Posted on 12/18/2017 1:57:58 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
The former associate DOJ deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr did NOT testify today as scheduled!
You know you’ve collared the right guy when they no-show. Apocalypto said it’s his second time? What, does he carry a Chinese dip pouch, too!?
Who has been prosecuted for any of the myriad crimes of the Kenyanesian Usurpation?
Midnight raid on his house, frog march both him and his wife out the door, to detention and questioning. Worked for Manafort at least. We’ve already descended to that level, so might as well start treating our opponents as they treat us.
It’s about street cred, Congress dudes. If you won’t arrest him, you’ll have to break his legs. Didn’t your loan shark teach you anything?
He’ll show up as soon as he fool-proofs his lies from FBI HQ. In the meantime, just put me down as ; GUILTY
“Congressional hearings are the most useless of endeavors. Full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.”
The sound and fury of a whimper.
Congressional hearings are nothing but theater. Can anyone help me remember when such hearings had any sort of a result?
Let’s see what happens with the Greasy Weasel McCabe tomorrow.......
If he shows, he ends up taking the 5th, which means an imputation of guilt.
His lawyer told him it was better to be a no-show than take the 5th.
This clown is in big trouble, and his world is in flames.
Congress can arrest people if they want to
Congress has not used even a small fraction of the power it can assert if it wants to
Congress can get away with just about anything, at least for a while, if it wants to force a constitutional showdown
“Executive branch has absolutely nothing to do with a legislative initiative or investigation. Congress would be pissed if he interfered.”
Ohr, McCabbe and company all are employees of the executive branch, so Trump is their boss and has his say about their behavior.
The only thing that makes me less pissed off than I am is to think about the state of panic these scums are in.
this is the United States, where we have this thing called “rule of law”, so we don’t do things that way.
Was he subpoenaed? Probably not. Issue a subpoena and have him be the first one to plead the fifth in front of the committee.A DOJ guy that is at the top of the Russia collusion investigatory food chain taking the fifth is enough of a political optic to start this whole collusion inquisition unraveling and create the right political environment to get
a special prosecutor to investigate the Clinton e mails and the Comey/Lynch collusion with the Clinton campaign and the bias in the Russia collusion investigation
Who said he was under subpoena? I hadn't heard that.
Well, they did cite AG Eric Holder for contempt of congress for stonewalling on Fast and Furious - and of course the result was - nothing happened......
I think McCabe will be a “no show” too .... if you haven’t read this, you should ...... the hair on the back of my neck is standing up that someone like this has been able to stay in the FBI.
Comey & Mueller Ignored McCabe’s Ties to Russian Crime Figures & His Reported Tampering in Russian FBI Cases, Files
https://truepundit.com/comey-mueller-ignored-mccabes-ties-to-russian-crime-figures-his-reported-tampering-in-russian-fbi-cases-files/
Just for starters:
But what the hell was McCabe doing conducting his own probe with Bureau resources and not updating his team verbally and via computer logs meant to enhance the direction of the investigation? It was his Op after all.
This was again right out of the Hanssen playbook, always having his fingers in all things Russia the Bureau did, working as an inside counterintelligence agent reporting back to Russia all the bureau’s moves like any good double-agent should.
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“McCabe always seemed one step ahead of the search,” the FBI agent said. “But he never shared any leads with us and we were working days without sleep. I still don’t understand why he was accessing one database at all, why a supervisor would be in there. That’s perfectly fine for a SSA (Supervisory Special Agent) but not a boss.”
The FBI agent would not disclose the name of the database in question but said after more than a decade working high-profile FBI cases they had never seen a highly-placed FBI brass access that particular database which was reserved for case agents.
“Whole thing was bizarre,” the FBI agent said.
Bizarre perhaps. But not unprecedented in FBI annals. This was right out of the Robert Hanssen trade-craft.
Robert Philip Hanssen, the former FBI brass who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services.
For over 22 years, Hanssen rose through the FBI ranks, selling U.S. intelligence secrets from 1979 to 2001. He is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences at a federal supermax prison in Colorado.
Hanssen too was often caught by agents overstepping his bounds and access, looking at all things Russia the FBI was involved in whether he was permitted to do so or not.
Asking whether McCabe is another Hanssen is really a question best reserved for Comey and Mueller, who were supposed to clamp down on the ability of anyone in the FBI going rogue and accessing Intel in such a sweeping manner, absent setting off internal red flags, alarm bells, and compliance audits.
Both Mueller and Comey clearly failed. It appears, sources said, like Hanssen, McCabe always seemed to have his fingers in all things Russia the Bureau did. Hanssen worked the same angle for over $1 million in cash and diamonds, working as an inside counterintelligence agent reporting back to Russia the bureau’s moves like any good double-agent should.
Many agents pondered, what was McCabe’s angle?
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The CIA was quite sensitive about growing reports from FBI about McCabe’s Russian contacts, having learned hard lessons years earlier when Robert Hanssen was arrested for spying for the Russian government and the Soviet Union for more than two decades from his FBI perch. CIA assets died because of Hanssen.
After Hanssen, the Agency and the FBI vowed to instill tight controls on databases access, SIGINT, HUMINT after the Hanssen Damage Assessment Team (HDAT) shone light on how the Russian spy was able to infiltrate the federal law enforcement’s electronic backbone to sell secrets out the back door to the Russians for cash and diamonds.
Hanssen’s spying was investigated by the joint Justice Department and CIA HDAT task force. A report was issued by the Department of Justice’s Commission for the Review of FBI Security Programs and called the Hanssen data breaches “possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history.”
Mueller was FBI chief when the report was released and was tasked with implementing controls to prevent another Hanssen.
He failed.
Guy is a degreed physicist. Wife’s CIA. They could be anywhere and never be located.
If Ohr dodged the testimony without a note from Rosenstein then he is in big trouble and the investigation has just taken a whole new twist
Can't see any excuse for Rosenstein to wave him off
At the very least, Ohr is fired from DOJ
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