Posted on 01/17/2020 10:27:37 AM PST by bitt
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what follows is a closer look at this den of snakes in the swamp.
excerpt from the piece for discussion only:
What we found next was a bit shocking. We queried Melissa Pientka’s details on Justia.com and found out that she is working for a firm by the name of Baker and Hostetler LLP in Washington D.C:
Baker & Hostetler are connected to Fusion GPS. When Fusion GPS’s bank transactions were released in late 2017 the records showed a connection between the two companies:
"The records show that Fusion was also paid $523,651 by the law firm BakerHostetler between March 7, 2016 and Oct. 31, 2016."
If you just take the research hints in Mr. Hoft’s article, it is relatively easy to confirm the facts in the story. The author generously provided hints on how and where to search.
Hopefully, someone will cue this up for Sidney Powell and General Flynn.
All the people saying nobody will go down for Spygate think that nothing changed in 2016. Maybe they are right, but I don't think so.
Oh boy! Someone notify AG Barr for the 1,100,999,110th time:-)
Hmmmm.... Why does Chris Wray still have a job?
The federal lifer pukes involved in the ‘resistance’ have likely been assigned to sit at empty desks in basements without windows and without Wifi.
It is nearly impossible to fire a FEDERAL EMPLOYEE who is not on new hire probation unless there is proven wrongdoing and usually it has to be repeated wrongdoing after a plan to improve assessment period, etc.
The federal bureaucracy has these protections presumably to impede a tirade of firings by new administrations.
Appointed positions are different. Those that serve at the pleasure of the President can be fired on a dime for parting their hair wrong.
I believe Sally Yates was acting in an appointed position and she was fired for insubordination.
I’m not sure Bruce Ohr is appointed or not. I know that US Attorneys are appointed and they can be fired for any reason.
Most, not some, most federal employees learn to dance and deflect as they rise despite their incompetence because they learn how to shift blame to others and they learn to be part of a clique that self-promote each other. The most work they ever do is to make their resumes look like they walk on water with endless drivel of how they were in this position and that position ad nauseum.
There are many and at one time most were exceptional employees. But the last few decades have been a bananza for DC federal employees who have seen their average pay surpass the average pay of civilian Americans. Historically it was always the other way around.
We need really good federal employees. The current generation needs to be pared down severely. They do the country no good. It’s true that if half the federal workforce was furloughed, Americans wouldn’t notice a difference.
There are discussions inside the Trump Administration to move entire departments out of DC, for example the OPM. They can be relocated to say Ohio or Dry Gulch Oklahoma but I think no one wants them. Bringing federal employees to your state can be like adding vinegar to your milk.
Democrats o the other hand, will break every rule, tell every lie they can, and so fire anyone they want, federal employee or not. If the Trump Administration wants to fire the bad actors in the federal workforce, they would need to become Democrats. Kind of like fighting the Devil by becoming evil.
There are positive measures available. A RIF is what federal employees fear. RIF = Reduction in Force. But an Administration needs support of Congress to target bastions of bad actors that have spent their entire careers polishing their resumes while maligning and defaming coworkers who are competition. To get at those positions in the ‘deep state’ culture, a plan that targets those positions for elimination has to be put together while transferring the underlings to offices where hopefully they experience that proper ethics and morals is a plus to their careers as they continue their service in government. And it should be service, not a boondoggle or a ‘safe place’. Many are in that way now but their supervisors at the top have two faces with their corrupt face usually kept hidden from the lower ranks.
Exhibit A: Kevin Clinesmith; FBI Lawyer and typical example of the type of slime the current government workforce has allowed to take hold in government. To get rid of these types requires his supervisor to be canned in a RIF of their entire office while a master reorganization takes place.
For example, it is possible to terminate key employees at FBI HQ in DC and move the upcoming youngsters into an ongoing assessment process to see if they are fir for continued service. No doubt many were hired or transferred in because they reflected their supervisor’s twisted values which in this day and age have morphed into a culture of corruption or foul play (not murder, rather entrapping competitors). Yes, progressives infiltrate government and promote each other. You’ll know when asked to sell your soul. In the latter decades, being an atheist has become a resume enhancer.
