnesses, that she was wrong, that Dershowitz couldn't have been in the placesHe said the second victim wrote to the New York Post claiming she had videotapes of Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump having sex with underage girls. The New York Post didn't believe her and refused to publish her story.
Dershowitz says stories like these all came from the same source, David Boies, who was angry with him for filing unethical bar charges against him (ransomnote: Unethical bar charges refer to fees or billing practices by attorneys that violate professional conduct rules)
He notes that women in the #MeToo movement all knew the men involved, whereas he had never met the women accusing him, never met them. He was looking for an opportunity to take the to court for a trial.
He discovered private emails which prove that he was framed, and identified the person framing him. He said the email(s) name names and that those people were going to go to jail. He asked the reporters to have him back on the show when the emails come out because there will be prominent people in handcuffs.
Q3969 indicates Durham's investigation of Crossfire Hurricane began in May of 2019 (when Barr appointed him). John Solomon said in April 2020 that he knew people whom Durham had subpoenaed to testify in Grand Jury hearings. The drop notes that Durham 'held' or froze declas because he had Grand Jury criminal case(s) ongoing (i.e., Grand Jury case materials have to be secured until the jury completes its work).
Solomon speculated that Durham would probably start with Kevin Clinesmith, who altered documents submitted to the FISA court. Foreign sources provided the Clinton Foundation/DNC dossier to support the FISA, and other non FISA intel.
But Durham wasn't the first to investigate Crossfire Hurricane House and Senate Oversight committees, Nunes; Grassley and other in Congress; had also been investigating and submitting referrals to the DOJ since 2016). Sessions then appointed John Huber, and Huber's appointment was confirmed August 3, 2017. (ransomnote: Huber's appointment began 2015; I wonder if it's possible he was activated from the start).
Noting for later, Whitaker Drops for his role in this puzzle.
May 10, 2020followup on