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CNN Legal Analyst Follows Up Criticism of the FBI/DOJ Investigations with Column
Newsbusters ^ | December 30, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 12/30/2017 2:48:25 PM PST by PJ-Comix

" No, no, no, no, no, no, no! No! No!"

That was the sound of Don Lemon on CNN attempting to blot out criticism by a guest of the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton on Thursday. Will Lemon also try to blot out the same criticism by CNN's own legal analyst, Paul Callan? As chronicled by NewsBusters writer Alex Xenos, Callan on Wednesday questioned the objectivity of the FBI and the Department of Justice in their investigations of President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as you can see in the in the video below. It  wouldn't have been too surprising if Callan had backtracked a bit and claimed that he had "misspoke" or something of that nature. Instead he doubled down in a December 29 column and went into greater detail as to why Trump is right about the FBI.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; fbi; paulcallan
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Jeff Zucker's forehead vein must now be in heavy throb mode with his own CNN legal analyst agreeing that the leadership of the FBI has been compromised.
1 posted on 12/30/2017 2:48:25 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

I am surprised it was aired at all.


2 posted on 12/30/2017 3:00:04 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Sounds like the Hitler rant in Inglourious Basterds: Nein nein nein nein nein!


3 posted on 12/30/2017 3:10:31 PM PST by jimbug
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To: Robert A Cook PE

As in monitoring Pravda during the Cold War we have to wonder whats behind this. The AT&T merger with CNNs owner Time Warner?
The DOJ nixed the merger last month, but maybe not next month?


4 posted on 12/30/2017 3:13:00 PM PST by buwaya
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To: buwaya

Low viewership day. This way if CNN is ever questioned about its bias, they can trot this out and say, “see, we aren’t biased.”


5 posted on 12/30/2017 3:22:37 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Delusional - Adjective, Describes a Democrat or member of the MSM)
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To: PJ-Comix

FBI raid Sterling, VA...’middle eastern male’ = sean duncan????
http://wjla.com/news/local/...

bigsun24 bigsun24 • 9 minutes ago

george webb says ‘sean duncan’ is fbi agent
https://www.youtube.com/wat...


6 posted on 12/30/2017 3:42:37 PM PST by biggredd1
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To: EQAndyBuzz
You would think a 'journalist' would be interested in "The Truth", wherever it led, instead of rooting for one team over another.

Nah, who am I kidding...?

7 posted on 12/30/2017 3:43:18 PM PST by fhayek
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To: biggredd1

There’s a new thread on that raid that ‘missed’ catching the target.


8 posted on 12/30/2017 3:46:33 PM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: biggredd1; Liz

Liz: Sean Duncan?


9 posted on 12/30/2017 3:48:17 PM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: fhayek

The people in charge are libs. The reporters work for people who dictate the liberal slant.


10 posted on 12/30/2017 4:01:03 PM PST by FreedBird (v)
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To: txhurl

I need more facts.


11 posted on 12/30/2017 4:01:45 PM PST by Liz (One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

He’s a prof in VA who’s a gamer who started supporting ISIS?


12 posted on 12/30/2017 4:08:21 PM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: txhurl

WTOP.COM

Sterling man arrested in FBI investigation of possible ISIS supporter / By Patrick Roth December 30, 2017 5:47 pm

WASHINGTON — Court documents say an FBI raid at a home in Sterling, Virginia, on Friday was related to an investigation of a possible ISIS supporter.

Sean Andrew Duncan, who moved to Sterling in June 2017, was arrested for “knowingly altering, destroying, mutilating and concealing tangible objects … with the intent to impede and obstruct” an FBI investigation.

The documents said that when FBI agents knocked on the front door with their search warrant, Duncan ran out of the back door barefoot with “something clenched in his fist.”

Agents yelled at Duncan to stop, but before he did he threw a plastic bag over their heads. The documents say the bag contained a memory chip from a thumb drive that “had been snapped into pieces and placed in a liquid substance that produced frothy white bubbles.”

The FBI had been investigating Duncan for more than a year.

Duncan and his wife attempted to travel to Turkey in February 2016, but were denied entry and sent back to the U.S. Upon returning, they were interviewed by the FBI.

A relative of Duncan also warned the FBI that they feared he had become radicalized because he had voiced approval of westerners being beheaded in the Middle East.

When the FBI searched Twitter in December, they found an account created in November 2015 that linked to Duncan’s phone. The Twitter account had a handle with an Arabic phrase that roughly translated to “The Islamic State.”

An unnamed co-conspirator told the FBI in July that Duncan told her he was interested in joining ISIS and they would share news articles from an ISIS publication. The co-conspirator also told the FBI that Duncan had shared an article about how to build a homemade bomb from an al-Qaida publication.

An undercover FBI agent also reached out to Duncan in August claiming to be the unnamed co-conspirator.

The agent told Duncan about an individual who was attempting to arrange travel to Libya, but was “asking various vetting questions.” When the agent asked Duncan if he and his wife were asked similar questions before they traveled to Syria, Duncan told the agent he never had to deal with vetting by contacts because he “always had referrals.”

In June 2017, the Allegany County police Department searched Duncan’s phone in an unrelated investigation into the death of Duncan’s infant child. During their search, they found numerous internet searches for ISIS-related material, ISIS attacks, weapons, body armor, defense tactics and YouTube videos of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.

The court documents say that the Allegany County police Department’s search “discovered over 24,000 positive results after searching a list of common counterterrorism terms.”

Duncan is scheduled to appear to in court on Tuesday. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison.


13 posted on 12/30/2017 4:11:40 PM PST by Liz (One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use.)
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To: PJ-Comix

...” No, no, no, no, no, no, no! No! No!...

What he also said at 9:37 PM on November 8th when Trump took Florida and clinched the Presidency.

That night is a recurring nightmare for lunatic liberals. Puts a smile on my face.


14 posted on 12/30/2017 4:12:22 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: PJ-Comix
CNN is coming around....


15 posted on 12/30/2017 4:14:08 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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“”Is that Don Lemon screeching “ No, no, no, no, no, no, no! No! No!” in the background?””

That is a question, folks! Again, it doesn’t appear the statement in the article matches the title of the thread... Gets pretty tiresome to click on links and find - Oh! that’s not what it says at all.


16 posted on 12/30/2017 4:19:26 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

Poor Don Lemon....he sure lives up to his name.


17 posted on 12/30/2017 4:40:35 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I suspect that Inspector General Horowitz is going to blow the lid off the Deep State and with extreme documentation is going to recommend changes in DOJ/FBI policy and disciplinary action against a lot of the leadership.

My only hope is that some of the FISA judges get dressed down and impeached for allowing the spying on Trump’s team.


18 posted on 12/30/2017 4:54:11 PM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Liz

Sean Andrew Duncan, who moved to Sterling in June 2017, was arrested for “knowingly altering, destroying, mutilating and concealing tangible objects … with the intent to impede and obstruct” an FBI investigation.

Isn’t that what Hillary did?


19 posted on 12/30/2017 5:07:07 PM PST by freefdny
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To: PJ-Comix
I remember in 1998 when retired Air Force Major General Perry Smith quit his job as a military adviser to CNN to protest Peter Arnett’s “Operation Tailwind” hoax.

When a legal or military analyst finds themselves working for Fake News, it's time to quit and tell everyone why.
20 posted on 12/30/2017 8:51:54 PM PST by \/\/ayne (-.. .-. .. -. -.- / -- --- .-. . / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. .)
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