I have met some Agency Directors whose personal and professional ethics are beyond reproach. They set the best examples for integrity in service. These that I am thinking of could easily walk into a position on the outside making at least 50% more in pay. Their distinguishing trait is their ability to carry themselves with strict moral authority. They are not as prevalent as they once were. Their biggest irritation today is not incompetent employees which have existed in government for decades now, but that they are needing to constantly, meaning all the damned time, worry about an underling who gets caught up in the dirty DC culture. Because that comes back to bite them and causes other government sharks to descend on the Director’s agency or office. The problem is not these Agency Directors, the problem is with those Directors that were promoted during the Clinton-Bush-Obama years. That cohort grew to what we have today. And they have the wrong values.
Exhibit B: James Comey.
Hopefully, this gives viewers an idea of how difficult it is for President Trump’s Administration to drain the Swamp. But remarkably, his Administration is in fact draining it, albeit slowly. I think it picks up speed in President Trump’s 2nd term.
Actually FBI positions are “excepted federal service” positions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excepted_service
and FBI is one of those agencies
So in theory in “excepted service”, you are an at will employee in the federal service and can be fired at anytime for any reason.
But reality seems to be different!
Thank you. Many say Wray is protecting the bad actors. Looking at his past connections, he’s definitely in the cocktail circuit of liberal progressives who have a tenacious hold on DC.
I suspect the same pillow connections will be uncovered in this GAO intrusion... and of course the DoJ's SDNY. Need I even mention FBI Dir. Wray? The DS is calling out all the reserves to torpedo POTUS.
I wish POTUS would consider Matt Whitaker for FBI Director. Hopefully a step up!
Why Pompeo cannot take control of State is beyond me... sort of. :^/
Fireworks with applause! This DS cabal is all a den of thieves... all connected together, all conspiring {note AG Barr} to take control of the government away from the people.
The FIB sent him to Northern California. Hardly hazardous duty and in fact a plum outside the beltway assignment.
***what follows is a closer look at this den of snakes in the swamp***
I suspect the same pillow connections will be uncovered in this GAO intrusion... and of course the DoJ’s SDNY. Need I even mention FBI Dir. Wray? The DS is calling out all the reserves to torpedo POTUS.
I wish POTUS would consider Matt Whitaker for FBI Director. Hopefully a step up!
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welcome back bob.
I wonder if this impeachment might be the DS last stand.
they’re acting somber & prayorful, because they know if they don’t get trump now, that many of them will be going to jail, imo.
We will see. Time is running out.
We aren't running out of time anymore.
We're out of time.
Pay attention to your surroundings! Are there strange cars parked in the street near your home? Have you been getting phone calls where the caller hangs up immediately when you answer? If you have a dog does it start barking for no apparent reason? Are you often followed by people you don’t know in the parking garage at work? Pay attention to your surroundings!
Good point. I better watch my rear view mirror more carefully. :)
Two figures immediately stood out to me immediately in the wake of the Mueller Report: Joseph Mifsud and Joe Pientka. Logic dictates that they may be too important to leave sitting around. It has proved likely true. Joseph Mifsud could point a finger at the involvement of Five Eyes AND predate the Trump / Russia bomb prior to July of 2016.
Joe Pientka seemed too innocuous to have to disappear since he supposedly just held Peter Strzok's hand during the Gen. Flynn intvu. Alarm bells! Then, last Fall, it emerged that the Strzok and Pientka 302 report forms had been reversed - after disappearing for a year and a half.
Sorry, but that is just too much spice in the broth. Despite owning a million dollar house Pientka still has not been located - and his wife had a possible connection to Fusion GPS? Just color me stupid.
Yikes! Thanks for the ping!
“Last sentence of article.
So we now know another Deep State crook with a spouse in a key role with another dark entity related to the coup of President Trump.
The Pillow Talk in DC is one of the keys to this mess. Who are the spouses and where do they work ???”
Exactly!!! And almost all of them use their maiden name to make the connection much more difficult.
This whole charade would come to a screaming halt, if the spouses of the DOJ, FISA court, Supreme Court, and major law firms were identified and examined closely.
DC is a two-income town.
Pillow Talk in DC is the name of the game.
Thanks for any and all pings.
Just getting back online after 5 full days!!! No power due to storm knocking trees onto powerlines all over the place. WHat have I missed, trying to determine.
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