Posted on 03/28/2019 7:47:24 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
But…but…but wouldn’t that be double jeopardy? Answer: No. – Corrupt Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx and a corrupt state judge can fix things for Jussie Smollett at the state level, but there isn’t a thing they can do to help him out with federal crimes he may have committed in his effort to smear President Donald Trump and his millions of supporters.
Before he claimed to have been attacked by two MAGA-cap-wearing thugs – a claim the Chicago PD investigated and determined to have been laughably false – Smollett may have committed the federal crime of mail fraud. A week prior to that alleged assault, a threatening letter arrived at the offices of “Empire”, complete with “MAGA” smeared across the envelope.
Investigators suspect Smollett mailed the letter to himself in his pathological efforts to get himself a raise by convincing the TV series’ producers that he had become a widely-recognized star. You seriously cannot make this stuff up.
This would be a classic case of mail fraud, a federal crime for which Paul Manafort is, in part, spending the next 5 years in prison. Some legal talking heads are speculating further that Smollett could even be prosecuted under the federal hate crimes laws, given the Chicago PD’s belief that the fake assault he planned and paid for (with a personal check, no less) amounts to the commission of a hate crime against himself. Awesome.
The President himself let it be known early Thursday morning that the DOJ and FBI are actually on this particular case for once:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump FBI & DOJ to review the outrageous Jussie Smollett case in Chicago. It is an embarrassment to our Nation!
70.7K 5:34 AM - Mar 28, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 32.9K people are talking about this Which embarrassment are we talking about here – Smollett, Chicago’s corrupt politics, or the FBI and DOJ? – It’s a great question, isn’t it?
No doubt it’s a good thing that federal investigators will be trying to bring some real justice to down around this despicable actor’s head, but it’s pretty hard to celebrate that without noting at the same time the ongoing, abject failure of the DOJ to assert similar justice on those who spent all of 2016 trying to fix the presidential election and all of 2017 and 2018 attempting to execute a coup d’etat.
It seems the FBI and DOJ have all sorts of assets to dedicate to chasing a 3rd-tier actor or rich parents who bribe universities to admit their under-performing children – an investigation to which the FBI bragged it had dedicated no less than 300(!) agents. But when it comes to indicting and raiding the homes and perp-walking deep state snakes like James Comey, Sally Yates, Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok, well, suddenly they can’t be bothered to lift a finger.
And what of John Brennan, the Obama-era CIA Director and living embodiment of “Homeland” character Dar Adal? Here is a guy who has leveraged his experience as a former spymaster into a lucrative “analyst” gig with MSNBC, from which perch he has spent the last two years accusing the sitting President of committing treason.
Talk about projection – this guy was involved in this deep state coup up to his wrinkled neck. It has been public knowledge for well over a year that he in fact was involved in the authorization of the use of the fake Trump Dossier to obtain the FISA warrants needed to spy on the Trump Campaign and Transition team. Senator Rand Paul apparently just discovered this reality on Wednesday, and issued this tweet in response:
Senator Rand Paul ✔ @RandPaul BREAKING: A high-level source tells me it was Brennan who insisted that the unverified and fake Steele dossier be included in the Intelligence Report... Brennan should be asked to testify under oath in Congress ASAP.
65.8K 2:32 PM - Mar 27, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 30K people are talking about this Yes, he should be subpoenaed to testify under oath – although he would not doubt just lie to congress as he has done multiple times in the past.
But more than that, he should be under a focused investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI that it oversees. If we have a legitimate, respectable system of justice, he and all the others named above and many more should be the subject of grand jury investigations involving massive dedication of FBI resources, just like all those celebrity parents were. In “Homeland”, the Dar Adal character ended up in prison. It’s fun to envision his real-life personification joining him there, but there is precious little visible evidence that anyone at DOJ is working to make that happen.
Our President just survived a slow-rolling coup attempt guided by Gestapo Chief, er, “Special Counsel” Robert Mueller. The people who led that attempt must not be allowed to walk away from it unscathed by the justice system.
So, yes, by all means, let the DOJ go after Jussie Smollett and toss him in the federal pen if he is indeed guilty. But let’s not pretend that doing that should be the DOJ’s highest priority.
There are so many bigger fish to fry, and it’s long past time we saw someone who works for William Barr heating up the grease.
That is all.
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Was Mueller’s Investigation a Cover Up?
American Spectator ^ | March 28, 2019, 12:05 | GEORGE PARRY
Posted on 3/28/2019, 7:45:42 AM by Mount Athos
Given that the Special Counsel’s Office did not charge the persons who fabricated and used the Russia collusion fable to undermine Trump’s campaign and presidency, it would appear that, far from being impartial seekers of truth following the trail of evidence regardless of the political consequences, they were a get-Trump lynch party that simply ran out of rope.
Team Mueller’s authorized jurisdiction encompassed the genesis of the eponymous Steele dossier and its nefarious use by Comey’s FBI to undermine Trump’s candidacy and, failing that, to undo the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The FBI and Department of Justice’s unprecedented abuse of official power based on the Steele dossier — a political dirty trick that will go down in history — raises far more vital and immediate investigative and national concerns than Russian hackers and social media operatives who will never see the inside of an American courtroom, Paul Manafort’s financial crimes, or the individuals charged with process crimes.
Did Team Mueller investigate or interrogate Christopher Steele, Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, or the Clinton campaign and DNC operatives who paid for the dossier?
Did the investigation delve into the FBI and Department of Justice’s use of the dossier to obtain FISA warrants to intercept the communications of Trump campaign associate Carter Page? Did they investigate those who drafted, verified, and submitted the misleading and false-by-omission FISA applications?
Did they investigate or question former FBI Special Agent and Team Mueller staffer Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer and Team Mueller staffer Lisa Page, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, or other government officials to determine if they or anyone else participated in an effort to spy on the Trump campaign or to overthrow the Trump presidency?
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org …
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pCOvNas5NmF1tOmFeEyrg-YDI55ObDcVoUhRbPqIl7U/edit
The most interesting aspect of this is that the Obama Administration fixer in this matter was recommending that the police turn it over to the FBI, suggesting that the FBI was a better place to get the lenient treatment that certain people were looking for re: Smollett. Investigate Chicago and Cook County government. That could be years of Grand Jury work, but the job needs to be undertaken sometime.
I wonder who the CIA really works for?
I wonder who the CIA really works for?
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George Soros and sons.
I wouldn’t ask any of them to testify before congress. Arrest them as they did Manafort, hold them on charges of lying to congress and the FBI and put them in prison. No delays, do it tomorrow morning.
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